Menschenwürde: Klage gegen Klon-Patent eingereicht (20.10.04)

Die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace hat am Mittwoch beim Deutschen Patentgericht in München Klage gegen ein Patent des Bonner Klonforschers Oliver Brüstle eingereicht. Das in Deutschland seit 1999 gültige Patent (DE 19756864) umfasst die Nutzung von Zellen aus menschlichen Embryonen und verstößt nach Auffassung von Greenpeace unter anderem gegen das Verbot der kommerziellen Verwertung des menschlichen Körpers. Christoph Then von Greenpeace, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, der Vorsitzende des Marburger Bundes, und Rainer Beckmann, Sachverständiger in der Enquete-Kommission "Ethik und Recht der modernen Medizin", forderten bei einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz in Berlin den Widerruf des Patentes.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9545


Greenpeace: Klage gegen deutsches Klon-Patent

http://www2.netdoktor.de/nachrichten/index.asp?y=2004&m=10&d=21&id=115767

Bundesagentur für Arbeit: Weniger Kündigungsschutz schafft keine Arbeitsplätze (20.10.04)

Nach Angaben der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) schafft eine Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes keine neuen Arbeitsplätze. Das berichtet die Tageszeitung "Die Welt" unter Berufung auf eine neue Untersuchung des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Nürnberger Arbeitsmarktbehörde zu den Wirkungen des Kündigungsschutzrechtes. In der Studie heiße es: "Als Ergebnis lässt sich festhalten, dass dort, wo es keinen Kündigungsschutz gibt, die Beschäftigungsdynamik nicht zunimmt." Die Änderungen der Schwellenwerte im deutschen Kündigungsschutzrecht hätten während der 90er Jahre weder auf die Zahl der Einstellungen noch auf die Zahl der Kündigungen einen messbaren Einfluss. Deshalb sei "ein signifikanter Einfluss auf das Beschäftigungsniveau bzw. die Arbeitslosigkeit ebenfalls auszuschließen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9550


Kündigungsschutz kein Hemmnis für neue Jobs
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,324059,00.html

7,5 oder 45 Millionen Tier: Ohne Alternativen droht massive Zunahme von Tierversuchen (20.10.04)

Alle 15 Sekunden stirbt ein Tier in deutschen Versuchslabors. Es waren zwar 2003 mit 2,1 Millionen deutlich weniger Tiere als im Vorjahr, allerdings gab es damals einen fast ebenso großen Anstieg. Damit befinden sich die Zahlen ziemlich genau auf dem Stand von 2001. Dabei zeigt Deutschland innerhalb der EU noch am meisten Engagement, alternative Forschungsmethoden zu finden. Doch in den nächsten Jahren könnten die Tierversuchs-Zahlen explodieren.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9551

Enough Is Enough -- Confront Tom DeLay and End House Corruption
http://action.ourfuture.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=22476
http://www.ourfuture.org/action_center/delaypac_bystate.cfm

Die umstrittene Mobilfunkstudie von Naila, in der Hausärzte ein erhöhtes Krebsrisiko im näheren Umkreis von Mobilfunk-Masten feststellten, wird nun von mehreren staatlichen Behörden überprüft.

Mobilfunkmast in Naila

Dies teilte Nailas Bürgermeister Frank Stumpf nach einem Gespräch mit den Vertretern der Landesämter für Umweltschutz beziehungsweise für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit mit. Die Behördenvertreter haben auch Vergleichsuntersuchungen in anderen Städten in Aussicht gestellt.

Bürgermeister Stumpf zeigte sich erfreut, dass die Behörden nun auch Handlungsbedarf in Sachen Mobilfunk sähen und Konsequenzen aus der Studie der Hausärzte ziehen. Die im Sommer vorgelegte Studie wurde bislang von den Mobilfunk-Betreibern als nicht aussagefähig zurückgewiesen. Dagegen hat sich der Stadtrat von Naila mehrheitlich gegen weitere Mobilfunk-Masten ausgesprochen.

http://www.br-online.de/umwelt-gesundheit/artikel/0410/20-naila/index.xml

Omega siehe „Die Naila-Mobilfunkstudie“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283426/

Moving Ideas News
October 13-19, 2004

SPECIAL EVENT

How to Move the Progressive Agenda Forward with Technology
PopandPolitics.com is hosting an exciting roundtable event exploring progressive politics and technology starting at 5:30pm on Thursday, November 18, 2004 in Washington, DC at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Moving Ideas’ is a co-sponsor and will be part of the panel!
www.2004progressivetech.com

NEW FROM MOVING IDEAS

Patriot Act Threatens Civil Liberties
On the 3rd anniversary of the Patriot Act, write a letter to the editor for the in support of civil liberties protections.
http://action.movingideas.org/dia/organizations/movingideas/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=48

Early Childhood Development
Readings and resources relating to The American Prospect's special report on early childhood development.
http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/childdevelopment.html

Guantanamo Detainees: Human Rights are Not Negotiable
Read the transcripts from the online chat presented by Amnesty International USA and the Moving Ideas Network.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=24

FEATURED ARTICLES

Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
From: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
This report found that Hispanics are overrepresented in the U.S. criminal justice system, with Hispanic defendants imprisoned three times as often as Whites and detained before trial almost twice as often as Whites, despite being the least likely of all ethnic groups to have a criminal history.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5960

American Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy from September 11 to the Iraq War
From: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Paul T. McCartney
The author examines how the Bush administration drew upon nationalist imagery first to interpret the terrorists attacks of September 11 and then to frame the war against Iraq.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5952

Placebo Ballots: Will Fail-Safe Voting Fail?
From: DEMOS
David Cay Johnston
More than 200,000 votes cast on November 2nd could be invalidated due to improperly and illegally applied provisional balloting procedures, according to this new report.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5923

DOMESTIC SOCIAL

Workers' Rights Watch: Eye on the NLRB - October 2004
From: AMERICAN RIGHTS AT WORK
North Carolina meatpackers have endured grisly working conditions, unfair pay, and a decade of attacks on their right to organize. So why has the National Labor Relations Board failed to rule on their case for four years?
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5944

Looking to the Future: A Commentary on Children of Immigrant Families
From: CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
Mark Greenberg and Hedieh Rahmanou
This article responds to the question: "How should policymakers, advocates, stakeholders, and practitioners respond strategically and proactively to demographic change and increasing diversity in order to promote the healthy development, productivity, and well-being of our nation's children into the future?"
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5955

Side-by-Side Comparison of Marriage and Fatherhood Provisions in H.R. 4 Passed by Senate Finance Committee and House
From: CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
Vicki Turetsky
This chart summarizes the marriage and fatherhood provisions in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization bill passed by the House and the one passed by the Senate Finance Committee.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5956

In Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood Development
From: ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
Education programs for 3 and 4 year old children ultimately provide billions of dollars in net savings to local governments and taxpayers through such financial benefits as higher income, reduced crime and poverty, and Social Security solvency.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5928

Comments Regarding Head Start Program Information Report
From: CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
Rachel Schumacher and Katherine Hart
These comments, submitted to the Administration for Children and Families Office of Information Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, urge the government to clarify or expand portions of the data it collects on Head Start children, families, teachers, and programs and then distributes via the Program Information Report (PIR).
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5957

Criminal Neglect: Substance Abuse, Juvenile Justice and the Children Left Behind
From: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY
The report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University examines the juvenile justice system; the nature and extent of drug use among juvenile offenders; prevention opportunities; treatment options; juvenile drug courts; and the economic cost of substance abuse and delinquency.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5942

The Draft Framework for the 10-Year Strategic Plan to End Homelessness in Los Angeles
From: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY
The draft presents the mission and history of Bring LA Home, guiding principals, goals, and 36 "keys to success" aimed at ending homelessness in Los Angeles County.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5962

Government Run Health Programs - The Evil Empire Threatens
From: NORTH CAROLINA COMMITTEE TO DEFEND HEALTH CARE
Dennis Lazof
Drawing upon material from the recent three presidential debates, this editorial discusses the logic, and lapse thereof, in President Bush’s arguments against government run health programs. The author illuminates the logic and insight of how this domestic evil empire threatens our freedom and democracy.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5935

Public Rightly Insists that that Federal Prison be Excluded from New California County's Districts
From: PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE
Peter Wagner
This fall, planners of what may become California's newest county discovered a common prison town dilemma: How do we draw legislative districts when the Census Bureau says that federal prisoners "live" in our town?
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5947

Census Data Asks: Where are the Hispanic children? But it's the Wrong Question
From: PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE
Peter Wagner
Counting prisoners as prison-town residents masks some of the changes in how the Hispanic population is distributed in the United States.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5948

Public Opinion Watch
From: CENTURY FOUNDATION
Ruy Teixeira
In this issue: State of the Race; A Note on the Washington Post/ABC News Tracking Poll; and much more.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5965

Exceptional Returns
From: OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
See comments by OCPP and leaders in the business and children's advocacy community of new data from the US Census Bureau showing a rise in poverty among children in the US.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5922

DOMESTIC ECONOMIC

OMB Watcher
From: OMB WATCH
In this issue: Senate Pushes Through Corporate Tax Bill Over Holiday Weekend; U.S. Spending Hits Ceiling Forcing Treasury to Act; Employment Report Again Shows Weakness; and much more.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5945

Working Hard; Falling Short
From: CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
The report finds that too many jobs pay poor wages and provide no benefits, and that American workers are poorly prepared and supported to move into better paying jobs.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5958

Official Treasury Report Shows Fourth Year of Deficit Growth Despite Economic Recovery
From: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
Richard Kogan and Robert Greenstein
The Treasury has announced that the deficit was $413 billion in 2004. This marks the first time since World War II that the deficit has grown for four straight years, and the first time since before the Depression that the deficit has continued to grow this far into an economic recovery.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5954

Funding Instability Threatens to Erode Business Community's Confidence in the Housing Voucher Program
From: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
Barbara Sard
Unless HUD and Congress reaffirm their commitment to provide ongoing funding for all housing vouchers in use, the public-private partnership that makes the voucher program work will be threatened.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5961

Number of Unemployed who have gone without Federal Benefits Hits Record 3 Million
From: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
Isaac Shapiro
From late December 2003 (when the temporary federal benefits program was permitted to phase out) through today, a record 3 million jobless workers have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits and gone without federal aid.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5963

Unrealistic Expectations for the Federal Budget
From: ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
Max Sawicky
The goal of balancing the budget in 10 years implies an utterly untenable fiscal policy that would require discretionary spending outside of defense and homeland security to be cut by nearly 90% in inflation-adjusted, per capita terms.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5964

Job Numbers Come Up 131,500 Short
From: OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Analysis of September employment figures reveals that Oregonians are 131,500 jobs short of what are needed to keep pace with the growth in the working age population in Oregon since the downturn began.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5950

President Bush and Congressional Republicans are Seriously Discussing a National Sales Tax
From: OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Mike Leachman
Should a national sales tax really be "seriously explored?" For most Oregonians, the message is not very nice.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5959

FOREIGN POLICY

Homeland Unsecured: The Bush Administration's Hostility to Regulation and
Ties to Industry Leave America Vulnerable
From: PUBLIC CITIZEN
The report details how the Bush administration has failed to harden our defenses against terrorism and secure the most vulnerable, high-impact targets.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5946

Political Reform in the Arab World: A New Ferment?
From: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Amy Hawthorne
The nascent discourse on reform in the Arab world has inspired optimistic predictions that the region is finally responding to the global trend toward democracy. But such enthusiasm about the inevitability of democratic change is premature, writes the author in her new Carnegie Paper.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5936

Hong Kong After the Elections: The Future of ‘One Country, Two Systems'
From: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Veron Hung
Testimony presented to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, September 23, 2004 by Veron Hung, associate in Carnegie's China Program.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5938

COMMENTARY

Professors Against Bush Economic and Labor Policy
From: AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION
David Jacobs
Even an MBA degree cannot save you when the most powerful state on earth wages class war on its working people.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5939

The African-American Economy
From: AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION
Michael J. Wilson
As Election Day 2004 nears, each of us has a responsibility to participate as voter, and while everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion on how best to meet our challenges and fulfill our hopes, everyone is not entitled to his or her own facts.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5940

Forward Journey: Trade Issues in the 2004 Election
From: AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION
Jim Jontz
A couple months earlier in New Hampshire, Kerry often struggled with trade issues. The author says that he weaved and bobbed appearing unfamiliar with issues of interest to public employees, postal workers, nurses, and construction workers in the Granite State. By October, Kerry was prepared.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5941

Liberal Hawk Down
From: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Anatol Lieven
The failure of the Democratic Party to oppose the Bush Administration's push for war in Iraq may have doomed its chances in the 2004 elections. The author argues that from whatever mixture of fear and opportunism, many Democrats who at heart opposed the war reckoned that the wave of mass nationalist fervor that followed 9/11 made such a stance politically unviable in 2002-03.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5937

Snow Job on Jobs
From: CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
Treasury Secretary John Snow misrepresented the record on job growth when he claimed that the economy had created 3.2 million jobs during the Bush administration.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5943

Are the War and Globalization Really Connected?
From: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
Mark Engler
In the post 9-11 era, activists demonstrated how the war against terror and the drive for corporate globalization are one and the same and how peace and global justice movements share vital common ground. That these two issues are connected, in a fundamental way, is an article of faith on the political left.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5926

Missile Defense All Over Again
From: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
Michelle Ciarrocca
The Bush administration remains determined to deploy a national missile defense (NMD) despite its continued technical failures.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5925

Indecision on Iraq?
From: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
Colonel Daniel Smith, USA(Ret.)
As the first half of October 2004 slips into history, Iraq presents a bewildering kaleidoscope of conflicting tactics both within and outside the country.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5927

Security Scholars Say Iraq War Most Misguided Policy Since Vietnam
From: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
Jim Lobe
The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has been the ''most misguided'' policy since the Vietnam War, according to an open letter signed by some 500 U.S. national-security specialists.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5949

Holding Up a Mirror to the Face of U.S. 'Exceptionalism'
From: THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
William Marina
Separated by one hundred and four years, the presidential elections of 1900 and 2004 offer some startling and almost eerie similarities.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5924

A Draft or Merely Hot Air?
From: THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
Ivan Eland
Regardless of who becomes the next President of the United States, a military draft may be lurking around the November corner.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5921

The Three Stooges in Iraq, and the U.S.'s First Stooge
From: THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
William Marina
Must history repeat itself? Apparently so with the war in Iraq mirroring the U.S.'s first major foreign war - the invasion and conquest of the Philippines over 100 years ago, when over 200,000 Filipino were killed. Ironically enough, key neoconservatives have used the Philippine war as their model for Iraq.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5953

Immigration Restrictionism Gains Political Clout
From: INTERHEMISPHERIC RESOURCE CENTER
Tom Barry
The surge in xenophobic sentiment associated with the "global war on terrorism" and widespread job loss have given rise to a new wave of anti-immigrant initiatives.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5951

Pro-Life, Pro-Kerry
From: TOMPAINE.COM
Amy Sullivan
Many Democrats cringe when Kerry violates the pro-choice orthodoxy and shares his personal belief that life begins at conception. But what they miss, the author argues, is that Kerry's nuanced view of abortion gives room for reasonable people to disagree at the same time that it commits him to defending reproductive rights.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5932

Reproaching Ralph
From: TOMPAINE.COM
David Corn
Ralph Nader has done so much good for the United States, but his latest stubborn run for president will secure him a place as either a spoiler or an almost-spoiler.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5933

Filling the Swamp
From: TOMPAINE.COM
Rami G. Khouri
Two weeks ago, the terrorists bombed hotels in Taba, Egypt. Last 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.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5934

No More Years
From: WORKINGFORCHANGE.COM
Molly Ivins
The author recalls some of her favorite moments from Bush's one-term presidency.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5929

The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
From: WORKINGFORCHANGE.COM
Robert Scheer
The author reports that the CIA is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5930

G-o-d, not GOP
From: WORKINGFORCHANGE.COM
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
The author writes that Bush's zealotry does not mean faith is exclusive to the right.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5931

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pledge to Stop a Stolen Election
From: CODE PINK
CODEPINK is a founding member of the No Stolen Elections campaign, whose supporters include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Eleanor Smeal, Michael Moore, Dolores Huerta and many others. Sign the No Stolen Elections pledge and make a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in the case of a fraudulent vote
count.
http://www.nov3.us/

WAND, Win Without War, MoveOn.org, and True Majority join Senator Bob Graham's call for release of National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq
From: WOMEN’S ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS
Groups launch national campaign to force President to tell the truth about growing quagmire and potential for civil war.
http://capwiz.com/wand/issues/alert/?alertid=6438506&type=ME

The Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program Launches Free Quarterly e-Newsletter
From: WORKFORCE STRATEGIES INITIATIVE
The Aspen Institute has just launched a free quarterly e-newsletter to share news and information on variety of topics affecting the economic well-being of low-income Americans, including: microenterprise development, mentoring of small businesses, workforce training, access to capital and credit and community-based forestry.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Programt1.asp?i=66&bid=17231

Crime Victims’ Advocate Elected Chair of NCADP Board
From: NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Bill Pelke, who lost his 78-year-old grandmother to murder yet has campaigned relentlessly against the death penalty, will serve a one-year term as chairman of the NCADP Board of Directors.
http://www.ncadp.org/index.html

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon67.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory37.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wired News

10/19/04

U.S. government efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks on the nation's planes and trains are increasingly incorporating smart technologies that can sniff out bomb residue on a passport or see through clothes to detect weapons taped to a would-be terrorist's stomach. ... Currently, the TSA is field-testing a wide range of new gadgets and systems. At five airports, for example, the agency is testing passenger-screening portals that shoot puffs of air at passengers to loosen particles, which the machine then quickly tests for explosive residue. At the back doors of airports, the TSA is testing fingerprint and iris checkers that would keep out unauthorized people."

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65366,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Confirmed -- U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers

The New York Times confirms there are secret plans to be able to launch a military draft of medica personnel on very short notice. This confirmation comes despite the quick and meaningless vote in Congress and despite assertions there is no Bush Administration plan to draft soldiers to fight in the streets of Baghdad, Iraq. Send this news article to your friends between 18 to 44 and remind them about the "back door draft" called "stop loss," a policy that prevents soldiers from leaving the military.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2257

Robert Scheer writes in the Los Angeles Times, "It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago." The public and Congress have a right to see the CIA report before the election.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2256


Mr. Bush, Release the CIA Report on 9/11 Failures

When it comes to the Bush administration and accountability, the buck doesn't stop anywhere.

The Bush administration is stonewalling a damning CIA inspector general's report on 9/11 until after the election even though it was finished in June. According to press reports, this report finally names senior administration officials who weren't doing their jobs before the 9/11 attacks.

Click here to take action!
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/hbod0IEmZM0Mvd0rZ80Er

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/perlstein.php


Informant: Andrea Ball

Journalist Requests Temporary Restraining Orders Against Use of Voting Machines & Absentee Ballots - Urges Use Of Remote Polling Precincts & Provisional Ballots

by Dissident Voice News Service

Last week, freelance journalist Lynn Landes filed two Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO) in federal district court in Philadelphia. Landes is one of the nation's leading journalists on voting technology and democracy issues. She is attempting to halt the use of voting machines and absentee ballots in the upcoming presidential election.....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/DVNS1019.htm

WIRBEL / Für Aufregung sorgt ein Handy-Mast, der in Groß-Enzersdorf errichtet werden soll. Bürger sammelten Unterschriften. Folge: Kündigungen von Verträgen. Telekom Austria weist alle Anschuldigungen von sich.

VON WALTER VYMYSLICKY

GROSS-ENZERSDORF / Rund 80 Bewohner in der und um die Schlosshofer Straße protestierten in Form einer Unterschriftenaktion gegen die Aufstellung eines UMTS-Handymastens in ihrer unmittelbaren Nähe. In einem Hilfeschrei wandte sich die Bürger-Initiative nun an Landeshauptmann Dr. Erwin Pröll, mit der Bitte zu helfen. Sie glaubt, dass die Mobilfunk-Technik mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit Einfluss auf die Gesundheit der Menschen nimmt. „Die Besorgnis ist groß und der UMTS-Handymast, welchen man uns rund 35 Meter vor die Haustüre setzen will, wird als reine Bedrohung mit Erlaubnis des Staates angesehen. Wir sind nicht gegen den Mobilfunk, jedoch gegen eine Technik, welche ohne Berücksichtigung von vielen aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Forschungen Grenzen überschreiten kann. Schon allein die Tatsache, dass die empfohlenen Grenzwerte Vorsorgewerte um das Millionenfache differieren, zeigt die Problematik auf“, berichtete Günther Zimmermann gegenüber der NÖN. Nachdem die Unterschriftenliste auf der Gemeinde abgegeben worden war, bekamen laut Zimmermann und Stadtrat Walter Mayr vier der 80 Unterzeichner ein SMS auf ihr Handy mit folgendem Wortlaut: „Wir sehen uns gezwungen, aufgrund Ihrer Unterschrift gegen die Errichtung eines Sendemastens in Groß-Enzersdorf Ihren Vertrag zu kündigen.“

Seltsame SMS erhalten
Verträge wurden gekündigt

Wie Zimmermann der NÖN mitteilte, meldete sich nach einem Rückanruf bei der Nummer des Anrufers (0664/9775449) ein Call-Center. Der Gesprächspartner unter der oben angeführten Nummer sprach von einem Einmann-Betrieb, er wäre Invalide und mache das in Heimarbeit. Als Partner gab er die Telekom Wiesbaden an. Eine Bekanntgabe des Namens verweigerte er. Bei einem weiteren Anruf meldete sich der Teilnehmer nicht mehr. Die Telekom Austria teilte mit, dass sie niemals Kunden wegen einer Unterschrift gegen einen Handymast kündigen würde. „Dann würden wir ja einen zahlenden Kunden verlieren. Wir kennen die Nummer des Wertkartenhandys nicht und haben mit den Nachrichten nichts zu tun“, hieß es dort. Die Vertreterin der Telekom empfiehlt Kunden, die sich durch derartige Anrufe oder SMS belästigt fühlen, bei der nächsten Fernmeldestelle zur Anzeige zu bringen.

Bestätigt wurde der Plan, bei der Schlosshofer Straße einen Funkmasten zu errichten. „Es stehen schon im Norden und Süden von Groß-Enzersdorf zwei Masten, und durch die Zunahme der Handy-Telefone wird nun in der Mitte ein weiterer benötigt. Laut 13 Jahren Forschung wurde festgestellt, dass die Funkstrahlen nicht gesundheitsschädlich sind. Es können jedoch bei manchen Menschen durch die elektromagnetischen Felder ,Effekte‘ auftreten, die jedoch nicht die Gesundheit schädigen“, so die Umweltberaterin der Telekom, Claudia Übellacker.

http://www.noen.at/redaktion/n-mar/article.asp?Text=157110&cat=343

Omega: es stimmt nicht, „dass die Funkstrahlen nicht gesundheitsschädlich sind“. Immerhin bemerkenswert, dass zumindest von einer Vertreterin der Mobilfunkbetreiber überhaupt zugegeben wird, dass „bei manchen Menschen durch die elektromagnetischen Felder ,Effekte‘ auftreten“. Da kann man nur sagen weiter so, die Wahrheit lässt sich ja auf Dauer auch nicht verheimlichen. Siehe „Mobilfunk und Gesundheit“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303598/


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Neue Untersuchung über Elektrosensibilität: Testpersonen dringend gesucht

Einladung erhalten, anbei meine Absage mit dem Schreiben an die UNI Mainz.

FUNKGEMEINSCHAFT UND FRAUENHOFER FORSCHEN DEMNÄCHST IN KARLSRUHE.

Anbei mein Antwortschreiben an Frau Direktor Prof. Dr. med. Maria Blettner mit einer cpl. zusammengestellten Mappe mit Artikeln von mir. Siehe Inhaltsverzeichnis.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/inhaltsverzeichnis.doc

Antwortschreiben:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/gutenberg_universitaet.doc


dieter keim <> ilbenstadt

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Nachstehendes Schreiben habe ich an den EMF-Wachhund gesandt nach deren Aufforderung, an einem Elektrosensiblen-Projekt der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk in Karlsruhe teilzunehmen.

I. Eder-Stein


Sehr geehrte Frau Prof. Blettner,

mein Mann und ich werden an dem Projekt nicht teilnehmen.

Einerseits wird mit keinem Wort gesagt, was eigentlich das Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist. Es spricht sehr viel dafür, daß es um den Beweis geht, daß Elektrosensibilität nicht nachweisbar ist, will sagen, nicht existiert außer in kranken Gehirnen.

Andererseits spricht der gesamte Versuchsaufbau dafür, daß die "Macher" wirklich nicht verstehen, was Elektrosensibilität im Alltag bedeutet. Die Zumutung, am Testtag anzureisen, mit Zug und öffentlichem Verkehrsmittel in Karlsruhe, genügte mir vor ca. 2 Jahren schon, auf eine Teilnahme zu verzichten. Jede Zugfahrt, bei der man ständig von handytelefonierenden Mitreisenden behelligt wird, ist für mich eine Folter, führt zu massiven gesundheitlichen Störungen sofort und verzögert, und zwingt mich anschließend zu mehrtägigem Aufenthalt in feldfreiem Gebiet, meist in bettlägrigem Zustand. Dann nach dieser Belastung noch mit Bus oder Bahn fahren zu sollen, in völlig unbekannter Umgebung, ist eine absolute Zumutung. Eine Anreise mit Auto kann ich auch nur machen, wenn mich jemand fährt, denn die an den Autobahnen aufgestellten Masten führen bei mir zu schweren Beeinträchtigungen, die bis zur kurzfristigen Bewußtlosigkeit führen.

Wie sollte eine so "vorbereitete" Probandin dann noch fähig sein, weitere Testungen zu überstehen? Noch dazu mit 5 % der gültigen Grenzwerte. Ich wurde von Vodafone mit unter 1 % der Grenzwerte bestrahlt, was mich in akute Lebensgefahr (Herzinfarkt oder Schlaganfall) gebracht hat und uns zur schleunigen Flucht aus unserem Haus zwang. Vgl. dazu mein Tagebuch in dieser Zeit:
http://www.risiko-elektrosmog.de/Gesundheit/Fallbeispiele/Eder_Stein.htm.

Daneben stellt eine Exposition mit derartig starken Feldern eine Folter und schwere Körperverletzung gegenüber jedem Elektrofühligen dar! Das müßten Sie und Ihre Karlsruher Kollegen eigentlich wissen. Irgendwelche Haftung für Schäden scheint man ja auch nicht übernehmen zu wollen, wenn man erklärt, die Untersuchung sei völlig harmlos, wobei man sich auf die Grenzwerte beruft.

Ich darf Sie bitten, Ihre Karlsruher Kollegen über diese Stellungnahme zu informieren.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
I. Eder-Stein


Quelle:

http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4458

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Elektrosensibilität
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/322301/

Diese Frau muss im Wald leben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368849/

Krank durch Mobilfunk - Elektrosmog - Die Opfer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372620/

EMF-Wachhund
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/238902/

Mainzer Wachhund-Projekt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388701/

RFID-Chips in US-Reisepässen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368820/

Regierung ignoriert den Willen des Volkes in der Verkehrspolitik
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/367266/

Tiere und Pflanzen leben gefährlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/367263/

Finanz erhält Onlinezugriff auf Kontoinformationen bei Banken
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365755/

Der "TEURO" plündert das Sparbuch der Deutschen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365630/

US-Präsidentschaftswahl: Es geht um die Zukunft der Welt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/365977/

Aggressivster Angriff auf die Vergehen gegen geistiges Eigentum
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363260/

Die vergessene Misere des Krieges
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363265/

Pharma-Cocktails elbabwärts voraus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363261/

Wir müssen strukturelle Reformen erreichen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363255/

Umweltschützer fordern stärkeren Schutz für Nord- und Ostsee
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/362786/

Landwirte schließen Allianz gegen Gentechnik
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/361175/

Jagd auf Zugvögel gestoppt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/361194/

Handel mit Walfleisch bleibt verboten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/361203/

Gift an Schulen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360229/

CO2-Werte in den letzten Jahren angestiegen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360202/

Abrupte Zunahme der Kohlendioxid-Konzentration in der Atmosphäre
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360133/

Mieterbund sieht Umzugswelle durch Hartz IV
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360203/

foodwatch deckt Sicherheitslücken bei BSE-Politik auf
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/357385/

Kinder haben Gift im Blut
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/357366/

Zu viel Rüstung, zu wenig Entwicklungshilfe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/358332/

Umweltgruppen fordern sofortigen Stopp der Tiefseefischerei
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/356201/

Could wireless affect air quality?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368929/

Your old mobile is destroying the planet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369563/

Irish Green Party protests at less-lethal weapons conference
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369904/

RFID implant video
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370488/

Climate, the Absent Issue
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368912/

North Pole Icecap Melts As Global Warming Increases
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370667/

Global Weather Control - The entire Earth's Weather has been digitized
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368538/

MEP warns of risk from big brother technology
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368452/

Driving with Big Brother
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368457/

Scientists find way to make us slaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369680/

HAARP Defensive Economic Warfare
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368920/

A Plan to Torpedo the Trawlers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368396/

Fear of Pharming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368467/

Help to protect Canada's Heart of the Boreal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370111/

STOP EU Wild Bird Imports
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369632/

Guantanamo Bay - Torture and Milkshakes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/367936/

Widespread Torture at Guantanamo Confirmed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368507/

'If this isn't genocide, then what on earth is?'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/367944/

Gulf War Veterans Have Specific Nervous System Damage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368392/

Military Recruiters Demand Names Of U.S. High Schoolers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368459/

A War Without Reason
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368867/

AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE THIS BEFORE NOV 02
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368402/

Bush administration uses pension money to avoid debt ceiling
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368940/

Has Bush Lost His Reason?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368515/

The power of GOP moderates to defeat Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368426/

Republican Fraud will Disqualify 200,000 in Florida Vote
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368436/

Vote and Be Damned
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368519/

Edwards Warns Floridians of GOP 'Tricks'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368510/

PLEDGE OF ACTION TO STOP A STOLEN ELECTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368553/

Viacom Blocking Independent Political Ads
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368880/

ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION TO OVERSEAS VOTERS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368890/

As Election Nears, Parties Begin Another Round of Legal Battles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368895/

IMAGINING THE DANGER OF 2000 REDUX
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368938/

Bush's revelatory ear piece
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368916/

The Lies to rush to War
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369640/

Politicians and their bureaucracies can be hazardous to your health, wealth, freedom and sanity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369599/

Bound By Secrets
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369664/

Why We Cannot Endorse President Bush For Re-Election
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369721/

How dumb does Bush think we are ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369694/

The World According to Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370635/

Honor the country by distrusting the government
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369589/

Patriot Act redux?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370078/

The Neo-Conservative Formula Doesn't Work

The ‘Catastrophic’ Success of the Republican Party
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370640/

Legality of the Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/371064/

Pro-war MPs draw a line in the sand
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369661/

Labour in revolt over deployment of troops under US command
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370647/

FBI and other legalbreaking news
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368883/

Our War on Terrorism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368897/

Terrorism is whatever the government wants it to be
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369608/

A draft or merely hot air ?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369618/

Suicide mission
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/369579/

The joys of the FTAA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368523/

Peace is Possible
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368485/

The America we carry in our Hearts is waiting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370093/

Social Superorganism and the Global brain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368499/

This is an 81 page resource on the Legality of the Iraq War which is worth studying or browsing.

http://www.eurolegal.org/useur/bbiraqwar.htm#TOP

Its existence should be made known and its contents summarized, to the extent feasible, by the media, librarians and scholars to whom I am sending it.

Howard N Meyer

Mobilfunkbetreiber auf Expansionskurs: Neue Antennenstandorte in Allach/Untermenzing gesucht

München-Allach, 18.10.04 - In der zuletzt abgehaltenen Sitzung des Bezirksausschusses 23 wurden fünf neue Suchkreise für geplante Mobilfunksendeanlagen in Allach/Untermenzing vorgelegt. Die Betreiber planen neue Standorte in Allach West, Müllerstadl, Menzing, Rodenstockplatz und Hartmannshofen. Genaue Angaben zu den Suchkreisen können unter http://www.franz-titscher.de/mobilfunk/html/suchkreise.html abgerufen werden.

'Nein' zu weiteren Mobilfunkantennen

Die Bürgerinitiative 'Gesund leben in Allach' sagt entschieden 'Nein' zu weiteren Mobilfunkantennen. Nach einer kürzlich veröffentlichen Internetrecherche gibt es in Allach/Untermenzing bereits 17 Standorte mit insgesamt fast 200 Funkanlagen.

Die Initiative appelliert an alle Haus- und Grundstückseigentümer, ihre Dächer und Grundstücke nicht als Antennenstandort zur Verfügung zu stellen.

'Es gibt immer mehr Menschen, die wegen der Dauerbestrahlung durch Mobilfunksender zum Teil erhebliche Gesundheitsprobleme haben. Wir wissen das, denn wir haben einige persönlich kennengelernt', erklärt Franz Titscher, Sprecher der Initiative. 'Auch wenn die Betreiber noch abwiegeln, könnte sich der Wind bald drehen. Die Versicherer haben das längst erkannt und schließen Schadensersatz-Forderungen wegen Gesundheitsschäden aus ihren Policen aus.'

Ein Allianz-Sprecher hält laut SZ vom 28. Januar 2004 'die gesundheitlichen Konsequenzen der elektromagnetischen Strahlung für nicht abschätzbar. Wenn sich irgendwann eine Gefährlichkeit nachweisen ließe, hätte das verheerende Wirkungen für die gesamte Versicherungsbranche.'

Letztendlich haftet ein Eigentümer für alle Schäden, die von seinem Grundstück ausgehen. Zahlt keine Versicherung, bleiben Eigentümer auf allen Forderungen sitzen – spätestens, wenn die Betreiberfirma pleite ist. Neben den Schadensersatz-Forderungen wegen Krankheiten könnten auch noch Forderungen aufgrund von Immobilienwertverlust hinzu kommen. So ist in einem Beschluss des Münchner Stadtrates vom 1. Oktober 2002 zu lesen, dass eine 'Mobilfunksendeantenne in nur wenigen Metern Entfernung zum Objekt' zu 'erheblicher Wertminderung' führen kann.

Inzwischen locken die Akquisiteure der Mobilfunkbetreiber die Hausbesitzer mit lukrativen Angeboten. Heilpraktikerin Ria Betz und Ehemann Günther aus Allach hätten als Gegenleistung sozusagen ein neues Hausdach bekommen. Die Betreiberfirma wäre bereit gewesen, für eine notwendige Dachsanierung, die eher bescheidene Monatsmiete von 200 Euro bis 400 Euro (je nach Antennenanzahl) für 20 Jahre vorzuschießen. Das hätte eine Summe von 48000 Euro bzw. 96000 Euro ergeben. 'Wir haben das Angebot dennoch abgelehnt, obwohl das für uns ein warmer Regen gewesen wäre' erklärt Frau Betz. 'Ich hätte vor meinem Gewissen nicht verantworten können, ausgerechnet als Heilpraktikerin, auf unser Haus Mobilfunkantennen installieren zu lassen.'

Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.franz-titscher.de/mobilfunk/ oder Tel.: 089/8128090.

Pressekontakt: Franz Titscher, Gleichweg 7a, 80999 München, Tel.: 089/8128090
Fax.: 089/89218691, e-mail: mobilfunk@franz-titscher.de

http://www.pressrelations.de/index.cfm?start_url=http%3A//www.pressrelations.de/search/release.cfm%3Fr%3D171011%26style%3D


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

FBI Seeking Tools to Control and Censor Internet
http://www.dojgov.net/USDOJ_Carnivore_Scam.htm

How the United States can stop Internet censorship
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5021355-1.html?legacy=cnet
http://www.cdt.org/speech/


Informant: savefreedom2003

UK: Labour in revolt over deployment of troops under US command
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=573607

by Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=57594


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.


9-11 Flash Movie
http://www.EricHufschmid.net/911.swf
http://www.EricHufschmid.net/Flash911Inspiration.swf

Getestet: Gifte auch im Blut von Ministern (19.10.04)

Blut von 14 europäischen Ministern ist mit bedenklichen Chemikalien belastet Umwelt- und Gesundheitsminister aus 13 EU-Staaten sind mit Dutzenden von Industriechemikalien belastet. Das berichtet die Umweltorganisation WWF unter Berufung auf eine eigene Studie. 14 Minister waren demnach im Juni dieses Jahres getesteten worden. Das Ergebnis: Die Minister hätten insgesamt 55 der untersuchten Chemikalien in ihrem Blut. Darunter seien Stoffe wie bromierte Flammschutzmittel, polychlorierte Biphenyle (PCB) und Organochlorpestizide, von denen einige schon vor 20 Jahren EU-weit verboten wurden, wie beispielsweise DDT. Viele der Substanzen würden jedoch nach wie vor in Alltagsprodukten wie Sofas oder PCs eingesetzt.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9535

Report seit Juni zurückgehalten: NAFTA kritisiert Gefährdung der biologischen Vielfalt durch Gen-Mais (19.10.04)

Die Umweltbehörde Commission For Environmental Cooperation (CEC) der Nordamerikanischen Freihandelszone (NAFTA) warnt vor den Risiken der Ausbreitung von Gen-Mais in Mexiko. Das geht aus einem Report der Behörde hervor, die die Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace am Dienstag veröffentlicht hat. Die CEC fordert demnach eine Kennzeichnung von amerikanischem Gen-Mais, der für Mexiko bestimmt ist. So solle verhindert werden, dass sich Gen-Mais unkontrolliert ausbreite. Weitere Forderungen der NAFTA: Die genmanipulierten Pflanzen sollten nur noch in gemahlener Form exportiert werden, damit die Körner nicht als Saatgut verwendet werden können. Außerdem solle der kommerzielle Anbau von Gen-Mais nicht mehr gestattet werden, da die Umweltauswirkungen nicht abschätzbar seien. Die Veröffentlichung des Reports mit dem Titel "Mais und Biodiversität: Effekte von gentechnisch verändertem Mais in Mexiko" wird nach Informationen der Umweltschützer seit Juni von der US-Regierung zurückgehalten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9539

http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?i=e458174a-1d5d-4826-bba7-64f6e981e02e&menu=Home%20and%20Living&mi=NBC%20Today&p=source_Today%20Show


Informant: Keith II

Think Tanks sollen Stimmung schaffen und lassen die Grenze zwischen PR und Journalismus verschwimmen

Millionenschwere PR-Kampagnen beeinflussen nach einer Studie mit teils fragwürdigen Strategien die öffentliche Meinung in Deutschland zugunsten neoliberaler Reformen...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/eco/18613/1.html

In Florida haben die Wahlen bereits mit kleinen Problemen begonnen, eine Vielzahl von Gruppen und Organisationen werden die Präsidentschaftswahlen und vor allem die Wahlcomputer beobachten...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18612/1.html

From: Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU

Oppose Using Intelligence Reform to Cloak Worst Immigration Legislation in a Decade

Congress continues to use the proposed intelligence reform legislation to provide cover for some of the worst anti-immigrant provisions in the last decade. These repressive provisions attack the courts’ ability to provide oversight over immigrant proceedings, allow the government to work with oppressive foreign governments against asylum seekers and stipulate new ID requirements that limit even legal immigrants’ ability to get driver's licenses.

Although the 9-11 Commission did not say the government needed to target immigrants, this bill would expand the government's ability to deport more people without a hearing. It would also allow the government to seize people who may have entered the United States outside the system in the last five years and throw them into a so-called expedited deportation process without the right to a lawyer or to at least make their case in court.

The government would -- with no check or balance on its powers -- be allowed to decide whether an individual is allowed to stay or be sent to another country, even ones like Libya, North Korea or Iran, as long as those governments **promise** not to engage in torture. And if for some reason the government cannot deport you, this Republican legislation would allow the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to put you in jail for the rest of your life without any ability to go to court to appeal your imprisonment.

Take Action! Urge Congress to oppose these radical and mean-spirited provisions.

Click here for more information and to take action:
http://www.aclu.org/ImmigrantsRights/ImmigrantsRights.cfm?ID=16842&c=22

The government of Manitoba has just issued a report that gives the green light to yet another dam that could have far-reaching consequences for the wildlife and indigenous people of Canada's boreal forest.

They need you to speak out right now on their behalf!

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/boreal/takeaction.asp
and send a message urging Canada's minister of the environment to oppose the dam until there is a full review of the cumulative impacts from all existing and proposed dams.

Many of Canada's indigenous "First Nations" communities depend on the boreal forest for their very survival. They have already experienced the devastating impacts of hydropower development. Decades ago, Manitoba Hydro built dams that flooded the forest and destroyed ancestral waterways, choking lakes and rivers with sediment and killing fish.

Even today, fluctuations in lake and river levels, due to dam releases, continue to erode the banks and expose sacred burial sites. Manitoba Hydro and the governments of Manitoba and Canada signed a treaty that promised to alleviate this terrible damage. But they have not made good on that promise.

Instead, Manitoba Hydro now wants to build the Wuskwatim dam -- the first in a series of hydroelectric projects that would also threaten the Heart of the Boreal by cutting roads and transmission lines through some of North America's last unspoiled wilderness.

These evergreen forests provide summer nesting grounds for billions of songbirds, many of which you enjoy in your own backyard every year. But, ironically, the destruction of the boreal forest is being carried out in our name. Forty percent of the electricity generated by Manitoba Hydro is transmitted to U.S. consumers.

Please raise your voice in protest against further destruction of the boreal.

Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/boreal/takeaction.asp
and tell the Canadian government to oppose the Wuskwatim dam until Manitoba keeps its promise to mitigate past damage and discloses all the consequences of dam building for wilderness, wildlife and people.

Thank you for taking action.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council


BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org

A CALL FOR PEOPLES' ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=265&page=news#articletop
http://www.sinkswatch.org/acttext.html
http://tinyurl.com/65t82
http://www.globaljusticeecology.org

"America is not always right, but America is always true...You have to express yourself, roll up your shirtsleeves and remember, the America we carry in our hearts is waiting."

—Bruce Springsteen, Oct. 11, at the Vote For Change concert in Washington, D.C.

To see a video of Springsteen speaking, click here:
http://www.moveonpac.org/vfc/

Pass It On: You Said It, Boss!

by Bruce Springsteen

"You have to express yourself, roll up your shirtsleeves and remember, the America we carry in our hearts is waiting."

http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

by Declan McCullagh, CNet.com

The GOP is preparing to use intelligence reform legislation to smear Democratic candidates.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5414087.html

Source: http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002357

North Sea Cod May Never Recover

by Charles Clover, Environment Editor

10/19/04

Dr Euan Dunn, a fisheries expert working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: "I'm not sure that cod will recover, even with no fishing."

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1D921099

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Amphibians In Dramatic Decline

10/15/04

Washington, DC/Gland, Switzerland (October 14, 2004) -– The world’s amphibian species are under unprecedented assault and are experiencing tens of thousands of years worth of extinctions in just a century, according to the most comprehensive study ever conducted. More than 500 scientists from over 60 nations contributed to the Global Amphibian Assessment, the key findings of which were published on-line by Science Express this afternoon, and will appear within the next few weeks in the journal Science.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041015103700.htm

Amphibian Extinctions Sound Global Eco-alarm, Says Study

October 15, 2004 — By Ed Stoddard, Reuters

BANGKOK — They may thrive on land and in water, but amphibians everywhere are in serious trouble, and up to one-third of species are threatened with extinction, a troubling new study said on Friday.

Scientists say this is an ominous sign for other creatures, including humans, as amphibians are widely regarded as biological "canaries in the coal mine," since their permeable skin is highly sensitive to changes in the environment. In short, they go first, and others follow.

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=193

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Jumbo Flying Squid Found Off Alaska Is First of the Species

Recovered from British Columbia Waters

October 19, 2004 — By Associated Press

SITKA, Alaska — A large Humboldt squid caught offshore from Sitka is among numerous sightings of a species seen for the first time in waters of the Far North and the first of the species recovered from British Columbia waters.

The 5-foot Dosidicus gigas, or jumbo flying squid, was shipped this week to California to be kept for research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

The squid was one of a number caught with a dip net by fisher Alan Otness and his crew on Sept. 18 as they baited longline gear at night. They brought back some of the creatures for examination by experts.

Eric Hochberg, curator of the Santa Barbara museum, said the species is usually found off Baja California and farther south.

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=205

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Explanation unclear for bird die-off

ALEUTIANS: Hundreds of seabirds perished in July, and vets still don't know why.

by PETER PORCO

Anchorage Daily News

(Published: September 17, 2004)

Wildlife scientists still don't know what caused hundreds of seabirds to die in a short-lived episode in early July at False Pass in the eastern Aleutian Islands.

But it was not West Nile Virus, a federal veterinarian said Thursday. Nor did laboratory tests on four seabird carcasses show evidence of other viruses, said Dr. Rex Sohn, wildlife disease specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis.

He culprit responsible for the die-off of more than 250 puffins, cormorants, kittiwakes, seagulls and eiders may yet turn out to be a bacterium, parasite, marine biotoxin or unusual virus, Sohn said. Results from several other tests performed on the four carcasses are pending, he said.

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/5563441p-5495614c.html


Peace - Anna

Irish Green Party protests at less-lethal weapons conference in Dublin

To:

Jom Loughran, Weapons Desk
Amnesty Ireland
Dublin


Dear Jim: As you are aware, since 1998 I have been petitioning you and and other officials in Amnesty Ireland to take on board the grave abuse of Human Rights and in particular the excruciating torture suffered by victims of non-lethal weaponry. When I read in today's THE IRISH TIMES (see entire article below) that a demonstration is taking place today and tomorrow in Dublin on this issue of non-lethal weapons I would have expected to see Amnesty Ireland among those protesting. The journalist of this article, Conor Lally, reports that The Green Party is there (some of whose members I have also petitioned for support against the abuses of non-lethal weapons), NGO Peace organisations are there, but sadly Amnesty is not mentioned. And yet, in your online statement
( http://www.amnesty.ie ) denouncing the use of weapons of torture your concluding sentence reads, "Amnesty International condemns absolutely the international sale of devices meant for use in torture techniques and calls for an immediate halt to all such
activities."

Isn't it time, now that conferences on non-lethal weapons have arrived in our very own backyard, that Amnesty Ireland sat up and paid notice to just how awful, how inhumane, a number of these weapons are.

I do not know if you are aware of online references to non-lethal weaponry. Just one of the many results when you enter "Government Mind Control" in Google search engine is

http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/

and it provides good insights into the following weapons:

Electromagnetic Weapons
Microwave Weapons
Non-Lethal Weapons
ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) Weapons
Directed Energy Weapons
Acoustic Weapons
Psychotronic Weapons
RF (Radio Frequency) Weapons
Soft Kill Weapons
Less-Than-Lethal Weapons

I know a number of victims of non-lethal weaponry and would be very happy to put you in touch with them if you would like to hear their accounts. I believe it is now impossible for you (and Amnesty generally) to continue ignoring the existence and torture these weapons cause.


Sincerely
Imelda O'Connor




From THE IRISH TIMES, Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004, page 6.
(Any errors in transcription are of course mine. Not having access to an online edition here I can't paste in.)

PROTEST TODAY AT CONFERENCE ON 'LESS-LETHAL WEAPONS

[by] Conor Lally

Peace protesters plan to hold a demonstration today outside the Berkeley Court Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, where a conference on "less-lethal" weapons is being held.

The two-day conference is being organised by jane's information Group, the international "provider of intelligence and analysis on national and international defence, security and risk developments".

Mr Brendan Butler, co-ordinator of the NGO Peace Alliance, described today's event as a "showcase for tools of torture". He and fellow activists plan to protest outside the hotel today and tomorrow.

"The idea to call this weaponry 'less-lethal' flies in the face of evidence where it can be used as instruments of torture. It is an example of the human mind gone awry where arms manufacturers have now diversified into another profitable area of business, and where an Irish hotels group is willing to promote such an event."

Green Party chairman Mr. John Gormley TD said he was dismayed to learn that members of the Garda [Irish police] were set to appear as speakers at the conference. "It is regrettable that the Garda Siochana, which has such a fine record as a non-armed force, is increasingly inverting in equipment which will be used to suppress political dissent. There is no evidence that such equipment is required."

"Non-lethal" weaponry "simply means not designed to kill", Mr Gormley said. This would come as no consolation to citizens who wished to attend mass demonstrations, such as that organised in Dublin just before the US invaded Iraq, if gardai policing these carried "less-lethal" weapons.

Mr Gormley said members of the Green Party would protest outside the hotel today.

The Dublin Grassroots Network also plans to stage a protest.


Re: Irish Green Party protests at less-lethal weapons conference in Dublin
http://tinyurl.com/3s4d2

http://tinyurl.com/6jcxd
http://tampatribune.com/News/MGBU3UEHF0E.html

Zbigniew Brzezinski: "The Neo-Conservative Formula Doesn't Work"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101904H.shtml

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17851


Informant: Friends

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1313556,00.html


Informant: Nilbux

Iraq: Pro-war MPs draw a line in the sand
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=573607

Aussortieren statt Eingliedern! Sozialarbeit bekommt im Zeitalter der „Reformen" eine neue Funktion. Wurde sie bislang als Instrument sozialer Eingliederung verstanden, entwickelt sie sich nun rasant zum Medium sozialer Exklusion. Ursprünglich sollte Sozialarbeit Elend verhindern, mindern oder gar beenden, tatsächlich hat sie es wohl nur verwaltet. Künftig aber wird sie Elend mitbegründen!

Mit „Hartz IV" wird ab 2005 nämlich die „Verfolgungsbetreuung" boomen – und Sozialarbeiter werden dieses Spiel um den Preis eigener Arbeitsplatzsicherheit mitspielen. Aus Kiel erfahre ich, dass der Wettlauf der „Träger" um den Zuschlag für die Zwangsberatungen (zum Beispiel im Suchthilfebereich) schon begonnen hat.

Man erwartet reichlich „Klienten" (die man besser „Getriebene" nennt) für das kommende Jahr. Die werden von ihren „Fallmanagern" der „Agentur für Arbeit" dazu verdonnert, sobald auch nur der Hauch eines „Verdachtes" auf psychische Probleme (egal ob Depression oder Sucht) besteht. Denn „sowas" vermindert in der offiziellen Lesart die Chancen auf Vermittlung in Arbeit. Was vielleicht sogar stimmen würde, wenn es Lohnarbeit für alle gäbe. Gibt es aber nicht...

Diese Zwangsklienten werden also in diejenigen Beratungsstellen strömen, die den finanziell lukrativen Zuschlag ergattert haben. Und dann wird beraten und therapiert, dass die Schwarte kracht. Erfolglos natürlich, denn es ist eine uralte psychologische Binsenweisheit, dass Veränderung durch Therapie oder Beratung (wenn überhaupt) nur auf Basis von freiwilliger Beteiligung der Klienten funktioniert. Macht aber nix, denn Therapieerfolge würden eh nur die Arbeitslosenstatistik versauen. Also ist Erfolglosigkeit klammheimlich „erwünscht". Denn dann können die Untherapierbaren „begründet" aussortiert werden in das wachsende Heer der völlig Überflüssigen. Und Sozialarbeiter sind bei diesem Exklusionprozess die Sortierer.

Montag, 18.10.2004

Jürgen Oetting

http://oet.blogg.de/eintrag.php?id=1

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Arbeitszwang - Arbeitsverpflichtung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480927/

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Hartz IV - ALG II - Ein-Euro Jobs - Zwangsarbeit - Verfolgungsbetreuung

Zitat zum Thema "Verfolgungsbetreuung:

Langzeitarbeitslose wünschen sich nach Inkrafttreten von Hartz IV wahrscheinlich lieber einen Knastaufenthalt: da werden sie mit Essen versorgt, haben ein Dach überm Kopf und werden im Rahmen der Resozialisierung möglicherweise humaner behandelt als künftige 1-Euro-Jobber. - Vor allem aber fühlen sie sich trotz Gitter vorm Fenster freier, weil sie nicht permanent von der Bundesagentur für
Arbeit terrorisiert werden."

Aus: Deutscher Einheit(z)-Textdienst von Werner Lutz 12/2004

Quelle: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/425357/

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Hartz IV und der neue Arbeitsdienst
Einschätzung der Antifa-AG der Uni Hannover
http://antifa.unihannover.tripod.com/zwangsarbeit.html

1-Euro-Jobs - vom Verarmungsprogramm Hartz IV profitieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490249/

Bush's Reasoning For Invading Iraq. In their own words, the lies to rush to war.

http://www.kaicurryservices.com/peacecandy/gwbush/remindus/index.html

Time will tell all the Truth.


Informant: Virtualtruth

STOP EU Wild Bird Imports - Please Endorse
http://tinyurl.com/6gwxs

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

10/18/04

[I]t is safe to say that a renewed draft will not occur before the election. And it may not occur after November 2 either, but once the election is safely behind them some politicians could change their minds. War is costly, and politicians usually try to hide the financial expenses. With the already yawning federal budget deficit, that temptation is even greater. The current tar baby in Iraq has bogged down 140,000 U.S. troops and may ensnare more after November if the worsening violence and freedom from electoral constraints cause the next administration -- whether headed by Bush or Kerry -- to escalate U.S. involvement. So the government may be tempted to enlarge the military 'on the cheap' by using conscription. But what is cheap for the government is not for the rest of American society...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1402


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The other war: Three years later

by Elaine Cassel

Civil Liberties Watch

10/18/04

Terrorism is whatever the government wants it to be. It is a moving and mornping [sic] construct. It can justify the closing of streets at home, and the waging of war abroad. It encompasses peacefully demonstrating against George Bush at home, and speaking negatively against him abroad (I am referring to restrictions on Arab news media who are trying to report on Iraq). It is the excuse for declaring a war on civil liberties. By war on civil liberties, I am referring to the erosion of the freedoms embodied in the first ten amendments to the Constitution -- known collectively as the Bill of Rights...

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/ecassel/2004/10/18


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Toward a "practical ... get-your-hands-dirty" political education, part 1

by James J Odle

The Libertarian Enterprise

10/17/04

Across every Voters Guide the following should be printed in the boldest possible letters: Warning! Politicians and their bureaucracies are hazardous to your health, wealth, freedom and sanity! ... If doing the right thing will cost a politician his power, then you can depend on him to do the wrong thing! You can depend on this the way you can depend on the sun to rise in the morning! (If I ran a casino I would take bets on it.)

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2004/tle293-20041017-03.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Sheldon Richman

Future of Freedom Foundation

10/18/04

President Bush and his supporters base their case for his reelection ultimately on an appeal for trust. Bush asks us to trust that he acted in good faith when he invaded Iraq, even though the intelligence now looks bad. He asks us to trust his strategy for domestic security, even though awesome discretionary power is given to the attorney general. He asks us to trust him when he says government shouldn't run our lives, even though he has presided over a frightening growth in government spending...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0410i.asp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

10/18/04

I predicted in this space that our troops in Iraq would be sitting ducks once the real war, the war of occupation, commenced, but there is no satisfaction in being right. We are engaged in a grinding, ultimately futile war of attrition, a Sisyphean struggle in which the best we can do is maintain our tenuous position. But lately we are even unable to do that. This mutiny is the latest signal that we are headed for a major meltdown: the mighty U.S. military is staring defeat straight in the face.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3807


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=572923

Source: News-headlines Digest, Vol 18, Issue 14

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/603/603p24.htm

Source: News-headlines Digest, Vol 18, Issue 14

According to Knight Ridder news, "American soldiers called to active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are warned that the stress of war can cause a variety of mental-health symptoms. But there is incontrovertible evidence that serving in a combat zone leads to increased and more severe psychological problems compared to serving in less dangerous areas."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2244

Funkamateure sind oft äusserst professionell und innovativ.

Habe vor längerem Diverses z.B. über PaketRadio gelesen, und will kurz ergänzen, dass auch Funkamateure seit gewisser Zeit gepulste bzw. quasi-gepulste Signalformen verwenden, die natürlich genauso kritisch gesehen werden müssen, wie die GSM /UMTS / WLAN / BT etc. Signalformen.

Sie übertragen damit Internetinformationen, aber auch Bildsignale, etc.

Auch dort können somit Effekte auftreten wie sie bei unmodulierter oder FM modulierte Strahlung nicht oder nur bei höheren Pegeln auftreten.

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Ich bin nicht krank schlafe wie ein Murmeltier.

von D. Schreiner...

Ich kenne Raucher in Frankreich, stärksten Tobak.. und 90 Jahre alt. Ist deshalb Nikotin/ Rauchgenus unbedenklich, unschädlich?

Ich kenne Alkoholtrinker, ebenfalls sehr alt geworden, und ist deshalb Alkohol nicht leberschädigend?

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Denke, wie bei sehr vielen Stoffen völlig normal, dass unterschiedliche Menschen unterschiedlich reagieren, so ist z.B. bei dem Ewigthema Colesterin heuer rausgekommen, dass es eine genetische Präposition braucht, um durch den Konsum von Fettsäuren etc., eben Fleisch, Eier, etc... nur bei einem Teil der Patienten sinnvoll ist, darauf zu verzichten oder den Konsum einzuschränken. Bei den nicht genetisch "Empfindlichen" schädigen diese Nähmittel überhaupt nicht.

und:

Viele Leute leben lange neben AKWs und merken nichts, riechen nichts, und schlafen ebenfalls wie Murmeltiere.

Und 20 Jahre später sterben sie an Leukämie, auch wenn sie nie was spürten.

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VOR 100 JAHREN KAM DER STOM IN DIE HAUSHALTE.... MIT DER GLÜHBRINE UND DEN WESTINGHOUSE WECHSELSTROMGENERATOREN.

DAMIT STIEG DIE E- BELASTUNG AN, UND SEIT DEM "RICHTIGEN " AUSBAU AB CA. 1950 GEHEN DIE TUMOREN RICHTIG AB...


Viele Grüße aus Westhausen!

Bernd Schreiner


Quelle:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/4440

BI geht gegen Sendemast in der Böhmerwaldstraße vor / „Studien geben Hoffnung“

Mittelbayerische Zeitung, 13.10.04

Von Christof Seidl, MZ

TEGERNHEIM. Die Bürgerinitiative gegen Mobilfunkantennen (BI) hat ihre dritte Klage erhoben. Diesmal geht es um eine Sendeanlage in der Böhmerwaldstraße in Tegernheim. Nach Angaben des Landratsamts Regensburg entspricht der Standort des Sendermast den Vorgaben der Regierung.

Hans Hommer, der Sprecher der „Bürgerinitiative für ein lebenswertes Tegernheim ohne Mobilfunkantennen in Wohngebieten, bei Schulen und Kindergärten“, wie sich die BI offiziell nennt, begründet die Klage damit, dass die Anlage „mitten in einem reinen Wohngebiet liegt“. Damit entspreche sie nicht den Vorgaben für Mobilfunkanlagen.

Das Landratsamt Regensburg kann der Argumentation der Mobilfunkgegner nicht folgen. Zwar sei der Standort der Anlage auf einem privaten Hausdach anfangs nicht korrekt gewesen, weil der Sicherheitsabstand zum Nachbargrundstück nicht eingehalten worden war. Der Sendemast werde aber nun so montiert, dass dieses Problem ausgeräumt ist. Gegen den Standort als solchen hat das Landratsamt keine Einwände. Er entspreche den Vorgaben der bayerischen Staatsregierung Deshalb gebe es keinen Grund, dagegen einzuschreiten.

Davon lassen sich die Mobilfunkgegner aber nicht beirren. „Die Klage läuft weiter. Die Sendeanlage hat da nichts zu suchen“, betont Hommer gegenüber der MZ. Bisher gebe es allerdings noch keinen Verhandlungstermin.

Die neue Klage sei ein „schwieriges Unterfangen“, räumt Hommer ein. Dennoch sei sie nicht chancenlos, weil es Standortalternativen gebe. Langfristig, ist sich der BI-Sprecher sicher, arbeite die Zeit für die Mobilfunkgegner. Denn die Ergebnisse von Forschungen, die die Wirkung der elektromagnetischen Strahlung untersuchen, könnten nicht für alle Zeit ignoriert werden.

So untermauere die von der EU geförderte, über drei Milllionen Euro teure „Reflex-Studie“ (siehe unten) die Argumentation der Mobilfunkgegner – und das, obwohl diese Studie eigentlich die Bedenken gegen Mobilfunkstrahlung entkräften sollte. Umso verwunderlicher findet es Hommer, dass die EU bislang die Veröffentlichung der detaillierten Forschungsergebnisse verhindere.

In Naila hat nach seinen Angaben die bisher größte Untersuchung über den Zusammenhang von Mobilfunksendeanlagen und dem Krebsrisiko in der direkten Umgebung stattgefunden. Das Ergebnis: Von 302 Personen, die in der Nähe der Anlage wohnen, erkrankten in den letzten zehn Jahren sechs Prozent an Krebs. Von 631 Personen, die seit zehn Jahren in größerer Entfernung zu der Sendeanlage wohnen, erkrankten „nur“ 2,5 Prozent an Krebs. Hommer sieht in dem Ergebnis einen deutlichen Hinweis auf den Zusammenhang zwischen der Strahlung der Sendeanlagen und dem Krebsrisiko.

Freilich sei die Untersuchung noch zu wenig umfangreich, um eine haltbare Aussage zu treffen. Genau solche Forschungen würden die Mobilfunkgegner in Deutschland fordern. „Aber für die Untersuchung der biologischen Folgen der Mobilfunkstrahlung will der Staat kein Geld ausgeben.“

Hinweise auf Gesundheitsschäden

(cs). Eine neue Studie namens „Reflex“ liefert erstmals Hinweise, dass elektromagnetische Felder wie sie Handys erzeugen, das Erbgut verändern können. Zweieinhalb Jahre haben sich zwölf Forschergruppen aus sieben EU-Ländern mit den Auswirkungen von Mobilfunk-Strahlung auf Körperzellen beschäftigt. Ziel der so genannten Reflex-Sttudie ist es, bereits existierende Untersuchungen zu überprüfen. Finanziert wird das 3,2 Millionen Euro teure Projekt zu zwei Drittel von der Europäischen Union. Koordiniert hat die Studie die Stiftung Verum, die Grundlagenforschung mit einem Potenzial zur Verbesserung der menschlichen Lebensbedingungen fördert.

Obwohl die Studie insgesamt noch nicht veröffentlicht ist, gaben die Forscher erste Ergebnisse preis: Danach führten elektromagnetische Schwingungen zu Einzel- und Doppelstrangbrüchen der DNA – dem genetischen Code des Menschen. Nach Aussage von Professor Dr. med. Franz Adlkofer, dem Leiter der Studie, sind vor allem die Doppelstrangbrüche gefährlich, weil sie vom Körper oft falsch repariert werden. Die Forscher entdeckten zudem, dass bereits geschädigte Zellen durch die elektromagnetische Strahlung nochmals um ein vielfaches verstärkt geschädigt werden. Gemessen wurden mit Feldstärken unterhalb des in Deutschland zulässigen Grenzwerts.

„Veränderungen am Erbgut führen in der Regel zu Krebs“, erklärt Adlkofer. Ob die entdeckten Mutationen beim Menschen wirklich Krebs ausgelöst hätten, ist aber fraglich. Genveränderungen treten auch unter natürlichen Umständen auf. Außerdem ist noch unklar, warum nur manche Zelltypen in den Versuchen Schäden aufwiesen, andere aber nicht.

Die Forscher können deshalb den direkten Zusammenhang zwischen Mobilfunkstrahlung und chronischen Erkrankungen noch nicht nachweisen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit für eine solche Annahme ist aber laut Adlkofer deutlich gestiegen. Außerdem zeige die „Reflex-Studie“ neue Wege für künftige Forschungen auf. Die Reflex-Daten sprechen seiner Ansicht nach dafür, dass das Vorsorgeprinzip zum Schutz der Bevölkerung von den Verantwortlichen in Industrie und Politik anerkannt werden sollte.

(Informationen unter http://izgmf.de )

Omega siehe auch REFLEX-Studie unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/330908/


Nachrichten von Karin Piller
BI Mobilfunkkritiker Regensburg Stadt und Land

18.10.04

„Gesunder“ Stoff für Karneval

„Fast jeder Zweite hat erhöhten Blutdruck, aber viele Betroffene wissen nichts davon. Erfolgreiche Behandlung ist möglich – die BARMER unterstützt ihre Versicherten dabei,“ darauf weist sie in ihrer aktuellen Mitgliederzeitschrift hin. Gesünder lebe man durch Aufgabe von Rauchen, durch mehr Bewegung, ausgewogenes Essen (weniger Fett), weniger Alkohol trinken, Übergewicht abbauen sowie Stress abbauen und bewusst entspannen!

Auch auf den Wolf im Schafspelz „Alkopops“ weist die BARMER in einem separaten Artikel hin. „Experten warnen vor Suchtgefahr bei Jugendlichen!“

Nun, auch die Werbung im Gesundheitsmagazin der BARMER trägt nicht nur zur Herz- und Fußerwärmung bei durch „echtes Lammfell: natürlich wärmend und fußgesund,“ sondern ihr folgt großseitig eine Siemens-Handy und DVD-Player GRATIS-Werbung. Das Schnäppchen wie Handy und Zubehör, DVD-Player, Gratis-Anschlusspreis, 15- Frei-Minuten/Monat und Siemens T-Shirt alles im Gesamtwert von EUR 535,00 nun für NULL EURO! Vorteil, freie Netzwahl: T-Mobile, Vodafone, ePlus! Direkt anrufen über Bestell-Hotline!

Nun, wenn das keine Zeit ist, um die wetterfeste Kleidung von Lands’ End „sturmfeste Strategie in turbulenten Zeiten“ für nur EUR 75 anzuschaffen! Und hilft dies auch alles nichts, dann „Retten Sie Ihre Steuervorteile“, „nutzen Sie Ihre letzte Chance auf eine steuerfreie Altersvorsorge... mit der ...-Versicherung!“

Siehe, auch die BARMER bietet ausreichend Stoff für die nächste Karnevalsaison.

Spaß beiseite! Deshalb rufe ich hier noch einmal das bereits veröffentlichte und Ihnen daher allseits bekannte Zitat der Krankenkasse der Familie Kind aus Dresden in Erinnerung:

"Das Ergebnis unserer Prüfung stellt sich wie folgt dar: An der gesundheitlichen Schädigung Ihrer Familie scheint kein Zweifel zu bestehen, auch am Krankheitswert kann in diesem Fall nicht Stichhaltig gezweifelt werden. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass in Ihrem Fall tatsächlich durch elektromagnetische Wellen Gesundheitsstörungen hervorgerufen werden. In der Wissenschaft ist allerdings unstrittig, dass es außer der Beendigung der Exposition KEINE ETABLIERTE THERAPIE der Elektrosmogkrankheit gibt. Aus diesem Grund ist auch die Frage zu stellen in wie weit die Bestimmung von Melatonin und Serotonin oder von Antikörpern gegen Aspergillus für die einzuschlagende Therapie von Bedeutung sind."

Omega siehe „Familie Kind aus Dresden: Bericht über unsere Situation“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/366842/

Also reine Unaufmerksamkeit der BARMER, das heikle Mobilfunkthema bei den oben erwähnten Gesundheitsratschlägen vergessen zu haben. Und sicher hat folgende Nachricht die BARMER auch nicht erreicht, ob Gesundheitsgefährdung bestehen könne oder ob nur wie der Präsident des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz Herr König neulich wieder vorsichtig äußerte, es keine wissenschaftlichen Beweise gäbe, wohl aber Hinweise auf mögliche biologische Beeinträchtigungen vorlägen! So hat König erneut zur Vorsicht beim Umgang mit Handys aufgerufen, denn „nur so könne ein eventuelles gesundheitliches Risiko minimiert werden,“ sagte er gegenüber dem TAGESSPIEGEL in Berlin.

Tja, leider scheinen diese Aussagen auch auf taube Ohren gestoßen zu sein. Nun ja, ein jeder hat so seine Leiden – drücken wir deshalb mal beide Augen zu! Doch bitte nicht vergessen, die Augen wieder rechtzeitig zu öffnen – gleiches gilt für taube Ohren!

Marianne Kirst

This page looks up your members of Congress and emails them all and the FCC too with your personal message in one step...

http://www.thepen.us/sinclair.html

Please post anywhere you can ASAP. This week is critical.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30781


Informant: ranger116

From NHNE News

By John M. Broder
New York Times
October 17, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17brod.html

America could very well wake up on Wednesday, Nov. 3, not knowing who won the presidential election. Judging by the latest polls, the race is close enough in a number of key states that human error, technical foul-ups and the inevitable legal challenges could delay the results for days or weeks, in an unwelcome replay of 2000.

The likelihood of trouble at the nation's 200,000 polling places may be greater in 2004 than in any year in memory. Absentee and mail-in ballots, provisional voting, redrawn districts, untrained poll workers, millions of first-time voters and unfamiliar new technology are all conspiring to create a potential electoral nightmare in a tight contest.

The two major parties have brigades of lawyers ready to file legal actions at the first signs of irregularity at the polls. Already, lawsuits are challenging voter registration procedures in several states, and more litigation is sure to come anywhere that it might affect the outcome.

In every American hamlet, city, county and state, elections officials are praying, "Please, don't let it be close here."

All of which leads to the question: Could the country stand another Florida? How deep would the political and psychological damage be?

The debacle last time left the nation's electoral institutions bruised but relatively intact. Academic researchers say the sharply divided Supreme Court of December 2000, vilified by many for the way it decided Bush v. Gore, appears to have regained the faith of a majority of the public.

But scars remain. Questions about the legitimacy of the Bush presidency and the fairness of the 2000 election have never died. Many Democratic voters have nursed feelings of anger and disenfranchisement for the past four years. Partly as a result, the 2004 campaign has been among the most bitter in decades.

Some scholars and political combatants believe a second contested election could open lasting fissures in American society. They fear that the red-blue political geography of the country could become imprinted on the national psyche for years to come, squelching hopes for bipartisan cooperation in governing the country.

Before 2000, the last time the nation suffered such a disputed presidential election was in 1876, when the wounds of the Civil War were still fresh and the public had no appetite for a pitched partisan battle, said David Herbert Donald, an emeritus professor of history at Harvard University and a scholar of the presidency. That dispute cooled soon after Rutherford B. Hayes, declared the winner by a bipartisan commission, assumed office in 1877.

This time could be different, Mr. Donald warned. "There was a lot more residual ill feeling, more of a feeling that 'we were robbed,' in 2000 than in 1876," he said. "If we have another cliffhanger in which the court decides the outcome, there will be serious doubts about whether this is the best way to run a government."

If either candidate wins without leading the popular vote, as Mr. Bush did in 2000, there could be serious calls to abolish the Electoral College and make other fundamental changes in the machinery of American democracy.

There was a bitterness about the 2000 election that persists in a good many Democratic circles, Mr. Donald said, adding: ''That certainly will be revived if there's another dispute."

Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who oversaw Vice President Al Gore's legal challenges in 2000, said that the actions of the Supreme Court and some Florida officials that year had, at least temporarily, tarnished the American way of choosing leaders. A second tainted election, followed by more bare-knuckled partisan conflict, Mr. Christopher said, would be far more damaging. He urged both parties to cool their rhetoric and put the nation's interest ahead of partisan advantage.

"A repeat performance would do irreparable damage to the good will and forbearance so essential to a functioning democracy," he wrote in an e-mail message. "For the political parties, 2004 could be one time when winning isn't everything."

The Florida dispute, the 36 days of suspense and the United States Supreme Court's pre-emptive decision tested America's faith in its ability to conduct elections, a faith that had gone largely unquestioned since 1876.

Richard Nixon chose not to challenge the results when he lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960, despite questions about Democratic vote fraud in Cook County, Ill.

Now, though, a cottage industry of fulltime election monitors, analysts and critics has sprung up, from the broad, nonpartisan Electionline.org, which plans to release a state-by-state report on potential voting problems on Tuesday, to focused efforts like Black Box Voting, which works to expose security problems with electronic voting machines.

Grievances about the 2000 election are not confined to one party or one state, but appear to be felt particularly strongly by minorities and the poor, whose votes were disproportionately tossed out in Florida and elsewhere, said Christopher Edley Jr., dean of Boalt Hall, the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

"These huge precinct-to-precinct, county-to-county differences in spoiled ballot rates are intolerable, especially when the differences are so strongly correlated with class and color," Mr. Edley said, adding that if much of the electorate believes that an election result derived from unfair and inconsistent voting methods, "then defeat is both bitter and embittering."

The only solution, he said, is a standardized national voting system that gives everyone an equal chance to have his or her vote properly counted.

Dread of another mess in 2004 comes at a time when many American institutions are under assault, largely because of problems of their own making, said Leon Panetta, a former congressman, White House chief of staff under President Clinton and member of the bipartisan commission on federal election reform convened in the aftermath of the 2000 election.

"Trust in our basic institutions is being undermined in a number of ways: in corporate America, with our religious community, in the press, and certainly in government, particularly with the revelations of the failure of our intelligence systems in Iraq," Mr. Panetta said. "Now we're in an era of disputed elections. Everyone would like to believe the Constitution is designed to resolve these disputes, but I don't know how many national elections you can take to the Supreme Court and not at some point have an explosion in this country."

Republicans appear more sanguine about the condition of American democracy and the prospects for the future.

Theodore B. Olson, who argued Mr. Bush's electoral case before the Supreme Court, said that the court had rendered many unpopular decisions in the past and come through with its reputation and authority intact. Noting that both sides are prepared to contest aggressively any questionable results this year, he said he expected that they would ultimately accept the verdict of the vote-counters or the courts.

"People keep telling us that democracy is kind of messy, and when you have close elections, there's a possibility the outcome won't be immediately clear," Mr. Olson said. "But what's the alternative?"

One thing that seems certain, though, is that there is no certainty about how the nation will handle the aftermath of a disputed election.

In 2000, experts and pundits predicted that the Supreme Court would refuse to snatch the case away from the Florida courts. They predicted that, lacking a popular mandate, President Bush would have to govern from the center. They predicted that a careful recount in Florida ballots would reveal that Mr. Gore was the true winner. All proved false, or at least debatable, said Laurence H. Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School and Mr. Gore's advocate before the Supreme Court in December 2000.

"Anyone who thinks he has a useful crystal ball through which to gaze, to imagine what the consequences might be," he said, "had better enjoy eating ground glass."

Some observers see potential for lasting benefits from another disputed election, at least once the dust has settled: they say it may finally rouse the country to overhaul the presidential election process.

"If it happens one time, it's an anomaly; a second time, and it's clear there are real problems," said Elizabeth Garrett, director of the University of Southern California-Caltech Center on Law and Politics. "We cannot take this for every election, but if we do have another contested election, electoral reform efforts will have to be taken."

I believe I've noticed that in areas where cellular phone reception is good it seems to me that the air is less breathable, perhaps dirtier, & more likely to hold allergans, particularly mold than air where any cellular towers are several miles away.

I don't think this is just my imagination but I wondered if anyone else might have noticed this.

From what little I know about air quality, it's my understanding that clean fresh air holds a lot more negative ions that can combine with dirt, dust, and allergans such as mold spores so that these things that foul the air will drop to the ground & the air will remain clean.

I wonder if some of the artificially created electrical frequencies now in the air may react with & strip the air of it's negative ions so that the air loses it's ability to clean itself & becomes prematurely saturated with dirt, pollutants, & allergans.

I remember when I was a child that after a thunderstorm the air seemed clear, & fresh where now I can't really notice much difference in air quality after a storm.

I'd like to go one step further & suggest that if it's true that wireless frequencies can in fact influence the electrical charge of the air, it's also possible that it could also influence actual weather patterns.

I could be completely full of shit on all this but if it were true, it should be a very easy thing to verify by simply comparing suspended particulate measurements in areas where the air is saturated with wireless frequencies to areas where no cellular coverage yet existed.

If there was a definite difference in air quality figures, this in itself could go a long way in doing away with this horrible health hazard that's made so many of us feel like we were born on the wrong planet & have to look for artificial means to try & protect our health.

John

Good read - Anna

http://www.superforce.com/email-releases/HAARP.htm

HAARP Defensive Economic Warfare:

US technology capable of manipulating the Ion Ratios to change human behavior.

By Guy Cramer

Before the events of September 11, 2001, the thought of American Military being given the authority to shoot down American civilian airliners loaded with passengers over U.S. territory was inconceivable. Now this and many other measures are necessary for the safety and security of the nation.

The attacks were aimed not only at people, government and military but also on the economy, which in the long run could end up harming the entire world. Extreme measures were taken to minimize the initial damage to an already fragile economy; closed U.S. markets, a surprise interest rate cut of half a percent prior to the markets opening, an extended share buy back program for companies. These measures didn’t stop the initial five-day decrease on the Dow of 14.3%, the NASDAQ, which lost over 16%, and the S&P 500 lost over 11%.

Then beginning on Monday Oct 1st, 2001 the storm returned at precisely 9:30 AM (the same time the major U.S. stock Markets open!) Positive ions increased while negative decreased! Two extreme geomagnetic storms in two weeks that both started at precisely the time the Stock Markets opened for the week, wow what a coincidence.

Peace - Anna


"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
~Cicero

"The rise of women isn't about the fall of men."
~Linda Stern

Posted on a UK group that I belong to. This is a must read in my opinion....

Peace - Anna

Begin forwarded message:

Date: October 18, 2004 7:01:09 AM EDT
Subject: [spirit_truths] Bush's revelatory ear piece

PASS THIS FAR AND WIDE AND EVEN FURTHER...........!!!!!

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PLANETNEWS broadcast...

Thanks for the confirmation, Pat...what we all thought was happening.

LOL
Nance

Hello Nance,

About a month ago when President Bush was in Germany both my husband and I were watching as he made his speech to many onlookers. We were viewing this on a PBS channel. Now here is the fun part: we heard everything that he said prior to him saying it. The prompt for his concealed earpiece somehow got relayed over the public communication system. Every pause that he made enabled him to listen for his "Q".

This he then faithfully repeated to all. It was hilarious as we could hear quite clearly the voice of his prompter ahead of that of President Bush. This was not of course announced on the usual news channels. :)

Pat

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041101&s=hertzgaard

by Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation

What threatens almost every major city on the planet is not terrorism, but climate change.

Source http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002338

The Progressive

Neither campaign is discussing real solutions to stopping terrorism.
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#002336

Howard Zinn

Monday 10:38 AM

War cannot stop terror—it can only fuel it. Howard Zinn writes in The Progressive that only by scrapping America's policies in the 'Greater Middle East' will we ever deal with the roots of the grievances that fuel terrorism. We're not hearing that in the campaigns, but we better next January.

http://www.progressive.org/nov04/zinn1104.html

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101904Z.shtml


Informant: Laurel

Pass this on:
ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION TO OVERSEAS VOTERS!!!!

"...Republican organizers outside the U.S. claim the number of voters signing on with Republicans Abroad in Europe has skyrocketed 400 percent since 2000. The number of chapters of Democrats Abroad has risen from 33 to 70 since the beginning of this year...."

The Silent Vote
As Election Day approaches, Americans abroad are determined to make their voices heard. Will their ballots make a difference?
WEB EXCLUSIVE
by Eve Conant
Newsweek
Updated: 7:08 p.m. ET Oct. 15, 2004

© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6257852/site/newsweek/


Informant: Jack Topel