We are trying to give Mother Earth a Gaia healing. Please Plant a tree! Last summer I went out into the woods and planted 32 apple trees with my daughter. That was my gift to the Earth & animals that I love. If we all work together we can make this world a better place. Plz Plant a tree! If you eat an apple? Save the seed! These are almost free to plant.

Tell your friends and remember to click daily plz!!

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Plant a Tree at Land NIAGRA
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http://www.tree4life.com/ingles/ingles.htm

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Why Plant a Tree? Trees have a tremendous influence on society.
http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeplanting/a/plant_guide.htm?nl=1

Tell your friends and remember to click daily plz!! Or as much as possible. Remember you can only click one time a day and many trees are needed.

Mari

President John Sweeney and the General Executive Council of the AFL-CIO

Across the country, local, district, and national unions, labor councils, state labor federations and numerous other labor organizations representing millions of working people have adopted resolutions condemning the war in Iraq, and calling for an end to the occupation and return of all troops to their homes and families.

Among these are national unions like SEIU, AFSCME, CWA, APWU, NPMHU/LIUNA, and UE; allied organizations like the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Pride at Work and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; State Labor Federations in California, Maryland/DC, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin; and fifteen or more labor councils across the country.

110 of these organizations have banded together to form U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a national organization committed to ending the war, returning the troops, restoring funding to social programs and government services, and changing the direction of U.S. foreign policy.

Union members and their family members are being killed, wounded, disabled and psychologically traumatized in a war that has already killed almost 1500 U.S. military personnel, wounded more than 10,500 others, a war in which more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died. This war is siphoning resources from our communities, starving or eliminating essential public services and social programs, eroding our democratic rights, and making our country even less secure.

It is time for labor to speak out! At this time of discussion about renewing our labor movement, how can we not discuss the most urgent issue facing American and its working families? We ask you to put the issue of the war on the agenda of the up-coming Executive Council meeting. And we urge the national leadership of the AFL-CIO to oppose this reckless, illegal and immoral war.

More specifically, we ask for action on the following proposals by the Executive Council and the quadrennial convention of the AFL-CIO.

The AFL-CIO should demand an immediate end to the US occupation of Iraq and return of U.S. troops to their homes and families, and the reordering of national priorities toward peace and meeting the human needs of our people; and

Through its community service programs, the AFL-CIO and its state and local affiliates should assist union members and their families who are called upon to serve in the armed forces and returning veterans by identifying and providing information about resources and services available to meet their needs, by advocating for their interests, and by protecting their jobs, seniority and benefits and those of unorganized workers in similar circumstances.

Sisters and brothers, this war is draining away precious resources essential to meet human needs of working and poor people. It is undermining our security by alienating the U.S. from the community of nations and by provoking the spread of terrorism. It is weakening rather than reinforcing the rule of international law. It has led to an erosion of our most basic rights and liberties. And it is doing terrible direct harm to many thousands of military families.

We, the American labor movement, should take a stand and speak out on the biggest issue facing working people and the country as a whole. We urge you to join us!


Informant: Bigraccoon

Effects of low power microwaves on the local cerebral blood flow of conscious rats

Document ID: 19810004209 N (81N12720) File Series: NASA

Technical Reports

Report Number: AD-A090426

Authors: Oscar, K. J. (Army Mobility Equipment Command)

Published: Jun 01, 1980

Corporate Source: Army Mobility Equipment Command (Fort Belvoir, VA, United States)

Pages: 10

Contract Number: None

NASA Subject Category: LIFE SCIENCES (GENERAL)

Abstract:

A decoy and deception concept presently being considered is to remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel by exposing them to low power, pulsed microwaves. When people are illuminated with properly modulated low power microwaves the sensation is reported as a buzzing, clicking, or hissing which seems to originate (regardless of the person's position in the field) within or just behind the head. The phenomena occurs at average power densities as low as microwatts per square centimeter with carrier frequencies from 0.4 to 3.0 GHz. By proper choice of pulse characteristics, intelligible speech may be created. Before this technique may be extended and used for military applications, an understanding of the basic principles must be developed. Such an understanding is not only required to optimize the use of the concept for camouflage, decoy and deception operations but is required to properly assess safety factors of such microwave exposure.

Major Subject Terms: AUDITORY PERCEPTION - BRAIN CIRCULATION - DECEPTION - MICROWAVES - PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS - RADIATION EFFECTS

Minor Subject Terms: BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS - HEMODYNAMICS - MILITARY TECHNOLOGY - RADIATION DOSAGE - SOUND LOCALIZATION


Informant: STEAVE

If you suspect the media are guilty of a double standard when it comes to covering the White House, you're right. It's now clear, without a doubt, that White House reporters are as easy on President Bush as they were hard on President Clinton. Consider the case of phony White House reporter Jeff Gannon.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/10994178.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5qtrs


From Information Clearing House

When power becomes blatantly criminal, it's time to make people shut up. That time seems to have come throughout the Empire. Freedom of speech is increasingly threatened, both in the United States and in "old Europe", although the attacks come from quite different angles.
http://www.counterpunch.com/johnstone02282005.html


From Information Clearing House

Syrian President Bashar Assad says in a newspaper interview that he suspects the United States might eventually take military action against Syria.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/2/D149A4C9-C018-4FDB-ACC0-D407C9B54255.html
http://tinyurl.com/4vsjy


From Information Clearing House

A U.S. policy of preemption and a push for new nuclear weapon designs could be a recipe for disaster that makes proliferation more likely, not less.

http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=ma05speed


From Information Clearing House

A politically connected start-up firm, awarded a no-bid contract to provide security for Baghdad's airport, defrauded U.S. taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars, two top former workers charge in a lawsuit unsealed Friday.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/9872408.htm


From Information Clearing House

A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers...

http://207.44.245.159/article8176.htm

As a nation, does the United States have a conscience? Or is anything and everything O.K. in post-9/11 America? If torture and the denial of due process are O.K., why not murder? When the government can just make people vanish - which it can, and which it does - where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,344019,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Torture

Post 9/11, the interrogation methods the US administration are using in their 'war on terror' are said by human rights groups to be nothing short of illegal torture. Channel 4 looks at how US actions are betraying the very values they claim to be defending.

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/T/torture/index.html


From Information Clearing House

There is widening unease within the Central Intelligence Agency over the possibility that career officers could be prosecuted or otherwise punished for their conduct during interrogations and detentions of terrorism suspects, according to current and former government officials.

http://207.44.245.159/article8174.htm

Relatives of Iraqis tortured by British soldiers revealed last night how they were also arrested and brutally beaten simply for asking questions.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=615205


From Information Clearing House

UK: The blame for the Iraq war lies with our supine cabinet:

Why did our ministers not question the attorney general's legal advice?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1427023,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Thousands of soldiers return home with emotional wounds...

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050228/NEWS11/502280323/1208
http://tinyurl.com/4zl8w


From Information Clearing House

by Bob Nichols

“Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.

http://207.44.245.159/article8172.htm

Wien (APA) - Handy am Steuer ist nicht nur ein akademisches, sondern ein durchaus reales Sicherheitsrisiko, wie eine Umfrage des Verkehrsclubs Österreichs (VCÖ) zeigt: Demnach sind bereits mehr als zwei Drittel (68 Prozent) durch telefonierende Autofahrer in eine brenzlige Situation gekommen. Der VCÖ forderte daher am Montag, dieses Delikt in das geplante Vormerksystem aufzunehmen.

79 Prozent der Befragten geben an, selbst während des Autofahrens angerufen zu werden. Jeder Zehnte telefoniert den Großteil während der Fahrt. Und nicht immer geht das gut: 14 Prozent kennen Personen, die einen Verkehrsunfall hatten, weil sie gleichzeitig ein Kfz lenkten und dabei telefoniert haben, so Wolfgang Rauh vom VCÖ- Forschungsinstitut. 1.800 Personen wurden in Österreich vom VCÖ zum Thema interviewt. 87 Prozent davon waren Autofahrer, 13 Prozent lenken selber kein Kfz. 58 Prozent der Motorisierten gaben an, keine Freisprechanlage zu besitzen. "Der überwiegende Teil der befragten Personen weiß, dass es nicht gescheit ist, während des Autofahrens zu telefonieren", meint Rauh. Vier Prozent der Befragten wurden bereits selbst Opfer eines Verkehrsunfalls, der von einem telefonierenden Autofahrer verursacht wurde. Jeder Vierte davon war als Fußgänger unterwegs, jeder Zweite als Lenkradartist. Und immerhin jeder 67. hat bereits selbst einen Crash verursacht, während er sein Handy benutzte, jeder 20. nur beinahe.

APA 13:13 28.02.2005

© Wimmer Medien / OÖNachrichten

http://www.nachrichten.at/apanews/apac/337937?PHPSESSID=918851aa04a714441e98398cfe2a3240


Handys können Leben retten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/393825/

Toxic Tipping Point
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/03/02_354.html


Informant: Andrea Ball

Thanks to our supporters, we've got President Bush's key Congressional ally on Social Security privatization in a very hot seat. Rep. Jim McCrery -- the man charged to push Social Security privatization through the House of Representatives -- found his Wall Street conflict of interest dramatically exposed in three full-page ads and news stories throughout the nation last week.

From coverage in The New York Times, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, TalkingPointsMemo.com and others, hundreds of thousands of McCrery's own constituents -- and millions of Americans -- learned how Wall Street money is corrupting Social Security politics.

Our shared and hard-hitting fight against Social Security privatization is winning! Help us stay on the offense! Please contribute to help air a pointed new TV ad -- over 100 times this week in McCrery's home district -- to further expose his corruption on Social Security and hammer the White House for defending him.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=80761

McCrery's hometown newspaper -- The Shreveport Times -- editorialized last week about his ineffectual name-calling response to our expose, stating "McCrery's playing of the 'liberal bias' card against the Campaign for America's Future ignores the imperative that messing around with Social Security needs to be a straight-up exercise."

McCrery's still reeling from last week, and the White House is now scrambling to send senior officials down to Shreveport to quiet the anti-privatization storm. Today, the White House dispatched Treasury Secretary John Snow to try to defend McCrery and revive the ever-diminishing support for their privatization scheme. And, the White House just announced that President Bush will travel to Shreveport himself in early March to do the same.

With your help, we will continue to cut through their defense. Please help us start by greeting Secretary Snow today -- and throughout this week -- with a barrage of TV ads highlighting McCrery's corruption, and hammering the White House for trying to defend him.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=80761

Thank you so much for all that you do and have done to build a successful offense against the right-wing's Social Security privatization scheme. With your help, we will take the pressure to the next level, and keep them on their heels.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=80761

Thank you again.

Sincerely,

Ellen S. Miller, Deputy Director
Campaign for America's Future

28.02.05

Mit dem Frühlingsanfang kehren die Zugvögel zurück: Sie sind auf ein intaktes und eng geknüpftes Netz von Rastplätzen angewiesen. Doch diese verschwinden immer mehr aus Europa, kritisierte Claus-Peter Hutter, Präsident der Umweltstiftung Euronatur. Das geschehe durch Landschaftszerstörung aller Art. Aber nicht nur dadurch seien Zugvogel bedroht: Nach wie vor sei würden die Vögel auf ihrer Reise gejagt. Allein im Libanon würden jährlich 20 bis 25 Millionen Patronen verkauft. Das sei "eine unvorstellbare Zahl für ein Land, das kleiner ist als Schleswig-Holstein und nur wenig mehr Einwohner als Berlin hat", sagte Hutter.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10550

Überbelastung: 300.00 Schüler mit Kopfschmerzen
http://www.netdoktor.de/nachrichten/index.asp?y=2005&m=2&d=28&id=117944

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

Schule und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403986/

Jugend: Jeder Dritte leidet unter Nervosität und Kopfschmerz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/352522/

Die Leiden eines "Elektrosensiblen"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/532934/

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

Folgen durch Elektrosmog müssen untersucht werden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/543979/

http://www.wakefieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=706&ArticleID=944246


Informant: David Baron

From Mast Network

Send an email with your opinion about this case to:

St Augustine of Hippo
Edgbaston, Birmingham
http://www.findachurch.co.uk/cgi-bin/churchemail.cgi?churchid=sp08/staugustine


Feb 28 2005

A Birmingham vicar who claims that cash secured from a plan to install a mobile phone mast in his church spire would be a "gift from God" has sparked fury among residents.

The Rev Matthew Tomlinson, left, the vicar at St Augustine's Church in Edgbaston, has angered residents by dismissing health concerns associated with phone masts.

He rejected city council rules that his Grade II listed building would need planning consent for the mast, which could bring in about £5,000 a year in rent for the church.

The Anglican church, which is situated in a conservation area on Lyttelton Road, has been identified by agents acting for the Archbishop's Council as a suitable location for a lucrative phone mast.

The Parochial Church Council, which runs the church, has agreed for the building to house a phone mast. However, residents said they opposed the plan.

Doreen Whitehouse, who lives in nearby Melville Road, said: "These mobile phone companies say that the masts are not bad for your health, but I am not convinced. I can see the spire of the church from my window and I am very opposed to this plan."

Rev Tomlinson said: "We are exempt from planning permission because the building is owned by the Church of England. It just needs the permission of the chancellor of the diocese."

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningmail/news/tm_objectid=15240920%26method=full%26siteid=50002%26headline=fury%2das%2dvicar%2dclaims%2dmast%2d%2da%2dgift%2dfrom%2dgod%2d-name_page.html#top


Informant: Sylvie


Church 'gift from God' fury at mast

Feb 28 2005

By Neil Connor, Birmingham Post

A vicar who claims that cash secured from a plan to install a mobile phone mast in his church spire would be a "gift from God" has sparked fury among residents.

The Rev Matthew Tomlinson, the vicar at St Augustine's Church in Edgbaston, has angered residents by dismissing health concerns associated with phone masts.

He rejected city council rules that his Grade II listed building would need planning consent for the mast, which could bring in about £5,000 a year in rent for the church.

The Anglican church, which is situated in a conservation area on Lyttelton Road, has been identified by agents acting for the Archbishop's Council as a suitable location for a lucrative phone mast.

The Parochial Church Council, which runs the church, has agreed for the building to house a phone mast. However, residents said they opposed the plan.

Doreen Whitehouse, who lives in nearby Melville Road, said: "These mobile phone companies say that the masts are not bad for your health, but I am not convinced.

"I can see the spire of the church from my window and I am very opposed to this plan."

A city council spokeswoman confirmed that planning permission would be required if the project was to be given the go-ahead as the building is listed and is situated in a conservation area.

But Rev Tomlinson said: "We are exempt from planning permission because the building is owned by the Church of England. It just needs the permission of the chancellor of the diocese.

"The mast would be in the cone of the spire. We have been approached by an intermediary company working on behalf of the Archbishop's Council.

"They have identified this church as a site that would be appropriate for a mobile phone company. And this church has said that we would be happy for such a plan.

"At the moment there has been no mobile telephone company that has approached us. But if we did receive a rent we would recognise that as a gift from God to help us carry out the mission of the church."

Rev Tomlinson said consulting with residents would be the responsibility of the "intermediary company".

He dismissed health worries, saying: "There are not any health concerns from masts that are not already present with numerous appliances and communications that are already in existence, such as microwaves."

Coun Deirdre Alden (Con Edgbaston) said: "I really do think there are too many phone masts going up. They seem to be everywhere and something needs to be done about them."

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/post/tm_objectid=15240619%26method=full%26siteid=50002%26headline=church--gift-from-god--fury-at-mast-name_page.html



I find it disconcerting that vicars can please themselves if they want a mast on their church or not. I can remember that when we had the seminar at the house of commons in '99 there was a church of england representative who said that he would be recommending that churches should not be used for the siting of masts. I wonder what happened to that resolve. Maybe its time for an all out attack on the ruling bodies of the C of E. The congregation numbers are already down so I wonder how they would feel if we made an issue to churchgoers to boycott any church that had a mast on it?

sueferg



Sue,

The vicar can recommend approval but does not have the final say - that rests with the Chancellor of the Diocese and it is up to members of the public to represent their opposition to this individual and, just to make sure they're heard, the bishop himself.

It's a shame that so-called 'men of God' show themselves just as corruptible as their lay brethren who see nothing but the 'pound signs' - and eschew the concerns of all those who have the temerity to complain. So the Reverend Matthew Tomlinson has described the rent income as 'a gift from God'. A gift from the devil would be a more appropriate description in the circumstances. Let us hope that this fool has good reason to regret his un-Christian action. I have no such qualms.

David B



Another Church Mast

We live in a small town call Longridge in Lancashire. We have been campaigning since October 2004 to prevent our local Church from having a mast installed inside the church tower. It will be a new 2 G and 3G mast sharing system where up to 5 operators will be able transmitt etc from the one mast. We failed to get it refused by the planning committee because as it will be hidden there will be no loss of visual amenity and health issues can no longer be used as material planning objections. We have managed to get a stay of execution as we put it because of gods little creatures Bats in the belfry. They have to wait until April before they can conduct a survey to check our claims of bat roosts but time is now running out as we go into March. We have managed to get frequent articles in our local paper to try to keep pressure up in the local community and of course to the church and have been conducting a paper exersise with the Chancellor who is not prepared to listen to a single written word. We are presently composing a letter to all the members of the PCC and Church school governers. We live in the shadow of the church tower about 100 meters away and our son goes to the Church Primary school. If anyone has any ideas on what we can do next please let us have them. It would appear that the people left in the congregation are all supporters of the Vicar and the mast but very few actually live as close as we do as they have to drive to Church. The Vicar is not to worried about that as he is looking forward to his pot of money. Our local MP Nigel Evans has payed us lip service as when it means going against the Church he is not to keen, we have not heard from him since the beginning of December.

Debby and Karl



If it's any use, I had this letter published in the Church of England newspaper:
http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/cofe_newspaper.pdf

Andy



Debby and Karl,

Welcome. I note your remark to Sue about having only 28 days to make representation to the Chancellor but would suggest this timescale to be superfluous if he is so hell-bent on agreeing to the mast.

Characteristically, the local authority gave in very easily; it might well be that visual intrusion does not apply but there will most certainly be a loss of amenity. Moreover, it is manifestly not true to say that health concerns no longer constitute a material planning consideration. You say that up to five operators will be able to transmit from the same mast. Remember that consent given to the principal operator is not transferable - each code operator will require separate consent.

Herewith an an e-mail from Grahame Blackwell that has a direct relevance to your particular case; indeed, it could have been written in respect of your own vicar. Of particular importance is Grahame's attachment.

I suspect that you have already lobbied the bishop - perhaps it is now time to send this to him (covered by the text below).

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/five_mast_studies.doc

Omega see also under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Regards.

David Baron



I have just read, with some distaste, your story (sent to me by a friend) of the vicar who considers that a phone mast in his church spire would be "a gift from God."

The Rev Matthew Tomlinson appears indifferent to the well-founded and legitimate concerns of his 'flock' who live around the church. In this respect he surely disqualifies himself for the post he holds.

For your information I am attaching to this email a document detailing FIVE scientific studies of health effects of mobile phone masts. To the best of my knowledge they are the only such studies. Without exception they ALL show ill-health effects on people close to masts. I would challenge the Rev Tomlinson to find ONE study on mast effects that does NOT show such ill-health consequences.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/five_mast_studies.doc

Omega see also under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Regrettably it seems that Rev Tomlinson and his superiors have their eyes on the cash rather than their mission. The Bible tells of only one time that Jesus showed anger - that was when he chased the profiteering traders out of the temple. Do these church officials really believe in their own message? Does God really need the money from firms who flout planning law and ride roughshod over local communities to keep His work on earth going?

Rev Tomlinson seems as ill-informed about Divine Providence as he clearly is about phone mast health research. Perhaps the solution to the perceived financial problem lies not in harbouring a potential health hazard but rather in restricting the ecclesiastical payroll to those who practise what they preach.

Sincerely

(Dr) Grahame Blackwell



The vicar of our local church did her level best to keep meetings about the proposed mast secret and it fell to an adjacent householder to put up a large notice on her gate telling people to write to the diocese. We found all the church-related people to be distinctly unpleasant, some of them downright hostile and it has caused a permanent schism in the road. So much for Christian brother/sisterhood. They definitely couldn't see further than the £ signs.

Another Oxford church has just had a mast refused because its spire made it a listed building. It's worth pursueing every avenue. We found the local newspaper happy to take up the moral argument and publicise our case. Good luck.



Debby & Carl
Your vicar obviously dismisses the warnings from eminent scientists around the world - and even our own Govenment's adviser on the subject. I would challenge him on whether he has looked into the facts or has he just taken the word of the phone company. Give them facts and put them on notice. They cannot then say that they did not know. Is he aware that many insurance companies are not prepared to cover any ill health or loss of property value in the event of future claims. Have they checked their own insurance? Landowners are risking losing everything when a firm link is established (which will be sooner rather than later!)

Perhaps it should be suggested that this is the right time of year for the temptation??? Will they be found wanting??

Sylvia


From Mast Network



Cell towers now hide in plain sight
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558733/

Hidden Church masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495328/

Masts on Churches
http://www.mastsanity.org/actions/church.htm

Mobile Phone Masts Go Undercover
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1235373,00.html

Concern over church phone masts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1972913.stm

MOBILE PHONE MASTS IN CHURCH SPIRES AND TOWERS
http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/masts.htm

Anger at church phone mast disguised by cross
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15139848&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=anger-at-church-phone-mast-disguised-by-cross-name_page.ht

Concern over church phone masts
http://groups.msn.com/Resolve/phonemasts.msnw

Churches and Cell Towers
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/churches.htm

Cellular Phone: Phone Masts in Church Spires
http://www.feb.se/EMFguru/CellPhone/cell-church.html

See further under: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Church+Phone+Masts&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

Die Wellen in Peiting (Oberbayern), einem Marktflecken mit 11.000 Einwohner schlagen in Sachen Mobilfunk derzeit hoch. Innerhalb von zwei Wochen kam es jetzt schon zu zwei Demonstrationen gegen die weiteren Ausbaupläne der Mobilfunkbetreiber und im Gemeinderat wurde beantragt, die sogenannte Füssener Petition auch in Peiting zu unterstützen. Besonders heftige Reaktionen gab es auf ein Interview von Vodafone-Sprecher Ernst Andersch in den Schongauer Nachrichten. Das Interview, die Richtigstellung des Bürgermeisters ebenfalls in Interviewform und eine Stellungnahme der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V. werden im Folgenden (erschienen am 25., 26. und 28 2.) abgedruckt:

(Auszug)

Interview mit Bürgermeister Michael Asam:
Eiskaltes Vorgehen statt Ehrlichkeit
unter: AUFRUF ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN MOBILFUNKSENDER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535317/



Leserbrief vom 28. 2. 2005 von Klaus Hiefner, dem Vorsitzenden der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel, zum Interview mit Vodafone-Sprecher Ernst Andersch:

Üble Schlagworte aus der Mottenkiste

Leserbrief zum Artikel "Moderne Hexenjagd" mit Mobbingbriefen und Drohungen in der Ausgabe der Schongauer Nachrichten vom Donnerstag, 24. Februar:

Der Sprecher von Vodafone, Ernst Andersch, zeigt auch in seinen Interviewaussagen mehr als deutlich auf, dass man seitens des Mobilfunkbetreibers kein Interesse an einer sachlichen und faktenorientierten Auseinandersetzung hat. Bezüglich der unhaltbaren Behauptungen gegenüber der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V. und deren Sprecher Hans Schütz sind folgende Richtigstellungen notwendig:

Dass man am sogenannten "Runden Tisch" zur Mobilfunkproblematik, der im übrigen auch bei Gemeinden unter 50000 Einwohnern ja nicht verboten ist, in erster Linie Standortfragen und nicht Grundeinstellungen diskutiert, ist eine Selbstverständlichkeit, zu der sich Hans Schütz als Vertreter von Bürgerinitiativen immer schon ausdrücklich bekannt hat. Insofern sind die Absagen der Mobilfunkbetreiber an den "Runden Tisch" in Peiting nur vorgeschoben und sollen ihr Desinteresse an Bürgerbeteiligung und kommunaler Beteiligung verschleiern.

Herr Andersch unterstellt der Umweltinitiative und insbesondere Hans Schütz, verantwortlich zu sein für angebliche "Mobbingaktivitäten, Drohbriefe und Drohanrufe" und versteigt sich in diesem Zusammenhang gar soweit, von "Panikmache und moderner Hexenjagd" zu sprechen. Diese Unterstellungen kommen einem gezielten Rufmord gleich. Die Organisationen, für die Hans Schütz spricht, engagieren sich für Vorsorge und Gesundheitsschutz bei Mensch, Tier und Pflanze (übrigens ohne jedes wirtschaftliche Eigeninteresse!) und halten sich dabei an die Grundsätze von Legalität, Demokratie und Bürgergesellschaft. Es ist das gute Recht eines jeden, auf bestehende Gefahren und mögliche Gesundheitsgefährdungen öffentlich aufmerksam zu machen. Wenn das, wie es bei Hans Schütz seit vielen Jahren der Fall ist, mit hoher Kompetenz und in seiner anerkannt sachlichen und problemorientierten Form geschieht, so verdient dieser Einsatz für das Gemeinwohl Anerkennung und Respekt. Nichts ist hier deplatzierter, als üble Nachrede und Verleumdung.

Gutes Recht

Es ist darüber hinaus das gute Recht betroffener Anlieger, einen Grundbesitzer, der einen Sendestandort zur Verfügung stellt, darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass sie beim Nachweis daraus entstehender gesundheitlicher Probleme mit allen rechtlichen Mitteln vorgehen werden. Wenn die Mobilfunkstrahlung so problemlos wäre, wie von den Betreiberfirmen immer behauptet, dann könnte man solchen Ankündigungen doch eigentlich ganz gelassen gegenüberstehen und müsste auch hier nicht - in entlarvender Weise und ohne jede Not! - mit üblen Schlagworten aus der Mottenkiste öffentlicher Schmutzkampagnen agieren.

Klaus Hiefner
Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel, Peiting


Nachricht von der Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V. (Auszug)

Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and groceries are far more dangerous than terrorists:
http://www.NewsTarget.com/004781.html

BITTE AUCH WEITERLEITEN

In ganz Europa wächst der Widerstand gegen den Bolkesteinhammer. Außerdem könnt Ihr Euch ständig auf unserer Homepage unter http://www. attac.de/bolkestein auf dem laufenden halten.


Inhalt
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1. Nächstes Treffen der Bolkesteinkampagnengruppe am 6. März in Frankfurt
2. Bokestein-Study-Day und Großdemo am 19.3. in Brüssel
3. Bolkestein-Termine vor Ort
4. Serie Widerstand gegen Bolkestein in den anderen EU-Staaten: Attac Italien

1. Nächstes Treffen der Kampagnengruppe am 6.3. in Frankfurt
==============================================

Das nächste Treffen der Bolkestein-Kampagnengruppe findet am Sonntag, dem 6. März in Frankfurt statt. Seit dem letzten Treffen wurde umfangreiches Kampagnenmaterial erstellt, dass es dort zu begutachten gilt. Die Entwürfe für einen Flyer, Aufkleber und eine Postkartenaktion müssen dort endgültig verabschiedet werden, damit sie noch bis zur Demo in Brüssel gedruckt vorliegen.
Außerdem werden wir einen erfahrenen Kampagnenplaner zu Gast haben, der mit Rat und Tat zur Seite stehen wird, wie wir unsere Kampagne über den 19.3. hinaus in Schwung halten.

Auf der Tagesordnung stehen:
* Stand der Kampagne bundesweit, europaweit und in den Gruppen
* Stand der Zusammenarbeit mit Gewerkschaften und anderen Bündnispartnern
* inhaltlicher Input über Änderungen der politischen Situation angesichts der Reaktionen zur Richtlinie u.a. von Schröder und Chirac
* Diskussion unseres Kampagnenkonzepts - dazu wird uns ein Gast von der Werkstatt für gewaltfreie Aktion in Karlsruhe, der jahrelange Erfahrungen zur Arbeit mit Basisgruppen hat, mit Rat und Tat zur Seite stehen
* Präsentation des Kampagnenmaterials und des Logos
* Überarbeitung unserer Kernbotschaften und Forderungen
* Vorschlag und Weiterentwicklung von Aktionsideen
* Informationen zum Brüsselwochenende (18.-20.3.)
* weiteres Vorgehen und ggf. Aufgabenneuverteilung

Bitte meldet Euch für das Treffen zu schnell wie möglich unter bolkestein@attac.de an, damit wir eine Planungsgrundlage für die Raumgröße haben.

2. Bokestein-Study-Day und Großdemo am 19.3. in Brüssel
===============================================

Die Planungen in Brüssel nehmen immer konkretere Formen an. Bereits am Vortag der Demo, am Freitag dem 18. März, findet in den Räumlichkeiten des Europäischen Parlaments ein großer Bolkesteinstudy-Day statt. Ihr kommen haben bereits VertreterInnen meherer europäischer Attac-Verbände, Gewerkschaften und Fraktionen aus dem EU-Prlament zugesagt. Näheres dazu findet Ihr unter http://www.attac.de/19.maerz/neuigkeiten/bolkesteinstudyday2.php .

ACHTUNG: Wegen der Sicherheitsvorkehrungen des Europäischen Parlaments müssen sich alle Teilnehmerinnen bis spätestens 1. März mit vollem Namen und Nationalität bei uns angemeldet haben. Wenn Ihr an diesem Highlight teilnehmen wollt, meldet Euch deshalb bis spätestens Dienstag unter bolkestein@attac.de.

Am Samstag, dem 19. März, findet dann die vom letzten Europäischen Sozialforum beschlossene Großdemo in Brüssel statt. Infos zu Demorouten und Zeitplan findet Ihr unter http://www.attac.de/19.maerz/neuigkeiten/demoroute.php .

Den Attac-Aufruf und viele weitere Hintergrundinfos, u.a. eine Mitfahrbörse, findet Ihr unter http://www.attac.de/19.maerz .

Für alle, die nach der Demo noch länger in Brüssel bleiben können, findet nach der Demo noch ein umfangreiches Programm statt, um Attacies aus anderen Ländern kennzulernen, zu Feiern und die aktuelle politische Lage in der EU zu diskutieren. Gleich nach der Demo geht es weiter mit einer Veranstaltung zur EU-Verfassung. Am Abend wird es eine Party geben.

Für den Sonntag stehen Diskussions- und Vernetzungstreffen zu frei gewählten Themen auf dem Programm. Attac Belgein hat dazu bereits entsprechende Räumlichkeiten organisiert. Wer also die Möglichkeit hat, länger in Brüssel zu bleiben, sollte das unbedingt tun. Bitte meldet Euch dazu auch unter bolkestein@attac.de an, damit wir Attac Brüssel melden können, wieviele TeilnehmerInnen aus Deutschland zu diesen Veranstlatungen kommen werden.

3. Bolkestein-Veranstaltungen vor Ort
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Wenn Ihr von weiteren Veranstaltungen wisst, dann schreibt bitte eine Mail an bolkestein@attac.de, damit wir sie in unsere Übersicht aufnehmen können.

Marburg
Diskussionsveranstaltung zum Bolkestein-Hammer mit Christina Deckwirth (WEED/attac) und Frank Haindl (Ver.di)
Di, 1.3., 19:30 Uhr, Weltladen, Markt 7

Reutlingen
Attac-Plenum mit Schwerpunkt Dienstleistungsrichtlinie und Mobiliserung zum 19.3.
Mi, 2.3., 19:30 Uhr, Theol.- Seminar, Fr.- Ebertstr. 31

Hannover
Attac-Plenum,
Inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt: Neoliberales Europa - auf dem Weg zum totalen Markt.
Do, 3.3., 19.30 Uhr, Pavillon Hannover

Mannheim
Vortrag zum Bolkesteinhammer von Attac Mannheim und kirchlicher Dienst in der Arbeitswelt
Referent: Stephan Lindner (Koordnierungskreis Attac Deutschland) Do, 3.3., 19:30 Uhr im Ökomenischen Bildungszentrum Santa Klara

Regensburg
Gründungstreffen der Bolkestein Ag von Attac Regensburg
Do, 3.3. 18.30 Uhr im EBW

Stuttgart
Konferenz EU global-fatal
Fr 4.3. 18:30 Uhr - Samstag 5.3. Abends
Ausführliches Programm unter
http://www.attac.de/stuttgart/dokumente/eu/Flyer_Konferenz_EU_global-fatal_Stand-25-2-05.pdf
Sa, 5.3. 15:30 Uhr Workshop zum Bolkestein-Hammer mit Frank
Schmidt-Hullmann von der IG BAU

Frankfurt
Podiumsdiskussion zum Bolkesteinhammer
Mit Prof. Frank Deppe (Uni Marburg), Stephan Lindner (Attac), Frank
Schmidt-Hullmann (IG BAU), Sahra Wagenknecht
(PDS/Europaabgeordnete), Joachim Wuermeling
(CSU/Europaabgeordneter), Moderation Sabine Leidig (Attac).
Mi, 9.3., 19:00 DGB-Haus Großer Saal, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße
69-77

Minden
Vortrag zum Bolkesteinhammer von Attac Minden
Referent: Stephan Lindner (Koordnierungskreis Attac Deutschland)
Do, 10.3. 20:00 Uhr, Martinihaus

Köln
Aktionstag von Attac Köln zum Bolkestienhammer
mit einer medienwirksamen Aktion und Infoständen in der
Innenstadt
Für den Aktiontag werden noch HelferInnen gesucht. Meldet Euch bei heinrich-p@netcologne.de .
Sa, 12.3.

Saarbrücken
Infoveranstaltung zur EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie, Veranstalter: Attac-Saar, DGB West und Arbeitskammer
mit Christian Felber (Mitbegründer von Attac Austria http://www.attac.at/, Ko-Autor /Schwarzbuch Privatisierung/)
Do., 10.03, 17:30 Uhr im großen Saal der Arbeitskammer (Fritz-Dobisch-Str. 6).

Kaiserslautern
Europa wird privatisiert - was hinter der Bolkestein-Richtlinie steckt, Veranstalter: Attac Kaiserslautern und DGB Westpfalz
mit Christian Felber (Mitbegründer von Attac Austria, Ko-Autor Schwarzbuch Privatisierung)
Fr., 11.03, 18:00 Uhr im Gemeindezentrum der Apostelkirche, Spitalstraße 28

Essen
Der Bolkesteinhammer
mit Stephan Lindner (Koordinierungskreis Attac Deutschland)
Do, 17.3., Zeit und Ort stehen noch nicht fest.

Hamburg
Die Europäische Dienstleistungsrichtlinie: Sprengsatz für das erweiterte Europa?
Informationsveranstaltung von DGB-Bezirk Nord, ver.di Hamburg
Do, 17.3., 17.00-20.00 Uhr Gewerkschaftshaus Hamburg, Besenbinderhof 57a, Raum Elbe
mit Elisabeth Schrödter (MEP), Frank Schmidt-Hullmann (IG BAU), Jens Komp (Attac Hamburg), Ortrun Gauper (ver.di), Claudia Falk (DGB Hamburg) und Peter Deutschland, DGB Bezirk Nord.

4. Widerstand gegen Bolkestein in anderen EU-Staaten: Heute Attac Italien
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Bolkestein ist nicht nur Thema bei Attac Deutschland.
Seit einigen Wochen läuft z.B. auch eine große Kampagne bei Attac Italien. Unter dem Motto " Bolkestein o Frankestein?" wird in ganz Italien gegen den Bolkestein-Hammer mobil gemacht.
Mit im Kampagnenmaterial ist auch ein Text aus Deutschland. Der von Thomas Fritz stammende Text "Die EU auf dem Weg zur Sonderwirtschaftszone - Die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie" ist in einer italienischen Übersetzung mit dem Titel "L' Europa ridotta a Zona Economica Speciale - La Direttiva UE sui Servizi" unter http://italia.attac.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=517 herunterladbar.

Im ganzen Land werden Unterschriften für einen Aufruf "STOP BOLKESTEIN! STOP GATS! UN'ALTRA EUROPA E' NECESSARIA" gesammelt, der sich an das italienische und das Europäische Parlament richtet. Die Unterschriftenliste kann unter http://italia.attac.org/spip/IMG/pdf/Petizione_Bolkestein.pdf heruntergeladen werden.

Außerdem gibt es eine Powerpoint-Präsentation für Vorträge mit vielen Demobildern aus Brüssel und London unter http://italia.attac.org/spip/IMG/ppt/Bolkestein_con_foto_ver_1a.ppt .
Das gesamte Kampagnenmaterial kann man sich unter http://italia.attac.org/spip/article.php3?id_article=533 anschauen.

Wer mehr uber die Bolkesteinkamapgne von Attac Italia erfahren möchte, der sollte unbesingt zum Europäischen Aktionstag am 19. März nach Brüssel kommen. Trotz des weiten Wegs haben sich schon mehrere 100 italienische Attacis gemeldet, zur Demo in die belgische Hauptstadt zu kommen.

Stephan


Angelika Shams * Mitglied im Attac-Bundeskoordinierungskreis
Egertstraße 12 * 75365 Calw-Stammheim * email: shams@attac.de
Fon: 07051 / 935 675 * 0179 / 513 41 59 * Fax: 07051 / 935 677

FYI - Anna

Begin forwarded message:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/22/content_2601979.htm

Remember - too much fresh water in the N. Atlantic will kill the Great Ocean Conveyor. Which will lead to very rapid climate change indeed........


Stay tuned!!!!
B.

RESOLUTION NO

SOCIAL SECURITY PETITION

To all Elected Officials (I will make this part formal by tomorrow)

Whereas, Social Security is a United States Government fully guaranteed insurance benefit;

Whereas, Social Security is an insurance supplement to private pension plans;

Whereas, Social Security is a survivor benefit for spouses and minor
children

Whereas, Social Security is a disability benefit

Whereas, personal investments in a privatization plan would not be guaranteed by the U.S. Government;

Whereas, privatization will not increase the longevity of Social Security

Whereas, the privatization of Social Security will require the addition of trillions of dollars of debt and interest payments which will need to be repaid;

Whereas, raising the $90,000 income cap, adequately, will increase the longevity of social security;

Wheraes, the huge debt to finance the privatization of Social Security would fall on those that the plan was devised to protect, those under 55 years of age, our children and grandchildren;

Whereas, a change in the wage index to a price index calculation may reduce benefits for all Social Security recipien

Whereas a decrease in Social Security benefits and medicaid by the federal government will increase the financial burden on state, county, local governments, and taxpayers;


We the undersigned, request that the members of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives oppose the privatization of Social Security and support raising the social security income cap to adequately address the problems of solvency and longevity.


>>end of snip"


Ginnicus1 in Ukiah, CA...Mendocino County (Sunday, 02/27/05, 8:15pm)


Informant: JHW369

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMFTTUT.php
http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/infonature-post-21.html

Montag, 28. Februar 2005

MAIDS: Handy-Sucht hat einen Namen

Die Handy- und Internetsucht ist auf dem Weg zu einer anerkannten und therapierbaren Krankheit. Die offizielle Bezeichnung für Entzugserscheinungen von Handy und Internet wird unter Psychotherapeuten das "Mobile and Internet Dependency Syndrome" - kurz: MAIDS - genannt.

Unter MAIDS verstehen die Psychotherapeuten, wenn jemand nervös wird und feuchte Hände bekommt, wenn er das Handy zu Hause liegen ließ, wenn der Akku plötzlich leer ist und weder telefoniert werden kann noch SMS geschrieben werden können oder wenn es im Moment keine Möglichkeit gibt, ins Internet zu kommen.

Nach einer von der britischen Bank Lloyds TSB in Auftrag gegebenen Umfrage fühlen sich zwei Drittel aller Handy-Besitzer bereits unwohl, wenn sie merken, dass sie ihr Handy vergessen haben, drei Prozent werden gar ängstlich oder panisch.

Bei Internet-Entzug ist die Quote ebenso hoch: 70 Prozent drehen nach eigenen Angaben durch, wenn sie nicht täglich ihre E-Mails checken können.

© n-tv.de 2005 Alle Rechte vorbehalten

http://www.n-tv.de/5500706.html

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_voice_of_the_people_of_the_uk.htm
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/internat/aarhus/index.htm


Hi Jenny,

My notes on Aarhus say that it entails public participation on environmental matters (and maybe we have to register??) We were urged to get involved and make our presence felt. It becomes live in June 2005.

Then I had a note about article 10a decision making. A citizen is entitled to proceedural and substance?? I got lost, too!

Thank you for putting out 'The Voice of the People' letter because that IS FOR THE PEOPLE and that is why I did it, so that as many as possible could have their say if they wanted to. I do hope other members will distribute it FOR THE PEOPLE.

Sandi



THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UK

redsunset37@aol.com

This letter has been designed so that your views can be submitted to government, to be seen and taken into account.

It can be sent to any or all of:

10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, or to MPs in the House of Commons, whichever you prefer.

Please cross out any sections with which you do not agree. Make a personal comment if you wish.


Tony Blair
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA

The Cabinet Office
70 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2AS

ODPM
26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2WH

House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA


I/we, as law abiding citizen(s) of the UK, put you on notice that we are aware that links between mobile phones and phone mast installations are now established to have potential adverse effects on health, amenity, devaluation of property and possibly other unspecified but quantifiable effects.

There is now a great weight of worldwide research and evidence proving risk and therefore we wish to condemn those Government members responsible for withholding the truth from us and for making decisions leading to and sustaining the unjustified and biased situations stated below.

* Allowing and facilitating mobile phone companies to continue to misinform the general public, by omission of valid science and reliable information; by turning a blind eye to their factually incorrect statements on the safety of masts; and the failure to recall products, as would be the case with carcinogens in additives in food.

* The manipulation of guidelines for safety i.e. NRPB and ICNIRP guidelines, and encouragement of the omission of the relevance of biological effects which have been totally ignored by UK government bodies.

* Gross misinformation, by omission, of peer-reviewed science abroad, and in this country, and other factors relevant to this issue.

* The manipulation of planning laws to fast track these mast applications.

* The exclusion of the right to object on the grounds of ‘health and perceptions of fear for health' in all mast planning processes.

* The denial of our fundamental human rights, in particular the right to health, in all mast planning processes.

* The total disregard for the health and safety of UK citizens.

* Failure to implement recommendations of the Stewart Report

* Failure to address the issues of TETRA, particularly as Stewart stated that this is outside his remit.

The Stewart report did not cover Tetra in their remit, but they bravely concluded that, “…modulation around 16 Hz should be avoided, if possible, in future developments.”

Later, when giving evidence to the 10th parliamentary committee of the DTI, when asked if the amplitude modulation around 16 Hertz was the most critical area, which posed the highest risk, Sir William Stewart felt it, “...was an area that should be avoided…” and then went on to describe Tetra as a hazard! The conclusion of that committee was, “…we are very disturbed that there seems to have been no examination of the evidence on potentially adverse health effects, before bringing it into service...”

The Stewart report, in the opinion of Mast Sanity, is not an acceptable position to evaluate the safe siting of any mobile phone or Tetra base station but the Government and the operators constantly use it in their arguments, except in this instance.

If they are going to insist on accepting the conclusions of the Stewart report as the correct position, then they should accept Stewart’s position of Tetra as well.

The Stewart report is still used as a base position for the Government and the authorities and therefore it should be used equally as a base position for Tetra.

* Failure to acknowledge anecdotal evidence of ill health around mast sites across the UK , and especially around 3G and TETRA masts, transmissions from which are untested on humans. Failure to act on cancer clusters around other masts.

* Failure to notify doctors, dentists and medical staff that some members of the community might suffer adverse effects from microwave technology, with the result that many people have been unfairly treated or ignored.

* Failure to provide a mechanism for compensation for those who suffer devaluation of house prices due to the presence of masts, while government coffers fill and phone company profits rise.


* Personal comment………………………………………………………………..


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I/we feel very strongly about the issues not deleted from the above list and wish to see changes set in motion for rectification. In the General Election, your actions taken or not taken will influence my/our vote.



Name………………………………………………….


Signature…………………………………Date…………………………….


Address (optional)……………………………………………………………………….


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County/City/Town/Post code ………………………………………………………….

(please supply one of your choice)


Dear All, I received this email from a chap I met at the Dorset Forum. I told him about Sandi's 'Voice of the People' document. He said he'd like to sign it and so I emailed it to him. I've also sent it to others, so hopefully Sandi, Blair & Co will get flooded. Has anyone else done it? Would be good to know that it's getting some support.

Anyway, I put this email out because he mentions the Aarhus convention. Must look it up on the website, as I can't remember what it's all about. He hints that we should get something out in the media about it ..... I think the Karen he refers to is the lady who organised the event - but might be wrong. Jenny


Hi Jenny,

I was very glad to meet you at Gillingham. Karen thinks it perhaps marks a turning point and I hope she is right.

Thanks for the document. In fact it was better to send it as an email rather than an attachment as there is less chance that it may contain a virus so more people are likely to open it, then its a simple task to cut and paste into a word document.

That said, I've sent off mine to the PM and Dep PM.

The Aarhus convention bears looking at and you can find it easily on the web. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/internat/ for one though strangely the summary of implementation measures fails to download...It comes into force on May 23rd. Perhaps that date should be marked in some way in the media?

You may be unaware that OFCOM treat each mobile carrier's application individually i.e. with no reference to what or how many other transmitters (or carriers) might be co-located on a particular structure. Neither do they ask how many transmitters will be mounted in each license application. As I understand it from OFCOM, they issue licenses on a per transmitter basis. Each of the long tri-sector array mast segments may contain many transmitters. The result is that OFCOM, who issue licenses on behalf of the UK Government have no idea how much power, pulsed or otherwise is being radiated into the environment from the tower at the bottom of the garden !

They refer to NRPB who in turn refer to the Health & Safety At Work Act. .....

Kind regards

Roger



I have attached the compliance summary for those that failed to download it:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/compliance_summary.pdf

Best regards

Phil Watts

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Before the election I wrote 'The Voice of the People of the UK' letter, based on all the things that people on the Advice Line and in emails complained about, because they did not feel they had a 'voice,' or anyone or anywhere to turn to except organisations like us. This is not a Mast Sanity letter but my personal contribution to enable the people of the UK to have a 'voice.'

Since the election there is more concern, anger, fear, and frustration, coming across in conversations, emails, and media articles. The people of the UK need a 'voice' again, so I am sending it out again. It will also help any efforts to get changes in planning law etc. if the Government realises that there is a big 'voice of the people' so please try to circulate this to one and all to be sent to government departments.

Tertrawatch have now kindly put this letter on their website, so you can download it from the link below. http://www.tetrawatch.net/action/

Sandi

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19/06/2005 10:32:42 GMT Standard Time

Hi Sandi

I have made about 500 copies of your leaflet over the last few months and posted some through hundreds of letterboxes around areas in Brighton threatened with 3G masts. Many thanks.

Gary

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You are an absolute gem, Gary, and we value your help. We need more people like you to help us - or even lots and lots of people doing a little!

Some people in Norfolk are currently distributing widely and it is going out to many other areas. At least they can have their say! The more the merrier, as it will make Government realise the state of play in communities, and they need to know!

Sandi


From Mast Network

by Joel Cameron Beckwith

Free Market News Network

02/25/05

Big businesses often become inefficient over time and when they find hungry new competition in tireless pursuit of their market share, they often turn to politics to solve their problems. Any business in ties with the government is likely to exploit that relationship to protect their interests, even to the detriment of business freedom and the free market. Many of these big businesses were part of the National Civics Federation (NCF) 'which sponsored legislation to promote the formation of 'public utilities', a special privilege monopoly granted by the state.' Fannie Mae enjoys many privileges because of its ties to the federal government...

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5783/983/html/index.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Gary Leupp

CounterPunch

02/26/05

It's just painful to hear and see a smirking Bush invoking Albert Camus, the French writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, from a podium in Belgium. ... What an insult to Camus, whose notion of freedom was very different from that of the president! His was the radical freedom that comes from abandoning myth and dogma, and questioning the existence of any meaning in the universe other than that which the human mind creates. The powerful novel The Stranger ends with its hero, convicted of murdering a man in a moment of confusion, a protagonist who throughout the narrative has been thoroughly dispassionate, finally exploding in indignation at the attempt of a priest to comfort him before his execution...

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp02262005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Nancy Snow

CommonDreams

02/26/05

If you need any more confirmation that America is the numero uno propaganda nation, look no further than the GOP language meistro Frank Luntz, who has produced a memorandum of 'The 14 Words Never to Use.' Thanks to the Internet and the blogosphere, we mere mortals can get our grubby mitts on what the conservative elite persuader Luntz is doing to scrub our brains free of individual thoughts. Luntz teases, 'This memo was originally prepared exclusively for Congressional spouses because they are your eyes and ears, a one-person reality check and truth squad combined. However, by popular demand, I have included and expanded that document because effectively communicating the New American Lexicon requires you to STOP saying words and phrases that undermine your ability to educate the American people. So from today forward, YOU are the language police ... these are the words never to say again...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Dorothy Anne Seese

Sierra Times

02/25/05

Welcome to planet earth and the age of progress. Say what? You wonder why government doesn't do something? Largely, the government(s) are causing this condition, not just the United States government but the governments of other nations, although perhaps not as flagrantly. It is doubtful that any government is causing the asteroid problem. Governments have enough to do causing chaos among humans and the social order as a whole. It is these governments whose shadow leaders, the few, the so-called New World Order or Global Governance leaders, who believe they can create a better earth. Show me. What I see looks terribly like chaos that no government can control. The earth in rebellion is wobbling, quaking, stormy and unstable. No one can buy a fix for that!

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/02/25/dorothy.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

02/28/05

The neocons, with their domestic program of 'big government conservatism' and their foreign policy of perpetual war, are politically vulnerable at their very base: they fear Tom Woods far more than Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Naomi Klein combined. Because he represents a real threat to their claim to the mantle of conservatism, and that, above all, is something that cannot be tolerated. The viciousness of the attacks on Woods underscores neocon sensitivities on this subject: they, after all, were Scoop Jackson Democrats and errant Trotskyites not so long ago, and the Woods book is an unwelcome reminder that conservatism is, for them, an alien tradition -- which is the second point to be made here...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4994


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mark Follman

Salon

02/28/05

Conservatives who praise President Bush's policies in the global war on terrorism often say that when it comes to the unprecedented demands of the conflict, the president's critics just don't 'get it.' But lately, when it comes to the use of torture -- and a growing body of evidence that the Bush White House has sanctioned it by proxy in foreign countries (which has been illegal under U.S. law since 1998) -- most on the political right just don't discuss it. As harrowing stories of detainees abused by U.S. and foreign interrogators keep on emerging, and as evidence mounts that the administration's secret program of 'extraordinary rendition' has dropped scores of detainees into a black hole of inhumane treatment and perhaps permanent legal limbo, why has the political right bound and gagged itself on the issue?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2005/02/28/torture


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times

02/27/05

Halle Berry won an Academy Award. Now she's won a Razzie. George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger won elections. Now they've won Razzies. Miss Berry was picked yesterday as worst actress for 2004's action bomb 'Catwoman,' which also took the prize for worst film at the 25th annual Razzies, an Oscar spoof that trashes Hollywood's low points. Mr. Bush won the worst-actor award for his appearance in news and archival footage of Michael Moore's satiric documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11.' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was voted worst supporting actor for 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' while Britney Spears' fleeting cameo in the documentary brought her the worst supporting actress Razzie...

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050227-120157-6271r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Eminent Domain Theft

Are the Supremes about to make it worse? Article by Steven Greenhut, author of Abuse of Power:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ocregister/house-of-cards.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Simply Ridiculous?

Gordon Prather on the coming June aggression against Iran:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/prather/prather13.html

Defend Academic Freedom

Upon it depends the future of civilization, says Lew Rockwell:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/academic-freedom.html

http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/schools.htm

No it was not in Paris but Saint Cyr l'Ecole

I would like to comment about what has been written in the Canadian website: http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/schools.htm

EUROPE / INTERNATIONAL - WON THE FIGHT

PARIS FRANCE

Bizet School Antenna Removed

CANCER CASES CAUSE ORANGE TO SUSPEND
PHONE MAST OPERATION AT A PARIS SCHOOL

March 2003

http://www.mayeticvillage.fr/QuickPlace/antennes-relais/Main.nsf
http://www.mayeticvillage.fr

I would like to translate about what has been written in the Canadian website http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/schools.htm

"twice more cancers"

"four times more cancers of the nervous central system"



No. 32 - Electromagnetic fields

People are exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMF) everyday, in many different ways. The appliances in the kitchens, computer screens in the office, the security systems at shops and airports, the networks of power transmission lines, and radio and TV stations all ensure that exposure to EMF cannot be avoided completely.

There is often significant public concern, and in some cases anxiety, over some sources of EMF, especially electricity transmission lines and mobile phone base station towers. These concerns are having a direct impact on public health policy in many countries.

http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/who/progs/hoh/publications/20020429_3#Electromagnetic


Informant: sylvie



Cell Towers and Health Risks to School Children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/355820/

NRPB 2004 Mobile Phones and Health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/468567/

Mobile Phones and Health - Get off that mobile, expert tells children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/465579/

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

29.01.2005

Interview: Peter Wolter

»Folgen durch Elektrosmog müssen untersucht werden«

Gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigung: Die Ärzte-Initiative Bamberger Appell fordert die Verbannung von Mobilfunkantennen aus Wohngebieten. Ein Gespräch mit Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

* Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam ist Mitinitiatorin des Bamberger Ärzteappells

F: Sie organisieren am Wochenende ein internationales Symposium in Bamberg über Gesundheitsgefährdungen durch den Mobilfunk. Bisher hieß es doch immer, Mobilfunk sei ungefährlich.

Wir haben in den letzten Monaten in ganz Oberfranken Menschen befragt und untersucht, die im Umfeld von Mobilfunkstationen leben. Dabei und bei Messungen mußten wir zu unserer Erschütterung feststellen, daß viele dieser Menschen erhebliche Beschwerden haben und zum Teil schwer krank sind.

F: Was hat Sie zu der Studie motiviert?

Die Initiative Bamberger Appell wurde im vergangenen Sommer gegründet, nachdem Pläne bekannt wurden, in Bamberg, wie in anderen Städten auch, in Wohngebieten zahlreiche neue Mobilfunkantennen aufzustellen. Daraufhin haben die Anwohner bei ihren Hausärzten um Rat gefragt und um Hilfe gebeten. Mehrere Ärzte haben sich daraufhin mit den potentiellen Gefahren durch Elektrosmog intensiver befaßt. Aufgrund unserer jüngsten Erkenntnisse plädieren wir dringend dafür, von einem weiteren Ausbau des Mobilfunknetzes abzusehen, weil zuwenig über mögliche gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen bekannt ist. Ein weiterer Ausbau ist auch nicht notwendig, weil es ein flächendeckendes Netz bereits gibt.

F: Welche Folgen könnten durch Elektrosmog auftreten?

Menschen, die nahe solcher Antennen wohnen, leiden vermehrt unter Tinnitus, häufigen Infekten oder Herz-Rhythmus-Störungen. Oft können sie nachts nicht schlafen, haben Kopfschmerzen, die Kinder haben Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten. Das alles ist noch unerforscht, stellt sich aber als ein neues Krankheitsbild für uns Ärzte dar. Mittlerweile haben wir in Zusammenarbeit mit Technikern Messungen in fast 400 Häusern durchgeführt. Dabei haben wir festgestellt, daß sich schon bei 50 Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter gesundheitliche Störungen einstellen. Der gesetzliche Grenzwert liegt derzeit bei 4,5 bis zehn Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter.

F: Aber richtig aussagekräftig wird eine solche Messung doch erst, wenn man Vergleichswerte von Haushalten hat, die nicht nahe Funkantennen liegen.

Solche Vergleichsmessungen haben wir auch durchgeführt, und sie haben unsere Befürchtungen über negative gesundheitliche Auswirkungen bestätigt. Dort, wo keine Strahlung meßbar war, hatten die Leuten auch keine der typischen gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen. Der Verdacht auf eine negative Wirkung des Elektrosmog erhärtet sich auch durch eine weitere Beobachtung: Wenn Menschen mit den typischen Beschwerden sich eine Weile nicht zu Hause aufhalten, verschwinden die Symptome in der Regel. Für uns ist das ein starkes Indiz für den räumlichen Zusammenhang.

F: Es gibt Parallelen zur Häufung von Leukämiefällen in der Umgebung von Atomanlagen im schleswig-holsteinischen Geesthacht. Die dortige Landesregierung hat sämtliche Untersuchungsergebnisse zurückgewiesen. Was fordern Sie von der Politik?

Wir drängen darauf, daß an diesen Standorten gezielt der Gesundheitszustand der Menschen untersucht wird. In Anbetracht der eindeutigen Hinweise ist es völlig unverständlich, daß dies noch nicht geschehen ist. Es gibt zahlreiche Studien, die unsere Beobachtungen untermauern. In Deutschland aber bleiben die Behörden weitgehend untätig.

F: Von wem sind vergleichbare Studien erstellt worden?

Schon vor Jahren haben Ärzte des Freiburger Appells das Phänomen Elektrosmog untersucht. Wir haben zu den Kolleginnen und Kollegen Kontakt aufgenommen. Sie hatten ähnliche Beobachtungen gemacht wie wir und diese auch immer den zuständigen Ministerien gemeldet. Geschehen ist aber auch in diesem Fall nichts.

F: Wenn sich Ihr Verdacht bestätigen würde, dann wären ganze Industriezweige betroffen. Könnte das nicht ein Grund für die Zurückhaltung sein?

Wir würden diesen Verdacht nicht aussprechen, wenn er sich nicht aufdrängen würde. Die untersuchenden Ärzte halten schließlich auch eine Zunahme von Tumoren für möglich. Entsprechende Beobachtungen gibt es schon jetzt. Aus einigen Teilen Oberfrankens erreichen uns alarmierende Hinweise von Medizinern, denen eine Häufung von unterschiedlichsten Tumoren im Umfeld von Mobilfunkanlagen auffällt.

F: Wie kann man sich schützen?

Auf dem Kongreß werden wir eine Resolutionsentwurf vorlegen, in dem gefordert wird, daß diese Mobilfunkantennen aus Gebieten, in denen Menschen wohnen, arbeiten und sich dauerhaft aufhalten, wieder entfernt werden. Das ist die einzig akzeptable Schlußfolgerung.

© junge welt

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/01-29/018.php


1. Bamberger Mobilfunksymposium
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EHS web site in France
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/546191/

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1095488.htm


Informant: BETH

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Skeletons.htm


Informant: Terry Melanson

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=4970


Informant: Terry Melanson

UK Draper study on childhood leukaemia risk and proximity to powerlines, as published in "Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy", Volume 15, No. 1, 2004 ( reproduced at the end of this message).

The following update is from Alasdair Philips from Powerwatch (UK) in reply to a question about when would the study most likely be published.

Don Maisch


Question from Milt Bowling:

Gerald Draper's study was supposed to be published last November. Did that happen, and if so, what Journal?

Reply from Alasdair (26 Feb. 2005):

The Dept Health etc say it has now been submitted for publication but claim not to have actual details. Dr Gerald Draper seems to have slipped from sight and sound at present.

I have JUST worked out why the extra delay. National Grid Transco (who supported the study about their HV lines and childhood cancer) are "in court" at a necessary wayleave hearing in Yorkshire on 26th April and they don't want it published before that date.

So, expect it to be published in May or June. We will continue to press for it being available as soon as possible.

Meanwhile I have suggested the developer asks for a delay to the Necessary Wayleave Hearing until after the publication date of the Draper Report.

We have just had some Parliamentary Questions asked about this, and a reply from the Minister. We have responded to the Minister's reply but can't make our new letter public for about 3 weeks to give her a chance to reply to us.

The PQs as they appeared on the Order Paper on Thursday 3rd February are as follows:

156 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines, funded by his Department, expected to be published.

157 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the data on which the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines is based was first received by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

158 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of data which the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines is based; and if he will make a statement.

159 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has held with (a) charities, (b) patient groups, (c) other organisations and (d) representatives of the power industry regarding the potential implications of the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines.

160 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on which the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines is based.

161 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list the organisations with whom his Department has held meetings regarding the implications of the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines.

239 Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North): To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions her Department (a) has held and (b) plans with the Department of Health regarding the potential health implications of the Draper Report on childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines.

The Minister's reply was:

Miss Melanie Johnson: A draft paper by Dr. Draper of Childhood Cancer Research Group at Oxford University into possible links between power lines and childhood leukaemia was submitted to a scientific journal and officials in the Department in November 2004. In accordance with the usual practice, publication will follow the appropriate peer review process and the publication date rests with the publishers. It would be inappropriate to comment on unpublished data, but we will ask the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) to consider the results when published.

The NRPB's "Advice on Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields" (Documents of the NRPB Vol 15 No 2 2004) noted that below the guidelines

"an association between prolonged exposure to intense power frequency magnetic fields and a small raised risk of childhood leukaemia has, however, been found, the scientific reasons for which are presently uncertain. In the light of these findings and the requirement for additional research, the need for precautionary measures should be considered by Government".

On the basis of this commendation precautionary measures are currently being considered by departmental officials in association with a large number of stakeholders including other Government Departments, the devolved administrations, the electricity supply industry, the electricity supply regulators and a number of non-government organisations and public concern groups.

CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA have now formally responded to Melanie Johnson and our letter should be publicly made available when we receive the Minister's reply or in a month's time, whichever is earlier.

Our details so far about what we believe it reports are to be found on the http://www.powerwatch.org.uk website under News and then Archive. (following)

Alasdair


News :: 03/11/2004 - Children living near powerlines are more likely
to get cancer

Intro:

A long-awaited new report (due to be published in mid-November 2004) by Dr Gerald Draper and colleagues of Oxford University from a study by the Department of Health confirms previous international research findings that living near powerlines increases the risk of childhood cancer. Maureen Asbury, of the Trentham Environmental Action Campaign, wants the government to stop developers being able to build houses near powerlines, putting children at risk.

Layman's Summary:

Children living within 100 metres of overhead high voltage electricity cables are twice as likely to suffer from leukaemia as children who live further away. The large study included 35,000 children with cancer. Gerald Draper, of the Childhood Cancer Research Group at Oxford was so surprised by what he found, that although he knew about the results for 18 months, he delayed publishing them as he wanted more time to check his findings.

Comment:

The link between powerfrequency electromagnetic radiation and childhood leukaemia was first found in 1979 by Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper in the USA. Further research has concentrated on leukaemia to check these first findings. Links have also been found between electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and clinical depression, other types of cancer as well as leukaemia, miscarriages, ME and other immune system problems. The mechanism by which EMFs cause disease is not yet proven, but various theories are being investigated, and the link with the hormone melatonin seems particularly likely.

Alasdair Philips

From "Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy", Volume 15, No. 1, 2004

Website: http://www.em-hazard-therapy.com

Childhood leukemia risk doubles near powerlines in biggest-ever UK study

THE largest-ever, publicly funded UK study (1) into powerlines and child cancer has apparently found that children under the age of 15 living within 100 metres of high-voltage powerlines have nearly twicethe risk of developing leukaemia. Since children aged 0-5 are themost vulnerable their risk is likely to be even higher.

This result from the Oxford Childhood Cancer Research Group study, headed by Dr Gerald Draper, involves 33 years of data (1962-95) on 35,000 children diagnosed with cancer which was analysed and compared with distance to the nearest high-voltage electricity transmissionline (275/400kV). It has been leaked by the The TrenthamEnvironmental Action Campaign (TEAC), an independent research and activist group concerned about adverse health effects from power-lines (see: http://www.revolt.co.uk/trentham ). Spokeswoman Maureen Asbury said: 'It is scandalous that three yearsafter telling the Department of Health about them, these findingshave still not been published. Someone seems determined to withholdDr Draper's report for as long as possible.'

A 132kV powerline crosses many of Trentham's houses and a 2002 survey revealed 11 miscarriages and increased depression and insomnia in 113 homes within 25 metres of it. 'It is likely to be a definitive finding on whether UK powerlines can cause childhood leukaemia,' says Alasdair Philips, of CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA, a charity that is funding an International Conference on Childhood Leukaemia in London, Sept 6-10th (0207 3901561).

Philips continued: 'Preliminary results of this study, funded to run from 1997-2001, were shown confidentially to the Department of Health three years ago but are not yet in the public domain. Despite knowing the first results for some time, we have been patiently waiting for publication before going public. However, I put them on notice in January that if they were not published by this September's conference, to which they were invited to discuss them, we would make them public as the results are important and will be discussed at the conference.'

TEAC first wrote to Dr Draper in February, 2003, about his research but he did not reply until July, 2004. In it he acknowledged the importance of the results and said they had been submitted to a journal for rapid publication. A further letter to him in early August requesting details of the likely time of publication has so far gone unanswered.

TEAC also wrote to George Hooker at the DoH's Toxicology and Radiation Branch at the start of the year requesting similar information, including reasons for the delay but were dissatisfied with his reply. In early August he wrote repeating Dr Draper's comments.

The NRPB acknowledged as long ago as 2001, in a report headed by Professor Sir Richard Doll (2), that the incidence of childhood leukaemia is doubled at a magnetic field of 0.4 microtesla (uT), which is easily exceeded under most powerlines. Only this March did the NRPB finally reduce their magnetic field guidelines from 1,600 uT (!) to 100 uT. Their release said: 'In the light of these findings and the requirement for additional research, the need for further precautionary measures should be considered by government.' (3) However, 100 uT is still 250 times higher than the 0.4uT level at which the risk of developing childhood leukaemia is doubled. Powerline EMFs have also been linked to increased adult cancers, depression and suicide which, with miscarriages and insomnia, were also revealed as part of TEAC's survey. A number of these health problems were also confirmed in the important 2002 California Health Department report (4).

The Minister for Housing and Planning, Keith Hill, in a July letter concerning a proposed, 570-flat development in Wimbledon, said: 'We are aware that there is continuing debate about the effect of living under powerlines and whether this can have adverse long-term health effects. We are of the opinion that powerlines are unlikely to have significant effects on the environment.'

Maureen Asbury commented: 'His comment reveals no awareness of the DoH's research and shows a complete lack of joined-up Government.' She continued: 'It is time the government and planners took the health issue seriously and started a policy of re-directing powerlines in the worst situations. New housing near them should be restricted and existing lines through residential areas phased out.' Only 50 years ago developing childhood leukaemia was almost certainly fatal. Due to improved treatment, about 80% of children now treated for the most common form of childhood leukaemia (ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia) live for more than 5 years. But childhood leukaemia remains the largest child killer disease and survivors often suffer ongoing adverse health complications. The number of children developing leukaemia has been steadily rising over the last 50 years. In 2001, Dr Sam Milham reported a link between growth in both electricity supply and leukaemia incidence in the US. (5)

1. Draper G, Vincent T, Kroll M, Swanson J. Childhood cancer and electromagnetic field exposures from powerlines. DoH-funded 1997-2001, RRX 46 (still unpublished)

2. ELF Electromagnetic Fields and the Risk of Cancer. Docs of the NRPB, 2001;12(1).

3. See: http://www.nrpb.org for details of statements and downloadable publications.

4. Neutra RR, Del Pizzo V, Lee GM. An Evaluation of the possible risks from electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) from power lines, internal wiring, electrical occupations and appliances, 2002, California Department of Health & Human Services, The Program, Oakland, California. See commentary on:
http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk

5. Milham S, Ossiander EM. Historical evidence that residential electrification caused the emergence of the childhood leukaemia peak, Medical Hypotheses, 2001;56(3):290-5.



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Draper

10:30 - 26 February 2005

If mobile phone masts are undesirable outside schools - as a Government adviser has recently suggested - it is understandable that people are concerned about them being on the roof of Leicester Royal Infirmary, which, by its nature, is used by people who are already vulnerable.

Review phone mast locations

Despite reassurances over the safety of masts we cannot be sure they cause no ill- effects. In the meantime, we need to be cautious and the Government must urgently review the whole issue of where they should and should not be located.

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132384&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133850&contentPK=11905975
(excerpt)

PLANS to erect a mobile phone mast in the shadow of a historic arch have sparked anger.

T-Mobile wants to install the mast beside the category B-listed Harrison Arch on the Capital’s Observatory Road, at the foot of Blackford Hill.

But the proposal has raised fears the mast will spoil local cottages and views.

Local councillor Fred Mackintosh said: "The tall mast and its associated equipment cabinets will introduce visual clutter into the area around the unlisted cottages to the south of the site.

"These cottages pre-date the Harrison Arch and appear on the 1896 Ordnance Survey Map of the area.

"There are few remaining examples of the many such single-storey agricultural cottages and farm buildings in the area and to put a mast outside them would seriously compromise them."

Cllr Mackintosh added: "A mast in this location will damage the visual amenity of the view from Blackford Avenue and West Mains Road towards the Braid Hills.

"The proposed mast in this location will damage the setting of the Category B-listed Harrison Arch which was erected in 1888 and listed in 1993.

"A number of my constituents are also concerned about the possible health effects of phone masts."

The planning application is not expected to be heard by councillors for around two months.

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=747&id=22712005

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2335/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Readers of the essay below may think the title should be, "W Puts Stiletto into Heart of Democracy." Or, given there was a fake reporter from a fake news organization asking the President bogus questions who turned out to be running gay porn and prostitution web sites, Maureen Dowd may have actually meant to call it the "Night of the Long Knives."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2899

The Army Times reports "Some U.S. troops in Iraq are taking antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, as well as mild sleeping aids, to help them cope with the stresses of long separations and combat duty, according to a top military psychiatrist and treating doctors." What are the long-term consequences of providing drugs to soldiers during combat? Will there be later increase in suicides or post-traumatic stress disorder when the soldiers stop the drugs? Also, are soldiers screened for drug use and drug abuse during re-deployment exams?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2894

A group of Duke University physicians says it will no longer treat military veterans referred by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center because the VA won't pay enough.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2898

Another War: Venezuela Claims Bush Planning Second Coup Attempt

President George Bush may be planning to overthrow Venezuela in addition to attacking Iran. The democratically elected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, claims Bush is planning a second coup attempt , this time using assassination. While the press focuses on left/right ideology, the current administration's cozy relationship with the oil industry raises many curious eyebrows due to Venezuela's large oil reserves and exports.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2895

Here is another stong piece of evidence indicating President George Bush's unilateral war against Iraq causes serious problems within the Military. In a clear sign the Marines are in trouble from Bush's foreign policy misadventures, the number of suicides among our front line soldiers is rising. Unfortunately, mental health assistance for war veterans is not yet a priority for the Departments of Defense or Veterans Affairs.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2893

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he warned President George Bush in August 2002 that Iraq "will crack like a goblet and it will be a problem to pick up the bits." Powell broke the unspoken rule in Washington -- He dared to question the mulitiple significant foreign policy failures of the current administration.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2892

The article below summarizes comments resulting from Canada's wise decision to opt out of President's Bush's national missile defense program. "Star Wars" is a disaster, and the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on it result in repeated test failures even when the tests are rigged. Instead of mending alliances, Bush's unilateral actions continue undermining decades of international friendships and treaties.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2891

BofA and DoD Security SNAFU: Info on 1.2 Million Customers Lost by Bank

Are corporations undermining our national security? According to the New York Times, "Bank of America said yesterday that it had lost computer backup tapes containing personal information about 1.2 million federal employees, including some senators, with Visa charge cards issued by the bank. About 900,000 of the cardholders are employees of the Defense Department."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2889

Scientists Find Dramatic Changes In Southern Ocean
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/530876/

ICELAND UNDER ATTACK: THREATENED PROTESTORS RAISE STAKES, CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTEST
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531391/

Ocean, Arctic Studies Show Global Warming is Real
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/534997/

Preface - TIPPING POINT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537829/

Brazil Plans Vast Amazon Reserve to Stem Logging
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535008/

Chinese growth cuts into Papua wood
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535111/

Who's sponsoring Iditarod dog torture in 2005?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531383/

The GM Goliath that refuses to fall
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/533367/

Death Domains in New Bio-pesticides
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/534916/

Innoculations - The True Weapons Of Mass Destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538186/

A THIRD OF WORLD'S AMPHIBIAN SPECIES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536475/

500 Animals a Day are Killed by HLS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538836/

Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540740/

Climate Change
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536508/

Warm Oceans Eroding Antarctic Ice
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538848/

BUSH TEAM READYING BACKDOOR ROUTE TO DRILL ARCTIC REFUGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538962/

Stop the sneak attack on the Arctic Refuge
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538860/

INVESTIGATION FINDS IMD IN INDONESIA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541661/

THANK YOU SISTER DOROTHY STANG
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541669/

A Thousand Words
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537768/

CHINA VOWS TO KEEP ITS ENVIRONMENT CLEAN DESPITE GROWING PAINS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536485/

IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/539333/

Make U.S. spending reflect your values
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/530837/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/to

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

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next

Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Tsunami/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 27. February 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542648/

Non thermal effects of exposure to EMF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538361/

Interview with Brian Stein, Per Segerbäck and Olle Johansson
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536302/

Shock Waves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535358/

PHONE GIANT UNDER SIEGE OVER MAST BID
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/530846/

Spanish News Item on Mobile Phone Addiction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531235/

Another sad tale of the utilities and politicians putting the dollar first, the people last
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459819/

Phone masts raise fears - Another denial of our rights
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531851/

The health effects of electrical pollution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531693/

A letter to pin on the door of 10 Downing Street?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531844/

In vitro increase of the fluid-phase endocytosis induced by pulsed radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: importance of the electric field component
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/532340/

Some ocular symptoms and sensations experienced by long term users of mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/531997/

Cancer near a cell-phone transmitter station (update)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/518760/

TV spotlight shines on school phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/534222/

Fury as planners OK mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535271/

This could harm young, says mum
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535279/

DON'T PUT OUR GIRL IN DANGER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535346/

Library mast leading to fury
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535399/

Phone mast plan set for rejection
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535291/

Permission for phone mast denied
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535295/

JOY FOR MOBILE MAST CAMPAIGNERS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535407/

Couple's big mast battle
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535419/

Who is responsible?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/536043/

Firefighters in battle to get rid of phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537412/

Council and residents urge MPs to call for change in law
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537473/

Plans to restrict cellphone tower sitting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537777/

HEALTH RISK FEARS OVER O2 MAST PLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537806/

Mobile mast generates health fears
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537822/

MAST FEARS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537869/

MPS CALL FOR MAST RETHINK
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537874/

Protest plan over 30m phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537879/

Celebrations as 02 plan is ditched
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/537883/

Campaigners lose battle to get 40ft phone mast moved
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538266/

School applications hit by mast plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540703/

Campaign against phone mast gathers pace
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540712/

SIGNAL CAUTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538270/

'Sick' building demolished
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538611/

New phone masts cannot be banned, says government
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540726/

MP backs anti-mast campaigners
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541021/

WE`VE ALL GONE MOBILE PHONE MAD
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/539592/

London Cell Phone Conference reminder
Mobile Health and the Environment:Strategies to ensure sustainable development and responsible growth
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/533233/

If you are into political strategy "big time" you will find an excellent project which was apparently just launched last month.

Tactical Assault Project

by Tom Ball

01/16/05

Announcing the launch of the PoliticalStrategy.org "Tactical Assault Project".

The project will be an ongoing effort to provide a 'handbook' of political tactics being used -- and for use -- in the ongoing battle for political and ideological superiority.

Tactics: Specific actions that you can take to debate, attack, defend or otherwise promote your agenda. They are the actions used to execute or advance the overall strategy or agenda of an organization, political party, or ideology. They can be used at every level of political battle. Some are clever. Some are commonsense. And some are downright despicable. The ones you choose to use are up to you. In any event, your knowledge of such tactics is critical to your ultimate defense and rebuttal of the opposition.

As tutorials and analyses are created, they will be cataloged here for easy reference. A permanent link will be provided in the left column. See: http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001067.php


© Virginia Metze

Anyone else but me remember Helen Thomas? One of the reasons to be upset with Bush press conferences is that, after every other president before him recognized her, he refused to. BOO!

By HELEN THOMAS

HEARST NEWSPAPERS

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

WASHINGTON -- President Bush should look into the mirror before giving orders and threatening other nations.

His militant foreign policy reeks with piety and is selectively threatening to several nations.

Fortunately he is still guided by the art of the possible, and that does not include Iran and North Korea at this time.

Syria is another story -- weaker and more vulnerable and easier to push around.

At a news conference Thursday, Bush demanded that Syria end its occupation of Lebanon but he stopped short of accusing Syria of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. An investigation to assign blame is under way. ... Read the rest of her observations at:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/212971_edcol1.html


© Virginia Metze

Ten Members of FDA Advisory Panel Who Voted to Keep Drug on Market Had Ties to Makers, Report Shows

Associated Press

Washington February 25, 2005

Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, a new analysis shows.

A study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest indicates that 10 of the 32 panel members had ties to either Pfizer Inc., or Merck & Co., ranging from consulting fees and speaking honoraria to receiving research support from the companies.

After three days of hearings on the drugs, known as Cox-2 inhibitors, the panel voted 31-1 to keep Pfizer's Celebrex on the market, 17-13 with 2 abstentions in favor of Pfizer's Bextra and 17-15 that Merck's Vioxx should be allowed back on sale. ... Read this at: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=531522


© Virginia Metze

Published: February 23, 2005

As he stumps for Social Security privatization, President Bush always gets a big round of applause for promising that the money in a private account could be passed on to one's heirs.

If those happy clappers only knew the details.

Under the president's proposal, when you retired you would not be able to start spending the money in your private account until after you bought an annuity, a financial contract in which you hand over a lump-sum payment and, in return, get a monthly stream of income for life. The upside of buying such an annuity would be that you'd be protected against outliving all of your money. The downside is that even if you died immediately after retirement, the most your heirs would inherit would be the amount that remained in your private account after you had paid for the mandatory annuity. (If you lived longer, of course, you might well need to spend the remainder to supplement the annuity's low monthly payout. ) Read more about the incredible misrepresentations the Republicans are making and how it will really work... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23wed1.html or http://tinyurl.com/5rljb


© Virginia Metze

by John in DC - 2/23/2005 12:34:00 PM

A Buzzflash interview with Communications professor and expert Mark Crispin Miller:

The media's bizarre avoidance of this very juicy story makes a few things very clear--or I should say, very clear again. First of all, it's further proof that there is no "liberal bias" in the US corporate press--none whatsoever. It also reconfirms the fact that this media system is not simply "sensationalistic," and therefore apt to print whatever lurid stories its employees can dig up. There is a tabloid element, of course, but it works according to a double standard that is more ideological than commercial. Simply put, the US media reports sex scandals only when they seem to tar "the left," i.e., the Democratic party. As long as they involve the Democrats, the press is clearly willing to report such scandals even when they're fabricated. On the other hand, the press goes deaf and blind to "moral" scandals that involve Republicans, no matter how egregious and well-documented....

Now Bush's White House is embroiled in a sex scandal that is both more sordid and more serious than anything involving Clinton's infamous libido. This involves not just a huge security lapse, but what appears to be yet one more case of the Bush White House illegally deploying propaganda tactics through the institutions of the Fourth Estate. ... Read it at:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/media-double-standard-analysis.html or http://tinyurl.com/57r48


© Virginia Metze

Secret tapes show Bush’s combative side

“I may have to get a little rough for a while,” Bush told Doug Wead in a surreptitiously taped conversation about the race against Steve Forbes (rear) for the 2000 Republican nomination. “But that is what the old man had to do with Dukakis, remember?”

By Howard Fineman

MSNBC contributor

Updated: 2:58 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2005

WASHINGTON - Here are two stories about young “Georgie” Bush that you may not have heard, but which are worth recounting as he travels the globe as a world leader. ... Read more of this story of Bush's background at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7017489/


© Virginia Metze

Scientology-linked teachings inaccurate, superintendent says

Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

State Superintendent Jack O'Connell urged all California schools on Tuesday to drop the Narconon antidrug education program after a new state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information.

"We'll get a letter out to every school district today, saying this program is filled with inaccuracies and does not reflect widespread medical and factual evidence," O'Connell said of Narconon Drug Prevention & Education, a free program with ties to the Church of Scientology. ... Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/23/MNGQJBFKV81.DTL or
http://tinyurl.com/3zylo


© Virginia Metze

While on the Raw Story site, I noticed that they had the letter that Senators Durbin, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy and Lautenbergen sent to President Bush on Friday asking for Gannon inquiry. Read it at: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=128



© Virginia Metze

http://www.druggingamerica.com/index_drugging_right.html


Informant: amos4

From the book: CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Fifth Edition

page 1618

("PASSIVE RADAR A receive-only radar used for search, tracking, surveillance, identification, guidance, and mapping. The operation of passive radar depends upon the detection of microwave or infrared radiation from warm bodies. ....

Many potential military targets radiate high noise power, such as ships at sea, exhaust from trucks, tanks, missiles, and airplanes, and factory chimneys. Unlike an active radar, a passive radar cannot determine the range to a target. However, using the high antenna directivity obtainable at microwave and infrared wavelengths, a passive radar can locate a source of radiation accurately in direction and discriminate between nearby targets.

A passive radar can track a target closely and be used to direct weapon fire toward it. A passive radar, mounted on a missile, can be used to home the missile in on a target by using just the pointing information provided by the radar. The power required to operate such a radar is quite small because there is no transmitter. Ground surveillance and mapping can be accomplished with an airborne ground scanner. This type of radar provides an infrared picture of the terrain and any targets which may be present.

The absence of transmitted power makes the location, and even the existence, of a passive radar difficult to determine. Even if the position of a passive radar is known, its frequency cannot be determined; for this reason and because of the high angular resolution, it is difficult to jam.")

For general reference


Bob D.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405I.shtml


Informant: Shanti Renfrew