Referent: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, ödp-Bundesvorsitzender

am Donnerstag, 09. Juni 2005, 19.30 Uhr
in der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung
in der Brienner Str. 46,
U 1/7 und Tram 20/21 Stiglmaierplatz (3 min zu Fuß)
U 2/8 Königsplatz (5 min zu Fuß)

Drastisch niedrigere Grenzwerte für Mobilfunk-Strahlung fordert Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner auf einem Vortrag der ödp am 9. Juni 05, da in vielen Versuchen Schäden durch Mobilfunk-Strahlung bei Mensch und Tier nachgewiesen seien – sogar bei weniger als einem 1.000stel des deutschen Grenzwerts. Die ödp fordert daher eine konsequente Vorsorgepolitik zum Schutz der Bevölkerung.

Außerdem wird Prof. Buchner das bayerische Volksbegehren „Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk“ vorstellen. Ziel ist die Einführung von Genehmigungsverfahren für Mobilfunk-Sendemasten und die Verankerung der Gesundheitsvorsorge im Landesentwicklungsplan. „Wir sind nicht grundsätzlich gegen Handys, aber die Mobilfunkbetreiber sollen ihre Sendemasten nicht länger hinstellen können wo sie wollen. Mit dem Volksbegehren wird eine deutliche Reduzierung der Strahlenbelastung, eine Vorsorgeplanung mit unproblematischeren Standorten und mehr Nachbarschutz möglich“, erklärt Prof. Buchner.

Die Eintragungszeit beginnt am 5. Juli und endet am 18. Juli 2005. Die Initiative ist erfolgreich, wenn sich während dieses Zeitraums 916.000 Wahlberechtigte in die in den Rathäusern ausliegenden Unterschriftenlisten eintragen.

Der Referent:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner, Universitätsprofessor (64) verheiratet, vier Kinder. Er ist ödp-Bundesvorsitzender.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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Regionalbeauftragter

Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
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Informant: Charles Bremer

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RFID
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German/Russian Report on Electrosensitivity
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Long-term effects of radiation dose on inflammatory markers in atomic bomb survivors
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Cell Phone Dangers Are Real
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Cell Phones: The Dangers
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Cell phones damage organic tissue
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The Problem with Laboratory EMF Experiments
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How many generations of this kind of study to show that phone radiation damages people?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/721515/

So mobile phones are not marketed at kids?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/720809/

Residents Claim Neighbors Bombarding Them With Radiation
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John Manweiler: Vindication for Human Rights Abuses in Mental Health - PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION AT IT AGAIN
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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/718560/

Fighting back
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/718563/

Minds are being affected: Calling for a National Move to take the Phones off our Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/720642/

COMPANY MOVES TO ALLAY CONCERNS
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Illegally-erected mast taken down
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PROTESTERS WIN FIGHT OVER MOBILE MAST
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Protests mount over masts bid
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'BEEF UP UK MAST LAW'
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SETBACK IN MAST FIGHT
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Mast fight goes on
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/722898/

MAST PROTEST IN LEGAL BID
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/722901/

Red flags go up in bid to seek new sites for masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/722904/

Residents launch a petition against mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/722906/

CONCERNED residents and a town councillor are warning off a mobile phone firm over plans to build a mast in Bromsgrove
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/722937/

Battle over mast is stalemate
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Mast battle 'victory'
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FURY OVER BARSHAW PARK MAST PLAN
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PHONE GIANTS' MAST SUMMIT
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PEOPLE power has stopped a mobile phone mast
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Health and home prices fears
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PROTEST OVER NEW PHONE MAST PLAN
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Phone mast could threaten 'health and house prices'
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United stand against mast
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MP to meet Orange over mast proposals
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Town gets its own Bermuda Triangle
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A Systemic Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health
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Magenta News from Mast Network
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http://home.tiscali.be/chaudfontaine/GSM_Hypersensibilite270505.pdf


Informant: Sylvie

JEREMY Hunt has criticised Tony Blair and is calling on the Prime Minister to stop ignoring the concerns of local communities about the siting of mobile phone masts. The newly elected MP for South West Surrey is meeting representatives from mobile operator Orange to discuss 13 new mast planning applications around the south Bourne area. “We all want to be able to use a mobile phone, but this doesn’t mean masts should be constructed without any regard for the well- being of local people in south-west Surrey,” he said. “It is time for Mr Blair to start listening and stop ignoring the views of local communities. As your member of parliament I will be calling on Mr Blair’s government to address the feelings of powerlessness and frustration experienced by those living under the threat of badly sited masts,” he added. One of the sites Mr Hunt will be discussing at the meeting concerns the proposed site on Waverley Lane, opposite Bourne Infant School. Niki Hearnshaw, campaign co-ordinator for the Bourne School Masts Action Group, said: “It is great news that this meeting is taking place and that Mr Hunt is helping us with our campaign against the siting of this mast.” Ms Hearnshaw has been invited to attend the meeting to discuss her concerns about the mast. “I am delighted to get the opportunity speak with Orange face to face. I want them to know that there is no way we will give up our fight no matter how long it takes,” she said. “The fundamental problem is that Orange has failed to fulfil their promise to consult with the school and the local community about the siting of the mast.” All Ms Hearnshaw’s children have attended the school and she is worried out the health effects of the mast on the children. “The mast will be about 50 metres from the school and because the school is on a hill the mast’s beam will be in line with the playground. We have had this independently verified by local radiologists,” she said. And in a further boost for protesters, BBC television cameras visited Bourne Infant School on Wednesday to publicise its fight against the possible siting of a mast nearby the school. A statement from Orange said: “We are currently reconsidering a number of proposals as a direct result of the consultation undertaken at The Bush Hotel back in April. “We understand the strength of feeling among the local community and although we have a few options left available to us, we have agreed to revisit some of the previously discounted alternative sites. We hope to have made some final decisions about which sites we will be progressing within the next two months. The footage taken at Bourne Infant School will be broadcast on BBC’s South Today during the news coverage of the meeting between Jeremy Hunt, Niki Hearnshaw and representatives from Orange at the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 31.

Kenilworth Today

Fears for the health of their children and the environment have prompted parents to tackle mobile phone giant Vodafone over a proposed mast. The world's largest mobile phone company plans to construct a 12-metre high mast on the corner of Beehive Hill and Birmingham Road, yards away from Priors Field School and even closer to resident's homes.

The planned mast falls short of the 15-metre limit, which requires planning permission and so is exempt from the need for formal consent from Warwick District Council.

Arvine Bird, who lives opposite the proposed site and has three young children, said: "Warwickshire County Council has actually banned these masts on the top of school buildings so there is obviously a question mark over the safety of them.

"The health risks cannot be proven but this does not mean they can be disproved either."

Clinton Lane resident Bob Owens believes the mast is needed to improve reception in the area, particularly for photo messaging.

He said: "It will damage the environment - it is on the approach to Kenilworth, close to a school and nursery and will be within 15 metres of residents' properties. It is something we do not want.

"The people who are going to suffer will be the people around it and nobody is sure yet what damage these things can do."

Gillian Gould, a lunchtime supervisor at Priors Field, remembers fighting a similar plan by Orange seven years ago.

She said: "It's absolute madness to put a mast next to a school with over 200 children. The playing fields back right onto Chase Lane. Orange didn't get away with it when they tried so hopefully Vodafone won't either."

But Steve Maggs, who works as a scientist at the University of Warwick, said: "Most of the research done suggests there are no problems with any of these masts. It's not necessarily harmful and a lot of the concerns have been brought about by scaremongering."

Vodafone has embarked on a consultation process inviting nearby residents, schools, councils and councillors to give their opinions before making a final decision.

People living near the site have written their objections to ward councillors and Vodafone, and a petition has also been circulated in the neighbourhood.

Coun Michael Coker (Con, Abbey) said: "As far as the masts are concerned we have to approach them very carefully, one because they tend to be ugly and two because people are still concerned about the health aspects. Whether they are right or wrong I understand their feelings.

"My own feeling is that if we have to have them, they should be well away from houses in the middle of a field."

A spokeswoman for Vodafone explained that other potential locations had been investigated but this is a preferred site.

She added: "Nothing is set in stone. We will take people's views on board and then we will make a decision."

27 May 2005

May 27 2005

Dorking and Leatherhead

By Daniel Edwards

A PROPOSAL by a major telecommunications company to install a mobile phone mast is causing concern among residents in Fetcham.

Mobile phone firm Vodafone has approached Mole Valley District Council to install a mast off Shamrock Close, Fetcham.

But residents living in the close are concerned about their health and the subsequent impact on the value of their properties.

Michael Cliff, who is already living 50ft from another telecommunications mast belonging to T-Mobile, said the new mast will be 28ft from his fence.

He is one of a group of residents to have written a letter in protest to the planning department to express his concerns about having a second mast placed next to his bungalow.

"When I spoke to the council they didn't seem bothered about our concerns of the impact on our health and the effects this might have on the value our property," said Mr Cliff, 73. "I am not in very good health at the moment so I am concerned about what effect this will have on me, and the value of our property.

"I have spent £28,000 on improvements on the house, but if the planning department allow the mast to be built I will never be able to sell. "If the second phone mast goes up it won't matter where you sit in the garden because all you will be able to see are these masts. "We already have one phone mast in the village so why do we need a second?"

Mole Valley's area planning manager, Gary Rhoades-Brown said: "It is inappropriate for any comment to be made on an application, but all material circumstances are fully considered before any decision is made by the council."

Jane Frapwell, public relations officer for Vodafone, said: "All Vodafone installations are designed to be compliant with stringent international guidelines and they are recommended by Government and have the general backing from the World Health Organisation.

"The guidelines are in place to protect all of us whether the mast is one or 1,000 metres away."

Florence Jack, who lives opposite Mr Cliff on Shamrock Close has written to Mole Valley's planning department and MP Sir Paul Beresford objecting to the proposal.

She said: "I wrote to the council when they put up the first mast. It's bad enough having one there, it will be visually intrusive.

"Why are they going to place the mast in a populated area?"

Chester Now

PLACARD-waving protesters took to the street to show their anger against plans for a second mobile phone mast in their Chester community.

Residents in Newhall Road, Upton, are angered by the plans to build an O2 mast at the junction of Newhall Road and Handford Road.
The worried residents are concerned about the potential health effects of the base station, as they are officially called, and believe a new mast would be another eyesore.

If built, it would be the second one in the area. Hutchinson 3G has already built one, despite opposition from more than 300 residents.
One of the residents angered by the plans is Sylvia Molloy, 68, who lives on Newhall Road. She was at the forefront of the protest against the 3G mast and now plans to campaign against the new proposals. “No-one wanted the first in this area, let alone another,” she said. “The first mast is a blot on the landscape and I believe this new one will damage my view further. If they built another, we would have two big masts in this area. “On top of that, there are the health risks. I am very concerned about it. There will be children walking past this mast all the time.” And because the mast is under 15 metres high, the plans will not go to a full committee meeting. Instead it will be decided by planning officials.

Upton parish councillor Pete Griffiths said: “It seems bad that it will not go to full planning committee. What are councillors for? This will probably be decided by people do not know where Upton is. “We have too many masts in Upton as it is. We do not need another one. Why can’t they put it somewhere in Chester that does not have so many.”

Andrew Kelleher, a spokesman for O2, said: “This mast is designed to look like street furniture so it will not look particularly bad. “O2 recognise the public’s concerns over health effects and we would like to say we work with experts and regulators and also we work within stringent guidelines. “But we need to put a mast in there to improve reception in a high demand area.”

Dundee Evening Telegraph and Post

Mobile phone company Vodafone will be able to put up a 14.5-metre mast in Strathmartine Road, Dundee, after the Scottish Executive overturned a decision by councillors.

Last year the development quality committee voted 21 to six to refuse planning permission for the mast, close to Cox Street, on the grounds that it was near an existing mast and would affect the environmental quality enjoyed by residents.

Council officials had recommended approval because Vodafone had looked at 18 alternative sites but had been forced to discard them because they were technically unsuitable or too close to houses.

Vodafone appealed to the Executive’s planning inquiry unit. A company spokeswoman said the mast was needed to improve customer service and its height was not unusual for an urban area.

The Executive has now granted planning permission for the development, including an antenna, equipment housing and compound, to go ahead at 534b Strathmartine Road.

Meanwhile, Airwave O2 has lodged an application asking the council to remove a specific no TETRA condition imposed on a mast at Peacehill Farm, by Wormit, even although they have no plans to use the site.

In February, North East Fife Environment and Development Committee approved an application by Orange PCS for a 13-metre mobile phone (2G) mast. But, because of objections from locals and health concerns associated with the controversial TETRA system, councillors added a condition there should be no addition of such equipment at the site.

A spokesman from Airwave O2 defended TETRA and said they could not let the condition go without fighting against it.

He said; “We have no plans, or need for a mast or a site share. But we felt on principle we couldn’t let this blatant discrimination against TETRA go un-opposed and are asking for that condition to be removed.”

Arthur Jarrett, who has campaigned against TETRA masts and is a member of Scottish Action on TETRA, praised councillors for including the condition in the original application and urged concerned locals to object to Airwave’s attempt to have the ban removed.

He said; “I think it was the first time a local authority had done such a thing and councillors thought carefully about this condition.

“It can’t have been well received, especially as some of these companies have exercised an almost devious right to do what they like elsewhere.

“Airwave O2 simply don’t want any council development committee acting in the interest of communities and pro-actively blocking them out. They certainly don’t want Fife councillors to create such a dangerous precedent, which might sensibly be followed elsewhere.

“This is really the company and industry teaching councillors all over Britain a lesson, putting them in their place and making sure they stay there.

“Local people who have appreciated the effort made by North East Fife councillors, now require to act swiftly again to object to Airwave O2’s application to undo their protection.”

This is Kent

BY ALEXANDRA CHALMERS

15:00 - 27 May 2005

Angry residents in North Tonbridge have protested against a mobile phone mast being erected on their doorstep.

Plans for the controversial mast on land at the junction of Hunt Road and Constable Road have raised concerns among residents over its visual impact and the possible effects on their health.

Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council originally refused planning permission for the 11.7m high mast last June.

However T-Mobile appealed and a visit was made to the site in March by a Secretary of State-appointed inspector.

The inspector decided to grant permission for the slimline monopole that will hold three antennas and a microwave dish on the area that already holds gas and electricity units.

But residents are angry that the mast has been allowed in a densely populated residential area that lies between Woodlands Infant and Junior Schools and the playgroup held at the Methodist church.

Resident Betty O'Loughlin put together a petition with nearly 200 signatures when the original application was made last year.

She was disappointed by the decision and said: "I don't know what else we can do. I don't know why they have put it there when people will be walking past all the time."

Mrs O'Loughlin, who was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the war, was most concerned about the health effects and said: "The government said the same thing about radar and how it wouldn't do any harm, but I know for a fact that one man I worked with had a rash for the rest of his life from his contact with a radar mast."

Another Hunt Road resident, George Carey, who will be able to see the mast from his bedroom window said: "It will be unsightly and could pose long-term risks to the health of the surrounding residents."

The 58-year-old said that as both he and his wife Jennifer were disabled they were in the house more than the average family.

He also suspected that Kent County Council, which is believed to own the island, would receive a generous rent from the mast as he claimed £5,000 was offered to the Methodist church as developers originally wanted to place it there.

A spokesman for the county council denied this and said money was only offered for private land.

Stephanie Genner, of Hunt Road, has a 15-year-old son with cystic fibrosis and she wrote an initial letter of objection.

She said: "We don't know the effects on people's health and I need to maintain my health for when my son gets more ill."

But a report published by the National Radiological Protection Board in 2000 concluded: "The balance of evidence indicates that there is no general risk to the health of people living near base stations, on the basis that exposures are expected to be small fractions of guidelines."

Mrs O'Loughlin disagreed and said she had read an article in a national newspaper about a man who had managed to roast a chicken on the top of a mobile mast.

The expert who led the research, NRPB chairman Sir William Stewart added: "Some people worry about the radio waves from mobile phone masts and we want to provide as much clear information as we can on this topic.

"Many of the concerns can relate to planning matters rather than scientific and health issues. This is a matter we expect to return to when NRPB issues a statement on mobile phones and health later this year."

Despite this, new information released by the group this year recommended that exposure to vulnerable groups such as children should be minimised.

Another planning application has been put forward by T-Mobile to erect an 8.5m high mobile phone mast at the junction of Hadlow Road and Three Elm Lane.

Kent and Sussex Courier

15:00 - 27 May 2005
The Owner of a small goat dairy farm in Nutley has spoken of his relief after plans to build a mobile phone mast metres from his kidding shed were withdrawn.

Brian Willcock, 74, of Humphreys Farm, said he would have been forced to get rid of his goats if plans to site the mast got approval.

But weeks after submitting plans for the site off the A22, telecommunications giants Vodafone and Orange have unexpectedly withdrawn their application.

Steve Arnold of Crown Castle UK said: "Orange and Vodafone are now not wanting to proceed with the project on that site. So we will be withdrawing the application."

A Vodaphone spokeswoman said: "We withdrew [the plan] because of a financial reprioritisation. It may not be a permanent withdrawl, it may be transferred to a future financial year."

Mr Willcock said: "I'm very relieved indeed, and most grateful to Crown Castle for withdrawing their application. I think it is a morally correct decision."

The former pilot - who looks after the farm with his wife Margaret - was convinced that emissions from the proposed structure would have proven harmful to his herd and said that research into the effects of electromagnetic waves on animals confirmed his fears.

His concerns followed an application to Wealden District Council earlier this month by telecommunication sites manager Crown Castle UK for a new lattice mast to be built at the Nutley Telephone Exchange.

The proposed structure would have stood at 17.5m with a 3.2m slimline rocket extension to support Vodafone and Orange antennae.

If given approval, it would have been only 8m from a kidding shed at the farm and 21m from a milking parlour.

Mr Willcock said he feared the effect that the mast would have had on his goats and pointed towards a recent study in which cattle exposed to electromagnetic fields experienced lower milk yields and increased occurrence of poor health and behavioural abnormalities.

The German experts behind the investigation found that when removed from a nearby transmitting antenna the cows recovered, only for symptoms to reoccur when they were returned to the original field.

Mr Willcock - a mobile phone user himself - has now called on network operators to position masts away from people and livestock.

He said: "We don't mind masts, but what we do not want is masts that are close to houses.

"All we are asking is for the masts to be 400m away."

Over the last eight years, repeated bids to station a mast on land next to his farm have been made. During one previous application, Mr Willcock collected 600 names on a petition objecting to the mast.

Lancashire Evening Telegraph

HUNDREDS of residents have lost their battle against a 20 metre-high mobile phone mast near their homes after the issue caused a rift between councillors.

Labour over-ruled opposition members of Blackburn with Darwen Council's planning committee to approve the mast at Welding Engineering Ltd, Spring Vale Road, Darwen.

A petition with 250 signatures from residents opposing the mast, to be used by O2, was presented to the committee.

In January, residents won a similar battle when O2 asked to build the mast at a site close by.

But last night Darwen Labour councillor Dave Smith told the committee: "This is the best site for the mast within this area.

"They have looked at other sites, but they aren't suitable.

"People complain about masts wherever they are put, but on the other hand they are using mobile phones like never before."

Residents argued that the proximity of the mast to their homes could pose a future health hazard, and it would be an eyesore.

Staff at the nearby Barnabas House nursery had also complained to the council on health grounds.

Resident Paul Singleton said: "This site is just over the road from the one refused. There have to be better sites locally."

Conservative Darwen councillor Fred Slater said: "There are much more suitable sites, like closer to Cranberry Moor where it would be higher.

"I'm not happy, and I feel for the residents."

The committee was told it would not be held liable under law for any subsequent health problems caused by mast, because government guidance currently stated there was no risk to people from being close to masts.

Tory councillor Alan Cottam said: "These new generations of masts don't cover such wide areas so they are going to keep popping up. The council should find sites suitable for masts, away from homes, and make all the companies share them."

The value of our Worcester home with a 3G mast on the pub roof next door 22 meters from our boundary wall and on a hill (we were at a lot higher level, so the mast contamination rams the house straight on) went down from £. 275000.- to £. 220000.-.

So ALL house owners and potential neighbors to masts. Brace yourselves for huge losses, and in many instances unsaleable properties.

Regards,

Agnes

http://www.mast-victims.org

Nein-Bündnis weicht politischen Fragen aus
Von Peter Schwarz, 28. Mai 2005
http://wsws.org/de/2005/mai2005/refe-m28.shtml

Arroganz und Verzweiflung: Sozialistische Partei verleumdet Nein-Wähler
Von Peter Schwarz, 27. Mai 2005
http://wsws.org/de/2005/mai2005/sopa-m27.shtml

Die offizielle Debatte
Von Peter Schwarz, 26. Mai 2005
http://wsws.org/de/2005/mai2005/deba-m26.shtml

Nein zur europäischen Verfassung!
Für die Vereinigten Sozialistischen Staaten von Europa!
Erklärung der Redaktion, 25. Mai 2005
http://wsws.org/de/2005/mai2005/refe-m25.shtml

"Es kommt die Zeit, in der das Wünschen wieder hilft!"
http://www.eskommtdiezeit.de

Bundestagswahlen 2005: Zusammenarbeit macht stark!

Steigende Kinderarmut, Massenjugendarbeitslosigkeit, Lernfabriken statt Universitäten - der Sozialabbau der rot-grünen Bundesregierung zeigt Wirkung.

Kinder, Jugendliche, Erwachsene- sie alle Leiden unter Hartz IV, unter der "Reform"-Politik.

Agenda 2010...9...8...7...6 - der Countdown läuft. Deshalb ist es Zeit auf zu stehen. Im Namen der Solidarität. Gegen ein schwarz-gelb-rot-grünes 'Weiter so' setzen wir umfassende soziale Sicherheit, lebendige Demokratie, internationale Solidarität und Friedenspolitik.

Als junge AktivistInnen aus Jugendorganisationen, sozialen Bewegungen, Gewerkschaften, SchülerInnen- und Studierendenvertretungen rufen wir dazu auf NEIN zu sagen:

* Nein zum Neoliberalismus und Nein zum Sozialabbau!
* Nein zu Hartz IV!
* Nein zu Kinderarmut und Massenjugendarbeitslosigkeit!
* Nein zu globaler Standortkonkurrenz und 'Kampf gegen Terror'!
* Deshalb: NEIN zur Allparteienkoalition des Neoliberalismus!

Wir fordern einen grundsätzlichen Politikwechsel ein:

* Für eine gerechtere Verteilung von Reichtum, Arbeit und Lebenschancen!
* Für die sofortige Einführung der Ausbildungsplatzabgabe! Wer nicht ausbildet muss zahlen, wer ausbildet wird unterstützt!
* Für ein sofortiges Studiengebührenverbot ohne Wenn und Aber!
* Für globale Solidarität, für Abrüstung!
* Für eine soziale Zukunft!

Durch eine Zusammenarbeit der PDS und der Wahlalternative kann eine Aufbruchstimmung entstehen, die Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus wieder anschlussfähig macht.

Die Chance ist historisch. Die Verantwortung ist gewaltig. Wir, junge Menschen aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet fordern PDS & WASG auf gemeinsam zu kandidieren. Wo ein politischer Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg.

Eine Linke Fraktion mit Widersprüchen ist besser als ein Bundestag frei von Widerspruch!

Wir rufen PDS und WASG dazu auf, diese Chance zu nutzen!

Verhandelt und einigt euch! Zusammenarbeit macht stark!

ErstunterzeichnerInnen*:
Nele Hirsch (hochschulpolitisch aktiv),
Heiner Fechner (ehemals FZS-Vorstand),
Katharina Volk (Bündnis linker und radikaldemokratischer Hochschulgruppen),
Kolja Möller (DGB-Landesjugendvorstand Hessen),
Sandro Witt (Vorsitzender DGB Jugend Thüringen),
Jens Prietzel (Jugendsekretär der IG Metall Berlin),
Johannes Buchner (ENDYL - European Network of Democratic Young Left),
Jörg Schindler (attac Rat),
Robert Wollenberg (aufmucken gegen rechts),
Julia Bonk (Mitglied des sächsischen Landtags),
Juliane Nagel (Linxxnet.de),
Silke Ritter (ehemals BundesschülerInnenvertretung),
Vincent Steinl (ehemals LandesschülerInnenvetretung Bayern),
Miriam Bürger und Nele Jäger (Bundesvorstand JungdemokratInnen/ Junge Linke),
Marco Heinig und Jan Schalauske (['solid] Bundessprecher),
Nils Matzner und Tobias Kirchhof (Landesvorstand JungdemokratInnen/ Junge Linke NRW),
Steffen Kühne (Landesvorstand ['solid]-Brandenburg),
Lars Kleba (PDS Jugend Sachsen),
Gregory Mohlberg (Jugendreferent PDS BaWü),
Felix Pithan und Sascha Wagener (PDS-Kandidaten EP-Wahl 2004),
Thomas Westphal (Rosa- Luxemburg - Stiftung Sachsen),
Victor Perli (['solid] Niedersachsen),
Mara Neele Künkel (aktiv in JD/JL Berlin),
Tobias Schulze (Sprecher der Jugendbasis der PDS Berlin Mitte),
Lena Kreck (Jugend-AG der PDS Wittenberg),
Bernd Barenberg (Landesratspräsidium JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke NRW),
Dirk Burczyk (Mitarbeiter der Rosa- Luxemburgstiftung NRW),
Stefan Fulz (ehemals Bundesvorstandsmitglied der JungdemokratInnen/ Junge Linke),
Sebastian Schlüsselburg (PDS Prenzlauer Berg),
Ines Koburger (Bundesgeschäftsführerin ['solid]),
Dominic Heilig

*)Dies stellt die persönliche Position der Unterzeichnenden dar.

Im Netz - zum unterzeichnen - unter
http://tempo.fischkombinat.de/unterschreiben.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2857/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050520-114429-1570r.htm


Informant: NHNE

May 27, 2005

You can help Amnesty International stop torture.

The use of torture is an affront to human dignity that can never be justified and must be opposed in every country of the world. Those who try to justify torture contribute to undermining the rule of law. Help us stop it. Start by signing our petition letter and show the U.S. Administration, Congress, and others that those living in the United States are strongly opposed to torture and ill-treatment in all circumstances.

ACT NOW - Sign the petition:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/petition.html

Spread the Word!

Ask your friends to sign the petition. Let them know how important it is to pledge their commitment to denounce torture:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/tellafriend/index.asp?pid=139


From InfoNature

PEOPLE power has stopped a mobile phone mast being built near a play area in Liversedge. Dozens of campaigners were celebrating after Kirklees overturned the plans last Thursday.

Every councillor on the Heavy Woollen planning sub-committee voted against the application for the T-Mobile mast – despite recommendations by planning officers to give it the go ahead.

27 May 2005


People power sees mast plan rejected

Spenborough today
(excerpt)

People power has stopped a mobile phone mast being built near a play area in Frost Hill.

Dozens of campaigners were celebrating after Kirklees overturned the plans last Thursday.

Every councillor on the Heavy Woollen planning sub-committee voted against the application – despite recommendations by planning officers to give it the go ahead.

The 15-metre T-Mobile mast would have been built on the BMK Industrial Estate – just metres away from greenery used by children as a play area. Plans showed that Millbridge Junior, Infant and Nursery School was just 70 metres away from the mast and homes on Bank Street only 26 metres away.

They also revealed the mast would have included two equipment cabins and been enclosed by a two-metre high fence.

But councillors agreed with protesters and said the mast would be too close to housing and the play area.

One, ward councillor David Sheard (Lab), said other sites further away from housing were more suitable.

He said: "The amenities the residents have at the moment are very poor. There is very little open space – and a massive area of industrial land. It is too close to the amenities."

Andrew Nield, who spoke for the protesters at the meeting, said dozens of residents had signed letters of objection to the siting of the 48ft mast.

He said the location was picked by T-Mobile despite being in the middle of a residential area.

After the meeting, at Dewsbury Town Hall last Thursday, he added: "It was an amazing meeting. The councillors were smashing – they got it spot on. It's the only green area we've got and that would have been taken away. It would have taken away our privacy also.

"It's not just that an area where the kids play was being taken away, there may be health risks too."

keir.dawson@ ywng.co.uk

27 May 2005

Vor dem Verfassungsreferendum vom Sonntag

Ein Viech geht um in Europa: In Frankreich wird nach einem Schwarzen Schaf gefahndet. Artikel von Bernard Schmid vom 26. Mai 2005 mit einem Rätsel aus Anlass des Referendums: Wer errät den Scharlatan der Woche? (Siehe Schluss des Artikels):
http://www.labournet.de/internationales/fr/euverfass3.html

Siehe dazu auch:

"Ein Viech geht um in Europa: In Frankreich wird nach dem schwarzen Schaf gefahndet"

Bilder und Kommentare von Bernard Schmid von Veranstaltungen und Plakaten zum EU-Referendum in Frankreich - exklusiv im LabourNet Germany: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/fr/eu/index.htm


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 25, Eintrag 16

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer reported on the story of Luis Mejias, a homeless veteran of the Iraq war now living with his family in a takeover house of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union http://www.kwru.org , a member of the national Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign http://www.economichumanrights.org . See below for ways to help the Mejias family and other homeless KWRU families.

Philadelphia Inquirer article, posted on Fri, May. 27, 2005

After 19 years in military, homeless in Philadelphia

by Natalie Pompilio and Sam J. Lin
Inquirer Staff Writers

Luis Mejias admits he did something wrong. Last year, while stationed in Baghdad with the National Guard, he failed a random drug test. The Guard has a zero-tolerance drug policy, and Mejias was immediately discharged.

Now Mejias, 39, is home in Philadelphia - and homeless.

About 250,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, according to Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. More than twice that number are homeless during the year.

A recent survey by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shows about 220 of those individuals served in the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. That number is expected to grow with the troops' continued deployment.

"We're obviously monitoring this pretty closely," said Pete Dougherty, the department's director of homeless veterans programs. "We're not in a panic mode, but it is a concern."

So as Americans mark Memorial Day this weekend, Mejias, his girlfriend, and her three children will be hunkered down in an abandoned North Philadelphia home temporarily claimed by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

It is not much - with just mattresses on the floor of the three-bedroom home - but it is better than the battered 1982 Buick Skylark in which they once slept, the adults upright in the front seats, the three children ages 7 to 10 crammed into the back.

"I feel I'm less of a man because I can't provide for them," said Mejias, who served in Kosovo and Iraq during his 12 years in the Army and seven years in the National Guard. "All I want is to be able to walk into a house and say, 'Hi, honey. I'm home.' All I expect from [the government] is to help me find some place to live."

Newspapers nationwide have reported on veterans returning from Iraq and facing homelessness.

"It makes me angry that my government is treating veterans like this, especially with all the flag-waving and 'Support Our Troops' magnets on the cars," said Patrick Resta, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a national organization based in Philadelphia.

Mejias' case is complicated. Although separated from his unit, he still is not officially separated from the National Guard. Mejias has been assigned a Judge Advocate General lawyer who can appeal the pending discharge on his behalf, said Capt. Cory Angell, a Pennsylvania National Guard public-relations specialist.

"I never had any problems, anything, for 19 years," Mejias said. "I gave them the time, and I should be penalized for what I did, but I don't think they should go, 'Boom. You're out.'"

Because Mejias is not formally separated from the military, he is not considered a veteran, making him ineligible for veterans' services.

Cheri Honkala, founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, said she has contacted city and state officials on Mejias' behalf but has had no luck.

"Homelessness is bad, period. But this is a disgrace," Honkala said. "Here's a man who risked his life, was shot at, is emotionally damaged for life, and we can't even find a place for him and these beautiful kids and his partner to sleep."

When Mejias was sent home about a year ago, he found that the house he once had shared with his brother had been foreclosed upon. He found it difficult to find jobs in landscaping and auto repair, work he had done previously. He now suffers from seizures - a side effect of his years in a combat zone, he said - and once when he found work, he suddenly tightened up, nearly broke the rake in his hand in two, and fell to the ground. He awoke in the hospital.

Of Iraq, Mejias said: "It's left me with cockroaches in my head. Sometimes at night I wake up and tell myself, 'You're safe. You're safe.'

"It consumes who you are."


The Mejias family is being housed temporarily in an abandoned HUD house "reclaimed" by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU). This family is but one of thousands of homeless families with no place to go in the Philadelphia area, dozens of whom are currently being housed temporarily with the KWRU (in takeover houses, Human Rights Houses, etc). The KWRU believes that decent, affordable housing is a human right.

Like all families struggling for affordable housing, health care, and other basic human rights with the KWRU and PPEHRC, the Mejias family is becoming an active part of the movement for economic human rights in the United States, united with the poor around the world.

To help house the Mejias family and other homeless KWRU families, please:

1) Join our emergency response list, to be called to come to the house in case of an effort to evict the Mejias family.

2) Write a statement supporting the Mejias' family's and the KWRU's struggle for the right to housing.

3) Contribute much needed food, toys, household items to the Mejias household.

4) Make a contribution to the KWRU's ongoing struggle to fight for housing for homeless families in the Philadelphia area.

5) Contribute to buy minutes for a cell phone that is needed for constant communication from the house.

6) Contact the KWRU about how your congregation/ organization can support KWRU's Human Rights Houses, housing homeless families as they both fight for affordable housing for themselves and become leaders in a movement for economic human rights for all.


CONTACT INFO:

Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU)
NUHHCE, ASFCME, AFL-CIO
PO Box 50678
Philadelphia, PA 19132-9720
Phone: 215/203-1945
Fax: 215/203-1950
email: kwru@kwru.org
web: http://www.kwru.org


Informant: SAULELYDIS

From ufpj-news

The Downing Street Memo
http://www.johnconyers.com/


Informant: ranger116

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Congressman John Conyers Seeks 100,000 Signatures To Press Downing Street Letter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/27/164317/949


Informant: NHNE

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Sign Conyers' Letter to Start IMPEACHMENT of Bush !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PASS IT ON !!

It Has Started need 100,000 signatures to Congress to get a resolution of inquiry.

Sign Conyers' Letter to Bush :: After Downing Street Dot Org :: In
Support of a Resolution of Inquiry

Address: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

The Raw Story | A rational voice - Alternative news
http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_petition_downing_street_527


Informant: ranger116

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Important Impeachment info from John Conyers
http://publish.seattle.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/246315.shtml


Informant: billder

It happens to every empire, says Bill Bonner.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner105.html

http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050503.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Becky Akers on their airport x-ray machines that see through clothes and underwear. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/akers3.html

http://www.sandersresearch.com/Sanders/NewsManager/ShowNewsGen.aspx?NewsID=946


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2858/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Bürgerinitiative Gesund leben in Allach informiert

Bitte nicht vergessen!

Info-Abend der Bürgerinitiative „Gesundleben in Allach“

Ärger mit Mobilfunkmasten

Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005, 20 Uhr

Vereinsheim Allach, Eversbuschstr. 161

Referenten:
Prof. Dr. habil. Klaus Buchner, Atom-Physiker, ÖDP
Dr. Claus Scheingraber, Zahnarzt, Arbeitskreis Elektro-Biologie

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.franz-titscher.de/mobilfunk/html/infoabend.html

Einladung als pdf bitte runterladen, drucken und verteilen!
http://www.franz-titscher.de/mobilfunk/Infoabend.pdf

Bill Keller knew that rebuilding Iraq's shattered telecommunications network meant throwing money into a black hole. As the clock ticked down to the U.S. transfer of power last June, reconstruction projects were hopelessly mired in delays, and financial controls at the Iraqi Communications Ministry appeared nonexistent. Yet instead of putting the brakes on spending, top U.S. officials urged that contracts be accelerated, Keller said. "We were squandering the money we were entrusted to handle," said Keller, who at the time was a deputy advisor to the ministry. "We were a blind mouse with money."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3366

Guantánamo Bay is becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty. If we have a case to be made against any of the 500 or so inmates still in Guantánamo, then it is high time we put them on trial, convict as many possible (which will not be easy because of bungled interrogations) and then simply let the rest go home or to a third country. Sure, a few may come back to haunt us. But at least they won't be able to take advantage of Guantánamo as an engine of recruitment to enlist thousands more. I would rather have a few more bad guys roaming the world than a whole new generation.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3359

A coalition of activist groups running the gamut of social and political issues will ask Congress to file a Resolution of Inquiry, the first necessary legal step to determine whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in misleading the country about his decision to go to war in Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3358

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2859/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

ACLU Online
http://tinyurl.com/9nwuq

http://www.vol.at/engine.aspx/page/vol-article-detail-page/cn/vol-news-willie-20050527-032059/dc/tp:vol:oesterreich/ag/tp-apa


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sperma

Studie

Laut einem Artikel der Kuwait News vom 17. Mai weist eine neue Studie daraufhin, dass zu häufiger Gebrauch von Mobiltelefonen gesundheitliche Probleme im Hinblick auf den Alterungsprozess zur Folge haben könnte. Die Studie, die von Forschern der Kairoer Universität unter Leitung von Professor Dr. Fadhil Mohammad Ali, Professor für Bio- und Radiophysik, durchgeführt wurde, behauptet, unsere heutige Technologie, die Kurz- und Mikrowellen nutzt, stelle eine Gefahr für die menschliche Biologie und die Körperfunktionen dar. Die Studie, die insgesamt über einen Zeitraum von 15 Jahren lief, gliederte sich in drei Phasen und untersuchte elektromagnetische sowie elektrische Felder in gewissen Bereichen wie Wohnungen und Büros in der Nähe von Hochspannungsmasten und Industrieanlagen, in denen starker elektrischer Strom im Einsatz ist.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/


Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 25.05.2005

http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=12069&hd=0&size=1&l=x


Informant: ranger116

PRESIDENT CHIRAC of France is preparing to throw Europe into confusion and put Britain on the spot by backing moves to keep the European constitution alive if it is rejected in Sunday’s referendum.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1629946,00.html

Bush has done his utmost to frustrate talks on the non-proliferation treaty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1493347,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Americans are trying to figure out how their country went from a democratic republic to a modern-day empire based on a cult of personality and a faith-based rejection of reason.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/052605.html

In an almost unnoticed move, President Bush on Thursday May 19 extended for one year the blanket immunity from legal action conferred on US corporations doing business in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/f716


From Information Clearing House

Nearly one-fourth of Iraqi children aged between six months and five years are chronically malnourished, meaning they have stunted growth, the report says. Among all Iraqi children, more than one in 10 suffer from general malnutrition, meaning they have a low weight for their age.

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28665


From Information Clearing House

Syria is in the cross-hairs: It's not about terrorism, it's not about "keeping America safe" -- it's about the brutal expansion of elite power.

http://snipurl.com/f712

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5 ships ordered to ''surge'' to support war on terror

The Navy has ordered five ships and 2,800 sailors to deploy on unexpected missions to support anti-terrorism efforts in the Balkans and Middle East. Four of the ships will leave today.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=86917&ran=157050


From Information Clearing House

Bentagon vs. Newsweak

by Ted Lang

The Koran is treated with care, but Iraqis, Afghanis, Muslims and Arabs can be beaten to death, have electric shock treatment administered to their genitals, have their faces smeared with fake menstrual blood, can be made to crawl while naked and chained wearing a dog’s collar and led on a leash by a wimpy female “soldier,” and can be forced into a river by Coalition heroes where non-swimmers are drowned. But this, by no means at all, should lead anyone to the erroneous conclusion that the great United States of America, and its “duty-honor-country” military, would ever condone any display of contempt or disdain for the venerable Holy Koran!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8954.htm

Des Pudels Korn
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20154/1.html

amnesty international erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen die USA und befürchtet, dass sich andere Regierungen vom Verhalten der Bush-Regierung inspirieren lassen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20181/1.html

Governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them," said William Shulz, executive director of the U.S. branch of the international human rights agency.

By Bob Dart

Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8956.htm

27.05.05

Während der heutigen Abstimmung im Bundesrat haben Mitglieder des globalisierungskritischen Netzwerks Attac in Berlin gegen die EU-Verfassung protestiert. Mit einem großen "Non" vor dem Bundesratsgebäude machten sie zwei Tage vor dem Referendum in Frankreich deutlich, dass das Votum des Bundesrates für die EU-Verfassung nicht repräsentativ für die Meinung der Menschen in Deutschland ist. "Die Landesregierungen haben über die EU-Verfassung abgestimmt, ohne die Menschen vorher über den Inhalt dieses Verfassungsvertrags aufzuklären. Diese EU-Verfassung bedeutet, dass Kriege und Sozialabbau weitergehen", sagte Stephan Lindner, EU-Experte im Attac-Koordinierungskreis.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11154

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/nsfc-sfs052405.php


Informant: NHNE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/26/AR2005052601538.html

by E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post

The evidence confirming Newsweek's Quran reporting shifts the focus to the White House's efforts to undermine independent media.

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/

by Richard Bradley, TomPaine.com

PBS is under attack. Networks bow to political pressure. Are cable channels like Showtime the last bastion of independence?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050527/the_antibush_channel.php

Lothar Reinhard
Karlsruher Str. 12
45478 Mülheim/Ruhr
Mülheim, den 25.Mai 2005

An den (Noch-)Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder

Sehr geehrter Bundeskanzler,

Ihre SPD hat die NRW-Wahl verloren. Na und? Das kam nach 39 Jahren weder überraschend für die Meinungsforscher, noch für die Menschen in NRW und sicherlich auch nicht für Sie.

Die Stimmen waren noch nicht fertig ausgezählt, da ließen Sie Neuwahlen im Bund verkünden. Was soll das? Ihr Mandat geht bis 2006 und mit einer CDU-Bundesratsmehrheit müssen Sie schon länger leben. Das haben die Wähler nicht zufällig so gewollt. Wenn Sie die Neuwahl gewännen, wäre der Bundesrat zudem der gleiche!

Also warum jetzt Neuwahlen?

* Wenn Sie sich als Bundeskanzler überfordert fühlen, müssen Sie zurücktreten, keinesfalls aber zur Neuwahl antreten.

* Wenn Sie die Macht des Bundesrates verringern wollen, dann müssen Sie eine Verfassungsänderung versuchen oder aber Sie könnten dazu in einem Referendum die Bevölkerung befragen. Nur: dann gilt das in jedem Falle auch bei einer zukünftigen SPD-Bundesratsmehrheit und CDU-Regierung!

* Wenn Sie mit Rot-Grün nicht mehr weiterregieren wollen oder können, müssen Sie die Vertrauensfrage stellen, so dass eine neue Regierung gebildet werden kann, z.B. eine große Koalition. Dafür aber erst Neuwahlen zu machen, entspricht auch wegen der Erfahrungen der Weimarer Republik nicht dem Willen unserer Verfassung. Die große Koalition Kiesinger/Brandt wurde in geringerer Not auch ohne gebildet!

* Vor allem aber: Warum wollen Sie als Kanzler vorgezogen vom Wähler bestätigt werden, wenn sich an den Mehrheiten im Bundesrat nichts ändert?

Als Wähler in NRW kann ich nicht einsehen, warum im Herbst erneut gewählt werden soll. Der anstehende Wahlkampf ödet mich jetzt schon an, weil absehbar ist, dass gerade wegen der Kürze der Zeit wenig über Programme und Vorhaben informiert werden wird, sondern vornehmlich über Personen und Platitüden. Der NRW-Wahlkampf war bereits flach genug.

Besonders wir im krisengeschüttelten Ruhrgebiet brauchen alles, nur keinen erneuten Wahlkampf und damit weitere Monate von Versprechungen und Vertröstungen, während die Probleme sich weiter auftürmen!

Es mag sein, dass Sie die Flucht nach vorne antraten, um Konflikte in der SPD nicht hochkommen zu lassen. Doch die werden dann die SPD nach den Neuwahlen doppelt und dreifach einholen. Ich erinnere nur daran, dass die KandidatInnen für die vorgezogene Btw nun nicht im demokratischen Diskurs bestimmt werden können, sondern notgedrungen im Hau-Ruck-Verfahren und nur von oben.

Mit dem "Coup" der Neuwahlen werden Sie der Demokratie, aber auch Ihrer SPD, einen Bärendienst erweisen.

Ich hoffe immer noch, dass dieser Kelch doch noch an uns allen vorübergeht.

In tiefer Sorge um unsere Demokratie

L. Reinhard

SojoMail 05.26.05
http://tinyurl.com/carcr

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2851/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

May 26, 2005

Thank you so much for responding to our urgent call yesterday about Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's amendment to the Defense Authorization bill asking President Bush for a plan to withdraw from Iraq (click here for the text: http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=323 ).

We're sorry to have contacted you so late, but it was only yesterday that we learned that the House Rules Committee had approved bringing up the amendment for a vote.

Despite the delay, we're making a difference! The amendment was defeated 128 to 300, but given the atmosphere in Congress, that's not bad. Also, let's put it in historical perspective: In the case of Vietnam, while the conflict escalated in 1965, it was not until 1971 that Congress began to vote on ending the war. How did the vote break down? We managed to get 122 Democrats, and 5 brave Republicans to vote "yes", including Rep Walter Jones from North Carolina, who wanted to change the name of french fries to 'freedom' fries! (Click here for details: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050526/woolsey_rocks_the_house.php and here for an article:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jeserich.php?articleid=6094 ).

In the coming weeks, there will be new opportunities in both the House and the Senate to push for an exit plan, and you can count on us to be in contact with you, informing you of next steps to peace. T he Woolsey amendment was an important first step in a larger and longer campaign.

Let's celebrate yet another victory! A few hours ago the Democrats forced the Senate to put off the final vote on Bolton's nomination to the UN! The Republicans needed 60 votes to overturn Senator Boxer's " hold ", but the vote was 56 to 42 - 4 shy of that threshold. The final Bolton vote won't take place until the Senate returns after the Memorial Day recess. Click here for breaking news: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=795030 .

Power to the People,
Dana, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae, and Tiffany

PS: We continue our work to impeach and indict Bush - click here for the latest news: http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=24 .

http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=39478


Informant: mojo_j_2000

Please listen to the audio clips below and, for some - if not many of you - GET READY FOR SOME MAJOR DISCLOSURES!

It is long overdue that these topics become more mainstream. Few may realize, that, in great part, much of the "source" for the secrecy in our government stems from just these subjects.

This post deals with th UFO matters, now referred to as EXOPOLITICS.

Some here may not fully realize it (yet!) but we should thank those who have the courage and have been willing to risk ridicule by placing posts on these subjects.

THANK YOU!

JACK TOPEL


PRE -"X-CONFERENCE INFORMATION
http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64487&f=DNSMPH&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64542&f=EJVJAK&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64546&f=FVEVTY&ps=13&p=1 (4 min)


POST "X-CONFERENCE INFORMATION

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=68188&f=FQSTZG&ps=13&p=1 ( 5 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=68364&f=IRRQZR&ps=13&p=1 10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=68202&f=TDKFII&ps=13&p=1 10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=68205&f=ZQZASL&ps=13&p=1 (1 min)


Following are audio clip excerpts from US Army Major Robert Dean, one of two intelligence officers, whom had the highest clearance in existence - that of "Cosmic Top Secret" that have come forward on the military ET disclosure subject. Even US presidents, at one time, did not have such top level clearance.

This is the first of a long series of military and intelligence officers and government and corporate officials whose audio testimony, on military ET disclosures, will be made available to the public, among other vital disclosure issues.

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64549&f=YICEJB&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64562&f=NCKOBF&ps=13&p=1 (10min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=64574&f=MKOLSQ&ps=13&p= ( 4 min)


The "DISCLOSURE PROJECT"

Here are the audio clips I want to share to start raising our convictions and, below them, are the e-mail exchanges.

First you will hear a brief report on the aftermath of the historic National Press Club News Conference from the Disclosure Project http://www.disclosureproject.org . It will, immediately, follow with excerpts from Dr. Greer's introduction an, following that, I included about 5 short military and intelligence officer's short testimony.

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=71768&f=JHDSVJ&ps=13&p=1 (5 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=71799&f=QZAXCU&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=71789&f=MIHOGH&ps=13&p=1 (6 min)

For good measure here is a very revealing clip from Dr. Greer when he attended an informal gathering in Miami while he was on vacation. Very, very revealing!

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=71790&f=GKYJGY&ps=13&p=1 ( 3 min)

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2852/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/05/26/seawalls.floods.reut/


Informant: NHNE

Exeter Express and Echo
BY CHRIS MILLS

12:00 - 25 May 2005
Mobile phone giants were having talks on controversial plans for more masts in Exeter at a crunch meeting with city planners today. Vodafone and 3G have been invited by the city council to outline their siting proposals for their so-called third generation phone networks.

Both companies claim they need new sites to meet their licence commitment to provide 3G coverage to most of the UK by 2006.

Exeter's head of planning services, Richard Short, and director of economy and development, John Rigby, together with city councillors, were involved in the meeting with representatives of Vodafone and 3G.

Vodafone's plan to put up a new 3G mast on Heavitree Road close to the city's maternity unit and several schools has already run into fierce opposition. More than 700 people have signed an Echo petition calling on the company to look elsewhere.

Today's meeting was expected to concentrate on the companies' plans, the possibility of sharing sites and the role of public consultation.

A council spokesman said: "The two main operators agreed to speak to councillors and will be asked to outline their network plans and justify their proposals."

The council has been involved in mast rows before, blocking several applications citing the health fears of local residents.

However, the authority has also lost appeals before Whitehall inspectors on the grounds that health risk was not a valid reason for objections to be made if the proposed mast emissions were within international guidelines.

Anti-mast campaigners are urging local authorities and the Government to stand up to the mobile phone giants.

Chris Maile, of pressure group Mast Sanity, said: "The planning guidelines are simply not working. We need strong guidelines and stronger controls, too, with the ability to remove inappropriately sited masts already in place."

Both 3G and Vodafone insist that all their new masts will operate well within current international limits.

The Mobile Operators' Association says more sites are needed, particularly in urban areas, to set up the new networks. A spokesman said: "To satisfy increasing customer demand for mobile services or to improve call quality, more base stations have to be built in busy areas.

"Site and mast sharing by operators is and will remain a priority. However, it is not always possible to share masts and there may be good environmental reasons for not doing so."

The Echo's Shock Waves campaign is demanding more research into the health effects of masts, that they should emit at the lowest possible level, and that there should be a full audit of output from all masts.

Renfrewshire

FURY has erupted over plans by a mobile phone company to build a mast at Paisley's biggest and best-known park.

T-Mobile wants to put up the mast with three antennae on Glasgow Road, next to the fence of Barshaw Park.

But Sandra Miller, 47, a resident of nearby Alton Road, is horrified at the prospect of the mast being erected so close to the park and houses, claiming it would mean a loss of amenity and pose a health hazard from radiation.

She said: "To put this mast up right beside a place where children are playing is just ridiculous.

"I'd say it would also be less than 20 metres from my house, which is far too close.

"It would be unsightly and it would be a health hazard.

"I also think it would affect road safety because drivers would be distracted by it."

Mrs Miller has now written a two-page letter to Renfrewshire Council objecting to T-Mobile's plans and outlining her concerns.

In a 'Neighbour Notice" issued to residents, T-Mobile says it wants to erect a 11.7-metre "slimline streetworks monopole", supporting three antennae, and with a "shroud" covering.

This is the type of disguised mast that's similar in looks to a lamppost, and is intended to blend in with existing street furniture.

David Moore, 32, who also lives in the area added: "This is a disgrace. It should not be put up close to a public park."

Local councillor Brian Lawson said: "Irrespective of what it looks like, I still don't think it is an appropriate place to put it.

"It would not be ideal to have this outside your front door."

T-Mobile's application will now go before Renfrewshire Council's planning committee for consideration in the near future.

A spokesman for the mobile phone company said: "T-Mobile understands that there can be concerns within local communities when locating base stations, however with over 60 million mobile phone in the UK there is a need to develop our network to provide quality service to our customers.

"Base stations are low-powered radio transmitters, and it is important to recognise that the radio frequency signal from them represents just one source of radio frequency in everyday lives.

"Other sources in the environment include paging devices and emergency services communication systems.

"The radio waves from nearby base stations are favourably comparable to exposure from distant masts and from TV and FM radio and other transmitters.

"Based on over 40 years of research, T-Mobile is confident that its base stations - operating within strict national and international guidelines recognised by the World Health Organisation - do not present a health risk to any member of the public."

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The spokesman added: "As people are increasingly using their mobile phones in their homes, this means that we need to position base stations in or closer to residential areas.

"As you will appreciate, the options available to us in such areas are very restricted."

00:00, May 25 2005

By Mandy Little, Greenwich Mercury

A PARTIAL victory is being celebrated by campaigners battling to prevent a mobile phone mast being sited near a school for disabled children.

The National Planning Inspectorate has told Greenwich council it must repeat its notification procedure for four mast applications made by O2 close to Charlton School.

The inspectorate agreed with campaigners that the consultation should be widened to make sure that all concerned parties have their say.

The communications giant appealed after the council turned their application down last October.

Residents opposed to the plans set up an action group, Charlton Residents Against the Mast (CRAM), and penned a 15 page letter to the inspectorate complaining about the consultation process.

Although the council fulfilled its legal obligations it initially only notified 67 houses in Charlton Park Road.

This was due to errors with the original application by 02 which failed to recognise the sensitivity of the siting.

A spokesman for the inspectorate said: "We have told the council that they must re-notify just to be sure that all interested parties have had a proper period of time - four weeks to comment.

"Then the appeal will carry on as normal."

Henry Gilbey from CRAM said: "It's a victory for us but we are not stopping here.

"We are pushing to have a full public hearing for the appeals. The issues need to be aired in public."

A spokesman for the council said that more letters will be sent out to a wider consultation area.

Evening Times Glasgow

THE FIGHT to keep a mobile phone mast away from a hospital and school has reached a stalemate.

Pollok families in Glasgow's south side have picketed the site at the junction of Kempsthorn Road and Crookston Road, and no mast has been built.

Bosses at O2 were given permission for a 56ft mast in March.

Campaigners argued its location near houses, a school and Leverndale Hospital was unsuitable.

The Evening Times reported that as workmen arrived on site, so did the campaigners.

For six weeks, mums, dads, children and even grandparents staged a peaceful protest, supported by local councillor Keith Baldassara. Councillor Baldassara said: "I would assume it's stalemate as they've not come back out. "But as soon as they do we will be there."

O2 are "re-assessing" the situation.

Conservative councillor for Slideslow, Caroline Spencer, has hit out after an inquiry to Bromsgrove District Council by mobile phone firm T-mobile.

The company consulted the council's planning department about building a base station and a 15-metre phone mast on the verge side of New Road, near to the end of Stonehouse Road.

T-mobile would not need planning permission for the development but does need to consult the council about their plans.

Cllr Spencer has already made her feelings clear about the site being earmarked.

She said: "It is next to a busy road and would be a health hazard. There is a footpath past the site that is used regularly by children early in the morning and late afternoon going to and from school.

"I just cannot understand why this location has been earmarked for a mast. It is the most unsuitable site one would look at."

Around 40 homeowners living near the site have also hit out at the plans by completing objection forms. At present 95 per cent of those asked by Cllr Spencer have expressed a total objection.

Bryan Walker, who lives in Stonehouse Road, added: "We don't want this site earmarked now or in the future. There is a very large concern nationally about the health risks."

Dave Hammond, from Bromsgrove District Council's planning department, said: "T-mobile have consulted us and asked for our opinion. We told them they would get opposition from residents and recommended they consider a site nearer Aston Fields Industrial Estate."

A spokesman for T-mobile said: "It is about a balance, we will be listening to residents and the council about their opinions and consulting with them.

"The majority of international research shows there is no link between mobile phone masts and ill health."

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http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
and http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster

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Informant: Lew Rockwell

A Petition against more telecommunication equipment being added to the base station at Barry College has been started. The environmental impact and health issues are being cited as the prime causes of concern against the proposals by Vodaphone and O2, and local residents have already collected 450 signatures. They are also due to meet with John Smith MP tomorrow (Friday). A spokeswoman for the group of residents said: “We do not wish to have more equipment added to this eyesore of a mast. “Your home should be your sanctuary and my family have a right to live in a safe and tranquil environment.”

PLANS for mobile phone masts in Menston and Ilkley are being opposed by Ilkley parish council planners.

Ilkley Parish Council's plans committee say they would be against a speculative plan by Hutchison 3G to put up a mast at Ilkley Tennis Club.

And plans by another operator for a mast in a residential area of Menston have been withdrawn following parish councillors' decision to oppose the scheme.

Residents of Menston's Farnley Road protested against mobile phone network T Mobile's plan to put up a mast at the nearby Menston Social Club on Coultas Close.

They argued that the mast would spoil the appearance of the residential area and could lower house prices.

They also feared the unknown long-term effects on health, particularly that of children living nearby.

But T Mobile withdrew the plan on Friday.

Bradford councillor Chris Greaves (Con, Wharfedale) was also against the proposed mast. He said: "They obviously thought it wasn't a good idea and they were not going to get a sympathetic hearing."

He called for any future Menston mast plans by the company to be at a `sensible' site, in an area which would not be too intrusive.

Ilkley Parish Council recently announced its opposition to a number of proposed masts in Menston, including a full planning application 82-foot mast on high ground on the outskirts of the village. Chairman of the plans committee, Councillor Kate Brown, said there had been a lot of letters from residents objecting to the Coultas Close mast.

Meanwhile, the parish council has also learned that another mobile phone company, Hutchison 3G, has moved its attention from Ilkley's Golden Butts Road to Ilkley Tennis Club, on Stourton Road.

And although there is already a mast at the club, parish councillors said they would oppose putting up another mast there. Hutchison, recently highlighted Christopher Binns Funeral Directors on Golden Butts Road as its preferred site for a mast in Ilkley. Residents living nearby protested, and Binns announced it had considered and rejected Hutchison's proposal.

In a consultation letter it sent to homes on Golden Butts Road, Hutchison said it had looked at a number of possible sites for a mast in Ilkley, including several churches, the historic Myddelton Lodge, and Ilkley Tennis Club.

The parish council has now been sent an initial consultation letter from Hutchison, asking for views on the possibility of putting up a new mast at the tennis club.

Councillor Brown said councillors felt the club's green belt surroundings were too sensitive for further masts, and they were worried about encouraging a proliferation of mobile phone masts, when there was already a mast at the club.

l Menston families recently took their campaign against the proposed Coultas Close mast to the streets with a protest banner.

Children worked on the banner, which was put up on Farnley Road in a bid by families to mobilise as many residents as possible against the mast plans. Parents wanted to publicise their campaign, to inform residents who had not received consultation letters, and encourage residents from other streets to join in the protest.

Posted Thursday 26 May 2005

LINDSEY SMITH

Tamworth Herald

10:30 - 26 May 2005

Parents have vowed to fight on in their protest against a mobile phone mast at St Edward's RC Primary School.

Test results released last week proved that the mast's emissions are within recommended government guidelines.

But this appears to have made little difference to the strength of feeling against the Packington Lane mast because protestors believe emission guidelines for this country are already set too high.

"We're not demonstrating, we're not holding placards, but we are taking advice to see what we can do, legally, to get this mast removed," explained one parent, who asked not to be named.

"O2 didn't want us to have the deeds, we suspect there was something in them they didn't want us to see, but we found the deeds on the land registry and due to the Freedom of Information Act they couldn't actually stop us seeing them.

"Years ago people didn't know the dangers of asbestos or coal mining. But you can bet they'll turn around in 50 years and say of masts 'oh yes, that was dangerous, we didn't realise.'

"Well that's not happening to my children. Not if I can prevent it."

Coleshill Cllr Gordon Sherratt said: "I'm not a scientist. I've seen the report but for all I know those levels could still be injurious.

"Not only that, I was up at the cemetery yesterday and the Orange mast at the tennis courts was having 3G capabilities installed, so the workmen said.

"I suppose they think, 'Well who's going to complain? It's a cemetery. Everyone's dead already', but it's within sight of the school mast and we just don't know how far those rays reach or what the effects could be in years to come."

Haverhill today

Protestors in Haverhill have vowed to continue their fight against proposals for a mobile phone mast on the Hazel Stub Roundabout, following an appeal by communications giant Hutchison 3G.

An application to site the mast – which would enable the use of 3G video technology phones – on the roundabout, was turned down by St Edmundsbury Borough Council's development control committee last month, following an outspoken campaign by residents.

People living near the roundabout, and on the nearby Castle Reach development objected to the mast because of fears about the possible consequences to health.

This week campaign leader, Jo Robbins, said: "This was entirely expected and no surprise at all. "This site is totally inappropriate as the council committee unanimously decided last month. You can be sure that the community will fight the appeal with the same zeal as before."

The borough council is contacting those who objected to the application to inform them of the appeal.

Objectors have until June 26 to contact the Planning Inspectorate.

CLIFF MOGG

Surrey Star

TWO Cove schools, which have a special unit for pupils with hearing problems, have suffered a setback in their battle against a proposed mobile phone mast.

Staff at Manor infant and junior schools have protested to Rushmoor Council planners that the Vodafone mast signals could interfere with hearing aids used by nine pupils.

Marilyn Penman, head of the 220-pupil infant school, said on Tuesday: “I’ve recently discovered that this problem arose at another school with hearing impaired children. “The pupils were having trouble with their hearing equipment and it was tracked down to a mast which had been put up nearby.” She hopes to unearth more detailed information before the deadline for objections tomorrow (Friday).

But Chris Jones, Rushmoor Council planning officer, said: “We are powerless to act over signal interference. “Under the terms of the licence, the operator is responsible for ensuring that his equipment does interfere with other systems.” Mr Jones also had bad news for more than 300 residents who have signed a petition objecting to the 10-metre high mast, earmarked for the Fernhill Road-Northcote Road junction, on health grounds. He said that, because it is less than 15 metres high, the council was limited to discussing the siting and design of the mast, and whether the company had looked at the possibility of sharing a mast with other operators.

The only ray of hope for the objectors appears to be the sharing option.

Mr Jones revealed that the council recently turned down an application by T-Mobile in the same area because it had not looked at the possibility of sharing a mast with another operator. “In that case the planning inspectorate upheld the planning committee’s decision,” he said.

The council has until June 28 to decide on the Vodafone application.

BY CHRIS MILLS

This is Exeter

12:00 - 26 May 2005

Cities and nations around the world are banning mobile phone masts or reducing their power near schools - while more go up in Britain. That's the claim of anti-mast campaigners frustrated at what they believe is the industry's failure to adopt the "precautionary approach" recommended in a 2001 report from an independent commission chaired by Sir William Stewart.

Now, Green Euro MP Caroline Jackson is pushing the UK Government to follow the example set by other countries.

Earlier this year, the Express & Echo revealed how the number of masts in Britain had more than doubled to at least 45,000 since 2000. They are allowed on schools, hospitals and other public buildings, as long as they emit at less than limits set out by the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection.

However, as the Echo has discovered, many communities and countries favour a harder line.

Both Australia and New Zealand have outlawed masts from within 500m of state schools and in New South Wales, structures are also banned within 500m of child care centres, hospitals and nursery homes.

Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg and, most recently, the Austrian province of Salzburg have adopted lower output limits - Salzburg's 10,000 times less than that set out by the ICNIRP guidelines followed by Britain.

Salzburg's public health officer for environmental medicine Gerd Oberfeld said: "Greater caution should be taken in siting cell towers near places where children spend considerable amounts of time."

Emissions are also controversial in North America. Authorities in Toronto, Canada, have imposed a limit.

And education chiefs in Vancouver have voted to ban any more transmitters at their hundred-plus schools.

School board officials recommended: "There should be global caution exercised on the effects of electromagnetism, until it is conclusively proven to be harmless."

Although the United States has adopted similar guidelines to those of ICNIRP, its own National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement recommended the maximum permitted personal exposure to electro-magnetic waves be reduced by a factor of 500.

Dr Jackson has been pushing the European Commission to enforce a legally binding framework on emissions.

She said: "Without it, the result has been fear and uncertainty as mobile phone masts have sprung up - often requiring no planning permission or even advance warning - on schools, hospitals and in densely populated areas."

However, mobile phone operators insist there is no scientific basis for lowering the ICNIRP limits or a ban on masts near schools.

A spokeswoman for the Mobile Operators' Association said: "Professor Stewart said there were no scientific grounds for setting guidelines below the levels set by ICNIRP.

"Even the highest radio wave emissions from a base station will always be small fractions of the ICNIRP guidelines. Since 2000, Ofcom has undertaken more than 360 random audits of base stations near schools and hospitals. The measurements from these audits show that emissions levels from base stations are typically small fractions of the ICNIRP international health and safety exposure guidelines."

She said parents should be comforted by a National Radiological Protection Board Report in January, which said measurements showed there was no scientific basis for establishing minimal distances between base stations and areas of public occupancy.

The Echo's Shockwaves campaign is calling for more research into the effects of phone masts.

Littlehampton Today

MOBILE phone masts are being blamed for a spate of mysterious car breakdowns which are turning Beach Road into the Bermuda Triangle of Littlehampton. In just one week, signals from the masts are thought to have jammed the immobiliser systems of at least 10 cars, leaving their drivers stranded.

The problem affects only a short stretch of the road's northern end, and once the cars have been pushed or towed 50 yards away, their central locking and immobiliser systems work perfectly well again.

The nearest mobile phone stations to the affected area are at the police station off East Street, where there are three transmitters.

Michael Blackwood, who works at Arun Security, Beach Road, said that in the last week people had been coming into his shop and asking for help because their cars suddenly wouldn't start.

"The first one was on May 16," he said, "when a lady came in and said that her car had just died on her. People come into us here because we sell keys and car keys.

"It happened twice on the first day and it seemed a bit of a coincidence, then it happened three times the next day.

"We've helped push two cars about 50 yards down the road and then they work again. The RAC have been out to two cars and each time they've towed them just down the road. They seem to know what to do."

Jayne Young works in the Spokes bike shop next to Arun Security and parks her car across the road each day.

She said: "My remote locking only works for the driver's door in Littlehampton, but when I go to Worthing to visit my mum it works fine.

"I got the car in February and when I brought it back here the key wouldn't even open the driver's door sometimes.

"Some days I get so annoyed, I leave the car at home and walk into work."

Paul Hodgson, of the RAC said: "It's an issue which has come up on a national level and it's generally accepted that it is the masts that are causing these problems."

He explained that car locking systems were allocated a frequency of 433.92MHz by the European Radio Committee in 1993 and this became European Law in 1995.

But the same frequency was already allocated to the Ministry of Defence, amateur radio operators and traffic information systems. Some private and public access mobile radio networks also operate close to the 433MHz band and these stronger sources of radio transmission could sometimes block the signal from the radio-activated key.

Simon Bates, spokesman for the Office of Communications (OFCOM) said: "OFCOM is complaints driven so if people who have been affected by this contact us, we will come out and investigate.

"In the past we have found that problems have been caused by interference from a local transmitter but in many cases we have not been able to take action because the transmitter was found to be operating within the terms of its licence.

"In these cases what we have done is recommend that people contact their car manufacturer to see if they can help."

26 May 2005

by Jane Clee

May 26, 2005, 15:06

The Chronicle Great Barr

Oscott councillors have slammed city planning bosses for 'setting a dangerous precedent' and allowing a 12-metre high mobile phone mast to be built despite objections from hundreds of concerned residents.

They have called the decision a 'slap in the face' for the community and say having the phone pole near to homes, a school and a busy shopping area is a bitter blow for campaigners.

Birmingham's Planning Committee have given the go-ahead for the erection of the T-Mobile mast on land adjacent to the Deer's Leap pub, just yards from residents' homes.

At last week's meeting of the planning committee, on Thursday May 19, council chiefs agreed to grant permission for the mast, despite a formal objection from councillors Barbara Dring, John Cotton and Keith Linnecor, backed by a petition signed by hundreds of residents from the Oscott, Sutton Vesey and Pheasey wards.

The team said the decision was a 'slap in the face' for local residents, who have successfully stopped similar planning applications in the past.

Councillor Dring said: "This is a bitter blow to the local community, who have fought hard against this proposal and previous attempts to install these unwanted masts in the Queslett Road area.

"The mast will be within yards of people's homes and is just a stone's throw away from local schools and a busy shopping area. How they can agree to this just beggars belief."

T-Mobile can now put up a 12-metre high phone mast, in a mock telegraph pole design, with two associated equipment cabinets, which would be built at the rear of the pavement.

It would be positioned near a cluster of established trees, the tallest of which is around 11 metres high.

Fellow ward councillor John Cotton said the decision could set a 'dangerous precedent' for the area.

He said: "Up until now, we have been able to hold the mobile companies at bay.

"Walsall Council have already rejected a number of similar applications for the other side of the Queslett Road and I am appalled that Birmingham City Council has not followed their example.

"There is a real danger that this will make attempts to stop any future applications much more difficult."

The team are continuing to battle against a similar application on land almost directly opposite the Deer's Leap, where mobile phone giants O2 are seeking to overturn a Walsall Council ban on putting in a mast close to Doe Bank Lane.

Oscott Councillor Keith Linnecor said: "We are lobbying hard for the Planning Inspectorate to uphold the Walsall Council decision.

'It would be an absolute disaster for this mast to also get the go-ahead following the decision of Birmingham planners to blatantly ignore local residents."

Harborough Today

ANGRY villagers are organising a petition to stop phone masts being put up near their village.

Medbourne Against Masts (MAM) has been formed to fight applications for masts in Drayton Road and Manor Road on the outskirts of the village.

The group, which has already collected a 165 names on their petition, claims the proposals would expose residents to harmful radiation and adversely affect the countryside around Medbourne. Spokesman Nickie Philbin, who lives in Drayton Road, said: "We in the village are totally opposed to these masts. "Five years ago people were only concerned that their views would be spoiled but now they are more worried about the effect on their health. "We would have thought it would be easier to put the masts further into the countryside where there are no homes or people."

MAM organised a meeting with Melton and Rutland MP Alan Duncan, where he pledged to take the campaigners' fight to the relevant authorities.

Mobile phone company Orange has applied to build a 50ft mast at the Drayton Road site, while the Manor Road site would be occupied by a 65ft TETRA, or terrestrial trunked radio, mast which would contain radio equipment for use by Leicestershire Police.

MAM member Paula Parish (42), from Drayton Road, has just recovered from chemotherapy after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She said: "I contracted the illness about 20 years younger than someone could normally expect to be diagnosed, so I think I am in a high-risk group. I also have two young children and I am worried about what the effects could be on them."

Earlier this year, proposals for two masts near Newton Harcourt were thrown out by Harborough District Council.

26 May 2005

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Thousands of you have signed up to this email list because you care about what Kimberly-Clark is doing to ancient forests like the Boreal. Read on to find out how you can take the next step by finding each other and taking action on the ground.
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With so much momentum building, we’re excited to announce the launch of two new tools created specifically to help you organize against Kimberly-Clark: the Kleercut Action Pack and Kleercut Groups.

Kleercut Action Pack: The Kleercut Action Pack is an activist toolkit designed to give you everything you need to organize against Kimberly-Clark in your own community – information, ideas, advice, contacts, and sample materials (including a poster, a flyer, sample letters, media releases and more). Whether you live in a big city or a small town, whether you want to hang a banner or adopt a grocery store or write a story for your local paper, the Kleercut Action Pack will help you make it happen. Get yours now at http://www.kleercut.net/en/actionpack.

Kleercut Groups: Kleercut Groups is an online tool similar to Yahoo Groups designed to help you connect and organize with other activists in your own communities. Using Kleercut Groups, you can find others who are already organizing against Kimberly-Clark in your area, or start up your own local group. Simply subscribe to a local Kleercut Group, then use the e-list and calendar to recruit others and plan and organize events and actions in your own community. Visit the Kleercut Groups organizing centre at http://www.kleercut.net/en/getlocal and sign up or create a local group now.

You know what Kimberly-Clark is doing to ancient forests is wrong. 10,000 year old forests should not be trashed to make products that are used once and then thrown away. It’s up to you to save ancient forests like the Boreal – it’s up to you to stop Kimberly-Clark from flushing forests down the toilet.

Take action this week:

1. Get active: download your Kleercut Action Pack at http://www.kleercut.net/en/actionpack.

2. Get local: join the Kleercut Group closest to you or start a new group at http://www.kleercut.net/en/getlocal.

3. Get busy: put the Action Pack and groups to use by organizing an action against Kimberly-Clark in your area.

Keep on rockin’,

Christy

Christy Ferguson
Greenpeace Forests Campaigner
» K L E E R C U T . N E T
http://kleercut.net/

http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj05cavallo


Informant: NHNE

05/26/05

U.S. officials have substantiated five cases in which military guards or interrogators mishandled the Quran of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but found 'no credible evidence' to confirm a prisoner's report that a holy book was flushed in a toilet, the prison's commander said Thursday. Brig. Gen. Jay W. Hood, who commands the detention center in Cuba, told a Pentagon news conference that a prisoner who was reported to have complained to an FBI agent in 2002 that a military guard threw a Quran in the toilet has told Hood's investigators that he never witnessed any form of Quran desecration...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7995960/

from MSNBC


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/c4lb8


Informant: Sylvie

A coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups announced a campaign today to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

The formal Resolution of Inquiry request, written by Boston constitutional attorney John C. Bonifaz, cites the Downing Street Memo and issues surrounding the planning and execution of the Iraq war. A resolution of inquiry would force relevant House committees to vote on the record as to whether to support an investigation.

Democrats.com, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Gold Star Families for Peace, Progressive Democrats of America, Veterans for Peace, Democracy Rising, Rainbow Push, Velvet Revolution, Justice Through Music, and others have joined the campaign called After Downing Street - the website just launched yesterday, May 26, at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

The inquiry has been written... It is now up to US to get the grassroots mobilized and demand an investigation. Regardless of whether or not you think the Republicans will ever impeach this "President", we MUST SPEAK UP! BE THE PEOPLE! Please sign the letter to urge Congress to adopt the Resolution of Inquiry at http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/39 and tell everyone you know!

For more details, visit http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ and also read the Raw Story article at http://rawstory.com/exclusives/alexandrovna/coalition_inquiry_downing_street_memo_526


“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.” Albert Einstein


Informant: Lourdes Leger

In skandalöser Weise haben sich die Medien in Frankreich auf die Seite der EU-Verfassungsbefürworter geschlagen: Von Januar bis März entfielen bei Sendungen zur EU-Verfassung 71 Prozent der Sendezeit auf das Ja, 29 Prozent auf das Nein. Gegen diese einseitige Berichterstattung hat eine Gruppe von FernsehjournalistInnen in einem Aufruf protestiert, den mittlerweile mehr als 17.000 Menschen unterzeichnet haben. Bis zum Wochenende wollen die InitiatorInnen auf 20.000 Unterschriften kommen. Wer die Petition unterzeichnen möchte, kann dies online tun unter http://www.attac.de/eu-verfassung/non-zensiert.php

Nach der erfolgreichen bundes- und europaweiten Briefaktion geht das Ringen um die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie nun in die zweite, entscheidende Runde. In diesen Monaten berät der federführende Binnenmarktausschuss des EU-Parlaments intensiv über Änderungsanträge zur Bolkesteinrichtlinie. Im Juli wird im Ausschuss über sie abgestimmt. Daher ist es jetzt besonders wichtig, aktiv zu werden und auf die EU-ParlamentarierInnen einzuwirken.

Per "Mailomat" können im Internet Protestschreiben an alle Mitglieder des federführenden Binnenmarktausschusses gerichtet werden, und zwar unter http://www.attac.de/bolkestein/mailomat/index.php. Es kann entweder eine vorformulierte Mail verschickt werden oder ein selbst formulierter Text. Da viele Abgeordnete die deutsche Sprache nicht verstehen, sollte die Mail aber auf jeden Fall in Englisch formuliert werden.

Da auch durch den von Evelyne Gebhardt am 8. April 2005 vorgelegten Änderungsvorschlag wesentliche Mängel in der EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie nach wie vor nicht beseitigt worden sind, ist Attac der Auffassung, dass sie vollständig abgelehnt werden sollte. Zu kritisieren ist weiterhin die mangelnde Folgenabschätzung und unzureichende Berücksichtigung des bestehenden Rechtsrahmens. Zudem dürfen neue Vorschriften zur Regulierung von Dienstleistungen auf nationaler Ebene nach wie vor nur nach Erlaubnis der Europäischen Kommission und der anderen Mitgliedsstaaten eingeführt werden. Um Sozialdumping wirksam zu verhindern, müssen Regulierungen, die Dienstleistungen betreffen, innerhalb der EU auf höchstem Niveau harmonisiert werden.

Helft mit, Bolkesteins Hammer zu stoppen, und beteiligt euch an der Mailomat-Protestaktion!

Am Sonntag: EU-Verfassungs-Referendum in Frankreich!

Noch heute: Mails an französische FreundInnen schicken: Votez NON

Die heutige Zustimmung des deutschen Bundesrats zur EU-Verfassung wird in Frankreich genutzt, um kurz vor dem Verfassungsreferendum an diesem Sonntag den französischen WählerInnen Angst zu machen. Kanzler Schröder wird heute Präsident Chirac bei einer Veranstaltung für das 'Oui' in Toulouse persönlich unterstützen. Bisher liegen die Gegner des neoliberalen Verfassungsentwurfes in Führung. Ein riesiger Erfolg für Attac Frankreich und 950 Bürgerkomittees!

Damit das 'Non' diesen Sonntag wirklich gewinnt, bittet Attac Deutschland alle Mitglieder und UnterstützerInnen, eine E-Mail an ihre französischen Freundinnen und Freunde zu schreiben. Sagen Sie Ihnen, dass wir kein Abstimmungsrecht haben, dass es bei uns keine wirkliche Diskussion gab und die Abgeordneten selbst nicht wissen, was in der Verfassung mit ihren 448 Paragraphen und etlichen Annexen steht (siehe Panorama-Bericht:
http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/archiv/2005/0512/eu_verfassung.html ).

Bitten Sie Ihre FreundInnen, auch in unserem Namen 'Franchement, NON' zu sagen.

Senden Sie dazu anliegendes Flugblatt in französischer Sprache an Ihre Freundinnen und Freunde, das zumindest neun Personen in Frankreich eine Stimme gibt. Attac Frankreich verbreitet in einer parallelen E-Mail an seine Mitglieder das anliegende Flugblatt ebenfalls.

Weitere Informationen zur internationalen Unterstützung eines pro- europäischen 'Non': http://www.attac.de/faces-du-non und http://www.attac.fr

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Attac Deutschland
Pressemitteilung
Berlin, 27. Mai 2005


* Nach Bundesratsvotum zur EU-Verfassung:
* Massenmails nach Frankreich und Aktion in Berlin
* Scharfe Kritik an Zustimmung der Berliner PDS

Während der heutigen Abstimmung im Bundesrat haben Mitglieder des globalisierungskritischen Netzwerks Attac in Berlin gegen die EU-Verfassung protestiert. Mit einem großen "Non" vor dem Bundesratsgebäude machten sie zwei Tage vor dem Referendum in Frankreich deutlich, dass das Votum im Bundesrat nicht repräsentativ für die Meinung der Menschen in Deutschland ist. "Die Landesregierungen haben über die EU-Verfassung abgestimmt, ohne die Menschen vorher über den Inhalt dieses Verfassungsvertrags aufzuklären. Diese EU-Verfassung bedeutet, dass Kriege und Sozialabbau weitergehen", sagte Stephan Lindner, EU-Experte im Attac-Koordinierungskreis. Ein Nein zu diesem Text sei kein Nein zu Europa. "Wer ein soziales, ökologisches, friedliches und demokratisches Europa wünscht, kann diesem Text nicht zustimmen, sondern muss sich für neue Verhandlungen einsetzen."

Als Skandal bezeichnete Lindner die Zustimmung des Landes Berlin. Die Berliner PDS-Senatoren hatten nicht auf einer Enthaltung bestanden, obwohl die Partei die Verfassung öffentlich abgelehnt hat. Das Beispiel Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns zeige, dass es der PDS auch in Berlin möglich gewesen wäre, eine Enthaltung im Bundesrat durchzusetzen.

Um die Kampagne von Attac Frankreich für ein Nein bei dem am Sonntag stattfindenden Referendum weiter zu unterstützen, haben Attac Deutschland und Attac Frankreich heute über 50.000 E-Mails verschickt. Mitglieder und Sympathisanten von Attac in Deutschland wurden aufgefordert, ihre französischen Freunde und Bekannten zu bitten, am Sonntag mit Nein zu stimmen. Seit Wochen besuchen bereits Attac-Aktivisten aus Deutschland Veranstaltungen in Frankreich, um der französischen Öffentlichkeit deutlich zu machen, dass es auch in Deutschland Widerstand gegen diese EU-Verfassung gibt.


Für Rückfragen:
Stephan Lindner, Tel. 0176-2434 2789

Weitere Informationen
und Bilder zur Aktion in Berlin (ab 14 Uhr):
http://www.attac.de


Malte Kreutzfeldt
Pressesprecher Attac Deutschland
Post: Münchener Str. 48, 60329 Frankfurt/M
Tel.: 069/900 281-42, Mobil: 0170-233 4746
Mail: presse@attac.de, Fax: 069/900 281-99

The Corporation: a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan

SYNOPSIS: THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3350

Federalist #47, written by James Madison (who would later become President), encouraged ratification of the U.S. Constitution because there would be a separation of powers in the new U.S. government. There would be no single ruler. There would be no tyrant like King George III. Madison wrote, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The article below describes the consolidation of power may be one of the reasons our Nation rushed to war against Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3349

Large corporations are censoring the news and buying legislators: "The treasurer of a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay broke the law by not reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. State District Judge Joe Hart said the money, much of it corporate contributions, should have been reported to the Texas Ethics Commission." The enormous illegal contributions resulted in "Republicans [winning] control of the Texas House for the first time since Reconstruction. The GOP later used its majority to redraw Texas' congressional districts and send more Republicans to Capitol Hill."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3348

Newspapers and other media are under enormous pressure to report only good news for their large corporate advertisers. This business bias is strong evidence there is longer a "liberal press," but rather a heavily censored press. The article below provides very disturbing information about the heavy hand of huge international corporations on our news.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3347

Take action in honor of memorial day by sending one of these letters to the editor. http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3344

This Memorial Day Weekend, show your support for the servicemen and women by writing a Letter to the Editor to the newspaper of your choice. VCS has prepared template letters addressing four key issues: development of a credible plan for the stabilization of Iraq, women in the armed forces serving in combat roles, international law and prisoner abuse, and energy independence.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3353

More than 85,000 U.S. soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have sought medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs after getting back, that department told Congress Thursday. That is an increase of 52,000 GIs since last summer -- last July the VA said 35,000 vets from Iraq and Afghanistan had sought medical treatment from the department.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3346

Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3336

Guantánamo Prisoners Told FBI of Koran Desecration in 2002, New Documents Reveal

The joint VCS-ACLU lawsuit against the federal agencies for the mistreatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay opens access to new documents.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3335

Info der Bürgerinitiative „Senderfreies Obermenzing“

Liebe Obermenzinger,
liebe Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger,

In der Eglofstr.7 wird eine Mobilfunkantenne errichtet!

Wollen Sie, daß durch Mobilfunksender in unserem Wohngebiet

- Ihre Familien und Ihre Kinder krank werden ?
- Ihre Gesundheit und Arbeitsfähigkeit leidet ?
- Ihre Immobilie an Wert verliert bzw. unverkäuflich wird ?

Dann informieren Sie sich und helfen Sie mit Ihrem Protest gegen die geplanten Mobilfunksender in der Eglofstraße 7 und in der Sedelhofstraße.

Eine Informationsveranstaltung dazu findet am 01.06.2005 um 20 Uhr im Pfarrsaal von Leiden Christi in der Passionistenstraße statt. Eintritt ist frei.

Als Redner sind Dr. med. Scheiner und Ulrich Weiner geladen.

Bitte weiterleiten

Kontaktadresse der BI Obermenzing: Dr. med. Hans- C. und Ana Scheiner Franz-Wüllner-Str. 39, 81247 München, Tel.: 089-885222, Fax: 089-8204228, E-mail: info@drscheiner-muenchen.de, Internet: http://www.drscheiner-muenchen.de


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

Memorial Day weekend brings media rituals. Old Glory flutters on television and newsprint. Grave ceremonies and oratory pay homage to the fallen. Many officials and pundits speak of remembering the dead. But for all the talk of war and remembrance, no time is more infused with insidious forgetting than the last days of May.

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_21208.shtml


From Information Clearing House

In a shocking innovation in American nuclear policy, the administration has created and placed on continuous high alert a force whereby the President can launch a pinpoint strike, including a nuclear strike, anywhere on earth with a few hours' notice.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2837



The U.S. removes the nuclear brakes:

Ever since the terror attack of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has gradually done away with all the nuclear brakes that characterized American policy during the Cold War. No longer are nuclear bombs considered "the weapon of last resort."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/580533.html


From Information Clearing House