http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p24.htm


Informant: aaron

30-40 Prozent der produzierten Lebensmittel landen im Abfall
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19895/1.html

US-Außenministerin Rice hat die Veröffentlichung des jährlich Berichts über den Terrorismus blockiert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19901/1.html

http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.gws.html


Informant: billder

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1195200.htm


Informant: Carol Wolman

Is there anybody who can scientifically weigh their assertions? Thank you.

http://www.eastlundscience.com/papers/1hpemrad/hpemrad.zip
http://www.eastlundscience.com/papers/2tsps/tsps.zip


Informant: Gabriele Garibaldi from Italy

Weltbanktochter IFC will Umwelt- und Sozialstandards abschwächen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/628310/

Verbraucherschützer beklagen weiter verdeckten Verkauf von Genfood
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/627855/

Gen-Reis: Greenpeace deckt Skandal in China auf
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626341/

Immer aggressivere Walfangpläne in Japan auch für Finn- und Buckelwale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/615361/

Russische Umweltschützer verfolgen Ölspuren deutscher Banken
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/615077/

Abholzung, Klimaänderung und Umweltverschmutzung verhindern Fortschritt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/614235/

Weltweiter Klimaschutz: Sofortiges Handeln spart hohe Kosten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/605990/

"Apocalypse soon": Der Planet wird geplündert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/605987/

Laos: Weltbank und Deutschland unterstützen Staudammprojekt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604620/

Malediven: Paradies vor dem Untergang
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/605985/

Umweltschäden gefährden künftige Generationen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604533/

Unterstützen Sie die Forderung nach einem Einfuhrverbot für Robbenprodukte nach Deutschland
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604866/

Überwachungsstaat: 2004 fast 30.000 Anordnungen für Telefonüberwachungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604617/

Überwachung dämmt Kriminalität nicht ein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/603376/

JODIERUNG: «VON AMTS WEGEN VERGIFTET»
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/601246/

ARZNEIMITTELKONTROLLE: PHARMA AN DER MACHT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/601239/

Umweltschäden: Neue Krankheiten wahrscheinlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/599785/

Die meisten Ökosysteme im roten Bereich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/602541/

Antibiotika-Resistenzgen in Lebensmitteln?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/599709/

Greenpeace protestiert gegen kanadische Robbenjagd
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/597952/

450 Quadratkilometer Wald in Laos bedroht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/597297/

Studie lässt Gen-Planzen schlecht aussehen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/592618/

Sündenbock Krähe: Forschungsprojekt setzt auf großangelegte Vögeltötung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/590617/

Erschließung Alaskas: Folgen der Ölkatastrophen interessieren die US-amerikanischen Ölkonzerne nicht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/590610/

BUND veröffentlicht Standorte von Gen-Feldern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586800/

Drastisch weniger Schmetterlinge und Bienen auf Gen-Raps-Feldern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586806/

Illegale Abholzung: Umweltschützer warnen vor falschen Öko-Zertifikate für Gartenmöbel

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/584693/

Genmanipulierter Reis überflüssig
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/581577/

Gentechnik-Standorte sollen nicht mehr öffentlich sein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/581576/

Kaum noch Schnee am Kilimandscharo
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/581575/

Die Schmerzwaffen kommen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577867/

Spread the word..

Vicky


Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:00:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RICO Lawsuit against 9-11 Criminal Enterprise

You've got to read this and if you can, contribute to the effort - http://www.911forthetruth.com/
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pdfs/Rodriguezvs.Bush%20.pdf

I'm on page 40... and it is AWESOME! Phil Berg is covering it all.

Vicky Davis


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

HYPERTENSION: A 'Disease' To Please The Drug Companies

Drug companies need growing markets, and for that they need diseases and health problems.

One very lucrative example is hypertension, or high blood pressure, which because of the way it's now being defined affects around 40 per cent of the population in the West.

There's even a new class of 'disease' called pre-hypertension.

All of this is wonderful news to the drugs industry. The global hypertension market in 2002 was worth around US$36 billion, with the top four antihypertensives alone generating annual sales of US$8 billion.

Not that the more liberal definition, agreed in America by the U.S. Joint National Committee on the Treatment and Prevention of Hypertension, is helping to prevent heart disease.

A patient with hypertension is no more likely to develop a heart condition than someone who hasn't been classified with high blood pressure.

This throws up another interesting fact - there's no necessary causal connection between heart problems and high blood pressure, except possibly at the very high end of the spectrum.

So why does medicine keep chasing the hypertension myth?

It's partly historical, says Prof S McMahon from the University of Sydney, and it grew from concern about malignant hypertension, a genuinely serious, but very rare, condition.

But don't expect any change in the near future.

Commercial pressures from the drugs industry are too great for that, he says. (Source: The Lancet, 2005; 365: 1108-9).

* Find out how the drugs industry influences - and sometimes invents - diseases in the WDDTY book, Secrets of the Drugs Industry.

http://www.wddty.co.uk/shop/details.asp?product=341

It lifts the lid on the most profitable industry in the West.

WDDTY e-News Broadcast - 14 April 2005


Informant: Friends

Teil 1:
Die Fürsten des IV.Weltkriegs
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/14/14688/1.html

Teil 2:
Die Prätorianer-Garde des Imperiums
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/14/14728/1.html

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/

The Earth is Dying: World Ruination Is at Hand
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/623237/

Yellowstone's Super Volcano
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625314/

Recent Sumatra earthquakes precursor to probable mega Volcano in 2012 that can end human civilization
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626239/

Nuclear Power Is the Problem, Not a Solution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630475/

States take clean-air measures into their own hands
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625204/

Gas War
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/631090/

Action Still Needed for Arctic Refuge
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/623208/

World Bank is contributing to Destruction of World's Forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/627570/

Why Genomics Won’t Deliver
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/623028/

Genetically Engineered Crops Damage Wildlife
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618875/

Beer giant threatens boycott over "medicinal" grain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625173/

GMO Rice Sold in Central China Markets
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626946/

3,000 tribal women burn GM seeds in protest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626166/

STOP GE Trees Campaign
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/627795/

NGOs Say World Bank Policies Harm Forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630162/

Help save a rare purple-golden forest in China
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630192/

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

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

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

EMF-Omega-News 16. April 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/631116/

Exposure to pulse-modulated radio frequency electromagnetic fields affects regional cerebral blood flow
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618318/

Mobile Telephony: Standards more than insufficient
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618857/

Health risks of mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618890/

Mobiles do not cause tumours, scientists find
Danish phone study: No need to fear mobiltelephones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/624703/

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

Civil servants threaten action over mobile phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626368/

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

Mobile mad: the wisdom of a wireless world
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/619611/

Would any of you like to be the guinea pig?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625096/

Are Electromagnetic Waves the Culprit?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/628750/

Quiz the Leaders
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/629665/

Mother's fury at illegal mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/621353/

Buy 3G handsets or sign up to 3G services and you are helping to pay for and justify 3G masts being erected all over the country
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/619600/

PHONE PROTEST IN MPS' HANDS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/617842/

Dismay over phone mast plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/621862/

Parents' anger at phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/627243/

Phone mast application rejected
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/621868/

Lobby sends 'no' signal over masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/617846/

Tory adds voice to campaign for mast law
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/617853/

Mast campaign row rumbles on
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625051/

Hurray! No mast near our school
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630541/

Phone mast near homes turned down
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630575/

Mast refusal could force up tax bill
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/628440/

Could Cell Phone Radiation Be a Vitamin for Your Brain?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/631055/

MyMo cellphone for kids pulled off the market
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/631018/

Magenta News from Mast Network
http://tinyurl.com/4pe6m

http://www.times-standard.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,127%7E2896%7E2789518,00.html


Andy Caffrey

THIS WILL WORK!!!!! It will not take long once enough people get involved. It can be enhanced by picketing Exxon (the double cross company - and Mobile. They will start complaining almost immediately.

I know of nothing else that is practical! Please forward to everyone you know. I don't care if I get it back from a dozen sources.

Billy-Joe: Mauldin


Gas War, Let's Get Serious !!!!

Subject: FW: GAS WAR - email that just might work

This was sent by my brother-in-law, a retired Coke executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It is worth you consideration. Coleman

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.09 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost! of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.

The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How?

Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and ! pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.

(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am ... so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK. Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator


Informant: Kathy

"Debtors of the World, Unite!" (The "bankruptcy reform" bill "passed the House on a 302-126 vote on Thursday, a month after the Senate voted 74-25." It is time for the American wing of the global justice movement, which has been struggling to force the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to drop the debt under which peasants and workers of the global South groan, to take on the finance and credit industry that oppresses US workers by usury.

Why not begin this weekend, when global justice activists gather in Washington D.C. to protest the 2005 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund? Unless and until US activists of the global justice movement begin to connect the debt burden on US workers with that on workers and peasants in poor nations, the movement will never grow beyond usual suspects. Charity, an exercise in altruism, need not begin at home, but class struggle that has a winning chance surely does.) -- FULL TEXT:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/debtors-of-world-unite.html

-- Yoshie

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2612/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

I am more concerned about the Salford "dark neuron" effect resulting in early onset dementia rather than brain tumours. There is a significant increase (I don't have actual figures but some hospitals have been setting up early-onset dementia units to support people in their 40's and 50's) in early onset dementias and two of the (ex) BT heavy users developed early onset dementia in their late 30's. I have also had quite a few sales reps and self-employed business people who use their phone a lot saying that they are having increasing difficulty in remembering things and concentrating.

A vast "ga-ga" population would be a large drain on the world's and health people's resources.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/news507sal.asp (Feb 2003)

As far as I know this work has yet to be repeated by other researchers which is inexcusable seeing how important the implications are.

Alasdair Philips


Informant: Don Maisch

--------

At first sight both the Swedish and Danish studies are just another of those "No effect" articles the industry and their friends regularly publish as a counterbalance to the independent studies that show that there are biological or health effects. Actually these 2 epidemiological studies show that there is an effect, but no explanation. During the these years whenever an independent scientist published work showing Non-thermal effects or the existence of "windows", they, the industry and their helpers, always denounced it as being incredible, unreliable, never replicated, bad science, or simply ignored it. However these 2 studies show that there are "Windows", almost similar to what e.g. Salford and others found. So how credible are these studies or is it our turn to smile at them now?

On the other hand I do not think that a direct comparison can be made between these epidemiological studies and the previous biological studies mentioned. Those were biological studies and here there can be negative or positive or no effects. Both negative and positive effects, even when apparently insignificant show there is a biological effect and certainly a matter of concern. It is only a matter of intensity and time. Biological effects are certainly a warning for future health hazards. These epidemiological studies cannot give rise to any conclusions or recommendations. However, it suits the industry perfectly, because it gives them another reason to harp on the same string "Scientists cannot agree - there is no proof - more studies are required".

Sianette Kwee



Danish phone study: No need to fear mobiltelephones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/624703/

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/AfraidReflect_TAR.html


Informant: erici44

Story added: 16 Jan 2005 14:41.

There hasn’t been a massive epidemic of brain cancer—yet—but there’s definitely been one casualty related to all those recent reports about mobiles being dangerous for children. British company Communic8 has opted not to face a future firestorm of public controversy, and is killing the MyMo, their line of phones aimed at children ages 4 to 8.

The move is in response to a report issued by the National Radiological Board that concludes that even though there isn’t much concrete evidence indicating that mobile handset radiation is causing health problems, the risk of health problems remains and that children should be shielded from that risk.

I have never understood why a 5 year old needs a mobile, what's wrong with a PDA

Reporting by Shishki

http://www.mobilegamefaqs.com/newsstory.php?id=56


Informant: Gotemf

It was okay to torment Clinton 24/7 about both political and personal things, but:

Bush: 'I Don't Want You Reading My Personal Stuff'

Thu Apr 14, 2005 05:30 PM ET

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Thursday he does not send e-mail, not even to his twin daughters, because he fears "my personal stuff" would be made public.

"There has got to be a certain sense of privacy," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Bush volunteered his aversion to e-mail during a discussion on whether his administration is sufficiently responsive to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.

Advocates of greater openness in government charge the Bush administration has used the need to guard homeland security as an excuse to keep more information secret. [...] Read the interview at Reuters: http://tinyurl.com/3o6ux


© Virginia Metze

Danny Schechter

News Dissector

April 15, 2005

Yesterday, Media For Democracy sent out an action alert urging members and others to support the call for an independent probe into the Giuliana Sgrena incident in Iraq. Our concerns provoked an avalanche of letters raising important questions. Some are just knee jerk "faith based" defenses of the government's "investigation." Others question our own response. I want to share the letter if you missed it and some of the responses as well as my own. [...] Read the Media for Democracy's action alert here: http://tinyurl.com/c2wg2


© Virginia Metze

by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: April 15, 2005

New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 14 - As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky megachurch the evening of April 24, call the day "Justice Sunday" and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. The flier does not name participants, but under the heading "the filibuster against people of faith," it reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith." [...] Read the whole article at New York Times online: http://tinyurl.com/42qkb Environment News Service


© Virginia Metze

One problem I have with all of this is the time, effort and money that the Justice Department, CIA, Secret Service, and who knows who else, are spending on these kinds of "victories" against terrorism. If they can't find real villains, they need a different plan rather than continued intimidation and removal of our constitutional rights.

ACT NOW

by Peter Rothberg

Detained Without Charge

04/13/2005 @ 4:47pm

The Nation

Several weeks ago, two 16 year-old Muslim girls, one from Bangladesh and the other from Guinea, were arrested in New York City on the specious grounds that they were potential suicide bombers. Neither of the girls has been formally charged with any crime, but both have been detained indefinitely in facilities far away from their homes and families.

As Ari Berman reported yesterday, few details about the arrests have been released. What we do know, however, suggests that the charges could well be completely unfounded.

While both of the girls are in the United States illegally, both have also lived here for most of their lives. The lead editorial in yesterday's New York Times reveals that investigator's suspicions are curiously based on an essay written by one of the girls in her high school--an essay arguing that suicide is a violation of Islamic law. And while investigators maintain that the two suspects are friends who attended the same radical Mosque where they plotted together, their families say that they never even met before their arrests. [...] Read more at http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?bid=4&pid=2322 or http://tinyurl.com/antu4 Some of Fiore 's stuff is so true it is almost not funny -- but he can't be missed: http://sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/


© Virginia Metze

Interesting article by a Rife frequency specialist who claims to have isolated the frequencies for at least the biological pathogens in chemtrails:
http://www.frequencyresearch.org/2005/04/aircraft-pollution-comes-toyour-back.html

Rick


Informant: JHW369

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers137.html

"The only way to change the minds of flag-waving American patriots would be the maiming or death of their own children in Bush’s insane foreign adventures."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8569.htm

If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal: the rise of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that uses the desperation and fear created by catastrophe to engage in radical social and economic engineering.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=klein


Naomi Klein On The Rise of Disaster Capitalism:

"If the reconstruction industry is stunningly inept at rebuilding, that may be because rebuilding is not its primary purpose," writes Naomi Klein in the cover story of this week's Nation. "If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal.

Real Audio.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8600.htm


From Information Clearing House

Almost without question, there will be frauds committed and again, almost without question, the overwhelming majority of these frauds will favour the Labour party.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8548.htm

The United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada rely on "flimsy" diplomacy in attempts to send foreign terror suspects back to countries that routinely use torture against their prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday.

http://snipurl.com/e1ir


From Information Clearing House

In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for future combat duty.

http://www.pointblank-dm.com/archive/2005/mar/033105/cover.shtml


From Information Clearing House

I have posted a pesticide reporting form on my website at this link. CCA is a pesticide application so it is included.

http://tinyurl.com/8laqv
http://www.noccawood.ca/cgi-scripts/csNewsPro/csNews.cgi?command=viewnews&database=Report%20pesticide%20exposure%20including%20cca%2edb

If you have been chemically exposed please report it to ensure that the government is aware by reporting it to all levels of government. While this form is for the U.S.A. I will try and get forms from other countries posted as I receive them. If you have any such forms please forward them for posting.

In the meantime fill out this form and report your exposure to your government and ask for the proper form if you are not from the U.S.A.

Take care and please keep safe.

Deborah Elaine Barrie
4 Catherine Street
Smiths Falls, On
Canada
K7A 3Z8
(613)284-8259
deborahbarrie@hotmail.com
http://www.noccawood.ca

Great New Easy Tool developed by a volunteer programmer at US Count Votes. Please use it and tell your friends.

Please forward this link so everyone you know can use it to easily write their Election offices in support of Paper Ballots.
http://electionarchive.net/public/ucv_select_info.php

It is urgent, especially in states and counties which are in the process of selecting voting equipment.

Quickly generate a pre-addressed one page letter to any state or county election official requesting Paper Ballots (Not DREs). (All but three states' ready now.)

http://uscountvotes.net/public/ucv_select_info.php

Select a State and, if desired, a County, and print a Pre-Addressed Letter. Then simply fill in your name and address using a pen, fold, stamp, and mail.

There is also an option to change the addresses and links to US House and Senate contact info.

Please forward this to voters you know in all states.

Let's flood Election Offices with letters requesting Paper Ballots and Not DREs which could easily miscount votes due to errors, electronic failures, and manipulation, with no way to do an independent recount.


Thank you.

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org


Create Op-scan Paper Ballot Petition

Send a DRE Protest Letter to your Election Officials Now:

http://uscountvotes.net/scripts/lettergen/ltr_pick_addressee.php

As we speak, states and counties all over America are quickly spending their Help America Vote Act Funds to buy new voting equipment prior to 2006.

HAVA will fund only DRE or Op-Scan voting systems. States and Counties will therefore be buying DRE or Op-Scan voting systems.
An Op-Scan system has a paper ballot that is hand- recountable by our own election officials. A DRE voting machine does not.
If we sit by now and allow DREs to be purchased, then:

1. Our elections WILL be corrupted by undetectable and uncorrectable electronic failures, errors, and manipulations.

2. Extra millions of dollars will be thrown away on systems that cost more to maintain, secure, and upgrade. (Instead HAVA funds can be used to develop procedures to secure electronic voter registration rolls, to develop information systems to report detailed election information for auditing election results, and to develop a database of election rules, procedures, and laws to help voters, poll workers, and election officials.)

3. Voters will have longer lines at the polls.

4. Elections will depend on unachievable electronic reliability, consistent power supply, and climate controlled polling locations.

5. Voters will not be able to electronically verify that their ballots will be counted correctly as even the disabled could with some opscan paper ballot voting systems.

Patriots, we must stop states and counties from purchasing DRE voting machines NOW.

Create a letter to your Election official that you can simply print, fill in your name and address, and mail:

http://uscountvotes.net/scripts/lettergen/ltr_pick_addressee.php

Please pass this DRE protest letter on and link to it from your web site, so that every county and state election office in America is flooded with letters requesting Hand-recountable Paper Ballots.

Best Regards,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org

Essex Chronicle

http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=170875&command=displayContent&sourceNode=170757&contentPK=12228642

18:00 - 14 April 2005

Plans for a mobile phone mast in Tolleshunt D'Arcy have been rejected for a second time. Telecommunications company Orange applied for planning permission for the 10m mast from Maldon District Council's north western area planning committee on Monday night.

Orange submitted an almost identical application to the one that was rejected last year, hoping to site the mast on the junction of Beckingham Road and Festival Gardens. The only difference between the two applications is the height. Last time the phone company were asking permission for a 12m pole.

Phone companies need not apply for planning permission to erect masts under 15m, they simply have to give a detailed notification to the council concerned. But the council can call for a planning application on the grounds of siting or appearance.

Monday night's committee decided a planning application was necessary, so the notification automatically became a planning application, which they rejected.

Rebecca D'Arcy, from Orange, said it was unlikely Orange would lodge an appeal.

"What's more likely is we will go back to the drawing board and look at other options and areas, as we have identified a need in the area.

"Obviously we are disappointed because we had reduced the height to try and minimise visual impact and had hoped to get this through."

by Dr Grahame Blackwell
http://www.starweave.com/masts/


Informant: Don Maisch

http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm#Main


Informant: V

National Bus Tour Calls Budget a Moral Document

Martin Luther King Jr. knew that foreign military adventures steal resources from our cities and our children. A new generation of spiritual leaders is taking that message to America - please Help Them.

The missing piece is falling into place.

Religious leaders from across the country are beginning to raise the voice of their moral authority in a newly formed organization, Clergy and Laity Concerned About Iraq. Representing more than 50 denominations running the gamut of Christians, Jews, Muslims and then some, it was launched with a major event at New York's Riverside Church on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech that he called "Beyond Vietnam," in which he said:

"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continue to draw men and skills and money like one demonic, destructive sucking tube."

Substitute Iraq for Vietnam, and Martin's prophetic words of April 4, 1967, apply just as painfully today.

The group has begun a national bus tour of religious leaders, with the potential to capture the attention of the media and counter the influence of the religious right. It can be a catalyst that can turn the tide of our nation's drift to darkness instead toward the light of goodness.

But these committed, courageous religious leaders are long on faith and short on money. A national bus tour is expensive. It'll cost $100,000 to conduct. If you want to stop this crazy war of choice, support our troops by bringing them home, and get our nation to spend its tax dollars in accordance with our values, please, please, please give what you can.

From the Riverside Church in New York,

Ben

Here's the text of Martin Luther King's historic speech that linked opposition to the Vietnam War to the struggle for civil rights:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Beyond_Vietnam.pdf

To learn more about Clergy and Laity Concerned About Iraq, click here: http://www.drivedemocracy.org/breakthesilence/


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Start von "Abenteuer Schmetterling": Schmetterlinge brauchen Hilfe (15.04.05)

80 Prozent der in Deutschland einheimischen Schmetterlinge stehen bereits auf der Roten Liste gefährdeter Arten. Dies meldet der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND). Gemeinsam mit dem Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen (ZDF) und dem Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle (UFZ) startet der BUND nun das Projekt "Abenteuer Schmetterling".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10886
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Schmetterlinge

"Wie Weltbankmacht die Welt krank macht": Weltbank laut Studie für Waldzerstörung und Armut verantwortlich (14.04.05)

Die Weltbank ist nach einer aktuellen Studie für die Zerstörung der noch verbliebenen Wälder mitverantwortlich und verschlechtert die Situation von Millionen Menschen, die zum Überleben auf Wälder angewiesen sind. Der heute von sieben internationalen Umweltorganisationen, vorgelegte Report trägt den Titel "Gebrochene Versprechen" und erklärt, dass die Weltbank ihre eigene, 2002 aufgestellte Waldrichtlinie nicht einhalte. Insbesondere die Weltbanktochter "International Finance Cooperation" (IFC) habe dubiose Projekte unterstützt, die unter anderem im brasilianischen Amazonas und in Indonesien die Regenwälder bedrohten, so die Naturschutzorganisationen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10876

Sachsen und Brandenburg: Landbesitzer verhindern Anbau von Gen-Mais auf ihren Äckern (15.04.05)

Besitzer von Ackerland können Pachtverträge mit Landwirten, die genmanipulierten Mais anbauen, kündigen. In Sachsen und Brandenburg sind bereits Standorte, die in diesem Jahr für den Anbau von Gen-Mais angemeldet waren, wegen Einsprüchen von privaten oder kirchlichen Landbesitzern zurück gezogen worden. Dabei handelt es sich um Flächen in den Orten Neureetz und Guben in Brandenburg sowie Arzberg und Oberlichtenau in Sachsen. Greenpeace bietet ab heute eine Rechtsberatung für weitere Landbesitzer an, die in Pachtverträgen den Anbau von Gen-Mais ausschließen wollen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10890

Mächtige Staudämme zerstören mehr, als sie einbringen.
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19883/1.html

"Gesetzliche Regelung zum Urwaldschutz dringend notwendig": Kaufhäuser und Kette "Butlers" handeln Tropenholz-Möbel aus dubiosen Quellen (15.04.05)

Aktivisten der Umweltorganisation Robin Wood protestierten am Freitag vor Geschäften der Handelskette "Butlers" in Berlin und Hamburg gegen den Verkauf von Gartenmöbeln aus Tropenholz. Die beanstandeten Möbel von Butlers sind aus dem Tropenholz Nyatoh. Dieses stamme aus einer Region Südostasiens in der Raubbau und illegale Holzgewinnung an der Tagesordnung seien, so die Umweltschützer. Einen Nachweis, dass es sich bei den Nyatoh-Möbeln um ökologisch unbedenkliche Ware handelt, habe Butlers nicht.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10884

"Atomwaffen-Drohung ist ein Kriegsverbrechen": Friedensbewegung inspiziert NATO-Hauptquartiere in Belgien (14.04.05)

Gewaltlos und öffentlich werden am Samstag, dem 16. April, friedensbewegte Gruppen aus ganz Europa und auch aus Deutschland die beiden NATO-Hauptquartiere in Belgien inspizieren. Dies kündigte die DFG-VK (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte Kriegsdienstgegner) am Donnerstag an. Der internationale Delegierte der DFG-VK, Kai-Uwe Dosch sagte: "Die NATO-Staaten erfüllen seit etlichen Jahren ihre vertragliche Verpflichtung zur atomaren Abrüstung nicht - jetzt wollen wir selbst zur Verhinderung von Kriegsverbrechen beitragen!" Anlass dieser "massenhaften zivilen Inspektion" sei die Überprüfungstagung des Atomwaffensperrvertrags im Mai 2005, so die DFG-VK.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10875

Globale Aktionswoche für fairen Handel: Attac protestiert mit E-Mails und Aktionen gegen GATS (15.04.05)

Mit rund 3500 E-Mails an die zuständigen EU-Kommissare und mit Aktionen in rund 20 Städten beteiligt sich das globalisierungskritische Netzwerk Attac an der weltweiten Aktionswoche für gerechten Welthandel. Im Mittelpunkt der Attac-Kritik steht dabei das WTO-Dienstleistungsabkommen GATS, das derzeit wieder verstärkt vorangetrieben wird. "Dieses Abkommen dient allein den Interessen von Großunternehmen aus den Industrieländern, die weltweit expandieren und Profite machen wollen", sagte Christina Deckwirth von der Attac-AG Welthandel. Beim Abschlussfestival der Aktionswochenende am Samstag, 16.4., auf dem Schlossplatz in Berlin ist Attac mit einem großen Infostand und einer Ausstellung zum GATS vertreten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10887

http://www.care2.com/go/z/23133


Informant: Hopedance

http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=2494 (Part 1)
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=2495 (Part 2)

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/

http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=6215


Informant: Deane

http://www.alternet.org/story/21753/


Informant: JHW369

15 April 2005

Caroline McClatchey

WORRIED parents in Highgate have formed an action group to stop a mobile-phone mast going up near their children's school. Mobile-phone giant O2 wants to put a 12.5m mast on the pavement in Aylmer Road, just 200m from Highgate Primary School in North Hill.

Lead campaigner Andrea Klein, who has a son at the 366-pupil school, held a crisis meeting with headteacher Gill Pinkerton and the chair of governors on Wednesday.

- Ignored:

She said: "We are forming an action group and we are definitely going to let O2 know that the school is not prepared to allow for a beam of greatest intensity to fall on its grounds. "We are concerned about the biological impact and the associated health risks of the waves. "Until there's conclusive evidence, a precautionary approach should be adopted. We would like any mast to be as far as possible from any school."

As the mast is under 15m, O2 only require what is known as a general permitted development order, falling short of full planning permission. The application for a third-generation (3G) mast in Aylmer Road has been lodged with Haringey Council.

Jim Stevenson, O2's community relations manager, said: "It's a pity we weren't invited to the meeting on Wednesday. We want to speak to people; we are not completely wedded to sites. "We encourage people to suggest alternative sites. We haven't got planning permission yet; as soon as we do, the mast will go up in the next month or so. We did write to a lot of people in the area through our consultation process, but we didn't get anything back. "I have since received complaints to which I have replied."

Mrs Klein has recently joined protest group Muswell Hill Against the Masts, which is opposed to masts near Haringey schools. To sign the petition against the O2 mast contact

muswell_hill_against_the_masts@yahoo.co.uk
caroline.mcclatchey@hamhigh.co.uk

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED14%20Apr%202005%2014:41:27:277

In 1998 "CONGRESS IMPLEMENT[ED] UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE IN THE WAKE OF BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS DECISION." Two references given on web are: http://www.visalaw.com/98oct/38oct98.html and
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:HR04328:@@@L&summ2=m & Also, "a bill has been introduced in the House "Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act"; it is H. R. 952 and can be read at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.952:@@@L&summ2=m

Thanks to the person researching and posting about this for these references. Does anyone have a learned opinion on whether the 1998 bill is still in effect, because if it was our government in this country was violating it big time...

Contest for a punchy slogan for ridding us of Tom DeLay. See http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/006196.html


© Virginia Metze

If you listen to all five audios, you will understand that beyond doubt, something fishy went down in Ohio. The point being that there were tons of irregularities, glitches and even intentional fraud, yet the media AND the democratic 'leadership' dismissed this as something to fix for next time. The proof of the stolen election is in the coverup (and of course all of the facts that were covered up). [...] Read the rest at BenFrank.net:
http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=315 or
http://tinyurl.com/6h4jh
It is also on
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1195153.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/3wb4d


© Virginia Metze

by The Associated Press

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

San Francisco Gate

Lawmakers with relatives on their congressional or campaign staffs include:

_ House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas: Wife and daughter were paid more than $500,000 since 2001 for working for DeLay's campaign and political action committees.

_ Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman: Son Matthew received about $34,000 and daughter Rebecca about $36,000 for working on the senator's 2004 presidential campaign.

_ Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.: Nephew Todd Reichert was paid $3,000 last year, plus several hundred dollars for mileage, for serving as driver. [...] Read the rest about more scoundrels at the SanFrancisco Gate webpage: http://tinyurl.com/6kh4g


© Virginia Metze

Bonn, 15.04.2005: Bundesverbraucherministerin Renate Künast hat die Lebensmittelwirtschaft aufgefordert, schon vor Inkrafttreten entsprechender EU-Regelungen freiwillig auf gesundheitsbezogene Werbung für so genannte "Kinderlebensmittel" zu verzichten. "Viele solcher Lebensmittel sind eigentlich Süßigkeiten oder enthalten zu viel Fett und Zucker. Da sollte die Werbung nichts anderes suggerieren.

Gerade angesichts der Zunahme von Übergewicht bei Kindern. Die Werbung für Kinderlebensmittel muss auf den Prüfstand. Auch die Wirtschaft hat eine Mitverantwortung für die Vorbeugung von Übergewicht", so Künast.

Außerdem sollten die Packungs- und Portionsgrößen bei vielen kalorienreichen Lebensmitteln, insbesondere bei Snackprodukten und Softdrinks für Kinder verkleinert werden. Notwendig sei darüber hinaus eine umfassende Nährwert-Kennzeichnung von Lebensmitteln.

Künast nahm heute den Forschungsbericht der Sonderforschungsgruppe Institutionenanalyse über Werbung für Kinderlebensmittel in Empfang. Darin wird dargestellt, in welchen Medien und in welchem Umfang Lebensmittel beworben werden, die speziell von Kindern konsumiert werden. Der Bericht stellt unter anderem zahlreiche Verstöße gegen die Richtlinien des Deutschen Werberates fest. Er wirft darüber hinaus die Frage auf, ob diese Richtlinien auch bei Werbung in neuen Medien, wie Mobilfunk* oder Internet greifen.

Der Abschlussbericht des Forschungsprojektes "Lebensmittelwerbung für Kinderprodukte - Strategieentwürfe für den vorbeugenden Verbraucherschutz" der Sonderforschungsgruppe Institutionenanalyse (SOFIA) aus Darmstadt steht Ihnen hier zur Verfügung.**

http://www.umweltjournal.de/fp/archiv/AfA_naturkost/8262.php
http://www.verbraucherministerium.de/index-000A6BE32127125D97D96521C0A8D816.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

14.04.2005 17:58 Uhr, aktualisiert 14.04.2005 20:46 Uhr

Aachen - Die Satelliten-Überwachung von Kindern bietet ein Unternehmen in Erkelenz bei Aachen besorgten Eltern an. Dabei nutzt der Dienstleister das herkömmliche GPS-System ein, wie es auch bei Auto-Navigationssystemen im Einsatz ist. Der Dienstleister ist nach eigenen Angaben der erste in Deutschland, der das technische Gerät, die Überwachung der Kinder und die Alarmierung der Eltern als Paket anbietet. Bewegt sich das Kind aus einem festgelegten Radius hinaus, erkennt der Dienstleister "Kids Protect" das auf einem Monitor und benachrichtigt die Eltern. Polizei, Kinderschutzbund und Opferorganisationen reagierten am Donnerstag skeptisch bis ablehnend.

"Kids Protect" setzt auf einen aus der USA kommenden Trend, Kinder aus Angst vor Übergriffen an die elektronische lange Leine zu legen. In Deutschland gibt es bereits Geräte zur Fernüberwachung von Kindern und Anbieter, die das Handy der Kundenkinder über das Mobilfunknetz orten und die Eltern informieren.

Das Erkelenzer Unternehmen setzt auf ein Paket mit Gerät, Überwachung und persönlichem Kontakt im Notfall. Das Kind bekommt ein etwa handygroßes Gerät mit, das die Position in Intervallen zwischen 15 und 60 Minuten an die Zentrale überträgt. "Es geht nicht darum, den Eltern ein Mittel an die Hand zu geben, um zu kontrollieren, ob das Kind in die Schule geht", betonte Geschäftsführer Reiner Franke. Das System solle in Notfällen greifen.

Die bundesweite Elterninitiative für vermisste Kinder lehnt die elektronische Fernkontrolle ab. "Der erste Gedanke war: Ach ja, das wäre eine Möglichkeit", gab Sprecherin Monika Bruns die Reaktion von betroffenen Eltern wieder, als erste Geräte auf den Markt kamen. Dann kamen die Bedenken. Das stärkste Argument dagegen: Die "Unfreiheit" wäre zu groß. "Kinder sind keine Zuchttiere, die wir auf die Weide geben, mit einem Elektrozaun umgeben und mit einem Bildschirm überwachen", sagte Bruns. Nach ihren Angaben werden mehr als 1200 Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland vermisst.

Aus Polizeisicht sollte man das Angebot nicht "verteufeln". Eltern sollten diese Möglichkeit der Kontrolle aber eingehend hinterfragen. "Ist das die Basis für ein Vertrauensverhältnis zwischen Kind und Eltern?", fragt der Geschäftsführer der polizeilichen Kriminalprävention der Länder und des Bundes, Reinhold Hepp. Die Polizei unterstütze eher Verhaltensmaßnahmen, "den Schulweg zu besprechen, gewohnte Wege abzulaufen, dem Kind eine bestimmte Sicherheit zu geben".

"Es gibt eine große Sorge, überall. Da ist jedes halbwegs vernünftige Mittel zu begrüßen, um Kinder zu schützen", sagte der Bundesvorstand des Weißen Rings, Rudi Justen. Für ihn ist es aber eine sehr persönliche Frage, wie weit die Eltern dabei gehen. "Mir hätte es als Kind wahrscheinlich nicht gefallen, wenn meine Eltern immer genau gewusst hätten, wo ich bin." Kinder brauchten Freiräume, um sich zu entwickeln.

"Eine permanente Überwachung führt zu Unsicherheit und Angst", sagte die Bundesgeschäftsführerin des Kinderschutzbundes, Gabriele Wichert. Um sich zu entwickeln, müssten sich Kinder frei bewegen können. Wichert unterstrich die Bedeutung des Selbstbewusstseins der Kinder bei der Gefahrenabwehr: "Wenn Eltern Angst um ihre Kinder haben, sollen sie sie zu selbstbewussten Menschen erziehen." (dpa)

http://www.rundschau-online.de/kr/KrCachedContentServer?ksArtikel.id=1113484939517&listID=1038839614297&openMenu=1038839590380&calledPageId=1038839590380


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://www.nachrichten.at/kultur/348747


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Another worthwhile moment to spend.

Andy


From: Eileen
Date: 2005/04/15 Fri PM 12:21:19 GMT
Subject: Quiz the Leaders

Please spend a few minutes e-mailing http://www.gm.tv they are offering an opportunity for us to Quiz the Leaders.

I have been told that the mobile phone mast issue is low down on the political agenda, out of a list of 200 top priorities it doesn't even appear. Lets get it to the top, please ask all your friends, family and colleagues to send an email to http://www.gm.tv today and over the weekend. If we could get 1000's of e-mails they will make it an issue for us.

Don't let us down, it takes a few minutes, please help.

Kind Regards

Eileen O'Connor

http://www.radiationresearch.org
http://www.s-c-r-a-m.co.uk

04/14/05

The only way to avoid the catastrophe of war is if each person accepts that no person, or group of persons, even if they call themselves politicians and leaders, may use their freedom to violate the freedom of another person. People must accept that it is wrong to kill innocent foreigners, to destroy their property, and that killing and stealing for the state is just as wrong as an individual killing and stealing. It is not patriotic to follow the criminal dictates of parasitic leaders who use blind obedience to violate the rights of others. The only hope for America is that her people will lose their collectivist herd mentality inculcated by the state and its indoctrination centers, reject the state and its minions as the slavers of humanity they are, and accept individualism and the responsibility to direct their own life in voluntary cooperation, association, and trade...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/weebies/weebies11.html

from Strike the Root, by weebies


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

For starters, supporting the troops, for those in the antiwar movement, involves a completely separate paradigm then that of the flag waving right-wing fanatics that support the war. The fact is, the righties have hijacked the 'support the troops' slogan. But it's just a ploy. When the antiwar movement says 'support the troops,' what we are really saying is, 'don't send our soldiers off to die for an unjust cause.' Unlike the hawkish pro-war faction here in the US, our views are political, and in fact ethical in nature. They are also tactical. Opposing our troops actions, while supporting them, may seem contradictory. Even so, on a human level, the antiwar movement needs to deal with the fact that people are complex and contradictory beings, and that is why our support for the troops implies dealing with the soldiers as human beings...

http://www.counterpunch.com/frank04142005.html

from CounterPunch, by Joshua Frank


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

After 51 months, America has come to know, if not understand, the George Bush philosophy. The Administration's trademark has been its pragmatism; rather than be strategically ideological, it is tactically political. As a consequence, its record is riddled with inconsistencies; for example, it has railed against big government but promoted the growth of massive federal bureaucracies in defense and homeland security. Viewed from afar the Bush legacy appears as a collage of conservative concepts stitched together by clever politics; a philosophy best described as a baroque theme park -- Bush World -- filled with thrill rides and exhibits driven by self-serving values...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0414-31.htm

from Common Dreams, by Bob Burnett


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

I get a troubling sense of deja vu as I watch the antics in Olympia this year. It seems as if 1993 is happening all over again as the Democrat-controlled Legislature and the governor try to find innovative ways to take more money from their constituents' pockets and outbid themselves in a spending fest. The ink is barely dry on the 2004 election returns and even the control of the governorship is still being contested in the courts, but the promises of the 2004 campaigns are being buried in the quest to spend ever more of our hard-earned dollars...

http://tinyurl.com/5doj2

from FreedomWorks, by Clyde Ballard


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/11/05

On March 31, 2005, the national news media carried a news clip showing President George W. Bush vehemently attacking U.S. Intelligence agencies for giving him faulty information about the secret weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had supposedly stashed away in Iraq prior to Bush's order to invade that now-destroyed country. The idea he so effectively communicated was that any blame for attacking Iraq should be placed on the miscreant intelligence agencies, and not on himself. Bush's self-righteous defense of his innocence is based on a special commission report that Bush himself ordered. ... [T]he surprising outcome of the report is that Mr. Bush is completely innocent, and it is our intelligence agencies that are at fault for the mess he has created in Iraq. Good try, Mr. Bush!, but you should have waited one more day before launching such an April Fool's Day story!

http://www.etherzone.com/2005/rose041105.shtml

from Ether Zone, by Tom Rose -- Hat Tip to Sierra Times


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

Have you noticed? There doesn’t appear to be any room for civil discourse in politics these days. There is no issue about which the disputing parties merely argue -- the other side just has to be vicious, lying, deceiving, cheating, wishing simply to hurt some people, moved by mendacity while we are, of course, pure of heart. There isn't a discussion of the merits, the pros and the cons, only of who is evil, who is not...

http://tinyurl.com/6p99e

from Tibor's Place on the Web, by Tibor R. Machan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

Over the last couple of years, there's been a lot of talk concerning the possible return of a military draft. That shouldn't be surprising. The time from 9/11 to the present marks the first period of sustained military conflict for the US since Vietnam. President Bush has described his foreign policy approach as one of 'generational commitment.' The more fevered advocates of the 'war on terror' are fond of using terms like 'World War IV' and 'global democratic revolution.' The reality of the situation, and the terms in which it is described, certainly encourage us to think about whether or not a draft lies just over the horizon...

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5837/1369/html/index.php

from Free Market News Network, by Thomas L. Knapp

04/15/05

When liberals say that they don't mind paying taxes, they only mind what the taxes are used for, they're uttering a contradiction, or, perhaps, admitting to enjoying being robbed. And they're revealing a profound misunderstanding about the nature of taxation. Once we understand that taxation is, by its essence, the coercive expropriation of wealth and redirection of it into places people did not voluntarily put their money, it becomes a given that the system will be abused -- or, more accurately, that the abusive system will be used -- and that the money will naturally go from those who need it to those with political connections. With this understanding it is no surprise that someone like George W. Bush, who famously couldn't keep his own businesses afloat, is now in charge of the largest budget ever accumulated in the history of the world...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory70.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Anthony Gregory


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/15/05

War, as Randolph Bourne famously pointed out, is the health of the State -- but it sickens and kills the rest of us. A few profit greatly, while the majority must pay -- in tax dollars and the blood of our children. Remember that, this Tax Day, when you mail that check off, made payable to the U.S. Treasury. Imagine if you had to make it out to, say, Trireme Partners, or Hillman Capital, or Boeing-Lockheed-Martin-Whomever directly -- think what a difference in perception that would make. Because that's what's really going on. The redistribution of wealth from the lower and middle classes to a government-connected financial elite: that's not laissez-faire capitalism, or anything close to free-market economics -- that's political plutocracy...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

Surveilling the surveillers. It's an idea that Number 6, the nameless hero of the classic British TV show The Prisoner, would have loved. In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture. Following wearable computing guru Steve Mann into a downtown Seattle shopping mall, about two dozen conference attendees, some of them armed with handheld cameras, snapped photos of smoked-glass ceiling domes in Nordstrom and Gap stores, which may or may not have contained cameras. ... In the stores, as conference attendees snapped pictures of three smoked domes in the ceiling of a Mont Blanc pen shop, an employee inside waved his arms overhead. The intruders interpreted his gesture as happy excitement at being photographed until a summoned security guard halted the photography...

http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67216,00.html

from Wired News


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Neue Messungen sollen die Elektrosmog-Belastung in Niedersachsen ermitteln. Experten kennen jetzt schon die Ergebnisse.

von Kai Schöneberg

Auf jeden Fall gab es schöne Kulis und Hochglanzbroschüren. Damit gleich alles klar war, sagte Dagmar Wiebusch vom Informationszentrum Mobilfunk (IZMF) strahlend, dass "wir ja nicht an der Mobilfunktechnologie vorbeikommen". Thema auf der mit allerlei PR-Schnickschnack beschickten Pressekonferenz gestern im niedersächsischen Umweltministerium: Bis Ende Mai werden in Niedersachsen in 25 Kommunen Messungen zur Belastung durch elektromagnetische Strahlung durchgeführt. Das IZMF zahlt "unabhängige" Messexperten vom TÜV, das Umweltministerium ist sogar Schirmherr.

Ja, es gebe Menschen, die mit dem Thema Strahlenbelastung durch Elektrosmog "schwer umgehen könnten", begrüßte Staatssekretär Christian Eberl die Aktion. "Wir haben ja kein Sinnesorgan für die Strahlung". Deshalb müsse man "transparent machen, was an der Belastung dran ist". Die neuen Messungen des IZMF gingen über bislang vorgenommene hinaus. Allerdings, so Eberl, "haben wir bislang nichts feststellen können, was in die Nähe der Grenzwerte kam".

Dazu sollte man wissen, dass das IZMF ein eingetragener Lobby-Verein ist, den die Mobilfunkbetreiber laut Wiebusch mit jährlich zwei Millionen Euro sponsern. Das ist jedoch ein Pappenstiel im Vergleich zu den fast 100 Milliarden Mark, die Telekom, Vodafone, E-Plus und andere vor fünf Jahren für die Lizenzen für den neuen Handy-Standard UMTS bezahlt haben. Dazu kommen weitere Milliarden für die Installation der Technik.

Bislang ist UMTS in Deutschland jedoch ein Flopp. Ende 2004 gab es erst 250.000 Nutzer. Es sei ja "weitgehend unbekannt, dass die Strahlungen durch Mobilfunk hundert- bis tausendfach unter den Werten liegen, die gesetzlich zugelassen sind", beteuerte Wiebusch.

Siehe dazu „Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

"Ich weiß jetzt schon, was bei den Messungen herauskommt", sagt Peter Neitzke vom Ecolog Institut in Hannover, das seit 15 Jahren über Elektrosmog forscht: "Die Grenzwerte werden deutlich unterschritten werden." Allerdings, so der Biophysiker, seien die gesetzlichen Grenzwerte für Handy-Strahlung viel zu niedrig. In Deutschland seien 61 Volt pro Meter erlaubt, in der Schweiz nur 6. "Es sollten jedoch nicht mehr als 2 Volt pro Meter sein", betont Neitzke. Viele Experten hielten Veränderungen am Erbgut, Beeinflussung von Hirnfunktionen oder auch Nervosität und Schlafstörungen für möglich. Jede zehnte der derzeit in Deutschland installierten 70.000 Mobilfunk-Sendeanlagen könne gesundheitliche Probleme verursachen.

Omega 2 Volt pro Meter entsprechen 10 610,08 µW/m². Weit unter diesem Wert gibt es wissenschaftliche Studien, die die Schädlichkeit der Mobilfunkstrahlung belegen.

Durch Mobilfunk-Feldstudien zeigte die Uni Wien auf, dass es sehr weit unterhalb von 1 MilliWatt (=1000 Mikrowatt/m²) zu Herz-Kreislauf-Problemen und Gedächtnisleistungsstörungen kommen kann.

Es gibt wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, die z.B. schon nach 50 Minuten Bestrahlung bei 1000 Mikrowatt/m² eine signifikante Reduzierung der Gedächtnisleistung belegen. (Dr. Maier, Uni Mainz)

Aus der Erfahrungsmedizin ist bekannt, dass viele Menschen inzwischen schon ab 10 Mikrowatt/m² erkranken.

Seit Februar 2002 gilt der neue Salzburger Vorsorgewert von 1 Mikrowatt/m², der allerdings in Österreich auch nicht eingehalten wird.

Somit gibt es bei dem viel zu hohen Wert von 2 Volt pro Meter keinen vernünftigen Gesundheitsschutz und er ist deshalb nicht akzeptabel, sondern der neue Salzburger Vorsorgewert von 1 Mikrowatt/m² müsste eingehalten werden.

Auch Enno Hagenah von den Grünen hält Langzeitbeschwerden durch Handy-Masten nicht für ausgeschlossen. Zudem sei es "fahrlässig", wenn ausgerechnet das Umweltministerium die Mobilfunkbetreiber durch seine Schirmherrschaft unterstütze. Hagenah: "Es kann doch nicht sein, dass hier vor Auswertung der Untersuchungen quasi eine Generalabsolution erteilt wird." Neitzke wird deutlicher: "Die Messkampagne ist nur ein Beruhigungsbonbon für die Öffentlichkeit."

http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/04/15/a0409.nf/text.ges,1


"Ängste ernst nehmen"

15. April 2005

Mobilfunk-Petition für den Pongau geplant

ST. Johann (SN-S.P.). Bischofshofen machte den Anfang, St. Johann zog nach und nun will der ganze Pongau deren Vorbild folgen. Die Rede ist von einer Mobilfunk-Petition. In der Sitzung des Regionalverbandes Pongau am 19. April wird der Punkt behandelt. "Ich kann ich mir gut vorstellen, dass die Petition beschlossen wird", sagt Regionalverbands-Obmann und Bgm. Peter Brandauer aus Werfenweng.

Ähnlich wie in Bischofshofen und St. Johann soll die Pongau weite Resolution folgende Forderungen beinhalten: Einbeziehung der lokalen Bevölkerung, Überprüfung mehrerer Standort-Alternativen und die Einhaltung des Salzburger Vorsorgewerts in der Höhe von einem Milliwatt pro Quadratmeter.

"Es geht uns um optimale Nutzung der Anlagen, die bereits da sind. Es kann nicht sein, dass jeder Anbieter eine Anlage hat."

Robert Gassner, Initiator der Petition in Bischofshofen, will eine bessere Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mobilfunkanbietern und der Bevölkerung erreichen. "Die Mobilfunk-Betreiber müssen unsere Ängste ernst nehmen."

Thomas Barmüller vom Forum Mobilkommunikation ist von den Pongauer Plänen wenig begeistert: "Zum einen ist der Inhalt der Petition oft widersprüchlich, zum anderen ist der Vorsorgewert bei UMTS nicht einhaltbar." Für Betreiber werde es unmöglich, neue Standorte für Sendeanlagen zu finden. "Auf Gemeinde-Gebäuden geht nichts mehr. Auf Privathäusern auch nicht, weil Besitzer den sozialen Druck nicht aushalten." Auch Bischofshofen werde seine Haltung zu spüren bekommen: "Bei der Vierschanzentournee wird mobile Kommunikation und Datenübertragung im gewünschten Maß kaum noch möglich sein.

http://www.salzburg.com/sn/05/04/15/artikel/1500843.html


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Leserbrief an die taz

Lang und holprig ist der Weg ...

Die wirtschaftliche Misere trägt auch dazu bei. Wenn nun auch noch die Mobilfunkindustrie zusammenbräche, nur weil ein paar „Spinner“ von Gesundheitsproblemen reden, ginge es mit Deutschland ganz den Bach runter!

Doch, hätten die so genannten „Spinner“ Warnleuchten auf ihren Köpfen installiert, so würden diese ständig „rot“ aufleuchten. Unsere Körper reagieren auf schädliche Umwelteinflüsse und auch auf Elektrosmog äußerst sensibel! Nun, leider haben wir keine Warnleuchten auf unseren Köpfen und wir können auch nicht die fremdbestimmte 24-stündige gepulste Mikrowellenstrahlung sehen. Es wäre auch ein grausames Bild! Und wenn man die Grenzwerte ziemlich hoch ansetzt, hat man auch viel Spielraum, um durch unnützige kostspielige Messungen die Menschheit von der „Ungefährlichkeit der Strahlung“ zu überzeugen bzw. die Menschheit zu „ver“-blenden!

Wenn aber bereits in einem „Jugend forscht“-Wettbewerb in einem süddeutschen Gymnasium mit einfachen Mitteln festgestellt wird, dass Handystrahlung innerhalb weniger Sekunden schon zu Clusterbildung (Geldrollenbildung) des Blutes führt, dass auch Nichttelefonierer in geringem Abstand betroffen sind, dann ist es an der Zeit, dass sich die Regierung einmal ernsthaft mit dem Thema Mobilfunk auseinander setzt. Das Zusammenkleben der Blutkörperchen kann zu Durchblutungsstörungen führen, sprich auch zu Thrombose. Des Weiteren kann die Oberfläche der zusammengeklebten Blutkörperchen nicht genügend Sauerstoff aufnehmen, d. h. Konzentrationsstörungen, Störungen des Kurzzeitgedächtnisses.

Dazu fällt mir dann nur noch die PISA-Studie ein. Zu den notorischen Handynutzern gehören nun einmal die Kinder und Jugendlichen. Nebenbei erwähnt, die britische Regierung hat Warnhinweise für die Handynutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen herausgeben, da Schädigungen des noch nicht voll entwickelten Nervensystems zu befürchten sind.

Marianne Kirst

1) Info: http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cluster.jpg (Auswirkungen eines Handy Telefonats von nur 90 Sekunden Dauer)

2) Fünf Schüler leisten wichtige Basisforschung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/568914/



http://tinyurl.com/3y9ole

New York: Cops caught doctoring video of RNC arrests

04/14/05

During last year's Republican National Convention, the city of New York witnessed some of the largest mass arrests in the city's history. 1800 people were arrested. But now the cases against the vast majority of the arrested have fallen apart. Of the nearly 1700 cases that have run their full course, 91 percent ended with charges dismissed or with a verdict of not guilty. The New York Times reported earlier this week that in some 400 cases charges were dropped because video recordings emerged showing that the arrested had not committed a crime or that the charges against them could not be proved. In at least one case video evidence was doctored. During court proceedings, the police presented a video of the arrest of a man named Alexander Dunlop. It turned out that the video presented by the police was edited in two spots -- images that showed Dunlop acting peacefully were removed...

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/14/1349256

from Democracy Now! -- Hat Tip to Guerilla News Network


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/14/05

House Republicans brushed aside the Democrats' latest attempt to rewrite ethics rules today, one day after a closed-door discussion that touched on the perils of political arrogance. The vote was 218-195, along party lines, to kill the proposal by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader. The California Democrat swiftly issued a statement accusing Republicans of showing 'allegiance to the ethics standards of Tom DeLay.' DeLay, the majority leader, is battling charges of misconduct...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3135025

from Houston Chronicle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wallenfelser Wilde Rodach-Bote
10. März 2005 • 13. Jahrgang • 5. Ausgabe KW 10
Amtsblatt der Stadt Wallenfels

Widerspruchsverfahren gegen die Erteilung der Baugenehmigung einer Mobilfunk-Basisstation für E-Plus durch das Landratsamt Kronach

Die Begründung zu unserem Widerspruchsverfahren wurde nun von unserem Fachanwalt beim Landratsamt Kronach nachgereicht.

Es wird das Ruhen des Verfahrens beantragt, bis über ein Parallelverfahren für einen geschädigten Nachbarn einer MF-Anlage vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte entschieden ist (weitere Geschädigte können sich anhängen).
Zahlreiche andere Behörden und Gerichte haben in Parallelverfahren dem Antrag auf Ruhen des Verfahrens jeweils stattgegeben, um sonst notwendige weitere rechtliche Verfahren und Klagen damit zu vermeiden.

Nach inzwischen vorliegenden, offiziellen Untersuchungen, z.B. im Auftrag der Europäischen Union, ist nachgewiesen, dass auch unterhalb der in der 26. BlmSchV festgelegten Grenzwerte erhebliche Gesundheitsschädigungen eintreten, insbesondere Zellschädigungen. Hinsichtlich von Schädigungen durch Langzeiteinwirkungen wurde lediglich von den zuständigen Behörden damit argumentiert, dass diese „wissenschaftlich nicht allgemein anerkannt“ seien. Tatsächlich aber erfolgen keinerlei Überprüfungen durch Behörden oder Gerichte, obwohl offensichtlich ist, dass die Grenzwerte der 26. BlmSchV langfristige Schädigungswirkungen nicht umfassen und obwohl, sowohl der wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisstand weitergehende Schädigungswirkungen belegt.

Die derzeitigen Grenzwertregelungen gehen davon aus, dass lediglich innerhalb von sechs Minuten eine Erwärmung des Körpergewebes um mehr als ein Grad eintreten müsste, damit eine (thermische) Schädigungswirkung vorliegt. Wenn dieses innerhalb von sechs Minuten nicht feststellbar ist, sind nach den derzeitigen Grenzwertregelungen Schädigungen ausgeschlossen!

Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen von Forschungsgruppen, z.B. die im Auftrag der Europäischen Union durchgeführte REFLEX-Studie, die von Dr. Rüdiger Maier, Uni Mainz, Prof. G. J. Hyland, Uni Warwick, (beide in englischer Fassung) sowie dessen an das Europäische Parlament überreichte Auflistung verschiedener gesundheitlicher Beschwerden im Umfeld von MF-Stationen, waren dem Anwalt-Schreiben beigefügt und liegen bei mir zur Einsicht bereit.

Monika Schuberth-Brehm

http://www.wallenfels.de/downloads/rodachbote/Ausgabe05%20-%20KW10.pdf

Zum Artikel „Klage gegen Handymast“ vom 6. April:

„Die Mobilfunkbetreiber berufen sich bei der Zurückweisung der Kündigung des Vertrages in Naila auf den Bundesgerichtshof, der in seinem Urteil vom Februar 2004 auf eine Duldungspflicht von Mobilfunkantennen verweist. Allerdings hat das Gericht im gleichen Atemzug erklärt: ,Hierzu wäre darzulegen gewesen (Anmerkung: durch die Kläger), dass ein wissenschaftlich begründeter Zweifel an der Richtigkeit der festgelegten Grenzwerte und ein fundierter Verdacht einer Gesundheitsgefährdung durch elektromagnetische Felder unterhalb dieser Werte besteht. Daran fehlt es.‘ Die dem Urteil zugrunde liegenden Erkenntnisse stammen aus dem Jahr 2001, die Erkenntnisse der letzten Jahre werden ignoriert!

Bezüglich der Meinung, niemand wisse, ob Mobilfunk-Strahlung krank mache oder nicht, lässt ein großes Informationsdefizit (auch bei so manchem Entscheidungsträger) vermuten. Denn längst ist nachgewiesen, nach vorliegenden, offiziellen Untersuchungen, etwa im Auftrag der Europäischen Union, dass auch unterhalb der Grenzwerte erhebliche Gesundheitsschädigungen eintreten, vor allem Zellschädigungen.

Der international tätige Mobilfunk-Sachverständige Wulf Dietrich Rose aus Kitzbühl behauptete bereits 2001: ,Zahlreiche Studien belegen, dass Mobilfunk die Gehirnaktivität verändert, den Schlaf stört, die Bluthirnschranke einschränkt, Konzentrationsschwäche und Gedächtnisverlust bewirkt, die Spermienzahl verringert, DNA-Stränge bricht, das Krebsrisiko erhöht. . . Mit der Standortbescheinigung ist die Nachweispflicht über die Unschädlichkeit der Sendeanlagen nicht zu erbringen! Forschungsergebnisse und Gesundheitsschäden beweisen das Gegenteil!

Mir bekannte Krankheitshäufungen, besonders Krebs, im Umfeld von Mobilfunk-Anlagen, zum Beispiel in Hof, Schauenstein, Münchberg (Jägerstraße), Küps, Kronach, Lichtenfels, Querenbach und anderswo sollten Uneinsichtige mit ihrem ,Vogel-Strauß-Verhalten‘ erkennen lassen, dass hier eventuell eine Zeitbombe tickt!

Solange die Nailaer Studie an anderen Orten nicht wiederholt wird, der Gesundheitszustand der Menschen im Umfeld von MF-Anlagen mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden nicht erfasst wird, solange gibt es auch keine Berechtigung, die Richtigkeit dieser Studie anzuzweifeln oder sie gar zu diffamieren!“

MONIKA SCHUBERTH-BREHM, VORDERE SCHNAID 12, WALLENFELS

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=780276


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim


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

Krebshäufung in der Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580235/

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

Warning from deformed plants
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6532&sectionID=17


What a good article this was for objections to planning! I have saved the article in its entirety with all the photos, because, as Ingrid said, a picture says more than words!

On a more serious side this shows the damage it causes to our environment and the Earth is struggling now. This is why native Americans and other indiginous groups are holding World-wide prayers and are attempting to re-educate other nations.

Sandi

From Mast Network

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Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/

Concerned about the tree damages that occur the last 5 years
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3478042/

Cell phone tower radiation may be killing plants and animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3430072/

The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553793/