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Why Has Our Military Refused to Show This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm

Shiite victory likely to take nation in Islamic direction...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/16/MNG80ACOTR1.DTL&type=printable
http://snipurl.com/bfzy


From Information Clearing House

JUSTIN AKERS and NICOLE COLSON report on the U.S. government’s latest schemes in its occupation of Iraq--and the growing discontent of U.S. soldiers sent to die for oil and empire.

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_01_RefusedToGo.shtml
http://snipurl.com/bg0e


From Information Clearing House

With a few notable exceptions, the media have accepted the recent virtual news blackout in Fallujah. The ongoing fighting in the city, especially in "cleared" neighborhoods, is proving an embarrassment and so, while military spokesmen continue to announce American casualties, they now come not from the city itself but, far more vaguely, from "al-Anbar province", of which the city is a part.

http://207.44.245.159/article7502.htm

Key neo-conservative opinion shapers are calling on President George W Bush to take stronger measures against Damascus, possibly including military action.

http://207.44.245.159/article7501.htm

A recently disclosed FBI memo indicates that "marching orders" to abandon traditional interrogation methods came from the defense secretary himself.

By Joe Conason

Even after the shock of Abu Ghraib, these substantiated stories of cruelty, sadism and lawlessness are stunning...

http://207.44.245.159/article7506.htm

OHIO

12/17/2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results.

A lawyer for the 40 voters who sued said he would refile the challenge as early as today.

Chief Justice Thomas Moyer ruled that the request improperly challenged two separate election results. Ohio law only allows one race to be challenged in a single complaint, he said.

The challenge was backed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cliff Arnebeck, a Columbus attorney for the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy, who accused President Bush's campaign of "high-tech vote stealing."

Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges that 130,656 votes for Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for Bush.


Informant: lynnzy

A nation demands the right to exist
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444913/

POTENTIAL MAJOR QUAKE ACTIVITY is ESPECIALLY WARRENTED DURING THE NEXT TEN DAYS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436898/

Food, water and HUMAN RIGHTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/434817/

Genetically Modified Food - News
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/440086/

Chemical Industry is mounting a major Campaign against Precautionary Principle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/435980/

Devastating Oil Spill in Alaska Feared
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436918/

Whales Killing Themselves en Masse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/435755/

Call for a global ban on the brutal practice of shark finning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444840/

ONE IN TEN BIRD SPECIES FACE EXTINCTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442029/

Nobel Winner Maathai Sounds Alarm Over Planet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436930/

Please sign the Iraq Peace Petition
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444924/

Victory in Pemberton, on to Haida Gwaii
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/439230/

Forest plan is at odds with its noble goals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/439463/

British MP condemns World Bank-backed plans for rainforest logging
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/440968/

Climate Change Impacts On Nature Worse Than Thought
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442126/

Do you have to be so negative about technology?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/443990/

STAND UP FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/439516/

Guantanamo Detainee Details Beatings and Torture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/435672/

Councilman says police shouldn't use Taser on kids
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436873/

A former US military researcher's thoughts on depleted uranium
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/438895/

Intel bill to institute national ID system?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436871/

'Stop Big Brother's ID plans'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436885/

U.S. presses poised to print foreign money
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/440223/

U.S. Media Still Hiding Bad News from Americans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444850/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Catastrophe: 60 Dead near a Cellular-Radio-Broadcasting-Tower in Slupsk (Stolp)/Poland
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/438335/

Usfie Cancer Cluster, Update
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/421932/

Application filed to prosecute UK Electricity Industry for failing to label domestic electrical Appliances with hazard Warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433077/

DC Circuit decision - EMR v. FCC
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433099/

Ever growing Concerns surrounding Mobile Masts and their Effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436276/

Mobile Phone Company advises Industry not to target Children for Cell Phone Sales
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433815/

Mobile phone firms hide radiation hazards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/434847/

EU REFLEX Project Report
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436261/

Norwich meeting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437127/

Warning after three incidents in which mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling operations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436008/

New bill targets some peeping Toms
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436050/

Cell phones and the brain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437268/

Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson carries out a particular war
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437536/

MOBILE PHONES ARE NO GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/443118/

Microchips in Your Passport and Drivers License
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437454/

TSA widens test of biometric IDs - Privacy experts worry about precedents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/438670/

A Nation of Cattle?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436877/

This is a really nicely done mini short film ( almost commericial sized) that plays on qick time. It was excellent, inspiring, and something you will like to pass on to friends after you see it. It takes a bit of time to load even with DSL, so please be patient, then kick back and enjoy!

http://www.thebattleforamerica.com


Informant: lynnzy

We’ve posted the slide show about potential election fraud at

http://www.ElectionFraud2004.org

This is an easy way to get up to speed on concerns about election irregularities. (Note: On my browser there's a button on the bottom, right-hand corner of the slide show that makes it easier to view.)

We have until January 6 (when Congress counts the electoral college votes) to demand a thorough investigation of the election. Please help restore confidence in our democracy by taking the following actions:

1) Spread the word about http://www.ElectionFraud2004.org, and encourage other groups to link to the site.

2) Call your Representatives and Senators and encourage them to support a thorough investigation of the election. Capital Hotline - 1-800-839-5276.

3) Send an email to the House Judiciary Committee encouraging them to hold full hearings on election irregularities. Visit
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

4) Participate in the America’s Calling campaign. Visit http://www.usvip.org/article.asp?id=42

If you would like to receive more information about potential election fraud, please send an email to info@ElectionFraud2004.org

Thanks for helping defend our democracy!

-Peter Drekmeier

"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death." Before the damage we inflict grows greater, before history's judgment gets worse, before we contaminate the whole world - even before we vote in the next election - we must stop what we're doing. We must stop now.

It's time to listen for a moment not to defense analysts briefing officers, pols or pundits, but to people like Jooma Khan, a grandfather who lives in a village in Laghman Province, in northeastern Afghanistan, who is quoted above. Surely he deserves 30 seconds of our undivided attention. "When I saw my deformed grandson," he told an interviewer in March of 2003, "I realized that my hopes of the future have vanished for good. (This is) different from the hopelessness of the Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah. This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America, a silent death from which I know we will not escape."

We're waging war-plus in Afghanistan and Iraq - in effect, nuclear war, with our widespread use of depleted-uranium-tipped shells and missiles. This is no secret. DU, with its extraordinary penetrating power and explode-on-impact capability, helps assure our military dominance everywhere we go. But people like Jooma Khan and his grandson reap its toxic legacy.

So, of course, do our own troops.

Kahn's words are only a sliver of the damning testimony contained in the documents of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, a Japanese citizens' initiative that recently concluded its two-year inquiry into the first phase of the Bush Administration's war on terror. But they say everything that we cannot hear. If we could hear Jooma Khan, and others who are sounding the alarm about DU, such as former Livermore Labs geologist Leuren Moret, who testified at the tribunal, there would not be mere thousands of people in the streets of American cities demanding that we stop the war, but hundreds of thousands, or millions - the sort of numbers that turn out inother parts of the world.

The use of DU weaponry is not the extent of our criminalirresponsibility in Afghanistan and Iraq, which led to the tribunal's guilty verdict against George Bush on charges of war crimes, but it's the most chilling. (You can check out the full report at, among other places, http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm)

As Moret testified, depleted uranium turns into a infinitesimally fine dust after it explodes; individual particles are smaller than a virus or bacteria. And, "It is estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods oftreatment."

And DU dust is everywhere. A minimum of 500 or 600 tons now litter Afghanistan, and several times that amount are spread across Iraq. In terms of global atmospheric pollution, we've already released the equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs, Moret said.The numbers are overwhelming, but the potential horrors only get worse. DU dust does more than wreak havoc on the immune systems of those who breathe or touch it; the substance also alters one's genetic code.

Thus, birth defects are way up in Afghanistan since the invasion: children "born with no eyes, no limbs, tumors protruding from their mouths ...deformed genitalia," according to the tribunal report. This ghastly toll on the unborn - on the future - has led investigators to coin the term "silent genocide" to describe the effects of this horrific weapon.

The Pentagon's response to such charges is denial, denial, denial. And the American media is its moral co-conspirator.

But blame is beside the point. Surely even those who still await "conclusive proof" that DU is the cause, or a factor, in the mystery illnesses and birth defects emanating from the war zones, can see the logic in halting its use now.

By Robert C. Koehler
Tribune Media Services


"Masters of the Universe"
(Streaming Video)

A historical overview of the founding of the Federal Reserve System by the international banking elite and focuses on the growing power of the Bilderberg group. Produced by independent film-maker Daniel Hopsicker.
http://global-elite.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=visit&lid=63

CIA PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
(USE THEIR OWN MANUAL AGAINST THEM)
Description: A tactical manual for the revolutionary. First published by the Central Intelligence Agency and distributed to the Contras in Central America.
http://www.global-elite.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=12

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” - George W. Bush, joking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001


From IPCUSA

Each day brings more stories of bombings, kidnappings, and death in Iraq. As the occupation rolls on with no end in sight, more and more ordinary Iraqis question our intentions in their country. To continue down the current path of military occupation and dominance will only invite more violence.

It's time to change course in Iraq. It's time to bring the troops home.

Please take a moment to sign the Iraq Peace Petition. Tell the President that we've had enough of body bags and maimed children.

The petition will be delivered on the morning after the inauguration. It says:

Mr. President:
We urge you to end this war now. Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people. War is the wrong path. Too many lives have been lost already -- let our troops come home.

Support for the war continues to ebb. Help us build the momentum for peace.

Sign the petition and pass it along to your friends:
http://ga3.org/campaign/iraq_peace/wwwundu4aj85w6d

Together, we can make a difference.

Sincerely,
Peter Lems
AFSC Iraq Peacebuilding Program

P.S. If you've already signed the petition, thank you. You can still help by inviting your friends to sign as well. Click here to tell your friends: http://ga3.org/campaign/iraq_peace/forward/wwwundu4aj85w6d

Every voice for peace counts!


Visit the web address below to tell invite your friends to sign the petition.

http://ga3.org/join-forward.html?domain=afsccenter&r=41A7S5F1xQ-k

The Inuit peoples of the Arctic have launched a dramatic legal action against America. The charge? That US emissions of greenhouse gases have made their very survival impossible

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
http://snipurl.com/bf6n


From Information Clearing House

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GLOBAL WARMING AND HUMAN RIGHTS - Oread Daily

The United States is about to be charged with human rights violations for contributing substantially to global warming.

The Inuit, whose homeland stretches from the northeastern tip of Russia across Alaska and northern Canada to parts of Greenland, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights saying that the actions of the US are threatening their existence.

The Inuit plan is part of a broader shift in the debate over human- caused climate change evident among participants in the 10th round of international talks taking place in Buenos Aires aimed at averting dangerous human interference with the climate system. Inuit leaders said they planned to announce the effort at the climate meeting today. Representatives of poor countries and communities -- from the Arctic fringes to the atolls of the tropics to the flanks of the Himalayas -- say they are imperiled by rising temperatures and seas through no fault of their own. They are casting the issue as no longer simply an environmental problem but as an assault on their basic human rights.

Such a petition could have decent prospects now that industrial countries, including the United States, have concluded in recent reports and studies that warming linked to heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe emissions is contributing to big environmental changes in the Arctic, a number of experts said. Last month, an assessment of Arctic climate change by 300 scientists for the eight countries with Arctic territory, including the United States, concluded that "human influences" are now the dominant factor.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, elected chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), says the biggest fear was not that warming would kill individuals but that it would be the final blow to a sturdy but suffering culture. "We've had to struggle as a people to keep afloat, to keep our indigenous wisdom and traditions. We're an adaptable people, but adaptability has its limits…Something is bound to give, and it's starting to give in the Arctic, and we're sending that early warning signal to the rest of the world."

Chief Gary Harrison of the Arctic Athabaskan Council, said: "Our homes are threatened by storms and melting permafrost, our livelihoods are threatened by changes to the plants and animals we harvest. Even our lives are threatened, as traditional travel routes become more dangerous."

Attorneys from Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) are working with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to file the petition.

Donald Goldberg, a senior attorney from CIEL said at the Conference, "Climate change is a human rights concern on an unprecedented scale. It poses an immediate danger for Inuit and other Arctic inhabitants, but millions of people in mountain areas, low-lying island and coastal regions, and other vulnerable parts of the world will soon face similar threats."

"Protecting human rights is the most fundamental responsibility of governments," said Martin Wagner, International Program managing attorney for Earthjustice. "Climate change is threatening the health, culture, and livelihoods of the Inuit. It is the responsibility of the United States, as the largest source of greenhouse gases, to take immediate action to protect the rights of the Inuit and others around the world."

The Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known, at nearly twice the rate as the rest of the globe, according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), a four-year scientific study conducted by an international team of 300 scientists under the direction of a high-level intergovernmental forum including the United States. Increasing greenhouse gases from human activities are projected to make the Arctic warmer still, according to this unprecedented report.

The Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) is an agency of the Organization for American States, of which the US is a member. The Inuit have a voice in the OAS - and thus the commission - through Canada, where they have their own immense and partly autonomous territory of Nunavut, covering 1.9 million square kilometers, a fifth of Canada. But although the IAHRC can issue findings, recommendations, and rulings, it is not a court, and the US has predictably indicated it will not consider itself bound by anything that emerges.

But a ruling could be the basis for lawsuits. If the Inuit gain a ruling that their human rights have been violated, it could form the basis of a case against the US government in an international court, or class-action suits in the US against the government or US energy companies, akin to the suits which have led to multibillion-dollar judgments against the tobacco companies.

One Inuit community of nearly 600 people in the Alaskan barrier island of Shishmaref faces becoming the world's first "global warming refugees". The permafrost on which their homes were built has melted and the ice that used to stop waves reaching the shore has nearly disappeared. Joe Braach, the headteacher of Shishmaref school, says: "When I moved here, the sea was 40ft (12m) from the house. Now it's about 10ft (3m)." Storms have destroyed some of the homes and the community now has little option but to move to the mainland, at a cost of $400m.

Sources: Seattle Post Intelligencer, Earth Justice, New Zealand Herald, Canadian Arctic Profiles


Informant: reg

Almost 900 children lost a parent in Iraq; how they cope:

"I don't want to be a daddy because daddies die," the child solemnly told his mother after his father, Staff Sgt. Wentz "Baron" Shanaberger, a military policeman from Fort Pierce, Fla., was killed March 23 in an ambush in Iraq...

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WARKIDS-12-15-04&cat=II


From Information Clearing House

"Even if I come home in a box, you should know that I did it for (all of) you. Take care of the kids. Stay strong," Osbourne told her spouse...

http://207.44.245.159/article7496.htm

Microwave News is back!

Last September I attended the International Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukemia in London. At the end of the weeklong meeting, I was convinced, more than ever, that the time has come for precautionary policies to reduce exposures from power-frequency EMFs.

On further reflection, I realized that the reason simple and low-cost measures have yet to be adopted has less to do with resistance from the electric utility industry (what else would one expect?) than from the public health community.

Mike Repacholi of the World Health Organization¹s (WHO) International EMF Project, has been the #1 foot-dragger. Last month, he released a draft ³Precautionary Framework² with a case study on ELF EMFs. This came close to two years after Repacholi and his assistant Leeka Kheifets endorsed applying the Precautionary Principle to control EMF cancer risks --but they then quickly flip-flopped and withdrew the proposal. Sad to say, they have turned their small corner of the WHO into an industry outpost.

All the excuses not to protect children used by Repacholi, Kheifets and others at health agencies in the US and the UK are bogus. It¹s all explained in a special issue of Microwave News, now posted on our Web site: http://www.microwavenews.com/headlines.html#whoppemf

You can read it online or you can download a pdf of the complete special issue. Simply go to http://www.microwavenews.com .

Let's hope for better in 2005.

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

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Subject: WHO dragging its feet on precautionary principle
To: "Louis Slesin, Microwave News" info@microwavenews.com

Louis: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp is also dragging its feet! They ordered a study of EMF levels in Canadian Housing in 1995 and never published it when it came out in 1996! When ELF magnetic fields were classified 2B, I convinced them to give me a copy: they hired me to do a summary which was suppposed to be published as a research highlight, but they still haven't published it.

However, research head Jim Robar authorized me to publish it in my magazine in Dec. 2001. It can be of great use to many, but it's in French: http://www.21esiecle.qc.ca/CEMcanadiennes.htm

Original author Andrew Michrowski still has not been paid for his work. He's at pacenet@canada.com . He found very high levels in children's bedrooms. Quebec may have the highest exposure rates in the world as more than 70% of homes use electric heat. Grounding on the water main is a big problem, especially with net current circulating in urban row-house developments. Andrew's paper shows simple ways to reduce exposure. I'm still putting pressure on CMHC: Researcher Christopher Ives cives@cmhc-schl.gc.ca , who hired Andrew, is a good guy, but his boss Robar no longer returns my calls. Seems utilities put too much pressure on him, but as Andrew says, their power lines are rarely the main cause of the problem. Wiring erros by electricians are the main cause!

Keep up your good work and take care,

Andre Fauteux, Editor/Publisher
La Maison du 21e siecle magazine
Tel./Fax: (450) 228-1555
afauteux@securenet.net -
info@21esiecle.qc.ca
2955 lac Lucerne, Ste-Adele Qc J8B 3K9 Canada
http://www.21esiecle.qc.ca



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Andre+Fauteux

Important message from France

In the below informative message from Jean-Pierre Lentin take special note about what is mentioned about ICNIRP's Bernard Veyret. This is especially interesting as Veyret will be "guiding" the so-called French/Russian series of studies to verify (or not) the validity of the Russian RF Standards, (and therefore ICNIRP's as well). As I mention in my report on the Russian cell phone conference the credibility of ICNIRP is also at stake in these studies. Allowing ICNIRP to "guide" this research effort I would call a BIAS of the highest order.

All the more reason that Section III of my report
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/moscow_conf.pdf is taken up as a requirement by the Russian RF scientific community. This is a recommendation that an independent oversight committee be formed to monitor the progress of the research. I have previously suggested this to the RNCNIRP. Whether that translates into firm action remains to be seen.

In my opinion what ICNIRP hopes to accomplish with these studies is to lead the Russians down the garden path right to their scientific slaughterhouse. And then the main threat to ICNIRP's version of "science" is eliminated.

IT IS VITAL THAT THE JOINT FRENCH/RUSSIAN STUDIES BE INDEPENDENTLY MONITORED TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST! Pass it on!

Don Maisch



Dear Don,

I am currently reading Alexander and Ann Shulgin's "PIHKAL", originally published in 1991, a book about their life of research on psychedelic drugs, with no obvious connection with EMF health issues, except this interesting "factoid" :

In year 1966, Alexander Shulgin, a chemistry researcher, was briefly employed by an American military facility, the San Carlos Aerospace Laboratory, at Sunnyvale, California.

This is his account of top-secret on-going research projects at the time :

"Here were arcane projects such as black membrane dynamics, and studies of the influence of gravity on plant growth, the relationships between magnetic fields and the blood-brain barrier, and the effects of radiation on fertility. All were intriguing studies, and all were being run in well equipped laboratories by extremely competent scientists."

Until now, the earliest references found for American military research about EMF effect on blood-brain barrier were 1972 or 1974.

Now, we find that this subject of research was already being studied in 1966 !

Apparently, the American army knows a lot of things about EMF effects on health, things that are still not revealed today...

Well, while I'm at it, here are a few infos on what's happening in France and elsewhere on the "frontline" of EMF & health issues.

Mobile phone operators in France have filed a judiciary complaint against two notorious French anti-masts activists, Etienne Cendrier and Annie Lobe, demanding incredible sums... As French justice is pretty slow, these trials will probably happen within the next year (2005). The activists are being pursued for declarations they have made to the press, so it seems to me that this is in clear violation of freedom of expression rights. Ever an optimist, I think this complaint will not be upheld by the judges, and that this "gagging" strategy from the mobile phone operators will turn out to be viewed as a very bad idea, and seriously tarnish their reputation. We will see...

I must add that Annie Lobe herself did file a complaint against French scientist Bernard Veyret, who heads the "biology commission" at ICNIRP (although he is a physicist !!!). Veyret may be viewed as the "French Michael Repacholi", i.e. the reassuring expert who constantly downplays, in official reports and media communication, all independant research about EMF health-risks. Now, unfortunately, I seriously doubt that Annie's action will be followed by the judges, for lack of scientific evidence, despite the encouraging message she received from W. Ross Adey shortly before his death...

We have a lot of "cancer clusters" in France, linked to mobile phone masts, but despite the valiant efforts of several citizens associations, the plight of those poor people is not being seriously considered by public health authorities. And things won't change in the near future, as our new "health czar" (i.e. director of the "Delegation Generale de la Sante", the top health public institution in France), nominated last year, is none other than Dr. William Dab, who headed for years the "medical department" of EDF (French national electricity distribution), and repeatedly said you can live safely under a high-voltage line...

Right now, the top independant scientific website on EMF health risks in France is <http://csifcem.free.fr/>http://csifcem.free.fr/. Most of their material is in French, but they have several English translations, and I strongly suggest a visit to their pages. These people (Richard Gautier, PhD, Roger Santini, PhD, Pierre Le Ruz, PhD, and Daniel Oberhausen, PhD) are the best French independant experts on EMF & health. They published a "white book" last year on mobile phone health risks, which caused quite a stir.

I might add that my own book, "Ces ondes qui tuent, ces ondes qui soignent" (Waves that kill, waves that heal), on EMF & health, has been republished as a pocket book last May, and has sold so far about 20 000 to 30 000 units, which is a nice figure for France, and makes me one of the most outspoken opponents of EMF pollution in France. Unfortunately there is no English translation. The only abroad publishing so far is.... an Arabic translation !

A more exotic note to finish. My ex-wife, who's a TV documentary director and who did with me a 52 minutes documentary on EMF health risks, "Ces ondes qui nous entourent / Mit Strahlung in die Zukunft), aired on French-German TV channel Arte in 2002, is now a fervent Tibetan Buddhist and is traveling a lot in India. A few weeks ago, she was in the Myrik monastery, in north-eastern India, the world leading center for the Changpa Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. And she was horrified to find that a mobile phone base station is being built on the roof of the "retreat center", i.e. the place where dozens of young Buddhist converts, coming from from all the world, will spent four years in isolation and prayer in order to become Buddhist monks or nuns. That means they will live for 4 years, 24 hours a day, under a phone mast ! We are right now setting up a campaign to have the masts relocated to a safer place. Stay in tune !

Well, that's it for today. Of course, all these informations may be posted on the list, if you wish.

Warm Regards

Jean-Pierre Lentin

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My comment: ICNIRP should not be allowed at all to interfere with the russian research, I don't understand why the russians agree to this - would the ICNIRP agree that the russians evaluate their flawed papers? Before the ICNIRP "monitor" anything, their own conflicts of interests needs to be monitored. Veyret himself is involved with deep conflict of interests in France. He is the one who should be judged in court, and not people who expose truth.

Iris Atzmon

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Re: ICNIRP hopes to accomplish to lead the Russians down
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/icnirp_hopes_to_accomplish_to_lead_russians_down.htm

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May I react to Jean-Pierre Lentin's mail, dated Dec 17, about what is happening in France, in which my name was quoted, but associated with some incorrect information. I wish Jean-Pierre had asked me before sending out this mail, or had at least sent me a copy of it right away, which unfortunately he didn't do.

The complaint I filed is against Bernard Veyret and Rene de Seze. Both of them made scientific communications in 1991 and 1995, recognizing and even explaining the specific effects of EMF in great details, even though they now deny them. The complaint is based on their own scientific documents, as well as on prooves of their financial links with Motorola and consorts.

If the Russian knew about all that, they probably would'nt accept what is being proposed to them.

The judge seemed interested. He let me know he would upheld the complaint after a certain event takes place, which I unfortunately cannot mention. The question is, when ?

All of us are concerned by Veyret's lies, for he is a leading member of ICNIRP, OMS and DG XIII's European Commission, the three of which are responsible for producing "protection" standards and recommendations that make so many people ill all around the world.

Should any of you be willing to file such a complaint in your own country, I'd be glad to let you have the necessary documents (most of them are in French, you will probably have to pay for a certified translation).

Shortly before Ross Adey's death, I spoke to him on the phone, asking if he was aware of what I'd just had a confirmation to : the extremely low frequency of 16 Hz is present in the European GSM. He told me that he knew about that.

Some of you probably know the studies of Ross Adey and Carl Blackman about the calcium ion efflux that takes place at 16 Hz.

Several measurements on a mobile phone during the communcation, with professional instruments, showed not only 16 Hz, but every harmonics (multiple) of 8 Hz, up to 500 Hz. This means that not only 16 Hz, but other frequencies that may provoke this calcium ion efflux, are emitted.

The question is, why ? Probably because of the "american and japanese" electronical components, as per a scientist who participated the the GSM working group more than 20 years ago.

Anyway, I've been lead to interesting findings about the causal link between the calcium ion efflux caused by certain particular frequenciesand the micro-wave syndrom, as well as other diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's desease, diabetes, depression and insomnia.

This scientific data is currently being examined by several experienced seekers. I didn't intend to speak up on the public scene before their validation, but I have to do it now, because of Jean-Pierre Lentin's mail. It's a few months too early but now, you are aware of what is about to happen.

Should some of you want to propose help, I'd be very glad to receive it.

Truly yours,

Annie Lobe
alobe@club-internet.fr

PS : I'm not an activist but a free-lance journalist who specialized in scientific investigation. I began to investigate on cell phones 3 years ago.


Mis-reporting the Russian Cell Phone Conference
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442172/

About RNCNIRP
http://www.pole.com.ru/news_en.htm

SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY - Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Letter and attachment to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

It's too barbaric to imagine, but it happens everyday. Fishermen catch a shark, slice off its fins, and cast it back into the water to bleed a slow, painful death. What's worse, this practice has accelerated in recent years, driven by increased demand for shark fin soup in Asia, where it's considered a delicacy. But you can help:
http://www.care2.com/go/z/19550

Shark finning is pushing the species dangerously close to extinction, with shark numbers down roughly 90% since the 1950s. But the oceans cannot thrive without predator species. Indeed, sharks play a critical role in maintaining the health of our marine ecosystems.

But there's reason for hope. Last month, the 63 nations that comprise the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) approved a binding U.S. proposal to ban shark finning in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. This is a big step forward, as it's the first time there has been a multilateral effort to ban this cruel practice on the open seas.

We must not lose momentum! Urge U.S. officials to pursue a global ban on shark finning and an end to this barbaric practice once and for all.

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For a Republican and state Bush campaign co-chair Secretary of State responsible for the election in his state who claims that the Presidential election was conducted fairly, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell is behaving very strangely and suspiciously. Claims of massive fraud and corruption regarding the tally in Ohio are rampant among the progressive blogosphere and are growing daily. The best thing for Secretary Blackwell and other Republicans to do to crush such speculation would be to allow and get behind the efforts to recount the vote, efforts that are clearly provided for in Ohio state law. Instead, it appears that Republicans in the state and nationally are engaging in what can only be interpreted as efforts to fight and delay it and intimidate those who want it. On December 8th, Former Congressman Dan Hamburg was arrested while attempting to deliver a letter to Blackwell from the US House Judiciary Committee with questions about the election. Two days later, Secretary Blackwell issued a surprise executive order stopping the recording of voting information from several minority precincts in Greene County. Two volunteers, Joan Quinn and Eve Roberson, two certified election volunteers, were hand-copying voter discrepancies from precinct voting books on behalf of Green candidate Mr. Cobb and Libertarian candidate Badnarick, who were the original requestors of the Ohio recount. Blackwell's order goes further and specifies that the voting records are to be locked down and declares that they are 'not public'.

Messages left for comment at the Ohio Secretary of State's office were not returned. Instead of providing more confidence in the veracity of Ohio's election, Blackwell's actions are throwing gasoline on the fires of the conspiracy theories out there and are perilously close to being in direct violation of Ohio state law. The secretary has one legitimate course of action open to him. Obey the spirit of Ohio state law, and permit a transparent, efficient, complete and rapid recount process. The voters of Ohio and the nation deserve no less.

http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Dec/EEN41bcaddeb20b7.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 17th, 2004

Houston’s Spring Independent School District “is equipping 28,000 students with ID badges containing computer chips that are read when the students get on and off school buses,” reported the November 17 New York Times. “The information is fed automatically by wireless phone to the police and school administrators.” Police can monitor children from the time they leave home to their arrival on campus. “In a variation of the concept, a Phoenix school district in November is starting a project using fingerprint technology to track when and where students get on and off buses,” continues the Times. “Last year, a charter school in Buffalo began automating attendance counts with computerized ID badges — one of the earliest examples of what educators said could become a wider trend.” That trend has been referred to as “tagging” schoolchildren, supposedly as a measure to prevent child abductions. The favored method involves radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chip technology “similar to that used to track livestock and pallets of retail shipments.”

Understandably, many older students object to the technology. “It’s too Big Brother for me,” complained 15-year-old Kenneth Haines. “Something about the school wanting to know the exact place and time makes me feel kind of like an animal.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/141204taggingchildren.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 17th, 2004

Albany Woman Forcibly Injected With Drugs After Protesting Regulations of DMV

Albany residents beware. What happened to Bliss Alexandra could happen to you.

Anger police chief James Turley and you might end up at a state hospital for the violent and criminally insane, hundreds of miles away from your family and friends, forcibly injected with mind altering drugs. Bliss Alexandra who is also known as Darlene Early---or Darlene Barely as the Albany Police Department call her, was returned to Albany on Wednesday, Dec. 8 after completing an involuntary stay at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in Manhattan, ordered by Albany City Court judge Thomas Keefe after she exercised what she thought were her constitutional rights.

She is scheduled to appear in Albany City Court before Keefe Thursday, Dec. 9.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/albany_woman_forcibly_injected_w.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 17th, 2004

"Anfang November 2004 ist in Hamburg Kristian K. als verdeckter Ermittler der Polizei enttarnt worden. Unter dem Namen "Christian Trott" war er in verschiedenen linken Gruppen und Zusammenhängen aktiv. Gemeinsam ist diesen Gruppen der Widerstand gegen den Sozialabbau. (…) Der Einsatz des verdeckten Ermittlers Kristian K. ist nicht nur ein Angriff gegen einzelne politische Gruppen, sondern richtet sich gegen den gesamten Widerstand gegen Sozialabbau. Wir verurteilen den Einsatz verdeckter Ermittler. Insbesondere aber verurteilen wir eine Politik in deren Zentrum der Abbau demokratischer und sozialer Rechte steht. Der Widerstand gegen diese Politik hat nur dann eine Perspektive, wenn er sich den Spaltungen in einen gemäßigten und einen radikalen Teil widersetzt." Diese Erklärung (pdf) wurde verfasst von: Anti-Hartz-Gruppe und hamburg umsonst-Plenum.

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/grundrechte/kristian.pdf

Einzelpersonen oder Gruppen sollten bitte möglichst schnell ihre Ünterstützung an hamburgumsonst@gmx.net mailen.

http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb10/frieden/rat/2004/strutynski.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 14

Tipps zu Mindestlohn, Kündigung bei Krankheit, Arbeitsvertrag, Unfallschutz, Interessenvertretung und Lohnbetrug bei Respect-Netz

http://www.respect-netz.de/pages/tipps.htm


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 14

Good News: England's Supreme Court Strikes Down Blairs Fear Tactics

In a tremendous victory for the people living in the United Kingdom, Britain's highest court of appeal ruled the government cannot detain people in jail indefinitely without a trial. This means England won't be able to hold people in secret jails any longer. Hopefully, courts in the United States will reach a similar conclusion and decide in favor of the rule of law and against government-sponsored fear...

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2575

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Law lords condemn Blunkett's terror measures

'The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these' - Lord Hoffmann - in yesterday's judgment

http://207.44.245.159/article7500.htm


HOUSE OF LORDS: OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE

Read the judgment. pdf format
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/ukterror121604opn.pdf


UK Keeps Terror Suspects in Jail, Despite Judgement

The Law Lord judges ruled 8-1 in favor of the men whose imprisonment under draconian anti-terror laws, some for as long as three years, has become a cause celebre for rights activists who call their predicament "Britain's Guantanamo Bay."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041216/wl_nm/security_britain_dc
http://snipurl.com/bfzq


US guards abused me, claims Guantanamo Briton

A Manchester man released from Guantanamo Bay told Europe’s top human rights body today he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of “systematic abuse” while in American custody.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/12/17/story180921.html


From Information Clearing House

In my last email I gave an update about how real evidence of vote fraud, vote suppression, and vote machine manipulation was coming out in Ohio. Representative Conyers is getting the FBI, etc. to investigate and Kerry is asking Ohio counties for requests to make recount more transparant and count every vote but he still isn't putting all his money where his requests are (see link below for Kerry action and others).

If we are very lucky the revelations coming out of Ohio may even change the election. But even if it doesn't, it might at least help institute election reform that will make it harder to manipulate elections in the future. And bringing out all the vote fraud, suppression and errors in the election will take away from the idea that Bush has any "mandate." But for this to happen we all need to ACT! Please read over the rest of this post to see what you can do.

NOW-NYC is having a vote fraud demo Dec. 18, Saturday 2PM, Protest for Democracy: PROTEST ELECTIONS FRAUD AND DISFRANCHISEMENT IN NYC WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK.
See http://www.nownyc.org/dec18protest.htm

To view info about other protests around the country
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/demos.html

In addition, a lawsuit by citizens that are challenging the Ohio election needs lawyers. If you are a lawyer who is interested (or know one) contact Gail Jonas gejonas@sonic.net , 707.433.6845 of 707.431.8451

Furthermore, the law firm serving as counsel for the recount effort for the Greens/Libertarians need donations (they are working pro-bono --without pay from their clients). They also do other great stuff for voters w/out access to money and power http://www.nvri.org

If you want to do one or more actions to help recount, uncover vote fraud, and challenge electors--some easy pop-up pre-written letters you could send with one click.

CLICK HERE for Actions on Forum Page: which you can "reply" to keep this page up in the blog longer and you can click on link on bottom of the page for it to be "nominated for home page"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x169947

OR CLICK HERE for Actions on Website--which you can continue to check for updates: http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html

Thank you and I hope you had the happiest of holidays, Cheryl Guttman, Stolen Election Action Alerts Webmaster
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html

Take care,
Cheryl Guttman

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From Mast Neuwork:

So in Finland they are saying there are no adverse health effects from mobile phones or masts (but use a hands free, and don't talk too long). In Sweden they recognise EMF-induced EHS, while in England they say it doesn't really exist! In Russia they say science calls for vastly lower emissions than even phones throw out, while WHO says there's nothing other than heating effects. Back in Norway they know what our farmers know, but the RSPB dsimisses! With TETRA at least, we have come to know all about smaller birds disappearing from our gardens.

One day we'll all know: let's hope it isn't too late.

Andy



To: BOU_birdtalk@yahoogroups.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 6:40 PM
Subject: [BOU BirdTalk] Mobilephone masts

Hello all,

It was interesting to read about the Golden Plover behaviour. Here in Norway they don't erect mobile phone mast near fox farms or mink farms. It seems that the animals become very distressed. A few years ago a mobile phone mast was erected about a 1000 metre above a regular breeding site for a pair of our local Eagle Owls. That was the last year they were seen in the area.

All the best,
Eddie Chapman, Voss. Norway.
http://www.birdwatching-in-norway.com


And then, of course, there are the homing pigeons that don't know where they live any more because more and more masts are appearing. Perhaps these birds are all manifesting 'psychosomatic' symptoms? And of course, Finland's economy relies heavily on Nokia, so their birds have obviously flown!

Amanda


Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540740/

Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540756/

Common Cause Florida is currently organizing a selective audit of some precincts in big Florida Counties like Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsboro, Pinellas, Orange. Anyone wanting to help can volunteer or contribute money. They haven't done any money raising yet and will need some.

Common Cause Florida 704 W.Madison St. Tallahassee, Florida 32304 phone - (850) 222-3883 fax - (850) 222-3906 e-mail - cmncause@infionline.net

Source: nov2truth.org news update

U.S. Constitution Mandates Penalties for States Where Votes Are Obstructed, Say Greens

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 16, 2004 3:09 PM

According to the 14th Amendment (Section 2), Voting Irregularities May Require a Reduction in the Number of Allotted Electoral College Votes for Ohio or Other States

WASHINGTON -- December 16 -- Green Party leaders warned that Ohio and other states where a significant amount of voter obstruction has taken place face penalties mandated by the U.S. Constitution.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041216174950607

Timberjay News
By Marshall Helmberger

While the outcome of the 2004 presidential election is all but in the history books, an interesting new chapter is being written right now in Ohio, the state that cemented George W. Bush’s electoral college victory.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041216175648379

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DECEMBER 16, 2004 3:15 PM

WASHINGTON -- December 16 -- Attorneys for Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb yesterday filed an affidavit which outlines alleged voting machine tampering in Hocking County, Ohio, on the Friday before the recount began.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041216175958804

December 16, 2004

GASTONIA, N.C. -- Gaston County's elections director and the chairman of its elections board resigned after investigations revealed mishandling of vote tallies in the Nov. 2 general election.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041216183358313

12/16/2004
The Advocate
By Kent Mallett

NEWARK -- The presidential election recount began Wednesday at the Licking County Board of Elections, but it didn't begin the way one candidate's representative had hoped.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041216233034238