Anti-war groups in the United States are releasing a People's Petition for an Iraq Peace Process. Peace Action and Progressive Democrats of America are inviting other organizations and individuals to join their call for U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and the appointment of a peace envoy to broker a political settlement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9794.htm

One of Iraq’s top psychiatrists says that more than two years of war, occupation and insurgency have turned the country into possibly the most psychologically damaged place in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9796.htm

By Celeste Zappala and Dante Zappala

We are sunk down into the soil of our country, digging in for a few days near the president's ranch. Our friend Cindy Sheehan has been entrenched here for a week, demanding a meeting with the president.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9787.htm



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

By Howard Zinn

There are killings every day in Iraq. Occupying troops, diplomats, aid workers and media people are killed, as are Iraqis, in far greater numbers. But President George Bush’s war is not only against opponents in Iraq and the Middle East: it is a war against his fellow Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9802.htm

After setting out to establish a democracy, the US slowly realizes an Islamic republic is taking shape.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9790.htm

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By Jodie Evans Huffington Post
August 16, 2005

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/featuredposts.html#a005524

The day was hot and hard, but as the sun set so did the tension of the day. More interview request than Cindy can fill, new family members arrived, and even they couldn't take up the slack.

Everyone was finally turning in for the night, when someone came through camp in their pickup and mowed down all the crosses from Arlington West. The Sheriff says about 503 crosses were damaged. Whoever it was ended up with a flat and cross remains in his truck, he is now in custody in Crawford for property damage. Otherwise the day was hot, muggy and full of more than could be responded to. Rumor has it, the county will be closing down the camp tomorrow, so we will be looking for a new home. On the move, staying light on our feet.

Goodnight.

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DAY 9 AT CAMP CASEY By Cindy Sheehan Huffington Post Monday, August 15, 2005

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cindy-sheehan/

The ninth day ended in the most awesome way. We were out at Camp Casey and it was sprinkling a little bit and it really looked like the rain was going to start pouring down anytime. We looked over into the next cow pasture and there was a full rainbow. Rainbows are supposedley God's sign of hope. When Casey was killed on 04/04/04, I thought that all of my hope was killed, too. Being involved in the peaceful occupation of Crawford and meeting hundreds of people from all over the world has given me so much hope for the future.

We had a lovely interfaith prayer service this morning. It was truly beautiful and we were all weeping while we were singing "Amazing Grace." But, during the service, one of our neighbors fired off a shot gun. He said he was shooting at birds, but he is tired of us being there and he wants us to leave. I didn't get to talk to him, but I told the media that if he wanted us to leave so badly, why doesn't he tell his other neighbor, George, to talk to me. We are good neighbors and we are cooperating with everyone. By the way, in case I forgot to blog it last night, the Sheriff has requested that I stay down in Crawford during the night, because he is afraid for my safety after he leaves. He said he would "sleep better" himself at night if I came into town to sleep. Judging from the shooting guns, I guess he was right.

George Bush took a 2 hour bike ride on Saturday, and when he got back, he was asked how he could go for a two hour bike ride when he doesn't have time to meet with me, and he said: "I have to go on with my life." (Austin Statesman, August 14) WHAT!!!!!????? He has to get on with his life!!! I am so offended by that statement. Every person, war fan, or not, who has had a child killed in this mistake of an occupation should be highly offended by that remark. Who does he think he is? I wish I could EVER be able to get on with my life. Getting on with my life means a life without my dear, sweet boy. Getting on with my life means learning to live with a pain that is so intense that sometimes I feel like throwing up, or screaming until I pass out from sorrow. I wish a little bike ride could help me get on with my life.

I need to focus on the positive, though, and there is so much. I had so many amazing things happen today. I couldn't walk through Camp Casey or the Crawford Peace House today without hugging people and getting my picture taken. Now I know how Mickey Mouse feels at Disneyland. I had a soldier from Ft. Hood come out today and he brought me a small stone with a First Cavalry insignia painted on it and the pictures of three of his beautiful buddies who were murdered there by George's reckless policies. It was such an incredible moment for me when he said: "Keep on doing what you are doing. We are so proud of you. Casey would be so proud of you."

I just wish George had as much courage in his entire body as Casey had in his little pinky, then he would meet with me. Crawford, Tx. is beautiful prairie land, but I could think of dozens of other places I would rather be right now. However, if George or anybody else thinks I am leaving before my mission is "accomplished" they have another think coming. I will stay the course. I will finish the mission. I will take no prisoners.

By the way, we had about 7 counter protesters today and hundreds at Camp Casey...don't let the mainstream media say differently.

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LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTIVISM! PEACE DIVA MEETS MEDIA, NOT BUSH By Nathan Diebenow The Lone Star Iconoclast August 16, 2005

http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/31-40/33news01.htm

CRAWFORD ‹ She is in a director¹s chair getting made up before her next photoshoot. Though there might be water standing next to her, this woman is no swimsuit model. No, the sad-looking lady in the blue raincoat and fisherman¹s hat is Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., the newest star of the peace movement.

It might seem that she found that chair all by herself, but in reality it took teamwork and infrastructure that was already in place to aid her attempt to meet President Bush face-to-face at his Prairie Chapel ranch this August. A number of groups whose members count in the thousands have helped provide transportation, communications, logistics, food, water, and financial and emotional support for her.

For starters, a small cadre of U.S. military veterans bused Sheehan to Crawford as their annual Veterans for Peace conference in Dallas concluded last Saturday. Then, as news of her defiance there grew, the founding members of CodePink, a women¹s peace and justice group known for disrupting Bush¹s inauguration and a host of other corporate interests, flew in to perform odd jobs aimed to launch Sheehan into the mainstream media spotlight, much like how the NAACP took Rosa Parks, a secretary of that organization¹s Alabama chapter, and turned her into a saint of the Civil Rights movement.

In other words, this is no fly-by night arrangement. No-sir-ree-bob! It¹s as professional as grassroot activism comes.

There¹s Jodie Evans, one of CodePink¹s founding members. She¹s on her cellphone headset talking to her PR team to line up future media interviews with Sheehan.

There¹s Col. Ann Wright, who started working with CodePink after resigning her position as a U.S. foreign service officer in protest over the invasion of Iraq. She¹s playing good cop to Diane Wilson¹s bad cop with the McLennan County Sheriff¹s Department trying to make sense of the right-of-way laws here in the countryside. Wilson, a fisherwoman from Seadrift, Texas, is also a CodePink co-founder on a hunger strike until Sheehan¹s roadside vigil ends.

There¹s Medea Benjamin, yet another CodePink co-founder, getting jiggy to the tunes of singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson who took the stage at Tonkawa Falls Park Saturday. Then, there¹s Lisa Fithian, a highly-experienced organizer with United Peace & Justice, occasionally moving in and out from the background to work the cops like a coach would work the refs.

Then, there¹s the Crawford Peace House, which is serving as a drop-off point for supplies sent with tsunami-like accuracy from Cindy¹s sympathizers around the country since her arrival at Camp Casey, her campsite five miles from Crawford named after her son, Casey, an Army specialist killed in an ambush in Iraq in 2004. Activist Johnny Wolf of Dallas co-founded the Peace House in 2002 as a base for staging press conferences, rallies, and vigils against the politicies of the Bush administration whenever it knows that the commander-in-chief is in town.

Due to Sheehan¹s recent actions, the Peace House has received gifts, such as a wireless Internet system, computers, and six vehicles donated by Air America radio talk show host Randi Rhodes to shuttle people to and from Camp Casey. The social justice organization also has boomed with financial aid, going from $3 in the bank to ³all debts paid² in less than a week¹s time. Pretty much its only problems now are finding parking for guests in Crawford, preparing meals, and maintaining proper plumbing.

As a whole, these groups, as well as Iraq Veterans Against the War, Gold Star Families for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out, make sure that no one steals Sheehan¹s thunderous story: a disgruntled mother of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq travels to Crawford wanting to speak with President Bush face-to-face. Her only wish is to ask him for what ³noble cause² her son died in Iraq and why his daughters, if this war was so just and needed, haven¹t enlisted in the U.S. military yet? Their point is to bring the U.S. troops home now, return complete power to the Iraqi people over their nation, and see that no more blood is spilled for the U.S. oil industry to swipe black gold underneath the Iraqis¹ feet.

The international media has been eating up this drama: the anti-war soccer mom versus the most powerful man in the world. The right wing, needless to say, is fuming over the peace movement¹s weeklong hijacking of the U.S. media ‹ the same media in fact that prefers questioning scientists over space shuttle foam to questioning President Bush on the invasion of Iraq in
2003 a la the Downing Street memos which were released here a month after the British press did so.

But let¹s not confuse things, alright?

Dueling Military Moms

Right away, the Right intitiated a smear campaign designed to discredit Sheehan and her supporters in the media. First, the Drudge Report claimed that since an article in her hometown paper, The Reporter, was published, Sheehan changed her opinions about President Bush whom she met yet did not criticize over the Iraq war at the time. The Reporter came out later, though, and defended its story and Sheehan, saying that, "Drudge ... didn't explain that [a quote in the story] referred to sharing time with her family, not the president."

Then, the pro-Bush side of Sheehan¹s family stated that they wanted her to stop her vigil, to which Sheehan replied that they certainly were entitled to their opinion, but they ³barely knew² her son. Her husband, Patrick Sheehan, it should be noted, has reportedly been separated from Cindy since the death of their son. He has not commented on her actions.

Other smears included that Sheehan has taken $20,000 for her stance against the war; she is an anti-semite for saying, ³My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel;² she is a traitor, as FoxNews pundit Bill O¹Reilly said on his show; the groups supporting her are anti-America, communist sympathizers who have brainwashing her ‹ oh, just to name a few.

At least two conservative groups attempted to steal back the political football from Sheehan in Crawford and run for higher moral ground. They had their day in the media sunshine, and stood behind Bush¹s pledge to ³stay the course² in Iraq because they believe their family members in the military are doing good there. Perhaps the most direct confrontation between the two rival factions was when Mike Gallagher, an 8th-rate conservative radio talk show pundit, and his group from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex placed American flags in front of a religious memorial for the fallen U.S. soldiers installed by Cindy¹s suppporters.

Otherwise, it was a case of dueling veterans and military moms screaming for the media¹s attention, though both groups agree that the U.S. soldiers in Iraq fight for the guy next to them and that the soldiers¹ welfare is their top priority.

³Not one more dead. Not one more dying. No more lies. No more deception. End the occuption. Bring the troops home now, and most importantly, take care of them when they get home,² said Sue Niederer of Pennington, N.J., a co-founder of Gold Star Mothers for Peace whose son 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin was killed in action in Iraq in 2004. ³For all of those people who say that we are the ones who don¹t know what we are talking about, I have two questions for them: When is Mr. Bush going to volunteer his children? And when is the opposition going to volunteer their own children for this war?²

³We¹re not here to bash anybody. I¹m a mom, and I can try to associate with [Cindy Sheehan¹s] pain. I hope I will never feel that pain, but I think it¹s gone a little too far,² said Gale Muskiet, a Marine mother from Houston whose son, Cpl. Matthew Muskiet, might reenlist in Iraq after his tour ends. ³We did not send our children. They volunteered,² Muskiet added. ³None of us would send our children willingly, but you know what? When they get to legal age, they can make their own mind. We raised them to be responsible, God-fearing American adults. They made the choice.²

Linda Waste of Hinesville, Ga., and her husband, Phil, two of the 2,500 members of Military Families Speak Out, questioned the basis for the opinions of Rightist pundits and worried for the troops¹ mental health at the pro-peace rally at Tonkawa Falls Park.

³Who is sacrificing? It is we the people who are sacrificing. Not the House. Not the Senate. Not the Bush administration. It is we the people, and enough is enough,² said Waste, whose three sons and two grandchildren are on active military duty in Iraq. ³So the question should be asked, ŒWhat are our troops going through? What stresses and anxiety are they going through?¹ Their lives are changed forever. Their family¹s lives are changed forever.²

At a rally organized by Free Republic, a conservative news webforum, Linda Price, a pro-Bush mother of three Marines stationed in Iraq, also spoke of the health of the troops: ³You hear the horror stories about a wife going in there to wake him up, and he almost chokes her because he¹s right in the middle of battle.²

Living In History

Still, Sheehan¹s supporters ‹ the average Lefties ‹ have sacrificed much while propelling their peace diva into the international spotlight. Several of them have spent their own money and time to get to Camp Casey, taking off work and temporarily leaving their friends and families at home.

Tiffany Strause, a TI consultant from San Diego, Calif., for instance, flew to Central Texas with her friend, Julie, not only to support Sheehan but also to take more action than just ³adopting² to a self-described conservative, Republican Marine and sending him equipment that the U.S. government should have provided before the Iraq war.

³When I read Cindy¹s story, it was head-to-toe shivers. I was so moved. It really put a face on it,² said Strause, whose future in-laws are Bush supporters. ³I think this war was a choice. It wasn¹t a necessity, and for that reason, my impatience got to the point where I had to take a stand.²

Strause, like other peace activists, thinks that Sheehan¹s vigil is not only about getting President Bush address her this time as a person, not under a generic moniker like ³Mom,² but it¹s also about showing the American public his humanity and ability to change.

³It would be so easy for him to do. So easy. He¹s right here. We¹re right here. Just to be real for five minutes, but to me, it¹s always been my feeling that it¹s a case of the emporer has no clothes. You know, he doesn¹t read the paper. he doesn¹t watch the news. His handlers keep him insulated. He really is disconnected with the pulse of this country and what people are feeling and what they are going through,² she said.

Still, Bush has said that he has met with people ‹ military families ‹ who disagree with his war stance, and he has said repeatedly that he won¹t ever change his mind about his policies. He certainly has a clear track record, too. When he doesn¹t have protestors corralled and then arrested, Bush has his limos drive past their demostrations, like he did on the way to raise money for the Republican National Committee last Friday, as Sheehan carried a poster by the roadside that said, ³Why do you make time for donors and not for me?²

Four recent Crawford High School graduates did express interest and visited the Peace House last week to see what all the hub-bub was about. Although the two that the Iconoclast interviewed requested that their identities be protected, it reveals that that curiosity is still valued in the Lone Star State.

³I¹m just interested in seeing other people¹s points of view on what all is going on in the country right now. We¹re living in history, you know, everyday. We live in Crawford, Texas, and to not be involved, that would be ridiculous. If you¹re living in this town, why not get out and see what¹s going on?² said John Doe¹s buddy, Jeff Doe, in that interview.

Maybe these boys, instead of bull-headed politicians and celebrity activists, can inspire the regular joes on the Left and the Right to chit-chat over a cup of coffee. It¹s just a thought, but an iconoclast can always dream.

Until then, the public, according to both Bush and Sheehan supporters, is more than likely going to hear more shouting across the stadium between pro-peace and pro-war advocates, and the only players on the field will be an angry military mom and a dove hunter who, though annoyed, empathizes with her, while the President is nowhere in sight.


Informant: NHNE



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=177484


Informant: Our bill of rights



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.france-europe-editions.com/livre.php3?isbn=2-84825-102-6

Topic: In the middle of the Sixties Doctor Maschi becomes aware of the existence of a new form of pollution which it names ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION.

For this general practitioner of Nice, this pollution, due to the proliferation, in the industrialized countries, of the machines, the apparatuses producing or using electricity, causes slow and progressive electrocution of the human organisms and plays a significant role in the diseases known as of civilization: rheumatic, cardiac, neurological affections. It then develops therapeutic consistent in councils of general hygiene to avoid the electric aggressions and in local applications of minerals, identical to those used since centuries in the thermal spas.&nb! sp; Since 1967 it makes follow this treatment to rheumatics and patients reached of multiple sclerosis. Very quickly the results exceed the éspérances of the doctor. In 1968, when he wants to provide to the Medical Authorities explanations on this pollution and his therapeutic, its troubles start. They will of theinvolve it in an adventure out commun run which, lasting nearly thirty years, will oppose it to the Council of Odre Doctors and to the Ministry for Health. In this book, Doctor Maschi gives explanations, easy to include/understand, on electromagnetic pollution, his therapeutic and the multiple sclerosis. He tells also the principal adventures of his business, evoked many times by the whole of the French press since 1968, and does not hesitate to reproduce very many documents blaming by name a hundred people: eleven Ministers for Health, the Advisers of the Order of the Doctors, the Adviser's of State, Professors de Médecine, the politicians. Throughout these years, the doctor was savagely defended by his patients, satisfied to follow therapeutic without danger, very easy to use and not very expensive. This "lived testimony" provides the proof that it is not easy to make recognize a new scientific idea which, all at the same time, blames part of our living conditions and medical theories classically allowed. It is a true cry of alarm launched by Doctor Maschi against electromagnetic pollution because, being colourless, odourless, soundproof, impalpable and painless it can touch all the inhabitants of the industrialized countries, without them realizing there, its effects being felt only after several years of exposure.

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Combat pour une idée: La pollution électromagnétique


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thème : Au milieu des années soixante le docteur Maschi prend conscience de l’existence d’une nouvelle forme de pollution qu’il dénomme POLLUTION ÉLECTROMAGNÉTIQUE. Pour ce médecin généraliste de Nice, cette pollution, due à la prolifération, dans les pays industrialisés, des machines, des appareils produisant ou utilisant l’électricité, provoque une lente et progressive électrocution des organismes humains et joue un rôle important dans les maladies dites de civilisation : affections rhumatismales, cardiaques, neurologiques. Il met alors au point une thérapeutique consistant en conseils d’hygiène générale pour éviter les agressions électriques et en applications locales de minéraux, identiques à ceux utilisés depuis des siècles dans les stations thermales. À partir de 1967 il fait suivre ce traitement à des rhumatisants et des malades atteints de sclérose en plaques. Très rapidement les résultats dépassent les éspérances du médecin.

En 1968, quand il veut fournir aux Autorités Médicales des explications sur cette pollution et sur sa thérapeutique, ses ennuis commencent. Ils vont l’entraîner dans une aventure hors du commun qui, durant près de trente ans, va l’opposer au Conseil de l’Odre des Médecins et au Ministère de la Santé. Dans ce livre, le docteur Maschi donne des explications, faciles à comprendre, sur la pollution électromagnétique, sa thérapeutique et la sclérose en plaques.

Il narre aussi les principales péripéties de son affaire, maintes fois évoquées par l’ensemble de la presse française depuis 1968, et n’hésite pas à reproduire de très nombreux documents mettant nommément en cause une centaine de personnes: onze Ministres de la Santé, des Conseillers de l’Ordre des Médecins, des Conseillers d’Etat, ! des Professeurs de Médecine, des hommes politiques. Tout au long de ces années, le médecin a été farouchement défendu par ses malades, satisfaits de suivre une thérapeutique sans danger, très simple d’emploi et peu onéreuse.

Ce « témoignage vécu » fournit la preuve qu’il n’est pas facile de faire reconnaître une idée scientifique nouvelle qui, tout à la fois, met en cause une partie de nos conditions de vie et des théories médicales classiquement admises. C’est un véritable cri d’alarme lancé par le docteur Maschi contre la pollution électromagnétique car, étant incolore, inodore, insonore, impalpable et indolore elle peut toucher tous les habitants des pays industrialisés, sans qu’ils s’en rendent compte, ses effets ne se faisant sentir qu’après plusieurs années d’exposition.


Informant: Iris Atzmon

Click the image:

http://www.rense.com/general67/PATHETIC.HTM


Informant: Debi Clark



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Sema Olson was in the living room watching television when the phone rang. It was the Department of the Army calling. A voice asked if she'd heard from her son in the past 24 hours. ... With that Saturday night phone call, life as Ms. Olson had known it came to an end. Her family's long, long period of overwhelming sacrifice was under way.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505G.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

The UN nuclear watchdog is preparing to publish evidence that Iran is not engaged in a nuclear weapons programme, undermining a warning of possible military action from President George Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505C.shtml

In her high-profile vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch, Cindy Sheehan has brought the face and the heart of the anti-war movement to the world.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505A.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Mr. Bush came to bury Social Security, not to save it. Over time, the Bush plan would have transformed Social Security from a social insurance program into a mutual fund, with nothing except a name in common with the system F.D.R. created.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9777.htm

Gaining Control of Universities: If you were to find colleges and universities in the USA talking to students about the hazards of war, that would be a rare exception. US big corporations, particularly those linked with the war industry are trying to portray the fighting of wars as a sign or “patriotism and bravery!”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9764.htm

U.S. looking into Carlyle Group links to teacher funds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9766.htm

Keller's critique of the government propaganda campaign to stir up Americans to support U.S. intervention in the war remains more germane than ever. "Every modern war has had its root in exploitation" Keller said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9769.htm

If terrorism is the massacre of innocents to break the will of rulers, were not Hiroshima and Nagasaki terrorism on a colossal scale?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9763.htm

The American people must awaken, throw the neoconservatives out of office and elect different leaders who truly seek a return to these fundamental values.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=1849
http://snipurl.com/gyuq


From Information Clearing House

At is one thing to send in the troops, waving the flag, another to bring them home, mission accomplished.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9770.htm

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/trib004.html


From Information Clearing House

THEY have been admirers of the president since the attacks of September 11, 2001, but now some of George W Bush’s staunchest supporters are accusing him of “losing his way” in the war on terror.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1734194,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/wire.ssf?/base/news/1124011285247770.xml&coll=2
http://snipurl.com/gyuf


From Information Clearing House



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Never before has the disconnect between American aspirations for Iraq and the reality on the ground seemed greater than now, in this third scorching summer of frustration and violence.

http://snipurl.com/gyu9


From Information Clearing House

In a chilling irony, women may actually have fewer rights under Iraq's new, "democratic'' constitution than they did under Saddam Hussein.

http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=97940


From Information Clearing House

Behind ramparts of concrete and barbed wire, the framers of Iraq's new constitution wrestled yesterday to prevent - or bring about - the federalisation of Iraq while their compatriots in the hot and fetid streets outside showed no interest in their efforts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9772.htm

By Carol D. Leonnig

Sami Al-Laithi said that as a result of his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, he is now confined to a wheelchair with two broken vertebrae. He said military personnel and interrogators stomped on his back, dropped him on the floor and repeatedly forced his neck forward soon after his arrival at the prison.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9778.htm

In a departure from past policies, newspapers around the country, with the US death toll in Iraq again soaring, increasingly are reporting the antiwar sentiments of family members of the deceased in their coverage of funerals.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505S.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Raspberry questions whether the American people understand the danger of letting the Supreme Court become, in essence, a partisan of one side in a closely divided nation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505Q.shtml

http://action.au.org/roberts.html

What's Happening With The Nomination? Help us oppose the confirmation of nominee John Roberts to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Roberts, as Deputy Solicitor General under President George H.W. Bush, drafted a key legal brief urging the Supreme Court to scrap decades of settled church-state law and to uphold school-sponsored prayer at public school graduation ceremonies.

Why Is Roberts A Bad Choice? Roberts would work to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state and to open the door to majority rule on religious matters. His record demonstrates predictable conservative conclusions and reasoning, not the nuanced moderation that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor so often brought to the Supreme Court. Roberts' record demonstrates his lack of basic understanding and concern for religious minorities and fundamental civil rights.

Judge Roberts' brand of Establishment Clause jurisprudence would bring about remarkable - indeed, radical - results, with potentially devastating consequences for the separation of church and state as we know it.

Let your Senators know you want them to oppose the Roberts nomination:

http://capwiz.com/au/mail/oneclick_compose


Informant: Scott Munson

Salon
by Joan Walsh

08/16/05

The smearing will continue, but it's already too late: Cindy Sheehan has launched an American antiwar movement. Maybe, as Matt Drudge blared over the weekend, she's said controversial things about Israel. Maybe the IRS will chase her for tax evasion, since she's reportedly announced that she won't pay taxes for 2004, the year her son Casey died in Iraq. Maybe her family has been shaken by her activism. Maybe the smears will even work, and cost Sheehan some of her mainstream political credibility. It doesn't matter: Someone else will take her place... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/08/16/mother/


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Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Christian Science Monitor
by Brendan O'Neill

08/16/05

In America and Britain, the grief of parents who lost sons or daughters in Iraq has become a potent political weapon -- much more so than in other recent wars. In my view, these moms and dads have been badly let down by both sides of the war debate. The war's authors have offered little justification for the sacrifices made by loved sons and daughters in Iraq, which has allowed the families' raw grief to fester into public anger -- and the war's opponents have sought cynically to exploit the families' sorrow for political ends. Currently, Cindy Sheehan is camped outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. And she's determined to stay put until the president tells her exactly what 'noble cause' her 24-year-old son Casey died for in Iraq...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0816/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
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CounterPunch
by Greg Moses

08/15/05

As for why she's standing here in Texas, 1163 miles from home, she says of herself and spouse Mike, who should be shuttled here any minute from the stadium parking lot: 'We have no idea what we're doing. We've never done anything like this before. But it's time we became teenagers!' 'There's a lot we have on our side,' says Penny thinking about the movement that she has come to join. 'There are a lot of angels here. Every one of those soldiers killed is an angel on our side. I'm working for the Apocalypse. Either take them or take me, but don't leave us together anymore!' she grins...

http://www.counterpunch.org/moses08152005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Heartland Institute
by Paul Fisher

08/05

The U.S. Supreme Court gave a major victory to urban planners, large property owners, and government in the Kelo v. New London decision announced June 23. The major losers are those who treasure private property rights and the respect for those rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution and those with the least political power to protect themselves.

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17563


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Scott Horton

08/16/05

International blowhard Bill O'Reilly has decided it's his duty to smear as a traitor the mother of a dead American soldier for standing up to the 'public servant' who sent the young man off to die for lies. Cindy Sheehan is demanding a chance to speak to Bush outside of the Crawford, Texas, pig farm chosen for Bush by his PR men during his presidential run. O'Reilly hides his accusations behind the presumed feelings of unnamed others...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=6952


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The Institute of Science in Society Science Society Sustainability http://www.i-sis.org.uk General Enquiries sam@i-sis.org.uk Website/Mailing List press-release@i-sis.org.uk ISIS Director m.w.ho@i- sis.org.uk UNSUBSCRIBE HERE

ISIS Press Release 16/08/05 GMOs and Human Health

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho told the People's Health Assembly that GM is proving bad for health because it goes against the grain of the new genetics science

A GMO or genetically modified organism is one whose natural genetic material has been modified by having synthetic genetic material inserted into it. That is how we have GM crops grown for food and feed, for fibre and for a range of pharmaceuticals and industrial products in the latest offering, if we don't manage to stop it.

Maybe you have heard the mantra from certain scientists that GM food is perfectly safe because the technology is so very precise and wonderful and the regulation the strictest in the world; that GM is good for biodiversity, increases yield, reduces pesticide use, and so on. All of the claims have been falsified, with data collected by the US Department of Agriculture and by independent scientists .

The World Health Organization has just issued a report, Modern food biotechnology, human health and development: an evidence-based study (23 June 2005) claiming that although there may be potential risks involved in the use of GMOs, the GM crops that are grown today are not likely to present health risks.

Yet there has been a string of incidents indicating GM food and feed are far from safe. These include studies carried out by biotech companies producing the GM crops, which they have kept secret under confidential business information.

* Kidney and blood abnormalities in rats fed one of Monsanto's GM maize in Monsanto's secret dossier.

* Villagers in the south of the Philippines who suffered mysterious illnesses when another GM maize came into flower in a nearby field two years in a row. Antibodies to the Bt protein inserted into the GM maize were found in the villagers.

* A dozen cows that died after eating a third GM maize made by Syngenta, and others in the herd had to be slaughtered because of mysterious illnesses. Autopsies failed to be carried out, which is why Greenpeace and farmers are demonstrating in front of the Robert Koch Institute

* Senior scientist Arpad Pusztai and colleagues in Scotland found young rats fed GM potatoes ended up with damage in every organ system; the most dramatic being an increase in thickness of the stomach lining to twice that in controls. Scientists in Egypt found similar effects in mice fed GM potatoes with another gene.

* The US Food and Drug Administration had data dating back to early 1990s that rats fed GM tomatoes had developed small holes in their stomach.

To cut a long story short, different species of GM food and feed crops with different genes had adversely affected several species of animals. You don't have to be a scientific genius to see that there may be something in the genetic engineering process itself that's harmful . So what's wrong with GMOs? First, new genes and combinations of genes made in the laboratory, which have never existed in billions of years of evolution, are being introduced into our food chain.

Allergies and other toxicities come to mind. In fact, 22 out of 33 proteins incorporated into GM crops were found to have similarities to known allergens, and are therefore suspected allergens. The synthetic genetic material are introduced into the cells of organisms with invasive methods that are uncontrollable, unreliable and unpredictable, and far from precise.

It ends up damaging the natural genetic material of the organism with many unpredictable, unintended effects, including gross abnormalities that you can see, and metabolic changes that may be toxic that you can't see. Many foreign synthetic genes are copies of those from bacteria and viruses that cause diseases. They also contain antibiotic resistance marker genes to help track the movements of the foreign gene inserts and select for cells that have taken up the foreign genes.

Right from the beginning, in the mid1970s, geneticists themselves have worried that releasing those synthetic genetic material runs the risk of creating new viruses and bacteria that cause diseases, and spreading antibiotic resistance to make infections untreatable. As the result of the Asilomar Declaration, a moratorium was imposed. Unfortunately, the moratorium was short-lived, as geneticists were in a hurry for commercial exploitation of genetic engineering. The dangers arise because the genetic material persists long after the cells or organism is dead, and can be taken up by bacteria and viruses that are in all environments

This process - called horizontal gene transfer and recombination - is the main route to creating dangerous pathogens. Genetic engineering is nothing if not greatly enhanced horizontal gene transfer and recombination, and nasty surprises have already been sprung.

Researchers in Australia ‘accidentally' transformed a harmless mousepox virus into a lethal pathogen that killed all the mice, even those that were supposed to be resistant to the virus. Headlines in the New Scientist editorial: “The Genie is out, Biotech has just sprung a nasty surprise. Next time, it could be catastrophic.”

The lead article continued in the same vein: “Disaster in the making. An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon.”

The researchers added a gene coding for an immune signalling molecule to the virus, which they thought would boost antibody production; instead, it suppressed immune responses. The researchers had previously put the same gene into a vaccinia virus and found it delayed the clearance of virus from the animals, so it may well have the same immune suppressive effects for all viruses. Imagine what would happen if this gene ever got into a smallpox virus!

More surprisingly, researchers at the University of California in Berkeley found that disrupting a set of disease-causing genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the tuberculosis bacterium, resulted in a hyper-virulent mutant strain that killed all the mice by 41 weeks, while all the control mice exposed to the unmodified bacterium survived.

There is yet another insidious danger. The synthetic genes created for genetic modification are designed to cross species barriers and to jump into the natural genetic material of cells. Such constructs jumping into the natural genetic material of human cells can trigger cancer .

This is not just a theoretical possibility. It has happened in gene therapy, which is genetic modification of human cells.

In 2000, researchers in the Neckar Hospital in Paris, France treated infants with X- linked Severe Combined Immune Deficiency apparently successfully by isolating bone marrow cells from the patients, applying gene therapy, and then injecting the genetically modified cells back into the patients. But since 2002, 3 infants have developed leukaemia. One child has died. The foreign synthetic gene has inserted near a human gene that controls cell division, making it overactive, resulting in uncontrollable multiplication of the white blood cells.

I have only scratched the surface of the problems and hazards of genetic modification. But you can already see that there has been a massive campaign of misinformation and disinformation on the part of the GM proponents. The greatest danger, I think, is the mindset of the GM proponents

Genetic engineering of plants and animals began in the mid 1970s under the illusion that the genetic material is constant and static and the characteristics of organisms are hardwired in their genes. One gene determines one characteristic. But geneticists soon discovered to their great surprise that the genetic material is dynamic and fluid, in that both the expression and structure of genes are constantly changing under the influence of the environment. Geneticists have coined the term, “the fluid genome”, which encapsulated this major paradigm change. The genome is the totality of all the genetic material in an organism.

The processes responsible for the fluid genome are precisely orchestrated by the organism as a whole in a dance of life that's necessary for survival. In contrast, genetic engineering in the lab is crude, imprecise and invasive. The rogue genes inserted into a genome to make a GMO can land anywhere in any form and has a tendency to be unstable, basically because these rogue genes do not know the language of the dance. Genetic engineers haven't learned to dance with life.

That is why dozens of prominent scientists from seven countries launched ourselves as the Independent Science Panel, to overcome the campaign of disinformation from pro-GM scientists who are working to promote the corporate agenda, and to reclaim science for the public good. We compiled all the evidence against GM crops as well as the evidence on the successes and benefits of all forms of sustainable non-GM agriculture. Based on this evidence, we are calling for a ban on the environmental releases of GM crops and a comprehensive shift to sustainable agriculture. I hope the Assembly will support this call!

Plenary lecture to the People's Health Assembly 2, 17-22 July 2005, Cuenca, Ecuador. For further information please visit the Institute of Science in Society website: http://www.i-sis.org.uk

This article can be found on the I-SIS website at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/

Zeb Mountain Destruction Halted by Escalating Anti Mountain Top Mining Campaign in Tennessee

Knoxville, TN - As dawn approached this morning, activists stood on an ancient Appalachian mountain in a dramatic protest against mountain top mining. This is the first time a mountain has been taken over in the struggle to protect the Appalachian Mountains from the devastating practices of mountain top mining. Dedicated citizens are blockading National Coal's strip mine in scenic Campbell County, Tennessee to halt the destruction of Zeb Mountain. Activists affiliated with MountainJusticeSummer.org and Katuah Earth First! are using creative non violent tactics to bring attention to the modern atrocity of mountain top mining.

In an unprecedentated non violent intervention, individuals are blockading the entrance to the mine by locking themselves to a car on the haul road and sitting in a tripod to prevent access to the mine. Other activists have locked themselves to drilling equipment. Citizens are using their bodies to create a giant "no blast" zone across the mountain. These drastic tactics are being used because strip mining companies are not allowed to use explosives when unauthorized people are nearby. "Coal companies bend and break laws in order to blow apart Tennessee's mountain headwaters. Since regulatory agencies refuse to protect our mountains, non violent citizen intervention has become necessary. We stand for the preservation of the mountains, water, forests, and communities of Appalachia" said Maria Johnson of Kingsport, TN. "These mountains are our homes, and they are being stolen and destroyed by companies like National Coal and this must be stopped. To put my body between the mountain and the companies' machines may be the only way to stop them" said Nable Wallin of Asheville, NC.

Zeb Mountain is located above beautiful Elk Valley in Campbell County, just 40 miles north of Knoxville, TN.
(Directions Below) Mountain top mining practices involve removing the tops and sides off mountains with explosives and heavy equipment to access thin seams of coal.

"We are reclaiming Appalachia. We are calling on Governor Bredesen to do the same by enforcing Tennessee's water quality laws and baning mountain top mining" said Mere Burton, perched upon a tripod in the middle of the road on Zeb Mountain.
(Directions: From I-75, North of Knoxville, take exit
141 to Hwy 63W. Follow 63W for 4.3 miles and turn right at the Pioneer Post Office on to 297E. Follow the road 5 miles down, passing a cabinet shop and a church on left. About 1/2 mile after that, turn left onto Lick Fork Rd the mine site is about an eighth of a mile down on right.)

Hourly updates, including photos and quotes available at http://www.MountainJusticeSummer.org

PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed the Same Day the Election was Stolen

By Cheryl Seal

Have you seen all those article and pictures of Bush "at home on the ranch" in Crawford - the ones that imply that he is "just an ole ranch hand" more comfortable on the family homestead than in the "Big City," be it Austin or D.C.? Well, if you bought this image, you've been royally snuckered. The Bush family homestead in Crawford is nothing more than an elaborate set. The house, built in 2000, was designed to be ready for Bush to step into - like a set awaiting an actor - during the 2000 presidential election. Not only was the "ranch" created in 2000 - so, essentially, was the "town" of Crawford! Before then only about 400 people lived in the area. The Crawford Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture were formed shortly after the ranch was finished.

The 1,600 acres on which the "ranch" sits was purchased in 1999 for an undisclosed price, but it was a helluva lot less than the current real estate agents' appraisal of $1.2 million. Yep, worth $1.2 million, but G.W. has a sweet deal at the tax appraiser's office, where the property is valued at about $988,000. Oh, and that "homey ole ranch house?" It's actually a 10,000-square-foot single level mansion/compound that won't even be 2 years old until this November! The compound features a swimming pool for daughters Jenna and Barbara, who apparently loudly demanded it - the Bushes call it the girls' "Whining pool." Btw - we hear Bush got a sweet deal on the house construction, (the cost, of course remains undisclosed): the builders came from a religious community in El Mott, Texas. The original completion date of the house was November 7 - election day 2000. In other words, the curtain went up on the set on schedule for "show time." The very timing of this event indicates that Bush was absolutely confident that the election would be successfully engineered in his favor.

The whole idea behind the ranch set, of course, was so that the public could be treated to footage of Bush seeking a quiet "retreat" at the family ranch. Americans would thus assume that the ranch was a rooted family homestead or compound like the one Kennedy's had in Martha's Vineyard or FDR had at Campobello. But when Bush retreated into his "homestead" in November, 2000, he was merely walking onto a prepared set upon which the paint had barely dried, let alone even the barest of roots put down! When we see photos of Bush bombing around the ranch in his leather jacket in his "ole pickup," supposedly knowing every tree and bush - it's all pure fantasy! If Bush knows every tree and bush after actually spending, all told, a total of about 2 months on the ranch (if you put the odd days end to end) since it was bought, then I''d like to know when he found time to hold all those endless Crawford press conferences! Seems to me he'd be way too busy introducing himself to trees and bushes.

Until Bush and handlers decided that a rural ranch would be a slick bit of PR for the presidential campaign, Bush had no interest in a "home on the range." Instead, his preferred weekend retreat was to the Rainbo Club, an exclusive lakeside hunting club in Henderson County, about an hour south of Dallas, much closer to the comforts of Austin. When a Bush run for president began to look like a pretty good bet, the 1,600 acres were bought and the Bushes started making weekend trips to a 60-year-old ranch house that existed on the property - not of course, before refurbishing it! - so they could build the "lore" that would take in the American public, hook, line and sinker.

In an interesting side note - while Bush is anti-conservation in his presidential policies to please his corporate pals, in his OWN home, he has installed several conservation/energy saving features, including solar panels for heating water, rainwater collection for landscape irrigation, an air conditioning system that uses groundwater and a gray water recycling system. The obvious impression here is that Bush, being all PR show and no substance or real convictions, wants to cover all the bases. Block conservation when it is expedient, but have some conservation "stuff" to show off when that is expedient.

So, in short, we have a "president" who, ON THE SAME DAY - November 7, 2000 - stole an election and had the last nail driven into a phony ranch set. But with a completely snuckered press corps, we also have had a completely snuckered public. And a platoon of completely snuckered world leaders, chief among them Blair and Putin, who have been hosted at the "ole ranch" set and completely taken in. Alas, the Crawford ranch is a symbol of the utter corporate phoniness of this administration. The whole scenario reminds me of those type of sophisticated con artists (like the ones who recently convinced several investors they could turn sand into gold! ) who blow into town, rent an upscale office space just long enough to give them enough credibility to hoodwink investors. Then, once they have fleeced enough "marks," they disappear. What makes the Bush case much, much worse is that I doubt he will disappear.

Additional Notes on "Rancho Boguso" from Bonafide Texans

Apparently Rancho Boguso has done time not just as a small-time cattle ranch but was once a pig farm as well! And those horses you see in photos? Window dressing only - Bush can't ride!!!

Read with interest your article at Democrats.com. Being from Waco I know well what you say. Crawford first of all is closer to Waco than the Branch Davidian Compound but this is never said.

For your information Bush was just given a saddle as a gift that is now on tour around the state. This saddle is of NO use to him since he does't ride horses. Ask Vincinte Fox - who wanted him to go riding on Bush's trip to Mexico. [Wonder how Bush wormed his way out of THAT?]

Another fact is that he doesn't own any of the cattle on his "ranch". They are the cattle of the previous owner, who helps run the "Movie Set". He's a cowboy with more hat than cattle.

W. G. Lacy


Enjoyed Cheryl Seal's story about the Crawford "ranch." But she failed to mention that before Shrub bought it, it was a pig farm. And in Texas, it is too small to be considered a ranch anyway -- go look up how many 100 thousand acres LBJ had or how big the King Ranch is.


William Duttweiler


Informant: Scott Munson



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Cindy Sheehan, Military Moms to Announce Nationwide Vigils, Friday Moment of Prayer for Troops in Iraq and Mothers of Fallen Soldiers

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0815-02.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0815-29.htm



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Tuesday August 16th 2005, 8:00 pm

Translation of the summary:

Posibles Efectos De Las Ondas Electromagneticas Utilizadas En La Telefonia Inalambrica

Alfonso Balmori

Ardeola 51(2), 2004, 477-490

Summary - Possible effects of the electromagnetic waves used in th ewireless telephony on wildlife. A bibliographical revision of the possible effects of the waves used in the wireless telephony on animals is presented and its impact on wild birds is analyzed. After exposing the technical characteristics and the legal situation of this new technology, the scientific discoveries that could have interest for the study of their effects on the wild fauna are revised. Basing us on the current scientific knowledge the foregone possible consequences for the birds is commented, keeping in mind the deterioration of some egosystems that they occupy. It is recommended to consider the electromagnetic contamination in the microwave range a possible factor in decline of some populations at risk, especially of the urban birds, subjected at more radiation levels. Effects on birds in rural and protected areas that have phone masts near cannot be rejected. Keeping in mind that birds are excellent bio-indicators, we point out the importance of carrying out studies that value the effects of this new type of contamination and some methodologies that could be useful for this purpose are presented.

I can email the pdf. file of this paper (in Spanish) upon request.

Don Maisch

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=180



Birds suffer from biological effects of GSM, 3G (UMTS), DECT, WIFI, TETRA http://omega.twoday.net/stories/900299/

Pulsed microwave radiation and wildlife - Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Sparrows?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926007/

I've just received word that the Mclennan County Commisioners Court has an action item on tomorrow's agenda: "Consider the prohibition of public demonstrations along Prairie Chapel Rd." This is real and real serious. They could pass this measure and send the Sherriff out and have Camp Casey cleared out by noon. We will be seeking injunctive relief but its a crapshoot at this point.

We are trying to field a team of lawyers down there but its a tight time frame. Any well-dressed bodies willing to show up and articulate a defense of the 1st Amendment to the Commissioners is welcome (by us - probably not by them) and invited. Please - this will get media so if you show and go - decorum is appreciated.

http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/

9:00 a.m.McLennan County Courthouse, 501 Washington Ave. Waco, Texas, 76701, Courthouse is located on the west edge of downtown between 5th and 6th streets - all I have...Please spread the word - if Cindy gets moved out for even a short while we'll never get her back in that spot.

Todd Hill
Mid-Cities Democrats
Tarrant Young Democrats

http://www.midcitiesdemocrats.com
http://www.tarrantyoungdemocrats.org/
http://www.securingamerica.com
817-715-3154
yohi52@yahoo.com


"When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have peace." Jimi Hendrix


Informant: DitziSis

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Friends of peace, do believe that if this happens it would strongly galvanize even more folks to rise locally and nationally/globally, to cindy sheehan's support.

this is international drama and whatever happens, cindy has been the catalyst necessary for breaking the stalemate the peace movement has been in before now. bless her and all that made their way to texas. the rest is definitely up to us! hundreds of thousands will rise!

Scott Munson


Todd Hill <yohi52@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've just received word that the Mclennan County Commisioners Court has an action item on tomorrow's agenda: "Consider the prohibition of public demonstrations along Prairie Chapel Rd." This is real and real serious. They could pass this measure and send the Sherriff out and have Camp Casey cleared out by noon. We will be seeking injunctive relief but its a crapshoot at this point.

We are trying to field a team of lawyers down there but its a tight time frame. Any well-dressed bodies willing to show up and articulate a defense of the 1st Amendment to the Commissioners is welcome (by us - probably not by them) and invited. Please - this will get media so if you show and go - decorum is appreciated.

http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/
9:00 a.m.McLennan County Courthouse
501 Washington Ave. Waco, Texas 76701Courthouse is located on the west edge of downtown between 5th and 6th streets - all I have...Please spread the word - if Cindy gets moved out for even a short while we'll never get her back in that spot.

Todd Hill Mid-Cities Democrats Tarrant Young Democrats http://www.midcitiesdemocrats.com
http://www.tarrantyoungdemocrats.org/
http://www.securingamerica.com
817-715-3154 yohi52@yahoo.com <mailto:yohi52@yahoo.com>

Lisa, quoting:

http://crawfordupdate.blogspot.com/

About an hour ago, the Crawford Peace House got a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey to report that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been damaged. People who were there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf of Montana. "Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and the pick-up's wheels crushing them."

Out of the 800 crosses, 500 were knocked down and 100 are irreperable. We are happy to report, however, that the driver was arrested by the local authorities. This is a prime example of how the Crawford sheriff's department has helped to protect us and our freedom of speech over the past week and a half.

Regardless of who did this, the fact is that respect for this country's dead is not a partisan issue. Putting up memorials of our country's fallen is not a "liberal" act. It is an American act. Even a group of counter-protestors from Dallas last week draped flags and flowers over many of the gravemarkers, and many were moved to tears at the sight of the long line of dead soldiers. It's too bad that someone else who disagrees with Cindy felt they needed to wipe out the memory of our fallen in such an obscene manner.

Now, more than ever, is the time for us to come together. We need your voice and your help to bring America closer to an ideal that all of us hold in our hearts. Cindy Sheehan is bringing us closer to that ideal and demonstrating its power to change this country.

-Japhet Els and Emily Sharpe

"We need a common enemy to unite us." - Condoleeza Rice, March 2000

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James

"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?" - Adolf Hitler




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HIGHLY DANGEROUS FOR FOREIGNERS TO FLY INTO AMERICA BUSH REGIME WARNS THEY CAN BE HELD WITHOUT CHARGES, STARVED

NINA BERNSTEIN, NY TIMES

Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday. . .

The case is the first civil suit to challenge the practice known as "extraordinary rendition," in which terror suspects have been transferred for questioning to countries known for torture.

After considering legal briefs, Judge David G. Trager of United States District Court prepared several written questions for lawyers on both sides to address further, including one that focused pointedly on Mr. Arar's accusations of illegal treatment in New York.

He says he was deprived of sleep and food and was coercively interrogated for days at the airport and at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn when he was not allowed to call a lawyer, his family or the Canadian consul.

"Would not such treatment of a detainee - in any context, criminal, civil, immigration or otherwise - violate both the Constitution and clearly established case law?" Judge Trager asked.

The reply by Mary Mason, a senior trial lawyer for the government, was that it would not.

Legally, she said, anyone who presents a foreign passport at an American airport, even to make a connecting flight to another country, is seeking admission to the United States.

If the government decides that the passenger is an "inadmissible alien," he remains legally outside the United States - and outside the reach of the Constitution - even if he is being held in a Brooklyn jail.

Even if they are wrongly or illegally designated inadmissible, the government's papers say, such aliens have at most a right against "gross physical abuse."

http://tinyurl.com/cq87t


Informant: Friends

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3277/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

I am the spokeswoman for a village which has been chosen for the erection of a T-Mobile mast. We successfully stopped them at a council meeting on the grounds that the mast was to be erected on a pavement which would mean people with prams or wheelchairs would have to go onto the road (a very busy main road) in order to get past it, the opposite pavement is too narrow to take wheeled carraiges, also the danger to the children and residents of the immediate area. They have now taken their appeal to the Scottish Office. Can anyone give me any information as to fighting against this, we have already written letters to the Scottish Office against the appeal, or can put me in contact with a lawyer who deals in such cases. Thanks.

Sheila
Sheilaphll@aol.com

15. August 2005

Zu den Aussagen der Kanzlerkandidatin, wonach die Union das Arbeitslosengeld II Ost nicht an West angleichen, sondern eine Regionalisierung will, erklärt Bundeswahlkampfleiter Bodo Ramelow:

Die Union hat keine Ahnung vom Osten, keine Achtung vor den Biographien der Ostdeutschen und kein Angebot für die Zukunft Ostdeutschlands. Schlimm genug, dass man im 15. Jahr der deutschen Einheit überhaupt über eine solche Ungleichheit diskutieren muss, dass die Union dies aber verweigern will oder über die so genannte Regionalisierung sogar an einer Angleichung nach unten arbeitet, ist ein Offenbarungseid. Die spätberufenen Kämpfer für die ALG-II-Angleichung von der SPD sollten dennoch aus ihrem Glashaus nicht zu große Steine in Richtung Union werfen. Die Schuld daran, dass es jetzt die ganze Angleichungsdebatte überhaupt gibt, trägt die SPD. Keiner von denjenigen, die sich jetzt für eine Angleichung in die Brust werfen, hat vor dem oder beim Gesetzesbeschluss über die ungleiche ALG-II-Höhe Bedenken gehabt. Im Übrigen wird mit einer Angleichung das schlechte und falsche Hartz-IV-Gesetz nicht wirklich besser. Alle Gutachten der Sozialverbände haben belegt, dass das ALG II auch mit 345 Euro zu niedrig ist, um Bedarfssicherung gewährleisten zu können. Deshalb bleibt die Linkspartei bei ihrer Forderung nach einer Erhöhung auf 420 Euro und einer völligen Umgestaltung der Förderung der Arbeitslosen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=29464

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401035.html


Informant: DitziSis

by Rush Limbaugh

"Wouldn't it be great if anybody who speaks out against this country, to kick them out of the country? Anybody that threatens this country, kick 'em out. We'd get rid of Michael Moore, we'd get rid of half the Democratic Party if we would just import that law. That would be fabulous. "

Last week, the infamous radio voice said how "fabulous" it would be if the United States could kick out anyone who criticized or was a threat to the country. Listen to the outrageous clip here:

http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/limbaugh-200508120005.mp3
—Syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, August 11, 2005


Source: http://tompaine.com/#passiton

Cindy Sheehan responds to President Bush's defense that he needs to just "go on" with his life.

http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#5853



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

by Celeste Zappala and Dante Zappala, TomPaine.com

Under the scorching Texas sun, the families of slain and serving soldiers keep their vigil while the president vacations.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050815/cindy_sheehans_fellowship_of_grief.php



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

by Ari Berman, The Nation

Democratic think tanks have been captured by "liberal hawks" who would rather lean right than do right.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050815/the_strategic_class.php

by Thomas Graham, TomPaine.com

The latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran exposes just how manufactured the crisis diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program really is.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050815/iran_a_crisis_of_choice.php

Please forward everywhere so truth ripples out quickly and our soldiers can start coming home.

Another must see video from Democracy Now>>>Dead Soldier's Mother, Vigil in Crawford TX Cindy Sheehan interviewed on Democracy Now August 12, 2005 Some Background at http://www.gsfp.org/ and at http://www.mfso.org/ WindowsMedia Dwnload aprx 7.5mb (Right click and save target as...) Playback is at aprx 100kbps http://txliberty.dyndns.org/inetpub/wwwroot/webfiles/DN050812.wmv


Informant: Marsha



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

US corporations march into Baghdad at the expense of self-determination, writes foreign policy scholar Antonia Juhasz.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505M.shtml

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3273/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Her call for complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq also amounts to a firm rejection of the ongoing stance from Howard Dean, the head of the national Democratic Party, writes TO contributor Norman Solomon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505J.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Wien (OTS) - The Vienna Doctor's Chamber (Wiener Arztekammer) warns expressly against excessive mobile phone use especially by children. The reason for this is the recently presented "Reflex Study" (Reflex-Studie) in which a definite genotoxic effect of mobile phone radiation was proven.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050815_reflex.asp

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Austrian doctor’s group warns of excessive mobile phone use by children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/895483/

Vienna Medical Association Issues Strict Warnings Against Cell Phone Dangers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4089113/

[please forward widely]
http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml


Informant: Hopedance



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=12740


Informant: underground grad



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

--- In FORUM_FOR_DISCLOSURES@yahoogroups.com, "Andrea Ball" <bpjp@b...> wrote:

Martia, Thanks for sharing this .. and please take a look at

http://www.faithfulamerica.org in the stand they have taken with Cindy. We need to get past the differnences that polarize us and think, not in terms of right and left or party loyalties but in terms of right and wrong ... and the smeer campaign against Cindy Sheehan and the mothers who have joined her is reprehensible. Did you hear Alex Jones' interview with one of the mothers in Crawford Friday? You could listen on the gcnlive archives if you didn't get the chance to.

Andrea

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I agree with every word (polarized) you said...There should be no left or right...It should be just right or wrong

Thanks for the Cindy site, Andrea...I hadn't seen that one

I didn't get a chance to hear Alex Jones interview...we're working on an interview with her on>>> Click here: Welcome To Mysteries Of The Mind http://mysteriesofthemind.com/ The most informative radio host concerning truth, broadcasting in 57 countries

Later on Alex Merklinger

Please be sure you all see and hear this video if you never watch another one again...I already sent it but some of the links didn't work.

This is the must see video of all times...it probably will never be heard on the news again.

Click here: The Political Teen » Cindy Sheehan Spins With Her Agenda, Olbermann Allows it (VIDEO)

http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/08/12/cindy-sheehan-spins-with-her-agenda-olbermann-allows-it-video/

Click here: The Political Teen » Cindy Sheehan Spins With Her Agenda, Olbermann Allows it (VIDEO)

http://thepoliticalteen.com/video/sheehankeith.wmv



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Mother of soldier killed in Iraq symbolizes nation's desire for justification of war

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Nothing is more emblematic of American democracy than the idea of one person standing up for his beliefs and in the process becoming the catalyst for a national debate. In the arena of civil rights, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus was such an act. During the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg's decision to give the media the Pentagon Papers detailing the secret history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia was another.

Now Californian Cindy Sheehan's August vigil on a sweltering roadway near President Bush's Crawford ranch has given a human voice and face to the revulsion of the carnage in Iraq. Sheehan, the mother of a 24-year-old Army specialist killed in Iraq last year, wants a face to face meeting with Bush to ask him what mission was worth her son Casey's life.

In a previous meeting a few months after his death, Sheehan says, the president seemed unaware of who her son was, addressed her as "mom" during the encounter and acted almost lighthearted. Now she wants a deadly serious discussion of why America invaded Iraq and how long the bloodshed will continue.

Those are questions on the minds of millions of Americans, who see the list of dead and injured American personnel growing along with the expenditure of billions of U.S. tax dollars, with no end in sight. Polls reflect the growing unease of the country with the president's handling of the war. Approval of the Bush war policy has fallen below 40 percent. As Sheehan questions the war, she is voicing the concerns of a majority of Americans.

In a way, the White House set the stage for Sheehan's vigil by saying Bush's five-week hiatus at the ranch was really a working vacation to allow him to talk to everyday folks about the issues that concern them. The likes of Cindy Sheehan don't come along every day, but she wants to discuss an issue that concerns millions of Americans who want to hear answers that go beyond the familiar "stay the course."

Even Richard Nixon, often described as paranoid about critics, visited antiwar protesters at the Lincoln Memorial in 1970.

Yet Bush has not yet found it in himself to meet a grieving mother or invite her to the ranch to discuss his policies. Thursday Bush told reporters he sympathized with Sheehan but that pulling out of Iraq "would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace." Sheehan responded that the best way to show compassion would be to meet with her and other parents of soldiers killed in action.

Bush previously dispatched his national security adviser and an aide to meet with Sheehan's group, but that only increased the perception that Bush cannot bring himself to face his critics. Until the president addresses the doubts about the conduct of the war that Cindy Sheehan now symbolizes, the voices of the opposition will only grow louder.


Informant: Ashley Smith



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

(Part II of III)
History of Salmon as Microcosm: Humans’ Out-of-Whack Carrying
Capacity, and Failure to Grasp Earth’s Biological Web
by Paul Haeder

As climate cooled 40 to 20 million years ago, streams and rivers decreased in nutrient productivity, and so the sciences says that freshwater fish went anadromous and developed a sea-going life cycle as oceans became rich sources of food. In this part of the America, the salmon’s evolution linked and adapted to the changes in topography. For millions of years salmon have been here in abundance. In the past 100 years, human evolution in the Pacific Northwest has brought some species of salmon to extinction and has impoverished the continued existence of a sustainable salmon ecosystem. Salmon have been part of the lifeblood of peoples from Finland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, to Japan and British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Salmon sustain the life of a forest, and this species is the link in the natural gear work and framework of an ecosystem that has grown because of the returning spawning salmon. From the nitrogen in grizzlies’ bones and hair, to the nitrogen in valley-bottom forests, and nutrients fed to gargantuan trees growing along salmon rivers, the salmon has delivered the lifeblood to the forest. Of course, this is all ancient history. Wild salmon are threatened, and the techno-fixes devised by one of the most creative creatures on earth will be the salmon’s demise....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Haeder0812.htm

by Lucinda Marshall

As any parent will tell you, the only school prep that counts is the late summer quest for cool -- cool shoes, cool clothes, and for lack of a better technical term, cool stuff. Case in point, the ruler that folds into one-inch increments which caught my son's eye when we recently went scavenging for the items on his school supply list. It of course goes without saying that no child is going to succeed academically if you buy the wrong jeans or sneakers. There's nothing new about children wanting to fit in, be cool, be accepted. But the amount of gear necessary to accomplish this has skyrocketed in recent years as more and more advertising is geared at our children. What is particularly disturbing is how much of the sales pitch takes place in the schools themselves....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Marshall0812.htm

by Reza Fiyouzat

The thing that is too depressing is what everybody knows yet gets zero negative mention in the official press, especially the right wing newspapers such as the Yomiuri Shimbun or its associated papers and magazines: the shame of Japan’s rapid remilitarization, much encouraged and helped along by the US since at least the 1990s, and much accelerated since the coming to power of George W. Bush. The International Herald Tribune of August 8, 2005, reporting on the atomic bombings’ anniversary ceremonies in Hiroshima, described the survivors’ mood as worrisome. An interviewed survivor who is a physician summed up well how the sands have shifted. “Ten years ago, few could question Article 9 of the Constitution [which bans participation in offensive wars]. But people talk about it openly now.” Another survivor, Akihiro Takahashi, former director of the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, was quoted as saying, “The dispatch of the Self Defense Forces to Iraq is completely out of line with pacifism. In the future the peace constitution will no doubt be revised, and that will lead to conscription and, eventually, the possession of nuclear arms.”....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Fiyouzat0815.htm

by David Sugar

....More recently the rhetoric of Mr. Bush and the new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have continued to undermine those actively seeking diplomatic solutions to this problem even as North Korea plans for its first nuclear weapons test. The recent Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty review also offered a chance for the American government to demonstrate its resolve in preserving a nuclear weapons free world. The collapse of this most recent review and efforts to change the NPT were not unique, as this has happened before. What was new was the complete lack of effort and deliberate lack of diplomatic pressure from Washington to try and salvage the treaty or get any needed changes made. This deliberate failure echoes Mr. Bolton's similarly deliberate failure to curb North Korean nuclear ambitions. Some assumed the policies of Mr. Bolton were an aberration or work of a maverick. However, if this were true, it would seem strange to reward a maverick operating outside of administration policy with a new U.N. post. Nor could the administration be blind to the fact that reprocessing was occurring unabated at Yongbyon during these five years where diplomacy was clearly failing. Finally, given the similar actions of Ms. Rice and the deliberate lack of action by the American government at the NPT review, one is left to presume a nuclear-armed North Korea and nuclear proliferation represents the desired outcome of the Bush administration. Let’s consider then: what are the benefits to the Bush administration if North Korea conducts a successful nuclear test and nuclear proliferation becomes the norm rather than the exception it remains today?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Sugar0815.htm

Part One: Bully, Cheat, Kill, and Conquer
by Kim Petersen and B.J. Sabri

Concentrating on the Iraq war is a fundamental prerequisite to the understanding of the new wars of colonialist conquests ushered in by the United States under President Bush. To begin with, one cannot address the morally senseless American violence in the world, its application, and its rationales without considering all factors contributing to its emergence as the primary philosophy of the United States under Bush. However, a basic approach to define the parameters of said violence resides in evaluating the environment in which the imperialist coalition executes its strategy for world domination....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Petersen-Sabri0815.htm

by Mike Whitney

There is no longer any possibility of the United States achieving its objectives in Iraq. Whatever opportunity there might have been following the initial invasion has been swept away by the abusive treatment of detainees, the wanton slaughter of civilians, and the systematic destruction of Iraqi society. The war has entered a period of retrenchment, with both sides firmly committed to their own objectives, doing whatever is within their power to succeed. This situation will undoubtedly persist for a number of years until the US is ultimately forced to withdraw....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Whitney0815.htm



The goal of establishing an American colony in the Middle East has fallen on hard-times

By Mike Whitney

The New World Order, built on the rubble of Falluja and on the tortured victims of Abu Ghraib, is being progressively dismantled by the grit and resolve of the Iraqi resistance fighting to restore their nation's sovereignty and independence. It appears increasingly likely that their struggle will succeed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9776.htm

by Ahmed Amr

This war can best be told by narrating the stories of two women. One woman played an instrumental role in launching the invasion of Iraq and the other is determined to end the occupation and bring the troops home. One woman wants to shed light on the lies that led to war and the other is willing to hide in jail to avoid telling the truth about her role in this catastrophe. One lady is the mother of a fallen soldier who only demands a few rational answers as to why her son died. The second is a warmongering tramp and WMD huckster who refuses to divulge her role in outing Valerie Plame. One woman is an outsider demanding a single hour of the President’s attention. The other is a power broker from Sulzberger’s New York Times with ready access to Bush administration insiders like Karl Rove and Lewis Libby. One woman is invigorating the entire peace movement and the other is a bona fide neo-con operative of a War Party in retreat....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Amr0815.htm



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.stern.de/computer-technik/telefon/:Kinderhandys-Kontrolliert-Big-Mother/544125.html


Kinder und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081505Z.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://tinyurl.com/cn4cv


Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://tinyurl.com/7g8e5



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

This should be the last blow needed to finish off the bush administration...Please forward to help our Patriot Movement grow

***AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET "US" FREE***

Note from Marsha: Cindy Sheehan has stated that she has two heroes...Her son Casey and Martin Luther King...Both her Heroes died on the same exact day...April 4th.

August 12, 2005 Cindy Sheehan Spins With Her Agenda, Olbermann Allows it (VIDEO) http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/08/12/cindy-sheehan-spins-with-her-agenda-olbermann-allows-it-video/

By Ian on August 12, 2005 at 1:27 pm Portions of the transcript here
(important parts have been bolded). Reader LadyCop212 describes the clip:

I was flipping channels right after 8pm last night (8/11/05), when I caught a glimpse of her in an interview with MSNBC's Keith Olberman. I wanted to make sure I got it right, so I recorded the midnight replay of the show, and this morning before work I watched it and wrote down the key points word for word, so these are quotes! He began the interview by asking her what she wanted and why she was there in Crawford, TX? Sheehan: "I want him to talk to me, I want answers." …. and just a question or two later, he asked her this - Keith: "It's pure politics, the nature of the media coverage you're getting now…From the perspective of your protest there, in a way isn't it really better if President Bush doesn't meet with you?" Sheehan: "I would think so, yeah.. I think it's great. If he were to come out right now, I think it would diffuse the momentum, but I don't want to give them any hints. And, I think that's something they've probably already thought about. But, we're here, we're committed and we're staying. In fact, we're staying here the whole month of August….."

I couldn't have said it better myself! Download and view video here. Filed under Liberal Whining, President Bush, Troops, Video Blogging

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THANK YOU IAN! NOBODY ELSE WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS! LADYCOP! Comment by LadyCop212 — August 12, 2005 @ 1:43 pm

I think the President should state he would be glad to meet with her PRIVATELY and let Mrs. Sheehan have her say.HE can reiterate how he feels about her sons sacrifice and tell her he's sorry she disagrees with him. She most likely will insist on cameras and reporters present and then the people will see that this is just a left wing political stunt. Comment by Michael_adj — August 12, 2005 @ 7:19 pm

Oldbermann is a hack. He should get back to talking about bouncing basketballs and middle-aged men in shorts playing games. I'd get more worked up about it except nobody knows who the hell he is. Comment by john — August 12, 2005 @ 9:20 pm

Even if the President does see her, she still won't be happy. It is a lose-lose situation. Comment by Ian — August 13, 2005 @ 12:17 am

Sheehan's Secret Strategy! Shhh don't tell Bush's team that Sheehan's planning to stay there until the end of August no matter what. If Bush comes out to meet her, then she's lose the momentum of all the press coverage she's been getting. Because she would be forced to go h… Trackback by niTworks FireNotes — August 13, 2005 @ 9:34 pm


Informant: Marsha

From apfn-1



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

HERE'S THE WEEKEND NEWS from the gates on the ground in at Camp Casey (two miles outside Bush's Vacation Ranch):

Saturday was phenomenal--lines of cars coming in to support Cindy Sheehan for as far as the eye could see. Many mothers and children of fallen soldiers (some who had supported the war) have joined now in the struggle to end the Iraq war.

In the town of Crawford, 6 miles from the camp, Gold Star Families and Military Families Speak Out held a Teach-in Rally. It worked like a ballet. A right-wing radio guy drummed up a hundred people (who support Bush's policy of invading sovereign countries) to harangue the peace-makers. But when they arrived at Camp Casey, there was scarcely anyone around to confront because most had left to attend the rally in Crawford! With the twenty-five campers guarding Sheehan's tent, no confrontations erupted. The police kept the harassers at a distance--on the opposite side of the road. It was poorly organized, as they came with no hats, no water and they were forced by the police to walk the last mile in the August heat to reach Camp Casey. As they approached, they saw the Iraq War Memorial--rows upon rows of a thousand white crosses interspersed with stars of David and crescent moons. They saw the American flags adorning the memorial, and must have felt a bit surprised. The overblown image of us, that they are taught by the radical right, was deflated. When they arrived at Camp Casey, they had very little energy to rouse a protest. They were too exhausted. After about an hour, they walked back, leaving their own American flags among the Memorial crosses.

Meanwhile in the town of Crawford, the Military Families held a packed rally at the Municipal Park. (A counter-rally was scheduled for the same time, else where in Crawford, but it was poorly attended.) Some military families, with children killed in Iraq, (but still supporters of Bush's war making policies) came to the Crawford Peace House. They were warmly welcomed and fed, and all shared in their grieving. The Peace House is serving meals to more than 400 people. A thousand visitors a day are coming through. The local High School Stadium serves as a parking lot and a shuttle runs back and forth from Crawford to Camp Casey regularly.

The Crawford Peace House reports that relations with the local police are very good, respectful and appreciated. There are no plans for civil disobedience.

Through out Saturday there were occasional visits to Camp Casey by radical-invasion-policy-supporters that streamed in--a handful at a time. They looked like flies buzzing compared to the multitude that supported Cindy Sheehan's call to speak with the President. All of Cindy's supporters are aware of the need to remain NON-CONFRONTATIONAL.

Co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tim Goodrich, spent the entire day giving interview after interview. He'd like for more Iraq Veterans to join Cindy. (See instructions at the bottom to learn how you can help.) Tim reports that he met soldiers from Fort Hood , a nearby military base. They came to observe. Some were quiet and curious--on the fence, while many others, including Iraq vets, said specifically that they are against the Iraq war.

On Sunday, Maxine Waters came quietly to Camp Casey. She didn't seek media attention, but wanted to meet privately with the vets and military families. They all introduced themselves and told her their stories. She offer condolences to the families whose children were killed in Iraq.

Cindy is a Mother for Peace. Guess what her name 'Sheehan' means? It's an Irish name and it means PEACE! So every time the right wing pundits say 'Sheehan,' little to they realize, they are saying 'Peace'! How fitting and beautiful! As often as you can, in ordinary conversation, repeat her name, Sheehan, Sheehan, Sheehan! and spread the word for PEACE! Cindy (and Casey) have made PEACE a household word!

You can assist CINDY SHEEHAN. Here's how:

1. People who wish SEND VETERANS TO JOIN CINDY may donate to:
http://www.IVAW.net (Iraq Veterans Against the War)

Or mail checks to: IVAW P.O. Box 8296 , Philadelphia PA 19101
(write "Cindy" on the memo line)

2. Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans call Frank at 610-931-9046 for airfare assistance, if you wish to stand with Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey outside the gates to Bush's vacation ranch.

3. People are still needed to come to Camp Casey especially during the weekdays. Come prepared to give assistance. Bring extra supplies with you, flashlights, camping gear, etc. and share it with others. If you need to stay in a hotel, come prepared to pay. If you are a good camper, bring your supplies. New helpful arrivals will keep morale fresh and the momentum strong! Call John at the Crawford Peace house for directions: 469-879-2227

4. Send Flowers. Fresh flowers are always needed to place at the Iraq War Memorial which is surrounding Sheehan's Camp Casey, along the road side. Call Code Pink for more supply suggestions: 310-827-3046

Sheehan (peace) is showing the way, Topanga Peace Alliance Tonia Young 310-455-2688 tonia4@earthlink.net



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=89185;show_parent=1



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

Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=89169;show_parent=1



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050804123855.htm


Informant: Andy Caffrey

http://www.isracast.com/tech_news/250705_tech.htm
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=176

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt106.html



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Through leaks and smears, Senate chairman protects White House to blame CIA, Democrats
Larisa Alexandrovna

Niger forgeries and WMDS – Roberts fingers CIA

As more questions surface on the Administration's lies about WMD and forged Niger documents, Roberts becomes a staunch Bush defender, deflecting pre-war "failures" away from the White House and pinning all blame on the CIA.

On July 11, 2003 - five days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson writes an article for the New York Times challenging the White House claim of Niger uranium sales to Iraq, Roberts issues a statement:

"What now concerns me most," he remarks , "is what appears to be a campaign of press leaks by the CIA in an effort to discredit the President." [...] Read more at the RawStory web site: http://tinyurl.com/ch45c

A related story on the web site:

Senate Intelligence chairman quietly 'fixed' intelligence, and diverted blame from White House over Iraq

by Larisa Alexandrovna
http://tinyurl.com/8aqt9


© Virginia Metze

By Jeffrey Steinberg

8-9-5 rense.com

As millions of copies of Lyndon LaRouche's July 27 "Cheney's Guns of August" statement circulate worldwide (see http://www.larouchepac.com ), a Washington policy brawl has erupted into public view, over the Bush Administration's now-confirmed contingency plans to stage a pre-emptive military strike against Iran-possibly using nuclear weapons. The report that Vice President Dick Cheney had tasked the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to develop military contingencies for a massive aerial bombardment campaign against Iran, in the event of a new 9/11 attack, was first revealed in The American Conservative magazine's Aug. 1 edition. The story highlighted the likely use of nuclear weapons, and the widespread military opposition to the pre-emptive nuclear war scheme.

Since that initial story by former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, this news service has confirmed the accuracy of the report from a significant number of horrified U.S. government officials-from Senators on both sides of the aisle, to military officers, diplomats, and spies. One former U.S. ambassador in the Persian Gulf reported that he had received angry reports from officials of the Central Command (CENTCOM), who have been tasked as part of the contingency planning. [...] Read more at: http://rense.com/general67/gunsofaug.htm


© Virginia Metze

08.11.2005 Eric Boehlert

The Huffington Post

Agreed. It was must-see TV. And not only because what it revealed about Bill O'Reilly--he was forced into a four corners delay to run out the clock after he realized the mess he was in with Dolores Kesterson, mother slain Chief Warrant Officer Erik Kesterson--but also what the segment revealed about president Bush, who apparently tried to bully the grieving mother when she questioned him about his war of choice.

At one point during the interview O'Reilly asked Kesterson, the Santa Clara mother, about her allotted three-minute meeting with Bush following her only child's death in 2003. But keep in mind what Cindy Sheehan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer this Sunday regarding her brief grief time with Bush in 2004:

Sheehan: "He wouldn't look at the pictures of [my son] Casey. He didn't even know Casey's name. He came in the room and the very first thing he said is, 'So who are we honoring here?' He didn't even know Casey's name. He didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to hear anything about Casey. He wouldn't even call him 'him' or 'he.' He called him 'your loved one.' Every time we tried to talk about Casey and how much we missed him, he would change the subject. And he acted like it was a party." [...] Isn't there a way we can get everyone in the White House to have a drug test? This kind of thing just cries out that there are some pretty abnormal personalities there ... Read the rest at the Huffington Post:

http://tinyurl.com/cg82c



Soldier's Mother Takes Protest to Bloggers
By Brian Faler
Thursday, August 11, 2005; Page A08

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has been camped outside President Bush's ranch near Crawford, Tex., took her antiwar protest to the Internet yesterday, joining a conference call with bloggers around the country, along with a stray congresswoman.

Sheehan, who has been demanding an audience with the president, told the bloggers that she has felt intimidated by the Secret Service, has been awakened in the middle of the night by thunderstorms and has a sore throat. But, Sheehan said, she has no plans to end her vigil until Bush meets with her to discuss the war, he goes back to the White House or she is arrested. [...] Read the rest at Washington Post web site: http://tinyurl.com/8mdlz


© Virginia Metze



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has started a "Karl Rove truth squad" and invites you to join. They quote Larry Johnson, a former covert CIA Agent and a registered Republican as saying "This is wrong and this is shameful." To sign up. go to http://www.democraticaction.org/firerove/signup.html


© Virginia Metze

Plame in the Courtroom

Is the Intelligence Identities Protection Act really impossible to prove?

By Elizabeth de la Vega

Pundits right, left, and center have reached a rare unanimous verdict about one aspect of the grand jury investigation into the Valerie Plame leak: They've decided that no charges can be brought under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, because it imposes an impossibly high standard for proof of intent. Typically, writing for Slate on July 19th, Christopher Hitchens described the 1982 Act as a "silly law" that requires that "you knowingly wish to expose the cover of a CIA officer who you understand may be harmed as a result." Similarly, columnist Richard Cohen, in the July 14 Washington Post, said he thought Rove was a "political opportunist, not a traitor" and that he didn't think Rove "specifically intended to blow the cover of a CIA agent." Such examples could be multiplied many times over.

Shocking as it may seem, however, the pundits are wrong; and their casual summaries of the requirements of the 1982 statute betray a fundamental misunderstanding regarding proof of criminal intent.

Do you have to intend to harm a CIA agent or jeopardize national security in order to violate the Intelligence Identities Protection Act? The answer is no. [...] Read the rest on the TomDispatch.com web site. Tom Engelhardt has a good introduction, which is just above the story.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=11747


© Virginia Metze

The story that won't die ... Lots of us are watching the story about indictments against Bush and top people in the administration. There was an additional rumor which I haven't seen picked up by anyone that John Paul Stevens was talking to the people involved in the investigation about trying to quash the indictments. I hope that that is not true. The best I can get from anyone is that the story could well be bad guessing ... So there doesn't seem to be anything that should be sent around, so far as I can tell.

Subpoena calls for documents related to the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander

Investment firm's payments to Republican fundraiser under scrutiny MIKE ROBINSON

Associated Press Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005

CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors investigating corruption at a state pension fund have subpoenaed records concerning $4.5 million in fees a Washington-based investment firm is paying the new treasurer of the Republican National Committee, government sources confirmed Tuesday.

The subpoena calls for documents related to the fund, the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander, said sources familiar with the investigation who spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying prosecutors want details of the probe kept secret.

Kjellander, a Springfield-based lobbyist who headed President Bush's re-election campaign in three states, was named the RNC's treasurer over the weekend. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/12341191.htm


© Virginia Metze

Bärendienst für den Datenschutz

„Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit beauftragt Call Center, Leistungsempfänger telefonisch zu ihren Daten zu befragen, und untergräbt damit das sowieso nur ansatzweise vorhandene Datenschutzbewusstsein…“ Artikel von Twister
(Bettina Winsemann) auf telepolis vom 10.08.2005

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20704/1.html



Telefonterror gegen Erwerbslose

„Nürnberger Bundesagentur ermittelt über Call-Center-Agenten sensible Daten von ALG-II-Empfängern, um die Arbeitslosenstatistik zu schönen. Erwerbsloseninitiativen kritisieren Aktion. Wer Arbeitslosengeld II bekommt, sollte sich dieser Tage nicht wundern, wenn sich am Telefon plötzlich ein Call-Center-Agent meldet, der angibt, im Auftrag der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) einen »Datenabgleich« durchführen zu wollen. Tatsächlich kommt der Anruf vom »Vivento Customer Service«, eine Beschäftigungsgesellschaft der Telekom, deren Mitarbeiter angewiesen sind, zur eigenen Identifikation lediglich auf die »Kundennummer« des Arbeitslosen zu verweisen. Dann geht es los: Suchen Sie überhaupt noch einen Job? Wer versorgt die Kinder, wenn Sie arbeiten? Wann haben Sie sich zuletzt beworben? 380000 Arbeitslose hat der Telefonservice allein in den letzten 14 Tagen angerufen. 180000mal kam ein Gespräch zustande. Doch Vorsicht ist angebracht, denn es werden Gründe gesucht, Arbeitslose aus der Statistik zu eliminieren, schließlich ist die August-Statistik die letzte vor den Neuwahlen…“ Artikel von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom

12.08.2005 http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/08-12/010.php



»Starke Zweifel an der Zulässigkeit«

ALG-II-Telefonaktion der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ist aus Datenschutzgründen mehr als bedenklich. Interview von Andreas Grünwald mit Peter Schaar (Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz) in junge Welt vom

12.08.05 http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/08-12/020.php

siehe dazu:

BA hält an Befragung von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern fest

„(…) Hierzu stellt die BA fest: Die Vorwürfe des Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz sind ungerechtfertigt. Die vom Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unterstützte Befragung diente vor allem dazu, die bei den Arbeitsgemeinschaften gespeicherten Daten von ALG II-Empfängern mit dem Ist-Zustand abzugleichen, um weiterführende Integrationsmaßnahmen planen und durchführen zu können. Hintergrund ist eine stichprobenartige Erhebung der internen Revision der BA, die im Frühjahr ergeben hatte, dass bis zu 20 Prozent der Daten nicht mehr aktuell sind…“ Presse Info 054 der Bundesagentur für Arbeit vom
09/08/2005

http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/vam/vamController/CMSConversation/anzeigeContent?navId=219&category=presse_info&docId=81798&rqc=3&ls=false&ut=0



Dubiose Telefonüberprüfung von Arbeitslosen - Erwerbslosenverbände raten: einfach auflegen!

„Die rechtswidrige Überprüfung von Arbeitslosen durch Call Center soll nach Angaben der Bundesagentur für Arbeit trotz massiver Kritik fortgesetzt werden…“ Presseerklärung von Tacheles e.V. / BAG-SHI vom 11. August 2005

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


Aus: LabourNet, 15. August 2005

TruthOut
By Scott Galindez

08/13/05

Live blog updates from Camp Casey. '1,000 spirited supporters rallied with Cindy at Camp Casey. Today, Cindy emerged as a leading voice of the anti-war movement. During the week there were many comparisons to Rosa Parks, but today Cindy showed she is not only a spark plug but a leading voice. Cindy's speech was a call to action, a speech that will be seen as historic. I say a leading voice because many other family members and veterans also came out of the shadows this week and onto the national stage. We will keep bringing you their stories...

http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

The Nation
by David Sirota
08/12/05

Progressives have spent the last four years in a state of shock, unable to believe what's going on in this country, and holding out hope that things will get better by themselves. We watch as poverty rises and job growth declines; corporate profits skyrocket while employee healthcare and retirement benefits get eliminated; CEO pay rises as workers' wages fall. Worse, the core economic issues that should be at the center of America's political debate have been depoliticized, while the issues of personal and religious conviction that should be removed from politics have been most politicized, leaving us with a political debate almost entirely divorced from Americans' day-to-day challenges...

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050829&s=sirota


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
By David Krieger

08/14/05

All fables have a moral, and the moral of this one is: If your son or daughter has died in war and you are a grieving mother, know that while your words may not move the Emperor to come out from behind the safety of his castle walls, your pain and courage may still stir a revolt across the empire and save other mothers' sons and daughters as well as the innocent citizens of far-off lands...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0813-23.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

San Francisco Chronicle
by Joe Garofoli

08/14/05

Coverage of Sheehan's spontaneous vigil is a godsend for the anti-war movement, which has been struggling to gain traction outside of liberal areas of the country. In Sheehan, organizers say they finally have a face that red-state America can relate to. They see in her a human reflection of sentiment expressed in this month's Associated Press/Ipsos poll, among others. Only 38 percent of respondents to that poll approve of Bush's handling of the war, a new low. The practical political question is whether the momentum gathering behind Sheehan will translate into political power in Washington. Members of Congress are circulating a letter asking Bush to meet with Sheehan, a request Sen. George Allen, R-Va., echoed in a CNN interview. But that effort won't go far unless more Americans -- particularly conservatives and those on the fence -- take up Sheehan's rallying call, 'Meet with Cindy.' Glenn Smith, a veteran Texas political consultant who is organizing a counter-event to the evangelical-sponsored Justice Sunday II gathering in Nashville, said it's rare that a voice like Sheehan's emerges. 'Probably the best thing the movement can do is get out of her way,' said Smith, whose Nashville gathering of liberal faith leaders is called Freedom and Faith. 'She doesn't need managing'...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/SHEEHAN.TMP


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Free Liberal
by Douglas Herman

08/14/05

Lots of soldiers kill for their country. Lots more die. Untold millions, hundreds of millions probably, have died for their countries, and their countries were sadly swept away, even though they sacrificed their lives to save it. Likewise, millions of soldiers have died -- on both sides of wars -- and the struggle remained the same. The First World War for example, was followed by the Second World War, and the same countries fought almost the same war, only a generation apart. And after each war, countries somehow survived. But the soldiers didn't. A young man (or his parents) needs to ask himself: Would I kill a kid to preserve my country? That question should be asked of all soldiers who enter the military. Just as important is the second question: How does killing a kid preserve my country?

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001299.html



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

FreedomWorks
by John McClaughry

08/12/05

The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says 'nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.' To the framers of the Bill of Rights, 'public use' meant highways, lighthouses, navy yards, arsenals, and customs houses owned by the public, or canals, ferries, and railroads serving as common carriers for the public. But private property may not be taken by eminent domain ? regardless of just compensation ? if the government simply turns it over to the private use of a different owner. The Supreme Court began to chip away at this protection in 1954...

http://tinyurl.com/7vo8c

LewRockwell.Com
by Butler Shaffer

08/15/05

Because the state depends, for its existence, upon the enforcement of collectivized thinking, Cindy Sheehan -- along with her message -- must be marginalized. Lies must be metabolized by the body politic; the immune system must remain on the alert for viruses of truth and understanding that might infect individual minds and enervate the collective organism. Such responses remind me of the apocryphal description of lobsters in a pot of water who, upon seeing a fellow crustacean trying to escape, pull him back with the others...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer116.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan
08/15/05

Are the Iranian mullahs close to acquiring the bomb? Has Iran violated the Non-Proliferation Treaty by restarting its conversion of yellowcake into uranium hexaflouride? The answer to both is no. By a recent U.S. intelligence review, Iran may be 10 years away from a bomb. And under the NPT, Iran is allowed to enrich uranium for use in her own nuclear power plants. Why, then, this talk of confrontation and pre-emptive strikes? Even if Iran had a weapon, to give it to a terrorist or to use it on a U.S. target would be an act of suicidal insanity by a regime that, no matter how militant, has shown no desire for war with America. What is the worry? Just this. If or when Iran goes nuclear, she has a deterrent to intimidation. U.S. freedom of action in the Persian Gulf comes to an end...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45775


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by Adam Young

08/12/05

It says something about those who invented the myth that Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved the lives of one million U.S. troops, and those who continue to use this discredited defense today continue to disgrace themselves by justifying the murder of innocent civilian men, women and children in order to save the lives of soldiers. But there is another more sinister aspect and consequence of the Hiroshima lie. And that is the rationale and justification it affords to Osama bin Laden. ... The blanket of fear and terror that Americans have been put through by the Bush Administration and its branches in the mass media following 9/11 has as its centerpiece fear of nuclear attack by a shadow enemy...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/younga/younga4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo

08/15/05

As the president of the United States cowers in his ranch, afraid to meet with a 48-year-old mother who wants to know why her son had to die, he hurls anathemas at Tehran and gathers his hosts for fresh conquests. Bush can safely ignore Congress -- not that they'll give him any trouble -- and he can tell the chauffeur to speed up when he passes Cindy Sheehan on the way to a fundraiser for the Republican War Machine. However, he can't safely ignore the grumbling of his generals who may be just short of joining the Crawford peace camp, along with a few divisions from the North American Command. Bush has just slapped down the top American commander in Iraq, General George Casey, for daring to suggest that troop reductions were in the offing...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6938


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Houston Chronicle

08/14/05

There were no reporters riding shotgun on the highway north of Baghdad when a roadside bomb sent Sgt. Elizabeth Le Bel's Humvee lurching into a concrete barrier. The Army released a three-sentence statement about the incident in which her driver, a fellow soldier, was killed. Most news stories that day noted it with just a few words. But a vivid account of the attack appeared on the Internet within hours of the crash last Dec. 4. Unable to sleep after arriving at the hospital, Le Bel hobbled to a computer and typed 1,000 words of what she called 'my little war story' into her Web log, or blog, titled Life in this Girl's Army, at http://www.sgtlizzie.blogspot.com ...

http://tinyurl.com/9g2pu


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Kentucky Herald-Leader

08/13/05

President Bush signed into law a bill to create electronic monitoring programs to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs in all 50 states. The new law creates a grant program for states to create databases and enhance existing ones in hopes of ending the practice of 'doctor shopping' by drug abusers [sic] seeking multiple prescriptions. It would authorize $60 million for the program through fiscal 2010. The bill, signed late Thursday at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch, was sponsored by Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Republican representing Kentucky's 1st District." [Editor's note: Um, I thought Bush was on vacation? - MLS]

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/12372982.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

... the criminalisation of the launchers of alarm the Greens support an opponent with the antenna-relays

Administrateur, 08/08/2005 - 22:22:34 01/08/2005

Marie-Anne Gairaud/Parisian the POLEMIC on the antenna-relays in Paris never stop. Not even during the holidays. The Green elected officials, always vigilant on this file, call today with the support of Robin of the Roofs. This association which militates against the proliferation of the antenna-relays tries to inform the public on the possible dangers of this technology. However its president, Etienne Ashtray, is in open conflict with the operators. The Court of Bankruptcy of Paris has just condemned him to pay 9 000 € with Bouygues Télécom for slandering. "The Robin association of the Roofs, concerned of its independence, is not subsidized. It cannot thus face such a judgment. We all must be interdependent ", insists Rene Dutrey, Green Conseiller of Paris. "I thus call all those which wish to show that the criminalisation of the launchers of alarm will not be right of engagements citizens, to give their financial support for Robin association of the Roofs." The Green Deputy Yves Cochet already put the hand in the pocket. This official support of the ecologists for an association clearly opposed to the antennas is not likely to alleviate the climate between the City and the three operators of telephony who renegotiate the charter on the antenna-relays.



... the criminalisation of the launchers of alarm


Les Verts soutiennent un opposant aux antennes-relais

Administrateur, 08/08/2005 - 22:22:34

01/08/2005

Marie-Anne Gairaud / Le Parisien

LA POLÉMIQUE sur les antennes-relais à Paris ne s'arrête jamais. Pas même durant les vacances.

Les élus Verts, toujours vigilants sur ce dossier, appellent aujourd'hui au soutien de Robin des Toits.

Cette association qui milite contre la prolifération des antennes-relais tente d'informer le public sur les éventuels dangers de cette technologie. Or son président, Etienne Cendrier, est en conflit ouvert avec les opérateurs. Le tribunal de grande instance de Paris vient de le condamner à payer 9 000 € à Bouygues Télécom pour diffamation.

«L'association Robin des Toits, soucieuse de son indépendance, n'est pas subventionnée. Elle ne peut donc faire face à une telle condamnation. Nous devons être tous solidaires», insiste René Dutrey, Conseiller Vert de Paris. «J'appelle donc tous ceux qui souhaitent montrer que la criminalisation des lanceurs d'alerte n'aura pas raison des engagements citoyens, à apporter leur soutien financier à l'association Robin des Toits.»

Le Député Vert Yves Cochet a déjà mis la main à la poche.

Ce soutien public des écolos à une association clairement opposée aux antennes ne risque pas d'apaiser le climat entre la Ville et les trois opérateurs de téléphonie qui renégocient la charte sur les antennes-relais.


Informant: Avoiding ridicule

Canary bird recovers from mobile phone mast exposure

August 14, 2005

Nijkerk (The Netherlands) - The canary bird of H. in Nijkerk has not sung for almost eight months. He was pecking his skin and loosing feathers. The day after his cage was protected against the radiation of a GSM antenna mast at 50 metres distance, the bird started to make noise again and even produced some trills. Ten days after, he sits proudly on his stick and does not loose his feathers anymore.

The cage is in the living room. In this room, experts of Telecom Agency of the ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands measured 1,14 V/m (ca. 3000 mikroWatt/m2) for GSM 1800 MHz. The cage has been protected by fine metal mesh and aluminium foil at the bottom. Visitors think it's pathetic, but the bird is doing better thanks to the protection. He sings many times and a few days ago he has been heard singing in the early morning as well.

The owner of the canary bird has serious health problems himself. They started when a GSM 1800 MHz mast was installed on top of a building opposite of his home. The heating, television and other devices with electronic parts gave a lot of troubles. When H. stays for a few days in a place without high frequency radiation, most of his complaints disappear and the others are reduced to a bearable level.

The experiment with the canary bird shows that health problems caused by mobile phone radiation are not psychological primarily, since a bird can not be anxious about an antenna installation. The cage is still in the same position and without draught. There has been no change in taking care of this bird.

The recovery of the canary can be explained only by the reduction of the intensity of the GSM mobile phone mast radiation (DECT telephones are removed and wireless computers absent). The intensity inside the cage is about 0,5 mikroWatt/m2 after protection.

Canary birds were once used in coal mines to check the quality of the air.

When a canary died, the workers had to escape from the mine immediately. The experiment with the canary in The Netherlands shows that birds are 'sensitive' as well for the electromagnetic radiation of mobile communication systems, including DECT-telephones and wireless networks. In fact this should not amaze anybody, since many scientific research has found biological ('non-thermal') effects of radiofrequency radiation in humans, animals and plants.

More information about the radiation of GSM, UMTS, DECT, WIFI etc.: http://www.stopumts.nl



I received interesting & important posts in response to the Canary story,

It is interesting to note that in Osafia, the Druz village that removed antennas because of more than 200 cancer cases (15 new cancer cases were diagnosed only last month), birds disappeared from the village when the antennas were there, and now with no antennas- birds are back !!

Here are the posts - concentrated together they give quite a strong picture.


From Milt Bowling (Canada )

The National Research Council of Canada did lots of studies on the non-thermal effects of microwave radiation on birds in the 1960s, before the wireless industry took control of the science. They found that bird feathers acted as dielectric receptors. Birds that had been plucked under anesthesia showed no reaction to radiation until the 12th day, when their feathers started to grow back.

Studies also showed altered EEG patterns, escape behaviour, other signs of stress in the form of vocalization, defecation and initiation of flight. Parakeets chose an unradiated feeder over a radiated one. Domestic fowl [Leghorns] increased egg production by 13.7% under radiation. Unfortunately, the mortality rate of the radiated colony was double that of the control colony. Their exposures ranged from 0.2 uW/cm2 to 360 uW/cm2. Young chicks exposed to 25mW/cm2 collapsed on the floor of the cage and remained in that position until the radiation was turned off. Time to collapse ranged from 5 to 20 seconds.

Mike Repacholi at one time was with Health Canada and certainly would have had access to these studies. I wonder if WHO recommendations will include this science?

Milt


From Larry Blackhall, Canada, who is studying the subject, this is part of his research :

National Research Centre of Canada - (NRC)

Scientific peer reviewed and archived laboratory controlled studies done by the NRC of Canada demonstrate conclusively the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation on living systems. These studies are available through the NRC archives.

To obtain copies by telephone call 1 800 668 1222 or visit their website at http://www.nrc.ca/cisti .

There is a nominal charge of aproximately $12 cdn.

Here are three brief relevant extracts from three of the studies;

1. Extract from LTR-CS-113 by Dr J Bigu, 1973, titled:

"Interaction of electromagnetic fields and living systems with special reference to birds."

During the initial stabilizing period the egg production of each colony was the same, but following the onset of radiation the egg production of the radiated colony increased to a higher level at which it remained essentially constant. In terms of the total number of eggs produced the diference amounts to an increase of 13.7% - an increase that could be of economic significance in raising poultry provided other, and undesired, interaction effects do not appear.

However the mortality rate of the radiated colony was almost double that of the control colony through each of phases A and B.

2. Extract from LTR-CS-18 by Dr J A Tanner, 1969, titled:

"Effects of microwave radiation on Parakeets in Flight"

Conclusion: The results obtained in this experiment indicates that microwave radiation has an aversive effect on birds in flight comparable to that previously observed in caged birds. This leads the way to a possible solution of the bird hazard problem in aviation.

3. Extract from LTR-CS-89 by Dr. J A Tanner, 1973, co-authored by Dr. Romero-Sierra, Dept of Anatomy, Queens' University, Kingston, Ont., titled;

"Bird Feathers as Dialectic Receptors of Microwave Radiation."

Depending on many factors the use of microwave radiation can be detrimental or beneficial to humans. One beneficial use of microwave radiation is to reduce the hazards of birds to aircraft. This forms part of an extensive program designed to shed some light on the complex nature of the interaction of microwave radiation with biological systems.


From Penny Hargreaves (New Zealand)

More mobiles, and sparrows take flight

Ambarish Mukherjee

New Delhi, Nov. 30

THE wireless telecom revolution is catching on at the expense of a tiny winged creature — the house sparrow. The tiny birds are fast disappearing from cities "contaminated" with electromagnetic waves arising out of increased number of mobile handsets.

According to Dr S. Vijayan, Director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), "A number of studies has been conducted to find out the relationship between the increase in electromagnetic waves and the decrease in the number of sparrows. A positive correlation has been found between them."

"There have been studies in Spain which showed that sparrows disappear from cities where electromagnetic contamination is very heavy," Dr Vijayan added.

A study was initiated earlier this year in London by the British Trust for Ornithology to investigate whether the explosion of electromagnetic waves from portable handsets is wiping out sparrows in London. The British study involves 30,000 birdwatchers who will examine the urban sparrow population near cell-phone masts, where electromagnetic fields are most concentrated.

London has witnessed a steep fall in its sparrow population — a 75 per cent fall since 1994, which coincides with the emergence of the cell-phone.

Electromagnetic waves travel through the air to the cell-phone masts located above tall buildings in the cities. These waves then travel to and fro between the handset and the tower while one is using the handset, and this results in increased electromagnetic contamination in the air.

The rapidly increasing number of cell-phone subscribers is resulting in higher concentration level of electromagnetic waves in the air which clashes with the earth's electromagnetic field.

Dr Vijayan also pointed out that sparrows are found to be disappearing from areas where mobile towers are installed.

SACON has also initiated a detailed study to find out how exactly these small birds are being affected.

"These are all circumstantial evidences. Now we need to prove how it is exactly affecting the sparrows. My feeling is that it probably affects their central nervous system. We are conducting studies with inputs from various cities on the falling number of sparrows in which the effect of electromagnetic contamination from mobile phones are also being examined," Dr Vijayan said.

He said increased exposure to electromagnetic waves also affects small animals. For example, in rats, it is found that the sperm count has decreased while in the case of chicken embryonic, mortality has become very high. There could be more examples, he added.

Another one from Penny :

Subject: Fw: Re caged birds -canaries etc

A farmer who was breeding ostriches about a kilometre from the radio tower found some of the chickens did not develop feathers.

Subject: EMF in the barnyard (fwd)

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 082740 -0500 (CDT)

From: "Roy L. Beavers"

To: emfguru@hotmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:11:43 +1000

From: myra kyneur

To: w-m-a@reach.net

Cc : marjlundquist@yahoo.com

Subject: EMF in the barnyard


Dear Wolfgang Scherer

We were very interested in your account of radiofrequeny radiation (RFR)effects on cattle and birds on the Bavarian farm. Of particular interest were the effects on the birds, as we have documented three cases of RFR effects on birds here in Sydney, Australia.

We thought you may find this of interest also. The exquisite sensitivity of the canary, and it would seem other birds, is obviously incompatible with the radiofrequency radiation (RFR) associated with cellular phone transmitters. A warning for the human population?

We wonder if it would be a useful exercise to survey the caged bird population within a given distance from mobile phone base stations.

Following are the cases we have documented.

Case 1.. Fairlight NSW : Unusual behaviour of flock of approx. 17 black crows that usually roosted on the roof of a high rise apartment block.

After the installation of a mobile phone base station (MBS) nearby resident noticed the birds became noisier and unsettled. This behaviour continued for about two weeks-the birds are now no longer in this neighbourhood.

Case2.. Caringbah NSW : Within 200 metres of a MBS Bantam hens and roosters died unexpectedly from unknown causes, within a short time of the installation of the MBS.

Note: On the same premises, a family of two adults and three young adults each progressively developed 'microwave hearing' and moderate to severe headaches after the same MBS installation.

The headaches diminished after alterations were made to the electricity power supply in the street. (Details available on request)

The microwave hearing associated with the MBS continues.

Case 3...Kirrawee NSW: For a number of years an exotic bird breeder had approx. 350 birds located one hundred metres distance from a radiofrequency antenna used by a paging service. Within four months of the installation being upgraded to a mobile base station (MBS) most birds refused to breed, those that did breed prematurely removed the young from the nests. Two only young birds survived the season, one only has feathers, the other none at all.

Some species became aggressive, defeathering their mates.

The owner has since moved house.

Comments to: Betty Venables, Co-ordinator, C/- Email address as above or postal address, EMR SAFETY NETWORK-INTERNATIONAL, 216 President Ave Miranda NSW 2228 Australia

fred moore


Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org

Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Effects of exposing chicken eggs to a cell phone in "call" position over the entire incubation period

From the abstract: The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of exposing fertile chicken eggs to a cell phone repeatedly calling a ten-digit number at 3-min intervals over the entire period of incubation. A significantly higher percentage of embryo mortality was observed in the "exposed" compared to the "sham" group in 2 of the 4 replicates (p<.05). In comparison with control groups, additional embryo mortality in the exposed group occurred mainly between Days 9 and 12 of incubation but a causal relationship between the intensity of the electric field and embryo mortality could not be established. Bibliography: Batellier et al., Theriogenology. 2008 Feb 4 [Epub ahead of print], Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18255134?dopt=Abstract



Spanish paper on RF effects on birds
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/904106/

Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/micro_waves_effects_on_wildlife_animals.pdf

EMF Exposure - Animal Studies
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/animals.htm

Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf

Pulsed microwave radiation and wildlife - Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Sparrows?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926007/

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