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The Brussels Tribunal wrote a letter congratulating Amnesty International

The Brussels Tribunal wrote a letter congratulating Amnesty International's courageous stand against the massive human rights violations inflicted upon the people of Iraq by the US-led occupation forces, as stated in the Amnesty International annual report of 2005.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100905B.shtml

Was Katrina und Rita uns gelehrt haben

Zwei Orkane der Kategorie 5 bilden sich innerhalb von weniger als 4 Wochen in der Karibik. Dabei haben im letzten Jahrhundert lediglich drei solche Kat5-Stuerme die Küste der USA erreicht. Sie denken, lieber Leser, vielleicht: "Nun werden die Amis endlich umdenken und die Erderwärmung als Tatsache akzeptieren." Sie wünschen sich bei den Amerikanern nun Einsichten, weniger Energiekonsum, einen Beitritt zum Kyoto-Protokoll? Und mehr sozialen Zusammenhalt, vor allem zwischen Klassen und Rassen? Da können Sie schwarz werden …

http://www.franzalt.com/index.php?pageID=16&article:oid=a3814&template=article_detail.html

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Öl und Chemikalien vergiften die Golf-Küste und ihr Hinterland nachhaltig

Vier Wochen nachdem Hurrikan Katrina seinen verheerenden Zerstörungspfad durch den Golf von Mexiko pflügte, zeichnet sich neben den vielen Opfern und Vermögensschäden auch eine immense Umweltkatastrophe ab.

http://www.franzalt.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n3809&template=news_detail.html

Santa Cruz impeachment letter

New impeachment action

The newest letter sent by the Santa Cruz City Council to the House Judiciary Committee of the US Congress asking AGAIN for the investigation and possible impeachment of the top members of the Bush Administration can now be seen on the city website at:

http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/council/resolution/LetterToHouseJudiciaryCommittee.pdf

the city website is http://www.ci.santa-cruz.us

peace

sherry


Informant: John Calvert

Rove and Miller Called Back to Grand Jury

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100905Y.shtml

George W. Bush's Resume

http://cronus.com/bushresume/
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html
http://michaelw.net/Articles/GeorgeBushsresumebyKellyK.html


Informant: Doug Haddix

1918 Flu Epidemic CAUSED BY VACCINES

The Avian Flu and Drugless Doctors

IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do, Genocide, Codex Emergency

IAHF List: This article says it all. The government is trying to scare the crap out of people to get them to get vaccinated, the vaccines themselves could cause a pandemic JUST LIKE IN 1918. The Fedstapo WANTS this to happen so they can sick FEMA on us under martial law, so each one TEACH ONE, lets mass forward this baby, eh?

This eye witness account of the 1918 Avian Flu outbreak is a real eye opener. We are up against a government engineered plan to kill us off, plain and simple.

Get armed with information. Beef up your own immune system and be ready to help those around you like the woman who wrote this article did back in 1918 when she acted like a nurse for her dying neighbors who ignorantly took the vaccine. Together, we can all survive.... THE GOVERNMENT.


Subject: THE AVIAN FLU AND DRUGLESS DOCTORS
February 07, 2004

The Avian Flu and Drugless Doctors

BBC carried an article on 5 February titled "1918 killer flu secrets revealed" which tells us that the scientists claim to now have figured out that 50 million people were killed by a virus that "jumped from birds to humans".

Obviously this is to prepare us for a "killer epidemic", something that is supposed to hit any time now, be it this winter or the next or the one after that.

Jon Rappoport found the most interesting analysis of the 1918 flu disaster, in a book by Eleanor McBean. And if you haven't heard of drugless doctors yet, here's the place where you'll meet them.

THE FLU: 1918 AND NOW

FEBRUARY 7, 2004. You may have noticed that researchers are now saying they have analyzed the virus that caused the 1918 global pandemic of flu. They are linking it to a bird virus, which stirs the pot on the current flap about avian flu in Asia.

The PR goes this way: If this current bird virus mutates just a little bit in the wrong direction, we could see a replay of the 1918 disaster.

Here is another analysis, written about 25 years ago by Eleanor McBean. This excerpt, from chapter two of her book, Vaccination Condemned, makes a quite different observation:

I WAS AN ON-THE-SPOT OBSERVER OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

All the doctors and people who were living at the time of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic say it was the most terrible disease the world has ever had. Strong men, hale and hearty, one day would be dead the next. The disease had the characteristics of the black death added to typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, smallpox, paralysis and all the diseases the people had been vaccinated with immediately following World War 1. Practically the entire population had been injected "seeded" with a dozen or more diseases — or toxic serumss. When all those doctor-made diseases started breaking out all at once it was tragic.

That pandemic dragged on for two years, kept alive with the addition of more poison drugs administered by the doctors who tried to suppress the symptoms. As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. We knew from the health teachings of Graham, Trail, Tilden and others, that people cannot contaminate the body with poisons without causing disease.

When the flu was at its peak, all the stores were closed as well as the schools, businesses — even the hospital, ass the doctors and nurses had been vaccinated too and were down with the flu. No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. We [who didn't taken any vaccines] seemed to be the only family which didn't get the flu; so my parents went from house to house doing what they could to look after the sick, as it was impossible to get a doctor then. If it were possible for germs, bacteria, virus, or bacilli to cause disease, they had plenty of opportunity to attack my parents when they were spending many hours a day in the sick rooms. But they didn't get the flu and they didn't bring any germs home to attack us children and cause anything. None of our family had the flu — not even a sniffle— and it wa was in the winter with deep snow on the ground.

It has been said that the 1918 flu epidemic killed 20,000,000 people throughout the world. But, actually, the doctors killed them with their crude and deadly treatments and drugs. This is a harsh accusation but it is nevertheless true, judging by the success of the drugless doctors in comparison with that of the medical doctors.

While the medical men and medical hospitals were losing 33% of their flu cases, the non-medical hospitals such as BATTLE CREEK, KELLOGG and MACFADDEN'S HEALTH-RESTORIUM were getting almost 100% healings with their water cure, baths, enemas, etc., fasting and certain other simple healing methods, followed by carefully worked out diets of natural foods. One health doctor didn't lose a patient in eight years. The very successful health treatment of one of those drugless doctors who didn't lose any patients will be given in the other part of this book, titled VACCINATION CONDEMNED, to be published a little later.

If the medical doctors had been as advanced as the drugless doctors, there would not have been those 20 million deaths from the medical flu treatment.

There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against. One soldier who had returned from overseas in 1912 told me that the army hospitals were filled with cases of infantile paralysis and he wondered why grown men should have an infant disease. Now, we know that paralysis is a common after-effect of vaccine poisoning. Those at home didn't get the paralysis until after the world-wide vaccination campaign in 1918.

End of excerpt

JON RAPPOPORT http://www.nomorefakenews.com

See also

The poisoned needle - suppressed facts about vaccination
by Eleanor McBean http://www.whale.to/a/mcbean.html

Red Flags Weekly: Vaccines and Immune Suppression
http://www.redflagsdaily.com/articles/2005_apr07.html

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Informant: Jack Topel

Drive Bush Out Of Office

MWM: This may play out very well against the backdrop of multiple indictments filed during October against many members of the Bushita Regime. The Great Ramadan Offensive could add great impetus to end the Tragedy in the Middle East, or, it could kill the movement to push Bush out of office and repolarize support for the Imperial Faction. Timing and synchronicity is a most curious thing, and sometimes the whole world is nothing more than a fragile reed twisting and bending unpredictably in the gusty wind of wind. I think however, that the odds are very strong that all vectors are converging to end Bush's tenure. In the end, I believe he will fulfill the 20 year "curse" which sits death or hardship on Presidents who are elected at the beginning of a decade every 20 years, as in 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, and now...


National Day of Resistance called by The World Can't Wait

by OfficialWire NewsDesk

NEW YORK, NY -- (OfficialWire) -- 10/05/05 -- [] World Can't Wait­a growing national organization with a plan to bring millions of people out of their anguished paralysis and into a conscious resistance movement­vows not stop until the Bush regime is driven out of office. On November 2, 2005, it begins. No Work, No School­people will gather in their city and town squares across the country and move out from there?

World Can't Wait spokesperson, Sunsara Taylor said: "Years from now, when children want to know the character of their parents­as they lived in a country that was normalizing torture, moving to condemn half the population to enforced motherhood or back-alley dangers, attacking science and critical thought, enforcing a narrow brand of fundamentalist religion and bigotry, disenfranchising and then abandoning hundreds of thousands of Black people in an illegitimate 'election' and a foreseen natural disaster, waging wars of preemption based on outrageous lies, snatching people off the street without lawyers or charges, and no major office-holder was making a stink­they will ask, 'Were you in the streets that day, on November 2, 2005'?"

Ads for November 2 are playing nationwide on Air America radio. Organizers are making plans for the day in over 30 cities, as well as colleges and high schools nationwide. November 2 will bring out students, workers, artists, professionals, people from all walks of life who understand that there will be no saviors from the Democratic Party, and 'that which you do not resist, you will learn or be forced­to accept.' November 2 is the day America will begin to turn.

In New York City, people will gather at Union Square at 12 noon.

Sunsara Taylor is speaking on radio and TV and campuses nationwide in the weeks running up to November 2. She has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, Fox and Friends, Air America, CNN, NY1, New York Times, and many other media outlets.

http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/sunsara_conference.mp3
Listen to Sunsara

http://www.worldcantwait.org/news/views/ViewsSunsara.php
Look at World Can't Wait EPK

To arrange for an interview, call (917) 449-9064. Connie Julian, Press Rep World Can't Wait­Drive Out the Bush Regime
Email: press@worldcantwait.org
For more information visit http://www.worldcantwait.org


Best Wishes,
Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona
USA

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The World Can't Wait!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Mobilize for November 2, 2005

YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn’t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. People look at all this and think of Hitler — and they are right to do so.

The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance. Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.

There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight.

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn — or be forced — to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.

And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.

To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we will take the first major step in this by organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"

November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning — a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so - and it will join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will to try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.

The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

These next days are crucial. The call you are reading has to get out to millions right away — on the internet, passed out as flyers in communities, published as ads in newspapers. DO NOT WAIT!! GET ORGANIZED!! If you agree with this statement, add your name to it!!! And do more than that: send it to friends, get them to sign it, organize a meeting, take it to your church, your school, your union, your health club, your barber shop, to concerts and libraries and family gatherings, everywhere you go. Raise money, lots of money. Get people together, make plans to be there on November 2, and to build for it.

More: http://www.worldcantwait.org

Convergence Locations: http://mobilize11-2.blogspot.com


Informant: Paul


COPY, PASTE, AND PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...

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The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=95037;show_parent=1

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On November 2, people in 67 cities, 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) are walking out of school and work and demonstrating to drive out the Bush regime.

Building up to November 2nd, this is what has happened already:

- Thousands have signed the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime including Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, Gore Vidal, Cindy Sheehan, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Eve Ensler, Richard Serra, Jane Fonda, Jonathan Kozol, Howard Zinn, Michael Eric Dyson, Russell Banks, Cornel West, Michael Ratner, Ron Kovic, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ed Asner, Deborah Glick (New York State Assemblywoman), Mark Leno (California Assemblyman), Tom Duane (NY State Senator), Tom Ammiano (San Francisco Board of Supervisors), Chris Daly (San Francisco Board of Supervisors), Kevin Powell, Boots Riley and Tom Morello [Go to website for quotes from the voices speaking out]. They join organizations like Code Pink, the Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, the National Lawyers Guild, Haitian Coalition for Justice, ACT UP/NY, ANSWER/NY, the Campus Anti-War Network, and many others.

- A battle is brewing over high school students walking out in schools through out New York City. Clergy and lawyers are monitoring the situation on behalf of the students. A similar situation in Los Angeles with threats against student organizers and those intending to walk-out has resulted in a very two-sided battle with students defiantly proclaiming, “The administrators are using the same tactics as the Bush administration: fear. They are trying to scare us so we’ll back off and not walk out or go against Bush. What are these threats compared to what Bush is doing? They are nothing… F*ck their threats, we’re changing the world!” Go to http://www.worldcantwait to read their message, RESIST OR DIE!

- In the four months since the WCW call was issued, chapters have been formed in 53 cities, with demonstrations taking place in another 14. The 34 states now covered are an equal mix of blue and red. Along with New York, San Francisco, Chicago, LA, there are demonstrations planned in Norfolk, Virginia; Burlington, Vermont; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Hood River, Oregon; Boone, North Carolina; Great Falls, Montana; and Springfield, Missouri.

November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-selection," will be the first major proclamation of an unprecedented and urgently needed social movement in this country: a movement aimed - not at this or that policy - but directly at driving out a regime.

The past week underscored just why a whole new level of opposition – this movement to Drive Out the Bush Regime - is needed, now! In the face of setbacks like the Miers withdrawal, Libby's indictment, global condemnation of US torture policy, the ongoing bloodbath in Iraq, and plummeting poll numbers, Bush nominates a far right winger to the Supreme Court.

November 2nd, as the beginning of this movement to drive out the Bush regime, is history in the making.


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news

TELL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT VOTING REFORM

I just sent a personal message using the easy one click form below to my local daily newspaper, I hope you will join me!

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Content/VotingReform/pen3.php

TELL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT VOTING REFORM

I am deeply concerned about the need for transparent, independently auditable, non-privatized, non-vendor-controlled elections and urge you to support legislation that:

(1) establishes a requirement for a voter verified paper ballot created for every vote cast;
(2) establishes a mandatory uniform national standard that states that the voter verified paper ballot -- the only record verified by the voter rather than the voting machine -- is the vote of record in the case of any inconsistency with electronic records;
(3) provides Federal funding to pay for implementation of voter verified paper balloting;
(4) requires a percentage of mandatory random audits in every state, and in each county, for every Federal election;
(5) prohibits use of undisclosed software, wireless communication devices, and internet connections in voting machines;
(6) is required to be fully implemented by 2006; and
(7) protects the accessibility mandates of the Help America Vote Act.

Ensuring full access to the electoral system does not require turning complete control of the vote count over to privately-owned, privately-controlled voting machine vendors.

A bill introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (H.R. 550) meets all of the above requirements and has strong bipartisan support. Please show your commitment to transparent, independently auditable, non-privatized, non-vendor-controlled elections today by co-sponsoring HR 550 and ensuring that it becomes law this year.

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Content/VotingReform/pen3.php

Thank you


Informant: beefree

How High Could Indictments Go?

Daniel Schorr comments on the tangled web of CIA leaks and wonders how high the indictments could go. The prosecutor interviewed President Bush and Vice President Cheney at some length. It is not publicly known if they are implicated, but Schorr reminds us that the Watergate grand jury wanted to indict President Nixon for obstruction of justice.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805G.shtml

Violence Leads Only to More Violence

With names like 'Operation Iron Fist' and 'Operation Iron Gate' thousands of US troops, backed by warplanes, tanks and helicopters began attacking small cities and villages primarily in the northwestern area of al-Anbar. An Iraqi journalist writing under the name Sabah Ali recently returned from the al-Qa'im area of Iraq, accomplishing a feat no non-embedded western journalist has dared undertake. Her report tells quite a different story than US Military and corporate media.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805F.shtml

Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu

A plan developed by the Bush administration to deal with any possible outbreak of pandemic flu shows that the United States is woefully unprepared for what could become the worst disaster in the nation's history. A draft of the final plan, which has been years in the making, is expected to be released later this month.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805E.shtml

GOP Oil Refinery Bill Squeaks By

It took more than 40 raucous minutes of pleading and cajoling, bargaining and begging on Friday. But House Republican leaders managed to squeeze through an oil refinery bill in a tumultuous floor vote that severely tested a leadership team rocked by the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805C.shtml

Bush Justice Nominee Withdraws

The Bush administration's choice for deputy attorney general has withdrawn his nomination amid mounting questions over his dealings with indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and over his role in shaping controversial interrogation policies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805A.shtml

Prevent a Bill Passing Regarding Forcing Us to Vaccinate

I encourage everyone to pick up the phone and call the U.S. Senators and let them know that we do not want this anti-American and anti-U.S. Constitution bill to pass and become law. This is an assault against every American and I encourage all of you to pick up the phone and let your voices be heard.

Vaccines are contanimated with toxic things like formaldehyde, which is commonly used to embalm corpses, and is a known carcinogen (capable of causing cancer), thiomersal, a derivative of mercury which is a toxic heavy metal, aluminium phosphate which is a toxin used in deodorants. Other toxic ingredients include phenol (carbolic acid), alum (a preservative), and acetone which is a volatile solvent used in fingernail polish remover.

I definately do NOT want to be forced to take things like this, do you? I would suggest calling your US Senator right now and expressing your opinion.

The bottom line is:

1) If the Burr bill passes, "all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail."

2) BARDA The federal agency which will be in charge will be allowed: "to operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal AdvisoryCommittee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public."

3) "It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of their peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC.

Please read the article/alert below and take action today. Pass this on to EVERYONE! Contact your Senators today and let them know that THEY ARE NOT TO SUPPORT THIS UNDEMOCRATIC, UNAMERICAN LEGISLATION. The bill number and name is:

U.S. Senate Bill 1873 the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005

Contact U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer at:
(916) 448-2787 or
(202) 224-3553

Contact U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein at:
(415) 393-0707 or
(202) 224-3841

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.nvic.org


NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP Committee pass this bill out of sub-committee. It is critical that you take action today-immediately. This bill will go back to the committee for a final review on Thursday-October 20, 2005 and then go to the full Senate for a vote. Being led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC) and being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written and passed out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most members did not even have the final language in front of them.

The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability for vaccines and drugs. Please read the press release, write to the members of the HELP committee, write to your own Senator and your own member of Congress. Pass this alert to your family, friends and other organizations you are involved with. Go to our website and take action right now! Don't wait for someone else to do it. This is a CODE RED alert to anyone who is concerned about forced vaccination and holding drug companies responsible for the products they create. www.NVIC.org

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.

The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the Department of Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines." The Burr bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his decision in the civil court system.

The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of authority within the government for the advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu.

BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal AdvisoryCommittee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public.

Nicknamed "Bioshield Two," the legislation is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), the legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as take away the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their case in front of a jury in a civil court of law.

"It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of their peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC.

"This proposed legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all citizens to use while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means that, if an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it is revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine."

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is legally responsible for regulating the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that drugs and vaccines released to the public are safe and effective. Drug companies marketing painkillers, like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have resulted in the deaths and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are being held accountable in civil court while the FDA has come under intense criticism for withholding information about the drugs' dangers from the public. Since1986, vaccine makers have been protected from most liability in civil court through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in which Congress created a federal vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) that offers vaccine victims an alternative to the court system. Even though the program has awarded nearly $2 billion to victims of mandated vaccines, two out of three plaintiffs are turned away.

"The drug companies and doctors got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but they are greedy and want more," said Fisher. "And the federal health agencies want more power to force citizens to use vaccines without having to worry about properly regulating them. If the Burr bill passes, all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail. The only recourse for citizens will be to strike down mandatory vaccination laws so vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand in the marketplace. The health care consumer's cry will be: No liability? No mandates."

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded by parents of vaccine injured children in 1982 and co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. For more information, go to http://www.nvic.org

SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center Web Site: http://www.nvic.org

Kathi Williams National Vaccine Information Center
421 Church St., Suite E Vienna, Va 22180
703-938-DPT3 http://www.NVIC.org


News@nvic.org is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and is supported through membership donations. Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent rights http://www.nvic.org


Informant: Scott Munson

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Flu Vaccine "Whistleblower" subjected to "Witch Hunt"
(Posted on another group along the line with my other posts - interesting developments. Anna

That vaccines can cause severe damage is a fact that is meticulously kept away from the population of most third world countries. In the developed countries it is an "open secret" with the governments and the medical system preferring to look the other way for reasons best known to them. Vaccines with the mercury additive "thimerosol" has been banned in some States of the USA but the ban exists only on paper. The mercury lodges itself in the fat cells of the brain and cannot be eliminated by the body. Vaccines also contain aluminium, formaldehyde and other preservatives. The main ingredient is animal serum that is often contaminated. The vaccines are delivered directly into the bloodstream bypassing the body's natural defence system. Till date no detailed studies on the after effects of vaccinations has ever been carried out.

The fact that vaccines do cause damage is borne out by many court judgements in the USA forcing the government to create a vaccine damage fund to compensate the bereaved families who have lost their healthy children to vaccine shots. Many cases of infant deaths in the USA are now being reopened as anti vaccine lobbies composed of angry parents try to dig deeper into the muck. In the developing countries the governments are secure because protests over vaccines can be easily buried by medical jargon. There are numerous instances in India of children being affected by "polio like" diseases, "tuberculosis like" diseases after getting vaccinated. Such a case where the child population of entire villages have been affected by a polio like disorder after administration of the polio vaccine has surfaced in a village of Orissa and another village in the Medinipur district of West Bengal. The Orissa case was dealt with extensively by the Oriya TV channel OTV.

As the article reproduced below points out, autism and attention deficit related disorders in children can today be directly linked to vaccines. The medical authorities say "very few" children are adversely affected by vaccines. Try telling that to a mother who has lost her child.

The current avian flu scare will help vaccine manufacturers dispose off 30 million unutilised vaccines that were manufactured during the last scare but never utilised. In most countries vaccines have become mandatory with children receiving 10 to 12 jabs excluding booster shots. New vaccines are on the anvil for AIDS, though the link between AIDS and the small pox vaccine is rarely disputed. By next year a vaccine for crevical cancer, supposedly caused by the Human Papilloma Virus, will be ready. This cancer virus, to protect against a VD related cancer, will be given to children below the sexual maturity age. Medical experts say that this vaccine will "encourage" the manufacture of similiar vaccines for other types of cancer. It can be pointed out here that alternative therapies which do not support the virus theory have routinely helped cancer patients tide over the disease state.

What is never debated is whether vaccines are at all efficacious. We continue to see cases of tuberculosis, polio etc. despite massive vaccination drives. Diseases return with "morphed viruses" that have changed themselves with time. Recently the Hindustan Times carried a very brief news report on the protests of the anti vaccine lobby in India while commenting that their numbers were "very small". Obviously it will require a disaster of epic proportions before any corrective measures can be initiated.

Regards, Jagannath.


From: TAAP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/02/naut02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/02/ixhome.html

Scott Ritter interview on BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml

Very interesting interview. Every point that the BBC interviewer trued to trap him on he outboxed her. Esp. amusing was when she tried to discredit him for writing articles for the al-Jazeera English language website.

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1476567.htm
Veteran BBC television host Sir David Frost has joined the line-up of Al-Jazeera International, an English-language news channel due to launch next year, the Qatar-based broadcaster says.


Michael Pugliese


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

From ufpj-news

Dems Chant 'Shame! Shame!' as GOP Bullies House Vote

Republican House members DeLay, Barton, Hastert and Blunt held the vote open on a controversial energy bill until they were able twist enough arms for the bill to pass.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001901.htm


From Information Clearing House

Civics Student or Enemy of America?

After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10560.htm

Pentagon seeks leeway to approach citizens

Loosening decades-old limitations, the Pentagon is asking Congress to allow its intelligence agents to go undercover when they approach Americans who may have useful national-security information, rather than identifying themselves as intelligence operatives.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/12846795.htm


From Information Clearing House

Is This the Death of America?

The US, we learn, is 43rd in the world infant mortality rankings. A baby born in Beijing has nearly three times the chance of reaching its first birthday than a baby born in Washington. Those who survive face rotten schools. On reading and math tests for 15-year-olds, America is 24th out of 29 nations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10567.htm

Pat Tillman, Our Hero

As Mary Tillman said this past May, "They wanted to use him for their purposes.... They needed something that looked good, and it was appalling that they would use him like that." A growing number of military families, similarly angered, are criticizing the war in Iraq through organizations like Military Families Speak Out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10568.htm

The Maker of US policy

What a stroke of luck that God's advice to George Bush fits so neatly alongside US national interests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1587541,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush's God controversy stirs press fury

Papers in the Arabic world recoil at remarks attributed to President Bush by a Palestinian official, to the effect that God had told him to invade Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4322228.stm


From Information Clearing House

Ex-Marine Says He Committed Atrocities

A former U.S. Marine in Iraq alleges that his battalion committed atrocities against Iraqi civilians during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, including shooting unarmed protesters.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10563.htm

Intelligence services had been correct to say that Iraq's missile programme had been destroyed soon after the first Gulf conflict of 1991

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10561.htm

Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93211;show_parent=1

Harriet Miers' Enron problem

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93204;show_parent=1

Another international slap at the Bush administration

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93196;show_parent=1

The Broken Constitution

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93151;show_parent=1

Violence Against the Constitution
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93152;show_parent=1

Flu 'Oddities'

http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html


"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government".

- Edward Abbey


Informant: friends2b

MAKE VOTING REFORM A REALITY IN CONGRESS

First we celebrate two victories. Our California participants used the system we created specifically for them to send messages to their individual members of the CA legislature and the governor to help get SB 370 PASSED AND SIGNED, a pioneering voter verified paper audit trail bill that can now serve as the model for the rest of the country.

Second, the Senate approved 90-9 a provision to constrain the Bush administration from continuing their policy of illegal international torture, another alert where we also had many submissions. We will follow up with another action to override a presidential veto if necessary. Outside of Bush, who will listen to nobody but a sentencing judge at the conclusion of his war crimes trial, this proves any member of any party can be moved if they hear from enough of their constituents. We will claim all victories just as soon as each and every one of our participants will RESPOND TO AND SUBMIT EACH AND EVERY ALERT you receive from us.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.nocrony.com

or try http://www.usalone.com/formhelp2.htm#pet2 (if you can't through on the main action page above)

EVERYBODY KNOWS MIERS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A CRONY

The Republican National Committee and the White House held a joint mobilizing conference call to rally their most extreme right wing supporters behind Harriet Miers, their "get out of conviction on appeal" free card. We have prepared a rush transcript. Here is a typically chilling quote:

"He and she [the president and Miers] both understand that if she were to get on the court, and she were to rule in ways that are contrary to the way the president would want her to approach her role as a justice, it would be a deep personal betrayal, and would be perceived as such both by him and by her." [full transcript at http://www.nocrony.com]

This is absolutely nothing more than a patently crony nomination, and is perceived by even its supporters as exactly that and being sold as such. It is a matter of the utmost urgency that you communicate to your senators that this nomination is not worthy of any consideration at all on that basis alone. As if our members of Congress had not sold the people so far down the river already, do we really need ANOTHER lockstep administration loyalist on our Supreme Court?

And leading the charge once again to give away the farm is Harry Reid, who said "I'm very happy we have someone like her." At least Neville Chamberlain didn't say how happy he was that Poland was invaded. Reid must be removed immediately from any leadership role, as he is now compromised beyond any possible redemption. We need someone who will STAND UP against these outrages, not a cheerleader for the other side. While we are opposing Miers we must also tell our senators that Reid has GOT TO GO as minority leader.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.nocrony.com

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We all know how much the reactionaries love their talking points. Here are ours:

1) NO BUSH CRONY EVEN DESERVES A HEARING

Have we not seen the disaster wrought by installation of hardcore administration cronies in positions of the highest responsibility? Must our Supreme Court go the way of New Orleans? There are many jobs in this world where you have to qualify to even GET a job interview. Surely a seat on our Supreme Court is one of them. Some say they need to hear what she has to say. That is just more of the same surrender babble, and is based on two false premises, that we don't ALREADY know where Miers stands, and that she will disclose anything meaningful under examination. There is nothing coming but another Roberts' style stonewall, and for all those reasons we say NO HEARING.

2) THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMAND A MODERATE

It's time to fight for what we really want on principle. It's time for those who would presume to represent us to take up that fight. And the American people will tolerate NO MORE extremist far right appointees to our Supreme Court. Every day Bush's popularity rating sinks to a new record low. It is only his totally corrupt party caucus, now with a temporary majority in the House of Representatives, that has prevented the initiation of impeachment proceedings already for his incompetence and malfeasance. We the people demand that any further nominees be no worse than true MODERATES. That's our position and we're sticking to it.

MAKE VOTING REFORM A REALITY IN CONGRESS TOO

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Content/VotingReform/pen3.php

Using the constituent submission technology we are sharing with them, VelvetRevolution.com is spearheading the campaign to support HR 550, the Rush Holt bill that:

(1) establishes a requirement for a voter verified paper ballot created for every vote cast;

(2) establishes a mandatory uniform national standard that states that the voter verified paper ballot -- the only record verified by the voter rather than the voting machine -- is the vote of record in the case of any inconsistency with electronic records;

(3) provides Federal funding to pay for implementation of voter verified paper balloting;

(4) requires a percentage of mandatory random audits in every state, and in each county, for every Federal election;

(5) prohibits use of undisclosed software, wireless communication devices, and internet connections in voting machines;

(6) is required to be fully implemented by 2006; and

(7) protects the accessibility mandates of the Help America Vote Act.

Send your message to Congress supporting HR 550 and with the one click form you can send a letter to the editor of your nearest daily newspaper at the same time

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This is a perfect compliment to the ground-breaking California SB 370 which our participants were so instrumental in helping to get enacted into law. Read what the California Election Protection Network had to say about the work of our participants:

"I hope you just received my email moments ago informing you that SB 370 was signed by Schwarzenegger."

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Informant: The Pen

8
Okt
2005

Miers, the Iraq war and hurricanes prompt GOP to confront Bush

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/jim_kuhnhenn/12853833.htm


Informant: John Calvert

The bigotry of Bill Bennett's low expectations

http://www.slate.com/id/2127378/?nav=fo


© Virginia Metze

Conservatives Are Wary Over President's Selection

by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: October 4, 2005
The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 - The White House scrambled on Monday to prevent conservative opposition to the president's choice of the White House counsel Harriet E. Miers as his next Supreme Court nominee.

Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, started calling influential social conservatives to reassure them about the pick even before it was announced. He called James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, over the weekend, and Richard Land, a top public policy official of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday morning, said several people briefed on the calls. Paul Weyrich, the veteran conservative organizer, said Ed Gillespie, the former Republican Party chairman lobbying for confirmation, called at 7:10 a.m. to tell him the news.

In each call and in a series of teleconferences throughout the day, representatives of the White House promised their conservative supporters that as White House counsel, Ms. Miers had played a central role in picking the many exemplars of conservatism among Mr. Bush's previous nominees. [...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/8fyd9


© Virginia Metze

Dick Cheney’s Song of America

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm


© Virginia Metze

Salazar says Bush 'acts like a king'

by M.E. Sprengelmeyer,
Rocky Mountain News
October 1, 2005

WASHINGTON - Saying President Bush "sometimes acts like a king," Sen. Ken Salazar warned Friday that he would oppose Bush's next Supreme Court pick if it's one of two controversial judges or someone else he considers an unqualified ideologue.

During a conference call with reporters, Salazar said he would oppose Janice Rogers Brown or Priscilla Owen, two U.S. circuit court judges the U.S. Senate recently installed on the bench after a blistering confirmation process.

Salazar also called for more advance consultation before the president makes a nomination to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [...] Read it all at the Rocky Mountain News: http://tinyurl.com/dso6n


© Virginia Metze

GOP Caught Push Polling in Vermont 2006 Senate Race

Sirotablog
Working for Change web site
September 29, 2005

According to this letter published in Vermont's Rutland Herald,

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS/509290320/1037

the national Republican Party has already started the shady and ethically-questionable practice of push polling in the 2006 U.S. Senate race.

Specifically, Vermonter Tony Gordon reports receiving a call from a out-of-state call center in Nebraska. The caller asked "While it is fine to have a gadfly like [Senate candidate] Bernie Sanders in the House, since Vermont is such a small state, we must have real leadership in the Senate. Do you agree or disagree?" Clearly, as Gordon notes, the question was deliberately phrased to guarantee a desired result and spread misleading information about Congressman Sanders - not to guage actual public opinion. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/cqqdy


© Virginia Metze

Indicting the President's Policies

BLOG | Posted 09/30/2005 @ 12:14am
John Nichols
The Online Beat

In Washington, where it is exceeding difficult to get the political players or the press corps to pay attention to more than one story at once, no one would suggest that it was "smart politics" to deliver a major address on the day that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay being forced to step aside after being indicted on criminal conspiracy charges.

But sometimes the work of Washington involves more than political games.

Sometimes it involves life and death questions of national policy. And it is particularly frustrating in such moments to see vital statements about the nation's future get lost in the rush to discuss the scandal du jour. To be sure, the well-deserved indictment of DeLay merited the attention it received. But the indictment of President Bush's "stay-the-course" approach with regard to the Iraq War, which was delivered on the same day by U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, should have gotten a lot more attention than it did. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/bxcbs


© Virginia Metze

Industrial Disease: Chemie-GAU in den USA

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21007/1.html

America is a country that inflicts injury

Randall Robinson Interview

All the suffering in the world arises out of wanting happiness for self.

All the happiness in the world arises out of wanting happiness for others.

--Shantideva


RANDALL ROBINSON SAYS NO MORE IN INTERVIEW WITH THE PROGRESSIVE

PROMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL MOVES HIS FAMILY OUT OF USA BECAUSE HE IS FED UP

read entire interview at http://progressive.org/mag_intv1005

"... I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I wanted to live in a place where that wasn’t always a distorting weight.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you.

You try to steer a course in American society that’s not self-destructive.

But America is a country that inflicts injury.

It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

When we lived here, we accommodated ourselves to the most extraordinary things. I just didn’t think that was the way to live. I wanted to be in another place.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes— social and economic—are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system.

People feel a conscious disease—a dis-ease or an unease— but I don’t think they know what causes it.

We’ve been taught in America that big is best.

That’s why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic."


Informant: Hopedance

John Dean: The Case Against Tom DeLay

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805Y.shtml

Pentagon Wants to Spy on Americans

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805X.shtml

Abuse of Power Continues in Congress

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805Z.shtml

Omega-News Collection 8. October 2005

Earth Headed for Global Warming Catastrophe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1040575/

Climate change warning - this time it's personal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1025814/

Asia-Pacific 'to Face More Disease' as Planet Warms
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1036010/

Melting Planet: Species are Dying Out Faster Than We Have Dared Recognize
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1025194/

Petrocollapse for change of culture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1036017/

Climate Change and Pollution are Killing Millions
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1039461/

Beam microwave energy from a satellite
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030215/

AMAZON DRIES OUT AS WORST EVER DROUGHT HITS RAINFOREST
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1027612/

Kimberly-Clark is clear-cutting ancient forests to make Kleenex and toilet paper
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1034805/

November 3rd has been called as an International Day of Action for the Boreal Forest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1029659/

Roundup Ready Sudden Death, Superweeds, Allergens
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1027621/

GM crops for Africa? No Thanks!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030779/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next

Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Tsunami/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 8. October 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1041523/

EMF-Omega-News 8. October 2005

Scientists gave evidence that the exposure to a pulsed 1800 MHz RF at a low level can lead to DNA breaks - Scientifiques ont prouvé que l’exposition à un rayonnement pulsé radio téléphonie de 1800MHz de bas niveau peut provoquer des dommages et des ruptures d’ADN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030295/

The cozy relationship between the WHO and the electric utility industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1023935/

Testimony of Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031477/

First Evidence Of Brain Abnormalities Found In Pathological Liars
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031655/

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

EMF RAPID Interagency Committee Report has never been presented to Congress (Update)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/889329/

A meeting with the UK Solicitor General
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1024336/

THE THREAT OF INFORMATION, ELECTROMAGNETIC, AND PSYCHOTRONIC WARFARE
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/stories/1025757/

Phone mast protest is spelt out
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1025148/

Joy as phone mast plan sunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1025955/

5th installment of the Canadian SWEEP Initiative e-bulletin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1027557/

6th installment of the Canadian SWEEP Initiative e-bulletin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030746/

Victory for campaigners as mobile giant puts 48ft phone mast plan on hold
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1028316/

Residents issue mast warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1029646/

Cellular Discontent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030476/

GOVERNORS RESIST SCHOOL MAST PLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1032710/

MAST PROTESTERS WIN COUNCILLORS' BACKING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1034204/

Grandma's fury at mast site bid
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1035661/

Anti-mast demo vows to fight on
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1036412/

CEMETERY PHONE MAST TO BE DELAYED?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1036422/

Telecoms giant reconsiders mast site
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1036431/

Dad’s mast concerns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1037037/

PARENTS BATTLE TO TOPPLE MAST PLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038782/

Mast concerns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038796/

Mast plan is thrown out
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038803/

Mast challenge in site
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038816/

PHONE GIANTS TAKE OVER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038830/

Siting of Orange Telecommunication Mast, Avon Ring Road, Bromley Heath.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1039688/

Terrible technology: White boards fill the classroom with pulsing microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1040526/

Battle renewed over phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1040533/

Danes have gone scared of liability over health damage claims of UMTS3G masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1039695/

Israël Mécontentement Cellulaire: Le Rapport de Jérusalem
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031758/

Exploiting Open Functionality in SMSCapable Cellular Networks
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1034697/

Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/technology/05phone.html

Beam microwave energy from a satellite
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1030215/

Welcome to the website of ARA - Association Romande pour la non-prolifération d'Antennes de téléphonie mobile
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031443/

Téléphones portables: des risques sous-évalués
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1027632/

Lettre ouverte des Médecins Allemands
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1033656/

Mesures officielles de Contrôle du rayonnement des antennes relais de la macro-station de téléphonie mobile d’Orange à CREST
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1037657/

News from Mast Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3

Democrats Want Propaganda Probe

Congressional auditors concluded last week that the Education Department engaged in illegal "covert propaganda" by hiring Armstrong Williams to endorse the No Child Left Behind Act without requiring him to disclose he was paid.

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

A Crisis of Biblical Proportions

Amanda Griscom Little interviews Richard Cizik, a pro-Bush but eco-conscious evangelical who's launching a crusade against global warming.

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

Democrats Demand Accountability for Setbacks in Iraq

Democrats accused President George W. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress of an "information blackout" to keep the public in the dark about recent military and political setbacks in Iraq.

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

Skeptical Conservatives Hint Miers Could Withdraw

The White House moved to contain a continuing revolt among conservatives on Thursday over President George W. Bush's selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, with some conservatives saying that Miers could withdraw.

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

After No-Bid Deals Questioned, Katrina Contracts Will Be Reopened

Lawmakers from both parties sharply questioned nearly every aspect of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina yesterday, focusing their discontent on suspect contracts and eliciting a pledge that hundreds of millions of dollars in deals awarded with no competition would soon be put up for bid.

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

Half a Million Hurricane Victims Still without Housing

Five weeks after the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, about half a million people are still without permanent housing, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday.

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

Abramoff Inquiry Extends to DOJ

The ranking Democrats on three House committees called Thursday for an outside investigator to determine why a prosecutor in Guam was demoted in 2002 after opening a criminal investigation of Jack Abramoff, the Washington lobbyist now at the center of a federal corruption investigation.

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

Diary of a Vietcong doctor: The Anne Frank of Vietnam

Dang Thuy Tram was only 27 when she died fighting US troops at a field hospital in Quang Ngai province during the Vietnam war. Now, four decades later, her diary has become a publishing sensation both in America and in her homeland.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article317801.ece


From Information Clearing House

Bush administration procurement chief indicted for lying

David Safavian, former chief of White House procurement policy, was indicted yesterday on five counts of lying about his dealings with former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and impeding a Senate investigation of him.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002542758_ndig06.html


From Information Clearing House

Senators vent frustration over Katrina aid bill

by David Lawder

Leaders of a Senate committee including its Republican head bluntly accused the Bush administration on Thursday of sabotaging a bill to provide Medicaid health assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

http://tinyurl.com/8hgqb


From Information Clearing House

President Bush Claims That He Is Gods Messenger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3939.htm

Law Lords rap anti-terror plans

Lord Steyn and Lord Lloyd of Berwick said the plans were "intolerable" and "a little like internment", and probably unlawful.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2054812005


From Information Clearing House

Rice salutes man that U.S. once sought to oust

In statement, secretary of state says ElBaradei deserves Nobel.
http://tinyurl.com/cd957


From Information Clearing House

Setting Iran up for a preemptive strike, possibly with nukes

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10555.htm

"For the first time I believe we have lost"

Huge change in Iraq:

For the first time I believe we have lost. For the first time as a military professional I think we have no way of winning this. We are willing to destroy the basic structures of the country to deny the enemy their use.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/6/231049/886


From Information Clearing House

The Humiliation Of Iraq

In Pictures: http://tinyurl.com/due3z


From Information Clearing House

What 200 Billion Dollars, 4 Billion Bullets and 153,000 Gallons of Blood Has Bought

http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-200-billion-dollars-4-billion.html


From Information Clearing House

Iraq war now costing $6 billion a month

The paper by the Congressional Research Service underscores how the price tag has been gradually rising for the war in Iraq. A year ago, the Pentagon was calculating its average monthly costs in that conflict at below $5 billion — an amount the research service says has now grown close to $6 billion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10551.htm

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'

President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace

By Ewen MacAskill

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.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10554.htm

A Cruel Nationalism

by Sheila Samples

The miserly response to Katrina should serve as a wake-up call to those Americans who can still think. Fascism is on the march and, when this administration threw down the gauntlet in New Orleans, it declared open war on this nation's poorer citizens.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10550.htm

THE LOVE OF NATURE AND THE END OF THE WORLD

THE UNSPOKEN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
(MIT Press, 2003; 226pp)

by Shierry Weber Nicholsen

I picked this book up because it was one of the few that dealt with the psychological issues relating to our current environmental dilemma. What also attracted me was the fact that it takes a depth psychological approach to the topic and doesn’t shy away from extremely complex issues relating to the human soul and psyche.

The central question the book addresses is "How can the public mind relegate matters of the environment, which is the ground of our whole lives, to the periphery of concern, as though they were the private interest of a group called "environmentalists"?

Nicholsen quotes psychoanalyst Harold Searles, who in 1972 said "Even beyond the threat of nuclear warfare…the ecological crisis is the greatest threat mankind collectively has ever faced… My hypothesis is that man (sic) is hampered in his meeting of this environmental crisis by a severe and pervasive apathy which is based largely upon feelings and attitudes of which he is unconscious." She says this statement is "the basis of what I have tried to do in this book: to explore the psychological reasons for what appears as willful stupidity."

And this collective apathy is the central problem we face right now. Why are we destroying and colluding in the destruction by others of our own habitat and the habitat of millions of our fellow creatures on this damaged planet? If we can’t answer this question, we are doomed. And who better to answer it than those who supposedly understand deep human psychology?

The most relevant chapter for me is Chapter 5, A Severe and Pervasive Apathy: Trauma, Destructiveness, and the End of the World. Here Nicholson connects the traumas of the last 50 years, including the cumulative psychological effects of large-scale social catastrophes like atomic bomb detonations, the Holocaust, the ongoing nuclear threat, environmental degradation etc. with personal experiences of severe trauma and abuse to address our seemingly inexplicable behavior.

"The intertwining of guilt and victimization, the feeling of being somehow tainted by death, the sense of something fundamental to ongoing life having been ruined, the feeling of being isolated and silenced, the wish to shut off the emotional pain on the one hand and the urgency to reintegrate and make meaning on the other": all these dimensions she believes are at the root of why most people persist in this "willful stupidity".

Nicholson believes that Robert Jay Lifton"s ideas about the "apocalyptic" self and the "measured" self can help us understand the split in the modern psyche. "The measured self is the everyday familiar self, concerned with the individual"s life in ordinary time. The apocalyptic self is…concerned with the threat to life…It is both terrified and terrifying." We need both selves, she says. "We need the ordinary self to remember that life in its simple living is of value, and we need the apocalyptic self for its awareness of potential catastrophe."

The psychological concept of trauma is at the center of Nicholson’s explanation for our bizarre behavior. "Trauma destroys the individual"s sense of a safe world in which to live," she says. "Trauma touches levels from the family to the community to the society to humankind to the natural world to the divine. Evil enters into every trauma, for what is betrayed is ultimately our trust in goodness, or the capacity of goodness to withstand evil, the strength of life as such… In environmental degradation we experience the betrayal of the sense that life will continue, a betrayal of our confidence in the strength of the containing natural world that is the mother…and life support of us all…this combination of extreme dependency and extreme vulnerability…makes the betrayal in trauma so catastrophic."

From this extreme global trauma comes psychic numbness and even shocking behavior.

I believe this book should be on the shelves of everyone serious about ecotherapy either on the individual or societal level. It"s impossible to summarize all its ideas in this short space, but let me add a few more quotes…

"At some level of awareness, the sense, however illusory, of the security and "ordinariness" provided by confidence in the continuity of life has vanished."

"We are apathetic about this severe external problem. We go on living in such a way that the problem becomes worse, and we do not put it at the forefront of our consciousness and our concern. This response is highly irrational in terms of our welfare and survival. Such an irrational response signals an internal problem: something is interfering with our ability to deal with an important threat."

"Long-term obstruction of grief and failure to communalize grief can imprison a person in endless swinging between rage and emotional deadness as a permanent way of being in the world."

Linda Buzzell (contributor to HopeDance and fellow at the For The Future group in Santa Barbara, http://www.forthefuture.org )

Schädlichkeit von Mobilfunk

DNA-Schäden durch Mobilfunkstrahlung mehrfach und international nachgewiesen

Der Motorola-Insider Robert C. Kane, mehr als 30 Jahre in der Telekommunikationsindustrie tätig, Forscher und Produktedesign-Ingenieur, hat in einem Buch eindrucksvoll und äusserst fundiert die Gesundheitsrisiken des analogen und digitalen Mobilfunks und ähnlicher Funktechnologie geschildert. Alle Aussagen sind konsequent durch Quellenangaben zu entsprechenden Studien - auch der Industrie - belegt. Robert C. Kane war direkt an der Entwicklung von Mobiltelefonen, mobilen Radios und Mikrowellenkommunikations-Systemen beteiligt und auch in der Forschung zu biologischen Effekten tätig. Er selbst erkrankte an einem Gehirntumor und ist nun eine der Schlüsselfiguren in den derzeit laufenden Milliardenprozessen gegen amerikanische Hersteller von Mobiltelefonen und Mobilfunkbetreiber. In dem Buch beschreibt und erläutert er Hunderte von Studien über die gesundheitlichen Folgen von Mikrowellen- und Mobilfunkstrahlung, von den 50er Jahren bis Mitte der 90er Jahre, alarmierend durch ihre Ergebnisse, namentlich DNA-Schäden, Chromosomenschäden, Gewebeschäden, Grauer Star, Tumorbildung, Gedächtnisverlust, Abnahme der motorischen Fähigkeiten u.a.

Im Kapitel 3, „Biologische Effekte durch Funkfrequenz-Strahlung“ nennt er eine Fülle von Studien aus aller Welt, die DNA-Schäden durch Mobilfunk- und Mikrowellenstrahlung mehrfach eindeutig nachgewiesen haben, wodurch sich das Krebsrisiko der exponierten Personen eindeutig, statistisch signifikant, sehr deutlich erhöhe, insbesondere für Gehirntumor. Die Studien seien mehrfach reproduziert worden, nicht nur von einem Wissenschaftler, sondern von vielen verschiedenen unabhängigen Wissenschaftlern aus aller Welt. Kane nennt hierzu jeweils Quellenangaben.

Weiter unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/aktuell/faxhotline.htm

Studien, die die Schädlichkeit hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder belegen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/227426/

61.4% der Schweizer Hausärzte bejahen die Schädlichkeit elektromagnetischer Felder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/983178/

Biologische Schädlichkeit von Mobilfunkstrahlung erneut bewiesen
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/biologische_schaedlichkeit_von_mobilfunkstrahlung_bewiesen.pdf

Quasseln bis zum bitteren Ende
http://www.zeitenschrift.com/magazin/2901-mobilfunk.ihtml

Die schädlichen Auswirkung der HF-Strahlung auf den Organismus sind den einschlägigen Insider-Technikern nicht erst seit über 10 Jahren bekannt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/853537/

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303598/

Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Mobilfunkkritische Wissenschaftler werden unter Druck gesetzt
http://www.bbu-online.de/AG%20Innenraumschadstoffe%20und%20Gesundheit/Schulen/Mobilfunk/Wissenschaftler.htm


http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Victims/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+C.+Kane

'Caribou People' Wage Last Stand in the Arctic

Later this month, Congress is set to decide, after almost 30 years of contentious debate, whether to allow oil exploration to proceed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. If this passes, oil rigs in the refuge will decrease the already-dwindling herd of caribou by drilling in their calving ground. It will also herald the slow death of the Gwich'in Indian tribe's 13,000-year-old subsistence culture, the last of its kind in North America.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100705EB.shtml

28 Percent Think Country Is Headed in Right Direction

President Bush's job approval is mired at the lowest level of his presidency, and public feelings about the nation's direction have sunk to new depths in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

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

Cash-Rich Oil Companies Seek to Profit At Expense of Public Health

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1007-08.htm

Pros and Cons, and Our National Agenda

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-33.htm

How Born-Again George Became a Man on a Mission

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-24.htm

What Liberals Don't Get About Supreme Court Nominees

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-34.htm

Rove Will Testify for the Fourth Time in Leak Case

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1007-05.htm

How Do We Cover Penguins and the Politics of Denial?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-21.htm

IAEA Rewarded for Failure

Nobel Peace Prize: IAEA Rewarded for Failure: Critics
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1007-07.htm

Greenpeace reaction to Nobel Peace Prize award to Mohamed ElBaradei
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1007-02.htm

Key Groups in Bush's Political Coalition Grow Worried About Direction of Nation

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1007-08.htm

Subway Alert Is Fake Terror To Distract From Indictments

http://infowars.com/articles/terror/ny_subway_alert_distraction_from_indictments.htm


Informant: V

The Empire Is On The Move Building Forts In Latin America

MWM: This is where some of the blank check military appropriations are being spent...

http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=903&Itemid=2

Is the US poised for intervention?

Written by Benjamin Dangl - Contributor
Wednesday, 05 October 2005

Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay

Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the US military is conducting secretive operations. Five hundred US troops arrived in the country on Jul. 1, 2005 with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometres from its border with Bolivia and may be utilized by the US military. Officials in Paraguay claim the military operations are routine humanitarian efforts and deny that any plans are underway for a US base. Yet human rights groups in the area are deeply worried. White House officials are using rhetoric about terrorist threats in the tri-border region (where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet) in order to build their case for military operations, which are in many ways reminiscent of the build up to the invasion of Iraq.

The tri-border area is home to the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world's largest reserves of water. Near the Estigarribia airbase are Bolivia's natural gas reserves, the second largest in Latin America. Political analysts believe US operations in Paraguay are part of a preventative war to control these natural resources and suppress social uprisings in Bolivia.

Argentinian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel commented on the situation in Paraguay and warned, "Once the United States arrives, it takes a long time to leave. And that really frightens me."

The Estigarribia airbase was constructed in the 1980s for US technicians hired by the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, and is capable of housing 16,000 troops. A journalist writing for the Argentinian newspaper, Clarin, recently visited the base and reported it to be in perfect condition, capable of handling large military planes. It's oversized for the Paraguayan air force, which only has a handful of small aircrafts. The base has an enormous radar system, huge hangars and an air traffic control tower. The airstrip itself is larger than the one at the international airport in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital. Near the base is a military camp which has recently grown in size.

"Estigarribia is ideal because it is operable throughout the year ... I am sure that the US presence will increase," said Paraguayan defense analyst Horacio Galeano Perrone.

Denials and immunity

"The national government has not reached any agreement with the United States for the establishment of a US military base in Paraguay," states a communiqué signed by Paraguayan foreign minister Leila Rachid. The US Embassy in Paraguay has also released statements officially denying plans to set up a military base in the country. The Pentagon used this same language when describing its actions in Manta, Ecuador, now the home of an $80 million US military base. First, they said the facility was an archaic "dirt strip", which would be used for weather monitoring and would not permanently house US personnel. Days later, the Pentagon stated that Manta was to serve as a major military base tasked with a variety of security-related missions.

Paraguayan political analyst and historian Milda Rivarola said that, "In practice, there has already been a [US] base operating in Paraguay for over 50 years." The US armed forces have had an ongoing presence in the country, she said. "In the past, they needed congressional authorization every six months, but now they have been granted permission to be here for a year and a half."

On May 26, 2005 the Paraguayan Senate granted the US troops total immunity from national and international criminal court jurisdiction until Dec. 2006. The legislation is automatically extendable. Since Dec. 2004, the US has been pressuring Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Paraguay into signing a deal which would grant immunity to US military. The Bush administration threatened to deny the countries up to $24.5 million in economic and military aid if they refused to sign the immunity deal. Paraguay was the only country to accept the offer.

Coup warning in Bolivia

The proximity of the Estigarribia base to Bolivian natural gas reserves, and the fact that the military operations coincide with a presidential election in Bolivia, has also been a cause for concern. The election is scheduled to take place on Dec. 4, 2005. Bolivian Workers Union leader Jaime Solares and Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) legislator Antonio Peredo, have warned of US plans for a military coup to frustrate the elections. Solares said the US Embassy backs right wing ex-president Jorge Quiroga in his bid for office, and will go as far as necessary to prevent any other candidate's victory.

The most recent national poll showed left wing MAS congressman Evo Morales was barely one point behind Quiroga in the race. Solares said there were calls in Jun. 2005 for a military coup during the massive protests that toppled president Carlos Mesa. Recent US military operations in neighboring Paraguay would facilitate such an intervention.

The Bush administration played a key role in the 2002 coup against president Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the 2004 ousting of Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide.

The Tri-Border terror theory

In March, William Pope, the US State Department's principal deputy coordinator of counterterrorism, said that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed is believed to have visited the tri-border area for several weeks in 1995. Defense officials say that Hezbollah and Hamas, radical Islamic groups from the Middle East, "get a lot of funding" from this tri-border area, and that further unrest in the region could leave a political "black hole" that would erode other democratic efforts.

Military analysts from Uruguay and Bolivia maintain that the threat of terrorism is often used by the US as an excuse for military intervention and the monopolization of natural resources. In the case of Paraguay, the US may be preparing to secure the Guarani water reserves and Bolivia's natural gas.

In spite of frequent attempts to link terror networks to the tri-border area, there is little proof of the connection. However, this did not prevent the US from "liberating" Iraq in 2003. As secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld argued during the debate over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, "Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."

Paraguayan and US officials contend that much of the recent military collaborations are based on health and humanitarian work. However, State Department reports do not mention any funding for health works in Paraguay. They do mention that funding for the Counterterrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) in the country doubled for 2005. The report explained, "Bilateral relations between the US and Paraguay are strong, with Paraguay providing excellent cooperation in the fight against terrorism ... CTFP provided funds for Paraguayans to attend courses on the dynamics of international terrorism, and the importance and application of intelligence in combating terrorism."

Col. Hugo Mendoza of the Paraguayan army said he's thankful the US military is helping Paraguay meet security threats through the joint exercises. "We're learning new things and working with new equipment and the latest technology which we would not be able to afford otherwise."

Journalist and human rights activist Alfredo Boccia Paz said, "These missions are always disguised as humanitarian aid ... what Paraguay does not and cannot control is the total number of agents that enter the country."

Meanwhile, neighboring countries have not warmly received the news of the military activity. The Chilean Communist Party demanded that Paraguayan president Nicanor Duarte "reconsider and cancel" recent military deals with the US as they are "extremely serious for Latin America."

In Paraguay, human rights and activist organizations have mobilized against the military activity. When Donald Rumsfeld visited the country in August, protesters greeted his entourage with chants such as, "Rumsfeld, you fascist, you are the terrorist!" as a military band welcomed him by playing the "Star Spangled Banner".


Best Wishes,
Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona USA

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None Dare Call it Genocide

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93094;show_parent=1

"My poll numbers are low so I better scare everyone"

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93087;show_parent=1

Thinking About Neoconservatism

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93083;show_parent=1

New York Times Critical of Bush's Speech

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93079;show_parent=1

President Bush's Changed Circumstances

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93078;show_parent=1

Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93075;show_parent=1

Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93077;show_parent=1



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

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http://www.newswithviews.com/Baskerville/stephen4.htm

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Informant: Lew Rockwell

Staying or Leaving

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul278.html

The Fantastic Illusions of Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/payne2.html

The Police State Is Closer Than You Think

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts127.html

The spies and betrayers are everywhere

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Lawlessness in New Orleans: Truth or Fiction?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff31.html

Conservative Central Planning

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THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE

http://www.usip.org/aboutus/index.html


Informant: NHNE

UN Wrests Control Of Internet From U.S.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html

* Breaking America's Grip On The Net*

After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments

*Kieren McCarthy Thursday October 6, 2005
**The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk*

You would expect an announcement that would forever change the face of the internet to be a grand affair - a big stage, spotlights, media scrums and a charismatic frontman working the crowd.

But unless you knew where he was sitting, all you got was David Hendon's slightly apprehensive voice through a beige plastic earbox.

The words were calm, measured and unexciting, but their implications will be felt for generations to come.

Hendon is the Department for Trade and Industry's director of business relations and was in Geneva representing the UK government and European Union at the third and final preparatory meeting for next month's World Summit on the Information Society.

He had just announced a political coup over the running of the internet.

Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained the EU had decided to end the US government's unilateral control of the internet and put in place a new body that would now run this revolutionary communications medium.

The issue of who should control the net had proved an extremely divisive issue, and for 11 days the world's governments traded blows.

For the vast majority of people who use the internet, the only real concern is getting on it.

But with the internet now essential to countries' basic infrastructure - Brazil relies on it for 90% of its tax collection - the question of who has control has become critical.

And the unwelcome answer for many is that it is the US government.

In the early days, an enlightened Department of Commerce (DoC) pushed and funded expansion of the internet.

And when it became global, it created a private company, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to run it.

But the DoC retained overall control, and in June stated what many had always feared: that it would retain indefinite control of the internet's foundation - its "root servers", which act as the basic directory for the whole internet.

A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a bold step and proposed two stark changes: a new forum that would decide public policy, and a "cooperation model" comprising governments that would be in overall charge.

Much to the distress of the US, the idea proved popular. Its representative hit back, stating that it "can't in any way allow any changes" that went against the "historic role" of the US in controlling the top level of the internet.

But the refusal to budge only strengthened opposition, and now the world's governments are expected to agree a deal to award themselves ultimate control. It will be officially raised at a UN summit of world leaders next month and, faced with international consensus, there is little the US government can do but acquiesce.

But will this move mean, as the US ambassador David Gross argued, that "even on technical details, the industry will have to follow government-set policies, UN-set policies"?

No, according to Nitin Desai, the UN's special adviser on internet governance. "There is clearly an acceptance here that governments are not concerned with the technical and operational management of the internet. Standards are set by the users."

Hendon is also adamant: "The really important point is that the EU doesn't want to see this change as bringing new government control over the internet. Governments will only be involved where they need to be and only on issues setting the top-level framework."
* Human rights*

But expert and author of Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller, is not so sure. An overseeing council "could interfere with standards. What would stop it saying 'when you're making this standard for data transfer you have to include some kind of surveillance for law enforcement'?"

Then there is human rights. China has attracted criticism for filtering content from the net within its borders. Tunisia - host of the World Summit - has also come under attack for silencing online voices. Mueller doesn't see a governmental overseeing council having any impact: "What human rights groups want is for someone to be able to bring some kind of enforceable claim to stop them violating people's rights. But how's that going to happen? I can't see that a council is going to be able to improve the human rights situation."

And what about business? Will a governmental body running the internet add unnecessary bureaucracy or will it bring clarity and a coherent system? Mueller is unsure: "The idea of the council is so vague. It's not clear to me that governments know what to do about anything at this stage apart from get in the way of things that other people do."

There are still dozens of unanswered questions but all the answers are pointing the same way: international governments deciding the internet's future. The internet will never be the same again.


Informant: friends2b

WLAN via Laptops

HLV INFO 156/AT

8-10-2005

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

nachfolgend gebe ich Ihnen Kenntnis von dem Vorhaben des Main-Kinzig-Kreises evtl. zukünftig in hiesigen Schulen WLAN via Laptops einzuführen. In diesem Zusammenhang erschien auch mein heutiger Leserbrief:

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/fortschritt_aber_ohne_risiken.pdf

Der Schuldezernent, Landrat sowie die Schulleitung als auch andere Institutionen erhalten in den nächsten Tagen ein detailliertes Schreiben vom HLV, über welches Sie ebenfalls unterrichtet werden.

Siehe "WLAN in Schulen" unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1053669/


Im Interesse unserer Kinder bitte ich um weite Verbreitung, insbesondere auch an Lehrer, Schulleitungen etc.

Ein unnötiges Funksystem in Schulen gegen Empfehlung von vielen Experten einführen zu wollen, erfordert entsprechenden kritischen Widerstand, zumal sich die Schwächeren, nämlich unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder, dagegen noch nicht wehren können.


M.f.G.
Alfred Tittmann
c/o HESSISCHER LANDESVERBAND MOBILFUNKSENDERFREIE WOHNGEBIETE e.V.

http://openPR.de/in/63384

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Mit dem Laptop in den Unterricht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1054537/

Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/191214/
http://tinyurl.com/88sg2

"Mobiles Lernen"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360833/

WLAN Funknetz als Strahlenschleuder?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293874/

Schule und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403986/

Pretext for more martial law: bird flu

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/100605Chin/100605chin.html


Informant: friends2b

Being in America

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/100605Pitz/100605pitz.html


Informant: friends2b
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