http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/07/wus207.xml&s


Informant: NHNE

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7525


Informant: Rita Hill

Recessions begin when consumers suddenly discover they can no longer keep pace with their bills. And this one has already begun.

http://www.alternet.org/story/26406/


From Information Clearing House

How top Bush advisor Karen Hughes earned $450,000 in speaking fees after being named America's imagemaker-in-chief.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1114402,00.html?cnn=yes


From Information Clearing House

Big surprise, and big trouble: Bush's new Supreme Court nominee is a Texas conservative and a fundamentalist Christian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10542.htm

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Jerry Falwell Backing Harriet Miers For Supreme Court

Speaking to a gathering of Baptist ministers at the annual Southwide Baptist Fellowship at Highland Park Baptist Church, he said he stood behind President George W. Bush in supporting his second nominee to the Supreme Court.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_73768.asp


From Information Clearing House

Saving Ohio:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10548.htm

Accused Marine Worked in Vice President's Office. Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10538.htm

Unless we hold our government to account for murderous foreign policy, the innocent will continue to pay the price.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10541.htm

Ex-Marine tells his story about US brutality in Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10547.htm

by Mike Whitney

Every change that has taken place within the government has been designed for one purpose alone; to increase the power of the president. If the congress chooses to overturn the Posse Comitatus Act, they will have removed the last bit of rickety scaffolding that protects the country from becoming a de facto military dictatorship.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10543.htm
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93103;show_parent=1

by Pamela Hess

"I don't know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat anymore," a senior American general recently told United Press International. - "I'm no longer sure I can look (a soldier or a Marine) in the eye and say: 'This is something worth dying for.'"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10539.htm

Alle Dokumente lassen sich im Archiv unserer Homepage
http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de ansehen und downloaden.

Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste Koordinierungsstellen: Michael Maurer, m.m(at)dalichow-online.net (Brandenburg); Ottokar Luhn, info-gotha (at) offenes-buendnis.de (Thüringen); Helmut Woda, Helmut.Woda (at) web.de (Karlsruhe); Detlef Spandau, Detlef.Spandau (at) gmx.net (Ostwestfalen/Lippe); Claudio Coladangelo, teoanacatl (at) web.de (Giessen/Mittelhessen); Rainer Wahls, Rwahls (at) web.de (Berlin); Wolfram Altekrüger, W.Altekrueger(at)gmx.de Vernetzungsbüro: Renate Gaß, R.Gass1 (at) gmx.de (Kassel); Edgar Schu, E.Schu1 (at) gmx.de (Göttingen) Wissenschaftliche Beratung: Peter Grottian, pgrottia (at) zedat.fu-berlin.de

Homepage: http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de
Email: die-soziale-bewegung@web.de

6. Oktober 2005

Hartz IV-Zwangsräumungen mit Menschenmauern des zivilen Ungehorsams verhindern - Sozialproteste verbreitern!

Liebe Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreiter, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

am letzten Samstag, 1. Oktober, fand das 8. bundesweite Treffen des Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste in Kassel statt.

Die wichtigsten Beschlüsse:

1. Wir wollen als Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste folgenden Schritt gehen: Es werden in Folge der Pauschalierung der Mietkosten (das Unwort: Kosten der Unterkunft, KdU verwenden wir ungerne) viele Menschen genötigt werden, aus ihrer angestammten Wohnung auszuziehen und sich irgend eine andere Wohnung suchen zu müssen. Damit dies nicht im Verborgenen bleibt, sollen in den Regionen Not-Telefon-Nummern veröffentlicht werden, damit Hartz IV-Betroffene, die sich dazu entscheiden könnten, trotz Kündigung in ihrer Wohnung bleiben zu wollen, sich bei dieser Nummer melden können und so die Unterstützung durch viele Menschen organisiert werden kann. Wenn der Räumungstermin dann anstehen würde, würden einige Menschen dort stehen und mit einer "Menschenmauer des zivilen Ungehorsams" die Zwangsräumung verhindern. Alle beim Treffen Anwesenden waren sich darin einig, dass dies nur das letzte Mittel nach dem Ausschöpfen sämtlicher Mittel der juristischen und öffentlichkeitswirksamen Unterstützung der Betroffenen sein soll. Dies sei jedoch ein Mittel, das in vielen Fällen dennoch notwendig werden und eine neue öffentliche Diskussion des Themas Pauschalierung der Mieten und Höhe des Regelsatzes befördern könne.

Veröffentlicht Telefonnummern, die als Notnummern für Hartz IV-Zwangsumzüge fungieren sollen, sowohl regional in Internetmedien als auch in Zeitungen, und teilt sie dem Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste zur Veröffentlichung auf der Internetseite mit (Email: die-soziale-bewegung(at)web.de)!

2. Der zweite wichtige Beschluss des Treffens betrifft die angestrebte Verbreiterung des Protestes über das engste Spektrum der Sozialprotest-Initiativen hinaus. Es wurde beschlossen, dass weitere Gruppen, Obdachlose, Rentner, Migranten, Studierende usw. sowohl überregional als auch lokal angesprochen werden sollten. Die Frage, ob auch Umwelt-Organisationen und ähnliche angesprochen werden und zu einem gemeinsamen Protest zusammenfinden könnten, wurde von den Anwesenden unterschiedlich bewertet.

Gemeinsame Forderungen für Projekte mit anderen Gruppen der sozialen Bewegungen sind:

- bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen - Mindestlohn - mindeste Arbeitszeitverkürzung auf 30 Stunden/Woche bei vollem Lohn- und Personalausgleich - Verfügung der Allgemeinheit über die öffentlichen Güter

Ein Thema, das aufgrund der zeitlichen Knappheit auf dem Treffen nicht besprochen wurde, ist die Finanzierung der Infrastruktur und der Arbeit des Aktionsbündnisses. Es geht sowohl um einen gemeinsamen Topf für die teilweise Erstattung von Fahrtkosten zu den Treffen als auch darum, die Infrastruktur und Arbeit des Vernetzungsbüros, die vor allem Edgar Schu in Göttingen kontinuierlich leistet, mit einer Aufwandsentschädigung in Höhe von ca. 150 Euro/Monat zu vergüten, und gegebenenfalls eine Reserve für den Druck von Aufrufen und Plakaten zur Verfügung zu haben. Wir schlagen vor, dass jedes städtische Bündnis nach eigenem Ermessen einen Betrag zwischen 5 und 30 Euro/Monat per Dauerauftrag auf das Konto des Aktionsbündnis überweist.

Die gesamten auf dem Treffen in Kassel diskutierten Punkte und ihre Ergebnisse sind in dem Ergebnisprotokoll im Anhang dieser Email zu finden.

Das nächste bundesweite Treffen wird am 10. Dezember statt finden. Der Ort und die Zeit werden in der nächsten Rundmail bekannt gegeben.

Aufruf: Wir möchten vor allem Leute und Initiativen aus dem süddeutschen Raum auf die Regionaldemo am 29. Oktober in Nürnberg unter dem Motto "Wir wehren uns gemeinsam - Veränderung erfordert Bewegung!" aufmerksam machen. Weitere Informationen auf unserer Homepage.

Mit solidarischen Grüßen Wolfram Altekrüger, Claudio Coladangelo, Renate Gaß, Peter Grottian, Ottokar Luhn, Michael Maurer, Edgar Schu, Detlef Spandau, Rainer Wahls, Helmut Woda


6. Oktober 05 Protokoll

8. bundesweites Treffen des Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste am 1. Oktober 2005 in Kassel

Das Treffen fand im Gewerkschaftshaus in Kassel von 12:30 bis 17:20 Uhr statt.

Protokollant: Helmut Woda mit Unterstützung von Detlef Spandau

Folgende Tagesordnung war mit der Einladung vorgeschlagen worden:

1. Begrüßung und kurze Vorstellungsrunde
2. Welche Bedeutung hat das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl für unsere Aktionen?
3. Für und Wider einer zentralen Demonstration
4. Kurze Berichte von dem Aktionstag 5. September
5. Koordinierung Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe
6. Konkrete Erörterung der Möglichkeiten direkter Aktionen, Thema KdU
7. Aktionskonferenz 19./20. 11. 2005. Vorschlag gemeinsames Projekt
8. Erarbeitung eines Selbstverständnis des ABSP. Auftrag an den Kokreis, Andiskutieren von Eckpunkten.
9. Spenden, Sponsoren usw.
10. 15. Oktober, Bolkestein
11. Aktuelles

Folgende Änderung der Tagesordnung wurde beschlossen:
1. Begrüßung und kurze Vorstellungsrunde
2. Welche Bedeutung hat das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl für unsere Aktionen
3. Möglichkeiten direkter Aktionen, Kosten der Unterkunft, Zwangsräumungen
4. Koordinierung Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe
5. Wie weiter mit dem ABSP
6. Europaweiter Aktionstag 15.10. gegen die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie "Bolkestein"
7. Nächstes bundesweites Treffen des Aktionsbündnisses Sozialproteste


TOP 1: Begrüßung und kurze Vorstellungsrunde Anwesend waren Vertreter/innen aus Aschersleben, Berlin, Bielefeld, Detmold, Dortmund, Giessen, Göttingen, Gotha, Halle, Hanau, Höxter, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Köthen, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Offenburg, Peine und Wittenberg

TOP 2: Welche Bedeutung hat das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl für unsere Aktionen Wir sehen folgendes Wahlergebnis: · Im herrschenden Block entstand ein Patt · Die Agenda der SPD erhielt keine Mehrheit · CDU erhielt auch keine Mehrheit · Das ist die Folge des Wahlerfolges der Linkspartei · Trotzdem jetzt politisches Ziel: Agenda 2010 Plus!

In der Diskussion zeichnete sich ab:

1. Die Linkspartei kann dann für unsere Ziele nützlich sein, wenn wir unseren Bezug zu ihr als produktives Spannungsverhältnis gestalten.

2. Auf der für November geplanten Strategiekonferenz werden wir versuchen, gemeinsame Projekte zwischen Sozialer Bewegung und Gewerkschaften zu benennen und zu beschließen.

3. Wir wollen mehr werden und den Druck auf die Linkspartei aufrechterhalten, damit sie gegenüber den anderen parlamentarischen Kräften ein lebendiges Mandat vorweisen kann und damit sie immer wieder an ihre Ziele erinnert wird.

Gemeinsam haben wir Konsens bei den Forderungen:

· Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen · Gesetzlicher Mindestlohn · 30 Stunden Woche · Verfügung der Allgemeinheit über öffentliche Güter

Als Schlagwort zusammengefasst: unsere Agenda ist die Agenda 3010 = 30 Stundenwoche und Mindestlohn 10 Euro pro Stunde

TOP 3. Möglichkeiten direkter Aktionen, Kosten der Unterkunft, Zwangsräumungen Das Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste - ein Zusammenschluss von ca. 80 Bündnissen zu Montagsdemonstrationen/Sozialprotesten in den Städten - hat auf einer bundesweiten Aktionskonferenz am Samstag, 1.10.05 in Kassel beschlossen, den von Zwangskündigungen betroffenen Hartz IV-Empfängern durch drastische Formen des zivilen Ungehorsams ihre Wohnungen zu sichern. Die Anwesenden verständigten sich darauf, in nächster Zeit in den jeweiligen Städten Notrufnummern für Hartz-Betroffene einzurichten, denen ein unzumutbarer Auszug aus ihren Wohnungen droht. Als letztes Mittel sollen die anstehenden Zwangsumzüge durch eine "Menschenmauer des zivilen Ungehorsams" systematisch verhindert werden. Die Aktivisten der Aktionsbündnisse wollen auf der lokalen Ebene mögliche Bündnispartner - wie Gewerkschaften, Mietervereine, Stadtteilgruppen - für gemeinsame Aktionen gewinnen.

Beschluss: Presseerklärung dazu im Anschluss an das Treffen

TOP 4: Koordinierung Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe Die Recherche z.B. im Internet kann den Betroffenen nicht abgenommen werden. Dazu gibt es u.a. bei
http://www.die-soziale-bewegung.de, http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de, http://www.bag-shi.de viele Links und Tipps. Es gibt jedoch zusätzlich das Angebot von BAG-SHI, in Regionen Seminare für Multiplikator/innen abzuhalten. Ein solches Seminar findet im November in der Region Brandenburg statt.

TOP 5: Wie weiter mit dem ABSP
5.1 Großdemonstration am 5.11. in Berlin:

Der Aufruf ist mangelhaft, so enthält er z.B. keine Forderungen.

Beschluss: das Aktionsbündis Sozialproteste äußert sich nicht zu dieser Demo, stellt aber die Info ins Netz

5.2 Wie weiter Angesichts der zu befürchtenden großkoalitionären Verschärfung zu einer "Agenda 2010 Plus" werden die Aktionsbündnisse zum einen eine Protestverbreiterung mit Obdachlosen, Migranten, Studierenden und Rentnern versuchen, zum anderen auf einer Strategiekonferenz mit den Gewerkschaften potentielle gemeinsame Projekte (z.B. Grundeinkommen, Mindestlohn, Arbeitszeitverkürzung bei vollem Lohn und Personalausgleich, Kündigungsschutz, Rücknahme von Privatisierungen) angehen. Kooperationen mit der Linkspartei sollen ausgelotet werden.

Im Dezember planen wir eine Konferenz der sozialen Bewegungen, um ihre Ziele und gemeinsame Projekte zu besprechen

TOP 6: Europaweiter Aktionstag 15.10. gegen die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie "Bolkestein" Beschluss: Die für den 15. Oktober geplanten Protestaktionen gegen die Bolkestein-Dienstleistungsrichtlinien, die auf eine Schleifung der sozialen Arbeitsrechte hinaus laufen, werden von den Aktionsbündnissen unterstützt.

TOP 7: Nächstes bundesweites Treffen des Aktionsbündnisses Sozialproteste:
10. Dezember 2005

Der Ort und die Zeit wird wie üblich noch bekannt gegeben.

Detlef Spandau (Ostwestfalen-Lippe), Helmut Woda (Karlsruhe), Renate Gaß (Kassel), Edgar Schu (Göttingen), Wolfram Altekrüger (Wittenberg), Claudio Coladangelo (Giessen), Peter Grottian (Wissenschaftliche Beratung)



Pressemitteilung vom 2.10.2005

Hartz IV-Wohnungsräumungen mit Menschenmauern des zivilen Ungehorsams verhindern - Sozialproteste verbreitern!

Das Aktionsbündnis Sozialproteste - ein Zusammenschluss von ca. 80 Bündnissen zu Montagsdemonstrationen/Sozialprotesten in den Städten - hat auf einer bundesweiten Aktionskonferenz am Samstag, 1.10.05 in Kassel beschlossen, den von Zwangskündigungen betroffenen Hartz IV-Empfängern durch drastische Formen des zivilen Ungehorsams ihre Wohnungen zu sichern. Die Anwesenden verständigten sich darauf, in nächster Zeit in den jeweiligen Städten Notrufnummern für Hartz-Betroffene einzurichten, denen ein unzumutbarer Auszug aus ihren Wohnungen droht. Als letztes Mittel sollen die anstehenden Zwangsumzüge durch eine "Menschenmauer des zivilen Ungehorsams" systematisch verhindert werden. Die Aktivisten der Aktionsbündnisse wollen auf der lokalen Ebene mögliche Bündnispartner - wie Gewerkschaften, Mietervereine, Stadtteilgruppen - für gemeinsame Aktionen gewinnen. Angesichts der zu befürchtenden großkoalitionären Verschärfung zu einer "Agenda 2010 Plus" werden die Aktionsbündnisse zum einen eine Protestverbreiterung mit Obdachlosen, Migranten, Studierenden und Rentnern versuchen, zum anderen auf einer Strategiekonferenz mit den Gewerkschaften potentielle gemeinsame Projekte (z.B. Grundeinkommen, Mindestlohn, Arbeitszeitverkürzung bei vollem Lohn und Personalausgleich, Kündigungsschutz, Rücknahme von Privatisierungen) angehen. Kooperationen mit der Linkspartei sollen ausgelotet werden. Die für den 15. Oktober geplanten Protestaktionen gegen die Bolkestein-Dienstleistungsrichtlinien, die auf eine Schleifung der sozialen Arbeitsrechte hinaus laufen, werden von den Aktionsbündnissen unterstützt werden.

Für weitere Informationen stehen wir Ihnen gerne unter folgenden Telefonnummern zur Verfügung: Peter Grottian (0171-8313314) Helmut Woda (0721-816319) Claudio Coladangelo (0641-87780112) Wolfram Altekrüger (03491-88652) Detlef Spandau (0175-2039627) Renate Gass (0151-15390382) Edgar Schu (0179-6729724)

http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/26626


Informant: Mike Neuman


As I've remarked ad nauseam on other sites, I've seen ecological collaps coming for the past 25 years, and have wondered how the interacting near self regulatory systems of the Litho, Bio and Noo spheres, would slowly disintegrated and as each one does, so putting a greater strain on its dependent subsystems, much as the strands of an overloaded rope snap progressively. We are now witnessing the first stages of collapse and it will require a herculean effort of will determination and devotion to the process, to reach some near post apocalyptic ad hoc living arrangement, wherein life does survive. As for practical prophylactic measures I can only think of ones which are unacceptable to the blind luxuriating public, guided by the ignes fatui of outmoded custom and belief..

Mike Neuman wrote:
http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/26626

Earth Headed for Global Warming Catastrophe
by Michael T. Neuman
04 Oct 2005

Summary: A leading worldwide climate research institute in Hamburg, Germany predicted last week that the Earth is heading for a climate catastrophe in the next 100 years, with sea ice in the North Pole region predicted to completely melt in summer and extreme weather events increasing in both frequency and strength.

The study is being followed up this week by the release of a report from the UK's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to the presidency of the European Union, on the impact of climate change on migratory species. The report details and predicts major losses in many of the world's animal populations with continued global warming.

The releases come on the heels of another release issued by National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), a part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, which has reported that summer Arctic sea ice fell far below average for the fourth year, with winter ice seeing sharp declines, and spring melts beginning much earlier that even 10 years ago.

Meanwhile, the U.S. mainstream media and government continue to abdicate their responsibility to appropriately inform and alert Americans to the growing threat of global warming, as well as the need for timely and responsive change to slow global warming through massive reductions in fuel burning and other greenhouse gas releasing sources.

Text: According to the climate prediction calculations of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, over the next century the climate will change more quickly than it ever has in the recent history of the earth.

Researchers from the institute said computer simulation at the German High Performance Computing Center for Climate and Earth System Research has shown that average global temperature would increase rise by 4.1° Celsius (°C) by 2100, or roughly 7 times the global average surface warming rate over the 20th century of 0.6°C.

Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases originating from human activities including fossil fuel burning are changing the radiation budget of the earth. The accumulation of such gases in the atmosphere is predicted to continue rising for the foreseeable future.
http://www.dkrz.de/images/gallery/Emissions_800.jpg?dkrzsid=bc52981cb59a1c7855ffae3f467f506f

As a consequence of the higher buildup of greenhouse "heat-trapping" gases in the atmosphere, the global mean temperature rises. The scientists expect that under certain conditions, sea ice in the arctic will completely melt. In Europe, summers will be drier and warmer, and this will affect agriculture. The winters will become warmer and wetter. Another consequence of the heated atmosphere will be extreme events like heavy precipitation with floods. Sea level could rise on average by as many as 30 centimeters.

Expressing concern at the findings, Klaus Toepfer, who heads of the United Nations Environment Program, said that the study's results underlined the need to address the issue immediately, especially in wake of recent anomalies shown by the weather throughout the world.

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is one of the leading worldwide climate research facilities. The results of the research were presented to media representatives at a press conference held September 29, 2005 in Hamburg.
http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2005/pressRelease200509301/index.html

The National Snow and Ice Date Center (NSIDC) says Arctic temperatures have increased significantly in recent decades. Compared to the past 50 years, average surface air temperatures from January through August, 2005, were 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than average across most of the Arctic Ocean. In Alaska last week, satellite images released by two US universities and the space agency NASA revealed that the amount of sea-ice cover over the polar ice cap has fallen dramatically over the past four years.

http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050928_trends_fig2_3.html

The persistence of near-record low extents leads the group to conclude that Arctic sea ice is likely on an accelerating, long-term decline. http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050928_trends_fig1.html

This summer, the legendary Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic from Europe to Asia was completely open except for a 60-mile swath of scattered ice floes. In earlier centuries, whole expeditions were lost as their crews tried to beat through thick ice and bitter cold. The Northeast Passage, north of the Siberian coast, was completely ice-free from August 15 through September 28.

http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050928_trends_fig6.html

Global sea level is strongly influenced by atmospheric and ocean water temperatures. Aside from precipitation, the melting of large ice sheets over land (Greenland, Antarctic, mountain glaciers) and thermal expansion of sea water are cited as the two main reasons why increasing sea levels are predicted with global warming.

Since the ocean is able to store large amounts of heat, the sea level will continue to rise even after the concentrations of the different greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are not increasing any more.

http://www.dkrz.de/images/gallery/Sealevel_Change_2100_800.jpg

Regional differences in the sea level changes are caused by changes of the ocean circulation and the hydrologic cycle (precipitation minus evaporation). In the high southern latitudes changes of the sea level during the 21st century are comparatively small; in the Arctic Ocean, however, sea level rises more than twice as much relative to the global mean, due to an increasing fresh water influx from rivers and precipitation.

http://www.dkrz.de/dkrz/science/IPCC_AR4/scenarios_AR4_Sealevel

Almost mirroring predictions made by the Union of Concerned Scientists for various regions of the U.S., the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology predicts summers in Europe will be drier and warmer, while winters will become warmer and wetter. It is expected that the sea ice in the North Pole region will completely melt in the summer.

http://www.mpg.de/bilderBerichteDokumente/multimedial/bilderWissenschaft/2005/09/Roeckner0501_engl/Web_Zoom.jpeg

Since 2002, satellite records have also revealed that springtime melting is beginning unusually early in the areas north of Alaska and Siberia. The 2005 melt season arrived even earlier, beating the mean melt onset date by approximately 17 days, this time throughout the Arctic.

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003200/a003267/index.html

The reports show a remarkable consistency with "Earlier in the Year Snowmelt Runoff and Increasing Dewpoints for Rivers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota", by Twin Cities area hydrologist Patrick J. Neuman, who found the date of first annual snowmelt in 3 major river basins in the Northern Great Plains and the headwaters of the Upper Mississippi River System has jumped back 3 weeks, on average, in the last 50 years.

http://www.mnforsustain.org/climate_snowmelt_dewpoints_minnesota_neuman_table_figure1.htm

The trend in sea ice decline, lack of winter recovery, early onset of spring melting, and warmer-than-average temperatures suggest a system that is trapped in a loop of positive feedbacks, in which responses to inputs into the system cause it to shift even further away from normal, claims Roger Barry of the National Snow & Ice Data Center located at the University of Colorado.

One of these positive feedbacks centers on increasingly warm temperatures. Serreze explained that as sea ice declines because of warmer temperatures, the loss of ice is likely to lead to still- further ice losses. Sea ice reflects much of the sun's radiation back into space, whereas dark ice-free ocean absorbs more of the sun's energy. As sea ice melts, Earth's overall albedo, the fraction of energy reflected away from the planet, decreases. The increased absorption of energy further warms the planet.

"Feedbacks in the system are starting to take hold," argues NSIDC Lead Scientist Ted Scambos. Moreover, these feedbacks could change our estimate of the rate of decline of sea ice. "Right now, our projections for the future use a steady linear decline, but when feedbacks are involved the decline is not necessarily steady—it could pick up speed."

http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050928_trendscontinue.html

"Almost everywhere on earth, the forestry industry will have to husband different types of trees than it has until now", says Dr. Erich Roeckner, the project leader of the model calculations in Hamburg.

Of even more significance than the impacts of global warming on forestry will be the impacts on the world's animal populations. A report that's being presented to the UK Presidency of the European Union this week in Aviemore, Scotland by the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs finds that: four out of five migratory birds listed by the UN face problems ranging from lower water tables to increased droughts, spreading deserts and shifting food supplies in their crucial "fuelling stations" as they migrate; one-third of turtle nesting sites in the Caribbean - home to diminishing numbers of green, hawksbill and loggerhead turtles - would be swamped by a sea level rise of 50cm (20ins); shallow waters used by the endangered Mediterranean monk seal, dolphins, dugongs and manatees will slowly disappear; whales, salmon, cod, penguins and kittiwakes are being affected by shifts in distribution and abundance of krill and plankton, which has declined in places to a hundredth or thousandth of former numbers because of warmer sea-surface temperatures; and fewer chiffchaffs, blackbirds, robins and song thrushes are migrating from the UK due to warmer winters while egg- laying is also getting two to three weeks earlier than 30 years ago, showing a change in the birds' biological clocks.

John Keogak, 47, an Inuvialuit from Canada's North-West Territories, hunts polar bears, seals, caribou and musk ox. "The polar bear is part of our culture," he said. "They use the ice as a hunting ground for the seals. If there is no ice there is no way the bears will be able to catch the seals." He said the number of bears was decreasing and feared his children might not be able to hunt them. He said: "There is an earlier break-up of ice, a later freeze-up. Now it's more rapid. Something is happening."

Stranded polar bears are drowning in large numbers as they try to swim hundreds of miles to find increasingly scarce ice floes. Local hunters find their corpses floating on seas once coated in a thick skin of ice.

It is a phenomenon that frightens the native people that live around the Arctic. Many fear their children will never know the polar bear. "The ice is moving further and further north," said Charlie Johnson, 64, an Alaskan Nupiak from Nome, in the state's far west. "In the Bering Sea the ice leaves earlier and earlier. On the north slope, the ice is retreating as far as 300 or 400 miles offshore."

Last year, hunters found half a dozen bears that had drowned about
200 miles north of Barrow, on Alaska's northern coast. "It seems they had tried to swim for shore ... A polar bear might be able to swim 100 miles but not 400."

"Global warming is a reality for the Inuit. They see major changes affecting their lifestyle, with earlier springs, warmer summers and later falls", says Arctic explorer Will Steger. "They used to dry their meat and fish in the summer, but now it gets so warm that the meat rots. There also is the migration of southern species –animals, fish, even insects.

http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/26418/index.php

And now there is evidence that polar bears are facing an unusual competitor - the grizzly bear. As the sub-Arctic tundra and wastelands thaw, the grizzly is moving north, colonizing areas where they were previously unable to survive. Life for Alaska's polar bears is rapidly becoming very precarious.

Already listed as "critically endangered", only about 700 mountain gorillas, including the distinctively marked adult male silverbacks, migrate within the cloud forests of the volcanic Virunga mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. After a century of human persecution it faced extinction. Now its unique but marginal mountain forests - already heavily reduced by forestry - are shrinking, because of climate change. It will be forced to climb higher for cooler climates, but will effectively run out of mountain.

Across Africa, habitats are shifting as temperatures rise, or disappearing in droughts, affecting the migrations of millions of wildebeest, and savannah elephant and Thomson's gazelle.

The number of male green turtles is falling because of rising temperatures, threatening their survival. Turtle nests need a temperature of precisely 28.8C to hatch even numbers of males and females.

The migration of the sperm whale, one of the earth's largest mammals, made famous by Herman Melville's epic Moby-Dick, is closely linked to the squid, its main food source. Squid numbers are affected by warmer water and weather phenomena such as El Niño. Adult male sperm whales up to 20 m long like cold water in the disappearing ice-packs. Warm water cuts sperm whale reproduction because food supplies fall. Around the Galapagos Islands, a fall in births is linked to higher sea surface temperatures. Plankton and krill, key foods for many cetaceans such as the pilot whale, have in some regions declined 100- fold in warmer water.

Europe's most senior ecologists and conservationists are meeting in Aviemore, in the Scottish Highlands, this week for a conference on the impact of climate change on migratory species, an event organized by the British government as part of its presidency of the European Union. Aviemore's major winter employer - skiing - is a victim of warmer winters. Ski slopes in the Cairngorms, which once had snow caps year round on the highest peaks, have recently been closed down when the winter snow failed. The snow bunting, ptarmigan and dotterel - some of Scotland's rarest birds - are also given little chance of survival as their harsh and marginal winter environments disappear.

The report being presented this week in Aviemore reveals this is a pattern being repeated around the world. In the sub-Arctic tundra, caribou are threatened by "multiple climate change impacts". Deeper snow at higher latitudes makes it harder for caribou herds to travel. Faster and more regular "freeze-thaw" cycles make it harder to dig out food under thick crusts of ice-covered snow. Wetter and warmer winters are cutting calving success, and increasing insect attacks and disease.

The same holds true for migratory wading birds such as the red knot and the northern seal. The endangered spoon-billed sandpiper, too, faces extinction, the report says. They are of "key concern". It says that species "cannot shift further north as their climates become warmer. They have nowhere left to go ... We can see, very clearly, that most migratory species are drifting towards the poles."

"The habitats of migratory species most vulnerable to climate change were found to be tundra, cloud forest, sea ice and low-lying coastal areas", the report states. "Increased droughts and lowered water tables, particularly in key areas used as 'staging posts' on migration, were also identified as key threats stemming from climate change."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/article316604.ece

In many areas, it is the increase in extreme weather events that has posed the greatest environmental as well as economic threat. Scientists nationwide have recently compiled evidence suggesting the intensity and frequency of hurricanes are related to global warming. Several studies recently published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences show that there is a significant statistical relationship between the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the past few decades and the overall rising temperature of the ocean.

The decimation Hurricane Katrina has brought to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama has sparked increasing scientific concerns about the threat of global warming to the United States. According to the National Climate Data System, Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years. Katrina's losses, in terms of human lives and social-economic property loss, have yet to be fully tabulated. As of Monday, the death toll in Louisiana alone stood at 964.

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=34319 http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/26152/index.php

Yet many people in the U.S. remain uninformed or misinformed about the threat of global warming and the urgency of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sources in the U.S., which emits fully one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gases from human activity. The American corporation funded media and government at all levels in the U.S. have abdicated their responsibilities to properly inform citizens of the United States of the growing crisis of global warming and the need for swift and magnanimous action to slow it before the grave threats associated with it become reality. Corporate controlled media and government in the U.S. have become overly influenced by lobbyists for the oil, coal and fossil fuel dependent industries who have a vested interest in not slowing down fuel burning. As a result, many Americans have been misled into believing the severity of the global warming problem is less than what the scientific community has been predicting since 1995 when the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its first report that recognizes the problem.


"Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." - Chinese proverb


Informant: Richard Harvey

According to the New York Times, the president's inability to grow beyond his big moment in 2001 is unnerving. But the fact that his handlers continue to encourage him to milk 9/11 is infuriating.

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

Wohn- und Heizkosten: Mieterbund warnt vor mehr "Hartz-IV-Umzügen" durch Milliardenstreit (07.10.05)

Der Deutsche Mieterbund warnt Bundesregierung und Kommunen davor, den Streit um die Wohn- und Heizkosten für Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II) auf deren Rücken auszutragen. "Es wäre sozialpolitisch unverantwortlich, wenn unter dem Diktat der leeren Kassen die Kommunen noch engere und strengere Kriterien bei der Beurteilung der Angemessenheit der Wohn- und Heizkosten anlegen müssten", sagte Mieterbund-Direktor Franz-Georg Rips am Freitag in Berlin. Die Zahl der "Hartz-IV-Umzüge" würde dann drastisch steigen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12005

07.10.05

Am Samstag finden nach Angaben der Tierschutzorganisation Pro Wildlife in 30 Ländern Protestaktionen gegen "das weltweit größte Massaker and Delfinen und Kleinwalen" statt. Die Delfinjagd beginne in Japan erfahrungsgemäß im Oktober. Internationale Proteste sollten die weltweite Aufmerksamkeit auf das alljährliche Blutbad lenken. Bis zu 20.000 Kleinwale und Delfine stürben jährlich in Japan. Die grausamen Aktionen von Fischern würden von der Regierung in Tokio nicht nur geduldet, sondern offiziell genehmigt. Die "Massentötungen" hätten bereits zu alarmierenden Bestandsrückgängen bei verschiedenen Delfinarten geführt, meint Pro Wildlife.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12007

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



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

PETER WALSH
07 October 2005 14:42

Protesters who emerged victorious after preventing the expansion of a city phone mast are gearing up for another battle after a telecommunications company launched an appeal against the city council's decision to refuse its application.

The Evening News reported in March how Norwich City Council's planning applications committee went against officers' advice and turned down the application by O2 to add further antennae to the Mousehold Water Tower in Telegraph Lane East, Thorpe Hamlet.

They said the proposal would create an eyesore in the Thorpe Ridge Conservation Area, but the delight which greeted the decision has turned to anger from campaigners who fear O2 will win its appeal to the Planning Inspector and be given the go-ahead to add to the "thorn of crowns" on the locally listed water tower.

"I'm disappointed that we couldn't have kept them from appealing," said David Shailer, of Montcalm Road.

"But we are fighting against multi-million pound organisations and they don't take things lying down in getting planning consent for these masts, which will generate them money."

Mr Shailer, 52, a truck driver, said he did not know when the appeal would be heard, but that he would put his views forward again in time for it.

"I will take a proactive stance to have my say if I can," he said.

"It's a case of we've won the battle but the war has still got to be fought. We just keep plugging away."

More than 100 parents of children at nearby Thorpe Hamlet Middle School signed a petition against the antennae on the tower, which already has 17 dishes on it.

The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

A spokeswoman for O2 said she hoped the appeal lodged with the city council would be successful.

"We don't want to leave that area without any 3G capacity or without excellent coverage," she said. "It really is a key part of the 3G network. The more people use their mobile phones, the more masts we need."

Dr Ian Gibson, MP for North Norwich, said: "Why are they doing it? I don t think they should bother appealing. There are no complaints about reception in that area."

Are you opposing plans to site a phone mast in your neighbourhood? Call Alasdair McGregor at the Evening News on (01603) 772443 or e-mail al.mcgregor@archant.co.uk

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED07%20Oct%202005%2014%3A42%3A33%3A610

All the white boards I have seen use pulsed microwave technology simliar to DECT cordless phones to communicate between the pupils and teacher's pads and the projector control computer. They fill the classroom with pulsing microwaves. Terrible technology.

Alasdair
(Powerwatch)

"Another possible culprit could be a classroom whiteboard. There is anecdotal evidence that these new gadgets are giving both teachers and pupils headaches, particularly if health and safety guidelines aren't observed and people find themselves staring straight into the projector beam. Check that this is not happening."

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It seem there are white boards and white boards.

Ones which just have a ceiling mounted projector driven from a wired in laptop (or PC) on the teacher's desk seem to be OK.

The problem apparently come with the ones that have interactive input drawing and typing pads that can be passed around to various pupils for them to add drawing, comments, etc, to also be shown on the white board. These always weems to be wLAN connected (maybe some are Bluetooth) using ulsing microwaves to and from the pupil's pads to the main system. It was one of those that I measure a few years ago on the DfES stand at an exhibition.

Alasdair

Hamburger Kommunikationswissenschaftler Johannes Ludwig über den Fall Cicero, die Politik des Bundesinnenministeriums und die Gefahren für die Pressefreiheit.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21092/1.html Der

In seiner Apologie für den globalen Krieg gegen den Terror warnt US-Präsident Bush vor einem totalitären Weltreich des Bösen und dem notwendigen totalen Endsieg im Kampf gegen die Feinde der Menschheit.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21095/1.html

http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Oct05/041005cashless.htm


Informant: Annie

You could cut the disappointment with a knife. "This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades," David Frum, the right-wing activist and former Bush speechwriter, wrote on his blog a few moments after the president dashed conservative hopes by nominating Harriet Miers to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

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

http://www.antiwar.com/paul/paul79.html


Informant: Kev Hall

US-Wissenschaftler haben eine Studie vorgelegt, in der die Möglichkeit beschrieben wird, Mobilfunknetze per Überflutung mit SMS lahmzulegen.

ht / Quelle: teltarif.ch / Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2005 / 11:10 h

Ein solcher Angriff sei vergleichbar mit den von den Computernetzen her bekannten und gefürchteten Denial of Service-Angriffen (DoS), bei dem Server mit Anfragen so massiv bombardiert werden, bis sie in die Knie gehen. Das berichtet die New York Times.

Wenn nur genügend Handy-Nummern in einem bestimmten Zielgebiet bekannt wären, «können sie mit nur 165 Messages pro Sekunde ganz Manhattan lahmlegen», äusserte sich der Informatikprofessor Patrick D. McDaniel gegenüber der New York Times. Prinzipiell seien alle Mobilfunknetze verletzbar und ein einzelner Computer mit Breitbandanschluss würde genügen, ein solchen Angriff auszuführen. «Es scheint mir nicht wahrscheinlich, dass technisch nicht versierte Nutzer einen solchen Angriff ausführen könnten», räumt McDaniel ein. Raffinierten Hackern jedoch traut er einen solchen Angriff jedoch zu.

Experten geben sich gelassen

Sicherheitsexperten amerikanischer Mobilfunkbetreiber halten ein solches Horrorszenario jedoch nicht für realistisch. «Wenn man nicht darauf vorbereitet ist, könnte das passieren.

Aber wenn man darauf eingestellt sind, ist das kein grösseres Problem», sagte Brian Scott vom amerikanischen Netzbetreiber Sprint.

Deutschlands grösster SMS-Gatewaybetreiber Materna hält einen solchen «SMS-DoS-Angriff» ebenfalls nur für eine theoretische Möglichkeit. Materna hält es für extrem schwierig, in die gut gesicherten Systeme der Mobilfunk-Netzbetreiber einzudringen. Bei den SMS-Gatewaybetreibern wären die Sicherheits-Messlatten sehr hoch gesetzt. Gelänge es einem Hacker, sich in das System eines kleineren Betreibers einzuhacken, und von dort aus geballt SMS-Textnachrichten zu versenden, würden die Sicherungsmechanismen der Netzbetreiber ungewöhnlich hohe SMS-Aufkommen automatisch blockieren.

Marcos Molina vom technischen Dienstleister für Billing und Messaging IC3S ist überzeugt, dass ein solcher Angriff in Deutschland einen sehr hohen Grad an Insiderwissen voraussetzen würde. Doch selbst dann würde ein Angriff im schlimmsten Fall nur einen Teil der SMSCenter-Infrastruktur (SMSC) betreffen, das Sprachnetz bliebe weiterhin funktionsfähig. Eine zusätzliche Hürde in Deutschland sei das Entgelt für die Termination von etwa 0,6 Cent pro SMS, die es in dieser Art in Amerika nicht gebe. Zumindest in Deutschland wäre damit ein kostenfreier SMS-Hackerangriff ausgeschlossen.

http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/223468.htm


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

by Bill Moyers, TomPaine.com

We must speak to the millions of evangelicals who share a deep concern about the sustainability of creation.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051007/caring_for_creation.php

by John Sifton, TomPaine.com

America's abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was just the tip of the iceberg, and the accountability process must not stop with Pvt. Lynndie England.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051007/abuse_systematic_and_chronic.php

http://amconmag.com/2005_05_23/article1.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_oh_to_be.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050922.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Im Vorfeld des Münchner Oktoberfestes machten sie Schlagzeilen: Handyblocker, Störsender, die Handyempfang blockieren und in Deutschland nicht erlaubt sind. Auf der "Wiesn" sollten sie installiert werden, damit niemand telefonierenderweise die sanitären Anlagen blockiert. Wir zeigen, was daraus geworden ist, enttarnen, was Handyblocker eigentlich sind und wo Störsender möglicherweise trotz Verbots eingesetzt werden. Im europäischen Ausland, in Frankreich beispielsweise, ist der Einsatz von Handyblockern während kultureller Veranstaltungen durchaus erlaubt.

Alle Informationen zu diesem Thema unter: http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/magazin/84041/index.html

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Grüße

Bernd Schreiner
Landesverband Thüringen
Bürger gegen Elektrosmog
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Danes have gone scared of liability over health damage claims of UMTS3G masts

Danish Government gives away new CDMA licence for free Denmark

Created: 7 Oct 2005

There is a new sport in Danish government: attempting to minimize liability by giving away new telecom licences

The Danish government is apparently wising up to the fact that having sold telecom licenses for billions might cause the health problems surrounding mobile phones and masts to blow up in their faces - so now the government is practically giving away new licenses for free.

Nordisk Mobiltelefon, a newcomer telecom in Denmark, has just recieved a free license to deploy a CDMA-450 network. CDMA-450 technology is similar to the technology behind 3G/UMTS and can offer similar services but it requires fewer basestations as it operates on a far lower radio frequency than 3G/UMTS. Slower radiowaves travel further and CDMA-450 operates on 450MHz, while 3G/UMTS operates around 2000MHz. This allows CDMA-450 basestations to cover larger areas. CDMA-450 is deployed in USA, Brazil, China, South Korea and Japan.

3G operator "3" has expressed heavy frustration in the Danish press that the government is giving away licences to new competitors.

Click here to view the source article.
http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&action=view&type=newsitem&id=334


Agnes

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Gill and friends

The microwave range is the carrier frequency, and the lower (nearer 300MHz bottom of the range) the more penetrative the radiation is. TETRA, for example is around 380MHz. 450MHz isn't available for mobile phones in the UK.

The harm may be in the signal structure as much as the raw microwaves. The carrier is sent with certain patterns. The pulsed frequencies, or control channel frequencies (the markers so the bits don't get lost) are at extremely low frequencies, and these ELFs are what is blamed for the microwaves having the effect they do. We know in medicine, for example, that the pulsing makes the microwave frequencies more potent. (Pulsed EMFs are used for healing bones etc.)

So:

450MHz is the microwave carrier, constant

ELF (100Hz and also 1kHz for 3G; 217 Hz and 4 and 8Hz for GSM; 70 Hz and 17Hz for TETRA) is a pattern in the constant carrier, and is also pretty constant. In 3G the low frequencies get masked the busier the mast gets, and are revealed more when not busy (eg at night)

The American Embassy affair was not a mobile phone signal. It was an example of modulated microwaves, but whilst showing us that microwaves can affect people, I do not believe it is a particularly useful example in the masts argument, when there is so much else we can use that is of more direct comparison.

Andy

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Gill

The trouble is they've seen it all many times over the years. Hewitt asks DoH, DoH asks HPA, HPA concurs with WHO. Problem solved: we're hysterics and there is no problem.

So far there is no proof, because 'proof', as we have discussed before, is in the eye of the beholder. There are only degrees of certainty. If we ran our lives on the same degree of certainty demanded for risk from phones and masts, we wouldn't get out of bed, and would be scared about staying in bed!! What we can demonstrate is clear research showing positive results, indicating a need for particular precaution, on good grounds. What we can act on is the ethics of doubt: can we seriously allow the mass experiment, and what is the potential cost?

What we need is to pressure over such things as criticisms of the Naila study: why not co-operate to improve the analysis? Or the work showing DNA breaks and enzyme interactions: why is the work "faulted" whereas work not showing these things is faultless? We need independent blood studies of several kinds to be funded, not avoided. Because peer reviewed studies show blood effects. etc. The argument is not one of proof, over which all reasonable people will say "gosh yes; I didn't realise", because the motivators are not truth and care.

I'm sure there is much more of this to follow soon...

Andy

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

You could try complaining to the ombudsman…. If you asked to be notified they should have done it .. lets be honest they could hardly forget you so I expect it was accidentally on purpose. I may have the same problem here except I cant find the letter I wrote to ask them to notify me if a particular site came up for re consideration ( the mast went up 2 weeks ago)

Looking at the response.. why were you only given 14 days? If it was received on the date of a meeting and brought up them for discussion and agreement then there WAS NO public consultation….

Id wait for david to comment but isn’t this a potential jr? not based upon health just right to object.. are they within time still David?

Def an ombudsman and a lot of media attention.


Cheers and sorry!

Lisa

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Unfortunately, most of the exchanges appear to have been with the Parish Council which, to be honest, has no real say in the process. The PC is asked merely to submit its view (either an 'objection' or a 'no objection') with the decision to permit or refuse the application entirely in the hands of the Local Planning Authority. With this in mind, and the fact that the PC clearly did not consult parishioners, I find the note congratulating Orange on the location of the mast quite preposterous.

The 14 day notice is a bit of a red herring. The LPA (South Gloucestershire Council) must advertise the proposal via local newspaper and site notice, giving members of the public 21 days in which to submit representations - there is no statutory requirement for the PC to do anything. It was the LPA that the Badminton Road Action Group should have been dealing with. That said, the Lib Dem councillor who voted for the masts displays his ignorance. A subsequent appeal would only cost 'too much' if it were (i) submitted, (ii) taken forward via Public Inquiry (a 10% chance), (iii) 'allowed', and (iv) the Inspector considered, in allowingh the appeal, that the LPA had acted unreasonably in refusing theoriginal application. Not sufficient grounds, I submit, for councillors denying the local electorate their due support.

Against this background, I doubt that there's much that can be done - other than to embarrass the PC, of course. Sorry.

David

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David,

Thanks for this. Incidentally we asked South Gloucestershire Council to notify us of any impending mast planning applications in our area and they said it was the Parish Council's obligation to do this, not theirs. That is why we asked the Parish Council to notify us originally. They agreed to do so and subsequently failed in this small task. I will of course be embarrassing the Parish Council. Indeed I had a letter published in the Bristol Evening Post on Saturday! Makes me feel a bit better anyway.

John

The 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history's most deadly epidemics, has been reconstructed, and found to be a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, two teams of federal and university scientists announced yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100605HB.shtml

Under the Bush administration, the US Environmental Protection Agency is increasingly relying on corporate joint ventures in its research program, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). This trend, say agency scientists, means the EPA is diverting funds from basic public health and environmental research toward applied research to address regulatory concerns of corporate funders.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100605EC.shtml

Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th-hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity, and have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.

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



More Testimony from Rove
http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/003671.html


Informant: Jesse Lee, DCCC

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http://www.democracynow.org

Rove Faces Grand Jury for Fourth Time

Washington is abuzz with speculation today about possible indictments coming down against multiple senior administration officials over the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. On Thursday, the special prosecutor heading the investigation summoned senior Bush advisor Karl Rove to appear before the grand Jury--for a rare 4th appearance. Rove appears before the Grand Jury with no offer of immunity with the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, informing Rove in writing that he could face indictment later. Meanwhile, the LA Times reports: "In Washington, talk of imminent indictments — of Rove alone or with others as part of a conspiracy — was overheard in the corridors of the FBI, Justice Department and White House." The New York Times is reporting that prosecutor Fitzgerald will likely call on several other White House officials to return to the grand jury to testify about their actions in the case. The Grand Jury expires October 28. In addition to Rove, Fitzgerald is also reportedly re-examining grand jury testimony by Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Informant: John Calvert

Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess funds to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.

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

says Study
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1006-04.htm

I just read this today...remember my post from yesterday? Well, I didn't realize that Bird flu was the H5N1 virus. How much more beefed up can they make it? So the martial law thing, etc. is just to scare us into taking the vaccine - so they can make their $10 per shot @ 2mill. doses....Hmmm...that's a lot of money! Here are my words from yesterday....

Wow - good info (on this site). Let's see if they "beef up" getting this H5N1 vaccine for this 2005/06 season. If so, we'll know it's to unload all the extras they have left over from last years production. The CDC just recently issued a contract to produce 2 million doses of a vaccine that would immunize against H5N1, too late for this season. So the public had ought to be searching for alternatives that boost immunity apart from vaccination.

http://www.corsello.com/articles/flu_vaccine_and_avoidable_flu_deaths.htm

Martial Law: It’s for the Birds

October 5th, 2005

It’s like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, the Birds—or maybe a scene left on the cutting room floor. Birds are going to get us—not by attacking us directly, as in the Hitchcock movie, but through the H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), H5N1 is of the “influenza pandemic” sort, that is to say it is different from seasonal outbreaks or “epidemics” of influenza. “Seasonal outbreaks are caused by subtypes of influenza viruses that are already in existence among people, whereas pandemic outbreaks are caused by new subtypes or by subtypes that have never circulated among people or that have not circulated among people for a long time. Past influenza pandemics have led to high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss,” the CDC assures us. In other words, it is the perfect disease for our autocratic rulers, forever angling to get rid of the barriers (the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) preventing them from further militarizing our society.

“I am just suggesting that we better be thinking about [H5N1],” Bush said yesterday. “And we are. And we’re more than thinking about it; we’re trying to put plans in place.” And what exactly are these plans? “The US military might have to quarantine areas of the United States if there was a serious outbreak of the deadly avian flu,” reports the Sydney Morning Herald. “Regional quarantine would raise difficult policy decisions and legal issues, but the possibility had to be discussed.” Naturally, the “possibility” is so great only the military would be able to address it. “It’s one thing to shut down your airplanes, it’s another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu,” said Bush. “To do this, we might have to use the military, which is able to plan and move.” In other words, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 stands in the way of saving American lives.

Bush failed to mention the fact H5N1 is at best a minor threat. “As of July 21, 2005, one hundred and nine cases of human infection have been confirmed resulting in fifty five deaths outside of China,” explains Wikipedia. “Thirteen countries across Asia and Europe have been affected. Additionally more than one hundred and twenty million birds have died from infection or been culled.” In other words, H5N1 is a pandemic among birds, not humans. Maybe Bush should call out the military and have them quarantine sparrows and finches and such, not entire U.S. cities or geographic regions. Even so, Bush tells us “that we better be thinking about” H5N1 and other pathogenic threats because we need to be sensitive to the possibility the military (or military contractors such as Blackwater) will be on our streets, going house to house, confiscating guns and forcibly evacuating people to “evacuee” camps.

Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness, knows something about disaster and government response. “The translation of this is martial law in the United States,” Redlener told CNN. Gene Healy, of the Cato Institute, made mention of “traditional distrust of using standing armies to enforce order at home, a distrust that’s well-justified.”

Bush’s mention of H5N1 is part of a “robust discussion” underway to break down the legal barriers preventing the government from imposing martial law “in certain extreme circumstances.” Last month, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush “wants to make sure that we learn the lessons from Hurricane Katrina,” including the use of the military in “a severe, catastrophic-type event…. The Department of Defense would assume the responsibility for the situation, and come in with an overwhelming amount of resources and assets, to help stabilize the situation,” McClellan said.

As for the “lessons from Hurricane Katrina,” if the situation in New Orleans is any indication, the government will allow a hypothetical (and unlikely) bird flu pandemic to kill off large numbers of people (as it allowed flood waters to kill an as of yet undetermined—or never to be reported—number of people in New Orleans before it responded) and then send in Bush cronies and favored corporations, operating under no-bid and cost-plus contracts, to figure out how to chisel the government out of billions. Imagine M16-toting Blackwater mercenaries in biohazard suits patrolling the streets of your town with shoot-to-kill orders for all of those who violate imposed curfews or are caught “looting” food and water. If Bush gets his way, the 1866 Supreme Court ruling in Ex Parte Milligan limiting martial law will become a quaint historical oddity.

H5N1 is but another excuse to chip away at our constitutional liberties. Bush and crew want to send in the military because they are at war with the American people—or their constitutionally guaranteed liberties, anyway. The Army and Marines are trained to kill people and break things, not engage in mundane every-day law enforcement. Katrina, Rita, and the promised bird flu pandemic are stepping stones in an effort to erect a police state and militarily-imposed dictatorship in this country. After the Posse Comitatus is dismantled, Bush will be able to send the troops wherever he wants and for whatever reason, no matter how fallacious or exaggerated.


Informant: Anna Webb

by Tate Ulsaker

Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky conclusion of a religious cult but rather the result of diligent analysis sourced by hard data and the insiders who study global “Peak Oil” and related geo-political events. If you remember nothing else from this article, remember this: Your self-indulgent coma is the only real slave master. You do have control over your future. About 99% of the people who read this will learn about Peak Oil for the first time. We have our mass media and “public servants” to thank for that. However, you have the power to learn enough in one day to make a difference between life and death to your loved ones. You owe it to yourself to become educated about Peak Oil. Getting started is simple; just do a word-search on “post-oil civilization” or “Peak Oil” for example. Print whatever you understand and educate your family and friends. Do it today. Your life may depend upon it.

http://www.peakoil.net/
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/
http://www.postcarbon.org/
http://www.dieoff.com/ - Highly recommended resource for laymen http://www.asponews.org/
http://www.oilempire.us/peakoil.html
http://www.oilcrisis.com
http://www.energycrisis.org http://www.greatchange.org/dinosaurblood.html http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/#oil http://www.museletter.com/partys-over.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/Peak Oil, Peak Population and Peak Domination

Oil, the blood of our economy is running dry, threatening every nation, industry, product, and job with cataclysmic overhaul. The world has already consumed about half of the total recoverable oil. From here on out, greater populations will continue to demand more of the ever-dwindling and irreplaceable resource, driving living costs higher, placing most of the world into a fight for survival. Most people alive now don’t realize how important oil is in their life. From cheap energy came cheap food and from cheap food came you and I and our self-indulgent lifestyles. Long ago, net consuming governments crafted a “cheap energy policy” in order to bring about economic prosperity, a one-time golden age. During this age we exalted our power as individuals with motors and electronic devices and products from far off lands. When this age is finished, we will return to the family and to nature. We will again work by the sweat of our brow. Unfortunately, before that happens, we should first endure the coming “population correction” unlike anything in the history of mankind. Starting slowly now and increasing with intensity along with the price of oil, billions of people will return to sustenance living, eating and burning whatever they can find.

When people are angry, politicians have one or two choices: lock them up or fight them against an enemy. Politicians will attempt to shift the blame to an energy grid, terrorism, or any other “fightable” source. We can’t fight peak oil but don’t worry, our leaders will find a “victorious” war for us. Just don’t expect to learn the truth from them. No Substitute for Oil Contrary to popular legend, a viable alternative to the portable power of oil hasn’t materialized. Electricity is not efficient; units of storage are too bulky. Solar panels are even more inconvenient and they cost more energy to create than they give during their entire lifetime. Despite pop-science affection, hydrogen and hybrid fuels are too energetically expensive to produce and so will not substitute oil. Coal, natural gas and nuclear energy require the use of rapidly diminishing resources as well, and none of them are a viable alternative to oil anyway. Wind and waves are continuous sources of power but will hardly jumpstart our oil-addicted economy. In short, we are soon to be without cheap fuel for our engines to burn.

At this point, most people immediately cling to the well-worn mantra: “Oh, they will think of something.” But think for a moment whether “they” are public servants at your service or whether you are “their” public slave at their economic slaughterhouse.

The OPEC crossover point in world oil production. Duncan and Youngquist. http://www.dieoff.com/page133.htm The above chart clearly shows why we have a war in Iraq. While terrorism is a clear and present danger, war is being used primarily as a tool to position against a post-hyper-carbon-burning world. Who Are Our Masters? A war is waging between net consumers and net suppliers of oil. Western counties are net consumers of oil. Western countries would like to maintain superior geo-political hegemony against net supplier countries. The chess board is simplified on the top, where all the action is, because leadership is being bought on all sides by International Bankers and Financiers (Globalists, New World Order proponents) who have owned the American political spectrum since at least 1913. They triangulate above this war, and seek to organize a one-world monopoly government. Their deadline for world domination approaches as peak oil threatens to unravel their power base. The best way for a leader of today to stay in power is to form a world government, hoard resources, rule over a fiefdom of dying serfs while living in relative luxury, and blame as many convenient outside causes as is possible. In his article “Neo-Conned” by Dr. Ron Paul, Congressman from Texas, we learn that our current American Presidency has more in common with the Third Reich than with the traditional conservative movement. As a registered Republican, I can affirm with Ron Paul that the Republican Party once stood for small and non-intrusive government and strong constitution-based laws. While having some fundamental differences with the Democratic Party, both parties sought social justice at the heart of their constituency. But what we have with the “Neo-Cons” of the Bush administration, according to Ron Paul (and others) is the worst of both worlds: A big corporate-based government and military machine seeking a police state and a New World Order with America at the helm. Officials within the Bush Administration have written strategic papers on international policy using the term “Pax Americana” meaning US dominance in the world for purposes furthering global government. Not to be ignored, US domestic policy calls for strict laws leaning towards a police state. What better way to solidify the base at home than to throw people who demonstrate against the government into camps as terrorists? Hey, when the starvation riots begin, leadership will have to defend itself, right? But as they prepare of your starvation riots, most of the world is still running on the treadmill of consumerism and self-indulgent lifestyles as lemmings going over a Norwegian Fjord. Bush is not our master, but his masters in the International Financial Cabal are our masters. They rule over all parties, not just Bush or Clinton. Their power to print fiat money insures their worldly position. Also, their power is in a stupid and complacent society of self-indulgent dolts. So wake yourself up and awaken your family and neighbor. Your coma of ignorance is life threatening. The Coming World-Wide Holocaust Today, we have 6 billion people on earth. Without oil, the earth will support 2-3 billion tops, and only if we stop desecrating our environment right now. For as long as oil prices remain artificially cheap, we will continue to multiply until the feared “supply cliff” arrives. When that happens, our materialistic Industrial Civilization will have a head-on crash with the Stone Age on steroids. Avoiding this is hardly possible. The only way to reduce starvation, wars, pestilence and cannibalism at this point is to raise the price of oil right now, forcing change earlier.

http://post-atomic.com/2003/09/civilization-to-end-soon-does-anybody.html
http://www.oilempire.us/peakoil-scenarios.html


Informant: doug haddix

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The Washington Post story headline says it all, "A Deep Dedication to the President." The nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor is a non-starter. It does not even deserve serious consideration. The universal chorus of catcalls and derision from every corner of the media should tell you something. This woman has absolutely no qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice except the one and only thing that George Bush ever cared about, personal loyalty to him and him alone. And everybody knows it. And on that basis it must be rejected out of hand, no hearing required, end of story, PERIOD.

In a Republican controlled Congress that would rubberstamp a ham sandwich if the president sent one down, this one may prove to be just too hard to swallow even for them. Even the conservative pundits are howling about it. So where the hell is the Democratic leadership? Where is it? When they caved on the original filibuster confrontation and agreed to be fitted for a custom one party only straight jacket, Harry Reid was playing cheerleader in the background, as they waved through some of the most objectionable nominees ever put forward as federal judges. And for what, so that we can now be stuck with two stealth lifetime reactionary cronies on the Supreme Court, the second no more than a career Bush groupie, without even an organized opposition? And that is why Harry Reid has GOT TO GO as minority leader.

There should not have even BEEN a hearing on Roberts. The Democrats should have put their feet down and demanded the documents necessary to properly examine the nominee as a PRECONDITION of the examination itself. They should have filibustered until they got them. And now you see the fruits of their insane cowardice, yet another nominee for whom the administration will stonewall a mile high, to conceal from the American public what they really stand for until it is too late. We've heard this broken record over and over too many times. Roberts has established the "take the fifth on the issues" model already. All they're going to do it roll it out again.

We must raise an outcry like none ever heard before. To even consider a hearing on this nominee is ITSELF a losing move. THERE MUST BE NO HEARING ON THIS NOMINEE. There must be a boycott of any proceedings on this, cold and flat. Even if there were a fine line between appearing to be reasonable and actually being chumps, the Democrats sailed past that one a couple nominees ago. Their foolhardy, passive acquiescence in every respect has their own base in utter despair, and the other side can't stop snickering. And the first step back in turning this thing around must be the removal of Harry Reid from the position of minority leader.

There can be no doubt that the captain of the Titanic thought they knew what they were doing. And Neville Chamberlain surely believed that he could rely on the personal assurances of Adolph Hitler and was just "picking his battles." We have seen nothing in the last year from the minority leader except cave-in after cave-in on issue after issue. Even in rejecting Bolton for stonewalling of documents (and God forbid they should have rejected Roberts on those SAME grounds) he practically prostrated himself on the Senate floor apologizing for taking a stand and promising to cave again at the next opportunity. Let him remain a Nevada senator as long as he votes the right way himself, but as a leader Harry Reid is nothing but an embarrassment and deserves a vote of no confidence from the people themselves.

This is potentially the third and final strike on separation of powers and our whole form of government, including all checks and balances. You must speak out now or we can kiss all of our hard won rights goodbye forever . . . privacy, minority and women's rights, labor standards, environmental protection, limitations on corporate and government power . . . kiss it all goodbye, all of it. They don't need another legal genius on the Supreme Court. They now already have the biggest, baddest precedent twister of them all in position number one in the person of Roberts. The key sparkplug is in place. But they need one more partisan vote to seal the domination of their crony elite and to doom the rest of us all.

You remember when Roberts in his hearing was talking about how he was the moot court master, who could take either side of an argument and make it sound reasonable. Get ready to deal with some of the most specious, snaky opinions that have even left the desk of a Supreme Court justice. And the problem is, with one more vote now there will be nobody left to stop him. Expect Miers to be nothing more than a sycophant, a "me too" judge. Just like Thomas, who never has an intelligent question to ask, and probably has never had an original thought not cribbed to him by Scalia or Rehnquist, expect a justice Miers to have Roberts basically coaching and ghostwriting all her opinions for her in the background. That's what this represents.

They told you we were "picking our battles." They told you we were "saving our ammunition." It was a sham, all of it. The hearing on Roberts was a sham. You don't go to trial without your evidence. You don't need a Supreme Court judge to tell you that. Did any of the senators questioning Roberts ever set foot inside a law school? What you saw was some TOKEN opposition for show and then 20 some odd Democratic traitors rolling over like collies in heat. It all turned into some parody of the Family Feud, with all the senators chiming in, "Good non answer!" And they are already prepping us for more of the same charade. There was never going to be an actual fight ever. Harry Reid has had only one plan since day one and that has been, and will always be, total, abject and cowardly surrender.

Perhaps the biggest honking lie of all is that secrecy is somehow an important part of Bush's good decision making process. When has Bush ever made a good decision as president even one time? From the original willful ignorance of the terrorist threat which made the 9/11 attacks such a cake walk, through the mishandling of the Afghan dragnet around Bin Laden, through the illegal invasion and occupation of the non-player Iraq which has destroyed the stability of the whole oil market, through the wrecking of our budget to finance tax cuts for the most wealthy, to the criminal incompetence first in cutting levee repair appropriations and then in getting relief to the victims of Katrina, this administration has an immaculate record of NEVER coming up with the right answer.

Bush hasn't spent one second of his presidency thinking about what is good for the American people. He has missed no opportunity to harm our country and the interests of its people in favor of a handful of crony corporations who engineered his election campaigns, including the theft and corruption of votes in multiple states, once already affirmed by a baldly partisan Supreme Court decision. And his only criteria in selecting new justices for the Supreme court are installing cronies who will save his personal skin when the day of reckoning comes for his own malfeasance, and to extend his corruption into the middle of this century.

We have time to get this one right. What we must do is what we SHOULD have been doing all along, build a national consensus that ANY new Supreme Court nominee must be a true MODERATE, representing ALL the American people, not just some wacko corporatist fringe. When you hear the words "strict constructionist" they do mean strict all right, but the strict they are talking about is adherence to a strict agenda, with a predetermined result regardless of facts or the precedents they will dispose of along the way. And anybody who is not prepared to start fighting now and keep on fighting, and filibustering, until the American people get the result they deserve, has got to go.

Bush's introduction of Harriet Miers reminded us of the person whose job it is to make everything on the menu sound delicious, even if the waitress herself wouldn't eat it. But Harry Reid couldn't wait to stuff this one in his mouth, along with his own foot. He has been a disaster as minority leader, almost as bad for this country as Bush himself, turning the opposition into a dog with no teeth and hardly even a bark. He has led us to nothing but defeat as the popularity ratings of not just the president, but BOTH parties, continue to plummet. And just like Bush, he must be replaced with new leadership that will fight for what we the people want.

Tell your senators NO HEARING on the crony Miers. Tell them Harry Reid has got to go as minority leader. If they hear it from enough of you, they must listen. If there is a senator out there who's got the stuff to really step up to the plate they can be the next president of the United States. Otherwise, there will be no tomorrow.

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Informant: JHW369

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades. Addressing US military personnel, he said that the only way terrorists would win was if the US lost its nerve and abandoned Iraq and the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10537.htm


Informant: JHW369

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon that milk from cloned animals and meat from their offspring are safe to eat, raising the question of whether Americans are ready to welcome one of modern biology's most controversial achievements to the dinner table.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100605HA.shtml


Informant: JHW369

http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=05/10/06/1316240


Informant: mr_tjsmith

From ufpj-news

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/flu-o07_prn.shtml

Bush and friends have recently discovered how natural disasters, as opposed to intentional traditional extrinsic war can mimic the social disorder which is product of their class war policies. They need the population scared to rally behind them, their plastic flag, and martial solutions. Peter Camejo, Ralph Nader, and the non-corporate supported progressives are concerned but propose civil policy, more democracy, and less censorship as ways to prevent, minimize, and solve problems.

-hd

Feldspione decken Fehler der Landwirte auf
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/wirtschaft_und_boerse/wirtschaft/?cnt=737157


Nachricht von Marianne Kirst

07. Oktober 2005

Zur Aufstockung der NATO-Truppen in Afghanistan erklärt MdB Wolfgang Gehrcke, außenpolitischer Sprecher des Parteivorstandes:

Wahrheiten, die scheibchenweise zugeteilt werden, sind Unwahrheiten. Den Abgeordneten des 15. Deutschen Bundestages, die Ende September noch einmal zusammengerufen wurden, um den Umfang der deutschen Truppen in Afghanistan sowie deren Einsatzgebiete auszuweiten, sind wichtige Informationen vorenthalten worden. Ihre Entscheidung beruht auf einer Lüge. Der Generalsekretär der NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, spricht nach der deutschen Entscheidung davon, dass der Gesamtumfang der NATO-Truppen im Rahmen des ISAF-Einsatzes um 6.000 auf bis zu 15.000 Soldaten erweitert werden soll. Mit der deutschen Entscheidung sollen Großbritannien, die Niederlande und Kanada unter Druck gesetzt werden, ihrerseits mehr Soldaten zu entsenden. Erst jetzt wird die hauptsächliche Begründung, nämlich die USA in Afghanistan militärisch zu entlasten, genannt. Warum erhielten die Abgeordneten diese Information nicht vor ihrer Entscheidung? Die Vereinigung von Kampftruppen ("enduring freedom") und der Schutztruppe (ISAF) ist längst nicht vom Tisch. Der NATO-Generalsekretär besteht auf einem gemeinsamen Oberkommando. Damit läge eine völkerrechtlich inakzeptable Verknüpfung unterschiedlicher Mandate vor. Diese Pläne verändern auch die völkerrechtliche Grundlage der Bundestagsentscheidung. Auch die aus dem Verteidigungsministerium lancierte Meldung, dass sich die deutschen KSK-Truppen nicht mehr in Afghanistan aufhalten, ist ein Bluff. In den militärischen Richtlinien zum KSK-Einsatz wird ausdrücklich eine "rein-und-raus"-Strategie beschrieben. Entscheidend ist nicht, ob sich die deutschen KSK-Truppen derzeit in Afghanistan aufhalten, sondern dass sie das Mandat haben, sich dort aufhalten zu können. Die Fraktion "Die Linke." fordert vom Deutschen Bundestag, dass im November dieses Jahres auf keinen Fall das Mandat für Kampfeinsätze im Rahmen von "enduring freedom" verlängert werden darf. Darüber hinaus macht der Umstand, dass den Abgeordneten wichtige Informationen vorenthalten wurden, eine erneute Debatte über den Bundeswehreinsatz in Afghanistan nötig. Die Fraktion "Die Linke" wird sich dafür einsetzen. "Die Linke" verteidigt das Recht der Bundestagsabgeordneten und der Öffentlichkeit auf vollständige und wahrheitsgemäße Information und sieht sich in ihrer ablehnenden Haltung zum Afghanistan-Einsatz bestätigt.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=30370

Even Colin "Cover up the Mai Lai Massacre" Powell, and Hillary "80,000 more US troops" Clinton stood against Bush and supporters on this one.

-hd

Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy

By Patrick Martin

7 October 2005

In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military. Responding to the passage of an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill—approved by an overwhelming 90-9 vote Wednesday, the White House said the proposal would “restrict the president’s authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice.”

The statement indicated that Bush would veto the entire appropriation, providing $440 billion to fund military operations for the next fiscal year, rather than accept the restrictions on interrogation techniques spelled out in the Senate amendment.

The 90-9 vote came on an amendment sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Republican and former prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain, a fervent supporter of the war in Iraq, has opposed the use of torture in military facilities like Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, because it damages US foreign policy interests and could become the pretext for subjecting captured American military personnel to the same techniques in retaliation.

McCain’s amendment had the backing of two dozen former generals and admirals, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and former Secretary of State and JCS chairman Colin Powell. Forty-six Republicans, 43 Democrats and one independent voted for the amendment, which was opposed by only nine Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist voted with McCain and against the White House position.

Frist delayed the introduction of the anti-torture language earlier this summer, maintaining that Congress should not put restrictions on the measures which the administration felt were necessary to fight the “war on terror.” But the events of the past three months, both in the increasingly bloody stalemate in Iraq and the feeble response of the federal government to the Gulf hurricane crisis, have weakened the Bush administration.

The amendment itself is extremely limited in its scope. It simply prohibits “cruel, inhuman or degrading” treatment of those in the custody of the military and requires that questioning of prisoners detained by the military follow the existing U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation. No such restrictions would apply to those held by US intelligence agencies, such as the prisoners in the CIA-run detention centers at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and at undisclosed locations elsewhere in the world. Those captives can still be tortured at will.

During the final debate on the amendment, McCain read out a letter from former secretary of state Powell endorsing the measure, which Powell said would address “the terrible public diplomacy crisis created by Abu Ghraib.” It was the first time since his departure from office in January that Powell has publicly opposed the foreign policy of the Bush administration—a measure of the impact of the Iraqi debacle on the US foreign policy and military establishment.

At a press briefing Wednesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan confirmed that Bush would veto the entire appropriation bill rather than have his power to order torture restricted. McClellan made absurdly contradictory claims, declaring the amendment “unnecessary and duplicative” in view of current administration policy, which supposedly bans torture, and at the same time saying “it would limit the President’s ability as commander-in-chief to effectively carry out the war on terrorism.”

The McCain amendment originates in an effort by senators with close ties to the Pentagon brass—McCain, in addition to being a celebrated POW, is the son of an admiral—to get the military off the hook for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. In the course of the final debate, McCain cited complaints by top military officers over conflicting signals from the White House about what was permissible in the treatment of prisoners. “Confusion about the rules results in abuses in the field,” he said.

This was a veiled reference to the infamous memos authored by the Bush Justice Department and the White House Legal Counsel’s office—then headed by the current attorney general Alberto Gonzales—that claimed presidential authority to ignore the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention Against Torture, based on Bush’s constitutional powers as commander-in-chief.

Senators supporting the amendment cited the colossal impact of the Abu Ghraib revelations on world public opinion. Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said, “The best thing we can do is give the guidance [the troops] need to make sure we can win the war on terror and never lose the moral high ground.”

One factor in the top-heavy Senate vote was the recent testimony by a former Army captain, Ian Fishback of the 82nd Airborne Division, about systematic beating and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in early 2004, near Fallujah, a center of resistance to the US occupation. Fishback and two former sergeants in his unit have come forward, confirming that Abu Ghraib was not an exception, but rather typical of the treatment meted out to hundreds and thousands of prisoners across the country.

Also contributing is the steady stream of revelations about torture at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. Last month the US press carried reports on widespread hunger strikes among the prisoners at Guantánamo, with as many as 200 prisoners refusing food for as long as 45 days. At least 18 prisoners were hospitalized and several force-fed. The prisoners were protesting the conditions under which they are held, particularly the savage beatings by a notorious squad of military thugs known as IRF. They have also demanded the right to challenge their incarceration before an independent panel, as provided for under the Geneva Conventions, rather than appearing before the rigged military tribunals set up by the Bush administration.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/tort-o07_prn.shtml

http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html

Watch this. Then watch it again. Then send it to everyone you know. PLEASE!

seamusgib

Tom
http://www.ThomasBSawyer.com

PS: And while you're at it, think about 58,000*

*Vietnam

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93007;show_parent=1

Dead Scientists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/592793/

Western Daily Press

09:50 - 05 October 2005

Furious residents watched in horror yesterday as a mobile phone mast was erected behind their homes. Taunton Deane Borough Council said it did not give permission for the 50ft O 2mast to be built, but the company insists it did not receive any notice of refusal.

Yesterday, locals had no choice but to stand and watch as the tower went up.

Oct 6 2005
ic South London

By Julia Lewis, The Post

A MOBILE phone company has given campaigners two weeks to find an alternative site for a controversial antenna.

Residents and councillors in Wimbledon Park are against Vodafone's plan to position a mast on the corner of Revelstoke Road and Durnsford Road, just on the Merton side of the boundary with Wandsworth.

They are backed by Wimbledon MP Stephen Hammond and Putney MP Justine Greening.

The 13.4m high mast would be 200m away from Wimbledon Park Primary School and two nursery schools, and campaigners fear it might have a detrimental effect on children's health.

Merton council has already given Vodaphone the go-ahead for the mast, but campaigners were disappointed the application did not go before the full planning committee.

On Wednesday last week, they Vodaphone spokesman Dr Rob Matthews to discuss their objections and consider where else the 3G mast could be sited.

Dr Matthews has now given them until October 14 to find another location.

He said: "We have already made an expensive search of the area and considered a range of options.

"We will now consider alternatives suggested by the community."

Ward councillor Beth Mitchell said: "It is up to us to come up with an alternative site, which is going to be fairly difficult, but we are going to try to do it."

Kidderminster Shuttle

PLANS to erect a mobile phone mast on a grass verge on green belt land in Kidderminster have been thrown out for good.

The Government's planning inspectorate rejected the bid, by mobile giant, Vodafone, for a 10-metre pole to be sited in Wolverley Road, Franche.

District councillor, Anne Hingley, said it was a victory for local people, who had mounted a vociferous campaign against the application.

"I think that it just goes to show that people power possibly helped because there was a very strong campaign against the proposals," she said.

"It is an example of people not being phased by a big company when they have a legitimate reason to campaign within the limited guidelines."

Hundreds of people objected to the plan when it was first mooted a year ago and the district council rejected the planning application last December but Vodafone decided to appeal.

County councillor, Nigel Knowles, said the mast would have been situated on a dangerous bend and, as such, would have been a hazard to motorists as well as spoiling the landscape.

"Most people have a mobile phone but system delivery needs to be acceptable to us all as users, as well as to the planners," he added.

Somerset County Gazette

WELLINGTON Town Council has backed concerns by residents to site a 50ft mobile phone mast off Exeter Road, Rockwell Green.

The move coincides with concerns by Taunton Deane Council planning officers over the proposed location of the mast by O2, who say they want to protect the approaches to Wellington and consider the proposal would be detrimental to the area.

The council can only refuse the mast on issues of its impact to the landscape.

Western Gazette

15:00 - 06 October 2005

Dozens of parents and residents attended a town council meeting this week in their fight to topple a mobile telephone mast plan. Vodafone's plan to erect a mast at Arrow Fires, North Mills Trading Estate, Bridport, has caused a storm among locals because of its proximity to a school and Scout hut used by a nursery group.

About 50 residents attended Monday night's meeting of the town council and urged members to support their concerns.

Caroline Edwards of Victoria Grove, who is the co-ordinator of Clean Airwaves for Bridport's Local Environment, said: "It is within 250 metres of St Catherine's Primary School and almost below the site is a Scout hut, which is used in the day by a nursery group.

"Also, the surrounding area is a designated play area. There is a lot of concern. We have at least 87 letters from worried people, which we will be sending to the district council along with a petition with well over 400 signatures."

Paula English said: "The district council has a duty to protect children and the vulnerable. There is a gap in our knowledge about these masts, which justifies caution.

"I have a three-year-old son at St Catherine's Pre-School and I very much want to send him to St Catherine's but, if this mast was erected, I would have to think very carefully about that."

Resident and science teacher Helen O'Hara said: "The studies into the radiation from masts that say there is no effect are referring to thermal effects but they do not explore non- thermal effects. Respected research from bodies, such as universities and other European governments, highlights a worrying list of effects."

Councillors were unanimous in their support of the protesters and urged them to repeat the pleas at the next planning meeting of West Dorset District Council development control committee, which has the final say.

Under planning laws, health risks are not a consideration, although the town councillors said they felt the protesters still had a strong argument.

District and town councillor Martin Ray said: "The issue of health is such a real concern and times are changing. In a recent case in Charmouth, planning officials only gave a year's planning permission to a similarly controversial mast."

Telephone base stations, such as the one proposed for Bridport emit Radio Frequency radiation. Determining the relative safety of this radiation has been a difficult process, due to the long-term nature of any study.

Vodafone spokesman Jane Frapwell said: "All the emissions from the base station fall well below UK guidelines but, if people want mobile phones, we have to site them near to homes."

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 recent Stewart Report commissioned by the Government said: "The balance of evidence to date suggests that exposure to RF radiation below national guidelines does not cause adverse health effects to the general population."

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

However, a cautionary approach was recommended when siting near to schools.

CounterPunch
by M. Junaid Alam

10/06/05

A Pakistani-American who served four years in the United States Air Force as munitions personnel was beaten and brutalized by right-wing students and campus police for staging a peaceful protest at a military recruitment table last Thursday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia...

http://www.counterpunch.org/alam10062005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by N. Joseph Potts

10/06/05

President Bush tells us to drive less and limit trips to only the essentials, while the EPA's EnergyStar program is urging us all to 'change a lightbulb' in our homes, from a regular one to a government-approved one, which they claim will save hundreds of millions. You are also supposed to take a pledge: 'I pledge to do my part to save energy and help protect our environment by changing a light in my home to an ENERGY STAR qualified one'--then the government will send you a free 'zipper pull.' We can see where this is headed: back to the days of relentless brow-beating, intimidation, regulation, and calls for national sacrifice -- possibly even regimentation and control—all in the name of saving energy...

http://www.mises.org/story/1931


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Conservative
by James P. Pinkerton

Review of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: "After Hiroshima, the conclusion of American strategists was that military history didn't matter much anymore. The atomic bomb seemed to have changed war so drastically that now, more than ever, fighting was too important to be left to generals. Out of that new belief came Robert McNamara's 'Whiz Kids,' the systems-analyzing technocrats who gave us the Vietnam War. Decades later, that same generalized feeling -- that in the face of the new, history was bunk and anything was possible -- gave rise to George W. Bush's neoconservatives, the WMD-mongering apparatchiks who launched the Iraq War. But before the prominence of either of these groups there was Herman Kahn, the subject of this new book by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi... (for publication 10/10/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_10/review.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Al Gore

10/06/05

I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse. I know that I am not the only one who feels that something has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America's fabled 'marketplace of ideas' now functions. How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered 'an alternate universe?'

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/26494/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by Bruce Reed

10/06/05

If you asked my fellow Democrats in Washington to name the three best things that have happened to their party in the past month, most would say: 1) Tom DeLay's indictment; 2) the conservative crackup over Harriet Miers; and 3) yesterday's indictment of ex-White House aide and Abramoff pal David Safavian, coupled with swirling rumors that much bigger fish will soon be indicted in the Plame case. Wrong answers! All three highlights from the Republicans' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week were great fun for my side to watch, but they merely give Democrats an opening. We can't indict our way back to the majority. The jury we have to convince is the American people. The best Democratic news this past week is that three of the party's rising stars showed that they are tired of a strategy that depends on the other side falling to pieces...

http://www.slate.com/id/2127371/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

from Reason to Freedom
by staff

10/07/05

The good news, if you can call it that, is that as of July 2005 some states [at least Connecticut and Louisiana so far. -Ed.] have passed legislation giving their returning National Guard members the right to get screening tests for depleted uranium exposure. There are also existing military regulations that authorize tests for troops who suspect depleted uranium exposure. Unfortunately the military is [seemingly] doing its best to not perform the tests or delaying them until after they won't be useful. The normally used urine tests must be done within 30 days of the last exposure for DU to be detectable. After 30 days the DU has migrated out of the blood stream into the bones and other organs...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/Depleted_Uranium.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cato Institute
by Doug Bandow

10/07/05

The House Republican leadership must go. Even if that means the GOP loses control of Congress. Democrats spent decades practicing the policy of spending lavishly to win elections. Republicans refined the practice in just a few years. More fundamentally, it took the Democrats four decades to fully succumb to the temptations of power, ruthlessly abusing their control of Capitol Hill. After only one decade the Republicans are proving to be even worse...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5113


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

WSTM News

10/06/05

President Bush's push to extend the Patriot Act is drawing fire from a sector that's normally on his side, powerful business groups. The law approved shortly after Nine-Eleven gives the government broad power to gather virtually any information it says it needs in investigating terrorism. Six business groups, including the U-S Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, are urging Congress to limit that power. They fear the government could get hold of industry secrets and spy on their customers and employees...

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3945351&nav=2aKD


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

10/06/05

George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: 'President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did.'' Mr Bush went on: 'And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And, by God, I'm gonna do it...'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1586978,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Forum Mobilkommunikation sieht keinen Tumor-Zusammenhang - Wiener Ärztekammer: "Erhöhtes gesundheitliches Risiko"

Forum Mobilkommunikation und Wiener Ärztekammer interpretieren die Interphone-Studie unterschiedlich, was den Zusammenhang von Handy-Nutzung und Tumorrisiko betrifft.

Wien - Die groß angelegte Interphone-Studie, die in Skandinavien und Großbritannien durchgeführt wird, untersucht unter anderem, ob es einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Nutzung von Mobiltelefonen und gutartigen Tumoren am Hörnerv gibt. Ihre Teilergebnisse werden unterschiedlich interpretiert. Das Forum Mobilkommunikation sah sich am Donnerstag in einer Aussendung von der Studie bestätigt, es gebe keinen Zusammenhang zu so genannten Akustikneurinomen: "Die Resultate bestätigen bisherige Ergebnisse". Die Wiener Ärztekammer zog gegenteilige Schlüsse und sieht ihre Befürchtungen bestätigt.

Das Forum Mobilkommunikation: Das Risiko erhöht sich demnach auch nicht mit zunehmender Nutzungsdauer oder Intensität. Das gilt sowohl für die Nutzung analoger als auch digitaler Handys.

Widerspruch

Die Wiener Ärztekammer widersprach den Schlüssen des Forum Mobilkommunikation. "Die Interphone-Studie bestätigt jene Befürchtungen, die wir bereits im August dieses Jahres geäußert haben und die damals von der Mobilfunkindustrie erbost zurückgewiesen wurden", so Umweltmedizinreferent Erik Huber.

Das Risiko, an einem Hörnerv-Tumor auf der Seite des Kopfes zu erkranken, an dem die in der Interphone-Studie untersuchten Personen das Telefon bevorzugt gehalten haben, war bei Nutzung des Handys von zehn und mehr Jahren um das 1,8-fache erhöht. Mit dieser Studie werde bewiesen, "dass es ein erhöhtes gesundheitliches Risiko nach zehn Jahren Handytelefonieren gibt".

In Zusammenhang mit mobiler Telefonie gelten Akustikneurinome als wichtiger Indikator, da der Hörnerv beim Telefonieren im Allgemeinen nahe dem Mobiltelefon nahe ist. (APA)

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

Omega siehe dazu „Akustikneurinom: Zusammenhang von Handy-Nutzung und Tumorrisiko“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1037601/

HLV INFO 155/AT (Auszug)

7-10-2005

HLV Kommentar:

Zum gestrigen ca. 4-minütigen TV Beitrag - s. nachfolgenden HR online Auszug; noch eine Wertung bezüglich der beiden Kommentatoren Prof. Dr. Joachim Breckow, Physiker, Gießen - Mitglied der Strahlenschutzkommission (SSK) und Dr. Ulrich Warnke, Biophysiker, Saarland.

Originalton:

Breckow: “ Wir wissen wirklich bis heute nicht einen einzigen Effekt, von dem wir sagen können, er ist nachgewiesen, wenn es sich um Bereiche abspielt, die unterhalb der Grenzwerte sind.“

Warnke: „Das stimmt aber nicht ganz so. Es zeigt sich, dass Schädigungen am Organismus bei sehr niedrigen Werten auftreten, das ist wissenschaftlich bewiesen. Es werden Chromosomen geschädigt. Wenn so etwas bei pharmazeutischen Produkten auftreten würde, wäre das Präparat nie zugelassen worden.“

Der Originalton des Berichtes gibt dann noch den Hinweis:

„Studien der WHO belegen, dass auch unterhalb des Grenzwertes der Körper geschädigt werden kann. Kritiker gehen noch weiter: Sie sagen, dass durch Zellveränderungen Schäden am Gehirn entstehen und gefährliche Stoffwechselprodukte freigesetzt werden. Schlimmstenfalls führt das zu Krebs, Alzheimer oder Multiple Sklerose.“

Nun noch ein Wort zu den beiden Kommentatoren:

Beide sind Wissenschaftler; Breckow ist bei Insidern als “Mobilfunklobbyist“ und “Verharmloser“ bekannt. Sein Fachgebiet ist Physik. Warnke beschäftigt sich seit ca. 20 Jahren lt. TV Bericht mit der Thematik. Er hat u. E. auch sehr souverän die Gefährdung angesprochen. Seine Fachgebiete sind u.a.: Biomedizin, Umweltmedizin, Präventivbiologie.

Herr Prof. Breckow hat in einer Sondersitzung vor dem Stadtparlament Maintal, in einer AfBUS-Sondersitzung am 09.09.2004 einen Vortrag gehalten. Hierzu schrieb Dipl.-Ing. Otto Einsporn in einem Schreiben an Herrn Breckow:

Auszug:

„In Ihren Ausführungen am 09.09.2004 in Maintal haben auch Sie bestätigt, dass den Grenzwerten nach der 26. BimSchV ausschließlich die thermischen Wirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung zugrunde liegen und, aus was für Gründen immer, behauptet, dass es für nichtthermische Wirkungen keine wissenschaftlichen Nachweise gibt. Diese auch von der Mobilfunkindustrie wider besseres Wissen immer wieder vorgetragene Behauptung wird ja durch ständige Wiederholung nicht richtiger.

In der Veröffentlichung der SSK im Bundesanzeiger Nr.43 vom 03.März 1992 steht nämlich Zitat: „Über spezielle Effekte, die nicht auf der Erwärmung beruhen, wird in der Literatur seit 15 Jahren berichtet. ..... Die Membraneffekte wurden vielfach bestätigt, so dass ihre Existenz heute als gesichert gilt. Hervorzuheben ist, dass die SAR-Werte hierbei teilweise kleiner als 0,01 W/kg sind und damit erheblich unterhalb thermisch relevanter Intensitäten liegen.“

Die Empfehlung der SSK aus dem Jahre 2001 bringt in Pkt. 3.3.1 leider keine Wiederholung der Membran-Ergebnisse von 1992, weil sich lt. Pkt.1 - Einführung - die Bewertung ausdrücklich nur auf die seit 1998 veröffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Publikationen stützt.

Ich bitte Sie höflich um Ihre Stellungnahme, ob Sie als Mitglied der SSK deren oben angeführte Veröffentlichung von 1992 vor Gericht als nach wie vor gültige Aussage bestätigen würden.

Auszug aus der schriftlichen Antwort von Prof. Dr. J. Breckow vom 11. Oktober 2004:

„Die von Ihnen zitierten Membraneffekte sind unbestritten. Mein Argument in der Maintaler Veranstaltung war, dass nicht jeder biologische Effekt zu einer gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigung führt.“

Meine Meinung (Einsporn) dazu:

1. Die Aussage von Prof. Breckow, dass es für nichtthermische Wirkungen von Mobilfunkstrahlung keine wissenschaftlichen Nachweise gibt war eine vorsätzliche und zielgerichtete Falschaussage zugunsten des Mobilfunks.

2. Die schriftliche Korrektur seiner Aussage disqualifiziert Herrn Prof. Breckow als ernst zu nehmenden Wissenschaftler.

3. Bereits ein biologischer Effekt, der zu einer gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigung führt, ist ein Effekt zu viel.

Ende des HLV Kommentars

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Strategische Kommunikation mit "geprüften wissenschaftlichen Methoden"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1037574/

Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/

HLV INFO 155/AT

7-10-2005

Unterschätzte Strahlung: Wie gefährlich ist Mobilfunk?

Hessenfernsehen HR3 TV Mobilfunkbeitrag

am 6.10.2005 19.00 Uhr ca. 4 Minuten

Service und Gesundheit Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen

HLV Kommentar:

Zum gestrigen ca. 4-minütigen TV Beitrag - s. nachfolgenden HR online Auszug; noch eine Wertung bezüglich der beiden Kommentatoren Prof. Dr. Joachim Breckow, Physiker, Gießen - Mitglied der Strahlenschutzkommission (SSK) und Dr. Ulrich Warnke, Biophysiker, Saarland.

Originalton:

Breckow: “ Wir wissen wirklich bis heute nicht einen einzigen Effekt, von dem wir sagen können, er ist nachgewiesen, wenn es sich um Bereiche abspielt, die unterhalb der Grenzwerte sind.“

Warnke: „Das stimmt aber nicht ganz so. Es zeigt sich, dass Schädigungen am Organismus bei sehr niedrigen Werten auftreten, das ist wissenschaftlich bewiesen. Es werden Chromosomen geschädigt. Wenn so etwas bei pharmazeutischen Produkten auftreten würde, wäre das Präparat nie zugelassen worden.“

Der Originalton des Berichtes gibt dann noch den Hinweis:

„Studien der WHO belegen, dass auch unterhalb des Grenzwertes der Körper geschädigt werden kann. Kritiker gehen noch weiter: Sie sagen, dass durch Zellveränderungen Schäden am Gehirn entstehen und gefährliche Stoffwechselprodukte freigesetzt werden. Schlimmstenfalls führt das zu Krebs, Alzheimer oder Multiple Sklerose.“

Nun noch ein Wort zu den beiden Kommentatoren:

Beide sind Wissenschaftler; Breckow ist bei Insidern als “Mobilfunklobbyist“ und “Verharmloser“ bekannt. Sein Fachgebiet ist Physik. Warnke beschäftigt sich seit ca. 20 Jahren lt. TV Bericht mit der Thematik. Er hat u. E. auch sehr souverän die Gefährdung angesprochen. Seine Fachgebiete sind u.a.: Biomedizin, Umweltmedizin, Präventivbiologie.

Herr Prof. Breckow hat in einer Sondersitzung vor dem Stadtparlament Maintal, in einer AfBUS-Sondersitzung am 09.09.2004 einen Vortrag gehalten. Hierzu schrieb Dipl.-Ing. Otto Einsporn in einem Schreiben an Herrn Breckow:

Auszug:

„In Ihren Ausführungen am 09.09.2004 in Maintal haben auch Sie bestätigt, dass den Grenzwerten nach der 26. BimSchV ausschließlich die thermischen Wirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung zugrunde liegen und, aus was für Gründen immer, behauptet, dass es für nichtthermische Wirkungen keine wissenschaftlichen Nachweise gibt. Diese auch von der Mobilfunkindustrie wider besseres Wissen immer wieder vorgetragene Behauptung wird ja durch ständige Wiederholung nicht richtiger.

In der Veröffentlichung der SSK im Bundesanzeiger Nr.43 vom 03.März 1992 steht nämlich Zitat: „Über spezielle Effekte, die nicht auf der Erwärmung beruhen, wird in der Literatur seit 15 Jahren berichtet. ..... Die Membraneffekte wurden vielfach bestätigt, so dass ihre Existenz heute als gesichert gilt. Hervorzuheben ist, dass die SAR-Werte hierbei teilweise kleiner als 0,01 W/kg sind und damit erheblich unterhalb thermisch relevanter Intensitäten liegen.“

Die Empfehlung der SSK aus dem Jahre 2001 bringt in Pkt. 3.3.1 leider keine Wiederholung der Membran-Ergebnisse von 1992, weil sich lt. Pkt.1 - Einführung - die Bewertung ausdrücklich nur auf die seit 1998 veröffentlichten wissenschaftlichen Publikationen stützt.

Ich bitte Sie höflich um Ihre Stellungnahme, ob Sie als Mitglied der SSK deren oben angeführte Veröffentlichung von 1992 vor Gericht als nach wie vor gültige Aussage bestätigen würden.

Auszug aus der schriftlichen Antwort von Prof. Dr. J. Breckow vom 11. Oktober 2004:

„Die von Ihnen zitierten Membraneffekte sind unbestritten. Mein Argument in der Maintaler Veranstaltung war, dass nicht jeder biologische Effekt zu einer gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigung führt.“

Meine Meinung (Einsporn) dazu:

1. Die Aussage von Prof. Breckow, dass es für nichtthermische Wirkungen von Mobilfunkstrahlung keine wissenschaftlichen Nachweise gibt war eine vorsätzliche und zielgerichtete Falschaussage zugunsten des Mobilfunks.

2. Die schriftliche Korrektur seiner Aussage disqualifiziert Herrn Prof. Breckow als ernst zu nehmenden Wissenschaftler.

3. Bereits ein biologischer Effekt, der zu einer gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigung führt, ist ein Effekt zu viel.

Ende des HLV Kommentars

TV Beitrag

6. Oktober 2005 Unterschätzte Strahlung: Wie gefährlich ist Mobilfunk?
http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/index.jsp?rubrik=2674&key=standard_document_11757824

WLAN, Handy, schnurloses Telefon. Viele benutzen diese Kommunikationsmittel bedenkenlos. Doch es gibt wissenschaftliche Studien, die Anlass geben, sich über die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen der hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Strahlung, die von diesen Geräten ausgeht, Gedanken zu machen.

Wie viel von dieser Strahlung der Mensch abgekommen darf, ist in Deutschland durch den sogenannten SAR (Spezifische Absorptions Rate) Wert festgelegt. Er liegt bei 0,08 W/kg. Experten streiten, ob dieser Wert tatsächlich für die gesundheitliche Unbedenklichkeit garantieren kann. Denn schon unterhalb dieses Grenzwertes können Zellveränderungen im Körper ausgelöst werden, das kann im schlimmsten Fall zu Krebs führen.

Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz gibt deshalb folgende Empfehlung:

§ Beim Kauf eines Handys darauf achten, dass es einen möglichst niedrigen SAR Wert hat.

§ So wenig wie möglich und nur kurz mit dem Handy telefonieren.

§ Das Handy erst nach dem Rufaufbau zum Kopf führen.

§ Im Auto nur mit Freisprecheinrichtung, die eine Außenantenne hat, Handy nutzen.

§ Nicht in geschlossenen Räumen und Bahnen oder Bussen mit Handy telefonieren.

§ Kinder unter 16 sollten kein Handy benutzen und keine Spiele darauf spielen.

Wer sich so wenig Strahlung wie möglich aussetzen will, sollte außerdem auf WLAN und schnurloses Telefon verzichten.

Bei der zuständigen Verbraucherzentrale kann man sich einen Baubiologen nennen lassen, der die elektromagnetische Strahlung im eigenen Wohnbereich misst. Dieser sollte seine Zertifizierung nachweisen können, denn die Bezeichnung Baubiologe ist nicht geschützt. Auch der TÜV kommt zum Messen, das ist allerdings sehr teuer.

http://openpr.de/news/63251.html
http://www.news4press.com/1/MeldungDetail.asp?Mitteilungs_ID=70569

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Unterschätzte Gefahr
http://www.mobilfunkopfer-anwalt.info/presse/unterschaetzte-gefahr.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Informant: NHNE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Informant: NHNE

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*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!

/- - -/

/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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Informant: Chris

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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.

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"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

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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.

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