http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/22/MNG0DERNTI1.DTL


Informant: Hopedance



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

Unbelievable. I've been over here working in Kona this morning, listening to CNN...

Bottled water - $30 a gallon
Fearful quick mart gas stations closing the store - only serving CREDIT CARD customers
21,000 troops stand by in SW U.S.
Evacuating people in standstill on Houston highways - running out of gas
New Orleans now under Tropical Storm warnings
Most remaining OIL REFINERIES shutting down
Gas projected to reach $5.00 PRICE GOUGING beginning in Houston area
People fighting over gas pumps

Unbelievable.

Expect martial law to be declared and the military come in soon. Looting hasn't begun - but the FEAR of it has.

Peace - Anna

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=agjDKuwUVxys&refer=us


Informant: Kev Hall

CPAWS Edmonton is working to convince a forestry company and the Alberta government to stop logging in an area where the Little Smoky caribou herd is at immediate risk of extirpation. Only 60 animals are left, clinging to life in the last intact part of their range. CPAWS needs your help to encourage the government and West Fraser Timber Company to defer industrial activities in their remaining intact habitat while a plan for their recovery is developed.

http://www.cpaws.org/boreal/english/getinvolved/action-edmonton.html
http://www.actionworks.ca/clientfiles/cpaws/actioncentres/nat-edmonton/takeaction.jsp

http://www.actionworks.ca/clientfiles/cpaws/actioncentres/manitoba-national/takeaction.jsp
http://www.cpaws.org/boreal/english/getinvolved/action-manitoba-main.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3423/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index825.htm
Sorcha Faal sorchafaal@fastmail.fm

As always.., I forward this kind of information uncut and unedited for whatever it may be worth to the reader.

This author has been scooping the American mainstream press.., typically.., by a couple of weeks.

Many of you are probably already well aware of foreign troops on American soil.

LLTF, Roland

They said:
Mr. René RUSSO, Head Representative of AFOM
Reply from Next-up organisation tomorrow...

http://www.next-up.org/divers/russo_afom/russo_afom.php



Ils ont dit:
Monsieur René RUSSO Délégué Général de l' AFOM
La réponse de Next-up organisation demain . . .

http://www.next-up.org/divers/russo_afom/russo_afom.php

Gerechtigkeitsempfinden: Blüm kritisiert Unions-Wahlprogramm wegen Kopfpauschale und Einheitssteuer (22.09.05)

Der frühere Bundesarbeitsminister Norbert Blüm (CDU) macht die Programmatik der Union für deren Wahlschlappe verantwortlich. "Das Ergebnis ist keine Überraschung; denn den CDU-Anhängern ist ein Gerechtigkeitsempfinden angeboren, das sich nicht mit Kopfpauschale und Einheitssteuer befriedigen lässt", sagte Blüm dem "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". Blüm warnte zugleich: "Wenn das Soziale eine Randerscheinung wird, dann sind wir keine Volkspartei mehr."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11907

Neue Lärmwaffen werden im Irak eingesetzt, aber auch in Katastrophenregionen wie in New Orleans, um über weite Entfernung Botschaften zu übermitteln oder durch schmerzhaft laute Geräusche Menschenmengen aufzulösen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20992/1.html

Bush's responses to the crisis in Iraq and the aftermath of Katrina are jarringly repetitive. Sidney Blumenthal wonders if his speechwriters are using a computer's copy-and-paste function?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205O.shtml

Jonathan Kozol rails against a public school system that, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, is still deeply - and shamefully - segregated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205N.shtml

Conservative colummist, David S. Broder tells us that even now, when the president is saying all the right things about the problems of poverty highlighted by the plight of Hurricane Katrina victims, his administration is dragging its feet on practical steps to help meet their needs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205M.shtml

The White House would like to think it's ready for Rita. But the president's aides also thought they were ready for Katrina, even after it passed through New Orleans. Knowing when you're overwhelmed is a far harder call, especially when there's been little time to study the lessons of the last disaster.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205J.shtml

William Rivers Pitt tells us there are two kinds of people in American politics today: those who know our basic right to vote and have every vote counted is imperiled, and those who have no idea such a basic right is at risk.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205I.shtml

Garrison Keillor: It's a hard fall for George W. Bush. His career was based on creating low expectations and then meeting them, but Katrina was a blast of reality. The famous headline said, "Bush: One of the Worst Disasters to Hit the US" and many people took that literally.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105E.shtml

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared yesterday that he will vote against chief-justice nominee John Roberts and pointedly warned President Bush about his next choice for the Supreme Court in anticipation of today's White House meeting to discuss it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105D.shtml

Molly Ivins: What we need in this country - along with a disaster relief agency - is a Media Accountability Day. How's that for a great idea? The real scandal in the media is not bias, it is laziness. Laziness and bad news judgment. Our failure is what we miss, what we fail to cover, what we let slip by, what we don't give enough attention to.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105C.shtml

Why - is a black American child five times more likely to live in poverty than a white child? Why is a black American baby more likely to die in the months after birth than a Cuban baby, or one born in Beijing?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4265454.stm#


From Information Clearing House

To members of the House and Senate, the message is clear. Fix the structure or you will lose your jobs! We cannot wait for the next disaster to find out that the U.S. Cavalry is a no-show charade directed by incompetents placed into a Hydra-headed bureaucracy by a president addicted to cronyism.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091805DeHart/091805dehart.html


From Information Clearing House



The People Versus FEMA

By Sara S. DeHart
Issues and Alibis web site

In the aftermath of natural disaster Americans are urged give generously to help victims of tragedy. These monies are above and beyond the taxes paid by our citizens that the Bush administration refers to as federal aid. We've been assured that the federal protection umbrella, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are mobilized and ready to move into any disaster area within hours. Following the debacle of mismanagement and systems failure just witnessed in Louisiana and New Orleans, it is time to look beyond opening our checkbooks to consider what we are paying for, both through charitable organizations and the federal government in taxes.

Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans is a tragedy of colossal proportions for all Americans. Words are insufficient to portray what went wrong, but clearly this is the time to evaluate, to scrutinize, to peek under the cover of the structure of FEMA that after the 9/11 disaster was rolled into a newly created Hydra-headed bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We may never get another chance and the demand must come from the people because on September 14, exactly 20 days after Governor Blanco declared a State of Emergency in Louisiana and requested help from the federal government, the Senate Republican majority voted down a measure calling for an independent commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina. [1].

President Bush states that he plans to investigate and oversee what "went wrong" with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. He must not be permitted to do this any more than he should have been allowed to stop every effort to have an independent investigation of the 911 disaster. An independent counsel and commission with full grand jury/subpoena authority are needed. More importantly, if one can still be found in this country; the independent counsel must be removed from both political and corporate connections. We may have to go to British MP George Galloway to find such a person but someone must expose the lickspittles of this administration and remove the curtain covering the Wizard of Oz. [...]

Read the rest at Uncle Ernie's web site, http://www.issuesandalibis.org/ Just keep scrolling down.


© Virginia Metze

The United States on Wednesday pressed its case to have Iran hauled before the U.N. Security Council for its nuclear activities, urging fellow members of the International Atomic Energy Agency board to vote for such action in the next few days.

http://tinyurl.com/bgx9z


From Information Clearing House

The Army is reaching out to a slice of America’s youth long ineligible to serve: non-high school graduates who don’t have a General Equivalency Diploma.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1115623.php


From Information Clearing House

Iraq War, Downgraded to a Box Score, is Lost
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10351.htm

Video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=metropole&pl=1


From Information Clearing House

British soldiers should not be required to give their lives in order to feed the vanity of an arrogant politician. This is Blair's Vietnam, not theirs.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/47401-print.shtml



Caught in a dilemma of our own making:

Like it or not, the British are being dragged out of cover into the limelight, and with that must come the hard questions of what we are doing there, what it is costing, and when we will get out. Unnerving though the phrase "exit strategy" might be, it is one that can no longer be avoided.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10355.htm


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi police recently caught two terrorists with a car full of explosives. Would it surprise you to learn they were British Special Forces?

http://tinyurl.com/dlpj8


From Information Clearing House

By Mike Whitney

The bodies of the mangled and bloated corpses are no where to be found on America's news programs. Like the countless dead in Iraq they're purged from the coverage and stripped from the public record.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10357.htm

This is a fiasco without parallel in recent British history. Iraqis must run their country: we've made enough mess of it already

By Simon Jenkins

Don't be fooled a second time. They told you Britain must invade Iraq because of its weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. Now they say British troops must stay in Iraq because otherwise it will collapse into chaos. This second lie is infecting everyone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10354.htm

By PHILIP SHENON

The Pentagon said today that it had blocked a group of military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing about a highly classified military intelligence program that, the officers have said, identified a ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10353.htm

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8855


Informant: NHNE

Katrina Disaster May Stir US Awareness on Climate Change: Green Groups

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0921-07.htm

CPT MAY of Ghost Troop on Hot Towers, Hi Rez Photo, HAARP by GTJS Excellent research, GTJS!

Ya know what? Before the Holy Horde turned its research and analysis power on the "weather modification" issue, I really didn't know how they could do such a thing. Now it's becoming more and more clear. Your first two sites are excellent background for Gulf-of-Mexico and hurricane reality!

The site below (HAARP weapon concept) is must-read; I refer it to all GTs and Infowar Allies!

(SEE HAARP INFO HERE and Compair to NASA (that's NSA with an extra A) Satelite projections below)

Viewzone// HAARP: Weapons of Total Distruction? Address: http://www.viewzone.com/haarp11.html
Changed:6:54 PM on Monday, January 14, 2002

My compliments! CPTMAY wrote:

To: Ghost Troop From: JSvj
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:08:46 -0500
Subject: Hot Towers, Hi Rez Photo, HAARP Scatter gun of links here.

New satellite observations show towering thunderclouds, sometimes called hot towers, that may signify the onset of intensification in these high-octane storms.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/rita_hot_towers.html Sea Temps: http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/

This is a good site for very hi rez photos.

The following sections were updated since 20 September 2005.

-- STORM (1 updated events, 2 new images) --

HURRICANE RITA Rita became the 17th named storm system of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season as it formed into an organized storm system. It gathered power as it travelled towards the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico, developing into a full fledged Category 4 hurricane by September 21, only one step below the strongest possible storm strength rating.

http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13146

*** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 20 2005 (Posted on Sep 21 2005 10:01AM)

http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13145

(TRMM) image from Sep 20 2005 (Posted on Sep 21 2005 9:47AM) Viewzone article on HAARP
http://www.viewzone.com/haarp11.html


Informant: ranger116

Beiliegend schicke ich Ihnen das Schreiben der Frau Sektionschef Mag Strohmeyer vom Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur zur Veröffentlichung.

Die Information an die Schulärzte habe ich bereits angefordert.

Das Schreiben steht im Internet unter
http://www.schutz-vor-elektrosmog.at/top-termin_dateien/Schreiben%20vom%20BMBWK%202005-09-19.pdf zum Download bereit.


Mag. Robert Marschall
Geschäftsführer
TriCoTel Telekom GmbH

Labor leaders urged Congress to overrule President Bush and reinstate wage guarantees for those rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. "There is nothing meaner than kicking someone when they're down and unable to defend themselves," said Roger Tauss, vice president of the Transport Workers Union of America.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092105LA.shtml

Americans may have plenty of reasons to fear French fries. While they are one of the country's favorite foods, they are soaked with trans fats, loaded with sodium and full of simple carbs, the bad kind. And, it turns out, they are also full of a chemical called acrylamide, which is known to cause cancer in laboratory rats and mice.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092105HA.shtml

Monbiot: At a conference organized by the Building Research Establishment, I witnessed an extraordinary thing: companies demanding tougher regulations - and the government refusing to grant them ... So why won't the government act? Because it is siding with the dirty companies against the clean ones.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092105EB.shtml

The Canadian government joined US environmentalists in opposition to drilling the Arctic Refuge and a rally in DC drew thousands of protestors. Senator Hillary Clinton said that Republicans are using Katrina as a pretext to open the refuge. "It makes no sense to respond to a disaster in the Gulf by making a disaster in Alaska," she said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092105EA.shtml

At just past noon on Wednesday, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the Bring Them Home Now tour were stopped by a pair of squad cars two blocks from the US Capitol by members of the Capitol police force. Officers explained that they wanted to use bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect the caravan of three RVs and several cars.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105Q.shtml



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

by Gary Bass, TomPaine.com

The EPA cares more about its reputation than protecting Americans from toxic hazards on the Gulf Coast.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050922/damage_control.php

by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com

It's not just price gouging. There's another reason our gas costs so much.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050922/stalled_at_the_pump.php

Wednesday September 21, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- At the same time that the Interior Department is bragging to Congress about its Indian Trust accounting plan, the National Archives and Records Administration reports ongoing destruction of Bureau of Indian Affairs accounting records only a few blocks from the federal courthouse in Washington.

In a filing last week, NARA disclosed that it is investigating "one or more incidents...involving what may be intentional acts aimed at unlawfully removing or disposing of permanent records from the Interior Department..."

In the letter dated Sept. 13, NARA attorney Jason R. Baron said that members of the agency "noticed what appeared to be federal records in one of the dumpsters" at the main achieves building on Pennsylvania Avenue on Sept. 1. Among the records destroyed were documents from the 1950s from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Baron said.

Subsequently, "more of what appear to be Indian records were discovered in a wastebasket in the stack areas at Main Archives," Baron said in the letter. "It is not known if these two incidents are related."

Baron said both the NARA Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia had begun investigations.

Dennis M. Gingold, lead plaintiff for the Indians who are seeking a full accounting of their government-managed individual Indian Trust accounts, called the destruction "the same repugnant, desperate actions we've come to expect from Interior Secretary Gale Norton and her unethical managers."

"Despite numerous court orders to preserve records related to the individual Indian Trust, the Secretary and the Interior Department continue to destroy irreplaceable trust documents three blocks from the federal courthouse where they were held in contempt for destroying trust records. Unless -- and until -- Norton is thrown in jail, she will continue to destroy trust documents in order to undermine this 10-year-old litigation," he said. "When a sitting cabinet level official feels that they can destroy protected trust records 60 yards from where the Constitution is displayed, we have a government that is out of control."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs runs a trust program for individual Indians. Although established in 1887, the government has yet to provide a complete accounting of funds in the accounts. A lawsuit filed in 1996 by Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana, is pressing the government over its repeated failures to give 500,000 Native Americans a proper accounting of the funds that should be in their accounts.


From Be Kind Whenever Possible

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

Hierbei handelt es lediglich um eine stark vereinfachte Übersicht und ich erhebe natürlich keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit.

Maik Will
(Interessengemeinschaft Mobilfunk in Treis)

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/974449/

Dirty dealings by Hutchison
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/988162/

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Z.shtml

Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war crusade to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, arriving with a caravan of three RVs and several cars ferrying about three dozen military families and Iraq War veterans on the final leg of their 21-day Bring Them Home Now tour.

TO has a launched a special page, Camp Casey Goes to Washington, to cover the anti-war activities in Washington, DC, over the next several days. William Rivers Pitt, Chris Hume, Scott Galindez and L. Wild Horse will be on the ground reporting from our nation's Capitol. Visit the page often for the latest news from the streets of Washington.

Camp Casey Goes to Washington
http://truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml



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

Comment: Surrey Mirror

Sep 22 2005

WHILE the debate continues as to whether or not there are any health risks attached to mobile phone masts, they continue to turn up around the country like the proverbial bad penny.

At present the World Health Organisation has no evidence that masts are harmful and, when opposing installations, residents are only too aware that this alarming possibility is still not grounds for refusal.

It is only a possibility and, to win their case, residents are best advised to battle the plans on grounds of siting and detriment to the character of the area.

Those living in the Ringley Park Avenue area of Reigate know this and so will be taking up the cudgel on these grounds in a bid to stop Hutchison 3G UK Ltd from putting a radio base station and mast in the avenue.

At the same time, residents are excited about the imminent release of a report from the Government's Health Protection Agency (HPA).

Lynn Myall, whose home at The Chase is most affected by the proposal, is keen for people to know about the HPA findings, which are reported to acknowledge for the first time that people can suffer adversely from being exposed to electromagnetic fields.

Many of her neighbours, including the nearby Dunottar School, are also worried and await the report, expected to make Britain second only to Sweden in formally acknowledging the dangers of electromagnetic fields.

Let us hope the residents win their fight to save the historic and beautiful Ringley Park Avenue from mast development on aesthetic grounds.

At the same time, let's not forget there are others around the country who claim mobile phone masts have made them ill.

Wandsworth Guardian 21.09.05

A mobile phone company is set to steamroll over public opinion by erecting a mast next to schools and a health centre in Southfields.

The Southfields community is powerless to stop Vodafone putting up a 13.4m mast in Revelstoke Road.

The telecommunications equipment would emit radiation despite Wimbledon Park Primary School, two nurseries and the Revelstoke Road Surgery lying within a 300 yard radius.

Vodafone has applied for prior approval from Merton Council. The council can only prevent masts going up if they are more than 15m or are next to sensitive locations such as conservation areas and listed buildings.

It means the council is virtually powerless to stop the Vodafone mast and will have to grant approval on the September 22 deadline.

Nationwide mast planning guidance has come down as a government directive.

Wimbledon Park Councillor Tariq Ahmad said hundreds of signatures had been collected against the mast.

Coun Ahmad said: "More recent guidance out of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister calls for extensive consultation and taking into the account the views of residents, particularly where children are being impacted.

"Recent reports are showing there is a link between mobile phone masts and detrimental effects on children."

However a Vodafone spokeswoman stressed the radiation limits complied with international guidelines.

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

She said: "If you we want to use our mobile phone service in cities we must have masts with that to work."

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There's a primary school in Brighton that has had over 20 masts just 70 metres away for years and at exactly the same height. For just over a year they've also had an active TETRA from the same cluster. I've measured the microwaves around the playground on my EnvironCom and they show 4 - 6 vpm. I've tried to speak to the Headmistress but she just treats me like a crank.

Best Gary

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Gary,

I almost wish I hadn't read this, but I did, so send me the details and we'll see if she treats me like a crank, too.

Being on the advice line you hear a lot of things that tug at your heart, make you cry, or make you angry. You kind of get used to being exposed to so much, and are surprized to hear people remark on how calm you are. Then out of the blue a few words sets off all the upset and anger and you burn with rage, weep a thousand tears, and then you are back to normal again. I can't remember the last time I went through that, but the 20 masts just 70 m away from little children, plus on TETRA, did it for me tonight. I hoped Agnes' story might have that effect because I knew I was due for a blow out, but I read it avidly and nothing happened. I thought I had hardened up and I hated the idea of it.

So thank you,Gary, for this. What helps me most in doing the advice line is the wonderful people out there. Those who helps us to spread the word; call in to tell us how they are doing or to say thank you; those whom I can ask to visit someone nearby for one reason or another and they do it willingly; the courage of the sick; the kindness and generosity of spirit of the poor; the offers; the sacrifices; the open and honest humans who remind us that there is so much goodness in this awful situation we all find ourselves in.

So Gary, let's educate this woman who is supposed to be a guardian of our children!

Sandi

A controversial mobile phone mast will be built in the centre of Bridgnorth after being passed at an appeal hearing despite public concerns, it was revealed today.

Plans to install the mast on top of the New Road telephone exchange were refused by councillors in February.

But they have now been passed at a planning appeal - much to the surprise of residents and councillors.

People living around the telephone exchange made their views against the mast clear, but an appeal on August 24 went against Bridgnorth Town Council and the district council's decisions and granted permission.

The application is by telecommunication company "3" to install a flagpole, housing three antennae, on the telephone exchange to boost signals for mobile phone users.

Town and district councillor, Brian Jones, said he was very disappointed with the outcome of the appeal.

"It is almost literally through the back door," he said.

The full version of this story appears in the Bridgnorth edition of tonight's Shropshire Star.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=37489

MOBILIZATION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTIONS AND EVENTS In Connection with the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) September 22-25, 2005 Washington DC

NOTE: THIS IS THE FINAL CALENDAR, WITH THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE DIRECT ACTION SPOKESCOUNCILS FINALIZED!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 9:00 pm - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 7:00 am (SHARP!!) MASS HOUSING (FOR 100 PEOPLE ONLY) Mass housing is available for ONLY 100 PEOPLE on a first-come, first-served basis. It will run from Monday 9/19 night through Saturday 9/24 night. If you're staying overnight on Saturday 9/24, YOU NEED TO BE OUT OF THERE BY 7 AM ON SUNDAY 9/25. If you're planning on doing Adopt-an-Intersection actions on Sunday, we'll try to find space for you to store your belongings but we can't guarantee it.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 9:00 am - 9:00 pm DAILY WELCOME CENTER We're running a welcome center from Monday 9/19 through Saturday 9/24. The welcome center will be a source for basic information about the city (such as maps and Metro guides) as well as information about the protest plans and about the IMF and World Bank.

LOCATION for Welcome Center and Mass Housing: St. Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW (16th and Newton) Columbia Heights metro stop on Green Line.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 6:00-9:00pm ART AND PROP CONSTRUCTION St. Stephens Church, 1525 Newton Street NW (16th and Newton) Columbia Heights metro stop on the green line Bring your art supplies and your creativity!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!!!) Noon outside the World Bank 18th and H St. NW (near Farragut West Metro on Blue/Orange Lines and Farragut North Metro on Red Line) STREET THEATER Very fun media stunt/street theater! If you want to be involved contact basav(at)igc.org/202-997-0479.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 TEACH-IN: THE GLOBAL WAR ON THE POOR Speakers will make connections between military, economic, and environmental violence against poor people and people of color here in the US and throughout the world. Come hear about and discuss the connections between New Orleans and Sri Lanka, Iraq and Haiti, Soweto and Washington DC. Thursday, September 22
6:30 pm St. Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW (16th and Newton) Columbia Heights metro stop on Green Line.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 DIRECT ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL Plan Adopt an Intersection and other creative direct actions! Friday 9/23, 8 - 11 pm. St. Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW (16th and Newton) Columbia Heights metro stop on Green Line.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24
11:30am GLOBAL JUSTICE FEEDER MARCH Dupont Circle Dupont Circle Metro stop on the Red Line We'll have a short opening rally with speakers and performers, and then march to some international financial target and then join up with the anti-war march. We'll have lots of guerrilla street theater, puppets, drumming.....you don't want to miss it! If you want to help make visuals come to the Art and Prop Construction at St. Stephens.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 DIRECT ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL Plan Adopt an Intersection and other creative direct actions! Saturday 9/24, 8 - 11 pm. St. Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW (16th and Newton) Columbia Heights metro stop on Green Line.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25 DIRECT ACTIONS TARGETING THE IMF AND WORLD BANK MGJ is working with the "Adopt an Intersection" direct action campaign to delay IMF and World Bank delegates from getting to their meetings. For more information and to get involved go to adopt.septemberaction.org

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Come to an MGJ General Meeting and help us plan all of these events! Our meetings happen every Wednesday 7-9pm at St. Stephen's Church, 16th and Newton NW, Washington, DC. From the Columbia Heights metro walk north on 14th, take a left on Newton and walk down to 16th. The church is on the right. Walk across the parking lot to the side entrance. We meet downstairs in the dining hall. Last meeting before the mobilization: Wednesday 9/21, 7 - 9 pm.

CONTACT MGJ: mgj(at)riseup.net, 202-898-5953

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SEPTEMBER MOBILIZATION go to http://www.septemberaction.org In addition to all the other great information about the mobilization, there are downloadable MGJ fliers and factsheets on the Resources page.


Informant: Todd Eaton

From ufpj-news

By Lynn Landes
16 September, 2005
Opednews.com
CounterCurrents.org

Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina's death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?

Along that line, other things don’t add up. For instance, why did FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did the feds try to ban reporters from covering the body recovery effort? Why have the feds employed mercenaries in New Orleans? Don't we have plenty of volunteers, police and military in the U.S. to get any job done that needs doing? What's really going on?

I don't know with any certainty, but here are some theories :
Maybe the Bush Administration doesn't want us to know how many people died because they just can't take the political heat for being completely incompetent. That's somewhat understandable. Maybe they ordered 75,000 body bags and hired Houston-based Blackwater mercenaries as more pork barrel projects. Nothing new there. [...] To see the other theories, go to http://www.countercurrents.org/us-landes160905.htm


© Virginia Metze

While You Were Watching Katrina
House Republicans derail probes of Plame affair
September 16th, 2005 3:10 PM

Republicans on three separate congressional committees this week derailed three formal "resolutions of inquiry" by Democrats that would have required the Bush administration to turn over sensitive information and records relating to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame .

Had the resolutions of inquiry been adopted, they would have led to the first independent congressional inquiries of the Plame affair, and perhaps even the public testimony of senior Bush administration aides such as Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, about their personal roles. Read the rest at: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0538,waas,67952,2.html


© Virginia Metze

Tom Heneghen Reports Movement Within Chicago Federal Court In Upcoming Indictments Of Bush Administration

by Scott Mowry

Last evening on the "US Intel News" show on the Turner Radio Network, Tom Heneghen gave an update on the progress of the grand juries in Chicago concerning their impending indictments of various members of the Bush administration, both past and present.

Apparently, there is brisk movement within the US Federal Court of Chicago to get these indictments out despite intense pressure from within by a Judge Magistrate named Mark R. Filip, who has thus far suppressed them from being released to the public, according to Heneghen. [...]

According to the Rumor Mill, this article is supposed to be at http://www.sunriseofthesolardisk.com/heneghen.html but I could not get that URL to "come up." So, read the rest at
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=78770


© Virginia Metze

Levee breaks, catastrophic damage predicted, contrary to Bush claims

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 8:14 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2005

MIAMI - For all the criticism of the Bush administration’s confused response to Hurricane Katrina, at least two federal agencies got it right: the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center.

They forecast the path of the storm and the potential for devastation with remarkable accuracy.

The performance by the two agencies calls into question claims by President Bush and others in his administration that Katrina was a catastrophe that no one envisioned. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9369041/


© Virginia Metze

A Democrat activist suggests that these are America's concentration camps!

FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida

Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step

By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; Page A01

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. -- "Someone killed my dog," sputtered Royaltee Forman, still livid two weeks later.

"They just threw him out the window and hung him with his own leash," he said, convinced that someone broke into his home while he was out. "I mean, what kind of place has this become?"
Forman's place is FEMA City, a dusty, baking, treeless collection of almost 500 trailers that was set up by the federal emergency agency last fall to house more than 1,500 people made homeless by Hurricane Charley, one of the most destructive storms in recent Florida history. The free shelter was welcomed by thankful survivors back then; almost a year later, most are still there -- angry, frustrated, depressed and increasingly desperate.

"FEMA City is now a socioeconomic time bomb just waiting to blow up," said Bob Hebert, director of recovery for Charlotte County, where most FEMA City residents used to live. "You throw together all these very different people under already tremendous stress, and bad things will happen. And this is the really difficult part: In our county, there's no other place for many of them to go." [...] Read the whole article at http://tinyurl.com/8vhth


© Virginia Metze

Many activists are becoming impatient. I hope that our Congress people realize how important it is to check on those "home fires." Activists from women's groups, environmental groups, science supporters, Democrat groups, mainstream religious groups, education groups etc. tend to feel that the parties have had five years to clean up their act and yet the Democrats still seem a little wimpy about actually shutting Congress down.

And now we have a new thing to be disturbed about: Bush wants to use federal troops for domestic problems in our country. I suppose that this is because the Military seems to be the only Bush admin people who can actually DO anything. (You didn't get to be a four-star general by just having a few months of experience, unlike some court nominees I can think of.) Hopefully Bush will not be able to appoint his cronies and buddies to the Armed Services! But regardless, it is a boon for Bush to have the military in charge because then he can step up the use of military law to arrest people and leave them in prison forever if they want to.

One would think that with deficit spending at the rate we have (1B-2B A DAY), we would withdraw from Iraq, where we are not wanted and where we are not helping. Chicago joined many other cities in calling for the withdrawal of troops in Iraq. Bring 'em home, give them a ticker tape parade, and declare victory. Get the national guard back home, and in their states.

Somehow, everything seems depressing to me today, especially after I heard about what FEMA did in Florida; so you all, keep your heads especially high! As we women are told, never let them see you cry!

Anyway, here I am, a day late finishing this up -- so much to read, so little time. Did any of you ever stop and think what would happen if these thousands of messages were all in paper???

NY Police Monday broke up crowd listening to Cindy Sheehan's speech and arrested her organizer for not obtaining audio permits. They escorted Cindy away and it is not totally clear whether she was arrested. In trying to check out this story, I was often not able to bring up a web page. I hope that this is because the story is popular and not because someone is blocking access.

I was able to reach bradblog, Democratic Underground, and DailyKos most of the time. The URLs are:
BradBlog: http://tinyurl.com/86sby
DailyKos: http://tinyurl.com/8qx7d
DemocraticUnderground: http://tinyurl.com/9aaur


© Virginia Metze

We call on Nancy Pelosi to Defund the War! Defend our Communities!

House Minority Leader Pelosi has called the war on Iraq a "grotesque mistake," but she continues to vote to fund it. And she has chosen not to support other Congressional efforts to bring our troops home now. It’s time we called her on her word!

View Nancy Pelosi’s voting record on Iraq:
http://www.upj-bayarea.org/Pelosi_Sept26/PelosiVotingRecordIraq.html

Send a fax to Rep. Pelosi:
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/pelosi.html

We want people across the country, especially but not exclusively Democrats, to join her constituents in San Francisco and Marin County telling Nancy Pelosi that she needs to take action now to end the war now. She doesn’t seem to hear us; maybe she’ll respond more to all of you.

If you are in Washington DC and lobbying this Monday, consider visiting Nancy Pelosi's office too. She and her staff in San Francisco tell peace movement delegations that her position as a national leader means she isn’t free to act publicly in support of other legislators’ initiatives, much less speak out fully against war and military occupation as her district wants her to. Pelosi has not voted in a way consistent with the 63% of San Franciscans who voted for Proposition N that explicitly called for immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq. She is at best an inconsistent vote on questions of war, militarism and human rights. Pelosi's liberal reputation is based more on how San Francisco is perceived than on her record. Send that fax, please.

An article this week about Pelosi and why activists are challenging her on her record: http://www.sfbg.com/39/51/news_peace.html

And if you are in the Bay Area instead of DC or wherever, please join us on Monday in San Francisco at her office:

Monday, September 26 “Hey Pelosi!” Rally & Trial in Absentia National Day for Lobbying & Civil Resistance San Francisco Federal Building 450 Golden Gate at Larkin 12 noon Peaceful Rally, Street Theater, Civil Disobedience.

Lots more information about Nancy Pelosi is at http://www.ufpj-bayarea.org

Progressives Pressuring Pelosi: United For Peace & Justice-Bay Area, Global Exchange, Students Against the War, Alameda County Green Party, American Friends Service Committee, Code Pink, N Cal International Solidarity Movement, People’s Non-Violent Response Committee, College Anti-War Network, Progressive Democrats of America, Tikkun Community, Tom Joad.org, San Francisco People’s Organization, Senior Action Network, Gray Panthers, War Resisters League-West, San Francisco Labor Council and more.


"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. Our power is in our ability to make things unworkable." -Bayard Rustin


Informant: WRL West

From ufpj-news

In These Times
by Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

09/21/05

Absent a political upheaval causing turbulence equal to that of Hurricane Katrina, John Roberts will be confirmed by the United States Senate as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on September 22. With a few notable exceptions, the Democrats have been as befuddled about this nomination as they have been about war and torture in Iraq, increasing the minimum wage, tax breaks for the rich, a coherent response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast, etc., and are without the will or the numbers to derail President Bush's quest to turn the nation's highest court into a neo-conservative enclave...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2321/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby

09/21/05

It didn't take Hurricane Katrina to move the issue of fuel efficiency into the spotlight. For decades, automakers have been urged to produce, consumers have been urged to drive, and the government has been urged to mandate more fuel-efficient cars. If the vehicles on our roads got more miles to the gallon, we have been told again and again, we could dramatically reduce the amount of oil we depend on -- and from that would flow benefits equally dramatic: America's foreign policy would be strengthened, it is said, since we would no longer have to appease the unsavory regimes that control most of the world's crude oil. ... And at a time of $3-a-gallon gasoline, motorists would have particular reason to rejoice: Higher-mileage cars would need fewer expensive fill-ups. ... All of which might be worth considering if using fuel more efficiently really would result in less fuel being used. But it won't. It will result in more fuel being used...

http://tinyurl.com/beroa


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Mike Ferner

09/21/05

If nonviolent direct action is the most powerful tool we have to stop this war, what is the best time to exercise it? When a few hundred people surround the White House on September 26 for an orchestrated civil disobedience activity, or when a half-million (and more) people are in the streets September 24?

http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner09212005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Danny Schechter

09/21/05

But, notice, how once again, most of the energy is aimed only at government, at the White House, at Bush and his boys (and girl, Ms. Condoleezza.) They are the targets but, alas, they are only part of the problem. With so many activists coming to town, and some staying for Monday, why not split them up into teams and smaller marches and bring some popular fury to other government institutions and interests that are complicit in the war and the policies that activists want to oppose. Where is the march on the media? The media is the front face of the corporate interests who stage mange the government. In an age of globalization, challenging corporate power is essential...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0921-31.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Village Voice
by Kristen Lombardi

09/20/05

Sheehan isn't stopping her critique with Bush. On the contrary, she has begun to set her sights on Congress and the Democratic Party as well. When she spoke in Brooklyn on the night before, she took note of the fact that Senator Hillary Clinton voted to authorize Bush to use force in Iraq and -- like most Senate Democrats -- has done little to bring the troops home. Clinton, in fact, has filed legislation calling for more troops. In an interview after her speech, Sheehan told the Voice she was 'so frustrated' by leading Democrats like Clinton 'who should be leaders on this issue, but are not.' Already, she has set up a future meeting with New York's junior senator this weekend. And she plans to sit down with the state's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, too. 'It's time for them to step up and be the opposition party,' she said...

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0538,lombardiweb,68015,2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

SOLO HQ

by Tibor R. Machan

09/21/05

The clear implication of being responsible -- that is, honestly taking responsibility ... is that you will shoulder some heavy burdens in the wake of what you did or failed to do. ... Where is there anything comparable in President Bush's 'taking responsibility' for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, or, for that matter, anyone's making such a claim? Nothing I can detect exhibits the logic of genuinely taking responsibility -- that is, of being responsible -- for bad things people do, in these politicians' pretentious announcements. Are they sent off to jail? Are they fined a good and hefty sum? Do they even lose their jobs? Now and then someone in government will be demoted or transferred to some other position, but is anyone who supposedly admits responsibility for bad things that happened going to get his or her comeuppance? No. So then, what's the point of making these announcements?

http://tinyurl.com/dyl4f


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News

09/21/05

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent. Frist held an undisclosed amount of stock in Hospital Corporation of America (search), based in Nashville, Tenn., the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain. On June 13, he instructed the trustee managing the assets to sell his HCA shares and those of his wife and children, said Amy Call, a spokeswoman for Frist. Frist's shares were sold by July 1 and those of his wife and children by July 8, Call said. The trustee decided when to sell the shares, and the Tennessee Republican had no control over the exact time they were sold, she said...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169980,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

09/21/05

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan pledged Wednesday to 'force change to happen' during protest speeches outside the White House and Capitol. Sheehan arrived in Washington after a three-week cross-country bus tour that began near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. She is expected to participate in an anti-Iraq war rally Saturday that organizers hope could draw tens of thousands of people...

http://tinyurl.com/cfakh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Come march with Code Pink

With the aim of recognizing and amplifying women's voices against the war, CODEPINK will be leading a women's contingent into the peace march on September 24th in partnership with NOW, Feminist Majority, Madre, WEDO and other progressive women's organizations (male allies are welcome!). We will be gathering on Freedom Plaza (14th and Pennsylvania) at 10:30 a.m., and will be joined by peace heroines Cindy Sheehan, Joan Baez, Margo Kidder among many others. At 11:15, the women's contingent will proceed to the main rally on the south side of the Ellipse, and finally continue on the march through the streets of D.C. proclaiming, "Women say NO to war!" For more information visit

http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=67
or call 301 565 2913.


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


Informant: Todd Eaton

From ufpj-news



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

„Eine andere Welt ist möglich – aber wie soll sie aussehen?

In diesem Artikel, der auch als Fortsetzung meiner Arbeit „Grundeinkommen jetzt!“ gelesen werden kann, möchte ich begründen, warum auch in einer nachkapitalistischen Gesellschaft das Grundeinkommen als unabdingbares Recht eingeführt werden sollte. Wenn das Grundeinkommen in erster Linie keine Methode der Armutsbekämpfung darstellt, sondern vor allem mehr Freiheit bewirken soll, dann muss dieses Prinzip in einer nachkapitalistischen Gesellschaft um so mehr gelten…“ Artikel von Karl Reitter in Grundrisse 13

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9709070/grundrisse13/13karl_reitter.htm



Garantiertes Grundeinkommen jetzt!

Die Forderung nach dem garantierten Grundeinkommen hat den Vorteil, dass sie einfach und unmissverständlich ist. Alle sollen, unabhängig von jedem nur denkbaren Kriterium, ein existenzsicherndes Einkommen erhalten. Artikel von Karl Reitter in Grundrisse 12

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9709070/grundrisse12/12karl_reitter.htm



“In Freiheit tätig sein“ statt Vollbeschäftigung

Erster deutschsprachiger Grundeinkommen-Kongress vom 7.- 9. Oktober 2005 in Wien, veranstaltet von Attac und den Grundeinkommens-Netzwerken aus Österreich und Deutschland.

Siehe dazu:

Nähere Programminfos zum Ablauf des Kongresses:
http://www.grundeinkommen2005.org/

Texte zum Kongress "Grundeinkommen 2005: In Freiheit tätig sein"! http://www.ksoe.at/ge2005/publikationen.html


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2005

Der Artikel basiert auf vorbereitenden Arbeiten zu einem Streitgespräch zum Thema "Aktivierende Hilfen zwischen Eigenverantwortung und Sozialdarwinismus", das an der FH Koblenz geführt wurde ... Artikel von Michael Wolf in UTOPIE kreativ, H. 179 (September 2005)

http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=1929


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2005

Prekarität und soziale (Des-)Integration

„Wir gehen in unserem Beitrag von der These aus, dass der Trend zur Prekarisierung der Erwerbsarbeit von maßgeblichen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft noch immer unterschätzt wird. Wir werden zeigen, dass die Ausbreitung unsicherer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse zunehmend auch das noch immer geschützte Zentrum der Arbeitsgesellschaft diszipliniert. Gestaltungsansätze, die sich an lange Zeit verbindlichen Kriterien für „gute Arbeit“ orientieren, geraten in die Defensive. In der Konsequenz plädieren wir für eine Strategie der Entprekarisierung als Eckpfeiler eines neuen arbeitspolitischen Koordinatensystems von Praktikern aus Wirtschaft, Betrieben, Gewerkschaften und Politik…“ Artikel von Klaus Dörre und Tatjana Fuchs in Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung Nr. 63 vom September 2005

http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.php?id=1940



Alles geht kaputt, alles geht kaputt ... und ich lache?

„Der eine erlebt sie auf dem Schleudersitz. Die andere ohne Papiere und ohne jede Wahl. Ein Dritter sieht sich als Selbstständiger und die Chance seines Lebens. Eine Vierte floatet zwischen zwei, drei Jobs und hat gar keine Zeit, sich zu beklagen. Die vierte arbeitet und hat trotzdem kein Geld. Ihnen gemeinsam ist die Prekarisierung, die ihre Arbeits- und Lebenswelt teuflisch eng ineinander schiebt, ob sie es wollen oder nicht. Jenseits davon, wie unterschiedlich sie alle damit umgehen, gibt es Bedingungen, die sich für alle verändert haben - und politische Einschätzungen, die so verschieden und widersprüchlich sind, wie das Erleben prekärer Zeiten….“ Artikel von Wolf Wetzel vom Juli 2005
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/wetzel.html



Ganz normal prekär? Feministische Aspekte zur Prekarität von Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnissen. Artikel von Gundula Ludwig und Birgit Mennel in Grundrisse 14

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9709070/grundrisse14/14gundula_ludwig_birgit_mennel.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2005

Wegen der Benachteiligung von Arbeitslosen, insbesondere Ein-Euro-Jobbern, trafen sich am 19.09.2005 in der Arbeitsagentur Bochum der Geschäftsführer der Agentur, Luidger Wolterhoff und der Sprecher des Erwerbslosenforums Deutschlands, Martin Behrsing zu einem Gespräch. Presseerklärung von Martin Behrsing (Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland, Bonn) vom 21.09.2005 (pdf)

http://www.erwerbslosenforum.de/presse/210905.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2005

Es soll festgestellt werden, das der 1-Euro-Job (hier geht es tatsächlich um einen 2-Euro-Job) eine reguläre tarifliche Arbeitsstelle ist und auch über die Zeit von 6 Monaten bestehen soll/muss. Die erste Verhandlung sollte eigentlich schon stattgefunden haben, wurde aber von der AWO vertagt. Wir werden weiter darüber berichten. Klageschrift vom 26.08.2005 (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/klagedgb.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2005

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91818;show_parent=1

Hurricane Rita gained strength
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91786;show_parent=1

Current Accuweather Satellite Imagery
http://tinyurl.com/9ylrs
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91814;show_parent=1

It's Psychologically Healthy to Prepare:
Experts explain what you need and what you don't-to stay alive during a catastrophe
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91815;show_parent=1

Hurricanes Steered To Bring About Martial Law?
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91790;show_parent=1

Hurricane Rita: 1 million must get out
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91807;show_parent=1

Hurricane RITA: Another climate control attack on the Gulf Coast???
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91823;show_parent=1

My experience is that shielding reduces the intensity, but does not change the structure (frequency, modulation/pulsation) of the radiation. So, if it is the structure making you sick, you could still get sick if the intensity is relatively low but still too high for you (if you are 'hypersensitive', this means you easily sense symptoms caused by consequences of effects of the radiation).

The structure of UMTS without traffic is not the same as with traffic.

In my sleeping case of Faraday (metal wire mesh 1 x 1 millimeter) in the sousterrain the measurement is 0,1 mikroWatt/m2 (about 0,007 V/m). I sleep well but inside I 'hear' microwaves (outside I do not, I suppose there the 'pressure' is too strong). The masts are at a distance of 350 metres, but still produce 0,7 V/m (about 1500 mikroWatt/m2) in the street. When I was in a village (no masts within five kilometres) where the measurement outside was 0,1 mikroWatt/m2 (without shielding), I did not 'hear' microwaves.

Shielding is good but does not take away the structure of the radiation.

Frans

Base stations on British Midlands Airways planes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=363033&in_page_id=1770

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The airbus has a dodgy reputation, computors overiding what the pilot has inputted and if you saw the one that landed with its front nose wheel the wrong way around [that was an airbus on the news this morning and they say it isn't the first time this has happened] I hate to think what might eventually happen't with a phone mast there as well. I feel sorry for the poor crew!

sue g

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But interesting that only a few days ago the press were running the concerns about so many unexplained air crashes, in some cases where the pilot had been using a mobile. The hypothesis was that instrumentation recording altitude was affected by the mobile and continued to misrecord after the call, leading pilots to fly into the ground.

This article today illustrates what a mad way of life we have come to lead: not only is the plane no longer fast enough, even that interrupts the ability to carry on working. For what?! Is it really so wasteful of life to spend it talking to fellow passengers? Just think, they could be discussing the contribution of air travel to climate change, or the impact of chemtrails! Or how to make life more enjoyable and in tune with the planet. Much more useful.

Andy

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Addition to the below: Israel is going to be one of the first countries that enables Wi-Fi on the plane. El Al (the Israeli airline company) has just signed the deal. It's 2.45 GHz, and it enables you to do very important things on the plane, like radiating your neighbour. Who knows if it can't cause technical problems to the plane, just not long ago the navigation of a plane was disrupted by a passenger talking on his mobile. I think I will choose Lufthansa...

Iris Atzmon.


----- Original Message -----

From: Eileen O'Connor
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: mobile phone base stations in Bmi planes -Daily Mail report 21/9/05.

letters@dailymail.co.uk

I would like to encourage everyone to wri te letters to the daily mail, in response to the enclosed article.


Many thanks

Eileen



DAILY MAIL 'Hello, I'm just on a plane...'

11:25am 21st September 2005

Airline passengers could soon be able to continue their mobile phone conversations in-flight, as a UK carrier becomes the first to allow mobiles to be used in a new trial.

Calls are currently banned in case signals interfere with a plane's navigation system.

Bmi (formerly British Midland Airways) will start the trial on an Airbus A320 late next year. The target market for bmi will be mainly business travellers flying out of Heathrow airport to UK destinations such as Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, and to European destinations such as Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels and Dublin.

The mobile signals will be diverted to a base station in the cabin and then sent directly to a satellite before they have a chance to interfere with onboard computers.

Bmi chief executive Nigel Turner said: "Our research tells us that our premium passengers have two key concerns. These are getting quickly through the airport and the ability to be able to carry on working during their journey."

To introduce the use of in-flight mobiles, bmi has signed a deal with OnAir, a joint venture involving planemakers Airbus, information company Sita and US software company Tenzing which pioneered in-flight email.
To introduce the use of in-flight mobiles, bmi has signed a deal with OnAir, a joint venture involving planemakers Airbus, information company Sita and US software company Tenzing which pioneered in-flight email.

Would you like to use your phone mid-flight, or does the prospect fill you with dismay? Tell us what you think using the reader comments link below

View reader comments or add your own
http://comments.dailymail.co.uk/dailymail/usercomments/viewArticleComments?in_article_id=363033&articleName=%2527Hello%252C%20I%2527m%20just%20on%20a%20plane...%2527&articlePath=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailym

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Mobile phones allowed in European skies

Trials with British Midland and Air Portugal
By Jan Libbenga
Published Thursday 22nd September 2005 12:37 GMT

British Midland and TAP Air Portugal will permit passengers to use their mobile phones in the air next year, the two European airlines said this week.

Both companies will use base-station technology developed by OnAir, the Airbus-backed rival to Boeing's Connexion. OnAir uses pico-cell base-stations from Siemens, coupled with software from TriaGnoSys. The kit will be installed in 2006 with a view to commencing a trial service late in the year.

Initially, only a couple of aircraft will be equipped with the system. TAP will use OnAir on its single-aisle Airbus 321, and BMI on the Airbus 320. The target market for BMI will include business and leisure travellers to its destinations in Europe out of London's Heathrow, including Manchester, Belfast Edinburgh, Paris and Amsterdam. Travellers can use all GSM and GPRS handsets, including Blackberry devices.

However, there are a couple of restrictions. Passengers can use their phones only from 10,000ft - they will still not be able to use wireless devices during take off and landing. Charges have yet to be determined, but rates will be in line with current international roaming charges, OnAir said.

The following 2 minute commentary will be broadcast over WORT community radio in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, September 26th, at 5am, 6am, 9am CDT, after Rita has devastated Galveston and Houston:

The incompetence and neglect of the current administration was laid bare by FEMA and hurricane Katrina. The funds for levy construction were sent to Iraq instead. The poor were left to fend for themselves in New Orleans while 40% of the Louisiana National Guard were in Iraq. But global warming has been rising off the charts, especially in the last fifteen years. Hurricanes have increased in intensity 60% and in duration 50% since 1949, with a pronounced increase in category four and five hurricanes in recent decades. But junior in the White House broke his campaign promise of 2000 to do something about global warming, and five years later our Southern Coastline is being systematically devastated from Florida to Texas in the last two years. Ironically, the oil industry states are being pummeled the worst. I wonder if they still believe global warming is a myth? Once again, the faith based presidency is being challenged by reality. From Social Security to Iraq to Downing Street Minutes to Karl Rove’s treason to Cindy Sheehan to Katrina and Rita, no wonder people have finally realized this is a loser in the White House. Too bad it’s one year too late. Like a battered housewife, so-called patriotic America doesn’t know when to quit on this blind fool. To learn more about “The War at Home: Hurricane Katrina, Poverty and Racism” come to the Madison Area Peace Coalition’s meeting on Tuesday 6:30pm at Wil Mar, 953 Jenifer Street.

Bob Reuschlein,
http//www.realeconomy.com,
Peace Economics, MAPC,
and president of the local Citizens for Global Solutions.


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

by Richard Steiner

In the week before Hurricane Katrina struck, the U.S. government was busy insisting on the deletion of a simple phrase from the general principles of the United Nations -- "Respect for Nature." History may now look on Katrina as the perfect storm that ended, once and for all, such anthropocentric arrogance.

The scale of the Katrina tragedy offers a painful portal into our very heart and soul, the way we think about ourselves, one another and our world. In the rubble of homes and lives and businesses, Katrina provides a potent teachable moment for society.

The evolutionary success of Homo sapiens as a species depended on our ability to learn and to act on that knowledge. When we recognized a threat -- predators, weather, lack of resources, etc. -- we learned to act to avoid or prepare for it. In this context, Katrina has much to teach.

First, prepare for the worst. It is a historic, national disgrace that we did not do better. Katrina was a well-predicted flood disaster, a well-predicted storm and, to those observers of government bureaucracies, a well-predicted failure of government altogether.

Next, prevent disaster to the extent possible. A decade ago, Louisiana's "Coast 2050" plan recognized that a century of flood control on the Mississippi was shrinking the wetlands, bayous, barrier islands and the entire delta of our nation's greatest river, and, if left uncorrected, would with certainty lead to catastrophe. It was not a "0.5 percent probability" as the Army Corps of Engineers is now claiming. It was a certainty.

Scientists proposed a straightforward $14 billion pre-emptive fix to the problem -- build canals and floodgates in the south bank of the river in New Orleans and periodically open them to allow the river and its millions of tons of sediment to flush onto the delta, rebuild barrier islands, thus protecting the coast from inundation in future storm events. This would take decades, but the sooner it begins, the sooner the area will be protected.

The threat was perfectly clear, the solution was perfectly clear, yet government did nothing. To officials, these warnings were typical of "environmental alarmists" and government had other more immediate priorities. When Katrina hit, this government attention deficit came tragically due.

Herein may lie our potential evolutionary downfall -- our modern inability to act decisively and cooperatively to avert certain disaster.

In this way, Katrina may provide -- in fast-forward microcosm -- a vision of the very future of Homo sapiens itself. The transcendent lesson of this perfect storm may be that the natural environment is ignored only at our own peril. As Katrina swept away lives and life-support systems on the Gulf Coast, the tragedy may give focus to the deteriorating condition of the essential environmental services the planet provides for the health and welfare of all 6.5 billion of us -- air, freshwater, food, shelter, energy, medicines, nutrient recycling, waste processing, enjoyment, etc.

History is littered with fallen civilizations that ignored their deteriorating environmental condition -- the Anasazi, Maya, Greenland Norse, Easter Islanders, etc. And like Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl and Bhopal, Katrina will now take its place in history as one of the seminal, time-compressed disasters that provide an overnight glimpse of the long-term degradation of the life-support systems of our home planet.

On this larger issue, the science is perfectly clear. We are dangerously degrading our biosphere, and for decades policy-makers have been warned of the dire consequences of ignoring this systemic environmental decline. As with New Orleans, we are all living on borrowed time. We are rapidly approaching a planetary tipping-point from which there will likely be no recovery. But just as with Katrina, governments have ignored warnings of global ecological collapse as well. How much longer can we afford such shortsighted, selfish ignorance?

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was bestowed the power to foretell the future but no one would believe her. She warned of a Trojan Horse, to no avail. The rest, as they say, is history.

Will we as a society learn from this perfect storm, reaffirm our "respect for nature" and attend to our deteriorating planetary life-support systems before it's too late, or not?


Richard Steiner is professor and conservation specialist at the University of Alaska.


Informant: Anna Webb



DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE: A DECLARATION FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/313445720
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by Maria Gilardin

This headline appeared in the London Independent in early February of 2005, following a conference at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, England, where 200 of the world’s leading scientists issued the most urgent warning to date: that dangerous climate change is taking place today, and not the day after tomorrow. Floods, storms, and droughts. Melting polar ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. Scientists from the fields of glaciology, biology, meteorology, oceanography, and ecology reported seeing a dramatic rise over the last 50 years of all the indicators of climate change: increase in average world temperatures, extreme weather events, in the levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and in the level of the oceans. The award winning environmental writer Geoffrey Lean wrote: “Future historians, looking back from a much hotter and less hospitable world . . . will puzzle over how a whole generation could have sleepwalked into disaster -- destroying the climate that has allowed human civilization to flourish over the past 11,000 years.”....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Gilardin0921.htm



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As the letter below shows, just when you thought the Bush regime could sink no lower, they add another basement level.


Dear Cindy,

My name is Stuart Leeds - I'm the family practice MD that you met at the storage facility shortly before we all caravanned to Algiers today.

It was a great honor and delight to meet you! I'm also pleased and somewhat relieved to have the opportunity to give you a brief report on the state of affairs visa vi the medical relief effort in the afflicted areas.

In short strokes: people are not getting the help they need, because our government, through the agency of FEMA, has totally politicized the relief effort. I'm sure you've already gotten wind of the reports that the Bush Administration is handing out huge contracts to favored vendors, much as they have done in Iraq. But what is not widely known is - and I can verify this personally - that FEMA is preventing certain groups and individuals from participating in the relief efforts. Here's a quick synopsis of the experience I and my companions (my wife, and two respiratory therapists) had today, in our attempts to offer our services to the Red Cross operation in Covington, LA.

We got a call from an official at the Red Cross that the Vets for Peace were being invited to send doctors to Abita Springs, a nearby community.

When we got there around 9 AM, some of director Dr Rachel Murphy's assistants welcomed us, and started making lists of materials we would need.

Suddenly, a man wearing a Homeland Security shirt came over and rudely asked us to leave. He brought a local cop with him, and their body language was pretty threatening. We explained that we were coming at the request of both Dr. Murphy and the mayor of Covington, Candace Watkins. He (whose name was Rodney Hart) would hear none of it from us; he forced us to leave immediately.

We went to Mayor Watkins, who called Dr. Murphy and arranged for us to be allowed into the Red Cross center. We decided that only my wife and I would go - realizing that the other gentlemen, who were wearing VFP T-shirts, would be less than welcome at the center.

We met Dr. Murphy a little after noon, and she was very friendly. She told us she would find a place for us to work - I as a physician, and my wife as an organizational specialist. However, midway through our tour of the facility, she stepped into the office of Mr. Hart, the Homeland security rep, and there were some tense words exchanged between them. She repeatedly exclaimed that we were not representing VFP, and finally there was a long period of silence. Mr. Hart apparently made some gestures we couldn't see. She sighed, and turned to us, and abruptly suggested we get some lunch in the basement. As we ate, she started talking about how the Red Cross was pulling out of her parish within a week, how there were already an excess of docs, and that our services wouldn't be needed.

She also explained that the reason that VFP was not welcome with the Red Cross (or indeed, within the entire parish) was because of a series of allegations that we had already heard from others in the center. We had heard several conflicting versions of these stories: that someone with VFP had stolen $15,000 worth of medical supplies, and that he turned out to be a child molester; that the Vets for Peace had come to one center and were taking over, and bringing cameras into clinics; that VFP was illegally collecting Red Cross donations on the Internet.

We could not substantiate any of these rumors, and indeed, I think it's unlikely that there was truth to any of them.

Clearly, FEMA and/or Homeland Security is trying to keep "political undesirables" from lending a hand during this catastrophe. Perhaps they are marching to orders from Bush's political hacks to preventing peace groups from upstaging the administration in the relief effort - which would hardly be difficult to do, on anything like a level playing field.

It is so sad to think that the Bush machine would put politics in front of the safety and security of human beings, even in a the wake of a natural disaster of Katrina's magnitude. But in the eyes of this physician, I believe that is exactly what is happening. And it will continue, as long as the responsible government agencies can get away with it.

We must hold them accountable. But more importantly, we must let people know this is happening, and thus bring such pressure to bear on these obstructionist agencies that they can no longer keep VFP, or indeed any group of caring citizens from pitching in.

Thanks, Cindy. And keep up the great work.

F.Stuart (Skip) Leeds, MS, MD


From Care2 Connect

by Michael C. Ruppert

September 21st, 2005 1530 PST (FTW) –

As I pack my bags to head to Washington for Congressional Black Caucus hearings on the September 11th attacks
(to be conducted this Friday and Saturday) my inbox is being progressively flooded with emails from inside sources in the energy industry about what Hurricane Rita is now likely to accomplish – the near-complete destruction of an already teetering U.S. economy.

Fully 30% of all U.S. refining capacity is in the target zone. Perhaps most importantly, almost every refinery capable of producing diesel fuel is in immediate danger.

This promises (especially in the wake of Katrina) a devastating and irreplaceable shortage of the diesel fuel needed to power America’s harvest of grain and food crops this month and next.

Without diesel fuel to power the harvesters and combines, crops may be left to rot in the ground presenting a double whammy: food shortages (with prices that may treble or quadruple) and export defaults negatively impacting the financial markets and trade deficit.

Even before Rita strikes, fully 30% of all domestic natural gas production is shut in.

The U.S. cannot import natural gas from overseas like it can both crude and refined products.

Repair work on infrastructure damaged by Katrina has been halted as crews have been evacuated. The remaining half of Gulf energy production undamaged by Katrina is directly in Rita’s crosshairs.

Natural gas prices are up over 110% and home heating oil futures are up almost 70% before Rita even gets here.

Since Katrina, U.S. domestic oil production is down one million barrels per day (from 5Mbpd to 4 Mbpd). We were producing 9 Mbpd less than a decade ago.

Peak Oil has made replacement of losses almost impossible even as Saudi heavy-sour is being spurned as useless around the world, even with discounts of up to $10 and $12 per barrel.

A Bloomberg article today contains a quotation from a Wall Street energy expert as saying, “‘Rita is developing into our worst-case scenario,’ said John Kilduff, vice president of risk management at Fimat USA in New York.

‘This is headed right into our other major refining center just after all the damage done to facilities in Louisiana. From an energy perspective it doesn't get any worse than this.’”

The Chairman of Valero Energy agrees with the Bloomberg assessment calling Rita a potentially national disaster.

His opinion is important because Valero operates more refineries in the U.S. than any other company.

CNN is now predicting $5 per gallon gasoline and this will not likely go away with market manipulations.

We had not yet experienced the permanent spikes resulting from Katrina, and the emergency reserves of the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the International Energy Agency have already been tapped once and not refilled.

The South Texas Project nuclear plant – one of the largest in the country – is being completely shut down in preparation for Rita’s landfall.

It is only 12 miles from the Texas coast and almost dead center in the hurricane’s projected path.

Texas has its own power grid but catastrophic electricity shortages could easily ripple throughout the country in a short time.

Electricity lost from that that facility will only be added to what is lost from other facilities powered by now critically short supplies of natural gas.

For those of you who expect FEMA to behave any differently in Texas than it did in New Orleans you are in for a crude awakening.

FEMA will do what it must now do to preserve even a functioning part of America’s governing and economic infrastructure.

Saving lives will be one of the least important functions in its mandate.

While I had serious doubts about America’s ability to recover from Katrina, I am certain that – barring divine intervention – the United States is finished; not only as a superpower, but possibly even as a single, unified nation with the arrival of Hurricane Rita.

© Copyright 2005, From The Wilderness Publications, http://www.fromthewilderness.com . All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092105_rita_storm.shtml


Informant: friends2b



DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE: A DECLARATION FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/990236/
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ECOTERRA observed this day by planting a thousand self-raised non-GM seedlings of endangered indigenous trees as enrichment planting in the lands of a people, who were and are the guardians of their forests in Kenya since thousands of years. Not enough we believe, but if you think likewise then extend your support to people near you, who do just do the same. Traditional communities together with the global movement againt GM-trees and monocultures shall overcome the mafia of the corporate smokescreeners.

21 September

International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations

Planting trees is not always a good thing to do. It depends on the objective, the scale, the location of the plantation and the benefits or damages involved for the local population.

Large-scale monoculture tree plantations that have been promoted in the countries of the South with fast-growing species, such as eucalyptus and pine have generated considerable negative impacts, economically, socially and environmentally in the countries where they have been installed.

The Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations (Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles – RECOMA) an organization involving members from 16 countries, has been denouncing, inter alia, displacements of rural populations, loss of sources of work, appalling working conditions, the destruction of forests and other ecosystems, soil erosion, depletion and contamination of water.

In May 2004, the Brazilian "Network against the Green Desert" that has a considerable track record of resistance to tree plantations, held its 3rd National Meeting in the city of Bello Horizonte. On that occasion it decided to select the 21 September, National Tree Day, as a significant date to commemorate the struggle against monoculture tree plantations.

Convened by RECOMA, organizations from the whole region are adhering to this commemoration and will carry out various mobilizations.

In Brazil, the students of the Federal University have organized a mobilization to take place on that date in the capital of the State of Espirito Santo, with the participation of representatives of affected groups to denounce the workers’ situation and encroachment of the lands of the local communities by monoculture tree plantations.

In Argentina, in the Province of Entre Ríos the negative impacts of monoculture tree plantations will be given dissemination by the press and in the Province of Misiones native species will be planted as a symbolic way of rejecting the monoculture of exotic species that is covering the province.

Uruguay is joining in this celebration with an exhibition at the City Hall Esplanade, with the distribution of information, videos will be shown on a gigantic screen. they will include the impacts of monoculture tree plantations and the situation of Uruguayan forestry workers, prepared by the Association of Labour Inspectors of Uruguay.

For those of us who believe that "another world is possible", governmental policy must make a radical change. It must cease its support of monoculture tree plantation companies and centre its support on the men and women who live in rural environments to enable them to improve their quality of life, while ensuring environmental quality.

For more information:

Ana Filippini,
RECOMA Secretariat,
World Rainforest Movement
Montevideo - Uruguay Phones: (5982) 413 2989 - 410 0985
http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantaciones/RECOMA.html
recoma@internet.com.uy


This statement is distributed by the Timberwatch Coalition in South Africa, in solidarity with RECOMA. In South Africa, industrial timber plantations bring similar hardship and suffering to rural communities. Destruction of valuable grasslands, depletion of water resources, and displacement of people from their traditional lands are ongoing due to the insatiable desire of the timber industry to make ever larger profits at the expense of more sustainable and less environmentally damaging land-use activities. Wally Menne (Chairperson) Timberwatch Coalition Tel: +27 (0) 82-4442083 Fax: +27 (0) 31-2019958 Box 30577, Mayville, 4058, South Africa E-mail: plantnet@iafrica.com URL: http://www.timberwatch.org.za


From ECOTERRA Intl.

http://www.traprockpeace.org/galloway_chi_091905.html


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/307/64/


Informant: friends2b

Burnley Express

20.09.05

CAMPAIGNERS against phone masts are holding a public meeting at Padiham Town Hall tomorrow in light of vital new evidence that says exposure to microwave radiation can damage health.

Just days after Burnley Council granted permission for another mast near the Prairie playing fields campaigners say they want people to go along and hear the true facts.

The group, Together Against Masts (TAM), has been campaigning for six years against the insensitive siting of mobile phone masts and highlighting "the dangers to all living beings" from exposure to the microwave radiation emitted day and night.

Chairman Mr Dennis Cannon said: "We have shown independent research and provided anecdotal evidence from individuals claiming to be affected by this radiation. Symptoms have ranged from cancers, brain tumours at the upper end to general complaints, such as migraines, nausea, tingling sensations and sleep disorders.

All of these have been refuted by the Government without exception, claiming that there was no proof of any adverse biological effects and, without offering alternative evidence to show the technology was safe, they have pressed ahead and brushed aside people's objections to install more and more masts, particularly with the 3G system, which with its shorter range requires many more masts even closer to residential properties. All this to allow access to the internet, online games and taking and transmitting pictures."

But he says the Government has now admitted that there are biological effects which cause some people illness.

Earlier this month national newspaper reports said that the Health Protection Agency (HPA) which took over the duties of the National Radiation Protection Board (NRPB) admitted for the first time that exposure to microwave radiation can damage health. Mr Cannon says a report from NRPB next month will acknowledge that exposure to this radiation could be causing headaches, joint pain, depression and fatigue in certain people. "While this still falls short of admitting that terminal illnesses can result from exposure, how can they explain their stance for the last six years that there were no adverse biological effects. In any event how can it be right for anyone to have such radiation brought into their homes, without their consent and resulting in them suffering any ailment? All this for commercial gain for phone operators and the Government," he said.

He added that further evidence has come from Germany where blood tests have been devised which show any effects from exposure to EMF radiation. As yet the UK has not developed its own test but it will be available here this month.

"Costs for this test have been quoted at £125 and anyone wishing to have one should contact me for details. "If you live close to a mast and suffer a new ailment, then it would be well worthwhile considering getting checked out, " said Mr Cannon.

Tomorrow's TAM meeting starts at 7-30 p.m. at Padiham Town Hall.

Sep 20 2005

By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

PLANNERS have given their backing to plans for a mobile phone mast on a church.

Residents have voiced objections to the proposals for Lindley Parish Church.

More than 50 people packed into a public meeting earlier this month.

But officers at Kirklees Council are now saying the bid is well within guidelines and should be allowed to go ahead.

A report said: "The three antennae are to be mounted externally on the church tower and painted to match its masonry.

"The transmission dish would be located on the inside of the parapet.

"The agent says the proposed works are reversible and would not result in any residual harm to the building."

A decision on their recommendation will be made by councillors on Thursday.

It is the third bid for a mast by Hutchison 3G, which runs the 3 network, after two earlier applications were withdrawn.

The church in Lidget Street, which dates from 1829, would get an annual rent of about £6,000.

Objectors point out the tower is near Lindley Junior School and say the mast bid should be thrown out on health grounds.

But council planners say the apparatus complies with Government guidelines on exposure to radio frequencies.

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

Hutchison 3G said the equipment was discreet and the plan was in line with Government planning policy that encouraged operators to use existing structures

Redditch Advertiser

RESIDENTS were celebrating this week after a controversial planning application for a 22.5m phone mast near a Matchborough school was thrown out by councillors.

At a planning meeting last Tuesday, councillors backed their officers' recommendations to refuse the plan at Neon House, Bartleet Road, Washford, because they said it would have a detrimental affect on the surrounding area.

Neighbours had organised a petition against the mast on health grounds, and because the plan would involve the felling of protected trees.

They also objected to it being erected near to an existing 20m high mast.

Phil Henshaw of Frankton Close said: "We're very pleased the plans were refused."

He said he spoke at the meeting praising the town's beauty and appealing to councillors to call a halt to the proliferation of masts in the area.

Councillor Juliet Brunner said she was delighted at the decision to refuse the proposal.

Forbidden from speaking directly to the committee, she submitted her objection letter alongside one from Arrow Vale headteacher Peter Woodman and numerous others, including a petition of 83 local residents

Speaking afterwards she said: "This decision is a tribute to people power - the local community united to make their views known."

Mrs Brunner added: "There are enough phone masts in the area. It is time now for these phone companies to look seriously at finding alternatives."

She said thanks should go to Phil Henshaw who worked tirelessly to ensure the views of his neighbours were taken into consideration.

ABERYSTWYTH

Health officials were accused this week of siding with Britain’s newest mobile phone network in an escalating row over construction of a controversial base-station on the roof of Bronglais Hospital.

NHS trust chiefs approved Hutchison 3G’s multi-media mast despite furious protests by residents following new evidence that base-station radiation affects brain-waves and can seriously damage health. The phone company last week began installing the mast on the hospital roof in the face of a flood of objections by people living nearby and by Ceredigion AM Elin Jones and MP Mark Williams. Local health officials gave the go-ahead without reference to the trust board and in defiance of new evidence from Austria and Holland about the possible dangers of third-generation (3G) transmission.

Three Dutch government ministries found signals from 3G masts could cause headaches and nausea, while an Austrian study warned of “serious consequences” for public health. Town councillor Sue Jones-Davies, who has taken up the residents’ case and says protests will continue, said: “Why are they being allowed to put something as controversial as this on something as sensitive as a hospital? “No-one can put their hands on their hearts and say such masts are safe. This is a public building, and the public have said clearly they do not want it here, yet their wishes are being dismissed. “Instead of listening to its near neighbours here in Aberystwyth, the NHS trust is acting in a way that obliges the shareholders of a multinational company.”

The contract with Hutchison, owned by the Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, was approved by trust chief executive Allison Williams. She claims the mast will earn only a “very small” amount of money for the trust, which is about £1.4 million in the red, but has refused to reveal details of the deal. In July she told the Cambrian News the contract with Hutchison could be cancelled if protests continued.

Residents continued to say they were worried radio waves from the mast could damage their health, but last week the company confirmed engineers had now begun to instal its three antennae and two dishes on the hospital roof. Hutchison, who say all their sites operate well below international radiation emission guideline levels, claimed residents did not answer letters sent out as part of a public consultation exercise.

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

Residents say they never received the letters. Earlier, Ms Williams declined to comment on why the trust had not acted on its assurance that the mast contract could be cancelled if protests continued. She also remained silent on why the trust was continuing to co-operate with Hutchison for the sake of “very small” earnings , while refusing to heed residents’ concerns over a development which focused not on basic or emergency communication but merely on entertainment through audio and video-clip services. She said: “At the time of signing the contract we were not aware of any concerns having been raised by the local residents. We had been reassured that the consultation had been carried out.”

Hutchison regional corporate affairs manager Verity Stanford told the Cambrian News: “The hospital is ideally located to provide coverage to the east end of the town. All our installations operate at fractions of the international public emissions standards. “There is no proven evidence that masts or mobile phones that operate to guidelines cause adverse health effects."

Omega this is not true. 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

A couple who spent their life savings on a doomed two-year battle over a Hutchison mast face financial ruin after being presented with a claim for £400,000 in legal costs. Agnes Ingvarsdottir, 61, her husband, Ericur Petursson, 63, and their son, Neils Erickson, 42, claimed that they began to suffer nausea, headaches, tinnitus and cardiovascular disease after the telecommunications company installed the mast on the roof of a restaurant opposite their home in Worcester. But their attempt to prove that the mast caused the symptoms was thrown out by the High Court and they were instructed to pay Hutchison 3G’s legal costs, which amount to £407,398. The company said that it had offered the family numerous opportunities to settle out of court. ‘Company erected Parcyllyn mast in the dead of night!’ A CEREDIGION County councillor has said he feels like taking a chainsaw to a 15 metre telecommunications mast which he claims was erected near houses at Parcyllyn, Aberystwyth, overnight.

Cllr Paul James told colleagues on the authority’s planning committee that the mast which is not used by TETRA - had nevertheless been put up without consultation with any of the people living in the vicinity of Country Stores. In a blazing attack on the applicants Hutchison 3G, Cllr James urged the authority to throw out their application to operate over a 12-month period. “Personally I would like to take a chainsaw to this thing,” he said. “This company came under cover of darkness like some sort of commando unit and erected this15 metre mast in the dead of night. The first thing local residents knew of it was when they looked out of their windows the next morn-ing. “This mast is a distraction to motorists and could cause an accident - instead of looking at the road motorists are looking at the mast.”

Cllr James made his comments after hearing planning officer Ritchie Williams read out letters from local residents who pointed out there were three schools and an Ysgol Feithrin in the vicinity whose views regard-ing the mast were never sought. Mr Williams pledged to canvas opinion among the nearby schools. He said: “I have no problem with this mast on visual grounds. This application is a temporary one, so any harm to amenities would be reversible.” But Cllr James drew the committee’s atten-tion to the existence of a 116-name petition calling on the county council to get the mast removed and added that Llanbadarn com-munity council had also raised objections. “The pictures we are looking at do not show how close this mast is to people’s gar-dens,” he maintained. “The report says 40m, but I would say 20m. This mast was put up without any prior permission.”

His sentiments were echoed by Cllr Dai Suter who spoke of his anger at the way Hutchison 3G had operated. “I cannot understand the arrogance of the people who put these things up without going through the proper procedures,” he said. “People should be told you cannot erect these masts and expect to get away with it. They need to be taught a lesson.”

And Cllr Lyndon Lloyd commented: “There’s a coach and horses being driven through this committee by this operator. We do not seem to have any control over these people whatsoever.”

Cllr Suter also expressed scepticism that the mast would be a temporary one. He said: “We have all seen examples of things that were put up temporarily 10 or 15 years ago. “We are here to defend residents and I think the people responsible for this mast should be kicked into touch - big time.

Mr Williams reminded councillors that their job was not to teach applicants ‘a lesson’ but to consider each planning application on its merits. It was agreed to refer the matter to the site inspection panel.

South Wales Evening Post

10:00 - 21 September 2005

I was interested to read (Post, September 8) of the Cassiopeia mast emissions monitoring system to be provided by Vodafone and Swansea Council to allay public concerns on levels of those emissions. As one of a growing number of scientists deeply concerned about the health effects of radiation from phone masts, I feel your readers should know that none of those scientists believe that radiation levels are sufficiently high to fry us - which is effectively the only risk that those "precautionary health guidelines" protect us from.

The guidelines themselves explicitly state that they don't claim to offer any protection against other risks - such as an increased risk of cancer.

It may also interest your readers to know that the "precautionary approach" advised by the Government-appointed Stewart Committee was considered necessary precisely because peer-reviewed scientific research had shown repeatedly that those guidelines were inadequate to protect against observed long-term non heat-based effects - such as increased risk of cancer and brain damage.

It's interesting to note that, in Greek Mythology, Cassiopeia was superficially very attractive, but her vanity and boastfulness led to widespread death and devastation across her lands.

Let's just hope that this superficially attractive exercise in spin from Vodafone doesn't leave the people of South Wales paying a higher price than they'd bargained for.

Further information on this subject is available on my website http://www.starweave.com

Dr Grahame Blackwell,
Uphill,
Newton Abbot,
Devon

Border Counties Advertiser
21.09.05

HUNDREDS of West Felton residents have pledged to defend their homes from intrusion from a 50ft radio mast being built in a local field.

A second full-house was anticipated for a public meeting organised on Monday in the parish hall with many residents planning to take legal action to head off the mast on farmland near The Avenue.

Angry residents say the first they knew of the mast was when groundwork began in the field two weeks ago.

Parish councillor Pat Mabe said that there was a lot of ill feeling towards the mast with many residents fearing for the health of children at the nearby school and the value of their properties.

“We are going to try and get the Borough Council to do something about it because this is too close to people’s homes. There’s a lot of feeling in the village. The villagers are all together about it. We feel betrayed by people who should be taking care of us,” she added.

According to reports, Orange first contacted the Borough Council in 2002 about putting a mast in West Felton.

The Borough consulted West Felton Parish Council which said it was too close to people’s homes. The phone company maintain the information was never received.

Planning officers from the borough, and phone company Orange were invited to last Monday’s meeting.

Many residents are concerned about the prospects of selling their homes and cannot understand how newcomers have bought their homes in the last six months without the proposed mast showing up on searches. Some are understood to be so incensed they are considering picketing the site and also claiming a reduction in their council taxes.

Mr Tim Rogers, planning officer with Oswestry Borough Council said that when the mast was first consulted upon in 2002 it did not need planning permission as it was less than 15 metres high.

There was a dispute between the Borough Council and Orange over an e-mail which reported the concerns of West Felton Parish Council which the company say was out of time.

However Mr Rogers said the mast could not have been stopped at that time and the disputed e-mail would only have been about the location and possible screening of the site.

Orange, which could not be contacted by The Advertizer, is reported to have refused to attend a public meeting.

Sep 20 2005

icSurrey online Epsom and Banstead

By Joan Mulcaster

WORSHIPPERS are praying for neighbours' approval of their bid to put a mobile phone mast on the roof of their church.

The proposal, by historic Grade ll listed St Martin of Tours, Epsom's Parish Church, is because cash is badly needed for £350,000 worth of work on the building and adjoining hall in Church Road.

But vicar, the Rev Simon Talbot, is aware that agreeing to the financial offer from QS4 could not have come at a worse time - just after the outcry which stopped council bosses agreeing to a mobile phone mast in Court Road recreation ground.

He said: "I am aware of this and I am sending out letters to all addresses within a 250 metre radius of the church and we are having a consultation session on Wednesday October 5 from 4pm to 8 pm to answer questions.

"The annual rental income cannot be disclosed at the company's request but it will be very useful for the work we need to do on our old church centre and work in the church itself - including providing a toilet for the disabled.

"We live in the age of mobile phones which have invaluable uses not just for young people but the elderly. Yes, I have one - and phone companies have an obligation to provide good reception.

"The church roof tower at the rear of the building where it will go is about 70ft high so the mast, designed to look like a flagpole, will only be two to three metres high.

"QS4 even has a special department to make sure designs fit in with the churches and we will be able to fly a flag on it if we want to.

"I know of at least one other church in the area which, if this goes ahead, might also consider it.

"The tower is not one of our main ones at the front but the back where it will overlook the churchyard.

"A data base was set up after the Archbishop's Council established a national system. Every parish was written to and we were approached 18 months ago.

"The vote by the Parochial Church Council was made after a very positive discussion and the vote was clearly in favour.

"There will be no final decision whether the project will go ahead for at least three months."

Mr Talbot said before agreeing the Parochial Church Council sought advice from the radiological protection divison of the Health Protection Agency, which assured them risks from masts were far less than those from the phones themselves.

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QS4 has a special deal with the C of E, using technology from Qinetiq (The private arm of the Ministry of Defence) to install masts. Loads of money to the church of course.

The Qinetiq technology allows all 5 operators to share the same antennae (antenna sharing rather than mast sharing), into which they all feed their separate signals.

Good military technology purporting to save the day:

1) save on numbers of planning applications

2) save on refusals and appeals (the church is not subject to the same planning regulations)

3) get your masts into residential areas (that's where churches tend to be)

4) find convenient tall structures

5) find someone who desperately needs the money

6) sell it as beneficial to the community (who better to want to be seen to do this?)

7) surveillance? Where better to hide it.

Got it in one.

Andy

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QS4 has a special deal with the C of E, using technology from Qinetiq (The private arm of the Ministry of Defence) to install masts. Loads of money to the church of course. The devil must be laughing his head off on the irony of this one! With the additional profit from mobile phone porn and gambling, all angles must be covered.

I find it hard to believe that people who follow the Christian faith can be so focused on material profit and so unconcerned about those with health problems because they live near masts. Maybe they genuinely haven't heard about all the mounting evidence linking mobile phone technology to cancer and other serious illness.

There is only one reason I can think of why churches would agree to housing antennae in their buildings and that would be for money.

There are plenty of examples in the Bible of how Jesus hated profiteering in the church.

I believe this episode in the Bible (see examples below) is the only one where we actually hear that Jesus was angry with what he saw.

He was usually filled with pity for those who did wrong, but not in this case.

My local United Reformed Church has supported my fight against our local mast and have written to the planning dept. expressing their concern.

Our church is directly next door to the mast and due to the increasing evidence of cancer clusters around them, we are concerned about the well being of the children who attend the daily playgroup.

Our church is really poor and we have serious worries about the upkeep of the building but as a community I am sure we would never stoop to this way of raising money.

Can you imagine Jesus taking money from the Romans or the Jewish authorities to keep his ministry together?

Didn't Judas get his 30 coins of silver and what good did that do him?

Mark 8:36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Anyone out there fighting a mast on a local church...I would be happy for you to pass this message on to your local minister.

He can challenge me if he wants to !

If these men have a conscience these words will reach them.

Best wishes,

angieb

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092105_world_stories.shtml#0


Informant: friends2b

Senator Kennedy: There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for Chief Justice. I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105Y.shtml

Maureen Dowd states that Mr. Bush's "Who's Your Daddy?" bravura - blowing off the world on global warming and the allies on the Iraq invasion - has been slapped back by Mother Nature, which refuses to be fooled by spin.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105M.shtml



Who's your daddy?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

11/07/05

Don't let anyone ever tell you that President Bush isn't a brilliant politician, one who has mastered the psychological intricacies of the welfare-warfare state that conservatives and liberals have imported to our nation. The latest proof of Bush's political brilliance and insight into human nature occurred recently when he proposed his $7 billion federal bird-flu plan to protect the American people from a potential pandemic, which is the latest fear that assails the American psyche. With his bird-flu plan, Bush has subtly and effectively reminded Americans that despite all the imperfections of the federal government (Rove, Libby, and Cheney, CIA Soviet-era torture centers, torture and sex abuse scandal, Iraq, FEMA), the federal government is still their daddy ...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0511b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

It IS quite a "coincidence"....that TWO major hurricanes are going to the gulf??!!....I saw on the Weather Channel where they evacuated the oil rigs again..... yesterday. ...Keep cars FULL...expect prices to RISE.

The bottom line here .....There is something quite strange going on and it pays to OBSERVE...and not miss anything any more!!

Annie


Jim McCanney Alleged Katrina Was Steered to Landfall- Provides Scientific Explanation: What about Rita?

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SCIENCE EXPERT ALLEGES KATRINA WAS STEERED TO DELIBERATE LANDFALL

Hurricane RITA, which threatens to become a category 5 hurricane, is on a collision course with the Texas coast and it could have a hugely damaging impact on oil refineries around Houston.

http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&article=0

If it does, our country could be thrown into economic turmoil and martial law could be declared nationwide as our cities would descend into chaos and rioting because our whole society is built on a foundation of oil. I hope this does not happen, but having just relistened to an archived radio show that I originally heard two weeks ago, this time to take notes, In light of Hurricane Rita now bearing down on the Texas coast, I feel concerned enough to urge you to listen to what McCanney has to say at
http://jmccanneyscience.com/sh09-08-05-7megfile-bestsound.ram

DISTURBING NOTES FROM MCCANNEY's RADIO SHOW

Firstly, Jim McCanney, MS, is an expert on weather manipulation, having written numerous scientific papers and a book about it:

http://www.jmccanneyscience.com/

Secondly, he provided enough detail to convince me that he's someone we should pay attention to. He asserts that energy for hurricanes comes from the ionosphere, and that the eye of a hurricane is actually an electric field. He states that hurricanes can occur over cold water too, citing the "Perfect Storm" off the New England coast of 1991.

Thirdly, he states very matter of factly, claiming to have helped develop the science that makes it possible that satellite guided lasers can be used to ionize the path in front of a hurricane for the purpose of steering it to an intended landfall. He states that originally this technology was intended to steer hurricanes AWAY from populated areas so as to MINIMIZE the damage they do, but he asserts that with Katrina, it was horribly misused for evil purposes.

He asserts that his scientific papers were translated into Russian by Russian scientists who then gave our government information about weather manipulation so that we could use it to PROTECT ourselves from hurricanes since they don't occur in Russia, but do occur in US waters.

He asserts that this technology makes it possible to drag hurricanes around by the lip just as it would be possible to make a person go where you want if you put a ring through their nose or lip and attached a cord to it to yank on it.

He asserts that just before the hurricane would have hit New Orleans, it made a 90 degree turn just before landfall, which steered it directly into oil refineries just EAST of New Orleans off the Mississippi coast.

He asserts that the pattern of levvy breaches around New Orleans indicates that explosives were used to blow them citing that the official explanation that they were caused by a storm surge didn't add up because of breaches occurring on the River side and on the Canal side of the city (away from Lake Ponchartrain). He states that when the levvy's broke, the storm surge had ALREADY OCCURRED the day BEFORE. He flat out accuses FEMA of being responsible for blowing the levees. While there is no proof of that, it would be consistent with their OTHER actions which were clearly more geared towards establishing government CONTROL over the city than to save lives.

He notes that people who have been saying that weather manipulation "is scientifically impossible" are wrong, and points us to a UN Resolution signed during the Carter Administration in 1976 as hard evidence of its reality:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/intro.htm

He asserts that this UN Resolution only makes it illegal to use weather modification technology to attack ANOTHER COUNTRY but that it DID NOT make it illegal to use against YOUR OWN PEOPLE.

He asserts that our own SPACE COMMAND at NASA has the ability to steer hurricanes, and flat out states that this just happened with Katrina.

He also stated that he feels it is highly likely that ADDITIONAL contrived events will occur for the purpose of triggering martial law in the USA.

At the time he did this radio show, Hurricane Rita didn't yet exist, but it sure does now, and its heading for Houston Texas and all the oil refineries there.

THE MOVIE "OILSTORM" AIRED IN JUNE- WHATS HAPPENING NOW SEEMS LIKE ITS FOLLOWING A SCRIPT....

Earlier this summer, a movie came out called "Oil Storm" that almost seems like it was a SCRIPT for what we're now seeing unfold in REAL LIFE. SEE SAMPLE CLIP FROM MOVIE:

http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/oilstorm/main.html

(Read this synopsis of this TV movie which aired in June:
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/oilstorm/main.html

Am I categorically stating that we're soon going to be under Martial Law nationwide?

No, I'm not, but with hurricane Rita currently taking aim at the Texas coast, I can't just pretend I didn't hear his radio show in case he IS correct.

Am I categorically stating that I agree with what McCanney is saying?

No, I am not, I don't know enough to know if he's correct or not, and I emphatically hope he is WRONG, but I can't dismiss what he's saying in light of the fact that FEMA actively murdered a huge number of people in New Orleans by not allowing people to get bottled water that Walmart tried to deliver or to allow coast guard boats with diesel fuel to be unloaded, and that FEMA cut emergency phone lines of the Jefferson Parish President forcing him to position armed sheriffs to defend them once fixed.

This has been very well documented, so it seems to me like the New World Order is making its move on America RIGHT NOW in an effort to DESTROY our country so as to usher in the New World Order- a global totalitarian state.

"We have been abandoned by our own country." (Jefferson Parish President) See News Footage:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10121.htm

CODEX, of course is just one small PART of this GENOCIDE AGENDA.

WHAT TO DO:

If you live in a big city, you may want to develop a contingency plan for getting out, in fact you may want to LEAVE NOW because we face a very uncertain future. Check out this website about intentional communities if you'd like to quickly get to a self sufficient community outside of a city: http://www.ic.org

Look what happened in New Orleans after martial law as declared: they wouldn't LET anyone leave (!!) I saw footage of Geraldo Rivera inside the Super Dome pleading for the government to let the people inside the dome LEAVE the dome, and another reporter stated that FEMA had sealed the city, and wasn't letting anyone walk across the causeway to Gretna, and safety.

Could this happen in OTHER cities if things degenerated via a huge economic depression and or via suitcase nukes or dirty bombs exploded in one or more major cities?

What do YOU think?

I'm not trying to scare the hell out of you with this discussion, its just that its better to be prepared for any eventuality than to not even think about what seems to be unfolding right under our noses.

As far as CODEX goes- I am encouraging people to hold meetings of friends, family, health food store owners and staff to show them Kevin Miller's DVD "We Become Silent" and to let them listen to the Audio Tape of the talk I gave in July at the PANLA Conference. Both will help people see thru the spin against our mssg coming from the pharma dominated vitamin trade associations such as NNFA.

IAHF is selling both the DVD and audio tape for just $30. IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd., Point Roberts WA 98281 USA

Unless we amp up the level of awareness, we're not going to kill FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) which would force Codex harmonization upon us. (See this well written article by Paul Taylor, Board Member of the National Health Federation, consultant to the Dr. Rath Foundation:

THE GROWING THREATS TO DSHEA:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/index.html

If Hurricane Rita does slam into Houston, wrecking the oil refineries there, it could trigger a huge economic depression which could cause rioting to break out in all our major cities which could easily trigger martial law. It could be just like the movie OIL STORM.

I SERIOUSLY hope I am wrong! I REALLY hope this does not happen. I hope McCanney is wrong in what he's saying, but thought you all deserved the benefit of the doubt. Please listen to his show and decide for yourself what you think and please forward this message. We could all be in for a very rough ride.

For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA http://www.iahf.com jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World



Annie

"Some of Us, the Dreamers, were born to dance upon the wind" -Unknown-

A campaign in order to promote national health standards in China

New entry titled 'Chinese health standards highlighted' has been posted to EMFacts Consultancy. In the USA, that supposed bastion of freedom and Democracy (if you believe in the Easter Bunny) it is no secret that under Bush and Co. environmental and health regulations are being gutted to suit corporate interests. The essential primer on this is "Special Interest Takeover - The Bush Administration and the Dismantling of Public Safeguards" available on line at:

http://www.ombwatch.org/regs/bushrecord/takeover

In comparison, China, that bastion of human rights violations and hard line communist holdouts, seems to be heading in the opposite direction with regulation. See below and previous message # 187 for details on the Chinese RF standard.

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=187

Why the difference? Perhaps with all the injustices of communism that the Chinese people had to endure, one injustice they missed out on was the existence of private corporations trying to run the show. Another factor is that China now faces huge environmental problems coupled with a huge population and the problems are impossible to ignore. Jared Diamond's book "Collapse-How Societies Choose to fail or Survive" has a good section on China's current problems and how they are handling them. Whatever one thinks of the Chinese leadership, they do seem to be primarily concerned with the future of their country, something that is not apparent with the US leadership other than trying to steal other peoples oil to feed their SUVs. China has over a thousand health standards. People's Daily Online; Will cosmetics containing lead (Pb) do harm to health? How to determine whether air pollution in a household goes beyond permitted standards? Authorities from the Ministry of Health will give scientific answers to these most concerned questions. The week from September 17 to 24 will be devoted to a national campaign promoting health standards under the theme "spreading health standards, creating healthy life".

The Ministry has by now formulated or approved 1,800 various health standards, including 1,169 now effective. They cover safety of food, environment, occupation, school, radiation, cosmetics, sterilization as well as diagnosis of occupational disease and radiation sickness, diagnosis and control of local, parasitic and infectious diseases, clinical examination and so on. They include 731 sets of state-level standards (under the code GB or GB/T), 248 sets of state-level occupational health standards (GBZ or GBZ/T) and 190 sets of standards of health sector (WS or W/T).

http://www.next-up.org/divers/chine/Chine.htm



Campagne de promotion des normes de santé publique en Chine

Un nouveau bulletin intitulé “le point sur les normes de santé chinoises» a été envoyé à EMFacts Consultancy.

Aux Etats-Unis, pays supposé être le bastion de la liberté et de la Démocratie (Si vous croyez au Père Noël), on ne cache pas que sous le gouvernement Bush les régulations sur l’environnement et la santé sont mises à l’écart pour servir les intérêts des sociétés. L’information essentielle à ce sujet est « Contrôle de l’intérêt particulier – L’Administration Bush et le démantèlement des Garanties Publiques » disponible sur le site :

http://www.ombwatch.org/regs/bushrecord/takeover

En comparaison, la Chine, ce bastion de la violation des droits de l’homme et qui entretient un régime communiste, semble cependant avancer dans la direction opposée pour ce qui concerne les régulations. Pour plus de détails sur les normes chinoises en Radio Fréquences, veuillez consulter le message ci-dessous # 187.

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=187

Pourquoi cette différence? Peut-être que parmi toutes les injustices liées au communisme dont les Chinois sont victimes, il en est une qu’ils ont laissé passer : celle de l’existence de sociétés privées essayant de dominer la situation. Un autre facteur pouvant être pris en compte est le fait que la Chine doit aujourd’hui faire face à d’énormes problèmes environnementaux doublés d’une population très dense. Il est impossible d’ignorer ces problèmes.

Le livre de Jared Diamond’s « Effondrement – Comment les Sociétés choisissent-elles l’échec ou la survie » consacre une grande partie aux problèmes actuels de la Chine et à la façon dont ils sont traités.

Quoi que l’on puisse penser des gouvernants chinois, ils semblent concernés en priorité par l’avenir de leur pays, ce qui n’est en revanche pas du tout évident chez les gouvernants américains dont le but est de mettre la main sur le pétrole aux autres pays pour alimenter leur parc automobile.

La Chine possède plus d’un millier de normes concernant la santé.

Il y des informations journalières pour les gens.

Les cosmétiques contenant du plomb (Pb) sont-ils mauvais à la santé?

Comment déterminer si la pollution de l’air dans une maison va en deçà des normes autorisées?

Les Autorités compétentes du Ministère de la Santé donneront des réponses scientifiques aux questions les plus concernées. La semaine du 17 au 24 septembre sera consacrée à une campagne nationale afin de promouvoir les normes de santé sur le thème :

« élargissons le champ des normes de santé, créons une vie saine. »

Pour le moment, le Ministère a formulé ou approuvé 1800 différentes normes de santé, dont 1169 effectives actuellement.

Elles couvrent la sécurité de la nourriture, de l’environnement, des occupations, de l’école, des radiations, des produits cosmétiques, de la stérilisation ainsi que des maladies engendrées par certains travaux ou par des radiations, le diagnostic et le contrôle des maladies infectieuses ou causées par des parasites, des examens cliniques, etc… Ils comprennent 731 groupes de normes à l’échelle nationale (sous le code GB ou GB/T), 248 concernant les maladies causées par le travail (GBZ ou GBZ/T) et 190 groupes de normes liés au secteur de la santé (WS ou W/T).

http://www.next-up.org/divers/chine/Chine.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901427.html

Pass It On: Let Us Count The Ways...

by John Kerry

The former presidential candidate enumerates the faces and catchphrases of the Bush administration's famous screw-ups.
http://tompaine.com/#passiton

"Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq, what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence, what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad, what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy, what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning, what Tom DeLay is to ethics and what George Bush is to 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive.'"

—John Kerry, Sept. 19, 2005

The Bush administration appoints an animal doctor to oversee the health of female humans and later denies it. They didn't think anyone would notice?

http://tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#6209

by Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com

The White House hopes we haven't noticed it's running a political juggernaut instead of governing effectively.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050921/the_bush_paradox.php

by Frida Berrigan, TomPaine.com

America's bloated military spending leaves little left over to reduce the rampant poverty exposed by Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050921/americas_third_world.php

http://www.omega-news.info/get_troops_out_of_occupied_new_orleans.htm



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

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2913402.html

I witnessed this with my own eyes. Here is my account.

Cindy Sheehan was arrested moments ago in Union Square, Manhattan for allegedly speaking in the square without the proper permit.

A small group of police began to congregate around 2:00 on the south east corner of Union Square. Cindy and her peace entourage were slightly late to the event, contending with public transportation.

Upon her arrival, applause and cheers filled the crowd awaiting her speech. A few other members of the tour movement spoke. Afterward, about 2:50, Cindy began her speech. It was friendly and empowering. She was grateful for the support and urged everyone to go to Washington DC on the 24th of September for a march on Washington.

At the conclusion of her speech, from my perspective, a few loud and impassioned boos erupted, then I saw a hand come from behind Cindy and grab her shoulder-strap on her backpack.

The arm jerked her backwards, with such force as to snap her head forward, and she fell from my view.

The crowd erupted in booing and jeering. The crowd rushed the elevated park where she once stood, not to fight but to witness what was happening.

People crowded the police, who had formed a semi-circle around what was happening to Cindy (which I could not witness from my vantage point).

"Nazis," "Gestapo," "free speech," "burn the constitution," "traitors," "you can't have her," could be heard from all sides of the angry crowd. The police stood shoulder-to-shoulder with emotionless looks on their faces. One woman from the tour, I did not see who, urged everyone to that it is a waste of energy to yell at the police, we can't stop it from happening, but what we can do is trumpet this event to the rest of the United States.

Many media cameras were there. One New York Times reporter was also there (at least), and she was moving around the crowd asking questions. Upon the arrest, she inserted herself into the middle of the screaming, recording it all with her mini-recorder.

I'm not sure the details of the permit situation. The announcer said they sought a permit for weeks with no response from the city government.

Spread the word Kossaks! More as it unfolds.

UPDATE: Details prompted by comments: There was no violence, no violent rhetoric, and the spirit of the event was positive and strong. She was only there for about 10 minutes before she spoke, and spoke for about 5 minutes. The crowd was respectful and peaceful. Cindy and the other speakers were using a microphone and speakers, which may have caused the problem with the permits. The announcer told the crowd that they had been officially warned before Cindy got there. I'm trying to find out the permit stuff right now.

She was speaking at "Camp Casey NYC" in Union Square. It was a planned event, advertised in the newspaper. And from what I heard (Union Square is a noisy place), they tried to get a permit but did not get a response from city government after many messages were left. My view was not the best, so I did not see if it was a cop behind her that jerked her away.

The immediate booing and rushing of the "stage" (a large part of the park raised by about 3 steps) made me believe it was the police. I could not see if she resisted or not. Sorry for the bad view...I wish I had more. Watch the wires, this will be out soon.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/19/154239/638

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(Anonymous)

2005-09-19 22:05 (link) Here's a good example of what's wrong with LIBERALS. quoted "The police stood shoulder-to-shoulder with emotionless looks on their faces. One woman from the tour, I did not see who, urged everyone to that it is a waste of energy to yell at the police, we can't stop it from happening, but what we can do is trumpet this event to the rest of the United States." Liberals make good matyrs NOT good Revolutionaries. It sounds as if there were a lot of people there, maybe we could have surrounded the police and arrested them for violating our constitution?

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/57261.html


From Be Kind Whenever Possible



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

A new initiative to form a statutory claim for compensation for any adverse effect on your property caused by the proximity and operation of telecommunications masts.

This initiative will test legal rights of redress for loss of amenity and value resulting from the construction and operation of mobile phone masts under existing telecommunications legislation.

There is little in the planning guidelines and certainly in law, to protect property owners from the effects of telecoms installations. Whether you don’t like the look of them, or you fear the health risks (real and proven or not), the effects can be substantial.

Increasingly land and property values are being affected. The presence of masts diminishes the desirability of property, reduces its visual amenity, and limits its use.

The ability to watch a video or TV clip in someone else’s residential area, or to send email, or even just to talk, should not be a greater commercial imperative than the value of the other person’s property.

It is simply time that people were heard instead of being ignored as if all that matters is reaching everyone with a mobile phone with market-driven services, wherever they are.

http://www.mastvoice.co.uk


From Mast Sanity



Affects on Residential Property Value as a Consequence of Telecom Instalations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1019472/

They claim phones are safe, and that they have scientific proof, SO WHAT IS KEEPING THEM FROM GIVING "GUARANTY´S" FOR SAFETY"?

Agnes


“Electrosmog” – Are We Getting Too Much?

September 19, 2005

There's no getting away from it: we are bombarded with electromagnetic radiation from remote control devices, cell phones and other sources. But is the bombardment harmful? It depends who you ask. Ergonomics enters the issue when it comes to taking action. A switch that turns off the radiation can claim ergonomic credentials. So can a warning device. People worried about when to take action represent a ready market for an "electrosmog" meter released recently in Britain.

London-based Sensory Perspective says its new Electrosmog Detector meters potentially harmful pollution - described as electrosmog -- from nearby wireless technologies. The hand-sized battery-powered meter has a speaker that signals if there is a large concentration of activity in the wireless spectrum between 50MHz and 3000MHz. The company regards cordless phones, cell phones, wireless computer networks, baby alarms, microwaves and other appliances as polluting.

It cites studies implicating so-called electrosmog in a host of conditions, including one the British Department of Health, the Health Protection Agency and the World Health Organization call electrosensitivity or electrohypersensitivity (EHS). Adverse health effects attributed to EHS include chronic fatigue, depression, headaches, epilepsy, behavioral changes in children, disrupted sleep patterns and skin complaints. The company said its research shows that between 3 percent and 5 percent of the general population could be at risk from radiation pollution.

The July 27 issue of The Ergonomics Report™ ergonomicsreport.com, a publication for professionals requiring in-dept coverage of current ergonomics issues, focused on the potential harm of cell phones. It cited 1998 research linking cell phone use with high blood pressure, and a Swedish study published in 2002 that linked analog cell phones and brain tumors.

Yet as many other studies dismiss the harm findings, as suggested by the title of the July 27 The Ergonomics Report™: "Are Cell Phones Dangerous? It's Still An Open Question."

Cell phone manufacturers are loud in their denials:

"Years of scientific research reaffirm there are no health risks associated with wireless phones," said Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak.

From Motorola: "Scientific experts review this issue on a continual basis.

Their conclusions have been consistent over many years: the radio signals from wireless telephones, two-way radios or other portable communications devices pose no known health risk."

A study published this year in Psychosomatic Medicine 67:224-232 debunks a study that suggests some individuals are more susceptible to the emissions than others. Dr G. James Rubin and his research team at the Mobile Phone research Unit at King's College in Britain write: "the symptoms reported by 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity' sufferers can be proven experimentally, suggesting the presence of the condition is unrelated to weak electromagnetic fields."

The continuing dispute is fertile ground for scaremongering. Issued by a manufacturer of devices purported to shield users from harmful phone radiation, the scare runs like this: "Don't accept the industry denials that mobile phones are safe. Mobile phones could be the cigarettes of the 21st century with similar legal battles ahead!"

Though researchers may argue forever about the potential for harm, they don't dispute electromagnetic radiation exists. The ergonomic value of an effective meter is that it can provide anyone worried about radiation the kind of information they need to decide if they want to escape - by turning off devices in the vicinity or moving to another spot.

Sources: Sensory Perspective; The Ergonomics Report™

-- Jennifer Anderson

http://www.ergoweb.com/news/detail.cfm?id=1195

If we think we can stave off climate catastrophe simply by raising public awareness, we are deceiving ourselves, says Mayer Hillman. The truth is, only urgent and ruthless government action will do.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092005EC.shtml

Despite continued government pledges to protect wetlands, the US Army Corps of Engineers has opened more than 11,000 acres of wetlands to development in recent months across the United States.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092005EB.shtml

Oregon congressman Peter DeFazio called for an investigation into how the Forest Service allowed a rare tree reserve to be logged as part of a salvage harvest following the 2002 Biscuit Fire. "Given the large size of the illegal harvest ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight," he said.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092005EA.shtml

Michael Brown, the embattled former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092005S.shtml

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, said today that he will vote against the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be the 17th chief justice of the United States, in part because he does not know enough about him.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092005Q.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-02.htm



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

Save the frogs, conservationists urge
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9402290/


Informant: NHNE

http://www.news4jax.com/news/4999397/detail.html


Informant: brazospete2003

http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050906.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Our global house of cards

Don't trust the government. Don't live in a stupid place. Love thy neighbor. Article by Miles Hitchcock.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/our-global-house-of-cards/2005/09/18/1126981944446.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Uncertain Anniversary for Iraq War Champions
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe243.html

http://commons.ucalgary.ca/movies2/mercury/


Informant: Andrew McAfee

Strategie- und Aktionskonferenz der sozialen Bewegungen am
19./20. 11. in Frankfurt/M. Die Einladung der Initiative Sozialforum (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/strakonf05.pdf



„Wir wehren uns gemeinsam. Veränderung erfordert Bewegung! Eine andere Welt ist möglich und nötig!“

Überregionale Demo des Sozialforum Nürnberg am 29.10.05 in Nürnberg (13:00 Uhr, Lorenzkirche). Siehe dazu den Aufruf zum revolutionärem antikapitalistischem Block von Organisierte Autonomie Nürnberg (OA): „Wir sind mit der Gesamtsituation unzufrieden! Kapitalismus abschaffen! - Alles für Alle!“ (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/revblock05.pdf



Die Übersicht über regionale Anti-Hartz-&-Co-Bündnisse wurde aktualisiert

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


Aus: LabourNet, 21. September 2005

„Das Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie ruft in Kooperation mit dem No-Lager-Netzwerk zu einer Demonstration und gewaltfreien öffentlichen Inspektion des Lagers Bramsche-Hesepe unter dem Motto auf: Wer Menschen in Lager steckt, erniedrigt sie als Menschen, kappt ihre Chancen, menschlich zu leben…“ Pressemitteilung vom 21.9.05

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/migration/nolager05.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. September 2005

IG Metall warnt vor Lohndumping. Vorwürfe gegen Manpower: Leiharbeiter für Siemens stark unter Tarif bezahlt / Scharfe Kritik an Vertrag mit Christlichen Gewerkschaften

„Die IG Metall hat der Zeitarbeitsfirma Manpower sowie dem Siemens-Konzern vorgeworfen, beim Einsatz von Leiharbeitern systematisch Lohndumping zu betreiben. Wie mehrere Gewerkschaftsvertreter der Berliner Zeitung übereinstimmend berichteten, bemüht sich Manpower seit einigen Monaten, Leiharbeiter auf Löhne herabzustufen, die deutlich unter den maßgeblichen Tarifen großer Zeitarbeits-Unternehmen liegen. Die Lohneinbußen der Arbeitskräfte, die in Siemens-Werken zum Einsatz kommen, betragen den Angaben zufolge bis zu einem Fünftel. "Die Lohndumping-Strategie ist bei Siemens Bestandteil des Personalkonzepts", sagte der Zeitarbeits-Experte des IG Metall-Vorstands in Frankfurt am Main, Jürgen Ulber…“ Artikel von Thorsten Knuf und Rouven Schellenberger in Berliner Zeitung vom 14. September 2005

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/wirtschaft/482711.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. September 2005

Vortrag von Rainer Roth beim Ver.di-Landeserwerbslosenausschuss Hessen am 12.09.2005 in Frankfurt

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


Aus: LabourNet, 21. September 2005

Wie von uns berichtet, veröffentlicht Tacheles-Sozialhilfe auf ihrer Homepage http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/ konsequent interne Verwaltungsanweisungen zum SGB II, SGB III und die kommunalen Richtlinien zu den Unterkunftskosten. Diese werden leider von den zuständigen Behörden nicht selbst veröffentlicht, sondern Tacheles ist auf die Mitarbeit von Behördenmitgliedern angewiesen. Tacheles fordert daher Behördenmitarbeiter und sonstige Personen dazu auf ihnen solche internen Verwaltungshinweise, Dienstanweisungen und Arbeitshinweise zu übersenden. Tacheles versichert 100 % Anonymität und schreibt „Wir sind uns darüber im Klarem, dass die jeweilige Verwaltung kein großes Interesse an der Weitergabe solcher Informationen hat, genau deshalb steht bei uns als Tacheles-Online-Redaktion der Informantenschutz an oberster Stelle. Wie Materialen weitergegeben werden, per Mail, Fax, Papier oder durch persönliches Treffen muss jeder selbst entscheiden.“ Weiteres im Aufruf von Tacheles an Behördenmitarbeiter vom 19.09.2005

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


Aus: LabourNet, 21. September 2005

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

09/20/05

How quickly the Democrats forget their own history. With Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retiring from the Supreme Court, the political heirs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are insisting that the President must select a new justice who will not tip the balance of the highest court in the land. Senator Joseph Biden, who has announced his own renewed presidential aspirations, claims the 'bottom line is that whenever there has been a balance in the Court,' the President is duty-bound to choose a replacement who 'has been more closely looked at relating to that balance'...

http://tinyurl.com/dle24


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Gordon Clark

09/20/05

Nonviolence, and specifically nonviolent resistance, is probably the single most misunderstood concept in the peace movement. Many committed peace activists believe that nonviolence means simply the absence of violence. Others now use the terms 'protest' and 'resistance' interchangeably, as if they were equivalent. The mass nonviolent resistance action being planned for the White House on September 26th, at the culmination of the upcoming anti-war mobilizations in Washington DC (see below), is still a rarity in a movement which regards Gandhi and King as heroes, yet which rarely discusses nonviolence as a central component of our strategies -- even though it is at the core of everything Gandhi and King taught and practiced...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0920-24.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Pacific News Service
by Sanford Gottlieb

09/20/05

Today's temperate anti-Iraq War movement is a far cry from the turbulent one that mobilized during Vietnam. But it has the potential to be more effective. Big marches on Washington are mostly a thing of the past, although two activist coalitions will sponsor one on Sept. 24. The Internet has replaced them. ... As mainstream support for the Iraq war dissolves, antiwar activists find themselves in a very different position from their Vietnam War counterparts. Can this momentum be sustained, and focused into concrete demands on when and how to pull out from Iraq? One rallying point may be a resolution, introduced in the House by two Republicans and two Democrats, calling for troop withdrawal to begin no later than Oct. 1, 2006...

http://tinyurl.com/djwqs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Press
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

09/20/05

The stolen elections of 2000, 2002 and 2004 are nowhere to be found in the milquetoast Carter-Baker Report now passing for wisdom on America's broken electoral system. And unless the public is ready to face the reality that we no longer live in a nation with credible elections, the 2008 balloting is all but over...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1462


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Michael T. Klare

09/20/05

The Iraqi insurgency is not monolithic, and it is not always possible to determine the intentions of its various components. Nevertheless, it is clear that oil -- that is, the association between Iraqi oil and the American occupation -- plays a central role in the insurgents' hazy ideology. 'The insurgents used this,' Iraqi-born oil consultant Falah Alijbury said of American plans to privatize the Iraqi oil industry. As he put it, the insurgents are telling fellow Iraqis, 'Look, you're losing your country, you're losing your resources to a bunch of wealthy billionaires who want to take you over and make your life miserable.' From Alijbury's perspective, this is one of the insurgency's most powerful appeals. The disparate Iraqi insurgent groups were also aware of Washington's intent to finance its war and occupation through sales of Iraqi petroleum, and so have made sabotage of Iraq's pipelines, pumping stations, and loading terminals one of their most important strategic objectives...

http://tinyurl.com/ce7wl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Free Liberal
by Bernie Quigley

09/20/05

New York City was a terrible place for the UN to begin with. Placing a capital at the seat of power makes it an authoritarian Empire. No question, New York was the capital of an American global economic empire in the post-war world. It might have been better to make it a temporary Authority while the rest of the world, much of it in ruins, got back to strength. But once the world was on its feet again and fully empowered, the wise view of Victoria and Washington, finding the benign center of world between strong forces should prevail. New York City is a pocket of influence and is susceptible to looking out for its own kind. Authoritarianism is innate in a situation like this and breeds contempt...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001438.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Karen Kwiatkowski

09/21/05

We are now free of Feith, at least until he hits the road promoting his memoirs, or not. More likely, he will cash in, his public servant persona instantly evaporating in the heat of greed, or perhaps in the glow of loyalty to his former law partner. L. Marc Zell has been such a busy boy, before and after the invasion of Iraq. We live in a world where outspoken mothers of dead American soldiers are manhandled by police in Texas and in New York City, where free speech in America is as endangered as a twelve-point buck on the first day of deer season, where law-abiding if waterbound citizens are made to give up their weapons in the face of bully cops and war-weary federal soldiers who understandably can't distinguish between an occupied foreign country and our own...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski123.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/21/05

The unraveling of the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq has been going on for some time: with the recent battle of Basra, however, it seems to have reached the point of no return. The coalition forces are no longer fighting just Sunni insurgents -- they are coming up against the elected Shi'ite authorities in the south, where the latest incident bodes ill for the occupiers. The coalition propaganda campaign has already commenced, with the Brits claiming this is all the work of the evil Iranians, who are just trying to cause trouble because they're being pressed on the nuke issue. That's what the Times of London is peddling, at any rate. Yet this explanation is cut to shreds by Occam's Razor, which suggests a simpler explanation for the outbreak of violence: local discontent with British actions, including the arrest of prominent members of the Sadrist party a few days before...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7335


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fred On Everything
by Fred Reed

09/18/05

Wars seem important at the time, but they usually aren't. Five years later, they are history. About sixty thousand GIs died in Vietnam. We lost. Nothing happened. It was a stupid war for nothing. Today the guys who lost faces and legs and internal organs back then are just freaks. Nobody gives a damn about them, and nobody will give a damn about you. A war is a politician's toy, but your wheelchair is forever. If you want adventure, try the fishing fleet in Alaska...

http://www.fredoneverything.net/GoingToWar.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Susette Kelo

09/19/05

I am the Kelo in Kelo v. City of New London. ... Just last week, three of my neighbors got eviction notices, giving them 30 to 90 days to leave their homes. I received just such a notice five years ago, the day before Thanksgiving, which marked the beginning of my fight to defend what is rightfully mine. It took a gutsy demand from my state's governor to finally make the private condemning agency back down for now on its demand that I and my neighbors give up our homes so they could be bulldozed. ... I sincerely hope Congress will do what judges and local legislators so far have failed to do for me and for thousands of others across the nation: protect our homes under a plain reading of the U.S. Constitution, which says government may only take private property for a 'public use.' Federal lawmakers should pass legislation that will withhold federal funding for eminent domain projects that are for private development -- such as the one that could take my home, and which received $2 million in federal funds...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050919-085408-3231r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Tibor R. Machan

09/20/05

Quite interestingly many politicians are afraid of the Ninth Amendment of the US Constitution. Many of their intellectual cheerleaders in the academy and media show equal disdain for this portion of that legal document. Why? The Ninth Amendment states, unambiguously, that there exist individual rights Americans have that are not explicitly listed in the Constitution: 'The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.' Why should the Constitution make this point anyway? Because, actually, people have innumerable rights and to list them all is impossible, whereas listing the powers of government, which in the American system are taken to be limited, restricted to just a few, can be listed without having to produce a mammoth document...

http://tinyurl.com/7kow3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Cindy Sheehan

09/20/05

All of the 'Noble Cause' reasons that George has variously given for the invasion and continued illegal occupation of a sovereign nation are also patently false and ridiculous. He has been claiming recently (since he admitted a long time ago that Iraq had no WMDs or links to 9/11) that this occupation of Iraq is spreading 'freedom and democracy' in the Middle East. Really? Does he have any idea that the constitution that the Iraqi governing body is working on is based on Sharia and that it undermines the freedoms of women? Does he realize that for over 50 years women had equal rights with men in Iraq? Does George realize (of course he does) that the puppet government the US put in place in Iraq is comprised of the very same people who encouraged the invasion to line their own pockets? What kind of freedom and democracy is this? If George is so hell bent on freedom and democracy for Iraq, then why doesn't he practice it here in America?

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/25684/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Why are America's schools more separate than ever?

Christian Science Monitor

09/20/05

Americans have long celebrated the brave children who faced down fear and hatred to integrate schools after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. But where is the zeal to finish the project of educational equity? Jonathan Kozol, a onetime teacher and longtime children's advocate, continues to use every conscience-gripping word in his arsenal to try to revive such zeal. The title of his new book, 'The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America,' is just the beginning of Kozol's excoriations of a system that cuts certain children off from the most basic of opportunities. He goes on to use such eye-popping terms as 'totalitarian' and 'internment,' and quotes someone describing a racially isolated school district as America's 'Soweto,' the South African township in which children standing up to apartheid schooling were massacred by police...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0920/p13s01-bogn.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Chris Dooley,
Industry and Employment Correspondent

THE IRISH TIMES,
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Civil servants at the pension services office in Sligo have voted to go on strike over a plan to install three mobile-phone antennae on their office.

The action, by members of the Civil, Public and Services Union (CPSU), would cause severe disruption to some social welfare payments.

The office is the national centre for the maintenance and payment of old-age and widows' pensions.

It is also responsible for most one-parent family payments.

If the strike goes ahead new claimants and those whose circumstances alter, requiring them to submit new applications, will be among those affected.

Some 97 per cent of CPSU members, who comprise two-thirds of staff at the office, voted in favour of industrial action.

The union claims the Office of Public Works (OPW) has breached its own guidelines in allowing Vodafone to erect the antennae within 10m of a work station and 25m of a creche.

This was denied yesterday by the OPW.

About 450 civil servants work in the office on College Road, while some 50 children are placed in the on-site creche.

CPSU general officer Eoin Ronayne said there would be no strike in advance of the antennae being erected. However, if Vodafone proceeded with the installation an immediate walk-out by staff would be likely.

Conor McKinney, the union's Sligo branch representative, said the strike vote reflected the anger felt by members.

The union had met the Minister of State in charge of the OPW, Tom Parlon, and it expected him "to intervene without delay to stop this abuse of our members and their young children".

In a statement responding to the claims, the OPW said the antennae fully complied with all relevant regulations and guidelines.

"This installation is part of a nationwide roll-out of mobile phone infrastructure that utilises a number of public buildings identified as suitable, in addition to the current Garda stations that have had such equipment in operation since 1997."

As part of this roll-out a licence to install equipment on the Sligo building had been granted to Vodafone.

"Under the terms of the licence the operator is required to strictly comply with all relevant Health and Safety Acts, and will operate within current standards and EU regulations," the statement said.

Vodafone would also be required to adhere to the guidelines on exposure limits to emissions issued by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).

The Department of Social and Family Affairs said it had been advised of the result of the ballot by the CPSU.

However, the department expected that if the antennae were erected then seven days' notice of any action would be served at that point.

Existing social welfare customers whose claims remained unchanged would not be affected by the strike.

© The Irish Times


Informant: Imelda, Cork.

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I have now located an earlier newspaper article on how concerned Irish civil servants are about antennae being erected on their buildings. Will paste it in below.

Imelda


Civil servants threaten action over mobile phone masts

11 April 2005

By Donal Hickey

THE country’s 13,000 civil servants have threatened to take industrial action amid concerns about dangers posed by mobile phone masts on the roofs of buildings in which they work. Delegates at the Civil, Public and Services Union (CPSU) conference, in Killarney, at the weekend were told that the Government showed ‘scant regard’ for their health.

“We’ve one minister who is worried about the ill effects of passive smoking in pubs while at the same time the Government is turning a blind eye to the absorption of microwaves in the air,” said Thelma Davey, of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) Dublin branch.

She said a mast had been put on the CSO building in Rathmines, but staff were given no prior notice. “We’re not against the technology, but we want the safe implementation of it,” she told the conference.

She quoted a leading expert, Dr Dave Aldridge, who claimed radiation emissions from mobile phone masts in Ireland could be 10,000 times too high. She said the guidelines here referred to the adverse effects of heating on the body, but did not take into account the non-thermal effects within the body.

Such effects, she went on, could include an impaired immunity system, infections, viruses, arthritis, diabetes, cancer and cardiac disease. Ms Davey pointed out the Irish Doctors Environmental Association believed that between 1% and 5% of the population suffered from electro sensitivity, which was recognised as a medical condition in countries such as Sweden. Symptoms included nausea, vertigo, headaches and blurred vision. She also produced a letter sent last year by the Department of Health’s chief medical officer Dr Jim Kiely, to the Government saying uncertainties still existed about the potential impact of elector magnetic fields on human health. Ms Davey claimed the Government would earn €10 million a year for 10 years by allowing masts to be erected on buildings.

A number of motions calling on the CPSU executive to ensure safe workplaces, with calls for industrial action if necessary, were passed.

CPSU assistant general secretary Kevin Gaughran said the executive agreed with the sentiments voiced by delegates, but the union had gone a long way towards addressing the issues and would continue to work for safe and healthy workplaces.

He said a number of commitments had also been secured from the Government on the issue. Mr Gaughran said the Government had given a commitment that health and safety regulations regarding masts would be adhered to.

He also told conference that a number of international bodies, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), had concluded there were no adverse effects from masts.

The conference heard calls for a change in regulations so that civil servants could openly express their views on certain political and community issues was made at the CPSU conference.

At present, the civil service code of standards and behaviour prevents them from engaging in public debate on political issues without prior permission from their department.

Education and Science branch delegate Sinead Gilmartin, proposing that the regulation be amended and said her branch did not want the Official Secrets Act to be abolished, or ignored, and civil servants should not disclose sensitive information regarding their work.

The motion was passed unanimously.

© Thomas Crosbie Media, 2005.

http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/story.asp?j=5454642765&p=545464z78x&n=5454642857


Source: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/626368/



Telecommunications' sly strategies for denouncing mast protestors
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1052051/

http://villagevoice.com/news/0538,lombardiweb,68015,2.html


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news


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