I have great news for you from our Stop Cruise Pollution campaign!

It's official: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has heard your calls for them to clean up their sewage-treatment act. And they are doing something about it.

To put it simply -- WE WON!

In a letter to Oceana (PDF format) http://ga0.org/ct/Y115Yjd17Bpr/ Royal Caribbean Chairman and CEO Richard Fain has committed the company to do the following:

* Install advanced wastewater treatment (AWT) systems on every ship in their fleet -- just as Oceana has been calling on Royal Caribbean to do -- as their ships come in for their scheduled drydocking, which means their whole fleet will have them by 2008.
* Select AWT systems whose treated discharges meet the stringent standards of the state of Alaska -- the same standards which Oceana has been calling on Royal Caribbean to meet.
* Have a third party monitor the performance of the AWT systems, and make the results of that monitoring public.

It is very gratifying to see Royal Caribbean make this decision. As you know, we have been urging them for almost a year now to start down this road, so it's great to see them beginning the journey.

And you have been instrumental in making that happen. Almost 90,000 people have signed our cruise pollution pledge, vowing not to cruise with Royal Caribbean until they committed to stop dumping inadequately treated sewage. In communities across North America -- in Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Vancouver, and many more -- you turned out to show your support.

http://www.stopcruisepollution.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&pageID=974

Now, your voices have been heard. Royal Caribbean has started to clean up its act. It's an exciting day for us all, and a turning point for the oceans!

WHAT COMES NEXT

In recognition of Royal Caribbean's commitment, we're suspending our campaign against them. However, Royal Caribbean is just one company. Cruise pollution is still a major threat to our oceans, which is why we're supporting the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004 -- a bill currently before Congress that would go a long way towards stopping the problem of cruise pollution across the entire industry.

You acted, and you got Royal Caribbean's attention. Now we're asking you to do the same for Congress. Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004 -- they need to hear from you how important this is!

* TAKE ACTION: Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Cruise Ships Act of 2004
http://ga0.org/campaign/cleancruiseact/7iwdixzhjem7wn

Want to share the good news? You can use our Tell-A-Friend feature to invite your friends to join the community that made this victory possible:

* TELL A FRIEND: Pass on the good news!
http://ga0.org/wavemaker/join-forward.html?domain=wavemaker&r=gd15Yjd1pB8p

And we're also opening a thread over on our community site, The Oceana Network, for you to discuss this news with your fellow activists:

* GET CONNECTED: Discuss the Royal Caribbean decision on The Oceana Network http://ga0.org/ct/Rp15Yjd17Bp4/

This is a major step forward for everyone who cares about the future of the oceans, and it couldn't have happened without you. Thanks for your continuing commitment, and congratulations!

For the oceans,

Andy Sharpless
CEO
Oceana

Tell your friends about this important victory, and the need to support the Clean Cruise Act!
Tell-a-friend! http://ga0.org/join-forward.html?domain=wavemaker&r=gd15Yjd1pB8p

Leading Fortune 500 Companies, Coke, Pepsi, Walmart, Kraft General Foods, etc. filed against for knowingly poisoning the public with aspartame

SACRAMENTO, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2004--ASPARTAME LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC. Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).

Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California.

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.

Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.

Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system.

Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval.

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the market.

In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" ( http://www.russellblaylockmd.com ) wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina).

All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).

In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.

Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.

Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial.

If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice League for an interview, please call or fax us at 208-246-1171.

Roberta Bellon, Public Relations

NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
2205 Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022
Redding, Ca 96002
Phone: 208-246-1171
California: 530-248-3483
Cell Phone: 208-890-0034
E-mail: info@nationaljusticeleague.com

FOR INFORMATION ON ASPARTAME:
http://www.dorway.com
http://www.wnho.net

You can also contact Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 USA 770-242-2599

This release is issued by courtesy of:WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (for further information on this Breaking News and History of Aspartame)
http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm

Contact Information
Betty Martini

MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL
http://www.wnho.net, http://www.dorway.com

World Natural Health Organization


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

AFP
May 2, 2004

http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040502030651.y5wzzm8d.html

KRASNOYARSK, Russia - Illegal logging and controversial business plans have ecologists raising the alarm in Siberia's scenic Krasnoyarsk region, Russia's prime forestry area and vital to a country struggling under massive air pollution.

"From Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, the taiga stretches without limit. Does it have an end? When you are on the top of a mountain, you see mountains all around... And all is covered by a dense forest. It gives you shivers," Anton Chekhov wrote in the 1890s.

But the famed writer's days are past, and now the sight is different -- criminal logging and arson gnaw at the sea of trees.

"In Russia, up to 30 percent of tree logging is illegal. Depending on the region, the wood then goes to Scandinavian countries or China," said Yevgeny Shvarts of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

"They do it quickly, a team of five or six people take a big truck, cut a large area and send the wood to China. It makes a good profit," lamented Galina Kuzmina, deputy head of Krasnoyarsk's forest protection center.

In addition, 2,000 fires last year alone -- most of them due to arson -- and the Siberian bombyx parasite has devastated entire swaths of the region's forest, she said.

But the government's new forestry code, which is still being drafted and allows the regions to privatise forest zones, is what troubles Russian ecologists most.

The Russian forest is currently almost entirely managed by the "leskhozes," local forestry administrations, which hand out licences to the lumberjacks and their firms.

"After the privatisation experience of the 1990s, public opinion will not stand for privatisation of forests," Shvarts fumed.

Environmentalists also fear that the new code would bar millions of Russians from the forests, who make their living by collecting cedar kernels, mushrooms and berries.

"They say here that Russal," the giant Krasnoyarsk-based aluminum producer, "is ready to buy up the region's entire forest," Kuznina said.

The government in turn hopes to encourage the creation of wood refining factories and paper and cellulose plants.

Russia, 70 percent of whose massive territory is covered by forests, nets 4.5 billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) annually from wood exports, but could profit more if it could refine wood at home rather than ship the raw material to be treated abroad.

The region's governor Alexander Khloponin has ambitious plans to chop down 49 million cubic meters (1715 million cubic feet) of wood annually where only five million cubic meters are now harvested.

"This would require important forestry territories and big investors who would build roads and replant forests as needed, like they do in Finland," he noted.

The governor hopes to attract enough capital to set up a cellulose factory, which would profit from the region's low energy prices.

However, he said he thought privatisation plans were too hasty, arguing that the industry could pass into the private sector only after the state set up efficient control systems -- which could take up to 15 years.


Informant: NHNE

Der Rat verlangte gestern eine dritte Abstimmung im EU-Parlament über die Frage, ob europäisches Recht einfach so gebrochen werden kann. Sehr schön und geradewegs erz/demokratisch. Wie oft soll noch abgestimmt werden?

quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3


Neuer Schlagabtausch im EU-Parlament
Parlament mit klarer Mehrheit gegen erneuten Antrag auf Unterzeichnung des Passagierdaten-Abkommens mit den USA | Rat droht, EU-Parlament zu übergehen | Entscheidung des EuGH soll nicht abgewartet werden

Das Europaparlament hat einen weiteren Vorstoß des Rats, das Abkommen zur Weitergabe von Passagierdaten an die USA, erneut abzustimmen, am Dienstag mit 343 zu 301 Stimmen bei 18 Enthaltungen abgelehnt.

Mit Verweis auf die Geschäftsordnung lehnte das Parlament es ab, sich erneut mit derselben Angelegenheit zu befassen, über die es bereits zwei Abstimmungen mit mehrheitlicher Ablehnung gegeben hatte.

"Die Mehrheit des Parlaments hat gezeigt, dass wir uns vom Rat nicht wie Marionetten behandeln lassen und so lange abstimmen, bis das Ergebnis genehm ist" sagte die Abgeordnete Mercedes Echerer nach der Abstimmung zur futurezone.

Man werde nicht mehr hinnehmen, dass lange erkämpfte, europäische Bürgerrechte wie Datenschutz auf dem Altar der transatlantischen Beziehungen geopfert würden.

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Topic: A Good NASA DISINFO Pix of MEGA Chemtrails

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_topic.php3?img_id=16528&topic=atmosphere

To all that might have an interest.

Either they screwed up posting this image or they are trying to make people accept the chemtrails as normal. Better go check it out quickly, I don't think it will be posted long.

Watch your post office next month, they are coming out with a series of "Chemtrail "stamps.

Subject: chemtrails - the smoking gun

Everything comes to those who wait.

This page shows an official NASA cloud cover image. Click on it and you will go to the NASA web site.

While NASA calls these clouds 'contrails', they do so without credit to their audience.

1. The last time I took an airplane flight the flight began someplace and ended someplace.

2. Notice how these contrails aren't going anywhere?

3. None of them show the unbroken, connected, long lengths, course legs, and curves that commercial flight paths have.

4. None of them show airport circling, approach, holding-pattern, or take-off and landing path characteristics, and airports are where contrails are heaviest.

Anyone who thinks about it and examines these cloud trails will inevitably conclude these are not commercial flight paths. None of them.That means none are commercial contrails. None. But undeniably yes, they are human, artifactual clouds.

This is the smoking gun image of the entire debate, and it's a fresh, current image.

I just thought you'd enjoy it as much as I did.


You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them. Bradbury

Message from billder

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Bill,

Thanks! That's a pretty spectacular picture!

I am currently working on a new book that will include a section on
chemtrails. The book's working title is "WEATHER WARFARE: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature." Below is the current draft of the Table of Contents. If you run into any cool stuff on any of these topics I would appreciate your dropping me a line with the data.

INTRODUCTION
Overview: The Revolution in Military Affairs, 21st Century weapons and the globalist agendas that drive their development.

HAARP UPDATE
HAARP news stories: HAARP and mysterious animal die-offs, HAARP and the search for Osama, HAARP and the Columbia Crash, HAARP and hurricanes. BAE Systems and the future of HAARP. Tesla's Wardencliff "beam weapon" theory substantiated by successful photon teleportation experiments.

NON-CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS (may be two or more chapters)
What we have: VMADS and The Screamer, and what's coming: Electromagnetic, Radio Frequency and Ionospheric Weapons. The anti-missile missile defense program vs. Star Wars: New pork for old. GWEN and cell phones. Health risks and societal side effects.

ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION (ENMOD) AND GEOPHYSICAL WARFARE (will be broken down into several chapters)
Dispatches from The Front: ENMOD in times of war: Vietnam, The Cold War, NATO & Serbia (Timeline of ENMOD). United Nations ENMOD Treaty. ENMOD, El Nino and Global Warming. Soviet Secret Science? Evidence for covert warfare: chemtrails, strange weather & radar anomalies, suspicious earthquakes. Future of ENMOD: Air Force 2025.

GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
"Pax Americana" and the American Empire. The United Nations: a Nation State in the making? Globalism, World Trade and neo-fascism. Mikhail Gorbachev & Maurice Strong: Green Cross and the threat of eco-communism. Global Warfare made permanent: Terrorism, Peak Oil and the Military-Industrial-Educational Complex.

CONCLUSION

Thanks again! Keep in touch!

Jerry E. Smith
Author & Lecturer

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NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to account for a warming trend in the United States that occurred between 1975 and 1994. According to Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., there has been a one percent per decade increase in cirrus cloud cover over the United States, likely due to air traffic. Cirrus clouds exert a warming influence on the surface by allowing most of the Sun’s rays to pass through but then trapping some of the resulting heat emitted by the surface and lower atmosphere. Using a general circulation model, Minnis estimates that cirrus clouds from contrails increased the temperatures of the lower atmosphere by anywhere from 0.36 to 0.54°F per decade. Minnis’s results show good agreement with weather service data, which reveal that the temperature of the surface and lower atmosphere rose by almost 0.5°F per decade between 1975 and 1994.

This enhanced infrared image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, shows widespread contrails over the southeastern United States during the morning of January 29, 2004. Such satellite data are critical for studying the effects of contrails. The crisscrossing white lines are contrails that form from planes flying in different directions at different altitudes. Each contrail spreads and moves with the wind. Contrails often form over large areas during winter and spring.

For information about why NASA studies contrails, read: Clouds Caused By Aircraft Exhaust May Warm The U.S. Climate.

Image courtesy NASA Langley Research Center

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_topic.php3?img_id=16528&topic=atmosphere

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/aircraft_contrails.jpg

May 04, 2004

The Department of Defense (DoD) has asked Congress for blanket exemptions from three major federal environmental and health laws. These changes would effectively exempt DoD's operations on 25 million acres of training ranges from local, state, tribal or Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversight and regulation for toxics releases, hazardous waste contamination, and air pollution.

Even though each law already allows for exemptions in cases of national security, the Bush Administration wants to enable one of the nation's largest polluters -- the Department of Defense -- to evade laws protecting public health and the environment.[1]

The DoD has asserted that adhering to environmental protection laws compromises military training and readiness. However, a General Accounting Office report in 2002 found that the Pentagon could not substantiate this claim.

Further, in testimony before the Senate in February, 2003, Christine Todd Whitman, then-administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, noted that EPA and DoD worked very closely together. "I don't believe there is a training mission anywhere in the country that is being held up or not taking place because of environmental protection regulation," Whitman told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.[2]

Late last year the Pentagon succeeded in gaining exemptions to habitat preservation rules under the Endangered Species Act, as well as overall wildlife protections under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.[3] A coalition of environmental and public health advocacy groups opposed the changes, noting that "[t]he military has, time and time again, found reasonable solutions to pursue necessary training in compliance with environmental laws."[4]

The Pentagon-proposed changes to the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) would range from removing explosives, munitions, chemical weapons and other materials from the law's definition of "solid waste," to blocking the authority of states, tribes, and the EPA to require investigation and cleanup of toxic munitions contamination on military sites, even when an off-site threat to public health develops.

The DoD's changes to the federal Superfund law would effectively absolve DoD of any responsibility for toxic releases under the law, remove EPA's ability to enforce Superfund regulations on military training sites, and undercut state power to collect damages from the DoD when toxic munitions contamination affects public resources including wildlife, fisheries, and public recreational lands.

Currently the Clean Air Act requires all federal agencies, including Defense, to mitigate any activities that negatively impact a state's EPA-mandated target for air quality. The DoD is seeking a three-year exemption for air pollution caused by a broad range of military activities.

The proposed changes would require EPA to approve state air cleanup plans even if they fail to compensate for military-generated pollution, and would exempt states from facing more serious classifications and other public health requirements if they missed their targets for air quality.[5]

Paul Mayberry, the DoD's deputy undersecretary for readiness, recently told reporters the proposed exemptions were "all about readiness," and that the laws inhibited the military's ability to train realistically.[6]

However, the Department admitted to state officials late last year that the laws have never hampered military preparedness -- nor have states ever used their authority under RCRA or the Superfund law in a way that compromised readiness. It has also failed to show any case where enforcement of the Clean Air Act put national security at risk.[7]


SOURCES:
[1] Natural Resources Defense Council press release.
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/040421.asp
[2] Ibid.
[3] Defender Action Fund report on Senate Roll Call #190, 108th Congress, 1st Session
http://capwiz.com/defenders/issues/votes/?votenum=190&chamber=S&congress=1081
[4] "Oppose the Department of Defense Readiness and Range Preservation Initiative," Defender of Wildlife et al.
http://www.defenders.org/habitat/dod/4103.pdf
[5] NRDC press release, op cit.
[6] "Pentagon renews request for environmental exemptions," GovExec.com.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/040604g1.htm
[7] NRDC press release, op cit.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/040604g1.htm


Source: http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000110.php

Die Ergebnisse der neuesten Klagen nach dem Freedom of Information Act offenbaren ein paar weitere Puzzleteile für ein noch zu erstellendes Sittenbild post 9/11. Was in den Wochen nach den Anschlägen an Datentransfers alles möglich war. Vor allem aber: wie.

Northwest lieferte Passagierdaten des ganzen Jahres auf 6.000 CDs an das FBI | Millionen Datensätze von allen großen US-Airlines übermittelt | FBI bezieht Internet-Logfiles weiterhin ohne Gerichtsbeschluss

Nach der Entscheidung des EU-Parlaments, den EU-Gerichtshof über die Rechtmäßigkeit der Weitergabe von Flugpassagier-Datensätzen an die USA urteilen zu lassen, wurden am Wochenende Details über die Vorgänge an den Tagen nach den Anschlägen des 11. September aus den USA selbst bekannt.

Northwest Airlines hatte sämtliche Passagierdaten eines ganzen Jahres an das FBI geliefert, gebrannt auf insgesamt 6000 CDs. Dies wurde nach einer Klage auf Veröffentlichung der entsprechenden Unterlagen durch das Washingtoner Electronic Privacy Information Center [EPIC] am Wochenende bekannt.

Laut New York Times gaben auch die anderen großen Airlines direkt nach den Anschlägen Millionen von Datensätzen an die Behörden weiter. Es habe keinerlei Widerstand seitens der Fluggesellschaften gegeben, sagte ein Sprecher des FBI. Verwendungszweck war ganz offiziell das Erstellen von Bewegungsprofilen der Passagiere.

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Aus Archivmaterial der NASA ist bekannt geworden, daß man dort bereits seit 1980 über die Zusammenhänge Tinnitus und EMF von 0,4 bis 3 GHz einer bestimmten Pulscharakteristik informiert war. Ist es ein Zufall, dass bei den Telekommunikationstechnologien gerade die Pulscharakteristika ausgewählt wurden, die zu Tinnituserscheinungen führen?

In Deutschland werden nach Berichten aus Fachkreisen zur Zeit jährlich ca. 10 Millionen Tinnitusneuerkrankungen registriert. In der EU haben nach Veröffentlichungen des Europäischen Parlamentes ca. 80 Mio. Bürger Hörverluste zu verzeichnen

Beste Grüße
Gerd Ernst Zesar

and

From John Michael Williams:

NASA Reply, with my inquiry below it:
Subject: RE: Can't find old NASA Technical Report
From: "helpdesk" <helpdesk@sti.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:33:38 -0400
To: "John Michael Williams" <jwill@AstraGate.net>
CC: "Lynn Heimerl" <n.l.heimerl@nasa.gov>, "Eric Vogel" <evogel@sti.nasa.gov>, "Jutta Schmidt" <jschmidt@sti.nasa.gov>

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Thank you for contacting the NASA STI Help Desk. The document you requested is available for purchase from the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI) for the price listed below, plus shipping and handling per copy. A reproduction will be supplied unless otherwise noted. Prices are subject to change without notice.

Doc ID: 19810004209, "Effects of low power microwaves on the local
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LOW-POWER MICROWAVE TESTING CARRIED OUT BY NASA
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_emf-omega-news_1-05-04.html

Environmental activists from Pacific nations threatened by rising sea levels have called on Australia to recognise "environmental refugees" who try to escape the effects of global warming.

The conservationists currently visiting Australia say climate change is raising sea levels and increasing the frequency of events like cyclones which will one day make some low-lying Pacific island nations uninhabitable.

Fiu Mataese Elisara-Laulu of Samoa said Australia, as the region's biggest producer of the greenhouse gases which cause global warming, has a special responsibility for the environmental damage caused.

"We have a genuine case for being affected as environmental refugees if they don't do anything," he said on Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio.

"But unfortunately Australia seems to be a very poor leader in the Pacific," he said. "From our point of view, they want to assume leadership but they don't want to take responsibility."

The conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard joined the United States in 2002 in refusing to ratify a UN treaty on lowering the production of greenhouse gases, saying the pact, known as the Kyoto Protocol was flawed.

Five weeks ago a group of Australian government researchers reported an alarming increase in global greenhouse gas emissions since 2002, due almost entirely to the burning of fossil fuels.

Greenhouse gases have been blamed for a steady warming of the earth's atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

If left unchecked, global warming is projected to cause a significant rise in sea levels over the next century through the melting of polar ice caps and thermal expansion.

It is also blamed for an increase in extreme weather events like floods, droughts and storms and damage to coral reefs and other sensitive ecosystems.

Elisara-Laulu was in Australia along with Siuila Toloa of Tuvalu's Island Care group on a "climate justice tour" to lobby Australia to take a more active role in tackling climate change.

The tour was sponsored by charity Oxfam, AID/WATCH and Friends of the Earth.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040503/1/3jyhm.html


Informant: NHNE

ACLU reveals Patriot Act lawsuit kept secret ... by Patriot Act
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2538048

Poll: US support for war dives
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/29POLL.html

Poll: Iraqis out of patience
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-28-poll-cover_x.htm

No permit for anti-war rally during GOP convention
http://tinyurl.com/2cgta

US to hold Gitmo detainees indefinitely
http://tinyurl.com/3xfqp

Iraq's other battlefields
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=2435

Taking on the War President
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18521

Dark Victory
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/04/29/excerpt/

It's time to stop the draft (before it starts)
http://www.rationalreview.com/mlseymour/mls043004.shtml

The 9/12 effect
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10317

Lawyers say post-9/11 US is like police state
http://tinyurl.com/2gb5j

When intelligence is disinformation
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/prather.php?articleid=2461

Death to those who dare to speak out
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0430/p11s01-woiq.html


From Thomas L. Knapp

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Yes, We Can Handle the Truth
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4825259/

Reality of 'real war' dawns on U.S. allies
http://tinyurl.com/3589c

Bulgarian Soldiers Asking to Return From Iraq Increase to 43
http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=4780

It's all going bad and getting worse for Bush in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/36jtc

Death Squad Ambassador
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/27/1435207

Destroying World Order
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0024.htm

Former diplomats' attack on Blair is off the Richter scale, says Cook
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=515996

Blair should listen to the experts
http://tinyurl.com/2k6jm

Britain, America begin to diverge in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4853940/

'System wide' mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1097471.htm

Falluja is a turning point in the American policy in Iraq
http://www.duckdaotsu.org/falluja_watch.html

Exposed: The Carlyle Group
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm

World outraged by U.S. torture of Iraqi prisoners
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6106.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224585749.html
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5026096.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1206725,00.html
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver/document/15339.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm
http://wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/pris-m01.shtml

US soldiers are seen as 'uncaring, dangerous and lacking in respect.'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html

'Americans don't know how to be peacekeepers'
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=qw1083243241981B262&set_id=1

Blair 'appalled' by Iraq prison torture
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1207045,00.html

US TV blackout hits litany of war dead
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1207089,00.html

Death to those who dare to speak out
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0430/p11s01-woiq.html

US, Iraqi views of occupation converging
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE01Ak01.html

The faith-based superpower
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1880.jsp

Cheney staff accused of role in CIA leak
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-29-cheney-cia-leak_x.htm

US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS
http://tinyurl.com/er7l

Eight In Ten Canadians (82%): Bush No Friend Of Canada
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=2196

Globalizing Democracy: Manifesto for a New World Order
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/30/1441243

What the US papers don't say
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6114.htm

How We Got Into This Unjust War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6113.htm

America's shame
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6111.htm

Army secretly reports blatant abuses of Iraqi prisoners
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/02/content_1450837.htm

And They Ask, “Why Do They Hate Us?”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6116.htm

An empire in moral crisis
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6118.htm

George Bush's Legacy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6120.htm

Abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Psychodynamics of Occupation
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6121.htm

Has Blair Planned His Exit Strategy?
http://www.sundayherald.com/41637

Pressure mounts on Cheney
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=517287


From Information Clearing House

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Looking for the exit
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040429-113745-2828r


Informant: kevcross5

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Najaf, Falluja: How Do We Maintain Our Humanity?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/April2004/Hamilton0429.htm

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New Searchable Database Charts Administration Lies; 400 Contradictions Logged in Time for Bush/Cheney Testimony

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0429-11.htm

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California Bans E-Vote Machines
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html


Informant: NHNE

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Vanishing Votes
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast

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One Year Later: 'Mission Lost'
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81583:740526

Prisoner Abuse May Have Been 'Order'
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81586:740526,,2-10-1460_1520513,00.html

Iraqis Die in British Custody
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81588:740526

'It's Hell...Everything Will Be Destroyed'
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81602:740526

Mission Not Accomplished in Iraq
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81604:740526

Former General Says 'Staying the Course' Is Untenable
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81605:740526

There Is No Need to Test Nuclear Weapons
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81609:740526

Death By Slow Burn: How America Nukes Its Own Troops
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=81620:740526

Please spread it widely:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/still_cooking_with_microwaves.jpg

Hans U. Hertel

In the tiny town of Wattenwil, near Basel in Switzerland, there lives a scientist who is alarmed at the lack of purity and naturalness in the many pursuits of modern mankind. He worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the many major Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it.

"The world needs our help," Hans Hertel told Tom Valentine as they shared a fine meal at a resort hotel in Todtmoss, Germany. "We, the scientists, carry the main responsibility for the present unacceptable conditions. It is therefore our job to correct the situation and bring the remedy to the world. I am striving to bring man and techniques back into harmony with nature. We can have wonderful technologies without violating nature."

Hans is an intense man, driven by personal knowledge of violations of nature by corporate man and his state-supported monopolies in science, technology and education. At the same time, as the two talked, his intensity shattered into a warm smile and he spoke of the way things could be if mankind's immense talent were to work with nature and not against her.

Hans Hertel is the first scientist to conceive of and carry out a quality study on the effects of microwaved nutrients on the blood and physiology of human beings. This small but well-controlled study pointed the firm finger at a degenerative force of microwave ovens and the food produced in them. The conclusion was clear: microwave cooking changed the nutrients so that changes took place in the participants' blood; these were not healthy changes but were changes that could cause deterioration in the human systems.

Working with Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Institute for Biochemistry, Hertel not only conceived of the study and carried it out, he was one of eight participants.

"To control as many variables as possible, we selected eight individuals who were strict macrobiotic diet participants from the Macrobiotic Institute at Kientel, Switzerland," Hertel explained. "We were all housed in the same hotel environment for eight weeks. There was no smoking, no alcohol and no sex."

One can readily see that this protocol makes sense. After all, how could you tell about subtle changes in a human's blood from eating microwaved food if smoking, booze, junk food, pollution, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and everything else in the common environment were also present?

"We had one American, one Canadian and six Europeans in the group. I was the oldest at 64 years, the others were in their 20s and 30s," Hertel added.

Valentine published the results of this study in Search for Health in the Spring of 1992. But the follow-up information is available only in a later edition, and also in Acres, USA.

In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the food variants on an empty stomach. The food variants were: raw milk from a biofarm (no. 1); the same milk conventionally cooked (no. 2); pasteurised milk from Intermilk Berne (no. 3); the same raw milk cooked in a microwave oven (no. 4); raw vegetables from an organic farm (no. 5); the same vegetables cooked conventionally (no. 6); the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in the microwave oven (no. 7); and the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven (no. 8). The overall experiment had some of the earmarks of the Pottenger cat studies, except that now human beings were test objects, the experiment's time-frame was shorter, and a new heat form was tested.

Once the volunteers were isolated at the resort hotel, the test began. Blood samples were taken from every volunteer immediately before eating. Then blood samples were taken at defined intervals after eating from the above-numbered milk or vegetable preparations.

Significant changes were discovered in the blood of the volunteers who consumed foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all haemoglobin values and cholesterol values, especially the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values and ratio. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Each of these indicators point in a direction away from robust health and toward degeneration. Additionally, there was a highly significant association between the amount of microwave energy in the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate that food. This led Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies may, indeed, be passed along to man inductively via consumption of microwaved food.

"This process is based on physical principles and has already been confirmed in the literature," Hertel explained. The apparent additional energy exhibited by the luminescent bacteria was merely extra confirmation.

"There is extensive scientific literature concerning the hazardous effects of direct microwave radiation on living systems," Hertel continued. "It is astonishing, therefore, to realise how little effort has been made to replace this detrimental technique of microwaves with technology more in accordance with nature.

"Technically produced microwaves are based on the principle of alternating current. Atoms, molecules and cells hit by this hard electromagnetic radiation are forced to reverse polarity 1 to 100 billion times a second. There are no atoms, molecules or cells of any organic system able to withstand such a violent, destructive power for any extended period of time, not even in the low energy range of milliwatts.

"Of all the natural substances-which are polar-the oxygen of water molecules reacts most sensitively. This is how microwave cooking heat is generated-friction from this violence in water molecules. Structures of molecules are torn apart, molecules are forcefully deformed (called structural isomerism) and thus become impaired in quality...(excerpt)

More under http://www.all-natural.com/microwa1.html

MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing You!
Microwave Cooking Hazards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283082/

Microwaves are a hazard to life
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189655/

Microwave–ovens cause cancer after all
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189666/

Man turns the Earth into a Microwave–Oven
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189645/

Food prepared in the microwave oven leads to changes in the blood
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/microwave_cooking.pdf

MICROWAVE DANGERS: How unseen frequencies can harm your health
http://www.choosecra.com/htmlpages/news/reports/microwavedanger.html

Radiation Ovens: The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485972/

The Hidden Hazards Of Microwave Cooking
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/485968/

Microwave oven info
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491151/

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


More links:
http://www.jrussellshealth.com/microwaves.html
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/192056/
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/nine_degrees_of_health_hazard_for_electromagnetic.pdf
http://www.the7thfire.com/cell_phones.htm