Do we know what really happened in Ohio? Did you know that in Cuyahoga county alone there was a group of precincts with 90,000 more votes than registered voters? Did you know that a full recount was never done, instead votes were sampled in areas where there were thought to have been few problems, and there was machine tampering? Did you know that 100,000 provisional and machine-rejected votes were never counted at all? And that's just in Ohio. Could the exit polls have all been so wrong? What are we going to do about it?

The courts will not act, but Congress might. In these critical few days before January 6th, why don't you tell your members of Congress whether you think we should contest the election? Here's an easy one-click form you can use, which automatically looks up your representatives and sends them your personal message all at the same time:

http://www.usalone.com/jan6th.html

Do you want our representatives in Washington to stand up and contest this election? We must back them up with our vocal support if we expect them to fight for us on this or any issue. The People's Email Network encourages you to speak out and keep speaking out, regardless of your political position, until our representatives truly hear you.

And also coming to a head this week is the issue of whether Alberto Gonzales should be confirmed as attorney general. Tell your senators in particular what questions they should ask at the hearings and how you think they ought to vote.

http://www.usalone.com/gonzales.html

And remember, if you would like for us to set up a custom issue action page for your own favorite issue, please email your request and we will set one up for you for no charge. Just show that you have a constituency who will participate on the site.

Please post this link everywhere you can to everyone you know.


Informant: activist_xs

Here is a the URL for a very nice stolen election protest that was held in Phoenix (of all places):

http://www.51capitalmarch.com/12-12/phoenixAZphotos.shtml

Chris

http://tinyurl.com/55oa5


Informant: NHNE

Social Security ‘reform’: Robbing workers to pay the banks:

If the bankers, financiers and investors have their way, the entire Social Security system. The future of hundreds of millions of workers will be at risk. The government is preparing to do to Social Security what has already been done to pension funds. They must be stopped.

http://207.44.245.159/article7616

Paul Krugman: Stopping the Bum's Rush:

The people who hustled America into a tax cut to eliminate an imaginary budget surplus and a war to eliminate imaginary weapons are now trying another bum's rush. If they succeed, we will do nothing about the real fiscal threat and will instead dismantle Social Security, a program that is in much better financial shape than the rest of the federal government.

http://207.44.245.159/articles7618.htm

The Bush administration has signaled that it will propose changing the formula that sets initial Social Security benefit levels, cutting promised benefits by nearly a third in the coming decades.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050104/1009274.asp


From Information Clearing House

Democrat Senators on the Hot Seat...Again...
http://www.counterpunch.com/lindorff01032005.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush strategy will hurt Republicans, says former aide:

One of President George W Bush's former cabinet officials has criticised his record and his electoral strategy, accusing him of running a short-term policy which will damage the Republicans in the future.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/04/wbush04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/04/ixportal.html
http://snipurl.com/brtl


From Information Clearing House

The best way for the American people to send a message to the Bush administration and the world that ‘we the people’ of the United States do not condone torture is to mobilize to reject the nomination of Alberto Gonzales.” - Ron Daniels, Executive Director, the Center for Constitutional Rights

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=296
http://snipurl.com/brtb


From Information Clearing House

Guantanamo is intended to send a message that the internationally accepted norms of justice have been rescinded. From now on, all law proceeds from Washington.

http://207.44.245.159/article7613.htm

Video: Secrets of the Iraq War:

The story of spying, bribery and secret deals done by U.S. with Saddam's senior commanders to betray their former boss, and the story of what happened to the feared Republican Guard.

Real Video.
http://207.44.245.159/article6648.htm

Patriots, some would argue, must march unwaveringly for the cause of liberty in Iraq. They would have Americans accept that anything — anyone — that gets in the way must be destroyed.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=79980&ran=20726
http://snipurl.com/brsq


From Information Clearing House

Horror In Fallujah, Doctors Say:

The hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

http://207.44.245.159/article7614.htm

US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter

By George Monbiot

Over the past few months, reviewing the complete lack of public interest in what is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the failure, in the west, to mobilise effective protests against the continuing atrocities in Iraq, I had begun to wonder whether we had lost our ability to stand in other people's shoes. I have now stopped wondering.

http://207.44.245.159/article7617.htm

Houston Chronicle

01/03/05

A Houston engineer was searching for a method to keep track of his 16-year-old daughter when she started driving. The technology he found while searching the Web not only helped him do that, it also may have saved her life, said Wayne, who asked that his last name not be published to protect his daughter's identity. Teen Arrive Alive, a Florida-based company, offers packages that include bumper decals and phones equipped with global positioning systems to allow parents to monitor their teens' locations and driving habits. The company launched the service in May...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2974714


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Das Elitedesaster: Die Sondereinsatzkommandos der Polizei kommen ins Gerede...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19159/1.html

by Julian Sanchez

Reason

01/03/05

In a meadow near Windsor one fine day in 1215, King John, under pressure from disgruntled nobles, affixed his royal seal to the Magna Carta, clause 39 of which provided: No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. The War on Terror is often framed as a clash between western champions of modernity and the medieval mindset of Salafis. Yet these days our own commitment to even medieval guarantees of due process often seems, at best, half-hearted...

http://www.reason.com/links/links010305.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Anthony Gregory

LewRockwell.Com

01/04/05

Both leftists and rightists have their place. When one camp is in charge, the other is almost certainly going to lean more libertarian. The idea that some libertarians still hold, that the right, in spite of being in power, is less a worry than the out-of-power leftists in Hollywood, is just plain ridiculous. If there is hope for liberty in electoral politics, it will not come until the Republicans lose power again.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory53.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mike Wasdin

Strike the Root

01/03/05

I'm sure everyone would have a different barometer to determine what freedom is, but to me there could be no greater gauge than looking at how many people a particular country puts into cages. How could a country that has the highest incarceration rate per capita claim to be the freest country? I find it obscene that anyone would consider the United States the freest country in the world!

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/wasdin/wasdin1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Col. David Hackworth (USA, Ret.)

WorldNetDaily

01/04/05

Considering the hits we keep taking in our global fight against terrorism, I'm gearing up in '05 to go up against the Pentagon's increasingly out-of-control campaign to keep us all conned. The cover-ups track too often with more names added to the U.S. casualty list. So here's my New Year's resolution: to keep countering Pentagon lies with the truth until enough concerned citizens demand that Congress set up a congressional investigative arm to formally expose the liars and hold them accountable...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42230


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

San Luis Obispo Tribune

01/04/05

When traveling abroad these days, most Americans probably wouldn't want the contents of their passports to be secretly read by strangers.

But when a new high-tech passport system goes into effect as early as next spring, that's exactly what critics say could happen. ... The system is designed to prevent forged passports by making sure the original passport holder and the person standing at the immigration counter are one and the same. The problem, security and privacy experts say, is that the technical standard chosen for the system leaves passport data unprotected. The technology allows data on the chip to be read remotely using radio frequency identification or RFID...

http://tinyurl.com/7ywds


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion this year for war and related costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional officials say. It would be the third and largest Iraq-related budget request from the White House yet, and it could push the war's costs over $200 billion -- far above initial White House estimates of $50 billion-$60 billion. So far, the Iraq war has cost about $130 billion, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget." (01/03/05)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-01-03-iraq-costs_x.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Please find attached the Appeal:
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/helsinki_appeal_2005_r5.pdf

Distribute it to your colleagues and return them with signatures to the address:

EMF-team Finland
P.O.Box 1040
FIN-JÄRVENPÄÄ

or fax +358 9 2796 3681


Matti Wirmaneva

EMF-team.Finland@jippii.fi


Informant: Sianette Kwee

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EMF-team Finland

EMF-team Finland was established in 2003 to promote healthy environment including electromagnetic fields. The most important goal made for our team was to influence authorities and politicians to adopt new safety standards based on biological effects of non-ionizing radiation, especially on RF-levels. This is just the opposite to what our ”WHO” is carrying out with it`s harmonization project of today.

Our team consist of

Seppo Kinnunen, Physician, specialized in Occupational health
Matti Wirmaneva, B.Sc, Engineering in electronics
Christian Blom, M.Sc, Econ.

Initiators of the Helsinki Appeal are actually collaborative persons outside the team:

Erja Tamminen, Information Officer, B.Sc.
Risto Juusela, Dentist

They offered the appeal to our programme and we accepted. The petition was ”taylor-made” for our activities and we believe it will be signed by many honest scientists and physicians. Through this appeal we will emphazise the importancy of the Precautionary Principle and encourage all the members of the European Parliament to act in favour of the common health and to solve the longstanding contradiction existing between healthy environment and the needs of the mobile industry.

For EMF-Team Finland
Best regards,

Matti Wirmaneva


Informant: Rod Read

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Finnland: Helsinki Appeal 2005

Der Helsinki Appeal 2005 des “EMF Team Finnland” fordert das Europäische Parlament auf, sich unverzüglich für die Einführung des neuen Sicherheitsstandards in der Europäischen Union einzusetzen. Die unterzeichnenden Ärzte und Forscher sind über die unzureichende Anwendung des Vorsorgeprinzips hinsichtlich elektromagnetischer Felder besorgt. Sie akzeptieren die von der ICNIRP empfohlenen Standards nicht mehr, weil neue wissenschaftliche Studien über verschiedene Beschwerden aufgrund von Mobilfunk und anderer hochfrequenter Strahlung berichten.

Ebenso appellieren sie an die Europäische Gemeinschaft, schnell Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, damit die Fortführung des REFLEX-Projektes finanziert werden kann, da dieses Nachweise erbgutschädigender Wirkungen des Mobilfunks erbracht habe.

http://www.emrpolicy.org/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 13.01.2005


KLÄRUNG DER ROLLE DER ICNIRP
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473327/

REFLEX-Studie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/330908/

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

IDEA Position on Electro-Magnetic Radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502478/

by Jonathan Raban

New York Review of Books

01/03/05

If you live, as I do, in an American city designated as a likely target by the Department of Homeland Security, the sheer proliferation of security apparatus in the streets assures you that there is a war on. Yet the nature and conduct of that war, and the character -- and very existence -- of our enemy, remain infuriatingly obscure: not because there's any shortage of information, or apparent information, but because so much of it has turned out to be creative guesswork or empty propaganda...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17676


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jennifer Wheary

Denver Post

01/02/05

Oversimplification of American religious belief and practice is a brilliant political strategy. It polarizes our society and mobilizes extreme positions at either end of the political spectrum. While two opposing, irreconcilable viewpoints duke it out, real issues go unaddressed. ... American religious practice is less conservatively Christian and much more diverse than campaign slogans and sound bites suggest. In reality, no one party has a monopoly on religious believers, and the moral values the majority of Americans support have a lot more to do with fairness, equality, responsibility and dignity than the hot-button issues that dominated 2004...

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~158~2626916,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ron Jacobs

CounterPunch

01/03/05

The war just keeps getting closer. I found out from my dad over the weekend that the son of a kid I used to play Boys & Girls Club sports with was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq early in December. I never knew the dead young man, but his uncles and aunts attended the same schools and churches that I did when I was young. Unless the US troops get out sooner rather than later, this familiarity with death in war will become as familiar to US residents as it did in Vietnam and Korea (not to mention this country's previous wars), and as familiar as it has become to Iraqis and Afghanis. Like my dad rhetorically asked after giving me this news: 'What did he die for?' For those of us who have been opposed to these wars since their inception, this is not that much of a question. For my dad, it is...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs01032005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Nearly 3,600 military veterans and military family members have expressed grave concerns about Alberto R. Gonzales, President Bush’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General in a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and other members of the U.S. Senate. The veterans’ primary concerns are Judge Gonzales' positions on U.S. adherence to the Geneva Conventions and protections from torture for military personnel under international and U.S. laws.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2615

A leading Republican senator yesterday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2614

"ALG II: Rund 100000 Mieter müssen raus". Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II zwangsweise auf Suche nach billigeren Wohnungen. Kommunen sollen Obdachlosigkeit verhindern. Ein Gespräch mit Franz-Georg Rips, Geschäftsführer des Deutschen Mieterbundes e.V., von Peter Wolter in junge Welt vom 29.12.2004

http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/12-29/019.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 1

Referat von Rolf-Peter Bernert, kein Mensch ist illegal, Kiel, auf der BAG-SHI Fachtagung Migration: "Von Abschiebung über Hartz bis Zuwanderungsgesetz" am 2. Dezember 2004 in Mainz.

http://www.bag-shi.de/fachinfo/rechtsgebiete/bernert_ref.pdf/download


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 21, Eintrag 1

ElectroSensitivity-UK

Personal Stories and Symptoms

Those who are unfortunate enough to suffer from an only partly recognised illness are frequently vulnerable to arbitrary and ill-informed diagnoses, even of psychiatric disturbance. They are not infrequently considered deluded or hypochondriac which is an especially difficult cross to bear when the symptoms commonly include confusion, fatigue and headaches. So ES sufferers can totter along a very strange and unsteady path to definition and possibly amelioration of some of the worst effects of their condition.

What is meant by electrosensitivity?

A small question but it covers a multitude. How does it come on? What does it feel like? Are there verifiable objective symptoms? Is it the same for everybody? How predictable is it? Will I get better? Is it constant or variable, increasingly debilitating as it worsens or just a nuisance? How does it relate to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), sick-building syndrome and even cancer and other dire afflictions or does it stand-alone?

All these question and many more arise because ES or EHS is new. We have no experience, no folklore or shared coping strategies as we do with ‘flu’, colds, even rheumatism and heart disease. ‘Electrical Hypersensitivity, A Modern Illness’ is indeed the title of one explanatory booklet (from 'Powerwatch'). So does it come on like a bolt from the blue, a lightning strike? Or is it an insidious indefinable sensation, creeping up on you through fatigue and headaches, those common enough and non-specific conditions?

Rather than trawl through the medical jargon and regurgitate again a list of symptoms or warning signs which might be of doubtful use and relevance we are allowing the stories of individual ES sufferers to tell, in their own words where possible, just how it was for them.

Andrew Collet is a writer and says in:

‘Life Without Electricity’: My Story 1997 - 2000

My current state is one of being able to manage my illness through a strategy of avoiding most things electrical. There are times when I'm forced into 'hiding' at moments of extreme hypersensitivity, but I am normally able to predict and mitigate against such events with symptoms of electrical sensitivity varying from a slight sense of dizziness to extreme nausea.

I was first aware of being sensitive to something about six years ago. For three years I battled to understand just what it was that was giving me a regular bouts of dizziness and nausea. I paid visits to the ENT departments, tried 'therapies' and paid to have treatment at the Leicester Balance Centre. All without any success.

My first awareness of what I later understood to be electrical sensitivity was when using a mobile phone in 1997. I was never a heavy user, but found that this quickly gave me a sensation of pressure building inside my head. I quickly stopped using my phone. However, these same symptoms now began to feature in other aspects of my life from shopping, going for an evening walk and using my gym. Although not yet understanding the root cause, I was able to manage the condition to some degree through avoidance of such activities. And then, in 2000, I moved house and the symptoms seemed to disappear. But not for long.

In my new house I was quick to resume the evening walk. For several weeks I was able to do this without problems. And then the nausea and dizziness returned. At the same time I noticed that computer use was creating similar symptoms. I paid to see a neurologist who assured me that there was 'nothing wrong'. I continued with the walks and quickly found that the bouts of dizziness were becoming more frequent and were evident when using other electrical appliances. It was now that I began to make a tenuous link between my symptoms and electrical activity. On examination, I noticed that the route of my walk followed low-level, old-fashioned electricity cables. I bought a gauss meter and found the EMF levels to be high for the entire route; I had been bathing in a sea of electrical activity. I visited the route of my old walk and found similar readings from underground cables. Worse still, I recalled that all houses used Economy 7 at my last address - an arrangement which would throw out huge levels of EMF at the critical hours when the body was trying to repair itself. Equally, the gym I used had constant air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting. Even the exercise bikes threw-out huge levels of EMF through their magnetic mechanism. The catalyst for my illness would seem to have been mobile phone use and/or the high levels of EMF present at night.

2001 and Beyond

I now tried to manage my illness through prudent avoidance of all things electrical. I moved my computer case to the other side of the house and bought a low-emission LCD monitor. I slept with my head away from the wall where there were considerable electric fields. Appliances were turned-off at night. However, the symptoms were now never very far away. A trip to the dentist proved to be excruciating and visits to shopping centres had to be hurried affairs.

In July 2002 I bought a new VW Golf. Like most cars, this did have high levels of EMF. However, cars had only affected me very mildly. Within three weeks and 1000 miles I was unable to drive the car without a severe sensation of nausea. The symptoms spilled over into all other activities from cutting the lawn, watching television, computer use etc. VW accepted my reasoning and allowed me to return the car without penalty. (I understand that in Germany they have to publish levels of EMF from cars?) The residual symptoms lasted for some further three months and resulted in myself withdrawing from everyday activities for most of that time. I now drive a worn-out diesel Mondeo with mechanical fuel injection and little in the way of electrical wizardry. On long journeys, the symptoms can return.

THE BEHAVIOUR OF EMF

There does now seem to be a pattern and some logic to the way in which I react to electricity. Instances of chronic sensitivity are usually instigated by high levels of exposure in the preceding days. For example, a long car journey will then limit my ability to cope with everyday electrical items for the next week or so. However, although the level of sensitivity does subside, there is evidence to suggest that the illness is a progressive one and that, overall, my sensitivity is increasing. For example, three years ago I could use a normal phone and watch a standard television set. Today, a phone immediately makes me feel unwell and I can usually cope with about an hour of television.

WHAT I DO TODAY

Appliances/situations most likely to affect: Vacuum cleaner, beard trimmer, vicinity of mobile phone antennae, hotel rooms when not on ground floor.

WAY FORWARD

Try to eat organically to boost immune system which is otherwise under attack from modern farming methods. Now rarely go out. Keep driving down to an absolute minimum.

QUESTIONS I DON'T HAVE ANSWERS TO

Conservatory - I often feel ill in conservatory. This is the usual UPVC variety. Assume metal inners may act as giant antennae?
LCD screen - Despite there being little in the way of electric or magnetic fields, this does still affect me.

Thank you Andrew.

Can you answer Andrew’s questions? Just for the kudos.

Maybe Faisal Khawaja can explain, he also has been on a mighty hefty learning curve, by necessity, having to leave his high-flying , glamorous, urban life-style, received 12/2/ 04 :

I first realised that I was “sensitive” to electrical radiation after developing headaches whilst using a mobile phone. Naively I ignored these symptoms as the headaches got more and more intense after shorter and shorter phone calls. By the time I finally stopped using a mobile I realised that I had begun "reacting" to all sorts of electrical appliances including T.V.'s, computers, cordless phones, digital cameras and mobile phone masts. After exposure from these appliances my headaches and tinnitus like symptoms would often take a while to calm down depending on how badly "zapped" I had been.

My modern lifestyle was becoming increasingly difficult and I found little solace in my peer group, doctors or the powers that be, who often dismissed my symptoms as psychologically based rather than physical.

Two years after the initial problems started and my life has changed a great deal. I had to quit my job as a studio photographer due to the high electric fields of the studio. I have moved from London to Gloucestershire to get away from the barrage of microwave signals in the city and currently work from home in an electrically stable environment.

I have spent thousands of pounds on treatment and shielding methods since the NHS do not recognise ES as an official condition. Wearing silver-plated gloves allows me to use the computer for short periods without receiving electric shocks in my fingers from the keyboard. I am rarely able to watch T.V. but when I do I sit at least 20ft away from the set. I sleep under a silver plated " mosquito net- type canopy" when sleeping over at friends or on holiday as the signal levels from nearby mobile phone masts, Wi-Fi transmitters or DECT cordless phones provoke symptoms.

I have become not only allergic to electrical radiation but also some foods and chemicals for which I have had treatment in the form of Multiple Allergy Vaccines. The electrically provoked symptoms persist and I find that avoidance of triggers is often the best way to deal with the condition although homeopathy, meditation, a toxin free diet and plenty of exercise have helped me to deal with it better.

Well its obvious dear old Faisal is mad as a hatter isn’t it from the way he cannot string a concise yet detailed account of years of distressing experience into five short paragraphs. Studio photographer! His photos must be good or he should become a wordsmith. Thank-you from all of us Faisal.

In contrast to his slow onset was the experience of a lady of fifty as recorded in the case studies of EMR safety:

CASE No. 23 1987 .

While walking ‘for health’ on the footpath, this lady was unexpectedly and suddenly breathless. She became drained of energy, had muscle weakness and her legs felt very heavy as though there were “sandbags tied to her feet” She noticed power lines overhead, (11kV) crossed the road to the side where there were no power lines and touched grass to ‘ground’ herself. Her energy returned within a few minutes and she continued walking with no further problems. She has resolved to avoid walking under all power lines, if possible.

You know we’ve put that one in but I’m not so sure about it, maybe we’re just testing you, it seems like a sudden ES effect that passes, even a bit like old fashioned electric shock, but different. Then on the other hand no it doesn't, there'd be cinders, I just don't get it..., maybe... we don't know enough on this one, rather odd and inconclusive, which in a way is how it can be early on for some ES sufferers.

I’m not surprised she is taking more care but, you know, as Tony would say, wouldn’t that be rather difficult, avoiding ‘walking under all power lines’, and avoiding the cables that are buried even more so.

For the reverend Jennifer Griffiths from Devon, what also commenced with different suspicions and with no specific symptoms around electricity changed :

“In the summer of 1996 I went to live in Findhorn and this is where I started to be unable to watch TV without discomfort. The house where I was staying was very badly geologically stressed and was next to Kinloss Air Base which I understand is ‘sensitive’ and obviously has radar. The house was all electric and I only had a microwave oven to cook on.”

Things became much worse:

“I do everything I can to avoid radiation. I cannot go into public places in winter, especially supermarkets for more than 5 minutes or so and even then I feel ill. Even friends don’t really understand (or believe me?) and make little effort to curtail electrical use when I’m around. It is very distressing to constantly have to remind people of this condition as I feel like I am having to fight for a condition I don’t even want. I try not to over-identify with it but the constant need to explain it to people just re-inforces the trauma.” 10/1/04

Yes, with no common experience of dealing with an illness that’s unrecognised, even by doctors, there are no rules or generally understood ways of assisting. Being powerful or famous does not help that much either, as former Prime Minister of Norway and then Head of The World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland told Dagbladet’s Aud Dalsegg on March 9, 2002:

“In the beginning I felt a local warmth around my ear. But the problem grew worse, and turned into a strong discomfort and headaches every time I used a mobile phone”.

At first she tried to avoid the pain by cutting her calls short, but this did not work. Nor was it sufficient to stop using the phones herself, because everyone around her, including at her workplace at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, used them.

“I gradually understood that I had developed sensitivity to this type of radiation and in order not to be suspected of being hysterical - that someone should believe that this was only something I imagined - I have made several tests: people have been in my office with their mobile phone hidden in their bag or pocket. Without my knowing whether it was off or on, we have tested my reaction. I have always reacted when the phone has been on – never when it is off. So there is no doubt.”

As for wireless home phones, Brundtland said :

“I get an instant reaction if I touch such a phone”

About her reactions to computers:

“If I hold a laptop in order to read what is on the screen it feels as if I get an electric shock up through my arms. So I must keep portable computers away from me. I have a regular desktop computer in my office, but only the secretary uses it. I have not noticed the same symptoms near it, but I turn it off as soon as I come in.”

Hello, who is this shambling figure? Ah it's Mystic Messiah come to tell us all and everything.

"Hi there my people, somehow I used to believe that massive institutions like WHO with millions of dollars, and pounds, marks etc. knew what goes down man, and what gives. Hey! these are the experts and paid to be, not like me, a hairy broke old re-tired bumbling old hippy-guru telling it like it is man. And the WHO cannot even diagnose let alone help their own big boss-woman! Hey there has to be some dodgy-doos here. Know what I mean? nod nod, wink wink, blind horses next and I must not forget the dinosaurs in this here menagerie."

Now seriously let us proceed :

In a vivid and detailed account Mrs Smith, who must be anonymous while legal action is considered, could not just switch offending computers off like the folks up on the hill, as a professional woman she puzzles about ‘what may have triggered my ES and chronic fatigue’:

“I believe that I was vulnerable because I was in a very stressful job and had had many hard years as a divorced single parent. I had a difficult menopause, with blood sugar disturbances and candidiasis. I had always had a sensitive body with some common allergies to foods, perfumes, chemicals, fur, pollens and moulds. However I did not take any medication for these and I was not concerned about them. I live and worked near to a large transmitter mast.

As for computer use, for 18 months I sat at a 45 degree angle and within about ½ a metre of an old computer during some of my working hours. This may have caused flickering to my peripheral vision. I had very unpleasant feelings (facial tingling, disorientation and headache) when near this machine, and I eventually stopped using it. Later, a young child was made temporarily very ill after using this 486PC machine for 17 minutes, became unable to speak and for 5 minutes could only grunt in trying to communicate. The programme malfunctioned at the same time. Fortunately the child recovered fully within 10 minutes.”

Pity the machine didn’t.

Unfortunately things did not turn out so well for Mrs Smith (a cunning pseudonym) herself, as she continues with what ensued after prolonged computer use when already sensitised :

“Later, I used a modern computer intensively to write reports. The program was very poor and everyone had problems with its use. When it repeatedly crashed, I assumed that this was because of the poor quality program. I worked intensively all the weekend and evening hours for three weeks, but the program continually crashed and would not save or print. I think that a ‘pathway’ had been created for the invasion of radiation/static electricity into my body, which then became highly charged. This charge affected the writing of the reports program; the harder I worked the more it crashed.’ During this period I had raised and volatile blood pressure and an erratic heart beat. This was followed by two bouts of flu in the next month, which confined me to bed. I felt ill and extremely tired. Reactions started to other EMF sources. Eventually after struggling on at work for several months, I suddenly developed gripping chest pain and throat constriction and then shock. Then chronic fatigue set in, with continuing extreme sensitivities.

I feel that exposure to EMFs when my body was vulnerable caused a physical burn-out, affecting my immune, nervous and endocrine systems. EMFs act as a major stressor on my body”.

Whew! The sense you get of this lady’s determination and drive as she slowly succumbs under this confusion of illnesses indicates the strength she now has to find within to go on living at all normally. Yet her final concerns are for others:

“The ES people who have managed to travel this far in understanding what is happening to their bodies are the fortunate ones. How many people are there who have not been able to access help? Living with this syndrome is tough and can be depressing, frustrating and lead to social deprivation. Being unable to work means not enough money to live on, let alone pay for private medical help and the cost of medication and supplements. We ES people are ‘the canaries down the mine’ of modern living with the explosive increase in modern technology and its unknown effects on the body”.

‘Canaries down the mine’, a telling phrase, both in its implications of spreading poison, and its evocation of the industry of a previous era, coal-mining, and how slowly and crudely we awoke to its inherent but invisible dangers as well as the multifarious boons it provided in energy, heating and so on. We can have a menagerie soon, along with being guinea pigs by the way, dinosaurs will make an appearance later.

Now the isolation of ES sufferers is reducing as they come together in common awareness and form groups, a vital activity. Organisation means common understanding and an end to the powerlessness of isolation (a particularly piquant punishment performed by ES) so more profound questions are being raised about policy and direction at higher levels. Interaction with various authorities is more advanced in Sweden where their Association for the ElectroSensitive, FEB, was formed back in 1987. They have gathered individual experiences and generalised from personal cases to put together this summary of symptoms:

About ElectroSensitivity

Electrical Oversensitivity or Electrical Hypersensitivity is a fairly new phenomenon, the first cases and discussions came to public knowledge in the early seventies.

The first signs of electrical hypersensitivity are often experienced as a minor irritation when working with VDTs (Computer monitors, surveillance monitors, common TV - Television sets). A frequent symptom is that of warmth or a burning sensation in the face, not unlike a strong sunburn. Some people develop a reddish skin blemish or rash at the same time. These can also be accompanied by a tingling sensations in the skin, both facially and/or over other parts of the body. In addition eye problems can occur. You might get the feeling that the mucus membranes have dried.

These initial symptoms must be regarded as a serious first warning! Switch of the VDT when not in use, cut down time before the VDT, move the VDT far away from the user, buy a new low emission, grounded, monitor with a Cu-net embedded into the front glass (shielding glass).

Warning signs

These are symptoms that people experience with eg. VDT work. For some individuals the problem becomes gradually worse, the symptoms are sustained for longer periods.

An unnatural warmth or burning sensation in the face.

A tingling, stinging or pricking sensation in the face or other areas of the body.

Dryness of the upper respiratory tract or eye irritation.

Problems with concentration, dizziness and loss of memory.

Swollen mucus membranes resulting in nonviral/bacterial swelling of nose, throat, ear and sinuses.

Feeling of impending influenza that never quite breaks out.

Headache and nausea.

Teeth and jaw pains.

Ache in muscles and joints.

Cardiac palpitations.

Naturally the differences between individuals are great, some may only have one or a few symptoms, some have many, some have light symptoms, some may have severe difficulties.

If you like your science dry and your symptoms further summarised from an even larger array of sources the link below will take you to :
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity As A Progressive Disease a report on an investigation of the scientific literature for the US government Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Technical Data Section. This concludes its overall survey with:

“The worldwide introduction of computers and other electronic equipment into our environment make it urgent that this catastrophic disorder (my emphasis) be given widespread attention by the international scientific community”.

For the individuals we have just heard from it does not seem an exaggeration to have it thus described.

M.M. Hughes of the US. Government Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Technical Data Center, Washington, District of Columbia 20210, USA, presents this rather dry and factual as well as lengthy summary
ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY AS A PROGRESSIVE DISEASE.

We are including a case from the USA because it is so graphic and emphasises how we cannot exagerate the importance and urgency of this issue. Some emphasis is added by ES-UK, but text is true to original otherwise.Please forward to where it may be heeded.

Telecommunications vs. The Environment

by Arthur Firstenberg

In 1982 I was in my fourth year of medical school, a promising career ahead of me. Today I am homeless. My money does not provide me shelter. My good health does not ensure my survival. My friends are unable to help me. I am being killed, but the law offers me no protection.

For eight years I have run an advocacy and support network for people in similar circumstances. No one else has been doing this kind of work in North America. I am afraid time has run out for us. I will outline, later, the emergency measures that are needed in order to reverse a grave, imminent and largely unacknowledged threat to all life.

I am electrically sensitive, and I advocate and provide information and support for electrically sensitive people in North America and worldwide. The assault we are suffering is a radical increase in electromagnetic pollution, or electrosmog, that is engulfing the earth. Let me explain some terms. "Electrical sensitivity" means sensitivity to, or illness caused by exposure to electricity, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Now we are all electrical beings, living in and affected by our electromagnetic environment, but most people are not aware of it. The term "electrically sensitive" has been applied to those of us who have become so reactive that we are not only aware of it, but our reactions are immediate and cause us disability and illness. It is applied to those whose reactivity is so obvious and disturbing that we cannot be talked out of it by well-meaning family, friends and doctors. This cuts our numbers down to only 2-3% of the population.

You see, electrical sensitivity is a political as well as a medical term. It is not politically correct to be injured by electromagnetic radiation. Our injuries cannot be acknowledged; the implications for modern communication technology would be too enormous.

In the summer of 1996 I was living in Brooklyn, New York. I had more-or-less come to terms with my electrical sensitivity, and was dealing with it as best I could. I was not a doctor, having had to leave medical school during my fourth year due to an illness of unknown cause. At first, I had had headaches and difficulty concentrating and remembering things. Then, while on a surgery rotation, I had had crippling pains in my hips, making it difficult to assist in operations. My heart rate had slowed to less than 50. One day I collapsed and was unable to get up. My chest hurt, and I could not get enough breath. I was sure I was having a heart attack. During the next two weeks I lost 15 pounds, and I was a slim man to begin with. It wasn't a heart attack, but it was still six months before I could walk up a flight of stairs without getting short of breath. It was three years before I was strong enough to ski again. It was seven years before I met someone else who experienced pain from being near certain electrical appliances, including television sets and computers, and before I first heard the term "electrical sensitivity." It was 17 years before I gained back those 15 pounds.

In the meantime I researched the world literature on bioelectromagnetics, or the biological effects of electromagnetism, and made myself an expert. I learned that electro-machines, used in every modern surgical operation to cut through tissue and to stop bleeding, expose surgeons to much higher levels of radio frequency radiation than is permitted for workers in any industry. I learned that there was a disease thoroughly described in the Russian and Eastern European medical literature called radiowave sickness, whose existence was usually denied by western authorities. The description recalled to me my "unknown illness" which had derailed my medical career. A bradycardia, or slow heart rate, was said, in these texts, to be a grave sign.

Because there are virtually no workplaces without computers any more, I have not held a job since 1990. I had resigned myself to living on Social Security Disability, and learned, together with other members of a support group I had found, how best to live with my disability, which mostly meant learning to avoid exposure to EMFs. But in July, 1996, I learned to my dismay that an innovation was coming to my city which threatened to make it impossible to avoid exposure any more.

At that time, cell phones were still a luxury item which only worked in some locations. People were not accustomed to staying connected whenever they left their home, and even at home most still had a cord, not an antenna, attached to their telephone. Most were not accustomed to holding devices that emit microwave radiation next to their brain. In 1996, the telecommunications industry began a marketing campaign designed to change all that. For Christmas that year, all over the country, digital cell phones were going to be on a lot of shopping lists. And to make them more practical, tens of thousands of antennas were going to be erected on towers, buildings, church steeples and lampposts, all over the country, before Christmas, and hundreds of thousands more during the next few years.

In response to this emergency, a few friends and I created the Cellular Phone Task Force, and contacted all the public officials we could think of, and the press, to warn them of the danger. But on November 14, 1996, Omnipoint, New York City's first digital cellular provider did open for business, broadcasting from thousands of antennas newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. According to the health authorities, an early flu hit New York City - but not Boston, and not Philadelphia - on about November 15. The flu was severe and ran a prolonged course, often dragging on for months instead of the usual two weeks.

At Christmas time, the Cellular Phone Task Force placed a small classified ad in a free weekly newspaper. It read: "If you have been ill since 11/15/96 with any of the following: eye pain, insomnia, dry lips, swollen throat, pressure or pain in the chest, headaches, dizziness, nausea, shakiness, other aches and pains, or flu that won't go away, you may be a victim of a new microwave system blanketing the city. We need to hear from you." And we did hear from them. Hundreds called, men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, doctors, lawyers, teachers, stockbrokers, airline stewards, computer operators. Most had woken up suddenly in mid-November, thinking they were having a stroke or a heart attack or a nervous breakdown, and were relieved to know they were not alone and not crazy.

Later, I analyzed weekly mortality statistics, which the Center for Disease Control publishes for 122 U.S. cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25% increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning on the day in 1996 or 1997 on which that city's first digital cell phone network began commercial service. I published both the raw data and the complete analysis, with graphs.

I learned that in February, 1996, Congress had passed a law prohibiting local governments from denying permits for cell phone antennas because of environmental concerns - so long as they comply with Federal Communications Commission rules. And I learned that the FCC had just issued regulations setting public exposure limits for microwave radiation at levels at least ten thousand times higher than levels which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, were causing reports of illness from all over the world, and at least ten thousand times higher than the levels which had forced me to leave behind my home, my family, and my friends, and to run for my life, never to be able to return home again.

The Cellular Phone Task Force, along with over 50 other grass roots organizations and individuals around the U.S., became involved in a legal challenge of the FCC's absurd standards and its preemption of local control. This was taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Many cities and towns, several U.S. Senators and Representatives and dozens of other public officials submitted briefs urging the high court to hear our case. But in January, 2001, the Supreme Court, without comment, declined.

You will hear statements by supposed experts - always the same few, in the pay of the telecommunications industry - to the effect that cell phones/cell towers/microwave radiation have been proven safe in countless studies. It is an easy lie, one that the news media have been eager to propagate. But the fact is, just as for x-rays, there is no safe level of exposure to microwave radiation, and it is so easy to demonstrate harmful effects that it takes some skill to design experiments that don't show them. It is easier today than ten years ago because now the "controls" are also exposed, the whole planet is exposed, so where can you go to do a good experiment, but most experiments still show effects anyway - effects on heart rhythms, brain waves, the blood-brain barrier, sleep, eyes, gonads, skin, hearing, calcium, melatonin, glucose, metabolism, human well-being. If you look, you will find. Zorach Glaser reviewed over 5,000 such studies for the United States Navy during the 1970s alone.

From the volumes of literature I have seen, certain results stand out in my mind: Allan Frey's work on microwave hearing. Milton Zaret's work on microwave cataracts. The work of Canadians Tanner, Romero-Sierra and Bigu Del Blanco on birds, including demonstrations that birds are particularly sensitive because feathers are good microwave receiving aerials. A Swiss government study on sleep, which shut down a short wave transmitter because the researchers were able to show it caused sleep disturbances up to several miles away. An international effort which found a very wide range of environmental effects caused by a Latvian radar station at extremely low levels of exposure, including: smaller growth rings in trees, premature aging in pine needles, chromosome damage in cows, decreased memory, attention, learning, and pulmonary function in school children, increased white blood cells in adults, and an altered sex ratio (more girls) in children born during the years of the radar's operation. Loscher and Kas's work on farm animals sickened by cell towers in Germany. The work of Wolfgang Volkrodt, and that of Ulrich Hertel, linking forest dieback to microwave radiation, rather than acid rain. Roger Santini's study of the health of people living at varying distances from cell towers in France. Claudio Gomez-Perretta's similar study in Spain. A Dutch government study exposing normal and electrically sensitive people to cell tower signals finding disturbing effects on both groups. Neil Cherry's study of childhood cancer rates as a function of distance from Sutro Tower in San Francisco. Leif Salford's recent work on the blood-brain barrier, verifying the earlier work of Allan Frey and others, but with additional, ominous findings: l) sometimes, decreasing the amount of radiation 1,000 times increased the damage to the brain (the "window" effect); (2) animals exposed to a cell phone once for two hours were found to have areas of brain cell death two months later.

In Germany, 2000 physicians have signed a petition (the Freiburger Appeal) calling for severe restrictions on wireless technology because they are seeing such a dramatic increase in certain diseases and symptoms in their patients, which they can only attribute to ambient microwave radiation. The diseases include: attention deficit disorder, extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, heart arrhythmias, heart attacks and strokes in young people, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, leukemia, and brain tumors. The symptoms include: headaches, migraines, chronic fatigue, agitation, sleep disorders, tinnitus, nervous and connective tissue pains of unexplained origin, and susceptibility to infection. The appeal calls for a massive reduction in exposure limits; no further expansion of cell phone technology; cell phone-and antenna-free zones; a ban on cell phone use by children; and a ban on cell phones and digital cordless phones in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, public buildings and public transportation.

The California Department of Health Services has concluded, on the basis of a telephone survey, that 120,000 Californians have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone.

The highest profile person yet to declare that she is electrically sensitive, and thus unable to use a cordless phone or a computer, or to use or be near anyone else using a cell phone, is none other than Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor, master of public health, former Prime Minister of Norway, and until 2003 the Director-General of the World Health Organization. Yet even so public a figure on the world stage has been unable to draw the world's attention to our collective plight, or in any way to slow down the growth of telecommunications, or even to put it on the map as an environmental issue.

This must happen. Too many intelligent, professional, useful people are wandering this country's barren deserts, homeless, ostracized, robbed of their civil rights, with no place to land. Too many have committed suicide because they have lost all hope, have suffered too long, have had to pick up roots and flee for their lives once too often.

Within the telecommunications industry, too many equipment testers, installers, and repairpersons with radiowave sickness are afraid to speak out, or do not even know why they are ill.

So many radars, antennas, and communication devices are being deployed for government, military, emergency, commercial, and personal uses in both the developed and developing worlds, and in space, that there is nowhere left to hide. Even radio astronomers are seriously talking about the far side of the moon as the only place left that is quiet enough, in the radio spectrum, to still be able to see the stars.

The following are urgently needed:

Sanctuaries. Radiation-free zones. Places without radio antennas, cell phone service, or television cable (cable is often a significant source of radiation). These are needed right now, to save lives. Legal help. Environmental and disability rights attorneys able to take on this issue. Funding for land acquisition and legal expenses. Volunteer help for phone calling, letter writing, grant writing, etc.

To make our world safer, keep in mind these two principles:
1. Distance counts. The power drops off as the square of the distance. Antennas should be few, and as far as possible from people and environmentally sensitive areas. 2. Digital hurts. Digital (pulsed) technology is more harmful at lower levels of power than analog. The FCC's mandate to replace all analog TV, radio, and telecommunications transmissions with digital during the next few years is very dangerous.

The following are things that individuals can do:
o If you have a cell phone, cancel your service. Cell towers and antennas degrade the environment for miles around. They kill and injure more people than they save in emergencies. A cell phone in use pollutes its own environment for a distance of 100 yards. Even when not in use, cell phones emit radiation if they are turned on to receive calls.

o If you have a cordless home phone, trade it in for one with a wire. For the sake of convenience you are microwaving your brain and polluting your neighborhood. Never expose your baby to a wireless baby monitor.

o School administrators: Developing children should not be exposed to wireless computers, keyboards, or mice.

o Community radio stations: Resist the temptation to increase your transmitter power, or to add repeaters in areas of poor reception. Better receiving antennas on the listening end will accomplish the same purpose without more pollution. Areas of poor reception are the healthiest places to live.

o Low power FM enthusiasts: Low power FM is not a good idea. No matter how low the power, antennas should never be located in residential communities.

o Concert and event organizers: Make your event safe and accessible by banning cell phones and doing security without two-way radios.

o Health spa owners: Please don't pollute your grounds with cordless phones or two-way radios.

o Wildlife scientists: Radio collars pollute the wilderness and injure the animals you are tracking. Please don't use them.

o Park administrators: Keep our parks and wilderness areas as sanctuaries. Keep antennas out of them.

o Local public officials: Public health must come first. Vote against proposals to put towers and antennas in your community.

o Members of Congress: Support the efforts of Senators Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords, and Representative Bernie Sanders, to repeal Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act, which purports to deny to local officials the right to protect their constituents' health.

Arthur Firstenberg is a founder and director of the Cellular Phone Task Force, and the editor of its publication, No Place To Hide. He is the author of the book, Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution. He does not have e-mail or a website. He can be contacted at P.O. Box 1337, Mendocino, CA 95460, or by leaving a message at (707) 964-5196 or (718) 434-4499. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Source: http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk

Yes, its an appynooyeare-mail, an invaluable opportunity to consume your valuable time with best wishes as we look forward to some ebb and flow in the New rotation of the sun of our battered old planet. Vibrating with electro-magnetic waves it must look from space as if we are practicing species self-immolation as an exquisitely sensitive electrochemical system.

Perhaps this is someone's cunning plan to get us to self-eradicate before with our warlike capacities we threaten them.

Blimey, this is not exactly the appynooyear note I meant to strike, enough, back to Earth.

We are proud of getting a letter in last weeks Sunday Observer as a bit of a riposte to some PR spin and mockery, we are staking our ground out as a vulnerable minority yes, but to microwaves and electromagnetic emissions. We are not defenceless against human attacks which of course is what it all comes down to. This year we will try to get a national debate, make a mark with our arguments and carry our case forwards, just as our opponents are wealthy and powerful they are vulnerable in the old ju-jitsu way because of their size, over-confidence and cumbersome nature. We can knock a few sparks off them in our David and Goliath way until we are taken seriously as having a real complaint that is not going away but growing.

To me it is unbelievable that some of the scientific inquiry going on will not establish more links and mechanisms establishing as scientific fact what real, honest, sensible individuals share with us as everyday experience with EMFs and electrosmog. We know we are not making it up, and as much as the Professor Wesselys and Dr Robin Coxes of this world believe 'its all in the mind' it just ain't.

'Communic8' a new British firm is targetting four to eight year olds with 'MYMo' a mobile phone product for children to use. We have contacted Professor Lawrie Challis, who has unfortunately replaced Sir William Stewart it seems, about this outrage. Will they do owt? Well it won't be for lack of a bollocking (politely) from us. Next step the Daily Mail, strangely they may run with this one, we shall try anyway. Wish us luck and carry on the good fight in 2005,

all the best

Rod at ES-UK


ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) assisted by the Foyle Foundation. A new voluntary organisation supporting sufferers and campaigning for recognition of this sensitive reaction affecting a vulnerable minority exposed to RF, microwave and general electromagnetic radiation from powerlines, mobile phones, VDUs and all manner of EMF sources. We particularly welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, especially to MCS, CFS and Thyroid problems and in diagnosis and treatments generally. From Rod Read, ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty20.htm


Informant: Kathy

URL:
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=25453
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Same procedure as every year?!

Zur Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Monat Dezember 2004 erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der PDS Rolf Kutzmutz:

Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt war auch im Dezember nichts von Erleichterung zu spüren. Stattdessen ein deutlicher Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit auf jetzt 4,464 Millionen. Angeblich ist dieser Anstieg saisonbedingt - wie im Frühjahr, dem Sommer und dem Herbst. In Wahrheit mangelt es den politisch Verantwortlichen an tauglichen Rezepten zur Bekämpfung der Massenarbeitslosigkeit. Zudem waren etliche tausend Mitarbeiter der Bundesagentur in den vergangenen Monaten weniger mit der Vermittlung von Arbeitslosen denn der Erfassung von Hartz IV-Daten beschäftigt.

Während der Kanzler jedes Jahr neu den Aufschwung nahen sieht und sein Adlatus Clement immer wieder das Greifen der Reformen und damit eine Entspannung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt prophezeit, steigt die Arbeitslosigkeit stetig. Die Hartz IV-Gesetzgebung verschärft die Situation für die Betroffenen nur noch - wird jedoch kaum einen existenzsichernden Arbeitsplatz schaffen. Niedriglohn und 1-Euro-Jobs werden flächendeckend zur Konkurrenz für bestehende Beschäftigungsverhältnisse werden.

Weder das sture Herbeibeten der Besserung noch das rigide Beschneiden des sozialen Netzes bringen Menschen in Lohn und Brot. Es gibt Alternativen, die PDS hat sie mehrfach vorgestellt: Vom gesetzlichen Mindestlohn über Korrekturen der Hartz-Gesetze bei der Leistungshöhe, den Zumutbarkeitskriterien, der Anrechnung von Altersvorsorgevermögen und Partnereinkommen sowie der Dauer der Zahlung des Arbeitslosengeldes I bis zu einer armutsfesten sozialen Grundsicherung, öffentlichen Investitionsprogrammen, Arbeitszeitverkürzung, Ausbildungsplatzumlage und einem öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektor.


1-Euro-Jobs - vom Verarmungsprogramm Hartz IV profitieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490249/

Die Strategie der Mobilfunkfirmen ist zynisch: Man gaukelt Transparenz vor und feilscht um Risiken

Auflage aus stadtgestalterischen Gründen: Die Mobilfunkanlage auf dem Haus Hainstraße 2 musste in einer eigens neu gebauten Schornsteinattrappe versteckt werden. Foto: Erich Weiß

Im April führte Prof. Dr. Matthias Wuschek, beauftragt von der Firma T-Mobile, Messungen von möglichen Strahlenbelastungen durch. Und zwar an den drei Standorten, die derzeit für neue UMTS-Sender geplant sind und die von engagierten Anwohnern und Anwohnerinnen massiv bekämpft werden: Michaelsberg, Konzerthalle und Staatsarchiv. Auch einige Anwohner und Anwohnerinnen, der Mitarbeiter der Umweltamts, Herbert Schütz, und natürlich Vertreter der Mobilfunkbetreiber waren zeitweise dabei.

Omega siehe dazu:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wuschek am BW-Pranger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/460004/


GAL-Stadträtin Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam begleitete die Messtechniker während des ganzen Tages. An den drei geplanten Standorten bauten sie eine tragbare Sendeanlage auf, die jeweils mit einer Frequenz von 2162 MHz und einer Leistung von 20 Watt sendete.

Der Auftrag von Prof. Wuschek war allerdings nur, das von dieser einen Probeanlage ausgehende elektromagnetische Feld zu messen. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen (auf Wunsch von zwei Anliegern) wurde also nur diese Frequenz gemessen. Auf Menschen, die in der Nähe der Konzerthalle wohnen, wirken jedoch auch die elektromagnetischen Felder der Sendeanlagen vom Michaelsberg und auf den Stadtwerken, die BewohnerInnen im Haingebiet sind gleichermaßen von mehreren Mobilfunkanlagen betroffen. "Eine Kompletterfassung wäre sinnvoll", war daher auch die Einschätzung, die Prof. Wuschek äußerte.

Doch: Wenn die Messergebnisse nicht wirklich aussagekräftig sind, warum dann die große Mühe? Ganz offensichtlich eine vertrauensbildende Maßnahme, die Transparenz schaffen oder vielmehr vorgaukeln soll.

Denn mittlerweile haben die Mobilfunkfirmen die Strategie gewechselt. Nicht mehr als völlig unschädlich stellen sie die Strahlenbelastung dar, sondern vielmehr als tragbar und von eingrenzbarem Risiko. Da argumentieren die Firmenleute beim Messtermin schon mal damit, dass man ja auch im Autoverkehr Gefahren auf sich nehme, oder dass die Luftverschmutzung ebenfalls gesundheitsgefährdend sei. Oder eine Ärztin der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin lässt lapidar den Hinweis einfließen, dass man wegen Pollenallergien ja auch nicht alle Blumenwiesen abschaffen könne (so bei einem Telefonat mit GAL-StR Waldmann-Selsam). Ein Zynismus, der kaum zu überbieten ist. Tatsache ist, dass aus kommerziellen Interessen mit der flächendeckenden Mobilfunk- und UMTS-Technik ausnahmslos allen Menschen etwas aufgezwungen wird, gegen das sie sich nicht schützen können und dessen Ausmaß an gesundheitlichen Risiken noch überhaupt nicht abschätzbar ist.

Dass da einige Gefährdungen und Auswirkungen zu erwarten sind, wird immer deutlicher: Bei einem Hearing der Grünen-Landtagsfraktion in München berichtete Prof. Adlkofer von einer europaweiten Studie, die er zusammen mit zwölf Universitäten erarbeitete. Dabei wurden menschliche Blutzellen elektromagnetischen Strahlungen ausgesetzt – gezeigt haben sich bedenkliche Zellkernveränderungen und Chromosomenbrüche.

Doch die Mobilfunkfirmen, deren Interesse ganz klar maximaler Profit aus teuer erkauften Lizenzen ist, spielen auf Zeit. Und Gesellschaft und Politik lassen sich darauf ein. Auf die Frage, was denn sei, wenn möglicherweise in ein paar Jahren Gesundheitsschäden eindeutig belegt sind, antwortete Prof. Dr. Wuschek: Dann müsse man eine gesellschaftliche Diskussion darüber führen, wie viel Risiko man in Kauf nehmen wolle.

Aber dann ist es zu spät! Sendeanlagen sind dann bereits gebaut, elektrosensible Menschen vielleicht nachhaltig geschädigt. Es gilt, jetzt die Entwicklung zu stoppen und sich erst Klarheit zu verschaffen. Alle Bürgerinitiativen und Betroffenen (und es kann jeden von uns treffen!) müssen gemeinsam Druck ausüben und damit auch jene kritischen PolitikerInnen unterstützen, die ein Moratorium in diesem Sinne fordern.

Und es gilt natürlich auch, bei uns selbst anzufangen: Mit jedem Handy-Telefonat schaffen wir Nachfrage und Grund für neue Masten, wir müssen uns auf einen bewussten und sorgsamen Umgang mit dieser Technologie besinnen.

Buchempfehlung: Das große Strahlen – Handy & Co, Die neuen Gefahren des Elektrosmogs, Hg.: Katalyse-Institut für angewandte Umweltforschung, KiWi 2002

http://www.gal.bamberg.de/Zeitung/gaz-62/Mobilfunk.htm



Symposium „Ärzte und Mobilfunk – Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Umwelt“
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/457381/

OFFENER BRIEF an Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/448216/

Bamberger Appell – Ärzte gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282385/

"Bamberger Appell"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/265206/

Endlich ein Signal aus Berlin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/448219/

Strahlendes Bamberg?
http://www.gal.bamberg.de/Zeitung/gaz-63/MF-Strahlendes-Bamberg.htm

Aus der Trickkiste akkreditierter Messfirmen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/497647/

Fachhochschule Deggendorf

Prof. Wuschek hat sich nach jahrelanger, treuer Begleitung und Unterstützung der sogenannten „Informationsveranstaltungen“ der Mobilfunkindustrie zum „neutralen Experten“ und öffentlich bestellten und beeidigten Sachverständigen für das Fachgebiet Elektromagnetische Umweltverträglichkeit (EMVU) „entwickelt“, d.h. er führte z.B. auch für die Bayerische Staatsregierung die Messungen bei der sog. „Rinderstudie“ durch und ist z.Z. derjenige, der von den Regierungsstellen zu den Messungen der Situation in den Gemeinden und Ländern dringendst anempfohlen wird:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/aktuell/wuschek.pdf

Der Wert seiner „Sachkompetenz“ ist allerdings in Fachkreisen außerhalb der Betreiber und Mobilfunk-Politiker wenig umstritten; ein plastisches Beispiel hierzu kann vielleicht seine Beliebtheit bei Betreibern und Regierungsstellen erklären:

Prof. (FH) Dr. Matthias Wuschek am 01.03.97 in Hofheim (Videoprotokoll liegt vor):

„... Der Mast strahlt im Normalfall quasi ungepulst. Selbst wenn Sie im Moment nur mit einem Handy oder mit keinem Handy telefonieren, sendet er ein nahezu kontinuierliches Dauersignal aus. Das muss er machen, ansonsten würde kein Handy, wenn es neu eingeschaltet wird, den Mast finden... In der Technik kenne ich mich aus – keine Frage! ... Die 217 Hz-Pulsung [typisch für Handys] werden Sie hier [am Sendemast] nie finden können!!“

Omega siehe weiter unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/pranger/wuschek.htm

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11.11.2005

LESERBRIEF

Und es strahlt doch

Zum Artikel „Auslagerung nicht immer richtig“ über Mobilfunkmasten in Schwarzenbach/Saale am 2. November

„Die Betonung von Professor Wuschek, unter der Antenne strahle es nicht, ist die übliche Standardbehauptung der Mobilfunk-Betreiber. Eine bundesweite Studie, von einem anerkannten Prüflabor für Antennen-Messtechnik in Kamp-Lintfort besagt: ,Die Ausbreitung von Mobilfunk-Strahlung verläuft chaotischer als bisher angenommen, denn auch in Häusern direkt unter den Antennen treten häufig überraschend hohe Immissionen auf, die so genannten Nebeneffekte.’ Darunter leiden seit Jahren viele Menschen, zum Beispiel die Mieter in einem Gebäudekomplex in Hanau. Auch diese Leidensgeschichten sind dokumentiert und können bei mir angefordert werden. Diese Mobilfunk-Anlage musste per Gerichtsbeschluss abgebaut werden.

Wenn es um die Gesunderhaltung der Bevölkerung geht, sollte man neben industrienahen (?) Experten auch Ärzte als ,Entscheidungshilfen’ hinzuziehen. Ein Beispiel dafür ist der Verein der Richter und Staatsanwälte in Sachsen. Seit auf dem Bautzener Landgericht eine Mobilfunk-Antenne strahlt, leiden Beschäftigte unter Müdigkeit, Hörsturz und Konzentrationsstörungen. Die Bezirksgruppe Bautzen hatte deshalb Ärzte aus Oberfranken zur Beratung angefordert, mit dem Resultat: Einen weiteren Ausbau der Anlage wird es laut Gerichtspräsident nicht geben.

Professor Wuschek ist dringendst eine Konfrontation mit äußerst besorgten Ärzten zu empfehlen, möglichst mit Frau Dr. Waldmann-Selsam aus Bamberg und. Dr. med. Wolfgang Bergmann, Freiburg.“

MONIKA SCHUBERTH-BREHM
VORDERE SCHNAID 12
WALLENFELS

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/hof_rehau/resyart.phtm?id=878943


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

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Darf’s ein bisschen mehr Strahlung sein?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/460009/

Der Mobilfunk ist nicht harmlos
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2031229/

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Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/

The earth has entered a seismically active period when weakness in earth’s crusts start breaking apart, volcanoes erupt, plate collisions cause major earthquakes, mud volcanoes erupt and geysers come out in different parts of the world with much higher frequency. This results in volcanic eruption, mudslides, Tsunamis, mega earthquakes and more.

According to the Russian scientists, the number of earthquakes in the earth has increased exponentially over the past few years, a phenomenon not seen in modern human history.

According thousands of years old Mayan civilization, this kind of period come after thousands of years. The ancient civilization warned that around 2012 the world would face major calamities from natural disasters and other factors. They used planetary positions and interferences as well as sun signs.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-01-05.asp


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Crossing the Indian Ocean at speeds over 500 mph, the tsunamis from the Dec. 26, 2004 Sumatra quake carried death and destruction all the way to Africa, 4,000 miles away. Centered six miles under the Indian Ocean’s seabed 155 miles southeast of Sumatra, the 9.0 quake rang the Earth’s core, leading to fresh concerns of imminent polar reversals.

The last time this area shook in 1883, 120-foot-high tidal waves snuffed 36,000 lives as ash reached a height of 50 miles, blocking the sun and plunging the surrounding region into darkness lasting nearly three days. Global temperatures dipped 1.2 degree C, and did not return to normal until 1888. Krakaota’s 535 eruption caused a lingering “global winter” that killed crops and unleashed bubonic plague, derailing civilizations. We were lucky the Sumatra supervolcano didn’t blow again. But if left unchecked, humanity’s volcanic carbon burning will ensure similar catastrophe within decades.

There was no warning.

Around 9 o’clock on a paradisiacal Sri Lankan beach, 5-year-old Adil was making sandcastles with his younger sister, Reeze when the girl ran complaining to her mother Haalima that waves had crushed their creations. The ocean followed Reeze home. “When we looked, there was no shore anymore and no Adil,” Haalima said.

http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Tsunami.htm


Informant: Di

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/01/kind_of_a_shame.php


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

From: " CHEROKEE"
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:54:16 -0800
Subject: [The Revelation] US Patent Number: 4,686,605 Issue Date: 8/11/87

More finer details....for a grand total of "enough"......these folks are sick!

Method and Apparatus For Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere

Bernard J. Eastlund
US Patent Number: 4,686,605 Issue Date: 8/11/87
Assignee: APTI, Inc.

ABSTRACT

A method and apparatus for altering at least one selected region which normally exists above the earth's surface. The region is excited by electron cyclotron resonance heating to thereby increase its charged particle density. In one embodiment, circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted upward in a direction substantially parallel to and along a field line which extends through the region of plasma to be altered. The radiation is transmitted at a frequency which excites electron cyclotron resonance to heat and accelerate the charged particles. This increase in energy can cause ionization of neutral particles which are then absorbed as part of the region thereby increasing the charged particle density of the region.

http://www.eastlundscience.com/patentsb1.html


Method For Producing a Shell of Relativistic Particles at an Altitude Above the Earth's Surface

Bernard J. Eastlund
US Patent Number: 5,038,664 Issue Date: 8/13/91
Assignee: APTI, Inc.

ABSTRACT

A method for establishing a region of a high density, high energy plasma at an altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers above the earth's surface. Circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted at a first frequency substantially parallel to an earth's magnetic field line to excite electron cyclotron resonance heating in normally occurring plasma at an altitude of at least about 250 kilometers to generate a mirror force which lifts said plasma to said altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers. Heating is continued at a second frequency to expand the plasma to the apex of said field line whereupon at least some of the plasma is trapped and oscillates between mirror points on said lines. The plasma will be contained within adjacent field lines and will drift to form a shell of relativistic particles around a portion of the earth.

http://www.eastlundscience.com/patentsa3.html

WEATHER MODIFICATION WITH HIGH POWER ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIOTION

ESEC has recently completed a contract with the European Space Agency to review the weather modification potential of the HAARP facility in Alaska and to perform numerical simulations of tornado suppression with high power electromagnetic radiation produced with Solar Power Satellites. Two papers, available below, have been published. They are:

SYSTEMS CONSIDERATIONS OF WEATHER MODIFICATION EXPERIMENTS USING HIGH POWER ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, published in Proceedings of "Workshop on Space Exploration and Resources Exploitation-EXPLOSPACE," 20-22 October, 1998, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

MESOCYCLONE DIAGNOSTIC REQUIREMENTS FOR THE THUNDERSTORM SOLAR POWER SATELLITE CONCEPT, Published in the Proceedings of "The Second Conference on the Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Management," January 19-21, 1999.

Some of the highlights contained in these reports are:

HAARP
MISSILE SHIELD ANTENNA (terrawatt phased array antenna)
NORTH SLOPE GAS CONCEPT WEATHER MODIFICATION
OZONE HOLE MITIGATION
HIGH POWER SOLAR SATELLITES FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION
POWER RELAY IONOSPHERIC MIRROS
INTERVENTION IN TORNADOGENESIS
SAFETY

http://www.eastlundscience.com/currentd.html


Informant: Joyce