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Jul
2005

MSNBC Analyst Says 2nd Source Confirms Karl Rove as Plame Leaker

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000972841


Informant: Bigraccoon

Parting the Veil of Government Secrecy

http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=6524


Informant: Kev Hall

Panel Affirms Radiation Link to Cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Radiation-Risks.html?

Panel Affirms Radiation Link to Cancer

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 29, 2005 Filed at 11:13 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a person's lifetime, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded. It rejected some scientists' arguments that tiny doses are harmless or may in fact be beneficial.

The findings, disclosed in a report Wednesday, could influence the maximum radiation levels that are allowed at abandoned reactors and other nuclear sites and raises warnings about excessive exposure to radiation for medical purposes such as repeated whole-body CT scans.

''It is unlikely that there is a threshold (of radiation exposure) below which cancers are not induced,'' the scientists said.

While at low doses ''the number of radiation-induced cancers will be small ... as the overall lifetime exposure increases, so does the risk,'' the experts said.

Even common X-rays pose some risk of adverse health effects, the scientists found, although the panel said there was not enough information available to accurately estimate the cancer risk from X-rays. Nevertheless, the report said, there is evidence that per unit of absorbed radiation, X-rays may be more dangerous than other radiation.

The panel also said that approximately one person out of 1,000 would develop cancer from exposure to the amount of radiation from a single, average whole body CT-scan.

But the report should not scare people away from nuclear medicine, said Dr. Henry Royal, a professor of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. He said most often the benefits of such tests and treatments outweigh the risks.

But Royal also said that procedures such as CT scans should be used to deal with a specific medical problems and not part of annual medical screenings. ''You should not be exposed to radiation for superficial reasons,'' Royal said in a telephone interview.

Scientists for years have debated how extremely low doses of radiation affect human health.

Pro-nuclear advocates, as well as some independent scientists, have maintained that the current risk models for low-level radiation has produced more stringent requirements than is necessary to protect public health.

It is an issue in determining decontamination requirements at abandoned reactors and at federal weapons sites.

The academy's panel stood by the ''linear, no threshold'' model that generally is the acceptable approach to radiation risk assessment. This approach assumes that the health risks from radiation exposure decline as the dose levels drop, but that each unit of radiation -- no matter how small -- is assumed to cause cancer.

''The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionized radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial,'' said Richard R. Monson, the panel's chairman. He is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

The panel said new and more extensive data developed over the past 15 years only strengthen the conclusions of the panel's last report, in 1990, on low-level radiation risks.

The scientists estimated that one out of 100 people exposed to 100 millisievert of radiation over a lifetime probably would develop solid cancer or leukemia, and that half of those cases would be fatal.

It also said that 42 additional cancers can be expected in the same group from other than low-level radiation sources.

A millisievert is a measurement of radiation energy deposited in a living tissue. People absorb about 3 millisievert of radiation annually from natural sources and 0.1 millisievert every time they get a chest X-ray.

The report noted that exposure from a whole body CT scan is about 10 millisievert, much higher than a normal X-ray.

Some anti-nuclear advocates said the study reaffirms that stringent regulations are needed when cleaning up abandoned nuclear sites or considering health risks near nuclear power plants.

''The NAS panel puts to rest once and for all claims that low doses of radiation aren't dangerous ... nuclear advocates have been making this claim for years'' said Daniel Hirsch, president of Committee to Bridge the Gap, a Los Angeles-based nuclear watchdog group.

Mitchell Singer, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's lobbying arm, said the report ''is a positive finding. It shows there is very little risk of exposure from low levels of radiation.''

The academy is a private organization chartered by Congress to advise the government of scientific matters.

On the Net:
National Academy of Science: http://www.nationalacademies.org



Informant: Global Network

Team Bush paid MILLIONS to Nathan Sproul-and tried to hide it

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2005/06/team-bush-paid-millions-to-nathan.html


Informant: Diana Davies

The return of '1984'

Rights Groups Detail Growing Police State
http://tinyurl.com/crpby

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The return of '1984'
by H.D.S. Greenway
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/24/the_return_of_1984/


Informant: Alan Dicey

Omega-News Collection 2. July 2005

ISN'T IT TIME WE REGULATED CHEMICALS?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/793789/

Mercury, Autism and the Coming Storm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/803131/

Independence Day - New Energy for America
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/806758/

Take Action for Sakhalin's Indigenous People
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/806036/

Make climate change history
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809014/

Oceans at Risk from Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809928/

Monsanto corn study raises safety questions
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794083/

Genetically Modified Corn Study Reveals Health Damage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/807932/

Global Ban on GM trees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801600/

Genetically Modified Language
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802865/

Food Supplements and European Regulation: Black box or level playing field rationality?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/797098/

Mitsubishi to Stop Buying Old Growth, Blow to Australia’s Tasmanian Timber Industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804074/

Save the Dolphins
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/800741/

NEW ZEALAND: Prime Kiwi Habitat to Be Destroyed by Coal Mine
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/805743/

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

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

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next

Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Tsunami/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 2. July 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/810287/

EMF-Omega-News 2. July 2005

Oxidative Damage in the Kidney Induced by 900-MHz-Emitted Mobile Phone: Protection by Melatonin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809782/

Wireless Microwaves and Health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/800009/

Correlation found between mobile phone masts and sleep disturbances
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794323/

Children With Leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/795123/

NRPB to acknowledge Electro Sensitivity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/797040/

Industries growing adept at manipulating science to suit their needs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802826/

Base stations & wireless networks: Exposures & health consequences
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802007/

Six Cases of Cancer in the same Road
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801249/

Electrical Pollution and Cancer: A Survivor's Story
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804054/

FAMILY’S MAST FEARS FOR EPILEPTIC DAUGHTER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809913/

Mast fight may go Euro
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/805004/

COMMITTEE URGES RADIATION WARNINGS FOR MOBILE PHONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/806515/

Anti-phone mast group fears pupils already sick
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/807370/

Electrosensitivity forced me to change my career
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/808526/

RISKS OF MASTS ARE SHOWN IN RESEARCH
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/808046/

Complaints to the BBC
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/807945/

CALL TO LOBBY MPS WITH MAST CONCERNS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794093/

Activists urged to unite in fight against Orange masts plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794094/

Group to intervene over mast row
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794113/

Local and ecological groups will coordinate their action against the increasing electromagnetic pollution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794116/

Schools face call to jam mobiles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794661/

Where is the "OFF" switch for masts? The UMTS network causes 2.1 times more CO2 emissions and requires 2.4 times more (non-renewable) primary energy per customer than for the GSM system
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/794639/

Aggressive strategy by the phone companies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/796873/

City vows to be tough on masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801859/

MAST PLANS ANGER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801870/

Masts coming to a school near you
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801887/

MOBILE PHONE GIANT LOSES MAST APPEAL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801896/

WESTMINSTER HALL DEBATE ON PLANNING IMPLICATIONS FOR TELECOMS MASTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801900/

Residents inflamed over mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801920/

Phone mast GP loses appeal battle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/801925/

Committee to call for phone mast ban near schools
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/803954/

Mobile phone banned in schools
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802859/

Church phone mast plans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804912/

Anger over surprise appearance of mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804932/

Mast looks set to get the green light
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804940/

School masts legal warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804958/

Mobile phone mast go-ahead on appeal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804978/

MORATORIUM ON MASTS LIFTED
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804990/

PHONE MAST APPEAL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/804997/

Mast group warns phone giant
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/805113/

MP meets minister to voice mast concerns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809378/

Welsh national Assembly Speach on TETRA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809373/

Phone mast is a 'gamble with our lives'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809395/

AGENCY CALLED IN TO LOOK AT PHONE MAST HEALTH EFFECTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809904/

Phone mast protests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/809917/

Magenta News from Mast Network
http://tinyurl.com/4pe6m

Omega-News Collection 2. July 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/810288/

America Held Hostage

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070105C.shtml

The Lobbyists' Scandal: The Secret World of Washington

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0630-20.htm

Is nuclear energy dead?

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/is_nuclear_energy_dead.htm

Old Growth Campaign Update - June 2005

http://people.freenet.de/omega_news/support_grassy_narrows.htm

Question on Impeachment Shows Polarization of Nation

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0630-03.htm


Informant: Kev Hall



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