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Swiss anti-MUSLIM attitude used for capitalizing on votes in election...
Jun 1, 2007
well, it seems the usual political vote seekers are using militant vs. terrorist paranoia of our time to fuel their schemes
instead of standing for religious equality---

the Swiss are banning the building of Muslim minarets (small towers that are used for the traditional call to prayer),
and worse, as you'll see in the article from the BBC below:
Swiss religious intolerance is so strong
that almost all Muslims in their country
have to pray in shanty rickety old factory buildings & similar decrepit sites, no kiddin.'
---This will just hasten more extremism
& reactionary hate/distrust on all sides....
and it's interesting
when u think about
the famous SWISS bank accounts that are so profitable to SWISS business/economy,
yet they are well known---if not LEGENDARY--
 to let everyone from
mafia kingpins to dirty politicians
to Nazis hide their money in those famous Swiss bank accounts.....accounts yet no accountability
for helping criminals stash their profits, eh?

 ...the BBC article is pasted below....
Rob
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Swiss Move to Ban Minarets
 By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News,  Berne
May 28, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6676271.stm

A row is brewing over religious symbolism in Switzerland.

Members of the right-wing Swiss People's Party,

currently the largest party in the Swiss parliament,
have launched a campaign to have the
building of minarets
banned.

They claim the minaret is not necessary for worship, but is rather a symbol of Islamic law, and as such incompatible with Switzerland's legal system.

Signatures are now being collected to force a nationwide referendum on the issue which, under Switzerland's system of direct democracy, would be binding.

The move has shocked Switzerland's 350,000 Muslims, many of whom have been campaigning for decades for more recognition for their faith.

In theory Switzerland is a secular state, whose constitution guarantees freedom of religious expression to all. In practice however mosques in Switzerland tend to be confined to disused warehouses and factories.

Across the country, there are only two small minarets, one in Zurich and one in Geneva, neither of which are permitted to make the call to prayer. In Switzerland's capital Berne, the largest mosque is in a former underground car park.

Plans rejected

In the small town of Langenthal, just outside Berne, plans to build a very modest minaret have been put on ice following thousands of objections.

Many Swiss think minarets have no place on their urban skylines

Langenthal's mosque is housed in a former paint factory on the outskirts of town.

Mutalip Karaademi, an ethnic Albanian who has lived in Switzerland for 26 years, was at first pleased when his proposal for a 5m-high (16.5ft) minaret was approved by the local authority.

But following a vociferous campaign against the plans, including a petition with thousands of signatures, the cantonal government in Berne delayed the project indefinitely.

"We are very disappointed," said Mr Karaademi. "We just wanted to do our mosque up a bit, with this small minaret and a tea room. We actually thought it might promote dialogue."

Mr Karaademi is also bitter at what he sees as unfair discrimination against his faith. "I even gave them a written undertaking that we would never make the call to prayer," he said. "They seem to think we are all criminals or terrorists - that's like saying all Italians are in the mafia."

Islamic law

But supporters of a ban on minarets say they have no intention of preventing anyone from practising their faith.

"We don't have anything against Muslims," said Oskar Freysinger, member of parliament for the Swiss People's Party.

"But we don't want minarets. The minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam, it's a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have minarets in Europe it means Islam will have taken over."

Mr Freysinger's words may sound extreme, even paranoid, but this is a general election year in Switzerland, and the campaign against minarets is playing well with voters.

A recent opinion poll for one Swiss newspaper found that 43% of those surveyed were in favour of a ban on minarets.

"We have our civil laws here," insisted Mr Freysinger. "Banning minarets would send a clear signal that our European laws, our Swiss laws, have to be accepted. And if you want to live here, you must accept them. If you don't, then go back."

Growing resentment

It's a harsh message for Swiss Muslims, many of whom were born in Switzerland. There are fears that the campaign against minarets will provoke growing resentment against Swiss society.

"I think Swiss Muslims will be angry and bitter over this," said Reinhard Schulze, professor of Islamic Studies at Berne University. "And we know that anger and bitterness among a community can lead to radicalisation, even to militancy."

The Swiss government is extremely nervous about the prospect of militancy among Swiss Muslims; three cabinet ministers have already spoken out against the campaign to ban minarets.

There is also a growing fear that the debate will damage Switzerland's traditionally good relations with the Arab world.

But the Swiss People's Party is powerful. If the minaret campaign is, as some suspect, a vote-grabbing ploy ahead of October's general election, then it is a successful one; the party is riding high in the opinion polls.

A constitutional amendment forbidding minarets will have to be approved in a nationwide referendum. In the meantime, no minarets are being built anywhere in Switzerland; the controversy has created a situation in which no local planning officer wants to be the first to approve one.

In that respect, the People's Party may have got what it secretly wanted all along, an unofficial ban on minarets.

So for now, Switzerland's Muslims will continue to pray in abandoned buildings, many with the growing feeling that they are tolerated only as long as they remain invisible."

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Posted: Jun 1, 2007 5:26pm
Wind power controversy near Mass. & Nantucket
Jun 6, 2006
hey folks, it's been buggin' me that for some odd reason,
there's been quite a lot of dissent AGAINST
this CAPE Wind project to build wind turbines for clean-energy up in the waters near Massachusetts & Nantucket...
like I thought:: who the hell could be against something this cool??
Well, a freind sent me this link/story & it's pretty interesting...and political of course.
Winds of change, ey?
Rob
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http://www.projo.com/business/content/projo_20060602_cape02.21c86416.html
"Senatory Chafee visits planned site
of Nantucket wind farm

June 2, 2006

BY TIMOTHY C. BARMANN
Journal Staff Writer

 

FALMOUTH, MASS. -- There's no substitute for seeing it firsthand, and thus, Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee boarded a 40-foot fishing boat yesterday morning and headed out to sea.

His destination: the site where the proposed Cape Wind electricity-producing project would be built, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.

"When you're having a discussion about an issue, there's no substitute for saying 'I've been there,' " Chafee said.

The Rhode Island senator said he wanted to see where the controversial project would be located in relation to nearby Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod. He was accompanied by two Cape Wind representatives.

Chafee has already voiced his support for the project.

Cape Wind Associates has proposed building a 130-turbine offshore wind farm that could produce up to 420 megawatts of electricity. The developers say it could supply an average of three-fourths of the power needed for the Cape and islands.

The project has been undergoing regulatory reviews for the past five years and is expected to take at least another year, according to Cape Wind.

Polls show that the project is widely supported by most residents of Massachusetts, according to Cape Wind. But the project has also garnered a number of powerful opponents who don't want the pristine waters of Nantucket Sound disturbed by a private developer's giant wind turbines. The opponents include Governor Romney, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly.

That opposition has led to a bill pending in Congress that would essentially kill the project. The measure would give the governor of Massachusetts the power to veto the Cape Wind project for any reason.

That provision was attached by amendment to an unrelated bill that appropriates funding for the U.S. Coast Guard. It was supported by Kennedy, who has become one of the most vocal opponents of the project.

(Kennedy has reportedly softened his stance on the amendment. His office said he would support the commandant of the Coast Guard having the power to veto the project instead of the governor.)

On Nantucket Sound yesterday, Chafee gripped the railing aboard the Minuteman, the fishing boat chartered by Cape Wind to bring Chafee to the project site.

Choppy seas made moving about the boat a risky proposition. Wind gusts kicked up salty spray on the passengers. After a 50-minute ride from Falmouth Harbor, the boat finally arrived at the site, 5 miles out to sea. The fog had lifted for the moment, but land was not visible.

The boat pulled along side Cape Wind's avian research barge, which has been sitting above the water, held up by 3 huge jacks.

Barge operators have been scanning the skies over the past six weeks with radar to study the spring migration of birds over the site. The boat rocked wildly at times, and the captain turned down Chafee's request to board the barge.

Then the boat motored past a nearby meteorological tower that has been gathering weather and ocean conditions for the past two years. The 200-foot tower is nearly as tall as one of the wind turbine structures, not including the blades.

Afterward, Chafee said the trip helped him gauge the "visual pollution" that opponents have raised as a main concern.

Chafee said he didn't see that as much of an issue.

"To be honest, if the opponents came on a trip like this, I can't see how their opposition could be justified," he said.

He said he did want to learn more about the impact the wind turbines could have on radar. Some opponents have cited studies that conclude that the spinning blades could interfere with radar systems, which could create navigational problems for boats and planes in the area.

As a sailor himself, Chafee said he wouldn't view the wind tower turbines as a danger on the water. He said he owns a 24-foot sailboat and is planning a trip to Nantucket.

Because the area of the proposed site is in shallow water, boaters avoid it. "I don't think you want to go too close to the shoals anyway," he said. "In some cases, it's just two feet."

Chafee said he hasn't studied the compromise Kennedy has suggested. But he said he is "leery" of giving one person the power to kill the project.
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Posted: Jun 6, 2006 4:45am
anger at forced demolition of disabled Palestinian boy's home
May 30, 2006
hey yall,
as I was really angry at this alleged forced demolition of a disabled Palestinian boy's home by Israeli forces,

I decided to just vent
yet try to make sense &
tell the simple truth
of apathy & manipulation than keeps such horrors
going round & round
as our planet rotates endlessley.

So here it is...
my basic view of the mideast & worldly, corrupt regimes/power plays::

Tuesday May 30, 2006, 11:52 pm

 hey Jessi,
as a Jew, it makes me sick to see
how the result of the holocaust is that Hitler is now celebrating in his grave
as the horrors he did to the Jews have made the Israeli government
so paranoid that they won't consider
how they've helped create
an apartheid state as well as other injustices against the Palestinians...

yet everyone is at fault here::
Americans, for allowing our foreign policy to fuel wars
instead of conflict resolution,
as well as the 1 Billion Muslims
who outnumber the Jews to an outrageous ratio yet all they're own greedy/selfish leaders tend to do is to typically
use their own brethren, the Palestinians,
as a club to wack the Israelis with...

if they cared about the Palestinians over all these decades,
they could have used their billions in oil profits to build
hospitals, homes, schools for them---

not to mention that rediculous obvious issue:

that they could have housed the Palestinians in
decent, safe, temporary homes
in their own HUGE lands,

so as to save the Palestinians from the horrid, dirty, poverty ridden refugee camps they've lived in for decades.

Funny: they call them their brethren yet
they only lend them the
relly big money & support when it comes to methods of using them to help kill Israelis...

so yes, Israeli rightwingers,
like our own Americans rightwinders,
live in FEAR mode instead of intelligent mode...

while Muslim's such as the president of Iran--who recently called for Jewish Genocide--
use the whole horrible tension of the region for
their own crafty manipulation.

And the masses fall for it--hook, line & sinker as the old saying goes...

Too bad the world ain't educated enough
to see that ALL sides
are constantly
manipulated
by greedy weapons salesmen,
self-serving politicians,
Zillionaire Oil sheiks--the list is pathetic, evil & endless.

I believe that only the Integrated approaches of
folks like Ken Wilbur & his Integral Institute
can help teach the couch potatoe nations that standing by & doing nothing is foolish---

we need a complete & Integral, CARING and ENGAGED dialogue in human consciousness,

but that takes time & most folks want
what ole Jedi master YODA once warned against:
"the quick & Easy path" of the Dark Side----
which just loves to pit "sides"
against each other
while quiet, ultra rich politicos hide, lie & bask in their weapons sales & fear-mongering
that leads to their continued re-election.
WELL--Peace & Vigilance & respect...
for all who are caught under the grip of these heinous manipulative leaders...
rob
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Posted: May 30, 2006 11:54pm
wikipedia/Linux type OPEN Source for change in politics
Mar 9, 2006
well, damn this is cool....  forward it on......
Rob
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-accountability/opensource_2849.jsp

Earlier this year, Geoff Mulgan and Tom Steinberg, with Omar Salem, \
published a paper for the UK think tank
Demos [ http://www.demos.co.uk/ ]

which is widely becoming seen as the

seminal work on open source methodology.

The paper, Wide Open [ http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/wideopen/ ]
described the methods developed in the production of the

open source operating system Linux

and the free, collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia
as embodying:

    “a new way of creating knowledge that combines an open and democratic ethos with the extraordinary ability to produce work of high quality and on a huge scale”

Wide Open investigated possible applications of
these methods
in fields as diverse as
bioscience, politics and journalism.

openDemocracy’s Becky Hogge went along to Geoff Mulgan’s offices at the Young Foundation
[ http://www.youngfoundation.org.uk/index.php?cat=1 ]

in east London
to find out what open source methods can do for
21st century politics, and where this leaves traditional ideas of accountability....
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Posted: Mar 9, 2006 10:43pm
- Click to stop NO Bid Contracts rip-off of Katrina / Iraq --
Mar 8, 2006
Focus: Business
Action Request: Visit - online
Location: United States
well.... Click & FORWARD...before they ripoff some more........
" Support the "Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2006 Bill"

was introduced in the Senate on March 2,
as a warning
for those who seek to unfairly profit from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.

Currently, corporate CEO’s
working with their government allies
are profitting
off of the suffering of Katrina survivors 
are given no-bid contracts
and tap into the billions for relief
without public
oversight. "
Rob
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Posted: Mar 8, 2006 12:38pm
:: torture ((sarcastic animation :::
Jan 12, 2006
hey yall,

if u didn't see this short sarcastic animation
regarding US
torture
& such,

well, it's too damn good to miss.

---Please forward along to all friends  

It's from Mark Fiore Animation distributed by VillageVoice out of NY.

(Plays EASY & fast in FLASH fomat)

http://villagevoice.com/news/0550,fiore,70874,9.html

peace,
Rob
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Posted: Jan 12, 2006 10:35am
-- North East and Maryland area -----
Dec 6, 2005
Focus: Environment
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
hey New England-ish Area folks.....

(((and all of you with
friends up there!!)))),

MaryPIRG is a solid group who I've been supporting
for a few months after learning about their good work;
....sure , they're MARYLAND based,
but since the Nor'east is made of such
small-close-knit-issues,

I believe you might
find them to be a very smart & successful group to use
for those "quick sign" messages

& efforts on environment, etc.

Hope you'll "at least" checkout their webpages & give them
an opportunity.

::: Peace to yall from Louisiana
where the
early winter weather is definitely
more like the
Maryland
weather than our usual
humid-heat..........
Vigilance,
Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Heavner, MaryPIRG State Director" <bradh@marypirg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: MaryPIRG alert: chemical use in your community

> Hi Rob,
>
> In October, the Bush administration and the EPA proposed changes to the Toxics Release Inventory Program (TRI) that would significantly decrease the information that the public and state and local officials have about harmful chemicals released into Maryland's water, air, and land.
>
> In Maryland, 36 facilities would no longer be required to report toxic chemical releases to the public. Maryland would lose valuable information about 70 different chemicals, including formaldehyde, arsenic, cyanide and benzene.
>
> Please take a moment to send a message to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson telling him to stop putting corporate polluters first and communities last. Then, ask your friends and family to help by forwarding this email to them.
>
> To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser:
>
> http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=1046&id4=ES
>
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> For nearly 20 years, the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program has provided communities throughout the country access to data regarding industrial pollution from facilities in their neighborhoods. This information has been used by public officials, researchers, public health experts and industry. The transparency it has brought about has also been credited with decreasing the toxic pollution emitted by industrial facilities.
>
> The TRI program is a pollution disclosure program.  Since 1987, companies have been required to report toxic releases to air, land, and water, as well as toxic waste that is treated, burned, recycled, or otherwise disposed of.  Approximately 26,000 industrial facilities report information about any of the 650 chemicals in the program.
>
> The Toxics Release Inventory has been credited with a wide range of successes.  Since it began, disposals or releases of the original 299 chemicals tracked have dropped nearly 60 percent.  A MaryPIRG Foundation analysis showed that releases of chemicals linked to health effects have decreased as well.  Between 1995 and 2000, releases to air and water of chemicals known to cause cancer declined by 41 percent.
>
> EPA's own research has shown that the public, companies, governments, academics, and investment groups have all used the TRI program.  A May 2003 report by EPA highlighted twenty different state governments that use the TRI program for environmental targeting, risk assessments, regulations, legislation, quality assurance and control, and other uses.
>
> In October 2005, EPA Administrator Johnson proposed to cut the amount of pollution information that companies are required to disclose in two key ways:
> ~ Companies would be allowed to release ten times as much pollution before they are required to report their releases.
> ~ Companies could withhold information about some of the most dangerous chemicals, such as lead and mercury.
>
> In addition, Johnson has announced his intention to change the frequency of reporting to the program from every year to every other year.
>
> Please take a moment to send a message to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson telling him to stop putting corporate polluters first and communities last. Then, ask your friends and family to help by forwarding this email to them.
>
> To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser:
>
> http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=1046&id4=ES
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brad Heavner
> MaryPIRG State Director
> bradh@marypirg.org
> http://www.MaryPIRG.org
>
> P.S.  Thanks again for your support.  Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.
>
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Posted: Dec 6, 2005 6:11pm
Mass RAPE of WOMEN
Nov 26, 2005
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Protest
Location: United States
hello folks,
IF you are a HUMAN being,
FORCE
YOURSELF to READ this
STORY that our FELLOW human beings AND
POLITICIANS are
AFRAID to GIVE a DAMN about-----
I recall our recent sadness
that US armed response in Africa
would
only be connected to power & Oil
& various other
unethical solutions
that supposedly "are not worth"
the
WOMEN's
lives or policies they would be changing.

BUT------As I' ve tried to
stay aware of
this
Slavery   +   Genocide   +   Sexual Torture
in
Africa............HERE's the latest
HORRIFIC
abuse of African WOMEN
by
organized Arab groups
whose brutality
& cultural-political systems
find success
through the LOWEST of human evil.

Please forward this
to ALL
AMERICANS & web-friends so PRESSURE and LIGHT can be
shed on this HORROR.

thanx,
Rob
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......((as usual this is reported
by Nicholas Kristof,
one of the ONLY American journalists
of stature to continue covering African
Genocide & Rape
for years now)).....

" NY Times
Kristof column Nov. 22
Sudan's Department of Gang Rape
11/22/2005
Nicholas Kristof

" When the Arab men

in military uniforms

caught Noura Moussa and

raped

her the

other day,

they took the trouble to

explain

themselves.

"We cannot let black people

live in this land,"

she remembers them telling her, and they

used racial epithets against blacks,

called her a slave,

and added:

"We can kill any members

of African tribes."

Ms. Noura is one of thousands

of women

and

girls

to be gang-

raped

in Darfur,

as part of what appears to be a

deliberate Sudanese

government policy

to break the spirit of several African

tribes through

mass rape.

This policy is shrewd as well as brutal, for the exceptional stigma of rape here often silences victims even as it terrorizes the entire population and forces people to flee.

Ms. Noura, 22, expected to be married soon, and the neighbors said she probably would have received a bride price of 30 cows. These days, they say, she will be lucky to find any husband at all - and will not get a single cow.

This is the

first genocide

of the 21st century,

and

we

are collectively letting

the Sudanese government

get away with it.

Sudan's leaders appear to have made

a calculated decision that some African tribes

in the Darfur region are more of a headache than the

international protests

that result when it depopulates

large areas of those tribes.

In effect,

it is

our

acquiescence

that allows the rapes

and murders

to continue.

The solution isn't to send

American troops.

But a starting point is to convey

American outrage -

loudly and insistently -

and demonstrate that Darfur

is an American priority.

Ms. Noura's saga began when the Sudanese Army and janjaweed militia burned down her village a year ago and killed her father. She and her family fled here to Kalma, but she is the eldest child and needed money to support her younger brothers and sisters.

So she ventured out of Kalma to cut grass in the nearby fields to sell.

That was when the men

raped and beat her, leaving her unable to walk home.

Rape leads to particular injuries in Darfur because many girls,

as part of female circumcision rites, have their vaginas sewn shut with a wild thorn.

The resulting physical trauma from rape

also increases the risk of H.I.V. transmission.

In addition, the attackers sometimes

rape women with

sticks or bayonets,

causing internal injuries that leave the victims incontinent.

Sudan has backed off a bit in response to

protests about the rapes,

and it has stopped arresting women who go to

foreign aid workers to seek medical treatment.

But the rapes themselves

are continuing,

unabated.

The Sudanese police

and military

are everywhere in the area,

but they

don't secure

the fields outside the camp

where the attacks take place.

In just one of eight sectors in Kalma,

I found three women who acknowledged

on the record that they had

been gang-raped this month

within a few days of each other.

Arifa Muhammad, 25, told of being caught by

10 men as she planted okra to have a little more food

for her three children.

One of the men said,

"I know you are Zaghawa, so we

will rape you."

Afterward, they beat her with the butts of their guns.

The very next day, Saida Abdukarim, also 25,

was tending her vegetables when three men

with guns seized her.

She pleaded with them, pointing out that

she is

eight months' pregnant.

"They said,

'You are black,

and so we can rape you,'"

she recalled. Then they gang-raped her

and beat her with

sticks and their guns.

She absorbed the beating,

trying to protect her unborn baby,

and although she was too battered to walk,

she has so far not miscarried.

To me, Ms. Noura, Ms. Arifa

and Ms. Saida

are among the heroes

of Darfur.

There is no shame

in being raped,

but

plenty of stigma should

attach to those

who ignore crimes against humanity.

In my book,

it's the politicians

who don't consider genocide

a priority

who aren't worth a single cow.

These three women

have the backbone

to stand up

and be counted.

We in the West

have so much less to lose,

yet we can't even find

our own voices.

Let's hope that the courage of these

three women

may inspire President Bush,

Kofi Annan and

other world leaders

finally to show a

little

more backbone

and stand much more

firmly

against genocide."
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Posted: Nov 26, 2005 9:49pm
Poli Tics ^_-
Oct 23, 2005
hey there,

"Only in America do we use the word 'politics'

to describe the process so well:


'Poli' in Greek meaning 'many'

and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'


[ from www.tbrnews.org ]


checkout this one.....

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1919.htm

peace,
Rob
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