6
Okt
2005

Join Cindy Sheehan & Thich Nhat Hanh for a Silent Peace Walk at McArthur Park



My suggestion is that all anti-war activists should attend the event below and meet and recruit as many interested people as possible into the anti-war movement. Anti-war signs would be great and, of course, anti-war petitions to sign up as many people as possible are virtually essential. I take the statement from below: ".....we shall walk together in silence, with no banners and no pickets. The walk will not be a petition addressed to anyone, nor will it be a demonstration against anyone." As a recommendation and as a statement of what those who agree with this position will do rather than as an order prohibiting those who want to have signs or petitions form having them. In other words I recommend that those who do not want signs and/or petitions be free not to have them and those who do want signs and/or petitions be free to have them as well. Isn't that the most free position to take?


Jim D.


Cindy Sheehan & Thich Nhat Hanh on Saturday, October 8th, 10:00AM at McArthur Park for a Silent Peace Walk to Promote Healing in US

Please distribute widely Join Cindy Sheehan and Renowned Vietnamese Peacemaker Thich Nhat Hanh for a Silent Peace Walk to Promote Healing in US on Saturday, October 8th at 10AM at McArthur Park

WHAT: Silent Peace Walk

WHEN: The walk begins at 10 a.m.on Saturday, October 8, 2005

WHERE: MacArthur Park, 2230 West 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057.

WHO: Join Thich Nhat Hanh, 'Peace Mom' Cindy Sheehan, the monks and nuns of Deer Park Monastery and Plum Village, France .

As America struggles with its suffering, poverty, and racial and religious tensions, renowned peacemaker Thich Nhat Hanh will lead a mindful, silent peace walk Oct. 8th in Los Angeles to support the country's healing. ( http://www.peaceiseverystep.net/ )

"You are invited to come and walk peacefully," says Thich Nhat Hanh. "We shall walk in such a way that each step we make becomes a realization of peace; each step becomes a prayer for peace and harmony. Children will join us and we shall walk together in silence, with no banners and no pickets. The walk will not be a petition addressed to anyone, nor will it be a demonstration against anyone. The walk is to unite our heart, to nurture our togetherness and to dissipate fear and separation."

Thich Nhat Hanh is revered as one of the greatest peacemakers of our times. He was nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize and has been a Buddhist monk, peace activist and advocate of love and forgiveness since the age of 16. He has survived persecution, three wars, and 40 years of exile from his native Vietnam. Earlier this year the Vietnamese government allowed Thich Nhat Hanh to return to Vietnam.

"If you are a Buddhist, please come," says Hanh. "If you are a Christian, please come. If you are Jewish, Muslim, or belong to or identify with any other religious creed or peace organization, please come. If you are white, brown, black, yellow, red or any other color, please come."

Thich Nhat Hanh, who is the author of more than 100 books, says, "We shall learn together that wrong perceptions of self and others are at the foundation of separation, fear, hate, and violence, and that togetherness and collaboration are possible. Let us begin anew in our country by listening deeply to each other. Let us also begin anew in the world community by listening deeply and taking care of each other as one family and ending war."

Website: http://www.peaceiseverystep.net/



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

HAARP Awareness

http://tribes.tribe.net/haarp

"As technology advances, the ability to control populations and manipulate outcomes also advances. Because we know how to control the weather, create earthquakes, force behavioral changes and manipulate the physiology of people does not mean that we should do it. The age we are in requires even greater safeguards of personal freedoms, not further constraints upon it. If freedom is what is being defended than freedom is what must be inherent in the actions our governments take in creating aspects of our reality." -Dr. Nick Begich in 1998

http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=1&subcatid=5

WHAT IS HAARP?

-H.A.A.R.P. is the government acronym for the “High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program”, which is run jointly by the United States Air Force and Navy. But, I assure you, it's not just research they conduct. Please, read on.

-“HAARP” (like the stringed instrument), in common use, refers to the broader scope of the mysterious project’s technologies, or just the anntennae, which are elusively named “Ionospheric Research Instruments” (IRI).

-HAARP uses a localized net of phased-array antennas (IRI) to beam, blast and pulse Earth's ionosphere with billions of watts of radio waves to achieve various effects. The ionosphere is a layer of electrically charged particles surrounding our upper atmosphere, which is, of course, an integral part of Earth's entire biological system, and consequently, our individual biological systems.

-Auxiliary antennae and satellites are used in conjunction with the IRI, to augment, complete, or study their effects. Other projects under different program names seem to be involved.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HAARP?

-While the officially stated purposes of HAARP are limited to auroral research and communications improvements, the patented and proposed uses are many and to some may be shocking.

The main categories of use are:

a) Weather-making and modification
b) Electromagnetic Weapons Systems
c) “Missile shield” technology
d) Satellite communications enhancement/disruption
e) Deep Earth penetrating tomography
f) Human neurological manipulation/control (very controversial)

If this all sounds far fetched to you, consider that the foundations of these ideas were conceived by, arguably the greatest technological genius of the twentieth century, Nikola Tesla, all before 1943. Tesla also invented Alternating-Current electricity, radio, radar, flourescent, FREE ENERGY and numerous other mind-blowing technologies which we are only getting glimpses of today. Tesla did not receive credit for much of his known work and was buried in our historic memory. It seems free energy, independent of any material fuel source, which could power everything on our planet, is not in some people's interest.

Check out some of the links below. They are a good place to start understanding what is actually possible in this day and age. I highly recommend http://Earthpulse.com as an introduction.

I also highly recommend “Holes in Heaven; HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology”, which is a thorough and well-made documentary about the monster, narrated by Martin Sheen. The documentary includes interviews with Bernard Eastlund, whose idea HAARP was, several other experts in related fields, as well as representatives of the project. If this doc. doesn’t convince you HAARP needs serious public scrutiny, I certainly can't. The DVD is available online.

IF YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE INFORMATION OR TAKE ISSUE WITH WHAT IS PRESENTED, PLEASE SPEAK UP.


Informant: Scott Munson

Harriet Miers' main qualification: her close relationship with the president

Pass It On: Thank You For Being A Friend
by ThinkProgress

Watch ThinkProgress' creative take on Harriet Miers' main qualification: her close relationship with the president. http://tompaine.com/#passiton

Thank You For Being A Friend

Watch ThinkProgress' creative take on Harriet Miers' main qualification: her close relationship with the president.

Click here to see the video:

http://streaming.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/2005/miers.320.240.mov.htm

A Failed Public Diplomat

by John Brown, TomPaine.com

If Karen Hughes cannot even convince the American media of her spin, why should the rest of the world buy it?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051006/a_failed_public_diplomat.php

A Case Of Treason

by Larry Johnson, TomPaine.com

As the Plame investigation concludes, one thing is clear: the White House chose to protect itself over protecting the nation.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051006/a_case_of_treason.php

Al Gore: "Our Democracy Has Been Hollowed Out"

by Al Gore, Jr., TomPaine.com

The destruction of public discourse in America, the marketplace of ideas, threatens the very foundations of our republic.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051006/our_democracy_has_been_hollowed_out.php

Interpreting Harriet Miers

by Robert Reich, TomPaine.com

The Constitution has been strictly interpreted in all sorts of ways. To understand Miers we need to see her memos to the president.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051006/interpreting_harriet_miers.php

Al Gore: "I believe that American democracy is in grave danger"

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2IU703.html


Informant: NHNE

Spain Asserts Right to Try Genocide Crimes Committed Abroad

Spain's courts may try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity committed outside the country, whatever the nationality of the victims, the country's Constitutional Court said in a ruling hailed by rights activists.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605O.shtml

Toxic Gumbo

Senate Republicans, led by Environment and Public Works Committee chairman James Inhofe - who has declared that global warming is a hoax - have introduced a bill that would allow the EPA to waive clean water and air laws during cleanup. The EPA itself is drafting a plan that would allow the agency to waive state regulations on smog emissions or pollutants pouring out of coal plants.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605M.shtml

GOP Plans Cuts in Food Programs, Conservation

Under orders to cut agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress have proposed reducing food programs for the poor by $574 million and conservation programs by $1 billion.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605L.shtml

White House Official Indicted for Obstruction

The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605K.shtml

Judging Harriet Miers

Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. writes that Miers will provide no solace to those who think law in a constitutional democracy should protect individuals from official excesses and corporate predations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605J.shtml

Energy Hog Lessons

Kelpie Wilson writes that Bush and the Republicans have a well-known agenda of removing all regulatory restrictions on industry. They have already suspended labor and contracting laws to "speed" Gulf Coast reconstruction. Now they are using the disaster-spawned energy crunch to break down environmental laws and restrictions that they failed to destroy with last summer's energy bill.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605I.shtml

God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml


Informant: NHNE

Mesures officielles de Contrôle du rayonnement des antennes relais de la macro-station de téléphonie mobile d’Orange à CREST

COMMUNIQUÉ Minute d’ASL: Mesures officielles de Contrôle du rayonnement des antennes relais de la macro-station de téléphonie mobile d’Orange à CREST (Drôme): Échec

http://www.sauvonsleon.fr/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2005-10-06

5. November: Bundesweiter Sternmarsch gegen "Hartz IV" in Berlin geplant

06.10.05

"Hartz IV"-Gegner wollen ihre Proteste gegen die Arbeitsmarktreform wieder verstärken. Für den 5. November haben sie zu einer bundesweiten Großdemonstration in Berlin aufgerufen. Mit einem Sternmarsch wollen sie Druck auf die Politik machen und die Abschaffung der Gesetze erzwingen, wie die Koordinierungsgruppe Montagsdemonstrationen in einem Aufruf betonte. Bereits im Oktober vergangenen Jahres war Berlin mit 45.000 Teilnehmern Ausrichtungsort einer der größten Protestaktionen gegen "Hartz IV".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11997

Intelligent Design, Patriot Act Gag, New Supreme Court Term

http://tinyurl.com/atdvr

Senate Defies Bush on Torture

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605Y.shtml

Akustikneurinom: Zusammenhang von Handy-Nutzung und Tumorrisiko

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2199723

Hörnervtumor (Akustikusneurinom): Leidensgenossen gesucht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/824271/

Hörnervtumor: Höheres Risiko bei langer Handynutzung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368806/

Langjährige Handy-Nutzung erhöht Risiko für Ohrtumor
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364620/

Gehirntumorprozesse gegen US-Mobilfunkindustrie sind nicht zu Ende: Berufung angekündigt
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/aktuell/usa-klage.htm
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/usa.htm

Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1033412/

Strategische Kommunikation mit "geprüften wissenschaftlichen Methoden"

Ein privates britisches Unternehmen bietet Regierungen und Militärs effiziente PsyOp-Methoden an, Gegner, Öffentlichkeit und Bürger des eigenen Landes zu manipulieren.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21077/1.html

Dad’s mast concerns

06 October 2005

The maximum beam of a hotly-disputed mobile phone mast, under construction on the periphery of a Dundee playpark, will fall directly into the popular children’s facility, it has been claimed, writes Bryan Kay.

Local man Matthew Strachan has received a letter from operator O2, which he believes contains an admission that by erecting the mast they are flouting health risks flagged up by the Stewart Inquiry.

Councillors unanim-ously refused the plan for the 12.5-metre mast on Blackness Road, near Balgay playpark last year, but a Scottish Executive reporter overturned their decision.

Mr Strachan, a father of three young children, regularly uses the park and is deeply concerned by the letter’s contents.

“I have measured the area and it is about 30 metres away at the nearest point and 80 metres at the furthest point,” he said.

“The ground does rise from the mast to the furthest point — at the slide — but from what they say in this letter, the beam of maximum intensity does go directly into the playpark.

“I wrote to the chairman and made it clear I am really worried now that they have admitted this.

“They must be working with badly-drawn maps because the work is going ahead and they have the knowledge that the beam of maximum intensity falls into the park.

“When the Scottish Executive inspection took place, the agent said it wouldn’t fall into the playpark. He also said health concerns would not be taken into account.

“There was no consultation with playpark users. It goes smack against the Stewart Inquiry, which says to proceed carefully.”

The O2 letter states, “The beam of greatest intensity is at 0.147 of the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) public reference level at 73 metres, being the maximum exposure level.

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


“The boundary of the playpark is not clearly defined, as it extends into the park area beyond.

“However, it would appear the furthest point of the equipment within the playpark is approximately 50m from our location.”

The letter went on to point out that scientific opinion remains divided on the health risks attached to masts, but conceded more research is required.

The company also disputed claims that no consultation was done prior to its planning application being submitted to the city council.

Near neighbours in Blackness Road, including residential properties, the bowling green, tennis club and Park View School, were all contacted, the company claimed.

O2 was unavailable for further comment before Press time.

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2005/10/06/story7613916t0.shtm

Bush is closing his eyes to the economic and human costs his land and the world economy are suffering under natural catastrophes like Katrina

Category 5 hot air
Washington Times
by Walter E. Williams

10/05/05

President Bush, in his post-Hurricane Katrina address to the nation, said, 'And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility.' Accepting blame for the federal response is one thing, but I hope he doesn't shoulder blame for the hurricane itself. In a Sept. 9 speech to the National Sierra Club Convention in San Francisco, former Vice President Al Gore said Hurricane Katrina and global warming are related: 'We will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.' Our European allies, most of whom have signed the Kyoto Protocol, have made scathing attacks on President Bush. 'Katrina should be a lesson to the U.S. on global warming,' read a headline of the German magazine Der Spiegel. Jurgen Tritten, Germany's environment minister and a Green Party member, said, 'The American president is closing his eyes to the economic and human costs his land and the world economy are suffering under natural catastrophes like Katrina.'

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051004-093113-9284r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Our rogue republic's dangerous game of risk

Strike the Root
by Doug Herman

10/05/05

The Great Game, Rudyard Kipling called the global land grab that passed for empire building in the Middle East during the late Nineteenth century. Nowadays I call it Risk, the game of global domination...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman16.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The recusal trap

The American Spectator
by John C. Wohlstetter

10/06/05

President Bush's choice of White House counsel Harriet Miers has prompted much criticism, but his friends miss perhaps the biggest problem with the nomination: the likelihood that if confirmed the new Justice, because of her White House work, will recuse herself in major cases where her vote could prove decisive -- notably, war cases. The White House can claim executive privilege and refuse the Senate Miers's memos written as White House counsel. ... But if Senators are prevented from seeing memos they should ask on what actual cases Miers has advised the President. Under federal law, if Ms. Miers is confirmed, and has professionally advised on a matter that subsequently comes before her on the bench, she must recuse herself...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8848


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Gods vs. geeks

Slate
by John Dickerson

10/05/05

The debate within the Republican Party over Harriet Miers has quickly devolved into a simple question: Is the nominee qualified because of her religious faith, or unqualified by her lack of intellectual heft? On the one side, James Dobson, Miers' fellow parishioners at Valley View Christian Church, and President Bush speak for her heart. On the other, George Will and William Kristol and others who swooned for John Roberts decry her unimpressive legal mind. In this battle, the White House has clearly sided with the churchgoing masses against the Republican Party's own whiny Beltway intellectuals. The Bushies have always mistrusted their own bow-tied secularists, but the rift has never before been so public...

http://www.slate.com/id/2127492/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fall of the Rovean empire?

Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal

10/06/05

For 30 years, beginning with the Nixon presidency, advanced under Reagan, stalled with the elder Bush, a new political economy struggled to be born. The idea was pure and simple: centralization of power in the hands of the Republican Party would ensure that it never lost it again. Under George W. Bush, this new system reached its apotheosis. It is a radically novel social, political and economic formation that deserves study alongside capitalism and socialism. Neither Adam Smith nor Vladimir Lenin captures its essence, though it has far more elements of Leninist democratic-centralism than Smithian free markets. Some have referred to this model as crony capitalism; others compare the waste, extravagance and greed to the Gilded Age. Call it 21st century Republicanism... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/10/06/rovean_empire


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Fall of the Rovean empire?
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon61.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



Fall of the Rovean Empire?

Sidney Blumenthal writes that drunk on power, the Republican oligarchs overreached. Now their entire project could be doomed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100705K.shtml

The myth of the paper trail

Reason
by Tim Cavanaugh

10/06/05

"With so many uncertainties, at least we know one thing for sure: Miers' greatest strength is her lack of a paper trail that could lead to an ideological fight in her Senate confirmation hearings. Forget her bragging rights as president of a 400-person law firm, president of the Dallas Bar Association, and president of the Texas State Bar. Miers' real selling point is that she provides no outstanding opinions or controversial rulings for her opponents to exploit; and in the contemporary climate of Senate confirmation hearings, this is the most important qualification a candidate can boast. Or is it?

http://www.reason.com/links/links100605.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Some unhappy with Bush pick for high court

Indianapolis Star

10/05/05

Not satisfied with President Bush's word, conservative senators and others questioned Wednesday whether Harriet Miers was the best Supreme Court nominee a self-proclaimed conservative Republican president could find. 'I guess they thought we'd all just say 'Whoopee!' but that's not the way it works around here anymore,' said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. He insisted there were many potential nominees more qualified than Miers. The White House and congressional GOP leaders -- weakened by the Hurricane Katrina recovery, high gas prices, the war in Iraq and investigations of House and Senate majority leaders Tom DeLay and Bill Frist -- now find themselves defending Bush's decision to elevate his 60-year-old White House counsel to the Supreme Court...

http://tinyurl.com/8dtgc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Senate approves detainee treatment rules

Cincinnati Enquirer

10/05/05

The Republican-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to impose restrictions on the treatment of terrorism suspects, delivering a rare wartime rebuke to President Bush. Defying the White House, senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of 'cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment' against anyone in U.S. government custody, regardless of where they are held. The amendment was added to a $440 billion military spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1...

http://tinyurl.com/ahstq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tetra-Mast-Skandal in Großbritannien

Der elektrische Sturm menschlicher Antennen

von Julia Hunt
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/feed/tm_objectid=16170521%26method=full%26siteid=64736-name_page.html

Publiziert bei Gigaherz am 30.9.05
In einer Übersetzung von Evi Gaigg

Einer von 20 Schotten riskiert ein die Gesundheit lähmendes Leiden, verursacht durch elektromagnetische Wellen neuer Polizeifunkmasten. Die elektrosensitiven Opfer leiden unter Übelkeit, Kopfschmerzen, Nasenbluten, Gefühlsstörungen in Armen und Beinen und Enge in der Brust. Eines der Opfer verglich sich damit, eine menschliche Antenne zu sein.

Professor Olle Johansson vom Department of Neuroscience am Karolinska Institut Stockholm sagte: „Es wurden einmal geeignete Untersuchungen durchgeführt und ich erwarte, dass zwischen 3 und 5 Prozent der Menschen in Schottland und der Rest von Großbritannien als elektrosensitiv diagnostiziert werden.“

Das neue 2.5 Billionen Pfund teure Polizei-Kommunikationssystem TETRA – Terristrial Trunked Radio wurde über ganz UK eingeführt. Mehr als 1000 Masten wurden in Schottland errichtet. Sie pulsen bei der 17.6 Hz - Frequenz, vor der die Government’s Independent Expert Group on Mobil Phones (regierungsunabhängige Expertengruppe für Mobilfunk) warnt, dass sie die Hirntätigkeit beeinflussen könnte. Experten sagen, dass Radiowellen mit diesen Frequenzen den Calcium-Ausstoß aus dem Hirn verursachen können, die ihrerseits Schäden am Nerven- und Immunsystem nach sich ziehen. Wenn die Masten weniger als 15 Meter hoch sind, wird keine Planungserlaubnis benötigt.

Die Sunday Mail sprach letzte Woche mit kranken Opfern:

Die frühere Krankenschwester Catherine Faser, 78 aus Oldpatrick, in der Nähe von Glasgow, behauptet, dass ihre Wohnung wegen der Masten in der Nähe vibriert. Georgie Hyslop, 63 von largs Ayrshire sagte, dass sie 14 000 Meilen gereist ist, um den Wirkungen der elektromagnetischen Wellen zu entfliehen.

Der Website Designer Mark Bannermann, 40 aus Pittenweem Five ist nicht imstande, seinen PC einzuschalten, seit ein Tetra Mast in der Nähe seiner Wohnung aufgestellt wurde.

Elektrosensitivität ist eine erhöhte Reaktion auf elektrische Energie, wenn man elektromagnetischen Feldern ausgesetzt ist, wie Mikrowellen, Strahlung durch Mobiltelefone, Strahlung durch Telefone und Tetra-Masten und durch Hochspannungsmasten. Dies hat sich in einem Bericht, der nächsten Monat durch die von der Regierung gestützte Health Protection Agency (Gesundheitsschutz-Organisation) veröffentlicht wird, als Hauptproblem herausgestellt.

Rod Read, der Vorsitzende der Elektrosensitiven von Großbritannien sagte: „ Wir sind so vielen elektromagnetischen Emissionen ausgesetzt, dass bei den Menschen der Sättigungsgrad erreicht ist.

Mark‘s Geschichte: Der Webdesigner Mark Bannermann ist nicht mehr imstande, sich in der Nähe seines Computers aufzuhalten, seit ein Tetra-Mast in seinem Dorf erstellt wurde. Mark, 40, begann ab letztem November an Nasenbrennen, extrem starker Migräne, Herzstolpern und Schwindel zu leiden. Es war Monate zuvor, als er realisierte, dass seine Symptome zur gleichen Zeit begonnen hatten, als der Tetra-Mast in Pittenweem Five eingeschaltet wurde. Er sagte: „Jedes Mal, wenn ich in die Nähe meines Computers komme, beginnt mein Gesicht zu brennen, so als ob ich einen Sonnenbrand hätte. Ich bekomme Knochen- und Nackenschmerzen und fühle mich richtig krank.

„Es scheint blödsinnig, dass diese Masten überall aufgestellt werden, wenn wir noch keine Ahnung davon haben, was sie bei der Bevölkerung bewirken.“ „Five ist nun mit Tetra-Masten abgedeckt, so wie ganz Schottland. So gibt es keinen Ort mehr, wohin man sich flüchten kann, um dem zu entgehen“

Catherine’s Geschichte: Mein Kopf ist nahe daran, zu explodieren. Die frühere Krankenschwester, Catherine Fraser hatte immer ein feines Gehör. Jahrelang dachte sie , das sei ein Segen, aber bald wurde daraus ein Fluch. Wenn sie sich nach Old Kilpatrick, in der Nähe von Glasgow begab, begann sie elektrische Signale im Inneren ihrer Wohnung zu empfangen. Die 78-Jährige sagte: „Ich begann ein fremdartiges Brummen zu hören und fühlte, wie der Boden vibrierte.“ „Dies hielt jede Nacht an und wurde in den frühen Morgenstunden noch schlimmer. Es war unmöglich zu schlafen.“ „Ich hatte ein brennendes Gefühl in meinen Beinen und mein Kopf fühlte sich an, als wolle er demnächst explodieren.“ „Ich hatte verschiedene Leute, die das abcheckten. Ich habe sogar einmal in der Nacht die Polizei angerufen und zwei Beamte kamen.“ Sie fühlten ein fremdartiges Prickeln in ihren Beinen und Druck auf ihrem Kopf.

Catherine glaubt, dass das Brummen von elektromagnetischen Wellen von Telefonmasten in der Nähe kommt. Sie hat den Verdacht, dass das einen signifikanten Effekt auf ihr Haus hatte, denn es hatte eine Menge Metall in den Wänden. Sie sagte: „ Mein Leben ist seit 1997 eine Hölle. Wenn Sie das nicht selbst an sich gespürt haben, wissen Sie nicht, was das heißt.“ Seit sich Tetra verbreitet hat, gibt es überall im ganzen Land verteilt, Masten. Ich glaube, dass es einen Zusammenhang gibt zwischen den Übertragungen von diesen Masten und der Gesundheit der Menschen. „Es ist nur eine Frage der wissenschaftlichen Beweisbarkeit.“ „Aber es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die HPA die Elektrosensitivität erkannt hat.“

Georgie’s Geschichte: Ich fühle mich krank, wenn ich nur ein Telefon abhebe. Georgie Hyslop 63, floh vor 5 Jahren aus ihrem Heim in lars, Ayrshire und ist 14 000 Meilen weit gereist, um den elektromagnetischen Wellen zu entkommen. Sie behauptet, sie sei von etwas betroffen worden, was die Einheimischen „das große Brummen“ nennen, ein unerklärliches niederfrequentes Geräusch. Georgie, eine ehemaliger Radar-Operatorin, trägt seit ihrer Rückenverletzung nach einem Ski-Unfall ein metallisches Implantat. Aber das Implantat verwandelt sie in eine menschlichen Antenne , wenn immer sie sich in der Nähe eines Masten oder Hochspannungsmasten befindet.

Sie leidet unter Übelkeit, Nasenbluten, Gefühllosigkeit an Armen und Beinen, Schmerzen in der Brust und Brennen im Gesicht.

Sie sagte: „ Ich wurde gezwungen, aus meinem Heim zu fliehen, denn ich war umringt von Telefonmasten und als der Tetramast installiert wurde, wurde es unerträglich. Mein Rückenimplantat macht mich zu einer Antenne, so betroffen bin ich von allem, was Elektrizität überträgt. Die Tetramasten sind das Schlimmste. „Mobiltelefone und Schnurlostelefone verursachen tagelanges Brennen in meinem Gesicht, wie bei einem Sonnenbrand. Als Royal Air Force Radar-Operator war ich Radiowellen in solchen Dosen ausgesetzt, dass mein Körper heute mit keinem Anstieg mehr fertig wird.

Ich habe vier Jahre mit Arbeit am Radar verbracht und jetzt kann ich nicht einmal mehr ein Telefon benützen, ohne mich krank zu fühlen .

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Was ist TETRA, TETRAPOL, POLICOM?

Unter dem Markenname POLICOM soll in der Schweiz ein neues, einheitliches interkantonales Funksystem für die Polizei, den Rettungsdienst, die Feuerwehren und für die Behörden im Katastrophenfall eingeführt werden. Hinter dem Namen POLICOM versteckt, befindet sich nichts anderes als ein TETRA- oder TETRAPOL-System

Hans-U. Jakob, 1.9.05

Die Frequenzen liegen zwischen 380 und 400MHz und sind vom BAKOM im zivilen Emergency Network-Bereich reserviert worden. Das heißt, dass alle kantonalen Dienste irgendwo zwischen 380 und 400 MHz einige fixe Kanäle zugeteilt erhalten, welche sie dann strikte einhalten müssen um den andern Dienststellen nicht hineinzufunken. 380 bis 400MHz bedeutet lediglich eine unter oder obere Begrenzung der Reservationen. Das entspricht einer möglichen Bandbreite von 20MHz das sind 20‘000kHz Die Gesprächskanäle haben untereinander einen Abstand von 12.5kHz Weitere reservierte Frequenzen sind 410-430MHz und 450-470MHz

Die Grenzwerte Im Bereich 10 bis 400MHz liegen die Grenzwerte bei 28V/m für Kurzzeitaufenthalt und bei 3V/m für Daueraufenthalt, d.h. an Orten mit empfindlicher Nutzung. (Grenzwerte liegen immer dort, wo die interessierte Industrie diese benötigt) Da in diesem Frequenzbereich die Wellenlängen wesentlich größer sind als bei GSM und UMTS kommt man damit viel besser in Häuser und Fahrzeuge hinein. Wellenlänge bei TETRA 400 = 75cm Wellenlänge bei GSM 900 = 32cm Wellenlänge bei GSM 1800 = 16cm Faustregel: Ist die Wellenlänge kleiner als die Mauerdicke, kommt man schlecht in die Häuser hinein. Mit 75cm, wie TETRA, gibt es praktisch keine Gebäudedämpfung.

Die Pulsierung Ein herkömmliches GSM-Handy ist mit 217Hz gepulst, das heißt alle 4.61 Millisekunden erfolgt beim Senden ein scharfer Puls. Das TETRA-Handy ist mit 18Hz gepulst, es folgt alle 55.5Millisekunden ein Puls. Auf derselben Trägerfrequenz sollen jeweils über 4 Zeitschlitze 4 Tetra-Handys bedient werden können, was dann auf der Senderseite einer Pulsfrequenz von 72Hz entsprechen würde. Wie der obige Erfahrungsbericht zeigt, reagiert das menschliche Nervensystem auf diese Pulsfrequenzen möglicherweise noch empfindlicher als auf GSM.

Die Reichweite einer Tetrapol-Basisstation liegt für Polizeiqualität (klar und deutlich) um die 30 km. Die Handfunkgeräte (Handys) senden 10 bis 20 mal stärker als ein „normales“ GSM-Handy Tetrapol hat keine automatische Leistungsregulierung wie „normale“ Handysender und sendet immer gleich stark.

Die Dauerstrahler Eine Tetrapol-Basisstation strahlt dauernd (24 Stunden am Tag) einen Organisationskanal aus und zwar mit typisch 3000Watt ERP (die angegebenen 50Watt sind stets mit dem Antennengewinn von 60 zu multiplizieren) Dazu kommen nach Bedarf die 22 Gesprächskanäle mit einer mittleren Leistung von 1500Watt ERP. Das kann ganz schön happig werden!

Die biologisch Hochwirksamen Tetrapol-Handys führen wegen ihrer hohen Sendeleistung in einer biologisch hochwirksamen Frequenzlage und der fehlenden Leistungsregulierung immer wieder zu Gesundheitsproblemen und lauten Protesten innerhalb der europäischen Polizeikorps. Da die Schweizer Polizisten bekannterweise viel dickere Schädel aufweisen als andernorts, macht es diesen vielleicht nichts. Abwarten!

Was die sonst noch alles können resp. nicht können Tetrapol-Handys können auch ohne Basisstation direkt untereinander kommunizieren wie normale Handfunkgeräte, was beim „normalen“ Handy nicht möglich ist. Das Tetrapol-System erlaubt auch Gruppenrufe und Gruppenkommunikation was beim „normalen“ Handy auch nicht möglich ist. Tetrapol ist ein digitalisiertes Übertragungssystem und kann mit entsprechender Fachkenntnis und hohem technischen und softwaremäßigen Aufwand auch abgehört werden. Da Tetrapol ein Handelsprodukt ist, sind die entsprechenden Datenblätter im Internet für jedermann zugänglich. Und die Mafia hat die entsprechenden Geldmittel, um sich die nötige Hard- und Software bauen zu lassen. Die Polizei sollte sich da nicht allzu sicher fühlen. Mit der Abhörsicherheit kann jederzeit Schluss sein.

Die Geheimniskrämerei In der Schweiz behaupten die zuständigen Behörden, Tetrapol oder Policom sei noch nirgends in Betrieb. Das System sei erst im Aufbau begriffen und könne noch gar nicht senden. Legt man diesen jedoch einen Ausdruck ab Spektrum-Analysator mit den aufgefundenen „Buckeln“ in den entsprechenden Frequenzen auf den Tisch, kann es schon vorkommen, dass der eine oder andere der Angesprochenen plötzlich ziemlich still oder gar bleich wird. Zudem wird im Eidgenössischen Ausbildungszentrum in Schwarzenburg, direkt vor der Haustüre von Gigaherz.ch ein Ausbildungs- und Kompetenzzentrum für POLICOM betrieben. Machen die da am Ende Ausbildung für etwas, was es noch gar nicht gibt? Oder wollen die Verantwortlichen etwa die NIS-Verordnung unter Vortäuschung von Sicherheitsgründen umgehen? Es wird uns ein Vergnügen sein, die Sache im Auge zu behalten.

http://www.gigaherz.ch/956

Miers Involved in Silencing Whistleblower

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100605Z.shtml

NOW we pay attention to Bush's use of the military for quarantines...TOO LATE

http://tinyurl.com/7fxwo

A Bush Clone?

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000298.php

Telecoms giant reconsiders mast site

Telecommunications giant Vodafone has agreed to put on ice plans for a phone mast in Revelstoke Road as it considers another site.

The company had been granted prior approval for the 13.4m mast by Merton Council, but during 11th-hour talks with councillors, the company agreed to consider a relocation.

Town hall bosses can only stop the mast if it is next to a site of interest, such as a conservation area, or above 15m.

Unhappy residents have reacted with outrage to the mast which would be next to Revelstoke Road Surgery and near to Wimbledon Park Primary School and a petition collected hundreds of signatures.

Campaigner Alison Palmer, of Normanton Avenue, said: " I understand that mobile phone masts are a necessary evil but surely this mast could be better sited on industrial land."

10:05am today

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.638108.0.telecoms_giant_reconsiders_mast_site.php

CEMETERY PHONE MAST TO BE DELAYED?

TOWN councillors will be considering the possibility of postponing installation of the controversial phone mast in Stratford cemetery after receiving advice from their solicitors.

A special meeting of Stratford Town Council has been called for Friday to look into the decision to sign the contract to install the mast on the cemetery chapel.

The mayor, Cllr Bill Lowe, called the meeting after the council’s legal experts examined its original contract with mobile phone company Hutchinson 3G.

Cllr Lowe said: “We’ve had correspondence in and I thought it was appropriate to get the council together following the concerns that are being expressed and look at the legal interpretation of our position.

For the full story, buy the Herald.

http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=419

Anti-mast demo vows to fight on

by Pete Sherlock

Residents living near the site of a proposed mobile phone mast in Bulls Cross are continuing their protest despite the scheme being given the go-ahead.

A large crowd gathered last Friday at the site near the junction of Turkey Street and Great Cambridge Road to voice their disapproval.

Planning permission for the mast was granted by Enfield Council at a planning department meeting on August 31, following an application from T-Mobile.

Residents claim the council disregarded their concerns over the mast's environmental impact as well as potential health risks.

The Stewart report, published in 2000, found no evidence of a health risk to people living near mobile phone masts but public anxiety over the issue remains.

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Paula Lamb, 42, of Bowles Green, was one of those protesting on Friday.

She said: "I am not happy with the thought that once this mast is installed it is going to be radiating waves into our bedrooms.

"I am prepared to sit in the hole to stop them putting it up."

Local authorities are not obliged under Government guidelines to take health concerns into consideration as long as radiofrequency emissions from the proposed mast meet radiation protection guidelines.

A council spokeswoman said: "The applicant was able to demonstrate that the proposal met the existing safety guidelines."

Residents also claim the consultaion process was flawed and inadequate.

Letters were sent to residents and schools at the beginning of July, but some recipients say this was unacceptable because many people were on holiday.

Staff at St Ignatius college, which is near the site, say they never received notification of the proposal and it was left to a concerned resident to inform them. Head of sixth form Anthony Holborne said a letter of protest to the council had gone unanswered and that parents and staff remained concerned.

The residents are unable to appeal the decision but may seek a judicial review and say they will continue their campaign into the decision-making process.

Protestor Jason Rosario said: "The idea of the campaign is to highlight the misuse of power by the council and to encourage residents not to be afraid to oppose applications."

11:16am today

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.638282.0.antimast_demo_vows_to_fight_on.php

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

2005: „Wir wehren uns gemeinsam. Veränderung erfordert Bewegung! Eine andere Welt ist möglich und nötig!“

Aufruf des Sozialforums Nürnberg zur Demo am 29.10.2005 in Nürnberg (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/nuernb05.pdf

Nun steht auch der Ablauf fest: Beginn: 13 Uhr Lorenzkirche, Auftaktkundgebung; ca. 13:30 Uhr Begrüßungsrede durch das Sozialforum Nürnberg (Kurt-Jürgen Bär und Elisabeth Ramthun); ca. 14:00 Uhr Demo Beginn; Demoroute: Lorenzkirche - Karolinenstr. - Ludwigsplatz - Jakobstr. - Kornmarkt - Grasersgasse - Frauentorgraben - Lessingstr. - Tafelfeldtunnel – Bogenstr. - Karl-Bröger-Eck - Celtisstr. - Celtis-Unterführung - Bahnhofsplatz - Königstr. - Josephsplatz oder Hallplatz Wichtige Stationen, Zwischenkundgebungen: SPD-Haus, Gewerkschaftshaus, CSU, Deutsche Bank. Weitere Redethemen: Bildung (Schule, Hochschule), Erwerbslosigkeit, Migration, Betriebskämpfe, Alternativen zum Kapitalismus (kann noch erweitert werden)

Beteiligte Gruppen, Organisationen, Mitglieder von: ANA, AGIF, Ak gegen Bildungsklau FH Nürnberg, AstA evFH Nürnberg, Organisation von Anti-Studiengebühren-Demos in Erlangen/Nürnberg (FAU), Sozialforum Erlangen, WASG (Nürnberg u. Erlangen), Schülerbündnis, Solid, Montagsdemo Ini, oa, Karawane, Verdi Mittelfranken und viele weitere

Übersicht über regionale Anti-Hartz-&-Co-Bündnisse
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/regionen.html

ist aktualisiert worden.


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Oktober 2005

Nürnberger Bundesagentur ermittelt über Call-Center-Agenten sensible Daten von ALG-II-Empfängern

Antwort des „Kundenreaktionsmanagement“ der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/advivento.html

auf den Offenen Brief der GALG (Gewerkschaftliche ArbeitsLosengruppe Göttingen) an die Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nürnberg: Telefonterror gegen Erwerbslose (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/komm/vivento.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Oktober 2005

FEMA'S SINISTER REAL PURPOSE

From: Scott Munson/John Johnson

By any other name, FEMA remains this nation's "secret government," with powers to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant, hold citizens without a trial, seize control of all transportation and communication systems and -- suspend the US Constitution: Sheila Samples

While everyone bashes FEMA ~ I have always been troubled by the power that it wielded during the Katrina crisis ~ stopping convoys in their tracks, refusing help to thousands, barring delivery of food to those in desperate need and seizing control of all communication and transportation systems."

Then my friend Sheila Samples uncovered the obvious ~ and revealed " By any other name, FEMA remains this nation's "secret government," with powers to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant, hold citizens without a trial, seize control of all transportation and communication systems and -- suspend the US Constitution."

Of course, now it so obvious ~ FEMA has become the enforcer for the grand and sinister designs of the Department of Homeland Security and Patriot Act Two ~ which is why it was totally confused when it was asked to play a humanitarian role in a natural disaster.

Which is why Brown was replaced by a military type ( Vice-Admiral Allen ) today ~ which is one step closer to its original military purpose. Sheila calls it the SNAFU plan and reveals FEMA for what it really is. And this is why the Cheney/Bush administration want to lead the investigation of FEMA ~ and keep it's real paranoid purpose under wraps.

Excerpt: " FEMA is the Patriot Act on crack. Once its powers are unleashed, Oliver North's REX 84 "exercise" will become a reality. The Constitution will be suspended and FEMA will have the right to detain or seize the property of anyone even suspected of engaging in, or who might be thinking of conspiring with others to engage in acts of espionage or sabotage. REX 84 also advocated rounding up and transferring to "assembly centers or relocation camps" of at least 21 million American Negroes in the event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s."

Allen L Roland



BUSH -- THE MAN WITH A SNAFU PLAN By Sheila Samples


"A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished."

~Michael Rivero, What Really Happened

It's a good thing President George Bush doesn't read newspapers or watch TV. If he did, even he could see that people from one end of this nation to the other are rapidly reaching zero tolerance with his bumbling ineptitude each time he is faced with a crisis. Those who watched in amazement as Bush sat paralyzed in a Florida elementary school on the morning of September 11, 2001 as planes were ramming into the World Trade Center and Pentagon -- who watched in dismay as he zigzagged across the country from one hidey hole to another throughout the day -- were not surprised that he dropped the ball when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29.

Bush has dropped every ball thrown to him throughout his life. But he's a hell of a cheerleader. It's almost like being back in college. In an instant, Bush can whip a crowd into a frenzy, armed with nothing but a bullhorn and a shell-shocked firefighter. He can divert the attention of an entire nation from what is happening on the field by locking it into one massive, cheering "wave." Life is a game. Go Team.

However, Operation Hurricane Katrina is vastly different from Bush's "freedom is on the march" game that continues to wreak chaos, death and destruction throughout the Arab world. In the aftermath of Katrina, the homeless, bewildered, abandoned and starving citizens may be poverty-striken, they may be dark-skinned, but they are Americans. And, because they are Americans, the cheering has stopped. The media, led by the shaking outrage of CNN's Anderson Cooper and right-leaning curmudgeon Jack Cafferty, followed by the networks and, finally, by the wonderous on-air meltdown of Fox News' Shepard Smith, at long last is doing its job. For a time, however fleeting, the media has been shocked into telling the truth, asking the right questions and holding the administration's feet to the fire.

Thanks to the media, Bush is out there without a bullhorn -- and without a game plan.

The best-laid plans

Of course the neoconservatives who are in control of this country had a plan for Iraq. I've written about it so often I'm almost embarrassed to bring it up again. In 1992, Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby and Paul Wolfowitz laid out their obsesson for world dominance in a secret document, Defense Planning Guidance wherein they boldly asserted, "our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region (Middle East and SW Asia) and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."

Although such arrogance caused a furor when released to the media, the war jackals merely retreated into their lair and continued to hone the policy of preemptive war to seize control of the world's resources. That was the plan then, it was the plan in 1997 when they established the warmongering think-tank, Project for a New American Century, it was the plan outlined in the September 2000 Rebuilding America's Defenses, which included another bold assertion -- to achieve their goal they would need "a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" -- and it remains the plan today.

It was a stroke of genius in 2000 to rig the election and put George Bush in the Cheerleader in Chief role. Bush is mean-spirited, vindictive, greedy, incapable of feeling empathy, easily manipulated, desperate for attention -- even adulation -- and has no qualms with playing the God card for political gain. Americans are a forgiving people, and most accepted without question this worthless, former booze-and-drug sodden ne'er-do-well's claim that he was born again -- a man of God. They loved him. All Cheney had to do was select himself as Number Two, slip behind the curtain, and the cabal -- as they like to call themselves -- was open for business, and waiting for a new Pearl Harbor.

It was not long in coming. If 9-11 taught us nothing else, we must ultimately concede that George Bush entered office on his way to war with Iraq, and had no qualms about lying repeatedly to the American people and to our allies to get there. Piles of dead bodies, including nearly 2,100 coalition soldiers and marines and tens of thousands of Iraqis, the majority of whom are women and children, are but a minor irritant to Bush. That part of humanity not belonging to the corporate world is invisible to Bush, nothing more than collateral damage, and is not factored into his "war plan."

Long before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, just as before 9-11, administration officials were warned of impending peril. Although they played out the frightening scenario in rehearsal after rehearsal, when it was "show time" they were nowhere to be found. They knew. And they did nothing. Either by incompetence or design, they failed to act, and the death, crippling despair, disease and sheer hopelessness suffered by Americans in our most romantic city is breathtaking in scope and indefensible on any level.

Bush has repeatedly slashed funds for the Army Corps of Engineers water projects for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In 2003, the money that had previously flowed into the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA), tasked with shoring up levees and building pumping stations, dried up to a mere trickle. With warnings ringing in his ears, in 2004 Bush refused the money requested to raise the levees and rejected a plea for a $15-million project to shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain. And, in June, Bush's 2006 federal budget called for slashing SELA funds from an already inadequate $36.5-million to a mere $10.4-million, and for cutting the overall New Orleans Corps of Engineers budget a record $71.2-million, which Corps officials say is the largest single-year funding loss ever.

But all is not lost. The Corps of Engineers managed to get a hefty $100-million for just one water project -- in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. According to the peerless Ward Harkavy, who writes The Morning Report for the Village Voice, "On August 15, just two weeks before Katrina slammed into the U.S., the Pentagon boasted of spending $6.4-billion -- so far -- on 2,705 Corps of Engineers construction projects in Iraq, all but 200 of them started since June 2004." The SNAFU plan

It looks to me like everything is going according to plan. Chaos, like everything else, is just a matter of perspective. Few people really know anything about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), except it's a name that's thrown around a lot during times of national disaster. Do not think for one minute that Bush "gutted" FEMA by placing it under the control of Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff. By any other name, FEMA remains this nation's "secret government," with powers to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant, hold citizens without a trial, seize control of all transportation and communication systems and -- suspend the US Constitution.

FEMA was created outside of Constitutional law via a President John Kennedy Executive Order, and is subject to no Congressional oversight. It received a "tune up" under President Jimmy Carter then, like Topsy, "just growed" through presidents Nixon, Reagan, Poppy and Bubba to the present time. Genocide fascists like Henry Kissinger, and greedy patriots like former General Richard Secord and Lt. Col. Oliver North, the architects of both the Iran-Contra scandal and today's FEMA, must be laughing their asses off at the juvenile disinformation bait-and-switch scenario playing itself out in the US media.

We would do well to remember that these jackals are on a mission. No matter how many times they are exposed as liars and deceivers, they continue across the field of life like a hoard of grasshoppers, leaving stripped and broken humanity in their wake. They are roiling the waters of the Mississippi by portraying FEMA as dim-witted, absent-minded, rudderless.

And it's working. The media, Internet, Congress, you, me -- everybody -- all baying for Bush to dump the hapless FEMA director, Michael Brown, a Bush crony and former counsel for the International Arabian Horse Association. We are all outraged, not at Bush for dropping the ball; for being so chillingly disconnected from those he is charged to protect -- but at Brown, who is a perfect lightning rod and, if need be, a fall guy.

He's also a man with a plan.

Take a look at these headlines -- FEMA refusing all offered rescue assistance from Amtrack to experienced firefighters, FEMA not delivering on promises, FEMA barring delivery of desperately needed food or water to frightened and bewildered victims of Katrina, FEMA telling First Responders not to "respond" to the disaster. Does anybody but me see a pattern here? Is it possible for an emergency aid organization to show up at the scene only to refuse all offers of aid? Does McDonald's cook up a bunch of hamburgers and then lock its doors to its hungry patrons?

FEMA is the Patriot Act on crack. Once its powers are unleashed, Oliver North's REX 84 "exercise" will become a reality. The Constitution will be suspended and FEMA will have the right to detain or seize the property of anyone even suspected of engaging in, or who might be thinking of conspiring with others to engage in acts of espionage or sabotage. REX 84 also advocated rounding up and transferring to "assembly centers or relocation camps" of at least 21 million American Negroes in the event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

The actual number of displaced New Orleans residents is unknown. Overnight, they became "refugees," and hundreds of thousands packed into the Super Dome or sat sweltering in the sun on roads and bridges during a nightmarish week of waiting for help that did not come, while political fat cats finger-pointed and accused each other of playing the "blame" game. Finally, their military liberators herded them onto buses and planes, refusing to reveal their destination -- husbands and wives separated, families split apart -- and disappeared to "assembly centers or location camps" throughout the United States.

Bush, who once asked Sojourners' Reverend Jim Wallis how to talk to poor people because he had never been around one, has once again dropped the ball. Telling Americans whose homes, jobs, loved ones, whose whole lives were washed away in a single night to "hang in there, and don't buy gasoline if you can't afford it," before cutting out to a birthday party in Arizona falls a bit short of his presidential promise to "protect the American people."

It's unfortunate that it took a tragedy like Katrina for middle- and lower-class America to finally come to grips with where they will fit into the capitalist White supremacist New World Disorder. Americans now know that Bush is incapable of leading. They know he's too arrogant and stubborn to follow. They know it's time for him to get out of the way -- before more of us are trampled, displaced, abandoned, and destroyed, not only here but throughout the world.

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites. Contact her at: rsamples@sirinet.net. © 2005 Sheila Samples

Bush Chooses New, Dirtier Refineries over Efficiency

President George W. Bush on Tuesday repeated his call for more oil refineries to be built in the United States, a need he said was highlighted by "tight" petroleum supplies and high energy prices caused by hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505Q.shtml

CBS's One-Sided DeLay Discussion

It was no surprise that the Sunday morning talkshows would focus on the indictment of Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay on conspiracy charges. But CBS's Face the Nation covered the DeLay scandal in an unusual manner: by convening a panel of three Republicans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505F.shtml

Bush Switching Priority from Social Security to Taxes

The Bush administration is beginning to segue from its failed effort to overhaul Social Security to rewriting the tax code, an issue that is fraught with its own political challenges.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505B.shtml

Weeks Later, Most Storm Victims Lie Unnamed

In a country that cherishes the names of the dead, reads them aloud, engraves them in stone and stitches them into quilts, it is odd that Hurricane Katrina's victims remain, more than a month later, largely anonymous. There has been no accounting of their age, sex and race, nor of how they died or where they were found.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505A.shtml

BALLOT AND SOUL

*For release 10/6/05*

*BALLOT AND SOUL*

*By Robert C. Koehler*

/Tribune Media Services/

If I want to generate a little fear-based insomnia, all I have to do is remind myself just before bedtime that the 2006 elections are barely a year away. Suddenly I'm awash in cold sweat and my heart starts pounding like a steam piston.

No, please, somebody stop the clock. It's too soon. We can't hold the elections until we get our right to vote back.

If you are one of those people who has opened up the can of worms known as the 2004 election and stared appalled at the irregularities writhing around the count in Ohio and New Mexico and Pennsylvania and other swing states - where dirty tricks and outright disenfranchisement (spurious voter challenges, too few voting machines) were blatant in inner-city and other Democratic strongholds and where electronic, no-paper-trail voting yielded results at odds with exit polls in statistically near-impossible percentages - you know what I'm talking about. Our elections, and therefore our democracy, are not safe, and not enough people know or care yet that this is so.

The only antidote to this insomnia is to connect with other stunned, appalled souls, realize you aren't alone, and begin groping communally for a way to take a stand. And as you do this, a remarkable thing happens. Fighting for fair elections becomes not so much a desperate, stopgap chore as an act of citizenship of the highest order.

This is what I learned last weekend in Portland, Ore., at a gathering of 200 or so appalled souls at an event called the National Summit To Save Our Elections, sponsored by the Oregon Voter Rights Coalition and the Portland chapter of the Alliance for Democracy.

"We're not trying to save democracy, we're trying to create democracy," said keynote speaker David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 presidential candidate.

That was the tenor of the summit: that while we may be in the midst of a crisis of disenfranchisement, thanks primarily to the frenzy among state and county election officials to move to electronic, unverifiable voting, with counting procedures inexplicably turned over to a few private corporations such as Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, democracy is /always/ in a crisis of some sort.

That is, power is a high-stakes game and those who have it usually try to horde it. Democracy is only grudgingly submitted to by the powerful, because it's the ultimate in redistribution of power to those who have none, and the franchise is only expanded with struggle. In 1789, when the U.S. Constitution was ratified, African-Americans were considered three-fifths of a human and didn't get the right to vote for almost 80 years. Women didn't get it until 1920. Native Americans, not till 1924 (some, not until 1948). And in the South, African-Americans only got the right in fact in 1965, with the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

We've been complacent about our democracy for the past 40 years. Since then, a lethargy - a "sophisticated despair," as some have described it - has set in. Voter turnout has steadily plummeted. Until last year, barely half the registered voters bothered to show up to choose a president, and little of consequence was at stake in any case. The contests between superficially distinguishable candidates seemed to hinge on gaffes and tie color, not issues. Our democracy was dying of indifference.

The 2004 election was a watershed in several ways. Thanks almost single-handedly to George W. Bush, the Great Polarizer, voters surged to the polls in numbers not seen in several generations. And thanks also to George Bush and his friends, the election was dirty enough to spark a citizenship movement.

At last.

"We need a revolution every generation," Thomas Jefferson said. Now there's a bit of Founding Father wisdom that hasn't been worn down to a platitude yet. Democracy is either evolving and expanding or it's dying. We have to found our nation anew - wrest it from the cynically entrenched - every generation.

Jefferson's words were quoted at the summit by Paul Lehto, a lawyer from Everett, Wash., who is suing Snohomish County to void its contract with Sequoia Voting Systems on the grounds that the company's claim of "proprietary trade secrets" and refusal to release voting data from the 2004 election, creating a secret vote count, are illegal in a democracy.

What a radical idea - that the voting process should be open and transparent; that the count should be publicly, not privately, done, and absolutely verifiable. If you know this is not the system we currently have, raise your hand.

What's at stake? I think of how dehumanizing one group or another is a precondition for disenfranchisement. "The idea that we all have a right to vote is very similar to the idea that we all have a soul," Lehto said.

Let's see how much democracy we can create by 2006. Let the disenfranchised unite!

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/Robert Koehler, an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist, is an editor at Tribune Media Services and nationally syndicated writer. You can respond to this column at _bkoehler@tribune.com_ or visit his Web site at commonwonders.com./

*© 2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.*

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A Humanist Code of Ethics

Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.
Open your home to the wayfarer.
Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;
sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.
Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.
Never think less of yourself than you are.
Never think that you are more than another.

-Arthur Dobrin


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Former Bush Official Indicted in Probe

washingtonpost.com

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 5, 2005; 5:12 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high- powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The five felony counts in the indictment charge David H. Safavian with obstructing Senate and executive branch investigations into whether he aided Abramoff in efforts to acquire property controlled by the General Services Administration around the nation's capital.

Both probes looked into an August 2002 golf outing that Safavian took to Scotland with Abramoff, former Christian Coalition executive Ralph Reed, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, and others.

Safavian, a former lobbying associate of Abramoff, is the first person beyond Abramoff himself to face charges arising out of the probe of the lobbyist, who is a major Republican fundraiser with close ties to GOP leaders in Congress.

The indictment covers May 16, 2002, until January 2004, when Safavian was chief of staff at the General Services Administration, the government housekeeping agency. From November 2004 until late last month when he resigned three days before his arrest, he headed the government's top procurement officer in the Office of Management and Budget.

The indictment said Safavian falsely told a GSA ethics officer, a GSA inspector general's agent and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that Abramoff had no business with GSA at the time the Scotland trip was being planned. It said Safavian concealed that Abramoff did have business with GSA before the trip and that Safavian was aiding him in dealing with GSA.

Barbara Van Gelder, Safavian's lawyer, has said that Safavian accurately reported Abramoff was not doing business with GSA at the time of the trip, and she said Safavian would fight the charges.

Each count carries a potential top penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100501640.html


Informant: maintzger

A Wolfowitz in sheep's clothing

Following the lead of that other wooly-headed war theoretician, Robert McNamara, Wolfie scuttled to the World Bank, where he changed the subject from bollixing up Iraq to fixing up Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10529.htm

Death Squads And Diplomacy

A flurry of Arab diplomacy over the last few days is unfolding in a rear-guard effort to prevent the crisis in Iraq from exploding into what Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal warned last month could be a regional civil war involving not only Iraq, but all of its neighbors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10531.htm

Casualties rise in west Iraq offensive

Iraqi National Assembly speaker Hajim al-Hasani denounced the US military operations, saying they discourage Iraqis from participating in the referendum on the new constitution.

http://tinyurl.com/7jwc8


From Information Clearing House

Wanted a leader for America

by Noam Chomsky

The human toll of Katrina is incalculable, especially among the region’s poorest citizens, but a relevant number is the 28-per cent poverty rate in New Orleans — more than twice the national rate. During the Bush administration the US poverty rate has grown, and welfare’s limited safety net has been weakened further.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10534.htm

Night And Fog Revisited

By Ted Rall

Four years after 9/11, the U.S. government still refuses to release information about the disappeared. We do not know how many there are, where they are being held, how many are dead and alive, or even their names. The vanished have access to neither their families nor legal representation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10533.htm

A Tale of Two Lives Destroyed by Abu Ghraib

Nine US soldiers have now been sentenced for their role in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. But is it enough?

By Marian Blasberg and Anita Blasberg

Davis says that his country punished him for crimes over which he had no control. Instead, he says, the people who were responsible for creating the system of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib should be brought to justice. Davis wants to talk and wants to set things right.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10527.htm

Petrocollapse for change of culture

http://tinyurl.com/7kmtx


When you have to classify the very capacity of the Earth to support life as an "externality", then it is time to rethink your theory. --Herman Daly


Informant: Russ Ferriday

Asia-Pacific 'to Face More Disease' as Planet Warms

A report on climate change warns that rising world temperatures could increase the incidence of malaria, dengue fever and cholera.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100505HA.shtml

The Erosion of Environmental Policy

The Bush administration and Congress have been chipping away at the National Environmental Policy Act ... Now the House is about to consider how to "modernize" the act, but based on what the White House and Congress have already done, it's clear that the agenda isn't so much updating the law as gutting it.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100505EB.shtml

Miers's Ties to Conservative Church May Offer Insights

Though Miers is reticent to reveal her views, her two-decade-long membership in the Valley View Christian Church suggests how she might stand on hot-button social issues regarded as top priorities to social conservatives who form a cornerstone of Bush's support.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505S.shtml

Iraqi Unions Defy Privatization

David Bacon says that Iraq's oil union is its "largest, most powerful labor organization, with 23,000 members in southern Iraq. Together with two other labor federations and a handful of independent professional associations, the labor movement is now the biggest secular institution in Iraqi civil society - and the one most opposed to Bush's privatization schemes."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100505LA.shtml

Republican Party Caught in the Middle of Tom Delay's Web of Corruption

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1005-09.htm

Call for Prosecution of White House Propaganda Crimes

Media Reform Groups Call for Prosecution of White House Propaganda Crimes.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1005-02.htm

Will Harriet Miers Vote to Overturn Bush’s Conspiracy Conviction?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-25.htm

Arrogance in the Face of Disaster

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-24.htm

An Unrealistic Mission in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-21.htm

Their God Is Bigger Than Our God

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-20.htm

Claims of Cronyism Force Bush to Defend Choice for Supreme Court

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1005-03.htm

U.S. Offers New Animal Feed Rules, but Critics Assail Them

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1005-04.htm

Miers Mired in Bush's Guard Service Cover-Up

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1005-05.htm

Congress Seeks to Cut Food Aid for Poor

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1005-06.htm

US Poverty: Chronic Ill, Little Hope for Cure

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1005-02.htm

Letter in Support of the Movement in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

I've linked here the PDF version of my just-finished 50 page Letter in Support of the Movement in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast:

http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=3319253&s=700443

Notes on Strategy & Tactics.

You can also visit http://www.frontlinespress.com to download the PDF, or contact us to receive hardcopies. I have been working on the Letter for 21 days non-stop, aided by many conversations with Gulf Coast activists and organizers, and other Black organizers throughout the U.S. I have been trying to read, devour the tons of articles on the racist, human-made attack on the Black community, code name Katrina, to inform this work.

For those of you who have read my Dispatches from Durban, Letter to the Movement on the War in Iraq, and The 2004 Elections: A Challenge to the U.S. Left, you know I try to focus my writing on the re-building of a multiracial Left led by the interests of the Black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Indigenous peoples, in alliance with the nations and peoples of the Third World. The objective is to help build an antiracist, anti-imperialist united front, and to try to address issues of strategy and tactics from that perspective.

We live at a time when Right-wing racists are so emboldened that Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of freedom-fighter Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, and former Education Secretary William Bennett, the architect of the war on drugs that has contributed to 1 million Black people being in prison today, stated, If you wanted to reduce crime you could abort every Black baby in the country. The defense of the New Orleans movement offers a hopeful opportunity for a major assault on the forces of reactionwhat this Letter calls a Third Reconstruction. Today, the embattled Black people are under unbearable assault, and are in great need of friends and allies willing to go to the mat to fight against white supremacy and imperialism.

This Letter in Support of the Movement in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is rooted in that tradition. I hope people find it worth their time to read, to debate, to generate other strategy papers such as Saladin Muhammads important Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nations 9/11! As this goes to press there is a critical meeting of Gulf Coast organizers in South Carolina working to further refine and develop their strategy and tactics, and we can expect important statements coming from Community Labor United and the Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Reconstruction Project in future days. This Letter is an effort to gain more national and international support for their efforts.


In solidarity and struggle,

Eric Mann September 30, 2005

I would appreciate comments and feedback at info@frontlinespress.com


Informant: John Johnson

REMOVE NEO-CONS NOW

http://tinyurl.com/cpbvv

Bush's Guard Service May Affect Miers Nomination

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/1005-05.htm


Informant: Chris

Christian Soldier on the High Court

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/1005-22.htm


Informant: Mark Tomes

Miers Law Firm pays $30 MILLION in Ponzi Scheme

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92994;show_parent=1

WMD COMMISSION: Iraq Intel Probe a Political Smoke Screen

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92975;show_parent=1

WMD COMMITTEE: seeds of future "Intelligence Failures"
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92976;show_parent=1

Plame Gate a/k/a WMD GATE a/k/a LEAK-GATE

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92974;show_parent=1

Vaccine Ingredients: Formaldehyde, Aspartame, Mercury

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92960;show_parent=1

The assault on our freedom of speech

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92957;show_parent=1

Death toll in New Orleans: 8,000 bodies taken to the morgue

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92941;show_parent=1

The Secret Dangers of the Flu Vaccine

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92933;show_parent=1

Shocking Miers Connection to Infamous Bush Briefing

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92930;show_parent=1

Missing dead in Gulf

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92927;show_parent=1

White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe251.html

The Inherent Contradictions of Forcible Government

http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds264.html

The Deadliest Flu Virus in the World: Made in USA

http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi45.html

Outsourcing and America’s Nanny-Statism Bubble

http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund29.html

War, Peace, and the State

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html

Grandma's fury at mast site bid

An angry grandma has blasted plans to build a phone mast just 300 yards away from a nursery school.

Delia Smith, one of more than 70 objectors, is furious that phone giant Hutchison 3G wants to put up a 12.5 metre mast on Stubley Lane, Dronfield.

Mrs Smith (56), of Croft Lea, Dronfield Woodhouse claims there are three schools in the area, including Gosforth Pre-School just 300 yards from the proposed site.

She said: "It's just ridiculous how Hutchison 3G has been able to put in again and again for this mast. We just don't want it in our community.

"Assurance"

"If the Government can give us a 100 per cent assurance it is safe, then great, but where there is a doubt they shouldn't be able to erect them near schools and communities."

Dronfield Town Council unanimously voted against the proposal to site the mast on the road verge next to the Talbot Arms pub, on Monday.

Councillors voiced fears about the height of the mast and unknown dangers to health.

However, the bid has been recommended for approval when it goes before planners at NE Derbyshire District Council on Tuesday.

A NEDDC spokeswoman said there was no previous history of an application on the site. However, there had been three other applications over the last few years by Hutchison in the Barnes Farm area, Barnes Lane, Dronfield, all of which had been turned down by the council.

A spokesman for Hutchison 3G said: "The mobile base station will be a 12.5 metre slimline column. Its design will blend in with the surrounding street scene and the proposal will not have a negative impact on the visual amenity of the area.

"I understand that some people may have concerns about the mobile phone health issue but it is important to look at the scientific evidence surrounding it.

"The most recent expert review of the science in the UK by the Independent Advisory Group on Non Ionising Radiation (January 2004) had a very positive message for the public: 'Exposure levels from living near mobile phone base stations are extremely low, and the overall evidence indicates that they are unlikely to pose a risk to human health.' In fact, radiowave exposure for a base station is about 1,000 times less than from a mobile phone.

Omega see under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html


"There is a need for suburban 3G coverage in Dronfield and requirement, by the public, for its services to give access to video messaging and many more mobile video applications such as news, sport and music."

06 October 2005

http://www.chesterfieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=728&ArticleID=1211560

Familie Lange aus Bonn wohnt seit Jahren Wand an Wand mit einem Trafohaus

http://twitter.com/WILABonn/status/973137834805743616

An Open Letter to Congressman Tom DeLay

http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david46.htm

Piracher wehren sich gegen Mobilfunkanlage

Pirach / Traunreut - Seit zwölf Jahren steht auf dem Wasserturm in Pirach eine Mobilfunksendeanlage, vor fünf Jahren kam eine zweite hinzu. Fast genau so lange quälen Schlafstörungen, Kopfschmerzen und Schwindel viele der 60 Einwohner. Die Zahl der Krebserkrankungen ist auffallend hoch. Fünf Jahre noch glaubten die Menschen in dem Örtchen auf Trostberger Gemeindegebiet durchhalten zu müssen, bis 2010 die Verträge zwischen den Mobilfunkbetreibern und den Traunreuter Stadtwerken, den Besitzern des Wasserturms, auslaufen. Doch jetzt haben sie davon Wind bekommen, dass einer der Mobilfunkriesen bereits eine Vertragsverlängerung beantragt hat.

Gerade 50 Meter trennen die Familie Schopf vom Wasserturm. Als Reinhold Schopf mit Frau und Kindern vor fünf Jahren nach Pirach zog und der Protest gegen die Errichtung der zweiten Mobilfunkanlage in vollem Gang war, protestierte er wie selbstverständlich mit. Was es tatsächlich bedeutet, nur wenige Meter neben einer Mobilfunksendeanlage zu leben, weiß der 44-Jährige erst heute. Oft schläft er schlecht, fühlt sich morgens wie gerädert - obwohl der Belastungswert mit 350 Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter um ein Vielfaches unter dem zulässigen Grenzwert liegt. Verbringt die Familie ihre freie Zeit im Ferienhäuschen im Bayerischen Wald, sind die Beschwerden wie weggeblasen.

Die in einer Studie Bamberger Ärzte aufgeführte Symptomliste von Menschen, die langfristig elektromagnetischer Strahlung ausgesetzt sind, ist lang: Müdigkeit, depressive Stimmung, Unruhe, Allergien, Ohrgeräusche, Herzrhythmusstörungen, Tumorerkrankungen und und und. «Da finde ich unser Dorf wieder», sagt Reinhold Schopf.

Und deshalb gehen die 60 Piracher jetzt auf die Barrikaden. Vergangene Woche sind 40 von ihnen ins Traunreuter Rathaus gefahren. Eindringlich appellierten sie an Bürgermeister Franz Parzinger, die bestehenden Verträge nicht über 2010 hinaus zu verlängern. Ihre Sorge: «Wir befürchten, dass die Stadt Traunreut unsere Gesundheit und Lebensqualität hinter die Mieteinnahmen aus dem Betrieb der Sendeanlagen stellt.»

Ein Festhalten an den beiden Mobilfunksendeanlagen erscheint ihnen umso weniger nötig, als nur 800 Meter nördlich des Ortes eine weitere Anlage steht. Deshalb kommt für die Piracher auch kein Alternativstandort in Frage: «Wir wollen nicht, dass andere mit Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigungen leben müssen.» Trostbergs Bürgermeister Ignaz Sperger steht hinter seinen Bürgern - und zeigte das nicht zuletzt mit seinem Erscheinen im Traunreuter Rathaus. Schon im Juni sprach sich der Trostberger Stadtrat gegen eine Verlängerung der Verträge mit den Mobilfunkanbietern aus.

Die Entscheidung aber liegt beim Werkausschuss der Stadt Traunreut. Sie soll noch im Oktober in einer nichtöffentlichen Sitzung fallen. «Ich werde den Ausschuss über die Einwände informieren», meinte Franz Parzinger. Den Chiemsee Nachrichten sagte er, er könne beide Seiten, die Piracher und die Mobilfunkbetreiber, verstehen. «Ich glaube, dass es Menschen gibt, die empfindlicher sind als andere Aber ich weiß auch, dass jeder, der ein Handy besitzt, ein lückenloses Netz haben will.» Nicht einfacher werde die Situation durch den Umstand, dass Pirach zu Trostberg gehöre, der Wasserturm aber zu Traunreut.

Reinhold Schopf ist enttäuscht von Parzinger, zumal sein Vorgänger Eduard Wiesmann sich in seiner Amtszeit bereits gegen eine Vertragsverlängerung ausgesprochen hatte. Schopf ärgert vor allem, dass der Bürgermeister nicht klar Stellung bezieht und sich letztlich hinter dem Werkausschuss versteckt - «und das, wo er selbst Vorsitzender des Ausschusses ist». Seine Gesundheit und die seiner Familie und Nachbarn in den Händen von acht Ausschussmitgliedern zu wissen, lässt Reinhold Schopf nicht besser schlafen. «Für die ist Pirach doch weit weg», legt er genervt nach.

Still sein wollen die Piracher noch lange nicht. Von den beiden ersten Sendeanlagen hätten sie erst erfahren, als die Verträge bereits unterschrieben waren. Diesmal wollen sie die Chance nutzen, vorher handeln zu können. «Wir protestieren lauthals weiter», gibt sich Reinhold Schopf kämpferisch. Wenn sein Protest ungehört bleibt, weiß der Familienvater nicht, wie es weitergehen soll. Die Fenster auf der zur Anlage gewandten Hausseite hat er bereits mit Metallgittern verschlagen, die die Strahlung abschirmen sollen. Derzeit denkt er über metallene Baldachine für die Betten nach. Eine teure Anschaffung: eine Baldachin kostet 2000 Euro. Wenn die Anlagen über 2010 hinaus in Pirach bleiben, sagt er, schließt er einen Wegzug nicht aus.

http://www.rosenheimer-nachrichten.de/zet_report_378_8428.html
http://www.rosenheimer-nachrichten.de/zet_report_378_8428_1.html

Don't Let Congress Allow Innocent People to Be Executed

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=56aa4lzTzn74cQ09mTV9tA..&id=295


Informant: Andrea Ball

5
Okt
2005

Kimberly-Clark is clear-cutting ancient forests to make Kleenex and toilet paper

As you read this message, Kimberly-Clark http://www.kleercut.net/is clear-cutting ancient forests to make Kleenex and toilet paper. As the world's largest manufacturer of tissue products, K-C is in a unique position to damage or destroy entire ecosystems. Only 20% of our ancient forests remain and they are too precious to throw away or flush down the toilet!

*Join Greenpeace to take on the tissue tyrants: *Greenpeace is working with folks throughout North America to protect these endangered forests and the people and wildlife living in them by mobilizing pressure against Kimberly-Clark.

You can help!

*1) Take action today*

Send an email to Kimberly Clark CEO Thomas Frank at
http://kleercut.net/sendamessage?lst . *Read more about the campaign at http://www.kleercut.net

*2) Host a House Party *

Host a Greenpeace House Party on October 27^th and join activists around the country. Meet other people who care about our environment and learn how you can help! Greenpeace will provide a video for your party to watch, and will host a conference call. Email usa@kleercut.net for more information.

*3) November 3^rd Day of Action*

Mark your calendars! November 3^rd is an international day of action to save the Boreal Forest, North America's largest wilderness tract, the size of 13 Californias! Join campuses and communities around the world to stop K-C from trashing the Boreal. Check out the Kleercut Action Pack at http://kleercut.net/en/actionpack?lst for ideas on what you can do on November 3^rd . Download stickers, posters and fliers, and join a local Kleercut Group
http://kleercut.net/en/getlocal?lst . Email usa@kleercut.net with any questions.

Some businesses make an effort to meet the needs of their customers. Then there's Kimberly-Clark. If they can make a tissue that limits the spread of the flu, certainly they can make a tissue that doesn't flush away old-growth forests. It's obvious that the 'Kleercut' campaign is being discussed at the highest levels of the Kimberly-Clark corporation. That's a great start, but now it's time to increase the pressure so the company stops discussing and starts acting!

See you in the trenches,

Beka and Lindsey
Greenpeace USA
Forest Campaign

http://www.kleercut.net
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa

Is Diebold the Next Enron? Fraud Rumors Whack Stock

http://conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=46&contentid=2837


Informant: Neo Mulder

West Papua self-determination petition

NOTE: Yes, I know, it's a petition directed at statists, but in this case the UN is apparently acting against its own mandate, so I don't see it as particularly problematic that I as an anarchist should draw their attention to this - even though I also realise that freedom for Papuans will not ultimately come through organisations like the UN, this will at least raise a bit of pressure regarding the current Indonesian occupation.

http://www.petitiononline.com/unreview/

To: United Nations Secretary General

To: Secretary General United Nations UN Plaza New York NY 10017, USA

Appalled by the ongoing suffering of the people of West Papua, we join a growing list of international parliamentarians and non-governmental organizations, and call on you as United Nations Secretary General to initiate a review of the UN's conduct in relation to the "Act of 'Free' Choice" in West Papua, 1968-69.

West Papua has entered its fifth decade of occupation by the Indonesian military.

Crimes against humanity have been and continue to be perpetrated against the West Papuan people. An estimated minimum of 100,000 West Papuans have died since Indonesia took over in 1963. There have been systematic violations of the human rights of West Papuans at the hands of the Indonesian regime, including extra-judicial killings, rape, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, violations of the rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, and denial of free access to NGOs, human rights groups, international observers and the media to freely carry out their work.

In 1969, instead of a proper independence referendum, 1,022 West Papuans were rounded up and forced to declare - unanimously and in public - their "wish" to integrate West Papua into the Republic of Indonesia, then ruled by the brutal dictator Suharto. The population at the time was estimated at some 800,000 people, so a fraction of one percent of the people took part.

The Act has been widely dismissed as a farce, yet no action has been taken to redress the injustice to date.

Former United Nations Under-Secretary General Chakravarthy Narasimhan, who handled the takeover, has since admitted that the process was a "whitewash":

"It was just a whitewash. The mood at the United Nations was to get rid of this problem as quickly as possible. Nobody gave a thought to the fact that there were a million people there who had their fundamental human rights trampled. How could anyone have seriously believed that all voters unanimously decided to join his [Suharto's] regime?. Unanimity like that is unknown in democracies."

The United Nations had certain responsibilities in relation to the Act, as specified in the New York Agreement, an international agreement signed at UN Headquarters by Indonesia and the Netherlands on August 15, 1962. However there is strong evidence that the UN failed to fulfill its obligations under the Agreement. A representative of the UK mission to the UN said in July 1969:

"Our strong impression is that the great majority of United Nations members want to see this question cleared out of the way with the minimum of fuss as soon as possible. the Secretariat, whose influence could be important, appear only too anxious to get shot of the problem as quickly and smoothly as possible."

In the years 1962-69, an estimated 30,000 West Papuans were killed and an atmosphere of fear and intimidation pervaded the country at the time of the Act.

Moreover, in the report of the Act by the then UN Secretary-General's Representative Ortiz Sanz, it was stated that "an act of free choice has taken place. in accordance with Indonesian practice". The New York Agreement referred to "in accordance with international practice". Evidence of what was considered international practice at the time can be found in UN General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) of 1960. This Resolution states that the integration of one territory with another should result from the "freely expressed wishes of the Territory's peoples acting with full knowledge of the change in their status, their wishes having been expressed through informed and democratic processes impartially conducted and based on universal adult suffrage". This crucial discrepancy was not pointed out to the UN General Assembly, which voted to "take note" of the report of the Act.

Detailed substantiating documentation on the case for a review was presented to your office on 26 March 2002.

An outline briefing is available at
http://westpapuaaction.buz.org/unreview and more background detail is provided in "The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969" by Dr. John Saltford.

De-classified US documents released in 2004 and edited by Brad Simpson available at
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB128/index.htm have further underlined the complicity. The US Embassy in Jakarta for example told the US State Department in a cable dated July 2, 1969 that "[private] political views of the UN team are. 95 per cent of the Irianese support the independence movement and that the Act of Free Choice is a mockery".

Former Indonesian Ambassador to Australia Sabam Siagian said in March 2004 that the Act of Free Choice in 1969 was never viewed as a truly democratic exercise.

In December 2004 a British foreign office minister admitted in parliament that the handpicked representatives were coerced into declaring for inclusion in Indonesia.

Given the overwhelming evidence, and appalled by the ongoing suffering of the people of West Papua, we therefore call on you as United Nations Secretary General to initiate a review of the UN's conduct in relation to the "Act of 'Free' Choice" in West Papua, 1968-69.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned


Informant: Andy

Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones

a paper says
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/05phone.html

Exploiting Open Functionality in SMSCapable Cellular Networks

http://smsanalysis.org/smsanalysis.pdf

DoS-Angriff auf Handy-Netze möglich

US-Wissenschaftler erläutern in einer Studie, wie von einigermaßen erfahrenen Angreifern das Handy-Netz einer Stadt oder auch eines ganzen Landes lahmgelegt werden könnte.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21081/1.html

Eased Out of the Big Easy

Jesse Jackson writes that we're learning that when Bush promised to remove the legacy of racism in New Orleans, he meant he'd remove the poor who were victims of that racism.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505P.shtml

Beyond the (In)Security State

The urge to be safe, to keep fear at bay, is certainly natural and understandable. But, Ira Chernus writes, after more than half a century in a state of heightened national insecurity, Americans have largely forgotten the other side of the human coin: The urge to be daring, to take chances that can lead to positive change.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505M.shtml

President Will Reject Requests for Miers Documents

Asked at a news conference whether he would release some or all of her legal work as White House counsel, Mr. Bush said that the principle of executive privilege was important, and that any Senate request for documents would be a distraction from considering Ms. Miers's qualifications.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505J.shtml

Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator

An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee, and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers had sent him in recent days.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505I.shtml

Plamegate Noose Tightens at the White House

Think it's fair to say that the combination Sunday of the Walter Pincus-Jim VandeHei piece in The Washington Post and George Stephanopoulos' bombshell on television's This Week felt like a tug on the noose around the White House's neck?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505Y.shtml

Music To The Military's Ears

Want free iTunes songs? Just sign up to be recruited by the National Guard.

http://tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#6360

MAST PROTESTERS WIN COUNCILLORS' BACKING

BY BEN MURCH

11:00 - 05 October 2005

Councillors have backed residents in their fight to stop a mobile phone mast. A battle has been raging over the scheme to site a mast on top of the Smile convenience store at Wellsway.

More than 100 people packed into St Luke's Church Hall in Wellsway to hear the Bath South Local Committee debate its verdict on Hutchinson 3G's plans.

Support came from opponents of rival company O2's proposals for a mast on Wellsway or at Alexandra Park, who joined forces with those fighting Hutchinson's idea last month.

In an impassioned speech, which was greeted by thunderous applause, Bloomfield Road resident Peter Sellwood said Bear Flat was a special area with a strong community and historic architecture. He told the Bath and North East Somerset Council committee it was not acceptable to allow mobile phone companies to impose masts on it without better consultation.

The majority of residents were not against mobile phones or masts, he said, but demanded a say in where they were put.

He said: "We are under threat from mobile phone operators who seem to be hell-bent on erecting unsightly and, dare I say it, potentially harmful electronic equipment slap bang in the middle of our patch."

Last night's meeting could only make a theoretical decision on the fate of the scheme because the council had taken too long to come to a view, triggering an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate by Hutchinson 3G on the grounds of non-determination.

Now a planning inspector will judge the issue - with the council deciding last night that it would have rejected the scheme.

The council will argue against the proposal at a formal planning inquiry in the future.

The majority of the councillors present supported a call for refusal from Cllr David Bellotti (Lib Dem, Lyncombe), with only Cllr Paul Crossley (Lib Dem, Southdown) abstaining, and councillors Nigel Roberts (Lib Dem, Odd Down) and Leila Wishart (Con, Combe Down) voting against.

Cllr Bellotti argued the mast would be damaging to the conservation area and the city's status as a World Heritage Site, would be an eyesore to hundreds of people as far afield as Oldfield Park, would be too close to people's homes, and could pose a health risk.

He also said that Hutchinson 3G and O2 had not spoken to each other about sharing a single site.

Cllr Marian McNeir (Lib Dem, Lyncombe) added that the stress of repeatedly having to fight off new phone mast applications was making residents ill.

The committee agreed to write urgently to the Planning Inspectorate calling for the appeal to take the form of a formal hearing rather than an exchange of correspondence.

Cllr Bellotti has also called on Mike Dolan, executive director of the Mobile Operators Association (MOA), to intervene in the issue.

He met representatives of the MOA at the Liberal Democrat Party conference two weeks ago where they told him and 100 other delegates of their commitment to openness in drawing up plans, consultation with communities and mast-sharing.

The Government has, on several occasions, cited the MOA's voluntary Ten Commitments as the code of conduct it expects operators to follow.

Cllr Bellotti said Bath's MP Don Foster had agreed to pursue the problem in Parliament if Mr Dolan could not help.

b.murch@bathchron.co.uk

Italy Issues 22 Warrants for CIA Agents Arrests

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505Z.shtml

Lettre ouverte des Médecins Allemands

Madame Michèle FROMENT-VEDRINE, Directrice Générale de l’Agence

Française de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Environnement et du Travail (AFFSET),

Professeur Gilles BRÜCKER, Directeur Général Institut National de Veille Sanitaire (INVS),

Professeur Jacques ROLAND, Président de l'Ordre National des Médecins.

Santé Publique/Cem: Lettre ouverte des Médecins Allemands
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2005-10-05

Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers

distribute this widely and wildly....

Iris Atzmon.

Through MWN http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html

Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-otumor02oct02,0,3048495,print.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

By Nancy McVicar Health Writer

October 2, 2005

Sharesa Price thought it was just another in a series of sinus infections. Her head and eyes hurt, and she was vomiting. But then Price had a seizure, and a brain scan found something far more troubling.

"When I got home, the phone was ringing. It was the doctor's office, and they told me, `Brace yourself. Honey, you have a brain tumor.' I was standing by the refrigerator, and I just collapsed, saying, `no, no, no, it can't be a brain tumor,'" she recalled.

After her diagnosis in 1999 and surgery to remove most of the tumor, Price started looking for answers. She became convinced that exposure to radio-frequency radiation on the job, where she programmed cell phones for new customers, had caused the tumor.

In May, an administrative law judge who handles worker's compensation claims awarded her $30,000 to pay her medical bills and other expenses. Price may be the first person to convince a judge that her illness was caused by radio-frequency radiation. The decision is unlikely to have widespread repercussions for the cell phone industry, however, because the settlement was small.

Price's customers at Advanced Communications Systems in northern California were doctors, firefighters, police departments and security departments for casinos, and she loved her work. She used a cell phone several hours each day, and the room in which she worked contained transmitters that emitted radio-frequency radiation, she said.

Price said when she filed a workers comp claim, her boss fired her, eliminating her health insurance. Then she lost the case. The Native American single mother of two daughters was devastated. She turned to Tribal Health, a government health agency for Native Americans, to get anti-seizure medication.

"If I hadn't been Indian, I would have died," she said.

Her former boss, Dave Bohlen, said that he did not fire Price, that she quit based on her doctor's advice that she not return to work there. Bohlen said he dropped the insurance because she was no longer an employee. He called her worker's comp case "frivolous" and said there was no proof her tumor was caused by working in his small shop.

"There's nothing harmful going on here," he said.

After Price recovered from brain surgery, she went to the Internet and found researchers studying the biological effects of radio-frequency radiation, and got to know them.

"I would call them up and say, `You are absolutely dead on. If a rat could talk, this is what it would say. I'm the human rat.' "

Price couldn't find an attorney to take her case until she contacted Carl Hilliard, a semi-retired lawyer and president of the Wireless Consumers Alliance, a California-based consumer-advocacy group. Hilliard volunteered to represent her pro bono and re-filed her workers comp case.

Hilliard said his group has represented cell phone users in issues involving poor service, billing problems and misrepresentations by cell phone service providers.

"We're the ones who filed a case saying federal law does not pre-empt state law [on consumer issues] and won that case four years ago," Hilliard said.

Hilliard brought in Dr. Nachman Brautbar, an occupational toxicologist and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, to review Price's medical records.

Brautbar has been an expert witness in a number of high-profile cases, including the chromium poisonings from polluted drinking water portrayed in the movie Erin Brockovich.

Brautbar reviewed Price's case and wrote a report supporting her claim that the tumor was caused by exposure to radio-frequency radiation.

"It's not a money issue, suing the company, it's a health and safety issue," said Price, who speaks to school assemblies and classes about the need to use a headset when talking on a cell phone. "We need to explain to people that just like putting on condoms, you have to take this precautionary measure to make the product be as safe as it can be."

Nancy McVicar can be reached at nmcvicar@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4593.

Copyright © 2005, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Uncertainty on long-term cell phone use
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=262

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USA Supreme Court Clears Cell Phone Cancer Suits for Trial
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1360300/

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Cell Phone War

By admin

The truth of cell phones has been buried by the industry, the health officials and governments. Health effects from radiation exposure is being allowed to continue

www.sun-sentinel.com

Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers

By ....

If you use WIFI or WIMAX, be sure to TURN IT OFF when its not in use, why slowly kill your family, pets and neighbours or staff and customers (restaurants, cafe, hotels). not to mention yourself. avoid health risks and plug in. ... Daily Mail - http://www.zeusmail.us/

Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers

By Nancy McVicar

Health Writer October 2 2005

Sharesa Price thought it was just another in a series of sinus infections. Her head and eyes hurt, and she was vomiting. But then Price had a seizure, and a brain scan found something far more troubling…



http://www.zeusmail.us/?p=1608


Informant: Martin Weatherall



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=health+effects
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sharesa+Price

If Oil Was the Question, War Wasn't the Answer

"No blood for oil" was a popular refrain used by anti-war demonstrators in Washington late last month. The Bush administration denies this charge. But if oil was one of his goals, among others, the war has been far from a success. Iraqi oil isn't likely to provide much relief to tight world supplies and high gasoline prices anytime soon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405F.shtml

Post-Katrina Easing of Labor Laws Stirs Debate

At a time when Latino immigrants are expected to form a big part of the Gulf Coast reconstruction labor pool, the Department of Homeland Security has temporarily suspended sanctioning employers who hire workers unable to prove their citizenship, essentially allowing contractors to hire undocumented workers. That move followed President Bush's Sept. 8 decision to lift in Katrina-hit areas the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay at least the average regional wage.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405E.shtml

A Bid for Confirmation, Rather than Convictions

If President Bush's goal is to shift the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction, his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers yesterday signaled a desire to do so as quietly as possible. The nomination appeared designed primarily to avoid a major fight in the Senate and, said skeptics on the left and right, was made out of a position of political weakness, not strength.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405D.shtml

A Crony for the Court

Matthew Rothschild: After coming under withering criticism for cronyism, Bush turns around and appoints a crony to the Supreme Court. Other than being a successful corporate lawyer in Texas - oh, and don't forget, she served one term on the Dallas City Council, Bush boasted - the only qualification that Harriet Miers has is that she's ridden the W wave. Even the National Review online acknowledged her lack of qualifications for the job.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405C.shtml

Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo

An AP photo reveals that Miers briefed Bush on famous Bin Laden memo, but newspapers are handling the AP Photo quite differently.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405A.shtml

Act now to stop Big Oil's post-hurricane land grab

The House is moving new energy bills that would let the oil industry drill in the Arctic Refuge, plunder our coastal waters, and evade pollution controls. The first critical vote will come this Friday!

We need your support to mobilize the public against this onslaught.

Congressional leaders are bent on turning September's hurricanes into a massive windfall of profits and land grabs for the oil industry -- and they are in a frenzy to pass these taxpayer rip-offs into law!

The House of Representatives is moving two new energy bills that would exploit our national tragedy in order to fulfill the fondest dreams of the oil giants: to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . . . to plunder America's coastal waters . . . and to evade pollution controls on their smog-spewing refineries.

Tell your Representative to vote NO on these shameless giveaways to the oil lobby.

And please make a donation right now so that the NRDC Action Fund can run hard-hitting ads, arm the media with the facts, and mobilize maximum public pressure on key members of the House of Representatives. We urgently need your support to stop these disastrous bills.

With massive oil spills still choking Gulf Coast wetlands to death, it is practically obscene that Congress would be rushing to hand over the rest of our coastal inheritance to the oil giants.

Yet the House Resources Committee, chaired by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), is moving a bill that would open our most spectacular and protected marine environments -- off Florida, New England and California -- to a blight of oil platforms and the threat of oil spills. The Pombo Energy Bill would also sacrifice the irreplaceable Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.

Meanwhile, the House Energy Committee is rushing "The Gasoline Act of 2005" (H.R. 3893) to a floor vote. It would excuse oil companies from a key provision of the Clean Air Act, allowing them to dramatically increase air pollution. This bill will be voted on this Friday!

These bills have nothing to do with helping hurricane victims, nor will they lower gas prices. They are a grab bag of pro-polluter policies so extreme, they didn't make it into last summer's Bush-Cheney energy bill.

The oil companies raked in more than $1 trillion last year by fleecing us at the gas pump. Now their cronies in Congress would hand them our greatest natural treasures as well.

Let's stop this travesty now. Tell your Representative to vote NO on these offensive bills.

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/energybill/action.asp?step=2&item=53066

And please make a generous online donation to help the NRDC Action Fund move swiftly to build a nationwide outcry against this onslaught.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
NRDC Action Fund


Informant: Martin Greenhut

21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak

The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent, are....

http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal


From Information Clearing House

The "Ist" Du Jour



An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10520.htm



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

Charges against US soldiers for abuse of Iraqis dismissed at higher rate

Charges against US Army soldiers accused of crimes against Iraqis are dismissed or withdrawn at a higher rate than charges in which the victims are fellow soldiers or civilian military employees.

http://tinyurl.com/8gsqw


From Information Clearing House

Most Americans Upset with Bush’s Iraq Policies

Few adults in the United States are satisfied with the way George W. Bush is dealing with the coalition effort, according to a poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates published in Newsweek. 62 per cent of respondents disapprove of the way their president is handling the situation in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/9usya


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Policymakers Despair Of Iraqi Army

There is now a widespread recognition shared among senior uniformed U.S. military officers and Washington foreign policy analysts that plans to rapidly build up the Iraqi army as a new, independent effective fighting force have failed disastrously.

http://www.spacewar.com/news/iraq-05zzzs.html


From Information Clearing House

More Lies From The Bush Administration

How many Iraqi battalions are fully trained and equipped, capable of operating independently of U.S. forces? Windows Media:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10521.htm

Ret. Army General William Odom: U.S. Should "Cut and Run" From Iraq

“The invasion of Iraq will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.” Odom says“

Real Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10519.htm

Asia’s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq

Blood, Sweat & Tears

By David Phinney

Numerous former American contractors returning home say they were shocked at conditions faced by this mostly invisible, but indispensable army of low-paid workers. Third country nationals frequently sleep in crowded trailers and wait outside in line in 100 degree plus heat to eat “slop.” Many are said to lack adequate medical care and put in hard labor seven days a week, 10 hours or more a day, for little or no overtime pay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10514.htm

We are dying a slow death in here

Behind barbed wire in Guantanamo

"We are dying a slow death in here"

BY Letta Tayler

The cellblocks echoed with groans. Emaciated prisoners were vomiting blood or dropping unconscious to the floor. The military hospital overflowed with strikers being force-fed through their noses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10513.htm

Big tobacco and the states are business partners

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Sam Kazman

Disagreeing over policy is one thing, but not knowing who’s on what side is inexcusable. In a Sept. 27 news story, Colorado Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald claimed that state Treasurer Mark Hillman’s criticism of the 1998 tobacco settlement put him on the side of big tobacco. The Sentinel questioned her logic in its editorial of Sept. 29 but it should have gone on to note that she was dead wrong on the facts. Big tobacco does not oppose the settlement...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04878.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Shocking the two party system

CounterPunch
by Nikolas Kozloff

10/04/05

In recent years, progressive third party efforts have hardly left a dent in the American political system. Recent polling data however suggest that the American electorate is restless and anxiously waiting for a change. The only thing which is missing is the spark and organizational vehicle. If progressives are smart, they might be able to launch a significant challenge to congressional incumbents in the 2006 election. An idealistic pipe dream? Not necessarily. Candidates who hammer the two parties on Iraq while linking this issue to domestic concerns such as disaster relief, health care, social security and energy policy could have the winning formula for 2006. Polling data suggests that the Republicans are dangerously out of step with the issues Americans hold most dear, while the Democrats refuse to capitalize on Bush’s political mistakes. This opens the door for independent candidates to pick up momentum...

http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff10042005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Whistleblower and Harriet Miers

Villasge Vouce
by James Ridgeway

10/04/05

Sooner or later, senators pondering Harriet Miers's qualifications to be a Supreme Court judge will want to inquire into the byzantine dealings of the Texas Lottery Commission in the late 1990s, when she was its chair.

Miers has been portrayed as a tough administrator who cleaned up a scandal-plagued state board .... But that's not the last question stirred by Miers's tenure on the lottery commission. There's room for speculation about whether, even as she worked to clear out corruption, she stifled the claims of a key whistleblower...

http://villagevoice.com/news/0540,webmondo2,68584,6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The dumbing down of the US Army

Slate
by Fred Kaplan

10/04/05

Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army: Recruiters, having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being authorized to pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people. This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty soldiers, but it wound up with just 73,000 -- almost 10 percent short. As a result, the Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up the difference by expanding the pool -- by letting up to 10 percent of new recruits be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor earned a General Equivalency Diploma. More than that, the Los Angeles Times reports today that 4 percent of recruits will be allowed to score as low as in the 16th to 30th percentile -- a grouping known as 'Category IV' -- on the U.S. Armed Forces' mental-aptitude exam...

http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Waltons’ and Wal-Mart’s Charitable Giving Acts as Façade for Conservative Political Agenda & Personal Financial Gain

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1004-05.htm

Peace Group Calls for Open Refusal of Taxes for War

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1004-04.htm

Bolton's Schoolyard-Level Diplomacy

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1004-28.htm

Bolton Agitates Audience

Bittersweet Homecoming at Yale for UN Ambassador John Bolton
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1004-12.htm

Army Moves to Recruit More High School Dropouts

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1004-01.htm

Powerful politicians in Washington are seizing to advance their anti-environmental agenda

As we watch thousands of our neighbors slowly return to take up lives shattered by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, most Americans hear a call to caring and compassion for those who have borne the unbearable.

But a few powerful politicians in Washington are seizing this tragedy as an opportunity to advance their anti-environmental agenda. Already they have moved to gut the Endangered Species Act, ravage the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and sell off our great western public lands, all under the disingenuous pretext of hurricane relief and reconstruction.

None of this will help hurricane victims, nor does it reflect the wishes of the majority of Americans. We don't respond to tough times by selling off our national parks and our last unspoiled forests. In good times and in bad, in war and in peace, Americans have always safeguarded the places that make our country special.

Thank you for all you have done over the past weeks to keep America strong, in spirit and in fact.

Kathy Kilmer Director, Electronic Communications The Wilderness Society

Go Wild

As autumn shortens the long golden days in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, animals are on the move. Tens of thousands of snow geese, their flight formations like bits of intricate lace against the blue sky, have departed. Millions of other birds -- eiders, tundra swans, and other species -- have flown to milder climates. A hundred thousand caribou (or more) have moved farther south, below the Brooks Range or into Canada where the winters are not so harsh.

But some animals call the Arctic Refuge home year-round, evidenced by the chirrup of a snowy-coated ptarmigan, the bark of an arctic fox, or the howl of an arctic wolf. Pregnant polar bears have set up dens. Moose and muskoxen will use mighty hooves to graze beneath the winter snow. Farther south, in the foothills of the Brooks Range, grizzlies begin their hibernation.

And in Washington, shortsighted officials plot, through propaganda and policy, to despoil this unmatched place forever.

Take Action

Your Calls Needed

More than 5,000 citizen activists came to Washington, DC, on September 20 to rally support for protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Together, we literally jammed the halls of Congress with people like you who understand that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is too wild to waste.

Now, it's time to build on the momentum of Arctic Refuge Action Day. Arctic Refuge drilling could come up for a vote any time this month as part of the pending budget reconciliation bill. Please take a moment to phone your Members of Congress. Congress is in recess until Thursday, but you should be able to leave a message. State your name and address (to prove that you are a constituent) then tell your Members of Congress to oppose ANY bill that would hand the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over to oil companies.

You can look up the phone numbers for your Members of Congress here: http://ga1.org/wilderness/leg-lookup/search.tcl

Thank you for your continuing attention to this most important legislative battle! You can read more about Arctic Refuge Action Day at:

http://www.wilderness.org/NewsRoom/Release/20050920.cfm

Court Halts Bush Administration Effort to Limit Public Involvement in National Forest Management

In mid-September, a District Court ruled that the Administration must provide opportunities for public participation in decisions that affect all Forest Service lands. In particular, the court ruling affects certain projects that were classified as "categorical exclusions," a process which the Administration has increasingly used to eliminate environmental analysis and reduce public participation. Read the full story at:

http://www.wilderness.org/NewsRoom/Statement/20050929.cfm

US is ill-prepared for its coming 'existential crisis'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3457/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

US Government Unveils Energy Hog to Promote Conservation

With US heating bills expected to hit record highs this winter, the Bush administration Monday launched a conservation campaign featuring a cartoon mascot "Energy Hog," which critics said does little to discourage energy use.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100405EB.shtml

Hunters Wary of Rockies Drilling

The debate over what energy development is doing to wildlife is raging throughout the Rockies, where some of the nation's richest gas deposits lie under prime wildlife habitat.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100405EA.shtml

Cindy Sheehan Leads Phoenix Peace March, Rally



A week after being arrested in Washington, DC with nearly 400 other protesters who refused to move from the sidewalk in front of the White House, Sheehan was in Phoenix to lead an evening march to Eastlake Park, followed by a rally and prayer service at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Memorial.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405S.shtml



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

Bush Proposes Using Military to Fight Bird Flu

President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405Q.shtml

A FLOOD OF FRAUD

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2005/000215.html


Informant: NHNE

FEMA and Race Discrimination

http://mitglied.lycos.de/newsomega/news/fema_and_race_discrimination.htm

GOVERNORS RESIST SCHOOL MAST PLAN

BY ZENA HAWLEY
Derbyshire Evening Telegraph

09:30 - 04 October 2005

Governors are opposing plans to erect a 20- metre mobile phone mast in the grounds of a Derby secondary school.

At least one governor at da Vinci Community College is threatening to resign over the scheme by O2.

The mobile phone company wants to move its existing mast from the school's roof, which is to be demolished in a rebuilding project, to new tennis courts.

But if the move does not go ahead, O2 could claim hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation because it still has 10 years of a 25-year lease to run.

The lease was drawn up with High View School, the previous school at the site in Breadsall Hilltop, which later became da Vinci.

The school's governing body had been unaware of the application and the fact the deadline for objections had passed until informed by the Evening Telegraph. The deadline has now been extended to October 27.

Hazel Till, deputy chairman of the governing body, said: "At least we can now object. There is absolutely no doubt, we don't want this mast in the school grounds.

"With all the talk of possible health risks from mobile phone masts, how can we allow this move to happen?

"It will be our responsibility if there any problems in the future and I would resign rather than have that burden."

Additionally, another planning application from Orange for another mast to be resited from the school roof is also expected imminently.

Councillor Chris Wynn, city council cabinet member for children's services, said: "We all accept this is a very difficult situation, but the contract was arranged by High View School and the masts have been in place for many years."

In accordance with planning laws, the council does not have to take into account any potential health side-effects.

This is despite the much-publicised Stewart Report in 2000 which recommending masts should not be sited in school grounds without the agreement of the school and parents.

A spokeswoman for O2 said: "These masts are greatly needed in the area and are an essential part of the network in Derby."

All mobile phone operators state their masts operate within national safety guidelines.

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


Several other city schools have phone masts on their roofs, including Derby Moor Community School, Littleover, and Noel-Baker Community School, Alvaston.

The council does not have a specific policy on the placing of mobile phone masts at schools.

Elite Bankers Now Pulling Plug On US Economy & Currency

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92925;show_parent=1

SMU Alumna Harriet Miers - Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92907;show_parent=1

A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92900;show_parent=1

Military-Industral Complex - Dwight D. Eisenhower's great speech

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92890;show_parent=1

Chris Patten - Ex-diplomat lets rip on world leaders

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92884;show_parent=1

Bush nominated Harriet Miers

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92857;show_parent=1

Balangiga massacre

Techniques of imperialism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/balangiga.html

Cronyism and Capitulation: The Scoop on Harriet Miers

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/frank7.html

Crime and Punishment

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20051017&s=anderson


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Killing Everything That Moves

Robert Shetterly on the glorification of killing
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/shetterly5.html

No experience necessary

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/olson4.html

Bush administration is "dysfunctional"

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner152.html

Real Bills, Phony Wealth

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blumen/blumen8.html

How the Antiwar Was Won

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/14574/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

In Midcareer, a Turn to Faith to Fill a Void

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/politicsspecial1/05miers.html


Informant: NHNE
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