Iraq: Starving children pay the price of disorder:

Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led the invasion of the country 20 months ago. - Iraq's child malnutrition rate now roughly equals that of Burundi, a central African nation torn by more than a decade of war. It is far worse than rates in Uganda and Haiti.

http://207.44.245.159/article7340.htm

http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Survivors/record0081.html

Death From Ritalin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409851/


Informant: Andrea Ball

The Truth Behind ADHD
http://www.ritalindeath.com/drugchildrentodeath.htm

Horror story of forced drugging
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/409854/


Informant: Andrea Ball

http://www.WantToKnow.info/censored2004


Informant: Fred Burks

New York Times

November 18, 2004

Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find

by JOHN TIERNEY

BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus.

Conservatism is becoming more visible at the University of California here, where students put out a feisty magazine called The California Patriot and have made the Berkeley Republicans one of the largest groups on campus. But here, as at schools nationwide, the professors seem to be moving in the other direction, as evidenced by their campaign contributions and two studies being published on Nov. 18.

One of the studies, a national survey of more than 1,000 academics, shows that Democratic professors outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That ratio is more than twice as lopsided as it was three decades ago, and it seems quite likely to keep increasing, because the younger faculty members are more consistently Democratic than the ones nearing retirement, said Daniel Klein, an associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University and a co-author of the study.

In a separate study of voter registration records, Professor Klein found a nine-to-one ratio of Democrats to Republicans on the faculties of Berkeley and Stanford. That study, which included professors from the hard sciences, engineering and professional schools as well as the humanities and social sciences, also found the ratio especially lopsided among the younger professors of assistant or associate rank: 183 Democrats versus 6 Republicans.

The political imbalance on faculties has inspired a campaign to have state legislatures and Congress approve an "academic bill of rights" protecting students and faculty members from discrimination for their political beliefs. The campaign is being led by Students for Academic Freedom, a group with chapters at Berkeley and more than 135 other campuses. It was founded last year by the leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz, who helped start the 1960's antiwar movement while a graduate student at Berkeley.

"Our goal is not to have the government dictate who's hired but to take politics out of the hiring process and the classroom," said Mr. Horowitz, who called the new studies the most compelling evidence yet of hiring bias. "Right now, conservative students are discouraged from pursuing scholarly careers, because they see very clearly that their professors consider Republicans to be the enemy."

Academic leaders have resisted his group's legislative proposal, saying that discrimination is rare and already forbidden, and they dispute the accusations of faculty bias. Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of Berkeley, said that he was not sure if the new study of his faculty accurately reflected the professors' political leanings, and that these leanings were irrelevant anyway.

"The essence of a great university is developing and sharing new knowledge as well as questioning old dogma," Dr. Birgeneau said. "We do this in an environment which prizes academic freedom and freedom of expression. These principles are respected by all of our faculty at U.C. Berkeley, no matter what their personal politics are."

Professors at Berkeley and other universities provided unprecedented financial support for the Democratic Party this election. For the first time, universities were at the top of the list of organizations ranked by their employees' contributions to a presidential candidate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group.

In first and second place, ahead of Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, were the University of California system and Harvard, whose employees contributed $602,000 and $340,000, respectively, to Senator John Kerry. At both universities, employees gave about $19 to the Kerry campaign for every dollar for the Bush campaign.

One theory for the scarcity of Republican professors is that conservatives are simply not that interested in academic careers. A Democrat on the Berkeley faculty, George P. Lakoff, who teaches linguistics and is the author of "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," said that liberals choose academic fields that fit their world views. "Unlike conservatives," he said, "they believe in working for the public good and social justice, as well as knowledge and art for their own sake, which are what the humanities and social sciences are about."

Some non-Democrats prefer to attribute the imbalance to the structure of academia, which allows hiring decisions and research agendas to be determined by small, independent groups of scholars. These fiefs, the critics say, suffer from a problem described in The Federalist Papers: an autonomous "small republic" is prone to be dominated by a cohesive faction that uses majority voting to "outnumber and oppress the rest," in Madison's words.

"Our colleges have become less marketplaces of ideas than churches in which you have to be a true believer to get a seat in the pews," said Stephen H. Balch, a Republican and the president of the National Association of Scholars. "We've drifted to a secular version of 19th-century denominational colleges, in which the university's mission is to crusade against sin and make the country a morally better place."

Dr. Balch's organization of what he calls traditional scholars is publishing the two new faculty studies in its journal, Academic Questions (online at www.nas.org). In one study, Professor Klein and Charlotta Stern, a sociologist at the Institute for Social Research in Sweden, asked the members of scholars' professional associations which party's candidates they had mostly voted for over the previous decade.

The ratio of Democratic to Republican professors ranged from 3 to 1 among economists to 30 to 1 among anthropologists. The researchers found a much higher share of Republicans among the nonacademic members of the scholars' associations, which Professor Klein said belied the notion that nonleftists were uninterested in scholarly careers.

"Screened out, expelled or self-sorted, they tend to land outside of academia because the crucial decisions - awarding tenure and promotions, choosing which papers get published - are made by colleagues hostile to their political views," said Professor Klein, who classifies himself as a libertarian.

Martin Trow, an emeritus professor of public policy at Berkeley who was chairman of the faculty senate and director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, said that professors tried not to discriminate in hiring based on politics, but that their perspective could be warped because so many colleagues shared their ideology.

"Their view comes to be seen not as a political preference but what decent, intelligent human beings believe," said Dr. Trow, who calls himself a conservative. "Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky. So if a committee is trying to decide between three well-qualified candidates, it may exclude the conservative because he seems like someone who has poor judgment."

The students' magazine, The California Patriot, has frequently criticized Berkeley for the paucity of conservative views and for cases of what it has called discrimination against conservative students.

"I'm glad to get the liberal perspective, but it would be nice to get the other side, too," said Kelly Coyne, the editor of the magazine and a senior majoring in political science. "I'm really having a hard time finding courses my last year. I don't want to spend another semester listening to lectures about victims of American oppression."

My comment: Gee whiz! My heart goes out to you, Kelly, but just maybe you wouldn't be hearing so many lectures about victims of American oppression if our foreign policy, especially since Reagan, has been a hot spot in a general history of Western oppression of any part of the world they could find a way to suppress for profit. Get over it kid, and start working on ways to redress the grievances and undo the damage. South Africa had internal Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. Perhaps the U.S.A. could spearhead a worldwide U.S.A./European version. Denial will eat you up. Just a thought.


Informant: Eric R. Stietzel

Schongauer Nachrichten vom 13./14. 11. 2004:

HANS SCHÜTZ WEITER ZUGPFERD DER BÜRGER
VON UIP OFFIZIELL ZUM VERTRETER ERKOREN

Peiting – Die Mobilfunkbetreiber, die in Peiting weitere Standorte für Sendemasten suchen, müssen sich wohl auch künftig mit Hans Schütz auseinandersetzen. Bei der Veranstaltung der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel zum Thema Mobilfunkanlagen wurde er offiziell zum Bürgervertreter gekürt. Besonders groß war das Bürgerinteresse an der Veranstaltung allerdings nicht. Nur 15 Teilnehmer hatten sich eingefunden.

Das große Ziel

Ziel der Umweltinitiative ist es in erster Linie, einen neuen Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk zu errichten. Zum zweiten soll ein Mobilfunk-Netzwerk Pfaffenwinkel ins Leben gerufen werden, in dem die etwa zwanzig Bürgerinitiativen der Region vertreten sind. „Ich denke es, ist wichtig, etwas zu unternehmen, ich habe viele Patienten, die Beschwerden haben, seit der Sendemast steht“, so Heilpraktikerin Marlies Erhard-Grzesiak, die zudem Peitinger Berufskollegen zu dem Treffen geladen hatte.

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MOBILFUNKABEND: KEIN KNEIFEN BEI DEN BETREIBERN

Zusage liegt der Gemeinde vor

von Barbara Schlotterer

Peiting – Noch interessanter als erwartet dürfte der Mobilfunkabend werden, zu dem die Gemeinde Peiting für Dienstag, 30. November einlädt (wir berichteten). Denn neben Dr. Raithel vom Umweltinstitut München hat Bürgermeister Michael Asam jetzt auch noch überraschenderweise ein positives Feedback von den Mobilfunkbetreibern bekommen. Nach monatelangen Querelen über mögliche Standorte für neue Masten haben die Firmen sich jetzt bereit erklärt, selbst an dem Abend teilzunehmen.

Erst gestern ging bei Bürgermeister Michael Asam die letzte Zusage ein. „E-Plus kommt und vertritt gleichzeitig auch T-Mobile, Vodafone kommt auch“, zählt er auf. Die Überraschung zwischen Hoffen und Ungläubigkeit ist den Betreibern gelungen – erst recht nachdem diese einen für den Sommer anberaumten „Runden Tisch“ hatten platzen lassen. „Ganz ehrlich habe ich für den Infoabend nicht mit einer Zusage gerechnet“, räumt auch Gemeindechef Asam ein. Allerdings hätte er aufgrund aktueller Ereignisse gehofft. „Ich habe den Betreibern geschrieben, dass wir momentan alle vorgeschlagenen Standorte ablehnen“, schildert Asam. Er denkt, dass diese massive Ablehnung den Anstoß für die Zusage gegeben hat. Von dem Abend selbst erhofft sich Michael Asam zumindest so viel: „Wenn der Experte vom Umweltinstitut andere Standorte als geeigneter bewertet, müssen die Betreiber zumindest Stellung zu ihren Vorschlägen beziehen.“

Eine große Resonanz auf den Abend erwartet auch Alfred Grundner. Der Peitinger, der die Mobilfunk-Unterschriften-Aktion im Sommer ins Leben gerufen hatte – so konnte der Standort Freibad letztlich verhindert werden – macht sich allerdings nicht viel Hoffnung: „Im Prinzip sind wir eh machtlos, weil die Gesetzeslage nicht unbedingt zu unseren Gunsten ausgelegt ist“ So hätte der Staat nun mal die teuren Lizenzen verkauft – als Zuckerl brauchten die Mobilfunkbetreiber keine Baugenehmigung für die neuen UMTS-Standorte.“

Auf der Suche

„Allerdings brauchen die dann immer noch jemand, der sich eine Antenne aufs Dach machen lässt“, gibt er zu bedenken. Seit Monaten, so ist es hinlänglich bekannt, sind die Betreiber deshalb jetzt schon in der Marktgemeinde unterwegs, um Bürger für das Vorhaben Antenne zu gewinnen – bislang erfolglos. „Die Privatleute waren so vernünftig und haben das immer abgelehnt, obwohl sie dafür viel Geld bekommen“, sagt Alfred Grundner. Bliebe lediglich zu hoffen, dass das so bleibt., meint der Peitinger. Ebenso bleibt zu hoffen, dass es auch bei der Zusage der Mobilfunkbetreiber für den Infoabend bleibt.



Veranstaltungshinweis

Wie geht es weiter mit dem Mobilfunk in Peiting?

Podiumsdiskussion im Sparkassensaal Peiting am Dienstag, den 30. November um 19 Uhr.

Veranstalter: Marktgemeinde Peiting/Bürgermeister Michael Asam

Podium: Hans Ulrich Raithel (Umweltinstitut München e. V.)
Hans Schütz (Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V.)
Christoph Puschner (Vodafone)
Harald Klussmann (E-Plus)

Greenspan’s comments on Friday will probably be a watershed event which will probably rank higher in historical importance than his "irrational exuberance" comment. The following statement from his speech is very revealing:

"rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this position by now is obviously desirous of losing money."

He also said:

"Given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point …But when, through what channels, and from what level of the dollar? Regrettably, no answer to those questions is convincing."

He is trying to pretend that what is coming has been envisaged by all the smart people…for "people who are desirous of losing money" read "ignorant and stupid". But wait a minute! Did anyone notice the US Treasury re-instate the 30 year bond? No, of course you didn’t because it wasn’t re-instated. If the much higher interest rates were so clearly signaled then why is the US Government borrowing on a short term basis and not locking in low rates for 30 years?…especially when he cites the massive US debt burden as the reason that the system will come unglued in the first place.
In March, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said that ``the odds are favorable that current account imbalances will be defused with little disruption''. That can hardly be claimed as a "hey, we told you so. Get hedged against sudden adjustments or else!".

But on October 7 we had the following not widely reported comments from Robert McTeer

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The record U.S. current account deficit will lead to an inevitable decline in the value of the dollar, a drop that might be rapid and provoke a financial crisis, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert McTeer said.

In a New York speech, McTeer said a precipitous drop in the U.S. currency would lead to a big jump in interest rates. He offered no easy policy solution, saying he `` feels foolish warning about it'' because ``nothing bad has happened so far.''

The current account deficit, which reached $166.2 billion in the second quarter, ``is going to cause problems, but we just don't know when,'' McTeer said at a New York event hosted by Market News International.

At some point, foreigners will slow their investments in the U.S., meaning capital ``flows will turn against us, and there will be crisis that will result in rapidly rising interest rates and a rapidly depreciating dollar that will be very disruptive,'' he said. ``But I don't know what to do about it.''
[Emphasis added]

So McTeer knew that the US economy is at 30,000 feet and the plane just ran out of fuel and he doesn’t know what to do. Greenspan, who could see no problems in March, now says the smart passengers should have brought parachutes with them!

Greenspan said on Friday that forecasting exchange rates "has a success rate no better than that of forecasting the outcome of a coin toss." Greenspan is now on the record as not being able to recognize asset bubbles and not being able to forecast the direction of exchange rates. By his own admission he is clueless. Perhaps he should subscribe to LeMetropoleCafe because we have a 100% success rate on both counts!

It looks to me that something big has happened behind the scenes. Has China or Japan privately said they will not support the dollar anymore? We already know that Russia has stopped weakening the Ruble. Whatever it is, it is clearly a very big deal and unpreventable.

Greenspan is rarely as lucid as in this speech. It looks as if they have come to the end of the road. Following the Greenspan "put" has been very profitable for those who have blindly accepted the infallible "wisdom" of the Wizard of OZ. The man behind the curtain is now clearly visible. As the words of the "Maestro" are contemplated by his flock this weekend it must be surely comforting for them to know that EVERY short future gold position held by anyone is underwater and that EVERY long future gold position is in the money. The Gold Cartel and Gold Cartel roadies need to workout if Greenspan is just kidding or if they have just been double-crossed. (I’ll give them a hint: Greenspan is not kidding).

The next few days or weeks will be very revealing.

Message from CHEROKEE

http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6912004.html


Informant: Laurel

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403999/


„Spaß mit Mikrowellen“

* Kinder zwischen 4 bis 18 Jahre

* 46,4 % Konzentrationsprobleme

* 27,6 % Verwirrtheit /Zerstreutheit

* 4,9 % Denken über Freitod nach

* 10,0 % ständige Kopfschmerzen

* 5,4 % Ständige Müdigkeit

* 19,7 % Allergien


* Hamburger Gesundheitsstudie im Auftrag des Stern


Quelle: http://www.notiz.ch/wissenschaft-unzensiert/elektrosmog/2001/juli/stern2.html


Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Caused by EMF?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/450192/

http://capwiz.com/pc/utr/2/?a=6674526&i=56497971


Informant: Lowell Byrd

News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government

November 20, 2004

http://www.legitgov.org/
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged (freepress.org) Ohio's 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced Friday. The lawyers have taken sworn testimony from hundreds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials and Election Day exit polls to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on Election Day.

More Ohio voter suppression testimony prompts upcoming legal filing for statewide recount (freepress.org). As transcribed testimony from citizens denied their right to vote November 2 has become public, a coalition of public interest lawyers says it will initiate a legal filing demanding a statewide recount.

Democrat picks up seat in recount (NH) A Nashua Republican state representative still lost his seat after a recount of ballots in his race Friday, but a Francestown Democrat picked up a seat when a recount in her district changed the result.


Informant: ranger116


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1120-25.htm

MIT Scientist Backs Berkeley Voting Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112104E.shtml

http://www.sfbayview.com/110304/ucregents110304.shtml


Informant: CHEROKEE

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/Story.asp?ID=4688


Informant: NHNE

Liebe Mitstreiter,

im Dezember 2002 hat der Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk im Landkreis FFB eine Eingabe an den Bayerischen Landtag eingereicht zum Thema:

Handyfreie Zonen in Nahverkehrszügen

Diese Eingabe ist nun am Donnerstag, den 25.11.04 zur Behandlung im Bayerischen Landtag vorgesehen! Die Sitzung findet im Maximilianeum, Saal 1 statt und beginnt um 9.15 Uhr. Näheres hier:

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/arbeitskreis_mobilfunk_ffb_an_landtag_petition_handyfreie_abteile.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/landtag_zu_handyfreien_nahverkehrszuegen.jpeg

Es wäre schön, wenn Ihr/Sie Zeit hättet/hätten, zu kommen.

Für den Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk im Landkreis FFB
Lilli Kammerl und Paul Hornyak


Liebe Mitstreiter,

im Dezember 2002 hat der Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk im Landkreis FFB eine Eingabe an den Bayerischen Landtag eingereicht zum Thema: Handyfreie Zonen in Nahverkehrszügen

Wegen Todesfalles wurde der Termin der Eingabe kurzfristig vom 25.11. auf den 2. Dezember verschoben. Neuer Termin also am Donnerstag, den 2. Dezember auf der TO des Wirtschaftausschusses, ab 9.00 Uhr in Saal 1. Die Eingabe steht an Platz 5.

Es wäre schön, wenn Ihr/Sie Zeit hättet/hätten, zu kommen.

Für den Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk im Landkreis FFB
Lilli Kammerl und Paul Hornyak

Die immer breiter werdende Front von Bürgern gegen den Wildwuchs im Bereich der Telekommunikation zeigt Wirkung. Die entgeltliche Sonderbeilage (Mobilfunk & Gesellschaft, 6. November) ist für einen noch kritisch denkenden Menschen ein sichtbarer bzw. lesbarer Beweis dafür. In der 150-prozentigen Beruhigungstherapie steht u. a. in einem Text: ". . . die Wirkung der Handystrahlung auf das menschliche Gehirn schließt sogar positive Effekte nicht aus." Für wie dumm wird die Bevölkerung unseres Landes eigentlich gehalten?

Man darf wohl davon ausgehen, dass nicht das Infrastrukturministerium aus Steuermitteln eine Werbekampagne für die vom Bund an private Betreiber übertragene Versorgungsverpflichtung in Form einer bezahlten Anzeige von vier Seiten trägt. So bleibt die Frage, wer die nicht unbeträchtlichen Kosten dafür und ein Gutachterteam von sicher nicht unentgeltlich arbeitenden Universitätsprofessoren aufbringt. Warum richtet in einer so sensiblen Frage der Gesundheitsvorsorge akkurat jene Dienststelle, die selbst für die flächendeckende Versorgung des Landes mit modernen Telekommunikationsmitteln zuständig ist, den Fachbeirat ein? Wo bleiben Verantwortung und Kompetenz eines Gesundheits-, Umwelt- und Wissenschaftsministeriums in einem so komplexen Problembereich mit äußerst differenzierten Sichtweisen?

Fachlich muss den ehrenwerten wissenschaftlichen Mitgliedern des Fachbeirates der erläuternde Bericht zur Verordnung über den Schutz von nicht-ionisierender Strahlung des Schweizer Bundesamtes für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft vom 23. Dezember 1999 entgegen gehalten werden. Dort heißt es: "Nicht-ionisierende Strahlung ist in der heutigen Umwelt nachgewiesen, bei niedriger Intensität bestehen begründete Hinweise auf schädliche Wirkungen." Im Kapitel 23 zum Aspekt der Wirkung auf den Menschen steht u. a.: "Auch wenn von wissenschaftlicher Seite keine weiteren Bestätigungen verlangt werden, sind die festgehaltenen Auswirkungen bereits heute in die vorsorglichen Schutzüberlegungen mit einzubeziehen."

Diese Schwarz-Weiß-Malerei fördert Verunsicherung in der Bevölkerung, vor allem aber leidet das Ansehen und die Glaubwürdigkeit der Wissenschaft durch derartig einseitige PR-Darstellungen. Die Politik wäre daher dringend aufgefordert, in einer koordinierten und konzentrierten Weise auf Bundes- und Landesebene entsprechende glaubwürdige Schritt zu setzen.

Mag. Manfred Mohr
Der Autor war Kulturdirektor des Landes Oberösterreich

Quelle:
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=m&ressort=q&id=451766


Nachricht aus Elektrosmognews vom 21.11.2004



Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/forscher_und_forschungsergebnisse_von_der_industrie_bezahlt.htm

Parteipolitik und Lobbyismus behindern Umweltschutz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459492/

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

Elektrosmognews vom 21.11.2004

Eine kanadische Studie hat jetzt bewiesen, das starke elektromagnetische Felder die Milchleistung von Kühen reduzieren. Wissenschaftler des "Instituts für Tierwissenschaften" der McGill Universität in Quebec setzten 16 Kühe einem vertikalen elektrischen Feld von 10 Kilovolt/Meter und einem horizontalen 60 Herz-Magnetfeld von 30 Mikrotesla aus. Die Tiere wurden in zwei Gruppen eingeteilt. Sie wurden in unterschiedlicher Reihenfolge entweder für 25 Tage dem elektromagnetischen Feld ausgesetzt oder scheinexponiert. Während der Zeit mit EMF-Exposition nahm die Milchmenge um durchschnittlich 5 % ab, der Milchfettgehalt war um 16% vermindert.

Übersandt von Waltraud S.

Chris, who has just joined us, gave me permission to post this so that others can identify, or look out for tetra, in view of the current haste to roll out more tetra and 3G masts across the UK.

Sandi


I was looking at the excellent TETRAWATCH site again today and came across the following:

(O2) Employ agents to find mast sites around the country where landowners are dysfunctional, anti-social, selfish, bull-headed and influenced by money, drink or the need for solitude and remote from social contact. These are the best option because they will not be influenced by local opinion.

This EXACTLY describes the situation in Kentmere, Cumbria. The landowner, or rather barn owner since 'our' TETRA antenna is on a grade II listed barn, is a farmer, living on the 'edge' who is a loner and has little or nothing to do with local residents. Airwave mmO2 told him the installation would be safe and, presumably, paid him the money. He and his partner have an eight month old baby girl - the TETRA antenna is some 15 metres from their house.

They claim they have taken "a business decision". They claim to have no concerns at all about the 'health' aspects because Airwave told them it was safe. They say that local residents are in "a stew' about nothing because Airwave says it is safe. They refuse to talk to locals about the TETRA installation, they refuse to come to local meetings, and they tell local residents who stop on the public footpath that runs past the 'mast' to "move on". They carry on as if everything is fine. Meanwhile residents are suffering 'health' problems, are writing to their MP, are compiling a 'complaint' to the local planning authority, are concerned about their holiday businesses, the values of their properties, and their long term health.

What can you do in a situation like this - it seems so unfair that we can't use half our house (we can easily detect microwave hotspots in our sitting room and bedroom, and feel nauseous after about 30 minutes in these rooms) when the landowner next door is totally unconcerned about all the stress and concern he is causing us and the local community. Indeed HE has made the decision regarding 'health' for the rest of us.

Have there been any situations where TETRA sufferers around the UK have written to identified landowners explaining about TETRA in their own way and expressing their concerns, etc. I know that if I were asked then I certainly would!?

Incidentally, I can add to the list of Airwave mmO2's misleading practices, e.g.

Have a PR meeting, including a police spokesman, about a submitted planning application for a 'collinear antenna', never mention TETRA or 'health' or alternative sites then claim it was a pre-application meeting in which alternative sites were fully discussed.

Chris


Have you told the landowner you hope he has insurance to the tune of £56000000. I believe that is what barry trower said landowners will need for future claims against devaluement of houses near to masts and health problems if it is proved masts cause health problems.

sue g

p.s. On 'look east' news this morning a piece about masts going up near houses in Felixstowe, Suffolk and I believe they are saying compensation will have to be paid if it goes up in this particular place for houses that are devalued. Unfortunatley my husband sneezed at a crucial moment in the broadcast so missed a bit of it.


I am asking a couple of business / psychologist friends of mine to help on this. Masties can do psychological profiling too! I think the answer below is the right way forward but in case we are missing a trick lets see what the "professionals" would say about a nasty landowner (Type 2 Retentive Sociopath???). No point masties wasting time trying to appeal to better nature. But interesting that telling "normal landowners2 about the health and business risks does work and makes them refuse permission - hence O2 seeking out nasty landowners who will not listen to reason.

Best Yasmin


I wouldn't mind putting a few of them through an EPQ (make 'em listen to Hans Eysenck while they're at it, that should finish them off!). According to some social psychologists (Brown, Allport and that lot), when you know that something is bad, like fags or mobiles, but you still 'have to' have them, the arising internal conflict causes cognitive dissonance, which affects subsequent attitudes and values etc.

To achieve consonance and avoid going completely mad, you have to either give up smoking or the convenience of your mobile, or convince yourself completely that what you know is wrong, ie, there are no harmful effects!

So you see, as the greedy, grabbing ignorant landlords and operators will not relinquish the revenue from masts, they refute the facts more vehemently than ever, to the point where they begin to actually believe themselves, even when they are presented with concrete evidence.

And that, my friends, is how they sleep at night!

Amanda


Informant: Mast Network



CAMPAIGN URGES LOCAL COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TELECOMMUNICATION MASTS TO IMPLEMENT THEIR RIGHT TO PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403052/

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/304020.shtml


Informant: billder

It is happening in my own back yard now.

Jenny


HOUSTON SCHOOLKIDS TAGGED AND TRACKED LIKE INVENTORY

by Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN Director

Why do creepy RFID initiatives seem to gravitate to Texas, even though Texans are among the most privacy and freedom-loving people in the nation? The latest assault involves the children of the Spring Independent School District, just north of Houston, where 28,000 students will soon be issued RFID badges that will track them as they get on and off school buses.

Apparently, RFID reader devices in the buses scan the kids and send their data across town to police and school officials. (Excuse me, did read that right? Police?!?) Of course, since the kids could lose or trade their cards, some bright bulbs are already considering RFID implants as a more secure alternative.

Despite the fact that no child has ever been lost or abducted in the Spring district, students are being RFID tagged "just in case" (and at a considerable cost, too).

This program, if allowed to continue, would mark a disastrous turn for privacy and civil liberties in this country and set a terrible precedent. The tracking of school children is especially loathsome, since not only are kids a captive audience (in this regard, public school students are second only to prisoners and the military), but they are not old enough to vote out the perpetrators -- or even to take their grievances against them to a court of law.

The program's impact on kids is summed up in the words of a 15-year-old, quoted as saying the program "makes me feel kind of like an animal." Is this how we, as a society, actually plan to treat the next generation of Americans? Are we really so intent on numbering, watching, and dehumanizing kids that we will ignore the impact of our technology on their independence and psychological wellbeing?

Kids must rely on adults to let them know what is and isn't appropriate in a free society. We adults, who are older and wiser and know the historical dangers of unchecked government power, have an obligation to look out for their interests. We must take a stand to protect our kids -- and indeed, ourselves -- from the busybodies who would have us all under lock and key (for our own safety, of course) the moment we let our guard down.

CASPIAN has many committed, freedom-loving members in the Houston area. If you wonderful folks want to plan a time and a date to rally to these kids' defense, CASPIAN will get the word out to the media and spread the message around the world not to mess with Texas. (And especially not its kids!)

Write us at Houston@nocards.org if you want to take a stand.
Source: New York Times via CNET, November 17, 2004
http://news.com.com/In+Texas,+28,000+students+test+an+electronic+eye/2100-1039_3-5456061.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/6etrq

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63731-2004Nov19_2.html


Informant: userde6253

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2589794&nav=168XTKsN


Informant: NHNE

. . . such as Gulf War II, and, see below, Election 2004.

plion


September 16, 2001's L.A. Times had a characteristically surprising article by Kevin Phillips, a nominally Republican analyst-journalist who is neverheless independent and almost ideology-free. The entire article is compelling; the concluding paragraphs, below, are especially arresting.

September 16, 2001

COMMENTARY

Can the Economy Survive the Attacks?

by KEVIN PHILLIPS,

His most recent book [at that time] is "The Cousins Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America"

Since the 1600s, each of America's three predecessors as leading world economic power found itself bled—economically, politically and militarily—by a new sort of war that forced it to fight on the wrong battlefields in precarious circumstances at too late a stage in the trajectory of its world leadership. Spain was crippled by the bloody and grotesque Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. The next power to rise up, the maritime empire of the Dutch, suffered a mortal economic and commercial wound in the quarter-century of war that wracked Europe from 1690 to 1713.

Great Britain paid the same price for World War I and II. Within only three decades of its peak economic and imperial splendors of 1910-14, the British empire of 1947, besides undergoing food and clothing rationing in peacetime, was forced to depend on financial loans and hand-outs from the United States. [This helps explain Blair's fawning on Clinton and Bush.--PL]

If terrorists in dingy conference rooms in Tripoli, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran or Kabul have concluded that the United States cannot maintain its present economic strength through 10 to 15 years of terrorism, attrition, computer-hack attacks, eroding markets and oil and currency crises, they may be wrong—but they may also be correct. Even in 1991, the United States had to pass the hat among other coalition members to finance the Gulf War.

Moreover, just as Britain no longer possessed the cutting-edge technologies in metallurgy, chemicals, armaments production and electrical engineering to effectively fight the First World War—imports from the U.S., Sweden and elsewhere become crucial-—the United States is increasingly at risk in Internet and computer-age technologies. Recent reports have made it clear, for example, that as commercial relationships between Taiwan and mainland China accelerate, some of America's dependence on Taiwan for critical computer parts threatens to pass to China.

None of this is to say that the U.S. should not try to eliminate its terrorist attackers. To maintain domestic and international credibility, it has to. But the three-dimensional game of strategic chess now facing Washington is quite different from the ones American leaders have played before.


[Phillips stops short of asking how the Bush Jr.-fronted administration---determined as it is to resuscitate a more ruthless version of a retro Reagan-Bush Sr. world---will survive this nexorable future-without-precedents.]

Breaking News: Lawsuit Challenges Ohio Presidential Results

Ohio’s 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced Friday. The lawyers have taken sworn testimony from hundreds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials and Election Day exit polls to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on Election Day.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2422

Propaganda Clashes with Reality: U.S. Deaths in Iraq War Hit 100 this Month

The U.S. Department of Defense feeds the press and public a daily diet of propaganda claiming the "insurgency is broken" in Iraq, as shown by the MSNBC article below. A second article posted below claims the backbone of the Iraqi insurgency was "broken" -- ten months ago. Meanwhile, the facts on the ground in Iraq contradict the propaganda, as the number of U.S. casualties escalates. As of November 20, 2004, the U.S. military confirmed 100 U.S. soldiers killed in combat for this month, an average of 5 Americans killed per day, a sharp increase since the election.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2421

A major red flag was raised yesterday indicating a flood of very seriously wounded U.S. soldiers from the Iraq War as the nationalist uprising opposing the U.S. occupation continues. According to the article below, "Yesterday, Walter Reed [Army Medical Center in Washington, DC] stopped accepting some ambulance patients at the emergency room because the hospital was nearly full, said Col. James Gilman, who runs the hospital."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2420

According to the article below, more than 300 flights have been made on behalf of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to facilitate the movement of enemy prisoners of war so they can be tortured in other countries.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2419

U.S. ELECTION: Democracy in Question

John Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it "the Armageddon election" for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to "steal it before election day."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2418

Televangelical tentacles: Who influences the U.S. Government

The impact of extreme religious views in America impact both foreign and domestic policies. If people want to know what's going to happen next in the globe, such as a crusade against what American extremists call a goodless North Korea or Islamic Iran, then watch the "700 Club." In the past few months, it has been U.S. courts that have checked the torture policies of the U.S. administration. In the column below, Philip James claims, "TV evangelist Pat Robertson is threatening to mobilise millions of his Christian viewers and "de-liberalise" the US judiciary.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2417

According to the news show 60 Minutes, "Soldiers injured in Iraq, even if in a hostile war zone, are not included in the casualty counts unless their injuries are the direct cause of combat." The program airs Sunday, November 21, 2004. Check your local listing for details.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2416

Mehrere amerikanische Bundesstaaten wollen demnächst das Kyoto-Protokoll anwenden. Damit erhöht sich der Druck auf die Regierung Bush, ebenfalls nachzugeben.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5612.php

Das Welt-Klima wird immer heißer, aber in den USA wird genau deshalb das Klima zwischen der Bush-Regierung und der Wissenschaft immer kühler.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5630.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Media Contact: Tim Carpenter 877-368-9221

Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party Announces First Policy Statement and Ongoing Mission

Organization Pledges to hold Democrats and Republicans Responsible to 57 Million Voters

Washington, DC — Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) announced its first policy initiative today in its drive to influence the platform and agenda of the national Democratic Party. Citing the slim 2.6% majority vote achieved in the recent election, the new statement released by PDA asserts, “We do not believe that the November election was a mandate to destroy Iraq while saving it nor an endorsement of the President’s management of the conflict.” (See full statement below.)

“Our objective is to demonstrate that the progressive movement is alive and growing both inside and outside the Party,” said PDA director, Tim Carpenter. PDA was established as a counterbalance to the Democratic Leadership Council. Many rank-and-file Party members feel the DLC appeased conservatives and allowed a policy shift to the political right.

High profile thought leaders like writer and journalist Tom Hayden, have endorsed the PDA position statement. “It is George Bush’s mistake now,” said Hayden, “The role of all Democrats and concerned Americans is to make him end his denial, accept responsibility and take significant steps to end the American occupation and leave Iraq to the Iraqis.”

PDA currently has 11 state caucuses with 15,000 registered members. The group has begun to work with its 22 other allied progressive organizations to launch a grassroots effort to influence the Democrats and put pressure on the current administration. In the wake of the November general election, this effort indicates the resilience of the grassroots movement established during the 2003-2004 Democratic Primary is still alive and represents the heartbeat of the Democratic Party. For more information go to http://www.PDAmerica.org.

The new PDA policy statement on Iraq reads as follows:

A Time To Break the Democrats’ Silence on Falluja and the Escalation of the War in Iraq

As Progressive Democrats we call on our Democratic Party leadership to break the public silence on the bloodbath in Falluja. Sixteen hundred Iraqi insurgents are said to have been killed and countless others maimed, crippled or injured in a single week. Over thirty American soldiers are dead and several hundred are wounded. Over eighty major attacks have been launched on American positions in several other uprisings from Mosul to Baghdad. Despite military and administration public relations, the US-trained Iraqi forces cannot or will not stand on their own.

America is creating a slaughterhouse in the name of democratic elections. As foreigners, we are dividing Sunni from Shiite and Kurd in the name of a fragmented Iraqi unity. We are ominously alone, abandoned by fifteen of our Coalition allies - so far - and by the United Nations.

This military strike was timed to occur after the American presidential election. While the main responsibility lies with President Bush, the national Democratic Party leadership has supported and encouraged the military offensive in Falluja as well. Both parties have bloody hands.

It is time for the bipartisan collusion in this war to end. It is time for the Democratic Party to become faithful to its faithful rank-and-file through becoming the party of opposition. It is time to declare clearly that this war is a mistake. The conduct of the war is a mistake. America is squandering the lives of its soldiers, the revenues of its taxpayers, and the trust of its people for a mistake.

When will our party leaders join in asking who will be the last American to die for this mistake?

Progressive Democrats will neither wait nor be silent. We will organize locally as voices and voters for peace. We will hold our Congressional representatives accountable if they support a $75 billion blood-stained check for the Iraq war. We will point out the daily cost of the war to our deficits, our cities, health care, housing and anti-poverty programs. We will demand greater candor and respect for our combat soldiers while also honoring those troops and their families who choose to oppose the war in the tradition of the young John Kerry.

During the presidential campaign, we gave one hundred percent for a Democratic ticket that felt compelled to defend a mistake. We do not believe that the November election was a mandate to destroy Iraq while saving it nor an endorsement of the President’s management of the conflict. It is George Bush’s mistake now, and the role of all Democrats and concerned Americans is to make him end his denial, accept responsibility and take significant steps to end the American occupation and leave Iraq to the Iraqis.

"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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup


Informant: Friends

http://www.redefeatbush.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=219


Informant: Diana Davies

Voter Reform Begins in Madison County, Alabama:

This story appeared in my local newspaper today:

The story details the steps that Madison County commission members want to accomplish to make voting easier...CLOSE SCHOOLS ON ELECTION DAY, USE SPECIFIED POLLING PLACES IN ALL ELECTIONS, AND EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POLL WORKERS.

Huntsville Times
Saturday, November 20th, 2004

COUNTY PANEL EYES ELECTION REFORM
Easier absentee voting, relocated polls considered

By David Holden
Times Staff Writer

Relaxing absentee voting rules and moving polling places from churches to public schools were among the ideas discussed Friday at the first meeting of the Madison County Election Reform Commission.

The commission was created earlier this month by the Madison County Commission to address problems voters experience in some precincts on Nov. 2.

Most of the problems were encountered in Madison, where some voters stood in line for hours only to be told they had waited at the wrong polling place. Precincts in other areas experienced long lines requiring voters to wait up to an hour before getting a chance to cast their ballots.

County Commissioner Faye Dyer, who represents the Madison area, said the reform commission might ask the Legislature to change the absentee voting law to allow more early voting, cutting down on some of the long lines at the polls.

"Why can't people cast an absentee without stating that they have to go out of town?" Dyer said. "Why do you have to state a reason at all? Its not of the government's business why you want to vote absentee."

The commission consists of all six members of the county commission, the canvassing board, the board of registrarts, the mayors of Madison and Huntsville, and county chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties.

County Commissioner Bob Harrison proposed that the membership of the Election Reform Commission include representatives of the Alabama Democratic Conference, the New South Coalition and other political-activist groups. The commission approved the proposal.

To study election issues and address problems encountered during the election, the commission formed four subcommittees Friday:

***PRECINCTS: County Commissioner Morris "Mo" Brooks, who is chairman of the Election Reform Commission, will chair this subcommittee. It will determine how many voters should be assigned to each precinct and conduct a "flow study" to determine how efficiently precincts are working and how many poll workers are needed.

***SCHOOLS: Dyer will chair this subcommittee, which will study whether moving voting precincts into schools is feasible. The panel will discuss with the three school boards in Madison County whether it would be feasible to close schools on election day. Dyer said issues have continued to crop up over using churches as polling places. Some people complain that it violates the separation of church and state, she said. "In my 16 years on the commission, that has been the most-cited objection I've heard," she said.

***MADISON: Mayor Sandy Kirkindall will head this subcommittee. It will determine how many additional precincts will needed in Madison to efficently handle the flow of voters. That group will also identify where the new precincts should be located. The goal is to make sure the established voting places are used for all elections in Madison.

***ELECTION PROCESSES: Harrison will chair this subcommittee, which will study how precincts work on Election Day. The panel will look at everything from how much poll workers and inspectors are paid to ways to assist handicapped voters and mothers pushing strollers. Poll workers are paid $70 to $80 a day and poll inspectors $100 to $110, said County Attorney Julian Butler.

The Election Reform Committee will meet again in February. It will amake its recommendations to the county commission next spring, Brooks said.


Informant: emcain79

Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html


Informant: Diana Davies

http://tinyurl.com/5mtb3


http://www.rense.com/general59/newsgatheringisillegal.htm

Informant: userde6253

Aktion: Kein Raubbau in Kongos Regenwäldern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406323/

Rote Liste der bedrohten Arten wird noch länger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405580/

Todesfälle in den Städten steigen mit den Ozonwerten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405577/

Die globalisierte Ökonomie ist eine Welt der Anarchie - ohne Regeln
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405576/

Falludscha: Kriegsverbrechen unter Ausschluss der Weltöffentlichkeit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405574/

EU-Datenschützer warnen vor Internet-Protokollierung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405174/

Datenschützer gegen geplante Speicherung aller Kommunikationsdaten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403001/

Die Arktis schmilzt und die Industriestaaten schauen zu
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/401201/

Volksbegehren „Aus Liebe zum Wald“
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/399783/

US-Bundesrichter stoppt Guantanamo-Tribunal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/397111/

Flugsicherheit, uneinsichtige US-Bürger und der Iran
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/394064/

Weltweites Moratorium gegen genveränderte Bäume
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393906/

Klimaturbulenzen und Naturkatastrophen nehmen ständig zu
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/392955/

Irakische Ärzte: US-Gefängnisfolter geht weiter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391897/

Der große Lauschangriff
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391782/

Der Gottesstaat im Westen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/390241/

Petition gegen den weiteren Irakkrieg
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/389126/

Wie segenreiche Erfindungen blockiert werden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/386165/

Lotsen und Doppelhüllentanker sollen Ostsee vor Öllecks schützen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/381802/

EU-Innenminister einigen sich auf Aufnahme von Fingerprints in EU-Pässen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/379747/

Foltern für die nationale Sicherheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/380587/

Die Menschheit lebt über ihre Verhältnisse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/376395/

Lahme Gesetzgebung, rührige Bauern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/376799/

Bilanz der Bürgerrechte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/373509/

Weltweite Artenvielfalt ist in 30 Jahren um 30 Prozent gesunken
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/373515/

Ohne Alternativen droht massive Zunahme von Tierversuchen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372147/

Klage gegen Klon-Patent eingereicht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372153/

Weniger Kündigungsschutz schafft keine Arbeitsplätze
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372151/

Think Tanks sollen Stimmung schaffen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370480/

NAFTA kritisiert Gefährdung der biologischen Vielfalt durch Gen-Mais
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370522/

Gifte auch im Blut von Ministern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/370529/

http://www.jefffisherforcongress.com/


Informant: Ell Kinder

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Human extinction within 100 years warns scientist
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406380/

Killing Kids
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406634/

URGENT ALERT: VOTE COMING ON FORCED MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/407059/

JOIN THE B.U.S.H. BOYCOTT
http://newswire.indymedia.org/de/newswire/2004/11/814444.shtml

Lynn students take part in child ID project
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402935/

STOP FUNDING FOR MANDATORY MENTAL SCREENING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/404032/

What is gray goo-nanotechnology, is it the end of humanity?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402957/

FAA OFFICIAL CONFIRMS AIR FORCE IS CONDUCTING WEATHER MODIFICATION OVER U.S. AND CANADA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408396/

US planning To Recruit One In 24 Americans As Citizen Spies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402959/

State proposal could force fluoridation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402929/

Ont. demands tougher protection for Great Lakes in U.S. water-taking deal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/404010/

Rally Against Japanese Dolphin and Whale Slaughter
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/404023/

Protests against the fishing practice of bottom-trawling continue
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405360/

Keep the Pacific coast oil free
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408206/

Keep Loggers out of Alaska's unspoiled Rainforest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408705/

Aust to join fight to stamp out illegal logging
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403588/

Genetically modified madness
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406260/

US study links more than 200 diseases to pollution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406560/

Administration accused of changing drilling rule
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406018/

Arctic Wildlife Refuge Under Attack
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406295/

Stop Lawless Logging Biscuit Rider
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406616/

STOP THE 2004 BEAR HUNT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406308/

Melting Swiss Glaciers Threaten Alps
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/404048/

The Times They Have a-Changed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403949/

Journalist predicts war in Iraq will plunge U.S. economy into downturn
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403020/

Dollar's Decline Is Reverberating
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402974/

It's Over
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/407941/

An emerging mental health crisis among returning Iraq War veterans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/402909/

US Pension Agency's Deficit Swells To $23.3 Billion
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/404039/

Curtailing the Patriot Act
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406024/

Politics of destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406095/

21% Wholesale Inflation Annual Rate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406555/

Weapons of Self-Destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406337/

The Myth of the Liberal Media
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408421/

YOU HAVE PAPERS?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408626/

UK complained to US about alleged Iraq abuse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408415/

Pillow Talk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406439/

Dentist's Cancer Warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403943/

Appeal won in Oxted
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408725/

Growing Collection of Vote Fraud links: ATTN Global Media
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13375.shtml


Informant: Friends

Yesterday I recieved a letter from the planning inspectorate to say an appeal by O2 against Tandridge District Council is dismissed. This is the second mast I have been involved in fighting in Oxted, Surrey. The first which happened last year, involved putting pressure on the land owner who subsequently withdrew his permission to allow a 12.5 metre mast to be erected on his land.Good result we were very happy.

This second one was for an O2 3g 15 metre mast to be sited by a park on a grass verge at the front of a neighbours house.Luckily Tandridge Council agreed with us on this one and refused it.Of course O2 appealed and we all stepped up a gear to make our feelings known. Luckily through mastsanity we even managed to get Caroline Lucas down when she visited a Tetra mast at our local fire station.She visited our site and promised to write to the inspectorate herself.

Again a phone mast took over my life for a few months,neglecting my children and husband (but then he is big enough to look after himself) but I have to say it is all worth it to get the result we wanted.

My worry now is that all we have done is to move the problem 100 yards up the road which still does not solve anything but at least for the time being we are 2:0 to us.

Thank you for your website and to Yasmin (don,t expect you will remember me) for advising me a few months ago. It has been great to get so much imformation and posters etc to print off and also invaluable to realise that we were not alone and that people up and down the country are all fighting the same as us.

Keep up the good work.

Love Debbie Pitt (mad mast women from Oxted)

PS Celebrated last night so hope this all makes sense.


From: Mastsanity

Datenschutz: Überwachung und Kontrolle gefährden Selbstbestimmung (18.11.04)

Auf der in Köln stattfindenden 28. Datenschutzfachtagung (DAFTA), die unter dem Leitthema "Orwell´s 1984 - 20 Jahre danach" steht, wies der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Peter Schaar in seiner Rede am Donnerstag auf die Probleme wachsender Überwachungs- und Kontrollmöglichkeiten hin. Er forderte eine verstärkte öffentliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Gefährdungen des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, die mit dem Einsatz neuer Technologien verbunden sind.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9780

http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5259


Informant: NHNE

http://tinyurl.com/69lac


Informant: NHNE

Sixteen hundred Iraqi insurgents are said to have been killed and countless others maimed, crippled or injured in a single week. Over thirty American soldiers are dead and several hundred are wounded. Over eighty major attacks have been launched on American positions in several other uprisings from Mosul to Baghdad. Despite military and administration public relations, the US-trained Iraqi forces cannot or will not stand on their own.

America is creating a slaughterhouse in the name of democratic elections. As foreigners, we are dividing Sunni from Shiite and Kurd in the name of a fragmented Iraqi unity. We are ominously alone, abandoned by fifteen of our Coalition allies - so far - and by the United Nations.

This military strike was timed to occur after the American presidential election. While the main responsibility lies with President Bush, the national Democratic Party leadership has supported and encouraged the military offensive in Falluja as well. Both parties have bloody hands.

It is time for the bipartisan collusion in this war to end. It is time for the Democratic Party to become faithful to its faithful rank-and-file through becoming the party of opposition. It is time to declare clearly that this war is a mistake. The conduct of the war is a mistake. America is squandering the lives of its soldiers, the revenues of its taxpayers, and the trust of its people for a mistake.

When will our party leaders join in asking who will be the last American to die for this mistake?

Progressive Democrats will neither wait nor be silent. We will organize locally as voices and voters for peace. We will hold our Congressional representatives accountable if they support a $75 billion blood-stained check for the Iraq war. We will point out the daily cost of the war to our deficits, our cities, health care, housing and anti-poverty programs. We will demand greater candor and respect for our combat soldiers while also honoring those troops and their families who choose to oppose the war in the tradition of the young John Kerry.

During the presidential campaign, we gave one hundred percent for a Democratic ticket that felt compelled to defend a mistake. We do not believe that the November election was a mandate to destroy Iraq while saving it nor an endorsement of the President’s management of the conflict. It is George Bush’s mistake now, and the role of all Democrats and concerned Americans is to make him end his denial, accept responsibility and take significant steps to end the American occupation and leave Iraq to the Iraqis.

Time will tell all the Truth

VT

Sean Lewis VirtualTruth@aol.com

Founder OpenDebateForum@Groups.AOL.com


Informant: Virtualtruth

Hey, I just got off the phone with my daughter Laura in NYC who is a Brooklyn College student. She is telling me that her professors, and teachers are telling the students that the election is not over, and that if the electorate in Ohio finds Kerry to be the winner they may cast their votes for Kerry therefore making Kerry the winner when the electoral college meets.

The point is, there is not as much of a black out as we think. Now I have no idea what is happening in any other Colleges or Universities across America, but I would hope that people are getting the correct info in the Universities. Can anyone find out?

Until I talked to her, I forgot entirely about Universities giving out info-.

I suppose many of us did because we are done with College days.

OK, I hope that sounds hopeful,

We also plan to change our money into lounies. Sounds good Aye!! OK, so the dollar is crashing but the lounie isn't!! Right! I'll put them little coloured monies right under my mattress. Of course, we can use the lounies right here in Buffalo at par. It has ALWAYS been that way. So having Canadian money wouldn't raise any suspicion, everyone has it in their wallet any way.. Gee, as a matter of fact, we might see much more businesses in Buffalo using Canadian money instead. Like I said, we use it any way at par. Which means we use it the same way. So 20 Canadian, is the same as 20 American etc. All prices stay the same. It's been that way for most of my life. Let's just say this, if you are at a supermarket, and they run out if American money, they will ask you if you will take the Canadian money, and most people do. Of course, the change gets rolled right in with the America money here. This place is crazy here, I swear.

Oh I am so happy that the Colleges are talking about it to the students Hurray!!!

lynnzy

DieBold and ES&S stole the election for Bush

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

http://www.sorryeverybody.com http://apologiesaccepted.com

It's a movement. It's a phenomenon. It's a Web site. Or maybe it's far more than that. No one can really be sure. No matter what it is, it's called http://www.sorryeverybody.com and it expresses, better than any outpouring so far, a sentiment that's omnipresent and palpable and still going strong, and every single Democrat and every single Kerry supporter and every single liberal of any stripe whatsoever probably felt it like a white-hot stab in the heart the minute Kerry's concession speech hit the airwaves and it undoubtedly went something like this:

Dear world: We are so very, very sorry. For Bush. For our bitterly divided and confused nation. For what's to come. Please know that tens of millions of us did not vote for him. Please do not hate us. Not all of us, anyway. OK, maybe Utah. Do you know where Utah is? Never mind.

See, not only is half of America still deeply dejected about the onslaught of Dubya Dubya II, but much of that half wants the world to know just how crestfallen we are, and just how awful we feel for inflicting Bush and his middle-finger foreign policy on them like a virus, a toxin, a nasty STD, yet again.

It has started a countersite already, called http://www.apologiesaccepted.com from the people around the world who understand that the majority isn't usually the smartest group.

Check the photo sections out, as that is where the heart of the sites are.5000+ photos already of Americans who are sorry for letting Bush get re-elected.

P.S. It comes from the premise that Kerry actually lost, and that 51% of the country voted for Bush. Anyone kept up on any other-than-mainstream news source knows that Kerry actually won and that DieBold and ES&S stole the election for Bush. For those that don't know this, here are a couple websites to show you how the far right gets what they want in this country.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html
http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/
http://stolenelection2004.com/

If those aren't enough type into any search engine: "Diebold election fraud" Google produces 105,000 websites which should be plenty:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Diebold+election+fraud&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=


“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville

Men occasionally stumble on the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off
as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill


Informant: Andy Thames

GET YOUR SIGNS READY TO PROTEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AGAINST SLAVERY

IN RECOGNITION OF ROSA PARKS WHO STOOD AND SPOKE THE TRUTH AND KEPT STANDING FOR THE PEOPLE, A SINGLE VOICE CHANGES THE WORLD

DECEMBER 1, 2004

NATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST SLAVERY

MEET AT DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES BLDGS, CHILD SERVICES OFFICES, JUVENILE COURT AND JAIL FACILITIES ACROSS AMERICA

JOIN THE LIST - SEND INFO AND GET PEOPLE TOGETHER AROUND THE ABUSE OF THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - THIS IS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM FOR OUR POSTERITY IN AMERICA

WE WILL BE IN SALEM - JOIN OTHERS OR START YOUR OWN PROTEST IN YOUR TOWN .... BE LOUD ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS - TELL EVERYONE !!

Slavery has taken on a different new form now, all of our rights being restricted by statutes. The state says we volunteer for this abuse in their processing. All colors, creed, sexes, beliefs, all humans are at risk to the corporate scheme now. Not about "civil rights" but "Inherent Rights" have been stripped from all of us by implied consent in their administrative courts. Freeborn People in a REPUBLIC is where we stand, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

STOP these outlaw schemes now.

pamela gaston http://www.avoiceforchildren.com

From: motherinterrupted@motherinterrupted.us

Here are the latest updates for Oregon on protest times and locations:
Midtown DHS
Meet at 10:00 a.m.
NE Irving and 16th (behind parking lot between freeway on ramp and Benson High School)
Contact: Susan Detlefsen motherinterrupted@motherinterrupted.us or
Leshia Hart 503-474-9763

Beaverton DHS
Meet at 10:00 a.m.
12901 SW Jenkins Road
Beaverton
Contact: Valerie Barbeau 503-642-0265

Clackamas DHS
*TBA

Salem - Juvenile Court Building
Meet at 10:00 a.m.
3030 Center St
Salem
Contact: Pamela and Will Gaston avoice@mtangel.net

Eugene DHS
TBA
*exact details to follow
Contact: Shirley Kinter 541-988-9811

Grants Pass DHS
727 NE 7th
Grants Pass
Contact: Tina Reorowitz 541-474-9763

Pioneer Square
Meet at 12:30 p.m.
Downtown Portland (Broadway and Morrison, behind Starbucks, across from Nordstrom's)
Contact: Susan Detlefsen motherinterrupted@motherinterrupted.us

*Smaller groups will meet up in downtown Portland for a "Set the Children Free" rally.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-14.htm


Informant: NHNE

This was forwarded to me from a very good friend of mine. It is very uplifting for those of us that care deeply about the fraud in this year's 2004 Presidential Election. Most of us know that the media is steering completely clear from this topic, as they are no longer a liberal media (corporations pay for advertising). If this recount proves what we all know (electronic voting machines by Diebold and ES&S were rigged), then it will be forced into the mainstream media. Ralph Nader is also the very best example to follow if you're wanting to become an activist. He is totally 100% for the people, and dedicated his entire life to fighting for the people. He not only fights for what he believes in, he fights effectively. He is the best model I know of to follow on making effective change in the government. He has a website listed in the article and has his own email list that you may join. He will keep you updated on the things he is currently fighting for. Maybe we as a smarter than average crowd can get off our a... and help out a little. Take an action toward fighting for what you believe in. No matter how small the action, you will find it will make you feel good inside. You will know you did something for what you believe in. You might even feel compelled to take a larger action. Who knows. All I know is we must do something.


Dear Friend,

Message from New Hampshire

Thank you for your continued support.

Hi, this is Kevin Zeese, I'm here in Concord, New Hampshire with Rob Cirincione and Virginia Rodino and we're here for the New Hampshire recount of the Nader/Kerry/Bush race and it's just getting under way. There's a room full of people here. There's a lot of positive energy in the room. We've brought together more than twice the number of volunteers we need to manage the recount, to observe and make sure that the recount is done accurately. People feel very confident that we're going to make our democracy better and stronger. The media has started covering this. We've seen a lot of reports here in New Hampshire and even The Nation magazine, on their website, has an article about this New Hampshire recount. The Boston Globe was here, so I'm sure we'll see some coverage of this no matter how it turns out.

I want to make it clear what the goal is in this recount. We're not here trying to overturn the election. We're doing basic democracy activism. We're trying to protect our democracy. This is more like an audit of the vote. We're seeking a recount in wards in New Hampshire where there have been mathematical anomalies, where people expected more votes for Kerry than Bush, and Bush got anywhere from 5 to 15% more votes than expected. When we look at those numbers it turns out that most of those anomalies occurred in wards where the vote was counted on the Diebold AccuVote Machine, in fact 78% of those unusual votes were on those machines. This is the first audit in a Presidential Election of an electronic voting count system so it's an historic moment. Either way it turns out it will be good for our democracy. If it turns out that there was no problem, it will show that these machines were reliable in this race, it will show that there's a positive role for audits and it will make the Democrats question further why they keep losing support-and I think there's good reason they're losing support. If it turns out there's a problem, well then we have a major national story involving electronic voting and raising questions that really need to be evaluated, as more and more of the country goes to electronic vote count.

So, we're here, fighting for democracy and would love to have your support and best wishes for our success in it. Please visit our website http://www.votenader.org to get actively involved. This will be the first stage of the recount so we'll need more help as this goes forward.

Thanks a lot.

Kevin Zeese
Campaign Spokesperson
(202) 265-4000

http://user.pa.net/~drivera/


Informant: Andy Thames

Now it starts. On Friday 11/19, Congress plans to pass a massive appropriations bill that will significantly deprive schools of promised funding. They put off passing this bill until after the election so that they didn't outrage voters - and lose votes - by creating funding cuts in programs that Americans consider priority. But under-funding education is exactly what they're planning to do.

Already there is talk about cutting back on pre-election commitments to education - and even these commitments shortchanged the President's own No Child Left Behind program by $9 billion and cut the federal share of special education funding by over $10 billion.

To stop this folly will require an unprecedented public mobilization over the months ahead. But we must take a stand right now!

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=68065

Please contact your members of Congress immediately and put them on notice. Let them know that under-funding our children's schools -- while we spend $75 billion more in Iraq and cut taxes for multi-millionaires - makes no sense whatsoever. Tell them that you plan to fight them every step of the way until they get their priorities straight.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=68065

Friday's expected roll-backs on education commitments are only the beginning of the horror show. The White House is circulating budget documents calling for long term cuts in education funding. The president who campaigned on a pledge to "invest in education," is now planning deep cuts over the next five years. [1]

In the coming months, we'll join together and challenge lawmakers face to face in their own offices. By writing now though we take a stand against false promises and remind our leaders that we will continue to hold them accountable if they undercut our schools.

The education of our children is only 3% of the federal budget, but it's 100% of our future. We can't let our children's education be victimized by the right-wing's wrong-headed priorities. Please take action right now to stop the education budget back-tracking!

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=68065

Thank you for your continued vigilance.

Sincerely,

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

[1] "OMB Account-level Data on Government Spending, 2005-2009," OMB Watch 2004.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=68066

"No matter how many factors and variables we took into consideration, the significant correlation in the votes for President Bush and electronic voting cannot be explained," said Hout."
see: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/ November 18, 2004

See also Dopp study: http://uscountvotes.org November 5 , 2004

See also Freeman study: Freeman, Steven F., PhD. “The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy.” Buzzflash (November 11, 2004),
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/ale04090.html.

See 2001 study, for crying out loud:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Jordan-Daw...


Bush's fifth ace: A crooked Panhandle
Plop some green eyeshades on blind Bob Butterworth
by Elizabeth Jordan and Oliver Dawshed

". . .What we found was implausible enough to justify an investigation by law enforcement authorities. Precinct level information from 11 northern counties revealed that two parameters which can be logically connected to electoral fraud (ballot spoilage and the number of Gore votes divided by the number of Nelson votes) account for two-thirds of the variation in Gore's performance; the chances of this happening by chance are about 1 in 1047 (10 raised to the 47th power). This was true in aggregate as well as individually. Each of the eleven northern counties that we studied had patterns consistent with cheating by Republicans. These were Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Gulf, Hamilton, Jackson, Suwanee, Union, and Washington. Precincts in some counties had discard rates of up to 40 percent of ballots cast! Calhoun and Dixie showed profiles possibly suggestive of ballot box stuffing. We suggest that the most consistent explanation of the statistical anomalies is a pattern of criminal tampering with ballots, primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) by Republicans. In just 14 suspicious precincts with suspiciously high ballot discard rates, 844 ballots for Gore were destroyed in excess of what would be expected. In the 11 counties, the total number of Gore ballots involved is probably in the tens of thousands, our model suggests that 7,100 votes may have been destroyed, so the number destroyed in all northern counties may have been many tens of thousands...."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111904W.shtml


Additionally: Berkeley web site: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/

Editor's Note | A copy of the working paper, raw data and other information used in the study described below can be found here. - wrp

Go to Original

UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count

by UC Berkeley

Thursday 18 November 2004

Research team calls for investigation.

Today the University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study - the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e- voting - reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting methods - what the team says can be deemed a "smoke alarm." Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance - the probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research team formally disclosed results of the study at a press conference today at the UC Berkeley Survey Research Center, where they called on Florida voting officials to investigate.

The three counties where the voting anomalies were most prevalent were also the most heavily Democratic: Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade, respectively. Statistical patterns in counties that did not have e-touch voting machines predict a 28,000 vote decrease in President Bush's support in Broward County; machines tallied an increase of 51,000 votes - a net gain of 81,000 for the incumbent. President Bush should have lost 8,900 votes in Palm Beach County, but instead gained 41,000 - a difference of 49,900. He should have gained only 18,400 votes in Miami-Dade County but saw a gain of 37,000 - a difference of 19,300 votes.

"For the sake of all future elections involving electronic voting - someone must investigate and explain the statistical anomalies in Florida," says Professor Michael Hout. "We're calling on voting officials in Florida to take action."

The research team is comprised of doctoral students and faculty in the UC Berkeley sociology department, and led by Sociology Professor Michael Hout, a nationally-known expert on statistical methods and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the UC Berkeley Survey Research Center.

For its research, the team used multiple-regression analysis, a statistical method widely used in the social and physical sciences to distinguish the individual effects of many variables on quantitative outcomes like vote totals. This multiple-regression analysis takes into account of the following variables by county:

· number of voters
· median income
· Hispanic/Latino population
· change in voter turnout between 2000 and 2004
· support for Senator Dole in the 1996 election
· support for President Bush in the 2000 election
· use of electronic voting or paper ballots

"No matter how many factors and variables we took into consideration, the significant correlation in the votes for President Bush and electronic voting cannot be explained," said Hout. "The study shows, that a county's use of electronic voting resulted in a disproportionate increase in votes for President Bush. There is just a trivial probability of evidence like this appearing in a population where the true difference is zero - less than once in a thousand chances."

The data used in this study came from public sources including CNN.com, the 2000 US Census, and the Verified Voting Foundation. For a copy of the working paper, raw data and other information used in the study can be found at: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/


Informant: Marsha V. Hammond

http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/10/sample_rightwin.html


Informant: Marsha V. Hammond

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has just completed the largest consultation process ever undertaken relating to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Futureye was appointed through a tender process, to review and evaluate GBRMPA's community engagement efforts and provide advice on a way forward.

Futureye is conducting this review at a number of levels - interviews, forums and web-surveys. We are engaging with internal and external stakeholders across a wide range of interest groups to gain a thorough perspective of the process to date. We would be extremely interested in your views on GBRMPA's efforts and ask that you complete the following survey.

The survey has been divided into three sections, Demographics, Culture and Capacity and Community Expectations. It should take approximately 25 minutes to complete. We ask that you answer each question.
Your feedback will be treated confidentially and any comments that you make won't be used without your permission. Futureye will not pass onto a third party any of the information that you have given.

Please take some time to complete this survey as soon as possible. It can be accessed from the Futureye website from the link below.

http://www.futureye.biz/survey/extsurvey.htm

The survey will be available until 4:00pm, Friday 26 November.

If you have any questions, please contact Caroline Baxter from Futureye on (03) 9642 2088 or e-mail caroline@futureye.biz.

Thank-you for participating in the survey.


Informant: Cathy McKeller

http://www.newswithviews.com/Craig/roberts3.htm


Informant: DitziSis


AUTHOR OF GOVERNMENT EXPOSÉ BOOK IS TARGETED AT AIRPORTS
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/author/craigroberts/papers.html


Informant: m.e. onullder

Die Elektrik spielt verrückt in dem sizilianischen Örtchen Canneto. Phänomene, die jeder sehen und bezeugen kann. Aber niemand hat eine vernünftige, wissenschaftlich haltbare Erklärung. Ein GEO-Reporter hat sich vor Ort umgesehen

"Die Wahrheit", sagt die 68-jährige Lorenzina Pezzino, "die Wahrheit wissen die längst. Aber wir werden sie nie erfahren." "Die", das sind die von der Eisenbahn und die vom Zivilschutz, die vom Institut für Geophysik und von der Universität Messina und der Bürgermeister sowieso. Die kommen mit immer absurderen Erklärungen für das Phänomen, das in den vergangenen Monaten die Häuser der Via Mare heimgesucht hat. Die Sackgasse ist das Herz der Ortschaft Canneto di Caronia an der Nordküste Siziliens, 39 Menschen leben hier. Die Züge von Palermo nach Messina rasen ganz dicht vorbei.

Es begann im Januar. In Nino Pezzinos Haus brannte der Fernseher durch. Soweit nichts Ungewöhnliches. Ein paar Tage später schmorte bei den Nachbarn das Kabel des Kühlschranks. Wohl ein Kurzschluss. Obwohl das Gerät erst zwei Tage alt war. Als auch in Ninos Haus die Kabel durchbrennen, ruft er bei der Enel an, dem staatlichen Elektrizitäts-Konzern. Ein Techniker leitet den Strom über einen anderen Zähler um. Abends fängt im Bad die Leitung des Durchlauferhitzers an zu glühen. Die Enel nimmt die Via Mare vom Netz und stellt einen Generator auf. Der Spuk geht weiter. Der Strom wird ganz abgeschaltet. Ein Zähler geht in Flammen auf. Der Strom ist abgeschaltet, aber die Brände hören nicht auf! Und es passiert fast immer dann, wenn ein Zug vorbeifährt.

Am 7. Februar steigt überall Qualm aus Steckdosen und Lichtschaltern, züngeln kleine Flammen aus Verteilerkästchen. Vor Ninos Haus liegt ein Stück Kabel auf dem Boden, die Enden blank. Es fängt in der Mitte an zu schmoren. Die Straße wird evakuiert. Die Enel-Techniker reißen alle Stromleitungen aus den Wänden. Jemand hat gesagt, unter Canneto sei womöglich ein neuer Vulkan am entstehen. Dutzende Techniker und Wissenschaftler belagern das Dorf, Journalisten, Feuerwehrmänner, Beamte. Sie machen elektromagnetische und elektrostatische Messungen; sie prüfen die Luftfeuchtigkeit; sie untersuchen die Oberleitung der Bahn und die Sendemasten der Mobilfunk-Betreiber.

In den Zeitungen erscheint eine Infografik mit der ersten Hypothese. Schübe geothermischer Energie hätten sich genau unter Canneto den Weg an die Erdoberfläche gebahnt und die Luft ionisiert, was zu Entladungen und damit zu den Bränden geführt habe. Am nächsten Tag erklärt das Nationale Institut für Geophysik und Vulkanologie die Theorie für nicht haltbar: Canneto liege in einer für sizilianische Verhältnisse absolut ruhigen Zone. Die Ratlosigkeit bleibt auch in den folgenden Wochen. Seit die Wissenschaftler da und die Bewohner weg sind, haben die Brände aufgehört. Es gibt nichts zu messen. Mitte März hebt der Bürgermeister die Evakuierung auf. Die Familien beginnen, sich wieder einzurichten. Die Enel verlegt neue Stromleitungen. Wenig später dringt Qualm aus einem Schuhschränkchen. "Wo stecken die Techniker?", ruft Nino und rudert mit den Armen.

Bald erscheinen auf Handy-Displays wirre Zeichen, Akkus entladen sich. Die Wissenschaftler messen elektromagnetische Störungen. Die Schutzkleidung und ein Schuh eines Forschers entzünden sich. An geparkten Autos blockieren die Zentralverriegelungen. Ein Lieferwagen, der einige Stunden an der Zufahrt zur Via Mare geparkt war, geht beim Wegfahren in Flammen auf. Im Fernsehen toben Debatten: Um Canneto habe sich offenbar eine Art Kondensator gebildet. Von Kugelblitzen und so genannten Elmsfeuern ist die Rede, aus Rom meldet sich Gabriele Amorth, Ehrenpräsident des Internationalen Exorzisten-Verbandes. Er bietet seine Dienste an, die Bürger von Canneto lehnen dankend ab. "Den Teufel gibt es", sagt Lorenzina Pezzino, "aber warum sollte er mein Haus in Brand stecken?" Eine dänische Journalistin sagt in die Fernsehkameras der italienischen Kollegen: "Es überrascht uns, dass niemand in diesem sizilianischen Dorf an Übernatürliches glaubt. Wir sind ein bisschen enttäuscht."

Die Bürger von Canneto haben einen technischen Berater, einen Ingenieur namens Francesco Valenti. In drei Dossiers hat er seine Erklärung für die Phänomene dargelegt: Die starken Sturmfluten im Januar und Februar hätten den Erdboden unter Canneto erodiert, deswegen könne der Strom der Eisenbahn nicht mehr richtig abfließen. Ladung sammle sich an "wie in einem Schwamm" und bilde elektrostatische Felder. Außerdem hätten die Stürme die Oberleitung verbogen, die Stromabnehmer der Loks machten deshalb winzige Sprünge, was zur Emission von Energiequanten führe.

Valentis Theorie entbehre jeder wissenschaftlichen Grundlage, sagt Francesco Venerando, Koordinator der Zivilschutzbehörde im zwei Stunden entfernten Palermo. Es gebe keine Hinweise auf Eintritt von Meerwasser, keine Erosion. Er liest aus einem Zeitungsartikel über die Theorie eines Physik-Professors aus Urbino vor: Möglicherweise hätten die ungewöhnlich starken Sonnenstürme um die Jahreswende Teile der Ionosphäre ionisiert, was zu einem Linsen-Effekt geführt habe. Elektromagnetische Wellen, welcher Herkunft auch immer, seien wie in einem Brennglas fokussiert worden. Die Eisenbahn habe allenfalls als Verstärker gewirkt. Keine offizielle Erklärung, aber laut Zivilschutzbehörde bisher die plausibelste von allen. Im Jahr 1859 sind nach einem heftigen Sonnensturm Telegrafenleitungen im Norden der USA abgebrannt.

Im Juli kommt das lang erwartete Spezialschiff von der Marine, um abschließend auf dem Meer nach elektromagnetischen Feldern zu suchen. Ohne Ergebnis. "Wenn sie sogar extra ein Spezialschiff von der Marine schicken", sagt Nino Pezzino, "dann wissen sie womöglich wirklich nicht, was hier passiert ist." Also doch nicht die Eisenbahn? Unterdessen platzen in einer Herbstnacht alle Wasserrohre des Dorfes. Die Einwohner werden ein zweites Mal evakuiert. "Die ganze Sache", sagt Nino Pezzino, "wird immer mysteriöser."

http://www.geo.de/GEO/wissenschaft_natur/2004_11_GEOskop_canneto/page1.html?linkref=geode_pager


X-Akte: Sizilien

von Franz Bludorf

http://www.principality-of-sealand.de/busclub/open/busclubnav_d.html?brief3010_op.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html


Informant: Wpdanny

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2004/11/111404.html


Informant: Scott Munson

Manufacturing dissent: How progressives gave the election to Bush
http://onlinejournal.com/Commentary/111704Baker/111704baker.html


Informant: Friends

Vorabdruck aus "Stichwort BAYER 4/04". Ein Probeexemplar senden wir gerne zu.

Die neue EU-Kommission hat sich vollends dem Primat der Ökonomie verschrieben. Die Riege um Präsident José Barroso hat sich vorgenommen, die "Lissabon-Strategie" konsequent zu verfolgen, wonach Europa bis 2010 "die wettbewerbsfähigste Wirtschaft der Welt" werden soll. Dabei erwies sich in der Vergangenheit besonders die Umweltpolitik als störend. In Gestalt der Chemikalien-Verordnung brachte diese BAYER & Co. gehörig gegen Brüssel auf. Ihr Protest gegen das Vorhaben führte schließlich zu einer Neuausrichtung der gesamten EU-Politik.

BAYER macht EU-Politik

EU-Kommission immer industrie-freundlicher

von Jan Pehrke

Eigentlich ist es die normalste Sache von der Welt: Wenn Unternehmen ein neues Produkt herausbringen, müssen sie gesundheitsgefährdende Wirkungen ausschließen können. Bei der Chemie stimmt das jedoch nicht. Auf dem Markt tummeln sich tausende niemals auf ihr mögliches Schadenspotenzial hin untersuchte Stoffe. Unter der Umweltkommissarin Margot Wallström nahm sich die EU endlich dieses unhaltbaren Zustandes an. Mit der Chemikalien-Verordnung wollte die Schwedin die Chemie-Firmen zu den entsprechenden Tests verpflichten. Die Konzerne stiegen auf die Barrikaden und entwarfen ein Horror-Szenario: immenser bürokratischer Aufwand, große Mehrkosten und drohende Arbeitsplatz-Verluste in Millionen-Höhe.

Auf dem kleinen Dienstweg wandte sich BAYER umgehend an Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder. Dieser intervenierte sogleich beim damaligen Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi und wetterte bei jeder Gelegenheit gegen "diese Dame aus Schweden", Umweltkommissarin Margot Wallström. Die Bundesregierung brachte das Thema immer wieder auf die Tagesordnung. Mit Erfolg. Schröder meldete 2003 auf der Mitgliederversammlung des Europäischen Chemie-Verbandes CEFIC Vollzug und dankte dem Industrie-Kommissar Erkki Liikanen für seine Obstruktionspolitik. "Die Kommission hat einen ersten Entwurf des neuen Zulassungsverfahrens für chemische Stoffe Anfang Mai veröffentlicht. Wenn ich das mit dem vergleiche, was ursprünglich gewollt und in Form von Büchern auf dem Tisch lag, hat sich ihre Arbeit, Herr Liikanen, gelohnt", führte der Bundeskanzler aus und lobte den Finnen dafür, "dass industrie-politisches Denken mehr als früher Gegenstand von Kommissionsarbeit geworden ist". Mehr als früher, aber noch lange nicht genug, befand Wolfgang Clements Staatssekretär Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch: "Die Industrie-Politik hat in der EU kein eigenes politisches Standbein". Eigentlich sollte die von den MinisterpräsidentInnen im März 2000 beschlossene "Lissabon-Strategie" ihr eines verschaffen. Die PolitikerInnen wollten aus Europa mit dieser Richtschnur bis zum Jahr 2010 "die wettbewerbsfähigste wissensgestützte Wirtschaft der Welt" machen. Aber mit Chemie-Gesetzen und anderen nicht zum imperialen Kerngeschäft gehörenden Aktivitäten rückt dieses Ziel in weite Ferne, urteilten die Industrie-PolitikerInnen.

Adamowitsch setzte sich flugs daran, den Abstand zu verringern. Er führte Geheim-Gespräche mit französischen und britischen RegierungsvertreterInnen und schmiedete die "Koalition der Industrie-Länder" - ein Übereinkommen der wirtschaftlich leistungsfähigsten EU-Staaten, um die Interessen von "nationalen Champions" wie BAYER künftig noch stärker zu berücksichtigen. Unter anderem trat die Koalition dafür ein, in Zukunft jedes EU-Gesetz einer Art Wirtschaftsverträglichkeitsprüfung zu unterziehen.

Der Brüsseler Lobby-Verband von BAYER & Co., der "European Roundtable of Industrialists" (ERT) witterte Morgenluft. BAYER-Aufsichtsrat Manfred Schneider und die anderen Mitglieder, die sich durch "Zugang zu höchsten Regierungsmitgliedern" ihr Entrée in den exklusiven Club verschafft haben, schrieben im Februar 2004 zum Frühjahrsgipfel der EU einen Brief an den Ratsvorsitzenden Bertie Ahern. Daran gaben sie ihrer "tiefen Sorge über die fortgesetzte Aushöhlung der europäischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Ausdruck" und verlangten als Muntermacher einen EU-Kommissar, "der sich exklusiv um alle Aspekte einer zum Wachstum führenden Industrie-Strategie kümmert". Schröder schloss sich dem Begehr nach einem Super-Kommissar postwendend an. Er wusste sogar schon einen geeigneten Kandidaten für das Amt: Günter Verheugen.

All diese industrie-politischen Wünsche erfüllten sich mit der neuen Kommission. Präsident José Manuel Durão Barroso erklärte das Vorantreiben der Lissabon-Strategie zum höchsten Ziel seiner Regierungsmannschaft. Als sein Stellvertreter bei der Koordination des Vorhabens fungiert der von Schröder auserkorene Super-Kommissar Günter Verheugen. Formell hat er zwar nicht mehr Rechte als seine KollegInnen, weil das gegen geltende EU-Gesetze verstoßen hätte, aber es handle sich doch um eine "ganz herausgehobene Position", freute sich der Kanzler und mit ihm DGB-Chef Michael Sommer und der "Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie" (BDI). Bei der Anhörung durch das EU-Parlament ließ Verheugen keinen Zweifel an seiner Amtsauffassung. Die Kommission werde sämtliche Instrumente einsetzen, um allen Unternehmen so günstige Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen, dass sie auf dem Weltmarkt mithalten können", führte er aus. Über viele dieser Instrumente verfügt der Industrie-Kommissar selber. Ihm obliegt es, den Primat der Ökonomie durchzusetzen. Er kann alle Gesetzes-Entwürfe auf ihre Wirtschaftsverträglichkeit hin prüfen und gegebenenfalls ein Veto einlegen. Bei der Chemikalien-Verordnung liegt es sogar komplett in seiner Hand, solche Zweifel gar nicht erst aufkommen zu lassen. Verheugen - und nicht etwa der Umweltkommissar - organisiert nämlich die Umsetzung, schließlich verdankt er der Auseinandersetzung um die Regelung seinen Arbeitsplatz.

Der Vorsitzende des EU-Umweltausschuss, Karl-Heinz Florenz (CDU), dürfte Verheugens Arbeit tatkräftig unterstützen. Er entstammt BAYERs Homeland Nordrhein-Westfalen und geht beim Konzern ein und aus. Als die BAYER-Abteilung "Gouvermental & Product Affairs" (GPA) in Straßburg zu einem "Parlamentarischen Abend" lud, machte er dem Gastgeber viel Freude und trat für eine Maximal-Lösung in Sachen "Chemie-Gesetz" ein. "Bei der weiteren Diskussion ist es mit einem bloßen Drehen an den Stellschrauben nicht getan - diese Verordnung muss komplett überarbeitet werden", ereiferte sich Florenz.

Widerstand gegen diese konzertierte Aktion ist von Seiten des Umwelt-Kommissars nicht zu erwarten. Margot Wallström wurde auf das VizepräsidentInnen-Amt weggelobt, und ihr von der Faz als wirtschaftsnah bezeichneter Nachfolger Stavros Dimas sieht sich ihrem chemie-kritischen Kurs nicht verpflichtet. "Für die wirtschaftliche Reform-Orientierung der Kommission spricht auch die Besetzung des Umwelt-Ressorts", urteilt die Zeitung deshalb. Für diese "Reform-Orientierung" sprechen die anderen personal-politischen Entscheidungen ebenfalls. Die Niederländerin Neelie Kroes-Smit empfahl sich durch zwei Dutzend Aufsichtsratsmandate, BeraterInnen-Verträge und die Verwicklung in einen Umwelt-Skandal für den Job der Wettbewerbskommissarin und Peter Mandelson durch die Neoliberalisierung der Labour-Party in Tateinheit mit Tony Blair für den des Außenhandelskommissars. Dem Binnenmarkt-Kommissar Charlie McCreevy eilt der Ruf eines "keltischen Thatchers" voraus und der Spanier Joaquín Almunia führte sich durch sein Eintreten für weitere Sozial- und Renten-Reformen bestens in die Kommissarsrunde ein. Nur die härtesten Fälle, den katholischen Fundamentalisten Rocco Buttiglione und die ihre Karriere der Öl-Industrie verdankende und mit ihrer Partei in einen Spenden-Skandal verwickelte Lettin Ingrida Udre akzeptierte das Straßburger Parlament nicht.

Aber am neoliberalen Kurs Europas ändern diese kleinen Korrekturen nichts. Seit einiger Zeit weisen alle Signale in diese Richtung. Der im September veröffentlichte Arbeitsmarkt-Report plädierte für eine Flexibilisierung der europäischen Arbeitsmärkte und für Privatisierungen im Dienstleistungsbereich. Letzterem hat sich auch die "Bolkenstein-Richtlinie" und die zur Evaluierung der Lissabon-Strategie eingesetzte Kok-Kommission verschrieben. Ihre Bilanz fiel düster aus, Europa fehlt es am "richtigen Klima für Unternehmer", konstatierte die Riege um den früheren holländischen Ministerpräsidenten Wim Kok und trat nicht nur für die Privatisierung von Dienstleistungen, sondern von allem, was nicht niet- und nagelfest ist, ein. Über ihre Vorschläge zur Neuausrichtung des Lissabon-Projekts, das die bundesdeutsche Monopol-Kommission wegen ihres imperialistischen Charakters als tief in "militärischen Denk-Tradition" stehend geißelte, beraten die europäischen Ministerpräsidenten bei einem Treffen im März.

Wegen dieses Fundamental-Ökonomismus’ macht ATTAC die EU als treibende Kraft der neoliberalen Globalisierungsmaschinerie aus. Die französische Sektion des Netzwerkes hat deshalb gemeinsam mit CORPORATE WATCH, CEO, der COORDINATION GEGEN BAYER-GEFAHREN (CBG) und anderen Gruppen einen Offenen Brief an Kommissionspräsident Borroso geschrieben. Darin protestierten die Initiativen gegen die zunehmend industrie-freundliche Ausrichtung der EU-Politik und den wachsenden Einfluss der Lobby-Verbände von BAYER & Co. "Immer öfter setzen sich Partikular-Interessen einzelner Industrie-Zweige gegenüber dem Allgemeinwohl durch - dies ist mit demokratischen Prinzipien nicht zu vereinbaren. So wurde auf Druck der deutschen Chemie-Industrie die ursprünglich ambitionierte Reform der EU-Chemikalien-Gesetzgebung vollkommen verwässert", kritisierte CBG-Geschäftsführer Philipp Mimkes in dem Schreiben. Der Offene Brief dürfte nicht die letzte Aktion gegen das "Europa der Konzerne" gewesen sein.

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren
CBGnetwork@aol.com
http://www.CBGnetwork.de
Tel: 0211-333 911
Fax 0211 – 333 940


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

There's a new article at the Yurica Report today. Basically we ask: Is there any truth to the rumors that the election was "fixed"? One talk show radio host said that statistical evidence is mere "theory." She wanted "facts." So we have a short section on How to Find the Corpus Delecti. Then we've found several important research studies that clearly establish a "smoking gun."

Votergate 2004?
Research Studies Uncover Potential Massive Election Fraud

By Katherine Yurica

November 19, 2004

Finding the Corpus Delicti in the 2004 Election Results

Ordinarily victims of crimes do not have to prove the existence of the crime. The dead body or the charred ruins of a burned down building provide visual, concrete proof of the wrongdoing. Sometimes, however, the crime is intentionally hidden, buried among honest transactions, covered with obstacles, and driven through layers of deception to lie at the bottom of a muddy pond - or at the bottom of a huge box of ballots in a warehouse or buried in a computer application's program.

Click on the link below to go directly to Votergate 2004:
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

Many thanks for visiting us and reading our stuff. Keep the faith and smile!

Katherine Yurica
Publisher
The Yurica Report

CASPIAN NEWSLETTER, 11/19/04:
http://tinyurl.com/4fzan

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1119-22.htm


Stand up For Moral Value of Economic Justice
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1119-30.htm

by Keith Olbermann

MSNBC

November 19, 2004

There has been a John Kerry sighting.

"Regardless of the outcome of this election, once all the votes are counted -- and they will be counted -- we will continue to challenge this administration," the 2004 Democratic candidate said in a prepared statement released today. "I will fight for a national standard for federal elections that has both transparency and accountability in our voting system. It is unacceptable in the United States that people still don¹t have full confidence in the integrity of the voting process."

Since his concession, Kerry¹s silence on the questions of voting irregularities in Florida, Ohio, and elsewhere, has perplexed those pursuing those questions, helped render largely passive the media who should¹ve been doing so, and provided virtual proof to others that there weren¹t any questions at all. His supporters have been mystified at news this week that millions of dollars from his war chest went unspent. His lawyers have been characterized as flying below the radar as the Libertarian and Green Parties have pushed their recount in Ohio.

He has seemed to his supporters and many neutrals, in short, as being AWOL.

The statement doesn¹t exactly dispel that aroma. It came by way of an e-mail to supporters -- but not to the media -- and a video
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/everychild.php on his otherwise update-free campaign website http://www.johnkerry.com/, which maintains the frozen-in-time November 2 front page that makes it look like the political equivalent of Miss Haversham¹s cobweb-strewn house in Dicken's "Great Expectations."

The primary topic of the mass e-mail isn't even this election or future ones. It¹s about a petition drive for universal child health care legislation Kerry intends to introduce on the first day of the new Congress. Whether the voting stuff was added as a sop to supporters loudly wondering where he -- and the unspent $15,000,000 -- has been, is conjecture.

But the video is just plain weird. The phrasing of the start of the relevant passage -- "Regardless of the outcome of this election" -- is open to the same kind of parsing and confusion usually reserved for the latest release from Osama Bin Laden. Those seven words are extra-temporal; they are tense-free. In them he could be describing an election long-since decided, or one whose outcome is still in doubt.

And the timing and delivery of the message are equally confusing. No notification to the media? When much of the mechanism of political coverage is kick-started by statements like this one? And its issuance on a Friday afternoon -- the moment of minimum news attention so famously titled "Take Out The Trash Day" on the NBC series "The West Wing"? -- is perplexing, if not suspicious.

It has the vague feel of deliberate ambiguity, as if Kerry is saying to those who are plagued by doubts about the vote just seventeen days ago, that he agrees with them, but they shouldn't tell anybody. It's exactly what these confusing times do not need: more confusion.

Thoughts? E-mail KOlbermann@MSNBC.com


Informant: NHNE

In his second term, President Bush has an opportunity to rectify the errors of his first, and one of those was the ad hoc assertion of the right of the president to treat captives in the war on terrorism as he saw fit, without regard to U.S. or international law. That strategy inflicted terrible damage on the United States' reputation as a bastion of human rights...

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/un/2004/1115warlaws.htm


From Information Clearing House

Tony Blair has asked George Bush to return the Birmingham man being held in Guantanamo Bay, Ministers said yesterday. But the Americans have refused to free Moazzam Begg...

http://snipurl.com/aril


Guantanamo Hearings Continue in Wake of Ruling Against Hamdan Trial:
In spite of a court ruling that halted the military trial of a Guantánamo detainee last week, the military is continuing to conduct another kind of controversial hearing for prisoners held at the US base in Cuba.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1236


From Information Clearing House

Prof. Francis A. Boyle: The Dems Are Caving on Gonzales: War Criminal as Attorney General?:

Gonzales is a prima facie war criminal. He must be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions and the US War Crimes Act.

http://207.44.245.159/article7325.htm


Civil liberties low on Gonzales priority list:

It was Mr. Gonzales who described the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of prisoners as “quaint” and suggested that President Bush could ignore them.

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/opinion_18655028.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Palestinians Called "Filthy Animals" On MSNBC's "Imus:

CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the MSNBC cable television network to demand an apology for comments made on its "Imus in the Morning" program that referred to Palestinians as "filthy animals" and suggested that they all be killed.

http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id=201&page=AA


From Information Clearing House

Don Nash: The politics of corruption:
http://207.44.245.159/article7327.htm

A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4626234,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Video: Elite Propaganda: The Propaganda Model of News:

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media...

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


John Pilger: Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5568.htm


John Pilger: Breaking The Silence:
A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pilger_breaking_the_silence_35mb.htm

The British government has submitted a report to the U.N. Committee Against Torture acknowledging 17 possible cases of torture committed by its troops in Iraq...

http://207.44.245.159/article7332.htm

Britain has frequently expressed concern to Washington at the highest level about US troops allegedly mistreating victims in Iraq, most recently in October, a British official has told the UN's anti-torture panel.

http://207.44.245.159/article7328.htm

US Losses In Fallujah to Overweight Victory: Expert:

Branding the US practices against the Fallujah residents as "state terrorism," Pascal Boniface, Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Studies in Paris, expected the onslaught to further fan anti-US feelings in the entire Islamic world.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-11/18/article07.shtml
http://snipurl.com/ari6


From Information Clearing House

An armed force that keeps beating down on a weaker opponent will be seen as committing a series of crimes; therefore it will end up by losing the support of its allies, its own people, and its own troops.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/crevald1.html


From Information Clearing House

The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals. That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_cost_111804,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl


From Information Clearing House

Eyewitness Report: Terrorizing those who are praying… :

“I am being held at gunpoint by American soldiers inside Abu Hanifa mosque Dahr,” he yells, “Everyone is praying to God because the Americans are raiding our mosque during Friday prayer!”

http://207.44.245.159/article7333.htm

Manuel Valenzuela

For war – that human weakness created by warmongering leaders that send to battle the mostly young, ignorant, easily manipulated, testosterone-filled members of the lower castes of any one tribe – unleashes in human beings a most vicious animal from the deepest reaches of our psyches. The primordial necessity to kill, the hunger to maim and rape, the desire to inflict pain and suffering is therefore reborn, free to act indiscriminately, away from the menacing glow of the rule of law and the watchful eye of humanity.

http://207.44.245.159/article7334.htm

http://www.northcountynews.com/view.asp?s=11-17-04/news5.htm


Informant: lynnzy

http://www.softwaretechnews.com/spring96/iw.html


Informant: userde6253

http://www.lightwatcher.com/chemtrails/text/faa_confirms_chemtrails

April 4, 2001 lifeboat news service ©2001 William Thomas and S.T. Brendt


Informant: intruthwetrust

It's a Bird! t's a Plane! It's Chemtrails!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/02/44087.shtml

Internist Dr. Eckhart Herrmann: "Chronische Krankheiten werden sehr häufig durch elektromagnetische Belastung begünstigt", Allergien, neurologische und rheumatische Erkrankungen, unklare Schmerzen, Konzentrationsstörungen, Tumoren, der Körper als offenes System bedarf demnach der Anregung von außen, auch durch (Licht-) Strahlen, zuviel Strahlung kann indes zu einer "der stärksten Blockaden" führen - Dr. Eckhart Herrmann: Es ist ratsam, bei unvermeidlichen Einwirkungen auch regelmäßig belastungsfreie Zeiten einzuhalten, etwa nachts.

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Für Christine Aschermann, die im Klosterkeller referiert, ist die Sache sonnenklar: Mobilfunkmasten in der Nachbarschaft sind gefährlich. Dabei denkt sie keineswegs nur an ein langfristig höheres Krebsrisiko, sondern vor allem an Beschwerden, die sofort auftreten: chronische Kopfschmerzen, Kreislaufprobleme, Ohrensausen, Schwellungen, dauerhafte Erschöpfung, Vergesslichkeit und Zerstreutheit. Bei Kindern kämen Wachstumsstörungen und Verhaltensauffälligkeiten hinzu. Seit etwa acht Jahren beobachtet die Ärztin eine Zunahme dieser Leiden in ihrer Heimatstadt Leutkirch. Erst nach einer gewissen Zeit habe sie die Symptome mit bestimmten Straßenzügen in Verbindung gebracht - denjenigen in der Nähe von Sendemasten.

http://www.szon.de/lokales/markdorf/stadt/200512090417.html
(Auszug)

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Es gibt Ärzte und Ärzte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/704215/

An die Stuttgarter Ärzteschaft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3210989/

Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

Nachhaltige Störung der in der Natur vorkommenden lebensnotwendigen Frequenzen durch die gepulste Mobilfunkstrahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405666/

Gesicherte Einflüsse elektromagnetischer Wellen im Hinblick auf die Störung der zentralnervösen Regulation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/405641/

Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/398292/

Getrübter Durchblick im Elektrosmog
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/397872/

Erhöhtes Krebsrisiko in Sendernähe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393983/

EMF beeinflußt Melatonin und Melatonin beeinflußt Brustkrebs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/383554/

„Die Warnsignale stehen eindeutig auf Rot"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/378432/

Unverträglichkeit von hochfrequenten, gepulsten Mikrowellen nicht bewiesen?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368012/

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

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

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

Neue Schattenseite elektromagnetischer Einflüsse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/358910/

Handys können Fruchtbarkeit reduzieren - Einfluss elektromagnetischer Wellen auf die Spermienmotilität - Kinderlos durch Mobilfunkstrahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/332779/

Die Naila-Studie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/351483/

Mobilfunk-Strahlenschäden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/336660/

Zahl Hodenkrebserkrankter steigt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/328255/

Stimmen und Zeugenaussagen zur Elektrosensibilität
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/322296/

Ärzte schlagen Alarm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/318143/

Mobilfunkbrief an Ärzte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3068302/

Beobachtungen aus einer psychotherapeutischen Praxis zu Mobilfunk (MF) und DECT-Telefonen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303930/

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

Zum Sachstand wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/468934/

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303598/

DAS MIKROWELLENSYNDROM – WEITERE ASPEKTE EINER SPANISCHEN STUDIE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/291620/

Ärzte schlagen Alarm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4274234/

Ärzte aus Bayern schlagen Alarm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/290539/

Bamberger Appell – Ärzte gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282385/

Symposium in Bamberg: Ärzte und Wissenschaftler warnen vor Gesundheitsgefahren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/496175/

Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/261421/

Allgäuer Ärzte-Initiative: "Wir können nicht länger zum Mobilfunk schweigen"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2085504/

Mobilfunk: Auswirkungen auf Menschen, Bienen, die ganze Natur; Allgäuer Ärzte laden ein
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4820278/

ÄRZTEKONGRESS IN MURNAU FORDERT: BEIM MOBILFUNK BESTEHT DRINGENDER HANDLUNGSBEDARF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2926731/

Ärztezeitschrift: Kinder und Handys
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4500558/

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3300771/

Handy: Lebensretter?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4531589/

Neuer Zündstoff für Diskussion über Handy-Gefahr
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/253511/

Nicht-thermaler Hitzeschock, Auswirkung von Mikrowellen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/246007/

Elektrosmog kontrovers - Der Umgang mit gesundheitlichen Risiken in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245864/

Mobilfunk – ein Massenexperiment am Menschen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/176116/

Unfreiwillige Objekte eines Massenexperimentes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/176088/

Umweltmediziner Dr. med. univ. Gerd Oberfeld - Gesundheitsstörungen durch hochfrequente elektromagnetische Felder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/163199/

Umweltmediziner: "Handystrahlung schädlich"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4757144/

FMH und Ärztinnen und Ärzte für Umweltschutz fordern schärfere Vorschriften
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5841355/

Zusammenhang zwischen Gesundheitsstörungen und Mobilfunktechnologie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5792410/

Blutuntersuchungen wegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/407977/

Mobilfunkopfer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372640/

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