We need your immediate action to help stop Bush administration plans for oil and gas drilling in the incomparable Otero Mesa of New Mexico -- a vital part of our Greater Rockies BioGem.

Please go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=52158

and send a message telling the Bureau of Land Management to shelve its proposed plan for industrializing this unique and fragile wildland.

Located at the southern end of the Rockies, Otero Mesa boasts uninterrupted expanses of Chihuahuan desert grasslands, one of North America's most endangered ecosystems and crucial habitat for pronghorn antelope, mule deer and the black-tailed prairie dog.

All told, Otero Mesa is home to more than 20 species protected by the Endangered Species Act, including the Mexican spotted owl, the southwestern willow flycatcher, the Aplomado falcon and the black-footed ferret.

In its rush to let energy companies plunder America's Rocky Mountain landscapes, the Bush administration is about to finalize a plan that would permit oil and gas development throughout the Otero Mesa ecosystem. The resulting invasion of new roads, pipelines, transmission lines and hundreds of wells would devastate its irreplaceable wildlife habitat and wilderness characteristics.

The Bush administration is accepting public comments on its proposed development plan through June 28th.

Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/yellowstone/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=52158

right now and tell the Bush administration not to sacrifice this magnificent piece of our natural heritage to oil and gas interests.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Aus den Archiven:
http://www.oekotest.de/cgi/ot/otgp.cgi?doc=19899

von der Privat-Universität Witten-Herdecke

Omega: auch Prof. David gehört wie Prof. Juri Silny und Dr. Joachim Schüz u.a. in die Riege der wissenschaftlichen pro-mobilfunkfreundlichen Befürworter der gefährlichen gepulsten Mobilfunktechnik.

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Prof. Eduard David von der Uni Witten-Herdecke, der in Grenzwertkommissionen tätig ist, für Mobilfunkbetreiber forscht und die Mobilfunktechnik verharmlost, antwortete am 15. Juli 1999 in Schwäbisch Hall auf die Aufforderung: „Dann tun Sie etwas für die Menschen, senken Sie drastisch die Grenzwerte!“

Prof. David: „Wenn ich das tue, bin ich schon rausgeschmissen.“

Soviel zur Unabhängigkeit der Grenzwert-Kommissionen.

Aus dem Info-Flugblatt „Risiko Mobilfunk“ der Bürgerwelle
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/risikomobilfunk.pdf

Die Homepage von Prof. David (Universität Witten/Herdecke, Institut für Normale und Pathologische Physiologie, Zentrum für Elektropathologie) findet man unter: http://www.uni-wh.de/de/medi/elpath.htm?uni-wh

Weiter unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/pranger/david.htm

Expertenanhörung am 09.06.2005 in Soltau
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/760128/

Zum Thema „unabhängige" Wissenschaftler siehe z.B. unter:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_newsletter_140604.html und
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/pranger/silny.htm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244388/

Strahlenforscher unter gewaltigem Druck der Wirtschaft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281014/

Betrug gehört zur Forschung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281021/

Manipulation der Wissenschaft: Klinische Tests mit Vorsicht genießen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244388/

Warum werden die Grenzwerte nicht gesenkt?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281687/

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

by Ivan Eland

AntiWar.Com

06/22/04

The 9/11 commission has merely confirmed what those without naiveté had suspected all along: the Bush administration lied and misled America into a needless imperial pet project that has killed thousands of innocent Iraqis and hundreds of U.S. military personnel.

The amazing part is that the administration continues to claim that its Goebbels-like 'big lie' propaganda is true after all, no matter how much evidence amasses to the contrary...

http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=2847

Scotsman [UK]

06/22/04

Detainees at the United States detention centre at Guantànamo Bay have provided little intelligence and their value has been exaggerated by the Bush administration, according to a newspaper investigation published yesterday. ... dozens of high-level military intelligence and law-enforcement officials told the New York Times that only a few of the 595 detainees had information about the workings of al-Qaeda. The number was put at between one and two dozen. ... A top-secret report compiled by the CIA in September 2002 found that most of the accused terrorists at Guantànamo were
low-level recruits or even innocent men picked up in the Afghanistan
war...

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=714472004


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times

06/22/04

Abu Ghraib prison scandal won the right yesterday to question top U.S. generals to bolster arguments that their clients were following orders in their treatment of inmates. ... The order, issued at pretrial hearings, compels Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Gen. John Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command, to give depositions on polices and practices at the Abu Ghraib prison...

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040621-103215-6621r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

President George W. Bush has turned back years of U.S. efforts to stem the spread of nuclear weapons and has made the world a more dangerous place, one of the Senate's leading liberals said Tuesday...

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-22/s_25105.asp

Peter Dale Scott / Pacific News Service

The CIA, for one, has been using photographic documentation as part of its interrogation techniques for years, writes PNS contributor Peter Dale Scott. At least one Army official says the CIA helped set standards for treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85110:740526

Mercenaries

Spencer E. Ante and Stan Crock / Newsweek

The American public was shocked at news that privately owned companies were profiteering on the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The shock continued when other private frims were implicated in the torture of prisoners. The private war-for-profit contractor biz is hot, vast, and largely unregulated. Is it out of control?...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85102:740526

Raymond Whitaker, Andy McSmith and Andrew Johnson / Independent U.K.

A secret report from notorious Baghdad jail reveals beatings, rape and torture of captive Iraqi prisoners by US troops...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85096:740526

Michael Hann / The Guardian (UK)

Michael Hann examines the air of secrecy, manipulation and official silence surrounding the US media's treatment of George Bush's 'war on terror.' ...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85095:740526

Red Cross Accuses

Afsane Bassir Pour / Le Monde

The International Committee for the Red Cross has known for a long time that horrific abuses were taking place inside Iraqi prisons under the control of the US but Washington refused to respond to the concerns. Meanwhile, Washington's "persistent" refusal to respect the Geneva conventions on POWs has lead the ICRC to declare the detention facilities at Guantanamo "illegal" under world law...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85087:740526

Reuters

Returning troops have begun to reveal the extent of the abuses inside US military prisons in Iraq -- abuses that appear to rival in kind (if not in scale) the crimes of Saddam Hussein. "It was not just these six people," one soldier declared. The abuse of captives was long-standing and widely tolerated...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85081:740526

Luke Harding / The Guardian

While the focus has been on the abuse of men, there is growing evidence that US troops have humiliated and sexually abused women, girls and boys detained inside Abu Ghraib. This story contains links to other reports documenting US torture and abuse of detainees, many of whom are reportedly innocent of criminal activities...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85066:740526

Michel Chossudovsky / Global Research

While Al Qaeda is presented to public opinion as constituting a nuclear threat, the US Senate has provided a "green light" to the use of tactical nuclear weapons in conventional war theaters against "rogue states" and terrorist organizations. The Pentagon refers to these weapons as "harmless to civilians"...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85059:740526

Luke Harding / The Guardian

Iraq's Human Rights Minister Abdel Bassat Turki resigned last month in protest. In an interview with London's Guardian he explains his move was prompted by Paul Bremer's failure to halt rampant abuse in US military prisons. Turki said he informed Mr. Bremer last November -- and again in December. "He listened very well. But that was all he did," Turki stated...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85054:740526

UNICEF Alarmed

Report / UNICEF

Unsubstantiated but troubling claims that children are among the Iraqis detained under US military control have alarmed human rights organizations. Speaking from Geneva, UNICEF spokesman Damien Personnaz noted that any mistreatment, sexual abuse, exploitation or torture of children in detention is a violation of international law...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85053:740526

American Civil Liberties Union

The Bush Administration has indicated its willingness to violate international law by detaining individuals without charge or means of proving their innocence. The abuses in Iraq are only one example of the implications of such flawed policies. Contact the White House to insist that the US obey the rule of law...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85052:740526

Moveon.org

As America learns more about the prisoner abuse scandal, it's becoming clear that the path to the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib prison began at Donald Rumsfeld's office in the Pentagon. Rumsfeld must resign or be fired...

http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=85049:740526

Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11? The commission staff wonders...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5251871/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House

700 Iraqi Civilians Killed by Americans in Fallujah Were Never Seen on U.S. TV, But We've Seen A Lot of the Kidnapped Mr. Johnson

Al Jazeera offered the tapes to the US, but none of our media and our “courageous” media moguls wanted to show these tapes. If they had, perhaps the American people could better understand why there is so much hatred and fear of America in Iraq—especially hatred for Bush and for the American military...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6356.htm

President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should take the witness stand at the trial of a U.S. soldier charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq, the soldier's lawyer said on Monday...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5471810


From Information Clearing House

Death certificates by Iraqi doctor claim evidence of torture...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1243712,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Deckmäntelchen für Umweltzerstörer

Presseerklärung vom 21. Juni 2004

Kooperationsvertrag von Bayer und UN-Umweltprogramm UNEP

Der Bayer-Konzern unterzeichnet heute in Leverkusen einen Kooperationsvertrag mit der UN-Umweltorganisation UNEP. Über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren will Bayer jährlich eine Million Euro für das UNEP-Programm „Jugend und Umwelt“ bereitstellen. Schwerpunkt der Zusammenarbeit soll die Region Asien-Pazifik sein.

Hierzu Philipp Mimkes von der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren e.V.: „Bayer hat – wie jedes multinationale Unternehmen – kein „grünes Gewissen“ sondern Profitinteressen. Über seine Lobbyverbände bekämpfte der Konzern bislang jedes Umweltabkommen – vom Kyoto-Protokoll zum Klimaschutz bis hin zum neuen EU-Chemikalienrecht. Für den Umweltschutz bedeutet es einen großen Rückschlag, wenn sich Konzerne wie Bayer ein grünes Deckmäntelchen mit der Aufschrift „UNO“ umhängen dürfen.“ Mimkes erinnert daran, dass Bayer eine große Zahl hochgefährlicher Stoffe herstellt: Uralt-Pestizide auf Phosphorsäureester-Basis, hormonschädigende Substanzen wie Bisphenol A, Weichmacher, Phosgen, etc. „Die Unterstützung der UNEP ist für Bayer eine reine Werbemaßnahme – billiger und unverbindlicher ist ein gutes Firmen-Image nicht zu bekommen“, so Mimkes weiter.

Bereits vor vier Jahren gehörte Bayer zu den Unterzeichnern des UN Global Compact, in dem sich mehr als 100 Unternehmen zu Umweltschutz, Arbeitssicherheit und Menschenrechten bekennen. Doch auch beim Global Compact legt die UNO keine noch so niedrige Messlatte an: alle Unternehmen – vom Hersteller von Atomkraftwerken bis hin zu Ölkonzernen – dürfen teilnehmen. Nach der Unterzeichnung durch das jeweilige Unternehmen erfolgt keinerlei Überprüfung, alle Übereinkünfte sind unverbindlich.

„Besonders paradox ist der Asien-Schwerpunkt der Kooperation von Bayer und UNEP“, so Philipp Mimkes weiter. Bayer bemüht sich in Asien intensiv um Zulassungen für gentechnisch veränderten Reis. Doch die Einführung von Gen-Reis hätte dramatische Konsequenzen: Reis ist für 2,5 Milliarden Menschen das Hauptnahrungsmittel. Millionen Bauern, die bislang durch Tausch und Eigenzüchtungen ihr Saatgut selbst produzieren, würden in Abhängigkeit von multinationalen Konzernen geraten. Durch den bereits in der „grünen Revolution“ beobachteten Konzentrationsprozess würden Millionen Landwirte ihre Existenz verlieren und in die Elendsgebiete rund um die Metropolen abwandern.

Lokal angepasste Reissorten würden durch Hochertragssorten verdrängt, was zu erhöhten Schädlingsaufkommen, verstärktem Einsatz von Pestiziden und einer Verringerung der Artenvielfalt führt. Die Verdrängung lokaler Sorten kann langfristig zu großen Problemen bei der Bekämpfung von Reis-Krankheiten führen. Studien haben zudem nachgewiesen, dass Auskreuzungen von Gen-Reis auch naturbelassene Sorten kontaminieren. „Die UNEP sollte keine Partnerschaft mit einem Unternehmen eingehen, dessen Produkte die weltweite Ernährungssicherheit gefährden“, so der Sprecher der Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren.

Bayer rühmt sich des UN Engagements auf seiner homepage und in zahlreichen Werbebroschüren. Sogar im Bayer-Geschäftsbericht wurde ein Grußwort von Kofi Annan abgedruckt – mit Foto und UN-Logo. Der internationale Umweltverband Friends of the Earth beklagt daher eine „schleichende Übernahme der Vereinten Nationen durch die Privatwirtschaft“ und befürchtet, dass „auf Freiwilligkeit beruhende Abkommen die Verabschiedung bindender Regeln verhindern“.

Eine ausführliche Analyse der Zusammenarbeit von UNO und Bayer lesen Sie in unter „Der Ausverkauf der Vereinten Nationen“

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren
CBGnetwork@aol.com
http://www.CBGnetwork.de
Tel: 0211-333 911
Fax 040 – 3603 741835


Beirat
Dr. Sigrid Müller, Pharmakologin, Bremen
Dr. Erika Abczynski, Kinderärztin, Dormagen
Eva Bulling-Schröter, ehem. MdB, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rochlitz, Chemiker, ehem. MdB, Burgwald
Dr. Janis Schmelzer, Historiker, Berlin
Wolfram Esche, Rechtsanwalt, Köln
Dorothee Sölle,Theologin, Hamburg (U 2003)
Prof. Dr. Anton Schneider, Baubiologe, Neubeuern
Prof. Jürgen Junginger, Designer, Krefeld

Soy testimonies---health effects of soy---(and I can vouch for this---my own daughter was diagnosed with abnormal thyroid after being on a soy heavy diet for several years.)
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/soytest.htm



Soy Farmers' Dream Road May Hasten Amazon Ruin

BRAZIL: September 23, 2003

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Plans to pave a muddy road in the lower Amazon Basin should create a new soy boom in Brazil, but at a potentially high ecological price - exposing the world's richest tropical forest to destruction.

A roughly 625-mile stretch of dirt road links Brazil's soy-rich center-west, where most of its future agricultural growth will occur, to the lower Amazon River port of Santarem, the Atlantic and important export markets.

Torrential rains, however, make BR-163 and a few smaller roads virtually impassable from March through June, barring access for the soy belt to Europe and Asia via Santarem.

Conservationists fear that work to improve the road will hasten the ruin of the lower Amazon without government action to contain illegal logging and land invasions.

But President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is under pressure to fulfill campaign promises to create jobs and boost an economy that slipped into recession in the second quarter of 2003, while keeping a lid on fiscal spending.

The government has written the paving of BR-163 into its development plan as part of a program to stimulate exports.

A consortium of companies, including oil giant Petrobras and multinational grain broker Cargill, are so convinced the road would generate growth and profit that they are discussing funding the development of BR-163 out of their own pockets.

Jose Luiz Glaser, Cargill's director of soy in Brazil, pointed out that BR-163 had been in the government's development plans for many years but no improvement of the road has been carried out.

SOY EXPORT TERMINAL

"It is a project that will happen - but I think it will take three to six years," said Glaser, who added that the company is conducting a viability study on improving the road.

In April, Cargill opened a $20 million soy export terminal in Santarem with a capacity to move 800,000 tonnes of soy a year, most of which the company expects to come from the center-west - via BR-163.

Soy is the country's top farm export and should account for 10 percent of trade revenues in 2003. Brazil accounts for 25 percent of the world's soy after the United States, but should overtake its northern counterpart as the top soy producer in the next five to seven years at current growth rates.

Agriculture is one of the main engines of the Brazilian economy and, in future, most of the growth in the sector will come from the underdeveloped center-west savanna and other equatorial regions in the north and northeast.

Despite advantages such as seemingly endless, cheap, arable land and abundant water, Brazil's fertile center-west savanna has neither developed sufficient highways, integrated railways nor river barge systems like the United States and Europe.

"This road will be the spine of agricultural and economic development from the center-west to the Free Trade Zone in Manaus (upriver on the Amazon)," said Dilceu Dal'Basco, state representative in Mato Grosso, Brazil's top soy state.

The port is three days closer to Brazil's main soy markets in Europe and Asia than ports in the industrialized south. Freight costs from central Mato Grosso to Rotterdam would fall 20 percent, according to Transportation Ministry data.

"Agriculture would not be the only area to benefit," said Jony Lopes, coordinator of planning at the Transportation Ministry's infrastructure department.

He said goods coming from the Free Trade Zone in Manaus would halve travel time to the main markets in the south of Brazil and cut freight costs by 30 percent.

AMAZON EXPOSED

Deforestation of the Amazon, home to up to 30 percent of the planet's animal and plant species, jumped an alarming 40 percent last year, the Environmental Ministry said recently.

Even talk of paving the road, which often has potholes big enough to swallow cars, undermines the forest's survival.

"Just the possibility of the work spurs many of the poor to move on to the land along the road with the dream of being a soy farmer," said Roberto Smeraldi, who heads a group of international experts charged with advising Brazil and rich countries that fund Amazon conservation efforts.

Historically, when Brazil has faced the complex problem of creating economic growth to alleviate poverty while respecting the environment, the Amazon has remained an afterthought to the national agenda, said Violeta Loureiro, professor of sociology at the Federal University of Para.

"Soy is just another bulk commodity export," she said. "This is our history - exporting primary products like rubber, coffee and sugar that offer unreliable returns. Why not explore the medium term potential in the region's rich biodiversity?"

"The problem, which is not going away soon, is Brazil lacks the resources - the fiscal budget - to develop and protect these assets," Loureiro said.


Story by Reese Ewing

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22323/story.htm


Informant: Bea Bernhausen

Quelle: http://ecolog.twoday.net/stories/246455/

Cap Anamour hat über 30 Flüchtlinge aus Afrika, eventuell dem Sudan im Mittelmeer treibend gerettet. Wie ein Sprecher berichtete, scheint nun offenbar eine neue Flüchtlingswelle auf die EG zuzurollen.

Was aber die wenigsten Flüchtlinge wissen oder ahnen können, ist, dass sie es sehr schwer haben, an das europäische Festland, oder Festungsland zu kommen.

Entgegen den internationalen Bestimmungen scheinen staatliche Flottenverbände, darunter auch deutsche Marineverbände bereits auf offener See, also internationalen Gewässer die Flüchtlingsboote zur Umkehr zu zwingen, was nach Seerecht verboten ist.

Was geschieht mit den Schlauchbooten, den einfachen Holzkähnen, völlig überbesetzt, kein Trinkwassser, oft zu wenig Sprit, oder Motorschaden, und dann auf dem offenen Meer abgewiesen zu werden, oder schlimmer, umdrehen zu müssen.

Es ist oft eine Fahrt in den sicheren Tod, die Zahlen berichten von 4000 Todesfällen im Jahr, wieviele Opfer es wirklich gibt, ist unbekannt.

Wollen wir ein Europa, eine Verfassung die diesen inhumanen Umgang festschreibt? Was ist mit der christlichen Nächstenliebe, oder den Menschenrechten und dem internationalen Seerecht?

Die US Administration macht andere Fehler, im Irak, auf der Welt, wir kritisieren und vor unserer eigenen Haustüre, wo sich auch diesen Sommer wieder Millionen von Europäern mit vollgestopften Bäuchen an den Sonnenküsten des Mittelmeeres erholen, entspannen und genießen, und nicht weit entfernt verhungern, verdursten und sterben Flüchtlinge, die von unseren Beauftragten in den Tod geschickt werden!

Schreibt den EG- Abgeordneten, und auch Euren anderen politischen Vertretern, dass wir Bürger einen anderen Umgang mit Menschen und die Einhaltung internationalen Rechten fordern!

Bernd Schreiner
http://www.stoppschild.de

http://www.adbusters.org/jams/history/flash.html


Informant: vinski2004

Scientists warn that warmer conditions could have a catastrophic effect on east coast ecosystem...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1243291,00.html


Informant: Anna Webb

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/989/1/1/

Citing the increased threat of terrorist attacks on commercial buildings, Axcess promotes its system as a way to track employees during emergencies.

By Claire Swedberg

June 17, 2004—Axcess International, a Dallas-based provider of RFID-enabled personnel access control, asset management and surveillance systems, recently marketing a new use for its RFID tag system, ActiveTag: emergency-evacuation management. The ActiveTag system, which is in use by the U.S. military to track vehicles, personnel and missiles, as well as being tested by businesses, was designed to help track movement of office personnel for security reasons. But the company maintains that its system can provide an effective way for businesses and organizations to track their employees’ evacuation of a facility in the event of a fire or some other disaster.

With ActiveTag RFID readers installed at building doorways, stairs or other exit points, the system would automatically identify personnel as they leave the building, and as they assemble at a disaster meeting or "mustering" point away from the facility, provided that they brought their tags with them. The identification system will allow them to have the credential tag (an ID-size card with a battery-powered RFID tag) in a pocket, on their clothing or in a purse or briefcase and still be identified as they exit the building. The size of a typical driver’s license, the credential tag has a small, lightweight form factor compliant with the ISO 7810 ID-1 standard. Axcess also makes "docking" tags, which have the same components as credential tags and can be inserted into an existing access control card. Each tag transmits at a UHF band (either 315 MHz or 433 MHz) to palm-size network-based RFID readers 18 inches to 700 feet away, depending on the antenna used on the reader.

Axcess RFID tags can also be affixed to employee vehicles and office equipment, and read by readers at doorways, gates or even hallways and elevator entrances. Griebenow adds that the system can be used in conjunction with motion detectors to notify security about unauthorized movement in the building. Motion detectors, for example, can trace the presence of a person who is not carrying an RFID tag and alert security that an unauthorized person is in the office and where that person is.

The ActiveTag system is in use on military bases as well as some universities and commercial establishments to track movement of vehicles and personnel, Griebenow says. In addition, it has been tested for its mustering capabilities at a U.S. Department of Defense research facility. Although Axcess has been working with the technology for the past two years, use of the ActiveTag RFID system in offices has been limited.

“Security systems are driven by cost,” Griebenow explains. While a passive RFID tag may cost 30 cents, the ActiveTag battery-powered tag averages $20. On the other hand, ActiveTag RFID readers are considerably less expensive, averaging about $1,000.

Griebenow adds, however, that the efficiency and accuracy of the ActiveTag makes it the reliable choice for emergency evacuation management and will increasingly become the more popular choice for large companies. To date, a company’s decision to purchase and deploy an emergency evacuation management system, such as the ActiveTag’s, is “usually driven by a problem or a foreseeable problem,” Griebenow says. He argues that the notion of a potential disaster risk has been changed by the increased threat of terrorist attacks that target commercial sites.

Informant: Anna Webb

Berlin

21.06.04

Mit dem Slogan "Sie dürfen zwar alles zahlen, aber nicht alles wissen!?" soll pro-information seit Montag an 250 Bus- und Tramhaltestellen, Informationsflächen und Litfass-Säulen in Berlin für ein Informationsfreiheitsgesetz auf Bundesebene werben. Mit einem solchen Gesetz hätten laut pro-information Bürger und Journalisten bessere Möglichkeiten, sich über Aktivitäten der Verwaltung zu informieren. Das Gesetz wäre ein Schutz vor Korruption und würde bürgerschaftliches Engagement erleichtern.

Bereits am 11. Juni soll die Unterschriftenkampagne http;//www.pro-information.de , die online Unterschriften für ein Informationsfreiheitsgesetz sammelt, gestartet worden sein. Die Internet-Aktion würde von namhaften Erstunterzeichnern wie Gesine Schwan, Präsidentin der Viadrina-Universität, unterstützt. Ihre Begründung: "Ineffizienz, Amtsmissbrauch und Bürgerferne führen zu Staats- und Politikverdrossenheit. Mit einem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz kann der Staat zeigen, dass er transparenter Partner der Bürger sein will - und nicht geheimnisvoller Gegner."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=8713

Studie drei Jahre geheim gehalten

21.06.04

Genmanipulierte Futtermittel lassen sich auch in der Milch von Kühen finden, die diese gefressen haben. Das geht aus einem drei Jahre unter Verschluss gehaltenen Untersuchungsbericht des Forschungszentrums für Milch und Lebensmittel in Weihenstephan/Bayern hervor, den die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace am Montag veröffentlicht hat. In der Milch eines Landwirtes, der Gen-Soja und Gen-Mais verfütterte, fanden Wissenschaftler Teile der Erbsubstanz dieser Pflanzen. Greenpeace forderte weitere Studien und eine Kennzeichnung von tierischen Produkten, die mit Gen-Futter hergestellt wurden. Bisher sei angenommen worden, dass Gen-Pflanzen bei der Verdauung abgebaut würden und nicht in Fleisch oder Milch gelangen könnten. "Die Wissenschaftler haben anscheinend Angst vor den eigenen Ergebnissen", sagte Henning Strodthoff, Gentechnikexperte von Greenpeace. Was die Forschung bisher für unmöglich hielt, müsse nun anders bewertet werden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=8711

http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_government&Number=292725874&Forum=All_Forums&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=292725874#Post292725874


Informant: Our bill of rights

http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Western Drought Beats Dust Bowl,
Could Be Worst in 500 Years
By Angie Wagner
Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-18/s_25025.asp

Friday 18 June 2004

Las Vegas - The drought gripping the West could be the biggest in 500 years, with effects in the Colorado River basin considerably worse than during the Dust Bowl years, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

"That we can now say with confidence," said Robert Webb, lead author of the new fact sheet. "Now I'm completely convinced."

The Colorado River has been in a drought for the entire decade, cutting an important source of water for millions of people across the West, including Southern California.

Environmental groups said the report reinforces the need to figure out a better way to manage the Colorado River before reservoirs run dry.

"The water managers, they just continue to pray for rain," said Owen Lammers, director of Living Rivers and Colorado Riverkeeper. "They just say, well, we hope that things change and we see rain."

The report said the drought has produced the lowest flow in the Colorado River on record, with an adjusted annual average flow of only 5.4 million acre-feet at Lees Ferry, Arizona, during the period 2001-2003. By comparison, during the Dust Bowl years, between 1930 and 1937, the annual flow averaged about 10.2 million acre-feet, the report said.

Scientists use tree-ring reconstructions of Colorado River flows to estimate what conditions were like before record-keeping began in 1895. Using that method, the lowest five-year average of water flow was 8.84 million acre-feet in the years 1590-1594. From 1999 through last year, water flow has been 7.11 million acre-feet.

"These comparisons suggest that the current drought may be comparable to or more severe than the largest known drought in 500 years," the report said.

The report said the river had its highest flow of the 20th century from 1905 to 1922, the years used to estimate how much water Western states would receive under the Colorado River Compact. The 1922 compact should now be reconsidered because of the uncertain water flow, said Steve Smith, a regional director for the Wilderness Society.

The report did not surprise water managers.

Adan Ortega, spokesman for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, said the water district has been increasing water storage, buying water from farmers, and investing in alternatives to the Colorado River.

"The big lesson is communities cannot afford to put all their eggs in the proverbial basket. You need ... a diverse portfolio of resources," Ortega said.

Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, said the agency continues to plan for a lingering drought.

"It's serious, but the sky is not falling. Of course, we wish it would in the form of rain," he said.

Droughts seldom persist for longer than a decade, the report noted. But that could mean the current drought is only half over.

"If you're a betting person, you will bet that we will come out of this drought next year," Webb said. "It's a very severe event, and these things tend to end fast. There are other indications, though, that suggest that this drought could persist for as long as 30 years. "We don't really know."


Informant: Hopedance

http://www.call-magazin.de/mobilfunk/news/news_Mobilfunk_Messreihe_in_Hessen_abgeschlossen_13839.html

Kommentar dazu:

http://www.call-magazin.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=104&sid=

Zeitung:

Soldat in Heidelberg spricht von dutzenden Tätern

Stuttgart - Im Skandal um die Misshandlungen irakischer Gefangener hat ein in Heidelberg stationierter US-Soldat der Armee seines Landes Vertuschung vorgeworfen. Zugleich widersprach US-Unteroffizier Samuel Provance im Gespräch mit der "Stuttgarter Zeitung" (Dienstagsausgabe) Behauptungen der US-Regierung, die Misshandlungen im irakischen Gefängnis Abu Ghraib seien Einzelfälle. In seiner Einheit, dem in Heidelberg stationierten 302. Bataillon des Militärnachrichtendienstes, gebe es zahlreiche Soldaten, die in Abu Ghraib gewesen, aber nicht befragt worden seien. Provance sagt der Zeitung, es gebe dutzende weiterer Täter. (AFP)

http://www.netscape.de/index.jsp?sg=News_Newsticker&cid=832446369

21.06.04, 20:45 Uhr

Democrats Helped Bush Rape Mother Nature

by Josh Frank

George W. Bush’s environmental record can be dummied down to one simple word: devastating. And yet Bush's pillage has been given a big assist by the Democrats....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Frank0621.htm

by Harold Williamson

It was Alexis de Tocqueville who said that despotism can govern without faith, but liberty cannot. For Americans it has always been a matter of faith that their government's intentions were noble. But recent history has twice proven this to be delusional....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Williamson0621.htm

by Bill Berkowitz

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Berkowitz0621.htm

by Zbignew Zingh

Ironically, the President who touts faith-based initiatives as the salvation of America is himself the Destroyer of the Faith. It is not religious faith that Mr. Bush destroys – although he has certainly undermined that, too – but the faith in the myth and systems that form the foundation of American power. The bedrock of that power is

1) a belief in unlimited, inexpensive access to natural resources,
2) faith in our economy and the robustness of the dollar,
3) confidence in our institutions, and
4) unshakable faith in our security systems....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Zingh0621.htm

Forscher: Genfutter nicht nachzuweisen

Hamburg/München - Die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace hat vor Spuren genveränderter Futtermittel in Milch gewarnt. In Milchproben eines Landwirts, der genetisch verändertes Soja und Mais an seine Kühe verfüttert habe, sei die Erbsubstanz des Genfutters nachgewiesen worden, teilte die Organisation am Montag in Hamburg mit. Das zuständige Forschungsinstitut in München erklärte jedoch, die bereits vor mehr als drei Jahren überprüften einzelnen Proben hätten keine wissenschaftliche Aussagekraft. In anschließenden umfangreichen Studien sei eindeutig nachgewiesen worden, dass weder im Gewebe der Kuh noch in der Milch Rückstände von Genfutter zu finden seien. (AFP)

21.06.04, 15:54 Uhr

http://www.netscape.de/index.jsp?sg=News_Newsticker&cid=1075607294

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4705.shtml


Informant: Laurel

Prof. Guido Zimmer, Arzt u. Biochemiker, Berater der Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main)

http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/files/1420_zimmer_nicht-thermalerhitzeschock_255kb.pdf

Prof. Dr. Franz X. Adlkofer, Geschäftsführer der Stiftung VERUM (München)

http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/files/1416_adlkofer_reflex_180kb.pdf

von Prof. Rainer Frentzel-Beyme, IGUMED (Bremen)

http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/files/1414_frentzel-beyme_elektromagnetischewellen_150kb.pdf

Dr. Ulrich Warnke, Universität des Saarlandes

http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/files/1412_warnke_reizthema..._230kb.pdf

Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

von Markus Kerrmann, Arzt und Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Institut für Allgemeinmedizin der Charité (Berlin)

http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/files/1406_herrmann_elektrosmogkontrovers_165kb.pdf

Sowohl der Tagungsband des Mobilfunksymposiums vom 12. Juni 2004 - "Wissenschaft im Widerstreit" - als auch die neue BUND-Broschüre "Streitfall Mobilfunk. Leitfaden für Initiativen" können jetzt von unserer Homepage als pdf heruntergeladen werden:
http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_31/publikationen_109.htm

Katia Neubauer
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND)
Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.
Gärtnergasse 16
55116 Mainz
Fon: 06131 / 231973
Fax: 06131 / 231971
E-Mail: katia.neubauer@bund-rlp.de
Internet: http://www.bund-rlp.de

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/infoblatt_streitfall_mobilfunk.pdf

BUND: Streitfall Mobilfunk - Ein Leitfaden für Initiativen:
http://vorort.bund.net/rheinland-pfalz/publikationen/publikationen_37/files/1471_streitfall_mobilfunk.pdf


Wollen Sie Ihren Job verlieren?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/441779/

http://www.mysan.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9750&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Military judge: Abu Ghraib a crime scene

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5259200/


Informant: kevcross5

Surviving a Brain Tumor: IP-6
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245550/

European petition against Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/stories/245406/

Stop RFID in its tracks before we're all bugged
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244617/

Contrails Cause Climate Change
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245528/

Big Win on Tongass Amendment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244674/

Farewell to the forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245606/

Global water tax
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245009/

US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244828/

Crossing the threshold
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244805/

Critics take aim at secret court
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244807/

A Temporary Coup
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244785/

Martial law threatened for Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244614/

US has secret prisons : US accused of worldwide network of secret prisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244643/

Accused contractor at Abu Ghraib says he told guards what to do
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244773/

Tout Torture, Get Promoted
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244776/

Abu Ghraib General Says She's Scapegoat
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244778/

Interrogator Instructed Prison Guards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244817/

Torture Policy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244837/

Pressure at Iraqi prison detailed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244851/

So Torture Is Legal?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244843/

George Orwell... meet Franz Kafka
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244847/

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245177/

Detention, treatment and trial of alleged terrorists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244878/

New Abuse Charges
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245413/

Torture, War, and Presidential Powers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244780/

The strange, sad death of the American way
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244832/

US Lacks Votes for Immunity from War Crimes Court
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245410/

CHURCH & STATE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244894/

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CALLS FOR PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT BUSH FOR ROLE IN TORTURE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244751/

Legal scholars say condoning abuse could be impeachable offense
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244838/

Harvard Law Professors Urge Congress to Review Interrogation Policy and Hold Executive Branch Accountable
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245418/

Cheney's Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244801/

Auditor describes waste, cost overruns in Iraq contracts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244815/

Congress inquiry links Cheney aide to Halliburton deal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244797/

The Truth About Cheney
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244809/

This won't hurt much
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244818/

Spying in America: How the Pentagon is Overcoming Privacy Laws to Spy At Home
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244824/

Declarations of Independence
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244826/

The Power of People's Media
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244662/

911 - In Plane Site
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244638/

Report savages Bush's claim on terror links
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244834/

Cheney, Still Without Proof Of A Saddam-Al Qaeda Connection, Blames The Media
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244853/

The big lie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244860/

Hypocrisy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244866/

Creeping fascism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244868/

Blood of Victory
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244862/

Breaking The Silence
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244871/

Forgive me, I was wrong on Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/244873/

Ministry of Defence accused of 'buying silence of families' over civilian deaths
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245415/

Leo Strauss the neo-cons and Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245554/

Censored by the CIA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245412/

American Empire Is Squeezing Out American Democracy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245420/

BBC Investigation Into How Voter Data Was Used To Prevent Democrats From Voting In The Last Presidential Elections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245424/

The draft is coming back
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245566/

Pentagon Simulated a Scenario of an actual Terrorist Attack 10 months before 9/11
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245626/

Unsettling signs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245645/

On the road to nowhere
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245647/

Facts vs. fiction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245649/

Failures that begat a fiasco
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245663/

Freedom, Incorporated
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245671/

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/062104A.shtml


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

Washington Times

by Stefan Halper & Jonathan Clarke

06/20/04

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in a democracy. Some seven years ago, the veteran journalist Garrick Utley noted a counterintuitive paradox. As U.S. global power -- military and economic -- expanded in the 1990s, coverage of international affairs in the U.S. press diminished. A closer look revealed that except for the principal national newspapers, most major metropolitan papers had little or no staff reporting daily from abroad. News editors say they could not justify the cost of expensive overseas bureaus in view of their readers' limited interest in foreign affairs. As a result, readers were offered fewer foreign stories and
had less context for understanding overseas events...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040619-104225-1057r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

by Thomas Oliphant

06/20/04

Now that President Bush and co-president Cheney have backed themselves into a corner with statements about Iraq and terrorism that aren't credible, it's interesting to watch them squirm. Bush has an entertaining habit of confusing assertion with argument. For example: 'The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.' The logic here is breath-taking. Cheney is, as ever, more elliptical. Cornered for a change, he is striking out at the press, preferring not to take on the 9/11 Commission whose evidence (more to the point, its absence of any) exposes his pre-invasion and post-invasion hype and, shall we say, misstatements...

http://tinyurl.com/3bxur


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones

by Stanley Greenberg

06/16/04

With only five months to go before the presidential election, the American public has concluded that something is going very wrong with America. Faced with the stark images of prisoner abuse and the grim reality of rising combat deaths, it is perhaps not surprising that a pall hangs over the nation. But doubts about the state of the union run deeper than those about Iraq and suggest how difficult it will be for the White House as it struggles to hold power in Washington. In this special national survey for Mother Jones, ordinary citizens describe an America where so many aspects of life, from the economy and financial standing to the country's character and position in the world, have taken a bad turn...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/2004/06/05_401.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

WorldNetDaily

by Vox Day

06/21/04

For the last three months, contrarian economists have been looking at the Fed's wild and crazy increase of the M3 money supply, which has been jacked up by $1.4 trillion since January, and wondering what in the world is going on. It has led some to conclude that the Fed is aware of an imminent disaster approaching as the Fed usually only cranks the printing presses up to high after an event like 9-11 or the 1987 Long-Term Capital Management disaster. But what sort of event can you expect and plan for months in advance? Consider the other evidence...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39063


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO406C.html


Informant: Halojumper82

Some insights into the electrical aspects of epilepsy and ADHD

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.asp

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tartrazine_and_ADHD/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ADHD_Bulletin_Board/

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/


Informant: charles_w_2000

June 20, 2004
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Glen Barry, Ph.D., Forests.org

Papua New Guinea's rainforests are going to hell. The government finances itself based upon clandestine sanctioning of illegal logging. The Malaysian timber mafia runs the country. The World Bank nears its third decade of failed sustainable forestry reforms. Local environmental groups posture and talk with little impact. Local peoples still view meager benefits from the razing of their forests as their best option for advancement. And after 15 years of service to PNG's rainforests, this activist sees little hope. The world's third largest rainforests have become a cesspool of ecological devastation, corruption, violence, and wasted development potential. Efforts to transition the timber industry to community based eco-forestry have faltered. The forces of death, greed and despair have won. PNG's rainforests are toast and its peoples doomed to poverty for the rest of time. Trangu, sari tumas.

g.b.

http://forests.org/


Farewell to the forests
http://www.pmw.c2o.org/2004/png4443.html

1. critical aspect of daily "life" in the hospital?

* The human head can serve as a lossy resonator for the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the cellular telephone, absorbing much of the energy specifically from these wavelengths.

2. maturation of the 802.11 standards? (collectively known as Wi-Fi)

* Are the 802.11 "cellular killer standards"? (collectively known as Wi-Fi)

Wi-Fi, Health Care, and HIPAA: WLAN Management in the Modern Hospital

Wireless networking has quickly become a critical aspect of daily life in the hospital IT environment. With the maturation of the 802.11 standards (collectively known as Wi-Fi), hospital staff can remain connected to their critical systems regardless of their location in a facility. Additionally, a new breed of mobile applications has evolved that provide caregivers and administrators with on-demand access to the information and systems they need to better serve their patients. This has led to an increase both in the accuracy and efficiency of hospital operations, which has in turn led to patients that are more satisfied and better served.

http://crmlibrary.crmcommunity.com/detail/RES/1075485923_994.html

REMEMBER:

1. OXIDATIVE STRESS AFTER EXPOSURE TO MICROWAVES:

Effect of electromagnetic field produced by mobile phones on the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD-1) and the level of malonyldialdehyde (MDA)--in vitro study

Stopczyk D, Gnitecki W, Buczynski A, Markuszewski L, Buczynski J.

Zakladu Medycyny Zapobiegawczej i Promocji Zdrowia, Wojskowej Akademii Medycznej w Lodzi. e-mail: darstop@poczta.onet.pl

The aim of the study was to assess in vitro the effect of electromagnetic field produced by mobile phones on the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD-1) and the level of malonyldialdehyde (MDA) in human blood platelets.

The suspension of blood platelets was exposed to the electromagnetic field with the frequency of 900 MHz for 1, 3, 5, and 7 min.

Our studies demonstrated that microwaves produced by mobiles significantly depleted SOD-1 activity after 1, 5, and 7 min of exposure and increased after 3 min in comparison with the control test. There was a significant increase in the concentration of MDA after 1, 5, and 7 min and decrease after 3 min of exposure as compared with the control test. On the grounds of our results we conclude that oxidative stress after exposure to microwaves may be the reason for many adverse changes in cells and may cause a number of systemic disturbances in the human body.

PMID: 12474410 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12474410&dopt=Abstract


2. CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN:

THE HEAD AS AN ANTENNA AND BRAIN TISSUE AS A RADIO RECEIVER.


Weinberger Z, Richter ED.

Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstract:

Headache and other neuropsychological symptoms occur in users of cellular telephones, and controversy exists concerning risks for brain cancer.

We hypothesize these effects result from the head serving as an antenna and brain tissue as a radio receiver. The frequencies for transmission and reception by cellular telephones, about 900MHz for analog and 1800MHz for digital transmission, have wavelengths of 33-35 and 16-17cm, respectively.

Human heads are oval in shape with a short axis about 16 to 17cm in length. Near the ear there will be a cross-section in the head with an axis half the wavelength of RF/MW transmissions of 900MHz and equal to the wavelength of RF/MW transmissions at 1800MHz.

Therefore, the human head can serve as a lossy resonator for the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the cellular telephone, absorbing much of the energy specifically from these wavelengths.

Brain cells and tissues demodulate the cell-phone's audio frequencies from the radio frequency carrier. Low audio frequencies in the ranges of alpha and beta waves affect these waves and thereby influence brain function.

These effects state the case for a precautionary policy.

Med Hypotheses. 2002 Dec;59(6):703-5.

Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
PMID: 12445512 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12445512


Message from Dr Miguel Muntané


Neue Studie aus Polen: Biologische Schädlichkeit von Mobilfunkstrahlung erneut bewiesen - oxidativer Stress siehe auch weitere polnische Beiträge: Mobilfunkbasisstationen schaden der Gesundheit

Quelle: Pubmed, Med Pr. 2002;53(4):311-4. Polish. PMID: 12474410

Oxidativer Stress durch Mikrowellenstrahlung mögliche Ursache für viele negative Zellveränderungen und eine Vielzahl von systemischen Störungen im menschlichen Körper.

Weiteres wichtiges Schlüsselergebniss zum Wirkungsmechanismus der Krebserzeugung durch Mobilfunkstrahlung.

Abstrakt der Studie: (Deutsch):

Ziel der Studie war es, an Zellkulturen in vitro die Wirkung des von Mobiltelefonen produzierten elektromagnetischen Feldes auf die Aktivität von Superoxid-Dismutase (SOD-1) und den Anteil von Malondialdehyd (MDA) in menschlichen Blutplättchen (Thrombozyten) zu prüfen. Die Blutplättchen-Suspension wurde 1, 3, 5 und 7 Minuten mit Mikrowellen (900 MHz, heutige GSM-Mobilfunk-Frequenz/D-Netz) bestrahlt. Die Studie bewies, dass die von Mobiltelefonen ausgehenden Mikrowellen die SOD-1-Aktivität nach 1, 5 und 7 Minuten Exposition signifikant stark reduzierte und nach 3 Minuten erhöhte - im Vergleich zum Kontrolltest. Nach 1,5 und 7 Minuten gab es eine signifikante Erhöhung der MDA-Konzentration und eine Abnahme nach 3 Minuten im Vergleich zum Kontroll-Test. Die Wissenschaftler folgerten aus ihren Studienergebnissen, dass oxidativer Stress nach Mikrowellen-Exposition der Grund für viele negative Zellveränderungen sein könne und eine Vielzahl von systemischen Störungen im menschlichen Körper verursachen könne.

Hintergrund:

Die medizinische Zeitschrift Praxis - Wissenschaft - Originalia äußerte in ihrer Ausgabe 7/97 bereits:

"Das antioxidative Potential des Organismus ist vorrangigstes Überlebensprinzip und entscheidet weitgehend und unmittelbar über Gesundheit oder Krankheit."

Superoxid-Dismutase:

Ein sehr wichtiges Anti-Oxidanz-Enzym. Primärer enzymatischer Fänger für freie Radikale. Es gibt Mangan-Superoxid-Dismutase in Mitochondrien und cystosolische Kupfer-Zink-Dismutase mit exrazellulären Formen in Blut, Lymphen und anderen Körperflüssigkeiten. Superoxid-Ionen werden durch die mitochondriale Atmung, aktivierte Leukocyten, Mikrosomen, toxische Chemikalien und Strahlung in den lebenden Zellen produziert. Superoxid-Dismutase sorgt für den 200fach schnelleren Spontanzerfall von Superoxid. Der Bildung von hochaggressivem Singulett-Sauerstoff, Hydroxyl-Radikalen und anderen reaktiven Sauerstoff-Radikalen wird wirksam vorgebeugt.

Malondialdehyd:

Quelle: http://lapmueller.de/html/info_27.html:

Malondialdehyd - ein Marker für den oxidativen Stress der Zelle

Der menschliche Organismus ist in der modernen Gesellschaft einer Vielzahl Belastungen aus seiner Umwelt ausgesetzt, die hohe Anforderungen an die antioxidativ wirkenden Systeme des Körpers stellen. Durch UV-Strahlung und verschiedenste Noxen werden in den Zellen eine große Menge freier Radikale freigesetzt. Eine Überproduktion von Sauerstoffradikalen oder unzureichende antioxidative Abwehrmechanismen führen im Organismus zu einem vermehrten Auftreten von pathologischen Abbauprodukten, die zu schweren Zellschädigungen führen können. Vorzeitiges Altern und Krankheiten (Diabetes mellitus, Krebs) können sich in der Folge einstellen.

Durch die Oxidation ungesättigter Fettsäuren der Zellmembran werden im Organismus unterschiedlichste Hydroperoxide gebildet. Diese sind chemisch instabil und zerfallen in Aldehyde. Ein besonderes unter diesen stellt das Malondialdehyd (MDA) dar, da es die Eigenschaft hat, Proteine und Lipide zu vernetzen.

Malondialdehyd stellt damit einen Marker dar, der anzeigt, inwieweit das antioxidative System eines Patienten mit der einwirkenden oxidativen Belastung zurechtkommt. Oxidativer Streß führt zu einer verstärkten Lipidoxidation in der Zelle und damit zum Ansteigen der Konzentration von MDA.

Solche erhöhten Werte weisen darauf hin, daß ein oder mehrere Faktoren der antioxidativen Regulation überlastet sind und ein Eingreifen erforderlich wird. An dieser Stelle sollte nach Möglichkeiten der Veränderung der Lebensweise (Rauchen, Ernährung, Wohn-/Arbeitsumfeld) gesucht und eventuelle Schwachstellen in der antioxidativen Abwehr (Vitamine, Spurenelemente) diagnostiziert und gegebenenfalls ausgeglichen werden.

Im Anschluß an eine Therapie läßt sich durch die Bestimmung des Malondialdehyd bei sinkenden Werten ein Erfolg der eingeleiteten Maßnahmen belegen.

zur Interpretation:

Deutlich erhöhte Werte für MDA werden vor allem bei terminaler Niereninsuffizienz, septischem Schock, Schwangeren, bei Einnahme von Antikontrazeptiva, akuter Pankreatitis und Myokardinfarkt beobachtet. Allgemein nimmt der MDA-Spiegel mit zunehmendem Alter zu. Fast alle Risikofaktoren für kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen (Rauchen, Adipositas usw.) manifestieren sich auch in erhöhten Konzentrationen von Malondialdehyd.

Zuweilen werden geringfügig erniedrigte Konzentrationen beobachtet. Hier scheint ein Mangel an ungesättigten freien Fettsäuren zu einem geringeren Gesamtumsatz zu führen. In diesen Fällen sollten andere Wege zur Diagnose des oxidativen Stress (z.B. die Messung des Antioxidantienstatus, vgl. Info 28) beschritten werden.

Die Messung von Malondialdehyd (MDA) hat sich als anerkannte Methode etabliert, die Zerstörung von Lipidstrukturen durch Freie Radikale in vivo zu quantifizieren (siehe: http://oego.or.at/co/co_vii_3.htm).


Quelle: http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/semm.htm

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Daten-Adern für das Krankenhaus der Zukunft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/461749/

WLAN Funknetz als Strahlenschleuder?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/461759/

Funk-Netzwerke
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/257661/

Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/191214/

Bluetooth und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480815/

IS YOUR MOBILE PHONE EATING AWAY AT YOUR BRAIN?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/401587/

Eine neue Studie liefert angeblich Beweise, dass Funkwellen das Erbgut schädigen können. Gemäß Studienkoordinator Franz Adlkofer konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass Mobilfunk-Strahlung die Gene schädigen kann. "Seit 40 Jahren gilt die Lehrmeinung, dass elektromagnetische Felder zu schwach sind, um das Erbgut zu verändern", sagt Adlkofer. "Unsere Ergebnisse können jetzt das Gegenteil zeigen." Zweieinhalb Jahre haben sich zwölf Forschergruppen aus sieben EU-Ländern mit den Auswirkungen von Mobilfunk-Strahlung auf Körperzellen beschäftigt.

http://www.merkur-online.de/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 17.06.2004

Belastungen durch die Umwelt

In Sachen Umwelt wird der Mobilfunk und das Handy zentrales Thema sein. Da während eines Telefonats mit dem Handy im Vergleich zu Basisstationen deutlich höhere Felder auf das Gehirn einwirken, sollten Kinder das Handy nicht mehr als notwendig nutzen. Laut einer belgischen Studie raubt der exzessive Handygebrauch mittlerweile vielen Kindern schon den Schlaf: 3% aller Kinder werden demnach jede Nacht einmal von einer eingehenden SMS geweckt. Die Kurzmitteilungen sorgen sogar für mehr Schlafstörungen als Fernsehen oder der Computer. Handys sollten deshalb aus dem Kinderschlafzimmer verbannt werden.

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 17.06.2004

Noble lies and perpetual war

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-77-1542.jsp


Informant: Let's Make Change

I hope folks recovering from brain problems, will STAY OFF of CELL PHONES!!!! NG


In the last 20 years (during the introduction of cell phones) the incidence of brain cancers went up 40%!

The media won't cover it - too much money involved.

In the meantime, brain dysfunction due to cell phone microwave radiation is affecting many people's metabolism and resistive capacity - immune system breakdown.

Advice: Stay at least 6 to 8 feet away from anyone on a cell phone.

Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM



A Swedish study links mobile phones to brain damage in rats The safety of cellphones has been called into question, again.This time the scientific community is paying very close attention.

Last summer neurosurgeon Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund U. in Sweden published data showing for the first time an unambiguous link between microwave radiation emitted by GSM mobile phones (the most common type worldwide) and brain damage in rats. If Salford's results are confirmed by follow-up studies in the works at research facilities worldwide, including one run by the U.S. Air Force, the data could have serious implications for the one billion plus people glued to their cellphones. -E. Svubodo - Popular Science

The Dental Connection? A micro-waved brain would be associated with a weakened immune response system, affecting periodontal health, TMJ, digestion with concurrent nutritional depletion - every aspect of one's metabolism. The effects are additive - and could appear over an extended period of time.

Jerry Mittelman


Omega see also:

Brain tumours: the silent killer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/235398/

Wi-Fi mobilize yours Chromosomes in Hospital
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245599/