Hundreds of whales could be killed this year from "scientific whaling." We have a way for you to take action and discuss this important issue.

1. More than 1,400 whales expected to be killed this year
http://www.care2.com/go/z/17945

Over 20,000 whales have been killed since commercial whaling was banned by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. How? Partly because a loophole allows any nation to issue itself a permit to kill any number of whales "for the purposes of scientific research" and sell the whale meat in supermarkets later!

Some nations, like Japan, continue to expand their programs of "scientific" killing. Only 11% of Japanese adults support the killings, and so Japan has invested in a public relations offensive to convince the public that whaling is culturally and economically important to Japan and that whales eat too many fish and threaten the conservation of fish stocks - a claim for which there is no scientific basis. Take action today:
http://www.care2.com/go/z/17945

2. Activist tip: Discuss this issues you care about
http://www.care2.com/go/z/17943

Stay up-to-date on the most pressing issues impacting marine wildlife at Care2 Connect's Oceana discussion group. Oceana works to restore and protect the world's oceans through policy advocacy, science, law and public education and hosts a lively discussion about some of the pressing issues facing our oceans.

3. Inspirational Quote
"Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint." -- Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet


Thank you for your commitment to a healthy planet.

Sincerely,

Lisa Sock
Care2 & ThePetitionSite

In a couple weeks, Americans will head to the polls. But despite mounting evidence that global warming is happening, voters hear very little on the issue from candidates running for office.

Enough is enough! On global warming, America's voters deserve more. Send a message to candidates - Democrats and Republicans, challengers and incumbents - challenging them to talk about global warming as they campaign for office. Take action:

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/election_2004_challenge/i5sxe84lj3wm6i

Sign the Indymedia Solidarity Statement
http://solidarity.indymedia.org.uk/statements.php3

Less than a day after President George Bush implied that his Democratic challenger John Kerry lacked "fiscal sanity", the Administration said it had hit the debt ceiling set by Congress and would have to borrow money set aside for federal employees' pensions until after the election...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/15/1097784046643.html


From Information Clearing House

At the root of the insurgency—the goal of every enemy fighter—is a determination to drive America out. Our presence, our use of tanks, Bradleys, gunships and fighter-bombers, causing inevitable civilian casualties, is recruiting more enemy than we are killing...

http://www.amconmag.com/2004_10_25/buchanan.html


From Information Clearing House

Secret government documents show that Tony Blair was warned by his own advisers a year before going to war that there was no growing threat from Saddam Hussein and that invading Iraq would be illegal...

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=272&fArticleId=2262116
http://snipurl.com/9ssk


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service...

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/IraqCoverage/story?id=163109&page=1
http://snipurl.com/9ssi


From Information Clearing House

Der britische Guardian ruft in einer bislang wohl einmaligen Aktion die Menschen weltweit auf, die Wähler in einem "swing state" zu beeinflussen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/on/18578/1.html

Just one more step towards 'Big Brother'

Over 250 Xerox workers will go on strike this morning over plans to use global positioning system technology (GPS) to track them throughout their day. Australian Services Union president Sally McManus says the proposal affects workers who repair Xerox photocopiers and other equipment in offices around Melbourne and Sydney. Ms McManus says most technicians use their cars as an office and their daily movements are already monitored heavily by the company. She says being monitored by satellite GPS technology is excessive. "That will continually monitor and check where they are," she said.

"We say that Xerox technicians are already highly monitored and their work performance can be measured in every which way and that this is just one more step towards 'Big Brother' that the members, the workers, aren't prepared to take."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1204240.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - October 14th, 2004

The Air Force expects planes will be able to fire non-lethal microwave rays at enemy ground troops with the help of a new superconducting generator system developed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after about 25 years of research. Heavy, inefficient generators have been a hurdle to the development of airborne microwave weapons, which create a disabling burning sensation. Microwaves could be used to control large groups of enemy fighters without killing them or disable electronics-dependent enemy weapons, said Philip Coyle, senior adviser for the Center for Defense Information.

The Air Force is preparing to award a $22 million contract to a private contractor to construct and demonstrate the new electrical generating system by 2009.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-387924.php


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - October 14th, 2004

System is actually going to endanger security

German researchers have already shown that it is possible to fool the system

The United States' new biometric system of border controls violates civil rights without delivering security, the head of the London-based civil liberties watchdog Privacy International has warned. The system involves a "wholesale and aggressive violation" of privacy but was also likely to generate errors and eventually collapse under its own weight, Privacy International director Simon Davies said. Davies was speaking after the release of a critical report on the US Visitor & Immigration Status Indication Technology System (US-Visit) prepared by Privacy International and published a day after the system, which began operating in January, was extended to cover the citizens of 27 "visa waiver" countries - including the UK. Germany, and Japan - whose populations are considered to be "friendly". Under the system, supplied to the Department of Homeland Security by the technology services company Accenture, visitors have their photograph taken and undergo two digital index-finger scans before they can pass through immigration controls.

The extension of US-Visit to the visa waiver countries had gone smoothly, US officials said, but Davies warned of future problems.

http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=6225


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - October 14th, 2004

http://makeashorterlink.com/?K51A36389

Do we want our old-fashioned, wonderful privacy, or will we accept the Star Wars concepts of allowing "Big Brother," whoever he may be, know everything about us? The use of this George Orwell "1984" technology may even cut prices and provide us with more choices.

An RFID chip can be read from a distance, right through your clothes, wallet, backpack or purse - without your knowing. This is all that is needed to identify the clothes you are wearing or the groceries that you are carrying and the credit card you used. RFID chips can't be laundered out of clothing; don't wear out with time and can be well hidden. They can be sewn into the seams of clothing, molded into plastic or rubber and can even be printed. This means that the dot on a printed letter "i" can be linked to a skinny, nearly invisible antenna printed on a product label. And, then a tracker with access to a RFID reader can say, "Got'cha!" But there are plenty of nightmare scenarios. Future divorce cases may involve one party using RFID logs to prove a spouse was in a certain location at a certain time. And, future burglars could use a reader on discarded packaging that might indicate expensive electronic equipment was at an address ready to be stolen. But, another good use for RFIDs has been developed in Japan, where all the children in some primary schools are being tagged. The kid arrives at school, his clothing is tagged and readers at the door and in other key locations will keep track of him. No more kids going walkabout or astray in that school.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/datelinedc/s_254932.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - October 14th, 2004

There is an interesting article titled “The "War on Terror" as Defined by 1984's Emmanuel Goldstein”. It contains extracts from the book “1984” by George Orwell, and “Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” (i.e. Government by a few). It is located at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/orwell_goldstein_1984.html

Many of the techniques described seem very similar to those currently used. The excerpt below is particularly interesting, and is very close to Bush’s behavior (have they been reading Orwell’s book?) :

"The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies, all this is indispensibly necessary."

Shannon

Congress Adjourns, Bad Forest Riders Still Loom

Congress has headed home to campaign and will return after the election for a lame-duck session that will likely begin on November 16th. Many must-pass spending bills were not completed before Congress left, including the Interior Appropriations bill, which funds the Forest Service. Since Congress did not finish much of their work on appropriations it looks likely that they will combine many of the unfinished spending bills together into one big bill called an omnibus bill. The Interior Appropriations bill could be thrown into this omnibus bill and could contain some bad forest riders, which need to be stopped. Although we will likely have to mobilize in November to stop many riders in the lame-duck session we also need to act now.

Right now congressional staff have stared working on the unfinished appropriations bills, including the Interior Appropriations bill. For the next couple of weeks they will be putting a draft omnibus bill together. Since congressional staff are drafting portions of the omnibus bill now, we have to make calls in order to keep the pressure up as so bad forest riders stay off the omnibus bill.

TAKE ACTION: Please call your Senators and Representative's DC offices at 1-202-224-3121 (capitol switchboard). Ask for the staff that works on National Forest/Environmental issues. Tell them that you:

1. Oppose efforts by Senator Gordon Smith to attach his Lawless Logging Rider on the omnibus spending bill. The rider will override existing environmental laws and prohibit judicial review to promote the largest public lands logging project in modern history - the Biscuit post-fire logging project on the Siskiyou National Forest. This rider is intended to override the current judicial process that is underway by stripping away all forest and river protection laws for the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area in Southern Oregon and slamming shut the courtroom doors to citizens, leaving roadless areas, ancient forest reserves, wild and scenic rivers and salmon runs at risk of being destroyed by logging and roadbuilding.

2. Oppose Senator Stevens' Tongass Judicial Review Rider. The rider interferes with judicial review of logging projects in the Tongass National Forest by telling judges they only have 180 days from the filing date to decide lawsuits challenging logging projects in the Tongass. The rider also attempts to completely cut off the public's ability to challenge projects if they cannot file lawsuits on Tongass logging projects within 30 days of the Forest Service's decision to go ahead with them.

3. Oppose Efforts to waive environmental review of grazing permits on public lands. The Senate Interior bill attempts to categorically exclude the renewal of grazing permits for many grazing allotments in National Forests from environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The rider seeks to exclude the public from participating in important decisions about how public lands are managed, even though current grazing practices can degrade lands, cause water pollution and imperil plant and animal species.


Lisa Dix
National Forest Program Director
American Lands Alliance
ldix@americanlands.org
Ph: 202-547-9105; Fax: 202-547-9213
American Lands Alliance http://americanlands.org


Informant: STRIDER

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

10/15/04

Something's on the march, alright, but it isn't freedom: it's fanaticism fueled by a dangerous theology, and a mortal threat to the peace of the world. Such rhetoric is meant to fire up his core constituency -- snake-handling holy-rollin' Bible Belters and neocons alike -- who see the American State as the instrument of God's Will on earth. So let's rain bombs down on Fallujah -- and maybe Teheran, as well -- because George W. Bush's reelection will represent the mandate of Heaven...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3785


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Pierre Atlas

Indianapolis Star

10/14/04

Why has such a 'hard-core conservative' joined the 'ultra-liberal' ACLU? Because he sees the Patriot Act and its legislative progeny as dangerous to America. This isn't a liberal-versus-conservative issue, despite attempts by the Bush campaign to portray it as such. ... 'If the current administration is re-elected, it will get much, much worse,' Barr said. 'They'll try to repeal the sunset provisions and expand the Patriot Act powers, and Congress will be too intimidated to vote against it. The administration is dismantling our civil liberties...

http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/186194-7031-021.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

DEUTSCHE SPRACHWELT
http://www.deutsche-sprachwelt.de

- PRESSEMITTEILUNG -

KMK-Rechtschreibrat: Kritiker unerwünscht

Erlangen, 15. Oktober 2004 ­ Heftige Kritik an dem von der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) jetzt eingesetzten "Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung" übt die DEUTSCHE SPRACHWELT. Die Sprachzeitung wirft den Ministern vor allem vor, daß der Rat nicht repräsentativ besetzt sei. Laut Allensbach-Umfrage befürworteten im September nur elf Prozent der Deutschen die Rechtschreibreform. Im Rechtschreibrat der KMK ist das Verhältnis jedoch umgekehrt: 95 Prozent der Mitglieder befürworten die Reform. Nur zwei der insgesamt 36 Sitze sollen an die Reformkritiker der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung gehen. Der Rest ist vor allem mit Institutionen besetzt, die bereits zuvor im Beirat der Rechtschreibkommission saßen. Dort haben sie die Reform mitgetragen und nie kritisiert. Einige, wie die Wörterbuch- und Schulbuchverlage, haben an ihr sogar kräftig verdient.

Das Angebot der größten deutschen Sprachzeitung ­ nach einer Befragung hat sie rund 80.000 Leser, im neuen Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung mitzuwirken, schlug die KMK vor kurzem aus. Vermutlich ist den Kultusministern die DEUTSCHE SPRACHWELT zu kritisch. Für die Zeitung haben zahlreiche bekannte Reformkritiker geschrieben, unter anderem der niedersächsische Ministerpräsident Christian Wulff und die Germanistik-Professoren Theodor Ickler und Horst Haider Munske.

"Obwohl die DEUTSCHE SPRACHWELT immer wieder zur Versachlichung der Rechtschreibdebatte aufgerufen und zahlreiche Sachbeiträge veröffentlicht hat, wird sie von der KMK übergangen", so Schriftleiter Thomas Paulwitz. Eine Erklärung dafür könnte die Ansicht eines der Hauptverantwortlichen für die Durchsetzung der Rechtschreibreform sein. Der im hessischen Kultusministerium arbeitende Ministerialrat Christoph Stillemunkes zählt die DEUTSCHE SPRACHWELT "zu den ideologisch verbohrten Gegnern der Rechtschreibreform", wie er kürzlich schrieb.

Der Vorsitzende des Herausgebervereins der DEUTSCHEN SPRACHWELT, Professor Hans-Manfred Niedetzky, fordert die sprachbewußten Menschen auf, weiterhin passiven Widerstand gegen die staatlich verordnete Schreibwillkür zu leisten. Niedetzky meint: "Das Verhalten der Ministerpräsidenten und der Kultusminister erinnert mich in beängstigender Weise an die Betonköpfigkeit sozialistischer Diktaturen, die ebenso starrköpfig versuchten, die Wirklichkeit ihrer abgehobenen Scheinwelt anzupassen. Letztlich scheiterten sie aber damit."

Zur Pressemitteilung:
http://www.deutsche-sprachwelt.de/berichte/pm-2004-09-20.shtml

Finanz erhält Onlinezugriff auf Kontoinformationen bei Banken ab April 2005

Was Terrorfahnder an Notstandssonderrechten erhalten haben, macht andere Behörden neidisch. Für die Finanz ist klar: Ihre ganz persönlichen Terroristen sind die Steuerpflichtigen. Verspricht die Aktion auch noch Geld abzuwerfen, gibt es nur noch Gewinner... oder ?

http://www.daserste.de/plusminus/beitrag.asp?iid=242

Die Berliner Regierung ist stolz, sie meint endlich einen Weg aus der Schuldenkrise gefunden zu haben. Die Idee: die Abschaffung des Bankgeheimnisses! Nahezu unbemerkt hat sie sich dazu eine Vollmacht ins Gesetz diktiert.

Per Leitung darf der Staat künftig Konteninformationen bei Banken abrufen.

(...)

Online-Abfragen ab April 2005

Bei den Zentralen der Kreditinstitute ist jetzt Arbeit angesagt, denn sie müssen, so steht es im Gesetz, unverzüglich die erforderlichen Daten speichern. Diese Kontenabfragen, die schon ab April 2005 laufen sollen, stellt sich das Finanzministerium so vor: Ein Finanzamt will über Steuerbürger X wissen, wo er in Deutschland welche Konten hat. Die Anfrage stellt das Finanzamt an das Bundesamt für Finanzen. Über die neue Datenautobahn kann der Fiskus die eigens bereitgestellten Dateien einsehen. Konto ja oder nein beziehungsweise wo, diese Informationen fließen dann an die Behörden zurück.

(...)

Automatisierter Abruf erfolgt heimlich

(...) das Kreditinstitut, Zitat: "hat durch technische und organisatorische Maßnahmen sicherzustellen, dass ihm Abrufe nicht zur Kenntnis gelangen."

(...)

Ausnahmeregelung wird zur Norm

Eingeschaltet waren die Datenschützer in der Tat, aber sie waren und sind gegen das Gesetz. Nur im Zuge der Terrorismusbekämpfung nach dem 11. September waren sie einverstanden mit Online-Datenabfragen der Kreditwirtschaft, im Zusammenhang mit der Verfolgung von Terrorgeldern und den zugehörigen Hinterleuten. "Für diesen Zweck haben wir akzeptiert, dass diese ausnahmsweise eingeführte Abfrage bei Finanzinstitutionen auch eingerichtet wird. Aber jetzt geht es ja um ganz andere Zwecke und ich halte es doch für sehr fragwürdig, dass praktisch eine Maßnahme, die zunächst nur für die Terrorismusbekämpfung gedacht war, jetzt im Rahmen des ganz normalen Besteuerungsverfahrens und für den Abruf durch beliebige andere Behörden noch erweitert werden soll", so Peter Schaar, Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz.

relayed by Mac Gyver


Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 19, Issue 8

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1326273,00.html


Source: Greepeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 18, Issue 11

QUITO, Ecuador - Global warming is melting Ecuador's cherished mountain glaciers and could cause several of them to disappear over the next two decades, Ecuadorean and French scientists said on Wednesday. The country's cone-shaped Cotopaxi volcano, towering at 19,347...

Read the article:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/27690/story.htm


Source: Greepeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 18, Issue 11

Operation Truth - Watch Their New Ad

Robert Acosta demostrates his continuing courage in the advertisment prepared by Operation Truth. Please view the ad today for a gut-level understanding of the human cost of the Iraq War. Then share the ad with your friends.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2211

Army Says Up to 28 G.I.'s Could Face Afghan Abuse Charges

According to the news article below, the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib has deep roots in the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. One allegation claims men were "chained to the ceiling - one at the waist and one by the wrists - although their feet remained on the ground." If the alegation is true, then the torture, rape, murder, and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan are systemic. That means the problem isn't a few rotten apples; rather, the problem stems from poor leadership.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2216

Major Victory - Federal judge rules Ohio voters may cast provisional ballots

According to the breaking news story below, "A federal judge here ruled today that Ohio voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day can still cast ballots as long as they are in the county where they are registered. U.S. District Judge James Carr issued a temporary injunction in a lawsuit filed Sept. 27 by the Ohio and Sandusky County Democratic parties against Ohio's Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell." One judge may have preserved the voting rights of up to 100,000 Ohio citizens. This case presents strong evidence the Secretary of State should be a non-partisan position.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2214

According to the article below, "Oregon officials have opened an investigation into reputed improper voter-registration practices by an Arizona-based company, Secretary of State Bill Bradbury said Wednesday. The investigation follows a television report in which a paid-per-registration canvasser said that he had been instructed to accept registrations only from Republicans and that he "might" destroy those from Democrats."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2213

Friday, October 15, 2004, 10:31 AM

Rami G. Khouri

Last week, the terrorists bombed hotels in Taba, Egypt. This week, the anti-terrorists bombed residences in Fallujah. Rami Khoury says that a strategy based on bombing and invading countries shows how complete American ignorance is of what is really going on. Without a strategy to deal with the root causes of terror, we're simply ensuring more bombs, more beheadings and more American barbarism in response.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/filling_the_swamp.php

Don't Stand For Voter Supression

Act Now: Stop Shredding Voter Forms

by ActForChange.com

A shadowy RNC scheme has destroyed thousands of voter registration forms. Tell Bush to renounce this kind of dirty politics.

http://www.tompaine.com/action/#002304

by Paul Krugman, The New York Times

The shredding of voter forms in Las Vegas is part of a pattern of Republicans trying to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002315

Paul Krugman

Friday 10:28 AM

This election season, we are reminded of the Roman god Janus, the two-faced deity. One face, call it "prima facie," is compassionate conservatism. But the other, well, it reminds us of Lord Voldemort. It's the side that pays companies to disenfranchise voters as they register (Sproul & Associates) and as they vote (Diebold), while systematically waging war on wage-earners, the environment and Muslims. Thanks, Paul, for giving us the chance to rant. (NYTimes , free reg. req'd.)

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Dauertelefonieren mit Handys erhöht Krebsrisiko

Auf einer Pressekonferenz in Stockholm ist am 13.10.2004 die zweite Veröffentlichung aus der Interphone-Studie der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (Studie zu den Ursachen von Hirntumoren) vorgestellt worden.

Presseerklärung
http://www.pressrelations.de/index.cfm?start_url=http%3A//www.pressrelations.de/search/release.cfm%3Fr%3D170681%26style%3D


Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus München-Nord

Heidrun Schall
Informationszentrum gegen Mobilfunk



Handy-Strahlung: So gefährlich ist sie wirklich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/431651/

Langjährige Handy-Nutzung erhöht Risiko für Ohrtumor
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364620/

Schockstudie der EU: Handys knacken die DNS und bewirken schwere Zellschädigung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482751/

IAFF Firefighters RF Health Study
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364665/

Cell Phone Recycling Mandatory
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364172/

FDA Approves Use of Chip in Patients
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362811/

Mobilphone industry wants to stop publication of the REFLEX-Study
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362648/

Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer: Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Pharmaceutical industry accused of crimes against humanity before the ICC in the Hague
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364269/

Homeopathic solutions proven to carry memory of water and exhibit biological effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362794/

Address carbon dioxide problems now
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363663/

Seismic monitor
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364039/

How to Hide 64 Earthquakes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364251/

National Parks in Crisis Under Current Leadership
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362479/

FATE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS HANGS IN THE BALANCE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363274/

Help Save Yellowstone's Imperiled Grizzlies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364024/

Winning Protection for Glaciers and Grizzlies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364211/

My fellow non-Americans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362376/

Close ties at the Pentagon
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364279/

Be Aware...Be Very Aware
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364099/

Voter fraud in the United States
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364110/

Nevada Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362424/

Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of the Iraq quagmire
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362382/

Bush Misleads on Fiscal Responsibilities
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363271/

War gave us Caesar
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362554/

Deconstructing Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362543/

Deconstructing the war on terror
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364095/

Why Bush Is Still Standing
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363286/

100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364063/

Demand Letter Sent To Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362402/

Bush's Court Picks: Be Afraid. Very Afraid.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362561/

Debating A Radical
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362618/

Democrat Registration Forms Trashed by RNC-Connected Firm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362564/

ROB THE VOTE 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362574/

GOP Dirty Tricks in Ohio?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362766/

Voter Registration Scandal Spreads from Nevada to Oregon
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363648/

African Americans Pushing to Be Counted in Florida
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364071/

Computer crash deepens electronic voting concerns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364302/

Investigation into Trashed Voter Registrations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364709/

Election theft in the making
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364702/

Scholars Give Bush Foreign Policy a Failing Grade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364058/

Conservatives Have Plenty of Cause to Abandon Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362798/

Checking the Facts, in Advance
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363278/

59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362827/

As Oprah Slaps Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363254/

U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS ASSAILS BUSH ADMINISTRATION RECORD ON CIVIL RIGHTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364196/

The Promise
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364088/

Just how bad can it get?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363267/

Humanism VS Imperialism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364085/

Professors oppose Bush `theology'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364136/

Abu Ghraib interrogator tells his story
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362411/

Posters for Million Worker March
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362818/

Soldiers Once ... And Young
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362417/

Bearing Bloody Witness
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362423/

Military moms, wives campaign against Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362487/

Durham VA to study troops' mental ills
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363651/

Maimed but not mute
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362515/

Judge orders VA hopsital to pay family of deceased veteran
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363655/

Judge holds second reporter in contempt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364306/

Not There
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362622/

Blair and Iraq: A sorry affair
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363634/

Neocons universally despised
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362499/

Jaywalk to freedom
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362548/

Unanswered questions
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362524/

No plan, no problem
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362503/

A continuing government disaster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362534/

FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362823/

US solution to a US problem
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362537/

Effort to expose 911 gets more successful
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362801/

Time to act, not just talk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363729/

Last week the Los Angeles Times became the latest major newspaper to print an article about the potential for a draft in the near future. Like many other reports it cited "rumors" about a secret plan to reinstate the draft.

That's exactly what they are: rumors. And focusing on bogus rumors clouds the fundamental issue. The question is not whether some secret plan is in motion. The question being raised is: how will we protect the homeland, address growing threats around the world, and achieve stability in Iraq with an already overstretched military?

These valid concerns are ones I share with my friends and colleagues at the Campaign for America's Future -- Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey. Like many of you, we think it's important to clarify what's really at issue here, and actively weigh in to demand straight answers.

In less than a week, more than 60,000 people have signed this petition asking for the answers. Join us now:

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62726

The facts are clear: Gen. Shinseki testified before Congress that we would need at least 50,000 more troops to stabilize Iraq. The Army admits it has been stretched thin. The flagrant misuse of the National Guard and Reserves has made recruiting harder and leaves our homeland unprotected.

More and more people have realized that a quiet draft has already begun. Active duty soldiers who finish their commitments are being forced to stay on. We have begun calling up forces like the Individual Ready Reserves, consisting of older reservists who have not been on active duty and have not trained for some time. And there's no end in sight.

Americans have a right to know -- before Election Day -- how we will meet our current commitments without resorting to a draft. Sign the petition now -- we will deliver our questions to the White House and demand honest answers:

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62726

We have been misled about this war from the beginning. They said Iraq had nuclear weapons -- that was false. They said the whole war would cost a few billion dollars -- in reality, we spend several billion dollars every month. They say things are getting better, but every month brings more casualties than the last.

Now, in the weeks before an election, they say we won't need a draft. We cannot afford to take their word for it. We must demand answers:

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62726

Thank you,

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

P.S. Here are some things people who have signed the petition are saying:

"As a young American who cares deeply about my country, I deserve to know if a draft will be put into effect. If not, how do you plan to fill the troop commitments necessary for success?"
--Ajay N.

"I have heard so many things over the years from politicians that have not been true that I no longer take anything for granted. I don't see how the country can continue under the present commitments of our armed forces with a complete volunteer military. If the intention is to bring back the draft I would like to know now and not after the presidential election. An informed voter is an intelligent voter."
--Charles M.

"Staying the course means we're going to need more troops in our go-it-alone strategy. How will we get them?"
--Carl T.

"A feasible, realistic plan needs to developed, shared with the American public and put in place to bring peace in Iraq and end American occupation of the territory. Can this be done without instituting a military draft? The American people want to know before the 2004 presidential election."
--Sharon S.

"Our forces are stretched thin and the situation in Iraq is getting worse. We will no doubt be there a long time and other troubles lurk on the horizon. Be honest with America and tell us how we are going to do this without the draft."
--Phil S.

"My wife and I have deep concerns about this issue. We've been through the Vietnam years and saw how the draft split this country in half. We don't want to have to relive our worst nightmares, not with our sons."
--Lance K.

"A straight and clear answer, please."
--Janice M.

Add your voice: http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62726

Erkenntnisse und Aufschrei eines Verbrauchers
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/der_teuro.doc

Klimaerwärmung und Umweltkatastrophen nicht durch Industrieabgase?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453705/

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Als das Netz nach Grönland kam
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1174798/

Waldsterben und Elektrosmog
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365522/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Klima+und+Mobilfunk

http://www.poolalarm.de/kinderschutz/news/kapitalverbrechen/

Mobilfunk + Ritalin = Kapitalverbrechen an Kindern?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388464/

Hirnschäden bereits bei Ganzkörper-SAR von 0,002
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1276750/

Kinder und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

Mobilfunk in der Schule
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/338094/

Als das Netz nach Grönland kam
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1174798/

Elektromagnetische Felder erhöhen die Durchlässigkeit der Blut-Hirn-Schranke
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/bhsstoegbauer.htm

Mikrowellen schädigen Gehirne und machen sie aufnahmefähig für Gifte
http://www.mobilfunk-buergerforum.de/home/home_artikelshow.php?_aid=46

Zum Türöffner-Effekt neurotroper Reize
http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/gesund/tueroeffner.htm

Blut-Hirn-Schranke
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/318231/

Langjährige Handy-Nutzung erhöht Risiko für Ohrtumor
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/364620/

Geldrollenphänomen: Wenn das Blut verklebt, drohen Herzinfarkt und Schlaganfall
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363208/

Schockstudie der EU: Handys knacken die DNS und bewirken schwere Zellschädigung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482751/

Kann es nicht sein, dass durch die in den letzten Jahren stark angestiegenen hohen Sendeenergien, Dynamik in das komplexe Klimageschehen auf der Erde bringen ? (Die elektromagnetische Welle (Sendeenergie) erzeugt eine Schwingung. Diese Schwingung wird an Luftmolekühle weitergegeben und versetzt sie selbst in Schwingungen. Um so schneller sich Luftmolekühle bewegen, um so wärmer wird es.) Eine wärmere Atmosphäre führt zu einem stärkeren Wasserzyklus. «Wärmere Luftmassen nehmen mehr Wasserdampf auf. Daher steht mehr Wasser für Niederschläge zur Verfügung.» Andere Gebiete werden langfristig trockener. «

http://www.poolsolarm.com/Klima/index.htm

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"Blätter und Nadeln sind ideale Mikrowellenantennen. Zwischen Waldsterben und hochfrequenter Strahlung besteht ein eindeutiger Zusammenhang." Dr.-lng. Wolfgang Volkrodt, ehem. Siemens-Manager (1990) Bad Neustadt

"Die Nadeln und Blätter unserer Bäume sind wie kleine Antennen und reagieren auf die schwächste Hochfrequenzstrahlung."
Prof Dr. -Ing. Günter Käs, Universität der Bundeswehr (1992)

http://www.buerger-gegen-esmog.de/Infoordner/Zitate.pdf

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Es hat sich gezeigt, dass die natürlichen elektromagnetischen Felder der Erde durch den Schutz unseres Planeten vor den lebensgefährlichen ionisierenden Strahlen der Sonne das Leben auf der Erde ermöglichen. Es hat sich aber auch gezeigt, dass Veränderungen der natürlichen elektromagnetischen Felder gravierende Einflüsse auf die Entwicklung des Lebens und auf das Evolutionsgeschehen gehabt haben. Man denke an das Artensterben durch die magnetischen Umpolungen der Erde, während derer die Erdoberfläche der ionisierenden Strahlung schutzlos ausgeliefert war.

Der leichtfertige Umgang mit elektromagnetischer Energie kann unsere Umwelt ähnlich verändern, mit gleich schwerwiegenden Folgen für Gesundheit und Wohlergehen aller Lebewesen.

Zwischen 1989 und 1991 wurden erste Veränderungen der Strahlungsmuster im Mikrowellenbereich auf der Erdoberfläche beobachtet, und zwar beginnend in den Gebieten mit fortgeschrittener Zivilisation und dichter Besiedelung. Die bis dahin stabilen Gitterstrukturen der ortsgebundenen Strahlung wurden zunächst nur zeitweise, später aber ständig, durch neue Strahlungsmuster verdrängt. Im genannten Zeitraum existierten zunächst die alten und die neuen Felder nebeneinander als metastabile Zustände, wobei der Wechsel durch intensive Schallwellen oder durch Funkenentladung manipuliert werden konnte. Nach 1991 blieben aber die bis dahin unbekannten Felder konstant. Der Zeitpunkt fiel zusammen mit der europaweiten Verkabelung der Fernsehanschlüsse und dem Entstehen der Mobilfunksendeanlagen.

Schweitzer (in Grundlagen der Geopathie, Haug 1989) nannte die neuen Felder Spaltenstrahlungsfelder, weil er Zusammenhänge mit dem Auftreten von Spalten als Sonderform der Verwerfungen sah. Immerhin wurde beobachtet, dass die Änderungen in zivilisationsfernen Gegenden nicht auftraten. Die Erscheinungen konnten damals nicht restlos geklärt werden.

Heute sind die Zusammenhänge aber deutlich geworden. Man weiß, dass von den Masten der Sendeanlagen der Nachrichtentechnik Streustrahlung in Form von stehenden Wellen ausgeht. Es sind Radialstrahlen, deren Lage frequenzabhängig ist und die sich bei Wobbelbetrieb um den Mast als Zentrum drehen. Diese Streustrahlung trifft auf die Elektroinstallationsnetze in den bebauten Gebieten und erzeugt Gitter in Abhängigkeit von der Wellenlänge (vorwiegend im Zentimeter- oder Dezimeterbereich). Die Untersuchungen innerhalb der Gebäude oder in deren unmittelbarer Nähe haben dann schnell gezeigt, dass diese Gitter die Regelungen aller biologischen Systeme stören bis zur vollständigen Blockierung, und das trotz oder gerade wegen der minimalen Intensitäten. Verständlich deshalb, weil auch die körpereigenen Regelungen durch elektrische und elektromotorische Signale im Hochfrequenzbereich gesteuert werden. Außerhalb der Gebäude treten die Beeinträchtigungen nur auf dem Streustrahl selbst auf.

Die engmaschigen durch die Elektroinstallation erzeugten Gitter fehlen hier. Menschen und Tiere werden deshalb im Freien kaum belastet, wohl aber die zwangsläufig standortgebundenen Pflanzen (siehe auch Waldsterben).

http://www.smoggy2001.de/Aufsatze_u__E-Smog/aufsatze_u__e-smog.html

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Das massenhafte Sterben von Bäumen bzw. Waldsterben dürfte in erster Linie als ein bioenergetisches Problem infolge von Strahlenbelastungen - noch vor der Luftverschmutzung und Erhöhung der Leitfähigkeit von Luft, Böden und Wässer durch Minussalze wie Nitrate - anzusehen sein, wodurch der Waldboden durch eine schädliche elektropositive Ladung, die sich im Test als Linksdrehung darstellt, depolarisiert wird." Diese Effekte sind Faktoren, die natürlich auch auf Mensch und Tier wirken.

http://www.e-smog.ch/beitraegedritter/wissenschaft/2001/januar/zesar2.htm

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Wie trete ich Beweis und Gegenbeweis in einem Artikel an?!

Der nachfolgende Artikel zeigt die sinnvolle Anwendung von Wissen. Wir bitten Sie speziell den im Hintergrund sichtbaren tatsächlichen Verursacher zu beachten, und der unter den Bildern stehenden Argumentation zu folgen.

http://www.spiralex.de/leistungen/apotheken_umschau_d.htm

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Das halbseitige Waldsterben!?
von Dr.Wolfgang Burk

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/das_halbseitige_waldsterben.doc
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/briefburk.pdf
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/329521/

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Schädigt Mobilfunk das Trinkwasser?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4040163/

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Elektrosmog und Waldsterben
http://www.mobilfunk-buergerforum.de/home/home_artikelshow.php?_aid=351

Schäden an Bäumen durch Mikrowellen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/522990/

Baumsterben: Versauerung der Waldböden gefährdet Trinkwasser
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/426647/

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Mobilfunk und Klimawandel - Globale Erwärmung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365607/

Wasserdampf in Atmosphäre: Natürlicher Klimakiller
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4299338/

Als das Netz nach Grönland kam
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1174798/

Radar, Natel und Richtfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/533077/

The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553793/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Bäume+Mikrowellen
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Bäume+Hochfrequenz
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Volker+Schorpp

Handys schaden vor allem ihrem Benutzer und jenen Personen, die sich in einigen Metern Entfernung davon aufhalten. Handys kann man aber abschalten. Deshalb hält sich ihre Schädlichkeit zeitlich mehr oder weniger in Grenzen.

Viel gefährlicher indes sind die großen Mobilfunk-Sendeanlagen, die überall wie giftige Pilze aus dem Boden schießen. Denn sie strahlen ununterbrochen. Außerdem bestreichen sie großflächig ganze Gebiete und verstrahlen gleichermaßen Jung und Alt, Klein und Groß, Handybesitzer und Handygegner ­ ohne Ansehen der Person. Vor ihnen kann man sich nur wirkungsvoll schützen, indem man sie stillegt.

Denn sie verstrahlen die Gegend in einem weit größeren Ausmaß, als man uns glauben machen will. Wie bereits erwähnt, zeigten die Versuche von Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing, daß Mobilfunkstrahlen bereits bei einem Wert von 1 nW/cm2 Krankheiten verursachen können. Bei freier Sicht auf den Mobilfunksender wurde diese Leistungsflußdichte noch in 2,4 Kilometer Entfernung gemessen! Dabei hatte der Sender 'nur' eine Antennen-Eingangsleistung von 12,5 Watt und einen 56-fachen Antennengewinn in der Hauptstrahlrichtung.

Selbstverständlich dämpfen Gebäude die Strahlung ab, so daß sich um jeden Sender ein individuelles Verstrahlungsbild ergibt. Man weiß aber, daß diese 1 nW/cm2 noch in Wohnungen erreicht oder sogar deutlich überschritten werden, die sich mehrere hundert, ja sogar über tausend Metern vom Sender entfernt befinden; vor allem dann, wenn zwischen dem Handymast und der Wohnung keine weiteren Gebäude stehen. Hier mißt man in Räumen bis über 100 nW/cm2!

Da die Bevölkerung sich gegen den Bau von Handymasten zu wehren beginnt, schlagen besonders intelligente Schlaumeier vor, weniger Sendetürme zu bauen, die dafür von mehreren Betreibern gleichzeitig genutzt werden sollen. Das bedeutet aber eine Vervielfachung der montierten Antennen pro Mast und damit eine entsprechend stärkere Strahlung. So erstaunt es nicht, daß solch gemeinsam betriebene Sendeanlagen bei freier Sicht zum Sender diese 1 nW/cm2 noch in fünf Kilometer Entfernung erreichen!

Alltägliche Beobachtungen und die Forschung liefern immer mehr Hinweise und Belege, daß niederfrequent gepulste Hochfrequenzen mitverantwortlich für folgende gesundheitliche Störungen sind und diese auslösen können: Schlafstörungen, Unruhezustände, Verspannungszustände, Nervosität, Depressionen, Kopfschmerzen, Ohrensausen (Tinnitus), Konzentrations- und Gedächtnisstörungen, Augenreizungen und Grauer Star, Lernstörungen, erhöhter Blutdruck, Herzrhythmusstörungen, plötzlicher Herztod, Migräne, Schwindel, Verstärkung der Amalgambelastung, Potenzstörungen, Fruchtbarkeitsstörungen, Blutbildveränderungen und Störung der Blutbildung, beschleunigtes Krebswachstum, ständige Müdigkeit und Erschöpfung, Antriebslosigkeit, Allergien, Alzheimer und Immunschwäche.

http://kornherr-net.de/sendemast/athermische_wirkungen_sind_fakt.htm

BREAKING: Hans Blix: "Iraq War Stimulated Terrorism"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101504Y.shtml

by Mark Taibbi

AlterNet

10/13/04

The Christian nerd factor for this particular war in Iraq has been higher than usual, and for obvious reasons. One, it is being waged for no obvious reason, making it fertile ground for all sorts of wild scriptural speculation -- just about anything you want to dream up, even the idea that Saddam Hussein is the antichrist[,] makes more sense than the actual justification for the war given by the government. Two, our occupation of Iraq is, or at least has evolved into, a confrontation with Islam. Three, it is led on our side by a Christian. Four, it is taking place in the site of ancient Babylon, a territory with no small significance in the Armageddon story...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20158/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

10/13/04

The Food and Drug Administration approved today an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care. VeriChips, radio frequency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to identify wayward pets and livestock. And nearly 200 people working in Mexico's attorney general's office have been implanted with chips to access secure areas containing sensitive documents...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2845723


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Kaum Nachwuchs: Weniger Weißstörche im letzten Jahr (14.10.04)

Die Zahl der Weißstörche ist weiter zurückgegangen. Nach Angaben des Naturschutzbundes (NABU) brüteten im Jahr 2003 genau 4.162 Weißstorchpaare in Deutschland. Im Jahr 2000 seien es noch 4.422 Paare gewesen. "Besorgniserregend war aber insbesondere der geringe Bruterfolg der Storchpopulation", so Christoph Kaatz, Leiter der NABU-Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Weißstorchschutz. In den meisten Bundesländern habe der unter dem Wert von zwei Jungen pro Nest gelegen. Das sei aber Voraussetzung zum langfristigen Bestandserhalt.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9503


Omega siehe hierzu:

Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)

Effekte elektromagnetischer Felder von Mobilfunkmasten auf die Population von Weißstörchen

von

Alfonso Balmori Martínez, Biologist (Biologe)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf


http://www.storchenhof-loburg.info/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=258&sid=81443fb76daa353abcd03d328cc293f0#258
http://www.ngo-online.de/leserbriefe_zuartikel.php4?Nr=9503&Vortitel=Kaum%20Nachwuchs&Titel=Weniger%20Wei%DFst%F6rche%20im%20letzten%20Jahr


Warum soll es den Vögeln anders gehen:
Unfruchtbarkeit hat viele Gesichter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/354923/

Vögel und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/331774/

Tiere und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/196960/

Besser Recyclingpapier: Saarland verzichtet auf Papier aus Regenwaldzerstörung (14.10.04)

Die saarländische Landesverwaltung will auf Papier aus Regenwaldzerstörung verzichten. Wie die Umweltschutzorganisation Robin Wood mitteilte, hat das Finanzministerium des Saarlands bisher Kopierpapier mit Fasern aus Regenwald-Holz verwendet und dieses jetzt ausgelistet. Der Hersteller habe auf Sumatra Einheimische von ihrem Land vertrieben und großflächig Regenwald zerstört. Die Umweltschützer forderten die öffentlichen Verwaltungen in anderen Bundesländern auf, ihre Papierbeschaffung zu überprüfen und auf Recyclingpapier umzustellen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9507

It's not easy being the president. And no one likes to admit mistakes. But it is dangerous when a president simply denies reality. In last night's debate, the president smiled and ducked, but revealed once more that he can't see what's going on, won't admit that his policies have failed, and promises us only more of the same.

Whether it's on jobs, health care or Iraq, the president's primary strategy is to paint deceptively rosy pictures, hope the American public buys them, and offer only to stay the failed course.

Help set the record straight, expose the mistakes, and build the groundswell needed to usher in new solutions:

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62645

Snap polls after the debate showed that the public generally thought Senator Kerry was more in tune with their values. Broad majorities support a dramatic change in direction. But of course the right-wing chorus at Fox News and elsewhere immediately started proclaiming Bush the victor.

Let's make sure they don't get away with distorting reality. Join us in talking straight about Bush's record of failure. We'll connect you -- using your zip code -- to your local and national news editors so that you can tell them directly: "I want to hear the straight story!"

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62645

As the debates have made clear, Bush is desperately trying to hide his record of stark failure. We can prevent him from side-stepping some of his worst:

- On jobs and the economy: The president's budget-busting tax cuts failed to generate jobs. He will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to have ended his four years with net job losses.

- On education: The president broke his promise to "provide the resources necessary," for No Child Left Behind, cutting more than $26 billion from the funds he agreed were needed to fullfill the bill's goals. He also broke his campaign promise to raise the level of Pell college tuition grants even as college costs soared at double-digit rates.

- On healthcare: President Bush did nothing as costs sky-rocketed and four million more Americans fell into the ranks of the uninsured. Worse, in a sellout to the drug companies, his prescription drug bill actually prohibits Medicare from negotiating a better price for seniors.

Join with us to make sure these and other clear mistakes get the scrutiny they deserve. Help expose the mistakes so that more and more people know exactly where changes in direction are most needed. In the last days of the presidential campaign, the attack ads and political posturing will reach a new climax. Each of us can make sure that a little straight talk pierces the fog. Please make your voice heard.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=62645

Thank you for your continued commitment!

Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director
Campaign for America's Future

Lynne Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife and the former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has placed herself in the company of dictators and slaveholders. At her urging, the Education Department destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed to help parents and children learn more about America's past.

http://207.44.245.159/article7073.htm

The global mistreatment of innocent people is shocking, it is reprehensible, it is inhumane, and it is grossly insane on any psychiatric level of assessment. Consult the New England Journal of Medicine and see how this esteemed publication, likened the torture policies of the U.S. to those practices used by Nazi Germany.

http://207.44.245.159/article7074.htm


From Information Clearing House

US treatment of detainees defies int’l law: HRW :

The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-10-2004_pg4_3


From Information Clearing House

U.S. Stymies Detainee Access Despite Ruling, Lawyers Say:

More than three months after the Supreme Court declared that hundreds of detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts, none has appeared in a courtroom.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30623-2004Oct13?language=printer
http://snipurl.com/9rvd


From Information Clearing House

Tortured terror suspects have mental illnesses, say doctors:

Eight foreign terror suspects held without trial for nearly three years in British prisons have experienced mental torture and are now suffering from serious psychiatric illnesses, a team of doctors revealed yesterday.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=571945


From Information Clearing House

http://snipurl.com/9ruv


From Information Clearing House

UK: Mother of soldier killed in Iraq protests after MoD blocks pension:

I don't understand why he can get killed in a war but he does not qualify for a pension."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=571922


From Information Clearing House

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe


Informant: intruthwetrust

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Opinion&OID=61401


Informant: intruthwetrust

http://www.alternet.org/election04/2004/10/002569.html


Informant: intruthwetrust

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9703

Informant: S.T.Ill Freeman

The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has passed a resolution opposing the use of fire stations for cellular antenna site locations until such installations are proven not to be hazardous. The IAFF called for an initial study to determine if the health of firefighters who work in stations with cell towers on the station property has been adversely affected.

Also, here's an excerpt from a recent press release which indicates the type of ES symptoms some firefighters are experiencing after having cell towers located on their stations:

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS (IAFF) VOTES TO STUDY HEALTH EFFECTS OF CELL TOWERS ON FIRE STATIONS

Call for Moratorium on New Cell Towers on Fire Stations Until Health Effects Can Be Studied

Boston, MA – August 24, 2004 – Firefighters returned to their home stations throughout the United States and Canada following last week's IAFF convention after passing a resolution to study the health
effects of cell towers placed on the fire stations where they work and live. Added to the resolution was an amendment calling for the IAFF to support a moratorium on the placement of new cell towers on fire stations until the completion of the study.

A recent pilot study of six California firefighters, first publicly revealed at the IAFF convention by medical writer and study organizer Susan Foster Ambrose of San Diego, CA, raises concern about the safety of fire fighters working and sleeping in stations with towers.

The study, conducted by Dr. Gunnar Heuser of Agoura Hills, CA, focused on neurological symptoms of six firefighters who had been working for up to five years in stations with cell towers. Those symptoms included slowed reaction time, lack of focus, lack of impulse control, severe headaches, anesthesia-like sleep, sleep deprivation, depression, and tremors.

Dr. Heuser, along with Dr. J. Michael Uszler of Santa Monica, CA, used functional brain scans - SPECT scans - to assess any changes in the brains of the six firefighters as compared to healthy brains of men of the same age. Computerized psychological testing known as TOVA was used to study reaction time, impulse control, and attention span.

Disturbingly, the SPECT scans revealed a pattern of abnormal change which was concentrated over a wider area than would normally be seen in brains of individuals exposed to toxic inhalation, as might be expected from fighting fires. Dr. Heuser indicated the only plausible explanation at this time would be RF radiation exposure. Additionally, the TOVA testing revealed among the six firefighters delayed reaction time, lack of impulse control, and difficulty in maintaining mental focus.

Because of increasing complaints among firefighters with cellular antennas on their stations coupled with the California study showing damage among the six firefighters tested, a group of five individuals spread across two provinces and three states worked with Southern California firefighters to draft the resolution put before the IAFF membership last week. Lt. Ron Cronin and Acting Lt. Joe Foster were joined by Dr. Magda Havas of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Vermont-based Janet Newton - president of the EMR Policy Institute, and Susan Foster Ambrose.

....

A copy of the complete press release can be found at:
http://www.emrpolicy.org/news/press/pr_iaff_vote.pdf


Beau

Links:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/iaff_firefighters_rf_health_study.html
http://tinyurl.com/5hs9f

Schwedische Wissenschaftler stellten eine Verdopplung der Wahrscheinlichkeit fest, nach 10 Jahren der Nutzung den gutartigen Krebs zu erhalten...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/lis/18568/1.html


Link:
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/hardellstudien.htm

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IZGMF: Kommentar zur Interphone-Studie

FGF-Infoline vom 21.10.2004

„Die schwedischen Forscher fanden heraus, dass sich bei langfristiger Handynutzung (mehr als 10 Jahre) das Risiko nahezu verdoppelt, an einem Hörnervtumor zu erkranken. Noch höher, nämlich fast um den Faktor 4, ist das Risiko, einen Hörnervtumor auf der Seite des Kopfes zu bekommen, an der das Handy bevorzugt gehalten wird. Kein erhöhtes Risiko fanden die Schweden bei einer Handynutzungsdauer unter 10 Jahren.

Hintergrund: Im Frühjahr 2004 hatte die erste Veröffentlichung aus der Interphone-Studie, sie bezieht sich auf die Teilstudie in Dänemark, aufgrund festgestellter Akustikusneurinome für einigen Wirbel gesorgt. Bereits 1999 dokumentierte ein Forscherteam um den amerikanischen Epidemiologen Dr. George Carlo, dass bei lange andauernder Handynutzung (mehr als 6 Jahre) ein erhöhtes Risiko für Akustikusneurinome besteht.“

http://www.izgmf.de/

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Handystrahlung erhöht Krebsrisiko
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365677/

Doch Hirntumoren durch Mobiltelefone ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/366865/

Hörnervtumor: Höheres Risiko bei langer Handynutzung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368806/

Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

Was ist ein Akustikusneurinom?
http://www2.netdoktor.de/krankheiten/fakta/acusticusneurinom.htm

Neurinome - Akustikusneurinome
http://www.m-ww.de/krankheiten/krebs/hirn_neurinom.html

Akustikusneurinom (Kleinhirnbrückenwinkeltumor)
http://www.netdoktor.de/krankheiten/fakta/acusticusneurinom.htm

Handy steigert Tumor-Risiko - Hinweise verdichten sich
http://www.silicon.de/cpo/ts-mobile/detail.php?nr=17033

Siehe auch den Filmbericht:
http://www.klimaforschung.net/mobilfunk_gehirn[1].mpa

Hirnschäden bereits bei Ganzkörper-SAR von 0,002
http://www.klimaforschung.net/hirnschaeden/index.htm

92V auf das Gehirn
http://www.klimaforschung.net/gehirn/index.htm

Blut-Hirn-Schranke
http://www.klimaforschung.net/bluthirnschranke.htm

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

Neuer Disput um Handystrahlung
http://forum-elektrosmog.de/forumelektrosmog.php/aid/158/cat/34/

Schockstudie der EU: Handys knacken die DNS und bewirken schwere Zellschädigung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482751/

USA Today

10/13/04

A second reporter was held in contempt Wednesday by a federal judge for refusing to reveal confidential sources before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan ordered Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper jailed for up to 18 months and the magazine fined $1,000 a day for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena seeking the testimony. Hogan suspended the jail time and fine pending the outcome of an appeal...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2EE42589


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Dodge City Daily Globe

10/13/04

A computer crash that forced a pre-election test of electronic voting machines to be postponed was trumpeted by critics as proof of the balloting technology's unreliability. The incident in Palm Beach County -- which is infamous for its hanging and pregnant chads during the 2000 presidential election -- did not directly involve the touch-screen terminals on which nearly one in three U.S. voters will cast ballots on Election Day...

http://ap.dodgeglobe.com/stories/20041013/2510371.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.newsday.com/ny-uspent1013,0,7141522.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Informant: kevcross5

http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/heroquake.html


Informant: Larry Lawson

See the first article on the page http://www.cheniere.org/articles/index.html

Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use: Immediate Strategic Aspects of the Asymmetric War on the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/4ysq7


Tony Craddock
Web Administrator
The Tom Bearden Website
http://www.cheniere.org

#113 WILD NORTHWEST, October 12, 2004
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====

Winning Protection for Glaciers and Grizzlies
Call now to oppose the proposed Jumbo Glacier resort in British Columbia

The 13-year-long battle to protect Jumbo Glacier in B.C.’s Columbia Mountains has come to a head. Purcell Mountain grizzly bears, dazzling glaciers, wildflower meadows in summer, and untracked powder in winter, all are threatened by a $450 million ski resort. Add your voice to the nearly 24,000 letters in opposition already sent to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office through the Jumbo Wild action center. The cornerstone of British Columbia’s growing economy is tourism, and it is wilderness that draws tourists, including American tourists. Urge the government to keep Jumbo Glacier wild. Tell them to support instead investment in existing Canadian resort towns such as Fernie, Kimberly, and Invermere -- not destruction of pristine areas.

Call BC Premier Gordon Campbell by October 18. Ask that he side with the glaciers and grizzly bears and against this Jumbo resort.

Toll-free in B.C.: 1-800-663-7867
Outside B.C.: 1-604-660-2421

Media attention on Jumbo has ramped up considerably. At the recent international Living Lakes Conference, members from 20 countries voted unanimously to urge the government to deny approval of the Jumbo Glacier resort. The world is watching closely as the B.C. government prepares a decision.

For more information visit http://www.jumbowild.com/
To learn more about NWEA's work to protect grizzly bears, go to http://www.ecosystem.org/grizcanada.html

Please reply to this message to let us know that you called. And thank you for keeping the greater Northwest wild!

Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24

http://tinyurl.com/6cmsu

Republicans Block Report on Bush Civil Rights Record
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101304W.shtml

If arsenic in cell phones can pollute then surely banning cca wood and dealing with the waste problem is far more essential. There is enough arsenic in one 12 by 2 by 6 to kill 250 people. We have millions of board feet leaching out there. Take care everybody and please keep safe.

Deborah


Governor Signs Bill Making Cell Phone Recycling Mandatory

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation making California the first state to require cellular phone stores to recycle old phones.

According to the provisions of the Cell Phone Recycling Act, as of July 1, 2006, it will be illegal for a retailer to offer cell phones for sale unless the recycling service is offered.

Advocates for the new law say it could create a thriving industry for used and refurbished cell phones similar to those that already exist in Latin America in Asia.

Although a few retailers already offer recycling services, more than 95 percent of old cell phones eventually wind up in landfills. According to the authors of the bill, toxins such as arsenic, lead and mercury can leach out of circuit boards on discarded cell phones, fouling soil and water.

Posted by
Deborah Elaine Barrie
4 Catherine Street
Smiths Falls, On
Canada
K7A 3Z8
(613)284-8259
deborahbarrie@hotmail.com
http://www.noccawood.ca

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw109753740133U232


Informant: intruthwetrust


U.S.-held "detainees" tortured, then "disappeared"
http://www.unknownnews.org/041014warcrimes.html

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~22097~2455971,00.html


Informant: Andrea Ball

http://www.911uncovered.com/wtc7.html


Informant: Nilbux

BBC TV - Newsnight

Our Washington correspondent Tom Carver has a special report on voter fraud in the United States, where the abuse of absentee voting in West Virginia and Florida, suggests this election will be as bitterly contested as the last.


Watch the item
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/nn/-/media/video/40171000/rm/_40171714_voting_carver_vi.ram


Informant: Cris Haldenby

The Time Grows Near -- Be Aware...Be Very Aware:

"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread."

http://207.44.245.159/article7065.htm

A cursory look both at the Bush administration's record and the neo-con agenda for the future reveals instead that Bush/Cheney are using September 11 as an excuse to attack weak states that interfere with an extreme right-wing world view and with US corporate interests...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FJ14Aa01.html


From Information Clearing House

The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top-secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held...

http://207.44.245.159/article7066.htm

“The Promise”, this nation’s domestic social contract has been brought to its knees by an unregulated corporate fundamentalism and our civil liberties have become null and void.

http://207.44.245.159/article7062.htm

The Neo-Conservative Agenda - Humanism VS Imperialism:

It would be nothing less than scandalous for the United States, which was founded on humanistic and democratic principles, to attempt to replace the old empires of the past and to deny the fundamental democratic right of other peoples and other nations to self-determination.

http://207.44.245.159/article7061.htm

STOP SINCLAIR!!!! Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest owner of local television stations in the US, ordered its 62 stations to preempt regular programming to air an anti-Kerry documentary just a few days before the election.

Sinclair's mission is clear: sway the election in favor of an administration that lets companies like Sinclair get even bigger. It's great for Sinclair's bottom line — terrible for our democracy.

This is not about 'liberal' or 'conservative.' It's about corruption, the threat to democratic discourse, and the manipulation of elections. Together, we can stop them. Take Action Now

http://www.freepress.net/sinclair/dn.php

Scholars Give Bush Foreign Policy a Failing Grade: An Open Letter to the People

http://tinyurl.com/43d77

Seismic monitor, check out the amount in the last 2 weeks !
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Ace

NRDC's BioGems News, October 2004
http://tinyurl.com/435mw

http://www.gigaherz.ch/735/

Wissenschaftler wiesen die Gefährlichkeit von Mobilfunk nach - Dann wurden sie unter Druck gesetzt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/426691/

ForumMobil diffamiert Schwedischen Top-Wissenschafter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/509687/

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

Abschied von der Aufklärung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/441322/

Enclosed some impressions from this workshop. This is not a report. However, if you wish some particular information on a certain presentation, you are wellcome to contact me.

Kind regards

Sianette Kwee



3rd International Workshop on Biological effects of EMFs, Kos, Greece, 4-8 October 2004

“Negative and No effects” was the order of this meeting , so another step backwards. It almost looked like a conspiracy.

The Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research was strongly represented with in vitro and in vivo RF studies, all supported by Telstra and Motorola, who also handled their exposure systems.

Among others, they had one (#B6:4) that was to be a replication of the Salford group’s work on BBB and dark neurons. They did not find any effects. Their experiment was run during a much shorter time and when asked how many mice they had used, the answer was: 6. The Salford group used hundreds of mice!

From the Salford group new results were reported (#A9:1), which showed that even after 50 days there was no change in the number of dark neurons in the 136 mice. Actually a group in Bordeaux, France got the same positive results as in the Salford’s study. However, this study was not allowed to be published and the scientist who did the work has disappeared.

Another Australian study was on human cells and heat-shock proteins (#B2:4). No change in transcription level or trace of the heat-shock protein was found. When asked how many experiments were done, the answer was: 1. Actually one more experiment was done, but since this showed a positive result, it was discarded as a false positive and was not mentioned at all. This group has now received funds to replicate my studies within one year.

However, we never did less than 20-30 independent experiments!

De Pomerai tried very hard to explain the mistakes in his first studies on the worms that gave positive effects. I almost felt sorry for him. It gave the impression, that he made experimental mistakes of the most elementary kind (controls, shams, exposure calculations etc.) or that editorial committees from the journals where he published these articles, among them the prestigious Nature, had been fast asleep while refereeing. He presented some new negative results, some hardly relevant. These resulted in a sarcastic question from Adlkofer (REFLEX), whether he had switched on the exposure apparatus!

These are just a few examples, but enough to show a very depressing trend in EMF science. It makes one feel sad to see what they have done to science. They have come a far way from the original intention, that a scientific study is something one is completely committed to, morally as well, and that it becomes almost part of oneself.

Indeed industry has corrupted science in cooperation with a coalition of willing scientists.

As Repacholi mentioned in his update on WHO EMF projects (#PLII:1): replication studies are recommended, but they need not be an exact replication of the original study.

In other words, they may be changed so as to fit a desired result?

Anyway who would like to have their work replicated by a bunch of amateurs.

The REFLEX report has still not been published officially and the reason is that industry is trying to prevent it.

Motorola was actively represented by a younger edition, but with the same viewpoints.

Poland, as one of the countries that recently has joined the EU, has now to change their safety limits. Their original safety limits were much stricter than EU’s ICNIRP limits, so for them it is also a step backwards.

SAR is getting a growing number og opponents and is considered as useless by many. Actually it is based on electrical fields and not on magnetic fields. Proposals for other ways to measure and express exposure were proposed e.g. Poland (#A7:1).

The Melatonin theory was also disproved (#PLI:3). It only applies to mice and not to man. Probably because mice are nocturnal animals was the explanation.

In trying to find a mechanism for the effects of EMF and non-thermal effects, it has now become politically correct again to talk about “Windows” (#PLI:1). Other explanations were cooperativity, like the one used for the allosteric enzyme mechanism (#PLIII:1).

However, I think we should rather turn to Kaiser (Germany) as the expert.

Fortunately not all was as dark. The posters showed many positive and interesting results, among them many in vivo experiments. Probably because these are mostly from younger scientists, not yet biased. Of course there were also a number of negative replications, but one has to be aware of who is behind these studies.

A Spanish poster was a about a patented device(#58) that could protect the brain against RF, as measured by recording of the 4 brainwaves. This was very similar to the Klieesens study some years earlier. This project was supported by Siemens. Some time ago one of Siemens’ directors in Germany said to a Danish newspaper, that if mobile phones really proved to have negative health effects, Siemens was ready to pull out of the mobile phone market.

After all it was not their main product. However, this is not the case for companies like Motorola, Nokia etc. They have all reasons to stick to their only product and use all means to buy influence in the appropriate places.

The full program for this workshop can be seen at http://imm.demokritos.gr/bioeffects04/Program/program.html
but unfortunately not the Abstracts. However, Abstracts do not always tell the real story.

Sianette Kwee
http://www.biokemi.au.dk/kwee/

Mis-reporting the Russian Cell Phone Conference
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442172/

The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/

The unbridled alliance of science and industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297097/

How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350582/

Greenwashing as "corporate responsibility"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/416134/

The Karolinska Inst. in Stockholm held a press conference yesterday 13 Oct 2004)on the effects of NMT mobil telephone use in a group of Swedes who have used the older NMT system (=Nordic Mobile Telephon by system) for more than 10 years. The study did not address GPS or GPRS phones. According to the Danish press "people who have used bilile phones over 10 years have nearly double the risk for developing tumors on the hearing nerves".

I enclose the pre-pub article from Dr. Fechting which was published on PubMed this week, and the press release in Swedish. I have queried them about more details, and will post them as they become available.

The subject group consisted of 150 people, who had tumors in the cochlear nerves, and the control group consisted of 600 people. Considering the population of Sweden is over 8 million, this is a very small subject group!

Scott Hill
the bioelectromagnetics group
Copenhagen


Annu Rev Public Health. 2004 Oct 12

EMF and Health.

Feychting M, Ahlbom A, Kheifets L.

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Maria.Feychting@imm.ki.se, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, and Division of Epidemiology, Stockholm Center of Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden Anders.Ahlbom@imm.ki.se, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772 kheifets@ucla.edu.

Electric and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the modern society, and concerns have been expressed regarding possible adverse effects of these exposures. This review covers epidemiologic research on health effects of exposures to static, extremely low-frequency (ELF), and radio frequency (RF) fields. Research on ELF fields has been performed for more than two decades, and the methodology and quality of studies have improved over time. Studies have consistently shown increased risk for childhood leukemia associated with ELF magnetic fields, whereas ELF fields most likely are not a risk factor for breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. There are still inadequate data for other outcomes. More recently, focus has shifted toward RF exposures from mobile telephony. There are no persuasive data suggesting a health risk, but this research field is still immature with regard to the quantity and quality of available data. This technology is constantly changing and there is a need for continued research on this issue. Almost no epidemiologic data are available for static fields. Expected online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health Volume 26 is March 17, 2005. Please see

http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/pub_dates.asp for revised
estimates.

PMID: 15479146 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

2004-10-13

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15479146



Mobile Phones Again Linked to Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362455/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1325928,00.html


Informant: Walter Lippmann

http://www.rense.com/general58/chem.htm


Informant: Anna Webb

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/131004bushwired.htm

The American people must know about the probability that Bush was wired and therefore probably cheated during the first Presidential debate. If true, it speaks volumes of the character of this President. The person who put this image together used simple techniques with commercial software used by amateur as well as professional photographers the world over. This person encourages others to reproduce the enhancements and to improve on them by using better quality video, and averaging more frames.


What Bush says....

"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
(Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX)


Informant: ItalysBadBoy


Bush was wired
http://tinyurl.com/4lstg

Address carbon dioxide problems now - expert

The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain's chief scientist said on Tuesday. "Already we are witnessing increased...

Read the article:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=143&art_id=iol1097652553924E525


Source: Greenpeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 18, Issue 10

Due to serious cuts in the healthcare budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs, many veterans wait months for a medical exam or treatment. In the case cited in the article below, VA knew the veteran had a serious medical condition, VA ignored it, and the veteran died.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2210

The Department of Veterans Affairs has established a new mental health center in Durham to focus on post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric problems affecting soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, federal officials announced Tuesday.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2209

This news article may be the tip of the iceberg of a major scandal:

People registering to vote are having their voter registration forms torn up by paid political partisans. The allegations come from former employees of Voters Outreach of America, and the "company has been largely funded by the Republican National Committee," according to the Associated Press. This means that provisional ballots may play a critical role in the November election.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2208

Laubenheimer nach Vortrag über Gefahren einig, dass sie Mobilfunkanlage nicht wollen

Vom 13.10.2004


jsp. LAUBENHEIM In Laubenheim regt sich massiver Widerstand gegen die Absicht eines - bisher nicht genannten - Mobilfunkbetreibers, im Ort einen Sendemast aufzustellen. So hat sich eine Bürgerinitiative (BI) gegründet, mit dem Ziel, die Aufstellung der Sendeanlage inmitten der Ortslage zu verhindern.

Mit gehörigem Druck, unter anderem einer Unterschriftenliste, wollen die Bürger den Gemeinderat dazu bewegen, den vom Betreiber im August gestellten Bauantrag auf seiner nächsten Sitzung abzulehnen.

Der von der BI eingeladene Diplom-Ingenieur Friedbert Lohner, Sprecher des Arbeitskreises Elektrosmog beim BUND, informierte die zahlreichen Bürger in der Naheblickhalle über mögliche gesundheitliche Gefährdungen durch diese Anlage.

"Gibt es überhaupt biologische Auswirkungen auf den Menschen?" , diese Frage stand im Mittelpunkt. Dass die von den Sendemasten ausgehende hochfrequente Strahlung biologische Auswirkungen auf den Menschen habe, darüber seien sich alle Wissenschaftler einig, stellte Lohner klar. Gestritten werde lediglich über die Höhe der für den Menschen verträglichen Strahlendosis. Hier gäbe es jedoch ein großes Missverhältnis bei den in verschiedenen Ländern gültigen Grenzwerten. So liege der zulässige Grenzwert in Deutschland (5 bis 10 Millionen Mykrowatt pro Quadratmeter) um das 125-fache über dem in der Schweiz (40000). Renommierte Wissenschaftler hielten jedoch einen Wert von höchstens 5 bis 10 Mykrowatt für verträglich. Bereits bei 10 bis 100 Mykrowatt würden gesundheitliche Probleme auftreten. Wenn die elektromagnetische Strahlung der Sender auf den Menschen aufträfe, beeinflusse diese die Nervenbahnen, denn die vom Nervensystem verwendete Pulsfrequenz liege im selben Bereich wie die der hochfrequenten Strahlung. Neben der Signalstärke seien die verwendete Frequenz und die Pulsung problematisch, denn sie bewirke Veränderungen der Hirnströme. Beim D-Netz würden 900 Megahertz ausgesandt, der Körper reagiere aber bereits ab 10 Megahertz mit Beschwerden wie Kopfschmerz, Nervosität, Schlaflosigkeit oder Ohrensausen. Bei Mäusen, die 900 MHtz ausgesetzt gewesen seien, sei die Krebsrate um das Doppelte gestiegen.

Lohner kritisierte die Haltung der Betreiber, nicht über eine Verringerung der Strahlendosis reden zu wollen. "Dabei schließen sich biologische Verträglichkeit und Nutzung von Handys nicht aus," stellte er klar. Denn bereits bei einer Strahlungsdichte zwischen 0,01 bis 0,05 Mykrowatt sei ein optimaler Empfang möglich. Durch den Dauerbetrieb des Senders rund um die Uhr sei die Belastung für die Bevölkerung auf jeden Fall hoch, so Lohner.

Ein Mast weit außerhalb in der Gemarkung sei jedoch weit weniger schädlich. Dies sieht auch Ortsbürgermeister Johannes Häußling so, der sich ebenso wie viele Gemeinderatsmitglieder vehement gegen die Anlage im Ortsbereich ausspricht. Er ließ durchblicken, dass der Bauantrag im Gemeinderat wohl abgelehnt werde. Genau wie Lohner sieht er keine rechtliche, sondern nur eine politische Möglichkeit, Druck auf den Betreiber auszuüben. Er forderte daher die Bürger auf, Argumente gegen die Anlage zu sammeln. "Denn nur mit stichhaltigen Argumenten können wir etwas ausrichten". Auch die Kreisverwaltung als nächst höhere Instanz müsse man mit dem Bürgerwillen konfrontieren, forderte der Sprecher der BI, Hans-Jürgen Schnell.

"Instinktlos" sei es, so Häußling, den Mast in der Nähe des Kindergartens aufzustellen. Hier fürchtet er, ebenso wie einige Bürger, dass Eltern aus berechtigter Sorge ihre Kinder in einen anderen Kindergarten schicken werden. Man wolle dem Betreiber daher anbieten, den Mast "weit außerhalb zu bauen, so umweltverträglich wie möglich," so Häußling. Dieser Forderung konnten sich die meisten Bürger anschließen. Zum Widerstand gegen das Vorhaben im Ort sind sich die Laubenheimer jedenfalls einig. "Dann benutzen wir eben keine Handys dieses Betreibers mehr", hieß es.

http://www.az-badkreuznach.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=1646661


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://tinyurl.com/6adpc


Informant: Crystal M

---- please distribute also to your press-contacts


FATE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS HANGS IN THE BALANCE

PRESS ADVISORY: 14 October 2004. From Justice for Animals and Xwe African Wild Life

Once again the shadow of death hangs over the elephant clans in the Kruger National Park (KNP). Their future will be decided at an Indaba to be held in the Park from the 19-21 October. Two South African animal rights groups, Justice for Animals and Xwe African Wild Life, have joined forces to oppose the reintroduction of ‘culling’ on ethical and ecological grounds and they have the support of a number of prominent animal welfare and animal rights organisations across the globe.

The apartheid government, as beneficiaries of the lucrative but cruel ivory trade, killed elephants in the Kruger National Park relentlessly, and uninterrogated science was used to back up their dubious culling practices. After 1994, this killing culture and its scientific validity were brought into question by a South African animal rights organisation, FALCON (now Justice for Animals), and, as a result, the government placed a moratorium on the ‘culling’ of elephants in the KNP.

Some conservationists are now claiming that the KNP elephant population is exceeding the park’s carrying capacity. Moreover, renewed pressure from the consumptive use lobby - including the international trophy hunting lobby - that believes an elephant’s worth lies only in its economic value to human beings, is now threatening this moratorium.

"Justice for Animals (JA) and Xwe are totally opposed to the reintroduction of ‘culling’ as part of the South African National Parks (SANParks) elephant management plan. JA Chairperson, Steve Smit said: "Extensive research has shown that elephants are highly evolved, intelligent animals with complex social and emotional lives. Killing them as part of a management plan is both cruel and unethical".

Animal rights groups maintain that should a situation arise where it is shown on valid scientific grounds that the elephant population in the KNP, or any other conservation area, is having an unnaturally destructive effect on the environment, then various alternatives to culling should be employed. Such alternatives include the relocation of animals within trans-frontier parks, translocation to other parks, and now the promising option of using immuno-contraception to control elephant population numbers.

To make matters worse, there is no empirical evidence that elephants are causing excessive damage to the vegetation in sensitive areas in the KNP. But this is the main reason presented by SANParks for now considering ‘culling’ as an option to limit the number of elephants in the park. Smit said that, "JA and Xwe would challenge, on scientific grounds, any assertion by SANParks that the elephant population of the KNP is too high and necessitates reduction."

There are more insidious reasons, however, why ‘culling’ is being considered, namely: South Africa is the main proponent in Africa for reopening of the ivory trade and one way to undermine the ban is through the stockpiling of so-called "legal" ivory as a by-product of culling; and there is also unremitting pressure from trophy hunters to kill large-tusked bulls in the KNP. Instead of being havens for the protection of our natural heritage, SANParks may render our natural parks havens for the exploitation of animals by hunters and commercial interests.

Michele Pickover, Chairperson of Xwe African Wildlife said: "South Africa has a history of resorting to violence as a means of solving problems. So when it comes to the issue of elephant management in national parks there is a lot of pressure on authorities by vested interest groups who want to see elephants killed for selfish purposes. We should resist this pressure and, in our treatment of wildlife, we should strive to embody the more humane values that underpin the new South Africa".

"At the upcoming Indaba", Pickover said, "we intend to present a strong argument against ‘culling’ because we believe it is unnecessary, cruel and ethically indefensible. Killing elephants for fun, profit or socio-political expediency is morally reprehensible and we intend to do everything in our power to protect elephants in the KNP, and elsewhere, from harm."

Contacts:

Steve Smit of JA on:
082 659 4711 or 031 776 3167, e-mail: falconsa@worldonline.co.za

Michele Pickover of Xwe on:
082 253 2124 or 011 717 1940, e-mail xwe@sn.apc.org

David Bilchitz of Xwe/Ashira on:
0849515316 or 011 2686533 or e-mail davidb@ashira.co.za

Steve Smit
Justice for Animals
(formerly FALCON)
http://www.justiceforanimals.co.za
falconsa@worldonline.co.za
Reg.No. 002-562 NPO

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Martin Luther King


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