What You Can Do

1) Contact your Senators http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20345343&url_num=1&url=http://www.2020vision.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=869
and urge them to vote against the pending Energy Bill. We need to ensure that energy independence is achieved through increased fuel economy and investment in renewable resources. Nothing is achieved by giving money to the energy companies.

2) Join the Stop ExxonMobil Alliance to express your anger at this example of bad corporate citizenship.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20345343&url_num=2&url=http://www.stopexxonmobil.org/ The revolving door is driven by the companies that pay for it, and it has to stop.

We've all heard about the political "revolving door," in which private sector influence peddlers join the government for a time, and then return to lobbying at vastly increased salaries. Frequently, the revolving door is at the root of some of the most outrageous government decisions. And all too often, we fail to notice how private industry takes over the government, and rewards those who do its bidding.

That's why we think it's important to spread the word about this story.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20345343&url_num=3&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/science/14cnd-climate.html?hp&ex=1118808000&en=5cd3e1222ecd6bea&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Phillip Cooney is a former lawyer and lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, the main lobbying arm for the oil industry. He has no scientific training, but that didn't stop him from becoming chief of staff to President Bush's environmental policy commission.

Mr. Cooney obviously failed to notice the difference between working as a lawyer and lobbyist for private industry and serving the public as a government employee. The New York Times reported that he repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming in ways that cast doubt on the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and rising temperatures. In the wake of those news reports, Cooney announced that he was stepping down from his government position.

But Mr. Cooney was not destined to become an unemployment statistic. ExxonMobil hired him immediately, though they declined to say what they were hiring him to do. The revolving door has swung again, and, again, we pay the price.

I wish this story were unique. But it's not. Industry lobbyists are hard at work right now to pass the "Energy Bill." The bill is a conglomerate of giveaways to the energy industry. Even supporters acknowledge that the bill would do little to ensure reductions in oil imports, the prime stated goal of the bill. Instead, the Senate energy bill prolongs our dependence on foreign oil, wastes taxpayer money to subsidize big energy companies, and opens the door for drilling in Western Arctic Alaska and other wild lands.

That's why we're joining with our allies in the environmental movement to stop this bill.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20345343&url_num=4&url=http://www.2020vision.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=869
The Senate is scheduled to begin debate this week, and is expected to vote within the next two weeks on the bill. And while the energy companies have money with which to buy influence, the environmental community has a much more important resource: ourselves.

Please, take a moment to contact your Senators.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20345343&url_num=5&url=http://www.2020vision.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=869
Let them know where you stand. Let them know that you believe our energy future must include environmental protection. Remind them that the air we breathe and the climate in which we live is not a perk, but our birthright, and our children's birthrights.

Then, consider joining an alliance of environmental, human rights and pro-democracy groups who are focusing on putting pressure on ExxonMobil. From its corrupting influence in Washington, where it has spent over $47 million on lobbying in the last 8 years, to it efforts to corrupt the global warming debate, to its complicity in human rights violations, ExxonMobil has been a bad corporate citizen. Add your voice to those calling for change.

The revolving door is spinning again, and corporations are looking to profit from it. Now is the time to stop it. Now is the time to say, "Enough!"

Ron Zucker

by Gene C. Gerard

President Bush is currently lobbying Congress to reauthorize portions of the Patriot Act that are scheduled to expire. While the Patriot Act contains provisions much needed in the war on terrorism, it also has elements that are in conflict with the civil liberties enshrined in the Constitution. Many of the provisions are violations of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Patriot Act allows the government to search someone’s home or office without informing them. It allows the government to obtain an individual’s library records, medical history, and financial documents, among many other items, without any probable cause of a crime. It requires judges to approve of wiretaps without knowing whom the suspect is. Immigrants and non-citizens can be jailed for an indefinite period of time, without any requirement that the government demonstrate that they are a threat to national security. It’s not surprising that the federal government is attempting to strip people of their fundamental rights and freedoms. During the last two centuries, this has been a common occurrence in America during a time of war...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Gerard0616.htm

My fellow Americans:

July 4th marks our nation's birthday and our annual celebration of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We barbecue, we attend parades, and we celebrate freedom and democracy. Today, however, our freedom is threatened by the tyranny of oil. With less than 5 percent of the world's population, we consume more than a quarter of the world's oil. Of the 20 million barrels a day we burn, nearly half of that is wasted in gas guzzling cars, trucks and SUVs. We're writing to ask you to stand up for our freedom and sign the Declaration of Independence from Oil!

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=97139

American automakers are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to fuel economy. Of all automakers, Ford Motor Company's cars, trucks and SUVs waste the most gas. Ford's overall average fuel efficiency today is less than the Model T nearly a century ago! It's time to send a message to Ford Motor Company that Americans are demanding an end to the tyranny of oil!

Getting off oil is much more than just an environmental issue. 41% of all Americans live in areas that exceed federal health guidelines for clean air. Asthma has reached epidemic levels and is the leading cause of chronic illness among children. Over 1,700 of our sons and daughters have paid the ultimate price in Iraq, a war with no end in sight. Join the energy revolution at FreedomFromOil.com today!

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=97139

Americans deserve better. American ingenuity has helped cure polio and put a man on the moon. We can once again be a symbol of justice, democracy and hope, but right now, we are spending billions of American tax dollars to buy oil from despots and dictators. America can do better. Our future as a nation depends on safe, secure and sustainable energy. Sign the declaration and help break our dependence on oil! Join the energy revolution today!

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=97139

Together we can make a difference!

Sincerely,

Mike Brune
Executive Director
Rainforest Action Network

Salto rückwärts verheißt Angela Merkels Energiepolitik.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20320/1.html

Der im Vermittlungsausschuss des Bundestags gefundene Kompromiss erweitert die Abhörmöglichkeiten.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20335/1.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18424740.600


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

We are here because many of us find it unacceptable for any Administration - be it Democratic or Republican - to put our troops in harms way based on false information.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9161.htm

Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memos stating that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and that there was "no recent evidence" of Iraqi ties to international terrorism—private conclusions that contradicted two key pillars of the Bush administration's public case for the invasion in March 2003.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8234762/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House

Acts ordered by state leaders that kill thousands of people without just cause are usually petitioned to war crimes tribunals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9155.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

With criminal charge sheets obtained Tuesday accusing him of abusing five Iraqi detainees, including a pair of juvenile prisoners, in a macabre game to frighten inmates at the U.S.-run prison near Baghdad.

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes687.html


From Information Clearing House

by James Gustave Speth, TomPaine.com

Reagan had it wrong. Climate change and ecosystem depletion are so pervasive that business, on its own, cannot lead far enough or fast enough.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050615/why_business_needs_government.php

by Arsalan Iftikhar, TomPaine.com

The reviled PATRIOT act is back in the news. But an unlikely alliance is working to improve its most dangerous clauses.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050616/patriots_against_usa_patriot.php

Walfang: Harpunierter Wal bei grausamer Jagd von Gewehrkugeln durchsiebt (16.06.05)

Neues, brisantes Filmmaterial über eine Waljagd bestätige die Brutalität des Walfangs, schreibt die WSPA (Welttierschutzgesellschaft in Deutschland). Das bisher unveröffentlichte Material widerlege den Mythos, dass die Jagd und das Töten eines Wals mit einer Spreng-Harpune nur zwei Minuten dauern. WSPA und EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency ) veröffentlichen die schockierende Dokumentation nur wenige Tage vor der diesjährigen Jahrestagung der Internationalen Walfangkommission (IWC) in Ulsan, Südkorea. Hier soll nächste Woche über die Zukunft der Wale entschieden werden. Erstmals seit Bestehen des Walfangverbots im Jahre 1986 besteht die ernste Gefahr, dass die Walfangnationen das Fangverbot wieder kippen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11246

Atomtransporte: Rossendorf-Chef gesteht: Castor-Transporte nach Ahaus waren unnötig (16.06.05)

Die Anti-Atomkraft-Initiativen werfen der sächsischen Landesregierung eine bewusste Täuschung der Öffentlichkeit vor, weil diese immer behauptet hat, dass die Castor-Transporte von Dresden nach Ahaus sicherheitstechnisch nötig seien. Nun hat der Chef der Rossendorfer Atomanlage, Udo Helwig, laut Presseberichten eingeräumt, dass die 18 Castor-Behälter in Dresden-Rossendorf genauso sicher hätten gelagert werden können. Die Transporte waren also nicht erforderlich, folgern die Bürgerinitiative "Kein Atommüll in Ahaus", Widerstand gegen Atomanlagen (WIGA) Münster, Aktionsbündnis Münsterland gegen Atomanlagen, Menschen gegen Atomanlagen (MEGA) Waltrop und das Anti-Atom-Forum Ostwestfalen-Lippe.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11253

http://pacifica.org/programs/20050616_Downing_Street_Memo_Hearings_Special_John_Conyers.html

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
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(personal comments only)



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5457360.html


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

From ufpj-news

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/fbi-j15.shtml


Informant: Karana777

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=437&row=0


Informant: NHNE


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-patriot12jun12,1,6253853.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

THE NATION

Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right

A Senate panel vote riles conservatives concerned about the reach of federal power.

By Tom Hamburger

Times Staff Writer

June 12, 2005

WASHINGTON — A closed-door vote by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week to expand law enforcement powers under the USA Patriot Act is prompting sharp criticism from some conservative leaders who are otherwise among the most vocal allies of President Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress.

The conservative leaders — who have formed a coalition with critics on the left, including the American Civil Liberties Union — vowed to press their concerns in coming days with public statements, rallies and radio advertisements in key congressional districts.

The conservatives, including former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) and political activists who have been long-standing critics of the anti-terrorism law, lashed out with particular force last week against the White House, members of Congress and Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales. They said they had expected a more open review of the Patriot Act in which lawmakers considered some limits in order to safeguard civil liberties.

The conservatives complained that the Senate panel had moved in secret to expand the act. They are particularly upset about proposed "administrative subpoenas" that would let the FBI obtain a person's medical, financial and other records in terrorism cases without seeking a judge's approval.

Their criticism gathered force as Bush devoted two public events last week to pressing Congress to renew parts of the act due to expire at the end of this year.

The White House and the congressional leadership generally enjoy enthusiastic support from conservative activist organizations, though the Republican base has experienced profound disagreements over the decision to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare and over the general expansion of government under President Bush.

But now, said conservative activist Grover Norquist, every major conservative grass-roots organization has expressed concern about expanding the Patriot Act. He emphasized that his concern was directed not at the White House but at Congress. Other conservative leaders, however, are aiming their criticism at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

"It is a slap in the face to the Constitution," said Barr, who leads a bipartisan coalition calling for limits on the act.

Passed six weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Patriot Act was intended to give law enforcement more power to fight terrorism. But Barr and other critics say the law goes too far and gives federal investigators unbridled power that endangers civil rights. The proposed "administrative subpoenas" approved by the intelligence panel last week would "wipe away the 4th Amendment" protection against unreasonable searches, Barr said.

Barr also accused the president of giving "the back of his hand" to concerns about constitutional protections "that so many have fought and died for."

The head of the American Conservative Union, David Keene, said he was upset that the administration appeared to be encouraging the Patriot Act provisions' renewal through the more secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, despite pledges of openness and of a willingness to consider compromise. The Senate Judiciary Committee also has jurisdiction over renewing the act, but it has not begun deliberations, which are generally open to the public.

Keene is particularly upset with Atty. Gen. Gonzales, who has agreed in recent meetings with conservative activists, participants said, to the principle of open discussion and careful review of the Patriot Act before 16 of its most important provisions are renewed. The Intelligence Committee's decision to proceed on the Patriot Act was made without objection from the White House or from Gonzales.

"I find it disquieting that he talks like he is a reasonable guy and then, when it comes down to it, acts like he is not," Keene said. "We need to know: Who is the real Gonzales?"

Although Barr, Keene and a handful of other well-known conservatives are working with groups on the political left to limit the Patriot Act, Keene rejected arguments from the left that "there is a Republican plot to deprive of us of our rights. The fact is, this is what governments do," regardless of who is in power, particularly in time of war.

Supporters of the Patriot Act (an acronym for Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) say the law fixes some of the intelligence and law enforcement problems that allowed the Sept. 11 terrorists to enter the country and proceed without detection.

Among other things, the massive, quickly approved measure permits "roving wiretaps" that allow officials to tap multiple phones used by a targeted person. It also encourages information sharing among law enforcement and intelligence agencies and permits investigators to subpoena library records.

Barr voted for the bill when he was in Congress and, like Keene, he insists he wants most of the 16 expiring sections renewed. In testimony on Capitol Hill, Barr said his coalition sought modest modifications of the law, such as limiting the length of time and number of targets covered by a roving wiretap.

The White House said it wants all 16 sections renewed. Bush also has supported the idea of allowing FBI agents to obtain certain records without a judge's signature, though he has never advocated its inclusion in the Patriot Act.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Saturday that administrative subpoenas were already allowed in certain criminal and civil investigations, so the Senate panel's proposal "would simply allow a long-standing constitutional tool to be used in terrorism investigations."

Justice Department spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos said the attorney general backed administrative subpoenas as "a helpful tool, but the reauthorization of the Patriot Act remains the No. 1 priority." She added that Gonzales had been committed to "open dialogue, based on facts, explaining to the public that there are no verified civil liberties claims against the Patriot Act."

Keene, who had recently praised Gonzales for his outreach efforts, said Friday that the administration commitment to openness and review "appears to me to be just spin, a public relations effort, not a real willingness" to consider "whether the new powers government wants to assert are justified."

Perino said that the White House welcomed the Senate Intelligence Committee's taking the lead on renewing the Patriot Act but that it had no position on which committee should work on the legislation. Those decisions are determined by Senate rules and procedures, she said.

Keene and Barr's alliance plans to send letters to Capitol Hill this week calling for rejection of the administrative subpoenas and urging a more careful review of the act itself.

In addition, Barr said, radio ads are being readied for key congressional districts, paid for by Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, a coalition of that includes the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, the American Civil Liberties Union, gun rights advocates, the Libertarian Party and some left-of-center groups.

Activists also plan to rally next weekend in Harrisburg, Pa., in the home state of Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter.

Specter must decide how his committee will proceed on the legislation. Senate aides said he could choose to try to modify the Intelligence Committee's proposal or could send a competing package to the Senate floor. Specter has told reporters that the Patriot Act pits "fundamental questions of security of our country with basic constitutional rights."

The coalition critical of the Patriot Act prefers alternative legislation that limits some of the most controversial measures but does not repeal any of them. That legislation, sponsored by Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho), would limit roving wiretaps and require earlier notification of subjects of "sneak and peak" searches, in which people are not immediately told their property has been searched.

06/15/05

The White House has summoned its Justice Department officials to put on a full court press toward the purpose of convincing Congress to reauthorize portions of the Patriot Act that are scheduled to sunset. The argument is that the Patriot Act must be renewed in order to help win the war on terrorism. However, instead of helping to win the war on terrorism, the Patriot Act is helping to dismantle fundamental liberties protected by the U.S. Constitution. The first argument used by the feds is the Justice Department's report that the Patriot Act has been used by law enforcement to conduct investigations leading to the conviction of more than 200 defendants for terrorist-related crimes. However, according to The Washington Post, 'the numbers are misleading at best'...

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin243.htm

from News With Views, by Chuck Baldwin -- Hat Tip to Sierra Times


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0616/p09s01-coop.html


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

06/15/05

The White House let it be known on May 18 that President Bush will soon issue a national security directive on the subject of weapons in space. The announcement and accompanying statements by Air Force officials, together with earlier developments, reveals much about the connection between missile defense and the militarization of space, and the possible consequences for nuclear proliferation. The president is expected to adopt a new policy incorporating the long-standing view of the Air Force and the present civilian leadership of the Pentagon who advocate U.S. military superiority in space. This view, in its present form, goes back to the 2001 report of the commission headed by Donald Rumsfeld which recommended, among other things, that a) the United States should move forward with a missile defense program and b) the president should have the option of deploying weapons in space...

http://tinyurl.com/7ojhy

from Tom Paine, by Richard F. Kaufman


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/061505_world_stories.shtml#3


Informant: Friends


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

06/15/05

You can only read so many books in a lifetime. How tragic it would be if among these that the subject of liberty itself would be neglected. Thus am I currently at work on a fascinating project: the 100 most important books on liberty. It will not only be a list but eventually a book that will include summaries, discussions, and study questions. You will hear more about that in the future. For now, however, I have compiled a different list: 125 books in print, useful for understanding liberty and the system of individual enterprise. Thus does it emphasize, with a few exceptions, modern rather than historical works...

http://www.mises.org/story/1830

from Ludwig von Mises Institute, by David Gordon


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/15/05

You'd think history would have taught us that empires are a menace. In their name more murderous killing has taken place than for any other purpose. Yet, in some ways, imperialism is very much part of the contemporary age. It may not amount to the sort of vast military missions with which it is so prominently associated, although, sadly, much of that continues today. Another type of imperialism tempts too many people who would never think themselves followers of the imperial tradition...

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/1785/html/index.php

from Free Market News Network, by Tibor R. Machan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/16/05

Despite the holidays of Memorial Day and Veteran's Day there is little appreciation for veterans. Oh there may be a few generals and politicians pontificating and maybe a concert but that's usually seen as patriotic blather for the media and the public that believes it. Very few veterans show up. Of course I am talking about the guys who really paid a big price in a war. The amputee, the horribly disfigured and those who will be in and out of hospitals for the rest of their lives. And then there are those who were so heavily traumatized that they cannot handle the crowds, the rhetoric and the fireworks will not be brought out or would come out for these events. It would be too upsetting for all concerned...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/june26/Veterans.html

from Liberty For All, by Don Meinshausen


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/15/05

Civil disobedience is fine if you're willing to pay the consequences of such action, that is, going to jail. That's precisely the decision the civil rights protesters made in the '60s. They had a cause which which most American's agreed. They laws they protested really did limit liberty. My guess is few will agree with [Russell Kanning]. Few will agree that his dignity is more important than their security (no matter how false a sense they get from airport security). I'd also imagine few will sympathize with his contention that his government is more dangerous than any terrorist, at least in terms of air travel...

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=2015

from The QandO Blog, by McQ



Pick your allies wisely ... if you can

06/15/05

The airlines and the government keep trying to blame each other for the fact that virtually every airport in America is crawling with government employees pawing the passengers, demanding their wallets and shoes, and stealing their stuff. The airlines say the government is forcing the requirements on them. The government says there aren't any such requirements and that it's the airlines doing it ... but when you get to the airport, it isn't a stewardess patting you down while she offers you a bag of peanuts, it's a thug flashing a federal government badge and drawing a federal government paycheck. That pretty much answers that question...

http://tinyurl.com/bzwgn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/16/05

When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data -- and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal/

from Salon, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.hornseyjournal.co.uk/content/haringey/hornseyjournal/news/story.aspx?brand=HCEJOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshcej&itemid=WeED15%20Jun%202005%2010%3A39%3A28%3A153


Informant: NoName

http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=315&PHPSESSID=2ecbac7bfec2fbc93be6e976d0a32049


Informant: NoName

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000961543


Informant: Kev Hall

http://mitglied.lycos.de/newsomega/news/grenzwerte_werden_deutlich_unterschritten.htm

Strahlung unterm Grenzwert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/749085/

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Mobilfunkrisiken richtig beurteilen

Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Dr. Hagenauer,

in dem Symposium "Mobilfunk: Fakten, Nutzen, Ängste" haben die Mitglieder des "Forums Technologie" der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften u.a. folgende Schlussfolgerungen gezogen:

"Die Energiedichte der elektromagnetischen Wellen ist bereits wenige Meter von einer Basisstation entfernt wesentlich geringer (um den Faktor 100 bis 1000) als beim Betrieb eines Handys in Kopfnähe. Außer einer geringfügigen (0,1 Grad) thermischen Gewebeerwärmung etwa durch das dauernd betriebene Handy in Kopfnähe sind in der Wissenschaft bei Einhaltung der gültigen Grenzwerte derzeit keine merkbaren negativen oder gar Krankheiten auslösende Faktoren bekannt."

Mir wurde von einer - bei einem Patienten nachgewiesenen - Gewebeerwärmung von 0,7 Grad berichtet. Weitere Einzelheiten sind mir nicht bekannt.

In einer Live-Diskussion des tvm-Stadtgesprächs am 7.6.2005 haben Sie die Aussage gemacht, dass es k e i n e Wirkungsunterschiede zwischen ungepulster und gepulster Strahlung gäbe!! Ferner, warum sollte Mobilfunk schädlich sein, wo doch die Rundfunk- und Fernsehsender vielhundertfach stärker senden. Es tritt unter der Mobilfunkantenne keine Strahlung auf und die vielen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten der letzten Jahre hätten alle keinen Nachweis erbracht, dass Mobilfunk krank macht.

Von der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und ihren Repräsentanten würde man erwarten, dass sie wissenschaftlich neutral sind und nicht die Interessen einer Wirtschaftsgruppe (Mobilfunk) vertreten!

Ist Ihnen nicht bekannt, dass schon in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung festgestellt und deshalb niedrigere Grenzwerte, als in Deutschland eingeführt wurden. Die Sowjets wollten ihre Bürger nicht unnütz gesundheitlich schädigen. Können wir uns die Schädigung unseres Humankapitals leisten?

Ca. 2000 Ärzte setzen sich für einen gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk ein (Freiburger Appell, Nailaer Arztstudie, Hofer Appell, Bamberger Appell: "Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter dem Einfluss hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder", niederländische Studie des Instituts TNO über UMTS-Signale). Sollten diese und alle anderen Arbeiten über negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften nicht bekannt sein??

Prof. Dr. Ing. Alexander H. Volger hat in "Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen, Sachstand und Handlungsbedarf (Aktualisierte Fassung Sept. 2002) u.a. festgestellt: "Die derzeit bekannten Versuche, die ECOLOG-Studie und weitere kritische wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu relativieren und nicht anerkennen zu müssen, sind völlig unqualifiziert und lassen massive Voreingenommenheit erkennen.

Omega siehe "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander H. Volger: Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen u.a." unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/168670/

Soweit bisher erkennbar, dürfte die angewandte periodische niederfrequente Pulsung auch bei sehr geringen Einstrahlungsdosen einen oder den entscheidenden Beitrag zur Schädlichkeit ausmachen.

Die Schutzbehauptung, "die Schädlichkeit sei nicht erwiesen", es fehle an der wissenschaftlichen Qualitätshöhe (z.B. Veröffentlichung und Verteidigung auf Kongressen, Reproduzierbarkeit), ist falsch und sogar absurd: Die Einzelwirkungen sind von renommierten Wissenschaftlern erforscht und dargestellt, und sie sind reproduzierbar, die epidemiologischen Studien sind ausreichend statistisch abgesichert, die berichteten Schadensfälle sind absolut zahlreich, aber einen Tumorfall sollte man wohl besser nicht reproduzieren wollen. Außerdem: Wo gibt es das sonst, dass die "Beschuldigten" für die Misere (Betreiber, Bundesregierung, Bundesämter, Strahlenschutzkommission) selbst die Beweiskriterien festlegen und die Beweise aussortieren dürfen?"

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

G. Pischeltsrieder
Bürgerinitiative Icking zu Schutz vor Strahlenbelastung

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Verleumdungstaktik der Politik

Den von oft hochkarätigen und gut dotierten Wissenschaftlern bei offiziellen Anlässen verbreiteten Desinformationen begegne ich immer wieder mal mit einem Brief nach etwa dem folgenden Muster:


Sehr geehrter Herr Professor Hagenauer,

es verwundert mich sehr, dass unter Ihrer Mitwirkung zum Thema Mobilfunk von der Bay. Akademie der Wissenschaften das Resümee gezogen wird, es gäbe unterhalb der thermischen Grenzen keine Gesundheitsstörungen. Als Allgemeinarzt habe ich mehrfach Patienten erlebt, die eindeutig durch Mobilfunk krank geworden sind und ihre Beschwerden nach einer entsprechenden Sanierung verloren haben.

Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass Sie als Fachmann solche nicht gerade seltenen Beobachtungen nicht kennen. Warum ignorieren Sie sie? Muss ich hier wieder einmal davon ausgehen, dass Geld schwerer wiegt als die wissenschaftliche Wahrheit und als die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung. Wie lange werden Sie diese Verleumdungskampagne bezüglich der Gesundheitsschäden durch Mobilfunk noch durchhalten können?

Für Tausende von Bürgerinitiativen und all die leidenden Betroffenen sind Sie jetzt schon unglaubwürdig, und für Ihre forschenden Kollegen, die die Situation durchschauen, ohnehin schon lange.

Ich muss schon fragen, für wie dumm hält man uns Bürger eigentlich, wenn gebetsmühlenartig diese immer offensichtlicher werdenden Gesundheitsschäden von einer inzwischen sehr wohl bekannten Gruppierung von Personen immer wieder geleugnet werden, dann aber doch Vorsichtsregeln gegeben werden.

Wenn eines Tages all dies ans Tageslicht kommt und die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden, können Sie nicht sagen, sie hätten nichts gewusst und sich aus der Affäre ziehen.

Aus diesen meinen etwas emotionalen Ausführungen sollte Ihnen klar werden, wie ernst die Lage ist. Stellen Sie sich als Wissenschaftler klar auf die Seite der Wahrheit und flüchten sich nicht in unerfüllbare Beweis-Szenarien der Schäden durch Mobilfunk und in die Länge gezogene Studien.

Der Großversuch an vielen Hundert Millionen Menschen und auch Tieren und Pflanzen weltweit läuft seit wenigstens 10 Jahren. Es ist genügend Beobachtungsmaterial vorhanden, man braucht es nur zur Kenntnis zu nehmen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Dr. Dietrich Grün


In der Regel erfolgt auf solche Briefe natürlich keine Antwort, das ist auch nicht meine Absicht. Aber die betreffenden Personen wissen dann, dass man sehr wohl weiß, was hier gespielt wird, und was sie selbst eigentlich auch wissen müssten. Mit solch einem Wissen im Hintergrund lügt es sich nicht mehr so leicht, und dazu noch, wenn einem klar gemacht wird, dass man mehr und mehr an Glaubwürdigkeit verliert und eigentlich auf verlorenem Posten kämpft, denn die Wahrheit lässt sich nicht allezeit unterdrücken.

Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/5393

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Gedanken zum Thema Elektrosmog

Grundsätzliches zum Thema Mobilfunk/Elektrosmog

Früher war das überhaupt kein Thema, da sich die Belastung mit elektromagnetischen Feldern in engen zeitlichen und räumlichen Grenzen hielt: Rasierapparat, Staubsauger, Mikrowelle, Computer usw. waren nur minutenweise oder stundenweise in Betrieb, außerdem konnte man ganz schlicht durch Nichtbenutzung oder Ausschalten dem Problem entgehen. Hochspannungsfreileitungen waren schon immer sehr problematisch und nur durch ausreichenden Abstand zu entschärfen.

Da haben die Belastungen durch DECT-Telefone und Mobilfunk eine ganz andere Dimension erreicht: erstens: die 24 Stunden non Stop Bestrahlung und zweitens hat man kaum noch eine Chance, dem zu entgehen, weil hier eine flächendeckende Versorgung mit elektromagnetischen Wellen besteht.

Nun scheint mir bei vielen (6 % Elektrosensible gibt es bereits) das Maß voll. Der Mobilfunk ist also m.E. der Tropfen, der das Fass zum überlaufen bringt. Einige von uns haben sozusagen ein größeres Fass, da läuft noch nichts über. Aber dies scheint mir nur eine Frage der Zeit, falls wir weiterhin ungebremst und ungehemmt die Belastung mit Elektrosmog steigern.

Hier stellt sich mir grundsätzlich die Frage, wann reagieren wir und stoppen diese (vermeidbare) Belastung ? bei 10 % Elektrosensiblen oder erst bei 20 % ? oder erst dann, wenn wir alle krank sind und endlich die vielbeschworenen „Beweise“ haben (Vodafone-Beschwichtigungshymne, Vers 1 : „es ist ja noch nicht bewiesen“, Vers 2 : “Alle Grenzwerte sind eingehalten“) (und wenn man weiß, wie diese Grenzwerte zustande gekommen sind und wer alles in dieser Kommission sitzt, macht man ohnehin hier ein großes Fragezeichen dran und diskutiert nicht weiter)

Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass zunächst mal die Sendeleistung halbiert wird und kein weiterer Sendemast installiert wird. Dies kann ohne große Einbußen bereits mit den vorhandenen Handys geschehen. Will man jedoch auch im hintersten Kellerverlies noch einwandfreien Handyempfang haben, müsste man andere Handys entwickeln mit verbesserter Empfangs- und Antennentechnik.

Das Problem ist also grundsätzlich lösbar. Es passiert allerdings nichts, wenn wir nicht erkennen, dass die eigene Gesundheit viel wichtiger ist, als der Vodafone-Umsatz. (gemeint sind hier „Vodafone und Konsorten“, also alle Netzbetreiber, die lediglich ihre Geschäftsinteressen durchsetzen wollen)

Eckardt Giese
http://space.arcor.de/eckardtgiese

Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/5395

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/latimes92v.htm


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance48.html



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According to the Pentagon, DU in Iraq is only a heavy metal toxic hazard not a radiological hazard. After all, it emits only low intensity radiation, which does not penetrate the skin barrier. However, it looks like DU in Minnesota is, indeed, a radiological hazard

http://www.circlevision.org/alliantaction/atk/scoop/du/tcaap.html


Informant: David Diggins

http://tinyurl.com/8fezd



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FILIBUSTER FOR THE RIGHT REASON

It is looking more and more like the Bolton nomination is about to collapse, but not only must we sustain the filibuster, we must do it for the RIGHT reason and that reason is the PRINCIPLE that Bolton is totally unacceptable with or without any additional documents.

The other side will try to claim a message spin victory by hanging their latest foul slur "obstructionist" on us. That is why we must encourage all our senators to make strong statements on the MERITS. What we are doing is demanding something positive, that the president tender a better nominee for this critical post of U.N. Ambassador. And if the other side will not take responsibility and lacks the backbone or integrity to make that demand, THEN WE WILL! And we do it proudly, firmly and without any apologies and that is what our senators must say on the floor. You can tell them just that at the action page below.

http://www.usalone.com/bolton.htm

The message to the American people isn't that we have been as appeasing as possible. The message must be that the other side has been absolutely and totally NOT cooperative. The message must be that our side is here to fight for what we believe in and never, ever compromise on principle. And the principle here is that Bolton was, is and will always be wrong and must be ultimately rejected for that reason ALONE.

Please take action NOW on this and post and forward this message everywhere you can to you know.


From activist_zz

Rep. John Conyers to Hold June 16 Hearing on the Downing Street Memo

Join the tens of thousands on September 24
Who Will Call for Impeachment
Gather at the White House at 12 noon

Everyone in the ImpeachBush.org movement should feel very heartened that the grassroots effort of the past two years has laid the foundation for what will be the next big move.

The movement to impeach George W. Bush is about to reach its highest level yet. The catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq is now exposed. The people of the country, and more and more members of Congress, are turning against the war and demanding that President Bush be held accountable. We will insist that accountability means impeachment.

We are writing to announce two very important and exciting events:

1) Congressman John Conyers is holding a hearing tomorrow (June 16) into the Downing Street Memo which reveals that the Bush administration was lying to the people of the U.S. as they forged forward on their planned path of war against, and conquest of, Iraq.

2) September 24 National March in Washington, D.C. - Members of the impeachment movement from all over the country will be marching together as a massive contingent in the huge September 24 antiwar demonstration in Washington, D.C., with coordinated actions in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

You can help build this movement

We are able to do all of this work only because of the generous donations of people who believe in impeachment. The expenses will be great in the coming period. With your donation, will be able to print hundreds of thousands of flyers and posters, make banners, send out large-scale mailings, and begin renting buses to make sure that the message of impeachment is seen throughout Washington, D.C. that day and rings through the hallways of the White House where we will assemble at 12 noon. Your help is needed now. Please make a contribution now by clicking here for access to the online donation form and the secure server, where you can also get information to write a check.

http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=XbTUFVtBSgYNG__PpCXNhw..

ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org members have worked tirelessly over the past two-and-half-years to raise the political consciousness in the U.S. and the halls of Congress demanding that Bush and other high officials of his administration be impeached for their criminal conduct. This work is now reaching a new level - discussion of Impeachment is being picked up by many across the progressive spectrum and it is increasingly being mentioned in commentary and news analysis as a proper course of action. In recent weeks the Green Party, Veterans for Peace, Ralph Nader and many others have issued statements calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. This list is sure to grow in the coming months.

The Downing Street Memo and the Case for Impeachment

Tomorrow, June 16, Congressman John Conyers will hold a hearing into the Downing Street Memo, the leaked British briefing notes that document the Bush Administration's intention to attack Iraq and its efforts to create public rationale for their pre-planned illegal war.

The Downing Street Memo is the "smoking gun" for those still searching for one indicting President Bush and his administration for high crimes and misdemeanors of the most serious and deadly kind. Its authenticity has not been disputed by either the British or U.S. governments since it was made public by the Times of London on May 1, 2005. While largely ignored for nearly a month by most of the corporate media here, it has now made its way into some news outlets. Rep. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress have demanded an explanation from the White House.

The memo is a document containing minutes transcribed during a meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of his cabinet and other top military and security officials, on July 23, 2002. The head of British foreign intelligence (MI 6), Richard Dearlove, identified in the memo as "C," had just returned from a meeting with the U.S. National Security Council in Washington.

"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

The key phrase here is, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." It makes clear beyond question that the Bush administration had set the course for war on Iraq at least eight months before the U.S./British invasion.

In recent days, additional leaked British memos have confirmed the underlying information in the Downing Street Memo and further revealed that the Bush administration was making its plans to launch a war against Iraq and to find a basis to justify the illegal attack as early as March 2002. For instance a memo dated March 22, 2002, revealed that officials in the Blair government recognized that additional efforts would need to be made to justify the war since there was a lack of proof of connections between the Iraqi government and Al Qaida, and that the Iraqi government was not arming itself with weapons of mass destruction as the Bush Administration had claimed.

Now, more than 26 months after the invasion, 100,000 Iraqis have been killed (according to the British medical journal The Lancet) and Iraq is in chaos. Over 1,700 U.S. troops have been killed and tens of thousands have been maimed, suffering from serious wounds, injuries and illnesses, including enormous psychological trauma.

All this killing, dying and suffering is the result of a war justified by a deliberate campaign of unmitigated lies and deception knowingly carried out by Bush and his top associates - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, et. al. All who remain in office should be removed and face trial for their war crimes. It is worth noting that the most serious category of war crimes is the Crime Against Peace; that is, planning and carrying out a war of aggression against another state which poses no threat to the aggressor state.

Read the full text of the Downing Street Memo:
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=z6nbEdiBTqzHOpNZ8dMu_g..

Help spread the word about impeachment everyday. Visit the ImpeachBush Resource Center: http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=qZavvuwhEDregGEQYh41SA..

--All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org



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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rally.pdf

LOCAL RALLIES PLANNED AROUND COUNTRY

Supporters of this campaign are independently organizing rallies on Thursday at locations around the country.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=211

AfterDowningStreet.org is a rapidly growing coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

David Swanson david@davidswanson.org 202-329-7847
Jonathan Schwarz jonathan_schwarz@sbcglobal.net 773-296-0838


Informant: Michael Novick



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Report says U.S. troops forced four drivers to wipe human excrement in each other's faces, detained a dozen drivers in toilets for 12 hours and broke the windows of their cars.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9149.htm

British officials believed the U.S. favored military force a year before the war, documents show.

By John Daniszewski
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

In March 2002, the Bush administration had just begun to publicly raise the possibility of confronting Iraq. But behind the scenes, officials already were deeply engaged in seeking ways to justify an invasion, newly revealed British memos indicate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9150.htm

An interview with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) who is convening a public hearing tomorrow in Washington on the so-called Downing Street Memo and other newly released documents that he says show the Bush administration's "efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence." We also speak with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

Click here to listen. Real Audio
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9145.htm



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Ein Buch zeigt, warum die gegenwärtige Gesellschaftsordnung zerstörerisch ist - und was dagegen zu tun wäre.

http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2005/nr24/wissen/11941.html

posted 06/15/05

The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) requested attendance of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to defend their decision to wage war in Iraq. Bush is likely to treat the WTI the same way he treated the millions of Iraq war protestors around the world -- with contempt. Events like the WTI would be more effective if they addressed the American public.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20121850&url_num=63&url=http://www.fpif.org/papers/0506haltbush.html

posted 06/10/05

A bill just introduced in the House (H.R. 2726) could destroy universal, affordable Internet access everywhere. Help stop H.R. 2726 by sending a letter to your representative today.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=20121850&url_num=42&url=http://www.freepress.net/action/sessionsbill

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml

Ah yes, here it is - way BEFORE 9/11.

Anna Webb

On Sept. 27, 1994, more than 300 conservatives stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and endorsed Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, "to restore accountability to Congress," and "to end its cycle of scandal and disgrace." The image of reform they broadcast helped rocket them into power.

Fast-forward ten years. Today, government has been handed over to corporate lobbyists.

Together, we must fight back. We progressives are - and always have been - the real reformers and defenders of democracy. In our fight to take back America, we need to make the case that the kind of corruption Tom DeLay, and others like him, engage in is not the exception to the rule - it's the rule itself. We need to hold those corrupt individuals accountable.

Here's another example: Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) who, like DeLay, has repeatedly put lobbyists first and the American people second. Tomorrow, we're running ads in the newspapers of the two largest cities in his Ohio congressional district, exposing his corruption to tens of thousands of people.

Please contribute what you can to our campaign for a more accountable Congress and against Rep. Bob Ney.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=96602

Rep. Ney is emblematic of everything that's wrong with Washington. He uses the power of his office to do favors for influence peddlers that have nothing to do with his voters back in Ohio. What kinds of favors? When a Texas Indian tribe wanted to open a casino, tribal leaders sent him on a luxury trip to Scotland and give him more than $30,000 in campaign donations. When a Washington lobbyist wanted to buy a Florida gambling cruise line, he gave Bob Ney the biggest campaign contribution the law allows and Ney, in return, used the power of his office to put pressure on the cruise-line's owner to sell. When a foreign company wanted to sell planes in the Middle East, its lobbyists flew Bob Ney to London to gamble with them. All of this wheeling and dealing has linked Ney to some of the most notorious corporate lobbyists in Washington, and it's gotten him in hot water.

Who is Bob Ney supposed to work for? The citizens of his district, of course, not some lobbyist who wants to buy a casino in Florida. Where should he be focusing his job-creation efforts? On the working families in Ohio, not on an Indian tribe in Texas. Who pays his salary? We, the American people, do. Who pays for the phone he uses to talk to his lobbyist friends? We, the people, do. Rep. Bob Ney: another out-of-touch politician wasting our tax dollars to fulfill the wishes of lobbyists while the real needs of our country go unaddressed.

Help us hold him accountable. Help us make the case, as Gingrich and his self-proclaimed "revolutionaries" did a decade ago, that Washington is corrupt and out of touch with the real challenges facing America.

Help us fund our ad campaign. Contribute today.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=96602

If you're as sick and tired of the corruption as we are then join us in the fight. This is our democracy and it is our obligation to make sure that it works for the people - not the lobbyists.

It's not just Tom DeLay, it's Bob Ney too. Learn more about Bob Ney's corruption.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=96608

Thank you very much for all your help.

Sincerely,

Ellen Miller, Deputy Director
Campaign for America's Future

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/140605tenquestions.htm


Informant: Neo Mulder

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/150605chroniclecovers.htm

San Francisco Chronicle | June 15 2005

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/06/14/worldviews.DTL

New 'Downing Street Memo' says Bush, Blair agreed on 'regime change' in 2002

Is it a second Downing Street Memo -- or something even more damning for both the Bush administration and the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair?

On May 1, Britain's Sunday Times broke the story of the now-infamous Downing Street Memo; that document, the minutes of a meeting of Blair's top advisers, showed that the prime minister had known, some eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, that a war not authorized by the United Nations would be illegal for British troops to take part in. Now The Times has scooped its rivals again with the news -- and the text of -- a leaked, extremely secret British Cabinet Office briefing paper dated July 23, 2002.

Prepared for Blair and his closest advisers, this newly discovered document clearly states that "since regime change was illegal, it was 'necessary to create the conditions' which would make it legal."

The Times' news story, written by defense reporter Michael Smith, about the newly discovered, secret briefing paper noted that it had confirmed that Blair "had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W. Bush three months earlier." In his news article, Smith explained that fabricating conditions for going to war "was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal U.S. action."

The British Cabinet Office briefing paper also stated that "U.S. views of international law vary from that of the U.K. and the international community. Regime change per se is not a proper basis for military action under international law." It further stated that the British government "would regard the use of force against Iraq, or any other state, as lawful if exercised in the right of individual or collective self-defense, if carried out to avert an overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe or if authorized by the U.N. Security Council." As it turned out, the U.S.-led attack on Iraq met none of those criteria.

Although mainstream American news media were very slow or apparently even reluctant to publish news of the Downing Street Memo until as late as the middle of May, this time, in the United States, the Times' revelation of the Cabinet Office briefing paper made the front page of The Washington Post.

Smith noted that many U.S. citizens, as they have learned about the Downing Street Memo and have become "angry at what they see as media self-censorship in ignoring [it]," have been flooding Web sites that have been set up to focus on the controversial British document. Many Americans, Smith noted, have "demanded to know why [it] has been largely ignored by the U.S. mainstream media" and have expressed their support for a letter that U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Ill.) and 88 other Democratic members of Congress have sent to President Bush. That missive asked Bush to confirm or deny that, as the Downing Street Memo asserted, in the run-up to the war, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" that led to the U.S.-led invasion. (Times)

Smith also noted that, because Bush has so far refused to answer the U.S. lawmakers, the members of Congress have set up a Web site named Downingstreetmemo.com to collect signatures on a petition that urges the president to respond to their question. Another new site set up since the Downing Street Memo became known, AfterDowningStreet.org, "is calling for a congressional committee to consider whether Bush's actions as depicted in the memo constitute grounds for impeachment."

In Sunday's Times, Smith predicted that Blair's just-uncovered, July 2002 Cabinet Office briefing paper "is certain to add to the pressure, particularly on the American president, because of the damaging revelation that Bush and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked for a way to justify it."

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In other countries, some commentators have offered highly critical, bluntly worded assessments of just what they believe the Downing Street Memo represents.

In Canada, for example, Toronto Sun columnist Eric Margolis, writing just before news broke of the just-revealed Cabinet Office briefing paper, has authored one of the strongest. Language like his has yet to be seen jumping off the pages or screens of most mainstream U.S. news media outlets.

Of Bush and Blair's rush to war, Margolis writes, "And so it went. Lie after lie. Scare upon scare. Fakery after fakery, trumpeted by the tame [American] media that came to resemble the lickspittle press of the old Soviet Union. Ironically, in the end, horrid Saddam Hussein turned out to be telling the truth all along [about not having weapons of mass destruction], while Bush and Blair were not."

Margolis offers a conclusion that, so far, no major news sources in the United States has dared utter. The Downing Street Memo, he notes, "would have forced any of Europe's democratic governments to resign in disgrace. But not Bush and Blair. Far from it." He also chastises American news corporations for failing -- or refusing -- to investigate what appeared to news watchers in other countries to be a vitally important story linked to the war.

Instead, he observes, the U.S. mass media "amply confirmed charges of bias and politicization leveled against them by first ignoring the [Downing Street Memo] story, then grudgingly devoting a few low-key stories to the dramatic revelation. ... But don't just blame Bush and Blair. [Vice President Dick] Cheney, CIA boss George Tenet (a.k.a. 'Dr. Yes'), Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials who promoted falsehoods over Iraq and war fever were just as guilty of deceiving and misleading the American people and Congress."

By contrast, he adds, "Kudos go to Blair's former foreign secretary, Robin Cook, who refused to be party to the lies and resigned. No senior U.S. official had the guts or ethics to follow Cook's admirable example." (Toronto Sun)


Informant: Neo Mulder



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Orange Relay Antennas in Crest, Drome, France.

- Latest news -

After an adjourdment from Orange, a great historical trial against Orange is going to be taken. A summary procedure is going to take place in the Court of Justice in Valence on Wesdnesday 6 of July 2005 at 9.00 am.

The preliminary investigations of the summary procedure have been lasting for more than a month and a half and the file is more than 200 pages.

42 files from neighbourhood represent more than 150 people related to ASL.

This means that about more than 35 per cent of people living in the near aera which is directectly irradiated by the dangerous Orange relay antennas are concerned. These people suffer from biological and sanitary symptoms (not counting the ones in hospital).

Moreover, it is the first time for France to claim that the principles of precautionary measures which are written in the French Constitution are set (examinations by the scientists).

Since the scientist leader of l'AFSSE, Pr. Denis Zmirou, who had to cope with pressures from Scientists and Associations, the myth about the harmlessness of the electromagnetic fields of the mobile phone is a failure and a real danger.

Orange is well aware about this.

So Orange directly irradiates people with its fields of its strong relay antennas.

http://www.sauvonsleon.fr
contact@sauvonsleon.fr

http://mitglied.lycos.de/newsomega/news/charter_of_the_environement.pdf
http://mitglied.lycos.de/newsomega/news/refere_contre_orange.JPG
http://mitglied.lycos.de/newsomega/news/asl_france_refere_contre_orange_france.doc

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/06/15/the_patriot_act_is_unpatriotic.php#more


Informant: Neo Mulder

We need your help!

Please use our cyberaction centre to support our campaign to save one of the last primary forests of southern Brazil.

For more information and a suggested message visit
http://www.foei.org/cyberaction/barragrande.php

Please forward this message to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to get involved with this action, too.

Thanks for your support.

The FoEI Web Team

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Necesitamos de tu ayuda.

Utiliza por favor nuestro centro de ciberacción para salvar una de las ultimas florestas primarias del sur del Brasil.

Para más información y para enviar un mensaje visita la pagina
http://www.foei.org/esp/cyberaction/barragrande.php

Envie por favor este mensaje a sus amigos y colegas y pideles ayudar con esta acción también.

Gracias por tu apoyo.

Equipo web de ATI

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Nous avons besoin de votre aide!

Veuillez visiter notre centre de cyberaction pour soutenir notre campagne de sauvegarder un de les ultimes forêts primaires du Brésil méridional.

Pour plus d'information et pour envoyer un message, visitez svp

en anglais: http://www.foei.org/cyberaction/barragrande.php
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Prière de envoyer ce message à vos amis et collègues et les encouragent à soutenir cette action, aussi.

Merci pour votre aide.

L'Équipe De Web De ATI

Bush Government Not Giving Up Torture
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4088746.stm


Informant: Charles Bremer

Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Dr. Hagenauer,

in dem Symposium "Mobilfunk: Fakten, Nutzen, Ängste" haben die Mitglieder des "Forums Technologie" der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften u.a. folgende Schlußfolgerungen gezogen:

"Die Energiedichte der elektromagnetischen Wellen ist bereits wenige Meter von einer Basisstation entfernt wesentlich geringer (um den Faktor 100 bis 1000) als beim Betrieb eines Handys in Kopfnähe. Außer einer geringfügigen (0,1 Grad) thermischen Gewebeerwärmung etwa durch das dauernd betriebene Handy in Kopfnähe sind in der Wissenschaft bei Einhaltung der gültigen Grenzwerte derzeit keine merkbaren negativen oder gar Krankheiten auslösende Faktoren bekannt."

Mir wurde von einer - bei einem Patienten nachgewiesenen - Gewebeerwärmung von 0,7 Grad berichtet. Weitere Einzelheiten sind mir nicht bekannt.

In einer Live-Diskusssion des tvm-Stadtgesprächs am 7.6.2005 haben Sie die Aussage gemacht, daß es k e i n e Wirkungsunterschiede zwischen ungepulster und gepulster Strahlung gäbe!! Ferner, warum sollte Mobilfunk schädlich sein, wo doch die Rundfunk- und Fernsehsender vielhundertfach stärker senden. Es tritt unter der Mobilfunkantenne keine Strahlung auf und die vielen wissenschaftllichen Arbeiten der letzten Jahre hätten alle keinen Nachweis erbracht, daß Mobilfunk krank macht.

Von der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und ihren Repräsentanten würde man erwarten, daß sie wissenschaftlich neutral sind und nicht die Interessen einer Wirtschaftsgruppe (Mobilfunk) vertreten!

Ist Ihnen nicht bekannt, daß schon in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung festgestellt und deshalb niedrigere Grenzwerte, als in Deutschland eingeführt wurden. Die Sowjets wollten ihre Bürger nicht unnütz gesundheitlich schädigen. Können wir uns die Schädigung unseres Humankapitals leisten?

Ca. 2000 Ärzte setzen sich für einen gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk ein (Freiburger Appell, Nailaer Arztstudie, Hofer Apppell, Bamberger Appell: "Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter dem Einfluß hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder", niederländische Studie des Instituts TNO über UMTS-Signale). Sollten diese und alle anderen Arbeiten über negantive gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Dr. Hagenauer,

in dem Symposium "Mobilfunk: Fakten, Nutzen, Ängste" haben die Mitglieder des "Forums Technologie" der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften u.a. folgende Schlussfolgerungen gezogen:

"Die Energiedichte der elektromagnetischen Wellen ist bereits wenige Meter von einer Basisstation entfernt wesentlich geringer (um den Faktor 100 bis 1000) als beim Betrieb eines Handys in Kopfnähe. Außer einer geringfügigen (0,1 Grad) thermischen Gewebeerwärmung etwa durch das dauernd betriebene Handy in Kopfnähe sind in der Wissenschaft bei Einhaltung der gültigen Grenzwerte derzeit keine merkbaren negativen oder gar Krankheiten auslösende Faktoren bekannt."

Mir wurde von einer - bei einem Patienten nachgewiesenen - Gewebeerwärmung von 0,7 Grad berichtet. Weitere Einzelheiten sind mir nicht bekannt.

In einer Live-Diskussion des tvm-Stadtgesprächs am 7.6.2005 haben Sie die Aussage gemacht, dass es k e i n e Wirkungsunterschiede zwischen ungepulster und gepulster Strahlung gäbe!! Ferner, warum sollte Mobilfunk schädlich sein, wo doch die Rundfunk- und Fernsehsender vielhundertfach stärker senden. Es tritt unter der Mobilfunkantenne keine Strahlung auf und die vielen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten der letzten Jahre hätten alle keinen Nachweis erbracht, dass Mobilfunk krank macht.

Von der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und ihren Repräsentanten würde man erwarten, dass sie wissenschaftlich neutral sind und nicht die Interessen einer Wirtschaftsgruppe (Mobilfunk) vertreten!

Ist Ihnen nicht bekannt, dass schon in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung festgestellt und deshalb niedrigere Grenzwerte, als in Deutschland eingeführt wurden. Die Sowjets wollten ihre Bürger nicht unnütz gesundheitlich schädigen. Können wir uns die Schädigung unseres Humankapitals leisten?

Ca. 2000 Ärzte setzen sich für einen gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk ein (Freiburger Appell, Nailaer Arztstudie, Hofer Appell, Bamberger Appell: "Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter dem Einfluss hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder", niederländische Studie des Instituts TNO über UMTS-Signale). Sollten diese und alle anderen Arbeiten über negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften nicht bekannt sein??

Prof. Dr. Ing. Alexander H. Volger hat in "Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen, Sachstand und Handlungsbedarf (Aktualisierte Fassung Sept. 2002) u.a. festgestellt: "Die derzeit bekannten Versuche, die ECOLOG-Studie und weitere kritische wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu relativieren und nicht anerkennen zu müssen, sind völlig unqualifiziert und lassen massive Voreingenommenheit erkennen.

Omega siehe "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander H. Volger: Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen u.a." unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/168670/

Soweit bisher erkennbar, dürfte die angewandte periodische niederfrequente Pulsung auch bei sehr geringen Einstrahlungsdosen einen oder den entscheidenden Beitrag zur Schädlichkeit ausmachen.

Die Schutzbehauptung, "die Schädlichkeit sei nicht erwiesen", es fehle an der wissenschaftlichen Qualitätshöhe (z.B. Veröffentlichung und Verteidigung auf Kongressen, Reproduzierbarkeit), ist falsch und sogar absurd: Die Einzelwirkungen sind von renommierten Wissenschaftlern erforscht und dargestellt, und sie sind reproduzierbar, die epidemiologischen Studien sind ausreichend statistisch abgesichert, die berichteten Schadensfälle sind absolut zahlreich, aber einen Tumorfall sollte man wohl besser nicht reproduzieren wollen. Außerdem: Wo gibt es das sonst, dass die "Beschuldigten" für die Misere (Betreiber, Bundesregierung, Bundesämter, Strahlenschutzkommission) selbst die Beweiskriterien festlegen und die Beweise aussortieren dürfen?"

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

G. Pischeltsrieder
Bürgerinitiative Icking zu Schutz vor Strahlenbelastung

MOBILE phone technology is poised to swamp the UK - and Wirral communities face the prospect of absorbing a further 800 telephone masts.

That is the dire warning given by Cllr Chris Blakeley who revealed this week: "Recent comments from industry figures indicated that new '3G' technology will require four times as many masts than at present. This suggests an additional 209 masts on average in every single Parliamentary constituency - this means in Wirral alone the possibility of over 800 more masts."

Cllr Blakeley, who represents Moreton and Saughall Massie, said: "Over the past 12 months there have been more and more planning applications for tele-phone masts in some of the most inappropriate locations.

"It appears that the mobile phone industry just wants to steamroll through as many applications as possible, regardless of the effect on the lives of thousands of people."

Across the country in the last 12 months activists have torn down mobile-phone masts as public concern over the health impact of radiation emissions have continued to grow.

Although Government advisers say there is no evidence that the masts threaten people's health, those living near them have complained of illnesses ranging from cancer to motor neurone disease.

Some scientists have suggested that the radiation produced by the aerials has an impact on sleep patterns and could have health implications.

Cllr Blakeley went on: "Currently there is a presumption in favour of development inherent in the current planning system, which over-rides local, environmental and safety concerns. Current planning rules cannot cope with the imposition of 130,000 more masts (across the UK ) - with a further 800-plus near homes and schools across Wirral."

He added: "We all want to be able to use a mobile phone, but this doesn't means masts should be constructed without any regard for the well-being of local people. It's time for (Prime Minister) Mr Blair to start listening and stop ignoring the views of local communities and the feelings of powerlessness and frustration experienced by those living under the threat of badly-sited masts." The Mobile Operators Association, set up in January 2003 to represent the five UK mobile phone network operators on radio frequency health and planning issues, disclosed that there are now around 60m mobile phone subscribers in the UK.

In a statement they observed: "Many people increasingly rely on mobile technology as their primary means of communication. However, without a network of base stations in place where people want to use their phones, they simply will not work." The statement added that operators were consistently addressing the issue of shared masts. Both sites and masts were shared where possible, but it was not always technically achievable as each network was planned slightly differently. The statement said: "A shared site can also be more visually intrusive than a single operator site because of the increase in height needed to accommodate two or more antennae systems."

A spokeswoman for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister disputed Cllr Blakeley's claim that 130,000 most phone masts would be erected across the UK.

The Mobile Operators' Association, she said, estimated that around 50,000 masts would be needed to cope with 3G - 5,000 more than there were at present.

She said: "We are confident that the planning system can cope with that increase."

AN Aberystwyth businessman has told the Cambrian News that he has pulled the plug on a controversial planning application for a 12-metre mast to be erected at Woods Yard in Trefechan. Steve Woods, who owns Woods Yard, Old Brewery, Trefechan, has confirmed that Alder King, as agents for the Orange communication company, had approached him regarding a planning application for a mast to be erected at Woods Yard. The 12-metre column would have had up to six antennae and four dishes, and other associated equipment cabinets at ground level. The agents have submitted an application to Cyngor Sir Ceredigion’s planning authority, but Mr Woods is adamant that no agreement has been made with Alder King. Many local residents are objecting to the application, fearing that it might affect their health, as well as devaluing their properties. And Aberystwyth Town Council has also lodged an objection. But Mr Woods, the proprietor of Woods Building Supplies, Clarach, contacted the Cambrian News to state categorically that no mast would be erected on the site of the Old Brewery, which is used for storage purposes by the company. Mr Woods said: “Alder King did approach us. They said that they wanted to erect a mast, and a planning application was being submitted. “But no agreement has been made with Alder King. And as I can see that it would interfere with our daily work, as well as being of concern to local people, I can say that I will not be allowing the erection of a mast.” Mark Edge, and his wife Annette, who live above their Londis store in Trefechan, are strong objectors to the planning application. Mr Edge said: “We live here with our three children, overlooking the yard which is the subject of the planning application. It is potentially a serious hazard to health, as nobody is yet in a position to say that these masts do not provide a risk to health. “Dozens of children living in the area might suffer health problems in the future if a mast is erected. “As far as I am aware, all the locals are objecting to the application. The offices in the Old Brewery have not been used for years, and every ground-floor window is boarded-up. Now there is an application for a mast which would further devalue our property.” Aberystwyth Town Council has already lodged a formal objection.

Paisley Daily Telegraph 15 06 05

MOBILE phone firms have been dealt a double blow - after plans to erect two new masts in Renfrew were rejected.

Communications giants Vodafone and T-Mobile had both hoped to be able to install phone masts in the town.

But after more than 150 complaints from locals, councillors rejected their plans.

Bosses at Vodafone had applied for planning permission to install a 21-metre mast on land just off North Lodge Road in Renfrew.

But 135 people contacted Renfrewshire Council planning chiefs objecting to it.

Worried residents felt it would be sited far too close to homes and would also be an eyesore in the area.

SNP Councillor Richard Vassie backed them by speaking out against the mast proposal at a meeting of the council's planning and development board.

And he and the residents were delighted when councillors voted by eight to four against granting planning permission.

Afterwards Councillor Vassie, who represents the Glenburn South area in Paisley , said: "More than 100 people objected to this mast going up so there was a very strong feeling in the local community against this going ahead.

"I wanted to make sure that those objections were heard and I'm delighted that the majority of the planning committee agreed with me."

At the same meeting councillors also booted out plans by T-Mobile to put up a 15-metre mast up on land just off Afton Drive .

Once again angry residents had blasted the proposals, with 17 folk complaining to planning bosses.

They feared the mast would be close to a children's play area and also argued that many youngsters would have to walk past it on their way to and from school.

Local councillor Alex Murrin also hit out at the mast plans.

Councillor Murrin, who represents the Deanside area of the town, said: "I object to the site of this mast, and I ask councillors to reject it on the grounds that it will have a significant impact on the visual amenity in the area."

After hearing from him members voted by nine to five to refuse planning permission.

Paisley Daily Express 15 06 05

CONCERNED residents will have an opportunity to air their views on plans to site a mobile phone mast in the middle of a busy housing scheme.

The proposals from T-Mobile for the 12-metre pole at the junction of Brediland Road and Clippens Road are high on the agenda at this month's meeting of Linwood Community Council.

One source said the community council had already lodged an objection to plans for the pylon - which would be close to two schools and will have three antennae and associated radio equipment - as many people were concerned about its health and visual amenity implications.

It is believed there have been around 80 objections from local residents to the proposal.

"So far, no date has been given for a hearing of the application which will be decided by Renfrewshire Council," said community council secretary Iain Wilson.

The meeting is at the Tweedie Halls, Ardlamont Square , on Tuesday, June 21, at 7.30pm.

Non-members can usually - at the discretion of the chairman - take part in debates on any topic on the agenda.

Alliance Party website

14/06/2005

East Belfast Alliance Councillor, Naomi Long, has expressed her disappointment that the mobile phone mast at the junction of Cairnburn Road and Old Holywood Road will not be relocated to Belmont Park .

Following a campaign by local residents and political representatives to have the mast re-sited within Belmont Park and screened from public view, local Councillors supported a change in Council policy to permit such telecommunication equipment to be located on Council property in certain circumstances.

Cllr Long said, “As recently as January of this year, Hutchinson 3G assured me that the company was still actively exploring the relocation with Council Officers. The mast was then activated on 1 March 2003 and so I contacted Hutchinson 3G again to discuss the delay. I have now been informed that the relocation work on the mast will not be undertaken.”

“Given that the equipment will now be a permanent feature, I have sought assurances that the colour of the installation, which is particularly intrusive, will be changed.I have been advised that the base equipment will now be painted green to try to blend with other street furniture in the area, whilst the mast will be kept grey, to match the street lighting fixtures. Whilst I understand that this in no way compensates for the decision to leave the equipment in-situ, I hope that it will at least make the site less obvious for residents.

“I believe that residents and Councillors did everything possible to facilitate the Company, who initially appeared willing to pursue the relocation. Ultimately, however, the relocation relied upon the company’s willingness to undertake the necessary work. I am extremely disappointed at their decision. They had an opportunity to facilitate the wishes of the local community and instead have chosen to completely disregard it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9125.htm

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/dsmemo.pdf

The "Downing Street Memo" to David Manning from Matthew Rycroft on July 23rd 2002
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/straw020325.pdf

Memo from Jack Straw To Tony Blair March 25, 2002
Straw admits case for war in Iraq is weak, and that there is no link
between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ricketts020322.pdf

Memo from Peter Rickets March 22 2002
This memo admits that Saddam had not accelerated his WMD program.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/meyer020318.pdf

Memo from Chris Meyer To David Manning March 18 2002
"I then went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UN SORs and the critical importance of the MEPP as an integral part of the anti-Saddam strategy."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/manning020314.pdf

David Manning Memo to Tony Blair on March 14 2002, describing his trip to the US. IN this memo, Manning confirms that Condi Rice was committed to regime change in Iraq in 2002. The use of military force for regime change per se is illegal under international law and treaties to which the US is a signator.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ods020308.pdf

Memo from Overseas & Defense Secretariat March 8 2002
This memo admits that threat of WMD from Iraq had NOT increased.


Informant: Charles Bremer



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005b/061705/061705p.htm


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=ksta/page&atype=ksArtikel&aid=1118657172206&openMenu=1013016724285&calledPageId=1013016724285&listid=1018881578312


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

„Europaweit trommeln die Unternehmerverbände für eine Verlängerung und weitere Flexibilisierung der Arbeitszeiten. Sie finden willige Helfer in den meisten Regierungen der Mitgliedstaaten, der Europäischen Kommission und im Europäischen Parlament. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Europäischen Union sollen nun bestehende soziale Mindestvorschriften ausgehöhlt werden: Es geht um die Revision der EU-Arbeitszeitrichtlinie, deren bisheriges ›Mindestniveau‹ nun noch weiter unterschritten werden könnte, wenn sich nicht eine breite kritische Öffentlichkeit des Themas annimmt und die von Kommission bzw. Parlament geplanten Richtlinienentwürfe - ähnlich wie im Falle »Bolkestein« - zu Fall bringt.

Klaus Dräger berichtet über den Stand der Revisions-Verhandlungen und die geplanten Entwürfe…“ Aktualisierter Artikel von Klaus Dräger

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/eu/sopo/azricht_neu.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Ein Blick in die Wirtschaftspresse samt Einladung zur Diskussion. "Wenn Siegerländer Sozialdemokraten die dunklen Seiten des Kapitalismus entdecken, Jesuiten-Intellektuelle darob die Glaubwürdigkeit der SPD bezweifeln und dagegen eine »substanzielle Kapitalismuskritik« einfordern und die IG Metall sich ihren Reim auf die Verhältnisse mittels einer Karikatur macht, die den metaphorischen Qualitäten des »Stürmers« in nichts nachsteht, ist Aufklärung gefragt..."Artikel von Slave Cubela

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/allg/cubela.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

„Schlechter Ersatz“: Allgemeinverbindlichkeit statt gesetzlicher Mindestlohn?

„So schnell kann es gehen: Eben noch hatte die Regierung, um die populistische Kapitalismusschelte der SPD nicht völlig konsequenzlos aussehen zu lassen, beschlossen, das Entsendegesetz auszuweiten, da ist nach verlorener NRW-Wahl und angesichts der Neuwahl des Bundestags schon wieder fraglich, ob dieser Vorschlag es noch in den Rang einer Gesetzesinitiative schafft. Auch die Unternehmerlobbies, die gleich »Achtung Massenarbeitslosigkeit!« riefen, haben längst wieder das Thema gewechselt…“ Artikel von K. Schmid

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/kombilohn/ersatz.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Nach der Wahl ist grad’ egal? Eher Kontinuität als Zäsur: Das Ende von Rot-Grün und die Gewerkschaften

„Es gab wohl keine wichtige Landtagswahl, die so schnell publizistisch abgewickelt wurde wie die NRW-Wahl 2005. Schröder macht's möglich - zum letzten Mal vermutlich, denn im September ist aller Voraussicht nach Schicht. Nicht gestürzt durch eine mächtige soziale Protestbewegung, sondern gestolpert über eine Zahl. Mehr als fünf Millionen Arbeitslose auf Grund einer Fehlkalkulation der Hartz IV-Strategen, dies war dann doch etwas zuviel. Wer wie Schröder dauernd betont, es gebe keine Alternativen, er könne »keine andere Politik«, und dazu eine penetrante Verflachung und Personalisierung der öffentlichen Debatte betreibt, braucht sich eigentlich nicht wundern, wenn am Ende zwar kein prinzipiell anderes Programm, aber ein neues Gesicht gewählt wird. Wenn nichts gravierendes dazwischen kommt, regiert also ab Oktober die CDU alleine, in einer Koalition mit der FDP oder in einer Großen Koalition mit der SPD als Juniorpartner…“ Artikel von R. Müller

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/gewerkschaft/real/rotgruen_rm.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Vom Unternehmergeist zu Solidar-Netzwerken. Der Mailänder Soziologe Sergio Bologna über das Phänomen der Neuen Selbständigen und Chancen der Selbstorganisation. Das Buch des Mailänder Soziologen Sergio Bologna "Die Zerstörung der Mittelschichten. Thesen zur Neuen Selbständigkeit" erscheint im Herbst auf Deutsch. Am 26. 4. 19 Uhr hielt Bologna einen Vortrag zum Thema im ÖGB Seminarzentrum Strudlhof in Wien, MALMOE hat vorab ein Interview mit ihm geführt:

http://www.malmoe.org/artikel/verdienen/886


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Bewertung vom Vorbereitungskreis Euromayday Hamburg in ak - Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis Nr. 495 vom 20.5.2005 (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/hh05ak.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Vorschläge für eine gerechte und solidarische Gesellschaft des „Arbeitslosenverband Deutschland e. V.“ vom 13.06.2005. (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/alv_130605.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

In dem Artikel werden die Haushalteinkommen mit Hartz IV (Regelsätze + mögliche Zuschläge/Mehrbedarfe + übernommene "angemessene" Unterkunfts-/Heizungskosten gemäß Hartz IV / SGB II) den Armutsgrenzen (relative Einkommensarmut) des 2. Nationalen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung gegenüber gestellt. Es soll nachgewiesen werden, dass Hartz IV Armut per Gesetz bedeutet. Artikel von Ronald Blaschke, Arbeitslosenverband Deutschland, Sächsische Armutskonferenz, vom Juni 2005. (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/armutsgrenzen.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

Ebenfalls bei Tacheles e.V. ist der Aufsatz von Dr. Bertram Zwanziger, Richter am Bundesarbeitsgericht, mit dem obrigen Titel verlinkt. Der Aufsatz ist zuerst bei „Arbeit und Recht“ im Heft 1/2005 erschienen. In dem Aufsatz werden grundlegende Fragen zur Ausgestaltung der Rechte und Pflichten der Betroffenen in der EinV und gegenüber der Einsatzstelle rausgearbeitet.

http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2005/zwanziger.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 9

With democratic elections either recently held or soon to take place in Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Ukraine, and Georgia, a fight over foreign policy bragging rights has broken out, the likes of which has not been seen since the debate over whether Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev deserved more credit for demolishing the Soviet Union. As in that earlier contest, when it comes to the sources of today's democratic resurgence, history's first draft has already degenerated into competing black-and-white cartoons.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3564

June 14, 2005

A few weeks ago, CODEPINK joined together with other groups to form the After Downing Street coalition in order to publicize the shocking Downing Street memo. This memo shows the Bush administration's determination to invade Iraq even though Iraq posed no threat to us, and its decision to "fix" intelligence data to justify the case for invasion. With more than 100,000 deaths, over $300 billion tax dollars spent, and a severely tarnished international reputation, we, the American people, must now ensure that those in charge are held accountable. The Downing Street memo presents a unique opportunity to do that and we need your help.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=1&url=http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?list=type&type=64
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=2&url=http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=361

Here are important ways you can help:

1. Sign Rep. Conyers petition and get your congressional Rep to sign as well. Shortly after the May 1st leak of the memo, Rep. John Conyers sent a letter to George W. Bush asking for an explanation. To date, more than 100 of his congressional colleagues have also signed on. Please urge your congressperson to join! (See link below to send a letter to your Rep.) If you have not already signed the letter yourself (over 500,000 people have!), or if you are willing to send the letter to friends for their signature, click here.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=3&url=http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=66

2. Pressure your Congressional Representative to join this effort. On Thursday, Rep. Conyers will hold a public hearing to look into the constitutional questions raised by the memo. Directly following the hearing, Rep. Conyers, together with other members of Congress and concerned citizens (including CODEPINK ), will go to the White House to hand deliver the letter with the 500,000 signatures! Send your Rep an email letter urging him or her to: a) sign on to Conyers' petition letter, b) attend the June 16 hearing on the Downing Street Minutes, and c) support a resolution of inquiry into impeacheable offenses. Please email your Rep today and ask him or her to do the right thing! Spread the word!
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=4&url=http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=860

If you are in the DC area, come join us at the June 16 Hearing and Rally in Lafayette Park.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=5&url=http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=178

3. Pressure your media to cover the hearing and the memo itself. The White House would love to see this memo fade away, and so would much of the mainstream press! Let's force them to cover the issue. Contact your local media. Click here for action ideas, sample letters to the editor, press releases and op-eds.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=19751589&url_num=6&url=http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=362

The way we see it, this memo shows that the Bush administration has engaged in a conspiracy to deceive Congress and the American people about the reasons for going to war. That constitutes a High Crime, and grounds for impeachment. While it is highly unlikely that a Republican Congress will impeach George Bush, it is critical for us to push the process and to educate the American people about the lies that sucked us into this quagmire in Iraq. Let's ride the Downing Street wave as far as we can take it!

With a passion for truth,

Dana, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Rae, and Tiffany



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0614-27.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=114487&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28084


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050612-095948-2374r.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12511&l=i&size=1&hd=0
http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=15061&catcode=13


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.yuricareport.com/PrisonerTortureDirectory/ACLU_EmailsReleased.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/chris-mooney/the-stories-behind-the-st_2356.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5455274.html?SID=7r1vmudqpsbjnh8p5586vu4jc1


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=6/14/2005&Cat=14&Num=001


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12533&l=i&size=1&hd=0


Informant: Charles Bremer


http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=85364;show_parent=1

http://www.williambowles.info/iraq/2005/bolton_fires_bustani.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100566.html


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http://www.apfn.org/apfn/peoplescourt.htm



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From ufpj-news

06/14/05

Mid-May saw the leak of the so-called Downing Street Memo written by high-level British national security officials offering textual proof of what those of us who've been paying attention have long suspected: The Bush administration was determined to invade Iraq almost immediately after September 11, and the whole business with WMD, UN inspections, and so forth was just so much kabuki theater designed to lay the groundwork for a policy whose true motives lay elsewhere. This weekend, a second memo, leaked to the Times of London, provided further background. The British government, it seems, had committed itself to joining the United States in this war and was rather gravely concerned that the policy to which it had committed itself violated international law, making it necessary to design an appropriate pretext...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9838

from The American Prospect, by Matthew Yglesias


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Almost everyone recognizes that government can perpetrate great evils. One has only to think of the regimes of Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot, three of the most hideous examples. But government is also widely regarded as a potential source of great good. Even Ludwig von Mises, an archenemy of statism, declared that government is 'the most necessary and beneficial institution, as without it no lasting social cooperation and no civilization could be developed and preserved.' How can people enjoy the benefits of government while avoiding the dangers? Upon what principles must a tolerable government be built?" (written 1991; reposted 06/14/05)

http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=2459

from Foundation for Economic Education, by Robert Higgs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

As long as the crybabies in Washington keep dropping their pacifiers -- they are incapable of getting anything accomplished past their whining. I have pondered the verbal melee, and never-ending daily attack between both political parties, and I have arrived at one conclusion: it's time to form a third viable party and let the whiners have at it ... at their own expense. The country has suffered long enough without further ado. We need a 'People's Party' to take back our rights that have been stomped in the ground by politically driven, self-serving politicians who 'lord' themselves over the people, instead of leading them to a better, safer environment...

http://tinyurl.com/9lf2l

from Frontiers of Freedom, by Kaye Grogan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

Progressivism will never again succeed in America until we begin to understand Americans at the level of their psychological functions, and start addressing not just their rational, material and moral needs, but their deeper emotional requisites, as well. Bush, and his movement of the American bunker, understand this well. Indeed, they must, for they cannot deliver at any other level, and they can only pretend to even deliver at the emotional level by creating conditions of heightened fear and focused rage which barely cover their myriad policy failures...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0614-31.htm

from Common Dreams, by David Michael Green


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

It's one thing to knock off a tin-pot dictator with limited weaponry and a less-than-loyal army. It's another to force an ethnically and religiously divided nation to a democratic state by outside military force. In its preparations to win the war, it seems the Bush administration failed to come up with a battle plan sufficient to win the peace...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/228303_iraqed.asp#pollArticle

from Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by staff


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

The draft is coming and it isn't my objective to argue the merits of the induction morality. I'm only offering a 'what to expect' tutorial. Americans can expect the induction process to commence very shortly, and it makes no difference what the politicians have promised you about the draft. The generals at the Pentagon are starting to gripe at Congress about manpower needs and that is the tiny signal that we all should have been listening for. Get ready, because here the draft comes...

http://www.unknownnews.org/050614a-dn.html

from Unknown News, by Don Nash


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

The mainstream media in the US are increasingly reporting on pessimism in high places in the US military over ever 'winning' in Iraq. Even the Pentagon's news roundup is gloomy. No surprise, then, that Americans, too, are having serious second thoughts...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF15Ak03.html

from Asia Times, by Jim Lobe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Acts of hope: Challenging empire on the world stage

06/14/05

A lot of activists expect that for every action there is an equal and opposite and punctual reaction, and regard the lack of one as failure. After all, activism is often a reaction: Bush decides to invade Iraq, we create a global peace movement in which 10 to 30 million people march on seven continents on the same weekend. But history is shaped by the groundswells and common dreams that single acts and moments only represent. It's a landscape more complicated than commensurate cause and effect. Politics is a surface in which transformation comes about as much because of pervasive changes in the depths of the collective imagination as because of visible acts, though both are necessary. And though huge causes sometimes have little effect, tiny ones occasionally have huge consequences...

http://tinyurl.com/c8gr5

from Mother Jones, by Rebecca Solnit


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/15/05

The indictment of Larry Franklin, the 58-year-old analyst who headed up the Pentagon's Iran desk, marks a milestone in the FBI's four-year-plus probe into Israel's covert activities in the U.S. The investigation predates 9/11 and involves some of the leading figures associated with planning and agitating for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The players: a hardline faction of the administration committed to 'regime change' not only in Iraq, but throughout the Middle East. Skilled at the art of bureaucratic infighting and relentlessly determined, even as the neocons' plan for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was being implemented they were planning to put the next phase of their grand plan for the Middle East into operation: a confrontation with Iran...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6316

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/14/05

Conservative groups have found common ground with the liberal American Civil Liberties Union in their opposition to the USA Patriot Act and pledge to wage a high-profile fight against it, claiming even its renewal is shrouded in secrecy...

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050614-121304-2787r.htm

from Washington Times


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.livescience.com/technology/050614_baby_waves.html


Informant: Jerry Decker

In Paul Wolfowitz, messianic vision meets faith in the efficacy of force.

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_06_06/article1.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/zeese4.html



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Contact C-SPAN Now! Conyers Congressional hearing at 1:30pm THURSDAY!!!

Click on this URL to take action now
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/utr/2/?a=7718871&i=68780946

The DSM hearing is at 1pm in the DNC headquarters. The rally is at 5pm in Lafayette Park. C-SPAN should cover these events. Please call and write them, and ask them to do so:

Main Number: (202) 737-3220
Viewer Services: (765) 464-3080 (for programming questions)
events@c-span.org

We got this done for the Conyers Ohio hearings. We need to do it again.


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June 15, 2005

Please cover this event! This is an important event about our Democracy and why we went to war in Iraq. The information is below:

On Thursday June 16, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. in the Wasserman Room at 430 S Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and other Congress Members will hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.

The hearings are being held at the Democratic National Committee because the Republicans controlling the House Judiciary Committee refused to permit the ranking Democratic Member to use a room on the Hill.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/index.html

Nonetheless, Republicans are welcome to attend.

Later on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square Park, in front of the White House, a large rally will support Congressman Conyers who plans to deliver to the White House a letter addressed to President Bush and signed by over 500,000 Americans and at least 94 Congress Members. The letter asks the President to respond to questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes.

Among those speaking at the hearings will be: Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert; Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular Presidential briefings during the Reagan administration; Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen American soldier; John Bonifaz, renowned constitutional lawyer and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org.

Among those speaking at the rally will be: Congressman Conyers and various other Congress Members, Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace, John Bonifaz of AfterDowningStreet.org, Ray McGovern former CIA analyst, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of Progressive Democrats of America, Stephen Cleghorn of Military Families Speak Out, Kevin Zeese, Director of Democracy Rising. More information, and flyers promoting the rally, are available at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org


Informant: Jack Topel



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The Network of Concerned Farmers (NCF) today released a comprehensive presentation titled "Beyond the Bulldust of Genetically Modified Crops – the Case for Strict Liability" in both DVD and video format. The presentation details the specific GM benefit, alternatives, risks and the risk management needed to manage this controversial crop.

"We have given specific referenced detail why agronomically and economically GM canola will fail to benefit Australian farmers," said Mrs Newman, the author of the presentation and national spokesperson for the NCF. "We have also explained how and why GM crops are being rammed down the throats of farmers and reluctant consumers."

The Network of Concerned Farmers (NCF), an alliance of conventional and organic farmers throughout Australia are pushing for fair risk management as they wish to maintain the right to market an uncontaminated consumer preferred non-GM product. These farmers are insisting on a strict liability regime to ensure farmers are compensated by the GM companies for any economic loss associated with GM crops.

Despite the West Australian moratorium banning the commercial release of genetically modified crops, there has recently been Federal GM wheat trials planted in Corrigin, WA. Farmers themselves are the main investors in this technology through a company called Council of Grain Growers Organisation (COGGO) who have funded the development of a GM salt tolerant wheat.

"Our wheat customers do not want GM wheat or any trace of it and yet it is possible that pollen could remain viable for up to half an hour on the wind. These trails need wind buffers in order to prevent pollen travelling during flowering time."

"If the GM companies were liable for economic loss, they would be far more careful."

"Greed, ignorance and arrogance is no excuse to deny fair risk management.

There are good reasons why consumers are rejecting GM products but if farmers do not have a choice, consumers will not either," explained Mrs Newman.

The launch was held at Parliament House in Perth and farmers have commenced distributing the presentation to key politicians and others involved in the GM debate with an aim to influence both State and Federal legislation to adopt a strict liability regime.

Contact:

Julie Newman - West Australia 08 98711562 or 08 98711644

http://www.monthlyreview.org/0505macdougall.htm


Informant: Michael Novick

Help Rep. Conyers Find Out What Really Happened

We all thought that Bush was lying when he said that we had to invade Iraq because of 9/11 and Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Well, now we have proof. A British journalist uncovered a memo to Tony Blair from his chief of foreign intelligence written after a series of high-level meetings in Washington back in July of 2002—months before Colin Powell’s famous presentation to the United Nations.

Basically, the memo states that the Bush administration was set on ousting Saddam Hussein despite the circumstances. However, since that would violate international law, the administration planned on using terrorism and WMDs as the pretext, even if the facts didn’t support it. You can read the entire memo here http://action.truemajority.org/ct/P1AU4VF1KzxJ/,

but these are a few of my favorite lines:

"It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action...but the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran." In another section, the intelligence advisor writes: "But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

That’s a smoking gun if I’ve ever smelled one. While administration officials filled the airwaves talking about the need to remove Saddam because of his WMDs and his being an imminent threat, they were confiding to their closest ally that that really wasn’t true. Apparently Tony Blair deserved the truth but the American people didn’t.

Rep. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress sent a letter to the president asking five straightforward questions about the memo (see them below). Their request has been met with stony silence. Rep. Conyers is asking the American people to join him as he tries to get some answers, by signing the letter yourselves. If you are a member of TrueMajority, you can sign the letter by simply hitting “Reply” and “Send,” and we’ll add your name. If you were forwarded this e-mail or would like to read the full text of the letter, simply click here: http://action.truemajority.org/ct/P1AU4VF1KzxJ/

http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/DowningStreetMemo

Rep. Conyers is holding a hearing on this issue on Thursday, June 16th, so please take action and urge your friends to do the same before then.

Thanks for seeking the truth,

Andrew Greenblatt
Online Organizer

You can read the entire letter and the Downing Street Memo click here. http://action.truemajority.org/ct/P1AU4VF1KzxJ/

Here are the five questions in the letter:

1) Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?

2) Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?

3) Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?

4) At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?

5) Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?

Resolution of Inquiry
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Informant: Carol Wolman


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Informant: Kev Hall