John R. Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has voiced firm opposition to UN reorganization measures that the Bush administration fears would inhibit US authority to use force and place new legal obligations on countries to intervene where genocide, ethnic cleansing or war crimes were being committed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105O.shtml

On Aug. 1, a spokesman for the Louisiana National Guard lamented to a local reporter that the state might be stretched for security personnel in the event of a big hurricane. Dozens of high-water vehicles, generators and Humvees were employed in Iraq, along with 3,000 Louisiana National Guard troops.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105M.shtml

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the US. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105L.shtml

In the days to come, as the nation copes with the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we will be reminded how important it is to have a federal agency capable of dealing with natural catastrophes of this sort. ... Which makes it all the more difficult to understand why the country's premier agency for dealing with such events - FEMA - is being, in effect, systematically downgraded and all but dismantled by the Department of Homeland Security.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105J.shtml

With all due respect, I think some of you missed the point of my e-mail regarding the fact that president Bush knew about New Orleans in 2001!!

To use a fine Southern word, it's tacky to start playing the blame game before the dead are even counted. It is not too soon, however, to make a point that needs to be hammered home again and again, and that is that government policies have real consequences in people's lives.

This is not "just politics" or blaming for political advantage. This is about the real consequences of what governments do and do not do about their responsibilities. And about who winds up paying the price for those policies.

My e-mail was for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, "I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in politics," or, "There's nothing I can do about it," or, "Eh, they're all crooks anyway."

Nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my life, nothing I can do about any of it. Look around you this morning. I suppose the National Rifle Association would argue, "Government policies don't kill people, hurricanes kill people." Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people.

One of the main reasons New Orleans is so vulnerable to hurricanes is the gradual disappearance of the wetlands on the Gulf Coast that once stood as a natural buffer between the city and storms coming in from the water. The disappearance of those wetlands does not have the name of a political party or a particular administration attached to it. No one wants to play, "The Democrats did it," or, "It's all Reagan's fault." Many environmentalists will tell you more than a century's interference with the natural flow of the Mississippi is the root cause of the problem, cutting off the movement of alluvial soil to the river's delta.

But in addition to long-range consequences of long-term policies like letting the Corps of Engineers try to build a better river than God, there are real short-term consequences, as well. It is a fact that the Clinton administration set some tough policies on wetlands, and it is a fact that the Bush administration repealed those policies--ordering federal agencies to stop protecting as many as 20 million acres of wetlands.

Last year, four environmental groups cooperated on a joint report showing the Bush administration's policies had allowed developers to drain thousands of acres of wetlands.

Does this mean we should blame President Bush for the fact that New Orleans is underwater? No, but it means we can blame Bush when a Category 3 or Category 2 hurricane puts New Orleans under. At this point, it is a matter of making a bad situation worse, of failing to observe the First Rule of Holes (when you're in one, stop digging).

Had a storm the size of Katrina just had the grace to hold off for a while, it's quite likely no one would even remember what the Bush administration did two months ago. The national press corps has the attention span of a gnat, and trying to get anyone in Washington to remember longer than a year ago is like asking them what happened in Iznik, Turkey, in A.D. 325.

Just plain political bad luck that, in June, Bush took his little ax and chopped $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers, a 44 percent reduction. As was reported in New Orleans CityBusiness at the time, that meant "major hurricane and flood projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now."

The commander of the corps' New Orleans district also immediately instituted a hiring freeze and canceled the annual corps picnic.

Our friends at the Center for American Progress note the Office of Technology Assessment used to produce forward-thinking plans such as "Floods: A National Policy Concern" and "A Framework for Flood Hazards Management." Unfortunately, the office was targeted by Newt Gingrich and the Republican right, and gutted years ago.

In fact, there is now a governmentwide movement away from basing policy on science, expertise and professionalism, and in favor of choices based on ideology. If you're wondering what the ideological position on flood management might be, look at the pictures of New Orleans--it seems to consist of gutting the programs that do anything.

Unfortunately, the war in Iraq is directly related to the devastation left by the hurricane. About 35 percent of Louisiana's National Guard is now serving in Iraq, where four out of every 10 soldiers are guardsmen. Recruiting for the Guard is also down significantly because people are afraid of being sent to Iraq if they join, leaving the Guard even more short-handed.

The Louisiana National Guard also notes that dozens of its high-water vehicles, Humvees, refuelers and generators have also been sent abroad. (I hate to be picky, but why do they need high-water vehicles in Iraq?)

This, in turn, goes back to the original policy decision to go into Iraq without enough soldiers and the subsequent failure to admit that mistake and to rectify it by instituting a draft.

The levees of New Orleans, two of which are now broken and flooding the city, were also victims of Iraq war spending. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, said on June 8, 2004, "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq."

This my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.

Peace,

John


Sent by Care2 Connect member: John Beard

(excerpt)

Foreign help for hurricane help declined

August 31, 2005

Devastation 200 miles wide & 50-100 miles inland = Tens of thousands died

The cover up has begun. The martial law they've declared is partly for the purpose of gathering and disposing of bodies and body parts without too many seeing them do it. The wall of water was similar to a tsunami, an incredible 30 feet high. Unlike a tsunami there were winds and rain blowing 100-150 miles an hour sideways creating white out conditions and destroying buildings, homes, and taking lives two ways. The ptb have had to admit that hundreds are dead. Tens of thousands dead could be very conservative.

It's nice to know this infinite world of form is an illusion.

"Descent Into Hell", 50,000 Lives Bring Apocalyptic Warning to All Citizens of United States, the World Cries "You Are Not Alone", They Cannot Hear By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers Russian Intelligence reports are stating this morning that the grave situation developing in the American City of New Orleans can only be described as a "Decent Into Hell", as to this hour over 50,000 human beings of this once great American City remain trapped by rising flood waters with no means for their Government to evacuate all of them. With no resources available for food, water, shelter, or evacuation, the masses of these peoples have become one of the largest unruly mobs in modern history, and with no police or military forces able to contain them they are presently running rampant throughout what remains of this city in what these reports describe as "frantic acts for survival". Numerous gun battles between portions of these "mobs" and police forces yesterday had caused their Military Authorities to completely leave this city and declare a State of Martial Law. FSB reports state that many of these gun battles were the result of drug addicts breaking into a large pharmaceutical establishment because of these drug addicts needing drugs to keep from suffering "withdrawals". These FSB reports further state that this city has broken down into complete "mob rule", with many innocent civilians shot and "numerous" dead bodies lying in the streets. To the greater issue however is that the American people are viewing for the first time, in many of their memories, what the limitations of State power really are. Only by the deception of words is any government, of any kind, been able to exercise tyrannical authority over their citizens. To the citizens of New Orleans, and among their poorest, who have been left behind and cut off from their normal daily functions, the fallacy of any government being able to control the masses of its citizens is laid completely bare.

Being kept from these American people also by their Military Rulers have been the uncounted offers of assistance from Nations all around the world, including: Venezuela has offered their Medical Airlift Command for the evacuation of peoples trapped in these devastated regions; Holland has offered the resources of their Public Works Ministry (and who are the acknowledged World Experts for below sea level water evacuation procedures); Russia has offered over 100,000 temporary living structures, along with Military Personal to assist their American counterparts; Iran has offered 1 Billion US Dollars in immediate assistance and guaranteed 5,000,000 barrels of oil at $35.00 US Dollars; China has offered their Military Rescue Forces (who are acknowledged as one of the best in the world for rescuing peoples in flood ravaged areas.) All of these offers, and more, the Military Leaders of the United States have declined, and for the their previously stated reason: "The United States Government and its People Respectfully Decline your offer of assistance and refer you to our previous State Department Bulletin (NCO:13788) in which we had stated that this remains an internal action." This morning remains one of the most critical times in the history of these once great people in America. Only through such unprecedented cataclysms such as they are currently experiencing are they able to break through the lies and distortions of their Military Leaders and Propaganda Media Organs to see, even glimpse, the wholesale lies they are told in order to keep them in a pacified state. But sadly, and as the events of September 11, 2001 clearly show, the mass of these Americans are willing to believe any and all lies they are told, no matter how absurd, as long as they can be left with the illusion that their lives today will continue into their tomorrows. How sad it is for them to see their world in these terms, but it remains a fact that this is indeed the only way they can cope with a world disintegrating around them.

© August 31, 2005, EU and US all rights reserved.


Informant: V

Crack down on the Botswana overlord governance and their corporate stirrup holders wherever you find them! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT and CUT BOTSWANA BUSINESS AND THEIR PRESENT GOVERNANCE OUT FROM ANYTHING AND WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM ! - Until they stop the ethnocide and genocide against the First Peoples of the Kalahari - the Bushmen!

KICK THE PRESENT BOTSWANA GOVERNANCE OUT OF THE UN, since they do not listen to the findings of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and his Special Rapporteur anyway!

BOTSWANA is persistently violating ILO 169! http://www.khoisanpeoples.org/indepth/ind-ilo-no-169.htm

And like in Namibia and South-Africa, European and other Northern World interests in natural resources exploitation together with massive proselytism by the churches, the overlord governance in Botswana is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, which must bring them and their corporate allies in crime before the International Criminal Court of Justice.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements, most prominently the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

see also: http://www.khoisanpeoples.org

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BOTSWANA: COURT IN CHAOS - GOVERNMENT LAWYER 'ARRESTED' - BUSHMAN RESERVE SEALED OFF

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
1 September 2005

The Botswana government's lead attorney in the Bushman case was today ordered to be arrested and imprisoned. In some of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in any high court, attorney Sidney Pilane, refusing to allow any policeman to touch him, fled arrest in a vehicle driven by another government witness, the Assistant Director of Parks. In a separate development, the government announced the closure of the Bushmen's reserve to visitors for 'administrative reasons'.

As special advisor to the President, Pilane may be hoping that his power surpasses that of the Botswana judiciary. He repeatedly refused to stand up when the judges were speaking to him. He was warned twice that unless he did so he would be cited for contempt. He still refused to stand up, leaving the court little alternative than to commit him to prison.

The court ordered he should be arrested immediately and brought back to court on Monday morning. This was the climax of Pilane's examination of the state's star 'expert witness', American ecologist and former employee of the Botswana government, Kathleen Alexander. Pilane was questioning her on material that the judges had already ruled should not be discussed. (A minute-by-minute account of this morning's events in court is appended below.)

Alexander had already made no secret of her contempt for tribal peoples and hunter-gatherers. She wants them all out of any protected areas in order to favour the animal inhabitants. Echoing remarks made by the president, she said that they had to evolve, claiming that 'culture' had nothing to do with ancestral land and they could practise it anywhere.

Amongst her asides was her comparison of inbreeding amongst animals 'to what happened to the ruling elite in England. The Queen's people would stay together and not mix.' Although she claims to want everyone out of all protected areas, she herself lectures to American tourists - inside game reserves - who each pay US$10,000, plus tips, for their trip.

Reacting to the fact that one of the Bushman's lawyers is British and that their case is funded by donations raised internationally, Pilane last week said, 'We do not want Europe to interfere and tell us what to do or not to do. We resent their involvement in our affairs. They should leave us alone.' The Bushman case is already the longest and most costly in Botswana's history, despite being brought by the country's poorest inhabitants.

A severe crackdown on the Bushmen was revealed by Survival last week. One of those recently tortured for hunting has died, others have been arrested, their own organisation has been barred from their reserve, and so have their lawyers. Guards have been posted around the reserve to stop Bushmen returning home. The government has even changed the country's constitution, removing what Bushman protection it enshrined.

Today, the government reinforced its determination to remove the Bushmen and end their way of life by announcing that no visitors would be allowed into their reserve, 'for administrative reasons', until further notice. Bushmen who have defied the government and returned to their lands after being thrown out in 2002 have been barred from using radio transmitters to talk to the outside world. From now on, whatever happens to the Bushmen in the Reserve will take place behind closed doors.

The government is clearly angered by the international media which has reported extensively on its attacks on the Bushmen. The latest journalists to go in were from the BBC TV's most prestigious news programme, 'Newsnight'.

In response to the latest developments, Survival today called for a total boycott of Botswana tourism and of its diamonds, mined and sold by the government and De Beers.

Stephen Corry, Survival's director, said today, 'History is now being written. The destruction of so many American Indians and Australian Aborigines are some of the most shameful chapters in the history of recent centuries. If the Botswana government is not brought to its senses very quickly now, our own century will see the calculated and deliberate destruction of the central Kalahari Bushmen. Unfortunately none of the signs are good. The government is already on trial in its own country. Its own lawyer has fled arrest. If the court buckles, then this trial spells more than the end of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen. The 'higher court' of world opinion is perhaps the only hope left.'

Photos and footage available. For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org

To read this press release online click visit http://survival-international.org/news.php?id=995.


Background to the ordered arrest of the government's attorney on 1 September 2005

1. In July 2005, Dr Alexander and a number of government officials entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve to conduct an inspection.

2. The Bushmen's lawyers were given no notice of the visit and no opportunity to advise their clients whether they should cooperate with Dr Alexander and the officials.

3. They objected to the introduction of any evidence from Dr Alexander about what she had seen or done during the inspection. On Tuesday 30 August, their objection was upheld, so that Dr Alexander was not permitted to give any evidence of what she claimed to have seen in July.

4. By Thursday 1 September, Dr Alexander had been in the witness box for seven days. She was still being asked questions by Mr Pilane. Mr Pilane asked her whether she had seen diseased animals in the reserve and Dr Alexander said that she had. The Bushmen's Counsel asked Mr Pilane to clarify when it was that she claimed to have seen the diseased animals, so as to establish whether the evidence was precluded by the order which the Court had made on Tuesday.

5. When Mr Pilane declined to do so the Court itself asked Dr Alexander to clarify when it was that she claimed to have seen diseased animals. She replied, 'In July'.

6. Mr Pilane requested a five-minute adjournment, which was granted. After the adjournment, Mr Pilane did not appear in court until after the judges had already returned and resumed their positions on the bench.

7. There was then a discussion between the court and Mr Pilane in the course of which Mr Pilane sat down. When he was asked to stand up, he repeatedly declined to do so. He was offered two opportunities to explain why he should not be cited for contempt, and did not accept that he was in contempt. The court then ruled that he was in contempt, and that he should immediately be arrested and taken to prison. It directed that he should be brought back before the court at 9.30 on Monday morning, when the attorney general should also appear. After the court rose several police officers attended court to arrest Mr Pilane. He declined to accompany them and was driven from the court in a government vehicle.

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From ECOTERRA Intl.

Diese 2. Informationsbroschüre für alle Haushalte wurde Ende der vergangenen Woche mit einer Auflage von 19.000 Stück in der Stadt Attendorn verteilt.

Mit freundlichem Gruß

Helmut Langenbach


Das Mobilfunkversorgungskonzept der Stadt Attendorn

2. Informationsbroschüre für alle Haushalte

Liebe Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger, mit dieser zweiten Broschüre möchte ich Sie heute über den aktuellen Stand zum Thema „Mobilfunk in Attendorn“ informieren.

„Handy Lust - Masten Frust“ In Deutschland telefonieren inzwischen rd. 72 Millionen Menschen mobil; das Handy als Multimediagerät ist aus unserem Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken. Diese Entwicklung hat aber auch eine Kehrseite, weil sich das Netz von Mobilfunkanlagen zunehmend verdichtet. So ist allein durch die Einführung der neuen Mobilfunkgeneration UMTS mit bundesweit bis zu 70.000 neuen Sendeanlagen zu rechnen. Die steigende Zahl von Antennen führt zunehmend zu Widerständen in der Bevölkerung, vor allem in der Nachbarschaft der Basisstationen.

Sorge um die Gesundheit

Die möglichen gesundheitlichen Risiken des Mobilfunks interessieren inzwischen immer mehr Menschen. Teile der Bevölkerung zeigen sich besorgt und verunsichert. Die gesetzlichen Grenzwerte berücksichtigen nur Schädigungen infolge einer Körpererwärmung durch elektro-magnetische Strahlen. Neue Studien geben aber Anlass zu der Vermutung, dass die Grenzwerte im Hinblick auf die sog. nichtthermischen Effekte keinen genügenden Schutz bieten. Diese rufen zwar keine Erhöhung der Körpertemperatur hervor, können jedoch andere Auswirkungen haben, wie beispielsweise Migräne und Kopfschmerzen, Schlaf-, Konzentrations- oder allgemeine Befindlichkeitsstörungen. Diskutiert werden zudem mögliche Auswirkungen auf Krebserkrankungen sowie die Beeinflussung des zentralen Nervensystems. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Erkenntnisse empfiehlt das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) nachdrücklich Vorsorge-Maßnahmen in Form einer Strahlungsminimierung. Diese Empfehlung des BfS ist Grundlage des Attendorner Mobilfunkversorgungskonzepts.

Das Attendorner Mobilfunkversorgungskonzept will Mobilfunk nicht verhindern, sondern hat zum Ziel, die Strahlenbelastung der Bevölkerung durch eine intelligente Standortplanung der Mobilfunkanlagen so gering wie möglich zu halten. Das von der Stadt Attendorn beauftragte nova-Institut aus Köln erstellte hierzu ein Konzept, das Senderstandorte vorsieht, die möglichst weit weg von der Wohnbebauung sind und/oder die wesentlich höher liegen als die typische Dachhöhe der Bebauung. Innerstädtische Standorte sind zwar nicht ausgeschlossen, sie müssen aber die durch den Rat der Stadt beschlossenen Vorsorgekriterien erfüllen, die im Sinne des vorbeugenden Gesundheitsschutzes größtmöglichen Schutz vor den möglichen Gesundheitsgefahren hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Strahlung gewährleisten sollen.

Die Untersuchung an der Uni Stuttgart Im Sommer 2004 wurde das Attendorner Konzept in aufwändigen Simulationen an der Uni Stuttgart getestet und für „praxistauglich“ befunden. Das vom nova-Institut entwickelte Funknetz im Sinne des Konzepts ist danach im direkten Vergleich mit den betreiberseitig an gedachten innerstädtischen Standorten durchaus eine funktechnische Alternative , die mit weniger Basisstationen in den Wohngebieten auskommen und dennoch die Anforderungen an ein gut funktionierendes UMTS-Netz erfüllen kann. Es geht also mit deutlich weniger Sendeanlagen in den Wohngebieten!

Keine Handhabe gegen Antennen auf privaten Hausdächern

Die Kommunen können eine Sendeanlage rechtlich nicht verhindern, weil Mobilfunkmasten unter zehn Metern Höhe keine Baugenehmigung benötigen. Auch die bundesweite Freiwillige Vereinbarung zwischen Kommunen und Mobilfunkbetreibern räumt nicht wirklich eine größere Mitsprache bei der Standortsuche ein, weil die Betreiber die Sendeanlagen auch gegen den Willen der Kommunen errichten können und dies auch tun, sobald ein Hauseigentümer bereit ist, eine Antenne auf seinem Dach montieren zu lassen.

Die Umsetzung des Attendorner Konzepts

Die Bereitschaft der Mobilfunkbetreiber, das Attendorner Konzept bei der Standortsuche zu berücksichtigen, ist deshalb kaum vorhanden. Die funktechnischen und wirtschaftlichen Belange dominieren. Trotz dieser ablehnenden Grundhaltung konnten in Gesprächen mit Mobilfunk-Betreibern zu konkreten Standorten aber dennoch Erfolge im Sinne des Konzepts erzielt werden. Dass bei den bislang abgestimmten Sendern das Bedürfnis der Attendorner Bürgerinnen und Bürger nach einer möglichst niedrigen Strahlung berücksichtigt werden konnte, war allerdings nur möglich, weil der Hauseigentümer seine Unterschrift unter den Vertrag mit dem Betreiber vom vorherigen OK der Stadt abhängig gemacht hat.

Finanzielle Beteiligung an den Masten

Die Betreiber werfen dem Attendorner Konzept auch vor, seine Realisierung sei zu teuer. Deshalb hat die Stadt Attendorn den Mobilfunkbetreibern inzwischen angeboten, sich an der Errichtung der Sendemasten finanziell zu beteiligen und auch geeignete städtische Grundstücke anzubieten, mit denen die Ziele des Mobilfunkversorgungskonzepts erreicht werden können. Damit hat die Stadt die Weichen gestellt, Standorte zu finden, die eine gute Mobilfunkversorgung garantieren, aber auch das berechtigte Interesse unserer Einwohner an einer Strahlungsminimierung berücksichtigen. Da bereits 17 weitere Sendeanlagen für unsere Stadt angekündigt sind, kommt es nun also auf den guten Willen der Mobilfunkbetreiber an.....

„Attendorner Gemeinschaftssinn” ist gefordert! Die Frage, ob Mobilfunk gesundheitsschädlich ist oder nicht, kann heute niemand beantworten. Umso wichtiger ist es, die Strahlenbelastung so niedrig wie möglich zu halten. Aufgrund seiner fehlenden rechtlichen Durchsetzungsmöglichkeiten ist das Attendorner Mobilfunkkonzept aber auf die Unterstützung aller Attendorner angewiesen. Deshalb zum Schluss eine Bitte:

Sofern Sie unmittelbar von den Mobilfunkbetreibern angesprochen werden sollten, wäre es wichtig, wenn Sie vor einer Vertragsunterzeichnung eingehend prüfen, inwieweit eine Antenne auf Ihrem Grundstück, Haus oder auch Firmengebäude den Leitideen und Zielen des Attendorner Mobilfunkversorgungskonzeptes entspricht. Hierbei bin ich Ihnen selbstverständlich gerne behilflich.

Ansprechpartner im Rathaus sind Frau Melanie Linn (Tel.: 02722.64319) und Herr Wolfgang Hilleke (Tel.: 02722.64236). Bitte denken Sie dabei daran, dass auch Sie selbst zukünftig „Betroffener“ einer Mobilfunkbasis-Station werden können, wenn einer Ihrer Nachbarn unser städtisches Konzept mit seinen Zielen außer Acht lässt und einen Vertrag mit einem der Mobilfunkbetreiber schließen sollte. Wenn wir eine ernsthafte Chance haben wollen, Einfluss auf die Standortsuche zu nehmen und unser Mobilfunkkonzept im Sinne einer größtmöglichen Vorsorge im Umgang mit hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Strahlung zu realisieren, ist auch weiterhin der „Attendorner Gemeinschaftssinn“ gefordert!

Das Konzept und weitere Infos unter: http://www.attendorn.de in der Rubrik „Heute“
E-Mail: mobilfunk@attendorn.de


Liebe Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger, die bisherigen Erfolge wären ohne Ihre Unterstützung nicht möglich gewesen. Hierfür danke ich Ihnen ganz herzlich! In der Hoffnung, dass wir auch weiterhin alle gemeinsam das Attendorner Konzept im Sinne des vorbeugenden Gesundheitsschutzes aktiv unterstützen, verbleibe ich mit freundlichem Gruß

Alfons Stumpf Bürgermeister

http://counterpunch.org/floyd09012005.html


Informant: Paul

The American Prospect
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/31/05

President Bush, whose tattered Iraq policy finally came utterly unglued this week, now faces two unpalatable -- and politically deadly -- futures in Iraq. With the most recent polls showing approval ratings for Bush at 36 percent and dropping, the news from Iraq reads like a continuing obituary for his presidency, and the signs from Capitol Hill are that the Republicans are rapidly realizing the Bush-Cheney White House is a sinking ship. It's going to get a lot worse. ... Illegal, I say, because it was delivered past the legal deadline, without the full support of the constitutional committee designed to write it, and without its Shia and Kurdish authors bothering to seek a vote approving the draft in the Iraqi National Assembly. So let's consider the two options facing Bush...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10185


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Foundation for Economic Education
by James Plummer

08/31/05

By the end of September virtually unaccountable bureaucrats inside the Department of Homeland Security will likely have decided whether the new de facto national ID card will broadcast your sensitive identification information wherever you go -- Minority Report style. This comes as a result of the REAL ID Act. REAL ID was signed into law in May. As a result of negotiations over the intelligence-reform bill passed last December, the law had been attached to the first 'must-pass' bill of 2005, which turned out to be 'emergency' spending for the Iraq war. Thus a vote against this national ID would have been spun as a vote 'against the troops' as well...

http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7149


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by David MacGregor

08/31/05

Can you REALLY leave the rat race -- quit the system? The answer is a resounding YES -- if you have enough motivation, determination and resilience...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/macgregor/macgregor3.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon

08/31/05

The men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is hampering the capacity of the National Guard to save lives at home. Before the flooding of New Orleans drastically escalated on Tuesday, the White House tried to disarm questions that could be politically explosive. 'To those of you who are concerned about whether or not we're prepared to help, don't be, we are,' President Bush said. 'We're in place, we've got equipment in place, supplies in place, and once the -- once we're able to assess the damage, we'll be able to move in and help those good folks in the affected areas.' Echoing the official assurances, CBS News reported: 'Even though more than a third of Mississippi's and Louisiana's National Guard troops are either in Iraq or supporting the war effort, the National Guard says there are more than enough at home to do the job.' But after New Orleans levees collapsed and the scope of the catastrophe became more clear, such reassuring claims lost credibility. ... Let's use the Internet today to forward and post this demand so widely that the politicians in Washington can no longer ignore it: Bring the National Guard home. Immediately...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0831-27.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

08/31/05

A little history is a dangerous thing, and George W. Bush has been sipping from its well all too skimpily. Last week, in an effort to put a positive spin on the breakdown of Iraq's constitutional assembly, the president noted that Federalist America went through a decade of turbulence before completing its own constitution -- a dreadful analogy, in part because the two situations are so radically different, but more because, if the comparison were apt, it would imply that Iraq will be a cauldron of blood and chaos for many decades to come. Now, President Bush is going further -- this time, gulping more than anyone should have to swallow -- likening the nature, scope, and stakes of America's battle in Iraq to those of World War II...

http://www.slate.com/id/2125344/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

International Society for Individual Liberty
by Jarret Wollstein
08/31/05

The federal government has quietly begun using an incredibly intrusive new census form called 'The American Community Survey.' Up to 1 million households a year will receive this form. This new 'census' form is 24-pages long, and demands that you lay bare every detail of your life, including how much you earn, what your home is worth, details of your health, when you leave for work, previous addresses, pregnancies, monies received from government, and on and on. I say demand because you can be fined up to $1,000 for each of the 72 questions you don’t answer or which you answer 'incorrectly.' However, so far no one has been fined for not answering, nor are they likely to be if public resistance is strong...

http://www.isil.org/towards-liberty/new-census.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Francisco Chronicle

08/31/05

Even though Cindy Sheehan is likely to leave Crawford, Texas, this morning without having accomplished her goal of meeting with President Bush, there's little doubt the Vacaville resident brought renewed energy and attention to the anti-war movement through her story of grief. But Sheehan's story became a phenomenon in part because she was surrounded by a press corps starving for stories outside Bush's ranch in the slow news days of August. The next test of the anti-war movement's revival -- and Bush's support for the war -- will come over the next couple of weeks. That's when three vanloads of Iraq war veterans and military parents, including others who have lost children in the war, will wend through the nation's politically red states to carry on the question that defined Camp Casey: For what cause did Sheehan's son Casey and other U.S. troops die in Iraq?

http://tinyurl.com/ca9sv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Cleveland Plain Dealer

08/31/05

Two Cuyahoga County elections officials were indicted Tuesday on charges of not handling ballots correctly during the recount of the 2004 presidential election. Kathleen Dreamer, manager of the board's ballot department, and the assistant manager, Rosie Grier, were each charged with six counts of failing to follow Ohio laws that spell out how ballots are selected and reviewed during a recount. ... The charges stem from a complaint first raised last December by Toledo lawyer Richard Kerger, who watched over the recount on behalf of two third-party candidates. ... [Prosecutor Kevin J.] Baxter would not offer details of his investigation but said he examined allegations that officials took 'measures in order to all but assure that there would not be a countywide hand count'...

http://tinyurl.com/cxbq9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Peter Hardie, TomPaine.com

Pat Robertson's bizarre attack on Hugo Chavez didn't surprise those who watched him cozy up to brutal dictators in Africa.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050901/christ_has_left_the_building.php

by Maud Schaafsma and Charlie Cray, TomPaine.com

In our post-Enron era, the Senate should raise questions about corporate corruption at John Roberts' confirmation hearings.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050901/courting_corruption.php

http://links.net-hh.de?lid=22580
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,372518,00.html

Click:

About Last Night
By Terry Teachout
artsjournal.com
September 1, 2005

http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/

Here's a list of bloggers who've been posting from/near/about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, current as of 12 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 1. As more bloggers are evacuated to safe locations, many sites that had previously been silent are starting to include new postings. Blogs marked with an asterisk have been updated at least once since noon on Wednesday:

Updates as They Come In on Katrina*
(WWL-TV's news blog, constantly updated, an essential source for bulletins from the only New Orleans TV station that has been able to stay on the air continuously throughout the crisis)
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

Josh Britton*
(an excellent source for news updates and LSU-related information)
http://joshbritton.com/

Black Cat Bone*
http://blackcatbone.blogspot.com/

DeadlyKatrina.com*
http://www.deadlykatrina.com/

Electric Mist*
(first-person blogging from Baton Rouge)
http://www.electricmist.net/

Everything and Nothing*
(blogging from Jackson, Miss., after a two-day storm-related hiatus)
http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/

Eyes on Katrina
(a newspaper blog from South Mississippi, silent since Tuesday because "communications to the Biloxi area are down, phone, e-mail, Internet")
http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/

Rex Hammock*
(blogging from Nashville)
http://www.rexblog.com/

Hurricane Harbor
(blogging from Miami)
http://hurricaneharbor.blogspot.com/

Hurricane Katrina*
(blogging from Baton Rouge)
http://www.hurricane-katrina.org/

Hurricane Katrina Help Wiki*
(a how-to-help info site)
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Insomnia*
(regularly updated excerpts from postings by New Orleans LiveJournal users)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/insomnia/599039.html

The Interdictor*
(more New Orleans LiveJournal entries)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/insomnia/599039.html

Katrinacane's Friends*
(still more New Orleans LiveJournal entries)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/katrinacane/friends

Kaye's Hurricane Katrina Blog*
(sporadic postings from Baton Rouge)
http://hurricaneupdate.blogspot.com/

Brendan Loy*
(one of the best sources for Katrina-related local newslinks and summaries)
http://www.brendanloy.com/

Michelle Malkin*
(an exceptionally wide-ranging source of links to Katrina-related stories)
http://www.michellemalkin.com/

Jeff Masters*
(a highly knowledgeable weatherblogger)
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.htm

Metroblogging New Orleans*
(a New Orleans-based group blog, though at least some participants have beenevacuated to other cities)
http://neworleans.metblogs.com/

One Hand Clapping*
(blogging from Tennessee)
http://www.donaldsensing.com/

Overtaken by Events*
http://overtaken.blogmosis.com/

paultwo*
(a Baton Rouge-based photoblog)
http://paul2.net/

Pitch & Green
http://james.nolablogs.org/

a small victory*
(blogging "good-news" stories from New Orleans)
http://www.asmallvictory.net/

Storm Digest*
(frequently updated)
http://www.stormdigest.com/


Informant: Martin Greenhut/NHNE

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Storm blogs offer Katrina insight
BBC News [UK]
08/31/05

The web has once again proved its worth as a news source as blogs offered a vivid description of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. As the storm carved a path through southern US, weblogs provided first-hand accounts of those affected. Mainstream media outlets in New Orleans found the web an invaluable asset as their offices were flooded. Web tracking firm Technorati reported that seven of the top 10 search terms were hurricane-related on Tuesday. According to internet measurement firm Keynote Systems, some websites were unable to cope with demand for Katrina-related news. Wikipedia, the user-generated net encyclopaedia, provided video coverage of the hurricane and regularly updated reports on the storms history and effects...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4200702.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Blogs from the Inside

The convention center is next to the Mississippi River. Many people who are sleeping there feel that a boat is going to come and get them. Or they think a bus is going to come. But no buses have come. No boats have come. They think water is going come. No water has come. And they have no food.

As we drove by, people screamed out to us -- "Do you have water? Do you have food? Do you have any information for us?"

We had none of those.

Probably the most disturbing thing is that people at the convention center are starting to pass away and there is simply nothing to do with their bodies. There is nowhere to put them. There is no one who can do anything with them. This is making everybody very, very upset.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/scene.blog/index.html


Informant: Anna Webb

For immediate release:
(please circulate world-wide)

PRESS RELEASE

Phone: +91-522-2638738: +91-522-2638606: +91-522-2637655 (Extn. - 224), Email: rajchandola@cmseducation.org
Contact :- RAJ SHEKHAR CHANDOLA Head, CMS -WUPED City Montessori School (CMS)

World Unity and Peace Education Department (WUPED)
12, Station Road, Lucknow 226001 INDIA

30,000 students in India demand a safe future for the world's children from UN World Leaders Summit

For more details visit:
http://www.cmseducation.org/newworldorder

Lucknow, 1st September:

On behalf of around 30,000 students of City Montessori School, Lucknow and world's two billion children about 7,000 students of CMS took out a grand World Unity March demanding the Heads of State and Government of various countries, who are going to participate in the 2nd Millennium Summit being held at New York, USA, from 14 to 16 September 2005, to take decisive steps for a New World Order that will ensure a safe future for the two billion children of the world as well as the succeeding generations. It may be recalled that the agenda of the UN World Summit including decisions pertaining to reform and democratization of the United Nations for making it more effective. The CMS students have appealed to all the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the World that the time has come to abolish veto powers in the world and establish the rule of law. They should lay the foundation of a World Government in which there is Rule of Law and not the Rule of powerful nations that enjoy veto powers. Only then can we save the world from destruction.

The World Unity March by CMS students began at Kailashpuri Chauraha and moved via the Hind Nagar crossing, LDA Colony, Kanpur Road ending at the CMS World Unity Convention Centre at CMS Kanpur Road Branch. The marching children held placards demanding a united and peaceful world. Other slogans demanded rule of law worldwide, abolishing of veto power system in the UNO, and enforceable international law. A delegation of six CMS students addressed the gathering of students and delivered the appeal to world leaders participating in the UN World Summit in September, asking them to ensure that children of the world and future generations inherit a safe and healthy ecology because it is the inter-generational responsibility of every generation to pass a safe and healthy ecology to the next generation. The children also appealed for enactment of enforceable international law by a duly constituted world law making body, banning all weapons of mass destruction — including nuclear, chemical and biological. They also demanded ecological conservation efforts aimed at halting global warming and ensuring sustainable development for all.

The Minister for Higher Education, U.P., Hon’ble Mr Ram Asrey Vishwakarma and the Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University, Mr R. P. Singh inspired and encouraged the students at the World Unity March which was led by 300 girls of CMS Degree College, Lucknow. At CMS Degree College, Kanpur Road, the World Unity March converted into a large assembly of students in which some students presented their views on world unity and appealed to the World Leaders for a New World Order. Shri Ram Asrey Vishwakarma, Minister for Higher Education U.P. Govt. highly appreciated the value based Quality Education of CMS and the global exposure that is being given to its students making them sensitive to the problems of mankind.

Speaking on the occasion, Pallavi Srivastava of CMS Gomtinagar Branch said that the agenda for the UN Summit being held from 14 to 16 September 2005 included reforming the UN, as per the recommendations of Dr Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, who had sent his recommendations for UN reform titled "In Larger Freedom" to all heads of state and government.

Nupur Singh of CMS Gomtinagar Branch pointed out that when the UNO was established sixty years ago, there was just one country with a few nuclear bombs, the USA. Today, the USA has about 12,070 nuclear warheads while Russia has 22,500; France has 500; China has 450; UK has 380; India has 65 and Pakistan has 25 nuclear bombs. Together these seven countries have nearly 36,000 nuclear warheads while about eighty countries are said to possess deadly chemical and biological weapons.

Aparna Bajpai of CMS Mahanagar (NB) Branch said that in a historic judgement dated July 8th 1996, the International Court of Justice declared the use, or even the threat of use, of nuclear weapons - no matter what the circumstance-would be "contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict". Unfortunately, the decisions of the International Court of Justice have no legal enforceability and thus the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons continues to grow, threatening the very survival of life on planet earth.

Rahul Siddharth of CMS Mahanagar (3rd Building) Branch emphasized that if we have to save humankind from the impending catastrophes of a nuclear holocaust or eco-disaster and from the vicious threat of international terrorism, humanity has to find a common thread for binding all the countries of the world into one global family.

Divyansh Verma of CMS Mahanagar (3rd Building) Branch urged all heads of state and government to accept recommendations of Dr Kofi Annan and to ensure the UN Summit takes a positive decision on reforming the United Nations. He also recalled that Dr Kofi Annan has been repeatedly emphasizing for the last two years that no meaningful reform of the UN is possible without reforming the Security Council and therefore urged abolition of the highly discriminatory veto power system in the Security Council.

Shubhi Kamal of CMS Rajajipuram Branch demanded inclusion of a distinct and separate "Right to a Safe Future" in the "UN Declaration of Rights of the Child" as this would be a strong recognition of the right of world's children to inherit a safe and healthy ecology and could serve as a basis for banning all weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and biological, since these are a threat to ecology and thus violate the right of generations yet unborn to inherit a safe and healthy ecology.

Renowned educationist and Founder-Manager of CMS, who has lit the whole world with the flame of World Unity, Mr Jagdish Gandhi, said that CMS has been running a campaign since 1999 asking the UN and world leaders to form a democratic World Government because the world’s problems can no longer be solved by national governments; what we need is World Government. For his campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and ban nuclear testing to ensure safe, healthy ecology for world's children and promotion of his novel concept that "Enforceable International Law is the idea whose time has come", Mr Gandhi has been hailed as a champion for the cause of world's children and regarded as a visionary like Victor Hugo who once said "There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world and that is an idea whose time has come". The world leaders have written to Mr Gandhi stating that his demand for "Enforceable International Law" is "highly appropriate" and "timely", and "deserves widespread support".

This CMS campaign has received support from numerous heads of state, heads of government, chief justices and eminent leaders from all over the world. All these messages of support can be read by anyone on the school’s website at

http://www.cmseducation.org/article51/supporters.htm

(Raj Shekhar Chandola) Head CMS World Unity and Peace Education Department (WUPED)

rajchandola@cmseducation.org

http://www.cmseducation.org/wuped


Informant: Martin Greenhut

(lo/31.8.2005-22:40) Lindlar – Der Bau- und Planungsausschuss der Gemeinde hat auf seiner gestrigen Sitzung die Mobilfunkleitlinien verabschiedet.

Damit hat die Mobilfunk-Bürgerinitiative nach zähem Ringen einen großen Erfolg erreicht, der allerdings auch durch das seit dem Wechsel des Bürgermeisters in Politik und Verwaltung entspannterem Verhältnis zu der Thematik erleichtert wurde.

Ohne die Antennen geht es nicht, aber mithilfe dieser Leitlinien soll zumindest vermieden werden, dass die Sendemasten dort stehen, wo sich im Alltag viele Menschen befinden. In Zusammenarbeit mit Gutachter Dr. Peter Nießen wurden die „Leitlinien zur Realisierung einer abgestimmten Standortplanung und Mobilfunknetzentwicklung“ erstellt:

• Die flächendeckende Mobilfunkversorgung des Gemeindegebietes soll auf eine hinreichende Versorgungsqualität oberirdischer Bereiche beschränkt werden. Zur Minimierung der Strahlenbelastung wird seitens der Gemeinde Lindlar auf eine qualitativ hochwertige Mobilfunkversorgung von unterirdischen Räumen, wie Tiefgaragen und Keller sowie von Häusern mit metallischen Fassaden verzichtet.

• Es sollen möglichst Standorte gewählt werden, die das jeweilige Versorgungsgebiet von außen und von oben herab versorgen.

• Innerstädtisch soll die gemeinsame Nutzung von Mobilfunkmasten durch mehrere Netzbetreiber zur Vermeidung einer konzentrierten Strahlenbelastung möglichst unterbleiben.

• Veränderungen an bestehenden Sendeanlagen (wie die Erhöhung der Sendeleistung, Veränderungen der Sektoren) sind mit der Gemeinde abzustimmen.

• Bei der Planung und Errichtung neuer Mobilfunkstandorte ist darauf hinzuwirken, dass sich die Anlagen städtebaulich und landschaftlich integrieren und dass der jeweils neueste Stand der Technik bezüglich strahlungsarmer Mobilfunktechniken zur Anwendung kommt.

• Die Netzbetreiber sollen die Gemeinde möglichst frühzeitig über geplante Netzerweiterungen oder Ausbaumaßnahmen informieren, bevor Verträge für Standorte unterschrieben werden. Im Gegenzug ist sie bei der Standortsuche behilflich.

• Zur Durchsetzung der Schutzziele wird die Verwaltung unter anderem einen Appell über die örtliche Presse sowie die Homepage der Gemeinde Lindlar an die Bevölkerung richten, worin darum gebeten wird, dass die Bürger die Verwaltung vor Unterzeichnung von Miet- und Kaufverträgen mit den Netzbetreibern informieren.

• Die Gemeinde Lindlar stellt den Netzbetreibern in Aussicht, dass sie ihr Einvernehmen gem. § 36 BauGB zur Aufstellung baurechtlich genehmigungsfähiger Mobilfunksendeanlagen erteilt und die Standortverwirklichung unterstützt, wenn diese Leitlinien eingehalten werden.

Auf die Angabe von Grenzwerten wurde gänzlich verzichtet. „Dies führt voraussichtlich zu einer Erhöhung der Akzeptanz bei den Mobilfunknetzbetreibern“, heißt es in der Sitzungsvorlage. Zudem beabsichtigt die Verwaltung, Nießen - erklärter Favorit der Bürgerinitiative bei der Sachverständigen-Suche – unter anderem mit der Begutachtung des Standortes am Bauhof als Alternative zum ursprünglich von Vodaphone geplanten Masten in „Zur Heide 17“ sowie den ewigen Zankapfel Rheinstraße 6 zu beauftragen. In diesen Fall kommt jetzt übrigens Bewegung. Nachdem der Ausschuss erneut das Einvernehmen über die Bauantrag der E-Plus-Anlage verweigerte, wird dieses nun wohl vom Kreis als Bauaufsichtsbehörde ersetzt.

http://www.oberberg-aktuell.de/show-article.php?iRubrikID=2&iArticleID=46779


Diese Meldung aus Oberberg-Aktuell wurde Ihnen von Gertrud Schnepper gesandt.

http://russlandonline.ru/rupol0010/morenews.php?iditem=7922


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim



Jeder Mobilfunkvertrag läuft vor der Freischaltung nach Pullach.. um dort registriert etc. zu werden!

Seit langem!


Bernd Schreiner

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&props=livenoad

Pass on!

Website:
http://www.wwltv.com/


Informant: beefree

Liebe Nichtwählerinnen und Nichtwähler,

damit Ihre Stimme nicht ungehört bleibt, bieten wir Ihnen an, sich an der Aktion Wahlstreik! - Für das Recht auf bundesweite Volksabstimmung! zu beteiligen. Dazu sollten Sie:

1. Ihre Wahlbenachrichtigung an den OMNIBUS FÜR DIREKTE DEMOKRATIE schicken (Adresse siehe unten).

2. Diesen Brief an diejenigen Menschen weiterleiten, bei denen Sie vermuten, daß die Aktion Wahlstreik! auf fruchtbaren Boden fällt.

(Wenn Sie vielleicht doch wählen wollen, können Sie sich unter http://www.kandidatenwatch.de informieren, wie die Kandidaten Ihres Wahlkreises zur Volksabstimmung stehen)


OMNIBUS FÜR DIREKTE DEMOKRATIE
Haus der Demokratie
Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin

Für weitere Informationen: Tel. 030 - 42 80 43 90,
Fax 030 - 42 80 21 90, info@aktion-wahlstreik.de http://www.aktion-wahlstreik.de

Produktion von Parias

Bericht aus den Eingeweiden der Arbeitsagentur von Gabriele Goettle in der taz vom 29.8.2005 http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/08/29/a0180.nf/text

Aus dem Text: „Frau K. ist Beamtin, Anf. 60, und arbeitet in einer Arbeitsagentur in einem der alten Bundesländer. Sie möchte aus nahe liegenden Gründen hier anonym bleiben. "Sie haben angedeutet, dass Sie zahllose schlechte Erfahrungen seit der Einführung von Hartz IV gemacht haben?" Frau K. sagt heftig: "Nein, ich mache nicht zahllose, ich mache vor allem eine grundsätzliche, hässliche Erfahrung, und das ist die der Würdelosigkeit. Die ist quasi schon per Gesetz so angelegt und zusätzlich wird sie dann noch durch schlecht qualifizierte Kollegen verschärft. Dem Arbeitslosen ist seine Würde aberkannt worden… (…) Ein Hardliner in der Behörde, der kann diesen Übergangszustand nutzen für Härte und Strenge und zum Vorführen der Kunden - wir nennen die Arbeitslosen nämlich Kunden. Die wohlmeinenden unter den Kollegen können, in aller Stille, die gesetzlichen Vorschriften im Sinne des Kunden auslegen. Die Machtbefugnis ist erschreckend groß. Also der Punkt ist, und das muss man einfach sagen, der Charakter eines Mitarbeiters entscheidet unter Umständen über Leben und Tod, er kann einen Suizid auslösen. Er kann jemanden depressiv machen oder einen potenziellen Gewalttäter durch Demütigungen zu einer tickenden Zeitbombe machen. Er hat die Macht, Schicksale zu erzeugen. (…) Nein, das ist staatlich verordnetes Vegetieren, jenseits vom normalen - noch normalen - gesellschaftlichen Leben. Was dabei herauskommt, ist die Produktion von Parias. Das ist dem Mittelstand und den gebildeten Schichten immer noch nicht klar, dass die Maßnahmen auch sie erfassen können, deshalb wundert mich eigentlich die Ruhe im Lande. (…) Das eigentliche Unternehmensziel ist der Selbsterhalt der Behörde - wie überall - wenn möglich, die Vergrößerung der Behörde durch bürokratische Mastkuren. Denn eigentlich macht sie primär eins: Sie macht Statistik. Ihr Auftrag ist, eine positive Statistik zu produzieren. Und so wird sie ganz automatisch zu einer Maschinerie des Betrugs und Selbstbetrugs. Mit einem riesigen Apparat an Personal, Material, Geld, Gebäuden, Kunden, Fragebögen, Akten kümmern wir uns energisch um die Verbesserung der Arbeitslosenstatistik….“


Aus: LabourNet, 1. September 2005

Beitrag von Armin Kammrad vom 30.08.2005 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/adfachkonzept.pdf

Aus dem Text: „…So erhielt ich nun eine „Antwort“ des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit auf meine Kritik am sog. „Fallmanagement“ der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Wer regelmäßig die Homepage von LabourNet aufruft, wird sich vielleicht noch daran erinnern, dass dort Reiner Göckler vom Zentralbereich S / S21 der Bundesagentur für Arbeit das Fallmanagement der BA gegenüber Kritiken, wie der von Antonin Dick, zu verteidigen versuchte. Das Bundesministerium ist hier ehrlicher. Dies zeigt dessen Antwort auf meine Kritik am Fallmanagement, die ich auch deshalb hier veröffentlichen will. Auf nur knapp zwei Seiten fast dort das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit sein Konzept von sozialer Politik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Fallmanagement der BA zusammen….“

Siehe dazu die Petition von Armin Kammrad vom 22.5.05 zur Ermittlung des sozialen Umfeld von Langzeitarbeitslosen an den Petitionsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags.
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/zwang/fachkonzept-pet.html


Aus: LabourNet, 1. September 2005

1. September 2005: Antikriegstag
Frieden als historisches Vermächtnis - Krieg ist keine Alternative

Dokumentiert: Pressemitteilungen zum Antikriegstag (1. September 2005) aus der Friedensbewegung und vom DGB (30. August 2005) beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag

http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/1sept05-baf2.html

Kapitalismus pur

Zwei Seiten einer Medaille: Militärische Aufrüstung und soziale Abrüstung. Acht Thesen zum Antikriegs- und Weltfriedenstag 2005 von Johannes M. Becker, Koordinator des Zentrums für Konfliktforschung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg in junge Welt vom 01.09.2005 http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/09-01/011.php

Terminübersicht "Antikriegstag 2005" beim Netzwerk Friedenskooperative

http://www.friedenskooperative.de/akt05ter.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 1. September 2005

Jugendaufruf zur Wahl - http://www.jugend-waehlt-links.de

Steigende Kinderarmut, extreme Jugendarbeitslosigkeit, Lernfabriken statt Bildung - dies ist die Bilanz Rot-Grüner Jugendpolitik. Der Zustand von KiTas, Schulen und Unis wird vieler Orts immer schlechter, Zehntausende Jugendlichen finden keinen Ausbildungsplatz, Studiengebühren stehen ins Haus. Die herrschende Elite aus Wirtschaft und Politik erklärt uns, dass für soziale Bedürfnisse kein Geld vorhanden ist und dass es angeblich zu der Politik des Sozialabbaus keine Alternative gäbe. Doch gleichzeitig sehen und spüren wir, wie die Reichen immer reicher und die Steuern für große Unternehmen und hohe Einkommen immer weiter gesenkt werden, während immer mehr Menschen erwerbslos sind und der Zugang zum gesellschaftlichen Reichtum verwehrt bleibt. Auch die Union und die FDP bieten keine Alternativen. Sie wollen den Sozialabbau nur noch schneller und stärker vorantreiben.

Eine Alternative ist möglich und nötig.

Die Herausbildung einer neuen Linken hat in den letzten Wochen eine große Dynamik entfaltet. WASG, PDS und viele Menschen aus den sozialen Bewegungen haben sich zusammengefunden um sich dem neoliberalem Einheitsbrei entgegen zu stellen. Dies bringt auch für uns als Jugendliche mit und ohne Arbeitplatz, als Azubis, SchülerInnen und Studierende eine grundlegende Veränderung der politischen Situation mit sich.

Der Einzug einer starken linken Fraktion in den Bundestag eröffnet neue Perspektiven um der Entsolidarisierung der Gesellschaft entgegen zu treten. Doch wir wissen auch, dass die notwendigen tief greifenden Veränderungen nicht alleine im Parlament durchgesetzt werden können. Dazu brauchen wir eine breite und starke soziale Bewegung in den Betrieben, in den Schulen und Unis, von den Erwerbslosen und auf der Straße. Dabei wollen wir als junge Menschen tatkräftig dabei sein, mithelfen und mitgestalten - es geht um uns und unsere Zukunft!

Wir kämpfen ...

Wir streiten um eine gerechte Verteilung von Reichtum und Arbeit, um kostenfreie Bildung und Ausbildung für alle und um mehr Mitbestimmung und Demokratie statt Bevormundung durch die wirtschaftlichen und politischen Eliten. Wir stehen auf gegen die Ausbeutung unserer Umwelt, gegen Krieg und Rassismus und gegen Faschisten und ihre Jugendkultur.

Für einen grundlegenden Politikwechsel brauchen wir in und außerhalb des Parlaments eine starke linke Opposition, damit die Interessen der Menschen - von jung bis alt - mehr zählen als die von Wohlhabenden und Großkonzernen, damit die Menschen bestimmen und nicht das Kapital.

Der Jugend gehört die Zukunft.

Darum rufen wir auf bei der Bundestagswahl 2005 DIE LINKE. zu wählen!

Online unterstützen: http://www.jugend-waehlt-links.de oder E-Mail an: joergschindler@web.de


Erstunterzeichnerinnen und Erstunterzeichner:

Matthias Bärwolff, MdL Thüringen Die Linke. PDS Sebastian Beining, Mitglied im Landesvorstand Die Linke. PDS Saarland Ringo Bischoff, Gewerkschaftssekretär bei ver.di Marcel Bois, Stipendiat der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Fabian Blunck, Mitglied Beauftragtenrat PDS-Jugend Sachsen Johannes Buchner, Mitglied im Vorstand von European Network of Democratic Young Left (ENDYL) Alexandre da Silva, Jugendbildungsreferent DGB-Jugend Frankfurt/M. Sven Dehmlow, Attac Hamburg Sophie Dieckmann, attac-Projektgruppe Agenda 2010 Nathalie Dreibus, IG-Metall Ortsjugendausschuss Frankfurt/M. Frederico Elwing, Bundessprecher solid - die sozialistische Jugend Fabian Engler, DGB-Jugendrat Frankfurt Diana Golze, Stellv. Landesvorsitzende Die Linke.PDS Brandenburg, Direktkandidatin im WK 60 Andreas Günther, Mitglied im Landesvorstand Die Linke.PDS Berlin, Kandidat Platz 8 der Landesliste Die Linke.PDS Berlin Nele Jäger, Bundesvorstand JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke Enno Janssen, GEW Hamburg Christian Klinck, ehem. Mitglied Juso-Landesvorstand Berlin, ehem. Landeskoordinator Juso-Hochschulgruppen Mara Künkel, Mitglied Bundeskoordinierungsausschuss Bündnis linker und radikaldemokratischer Hochschulgruppen Tim Laumeyer, antifaschistische linke berlin (alb) Kay Lejcko, Beisitzer im WASG Kreisvorstand Bergstraße Konstantin Löbbert, solid - die sozialistische Jugend Länderrat, Bezirksvertreter Dortmund Uwe Lorenz, attac Campus HU Berlin Damian Ludewig, Bundesjugendsprecher der Naturschutzjugend im NABU, WASG Kolja Möller, Mitglied im DGB Landesjugendvorstand Hessen Adrian Pietsch, Direktkandidat der Linkspartei im WK 193 Jens Prietzel, Jugendsekretär IG Metall Berlin Vadim Reimer, Landessprecher solid - die sozialistische Jugend Baden- Württemberg Marko Röhrig, Jugendpolitischer Sprecher im WASG-Landesvorstand NRW Jörg Schindler, Mitglied attac-Rat Sebastian Schlüsselburg, Bundesschatzmeister Bündnis linker und radikaldemokratischer Hochschulgruppen (LiRa) Lucia Schnell, Linksruck Berlin Mark Seibert, Vorsitzender PDS-Jugend Berlin/Brandenburg Holm-Andreas Sieradzki, Mitglied im geschäftsführenden Landesjugendbezirksvorstand ver.di Sachsen, Die Linke. PDS Dirk Spöri, Landesvorstand WASG Baden-Württemberg Haimo Stiemer, solid - die sozialistische Jugend Berlin Jens Uhlig, Ansprechpartner ver.di-Jugend Sachsen Floran Wilde, Direktkandidat Die Linke. PDS Hamburg-Eimsbüttel Luigi Wolf, Landesvorstand WASG Berlin

The scientific record shows that hurricanes come in cycles and scientists say you can't tell whether a particular hurricane is the result of global warming, although higher temperatures are a definite cause of more intense and violent storms.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105I.shtml

Think about it: the Constitution presented the day before yesterday will make Iraq a state far more Islamist than any contemplated at the outset of the war against Saddam Hussein's regime, and now here's al-Sadr who wants it to be even more so.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105H.shtml

Is the biggest threat Iran poses to the United States really its nuclear ambitions - or is it petropolitics? The Iranian government's plans to create an oil exchange fit into a strategy of weakening US economic hegemony.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105D.shtml

Cindy Sheehan who has led an anti-war protest for nearly a month near President Bush's ranch said Tuesday that she's glad Bush never showed up to discuss her son's death in Iraq, saying the president's absence "galvanized the peace movement."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105C.shtml



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

Norman Solomon argues that the men and women of the National Guard shouldn't be killing in Iraq. They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105B.shtml

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Tell 'em to bring the Nat'l Guard home!

president@whitehouse.gov

Find members of Congress, State and Local officials here http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/


Sent by Care2 Connect member: Christine T.

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IS IT TIME TO BRING THE NATIONAL GUARD HOME FROM IRAQ?

After 5 years of laughing off or suppressing sound policy advice, the criminal neglect of our REAL homeland security by the Bush administration has now resulted in the total loss of a major American city. And where is our National Guard and all their equipment that are supposed to be here to protect and save us? They are being ground up in the sand half a planet away for absolutely nothing but the arrogant, uncaring and obstinate pride of our chief executive, who is mentally incapable of admitting or correcting any mistake ever. We must DEMAND that our National Guard come home now.

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

The form above will send your personal message to all your members of Congress, and now you can send a letter also to the editor of your nearest daily newspaper at the SAME time, all with one click. Our troops in Iraq need to come home immediately. Not a year from now, not a month from now, NOW now. Is there not a SINGLE politician with the courage to stand up and speak the truth. When enough of US speak up it will happen. We must take PERSONAL responsibility for our government and what it does. Why are you not clicking on the action form below right now?

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

Is it the destiny of our country to be utterly destroyed in pursuit of vain foreign conquests, as was Rome so many centuries ago, to where they could no longer protect their own homeland? Is that what is meant by the words "finish the job"? What insanity misled us to this terrible PREVENTABLE tragedy, where pleas for critically needed levee repairs were ignored to finance war profits and tax cuts for this administration's personal cronies. They can't even recruit for the National Guard anymore because it's nothing but a ticket straight to a desert hellhole. Bring the guard home now.

http://www.usalone.net/nationalguard.htm

Please take action NOW! Forward this information to everyone you know, and encourage its posting on blogs and websites.

Omega auf unsere Anfrage erhielten wir folgende Mitteilung:

Bzgl. des Appells liegen mir die folgenden Zahlen vor:

36.990 Unterschriften aus dem In- und Ausland, davon mehr als 1.000 Ärzte. Diese Zahl stammt von Fr. Stöcker, die die Unterschriftenlisten der WHO übergeben hat.

Erik Petersen, IGUMED-Geschäftsstelle, Fedelhören 88, 28203 Bremen, tel 0421/498 42 51, fax 0421/498 42 52, http://www.igumed.de

Omega siehe hierzu auch „Freiburger Appell“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/943294/

Internationale Petition, die die Entlassung von Dr. Mike Repacholi fordert, an WHO übersandt http://omega.twoday.net/stories/975841/

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Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO

Die Zeitschrift "Umwelt, Medizin, Gesellschaft" informiert in der Ausgabe 4/2005 über die Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO. Nach Angaben der Initiatoren konnten ca. 36.000 Unterschriften aus ganz Europa, vor allem aber aus der Bundesrepublik, gesammelt werden.

Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.umg-verlag.de/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 17.11.2005

Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.


Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO

Auf Initiative von Ärztinnen und Ärzten aus dem Umfeld der IGUMED wurde im Oktober 2002 der Freiburger Appell formuliert. Bis jetzt konnten ca. 36.000 Unterschriften aus ganz Europa, vor allem aber aus der Bundesrepublik, gesammelt werden.

Nachdem das Bundesumweltministerium bis zu letzt die Entgegennahme verweigerte, wurden die Listen jetzt der WHO übergeben.

Der Freiburger Appell vom Oktober 2002 stieß auf enormen Zuspruch. Das hese-project (human, ecologic, social and economic-project) und die IGUMED e.V. (Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin) organisierten und koordinierten diese bei vielen anerkannte und kritische Arbeit sehr vieler Bürgerinitiativen in Deutschland. Die Grundlagen für diese Arbeit kamen vor allem aus dem europäischen Ausland, die Salzburger und Wiener Erkenntnisse, aber auch Fakten aus Frankreich, Spanien und Israel. Es folgte im Jahre 2003 die Freiburger Erklärung, die Kasseler Petition, die Studie von Naila und im Februar 2005 der Bamberger Appell.

Die Umweltärzte wollten mit diesem Engagement auf die Sorgen und Ängste hinweisen, die sie in den Praxen für Umweltbelastete und Geschädigte beobachten konnten. Ohne eine umweltbewusste Einstellung sind chronischen Schäden und Belastungen im Frühstadium weder zu erkennen noch zu behandeln. Deshalb hatte sich die IGUMED aus Mangel an Erkenntnissen bezüglich der Effekte durch pulsierende, hochfrequente Strahlungen um dieses Thema gekümmert und zahlreiche Fälle gesammelt, bei denen ein Zusammenhang zwischen gesundheitlichen Störungen sowie Krankheiten und Mobilfunk, inklusive DECT-Telefone aufgedeckt wurde.

Eine Reihe von Symptomen und Beschwerden, die in einem Zusammenhang mit einer Exposition standen, konnten gefunden werden. Gleichzeitig haben viele Studien gezeigt, dass es Auswirkungen auf biologische Systeme (Zellen, Zellverbände, Nervengewebe und Blutzellen) und Nervenverbindungen gibt.

Lediglich aufgrund der Tatsache, dass kein akzeptiertes wissenschaftliches Modell existiert, wird ein schädigender Effekt von Mobilfunk oder DECT-Telefonen bzw. WLAN-Frequenzen von wissenschaftlichen und politischen Gremien systematisch verneint. Leider gibt es kaum unabhängige Forscher, die plausible Hinweise in wissenschaftliche Studiendesigns umsetzen können. Entweder fehlt es an finanziellen Ressourcen oder die Arbeitsgruppen sind zu klein oder es finden sich zu viele Einflussfaktoren, die ein eindeutiges Ergebnis unmöglich machen.

Der Freiburger Appell hat in den vergangenen Jahren insbesondere die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen aus ärztlicher Sicht sowie den Vorsorgeaspekt in den Vordergrund gerückt. An der Unterschriftenaktion zum Freiburger Appell konnte auch die Bundesregierung nicht vorbeigehen, jedenfalls wurde anlässlich der 2. Fachkonferenz des BfS (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz) 2003 in Berlin die Ärzteunterschriften an die Staatssekretärin im Bundesforschungsministerium Simone Probst übergeben. Das Bundesumweltministerium hatte sich allerdings bis zuletzt einer Übergabe der Unterschriften verweigert. So wurde jetzt die Gelegenheit genutzt, der WHO die Listen im Rahmen eines Workshops des International EMF Projects im Juni zu übergeben. Der Leiter der Abteilung EMF Dr. Repacholi nahm die Listen von Frau Dr. Selsam-Waldmann (Bamberg) entgegen. Die Initiative ging hierbei von der Vorsitzenden des Bundesverbandes der Elektrosensiblen Frau Dr. Stöcker aus.

Bei dieser Gelegenheit zeigte der Generaldirektor des Gesundheits- und Verbraucherschutzes der EU-Kommission P. Martin für diese Erkenntnisse und Annahmen der engagierten Ärzte wohlwollendes Interesse.

Auch wenn es in den vergangenen Jahren beim Thema EMF in Umweltverbänden und Bürgerinitiativen sehr viele kontroverse Debatten und Frustrationen gegeben hat, so war unserer Ansicht nach der Freiburger Appell für die öffentliche Diskussion wertvoll und hat für die meisten Menschen Denkanstöße auch in Bezug auf andere umweltrelevante Themen wie Gentechnik und Feinstäube bewirkt.

Kontakt:
Dr. Peter Germann
Köhlerstr.14
67549 Worms
Tel.:06241/58437
Fax : 06241/593844
dr.peter.germann@t-online.de

http://www.umg-verlag.de/umwelt-medizin-gesellschaft/405_mag1.html

Unterschriftenlisten des Freiburger Appells an WHO übergeben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/943328/

Unterschriften zum Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/763391/

"Freiburger Appell" für weniger Strahlenbelastung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630983/

Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630978/

"Freiburger Appell" - Umweltmediziner fordern Senkung der Grenzwerte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/351487/

Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/261421/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/229299/

Ärzteappelle gegen ungezügelten Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Mobilfunk – ein Massenexperiment am Menschen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/176116/

http://www.rense.com/general67/someth.htm

Nearly seven years after extensive "lay downs" of lingering and spreading white plumes were first reported smearing skies over across North America, Europe is in an uproar and Washington could be close to coming clean about chemtrails.

Full story: http://www.rense.com/general67/someth.htm


Chemtrails Coming Out Of The Closet?
By William Thomas
8-31-5


Nearly seven years after extensive "lay downs" of lingering and spreading white plumes were first reported smearing skies over across North America, Europe is in an uproar and Washington could be close to coming clean about chemtrails.

At least the Bush White house will soon have a legitimate weather control agency to finally "launder" one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated.

Introduced in the US Senate on March 1, 2005, Bill S517 calls for a US "Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board" to officially commence operations in October 2005. When passed as expected, this law will make large-scale chemical alteration of the atmosphere legal across a formerly free and beautiful land called America.

It's already happening. Less than two weeks before the bill was introduced, Linda wrote from "up here in the mountains of northeast Georgia" of the worst spray day she had ever seen. "Not one day in the past two months have we had a blue sky with normal clouds," Linda wrote. Even normal clouds "are 'laced' with whatever the hell is coming out of those white planes that have no engine sounds, even when they fly low enough to see there is no printing anywhere on the planes."

Several years ago the US Air Force stated that it was repainting its silver aircraft white, and retrofitting its jet tanker fleet with "hush kits" to silence their engines.

DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE WEATHER

Whatever fresh environmental disaster Bill S517 accomplishes, this bill will ease the way for admission of a project suspected by many and confirmed by air traffic controllers at America's biggest airports. When and if the US public demands that their government "do something" about the extreme weather pummeling their neighborhoods, Washington will be able to officially reply, "We are."

Intended to "develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy," the board is tasked with coordinating state and federal weather modification efforts. It's direct mandate is stepped-up research and development aimed at developing experimental "models, devices, equipment, materials, and processes" to change or control, "by artificial methods" the development of clouds and/or precipitation in the troposphere. This weather-forming region of the atmosphere lies between Earth's surface and the stratosphere, starting around 35,000 feet.

The federal weather modifiers will now directly oversee the cloud-seeding operations currently being carried out over dozens of states to increase rain and snowfall for irrigation, electrical power and winter recreation purposes. As droughts intensify under an onslaught of moisture-absorbing chemicals dispensed behind ozone-destroying jet tankers, and future towns wash away in sudden flash floods triggered by rain-inducing atmospheric tinkering, these unnatural disasters and other "inadvertent" effects of weather modification will be closely "studied" by the newly created board.

But no studies have been released on the implications of wide-scale alteration of regional atmospheric heat balances.

Large-scale weather modification is banned under the United Nations Environmental Modification Convention signed by Washington in 1970.

CHEMTRAILS 2005

Meanwhile, recent heavy "Chemtrail" spraying over Portland, Oregon and Canada's west coast has eased off once again. Another long-time Chemtrail "hot zone", Santa Cruz, California continues reporting clear blue skies unmarked by the chemplanes' ugly scrawl.

As recently as May 2005, a Swiss resident sent photographs to Meria Heller's website, reporting: "Today was one of the heaviest Spraying in Switzerland ever."

CHEMTRAILS CLOSE-UP

Some Canadians also have their eyes wide open. in June 2005, large graffiti spray-painted on a major overpass in West Vancouver advised motorists: WAKE UP, LOOK UP, CHEMTRAILS ARE EVERYWHERE.

AIR FORCE INSIDER DESCRIBES WEATHER MOD MISSIONS

An active duty air force crew chief has described environmental combat missions already being flown by specially-outfitted C-130 Hercules transports, which can be reloaded, refueled and relaunched in just 10 minutes to continue their assault on violent storms afflicting US communities. Flown by regular air force pilots, these "science flights" include onboard meteorologists, who painstakingly log the results of each mission.

Big storm fronts and hurricanes require a vast amount of absorbent chemicals to reduce their destructive power. To achieve the fast turn-around times needed to complete their missions, flights of returning C-130s taxi to a stop and immediately commence refueling as the empty onboard spray canister is removed. as soon as the empty canister is clear of the aircraft, a waiting truck wheels a semi-trailer-size container of sky-seeding chemicals to the plane's lowered rear ramp, where it is slid inside on rails like a gigantic "soda dispenser".

The crew chief added that other spray missions spread (barium) chemtrails to facilitate 3D radar mapping of the entire continental United States. He also said that the air force has been spraying storm fronts "for a long time". The military's main interest, he added, is experimentation aimed at gaining control of the weather for military use.

Did the air force spray this year's first Caribbean hurricane, in which the western quadrant disintegrated just before making its Texas landfall? "There's no reason they wouldn't," the crew chief replied.

But C-130 turboprops would not necessarily be used to try to influence hurricanes that typically release more energy than all atomic arsenals combined. Referring to the 757s recently modified for aerial spraying, the crew chief told willthomas.net, "We've got them, but I can't talk about them."

He added that many people in the air force "are aware of William Thomas" and his reporting on chemtrails. The crew chief confirmed that this reporter "has it mostly right" concerning the application and purposes behind chemtrails. But would not elaborate on my reporting.

EUROPEAN CHEMTRAIL UPROAR

Meanwhile, the chemtrails controversy has taken Europe by storm following a series of articles by Swiss freelance journalist Gabriel Stetter in the German popular science magazine Raum+Zeit (Space and Time), circulation circa 50,000.

Stetter's first article, "White Skies" created a public relations nightmare for Greenpeace when it informed readers in January 2004 how "Thousands of people were thoroughly shocked when they realised, and were informed by Greenpeace in Germany, Switzerland and Austria that-for some reason or other-Greenpeace has no interest in the Chemtrail question whatsoever."

The Swiss government also came under public pressure to explain the checkerboards being painted in its skies. On March 5, 2004 the Environment Department in Berne, Switzerland responded to an inquiry by Rudolf Rechsteiner, Social Democratic member of parliament, admitting that "A number of ideas exist that show how it would be possible to reduce global warming by technical means, at least in the short term."

But these ideas, the government office hastened to add, "are no more than theoretical. We are not aware of any practical application of these methods, either at home or abroad."

Ten days later, Greenpeace Switzerland climate and transport expert Cyrill Studer wrote an internal memo assuring colleagues that while he had "heard of the chemtrails phenomenon," for the present, Greenpeace "will not be following up the theme of chemtrails."

Two reasons for inaction by Greenpeace climate change activists were given. First, Studer explained, "There is not a sufficiently solid scientific basis" for Greenpeace to risk its budget and reputation verifying this "supposed phenomenon". To do so, he added in his memo to Greenpeace staff, "would overstretch our capacities.Important elements of our climate campaign would suffer, particularly the promotion of energy efficiency and of renewable energies, or our active influence in present-day politics."

Outside Greenpeace's corporate offices, the controversy continued. On June 11 German Greenpeace spokeswoman Kristine Läger told concerned constituents:

The idea of reducing global warming by putting chemicals in the atmosphere has been around a long time. There are various proposals in this direction, suggesting the chemicals should be independently sprayed and that they should be mixed with the fuel of ordinary passenger aircraft. Whether in Germany such proposals have reached the point of actual realization is highly questionable. So far as we are aware there are no indications from research and observation of weather and climate that these so-called chemtrails exist. Nor are we aware of any project that has been realized in practice.. in all probability this is not happening.

But Gabriel Stetter believes that the Greenpeace "Rainbow Warriors" know all about the rainbows in the sky. They probably also know of geoengineering studies to reduce incoming sunlight and slow global warming issued by the National Academy of Sciences. "And they may even have taken a look at the Welsbach Patent," he writes. "But they have no idea what conclusions to draw from the chessboard pattern suspended in the Hamburg sky or the aluminium-enriched 'rainbows'.

"Supposing the word 'chemtrails' appeared in print in the Greenpeace Magazine," Stetter speculates. "How many tens of thousands of people more would look up into the sky and recognize that the supposedly Utopian "proposal" has long moved on via "spraying trials" to a systematic, long-term spreading of cloud cover over the whole of Europe?"

Back in Basel, Gabriel Stetter quoted unsourced opinion polls showing that in this "stronghold" of chemtrails believers, one in ten people "have already heard of them despite the media blackout. Several thousand people in the prosperous town at the bend in the Rhine know that the chemtrails phenomenon suggests that something is seriously wrong."

Among these Swiss chemtrails activists, he explained, "are well-to-do people, who because of their environmental awareness have been for a long time, in some cases for decades, members of Greenpeace."

Not any more.

"Veteran anti-nuclear activists, campaigners for animal welfare or against electrosmog-in their alarm they had all turned to Greenpeace because of the chemtrails, which are visible everywhere in the skies above Basel. But a painful experience awaited all of them. They were palmed off with the same unsatisfactory answers that we have by now grown tired of hearing. The consequence drawn by these elderly, well-to-do activists from Greenpeace's lack of interest was the immediate cancellation of membership of many years, the withdrawal of legacies, and the withholding of payments to Greenpeace until further notice."

As Brian Holmes notes on his website, http://www.holmestead.ca , the October 2004 issue #131 of the Raum + Zeit contained many pages of letters from readers responding positively to Stetter's first article in issue #127. "Many of these letters are illustrated with color photographs supplied by the readers themselves."

Former six-year a board member of Greenpeace Germany, Monika Griefahn chaired the Committee for Culture and Media of the Federal German Parliament when she replied to a letter from two chemtrails dissenters in July 2004, stating, "I am in basic agreement with your concerns. Instead of making a concerted and determined effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the world, experiments of various kinds are being carried out in the earth's atmosphere in order to cure the symptoms."

GERMAN PARLIMENTARTIAN "ADMITS" CHEMTRAIL

Former six-year a board member of Greenpeace Germany, Monika Griefahn chaired the Committee for Culture and Media of the Federal German Parliament when she replied to a letter from two chemtrails dissenters in July 2004, stating, "I am in basic agreement with your concerns. Instead of making a concerted and determined effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the world, experiments of various kinds are being carried out in the earth's atmosphere in order to cure the symptoms."

After assuring her correspondents, "I share your concern over the use of aluminium or barium compounds which have a considerable toxic potential," the parliamentarian went on to say, "however, so far as I am aware the extent of their use is so far minimal."

"At last!" Stetter announced in the German science magazine. "There we have it. In the skies of Germany, so Social Democratic member of Parliament Monika Griefahn tells us, aluminium and barium compounds are being spread just as tens of thousands of concerned citizens have observed, documented and bitterly deplored."

Thanking the Honorable Griefahn her for her courage, Stetter suggested, "Maybe one day statues of politicians like Monika Griefahn or the equally plucky US Congressman Dennis Kucinich will adorn in marble splendor the squares of newly verdant German or American cities."

That would be nice.

But the public outcry in Europe will have to spread to North America if we are to stop this massive, illegal and continuing air and atmospheric pollution.

Excerpted from Convergence Weekly


Informant: Tim Edwards

More than half of Americans surveyed say their family income is falling behind the cost of living, and another third say they are just keeping up with higher living costs, a poll commissioned by the AFL-CIO says.

http://snipurl.com/hcl1


From Information Clearing House

Seems like everything is President Bush's fault. One day after Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast, German commentators are laying into the US for its stubborn attitude to global warming and Kyoto.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372179,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The United States is the largest supplier of weapons to developing nations, delivering more than $9.6 billion in arms to Near East and Asian countries last year.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBE928R0DE.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.counterpunch.com/leupp08302005.html


From Information Clearing House

Story in full A GOVERNMENT minister has fuelled the row over Britain's proposed new anti-terror laws by calling for Pat Robertson, the controversial American evangelist, to be banned from the UK.

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1862182005


From Information Clearing House

Fighting terrorism should not be a pretext to advance a country's political agenda. The cultivation of fear for the purposes of exploiting a fixated and phobic mindset is a dangerous game.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10041.htm

"If Bush feels it's such a noble cause, maybe he should talk to his own daughters about making a commitment," said Connolly's mother, Deborah.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31360035.htm


From Information Clearing House

An interview with Cindy Sheehan, a Journalist and a Wounded Soldier Who Remember the Battle of Sadr City.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10044.htm



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

The U.S. war in Iraq now costs more per month than the average monthly cost of military operations in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, according to a report issued on Wednesday.

http://snipurl.com/hcgr


From Information Clearing House

By Dom Stasi

In journalism, ignoring a story is tantamount to lying. A lie of omission is no less a lie. Truth is a commodity too long abused if not abandoned altogether in the mainstream American press, especially so in its treatment of the human catastrophe that is the Bush presidency.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10048.htm

August 31st 2005

EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER

Severe Geomagnetic Storm in Effect; Possible Tropical Storm Escalation

by Mitch Battros – ECTV

Over the last 12 hours, the Earth has been bombarded with charged particles emitted from the Sun. I wish to point out just before Katrina escalated to a category 4 (later 5) hurricane, the Sun had produced three M-Class flares, with following CME’s which were Earth directed. The Kp Index was literally “off the scale”. An immediate alert went out to all power companies, NASA, USAF, and the FAA. Aircraft shifted flight patterns with many dropping their altitudes to below 30,000 feet.

You can hear my gripping interview with Bill Murtagh, Forecaster NASA/NOAA Space Weather Center on our “recent audio page”. The sound is very low for the first 10 minutes, so turn your volume up all the way. I was at a hotel during a conference when this urgent event occurred. The good news…I’m ready to do a “live” show at the drop of a hand almost anywhere…anytime. A mixed blessing I suppose. J

Recent Audio Files: http://www.earthchangestv.com/audioarchives.php

Just two days after the geomagnetic storm hit, hurricane “Katrina” was elevated to a Category 4 hurricane, and 24 hours later, a Category 5. Yes, I am saying there was a direct connection. (see equation)

Equation:

Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

See Article: Kp Index Off the Scale ; Warnings Sent Out
http://www.earthchangestv.com/secure/2005/article_9280.php

Earlier today, the most recent surge of solar particles have hit our global protector known as the magnetic field. Without it, we would die from radiation within hours. It works as a buffer, surrounding the Earth like a cocoon.

Sun – Earth Cocoon: http://www.earthchangestv.net/images/sunearth_01G.gif

Today’s Kp Index: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Organizations Representing Millions of Americans Report Groundswell of Opposition to Roberts as Nominee's Record and Positions Become Known.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0831-02.htm

http://rs.net-hh.de/links.php?lid=22562

Das Desaster, das der Hurrican hinterlassen hat, bezeichnet gleichzeitig das Ende der Zivilgesellschaft, das durch den Neoliberalismus herbeigeführt wird.

Der Staat, das neoliberale System beendet seinen Anspruch, seine Verpflichtung als Gegenleistung für die Dominanz und die Besetzung der gesellschaftlichen Führungspositionen für seine Bürger zu sorgen und etabliert sich zunehmend als Gewaltherrschaft. Der Erosion des staatlichen Budgets folgte der Zusammenbruch des notwendigen Hochwasserschutzes und damit der Untergang einer Metropole. Die Betroffenen reagieren nun teilweise mit offenem Widerstand.

Weitere Links im Bereich Politik:
http://rs.net-hh.de/links.php?rubsuch=politik

.... more and more peoples and states say: US JUST LEAVE and us in PEACE !

CIA banned from Danish air space

29. Aug. 2005

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says unauthorized flights by the CIA will not be allowed into Danish airspace

The government has told the United States that the CIA can no longer use Danish airspace for flights to transport suspected terrorists around the world, reported the Copenhagen Post.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it quite clear to U.S. officials that Denmark does not want its airspace used for purposes that are in conflict with international conventions," wrote Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller in response to an inquiry from a spokesman for military affairs for the Red-Green Alliance.

Reports surfaced in May that civil airplanes secretly registered by the CIA had been sighted over Denmark. Human rights organizations claim that the planes are used to transport terror suspects to places where torture is conducted.

Møller had originally denied that the government had knowledge of transports taking place in Danish airspace that violate "international conventions," the newspaper said.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050829-101740-1593r.htm


From ECOTERRA Intl.

Green Day, the anti-war rockers, swept the MTV Video Music Awards in a sign that American popular culture is turning against the US presence in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105S.shtml

Despite Bush's praise, the Iraqi constitution does not protect women's rights. Recently, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA official, said that while he hoped the Iraqi constitution would protect women as much as possible, "women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083105WA.shtml

The number of Americans without health insurance in 2004 climbed for the fourth consecutive year to a record high of 45.8 million. The Census Bureau identified an 800,000 increase in uninsured Americans, who make up 15.7 per cent of the population.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083105HA.shtml

In fact, France, "kingdom of the atom," has a 75% dependence on fossil energies (oil, gas, coal) and remains one of the major greenhouse gas emitting countries.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083105EC.shtml

The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution. The language could undercut dozens of pending state and federal lawsuits aimed at forcing coal-fired plants to cut back emissions.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083105EB.shtml

Say Experts

For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms. More and more scientists estimate that global warming, while not necessarily making hurricanes more frequent or likelier to make landfall, is making them more vicious.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083105EA.shtml

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bb273a94-1a3a-11da-b279-00000e2511c8.html


Informant: NHNE

From: CODEPINK codepink@democracyinaction.org

August 31, 2005

Those of us who have had the unbelievable opportunity of participating in the historic vigil in Crawford, Texas, have been transformed by this experience. We will be eternally grateful to Cindy Sheehan and the other military families who have revived the sagging spirits of the peace movement and provided inspiration to millions of Americans desperate to see an end to this war. Among the many breath-taking moments at Camp Casey was Sunday's showering of Cindy with 4,700 roses, placing them on all the crosses representing fallen soldiers, and bringing light and hope and color to this arid Texas landscape. Many thanks to all of you who made that beautiful tribute possible.

Now that this historic vigil is coming to an end, Cindy Sheehan has a new request for people around the country, especially mothers: Take the Camp Casey spirit back to every congressional district and senate office in this country and demand from our elected officials answers to the questions that George Bush refused to answer.

Cindy's plan, called "Meet with the Mothers" http://www.meetwiththemothers.org , gives us a concrete way to stand with Cindy. Between now and the upcoming anti-war mobilization in Washington DC on September 24, our job is to ask our own representatives and senators for a meeting to reply to Cindy's questions:

President Bush has said that brave Americans like Cindy Sheehan's son Casey have died for a "noble cause". What is that "noble cause"? How many more lives are we as a country willing to sacrifice in Iraq? How many are you personally willing to sacrifice? What are you specifically doing to bring our sons and daughters home from this needless war?

The meetings should include military families, mothers and members of the clergy, and should be videotaped to make sure the record is clear. We will go into these meetings with great sincerity, and expect the same from our elected officials.

To increase the pressure on Congressional members, we are asking you to join Cindy’s voice by sending her letter to your representative and senator. The more times they receive it, the better.

If you are willing to be part of or head a local delegation requesting a meeting with your elected official, please sign up here.

For those officials who refuse to meet, we ask you to consider setting up a "Camp Casey" in front of their offices until they agree to meet! It could be as simple as placing a tent with Camp Casey written on the side for an hour a day.

Every day from now until September 24, we will update the "scorecard" on the meet with the mothers website based on how each official has responded to Cindy's letter. On September 26, as part of lobby day, we will take the scores to congress and thank or spank members. We will publicize the scores nationwide, we will use these scores in upcoming congressional elections to continue pressurizing officials who are still unwilling to end this senseless war now.

Despite the unconscionable attacks on Cindy's character, family and motives, despite the tremendous emotional stress of coping with her ailing mother and pending divorce, Cindy has found strength in her son's legacy and her determination that no other mother should suffer as she has suffered. Let us take strength from Cindy's fortitude. Let us echo her questions throughout this land. Let us demand that every elected official who represents us in Washington come up with the answers that we—as mothers, as constituents, as peacemakers—need to hear.

With peace, hope and a determination to bring our troops home, Alicia, Dana, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Tiffany & Whitney

P.S. Please join us and tens of thousands of concerned global citizens in Washington, D.C. from September 24-26. Be with us in this historic moment as we march on the White House and deliver onemillionreasons to Bush. Mark your calendars, reserve your tickets, and get your pink gear ready! Don't miss Independence Air's limited time offer on super-cheap airfares to Washington D.C. -- Book by midnight ET on September 1, 2005. You can travel 7 days-a-week from September 6 through November 15. To help sustain our work and actions, please consider making a donation to CODEPINK today, and don't forget to forward this email to your friends.


Informant: Martin Greenhut



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

Cindy Day 25

So it is official, Casey had his blood shed in Iraq for OIL. He died so we could pay over $3.00/gallon for gas. Like I suspected all along, my dear, sweet son, almost 1900 others, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis died so the oil fields wouldn't "fall into the hands of terrorists" and so George and his immoral band of greedy robber barons could become wealthier. Like I have said all along: how can these people sleep at night and how can they choke down their food knowing it is purchased off of the flesh and blood of others? We have found our "Noble Cause." And it is OIL. This man and his handlers need to be stopped.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2438


Resolution of Inquiry into Bush Lies Gains Momentum

There are now 59 co-sponsors on Barbara Lee's Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Memos, including one Republican member of the International Relations Committee, Jim Leach. Cindy Sheehan is meeting with another Republican committee member, Ron Paul, tomorrow. A vote in committee will come between Sept. 6 and Sept. 16. Now is the time to contact YOUR Congressmember - and be sure to use our Feedback Form:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/902


Sign the People's Petition

Have you signed the petition for an exit strategy? Has everyone you know done so? Please make sure you can say Yes before September 16: http://www.peoplespetition.org/


"Bring the Troops Home Now" Bus Tour Began Today Three buses left Crawford, Texas, this morning carrying military and Gold Star families, veterans of the Iraq War and veterans of previous wars. These buses will travel different routes across the country, converging in Washington, DC on September 21, for the United for Peace and Justice Mobilization September 24th-26th. Cindy Sheehan is on the Southern bus route for the first two days and planned to meet with Rep. Lloyd Doggett today and Reps. Ron Paul and Tom Delay tomorrow. The bus will not go to New Orleans, as had been planned, but is carrying supplies as close as possible to those who need them. Please give them a warm welcome at the stop nearest you. http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/


Bring Camp Casey to YOUR Congressperson

Cindy sent a letter to all the members of Congress holding them responsible for taking us into war and therefore ending this war. We need you to create a Camp Casey outside the offices of those who are not agreeing to a meeting. Sign up here to join in, check in daily to see who is answered and who hasn’t, and support this effort to hold our leaders responsible and accountable. We have a short window, we want to have contacted all the members by the time Cindy and the buses arrive in Washington, DC for the mass mobilization on September 24th. We will be at the offices of those who aren't responding on September 26th to lobby them and let them experience the pressure from citizens' voices emboldened at Camp Casey. http://meetwiththemothers.org/


Out of Iraq Rally in D.C. on September 15

The peace movement will rally against the war in front of the White House following Democrat-led hearings on an exit strategy hosted by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). Learn more:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2369


Be Part of the Largest Anti-War Effort

Join a massive mobilization against the war in Washington, D.C., on September 24, and stick around for workshops and trainings on the 25th, followed by a day of lobbying and civil disobedience on the 26th. http://www.unitedforpeace.org/septmobe


Sign Up for Exciting Workshops in DC on Sept. 25

These events, organized by Progressive Democrats of America, will include a discussion with Cindy Sheehan, as well as a focus on the Downing Street Memos and remarks by John Bonifaz, Co-Founder of After Downing Street.

http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/events/sept2005/index.php


From the Democrats.com Blog:

MSM Refuses to Poll on Impeachment
Can Bush Survive $4 Gasoline?
My Pet Goat Part Deux - Let Them Eat Cake!
Bush Strummed While New Orleans Drowned
Rally to End War at White House 9-15
Make Bush Kids Put Their Lives on the Line
Bush Cut Hurricane, Flood Protection Funding to New Orleans - June 2005
Iraqi Constitution is a Miserable Failure - Impeach Bush Now
Bush Brings In "Ringer" To Defend Roberts' Ethics
Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy

http://democrats.com



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://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/

KP Index is in the RED and has been for the past 12 hrs. With the California swarm of quakes, this is not good and bears watching.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html http://www.space.com/spacewatch/sun_cam_animated.html


Informant: Dani Djinn

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index815.htm

Unconfirmed information forwarded to us!!

From Be Kind Whenever Possible

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0830-33.htm


Informant: Charles Bremer

Hello all you caring people out there,

I looked up another petition website today thanks to a message received here and I think this particular story is up there with some of the most tragic. What do you think? Add your name to this petition. Poor beautiful, tormented beasts.

http://gopetition.com/online/50.html

Much love
Roz


This message was sent by Care2 Connect member: Roz P.

New Orleans Is a War Casualty
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts119.html

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053#3


Informant: Michael Novick

noe.ORF.at; 28.8.05

Im Streit um die nö. Handymastensteuer kritisiert LH Erwin Pröll (ÖVP) in einem Interview im Kurier die Mobilfunk-Chefs von Mobilkom und T-Mobile-Austria. Die beiden würden Österreich enormen Schaden zu fügen, so Pröll.

Erwin Pröll kritisiert Mobilfunk-Chefs
http://oesterreich.orf.at/noe/stories/54338/


LH Erwin Pröll
31.08.2005

Kein Nachgeben bei der Handymastensteuer

An der Handymastensteuer wird nicht gerüttelt. Das hat LH Erwin Pröll (ÖVP) in der TV-Sendung "NÖ-heute" am Mittwochabend bekräftigt. Er kritisierte auch die aus seiner Sicht verantwortungslosen Mobilfunk-Manager.

"Ein Kampf mit den Wirtschaftslobbys"

Wirtschaft brauche auch Verantwortung. Die Steuer sieht er als Druckmittel, die Handybetreiber an diese Verantwortung zu erinnern.

Pröll äußerte scharfe Kritik an aus seiner Sicht verantwortungslosen Managern, denen die Politik entgegentreten müsse. Deshalb werde es immer mehr ein Kampf zwischen der Politik und den mächtigen Wirtschaftslobbys, so Pröll. Nicht nur in Niederösterreich, sondern auf der ganzen Welt, so der Landeshauptmann.

"Neo-Liberalismus ist eingekehrt"

"Und zwar deswegen, weil mittlerweile weltweit ein Neo-Liberalismus eingekehrt ist, nach dem Motto: Was kostet die Welt, ohne sich dabei zu kümmern, wer auf der Strecke bleibt", so die Kritik von LH Pröll.

Mit der Steuer betreibe das Land Niederösterreich nachhaltige Wirtschaftspolitik, so Pröll.

http://noe.orf.at/stories/55099/ (Auszug)

http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
CLICK BLACK BOXES


Informant: Dani Djinn

Who lost Iraq? Robert Scheer says that someday, as a fragmented Iraq spirals further into religious madness, terrorism and civil war, there will be a bipartisan inquiry into this blundering intrusion into another people's history.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105O.shtml

Unsere Erfahrungen mit der Ministerialbürokratie und die bedingungslose Unterstützung des Mobilfunkausbaus durch die Staatsregierung und Dr. Stoiber:

http://www.omega-news.info/uig_wie_stoiber_die_wolfratshauser_taeuscht_050828.doc


Zur Information und weiteren Verwendung/Verbreitung.

Gruß

Hans Schmidt
Sprecher BI Wolfratshausen gegen Elektrosmog

by Phyllis Bennis, TomPaine.com

Once again, the United States has declared war on the United Nations. Once again, the U.N. must stand up for itself.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050831/a_declaration_of_war.php

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

President Bush took the country into war on purpose and without reason. And Americans of all stripes are starting to acknowledge it.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050831/george_bushs_original_sin.php

Fife Today

A PROPOSED mobile mast to the north of Markinch looks set to be refused by councillors.

Vodafone Ltd., has asked Fife Council for permission to install a 14-metre high mast, three antennas and associated equipment cabins on the north side of the A92 junction with Stobcross Road.
The application was due to come before councillors at the Central Area Development Committee Meeting in the Town House, Kirkcaldy yesterday (Tuesday).

A report prepared by planner Stuart Wilson, and placed before the committee, said there are three planning considerations to be looked at - government guidance, the Development Plan and objections received.

Mr Wilson said although the proposed mast was higher than the existing 12-metre high street lamp post, it would not impact on the overall area.

And when looking at the Development Plan, Mr Wilson said the application site is located within a green corridor but as the mast would be installed within the road verge, it would not be detrimental to this.

The proposal is also in accordance with policies relating to design and visual impacts.

But the proposal was recommended for refusal on road safety grounds.

Fife Council's head of transportation and the Scottish Executive were consulted on the plans and while there was no objection from the local authority, the Executive rejected the application.

Its objection related to road safety as maintenance vehicles would have to be parked on the local unclassified road near to the A92 junction.

Mr Wilson said: "If approved, it will set an undesirable precedent for similar developments elsewhere."

31 August 2005

The Northern Echo 31.08.05

A TELECOMMUNICATIONS company is appealing a planning committee's decision to refuse permission to erect a mobile phone mast in a north Durham residential area.

O2 wants to install a 12-metre signal transmitter on land south of Carlingford Road, on the Garden Farm Estate, in Chester-le-Street.

It was refused permission in June by the Chester-le-Street District Council's planning department.

The committee has received 600 letters of opposition to the mast from locals following a campaign started by the Garden Farm and West Lane Community Association.

Association chairman Reg Nelson said: "I can't quite understand why they want to put it in the middle of a residential area near the local shops.

"There are plenty of other areas in Chester-le-Street where they can put the aerial, so I do not know why they are so determined to put it there."

Mr Nelson urged people with strong views on the matter to write to the planning inspector who will investigate the council's decision to refuse permission.

Letters should quote reference number APP/G1305/A/05/1185984 and be sent to The Planning Inspectorate, Room 3-03, Kite Wing, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Bristol, BS1 6PN.

No one from O2 was available for comment when contacted by The Northern Echo yesterday.

Lincolnshire Echo

10:30 - 31 August 2005

Plans to erect a mobile phone mast near three schools have surfaced for the third time, leaving people living nearby seething.

Mobile phone operator O2 has been refused planning permission to site the 12.5 metre high pole off Nash Lane, in North Hykeham, twice in the past two years.

The company has now lodged an appeal against the refusal, saying it needs the mast so its customers get a good signal in the area.

But those living nearby say nothing has changed and they will still fight the plans for their own safety and that of children studying at nearby All Saints' Primary School, Robert Pattinson School and North Kesteven School.

Retired Mike Baldwin (61), of Moor Lane, said he was angry to see the plans back again.

"O2 has said that there is no proof that being near to a mobile phone mast can damage your health, but the way I look at it there is also no proof that it is 100 per cent safe," he said.

Omega there is proof that being near to a mobile phone mast can damage your health. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/ and
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

"I'm also concerned about the visual impact of such a high mast. It would be higher than a telegraph pole and hard to hide. You'd be able to see it from my garden."

North Hykeham town councillor Jackie McAll said she was disappointed to see the plans surfacing again.

"I have always had concerns about this plan and don't think that Nash Lane, in the middle of a residential area, is the best place for a mobile phone mast," she said.

"We suggested they consider putting the mast in the cemetery at South Hykeham, where it is less residential, but they seemed to have passed that idea off without giving any real reason."

The second planning application for the erection of the mast was refused on February 5 because North Kesteven District Council felt it would be too close to houses.

But O2 has now put together and submitted a full planning appeal against the refusal.

"Every attempt has been made to minimise the visual impact of the scheme toward nearby properties by careful siting," the appeal states.

"The proposed design represents the best compromise between the visual impact of the proposal on the amenity of the area and meeting the technical coverage requirement for the appellants."

Angela Johnson, from O2, said the appeal was standard practice.

"As a rule if we do not get planning permission for a site that's urgently needed, like this one, we will put in an appeal as we have done now," she said.

For more stories on plans for Lincolnshire log on to http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/environment

Blackpool Today

PLANS to site a phone mast close to a primary school have met with furious opposition from parents. More than 500 letters of opposition have been handed to Vodafone in response to plans by the telecommunications giant to erect a four metre high antenna on top of a building close to Norbreck Primary School.

Darren Stringer, 40, who organised the protest and delivered 558 letters and a 137 name petition to the firm said residents of North Shore were horrified. The father-of-three, who has an eight-year-old daughter at the school, said: "There is huge opposition to this mast from parents and local residents who are concerned about the health risks. "Our campaign is based on numerous reports warning about radiation from the antenna and I don't want my children subjected to that kind of health risk. "If the Government warns us not to let kids use mobile phones too much, and we should not use them in petrol stations, then surely that shows there is a problem."

A nursery school within the grounds of Norbreck Primary, the outer edge of which is 70m from the antennae, is also set to open, causing further concern for Mr Stringer's partner Joanne Rigby. She added: "Not only are there schoolchildren, but also nursery children who will be involved. "There has been no long-term study on the effects of mobile phone masts. "Why wouldn't we want to err on the side of caution until the facts are properly known? "We would appeal to Vodafone one last time, people in this area do not want this mast here, can it not go somewhere else?"

Vodafone consulted local residents at a recent exhibition in Cleveleys prior to notification going to Blackpool Council, which is not required to grant permission due to the height of the antennae. Although Vodafone sent 600 letters to objectors, the drop-in session was attended by just 25 residents.

Mum-of-two Amanda Holden said: "They organised it in the middle of the summer holidays when many people are away and from 4.30pm to 7.30pm when mums of children at the school are giving them tea and putting them to bed. "It could not have been organised at a time more inconvenient to most of the protesters."

Norbreck ward Coun Peter Callow said: "There needs to be a full and proper public meeting for the people of this area to have their say rather than an exhibition held when many people are on holiday. "We were also disappointed that the drop in was in Cleveleys and not Norbreck, but the company knows it will be in for a hard time if it does call such a meeting because feelings are running high."

While there are no plans for another meeting Vodafone bosses confirmed they are looking at alternative sites suggested by those who attended the exhibition before the antennae is erected. A Vodafone spokeswoman said: "There were 13 alternatives which we are looking at, but residents must realise that as the antennae has a small coverage area there will be one in this vicinity. "In our view this is the preferable option because it is discreet and does not require a new structure on the highway." The spokesman added the company had followed European and World Health Organisation guidelines which cover radio signals from mobile phone masts, TV, radio and emergency services communications equipment.

Omega see "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk" under:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

heather.butler@blackpoolgazette.co.uk

31 August 2005

by Monica Benderman

War is promoted. Anti-war responds. Anti-war protests. War counters. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. Peace. Freedom to make a choice. Sgt. Kevin Benderman sits in confinement at Ft. Lewis, Washington. His crime? Making a choice. He chose Peace....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Benderman0831.htm

by Walter Brasch

George W. Bush likes numbers. A day after he received 50.7 percent of the vote in the 2004 general election, he decided he had a mandate. At a White House press conference, one of the few he held in four years, President Bush told America, “[T]here is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view, and that's what I intend to tell the Congress” His victory, he said, “is like earning capital. . . . I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style.” But, George W. Bush also doesn’t like numbers. First, there’s the economy. When Bush came into office. Bill Clinton left him a $230 billion surplus and a balanced budget. Not only isn’t the budget balanced, that surplus from five years ago has turned into a $7.95 trillion deficit, increasing at the rate of about $1.7 billion a day. That’s about $27,000 for every American, including those who are unemployed....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Brasch0831.htm

President Bush, who cannot summon up the courage to speak to Vacaville housewife Cindy Sheehan, has admonished Palestinians to show “political courage.”

http://snipurl.com/hbmj


From Information Clearing House

By weakening America's defenses, Rumsfeld has paved the way for deploying troops and aircraft within the country and setting the precedent for a permanent military presence within the nation. It is one giant step towards direct military rule.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article10039.htm

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001771.htm


From Information Clearing House

According to the poll, 52 percent of those surveyed say that the president should talk to Mrs. Sheehan. 53 percent of Americans support Mrs. Sheehan's actions in holding a vigil outside of Mr. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch while 42 percent oppose her actions.

http://snipurl.com/hbmg


From Information Clearing House



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

As if the resemblance between Iraq and Vietnam were not enough, President Bush, Livingston argues, has closed the circle for us. Never mind that the original rationale for the war - preventing Iraq from using its stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction against us - has evaporated; the issue now is that ever-reliable call to arms: freedom, ours and the Iraqis'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005G.shtml
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Congressional Democrats demanded an investigation Monday into the demotion of a senior US military contracting official who publicly criticized a controversial no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton Corp. for work in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005E.shtml

Although most mainstream hurricane scientists are skeptical of any connection between global warming and heightened storm activity, the growing intensity of hurricanes and the frequency of large storms are leading some to rethink long-held views.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005A.shtml

Last year, Mendocino County California became the first county in the U.S. to ban genetically engineered (GE) crops. Since then, two more California counties and two cities have followed Mendocino's example, starting a domino-effect of similar anti-GE ordinances across the nation. Fearing the contagious spread of BioDemocracy in North America, the Biotech Bullies are striking back. In the past several months, 14 U.S. states, prodded by Monsanto and the Farm Bureau, have made it illegal for local communities to ban GE crops. Two recently introduced bills (AB 1508 and SB 1056) in the California legislature would make California the 15th state to eliminate local communities' rights to ban or otherwise regulate genetically engineered seeds. This "preemption" bill would overturn GE-Free victories in Mendocino, Trinity, and Marin counties, as well as the cities of Arcata and Point Arena, and prohibit local communities from banning or regulating genetically engineered crops in the future. Take action today to stop the Biotech Bullies from taking away our democratic rights in California! Send a message to your state legislators by clicking here!

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1139


Informant: Hopedance

http://progressive.org/?q=mag_mc082905&PHPSESSID=d2622663e653154ea788cea1aeb6ede7

McCarthyism Watch

Matthew Rothschild August 29, 2005

Law enforcement officials in Michigan have been busy slapping the “terrorist” label on domestic groups.

An FBI document, released on August 29 by the ACLU, shows extensive monitoring of a whole bunch of organizations, ranging from the Aryan World Church and the Christian Identity movement to animal rights groups, an anti-war collective, and a leading pro-affirmative action coalition.

The document, dated January 29, 2002, is a summary of a domestic terrorism symposium that was held six days previously.

In attendance were the FBI, the Secret Service, the Michigan State Police, the Michigan State University police, and Michigan National Guard.

“The purpose of the meeting was to keep the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies apprised of the activities of the various groups and individuals within the state of Michigan who are thought to be involved in terrorist activities,” the document states.

One of those “terrorist groups” is By Any Means Necessary, which says its aim is “to defend affirmative action, integration, and fight for equality.”

The FBI document said a detective, whose last name was blotted out, “presented information on a protest from February 8-10, 2002, in Ann Arbor, Michigan,” by the group.

That “protest” was actually the Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement, which was co-sponsored by the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH, with keynote speaker Jonathan Kozol.

“We’re standing up for education equity, and the American government is spying on us? That’s an outrage,” says Luke Massie, one of the national co-chairs of By Any Means Necessary. “This is palpable proof of what a lot of progressive people have worried about since 9/11: The Bush Administration is shredding our Bill of Rights before our eyes.”

The February 8-10 conference was designed to build public support for affirmative action just as the Supreme Court was deciding two Michigan affirmative action cases.

“The timing of this shows the political motivation of the Bush Administration,” says Shanta Driver, the group’s other national co-chair. “We’re completely nonviolent. But it’s no surprise to us that people who are devoted to a new civil rights movement and the cause of equality would be targeted for this kind of surveillance and attack.”

The FBI document acknowledged that the group was not violent. “Michigan State Police has information that in the past demonstrations by this group have been peaceful,” the document states.

The FBI and Michigan law enforcement also discussed the Animal Liberation Front, as well as a local group. “Michigan State University (MSU) Public Safety . . . presented information on a group called East Lansing Animal Rights Movement,” the document states. Then, after blotting out information about a student at Michigan State, the document adds: “MSU Public Safety feels that this group has approximately 12-15 members at this time.”

On the web, ELARM identifies itself as a “grassroots animal rights advocacy group” that “believes strongly in the value of all animals, human or non-human, and therefore opposes any and all forms of animal exploitation. Our purpose is to educate the public regarding animal rights issues, and to expose and oppose animal abuse wherever it is found.”

The group actually is defunct now, according to Julie Hartman, who says she revived it in 2001 only to see it fold two years later.

“We did a couple of circus protests and that kind of thing,” she says.

She got a copy of the FBI document last week.

“I was really surprised, considering we never once broke the law, that they would spend the time investigating us,” she says.

The fact that the Michigan State University police estimated that there were twelve to fifteen members in her group creeps her out, she says.

“That seems to indicate that they would have to have come to a meeting to find out how many people were involved,” she notes. “That actually made me start thinking, who was coming to our meetings?”

She believes the university police department has skewed priorities.

“It’s certainly a waste of their resources,” she says. “This is a large university. The number of rapes on this campus is astounding. The police always complain they don’t have enough resources to do their job, but they’ re spending their resources to spy on peaceful groups! That’s really just sickening.”

The Michigan State University police gave no comment.

Another local group that law enforcement linked to ELARM is called Direct Action. Interestingly, the document notes that both groups had demonstrated against the FBI local office because of “perceived injustices by law enforcement.” Included as an attachment to the FBI document was a clipping from the Lansing State Journal of January 19, 2002, about the protest, which was ironically entitled: “Dozens march against terrorism.” The first sentence reads: “Dozens of students and others marched Friday to protest racial profiling and terrorism—which they say includes United States military action in Afghanistan.”

On its website Direct Action says, “We desire to challenge the calls for retribution, endless war, and destruction of civil liberties. Direct Action also wants to defend the gains made by the movement against corporate power that was birthed in this country on the streets of Seattle.”

Primarily a youth-based group, Direct Action is now focusing a lot of its work on counter-recruitment efforts.

Tommy Simon, a member of Direct Action, dismisses the terrorist label.

“What is a terrorist? The word is just a propaganda tool used to dissuade people from getting involved in activism—especially young people,” he says. The group has never been violent, unlike the Bush Administration, he adds.

“We’ve organized protests and spoken out against the government, but that does not make us a threat in any way,” he says. “We’re working for peace here.”

Sarah Mcdonald, a longtime member of Direct Action, was taken aback by the designation of her group.

“I was shocked,” she says. “I was really disturbed that the FBI is misusing its power this way. They’re trying to squash dissent, and they’re doing that by monitoring anti-war groups and other groups against the Bush Administration.”

The ACLU also condemns the police surveillance and the use of the label “terrorist” to describe the peace group and the affirmative action group.

“This document confirms our fears that federal and state counterterrorism officers have turned their attention to groups and individuals engaged in peaceful protest activities,” said Ben Wizner, an ACLU staff attorney. “When the FBI and local law enforcement identify affirmative action advocates as potential terrorists, every American has cause for concern.”

Wasn’t me, says the FBI.

“A plain reading of the document clearly notes that there were presentations at the symposium by someone outside the FBI that discussed the groups By Any Means Necessary and Direct Action,” says an FBI press office statement of August 29. “The FBI does not make any representation about these groups in the document other than to note they were discussed during the symposium.”

Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan, is not impressed with that statement. “What else can they say, other than we didn’t do it, someone else did?” The point is, she says, law enforcement, including the FBI, were discussing these political groups on the assumption that they were “involved in terrorist activities,” as the document states.

“Whenever you give police increasing powers, there’s going to be confusion about where to begin and where to end,” Moss says. “And that’s what we’re seeing here.”


Informant: Charles Bremer

Helen Thomas says: "It's time for the Democratic Party to take a courageous stand and call for the withdrawal of troops from the senseless war in Iraq."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005S.shtml

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Monday that the 10th anniversary commemoration of the Million Man March will include a broad spectrum of black organizations from mainstream civil rights groups to black nationalists and "street organizations." The 10th anniversary effort, called the Millions More Movement, will also include women.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083005WA.shtml

A far-reaching inquiry into the careers of three of the US's most senior climate specialists has been launched by Joe Barton, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce. He has demanded details of all their sources of funding, methods and everything they have ever published.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/083005EA.shtml

It's amazing the things one experiences in life...and how we worry and fret over some very small things...though at the time it seemed like the end of the world... I now realize how blessed I've been after seeing the deconstruction caused by Katrina...having experienced combat numorous hurricanes 4 last year and thunderstorms all summer year after year as the Tampa Bay area is the lightling capital of the world...I find myself even more blessed and humbled... We all cry and complain about little things in our lives...things that are so trival and at times unimportant...we fight and complain about each other here on Care2...I ask that we all take a real look at what's happen too the people affected by Katrina...that we take the time too realize that we really don't have problems compare to those who were thwe victims of a savage storm...that we are still alive have food & clothes and a home...let us humble ourselves and spend some time on our knees and give thanks for the things we have...no matter how small or big...pray for our brothers & sisters...and realize that we are truly mortal and live life in a loving and caring way...hug your family and friends and remember life comes and goes...it's just a winkle of the eye....

God Bless You All... Ghost pirate...
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1,877 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru today)

13,877 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (Last DoD Update: 06-Aug-05)

26,773 Iraqis Reported Killed (thru today)

0 wmds, 0 osama, 0 credibility, 0 substance!

GW Bush Jr left Texas Bankrupt

GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Arbusto Energy Corp.

GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Spectrum 7 Corp.

GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Bush Exploration Company

GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Harken Energy Corp.

55billion$ trade deficit

7% unemployment

2 trillion debt

300 billion$ needless war

Americans hated abroad and polarized at home

$8.8 billion dollars unaccounted for....over 1800 dead soldiers.....all due to lies and incompetence!.


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"Anyone who types the words '9/11' and 'conspiracy' into an online search engine soon learns that not everybody buys the official narrative of what took place on Sept. 11, 2001.

A professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology,
66-year-old David Ray Griffin...compiled a summary of material against the accepted story... 'The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions,' a critique of the Kean commission document in which he suggests that a chunk of the blame for the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil lies closer to home than the caves of Afghanistan."

-- Los Angeles Times, 8/28/05

August 31, 2005 Hello from my heart!

An eye-opening article recently published in the Los Angeles Times raises questions of a 9/11 conspiracy. The below Times article presents an interview with distinguished theologian David Ray Griffin, who has become a major proponent of a 9/11 conspiracy based on glaring inconsistencies and omissions in the 9/11 Commission Report. For more excellent information suggesting a 9/11 conspiracy, see Wikipedia's 9/11 conspiracy page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories

See also the abundance of reliable, verifiable information available at our 9/11 Information Center

We are convinced that once more media give substantial coverage to the verifiable facts revealing a 9/11 conspiracy, concerned citizens around the world will join in demanding a real investigation.

This will lead to major reforms designed to strengthen democracy and assure that our elected governments work together for the good of all.

You can help by spreading this vital information to your friends and colleagues. And to help us move from a heartfelt place of compassion in this, see the "Hello From My Heart" movement at http://www.hellofrommyheart.com/pages/main.htm for an inspiring 9/11 message.

Take care and have a wonderful day!

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P.S To watch a revealing C-SPAN program covering a recent 9/11 hearing held by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on August 31 and September 2 at 8:00 PM (Eastern time), click here.

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story http://www.WantToKnow.info/050828latimes911conspiracy

Copy of LA Times 9/11 Conspiracy Article

Getting Agnostic About 9/11

A society of nonbelievers questions the official version

MARK EHRMAN

Anyone who types the words "9/11" and "conspiracy" into an online search engine soon learns that not everybody buys the official narrative of what took place on Sept. 11, 2001.

As a professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology,
66-year-old David Ray Griffin would seem to have more affinity for leather elbow patches than tin hats, yet after friends and colleagues prodded him into sifting through the evidence, he experienced a conversion.

Now he's spreading the bad news. Griffin compiled a summary of material arguing against the accepted story that 19 hijackers sent by Osama bin Laden took the aviation system and the U.S. military by surprise that awful day in his 2004 book "The New Pearl Harbor"
(published by Interlink, a Massachusetts-based independent publisher covering areas including travel, cooking, world fiction, current events, politics, children's literature and other subjects).

He recently followed up with the book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" (Interlink), a critique of the Kean commission document in which he suggests that a chunk of the blame for the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil lies closer to home than the caves of Afghanistan.

We contacted him at his Santa Barbara-area home for a report on his journey from mild-mannered scholar to doubting Thomas.

How did you join the ranks of those questioning the official account of the 9/11 events?

I was rather slow getting on board.

For the first year and a half I just accepted the conventional view, really the blowback thesis, that this was blowback for our foreign policy.

When a colleague suggested to me about a year after 9/11 that he was convinced our own government or forces within our own government had arranged it, I didn't accept that.

Then several months later another colleague sent me [a link to] a website that had a timeline.

Once I started reading that and saw all those stories drawn from mainstream sources that contradicted the official account, I decided I needed to look into it more carefully, and the more I looked, the worse it got.

I considered it an obligation to kind of organize, compile the evidence and put it out there for the public.

The Internet is full of 9/11 conspiracy theories.

What have you contributed to the discussion?

My main contribution has been the second book, [showing] that the 9/11 commission report is not worthy of belief, and the implication of that is that they were covering up the government's own guilt.

What would constitute a "smoking gun" against the official 9/11 account?

There are many. By just ignoring them, the 9/11 commission implicitly admitted they couldn't answer them.

The towers coming down into a pile only a few stories high is a smoking gun.

Many laws of physics had to be violated if the official story about the collapses is true.

[The collapses] had all the earmarks of a controlled demolition by explosives.

One of those is total collapse into a small pile of rubble. The fact that Building 7 [a skyscraper near the towers] collapsed when it had not been hit by an airplane, and collapsed in seven or eight seconds, that's a smoking gun.

The fact that standard operating procedures were not followed that morning, and we've gotten three different stories now by the U.S. military as to why they did not intercept the planes, that's a smoking gun.

The Secret Service leaving the president and themselves wide open to being attacked by [not responding immediately], that's a smoking gun.

I can't say one is bigger than the other. You've got six or seven that are equally big.

Critics of the official 9/11 account seem to draw sinister inferences from instances where people, buildings or physical objects didn't react or behave as one might expect in theory.

For example, if the hijackers were devout Muslims, why were some drinking, eating pork chops and cavorting with lap dancers?

Doesn't real life unfold inconsistently, even bizarrely?

That's true, but the 9/11 commission simply ignored those questions.

They're creating this image of fanatics who were so devout and convinced of the truth of their religion that they were ready to meet their maker, yet here's all this evidence that suggests they were not devout at all. [The commission] simply ignored evidence.

Dissenters also seem to find it suspect that in a dire emergency, individuals and agencies bumbled, fumbled, delayed, dropped the ball or choked.

Won't that occur in any emergency?

Well, of course, that is the official theory.

It's a coincidence theory that just happened to be that on those days, everybody became terribly incompetent.

Take the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration]. They've got these standard procedures: If a plane goes off course, if you lose radio contact or lose the transponder, you call the military.

On this day we're told these FAA officials hit the trifecta. They got all three of these things, and yet they would stand around debating, "Should we call the military? No, I don't think so."

And when they finally call, the people at headquarters won't accept their calls because they were in conference or wouldn't pass the call on.

They have roughly about 100 hijack warnings a year where planes have to be scrambled, but suddenly they become just all thumbs.

The whole thing is just implausible.

The other thing is, if you've got accidents, screw-ups, some ought to go one way and the others the other way.

Here everything goes the same way.

Everybody fails to do their jobs in relation to something to do with
9/11.

With others, you have alleged that inconsistencies, omissions or lies in the 9/11 record point to a cover-up, or even collusion or orchestration, by the American government. What would motivate such a scenario?

You've got liberal Democrats and Republicans and Independents who are appalled by what Andrew Bacevich [a professor of international relations at Boston University] called "the new American militarism" in the book "American Empire."

New meaning, qualitatively different than before.

This post-9/11 push to a new level has made the world an enormously more dangerous place.

Many people apart from thinking about 9/11 as an inside job have decided that the United States is doing what [Princeton University emeritus international law professor] Richard Falk calls a "global domination project."

Chalmers Johnson [Japan Policy Research Institute president], a previous conservative, now says that we have become a military juggernaut intent on world domination.

Have you followed polls on what the public believes about 9/11?

There was a Zogby poll in New York. The question asked was, do you believe the government had advance knowledge of the attacks and consciously let them happen?

Forty-nine percent in New York City said yes. I believe it was 43% statewide.

That is a pretty remarkable figure.

In this country there has not been a poll that asked, do you believe the government actually planned and orchestrated the attacks? The question has been raised in Europe and Canada and has gotten to somewhere around 20%.

It would be interesting to have such a poll in the United States.

Conspiracy theorists are often dismissed as marginal types. Where do your views on 9/11 place you in the eyes of your peers in academia?

One thing to point out is, the official account itself is a conspiracy theory.

It says that 19 Arab Muslims under the influence of Osama bin Laden conspired to pull off this operation.

The question is not whether one is a conspiracy theorist about 9/11.

It's which conspiracy theory do you find most supported by the evidence?

Does your role as a 9/11 dissenter depart from your life's work as a scholar and theologian?

At first glance it may seem strange, but the task of a theologian is to look at the world from what we would imagine the divine perspective, [which] would care about the good of the whole and would love all the parts. [So] 9/11, if it was brought about by forces within our own government for imperial reasons, is antithetical to the general good.

Evil has been a subject of your academic writing. It's also been a recurring theme in administration rhetoric. Is that strange?

In these politicians' mouths, it's used to describe certain groups and organizations when it's politically convenient to do so, and then to overlook even greater evil when it's politically convenient to do so.

If you understand the divine as an all-powerful and wrathful creator who seeks vengeance, and uses overwhelming power to destroy its enemies, why then, if you've got the political power, you're probably going to think you're acting like God if you do that.

The [Christian] church during the early centuries was anti-empire. Rome was the enemy.

With Constantine, the empire accepted Christianity, and Christianity started accepting empire and all that entailed.

There has been a long history of support for militarism, so from that perspective, it's not so strange.

Prior to your 9/11 work, did you have an anti-establishment streak?

I never burned my bra. I was fairly critical like a lot of Americans are, but I don't think people would have looked at me and said, "There's an anti-establishment guy."

Do you get hate mail?

I've had a few people suggest I need to see a psychiatrist, and one psychiatrist in L.A. even kindly offered his services.

For more reliable 9/11 information: http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information


Informant: Friends

Two of the people who have been sounding off about the Bush Administration, 9/11, and other issues reveal threats and burglary.

On the Heels Of Death Threats Coming Out Of Washington, WTC Janitor Has Jersey City Apartment Burglarized

Journalist Wayne Madsen has left Washington over death threats and William Rodriguez, 9/11 truth-seeker, had his apartment burglarized. Both fit the description of the person supposedly targeted by the government.

By Greg Szymanski

August 27, 2005

(8-27-05)Journalist Wayne Madsen has left Washington over death threats and William Rodriguez, 9/11 truth-seeker, had his apartment burglarized. Both fit the description of the person supposedly targeted by the government.

Coming on the heels of reports today that government operatives are trying to assassinate someone highly critical of the Bush administration, William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who has been speaking out across the nation about a 9/11 government conspiracy, came home to find his Jersey City apartment burglarized Saturday. [ ...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/7csya

Maybe with the light of day on any threats against them, nothing more serious will happen?


© Virginia Metze

Democrat Patrick Leahy Says Roberts to Be Questioned on Torture Memo, Presidential Power
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON Aug 29, 2005 — Democrats plan to question Supreme Court nominee John Roberts about a disavowed Justice Department memo that critics say led to torture in foreign prisons, top Senate Judiciary Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont said Monday.

Leahy said he gave Roberts a copy of the so-called "Bybee memo" during a meeting Monday in the Senate's Russell office building. It was the second meeting between the two men since July, when President Bush nominated Roberts to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee argued in a Jan. 22, 2002, memo that the president has the power to issue orders that violate the Geneva Conventions as well as international and U.S. laws prohibiting torture.

"It will be raised, partly on the question of to what area if any can a president be considered above the law," Leahy told reporters. [...] Read it all at the abcnews web site: http://tinyurl.com/b3v67


© Virginia Metze

LINWOOD BARCLAY
Monday 29th August 2005 (03h29) :
Source: La Jornada (Mexico)
sent & translated by Luis Martin
Bella Ciao web site

Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries belonging to the Rio Group expressed confidence that U.S. authorities will set in motion the "appropiate legal processes" to punish the call of evangelical telepreacher Pat Robertson to assassinate Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

The declaration, signed by diplomats of 19 Latin American and Caribbean nations meeting in Bariloche, Argentina states, in relevant part: "We are amazed at the declarations of Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, an organization linked to the Republican Party of the USA, urging the assassination of the democratically-elected president of Venezuela." The declaration described the telepreacher’s remarks as "a clear call, to commit a crime." [...] Read the rest at: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7928


© Virginia Metze

by peacenik23
Mon Aug 29th, 2005 at 12:10:20 PDT

[...] But here's a quick refresher on Sen. Feingold

ONLY senator to vote NO on the USA PATRIOT ACT

voted NO on the War in Iraq

ONLY senator to call for withdrawal by 12/2006

Pro-choice

Pro 2nd Amendment

Co-Author of McCain-Feingold (Campaign Finance Reform Act)

[...] If you are interested, check out the thread on the Dailykos web site: http://tinyurl.com/ass4k


© Virginia Metze

What Bush and the NeoCons have done to this country is becoming worse daily. Now we have terrific storms, without the manpower to evacuate people and lead them to safety. Why not? Because the National Guard, which normally are available for problems at home, are being killed, maimed, and irradiated in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Remember that I commented last week about how the Republican preachers on the far right were too hypocritical to say that God was punishing Florida for having a Republican governor. I got the perfect answer shortly after the column "hit the streets," so to speak: They will decree that the state is being punished for DisneyLand.

Did you realize that Pat Robertson has called for the impeachment of Bush?


© Virginia Metze

REALITY REPORT

From: Mark Hazelwood Here's what the ptb don't want you to know about Katrina

The manipulation is clear.

-- Mark Hazelwood Goto http://jmccanneyscience.com/ and follow the link there to the subpage. This is a new posting on top of McCanney's website:

August 29, 2005 posting !!!! NEW !!! visit the new Oil Futures Sub Page ... where greed and profit go hand in hand ...


PREFACE NOTE: Just as "insiders" made a killing on airline futures (short-selling stock) right before 9-11, so we see -- once again -- oil futures (selling short) by "an administration" of oil insiders who made a killing as this hurricane broke all natural laws of hurricanes and veered into the oil refineries and platforms as though steered from satellites that can do it. Details at

http://jmccanneyscience.com/ and
http://jmccanneyscience.com/Sun-Earth-Connection.HTM

--CR --------- article follows:


KATRINA AND THE SCALAR WEATHER WARS

Posted By: billym
Date: Monday, 29 August 2005, 11:09 a.m.

Today Cloak and Dagger has linked an article on scalar wave weather engineering by Stefan Grossmann. Of course it references the work of Col. Tom Bearden, the leading western expert on the subject.

Engineering the weather with scalar weapons is done by simply pouring heat into certain regions, and extracting heat (cooling) other regions. In the article Bearden describes how by heating and cooling areas in a rotational pattern the atmosphere can be made to rotate (hurricane). Also, since the power of a hurricane is related to the temperature of the sea at a given point, a hurricane can be increased by simply heating the ocean under it. If you think about, nearly all weather phenomena are the result of differences in temperature between one region and another. The scalar weapons in weather mode are basically giant heaters and coolers controlled from afar and able to target any place on earth with either heat or cold.

According to Bearden the chief weather war mischief makers are the KGB and a consortium of the "Yakuza" and "Aum Shinrikyo" cult, to which the KGB has handed over most of the routine work. Bearden says the West is playing catch-up ball here, but is no longer totally undefended. I am not sure if this "weather war defense" involves HAARP or not. In any case the resulting picture is not pretty.

Slowly but surely Bearden's information is getting out there and people are starting to realize the true terror of the situation. Is the secrecy beginning to break down, like a Louisianna levee? People must demand to be told the truth about scalar weapons. Only once, to my knowledge, has the official U.S. acknowledged these weapons. This was in a statement by Sec. Def. William Cohen which Bearden tirelessly repeats.

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."

--Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn.

This statement was made over 30 years after Krushchev announced such weapons! At that time no one in the world knew what he was talking about, and generally, they still don't!

Even worse than these weather wars, in my opinion, is the use of scalar weapons to induce earthquakes along fault lines. Bearden is convinced that the KGB/Yakuza has registered a number of longitudinal wave interferometers on the Yellowstone caldera to try to trigger a super eruption.

I suggest reading the whole Grossman article, but here are a few excerpts.

http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/Grossmann/Scalar_Weather_Wars.htm


Scalar Weather Wars:

Hurricane Katrina and the Rape of New Orleans

by: Stefan Grossmann

8-29-5

1. The Bush Jr. regime is a hair's breadth away from collapsing in chaos, infamy and insanity as the Cloakanddagger.de truth radio is about to break the story how G. W. Bushfraud bribed his way into the White House in late 2000. See separate news coverage coming soon.

What happens in such situations is: News diversions are orchestrated in order to take away the public's attention from the homespun disasters. Such as, a whale strands in the arctic and all the oil- soaked spy-riddled mainstream media babble about stranded whales for days or even weeks until the news about the actual catastrophe at home is forgotten and, for practical purposes, suppressed.

This well-known routine is happening again. As the to-be-covered-up news event (Bush bribed his way into the White House) is so huge, the cover-up ploy is also huge: A scalar-engineered hurricane named Katrina. The shadow government has decided to sacrifice an entire city, New Orleans, to cover up the coming news of bribery and in order to further rig the price of oil.

2. Weather engineering includes the blow-up of small hurricanes into large ones. The technology is zealously denied by so-called meterologists and physicists, but it exists anyhow. It has been described, for example, by veteran Pentagon scientist and scalar researcher Col. Tom Bearden at his huge web site, http://www.cheniere.org

Grossman then goes on to quote from Bearden about how the technology works. He mentions the Russian "Woodpecker grid" by which the scalar waves are aimed at anypoint on earth. This Woodpecker grid is a system of EM broadcasts (either transverse or scalar EM) from a number of locations. The interference patterns of these transmissions (so named because they sound, if put through a speaker, like a woodpecker pecking) make a grid pattern and the scalar waves run along the grid to their target location.

Then Grossman writes a very intriguing paragraph:

"Today, weather engineering is also part of the Pentagon's military arsenal and is at the command of America's public enemy Nr. 1, the shadow government.

"Basically, the U.S.A. lost the cold war - contrary to all newspaper allegations - against the Soviet Union because of scalar weapons and weather controlling technology. This is one of the key reasons for the multi-trillion dollar Pentagon black budget and secret arms program, namely to catch up in the scalar arms race. The main part of this technology was developed for the Pentagon by Israel and its ultra-secret scalar weapons program and is the reason why the U.S.A. has basically lost its sovereignty to a clique of internationalist scalar terrorists with hyper-tech abilities (such as also demonstrated in the "plane" deceptions on 9-11-1)."

Grossman ends with the following:

3. Category 5 mega-hurricane Katrina bears signature marks of being rigged and magnified using scalar weather engineering. There has been a suspicious increase in frequency of otherwise very rare category 5 hurricanes. Before hurricane Andrew (1992, apparently a time when scalar technology was available) there were only two recorded category 5 hurricanes in the U.S.A. Katrina is actually more than category 5; it is category 5+ (the scale has no category 6). It originated as a small medium hurricane, but suddenly and inexplicably over the Gulf of Mexico it exploded into a monster of category 5 (allegedly due to the "warm Gulf waters" that have never behaved this way any time before). Then, the next item of suspicion is the target: New Orleans, shaped like a basin and beneath sea level, also conveniently a center of oil refining for the U.S.A. and located near the Gulf of Mexico oil production.

The weather wars are getting serious and no one knows the long term macro effects they will have. For one thing, if exothermic mode (heating) is used more than endothermic mode (cooling) then the operations are likely contributing to global warming, since the added energy is coming from the vacuum of space, not from any other place on earth (3-space).

FULL ARTICLE

http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/Grossmann/Scalar_Weather_Wars.htm


Informant: V

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=90173;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=90177;show_parent=1

BBC News website 30.08.05

Brian Willcock faces getting rid of his goats if the mast is installed

Residents in an East Sussex village are fighting a fifth application to site a mobile phone mast near their homes.

O2 wants to site a 20m (60ft) mast at Nutley in the Ashdown Forest, next to Humphrey's Farm, where Brian Willcock makes organic goats' milk and cheese.

Mr Willcock said if it was approved, the goats would have to go because of fears radiation could affect the milk.

O2 said it believed the site was the best choice in the locality and was chosen from a range of options.

Good coverage

The company said it had held consultations on the siting of the mast over several months.

At least 60 residents have sent letters to Wealden District Council opposing the mast.

They believe it conflicts with a planning document which states "any development in the High Weald must enhance and beautify the surrounding area".

Residents question whether the mast is needed, as there is already good mobile coverage in the area.

They say they have already defeated four similar applications for masts and are ready to fight again.

Mr Willcock said the proposed site for the mast was in a field 8-9m (24-27ft) from his kidding house.

"It is a highly dangerous place to put a mast," he said.

"The herd would have to go because we couldn't risk selling milk that might be altered. People buy it for health reasons."

This is local London 30.08.05

A TEENAGER is calling on residents to oppose an upgrade to a phone mast.

Laura Taylor, 14, says people living near the Vodafone mast at Barnehurst station have suffered health problems since it was put up in 1992.

She believes residents' nosebleeds, headaches and dizziness are directly liked to the 15ft-high mast.

Vodafone intends to make alterations, which do not require planning permission, to the phone mast to enable it to transmit 3G services.

Laura, of Windermere Road, Barnehurst, said: "To me it's too much of a coincidence residents have suffered these health problems ever since the mast was erected."

A 250-name petition has been organised and the Erith School pupil is calling on residents to get involved in the protest.

A Vodafone spokesman said: "There is no evidence of any adverse effects for mobile phone users under the recommended guidelines."

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

August 30, 2005

O2 mobile phones

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/archives/2005/08/o2_mobile_phone.html

I've been thinking more about the way O2 are treating my constituents. Frankly, they're refusing to mend their bridges. One of their operatives phoned me on Tuesday suggesting we meet. I said that there was little point. They know exactly what the situation is and the only way they are going to put things right is by removing the mast that is casting a shadow over the home of my poor constituent.

Why on earth are they doing this? That's a question, I've been asking myself over the last week. I think they know they've made a huge mess of this one and they're desperately looking for another site. They have to do this within six months anyway. My only conclusion is that they're playing for time.

This is still not good enough. The mast they put up is wrongly sited. At this point I can hear you asking yourself why I am so angry about this particular mast. All I can say is that you would be too. I'm going to get more photos of the site to show you later this week.

My thinking is this. The only way we're going to get this company (and Mr Kevin Hull) to get a move on is to give them more press exposure.

So I'm asking for your help with the "Shame on you O2" campaign. I have a plan that will mean that O2 mobile phones have more publicity than they have ever had before over a mast.

I could do with:

1. A logo - preferably with the words "shame on you O2" but I'll leave it up to you. I have to be able to put it on letterheads and stickers.

2. Images that I can reproduce and put on placards.

3. A blog skin.

We'll make this a competition. If you can do one of the above I'll empty the parliamentary goody box and award some prizes to the best ones.

Posted by tom at August 30, 2005 08:15 AM

http://www.uruknet.info?p=15202


Informant: Milo

August 26, 2005

The strangest thing about some organisations is that they spend all that money on advertising, PR, branding and sales and then they go and mess it all up by being rude, indolent and ignorant.

After writing to the Chief Executive of O2 about their outrageous disregard for the family life of my constituents,

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_79141.php

I get a letter from a man called Mr Kevin Hull of telephone company O2 Acquisition Developments (whatever that is). Here's what he says:

"Thank you for your letter concerning the telecommunications installation reference above. Your views have been noted. We will respond in due course"

Not good enough Kevin Hull. Not good enough at all, Kevin.

My constituent wakes each morning to look 20 feet out of his window to see the monstrosity that you have erected without having the decency to consult him about it.

So here's my response to your non-response:

1. My visit to the 02 site yesterday

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/archives/shame%20on%20you%20smaller%20.html

2. I have been invited to meet the Chief Executive of 02 when he visits my party conference next month. The first thing I will be demanding is that he answers my letter, the second will be "why is Kevin Hull of 02 acquisition developments so rude?"

3. I'm asking people to give you a little encouragement to get a move on by letting you know their views at your kevin.hull@02.com email address.

Posted by tom at August 26, 2005 12:52 PM

Aug 16, 2005

Express and Star West Midlands and Staffordshire

A mobile phone company was given a police guard to start work on replacing a controversial phone mast before dawn today.

The mast had been pulled down amid protests. Residents last week blocked the entrance to the site in Stone Cross, West Bromwich, when phone firm O2 arrived to replace the mast and workers were turned away.

But workers returned to Walsall Road at 4am yesterday with a police guard and erected a fence around the site in Walsall Road. Angry residents accused the company of "sneaking" onto the site to avoid any protests.

The residents have been backed by local MP Tom Watson who said the 60ft mast in Walsall Road was an eyesore.

Mr Watson said the phone firm had abused its emergency powers and added that he had written to O2's chief executive Peter Erskine to complain.

He said: "These powers are there to keep the phone networks up and running during genuine emergencies like the terrible events we have witnessed in London, not just to bypass the planning and consultation process.

"O2 should be ashamed of themselves for what they are doing."

Residents' campaigner Ric Keeling, said the actions of O2 were disgraceful.

"They came at 4am when they knew everyone would be in bed.

"How low can you get to have to use tactics like this?.

"This mast will be just 20ft from my house and of course we are all deeply worried over the effects it could have on children and even adults.

"Round two might have gone to the company but this matter is not over yet," added Mr Keeling.

O2 declined to comment but have now set up a "one-to-one meeting with residents on September 30.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-us-collapses-a-scenario/2005/08/28/1125167552525.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon-hitchens-kinney.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

To view this item online, visit
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46062

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Posted: August 31, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Pat Buchanan, former communications director to President Ronald Reagan, former presidential candidate and WND commentator, has come to the conclusion that a courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment of President Bush.

I reluctantly agree – and for the same reasons.

President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country.

He has not only failed, he has intentionally neglected this sworn duty, instead claiming he prefers to promote a vague immigration "reform" plan that involved a "guest worker" program that has served as an encouragement to the most massive influx of illegal immigration this country has ever seen.

Some will tell me this can't be done and that it is irresponsible to propose it because Bush is a wartime president.

My response? It is precisely because this nation finds itself in a desperate war declared by a formidable foe determined to use our open borders to destroy this country that we must act now.

Some will remind me I endorsed Bush just two years ago for re-election.

My response? I made it very clear at the time that I was not really endorsing Bush, per se, but seeking the only practical way to defeat his reckless and irresponsible and treasonous opponent. There is no contradiction here. Kerry had to be defeated. Now Bush must go. America can do better.

I don't agree with many of Pat Buchanan's foreign policy ideas. But on the border, he is 100 percent right. Bush has been a disaster. No matter how successful we might be in our campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can lose this war against jihadist Islam right here at home.

Our enemies have already used the open border to penetrate this country – and they will do so again.

When Bush placed the old Immigration and Naturalization Service under the new Department of Homeland Security, I actually believed he recognized how critical border security was to the defense of our homeland. I was fooled.

In the current issue of my premium, online, intelligence newsletter, G2 Bulletin, author Paul Williams recounts in extravagant detail how al-Qaida operatives have already used the open Mexican border not only to sneak operatives into the country but to smuggle in nuclear weapons with the help of the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) street gang.

The fuse has been lit.

The war in Iraq, which I have supported, will mean little when, not if, a nuclear weapon is detonated inside our own country.

When that happens, we will no longer be having debates about who has more culpability for Sept. 11 – Bush or his predecessor. Bush has had ample opportunity to address the mistakes of the past. Instead, he has repeated them. They say hindsight is 20-20. Not for Bush.

Even if the border issue and the tsunami of illegal immigration was not strictly speaking the No. 1 national security issue we face, enforcing the laws of the land would be the right thing to do – the only moral and right thing to do.

Americans are dealing with more joblessness, higher crime, skyrocketing taxes, a crippled medical system, overcrowded jails, an overburdened judicial and law enforcement system, costly and divisive language barriers and changing demographics that are permanently transforming the U.S. culture.

Why?

Bush claims it is because America needs cheap labor. That's what the law of supply and demand is all about. It's not his duty or responsibility to acquire workers for big corporations and other fat cats below what the market will support.

I don't even believe Bush is being honest when he makes this argument. I am convinced there are international agreements behind this. I am persuaded the systematic destruction of the American way of life through uncontrolled and illegal immigration is part of a master plan for merger and global consolidation – first with our neighbors in this hemisphere and later worldwide.

This secretive plot must end here and now.

America was founded on the principle of independence and sovereignty. The president is betraying our most sacred national heritage.

Bush is ignoring the will of the people and he is violating the law of the land.

It's time to turn up the heat.

As Buchanan suggested: Will even one courageous Republican member of Congress have the guts to sponsor a bill of impeachment?


Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND and a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. He is also the founder of WND Books, publishes the premium, online, intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, and is the author of the highly acclaimed book "Taking America Back." In addition to his daily column in WND, he writes a nationally syndicated weekly column available to U.S. newspapers through Creators Syndicate.


Informant: Milo



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

KATRINA BLOGS & LOOTING:

WIKIPEDIA GENERAL LISTINGS:
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Blogs

THE TRUTH LAID BEAR:
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/topicpage.php?topic=Katrina

.............

KATRINA: "YOU LOOT, I SHOOT"
By Michelle Malkin August 31, 2005 01:42 AM

Darkness is descending on New Orleans, literally and figuratively. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, the N.O. Times-Picayune blog http://tinyurl.com/c5lg4 reports that the local children's hospital is under siege:

...

Late Tuesday, Gov. Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher described a disturbing scene unfolding in uptown New Orleans, where looters were trying to break into Children's Hospital.

Bottcher said the director of the hospital fears for the safety of the staff and the 100 kids inside the hospital. The director said the hospital is locked, but that the looters were trying to break in and had gathered outside the facility.

The director has sought help from the police, but, due to rising flood waters, police have not been able to respond.

Bottcher said Blanco has been told of the situation and has informed the National Guard. However, Bottcher said, the National Guard has also been unable to respond.

...

Things are spiraling completely out of control--and contrary to some naive observers, the crimes are not just being committed by people desperate for basic food and sustenance. Earlier, the Times-Picayune blog reported http://tinyurl.com/85ltr :

...

Those trapped in the city faced an increasingly lawless environment, as law enforcement agencies found themselves overwhelmed with widespread looting. Looters swarmed the Wal-mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, often bypassing the food and drink section to steal wide-screen TVs, jewelry, bicycles and computers. Watching the sordid display and shaking his head in disgust, one firefighter said of the scene: "It's a f---- hurricane, what are you do with a basketball goal?" Police regained control at about 3 p.m., after clearing the store with armed patrol. One shotgun-toting Third District detective described the looting as "ferocious."

"And it's going to get worse as the days progress," he said.

In Uptown, one the few areas that remained dry, a bearded man patrolled Oak Street near the boarded-up Maple Leaf Bar, a sawed-off shotgun slung over his shoulder. The owners of a hardware store sat in folding chairs, pistols at the ready.

Uptown resident Keith Williams started his own security patrol, driving around in his Ford pickup with his newly purchased handgun. Earlier in the day, Williams said he had seen the body of a gunshot victim near the corner of Leonidas and Hickory streets.

"What I want to know is why we don't have paratroopers with machine guns on every street," Williams said.

Like-minded Art Depodesta sat on the edge of a picnic table outside Cooter Brown's Bar, a chrome shotgun at his side loaded with red shells.

"They broke into the Shell station across the street," he said. "I walked over with my 12-gauge and shot a couple into the air."

The looters scattered, but soon after, another man appeared outside the bar in a pickup truck armed with a pistol and threatened Depodesta.

"I told him, 'Listen, I was in the Army and I will blow your ass off,'" Depodesta said. "We've got enough trouble with the flood."

The man sped away.

"You know what sucks," Depodesta said. "The whole U.S. is looking at this city right now, and this is what they see."

In the Bywater, a supply store sported spray-painted signs reading "You Loot, I Shoot" and "You Bein Watched." A man seated nearby with a rifle in his lap suggested it was no idle threat. At the Bywater studio of Dr. Bob, the artist known for handpainted "Be Nice or Leave" signs, a less fanciful sentiment was painted on the wall: "Looters Will Be Shot. Dr. Bob."

Reminds me very much of the chaos that ensued after the Los Angeles riots, in which Korean grocery store owners were left to fend for themselves and it was up to good Samaritans to try and quell the violence.

Chris Regan at Junkyard Blog reports that the mayor of New Orleans may go ahead and make a bona fide martial law declaration. What's he waiting for?

...

WAL-MART LOOTED ON CAMERA IN NEW ORLEANS NBC10 August 30, 2005

http://www.nbc10.com/news/4917570/detail.html

Video just into NBC News shows New Orleans residents looting a Wal-Mart after the state government ordered the city's evacuation.

The video first aired on MSNBC on Tuesday night, on "Live And Direct With Rita Cosby."

There were many reports of looting in the city as temperatures rose along with flood waters in the sub-seal level city.

In downtown New Orleans, where looters are floating garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street.

Some of the looting has been taking place in full view of police and National Guard troops. One man with an armload of clothes even asked a police officer if he could borrow his car.

At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter Tuesday morning, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.

When police finally showed up, a young boy stood at the door and shouted a warning, and the crowd scattered.

A tourist from Philadelphia compared the scene to "downtown Baghdad."


Informant: NHNE

31. August 2005

Zum Wahlaufruf der SPD erklärt Bundeswahlkampfleiter Bodo Ramelow:

Vor dem Hintergrund von Hartz IV, Rentenkürzungen, Aufhebung der Parität in der Krankenversicherung und wachsender Kinderarmut klingt die zentrale Botschaft des SPD-Wahlaufrufs wie ein Hohn. Die SPD hat in den letzten sieben Jahren das Markenzeichen soziale Gerechtigkeit verspielt. Deutschland ist unter Rot-Grün ein Land geworden, in dem Freiheit beschränkt wurde, Gerechtigkeit auf der Strecke geblieben ist und Solidarität nichts mehr gilt. Schon 1998 und 2002 versprach Gerhard Schröder soziale Gerechtigkeit. Bekommen haben die Menschen die so genannten Reformen der Agenda 2010. Deren Lasten wurden einseitig auf den Schultern der kleinen Leute abgeladen, während Konzerne, Besserverdienende und Vermögende entlastet worden sind. Dem Einkommensmillionär hat Rot-Grün eine zusätzliche Mercedes S-Klasse vor die Tür gestellt, dem oder der älteren Arbeitslosen des Arbeitslosengeld zusammengekürzt und ihn oder sie in Hartz IV-Verzweiflung gestürzt. Der Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht hat es an den Tag gebracht: Unter Rot-Grün sind die Reichen reicher und die Armen zahlreicher geworden. SPD und Grüne sind keine Alternative zu Schwarz-gelb, sondern deren Brüder (und Schwestern) im Geiste des Sozialabbaus. Wer einen wirklichen Richtungswechsel der Politik, wer Schwarz-Gelb noch verhindern und Rot-Grün die rote Karte zeigen will, hat eine bundesweit wählbare Alternative: Die Linke.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=29688

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray

08/30/05

A Tufts University School of Medicine reporter has realized that a pretty large amount of scientific findings are, well, wrong. This work follows on from a recent publication of his that found that a third of medical research articles published in major scientific journals and then cited over a thousand times in the literature are later contradicted or have major questions raised over them. The reasons are many...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04799.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Thanks for that link to "Questioning the authority of scientific journals" but it needs to be pointed out that the link provided http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04799.cfm is to one of those pro corporate spin groups, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, that will make their own spin out of the paper.

Please tell your readers to go to the article directly, which is at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676

There's some other good articles there as well.

Regards

Don Maisch

CounterPunch
by Roger Morris

08/30/05

What a surreal moment -- this faded end-of-summer 2005. We are locked in an evil lost war of staggering costs. Some flail at the atrocity in a cause that seems equally lost. Most play on in the ebbing season's sun, oblivious to reckonings. In Washington rules the worst regime in memory. Yet it falls to a fiercely bereaved 48-year-old mother, camping beside a dusty ditch in Texas, to embody the conscience of the culture, at least until the media move on. The regime in its outrage struts essentially unopposed in our supposed democracy. Protest rises powerless. The oblivious go uninformed, unled. ... Despite the seeming death of politics, we have never known a crisis and opportunity more political. The moment cries out for politics fought as never before...

http://www.counterpunch.org/morris08302005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Rob Patterson

08/31/05

On Wednesday, Sheehan decamps from Crawford and heads to Austin. She will hold a rally at City Hall to kick off her bus tour that will end in Washington at a major antiwar demonstration planned for Sept. 24. Since she first camped out alone on the side of the road on Aug. 6 at what became known as Camp Casey I, thousands of Americans have also made the pilgrimage to the town and countryside near the president's vacation getaway to show their support. And millions have witnessed her crusade via the media... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/31/casey/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

08/30/05

Consider the mentality of most presidents, justices, and Senators, and the incentives they face. Expanding the reach of government power is just considered integral to the job description. They may choose to expand in one area as versus another based on the quid pro quos they owe for the past election and the next one, but the idea of diminishing overall government makes no sense to them -- any more than it makes sense for a cook to encourage dieting, or a housing contractor to encourage cave-dwelling. Once a politician or bureaucrat tastes power, he or she becomes a member of the governing caste, which means advancing the public sector first...

http://www.mises.org/story/1899


The definition and defense of freedom

The Raw Story

08/30/05

The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially 'involved in terrorist activities.' ... The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political surveillance. 'This document confirms our fears that federal and state counterterrorism officers have turned their attention to groups and individuals engaged in peaceful protest activities,' said Ben Wizner, an ACLU attorney. 'When the FBI and local law enforcement identify affirmative action advocates as potential terrorists, every American has cause for concern'...

http://tinyurl.com/asvxl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cincinnati Enquirer

08/30/05

Even with a robust economy that was adding jobs last year, the number of Americans who fell into poverty rose to 37 million -- up 1.1 million from 2003 -- according to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. It marks the fourth straight increase in the government's annual poverty measure. The Census Bureau also said household income remained flat, and that the number of people without health insurance edged up by about 800,000 to 45.8 million people... [editor's note: When you keep raising the threshold to which you peg your definition of "poverty," you get more of it ... imagine that - TLK]

http://tinyurl.com/dqcu9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.newstarget.com/022488.html


Informant: Salvador Lourdes

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Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/6/526

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Questioning the authority of scientific journals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/940688/

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Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
Interphone British Results
Criticism on former Interphone Study
Letters to the Editor

http://www.omega-news.info/morganlamjepidemiology.pdf

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verif
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Denmark

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

Professor: "Report on acoustic-neuroma is worthless"
Denmark
Created: 1 Sep 2005

Danish Professor Albert Gjedde of Aarhus Hospital knocks the recently published results in a international study that suggest that people using mobile phones for more than 10 years are at greater risk of developing "acoustic-neuroma", a benevolent type of tumor in the ear.

In the British-Scandinavian part of the study, 678 people with acoustic-neuroma tumors and a control group of 3553 people without the tumor, were tested.

"The study shows a possibilty [for developing acoustic-neuroma] that warrants further investigation, but it does not prove any direct risk and is basically just a hypothesis or theory. The study in itself is worthless" - says Prof. Albert Gjedde.

Prof. Albert Gjedde disputes the test on the grounds that the results relied on the testees recalling their own amount of mobile-phone usage going years back in time. He suggests that this may have lead the tested people with acoustic-neuroma to subconsciously excaggerate their recollection of mobile-phone usage.

The study is a cooperation between England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and is a part of the "Interphone" project that aims to study possible relationsships between mobile-phone usage and brain/nerve related diseases.

Danish Government has given 30 million kroner (= 2.7 million pounds) to research into health effects of mobile telephony, but that won't go far says Albert Gjedde who would like to see more money for research.

Article text in Danish
Source: ComOn.dk, 1. sept. 2005


Informant: Iris Atzmon


Omega see also:

Professor Albert Gjedde of Aarhus Hospital
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=31
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=187
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=188

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Now we learn that the study checked phone use that is equivalent to only one hour a week....

Iris Atzmon.

----- Original Message ----- From: christinedoyle To: Iris Atzmon Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:05 AM Subject: Emailing: newsprint.htm

Doctor warns against long-term cellphone use

Hong Kong - People should avoid long-term use of cellphones a Hong Kong neurosurgeon has warned, a media report said on Sunday.

Dawson Fong To-sang, chief of neurosurgery at Tuen Mun Hospital, said further research was needed to study the effects of phone use on the brain, the South China Morning Post reported.

Fong wanted more investigation to be done on the effects of phone use in the temporal region of the brain which is slightly in front of and above the ear. That area is most likely to be covered by the mobile phone and exposed to the highest frequencies, the doctor said.

He was commenting following the most recent study, carried out by Britain's Institute of Cancer Research, which found no links to the incidence of acoustic neuroma-type brain tumours which occur directly underneath the ear.

Surveyed 678 people who have used cellphones for 10 years The results of study, which surveyed 678 people who have used cellphones for 10 years, were published last week.

Fong said the study was limited because only one type of brain tumour -acoustic neuroma - was studied and the amount of time people spent using their phone was only equivalent to one hour a week.

He believed this was much less than many people, particularly youngsters and businessmen, spend using cellphones.

Fong said people should limit cellphone use to emergencies and avoid buying them for children under 14 years old.

"It's a very good invention, but to abuse it might well cause trouble in later years," he added. - Sapa-dpa

Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-09-04 10:46:16 © Independent Online 2005. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.

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Thanks for this Iris!!!

I knew there had to be something missing -- the same way studies were done re EMF RAPID -- either not checking effects of the obvious "white blood cells" which is the well-known way to check for overdose of ionizing radiation. As you know, "white blood cells" are related to Leukemia/Leukaemia regardless of the type of radiation and yet one scientist after another chooses some other parameter for their studies to prove whether there are effects. Then, as you know, studies are often re "intermittent exposures" unlike what happens to the innocent child/person who sleeps close to electric appliances, high frequencies on electrical wiring, electric meters, high voltage powerlines and cell tower antennae.

Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden specializes in dermatologic effects. You will note his research re EMR does investigate known effects of chronic, prolonged ultraviolet exposure when studying other EMR effects.

Since Leukemia/Leukaemia has been known to be the main cancer associated with nuclear radiation for over 50 years and since Leukemia/Leukaemia is the primary cancer that has been linked to Leukemia/Leukaemia, the most obvious studies to prove/disprove effects of chronic, prolonged EMR exposures at low doses are those that focus on white blood cell changes.

Inflammation is the beginning of the precancerous process. Inflammation can initially be identified by white blood cell changes. Studies must simulate "real life exposures" such as sleeping in one location for 6-8 hours every night for a month to six weeks (at a minimum depending on distance from source) re chronic, prolonged EMR exposures and obviously, any study relying on cell phone usage for an average of one hour even if evaluating months of exposure, does not come close to providing meaningful results!!!

Each and every study that did not find EMR adversely affects health should be challenged in similar way. Take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com

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The breaking of bonds in DNA during transcription need not be the high-energetic effect of covalent bonds, but more likely breaking the much weaker Van der Waals forces. Damage during transcription is not the same as watching DNA being literally blown apart by photons.

Further, the damage is just as likely to be via free radicals, which do cause DNA damage. And since studies show that EMF does affect both the generation of free radicals and the supression of free radical removal, this mechanism cannot be dismissed either.

Therefore we have observational studies of actual DNA damage, and two possible mechanisms.

Andy

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And I really can't understand where they get "the absence of a known biological mechanism for this" from.

Sorry: I keep muttering about this study. Interesting that even the establishment is remaining very cautious over this study. How would its methodology be challenged if the results had been the other way? I'd like to see the whole Journal article: does anyone have access?

Andy

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Risk of a tumour on the same side of the head as reported phone use was raised for use for 10 years or longer (OR=1.8, 95% CI: 1.1-3.1).

Andy, did the news report this? An increased risk of 80% (OR=1.8) on the same side of the head.

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Dear Andy,

is the 'Swedlow' referred to as the chief investigator in this study, the 'Swerdow' with an R, who used to work for the telecoms and in fact was the one who tried to stop all further research as it would be a 'waste of time'? If they are one and the same, the conclusions of this study are no suprise - and obviously extremely suspect!

BW Jenny

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I believe it is one and the same. And Chairman of AGNIR. Swerdlow also noted the night-time melatonin and women shift workers, which was brought up in the Andrew Mitchell MP debate, Jan 04.

Did he actually say no more research? Several time he has remained cautious "we still don't know".

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Andy, I'm almost certain Swerdlow is the one who called for research to stop....perfectly safe, no need to waste more time and money. Unfortunately I can't recall the details or when this occurred - but if anyone else can call it to mind with anything more accurate than a memory, it could be useful I would think. If I am correct (and I think I am) the fact that he is also a 'telecom' man pretending to be independent, should indicate bias and bring this study into disrepute. Perhaps this might be something for the PR people?

BW Jenny

Hi Jenny and Andy.

The Dane "Jorgen Bach Andersen" who is the main person on the Danish research into "Mobile damage" is one of those you call a "Telecom man" Pretending to be an independent ( he was also on the European study, The name COST). Our H3G expert witness Dr. Chadwick was on the same study, repeating the "same old" INCIRP, NRPB, whatever, nothing not repeated or read (I wonder how did Dr. Chadwick ever get a degree?, or has he?) Yeah, the schools degrade!

Andersen has been successful to convince the Danish Government to hire him as "THE INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST" they could use for this project and they are wondering (Danish government) why foreign scientists do not want to join the program. Why would they? With Anderson at the steering wheel they risk serious discrediting if they do not agree with him.

The thing is, he is not a scientist, he earns his living by working for the mobile phone industry, but then, he serves up all the answers the government wants to hear. There is a Danish scientist who has been fighting for the harmful mobile telephony cause for years. Her name is Sianette Kwee, who would have made a really good job of this research, so why do you think she has not been asked and she has been degraded, (even her university website has been taken away). SHE IS NOT POSITIVE ENOUGH. So much for Nordic Democracy! She has the same views as Olle Johansen. She has been warning of dangers for years. Look her up

http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega271103.htm

If you type in her name on Google you get loads more.

We have just got the cost bill from the courtcase from Freshfields, Hutchisons lawyers in our court case for £. 470.000.- (yesterday) so I am a bit bloody minded right now, but I will be OK tomorrow if I can sleep, for a few hours, and get even more bloody minded and tell them to: F... O..) So see you later.

Best regards.

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

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The wrong signals
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAD33.htm

Before you read this bear in mind that it is in Spiked an online publication and BT and the Mobile Operators Association are amongst its sponsors. They also rather curiously have the Medical Research Council as a sponsor. Spiked claims to stand for liberty, enlightenment and something else - writing biased and poorly researched articles hardly bears that out. It seems to have Burgess amongst its supporters. The study referred to is the one out the other day. Andy has written us a press release which went out yesterday.

To contact Spiked go to
http://www.spiked-online.com/Sections/central/About/Index.htm

the email address to write/complain to is editorial@spiked-online.com

They boast that content is of immense importance to them. I think this lot below can be torn apart fairly easily. Please email this article to anyone who has fought a mast campaign because they claim that one or two campaigners force others to join them and so stop masts going up. Please could anyone suffering ill effects from masts email them. This article is badly researched and they are ill-informed and bear in mind BURGESS has no scientific qualifications whatsoever.

Thanks

sian

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What a remarkably ignorant editorial from "Spiked". Technology is wonderful, don't worry about the risks till later? Sounds like "New Orleans is a great holiday destination, don't shore up the levees, it won't happen" (as per today's news).

Of course you have to think worst case.

Andy

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Re the 'Spiked' outfit.

Note their past ill-doings in the promotion of gm crops and foods - as uncovered by gmwatch and forerunner - 'ngin' in their article - 'Strange Bedfellows'- http://ngin.tripod.com/190303d.htm

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The wrong signals

A major new study rejects the notion that mobile phones cause cancer. That the health authorities tell us to worry anyway shows that there's more to this debate than the science. First they don't say the real findings (it's about benign tumors, it shows increase AFTER 10 years), and then they continue their own manipulation and build a whole theory on this. It's ridiculus. it's spin in spin in spin etc....

I find it hard to grasp how the journalists are ready to make such idiots of themselves, and how "experts" from government can say very unscientific things and people still treat them with respect. They should be ridiculed publically, they invite it. It's unbelievable how brainwash works. Things like "an apple is black" can be accepted without question. Just makes you wonder what a world we live in.

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To editorial@spiked-online.com

Although you describe yourself as an online publication which stands for liberty and "enlightenment", your latest article on mobile phones is an appalling piece of journalism, which demonstrates the exact opposite. Looking at your list of sponsors, it becomes glaringly obvious why your article is so biased and ill researched. I will discuss this with Mike Dolan of the MOA at our next meeting.

To attack the precautionary approach on the basis of your obvious lack of understanding of Science is a dangerous path to tread, in particular as your article fuels a careless attitude to mobile phone use. This approach will backfire in due course when the dangers become clear.

Ever heard of the Freiburger and Bamberger Appeal which was signed by thousands of European medical professionals and the Naila Study, carried out by German doctors, which indicates that within a 400 m radius around a mobile phone mast cancer rates treble?? Obvioulsy NOT!

Please check the credentials of "Scientists" like Burgess before solely relying on their evidence. It is also very disturbing that Prof. Swerdlow from Cancer Research is Chair of AGNIR, advising government on non ionising radiation. Don't you think that this represents a conflict of interest?

Attacks on campaign groups like MastSanity - a registered National charity, representing thousands of members and giving help and advise to people who experience health problems due to exposure to pulsed magnetic fields - demonstrate your desperate attempt to appease your sponsors. For further feedback please see

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=199

I. Dickenson


From Mast Sanity

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New study on acoustic neuromas and cell phone use

Here’s some good news for the Telcos spin factories: “No brain cancer link to mobile phones, study says” Watch the spinning of media articles coming out proclaiming the old ‘mobiles proven safe’ line. More justification for Motorola’s call to end all future research.

Note however, that Swerdlow is not saying there is no risk, just no “substantial risk in the first decade after starting use”. This is not new news as it is generally accepted that it would take at least 10 years for a statistically detectible risk to appear - if there is a risk. And what about that other study that found a connection with acoustic neuroma after 10 years of cell phone use?

What about what the Russian and Chinese RF scientists who see the risk of a whole range of possible neurological effects from prolonged cell phone use?

Note what Swerdlow et al said in December of 2004*:

“Despite the ubiquity of new technologies using RF’s, little is known about population exposures from RF sources and even less about the relative importance of different sources. Other cautions are that mobile phone studies to date have been able to address only relatively short lag periods, that almost no data are available on the consequences of childhood exposure, and that published data largely concentrate on a small number of outcomes, especially brain tumor and leukemia.”

* Ahlbom A, Green A, Kfeifets L, Savitz D, Swerdlow A, Epidemiology of Health Effects of Radiofrequency Exposure, Env. Health Pers. Vol. 112, NO. 17, Dec. 2004

This study is just another footnote in a long history of studies that have failed to give any real answers to the urgent question. What will be the effects on their mental wellbeing for the millions of children using mobile phones in 10-15 -20 years of use?

Don Maisch

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=193 (excerpt)

The Lonn study: no connection with mobile phone use and cancer. Really? http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=195

The Lonn study, commentary from Lloyd Morgan
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=196

Definitive Comments from the Central Brain Tumor Registry (USA)
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=204

The Lonn study: commentary from Sam Milham
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=197

Power Watch analysis on that acoustic neuroma study
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=202

Spinning of the Interphone study from “Spiked”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=199

The Bizarre foundations of “Spiked”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=201



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31. August 2005

Zur Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Monat August erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Rolf Kutzmutz:

Auch die letzte Arbeitslosenstatistik vor den Bundestagswahlen ist keinerlei Grund zur Freude. Denn der leichte Rückgang der statistisch erfassten Arbeitslosigkeit um 44.000 auf jetzt 4,73 Millionen hat vielmehr mit der Zunahme von Ein-Euro-Jobs als mit neuen versicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsplätzen zu tun. Entgegen den Äußerungen aus dem Wirtschaftsministerium ist der Rückgang versicherungspflichtiger Arbeitsplätze keineswegs aufgehalten. Immer noch gehen an jedem Tag in Deutschland mehrere Hundert Vollzeitarbeitsplätze verloren. Dagegen boomen die Ein-Euro-Jobs. Die Kommunen wollen die Zahl dieser so genannten Arbeitsgelegenheiten von derzeit 200.000 auf 350.000 ausbauen. Ein-Euro-Jobs sind nur schlecht verbrämte Arbeitslosigkeit, die mit der Not der Menschen spielt, die sie annehmen müssen. Ein Weg zu vollwertiger Arbeit sind sie jedoch nicht. Sie sind in erster Linie ein Trick, um die Statistik zu schönen und in Wahlzeiten die Zahl der Arbeitslosen unter der 5 Millionengrenze zu halten. Die Rezepte der Konservativen würden diesen Trend nur noch verstärken: Schleifen des Kündigungsschutzes, Niedriglohn, Beschneidung der Arbeitnehmerrechte und Ein-Euro-Jobs als Allheilmittel lösen das Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit nicht und verschärfen nur die Lage der Arbeitnehmer. Vordringliches Ziel der Linkspartei ist es, Menschen in vollwertige, Existenz sichernde Arbeit zu bringen. Dafür haben wir tragfähige Konzepte. Dazu gehören:

* der konsequente Abbau der Überstunden,

* die Erhebung einer Ausbildungsplatzumlage für Unternehmen, die nicht ausbilden,

* der Aufbau eines öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektors und die Förderung regionaler Wirtschaftskreisläufe,

* das Vorziehen von Infrastrukturmaßnahmen und öffentlichen Investitionen in Ostdeutschland und

* die Unterstützung strukturschwacher Regionen im Westen,

* die Schaffung regulärer, sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung in öffentlich geförderten und gemeinnützigen Beschäftigungssektoren, finanziert durch die Bündelung der gegenwärtig für das Arbeitslosengeld II, die Kosten der Unterkunft und die so genannte Mehraufwandsentschädigung für Ein-Euro-Jobs aufgebrachten Mittel - kombiniert mit bereits vorhandenen Förderfonds von Ländern, Bund und Europäischer Union.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=29687

http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=541086&_wo=News:Wirtschaft&_wobild=menue_news.gif&template=detail_standard_azan

Neue Untersuchungen bestätigen Gefahr von Mobilfunk-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939195/

Ärzte warnen vor Langzeitfolgen von Handy- und Schnurlostelefonieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939911/

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

30.08.2005 14:49

Österreichische Ärztekammer: Erstmals haben sich auch in epidemiologischen Untersuchungen am Menschen Schädigungen der Erbsubstanz gezeigt.

Die Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖAK) warnt nun auch vor den Folgen von Handy- und Schnurlostelefonie. Laut ÖAK haben erstmals auch epidemiologische Untersuchungen ergeben, dass vor allem das Handy Schädigungen der Erbsubstanz sowie ein erhöhtes Tumor-Risiko verursachen kann.

Tumore. Zwei in der Fachzeitschrift "Environmental Research" und der Fachzeitschrift "Neuroepidemiology" publizierte Untersuchungen aus Schweden würden das vorliegende Bild ergänzen. Sie zeigen laut ÖAK wie schon zwei vorhergehende Studien ein erhöhtes Risiko für Tumore des Hörnervs sowie erstmals auch für bösartige Gehirntumore wie etwa Astrozytome nach langjähriger Verwendung von analogen und digitalen Handys sowie von Schnurlostelefonen.

Die Dosis zählt. "Es geht wie bei vielen Umwelt- und Lebensstilfaktoren auch bei elektromagnetischen Feldern und Strahlen um die Dosis. Und die kumuliert im Laufe der Jahre, wie die vorliegenden Studien uns zeigen. Kinder sollten Funktelefone deshalb grundsätzlich nicht verwenden", sagte der Referent für Umweltmedizin der Österreichischen Ärztekammer, Dr. Gerd Oberfeld, am Dienstag in einer Aussendung.

Viel zu wenig bekannt sei außerdem, dass auch die Verwendung von schnurlosen Heimtelefonen zu einer Strahlenbelastung führe, so Oberfeld. Die ÖÄK rate daher, für Telefonate zu Hause Schnurtelefone zu verwenden.

Schlafstörungen und Depressionen. Auch für die Belastung durch Handymasten und die Basisstationen von Schnurlostelefonen können immer mehr Beweise gefunden werden. Unzählige Fallberichte zeigen zum Teil deutliche Auswirkungen auf Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit. In diesen Untersuchungen zeigten sich bei Anrainern von Handymasten unter anderem vermehrt Schlafstörungen, Konzentrationsprobleme, Energielosigkeit und Depressionen. Diese Symptome hätten in den vergangenen Jahren zugenommen.

http://www.kleine.at/nachrichten/hightech/artikel/_721967/index.jsp

STOPP!

Nun wird vieles klar, durchsichtig, und die früher im Verborgenen arbeitenden Interessenvereinigungen, treten heute völlig offen und erkennbar auf.

Trotzdem wird seit 5 Jahren die öffentliche Meinung, - Einschätzung massiv manipuliert, nicht von der Springerpresse alleine, sondern vorsätzlich.

Das Ziel ist wohl ohne Fantasie erkennbar.

Und die Kandidatin kann man nun auch klar einordnen.


Viele Grüße aus Westhausen!

Bernd Schreiner



Getarnte Lobby

Wie Wirtschaftsverbände die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen

Lobbyarbeit ist in einer Demokratie wichtig, damit Öffentlichkeit und Politik über das Für und Wider der Argumente informiert sind und die richtigen Entscheidungen treffen können. Anders sieht es aus, wenn mächtige Verbände sich hinter scheinbar neutralen Organisationen verstecken und mit viel Geld die öffentliche Meinung in ihrem subjektiven Sinne beeinflussen, ohne dass das Publikum das erkennen kann.

Artikel:

Druckversion - DasErste.de - [plusminus - Getarnte Lobby (30.08.2005)

http://www.daserste.de/plusminus/beitrag.asp?uid=818br7mnffjd1le4&cm.asp

Getarnte Lobby
Wie Wirtschaftsverbände die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen SR, Dienstag, 30. August 2005

Ein Beitrag von Dietrich Krauß

Lobbyarbeit ist in einer Demokratie wichtig, damit Öffentlichkeit und Politik über das Für und Wider der Argumente informiert sind und die richtigen Entscheidungen treffen können. Anders sieht es aus, wenn mächtige Verbände sich hinter scheinbar neutralen Organisationen verstecken und mit viel Geld die öffentliche Meinung in ihrem subjektiven Sinne beeinflussen, ohne dass das Publikum das erkennen kann.

Ein Beispiel Blaubeuren in der schwäbischen Provinz. Die Volksbank hat zur Generalversammlung gerufen. Um die trockene Tagesordnung etwas aufzupeppen, gibt’s zum Nachtisch noch eine Portion Politik. Der ehemalige Haushaltsexperte der Grünen, Oswald Metzger. Ihm eilt der Ruf eines Querdenkers voraus. Sein Thema: Vision D - wie Deutschland aus der Krise kommt.

Oswald Metzger verspricht den Zuhörern: „Ich werde Ihnen heute Abend versuchen zu beweisen, dass auch ein Politiker in Zeiten vor den Wahlen durchaus Klartext redet, auch wenn die Botschaften nicht so angenehm sind.“

Unangenehm sind die „Botschaften“ aber fast ausschließlich für Arbeitnehmer und Rentner: länger arbeiten, weniger Rente, Gürtel enger schnallen - vor allem für die kleinen Leute. Das Publikum kennt die Litanei – wenn auch aus anderen Kreisen, wie eine zufällige Umfrage vor Ort beweist: „Leider ist er für mich in der falschen Partei.“ „Er macht eigentlich immer flotte Sprüche, nur passt das nicht zu den Grünen.“ Oswald Metzger Metzger firmiert zwar noch als Grüner, hat aber kein Amt mehr inne und lebt inzwischen als Publizist, Berater und politischer Vortragsreisender. Anderen Verzicht zu predigen - dafür wird man offenbar ziemlich gut bezahlt.

Oswald Metzger dazu: „Klar, ich hab 'nen ordentlichen Honorarsatz für 'ne Veranstaltung. Mein Normalsatz ist ein sehr ordentlicher, der fast einem Durchschnittseinkommen von einem normalen Arbeitnehmer entspricht.“ Pro Abend, versteht sich.

Was wohl die wenigsten wissen: Metzger ist Mitglied in vielen konservativen Netzwerken. Nicht zuletzt bei einem exklusiven Club, der sich „Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft“ nennt. Auf deren Internet-Seite staunen wir nicht schlecht: Metzgers Vortrag – „Vision D“ ist offenbar Teil einer großen Kampagne dieser „Initiative“.

Die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft

Die Geschäftleitung sitzt in Köln - unter einem Dach mit dem Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft - also mit dem wissenschaftlichen „Kompetenzteam“ der Arbeitgeber. Kein Wunder: Es war der mächtige Metallarbeitgeber-Chef Kannegießer persönlich, der die Initiative vor fünf Jahren gründete. Aus Ärger.

Auslöser war eine repräsentative Umfrage. Danach stand die Mehrzahl der Deutschen der Marktwirtschaft kritisch gegenüber, wünschte sich auch in Zukunft einen starken Sozialstaat.

Den Arbeitgebern standen die Haare zu Berge. Sie beschlossen, das störrische Volk ins Visier zu nehmen. Der Plan: eine systematische Umerziehung von oben - durch PR. Denn da war sich der damalige Sprecher von Gesamtmetall, Werner Riek, sicher: „Das muss man doch vielleicht ändern können, dass das, was wir an notwendigen Reformen erkennen, auch von den Mitbürgern als eine positive Reform akzeptiert wird.“

Geld spielt keine Rolle

Kurz: Das ganze Volk muss auf Linie gebracht werden. Mit Geld, viel Geld. Fast 100 Mio. Euro werden für zehn Jahre Meinungsmache investiert, über 30 Redakteure und Werbe-Profis der Agentur Scholz and Friends engagiert. Sie erfinden die so genannte „Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft“ – gemeint ist natürlich: weniger soziale Marktwirtschaft.

Drei Botschaften werden den Menschen immer wieder eingebläut: Deutschland steht am Abgrund; Schuld sind der Sozialstaat und seine bornierten Anhänger; Rettung bringen nur harte Reformen nach dem Muster "Nehmt´s den Armen, gebt´s den Reichen" - genau wie Robin Hood - nur anders herum.

Damit die Botschaft auch gehört wird, werden zahlreiche Prominente verpflichtet. Wissenschaftler und Sportler, aktive und ausrangierte Politgrößen aus allen Lagern. Sie fungieren als Türoffner bei den Medien. Medien machen Meinung. Auf allen Kanälen sind die „Botschafter“ Dauergäste in den Talkshows, manchmal sitzen gleich drei in einer Sendung. Dort treten sie für SPD, Union, FDP und Grüne auf - oder als unabhängige Experten. Tatsächlich sind alle bei der gleichen Lobby im Boot – und fordern harte Einschnitte, von denen sie selbst nie betroffen sind.

Durch diesen Etikettenschwindel wird die öffentliche Diskussion manipuliert, sagt der Politologe Rudolf Speth. Er hat sich in einer Studie für die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung wissenschaftlich mit der Initiative auseinandergesetzt – und mit ihrer Wirkung auf das Publikum.

Pivatdozent Dr. Rudolf Speth, Politologe an der FU Berlin stellt fest: „Wenn alle Botschafter der Initiative dasselbe sagen, dann heißt das ja, oder dann bedeutet das ja: Das muss richtig sein. Da kann gar nichts falsch liegen, wenn so ganz unterschiedliche Leute dieselbe Idee vertreten. Das andere ist aber, dass dadurch die Alternativen unsichtbar werden, denn es gibt Alternativen, aber die werden dadurch faktisch ausgeblendet oder nicht thematisiert. Also insofern hat die Initiative die Strategie, Alternativen unsichtbar zu machen.“

Zahlreiche Journalisten und Medien sind inzwischen selbst Teil der Kampagne. Die Initiative liefert auf Bestellung Daten, sie machen daraus einen Artikel oder gleich eine ganze Doppelseite, wie in der „Welt“. Kernaussage: 50 Jahre Sozialpolitik – ein einziger Irrtum. Weg damit!

Preisträger machen Schlagzeilen. Besonders beliebtes Futter für Journalisten sind Ranglisten, so genannte Rankings, in denen Städte, Länder oder Politiker bewertet werden. Den besten „Reformer des Jahres“ lobt die Initiative jährlich vor einem erlesenen Publikum aus.

Immerhin: Sozialdemokraten bekommen mal einen Trostpreis. Geehrt wird man zum Beispiel für Aussagen, wie: „Weniger Geld für Arbeitslose“ oder „Mehr Wettbewerb“ aber am liebsten: „Weniger Steuern“.

Dass die rot-grüne Bundesregierung viele Forderungen der Arbeitgeber umgesetzt hat, dass seitdem aber nichts besser wurde, sondern die Krise noch tiefer, das ficht den exklusiven Club nicht an.

Im Gegenteil: Inzwischen scheint ein Arbeitgeber-Diplom fast Bedingung zu sein, um für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik überhaupt noch als Kompetenz-Team-fähig zu gelten. So wie der radikale Steuersenker Paul Kirchhof, zu dem die Bundesvorsitzende der CDU, Angela Merkel, feststellt: „Er ist nicht von ungefähr im Jahr 2003 auch zum „Reformer des Jahres“ von der Initiative neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft ausgezeichnet worden“.

Oder Peter Müller als Experte für Wirtschaft und Arbeit. Angela Merkel: „Auch im Jahr 2003 ausgezeichnet zum Ministerpräsident des Jahres.“ Zwar nur von Gnaden der Initiative. Aber Auszeichnung ist Auszeichnung, und hinterher fragt niemand danach.

Wir von [plusminus wollten es dann doch noch etwas genauer wissen - von Oswald Metzger. Der wird zwar von der Arbeitgeberlobby für Auftritte bezahlt, kann es aber gar nicht leiden, wenn man ihn darauf anspricht und reagiert unwirsch: Oswald Metzger: „Sind sie von Attac bezahlt? Ich will ihnen nur spiegeln, was sie hier machen. Also, ich finde das schon fast unverschämt.“

Dieser Text gibt den Fernsehbeitrag vom 30.08.2005 wieder. Eventuelle spätere Veränderungen des Sachverhaltes sind nicht berücksichtigt.


Weiter dazu Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_Neue_Soziale_Marktwirtschaft

Die im Jahr 2000 gegründete Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM) bezeichnet sich selbst als Reforminitiative. Sie sieht sich als parteiübergreifende Plattform, die sich der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft verbunden sieht. Die Initiative hat ca. 40 feste und freie Mitarbeiter, dazu eine unbekannte Anzahl an sog. Kuratoren, Unterstützern und Botschaftern, zu denen auch Personen wie Arnulf Baring, Hans Tietmeyer, Friedrich Merz (CDU) und Oswald Metzger (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) gehören.

Träger der Initiative ist der Arbeitgeberverband Gesamtmetall der deutschen Metall- und Elektroindustrie, welcher die Initiative mit jährlich 8,8 Millionen Euro finanziert. Das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Köln fungiert als wissenschaftlicher Berater.

2005 gründete sich ein Förderverein für die INSM, der „Förderverein Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft“, zu dessen Gründungsmitgliedern unter anderem Florian Gerster und Klaus von Dohnanyi zählen.

Die Inititative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft ist nicht zu verwechseln mit der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, steht aber in engem Kontakt mit dieser.

Unter dem Leitmotiv "Chancen für alle" hat die Initiative das Ziel, die Menschen in Deutschland für marktwirtschaftliche Reformen zu gewinnen. Das bewährte Ordnungssystem der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft müsse an die Bedingungen des 21. Jahrhunderts angepasst werden: an die Globalisierung, die Wissensgesellschaft, die Veränderungen in der Arbeitswelt und den demografischen Wandel. Die Begriffe Eigeninitiative, Leistungsbereitschaft und Wettbewerb spielen bei diesem Anpassungsvorhaben eine zentrale Rolle.

Themen

Föderalismus
Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes
Unterstützung von Angebotsorientierter Wirtschaftspolitik Privatisierung des Sozialstaates (Kapitaldeckungsverfahren statt Umlageverfahren):(Pflegeversicherung)
Einführung von Studiengebühren
Zurückdrängung der Mitbestimmung
Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen durch Förderung der Selbständigkeit Reduzierung der Lohnnebenkosten

Kritik

Kritiker wie die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbunds kritisieren die aus ihrer Sicht marktliberalen Positionen und die deutlichen Nähe zu Unternehmensverbänden. Der Initiative wird vorgeworfen, eine Tarnorganisation der Industrie zu sein, welche die "marktradikalen Konzepte" der Union und insbesondere von Friedrich Merz bewerbe.

Siehe auch
Reforminitiative, Denkfabrik, Lobbyismus

Weblinks

Webseiten der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft

Kritische Studie der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung: Die politischen Strategien der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft

Die Zeit: Lautsprecher des Kapitals „Die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft“, Albrecht Müller, 11.03.2001: Getarnte Lobby - Wie Wirtschaftsverbände die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen DasErste ARD Plusminus, SR, vom 30. August 2005



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