http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062705N.shtml


Informant: Hopedance

Thank you Andy and Sylvia,

I am most interested in your theory about DECT phones. When did they first appear?

There have been alot of cases of cancer near where I was yesterday, but these started long before I came to Kensworth. One lady had cancer of the breast and said it was a radio aerial causing it, but there is no aerial where she said it was, but there is one about 300 yards away and of course that was there long before 2001 when the Orange mast was erected.

The same lady told me that there had been about six other cases of cancer in the same road (in fact I had spoken to a lady previously whose husband had had cancer of the jaw - they live opposite the lady with breast cancer). There have also been animals effected nearby- three dogs 1. cancer of mouth. 1. area unknown. 1. small growths appearing on paws which owner has removed by the vet.

Change of subject. I am reading a very interesting book (loaned by Phil Watts, thank you Phil!) The Zapping of America, which gives detailed info re Pandora and the American Embassy etc. The symptom of raised white bloodcell count experienced there made me ask victims in Kensworth to get there white bloodcell count checked last year, but none of them have done it. I found out about two cases 100 metres from the mast last year - the doctors can find no reason for the symptom as there is no infection. How about everyone affected getting their white cell count checked? I thought if there is a high number of cases it may be evidence to use in appeals.

This is the sort of thing the Dept of Health should be looking at instead of spending £10,000,000 on more lab tests.

What does everyone think?

Best regards,

Gill Lyden

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Gill

Andy Marino wrote this in 1995:
http://www.ortho.lsuhsc.edu/Faculty/Marino/Papers/102Hematology.pdf

Elevated white blood cell count was also a feature of the Skrunda study. And once again, there is direct association between white cells and nitric oxide production.

This is not an exclusive feature to microwave masts, but EMF in general at low modulation frequencies, which includes power lines.

And yes, this kind of assessment needs to be made over time among people in mast-exposure environments, but it does require that the sources also be removed/switched off for a period as well. Can it really be more expensive to switch some masts off while assessing the "recovery period", than setting up expensive lab operations??

Andy



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster

Wir bitten um kurzfristige Berücksichtigung des folgenden Veranstaltungshinweises:

Auftaktveranstaltung zum bayerischen Mobilfunkvolksbegehren
(Eintragungsfrist 5.-18. Juli!) in Augsburg:

WELCHE GEFAHREN BRINGT DIE MOBILFUNKTECHNIK MIT SICH?

Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005, 19:30 Uhr im Zeughaus in Augsburg (Hollsaal)

Referent: Hans Schütz (Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e.V., Netzwerk mobilfunkkritischer Initiativen im Pfaffenwinkel)
Im Anschluss Diskussion zur Thematik und zum Volksbegehren!

Die Veranstaltung ist hervorragend geeignet, sich ganz allgemein über die Mobilfunkproblematik und speziell das entsprechende Volksbegehren zu informieren. Insbesondere Eltern und auch Jugendlichen können wir den Besuch der Veranstaltung wärmstens empfehlen, da Herr Schütz als erfahrener Pädagoge sehr anschaulich und leicht verständlich referiert!

*** Bitte noch schnell weitersagen! ***

Nähere Infos zum Volksbegehren:
http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de/
http://www.aktionsbuendnis-mobilfunkvolksbegehren-augsburg.de/

Bitte gehen Sie unbedingt während der Öffnungszeiten in eines der Eintragungslokale!!!

Auch wenn es sich hier (d.h. bei den Zielen des Volksbegehrens) nur um den berühmten "Tropfen auf den heißen Stein" handelt, der das Kernproblem der heutigen Mobilfunktechniken bei weitem noch nicht löst ... entscheidende Politiker könnten durch Volkes Stimme aber endlich mal massiv wachgerüttelt werden und möglicherweise dann auch weitergehende Verbesserungen zugunsten unserer Gesundheit auf den Weg bringen ...

Herzlichen Gruß

esmog augsburg
Bürgervereinigung zum Schutz der Menschen
vor den Gesundheitsrisiken des Mobilfunks
(Sprecher: E. Winkler, H. Zwick)
Postfach 431173
86071 Augsburg
Telefon 0941/599286150
Telefax 0941/599286150
E-Mail info@esmog-augsburg.de
Homepage http://www.esmog-augsburg.de

Liebe Nachbarn, sehr geehrte Newsletterabonnenten,

in der Anlage finden Sie die Termine der Dachauer Veranstaltungen zum Volksbegehren "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". Die 2-wöchige Eintragungsfrist beginnt am Dienstag den 5. Juli. Wir bitten Sie bei den Veranstaltungen mitzumachen und sich bei den Rathäusern einzutragen, um die erforderliche 10% Hürde zu erreichen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

BV gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd, am Heideweg.
http://www.mobilfunk-dachau.de

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Aktionskreis Dachau, Günter Kaltner, Holzgartenstraße 15, 85221 Dachau, Tel. 08131/84151 - Fax 08131/84163

Pressemitteilung

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Anbei übersende ich Ihnen die Übersicht sämtlicher Termine des Volksbegehrens „Für Gesundheit beim Mobilfunk“, Aktionskreis Dachau.

1. Das Volksbegehren findet zwischen dem 5. und 18. Juli in ganz Bayern statt.
2. Seit 26.6.2005 werden im Landkreis Dachau flächendeckend Benachrichtigungskarten verteilt.
3. Ab 3.7.2005 werden im Landkreis Dachau auch flächendeckend Flyer verteilt.
4. Ab 26.6.2005 werden im Landkreis ca. 250 (inkl. 100 Plakatständer in Dachau) aufgestellt.
5. Termine auf den Dachauer Wochenmärkten:
Mittwoch 6. Juli 2005 Altstadt 9.00 – 11.30 Uhr
Freitag 8. Juli 2005 vormittag Untere Stadt 9.00 - 11.30 Uhr
Freitag 8. Juli 2005 nachmittag Dachau Ost 14.00 - 16.30 Uhr
Samstag 9. Juli 2005 Altstadt 9.00 – 12.00 Uhr
Mittwoch 13. Juli 2005 Altstadt 9.00 – 11.30 Uhr
Freitag 15. Juli 2005 vormittag Untere Stadt 9.00 – 11.30 Uhr
Freitag 15. Juli 2005 nachmittag Dachau-Ost 14.00 - 16.30 Uhr
Samstag 16. Juli 2005 Altstadt 9.00 – 12.00 Uhr
6. 2 Veranstaltungen sind am 4. Juli 2005 um 20.00 Uhr in Dachau-Pellheim, Gasthof Liegsalz von der ÜB Dachau (gesonderte Pressemeldung der ÜB Dachau und Plakat im Anhang ) und am 7. Juli 2005 im Gasthof Zieglerbräu, Zieglerveranda mit ÖDP-Bundesvorsitzenden Professor Buchner, (gesonderte Pressemitteilung durch Hr. Heim und Plakat im Anhang)
7. Die Zwischenstände des Volksbegehrens werden Ihnen von Frau Doris Krampfl am 6. , 8., 12., 14. und am 16.7.2005 mitgeteilt.
8. Die Öffnungszeiten der einzelnen Gemeinden werden noch mitgeteilt, da diese etwas abweichen können.

Sollten noch Fragen zu dem Volksbegehren, Termine usw. offen sein, können Sie mich unter 08131/84151 anrufen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Günter Kaltner

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Informationen zum Volksbegehren und Macht Mobilfunk krank?

Kostenlose Messungen von mitgebrachten schnurlosen Telefonen und Handy’s

Informationsveranstaltung mit stellv. ödp-Kreisvorsitzenden Doris Krampfl und ÜB-Mitglied und Baubiologen Günter Kaltner

Montag, 4.Juli 20:00 Uhr

Gasthof Liegsalz, Dachau-Pellheim, Dorfstraße 6

V.i.S.d.P: "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" –
Aktionskreis Dachau; c/oGünter Kaltner, Holzgartenstraße 15, 85221 Dachau

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Macht Mobilfunk krank ?

Informationsveranstaltung mit dem ödp-Bundesvorsitzenden Prof. Klaus Buchner

Donnerstag, 7.Juli 20:00 Uhr
Dachau, Zieglerbräu („Veranda“)
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 8

V.i.S.d.P: "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" –
Aktionskreis Dachau; c/oGünter Kaltner, Holzgartenstraße 15, 85221 Dachau

http://www.nwf.org/news/story.cfm?pageId=7C28ADA8-65BF-09FE-BA5E60EA98E1DE5A


Informant: Andy Caffrey

For eurocrats in Brussels, it's foremost a question of economics and
not security.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20394/1.html

"Dieses Tribunal wird nicht unbeachtet bleiben"

In Istanbul berieten Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Intellektuelle
drei Tage lang über den Krieg in Irak.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20409/1.html

PO Box 656
Sparks, NV 89432
(775) 356-9009
info@mothersagainstthedraft.org


Please forward this message to your family and friends!

For Immediate Release

June 28, 2005

Stealth Recruiting Database by Pentagon Violates Parental Rights and Student Privacy

MAD OFFERS OPT-OUT FORMS TO PARENTS

Last weeks revelation that the Pentagon hired an outside marketing firm to compile an extensive database of high school and college age students who meet minimum requirements for military service has earned the scrutiny of privacy rights advocates and the anger of moms across the country.

The Pentagon has violated the law and infringed on parental rights by compiling an extensive database of personal information on American teenagers, charges the chairman of a national anti-conscription movement.

“We’re outraged by the Pentagon’s predatory and illegal actions,” stated Janine Hansen, Chairman of Mothers Against the Draft (MAD). “Particularly troubling is the fact that the Pentagon compiled this massive, centralized database in secrecy, and has been using it for three years before giving public notice as required by the Privacy Act.”

The Joint Advertising and Market Research Recruiting Database (JAMRS), created with the aid of a private marketing firm, contains extensive information on 30 million young Americans between the ages of 16 to 25. Updated daily with new records, JAMRS includes such information as social security number, ethnicity, grade point average, areas of study, height, weight, postal and email address, selective service registration, and phone number.

“The very existence of the database is an unlawful and unwarranted violation of the privacy rights of our children,” declared Debbie Hopper, MAD’s Vice Chairman. “It’s also a clear warning to every mother in America that the Department of Defense, desperate to fill boots on the ground in Iraq , is more than willing to circumvent the law to ensure that no child is left un-recruited.”

“The military manpower problem is real and significant,” said Hansen. “When there aren’t enough volunteers, Congress is left with few choices. They can significantly raise taxes to support a mercenary force, change our foreign policy and reduce our overseas military commitments, or resort to the draft or some other form of compulsory national service to fill the gap.”

“We’re not anticipating a military draft like what we saw during the Vietnam War,” said Hopper. “We think it far more likely that we’ll see legislation mandating two years of ‘national service’ for all young men and women, perhaps coupled with a skills draft of older citizens who are doctors, nurses, EMT’s, Arabic linguists, and others who possess ‘special skills’ sorely needed by the military.”

“Conditions are growing ripe for such a push,” said Hansen. “It’s time for Congress to stop dodging the draft issue. The mothers of American have an absolute right to know if our elected representatives support a draft or other forms of involuntary national service. And our representatives have an absolute duty to tell us the truth.”

Parents can take action to protect their children’s privacy by submitting a request in writing to the Joint Advertising and Mark et Research Study Office. Opt-out forms and mailing instructions are available on MAD’s website at http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org .

For more information or to arrange an interview with Janine Hansen, Chairman of MAD please call 775-356-9009. To interview Debbie Hopper, MAD Vice Chairman, please call 636-861-7052.

by Don Kraus, TomPaine.com

If the president cares about his legacy, he will nominate a U.N. ambassador with a reputation for cooperation, not contention.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050628/lose_a_bully_gain_a_legacy.php

by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com

Tonight, President Bush will tell the nation we must stay the course. One outspoken general knows that's losing advice.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050628/stay_the_crooked_course.php

http://www.writersblog.de/broeckers/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BCFFD553-E3DE-1186-A562426F3D23C2D1
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/3528/Big_Media_Interlocks_with_Corporate_America

http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=6466


Informant: Chris

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6654


From ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space

http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking35.htm


Informant: DitziSis

You've heard it plenty of times: The Saudis are exporting Islamist militancy throughout the Middle East and beyond, and Americans are picking up the tab, with the $30 billion we spend annually on Saudi oil helping to finance fundamentalist mosques and madrassas. "We are financing both sides in the war on terrorism," observed Thomas L. Friedman in a March New York Times column. And we're doing so faster than ever, because oil now fetches nearly $60 a barrel--more than twice the pre-September 11 price. The only solution, experts say, is to spend less on fossil fuel and more on renewable energy--a double whammy of environmentalism and power politics that Friedman has dubbed the "geo-green strategy." Cutting dependence on foreign oil is "America's best weapon against terrorism," argues the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (a hawkish think tank whose energy proposals have been backed by green groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council). The group says it would "invalidate the social contract between the leaders and their people and stem the flow of resources to the religious establishment."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3743

No one would support a crime bill that didn't mention murder, a Social Security bill that said nothing about benefits, or an anti-terrorism bill without provisions concerning the capture of terrorists. But, this week, the Senate is debating the equivalent, as it considers an omnibus energy bill that says nothing about the number-one problem in U.S. energy policy: rising petroleum consumption by cars, SUVs, and trucks. This issue swamps all other energy policy concerns combined. Yet the administration's energy bill, more than four years in the making, does absolutely nothing to mandate or even encourage higher miles-per-gallon (MPG) performance by U.S. vehicles. This makes the energy bill one of the most preposterous pieces of major legislation ever seriously considered by the U.S. Congress, which, we realize, is saying a lot.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3737

The all-volunteer Army is not working. The problem with such an Army is that there are limited numbers of people who will freely choose to participate in an enterprise in which they may well be shot, blown up, burned to death or suffer some other excruciating fate.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3735

G8--Our Agenda - "Our World Working For All Of Us"

Please forward to your contacts

This gathering could turn out to be the biggest ever, bigger than Woodstock or the Isle of White both in size and significance – an ocean of humanity expressing the cry from deep in the heart of our generation for a better way of running the anthill that is our global culture – each of us a drop in that ocean.

"Each and every drop entering the ocean immediately becomes the ocean"

Why are we demonstrating at the G8?

What is it really all about?

What do we realistically hope to achieve?

What is possible in the realpolitik?

Africa, global warming, third world debt, Iraq etc are only symptoms, a metaphor for what we are all dissatisfied about.

Africa and the other issues expose the lack of integrity that is driving and has driven global behavior for thousands of years both in the macro of global trade and in the micro of our individual relationships with each other.

When I look in the mirror, I can see all the garbage of this world operating within me also as I conduct my life in the daily scramble to survive another day on this spinning lump of rock.

How do I interact with my neighbors and friends? - Global peace begins right here with me and then spills out radiating throughout the global culture.

The beauty of these times is that there is no escape from this reality anymore. Extinction is the only way out. Either we face our issues individually and globally or our civilisation will cease to exist.

Live 8 @ the G8 is the heart of the people crying out for something different, a new way of operating. Each of us is a single blade of grass cracking the concrete. This has been building for a long time since the first wave in the sixties -- it now comes of age.

It is important that we operate in this situation with the consciousness of "the journey is the destination".

The issues that we are addressing are ignorance - fear, selfishness, and the resulting dishonesty. What is important is that we understand that this is an evolutionary moment; it is in innocence, that the human race is where it is.

Down from the trees, but not yet walking upright. We are monkeys barely out of the jungle squeezing this amazing civilisation out of the rocks.

We must move beyond finger pointing, blame, and demonisation. Move beyond "protesting against" to "demonstrating FOR"

Say Yes To Peace
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/yes1/index.html

We must leave the "Them and Us" paradigm back in the second millennium where it has already created too much havoc. The time has come for us to move together in partnership for:

"Our world working for all of us without exception"

In my opinion, this is what we are demonstrating about.

If we go to Edinburgh with hatred, negativity and blame in our hearts and minds, we will be part of the problem, not the solution.The result will be more of the same if not worse.

""You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink"
BUT ………. You can sprinkle salt in its food.

We must truly "BE THE CHANGE that we want to see in the world" – BE IT NOW!

Each and every breath – Remember, honey is sweeter and more attractive than vinegar.

We are Dancing our Dream of a better world Awake into Reality.

Bring CHALK to Edinburgh – express yourselves for all to see. Bring extra CHALK to share with others:

Chalk4Peace
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk/index.html

Message in a bottle
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk/message/index.html

Bring musical instruments, noisemakers lets create the biggest band ever http://www.infinitepossibility.org/magic/index.html

"WHEN WE THE PEOPLE LEAD, OUR LEADERS FOLLOW" - They have to.

Social Acupuncture

"changing our world by changing our conversation"

Activism for the new millennium "when the conversation reaches critical mass, it transforms into ACTION".

http://www.infinitepossibility.org/sa/index.html

See you all in Edinburgh

I am looking for a someone with a broadcast quality camera for a documentary project – e mail me privately if you are going to be at the G8 gathering and are interested in a possible collaboration.

Brian
viziondanz@gmail.com


"there is nothing wrong with our world, we are just having a weird conversation – Reclaim the Conversation – Our New World Order IS Love".

http://www.infinitepossibility.org

UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

„Schily-Pläne werden realisiert: Flüchtlingslager in Nordafrika im Aufbau. Auswahl billiger Arbeitskräfte für EU angestrebt. Schnellboote und High-Tech-Gerät zur Überwachung aus der BRD. Die libysche Grenzpolizei wird einem EU-Kommando unter deutscher Beteiligung zugeordnet und soll afrikanische Migranten im Mittelmeer abfangen…“

Junge Welt-Bericht vom 25.06.2005
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-25/014.php

Die Meldung in der jungen Welt bezieht sich auf einen ausführlicheren, deutschsprachigen Bericht von „German Foreign Policy“ vom 24.06.2005

http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/news/art/2005/54189.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 17

Ver.di hat bislang keine klare Position - einige Basisgewerkschafter aber sehr wohl.

Ein Interview von Hans-Gerd Öfinger mit Marcel Bathis, Sprecher der ver.di-Vertrauensleute bei der Frankfurter Rundschau, in junge Welt vom 25.06.2005.

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-25/021.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 17

Erwiderung von Antonin Dick vom 26. Juni 2005 auf den bei LabourNet veröffentlichten Diskussionsbeitrag von Rainer Göckler zu seiner Kritik an dem von ihm vorgelegten Text zum sogenannten Fallmanagement. (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/adokkupation2.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 17

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/DA4EF104B10C3D270525702D0061DE41?Opendocument


From Global Network

Thought you may find this of interest from May edition 2004 of WDDTY vol 15. no 2.

Wireless microwaves and health.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/873p9


Gary

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6455


Informant: Kev Hall

06/27/05

Is it just me, or is Vice President Cheney, who repeated Thursday that the Iraq insurgency is in its final throes, starting to sound like former Saddam spokesman 'Baghdad Bob?' Is it time to start calling him 'D.C. Dick?' Yesterday, after a week of serious criticism, for claiming that the insurgency in Iraq was in its 'last throes,' Cheney refused to back down, even after Gen. John Abizaid, our top military commander for the Middle East, proclaimed that the insurgency, in fact, was as strong as ever, and 'a lot of work' remained to be done to defeat it. ... Yet Cheney said on Thursday, 'If you look at what the dictionary says about 'throes,' it can still be a violent period.' He compared this time to the end of World War II when tough battles 'occurred just a few months before the end. I see this as a similar situation.' Give this man a beret!

http://tinyurl.com/ddpv2

from Editor and Publisher, by Greg Mitchell


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

No matter what comes out, we are surrounded by a smug arrogance, a self-righteous 'defense' that says, 'My country can do no wrong.' In the air is a firm and determined premise: If 'My' country does it, it automatically becomes right and justifiable. Too often, those of us who demand we act in accord with our constitution, international law, common decency, and the values laid down by our founding fathers are accused of 'treason'...

http://www.counterpunch.org/saavedra06272005.html

from CounterPunch, by Leigh Saavedra


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

Right now, the Constitution is under an unprecedented assault. In recent times, we have seen the anti-First Amendment law known as the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, Supreme Court assaults on the Fifth and Tenth Amendments, and more assaults on the Second Amendment than we can possibly count. This blog will be a venue for us to chronicle the actions of those who would trample our Constitutional rights in the name of political expediency. We will also be making an effort to coordinate contact with elected officials to let them know that we do not appreciate the paths our government has taken in recent times...

http://constitutiondeathpool.blogspot.com/

from Constitution Death Pool, by "Vic" -- Hat Tip to War on Guns blog


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Th[e] decision in the Kelo v. New London case is another giant step toward classical corporatism or fascism in America. In this case the city council of New London, CT, decided to condemn and take the homes and businesses of a number of citizens, including the Derys and Susette Kelo, who filed the case, in the name of economic development. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows governments to take property by eminent domain, as long as just compensation is paid, but only for public uses. These uses have always been understood to be necessary government-provided infrastructure such as courthouses or roads. Otherwise, property should be sacrosanct. Individuals, businesses or governments might seek to purchase it, but if the owner does not wish to sell, that is his or her right -- meaning one need not secure the permission or blessing of neighbors, government or 'society' to own property. But in recent decades politicians have made increasingly brazen elitist attempts to remodel our lives and communities." (06/27/05)

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050626-114348-5675r.htm

from Washington Times, by Edward Hudgins


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

Everything about the government is an illusion. Constitutions, flags, laws, uniforms, borders –- these constructs are artificial. They may have strong cultural manifestations and incite people to behave in distinct ways toward each other, but in the end it is people, and not nations, that act...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/gregory/gregory10.html

from Strike the Root, by Anthony Gregory


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Washington agencies of national security display a distressing detachment from the realities of the American situation in the Middle East. The Army, its Reserve, and the Marine Corps are overcommitted, with deteriorating morale. The volunteer military cannot find the recruits it needs. Conscription is politically unthinkable but could become the only alternative. In these circumstances, the Defense Department, which has been unable to supply body and vehicle armor in adequate quantities, is preoccupied with new nuclear weapons and space wars. It wants vast new expenditures on projects with no relevance to present realities -- new and 'more usable' nuclear weapons, including earth-penetrating 'bunker busters.' The need is highly debatable, and the political costs of developing new nuclear weapons enormous... (for publication 07/04/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_04/article2.html

from The American Conservative, by William Pfaff


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

The Soviet Union had no free press, privately owned, politically independent, competing publications dealing with ideas and whatever else readers would find of interest. The old USSR had Pravda and other state run newspapers and broadcast outlets. This kind of media exists in other parts of the world but the United States of America was to be a haven for a completely free press. Sadly, even there broadcast media fell into the hands of government .... Still, even with this intrusiveness, radio and TV do not get funded by monies extorted via taxation. There is still a pretty good semblance of competition on the airwaves, especially with the arrival a few decades ago of cable TV and the Internet. One thing is, however, way over the top in American media affairs. This is the prominence of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service...

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/1868/html/index.php

from Free Market News Network, by Tibor R. Machan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

On the one hand, when dealing with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the ayatollahs' Iran, Kim Jong Il's North Korea, and Fidel Castro's Cuba, President Bush and his aides have insisted that economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and the use of military power ('regime change') -- an approach that can be described as U.S. 'destructive disengagement' toward these governments -- are the only way to transform totalitarian systems and authoritarian regimes into democracies and free-market economies. On the other hand, when it comes to communist-ruled Vietnam -- it is less democratic than Iran and has less religious freedom than Saddam Hussein permitted in Iraq -- President Bush has been pursuing a policy of 'constructive engagement' based on the notion that expanding diplomatic and economic ties with an authoritarian government is the most effective way to help move it in the direction of free markets and democracy...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hadar.php?articleid=6457

from AntiWar.Com, by Leon Hadar


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

Aside from violating the fundamental law of the Constitution, Kelo subverts the free market's system of voluntary exchange. Prior to Kelo, if Corporation X, for example, desired to purchase a parcel of land to build a hotel, it had to make a satisfactory offer to the owner. If the parties agreed on a price, a voluntary transaction resulted in which both parties felt they benefited. Under Kelo, if the property owner does not agree to Corporation X's terms, then Corporation X has the option of persuading the government to exercise the power of eminent domain. Corporation X need only allege that its proposed hotel will be a more productive use of the property...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1528

from Independent Institute, by William J. Watkins Jr.


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/26/05

The Supreme Soviet has declared, in effect, that there is no such thing as private property. If someone, government representative or not, desires to take your land and your home and do something with it, it can be done so long as the thief can demonstrate improvement to the public good. Property taxes, effectively rent paid to your local government, were bad enough. Now they've come right out and said that you no longer own your home. If some developer wants to tear up a place you've spent 40 years putting your heart and soul into so he can build a Wal*Mart, you have no defense, no recourse, and no hope. Just like the Indians one or two centuries ago, men with guns will appear to shove you away and onto a different but worthless piece of ground to start over...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle325-20050626-05.html

from The Libertarian Enterprise, by Francis A Ney, Jr.



Remember Kelo

06/28/05

I confess that I am having trouble summoning the appropriate outrage at Kelo v. New London, the Supreme Court decision that permits states and local governments to use eminent domain powers to transfer land from one private owner to another. This assault on the rights of poor and middle-class homeowners for the benefit of corporations and developers is indeed outrageous. We should all be angry. But the real villains are not senior citizens on a bench in Washington D.C, but the politicians, bureaucrats, and developers who conspire to steal land in our communities...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/july8/Kelo.html

from Liberty For All, by James Leroy Wilson


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tony Blair faced a dual assault on the Government's proposals for ID cards yesterday, with leading academics and the official information watchdog condemning plans for a national identity database covering every individual in Britain. A 300-page report by staff at the London School of Economics made fundamental criticisms of the justification, technology and scope of the ID cards scheme. The report warned that it could pose a 'far greater risk to the safety and security of UK citizens' than any of the problems it is intended to address. In a second blow to the Government's proposals, Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, also strongly attacked plans for a national identity register as 'unwarranted and intrusive.' He said ID cards could be used to track people's lives and help create a 'surveillance society...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=650197

from Independent [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today. Following the September 11 attacks, the Justice Department held the 70 men -- all but one Muslim -- under a narrow federal law that permits the arrest and brief detention of 'material witnesses' who have important information about a crime, if they might otherwise flee to avoid testifying before a grand jury or in court. Although federal officials suspected the men of involvement in terrorism, it held them as material witnesses, not criminal suspects. Almost half of the witnesses were never brought before a grand jury or court to testify. The U.S. government has apologized to 13 for wrongfully detaining them. Only a handful were ever charged with crimes related to terrorism...

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=18586&c=280

from ACLU


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

Two Democratic senators, just back from Guantanamo Bay, said Monday that Congress should come up with concrete rules for handling detainees at the U.S. prison there. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Ben Nelson of Nebraska said more precise rules would help ensure that prisoners would not be abused and that the United States would not suffer further embarrassments because of the way detainees were treated...

http://tinyurl.com/d5yv2

from Cincinnati Enquirer


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

A top Army procurement official said today Halliburton's deals in Iraq were the worst example of contract abuse she had seen as Pentagon auditors flagged over $1 billion of potential overcharges by the Texas-based firm. Bunny Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official-turned whistle-blower, said in testimony at a hearing by Democrats on Capitol Hill that 'every aspect' of Halliburton's oil contract in Iraq had been under the control of the Office of the Secretary of Defense...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3243195

from Houston Chronicle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

The number of Americans disapproving of President Bush's job performance has risen to the highest level of his presidency, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday. According to the poll, 53 percent of respondents said they disapproved of Bush's performance, compared to 45 percent who approved. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. The 53 percent figure was the highest disapproval rating recorded in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll since Bush became president in January 2001...

http://tinyurl.com/brlru

from CNN


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1074105,00.html

Informant: NHNE

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2907


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Bush: Guantanamo Detainees Receiving Humane Treatment
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/20050620_1779.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1359


Informant: Charles Bremer

Bush Calls "Water Boarding", Torture by Drowning, Humane
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00241.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00080.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/21/stories/2005062104451600.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1399783.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/540


Informant: Martin Greenhut



Downing Street Minutes to Hit House Floor June 28th
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/27/171339/784


Informant: Carol Wolman



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

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062605F.shtml

by Frank Rich, The New York Times

The assault on public broadcasting aims not to kill off PBS or NPR, but to quietly annex them into the state propaganda machine.

Source: http://www.tompaine.com

http://tinyurl.com/d9cg2


Informant: NHNE

USCV is happy to announce the following new materials and progress. Please make use of these.

1. Thanks to the talents and efforts of volunteer Kim Tarner, USCV now has a professional brochure describing our National Election Data Archive Project and advising how to ensure accurate election results.

http://uscountvotes.net/docs_pdf/info/US/USCVbrochure.pdf

Please print this brochure and pass it out widely. It can also be used during house parties to raise funds.

2. A new letter advising state and county election offices regarding what election data is needed in order to monitor elections for accuracy and why.

http://uscountvotes.net/docs_pdf/info/US/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf

Please put this into the hands of your local county and state election officials and include it when you request data using your state's freedom of information act.

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

3. USCV is making faster progress now towards implementing our National Election Data Archive project thanks to the support of our donors and volunteers.

We had two programmers reply to my last email to this list who may help us implement the public election document archive, plus several persons who offered to assist with marketing materials or help create videos.

4. Ron Baiman and I have thoroughly revised our latest analysis of the exit polls, removing simulation analysis, and will be asking the other USCV statisticians to read it, and our group of volunteer writers to assist with writing an executive summary for it soon.

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/USCV_exit_poll_analysis.pdf

5. I am leaving tomorrow to testify at the Election Assessment Hearing.

http://www.electionassessment.org/

Please let any of you friends near Houston, TX know about it.
All the information presented by the Hearing Presenters there will be given to the Carter/Baker commission. David Cobb, the Green Party Presidential Candidate will be there, as well as Bob Fitrakis, one of the three lawyers sued by Blackwell in OH, and Bev Harris.

There is a lot of work to do to restore democratic elections in America and we need the help of all of you to:

1. Educate your own elected officials.

2. Educate your own county and state election officials and obtain the detailed data we need for analysis.

3. Get out the word and help raise funds to implement the National Election Data Archive project that will enable us to detect irregular vote counts in time to challenge the results.

4. I need to find a dedicated non-smoking soul to help me get my act together by being my executive assistant in Park City, UT in exchange for a modest place to live within my dwelling and a very modest stipend to start.

Best Regards and thanks to all of you,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
http://electionarchive.org/fairelection/donate.html

President Bush, whose administration has been hit by accusations of prisoner abuse, said on Sunday that the United States was committed to the elimination of torture worldwide.

http://snipurl.com/fva3



Bush Signed Secret Executive Order Approving Torture

According to agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, President George W. Bush has signed a secret executive order approving the use of torture against prisoners captured in his "war on terror".

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2602


From Information Clearing House

New evidence on U.S. war crimes and violations of international law was presented at the concluding session of the World Tribunal on Iraq at hearings in Istanbul Sunday.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29233


From Information Clearing House

Parallels to Bush's America are unmistakable. With control over all three branches of government, a compliant, sycophant press, and Americans too scared, dumb or oblivious to think, the Bush cartel would seem poised to build its house of cards as high as the heavens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9287.htm

July 19, 2003 - -Lt. Gen. T. Michael Moseley, the chief allied war commander, said the attacks also laid the foundations for the military campaign against the Baghdad government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9285.htm

The tipping point :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9297.htm

We may now be only weeks away from a complete collapse of the Iraqi army and the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in the face of overwhelming public pressure on Tony Blair.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/June/24/OPlist3.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.traprockpeace.org/scott_ritter_23june05.html


From Information Clearing House

by Mike Whitney

Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had "lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq". (06-17-05) Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims. This is the extent to which the American "free press" is yoked to the center of power in Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9307.htm

Menschenrechte: Gold soll nicht aus Ausbeutung kommen (27.06.05)

Menschenrechtler fordern, Schmuck ohne Ausbeutung herzustellen. Anlass ist der Fall einer US-amerikanischen Goldmine in Guatemala, bei deren Betrieb gegen die Rechte von Indigenen verstoßen werde, so die Menschenrechtsorganisation FIAN (Food First Informations-und Aktions- Netzwerk). Mitfinanziert werde diese zudem durch Teile der Weltbank. Personen und Organisationen, die die Arbeiter unterstützen, erhielten Morddrohungen, hieß es. FIAN forderte den Stopp der öffentlichen Förderung und den Schutz der Menschenrechtsaktivisten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11306

http://health.yahoo.com/news/77869


Informant: Alan Dicey

The women of ERUB (This is the organization of the survivors of the 67 atomic "tests" carried out by the US Government on the Marshall Islands) in Hawaii tell us that the Petition for Changed Circumstances of the Marshall Islands will be discussed in the US Senate.

Energy Committe and the Senate Foreign Affairs Pacific Committee on July 19, 2005 and that it will come up for a vote in September. I have included information on the senators belonging to both committees and a suggested letter the ERUB organization sent.

In case you think that this has little to do with boricuas, the same people from the Nuclear Center in Mayaguez that carried out experiments with our cancer patients by implanting radio active seeds under their skin participated in similar experiments on the Marshall Islands during the same time frame.

Mayaguezanos con Vieques



For those not familiar with the Petition for Changed Circumstances of the Marshall Islands here is a link about it:

CRS Report RL32811 - Republic of the Marshall Islands Changed Circumstances Petition to Congress - NLE Abstract

http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/abstract.cfm?NLEid=64160

Please call or send a letter of support, these people have also suffered greatly and their voices need to be heard. gracias

Telephone contact number for US Congress:
1-877-762-8762 or 202-224-3121.

Energy Committee

Republicans: (12) • Pete Domenici (NM) • Larry Craig (ID) • Craig Thomas (WY) • Lamar Alexander (TN) • Lisa Murkowski (AK) • Richard Burr (NC) • Mel Martinez (FL) • Jim Talent (MO) • Conrad Burns (MT) • George Allen (VA) • Gordon Smith (OR) • Jim Bunning (KY)

Democrats: (10) • Jeff Bingaman (NM) • Daniel Akaka (HI) • Byron Dorgan (ND) • Ron Wyden (OR) • Tim Johnson (SD) • Mary Landrieu (LA) • Dianne Feinstein (CA) • Maria Cantwell (WA) • Jon Corzine (NJ) • Ken Salazar (CO)

Foreign Affairs/ Pacific Area Democrats: (4) Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)

Republicans: (5) Senator George Allen (R-VA) Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) Senator Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)


Sample letter


Changed Circumstances Petition of the Marshall Islands to be heard on July 19, 2005 by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Dear Honorable __________:

The survivors of the 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands have suffered too long in silence. Survivors, through their organization ERUB (Enewetak, Rongelap, Utrik, Bikini), are asking to be heard directly by Congresspersons of the United States. The Changed Circumstances Petition of the Marshall Islands will be discussed at a hearing on July 19, 2005 before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Prior to the July 19th hearings or prior to the full vote on the floor of Congress, it is hoped that hearings can also be held in Majuro and Honolulu, where the majority of Survivors reside. The Survivors unknowingly sacrificed their lives for over 50 years for the security of American citizens. Survivors also feel most comfortable telling their stories about miscarriages, cancers, and deformed babies, often referred to as 'jellyfish babies', in their home environment of Majuro. People like government officials and lawyers often try to talk for them. However, Survivors want to talk for themselves because it is only when Survivors give details of their suffering will the truth come out in full force. Their stories of sacrifice need to be documented in the Congressional Record for future generations to read and understand. In addition, giving the opportunity to Survivors to tell their stories is a necessary part of the healing process.

As a voter who resides in your district, I urge you to call for hearings in Majuro and Honolulu in the very near future.

Thank you for your consideration of this request

Your name and address


Informant: Raulmax

The Bush Administration as War Criminals
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=85881;show_parent=1

http://torontosun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/06/26/1105205-sun.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://villagevoice.com/news/0526,hentoff,65319,6.html


Informant: Valerie Fine

06/24/05

If you take something to read at the beach this summer make sure it is not one of George Orwell's books. The comparison with current events will ruin your day. In what was then the futuristic, nightmare world of '1984,' written in 1949, Orwell introduced the concepts of 'newspeak, 'doublethink,' and 'the mutability of the past,' all concepts that seem to be alive and well in 2005, half a century after Orwell's death. In the ever-changing rationale of why we went to war in Iraq, we can imagine ourselves working in Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth,' in which 'reality control' is used to ensure that 'the lie passed into history and became the truth.' And what about the Bush administration's insistence that all is going well in Iraq? ... What of Donald Rumsfeld's newspeak, or was it doublethink, saying that 'no detention facility in the history of warfare has been more transparent' than Guantanamo?

http://tinyurl.com/djn9k

from Boston Globe, by H.D.S. Greenway


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/24/05

You no longer own your own home or have the right to buy one. This is due to an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, approved June 23. No, this amendment didn't pass both houses of Congress and three fourths of the state legislatures, in what is whimsically termed 'the amendment process.' Rather, our Constitution was amended in the usual way, by judicial fiat. In essence, five Supreme Court justices -- John Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy -- voted that you no longer own your own home. That's the result of Kelo v. City of New London, in which, according to dissenting Justice Clarence Thomas: 'The court has erased the Public Use Clause from our Constitution.' That's right. A whole Constitutional clause, a clause that protected your property from arbitrary government expropriation, erased by five justices...

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/06/24/liberal.htm

from Sierra Times, by Thomas M. Sipos

06/26/05

Now that local or state governments have been given the go-ahead to employ eminent domain to steal property from its rightful owners and give it to politically and/or financially powerful private interests, why would they voluntarily give up that power? Yes, eminent domain has been used over the last 20 or 30 years to do just that, but courts gave lip service to the takings clause by making the local warlords (I mean, local governments) hide and obfuscate their crimes. For example, property would be transferred to government first, then (after a suitable mourning period) sold to the developer it was originally intended to pass to in the first place. Now, the veil has been stripped away. It's as if the bank robbers need not wear masks any longer. ... Will this be the event that finally galvanizes Americans to wake up and demand their freedom back? I wish I could answer in the affirmative. I really do...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle325-20050626-06.html

from The Libertarian Enterprise, by Chris Claypoole


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/25/05

For the Constitution to be amended, the resolution has to be approved by more than two-thirds of each house of Congress and more than two-thirds [try three-quarters] of the states, either by legislation or via public referendum. The House approved the resolution on Wednesday by a 286-130 vote. Now, the ball is in the hands of the Senate, which has failed to back a flag-burning amendment on seven occasions in the past. But, as the AP notes, the amendment failed by four votes in 2003, the last time it came up -- the exact number of seats picked up by the Republican Party in November. Republican senators have been supportive of an amendment in the past. The Senate, according to the AP, expects to consider the measure after the July Fourth holiday recess. That gives members of the Senate about two weeks to consider whether they want to be judged by history as the first American legislators to carve out exceptions to the First Amendment.

http://tinyurl.com/9gvsw

from Cranbury Press, by Hank Kalet


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/26/05

After a marine or army recruiter visits Mammoth High School, students frequently ask me questions about my military experience in Vietnam. Eventually, these conversations lead to a single question: Should I enlist? Advice can carry a heavy burden in shaping a seventeen-year-old's future: employment, culinary school, a community college, a UC, a tour in Iraq, an amputated leg, a lifetime full of nightmares, cancer from the hundreds of tons of depleted uranium used in US and British munitions, a flag-draped coffin...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062405H.shtml

from TruthOut, by Kirk Stapp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/24/05

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling permitting governments forcibly to transfer property through eminent domain from one private party to another for the sake of economic development did not come out of the blue. Although the 'takings' clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifies 'nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation,' the 'Court long ago rejected any literal requirement that condemned property be put into use for the general public'...

http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=6991

from Foundation for Economic Education, by Sheldon Richman


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

There are many curious aspects to the latest flag fracas. There is the absurdity of the proposed change in our basic constitutional framework by treating such minor specifics as a flag law. There is the proposal to outlaw 'desecration' of the American flag. 'Desecration' means 'to divest of a sacred character or office.' Is the American flag, battle emblem of the U.S. government, supposed to be 'sacred?' Are we to make a religion of statolatry? What sort of grotesque religion is that?" (written 1995; reposted 06/26/05)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard79.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Murray N. Rothbard


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

It was surprising how many people seemed to take genuine pleasure in British MP George Galloway's contentious appearance before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. ... What was striking was the sight of a man inside the Senate chamber using the full force of the English language to denounce the pack of lies behind President Bush's Iraq policy. Galloway didn't submit to the Democratic Party script and pretend that the war was due to a 'massive intelligence failure,' that President Bush was somehow misinformed about Saddam's weapons (or lack of them). He went instead for the jugular of the whole enterprise, reiterating what he had said well before the war -- that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, no connection to 9/11, no ties to al-Qaeda -- and on these crucial points he was right and Sen. Norm Coleman and the other Republicans hoping to milk his testimony for electoral gain were dead wrong." (for publication 07/04/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_04/article.html

from The American Conservative, by Scott McConnell

Part one

06/27/05

'And just when will the revolution actually start now?' That was the first question my wife had when I told her of the insane 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court announced yesterday, concerning the power of government to seize private property. And it is a valid question. This morning, a raft of stories about some of the 10,000 'eminent domain' actions in progress across the former republican union popped up on various web news-sites and newspaper sites...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/06/27/nathan.htm

from The Price of Liberty, by Nathan A. Barton


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

During his June 25 Saturday radio message to Americans, Bush gave an upbeat report on victory in Iraq and said: 'Americans can be proud of all that we and our coalition partners [he means his poodle, Tony Blair, but likes the plural sound] have accomplished in Iraq.' Gentle reader, are you proud that American troops are torturing Iraqis? Are you proud that tens of thousands of Iraqi women and children have been killed and maimed with their deaths and terrible wounds dismissed as 'collateral damage?' Are you proud that you elected and reelected a president who lied you into an illegal war that has killed 1,755 American troops, maimed thousands more, and destroyed your country's reputation? If you are proud of this, what kind of person are you?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts109.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Paul Craig Roberts


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

The idea that this is a Republican war, that we were lured into Iraq under false pretenses exclusively by George W. Bush and his neocon advisers, with no responsibility or input from the Democrats, is a partisan myth: we are in there, and are staying in there, to a large degree because the Democrats not only bought into it, but also because they continue to buy into it. Nothing illustrates this better than a recent (June 21) speech given by Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.), a leading light of the Democratic foreign policy establishment, before the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. ... [Biden's] position of basic support for the war is dressed up as criticism: after all, he has to somehow maintain the illusion that the Democrats really are an opposition party.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6449

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

It is time to change the national anthem. The land is no longer free. Last week, in an appalling decision that will prove to be every bit as infamous as the Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade decisions, the Supreme Court eliminated the American right to property and in one fell swoop, converted the country into the legal equivalent of a Third World society. This is not a minor matter, it is a calculated provocation, an insult to the American people and their rights which makes a mockery of them as well as the current administration and its obsession with external terrorists and exogenous threats to liberty. ... No 9-11 attack, no suitcase nuke exploding in Manhattan or Los Angeles, could injure the nation one-tenth as much as the Supreme Court harmed America in its totalitarian Kelo decision, wherein a majority of the ironically named 'justices' declared that a government may forcibly take property from one party and give it to another party, at its sole discretion...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44997

from WorldNetDaily, by Vox Day



The naked Supremes

06/26/05

We should be grateful to the Supreme Court for demonstrating once again what government thinks government is really all about. There can be no denying that, at least since neolithic times and the invention of agriculture, governments -- every last one of them -- have been created for the express purpose of devouring the productive class. Each one always comes equipped with its own set of assertions about what it was 'really' created for -- of the people, by the people, for the people, blah, blah, blah -- but those assertions, all of them, are lies...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle325-20050626-02.html



My gulag and welcome to it

06/24/05

"It is clear that we can no longer count on even the Supreme Court to uphold the intent of the Constitution, which was to protect the individual rights of American citizens. Should we be surprised that justice, even at the highest level, has become muddled and even overturned by partisan and corrupt politics? Perhaps not, but the Supreme Court was my last hope for salvation. Their decisions have often been ignored and even laughed at by Congress and the President, but I took some consolation from having one branch of our government at least SPEAK for individual rights.

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/06/24

from No Force, No Fraud, by Bob Smith


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/26/05

Tony Blair is facing increased opposition to ID cards amid fears that they will be used to target ethnic minorities. The Muslim Council of Britain will issue a statement expressing concern about the legislation today while the Commission for Racial Equality warned that the scheme could have an 'adverse impact on different racial groups.' Ministers are already bracing themselves for a battle over ID cards in the Commons tomorrow, when MPs will have their first opportunity to vote on the proposals since the election...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=650052

from Independent [UK]



Ministers reject ID card claims

06/26/05

Senior ministers refused to compromise yesterday in the face of a ferocious onslaught from MPs, trade unions and civil liberty groups seeking to overwhelm tomorrow's Commons second reading of the ID cards bill. As critics stepped up the pressure on the system they have sought to paint as a 'plastic poll tax,' the scheme's achilles heel was increasingly being seen as the cost -- between £15bn and £18bn, according to some independent analysts. The home secretary, Charles Clarke, intervened to counter claims about the misuses to which the ID card data could be put. Ministers dismissed as 'complete and utter nonsense' one report that personal details about 44 million adults could be bought by firms for £750 a head."

http://tinyurl.com/8fkqf

from Guardian [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Please find our release below, which provides news of the commissioning of a much needed independent study which aims to assist in the development of a better,fairer and more scientifically rationalframework for food supplements, in relation both to EU legislation and globally,via Codex Alimentarius guidelines.

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release

27 June 2005

MAJOR INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC STUDY LAUNCHED TO SHED LIGHT ON EU’S ‘BLACK BOX’ REGULATION OF FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

On 5 April 2005, the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General, Leendert Geelhoed, provided his opinion on a legal challenge filed by the Alliance for Natural Health which concluded that the EU Food Supplements Directive was invalid under EU law. The Advocate General stated that the procedure for admitting ingredients to a ‘positive list’ had the “transparency of a black box”. The Court’s ruling, which will take into account the opinion of the Advocate General, will be issued from the Court in Luxembourg on the 12th of July,

Unless the legal challenge is successful next month, the Food Supplements Directive could potentially ban, as of 1 August 2005, up to 75 percent of vitamin and mineral forms currently on the European market including many of those found naturally in foods. Due to the devastating impact this would have on consumers as well as practitioners and industry, the Alliance for Natural Health, the lead party in the legal challenge of the Directive, has today commissioned, under the sponsorship of the International Nutritional Company (INC BV, Netherlands), an independent group of professional risk analysis scientists to evaluate the overall regulation of food supplements in the EU. The study will focus in particular on developing a new and appropriate scientific risk assessment methodology for vitamins, minerals and other micro-nutrients.

The study, entitled Food Supplements and European Regulation: Black box or level playing field rationality?, will be led by Dr Jaap Hanekamp and Professor Aalt Bast, of the Heidelberg Appeal Nederland (HAN) Foundation, which has previously provided definitive risk assessment studies to assist governments on key human health issues such as nitrates in food and drinking water and antibiotic growth promoters in livestock.

Dr. Hanekamp, CEO of the HAN Foundation, said today: “In view of the procedural problems that the Directive poses for industry, it is essential to develop a straightforward, rational, transparent, and scientifically coherent benchmark methodology to regulate food supplements cost-effectively within a European, or even a global, level-playing field in which assessment and management are explicitly linked.”

INC spokesman Bert Schwitters comments: “Nutrients deserve our fullest credit because they are essential to life. Their safety must not be evaluated by applying the methods traditionally used in dealing with chemical and pharmaceutical compounds. Nutrients are our safest and most economic means to maintain and restore health. In terms of public health “too little” poses a far greater risk than “too much.” Evaluating nutrients’ safety must be done in a scientific and balanced way that pays respect to the fundamental fact that we cannot do without them.”

Dr Robert Verkerk, executive director of the Alliance for Natural Health, added: “It is essential that the issue of food supplements regulation is looked at by a leading independent group of risk analysis scientists with a blank sheet of paper, before any amendment to the Directive is finalised and before the international guidelines on vitamin and mineral food supplements are finalised through the UN’s Codex Alimentarius Commission in July. The HAN Foundation scientists are perfectly set to provide a fully independent, bias-free view on this complex area and it would benefit governments and the UN, as well as consumers, practitioners and industry, to await the findings of the study, due in around 9 months time, before any further regulations or guidelines are finalised.”

The Alliance for Natural Health has submitted a detailed report to the Food & Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization of the UN, which are developing a so-called “nutrient-appropriate risk assessment” system for food supplements likely to be adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which is in turn about to finalise international guidelines on vitamin and mineral food supplements in its meeting in Rome between 4th and 9th July.

Dr Verkerk also noted: “The implications of getting risk assessment wrong are horrendous. You could actually deprive very large numbers of people from taking nutrients that improve their health. The cost of this could be very great. And in our opinion, and that of medical doctors practicing clinical nutrition and other scientists around the world who have endorsed our proposal, the existing risk assessment systems being used by Regulators are deeply flawed. We badly need a new model that takes into account both risks and benefits of food supplements. This approach is central to the remit of the HAN Foundation scientists.”

The Alliance for Natural Health believes that the results of the study will greatly facilitate legislation being developed for food supplements in Europe as well as globally, and will reduce the likelihood of future legal challenges.

The HAN Foundation study, commissioned and overseen by the Alliance for Natural Health, has been sponsored by International Nutrition Company (INC), the Netherlands-based worldwide supplier of natural products originally developed by Professor Jack Masquelier in France.

For enquiries and further information contact:
Dr Robert Verkerk, Executive Director
Alliance for Natural Health
Tel: +44 (0)1252 371 275
Fax: +44 (0)845 280 4910
E-mail: info@alliance-natural-health.org
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

Dr. Jaap Hanekamp, CEO
Heidelberg Appeal Nederland
Tel: + 31 79 346 0304
Fax: + 31 79 346 0643
E-mail: jaapchan@euronet.nl
http://www.stichting-han.nl

Notes for editors:

ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is a Europe-wide non-profit alliance of consumers, doctors, complementary health practitioners, and innovative industry manufacturers and suppliers who have an interest in food supplements and natural health. More information, including details of the ANH’s support base, will be found at www.alliance-natural-health.org.

Good science and good law underpin all of the ANH’s work, and the scientific reports produced by the ANH are endorsed by many of the world’s leading doctors and scientists working in the field of nutrition.

HAN FOUNDATION

The HAN Foundation (stichting Heidelberg Appeal Nederland) was established in the Netherlands in 1993 and named after the Heidelberg Appeal, a declaration signed in 1992 by over 3500 scientists. HAN is an independent non-profit making alliance of scientists and science supporters whose aim is to ensure that scientific debates are properly aired, and that decisions which are taken and action that is proposed are founded on sound scientific principles. Members are accepted from all walks of life and all branches of science. HAN has at present over 800 donors, including almost 200 professors.

EU FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE

If the proposed ban on vitamins and minerals is implemented on 1 August 2005 across Europe, there is much at stake:
· Over 5000 products will disappear from the shelves of UK health stores as a result of the ban removing access to over 300 vitamin and mineral ingredients (out of a total of about 420). These include, amongst others, the main natural forms of Vitamin E, several forms of vitamin C, the key natural form of folic acid, MSM and a range of minerals such as vanadium, silicon and boron, all being products which millions of consumers choose to take as part of their regular health regime and have done so without any ill effects for many years.

· An individual’s freedom of choice to take safe natural health products will be removed; 40-45% of the UK, Irish and Swedish populations take vitamins and minerals.

· Products are to be banned with absolutely no scientific justification. Many of the world’s leading scientific and medical experts in nutrition support the absence of any proper basis for the proposed bans.

· Although the proposed bans related only to vitamins and minerals, unless overturned, the ‘Positive list’ system will most likely be transferred to other nutrients used in food supplements, such as plant extracts, amino acids and enzymes. The precedent set by an ANH victory will drastically reduce the chance of future bans on these other nutrient forms.

· Further regulatory proposals by the EU and Codex Alimentarius are due to be considered by later this and next year. These include restrictions on maximum dosages of vitamins and minerals and restrictions on health claims of foods and food supplements. Again, the ANH is working to help positively shape such legislation using its mantra of ‘good science and good law’.

CODEX GUIDELINES ON VITAMIN AND MINERAL FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

The Codex Alimentarius Commission develops international guidelines for a very wide range of food products. These guidelines are used by governments with the intention of harmonising rules on food products to assist international trade as well as ensuring consumer safety.

The Codex Guidelines on Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements have been in development for approximately 10 years. It is one of a large number of Guidelines pertaining to food products that has been developed under the auspices of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (established in 1963), which is a subsidiary body of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Codex Guidelines are frequently implemented into laws of Codex member countries (172 in total), and they are used as reference points in any trade disputes brought to the World Trade Organization.

The text for the Guidelines was agreed by consensus in the Codex Committee for Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in Bonn in November 2004, and the Guidelines are due to be ratified at the next CCNFSDU meeting in Rome on 4-9 July 2005.

The key area of the Guidelines which has yet to be agreed is the nature of the ‘nutrient appropriate’ scientific risk assessment, which will be used to establish Upper Safe Levels for the vitamins and minerals. The process of determining this science has effectively, although unofficially, been handed to the FAO/WHO, who, in turn, have allowed an open consultation phase for input from external parties. The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) was one of 16 organisations to submit comments for this consultation in December 2004, and the ANH submission revealed, with extensive reference to peer-reviewed science, very substantial flaws in the various existing models that have been used by US and European authorities. These models are assumed to form the basis of the risk assessment science to be employed in establishing upper levels. The ANH’s submission has subsequently been endorsed by over 100 leading clinical nutritionists in the US and Europe.

Berlin am Montag, 27.06.2005

Die Forderung der Gewerkschaft der Polizei ist wohl begründet und technisch solide durchführbar. Jedes gestohlene Handy läßt sich über die Netzbetreiber zwangsabschalten.

Als Insider der Branche habe ich ausreichendes technisches Wissen, um die Machbarkeit sicher zu beurteilen.

Jede anderslautende Meldung der Netzbetreiber ist unzutreffend.

Es war schon zu Zeiten meiner aktiven Berufstätigkeit ein fachlich unstreitiges Thema, die im Telefonat genutzten Handy's in jedem Gespräch zusammen mit der Rufnummer über den unveränderbaren Identitäts-Code des zentralen CHIPs erkennungsdienstlich zu erfassen.

Hätte man nicht aus Gründen der geringen Software-Ersparnis diese bereits erprobten und diskutierten Sicherheiten bewußt gekillt, wäre das heutige Problem nie entstanden. Da aber die Netzbetreiber mit großer wirtschaftlicher Macht auch die öffentlichen Äußerungen der Hersteller vorbestimmen, sollten Sie als Leser dieser Zeilen sich hüten, den gehalts- und auftragsabhängigen Experten die brutal erzwungenen gegenteiligen Äußerungen zu glauben.

Jedes geklaute oder anderweitig verlorene Handy könnte blitzschnell über eine Webseite ähnlich der homebanking-Software mit hohem Paßwortschutz inaktiv geschaltet werden. Alle Netzbetreiber müßten die Sperrmeldungen automatisiert über Zentral-Dateien austauschen, damit auch der Austausch der SIM-Karte mit der Rufnummer das Handy in einem anderen Funknetz nicht wieder funktionsfähig machen kann. Jede andere Lösung, die nicht den Ursprungs-Ident-Code des zentralen CHIPs ausliest und im Aufbau des Funkgespräches zwingend übermittelt, läßt sich von findigen Hackern aushebeln. Die Form der zu realsierenden Sicherheitsfaktoren muß ein Gesetz und eine technische Verordnung zwingend bestimmen.

Zum Nachweis meiner Fach- und Sachkunde:

1992 war ich als verantwortlicher Mitarbeiter einer Tochterfirma der ericsson-AG aus Schweden in Hannover auf dem Messegelände am Aufbau der ersten GSM-DECT3-Demonstrationsanlage für das erste Handy-Gespräch zwischen dem damaligen Minister Herrn Schwarz-Schilling und seinem ungarischen Amtskollegen aktiv eingebunden.

Schon damals waren Verluste und Diebstähle ein aktuelles und kritisches Thema. Vorläufer der Handy's gab es ja bereits als betriebsinterne Funktelefone in Krankenhäusern und Fabriken. Das Verlust-Problem aus Diebstählen gab es schon in bedeutender großer Aktualität.

Mein direkter Arbeitgeber (die niederländische Firma NIRA) hatte als bedeutendsten Kunden in Deutschland die BfA mit sämtlichen Kliniken ausgestattet. Im Zuge der Branchen-Konzentration wurde NIRA in Emmen NL von ericsson Schweden aufgekauft.

Ich war ab der Wende Geschäftstellenleiter der Firma NIRA in Berlin mit der Zuständigkeit für die neuen Bundesländer.

es grüßt

Knut W. Schlanert
fon +49 30 78716377
fax +49 30 78716378

http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&#nrpbes


Informant: No Name

Informationsveranstaltung in Kirchseeon

Landkreis - "Ist Ihr Nachbar nie gereizt? Schlafen und lernen Ihre Kinder gut? Wird das auch übermorgen noch so sein, wenn morgen vor Ihrem Haus eine Mobilfunkantenne aufgestellt worden ist?" Das fragt sich das Aktionsbündnis "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" im Landkreis. Wissenschaftlich bewiesen sind die Mobilfunkschäden nicht - aber auch nicht die Ungefährlichkeit der Funkwellen.

Omega Mobilfunkschäden sind wissenschaftlich bewiesen. Siehe „Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Wer selbst mitreden können will und wem es lieber ist, wenn ein Bauantrag für einen neuen Mobilfunkmasten im Rathaus seiner Gemeinde auch unter Gesundheitsaspekten geprüft wird, der hat bald die Möglichkeit dafür: Die Bürger im Landkreis können in ihrem Rathaus durch Unterschrift das Volksbegehren "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" unterstützen.

Dieses Volksbegehren möchte den Gemeinden ein Mitspracherecht beim Aufstellen von Mobilfunksendern sichern und somit die Strahlenbelastung in Wohngebieten verringern. Die Eintragung ist aber nur vom 5. bis zum 18. Juli möglich.

Neueste ärztliche Studien würden den Verdacht bestätigen, dass ein Langzeiteinfluss von Mobilfunk und anderen Mikrowellen krank mache. Nach wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen würden genau die biologischen Systeme gestört, die den menschlichen Körper vor Krankheit schützen sollen. Es sei daher zwingend notwendig, endlich Vorsorge vor Strahlenbelastungen zu betreiben, so Hanno Sombach, der Kreisvorsitzende der ödp.

Die Nachfrage nach Information ist auch im Landkreis Ebersberg groß, meint die Anzingerin Angelika Hollerith, Leiterin des Unabhängigen Aktionsbündnisses zum Volksbegehren. Am Dienstag, 28. Juni, um 19.30 Uhr, lädt das Aktionsbündnis zu einem Informationsabend im Evangelischen Gemeindehaus Kirchseeon (Gartenweg 9a). Referenten sind Rudolf Renner, Elektrobiologe aus Zorneding und der Zahnarzt Dr. Claus Scheingraber, der seit Jahrzehnten Erfahrungen über die Wirkungen hochfrequenter Strahlen sammelt. ez

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27.06.2005

http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/ebersberg/art1583,289135.html?fCMS=693560cb2dea96736713531d49d727a1

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/28031.htm


Informant: Jacques

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3007/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Army General John Abizaid: ''I can tell you that when my soldiers ask me the question whether or not they've got support from the American people . . . that worries me. And they're starting to do that. And when the people that we're training, Iraqis and Afghans, start asking me whether or not we have the staying power to stick with them, that worries me, too."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3733

The graphic testimony below, provided by Dahr Jamail, provides accounts of very serious problems in Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3731

Sweetheart deals: "U.S. Representative Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-CA) has a reputation for both brashness and emotion. The tough-talking former Navy ''Top Gun'' fighter pilot once said that President Clinton's anti-war activities during the Vietnam War would result in being 'tried as a traitor and even shot' if he had lived in another country. He has also unleashed nasty attacks on political opponents and cried during speeches. But he was nearly silent for almost two weeks after the story broke this month that he had sold his house for nearly $1.7 million to a campaign contributor and close friend -- whose company was enjoying a rush of new business with the Pentagon."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3730

If only George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld hated war as much as they hate admitting a mistake. To hear them tell it, Iraq is a success story and the Guantanamo prison is a tropical paradise.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3728

It has just been released in Israeli press that phone companies are renting hundreds of apartments in private buildings all over the large cities, and installing cell towers in them. They are trying to conceal the towers so to achieve lower rent costs, and to prevent resistance of those who live close bye.

Hillel

Auftaktveranstaltung zum Mobilfunkvolksbegehren in Augsburg:

WELCHE GEFAHREN BRINGT DIE MOBILFUNKTECHNIK MIT SICH?

Mittwoch, 29. Juli in Augsburg, 19 Uhr 30 im Zeughaus (Hollsaal)

Referent: Hans Schütz
Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V.
Netzwerk mobilfubkkritischer Initiativen im Pfaffenwinkel

Im Anschluss Diskussion zur Thematik und zum Volksbegehren!

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Freitag, 1. Juli 2005, 20 Uhr
Garmisch-Partenkirchen im Gasthof "Bräustüberl"

"Gefahren der Mobilfunktechnik"

Referent: Hans Schütz (Peiting)
Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V.
Netzwerk mobilfunkkritischer Initiativen im Pfaffenwinkel

SHE may be America’s most powerful woman but Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, made clear during her tour of the Middle East last week that she is not about to become its most outspoken supporter of women’s rights. During her week-long sweep through Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Rice steered clear of confrontation over one of the region’s most volatile issues — the role of women in Islamic societies.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3727

Before World War I, casualties of armed conflicts were largely limited to battlefields and the soldiers upon them. Combat doctrine and equipment favored flat plateaus, fields or deserts removed from civilian populations. Unless the action took place in a populated area, civilians seldom tasted the bitterness of war.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3725

Even before Iranians went to the polls in their presidential election, the Bush administration declared the process rigged, saying that no matter what the outcome, Iran would be truly ruled by men who "spread terror across the world."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3724

In May 2001 some very high frequency signals appeared on equipment monitoring electrical ground currents at a few dairy farms in Wisconsin. The signal was traced to a nearby cell tower whose rotating beacon light had just recently been changed to a strobing light. The origin of the signal was verified by shutting off the strobing light momentarily. The signal on the monitoring equipment disappeared while the light was off. The signal starts at about 25 MHz and rings down from there. It is produced when the capacitors, which store up the 1000 volts or more needed to strobe the light, release that energy all at once to strobe the light. Therefore, a high frequency and high voltage impulse is released each time the light flashes.

If the RF Choke is in place and the utilities wires are adequate to carry the current back to the substation, there is no problem. However, many companies, not realizing the problem they cause, have opted to save the approximately $30 and omit the filter. The utility system, in many areas, cannot return such a high frequency high voltage impulse to the substation on the neutral wire, as it should. Therefore, it takes the path of least resistance back to the substation. The path of least resistance is not always the shortest path. Problems have been found as far as 6 miles from the tower.

People unfortunate enough to live in the return path may experience symptoms of Radiofrequency Sickness.

These can include: sleeplessness or disturbed sleep, fever, rash, nausea, inability to concentrate, thinking in a fog, short-term memory problems, sore joints particularly hip joints, irritable bowel syndrome, miscarriage, and birth defects. Symptoms, particularly the fever, clear up outside of the exposure area as long as there is not continued exposure to high frequencies from another source.
Dairy farms unfortunate enough to be in the path may experience decreased milk production, longer milking time, poor cow coat and health, miscarriages, difficulty breeding cows back, and difficulty getting cows to eat and drink properly.

These problems can be substantially cleared up by the cell tower companies if they install the approximately $30 filter. Additionally, cell tower companies should install filters on the electronic equipment running at the towers, so that they are in compliance with the IEEE-519 rules. An ordinance requiring compliance with the IEEE-519 was passed recently at the county level in a county in Wisconsin.

http://www.electricalpollution.com/news.html


Informant: Shivani Arjuna

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html


Informant: Yoshie

From ufpj-news

An alle unterstützenden Verbände und Initiativen

Ergänzung der Internetseite: Eintragungszeiten vor Ort, lokale Ansprechpartner, Diskussionsformum über Werbe- und Aktionsideen


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir haben nun auf der Startseite der Volksbegehren-homepage einen link "Eintragungszeiten vor Ort". Beim klick darauf kommt man zu einer alphabetisch gegliederten Auflistung aller Orte, die unserer Bitte nachgekommen sind und uns die direkte Internetseitenadresse zu den örtlichen Eintragungszeiten und -räumen mitgeteilt haben. Ergänzt wird diese Darstellung um alle Orte, in denen lokalisierte Benachrichtigungskarten verteilt werden, da in diesen Fällen die Eintragungsdaten bereits erfaßt sind. Falls Sie darüber hinaus Orte ergänzen wollen, geht dies nur durch Zusendung einer fertigen WORD-Datei an unsere Agentur stefan.schleifer@internetfabrik.de. Sie müssen dabei den Namen des Ortes und die Postleitzahl angeben. Manuell können wir leider keine Eintragungszeiten eintippen.

Demnächst werden wir außerdem einen link "Ansprechpartner vor Ort" auf die Volksbegehrenseite stellen. Auch hier können Sie weitere lokale Ansprechpartner ergänzen. Sie müßten dazu den Namen des Landkreises, VN und NN der Ansprechpartner + Tel.Nr. + ggf. Fax-Nr + ggf. eMail-Adresse an stefan.schleifer@internetfabrik.de schicken. Falls Sie eine lokale überparteiliche Volksbegehren-homepage haben, können Sie diesen link ebenfalls hinzufügen.

Es wurde vereinzelt angeregt, für das Mobilfunk-Volksbegehren ein Internet- Diskussionsforum für Werbe- und Aktionsideen einzurichten. Wir haben das inzwischen gemacht. Falls Bedarf besteht und Sie gerne vor Ort entwickelte Ideen austauschen wollen, können Sie dies im halb- nichtöffentlichen Bereich unserer Bündnis-homepage unter http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de/werbung tun.

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An alle

Kreisvorsitzenden, unterstützende Initiatven und Rundschreibenbezieher

Mobilfunk-Vobe: Bestellschluss für lokalisierte Benachrichtigungskarten


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir haben Ihnen ursprünglich den 20.6. als Bestellannahmeschluss für die lokalisierbaren Benachrichtigungsarten genannt, weil viele Bestellungen erfahrungsgemäß sehr kurzfristig eingehen und dann die termingerechte Auslieferung oft schwierig ist. Wie mir Thomas Mayer, den wir mit der Abwicklung der Karten beauftragt haben, soeben mitteilte, können auch nach dem 20.6. noch Karten mit ortsspezifischen Eindruck bestellt werden. Bitte bestellen Sie aber trotzdem so früh wie möglich! Sie müssen mit einer Woche Lieferzeit rechen.

Im Anhang finden Sie nochmals das Bestellformular. Weitere Infos zu den Werbemitteln sind unter http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de/werbung

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An alle

Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützer des Volksbegehrens "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk"

eMail-Aktion für das Volksbegehren - Bitte investieren Sie wenige Minuten!


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

vom 5. bis 18. Juli läuft in allen bayerischen Gemeinden das Volksbegehren "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". Wir danken Ihnen für die bisherige Unterstützung und bitten Sie, sich an der landesweiten e-mail-Aktion zu beteiligen. Schicken Sie bitte die nachfolgende mail an Ihre elektronisch erreichbaren Verwandten, Freunde und Bekannten!

Vielen Dank und freundliche Grüße

Ihr
Urban Mangold
Organisator des Volksbegehrens


Muster-Brief an Ihre Verwandten, Freunde und Bekannten:

Liebe(r) ... (Freunde, Verwandte und Bekannte)

vom 5. bis 18. Juli läuft in allen bayerischen Gemeinden das Volksbegehren "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". Die Aktion richtet sich nicht grundsätzlich gegen Handys. Ziel ist vielmehr, die Strahlenbelastung deutlich zu reduzieren. Ich halte das für sehr wichtig und bitte deshalb alle meine Freunde und Bekannten, dieses Projekt mit ihrer Unterschrift zu unterstützen.

Das Volksbegehren ist nur erfolgreich, wenn sich während dieser zwei Wochen in ganz Bayern zehn Prozent der Wahlberechtigten in die Listen eintragen, die aber nur in den Rathäusern ausliegen (in größeren Städten auch in Stadtteil-Eintragungsräumen).

Bislang können die Mobilfunkbetreiber ihre Sendemasten bis zu einer Höhe von 10 Metern hinstellen, wo sie wollen. Das soll jetzt geändert werden. Mit einem erfolgreichen Volksbegehren werden öffentliche Genehmigungsverfahren mit Nachbarschaftsbeteiligung eingeführt. Dann können in lokalen Vorsorgeplanungen Tabu-Zonen (Wohnbereiche, Kindergärten, Schulen ...) ausgewiesen und unproblematischere Sendemastenstandorte genehmigt werden. Denn wer möchte schon, dass der nächste Sender neben seinem Schlafzimmer strahlt!

Weitere Informationen findest Du unter
http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de oder unter der Info-Tel.Nr. 0851/931171. Dort kannst Du auch kostenlos Flugblätter zum Verteilen anfordern. Bitte leite diese e-mail an Deine Bekannten weiter und bitte diese, die Nachricht wiederum an ihre Bekannten zu schicken. Dieses Projekt ist es wirklich wert, den Weg ins Rathaus (des ersten Wohnsitzes) auf sich zu nehmen. Bitte den Personalausweis zur Eintragung mitnehmen! Wenn irgendwie möglich, solltest Du möglichst frühzeitig (nicht erst zum Ende der Eintragungsfrist) unterschreiben, damit der Start gut gelingt.


Liebe Grüße



PS: Inzwischen warnen auch Immobilienexperten: Wer einen Sender in der Nachbarschaft hat, muss mit einer Wertminderung rechnen.

Info: http://www.immobilien-wertminderung.de

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eMail-Aktion - Eilt !!!


An alle unterstützenden Parteien und Verbände


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

rechtzeitig vor dem Start des Mobilfunk-Volksbegehrens beginnen wir die Aktion "email an meine Freunde" - eine Art Ketten-eMail-Aktion, die einen Schneeballeffekt erzeugen soll. Würden Sie bitte Ihre Mitglieder auffordern, ihrerseits die mail an ihre Verwandten, Freunde und Bekannten zu schicken! Anbei ein gebrauchsfertiges Muster, das Ihnen die Erstellung der mail für Ihren Verband/Initiative sicherlich erleichtert.


Vielen Dank für Ihre Mühe

Ihr

Urban Mangold
Organisator des Volksbegehrens



Muster für Brief von Initiativen, Verbänden und Partei-Untergliederungen an ihre Mitglieder


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Mitglieder,

vom 5. bis 18. Juli läuft in allen bayerischen Gemeinden das Volksbegehren "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". Unser Verband unterstützt dieses Projekt mit Nachdruck. Ich persönlich halte diese Aktion für sehr wichtig und bitte deshalb alle Mitglieder und deren Angehörige, das Anliegen mit ihrer Unterschrift im Rathaus zu unterstützen.

Darüber hinaus bitte ich Sie, sich an der landesweiten e-mail-Aktion zu beteiligen. Schicken Sie bitte die nachfolgende mail an Ihre elektronisch erreichbaren Verwandten, Freunde und Bekannten!

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung und freundliche Grüße

Ihr

Kreisvorsitzender / Sprecher ...



Muster-Brief an Ihre Verwandten, Freunde und Bekannten:

Liebe(r) ... (Freunde, Verwandte und Bekannte)

vom 5. bis 18. Juli läuft in allen bayerischen Gemeinden das Volksbegehren "Für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". Die Aktion richtet sich nicht grundsätzlich gegen Handys. Ziel ist vielmehr, die Strahlenbelastung deutlich zu reduzieren. Ich halte das für sehr wichtig und bitte deshalb alle meine Freunde und Bekannten, dieses Projekt mit ihrer Unterschrift zu unterstützen.

Das Volksbegehren ist nur erfolgreich, wenn sich während dieser zwei Wochen in ganz Bayern zehn Prozent der Wahlberechtigten in die Listen eintragen, die aber nur in den Rathäusern ausliegen (in größeren Städten auch in Stadtteil-Eintragungsräumen).

Bislang können die Mobilfunkbetreiber ihre Sendemasten bis zu einer Höhe von 10 Metern hinstellen, wo sie wollen. Das soll jetzt geändert werden. Mit einem erfolgreichen Volksbegehren werden öffentliche Genehmigungsverfahren mit Nachbarschaftsbeteiligung eingeführt. Dann können in lokalen Vorsorgeplanungen Tabu-Zonen (Wohnbereiche, Kindergärten, Schulen ...) ausgewiesen und unproblematischere Sendemastenstandorte genehmigt werden. Denn wer möchte schon, dass der nächste Sender neben seinem Schlafzimmer strahlt!

Weitere Informationen findest Du unter
http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de oder unter der Info-Tel.Nr. 0851/931171. Dort kannst Du auch kostenlos Flugblätter zum Verteilen anfordern. Bitte leite diese e-mail an Deine Bekannten weiter und bitte diese, die Nachricht wiederum an ihre Bekannten zu schicken. Dieses Projekt ist es wirklich wert, den Weg ins Rathaus (des ersten Wohnsitzes) auf sich zu nehmen. Bitte den Personalausweis zur Eintragung mitnehmen! Wenn irgendwie möglich, solltest Du möglichst frühzeitig (nicht erst zum Ende der Eintragungsfrist) unterschreiben, damit der Start gut gelingt.


Liebe Grüße



PS: Inzwischen warnen auch Immobilienexperten: Wer einen Sender in der Nachbarschaft hat, muss mit einer Wertminderung rechnen.

Info: http://www.immobilien-wertminderung.de



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ACLU Charges

June 21, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media@aclu.org

Report Details Civil Liberties Implications of Faulty Policies

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union released a report today examining government policies and practices that have hampered academic freedom and scientific inquiry since September 11, 2001.

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http://www.aclu.org/scientificfreedom

The report sheds new light on how these policies curtail basic rights and put all Americans at risk. "Attacks on scientific freedom have the same effect on our democracy as attacks on political freedom," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Curtailing scientific freedom in the name of national security is bad for science, bad for freedom and simply not effective in increasing the safety of America."

The report, Science Under Siege, connects the dots between several different areas where misguided government policies are affecting science. Among the abuses the ACLU examines in the report are:

* moves to overclassify information and designate whole areas of research as "sensitive but unclassified;"

* outright censorship and prescreening of scientific articles before publication;

* exclusion of foreign students from access to research projects;

* suppression of environmental and public health information; and

* increased restrictions on materials and technology commonly used in basic scientific research.

Throughout the report, the ACLU challenges claims by the Bush administration that such policies are ultimately beneficial for national security, and points to documented cases in which the administration has distorted scientific and academic inquiry for particular political purposes.

"This report makes clear the extent to which the Bush administration has hampered the pursuit of knowledge and scientific inquiry," said Tania Simoncelli, the Technology and Science Fellow with the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project. "It has diminished America’s standing as a magnet for students and intellectuals around the world, had a chilling effect on many practicing scientists, and set terrible precedents for the government control of information."

According to the ACLU, restrictions on the free flow of information have jeopardized America’s current global leadership in the sciences. In addition to policies implemented post-9/11, the report notes an ongoing erosion of environmental and public health standards, including mercury emissions, global climate change, sexual education and mountaintop removal mining.

The ACLU recommends a series of reforms including a halt to overclassification, the elimination of the "sensitive but unclassified" designation, the removal of censorship and publication restrictions, dropping unnecessary restrictions on foreign students and scholars, maintaining the fundamental research exemption and protecting science from undue political interference.

"The future security of our nation will flow from our global scientific strength and leadership," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Project. "Attempts to achieve security through control and repression of information will never work, and will only undermine that leadership. The administration must reverse its misguided and damaging policies."

Science Under Siege is available online at http://www.aclu.org/scientificfreedom



From ECOTERRA Intl.

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Informant: beefree

Emily Colvin was yanked from the crowd protesting Bush during one of his Town Hall meetings in Westfield, NJ last March. Her trial is Monday. She did absolutely nothing wrong.

http://www.bigbrassblog.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=424



Informant: DitziSis