In an opinion that offers insight into the Supreme Court nominee's view of an area of law that has gained new significance with the Bush administration's policies to combat terrorism, Alito gave his approval to an FBI effort in the 1980s to collect from Canadian authorities fingerprint cards of Iranian and Afghan refugees living in that country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905C.shtml

Groups representing national security whistleblowers are urging a boycott of an upcoming congressional hearing, saying their concerns and experiences will not be adequately represented by the witnesses who are scheduled to testify. The House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations plans to hold a hearing December 6 to examine whether agencies are unjustly revoking or suspending security clearances in retaliation against employees who speak out against wrongdoing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905B.shtml

http://openpr.de/in/70262

HLV INFO 184/AT

29-11-2005

Volker Hartenstein, MdL a.D.

29-11-05

Im Anhang finden Sie eine Presseerklärung zu einem Treffen bei der EU Kommission zum Thema Mobilfunk und Gesundheit sowie 2 Statements für das Treffen. Dass es zustande kam, ist v.a. dem unermüdlichen Einsatz von Frau Dr. Birgit Stöcker, 1. Vorsitzende vom Bundesverband Elektrosmog, zu verdanken. Vielen Dank!!! Für mich ist es aber auch ein Ausdruck unserer gewachsenen Kraft. Ein Grund zur Freude! Es ist aber auch völlig klar, dass nichts von der EU oder anderen Stellen zu erwarten ist, wenn nicht immer mehr Bürgerinnen und Bürger aktiv werden.


Wolf Bergmann /Mitinitiator des Freiburger Appells


"Minimierung elektromagnetischer Felder." Die EU lädt Mobilfunkkritiker ein.

Auf Einladung der Europäischen Kommission - Generaldirektion Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz - fand am 25.11.2005 ein Treffen im Gebäude der Kommission in Luxemburg statt.

Im Einladungsschreiben von John F. Ryan, Referatsleiter der Kommission, an Frau Dr. Stöcker, Vorsitzende des Bundesverbandes Elektrosmog e.V. heißt es : "Die Europäische Kommission hat den Inhalt Ihrer Eingabe und des dazu eingereichten, von 36 990 Bürgern unterzeichneten "Freiburger Appells" zur Kenntnis genommen ...schlage ich Ihnen vor,...dass Sie die anstehende Problematik persönlich darlegen können."

Bei diesem Treffen legte Frau Henschel vom Bundesverband Elektrosmog insbesondere die Situation elektrosensibler Menschen dar und überreichte den Freiburger Appell mit allen Unterschriften.(auf CD).

Frau Dr. med. Waldmann-Selsam, Initiatorin des Bamberger Appells und des Bamberger Mobilfunksymposions, berichtete von ihren Untersuchungen und Messungen bei gesundheitlich durch Mobilfunk schwer geschädigten Menschen und forderte u.a. den sofortigen Stop von UMTS, die bisher völlig versäumten Untersuchungen von Betroffenen aus öffentlichen Mitteln und die Möglichkeit, Funkmasten (wie u.a. in Spanien geschehen) abzuschalten, wenn in der Umgebung ungewöhnliche Krankheitshäufungen auftreten.

Herr Dr. med. Bergmann, Mitinitiator des Freiburger Appells, machte auf die dramatische Verschlechterung der Situation seit Verabschiedung des Freiburger Appells vor 3 Jahren aufmerksam und überreichte ein Statement sowie eine Zusammenfassung der dringendsten Forderungen aus den mobilfunkkritischen Appellen. (s. Anlage.)

Mr. Ryan wies darauf hin, dass die EU Kommission für das kommende Jahr eine Neubewertung des Gesundheitsrisikos durch Mobilfunk vorbereite. Wegen der Gefährlichkeit der DECT-Schnurlostelefone nannte er auf die Möglichkeit, die Kommission für Produktsicherheit in Brüssel einzuschalten. Zu der Notwendigkeit, sofort Untersuchungen bei Betroffenen durchzuführen, forderte er auf, Forschungsprojekte einzureichen. Angenommene Projekte würden mit 60% der Kosten gefördert.

Freiburg, d. 27.11.2005. Dr. med. Wolf Bergmann. Freiburg. Tel. 0761/78615 oder 55 61141. E-mail wolf.bergmann@tele2.de


Dr. med. Wolf Bergmann Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin Homöopathie
Reichsgrafenstr. 28
79102 Freiburg
Tel. 0761 - 55 611 41
Fax 0761 - 50 36 78 17
wolf.bergmann@tele2.de

Freiburg, den 28.11.2005

Sehr geehrte Anwesende,

ich danke Ihnen sehr herzlich, dass Sie uns eingeladen haben, um Ihnen unsere wirklich schweren Sorgen und Anliegen zum Thema Mobilfunk und Gesundheit vorzutragen und dass sie uns über die von der Europäischen Kommission verfolgte Gesundheitspolitik informieren wollen.

Als einer der Mitinitiatoren des Freiburger Appells freue ich mich, Ihnen bei Bedarf den Appell zu erläutern und die darin aufgestellten Forderungen an eine verantwortliche Gesundheitspolitik zu übermitteln.

In der kurzen Zeit seit der Verabschiedung des Freiburger Appells bis heute hat sich die Situation auf dramatische Weise verschlechtert:

Die beobachtbaren Beschwerden und Erkrankungen im Zusammenhang mit Mobilfunk nehmen erschreckend zu. Die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen von unabhängigen Wissenschaftlern bestätigen immer aufs Neue, dass die künstlichen Frequenzen des Mobilfunks tiefgreifende Störungen der biologischen Steuerungsvorgänge lebendiger Organismen verursachen und die Gesundheit stören und zerstören. Trotzdem überrollt uns eine wahre Flut von zusätzlichen neuerlichen, noch belastenderen Mobilfunkfrequenzen (UMTS, Wlan, Bluetooth, WiMax usw.) mit gepulsten Breitbandfrequenzen, die unsere Regelkreise noch mehr stören und einen gesunden = ungestörten Informationsfluss im Organismus zum Erhalt der Homöostase verunmöglichen.

Besonders in Deutschland wird diese Entwicklung durch die Industrie und die Politik mit ungeheurer Geschwindigkeit vorangetrieben, ohne auch nur im Ansatz die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die nicht-thermischen Wirkungen der Mobilfunkfrequenzen zu berücksichtigen. Dabei ist der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in der politischen wie wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung die Behauptung, dass es keinen Nachweis von Gesundheitsschäden bei Einhaltung der extrem hohen deutschen Grenzwerte gebe. Da sich auch die deutschen Gerichte diesem Standpunkt angeschlossen haben, ist die Bevölkerung in Deutschland vollkommen schutzlos einer chronischen und ständig zunehmenden Gesundheitsschädigung ausgesetzt.

In dieser menschlich, gesundheitlich und politisch dramatischen Situation bitten wir Sie sehr dringlich um Ihre kompetente und solidarische und ausdauernde Unterstützung beim Verbraucher- und Gesundheitsschutz.

Dafür im Voraus sehr herzlichen Dank


Dr. med. Wolf Bergmann Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin Homöopathie
Reichsgrafenstr. 28
79102 Freiburg
Tel. 0761 - 55 611 41
Fax 0761 - 50 36 78 17
wolf.bergmann@tele2.de

Freiburg, den 28.11.2005

Mobilfunk - Gesundheit - Wissenschaft - Politik.

Anhaltspunkte für die Besprechung mit der Europäischen Kommission, Generaldirektion Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz, am 25.11.2005.

1.) Die gesundheitsschädigende nicht-thermische Wirkung von elektromagnetischen Feldern des Mobilfunks bei geringen Feldstärken, wie sie im Normalbetrieb des Mobilfunks auftreten, ist wissenschaftlich seit langem und aktuell seit dem massenhaften Ausbau des Mobilfunks erwiesen - in Grundlagenforschung, experimentell bei Tier und Mensch, in epidemiologischen Studien und in der Feldbeobachtung. Dies alles bereits vor Einführung von UMTS. Die Beobachtungen und die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse sind so gravierend, dass sofortige Schutzmaßnahmen zwingend erforderlich sind.

2.) Mit dem flächendeckenden Ausbau von UMTS wird diese schon bedrohliche Situation sprunghaft zu einer hochgefährlichen Situation potenziert.

3.) Grenzwertfestlegungen, die nur die thermische Wirkung je einer einzelnen Mobilfunkfrequenz berücksichtigen und einen Gesundheitsschutz bei Einhaltung solcher Grenzwerte behaupten, sind unwissenschaftlich und unverantwortlich. Sie lassen die Forschungsergebnisse von 6 Jahrzehnten außer acht. Es handelt sich um die wohl größte und gefährlichste Verbraucherschutzlüge seit dem Krieg.

4.) Eine Politik, eine Wissenschaft, eine Rechtsprechung, die sich auf diese Grenzwerte berufen, geben die Bevölkerung einer schweren und sprunghaft zunehmenden Gesundheitsgefährdung völlig schutzlos preis. Eine solche Politik ist ungesetzlich, da sie das Prinzip der Vorsorge und des Gesundheitsschutzes, das in den europäischen Verfassungen zwingend festgeschrieben ist, verletzt.

5.) Eine Politik, die entsprechend den Gesetzen und bei Kenntnis des Sachstandes Gesundheitsschutz und Vorsorge berücksichtigt, muss sofortige Konsequenzen ziehen.

Dringend notwendige sofortige Konsequenzen:

- sofortiger Stop des Ausbaus von UMTS - am aller dringlichsten!
- Absenkung der Grenzwerte mindestens auf die derzeit niedrigsten in Europa.
- Verbot des DECT-Standards und der Pulsung.
- Umfassende Aufklärung der Bevölkerung durch unabhängige Einrichtungen.
- Verbot der Handynutzung in öffentlichen Einrichtungen, v.a. in Kindergärten, Schulen, Krankenhäusern, Seniorenheimen usw. und in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln.
- Werbeverbot und Warnhinweise (ähnlich wie bei Tabak.)
- Entscheidungsrecht der Kommunen über die Aufstellung von Mobilfunkmasten.
- Untersuchung von Betroffenen in besonders belasteten Gebieten durch unabhängige Wissenschaftler.
- Haftpflicht der Betreiber und Behörden für Gesundheitsschäden.
- Beweislastumkehr.
- Förderung gesundheitsverträglicher Kommunikationsmittel.

Es besteht die große Gefahr, dass die Lobby der Mobilfunkindustrie und die deutsche Regierung alle Machtmittel einsetzen, um in der EU die Grenzwerte der Mobilfunkindustrie, die in Deutschland Gesetz sind, als Standard durchzusetzen. Wir appellieren an die zuständigen EU-Gremien und an alle Abgeordneten des EU -Parlaments, sich diesem Druck nicht zu beugen und ihrem Gesetzesauftrag entsprechend dringend notwendige Maßnahmen für Gesundheits- und Verbraucherschutz hinsichtlich Mobilfunk und aktuell UMTS zu beschließen.

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Ärzte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408385/

Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Waldmann-Selsam

Hundreds of accounts of killings and abductions have emerged in recent weeks, most of them brought forward by Sunni civilians, who claim that their relatives have been taken away by Iraqi men in uniform without warrant or explanation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905Y.shtml

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Is the U.S. Training Iraqi Death Squads to Fight the Insurgency? :

Investigative journalist Arun Gupta was one of the first to report on the presence of death squads in Iraq back in April of this year. We interviewed him at the time, he joins us again in our firehouse studios.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/1526201


From Information Clearing House

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/051129134157.iq7vlpbg.html


Informant: NHNE

Mit der Bitte um weitere Verbreitung:

Anbei das Flugblatt, das am kommenden Freitag und Samstag (9. und 10.12.) am S-Bahnhof in WOR verteilt wird.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/bi_wor_flugblatt_busse_und_bahn.doc

Zusätzlich beigelegt sind zwei Briefentwürfe mit der Forderung nach mobilfunkfreien Bussen und mobilfunkfreien Zonen in der S-Bahn. Bitte diese Aktion unterstützen und, wenn möglich, eigene Texte wegschicken.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/bi_wor_flugblatt_busse_und_bahn_s2.doc
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/bi_wor_flugblatt_busse_und_bahn_s2a.doc


Hans Schmidt
1. Vorsitzender Bürgerinitiative Wolfratshausen zum Schutz vor Elektrosmog

Ein Gespräch mit Greg Muttit, Autor eines Berichts über die geplante Privatisierung des irakischen Erdöls, die den Irakern teuer zu stehen und den Ölkonzernen zugute kommt.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21448/1.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/abr2-n29.shtml


Informant: Friends

About 40 investigators and prosecutors are looking into the activities of several lawmakers, including Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Congressman John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), who is currently facing unrelated campaign finance charges in his home state of Texas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905O.shtml

Bill Berkowitz writes that the Bush administration is winning the battle to institute public/private partnerships on America's cash-strapped public lands. Is total privatization coming down the pike?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905N.shtml

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff sought the help of US Interior Department officials to save the job of an Indian leader under fire for $37 million in fees his tribe paid Abramoff and a partner, sources say.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905L.shtml

Something to be thankful for this week: States refusing to cave to Bush's ineffective sex ed policies.

http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#6856

Christian Science Monitor
by Philip Gold

11/28/05

There is a process in American political life by which the unthinkable becomes the inevitable and the inevitable becomes, inevitably, a big mess. Central to this process is a peculiarly American inability to ask, let alone answer, the vital questions of any endeavor: an inability empowered by that peculiarly American attitude, 'We don't have to understand the world, we only need to know about us.' This is how we got into Vietnam. This is how we left. This is how we got into Iraq. It would be tragic, were we to leave the same way. In the spring of 2002, a year before the event, I became one of America's first conservatives to oppose the Iraq war. I did so for so many hard military, political, and economic reasons that they amounted to a moral reason...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Nat Hentoff

11/28/05

The self-styled 'world's greatest deliberative body,' the U.S. Senate, voted 84 to 14 on Nov. 15 on an 'improved' Sen. Lindsey Graham amendment to the Defense Department authorization bill that prevents prisoners at Guantanamo from filing habeas corpus petitions to our federal courts regarding their conditions of confinement. This includes complaints of abuses and alleged torture from 'enhanced' interrogations. In its present form, this Graham amendment was co-sponsored by Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican. Yet, the Supreme Court ruled in Rasul et al v. Bush (2004) that Guantanamo detainees do have due process rights to challenge, under habeas corpus, the legality of their imprisonment. That decision led to lawyers going to Guantanamo Bay, telling us what's going on and then filing habeas corpus petitions in federal district courts in Washington. The Graham-Levin-Kyl amendment cuts off that judicial route except in a very limited form that does not include the actual conditions under which the prisoners are being held...

http://tinyurl.com/8r4s2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Robert B. Reich

11/28/05

The War in Iraq may end sooner rather than later – not because prominent congressmen or military experts say we should get out, and not because the American public is losing patience. It will end relatively soon because we can't afford the price tag of recruiting enough soldiers to fight it. Our soldiers comprise what's called an 'all-volunteer' army. But the job of soldiering is 'voluntary' the same way any paid job is voluntary. You're not forced to do it. You're paid to do it. Since Richard Nixon ended the draft in 1973, most of the people who join the military do so because it's the most attractive job available to them. Some are motivated by patriotism, of course, but let's not kid ourselves. People facing a choice between a job in the private sector that's near home and safe, and one in the military that's thousands of miles away and may not be safe, will choose to remain civilians -- unless the military job pays more. And for any given age and level of education, it does...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10665


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by staff

11/28/05

"History may well record that the beginning of the end of the American nightmare in Iraq came on November 17, when an old warrior said it was time for the troops to come home. But that will happen only if Congressional Democrats seize the opportunity that Representative John Murtha has offered them to become the tribune of popular sentiment against the war. Like many Americans, Murtha, a Korean and Vietnam war veteran who for three decades has been the pre-eminent Democratic hawk in the House, did not come quickly to the conclusion that the fight in Iraq will not be won by sacrificing more American lives. A backer of the 2002 resolution authorizing George W. Bush to use force, Murtha remained a defender of the misadventure long after many Democrats, and even some Republicans, began to question it. But when Murtha moved, he moved all the way. Describing the war as the result of 'a flawed policy wrapped in illusion,' he told Congress. 'Our military is suffering. The future of the country is at risk. ... Our military has done everything that has been asked of them. ... It is time to bring them home'...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/editors


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In These Times
by Kristian Williams

11/28/05

The national debate on torture reached a new level in October when the Senate voted 90 to nine to restrict Defense Department interrogation techniques and prohibit the 'cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment' of anyone in U.S. custody. The vote came as a major rebuke to President George Bush, who threatened to veto the military spending bill if the proposals were included. Bush responded to the vote by publicly defending the United States’ existing practices. During his Latin American tour in early November, he said, 'We are gathering information about where the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we do … in this effort, any activity we conduct is within the law. We do not torture.' Yet earlier that very week, Vice President Dick Cheney pleaded with Republican senators in a closed door meeting to exempt the CIA from the cruelty ban. The administration clearly does not like having its bluff called...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2414/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Mike Whitney

11/28/05

All of these changes in the law have taken place below the radar of public attention and all of them correspond to a 'nutcase' conspiracy by the CFR to transform Canada, Mexico and the US into one, integrated 'free trade' nation in 5 years time. (I'm not making this up) See: Trilateral Task Force Recommendations,) The only thing that makes this bizarre specter of a 'capitalist police state' seem believable is that Bush has already carried out most of the basic recommendations of that other wacky conspiracy theory; The Project for the New American Century. The US has extended its military presence throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, curtailed civil liberties at home, greatly enhanced the power of the president, militarized space, passed legislation for Missile Defense 'Star Wars,' and reinvigorated the bio-chemical weapons industry. All of these were outlined in the PNAC. Sometimes 'conspiracy theories' come to fruition despite our unwillingness to give them credence...

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney11282005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Gary Alan Scott

11/28/05

I am an ex-patriot living and working in Belgium. I have traveled widely over the last 30 years and have lived in three countries besides my native America. I am presently the Director of an International Residence House. One of my students asked me the other day whether I consider myself 'proud' to be an American. I responded by saying that I love my country's founding values, its natural beauty and so, so many people in it, but that I can no longer say that I am proud to be an American. Here are ten reasons why...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1128-33.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Toledo Blade
by staff

11/28/05

The FBI is behaving like Big Brother again, conducting surveillance on U.S. citizens without regard to the guidelines it is supposed to follow to keep its operations above board. What's worse is that once these breaches were pointed out, the agency brushed them off as if they were no big deal. Newly released classified documents reveal that the FBI has secretly shadowed citizens for as long as 18 months, and that it did so without the proper legal permission or oversight. It also kept tabs on another target for five years, but didn't bother to tell the Justice Department the person had moved from New York to Detroit. That is a clear violation of rules, and also ominously evokes the bad old days when J. Edgar Hoover presided over an agency that too often ran amok...

http://tinyurl.com/c2w7g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Human Events
by Bruce Bartlett

11/29/05

I believe that the root of the current wave of scandal involving Republicans is that the party's governing element in Washington has completely lost sight of the reason they were elected in the first place. Grass-roots Republicans support the party because it is the party of small government. Those who like big government, who always want Washington to do more and take on more responsibility, vote Democratic. So when Republicans begin to ape the Democrats by proposing endless pork-barrel projects and lavish new drug benefits for the elderly, while not even pretending to care about the budget deficit, it makes rank-and-file Republicans wonder why they should remain in a party that has little meaningful difference from the Democrats. Many are going to stay home on Election Day next year, I predict...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10553


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Spectator
by Jay D. Homnick

11/29/05

"If you ask Republicans why our forces are still on the ground in Iraq, they will explain: 'Because of our great success in defeating Saddam, we need to midwife the emergence of a historic new democracy. Because of our great success in luring the terrorists out of their hidey-holes, we now get a chance to mow them down far from our home turf.' Ask a Democrat that question, he will aver: 'Because of our great failure in mistaking a tinpot kvetch for a fearsome tyrant, we're stuck babysitting the various corrupt and violent elements of a provincial society. Because of our great failure in waking a sleeping giant, we have spawned a new generation of terrorists that would not otherwise have existed.' Whether this originated in sincere ideology or partisan one-upmanship, the fact is that we are witnessing a radical divergence of worldviews; to be honest, the chasm between the two positions looks to be unbridgeable. And yet, startlingly enough, neither side is comfortable mentioning the name of Zarqawi...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9075


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cincinnati Enquirer

11/28/05

A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that 'the president of the United States is all-powerful' and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant. In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said President Bush was 'too aloof, too distant from the details' of postwar planning. Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said...

http://tinyurl.com/83ayf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

11/28/05

Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, an eight-term congressman and hotshot Vietnam War fighter jock, pleaded guilty to graft and tearfully resigned Monday, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes mostly from defense contractors in exchange for government business and other favors. 'The truth is I broke the law, concealed my conduct, and disgraced my office,' the 63-year-old Republican said at a news conference. 'I know that I will forfeit my freedom, my reputation, my worldly possessions, most importantly, the trust of my friends and family'...

http://tinyurl.com/7kbfg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3696/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that "the President of the United States is all-powerful" and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905Z.shtml

DAVID BALE

29 November 2005 12:18

Families are being urged to back a campaign against a mobile phone mast earmarked for installation just metres from homes.

Phone giant 3G is consulting people in Lakenham about putting a mobile phone mast on top of St John's Church in Howard Road. The proposed mast would be about 100 metres from the back garden of mother-of-two Naomi Leeder, 27.

She has started a petition against the plans and has collected about 150 signatures.

Mrs Leeder, of Osbert Close, said: "If it goes up, I will be moving. My eldest, six-year-old Rose, has only got one kidney and my three-year-old, Charlotte, has chronic asthma and eczema, so I don't want any more health risks on my doorstep."

Mrs Leeder, who lives with her husband Jamie, also 27, a taxi driver, added: "I've got a mobile phone and I'm not totally against it. I just don't want it so near my house," she said. "There are already about four other masts in the area, so I cannot see why they need another one." She has trawled the internet for more information about the health risks of living near mobile phone masts, which has increased her anxieties. "The main risk is cancer, which it says on the internet you are 10 times more likely to get, for women and children, and four times for men, if you live close to the masts," she said.

Mike Davies, community affairs manager at Hutchison 3G, said: "Our network has limitations and this site is designed to cover an area where some of those limitations are. All the science and evidence is plain that there are no health risks from this technology.

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

"Using a church has an advantage as it gives a revenue stream which can benefit the community."

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

Dr Ian Gibson, Norwich North MP, and long-time supporter of our campaign, said: "Do they never learn? They are making themselves so unpopular with the public. Hopefully, this time, as they have asked for consultations with the people in the area, the people will put a stop to it."

If you would like to sign the petition, contact Mrs Leeder on (01603) 616248.

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application?
Call David Bale on 01603 772427 or e-mail david.bale2@archant.co.uk

http://tinyurl.com/aym8c

Was there a Guantánamo-style prison in Kosovo after 2001? If so, has it since been closed? Have the Americans used KFOR - that is, NATO - installations to create a penal establishment that eludes the norms of international law? These are all questions that have aroused the scruples of Alvaro Gil Robles, Human Rights Commissioner for the Council of Europe, who visited an American prison installation in Kosovo in 2002.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805H.shtml

James J. Zogby: We're adrift in Iraq and the public knows it. They feel lost between the false choices they are offered: "staying the course," which they know isn't working, and "leaving," which they fear as an equally dangerous option. The mainstream Democratic alternative - which is to find a middle ground and call for a phased withdrawal with or without timetables - is not a responsible alternative. And so, the war continues, on its present and dangerous course.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805G.shtml

Daschle, who as Senate majority leader controlled the chamber's schedule, recalled recently that he asked Bush to delay the war vote on Iraq until after the impending midterm election. Daschle's account highlights a crucial factor that has drawn little attention amid rising controversy over the congressional vote that authorized the war in Iraq: the debate may have been shaped as much by when Congress voted as by what it knew.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805F.shtml

A little-noticed internal report reveals that over a year ago, the Department of Homeland Security knew FEMA contracting was a scandal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805D.shtml

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20051128-1149-bn28duke6.html


Informant: Gomez

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=11935&ic=Cover+Story+1


Informant: William K. Dobbs

Wir benötigen etwas "Entwicklungshilfe" für zwei Schreiben. Wäre es Euch möglich jemanden (einen Eurer Profis) da anzusetzen und uns einen 1-2-seitigen kritischen Kommentar zu zwei Statements in englischer Sprache mit entsprechenden Referenzen zukommen zu lassen?

Wichtig ist zu wissen, dass "man" hier sich immer noch auf die WHO Richtlinien aus dem Jahr 2000 bezieht.

Wir können keine Experten für die Stellungnahme im Hinblick auf Grenzwerte und deren nationalen und internationalen Festschreibungen bezahlen, aber wenn sie/er mal nach Kenia kommt, dann würde unsere Gastfreundschaft das schon aufwiegen.

Bitte helft uns, Kenia ist bereits der Wilde Westen der Kommunikations-Industrie.

Herzliche Grüße nach D

Barbara Schachenmann
ECOTERRA Intl. Nairobi Node

Sind Sie Millionär? Dann geht das Folgende Sie nichts an!

Für alle anderen aber ist wichtig zu wissen: Auf die Beschäftigten in den Hamburger Krankenhäusern kommen folgende Verschlechterungen zu:

a) Kürzung der Gehälter bis zu mehreren 100 EUR monatlich,
b) Streichung des Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeldes (»Jahressonderzahlung«),
c) Weitgehender Wegfall von Schicht- und Überstundenzuschlägen, d) Verlängerung der Arbeitszeit von 38,5 auf 42 Stunden pro Woche e) Verkürzung des Urlaubs um 3 Tage (4 Tage für 30 – 40 Jährige),
f) Streichung des Zusatzurlaubs für Wechselschichtarbeitende (bisher bis zu 4 Werktagen),
g) Grundsätzlich nur noch befristete Arbeitsverträge,
h) Verkürzung der Kündigungsfristen
i) Und außerdem: Streichung von weiteren 1000 Arbeitsplätzen!

Informieren Sie sich über den Protest und die Streiks der Beschäftigten in den Hamburger Krankenhäuser.Es geht um deren Arbeitsplätze und um Ihre Gesundheit! Deshalb der Aufruf zur Demonstration am Mittwoch, 30.11.05 ab 8.00 Uhr vom Rödingsmarkt. Alle weiteren Infos auf dem Flugblatt von ver.di-Hamburg vom 28.11.2005. (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/gw/hh_281105.pdf


Empörung, Angst, Widerstand

Interview von Stephan Kimmerle mit Axel Hopfmann über die Gegenwehr an Hamburger Kliniken bezüglich der Folgen der Privatisierung. „Am 30. November sind etwa 17.000 Beschäftigte verschiedener Hamburger Krankenhäuser zum gemeinsamen Warnstreik aufgerufen. Du bist aktives ver.di-Mitglied im LBK, Landesbetrieb Krankenhäuser in Hamburg. Wogegen richtet sich Euer Protest? …“ Interview von Stephan Kimmerle mit Axel Hopfmann auf sozialismus.info vom 22.11.2005

http://www.sozialismus.info/index.php?name=News&sid=1443


Kampf gegen Privatisierung im Gesundheitswesen

»Die Patientenversorgung leidet«

Volksbegehren gegen Privatisierung hessischer Uniklinik gestartet. Interview von Herbert Wulff mit Tobias Paul, Vorsitzender der Gesamtjugend- und Auszubildendenvertretung am Universitätsklinikum Gießen/Marburg und im Sprecherrat der Initiative »Rettet die Klinika« in junge Welt vom 29.11.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/11-29/024.php

I
Vorstand sucht Eskalation

„An der Berliner Charité streiken die Ärzte. Auch Pflegekräfte und Arbeiter wehren sich gegen geplante Kündigungen und Lohnkürzungen. Seit Montag streiken die Ärzte am Berliner Uniklinikum Charité. Doch auch bei den rund 13000 Arbeitern und Angestellten regt sich weiterhin Protest gegen drohende Entlassungen und Lohnkürzungen. Für Freitag ruft die Gewerkschaft ver.di um »fünf vor zwölf« zum Warnstreik auf. Der Aufsichtsrat will an diesem Tag u. a. über betriebsbedingte Kündigungen entscheiden…“ Artikel von Daniel Behruzi in junge Welt vom 29.11.2005 http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/11-29/015.php
Ver.di: Liebe Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger! Die Beschäftigten des Universitätsklinikums Charité wenden sich an Sie mit der Bitte um Verständnis und Unterstützung.

„Seit fast einem Jahr versuchen der Vorstand der Charité und der Berliner Senat als deren Eigentümer die Beschäftigten der Charité zu einem Absenkungstarifvertrag zu erpressen, indem sie ansonsten mit 1500 betriebsbedingten Kündigungen drohen! (…) Wir haben unsere Aktion so organisiert, dass eine sichere und ausreichende Patientinnen- und Patientenversorgung sichergestellt ist. Wir hoffen auf Ihr Verständnis und Ihre Unterstützung- schließlich geht es um unsere Arbeitsplätze und um unsere Arbeitsbedingungen. Nur wenn diese gesichert sind, können wir auf Dauer eine gute Patientinnen- und Patientenversorgung gewährleisten. Kein Personalabbau! Keine betriebsbedingten Kündigungen! Schluss mit der Tarifflucht, für einen Flächentarifvertrag! Keine Privatisierung! Mit meiner Unterschrift unterstütze ich die Forderung der Beschäftigten der Charité!“ Unterschriftenliste des Aktionsbündnisses „Gesunde Charité“ von ver.di vom 28.11.2005. (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/gw/charite_uliste.pdf


Ver.di: Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde! Wir bitten euch hiermit, uns in unserem Kampf gegen betriebsbedingte Kündigungen, Tarifflucht, Lohndumping und Privatisierung aktiv zu unterstützen!

„Wir möchten durch die Gründung eines Aktionsbündnisses „Gesunde Charité“ eine breitere Unterstützung in der Öffentlichkeit für die Interessen der Beschäftigten und einer, aus unserer Sicht unverzichtbaren, öffentlichen Gesundheitsversorgung erreichen. Wir sehen die Angriffe gegen uns an der Charité nicht isoliert, sondern als Teil der neoliberalen Politik in Deutschland, ja in Europa, um öffentliche Dienstleistungen privaten Profitinteressen zur Verfügung zu stellen. (…) Wir laden euch daher zur Gründung unseres Aktionsbündnisses „Gesunde Charité“ Mittwoch, den
07.12.2005 am Campus Charité Mitte im kleinen Saal des Versorgungszentrums um 16.30 Uhr ein…“ Die gesamte Einladung mit weiteren Informationen und Hintergründen zur Situation von ver.di vom 28.11.2005 (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/gw/charite_einladung.pdf


Marburger Bund ruft zu Warnstreiks an Universitätskliniken auf

Die Ärztegewerkschaft Marburger Bund (mb) hat für kommenden Freitag (02.12.05) die Ärzte an den Universitätskliniken zu Warnstreiks aufgerufen. Anlass sind die nach Meinung der Ärztegewerkschaft ins Stocken geratenen Tarifverhandlungen mit der Tarifgemeinschaft deutscher Länder (TdL). „Wir haben den Eindruck, dass die Arbeitgeber bewusst auf Zeit spielen“, erklärte der 1. Vorsitzende des mb, Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery. Offensichtlich unterschätze man die anhaltende Streikbereitschaft der 22.000 Universitätsärzte. (…)Am 13. Dezember sollen zudem Ärzte-Streiks an kommunalen Krankenhäusern stattfinden. Hintergrund ist die Weigerung der Vereinigung kommunaler Arbeitgeberverbände (VKA), mit dem Marburger Bund Tarifverhandlungen aufzunehmen.“ Pressemitteilung des Marburger Bundes vom 29.11.2005

http://www.marburger-bund.de/bundesverband/pressestelle/mitteilungen/zs2005/5505.html


Aus: LabourNet, 29. November 2005

ImpeachPAC, a political action committee launched earlier this month to support candidates in next year's congressional election who favor impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, today announced its first endorsement.

http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/48


From Information Clearing House



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

Can anyone still take the Democrats seriously as an opposition party after leaders like Senators Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) firmly distanced themselves from Rep. John Murtha's (D-Penn.) call on November 17 for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=9177


From Information Clearing House

US blocked experts from attending Cuba conference: As recently as March 2004, John Bolton, then-undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, told the US Congress in written testimony that Cuba "remains a terrorist and (biological weapons) threat to the United States."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051127/sc_afp/cubabiotechusbritain


From Information Clearing House

For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president's men. If convicted, they'll have plenty of time to mull over their sins.

http://www.forward.com/articles/6936



He Dared to Challenge Power and the Official Consensus:

“I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of all that is good in the world. It turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them they are “heroes” when they master the art of killing.” Conscientious Objector and Prisoner of Conscience, Sgt Kevin Benderman

http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/11/he-dared-to-challange-power-and_26.html


From Information Clearing House



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

with Documentary-Maker Mark Manning
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8353.htm



Audio: Dahr Jamail Interviews Mark Manning:

In this rare interview, Dahr talks with Mark about Fallujah and recounts the circumstances that journalists face today when reporting on events the US government does not want its citizens to know about.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8730.htm

Sure enough, a search for “bomb al Jazeera” led me to this article, written in September 2003 by Frank Gaffney, in which he recommends “taking out” al Jazeera “one way or another.”

http://tinyurl.com/8bhgh


From Information Clearing House

Whether euphemized as "redeployment" or described frankly as withdrawal, the new strategy has moved into the mainstream. In this new context, the positions still being defended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are beginning to look increasingly marginalized.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK29Ak01.html



A Journey That Ended in Anguish:

Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11160.htm



Watch The Video:

Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11157.htm



The ties that tangle Iraq and Iran:

What stands out is that Washington resorted to grandstanding in order to cover up the accelerating collapse of its regional policy in Iraq, which surely casts a shadow on the US capacity to force its will on the Iran nuclear issue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11165.htm


From Information Clearing House

The plan is causing consternation among commanders in US air force, who say it could lead to increased civilian casualties and lead to airstrikes being used as means of settling old scores.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11156.htm

By Reuters

A man has appeared on Syrian state television saying Lebanese officials, including the son of Rafik al-Hariri, had forced him to testify falsely to a U.N. inquiry into the former Lebanese prime minister's assassination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11163.htm

By Scott Ritter

This is America's war. This is Bill Clinton's war. This is the Congress of the United States' war. This is an indifferent American public's war. This is our war. We're to blame. We're responsible. We're the ones that facilitated this mad rush to insanity that has occurred in Iraq today.

MP3 and transcript.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/podcasts_transcripts/

By Nic Fleming,
Medical Correspondent

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/29/nfone29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/29/ixportal.html

A teddy bear-shaped mobile phone aimed at children as young as four was launched yesterday.

Article supplied by Sylvie

The new Teddyfone ‘is a response to clear demand in the market’

The manufacturers of the Teddyfone claimed it would help parents keep track of their children while minimising potential health hazards posed by radio frequency emissions.

With no screen and only four buttons that can be pre-programmed by parents, the device prevents users from being targeted by text message bullying, calls from strangers or inappropriate adult material.

The makers of the Teddyfone claim that the rate at which the body absorbs energy from the handset, known as its peak specific absorption rate, is 0.16w/kg - close to the lowest available. Most mobiles have SAR values of 0.4 to 0.7w/kg.

Sir William Stewart, the chairman of the Health Protection Agency, advised parents earlier this year to discourage use of mobile phones by children under eight as a precaution against potential health risks.

Yesterday the agency was joined in its criticism of the Teddyfone by even the industry body that represents mobile phone operators.

A spokesman for the Mobile Operators Association said: “The companies we represent don’t market their products to under-16s, as recommended by Sir William Stewart. We believe that is a responsible policy and is in line with the advice on health.”

Paul Liesching, the managing director of Teddyfone Ltd, who said the device was aimed at four- to 10-year-olds, pointed to research showing that a quarter of seven- to 10-year-olds owned mobiles. He said parents should be able to buy low-emission handsets that also protected children from other potential dangers.

“This is a basic parental decision. If you see the utility and benefits of your child having a mobile phone are greater than any potential risks, give your child a mobile phone. If you don’t, then don’t.

“One million children under 10 already have mobile phones which potentially put them at risk from text-bullying, excessive charges and inappropriate material. Teddy-fone is a response to clear demand in the market.”

The new handset has an SOS button that allows children who feel under threat to connect automatically to a parent’s mobile.

A child monitor option allows concerned parents to listen in to what is happening around their child and an optional child locator service sends parents a map of where their son or daughter is, on request, for 50p.

The handsets and two years’ line rental are free. Calls are charged at standard rates.

Sir William, the Government’s leading adviser on radiation, said in January that children under nine should not use mobiles and that those aged nine to 14 should make only short, essential calls.

He said: “When it comes to suggesting that mobile phones should be available to three- to eight-year-olds, I can’t believe for a moment that can be justified.

“My advice is that they should not have them because children’s skulls are not fully thickened, their nervous systems are not fully developed and the radiation penetrates further into their brains.”

Published research suggests that a child’s brain absorbs 50-70 per cent more of the emissions from a mobile phone than an adult’s.

Alasdair Philips, of consumer group Powerwatch, said yesterday: “Marketing a product at children when there is increasing evidence that it may be causing them both short-term and long-term harm is at the very least highly irresponsible.” Dr Michael Clarke, of the Health Protection Agency, said: “It’s up to any company to justify its product in light of our advice that children should be discouraged from excessive use of mobiles.”

Communi8, a British company, lost about £500,000 after launching Mymo, a mobile for under-eights, last year. It withdrew the product following Sir William’s comments.

A survey of 1,232 parents of children under 16 carried out on behalf of Teddyfone found that 35 per cent of respondents were concerned about the potential health hazards for children under 10 with mobiles. Nearly a quarter were worried about their child’s phone being stolen.

Publishers wishing to reproduce photographs on this page should phone 44 (0) 207 538 7505 or e-mail syndication@telegraph.co.uk

12 September 2005: Mobile phone fears for owners, aged five
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MRXLTO4TQXX4VQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2005/09/12/nmob12.xml

14 August 2005: Mobiles aimed at under-8s set for return to high street
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MRXLTO4TQXX4VQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2005/08/14/nkidmob14.xml

12 January 2005: Don’t allow under-9s to use a mobile
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MRXLTO4TQXX4VQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2005/01/12/nmob12.xml


Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=334

See also:
http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=dernieresinfos&date_news=2005-11-29

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NRPB non-response re concerns over mobile phones for under-5s

You may be interested in the email below that I sent to Dr Mike Clark of the HPA-RPD (formerly the NRPB) two weeks ago. As you'll see, this is in response to his reply to an email from a member of the public in which they expressed concern about the marketing of mobile phones to children as young as 4 years old.

You may also be interested - as I am - that Dr Clark hasn't replied to my email in those two weeks - in marked contrast to his practice of responding to other queries I've seen within 2-3 days (I haven't emailed him myself before). It's very surprising that such an emotive and contentious issue hasn't produced a reply from the spokesman for the body that supposedly PROTECTS our nation's (and our children's) HEALTH.

You'll see I've raised a number of pertinent issues closely related to this matter. I believe ALL of these issues demand a response from the Radiation PROTECTION Division of the HEALTH PROTECTION Agency. If you feel, as I do, that a deafening silence on these issues is not good enough, then you might like to email Dr Clark as well - you'll find his email address below.

You may also consider various of the apparent contradictions that I've highlighted in my email below useful in objecting to 'inappropriate developments' of various types.

I shall be posting this text, and the email below, on my website http://www.starweave.com . As I know that the HPA-RPD (AKA NRPB) is in the Top 10 visitors to that site, this may encourage the response that has so far been lacking. I'm not including Dr Clark's email, as I feel that would be discourteous without his agreement. I will, though, say that he seems to take the view that his labelling of this issue as "political" puts it outside his remit - somewhat bizarre, for the body whose advice informs government policy on this subject.

Happy Christmas to all.

Grahame



----- Original Message -----
From: Dr Grahame Blackwell
To: Mike.Clark@hpa-rp.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: Teddyfone

Dear Dr Clark

I have recently been forwarded a copy of your reply (below) to S**** W**** on the subject of the 'Teddyfone'.

I would agree wholeheartedly with your view that the matter is political in nature. The sole reason that a company is able to market such a product to young children in this country is because a political decision has been made that permits this. That political decision has been made on the basis of advice from the body that you represent. If the advice from your organisation had been materially different then that political decision would most probably also have been materially different. However much you may wish to dissociate yourself from this commercial activity, it's only happening because your organisation has, in effect, given the go-ahead to such activities.

In your email you state "I suspect the company will argue that the product is an aid to child security." In fact, of course, the company doesn't have to argue any such thing. The company doesn't have to argue anything at all. It simply has to conform with ICNIRP guidelines - the 'Precautionary Approach' advocated in various documents published by your organisation. Perhaps you could explain to me exactly HOW this constitutes a 'Precautionary Approach' when the very reason for advocating such an approach, as documented in the Stewart Report and your follow-up Report 'Mobile Phones and Health 2004' (Documents of the NRPB) was that (I quote):

“There is now scientific evidence, however, which suggests that there may be biological effects occurring at exposures below these [i,e, ICNIRP] guidelines.

"We conclude therefore that it is not possible at present to say that exposure to RF radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential adverse health effects, and that the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach. "

In other words, the reason that this product can be legally marketed to children of infant-school age is precisely because your organisation has seen fit to advocate, as a 'Precautionary Approach', those very guidelines whose perceived inadequacy has made such an Approach necessary. I know I'm not the only person who would be most interested to know the scientific rationale behind such an apparent 'do-nothing' policy.

It's also interesting to note that the Teddyfone itself is provided free and there is no line rental charge for 2 years. The manufacturers will be making their money solely from charges for calls made. I'd be interested to hear any business-minded supplier try to justify such a pricing policy on the basis that this is primarily an 'emergency-use--only' product, indeed I'm most surprised that you can even offer that as a plausible argument. The fact is, of course, that the commercial viability of this product depends solely on high call volume - from children of infant school age - and the manufacturers are well aware of that. Let's not kid ourselves - or try to kid anyone else.

Still on the safety angle, It's not clear to me what sort of situation an under-5 might find themselves in that necessitates such a facility. It's not the norm for children of that age to be set loose roaming the streets unsupervised. Is the Teddyfone in fact intended to reduce parental/carer responsibility for supervising infants, on the basis that "It's ok, they'll call us on the Teddyfone if there's a problem"? If so I'd suggest that this is a move towards less, not greater, safety and security for children.

I'm advised that, on a Canadian TV programme last Sunday (20th Nov) Sir William Stewart referred to the marketing of cellphones to under-8s as "grotesque" - a fairly explicit condemnation. Clearly he was on that programme purely by virtue of his position as Head of the HPA-RPD. I'd ask whether you, as spokesman for that same body, disagree with the views of your superior in this matter. If so, what are the public to think if the government's advisory body is divided within itself over the risk to young lives? If not, why is the HPA-RPD not sending out a very clear message to government on the inadvisability of permitting such profiteering at a potentially massive health cost to our children?

I was interested to note, too, your comment in the Daily Telegraph yesterday that "It's up to any company to justify its product" - and Sir William's observation in the same article "I can't believe for a moment that can be justified" (both relating to availability of mobile phones to small children). I've heard you say that yours is an advisory, not a regulatory body and so is not able to determine policy. I'd suggest that a watchdog with no teeth is of very limited value. If in addition it's hesitant about barking too loud, apparently for fear of upsetting those it's supposed to be warning about, then it's worse than useless - it gives the illusion of protection whilst in fact offering none. Even worse than that, by giving 'advice' that encourages government to implement a policy of virtually unrestrained commercial exploitation, that 'watchdog' is effectively holding open the door for all and sundry whilst tying the hands of any poor citizen who wants to protect his or her family (even the Mobile Operators' Association has expressed reservations about the Teddyfone - but it's still legal, thanks largely to your advice to government).

Dr Clark, you cannot have it both ways. You can't appear week after week in the media as the voice of official scientific opinion in the UK - and at the same time claim to have no part in the political process that permits an outrage like the Teddyfone (I use the term 'outrage' advisedly, it seems in keeping with the comments from Sir William Stewart and the Mobile Operators' Association). Whether or not it’s your intention there is no doubt that your position as evidenced in the Telegraph article is the very reason why “It’s up to [the] company” – central government hasn’t been given any good reason by its advisers to decree otherwise. Those little tots clutching Teddyfones this Christmas will be relying for their safety, not on the social conscience of a commercial operator, but on the ‘Protection’ that is central to your professional role. That 'Protection' is quite literally central - not just once, but twice - in the title of your organisation.

I’d be glad if you’d couch any response to this letter in terms that you’d be agreeable to being disseminated more widely; I know that there are very many people who would be interested in that response. If you make it clear in your reply that you would not wish such action, then of course I would honour that. You may also wish to know that the contents of this email are not at this time being displayed or circulated elsewhere.

Yours very sincerely

Grahame Blackwell

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What a cuddly signal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1211691/

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

Tracking by tagging our children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1240202/

EMF and childhood cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1239020/

Childhood leukemia and EMF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1239050/

Scientists have amassed a growing body of evidence that long-term exposure to toxic compounds, particularly pesticides, can destroy neurons and trigger Parkinson's disease. They have implicated several pesticides that cause Parkinson's symptoms in animals but hundreds of agricultural and industrial chemicals may play a role.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112805HA.shtml

A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests. The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea said timber was one of the few natural resources available and their only current option for economic growth involved the destruction of the forests.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112805EB.shtml

Washington will battle with its allies over how to slow climate change beyond 2012 at United Nations talks in Canada this week. Up to 10,000 delegates from 189 nations meet in Montreal from November 28 through December 9 for the first annual climate talks since the UN's Kyoto Protocol on curbing heat-trapping gases entered into force in February.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112805EA.shtml

Former NOW host speaks out on media bias and his feud with former CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Q.shtml

http://www.newstarget.com/z008094.html


Informant: Scott Munson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2005

CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider
202-226-7616

Pelosi Statement on Resignation of Congressman Cunningham

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to announcement this afternoon by Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) that he would resign from the House of Representatives after pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax charges:

“Mr. Cunningham accepted a bribe to perform an official act – an egregious action that strikes at the very heart of our democracy and dishonors the people he has been elected to represent; it is only proper that he resign.

“This offense is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies. The Republican Congress has the wrong priorities; it is time to restore a high ethical standard to the Congress.”

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1287



Rep. Cunningham Enters Guilty Plea, Resigns
by Chris Cillizza,
Washington Post

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) pleaded guilty today to fraud, conspiracy to commit bribery and tax evasion. Shortly after entering his plea, Cunningham announced that he is immediately resigning his seat, though he had already announced that he would not seek reelection next year.

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2005/11/a_rising_tide_o.html


Informant: John Calvert

By Pete Henshaw

This is Local London

CAMPAIGNERS fighting against T-Mobile's plans to erect a mobile phone mast just 200 yards from Aldersbrook Primary School in Wanstead are today facing proposals for a further three masts Up to 14 new phone masts could go up in Wanstead and Woodford, including nine in the Wanstead area, according to new plans tabled by mobile giants T-Mobile, O2, Orange, Vodafone and H3G.

The annual roll-out plan is a list of existing sites, sites where masts have been granted permission but not yet built and proposed new sites.

It shows that at the moment, Wanstead and Snaresbrook have 15 masts. Another two have been granted permission and nine more are proposed.

Among the masts granted approval is the T-Mobile site in Aldersbrook Road, just 200 yards from Aldersbrook Primary School, which campaigner Elizabeth Canavan and her supporters have been fighting against.

The new list deals Mrs Canavan's campaign a blow as Vodafone, O2 and Orange are all proposing news masts in Aldersbrook Road.

Mrs Canavan said she was dismayed but determined to continue the fight after hearing the news.

She said: "I did not know about the Vodafone or O2 proposals, so now there are potentially four masts on that stretch."

Mrs Canavan said the decision by the Planning Inspectorate to allow the T-Mobile mast - against Redbridge Council's wishes - has set a precedent and encouraged the other companies.

She said: "We really want to open a dialogue with the council and the Corporation of London (which owns Wanstead Flats).

"We want to speak to these companies and get a proper solution.

"What we're calling for is a sensible precautionary approach.

"We're not accepting this risk to our children and community. This is not precautionary, they're flying in the face of precaution."

Elsewhere, Woodford Green has ten masts with another five sites which have been granted permission and no new proposals, while in South Woodford there are nine masts with one site having been given permission and no new proposals.

Mrs Canavan said that if a proliferation of masts was allowed then more and more campaign groups would spring up around the area.

Proposed mast sites included in the list are: l T-Mobile Meadow Walk, Snaresbrook; Saxonby House, High Street, Wanstead; l Vodafone Next to Bowling Green Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead; Gordon Road, Snaresbrook l Orange Blake Hall Road, Wanstead; Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead; Wanstead Tube station l O2 Bowls Club, Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead; Courtney Hotel, Aldersbrook Road, Wanstead l HG3 no new proposed sites in Wanstead or Woodford The full list of all Redbridge sites is available on the Redbridge Council website, where the introduction states: "These sites will still have to be submitted for consideration by the council, either as prior approval sites or as a planning application."

The website address is
http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/planning/telcom2005.cfm phenshaw@london.newsquest.co.uk

11:00am Sunday 27th November 2005

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_evelyn_p_051126_pharma_s_poisoned_ge.htm


Informant: Milo

http://www.publicintegrity.org/527/report.aspx?aid=763


Informant: Milo

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051123/OPINION/511230328/1006


Informant: Lew Rockwell

You are free to promote the presidential war machine
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/11/23/19120/600


Informant: Lew Rockwell

None Dare Call It Censorship
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/douglas2.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bliss1.html



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

Nov. 28, 2005

For Immediate Release

For more information:
Ted Glick, 973-338-5398
Barbara Lerman, 609-203-1842

Grassroots Mobilizing to Demand Action on Climate Crisis

From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action by the federal government and the thousands of delegates at the United Nations Climate Conference meeting in Montreal this week and next.

In Washington, DC, hybrid cars will ring the White House while fiddlers liken President Bush to Nero, fiddling while the world burns. True to its festive traditions, New Orleans, drawing attention to their unenviable title as ‘most vulnerable city in North America’, according to the International Panel on Climate Change, will host a "Save New Orleans, Stop Global Warming" party in the French Quarter. In Los Angeles local activists plan to individually reach at least 10,000 people by organizing directly in the streets and city buses in inner city Black, Latino, and Asian LA neighborhoods with the message, “Stop Hurricane USA!”

In arid Arizona, on the Hopi Nation, the newly elected Hopi Tribal Chair Ivan Sidney will be attending a community forum, "Coal, Water, Wind, and Sun" focused on the effects of the closing of the Mojave (coal-fired) Generating Station and Black Mesa Mine at the end of this year. In Madison, Wisconsin there will be a two-hour Critical Mass bike ride on the University of Wisconsin campus. In St. Paul, Minnesota activists will gather outside the residence of Governor Tim Pawlenty for a noontime picket calling for a reduction of Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions and that his colleague President Bush help solve the climate crisis.

Students will be active around the country, including at Penn State in State College, Pa., where they will dump coal on the campus green at a demonstration protesting the school president’s refusal to meet with them about reducing greenhouse gases. Also in Pennsylvania, several Native American groups will be rallying in Doylestown and Harrisburg, drumming, praying and singing, calling for U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Altogether, actions are expected in over 25 states. A fuller listing, including contact information, can be accessed at http://www.climatecrisis.us

These actions will be part of the International Day of Action to Stop Global Warming, participated in by groups in 31 countries http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org

The world’s largest demonstration will be taking place on the afternoon of December 3rd in Montreal http://www.3dec2005.org . Hundreds of U.S. citizens will be heading north to participate in this action. Smaller actions will be taking place in Montreal throughout the time of the United Nations conference, from November 28th to December 9th.

One such action will take place on the morning of December 3rd in front of the U.S. Consulate in Montreal at the corner of Rue Saint-Alexandre and Ave. Rene-Levesque. At 10:30 am Energy Action, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, Kyoto and Beyond and other groups will present close to 2/3 of a million signatures of U.S. citizens on petitions calling for action by the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Barbara Lerman, spokesperson for Climate Crisis, USA Join the World!, urged U.S. government leaders to catch up with popular opinion on this urgent issue. “The world scientific community is in agreement,” Lerman stated. “Global warming is real, it is accelerating, and the time is now to get serious about substantial reductions in greenhouse gases caused by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. According to Fox News, 60% of the American people agree that this is a major issue. U.S. government delegates in Montreal and members of Congress should represent this sentiment and act accordingly.”


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


From ufpj-news

http://www.newstarget.com/008511.html


Informant: Scott Munson

Todesstrafe: Amnesty kritisiert 1000. Hinrichtung in den USA (28.11.05)

Nach Angaben von Amnesty Internationale steht in den USA die 1000. Hinrichtung seit Wiedereinführung der Todesstrafe 1977 unmittelbar bevor. Im US-Bundesstaat Virginia solle Robin Lovitt am 30. November hingerichtet werden. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation setzt sich derzeit mit einer Eilaktion für die Aufschiebung der Hinrichtung Lovitts ein. Etwa die Hälfte der 1000 Hinrichtungen hätten allein in den zwei südlichen Bundesstaaten Texas und Virginia stattgefunden. Amnesty fordert die US-Regierung und die Behörden aller Bundesstaaten auf, alle geplanten Hinrichtungen sofort auszusetzen. "Die Todesstrafe ist nachweislich wirkungslos, willkürlich und fehlerbehaftet", sagte Amnesty-Mitarbeiter Sumit Bhattacharyya. Keine glaubwürdige Studie habe jemals bewiesen, dass die Todesstrafe Gewaltverbrechen wirkungsvoller abschrecke als andere Strafen. Seit 1990 seien mindestens 122 Menschen zum Tode verurteilt worden, deren Unschuld später bewiesen worden sei.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12388

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty in US District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud, and tax evasion for underreporting his income in 2004.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805X.shtml

As the debate over troop reductions continues, the covert war in Iraq has expanded in recent months to Syria. A composite American Special Forces team, known as a SMU, for "special-mission unit," has been ordered, under stringent cover, to target suspected supporters of the Iraqi insurgency across the border.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Y.shtml

Die Schweizer Bürger votierten für ein fünfjähriges Gentech-Moratorium.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21446/1.html

by Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com

Will the current turmoil produce peaceful Islamists or radical nationalists -- or something in between?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051128/five_ideologies_one_middle_east.php

Nick Turse continues to pay tribute to the "Fallen Legion Wall," a proposal for a virtual "wall" made up of the seemingly endless and ever-growing list of top officials and beleaguered administrators, managers and career civil servants who have quit their government posts in protest or been defamed, threatened, fired, forced out, demoted or driven to retire by administration strong-arm tactics, cronyism and disastrous policies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805N.shtml

Paul Krugman writes that American workers at big companies used to think they had made a deal. They would be loyal to their employers, and the companies in turn would be loyal to them, guaranteeing job security, health care and a dignified retirement. Such deals were, in a real sense, the basis of America's post-war social order.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805M.shtml

American officials are beginning to acknowledge that a judgment about when withdrawals can begin ... could well hinge on whether the new Iraqi government, scheduled to be elected in less than three weeks, issues its own call for an American withdrawal. Last week, for the first time, Iraq's political factions, represented by about 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805L.shtml

Nobody outside the Westminster village would recognize the names of David Keogh and Leo O'Connor. One is a former Cabinet Office official, the other a researcher for an MP who lost his seat at the last election. But the crime of which they are accused concerns two men who are firmly in the public eye: Tony Blair and George Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805K.shtml

Bob Herbert writes that Jack Murtha is as tough as they come, but he's seen enough of the misguided, mismanaged, mission impossible war in Iraq to know that it's not sustainable, not worth the continued killing and butchering and psychological maiming of thousands of American GIs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805J.shtml

Marjorie Cohn writes that once again, at the 11th hour, the Bush administration has pulled its punches in the case of Jose Padilla. Using an approach that more closely resembles a game of chess than a system of justice, Team Bush has altered its strategy, while seeking to keep all options open. Its fancy footwork, however, may ultimately backfire.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805I.shtml

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

11/24/05

Worried about flagging support for the war? The president tells his aides in a secret memo, 'Publicly we say one thing; actually, we do another.' That was not President Bush on Iraq, but President Nixon on Vietnam and Cambodia. It is only one line in some 50,000 pages of newly declassified Nixon-era documents from the National Archive. It is not surprising, but still a little unsettling, to learn how often a president will dissemble with the people...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1125/p09s01-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by Nicholas von Hoffman

11/23/05

When John Murtha, Democratic Repesentative from Pennsylvania, appeared on our television screens, what he had to say was shocking -- an old guard type declaring America must get itself out of Iraq and the war. In 457 words, he stood the country up and made it blink as he told the other of the House of Representatives, 'Our military is suffering. The future of our country is at risk. We can not continue on the present course. It is evident that continued military action in Iraq is not in the best interest of the United States of America, the Iraqi people or the Persian Gulf Region.' That was a shock and Murtha himself was a shock, a man from another era, from an America most of us may have heard about but have not visited. At 73 he has an Irish working-class accent of a kind which has all but died out. It speaks of grit and iron and hard times -- and there have been plenty of those in his Pennsylvania Congressional district, where the bituminous coal industry went down when Murtha was a young man and where the steel industry went down when Murtha was a middle-aged man, and in between there were two wars, both of which he signed up for and served in...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/vonhoffman


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fox News/Cato
by Timothy Lynch

11/25/05

Washington is in high dudgeon these days over the events leading up to the Iraq war. Democrats charge President Bush with misleading the Congress and the electorate over prewar intelligence. Last week, Sen. John Kerry said Mr. Bush’s handling of the war was 'one of the great acts of misleading and deception in American history.' Bristling at the charge, Vice President Dick Cheney rejoined that such attacks are among the 'most dishonest and reprehensible charges that have ever been aired' in Washington. If anything good comes out of this heated debate, it is perhaps the consensus that on the momentous decision of war or peace, presidential deception is repugnant. Can this principle of presidential honesty and candor find an enduring place in our politics?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176728,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Tom Hayden

11/23/05

Congress should call for a peace envoy to begin immediate peace talks with the Iraqi opposition after this week’s historic Cairo summit. The three-day meeting was the first attended by leading Iraqi political parties as well as a delegation linked to the insurgents, organized by former minister Ayham al-Sammarae. Overcoming the initial opposition of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, the conference ended with a call for American withdrawal and an endorsement of 'nationalist resistance' to foreign occupation. The conference will resume in Baghdad in February, where a stronger call for US withdrawal is likely. The February date is consistent with the four-month period that has been established to re-negotiate the Iraqi constitution to accommodate Sunni demands. It is clear that US proposals for token Sunni inclusion have failed, and that the peace deal emerging consists of incorporating the opposition into a new power-sharing arrangement...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1123-20.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by David Lindorff

11/27/05

Whether white phosphorus bombs -- what American troops call 'Willie Pete' -- is a chemical weapon or an incendiary weapon, may not seem like a very important distinction to a casual observer. After all, what it does -- burn flesh on contact and eat right down to the bone causing severe pain and, depending on what it eats through, death -- is as cruel and vicious as any poison gas. But it does matter to the Pentagon, and to the mainstream media that is covering the growing scandal of US military use of phosphorus bombs in the assault on Fallujah (and probably elsewhere in the Iraq War/Occupation). ... Why the fuss? Well, recall that the Bush/Cheney adminstration made use ad nauseum of how Saddam Hussein 'used chemical weapons against his own people.' So how would it look if the bombs we are using against Iraqis were also chemical weapons?

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11262005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by Michael Kinsley

11/26/05

Until last week, the anti-war position in the debate over Iraq closely resembled the pro-war position in the ancient debate over Vietnam. That is: It was a mistake to get in, but now that we're in, we can't just cut and run. That was the logic on which Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger took over the Vietnam War four years after major American involvement began and kept it going for another five. American 'credibility' depended on our keeping our word, however foolish that word might have been. In the end, all the United States wanted was a 'decent interval' between our departure and the North Vietnamese triumph -- and we didn't even get that. Thousands of Americans died in Vietnam after America's citizens and government were in general agreement that the war was a mistake. We are now very close to that point of general agreement in the Iraq war. Do you believe that if Bush, Cheney, and company could turn back the clock, they would do this again?

http://www.slate.com/id/2131029/



Is defeat now an option?

Human Events
by Pat Buchanan

11/28/05

'Is the United States now going to cut and run in Iraq?' asks Bronwen Maddox, foreign editor of the London Times. While the answer from President Bush remains a defiant 'No!' the question is now being raised by the most hawkish of his backers. And understandably so. For John McCain's call for sending 10,000 more troops to Iraq has been met with polite silence, while all signals out of this city point to withdrawal, beginning in 2006, of scores of thousands of U.S. troops, whether the insurgency has been defeated or not, whether an Iraqi democracy is assured or not...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10521


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Charles Krauthammer

During the last few weeks in Washington the pieties about torture have lain so thick in the air that it has been impossible to have a reasoned discussion. The McCain amendment that would ban 'cruel, inhuman, or degrading' treatment of any prisoner by any agent of the United States sailed through the Senate by a vote of 90-9. The Washington establishment remains stunned that nine such retrograde, morally inert persons -- let alone senators -- could be found in this noble capital. Now, John McCain has great moral authority on this issue, having heroically borne torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. McCain has made fine arguments in defense of his position. And McCain is acting out of the deep and honorable conviction that what he is proposing is not only right but is in the best interest of the United States. His position deserves respect. But that does not mean, as seems to be the assumption in Washington today, that a critical analysis of his 'no torture, ever' policy is beyond the pale...(for publication 12/05/05)

http://tinyurl.com/cg423


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by James Norton

11/28/05

Book review: "History can be a truly explosive force when it's connected tightly to contemporary events. The linkage of Islam, terrorism and the war in Iraq has a deep and vivid history with the potential to hit the American public like a roadside bomb, but it has gone largely untold, emerging only in bits and pieces -- until now. 'Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam' digs up the knotty roots of Islamist violence, exhuming the deep, dirty story behind the 'war on terror'...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805E.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Spectator
by Jed Babbin

11/28/05

As hard as it is to think of Ted Kennedy as a political visionary, his April 2004 statement that 'Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam,' was way before its time. In the last presidential election year Kennedy started down a path that would have been political suicide for Kerry. But Kerry's approach -- feigning support for real action against terrorism -- lost. The Dems will not make the same mistake in 2008. The architects of our defeat in Vietnam have dusted off their old plans and are adopting them to Iraq. They are working hard to make Kennedy's statement come true. The whole Democrat menagerie has embarked on a campaign to Vietnamize Iraq: to make it a demonstrable defeat and by so doing regain the White House regardless of the consequences. If they succeed, Iraq will become a far greater failure than Vietnam was because the stakes are much higher abroad and at home. The next presidential election will, like the last one, be a referendum on Iraq. And if Iraq is a failure, the Democrats will be a success...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9071


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Lady Liberty

11/28/05

We talk about politics. We talk about polls. We talk about a lot of things that are politically motivated, affected, or otherwise part and parcel of politics. And yet, much as our discussions about the weather, there's little we actually do about it. Few undertake activism; fewer still run for election. The one relatively easy thing that we can still do is vote. But plenty of people who are eligible don't do that, either. For instance, in the most recent elections, only about 40% of the people in my county turned up at the polls. Local officials were touting that as being pretty good. As far as I'm concerned, it means over half of the registered voters here didn't bother...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/11/28/ladylib.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Papers Please
by staff

11/24/05

Meet Deborah Davis. She's a 50 year-old mother of four who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her kids are all grown-up: her middle son is a soldier fighting in Iraq. She leads an ordinary, middle class life. You probably never would have heard of Deb Davis if it weren't for her belief in the U.S. Constitution. One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country where we must show 'papers' whenever a cop demands them...

http://www.papersplease.org/davis/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

11/27/05

A second Time magazine reporter has agreed to cooperate in the CIA leak case and will testify about her discussions with Karl Rove's attorney, a sign that prosecutors are still exploring charges against the White House aide. Viveca Novak, a reporter in Time's Washington bureau, is cooperating with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003, the magazine reported in its Dec. 5 issue. Novak specifically has been asked to testify under oath about conversations she had with Rove attorney Robert Luskin starting in May 2004, the magazine reported...

http://tinyurl.com/bfvhr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Forbes

11/28/05

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has warned that any European Union nation found to have allowed secret CIA prison camps to operate on their soil could have their EU voting rights suspended. ... Meanwhile the US was coming under mounting pressure to explain reports of secret stopovers at European airports by CIA planes allegedly carrying terror suspects to covert prison camps...

http://tinyurl.com/cjux8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

With a lack of moral justification, as US soldiers return from Iraq they struggle to come to terms with the psychological ramifications of the war they have endured.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705G.shtml

Federal investigators are scrutinizing a $10,000 donation made five years ago by SunCruz Casinos to a Republican campaign committee on behalf of an Ohio congressman.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705E.shtml

Demonstrations continued Saturday as approximately 200 anti-war protesters joined Cindy Sheehan on a private lot outside President George W. Bush's hometown ranch, laughing at a Bush impersonator and crying while listening to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705D.shtml

Britain has angered John Bolton, America's combative ambassador to the United Nations, by breaking ranks with him over the need for reform.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705B.shtml

When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced last week that Jose Padilla would be transferred to the federal justice system from military detention, he said almost nothing about the standards the administration used in deciding whether to handle a terror suspect as an enemy combatant or as a common criminal, to hold him indefinitely without charges in a military facility or to charge him in court.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705A.shtml

We put a call out to all candidates who want to win, and Steve Young, fighting for the people in normally conservative Orange County, CA, in a special house election coming up Dec. 6, took us up on our offer to create action pages for him on his own campaign site. Steve is demonstrating his leadership right NOW by working to rally support for serious consideration of the real Murtha resolution. Please submit the action form below to help bring this issue and his campaign the national attention and focus it deserves

ACTION PAGE:
http://www.steveyoungforcongress.com/murtha_resolution.php

We are told that people from all over the country can help with the campaign, as they will be doing virtual phone banks. But especially if you are in Southern California, you can make a real impact by helping to get out the vote in this last test election before 2006. If Steve wins or makes a strong showing in this red district, it will have great influence on other congresspeople who are not yet listening to the voice of the people.

STATEMENT OF THE STEVE YOUNG CAMPAIGN

Dear Members and Friends:

This week saw the first major step towards the beginning of the end of the Iraq War. A decorated Marine Corps veteran with 37 years of service, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts, Representative John Murtha stood before the world and called for the immediate commencement of American military withdrawal from Iraq. It was a watershed moment.

"Because we in Congress are charged with sending our sons and daughters into battle, it is our responsibility, our obligation, to speak out for them. That's why I am speaking out."

We write to you today on behalf of Steve Young, a man of principle, currently fighting incredible odds to bring this same message to the public and the Congress in the upcoming special election for Congress in Orange County, California's Congressional District 48.

In a radio interview last week, Steve suggested that we look to the successful solution to the Lebanese civil war for precedent and work with the Arab League to find a long-term solution in Iraq and sure enough, Arab League leader Amre Moussa this week called for America's withdrawal. Steve looks for forward seeking solutions yet with the education of historical precedent. How many of our present problems could have been avoided if we had a Congress made up of people like Steve Young who actually studied a situation before taking action?

As we look towards the midterm elections as the opportunity to change things in Washington and return our sons and daughters from a "discredited" war, please do not overlook this important race. We have a chance to take back the Crown Jewel of Republican seats in California in 2005 and not wait until 2006. A loss for Steve is a loss for the cause as the Republican challenger is committed to "stay the course" with President Bush. That man is purely just another rubber stamp for the Administration.

Steve Young needs your financial support for his final media push against the Republican Machine that has attracted the RNCC, Vice President Cheney and others. This media push at the very end of this Special Election, called because Chris Cox was appointed to the SEC, will make the difference. This is the Democratic Party's one chance in this district. They expect a very low turnout and that means every Democratic vote will count as if it were two in a normal election. Send a message to the Republicans that NO seat is safe that their time on center-stage is over!

We'd like to first give you the courageous words of Rep. Murtha in his already landmark speech.

"The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of us. The United States and coalition troops have done all they can in Iraq, but it is time for a change in direction. Our military is suffering."

The future of our country is at risk. We cannot continue on the present course. It is evident that continued military action is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the Iraqi people or the Persian Gulf Region. The main reason for going to war has been discredited.

We cannot allow promises we have made to our military families in terms of service benefits, in terms of their health care, to be negotiated away. Deaths and injuries are growing, with over 2,079 confirmed American deaths. Over 15,500 have been seriously injured and it is estimated that over 50,000 will suffer from battle fatigue.

And we'd like to leave you with the words of Steve Young spoken months ago, even before the nomination papers were filed for this election, at every appearance.

"The day the President landed on that aircraft carrier under that banner that read, ‘Mission Accomplished, our men and women should have been on their way home the next day."

Let's help get another man into Congress to stand beside Rep. Murtha. Let's send another man to Congress this December that will help end this tragic war. Please contribute generously to Steve's campaign for one final push before the December 6th election. He is only 10 days away from that moment of confrontation! Let's pitch in one more time.

Please choose the method you feel you can best help bring home a victory:

Please contribute whatever you can to Steve Young's campaign to build up a last minute media blitz. Same web address, http://steveyoungforcongress.com

If you live outside the District, forward this email to at least 10 of your friends.

Thank you,

The Steve Young Campaign Team

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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Continuing his two-year-old investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA agent, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week that could lead to a criminal indictment being handed up against Karl Rove.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Z.shtml

http://openPR.de/in/70025

Wir können Ihnen ab sofort unsere Doppel-DVD, bzw. VHS Videocassette (Spielzeit ca. 167 min) zum Thema Mobilfunk präsentieren. Der Film wurde von der Garrelt Danker Medienproduktion erstellt.

Es ist ein Live-Vortrag mit dem 1. Vorsitzenden, Siegfried Zwerenz, in der alten Reithalle in Soltau am 28.04.2004 inkl. Stadt-TV Beitrag "Soltau strahlt". Im Anschluss erfolgt ein Nachwort von Siegfried Zwerenz, das im September 2005 aufgenommen wurde.

Im Vortrag werden Grenzwerte, wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisstand, Gesundheitsrisiken und rechtliche Möglichkeiten erklärt.

Siegfried Zwerenz widerlegt hier fachlich den extra angereisten Professor Alexander Lerchl (Int. Universität Bremen), der pro Mobilfunk argumentiert und von der Stadt Soltau als "Gegenpart" eingeladen worden war.

Interessanterweise hat Prof. Lerchl bzw. seine Uni vom Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) eine siebenstellige Summe für Forschung zum Thema Mobilfunk erhalten. Nach Betrachtung des "Schlagabtausches" zwischen Siegfried Zwerenz und Prof. Lerchl wird klar, welche Wissenschafler wie am Werk sind.

Diese Enthüllung ist besonders wichtig für Entscheidungsträger. Mit diesem Film kann man deutlich erkennen, welche systematische Fehlinformationen im allgemeinen seitens der Betreiberseite, sowie Strahlenschutzgremien und der Politik gegeben werden.

Mit diesem Film ist es nun möglich die breite Bevölkerung zum Thema Mobilfunk zu informieren und zu sensibilisieren.

Der Preis für die Doppel DVD sowie für die VHS-Kassette liegt bei € 19,90 zuzgl. Versandkosten.

Bestellungen ab sofort mit Name und Adresse per E-Mail an pr@buergerwelle.de oder per Fax an 09631-795734.

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Hier als kleines Lebenszeichen, ein Zeitungsartikel von meinem Vortrag am Mittwoch im Freiburger Berufsschulzentrum. Ist leider neben der Wahrheit und voll populistisch geschrieben. Die Lehrer und Schüler haben schon mit Leserbriefen reagiert. Na ja, kommt halt immer darauf an, wer in der jeweiligen Redaktion einer Zeitung sitzt. Das zum Thema Pressefreiheit und Neutralität der Berichterstattung. In diesem Fall ist es besonders auffällig, da die Reporterin fast 3 Stunden mit dabei war und alles genau gehört hat und sogar die Schüler bei ihrem Interview andere Dinge gesagt haben, als letztendlich dann abgedruckt wurden.

Viele Grüße

Ulrich Weiner


„Das hat mich schockiert“

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This newsletter is intended to be a combined effort of CASE OHIO, J30 COALITION, AND OHIO VIGILANCE, and any citizen activists involved in Election reform. This newsletter will include applicable news and events, it is not intended to promote any specific agenda but instead be inclusive of current newsworthy events.

GAO Report: The General Accounting Office has issued a 107 page report. For the first time, an official government agency has acknowledged in vivid detail the insecurities inherent in voting on electronic machines provided by partisan, privately controlled corporations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105Q.shtml

In October 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a comprehensive analysis of the concerns raised by the increasing use of electronic voting machines.

Overall, GAO found that "significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems" have been raised (p. 22).

GAO indicated that "some of these concerns have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes" (p. 23).

According to GAO, "election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete standards, among other issues". The security and reliability concerns raised in recent reports merit the focused attention of federal, state, and local authorities responsible for election administration" (p. 22-23).

GAO further reported that "security experts and some election officials have expressed concern that tests currently performed by independent testing authorities and state and local election officials do not adequately assess electronic voting system security and reliability," and that "these concerns are amplified by what some perceive as a lack of transparency in the testing process" (p. 34)

John Hopkins Center Gazette: Here are the first three paragraphs of a longer article regarding a new effort to make election technology secure.

A federally funded center dedicated to improving the reliability and trustworthiness of voting technology, drawing on experts in computer science, public policy and human behavior, will be based at The Johns Hopkins University, the National Science Foundation announced Aug. 15. Researchers from five other institutions nationwide will participate in the project, which is aimed at addressing public concerns about the growing use of electronic voting machines in local, state and national elections.

The NSF said it would provide $7.5 million over five years to launch the new endeavor called ACCURATE, which is short for A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections. Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins and technical director of the university’s Information Security Institute, will direct the center.

Rubin has received international attention in recent years for identifying risks associated with computer-based voting technology that has been put into use with minimal scrutiny by independent security experts. He has testified before state and federal lawmakers and election supervisors regarding potential security flaws in these machines.

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2005/22aug05/22evote.html

COLUMBUS COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT UPDATE: (11/21/05)

The Columbus Community Radio Foundation has made significant progress in its efforts to launch a community radio station in Columbus, Ohio. Our fall fundraising event with speaker Amy Goodman raised nearly $3,000 which enabled us to purchase a used radio tower and to have a contractor disassemble it for us. Once the tower is erected at our transmitter site and a transmitter and antennae are connected we'll be ready to begin broadcasting a signal. We are currently applying for a local construction permit to erect the tower and are fundraising to cover that cost. In total we would like to raise $7,000 to cover all of our anticipated remaining construction expenses. CCRF's transmitter is only permitted to RE-broadcast ( "translate" or "repeat") another station's signal and we are working closely with a group of 4 organizations that are united under a single Low Power FM license which was recently awarded by the FCC. Those organizations (Simply Living, Columbus Refugee and Immigration Services, Bexley Public Radio Foundation and the Groveport-Madison School district) are in the process of organizing their station and negotiating a cooperative agreement between them regarding policies and programming guidelines, time sharing and governance. CCRF is advising them as we draw upon our experience and our connections with Pacifica Radio, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Grass Roots Radio Coalition. Groveport Madison has allowed CCRF to have access to the 6-9 am time slot 7 days a week and we intend to produce a daily morning program that will include news, interviews, discussion, music, theater and short pre-produced segments from independent producers from 6-8 Monday through Friday with Democracy Now taking up the last hour from 8:00 - 9:00 except on weekends.

CCRF is developing programming criteria and submission guidelines in accordance with our mission statement and we are developing similar proposals for each of the LPFM partner groups. We are presently looking for volunteers for a number of tasks including; Morning Show co-hosts and production engineers Reporters, producers and announcers Program Committee volunteers finance committee volunteers ( fundraising) researchers for a Pacifica Archives program to be produced by CCRF Community Calendar Producers.

CCRF has been meeting every other Tuesday at the Council on American Islamic Relations offices ( 4700 Reed Rd.) at 8:00 pm ( but will be switching to 7:30 pm as of November 22). All are welcome.

Our next fundraising event is tentatively scheduled for January 13, 2006 when we will present Sonali Kolhatkar, host of the Pacifica program Uprising and head of the U.S. Afghan Women's Mission. Sonali is about to release a book on the current status of women in Afghanistan based on extensive interviews and her own eyewitness accounts. For updates visit our website at; www.ccrfonline.org

CALIFORNIA INVITED BLACK BOX VOTING TO TEST DIEBOLD

The California Secretary of State has invited Black Box Voting to test/"hack" a Diebold AccuVote-OS voting machine for security vulnerability likely in December 2005. The California Secretary of State’s consultant has already found the Diebold AccuVote-OS vulnerable to alteration of vote results.

VOTING PROBLEMS CONTINUE IN OHIO

Lucas County/Toledo Board of Elections (Ohio) took the longest time to complete the vote counting on in Ohio for the November 8, 2005 election. They took 11.5 hours after the close of the polls using Diebold DRE voting machines. They are in the same group as Clermont County Board of Elections, which took the longest for the Second Congressional District August 2, 2005 election

The Lucas County Board of Elections in the November 8, 2005 election, evicted TOLEDO BLADE reporters from the Board of Elections and blocked all reporters from going up the escalator to view the counting. They are in the same group as Warren County, which blocked reporters from viewing the counting in November 2004.

Lucas County also used "rovers" to pick up the memory cards (which contain all the votes) from the precincts instead of the customary procedure of having the precinct head bring them into the county. Some of these "rovers" were people who held elected or appointed positions for a particular political party such as a councilman and Board members of the Lucas County Board of Elections.

"ONE YEAR LATER - VOTING RIGHTS IN OHIO"

The Free Press of Columbus, Ohio sponsored "One Year Later - Voting Rights in Ohio" and a Tribute to Bill Moss at the New Faith Baptist Church in Columbus on November 5, 2005. The New Faith Baptist Church was where the public met to report the considerable problems in the November 2004 election in Columbus, Ohio a year ago. Bill Moss, now deceased, who was lead plaintiff in the resulting MOSS vs. OHIO lawsuit for voting rights, was honored for his civil rights and election work. Films of the Freedom Bus Ride and trip to Washington for the challenge to the Ohio electoral vote in January 2005 were shown. Approximately 70 people attended. There were many speakers including Bob Fitrakis, Susan Truitt, and Cliff Arnebeck, who are all well known in the election reform movement.SPEAKING TO LICKING COUNTY YOUNG DEMOCRATS

Marj Creech and Jo Anne Karasek went to Ohio State University - Newark to speak to the Young Democrats of Licking County (Ohio) on November 17, 2005 on the voting machine problems and the hand count paper ballot solution. A number of election reform advocates, including J30 Coalition members, also did a Voting Rights Forum for LICOPAC in Newark on July 6, 2005. Between the two events we have gained many activists from the Licking County area.LUCAS COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

The Lucas County (Ohio) Board of Elections’ last reply to Jo Anne Karasek for a date to inspect public records referred to a date, which they refused, that was not requested. They keep the ballots requested for inspection in the same room as the ballots for the most recent election, refuse to move them, and claim that they cannot be examined there for security reasons. They refuse to consider allowing another inspection until about December 20. Only two inspections have been permitted since the first public records request on May 2005. Legal action may be necessary.CLERMONT COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

The Clermont County (Ohio) Board of Elections response for a first request by Jo Anne Karasek to inspect public records (of the Hackett/Schmidt election on August 2, 2005) included a refusal in October to allow inspection for more than one hour, a demand of eight to ten cents a page for copying, when Office Depot only charges six cents a page including profits. The Clermont County Prosecutor threatened arrest and refused to allow videotaping of the inspection. Legal action may be necessary. RECOUNTS AND POSSIBLE AUDITS OF NOVEMBER 8, 2005 ELECTION

The election reform movement, especially in Ohio, is concerned about the outcome of the statewide issues, Issues #1 thru #5, in the November 8, 2005 election. The biggest concern is because a COLUMBUS DISPATCH poll reported on November 6, 2005, indicated that Issues #2 and #3 would be won with a substantial margin, but they both lost with a substantial margin. There are plans to do recounts and audits of the November 8 election in parts of Ohio.

For questions or to volunteer for election reform activities, contact Jo Anne Karasek, jakarasek@cinci.rr.com , a member of J30 Coalition, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J30/

Mark Crispen Miller on John Kerry:

This quote is from a Free Press article "In recent days Mark Crispin Miller has reported that he heard from Kerry personally that Kerry believes the election was stolen. The dialog has been widely reported on the internet. Kerry has since seemed to deny it." You are encouraged to read the entire article:

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1556

REFORM OHIO NOW: ELECTION RESULTS

Here is a snippet from an article in the Free Press on the RON results: "While debate still rages over Ohio's stolen presidential election of 2004, the impossible outcomes of key 2005 referendum issues may have put an electronic nail through American democracy. Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic manipulation that calls into question the sanctity of America's right to vote, and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state." In addition, Bob Koehler (Chicago Tribune) has written about the RON results.

http://commonwonders.com/

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559

Black Box Voting has information on the "next-generation technologies going up for sale by Diebold. At the same time as about a dozen states have put forward cookie-cutter legislation mandating mail-in ballot experiments (wonder who is really behind those), Diebold has, for two years, been behind the scenes developing an automated mail-in computerized processing system.

. . . . Legislation appears, then we find out that, behind the scenes, the vendor was developing a machine for the legislation that hadn't yet appeared. We wonder if unwitting legislators knew that their bill was going to be serviced by an as yet unmarketed Diebold computer system."

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/5710.html

[The Diebold Vote Remote] System allows election to set acceptance for the ballots high, low, or anywhere they want. This system is not certified. It interacts with the voter registration system, which also contains party affiliation of voters. It may never be tested or certified, since it slips through a loophole in the certification language. Financial documents obtained by BLACK BOX VOTING show completed billings for Vote Remote, indicating that it is already in use.

http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=2005072518330798

DNC resolution in Support of Election Reform. The Democrats speak! The text of the resolution is a this link.
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=426

From ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION on Diebold

Diebold, Inc., manufacturer of electronic voting machines, has been sending out many cease-and-desist letters to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), after internal documents indicating flaws in their systems were published on the Internet. The company cited copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and demanded that the documents be taken down.

http://www.eff.org/legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/

Speaking Engagement: On Tuesday, October 25, Marge Creech, Victoria Parks, Jo Anne Karasek and Pete Johnson traveled to Akron to discuss Vote Fraud with a peace group. About 30 people attended. It was difficult to deliver a focused presentation on the plethora of issues in only one hour, but valuable dialogue followed the presentation. Thanks to Paul and Louise Baker for the invitation.

Vote Trust USA: recommended newsletter.

http://www.votetrustusa.org/newsletters/VTnews1114.htm

Book of the month club: FOOLED AGAIN: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) by Mark Crispin Miller. Although I have not completed it, so far it is excellent. The introduction should be a must read for every American.

Parallel Election news

Franklin County, Ohio November 8, 2005 General Election

Precinct 16D

Comparison of Parallel Election Results to Official Results

Final Report Nov. 14, 2005

http://tinyurl.com/c4rk6

Several reports over the past two years warn that voting electronically is not secure, yet Secretary of State Blackwell is forcing all of Ohio to adopt these expensive, hackable, privately-owned voting systems. He will then run for Governor in 2006, on systems he required, while conducting the administration of this, and his own, election.

Informed citizens cannot accept results that can't be hand-counted. Secret software belongs nowhere in the public voting process. Since our vote belongs to us – not to private for-profit corporations or public officials, citizens must run their own elections; become responsible for developing and implementing fair and honest elections in their own states, and check the accuracy of these machines. Parallel voters privately cast paper ballots and then deposit their own vote into a locked ballot box, which is later counted in a public place.

Precinct 16D, Franklin County (Columbus) was chosen to model civic engagement. Organizers vote in this precinct and were better able to involve neighbors in the Parallel Election.

Ohio has 13,600 precincts in 88 counties. A 1% sample would require 1360 Parallel Elections across the state. Organizers will continue to train teams for the 2006 elections. Since a minimum of six PE workers is needed, over 8,000 citizens are needed just to count 1% of an Ohio vote. Less than 100 concerned citizens, per county, could meet the staffing needs of a Parallel Election.

Final Results

There were 1,049 registered voters on Nov. 8, 2005 in 16D. 53 people voted in the Parallel Election and 99 people voted in the Official Election, as follows: 3 Absentee, 2 provisionals, and 94 in-person voters.

Editor note: I cannot format the table correctly, please click on the "tinyurl" link to see a correctly formatted table: http://tinyurl.com/c4rk6

No. of Votes % for the Issue No. of Votes % for the Issue Yes No Yes No

Parallel Election Official Reported

Results Results YES NO % for YES NO % for

Issue 1 - Public funds for private R&D; highways 33 19 62% 70 20 75%

Issue 2 - 35 Day absentee voting 42 9 79% 73 19 78%

Issue 3 - Lowers campaign contribution limits 44 8 83% 78 15 83%

Issue 4 - Independent Redistricting Commission 42 10 79% 74 20 79%

Issue 5 - Creates Elections Board of Supervisors 42 10 79% 75 19 80%

(nine people appointed by Ohio judges)

The results for the entire state were reported as Issue 1 passing, and Issues 2 thru 5 failing by a wide margin, contrary to the results of this precinct. Clearly, this precinct alone is not a large enough sample from which to draw conclusions. What can be ascertained is that official reported results of Precinct 16D matched the Parallel Election results.

Based on polling numbers, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman have submitted a rejection of the official results at
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559.

At least three states held Parallel Elections on November 8 th: Ohio, California and Texas. Information about these other states can be found at
http://www.guvwurld.org//Election%20Reform/KHUM%20Radio%20Interview%20-%20Humboldt%20County%20Parallel%20Election%20-%2011-3-05.mp3 for Humboldt County, CA and San Diego, CA
http://www.studycaliforniaballots.org

There was very light voting across Columbus, as reported by other voter protection workers. One team, including global human rights videographer Dorothy Fadiman, covered several precincts throughout the day. Until about 3:30, the weather was sunny and breezy, with temps reaching 70º. Temperatures fell slowly in the evening.

16-D is a heavily democratic, mostly young adult precinct, with a large block of student voters, just west of the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Racially mixed, the precinct also includes a good amount of families. This precinct was chosen to model citizen activism at the local level. "All you need are 6 to 8 voters in your precinct to run a Parallel Election. But be sure to bring enough food and hydration," an activist advised.

Police cruisers drove by several times in the morning, but probably related to other activities. One cruiser did park and face the parallel election table, for about 45 minutes, but it could have just been his lunch break. The pollworkers, precinct judge and voters who participated in the PE support PE efforts and have been very accommodating. Very few voters turned down the opportunity to vote in the parallel election and thanked PE workers for doing this. Team Ohio counted the parallel ballots in a local restaurant, later that night.

To learn How To Conduct a Parallel Election, see
http://tinyurl.com/exjqm, or http://tinyurl.com/bmmgz at http://www.GuvWurld.org; or see
http://www.studycaliforniaballots.org.

Team Ohio included: Rady Ananda, Marjorie Preston, Marj Creech, Madalena LaMarche, Troy Semen, Kal Palnicki, Dave Hickman, and Steave Scott. Much thanks goes to Steave Scott and Warren Stewart for assisting the videographic team of Dorothy Fadiman, to Marj Creech for capturing jpegs during the PE and during the ballot count, and to Victorian's Midnight Café for the ambiance.


Submitted by
Rady Ananda
J30 Research
Columbus OH

Suggestions and comments to pjohnso6@insight.rr.com


Informant: Pete Johnson

Next-up News France (par traducteur électronique)

03H50 - 28 novembre 2005 – Pays Bas

Des Militants contre l’ UMTS (3G) sont prêt à s'enchaîner à une barrière d'installation d'antenne relais ce lundi matin. Ils disent qu'ils seront satisfait seulement quand UMTS sera absolument interdit dans toute la ville de Spijkenisse près de Rotterdam.

Ce lundi matin l’opérateur Orange doit installer trois antennes d'UMTS sur un pylône de puissance, à environ 75 mètres des logements les plus proches. Les ouvriers seront opposés aux Riverains. "Nous les appelons comme des insectes dans tout le voisinage", dit Bertus van Drongelen. "pour aider et empêcher l'installation de ces antennes. Si les ouvriers ne partent pas, l'un de nous s'enchaînera à la barrière." Les Militants avaient déjà empêché l'installation en octobre.

Alex Swinkels, Bertus van Drongelen et Gerard de Kimpe ne sont pas simplement inquiétés des antennes relais UMTS. Ils savent que le rayonnement permanent de la téléphonie mobile peut avoir des effets de santé terrifiants. Il y a quelques heures ils ont rendu visite aux occupants des étages supérieurs du Marrewijkflat, un immeuble dans Spijkenisse. "80 pour cent d'eux se plaignent de graves problème de santé, d'insomnie au cancer", disent Van Drongelen.

Il y a déjà sur le Marrewijkflat plusieurs antennes relais de téléphonie Mobile.

Les mêmes problèmes ont été trouvés au 5ème et 6ème d'étage sur des immeubles opposées ou sont aussi installées des antennes relais de téléphonie mobile, ce sont les mêmes problèmes. Les occupants rapportent qu’ils souffrent "d’Insomnie, le mal de tête, la nausée et un sentiment général de fatigue". Certains d'entre eux urinent le sang. Les médecins et les spécialistes ne peuvent trouver aucune maladie ou anomalie connue. Quand les occupants quittent les lieux, ils se sentent mieux.

Mais dés qu’ils reviennent c’est de nouveau les mêmes symptômes.

Par conséquent, les Militants sont convaincus des effets des rayonnements sur la santé.

"il est impossible d'avoir une ville sans rayonnement. Le problème de la pollution par les rayonnements est trop complexe et il est trop tardif pour arrêter les autres antennes ", dit Van Drongelen. "mais au moins nous voulons une ville sans UMTS. Les citoyens doivent être mis au courant des risques des rayonnements." Selon des scientifiques, les rayonnements de la téléphonie mobile causent des effets toxiques".

Les Militants se concentrent sur toutes les antennes relais UMTS de Spijkenisse.

Le Conseil de la ville est derrière eux. Le conseil a décidé il y a deux semaines de ne plus accorder de nouvelles autorisations de pose d’antennes relais.

Le ˝Councillor˝ Gerrit van Buuren a demandé à l’opérateur Orange de respecter le souhait du peuple et de décommander l'installation. "Nous avons les autorisations et les documents, nous ne voyons aucune raison de s'arrêter", dit un porte-parole d’Orange.

Dans plus de 40 villes au Pays Bas les Conseils ont décidé de retarder les autorisations d’installation d’antennes relais de téléphonie mobile.

A Haaksbergen, les Fonctionnaires du comté ont empêché le fournisseur KPN d’installer des antennes relais UMTS (3G) sur un nouveau pylône. Les habitants de Haaksbergen sont fortement contre l’UMTS.

La Municipalité de Haaksbergen en ce moment refuse les autorisations.

Délibération de la Commune de Spijkenisse prise lors du Conseil du 10 et 14 Novembre 2005:

Considérant que:

- Les risques pour la santé des rayonnements UMTS ne sont pas connus.

- Que les ˝investigations˝ sont sans équivoques.

- Que les normes Néerlandaises sont significativement plus hautes que les normes internationales.

- Que beaucoup de troubles existent chez les habitants.

- Que face à cette confusion on ne doit plus prendre de décision.

Le Conseil de la Commune et l’Echevin retirent les permis récemment émis, et examinerons quelles sont les nouvelles étapes qui doivent être prises dans la Commune pour l’installation des antennes relais UMTS qui sont indésirables, et passe à l’ordre du jour.


Sources:
http://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/voorneputten/article69465.ece (Algemeen Dagblad,newspaper) interview by telephone with Bertus van Drongelen http://www.stopumts.nl
article in local newspaper The Botlek, November 28, 2005
http://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/motie2_spijkenisse.pdf and
http://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/motie1_spijkenisse.pdf (council decisions)

On constate de plus en plus d’actions directes contre les antennes relais, les exemples se multiplient en Europe, par exemple:

En Angleterre c’est une tour massive de l’Opérateur Orange très contreversée qui a eu ses boulons coupés par la ˝fureur des protestataires˝ et c’est abattu en pleine ville de Littleton. Lire la suite de l’article.

http://iccannock.icnetwork.co.uk/news/localnews/tm_objectid=16351507%26method=full%26siteid=75673%26headline=hated%2dmast%2dis%2dpulled%2ddown%2d-name_page.html#story_continue

NY Times: Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ..., Bob Scheer Returns

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 08:41:15 -0800

Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ...

By FRANK RICH
NY Times
Op-Ed: November 27, 2005

GEORGE W. BUSH is so desperate for allies that his hapless Asian tour took him to Ulan Bator, a first for an American president, so he could mingle with the yaks and give personal thanks for Mongolia's contribution of some 160 soldiers to "the coalition of the willing." Dick Cheney, whose honest-and-ethical poll number hit 29 percent in Newsweek's latest survey, is so radioactive that he vanished into his bunker for weeks at a time during the storms Katrina and Scootergate.

The whole world can see that both men are on the run. Just how much so became clear in the brace of nasty broadsides each delivered this month about Iraq. Neither man engaged the national debate ignited by John Murtha about how our troops might be best redeployed in a recalibrated battle against Islamic radicalism. Neither offered a plan for "victory." Instead, both impugned their critics' patriotism and retreated into the past to defend the origins of the war. In a seasonally appropriate impersonation of the misanthropic Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life," the vice president went so far as to label critics of the administration's prewar smoke screen both "dishonest and reprehensible" and "corrupt and shameless." He sounded but one epithet away from a defibrillator.

The Washington line has it that the motivation for the Bush-Cheney rage is the need to push back against opponents who have bloodied the White House in the polls. But, Mr. Murtha notwithstanding, the Democrats are too feeble to merit that strong a response. There is more going on here than politics.

Much more: each day brings slam-dunk evidence that the doomsday threats marshaled by the administration to sell the war weren't, in Cheney-speak, just dishonest and reprehensible but also corrupt and shameless. The more the president and vice president tell us that their mistakes were merely innocent byproducts of the same bad intelligence seen by everyone else in the world, the more we learn that this was not so. The web of half-truths and falsehoods used to sell the war did not happen by accident; it was woven by design and then foisted on the public by a P.R. operation built expressly for that purpose in the White House. The real point of the Bush-Cheney verbal fisticuffs this month, like the earlier campaign to take down Joseph Wilson, is less to smite Democrats than to cover up wrongdoing in the executive branch between 9/11 and shock and awe.

The cover-up is failing, however. No matter how much the president and vice president raise their decibel levels, the truth keeps roaring out. A nearly

7, 000-word investigation in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times found that Mr. Bush and his aides had "issued increasingly dire warnings" about Iraq's mobile biological weapons labs long after U.S. intelligence authorities were told by Germany's Federal Intelligence Service that the principal source for these warnings, an Iraqi defector in German custody code-named Curveball, "never claimed to produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so." The five senior German intelligence officials who spoke to The Times said they were aghast that such long-discredited misinformation from a suspected fabricator turned up in Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations and in the president's 2003 State of the Union address (where it shared billing with the equally bogus 16 words about Saddam's fictitious African uranium).

Right after the L.A. Times scoop, Murray Waas filled in another piece of the prewar propaganda puzzle. He reported in the nonpartisan National Journal that 10 days after 9/11, "President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda."

The information was delivered in the President's Daily Brief, a C.I.A. assessment also given to the vice president and other top administration officials. Nonetheless Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney repeatedly pounded in an implicit (and at times specific) link between Saddam and Al Qaeda until Americans even started to believe that the 9/11 attacks had been carried out by Iraqis. More damning still, Mr. Waas finds that the "few credible reports" of Iraq-Al Qaeda contacts actually involved efforts by Saddam to monitor or infiltrate Islamic terrorist groups, which he regarded as adversaries of his secular regime. Thus Saddam's antipathy to Islamic radicals was the same in 2001 as it had been in 1983, when Donald Rumsfeld, then a Reagan administration emissary, embraced the dictator as a secular fascist ally in the American struggle against the theocratic fascist rulers in Iran.

What these revelations also tell us is that Mr. Bush was wrong when he said in his Veterans Day speech that more than 100 Congressional Democrats who voted for the Iraqi war resolution "had access to the same intelligence" he did. They didn't have access to the President's Daily Brief that Mr. Waas uncovered. They didn't have access to the information that German intelligence officials spoke about to The Los Angeles Times. Nor did they have access to material from a Defense Intelligence Agency report, released by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan this month, which as early as February 2002 demolished the reliability of another major source that the administration had persistently used for its false claims about Iraqi-Al Qaeda collaboration.

The more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that it's a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the way. A simpler question might be: What was not a lie? The situation recalls Mary McCarthy's explanation to Dick Cavett about why she thought Lillian Hellman was a dishonest writer: "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' "

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney believe they were truthful in the run-up to the war, it's easy for them to make their case. Instead of falsely claiming that they've been exonerated by two commissions that looked into prewar intelligence - neither of which addressed possible White House misuse and mischaracterization of that intelligence - they should just release the rest of the President's Daily Briefs and other prewar documents that are now trickling out. Instead, incriminatingly enough, they are fighting the release of any such information, including unclassified documents found in post-invasion Iraq requested from the Pentagon by the pro-war, neocon Weekly Standard. As Scott Shane reported in The New York Times last month, Vietnam documents are now off limits, too: the National Security Agency won't make public a 2001 historical report on how American officials distorted intelligence in 1964 about the Gulf of Tonkin incident for fear it might "prompt uncomfortable comparisons" between the games White Houses played then and now to gin up wars.

SOONER or later - probably sooner, given the accelerating pace of recent revelations - this embarrassing information will leak out anyway. But the administration's deliberate efforts to suppress or ignore intelligence that contradicted its Iraq crusade are only part of the prewar story. There were other shadowy stations on the disinformation assembly line. Among them were the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group, a two-man Pentagon operation specifically created to cherry-pick intelligence for Mr. Cheney's apocalyptic Iraqi scenarios, and the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), in which Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and the Cheney hands Lewis Libby and Mary Matalin, among others, plotted to mainline this propaganda into the veins of the press and public. These murky aspects of the narrative - like the role played by a private P.R. contractor, the Rendon Group, examined by James Bamford in the current Rolling Stone - have yet to be recounted in full.

No debate about the past, of course, can undo the mess that the administration made in Iraq. But the past remains important because it is a road map to both the present and the future. Leaders who dissembled then are still doing so. Indeed, they do so even in the same speeches in which they vehemently deny having misled us then - witness Mr. Bush's false claims about what prewar intelligence was seen by Congress and Mr. Cheney's effort last Monday to again conflate the terrorists of 9/11 with those "making a stand in Iraq." (Maj. Gen. Douglas Lute, director of operations for Centcom, says the Iraqi insurgency is 90 percent homegrown.) These days Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney routinely exaggerate the readiness of Iraqi troops, much as they once inflated Saddam's W.M.D.'s.

"We're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history," the vice president said of his critics. "We're going to continue throwing their own words back at them." But according to a Harris poll released by The Wall Street Journal last Wednesday, 64 percent of Americans now believe that the Bush administration "generally misleads the American public on current issues to achieve its own ends." That's why it's Mr. Cheney's and the president's own words that are being thrown back now - not to rewrite history but to reveal it for the first time to an angry country that has learned the hard way that it can no longer afford to be without the truth.


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