The special interests that want to drill in the crown jewel of the national wildlife refuge system just do not give up. The results of the last election have brought them to the verge of success in the Senate, while the House is already on record supporting drilling.

Urge your senators to oppose any and all efforts to open any part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration and drilling by oil and gas interests.

Click here to take action:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=18638

Be a pipeline not a bucket - Please pass this along

George Washington was not only the military leader of the American Revolutionary War, but also, as the first President of the United States, established the pattern of service, duty, and honor for all future presidents. It is altogether fitting, that on this impending anniversary of his birth, we remember his honesty, integrity, and sacrifice with a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

As a Nation we have much to be thankful for. Our Constitutional Republic has been the model for Freedom emulated by many nations across the world. We have elected representatives who take an oath to preserve our Freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Many of these elected Representatives are responsive to the will of the electorate. However, a great number in Congress are overly influenced or controlled by a 'Shadow Government' I call the Beltway Insiders.

The large majority of Congress will represent the will of the people, if that will is expressed to them with sufficient clarity and force. Otherwise these 'representatives' are too much influenced by the lobbyists of the Insiders and the 'military industrial complex'. We must make their fear of defeat at the polls greater than the power, influence,and money offered by the 'elitist special interests' by keeping in touch with our Representative and Senators.

Please join with us in a day of thanksgiving, prayer, and if your religious observance includes it, fasting for our Congress to resist the wiles of the Beltway Insiders. Specifically pray for the following:

1. Ask for Congress to stand firm in defense of our Republic, with Checks and Balances in place and working properly between the three branches of government.

2. Give thanks for the tide of resistance which is growing against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, (FTAA), amnesty for illegal aliens, and the erosion of Freedom exemplified by the USA Patriot Act and the Intelligence Bill passed in December. Pray for our Congress to stand strong for Freedom and reject all totalitarian bills.

3. Pray for many people to step forward in defense of Freedom and that the forces of the Insiders will melt away and dissolve in confusion and in-fighting.

The potential of a people united in prayer is immense and powerful. Please join with thousands of your fellow citizens this weekend in a day of thanksgiving and prayer for our Nation and Freedom.

Inscribed on the Liberty Bell are these words:
"...proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof:" Leviticus 25:10


Will Christensen
National Vice Chair
Independent American Party
http://www.usiap.org

Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050228/D88HL2N80.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03012005.html


From Information Clearing House

The testimony of former White House security advisor Richard Clarke to the 9/11 Commission is now thoroughly vindicated.

http://www.thesentinel.com/306486040216774.php


From Information Clearing House

Two human rights groups filed a lawsuit today against Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men allegedly tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://207.44.245.159/article8186.htm

Today my brother passed away. He was one of the latest and I hope one of the last casualties of the insult to civilization we call war. Not the current idiocy in Iraq, Or even the First adventure into that country. My brother was a lingering casualty of the war in Vietnam.

He did not perish as a result of enemy fire, but in a way he was downed by "friendly fire." He died of cancers related to a lovely little tool of jungle warfare called Agent Orange. While the Vietnam conflict may be old news, the stonewalling, lying, and lack of support that sealed his fate are as fresh as today's headlines.

Today our brave men and women at arms returning from Iraq are in a similar jeopardy. No, not Agent Orange, but a substance so much more insidious and deadly: depleted uranium, a metal that is commonplace in the tools of modern warfare.

This poisonous metal is being used in ammunition, artillery shells, tank rounds, and the armor plating on our tanks, APCs and even some Humvees. Like the Agent Orange of the Vietnam war, our military and civilian leaders tell us that this depleted uranium is safe. They say that the radiation levels are so low as to be benign. They tell us that today. Years down the line when these fine soldiers begin to develop tumors, leukemias, neurological disorders, and even worse, birth defects in their children, the denials and stonewalling will begin anew.

To my way of thinking, this is a shameful way to treat those who took up arms and answered their country's call. It will be on you, the husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, children, and those who feel gratitude for these people's sacrifices, to hold our leaders accountable.

It is my sincere wish that those of you welcoming your family members back home can stop this turning away of those responsible so that you need not lose and bury your own as I have had to.

J.M. Collins, Lebanon

http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/opinion/edit03.txt


Informant: Davey Garland

"Zusätzliche Anstrengungen": Gewerkschafterin erwartet "Sinneswandel" von Managern wegen Arbeitslosigkeit (01.03.05)

Die stellvertretende DGB-Vorsitzende Ursula Engelen-Kefer fordert angesichts der gemeldeten 5,2 Millionen Arbeitslosen "zusätzliche Anstrengungen" für mehr Arbeitsplätze. In der "Leipziger Volkszeitung" appellierte sie laut Vorabbericht an Bund, Länder und Kommunen, "alle Finanzierungsspielräume für mehr Beschäftigung freizumachen". "Bei "Hartz IV" zeigt sich schon jetzt, dass der Kompromiss von Bundesregierung und CDU/CSU zu organisatorischen Blockaden und neuen Verschiebebahnhöfen führt, die das Ziel, die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit zu senken, ernsthaft gefährdet", sagte sie.

Zugleich kritisierte Engelen-Kefer die großen Unternehmensführungen. "Es ist nicht akzeptabel, dass große DAX-Unternehmen trotz riesiger Gewinne einen weiteren Beschäftigungsabbau planen", sagte sie. Notwendig sei ein Sinneswandel bei den Managern der deutschen Wirtschaft, die Gewinne in neue Beschäftigung zu investieren.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10565

Werbefilm für Genmais: Leitung der Gentechnik-Kontrollbehörden wird auf Befangenheit überprüft (01.03.05)

Verbraucherschutzministerin Renate Künast (Grüne) will Spitzenbeamte in Kontrollbehörden für Gentechnik auf Befangenheit überprüfen. Nach Recherchen des ARD-Magazins "Report Mainz" geht es dabei um eine Interessenkollision der für die Zulassung gentechnisch veränderter Organismen zuständigen Beamten. Wie das Magazin am Montagabend berichtete, traten der Leiter des Zentrums für Gentechnologie, Hans-Jörg Buhk, und sein Stellvertreter Detlef Bartsch 2002 in einem Werbefilm für Genmais auf. Dem genannten Zentrum untersteht auch die "Zulassungsstelle Gentechnik".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10568

"Armutskreislauf": Kinderarmut in Deutschland soll überproportional ansteigen (01.03.05)

In den meisten reichen Nationen steigt nach Angaben der Kinderhilfsorganisation Unicef die Kinderarmut. Die Situation von Kindern in 17 von 24 untersuchten OECD-Staaten habe sich verschlechtert, sagte der Vorsitzende von Unicef Deutschland, Reinhard Schlagintweit, am Dienstag in Berlin bei der Vorstellung einer neuen Studie. Der UNICEF-Vergleich zeigt krasse Unterschiede zwischen den reichen Ländern auf. Am niedrigsten ist die Kinderarmut in Dänemark und Finnland (unter drei Prozent). Besonders hoch ist der Anteil armer Kinder in den USA (über 20 Prozent). Deutschland liegt im Mittelfeld auf Platz 12. In Deutschland sei die Kinderarmut dabei mit 2,7 Prozentpunkten seit 1990 stärker angestiegen als in den meisten anderen Industrienationen. In Ländern mit höheren Sozialausgaben ist die Kinderarmut nach der Studie niedriger.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10560

AB SOFORT ONLINE:

CROPfm-Live-Sendung vom 18. 2. 2005:
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter
"Folter: Spurensuche zwischen Allmacht und Wahnsinn."
http://www.folter.co.at/

Folter ist ein ständiger Begleiter des Menschen auf seinem Weg durch die Evolution; ausgehend von mythologischen Blutritualen über die Verbrechen der Kirche bis zum amerikanischen Guantanamo. Über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Lust, Gewalt und Mythologie sprachen Chris Haderer und Claudia Altendorfer mit Prof. Horst Herrmann, Autor von "Die Folter. Eine Enzyklopädie des Grauens."

Die Sendung kann direkt von der Homepage von CROPfm als RealAudio-Datei abgerufen werden:
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter

Zusätzlich steht eine MATERIALSAMMLUNG mit Links, Ressourcen, einer Biblio- und Filmografie sowie weiterführenden Informationen unter http://www.folter.co.at/ zur Verfügung. Über Meinungen, Kommentare und eigene Beiträge würden wir uns sehr freuen. Die Site wird permanent erweitert. Über http://www.folter.co.at sind auch weitere Interviews und Radiosendungen zum Thema Folter abrufbar.

Moderation: Chris Haderer/Claudia Altendorfer
Telefongast: Horst Herrmann (Soziologe, Autor)

http://www.folter.co.at
http://cropfm.mur.at/past_shows.htm#folter

by Danny Schecter

The decline of our media system has been well documented. Every week seems to bring with it news about how the news is screwed up. Media concentration, commercial imperatives and a clear conservative tilt is tuning out and turning off viewers, readers and listeners.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Schecter.shtml?mail=01

by Ralph Nader

Fighting stateless terrorism in ways that create more terrorists is what is keeping many an active and retired military, diplomatic and intelligence person awake at night. But not George Bush, who assures us that he loses no sleep over his decisions or their consequences.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Nader.shtml?mail=01

by Mary Shaw

Hardcore conservatives who attack those who question the right-wing policies and practices of a black woman or an Hispanic man are often the same ones who have opposed hate crimes legislation or supported racial profiling.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301Shaw.shtml?mail=01

by Commander Beth F. Coye, U.S. Navy (ret.)

While listening to President Bush deliver his second Inaugural Address, that familiar sinking feeling washed over me again.

Click Here to Read Article:
http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/050301BethF.Coye,U.S.Navy(ret.).shtml?mail=01

Pass It On: The Big Lie

by Bill Moyers

In this interview, veteran newsman Bill Moyers exposes what Americans should really be fearful about. Hint: It's not Al Qaeda.
http://www.tompaine.com/index.php#passiton

"The Big Lie is that the threat of Al Qaeda is greater to us than the threat of low wages, environmental pollution, the growing inequality in America, or the terrible failure of the Bush policies on schools."

—veteran newsman and former White House press secretary Bill Moyers, in an interview with the Santa Barbara Independent.

Read the entire interview:
http://www.independent.com/cover/Cover953.htm

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12370289%5E663,00.html


Informant: Andy Robinson

http://www.tierramerica.org/english/2005/0205/iacentos.shtml


Informant: Andy Robinson

AIUSA
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0228-07.htm

On the Occasion of the 1,500th U.S. Troop Death in Iraq, Military Families Mourn and Speak Out
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0228-15.htm

Military Families Speak Out as Death Toll Reaches 1500 in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030305Z.shtml

Stop the Draft before it starts:
http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.

Despite what politicians say, there is a high probability that the Bush Administration will attempt to reinstate the draft.

The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national popular uprising against the occupation. Soldiers are dying every day. A report issued in January 2004 by Jeffrey Record, a visiting professor at the Air War College, said the Army is "near the breaking point." The Pentagon has been forced to issue repeated "stop loss" orders and recall soldiers who had retired or otherwise returned to civilian life.

Out of 10 Army Divisions, part or all of 9 of them are either deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Twenty-one out of 33 regular combat brigades are on active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, or the Balkans. That's 63% of the Army's combat strength. This means the Army is extremely overextended. The Bush Administration has been trying to fill the gap with Reserve and National Guard troops, but this is a temporary fix at best. The head of the Army Reserves has recently written a memo saying that the readiness of his forces has been drastically reduced through over-deployment and is "degenerating into a broken force.”

Meanwhile, official U.S. foreign policy is now the doctrine of "pre-emptive war" and "regime change" wherever a leader runs afoul of U.S. corporate interests. An invasion of Iran, Syria, Korea, or Cuba -- all of whom are on Washington and Wall Street's list of targets -- would require tens or hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

Enlistment rates not even able to maintain current force levels, much less provide troops for new invasions and occupations. All four services missed their enlistment quotas last year, and enlistments in the Reserves, National Guard, and regular military are at a 30-year low. Many current members of the armed forces plan to get out as soon as their current enlistment ends. According to a poll conducted by the military newspaper Stars & Stripes, 49% of soldiers stationed in Iraq do not plan to re-enlist.

The President has given the Selective Service System a set of readiness goals to be implemented by March 31, 2005. As part of these performance goals, the System must be ready to be fully operational within 75 days. This means we can look for the Draft to be in operation as early as June 15, 2005.

March 19 is the second anniversary of the war. On the weekend of March 19-20, activists all over the globe will take to the streets to demand and end to the war and occupation. No Draft No Way will be mobilizing to take part in these demonstrations, which will take place just a few days before the Selective Service System reports to President Bush that it is ready to go. We must be in the streets to let them know that we oppose the draft and will not be used as cannon fodder in Iraq or in any new war.

Let's Organize NOW to Stop the Draft:

1) Come to NYC for the March 19 Troops Out Now demonstration. Join the No Draft No Way! contingent in the march. http://www.troopsoutnow.org . Or join the march and rally in Fayetteville, NC, outside Fort Bragg--for more information, see http://www.ncpeacejustice.org .

2) Organize an anti-draft meeting at your school, church or mosque, union hall, etc. Contact us at 212-633-6646 for help and speakers.

3) Organize protests outside the selective service office in your area.

4) Donate to help build a network of educators, activists, and resisters to fight the draft--before it returns. http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml

5) Sign the No Draft Petition. http://nodraftnoway.org/petition.shtml

http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org


March 19
Troops Out Now!
March on Central Park in NYC!
Regional Demonstrations Across the U.S. & Worldwide

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050228/ts_csm/atowns


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

Why is the President Punishing Drug Users for Offences He Has Also Been Linked to

by Joe Conason

Toronto Star

On the audiotapes of George W. Bush recorded secretly by his erstwhile confidant Douglas Wead in 1999, the future president revealed how much he feared candid discussion of his personal use of marijuana and cocaine. As quoted in The New York Times, Bush vowed that no matter what rumours and facts circulated about what he did or might have done, he would doggedly decline to answer forthrightly. ... Read more at Toronto Star http://tinyurl.com/5oako or Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0227-29.htm



© Virginia Metze

Democratic National Committee, Pelosi weigh in on Gannon scandal, credentialing

Democratic National Committee, Pelosi enter Gannon fray

2/27/2005

by John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

Saying the Democratic National Committee had not weighed in on the scandal surrounding discredited White House reporter ‘Jeff Gannon’ because the Committee was in transition, the DNC’s national spokesman broke the ice in a conversation with RAW STORY.

The office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has been silent on the issue to date, also voiced their concerns.

Both the DNC and Pelosi’s office shared similar alarm over what they perceive as media manipulation. Each offered a more temperate critique than the spokeswomen for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) voiced earlier this week.

The DNC’s national spokesman, Jano Cabrera, said the Committee had particular concern with what they see as a deliberate strategy by the Bush Administration to manipulate the media. The office of DNC Chairman Howard Dean did not return a call for comment placed Friday.

“We have [real] concerns as to how Jeff Gannon got into the White House briefing room on a serious basis,” Cabrera said. Read the rest at: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=132


© Virginia Metze

Now that the Australian government is increasing its troop levels in Iraq, those troops should know that the hazards they face are far more than being shot by unfriendly insurgents. For those troops the issue of DU is very much an OH&S topic for this list. Is it really worth bringing home a legacy of radioactive poisoning for one's offspring just to support Bush's nuclear war?

Don Maisch



Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/DU/DU_DBDMDB.html
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/DU.htm


A death sentence here and abroad

by Leuren Moret

"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular and a matter of concern."

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

How did they hide it?

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing overseas nothing political."

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."

In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence Š for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:

American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn.
Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime
Against Iraq, Humanity,"
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says
Depleted Uranium Definitively
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care:
Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care to Vets",
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html

Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic
Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World",
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:
"Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin
Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death,"
http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,
Germany, October 16-19, 2004:
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan.
Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat:
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War"
by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret,
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leuren+Moret
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Depleted+Uranium+Poisoning+%28D.U.%29/

Joseph Sobran on the devolution of the conservative movement:
http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2005/w050203.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Democracy Does Not Equal Freedom

And we are not the government. Article by Jacob G. Hornberger:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger25.html

Local authority representatives yesterday condemned police for arresting the mayor and the head of a local council in western Athens after they oversaw the removal of an allegedly illegal mobile telephony mast in the area.

Kamatero Mayor Nikolaos Stenos and the president of the municipal council, Nikitas Kamarinopoulos, were taken into police custody on Sunday afternoon and released yesterday morning.

A statement from the Central Union of Municipalities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE) said the two men were arrested after the council decided to disconnect the mast that, officials say, was unlawfully drawing power from the electricity grid and was illegally erected on a four-story building which was being constructed near three schools. Stenos and Kamarinopoulos accompanied municipal engineers to the site on Sunday to take the mast down.

KEDKE said it would ask for a meeting with the government to discuss a framework for the safe installation of similar masts in the future.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100014_01/03/2005_53534


Informant: Sylvie

VA Opens Doors to Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Seeking Counseling Assistance

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), more than 12,000 Iraq War and Afghanistan War sought readjustment counseling from VA's "Vet Centers." This statistic means two things: 1) VA did the right thing reaching out to these war veterans, and, 2) If so many veterans sought assistance so soon after returning from war, then there are significant problems among many war veterans.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2904

House Speaker Dennis Hastert believes any person suspected (not convicted, just suspected) should be deported to their home countries (or other countries) where they face torture and death. Do Hastert's dangerous comments mean he believes our Constitution and our protections for due process are gone? Has Hastert undermined and abandoned our Nation's values supporting freedom?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2903

When the people are free, when the people are informed of the facts, the people are positioned to exercise their political rights. This is the case in rural Vermont, where average citizens are forcing the issue of the failed Iraq war onto the ballot for further public discussion. This is common sense in action.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2902

Bear Any Burden: The Heavy Cost of Using U.S. Troops as Experimental Test Subjects

The article below describes the terrible price paid by many of our Nation's soldiers so that the Department of Defense and the drug industry can have an endless supply of human test subjects for experimental drugs.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2901

from Vivienne B.

Since the Tetra mast (l k. away) became active last year, I have been suffering badly from lack of sleep, feeling that my skin doesn't fit, headaches etc. etc. The arthritis has become very bad, so suppose I must be electro sensitive. Things have become much worse since an Orange mast - next to a Vodafone became active a short while ago. There is also a datatrack one about lk away, which operates all the time. The high pitched whistling noise that I hear is frequently worse at night and the lack of sleep is just so unbearable.

However our grandson, who lives with us, was rushed to hospital for an appendix op. just before Xmas and the nurses said they had never had so many children (mostly aged 7 - 10) in hospital for appendix. During one week, there were 5 children in there. The frightening thing was that they all lived within about half a mile of a Tetra mast!! This has to be more than a co-incidence as Tetra hasn't been in operation very long in West Sussex.

I am following this one up, as one of the nurses was particularly interested in knowing more of mast emissions. Our grandson still gets tummy pains and nausea - I am feeling the same way and am now seriously considering moving to another area which isn't as flat and open as this one and has more protection with trees, etc.

The reason for writing this (and I know there are thousands out there who feel as worried as I do), is to ask if anyone knows of an area which is reasonably safe? It would be nice to remain somewhere South if pos., simply because we know people here, however desperation means that almost anywhere could be considered. And another thing - where do most sensitive people go for their holidays where they can get away from the emissions and recharge their batteries?

Hoping someone, somewhere has an answer or two. I can see the Easter Holidays looming up and it would be nice to get away for a while. Also, what really really works in deflecting the beastly rays?

Kind regards, VB


From Mast Network

"Man kann sich nur noch die Augen reiben: Gutverdienende Unternehmen und bestverdienende Spitzenmanager fordern von ihren Belegschaften "Beiträge zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit". Die Arbeitszeiten sollen verlängert werden, selbstverständlich ohne Lohnausgleich. Auf Weihnachts- und Urlaubsgeld soll zumindest zum Teil verzichtet werden. Pausen sollen gestrichen werden…"

Artikel von Klaus Ernst, 1. Bevollmächtigter der IG Metall-Verwaltungsstelle Schweinfurt in Klartext, Zeitung des IG Metall-Standortvertrauenskörpers der ZF Sachs-Gruppe vom Dezember 2004 (pdf)
http://www2.igmetall.de/homepages/schweinfurt/file_uploads/04.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 1

by Gary Leupp

CounterPunch

02/28/05

According to Gen. Wesley Clark, a senior U.S. military officer told him in the Pentagon as early as November 2001 that the administration planned, following the invasion of Iraq, to conduct campaigns throughout the Middle East and beyond. 'Oh yes, sir, not only is it Afghanistan. There's a list of countries. We're not that good at fighting terrorists, so we're going after states: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Iran. There's a five-year plan.' We're in the fourth year of that plan, which proceeds apace. Afghanistan and Iraq are conquered, dotted with U.S. military bases designed to be permanent. Libya's been removed from the target list, due to some canny machinations on Col. Muammar Qadhafi's part, and Somalia's drawing less attention than Sudan. But Syria, Lebanon and Iran remain very much in the crosshairs...

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp02282005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Margaret K. Loehr

Common Dreams

02/28/05

The U.S. began bombing Vietnam with B-52's in 1966. Twenty thousand combat soldiers were on the ground at that time, a small percentage of what was to come. That summer I lived on an Army base in Colorado. What I experienced there broke my heart and changed me as a person. Today, to the tune of the same rhetoric, same politics, same promises of freedom, we again send our youth to sacrifice and die. My long ago summer seems like it was yesterday...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0228-23.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

02/28/05

There are several problems with wearing human rights advocacy on your sleeve. The first is that merely holding a vote doesn't mean that a country will eventually be free. Even the Nazis in Germany initially took power by a democratic election. In the case of Iraq, we are a long way from having a genuine republic that safeguards the human rights of minorities.

The second problem, which Carter experienced acutely, is that rhetorically lambasting countries publicly about their human rights policies or their domestic systems of governance often leads to a vitriolic response. For example, the more Carter (and other presidents) pressured China to improve its human rights conditions, the more the Chinese government cracked down on dissent.

Other governments feel that the U.S. government should worry about affairs within its own borders rather than meddling in their affairs...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1469


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Stephen Moore

The Weekly Standard

03/01/05

The 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax is now levied only on the first $90,000 a worker makes each year. What President Bush said was that raising the cap (to perhaps $125,000 or even $200,000) was 'on the table.' This was a strategic blunder of the first order. Now even the strongest advocates of Social Security personal accounts are wondering what hefty price will have to be paid to enact them. ...

House majority leader Tom DeLay and others in the Republican leadership in Congress have rightly declared that any tax hike to 'pay for' Social Security reform is dead on arrival, especially in the more conservative House. Bush may gain a few Democratic votes by agreeing to raise taxes, but it appears he would lose far more Republicans in the bargain. In other words, this proposal is a net subtraction of votes for personal accounts...

http://tinyurl.com/5m6zw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Joshua Frank

AntiWar.Com

03/01/05

Silence is complicity, and the antiwar movement is speechless. No visible opposition to the Iraq war has shown its face for months. Hopefully, that will change on March 19, the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion, when millions of protesters take to the streets around the world. Yet a concerted effort to assemble opposition to the war here in the U.S. has failed to develop...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=5011


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

UK: Terror bill climbdown by Labour

Guardian [UK]

03/01/05

Tony Blair's government last night sustained a significant blow to its authority when 60 Labour MPs, including four ex-cabinet ministers, rebelled against Charles Clarke's plans to impose control orders on terrorist suspects -- despite last minute concessions -- and helped slash their party's 161-vote majority to just 14. ... In a significant climbdown to the angry cross-party coalition of MPs who were vociferously refusing to grant ministers powers to detain suspects without judicial approval, Mr Clarke announced that judges will, after all, decide such cases in his new prevention of terrorism bill -- not himself, as the bill currently proposes...

http://tinyurl.com/43jm3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

03/01/05

When Vermont towns hold their annual meetings this year, they will likely be dominated by such typical local issues as school spending and whether to buy a new road grader. But on Town Meeting Day set for Tuesday, 52 of the communities also were expected to debate the Iraq war and the Vermont National Guard's role in it as they consider whether to adopt a nonbinding anti-war resolution. The resolution asks President Bush and Congress to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and calls for the Vermont Legislature to establish a commission to study the effects of deployments on the state...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4833079,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Iraq: US says puppet government uses torture

Houston Chronicle

02/28/05

The State Department on Monday detailed an array of human rights abuses last year by the Iraqi government, including torture, rape and illegal detentions by police officers and functionaries of the interim administration that took power in June. In the Bush administration's bluntest description of human rights transgressions by the U.S.-supported government, the report said the Iraqis 'generally respected human rights, but serious problems remained' as the government and U.S.-led foreign forces fought a violent insurgency [sic]. It cited 'reports of arbitrary deprivation of life, torture, impunity, poor prison conditions -- particularly in pretrial detention facilities -- and arbitrary arrest and detention...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3061520


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Court: Government must charge Padilla or free him

San Francisco Chronicle

03/01/05

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Monday to either charge terrorism suspect Jose Padilla with a crime or release him after more than 2 1/2 years in custody. U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd in Spartanburg, S.C., said the government can not hold Padilla indefinitely as an 'enemy combatant,' a designation President Bush gave him in 2002. The government contends Padilla was planning an attack with a 'dirty bomb' radiological device. 'The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant,' Floyd wrote in a 23-page opinion that was a stern rebuke to the government. Floyd, appointed by Bush in 2003, gave the administration 45 days to take action...

http://tinyurl.com/4zk72


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Trotz Vertrags-Abschluss prüft E-Plus Standort am Kalvarienberg

Guter Willen auf Gemeinde-Schreiben - 100 Bürger demonstrieren

VON BARBARA SCHLOTTERER

Peiting - Es gibt noch Hoffnung für die besorgten Peitinger Bürger, die verhindern möchten, dass der Mobilfunkbetreiber E-Plus auf dem Dach des "Weilheimer Hofs" eine Antenne errichten möchte. Während gestern Mittag mehr als 100 Betroffene vor dem Anwesen an der Münchner Straße mit Transparenten und Flyern demonstrierten, macht Hilmar Möhlmann von E-Plus klar: "Wir überprüfen gerade den alternativen Standort außerhalb des Ortes, den uns die Gemeinde genannt hat." Sprich: Obwohl Hausbesitzer Alexander Rott bereits am 21. Dezember den Vertrag mit dem E-Plus unterschrieben hat, bleibt der Kalvarienberg als Ausweich-Standort im Gespräch. In der kommenden Woche soll sich laut Hilmar Möhlmann entscheiden, ob der Vertrag mit dem Besitzer des Weilheimer Hofs hinfällig und damit in Sachen Mobilfunk ausgelagert wird.

"Bei einer annähernd gleichen funktechnischen und wirtschaftlichen Eignung würden wir absehen von dem Standort", so Hilmar Möhlmann auf Anfrage. War die Antenne bereits beschlossene Sache, so hatte der Mobilfunkbetreiber sich auf ein Schreiben der Gemeinde vom 7. Februar doch noch auf einen Vergleich eingelassen. "Das sind jetzt quasi zwei parallele Vorgänge." Die Prüfung hat man bei E-Plus sozusagen "spontan dazwischengeschalten".

Wenn die technischen Voraussetzungen am Kalvarienberg in der nächsten Woche genauer unter die Lupe genommen werden, soll auch ein Team von E-Plus vor Ort sein. "Wir sind da sehr gründlich, da wir ja durchaus Interesse an einem guten Standort haben", so der Regionalsprecher, der das Ansinnen auf eine gute Zusammenarbeit mit der Gemeinde Peiting betont.

Verwundert zeigt sich Hilmar Möhlmann über die groß angelegte Protest-Aktion vom gestrigen Freitag. "Das ist ein komischer Zeitpunkt für eine Demonstration", gibt er zu bedenken. Und immerhin habe bislang noch kein Peitinger Bürger überhaupt versucht, sich mit der Firma E-Plus in Verbindung zu setzen - Kontakt aufgenommen haben die besorgten Bürger hingegen schon mit dem Besitzer des Weilheimer Hofs, Alexander Rott. "Zwei Briefe wurden mir unter der Tür durchgeschoben, und einen Anruf haben ich bekommen, allerdings war der lächerlich", bilanziert er seine Erfahrungen seit dem Bekanntwerden des neuen Standorts. Der Peitinger zeigt sich unbeeindruckt: "Das ist doch harmlos, ich bin ziemlich enttäuscht, hätte mit mehr gerechnet", gibt er sich betont gelassen. Zudem weist Alexander Rott auf die Antenne hin, die bereits vor drei Jahren auf dem Dach des "Weilheimer Hofs" angebracht wurde und seitdem in Betrieb ist. Weiter möchte er sich nicht äußern. Falls sich E-Plus nun doch für den "Weilheimer Hof" als Standort entscheiden sollte, dann geht es allerdings schnell: "Die Betriebnahme dort würde kurzfristig bevorstehen", so Hilmar Möhlmann.

Vertragsrücktritt

Zumindest muss sich Verpächter Alexander Rott keine Gedanken über einen Rücktritt vom Vertrag machen - ganz anders als der Besitzer des Eisen-Peter-Hauses an der Münchner-Straße. Laut Informationen unserer Zeitung möchte die Deutsche Funkturm GmbH den Besitzer des Anwesens verklagen, der bereits eine Unterschrift geleistet hatte. Wie es in diesem Fall tatsächlich um das Rücktrittsrecht steht, könnte vor Gericht geklärt werden. mm

26.02.2005

http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/schongau/art1609,253233.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim



AUFRUF ZUR DEMONSTRATION GEGEN MOBILFUNKSENDER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/535317/

I was sent a message about an electrosensitivity web site in France which is at

http://www.electrosensibles-victimes.be

I cannot read French but check out the graphics!

Don Maisch



L’Association Sauvons Léon: Infos PRESSE Le Dauphiné du 27 Février 2005 & Campagne Nationale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/543923/

Rixensart sans réseau GSM
http://www.belgiquemobile.be/a/index.php?news=471


Informant: Sylvie

Pass It On: Bush On The "Free Press"

by President George W. Bush

Watch President Bush explaining how the press should be constrained by "the truth" -- a constraint we wish he'd apply to himself.

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


"A free press is important...obviously there's got to be constraints."

--President Bush at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, explaining freedom of the press to Russian journalists.

Watch a video clip here:
http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/cnn_bush_press_question_050224-01.rm

DU turns into micro particles on impact. These are easily breathed in. One ounce of DU properly administered could kill everyone in MN. The halflife is 4.5 billion years, essentially forever.

2,000 tons is like looking at 1,000 parked cars in a parking lot.

The nuclear energy industry gives the depleted uranium to the weapons manufacturers for free. They have no way of disposing of it, but if they did, it would be extremely expensive. It is a matter of financial convenience.

Most of this weaponry is made in the state of MN. I told the MN AG, Dan Hatch, about it, and said the people responsible should be prosecuted under R.I.C.O. He said it was his job to defend the state and its enterprizes. He said I should write my Congress people.

David Diggins

http://www.raven1.net/patriotradio.htm


Informant: mark marks

http://tinyurl.com/4ld49

FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE YOU THINK WILL BE INTERESTED

NEWS FLASH: Bush Family War Profiteering

POST THIS EMAIL TO PEACE AND JUSTICE LISTS

Every day the occupation of Iraq does damage to Iraq, the United States and the world. Anti-war activists recognize it is time to re-ignite efforts to end the war and bring the troops home. Democracy Rising, founded by Ralph Nader and a founding member of United for Peace and Justice, is proud to announce its' 'Stop the War' campaign designed to empower grass roots organizations as well as individual activists throughout the country to end the war as soon as possible.

As you will see on our website, http://www.DemocracyRising.US, we provide tools you can use:

Iraq War Facts: A compilation of key facts, statistics and reports on the Iraq War and occupation. Armed with these facts you will become a more effective advocate - not only will you have a strong rationale for opposing the war but now you will have the facts to back it up.

E-Postcards to make it easy to spread the word - get people involved. The e-postcards can include a photo of U.S. war protests or of the horrors of the war as a way to encourage involvement in anti-war efforts. To send a picture as an E-Postcard, find the picture in the Multimedia Gallery and then click

Up-to-Date News from our news feed. You can get a daily news video from Iraq as well as connections to all the latest news on the war and occupation.

Highlight Anti-War Activists: Democracy Rising will regularly profile peace activists, authors and elected officials. Our first interview is with Jimmy Massey and his wife Jackie. Jimmy is an Iraq War vet who has become an outspoken peace activist. Read his interview and you'll understand better why this war must end.

Contact Decision Makers: Through our 'Stop the War' Campaign we make it easy for you to contact your elected officials, an email, write or call to let them know it is time to stop the war and bring the troops home.

Influence the Media: We'll be sending out action alerts that provide a coordinated campaign to influence the media and urge more complete coverage of the impact of the war and occupation. Coming soon will be a page with email address for letters to the editor for major media outlets.

The anti-war movement had an impressive beginning, putting millions of people in the streets throughout the world. The arguments we put forward before the invasion have come true - the occupation has become a quagmire, made us less safe, costs hundreds of billions of dollars, weakened U.S. relationships around the world - it is a catastrophic failure and the longer it goes on the more damage it will do. Democracy Rising wants to help all of us create an even stronger anti-war movement that not only elected officials hear - but one they cannot ignore.

We can end the war in Iraq if we act together with a concerted effort at stopping the war and bringing the troops home.


Kevin Zeese
http://DemocracyRising.US

With input predicting federal spending on RFID to grow 120 percent over the next five years, VARs need to understand different agency needs if they want to get in on the action, according to a panel of government IT representatives gathered on Thursday by the Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=60403591


Informant: Mark

Microwave Hearing - abstracts, references
http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/new174.htm


Informant: STEAVE


MICROWAVE HEARING - YEAR 1980 : ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS "DECT" ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL ARMS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/226533/

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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.


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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
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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.
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Auf der Tagesordnung stehen:
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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
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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
===============================

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
=====================================================
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/