Robert Scheer writes, "You've got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305N.shtml

Mounting evidence of the Republican congressman's unseemly dealings in the Abramoff corruption scandal bodes ill for the "mayor of Capitol Hill."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305K.shtml

23.11.05

Erstmals zieht eine Umweltschutzorganisation wegen einer ihres Erachtens "anti-ökologischen Politik" des Deutschen Industrie- und Handelskammertags (DIHK) vor Gericht. Mit ihrer am heutigen Mittwoch beim Verwaltungsgericht Berlin eingereichten Unterlassungsklage will die mit der Deutschen Umwelthilfe e.V. (DUH) verbundene DUH Umweltschutz-Service GmbH die Verbreitung des DIHK-Positionspapiers "Für einen Strategiewechsel in der Umweltpolitik" stoppen. Die DUH Umweltschutz-Service GmbH ist Zwangsmitglied in der IHK Hochrhein-Bodensee. "Wir werden nicht länger tatenlos hinnehmen, dass der DIHK mit Pamphleten aus der umweltpolitischen Steinzeit Propaganda gegen jeden Fortschritt in der Umweltpolitik betreibt und das auch noch mit den Kammerbeiträgen der im Umweltschutz tätigen Unternehmen und Verbände finanziert", sagte DUH-Bundesgeschäftsführer Jürgen Resch zur Begründung der Klageerhebung. Das erstmals in der heißen Wahlkampfphase veröffentlichte DIHK-Papier hält Resch für "eindeutig rechtswidrig."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12362

23.11.05

Wie immer, wenn Informationen von oder über Geheimdienste verbreitet werden, ist der Wahrheitsgehalt kaum überprüfbar. Geheimdienste haben in der Vergangenheit immer wieder falsche Behauptungen und unwahre Storries verbreitet, um bestimmte politische Ziele zu erreichen. Ein Beamter des amerikanischen Auslandsnachrichtendienstes CIA in Washington hat am Mittwoch eine Storry über den vermeintlichen Beginn des Irak-Krieges verbreitet. Demnach habe der CIA vor Beginn des Krieges Geheimmaterial des deutschen Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND) falsch eingeschätzt. Der BND habe aus seiner Quelle in Bagdad berichtet, dass Saddam Hussein über Massenvernichtungswaffen verfüge. Gleichzeitig hätten die Deutschen ihre Bedenken über die Verlässlichkeit ihres Informanten übermittelt. Die Warnungen seien jedoch ignoriert worden, "um den Krieg gegen das Regime von Saddam zu rechtfertigen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12358

A dozen war protesters were arrested Wednesday for setting up camp near President Bush's ranch in defiance of new local bans on roadside camping and parking. Daniel Ellsberg and Cindy Sheehan's sister Dee Dee Miller were among the arrestees.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305Y.shtml

In memorium. Lest we forget.

The First Thanksgiving

From the Community Endeavor News, November, 1995, as reprinted in Healing Global Wounds, Fall, 1996

The first official Thanksgiving wasn't a festive gathering of Indians and Pilgrims, but rather a celebration of the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and children, an anthropologist says. Due to age and illness his voice cracks as he talks about the holiday, but William B. Newell, 84, talks with force as he discusses Thanksgiving. Newell, a Penobscot, has degrees from two universities, and was the former chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Connecticut.

"Thanksgiving Day was first officially proclaimed by the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to commemorate the massacre of 700 men, women and children who were celebrating their annual green core dance-Thanksgiving Day to them-in their own house," Newell said.

"Gathered in this place of meeting they were attacked by mercenaries and Dutch and English. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth they were shot down. The rest were burned alive in the building," he said.

Newell based his research on studies of Holland Documents and the 13 volume Colonial Documentary History, both thick sets of letters and reports from colonial officials to their superiors and the king in England, and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, British Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years in the mid-1600s.

"My research is authentic because it is documentary," Newell said. "You can't get anything more accurate than that because it is first hand. It is not hearsay."

Newell said the next 100 Thanksgivings commemorated the killing of the Indians at what is now Groton, Ct. [home of a nuclear submarine base] rather than a celebration with them. He said the image of Indians and Pilgrims sitting around a large table to celebrate Thanksgiving Day was "fictitious" although Indians did share food with the first settlers.


And Leonard Peltier is in his 30th year of imprisonment!


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Informant: Ted Glick

From ufpj-news

Exclusif, d ossier spécial Suède :
Téléphonie Mobile 3G, Santé, OMS et . . . Élection !

http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=international#1
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/telephonie_mobile_sante_oms_special_suede_next_up_org_france.pdf

Bürgerinitiative Baugebiet in Niederklein: "kein Thema"

Auf einem Feld an der Bundesstraße 62 steht vor dem Ortseingang von Niederklein ein Schild als stiller Protest gegen den Sendemast. Foto: Pfeifer-Sternke

Niederklein. Am Montagabend informierte die „Bürgerinitiative gegen ortsnahen Sendemast“ (BI) rund 30 Bürger über ihre geleistete und geplante Arbeit.

von Silke Pfeifer-Sternke Der Sendemast des Mobilfunkbetreibers E-Plus steht seit Herbst 2004 auf dem Grundstück der Landwirtsfamilie Schlenstedt. Seit Bekanntwerden der Pläne des Mobilfunkanbieters regte sich Widerstand im Ort. „Der Mast muss weg“, gab BI-Vorstand Uwe Mottner auch als eines der Hauptziele für das kommende Jahr an.

Erreichen will das die BI mit der Ausweisung von Baugebieten in der Gemarkung „Schindkaute“ und „In der Wann“. Werde der Mast im Neubaugebiet umbaut, müsse er versetzt werden, so die BI-Intension.

Eine Antwort auf die Anfrage eines Zuhörers, ob ein solches Vorhaben andernorts bereits erfolgreich umgesetzt werden konnte, blieb der BI-Vorstand, Hans-Jürgen Ernst, Walter Gruß und Uwe Mottner, jedoch schuldig.

Martin Reinicke, Pressesprecherin des Mobilfunk-Betreibers, schätzt den Erfolg dieser Idee im Gespräch mit der OP als utopisch ein: „Es besteht eine gültige Baugenehmigung und somit Bestandsschutz für den Mast.“

Ein mögliches Baugebiet könne sich demnach um den Mast gruppieren unter Einhaltung des rechtlich vorgegebene Sicherheitsabstands. Der betrage im Durchschnitt 15 bis 20 Meter in der Horizontalen.

Theoretisch könne laut den gesetzlichen Bestimmungen aber ein einstöckiges Familienhaus direkt neben einem Sendemast gebaut werden, erläuterte der E-Plus-Sprecher.

Noch ein weiteres Problem gibt es: Eine Ausweisung als Baugebiet kann noch lange auf sich warten lassen. Für Bürgermeister Manfred Vollmer ist ein solches Vorhaben in naher Zukunft „kein Thema“.

Die BI befürchtet, dass sich aus der Strahlung des Sendemastes gesundheitliche Probleme für die Anwohner in Niederklein ergeben könnten.

Als besorgniserregend bezeichnete Mottner die Möglichkeit, dass der Mobilfunkanbieter E-Plus seinen Mast auch durch weitere Anbieter bestücken lassen könnte. „Die Vorrichtung dazu ist vorhanden“, betonte er.

Reinicke erklärte aber im OP-Gespräch, dass noch nicht geplant sei, den Sendemast von einem anderen Anbieter mitnutzen zu lassen. Zurzeit befinden sich drei „GSM“-Antennen, die laut Reinicke aussehen wie Bügelbretter, und drei Richtfunkantennen auf dem Niederkleiner Sendemast.

Harte Worte fand der BI-Vorstand Ernst für die Arbeit des Bürgermeisters Manfred Vollmer, der sich seiner Meinung nach nicht um eine Verlegung des Sendemastes gekümmert haben soll.

Kritisch äußerte sich der BI-Vorstand zudem zum geplanten Vorhaben der Landwirtsfamilie Schlenstedt, Ferienwohnungen zu errichten.

Geplant sind nach Angaben der Familie zwei Ferienwohnungen, unterteilt in vier Appartements, die senioren- und behindertengerecht ausgestattet sein sollen.

Zu dem laufenden Genehmigungsverfahren sagte Ernst wörtlich: „Wenn die Familie Schlenstedt etwas will, soll der Bürgermeister zum Telefon greifen und einen Interessenausgleich herbeiführen.“

Diese Forderung bezeichnete Vollmer im OP-Gespräch als „Erpressung“. Eine Baugenehmigung erteilt der Landkreis. Die Stadt habe nur die Möglichkeit, ihr Einvernehmen zu bekunden. Noch befindet sich dieses in der Prüfphase.

„Eine Verquickung mit dem Sendemast ist ein Rechtsbruch“, betonte Vollmer. Er habe vor Aufstellung des Sendemastes Gespräche mit E-Plus-Managern über Alternativstandorte geführt – allerdings ohne Erfolg. Vollmer verwies darauf, dass in Niederklein ein Sendemast stehe, „in unserer Stadt sind es 40“.

Um sich in Zukunft mehr Gehör zu verschaffen, will die BI politisch aktiv werden. Als „Strategiewechsel“ bezeichnete Ernst dieses Vorhaben. Vertreter der BI sollen für den Ortsbeirat und für das Parlament kandidieren. „Wir sind offen für alle Parteien“, betonte Mottner.

Zustimmung sollen die SPD und der Bürgerblock signalisiert haben. Zudem soll der stille Protest in Form von Schildern ausgeweitet werden.

In den vergangenen zwei Jahren sah sich die Familie Schlenstedt vielen Schikanen ausgesetzt. Doch sie ist froh, dass sich immer mehr Einwohner mit ihr solidarisch erklärten und die Linie der BI ablehnten.

Priviligierte Bauvorhaben im Außenbereich sind geregelt im Baugesetzbuch, Paragraf 35, Abs.1, Nr.3. Darunter fiel die Genehmigung des Sendemasts in Niederklein. Auch für die Genehmigung der geplanten Ferienwohnungen der Familie Schlenstedt ist dieser Paragraf die Grundlage.

Besteht bereits ein Wohngebäude im Außenbereich, handelt es sich nach Auskunft des Pressesprechers des Kreises, Dr. Markus Morr, um eine „mitgezogene Nutzung“. Das Landwirtschaftsministerium fördert solche Projekte, solange die Einnahmen daraus nicht die der Landwirtschaft übersteigen.

http://www.op-marburg.de/op/home.news.lokal/article.op.jsp?id=20051123.544779


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://www.thepeacealliance.org/action.htm


Informant: dmetke

From ufpj-news

No Space At The Table

by Liz Stanton, TomPaine.com

Bush said his tax cuts would create working-class jobs. But the wealthy were the only ones invited to the feast.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051123/no_space_at_the_table.php

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

Jack Murtha is not making things up. But the same can't be said for the folks running the war.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051123/cheneys_false_choices.php

Members of Telford & Wrekin Council are demanding that the borough releases land for mobile phone masts to prevent them from being sited near homes, schools and hospitals.

A comprehensive and up-to-date register of all phone mast sites could also be made available to the public, if a motion due to be put forward at next week’s council meeting gets the support of councillors.

The motion is being proposed by Councillor Arnold England, and also calls for the council and the borough’s MPs to lobby the government to give local authorities more power over where phone masts are built.

Councillor England says a forum should be created to liaise with the mobile phone companies and consider developments on health issues.

Telford anti-phone mast campaigner, Bev Walker, said that she hoped the council would support the proposal.

The full version of this story appears in the Last edition of tonight’s Shropshire Star.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=39627

In Haaksbergen, The Netherlands, county officials have prevented provider KPN to install UMTS (3G) antennas in a new mast. The inhabitants of Haaksbergen are strongly against UMTS. The municipality of Haaksbergen right now does not give permits anymore. The KPN mast was placed 4,5 metres away from the site according to the building permit. Haaksbergen says KPN has to move the mast. In The Netherlands at this moment more than 40 municipalities are retaining permits for UMTS masts.

Information http://www.stopumts.nl

CounterPunch
by Mike Ferner

11/22/05

"Sitting in a Georgia motel Saturday night, Kathy Kelly talked through a bad phone connection and a worse head cold to recount the previous day's activities where she and 13 others were arrested at an airstrip outside Raleigh, North Carolina. The tiny Johnson County Airport is home to Aero Contractors Corp., a firm described by the New York Times as 'a major domestic hub of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret air service,' that shuttles prisoners abroad for interrogation and suspected torture. The Times reports Aero was founded in 1979 by the chief pilot for Air America, a CIA 'front' in Vietnam. In addition to Kelly, those arrested Friday included residents of a Raleigh Catholic Worker house and members of Stop Torture Now, a project of the Center for Theology and Social Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri. Protesters walked onto company property and lowered the flags to half-mast before being arrested. ... Kelly, a leader in the movement to stop the U.S. war on Iraq, said she got arrested because of a growing concern over the government 'becoming increasingly blatant about its role in torture. People need to stand up before it becomes more risky'...

http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner11222005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tom Paine
by Charles V. Peña

11/22/05

Rep. John Murtha is right when he says, 'The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home.' Yet the administration persists. At the American Enterprise Institute, Vice President Dick Cheney responded to Murtha, saying, 'A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further violence against free nations, and a terrible blow to the future security of the United States of America.' ... Even if victory could somehow be achieved, it would be Pyrrhic given the costs and consequences. Moreover, it would only be a tactical victory at the expense of losing strategic position in the war on terrorism. What the Bush administration refuses to understand is that the U.S. military occupation in Iraq is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Therefore, the strategic imperative is to exit Iraq rather than stay. And although it is counterintuitive, exiting Iraq may be a prerequisite for victory...

http://tinyurl.com/c4neg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

11/23/05

Our leaders are behaving like the leaders of the late and unlamented French Third Republic. But if Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are responsible for the war and its consequences, so, too, are the potential Democratic nominees: Kerry, Edwards, Clinton, Biden and Bayh. In October 2002, because the country was cheering a commander in chief beating a war drum, they voted Bush a blank check to take us to war. In the fall of 2005, with the people souring on the war, they voted for a timetable to get out. We were deceived, we were misled, we were lied to, they wail. One only awaits their explanation that they were brainwashed by a C student. The Democratic Party is a poodle of public opinion, unfit to lead the nation...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10442


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by William F. Buckley, Jr.

11/22/05

The New York Post on Sunday assembled a comparison of what Messrs. Reid, Clinton, Dean, Biden, Kennedy, Kerry, Gore, and Byrd had to say about going into Iraq, the threat of Iraq, the dangers in ignoring the threat of Iraq, the advantages, strategic and moral in asserting ourselves there, the need to enforce the resolutions of the U.N. being ignored by Saddam Hussein ... The Post set these comments over against the language being used today by the summer soldiers. It is illuminating and casts a long shadow over the future of the United States, the security of the commander in chief, and the longevity of the national will...

http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/wfb200511221318.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by Jim Davies

11/22/05

Then that moment will come, when our numbers are overwhelming; and notice, we shall still do nothing violent, nothing outrageous. There will be no great 'movement' which the cornered tyrant can decapitate with a single slash of his machete. We shall just spontaneously walk off the job, so leaving the old order armless, legless, gutless and brainless...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davies/davies8.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/23/05

We are on a course set for Empire, and there's mutiny in the air. Biden, Clinton, and the entire Democratic Party establishment, as well as the GOP, are frantically trying to quell it. After Rep. Murtha announced his support for a plan that would have us out of Iraq in six months, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi demurred when asked if she endorsed it. Naturally, Biden, too, shied away from Murtha, while praising the old Marine's courage -- and demonstrating his own lack of it. The Democratic Party is worse than useless in the struggle to extract us from the Iraqi quagmire: it is an obstacle, not the lever that will get us out. Combined with their hopelessly statist domestic policies -- which cry out for a wartime atmosphere of permanent emergency, all the better to increase the size and power of government -- the Democrats' stance is indistinguishable from the Cheneyites in everything but tone...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8136


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Choice Channel
by R. Lee Wrights

11/22/05

Education is only one of the areas where good intentions have proven less than sufficient to cure the ills of society. It was with the very best of intentions that legislators decided to take upon themselves the responsibility of providing a free education to every child in America. Has a nobler thought ever been conceived in human mind than the desire to see America’s offspring properly prepared to face an ever-changing world? However, the consequence of such feel-good philosophy is a false sense of security, born in the supposition that the State can do something, anything, better than the individual. Freedom is relinquished willingly for nothing more than a promise that government can provide something to individuals that the individuals themselves cannot procure on their own. And the children suffer the most...

http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/834


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

11/23/05

No one who favors the warfare state can disown the methods by which it's financed. It is no less economically collectivist to root for war than to root for any other government program. If a socialist told you he wants universal healthcare, but he does not favor the taxation and coercion to fund and implement it, you would quickly point out his naked contradiction. Every warmonger is an inflationist and a taxmonger, whether he knows it or not. To accept war is to accept the warfare state, and to accept the warfare state is to accept all the fundamental premises of statism -- the collectivism, the aggression, the ability of central planning to succeed...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory98.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

NBC 10 News

11/22/05

Rhode Island school districts have been put on notice that they must clarify their policies regarding military recruitment in schools. NBC 10's Kelley McGee reported that a provision in the No Child Left Behind Act gives military recruiters access to student information unless their parents sign a form that allows students to opt out of the process. This form is supposed to be sent home with every student, but a recent survey of Rhode Island schools by the American Civil Liberties Union found otherwise. 'The one thing that's very clear is that the vast majority of parents and students had no idea that this information about them was being released to the military without their knowledge,' said Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU's Rhode Island affiliate...

http://www.turnto10.com/education/5385290/detail.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

11/22/05

Ten days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush was advised that U.S. intelligence found no credible connection linking the attacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, or evidence suggesting linkage between Saddam and the al-Qaida terrorist network, according to a published report. The report, published Tuesday in The National Journal, cites government records, as well as present and former officials with knowledge of the issue. The information in the story, written by National Journal contributor Murray Waas, points to an abiding administration concern for secrecy that extended to keeping information from the Senate committee charged with investigating the matter...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10164478/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

11/22/05

The head of a European probe into alleged secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe is investigating 31 suspected flights that landed in Europe and is trying to acquire past satellite images of sites in Romania and Poland, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday. Dick Marty, a Swiss senator leading the investigation for the Council of Europe, presented a first report on his work at a closed meeting of the human rights watchdog's legal affairs committee in Paris...

http://tinyurl.com/bzlns


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CBS News

With time running out for Rep. Tom DeLay to regain his House majority leader post, the Republican is pushing for dismissal of his criminal indictments. Senior Judge Pat Priest won't decide for two weeks whether to toss out DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering charges. The case probably would not go to trial before January, Priest said at a hearing Tuesday. DeLay wanted the charges stemming from an alleged 2002 campaign finance scheme resolved by then, as Congress reconvenes in January. The longer the House goes without a permanent majority leader, the more likely it is that Republicans will elect a new one.

http://tinyurl.com/7td7d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

11/23/05

The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq. It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way. Though it has obtained court injunctions against newspapers, the government has never prosecuted editors for publishing the contents of leaked documents, including highly sensitive ones about the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, last night referred editors to newspaper reports yesterday that described the contents of a memo purporting to be at the centre of charges against two men under the secrets act. Under the front-page headline 'Bush plot to bomb his ally,' the Daily Mirror reported that the US president last year planned to attack the Arabic television station al-Jazeera, which has its headquarters in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where US and British bombers were based. ... Charges under the secrets act have to have the consent of the attorney-general. His intervention yesterday suggests that the prosecution plans to ask the judge to hold part, if not all of the trial, in camera, with the public and press excluded...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1648590,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Democrats leading the charge into the second phase of a bipartisan investigation into pre-war Iraq intelligence have said this week that they will spend the next month or so working with Pentagon officials who last week agreed to probe a top secret spy shop once headed by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305Z.shtml

http://openpr.de/in/69978

Mit freundlichen Grüßen möchten wir Sie/Euch herzlich zur Teilnahme an den Mahnwachen einladen. Unsere Proteste werden aber ab jetzt wieder regelmäßig fortgesetzt. Der Auftakt letzte Woche war stimmungsvoll mit Laternen, Tee und Keksen begleitet. Die Kronenzeitung hat am 26.11. mit Bild berichtet.

Die Mahnwachen sind ein einfaches, aber äußerst wirksames Mittel, um gegen die Mobilfunksender – und ganz besonders gegen den Ausbau mit UMTS-Sendern, vor allem auch in der Nähe von Schulen und Kindergärten, in der Öffentlichkeit weiterhin zu protestieren.

Kürzlich meinte ein Salzburger Politiker, dass der öffentliche Druck seitens der Bevölkerung nicht ausreichend sei, um die verantwortlichen PolitikerInnen in Wien bezüglich der Mobilfunksituation, zum Handeln zu bewegen.

Termine

* Do. 1. Dez.

* Mi. 7. Dez.

* Do. 15. Dez.

* Do. 22. Dez.

jeweils von 9.45 bis 11.00 vor dem Schloss Mirabell.

Bitte kommen und wenn möglich Transparente mitbringen !

Wir freuen uns Euch/Sie begrüßen zu können. Anschließend findet wieder ein kurzer Austausch im Cafe "Bellinis" statt.

Das Schulforum Mobilfunk, der Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Salzburg hat die Mahnwache vor dem Schloss Mirabell wieder organisiert.

Da die Mahnwache in die vorweihnachtliche Atmosphäre vor dem Schloss eingebettet ist, lautet unser aktuelles Motto:

„Wir Eltern wünschen uns vom Christkind nur dies: Sender weg von den Schulen unserer Kinder“!


Michael Meyer
michael_meyer@aon.at
Schulforum Mobilfunk - Risiko Mobilfunk Österreich
Plattform Sozialstaat Österreich - Netzwerk Zivilcourage
A - 5165 Berndorf, Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen möchten wir Sie/Euch herzlich zur Teilnahme an der Mahnwache einladen. Für dieses Mal muss ich mich für die Kurzfristigkeit entschuldigen.

Unsere Proteste werden aber ab jetzt wieder regelmäßig fortgesetzt.

Bitte kommen, wer spontan ist und Zeit hat und wenn möglich Transparente mitbringen !

Wir freuen uns Euch/Sie begrüßen zu können. Anschließend findet ein kurzer Austausch im Cafe "Bellinis" statt.


Michael Meyer
michael_meyer@aon.at
Schulforum Mobilfunk - Risiko Mobilfunk Österreich Plattform Sozialstaat Österreich - Netzwerk Zivilcourage
A - 5165 Berndorf,
Stadl 4
Tel/Fax 0043 - 6217 - 8576

Kürzlich meinte ein Salzburger Politiker, dass der öffentliche Druck seitens der Bevölkerung nicht ausreichend sei, um die verantwortlichen PolitikerInnen in Wien bezüglich der Mobilfunksituation, zum Handeln zu bewegen.

Das Schulforum Mobilfunk, der Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Salzburg hat die Mahnwache vor dem Schloss Mirabell wieder organisiert.

Die Mahnwachen sind ein einfaches, aber äußerst wirksames Mittel, um gegen die Mobilfunksender – und ganz besonders gegen den Ausbau mit UMTS-Sendern, vor allem auch in der Nähe von Schulen und Kindergärten, in der Öffentlichkeit weiterhin zu protestieren.

Termin: Donnerstag, 24. Nov. 05
von 9.45 bis 11.00 vor dem Schloss Mirabell

Da die Mahnwache in die vorweihnachtliche Atmosphäre vor dem Schloss eingebettet ist, lautet unser aktuelles Motto:

„Wir Eltern wünschen uns vom Christkind nur dies: Sender weg von den Schulen unserer Kinder“!

This is an area to watch which could succeed. Good ideas, sheer guts and persistence, and a determined team effort.

ORANGE PIPPED: Parishioners force phone mast U-turn

Exclusive by Justin Dunn
Wirral Globe
23.11.05

MOBILE phone giant Orange has been locked out of a church it is paying £6,000 a year to house one of its phone masts, the Globe can reveal.

Upset ministers- previously in favour of the mast - changed their minds after a campaign in the Globe by residents and councillors.

Last Wednesday evening, they removed the combination padlock installed in Wallasey's Manor Church Centre tower and replaced it with one of their own.

"The continued presence of the mast will seriously damage the work of the church within its community," said the Reverend Ian Smith.

"We believe that the process that has been followed leading to the installation of the mast by Orange has severely damaged the relationship of trust between Manor Church Centre and its neighbours."

Liscard Labour councillor Christine Jones was even more blunt: "The church and its local community are saying to Orange: Get your tanks off our lawn.

"They should take heed, too, because this vociferous protest is not going to go away."

Campaigner Dr Tom Bolton added: "Nobody now blames the church for originally being embroiled in this sinister shadow over our environment."

The mast - which has still not been activated - is inside the bell-tower of the church in Manor Road.

Reverend Smith has also indicated that negotiations with Vodafone to install a second mast "should cease with immediate effect".

An Orange spokesman told the Globe: "This matter is now in the hands of our solicitors and on that basis we are unable to offer a comment."

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.htm


Informant: Martin Greenhut

This favorable review published in the conservative Le Figaro of a new book published in France, "Capitalism Is in the Process of Destroying Itself," suggests there may be some hope for repair of the only economic system left standing since the Cold War.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205H.shtml

In conversations with troops in the tense cities of Baghdad, Mosul and Tikrit during the last four weeks, morale seemed a fragile thing, especially among those in the line of fire, shot through with a sense of dread. "Morale is a roller coaster," said Lt. Rusten Currie, who has spent 10 months in Iraq. "We were all idealistic to begin with, wanting to find Osama bin Laden and [Abu Musab] Zarqawi, and bring them to justice — whatever that means. Now we just want to go home."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205G.shtml

E. J. Dionne Jr.: Perhaps we should redeploy the democracy experts we have sent to the Middle East and ask them to work on our Congress. The past few days have confirmed that our national government is dysfunctional. If we want to sell reason and moderation to our Iraqi allies, we'd be more persuasive if we could have reasonable debates ourselves about how to fund our government and how to conduct our policy in their country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205F.shtml

Less than three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, relief legislation remains dormant in Washington and despair is growing among officials here who fear that Congress and the Bush administration are losing interest in their plight.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205D.shtml

EU states will write a joint letter to the United States seeking clarification after allegations that Washington ran illegal prisons in Europe as part of its "war on terror," an official said on Tuesday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205C.shtml

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to interview senior administration officials about their statements regarding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein before the war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205B.shtml

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,386442,00.html

Die staatliche venezolanische Erdölgesellschaft Citgo will armen Amerikanern durch den Winter helfen. Bedürftige Menschen im US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts sollen einen besonderen Rabatt für geliefertes Heizöl bekommen. Praesident Chavez hat sich bereits notorisch unbeliebt gemacht bei der US-Regierung, die er zum Feind der Menschheit erlärt hat. Seit 7 Jahren seiner Regierungszeit verfolgt er das Ziel, die Versorgung der Armen im eigenen Land und anderswo zu verbessern und die Ressourcen zu ihren Gunsten zu verteilen.


G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: www.hh-online.com?lid=23056 und
http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23056


Infopool / metainfo hamburg
http://www.hh-online.com

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,386434,00.html

Immer tiefer versinkt die Bush-Regierung im Sumpf der eigenen Selbstüberschätzung und ihrer immer offenkundigeren menschenverachtenden und völkerrechtswidrigen Methoden: die eigene Partei schreckt nicht davor zurück, ihr eine Abstimmungsniederlage nach der nächsten zu bereiten. Das unwiderrufliche Ende scheint näher zu rücken...


G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23055 und
http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23055

Infopool / metainfo hamburg
http://www.hh-online.com

The European Union's transfer of airline passenger data to the United States -- part of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism -- should be declared illegal, an adviser to the European Union's highest court said on Tuesday.

http://tinyurl.com/bla9z


From Information Clearing House

An Iranian exile who opposes his country's Islamic government said Monday that Iran's military is building a series of secret tunnels to hide equipment for missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051121/D8E13JGG0.html



A million martyrs await the call

In No10 the tom-toms of war of war are drumming again as Tony Blair warns that he will not tolerate the meddling hand of Iran in the affairs of Iraq. In Washington the neoconservative tom-toms are even louder, warning that the West must “surgically strike” at Iran’s hidden nuclear facilities.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1878612,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Big oil firms may rob Iraq of billions and grab control of its oilfields unless ordinary Iraqis can have a greater say in how their country's riches are tapped, U.S. and British campaigners said on Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11107.htm

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Iraq's oil: The spoils of war

Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328526.ece


From Information Clearing House

--------

The Battle Against Fraud

Mr. Stein accepted over $200,000 a month to steer contracts to an American businessman whose companies often did poor work and sometimes did no work at all. - Officials at the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction say they are pursuing 50 more cases and have already referred at least six more to prosecutors.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11114.htm

Surely the most telling indictment of the lack of fair trial inherent in the proposed military commission process is that no US citizen can be subject to it because of the US constitutional guarantee of a right to a fair trial.

http://snipurl.com/k5a9


From Information Clearing House

There were around 20 pick ups full of them.

http://snipurl.com/k5a7


From Information Clearing House

http://snipurl.com/k5a5


From Information Clearing House

He wants the troops out now and outlined his plan Monday morning.
http://www.koin.com/news.asp?ID=5605


From Information Clearing House

Showing his contempt for workers yet again, President George W. Bush has announced he will nominate an aggressively anti-union attorney to fill one of two vacancies on the five-member National Labor Relations Board.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112205LB.shtml

Woodward has been the consummate insider while cultivating the image of the hard charging investigative reporter. According to Larry Johnson he is anything but, and it is time to blow the whistle on his incestuous relationship with certain government officials.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205R.shtml

Bomber Kills 17

A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol Tuesday in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing at least 17 people. And in two separate attacks, three US soldiers were killed, pushing the American death toll in Iraq to 2,100, officials said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205Q.shtml

http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/:Bundesverfassungsgericht-Angst-Bruder/550157.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

q/depesche 2005-11-23T13:34:37

Der Generalanwalt des EuGH ist dafür, den Flugdaten/deal der inzwischen abgegangenen EU-Kommission für nichtig zu erklären. In ein paar Monaten erfolgt das Urteil, während Europas Passagierdaten munter weiter fließen, von Ost nach West, wo die großen Daten/warenhäuser stehen.

Im Rechtsstreit über die Weitergabe von personenbezogenen Passagierdaten an die USA droht der EU-Kommission eine Niederlage vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof [EuGH].

Der Generalanwalt des Luxemburger EU-Gerichts schlug am Dienstag vor, das Abkommen mit Washington wegen fehlender Rechtsgrundlagen für nichtig zu erklären. Das EU-Parlament hatte im Vorjahr wegen erheblicher datenschutzrechtlicher Bedenken den EuGH in dieser Frage angerufen.

Das endgültige Urteil des EuGH steht noch aus. In vier von fünf Fällen folgen die EU-Richter allerdings der Meinung des Generalanwalts.

[...] Die EU-Datenschutzrichtlinie sei nicht außerhalb der EU anwendbar und gelte insbesondere nicht für die Datenverarbeitung zu Zwecken der öffentlichen Sicherheit und staatlicher Tätigkeiten auf strafrechtlichem Gebiet, begründete der Generalanwalt seine Auffassung.

Folglich sei die EU-Kommission nicht befugt gewesen, über das Abkommen mit den USA zu entscheiden.

Auch die Entscheidung des Rates sei rechtlich nicht gedeckt. Dieser hatte sich nämlich auf Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung des Binnenmarktes gestützt, die im EU-Vertrag verankert seien.

Mehr dazu
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=277557


relayed by Harkank

Petition von Armin Kamrad

Antwort auf die Petition zur Förderung von Arbeitsgelegenheiten

Am 29. Mai schrieb Armin Kammrad an den Petitionsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages wegen der „Gesetzliche Handhabung von Arbeit und Arbeitsgelegenheit“. Die sehr ausführliche Stellungnahme des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Wirtschaft zur Petition vom 17.10.2005. (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/kammradpet2.pdf


Antwort von Armin Kamrad an den Petitionsausschuss

„Ich schreibe öfters Petitionen an den Deutschen Bundestag und meistens erhalte ich auch eine zumindest kurze Antwort. Die Antwort des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit auf meine bereits im August geübte Kritik an den sog. „Arbeitsgelegenheiten“ (1-Euro-Jobs) hat mich jedoch etwas überrascht. Da finde wirklich mal eine inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung statt und das gleich auf sechs Seiten, wobei die Herausgabe der Stellungnahme an mich diesmal sogar mit Amtsstempel des Bundesministeriums noch beglaubigt und freigegeben wurde (vgl. PDF letzte Seite). Was ist passiert? Nun ja, wer die Antwort des Bundesminsteriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit genau studiert, wird erkennen, dass dieses mit seiner Argumentation irgendwie in Zugzwang geraten ist. Wie erklärt man die Hartz IV-Gesetze so, dass alles auch im Hinblick auf geltendes Verfassungsrecht und auch der selbstfabrizierten Sozialgesetzgebung passt? Dies gelingt nicht und kann meiner Ansicht nach nicht gelingen. So habe ich z.B. meine Anschauung, dass 1-Euro-Jobbern ein Tarif- und Streikrecht zusteht, nicht einfach nur aus der Verfassung abgeleitet, sondern vor allem aus der neuen Gesetzgebung selbst. Sie hat sich hier offenbar selbst ein Ei gelegt, und hat entsprechend lange an den sechs Seiten Antwortschreiben gebrütet. Klar, warum nicht noch ein paar mehr faule Eier in eine zum Himmel stinkende Sozialgesetzgebung legen? Also schreibe ich nochmals an den Petitionsausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags…“ Brief vom 20.11.2005

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/kammradpet3.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 23. November 2005

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3665/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0318-14.htm


Informant: Zany Mystic

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/14331.html


Informant: NHNE

This trend is emerging in other areas. You wonder if there is a backlog at the Inspectorate, as appeals are cancelled, and new planning applications are put in for the same site, or a few yards away. Careful scrutiny of the notification documents can sometimes reveal errors.

Sandi


PLANNING LAW TWIST ANGER

Katherine Gibson
editorial@burtonmail.co.uk
22.11.05

A TWIST in planning law allowing a mobile phone antenna to be installed without planning permission has left a group of South Derbyshire residents feeling "gutted".

As reported in the Mail, campaigners living nearby the former Albion works off High Street, Newhall, were celebrating last week after a mobile phone operator withdrew a renewed bid to build a 45ft mast near their homes.

Mobile giant O2 pledged “no further action” would be taken over the proposed mast after withdrawing an appeal against the application’s refusal by South Derbyshire District Council. However, the firm has now confirmed a 12ft antenna is instead to be attached to the building — and planning permission is not required.

More than 200 residents from Avon Close and Queen’s Drive signed a petition objecting to the original mast proposal on health grounds, saying they feared emissions given off by masts could cause cancer. Part of the protestors’ fears centred around the land’s proximity to Elmsleigh Infant and Nursery School, in Queen’s Drive.

Avon Close resident Lynn Kaiser, one of the campaigners who spearheaded the drive to halt the plan, said: “We just can’t believe it.

“We just feel as if we have wasted our time. What was the point in everything we did if they can just go and do this? It defies belief.

“As far as we’re concerned, we are just as worried about the effects the antenna might have as the mast but we don’t think there’s anything we can do about it. We’re gutted.”

Queen’s Drive resident John Yeadon said: “I think it’s absolutely disgusting that they are allowed to do this, and so close to a school as well.”

Planners at the district council said when they threw out the mast proposal that they believed it would be of ‘substantial detriment’ to nearby residents.

An O2 spokesman confirmed the firm abandoned the original mast plan after deciding to install an antenna on the building.

All the company’s masts and antennae fall within EU guidelines on emissions.

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

A link between ill health and mobile phone mast radiation has not been proved or disproved by scientists.

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

LewRockwell.Com
by Lloyd Kinder

11/24/05

My little dictionary says authoritarian means favoring obedience to authority instead of individual freedom. Actually to most of us, authoritarian means favoring coercion in human relations and that's what is opposite of individual freedom. The only real authority is one who is 'all-good' and Jesus said none are good except God. Indeed, our one authority, God, wants us to have individual freedom, so we're being obedient to true authority by supporting such freedom. The Bible is called God's Word and James called the Bible the perfect law of liberty. And Jesus said his followers would not exercise dominion one over another, but would serve each other in loving brotherhood [Mat. 20:25–28, Acts 2:44 etc.]...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/kinder4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051030&articleId=1169


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's wonderful new website at:
http://www.birdfluhype.com/


Informant: beefree

Bis voraussichtlich Ende Jahr werden wegen des Bundesgerichtsurteils im Fall Bolligen im ganzen Kanton keine Sendeanlagen mehr genehmigt

Das Urteil des Bundesgerichts zur geplanten Orange-Anlage in Bolligen hat weitreichende Folgen: Das Berner Wirtschaftsamt (Beco) hat alle Genehmigungen gestoppt. Und auf die Netzbetreiber kommen rigorose Kontrollen zu.

Den Betreibern von Mobilfunknetzen in der Schweiz weht eine zunehmend steife Bise entgegen. Einerseits melden immer mehr Gemeinden, dass sie, bis fundierte Aussagen über allfällige gesundheitliche Folgen der Strahlung vorliegen, keine neuen Antennen mehr auf eigenen Liegenschaften aufstellen lassen. Letzte Woche fällte der Berner Gemeinderat diesen Entscheid, schon seit mehreren Jahren übrigens handelt der Ostermundiger Gemeinderat so. Anderseits hat die kantonale Aufsichtsbehörde über Mobilfunkantennen, die Abteilung Immissionsschutz des Berner Wirtschaftsamts (Beco), vor ein paar Tagen ein Antennengenehmigungsmoratorium ausgesprochen. In einem Brief an die Regierungsstatthalter und die rund 30 Bauverwaltungen mit voller Bewilligungskompetenz im Kanton schreibt das Beco, es werde – voraussichtlich bis Ende Jahr – keine neuen Genehmigungen für Mobilfunk-Basisstationen mehr erteilen. Hängige Baugesuche könnten aber weiter bearbeitet werden. Gemäss Peter Matti vom Beco dürften im Kanton Bern vom Moratorium etwa 50 Gesuche betroffen sein.

Leistung muss überprüft werden

Der Grund für das Moratorium: Im März hat das Bundesgericht die Beschwerde von Privatpersonen gegen ein Antennenprojekt der Firma Orange in Bolligen gutgeheißen und den Fall zurück ans Verwaltungsgericht geschickt. In diesem Urteil halten die Lausanner Richter fest, dass die Einhaltung der maximal bewilligten Sendeleistung von Mobilfunkantennen gewährleistet und überwacht werden muss. In einem Urteil von 2002 zu einer Zürcher Mobilfunkantenne hat das Bundesgericht auch festgehalten, dass die Vollzugsbehörden – die Kantone – sicherstellen müssen, dass die Antennen in die festgelegte Richtung strahlen. «Die Senderichtung der Antennen (horizontal und vertikal) ist eine wichtige Größe für die Berechnung der NIS-Belastung», steht im Urteil. NIS bedeutet nichtionisierende Strahlung.

Soft- statt «Hardware» ändern

Matti, Experte für nichtionisierende Strahlung im Beco, sagt, das Bundesgericht habe an sich bauliche Maßnahmen an den Antennen gefordert. Es ließ aber auch andere Möglichkeiten offen. Den in einer nationalen Arbeitsgruppe zusammengeschlossenen NIS-Fachleuten scheint es sinnvoll, wenn die Mobilfunkbetreiber mit einer Änderung der Antennensteuerungstechnik die Leistungsbeschränkung und den Neigewinkel garantieren. «Das wird heute alles ferngesteuert», erklärt Matti. In einer von den Fachleuten in Auftrag gegebenen Expertise bestätigte das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) die Machbarkeit und hält den Vorschlag ebenfalls für zweckmäßig. Die NIS-Fachleute schlagen nun vor, dass die Computerprogramme, welche die Antennen steuern, so abgeändert werden, dass bei einer Überschreitung der zulässigen Sendeleistung oder bei einer Veränderung des Neigungswinkels das System automatisch einen Alarm auslöst. Die NIS-Fachstellen wollen stichprobenartig diese Vergleiche zwischen den Vorgaben der Baubewilligung und der effektiven Antennenstrahlung überprüfen können. Außerdem soll eine externe Qualitätssicherungsinstitution die Arbeit der Mobilfunkbetreiber inspizieren. Vom Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft erwarten die NIS-Fachleute bis Ende Jahr in Form einer Empfehlung grünes Licht für diese Vorschläge. Deshalb das Moratorium bis Ende Jahr.

Bedeutet die verschärfte Prüfung der Antennenabstrahlung, dass die Mobilfunkbetreiber hin und wieder ihre Antennen zu stark nutzten? Seit einem Jahr habe die bernische Fachstelle die Möglichkeit, die Antennendaten der Mobilfunkbetreiber beim Bakom online einzusehen, antwortet Matti. Leistungsüberschreitungen seien keine festgestellt worden. «Gerade bei älteren Anlagen ist die Datenfülle aber weniger groß.»

Ziel der kantonalen Fachstellen ist es, dass ab nächstem Jahr neue und bestehende Anlagen überprüft werden können. «Das bedeutet natürlich einen Kraftakt für die Netzbetreiber», gibt Matti zu.

Betreiber sind schon fast bereit

Wie reagieren die drei Schweizer Mobilfunknetzbetreiber auf die neusten Entwicklungen? Carsten Krenz von Swisscom Mobile sagte gestern auf Anfrage, im Rahmen des Branchenverbands Sicta hätten sich die drei Unternehmen dem Vorschlag der NIS-Fachstellen angeschlossen und bereits schriftlich zugesichert, die Computerprogramme anzupassen. Swisscom ist zuversichtlich, Anfang nächstes Jahr bereit zu sein. «Wir stellen uns damit einer sehr großen Herausforderung, die nur mit erheblichen Anstrengungen gemeistert werden kann», bestätigt Krenz. Die Arbeiten hätten «erhebliche Kostenfolgen», die aber nicht auf die Kundschaft abgewälzt würden. Im Vergleich mit anderen Branchen machten die Behörden den Mobilfunkbetreibern sehr strenge Auflagen, so Krenz weiter.

http://www.espace.ch/artikel_153070.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3663/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/464801/

Mobile Phone Use and the Risk of Acoustic Neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/614189/

Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer - in this Case specifically to Acoustic Neuromas http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Case-Control Study on Cellular and Cordless Telephones and the Risk for Acoustic Neuroma or Meningioma in Patients Diagnosed 2000-2003 http://omega.twoday.net/stories/884169/

Mobile phones tumour risk to young children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/469215/

Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/940552/

Three papers from Hardell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/882284/

The Effects Of Radiation In The Cause Of Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1158742/

Embattled Washington Post editor Bob Woodward provided an important clue that may help shed light on the identity of the person who told him in June 2003 that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205Y.shtml

Das Interview des Dissidentenfunk mit Heiner Bielefeldt, dem Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte

http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de ,

ist sowohl transkribiert als auch im O-Ton unter dieser Internet Adresse zu finden:
http://www.dissidentenfunk.de/archiv/s0511/#t08trackinfo

Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus dem Interview:

Es gibt ja unterschiedliche Menschenrechtsnormen und mir scheint, dass beim Thema "Zwangsbehandlung in der Psychiatrie" insbesondere zwei Menschenrechtsnormen unmittelbar einschlägig sind, nämlich das Recht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit und - wichtiger noch - das Recht auf freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit. "Freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit" heißt, dass das Recht eines Kranken zu respektieren ist, auch nicht behandelt zu werden. Selbst der Anspruch, Gesundheitsfürsorge zu leisten, darf nicht die Autonomie des Menschen zerstören. Das sind die beiden Normen, die mir besonders einschlägig zu sein scheinen. Und das ist nicht nur meine persönliche Meinung. Denn wenn man sich die Rechtsprechung in Deutschland zu diesem Thema und auch die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofes für Menschenrechte anschaut, dann findet das dort auch Unterstützung....

Die ganze Sendung zum Celler Urteil und den Menschenrechten wird am Donnerstag 24.11. von 16 bis 17 Uhr wiederholt.

DISSIDENTENFUNK Wir senden an jedem 2. und 4. Donnerstag im Monat von 16 bis 17 Uhr im Offenen Kanal Berlin UKW: 97,2 MHz (Kabel: 92,6), oder im Internet unter
http://www.okb.de/radiostream.htm kann man den Livestream empfangen (mit dem Winamp Mediaplayer sollte das kein Problem sein).

Werner-Fuß-Zentrum
Scharnweberstr. 29
10247 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de
http://www.die-bpe.de
http://www.antipsychiatrie.de und
http://www.dissidentenfunk.de

Atomkonsens ist Nonsens

VOM WIDERSTAND GEGEN DEN CASTOR- TRANSPORT 2005

Am heutigen Dienstagnachmittag sind die AKU – Aktiven und Freunde wieder wohlbehalten in Wiesbaden angekommen. Sie zeigten sich beeindruckt von der anhaltenden Stärke des Widerstands im Wendland. Beschämend war allerdings die geringe Beteiligung von auswärtigen AtomkraftgegnerInnen. Aber das kann ja das nächste mal anders werden…

Ein kurzer Blick auf den Widerstand der letzten Tage
Link zum Artikel: http://www.aku-wiesbaden.de/artikel_98.htm

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051121-103434-8775r.htm


Informant: NHNE

A MAN being treated for prostate cancer could have a phone mast built next to his house.

Frank Swindell, of Sheep Pen Lane, said, 'I have had cancer already. I have just had 16 days in hospital — I have cancer of the vertebrae and have had radiotherapy.

'I have also got a clot on my lung and an irregular heartbeat.
'I am concerned, not just for my health, but for my wife and my neighbours, who will all be living in a very short distance of the mast.

'If you read some of the research into this, anything within 80 metres of one of these masts is not good for one's health.
'I am sure the phone company would argue against that but I have been looking at recent research about it.

Pat Swindell, Frank's wife said, 'It seems so unfair that these radio waves will beam down on us in a concentrated way like this for 24 hours a day.

'The whole exercise has had a damaging effect on his health, his morale and I feel we are very much up against big business.'
Frank added, 'The whole thing has been a tremendous worry and hasn't helped at all with my health problems.'

Mr Swindell has many other concerns about the construction of the mast.

He said, 'We are equally worried about it from a safety point of view.

'This is a very busy corner — there is enough accidents there already.

'If you put another two obstructions, a base station four metres high and a tower eight metres high, you are going to have visibility problems.

'It all adds to the safety worries of the junction.'

A spokesperson for Orange said, 'A planning application is due to be submitted over the next few weeks and will be subject to all the normal planning conditions as with any new development.
'In terms of siting in general, it is not always possible to site base stations away from populated areas due to the low operating power which means that the signal doesn't travel a great distance.

'Therefore, if people want to be able to use their mobile phones while at home or work, and inside buildings, we have to site our installations close enough to support their network demands.

'Many people view mobile technology as a new invention and believe that we should be cautious until we know what the effects may be.

'However, mobile phones are just a new way of using old technology.
'Radio Frequency has been around for over 40 years and there are many other forms of RF already in our environment whether we are at home, in a classroom or outside.

'No substantiated evidence exists to date linking exposure to RF emissions from mobile phone technology with adverse human health effects, despite significant global investment into this type of research.

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

A spokesperson for Lewes District Council confirmed that Orange were in discussions with planners but no formal...

22 November 2005

The doctors were lucky that day; the injured commando didn't die. But twice in the past few months the doctors have gone on strike, protesting against commandos and army soldiers beating them up and kicking patients out of their beds to make space for their casualties.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205N.shtml

Judith Coburn writes that George W. Bush and his associates must have remarkably short memories. While he has been careful to mouth words of cooperation in the Plamegate case, he has depended on the Republican control of Congress to stonewall on just about every egregious misdeed that has seen the light of day, blocking public hearings into Abu Ghraib, the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, the CIA secret prison system, faux intelligence on Iraq, and Plamegate itself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205L.shtml

Marc Ash writes, "They say the first casualty of any war is the truth, but lies alone don't launch armies. There has to be a fervor, a madness if you will, that drives the architects, a certainty of righteousness. What drove Richard Nixon to order the carpet-bombing of Cambodia? When George W. Bush used the word crusade as part of his rationale for war, was it his mistake or Freud's?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205I.shtml

http://www.nydailynews.com/11-22-2005/news/wn_report/story/367940p-313140c.html


Informant: acpollack2

From ufpj-news

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

11/17/05

On November 7th, the United States Supreme Court announced, over strenuous objections by the Bush administration, that it will review the legality of the administration's planned military commissions for accused terrorists, setting up what could be one of the most significant rulings on presidential war powers since the end of World War II. Later this term, the Court will hear the case of Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, which deals with the legality of military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay detainees. Last term, the Justices threw out the administration's claim that the United States could hold enemy combatants indefinitely without access to the courts. At the crux of many of the war power cases is the assertion that the courts lack authority to even consider cases restricting presidential war powers...

http://tinyurl.com/bup2y


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Hawaii Reporter
by Laura Brown

11/17/05

The U.S. Supreme Court decided wrongly against parents this week in the Schaffer v. Weast decision to place the burden of proof on parents when disputing the adequacy of their child’s special education program. The decision assumes that government bureaucrats know what is best for children. Parents can opt out of mandatory government education to determine their child’s education program only if they have the money to pay for private placement and services or -- if poor -- can legally prove that their child is being harmed by an inadequate program...

http://tinyurl.com/czcrw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Ted Lang

11/21/05

I asked Dr. Daniel Ellsberg this question on Tuesday, November 15th, after he had just completed his lecture to instructors, professors, students and members of the public that were in attendance to hear him speak at William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey: Dr. Ellsberg, which bomb do you think will go off first -- Fitzgerald bringing another indictment, or the military attack on Syria and Iran? His answer was frightening -- he offered that the war would probably come first, initiated in all likelihood as an engineered distraction to negate the effect of the expected upcoming indictments. Daniel Ellsberg is an American achiever and a TRUE patriot akin to the Spirit of '76 inculcated into our national psyche by the writings and documents of our Founding Fathers...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/11/21/lang.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Arizona Republic
by Richard Ruelas

11/21/05

For some, the ban on torture that Arizona Sen. John McCain has introduced before Congress is not a theoretical concept. For whose who have experienced torture, talking about it brings back stinging memories of torn-off fingernails, dislocated shoulders and broken cheekbones. Being the recipient of torture teaches some lessons. For instance, torture can make someone talk. The rule about soldiers only giving their name, rank and serial number eventually goes away. 'Everybody that I know broke,' said Larry Chesley, who was held a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for four years. But torture does not lead to truth. The pain will make someone say nearly anything to get it to stop. 'You really don't know if you've got anything or not,' Chesley said. Someone who gets tortured doesn't feel right having his country take up such behavior. 'I think physical torture is unacceptable,' said Chesley, a former state legislator and current Republican Party district chair...

http://tinyurl.com/avb5c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Australian IT News
by staff

11/21/05

With each new advance in communications, the government wants the same level of snooping power that authorities have exercised over phone conversations for a century. Technologists recoil, accusing the government of micromanaging, and potentially limiting, innovation. Today, this tug-of-war is playing out over US Federal Communications Commission demands that a phone wiretapping law be extended to voice-over-internet services and broadband networks...

http://tinyurl.com/7tbmw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Intellectual Conservative
by W. James Antle III

11/21/05

The anti-Murtha juggernaut will fail. The Pennsylvania Democrat may not be Scoop Jackson but he is certainly not Michael Moore, no matter how much some in the White House might want to link the two. A majority of Americans are now entertaining second thoughts about the Iraq war, not just a far-left fringe. Yet by refusing to question the war or respond to changing circumstances on the ground, Republicans risk driving the country into the left's arms. An inability to rethink military action while combat is ongoing prevents a realistic assessment of our current policy -- a policy that a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 52 percent of Americans no longer believe to be worthwhile. It does no disservice to our troops to question the policies of their civilian leaders. It is not surrender to abandon a course if it was misconceived from the beginning. We must not continue to spend blood and treasure in Iraq based on premises as faulty as those which led us into war in the first place...

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4748.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer

11/22/05

Throughout this fall President Bush has suffered a constant barrage from Democrats and antiwar critics who charge that he manipulated pre-war intelligence in order to fool the American people into a war with Iraq. Not surprisingly, against this backdrop of hostility, the president's poll numbers began to fall. And fall. And fall. Now, in mid-November, only 35 percent of Americans approve of how the president is handling the war in Iraq. Nearly 60 percent of the country believes the president is dishonest. Our commander-in-chief appears to have hit rock bottom, and most wonder whether he can escape from what seems to be political quicksand. No matter what he does to pull himself out, pundits and political elites just keep repeating that he is sinking -- and quickly. That is, in fact, all that Americans have heard for the past three months -- until now...

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/schaeffer200511220915.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
by Jeremy Scahill

11/21/05

The bloody scandal of the Iraq occupation has opened a rare and clear window into the truth about this country: there is one party represented in Washington -- one that supports preemptive war and regime change. The reality is that the Democrats could stop this war if the will was there. They could shut down the Senate every day, not just for a few hours one afternoon. They could disrupt business as usual and act as though the truth were true: this war should never have happened and it must end now. The country would be behind them if they did it. But they won't. They will hem and haw and call for more troops and throw out epic lies about the US becoming a stabilizing force in Iraq and blame the Republicans for their own complicity and enthusiasm in the 15 years of bipartisan crimes against Iraq. Why? Because they support war against Iraq. All of this begs for a multiparty system in this country and the emergence of a true opposition...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/28491/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Monitor

11/20/05

A Republican-led effort in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to change a constitutional amendment that grants American citizenship to any child born on the nation's soil. ... The 14th Amendment gives citizenship to anybody born within the United States. To change this or any other amendment, there has to be a proposal in Congress or a constitutional convention from two-thirds of the nation's state legislatures. Thirty-eight of 50 states must approve any changes to the constitution. ... Many civil rights organizations say this is just another reactionary effort that eats away at this country's founding principles. ... Rasmussen Reports, a nonpartisan polling firm based in Ocean Grove, N.J., released a survey Nov. 7 saying 49 percent of 1,500 adults polled in the United States said they supported ending birthright citizenship. Forty-one percent of them wanted the practice to remain in tact...

http://tinyurl.com/9u7k3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent [UK]

11/22/05

Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year. A report produced by American and British pressure groups warns Iraq will be caught in an 'old colonial trap' if it allows foreign companies to take a share of its vast energy reserves. The report is certain to reawaken fears that the real purpose of the 2003 war on Iraq was to ensure its oil came under Western control...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328526.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=38684

by Judith Coburn, TomDispatch.com

A reporter who covered Watergate says Bush has more power than Nixon's imperial presidency did in the early 1970s.

http://www.tompaine.com/

Ex-DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty; GOP Lawmakers Implicated

Michael Scanlon, former aide to a powerful congressman and onetime partner of a wealthy lobbyist, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal conspiracy charge as part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with an investigation into possible wrongdoing by some lawmakers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205Z.shtml

Geheimdienst: BND spähte Journalisten angeblich mindestens bis Ende der 90er Jahre aus (21.11.05)

Der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) hat nach einem Pressebericht mindestens bis Ende der 90er Jahre Journalisten observiert. Außerdem habe er in der gleichen Zeit mehrere Medienvertreter als operative Verbindungen geführt, die auch bezahlt worden seien, meldet die "Berliner Zeitung" in ihrer Wochenendausgabe unter Berufung auf einen ehemaligen BND-Mitarbeiter. Dessen Angaben zufolge sei es im Dienst "weitgehend bekannt" gewesen, dass Journalisten, die über die Geheimdienstszene berichteten, von Zeit zu Zeit beobachtet wurden. Auch das Abhören von Telefongesprächen sei darin eingeschlossen gewesen, sagte der pensionierte Beamte der Zeitung.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12335

Ungerechtigkeit als Ausgangsbedingung

Nach dem UNESCO-Bericht über der Lage der Kinder lebt eine Milliarde - die Hälfte aller Kinder - in Armut.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21400/1.html

MURTHA STARTS SERIOUS DEBATE ON EXITING IRAQ

Urge Congress to End the War in Iraq
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/76

Last Thursday, Rep. John Murtha dramatically called for a swift end to the war on Iraq and introduced this resolution:

"The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S. Marines shall be deployed in the region. The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy."

More about this bill: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/murtha

The bill introduced by Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter and immediately voted down by the House on Friday grossly misrepresented Murtha's bill. Here is what happened on Friday:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4962

Congressman Charles Rangel released a powerful statement in support of Murtha's bill:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4915

Urge your Representatives to cosponsor Murtha's bill and two other excellent bills against the war: H.R. 4232 (Jim McGovern) to cut off funding for an ongoing occupation:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/end http://tinyurl.com/8qufm and H.CON.RES. 197 (Barbara Lee) to block permanent military bases in Iraq. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5011

Urge Congress to End the War in Iraq
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/76

DEMAND REAL DEBATE IN HOUSE

The Republican Congress has defeated most anti-war bills against in committee, despite defections by a few courageous GOPers. So the Out of Iraq Caucus, chaired by Rep. Maxine Waters, is trying a new approach: a discharge petition. If a majority of House Members sign this petition to force a bill on Iraq onto the floor, with an open rule allowing amendments, those members seeking to end the war will be able to propose amendments and hold a debate as serious as the war itself.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/discharge


OUT OF IRAQ EVENTS ON JAN. 7, 2006

After Downing Street and our coalition members are encouraging Representatives to hold Out of Iraq events in their districts. We've selected January 7th as a national day on which to hold as many events as possible, but other days can be chosen to fit the schedules of those involved. Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is playing a large role in organizing these events and organized three town hall meetings on Iraq with Representatives in Massachusetts in November.

Get resources for events, sign up to attend one or to host one:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event


TELL CONGRESS TO PASS ANTI-TORTURE AMENDMENT

From Global Exchange: In the name of the "war on terrorism," the Bush administration has made torture part of the U.S. government’s standard operating procedure. From the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to detention centers in Afghanistan and Iraq, reports have surfaced–not only from detainees and human rights organizations, but also from soldiers and members of the FBI—that U.S. officials are practicing torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

Torture is inhumane and illegal. The United States has signed the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment. It reads, "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency may be invoked as a justification of torture."

The U.S. Senate recently passed an anti-torture amendment introduced by Senator John McCain. The lopsided vote of 90 to 9 has drawn ire and a rare veto threat from the White House. Bush loyalists are looking to strip critical language from the amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill (HR 2863), sparing the president from the spectacle of going to the mat to uphold the use of barbaric and universally-condemned practices.

The House-Senate conferees who are negotiating the final language of the amendment need to hear from you. Here is who they are and how to reach them:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4820


CAMP CASEY IS BACK

Come to Crawford for Thanksgiving with the Bushes!
SPONSORS: GOLD STAR FAMILIES FOR PEACE, CRAWFORD PEACE HOUSE ENDORSED BY: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans For Peace, Code Pink Date: November 22-November 27, 2005 Place: Crawford, Texas (Camp Casey 2) Events: 11/22: Civil Disobedience
11/23: Organization of Katrina relief/Meal Preparation
11/24: Simple Thanksgiving Meal
11/25: Memorial Dedication
11/26: March/Rally- Possible Interfaith Service
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4744


WAR HUMOR

Dick Cheney said today, "We operated on the best available intelligence, gathered over a period of years from within a totalitarian society ruled by fear and secret police." Yikes!

TELL CONGRESS TO IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65

TELL CONGRESS TO DEMAND DICK CHENEY'S RESIGNATION
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/73

URGE THE SENATE TO REJECT SAM ALITO
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/74

FORWARD THIS EMAIL



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

I am writing to you from India. We have a mission and my husband is pastoring a church for tribal and rural and slum people. I am a professional cancer/molecular biologist and working in a private college as professor. I am helping our mission health projects. We are working among the cancer/HIV/TB patients, our areas are lower socio-economic group. We organise medical clinics periodically with local doctors. I would like to know whether any of your members can come and help us with our medical clinics in rural and tribal branches.

I am currently looking for developing a school for slum children. We would like to teach alternative education to them and not the conventional education. We were doing it in a place but the land owners vacated us. Here we can rent a place for only 11 months, so we are now thinking of buying our own place to have a permanant building.

I am looking for those who can come here and witness our work and also those who can support us.

So far we have done the following work in the rural and tribal belts:

1 Adult literacy programmes

2 Surveys on Reproductive rights of women Child abuse and alternative education for the young ones

3 Awareness camps/seminars/workshops on HIV/Cancer/TB.

4 Locally available medicinal plants and nutritional values of locally available fruits and vegetables.

5 Immunisation programmes/medical clinics

6 Women empowerment programmes

7 Signification of girl children (they are disliked by our society due to dowry and other issues).

We would like to have people who are interested in offering MEDICAL CAMPS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS.

With regards

If you would like to help please contact rudkla at web.de to get more information about the project.

Bath Chronicle

11:00 - 22 November 2005

A Mobile phone giant is seeking to renew permission to put up a mast in the heart of Bear Flat. O2 won a planning appeal to site a mast on land between Bloomfield Road and Wellsway last year, but concerted opposition from residents convinced the company to seek an alternative site.

However, amid heavy opposition to its preferred alternative at Alexandra Park, the company has now reapplied for a licence to begin work on the original site, for which it still has planning permission.

Cllr David Bellotti (Lib Dem, Lyncombe) said he feared O2 would proceed with work if it felt it would not succeed with an application for a mast at the park.

He said: "We are potentially faced with three masts within 400 yards of each other surrounding us. The head of the Mobile Operators Association has now promised to come to Bear Flat, bringing representatives of the five major operators with him, and talk about where a single shared mast could be sited.

"We are really besieged by these companies in the conservation area, all of them wanting a separate site, and I think the residents have every right to be as militant as possible in opposing them."

Meanwhile, a coalition of residents fighting both O2's plans and an application from Hutchinson 3G to put a mast on top of the Smiles store at Wellsway is continuing its campaign.

Sue Boyle, of the Friends of Alexandra Park, made the case against O2's plans for the park at last week's full council meeting, and to call for stronger backing from the council to prevent them.

She said: "When we first learnt of the O2 proposal on September 1 this year, we were confident that the park would be automatically protected from such an invasive and damaging development. There are commitments set out so clearly in the conservation and policy documents, to which this council is committed and which are intended to protect this World Heritage City from abuse.

"Since September, we have become increasingly concerned that despite the council's expressed commitments, Alexandra Park, and therefore other local parks and gardens of historical interest and other visually important spaces, might be in jeopardy."

At the same meeting, the council voted to start work on a policy which, when it comes into force in a year, will afford greater protection to sites such as Alexandra Park from phone mast applications.

On Monday, Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr, said American-led forces should be able to leave Iraq by the end of next year, adding that the one-year extension of the mandate for the multinational force in Iraq by the United Nations Security Council earlier this month could be the last, The Associated Press reported.

"By mid-next year, we will be 75 percent done in building our forces, and by the end of next year it will be fully ready," Mr. Jabr told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news channel.


Iraqi Factions Seek Timetable for U.S. Pullout

Amr Nabil/Associated Press

Jawad al-Khalisi, left, a Shiite cleric of the National Foundation Council, talking to Yuadim Kana, right, an Assyrian Christian leader, in Cairo on Monday, the last day of an Iraqi reconciliation conference.

By HASSAN M. FATTAH

Published: November 22, 2005

CAIRO, Nov. 21 - For the first time, Iraq's political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to commit itself to a pullout schedule.

The announcement, made at the conclusion of a reconciliation conference here backed by the Arab League, was a public reaching out by Shiites, who now dominate Iraq's government, to Sunni Arabs on the eve of parliamentary elections that have been put on shaky ground by weeks of sectarian violence.

About 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, many of whom will run in the election on Dec. 15, signed a closing memorandum on Monday that "demands a withdrawal of foreign troops on a specified timetable, dependent on an immediate national program for rebuilding the security forces," the statement said.

"The Iraqi people are looking forward to the day when foreign forces will leave Iraq, when its armed and security forces will be rebuilt and when they can enjoy peace and stability and an end to terrorism," it continued.

The meeting was intended as preparation for a much larger conference in Iraq in late February. The recommendations made here are to be the starting ground for that meeting.

In Washington, Justin Higgins, a State Department spokesman, said, "The United States supports the basic foundation of the conference and we certainly support ongoing discussion among Iraq's various political and religious communities."

But regarding troop withdrawal, he said: "Multinational forces are present in Iraq under a mandate from the U.N. Security Council. As President Bush has said, the coalition remains committed to helping the Iraqi people achieve security and stability as they rebuild their country. We will stay as long as it takes to achieve those goals and no longer."

Shiite leaders have long maintained that a pullout should be done according to milestones, and not before Iraqi security forces are fully operational. The closing statement upheld a Sunni demand for a pullout, while preserving aspects of Shiite demands, but did not specify when a withdrawal should begin, making it more of a symbolic gesture than a concrete agenda item that could be followed up by the Iraqi government.

The statement, while condemning the wave of terrorism that has engulfed Iraq, also broadly acknowledged a general right to resist foreign occupation. That was another effort to compromise with Sunnis who had sought to legitimize the insurgency. The statement condemned terror attacks and religious backing for them, and it demanded the release of innocent prisoners and an investigation into reports of torture.

Almost all the delegates belong to political parties that represent the spectrum of Iraqi politics.

But while Sunni parties hinted at their lines of communication to nationalist and tribal insurgents, none would admit any link to militants like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has led a wave of suicide bombings through his group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

The wording was a partial victory for Iraq's Sunni politicians, who have long demanded that the United States commit to a scheduled pullout.

While the wording stopped short of condoning armed resistance to the occupation, it broadly acknowledged that "national resistance is a legitimate right of all nations."

"This is the first time that something like this is said collectively and in public," Muhammad Bashar al-Faythi, spokesman for the hard-line Sunni Muslim Scholars Council, said Monday, referring to the timetable. "We managed to convince them of the importance of a timed pullout."

On Monday, Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr, said American-led forces should be able to leave Iraq by the end of next year, adding that the one-year extension of the mandate for the multinational force in Iraq by the United Nations Security Council earlier this month could be the last, The Associated Press reported.

"By mid-next year, we will be 75 percent done in building our forces, and by the end of next year it will be fully ready," Mr. Jabr told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news channel.

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news5/nyt46.htm

UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

From ufpj-news

Burnley Express

COUNCIL Leader Coun. Stuart Caddy has vowed to back residents' emotional battle against mobile phone masts in a neighbourhood of Lowerhouse.

Worried neighbours called an emergency meeting to voice concerns over proposals for a new mobile phone mast and the extension of one next to their homes.

Many claim they have suffered ill health since the 25 metre mast was extended from a 15 metre mast about four years ago. Mr Patrick Lock, of Wilson Fold, said they have taken as much as they can handle and it is time for action.

He said: "People are saying they are getting headaches and generally feeling ill. Personally whenever I am home, I suffer from a runny ear, which somehow vanishes while I am at work.

"I have been to see the doctor about it a number of times but the medication does not seem to make a difference.

"My wife Samantha cannot get to sleep and my little girl gets headaches. I am genuinely worried that the mast is having a bad effect on our health and this could get worse if they build another one."

Mobile phone giants Orange has applied for permission to construct a 20 metre mast in land off Gannow Lane.

A temporary mast was erected early yesterday morning in an effort to show residents it will not impact on their lives.

To make matters worse, the mast currently standing in grassland at the end of the street could soon be extended. The mast was built in 2001 and is shared by BT Cellnet and Orange.

Besides ill-health, Mr Lock fears property prices could plummet as a result. He went on: "One of the residents, who doesn't want any publicity, was recently trying to sell their home. The potential buyer took one look at the mast and pulled out straight away.

"The Government claim the masts are safe, but that children could suffer from over-using mobile phones. Well, phones can be switched off but that mast is there 24 hours a day."

Mr Lock has recruited the support of Mr Dennis Cannon, chairman of pressure group Together Against Masts, to boost his cause.

Mr Cannon claims the radiation levels in the house that have been detected are unacceptable.

He added: "Countless scientific studies show that exposure to the microwave radiation emitted by mobile phone masts produce serious adverse health effects to living cells."

Mr Cannon's claims were backed up earlier this year when the Health Protection Agency (HPA) admitted for the first time that exposure to microwave radiation can damage health.

Coun. Caddy is urging the residents to drum up as much support as possible to make a strong case to the council.

He said: "I am not just doing this because I am the ward councillor, I strongly oppose any mast being put up in residential areas.
"I am extremely concerned and will fight this."

Mr Matthew Hayes, a planning officer with Orange, said the construction will comply with government guidelines.

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

22 November 2005

http://www.burnleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=12&ArticleID=1261844


From Mast Sanity

Here is the web link to the video files of the two CBC TV programmes - about health effects of mobile telephony as well as the impairment electrohypersensitivity - that was aired yesterday in Canada: http://tinyurl.com/bed8n

Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden



The industry of the cellular telephone has been attacked, for a few years, at a new market: children. Some 500 million of them uses. It is particularly popular to the teenagers, and some make use of it up to three hours per day.

However, there is not any study on the harmlessness of the microwaves of cellular for the children. So certain European countries prefer to use the principle of precaution, it is not the case in North America. In front of the absence of evidence, one assumes that the cellular one is sedentary.

In Sweden, several researchers consider the question. They worry that the children, because of their brain under development run a greater risk only the adults. They fear that the young users of cellular telephones do not develop late any more a more great number of neuro-degenerative and autoimmune diseases.

Already, a certain number of adults are victims of the electro-over-sensitiveness, caused by the microwaves of cellular telephony.

While waiting, the researchers preach prudence.


Journalist: Michel Rochon
Realizer: Pierre Devroede


The cellular telephone and children

Electro-over-sensitiveness

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Dear Colleagues:

Radio (TV) Canada's news program "Decouverte" [Discovery] broadcast a two-part news show on EMFs last Sunday (Nov.20) evening.

You can watch both shows on Radio Canada's Web site:
http://radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/decouverte/niveau2_5587.shtml#

The first part is on cell phones and kids and their risk of developing acoustic neuromas and brain tumors. Also cited is the University of Lund work showing that microwave radiation can lead to leakage through the blood-brain barrier. The second part is on electrosensitivity.

Among those on the show are:

Igor Belyaev
Lennart Hardell
Olle Johansson
Leif Salford
Per Segerback
--all of Sweden,
as well as Sir William Stewart in the U.K.

Sir William calls the marketing of phones to kids younger than eight "grotesque."

I was also interviewed.

Note that the show is in French.


Best,

Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Phone: +1 (212) 517-2800;
Fax: +1 (212) 734-0316
E-mail: mwn@pobox.com ;
Internet: http://www.microwavenews.com
Mail: 155 East 77th Street, Suite 3D New York, NY 10021, U.S.A.

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Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

Mobile phones tumour risk to young children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/469215/

Mobile Phone Use and the Risk of Acoustic Neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/614189/

Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/464801/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364626/

Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer - in this Case specifically to Acoustic Neuromas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Case-Control Study on Cellular and Cordless Telephones and the Risk for Acoustic Neuroma or Meningioma in Patients Diagnosed 2000-2003
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/884169/

Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/940552/

Three papers from Hardell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/882284/

Hide Cellular Phones From Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1178177/

From Iris Atzmon

Dear Prime Minister,

DO NOT MEASURE RADIATION IN YOUR OFFICE Because that is what the World Health Organization Recommends, and "As you know WHO has built the highest possible reputation in public health matters among the public and governments world wide". A letter from Mike Repacholi, Coordinator of the Electromagnetic Fields Project in the World Health Organization and direct responsible for EMradiation matters in the WHO, to Hans Karow, July 07, 2005.

WHO recommendation discouraging the general public and governments from measuring electromagnetic fields in homes (page 8 of "WHO Workshop on Electrical Hypersensitivity, Prague , Czech Republic, October 25-27, 2004. Working Group Meeting".)

Just imagine what would have happened if the Israeli government had listened to Repacholi's recommendation to discourage radiation measurements in the house... The below is the final proof that Repacholi is a serious danger to the world governments and the public. Listening to his "scientific" advices is a danger for humanity. Our government office has received lately many letters and studies and summaries about electromagnetic radiation effects. Please inform your governments that they had better NOT listen to Repacholi's advices and save themselves from him by learning from the experience of the Israeli Government, and here it is:

Yediot Ahronot
22.11.2005
by Itamar Ichner.

"A Danger from within the house: Radiation was found in the [Israeli] Prime Minister Office"

The prime minister office board ordered yesterday to evacuate 5 rooms in the office, in which high electromagnetic radiation levels were found. The high radiation levels were found in the ground floor in the prime minister office, near the electricity box of the building. Measurements done by the the Environment Ministry experts found levels of 20-30 mG in several rooms that are close to the electricity room, in which workers sit on a regular basis. This is a level which is 10 fold higher than the allowed level. IARC determined that electricity installations, which expose the public to more than 2 mG for the long term, are possible carcinogens. The average exposure in most houses in Israel and abroad, is not more than 0.4 mG.

The measurement findings created storm. Workers connected immediately between these findings and between the fact that in the last years several workers in the office got sick with malignant diseases. The office management ordered immediately to evacuate the joined rooms to the electricity room. The workers moved to other rooms. The office intends also to put protection in the room against the radiation: the office has hired the service of a company which builds protection against electromagnetic radiation with aluminium plates. The chairman of the prime minister office, Jacob Selzer, said yeasterday: "We stand on board. There is definitely readiness by the board, to invest money in order to solve the problem. It is definitely an important thing. We checked all the antennas in the prime minister office, and it is important to indicate that the management works with us in cooperation with regard to this subject".

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Petition to remove Dr. Mike Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/877606/

They're in the White House, already control the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court. Today, the ultras of the extreme religious right also want to stuff their own men into the whole judicial apparatus. The supposed objectivity of the fundamentalists and the ideologues of the right, in fact, covers up a much more sinister ambition, writes Philippe Boulet-Gercourt.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105H.shtml

Britain has been dragged into the growing scandal of officially condoned killings in Iraq. British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills, says The Independent.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105G.shtml

On a July evening in the Capitol, Vice President Dick Cheney summoned three Republican senators to his ornate office just off the Senate chamber. The Republicans - John W. Warner of Virginia, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina - were making trouble for the Bush administration, and Mr. Cheney let them know it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105F.shtml

Scanlon, a former aide to Representative Tom DeLay, is scheduled to appear today in US District Court to present a plea bargain with the Justice Department likely to lead to his cooperation with investigators. His testimony would ratchet up the pressure on Abramoff and aid prosecutors in widening the investigation to members of Congress, such as Republicans DeLay and Representative Robert Ney of Ohio.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105C.shtml

Russian precautionary actions and children’s use of cellphones

It is interesting to compare the following message from Russia to the last one sent out on this list. The researchers at the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) conducting that 3 year study on kids and cell phone use should be talking to these guys!

In fact there should be some direct collaboration considering what the Russians are seeing with Russian kids and cell phone use. The Russian National Committee for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection(RNCNIRP) has a slightly tougher version of a ‘precautionary principle’ than Australia’s ACRBR. The advice from RNCNIRP is simply “Although it is impossible to ensure healthy way of life for all teenagers, at least cellular phones should be immediately taken away from them.”

Don Maisch


From the State Research Center - Institute of Biophysics, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Center for Bioelectromagnetic Compatibility, Moscow, The Russian Federation November 8, 2005

http://www.informnauka.ru/eng/2005/2005-11-18-5_90_e.htm

Hide Cellular Phones From Children

[Note that I have corrected the English translation in one part (The proper name is the Russian National Committee for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection). Go to the above link to see the uncorrected original]

Scientists are concerned with commodization of mobile communications. Although the damage of cellular phones’ electromagnetic radiation has never been proved, their safety can not be warranted either. Chairman of the Russian National Committee for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP), Doctor of Science (Medicine), Professor, Yuri Grigirievich Grigoriev advises that children and teenagers are particularly sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. Judging by some data, long child’s conversations on the cellular phone may painfully affect in mature age.

To evaluate safety of cellular phones, consequences of long-term electromagnetic fields’ influence should be investigated. The overwhelming majority of medical investigation of mobile communications was performed abroad and was devoted to short-term effects. Domestic researchers have accumulated a lot of data about state of health of the people who worked for years with the sources of electromagnetic radiation. Summing up all these data, Yu. G. Grigoriev affirms that cellular phones are unsafe. Even a short telephone conversation often affects the brain activity: participants of experiment spend more time on fulfilment of test assignments, which is particularly important for students and schoolchildren, some people complain of headache and some distraction.

This annoyance is over soon but lengthy intense use of cellular communications result in more serious consequences. Some users suffer regularly from headaches, after a five-minute telephone conversation the ache being intensified. People complain of fatiguability, irritability, discomfort feeling, giddiness, difficulty in concentrating attention. The specialists who spent years working with sources of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation acquire vegetative disorders and neurasthenic symptoms. Experiments with young rats deserve particular attention.

As children and teenagers are particularly sensitive to negative impact of electromagnetic fields, therefore cellular communication is strongly contra-indicated to them. This opinion is shared by the majority of European scientists. In 2001, the European Parliament Research Group recommended to all EU member countries to prohibit children under 16 to use cellular phones. Physicians of Great Britain accepted similar recommendations in 1999, World Health Organization – in 2000, Russian physicians – in 2001. Unfortunately, physicians’ recommendations in Russia have no validity. The number of underage subscribers of mobile communications is steadily growing in Russia, and cellular phones manufactures develop special child’s models. In the meantime, adverse effect of electromagnetic radiation is superimposed on the influence of other unfavorable environmental and social factors. Within the last 12 years, Russian teenagers morbidity has increased several times. Although it is impossible to ensure healthy way of life for all teenagers, at least cellular phones should be immediately taken away from them.

Article supplied by Sylvie

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=321

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Russia wants to ban mobiles for children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1186729/

Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

The cellular phone and children - Le téléphone cellulaire et les enfants http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1178705/

There is little reason for anyone to be confused by the events leading up to the unraveling of America. All one has to do is ignore the rhetoric and simply follow the money to reveal the hidden mechanisms that are operating the American government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11104.htm

“The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry.”

http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/index.php?p=150


From Information Clearing House

Codenamed Curveball, an Iraqi chemical engineer who arrived in Germany in 1999 seeking political asylum, and told the German intelligence service, the BND, how Saddam Hussein had developed mobile laboratories to produce biological weapons. Curveball was also apparently jailed for a sex crime and then drove a Baghdad taxi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11099.htm



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Curveball

Speaking on his new book, The Great War For Civilization; The Conquest of the Middle East at King Middle School, Berkeley. Nov 19 2005. Fisk, in yet another stirring account, paints a disturbing picture of recent history and events in Iraq and the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11105.htm

Sen. George McGovern Discusses the Lies of War from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq's WMDs.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1517201


From Information Clearing House

The Rendon Group personally set up the Iraqi National Congress and helped install Ahmad Chalabi as leader, whose main goal - “pressure the United States to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein” - Rendon helped facilitate.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/


From Information Clearing House



How The Rendon Group Spun the Iraq Propaganda for Chalabi's Inc

Documentary focusing on the tactics used by the U.S and it's allies in the build up to and during the Iraq War, featuring Ray Mcgovern and Seymour Hersh amongst others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11054.htm

Iraqi government representatives conceded a theoretical right to resist occupation.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F49E55D0-66B1-437C-935F-7BD475B107CD.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://tinyurl.com/8rgf3


Informant: Friends

US unions, weakened by public apathy and internal splits, are fighting back with an online database that accuses corporate supremos of lining their own pockets while grinding down their employees.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112105LA.shtml

The Bush administration is headed for a clash with the nation's doctors over a federal plan to cut their Medicare fees by 4.4 percent next year, even as the government tries to measure the quality of care they provide. Doctors say that if the cut occurs, some physicians will be less willing to accept new Medicare patients.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112105HB.shtml

On Friday, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed its budget reconciliation bill. According to Earthjustice, this industry giveaway contains numerous attacks on the environment, particularly on our most cherished public lands.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112105EB.shtml

Cheney ticked off a long list of terrorist attacks on American interests going back more than the two decades that preceded the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, including the September 11, 2001 attacks and earlier ones in Beirut, Saudi Arabia and Africa.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105Q.shtml

Reports
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1121-01.htm

By Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom

When Murtha says "redeploy" -- instead of withdraw -- the troops from Iraq, he makes clear that -- despite his rhetoric -- he doesn't want to really bring them home, but to station them in the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11100.htm

http://911review.org/Wiki/OperationMockingbird.shtml
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/cia-media.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mockingbird.htm
http://www.whale.to/b/mock.html
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/06-07-05/discussion.cgi.55.html
http://operation-mockingbird.blogspot.com/2006/08/operation-mockingbird.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mockingbird

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20051115


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/54766a12-5aeb-11da-8628-0000779e2340.html


Informant: John Calvert