http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050404085711742
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1451100,00.html


From ECOTERRA Intl.

A massive vote-rigging scandal by agents of the ruling political party in Britain has been exposed.

An extensive and systematic fraud was carried out during the last year's election by agents of Prime Minister Tony Blair's political party, the "Labour Party", involving "intimidation", "bribery", "vote-buying", impersonation", and a "vote-forging factory" and even the burning of opposition votes.

The British government routinely criticises elections in certain foreign countries in their diplomatic black-list, although like the USA the UK turns a blind-eye to electoral fraud when it occurs under client regimes.

The British mass media declared the recent election recent in Zimbabwe a fraud, citing opposition leaders and official British and American sources, but failed to explain why or provide any evidence.

In any Weststern democracy the system prevents ordinary people from obtaining power by ensuring that only candidates who are either extremely wealthy or backed by an established political party stand any chance of winning.

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1085

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SciencevsDemocracy.php
http://tinyurl.com/5d9u6

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/

The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/

http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=1715&nav=&
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1730893.php

EARTH MATTERS - weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's news magazine, FLASHPOINTS. This week: headlines, followed by an interview with REBECCA ALDWORTH, via satellite phone from the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 20- 30,000 baby harp seals are being slaughtered every day.
audio: MP3 at 14.1 mebibytes
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/emapr1sealhunt.mp3

Rebecca Aldworth is the Canadian Wildlife Issues Director for the Humane Society of the United States. She has witnessed the seal hunt for the past seven years. She spends time with the baby seals before the hunt begins every year, on the gorgeous, pristine, silent ice floes off Canada's Atlantic coast. She then witnesses and documents the invasion of 70 sealer ships full of "men without mercy" who barbarically murder tens of thousands of baby seals, some as young as 12 days old. 40% of these baby seals are killed inhumanely, left for hours on the ice, badly injured and struggling in agony, only to be skinned alive, while conscious, in flagrant violation of federal law. The Canadian government not only subsidizes the seal hunt to the tune of $20 million, they also allow the gratuitous brutality of it to continue, in fact rewarding it by upping the quotas for seal pups every year.

Rebecca talks about the scapegoating of seals for crashing cod fisheries in the north Atlantic. Contrary to what the government and the sealers claim, depleted cod stocks are the direct result of overfishing, draglines, huge drift nets and the like. The harp seals may in fact be vital to the recovery of these cod fisheries, since they eat so many of the cod's natural fish predators.

Rebecca and her film crew have been repeatedly attacked by the sealers, and she is chased by several armed sealers during the course of this interview. On Thursday, March 31, 6 Sea Shephard videographers were savagely beaten and the arrested while trying to return to their ship, The Farley Mowat.

Rebecca also talks about the recently launched BOYCOTT OF ALL CANADIAN SEAFOOD. Please urge your listeners to visit
http://www.protectseals.org to find out how they can help, and to view the video footage that these courageous activists are risking their lives to obtain.

mp3, 15:25 minutes

http://www.protectseals.org


Informant: STRIDER

http://counterpunch.com/genovali04022005.html


Informant: radtimes

Rede vor Wirtschaftsführern: Hunzinger-Spende an Fischer beschäftigt Bundestag (01.04.05)

Bundesaußenministers Joschka Fischer hatte im September 1998 noch als Grünen-Fraktionschef eine Rede vor Wirtschaftsführern in Frankfurt am Main über "grüne Politik" gehalten. Wie der Frankfurter PR-Unternehmer Moritz Hunzinger der "Bild"-Zeitung sagte, sei dafür ein Honorar von 19.999 Mark geflossen. Das Honorar sei als Scheck ausgehändigt worden. Diese Parteispende Hunzingers an die Grünen soll nun ein parlamentarisches Nachspiel haben.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10793


Hunzinger belastet Fischer: „Machen Sie 19.999 Mark daraus”
http://www.faz.net/s/Rub6EAA9BF249C249FE86A5EFF3F83DC130/Doc~E8353083EB4264E708A34229A98F8A813~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com

Are the recent management dismissals at Wal-Mart a few bad apples or signs of a rotten tree?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/walmarts_culture_of_crime_and_greed.php?dateid=20050331