A Sit-In of Massive Proportions
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:57
9
Nov
2004
American Resistance
Do not conform, do not forget and do not let time make you indifferent. Let the peace movement be reborn, let peace and love once more supercede war and violence. Let brotherhood of humanity replace division of peoples. Let love of people triumph over love of profit. Let us retire greed and love for the Almighty Dollar, embracing instead the principles of humanity, equality and justice.
http://207.44.245.159/article7244.htm
American Resistance
by Manuel Valenzuela
If you are still upset at the resounding defeat of humanity that occurred on November 2, 2004 you have every right to be. On that day billions of us lost a most important battle through both the vote of the ignorant, unenlightened among us and the systemic fraudulent manipulation of electronic-voting machines which, it is becoming more and more apparent, helped steal victory, for the second time in four years, for George W. Bush and the Republican/corporatist party. The consequences on America and the world of such tragedy may inevitably set us back to the dark ages and to a meeting with a most ominous destiny....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Valenzuela1110.htm
http://207.44.245.159/article7244.htm
American Resistance
by Manuel Valenzuela
If you are still upset at the resounding defeat of humanity that occurred on November 2, 2004 you have every right to be. On that day billions of us lost a most important battle through both the vote of the ignorant, unenlightened among us and the systemic fraudulent manipulation of electronic-voting machines which, it is becoming more and more apparent, helped steal victory, for the second time in four years, for George W. Bush and the Republican/corporatist party. The consequences on America and the world of such tragedy may inevitably set us back to the dark ages and to a meeting with a most ominous destiny....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Valenzuela1110.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:39
Electronic Ballots – Major Media Report Major Problems
Links to powerful documentary and several revealing articles reported by major news media exposing serious problems with electronic voting machines. This is followed by excerpts from an excellent article which explains core problems within the elections system.
http://www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting
From Information Clearing House
http://www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:37
Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantánamo
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals.
http://207.44.245.159/article7247.htm
http://207.44.245.159/article7247.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:34
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions. He helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
This is a must listen interview
http://207.44.245.159/article7253.htm
This is a must listen interview
http://207.44.245.159/article7253.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:32
Unsafe for Democracy
To see the world as a contest pitting good against evil is to move at least halfway down the slippery slope of Abu Ghraib. It allows U.S. officials to shrug off the estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives lost since last year's invasion.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes386.htm
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How many dead innocent Iraqis is too many?:
For the Iraqis, we will hold no multi-faith services, no commemorative anniversary functions and we will give no human faces to them. Perhaps some innocent lives are more sacrosanct than others.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/age14.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes386.htm
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How many dead innocent Iraqis is too many?:
For the Iraqis, we will hold no multi-faith services, no commemorative anniversary functions and we will give no human faces to them. Perhaps some innocent lives are more sacrosanct than others.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/age14.htm
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:30
America failing test of history
America failing test of history as offensive compared to terror tactics of pariah states:
Perhaps in waging war against the Iraqis who want to expel the Americans and topple America's chosen Iraqi leaders, the insurgents have compelled the US and its Iraqi allied regime to behave like the two Baathist regimes that they believed were so totalitarian they had to go.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=580937
http://snipurl.com/aiqi
From Information Clearing House
Perhaps in waging war against the Iraqis who want to expel the Americans and topple America's chosen Iraqi leaders, the insurgents have compelled the US and its Iraqi allied regime to behave like the two Baathist regimes that they believed were so totalitarian they had to go.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=580937
http://snipurl.com/aiqi
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:28
Blair has departed from the rule of law, says his former adviser
Tony Blair's former senior diplomatic adviser on Europe has accused the Prime Minister, and George Bush, of acting illegally over the war on Iraq.
http://207.44.245.159/article7257.htm
http://207.44.245.159/article7257.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:26
Oceans To Rise One Meter By 2100
Arctic Expert: Oceans To Rise One Meter By 2100
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=1&u=/nm/20041109/sc_nm/environment_arctic_dc_6
PREVIOUS NHNE ARTICLES:
U.S. "WORKING FOR MONTHS" TO PREVENT ARCTIC COUNCIL SUGGESTIONS (11/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8226
BIG ARCTIC PERILS SEEN IN WARMING (10/30/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8178
U.S. TRYING TO BLOCK ARCTIC REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING (9/16/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7889
WARMING TREND WILL DECIMATE ARCTIC PEOPLES (9/11/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7868
THE ARCTIC CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (8/21/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7775
Informant: NHNE
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=1&u=/nm/20041109/sc_nm/environment_arctic_dc_6
PREVIOUS NHNE ARTICLES:
U.S. "WORKING FOR MONTHS" TO PREVENT ARCTIC COUNCIL SUGGESTIONS (11/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8226
BIG ARCTIC PERILS SEEN IN WARMING (10/30/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8178
U.S. TRYING TO BLOCK ARCTIC REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING (9/16/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7889
WARMING TREND WILL DECIMATE ARCTIC PEOPLES (9/11/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7868
THE ARCTIC CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (8/21/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7775
Informant: NHNE
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:11
Campaigns against Masts by schools hots up in the UK
Starmail - 9. Nov, 23:03
"Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution"
Message from Ramsey Clark
President Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution of the United States. The election does not pardon the President for past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting forth the powers and duties of the Congress in considering impeachment intend that any President or other civil officer of the United States who has committed a high Crime or Misdemeanor "...shall be removed from Office."
The power of impeachment assures the people against criminal acts and despotic ambitions by government officials.
We, the People have the power to require the House of Representatives to do its duty and act on a bill of impeachment after full investigation and consideration. If it fails to do so those House members who failed to perform this Constitutional duty can and should be voted from office. Remember that President Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment for Watergate less than two years after his landslide reelection in 1972.
Impeachment is Imperative
For the American people who support and defend the Constitution of the United States, who want to prevent further crimes by a lawless administration, who believe we can redeem our country in the eyes of those we have assaulted and those who have witnessed this brutality and who dare to demand of future government leadership, NEVER AGAIN, Impeachment is Imperative. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we Americans should declare the causes which impel us to impeach.
President George W. Bush chose to wage a war of aggression against Iraq, which had not attacked the United States and presented no imminent threat to our people, or legitimate interests. A small cabal, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Rove wrested decision making processes from established institutions of government to reinforce President Bush’s desire to seize Iraq, defying international institutions, the opinions of humankind and the rule of law to commence a disastrous criminal military adventure.
A Campaign of Deceit and False Propaganda
War of aggression is the first offense listed in the Nuremberg Charter as a Crime against Peace. The Nuremberg Tribunal after hearing evidence of Nazi crimes in World War II convicted the leaders of waging wars of aggression, which it called "the supreme international crime."
At Nuremberg, the Chief U.S. Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, promised posterity that in the future all nations, including our own, would be held accountable for such crimes.
President Bush and key administration officials engaged in a lengthy campaign of deceit, concealment and false propaganda to create support for, and acceptance of, its war of aggression by claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, harbored terrorists, had close ties with and supported Al Qaeda and intended to attack the U.S., U.S. citizens and U.S. interests. A free society, democratic institutions and constitutional government cannot survive such deceit by its own government.
The U.S. has made civilians and civilian facilities its direct object of attack. It has pursued assassination and summary executions as official policy. President Bush boasted of summary executions in his State of the Union message in 2003. Excessive and indiscriminate force and illegal weapons have been used. Many thousands of Iraqi citizens, whole families, women, children, elderly Iraqis have been killed as a result.
U.S. military casualties exceed 10,000 including more than 1,100 deaths with many additional thousands returned to the United States for physical and mental illnesses.
The U.S. has employed torture, including torture to death, rape and sexual assault and humiliation, as approved and ordered policy from Afghanistan and Guantanamo to Iraq, inflicted on thousands of prisoners, many, if not most, without any evidence of wrongful conduct. An admitted 37 human beings have been murdered while being held in captivity by the United States under these conditions. We know not how many more. All the mounting evidence makes clear that this program of torture and death is not aberrational conduct of rogue or undisciplined soldiers but is rather the policy adopted at the highest levels of the Bush/Rumsfeld chain of command. All this in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the International Convention Against Torture, the laws of all nations and common human decency.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States provides: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, Shall Be Removed From Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors
More than 100,000 Dead Based on a Lie
We learn from the prominent medical journal Lancet of the report by researchers at John Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq and military occupation has cost "at least" 100,000 Iraqi lives already must civilian, women and children. Already President Bush has launched a massive aerial and ground assault on Falluja which may kill thousands of defenseless civilians.
Haiti, where President Bush forced the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide from office, is in chaos with many thousands killed by widespread daily violence committed by U.S. supported paramilitaries against Aristide supporters.
Nearly 500,000 have voted to impeach. Help us increase that number into millions the Congress cannot ignore.
Every American should choose whether to vote for impeachment entirely on the facts, straight up, or down, without political, or partisan fear, or favor. We owe this to the country, its future, the Constitution and our common heritage. Impeachment is Required Now.
Impeachment now is the only way we, the American people, can promise ourselves and the world that we will not tolerate crimes against peace and humanity by our government. Knowing what we know, to wait longer is to condone what has been done and risk more.
Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark
http://www.votetoimpeach.org/
Chief George W. Bush for treason
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76744;show_parent=1
THE GANNON CANNON
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76745;show_parent=1
President Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution of the United States. The election does not pardon the President for past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting forth the powers and duties of the Congress in considering impeachment intend that any President or other civil officer of the United States who has committed a high Crime or Misdemeanor "...shall be removed from Office."
The power of impeachment assures the people against criminal acts and despotic ambitions by government officials.
We, the People have the power to require the House of Representatives to do its duty and act on a bill of impeachment after full investigation and consideration. If it fails to do so those House members who failed to perform this Constitutional duty can and should be voted from office. Remember that President Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment for Watergate less than two years after his landslide reelection in 1972.
Impeachment is Imperative
For the American people who support and defend the Constitution of the United States, who want to prevent further crimes by a lawless administration, who believe we can redeem our country in the eyes of those we have assaulted and those who have witnessed this brutality and who dare to demand of future government leadership, NEVER AGAIN, Impeachment is Imperative. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we Americans should declare the causes which impel us to impeach.
President George W. Bush chose to wage a war of aggression against Iraq, which had not attacked the United States and presented no imminent threat to our people, or legitimate interests. A small cabal, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Rove wrested decision making processes from established institutions of government to reinforce President Bush’s desire to seize Iraq, defying international institutions, the opinions of humankind and the rule of law to commence a disastrous criminal military adventure.
A Campaign of Deceit and False Propaganda
War of aggression is the first offense listed in the Nuremberg Charter as a Crime against Peace. The Nuremberg Tribunal after hearing evidence of Nazi crimes in World War II convicted the leaders of waging wars of aggression, which it called "the supreme international crime."
At Nuremberg, the Chief U.S. Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, promised posterity that in the future all nations, including our own, would be held accountable for such crimes.
President Bush and key administration officials engaged in a lengthy campaign of deceit, concealment and false propaganda to create support for, and acceptance of, its war of aggression by claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, harbored terrorists, had close ties with and supported Al Qaeda and intended to attack the U.S., U.S. citizens and U.S. interests. A free society, democratic institutions and constitutional government cannot survive such deceit by its own government.
The U.S. has made civilians and civilian facilities its direct object of attack. It has pursued assassination and summary executions as official policy. President Bush boasted of summary executions in his State of the Union message in 2003. Excessive and indiscriminate force and illegal weapons have been used. Many thousands of Iraqi citizens, whole families, women, children, elderly Iraqis have been killed as a result.
U.S. military casualties exceed 10,000 including more than 1,100 deaths with many additional thousands returned to the United States for physical and mental illnesses.
The U.S. has employed torture, including torture to death, rape and sexual assault and humiliation, as approved and ordered policy from Afghanistan and Guantanamo to Iraq, inflicted on thousands of prisoners, many, if not most, without any evidence of wrongful conduct. An admitted 37 human beings have been murdered while being held in captivity by the United States under these conditions. We know not how many more. All the mounting evidence makes clear that this program of torture and death is not aberrational conduct of rogue or undisciplined soldiers but is rather the policy adopted at the highest levels of the Bush/Rumsfeld chain of command. All this in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the International Convention Against Torture, the laws of all nations and common human decency.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States provides: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, Shall Be Removed From Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors
More than 100,000 Dead Based on a Lie
We learn from the prominent medical journal Lancet of the report by researchers at John Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq and military occupation has cost "at least" 100,000 Iraqi lives already must civilian, women and children. Already President Bush has launched a massive aerial and ground assault on Falluja which may kill thousands of defenseless civilians.
Haiti, where President Bush forced the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide from office, is in chaos with many thousands killed by widespread daily violence committed by U.S. supported paramilitaries against Aristide supporters.
Nearly 500,000 have voted to impeach. Help us increase that number into millions the Congress cannot ignore.
Every American should choose whether to vote for impeachment entirely on the facts, straight up, or down, without political, or partisan fear, or favor. We owe this to the country, its future, the Constitution and our common heritage. Impeachment is Required Now.
Impeachment now is the only way we, the American people, can promise ourselves and the world that we will not tolerate crimes against peace and humanity by our government. Knowing what we know, to wait longer is to condone what has been done and risk more.
Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark
http://www.votetoimpeach.org/
Chief George W. Bush for treason
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76744;show_parent=1
THE GANNON CANNON
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76745;show_parent=1
Starmail - 9. Nov, 22:54
Petition to Congress requesting an Investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004
Please distribute widely.
Shannon
A petition to congress requesting an investigation into the presidential election of 2004 at: http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
EVERYONE!!!!!! SIGN THIS PETITION AND THEN PASS IT ON!!!!
There are already thousands of signatures and it has only been available for a short time.
http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
I'm number 39153.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS PETITION FAR AND WIDE NOW!!
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the Republic which it defines!
period - end of story -
Protect the Bill of Rights, and the FIRST AMENDMENT
keep the government out of your personal life!
Protect Separation of CHURCH AND STATE!
Protect your CIVIL RIGHTS and your CIVIL LIBERTIES!
go to http://www.blackboxvoting.org after you sign the petition!
"By-laws aren't political. They're how you run your group. Anything else is a result of who you elect or put in charge." -- Lila Hummel- Parlimentarian (Los Angeles KFPK LAB meeting 8-23-03)
Informant: Heidi Chesney
Shannon
A petition to congress requesting an investigation into the presidential election of 2004 at: http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
EVERYONE!!!!!! SIGN THIS PETITION AND THEN PASS IT ON!!!!
There are already thousands of signatures and it has only been available for a short time.
http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
I'm number 39153.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS PETITION FAR AND WIDE NOW!!
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the Republic which it defines!
period - end of story -
Protect the Bill of Rights, and the FIRST AMENDMENT
keep the government out of your personal life!
Protect Separation of CHURCH AND STATE!
Protect your CIVIL RIGHTS and your CIVIL LIBERTIES!
go to http://www.blackboxvoting.org after you sign the petition!
"By-laws aren't political. They're how you run your group. Anything else is a result of who you elect or put in charge." -- Lila Hummel- Parlimentarian (Los Angeles KFPK LAB meeting 8-23-03)
Informant: Heidi Chesney
Starmail - 9. Nov, 19:31
BMW Group reduziert drastisch Strahlungsbelastung durch innerbetriebliche DECT-Telefone
09.11.2004 Als erster Großkonzern hat der Automobilhersteller BMW Group die zulässige Strahlungsbelastung seiner weltweit rd. 105.000 Mitarbeiter durch betriebliche DECT-Schnurlostelefone auf höchstens 100 µW/m² reduziert. Dieser Strahlungswert liegt um den Faktor 100.000 unter dem derzeit gültigen gesetzlichen Grenzwert. BMW reagiert damit auf die heftig geführte und nach wie vor offene Diskussion über die Gesundheitsrisiken von Mobilfunkgeräten.
Wie die zuständige Abteilung Arbeits- und Umweltschutz bei BMW auf Anfrage mitteilte, hat man sich vorab intensiv über die Sachlage informiert. Von beiden Seiten wurde Rat eingeholt (z. B. von dem bekannten Elektrosmog-Experten Prof. G. Käs und von DECT-Lieferant Siemens), bevor sich die Verantwortlichen für die massive Reduzierung entschieden, die für die gesamte BMW Group weltweit gültig ist.
Zur Umsetzung des niedrigen BMW-Grenzwerts wurde die Sendeleistung der DECT-Basisstationen (Mittelwert 10 mW, Spitzenwert 250 mW) durch den Einbau von Dämpfungsgliedern soweit verringert, dass auch in unmittelbarer Nähe einer solchen Station der BMW-Grenzwert eingehalten wird. Insbesondere im Münchener Forschungszentrum FIZ konnte dann jedoch die Funkversorgung nicht mehr zuverlässig gewährleistet werden. Grund: In dem Büro- und Laborkomplex lassen sich dämpfende Trennwände problemlos versetzen oder neu einziehen. Auf diese Weise kann schon durch Trockenbauarbeiten eine zuvor intakte Funkversorgung plötzlich zusammenbrechen. Um dies zu vermeiden, müssen etliche DECT-Basisstationen im FIZ mit höherer Leistung senden als ursprünglich geplant.
Damit der BMW-Grenzwert dennoch eingehalten wird, wurden die in Deckennähe montierten DECT-Basisstationen mit einem Kostenaufwand von rd. 100 000 Euro – getragen von BMW – durch metallbedampfte Glasscheiben abgeschirmt. Diese “Deflektoren” sind nahe der Stationen montiert, sie lassen die seitliche Abstrahlung ungehindert zu, schützen jedoch den unterhalb einer Station sitzenden Mitarbeiter. BMW ließ die Deflektoren bei einem Zulieferer anfertigen. Schlichte Metallplatten haben dieselbe Schutzwirkung, die schmucken Glasplatten wurden nur wegen der Optik gewählt.
Die ödp begrüßt die Initiative von BMW. Denn erstmals greift ein Großkonzern tatkräftig das Vorsorgeprinzip zum Schutz seiner Mitarbeiter auf und wartet nicht tatenlos ab, bis die wissenschaftliche Diskussion über die Schädlichkeit des Elektrosmogs ein unstrittiges Resultat hervorbringt. Der jetzt bei BMW geltende niedrige Grenzwert von 100 µW/m² Leistungsflussdichte entspricht exakt der Forderung der ödp nach einer massiven Senkung der viel zu hohen gesetzlichen Strahlungsgrenzwerte im Mobilfunk. Die ödp ist die einzige politische Partei Deutschlands, die menschenverträglichen Mobilfunk in ihrem Parteiprogramm als Zielsetzung nennt.
Omega auch der Wert von 100 µW/m² ist noch zu hoch. Empfehlungen der Landessanitätsdirektion Salzburg Februar 2002: Summe GSM außen 10 µW/m², Summe GSM innen 1 µW/m². Zum vorbeugenden Schutz der öffentlichen Gesundheit wird für die Summe der niederfrequent-pulsmodulierten hochfrequenten Immissionen von Mobilfunksendeanlagen, wie z.B. GSM-Basisstationen, ein vorläufiger Beurteilungswert von maximal 1 mW/m² (0,1 µW/cm²) empfohlen. Siehe weiter unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293851/
Quelle: ÖDP München » www.izgmf.de »
http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5588.php
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
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BMW gibt DECT den Laufpass
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5012614/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=DECT
Wie die zuständige Abteilung Arbeits- und Umweltschutz bei BMW auf Anfrage mitteilte, hat man sich vorab intensiv über die Sachlage informiert. Von beiden Seiten wurde Rat eingeholt (z. B. von dem bekannten Elektrosmog-Experten Prof. G. Käs und von DECT-Lieferant Siemens), bevor sich die Verantwortlichen für die massive Reduzierung entschieden, die für die gesamte BMW Group weltweit gültig ist.
Zur Umsetzung des niedrigen BMW-Grenzwerts wurde die Sendeleistung der DECT-Basisstationen (Mittelwert 10 mW, Spitzenwert 250 mW) durch den Einbau von Dämpfungsgliedern soweit verringert, dass auch in unmittelbarer Nähe einer solchen Station der BMW-Grenzwert eingehalten wird. Insbesondere im Münchener Forschungszentrum FIZ konnte dann jedoch die Funkversorgung nicht mehr zuverlässig gewährleistet werden. Grund: In dem Büro- und Laborkomplex lassen sich dämpfende Trennwände problemlos versetzen oder neu einziehen. Auf diese Weise kann schon durch Trockenbauarbeiten eine zuvor intakte Funkversorgung plötzlich zusammenbrechen. Um dies zu vermeiden, müssen etliche DECT-Basisstationen im FIZ mit höherer Leistung senden als ursprünglich geplant.
Damit der BMW-Grenzwert dennoch eingehalten wird, wurden die in Deckennähe montierten DECT-Basisstationen mit einem Kostenaufwand von rd. 100 000 Euro – getragen von BMW – durch metallbedampfte Glasscheiben abgeschirmt. Diese “Deflektoren” sind nahe der Stationen montiert, sie lassen die seitliche Abstrahlung ungehindert zu, schützen jedoch den unterhalb einer Station sitzenden Mitarbeiter. BMW ließ die Deflektoren bei einem Zulieferer anfertigen. Schlichte Metallplatten haben dieselbe Schutzwirkung, die schmucken Glasplatten wurden nur wegen der Optik gewählt.
Die ödp begrüßt die Initiative von BMW. Denn erstmals greift ein Großkonzern tatkräftig das Vorsorgeprinzip zum Schutz seiner Mitarbeiter auf und wartet nicht tatenlos ab, bis die wissenschaftliche Diskussion über die Schädlichkeit des Elektrosmogs ein unstrittiges Resultat hervorbringt. Der jetzt bei BMW geltende niedrige Grenzwert von 100 µW/m² Leistungsflussdichte entspricht exakt der Forderung der ödp nach einer massiven Senkung der viel zu hohen gesetzlichen Strahlungsgrenzwerte im Mobilfunk. Die ödp ist die einzige politische Partei Deutschlands, die menschenverträglichen Mobilfunk in ihrem Parteiprogramm als Zielsetzung nennt.
Omega auch der Wert von 100 µW/m² ist noch zu hoch. Empfehlungen der Landessanitätsdirektion Salzburg Februar 2002: Summe GSM außen 10 µW/m², Summe GSM innen 1 µW/m². Zum vorbeugenden Schutz der öffentlichen Gesundheit wird für die Summe der niederfrequent-pulsmodulierten hochfrequenten Immissionen von Mobilfunksendeanlagen, wie z.B. GSM-Basisstationen, ein vorläufiger Beurteilungswert von maximal 1 mW/m² (0,1 µW/cm²) empfohlen. Siehe weiter unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293851/
Quelle: ÖDP München » www.izgmf.de »
http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5588.php
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
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BMW gibt DECT den Laufpass
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5012614/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=DECT
Starmail - 9. Nov, 18:24
Omega-News Collection 9. November 2004
Levels of Microwaves in Brighton and Hove extreme cause for concern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/390881/
The Mobile Mast Menace
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391196/
There's no limits to the absurdity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387222/
Mobile phone risk revealed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395066/
Childhood leukemia risk doubles near powerlines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393058/
Myeleoproliferative Disorder : Guinea Pigs lived three Years post Electric Meter Wall
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388331/
Very, Extreme and Ultra Low Frequency Research
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394264/
Biometric ID comes in through the back door
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388829/
RFID Rights
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389766/
Weapons of microelectronic destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391024/
World Wide Petition Against the Escalation in Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389126/
Fight the Fingerprint
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392939/
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/
Are You Working For a Psycho?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386797/
Mandatory Gene Testing for newborn babies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386815/
Pesticides Found In 100 Percent of People Tested
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387240/
Mercury contamination widespread in Ohio’s lakes & rivers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388287/
Are You Critical of Genetically Engineered Foods?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386913/
Plantations Are Not Forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394499/
One week left to protect our trees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394456/
The human casualties of Brazil's rainforest disaster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389616/
The Genetically Modified Bomb-gene warfare
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389912/
Bush's mental health screening plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/390252/
Oceana Protects Dolphins From Sonar in Canary Islands
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391841/
The Animals have been showing erratic behaiviors for this past year
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392429/
Three Years from now, less than 1000 Days, it will be too late
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393054/
GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393916/
Army First Lieutenant Jullian Philip Goodrum Battles The Army
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386926/
What really happens to some Veterans returning Home from War
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386929/
Uncle Sam Is Watching You
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386937/
More pre-emptive strikes on the table
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392995/
Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395548/
Mission Accomplished
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395584/
Roots of Abu Ghraib in CIA techniques
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387963/
WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE HERO SUES BUSH
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388302/
ACLU files suit to include late absentee ballots in Fla
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388343/
Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/
The Bill of Rights: Freedom of Speech
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386931/
Renewing Our Defense of Liberty
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392043/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/390881/
The Mobile Mast Menace
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391196/
There's no limits to the absurdity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387222/
Mobile phone risk revealed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395066/
Childhood leukemia risk doubles near powerlines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393058/
Myeleoproliferative Disorder : Guinea Pigs lived three Years post Electric Meter Wall
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388331/
Very, Extreme and Ultra Low Frequency Research
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394264/
Biometric ID comes in through the back door
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388829/
RFID Rights
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389766/
Weapons of microelectronic destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391024/
World Wide Petition Against the Escalation in Iraq
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389126/
Fight the Fingerprint
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392939/
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394532/
Are You Working For a Psycho?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386797/
Mandatory Gene Testing for newborn babies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386815/
Pesticides Found In 100 Percent of People Tested
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387240/
Mercury contamination widespread in Ohio’s lakes & rivers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388287/
Are You Critical of Genetically Engineered Foods?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386913/
Plantations Are Not Forests
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394499/
One week left to protect our trees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394456/
The human casualties of Brazil's rainforest disaster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389616/
The Genetically Modified Bomb-gene warfare
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389912/
Bush's mental health screening plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/390252/
Oceana Protects Dolphins From Sonar in Canary Islands
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391841/
The Animals have been showing erratic behaiviors for this past year
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392429/
Three Years from now, less than 1000 Days, it will be too late
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393054/
GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393916/
Army First Lieutenant Jullian Philip Goodrum Battles The Army
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386926/
What really happens to some Veterans returning Home from War
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386929/
Uncle Sam Is Watching You
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386937/
More pre-emptive strikes on the table
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392995/
Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395548/
Mission Accomplished
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395584/
Roots of Abu Ghraib in CIA techniques
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/387963/
WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE HERO SUES BUSH
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388302/
ACLU files suit to include late absentee ballots in Fla
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/388343/
Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/
The Bill of Rights: Freedom of Speech
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386931/
Renewing Our Defense of Liberty
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392043/
Starmail - 9. Nov, 17:17
Welcome to the Gulag
One of Every 140 U.S. Residents is in Prison or Jail:
State and federal authorities held 1,470,045 prisoners as of December 31, 2003
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/p03pr.htm
From Information Clearing House
State and federal authorities held 1,470,045 prisoners as of December 31, 2003
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/p03pr.htm
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:56
Media Blacks Out Voting Problems
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://snipurl.com/ahqo
From Information Clearing House
http://snipurl.com/ahqo
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:54
All the makings of a war crime
A US-led attack on the Iraqi Sunni-stronghold will breach the Geneva conventions...
http://207.44.245.159/article7243.htm
--------
Arma-geddon Sick of You:
Bush's Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world's revulsion continues to grow.
http://207.44.245.159/article7240.htm
http://207.44.245.159/article7243.htm
--------
Arma-geddon Sick of You:
Bush's Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world's revulsion continues to grow.
http://207.44.245.159/article7240.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:51
Mission Accomplished
BBC TV documentary
Seven months after the end of the war, Sean Langan, armed with just a camera, takes a brave and eventful trip through Iraq, seeking to shed light on what life is like in this newly occupied territory.
Watch it now
http://207.44.245.159/video1042.htm
Seven months after the end of the war, Sean Langan, armed with just a camera, takes a brave and eventful trip through Iraq, seeking to shed light on what life is like in this newly occupied territory.
Watch it now
http://207.44.245.159/video1042.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:49
HACK THE VOTE IN 90 SECONDS
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:46
New Documentary just released on Iraq
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:43
CIA working with FBI inside United States
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:41
THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
Just to put it in perspective...
I have great sympathy and respect for the millions of people who worked so hard in so many different ways to get rid of the most despicable president in American history. Dubious though I am about the effectiveness of electoral politics, I too would have dearly loved to see him defeated by a landslide.
But just to put it in perspective...
Scott Munson
THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev.htm
Roughly speaking we can distinguish five degrees of "government":
(1) Unrestricted freedom
(2) Direct democracy
(3) Delegate democracy
(4) Representative democracy
(5) Overt minority dictatorship
The present society oscillates between (4) and (5), i.e. between overt minority rule and covert minority rule camouflaged by a facade of token democracy. A liberated society would eliminate (4) and (5) and would progressively reduce the need for (2) and (3). . . .
In representative democracy people abdicate their power to elected officials. The candidates' stated policies are limited to a few vague generalities, and once they are elected there is little control over their actual decisions on hundreds of issues -- apart from the feeble threat of changing one's vote, a few years later, to some equally uncontrollable rival politician. Representatives are dependent on the wealthy for bribes and campaign contributions; they are subordinate to the owners of the mass media, who decide which issues get the publicity; and they are almost as ignorant and powerless as the general public regarding many important matters that are determined by unelected bureaucrats and independent secret agencies. Overt dictators may sometimes be overthrown, but the real rulers in "democratic" regimes, the tiny minority who own or control virtually everything, are never voted in and never voted out. Most people don't even know who they are. . . .
In itself, voting is of no great significance one way or the other (those who make a big deal about refusing to vote are only revealing their own fetishism). The problem is that it tends to lull people into relying on others to act for them, distracting them from more significant possibilities. A few people who take some creative initiative (think of the first civil rights sit-ins) may ultimately have a far greater effect than if they had put their energy into campaigning for lesser-evil politicians.
At best, legislators rarely do more than what they have been forced to do by popular movements. (The Vietnam war, for example, was not ended by electing antiwar politicians, but because there was so much pressure from several different directions that the prowar president Nixon was forced to withdraw.) A conservative regime under pressure from independent radical movements often concedes more than a liberal regime that knows it can count on radical support. If people invariably rally to lesser evils, all the rulers have to do in any situation that threatens their power is to conjure up a threat of some greater evil.
Even in the rare case when a "radical" politician has a realistic chance of winning an election, all the tedious campaign efforts of thousands of people may go down the drain in one day because of some trivial scandal discovered in his personal life, or because he inadvertently says something intelligent. If he manages to avoid these pitfalls and it looks like he might win, he tends to evade controversial issues for fear of antagonizing swing voters. If he actually gets elected he is almost never in a position to implement the reforms he has promised, except perhaps after years of wheeling and dealing with his new colleagues; which gives him a good excuse to see his first priority as making whatever compromises are necessary to keep himself in office indefinitely. Hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, he develops new interests and new tastes, which he justifies by telling himself that he deserves a few perks after all his years of working for good causes. Worst of all, if he does eventually manage to get a few "progressive" measures passed, this exceptional and usually trivial success is held up as evidence of the value of relying on electoral politics, luring many more people into wasting their energy on similar campaigns to come.
As one of the May 1968 graffiti put it, "It's painful to submit to our bosses; it's even more stupid to choose them!"
(Excerpts from "THE JOY OF REVOLUTION." The complete text is online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev.htm .)
BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA
http://www.bopsecrets.org
I have great sympathy and respect for the millions of people who worked so hard in so many different ways to get rid of the most despicable president in American history. Dubious though I am about the effectiveness of electoral politics, I too would have dearly loved to see him defeated by a landslide.
But just to put it in perspective...
Scott Munson
THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev.htm
Roughly speaking we can distinguish five degrees of "government":
(1) Unrestricted freedom
(2) Direct democracy
(3) Delegate democracy
(4) Representative democracy
(5) Overt minority dictatorship
The present society oscillates between (4) and (5), i.e. between overt minority rule and covert minority rule camouflaged by a facade of token democracy. A liberated society would eliminate (4) and (5) and would progressively reduce the need for (2) and (3). . . .
In representative democracy people abdicate their power to elected officials. The candidates' stated policies are limited to a few vague generalities, and once they are elected there is little control over their actual decisions on hundreds of issues -- apart from the feeble threat of changing one's vote, a few years later, to some equally uncontrollable rival politician. Representatives are dependent on the wealthy for bribes and campaign contributions; they are subordinate to the owners of the mass media, who decide which issues get the publicity; and they are almost as ignorant and powerless as the general public regarding many important matters that are determined by unelected bureaucrats and independent secret agencies. Overt dictators may sometimes be overthrown, but the real rulers in "democratic" regimes, the tiny minority who own or control virtually everything, are never voted in and never voted out. Most people don't even know who they are. . . .
In itself, voting is of no great significance one way or the other (those who make a big deal about refusing to vote are only revealing their own fetishism). The problem is that it tends to lull people into relying on others to act for them, distracting them from more significant possibilities. A few people who take some creative initiative (think of the first civil rights sit-ins) may ultimately have a far greater effect than if they had put their energy into campaigning for lesser-evil politicians.
At best, legislators rarely do more than what they have been forced to do by popular movements. (The Vietnam war, for example, was not ended by electing antiwar politicians, but because there was so much pressure from several different directions that the prowar president Nixon was forced to withdraw.) A conservative regime under pressure from independent radical movements often concedes more than a liberal regime that knows it can count on radical support. If people invariably rally to lesser evils, all the rulers have to do in any situation that threatens their power is to conjure up a threat of some greater evil.
Even in the rare case when a "radical" politician has a realistic chance of winning an election, all the tedious campaign efforts of thousands of people may go down the drain in one day because of some trivial scandal discovered in his personal life, or because he inadvertently says something intelligent. If he manages to avoid these pitfalls and it looks like he might win, he tends to evade controversial issues for fear of antagonizing swing voters. If he actually gets elected he is almost never in a position to implement the reforms he has promised, except perhaps after years of wheeling and dealing with his new colleagues; which gives him a good excuse to see his first priority as making whatever compromises are necessary to keep himself in office indefinitely. Hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, he develops new interests and new tastes, which he justifies by telling himself that he deserves a few perks after all his years of working for good causes. Worst of all, if he does eventually manage to get a few "progressive" measures passed, this exceptional and usually trivial success is held up as evidence of the value of relying on electoral politics, luring many more people into wasting their energy on similar campaigns to come.
As one of the May 1968 graffiti put it, "It's painful to submit to our bosses; it's even more stupid to choose them!"
(Excerpts from "THE JOY OF REVOLUTION." The complete text is online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev.htm .)
BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA
http://www.bopsecrets.org
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:39
A 'Moral Voter' Majority? The Culture Wars are Back
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:30
Aggressive War : Supreme International Crime
Starmail - 9. Nov, 16:28
Will Your Vote Count?
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886&nav=0Ra7JXq2
http://filmstripinternational.com/
Informant: lynnzy
http://filmstripinternational.com/
Informant: lynnzy
Starmail - 9. Nov, 15:40
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD
Vote Fraud Evidence to Kerry's brother
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395331/
Kerry's Considering Unconceding
http://tinyurl.com/57fdz
--------
I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people have given me. Even if the facts don't provide a basis to change the outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the integrity of our elections.
If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could be helpful to the lawyers doing their job, please send it to vri@dnc.org rather than to me.
The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It's obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a difference. Their work goes on.
Thank you,
Cam Kerry
--------
Re message: "Vote Fraud Evidence to Kerry's brother (lawyer)"
Some people have questioned whether Cynthia Butler ButlerLawFirm@aol.com actually originated this email I forwarded. So I contacted her at her law office and she not only verified that she was the author, but pointed me to a website that got started around it (not by her) at http://www.livejournal.com/community/johnkerry04/624056.html Click here: johnkerry04: BREAKING---KERRY TO UNCONCEDE IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FRAUD , where there are a number of messages from her. Also in response to comments that the email address for John Kerry's brother Cameron Kerry on her email differs from that on his law firm site, she believes they are both valid, but for different uses. Finally (and quite to my surprise), she noted my book web site in my standard signature (below) and posted a "shameless plug" for it on the above website! Thanks, Cynthia!
Coheartedly,
Tom
Informant: Martin Greenhut
--------
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD
by Susan Truitt, Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure
Saturday, November 6, 2004
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Thank you all for your supportive responses to the allegations of election fraud in the 2004 presidential election. Here are some concrete actions that you can take that will make a difference.
Please keep your indignation alive and use that energy to raise the issue publicly until the mass media can use the "F" word -- fraud.
Please keep the energy going to help educate the public regarding the devastating truth that our electoral process is broken and is being taken over by right wing zealots and privatization.
Contact TrueMajority http://www.TrueMajority.org and
MoveOn http://www.moveon.org
and CommonCause http://www.commoncause.org
and tell them to help pursue a post-election challenge to the vote tallies. Donate money to these organizations.
Send financial donations to: Black Box Voting, Bev Harris' site. She is doing a world of good with her tenacious and brave work. She sent out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to every county in the country, and that type of effort requires funds. Read Black Box Voting, by Bev Harris, available on the web, to arm yourself with the sad facts of a broken electoral process:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Also, send donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been instrumental in all litigation across the country relating to e-voting (electronic voting):
http://www.eff.org
Send donations to VerifiedVoting http://www.verifiedvoting.org
and VotersUnite http://www.votersunite.org
and BallotIntegrity http://www.ballotintegrity.org .
These organizations have done a lion's share of getting the word out about what is wrong in this country's electoral process.
Write to your local newspapers to inform the public at large what is going on. Tell them to cover the election debacle and tell them to use the "F" word liberally...
Write to John Conyers (D - Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, who has requested a Congressional Hearing on the 2004 election. Tell him you support the request and that you want him to push for the hearing to be held as soon as possible.
Contact Information for John Conyers:
* Washington DC E-Mail Address: john.conyers@mail.house.gov
* Washington DC Web Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers
* Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers/letstalk.htm
* Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Washington DC Address
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-2214
Phone: 202-225-5126
Fax: 202-225-0072
District Address - Detroit
Federal Building, Room 669
231 West Lafayette Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48226-2766
Phone: 313-961-5670
Fax: 313-226-2085
District Address - Southgate
DCC Building
15100 Northline Road, Suite 257
Southgate, MI 48195
Phone: 734-285-5624
Fax: 734-285-5943
Campaign Address
19512 Livernoise
Detroit, MI 48221
Phone: 313-864-3671
Write to George Soros and ask him to help fund litigation in Ohio and Florida to challenge the vote tallies.
c/o Open Society Institute--New York
888 7th Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10106
United States of America
Telephone: +1-212-757-2323
Fax: +1-212-974-0367
E-mail: osnews@sorosny.org
Web: http://www.soros.org/gsbio.html
Write to the DNC and ask why Senator Kerry capitulated so quickly -- before the information on the vote tallies was even beginning to come in. Tell them that Senator Kerry needs to take back his concession. Democratic National Committee, 430 South Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003. Their phone number is 202-863-8000. Their web-site is: http://www.democrats.org
Contact the Kerry campaign and tell them that he has done a great disservice to the American people by capitulating so quickly - before information could be gathered. Tell him to reconsider in light of all that is coming to the surface.
Contact National Headquarters
Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
P.O. Box 34640
Washington, DC 20043
202-712-3000
202-712-3001 (fax)
202-336-6950 (TTY)
Stay in touch with CASE_OH@yahoogroups.com and CaseOhio
http://www.caseohio.org
Finally, forward this to all of your friends, acquaintances, listservs, etc.
Keep up the good fight.
Thank you.
Susan Truitt
Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections
http://www.caseohio.org
614-487-1759
614-270-5239
Informant: NHNE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395331/
Kerry's Considering Unconceding
http://tinyurl.com/57fdz
--------
I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people have given me. Even if the facts don't provide a basis to change the outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the integrity of our elections.
If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could be helpful to the lawyers doing their job, please send it to vri@dnc.org rather than to me.
The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It's obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a difference. Their work goes on.
Thank you,
Cam Kerry
--------
Re message: "Vote Fraud Evidence to Kerry's brother (lawyer)"
Some people have questioned whether Cynthia Butler ButlerLawFirm@aol.com actually originated this email I forwarded. So I contacted her at her law office and she not only verified that she was the author, but pointed me to a website that got started around it (not by her) at http://www.livejournal.com/community/johnkerry04/624056.html Click here: johnkerry04: BREAKING---KERRY TO UNCONCEDE IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FRAUD , where there are a number of messages from her. Also in response to comments that the email address for John Kerry's brother Cameron Kerry on her email differs from that on his law firm site, she believes they are both valid, but for different uses. Finally (and quite to my surprise), she noted my book web site in my standard signature (below) and posted a "shameless plug" for it on the above website! Thanks, Cynthia!
Coheartedly,
Tom
Informant: Martin Greenhut
--------
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD
by Susan Truitt, Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure
Saturday, November 6, 2004
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Thank you all for your supportive responses to the allegations of election fraud in the 2004 presidential election. Here are some concrete actions that you can take that will make a difference.
Please keep your indignation alive and use that energy to raise the issue publicly until the mass media can use the "F" word -- fraud.
Please keep the energy going to help educate the public regarding the devastating truth that our electoral process is broken and is being taken over by right wing zealots and privatization.
Contact TrueMajority http://www.TrueMajority.org and
MoveOn http://www.moveon.org
and CommonCause http://www.commoncause.org
and tell them to help pursue a post-election challenge to the vote tallies. Donate money to these organizations.
Send financial donations to: Black Box Voting, Bev Harris' site. She is doing a world of good with her tenacious and brave work. She sent out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to every county in the country, and that type of effort requires funds. Read Black Box Voting, by Bev Harris, available on the web, to arm yourself with the sad facts of a broken electoral process:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Also, send donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been instrumental in all litigation across the country relating to e-voting (electronic voting):
http://www.eff.org
Send donations to VerifiedVoting http://www.verifiedvoting.org
and VotersUnite http://www.votersunite.org
and BallotIntegrity http://www.ballotintegrity.org .
These organizations have done a lion's share of getting the word out about what is wrong in this country's electoral process.
Write to your local newspapers to inform the public at large what is going on. Tell them to cover the election debacle and tell them to use the "F" word liberally...
Write to John Conyers (D - Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, who has requested a Congressional Hearing on the 2004 election. Tell him you support the request and that you want him to push for the hearing to be held as soon as possible.
Contact Information for John Conyers:
* Washington DC E-Mail Address: john.conyers@mail.house.gov
* Washington DC Web Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers
* Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers/letstalk.htm
* Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Washington DC Address
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-2214
Phone: 202-225-5126
Fax: 202-225-0072
District Address - Detroit
Federal Building, Room 669
231 West Lafayette Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48226-2766
Phone: 313-961-5670
Fax: 313-226-2085
District Address - Southgate
DCC Building
15100 Northline Road, Suite 257
Southgate, MI 48195
Phone: 734-285-5624
Fax: 734-285-5943
Campaign Address
19512 Livernoise
Detroit, MI 48221
Phone: 313-864-3671
Write to George Soros and ask him to help fund litigation in Ohio and Florida to challenge the vote tallies.
c/o Open Society Institute--New York
888 7th Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10106
United States of America
Telephone: +1-212-757-2323
Fax: +1-212-974-0367
E-mail: osnews@sorosny.org
Web: http://www.soros.org/gsbio.html
Write to the DNC and ask why Senator Kerry capitulated so quickly -- before the information on the vote tallies was even beginning to come in. Tell them that Senator Kerry needs to take back his concession. Democratic National Committee, 430 South Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003. Their phone number is 202-863-8000. Their web-site is: http://www.democrats.org
Contact the Kerry campaign and tell them that he has done a great disservice to the American people by capitulating so quickly - before information could be gathered. Tell him to reconsider in light of all that is coming to the surface.
Contact National Headquarters
Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
P.O. Box 34640
Washington, DC 20043
202-712-3000
202-712-3001 (fax)
202-336-6950 (TTY)
Stay in touch with CASE_OH@yahoogroups.com and CaseOhio
http://www.caseohio.org
Finally, forward this to all of your friends, acquaintances, listservs, etc.
Keep up the good fight.
Thank you.
Susan Truitt
Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections
http://www.caseohio.org
614-487-1759
614-270-5239
Informant: NHNE
Starmail - 9. Nov, 15:38
STOLEN ELECTION NEWS STORIES & LINKS
RadTimes
Monday, November 8, 2004
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Maryland E-voting Controversy Continues In Presidential Race
http://www.wtonline.com/news/1_1/daily_news/24878-1.html
E-voting Concerns Outlast Election
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1022484,00.html
Tallying of N.M. Paper Ballots Could Take Days
http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/252622elex11-03-04.htm
Wichita Co. Experiences Trouble With Counting The Votes
http://www.kfdx.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=6839
Footprints of Electoral Fraud: The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html
Board Awaits State Followup
http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
Nader requests recount of NH Presidential ballot
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=46674
17,000 Election Day Incidents Reported by Voters, Election Staff
http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.21.html
Democracy Fails: Corporations Win
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/democracyfails.html
Ohio Whitewash
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/11_04.html
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
Ohio Election 2004 Audit
http://www.neohioact.org/electionaudit/%20
Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off an Alarm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/campaign/07elect.html
Seven questions for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/moneypolitics/2004/blackwellletter.html
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
None Dare Call It Voter Suppression And Fraud
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
An Examination of the Florida Elections (2004)
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/
Computer Glitch Still Baffles County Clerk
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt
GOP Wants News Organizations to Abandon Exit Polls
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=6674
Phantom Votes in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html
Florida¹s Election Was An Utter Sham
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/VRWC/gun.htm
Draft Dean
http://www.stephendinan.com/2004/11/draft-dean.html
On The Front Lines in Florida
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/florida.html
Informant: NHNE
Monday, November 8, 2004
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Maryland E-voting Controversy Continues In Presidential Race
http://www.wtonline.com/news/1_1/daily_news/24878-1.html
E-voting Concerns Outlast Election
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1022484,00.html
Tallying of N.M. Paper Ballots Could Take Days
http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/252622elex11-03-04.htm
Wichita Co. Experiences Trouble With Counting The Votes
http://www.kfdx.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=6839
Footprints of Electoral Fraud: The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html
Board Awaits State Followup
http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
Nader requests recount of NH Presidential ballot
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=46674
17,000 Election Day Incidents Reported by Voters, Election Staff
http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.21.html
Democracy Fails: Corporations Win
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/democracyfails.html
Ohio Whitewash
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/11_04.html
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
Ohio Election 2004 Audit
http://www.neohioact.org/electionaudit/%20
Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off an Alarm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/campaign/07elect.html
Seven questions for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/moneypolitics/2004/blackwellletter.html
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
None Dare Call It Voter Suppression And Fraud
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
An Examination of the Florida Elections (2004)
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/
Computer Glitch Still Baffles County Clerk
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt
GOP Wants News Organizations to Abandon Exit Polls
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=6674
Phantom Votes in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html
Florida¹s Election Was An Utter Sham
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/VRWC/gun.htm
Draft Dean
http://www.stephendinan.com/2004/11/draft-dean.html
On The Front Lines in Florida
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/florida.html
Informant: NHNE
Starmail - 9. Nov, 15:16
The Progressive Response, 8 November 2004, Vol. 8, No. 23
Starmail - 9. Nov, 15:03
None Dare Call it Voter Suppression and Fraud
by Bob Fitrakis
Evidence is mounting that the 2004 presidential election was stolen in Ohio. Emerging revelations of voting irregularities coupled with well-documented Republican efforts at voter suppression prior to the election suggests that in a fair election Kerry would have won Ohio....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Fitrakis1108.htm
Evidence is mounting that the 2004 presidential election was stolen in Ohio. Emerging revelations of voting irregularities coupled with well-documented Republican efforts at voter suppression prior to the election suggests that in a fair election Kerry would have won Ohio....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Fitrakis1108.htm
Starmail - 9. Nov, 14:59
Vote Fraud Evidence to Kerry's brother
Vote Fraud Evidence to Kerry's brother (lawyer)
See also Election Fraud blog with many links
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:45:59 -0500
From: Dal LaMa
Subject: SEND ALL EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD TO CAM KERRY
Reply-to: dal@progressivegovernment.org
I'm passing this along. Dal
Everyone! Please forward to all who have specifics on vote fraud. The send-to address below is John Kerry's brother at his law firm. Kerry will unconcede if there is solid evidence of fraud. We need first hand sufferers so please get this info to them!!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
EMAIL FROM DC LAWYER CYNTHIA BUTLER
I am angry and getting emails and recrimination from people wondering why KERRY just caved and is not fighting this before the final count in Ohio, before any of the fraud was challenged, before New Mexico and Iowa even came in.
There is widespread feeling that he did not lose the election and that it was taken from him.
There is enough here to warrant investigation and enough to challenge the results. It's coming from all corners.
I understand that he has until the official count certification in Ohio to Un Concede which is several days from now.
Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why - whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States using electronic machines- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John Kerry's brother at his law firm at the address CKerry@Mintz.com
They should inform us if they were not allowed to vote provisionally (for whatever reason- they lost forms, ran out of forms, etc.) I personally witnessed a number of things as I reported in Texas with the DCCC. (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
If you know anyone in particular in Ohio who tried to vote and was turned away at the polls please get their information and notify the campaign.
They should be notified if they experienced lines longer than four hours - particularly elderly or infirm people (we call that torture when they do it to political prisoners). They should be notified if people were told as has been reported that due to too many people showing up in African American precincts, particularly in Ohio where there were too few booths (some only had two or three for the entire precinct) and told because of heavy turn out they could vote on Wednesday. If the numbers of these sorts of incidents creates a percentage margin that exceeds the margin of victory- Un Concession has to be made to challenge the count.
If people wanted to and tried to vote and were prevented or actively discouraged from doing so, that is a Civil Rights matter and must be dealt with in terms of the ultimate count.
This is the last email that I am writing on this subject in this venue. I am taking it up in other venues.
Please pass along this to your listservs so that we may make Democracy Work in America. We are not a country where he who cheats best wins.
Cynthia L. Butler
BUTLER LAW FIRM, P.C.
1717 K St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
Dal LaMagna
Informant: Martin Greenhut
--------
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395449/
See also Election Fraud blog with many links
http://radtimes.blogspot.com/
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:45:59 -0500
From: Dal LaMa
Subject: SEND ALL EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD TO CAM KERRY
Reply-to: dal@progressivegovernment.org
I'm passing this along. Dal
Everyone! Please forward to all who have specifics on vote fraud. The send-to address below is John Kerry's brother at his law firm. Kerry will unconcede if there is solid evidence of fraud. We need first hand sufferers so please get this info to them!!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
EMAIL FROM DC LAWYER CYNTHIA BUTLER
I am angry and getting emails and recrimination from people wondering why KERRY just caved and is not fighting this before the final count in Ohio, before any of the fraud was challenged, before New Mexico and Iowa even came in.
There is widespread feeling that he did not lose the election and that it was taken from him.
There is enough here to warrant investigation and enough to challenge the results. It's coming from all corners.
I understand that he has until the official count certification in Ohio to Un Concede which is several days from now.
Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why - whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States using electronic machines- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John Kerry's brother at his law firm at the address CKerry@Mintz.com
They should inform us if they were not allowed to vote provisionally (for whatever reason- they lost forms, ran out of forms, etc.) I personally witnessed a number of things as I reported in Texas with the DCCC. (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
If you know anyone in particular in Ohio who tried to vote and was turned away at the polls please get their information and notify the campaign.
They should be notified if they experienced lines longer than four hours - particularly elderly or infirm people (we call that torture when they do it to political prisoners). They should be notified if people were told as has been reported that due to too many people showing up in African American precincts, particularly in Ohio where there were too few booths (some only had two or three for the entire precinct) and told because of heavy turn out they could vote on Wednesday. If the numbers of these sorts of incidents creates a percentage margin that exceeds the margin of victory- Un Concession has to be made to challenge the count.
If people wanted to and tried to vote and were prevented or actively discouraged from doing so, that is a Civil Rights matter and must be dealt with in terms of the ultimate count.
This is the last email that I am writing on this subject in this venue. I am taking it up in other venues.
Please pass along this to your listservs so that we may make Democracy Work in America. We are not a country where he who cheats best wins.
Cynthia L. Butler
BUTLER LAW FIRM, P.C.
1717 K St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
Dal LaMagna
Informant: Martin Greenhut
--------
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/395449/
Starmail - 9. Nov, 14:53
Countinghouse Blues
Find this article at:
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html
Shanti Renfrew
Countinghouse Blues: Too many votes in Nebraska county
Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals.
Johnny Boykin lost his bid to be on the Papillion City Council. The difference between victory and defeat in the race was 127 votes.
Boykin says, "When I went in to work the next day and saw that 3,342people had shown up to vote in our war, I thought something's not right."
He's right. There are not even 3,000 people registered to vote in his ward.
For some reason, some votes were counted twice.
Deputy Sarpy County Election Commissioner Ed Gilbert says, "It affected 32 of the 80 precincts. And I suppose as many as 10,000 votes."
Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Its employees operated the machines that are now double-checking the ballots.
No one is sure exactly what went wrong.
Gilbert says, "The only thing we know is that if you load the disc out there, it reads fine. They didn't read fine on this computer."
Election officials say they don't believe the glitch will impact who wonand who lost any of the races. They figure that when votes were doubled in a particular race, the totals were doubled for both candidates. Vote totals would be skewed but percentages would not change.
In spite of that, the candidates want to know the real numbers.
Boykin says, "I think we owe it to those folks to make sure all the votes got counted, correctly."
As of Thursday night, the problem still had not been pinpointed. The Sarpy County Election office had hoped to post the updated results on its Web site but, at last check, we got the following message: "Updated unofficial results for the 2004 General Election are pending. Please check back later."
Find this article at:
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html
--------
http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html
Cuyahoga County Precincts
There have been several emails regarding this page. I will be inquiring to Cuyahoga County in the coming days. It seems that the precinct/ward differences may be where the problem is as the official summary report does not show these spikes in turn-out.
The summary, however, does not report on the number of registered voters for precincts or wards, whereas the referenced link does. I am using the referenced link data below (more complete totals), not the summary report, which only reflects total districts.
Each precinct in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Highlighted areas represent 90% (very VERY unlikely) and higher (up to 1160.78%) voter TURN-OUT! 30 are above 100% calculated from data on county page -
http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm
(Ballots Cast/Registered Voters) * 100 = % turn out. Ballots Cast SHOULD NEVER be more than registered, thus % should NEVER be higher than 100%
This amounts to 97,489 EXTRA votes beyond 100% in those precincts! This is just for ONE county!
No further evidence needed - a recount MUST be done - and possibly another national election using ONLY paper ballots, hand counts, and observers making sure all counts are valid. I don't trust these computers AT ALL! We should have the UN observe!
Go to: http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html for complete page.
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html
Shanti Renfrew
Countinghouse Blues: Too many votes in Nebraska county
Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals.
Johnny Boykin lost his bid to be on the Papillion City Council. The difference between victory and defeat in the race was 127 votes.
Boykin says, "When I went in to work the next day and saw that 3,342people had shown up to vote in our war, I thought something's not right."
He's right. There are not even 3,000 people registered to vote in his ward.
For some reason, some votes were counted twice.
Deputy Sarpy County Election Commissioner Ed Gilbert says, "It affected 32 of the 80 precincts. And I suppose as many as 10,000 votes."
Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Its employees operated the machines that are now double-checking the ballots.
No one is sure exactly what went wrong.
Gilbert says, "The only thing we know is that if you load the disc out there, it reads fine. They didn't read fine on this computer."
Election officials say they don't believe the glitch will impact who wonand who lost any of the races. They figure that when votes were doubled in a particular race, the totals were doubled for both candidates. Vote totals would be skewed but percentages would not change.
In spite of that, the candidates want to know the real numbers.
Boykin says, "I think we owe it to those folks to make sure all the votes got counted, correctly."
As of Thursday night, the problem still had not been pinpointed. The Sarpy County Election office had hoped to post the updated results on its Web site but, at last check, we got the following message: "Updated unofficial results for the 2004 General Election are pending. Please check back later."
Find this article at:
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html
--------
http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html
Cuyahoga County Precincts
There have been several emails regarding this page. I will be inquiring to Cuyahoga County in the coming days. It seems that the precinct/ward differences may be where the problem is as the official summary report does not show these spikes in turn-out.
The summary, however, does not report on the number of registered voters for precincts or wards, whereas the referenced link does. I am using the referenced link data below (more complete totals), not the summary report, which only reflects total districts.
Each precinct in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Highlighted areas represent 90% (very VERY unlikely) and higher (up to 1160.78%) voter TURN-OUT! 30 are above 100% calculated from data on county page -
http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm
(Ballots Cast/Registered Voters) * 100 = % turn out. Ballots Cast SHOULD NEVER be more than registered, thus % should NEVER be higher than 100%
This amounts to 97,489 EXTRA votes beyond 100% in those precincts! This is just for ONE county!
No further evidence needed - a recount MUST be done - and possibly another national election using ONLY paper ballots, hand counts, and observers making sure all counts are valid. I don't trust these computers AT ALL! We should have the UN observe!
Go to: http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id20.html for complete page.
Starmail - 9. Nov, 14:35
Take action to defend democracy, demand an investigation into electoral fraud
VOTERGATE! EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION--WED 11/10 Noon SF Federal Building
EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION! VOTERGATE!!!
Are you anguished and enraged by the outcome of the Nov 2 election? Are you following the growing mass of evidence of possible fraud and outright theft? Lost votes, missing ballots, black-box machines with no paper trail, a clear pattern of intimidation of voters based on racial profiling, do you suspect a scandal bigger than Watergate and far more meaningful than Monica is being suppressed?
Was the 2004 election stolen? Take action to defend democracy and
demand an investigation into electoral fraud!
We can stay home and grumble and swear at the T.V. as Bush claims a mandate. We can go to work as usual, and pretend nothing is wrong. Or we can come out and take action. Join us to protest the continuing disenfranchisement of African-American, Latino and student voters, to demand a suspension of the electoral college vote until there is a full and impartial investigation of all the irregularities, and to defend democracy.
Wednesday, November 10,
Noon
San Francisco Federal Building,
450 Golden Gate, plaza side,
Rally and nonviolent civil disobedience.
--We demand a thorough, impartial, and immediate investigation into electoral fraud, racially based suppression of voters, and a full count of all provisional and absentee ballots and ‘spoiled’ votes.
--We demand that the December 13 electoral college vote be suspended, if necessary, until these questions are resolved. The legitimacy of our government is compromised when the integrity of our electoral system is in question, free and fair elections are the basis of a democratic government.
When the integrity of the electoral system is in question, the government loses its legitimacy. No recount could be as destabilizing as the widespread suspicion that the Republicans have stolen a second election.
Here are just a few of the serious concerns that have arisen:
--Around the world, exit polls are used to verify that elections are free from fraud. Here in the US, polls in precincts using computer voting machines with no paper trail were consistently at odds with the reported outcome, while polls in precincts using paper ballots matched the outcome.
--In Ohio, adequate numbers of voting machines were not provided in African American and student neighborhoods, causing voters hours of waiting time at the polls.
--1,074 instances of voter intimidation were reported to the Election Protection Coalition.
--In Franklin County, Ohio, voting machines gave George Bush 3,893 votes in one precinct alone, far more than the number of registered voters. In Craven County, North Carolina, a software error gave Bush 11,283 extra votes, in Broward County, Florida, voting machines were discovered to be counting backwards.
--In Ohio, the number of provisional ballots may be far higher than Secretary of State Blackwell claims. Absentee and ‘spoiled’ ballots have not been counted—African American and Latino voters are far more likely to have their ballots discarded.
--Purging of supposed ‘felons’ in Florida and Colorado disproportionately targets communities of color and may violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
--The Diebold machines and central computer processors were never tested to assure that they could not be hacked by outsiders.
--And much, much more!
It’s not too late! The Watergate Scandal brought Nixon down long after he took office. We can counter the false perception of Bush’s ‘mandate’, push the mainstream media into covering these serious issues, maybe even put some spine into the Democrats, stand in alliance with youth and communities of color, and protect the integrity of our vote. Fighting for fair elections is vital—for the present and the future!
Reclaim the Commons
Democracy Defense Committee
http://www.beyondvoting.org
For more information on election fraud, see:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.democracyunderground.com/
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
Informant: Scott Munson
EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION! VOTERGATE!!!
Are you anguished and enraged by the outcome of the Nov 2 election? Are you following the growing mass of evidence of possible fraud and outright theft? Lost votes, missing ballots, black-box machines with no paper trail, a clear pattern of intimidation of voters based on racial profiling, do you suspect a scandal bigger than Watergate and far more meaningful than Monica is being suppressed?
Was the 2004 election stolen? Take action to defend democracy and
demand an investigation into electoral fraud!
We can stay home and grumble and swear at the T.V. as Bush claims a mandate. We can go to work as usual, and pretend nothing is wrong. Or we can come out and take action. Join us to protest the continuing disenfranchisement of African-American, Latino and student voters, to demand a suspension of the electoral college vote until there is a full and impartial investigation of all the irregularities, and to defend democracy.
Wednesday, November 10,
Noon
San Francisco Federal Building,
450 Golden Gate, plaza side,
Rally and nonviolent civil disobedience.
--We demand a thorough, impartial, and immediate investigation into electoral fraud, racially based suppression of voters, and a full count of all provisional and absentee ballots and ‘spoiled’ votes.
--We demand that the December 13 electoral college vote be suspended, if necessary, until these questions are resolved. The legitimacy of our government is compromised when the integrity of our electoral system is in question, free and fair elections are the basis of a democratic government.
When the integrity of the electoral system is in question, the government loses its legitimacy. No recount could be as destabilizing as the widespread suspicion that the Republicans have stolen a second election.
Here are just a few of the serious concerns that have arisen:
--Around the world, exit polls are used to verify that elections are free from fraud. Here in the US, polls in precincts using computer voting machines with no paper trail were consistently at odds with the reported outcome, while polls in precincts using paper ballots matched the outcome.
--In Ohio, adequate numbers of voting machines were not provided in African American and student neighborhoods, causing voters hours of waiting time at the polls.
--1,074 instances of voter intimidation were reported to the Election Protection Coalition.
--In Franklin County, Ohio, voting machines gave George Bush 3,893 votes in one precinct alone, far more than the number of registered voters. In Craven County, North Carolina, a software error gave Bush 11,283 extra votes, in Broward County, Florida, voting machines were discovered to be counting backwards.
--In Ohio, the number of provisional ballots may be far higher than Secretary of State Blackwell claims. Absentee and ‘spoiled’ ballots have not been counted—African American and Latino voters are far more likely to have their ballots discarded.
--Purging of supposed ‘felons’ in Florida and Colorado disproportionately targets communities of color and may violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
--The Diebold machines and central computer processors were never tested to assure that they could not be hacked by outsiders.
--And much, much more!
It’s not too late! The Watergate Scandal brought Nixon down long after he took office. We can counter the false perception of Bush’s ‘mandate’, push the mainstream media into covering these serious issues, maybe even put some spine into the Democrats, stand in alliance with youth and communities of color, and protect the integrity of our vote. Fighting for fair elections is vital—for the present and the future!
Reclaim the Commons
Democracy Defense Committee
http://www.beyondvoting.org
For more information on election fraud, see:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.democracyunderground.com/
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
Informant: Scott Munson
Starmail - 9. Nov, 14:19
Mobile phone risk revealed
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041011/pf/041011-11_pf.html
ITS TRUE, LIKE WE WERE AFRAID: CELLULAR PHONE ARE DANGEROUS!
AND NOW... WHAT?
Max Webber
Published online: 14 October 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041011-11
Mobile phone risk revealed
Federica Castellani
Long-term phone use doubles occurrence of rare tumour.
All of the extra tumours seemed to occur on the same side of the head to which the patients normally held their phone.
© Getty
Using a mobile phone for ten or more years doubles the risk of getting a type of benign head tumour, a Swedish study has found.
The study is relatively small, it looked at 148 patients and 600 controls, and the effect will need to be confirmed with larger groups. But it is the first to show clear evidence that mobile phone use could increase the risk of getting tumours.
"We were surprised about the results, but the outcome is quite clear," says Anders Ahlbom, an epidemiologist at the Karolinska Institute, who was involved in the study.
"We are now convinced of the quite strong risk due to the use of mobile phones, and we are waiting for confirmation from the other research groups," says Ahlbom.
Sweden is one of the 13 countries taking part in the INTERPHONE study. This research programme, coordinated by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, was set up in 1998 to investigate whether exposure to the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phones causes damaging health effects.
The outcome is clear. We are now convinced of the quite strong risk due to the use of mobile phones.
Anders Ahlbom
epidemologist at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Twice the tumours
The Karolinska team looked at the incidence of acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour that grows on the nerve connecting the ear to the brain. Normally the chance of developing acoustic neuroma is 1 in 100,000.
The researchers studied 148 acoustic neuroma patients and 604 healthy controls. 14 of the neuroma patients had regularly used mobile phones for over ten years, compared with 29 of the controls. That translates into a doubled risk of developing the condition, the researchers say.
All of the extra cases seemed to occur on the same side of the head to which the patients normally held their phone.
Danish comparison
The first results of the INTERPHONE study came in January from Danish researchers. Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen identified no link between phone use and the frequency of tumours, even though the average size of tumours that did occur was significantly larger for regular users than for nonusers.
But the Danish study was smaller than the Swedish one: it involved 106 acoustic neuroma patients and 212 healthy controls. Jörgen H. Olsen, head of the Danish institute, says that the Karolinska team's results are very convincing, and the differences in the outcome between the two studies, which used identical methodology, could be explained by the bigger sample size.
However, Olsen cautions that the Swedish results were partly based on asking the patients which side of the head they normally held their phone. People with a tumour on a particular side of the head might be more likely to say they held their phone on that side, he points out.
Studies are now complete in nearly all the countries involved in the INTERPHONE project, and the final results are expected to be released in early 2005, according to Elisabeth Cardis, chief of the radiation and cancer unit at the IARC.
Five of the countries involved in the project are also planning to start prospective studies following 250,000 people (50,000 in each country) to confirm any effects that INTERPHONE finds.
References
1. Lönn S., et al. Epidemiology, 15. 653 - 659 (2004). | PubMed |
Story from news@nature.com:
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041011/pf/041011-11_pf.html
© 2004 Nature Publishing Group
ITS TRUE, LIKE WE WERE AFRAID: CELLULAR PHONE ARE DANGEROUS!
AND NOW... WHAT?
Max Webber
Published online: 14 October 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041011-11
Mobile phone risk revealed
Federica Castellani
Long-term phone use doubles occurrence of rare tumour.
All of the extra tumours seemed to occur on the same side of the head to which the patients normally held their phone.
© Getty
Using a mobile phone for ten or more years doubles the risk of getting a type of benign head tumour, a Swedish study has found.
The study is relatively small, it looked at 148 patients and 600 controls, and the effect will need to be confirmed with larger groups. But it is the first to show clear evidence that mobile phone use could increase the risk of getting tumours.
"We were surprised about the results, but the outcome is quite clear," says Anders Ahlbom, an epidemiologist at the Karolinska Institute, who was involved in the study.
"We are now convinced of the quite strong risk due to the use of mobile phones, and we are waiting for confirmation from the other research groups," says Ahlbom.
Sweden is one of the 13 countries taking part in the INTERPHONE study. This research programme, coordinated by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, was set up in 1998 to investigate whether exposure to the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phones causes damaging health effects.
The outcome is clear. We are now convinced of the quite strong risk due to the use of mobile phones.
Anders Ahlbom
epidemologist at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Twice the tumours
The Karolinska team looked at the incidence of acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour that grows on the nerve connecting the ear to the brain. Normally the chance of developing acoustic neuroma is 1 in 100,000.
The researchers studied 148 acoustic neuroma patients and 604 healthy controls. 14 of the neuroma patients had regularly used mobile phones for over ten years, compared with 29 of the controls. That translates into a doubled risk of developing the condition, the researchers say.
All of the extra cases seemed to occur on the same side of the head to which the patients normally held their phone.
Danish comparison
The first results of the INTERPHONE study came in January from Danish researchers. Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen identified no link between phone use and the frequency of tumours, even though the average size of tumours that did occur was significantly larger for regular users than for nonusers.
But the Danish study was smaller than the Swedish one: it involved 106 acoustic neuroma patients and 212 healthy controls. Jörgen H. Olsen, head of the Danish institute, says that the Karolinska team's results are very convincing, and the differences in the outcome between the two studies, which used identical methodology, could be explained by the bigger sample size.
However, Olsen cautions that the Swedish results were partly based on asking the patients which side of the head they normally held their phone. People with a tumour on a particular side of the head might be more likely to say they held their phone on that side, he points out.
Studies are now complete in nearly all the countries involved in the INTERPHONE project, and the final results are expected to be released in early 2005, according to Elisabeth Cardis, chief of the radiation and cancer unit at the IARC.
Five of the countries involved in the project are also planning to start prospective studies following 250,000 people (50,000 in each country) to confirm any effects that INTERPHONE finds.
References
1. Lönn S., et al. Epidemiology, 15. 653 - 659 (2004). | PubMed |
Story from news@nature.com:
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041011/pf/041011-11_pf.html
© 2004 Nature Publishing Group
Starmail - 9. Nov, 12:18
US-Politiker will Beweise für Wahlbetrug vorlegen
Starmail - 9. Nov, 12:01
U.S. of Amnesia
Starmail - 9. Nov, 10:50
ACLU Continues the Fight for Voting Rights
Good news..here's a toll free number.they want folks to call them..look they're admitting it now..the fraud..they weren't saying a thing earlier today and said they hadn't heard of any...c
ACLU Continues the Fight for Voting Rights
The ACLU monitored polls nationally and is responding to incidents of voter intimidation, vote suppression or election foul-ups, including in Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island and Virginia, and in Florida. Voters with complaints are encouraged to call our toll-free voter hotline 1-877-523-2792.
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
Informant: ItalysBadBoy
ACLU Continues the Fight for Voting Rights
The ACLU monitored polls nationally and is responding to incidents of voter intimidation, vote suppression or election foul-ups, including in Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island and Virginia, and in Florida. Voters with complaints are encouraged to call our toll-free voter hotline 1-877-523-2792.
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
Informant: ItalysBadBoy
Starmail - 9. Nov, 10:44
Hartz IV ist Armut per Gesetz
08.11.2004
Kinderreport 2004 belegt: Hartz IV ist Armut per Gesetz
Zum im Kinderreport 2004 prognostizierten Anstieg der Kinderarmut in Deutschland durch die Hartz-Gesetze erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Rolf Kutzmutz:
Der Kinderreport 2004 macht deutlich: Hartz IV ist Armut per Gesetz. Wenn im Ergebnis von Hartz IV 1,5 Millionen Kinder mehr gezwungen sein werden, an der Armutsgrenze zu leben, führt das die Hartz-Gesetze und die dahinter stehende Philosophie endgültig ad absurdum. Sie bringen keine Existenz sichernden Arbeitsplätze, sondern rauben denjenigen Zukunftsperspektiven und Lebenschancen, die sich am wenigsten wehren können. Jedes zehnte Kind in Deutschland wird ab Januar 2005 in Armut leben - das ist der sozialpolitische Offenbarungseid der rot-grünen Bundesregierung.
Hartz IV setzt für Millionen einen verhängnisvollen Kreislauf der Armut in Gang, der vom Kindes- bis zum Rentenalter andauert. Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit kalkuliert damit, dass eine halbe Million Menschen überhaupt keine Leistung mehr erhält und dass davon vor allem Frauen in Ostdeutschland betroffen sein werden. Diese mittelbare Diskriminierung, die die Frauen in extreme Abhängigkeiten stürzt, ist verfassungswidrig. Die Betroffenen fallen nicht nur aus dem Leistungsbezug, sie sind auch nicht mehr rentenversichert. Altersarmut droht. Krankenversichert sind sie nur noch über die Familienversicherung ihres Partners, sofern sie verheiratet sind. Vermittlungsbemühungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt werden praktisch für sie nicht mehr stattfinden. Eine Rückkehr in den Arbeitsmarkt und damit in eine eigenständige Existenzsicherung wird fast unmöglich. Dies ist auch psychologisch katastrophal für die zu DDR-Zeiten selbstverständlich erwerbstätigen ostdeutschen Frauen.
Das Sozialstaatsgebot des Grundgesetzes ist eine Grundkonstituente der Bundsrepublik. Bundesregierung und konservativ-liberale Opposition legen die Axt an diese Säule unseres Gemeinwesens.
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=24635
Kinderreport 2004 belegt: Hartz IV ist Armut per Gesetz
Zum im Kinderreport 2004 prognostizierten Anstieg der Kinderarmut in Deutschland durch die Hartz-Gesetze erklärt Bundesgeschäftsführer Rolf Kutzmutz:
Der Kinderreport 2004 macht deutlich: Hartz IV ist Armut per Gesetz. Wenn im Ergebnis von Hartz IV 1,5 Millionen Kinder mehr gezwungen sein werden, an der Armutsgrenze zu leben, führt das die Hartz-Gesetze und die dahinter stehende Philosophie endgültig ad absurdum. Sie bringen keine Existenz sichernden Arbeitsplätze, sondern rauben denjenigen Zukunftsperspektiven und Lebenschancen, die sich am wenigsten wehren können. Jedes zehnte Kind in Deutschland wird ab Januar 2005 in Armut leben - das ist der sozialpolitische Offenbarungseid der rot-grünen Bundesregierung.
Hartz IV setzt für Millionen einen verhängnisvollen Kreislauf der Armut in Gang, der vom Kindes- bis zum Rentenalter andauert. Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit kalkuliert damit, dass eine halbe Million Menschen überhaupt keine Leistung mehr erhält und dass davon vor allem Frauen in Ostdeutschland betroffen sein werden. Diese mittelbare Diskriminierung, die die Frauen in extreme Abhängigkeiten stürzt, ist verfassungswidrig. Die Betroffenen fallen nicht nur aus dem Leistungsbezug, sie sind auch nicht mehr rentenversichert. Altersarmut droht. Krankenversichert sind sie nur noch über die Familienversicherung ihres Partners, sofern sie verheiratet sind. Vermittlungsbemühungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt werden praktisch für sie nicht mehr stattfinden. Eine Rückkehr in den Arbeitsmarkt und damit in eine eigenständige Existenzsicherung wird fast unmöglich. Dies ist auch psychologisch katastrophal für die zu DDR-Zeiten selbstverständlich erwerbstätigen ostdeutschen Frauen.
Das Sozialstaatsgebot des Grundgesetzes ist eine Grundkonstituente der Bundsrepublik. Bundesregierung und konservativ-liberale Opposition legen die Axt an diese Säule unseres Gemeinwesens.
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=24635
Starmail - 9. Nov, 10:41
8
Nov
2004
LINKS and NEWS LIST ARTICLES
BLACK BOX VOTING
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
http://www.cpsr.org/
THE ELECTION PROTECTION COALITION
http://www.electionprotection2004.org/
THE NATIONAL BALLOT INTEGRITY PROJECT TASK FORCE
http://www.ballotintegrity.org
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VOTER INTEGRITY (NCVI)
http://www.votingintegrity.org/
THE VERIFIED VOTING FOUNDATION
http://verifiedvoting.org/
VOTEWATCH
http://www.votewatch.us/
WIRED'S E-VOTING COVERAGE
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/
PREVIOUS NHNE NEWS LIST ARTICLES:
EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT THE VOTE WAS HACKED (11/7/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8228
HELP INSURE THE ELECTION WAS/IS FAIR (11/5/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8223
HARTMANN ON HOW E-VOTING THREATENS DEMOCRACY (11/5/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8221
KERRY WON (11/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8213
E-VOTE GLITCHES & CONCERNS (11/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8204
URGENT WARNING TO VOTERS USING TOUCH SCREEN/DRE VOTING MACHINES (11/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8184
E-VOTE FEARS SOAR IN SWING STATES (9/28/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7946
NEW FLORIDA VOTE SCANDAL FEARED (10/26/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8155
REPUBLICAN FRAUD WILL DISQUALIFY 200,000 IN FLORIDA VOTE (10/19/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8102
MONKEY HACKS DIEBOLD TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINE (9/24/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7937
ACTIVISTS FIND MORE E-VOTE FLAWS (9/22/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7918
READY OR NOT, ELECTRONIC VOTING GOES NATIONAL (9/20/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7906
DIEBOLD GEMS CENTRAL TABULATOR CONTAINS STUNNING SECURITY HOLE (9/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7807
E-VOTE GLITCH DEMONSTRATES NEED FOR PAPER TRAIL (8/14/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7725
Election Verification Project (8/9/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7686
Michael Moore To Monitor November Elections In Florida (8/3/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7660
KERRY BUILDING LEGAL NETWORK FOR VOTE FIGHTS (7/19/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7582
US LAWMAKERS REQUEST UN OBSERVERS FOR US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (7/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7529
QUESTIONS RISE AGAIN OVER FLORIDA FELON 'PURGE LIST' (7/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7513
DIEBOLD BANS POLITICAL DONATIONS (6/10/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7370
CALIFORNIA BANS E-VOTE MACHINES (5/2/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7142
DIEBOLD E-VOTING IN HOT WATER IN CALIFORNIA (4/22/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7108
HOW E-VOTING THREATENS DEMOCRACY (4/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7009
NEW EVOTING SECURITY PROBLEMS TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW (12/16/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6443
BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH BEV HARRIS ON ELECTRONIC VOTING (12/4/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6363
DIEBOLD RETRACTS LEGAL THREATS OVER VOTING MACHINE FLAWS (12/2/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6347
DIEBOLD FORCED TO PAY FOR AUDIT OF ALL THEIR VOTING MACHINES IN CALIFORNIA
(11/13/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6244
NEW YORK TIMES TACKLES ELECTRONIC VOTING CONTROVERSY (11/11/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6236
THE LATEST ON THE VOTING MACHINE SCENE (10/20/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6133
DIEBOLD MACHINES YIELD DUBIOUS RESULTS IN CALIF. RECALL (10/9/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6072
BLACK BOX VOTING: THE BOOK IS OUT OF THE GATE (10/1/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6029
BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH BEV HARRIS OF BLACKBOXVOTING (9/30/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6025
BLACKBOXVOTING WEBSITE PULLED OFFLINE (9/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6009
E-VOTING CLEARED IN MARYLAND, BUT CONCERNS REMAIN (9/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6004
MORE NEWS ON VOTING MACHINE CONTROVERSY (8/31/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5868
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES FACE AUDIT (8/12/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5790
VOTING SOFTWARE COULD ALLOW BALLOT FRAUD ON A MASSIVE SCALE (7/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5716
HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION IN THE UNITED STATES (7/10/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5672
LEGISLATION INTRODUCED TO REQUIRE ALL VOTING MACHINES TO PRODUCE PAPER TRAIL
(5/30/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5431
VOTING MACHINES THAT LEAVES PAPER TRAILS (5/10/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5279
CONTROLLING ELECTIONS THROUGH VOTING MACHINES (5/7/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5260
From: NHNE
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
http://www.cpsr.org/
THE ELECTION PROTECTION COALITION
http://www.electionprotection2004.org/
THE NATIONAL BALLOT INTEGRITY PROJECT TASK FORCE
http://www.ballotintegrity.org
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VOTER INTEGRITY (NCVI)
http://www.votingintegrity.org/
THE VERIFIED VOTING FOUNDATION
http://verifiedvoting.org/
VOTEWATCH
http://www.votewatch.us/
WIRED'S E-VOTING COVERAGE
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/
PREVIOUS NHNE NEWS LIST ARTICLES:
EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT THE VOTE WAS HACKED (11/7/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8228
HELP INSURE THE ELECTION WAS/IS FAIR (11/5/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8223
HARTMANN ON HOW E-VOTING THREATENS DEMOCRACY (11/5/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8221
KERRY WON (11/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8213
E-VOTE GLITCHES & CONCERNS (11/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8204
URGENT WARNING TO VOTERS USING TOUCH SCREEN/DRE VOTING MACHINES (11/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8184
E-VOTE FEARS SOAR IN SWING STATES (9/28/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7946
NEW FLORIDA VOTE SCANDAL FEARED (10/26/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8155
REPUBLICAN FRAUD WILL DISQUALIFY 200,000 IN FLORIDA VOTE (10/19/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/8102
MONKEY HACKS DIEBOLD TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINE (9/24/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7937
ACTIVISTS FIND MORE E-VOTE FLAWS (9/22/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7918
READY OR NOT, ELECTRONIC VOTING GOES NATIONAL (9/20/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7906
DIEBOLD GEMS CENTRAL TABULATOR CONTAINS STUNNING SECURITY HOLE (9/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7807
E-VOTE GLITCH DEMONSTRATES NEED FOR PAPER TRAIL (8/14/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7725
Election Verification Project (8/9/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7686
Michael Moore To Monitor November Elections In Florida (8/3/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7660
KERRY BUILDING LEGAL NETWORK FOR VOTE FIGHTS (7/19/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7582
US LAWMAKERS REQUEST UN OBSERVERS FOR US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (7/6/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7529
QUESTIONS RISE AGAIN OVER FLORIDA FELON 'PURGE LIST' (7/4/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7513
DIEBOLD BANS POLITICAL DONATIONS (6/10/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7370
CALIFORNIA BANS E-VOTE MACHINES (5/2/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7142
DIEBOLD E-VOTING IN HOT WATER IN CALIFORNIA (4/22/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7108
HOW E-VOTING THREATENS DEMOCRACY (4/1/2004):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/7009
NEW EVOTING SECURITY PROBLEMS TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW (12/16/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6443
BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH BEV HARRIS ON ELECTRONIC VOTING (12/4/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6363
DIEBOLD RETRACTS LEGAL THREATS OVER VOTING MACHINE FLAWS (12/2/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6347
DIEBOLD FORCED TO PAY FOR AUDIT OF ALL THEIR VOTING MACHINES IN CALIFORNIA
(11/13/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6244
NEW YORK TIMES TACKLES ELECTRONIC VOTING CONTROVERSY (11/11/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6236
THE LATEST ON THE VOTING MACHINE SCENE (10/20/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6133
DIEBOLD MACHINES YIELD DUBIOUS RESULTS IN CALIF. RECALL (10/9/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6072
BLACK BOX VOTING: THE BOOK IS OUT OF THE GATE (10/1/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6029
BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH BEV HARRIS OF BLACKBOXVOTING (9/30/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6025
BLACKBOXVOTING WEBSITE PULLED OFFLINE (9/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6009
E-VOTING CLEARED IN MARYLAND, BUT CONCERNS REMAIN (9/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6004
MORE NEWS ON VOTING MACHINE CONTROVERSY (8/31/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5868
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES FACE AUDIT (8/12/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5790
VOTING SOFTWARE COULD ALLOW BALLOT FRAUD ON A MASSIVE SCALE (7/26/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5716
HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION IN THE UNITED STATES (7/10/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5672
LEGISLATION INTRODUCED TO REQUIRE ALL VOTING MACHINES TO PRODUCE PAPER TRAIL
(5/30/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5431
VOTING MACHINES THAT LEAVES PAPER TRAILS (5/10/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5279
CONTROLLING ELECTIONS THROUGH VOTING MACHINES (5/7/2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/5260
From: NHNE
Starmail - 8. Nov, 23:24
Veranstaltung "Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch?
Ich möchte nochmals an die Veranstaltung erinnern, vom Zeitungsverlag Wablingen am Dienstag 9. November 20 Uhr im Bürgerzentrum Waiblingen. Thema:
Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch am Menschen?
Franz Kotteder, SZ-Redakteur und Autor des Buches ,Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch am Menschen". liest aus seinem Buch, anwschliessend Diskussion. Als Anhang im pdf-Format nähere Informationen:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/an-buergerwelle-veranstaltung.pdf
Ich selbst habe das Buch gelesen.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Siegfried Rohrmann
Wielandstr. 3
71384 Weinstadt
Tel.: 07151/603326
Fax: 07151/603326
Email privat: siegfried.rohrmann@t-online.de
Email dienstlich: rohrmann@ifsw.uni-stuttgart.de
Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch am Menschen?
Franz Kotteder, SZ-Redakteur und Autor des Buches ,Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch am Menschen". liest aus seinem Buch, anwschliessend Diskussion. Als Anhang im pdf-Format nähere Informationen:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/an-buergerwelle-veranstaltung.pdf
Ich selbst habe das Buch gelesen.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Siegfried Rohrmann
Wielandstr. 3
71384 Weinstadt
Tel.: 07151/603326
Fax: 07151/603326
Email privat: siegfried.rohrmann@t-online.de
Email dienstlich: rohrmann@ifsw.uni-stuttgart.de
Starmail - 8. Nov, 23:19
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
Lies, damn lies, and scientific research
Don Maisch's comment: Perhaps this could have been sub-titled "Lies, damn lies, and Motorola!
Perspectives
Book: Lies, damn lies, and scientific research
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
Horace Freeland Judson. Harcourt, 2004. Pp 463. $28·00. ISBN 0-15-100877-9.
As an editor of this medical journal, I try to judge whether the research reported in a paper was well done and whether the paper reports that research accurately. In general, scientists believe in their work, and, try as they might to maintain equipoise, find it hard to keep their biases--of which they might well be unaware--from putting a spin on their results. It's only human. In these cases, most researchers will tone down claims when pressed by peer reviewers and editors. But others are so wedded to their hypothesis that their papers become polemics. Negotiations with these authors can be difficult, but at least the disagreements are open and the discussions civil, usually.
But, as Horace Freeland Judson describes in The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science there are researchers who submit papers in which data have been faked, numbers fudged, and ideas filched. How many such papers come in? How many slip through the peer review and editing process? It's impossible to know. In the past 4 years, The Lancet has had one proven case of fraud. Judson, a journalist and historian, would argue that it is likely we've missed many more
Judson thinks that fraud is common because it is the inevitable product of the current culture of science. Fraud, he says, is intrinsic in institutional cultures that are "characterized by secrecy, privilege, lack of accountability". Scientists have won exactly such a privileged place in society by presenting themselves as altruistic seekers of truth whose method will invariably ferret out not only truth, but also fraud. "The grandees of the scientific establishment", writes Judson, "regularly proclaim that scientific fraud is vanishingly rare and that perpetrators are isolated individuals who act out of a twisted psychopathology".
The elevation of the scientific profession to the status it holds today in the USA can be credited at least in part to Vannear Bush, an electrical engineer, who served in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration as director of the Office of Research and Development. This agency was established in World War II to adapt the discoveries of basic scientists and the tools of civilian technology to the war effort. Basic research had already led to improved radar systems, mass production of sulfa and penicillin antibiotics, and, of course, the atomic bomb. Even greater advances would come, Bush argued in a 1945 proposal to Roosevelt's successor President Harry Truman, if the government funded scientists and gave them free rein to pursue questions of their own choosing. "Scientific progress on a broad front", Bush wrote, "results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity, of the unknown".
Since then, US investment in research has climbed steadily, and in recent years, steeply: in 1995, for example, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget was US$67·1 million; this year, under a decade later, the NIH budget is nearly $28 billion. To protect this investment, Judson charges, scientists play down the extent and seriousness of fraud. "In sum", he says, "the scientific communities believe that public funding is their right, but so is freedom from public control. The grandees, the guardians, must defend the honor of science: fraud, if it proved to be more than rare and individual, perhaps even to be built into the ways institutions of science work, would engender distrust among legislators and the public and so threaten the money stream and self-governance."
Fraud has always been present in science, long before the NIH was handing out grants. Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, had results that are just too good to be true. Louis Pasteur's notebooks, long kept secret, reveal that he misled the world and his fellow scientists about the research behind two of his most famous experiments: the vaccination of sheep against anthrax, and that of a boy against rabies. And it is common knowledge that Sigmund Freud fabricated many of the case studies on which he built his psychoanalytic theories and career.
Judson recounts, in detail, a number of well publicised cases of scientific fraud that have come to light over the past two decades. "In almost every case, to be sure, some one individual gets blamed", he writes, "but these frauds cannot be presented even as anecdotes without an accounting of the relationships among many people within the laboratory and the larger institutional setting. The cases exhibit multiple, tangled complicities."
These complicities tend to fall into predictable syndromes, Judson maintains. "The dominant form is the prodigy; others are the mentor seduced, the folie à deux, and the arrogance of power." The prodigy, for example, is a young researcher whose productivity is too good to be true. One such prodigy was John Darsee, a Harvard researcher who had, by the age of 33, published more than 125 research articles, book chapters, abstracts, and other papers. But it turned out that he had fabricated data in scores of papers. Some of the problems with his data should have been obvious at the time. In one paper he described a family in which a 17-year-old male had four children--the eldest of which was 8 years old. Do the maths. These and other glaring problems eluded not only the peer reviewers and editors, but also, apparently, his coauthors.
What is particularly worrying about Darsee's case and many of the others Judson describes is that the fraud was not detected by safeguards built into the scientific system, such as peer review. Instead, deception is typically discovered by dumb luck: a co-worker notices something strange in a log book; a colleague stumbles across a discrepancy in a table. Closer inspection often reveals fraud so ham-handed that the perpetrator seems to have been asking to be caught.
So what can be done? Attempts, some more promising than others, have been made to combat fraud. Journals, for example, have tightened their rules, requiring all authors to have made significant contributions to a paper that carries their name, and to vouch for its content. Institutions have established much-needed formal procedures to expedite inquiries into fraud allegations. In the past, some institutions seem to have been more concerned in hushing up scandal than in rooting out fraud; whistle-blowers have found their careers destroyed while department heads have escaped rebuke. Furthermore, Judson thinks that e-publishing, which makes it possible to post not only the paper on the internet, but also the original manuscript, peer reviewers' comments, and raw data will have a substantial effect on fraud. But while e-publishing will make plagiarism and duplicate publication easy to detect, whether it will prevent the determined fabricator is not so certain.
Most worrisome of all, most of the fraud Judson describes was done by individuals seeking acceptance and advancement in the world of science. Increasingly, a great deal of research is in fact product development; researchers often have more than their egos and grants on the line--a fortune can rest on their results. Judson paints a dark picture of science today, but we may see far darker days ahead as proof and profit become inextricably mixed.
Michael McCarthy
m.mcarthy@elsevier.com
This book is published by Elsevier, of which The Lancet is part.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9446/full/llan.364.9446.analysis_and_interpretation.31151.1
--------
If any of you hasn't read Dr George Carlo (you will have heard of him), "Cell Phones. Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age" 2001, (£9.54 from Amazon) do.
Omega find it under: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786708182?v=glance
>>>Look inside this book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786708182/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-0159127-6132907#reader-page
>>>further un der "Next Page" and so on
Carlo was appointed in 1993 by the US telecoms industry to allay the fears of mobile phone users through scientific research. Carlo is a public health scientist, epidemiologist and lawyer, so no fly-by-night. In June 1999 he stood up in public and instead announced his findings that mobile phones cause cancer and that no-one should hold one to their head. Ever.
Could you wish for a more competent whistle-blower? Recent studies confirming acoustic neuromas from ten years' use only add to what he said. What emerges from the industry in fighting him, is only repeated in our BBC3 programme with T-Mobile etc. This industry will trash the best scientists, hence what they are doing to Trower, Hyland, Johansson even now. And every would-be whistleblower, and every MTHR scientist knows it too.
Eventually, like our Venezuela surgeons, as with those reporting from Hayward's Heath in Sussex, we will all just "know" in the face of industry denial. Will it stop phones being used so much and start masts coming down? Watch your Christmas TV adverts and tell your friends and family not to use mobile phones. Not so easy is it?
Andy
From Mast Network
--------
MOBILE TELEPHONY IS DANGEROUS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555926/
Conflict of Interest the Other Way
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586535/
Which Science or Scientists Can You Trust?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541770/
The unbridled alliance of science and industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297097/
How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350582/
Tobacco giant paid scientist to spread “disinformation”
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/567489/
FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549314/
The (Mis)use Of Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/608563/
When science serves the state
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/550309/
ANTENNAS, STATIONS BASE and the POWER OF INFORMATION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551304/
Safe level of EMR is ZERO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/418978/
Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/
http://tinyurl.com/5d9u6
Secret Ties to Industry and Conflicting Interests in Cancer Research
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2924144/
How the Drug Companies Deceive You
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618593/
Science versus Democracy?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/608625/
Greenwashing as "corporate responsibility"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/416134/
Industries growing adept at manipulating science to suit their needs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802826/
Workshop on Biological Effects of EMF, Kos, Greece
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363969/
Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/
Don Maisch's comment: Perhaps this could have been sub-titled "Lies, damn lies, and Motorola!
Perspectives
Book: Lies, damn lies, and scientific research
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
Horace Freeland Judson. Harcourt, 2004. Pp 463. $28·00. ISBN 0-15-100877-9.
As an editor of this medical journal, I try to judge whether the research reported in a paper was well done and whether the paper reports that research accurately. In general, scientists believe in their work, and, try as they might to maintain equipoise, find it hard to keep their biases--of which they might well be unaware--from putting a spin on their results. It's only human. In these cases, most researchers will tone down claims when pressed by peer reviewers and editors. But others are so wedded to their hypothesis that their papers become polemics. Negotiations with these authors can be difficult, but at least the disagreements are open and the discussions civil, usually.
But, as Horace Freeland Judson describes in The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science there are researchers who submit papers in which data have been faked, numbers fudged, and ideas filched. How many such papers come in? How many slip through the peer review and editing process? It's impossible to know. In the past 4 years, The Lancet has had one proven case of fraud. Judson, a journalist and historian, would argue that it is likely we've missed many more
Judson thinks that fraud is common because it is the inevitable product of the current culture of science. Fraud, he says, is intrinsic in institutional cultures that are "characterized by secrecy, privilege, lack of accountability". Scientists have won exactly such a privileged place in society by presenting themselves as altruistic seekers of truth whose method will invariably ferret out not only truth, but also fraud. "The grandees of the scientific establishment", writes Judson, "regularly proclaim that scientific fraud is vanishingly rare and that perpetrators are isolated individuals who act out of a twisted psychopathology".
The elevation of the scientific profession to the status it holds today in the USA can be credited at least in part to Vannear Bush, an electrical engineer, who served in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration as director of the Office of Research and Development. This agency was established in World War II to adapt the discoveries of basic scientists and the tools of civilian technology to the war effort. Basic research had already led to improved radar systems, mass production of sulfa and penicillin antibiotics, and, of course, the atomic bomb. Even greater advances would come, Bush argued in a 1945 proposal to Roosevelt's successor President Harry Truman, if the government funded scientists and gave them free rein to pursue questions of their own choosing. "Scientific progress on a broad front", Bush wrote, "results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity, of the unknown".
Since then, US investment in research has climbed steadily, and in recent years, steeply: in 1995, for example, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget was US$67·1 million; this year, under a decade later, the NIH budget is nearly $28 billion. To protect this investment, Judson charges, scientists play down the extent and seriousness of fraud. "In sum", he says, "the scientific communities believe that public funding is their right, but so is freedom from public control. The grandees, the guardians, must defend the honor of science: fraud, if it proved to be more than rare and individual, perhaps even to be built into the ways institutions of science work, would engender distrust among legislators and the public and so threaten the money stream and self-governance."
Fraud has always been present in science, long before the NIH was handing out grants. Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, had results that are just too good to be true. Louis Pasteur's notebooks, long kept secret, reveal that he misled the world and his fellow scientists about the research behind two of his most famous experiments: the vaccination of sheep against anthrax, and that of a boy against rabies. And it is common knowledge that Sigmund Freud fabricated many of the case studies on which he built his psychoanalytic theories and career.
Judson recounts, in detail, a number of well publicised cases of scientific fraud that have come to light over the past two decades. "In almost every case, to be sure, some one individual gets blamed", he writes, "but these frauds cannot be presented even as anecdotes without an accounting of the relationships among many people within the laboratory and the larger institutional setting. The cases exhibit multiple, tangled complicities."
These complicities tend to fall into predictable syndromes, Judson maintains. "The dominant form is the prodigy; others are the mentor seduced, the folie à deux, and the arrogance of power." The prodigy, for example, is a young researcher whose productivity is too good to be true. One such prodigy was John Darsee, a Harvard researcher who had, by the age of 33, published more than 125 research articles, book chapters, abstracts, and other papers. But it turned out that he had fabricated data in scores of papers. Some of the problems with his data should have been obvious at the time. In one paper he described a family in which a 17-year-old male had four children--the eldest of which was 8 years old. Do the maths. These and other glaring problems eluded not only the peer reviewers and editors, but also, apparently, his coauthors.
What is particularly worrying about Darsee's case and many of the others Judson describes is that the fraud was not detected by safeguards built into the scientific system, such as peer review. Instead, deception is typically discovered by dumb luck: a co-worker notices something strange in a log book; a colleague stumbles across a discrepancy in a table. Closer inspection often reveals fraud so ham-handed that the perpetrator seems to have been asking to be caught.
So what can be done? Attempts, some more promising than others, have been made to combat fraud. Journals, for example, have tightened their rules, requiring all authors to have made significant contributions to a paper that carries their name, and to vouch for its content. Institutions have established much-needed formal procedures to expedite inquiries into fraud allegations. In the past, some institutions seem to have been more concerned in hushing up scandal than in rooting out fraud; whistle-blowers have found their careers destroyed while department heads have escaped rebuke. Furthermore, Judson thinks that e-publishing, which makes it possible to post not only the paper on the internet, but also the original manuscript, peer reviewers' comments, and raw data will have a substantial effect on fraud. But while e-publishing will make plagiarism and duplicate publication easy to detect, whether it will prevent the determined fabricator is not so certain.
Most worrisome of all, most of the fraud Judson describes was done by individuals seeking acceptance and advancement in the world of science. Increasingly, a great deal of research is in fact product development; researchers often have more than their egos and grants on the line--a fortune can rest on their results. Judson paints a dark picture of science today, but we may see far darker days ahead as proof and profit become inextricably mixed.
Michael McCarthy
m.mcarthy@elsevier.com
This book is published by Elsevier, of which The Lancet is part.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9446/full/llan.364.9446.analysis_and_interpretation.31151.1
--------
If any of you hasn't read Dr George Carlo (you will have heard of him), "Cell Phones. Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age" 2001, (£9.54 from Amazon) do.
Omega find it under: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786708182?v=glance
>>>Look inside this book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786708182/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-0159127-6132907#reader-page
>>>further un der "Next Page" and so on
Carlo was appointed in 1993 by the US telecoms industry to allay the fears of mobile phone users through scientific research. Carlo is a public health scientist, epidemiologist and lawyer, so no fly-by-night. In June 1999 he stood up in public and instead announced his findings that mobile phones cause cancer and that no-one should hold one to their head. Ever.
Could you wish for a more competent whistle-blower? Recent studies confirming acoustic neuromas from ten years' use only add to what he said. What emerges from the industry in fighting him, is only repeated in our BBC3 programme with T-Mobile etc. This industry will trash the best scientists, hence what they are doing to Trower, Hyland, Johansson even now. And every would-be whistleblower, and every MTHR scientist knows it too.
Eventually, like our Venezuela surgeons, as with those reporting from Hayward's Heath in Sussex, we will all just "know" in the face of industry denial. Will it stop phones being used so much and start masts coming down? Watch your Christmas TV adverts and tell your friends and family not to use mobile phones. Not so easy is it?
Andy
From Mast Network
--------
MOBILE TELEPHONY IS DANGEROUS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555926/
Conflict of Interest the Other Way
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586535/
Which Science or Scientists Can You Trust?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541770/
The unbridled alliance of science and industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297097/
How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350582/
Tobacco giant paid scientist to spread “disinformation”
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/567489/
FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549314/
The (Mis)use Of Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/608563/
When science serves the state
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/550309/
ANTENNAS, STATIONS BASE and the POWER OF INFORMATION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551304/
Safe level of EMR is ZERO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/418978/
Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/
http://tinyurl.com/5d9u6
Secret Ties to Industry and Conflicting Interests in Cancer Research
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2924144/
How the Drug Companies Deceive You
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618593/
Science versus Democracy?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/608625/
Greenwashing as "corporate responsibility"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/416134/
Industries growing adept at manipulating science to suit their needs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/802826/
Workshop on Biological Effects of EMF, Kos, Greece
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/363969/
Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281056/
Starmail - 8. Nov, 23:07
Troops to Protect Washington During Bush Inauguration
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:58
The Costs of War - Letters from the Home Front
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:50
Holy War : Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:48
Plantations Are Not Forests
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:43
Bundesratsantwort Mobilfunkantennen, Auswirkungen
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:34
Voting Fraud in the USA
Once upon a time there were two brothers: Bob and Todd Urosevich. In the 1980's, with the financial backing of the right-wing extremist Christian billionaire Howard Ahmanson, Bob and Todd founded a company called American Information Systems (AIS) that built voting machines. They were also certified to count votes. It is interesting to note that back then there was no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. Even more interesting is the fact that this is still true today. Not even the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has a complete list of all the companies that count votes in U.S. elections.
See:
A Tale of Two Brothers: Voting Fraud in the USA
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3667&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Informant: Eric Stewart
*
See:
A Tale of Two Brothers: Voting Fraud in the USA
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3667&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Informant: Eric Stewart
*
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:29
Why Kerry Conceded Defeat despite Electoral Fraud
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:23
One week left to protect our trees
There is just one week left to protect our precious national forests from logging, mining, and road building at the hands of the Bush administration. The deadline for speaking out on this issue is next Monday, November 15th.
Please click here now to send your comments before it's too late or just hit "reply" and then "send" to this message if you are already a registered user.
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/ctt.asp?u=2205119&l=5384
The Bush administration has proposed a repeal of the excellent Roadless Area Conservation Rule that currently protects 58.5 million acres of our national forests. Repealing the Roadless Rule would put our forests at risk of permanent destruction.
The Bush administration has made it clear that they favor corporate special interests over preserving our national forests for future generations. Now we must make it clear that we will NOT allow our last wild forests to be destroyed by chain saws, bull dozers and oil drills!
Your comments really do make a difference. Over 61,000 SaveOurEnvironment.org members have already weighed in on this issue. But we still need your help before it's too late! Will you join their efforts to stop the roads and protect our forests?
Please click here now to submit your comments!
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/ctt.asp?u=2205119&l=5384
We've set an ambitious goal of sending more than 1 million comments in order to send a clear, powerful message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our national forests.
To help us reach this goal, please forward this message to your friends as soon as you've submitted your comments.
Thanks for your help!
Katelyn Sabochik
Online Campaign Manager
info@saveourenvironment.org
Registered Users: Simply reply to this email, hit send, and we'll automatically send the message below to the Forest Service.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Forest Service Chief Bosworth:
In response to the public comment period (Docket # 04-161913), I strongly oppose the proposal to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
The Roadless Rule is a balanced policy that was finalized after years of scientific study, 600 public hearings and a record number of public comments, which overwhelmingly support protecting roadless areas through the rule.
The Roadless Rule is a vital tool for protecting our national forests from harmful and costly road-building and commercial logging.
I urge you to abandon this proposal and keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule intact in the Lower 48 states and Alaska's Chugach National Forest, and reinstate the rule in the Tongass National Forest.
Thank you for consideration of my comments on this crucial issue.
Sincerely,
[your name inserted here]
Please click here now to send your comments before it's too late or just hit "reply" and then "send" to this message if you are already a registered user.
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/ctt.asp?u=2205119&l=5384
The Bush administration has proposed a repeal of the excellent Roadless Area Conservation Rule that currently protects 58.5 million acres of our national forests. Repealing the Roadless Rule would put our forests at risk of permanent destruction.
The Bush administration has made it clear that they favor corporate special interests over preserving our national forests for future generations. Now we must make it clear that we will NOT allow our last wild forests to be destroyed by chain saws, bull dozers and oil drills!
Your comments really do make a difference. Over 61,000 SaveOurEnvironment.org members have already weighed in on this issue. But we still need your help before it's too late! Will you join their efforts to stop the roads and protect our forests?
Please click here now to submit your comments!
http://www.saveourenvironment.org/ctt.asp?u=2205119&l=5384
We've set an ambitious goal of sending more than 1 million comments in order to send a clear, powerful message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our national forests.
To help us reach this goal, please forward this message to your friends as soon as you've submitted your comments.
Thanks for your help!
Katelyn Sabochik
Online Campaign Manager
info@saveourenvironment.org
Registered Users: Simply reply to this email, hit send, and we'll automatically send the message below to the Forest Service.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Forest Service Chief Bosworth:
In response to the public comment period (Docket # 04-161913), I strongly oppose the proposal to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
The Roadless Rule is a balanced policy that was finalized after years of scientific study, 600 public hearings and a record number of public comments, which overwhelmingly support protecting roadless areas through the rule.
The Roadless Rule is a vital tool for protecting our national forests from harmful and costly road-building and commercial logging.
I urge you to abandon this proposal and keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule intact in the Lower 48 states and Alaska's Chugach National Forest, and reinstate the rule in the Tongass National Forest.
Thank you for consideration of my comments on this crucial issue.
Sincerely,
[your name inserted here]
Starmail - 8. Nov, 22:08
'W', S&B—and the truth . . . shall set us free!
http://www.antonysutton.com/suttoninterview.html
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm
Informant: Kat
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm
Informant: Kat
Starmail - 8. Nov, 19:54
Very, Extreme and Ultra Low Frequency Research
VLF / ELF / ULF Research in Arizona
http://sidereal7.org/
CHECK OUT THE ELECTRONIC BOOK
http://sidereal7.org/E-Book%20Web/seven_subtle_vibrations.htm
Informant: billder
http://sidereal7.org/
CHECK OUT THE ELECTRONIC BOOK
http://sidereal7.org/E-Book%20Web/seven_subtle_vibrations.htm
Informant: billder
Starmail - 8. Nov, 19:50
Should we immediately investigate the election ?
I am writing to you from the People's Email Network because I had received a number of emails from you as a result of my membership in various Yahoo groups. You may already be aware of our latest issue page at
http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html
due to some postings there. We ask the question if the 2004 election results should be challenged on the basis of black box voting fraud. With one click the page sends your personal message (not a form letter) to the Kerry campaign, the DNC and the Government Accountability Office. By making the process as easy as possible we are hoping to generate maximum participation.
I am asking you to feature a link to this page anywhere you can in your own communications in the next couple days so the people may speak in the loudest possible voice.
Thank you for being an activist.
From: The Pen
http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html
due to some postings there. We ask the question if the 2004 election results should be challenged on the basis of black box voting fraud. With one click the page sends your personal message (not a form letter) to the Kerry campaign, the DNC and the Government Accountability Office. By making the process as easy as possible we are hoping to generate maximum participation.
I am asking you to feature a link to this page anywhere you can in your own communications in the next couple days so the people may speak in the loudest possible voice.
Thank you for being an activist.
From: The Pen
Starmail - 8. Nov, 19:16
The stolen election of 2004 : welcome back to hell
Starmail - 8. Nov, 19:14
If Your An American, This Should Concern You Regardless Of Who Won This Election
Starmail - 8. Nov, 19:01
17,000 Election Day Incidents Reported by Voters
Starmail - 8. Nov, 18:51
Plane passengers shocked by their x-ray scans
Starmail - 8. Nov, 18:50
Vote Scams : System Test Lab Omitted Test for Tamperability
Freedom of Information requests at http://www.blackboxvoting.org have unearthed two Ciber certification reports indicating that security and tamperability was NOT TESTED and that several state elections directors, a secretary of state, and Dr. Britain Williams signed off on the report anyway, certifying it.
The documents, posted at Black Box Voting (.ORG) show that Ciber Labs' Shawn Southworth used a conformance chart specifying FEC regulations, marking each test item "pass" or "fail."
Southworth “tested” whether every candidate on the ballot has a name. But we were shocked to find out that, when asked the most important question -- about vulnerable entry points -- Southworth’s report says “not reviewed.”
Ciber “tested” whether the manual gives a description of the voting system. But when asked to identify methods of attack (which we think the American voter would consider pretty important), the top-secret report says “not applicable.”
Ciber “tested” whether ballots comply with local regulations, but when we asked Shawn Southworth what he thinks about Diebold tabulators accepting large numbers of “minus” votes, he said he didn’t mention that in his report because “the vendors don’t like him to put anything negative” inhis report. After all, he said, he is paid by the vendors.
Was this just a one-time oversight?
Nope. It appears to be more like a habit. We also posted the sister report, for another vendor entirely, VoteHere, and you can see that the critical security test, the “penetration analysis” was again marked “not applicable” and was not done.
Maybe another ITA did the penetration analysis?
Apparently not. We discovered an even more bizarre Wyle Laboratories report. In it, the lab admits the Sequoia voting system has problems, but says that since they were not corrected earlier, Sequoia could continue with the same flaws. At one point the Wyle report omits its testing altogether, hoping the vendor will do the test.
Computer Guys: Be your own ITA certifier.
Black Box Voting has posted a full Ciber report on GEMS 1.18.15. We also posted a .zip file download for the GEMS 1.18.15 program. We also provided a real live Diebold vote database. Compare your findings against the official testing lab and see if you agree with what Ciber says. E-mail us your findings.
Who the heck is NASED?
They are the people who certified this stuff. Now, if the security of the U.S. electoral system depends on you to certify a voting system, and you get a report that says security was “not tested” and “not applicable” -- what would you do?
Perhaps we should ask them. Go ahead. Hold them accountable for the election we just had. (Please, e-mail us their answers) Their names are listed on the Web site.
Bev Harris
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FOCUS: Voting: Electronic Miscounts Multiply
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704V.shtml
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http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
ES&S Operative Had Access to Ohio Ballot Computer --In a letter dated Oct. 21, Ken Nuss, former deputy director of the Auglaize County Board of Elections, claimed that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the company that provides the voting system in Auglaize County, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which would go against election protocol. Nuss claimed in the letter that McGinnis was allowed to use the computer the weekend of Oct. 16. Nuss, who resigned from his job Oct. 21 after being suspended for a day, was responsible for overseeing the computerized programming of election software, according to his job description. His resignation is effective Nov. 11.
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On The Front Lines in Florida --statement by five people who staffed the emergency hotline for the Kerry Campaign Headquarters in Broward County (FL) from late October through the election --"Many of the calls to our hotline were from voters who had pressed the 'Kerry' button on their electronic voting screen, only to have 'Bush' light up as the candidate they had chosen. In some cases, this would happen repeatedly until about the 5th or 6th time the voter pressed 'Kerry' and eventually his name would light up. In other cases, the voters pushed 'Kerry' but were later asked to confirm their 'Bush' vote."
http://www.legitgov.org/essay_front_lines_in_florida_110704.html
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http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
Another Piece of the GOP Ohio Election Theft Puzzle?
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FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml
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William Rivers Pitt | Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
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None dare call it voter suppression and fraud
by Bob Fitrakis
November 7, 2004
Evidence is mounting that the 2004 presidential election was stolen in Ohio. Emerging revelations of voting irregularities coupled with well-documented
Republican efforts at voter suppression prior to the election suggests that in a fair election Kerry would have won Ohio...
Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
The Free Press
http://www.freepress.org
Informant: Shanti Renfrew
The documents, posted at Black Box Voting (.ORG) show that Ciber Labs' Shawn Southworth used a conformance chart specifying FEC regulations, marking each test item "pass" or "fail."
Southworth “tested” whether every candidate on the ballot has a name. But we were shocked to find out that, when asked the most important question -- about vulnerable entry points -- Southworth’s report says “not reviewed.”
Ciber “tested” whether the manual gives a description of the voting system. But when asked to identify methods of attack (which we think the American voter would consider pretty important), the top-secret report says “not applicable.”
Ciber “tested” whether ballots comply with local regulations, but when we asked Shawn Southworth what he thinks about Diebold tabulators accepting large numbers of “minus” votes, he said he didn’t mention that in his report because “the vendors don’t like him to put anything negative” inhis report. After all, he said, he is paid by the vendors.
Was this just a one-time oversight?
Nope. It appears to be more like a habit. We also posted the sister report, for another vendor entirely, VoteHere, and you can see that the critical security test, the “penetration analysis” was again marked “not applicable” and was not done.
Maybe another ITA did the penetration analysis?
Apparently not. We discovered an even more bizarre Wyle Laboratories report. In it, the lab admits the Sequoia voting system has problems, but says that since they were not corrected earlier, Sequoia could continue with the same flaws. At one point the Wyle report omits its testing altogether, hoping the vendor will do the test.
Computer Guys: Be your own ITA certifier.
Black Box Voting has posted a full Ciber report on GEMS 1.18.15. We also posted a .zip file download for the GEMS 1.18.15 program. We also provided a real live Diebold vote database. Compare your findings against the official testing lab and see if you agree with what Ciber says. E-mail us your findings.
Who the heck is NASED?
They are the people who certified this stuff. Now, if the security of the U.S. electoral system depends on you to certify a voting system, and you get a report that says security was “not tested” and “not applicable” -- what would you do?
Perhaps we should ask them. Go ahead. Hold them accountable for the election we just had. (Please, e-mail us their answers) Their names are listed on the Web site.
Bev Harris
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FOCUS: Voting: Electronic Miscounts Multiply
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704V.shtml
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http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
ES&S Operative Had Access to Ohio Ballot Computer --In a letter dated Oct. 21, Ken Nuss, former deputy director of the Auglaize County Board of Elections, claimed that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the company that provides the voting system in Auglaize County, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which would go against election protocol. Nuss claimed in the letter that McGinnis was allowed to use the computer the weekend of Oct. 16. Nuss, who resigned from his job Oct. 21 after being suspended for a day, was responsible for overseeing the computerized programming of election software, according to his job description. His resignation is effective Nov. 11.
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On The Front Lines in Florida --statement by five people who staffed the emergency hotline for the Kerry Campaign Headquarters in Broward County (FL) from late October through the election --"Many of the calls to our hotline were from voters who had pressed the 'Kerry' button on their electronic voting screen, only to have 'Bush' light up as the candidate they had chosen. In some cases, this would happen repeatedly until about the 5th or 6th time the voter pressed 'Kerry' and eventually his name would light up. In other cases, the voters pushed 'Kerry' but were later asked to confirm their 'Bush' vote."
http://www.legitgov.org/essay_front_lines_in_florida_110704.html
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http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt
Another Piece of the GOP Ohio Election Theft Puzzle?
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FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml
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William Rivers Pitt | Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
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None dare call it voter suppression and fraud
by Bob Fitrakis
November 7, 2004
Evidence is mounting that the 2004 presidential election was stolen in Ohio. Emerging revelations of voting irregularities coupled with well-documented
Republican efforts at voter suppression prior to the election suggests that in a fair election Kerry would have won Ohio...
Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
The Free Press
http://www.freepress.org
Informant: Shanti Renfrew
Starmail - 8. Nov, 18:21
Why are Democrats Upset Over The Election?
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:47
House Democrats Seek Election Inquiry
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:38
If history repeats itself, we might have a chance
by Michael Gaddy
Sierra Times
11/05/04
Since the late 1960s, every president winning a second term has found his administration embroiled in a scandal of some sort. For those of us who truly love liberty and yearn for the days [when] politicians at least played at honoring their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, perhaps a nice juicy scandal will stop the second Bush administration from totally destroying this country. For those of you who have read the above and declared me a bitter Kerry supporter, you could not be further from the truth. As I have said before, the only thing I liked about Kerry was that he made even Bush look intelligent. ... Nixon was blasted from office by the scandal of Watergate. Reagan had the Iran/Contra affair, and Bill Clinton had Monicagate and an impeachment. ... It would certainly appear that Dubya might be ripe for his scandal as well...
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/05/gaddy.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Sierra Times
11/05/04
Since the late 1960s, every president winning a second term has found his administration embroiled in a scandal of some sort. For those of us who truly love liberty and yearn for the days [when] politicians at least played at honoring their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, perhaps a nice juicy scandal will stop the second Bush administration from totally destroying this country. For those of you who have read the above and declared me a bitter Kerry supporter, you could not be further from the truth. As I have said before, the only thing I liked about Kerry was that he made even Bush look intelligent. ... Nixon was blasted from office by the scandal of Watergate. Reagan had the Iran/Contra affair, and Bill Clinton had Monicagate and an impeachment. ... It would certainly appear that Dubya might be ripe for his scandal as well...
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/05/gaddy.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:22
FDA plans to track supplements using data-mining tech
by staff
Institute for Health Freedom
11/05/04
According to the study, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to use data mining to track, review, and report adverse events involving food, cosmetics, and dietary supplements. The FDA's data-mining effort will utilize personal information, data from other government agencies, and private-sector data. Why should citizens care about this issue? Because the purpose of government (including the FDA) is to protect individuals rights -- not control their lives or make personal health-care decisions...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P27A149B9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Institute for Health Freedom
11/05/04
According to the study, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to use data mining to track, review, and report adverse events involving food, cosmetics, and dietary supplements. The FDA's data-mining effort will utilize personal information, data from other government agencies, and private-sector data. Why should citizens care about this issue? Because the purpose of government (including the FDA) is to protect individuals rights -- not control their lives or make personal health-care decisions...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P27A149B9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:19
Let there be conflict
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:16
Worse than 2000
by William Rivers Pitt
TruthOut
11/08/04
By any standard, what happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election was a disaster. What happened during the Presidential election of 2004, in Florida, in Ohio, and in a number of other states as well, was worse. ... John Kerry and John Edwards promised on Tuesday night that every vote would count, and that every vote would be counted. By Wednesday morning, Kerry had conceded the race to Bush, eliciting outraged howls from activists who were watching the reports of voting irregularities come piling in. Kerry had said that 10,000 lawyers were ready to fight any wrongdoing in this election. One hopes that he still has those lawyers on retainer.
According to black-letter election law, Bush does not officially get a second term until the electors from the Electoral College go to Washington D.C on December 12th. Perhaps Kerry's 10,000 lawyers, along with a real investigation per the request of Conyers, Nadler and Wexler, could give those electors something to think about in the interim...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
TruthOut
11/08/04
By any standard, what happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election was a disaster. What happened during the Presidential election of 2004, in Florida, in Ohio, and in a number of other states as well, was worse. ... John Kerry and John Edwards promised on Tuesday night that every vote would count, and that every vote would be counted. By Wednesday morning, Kerry had conceded the race to Bush, eliciting outraged howls from activists who were watching the reports of voting irregularities come piling in. Kerry had said that 10,000 lawyers were ready to fight any wrongdoing in this election. One hopes that he still has those lawyers on retainer.
According to black-letter election law, Bush does not officially get a second term until the electors from the Electoral College go to Washington D.C on December 12th. Perhaps Kerry's 10,000 lawyers, along with a real investigation per the request of Conyers, Nadler and Wexler, could give those electors something to think about in the interim...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:14
Obey the government...but not always
by Jeff Adams
Sierra Times
11/05/04
Time and again I've heard fellow Christians use scripture, specifically Romans 13:1-7, to justify submission to the state, regardless of what the state is doing (at least whenever Republicans are in control). In addition, many quote Jesus, ... 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's,' as justification to accept whatever the government does. This is not just wrong-headed, but a misinterpretation of the Scriptures. As often happens, people take pieces of scripture out of context and don't look at them in conjunction with the scriptures as a whole. If one was to blindly, unthinkingly accept the referenced scripture above, as presented by advocates of total submission to the state, would you as a Christian follow laws that run counter to God's instructions? Would you follow an unjust law?
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/05/adams.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Sierra Times
11/05/04
Time and again I've heard fellow Christians use scripture, specifically Romans 13:1-7, to justify submission to the state, regardless of what the state is doing (at least whenever Republicans are in control). In addition, many quote Jesus, ... 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's,' as justification to accept whatever the government does. This is not just wrong-headed, but a misinterpretation of the Scriptures. As often happens, people take pieces of scripture out of context and don't look at them in conjunction with the scriptures as a whole. If one was to blindly, unthinkingly accept the referenced scripture above, as presented by advocates of total submission to the state, would you as a Christian follow laws that run counter to God's instructions? Would you follow an unjust law?
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/11/05/adams.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:09
Right now, I'll settle for a bit of honesty
by Kathryn A. Graham
Sierra Times
11/07/04
Well, the dust has settled, and I was wrong. I predicted widespread unrest in the United States following this past election, but what has actually happened is even more disturbing to me personally. Silence. Complete and utter silence. A large number of states already have electronic voting machines in place. A large number of those do not produce paper ballots at all. Since many pundits have already raised hell about the highly politically partisan Republican ownership and control of these high-tech companies, I won't rehash that here. If you haven't heard about it, you've been living on another planet. If you didn't hear yesterday that many of these machines already contained thousands of votes before Tuesday's polling places opened their doors, you've been relying on mainstream media for your news...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y279569B9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Sierra Times
11/07/04
Well, the dust has settled, and I was wrong. I predicted widespread unrest in the United States following this past election, but what has actually happened is even more disturbing to me personally. Silence. Complete and utter silence. A large number of states already have electronic voting machines in place. A large number of those do not produce paper ballots at all. Since many pundits have already raised hell about the highly politically partisan Republican ownership and control of these high-tech companies, I won't rehash that here. If you haven't heard about it, you've been living on another planet. If you didn't hear yesterday that many of these machines already contained thousands of votes before Tuesday's polling places opened their doors, you've been relying on mainstream media for your news...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y279569B9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:04
Right before our eyes
by Thomas L. Knapp
Knappster
11/08/04
The toothpaste probably can't be put back in the tube. The lack of auditable results didn't just make theft possible -- it makes it untraceable unless some independent corroboration (testimony from those involved in the fraud, for example, or the recovery of physical evidence of tampering) can be found. We will never know who legitimately won last week's election. What we do know, however -- or at least what I know -- is that votes were, in at least one case, systematically 'disappeared.' I know it because I watched it happen
...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B34312AB9
Knappster
11/08/04
The toothpaste probably can't be put back in the tube. The lack of auditable results didn't just make theft possible -- it makes it untraceable unless some independent corroboration (testimony from those involved in the fraud, for example, or the recovery of physical evidence of tampering) can be found. We will never know who legitimately won last week's election. What we do know, however -- or at least what I know -- is that votes were, in at least one case, systematically 'disappeared.' I know it because I watched it happen
...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B34312AB9
Starmail - 8. Nov, 17:02
Flugsicherheit, uneinsichtige US-Bürger und der Iran
Könnte es sein, dass es selbst US Bürgern zu viel wird, was auf Ihren eigenen Flughäfen passiert, und dieses auch noch in den Medien und vor Gerichten artikulieren?
Nein, bestimmt nur ein paar verwirrte Schäfchen [1]. Einzelfälle die noch nicht begriffen haben [2], dass es nie "zuviel" an Sicherheit geben kann. Schließlich - suggerieren die Behörden - ist Sicherheit genauso gut kontrollierbar wie Terror-Alarmstufen - und nach oben steigerbar wie DotCom-Aktienkurse... [3]
IRAN hebt Sicherheit nach US-Vorbild
Wie unpatriotisch so ein Querulantentum doch ist, zeigt sich im internationalen Vergleich: Auch Teheran möchte seine Flug- und Immigrationssicherheit auf westliches Niveau katapultieren und vor suspekten Menschen schützen: durch ein Fingerprintsystem [4]. Ein entsprechendes Gesetz wurde letzte Woche von einem Parlamentskomitee vorgelegt und gilt - he? Moment - nur für US-Bürger!?
[1] Trapped on the list [NYT/IHT 3.Nov 2004]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/02/travel/trlist.html
[2] On the Move: When a pat-down seems like a groping
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/02/travel/trsearch.html
[3] ACLU Challenges NO-fly list
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12740&c=206
[4] http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/03/news/travel4.html
relayed by Mac Gyver
Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
Nein, bestimmt nur ein paar verwirrte Schäfchen [1]. Einzelfälle die noch nicht begriffen haben [2], dass es nie "zuviel" an Sicherheit geben kann. Schließlich - suggerieren die Behörden - ist Sicherheit genauso gut kontrollierbar wie Terror-Alarmstufen - und nach oben steigerbar wie DotCom-Aktienkurse... [3]
IRAN hebt Sicherheit nach US-Vorbild
Wie unpatriotisch so ein Querulantentum doch ist, zeigt sich im internationalen Vergleich: Auch Teheran möchte seine Flug- und Immigrationssicherheit auf westliches Niveau katapultieren und vor suspekten Menschen schützen: durch ein Fingerprintsystem [4]. Ein entsprechendes Gesetz wurde letzte Woche von einem Parlamentskomitee vorgelegt und gilt - he? Moment - nur für US-Bürger!?
[1] Trapped on the list [NYT/IHT 3.Nov 2004]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/02/travel/trlist.html
[2] On the Move: When a pat-down seems like a groping
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/02/travel/trsearch.html
[3] ACLU Challenges NO-fly list
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12740&c=206
[4] http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/03/news/travel4.html
relayed by Mac Gyver
Quelle: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4
Starmail - 8. Nov, 16:52
Widespread Election Day Mishaps May Have Impacted Vote Counting
The article below describes significant election day problems that could have had a major impact on election outcomes. All Americans should take this issue very seriously because every vote must be counted fairly, accurately, and promptly. Partisan politics has no role in how or if votes are counted.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2362
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2362
Starmail - 8. Nov, 16:48
Erhöhtes Krebsrisiko in Sendernähe
Studie: Erhöhtes Krebsrisiko in Sendernähe
Ärzte in Naila untersuchen Tumorgefahr bei Mobilfunkanlagen / Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz kritisiert Methodik
Eine Studie bayerischer Ärzte hat den Verdacht bestärkt, dass Mobilfunksender Krebs auslösen können. Demnach ist zumindest in der untersuchten Kleinstadt Naila das Tumorrisiko in Sendernähe zeitweise dreimal so hoch wie in größerer Entfernung.
VON ECKHARD STENGEL
Bremen · 7. November · Die in Bremen erscheinende Zeitschrift Umwelt, Medizin, Gesellschaft, die vom Ökologischen Ärztebund und drei weiteren umweltmedizinischen Verbänden herausgegeben wird, veröffentlichte jetzt die Ärzte-Studie, die vom Bremer Umweltmedizin-Professor Rainer Frentzel-Beyme begleitet wurde.
Vier von fünf Hausarztpraxen im oberfränkischen Naila hatten die Daten von knapp tausend langjährigen Patienten darauf untersucht, ob es einen Zusammenhang gibt zwischen dem Auftreten von Krebserkrankungen und dem Abstand der Wohnungen vom örtlichen Mobilfunksender. Die Ärzte unterschieden dabei zwischen einem "Innenbereich" (400-Meter-Umkreis vom Sender) und dem weiter entfernten "Außenbereich".
Nach Angaben der Mediziner zeigte sich in den ersten fünf Jahren nach Installation des Senders (im Herbst 1993) kein auffälliger Unterschied zwischen neuen Krebsfällen im Innen- und im Außenbereich. Wenn die Patienten aber längere Zeit den Strahlen ausgesetzt waren, stieg laut Studie die Krebsgefahr in Sendernähe: Im sechsten bis zehnten Betriebsjahr sei das Risiko, an einem Tumor - vor allem an Brustkrebs - zu erkranken, im Innenbereich mehr als dreimal so hoch geworden wie im Außenbereich. Innerhalb des 400-Meter-Umkreises erkrankten 13 von 320 Praxisbesuchern, außerhalb nur acht von 647. Mit 99-prozentiger Sicherheit schließen die Ärzte aus, dass es sich dabei um zufällige statistische Schwankungen handeln könnte. Auffällig war nach Angaben der Mediziner auch, dass die Krebspatienten in Sendernähe in jüngerem Alter erkrankten als die weiter entfernt wohnenden, nämlich schon mit 64,1 statt mit 72,6 Jahren.
Die in Naila bereits vorab veröffentlichten Ergebnisse haben das Stadtparlament dazu bewogen, Petitionen an den bayerischen Landtag, den Bundestag und das Europäische Parlament zu richten. Darin fordert der Stadtrat unter anderem, die geltenden Grenzwerte für Sendeanlagen "auf ein gesundheitsverträgliches Maß" abzusenken. Mehrere Untersuchungen hätten "erhebliche Zweifel an der offiziellen Darstellung" geweckt, wonach von Mobilfunksendern bei Einhaltung der bisherigen Grenzwerte keine Gesundheitsgefahr ausgehe.
Frankfurt am Main, 08.11.2004
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/aus_aller_welt/?cnt=580335 (Auszug)
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
Die Naila-Mobilfunkstudie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283426/
Schockstudie der EU: Handys knacken die DNS und bewirken schwere Zellschädigung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482751/
Ärzte in Naila untersuchen Tumorgefahr bei Mobilfunkanlagen / Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz kritisiert Methodik
Eine Studie bayerischer Ärzte hat den Verdacht bestärkt, dass Mobilfunksender Krebs auslösen können. Demnach ist zumindest in der untersuchten Kleinstadt Naila das Tumorrisiko in Sendernähe zeitweise dreimal so hoch wie in größerer Entfernung.
VON ECKHARD STENGEL
Bremen · 7. November · Die in Bremen erscheinende Zeitschrift Umwelt, Medizin, Gesellschaft, die vom Ökologischen Ärztebund und drei weiteren umweltmedizinischen Verbänden herausgegeben wird, veröffentlichte jetzt die Ärzte-Studie, die vom Bremer Umweltmedizin-Professor Rainer Frentzel-Beyme begleitet wurde.
Vier von fünf Hausarztpraxen im oberfränkischen Naila hatten die Daten von knapp tausend langjährigen Patienten darauf untersucht, ob es einen Zusammenhang gibt zwischen dem Auftreten von Krebserkrankungen und dem Abstand der Wohnungen vom örtlichen Mobilfunksender. Die Ärzte unterschieden dabei zwischen einem "Innenbereich" (400-Meter-Umkreis vom Sender) und dem weiter entfernten "Außenbereich".
Nach Angaben der Mediziner zeigte sich in den ersten fünf Jahren nach Installation des Senders (im Herbst 1993) kein auffälliger Unterschied zwischen neuen Krebsfällen im Innen- und im Außenbereich. Wenn die Patienten aber längere Zeit den Strahlen ausgesetzt waren, stieg laut Studie die Krebsgefahr in Sendernähe: Im sechsten bis zehnten Betriebsjahr sei das Risiko, an einem Tumor - vor allem an Brustkrebs - zu erkranken, im Innenbereich mehr als dreimal so hoch geworden wie im Außenbereich. Innerhalb des 400-Meter-Umkreises erkrankten 13 von 320 Praxisbesuchern, außerhalb nur acht von 647. Mit 99-prozentiger Sicherheit schließen die Ärzte aus, dass es sich dabei um zufällige statistische Schwankungen handeln könnte. Auffällig war nach Angaben der Mediziner auch, dass die Krebspatienten in Sendernähe in jüngerem Alter erkrankten als die weiter entfernt wohnenden, nämlich schon mit 64,1 statt mit 72,6 Jahren.
Die in Naila bereits vorab veröffentlichten Ergebnisse haben das Stadtparlament dazu bewogen, Petitionen an den bayerischen Landtag, den Bundestag und das Europäische Parlament zu richten. Darin fordert der Stadtrat unter anderem, die geltenden Grenzwerte für Sendeanlagen "auf ein gesundheitsverträgliches Maß" abzusenken. Mehrere Untersuchungen hätten "erhebliche Zweifel an der offiziellen Darstellung" geweckt, wonach von Mobilfunksendern bei Einhaltung der bisherigen Grenzwerte keine Gesundheitsgefahr ausgehe.
Frankfurt am Main, 08.11.2004
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/ressorts/nachrichten_und_politik/aus_aller_welt/?cnt=580335 (Auszug)
Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim
Die Naila-Mobilfunkstudie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283426/
Schockstudie der EU: Handys knacken die DNS und bewirken schwere Zellschädigung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/482751/
Starmail - 8. Nov, 16:11
ELECTION RESULTS ALTERED - MANIPULATING ELECTRONIC VOTING
Bay Point School is a juvenile correctional facility in the Miami area. Information has been given to the Washington Post that the Miami school is a suspected training ground in computer science and programming for juvenile delinquents who have trained in the art of manipulating electronic voting, without a true audit trail. It is believed that this activity is taking place not only there but in several schools like the aforementioned one nationwide. If true, then Bay Point School could be the Florida connection." It is possible as many as six states election results have been altered by recruits from this school. http://rense.com/general59/FLORID.HTM
Jeff Fisher through a confidential informant alleges that the school has direct connections with Joseph Klock, and that a professor at Key College in Dania Beach, Florida and formally of Bay Point School informed him that his loyalty to Klock is more important than the truth about how the 2000 election was manipulated, and how it is possible for a repeat to occur in the upcoming November general election. Mel Sembler, a powerful fundraiser for the Bush Campaign in Florida, is someone who has knowledge of the activities at Bay Point College. We are sure the talented people of the Washington Post and the Miami Herald will release additional details in the upcoming days. Mel Sembler is Ambassador to Italy and a principal in several drug treatment facilities that are under investigation for gross mismanagement.
Joseph Klock, an attorney who facilitated the release of the professor’s son from an abusive treatment center was, coincidentally, the attorney for Congresswoman Katherine Harris who was the Secretary of State during the contested 2000 Florida recount which helped put George W. Bush in the White House. State's evidence is being given to FBI on 11/08/04
"He who would give up essential liberty in order to have a little security deserves neither liberty, nor security." -- Benjamin Franklin
Terrorism is NO excuse for tyranny!!!!
"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ---George Orwell 1984
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free." -- Johann W. von Goethe
Message from: Be Kind Whenever Possible
Jeff Fisher through a confidential informant alleges that the school has direct connections with Joseph Klock, and that a professor at Key College in Dania Beach, Florida and formally of Bay Point School informed him that his loyalty to Klock is more important than the truth about how the 2000 election was manipulated, and how it is possible for a repeat to occur in the upcoming November general election. Mel Sembler, a powerful fundraiser for the Bush Campaign in Florida, is someone who has knowledge of the activities at Bay Point College. We are sure the talented people of the Washington Post and the Miami Herald will release additional details in the upcoming days. Mel Sembler is Ambassador to Italy and a principal in several drug treatment facilities that are under investigation for gross mismanagement.
Joseph Klock, an attorney who facilitated the release of the professor’s son from an abusive treatment center was, coincidentally, the attorney for Congresswoman Katherine Harris who was the Secretary of State during the contested 2000 Florida recount which helped put George W. Bush in the White House. State's evidence is being given to FBI on 11/08/04
"He who would give up essential liberty in order to have a little security deserves neither liberty, nor security." -- Benjamin Franklin
Terrorism is NO excuse for tyranny!!!!
"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ---George Orwell 1984
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free." -- Johann W. von Goethe
Message from: Be Kind Whenever Possible
Starmail - 8. Nov, 15:22
For the GM tree free world - GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
For the GM tree free world
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488975/
Open petition for the UN
GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
Jump to petition form
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/#appeal
List of signatories
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/list
The petition for global ban on GM trees will next be presented there for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in its 10th session COP10 in December year 2004.
We the signatories
wish to point out that in the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity world leaders declared they were conscious "of the intrinsic value of biological diversity and of the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic values of biological diversity and its components,
Conscious also of the importance of biological diversity for evolution and for maintaining life sustaining systems of the biosphere,
Affirming that the conservation of biological diversity is a common concern of humankind."
We recognize that
forests are a key factor sustaining the climate and the composition of the atmosphere.
We state that forests, along with the oceans, are key to the diversity of life on the planet - this diversity being the result of millions of years of evolution enabling the species to adapt to their surrounding ecosystems and the ecosystems to adapt to the surrounding climate.
We further wish to point out that genetic diversity within a species is part of the evolutionary original capital helping the species to survive in changing conditions, while species diversity within ecosystems is part of the capital helping the ecosystems to adapt to climate change.
We state that
the decision made in the context of the UN-lead Kyoto process to allow the use of genetically modified trees to tackle climate change is in contravention of the principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Trying to fight climate change by growing GM-trees would lead to the creation of vast plantations of cloned GM-trees on our planet. It would mean enormous losses in terms of diversity, while exposing these GM monocultures to disease, pests - and the effects of the ongoing climate change itself.
We believe that
the risks for biosafety involved in the introduction of genetically modified trees are such that they extend over state borders as well as generations, and should therefore not be taken at the present state of knowledge. Studies in population genetics show that genetic exchanges between trees can extend over whole continents. There is a real risk that by introducing GM-trees we would trigger a series of GM-contaminations spreading all over the forest cover on our planet. Other dangerous ecological scenarios include the potential metabolic incompatibility of GM-trees with their ecological surroundings, as well as genetically modified material being transferred to viruses and bacteria.
On the grounds of what has been stated above, we demand that the world reject the introduction of genetically modified trees.
In our view, we should be heading in the opposite direction. Instead of establishing plantations of genetically modified trees, we should strive to restore the forest cover of our planet towards its former riches and abundance.
Diverse, healthy and vital forests can best safeguard the ability of our living planet to adapt to the ongoing climate change. They also form the best basis for a diverse, healthy and vital forest economy, now and in the future.
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/
Latest press releases
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/ff3.html
We are happy to tell that there is just now 2382 persons and 269 organisations and groups which have signed the demand for UN!
Great thanks for all of you for your great support!
The next stage for the campaign is now at hand.
The UN Kyoto meeting, Cop10, will be held 6-13 December in Buenos Aires. We ask you to join to start with us some of these actions:
1. Reaching the people - campaign poster on the walls!
We are happy to present the first campaign posters:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/gm-posters.html
All signed ngo's and individual can freely produce prints for noncommercial distribution.
Let´s put the posters on walls, in good and suitable places. The poster campaign continues also after the Kyoto meeting but we would like to hear and see that this poster campaign would start just now, when Kyoto meeting is going to start.
2. Reaching the parlamentarians - letter to parliament houses!
In that next Kyoto meeting there will arrive a lot of parlamentarians from different countries.
We suggest urgent action and cooperation to reach those people on next days before the UN meeting
Behalf of our campaign we have produced a nice letter for parlamentarians. Look here:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/posters/ff-letter_a4.pdf,
( High resolution, 4 mb )
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/posters/ff-letter_a4_LR.pdf, ( Low resolution, 907 Kb )
We hope that there will be at least one group or organisation from every country, who would print and distribute this letter for your parliament house.
We hope that as many as possible of the parlamentarians on the Earth can get this letter on their table, as soon as possible.
If you or your organisation can take part this work, please let us know by replying to this message.
3. Country working groups watching GM trees
In many countries there already exists activists who have expressed their willingness for GM tree watch networking.
The idea is to support together mutual news change and reporting, open and interactive database, to be really aware what is going on with GM trees on the Earth.
If you or your organisation is interested on this kind of cooperation please dont hesitate to contact us.
One way for supporting the campaign and your local work there is that you order for sale our campaign posters. We send them by 5 euros when you order at least 20 copyes. More information by graphist and producer: hannes@kettukallio.fi
One of the most famous thinker and criticist on GM issue, Dr Mae Van Ho, had a four days journey in Finland and it was a real success. We shall soon produce videoreports on that highly inspirating visit on the address: http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/forum/topic/?catid=69
If you have some interesting videoreports on forest and/or GM issue, please visit on the site and open a discussion for that and give the link for video.
Hannu Hyvönen
campaign coordinator
Union of Ecoforestry in Finland
Global Ban on GM trees
NO RIGHT FOR CONTAMINATION
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
Press release 12th december 2004
GM trees are a false option
Biodiversity is the solution
In the beginning of this year three environmental organisations launched the Internet action for protesting the GM trees supportive decision made in UN Kyoto meeting in Milano, last December. Look the press release here:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/press3.html
Today there is about 300 ngo's and almost 3000 individuals supporting the demand.
-The basic idea to reward with emission rights those western countries which would be putting up tree plantations in third world is simply false, even without GM trees, says campaigner Hannu Hyvönen by the Union of Ecoforestry in Finland.
-Instead of that kind of carbon offset imperialism, we should just strive to restore the forest cover of our planet towards its former riches and abundance. GM trees would be the last step in the destructive course of industrial forestry. The campaign also argues that the introduction of genetically modified trees with their unpredictable and irreversible risk for forest ecosystems is breaking the national sovereighnity of those countries which would be contaminated by pollen of GM plantations.
-Actually the introduction of GM trees in open environment is breaking the Convention on Biodiversity, Cartagena Biosafety protocoll and several other international threaties. States have the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, says lawyer and activist of People´s Biosafety Association, Mikko Vartiainen.
Tree plantations are not forests
-Seeking the alternative solutions
The forest cover of the Earth has however a great role in global carbon balance. The campaign is now continuing to open discussion on alternative solutions and strategies for preventing climate change.
- The recent findings on boreal silvicultural alternatives show that this mainstream forest management, with monoculture plantations and clearcuttings is not at all the most efficient in binding carbon and maintaining carbon strorages.
-Also the good examples on agroforestry solutions tell us that there are much more better solutions to work with trees than monocultures, invites Leo Stranius, chair of Friends of Earth Finland to continue the discussion for alternatives on People´s Forest Forum: http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
For more information:
Global Ban on GM trees
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
Hannu Hyvönen
coordinator
The Union of Ecoforestry
tel +358-408317733
e-mail:hannu AT elonmerkki.net
Leo Stranius
chair
Friends of the Earth Finland
tel +358-40-754 7371
email:leo.stranius AT maanystavat.fi
http://www.maanystavat.fi
Mikko Vartiainen
lawyer
People´s Biosafety Association
tel.+358-0503863354
email:mikko.vartiainen AT nic.fi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488975/
Open petition for the UN
GLOBAL BAN ON GM-TREES
Jump to petition form
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/#appeal
List of signatories
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/list
The petition for global ban on GM trees will next be presented there for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in its 10th session COP10 in December year 2004.
We the signatories
wish to point out that in the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity world leaders declared they were conscious "of the intrinsic value of biological diversity and of the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic values of biological diversity and its components,
Conscious also of the importance of biological diversity for evolution and for maintaining life sustaining systems of the biosphere,
Affirming that the conservation of biological diversity is a common concern of humankind."
We recognize that
forests are a key factor sustaining the climate and the composition of the atmosphere.
We state that forests, along with the oceans, are key to the diversity of life on the planet - this diversity being the result of millions of years of evolution enabling the species to adapt to their surrounding ecosystems and the ecosystems to adapt to the surrounding climate.
We further wish to point out that genetic diversity within a species is part of the evolutionary original capital helping the species to survive in changing conditions, while species diversity within ecosystems is part of the capital helping the ecosystems to adapt to climate change.
We state that
the decision made in the context of the UN-lead Kyoto process to allow the use of genetically modified trees to tackle climate change is in contravention of the principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Trying to fight climate change by growing GM-trees would lead to the creation of vast plantations of cloned GM-trees on our planet. It would mean enormous losses in terms of diversity, while exposing these GM monocultures to disease, pests - and the effects of the ongoing climate change itself.
We believe that
the risks for biosafety involved in the introduction of genetically modified trees are such that they extend over state borders as well as generations, and should therefore not be taken at the present state of knowledge. Studies in population genetics show that genetic exchanges between trees can extend over whole continents. There is a real risk that by introducing GM-trees we would trigger a series of GM-contaminations spreading all over the forest cover on our planet. Other dangerous ecological scenarios include the potential metabolic incompatibility of GM-trees with their ecological surroundings, as well as genetically modified material being transferred to viruses and bacteria.
On the grounds of what has been stated above, we demand that the world reject the introduction of genetically modified trees.
In our view, we should be heading in the opposite direction. Instead of establishing plantations of genetically modified trees, we should strive to restore the forest cover of our planet towards its former riches and abundance.
Diverse, healthy and vital forests can best safeguard the ability of our living planet to adapt to the ongoing climate change. They also form the best basis for a diverse, healthy and vital forest economy, now and in the future.
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/
Latest press releases
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/ff3.html
We are happy to tell that there is just now 2382 persons and 269 organisations and groups which have signed the demand for UN!
Great thanks for all of you for your great support!
The next stage for the campaign is now at hand.
The UN Kyoto meeting, Cop10, will be held 6-13 December in Buenos Aires. We ask you to join to start with us some of these actions:
1. Reaching the people - campaign poster on the walls!
We are happy to present the first campaign posters:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/gm-posters.html
All signed ngo's and individual can freely produce prints for noncommercial distribution.
Let´s put the posters on walls, in good and suitable places. The poster campaign continues also after the Kyoto meeting but we would like to hear and see that this poster campaign would start just now, when Kyoto meeting is going to start.
2. Reaching the parlamentarians - letter to parliament houses!
In that next Kyoto meeting there will arrive a lot of parlamentarians from different countries.
We suggest urgent action and cooperation to reach those people on next days before the UN meeting
Behalf of our campaign we have produced a nice letter for parlamentarians. Look here:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/posters/ff-letter_a4.pdf,
( High resolution, 4 mb )
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/posters/ff-letter_a4_LR.pdf, ( Low resolution, 907 Kb )
We hope that there will be at least one group or organisation from every country, who would print and distribute this letter for your parliament house.
We hope that as many as possible of the parlamentarians on the Earth can get this letter on their table, as soon as possible.
If you or your organisation can take part this work, please let us know by replying to this message.
3. Country working groups watching GM trees
In many countries there already exists activists who have expressed their willingness for GM tree watch networking.
The idea is to support together mutual news change and reporting, open and interactive database, to be really aware what is going on with GM trees on the Earth.
If you or your organisation is interested on this kind of cooperation please dont hesitate to contact us.
One way for supporting the campaign and your local work there is that you order for sale our campaign posters. We send them by 5 euros when you order at least 20 copyes. More information by graphist and producer: hannes@kettukallio.fi
One of the most famous thinker and criticist on GM issue, Dr Mae Van Ho, had a four days journey in Finland and it was a real success. We shall soon produce videoreports on that highly inspirating visit on the address: http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/forum/topic/?catid=69
If you have some interesting videoreports on forest and/or GM issue, please visit on the site and open a discussion for that and give the link for video.
Hannu Hyvönen
campaign coordinator
Union of Ecoforestry in Finland
Global Ban on GM trees
NO RIGHT FOR CONTAMINATION
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
Press release 12th december 2004
GM trees are a false option
Biodiversity is the solution
In the beginning of this year three environmental organisations launched the Internet action for protesting the GM trees supportive decision made in UN Kyoto meeting in Milano, last December. Look the press release here:
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/press3.html
Today there is about 300 ngo's and almost 3000 individuals supporting the demand.
-The basic idea to reward with emission rights those western countries which would be putting up tree plantations in third world is simply false, even without GM trees, says campaigner Hannu Hyvönen by the Union of Ecoforestry in Finland.
-Instead of that kind of carbon offset imperialism, we should just strive to restore the forest cover of our planet towards its former riches and abundance. GM trees would be the last step in the destructive course of industrial forestry. The campaign also argues that the introduction of genetically modified trees with their unpredictable and irreversible risk for forest ecosystems is breaking the national sovereighnity of those countries which would be contaminated by pollen of GM plantations.
-Actually the introduction of GM trees in open environment is breaking the Convention on Biodiversity, Cartagena Biosafety protocoll and several other international threaties. States have the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, says lawyer and activist of People´s Biosafety Association, Mikko Vartiainen.
Tree plantations are not forests
-Seeking the alternative solutions
The forest cover of the Earth has however a great role in global carbon balance. The campaign is now continuing to open discussion on alternative solutions and strategies for preventing climate change.
- The recent findings on boreal silvicultural alternatives show that this mainstream forest management, with monoculture plantations and clearcuttings is not at all the most efficient in binding carbon and maintaining carbon strorages.
-Also the good examples on agroforestry solutions tell us that there are much more better solutions to work with trees than monocultures, invites Leo Stranius, chair of Friends of Earth Finland to continue the discussion for alternatives on People´s Forest Forum: http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
For more information:
Global Ban on GM trees
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
Hannu Hyvönen
coordinator
The Union of Ecoforestry
tel +358-408317733
e-mail:hannu AT elonmerkki.net
Leo Stranius
chair
Friends of the Earth Finland
tel +358-40-754 7371
email:leo.stranius AT maanystavat.fi
http://www.maanystavat.fi
Mikko Vartiainen
lawyer
People´s Biosafety Association
tel.+358-0503863354
email:mikko.vartiainen AT nic.fi
Starmail - 8. Nov, 15:13
Weltweites Moratorium gegen genveränderte Bäume
Offene Erklärung für das UN Forum on Forests
Weltweites Moratorium gegen genveränderte Bäume
Zum Appell
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal//?lang=german#appeal
Liste der Unterstützer
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/list
Wir, die Unterzeichner, möchten darauf hinweisen, dass Staatsführer aus aller Welt in der Rio-Konvention über Biodiversität erklärten, dass sie sich des der Biodiversität inne wohnenden Wertes und des ökologischen, genetischen, sozialen, ökonomischen, wissenschaftlichen, erzieherischen, kulturellen, ästhetischen und Freizeitwertes der Biodiversität und ihrer Bestandteile bewusst waren. Ebenso waren sie sich der Wichtigkeit von Biodiversität für die Evolution und die Aufrechterhaltung lebenserhaltender Systeme der Biosphäre bewusst und betonten, dass der Schutz der Biodiversität im gemeinsamen Interesse der gesamten Menschheit lag.
Uns ist bewusst, dass Wälder ein wesentlicher Faktor zur Erhaltung des Klimas sowie des Aufbaus der Atmosphäre sind.
Wir stellen fest, dass die Wälder, ebenso wie die Ozeane, für die Verschiedenartigkeit des Lebens auf unserem Planeten entscheidend sind und diese Verschiedenartigkeit ist das Ergebnis eines Millionen von Jahren dauernden Evolutionsprozesses, der es den einzelnen Arten ermöglichte, sich an die sie umgebenden Ökosysteme anzupassen, und den Ökosystemen, sich an das umgebende Klima anzupassen.
Wir möchten außerdem darauf hinweisen, dass die genetische Diversität innerhalb einer Art einen Teil des Grundkapitals der Evolution darstellt und es dieser Art ermöglicht, in sich verändernden Bedingungen zu überleben, während die Diversität der Arten innerhalb eines Ökosystems zu dem Vermögen des Ökosystems gehört und es diesem möglich macht, sich an einen Klimawandel anzupassen.
Wir stellen fest, dass die im Rahmen der unter Führung der UN stehenden Kyoto-Gespräche getroffene Entscheidung der Zulassung eines Einsatzes genmanipulierter Bäume zur Anpassung an die Klimaveränderung im Gegensatz zu den Prinzipien der Konvention über die Biodiversität steht. Der Versuch, Klimaveränderungen durch die Aufzucht genmanipulierter Bäume zu bekämpfen würde weltweit zur Schaffung riesiger Plantagen genetisch modifizierter und geklonter Bäume führen. Dies würde enorme Verluste im Bereich der Biodiversität bedeuten, während die genmanipulierten Monokulturen Krankheiten, Schädlingen, und auch den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels selbst ausgesetzt wären.
Wir glauben dass die Risiken für die biologische Sicherheit, die mit der Einführung von genmanipulierten Bäumen verbunden wären, sich über Staatsgrenzen wie auch über Generationen hinweg erstrecken würden und dass man diese Risiken daher beim gegenwärtigen Wissensstand nicht eingehen sollte. Studien in Populationsgenetik zeigen, dass der genetische Austausch zwischen Bäumen sich über ganze Kontinente erstrecken kann. Es besteht ein wirkliches Risiko, durch die Einführung genmanipulierter Bäume eine Kontamination mit gentechnisch manipuliertem Material auszulösen, die sich über die gesamte Walddecke unseres Planeten ausbreiten könnte. Andere ökologisch bedenkliche Szenarien gehen von einer Stoffwechselunverträglichkeit der genmanipulierten Bäume mit ihrem ökologischen Umfeld sowie von einer Übertragung genetisch veränderten Materials auf Viren und Bakterien aus.
Aus den oben genannten Gründen fordern wir die Welt auf, die Einführung von genetisch veränderten Bäumen abzulehnen.
Unserer Meinung nach sollten wir uns in die umgekehrte Richtung bewegen. Anstatt Plantagen mit genmanipulierten Bäumen einzurichten, sollten wir darum bemüht sein, der Walddecke unseres Planeten wieder zu ihrem ehemaligen Reichtum und Überfluss zu verhelfen.
Gesunde und vitale Wälder mit unterschiedlichen Arten können die Fähigkeit unseres lebendigen Planeten, sich der gegenwärtigen Klimaveränderung anzupassen, am ehesten sichern. Sie stellen außerdem die beste Grundlage für eine vielfältige, gesunde und vitale Forstwirtschaft dar, jetzt und in Zukunft.
(Übersetzung: Pro REGENWALD, Petra Fischbäck)
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal//?lang=german
Weltweites Moratorium gegen genveränderte Bäume
Zum Appell
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal//?lang=german#appeal
Liste der Unterstützer
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/list
Wir, die Unterzeichner, möchten darauf hinweisen, dass Staatsführer aus aller Welt in der Rio-Konvention über Biodiversität erklärten, dass sie sich des der Biodiversität inne wohnenden Wertes und des ökologischen, genetischen, sozialen, ökonomischen, wissenschaftlichen, erzieherischen, kulturellen, ästhetischen und Freizeitwertes der Biodiversität und ihrer Bestandteile bewusst waren. Ebenso waren sie sich der Wichtigkeit von Biodiversität für die Evolution und die Aufrechterhaltung lebenserhaltender Systeme der Biosphäre bewusst und betonten, dass der Schutz der Biodiversität im gemeinsamen Interesse der gesamten Menschheit lag.
Uns ist bewusst, dass Wälder ein wesentlicher Faktor zur Erhaltung des Klimas sowie des Aufbaus der Atmosphäre sind.
Wir stellen fest, dass die Wälder, ebenso wie die Ozeane, für die Verschiedenartigkeit des Lebens auf unserem Planeten entscheidend sind und diese Verschiedenartigkeit ist das Ergebnis eines Millionen von Jahren dauernden Evolutionsprozesses, der es den einzelnen Arten ermöglichte, sich an die sie umgebenden Ökosysteme anzupassen, und den Ökosystemen, sich an das umgebende Klima anzupassen.
Wir möchten außerdem darauf hinweisen, dass die genetische Diversität innerhalb einer Art einen Teil des Grundkapitals der Evolution darstellt und es dieser Art ermöglicht, in sich verändernden Bedingungen zu überleben, während die Diversität der Arten innerhalb eines Ökosystems zu dem Vermögen des Ökosystems gehört und es diesem möglich macht, sich an einen Klimawandel anzupassen.
Wir stellen fest, dass die im Rahmen der unter Führung der UN stehenden Kyoto-Gespräche getroffene Entscheidung der Zulassung eines Einsatzes genmanipulierter Bäume zur Anpassung an die Klimaveränderung im Gegensatz zu den Prinzipien der Konvention über die Biodiversität steht. Der Versuch, Klimaveränderungen durch die Aufzucht genmanipulierter Bäume zu bekämpfen würde weltweit zur Schaffung riesiger Plantagen genetisch modifizierter und geklonter Bäume führen. Dies würde enorme Verluste im Bereich der Biodiversität bedeuten, während die genmanipulierten Monokulturen Krankheiten, Schädlingen, und auch den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels selbst ausgesetzt wären.
Wir glauben dass die Risiken für die biologische Sicherheit, die mit der Einführung von genmanipulierten Bäumen verbunden wären, sich über Staatsgrenzen wie auch über Generationen hinweg erstrecken würden und dass man diese Risiken daher beim gegenwärtigen Wissensstand nicht eingehen sollte. Studien in Populationsgenetik zeigen, dass der genetische Austausch zwischen Bäumen sich über ganze Kontinente erstrecken kann. Es besteht ein wirkliches Risiko, durch die Einführung genmanipulierter Bäume eine Kontamination mit gentechnisch manipuliertem Material auszulösen, die sich über die gesamte Walddecke unseres Planeten ausbreiten könnte. Andere ökologisch bedenkliche Szenarien gehen von einer Stoffwechselunverträglichkeit der genmanipulierten Bäume mit ihrem ökologischen Umfeld sowie von einer Übertragung genetisch veränderten Materials auf Viren und Bakterien aus.
Aus den oben genannten Gründen fordern wir die Welt auf, die Einführung von genetisch veränderten Bäumen abzulehnen.
Unserer Meinung nach sollten wir uns in die umgekehrte Richtung bewegen. Anstatt Plantagen mit genmanipulierten Bäumen einzurichten, sollten wir darum bemüht sein, der Walddecke unseres Planeten wieder zu ihrem ehemaligen Reichtum und Überfluss zu verhelfen.
Gesunde und vitale Wälder mit unterschiedlichen Arten können die Fähigkeit unseres lebendigen Planeten, sich der gegenwärtigen Klimaveränderung anzupassen, am ehesten sichern. Sie stellen außerdem die beste Grundlage für eine vielfältige, gesunde und vitale Forstwirtschaft dar, jetzt und in Zukunft.
(Übersetzung: Pro REGENWALD, Petra Fischbäck)
http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal//?lang=german
Starmail - 8. Nov, 15:02
Handys können Leben retten
Tödliche Handys: was ist „Haupt“- was ist „Neben“-Wirkung?
Nach einem wissenschaftlichen Bericht steigt in den USA die Zahl der Unfallopfer durch Handy-Benutzung beim Autofahren und wiegen die gesellschaftlichen Kosten bereits die Einnahmen der Wirtschaft auf. Handys haben tödliche Folgen - zumindest wenn sie beim Autofahren benutzt werden. Nach einem Bericht des Center for Risk Analysis der Harvard University ist Handynutzung beim Fahren in den USA jährlich für 2.600 Unfalltote verantwortlich.
Jetzt also führt der Bericht bereits ein Sechstel aller Verkehrstoten im Jahr auf die Handynutzung zurück, zusätzlich sei sie für 570.000 Verletzte und für 1,5 Millionen Fälle von Sachschäden verantwortlich. Die von den Wissenschaftlern vermuteten Kosten dieser Nebenwirkungen sollen sich auf 43 Milliarden Dollar belaufen, was ungefähr der Summe entspricht, die die Menschen für die Handy-Benutzung ausgeben: „.....(Nachricht von unserem BW-Mitglied Siegfried Scherer) Florian Rötzer 02.12.2002
Kommentar der Bürgerwelle (Siegfried Zwerenz)
Die Situation in den USA ist wohl auf Deutschland und andere Länder übertragbar. Damit ist nun klar, dass die Kosten für Renten und Krankenkassen durch den Gebrauch von Handys deutlich und unverantwortlich steigen. Die Erhöhungen der Beiträge sind somit zu einem großen Teil auf den Gebrauch von Handys zurückzuführen.
Wann erkennen unsere Politiker endlich, dass sie an die Ursache der Kostenerhöhungen gehen müssen und nicht weiter Abgaben und Steuern erhöhen um die Kosten im Renten- und Krankenkassenbereich zu finanzieren.
Durch obigen Bericht ist spätestens jetzt klar, dass das Argument der Handy-Lobby, „Durch Handy-Notrufe werden Leben gerettet“ eine Täuschung ist. Tatsache ist: wegen Handy-Telefonaten werden mehr Menschen getötet, als durch Notrufe gerettet, die nur mit Handy getätigt werden können. Man stelle sich vor, wie viele Unfälle erst durch den Gebrauch von Handys erfolgen und dann wird per Handy Hilfe gerufen!!!
Omega: siehe auch Original in Englisch
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/omega84.htm
Quelle: http://www.oekosmos.de/article/view/279/1/20
Handys können Leben retten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393825/
Handy am Steuer ein reales Sicherheitsrisiko
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545843/
Nach einem wissenschaftlichen Bericht steigt in den USA die Zahl der Unfallopfer durch Handy-Benutzung beim Autofahren und wiegen die gesellschaftlichen Kosten bereits die Einnahmen der Wirtschaft auf. Handys haben tödliche Folgen - zumindest wenn sie beim Autofahren benutzt werden. Nach einem Bericht des Center for Risk Analysis der Harvard University ist Handynutzung beim Fahren in den USA jährlich für 2.600 Unfalltote verantwortlich.
Jetzt also führt der Bericht bereits ein Sechstel aller Verkehrstoten im Jahr auf die Handynutzung zurück, zusätzlich sei sie für 570.000 Verletzte und für 1,5 Millionen Fälle von Sachschäden verantwortlich. Die von den Wissenschaftlern vermuteten Kosten dieser Nebenwirkungen sollen sich auf 43 Milliarden Dollar belaufen, was ungefähr der Summe entspricht, die die Menschen für die Handy-Benutzung ausgeben: „.....(Nachricht von unserem BW-Mitglied Siegfried Scherer) Florian Rötzer 02.12.2002
Kommentar der Bürgerwelle (Siegfried Zwerenz)
Die Situation in den USA ist wohl auf Deutschland und andere Länder übertragbar. Damit ist nun klar, dass die Kosten für Renten und Krankenkassen durch den Gebrauch von Handys deutlich und unverantwortlich steigen. Die Erhöhungen der Beiträge sind somit zu einem großen Teil auf den Gebrauch von Handys zurückzuführen.
Wann erkennen unsere Politiker endlich, dass sie an die Ursache der Kostenerhöhungen gehen müssen und nicht weiter Abgaben und Steuern erhöhen um die Kosten im Renten- und Krankenkassenbereich zu finanzieren.
Durch obigen Bericht ist spätestens jetzt klar, dass das Argument der Handy-Lobby, „Durch Handy-Notrufe werden Leben gerettet“ eine Täuschung ist. Tatsache ist: wegen Handy-Telefonaten werden mehr Menschen getötet, als durch Notrufe gerettet, die nur mit Handy getätigt werden können. Man stelle sich vor, wie viele Unfälle erst durch den Gebrauch von Handys erfolgen und dann wird per Handy Hilfe gerufen!!!
Omega: siehe auch Original in Englisch
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/omega84.htm
Quelle: http://www.oekosmos.de/article/view/279/1/20
Handys können Leben retten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393825/
Handy am Steuer ein reales Sicherheitsrisiko
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545843/
Starmail - 8. Nov, 14:06
