***Media Coverage:

http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=49185
http://nyc.indymedia.org/usermedia/video/13/MOV04379.MPG
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/newyork/nyc-nywar204183840mar20,0,6296219.story?coll=nyc-nynews-print

***March 19 - A global day of protest

March 19, 2005- Today, tens of thousands of people converged on New York City to oppose an illegal war of aggression against the people of Iraq. People drove from as far away as Florida and Minnesota to demand an immediate end to the occupation.

The day began with a rally in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. Speakers included Brenda Stokely, President of DC 1707, Nellie Bailey of the Harlem Tenant's Council, and Carl Webb, a member of the Army National Guard who has refused to deploy to Iraq.

After the opening rally, more than 15,000 marched to join thousands already gathered in Central Park. As they marched through Harlem, they were greeted by cheers and applause from the community. People came out of stores and apartments to join the march. Others hung out of their windows and flashed the peace sign or raised their fists.

Speakers at the Central Park Rally included Representative Charles Rangel, New York City Council Members Margarita Lopez and Charles Barron, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and attorney Lynne Stewart.

After the Central Park Rally, thousands marched to the Upper East Side mansion of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the slogan, "Fund Cities, Not War!"

The turnout for this demonstration confirms that the antiwar movement has entered into a new phase of organizing against the war. It confirms that the greatest attention must be paid to reaching out to communities most impacted by the war and by the policies of the Bush Administration. These communities are the targets of the budget cuts. They are also targeted by military recruiters, who exploit economic hardship with false promises of opportunity. As a result, the children of these communities are dying disproportionately in Iraq, paying the ultimate price for a policy of greed and empire.

Organizers with the Troops Out Now Coalition plan to continue to protest the war and occupation. On May 1, the Troops Out Now Coalition will join the Million Worker March on the streets of New York City in a rally and march to demand, “Jobs, Not War! Bring the Troops Home Now!”

In addition to the Troops Out Now Demonstration in New York City, there were demonstrations in more than 700 cities throughout the U.S., including major regional demonstrations in Fayetteville, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

This weekend saw protests all over the globe. There were demonstrations in Argentina, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Australia, Vietnam, South Korea, Pakistan, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Cyprus, and many other countries.

Tens of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday, calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to get British troops out of Iraq. Protesters marched from Hyde Park Corner past the US embassy to a rally in central London’s Trafalgar Square.

The protesters placed a black cardboard coffin with the slogan “100,000 dead” scrawled across the daffodil-strewn lid against a tree outside the US embassy. As the coffin was laid down, the crowd chanted: “George Bush ... Uncle Sam. Iraq will be your Vietnam.”

In Sweden, protesters filled up Sergel square in downtown Stockholm, chanting: "USA, out of Iraq!"

In Istanbul, an estimated 15,000 people marched, some carrying signs reading "Murderer Bush, get out."

In Poland, which has 1,700 troops in Iraq, more than 1,000 marched to the US Embassy in Warsaw, holding banners reading "Pull out from Iraq now" and "Poles back to Poland."

In Athens, about 3,000 trade unionists, members of peace groups, and students brought the city center to a standstill for about three hours as they marched to the US Embassy.


***Next Step: May 1

May 1: May Day Rally for Jobs, Not War - Bring the Troops Home Now!

On May 1 the Troops Out Now Coalition and the NYC Million Worker March are calling for a JOBS NOT WAR - Bring the Troops Home Now rally in Union Square, NYC.

MAY DAY -- International Workers Day -- grew out of the struggle of working people in this country more than 100 years ago for an 8 work day with a full day's pay. All over the world, working and poor people march on May Day to send the message that workers are united and have the right to a job, a living wage, health care, housing and education. Workers have a right to pensions and social security. Immigrant workers and the unemployed should have the same rights. On May Day 2005, let's bring back that fighting spirit.

Download the May 1 Flyer: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/flyers/maydayleaflet.pdf

Endorse: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/may1endorse.html


***Help Build a Movement to Stop the War!

1) Endorse May 1: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/may1endorse.html

2) Download leaflets and help get the word out! http://www.troopsoutnow.org/flyers/maydayleaflet.pdf

3) Organize transportation from your city to NYC on May 1: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/orgcentsignup.html

4) Donate! http://www.troopsoutnow.org/donate.html


http://www.TroopsOutNow.org

http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=f06abi50z2.app8a&abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=6026&security=1023&news_iv_ctrl=1521


Informant: Hopedance

I have received the followoing from Illa Garcia, who must file by May 1st or be unable to.

Shivani


THIS IS THE LETTER THAT I HAVE BEEN SENDING OUT TO DIFFERENT LAWYERS. ILLA

March 14, 2005

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

My name is Illa L. Garcia. I live in Bieber, California. I work for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. I worked as a Fire Lookout on a Telecommunications Complex. My lookout was 50+ feet in the air. I was surrounded by approximately 80 RF antennas and Microwave Dishes. I worked this position for 3 years. Since coming off the tower in 2002 I have been sick with mysterious illnesses. My partner also worked this same lookout for 11 years and she is also sick along with other members of her family that came to stay with her there. My family members are also sick.

I filed for worker’s compensation in 11- 03 when it was brought to my attention by my partner, who had been doing research on her husbands cancer, that maybe our illness’s may be related. I have since been seeing specialists besides my family doctor to find out what is going on. I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, hyperthyroidism, acute nerve degeneration. They have also found that there is brain tissue damage in the frontal lobe and the two temporal lobes. There is also DNA/cell damage. I am still fighting to get worker’s comp.

The both of us have filed claim letters on the behalf of our families and us. This involves 3 Federal agencies, 2 Counties, 2 Major Power companies, 3 Major Phone companies and the State of California (4-5 Agencies). We are still in the process of filing with the Power companies and Phone companies. We have received back from the State of California and the 2 Counties involved the Right To Sue Letters. We have been trying to find a Law Firm that is willing to take our case. Everyone keeps telling us to “Find a Lawyer” but no one is willing to take on the case once they find out that it involves the State and Federal Governments. We need a Firm that is Licensed to Practice in California, have experience of going against the Federal Government, and be experienced in Toxic Torte. I have watched several court cases for Personal Injury get thrown out of court as RF Radiation is considered JUNK SCIENCE. These have been cases with cell phone, and one antenna. We have been exposed to radiation from 80 antennas on the site where we lived and worked 24 hours a day. RF Radiation is classified by the National Library of Medicine as a TOXIC POISON. As I have watched this happen, my partner and I have considered to go for the Laws that were broken by all these agencies as well as Negligence, Gross Negligence, and Present and Future Medical costs instead of going for Personal Injury.

We are looking for and Experienced Firm that is willing to fight for us. You must also have the Courage, Fortitude, and possible the Funding to take this case on. So far we have 27 who are involved and quite a few of them are Minor Children. There are no time limits on them to file as they won’t know exactly how badly they are damaged until they grow up. That is to say if they make it that far. There is proven documentation and medical reports that show that children are the worse affected by this Radiation as their bodies are still in the formation stages.

RF Radiation by the books is classified as non ionizing radiation but our bodies are proving it otherwise by the burns received and the DNA mutations of our blood cells.

If you have the courage and strength and fortitude to help us fight this case we need to know as soon as possible. We have to be in Court by May to make a filing against these agencies. You can contact me at:

ILLA L. GARCIA
P.O. BOX 585
BIEBER, CA 96009
1-530-294-5829 HOME
1-530-294-5829 FAX
Earthmother61@hotmail.com

Thank you for your help and time.

Sincerely;
Illa l. Garcia

Editor & Publisher does itself proud again ...

Garry Trudeau: Bush 'Apparently Thinks Propaganda's OK'

by Dave Astor

Published: March 18, 2005 2:30 PM ET

NEW YORK Why is Garry Trudeau doing a "Doonesbury" sequence inspired by disgraced Republican-friendly reporter Jeff Gannon?

"I'm not sure it's commonly understood to what lengths this administration is willing to go to bypass the 'filter,' as Bush calls the media," the cartoonist replied in an e-mail interview. "The president made it official Wednesday -- his Justice Department, fresh from signing off on torture, apparently thinks propaganda's OK too." [...] Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/53v3t Some time ago I decided The New Republic is not really liberal and have ignored it since. In case you differ, here is one that was posted and actually IS good.


© Virginia Metze

by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist

(First of two columns)

March 17, 2005

IN AUGUST 2003, when he was commander of the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Major General Geoffrey Miller visited Baghdad with some advice for US interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison. As Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the military police commander in Iraq, later recalled it, Miller's bottom line was blunt: Abu Ghraib should be ''Gitmo-ized" -- Iraqi detainees should be exposed to the same aggressive techniques being used to extract information from prisoners in Guantanamo.

''You have to have full control," Karpinski quoted Miller as saying. There can be ''no mistake about who's in charge. You have to treat these detainees like dogs."

Whether or not Miller actually spoke those words, it is clear that harsh techniques authorized for a time in Guantanamo -- forced nudity, hooding, shackling men in ''stress positions," the use of dogs -- were taken up in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they sometimes degenerated into outright viciousness and even torture. Did the injunction to ''treat these detainees like dogs" give rise to a prison culture that winked at barbarism? Should Miller be held responsible for what Abu Ghraib became? [...] Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/3ow5r The American Progress Action web site has an excellent article on "FCC's Reruns" which gives insight into what is to be expected from President Bush's nominee for FCC chairman. Read it at: http://tinyurl.com/5bo89


© Virginia Metze

Bob Fertik, the great Democrat activist who has web site democrats.com says:

Let's Stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act in the House

For some reason, I am unable to copy and paste an excerpt from this page, so if you have time, go to http://democrats.com/debtslavery to find if you are interested in this approach to the fight.


© Virginia Metze

Well, the Friday deadline slipped a little, but here it is! Cheers to you all, and hope you are having a good weekend...

More faux news
Salon War Room
Eric Boehlert
March 17, 2005

And the hits keep coming on the fake news front. Today, Friends of the Earth posted two Department of Interior-produced video news releases designed to look like objective newscasts. Both fail to inform viewers that they are government produced, instead opting for "reporters" who end the segments with "In Tampa, Pam Forrester reporting," and "This is Porter Versfelt reporting," respectively.

Critics call the prepackaged newscasts propaganda. And according to guidelines established by the Public Relations Society of America for video news releases, "Organizations that prepare VNRs should not use the word 'reporting' if the narrator is not a reporter." The Government Accountability Office came to the same conclusion in a ruling last year. But the Department of Justice last week overruled the GAO, informing federal agencies that they did not have to identify themselves in scripts for video news releases. [...] Read more at Salon (you may need to get a pass or a subscription) http://tinyurl.com/4tdyo If you can, read the article about "Our delightful commander in chief,' which hurls darts at Time.com's coverage of the president. http://tinyurl.com/6jpzn


© Virginia Metze

This is my local one, so the news was great! And another setback for 02!

Sandi


Council rejects latest phone mast bid

Defiant councillors yesterday rejected the latest attempt to put another mobile phone mast in an Aldwick park. They unanimously refused the joint plans by Hutchison 3G and O2 for the 20.8 metre high monopole in West Park.

The telecom companies want to use the mast with six antennae to replace the current 15m high pole in the Southern Water compound at the park's northern boundary. But Arun District Council's development control committee said the scheme was completely unacceptable.

Full report in March 17 issue of the Bognor Regis Observer
17 March 2005

http://www.chichester.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=450&ArticleID=974918

Schröder plant angeblich Rückzieher vom Klimaschutzziel auf EU-Gipfel
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577766/

Giftköder in Spanien bedrohen seltene Tierarten europaweit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577775/

Jetzt gibt Rot-Grün richtig Gas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575464/

Gen-Felder wieder heimlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574261/

Gletscherschmelze im Himalaja bedroht Wasserversorgung von Millionen Menschen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571225/

Proteste gegen heimliches Verfüttern von Gen-Futter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571223/

Finnische Regierung will letzte Urwälder abholzen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/568267/

Chinas Holzbedarf steigt und wird zu großen Teilen aus illegalen Quellen gedeckt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/568262/

Data Retention: Neues Begehren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/569588/

Hamburger Schüler helfen mit Recyclingpapier Wälder zu schützen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/564559/

Österreich kritisiert Zulassung von Monsanto-Mais in Brüssel
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/564554/

Die Sibirien-Connection - Die WestLB macht in Öl
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/556592/

Die Ostsee ist zur Wüste mutiert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/556543/

Länderagrarminister wollen Schutz gentechnikfreier Landwirtschaft aushöhlen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553817/

Monsanto verliert in Europa Weizen-Patent auf indische Sorte "Nap Hal"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553808/

Vogeljagd: Zugvögel erreichen selten ihre Brutgebiete
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545736/

Total verbandelt?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537774/

Abgase: 65.000 Tote jährlich durch Feinstaub
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531962/

Klonen: UN empfiehlt totales Verbot
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531967/

Kriege um Wasser
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531975/

Posted by Ron Cyr
UBRON

THE CONTROLLED PRESS AND THE UNPLEASANT TRUTH OF 9/11

By Christopher Bollyn

American Free Press

Rather than face the uncomfortable reality that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, the controlled media and investigators have chosen to ignore the evidence and support a demonstrably false collapse scenario.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, American Free Press was a lonely voice, as it reported that numerous eyewitnesses had seen and heard explosions in the towers of the World Trade Center before and during their collapses.

AFP reported that Van Romero, an explosives expert at New Mexico Tech, told The Albuquerque Journal on 9/11: "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse."

The collapse was "too methodical to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures," Romero said.

However, for no apparent reason, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) attacked AFP for publishing evidence of explosions at the World Trade Center. Why would an organization ostensibly dedicated to defending Jews find fault with an article about explosions at the WTC?

Three months after 9/11, the ADL accused AFP of using the 9/11 attacks "as grist for its mill."

"Its October 29 [2001] issue," the ADL wrote about AFP, "includes an article by Christopher Bollyn titled, 'Some Survivors Say Bombs Exploded Inside WTC,' in which Bollyn suggests that the 'mainstream media' is ignoring 'eyewitness accounts of bombs that exploded inside the World Trade Center before the collapse of the Twin Towers."

Yet, in spite of overwhelming evidence that explosives and missiles were employed to demolish the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, to this day the controlled press continues to avoid this subject.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM

During a September 11 memorial service at St. Paul's Chapel across Church Street from the WTC, the priest described what he heard as the towers collapsed: "Boom, boom, boom," the priest recalled, "the sound of the floors collapsing."

However, the sounds described by the priest and New York City firefighters are more likely to have been the sounds of explosives demolishing the central support columns than those of 110 concrete floors collapsing at the rate of 10 per second.

Photographs and videos provide ample evidence that explosives in the towers caused the collapse of the three WTC buildings owned or leased by Larry Silverstein: the twin towers and WTC 7.

INSIDE JOB

"Cognitive dissonance," described by Walter Chukwu as "the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information," prevents people from accepting "that the U.S. Government carried out the 911 attacks."

Jim Marrs, author of Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies, is not affected by such cognitive dissonance. Compiling information from numerous sources, including American Free Press, Marrs contends that 9/11 was an "inside job."

Inside Job also contains an analysis of the U.S. military's failure to intercept the 4 "hijacked" planes, questions the relatives' group wants President George W. Bush to answer, and a draft of widow Ellen Mariani's RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization) lawsuit against President Bush and other high government officials.

While Marrs' book lacks illustrations, his text is sufficient. His concise presentation of Jim Hoffman's research of explosives causing the collapse of the twin towers is compelling.

Marrs presents six arguments which disprove the official version of a fire-induced gravity collapse and indicate that explosives in the towers' cores snipped the 47 central support columns - bringing the towers down.

First, the towers' cores were obliterated. No gravity collapse scenario can explain how the massive central box columns, with 4 inch thick steel walls, were cut.

The powerful explosives required to demolish these central support columns would explain, however, the pulverization of concrete and enormous pressure thrusting debris and girders hundreds of feet from the towers.

The pulverization of concrete is impossible to explain in the gravity collapse scenario. More than 100 times the towers' gravitational potential energy would be required to pulverize the concrete, Hoffman wrote. So, where did that energy come from?

Steel beams were ejected 500 feet sideways. "The downward forces of a gravity collapse cannot account for the energetic lateral ejection of pieces," Hoffman wrote.

Videos and photographs show explosions occurring well below the level of the collapse. As Hoffman observed, "energetic dust ejections are first seen while the top is only slightly tipping, not falling." There is "no known source of the dense powder in these clouds of ejected dust," Marrs says.

The tops of the towers mushroomed into thick dust clouds much larger than the original volumes of the buildings. "Without the addition of large sources of pressure beyond the collapse itself," Hoffman says, "the falling building and its debris should have occupied about the same volume as the intact building."

That is, after all, what was observed when the 47-story WTC 7 collapsed neatly into its basement, with absolutely no lateral projections, at about 5:20 p.m.

That the towers fell at the rate of free fall defies the laws of physics. The cold and undamaged parts of the towers failed to slow the collapses. This indicates that "nearly all resistance to the downward acceleration of the tops had been eliminated ahead of them," Hoffman says.

Evidence that the central support columns were cut prior to the collapse, which AFP reported in October 2001, is seen in videos where powerful bursts of dust are seen being ejected from the towers well below the level of the collapse.

At the time, AFP reported an eyewitness to the collapse seeing "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15" accompanied by "a crackling sound" before the tower fell.

"Even a layman can see that the free-fall scenario based on fires in the building has almost no plausible explanation at this time," Marrs concludes.

During the recent "Confronting the Evidence" conference held in New York City, a person who worked in the North Tower told AFP that prior to 9/11, elevator shafts were guarded by security guards while being "out-of-service" for "weeks and months."

Because explosive charges would have to have been placed near the elevator shafts in the towers' cores, American Free Press is currently investigating contractors that had access to the towers in the year prior to 9/11.

Two demolition companies, both of which have numerous branch companies, have been engaged at the WTC and Pentagon sites: LVI Services, a New York-based asbestos abatement and demolition company headed by Burton T. Fried, and Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Md., headed by Mark Loizeaux.

LVI Demolition Services and CDI have cooperated on major demolition projects during the past decade: the Sands Hotel Tower (1996), the Aladdin Hotel & Casino (1998), and the Terrecentre (2002), in Denver.

On September 13, 2001, Engineering News-Record (ENR), a national weekly for the construction industry, reported: "LVI Services Inc., New York City, which has done extensive asbestos abatement work on the towers in the past, is involved in similar work now as well as other cleanup efforts."

AFP asked LVI president Burton T. Fried about the work his company did in the towers prior to 9/11.

"We did not do it," Fried said. "It was a company called AASI but they went out of business."

Asked about the evidence that the towers and WTC 7 were destroyed by demolition charges, Fried replied, "No comment."

Requests to ENR and the Port Authority regarding LVI's alleged work in the towers have yet to be answered.

LVI has worked with the Dept. of Energy and uses an asbestos digesting product developed by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and W.R. Grace & Co.

AFP inquired at the Las Vegas office of LVI Environmental of Nevada Inc. and was told, "We don't speak to the press." LVI's Las Vegas office is headed by Joe Catania, political director of the Nevada Republican Party.

Finis

Ron Cyr
UBRON


Informant: Martin Greenhut

The Ecologist - March 05, Editorial - on the falsity of much 'Corporate Social Responsibility' ..........

http://www.theecologist.co.uk/article.html?article=491

.........But that’s hypocritical nonsense. Governments do not operate from a position of neutrality. On the contrary, decades of very intensive lobbying, of infiltrating the regulatory process, of purchasing policy and supporting compliant politicians have reaped enormous benefits for big business. In the US, according to former president Bill Clinton’s labour secretary, ‘there’s no longer any countervailing power in Washington. Business is in complete control of the machinery of government. It’s payback time and every industry and trade association is busily cashing in’.

The regulatory system has been on overdrive for many years. Only it has adopted a dual purpose whereby the operations of big business have been globally deregulated and the operations of small businesses have been regulated to the point at which many cannot hope to survive. If you’re a large GM firm, the world is your laboratory, its inhabitants your guinea pigs. But a small firm selling vitamin supplements is subjected to a regulatory system that demands absolute adherence to the precautionary principle. It’s been said many times that you could render the biosphere non-viable without breaking a single law, but woe-betide you if you want to sell unpasteurised cider.

This isn’t free-market capitalism. The economy has been rigged. And not just through the regulatory system. Goods whose production may have caused untold ecological damage can be sold cheaply – because the economy fails to recognise the real value of the natural world and its resources. Pollution, illness, local economic collapse… These are merely ‘externalities’. But add them to the cost, as would necessarily happen in an unsubsidised economy, and the story is very different.

The economy is shaped and controlled by human decisions. We could just as easily make different decisions. We can demand through effective campaigns an economy in which the ‘externalities’ are internalised. We can demand fairness in the regulatory system. We can insist that corporate crimes are adequately punished.

artjar

From Mast Network

ARTIKEL VOM 19. MÄRZ 2005

JUGEND / HANDY-KURZNACHRICHTEN BEEINTRÄCHTIGEN DIE SPRACHFÄHIGKEIT

Beschränkte Grammatik durch SMS

Experten stellen mangelndes Textverständnis bei deutschen Schülern fest

Die wachsende Zahl von Handy-Kurznachrichten hat Sprachexperten zufolge Auswirkungen auf die Sprachfähigkeit. Laut dem Institut der Deutschen Sprache "bleiben junge Menschen, die nur über SMS kommunizieren, in ihrer Grammatik äußerst beschränkt".

Kaum ein Jugendlicher beherrscht es nicht: Das verschicken von Text-Botschaften auf dem Handy. FOTO: epd

25 Milliarden Handy Kurzmitteilungen (SMS oder Short Message System) wurden im Jahr 2003 allein in Deutschland verschickt - ein Großteil davon von Jugendlichen an Jugendliche. Nach Experteneinschätzung beeinträchtigt die Fülle der kurzen Textbotschaften die Sprachfähigkeit von jungen Leuten. Bei einer Fachtagung befassten sich rund 450 Wissenschaftler mit der Frage, warum das Textverständnis gerade bei den deutschen Schülern nachlässt. Ludwig Eichinger vom Institut der Deutschen Sprache in Mannheim stellt dazu fest, dass junge Menschen, die ausschließlich über SMS kommunizieren langfristig in ihrer Grammatik sehr beschränkt bleiben.

Die wachsende Beliebtheit bedeute aber nicht zugleich den Verfall "unserer Kultur". Das Positive der SMS sei, dass nach der Ära des Telefonierens überhaupt wieder mehr geschrieben werde. Früher sei stets die Befürchtung geäußert worden, dass zu wenig geschrieben werde. "In Wirklichkeit schreiben durch den Computer wesentlich mehr Menschen. Wer nie einen Brief verfasste, tippt heute eine Mail oder eine SMS." Dass die SMS-Texte meist kurz sind, spiele dabei keine Rolle. Dies passe einfach zu der Kommunikationssituation. Von einem Verfall der Sprache könne man deshalb nicht sprechen. Wer allerdings nur SMS verfasse, werde vermutlich nie einen längeren Text lesen, sagte Eichinger. "Dagegen sollte die Schule etwas machen."

Bei der Jahrestagung diskutierten mehr als 450 Fachleute aus rund 25 Ländern über das Verstehen von Texten. Nach Darstellung des Sprachexperten Hardarik Blühdorn nimmt die Fähigkeit der Schüler ab, Texte zu verstehen, während die Texte selbst immer komplizierter werden. "Da öffnet sich eine Schere", sagt Blühdorn. "Wir leben in einer Welt, die immer komplexer wird, und wir haben Texte, die das spiegeln." Hinzu komme ein "Ausbildungsproblem": Die Schüler gingen weniger mit Texten um, weil sie viele andere Medien wie das Fernsehen nutzen könnten. AP/dpa

http://www.sachsenheimerzeitung.de/html/news/artikel_blick_welt.php4?artikel=17605

Kosmetik, Handy, Markenklamotten: Kant-Schüler über Freiheiten und Gruppenzwänge.

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=1829984

http://www.rense.com/general31/pix.htm


Informant: Anna Webb

Greenpeace: Genmanipulierter Reis überflüssig

So genannter "Golden Rice" kann die in ihn gesetzten Erwartungen nicht erfüllen. Der Gen-Reis soll zur Bekämpfung von Vitamin-A-Mangelerkrankungen vor allen in den Ländern des Südens eingesetzt werden. Nun steht zu befürchten, dass aufgrund dieser Wunschvorstellungen andere lebenswichtige Projekte zur Bekämpfung des Vitaminmangels vernachlässigt werden. Diese düstere Aussicht drängt sich auf, wenn man neueste Studien heranzieht, die Greenpeace veröffentlicht hat.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6103.php

Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) hat Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder aufgefordert, die Informationsfreiheit über Standorte von gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen in Deutschland zu gewährleisten. Die Absicht von Teilen der SPD, die erst vor kurzem für die Öffentlichkeit eingeführten Zugangsrechte zum Gentechnik-Standortregister wieder einzuschränken, müsse zurückgewiesen werden. Das öffentlich zugängliche Standortregister, im Internet derzeit noch allen zugänglich, ermöglicht bisher die flurstückgenaue Information über Lage von Feldern mit Gentech-Pflanzen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6099.php

Wegen der Erderwärmung ist der Gipfel des Kilimandscharo nahezu ohne Eis und Schnee - zum ersten Mal seit 11.000 Jahren. Das teilte die Umweltorganisation "Climate Group" anlässlich eines Treffens von Energie- und Umweltministern aus 20 Staaten in London mit.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6100.php

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12353287-29281,00.html


Informant: Andy Robinson

Page 1: The new Gladio in action?
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905mowat-1.html

Page 2: Who Is Col. Bob Helvey?
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-2/031905mowat-2.html

Page 3: The Coup Plotters
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/031905Mowat-3/031905mowat-3.html


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/climatechange_wef.html


Informant: Anna Webb

Hundreds of photographs[1] and an initial report[2] on protests and demonstrations that took place around the world on the second anniversary of the Mar. 19, 2003, invasion of Iraq. -- The largest demonstration reported (Reuters: 45,000) took place in London, England. --Mark]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2471/

http://www.wnho.net/methodic_demise.htm


Informant: V

http://onlinejournal.com/Media/031905Mazza/031905mazza.html


Informant: Friends


Was Hunter Thompson Suicided?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542407/

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-marshall040305.htm


Informant: radtimes


I could see the present situation coming some 20 years ago. Then there was a very good chance that gentle and reasoned persuasion would turn the industrial-military "civilization" around.

Now, the situation is desparate. There is a possibility that the fractal array of self regulating systems, embodied in the Gaia hypothesis/belief, has been pushed beyond the Lambda point (that which marks the boundary between strange attractor land and chaos).

There is a slim chance, and one worth entertaining, thought the prospect is hardly so, that the Lambda point though alarmingly nigh, has not ben reached.

Such a desparate situation demends desperate remedies. If we and the remaining abused and exploited animal and plant life are to survive, there MUST be an immediate shut down of 90% of the extractive, squandering, pollutng and poisoning industrial and military installations and establishments, however much we may depend on them, for our undeserved comfort. They must not be thrown away by our somnambulistic purblind greed and acquiescience. There are solutions to this, though hard ones.

(Sorry to rant, but I have to say this)

Richard Harvey

http://tinyurl.com/3mdu3
http://tinyurl.com/3wmex

WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
nycwrl@att.net
http://www.warresisters.org

contacts:
Luke Nephew, 978-501-0810 (Bronx)
Eric Laursen, 917-806-6452 (Manhattan)
John M. Miller, 718-596-7668 (Brooklyn) or Ruth Benn 917-975-8230 (Brooklyn)

For immediate release

Protests Stop Military Recruiting as Antiwar Demonstrators Protest on Second Anniversary of Iraq War; 30 Arrested

March 19, 2005 - Armed Forces recruiting centers in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx were transformed into centers of protest today as scores of antiwar protesters set life-size coffins at their entrances or blocked their doors.

At about 11:00 this morning, when the Bronx Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps center would ordinarily have been conducting business at Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse, six life-sized coffins representing U.S. and Iraqi casualties of the Iraq war were lined up next to the entrance to the center. About 60 demonstrators held a vigil in front of the building, handing out antiwar leaflets to passers by in the busy Bronx shopping area.

A little later, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, some 300 protesters converged on each of the recruiting centers on Flatbush Avenue and at Times Square. Some two dozen conducted a symbolic die-in in the street in front of the Times Square station, where 24 were arrested. Another eight people were arrested in Brooklyn for blocking the doors of the Flatbush Avenue recruiting center. No one was arrested in the Bronx because, with the center closed for business, there was no one to ask the protesters to leave. They stood peacefully in front of the building, handing out leaflets and reading out the names of U.S. armed forces members from the Bronx who have died in Iraq.

The demonstrations in New York City were three of hundreds of protests at recruiting centers across the nation called by peace and justice groups to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Each demonstration was preceded by a solemn procession carrying the coffins to the recruiting site.

Shortly before the demonstrations, Frida Berrigan, an organizer with WRL later arrested in Times Square, explained the significance of the coffins: "We carry coffins representing the more than 1,500 American soldiers who have died and. Some coffins are draped in black fabric to represent the more than 100,000 Iraqis who have been killed and others are draped with the American flag to represent the 1,512 American soldiers killed so far. The White House has tried to hide these deaths from the American people, but the sorrow will not be silent."

Long-time War Resisters League activist Ruth Benn, arrested in Brooklyn, added, "We march to military recruiting stations throughout the city today to demand an end to the wasting of young lives in war. We counsel young people to consider alternative paths to jobs and education." She predicted that "many of us will put our bodies between the recruiting stations and the young people they want to use as war fodder. We will shut them down."

Organized by the New York City War Resisters League, these events were just a few of the more than 750 actions taking place in all 50 states today. Sponsoring organizations include United for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace, Socialist Party USA, Voices in the Wilderness, Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Park Slope Greens, Catholic Worker, Code Pink, Not in Our Name, Ya-Ya Network, Socialist Party of NYC, Industrial Workers of the World (NYC GMB), One Thousand Coffins, Grandmothers Against the War, Progressive Programmers League, Kairos Community, World War III Arts in Action, among other organizations.

The War Resisters League is an 81-year-old secular pacifist organization, headquartered in New York City, and is affiliated with the War Resisters' International, which is based in London. WRL believes war to be a crime against humanity, and advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation.

More details of this event can be found on the web site, http://www.warresisters.org/counter-recruitMar05.htm.


War Resisters League
339 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450
http://www.warresisters.org
wrl@warresisters.org


Informant: John M Miller

From ufpj-news

Nach einem Bericht haben Vertreter der US-Ölkonzerne die von den Neokonservativen geplante Privatisierung des irakischen Öls verhindert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19706/1.html

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Cell Phone Companies Sued For 'Unsafe Levels Of Radiation'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579834/

The Voice of the People
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545013/

Effect on peoples health of telephone base station mast radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571087/

Tribute to people suffering
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571123/

Two thirds of people believe the risks of emissions from mobile phones outweigh the benefits
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571238/

ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY ARE NOT SAFE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/570118/

The Wireless Revolution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579157/

The continuing deceptions of 02
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574013/

Brighton & Hove phone mast Motion
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574628/

The Castle Tower of Crest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574570/

PHONE MAST APPLICATION GETS POOR RECEPTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575168/

MPS SET TO DEBATE ON MAST RULES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576875/

DESPERATE parents offering to hand over £5,000 to a church if it throws out controversial plans to house a mobile phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575196/

Residents fume over mast defeat
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575208/

T Mobile trying to monopolise Manchester
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576644/

Residents relieved as mast fails
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577187/

RALLYING CALL FOR PHONE MAST EXCLUSION ZONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577193/

Control these masts planners plead
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577197/

Victory for phone mast protesters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577205/

Fears that plans will cause mast hysteria
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577209/

EMR and Health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/573431/

THE FORMULA OF PAIN: ANTENNAS and CANCER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576851/

MOBILE TELEPHONY: 17 NEW CASES OF CANCER IN MOTRIL-GRANADA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579080/

Time for rethink on mast policy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579742/

Council wants phone mast powers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579749/

Observations re EMR Pollution EHS and the Problems of the use of the ICNIRP Guidelines in Ireland
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575453/

In Sweden EHS is regarded as a physical degradation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576915/

Magenta News from Mast Network
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Magenta+News+-+Mobile-+Tetra+Masts+from+Mast+Network/

Omega-News Collection 19. March 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580665/

Highest Endorsement Yet for Sun-Earth Connection
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575537/

History's Greatest Disaster Has Begun
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572223/

Ocean heat store makes climate change inevitable
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577881/

Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572824/

Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572854/

Better do it Eco-Activism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/573936/

A Line in the Ancient Forest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574811/

Activists Held, Blocked from Logging Areas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577250/

US tries to sink forests plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577244/

Illegal Logging on Agenda at Unique G8 Meeting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579391/

Biscuit Fire Recovery Project: Biscuit Logging makes international news
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579763/

Senate Votes to Open Alaska Wildlife Refuge to Drilling
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579393/

Stay Out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The fight for ANWR continues
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579903/

Dead Squid Wash Up in California Again
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579166/

Stop the Wolf Slaughter in Alaska
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579787/

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE MARI PEOPLE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575144/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/to

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

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

EMF-Omega-News 19. March 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580672/

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2469/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2467/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7397.htm


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/iraq-war-fact-sheet.html


Informant: Yoshie Furuhashi

From ufpj-news

A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s knew that Saddam Hussein might use them as weapons, prosecutors have said at his first public hearing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/93EF3695-94AA-4F5F-8771-70CE89796851.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4vso4


From Information Clearing House

Despite the Bush administration’s bellicose demands that Iran give up its uranium enrichment program, Washington has dismissed any cause for alarm over a somewhat similar nuclear program in Brazil.

http://tinyurl.com/7y8fs

Corruption wastes money, bankrupts countries, and costs lives.

http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=news.view&id=116893&src=dcn
http://tinyurl.com/6uk3w


From Information Clearing House

More than 11,000 soldiers have been injured in the past two years in Iraq. “I was willing to die because I thought I would be protecting my family back home and I’d be serving my country,” says 22-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Darrell Anderson of Lexington, Ky.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7229226/


From Information Clearing House

Saturday, March 19th, marks the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1450226



Your Guide to a Weekend of Resistance:

On the second anniversary of Shock and Awe, the anti-war movement wants you.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0512,ferguson1,62240,5.html


From Information Clearing House

The war on terrorism declared by the United States on radical Islamists is little more than a proxy battle in a war between two cults.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2002/


From Information Clearing House

President Bush's U.N. Ambassador designate, John Bolton, participated in promoting the administration's phony story about Saddam Hussein negotiating to buy uranium for nuclear weapons from the African country of Niger.

http://tinyurl.com/5anto

Iran has hit out at the United Nations for ignoring abuses by US forces of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, as well as their assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1326226.htm


From Information Clearing House

'To suggest that senior officials were blameless in fostering the command climate that led to the behavior of those junior guards at the prison is simply not credible,'' retired Army general officer John Johns told Knight Ridder.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2611737


From Information Clearing House

"Extraordinary Rendition"? Let us call it what it is: the outsourcing of torture. Having other countries do our dirty work for us. And it stinks to high heaven.

http://tinyurl.com/6crc2

It is illegal under U.S. and international law to send someone to a country where torture is likely.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002211400_goss18.html
http://tinyurl.com/6gfnv


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration's campaign against openness:

What follows is a representative selection of categories of data that have been withdrawn from public access in the Bush years, with reflections on what they mean.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2114963/


From Information Clearing House

A relentless degeneration of American society is taking place. Brutality and atrocity are becoming normalized, systemized and rewarded.

http://tinyurl.com/6wtbd

None of the coalition of the willing keep – or admit to keeping – a count of Iraqi deaths. This is in striking contrast to the anxiety that there be a scrupulous accounting of deaths attributable to Saddam Hussein.

http://207.44.245.159/article8305.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4pv4r


From Information Clearing House

America has no shortage of sell outs and traitors. Traitorous Democrats in Congress help corporations enslave us through an atrocious bankruptcy bill. The media sell us out every day when they choose to tell us all about the latest celebrity divorce but ignore the Bush meltdown in the international community or the death toll in Iraq.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/130/130_fr_uncle_toms_and_turncoats_pf.html
http://tinyurl.com/5m4xs


From Information Clearing House

Although, there is no “evidence” of a systematic policy to kill journalists, it seem that a policy of preventing independent media reporting from the war is the US administration top priority.

http://tinyurl.com/6bx64

All is quiet in Falluja, or at least that is how it seems, given that the mainstream media has largely forgotten about the Iraqi city. But independent journalists are risking life and limb to bring out a very different story.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6890A8DA-AF79-45AD-BB4F-42C060978A07.htm
http://tinyurl.com/59g7m


From Information Clearing House

How America furthers its national interests in the Middle East. The United States flaunts the banner of democracy in the Middle East only when that advances its economic, military, or strategic interests.

http://tinyurl.com/4xdkm

America's Arctic Refuge is in danger. This week, oil interests came one step closer to ruining the wild coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with sprawling oil development. In a backdoor scheme cooked up by drilling proponents, the U.S. Senate has included language in the Federal Budget that could remove protections prohibiting oil development in the biological heart of the Refuge. But the fight is far from over!

Make a statement today. Show your solidarity for America's Arctic Refuge with a visible symbol -- a green ribbon. Tie it in your yard, hang it on your home, pin it on your clothes or wear it around your wrist. Then pass it on. Give ribbons to your friends and family.

Millions of Americans feel strongly about this issue -- and together we will NOT be ignored. Show your support until Congress assures us that the Arctic Refuge is safe from oil drills.

Why This Will Work

Millions of Americans have made it plain that they want the Arctic Refuge protected and yet some members of Congress continue to ignore us. It's time to step up the pressure.

When your Members of Congress come home for recess they will see green ribbons on every street. Strangers who know nothing about the Arctic Refuge will ask about your ribbon and you'll tell them. Soon green ribbons will be tied in neighborhoods across the country, news media in every state will take notice, and Congress will not be able to ignore us.

We are counting on YOU to spread the word. Forward this message to your friends and family. Then buy a spool of ribbon and hand out ribbons to everyone you know -- at work, at church, and everywhere you go! It's easy!

Stand up for wildlife and America's wild places and tell oil interests that they have crossed the line. Don't sit quietly while our wild heritage is sold to Big Oil.

Political Update

The House passed its Budget measure last night, 218-214. It did not include any explicit language about Arctic oil drilling. But it does contain instructions to other committees that create a loophole for drilling language to be included. The extremely close nature of the vote offers hope to conservationists as responsibility for the budget moves to a House/Senate conference committee.

Both the Senate and the House have left for a two-week spring recess, returning to work April 4th .

During recess, congressional staff members will begin preparing for the Budget Conference Committee, a process that reconciles differences between the House and Senate Budget bills in order to present a single Budget for a final vote by both houses.

Arctic activists are planning events in several, targeted home districts. The political message during this time: Please vote against any conference report that would instruct committees to pass Arctic drilling as part of the Budget bill.

What You Can Do

Wear your green ribbons, and decorate freely with them. Make an appointment with your member of Congress and Senators and carry them the message that the Budget conference bill must not contain language that would open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.

Words to Inspire

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."
- Sarah Brown


http://www.wilderness.org 1615 M St, NW Washington, DC 20036 1.800.THE.WILD action@tws.org

New Report Paving the Way for a People-Centered Food System
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-06.htm

On the 2nd Anniversary of the Iraq War, Iraq Veterans Say: 'Bring Them
Home Now!'

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0317-11.htm

Brother of Spanish Journalist Slain by US in Baghdad Demands Justice; Family of Jose Couso Presses Campaign for Investigation
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-05.htm

http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#pepis


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO503A.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO503A.html
http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/infonature-about55.html


Informant: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/BaltSun/BuriedSecrets.html


Informant: billder

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/119577/index.php


Informant: billder

http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/60krebs.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/haeufungen_von_krebs.htm

Hochfrequenzen wirken auf Organismus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/689890/

Krebscluster in der Nähe von Mobilfunkantennen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/162552/

Krebs und Krankheit um Mobilfunksender
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/601641/

Krebshäufungen um Sendeanlagen in Thüringen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1730505/

STEINBACH HALLENBERG: Krebsrate mehrfach erhöht um den Mobilfunksendemast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2657378/

Weiteres Abwarten verbietet sich angesichts der Schwere der Erkrankungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1842913/

DER TOD VON 43 EINWOHNERN VON MAJADAHONDA DURCH ELEKTROMAGNETISCHE STRAHLUNG WIRD ZUR ANZEIGE GEBRACHT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1421140/

Krebsfälle in spanischen Schulen
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/valladolid.htm

Verdachtsfälle: Häufungen von Krebs und schweren Erkrankungen in der Nähe von Funkantennen
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/verdachtsfaelle.htm
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/verdachtsfaelle.htm#Verdachtsfaelle

Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/582372/

Gegen den „Krebsmacher“ vom Burgberg
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/578936/

Krebs erregender Mobilfunkmast?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/685575/

Krebsfälle in der Nähe von AM-Radiosendern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/582464/

Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Mobilfunk und Krebs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284796/

Naila-Studie erhärtet Krebsverdacht von Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/291645/

Strahlung unterm Grenzwert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/749181/

Mobilfunk: Grenzwertabsenkungen müssen drastisch sein, um den Gesundheitsschutz der Bevölkerung zu garantieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1644875/

Zeitbombe tickt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/628855/

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303598/

Cancer Cluster in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cancer_cluster_no_name_8_3_05.doc

SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Clusters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2796559/

Can we make the phone mast-cancer link?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1324017/

The Effects Of Radiation In The Cause Of Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1158742/

Health chiefs probe phone-mast cancer link claims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625063/

Tetra & telecommunication masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1338270/

Germany Cancer Clusters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1837176/

Clusters in England
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/678769/

The largest cancer cluster in the U.K.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1683971/

Phone masts on the roof of our local secondary school have resulted in 10 teachers (at least) with cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2244046/

Its alleged that a Southport Children’s Nursery has three children with leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1700901/

School Study about cancer and phone masts at Gijon
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1837171/

SAFETY FEARS SWITCHED OFF BY TV MAST CLAIMS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1681654/

Lloyd Morgan of the Brain Tumour Registry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/691740/

Cancer Cluster in Spain 2000-2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1319986/

45 DIED AROUND An ANTENNA OF TELEPHONY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1349013/

Union wants audit over tumours
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1955776/

Cyprus: "Alarm Bells of Radiation Threat"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/617134/

Continuation of the medical investigation with Saint-Cyr military school http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586043/

Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604959/

Leukemia in children will continue growing
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/612805/

EMR Reduces Melatonin in Animals and People
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/619547/

School rooftops desired space for Webnet wireless internet antennas
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2776945/

Active duty soldiers are voting with their feet: The New York Times reports 6,000 desertions. Journalists should also investigate how many reserve and National Guard soldiers are failing to report for military duty. In combination, the desertions, the back door draft (stop loss), faltering recruiting, and $150,000 bonuses for re-enlistment, the military personnel system hangs on the brink of destruction and ready for the draft.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2997

In one of the most lengthy, detailed, and accurate editorials ever written by the New York Times, their editorial board lays bare the phony reasons given to attack Iraq and some reasonable suggestions to extract the U.S. from what the Times calls "Bush's war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2996

Read the article below to learn why the Bush/Cheney Administration fought so hard to prevent the release of documents relating to their secret meeting with oil company campaign contributors during early 2001. When reading the article below, keep thinking about Enron, Harken, Halliburton, and the fake energy crisis in California.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2995

At the bottom of his article there is a link to three more informational articles. The similar one done for BBC Newsnight has this very fascinating introductory paragraph:

Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World Bank? The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now, indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. Tonight BBC Television Newsnight will tell the true story of the fall of the neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper's magazine will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans for war in Iraq -- and for Iraq's oil -- within weeks of Bush's first inauguration in 2001. [...] More at http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=417&row=0 or http://tinyurl.com/3v25z


© Virginia Metze

Many young Americans would like to see the press muzzled, if just a bit. If only they knew history's lessons, they would surely see a free press in a different light.

By Kathleen Parker

USA TODAY, March 15, 2005

Freedom of speech and the idea of a free press are so intricately woven into America's DNA that few of us give much thought to the origins of our freedoms or ponder an alternative life without them.

With gratitude, we can admit that we don't worry much about jackboots kicking in our doors at night because we've spoken ill of El Jefe. Indeed, criticizing government is sport within our borders. [...] More of a long article at: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050315/oplede15.art.htm


© Virginia Metze

Prisoners Say Countries Break No-Torture Pledges

by Dana Priest

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 17, 2005; Page A01

The system the CIA relies on to ensure that the suspected terrorists it transfers to other countries will not be tortured has been ineffective and virtually impossible to monitor, according to current and former intelligence officers and lawyers, as well as counterterrorism officials who have participated in or reviewed the practice. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42072-2005Mar16.html or http://tinyurl.com/6jl3m



© Virginia Metze

Julia Scott

March 16, 2006

Salon's War Room

[...] In spite of the public's deep concerns about government secrecy, since 1998 federal departments have filled fewer Freedom of Information Act requests in full -- while the number of requests for information has risen steadily, especially following the Sept. 11 attacks.

The government met the increased demand with unprecedented resistance. After 9/11, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card issued memos suggesting that agencies be more careful in granting FOIA requests; they cited national security concerns. Since then, the government has also pulled many documents off its Web sites, creating14 million new classified documents in 2003 -- a large increase over 2001. Now, access even to the safety records of a natural gas plant in a small American town can be denied. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/59pt3


© Virginia Metze

Sounds like we need a law -- and fast ...

Justice: Propaganda is A-OK

Must the U.S. government reveal when it has produced "news" broadcasts? In a stunning rebuke of the GAO, the Justice Department says no.

By Eric Boehlert

Salon, March 16, 2005

Democrats aren't the only ones angered by the Justice Department's memo to federal agencies on March 11 telling them to ignore a key finding by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO has declared that video news releases -- or prepackaged TV segments -- that fail to reveal they were produced by the government constitute illegal propaganda. "It's highly unusual for the Justice Department to take this action. Sending out a memo may be unprecedented," says David Walker, comptroller general of the United States and head of the GAO. He adds, "The Justice Department is not independent on this matter."

Department spokesman Kevin Madden could not say how common the issuance of a memo was, but noted that because GAO findings are nonbinding, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has final say over executive branch legal matters. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/16/propaganda_ruling/index.html or http://tinyurl.com/4yha7


© Virginia Metze

Salon on DeLay:

Unending troubles

Despite calls from the right for "spiritual warfare" in defending the House majority leader against ethics charges, the fate of DeLay Inc. looks grim.

By Sidney Blumenthal

March 17, 2005

[...] The uncertain fate of the majority leader, known as "The Hammer," and to the Republican members and lobbyists in Washington as "the concierge of Capitol Hill," threatens to undermine the Bush administration's agenda; the political machine DeLay has built by allying special interests, lobbyists and Republicans; and the Republican dominance of Congress. Conservative leader Paul Weyrich pronounced that defending DeLay is nothing less than a life-or-death matter -- "spiritual warfare." [...] Read the rest on the Salon site: http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news4/salon-delay.html


© Virginia Metze

A report issued Wednesday said Iraq could become 'the biggest corruption scandal in history.'

By Mark Rice-Oxley
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

from the March 17, 2005 edition

LONDON – Five Polish peacekeepers are arrested for allegedly taking $90,000 worth of bribes in Iraq. Several Sri Lankan officials are suspended for mishandling tsunami aid. US audits show large financial discrepancies in Iraq. Reports of aid abuse taunt Indonesia.

Two of the world's biggest-ever reconstruction projects - Iraq and post-tsunami Asia - are facing major tests of credibility, as billions of dollars of aid and reconstruction money pour in.
And according to a major report released Wednesday by Transparency International (TI), an international organization that focuses on issues of corruption, the omens are not good. [...]

Read the rest at the Christian Science Monitor online:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0317/p06s01-wogi.html


© Virginia Metze

by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: March 17, 2005

OP-ED COLUMNIST The New York Times

Bush officials have always been eager to pose as the tough guys willing to make the tough decisions. On Iraq and Afghanistan, they did. But when it comes to China, the Bush administration is engaged in one of the greatest acts of unilateral disarmament ever seen in U.S. foreign policy.

National security is about so much more than just military deployments. It is also about our tax, energy and competitiveness policies. And if you look at all these areas, the Bush team has not only been steadily eroding America's leverage and room for maneuver vis-à-vis its biggest long-term competitor - China - but it has actually been making us more dependent than ever on Beijing. Indeed, if the Bush policies were wrapped into a single legislative bill it could be called "The U.S.-China Dependency Act." [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/opinion/17friedman.html?th


© Virginia Metze

March 17, 2005

AntiWar.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, today filed the most detailed lawsuit to date outlining her allegations. The complaint, filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA), reveals for the first time details surrounding Ms. Edmonds' interactions with a former FBI colleague who raised suspicions by her perceived efforts to recruit the Edmonds into at least two Turkish organizations. Also disclosed are the names of those within the FBI who went out of their way to undercut Ms. Edmonds' concerns. [...] Read the rest of the article at the AntiWar.com web site:

http://www.antiwar.com/edmonds/index.php


© Virginia Metze

Von: Aktionsbündnis Münsterland gegen Atomanlagen <AB.MS-Land@web.de>
Datum: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:00:10 +0100
Betreff: Fw: THTR-Rundbrief 98: bitte weitermailen

Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Hamm e. V. 18. 3. 2005

Horst Blume
Schleusenweg 10
59071 Hamm
http://www.thtr-a.de


An das

Ministerium für Verkehr, Energie und Landesplanung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Haroldstr. 4, 40213 Düsseldorf


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Leider haben wir nach den Korrosionsschäden an den 305 Behältern "Castor THTR/AVR" in dem Brennelemente-Zwischenlager (BZA) 1998/99 und im Juli letzten Jahres erneut in der TAZ-Ruhr vom 10. 3. 2005 von Problemen lesen müssen. Aus dieser Sachlage heraus ergeben sich folgende Fragen, um deren Beantwortung wir bitten:
Bereits in Ihrem Schreiben vom 15. 12. 2004 haben Sie die Störmeldung eines defekten Druckschalters beim Überwachungssystem mit Datum vom 15. 7. 2004 angegeben. Dem Pressebericht zufolge hat jetzt anscheinend erneut eine ähnliche Störung stattgefunden. Kann es sein, dass das Überwachungssytem nicht zuverlässig arbeitet? Kann es sein, dass die von Ihnen angeführte Beteiligung von Sachverständigen und deren Bewertung der Störung nicht den gewünschten Erfolg gebracht hat? Welche Ergebnisse ergaben die aktuellen Untersuchungen der aktuellen Störung vom März 2005?

In dem oben genannten Pressebericht wird die Halle des BEZ als "total nass" beschrieben und mit einer "Tropfsteinhöhle" verglichen. Außerdem wird von "tellergroßen Löchern" an den Castoren berichtet. Können Sie diese Meldung bestätigen und welche Maßnahmen unternehmen Sie gegebenenfalls, um diese Missstände zu beheben?

Sind bei allen Castoren die oberen Deckel abgeschraubt worden? Ist die Annahme richtig, dass für einen längeren Zeitraum die zweite Dichtungsbarriere nicht funktionsfähig ist oder war? Wie bewerten Sie diesen Vorgang?

Sind die Castoren nach der neuen Behandlung der oberen Deckel in Zukunft dicht? Und wie werden die zukünftigen Kontrollen aussehen?

Sind Sie mit dem zitierten Zwischenlager-Sprecher Jürgen Auer der Meinung, dass die Probleme von "Flugrost" herrühren? Was ist unter "Flugrost" zu verstehen?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen!

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Tell the big oil companies to stay out of ANWR!

Today, my heart is heavy. By just two votes, we came up short in our effort to prevent oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to over 150 wildlife species. I offer my heartfelt thanks to the over 29,000 of you who joined with me and signed my petition to Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, demonstrating our strong opposition to this disastrous policy.

In the end, over 90% of Senate Democrats voted to stop this madness -- we just didn't have the votes to overcome the Republican majority in the Senate.

But I want you to know that I won't give up in our fight to stop the drilling. And neither should you. I'm going to use every legislative tool at my disposal to reverse this vote and prevent this terrible policy from going into effect. But we can do more -- today.

I'm planning to organize a consumer boycott of any oil company that decides to drill in this pristine Alaskan wilderness area. If, through our pocketbooks, we can convince these companies to do the right thing, we can still save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the destruction that would be wrought by the oil drilling rigs.

Send an email to the CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch/Shell, and ChevronTexaco now and tell them to stay out of ANWR!

And then invite everyone you know to join us.

This battle is not over -- not by a long shot.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

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Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.



Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Mr. David O'Reilly, ChevronTexaco CEO
Mr. James Mulva, ConocoPhillips CEO
Mr. Jeroen van der Veer, Shell CEO
Mr. John Browne, BP CEO
Mr. Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Stay Out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

As you know, current legislation making its way through Congress would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

I am writing to urge your company to publicly pledge that you will not drill in ANWR.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a God-given gift of pristine wilderness, first set aside by President Dwight Eisenhower more than 40 years ago, and we have a responsibility to preserve it. ANWR is home to more than 150 wildlife species, including caribou, polar bears, musk oxen, and millions of migratory birds.

The American people will not stand idly by and allow this wilderness area to be defiled.

If your company decides to drill in ANWR, we will launch a boycott of your products, and the products of your subsidiaries. And I know that millions of Americans will join us.

I urge you make a public pledge that you will not drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- or face a boycott of your products.

Thank you for your consideration of this critically important matter.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]