nlnews@archant.co.uk

29 June 2005

MUSWELL Hill Against the Masts campaigners are to carry out a survey of children in the area to see if they are suffering from radiation sickness.

Campaign leaders, whose children go to schools and nurseries near the 3G mast in Grand Avenue, are concerned some of them are already showing signs of radiation sickness.

Sarah Purdey, a chartered accountant and mother-of-three who set up Muswell Hill Against the Masts, said: "Some of the children are showing signs of microwave sickness such as sleepless nights and heart palpitations."

Mrs Purdey claims her own son is showing symptoms.

Anti-mast campaigners are particularly concerned following an outbreak of ill health at a school in Warwickshire - which they blame on mobile phone masts sited nearby.

An informal health survey carried out there appears to show that 98 per cent of pupils are suffering from health problems, according to Muswell Hill Against the Masts.

The group is now planning to ask Muswell Hill parents to fill in a questionnaire about their children's health.

Mast Sanity, a national campaign group against mobile phone masts, is conducting a health survey across the country in an attempt to see how many people are affected by mast microwaves.

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: "You have to remember that a radio base station is one of many sources of electro magnetic frequency (EMF) and that would include televisions, radio, communications by fire and police, communications by taxis and then there is a whole host of other devices like shop security systems.

"So to pick out on source of EMS in the environment would be quite complicated.

The consensus of scientific opinion is that within guideline levels there is no evidence of any adverse health effects and that is based on 17 years of research."

Omega there is strong evidence of adverse health effects. See under: http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Yasmin Skeltz, a trustee at Mast Sanity who deals with health and safety issues, said: "Mast Sanity are trying to encourage people, if they feel ill health, to fill in a form so we get some idea of what is going on around the country.

"It's completely confidential but it will give us some indication of what is happening."

william.lee@archant.co.uk

http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/content/haringey/tottenhamjournal/news/story.aspx?brand=HCEJOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newstwgj&itemid=WeED29%20Jun%202005%2014%3A30%3A36%3A303



Informant: NoName

We did it!

In less than 24 hours, more than 25,000 of you emailed and phoned your Senators, urging them to support our bipartisan amendment to reinstate the moratorium on human pesticide testing. Thanks to your vocal lobbying efforts, our amendment passed on the Senate floor by a vote of 60-37 Wednesday. You really helped turn the tide. Until the last few hours prior to the vote, we did not have the votes. But your personal advocacy changed that.

This a huge victory for ethics and morality in science, and a huge victory for the men, women, and children who would otherwise be subjected to these cruel and inhumane tests. I can't thank you enough for your help and support on this critical issue.

So that's some good news this week. But, while I'm writing to you, I also wanted to take just a moment to respond to President Bush's speech about Iraq Tuesday night.

Frankly, I was disappointed and discouraged by the President's speech. The American people deserved to hear much more from the President about what our mission is in Iraq, how he intends to succeed in that mission, how long it will take, and how much it will cost.

President Bush's use of Osama Bin Laden's words to defend America's policies was bizarre in the extreme. And his continued attempts to link the Iraq War to September 11th is a myth. In fact, on September 11th, according to George Bush's own State Department, there was not one Al Qaeda cell in Iraq! As a result of this President's misguided war, Iraq is now a training ground for terrorists, and refusing to set a goal for withdrawal is only further fueling the insurgency.

The President defended his war and now says our mission is to "hunt down the terrorists." This mission has changed so many times it's hard to keep track -- from finding WMD's, to removing Saddam Hussein, to holding elections, to rebuilding Iraq, to training Iraqis to defend their country, and now to "hunting down terrorists."

President Bush also missed a golden opportunity Tuesday night to pledge to our troops that they would get all the equipment they need on the battlefield and all the health care they need when they come home.

All in all, the President defended the status quo and gave very little hope for an exit to this horrible quagmire. Now, it falls to the Congress to demand accountability from this administration and a clear exit strategy to ease the incredible strain on our troops, many of whom have had three tours of duty!

I'll be providing more of my own views on Iraq in a speech next week, so stay tuned for more on this important issue in the coming days.

Thanks again for your continued support!

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

P.S. More than 100,000 people have already emailed the White House, urging the President to withdraw John Bolton's nomination as U.N. Ambassador. But with the Senate out next week, there's still a chance that President Bush will try to sneak in a recess appointment -- bypassing the Senate's advice and consent responsibility entirely. So if you haven't yet emailed the White House about John Bolton, please do it now! http://ga4.org/campaign/new_nominee/b85g574o5tt8jn?

And then invite everyone you know to send their own message to President Bush as well! http://ga4.org/campaign/new_nominee/forward/b85g574o5tt8jn?

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr005=0076dzspb1.app7a&page=NewsArticle&id=11163&news_iv_ctrl=1223


Informant: Carrie Dann

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3027/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

The Capitol's grubby secret is the swarm of lobbyists in a sea of money, washing around the Congress and Senate. But one lobbyist may have just over-reached himself.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article295734.ece


From Information Clearing House

As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican. I take this step with deep regret, and with a deep sense of betrayal.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/26/ed.col.chaney.0626.html


From Information Clearing House

Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk.

http://www.sundayherald.com/40096


From Information Clearing House



http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/

Information collected for a German project investigating the use of uranium-charged ammunition in Iraq shows that when Iraqi women fear for their children's health, it is with good reason.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1510710,00.html


From Information Clearing House

BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.sundayherald.com/32522




http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9344.htm

PRESIDENT Bush gives plenty of lip service to men and women in uniform. Now it’s time for the President to put his money where his mouth is and fully fund veterans’ benefits.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050630/OPINION02/50630004


From Information Clearing House

I was in the drug store today out here in Podunk. Some old guy in front of me was picking up his little paper bag of prescription medicine. The lady behind the counter handed him a credit card slip and said, "I'm sorry."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9343.htm

The American people should be concerned that their federal government worries more about the Iraqis than it does the Americans. We could find far better uses for both the money and the lives than to squander them on the hard, bloody soil of the Middle East.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese203.html


From Information Clearing House

To return to America after an absence of six months is to find a nation sobered by reality. The reality of debt and lost jobs. The reality of rising China. Above all, the reality of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9342.htm

The Army's divorce rate has soared in the past three years. Between 2001 and 2004, divorces among active-duty Army officers and enlisted personnel nearly doubled, from 5,658 to 10,477, even though total troop strength remained stable.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5483458.html


From Information Clearing House

For the fourth month in a row, the army has fallen well short of its recruitment targets. The result is that they're turning to some pretty unconventional methods to persuade young Americans to do it for Uncle Sam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9348.htm

http://nypress.com/18/26/pagetwo/newshole4.cfm

The governor, who proudly announced last week that his son has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marines, also noted that Teddy Pataki hopes to defer his military service for three years until he finishes law school.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opmcc304324656jun30,0,1221085.column




From Information Clearing House

The State Department called Iraq too dangerous for American travellers on Wednesday, hours after President George W Bush pointed to "significant progress" there.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1416044,001300180001.htm


From Information Clearing House

On Tuesday night, the president abandoned the narrow patch of high ground that he had staked out and dove into the raging flood of deceit that his administration had unleashed.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=45372&ntpid=0


From Information Clearing House

The president who displayed his contempt for Iraqi militants two years ago with the taunt "bring 'em on" had to go on television Tuesday night to urge Americans not to abandon support for the war that he foolishly started but can't figure out how to win.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9349.htm

The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12016097.htm


From Information Clearing House

Weapons, wealth and might do not always determine the course of events. People do.

By Joel Miller

Who are the Patrick Henrys of today and who are the foreign invaders and aggressors; who are the defenders of their homes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9353.htm

Only one-third of Americans questioned in a Washington Post-ABC News poll last May defined what happened at Abu Ghraib as "torture."

By Silja J.A. Talvi

"The Christian in me says it's wrong," Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. said of torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "But the corrections officer in me says I love to make a grown man piss himself."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9351.htm

Medienaussendung

UMTS verbindet die Initiativen. Immer mehr wehren sich gegen den belastendenden Senderausbau.

Heute beteiligten sich Initiativenvertreter mit Transparenten an der von den Eltern der Rudolf Steiner Schule Salzburg initierten Mahnwache vor dem Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg.

Wir möchten auch darauf aufmerksam machen, dass viele Schulen und Kindergärten im Stadtgebiet und auch anderswo ähnlich und sogar stärker durch Strahlenbelastung betroffen sein dürften als die Schule in Langwied. Der Elternkreis aus der Rudolf-Steiner-Schule hält es für unverantwortlich, dass wider besseres Wissen überall Standorte in Schul- und Kindergartennähe betrieben und ausgebaut werden und dass die Bevölkerung über bestehende und geplante Senderstandorte nicht informiert wird.

Der anstehende Ausbau des UMTS-Netzes beunruhigt die Gemüter in zunehmendem Maße. Besorgte Bürger und Initiativen befürchten erhebliche gesundheitliche Belastungen, wenn der eingeschlagene Weg von Betreibern und Politikern sowie Verwaltung nicht zugunsten alternativer Konzepte verlassen wird. Das Installieren neuer Sendeanlagen birgt auf viele Jahre hinaus unabwendbare Gefahren für die Gesundheit.

Durch die Situation an der Schule hat sich das Problembewusstsein der Eltern derart geschärft, dass sie - angesichts ihrer inzwischen zahlreichen Erkenntnisse und ihrer Kontakte zu Wissenschaftlern und Ärzten - auch alle anderen Eltern ermuntern wollen, sich für den Gesundheitsschutz ihrer Kinder einzusetzen, bevor gesundheitliche Schäden eintreten. Die engagierten Eltern setzen sich mit ihren Aktionen für die Wahrung des Grundrechtes auf körperliche Unversehrtheit besonders der Kinder, unserer zukünftigen Generation, ein.

Die sich mehrenden warnenden Äußerungen von Ärzten und Wissenschaftlern sollten insbesondere von den Entscheidungsträgern wahrgenommen werden und zu einem verantwortlichen Gesundheitsschutz für die Bürger führen.

Mehr Wachheit und Eintreten für das elementare Recht auf Gesundheitsschutz für Kinder halten die engagierten Eltern für unerlässlich.

Digitalfotos folgen, bzw. werden auf Anfrage nachgesandt.


Für die Eltern

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Michael Meyer
michael_meyer@aon.at
A - 5165 Berndorf, Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

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Am Donnerstag 7. Juli von 10 bis 11 Uhr, Salzburg vor dem Schloss Mirabell

findet wieder eine Mahnwache zu unseren Senderproblemen statt. Mittlererweile beteiligen sich auch immer mehr andere Initiativen an der Aktion und eine Vernetzung findet langsam aber sicher statt. Es ist gerade jetzt in der aktuellen Situation immens wichtig mit unserem Protest deutlich sichtbar zu bleiben.

Darum meine Bitte:

Möglichst viele Menschen informieren und bitten tatsächlich diese eine Stunde - möglichst 5-10min früher - hinzukommen und einfach bei unserer friedlichen Schweige-Mahnwache dabeizusein. Die Stimmung war auch vergangenen Donnerstag wieder sehr gut und wir wurden von den Passanten deutlich wohlwollend mit unserem Anliegen akzeptiert!!!

Bitte auch selbst die Medien informieren, da es mehr Effekt hat, wenn die Medien von verschiedenen Seiten eingeladen werden.

Bitte Transparente mitbringen wenn vorhanden auch Flugzettel. Also anrufen, bitten weiterzurufen und möglichst auch Eltern, Freunde, Kinder etc. mitzunehmen.

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Michael Meyer
michael_meyer@aon.at
Elternvertreter
Risiko Mobilfunk Österreich
A - 5165 Berndorf, Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

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Mahnwache: Stoppt Gesundheitsgefährdung durch Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/795561/

AMERICA'S FUTURE | http://www.ourfuture.org

On July 4, 1776, our founding fathers declared our independence from an oppressive foreign power. And -- against all odds -- the movement they led won America its freedom.

Today, America faces a different form of dependence: an oppressive reliance on a diminishing supply of oil. But instead of declaring our independence, today's Republican-led Congress just passed legislation that will leave us even more dependent and vulnerable. The Apollo Alliance ( http://www.apolloalliance.org ) -- a remarkable coalition of labor unions, environmental groups, urban leaders, and citizens of common sense -- has proposed an alternative: a 10 year drive for energy independence that would create 3 million new jobs and set America free from foreign oil.

Where our leaders refuse to take up this charge, we, the people can and must lead. Everyday, each of us can act to hasten America's independence from foreign oil. From using energy efficient transportation like trains, buses, and hybrid cars, to employing energy-saving technologies in our homes, to walking, biking and simply turning lights off when we leave a room -- we, the people, can advance American energy independence, even while we indict the failure of our national leaders.

Collectively, our actions can make a powerful statement to the President and Congress that we're doing our part to promote American energy dependence, and that we expect them to do theirs. In this spirit, we ask you to share a photograph of yourself -- or a friend or family member -- taking action to promote American energy independence. We'll publish them online and shower them on the President and members of Congress to let them know that we will not forget their failure to lead.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=98398

Help us challenge the failure of the administration and the Congress to stand up. The administration's energy plan was cooked up by big oil lobbyists in secret meetings with Vice President Cheney. In the wake of rising gas prices, the president has changed his rhetoric but not his policy. Led by the corrupt Tom DeLay, the House passed a bill this year that is a shameless giveaway to the big oil companies that are pocketing record profits from high gas prices.

The Senate did better, recognizing the reality that rising demand for oil and global warming makes action imperative. But even their bill fails to address the root causes of today's sky-rocketing gas prices. It weds us to importing ever more oil, making our economy literally dependent on the shifting sands of Persian Gulf emirates. It stymies the birth of a new American alternative energy industry and sacrifices millions of new jobs here at home. And, it fails to adequately address the growing threats to our global environment.

On this Independence weekend, it is time for America to declare its independence once again. And we have no choice but to lead the way. Please share photographs of actions you've taken to foster American energy independence. We'll publish them to help press the President and Congress to follow our lead.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=98398

A generation ago, John F. Kennedy inspired Americans to accomplish what was believed to be an impossible task -- to put a man on the moon in less than a decade. Today's Apollo project is not to put a man on the moon, but to achieve American energy independence. It's time to enact a modern-day Apollo plan that will...

>> Reduce gas prices by helping Americans lead the world in reducing the demand for oil.

>> Free America from dependence on unstable oil emirates through real investments in modern energy-saving technologies.

>> Create millions of new jobs here in America while capturing the alternative energy industries of the future and rebuilding our communities for high-performance energy efficiency.

>> Protect our natural environment by mobilizing investment in pollution-reducing technologies like bio-fuels, energy efficient buildings, solar and wind power, and a new generation of clean power plants.

In the spirit of 1776, and in the spirit of John Kennedy's call to a new generation, we call for a national commitment to energy independence, and back up this call with a personal commitment to actively support our country's move to independence. Please share your photos with us today.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=98398

Thank you for all that you do, and best to you in celebrating your independence!


Sincerely,

Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director
Campaign for America's Future and Apollo Alliance Steering Committee Member

P.S. Please spread the word. When you're celebrating the 4th of July, please take a few minutes share news about the Apollo Alliance's push for energy independence with your friends and family, and encourage them to join the effort.


The Apollo Alliance is a joint project of the Campaign for America's Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

Mobile phone mast/tetra debate

19th July from 11am – 2pm in the Boothroyd Room.

It has been confirmed that I will be on the panel debating phone masts along with Dr Gerd Oberfeld from Salzburg on the 19th of July

The Forum will begin at 11am (we are advising everyone to arrive at 10.30 as it will take some time to clear security) and will finish at 2pm.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

90 places are available for the public to attend, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to support us on the day, come for a day out in London. Please contact John Staples in order to book a free pass.

John Staples
Parliamentary Researcher
Office of Lembit Öpik MP
Tel: 020 7219 1144, 020 7219 0032
Fax: 020 7219 2210
E-Mail: staplesj@parliament.uk


Kind Regards

Eileen O’Connor

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ich bitte um Veröffentlichung des unten angehängten Textes und wünsche uns allen ein erfolgreiches Volksbegehren.

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/fdp_mobilfunk_volksbegehren.rtf

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Marianne Blank
Umweltpolitische Sprecherin der FDP Bayern

by Nell Greenberg and Chris Michael, TomPaine.com

The Baker-Carter commission on election reform meets today -- embodying many of the flaws of the U.S. election system.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050630/silenced_and_sidelined_again.php

http://www.mobilfunk-volksbegehren.de/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Volksbegehren+Mobilfunk

George Bush will officially leave office in January 2009. For millions of Americans this surely seems an interminable time to wait to reclaim the country from a period of almost inexplicable and collective madness--one that will likely be known simply as the “Bush Era”,

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2005/06/bushs-flagship-uss-fiasco-is-sinking.html



US faces prison ship allegations :

The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4632087.stm

From Information Clearing House

For the first time, a leading American politician and potential presidential candidate, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, was brave enough to say: "The White House is completely disconnected from reality The reality is, we're losing in Iraq."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9335.htm

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/rburbach28.htm


From Information Clearing House

Ray McGovern

The editors of the New York Times this morning feign shock that in his speech at Fort Bragg yesterday evening President George W. Bush would "raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks." Kudos for that insight! Better three years late than never, I suppose.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern06292005.html


From Information Clearing House

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9174.htm

Bush Speech: Complete text :

America good : Iraq Good. Bad men, terror, protect you, courage, sacrifice, global war on terror, yada yada yada. God Bless America.....

http://www.nbc11.com/news/4663311/detail.html



Short version: Fact Sheet: Facts, Quotes From President's Address:

Bush mentioned "September Eleventh" 5 (five) separate times.* : TERROR: Bush mentioned "terror", "terrorism" or "terrorists" 35 times.*

http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/4663351/detail.html



Bush Declares Sacrifice in Iraq to Be 'Worth It':

President Bush, facing a growing restiveness around the country and in his own party over the constant stream of casualties in Iraq, declared Tuesday night that the daily sacrifice of American lives in Iraq "is worth it, and it is vital to the future security of our country."

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050629/ZNYT03/506290399



Bush's War: It Was Worth It Picture Album:

"I'm this great picture of the Army." Martinez suffered massive burns to his face, head and body. He has spent the last year in surgery and recovery at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Photographed April 3, 2004 at his home in Dalton, Georgia,while on a brief hospital leave.

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/purplehearts_01.html


From Information Clearing House

by Mike Whitney

He produced no plan, no strategy, and no vision; just a continuation of the same trends; the steady erosion of national confidence, a precipitous decline in credibility, and the daily loss of life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9339.htm

http://www.troopsoutnow.org/

Now, more than ever, it is vital that the antiwar movement be in the streets. The Troops Out Now Coalition is joining with the September 24 National Coalition, which includes the National Council of Arab-Americans (NCA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation, the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, the Haiti Support Network, the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, and the National Lawyers Guild, in order to help build a unified demonstration against the war.

In his speech last night, President Bush made it clear once again that he intends to continue the criminal war and occupation of Iraq, in defiance of international law and the will of the people.

It should be clear to everyone by now that corporate-owned politicians will not and cannot stop the war. Only a massive peoples' resistance can stop the war.

Bush's speech was a rerun of Nixon's Novemeber 1969 "Vietnamization" speech. Delivered at a time when antiwar sentiment was sweeping the nation, Nixon's speech desplayed asolute contempt for the will of the people, for international law, and for the facts on the ground. He claimed that the U.S. was making great progress in training South Vietnam's security forces, and that attacks by the resistance were decreasing.

None of this was true then, and it isn't true now in Iraq.

Bush's speech could have been written by the same speechwriter. It made the same misrepresentations and laid out the same course--a course of continued violence, torture, and repression.

We must do everything within our power to build a united front to bring the troops home now. On September 24, tens of thousands of activists will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand "Troops Out Now!"

The Troops Out Now Coalition is working with local and national organiztions, as part of The September 24 National Coalition for the March on Washington, to build a massive united presence on September 24.

We will be organizing buses, vans, car caravans, and peace trains from all over the country to flood the streets of Washington.

Now is a critical time--military recruiting is down, Bush's approval ratings are plummeting, and opposition to the war is growing. It is up to us to make that opposition a potent force on the streets.

What we do now can make a difference, and we have a responsibility to turn up the heat.

The Troops Out Now Coalition Statement on September 24 raises the following critical points:

* The vital importance of building a united front against the war. Our emphasis needs to be on building a large, militant antiwar movement that is capable of stopping the war. TONC renews its appeal to the small but influential forces in the antiwar movement who refused to work together for the fall and beyond to reverse their positions and help unleash the full mass potential of the struggle to shut the war down.

* That building a united movement means including, not excluding, the struggles of oppressed people. Support for the Right of all Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their original homes and property in all of historic Palestine is not negotiable.

* That unity means much more than organizational unity. It means, more importantly, that the antiwar movement reaches out to and embraces the struggles of oppressed people here and internationally. It means solidarity with the struggle of communities of color, with LGBT communities, with immigrants, and with struggles against racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression. It means solidarity with the people of Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, the Philippines, and everywhere that people are struggling against U.S. colonial occupation.

* That the antiwar movement needs to look to new and more effective tactics to stop the war. Activists raised the slogan "Troops Home Now, or We'll Shut It Down!" and discussed the idea of declaring a moratorium against the war, including walkouts, civil disobedience, and other direct actions to bring the cities to a stop until the war is ended.

* That the struggle to end the war will be won by mobilizing a massive movement in the streets. Counting on elections and pro-war politicians to end the war is, at best, a misdirection of time, energy, and resources. Only the people will stop the war. To that end, it is important to immediately begin planning and mobilizing now for the September 24 March in Washington DC, the Millions More Movement events on the weekend of October 14-16, and the Moratorium Against the War.

We need your help to build a massive, united demonstration:

Organize transportation from your area.
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/orgcentersignup.html

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=86056;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=86078;show_parent=1

AGRADECEMOS, SINCERAMENTE, AL DOCTOR MANUEL PORTOLÉS EL ARTÍCULO ADJUNTO QUE NOS HA REMITIDO: "Las ratas no hablan por teléfono móvil", publicado en Levante-EMV.

Estamos en tiempos duros con la insistente y tozuda afirmación, sin base alguna, de una de las mentiras, que, a fuerza de ser repetida por la industria y la propia Administración, más de uno empieza a creerse como un dogma universal: "La OMS concluyó en el 2000 que los móviles no son nocivos para la salud".

Ni la OMS dijo eso en el año 2000, ni estamos aún en pañales por lo que se refiere a la investigación científica en materia de Radiaciones ElectroMagnéticas, ni hay dudas hoy día sobre la nocividad de dichas fuentes de electropolución. Las discusiones se centran en su vinculación con el cáncer no en las más que probadas evidencias nocivas respecto de las embarazadas y su gestación, respecto de las personas con implantes, respecto de los niños y su mayor vulnerabilidad...

Soplos de aire nuevo provenientes del artículo adjunto nos recuerdan lo que pasa en el 2005; nos traen las últimas revisiones científicas: las de la semana pasada, las de este mismo mes de Junio de 2005 y nos alertan de los resultados conocidos de investigaciones aún no publicadas.

Gracias, querido Doctor.

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/MPLASRATAS.doc
http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/VENDERALMA.doc


AVECORN
Asociación de Vecinos Contra Radiaciones Nocivas de L'Escala (Girona)

Nota.- Adjuntamos un escrito que si bien era una realidad AYER mismo, HOY a alguien le podria parecer una profecía: "CUANDO LOS AYUNTAMIENTOS VENDIERON SU ALMA AL DIABLO" (30/06/2003)

http://rense.com/general66/equals.htm


Informant: Neo Mulder



Depleted Uranium Poisoning (D.U.)
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/

Did President George Bush's pro-war pep rally backfire? Did Bush make too many dubious claims? Did Bush try and fail again to improperly link 9/11 with the Iraq War quagmire? Juan Cole presents facts to balance the many misleading comments Bush made during his televised address from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, last night.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3804

One year after the transfer of power in Iraq, President Bush found himself in a familiar, if unsettling, position last night, as he sought to reinvigorate public support for his policies in the face of almost daily suicide bombings and continued U.S. casualties that have called into question whether the administration has a workable strategy for success and exit there.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3802

The George W. Bush administration's policies on indefinite detention and ”extraordinary rendition” are coming under heavy fire from a number of institutions and organizations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, and members of the U.S. Congress itself.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3797

PRESIDENT BUSH sought last night to bolster slipping public support for the war in Iraq by connecting it, once again, to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and to the war against terrorism. That connection is not spurious, even if Saddam Hussein was not a collaborator of al Qaeda: Clearly Iraq is now a prime battlefield for Islamic extremists, and success or failure there will do much to determine the outcome of the larger struggle against them. But Mr. Bush didn't explain how a war meant to remove a tyrant believed to wield weapons of mass destruction turned into a fight against Muslim militants, a transformation caused in part by his administration's many errors since Saddam Hussein's defeat more than two years ago. The president also didn't speak candidly enough about the primary mission the United States now has in Iraq, which is not "hunting down the terrorists" but constructing a stable government in spite of Iraq's sectarian divisions and violent resistance from the former ruling elite. It's harder to explain why Americans should die in such a complex and ambitious enterprise than in a fight with international terrorists, but that is the case Mr. Bush most needs to make.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3791

Oil prices hit a record $60 a barrel this week, inducing that familiar feeling that the world is a prisoner of energy gods beyond its control. Some analysts worry that high prices will eventually bring on a global recession that will shrink demand for a while -- until the next spike begins.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3790

WASHINGTON, June 28 - President Bush set out Tuesday night to reshape perceptions of what is happening in Iraq after months in which the persistent insurgency has undermined public support for the war, provoked signs of a split in his own party and prompted inconsistent statements from administration officials about how soon things might improve.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3782



Transcript of President Bush's Speech

The following is the transcript of President Bush's prepared speech Tuesday night at Fort Bragg, N.C., as provided by CQ Transcriptions, LLC.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3781



President Bush's Speech About Iraq

President Bush told the nation last night that the war in Iraq was difficult but winnable. Only the first is clearly true. Despite buoyant cheerleading by administration officials, the military situation is at best unimproved. The Iraqi Army, despite Mr. Bush's optimistic descriptions, shows no signs of being able to control the country without American help for years to come. There are not enough American soldiers to carry out the job they have been sent to do, yet the strain of maintaining even this inadequate force is taking a terrible toll on the ability of the United States to defend its security on other fronts around the world.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3783



Analysis: Subdued Bush's appeal

There were no jokes, no introduction and no backslapping. What we got was a podium, a blue background and, for 35 minutes, a president reading in a subdued tone from a very carefully prepared script.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3789

ACTION ALERT

FORWARD WIDELY!

NEW ZEALAND: Prime Kiwi Habitat to Be Destroyed by Coal Mine

by Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
http://forests.org/
June 30, 2005

TAKE ACTION

New Zealand Government Fails to Protect Endangered National Bird
http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=kiwi

New Zealand's (Aotearoa) national bird is the kiwi and the people call themselves kiwis – yet New Zealand’s state-owned coal mining company plans to destroy prime habitat of the endangered great spotted kiwi with a new open pit coal mine. Solid Energy Coals claims it can kill kiwi under the Coal Mines Act despite the species being "absolutely protected" under the Wildlife Act. As well as being prime habitat for the great spotted kiwi, the proposed coal field is home to a rare land snail, red tussock grasslands, wetlands, and beech forest derived from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. Two open pit mines, disposal areas and roads and offices will scar some 250 hectares of this distinctive landscape, while fouling natural waterways.

Strangely, the New Zealand government is both funding kiwi restoration projects throughout the country to save them from extinction, while simultaneously promoting coal mining which is destroying prime kiwi habitat. A broad coalition of environmental groups is fighting the mine.

Earlier this year local NGOs and a Maori tribe took Solid Energy to court in order to stop the mine. Solid Energy won but is now suing two of the NGOs for costs totaling $US270,000.

Please take the time to demand that Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Chemical - two prime customers for the high quality coal - not buy coal derived from the habitat of New Zealand's endangered national bird.

http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=kiwi


Networked by Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.
gbarry@forests.org

Attac Deutschland

Presseinformation

Frankfurt, 30. Juni 2005

* G8-Gipfel und Gegenaktivitäten in Schottland:
* Informationen und Kontaktmöglichkeiten von Attac


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

vom 6. bis 8. Juli findet in Schottland der G8-Gipfel statt. Während die Regierenden der Industriestaaten sich dort für den jüngst beschlossenen kleinen Schuldenerlass feiern werden, kommen im Vorfeld und zur gleichen Zeit viele Menschen nach Schottland, um die Legitimität dieser selbst ernannten Weltregierung in Frage zu stellen und eine wirkliche Lösung der drängenden Probleme - ob Schuldenkrise, Klimawandel oder internationale Besteuerung - zu fordern.

Auch zahlreiche Mitglieder von Attac Deutschland werden mit Bussen oder Fahrgemeinschaften nach Schottland fahren und sich an den Protesten und Gegenveranstaltungen zu beteiligen, überwiegend von Zeltplätzen in Edinburgh und Stirling aus. Als Ansprechpartner für Medien stehen folgende Mitglieder des Attac-Koordinierungskreises zur Verfügung:

- Philipp Hersel, in Schottland vom 1. bis 9. Juli,
Tel. +49-179-6727351, Experte für das Thema Schulden,
wird überwiegend bei den Gegenaktivitäten anwesend sein (Demonstrationen, Gegengipfel).

- Peter Wahl, in Schottland vom 5. bis 8. Juli,
Tel. +49-160-8234377, Experte für das Thema Internationale Steuern, ist offiziell beim Gipfel akkreditiert und steht auch im Pressezentrum für Gespräche zur Verfügung.

- Hugo Braun, in Schottland vom 30. Juni bis 7. Juli, er ist ebenso beim Gipfel akkreditiert und steht Ihnen für Gespräche zur Verfügung. Tel. +49-171-5422515.

In Edinburgh und Umgebung finden in der Zeit vom 1. bis 8. Juli viele Aktionen unterschiedlicher Gruppen statt. Zu den zentralen Aktivitäten, an denen sich auch Attac-Mitglieder beteiligen werden, gehören unter anderem:

* Großdemonstration in Edinburgh unter dem Motto "Make Poverty History" am Samstag, 2. Juli, ab 12 Uhr, Startpunkt: "The Meadows", mehr Informationen unter http://www.makepovertyhistory.org

* Gegengipfel "G8 Alternatives Summit" mit vielen prominenten ReferentInnen am Sonntag, 3. Juli, ab 10 Uhr in Edinburgh, Usher Hall, Queens Hall und Universität. Mehr Infos unter http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk -> Alternative Summit

* Blockade der Faslane Nuclearbasis (nordwestlich von Glasgow) am Montag, 4. Juli, ab 7 Uhr. Mehr Informationen unter http://www.faslaneg8.com/

* Demonstration in oder nach Gleneagles am Mittwoch, 6. Juli, Treffpunkt je nach Gegebenheiten um 12 Uhr am Bahnhof Gleneagles oder zu Fuß ab Camp in Stirling. Mehr Infos: http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk -> Gleneagles Demo

Weitere Informationen und Links rund um den G8 haben wir im Internet unter http://www.attac.de/aktuell/g8-2005.php zusammengestellt. Für Rückfragen stehen wir gern zur Verfügung.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Philipp Hersel, Peter Wahl, Hugo Braun

7. bundesweites Treffen der Sozialbündnisse, Organisatoren der Montagsdemonstrationen, Organisationen der sozialen Bewegung, Vertreter der Gewerkschaften am 9. Juli 2005

Es findet am Samstag, 9. Juli, im DGB-Haus in Kassel, Spohrstr. 6-8, von 11:00 bis 17:00 Uhr statt. Für weitere Infos siehe

die Einladung (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/mon_bw7.pdf

Anfahrtsplan (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/mon_bw7_anf.pdf

Sich selbst eine Arbeit geben, statt repressive ALG II-Ermittler. Kampagnenvorschlag (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/mon_bw7_vorschl.pdf

Protokoll vom Arbeitstreffen am 11.6. in Berlin (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/mon_bprot.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 19

Proteste gegen Ein-Euro-Jobs

Frankfurt: Ein-Euro-Aktionstag. Bericht vom Spaziergang Nr. 2 im Juni für eine Fragebogenktion der 1-Eurojobber/innen

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/ffmsp0605.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 19

Bericht vom bundesweiten Agenturschluss-Treffen am 4. Juni 05
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/agenturschluss040605.html

Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse:

Es gibt eine kleine Redaktionsgruppe für das Projekt "Schwarzbuch A-Amt", die eine Zwischenbilanz zum 2. Januar 2006 herausbringen will. Beiträge zu dieser Broschüre sind willkommen, bitte senden an agentur_schluss@yahoo.com

Nächstes Agenturschluss-Treffen: Samstag, 24. September um 11 Uhr, autonomes zentrum Wuppertal, Markomannenstr.3, 42105 Wuppertal

Die Informationssammlungen gehen weiter, wir erinnern an:
Die Anonyme Umfrage zum Arbeitsamt und zu Ein-Euro-Jobs
http://www.labournet.de/agenturschluss/fragebogen.html

und „LabourNet Germany und Aktion Agenturschluss suchen schwarze Schafe“
http://www.labournet.de/agenturschluss/schwarzeschafe.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 19

Pressemitteilung von: Baubiologie Regional

Bürgerinitiativen sind voll bei der Sache

Ein Erfolg des Bürgerbegehrens gegen den ungebremsten Ausbau des Mobilfunks wäre für alle Beteiligten ein wichtiges Signal zur Aufbruchstimmung und für die Politiker ein Warnschuss, den Volkeswillen nicht zu unterschätzen.

Entsprechend legen sich alle Bürgerinitiativen in Bayern ins Zeug. Mit Informationsmaterial von der Aktionszentrale in Passau versorgt, werden Bündnisse geschmiedet, Kommunalpolitiker aktiviert, Ärzte und Apotheker eingebunden und möglichst viele Bürger direkt angesprochen. Dazu kommt eine Flut von Handzetteln und Plakaten an Litfassäulen und Strassenlaternen. In den Innenstädten werden Demos abgehalten und Infostände besetzt. Am 5. Juli gibt es in fast allen Kommunen Pressetermine mit prominenten Erstunterzeichnern. All dieser Aufwand ist notwendig, um 10 % von Bayerns Wählern in die Rathäuser zu lotsen und um Unterstützung zu bitten.

Das Volksbegehren verfolgt zwei wesentliche Ziele:

· Einführung eines öffentlichen Genehmigungsverfahrens mit Nachbarschaftsbeteiligung auch für Sendeanlagen unter 10 Metern

· ausdrückliche gesetzliche Festschreibung der Gesundheitsvorsorge im Landesentwicklungsprogramm

Damit soll das willkürliche Vorgehen der Betreiber bei der Standortplanung und der Antennenwildwuchs verhindert werden. Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis UMTS-Sendeantennen in alle Wohngebiete drängen. Diese neue Technik benötigt Basisstationen im Umkreis von 500 Metern. Damit wird in den meisten Fällen der Standort ausserhalb der Wohngegenden nicht mehr ausreichen.

Alle Bürgerinitiativen und sonstigen Aktionsgruppen werden gebeten, ihre geplanten Massnahmen im Mobilfunkforum von Baubiologie Regional einzutragen. Die Aktionen der BI’s von Bayreuth, Lichtenfels, Geretsried und Umgebung sind bereits aufgelistet. Der Link zum Forum: http://www.baubiologie-regional.de/forum3/read.php?f=4&i=164&t=164

Joachim Weise, Baubiologe (IBN)

http://openpr.de/news/52408-volksbegehren-gegen-mobilfunk-in-bayern-mit-signalwirkung-fuer-deutschland.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

by Michelle Hunt

Jun 29, 2005, 08:08

Protesters have declared war on a mobile phone giant after city councillors backed their campaign against erecting a towering mast near their Lichfield homes.

Members of Stowe Concerned Residents Against Masts (SCRAM) have vowed to fight until the bitter end to see T Mobile's plans for a 15-metre telecommunications pole in Eastern Avenue scrapped.

The group is one step closer to winning its battle after Lichfield City Council supported its concerns.

Members fear the mast could spark health problems among residents and pupils attending Charnwood County Primary School, Purcell Avenue, and would be an eyesore.

Campaigners have launched a high profile protest in a bid to have the controversial scheme thrown out.

They have taken to the streets to drum up support for their campaign and have now mounted a petition.

The group has also visited 170 houses surrounding the site to encourage people to send letters of objection to Lichfield District Council.

The authority will make a final decision on the scheme next month.

SCRAM Chairman David Brain said he was delighted the group had won the battle and said members would fight until it had also won the war.

"We are very pleased the council has supported our campaign and would have been very shocked if there had been any other decision.

"The site is clearly inappropriate as it is too close to houses and the school. We are determined to fight these plans and will protest until the end."

Mr Brain added: "I would urge people to write to the council highlighting their concerns over this application. We need to leave no doubt of the strength of feeling in the community - we do not want this mast."

Yorkshire Post

Joanne Finley

A DOCTOR from Yorkshire who says a mobile telephone mast near her home threatens her and her children's health is considering whether to take her case to the European courts.

Earlier this week Law Lords refused permission for Christine Nunn to appeal to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling in February .

For two years Dr Nunn has been trying to have removed a T-Mobile UK phone mast 120 metres from her home in the village of Bardsey, near Leeds.

Mother-of-three Dr Nunn, believes the T-Mobile mast near The Old Vicarage could trigger the migraines she and her family suffer and will have an adverse affect on property values.

She claims the refusal of a planning inspector to consider her case – because Leeds City Council was a day late in lodging its objections to the mast and planning permission was therefore deemed to have been given by default – has robbed her of her right to a fair hearing.

Last night she said she was considering whether to take the case to Europe and pledged to continue her fight to challenge the legislation.

29 June 2005

Western Daily Express

09:41 - 29 June 2005

All new phone masts should need full planning permission to allow local residents to object to them, West MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, right, insisted yesterday. The Cotswold Conservative told a special Commons debate the Government was not listening to people's concerns over the health and environment implications of telecoms masts.

Masts less than 40ft tall do not need full planning permission.

Fife Today

AN OUTRIGHT ban on mobile 'phone masts being sited on council land has been lifted.

But Fife authority's decision has come too late for anti-mast campaigners in north Glenrothes.

They were angered when a 15-metre-high monopole was erected in Formonthills Road last year.

Irate residents living in the mast's shadow fought a long-running battle with mobile company O2 over the device's position - even trying to block engineers from replacing the mast after it had been taken away for repairs in May.

However, despite the council's vow to remove its moratorium, it appears the Formonthills "eyesore" - as many locals have dubbed it - is here to stay.

Ron Page, chairman of the North Glenrothes Community Council, said he hoped the authority's U-turn would spare other communities the grief north Glenrothes folk had gone through.

"We did ask O2 if they could review the situation and perhaps even put the mast across the road," he told The Gazette.

"They said it had been too expensive to move it and in any case, Fife Council had agreed to where it was sited.

"Hopefully, in the future, the options will increase."

Mr Page added: "These masts do not have to be exactly adjacent to anybody's house.

"It's clear that all the mobile companies and Fife Council's planning department have had their fingers burned by what's happened up at Formonthills Road.

"It's a beacon to future development."

Councillor John Cameron, spokesman for development and planning, admitted there had to be a balance between economic benefits to Fife and the need of the industry to put equipment in appropriate locations.

"We appreciate that many communities across Fife have concerns about the location of telecoms equipment, but with the moratorium lifted, we may now be able to avoid masts being located by roadsides or near houses and put these on more suitable sites at council property instead," he commented.

"If a council site is the best location for equipment to be placed, then officers and councillors will work with the current guidance and policies to make that determination."

The council will receive money from operators whose masts were located on council premises.

Indeed, before the moratorium came into place in 1999, the council received £35,504 in fees each year.

But Councillor Cameron added that this should not be a "determining factor" in any policy or decision made.

A detailed policy will now be developed to help councillors deal with future mast applications concerning council property.

It will aim to avoid issues of equipment being put on schools or other buildings involving residents, members of the public or council staff.

Christine May MSP has welcomed the news of the change of heart by Fife Council.

She said: "This decision has been badly needed, especially in Glenrothes, where the installation of masts has been very contentious.

"In many instances, council-owned land might have been a better location for masts, but, because of the ban these could not be considered.

"Now, all possible sites will be up for assessment, and it may be possible to find locations which are further from homes and less obtrusive but still effective."

29 June 2005

Droitwich Star Advertiser

PLANNING bosses have given the green light to a controversial mobile phone mast despite strong opposition in Droitwich Spa.

An application by Hutchison 3G for permission to erect the mast on the Yew Tree Hill water tower had originally been refused by Wychavon District Council because of its visual impact.

But now planners have said the scheme can go ahead after the company appealed to the Planning Inspectorate, based in Bristol.

Inspectors decided the site satisfies the Government guidelines, and although they were aware of a number of concerns regarding the health effects of the masts, it is the view of the Government that the planning system is not the place for determining health safeguards.

Senior planning officer for Wychavon District Council, Robert Peel said: "Planning officers originally recommended permission be granted because it complied with planning laws but councillors on the planning committee chose to refuse the application, as is their right."

Droitwich Spa Town Council, which is not the planning authority but makes recommendations to the district council, has a policy of recommending refusal of 3G phone masts until more is known about health implications.

The tower is already used as a site for several companies' mobile phone masts but this scheme will be its first 3G mast.

Mayor Richard Morris said: "I feel our planning laws are very outdated if they do not allow us to consider the health and wellbeing of the people in our town as well as the volume of mobile communications on one site.

"I urge people to write to the Deputy Prime Minister and ask for a significant change in the planning laws so they more effectively consider people and not big business."

A spokesman for Hutchison 3G said all their base stations had been shown to work well within the radiation protection guidelines and overall evidence suggested they were unlikely to pose a risk to health.

Omega base stations pose a risk to health. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/ and
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster

Jun 29 2005

By Neil Elkes, Evening Mail

BIRMINGHAM schools which lease their rooftops for mobile phone masts could face future legal action from sick pupils, it was claimed today.

The city's leading mast activist has slammed the city council for "washing its hands" of the problem by giving school governors the final say on whether masts should be put on their buildings.

Eileen O'Connor, spokeswoman for Seriously Concerned Residents Against Masts, said council chiefs were also throwing temptation at governors who would be allowed to keep at least £5,000-ayear per mast.

Mrs O'Connor said: "This is a cop-out. The councillors are putting themselves in the clear by passing responsibility to the schools.

"When masts are proved unsafe, as I have no doubt they will be, it is the school governors who could face the consequences," she added.

An independent survey of residents found that two-thirds were opposed to masts on or near schools but threequarters said they were an acceptable development to allow the use of phones.

Eileen said: "What we need are limits on all masts." Chairman of a council inquiry into masts, Coun Michael Wilkes, said some schools may prefer to have masts on their own site rather than scattered on private sites around the school.

He argued that by lifting a ban on masts on council-owned buildings, the city was taking control of the issue.

Coun Wilkes said that if the ban continued an equivalent or possibly greater number of masts would be displaced to private land under less stringent conditions.

He said: "We will ensure that governors are provided with an impartial package of information so they can make an informed choice."

Jun 29 2005

Ayrshire Post

SOUTH Ayrshire Council’s planning committee were expected to approve plans for a Vodafone communications mast in Ayr’s Doonholm Road at a meeting on Tuesday.

The 18 metre high mast satisfies guidelines guarding the public from safety issues such as radiation but attracted a handful of objections from local residents.

Concerns were also raised over the proposed mast’s close proximity to The Mote monument.

One resident said: “Purely commercial interests are involved in the siting of this mast not only from the point of view of Vodafone but also presumably from the point of view of the owner of the land who will receive around £8,000 to £10,000 per annum for allowing Vodafone to have a mast on this site.”

Fears were also raised over the effect of a mast on the heavily populated residential area which includes a primary school.

However, the council were expected to approve the plans in accordance with national guidance over safety issues.

Aberystwyth Today

A MOBILE phone company which unlawfully put up a mast in Aberystwyth last week has spoken of its plans to put another on top of Bronglais hospital. The movements of Hutchison 3G came to light last week after Llanbadarn councillor Paul James started to investigate concerns of residents. The company erected a 15-metre mast in the yard of Clynderwen and Cardiganshire Farmers store at Parcy-Llyn overnight on Tuesday without planning permission. Cllr James described the company as “midnight commandos,” and their actions as “very cloak and dagger” and officials in Ceredigion County Council’s Planning Department were baffled by the sudden appearance. Hutchison 3G revealed late on Wednesday that they had not applied for planning permission but intended to. A spokesperson for the company also spoke of their plans to erect two other masts in the town, one on the roof of Bronglais Hospital and another on the town’s police station. Verity Stanford of Hutchison 3G said: “The current mast site is a temporary one, but we are hoping to install two permanent masts in the town in the coming months. “The company has acted in a reasonable fashion in order to secure a temporary site in the area, we are submitting a planning application which will allow local residents to put their views on our proposal to the local planning authority.” “A four-metre mast at Bronglais hospital we have planning for and there are plans for another at the police station, which we are in discussions for. “We will be applying for retrospective plan-ning permission on the temporary site. “It is important that we have a mast in the town as our customers currently have a limited service and cannot make data calls in Aberystwyth.” Cllr James responded: “Their actions are not responsible, in fact they are very irresponsible. “There is a lot of skullduggery going on. They are like midnight commandos, coming under the cover of darkness and erecting this mast.” Senior Planning Officer for Ceredigion County Council said of the temporary mast: “This was only brought to our attention on Wednesday. “This is classed as an unauthorised development and we do have powers to remove the mast. An enforcement officer from the council will visit the site and report back to us before a decision is made.” One nearby resident, Ifor Jones, who lives in Maes Mawr spoke of his disgust this week. “They can’t be able to get away with this, I am utterly disgusted. “It is so close to our houses and to Penweddig school, people are just dumb-founded. “It is an eye-sore and then there are the reported health issues. What I want to know is what the affects are in ten years time from living so close to a mast. “I noticed the mast on Wednesday morning and phoned Cllr Paul James immediately, he was down here in seconds.” Cllr James added: “My phone has been ring-ing itself off the hook from angry residents since this mast was put up. “The way it has been done it’s very underhanded. “I have spoken to the Farmers’ store and they seemed to be under the impression that Hutchison 3G had planning permission for this. “The people of Maes Mawr have had to put up with a lot, from boy racers to this, it has been hell for them. “I hope the mast is brought down so that we have a level playing field. Hutchison seem to have the upper hand at the moment.” Chief Executive of County Stores Keith Gosney said: “The situation with us is simple. “We were approached by Hutchison 3G and we said it was fine to put up a mast on our land, so long as they satisfied the local authority’s planning procedures. “There seems to be a misconception on the part of Hutchison in relation to planning rules in Ceredigion. “I can assure people that the mast will remain inactive until a planning decision has been reached.” Spokesman for Bronglais hospital Brian Thomas said: “I can confirm that permission has been granted to erect a telephone mast on the hospital roof. “The frequency Hutchison 3G will run off is outside that of medical equipment and will not cause any disruption.”

Sunderland Today

PLANS to put a 50ft-high mast next to one of Sunderland's most stunning landmarks have been unveiled by mobile phone bosses.

T-Mobile claim there are telephone reception problems in Sunderland city centre, so wants to build a 15-metre high communications mast next to Sunderland Minster.

And it seems church leaders are happy with the plan, which will improve services for phone users with 3G technology – mobiles that allow video conferencing between callers.

Canon Stephen Taylor today calmed fears about the mast plans.
He said: "The mast is not something that is going to block anybody's view of the minster. As I understand, it will look like and function as a flagpole."

If planning permission is approved, the mast would stand next to other flagpoles close to the steps into the minster's grounds and have three antennas inside it.

Mr Taylor said: "I, personally, don't have any problem about the mast and if we all want to use mobile telephone technology then there has to be masts."

T-Mobile was offering the diocese rent for siting the mast, but no sum had been agreed and the money will be ploughed back into church work, said Mr Taylor.

He added he was aware of health issues surrounding masts but said these were still to be proven beyond any doubt.

The minster had followed Church of England guidelines on the application and the Sunderland diocese's advisory committee is still considering T-mobile's bid.

Church neighbour and minster worker Robert Jones, of the Mowbray Alms Houses, said: "I am objecting because it is too close to my front door. I know people say there's no health risks but nobody really knows for sure."

The minster is in councillor Jim Hollern's ward, who said: "I am okay with the plan, it will be partly hidden by trees, health fears are not proven and it is providing a service by giving better receptions."

Omega health fears are proven. See further under: http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

T-Mobile has two other city centre masts in Sunderland with one in Hendon and one next to the Queen Alexandra Bridge.

29 June 2005

Gestern habe ich den Grundstückseigentümern Lehr, die eine Metallbaufirma in Dudenhofen betreiben, persönlich dieses anhängende Schreiben zusammen mit 314 Unterschriften, gegen die bereits begonnene Errichtung einer Funksende- und Empfangsanlage (Basisstation) übergeben.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Reinhard Burck, Am Schäferseck 3, 67373 Dudenhofen, Tel. privat: 06232/98566


Reinhard Burck, Betriebsrat, In den Waldstücken 2, 76829 Landau, DEUTSCHLAND
Tel.: +49 6341 590-219, Fax: +49 6341 590-220, reinhard.burck@wwk-druck.de
http://www.schlottgruppe.de

Bürgerinitiative gegen Mobilfunk-Anlagen in Dudenhofen
Reinhard Burck, Am Schäferseck 3, 67373 Dudenhofen
Ursula Krammer, Goethestraße 31, 67373 Dudenhofen

29. Juni 2005

Lehr R. und Sohn
- persönlich -
Am Gewerbering 9
67373 Dudenhofen

Errichtung einer Funksende- und Empfangsanlage (Basisstation) durch die Vodafone D2 GmbH auf ihrem Grundstück in Dudenhofen, Landauer Straße 14-16


Sehr geehrte Herren Lehr,

im Namen der über 300 Unterzeichner der Unterschriftenaktion gegen die Errichtung einer „UMTS-Antenne“, fordern wir sie als Eigentümer des Grundstücks in der Landauer Straße 14-16 auf, wegen der nicht zu unterschätzenden Risiken und den möglichen gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen für die Anwohner, auf die Installation der „Mobilfunkanlage“ auf ihrem Grundstück zu verzichten.

Da nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand nach wie vor die Verträglichkeit der elektromagnetischen Felder, die durch die Mobilfunkanlagen hervorgerufen werden nicht einwandfrei geklärt sind, halten wir den Standort in der Landauer Straße 14-16, der mitten in einem Wohngebiet und in unmittelbarer Nähe der Seniorenwohnanlage St. Sebastian u. dem Kindergarten St. Kunigunde liegt, für nicht akzeptabel.

Wir werden bei unseren Bedenken unterstützt durch Umweltexperten, Baubiologen und Ärzte, die schon lange vor den Risiken warnen.

Auch die 1200 Ärzte, die den „Freiburger Appell“ vom Oktober 2002 unterzeichneten, haben beanstandet, dass die Mobilfunktechnik ohne Gesundheitsverträglichkeitsprüfung flächendeckend eingeführt wurde. Die Beweise für die Risiken dieser Technik und für eine wachsende Zahl von Betroffenen nehmen in erdrückendem Maße zu (siehe Leukämiefälle in Spanien 2002, schwedische Studie von 2002 über Hirntumore, aktuelle REFLEX-Studie zu Zellschäden, TNO-Studie über kognitive Effekte - insbesondere durch UMTS-Frequenzen). In einschlägigen Studien zeigte sich eine bisher nicht bekannte beunruhigende Verkürzung der so genannten Latenzzeit bis zum Auftreten eines Tumors nach Expositionsbeginn.

Durch die Bestrahlung mit gepulsten Mikrowellen, wie sie im Mobilfunk verwendet werden, können Gefahren für die Gesundheit der betroffenen Anwohner im Umkreis von mehreren hundert Metern entstehen. Darauf wird in zahlreichen Untersuchungen von Ärzten und Wissenschaftlern immer wieder hingewiesen. Auch die Deutsche Akademie für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin sprach sich im Jahr 2000 gegen die Installation von Mobilfunkanlagen in der Nachbarschaft von Kindergärten, Krankenhäusern und Seniorenwohnanlagen aus.

Wir bitten sie deshalb ihre Entscheidung zu überdenken und rückgängig zu machen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Reinhard Burck Ursula Krammer

Anlage: Kopien der 15 Unterschriftenlisten

06/30/05

Without the right to private property ownership, and the control of it without government interference, there is no liberty or freedom. This is, of course, referring to the opinion by the justices in Kelo v. City of New London (Connecticut). Liberty -- freedom -- means to not be under government control. In understanding this travesty against justice and America, we must understand that the United States Supreme Court is not the one supreme Court created by the Constitution in Article III. It is a municipal court created solely for the District of Columbia ...

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

from Liberty For All, by Ed Lewis


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

In the 1950s, the right wing attacked liberals for being Communists. In 2005, Karl Rove has attacked liberals for being therapists. Thus is born a kinder and gentler form of McCarthyism. ... The McCarthyites' real enemies were not Communists but the New Deal liberals who had dominated American politics for 20 years. The McCarthy crowd was willing to divide the nation at a time of grave international peril if that's what it took to beat the liberals. Rove's instantly famous speech last week to the New York state Conservative Party should be read in light of this history and not be written off as a cheap, one-time partisan attack. On the contrary, the address by Rove, President Bush's most important adviser, provides the outlines of a sophisticated strategy aimed at making liberals and Democrats all look soft on terrorism...

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5480961.html

from Minneapolis Star Tribune, by E.J. Dionne Jr.


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

After carefully laying the groundwork over a period of years, a radical wing of the Republican party is now in the process of pulling off a bloodless coup. Their mission, which has been quietly in progress over the past five years, is to steal complete and permanent control of the United States government. ... A hostile takeover of the United States government is underway, and it's happening from inside the capitol. But you don't need to join the resistance that, no doubt, will soon be marching on Washington. No arms need to be taken up, and no blood needs to be shed. All that needs to happen is for each one of us to stand up, right here, right now -- stand up for what is right, and dare to speak the truth. It won't be the whimper of one voice, but the roar of many that finally topples this unholy gang of thugs who want to steal America from us...

http://www.unknownnews.org/050628a-cr.html

from Unknown News, by Carol Rawle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

Some might think that I am naive in this, but it is my belief that this may be the issue that unites liberals and conservatives -- Democrats and Republicans, greens and libertarians, and all the other political groups that vie for dominance. After all, everybody believes in the right, and millions experience the delight, of property ownership in America. Now, because of the desire to create and legislate from the bench as the courts are wont to do these days, nobody need only fear the WalMart-type corporations taking over their towns and cities. The courts have now made it possible for a single individual with local political pull and a future-tax revenue projection to come in and usurp one of hearth and home...

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4429.html

from Intellectual Conservative, by Vincent Fiore


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

There's a children's party game [sometimes called 'telephone'], in which one child is given a phrase or a story, who then whispers it to a second, in turn to a third and so on. The fun in the game is to see how wildly divergent the final phrase or story is from the original. Not so amusingly, that children's game is an apt metaphor for the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence, particularly on religious expression cases such as those decided on Monday. In this instance, the beginning point is what the Constitution actually says about religion, which is: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' That's rather clear: Religious expression and practice should be neither compelled nor suppressed...

http://tinyurl.com/cldy5

from Arizona Republic, by Robert Robb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

If you were told the government could take your real property and give it to another preferred, private person, would you be more or less prone to make improvements on your property? If you were a clear-thinking person with a basic knowledge of economics, you would reply, 'less prone.' Unfortunately, five U.S. Supreme Court justices -- David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy -- failed that elementary question last week in Kelo v. City of New London. Many others have commented on their faulty legal reasoning. ... But clearly, the decision was bad economics. ... The American Founding Fathers also understood the importance of the protection of private property. So here we have five members of the court who get an 'F' both in economics and history...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050628-090913-9844r.htm

from Washington Times, by Richard W. Rahn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

Possession may be nine-tenths of the law, but not when the law wants your possessions. This past Thursday was a dark day for freedom in America, as the Supreme Court once again proved that its contempt for the Constitution is only matched by its willingness to court communism. In a ruling that struck a blow for the powerful at the expense of the little guy, the Court ruled that states had the right to use the principle of eminent domain to seize private property for commercial development. ... At issue was the case of Kelo vs. New London, involving hapless homeowners who have been forced to fight a city hall that wants to seize their land for the ostensibly noble purpose of 'public use.' And what, pray tell, would this public use be? Answer: to pave the way for different private entities -- in this case rich developers -- to build a hotel, health club and office buildings...

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/06/29/152_163_100_197_72832.htm

from Sierra Times, by Selwyn Duke


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

So let's try to get this straight. We invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, except he didn't, and because he was tied in to the attacks of September 11, except he wasn't. We're staying in Iraq, President Bush said Tuesday night, because terrorists with the same ideology as those behind 9-11 have congregated there since we arrived. Iraq is now the 'central front' in the war on terrorism, the president said. And just how did it become that? Whatever the ghastly defects of Hussein's Iraq, it was not a playground for terrorists. There was no terror in the old Iraq but Hussein's own, which was a nightmare for his own citizenry, but not a threat to ours. Now, Bush argued, Iraq is in danger of becoming something it never was -- the equivalent of Afghanistan under the Taliban. But it's Bush's war that transformed the country and created that threat...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9916

from The American Prospect, by Harold Meyerson


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

In wars, even cultural ones, it is crucial to know the opposition -- their strategies, their theories, their deceptions. Mark R. Levin's 'Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America,' a New York Times best-seller, is a right-wing debaters' manual that furnishes rhetoric to Tom DeLay, Bill Frist and their cohorts as they campaign to revamp the federal judiciary in their own image. ... But it is the chapter titles that set the table with raw meat: 'Radicals in Robes,' 'Socialism from the Bench,' 'Al Qaeda Gets a Lawyer,' 'Justices in the Bedroom,' etc. Levin's thesis: Good judges ... are originalists [who] 'look to the text of the Constitution and the intent of the framers when deciding a constitutional question.' Activist judges, on the other hand, 'see their role limited only by the boundaries of their imaginations,' and 'they substitute their will for the judgment of deliberative bodies'...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2181/

from In These Times, by Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

06/28/05

Is it a bad idea to retaliate against judges who make bad decisions? No, not at all. Professor Barnett would not punish a judge for 'the good faith exercise of his duty,' but that's meaningless. No judge is going to say something like 'I ruled this way not because that is what the Constitution says but because I like big government,' or, to take a very common case, 'I ruled this way not because that is what the Constitution says but because I personally am against the death penalty.' High court judges violate their oaths of office that way all the time, and they ought to be punished for it...

http://www.rasmusen.org/x/archives/714

from Rasmusen, by Eric Rasmusen


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/30/05

Last week's Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London should indeed be alarming to all homeowners and business owners, who have now learned that they'll own their property only as long as their local government thinks they should. But it should also serve to further demonstrate that the economic agenda of Big Business is the same as the agenda of the American Left: bigger government and central management of the economy. The media like to portray big business as lobbying to be free of government intrusion, with regulators and lawmakers acting to curb these free-market cowboys. In truth, Big Business wants the government to be bigger. Much of big business's work on K Street is to give the government more control over the economy. This ruling on eminent domain is just another win for the unholy alliance of Big Business and Big Government...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8366

from The American Spectator, by Timothy P. Carney


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/30/05

While Republicans voiced strong support for the president, it was the growing unrest in their ranks, as well as the rapid loss of support in the public-opinion polls, that persuaded the White House that a major new public relations effort was necessary to save the policy. Even then, Republicans interviewed after the speech admitted that the administration had a serious problem, only allayed partially by Bush's solemn tone, of reconciling its official optimism with the day-to-day news of rising casualties among both U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens, after a brief hiatus following last January's elections. More than 1,700 U.S. soldiers have died in the Iraqi conflict, more than half of them since the formal return to Iraqi sovereignty one year ago, an occasion that Bush's speech Tuesday was intended to mark. As noted by the Post Wednesday, the number of car bombings in Iraq has risen from 18 in June 2004 to 135 last month...

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=6490

from AntiWar.Com, by Jim Lobe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

I have to profess a certain grudging admiration for the President and his administration. I used to think that he was just out-Clintoning Bill Clinton, but I've come to understand that his approach is significantly different. When Clinton stepped on his own crank, he followed up with a trench-warfare defensive strategy: Begin with a denial; wag the dog a bit (usually by bombing Iraq); slowly retreat to a 'mistakes were made' position; and, finally, hole up in the impenetrable keep of 'let's move on'ism and skulk there until everyone got tired enough of the whole thing to find another issue du jour. Bush emulates Sherman instead: He begins with a denial, too, but then he cuts loose from his supply lines and moves forward past whatever's in the way, burning as he goes. ... Instead of hunkering down and trying to blunt the assault, he moves ahead, fast, and never, ever ever admits that he's going in a different direction than he was five minutes ago...

http://tinyurl.com/cbr2w

from Kn@ppster, by Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

With five swift strokes of their collectivist pens, the Supreme Court overturned nearly a millennium of tradition and common law with respect to private property ownership. In Kelo v. New London, the justices decided that not only may the government apply eminent domain in order to construct government roads and buildings, but they may now boot you out of your house if Wal-Mart or the local land developer wants your property. In so doing, they have granted special status to the feudal lords of the 21st century, namely major corporations, development companies and local government fiefdoms -- reverting our system of property ownership back to the dark ages...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001138.html

from The Free Liberal, by Stephen Gordon


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

A U.S.-born Muslim who says he was unjustly detained and questioned at customs checkpoints has sued the Department of Homeland Security over the 'degrading process.' In the complaint filed in Chicago federal court, Akifur Rahman said customs agents held him for several hours on four occasions since March 2004 while he was re-entering the country from abroad, even though he had proper identification...

http://tinyurl.com/ayvwa

from CNN


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

Thousands of airline travelers a day are wrongfully identified as being on the government’s 'no fly' list of known or suspected terrorists due to the failings of the airline industry’s pre-screening process, experts told a congressional panel Wednesday. Meanwhile, the government system intended to take over that screening process is so underfunded it might not get off the ground, a government official warned...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8407576/

from MSNBC


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

President Bush granted the new national intelligence chief expanded power over the FBI on Wednesday and ordered dozens of other spy agency changes as the White House heeded a presidential commission that condemned the intelligence community for failures in Iraq and elsewhere. But almost as soon as the details were unveiled, the White House was defending itself against suggestions that the moves were simply adding more bureaucracy without making changes that could have prevented misjudgments like those made on Iraq...

http://tinyurl.com/bo4dw

from Indianapolis Star


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ammersbek: Funkturm wird nicht gebaut

Hartnäckig: Forderung nach totalem Haftungsausschluss vertreibt den Investor.

Von Alexander Sulanke

Ammersbek - Der auf dem Fußballplatz am Schäferdresch geplante Mobilfunkmast (wir berichteten) wird doch nicht gebaut. Die Deutsche Funkturm, eine hundertprozentige Tochter der Deutschen Telekom, hat die Verhandlungen mit dem Ammersbeker Bürgermeister Axel Bärendorf (47) über den Standort auf gemeindeeigenem Grund und Boden für gescheitert erklärt. Offenbar rückt das Unternehmen nun sogar ganz von seinem ursprünglichen Plan ab, im Bereich Schäferdresch/Rehagen einen Antennenträger für Mobilfunksender zu bauen.

Die Anwohner in dem Ammersbeker Ortsteil können also aufatmen. Aus Angst vor ihrer Ansicht nach gesundheitsschädlichen Strahlen hatten sie gegen den Turmbau protestiert, seit das Thema im Spätsommer vergangenen Jahres spruchreif geworden war.

Doch wie ist in Ammersbek gelungen, was sich die Menschen auch in anderen Kommunen wünschen - oft vergebens? Offenbar hat die Taktik des Bürgermeisters mehr Früchte getragen als er sich jemals selbst erhofft hätte. Die Taktik nämlich, sich auf einen konstruktiven Dialog mit den Turmbauern einzulassen und dabei hartnäckig darauf bedacht zu sein, jeglichen Schaden und jegliches Risiko von der Gemeinde fernzuhalten.

Als Akquisiteure der Hamburger Firma Vivento Technicals GmbH im Auftrag der Deutschen Funkturm am 18. August vergangenen Jahres erstmals in Ammersbek vorstellig werden, ist Bärendorf nicht begeistert, bietet aber seine Hilfe bei der Suche eines Standortes an. Seine damalige Devise: Verhindern kann die Gemeinde einen Funkmast nicht. Also gestaltet sie mit. Denn Antennenträger gelten als privilegierte Bauvorhaben. Das heißt: Liegt eine Standortbescheinigung vor, ein Attest gewissermaßen, dass die Richtwerte der Bundesimmissionsschutzverordnung eingehalten werden, muss einem Bauantrag ohne Rücksicht auf die Befindlichkeiten in der betroffenen Gemeinde zugestimmt werden.

Mit knapper Mehrheit billigt die Gemeindevertretung Bärendorfs Vorschlag, den Fußballplatz als Standort anzubieten. Bei der Ausgestaltung eines Vertrags kann Ammersbek als Partner mitwirken. Dem Bürgermeister ist wichtig, dass die Gemeinde von niemandem haftbar gemacht werden kann. Deshalb fügt er in den Vertragsentwurf Paragraph 7a ein, der da lautet: "Der Pächter stellt den Verpächter von allen Ansprüchen Dritter, die sich aus dem Bau, dem Betrieb oder dem Rückbau sowie sonst aus der Nutzung der Pachtsache ergeben, frei."

Für die Deutsche Funkturm ist das zuviel. Sie streicht den generellen Haftungsausschluss. In den verklausulierten Vertragstext, der der Ahrensburger Zeitung auszugsweise vorliegt, lässt sie einfügen, dass die Deutsche Funkturm "lediglich im Rahmen und im Umfang ihres Versicherungsschutzes" hafte. Wie hoch der ist, will die Deutsche Funkturm auf Anfrage nicht beantworten. "Vertragsinhalte kommunizieren wir nicht öffentlich", sagt Sprecherin Corinna Kielwein (29).

Außerdem sieht die von der Deutschen Funkturm vorgeschlagene Haftungsklausel vor, dass Ammersbek im Falle eines Schadens vor Gericht ziehen müsste, um Ansprüche gegen den Turmbetreiber geltend zu machen. Nach Auskunft der Deutschen Funkturm sind das standardisierte Vertragsklauseln, auf die sich alle Vertragspartner einließen. Nicht so der Ammersbeker Bürgermeister. Bärendorf: "Ich will in kein Gerichtsverfahren hineingezogen werden, und ich will mich nicht mit Versicherungen herumschlagen müssen. So einfach ist das."

Theoretisch könnte die Deutsche Funkturm nun versuchen, für irgendein Privatgrundstück in der Nähe ihre Vertragsbedingungen durchzusetzen. Doch das Interesse scheint verflogen. Sprecherin Corinna Kielwein: "So, wie es aussieht, wird es keinen Funkturm geben."

erschienen am 29. Juni 2005

Copyright © 2005 Hamburger Abendblatt

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/06/29/453164.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Matt Taibbi on the troubles with military recruitment, and the possible "solution." (NB: some crude language.)

http://www.nypress.com/18/25/news&columns/taibbi.cfm


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The movie that explains US foreign policy.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780622561/lewrockwell/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/what-war.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/opinion/26rich.html?ex=1120708800&en=f44c5157e182cf88&ei=5070&emc=eta1


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3021/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6698


Informant: Neo Mulder

An alle
Vorsitzenden, Aktionskreissprecher,
unterstützende BN-Kreis- und Ortsgruppen,
Bürgerinitiativen und weiterer Verteiler

Textvorschläge für die lokale Pressearbeit in der heißen Volksbegehren-Phase


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

kurz vor dem Start der Eintragungszeit für das Volksbegehren "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" empfehlen wir Ihnen noch folgende Aktivitäten:

1. ab jetzt: Pressemitteilung "kurz vor dem Start" (s.u.)

2. am ersten Eintragungstag: Erstunterzeichner-PM (siehe Aktionsleitfaden)

3. PM "Krank oder verreist - wie kann man sich trotzdem eintragen?"

4. Muster-Bürgerantrag - jetzt einreichen!
Entweder mit Unterschriftenliste (Anhang) oder durch Mandatsträger! Bitte Presse informieren!
siehe unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804408/

Außerdem schicken wir Ihnen während der Eintragungszeit an folgenden Tagen gegen 11.30 Uhr Zwischenstandsmeldungen vom Vortag:

6.7. // 8.7. // 12.7. // 14.7. // 15.7. // 17.7.

Textvorschläge für kommentierende PM anläßlich dieser Stichtagsdaten finden Sie ebenfalls im Aktionsleitfaden, der Ihnen vorliegen müßte und auf unseren halb nichtöffentlichen Seiten unter http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de/werbung abrufbar ist.

Den vielen Unterstützern, die jetzt täglich neben den Flugblättern auch Hintergrundinformationen zum Thema Mobilfunk haben wollen, schicken wir eine gut gemachte 16-seitige Broschüre des Umweltinstituts München e.V. Sie können diese unter http://www.umweltinstitut.org einsehen und bei größerem Bedarf direkt dort bestellen.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Urban Mangold



zu 1 . gebrauchsfertige Muster-PM kurz vor dem Start (bitte lokalisieren!)

Am Dienstag beginnt die Eintragungszeit für das Mobilfunk-Volksbegehren

Initiatoren wollen öffentliche Genehmigungsverfahren mit Nachbarschaftsbeteiligung statt Nacht- und Nebelaktionen

xy: "Wer keinen Mobilfunksender vor seinem Schlafzimmer will, kann jetzt sein Mitspracherecht sichern!"

Am Dienstag (5.7.) beginnt die Eintragungszeit für das Volksbegehren "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk". "Sendemasten sollen den Bürgern nicht mehr in Nacht- und Nebelaktionen vor die Schlafzimmer gestellt werden können", formuliert xy, der Dorfhausener Volksbegehrensprecher das Ziel. xy betont aber, dass sich "die Initiative nicht grundsätzlich gegen Mobilfunk richtet". "Durch öffentliche Genehmigungsverfahren mit Nachbarschaftsbeteiligung und kommunale Vorsorgeplanungen sollen vielmehr unproblematischere Standorte ausgewählt und die Strahlenbelastung deutlich reduziert werden. Die Mobilfunkbetreiber sollen ihre Sendemasten nicht länger hinstellen können, wo sie wollen", fordert xy.

Inzwischen wird das Volksbegehren von einem breiten Bündnis unterstützt. Neben der ödp und den Wähler Bayern sind auch der Bund Naturschutz und der Anbauverband Bioland mit im Boot, außerdem die Kreisverbände von Partei A und Partei B, die Intiative ... , landesweit 650 Ärzte und Apotheker, zahlreiche Bürgerinitiativen und sogar 116 bayerische Bürgermeister.

Das Volksbegehren ist aber nur erfolgreich, wenn sich vom 5. bis 18. Juli zehn Prozent der Wahlberechtigten in den Rathäusern eintragen. Sollte das Begehren diese Hürde überspringen, müssen künftig die Nachbarn vor der Installation von Sendemasten informiert und ihre Einwendungen gehört werden. Außerdem kann die Kommune in Vorsorgeplanungen Tabuzonen und unproblematische Standorte festlegen. xy: "Wir müssen jetzt handeln. Denn die vielen Hinweise auf die gesundheitsgefährdende Wirkung der Mobilfunkstrahlung (Erbgutschäden, Krebs ...) verdichten sich zu Beweisen. Trotzdem will die Mobilfunkindustrie auch im Landkreis ....... weitere Sendemasten ohne Bürgerbeteiligung aufstellen wie zum Beispiel in ................... . xy: "Wer sich sein Mitspracherecht dagegen sichern will, sollte vom 5. bis 18. Juli unterschreiben ".

Informationen können unter 0851/931171 angefordert oder im Internet unter http://www.gesundheitsvorsorge-mobilfunk.de abgerufen werden.



zu 3. PM "Krank oder verreist - wie kann man sich trotzdem eintragen?" (bitte lokalisieren, am besten kurz nach dem 5.7.)


Pressemitteilung vom ...

Beim Volksbegehren verreist oder erkrankt?

So können Sie sich trotzdem eintragen:
Bei dem vom 5. bis 18. Juli laufenden Volksbegehren "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" gibt es keine Briefwahl. Das Innenministerium läßt dies gemäß Landeswahlordnung nicht zu. Der Gang zum Rathaus ist demnach erforderlich. Trotzdem können Bürger, die innerhalb Bayerns verreist sind oder denen wegen Alter und Krankheit der Weg zum Rathaus ihres Wohnortes nicht zuzumuten ist, das Volksbegehren mit einem sogenannten Eintragungsschein unterstützen. Dieser kann bei der Gemeinde zwar nicht telefonisch, jedoch formlos per Post, Fax oder eMail unter Angabe des Grundes beantragt werden. Auch eine persönliche Abholung ist möglich.

Mit diesem Eintragungsschein kann man sich dann in jeder anderen Gemeinde Bayerns in die Unterschriftenliste eintragen, außerhalb Bayerns jedoch nicht. Kranke und gebrechliche Menschen können mit dem Eintragungsschein eine Hilfsperson beauftragen, die die Eintragung im Eintragungsraum stellvertretend und unter Vorlage eines Ausweises übernimmt.

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/muster_buergerantrag.pdf


Nachricht von Urban Mangold

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/bush.intel/


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/062905HA.shtml



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

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/bush-j29.shtml


Informant: Friends

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0629-27.htm



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

From: JCMPelican@aol.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:30:33 EDT
To: plunepur@earthlink.net

Joel: Do you know what an AC/DC network router is?


From: Angela Olstad <olstad@mel-min.k12.wi.us>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:35:39 -0500
To: jcmpelican@aol.com

Electrical Pollution and Cancer: A Survivor's Story

In late January 2005, I was diagnosed with a high grade brain tumor (anaplastic astrocytoma) that has an average survival time of 18 months. A biopsy and tissue test were done at UW Hospital in Madison, and the pathology was confirmed by MD Anderson in Houston. I had just turned 50, and had been exceptionally healthy until experiencing a seizure on Halloween 2004. I also had tingling in my left hand. A friend of my mother told me about electrical pollution and recommended that I study the topic at electricalpollution.com and stetzerelectric.com. She also lent me a microsurge meter from Stetzer Electric. A healthy level is under 50 volts per second. Most of my outlets showed a solid "1", with but some were fluctuating around 1900. I called Stetzer Electric and learned that the meter only displays up to 1999, and shows a "1" for readings above that. I immediately ordered 20 filters, but these were not enough to bring the problem under control. On the advice of Dave Stetzer, I checked the electrical panel, and found that the readings dropped when one circuit was turned off. By unplugging electrical devices on that circuit one-by-one, I found that an AC/DC power supply for a network router was causing the problem (this router had been continuously plugged in for about 4 years). After the router was replaced, microsurge readings throughout our house dropped by 99%. The tingling in my left hand went away immediately. The best news came last Thursday (June 16, 2005) when an MRI showed that my tumor was gone.

I cannot be certain that electrical pollution caused my tumor, or that fixing the electrical problem influenced my recovery. The deaths of teachers from brain tumors and leukemia in a Minnesota school with high levels of electrical pollution may have been coincidental
[link to http://www.electricalpollution.com/images/MNschool.jpeg ]

More research needs to be done. Unfortunately, cancer patients live in uncertainty, and do not have time to wait for conclusive research. They must act with incomplete information to reduce exposure to as many risk factors as possible. I believe that electrical pollution is a serious environmental hazard that is rarely recognized by its victims.

There are about 150 types of cancer, with many known and suspected causes. Environmental factors that impair one's immune system can allow cancer cells to take hold and proliferate. Cancer patients in particular need to have their homes and workplaces checked for high levels of electromagnetic radiation. Without greater awareness, health and lives will continue to be needlessly wasted. I am grateful for life, and hope that this information will help others in their battle with cancer.

Kris Brekke
6426 Inner Drive
Madison, WI 53705
608 238 3550
brekke@bluebottle.com

As the July 4th weekend approaches we know many of your groups are planning activities that will call attention to the horrendous conditions at the Guantanamo Prison Camp and other U.S. detention facilities. We want to make sure you know that several new leaflets are available for your use in this work. Click here to access these pieces: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2914

The leaflets are not date-specific, so they will still be relevant and useable after this weekend. Please feel free to download and make copies of any or all of the leaflets that are available. And if you know of other groups working on this issue please send them a copy of this memo and the links to the leaflets.

As always, we encourage you to post any activities (protests, educational events, public meetings, etc.) on the calendar on the UFPJ web site. Just click here: http://unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=50

peace,

Leslie Cagan
National Coordinator
United for Peace and Justice

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=147555412&p=y47556yy8


Informant: NoName

Die US-Manager stellen die globale Einkommensavantgarde dar, aber die der anderen Ländern holen auf; weltweit gibt es 8 Mio. Millionäre, die insgesamt 30 Billionen US-Dollar besitzen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20289/1.html

Klimaschutz: US-Initiative will unabhängig von Regierung Kyoto-Protokoll umsetzen (29.06.05)

166 US-amerikanische Bürgermeister unterstützen zur Zeit ein landesweites Klimaschutzbündnis in den USA. Davon berichtet das Bundesumweltministerium (BMU) am Mittwoch. Die Mitglieder des Bündnisses haben sich demnach verpflichtet, die von der Bush-Regierung abgelehnten Kyoto-Verpflichtungen der USA selbständig in ihren Städten und Gemeinden umzusetzen. Ziel der Selbstverpflichtung sei es, den Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen bis zum Jahr 2012 um sieben Prozent unter die Werte von 1990 zu senken. Eine zweiter Zusammenschluss aus 18 Bundestaaten wolle den Ausbau sauberer Energiequellen fördern.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11325

Regionale Landwirtschaft für kürzere Transporte: Neue EU-Gesetzgebung fördert weiterhin tagelange Tiertransporte (29.06.05)

Mehr als 360 Millionen Tiere werden laut Deutschem Tierschutzbund jedes Jahr "unter grausamsten Bedingungen" quer durch Europa transportiert. Darauf wies die Organisation am Mittwoch anlässlich des "Tags gegen Tiertransporte" am 1. Juli mit. Auch von der neuen EU-Gesetzgebung, die 2007 in Kraft treten soll, versprechen sich die Tierschützer nicht viel. Während mit den neuen Gesetzen beispielsweise die Kontrollen verschärft wurden, konnte bei den Punkten "Ladedichte" und "Transportzeiten" keine Einigung zwischen den EU-Ländern erzielt werden. Konsequenz ist, dass in diesen Bereichen zunächst die bisherigen Regeln gelten. Zwischen 2007 und 2011 soll dann erneut darüber debattiert werden. Gerade diese Bedingungen aber sind aus Sicht der Tierschützer eine große Qual für die Tiere. Grund für den ganzen Ablauf sei "allzu oft die Profitmacherei der Agrarindustrie". Für diese lohnten sich die Transporte schon, wenn entfernte Schlachthöfe wenige Cent pro Tier mehr bezahlten. Außerdem subventioniere die EU die Transporte oft noch.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11320

http://rense.com/general66/nomas.htm


From Our bill of rights

Your help is needed more urgently than ever.

In its 40-odd years speaking truth to power, Amnesty International has incurred the wrath of many despotic governments -- whose human rights violations, political prisoners and other abuses came to light through Amnesty's painstaking field research.

But few assaults by governments have been more disturbing than Washington's attacks on our recent Annual Report findings about widespread use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by U.S. troops and federal officers. This reaction is especially troubling considering our nation's long-standing history as a champion of human rights.

Recent revelations of abuse by our own government of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo are simply shocking.

They violate bedrock American values.

They violate the Geneva Convention.

These actions are destroying U.S. credibility in the world.

When the United States helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.S. was a beacon of hope and justice for millions struggling against tyranny. Our leadership - in word and deed - is no less important today.

Amnesty is in the final stages of launching one of the most ambitious mass mobilizations in our history - to demand, as American citizens, an end to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by our own government.

This mobilization is taxing our already stretched resources. Please consider making a substantial donation right now using our secure Web page.

DONATE NOW:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=677776&l=13511

And this month only, your donation will go twice as far. Thanks to generous anonymous donors, all gifts to this emergency mobilization will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

The facts are ugly. Witnesses to abuse of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo report hooding, beatings, placement of lit cigarettes into prisoners' ear canals, and sleep deprivation. Amnesty has compiled a list of 60 techniques authorized or used by the U.S. during the "war on terror."

Eyewitness reports from FBI agents read like the stuff of horror films. One agent described coming into an "unventilated room probably well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night."

And these are not the acts of a few bad apples, as U.S. officials have claimed. Evidence is mounting that officials at the highest level of the U.S. government approved brutal interrogation techniques.

Under the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment is NEVER permissible. We need to send the Administration an unmistakable message - that Americans did not give the government a mandate last November to violate international law by engaging in acts of barbarism. Nobody voted for that.

Amnesty USA is determined to mobilize a vocal, diverse and massive constituency throughout this country that will stand with our 320,000-strong U.S. membership in demanding an end to the use of torture by all agencies at all levels of government in the United States.

Thanks to years of grassroots activism, Amnesty has a corps of volunteers ready to carry out this urgently needed mobilization. And it's the most motivated and inspired citizen force you could hope to find.

But mobilizing people also takes money. And that's why I'm asking you for your help. Please donate now using our secure Web page and have your gift matched dollar-for-dollar through June 30th.

DONATE NOW:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=677776&l=13511

If we're to rescue our country from the taint of being branded a practitioner of torture, then we must confront the Bush Administration head-on with this issue. With your help, I believe justice will prevail.

Thanks for all your help.

Sincerely,

Bill Schulz
Amnesty International USA

by Jeff Rickert and Brian Siu, TomPaine.com

The energy bill passed yesterday represents a lost opportunity to lead America toward security and prosperity.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050629/a_fossilized_energy_bill.php

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Peter Strucks Arbeitslosenheer

Zum Vorschlag des Verteidigungsministers Peter Struck, künftig Arbeitslose als Schauspieler beim Truppentraining einzusetzen, weil Soldaten mehr kosten würden, erklärt Bundeswahlkampfleiter Bodo Ramelow:

Deutlicher hätte Peter Struck nicht sagen können, was von den Hartz IV-Korrekturen zu halten ist, die die SPD nun unters Wahlvolk streuen möchte: Es geht um Kosmetik. Dahinter bleiben die Arbeitslosen für führende Sozialdemokraten offensichtlich vor allem eins ein lästiger Kostenfaktor. Strucks Pläne, den Begriff vom Arbeitslosenheer wortwörtlich zu nehmen und künftig Arbeitslose für das Bundeswehrtraining von Auslandseinsätzen einzusetzen, versetzen die Betroffenen in einen Status, der von der Leibeigenschaft nicht mehr allzu weit entfernt ist. Wer sich an die Folterskandale im Zusammenhang mit derartigen Trainings erinnert, wird unweigerlich ins Grübeln kommen.

Peter Strucks Vorschlag legt die Philosophie der Hartz-Gesetze bloß: Es geht nicht um die Schaffung von Existenz sichernden Arbeitsplätzen, es geht nicht um den Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit, sondern um die möglichst kostengünstige Verwaltung der Betroffenen. Ihre Nutzbarmachung für auch noch die sinnlosesten Betätigungen eingeschlossen. Denn eines ist der Ein-Euro-Job als Bundeswehrkomparse für das Training von Auslandseinsätzen von seiner politischen Fragwürdigkeit ganz abgesehen mit Sicherheit auf keinen Fall: eine Brücke in den oder auch nur eine Vorbereitung für den ersten Arbeitsmarkt.



Pressemitteilungen der PDS
http://www.pds-online.de/presse-abo/

Control of information has become an integral part of the response of Western Governments to the so-called war on terror. They've all introduced laws that not only restrict long-cherished civil liberties, but also impose sanctions against reporting issues deemed to threaten national security.

Video and transcript
http://snipurl.com/fw9j


From Information Clearing House

1984: The Two Georges, Orwell And Bush:

Real Audio
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9319.htm

America last night refused to back a United Nations protocol against torture because of fears that it could allow international monitors to visit terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

http://snipurl.com/fw9w


From Information Clearing House

But when it comes to social control, nothing works quite like torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9309.htm

Why is torture being developed to a fine art among US forces? Why is the US involved in organizing and supporting death squads once again?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9308.htm

Iraq War Fatalities: By day: By Country
http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html


From Information Clearing House

This is how Neil Cavuto opened his show today (June 27, 2005): "Remember how much we fussed over this guy? [Video of Saddam Hussein shown while the banner at the bottom of the screen read: Forget Saddam?] Now what if I told you we might be facing a bigger threat from this guy? [Video of Iran's President-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

http://snipurl.com/fw8x


From Information Clearing House

The United Nations has learned of "very, very serious" allegations that the United States is secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, and notably aboard prison ships, the UN's special rapporteur on terrorism said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9329.htm

During Vietnam, Rumsfeld Criticized Administration For “Credibility Gap”: “The administration should clarify its intent in Vietnam. People lack confidence in the credibility of our government… It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy. With the secrecy, it's impossible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9324.htm

Iraq Exit Plan

By Raymond Long

This is a grassroots insurgency against an imperial adventure by our leader who lied to us before the war and continues to lie to us now. If we can see that they are human just like you and me perhaps we can understand. The insurgency will continue as long as we "stay the course".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9310.htm

http://www.opednews.com/wade_062805_answer_is_no.htm


Informant: Hopedance



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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/david-kirby/mercury-autism-and-the-c_3184.html


From ECOTERRA Intl.



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by Mike Whitney

In case your eyes glazed over and left you in a comatose state of vacuity, that was George W. Bush at the podium last night giving the most abysmal performance of his five-year presidency. For a moment, it seemed like General Westmorland was back among the living giving his immortal "light in the tunnel" speech. Nothing in Bush's palavering even approached that level of discourse. Instead, Bush droned on endlessly, exhuming the same bedraggled bromides in the most mind-numbingly dreadful speech of all time...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Whitney0629.htm

by Shepherd Bliss

I live under what may be the most active volcano in the world -- Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai’i. While watching lava cascade down its mountain peak, I consider the predicted peak in world oil production and the damage it could do. Its destruction could be far worse on human communities than that of a mighty volcano’s eruption, impacting not only a local area but civilization itself. We live today under the volcanic threat of peak oil, yet most people remain in denial about the potential dangers. According to geologists -- experts in volcanoes and oil -- slowly flowing crises face humanity as our supply of non-renewable fossil fuels dwindles. Few admit how disastrous peak oil could be. People gather at Kilauea’s base to enjoy lava fountains, seething lakes of molten rock, and incandescent rivers of slowly flowing lava. Yet my college students and friends often scatter when I talk about the consequences of peak oil, unable to consider the magnitude of the end of the oil age. Watching red-hot lava come down the peak, especially at twilight, and into the thirsty turquoise sea is awesome. Blazing fire meets receptive water and produces steam, as the heat is absorbed and cooled. It’s all natural. The deadly consequences of peak oil will be human-made...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Bliss0624.htm

by Ken Sanders

In the wake of the Downing Street Memo and other leaked British documents created before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, many have begun to question the legality of the Bush administration's actions. In particular, families of soldiers, a few Democratic senators, and hundreds of thousands of outraged Americans, are calling for an independent investigation of the Bush administration's manipulation and outright fabrication of intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. The word "impeachment" is even being bandied about. While it is certainly appropriate to demand an independent investigation of the Bush administration's pre-invasion shenanigans, as well as to pursue bringing articles of impeachment against the President for his official misconduct, there is something larger at stake. There is the matter of the Bush administration's post-invasion atrocities...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Sanders0627.htm


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by John Chuckman

“We are all drowning in filth…I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgment have simply disappeared from the face of the earth.”
-- George Orwell (diary entry for 27 April, 1942)

I've given the date of Orwell's words lest someone think they were written by a contemporary bearing the writer's name. Recent events surely qualify the United States to claim some sort of title from the Guinness Book of Records such as the world's largest moral and intellectual open sewer...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Chuckman0628.htm

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=85985;show_parent=1



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September 24 - Impeachment Call Comes to the White House

There's one thing you have to give George W. Bush credit for: the man can lie, and with a straight face. The problem he faces is that fewer and fewer people in the United States believe him. One day after Donald Rumsfeld stated that the U.S. troops should be prepared to confront the Iraqi insurgency for up to the next 12 years, Bush went on national television to try to convince the American people that they must support the continuation of his war policies.

If the media had any guts, they would have ripped Bush's speech apart tonight. On five separate occasions he invoked the September 11 attacks as the pretext for the war and occupation. There wasn't a single, solitary reference to Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction. Before the war, this was the core of the Bush/Cheney propaganda.

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, August 26, 2002.

Bush's motivation to justify his war policies on national television was not simply a desperate act to bolster sagging public opinion. Bush is actively trying to head off the growing movement for impeachment. His pre-war lies are being exposed by the Downing Street series of memos. Lying to Congress and the people is an impeachable offense. The fact is that more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers have died as a consequence of these lies. Bush's illegal war of aggression is also a War Crime, a Crime Against Peace, and a Crime Against Humanity.

Bush says: Give me your children

Bush also took on a new role as the pitchman for war: that of "Recruiter-in-Chief." Bush, who was a gung-ho supporter of the Vietnam War - but used his wealth and power to avoid personal participation - shamelessly appealed to young people to sign up to become soldiers for his Iraq war, claiming glory and honor would await them.

Bush has again tried to turn reality on its head, but let's use one of his banal generalities as a guide to action. Bush said tonight: "We know that if evil is not confronted it gains in strength and audacity." Exactly! Unless Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are impeached, the evil they represent will gain audacity and strength.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

Tonight Bush entered our living rooms to sell us his war. On September 24, 2005, more than 100,000 people are going to his doorstep to make it clear that we aren't buying it. Thousands of people across the country are organizing to bring the call for impeachment to Washington with a massive protest at the White House. Help make this demonstration happen. For access to the online donation form and the secure server, where you can also get information to write a check, click here:
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=iLjNBL-BiBMMKNjM-ZoKfg

We are growing stronger because of the support of so many people around the country.

--All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org



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Urge the G8 to take action on climate change
http://news.panda.org/cgi-bin1/flo/y/hggU0DZ3EE0La80Cfw10AV

On 6 July, the leaders of the world's eight richest nations will gather in Gleneagles, Scotland for the annual G8 Summit. The G8 countries must show real commitment to tackle climate change, but there is a danger that the US President will prevent the Summit from agreeing to concrete action.

G8 countries represent just 13% of the world's population, but they account for 45% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions - almost half of the emissions that cause climate change.

Take action and urge G8 leaders to stand up to the US President and make saving the climate a priority.
http://news.panda.org/cgi-bin1/flo/y/hggU0DZ3EE0La80Cfw10AV

Besides President Bush, all the other leaders attending the Summit have clearly stated they believe climate change is real and have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. However some leaders have been strangely silent on climate change in the run up to the meeting. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Canadian Prime minister Paul Martin, in particular, have said very little and WWF is concerned that they will not resist US moves to water down G8 initiatives. Read more http://news.panda.org/cgi-bin1/flo/y/hggU0DZ3EE0La80Cfw10AV

Die Vereinigung der Huaorani-Frauen im ecuadorianischen Amazonas will mit einem Friedenscamp im Yasuni-Nationalpark das traditionelle indianische Stammesgebiet vor der Zerstörung durch Ölausbeutung schützen. Der Yasuni-Park gehört zu den artenreichsten Gebieten der Welt und ist seit Jahrhunderten Lebensraum von etwa 2500 Huaoranis. Rettet den Regenwald hat 5000 Dollar Soforthilfe für das Huaorani-Friedenscamp zur Verfügung gestellt.

Bitte unterstützen Sie die Huaorani-Frauen und protestieren Sie noch heute bei der Ecuadorianischen Regierung. Hier gehts direkt zur Protestmail

http://www.regenwald.org/mailaktion/aktion.php?show=45

Bitte leiten Sie diese mail an möglichst viele Freunde und Bekannte weiter, wenn diese damit einverstanden sind!

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung und herzliche Grüße.

Reinhard Behrend
Rettet den Regenwald e. V.
Friedhofsweg 28
22337 Hamburg
Tel. 040 - 4103804
info@regenwald.org

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In der Vertrauensfrage müssen die Wählerinnen und Wähler das letzte Wort haben

Zum Vorgehen von SPD und Grünen bei der Vertrauensfrage des Kanzlers erklärt Bundeswahlkampfleiter Bodo Ramelow:

Die politische Situation in Deutschland fordert Neuwahlen. Die Bundesregierung ist gescheitert, der Kanzler will die Bundestagswahlen zur Abstimmung über seinen Reformkurs machen. Zugleich wird der Ruf nach politischen Alternativen zum Neoliberalismus lauter, in der Gesellschaft entbrennt eine Gerechtigkeitsdebatte, in der die parlamentarische Vertretungslücke auf der Linken immer deutlicher wird.

Die PDS hat sich deshalb nach dem Vorstoß des Bundeskanzlers am Abend der NRW-Wahl für rasche Neuwahlen ausgesprochen. Die verfassungsrechtlichen Verrenkungen allerdings, die nun von SPD und Grünen vollzogen werden, drohen das Ganze zur Farce zu machen.

Natürlich setzen das Grundgesetz und die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts für eine Auflösung des Bundestages enge Grenzen. In dieser wäre es allemal sauberer und ehrlicher, wenn Gerhard Schröder seinen Rücktritt als Bundeskanzler erklären würde. Wenn seine Regierung handlungsunfähig ist, ist dies die logische Konsequenz. Nun von den SPD-Abgeordneten zu erwarten, dass sie ihm erst das Vertrauen vorenthalten und dann für ihn Wahlkampf machen, verlangt doch ein gehöriges Maß an Selbstverleugnung. Mit diesem Vorgehen wird der verfassungsrechtliche Rahmen doch so weit strapaziert, dass sowohl der Bundespräsident als auch die Verfassungsrichter, wenn sie denn angerufen werden, wohl einige Klimmzüge machen müssen, um die Grundgesetzkonformität bescheinigen zu können.

Dennoch bleibt: An Neuwahlen so bald wie möglich führt auch deshalb kein Weg vorbei, weil die Wählerinnen und Wähler sie wollen. Und die sollten in einer Demokratie das letzte Wort behalten.

Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 2005

The Kerala Government today issued orders banning fashion show, cinematic dances and mobile phones with camera system in government and non-government educational institutions in the state.

However, with the consent of respective ethics committees traditional arts programmes could be conducted in schools, a release said here.

The use of mobile phones in schools and higher secondary level educational institutions has been completely banned, it said and directed that teachers should not carry mobile phones in class rooms.

However, carrying of cell phones in higher educational institutions was not banned, it should be switched off in class rooms and campus, it added.

The ethics Committees and head of the institutions have the power to punish the teachers and students who violate the ban.The head of departments have the power to take action against the institutions which were not implemented the ban, it said.

The state government has asked the ethics committee to oversee the ban and submit a monthly report by July 10 to the State-level Committee and in turn it the committee should submit its review report to the Education Minister by July 15, the release added.

http://www.keralaonline.com/keralanews.asp?folder=Keralanews&file=7_6056.xml


Informant: NoName

New product for U.S. industry: 'manufactured doubt'

Industries growing adept at manipulating science to suit their needs

By Jeff Nesmith
jeffn@coxnews.com
WASHINGTON BUREAU
http://www.statesman.com/search/content/insight/stories/06/26doubt.html

Sunday, June 26, 2005

WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s, facing the loss of millions of dollars in sales because of fears that chemicals it produced were shredding the Earth's protective ozone layer, DuPont Corp. fought for time.

It got what it wanted.

A carefully designed campaign by the Hill and Knowlton public relations firm attacked the science behind the ozone depletion fears and delayed government action for two years, enough time for DuPont to bring new, ozone-friendly chemicals to market.

The campaign employed a tactic that is now being used by more and more industries to ward off costly government action, says George Washington University epidemiologist David Michaels.

He calls it "manufactured doubt."

By generating and publicizing uncertainty about the scientific underpinnings of proposed action on air pollution, global warming, the health effects of tobacco and other subjects, industries have been able to ward off regulation and buy valuable time, Michaels said.

Now, with the Bush administration's skepticism about regulation, the "manufactured doubt" tactic is more effective than ever before, Michaels wrote in the current edition of Scientific American.

"Industry groups have tried to manipulate science no matter which party is in power," he wrote, "but the efforts have grown more brazen since George W. Bush became president. I believe it is fair to say that never in our history have corporate interests been as successful as they are today in shaping science policies to their desires."

Michaels' article was published shortly before The New York Times reported that a White House official -- a former American Petroleum Industry lobbyist with no scientific training -- had edited government reports on climate change research, inserting numerous expressions of doubt.

The official, Philip Cooney, resigned his position at the White House Council on Environmental Quality this month after the White House confirmed that he repeatedly inserted phrases that played down links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He has gone to work for ExxonMobil, according to industry reports. The White House says the resignation was planned before the story appeared.

Bob Hopkins, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said Michaels' article was a "pretty one-sided presentation."

"Advocates on all sides try to use data to support their policy goals," Hopkins said. "This administration strongly believes that decisions should be made using the best science available."

In the case of DuPont, a former Hill and Knowlton executive said the firm did seek to delay government action, but did not bend or hide any facts in doing so.

After the first scientific paper warned in 1974 that chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals widely used as coolants, solvents and aerosol propellants, were responsible for a huge "hole" in the ozone layer protecting the Earth against dangerous ultraviolet radiation, Hill and Knowlton set up a "quick response" campaign to react to the findings and to temper critical press accounts.

According to a memorandum on the campaign written in 1989 by Howard Marder, then a Hill and Knowlton senior vice president, DuPont wanted the firm "to help calm fears, get better reporting of the issues and gain up to two or three years before the government took action to ban" the chemicals.

When the evidence against CFCs mounted, DuPont dropped its opposition to a ban. The chemicals were barred from aerosol sprays in 1978. By that time, Marder wrote, "DuPont gained much-needed time to find scientific answers to the allegations and to develop alternatives" to CFCs.

Marder, now a spokesman for the New York City Housing Authority, said that he did not remember details of the memorandum but that his purpose at Hill and Knowlton was to get the truth out.

"I would never obfuscate an issue, and I would never spin an issue," he said. "My intention when I worked for Hill and Knowlton was to have the truth be told."

Michaels, a former assistant secretary of energy in the Clinton administration, acknowledged in an interview that an element of doubt was inevitable in government regulatory decisions because they must be based on the best available science, which by definition can never be absolute.

However, "corporations and others who manufacture dangerous products and pollutants have realized that by adding manufactured uncertainty to the equation, they can essentially stop the regulatory process from moving forward," he said.

He said consulting firms hired by industries review critical scientific findings "and pull these studies apart."

"Industry is able to pick a key point that can destroy a regulation, and they take that one on," he said. "The government scientists are just outgunned. They use basic research, and when their research is attacked, they don't go back and do more research. There's no funding for that."

"The vilification of threatening research as 'junk science' and the corresponding sanctification of industry-commissioned research as 'sound science' has become nothing less than standard operating procedure in some parts of corporate America," he wrote in the magazine article.

Although the practice "goes back a long time," it was perfected by the tobacco industry, Michaels said.

He said one tobacco company executive wrote in a memorandum, which later came to light in tobacco litigation, that "doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with as 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public" that smoking is linked to serious health problems.

William O'Keefe, CEO of the George C. Marshall Institute, a nonprofit organization that has repeatedly promoted the views of scientists who question the prevailing opinion that use of fossil fuels are raising the globe's temperature, said he felt Michaels "had an agenda (in writing the article), and he picked examples to promote it."

A former executive of the American Petroleum Institute, O'Keefe said Michaels "takes the position that the government is always right and the private sector is always wrong, and I don't believe that."

"My experience in 25 years in the petroleum industry is that companies are not in business to harm their clients," he said.

If industry insists that regulations "meet the highest possible standards, I don't know what's wrong with that," O'Keefe said.


Informant: Teresa Binstock



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

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91857


Informant: crystal1281960

06/24/05

There is an industry in the USA in which people make a career based on using the power of the state to seize the private property from churches, home owners and small businesses and turn it over to large corporations in order to let them benefit by setting up large businesses and thereby provide more tax money for more public sector employees to share in." [Editor's note: This commentary provides a link to Eminent Domain Online ... Mission statement: "To provide an internet based business to government (b2g) clearinghouse for professionals in the eminent domain, right of way, and infrastructure development fields... This is not a joke site. This is the enemy. -MLS]

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/007694.html

from Samizdata, by Perry de Havilland -- Hat Tip to Strike the Root


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

There were reports last Friday that representatives of the US Occupation Forces in Iraq were engaged in secret talks with leaders of the Iraqi resistance. For a brief two day period, there was reason to hope that there might be a genuine opportunity to begin negotiations for a political settlement to the 27 month conflict. When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his scheduled appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows he confirmed that the alleged meetings had taken place saying, 'Well, the first thing I would say about the meetings is they go on all the time.' Later, he would reinforce this suggestion on Meet the Press when he was asked whether there had been 'two meetings between Iraqi and U.S. officials and some members of the insurgency.' Rumsfeld responded, 'I think there have probably been many more than that.' It was all lies...

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney06282005.html

from CounterPunch, by Mike Whitney


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

American economy is failing under the Bush administration. A crushing deficit, failing domestic policy, a deceitful inept and uncaring administration, and unchecked illegal immigration are creating a third world situation right here at home. The current administration has divided the country. The 'American Dream' of the 1950s is just a fond memory. Soaring inflation and meager wages have all but eliminated the middle class. Young couples can no longer hope to buy an affordable first home and young mothers don't have the luxury of being stay-at-home Moms as it now takes three fulltime jobs for most young families to simply survive. ... Washington has sold us out...

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

from Liberty For All, by Jessi Winchester


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

Washington's war on terror may be quietly taking a toll on unsuspecting quarters -- America's universities. ... The key issues here are twofold. First, restrictive U.S. visa and security policies continue to discourage and prevent many exceptionally talented students and scholars from even attempting to pursue their studies and careers in the United States. Second, the silencing effects of post-Sept. 11 antiterror policies continue to resonate on U.S. university campuses. Campuses are not in a new McCarthy era, but views outside the mainstream are less welcome than before -- a development contributing little to the war on terrorism...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/27/opinion/edsidel.php

from International Herald Tribune, by Mark Sidel


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In 1733 the philosopher credited with ushering in the French Enlightenment, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, published Letters Concerning the English Nation. It was a pivotal work. Although written in French, the 24 letters were first issued from London in an English translation; the material was considered too politically dangerous for the author or any French printer to have the work to appear in France. Voltaire was no stranger to such controversy. Some years before, after being beaten up by the hirelings of an aristocrat whom he had offended, Voltaire had been thrown into the Bastille (for the second time)." (written 1998; reposted 06/28/05)

http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=4043

from Foundation for Economic Education, by Wendy McElroy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

The Supreme Court by a 5-to-4 vote continued its unrelenting thrashing of the Constitution. The Court ruled in Kelo v. City of New London that local governments may seize private homes, businesses, or land against the owner's will and then re-sell the property to another private owner. No real 'public use' is required; the government need only allege that the new owner will generate more taxes. Thus, if the government thinks that a convenience store, hotel, apartment building or business will result in more taxes, they can force you out and compel you to sell your home. That's the verdict of five unelected liberals -- in black robes who obviously haven't read Constitution in years...

http://tinyurl.com/8qkl9

from Frontiers of Freedom, by George C. Landrith


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/29/05

States that voted for George W. Bush in the last election tend to have less government regulation and more economic freedom than states that voted for Sen. John Kerry, according to a report released today by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and Canada's Fraser Institute. Ten of the 12 states with the most economic freedom were carried by President Bush (Red states), and 7 of the 12 least economically free states were carried by Sen. Kerry (Blue states)...

http://www.ncpa.org/prs/rel/2005/20050629nr.html

from National Center for Policy Analysis, by staff


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/28/05

Comparisons between the wars in Vietnam and Iraq are coming fast and furious now, so let's consider one more. There is an apt parallel between the way we got out of Vietnam and the way that we will get out of Iraq -- sooner or later. Public opinion is turning sharply against the war, even though mainstream Democrats and most Republicans are mostly sticking with the victory-in-Iraq strategy. The conditions in Iraq and here at home are strikingly similar to those we saw surrounding Vietnam at the end of the Johnson administration. Those looking for an exit strategy, take note. In Vietnam, by the spring of 1968, it was clear to just about everyone -- including our intelligence agencies -- that the war was lost. The Tet Offensive made it obvious that the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong weren't being defeated or decimated...

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

from Tom Paine, by Robert Dreyfuss


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

China is the leading scapegoat for America's economic ills. On May 20, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blamed China for the U.S. housing bubble. If only China were not lending us so much money, mortgage rates would be higher, forestalling a housing bubble. Krugman says China is a poor country and should be investing its capital at home, not lending it to the U.S. Krugman could just as well have said, 'If only U.S. manufacturers produced in America instead of outsourcing to China, the Chinese would not have any money to lend us. Thus, no housing bubble.' Krugman is correct that if foreign lending to the U.S. slows, interest rates will rise, putting a speculative housing market in trouble. But the interest of the U.S.-China relationship goes far beyond the effect on the U.S. housing market. Economists set in traditional ways of thinking miss the really important aspects of the relationship"... (for publication 07/04/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_04/article1.html

from The American Conservative, by Paul Craig Roberts


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

The core of liberty is private property. Private property means that the owner may control the use and transfer of the property. The forced taking of property from the rightful owner is theft, an evil act which government should outlaw, not perpetrate. Just because the thief does something good with the stolen loot does not make the theft right. This principle applies equally to private theft and theft by government. The excuse for government is the protection and security of persons and their property. Government not only commits an evil act by forcibly taking property, but also delegitimizes itself...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001135.html

from The Free Liberal, by Fred Foldvary


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Rabattschlachten im Einzelhandel gehen auf Kosten der Beschäftigten.

Ein Gespräch mit Helmut Born von Daniel Behruzi in junge Welt vom 28.06.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-28/021.php

Aus dem Text: „…Es ist zwar klar, daß die Tarifrunden für uns derzeit nicht unter guten Bedingungen stattfinden - da reicht ein Blick auf die Abschlüsse in der Bauindustrie oder die Auseinandersetzung bei den Druckern. Das Grundproblem ist, daß ver.di den Widerstand der verschiedenen Branchen vereinzelt statt ihn zu bündeln. Das Ziel muß sein, endlich gemeinsamen Widerstand aufzubauen.“


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

Konflikte und Arbeitskämpfe im Gesundheitswesen > Vivantes Berlin: Solidarität mit einer gekündigten Altenpflegerin

Wenn Arbeit krank macht

Vor dem Berliner Arbeitsgericht kämpft eine Altenpflegerin gegen einen städtischen Betreiber und gegen einen menschenunwürdigen Pflegealltag. Artikel von Wolfgang Pomrehn in junge Welt vom 28.06.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-28/016.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

Tarifabschluss 2005: 40 Stunden und „ Leistungslohn“ - wofür?

»Das ist eine Illusion«. Auch Lohnverzicht und unbezahlte Mehrarbeit wird keine Arbeitsplätze im Baugewerbe retten.

Ein Gespräch mit Lothar Nätebusch, Bezirksvorsitzender der IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (BAU) in Berlin, von Rainer Balcerowiak in junge Welt vom 24.06.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-24/021.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

Resolution des Hanauer Sozialforums - Bündnis gegen Sozialabbau - gegen den Einsatz von Ein-Euro-Kräften an Schulen im Main-Kinzig-Kreis.

Der Text der Resolution von Anfang Juni 2005.
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/sforum.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

„Wein predigen und Wasser trinken - Intellektuelle und Kulturschaffende wirken oft unter den Bedingungen der Selbstausbeutung. Doch allmählich können Gewerkschaften auch bei den »Freischaffenden« im Kulturbetrieb Fuß fassen…“ Artikel von Peter Nowak in Neues Deutschland vom 24.06.05

http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=73837&IDC=42&DB=O2P


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

„Im Folgenden werden die Haushalteinkommen mit Hartz IV-Leistungen den Armutsgrenzen des 2. Nationalen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung (2. NARB) gegenüber gestellt. Es soll nachgewiesen werden, dass Hartz IV Armut per Gesetz bedeutet…“ Dieser Artikel von Ronald Blaschke, Arbeitslosenverband Deutschland, Sächsische Armutskonferenz, vom Juni 2005 liegt nun in einer aktualisierten Fassung vor! (pdf)

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


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

Neue und alte Armut (trotz Arbeit)

Armutverläufe

Unter diesem Titel findet vom 7. Juli - 2. August 2005 im Osnabrücker Gewerkschaftshaus ein Ausstellung von Projektgruppe „Armut grenzt aus“ / Kooperationsstelle Hochschulen und Gewerkschaften Osnabrück statt. Die Ausstellung „Armutsverläufe“ porträtiert sechs von Armut betroffene oder an der Armutsgrenze lebende Haushalte. Die Porträts basieren auf umfangreichen Leitfadeninterviews, die im Abstand von fünf Jahren geführt wurden. Für die Ausstellung und begleitende Veranstaltungen siehe
http://www.ausstellung-armut-grenzt-aus.de

Zur Ausstellung gibt es eine gleichnamige Publikation - für weitere Infos und Bezugsquellen siehe die Leseprobe: „Franz, Denise und Nico“ http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/armutsverlauf.html

Als Kostprobe der Druckfassung siehe „Gerd O. Bescheidener Lebenskünstler“
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/allg/armutsverlauf.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 26, Eintrag 18

06/28/05

In his speeches, George Bush regularly calls for a return to or the reinforcement of traditional, even eternal, family values and emphasizes the importance of personal 'accountability' for our children as well as ourselves. ('The culture of America is changing from one that has said, if it feels good, do it, and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else, to a new culture in which each of us understands we are responsible for the decisions we make in life.') And yet when it comes to acts that are clearly wrong in this world -- aggressive war, the looting of resources, torture, personal gain at the expense of others, lying, and manipulation among other matters -- Bush and his top officials never hesitate to redefine reality to suit their needs. When faced with matters long defined in everyday life in terms of right and wrong, they simply reach for their dictionaries. ... What the Bush administration has proved is that, if you have a mind to do so, there's no end to the ways you can define 'is'...

http://tinyurl.com/dafc2

from Mother Jones, by Tom Engelhardt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/27/05

In a major victory for the entertainment industry, the Supreme Court this morning ruled that file-sharing companies could be held liable when people use their products to download copyrighted movies and music from the Internet. The unanimous decision said there was enough evidence of unlawful intent for the case of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vs. Grokster to be sent back to lower court for a trial. The high court appeared to agree with the entertainment industry’s argument that the peer-to-peer file-sharing services were actively inducing users to engage in piracy. 'We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties,' Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court...

http://tinyurl.com/cbn5y

from San Francisco Chronicle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Administration failed to plan for war casualties: "About one-quarter of this year's $1 billion shortfall [at the Department of Veterans Affairs] results from the services needed by veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, [VA Secretary Jim Nicholson] said, adding that the estimate of roughly 23,000 returning veterans [seeking care] proved far below the actual total of 103,000."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3777

Yes, the headline above is real. And, yes, the article below is real. If you want to know what the current administration in Washington reads as gospel truth every morning, then read the article below. The Washington Times, owned by convicted cult leader and self-proclaimed "God" Sun Myung Moon, ignores facts and plain common sense by declaring "victories" in Iraq.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3776

In addition to the Halliburton contracting scandal, another investigation raises the issue of further bribes in Washington. Did MZM Inc. pay Congressman Duke Cunningham $700,000 in a questionable real estate deal in order to receive up to $163 million in defense contracts over the past few years?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3774

The U.S. military said Monday it plans to expand its prisons across Iraq to hold as many as 16,000 detainees, as the relentless insurgency shows no sign of letup one year after the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqi authorities.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3771

Troops burned in war find recovery a painful journey, both in mind and body.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3767

Is President Bush living on Mars? Is he tone deaf? At a news conference last month, he wrote off as an "absurd allegation" the conclusion by Amnesty International that the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was the "new Gulag" because of the mistreatment of prisoners there.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3759

LONDON -- In the spring of 2002, two weeks before British Prime Minister Tony Blair journeyed to Crawford, Tex., to meet with President Bush at his ranch about the escalating confrontation with Iraq, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw sounded a prescient warning.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3757

President Bush will discuss the situation in Iraq. It's long past time to get it right in Iraq. The Bush administration is courting disaster with its current course - a course with no realistic strategy for reducing the risks to our soldiers and increasing the odds for success.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3755

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
15-16 June 2005

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings/base_stations_june05/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings/base_stations_june05/en/print.html


Informant: NoName

Ammersbek: Funkturm wird nicht gebaut

Hartnäckig: Forderung nach totalem Haftungsausschluß vertreibt den Investor.

Von Alexander Sulanke

Ammersbek - Der auf dem Fußballplatz am Schäferdresch geplante Mobilfunkmast (wir berichteten) wird doch nicht gebaut. Die Deutsche Funkturm, eine hundertprozentige Tochter der Deutschen Telekom, hat die Verhandlungen mit dem Ammersbeker Bürgermeister Axel Bärendorf (47) über den Standort auf gemeindeeigenem Grund und Boden für gescheitert erklärt. Offenbar rückt das Unternehmen nun sogar ganz von seinem ursprünglichen Plan ab, im Bereich Schäferdresch/Rehagen einen Antennenträger für Mobilfunksender zu bauen.

Die Anwohner in dem Ammersbeker Ortsteil können also aufatmen. Aus Angst vor ihrer Ansicht nach gesundheitsschädlichen Strahlen hatten sie gegen den Turmbau protestiert, seit das Thema im Spätsommer vergangenen Jahres spruchreif geworden war.

Doch wie ist in Ammersbek gelungen, was sich die Menschen auch in anderen Kommunen wünschen - oft vergebens? Offenbar hat die Taktik des Bürgermeisters mehr Früchte getragen als er sich jemals selbst erhofft hätte. Die Taktik nämlich, sich auf einen konstruktiven Dialog mit den Turmbauern einzulassen und dabei hartnäckig darauf bedacht zu sein, jeglichen Schaden und jegliches Risiko von der Gemeinde fernzuhalten.

Als Akquisiteure der Hamburger Firma Vivento Technicals GmbH im Auftrag der Deutschen Funkturm am 18. August vergangenen Jahres erstmals in Ammersbek vorstellig werden, ist Bärendorf nicht begeistert, bietet aber seine Hilfe bei der Suche eines Standortes an. Seine damalige Devise: Verhindern kann die Gemeinde einen Funkmast nicht. Also gestaltet sie mit. Denn Antennenträger gelten als privilegierte Bauvorhaben. Das heißt: Liegt eine Standortbescheinigung vor, ein Attest gewissermaßen, daß die Richtwerte der Bundesimmissionsschutzverordnung eingehalten werden, muß einem Bauantrag ohne Rücksicht auf die Befindlichkeiten in der betroffenen Gemeinde zugestimmt werden.

Mit knapper Mehrheit billigt die Gemeindevertretung Bärendorfs Vorschlag, den Fußballplatz als Standort anzubieten. Bei der Ausgestaltung eines Vertrags kann Ammersbek als Partner mitwirken. Dem Bürgermeister ist wichtig, daß die Gemeinde von niemandem haftbar gemacht werden kann. Deshalb fügt er in den Vertragsentwurf Paragraph 7a ein, der da lautet: "Der Pächter stellt den Verpächter von allen Ansprüchen Dritter, die sich aus dem Bau, dem Betrieb oder dem Rückbau sowie sonst aus der Nutzung der Pachtsache ergeben, frei."

Für die Deutsche Funkturm ist das zuviel. Sie streicht den generellen Haftungsausschluß. In den verklausulierten Vertragstext, der der Ahrensburger Zeitung auszugsweise vorliegt, läßt sie einfügen, daß die Deutsche Funkturm "lediglich im Rahmen und im Umfang ihres Versicherungsschutzes" hafte. Wie hoch der ist, will die Deutsche Funkturm auf Anfrage nicht beantworten. "Vertragsinhalte kommunizieren wir nicht öffentlich", sagt Sprecherin Corinna Kielwein (29).

Außerdem sieht die von der Deutschen Funkturm vorgeschlagene Haftungsklausel vor, daß Ammersbek im Falle eines Schadens vor Gericht ziehen müßte, um Ansprüche gegen den Turmbetreiber geltend zu machen. Nach Auskunft der Deutschen Funkturm sind das standardisierte Vertragsklauseln, auf die sich alle Vertragspartner einließen. Nicht so der Ammersbeker Bürgermeister. Bärendorf: "Ich will in kein Gerichtsverfahren hineingezogen werden, und ich will mich nicht mit Versicherungen herumschlagen müssen. So einfach ist das."

Theoretisch könnte die Deutsche Funkturm nun versuchen, für irgendein Privatgrundstück in der Nähe ihre Vertragsbedingungen durchzusetzen. Doch das Interesse scheint verflogen. Sprecherin Corinna Kielwein: "So, wie es aussieht, wird es keinen Funkturm geben."

erschienen am 29. Juni 2005

Copyright © 2005 Hamburger Abendblatt

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/06/29/453164.html

BBC News website 28.06.05

A GP who has been fighting for three years to have a phone mast moved from near her home has been told she cannot take her case to the House of Lords.

Three law lords have refused permission for Dr Christine Nunn to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling but have not given any reasons for their decision.

The doctor, who lives in Bardsey, near Leeds, and her neighbours say the T-Mobile mast is a health hazard.

The mast was allowed because Leeds City Council bungled planning procedures.

In February, the appeal judges told the protestors the only remedy open to them was to claim damages from the council which lodged their notice of objection one day after the statutory 56-day period had elapsed.

Property values

Dr Nunn and her neurosurgeon husband Geoff moved into the Old Vicarage in the village before the mast was built just 120 yards from their home.

Their legal battle began when the Nunns and their neighbours tried to protest at a planning inquiry that, as well as health implications, the mast would hit property values.

But the inquiry inspector said he had no power to hear their case because Leeds City Council had failed to act within the time limit.

This prompted the Bardsey residents to take the case to the Court of Appeal and then the attempt to go to the House of Lords.

Dr Nunn said on Monday she was not surprised at the decision by the law lords and there would have been problems in paying the legal bills, estimated at £30,000.

She added that the protestors would be meeting officers from Leeds City Council next week in the hope that the council might still be able to issue an order that the phone mast should be taken down.

Milton Keynes Today

A MOBILE phone operator who placed a mast just yards from a nursery, youth club and the local MP's home, has faced fury from residents.

Residents say Hutchison 3G has exploited a loophole in the law which means it can place the mast on top of Olney Fire Station's training tower without planning permission because it is less than 15m tall.

Jeremy Rawlings, the chairman of the neighbouring Olney Youth Club, said: "The way Three have behaved in this matter is totally indefensible because they gave an assurance to Milton Keynes Council they would look at all sites but have gone ahead with it without any consultation."

Hutchison had asked Milton Keynes Council last year for suggestions for sites in the town, but when it gave 28 days notice in April that it was going to place the mast on top of the training tower of the fire station in East Street, the proposal was met with universal opposition.

Milton Keynes Council asked Hutchison to reconsider, and the firm said it would think about it.

Residents thought that was the end of the matter until they saw work starting at the site two weeks ago.

Kevin Viney, who lives on East Street , said: "The loophole is if they put the aerial at the height they wished to, they would have required full planning permission. But by conveniently putting it on a disused structure they did not need to do any more than inform Milton Keynes Planning Department."

MP Mark Lancaster, who described it as an anomaly in the law, said: "It is ironic it is just yards from my house but I can assure you that Conservative Party policy has not changed since I moved there. "We think masts like this should require planning permission."

Olney councillor Graham Mabbutt was also furious that Hutchison 3G had ignored the town council's wishes and penned a 10-year contract with Bucks Fire Authority, thought to be worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Cllr Mabbutt said: "What I find unsavoury more than anything is the action of the Bucks Fire Authority not consulting with us or finding out what our policy on it was."

The fire service, which is embarrassed by development, said it will meet with the council and Hutchison 3G.

Gareth Coombes-Olney, Hutchison 3G's corporate affairs manager, said the mast meets safety and technical requirements.

"Hutchison have not done anything wrong, they are entitled to build it," he added.

richard.cooper@mkcitizen.co.uk

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Loophole in the law: Calls for `illegal' phone mast veto

The telecommunications industry often does not even bother to seek planning permission, as these examples from the Worcester Evening News show, they just show up and install after dark, or on a Friday afternoon when the council and planning have gone on weekend, or they call it “TEMPORARY MAST”.

The sloppy and biased wording of John Prescott’s PPG8 allows them to believe that they alone have inherited the earth, and they make full use of that.

Can anyone explain to me why the Government bothered to concoct the mobile industries “Code of best conduct” when it was never intended to be used, there are no repercussions for not following ANY of the guidelines it gives, so it is totally safe for the industry to ignore it, which of course they do.

Is this just one more of from the heap of the Governments Useless Paperwork, which has cost a fortune to produce, but was never intended to be followed??

Best regards.
Agnes .
http://www.mast-victims.org/


First published on Thursday 04 November 2004:

Calls for `illegal' phone mast veto

A MOBILE phone mast has been put up in a village near Droitwich without planning permission or consultation.

The Vodafone third generation (3G) mast appeared - to villagers' amazement - in a private field in Salwarpe.

But residents say they are outraged that the communications giant has no planning permission for the transmitter and that it failed to let anyone know it was erecting the mast last week.

"I have received many letters from residents who are very angry about this," said Wychavon councillor, Andrew Christian-Brookes.

"If a member of the public builds a house without permission, Wychavon District Council would use the law to stop them and force them to take it down.

"No resident could build a house and then say `it's OK, we will come back in six months with a planning application'.

"There cannot be a rule for one, and one for another. Vodafone must stick to rules like everyone else."

Villagers had at first believed that farm building work was going on but then a 50ft mast appeared.

Mr Christian-Brookes said that he and residents would now be officially objecting to the mast and hoped that legal action would be taken against Vodafone.

Principal area planning officer for Wychavon, Mike Hurst, confirmed the council had received a letter from Vodafone asking for planners' views on a possible mast but that no permission had been granted.

"We are aware of the mast. Vodafone has jumped the gun and we are now investigating the situation," he said.

A spokesman for Vodafone said the antenna was only a temporary structure but said the company would be applying for planning permission for a permanent mast to be put up somewhere on the site.

"The mast is in a rural area and tall trees around the area minimise its visual impact," said the spokeswoman.

Farmer and owner of the land, Mike Davis, said he did not wish to comment on the issue.


First published on Wednesday 09 February 2005:
Second mobile phone mast for golf course on the cards

A SECOND mobile phone mast is likely to be put up on Tolladine Golf Course.

Vodafone has put in a planning application for a mast disguised as a fir tree to improve its mobile coverage.

*** It follows criticisms the company received from the city council after it put up a temporary mast without planning permission last year.

Residents in The Fairway, off Tolladine Road , complained because the mast was not disguised and needed a noisy generator to power it.

But the new mast will be some way from homes and disguised as a tree - although it will have a standby generator that will reach 60 decibels at night.

A similar mast, put up by mobile phone company 3, has been on the course for two years.


Floodgates:

Warndon Parish Council raised no objection to the latest plans, although member Frank Lauriello warned that it could set a precedent.

"This could open the floodgates so there could be more up there before long.

"What if Orange, for example, comes along and wants to put up a mast?

"It's very important that these things stay in keeping with the environment."

***A temporary mast, on the back of a trailer, was put up last November under cover of darkness prompting what

Worcester City Council's principal planning officer Peter Yates called an "exchange of views" between him and Vodafone.

The temporary mast was taken away and the new planning application has now been submitted.

The application will now go before Worcester City Council's planning committee for approval, taking into account the views of the parish council and other people affected.

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David.

The operators (and their bounty hunters, who are the people who deal with finding the sites and dealing with council planners) must give awfully good lunches and treats.

Just the way the planners use the language to intimidate and try and humiliate the people objecting shows how good education seminars the operators have given to council planners.

The planner in Worcester, Peter Yates is a real beauty, and I bet he also is a fast learner.

He is the head of the Worcester group of Amnesty International, and does a lot of work to get political prisoners in Korea out of jail and torture, but he has no compassion for his own people in Worcester.

I have wondered whether he does the Amnesty bit on grounds of bad conscience over how he treats his own.

Regards.

Agnes.

http://www.mast-victims.org

Please find below weblink on yesterday’s debate.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2005-06-28.345.1&s=phone+masts#g366.0

Bath Chronicle 28.06.05

11:00 - 28 June 2005

A Mobile phone company has failed to overturn a council's decision to reject a plan for a 30-metre mast in a village near Bath. Telecommunications giant Orange has lost its appeal against the ruling by Bath and North East Somerset Council.

The firm had applied for permission to build the slimline tower, six antennae, four dish antennae and six equipment cabins on land at Shockerwick Farm, Box Road, Bathford.

Bathford Parish Council objected to the scheme, saying it would detract significantly from the natural beauty and unspoilt character of the area, and 12 letters of opposition were sent by local residents.

The application was refused by B &NES councillors at a meeting in September 2004 on the grounds that the mast would spoil the appearance of the rural area, which is in the Green Belt.

And a Government planning inspector has now dismissed the appeal, agreeing the proposal would be inappropriate in the Green Belt. The inspector also said the structure would introduce a noticeable and intrusive urban feature, detracting from the landscape.

He accepted the need for further network coverage in the area, and that some searching for alternatives had been carried out.

But he concluded it was inadequate, and that the need did not outweigh the harm that would be caused.

The inspector added that the case for very special circumstances had not been proved.

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Some councils across the UK are begining to say that it is a waste of time rejecting mast applications when the Inspectorate overturns their decision. This has happened in conservation areas and green belt. We have to somehow remind councils that both are still planning considerations! Any ideas?

Sandi

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Sandi

I have also heard of Councils who think it is a waste of time refusing mast applications in green belts and protected conservation areas - this Bath Appeal dismissal is a good one to use when writing to Councils displaying the 'apathetic mode'.

I think that letters also need to go to the Planning Inspectorate's Chief Executive pointing out its gross inconsistency in allowing/dismissing mast appeals in 'protected areas', and posting them copies of actual appeal notices (allowed/dismissed) as evidence.

I shall be writing to the Inspectorate's Chief Executive again, using this Bath result, complaining about what happened here in Otterton where an Inspector allowed a mast that was unanimously refused by the Council, in an AONB next to the first natural World Heritage Site in a Coastal Conservation area.

After all, in the Government's PPG8 these protected Conservation areas and AONB's are supposed to be given priority over all other development. How can the Inspectorate be taken seriously when they are making such rubbish decisions and not protecting these 'Government protected' areas?!

The Bath decision is a good one and shows what is possible - what we need now are more good Inspectors like that one - Appeals should not be such a worrying "lottery'!

Best wishes

Jane

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These are my views exactly, Jane, so perhaps we all need to send this to our local councils and to any area where this attitude prevails. We need to question this flouting of the planning laws, which are, all said and done, the laws of the land! Are we to become a lawless, undemocratic country under this present Government, at the mercy of mobile phone companies?

Sandi

Birmingham Evening Mail Jun 28 2005

By Paul Dale, Chief Reporter

Schools, old people's homes and children's playgrounds across Birmingham could get lucrative financial handouts if they agree to have controversial mobile phone masts sited on their land.

The idea stems from a city council scrutiny inquiry into telecommunications policy, which is recommending ending a temporary 17-month ban on placing masts on local authority land or buildings.

In return for agreeing to have a mast, governors would get at least half of the annual rental to boost school funds. With annual leasing fees topping £10,000, schools could make £50,000 for a ten-year contract.

Council-run old people's homes would be offered a similar deal.

Rental from masts on council housing estates and playgrounds would be used to improve community facilities.

The proposition was condemned last night by a leading anti-mast campaigner.

Eileen O'Connor, from Sutton Coldfield, said schools and residential homes would be tempted to make money without properly considering health risks.

Mrs O'Connor said: "They will be encouraged by the telecommunications industry to take the offer and then foolishly suffer the consequences."

Mrs O'Connor, a cancer sufferer who believes her illness was worsened by radiation from masts, was saddened that the council was likely to end the ban on siting masts on local authority property.

She said: "I sat through every one of the scrutiny committee hearings and there was no evidence given that masts are safe. They are likely to accelerate the growth of tumours in people who already have them.

"If the committee hearings had been a court of law, the telecommunications industry would have been found guilty. I just don't know how the council can lift the ban when there is so much uncertainty about mobile phones and health risks."

The council already has lease agreements with mobile phone companies at 134 sites across the city under contracts approved before the ban came into force. Most masts are placed on high-rise flats and offices.

Scrutiny committee chairman Mick Wilkes insisted that Birmingham would not become a "soft touch".

The committee's recommendations stipulate that the ban should only be lifted if mobile phone operators agree to independent checks on the operation of the masts.

Proposals include: * Independent audits of emissions to ensure radiation safety levels are not exceeded * Regular inspections to make sure masts conform to the original specification supplied * Development of a standard lease agreement enabling the contracts to be terminated should future research show masts to have adverse health effects.

Omega: research shows already that masts have adverse health effects. See under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Coun Wilkes (Lib Dem, Hall Green) said Birmingham was planning the most stringent conditions on the siting of masts anywhere in the country. Other councils would probably follow suit.

He stressed the council could not ignore the popularity of mobile phones and the requirement of the business community to benefit from easier communication. Birmingham could not afford to have "black holes" where mobile phones could not work.

At the same time, it was necessary to recognise public concern about health risks.

He added: "We are proposing a very strict regime with tough checks. The conditions we require are the most exacting to be found anywhere."

Coun Wilkes pointed out that, if the ban were to continue, mobile phone companies would take advantage of Government planning guidelines to site masts on privately-owned land or next to roads. The council would in that case be powerless to prevent the uncontrolled expansion of masts.

"Not only would we have less control, but the distribution of masts and possibly the numbers may be worse," he added.

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Self regulating a self certificating mobile phone companies kept under stringent controls?

What madness is this? And we need coverage for 3G which is causing harm much more quickly that 2G? We are heading into dangerous waters again.

Sandi

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"Strict and tough?" I can't see how that fits anything said here ...

Andy

The Citizen Gloucestershire

10:30 - 28 June 2005

An anti-mast campaigner has condemned as "monstrous" plans to erect a mobile phone mast close to two Stroud schools.

Mast Sanity spokeswoman Lynne Edmunds said it was "totally unacceptable" that Vodafone had applied to put up a third generation antennae on the pavement between two bus stops in Merrywalks. The 12m-high mast would tower over the Rosary Primary School and St Rose's Special School , said Miss Edmunds.

"It is the worst plan since the Tetras (police system) four years ago," said Miss Edmunds, who is concerned about possible ill-effects the health of local pupils.

"Vodafone clearly pays no attention to the vulnerability of children," she said.

But Vodafone spokeswoman Jane Frapwell said: "We are talking here about very low-powered devices - about as powerful as a light bulb.

"They have to be stationed where mobile phone users are. If we put it on a hill outside of Stroud it would only cover the hill."

Ms Frapwell said: "There are guidelines designed to protect all sectors of the public."

A few months ago Miss Edmunds and Mast Sanity backed a protest that blocked proposals for a similar Hutchison 3G mast near The Shrubberies, a special school in Stonehouse.

The Merrywalks mast would be only 175 metres from St Rose's and 120 metres from The Rosary, said Miss Edmunds.

Miss Edmunds said she feared radiation from the mast would also affect bus passengers.

Stroud District Council senior planning officer Andrew Case said the Vodafone application was already out to public consultation.

Regulations stated representations could be made about its site and appearance until a deadline of July 15.

Jun 28 2005

By Neil Elkes, Evening Mail Birmingham

CITY council chiefs today vowed they would not be a "soft touch" for the mobile phone industry by lifting a ban on masts.

The big five mobile phone companies, Vodafone, O2, 3, T-mobile and Orange are set to be able to put new masts on city offices, schools, leisure centres and tower blocks from November 1.

The controversial move was exclusively revealed in yesterday's Evening Mail.

But Coun Michael Wilkes (Lib Dem, Hall Green), who chaired the six-month inquiry into masts amid fears they cause ill-health, insisted that the lifting of the ban would give the city greater control over the sites, locations and output of masts in Birmingham.

He said: "If this policy is endorsed, further masts will only be erected on council land and premises on the council's terms and we will not be a soft touch.

"The conditions we require are the most exacting to be found anywhere.

"I believe that this policy represents good sense and is in the best interests of Birmingham as whole."

They decided that by allowing masts, for example, on a high rise block, it would prevent three or four masts being sited on low level private land or roads in the same area.

Coun Wilkes added that if the ban continued masts would simply be displaced to unsuitable and less desirable privately-owned sites or roadsides where the council is powerless to control them.

A key consideration was the business community and the thousands of regular mobile phone users.

The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce feared that the city would lose its competitive edge and be seen as a technology "black hole" if the ban continued.

The Full Council will vote on the report on July 5.

by Harold Williamson

In a speech at the White House commemorating the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush said, “All of us can now agree that the fall of the Iraqi dictator has removed a source of violence, aggression and instability in the Middle East.” Yet most Iraqis will now argue that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power merely replaced one form of tyranny with another...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Williamson0628.htm

by Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese

President Bush will address the nation about Iraq tonight. This is the first time he will be speaking to the country on the U.S. occupation of Iraq since the Downing Street Memos have been released. As ten senators pointed out in a letter on Friday, June 24: “at a time the White House was promising Congress and the American people that war would be their last resort, they believed military action against Iraq was ‘inevitable.’” Thus, the President was telling the public he was seeking a peaceful resolution when in fact he was planning an invasion. He told Americans there were unmanned Iraqi aircraft that could drop bombs over our cities. His own intelligence agencies told him this was inaccurate. He tied Saddam to Al Qaeda and Bin Laden -- there was no evidence of that. Indeed, the two -- one secular, one fundamentalist -- were mortal foes. He talked about Saddam being able to launch a strike on the United States in 45 minutes -- there was no evidence Iraq was capable of such an attack. He talked about the potential of a mushroom cloud over the United States -- a nuclear attack by Saddam -- when there was no evidence that a weakened, surrounded and embargoed Saddam had any nuclear capability. When he was going to the U.N. it was not to seek peace but to try and make an illegal invasion legal by tricking Saddam into a misstep. For month after month, it now seems evident President Bush and his minions misled the nation, repeating the fabrications and manipulations about weapons of mass destruction over and over and over in a drum beat to war...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Nader-Zeese0628.htm



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From ufpj-news

The Associated Press

Tuesday 28 June 2005

According to a report published on Monday from King's College, London, the United States continues to have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

With 714 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, the United States remains the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, ahead of Russia and Belarus, according to figures published by the London University King's College International Centre for Prison Studies.

The United States has held first place in this ranking since 2000.

"In 200 years, the United States has succeeded in creating two million prisoners," frets researcher Anton Shelupanov. "It's a very worrying rate of growth."

Of nine million people imprisoned in the whole world, more than two million (22% of the total) are behind American bars.

Russia is First in Europe

Russia has the highest incarceration rate in Europe, with 550 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, ahead of Belarus (532/100,000) and Ukraine (416/100,000). The rate is 91/100,000 in metropolitan France, between Belgium (88/100,000) and Germany (96/100,000).

South Africa has the highest incarceration rate on the African continent (413/100,000) and Surinam the highest in South America (437/100,000).

The International Centre for Prison Studies gathers data from various sources, notably the prison administrations of each country.


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http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001499.htm


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