PRESS RELEASE

THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION

Tuesday 14th December 2004: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

British MP condemns World Bank-backed plans for rainforest logging
in the Congo

Member of Parliament Bob Blizzard (Waveney) yesterday said in a Westminster Hall debate that "there was no chance at all" that a World Bank-backed plan to 'develop' the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which are the second largest on Earth, would bring any benefits to impoverished local people. Instead, the planned expansion of the timber industry would, the MP said, damage the livelihoods of some of the poorest people on Earth, including those of local 'Pygmies'.

The Parliamentary debate followed a visit to Congo's rainforests by members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Great Lakes and Genocide Prevention. The Group also yesterday announced the publication of a new report, "To elections and beyond" , which details the MPs' visit to DRC and sets out their recommendations on the future of the country's vast rainforests [2]. The report calls for the continuation of a moratorium on the issuing of any new logging concessions in DRC's forests.

Oona King, Founder and Chair of the APPG, said "We learned that nine contracts have been awarded to private logging companies by the Environment Ministry since the moratorium. They should simply be annulled and the moratorium maintained" [3]. Oona King called for sound management of DRC's natural resources which, she said, "was a prerequisite to enduring peace and prosperity in the country".

Responding to the debate, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Chris Mullin, said that he would draw the attention of the World Bank to the concerns raised by the Members of Parliament.

Simon Counsell, Director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, said: "We welcome the UK Government's commitment to raising concerns with the World Bank about the future of Congo's rainforests. As a major shareholder in the Bank, the Government has a responsibility to ensure that UK taxpayers' money will not be spent on destroying Congo's rainforests and wrecking local peoples' livelihoods."

ENDS

For further information, please contact:

Simon Counsell, Rainforest Foundation UK

Tel: +44 (020) 7251 6345

Email: simonc@rainforestuk.com

More information about Congo's rainforests and the work of the Rainforest Foundation can be found at: http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.com

Notes to Editors

[1] MPs Bob Blizzard and Oona King visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in October, hosted by the Rainforest Foundation. The All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region & Genocide Prevention (APPG) comprises 148 MPs and Peers from the UK Parliament. It was founded by its current Chair. Oona King MP. Today, it is the leading forum in the UK Parliament for discussion and critical analysis of issues affecting the Great Lakes Region: Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Northern Uganda.

[2] The report is available from the website of the All-Party Parliamentary Group, at: http://www.appggreatlakes.org

The report also recommends that the World Bank, in conjunction with the Ministry of environment and local civil society organisation, send monitors into the forest to ensure that local people are consulted and acknowledged as residents. It also calls for international donors, the UK Government's Department for International Development (DfID) especially, to fund a comprehensive study in order to provide an estimation of the value of the forest, based not only on the commercial worth of its timber, but also on the value of forest products such as animal products, vegetable foods, building materials, medicinal plants and fuelwood, as well as ecological functions and services such as watershed maintenance and biodiversity protection.

[3] At the November "Forum on Forests and Nature Conservation" organised by the Congolese government in and the World Bank in Kinshasa , international and local NGOs as well as Congolese civil society called for the moratorium on all new logging concessions to be maintained until such time as strict conditions were complied with by the Congolese government.

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Informant: Frank

http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_03_02/NEW_SEISMIC_/new_seismic_.html


Informant: billder

I am writing you because you have already participated in an issue question on The People's Email Network. We had 12,000 submissions to the Kerry campaign, the DNC, and the GAO on election fraud and as to whether he should join the recount effort.

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Please post this link everywhere you can, and also contact us if you would like to do a link exchange.


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Dear Mr. Clarke,

I have contacted George Hooker at D of H several Times - I am also in touch with Professer Laurie Challis. It is my agreed task to help the victms of this technology in my village in the hope of having the mast moved.

In view of those in charge of the Dof H attempting to hide infirmation re: the effects of overhead power cables I have little faith of their intention (let alone their ability) to do anything to alleviate the physical symptoms caused by EMRF! Therefore I am writing to everyone who should know/be aware of/ be doing something to investigate these symptoms (recognisable where-ever masts have effects) in situ.

It is time the goverment initiated scientific tests (as they did in Switzerland where residents in Schwarzenberg had been suffering for forty years). These tests proved unequivocally that emissions inhibit the pineal gland's production of the hormone melatonin which results in chronic insomnia and headaches; nausea, vertigo earache and tinnitus etc etc. The lack of sleep also inhibits the immune system leaving people prey to any passing infection. No wonder they are depressed!

I have written to John Prescott more that once and shall be writing again. He passed on my 1st letter to an advisor without the document showing the symptoms Kensworthians had experienced, who told me 'how to appeal to prevent a mast being erected' when the mast had been present for a year already. My second letter was passed to George Hooker. Neither is it 'in the Prime Minister's remit', I am told. It is appalling that politicians who are supposed to serve the electorate are so determined to ignore them. There have been 4 strokes; ten cases of severe nosebleeds; 12 cases of chronic headache and insomnia (two people had to move out of their bedrooms in 2001 and still are unable to use them) - ulcerated mouths and throats and extreme thirst; 4 pets getting cancerous growths etc. etc. etc.

This technology must be operated at a safe level. The Russians found the effects first and do not agree with the ICNIRP and NRPB ignoring the NON-THERMAL effects - it is not the thermal effects which cause the problems and emissions are TOO HIGH.

Mrs. G. Lyden


From Mast Network


Letter and attachment to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

FOR many Latin American victims of torture, the infamous pictures of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison brought back not only chilling recollections of their own experiences, but also confirmed what they have long maintained: that their torturers were following interrogation guidelines set by the US Army School of the Americas (SOA).

http://www.sundayherald.com/46535


From Information Clearing House

Guantanamo Britons 'losing sanity' as fears grow for terror suspects held in UK:

US lawyers for the four Britons have told The Independent on Sunday that the men face at least two more years in Cuba as the US government blocks every legal move to get them released.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=592341
http://snipurl.com/bbpi


From Information Clearing House

Dahr Jamail: Dead And Buried: EYEWITNESS:

Iraq’s civilian body count may go officially undocumented but the widows and the orphans know the true extent of the toll...

http://www.sundayherald.com/46543


From Information Clearing House

UN: Iran not a nuclear threat:

"Iran does not represent an imminent nuclear threat," ElBaradei told El Pais newspaper, explaining why the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided not to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for threatened sanctions over its nuclear programme.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1634944,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bc4s


From Information Clearing House

The Texas story of Veridian Inc. provides a snapshot of the military-industrial-government complex. If you live in Texas, no matter where you live or what sort of work you do, you're profiting from the various wars, armed interventions, covert actions, and miscellaneous military conflicts now being pursued worldwide by American armed forces and the U.S. intelligence community. Here's how:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-12-19/pols_feature.html
http://snipurl.com/bc4q


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. Defense Department was said to have completed simulated war games to determine the feasibility of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program.

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/december/12_13_1.html


From Information Clearing House

The government's giant printing presses soon could be cranking out something in addition to the old greenback. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing has received the go-ahead from Congress to print other countries' currencies.

http://washingtontimes.com/business/20041213-123022-3174r.htm


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10km to the east of Fallujah, the town to which U.S. forces have laid bloody siege. Amiriyat al-Fallujah has been the source of several reported resistance attacks on U.S. forces.

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000157.php#more


From Information Clearing House

Hicks details US brutality:

AUSTRALIAN terror suspect David Hicks says he was forcibly injected with drugs and had his head smashed into asphalt while blindfolded as part of his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11651181%255E663,00.html
http://snipurl.com/bc4f


Guantanamo Briton could go mad from confinement

The solitary confinement of a British detainee at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is slowly driving him mad, his father warned.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1538&ncid=732&e=8&u=/afp/20041213/wl_uk_afp/britainusprisoners
http://snipurl.com/bc4j


“Contract Meals Disaster" for Iraqi Prisoners

Rotten food crawling with bugs, traces of rats and dirt. Rancid meats and spoilt food resulting in diarrhea and food poisoning. This is what detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were regularly given to eat by a private contractor in late 2003 and early 2004...

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11744


From Information Clearing House

Interview: Patrick Cockburn:

‘When you have an occupation, you have resistance’: There should be no mystery about the nature of the resistance in Iraq. The situation is very simple, as it would be in most countries of the world — when you have an occupation by a foreign power, you have resistance. And that’s exactly what’s happened in Iraq.

http://207.44.245.159/article7469.htm

At this point, the major destabilizing factor in Iraq is the presence of the United States. We are the lightning rod that brings death and destruction on a daily basis.

http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/121204/opi_20041212004.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Moral Victory

by Dom Stasi

http://207.44.245.159/article7462.htm

During the past four years, leading political analysts in Europe viewed the foreign policy of the United States being conducted by a small clique of neo-conservative ideologues. They now see the power of this group just having been reinforced by two other ominous groups: a corporate oligarchy and mobilized religious fundamentalists.

http://207.44.245.159/article7464.htm

http://votecobb.org/press/2004/dec/pr2004-12-13b.php


Informant: NHNE

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/12/ale04100.html


Informant: NHNE

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985


Informant: NHNE

TRANSCRIPTS: DECEMBER 13 HEARING IN OHIO
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforumtrans12804.pdf


Informant: NHNE

by Jim Hightower

AlterNet

12/11/04

[H]ow many of the yellow-magnet people are aware of how our government 'supports' those troops who die in Iraq? While it's been widely reported that the families of civilians killed in the horrible 9/11 terrorist attacks have received an average of about $3 million each in overall compensation -- do you know what the compensation is for the families of soldiers who are killed in Iraq? It's $12,000...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20724/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Fred Foldvary

The Free Liberal

12/13/04

An effective way for government to control its subjects is to be able to declare anyone insane on the say-so of a government doctor, and then have the power to kill, imprison, or drug the subject. That was a common practice in the old Soviet Union, and it is already being done on a small scale in the USA. But now legislation passed by Congress is leading the way to implement this on a grand scale, enabling the US government to have psychiatric totalitarian control over all residents."

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/000513.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ohio: Cobb alleges tampering, false data in vote

12/13/04

The Blue Lemur

David Cobb, the unsuccessful Green Party presidential candidate, aired startling allegations at the Democratic House Judiciary Committee's Columbus hearings Monday, alleging that a voting company representative tampered with voting equipment in Columbus last Friday and attempted to plant false information into the Ohio recount. Cobb says that a witness who had requested anonymity watched a representative of Triad Systems enter the Columbus Board of Elections unannounced and tamper with a vote tabulator which then lost all data. The representative then, Cobb said, tried to convince employees to post false information so that it would appear as if the data was valid and had never been lost...


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Below is a good link for those concerned about Genetically Modified Food. Considering the seeds produced by these foods are sterile, and the crops pollinated by GM crops produce sterile seeds, this is a matter of GRAVE importance. We are essentially giving Monsanto a monopoly on all foods which they have genetically modified. Monsanto will very shortly have total control over our food supply and could manufacture a worldwide famine if they so pleased. If their seed storage facility gets destroyed, that crop will be extinct. We all need to start getting serious.--Andy

Genetically Modified Food - News
http://www.gmfoodnews.com/

According to the Free Press newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, "Startling new revelations about Ohio's presidential vote have been uncovered ... in the 2004 vote. Taken together, the revelations show Republicans – in state and county government, and in the Ohio Republican Party – were determined to undermine and suppress Democratic turnout by a wide variety of methods."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2559

An die Beschäftigten der Agenturen für Arbeit, Arbeitsgemeinschaften/Job-Centern und der Sozialämter, für die die Erwerbslosen nicht nur ein Kostenfaktor sind…" Das Flugbaltt zur Aktion (pdf) ist aktualisiert worden um den Hinweis auf das Forum im Labournet:
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/agentur-kollegen.pdf


Auf zum "Agenturschluß". In immer mehr Städten haben sich Initiativen gebildet, die am 3. Januar 2005 Arbeitsagenturen "besetzen" wollen. Mitarbeiter sollen einbezogen werden. Artikel von Lutz Wehring in junge Welt vom 10.12.2004:
http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/12-10/015.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 11

Zitat zum Thema: "reine Verschleierungsmaßnahme, mit der Unternehmen und Gewerkschaft den verabredeten Personalabbau bemänteln wollen".

Der Mannheimer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Wolfgang Franz zitiert in
Spiegel online vom 11.12.04:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,332451,00.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 11

Der Steuerzahler wird es richten

Die Unternehmen, die oft über den deutschen Sozialstaat klagen, wissen ihn wohl für sich zu nutzen. So werden die Beschäftigungsgesellschaften, in die Opel einen Teil seiner Arbeiter ausgliedern will, von der Bundesagentur mit Millionenbeträgen bezuschusst werden. Artikel im Manager Magazin vom 10.12.2004:

http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0%2C2828%2C332230%2C00.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 11

Arbeitsrechtliche Info von und bei Marc W.Thomas, Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht
http://www.arbeitsrecht-thomas.de/besch%2525c3%2525a4ftigungsgesellschaft.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 20, Eintrag 11

Jede Woche suchen Jugendliche die Bonner Schuldnerberatung auf, weil ihnen das Wasser bis zum Hals steht - Die Stadt bietet eine Info-Box "Geld & Schulden" für Pädagogen an

Von Frank Vallender

Bonn. Handy-Rechnungen von mehr als 1 000 Euro im Monat sind bei jungen Bonnern keine Seltenheit. Mahnbescheide, die den eigentlichen Wert der bestellten Ware um das Vielfache übersteigen, auch nicht.

Bei der Schufa gingen 1999 rund 100 000 Erstmeldungen über Schuldner ein, denen die Handykosten über den Kopf gewachsen waren. 2002 lag die Zahl bereits bei 280 000. Das Handy ist die Schuldenfalle Nummer eins bei jungen Leuten, weiß Birck, der mit sieben Kollegen 250 Leute von 18 bis 25 Jahren berät.

Und wer nicht zahlt, der hat nach drei Monaten schnell eine Rechnung, die mit Mahngebühren, Anwalts- und Inkassokosten um das Sechsfache gestiegen ist. Dabei sind die Anbieter in der Regel rechtlich auf der sicheren Seite, sagt Ute Krüger von der Verbraucherzentrale. Sie und Birck kennen Ratsuchende, die schon mit Mitte 20 einen Schuldenberg vor sich herschieben. Andere haben für Freunde Verträge abgeschlossen - wie ein 19-jähriger Schüler: "Der hat deshalb 2 500 Euro Schulden."

Nicht immer zeigen die Gläubiger Verständnis. Immer häufiger müssen schon Lehrlinge Privatinsolvenz anmelden und bekommen deshalb nicht selten Schwierigkeiten in der Lehre.

Um dieser Entwicklung in Bonn gegenzusteuern, bietet das Jugendamt jetzt eine Info-Box "Geld & Schulden" an, die zum Vorbild den "Schuldenkoffer" der Schuldnerhilfe Essen hat. Laut Uli Hermanns vom Jugendamt ist die Box mit Videos, Comics, Fachliteratur und anderen Materialien ein Angebot des erzieherischen Kinder- und Jugendschutzes, "mit dem Jugendliche ab 13 Jahren sensibilisiert werden sollen, wo die Kostenfallen liegen".

Da der Spaß am Konsum nicht genommen werden soll, gehe es vor allem darum, die Risiken kennen zu lernen, so Hermanns. Speziell für jugendliche Mobilfunk-Einsteiger bietet die Stadt zusätzlich eine kleine Broschüre an, die in einer jugendgemäßen Sprache Tipps für kostenbewusstes Telefonieren vermittelt. Auch Eltern können Hilfe erbitten. Denn nicht selten seien sie ein schlechtes Vorbild: "Auch viele Erwachsene wissen nicht, wie viel sie im Monat ausgeben", sagt Krüger. Und seien dementsprechend nicht in der Lage, ihren Kindern den richtigen Umgang mit Geld beizubringen.

Das Jugendamt bietet zurzeit zwei Boxen zum kostenlosen, vierwöchigen Verleih für Pädagogen an. Infos zur Box und zur Handy-Broschüre unter Telefon (02 28) 77 56 79. Die Schuldnerberatung hat die Telefonnummer (02 28) 96 96 60, die Verbraucherzentrale die (02 28) 9 76 69 34.

(13.12.2004)

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index_frameset.html?/news/artikel.php?id=82653 (Auszug)

dazu der Kommentar von Frank Vallender:

Tropfen auf den heißen Stein

Wenn es darum geht, Kunden um den Finger zu wickeln, ist manch Handel treibender Zeitgenosse sehr einfallsreich. In Zeiten von Handy, Telefon-Hotline und Ratenzahlungen haben die Maschen, den Menschen das Geld aus der Tasche zu ziehen, hier und da noch um einige üble Varianten zugenommen. Und auch das eine oder andere vermeintlich seriöse Unternehmen trägt mit dazu bei, dass die Verbraucher immer schwerer den Preisdschungel durchblicken.

Erst recht nicht junge Leute. Die schöne bunte Warenwelt ist für sie zu verlockend, der Druck in der Clique zu groß, als dass sie den Versuchungen stets widerstehen können. In Bonn hat die Schuldnerberatung immer häufiger mit jungen Menschen zu tun, die nach dem Konsumrausch in der Schuldenfalle aufwachen.

Wie das Jugendamt selbst zugibt, wird das Thema Konsumerziehung in Schule und Jugendarbeit stiefmütterlich behandelt. Leider scheinen auch immer weniger Eltern in der Lage zu sein, ihren Kindern den Umgang mit Geld beizubringen. Der Vorstoß von Stadt, Schuldnerberatung und Verbraucherzentrale mit der pädagogischen Info-Box "Geld und Schulden" ist gut. Wohl aber kaum mehr als ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein.

(13.12.2004)

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index_frameset.html?/news/artikel.php?id=82653

dazu auch:

Schon als Schüler finanziell ruiniert

Von CARSTEN SCHULTZ

BONN. Als ihn sein bester Freund um einen kleinen Gefallen bat, zögerte Andreas (Name geändert) keine Sekunde. Gerade 18 geworden, schloss der Schüler für seinen Kumpel einen Handyvertrag ab. Der hatte schließlich fest versprochen, jeden Monat brav die Rechnung zu bezahlen. Vor kurzem tauchte Andreas bei Ute Krüger in der Bonner Verbraucherzentrale auf. Auf 2500 Euro war der Schuldenberg des Schülers angewachsen. Sein Freund hatte nämlich nicht gezahlt. Der Handyprovider hielt sich aber natürlich an Andreas als Vertragspartner.

Was tun? Da sich die Handyfirmen nach Erkenntnissen des Bonner Schuldnerberaters Viktor Birck auf Einigungsversuche kaum einlassen, „bleibt oft nur der Weg zur Insolvenz“.

Noch in der Schule und schon finanziell ruiniert - solche Schuldnerkarrieren von jungen Erwachsenen sind keine Seltenheit mehr. Im Gegenteil. Unwissenheit, Selbstüberschätzung und Sorglosigkeit treiben immer mehr junge Menschen in die Schuldenfalle. „Die Zahlen gehen rapide hoch“, betont Verbraucherschützerin Krüger. Nach Erkenntnissen von Ulrich Hermanns vom Bonner Amt für Kinder, Jugend und Familie gingen bei der Schuldnerdatei Schufa im Jahr 1999 noch 100 000 Erstmeldungen wegen Handyschulden ein, drei Jahre später waren es schon 280 000.

Ein 18-Jähriger mit einer Handyrechnung von 1000 Euro im Monat - für Schuldnerberater Birck fast schon Alltag.

Auf der einen Seite sind Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene die in der Werbung am stärksten umworbene Zielgruppe, auf der anderen Seite „ist Konsumerziehung in Schule und Jugendarbeit ein eher randständiges Thema“, hat das Jugendamt erkannt. Aus diesem Grund hat es jetzt zwei Info-Boxen „Geld & Schulden“ angeschafft, die in der vorbeugenden Arbeit in Schulen und Jugendeinrichtungen eingesetzt werden sollen. „Wir wollen vor allem Jugendliche ab 13 sensibilisieren, sagt Uli Hermanns. „Wir wollen ihnen nicht den Spaß am Konsum nehmen, aber die Risiken deutlich machen.“ Und die sind gerade für junge Leute vielfältig, wissen Ute Krüger und Viktor Birck aus der Praxis. Vor allem der Slogan „Jetzt kaufen - später bezahlen“ ist verführerisch. Bei Handyverträgen, Online-Diensten oder Ratenkäufen seien die Verschuldungsrisiken besonders groß.

Aufklärung ist an allen Ecken und Enden nötig. Oft haben die jungen Erwachsenen kein „Budgetbewusstsein“, sagt Birck, häufig seien aber auch die Eltern kein Vorbild. „Ich habe Großeltern, Eltern und Kinder in der Beratung“, sagt Birck. „Da ist Schulden machen etwas Selbstverständliches.“

Dass Aufklärung mitunter einfach-anschaulich geht, zeigt ein „Handybooklet“, das es ebenfalls beim Jugendamt gibt. In der idealen Beilage zum Handy unterm Weihnachtsbaum steht zum Beispiel auf einer Seite kurz und knapp: „Wenn Du acht Minuten am Tag telefonierst und zwei SMS am Tag verschickst, können es ganz schnell über 75 Euro im Monat sein.“ (KR)



Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004

http://www.rundschau-online.de/kr/KrCachedContentServer?ksArtikel.id=1102954888077&listID=1038816868233&openMenu=1038942868191&calledPageId=1038816866865 (Auszug)


Nachrichten von der BI Bad Dürkheim

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436261/


Project Progress Summary

Section 1: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION

Title of the project: Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards from Low Energy

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure Using Sensitive in vitro Methods

Acronym of the project: REFLEX

Type of contract: Shared Cost RTD Total project cost (in euro)

3.149.621 ?

Contract number Duration (in months) EU contribution (in euro)

QLK4-CT-1999-01574 52 Months 2.059.450 ?

Commencement date

1 February 2000

Period covered by the progress report

1 February 2000 - 31 May 2004

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Name
Prof. Dr. Franz Adlkofer
Title
Executive Director
Address
Pettenkoferstr. 33
D-80336 München
Telephone
+49 89 5309880
Telefax
+49 89 53098829

E-mail address
prof.adlkofer@verum-foundation.de

Key words (5 maximum - Please include specific keywords that best describe the project.).

Electromagnetism, Bioeffects, Risk to Health

World wide web address (the project's www address ) ---

List of participants Provide all partners' details including their legal status in the contract i.e., contractor, assistant contractor (to which contractor?)

1. Prof. Dr. Franz Adlkofer, VERUM - Stiftung für Verhalten und Umwelt, Pettenkoferstrasse 33, D-80336 München, Germany,

Tel: +49 89 5309880 / Fax: +49 89 53098829 / E-mail:
prof.adlkofer@verum-foundation.de (contractor)

2. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Tauber, Institut für Klinische Chemie, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30,
D-12200 Berlin, Germany, Tel: +49 30 84452555 / Fax: +49 30 84554152 /
E-mail: Tauber@ukbf.fu-berlin.de (contractor)

3. Prof. Dr. Hugo W. Rüdiger, Abteilung für Arbeitsmedizin, Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin IV, Währinger Gürtel 18-20,
A-1090 Wien, Austria, Tel: +43 1 404004701 / Fax: +43 1 4088011 / E-mail: hugo.ruediger@akh-wien.ac.at (contractor)

4. Dr. Anna M. Wobus, Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Corrensstrasse 3, D-06446 Gatersleben,
Germany, Tel: +49 39482 5256 / Fax: +49 39482 5481 / E-mail:
wobusam@ipk-gatersleben.de (contractor)

5. Dr. Angeles Trillo, Insalud, Ramon y Cajal Hospital, Carretera Colmenar km.9, E-28034 Madrid, Spain, Tel: +34 91 3368699 / Fax: +34 91 3368171 / E-mail: angeles.trillo@hrc.es (contractor)

6. Prof. Dr. Dariusz Leszczynski, Radiobiology, STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Laippatie 4, FIN-0881 Helsinki, Finland, Tel: +358 9 75988694 / Fax: +358 9 75988556 / E-mail: dariusz.leszczynski@stuk.fi (contractor)

7. Prof. Dr. Hans-Albert Kolb, Institut für Biophysik, Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Strasse 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany,
Tel: +49 511 7622612 / Fax: +49 511 7623830 / E-mail: kolb@mbox.biophysik.uni-hannover.de (contractor)

8. Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Bersani, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, I-40127 Bologna, Italy, Tel: +39 (0)51 2095122 / Fax: +39 (0)51 2095050 / E-mail: bersani@gpxbof.df.unibo.it (contractor)

9. Dr. Isabelle Lagroye, Laboratoire PIOM, ENSCPB, 16 Av. Pey Berland, F-33607 Pessac Cedex, France, Tel: +33 (0)5 40002821 / Fax: +33-(0)5 40006631 / E-mail: i.lagroye@enscpb.fr (contractor)

10. Prof. Dr. Niels Kuster, Institut für Integrierte Systeme, ETH Zentrum, Gloriastrasse 37/39, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland, Tel: +41 1 632 2737 / Fax: +41 1 632 1057 / E-mail: niels.kuster@ifh.ee.ethz.ch (contractor)

11. Prof. Dr. Francesco Clementi, Cattedra di Farmacologia, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via Vanvitelli 32, I-20129 Milano, Italy, Tel: +39 (0)2 50316962 / Fax: +39 (0)2 7490574 / E-mail: f.clementi@in.cnr.it (contractor)

12. Dr. Christian Maercker, Ressourcenzentrum für Genomforschung GmbH (RZPD), TP3 EG, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Tel: +49 6221 424741 / Fax: +49 6221 424704 / E-mail: c.maercker@dkfz.de

Section 2: Project Progress Report NOT CONFIDENTIAL

Objectives: Exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in relation to health is a controversial topic throughout the industrial world. So far epidemiological and animal studies have generated conflicting data and thus uncertainty regarding possible adverse health effects. This situation has triggered controversies in communities especially in Europe with its high density of population and industry and the omnipresence of EMF in infrastructures and consumer products. These controversies are affecting the siting of facilities, leading people to relocate, schools to close or power lines to be re-sited, all at great expense. The causality between EMF exposure and disease can never be regarded as proven without knowledge and understanding of the basic mechanisms possibly triggered by EMF. To search for those basic mechanisms powerful technologies developed in toxicology and molecular biology were to be employed in the REFLEX project to investigate cellular and sub-cellular responses of living cells exposed to EMF in vitro.

Results and Milestones: The strengths of REFLEX are based firstly on the adoption of a common technological platform for ELF-EMF and RF-EMF exposures that allow the replication of positive findings between the collaborating partners. Secondly, on the adoption of the post-genomic technologies (DNA microarrays and proteomics) that enables very large numbers of potential cellular effects to be examined simultaneously without prejudice as to mechanisms. The data obtained in the course of the REFLEX project showed that ELF-EMF had genotoxic effects on primary cell cultures of human fibroblasts and on other cell lines. These results were obtained in two laboratories and confirmed in two additional laboratories outside the REFLEX project, while no such effects could be observed in a further laboratory. ELF-EMF generated DNA strand breaks at a significant level at a flux density as low as 35 µT. There was a strong positive correlation between both the intensity and duration of exposure to ELF-EMF and the increase in single and double strand DNA breaks and micronuclei frequencies. Surprisingly this genotoxic effect was only observed when cells were exposed to intermittent ELF-EMF, but not to continuous exposure. Responsiveness of fibroblast to ELFEMF increased with the age of the donor and in the presence of specific genetic repair defects. The effect also differed among the other types of cells examined. In particular, lymphocytes from adult donors were not responsive. Chromosomal aberrations were also observed after ELF-EMF exposure of human fibroblasts. The following observations were made in different REFLEX laboratories:

1) ELF-EMF at a flux density of about 2 mT upregulated the expression of early genes, such as p21, c-jun and egr-1, in p53-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells, but not in healthy wildtype cells;

2) ELF-EMF (0.1 mT) increased the proliferation rate of neuroblastoma cells; and

3) ELF-EMF (0.8 mT) enhanced the differentiation of mouse stem cells into cardiomyocytes. However, no clear-cut and unequivocal effects of ELF-EMF on DNA synthesis, cell cycle, cell differentiation, cell proliferation and apoptosis were found.

With respect to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF), data showed that RF-EMF produced genotoxic effects in fibroblasts, granulosa cells and HL60 cells. Cells responded to RF-EMF exposure between SAR level 0.3 and 2 W/kg with a significant increase in single and double strand DNA breaks and in micronuclei frequency. Chromosomal aberrations in fibroblasts were observed after RF-EMF exposure. RFEMF at a SAR of 1.5 W/kg downregulated the expression of neuronal genes in neuronal precursor cells and upregulated the expression of early genes in p53-deficient embryonic stem cells, but not in wildtype cells.

Proteomic analyses on human endothelial cell lines showed that exposure to RF-EMF changed the expression and phosphorylation of numerous, largely unidentified proteins. Among these proteins is the heat shock protein hsp27, a marker for cellular stress responses. There was no evidence that RF-EMF affected processes such as cell proliferation, apoptosis or immune cell functionality.

For both ELF-EMF and RF-EMF, the results of the whole genome cDNA micro-array and proteomic analyses indicated that EMF may activate several groups of genes that play a role in cell division, cell proliferation and cell differentiation. At present the biological relevance of these findings can not be assessed.

Benefits and Beneficiaries: The REFLEX data have made a substantial addition to the data base relating to genotoxic and phenotypic effects of both ELF-EMF and RF-EMF on in vitro cellular systems. The data neither preclude nor confirm a health risk due to EMF exposure nor was the project designed for this purpose. Its value lies in providing new data that will enable mechanisms of EMF effects to be studied more effectively than in the past. Furthermore, the REFLEX data provide new information that will be used for risk evaluation by WHO, IARC and ICNIRP.

Future Actions: The REFLEX project has created novel results. From a scientific point of view, it has to be stated very clearly that the REFLEX data do not prove a causal link between EMF exposure and any adverse health effects. The genotoxic and phenotypic effects, which have been reported within REFLEX, clearly require further studies. These studies should include extensive external replications of the key observations reported, initially using the same technological platform. A further objective should be the extension of REFLEX investigations to appropriate animal models (e.g. genetically modified mice) and human volunteer studies.


Informant: Daniele

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http://www.verum-foundation.de/cgi-bin/content.cgi?id=euprojekte01

REFLEX Project Summary
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_ProgressSummary_231104.pdf

REFLEX Final Report Part 1
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_Final%20Report_Part%201.pdf

REFLEX Final Report Part 2
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_Final%20Report_Part%202.pdf

REFLEX Final Report Part 3
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_Final%20Report_Part%203.pdf

REFLEX Final Report Part 4
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/REFLEX_Final%20Report_Part%204.pdf

REFLEX List of Publications
http://www.verum-foundation.de/www2004/html/pdf/euprojekte01/QLK4-CT-1999-01574_REFLEX_Publications.pdf

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Mobile Phones Break DNA And Scramble Genomes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/476242/

http://www.wkowtv.com/$spindb.!query.1listnews.storeview.13677.news


Informant: lynnzy

Crucial facts reported in major media
http://www.WantToKnow.info/votingproblems

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121404W.shtml


Letter from Kerry's attorney to Ohio's 88 counties

Confirmed by the Offices of Donald J. McTigue, Kerry-Edwards State Counsel in Ohio, below is the letter sent by McTigue to the individual board of elections in each of the counties in Ohio.


December 10, 2004

Re: Presidential Recount

Dear Director and Deputy Director:

Enclosed please find a copy of a letter personally signed by John Kerry appointing me as his legal counsel with respect to the recount for President and Vice President of the United States, with full authority to act on behalf of him and John Edwards, including appointing witnesses to attend the recount.

Also enclosed is a letter personally signed by John Kerry designating witnesses to attend the recount in your county.

On behalf of John Kerry and John Edwards I am making the following requests regarding the conduct of the recount:

1. The selection of precincts for the three percent hand count should be according to a scientifically valid random sampling method. I am aware that you have received a letter from Votewatch regarding this issue with an offer by that organization to provide resources to ensure that the sampling method is valid. We urge you to accept this offer of assistance or otherwise be able to demonstrate that the method employed by the Board to select the precincts for the three percent hand count is scientifically valid.

2. We request that each candidate be given the opportunity to select at least one precinct for a hand count, either as part of or in addition to the three percent hand count.

3. For those counties that use touch screen voting systems, we request that the three percent hand count include a hand count of three percent of the ballot images stored in the each of the redundant memories of the machines selected for the recount and on any paper trail for the machines.

4. We request that the Board provide the opportunity for candidates participating in the recount to have the programming and calibration of the tabulating system, scanners, and electronic voting machines verified by independent experts.

5. We request that the test used by the Board to verify the logic and accuracy of the computer tabulating program be performed for each precinct, including any separate absentee precinct. Further, the test should include testing for under and over voted ballots.

6. We request that computer printouts of the recount results include the under and over votes recorded in each precinct.

7. John Kerry and John Edwards hereby request to have their witnesses visually inspect all ballots for which your voting system has not recorded a vote for President and Vice President, i.e. the undervote and overvote ballots. If the Board does not agree to a visual inspection of these ballots, then we hereby request to visually inspect all ballots pursuant to R.C. ¤ 3515.04 and OAG 74-103.

8. We request to inspect envelopes and related paperwork for all uncounted provisional and absentee ballots. This includes documents stating the reason or reasons that a ballot was not counted and the documentation to support the same.

9. In order to verify candidate rotation, we request to inspect the ballot page assemblies of all punch card voting devices and the ballot faces of all touch screen voting machines used at the polls or at the Board's office.

10. For those counties where the names of Nader and Camejo were visible to voters on the ballots, ballot pages or faces of voting machines, i.e. where the names were not covered over with a sticker or blacked out or the ballots were not reprinted without their names, we request to know whether any votes were cast for Nader and Camejo for President and Vice President.

11. We request that absentee ballots which were postmarked by election day, November 2, 2004, and were received by the board no later than November 12, 2004, be counted if the voter did not vote at the polls.

The above requests are in addition to any other requests that may be made by our witnesses.

If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours,

cc: Daniel J. Hofheimer

Kerry-Edwards State Counsel, Ohio
Donald J. McTigue


Informant: Diana Davies

. John Conyers is trying to collect a couple million emails on the voting investigation. He has set up a special form for you to ask questions of his committee.

. Please send off an email with a question for the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Ohio Vote. Click below and take a moment to write your opinions of the 2004 Presidential vote.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

. This article appears in the December 10, 2004 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review.

Leading Democrats Take Up Vote-Suppression Fight, by Edward Spannaus

"What happened on Nov. 2 was not an election, but a not-so-cold coup d'état against the United States Constitution … And those in the … Republican Party who engaged in a widespread campaign of vote-suppression are guilty of violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Constitution ... sufficient to send these guys to jail, if not to un-elect them …"

The theft of the election through the massive suppression of the votes of minority voters, most flagrant in Ohio and Florida, but also prevalent in many other states, is a far bigger question than mere vote fraud. By targetting the lower 80% of the population which the LaRouche movement and … the Democratic Party were mobilizing, [the Neo-cons] were attempting to consolidate their grip on the U.S. government for their policy of perpetual war and brutal economic austerity.

This is critical inside the Democratic Party, where many activists are being drawn into futile legal actions on the state level, seeking recounts, or redress for vote fraud and irregularities, which do not get at the fundamental Constitutional implications of the Nov. 2 coup. On the other hand, there is fortunately an effort now under way among key Democrats, in the House and elsewhere, to compile the evidence of how high-level operatives in the Bush-Cheney apparatus … acted in explicit violation of the Voting Rights Act to suppress the vote on Nov. 2.

… Prior to the election, a report called "The Long Shadow of Jim Crow: Voter Intimidation and Suppression in America Today" was published by the NAACP and People for the American Way. … The … report … chronicled the myriad methods of vote-suppression used, over the past couple of decades, which have intensified during the 2000 election and subsequently. … In recent issues of EIR (see Nov. 19 and Nov. 26), we have presented documentation of the many methods of voter-suppression used, particularly in Ohio. This included dirty tricks and disinformation circulated to voters before the election (such as directing voters to the wrong polling place), and during the election; mobilizing challengers to intimidate voters at the polling places; unlawful purging of voter rolls; and the failure to process new voter registrations in a timely manner. And, perhaps the most important method in Ohio, deliberately shorting the number of voting machines in urban minority precincts, so that would-be voters had to stand in line for 3-4 hours, and sometimes 8-10 hours, causing many to leave in frustration or out of necessity, thus preventing them from voting.

… 12 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, … [are taking action]. … The pattern of vote suppression being compiled by the House Judiciary Committee minority members … should be presented to the full House and Senate on or before Jan. 6—which is when Congress meets in Joint Session to certify the Electoral College votes. To understand the type of mobilization which is needed, it is worth recalling what happened four years ago.

… The CBC [Congressional Black Caucus] staged a dramatic action on the floor of the Joint Session, rising one after another to object to the Florida electoral vote [mainly to prevent Ashcroft's appointment.

… Following Bush's certification, the drive to stop Ashcroft grew. By the time his nomination came to the Senate floor, there were a sufficient number of U.S. Senators organized and ready to block Ashcroft's confirmation. At the very last moment, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, in an act of betrayal that probably cost him his Senate seat in 2004, ordered Democratic Senators to halt their resistance, and confirm Ashcroft.

Ell Kinder



Ohio Vote Fraud Battle Heats Up
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/439508/

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_us/ohio_electoral_college&printer=1

Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Republican Gov. Bob Taft on Monday, asking him to delay the Electoral College vote or at least consider the results unofficial until the disputes are resolved.

Contact Governor Taft

Phone 614-466-3555 or 614-644-HELP


Informant: Marsha V. Hammond

It may be impossible for critics to claim that only fans of conspiracy theories believe that voter fraud occurred in Ohio. We now have prima facie evidence of fraud by Kenneth Blackwell's office, when an order directed election officials to remove all voter records from the public domain to private ownership. Ohio law forbids it! Read our new article:


Ohio Vote Fraud Battle Heats Up

Links to A New Affidavit From a Professional Willing to Testify
And Prima Facie Evidence of Fraud

By Katherine Yurica

December 13, 2004

http://www.yuricareport.com/2004%20Election%20Fraud/OhioVoteFraudBattleHeatsUp.html


Here's another way you can help:

Copy and paste the following letter into this web-site

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

and tell the Judiciary Committee you want hearings on Ohio!

Rep. Conyers needs your help!

Rep. John Conyers feels he needs a million e-mails to compel the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings about the 2004 election. Spread this message among your list of liberal friends and associates. Go here:


SAMPLE LETTER:

DEAR HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE:

1. To ensure the legitimacy of the people apparently elected in the
2004 election, the House Judiciary Committee must do the following.

2. Openly hold hearings and investigate all cases of alleged voter
fraud, for example those charged by Blackboxvoting.org.

3. Make sure that all recountable ballots are recounted, when
requested. Do not allow stonewalling by secretaries of state with
vested interest in one outcome.

4. Hold hearings on the numerous discrepancies between the pure exit polls (those not blended with vote tabulations) and the black box voting machines. Investigate the statistical studies by researchers at our top universities, showing prohibitively tiny probability that the discrepancies were due to the random chance associated with sampling error.

5. Investigate the numerous mistakes in vote counting reported this election, and the allegation that they are all in favor of Bush and against Kerry.

6. Do not certify the 2004 elections until these steps have been taken, and you have determined, in open and publicized hearings, that the apparent winners of the elections are indeed the winners. If the reverse is shown, do not certify the elections at all and let there be re-votes.

In addition, democracy and future elections must be safeguarded with the following legislation:

7. No black box voting. Every voter needs a verifiable, and recountable, paper trail. Democracies have never assumed that all black box controllers would be honest, always.

Open code on voting machines, to verify their honest programming. The trade secret excuse is silly at best, deceptive at worst. It is not difficult to program a computer to count and add. Touchscreens add complication, and potential for mistakes and more cheating, so tell vendors who want secret computer code because of their touchscreens to use pushbuttons, or paper.

8. Create minimum standards for vendors of voting material. They must be free of partisan activity, and their activities and programming must be open to public viewing. How do you think we look to the world and our citizens - when the owner of the (Diebold) black box machines counting most of our un-recountable votes openly promised to deliver Ohio to George W. Bush?

It is your sacred duty to preserve democracy, and it is a higher goal than electing any particular party or ticket.

Sincerely,

Katherine Yurica


Help Conyers Block Bush Certification
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/439524/

Kann Handystrahlung das Erbgut schädigen?

Handystrahlung: gefährlich oder nicht? Seit Jahren streiten sich die Experten. Die gängige Lehrmeinung war: „Elektromagnetische Schwingungen von Handys sind zu schwach, um das Erbgut zu schädigen.“

Jetzt wurde die sogenannte Reflexstudie veröffentlicht, bei der zwölf Forschergruppen (Reflex-Studie) aus sieben EU-Ländern drei Jahre lang die Wirkung von elektromagnetischen Feldern auf menschliche Zellen untersucht haben, aber zu teilweise anderen Ergebnissen kamen.

„Berliner Kurier“ und „Bild“ erklären die Studie so, dass Handystrahlen Zellen schädigen und die DNS zerstören können, da Handy-Strahlung (SAR-Wert) größer als 1,3 Watt pro Kilogramm Körpergewebe schädliche Auswirkungen hätte, der Grenzwert zur Zeit aber bei 2,0 Watt pro Kilogramm liege.

http://www.bild.t-online.de/
http://www.berlinonline.de/



Spiegel-TV: Mobilfunk nicht harmlos

Am 5. Dezember berichtete Spiegel-TV über die mobilfunkkritischen Studien des Reflex-Projekts (DNS-Doppelstrangbrüche) und von Leif Salford (Öffnung der Blut-Hirn-Schranke). Beide Studien sind zwar nicht neu und Insidern längst bekannt, dem zuschauenden Publikum von Spiegel-TV wurde jedoch nahe gebracht, dass nicht alles harmlos ist, was funkt.

http://www.spiegel.de/



Chip: Kritisches zu Mobilfunksendemasten

Die Computerzeitschrift Chip gab am 3. Dezember eine Pressemeldung über die Gesundheitsrisiken von Mobilfunk-Basisstationen heraus. Tenor: „Wer sich einen Sendemast aufs Dach stellen lässt und glaubt, die Strahlung gehe über ihn hinweg, der irrt“.

http://www.izgmf.de/


Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 09.12.2004

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Aktuelle, brisante Meldungen aus den Medien

041213 Newsletter der Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd

Liebe Nachbarn, sehr geehrte Newsletterabonnenten,

heute wollen wir Ihnen mal, zur Abwechselung, nicht über die Mobilfunksituation in Dachau berichten, sondern ein paar aktuelle, brisante Meldungen aus den Medien bringen.

Die Computerzeitschrift Chip veröffentlicht in ihrer neuesten Ausgabe eine Studie über Gesundheitsrisiken von Mobilfunk-Basisstationen und gibt am 3. Dezember eine Pressemeldung heraus: http://www.izgmf.de/chip2004.pdf

Am 5. Dezember wird im Fernsehen über die mobilfunkkritischen Studien des Reflex-Projekts (DNS-Doppelstrangbrüche) und von Leif Salford (Öffnung der Blut-Hirn-Schranke) in der renommierten Sendung Spiegel-TV berichtet:
http://www.spiegel.de/video/0,4916,6930,00.html

Am 8. Dezember erscheint in BILD.de ein Artikel über die Reflex-Studie mit dem Titel: Neue Schock-Studie der EU:
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/handyco/aktuell/2004/12/handy-strahlung/strahlung__studie,templateId=renderKomplett.html

Wir wollen nur hoffen, dass mehr und mehr über diesen Freilandversuch, den man an uns Menschen durchführt, bekannt wird.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Bürgervereinigung gegen die Mobilfunkanlage in Dachau-Süd, am Heideweg
http://www.mobilfunk-dachau.de

http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/OhioForumDec13Report1.htm


Informant: NHNE

Doug Anderson: Forest plan is at odds with its noble goals
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5115895.html


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~34165~2594141,00.html


Informant: Carrie Dann

Earlier this year, over 1,500 RAN supporters sent letters to Weyerhaeuser demanding that the company cancel plans to log a scenic watershed in Pemberton, B.C. within two weeks of hearing from RAN supporters Weyerhaeuser reversed their decision to log.

Just a few hundred miles North of Pemberton, another controversy is brewing on the islands of Haida Gwaii where members of the Haida Nation are fighting for their cultural heritage.

The Haida want access to detailed information Weyerhaeuser holds about the old growth cedar trees that have been a central part of Haida culture for generations. Weyerhaeuser wants to log more old growth.

Click the link below to send a letter to Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel demanding that the company protect endangered forests and turn over information about Haida Gwaii's last remaining old growth cedars to the Haida people to make better management decisions over these forests.

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=70851

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada decided in late November on a case that the Haida Nation launched to protect the ancient old-growth forests of Haida Gwaii. The Court held in favor of the Haida, holding that the Province has a legal duty to consult with the Haida about timber harvesting in Weyerhaeuser's Tree Farm.

In the Haida case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government of British Columbia must consult with the Haida Nation and accommodate their interests when renewing the tree farm license issued in an area claimed by them as aboriginal title lands. For further information about this case, visit EAGLE at http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=70868.

The Court affirmed that, "In all its dealings with Aboriginal peoples, from the assertion of sovereignty to the resolution of claims and the implementation of treaties, the Crown must act honourably." "The Court has held that the Crown has a duty of honour, and now it will be our duty to hold them to that obligation," says Guujaaw. "This is the best chance for the well-being and sustainability of the land."

Rather than see the writing on the wall, Weyerhaeuser is withholding mapping information about old growth cedar requested by the Haida for analysis and planning to ensure that the ecological and cultural benefits of cedar are sustained for present and future generations.

Please click the link below to demand that Weyerhaeuser respect the cultural needs of the Haida Nation.

http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=70852

Very sincerely,

--Jess, Sharon and Brant
The RAN Old Growth Team
July 29th, 2004

P.S. Grassroots market pressure can change the way corporations do business. After receiving nearly 1,500 emails from RAN supporters in August, grocery chain Trader Joe's decided to stop buying paper bags from Weyerhaeuser, the number one destroyer of old growth forests in America.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~34165~2592207,00.html


Informant: Carrie Dann

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2594109,00.html


Informant: Carrie Dann

Catastrophe: 60 Dead near a Cellular-Radio-Broadcasting-Tower in Slupsk (Stolp)/Poland

Watch the death-list at: http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaSlDe.htm

Original in Polish (scanned): http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaslupsk.htm

These observations were made within the last four years by Mrs. Bartos from Slupsk, Poland. In 1991 the tower starts with television and radio service. Since 1992 it works also as cellular-tower. The people who are on the list live or lived in a distance between 25 or 30 meters except two sky-scrapers in a distance from 100 to 150 meters.

The government didn't made any epidemiological and statistical investigations upon the high death-rate between 1995 and 1998 and until now.

These list was created by Mrs. Elzbieta Bartos, Slupsk ul. Banacha 11/58, 76-200 Polska. Tel. (004859) 84-42-260 between July and Decembre 2004 and is based on interrogations of neighbours, doctors, teachers and the suffering people from this area.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/slupskenfr.pdf

Source: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/438335/

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Usfie Cancer Cluster, Update
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/421932/

Application filed to prosecute UK Electricity Industry for failing to label domestic electrical Appliances with hazard Warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433077/

DC Circuit decision - EMR v. FCC
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433099/

Ever growing Concerns surrounding Mobile Masts and their Effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436276/

Mobile Phone Company advises Industry not to target Children for Cell Phone Sales
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433815/

Mobile phone firms hide radiation hazards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/434847/

EU REFLEX Project Report
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436261/

Norwich meeting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437127/

Warning after three incidents in which mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling operations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436008/

New bill targets some peeping Toms
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436050/

Cell phones and the brain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437268/

Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson carries out a particular war
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437536/

Microchips in Your Passport and Drivers License
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/437454/

TSA widens test of biometric IDs - Privacy experts worry about precedents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/438670/

A Nation of Cattle?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/436877/

Omega-News Collection 9. December 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/434789/

http://www.democrats.com

by Bob Fertik on December 12, 2004 - 2:09pm.

There is an unprecedentedÊhuge wave of election protesting across the country - see:
http://www.51capitalmarch.com ,
http://www.denvervoice.org , or
http://www.Nov3.US .

On Monday, when Ohio's Republican Electors cast their 20 votes for Bush, they will be greeted by protesters.

[Kat] L'Estrange and Susan Truitt of the Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, a Columbus-based group, and others are demanding the electoral vote be put off until the recount is completed. Ohio's 88 county boards of elections must begin their recounts by the end of this week.

"In Ohio, there has not been a final determination. Therefore, any meeting of the Electoral College in Ohio prior to a full recount would in fact be an illegitimate gathering," said John Bonifaz of the National Voting Rights Institute.

In Ohio,88 counties start their recounts on Monday: Clinton, Fayette, Holmes, Jefferson, Lake, Medina, Ottowa, and Wood.

Friday's bizarre lockdown in Greene County got more bizarre, when election observers Joan Quinn and Eve Roberson revisited the office Saturday morning to find the building unlocked and unoccupied.

Deputy Director of Elections Lynn McCoy arrived later and stated that all election records were still "locked down" and remained unavailable to the public. However, metal boxes with sealed locks had been stacked in the unlocked basement immediately accessible to the unlocked entrance. The Deputy Director would not confirm that these boxes contained original ballots.

The story made the Dayton Daily News, and Joan Quinn will testify at Monday's hearing led by John Conyers.

Quinn said that she and her fellow observer were looking into the low turnout recorded in minority precincts, especially precincts 354, 224, and 355, which recorded voter turnouts in the 50 percent range, while the average for Greene County was 74 percent. While examining those records, she said, they were informed of the "lockdown" order.

A detailed study of absentee ballots in Trumbull County by Dr. Werner Lange found 580 absentee votes for which there were no absentee voters identified in the poll books - a clear case of fraud.

The absentee vote inflation rate for these five communities averages 5.5 fradulent voters per precinct. If this pattern of inflated absentee votes holds for all of OhioÕs 11,366 precincts, then there were some 62,513 absentee votes in Ohio up for grabs in the last election. Who grabbed them and how they did so should be the subject of an immediate congressional investigation.

A detailed study of Uncounted votes in Montgomery County by Richard Hayes Phillips found in 47 Dayton precincts, which went for Kerry by a margin of 7 to 1, the spoilage rate of regular ballots was 5.16%, compared to 1.31% for the rest of the county.

A detailed study of votes in Lucas County by Richard Hayes Phillips found a remarkable 25 precincts had over 80% turnout (3 over 90%), along with 45 urban Toledo districts. With central scan tabulation, Phillips believes the totals were hacked.


Informant: Diana Davies

A former US military researcher's thoughts on depleted uranium with video

KAREN,


OUTSTANDING (and tragic) CONTRIBUTION THAT MUST BE SHARED!

Jack Topel

Fern@aol.com wrote:

If you question the truth about the dangers of depleted uranium, please don't miss this one.

A link about DU sent by someone in one group, in response to my post, led me to do a search on Dr Douglas Rokke, who is a former US Army nuclear health physicist and was formerly the Pentagon's expert on the health effects of depleted uranium ammunition. Go to the site below for the full article and a video of Dr Douglas Rokke.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4439.htm

A great site with more from Doug Rokke:
http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html


Blowing the N-whistle : Depleted uranium: How dangerous is it?

A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars.

"It's lonely," he says slowly. "It's very lonely. I made a decision. I was given a job. I did my job. I learned something. I gave them an answer they didn't want. I became persona non grata. And the better parts of my life ended."

Rokke, now 54, is convinced that he and other members of his team in Iraq were contaminated and that the tests he undertook showed that significant amounts of the DU vaporised on impact, making it extremely dangerous when inhaled. He pulls up his trouser leg to reveal the red rash he says appeared within hours of his contact with DU. He holds up his hand and moves fingers clumsily to show that his fine motor skills have gone. He has respiratory problems and cataracts and has medical reports showing that the amount of uranium in his urine is way above acceptable limits.

He has become a campaigner, not just for better clean-up and treatment, but for the weapons to be banned. "After everything I've seen, everything I've done, it became very clear to me that you just can't take radioactive wastes from one nation and just throw it into another nation. It's wrong. It's simply wrong."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4207.htm

Go to the link above for another article and audio about a National Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D.

Doug Rokke, Ph.D., is former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU) Project

Dr. Rokke made a number of startling revelations. Over 221,000 veterans from Gulf I are on permanent disability. Now, soldiers are coming back sick. DU is suspected as a cause. He goes into details about how the soldiers who went to the Gulf were ill-trained and ill-equipped to deal with radioactive munitions. These munitions cause a radioactive and highly toxic dust when used.


A great site with more from Doug Rokke:
http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html

http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ARCHIV/ZF_123c/T01.HTM


Nachricht von hese-project

http://www.selftest.net/redshift.htm


Informant: Jack Topel

When technology gets personal
This paves the way for brain implants

It's all part of what's known as a "pervasive ambient world", where "chips are everywhere".

In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly passé. By then phones will be printed directly on to wrists, or other parts of the body, says Ian Pearson, BT's resident futurologist. It's all part of what's known as a "pervasive ambient world", where "chips are everywhere". Inanimate objects will start to interact with us: we will be surrounded - on streets, in homes, in appliances, on our bodies and possibly in our heads - by things that "think". However, this future of highly personal devices, where technology is worn, or even fuses with the body itself, raises ethical questions.

Mr Pearson does not have a crystal ball. His job is to formulate ideas based on what science and technology are doing now, to guide industries into the future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059011.stm



'BrainGate' Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape

An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide paralysed or motor-impaired patients a mode of communication through the translation of thought into direct computer control. The technology driving this breakthrough in the Brain-Machine-Interface field has a myriad of potential applications, including the development of human augmentation for military and commercial purposes. "The goal of the BrainGate program is to develop a fast, reliable and unobtrusive connection between the brain of a severely disabled person and a personal computer" stated Tim Surgenor, President and CEO of Cyberkinetics. "We [hope] to provide paralysed individuals with a gateway through which they can access the broad capabilities of computers, control devices in the surrounding environment, and even move their own limbs." Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have already demonstrated that a monkey can feed itself with a robotic arm simply by using signals from its brain, an advance that could enhance prosthetics for people, especially those with spinal cord injuries. Now, using the BrainGate system in the current human trials, a 25 year old quadriplegic has successfully been able to switch on lights, adjust the volume on a TV, change channels and read e-mail using only his brain.

Crucially, the patient was able to do these tasks while carrying on a conversation and moving his head at the same time.

http://www.gizmo.com.au/go/3503/



Paralyzed Could Use Brain Waves To Move Objects

The newest study suggests that brain interface devices using old-fashioned electroencephalogram (EEG) readings may be just as useful as implants. EEG readings don't require implants, instead relying on electrodes placed on the scalp.A device that reads brain waves may give paralyzed patients a way to control prosthetic limbs without needing brain implants, medical investigators say. The brain-computer interface experiment, released yesterday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes amid rising interest in such devices. Paralyzed patients may someday lead more normal lives if scientists can translate brain activity into words and motion. Last year, for example, Duke University researchers showed that monkeys with brain implants could learn to control robotic arms.

Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxborough, Mass., implanted an experimental brain interface into a quadriplegic patient this year.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/38780.html



Brain scanner is a lie detector
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4051211.stm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

Paramedics who attended the scene of Dr David Kelly's death have cast doubt that the weapons expert committed suicide. The scientist was found dead with his wrists slashed after attending an inquiry into claims the Government sexed-up evidence to back the war on Iraq. But two paramedics, Dave Bartlett and Vanessa Hunt, who were called to the scene of Dr Kelly's death in a field near his Oxfordshire home in July last year, dispute the Hutton Inquiry's verdict of suicide. Ms Hunt is quoted in a national newspaper as saying: There wasn't alot of blood. When you cut an artery, accidentally or intentionally the blood pumps everywhere." "I just think its incredibly unlikely he died from the wrist wound we saw."

At the time of his death Dr Kelly was under pressure after being revealed as the source of a report alleging the Government's dossier on Iraq had been "sexed-up".

http://www.itv.com/news/index_1094045.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

In Washington, the Pentagon revealed that four US special forces soldiers have been punished for unauthorised use of Taser electric stun guns on prisoners, after further allegations of US prisoner abuse were investigated.

Original revelations of humiliation and degradation meted out to Iraqi prisoners in US custody, which surfaced earlier this year, caused outrage across the world, not least among European opponents of the invasion.

The latest probe was conducted after Defence Intelligence Agency interrogators reported seeing prisoners with burns and bruises being brought to a temporary detention centre by members of a top secret special Task Force.

One interrogator said he saw a member of the task force punch a prisoner in the face to the point he needed medical treatment, according to a June 25, 2004 memo from DIA director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby made public on Tuesday. "Four individuals received administrative punishments for excessive use of force — it in particular was emphasized it was the unauthorized use of Tasers," said Pentagon spokesperson Lawrence DiRita. "Additionally all four were reassigned to other responsibilities, and two were removed from the unit," he said.

http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/398103.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

Elaine Donnelly: "yet more women will die – or be captured and possibly raped."

The Pentagon is implementing new military plans that will make the concept of women in combat a reality. The Center for Military Readiness warned this week that the Pentagon is flouting policies mandated by Congress in an effort to implement politically correct policies that increase the number of uniformed women put into harm's way. Others suggest the Pentagon tinkering with rules forbidding women in combat is a clear effort to increase boots on the ground as the troop-strapped DoD faces manpower shortages in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe. Seven female U.S. soldiers have thus far been killed in Iraq and many more have been wounded. The question is, why? Aren't women supposed to be kept out of units that may see combat?

Female combat pilots and military police (patrolling the streets of Baghdad, for instance) are a recognized part of Congress's loosening of the restriction on the roles females can play in combat operations, even though there remains fixed in the rule book a regulation that exempts women from direct ground combat units that engage in deliberate offensive action against the enemy.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/military/women_in_combat.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

Fallujan men will reportedly be forced to work in military-style battalions.

The tens and maybe hundreds of thousands of Fallujans who fled the western Baghdad city before the US-led onslaught have more to be concerned about than just flattened houses, devastated infrastructure and bullet-ridden mosques. The US occupation forces are planning a set of police state measures to be strictly applied to any of the battle-scarred city’s residents yearning to come back, reported the Boston Globe Saturday, Sunday December 5. This includes funneling Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and scanning, according to the American paper. Fallujans would also be forced to wear, at all times, badges displaying their home addresses while the use of cars would be banned inside the city, added the Globe. About 80-to-90 percent of Fallujah's 300,000-strong population are said to have evacuated the city, escaping the hell of continuous US air raids.

Some 10,000 US marines and army forces, alongside some 2,000 Iraqi national guardsmen unleashed a long-expected onslaught on the resistance hub on November 8, capping long nights of massive US raids.

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-12/06/article01.shtml



Marine Corps deploys Fallujah biometric ID scheme

US forces in Iraq are attempting to tame Fallujah with biometric ID, according to an NBC news report broadcast last week. The returning population of up to 250,000, reporter Richard Engel said on Tom Brokaw's last Nightly News, is to be allowed back in gradually, a few thousand at a time. "They'll be finger printed, given a retina scan and then an ID card, which will only allow them to travel around their homes or to nearby aid centers, which are now being built. The Marines will be authorized to use deadly force against those breaking the rules." Get an ID card or we'll shoot you - a possible slogan for David Blunkett's ID card marketing campaign? But although that's pretty much the bottom line, the Fallujah effort is particularly interesting as an apparent attempt to use ID to control a large population which is at least uncooperative, possibly hostile, and possibly armed. Bearing these factors in mind it's difficult to see how it can possibly succeed. The underlying theory of the effort can be identified fairly readily. The US has taken quite a few cues from Israel, which operates intensive ID checks (and massive strikes and punishment demolitions), and has been trying to implement an ID system in Iraq, operating small scale exercises in 'controlled access.'
This draws on the 'secure hamlet' approach which was used by the British in South Africa (where we pioneered concentration camps, oops) and in Malaya, where it was at least rather better marketed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/09/fallujah_biometric_id/



U.S. has invasive, high-tech plans for Fallujah’s returning refugees

"We need to be the benevolent, dominant tribe."

Occupation forces intend to erect a "model city" from the ruins of Fallujah, including a high-tech security infrastructure complete with DNA testing, retina scans and ID badges for all the city's residents, according to Marine Corps officers interviewed by the Boston Globe. Under plans currently on the table, before re-entering their rubble-strewn city the more than 200,000 refugees who fled the month-long American offensive in Fallujah will be required to pass through what are being called "citizen processing centers," where they will be screened and a database of their identities will be created through a series of procedures, including DNA testing and retina scans. Identification badges displaying the individual's home address would be mandatory in the new Fallujah described by Marines, and cars -- the makeshift delivery device of choice for insurgent bombings -- would be banned altogether. According to the Globe, Marine officers are also debating compulsory employment for all Fallujah's men in military-type reconstruction corps, a system they compare to that established in post-World War Two Germany.

"They’re never going to like us," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, a Marine intelligence officer who believes the US military should exploit Sunni Arabs’ traditional ways. "They want to figure out who the dominant tribe is and say, ‘I'm with you.’ We need to be the benevolent, dominant tribe."

Major General Richard Natonski, who commanded last month’s invasion of Fallujah by US and Iraqi forces, credited Iraq’s interim government as coming up with all the ideas for rebuilding Fallujah.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53612-2004Dec9.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

The biometric and personal data will be tied to various government “watch lists”

The U.S. government is spending $25 million this fiscal year to road test a universal secure identity card loaded with biometric and personal data and tied to government "watch lists." Though the program is aimed at simplifying the security checks that airport personnel and other transportation workers must go through, privacy experts are warning of unintended consequences. The card, known as the Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC), will allow workers at the nation's railways, ports, mass transit agencies and airports to carry a single card to access secure areas within these facilities. Currently, many of these workers have to carry several individual cards. "Anyone who needs unescorted access to secure areas of [a transporation facility] would need a TWIC card," a TSA spokesman said. The credit-card sized device will contain fingerprints, an iris scan, palm geometry and a digital photo. It will have microchip and magnetic strip technology, along with holographic images and ultraviolet printing for added security. Think of it as a kind of universal remote of secure IDs or, if you’re more inclined to a Middle Earth meme, this is the “one card to rule them all.” The biometric and personal data will be tied to various government “watch lists” that contain the names and data of known or suspected terrorists, according to the Transportation Security Administration, which is overseeing the testing.

“The TWIC will be issued to transportation workers after thorough screening for ties to terrorism and will utilize a biometric to eliminate the use of fraudulent credentials,” said TSA chief David Stone.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6680324/



Peeking inside private lives

Digital data collection may make life easier, but it can also make you easier to track.

Backing out of the driveway, your watch chimes to let you know that you've left your wallet behind. An electronic reader mounted in your garage door has reminded your laptop and cell phone and key chain to check in before you leave, but the watch has noticed that your wallet is missing. Great for the absent-minded maybe, but even the scientist perfecting that watch sees danger in the technology. The same know-how that helps you keep track of all your stuff could let cops and corporations silently keep track of you. "You've got to build in the privacy now," said Gaetano Borriello, the University of Washington computer engineer designing the attentive watch. "If you wait until the technology is out there, it's too late."

The electronics vital to Borriello's watch belong to a growing family of digital applications, ever cheaper and seemingly everywhere, that make it easy to monitor all sorts of things. You included.

http://springfield.news-leader.com/business/today/1212-Peekingins-248400.html



Identity theft fear in digital passports

Australians are a step closer to getting new computer chip-based biometric passports, but opponents say the rush to appease the US with its new terrorist-filtering technology could threaten personal privacy. Forty groups, including the Australian Privacy Foundation, voiced concern this year about how the information on the passports might be misused, but as the Government strives to meet the deadline to keep its preferred-visa status with the US, concern has shifted to the security of the passports' computer chips. Experts say intruders may be able to "skim", or hijack, private data on the chips from a distance, and privacy groups say this could expose people to identity theft or make them a target of terrorism instead of protecting them. "This is like putting an invisible bullseye on Americans that can be seen only by the terrorists," a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Barry Steinhardt, told The New York Times.

The new passports are intended to be the standard issue for Australians from October 26 next year, but only for new or replacement documents. About 1500 Qantas flight crew volunteers will test the electronic passports on flights to Los Angeles for three months from February.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?N1766510A


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

If we have the technology to track the movements of everyone in America, we should use it, right? "No," shout most of us, proud that our country has fought from the start to prevent prying authorities from constantly keeping tabs on where we go and what we do. So, how can the authorities break down this innate resistance that we Americans have to Big Brotherism? One simple word, whisper today's technocratic machiavellians: children. Of course! We love our children and naturally want them to be safe. There's the perfect opening for the snoopercrats. It's an insecure world, they darkly warn us––terrorists, kidnappers, molesters, you name it. To protect children, we should electronically track them. It's out of love that we do this. Thus, the school district of Spring, Texas, is now issuing radio frequency ID cards to its school kids, so police can track each of them on a computer screen. Did little Jeannie stop off at her friend's house rather than going straight home after school? With her RFID tag, the authorities know where she is. It's security paranoia. This district in suburban Houston has not had a single problem with child disappearances. "But," says one mother who applauds the $180,000 system, "you hear about all this violence." So – like keeping track of livestock and Wal-Mart merchandise – parents have okayed the tracking of their own children. Indeed, authorities in Spring are now considering having the RFIDs implanted under the skin of each child. Then they could track them 24/7.

Not everyone is thrilled. "It's too Big Brother for me," says a 15-year old student. "Something about the school wanting to know the exact place and time makes me feel kind of like an animal."

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_16046.shtml


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

by Dave Lindorff

CounterPunch

12/12/04

This army of 150,000 in Iraq has so far experienced 5000 desertions -- an astonishing rate of 3.3 percent. That's remarkable, considering how hard it must be to desert in that environment. In Vietnam, you could hide out in a Saigon brothel, or, as some soldiers did, melt into the jungle, turn yourself over to the VC, and get smuggled north to North Vietnam and eventually Russia or even Sweden. The options in Iraq aren't so good, particularly with an insurgency that is far less organized and disciplined, and that is as likely to kill a wandering deserter as to give him or her shelter and sanctuary. How much longer will it be before desertion and angry questioning, and the occasional mutiny like we saw in late October with the fuel convoy that refused orders because of a lack of guards and armor on its explosion-prone trucks, give way to the same kind of disorder, sabotage and mayhem that plagued the U.S. military in Vietnam descends on the U.S. war machine in Iraq?

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff12112004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Charles Shaw

AlterNet

12/04/04

This exclusive interview with un-embedded journalist Dahr Jamail reveals an almost unrecognizable picture of Iraq and its people: "Q: The US Corporate media consistently characterizes the Iraqi resistance as 'foreign terrorists and former Ba'athist insurgents.' In your experience, is this an accurate portrayal? If not, why? A: This is propaganda of the worst kind. Most Iraqis refer to the Iraqi Resistance as 'patriots.' Which of course most of them are -- they are, especially in Fallujah, primarily composed of people who simply are resisting the occupation of their country by a foreign power. They are people who have had family members killed, detained, tortured and humiliated by the illegal occupiers of their shattered country. Calling them 'foreign terrorists' and 'Ba'athist insurgents' is simply a lie...

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20669/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Peter John Meiklem

Sunday Herald [UK]

12/12/04

Anti-war campaigners will be urged this weekend to target Scottish military bases with a new wave of 'civil disobedience' protests that could see fences cut, runways invaded and aeroplanes vandalised. Leading figures in the Scottish anti-war movement will call for more 'proactive' tactics at a meeting in Glasgow over the weekend. Activists believe an increase in 'direct action' such as blocking roads and breaking into bases will discourage politicians from supporting future military campaigns. The protesters hope a 'widening' of tactics will highlight the 'crucial' role that Scots bases played in the invasion and occupation of Iraq...

http://www.sundayherald.com/46562


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Joel Bleifuss

In These Times

12/10/04

Did the Bush-Cheney campaign engage in electronic vote fraud to ensure that George W. Bush would be president for another four years?

That is a question every small-d democrat should be asking. Much has been written on the Internet alleging that the election was stolen. Some writers are members of the tin-foil hat brigade, but others provide sober analysis of the election results that raise disturbing questions. Unfortunately, thanks to the herd instinct in our current media culture, anyone who publicly raises this question is immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist. ... Suspend disbelief, buck conventional wisdom and suppose that 'such a thing happened' -- that the Bush-Cheney campaign 'won' the election through systematic electronic voting fraud. Would the Bush-Cheney campaign have any qualms about stealing an election? Of course not. They did it in 2000...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1742/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Dodge City Daily Globe

12/12/04

Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said Sunday night. The request is one of 11 the Kerry campaign made in a letter sent over the weekend to Ohio's 88 county boards of election, which will begin recounting presidential ballots this week...

http://ap.dodgeglobe.com/stories/20041212/2651121.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

12/13/04

As it has done for 200 years, Ohio's delegation to the Electoral College is to meet today to cast ballots for president and vice president -- but this time, there are demands that the electors wait until after a scheduled recount. The Electoral College's vote in the Ohio Senate chamber is expected to be accompanied by demonstrations by groups that don't accept that President Bush won the state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry...

http://www.indystar.com/articles/0/201808-7750-010.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Veterans are Seriously Ill, Yet Pentagon Refuses to Investigate Depleted Uranium

The two articles below describe the adverse health effects of radioactive and toxic dust from depleted uranium (DU) ammunition used in Iraq and Afghanistan. While veterans continue to fall ill, the U.S. Department of Defense refuses to investigate DU because they want to keep DU munitions in their arsenal and avoid expensive healthcare and disability costs. Gulf War veterans Steve Smithson, Dan Fahey, and Steve Robinson keep pressing for more scientific research into the health effects of DU.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2554

Update on Ohio Voting Scandal

More disturbing facts are emerging from Ohio. For example, election officials are refusing to allow the counting and verification of election results. In another example, election-related documents were left in an unlocked building overnight. More questions are being raised about the fairness and transparency of the 2004 election. Hopefully, all the salient the facts will emerge before the Electoral College meets so Americans may rest assured we elected a legitimate government.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2552

Rumsfeld's Legacy: Soldiers Jailed for Scrounging Parts on the Battlefield

Here is an article that shows what really happens on the battlefield: "Six reservists, including two veteran officers who had received Bronze Stars, were court-martialed for what soldiers have been doing as long as there have been wars -- scrounging to get what their outfit needed to do its job in Iraq," according to the Chicago Tribune news article below. Remember, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is responsible for the planning and execution of the Iraq War.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2551

More and more soldiers continue complaining about the lack of proper equipment to win the Iraq War. In the article below, Reservists from Florida claim the problem of inferior and broken equipment has been going on for years without resolution by the Department of Defense. The people ultimately responsible are the President, Secretary of Defense, and Congress. The people who suffer more casualties as a result of these political leadership failures are our soldiers on the front lines.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2550

Louisiana Back Door Draft Registration: Get a Driver's License, Register for the Draft

Here's more evidence the military draft is gearing up as Iraq War casualties escalate. If a 16-year-old male wants an automobile driver's license in the state of Louisiana, then he must also sign up for the military draft. Yes, that's right, young men must sign up two years early in Louisiana. This disturbing development in Louisiana comes in addition to the Department of Defense obtaining detailed information from high schools and colleges about all students.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2548

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobile_phone_use_its_time_to_take_precautions.pdf
http://www.acnem.org/journal/20-1_april_2001/mobile_phone_use.htm


From Don Maisch

Liste disponible
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaSlDe.htm

Original en polonais (scanné) http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaslupsk.htm

Étude effectuée durant les quatre dernières années par Mme Elzbieta BARTOS de SLUPSK. La tour a été mise en service en 1991,équipée d'un transmetteur de radio et de télévision. En 1992,on y a adjoint une antenne émettrice de téléphonie cellulaire. La majorité de personnes figurant sur la liste,demeurait à 25 -30 m de la tour. Un grand nombre de cas de maladie a également été observé dans deux grands immeubles d'habitation situés à 100 -150 m. Les autorités administratives de SLUPSK n'ont effectué aucune étude épidémiologique ou statistique,même en pleine période de recrudescence de décès dans les années 1995-1998, prétextant l' absence de fonds nécessaires.

Liste dressée par Mme Elzbieta BARTOS, SLUPSK ul. Banacha 11/58, 76-200 POLSKA, Tél.(004859)84 42 260

entre juillet et fin novembre 2004,sur la base de témoignages de médecins locaux, instituteurs et malades eux-mêmes.

Watch the death-list at:
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaSlDe.htm

Original in Polish (scanned) http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/listaslupsk.htm


These observations were made within the last four years by Mrs. Bartos from Slupsk, Poland. In 1991 the tower starts with television and radio service. Since 1992 it works also as cellular-tower. The people who are on the list live or lived in a distance between 25 or 30 meters except two sky-scrapers in a distance from 100 to 150 meters.

The government didn't made any epidemiological and statistical investigations upon the high death-rate between 1995 and 1998 and until now. These list was created by

Mrs. Elzbieta Bartos, Slupsk ul. Banacha 11/58, 76-200 Polska. Tel. (004859) 84-42-260

between July and Decembre 2004 and is based on interrogations of neighbours, doctors, teachers and the suffering people from this area.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/slupskenfr.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/60_dead_near_a_cellular_radio_broadcasting_tower_in_slupsk.htm



MOBILE TELEPHONY IS DANGEROUS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555926/

ELECTROMAGNETICS FIELDS AND CANCER: QUOTATIONS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/507624/

SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Usfie Cancer Cluster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/421932/

Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Wireless Victims Lawyer
http://wireless-victims-lawyer.info/victim-reports/60-dead-near-a-cellular-tower.html

Mobilfunkturm des Todes: 55 Tote in Slupsk (Stolp) in Polen und weitere 53 schwer Erkrankte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/422749/



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