In Iraq, Americans have killed about 19,000 people so far, including 13,000 civilians. That's one of the main reasons for the steady rise in terrorism...

http://tinyurl.com/5ysgz


From Information Clearing House

Pepe Escobar : In God, and terror, we trust:

This, in essence, is the Republican platform for "four more years" of the president of permanent war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6837.htm

Poland's president said he did not want to see “America take the ideas of the neoconservatives of isolationism, to have full dominance in the world and to play a divide-and-rule policy - it is a mistake.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=536957.html


From Information Clearing House

In a long and faraway war, the dead too easily lose their names and become like numbers on a scoreboard.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/9515511.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6aql5


From Information Clearing House

The people that birthed Western civilization refuses to go quietly into colonial subjugation.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-01forum01sep02,0,5498234.story?coll=sfla-news-opinion
http://tinyurl.com/67599


From Information Clearing House

Iris Atzmon

Einstein School in Haifa was not opened on the first day of the school, after the pupils' parents had learnt of the high radiation level found by Dr. Ehud Neman (former Env. Ministry head of radiation dep.) in the school area. The source is the army FM antenna. The AM antenna at the same place, was closed several years ago, after the citizens' fight. There were cancer cases among soldiers who served in the area, and also among the residents. The FM antenna is one of 4 towers in the area, rich with cellular antennas.

The Env. Ministry didn't like the results of the Cities Union measurement. It was reported in Haaretz newspaper on the 1/9/2004, that the Env. Ministry and the Cities Union blamed one each other. The Env. Minister, Yehudit Naot, "instead of deciding, sent a non-obligatory letter to the Cities Union, with unclear sayings about the danger from radiation.

Israeli army's spokesman said in reaction to the issue, that the day before yesterday there was an additional measurement, in which there was not radiation above the standard." (Daivd Ratner to Haaretz 1.9.2004)

But what did the Minister write in the letter?

One of the parents tells, that in the letter, the Minister wrote that the Cities Union results were misleading [it found up to 400% more than the recommendation of the Env. Ministry which is 20 uW/cm2] and in any case it only refers partially to the Ministry recommendation, because the Ministry divides the radiation levels according to the population density and according to how much time the people spend outside the house, and more. And that of course that whoever checks radiation and is not from the Env. Ministry is puposely misleading and it is not clear why the Cities Union participated in that. Also in the Env. Ministry measurement there were exceedings, they also agree that lately the activity level of the site increased.

On the 1.9.2004, the parents sat together with the mayor until 1.00 at night, and decided that a monitoring station will be built, funded by the contaminator, and it will warn when high radiation will be found. The parents understand that it won't solve the problem, but they decided to open the year and continue to fight.

Is there any other Env. Ministry in the world that devides radiation level according to population density, and the time they spend outside their house "and more"?

So they must have a daily report from each resident, how much time he is going to be everyday outside his house to adjust the radiation level to that....

So how much radiation are the antennas going to emit when the pupils are in the classrooms and how much when they are out of the classrooms? Here's a tricky question for the Minister.


Update 13. October 2004:

The development is quite expected but with a twist at the end:
The citizens protested today the maire also came. He said, at first, that this massive antenna shouldn't be there even if the Env. ministry says the radiation level is ok, and this is what the Env. ministry says, and further claims that the army did some operations in order to reduce the radiation level so "everything is fine now".

Then, the TV presenter showed the big gap of the two measurements results that the Env. ministry "found", and the ministry did them in a time gap of only 5 days: for example, in the first measurement they "found" 16 uW/cm2 and 5 days afterwards 1 uW/cm2. So, then the TV presenter shows a very interesting sentence of the ministry's unpublished report [the ministry refused to publish the report] : they write that "the result is valid/ true only for the time and the place of the measurement". So that is I think important in the legal aspect, because they claim that it is enough to do measurements once a year near cellular antennas and present them on their website as "reliable". If they "find" this gap within 5 days, what is the public supposed to understand with regard to the once a year measurements that the Env. ministry protects? I think the ministry fell into its own trap now.

http://www.tackamarks.freeservers.com/


Informant: maraki724

http://www.mattbroughton.com/current_darkness.html

Sent by my brilliant friend Matt John, and well worth the read. This is indeed the worst year for the human race in recent memory (and I lived through Nixon and Reagan!), and one noted not just by the fact that the Bush team is sending the world to its apocalypse, but that all too many Americans (perhaps a majority) are wilfully participating in lighting the fuse.

Loring

A father writes to MFSO and includes a letter he recently sent to his son in Iraq

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3114


Informant: maraki724

FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062


Informant: maraki724

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AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS--HERE IS THE PROOF!

Imperialism according to the conception of Che: the highest form of development of capitalism, with the purpose to conquer economical and political power world wide. Sometimes by setting up a puppet government in a developing country, sometimes through deals laid down by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. That is the favourite way capitalist governments subdue developing countries to open up their economies to the interests of western multinational concerns. In case such countries won't keep in line, the ultimate trick is to launch a military intervention under the flag of the United Nations to restore "democracy" or "human rights".
-Ernesto Che Guevara before his death in 1967 (helped by the CIA)

"End the philosophy of plunder and the philosophy of war will be ended as well" -Campanero Fidel Castro

The so-called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from arising in their minds - (The Occult Technocracy of Power)


AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS--HERE IS THE PROOF!
From: LizSAllen
Date:
Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:12:40 EST

AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/CAMPS.HTM

Mississippi Camps Confirmed
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps_confirmed.htm

Photos are slow loading but worth the wait........... Never Surrender !!!!!!


Informant: sash

Parecon

Life After Capitalism

MICHAEL ALBERT

http://www.zmag.org/books/pareconv/parefinal.htm

Page 3, Modern Money Mechanics: pub. Fed bank of Chicago.

What Makes Money Valuable?

In the United States neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities. Intrinsically, a dollar bill is just a piece of paper, deposits are merely book entries. Coins do have some intrinsic value as metal, but generally far less than their face value. (maybe 97 percent less?)

What, then, makes these instruments - checks, paper money, and coins - acceptable at face value in payment of all debts and for other monetary uses? Mainly, it is the confidence people have that they will be able to exchange such money for other financial assets and for real goods and services whenever they choose to do so. (The opposite of 'real' is imaginary--their spurious specie is imaginary)

DID THEY OR DID THEY NOT ADMIT OPERATING A CONFIDENCE GAME?

Did they not admit the history of banking is a history of fraud? Read on!

In the absence of legal reserve requirements, banks can build up deposits by increasing loans and investments so long as they keep enough currency on hand to redeem whatever amounts the holders of deposits want to convert into currency. This unique attribute of the banking business was discovered many centuries ago.It started with goldsmiths. As early bankers, they initially provided safekeeping services, making a profit from vault storage fees for gold and coins deposited with them. People would redeem their "deposit receipts" whenever they needed gold or coins to purchase something, and physically take the gold or coins to the seller who, in turn, would deposit them for safekeeping, often with the same banker. Everyone soon found that it was a lot easier simply to use the deposit receipts directly as a means of payment. These receipts, which became known as notes, were acceptable as money since whoever held them could go to the banker and exchange them for metallic money.Then, bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promises to pay, or bank notes, to borrowers. In this way, banks began to create money. More notes could be issued than the gold and coin on hand (FRAUD!)because only a portion of the notes outstanding would be presented for payment at any one time. Enough metallic money (NO SUCH ANIMAL!) had to be kept on hand, of course, to redeem whatever volume of notes was presented for payment.

WHEN THE GOLD SMITHS SAW IT WAS MORE PROFITABLE TO WORK PEOPLE THAN GOLD, THEY STOPPED GOLDSMITHING AND BECAME BANKERS,

ya don't see the fraud here, Mr. Miner?

What limits the Amount of Money Banks Can Create? If deposit money can be created so easily, what is to prevent banks from making too much - more than sufficient to keep the nation's productive resources fully employed without price inflation? Like its predecessor, the modern bank must keep available, to make payment on demand, a considerable amount of currency and funds on deposit with the central bank. The bank must be prepared to convert deposit money into currency for those depositors who request currency.

The only thing congress ever made "current as money" was silver coins!!

Do banks offer silver coins to depositors, Mr. Miner? Or do they admit fraud and a confidence game?

Quotes above are straight from the "horses' mouth".

Get whole booklet here:
http://landru.i-link-2.net/monques/mmm2.html#MODERN

They admit that no money goes to Washington as taxes. I have offered that page to thousands and I don't think more than two cared to see it. Maybe they trust me?

The IRS wrote that dollar bills "are not dollars" so when you report an income of "dollars" what did you have in mind?

Why don't ya tell us what branch of government ya work for Mr. Miner?


Informant: Nilbux

Institute for Responsible Technology

Spilling the Beans,

Sept. 1, 2004

Newsletter on GM Foods, September issue Spilling the Beans

Another Reason for Schools to Ban Genetically Engineered Foods

By Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception



Before the Appleton Wisconsin high school replaced their cafeteria’s processed foods with wholesome, nutritious food, the school was described as out-of-control. There were weapons violations, student disruptions, and a cop on duty full-time. After the change in school meals, the students were calm, focused, and orderly. There were no more weapons violations, and no suicides, expulsions, dropouts, or drug violations. The new diet and improved behavior has lasted for seven years, and now other schools are changing their meal programs with similar results.

Years ago, a science class at Appleton found support for their new diet by conducting a cruel and unusual experiment with three mice. They fed them the junk food that kids in other high schools eat everyday. The mice freaked out. Their behavior was totally different than the three mice in the neighboring cage. The neighboring mice had good karma; they were fed nutritious whole foods and behaved like mice. They slept during the day inside their cardboard tube, played with each other, and acted very mouse-like. The junk food mice, on the other hand, destroyed their cardboard tube, were no longer nocturnal, stopped playing with each other, fought often, and two mice eventually killed the third and ate it. After the three month experiment, the students rehabilitated the two surviving junk food mice with a diet of whole foods. After about three weeks, the mice came around.

Sister Luigi Frigo repeats this experiment every year in her second grade class in Cudahy, Wisconsin, but mercifully, for only four days. Even on the first day of junk food, the mice’s behavior “changes drastically.” They become lazy, antisocial, and nervous. And it still takes the mice about two to three weeks on unprocessed foods to return to normal. One year, the second graders tried to do the experiment again a few months later with the same mice, but this time the animals refused to eat the junk food.

Across the ocean in Holland, a student fed one group of mice genetically modified (GM) corn and soy, and another group the non-GM variety. The GM mice stopped playing with each other and withdrew into their own parts of the cage. When the student tried to pick them up, unlike their well-behaved neighbors, the GM mice scampered around in apparent fear and tried to climb the walls. One mouse in the GM group was found dead at the end of the experiment.

It’s interesting to note that the junk food fed to the mice in the Wisconsin experiments also contained genetically modified ingredients. And although the Appleton school lunch program did not specifically attempt to remove GM foods, it happened anyway. That’s because GM foods such as soy and corn and their derivatives are largely found in processed foods. So when the school switched to unprocessed alternatives, almost all ingredients derived from GM crops were taken out automatically.

Does this mean that GM foods negatively affect the behavior of humans or animals? It would certainly be irresponsible to say so on the basis of a single student mice experiment and the results at Appleton. On the other hand, it is equally irresponsible to say that it doesn’t.

We are just beginning to understand the influence of food on behavior. A study in Science in December 2002 concluded that “food molecules act like hormones, regulating body functioning and triggering cell division. The molecules can cause mental imbalances ranging from attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder to serious mental illness.” The problem is we do not know which food molecules have what effect. The bigger problem is that the composition of GM foods can change radically without our knowledge.

Genetically modified foods have genes inserted into their DNA. But genes are not Legos; they don’t just snap into place. Gene insertion creates unpredicted, irreversible changes. In one study, for example, a gene chip monitored the DNA before and after a single foreign gene was inserted. As much as 5 percent of the DNA’s genes changed the amount of protein they were producing. Not only is that huge in itself, but these changes can multiply through complex interactions down the line.

In spite of the potential for dramatic changes in the composition of GM foods, they are typically measured for only a small number of known nutrient levels. But even if we could identify all the changed compounds, at this point we wouldn’t know which might be responsible for the antisocial nature of mice or humans. Likewise, we are only beginning to identify the medicinal compounds in food. We now know, for example, that the pigment in blueberries may revive the brain’s neural communication system, and the antioxidant found in grape skins may fight cancer and reduce heart disease. But what about other valuable compounds we don’t know about that might change or disappear in GM varieties?

Consider GM soy. In July 1999, years after it was on the market, independent researchers published a study showing that it contains 12-14 percent less cancer-fighting phytoestrogens. What else has changed that we don’t know about? [Monsanto responded with its own study, which concluded that soy’s phytoestrogen levels vary too much to even carry out a statistical analysis. They failed to disclose, however, that the laboratory that conducted Monsanto’s experiment had been instructed to use an obsolete method to detect phytoestrogens—one that had been replaced due to its highly variable results.]

In 1996, Monsanto published a paper in the Journal of Nutrition that concluded in the title, “The composition of glyphosate-tolerant soybean seeds is equivalent to that of conventional soybeans.” The study only compared a small number of nutrients and a close look at their charts revealed significant differences in the fat, ash, and carbohydrate content. In addition, GM soy meal contained 27 percent more trypsin inhibitor, a well-known soy allergen. The study also used questionable methods. Nutrient comparisons are routinely conducted on plants grown in identical conditions so that variables such as weather and soil can be ruled out. Otherwise, differences in plant composition could be easily missed. In Monsanto’s study, soybeans were planted in widely varying climates and geography.

Although one of their trials was a side-by-side comparison between GM and non-GM soy, for some reason the results were left out of the paper altogether. Years later, a medical writer found the missing data in the archives of the Journal of Nutrition and made them public. No wonder the scientists left them out. The GM soy showed significantly lower levels of protein, a fatty acid, and phenylalanine, an essential amino acid. Also, toasted GM soy meal contained nearly twice the amount of a lectin that may block the body’s ability to assimilate other nutrients. Furthermore, the toasted GM soy contained as much as seven times the amount of trypsin inhibitor, indicating that the allergen may survive cooking more in the GM variety. (This might explain the 50 percent jump in soy allergies in the UK, just after GM soy was introduced.)

We don’t know all the changes that occur with genetic engineering, but certainly GM crops are not the same. Ask the animals. Eyewitness reports from all over North America describe how several types of animals, when given a choice, avoided eating GM food. These included cows, pigs, elk, deer, raccoons, squirrels, rats, and mice. In fact, the Dutch student mentioned above first determined that his mice had a two-to-one preference for non-GM before forcing half of them to eat only the engineered variety.

Differences in GM food will likely have a much larger impact on children. They are three to four times more susceptible to allergies. Also, they convert more of the food into body-building material. Altered nutrients or added toxins can result in developmental problems. For this reason, animal nutrition studies are typically conducted on young, developing animals. After the feeding trial, organs are weighed and often studied under magnification. If scientists used mature animals instead of young ones, even severe nutritional problems might not be detected. The Monsanto study used mature animals instead of young ones.

They also diluted their GM soy with non-GM protein 10- or 12–fold before feeding the animals. And they never weighed the organs or examined them under a microscope. The study, which is the only major animal feeding study on GM soy ever published, is dismissed by critics as rigged to avoid finding problems.

Unfortunately, there is a much bigger experiment going on—an uncontrolled one which we are all a part of. We’re being fed GM foods daily, without knowing the impact of these foods on our health, our behavior, or our children. Thousands of schools around the world, particularly in Europe, have decided not to let their kids be used as guinea pigs. They have banned GM foods.

The impact of changes in the composition of GM foods is only one of several reasons why these foods may be dangerous. Other reasons may be far worse (see http://www.seedsofdeception.com). With the epidemic of obesity and diabetes and with the results in Appleton, parents and schools are waking up to the critical role that diet plays. When making changes in what kids eat, removing GM foods should be a priority.

A videotape on changing school meals, including footage from Appleton, will be available in the fall, 2004 at http://www.seedsofdeception.com. The website also describes how to avoid eating GM foods.


Informant: userde6253

"Higher levels of flame retardants found in farmed salmon" read the headlines a few weeks ago. While the news raised questions about the safety of eating farmed fish, the bigger question might be: why the heck are there flame retardants in salmon at all?

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-02/s_26820.asp

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/bankers.html


Informant: Ozzy bin Oswald

http://www.sobran.com/tyranny.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

George Bush's war on terror may have made the world a more dangerous place. But it is his atrocious record on the environment that poses the greatest threat, says Graydon Carter, in the second exclusive extract from his new book...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1294793,00.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374288925/newheavenneweart

Informant: NHNE

Omega see also:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090304G.shtml

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/08/27/120.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jacob G. Hornberger

Future of Freedom Foundation

09/01/04

It feels good when a public official, especially the president of the United States, speaks the truth, which is what happened on Monday when President George W. Bush uttered words that The Future of Freedom Foundation has been publishing ever since 9/11 -- 'I don't think you can win [the war on terror].' Well, duh! Of course, the president is absolutely right, even if he did backtrack a bit the following day ..."

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0409a.asp

Omega see also:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20040902.shtml
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2004/09/02
http://tinyurl.com/59v7g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Don Newman

Hawaii Reporter

09/01/04

There can hardly be a better example of unintended consequences than what is happening during this current campaign for president. The roots of this state of affairs goes back generations but the implications today are chilling. It results in one more chink in the armor by which we are losing the republic which Benjamin Franklin said it was our responsibility to keep...

http://tinyurl.com/6ut7s


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200409011010.htm

Source: Greenpeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

US: Egosurfing für Einreisewillige empfohlen

Das US-Behörden immer mehr Datenbanken und Computersysteme zur Beschaffung ihrer Daten heranziehen, dokumentiert sich laufend an unterschiedlichsten Stellen - hierbei wird die Qualität und Vertrauenswürdigkeit der jeweiligen Quelle auch schon mal vernachlässigt: Quantität wird zur Wahrheit.

post/scrypt: Es werden nur noch nicht-kontroversielle Denker gewünscht.

What does America have to fear from me?
http://www.iht.com/articles/536614.html

[International Herald Tribune - Print 1.Sept.2004 - Web 31.Aug]

Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

relayed by Mac Gyver

http://www.iht.com/articles/536614.html


Information from quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

Auf Vorschlag von Frau Dr. Birgit Stöcker, der Vorsitzenden des Vereins für Elektrosensible e.V., wurde in München ein Krankenhaus gesucht in dem sich auch elektrosensible Patienten in einem möglichst elektrosmogarmen Umfeld aufhalten können.

Auf Grund von Berichten aus dem Kreis der Mitglieder des Vereins wurden im Rot-Kreuz-Krankenhaus in München - mit Zustimmung des leitenden Direktors - orientierende Hochfrequenzmessungen mit einem Breitbandmessgerät 58B der Firma Gigahertz Solutions in mehreren Stockwerken durchgeführt.

Dabei zeigte sich, dass in dem Gebäude erfreulicherweise keine schnurlose DECT Telefonanlage betrieben wird. Zusätzlich ergaben die Messungen mit einer Bewertung entsprechend dem Standard der baubiologischen Messtechnik SBM - 2003 in der Regel als Ergebnis eine schwache Anomalie bei der gepulsten Hochfrequenzstrahlung, vor allem in den unteren Stockwerken.

Das Krankenhaus hat Abteilungen für Innere Medizin und Chirurgie, sowie Belegbetten für HNO, Urologie, Orthopädie und Augenerkrankungen.

Herr Prof. Müller, der für die Messungen seine Zustimmung gab, schlägt vor, dass sich elektrosensible Patienten über sein Sekretariat telefonisch unter 089 1303 2521 voranmelden.

Mit besten Grüßen

Kurt S. Renz

Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4258


Das ist schon mal sehr gut, dass in dem Krankenhaus keine DECT- Telefonanlage betrieben wird und dass die Mobilfunksignale von außen relativ schwach sind. Wie lange noch? Das müsste eindeutig geklärt werden, bevor man Empfehlungen für ein solches Krankenhaus ausspricht. Und wie sieht es mit dem Gebrauch von Handies durch Personal und Patienten aus? Wird das auch überwacht?

Des weiteren ist ja nur eine Komponente des vielseitigen, allgegenwärtigen "Elektrosmogs" gemessen worden. Was ist mit den anderen? Gerade am Krankenbett und insbesondere auf Intensivstationen mit ihren vielen elektrischen Geräten findet man besonders starke elektrische Wechselfelder, die eigentlich relativ einfach mit abgeschirmten (und natürlich geerdeten) Netzleitungen auf ein Minimum reduziert werden können. Wie soll da ein Patient sich richtig wohl fühlen und gesund werden?

Wie sieht es wohl mit magnetischen Wechselfeldern aus? Durch vagabundierende Ströme können starke Felder sowohl im Krankenhaus aber auch in den Erdkabeln draußen entstehen, die den Patienten Probleme bereiten können.

Mit einem freundlichen Gruß aus dem Münsterland
Dipl.- Ing. Wolfgang Priggen

Quelle:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4260
(Auszug)

Studie: Wertminderung durch Sendemasten

Eine Umfrage gibt Aufschluss über den Einfluss von Sendemasten auf das Käuferverhalten - die Ergebnisse werden keinen Makler kalt lassen!

In den Medien wird das Thema Gesundheitsgefährdung, die von Mobilfunksendemasten ausgeht, sehr kontrovers diskutiert. Von absolut unschädlich bis hochgradig gefährlich wird jede Meinung vertreten. Welche Ansicht die Richtige ist, lässt sich für den Laien nicht erkennen. Fakt ist aber, dass fast jeder eine Meinung dazu hat. (...) Aus Maklersicht stellt sich also konkret die Frage, ob es dem Wert von Immobilien schadet, wenn sich in unmittelbarer Nähe ein Mobilfunksendemast befindet. Die Immobilienbetreuungsgesellschaft mbH von Medinger, München, wollte auf diese Frage eine Antwort und hat deshalb unter 600 RDM-Maklern eine Umfrage dazu durchgeführt.

Betroffene Immobilien sinken im Käuferinteresse

In dem ersten Teil der Umfrage sollten die Makler angeben, ob sie die Erfahrung gemacht haben, dass Sendemasten, die in einem Umkreis von 150 m zur Immobilie stehen, verkaufshemmend wirken. Die überwältigende Mehrheit von 70 Prozent derjenigen Makler, die sich zu der Frage geäußert haben, konnte dies bejahen. Nur 15 Prozent haben keinerlei Einfluss auf die Verkaufsattraktivität feststellen können. Weitere 15 Prozent wurden mit dem Thema noch nicht konfrontiert, weil in der von ihnen bearbeiteten ländlichen Region (noch) keine Sendemasten aufgestellt wurden. Das Ergebnis spricht für sich und wird jeden Makler alarmieren. Geradezu beängstigend ist aber das Resultat des zweiten Teils der Umfrage. Hier sollten die Makler angeben, ob sie einen Wertverlust für die betroffenen Immobilien schätzen können.

Wertverlust bis zu 50 Prozent

Die Einschätzung derjenigen Makler, die bereits versucht haben, eine solche Immobilie zu verkaufen, reichen von 5 über 15, 20, 30, 40 bis hin zu 50 Prozent Wertminderung. Entscheidender Faktor ist die tatsächliche Entfernung des Sendemasts zur Immobilie. Ein Sendemast vis à vis dem Schlafzimmer des zu verkaufenden Objekts kann sich ganz schnell nicht nur verkaufshemmend, sondern als verkaufshindernd auswirken. Ein Aspekt, der mehrfach bei der Beantwortung der Frage von den Maklern erwähnt wurde, ist die Tatsache, dass oftmals bereits im Vorfeld Besichtigungen abgesagt wurden, wenn von den Kauf- aber auch von den Mietinteressenten erkannt worden war, dass sich das Gebäude in unmittelbarer Nähe einer Sendeanlage befindet. Zu einer Diskussion über eine Kaufpreissenkung oder Mietminderung kommt es in diesen Fällen gar nicht, da es sich um grundsätzliche, also zumeist gesundheitliche Bedenken handelt. Diesen Interessenten wird selbst ein 50-prozentiger Wertminderungsansatz für die jeweilige Immobilie nicht gerecht.

Prädikat: Unverkäuflich!

Aufgrund der Entwicklungen sind die Makler zurückhaltend geworden und nehmen nur noch ungern entsprechende Objekte in ihren Katalog mit auf. Der Makler S. aus W. berichtet von einem besonders abschreckendem Beispiel: In seinem Objektbestand bot er ein Gebäude in der Stadt K. an. Es hatte eine exponierte Aussichtslage und war frisch renoviert. Die Immobilie hatte aber einen entscheidenden Haken: Der Eigentümer hatte sich breit schlagen lassen, für zehn Jahre eine Sendeanlage gegen 5.000 Euro Miete im Jahr zu installieren. Makler S. versucht nun das Objekt zu verkaufen und fand dafür drei solvente Interessenten, doch alle drei lehnten explizit wegen der Sendeanlage ab. Für Makler S. ist klar: Das Objekt ist mit Sendeanlage praktisch unverkäuflich...

„Ich fühle mich entschädigungslos enteignet.“

Aber nicht nur die Makler leiden unter der Situation, sondern vor allem auch die Eigentümer. Ein betroffener Eigentümer berichtet, dass er seine Immobilie schnell verkaufen wollte, als in 100 Meter Entfernung ein Sendemast angebracht wurde. Der beauftragte Makler musste ihm mitteilen, dass das Objekt aufgrund der Basisstation mit ca. 1/3 wertmindernd anzusetzen sei. Dadurch wurde der Verkauf und der anschließende Neukauf für den Eigentümer finanziell unmöglich. Er erklärte, dass er sich vom Anlagenbetreiber entschädigungslos enteignet fühlt.

Denkt man an diesem Fall noch etwas weiter und rechnet am Beispiel München hoch, dass sich ca. 20 Häuser in der näheren Nachbarschaft von einer Sendeanlage befinden und unterstellt man, das diese Häuser eine durchschnittliche Wohnfläche von 1.600 qm haben, dann erleiden konsequenterweise ca. 32.000 qm Wohnfläche pro Sendeanlage eine Wertminderung. Rechnet man das auf 1.200 Sendeanlagen hoch, die in München aufgestellt werden sollen (700 davon sind bereits installiert), ergäbe das eine Wertminderung für 38,5 Millionen Quadratmeter Fläche allein in München. Nimmt man nur eine Wertminderung von 500 Euro/qm an, berechnet sich ein Schaden am Privatvermögen in Höhe von ca. 19 Milliarden Euro.

Fazit

Für Makler kann das nur heißen, dass Vorsicht geboten ist, denn Topimmobilien können durch die unmittelbare Nähe einer Sendeanlage zur Karteileiche werden. Seriöse Makler sind im Zuge ihrer Treuepflichten dazu verpflichtet, ihren Auftraggeber, aber auch den Interessenten, auf die bestehende Problematik aufmerksam zu machen.

Autorin: Ronja Sebode (aus: Immobilien, Wirtschaft und Recht, Nr. 6, 2002, S. 60/61)

Quelle: http://www.vauban.de/forum/thema.php?topic=702

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WERTVERMINDERUNG VON LIEGENSCHAFTEN

Die Strahlen drücken auf die Preise der Wohnhäuser

Natelantennen und Stromleitungen lösen nicht nur gesundheitliche Sorgen aus. Berner Immobilienfirmen bestätigen: Der Marktwert eines Hauses sinkt, wenn in der Nähe solche Anlagen montiert werden.

Morgens um zwei Uhr wacht Ernst Brönnimann auf – jede Nacht. Das Brummen der Hochspannungsleitung, die wenige Meter neben seinem Hof bei Oberbalm vorbeiführt, sei dann klar zu hören. Für die nächsten ein bis zwei Stunden könne er an Schlaf nicht mehr denken. Der frühere Berner Großrat ist überzeugt, dass seine Schlaflosigkeit mit der Stromleitung zu tun hat. «In meiner Ferienwohnung in Spanien schlafe ich nämlich hervorragend.»

Die Leistung der Stromleitung soll in nächster Zeit massiv erhöht werden. Brönnimann sorgt sich nicht nur um seinen Schlaf. Er will auch wissen, was dies finanziell für ihn bedeuten könnte. Er hat ein Immobilienunternehmen damit beauftragt, zu schätzen, mit welchem Wertverlust seiner Liegenschaft er rechnen muss – «auch, wenn das Resultat ernüchternd sein könnte». Für rund eine Million Franken hat Brönnimann zwei Mietwohnungen in seinen Hof eingebaut. Wenn die Leitung aufgerüstet und nicht verlegt wird, werde die Lage prekär, so Brönnimann. «Dann muss ich die Mieten wohl tiefer ansetzen», sagt er, «vielleicht will auch gar niemand mehr hier wohnen.»

Preise sinken über Nacht

Nicht nur wegen Stromleitungen, auch wegen Natelantennen kann der Marktwert umliegender Häuser in den Keller fallen: «Ich lachte früher über dieses Argument von Mobilfunkgegnern», sagt Jean-Pierre Weyermann von der Berner Immobilienfirma Schneller AG. Doch in letzter Zeit sei er eines Besseren belehrt worden. Sogar «massiv», das heißt «30 bis 50 Prozent», könne der Marktwert einer Liegenschaft sinken, wenn eine Antenne oder eine Stromleitung in der Nähe eingerichtet werde.

Auch Paul Brand, Inhaber der Aare Immobilien-Treuhand AG in Muri, stellt fest, dass sich Anfragen für Hausschätzungen wegen Strahlen häufen. «Es ist eine neue Form von äußerem Einfluss.» Mit einer abstrahlenden Anlage in der Nachbarschaft werde es schwieriger, ein Haus zu vermieten. Der Ertragswert sinke, und es komme zu einer Wertverminderung.

30 Prozent Mietreduktion

Im Jahr 2000 entschied das Genfer Mietamt, dass Mietern in einem Quartier eine Mietzinsreduktion von 30 Prozent zustehe. Der Grund: Auf dem Dach einer nahen Liegenschaft befand sich eine Mobilfunkanlage der Firma Sunrise, gegen welche sich die Anwohner gewehrt hatten. Obwohl der Besitzer der Liegenschaft für die Antenne Miete kassiert, verlangte er, dass Sunrise die drei Antennen abbaut – die Mietverluste waren enorm geworden.

Es sei nicht grundsätzlich zu schätzen, welchen Wert eine Liegenschaft durch eine nahe Antenne verliere, sagt Francesco Canonica. Er ist Mitglied des Kreises 6 (Region Bern) der Eidgenössischen Schätzungskommission. «Es gibt viele Daten über Strahlen», sagt er. Darauf stütze sich auch das Recht, wenn es darum gehe, eine Antenne oder Leitung zu bauen. «Aber Tabellen und Richtwerte, was das finanziell bedeuten kann, gibt es nicht», so Canonica, «denn jeder Fall ist ein Einzelfall, ähnlich wie beim Lärm.»

Die Studie des Buwal

In Zukunft könnten die Strahlen noch stärker auf den Preis betroffener Häuser drücken. Denn immer öfter sprechen laut Immobilienhändler Wymann nicht nur Kunden, die sensibel auf Strahlen reagieren, das Thema an. Auch Leute, die keine Angst vor Elektrosmog hätten, verlangten Preissenkungen. «Sie befürchten, das Haus später nicht mehr zum selben Preis verkaufen zu können.» Dass Häuser in der Nähe einer Stromleitung an Wert verlieren, hat 2003 auch das Bundesgericht bestätigt (Kasten).

Ein Thema ist der neue Preisfaktor auch beim Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft (Buwal). Seit 2004 ist dort eine Studie zu den Auswirkungen von Immissionen auf den Marktwert von Liegenschaften in Arbeit. Neben Fluglärm untersucht das Buwal auch Mobilfunkantennen als möglichen Einfluss. Das Buwal will die Ergebnisse nächstes Jahr veröffentlichen.

Keiner wills auf dem Dach

Dächer von Mehrfamilienhäusern sind begehrte Antennenstandorte. Die Mobilfunkanbieter dürfen aber nur dann eine Antenne installieren, wenn der Besitzer einwilligt. Offenbar ist das immer seltener: «Neun von zehn Hausbesitzern lehnen entsprechende Anfragen ab», sagt Rolf Kuhn, Inhaber der Liegenschaftsverwaltung Kuhn Immobilien in Worb. Erstaunlich ist Kuhns Bilanz, weil die Telefongesellschaften den Hausbesitzern Mieten für die Antennen zahlen. Kuhn weiß von einem Fall, in dem ein Unternehmen für die Jahresmiete 4000 Franken zahlte.

Eine mögliche Erklärung für diese Ablehnung hat Martin Frei, Vorstandsmitglied des Schweizerischen Immobilienschätzerverbands. «Mein subjektiver Eindruck ist, dass die Leute dann viel empfindlicher reagieren, wenn Antennen oder die Strommasten gut sichtbar sind.»

Wohnbauten in der Nähe einer Stromleitung können auch einen Wertverlust erleiden, wenn die Überbaubarkeit nicht behindert wird und keine Immissionen zu befürchten sind. Viele Käufer würden sich nämlich aus psychologischen Gründen nicht mehr für solche Liegenschaften interessieren. Dies hielt das Bundesgericht in einem Urteil aus dem Jahr 2003 fest. Ein Landwirt aus dem Glarnerland klagte, seine Liegenschaft werde um 70 Prozent entwertet, weil die Stromleitung über seinem Grundstück aufgerüstet wird – wie in Oberbalm (siehe Haupttext). Der Kläger erhielt allerdings nur die in einem solchen Fall übliche Entschädigung. wrs

Berner Zeitung, Mischa Aebi, Wolf Röcken [21.04.05]

http://www.espace.ch/artikel_82534.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

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Immobilien und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/475821/

Wertminderung durch Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1071979/

Wertverlust von Immobilien durch Sendemasten
http://www.izgmf.de/Aktionen/Meldungen/Archiv_03/Wertverlust_Immobilien/wertverlust_immobilien.html

Mieter und Käufer nehmen Abstand
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/snimmo201103.htm

IMMOBILIEN-WERTVERLUST durch MOBILFUNK
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/aktuell/immo-survey.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/rdm_wertminderung_fuer_immobilien_durch_sendmasten.pdf

Wertminderung von Immobilien durch Mobilfunksendeanlagen
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobilfunkantennen_in_der_nachbarschaft.pdf

Wertminderung von Immobilien durch Mobilfunk-Sendemasten
http://www.attendorn.de/mobilfunkattendorn/aspekte/wertminderung_infos/
http://www.attendorn.de/mobilfunkattendorn/aspekte/wertminderung/

Wertminderung durch Sendemasten
http://www.mobilfunk-oldenburg.de/Recht/hauptteil_recht.html

Wertminderung für Immobilien durch Sendemasten?
http://www.inputmagazin.de/hauptrubriken1.php3?beitrag=482&rubrik=17

Wertverlust durch Mobilfunk?
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/immobilien/geldmarkt/artikel/341/5336/

Wertminderung von Immobilien durch Mobilfunksendemasten
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/wvidm161203.htm

Wertzuwachs/Wertminderung durch Mobilfunk-Antennen in der Nachbarschaft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/260482/

Mobilfunk und Mietumfeld
http://www.risiko-mobilfunk.at/rmf_mietumfeld.html

Das Verwaltungsgericht Gelsenkirchen sperrte 1993 einen D1-Turm
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/recht.htm

Schulbeginn beschert Handyläden im Landkreis höhere Verkaufszahlen

Saalfeld-Rudolstadt

(OTZ/Korr.). Neben einem Schulranzen, Buntstiften und der Fibel scheinen jetzt Handys zu einem der wichtigsten Utensilien für den Schulanfang geworden zu sein. Die Auswirkungen dieses Trends spüren derzeit einige Telefonhändler im Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, wie gestern eine kleine Umfrage dazu ergab.

Nachdem die Schule in Thüringen begonnen hat, registriert man in diesen Tagen viele Eltern, die sich nach Mobiltelefonen für ihre Abc-Schützen umsehen, sagt Andreas Geithner vom Vodafone-Shop in Saalfeld. "Die Nachfrage hat in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen", stellt er fest.

Von einer leichten Zunahme spricht Heiko Michel von Media Michel Könitz. "Das Einstiegsalter geht immer weiter nach unten", will er beobachtet haben.

"Mehr Telefonkäufe für Kinder sind das Resultat von immer mehr Bequemlichkeit der Gesellschaft und wachsendem Verlangen nach Sicherheit", ist sich Peggy Sehrer, Handyverkäuferin in Rudolstadt, sicher. Sie selbst habe ein Kind in entsprechendem Alter, aber so ein Kasten käme nicht in Frage. "Vielleicht zur Jugendweihe", blickt sie voraus. Zugleich räumt sie aber ein, dass die Telefone immer besser auf Kinderhände und bangende Eltern zugeschnitten sind: "Bei vielen lässt sich der Gebrauch einschränken. Beispielsweise kann das Gerät so justiert werden, dass nur Anrufe entgegengenommen werden können." So ließen sich unerwartet hohe Rechnungen vermeiden.

Trotz der enormen Nachfrage hätten Handys in der Schule nichts zu suchen. Darauf weist der Thüringer Verband für Bildung und Erziehung hin. Ein Handy werde schnell zu einem Statussymbol und könne so zur sozialen Abgrenzung führen, hieß es. In der Schulzeit sollten hingegen Kinder aller sozialen Schichten miteinander umgehen und gemeinsam lernen.

Lehrer, die diese These stützen sollten, warnen zudem davor, dass durch die Handynutzung in Schulen ein störungsfreier Unterrichtsablauf nicht gewährleistet sei. "Selbstverständlich beobachten wir diesen Trend und sind entschieden gegen Telefone im Unterricht, sagte eine Grundschullehrerin, die nicht genannt sein wollte, der OTZ. Wenn Handys in der Stunde klingeln oder sie zum SMS-Schreiben benutzt würden, sei das eine nicht hinnehmbare Störung.

Omega siehe hierzu „Kinder und Mobilfunk“ unter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

Toralf Brakutt

Dienstag, 31. August 2004

http://www.otz.de/otz/otz.saalfeld.volltext.php?kennung=on1otzLOKStaSaalfeld38228&zulieferer=otz&kategorie=LOK&rubrik=Stadt%AEion=Saalfeld&auftritt=OTZ&dbserver=1

Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Arnold's Lies And Laura's Gloss

by David Corn, The Nation

Reporting from the floor of the RNC on Arnold and the other Republican excesses on display last night.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#001686

Arnold and Laura: It's the War, Stupid
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1740

Blair unleashed the dogs on BBC, says former head
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3425532

From Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 1st, 2004

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsch253941385aug25,0,3252599.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

From Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 1st, 2004

http://makeashorterlink.com/?H26722039

From Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 1st, 2004

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/august2004/083104alexrnc.htm


Informant: GrinNBarrett

Gentechnik: Strenger Schutz für Artenvielfalt gefordert

01.09.04

Anlässlich der Anhörung des Hessischen Landtags zum Anbau gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen in Hessen am 2. September hat der Naturschutzbund NABU strenge Maßnahmen zum Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt gefordert. Unverzichtbar sei ein Verbot zum Anbau in Europäischen Schutzgebieten (Natura 2000), nationalen Naturschutzgebieten sowie in Biosphärenreservaten (Rhön). "Die konventionelle und die ökologische Landwirtschaft brauchen den Schutz vor gentechnisch veränderten Organismen (GVO) ebenso wie die Natur" betonte der NABU-Landesvorsitzende Prof. Rüdiger Wagner und forderte Umweltminister Wilhelm Dietzel auf, seiner Fürsorgepflicht nachzukommen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9205

Republican convention opens: panic-mongering in the service of war and reaction

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/sep2004/rnc-s01.shtml

The War on Terror is a Fraud: Unraveling the Logic of a Lie
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept04/Alam0901.htm

Disinformation and Propaganda at the New York Times

by Kim Petersen

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept04/Petersen0901.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0814-05.htm
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/149054411.html?did=149054411&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Aug+14%2C+2002&author=JONATHAN+TURLEY&desc=Commentary%3B+Camps+for+Citizens%3A+Ashcroft%27s+Hellish+Vision%3B+Attorney+general+shows+himself+as+a+menace+to+liberty.


Informant: Annie

http://www.rense.com/general54/killmill.htm


Informant: maraki724

http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?p=467#467


Informant: Larry Lawson

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/290804pentagonbrass.htm


Informant: Davey Garland

by Dennis Kyne

In May of 2004 I attended my first Barter Faire ever, in Curlew, Washington. Sponsored by the Veterans for Peace, I arrived as far north as I had ever been in America. I came to tell the people of Eastern Washington that depleted uranium needs to be dealt with. I had a wonderful visit, met wonderful people, and made wonderful friends. Thank you, Eastern Washington, for receiving me so nicely.

A year prior to my visit, in its May issue, Environmental Magazine informed the world that, "Since the U.S. military's widespread use of DU (Depleted Uranium, U238) in the Gulf became known in 1991, the Pentagon has struggled to suppress mounting evidence that DU munitions are simply too toxic to use. It has cashiered or attempted to discredit its own experts, ignored their advice, impeded scientific research into DU's health effects and assembled a disinformation campaign to confuse the issue." Two months later the Seattle Post Intelligencer stated, "The Pentagon and the United Nations estimate that the U.S. and Britain used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor piercing shells made of depleted uranium during attacks on Iraq in March and April [2003] far more than the 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War."

On February 2 of this year, Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto of Swan's Commentary explained to America, "By now half of all the 697,000 U.S. soldiers involved in the 1991 war have reported serious illnesses. According to the American Gulf War Veterans Association, more than 30 percent of these soldiers are chronically ill and are receiving disability benefits from the Veterans Administration."

So, if they have used far more DU than was used in 1991, we should expect far more disabilities, death and chronic pain. That is the truth.

In October of 2003, Leuren Moret, an expert on depleted uranium, informed us at the World Uranium Conference in Hamburg, Germany, about Strontium-90 levels in baby teeth from children with cancer. Moret states very clearly, "Since 1975, national rates for children with leukemia have increased by 44% and for children with brain cancer by 50%." In Moret's most recent work, The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War, published in the Hamburg Conference conclusions, she adds that, "There was never any doubt about the great biological hazard of massive nuclear fallout even before testing started. But there was little concern about the global low level fallout from atmospheric contamination by very small particles which remain suspended until nucleating agents such as rain, snow and pollution remove them from the air and deposit them in the environment, exposing the global population to chronic low level radiation."

In addition to Moret, J. Gould's The Enemy Within illustrates high-risk counties within 100 miles of nuclear reactors using a map that plots breast cancer deaths that are reported annually by counties to the CDC. In the western part of the U.S., the locations of nuclear weapons labs and a few nuclear power plants are indicated by the highest breast cancer deaths. These are the newest victims of exposure to radiation.

We know very well that the mining of the uranium for decades has unduly harmed the Native Americans who mined the ore. We know that the government has used troops as guinea pigs in the proliferation of nuclear weapons programs. Now as we accept our newest victims, women and children of every race and class, it is imperative that we recognize these radioactive weapons are omnicidal. That is the truth.

In 1991, I served with the 24th Infantry Division, the most criminally negligent division in Operation Desert Shield/Storm. As a medic, I watched as soldiers walked into the carnage that 45 days of bombing had left in the southern part of Iraq and in Kuwait. The signs and symptoms of the exposure appeared quickly with countless troops vomiting and getting pale. Upon return I experienced joint pains, extreme itching that would have me shredding skin, and a feeling that resembled rubbing alcohol burning a cut in the bottom of my stomach. There are countless accounts of birth deformities and miscarriages in returning soldiers. And women have often complained of pain after having sex with returning front line soldiers.

In 1995, four years after I filed my complaint about my recurring health problems with the Veterans Affairs, I was finally tested for ionizing radiation, twice. Having never been able to get my hands on the results, I am not sure what my true uranium exposure was. However, since 1995 the VA has compensated me for "undiagnosed illnesses." Funny, the VA will admit I am sick, but they will only diagnose me as undiagnosed. I am a VA statistic, which means I am on record as a casualty. However, my stepbrother is not a VA statistic. He has the same signs and symptoms I display, but is not one of the casualties. My brother-in-law who served farther forward than I did is often called an AIDS patient or cancer victim; he is a casualty who is compensated at 100%. Sadly it took over a decade for the VA to recognize his disability. Even sadder, they say he is not a depleted uranium victim and will not test for ionizing radiation. Three of my family members are sick, from the same war, the same battlefield, and the same nuclear waste that is being hurled at Iraq and Afghanistan currently. That is the truth.

How? Why? Is this some sort of Joke? No. Depleted uranium is not new. What is new is the disposal mechanism. In the 80's then-President Reagan made a deal with Russia to stop developing nuclear weapons. We know how short-lived that was. We know that every treaty has been violated and nuclear proliferation is on a rise again. What we didn't know, though, was the answer to the question the environmentalists asked Reagan in the late 80's. "Mr. President, what are you going to do with the waste of the nuclear reactors?"

The President informed his citizens that he planned on sending it to the moon or the bottom of the ocean. That is what they had been doing for years; Reagan was the only person whoever felt smart enough to tell anyone. Americans, who would have nothing to do with this environmental desecration, put a stop to it. In 1997, Dan Fahey, cited in Metal of Dishonor, tells us that, "As a result of 50 years of enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons and reactors, the U.S. has in excess of 1.1 billion pounds of DU waste material." Of this incredible surplus of radioactive waste, some has been buried in isolated spots and a load of it has been used by the Department of Defense in its weapons programs. The military uses this weapon because it is armor piercing. If this weapon is intended for use against armor, and we destroyed most of the Iraqi's armor in 1991, why have we increased the use of it in Iraq from 375 tons to some ambiguous amount? Why is it being dropped all over Afghanistan where there is not one tank verified to be driven by the Taliban or al Quaeda?

Dennis Kyne is a fifteen-year veteran of the United States Army. His book Support the Truth is available at The Book Depot in Colville, and at his Web site: http://www.denniskyne.com. It is dedicated to the half million homeless veterans and depleted uranium victims.


Informant: Davey Garland

The senior U.S. military commander in Iraq sent a secret cable to his boss at U.S. Central Command outlining more-aggressive interrogation methods he planned to authorize immediately.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002019765_sanchez30.html
http://tinyurl.com/5m2mh


From Information Clearing House

Eisenhower Warns America: Farewell Address to the Nation: January 17, 1961:

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5407.htm

Elite Propaganda : The Myth of the Liberal Media:

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6435.htm

Juan Cole: Republican Convention "We did not seek this War":

No American president has more desperately sought out a war with any country than George W. Bush sought out this war with Iraq. Only Polk's war on Mexico, also based on false pretexts, even comes close to the degree of crafty manipulation employed by Bush and Cheney to get up the Iraq war...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6827.htm

President Bush's "Bring Them On" Picture Album
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm

Dr Henry Lai

http://www.mapcruzin.com/radiofrequency/henry_lai1.htm


Informant: billder

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1283&dept_id=158550&newsid=12812990&PAG=461&rfi=9

By JOHN MONGLE, Staff Writer August 31, 2004

The forest service received no bids last week for the Joel Branch timber sale near Bark Camp Lake on High Knob. "We're very disappointed," says Pat Eagan, contract officer for the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. "We don't know why at this point - we really don't have any idea."

This was the second time the 165-acre tract had been offered for bids and the second time there were no takers.

On both occasions, potential bidders were mailed material by the Clinch Coalition warning that any logging operation on the site would likely be interrupted by protests.

Before the bid deadline, George Washington and Jefferson National Forest Supervisor Bill Damon wrote a letter to newspapers expressing shock at what he called the coalition's attempts to threaten and intimidate potential bidders.

Now, forest service officials will not speculate on whether the environmentalists' campaign influenced the outcome.

Neither would Clinch Coalition President Detta Davis of Coeburn claim victory for any effect the coalition's letter might have had in there being no takers for the job.

Davis said she is not sure the letter had an influence. "I'm not sure that it did," she says. "I'm not sure if that's the case or if they gave it second thoughts. The ranger said they would lower the bidding price."

Doug Jones, Clinch District ranger, said earlier that if no bids were taken, the tract would be reappraised and offered at a lower rate.

Jones speculates the appraisal of the tract may have been off, but can offer no specific reasons nobody bid.

"We nose around on these things," he says, "and we thought there was some interest."

Two timber industry representatives seem certain that it was not correspondence from environmental groups that chased off potential bidders.

"I do not think that the letter would deter anyone in this area," says Bill Anderson of Gilbert NS Lumber Inc., of Duffield. "The letter would be a minor part."

Anderson declines comment on why his company chooses to bid or pass on any sale, including this one, but he says, "On any sale there are a number of factors that can increase or decrease your cost."

He points out that few loggers in the region have the ability to do tower skidding or cable logging as called for in the bid proposal.

Another factor, according to Anderson, is a problem with getting workers since the recent increase in coal-related employment. He also pointed to the fact that expenses for everything from fuel to workers compensation to insurance have gone up in the last six months.

Anderson says he knows and likes several members of the coalition, but he says they are "a little misinformed on timber practices."

Anderson says the forest service has done a very good job of managing the timber on High Knob and that it is "very high quality." But, he says that due to the age of the stand some of it must be harvested to protect the health of the forest.

Tom Merriman of Georgia Pacific said potential problems are "not really an issue on whether to bid a job. Everybody in the industry was well aware of it - everybody was aware there would be protests - if not trouble."

For Georgia Pacific's Mt. Hope, WVa., operation, the reason for not bidding was simple - the mill that handles hardwoods from this region is being sold.

"We're not buying any hardwoods in that area right now," Merriman said.

The cable operation requirement would have been an obstacle for the Joel Branch sale as well, according to Merriman.

Jones thinks that the uncertainty of being able to complete the project may have deterred bidders in the original sale offer. The Clinch Coalition had a federal lawsuit pending at the time to block the sale.

That suit, aimed at preventing logging on Joel Branch and other tracts totaling some 700 acres on High Knob, was dismissed earlier this year by U.S. District Court Judge Glen Williams. The time for appeal of the decision had run by the time bid packages went out earlier this month.

Eagan says the district office will be re-evaluating the sale in the coming weeks to try to determine why the sale was not successful and develop a new plan for the sale.

"We're just thankful the loggers appreciate it (High Knob) as much as we do," says Davis.

She says Clinch Coalition will "do as much as we can peacefully" to prevent logging in the area, and emphasizes, "We will not do anything violent on our part." But, she says that she cannot speak for other groups.

The Clinch Coalition partnered with Earth First! for an "action camp" at Little Stony Falls near Bark Camp earlier this summer in which tree sitting techniques and other anti-logging protest measures were taught.

Although Davis says no group, including Earth First! or Greenpeace, has said they will resort to violence, she says, the coalition "is not responsible if they want to do that."

She says some groups will respect the local group's decision on the level of protest and some don't. "Sometimes they will respect it," she says.

©Coalfield.com 2004


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

Please Help Save Jackson Redwood Forest!

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/leg04gov1

If you responded to my previous request, I thank you deeply. If not, please take a minute to help us end our five-year struggle to save Jackson Forest for our children.

Jackson State Forest is a public treasure -- 50,000 acres of beautiful redwood forest located within a few hours drive of San Francisco. We have a chance to remove permanently the threat of massive industrial logging of our public redwood forest!

Please write the governor asking him to sign SB 1648,
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/leg04gov1 the only forest protection bill to make it through the California legislature this year!

We've made it incredibly easy for you to help. We've prepared a letter that you can edit and send off with just a click. Learn more and send your letter now.

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/leg04gov1

Don't let this opportunity to slip away. Thousands of us have been worked for five years and contributed over $300,000 to save this beautiful redwood forest for future generations. Until stopped by citizen lawsuits, the state was massively logging this public redwood forest, owned by you and me. The profits were used to subsidize the private timber industry.

The state is rushing to get back to logging Jackson State Forest using variations of clearcutting on half of the forest! Clean water, salmon, wildlife habitat, and recreation values will be largely disregarded.

We can prevent this from happening, but only if Governor Schwarzenegger signs the state forest reform bill. This is the chance we've been working for. Don't let it slip away through inaction. It will take you only a minute to learn more and send your letter. Please do it now.

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/leg04gov1

Let's make sure the governor knows that the public is watching and wants his signature.

The reform bill would allow continued timber production in Jackson Forest, but only within the context of scientific research, maintenance and restoration of forest resources, recreation, education, and public enjoyment. Clearcutting would be effectively prohibited and old growth protected. This would be a huge step towards protecting our forest for future generations.

The California Department of Forestry has been making $10 million per year profits from industrial logging of Jackson Forest and strongly opposes the reform bill. They will urge the governor to veto it.

A coalition of environmental groups has set a goal of 5,000 letters to the governor by September 10. We've set this ambitious goal because we think it will take that amount of public outcry to get Schwarzenegger to go against his own agency. We still have a long way to go. Please help

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/leg04gov1 .

Please forward this message to friends and family. We need every letter we can get.

Thank you for your help.

Yours truly,

Vince Taylor


Informant: Bob Nienhuis

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2504


Informant: Martin Greenhut

From: American Lands Alliance

Date: August 31, 2004

Call Forest Service Chief Bosworth Today!

Tell Him You Want A Comment Extension & Public Hearings on the Repeal of the Roadless Rule.

As you know, the Forest Service is moving forward with efforts to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule put in place by the Clinton administration in 2001.

This week we need to flood Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth's office with calls demanding a public comment period extension and a request for hearings across the country on the Forest Service's decision to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

The Bush administration claims that the reason they are making changes to the Roadless Rule is that the process used to establish the Rule under the Clinton administration was unfair to States and local governments, the comment period was not sufficient, and that it was a last minute process.

However, the Clinton administration spent three years on public dialogue and multiple public comment processes, which included an incredibly thorough assessment of roadless areas, extensive scientific analysis, over 600 public hearings nationwide, and comment periods in excess of those required. A record number of Americans wrote to the federal government - over 1.5 million -- and over 95% supported the Roadless Rule (to date, 2.5 million comments have been submitted in three different comment periods). Not by any stretch of the imagination can it accurately be characterized as a last-minute process.

In contrast, the Bush administration has not issued any scientific analysis justifying a change in the rule, has not issued a new Environmental Impact Statement justifying these changes, and has not held one public hearing. The Bush administration is only giving the public 60 days to comment on the decision to repeal the rule before it becomes final and has completely ignored the over 2.5 million comments advocating for strong roadless protection.

TAKE ACTION TODAY: Call Chief Bosworth at 202-205-1661 or -205-1195 and tell him that you want:

1. The roadless public comment period extended by at least 45 days

2. At least 600 public hearings held across the country (the same amount the Clinton administration held).


Informant: STRIDER

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstoriesny_story_244091236.html


Informant: Jack Topel

http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume3/chap15/v3c15-1.htm


Informant: billder

http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/justice_redaction.htm


Informant: Anna Webb

Judge lifts injunctions on Oregon salvage logging of nation's worst 2002 wildfire - A federal judge has lifted injunctions that had temporarily barred salvage logging from the site of the nation's worst wildfire in 2002, but the legal battle is not yet over.

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-01/s_26812.asp

Appalachian Trail is vulnerable to new forest rules, environmental group claims - About one of every 13 miles of the Appalachian Trail between Maine and Georgia passes through national forests where a Bush administration plan could allow clear cutting of wooded areas, an environmental group said Tuesday.

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-09-01/s_26809.asp

http://www.pflaum.de/nhp.dir/nh/archiv/2003/nhp05/a_nh-kh01.html
http://www.pflaum.de/nhp.dir/nh/archiv/2003/nhp06/a_nh-kh01.html

Mobilfunk "Ja", Antenne "Nein" ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/308525/

Jeder hat ein Handy, keiner will Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/325535/


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Jeder+will+ein+Handy%2C+keiner+will+eine+Antenne

Das Gehirn schützen....

Aus Svenska Dagbladet 15.9.99

Autor: Ulrika Bjorkstén

Übersetzung: Adam Huuva (E), L. Gaigg (D)

Die Blut – Gehirn - Schranke ist eine Zellschicht zwischen dem Blut, das in den Blutgefässen des Gehirns und der eigentlichen Hirnhaut zirkuliert. Der Sauerstoff und die Ernährung finden innen statt durch die Schranke, während das Kohlendioxyd und die Abfallprodukte durch sie hindurch transportiert werden. Die Schranke hindert einige Medikamente und einige Giftsubstanzen, ins Gehirn einzudringen und es zu verletzen.

Telefone lassen das Gehirn Gifte absorbieren

Eine neue schwedische Forschung zeigt, dass die Strahlung von Mobiltelefonen es für Gift einfacher machen könnte, ins Gehirn einzudringen. Die Entdeckungen könnten die Beschwerden erklären, an denen amerikanische Soldaten , welche an der Hightech-Kriegsführung teilgenommen haben, leiden.

Bild von verstümmeltem Labor-Ratten-Gehirn (Abbildung fehlt)

Dieses Rattengehirn war Mikrowellenfeldern augesetzt ähnlich jenen, wie sie von einem Mobiltelefonhörer ausgehen. Die dunklen Flecken sind Eiweiss, welches durch die Blut-Hirn-Schranke, die durch die Strahlung geöffnet worden war, ins Gehirn gelangt ist.

Die Mikrowellenstrahlung von Mobiltelefonen kann die Sicherheitsbarriere öffnen, von welcher man annimmt, dass sie das Gehirn vor eindringenden giftigen Substanzen schützt, die das Blut enthält. Ein Forschungsteam der Lund-Universität hat herausgefunden, dass das Protein-Eiweiss durch die sogenannte Blut-Hirn-Schranke ins Gehirn der Ratten hindurchsickert, welche Mikrowellen ausgesetzt waren, ähnlich solchen, wie sie von Mobiltelefonen ausgehen. Eiweiss ist natürlicherweise im Blut enthalten, aber es kann das Gehirn schädigen.

Wir sehen hier extrem kleine Mengen von Protein und wir wissen nicht, wie gefährlich sie sind, sagt Leif Salford, ein Neurochirurg des Lund-Hospitals.

Aber andere Experimente, bei denen Eiweiss absichtlich (bewusst) in Rattengehirne gespritzt wurde, haben gezeigt, dass sehr kleine Mengen die Gehirnzellen schädigen können. Mengen, nicht viel grösser als solche, die wir gefunden haben, können Nervenzellen vernichten.

Es ist noch unmöglich zu sagen, ob diese Undichtigkeit, die das Lund-Forschungsteam bei Ratten gefunden hat, aussagt, dass die Mobiltelefonie das menschliche Gehirn verletzt.

Leif Salford, der Neuropathologe Arne Brun und der Strahlenphysiker Bertil Perssion möchten, dass die Resultate ernst genommen werden. Die Blut-Gehirn-Schranke von Menschen und Ratten sind in ihrer Funktion ähnlich.

Ausserdem, wenn Eiweiss ins Gehirn gelangen kann, gibt es einen Grund zu glauben, dass andere, kleinere oder gleich grosse Moleküle es auch können. Proteine, die man im Blut findet, können, wenn sie ins Gehirn gelangen, Auto-Immunkrankheiten, wie multiple Sklerose verursachen. Zerstörte Nervenzellen können auch Demenz, vorzeitiges Altern und Parkinson hervorrufen. Ebenfalls können entzündete Gehirnzellen indirekt mit Alzheimer-Leiden verbunden sein.

Medikamentengaben, die unter normalen Umständen nicht die Blut-Gehirn-Schranke durchdringen können, könnten es aber und könnten eine Zerstörung verursachen.

Die ungeklärten Symptome von amerikanischen Soldaten vom Kuwait-Krieg stehen im Verdacht, dass ein Zusammenhang mit der Medikamenteneinnahme gegen Nervengas besteht. Die Mikrowellen, von denen die Soldaten im Hightech-Krieg umgeben waren, könnten die Blut-Hirn-Schranke geöffnet haben und die Medikamente sind ins Gehirn eingedrungen. Diese Möglichkeit wird nun von der US Air Force in Zusammenarbeit mit den Lund-Forschern untersucht.

Besonders besorgniserregend ist die Tatsache, dass sogar niedrige Mikrowellen-Effekte das Gehirn zu beeinflussen scheinen. WHO?s Grenzwerte für Mobiltelefone ist 2 Watt Absorptionseffekt pro Kilogramm Körpergewebe.

Ergänzend zu Salford und seinen Kollegen wird sogar bei 0,0001-0.001 Watt eine bemerkenswerte Menge von Eiweiss in den Gehirnen von 50% der Ratten untersucht. (festgestellt)

Die Strahlung von Mobiltelefon-Antennen würden demnach genügen, das Gehirn zu beeinflussen (beeinträchtigen). Ein Mensch in der Nachbarschaft von jemandem, der ein Mobiltelefon benutzt, kann durch die Strahlung des Telefons beinträchtigt werden. Die sehr niedrigen Effekte sind auch diejenigen, die das Gehirn am meisten beeinträchtigen.

Bei einigen Zehnteln Watt wurden nur ein Drittel der Ratten beeinträchtigt und bei einigen Watt sogar noch weniger. Das heisst, dass das Problem z.B. durch Abschirmung oder Ohrhörer nicht leicht gelöst werden kann.

In biologischen Systemen gibt es oft "Fenster", wo der Organismus empfindlicher ist. Ein schwächerer Puls (eine schwächere Pulsierung) ahmt die Körpersignale nach und wird darum wiedererkannt.

Die WHO Grenzwerte betreffen nur die Gewebe-Erwärmung. Die elektrischen Signale des Körpers werden auf völlig andere Weise beeinflusst, sagt Leif Salford. Das Lund-Forschungsteam hat beide Mikrowellenstrahlungen untersucht, sowohl 900 MHz als auch 1800 MHz, die in verschiedenen Mobiltelefonen benutzt werden. Beide Frequenzen zeigen die gleichen Resultate, aber tiefere Frequenzen dringen tiefer ins Gehirn ein.

Es scheint nichts auszumachen, wie lange man mit einem Mobiltelefon telefoniert. Die Blut-Hirn-Schranke wird so oder so sofort geöffnet. Die Eiweisse bleiben einige Tage lang in den Rattengehirnen, nachdem sie Mikrowellen ausgesetzt waren. Studien, um die Langzeit-Effekte zu untersuchen sind geplant.

http://www.gigaherz.ch/35/print/


Handy macht Blut-Hirn-Schranke durchlässiger - Gefahr fürs Gehirn
http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-9219-2008-12-08.html

Wissenschaftlicher Hammer aus Schweden
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/presse/z-Schwed9-99.html

Elektrosmog und Blut-Hirn-Schranke
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/gesund/blut-hirn-schranke.htm

Elektrosmog, Handy, Mikrowellen
http://lichtstrahl-magazin.de/Artikel/Elektrosmog/LSmicrow.html

Hochfrequenzstrahlen durchlöchern die schützende Hirn-Blut-Schranke in Schweinehirnen
http://www.wissenschaft-unzensiert.de/ele5_14.htm

Finnische Studie: Strahlung von Mobiltelefonen kann menschliche Zellen negativ beeinflussen
http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/news/149153.html

Übersät mit dunklen Flecken
http://www.maes.de/BLUTHIRN.pdf

Blauer Engel Logo in Deutschland - Heuchelei?
http://tinyurl.com/d2c3wd

2450 MHz
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=2450+MHz

Finnische Studie: Strahlung von Mobiltelefonen kann menschliche Zellen negativ beeinflussen
http://www.apohirsch.de/Info/tel.htm

Blut-Hirn-Schranke: Was verursacht Kopfschmerzen?
http://www.alternative-gesundheit.de/Blut-Hirn-Schranke-Was-verursacht-Kopfschmerzen.html

Gepulste Strahlung greift das Gehirn an
http://www.hennek-homepage.de/camping/gepulster-angriff-auf-das-gehirn.htm

Blut-Hirn-Schranke durchlässig durch Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365554/

Quasseln bis zum bitteren Ende
http://www.zeitenschrift.ch/magazin/zs_29_01/mobilfunk.htm

http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/100aerzte.htm


Nachweis für Gesundheitsrisiko durch Mobiltelefone
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/516185/