Gratulalok tettedert.                                  Mit tenni?
Olvasd a cikket a Tied elott. Szervezkedni.Akcioba lepni.Ne vard a
tetteket a Duna parti irodakban a barsonyszekekt nyomo burokrataktol.
"Grass-root movement" az eggyedulli ami fog eredmenyeket erni.
Irj leveleket,e-maileket,telephonalni minden nap a miniszterelnokhoz,a
parlament minden tagjahoz <Hungary.org>s remelve hogy azt szazak,majd
ezrek teszik. Ok a Ti alkalmozottaitok.Koveteld hogy tegyek munkajukat
amire alkamazzatok oket.         Igy mukodo a demokratikus
kepviseltetett allamrendszer. Koztarsasagotok van.Nem? Vagy
csaszarsag,hogy csak remeliteg o-felsegetol a teendoket?
Talpra magyar,itt az ido most vagy soha.  

                                  John                         A
Demokracia profess-sora,                         az elavult bukott
gondolkodasok es                a dogmas kepviseltetlen uralmak
ellnzeke, a nepi onkormanyzasok predikatora,           az egyehi jogok
es lehetosegek bajnoka.                                                        
                                                                               
                                                              


--WebTV-Mail-14587-454--

[lsd uj honlapunkat: http://duna.org/cyanidespill/] 

A TUNTETES HELYE ES IDOPONTJA:
        Roman Nagykovetseg, Washington, U.S.A.
        Szombat aprilis 1, 2000 [d.e. 11:00-tol d.u. 2:00-ig] es
        Vasarnap aprilis 2, 2000 [d.e. 11:00-tol d.u. 2:00-ig]
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Kedves Honfitarsaim!

        
A washingtoni roman nagykovetseg elott, tuntetes lessz a romaniai cian
mergezessel kapcsolatosan.  A tuntetes legfobb celja az lenne hogy
felhivjuk az emberek, a zoldek es a media figyelmet.  En
ugy erzem hogy ezt az ugyet nem szabadna a "jo szomszedsag" neveben
elsimitani, a szonyeg ala seperni.
        
Termeszetesen ez nem az egyetlen problema romaniaval kapcsolatosan amit
nem szabadna elhalgatni, de szerintem ennek kulonosen nagy jelentosege
es potencialja van, mivel nagyon sok szovetsegesre
is szert tehetnenk (mi magyarok) ennek az ugynek a tovabbi pozitiv
kibontakozasahoz.  A vilag kulonfele kornyezetvedelmi szervezetei
mellet, a Jugoszlavok, Bulgarok, Moldovaiak, Ukranok is erdekeltek ebben
az ugyben ...
        ---
        A TUNTETES HELYE ES IDOPONTJA:
        Roman Nagykovetseg, Washington, U.S.A.
        Szombat aprilis 1, 2000 [d.e. 11:00-tol d.u. 2:00-ig] es
        Vasarnap aprilis 2, 2000 [d.e. 11:00-tol d.u. 2:00-ig]

http://duna.org/cyanidespill/

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M  e  g  h  i  v  o

EGY ERTEKESEBB ELETERT:
"3 - 5 - 4" ALAPKEPLET MINDENKI  SZAMARA 
(A Hifa-Hungaria Egyesuelet, INWO-szekcio GAZDASAGI SZEMINARIUMA)
2000. majus 4-5-6. 

Helyszin: KDNP Szekhaz Budapest, XII. Nagy Jeno u. 5. 
Eloado: ADOLF PASTER, Becs, 
az INWO-OEsterreich elnoeke, 
az INWO-International elnoeksegi tagja, 
a HIFA-Austria es -Hungaria alapitoja 
(HIFA = Hilfe fuer Alle, INWO = Initiative fuer eine Natuerliche 
Wirtschaftsordnung - gazdasagi segelyszervezetek, amelyek a valodi, 
szemelyes, emberi ertekek foltarasat es megorzeset tartjak 
foladatuknak egy uj, ezeknek megfelelo gazdasagi rendszerben)

1. nap: majus 4. csuetoertoek 
9,30 - 12,30    
A modern, kapitalizmustol mentes piacgazdasag elofeltetelei (3:a-c)
15.00 - 18,30
A munkacsoportok elokeszitese kerdesek alapjan; munkacsoportok.
19,30 - 21,00

Plenum: A munkacsoportok beszamoloja, melyet Adolf Paster foglal 
oessze.

2. nap: majus 5. pentek
09,30 - 12,30
Egy modern, kapitalizmusmentes piacgazdasag erkoelcsi alapjai. (5:a-e)
15,00 - 16,30
TALENTUM-KOER: egy lehetseges gyakorlati ut a modern, 
kapitalizmusmentes tarsadalomhoz. Felelos: Dr. Zsombok Gyoergy
17,00 - 18,30
A munkacsoportok elokeszitese a kerdesek alapjan; munkacsoportok.
19,30 - 21,00

Plenum: a munkacsoportok beszamoloja. 
OEsszefoglalas: Adolf Paster.

3. nap: majus 6. szombat 
09,30 - 12,30
Egy modern, kapitalizmusmentes piac-gazdasag allami keretfeltetelei 
(4:a-d)
15,00 - 18,30
A munkacsoportok elokeszitese kerdesek alapjan; munkacsoportok.
19,30 - 21,00

Plenum: A munkacsoportok beszamoloja.
Hogyan tovabb? dolf Pasterrel koezoesen oesszefoglaljuk a harom nap 
eredmenyeit, es meghatarozzuk a szuekseges konkret lepeseket. 

A munkacsoportok kereteben lehetoseg van a ,Penzjatek"-on valo 
reszvetelre. 

Ebedszuenet:            12,30 - 15,00 ora 
Vacsoraszuenet:  18,30 - 19,30 ora

A szeminariumon nem csak tolmacsolast biztositunk, hanem elegendo 
idot is a tema alaposabb megismeresere, megvitatasara. Kerem, ha 
modja van ra, a joevo erdekeben ne hagyja ki ezt az egyeduelallo 
lehetoseget.
Szeretettel varjuk! 

A Hifa-Hungaria Egyesuelet Elnoeksege neveben:
Pinter Ilona, elnoek

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A Szeminariumon valo reszvetel dija: 
Ebeddel 5.000,-Ft, ebed nelkuel 3000,-Ft, amelybol indokolt esetben 
engedmenyt tudunk adni. (A hataron tulrol joevo magyaroknak nem kell 
reszveteli dijat fizetni, amennyiben az egesz szeminariumon reszt 
vesznek.)
Talentum-tagok: 1.500,- Ft ertekben TT-mal egyenlithetnek.

Etkezes: a koernyekbeli ettermekben.
A helyszinen asvanyvizet, forro kavet, teat, biztositunk (a 
reszveteli dijban benne van), es lehetoseg van a magunkkal hozott 
hideg etel elfogyasztasara is.

Szallas: keresre (korlatozott szamban) egyszeru szallast keresuenk.

Jelentkezes: 
1. Hifa-Hungaria iroda: 1055 Budapest,   Honved u. 40. Fszt. 5/a. 
Tel.: 06-1-311 43 96 (hetfonkent 16-18 ora koezoett szemelyesen vagy 
telefonon).
2. Hifa-Hungaria, 2122 Dunakeszi, Pf. 110.
3. E-mail: hifa-hungaria-pinter@ fullnet.hu 
4. Fax + uezenetroegzito: 06-99-313 045  Mobil: 06-309-467 453 
/Pinter I.
5. Telefonuegyelet: 06-27-39 00 80, Dovigyelne L. Sara: H-P.: 8-12-ig

Jelentkezesi hatarido: 2000. aprilis 25. (Szallas- es ebedkeres 
eseten: 2000. marc. 31.)
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MOMENTS OF SHOCKED SILENCE ABOUT BIOTECH

Biotech stocks plummeted this week as President Clinton and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair requested that companies make their data on the
human genome
public.

Private firms are racing madly to read and patent the genetic code that makes
you you and me me.  They are trying to beat publicly funded labs, which are
required as a condition of their grants to publish the gene sequences they
unravel.  One company, Celera Genomics, is funded by drug companies with the
understanding that the funders will see the code before anyone else does.

If it strikes you as alarming that private investors can patent and keep secret
and sell something that sits within every cell of your body, you ought
to pay
much closer attention to the new, jaw-dropping  biotech industry.  I
have just
spent several weeks with my students listening to biotech enthusiasts, critics,
and a lot of folks in between.  There were three particular moments I'd
like to
tell you about, all of them moments of stunned silence.

The first came when we heard from an ecologist who sits on a USDA panel that
approves the release of genetically engineered crop plants.  Of the 71
applications currently pending, one is for the implantation of the gene
by which
scorpions make their toxin.  Splice that gene into a plant, and anything that
nibbles on a leaf, from woodchucks to bugs, falls down dead.  Of course people
who eat the plant fall down dead too, so there must also be a package of genes
to turn the scorpion gene on and off.  Turn it on in the roots and
leaves and
stems, turn it off in the flower and fruit.

But what happens to the poison, the students asked, when roots or leaves
decompose in the soil?  What happens if the turn-off gene doesn't work
infallibly?  Would we have to check every fruit or grain for traces of scorpion
poison?

Don't know, said the ecologist.

Silence.

The second moment came when a geneticist described a new rice with a pasted-in
gene that allows the plant to make and store beta-carotene, the yellow pigment
from which our bodies make vitamin A.  Thousands of poor children in
Asia, who
eat little but rice, go blind or die for lack of vitamin A.  The "golden rice"
could solve that problem.

A hand went up, and one of the students asked, "Why not just splice the
beta-carotene gene into the child?"

Silence.  Finally another visiting expert said, "Within five years that
could be
possible.  Fasten your seat belts."

More silence.  I guess everyone's mind was racing as mine was.  I was picturing
golden children.  Then I thought, why not splice in the gene for chlorophyll
while we're at it, and just send the kids out in the sun to photosynthesize
their lunch?  Gold-green children.

Moment number three came when I showed the students a documentary called "The
Day After Trinity."  It's the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the
developer of
the atomic bomb, told through interviews with some of the great
physicists who
worked with him at Los Alamos during the Second World War.

The cause was compelling: to stop Hitler.  The science was thrilling.  The
effort was tremendous.  The bomb was nearing completion when Hitler surrendered
in May, 1945.

That surrender did not cause any slowdown in the work at Los Alamos. 
There was
too much excitement.  It was nearly time for the first test, called Trinity,
which took place at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16.  The scientists said
that on that day, as they watched the first atom bomb explosion in history,
their reaction was joyous.  "It worked!"

Less than a month later, when a similar bomb incinerated 100,000 people at
Hiroshima, one scientist said his first thought was, "Thank goodness it
wasn't a
dud."  His second thought was, "Oh my God, what have we done?"

The film ends with Oppenheimer testifying in Washington two decades
later.  When
asked by a senator how to contain the nuclear arms race, Oppenheimer answered,
"It's 20 years too late.  We should have done it the day after Trinity."

I turned on the lights.  The students just sat there.  Didn't move. 
Didn't say
a word.  I couldn't either.

Geneticists are already cloning sheep and cows and mice and pigs.  They
can pick
out a trait from almost any creature and paste it into any other, and
they are
on the verge of being able to turn a gene on or off at will.  We already plant
gene-spliced crops on tens of millions of acres.  We can order genes from
catalogs.  Within a few years we will be able to read the code for our very
selves and reach in and tinker with it.  It is only a matter of time before
hackers appear who think it might be fun, as computer hackers do, to
create and
release their own viruses.

The stock market is speculating on this stuff.  National leaders ask companies,
politely, to make their knowledge available to all.  We need to do much more
that, more than just fasten our seatbelts and go along for the ride.  We
need to
slow down and think together about where this technology is going and
who should
own it and who should decide.  

For genomics it is still the day after Trinity.  We don't want or need
to have
to ask, helplessly, "Oh my God, what have we done?"

(Donella Meadows is an adjunct professor at Dartmouth College and
director of
the Sustainability Institute in Hartland, Vermont.)

Feiler Jozsi kuldte a  listan:

Wednesday, March 22, 2000
For immediate release
MEDIA RELEASE
PNG Cyanide Accident:
Water Testing Results

One thousand kilograms of sodium cyanide in the most concentrated form 
was 
accidentally dropped from a helicopter flying to the Australia-owned 
Tolukuma mine in PNG yesterday. The cyanide, intended for use in gold 
mining, was dropped 85 kilometres from Port Moresby. The cyanide 
pellets 
escaped from wooden and plastic packaging in rugged terrain during 
near-cyclonic rainfall conditions.

PNG Disaster and Emergency Services have issued a warning to people 
living 
in the vicinity not to drink from any natural water sources, but fear 
the 
message may not have been received by remote communities.

"This accident comes hot on the heels of the disastrous cyanide spill 
caused by another Australian gold mine in Romania", said the Mr Geoff 
Evans, Director of the Sydney-based mining watchdog, the Mineral 
Policy 
Institute. "There is mounting evidence that using cyanide to extract 
gold 
is inherently dangerous. The high risk of cyanide accidents outweigh 
the 
dubious benefits of mining gold. We are being forced to question 
whether 
cyanide usage in gold mining should be limited or even banned."

The Tolukuma mine is owned by Dome Resources, an mining company with 
headquarters in Sydney, Australia. The accident occurred on Tuesday 
morning, but the company only located the lost cyanide today. Managing 
Director, Mr Michael Silver, said that staff were now on the ground, 
attempting to contain and decontaminate the cyanide spill.

However, given the delay in locating the cyanide and the near-cyclonic 
conditions at the site of the accident, the Mineral Policy Institute 
fears 
that cyanide may have already dissolved into surface waters and 
escaped the 
clean-up site.

Cyanide is so toxic that a teaspoon of a two-percent solution can kill 
a 
human adult, effectively "suffocating" the victim. Fish and other 
aquatic 
organisms are killed by much lower doses. In favourable conditions, 
much of 
the cyanide will breakdown within a week, although not before serious 
damage may have been done. However, a significant amount of cyanide 
will 
persist in toxic breakdown compounds for long periods.

Landowners downstream from the Tolukuma mine have been concerned about 
water contamination from the mine for some months. They have 
commissioned a 
certified laboratory analysis of water samples taken prior to the 
cyanide 
accident from the Auga river, downriver of the Tolukuma mine's waste 
(tailings) discharge point.

The results of the Mineral Policy Institute's preliminary 
investigation 
strongly suggests that toxic waste with levels of metals well in 
excess of 
Australian standards in Australia are being discharged into the river. 
Two 
kilometres downstream of the mine's waste outfall the water is still 
extremely rich in the dissolved toxic metals Copper, Lead, Zinc 
Mercury and 
Silver, to the extent where serious impacts on freshwater life would 
be 
expected.

Seven kilometres downstream, copper and mercury are still present in 
river 
water at significant levels. A sample taken at St Joseph's Bridge 
approximately 20km downstream is still significant in these two 
metals.

"The company is clearly engaging in unacceptable practices in both 
dumping 
its waste in the river and in its lack of precautions in transporting 
highly toxic material. The problems arising from riverine dumping of 
mine 
waste has been demonstrated by the cases of Porgera and Ok Tedi. All 
over 
the world, people are outraged that these Australian mining companies 
are 
dumping highly toxic materials into their environments. It is totally 
unacceptable and has got to stop." Mr Evans concluded.


For media enquiries:

Geoff Evans, Director, Mineral Policy Institute
Tel: (02) 9387 5540             Mobile: 0418 261 404




Igor O'Neill
Mineral Policy Institute -
Monitoring the mining industry; Campaigning for better social
and environmental practice; Working with local communities.
Web:    http://mpi.org.au 
P.O. Box 21 Bondi Junction, NSW 1355 Australia
Phone: 61 (0)2 93875540         Fax: 61 (0)2 93861497