http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20156&mode=nested&order=0


Informant: NHNE

07.03.05

Auf der einen Seite erhöhen sich Manager ihre Gehälter, werden Belastungen von Unternehmen reduziert und es wird eine weitere Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes sowie eine Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer gefordert. Auf der anderen Seite verschärfen sich die Konflikte zwischen denjenigen, die wenig haben oder die Sorge haben, künftig nicht hinreichend am gesellschaftlichen Reichtum partizipieren zu können. Der FDP-Politiker und Bundesvorsitzende der Jungen Liberalen ("JuLis"), Jan Dittrich, hatte am 2. März 2005 in einer Pressemitteilung mit dem Titel "Alte, gebt den Löffel ab!" erklärt: "Der neue Armutsbericht macht klar: Die Alten leben auf Kosten der Jungen. Während es jungen Menschen immer schlechter geht, ist die Altersarmut fast beseitigt. Es wird Zeit, dass die Alten von ihrem Tafelsilber etwas abgeben – einen Löffel oder besser gleich ein paar davon!" Am 4. März erklärte Dittrich seinen Rücktritt. Er war unter massiven Druck nicht zuletzt auch der eigenen Partei geraten.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10602



Beiträge in Diskussion: Krankenkassen reduzierten Schulden und erhöhten Manager-Gehälter (07.03.05)

Die Krankenkassen haben die Einsparungen durch die Gesundheitsreform statt für Beitragssenkungen vor allem kräftig zum Schuldenabbau genutzt. Wie das Magazin "Focus" am Wochenende unter Berufung auf vorläufige Finanzdaten meldete, sank die Gesamtverschuldung bis Ende 2004 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 3,2 Milliarden Euro auf rund 5,1 Milliarden Euro. Zugleich genehmigten sich einige Kassenvorstände üppige Gehaltserhöhungen. Laut "Focus" sind 67 Krankenkassen wieder schuldenfrei, 126 noch nicht. Davon hätten 44 aber über die Hälfte ihrer Schulden schon abgebaut. Die Kassen hatten im vergangenen Jahr einen Überschuss von über vier Milliarden Euro verbucht. Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt (SPD) forderte die Kassen auf, die Beitragszahler zu entlasten und die Beiträge zu senken.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10596



Siemens bezahlte Vorsitzende des Forschungsausschusses
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/462540/

One of Britain's most eminent scientists has attacked President Bush for acting like a latter-day Nero who fiddles while the world burns because of global warming.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=617595


From Information Clearing House

Warren Buffett has warned that the US trade deficit risks creating a “sharecropper’s society” as his letter to shareholders sounded an increasingly bearish tone about the value of the dollar.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/14d1fb9c-8da0-11d9-a4d2-00000e2511c8.html
http://tinyurl.com/67c6c


Warren Buffett's Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.: PDF Format
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2004ar/2004ar.pdf


From Information Clearing House

P.T.S.D. is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ~ and atleast one out of every six American soldiers in Iraq has it or will experience it.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2005/03/06.html#a677


From Information Clearing House

Until now, the Pentagon denied strictly any use of Napalm in the Iraq-war and repelled all suspicions made by US-journalists who were in Iraq with the US troops as embedded journalists . But this was a lie . As John Goetz and Georg Restle have found out now ."

http://207.44.245.159/article4395.htm

73 charred bodies -- women and children -- were found : We buried them, but we could not identify them because they were charred from the napalm bombs used by the Americans...

http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dd721e0ff0.html


From Information Clearing House

When the banners of "freedom" and "democracy" are hoisted over a crusade by an avaricious and irresponsible superpower, the results can be catastrophic.

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery116.htm

In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.

http://207.44.245.159/article8211.htm

US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair deserve life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 25 years, for the war crimes and genocide in Iraq, according to a lawyers' panel.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D8C1C363-308C-41F7-8B32-935312621768.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4jytm


From Information Clearing House

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/in2.htm

Italy honours officer slain by US
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558592/


From Information Clearing House

The former Italian hostage who saw her rescuer shot dead at a US checkpoint in Baghdad said yesterday they might have been targeted because of US objections to Italy's policy of negotiating with kidnappers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1432040,00.html


Italy honours officer slain by US
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558592/


From Information Clearing House

Italy has paid homage to an intelligence officer killed in Iraq by US forces, giving him a full state funeral that was tinged with anger over how he was gunned down while protecting a freed Italian hostage.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32D3D404-CC5E-4FDE-8C33-A784F54F6A87.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5uoa6

US Attack Against Italians in Baghdad was Deliberate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557503/edit

Italian hostage accuses US of trying to kill her as thousands mourn her rescuer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558600/

Shattered bridges
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558605/


Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero :

'The hardest moment was when I saw the person who had saved me die in my arms,' she said. Her poignant words and weak, haggard appearance as she had to be helped from the jet that brought her back from Baghdad are fuelling national rage.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1431436,00.html



From Information Clearing House

An Inside Look at George W. Bush’s “Murka”

The religion of millions of Murkans is the Almighty Dollar; their god is greed; their temple of worship the television monitor sitting in the center of family affairs

By Manuel Valenzuela

Murka is the land of profit over people, revenues over integrity, corporations over citizens, pollution over environment, the bottom line over universal principles of humanity, injustice and inequality over justice and equality, greed over reason, and the addiction to wealth over the virtue of moderation.

http://207.44.245.159/article8210.htm


Land of “Murka” Part II

The Fundamentalist Threat

By Manuel Valenzuela

Once the right buttons are pushed, once new Pearl Harbors are manufactured, the Establishment has little problem bringing out their mobilized army of hypnotized primates, millions of citizens mutated by fear, hatred and anger, conditioned into them by the same elite that will begin exploiting their emotions, in short order bringing to the surface the ever dangerous, never thinking, blood-thirsty and always self-destructive human animal.

http://207.44.245.159/article8227.htm

So long as Padilla sits in prison, deprived of all his constitutional rights, there are no guarantees of personal liberty in America.

By Mike Whitney

It shouldn’t surprise us that the Supreme Court has decided to take a case about the public displaying of the 10 Commandments, but refused to hear the case of Jose Padilla, the alleged “dirty bomber”.

http://207.44.245.159/article8206.htm

March 7, 2005

"Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal." So begins the article below from the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand's largest circulation newspaper. Declassified government documents show that this tsunami bomb was developed during WWII. Though I imagine all documents related to current developments of the project are highly classified, I have little doubt that the weapon has been further developed and refined over the last 60 years. This news raises questions about the recent tsunami in Indonesia.

The many layers of intense secrecy both in the government and military result in very few people being aware of the gruesome capabilities for death and destruction that have been developed over the years. In order to avoid further wars and destruction, let us all work towards greater transparency and cooperation between all good people who share our world. You take care and have a good day and week ahead.

Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info team

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=14727


Tsunami bomb - NZ's devastating war secret

by Eugene Bingham

30.06.2000

Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal.

An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at Whangaparaoa in 1944 and 1945.

Professor Thomas Leech's work was considered so significant that United States defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed before the end of the war it could have played a role as effective as that of the atom bomb.

Details of the tsunami bomb, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53-year-old documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Papers stamped "top secret" show the US and British military were eager for Seal to be developed in the post-war years too. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to view the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work.

He did not make the visit, although a member of the US board of assessors of atomic tests, Dr Karl Compton, was sent to New Zealand.

"Dr Compton is impressed with Professor Leech's deductions on the Seal project and is prepared to recommend to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that all technical data from the test relevant to the Seal project should be made available to the New Zealand Government for further study by Professor Leech," said a July 1946 letter from Washington to Wellington.

Professor Leech, who died in his native Australia in 1973, was the university's dean of engineering from 1940 to 1950.

News of his being awarded a CBE in 1947 for research on a weapon led to speculation in newspapers around the world about what was being developed.

Though high-ranking New Zealand and US officers spoke out in support of the research, no details of it were released because the work was on-going.

A former colleague of Professor Leech, Neil Kirton, told the Weekend Herald that the experiments involved laying a pattern of explosives underwater to create a tsunami.

Small-scale explosions were carried out in the Pacific and off Whangaparaoa, which at the time was controlled by the Army.

It is unclear what happened to Project Seal once the final report was forwarded to Wellington Defence Headquarters late in the 1940s.

The bomb was never tested on a full scale, and Mr Kirton doubts that Aucklanders would have noticed the trials.

"Whether it could ever be resurrected ... Under some circumstances I think it could be devastating."


See our archive of deep insider emails at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/coveruparchive


From ECOTERRA Intl.

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_18664.shtml


Informant: NHNE

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2005/split/718-3.html


Informant: Mark Marks

Immer mehr Franzosen verweigern sich dem Zwang der ständigen Erreichbarkeit dpa 07.03.2005

Gaston hat vor wenigen Wochen sein Handy in die Seine geworfen. "Für mich ist dieses Ding ein rotes Tuch", sagt der 37-jährige Geschäftsmann aus Paris. Kein Wunder, denn ohne Handy wäre Gaston wohl noch verheiratet. Nun ist er geschieden, weil seine misstrauische Gattin zärtliche SMS-Botschaften an seine heimliche Geliebte auf seinem Handy gelesen hat. Auch wenn Gastons Fall nicht gerade typisch ist - in Frankreich wächst die Zahl der Handy-Gegner. Sie wehren sich gegen die immer gleichen Fragen ("Wo bist Du gerade?"), gegen lautstarke Gespräche in Bussen und Bahnen ("Die Verbindung ist schlecht, was sagst Du?") und gegen den Druck der Gesellschaft ("Wie kannst Du ohne Handy leben?").

Für die Gemeinde dieser resoluten Widerständler interessierten sich neuerdings Forscher und Soziologen, weil diese Menschen eine "ungewöhnliche Minderheit" bilden. Es sind Hausfrauen, Mütter, Geschäftsleute und Jugendliche, die sich dem Diktat der kontinuierlichen Kommunikation verweigern. "Diese Leute sind keine Revoluzzer, aber sie wollen keine Sklaven der Schnelllebigkeit werden", analysiert der Philosoph Paul Virilio. "Ich bin kein Hund, den man herbeipfeift" sagt die 35-jährige Buchhändlerin Françoise, die ein neu gekauftes Handy nach wenigen Wochen ihrer Mutter geschenkt hat. "Ich konnte das nicht ertragen".

Kontrolle über das Unkontrollierbare

Der Journalist Hadrien, 38, lehnt sich auf gegen diese "Zwangsvorstellung der Dringlichkeit". "Ich gewinne an Lebensqualität, wenn ich akzeptiere, Zeit zu verlieren", sagt er. Diejenigen, die alles auf einmal machen wollten, würden letztendlich selbst aufgefressen.

Soziologen untersuchen aber auch diese "Sucht nach ständiger Kommunikation". Das Handy sei der "Versuch, die Kontrolle über unkontrollierbare Entwicklungen der Gesellschaft zurückzugewinnen", analysiert der Forscher Dan Schiller. Handy-Gegner ertragen gerade das nicht, was Handy-Süchtige suchen: den Einbruch in ihr Privatleben. "Handy-Süchtige reden zu laut und lachen zu laut, sie müssen sich ständig durch Gespräche beweisen, dass sie lebendig sind", meint die Psychologin Marina Petit.

Das Handy als Identitätsverstärker

Das Handy dient auch dazu, die "tatenlosen" täglichen Transportzeiten zu überbrücken. "Im Zug oder im Bus kann der hyperaktive Berufsmensch weiterarbeiten. Dadurch stärkt er seine Identität in einer anonymen Menge", sagt die Soziologin Béatrice Fracchiolla, die sich mit neuen Technologien befasst.

Mehr als 60 Prozent der Franzosen haben ein Handy, das sind 43 Millionen Menschen. Bei Jugendlichen zwischen 18 und 24 sind es sogar mehr als 90 Prozent. Um eine Diskussion über eine sozial akzeptable Nutzung des Handys in Gang zu bringen, hat der französische Krimiautor Philippe Marso 2001 einen handyfreien Tag ins Leben gerufen, den 6. Februar. Was soll erst werden, wenn die UMTS-Handys der dritten Generation mit Video, Internet und Fernseh-Anschluss auf den Markt kommen?, fragt er.

Gibt es Rezepte gegen Handy-Sucht? "Man muss seinen eigenen Lebensrhythmus wiederfinden und lernen, Einsamkeit und Stille zu ertragen", sagt der Forscher Francis Jauréguiberry. Handys seien ja durchaus nützlich. "Man muss aber nein sagen können und Gespräche filtern".

07.03.05 11:53

http://www.nzz.ch/2005/03/07/vm/newzzE60G5T4Z-12.html


Quelle: http://myblog.de/comment.php?blog=biolektro&id=966153

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

optische Kommunikationstechnik tut dringend Not, sonst strahlen uns Leute, die von nichts eine Ahnung haben, kaputt. Was ICNIRP und SKK zur 26. BImSV für Mikrowellen sagen, ignoriert völlig Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis.

Sie wissen das.

Es läßt sich auch mit ungefährlicher Technik viel Geld verdienen ! ! Weltweit. Es gibt Firmen, die das erkannt haben.

Wir fordern, dass solche Technologien mehr unterstützt werden und die Wahrheit über Mikrowellenwirkungen von Ihnen offen angesprochen werden.

Viele dringend benötigte Arbeitsplätze könnten mit der ökologischen Wende in der Kommunikationstechnik geschaffen werden ! Wir können natürlich warten, bis andere schneller sind.

Wir erwarten vom BfS Aussagen, die in die richtige Richtung weisen, damit die Bundesregierung auf dieser Basis handeln kann.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen appelliere ich an Ihre Verantwortung

Stefan Spaarmann


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Angelus Martina [mailto:angelus@vzsa.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 7. März 2005 10:53
An: spaarmann
Cc: evoss@vzs.de
Betreff: AW: Beitrag aus der Schweiz Generalangriff auf die Gesundheit aller Zugfahrer !

Hallo Dr. Spaarmann,

ich habe mal nachgeschaut, wie es in Deutschland damit aussieht. Ich hänge die Dateien an.


Repeater lösen Elektrosmogproblem in Bus & Bahn nur widersprüchlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558317/

Feldversuch in Bonn: Internet in der Straßenbahn
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558300/

Repeater setzen Bahnpassagiere enorm hoher Dauerbelastung aus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558291/

Wir sollten schnell sein und diesbezügliche Forderungen stellen, bevor die Bahn vollendete Tatsachen schafft. Ich informiere auch unseren Bundesverband.


Mit freundlichem Gruß

Martina Angelus
Bereich Umwelt
Verbraucherzentrale Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.
Steinbockgasse 1
06108 Halle/Saale
Tel: 0345 29 803 35
Fax: 0345 29 803 36

Die Baden-Württembergische Landesregierung hat jetzt die Anfrage des Abgeordneten Dr. Witzel zu Mobilfunk in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln beantwortet. Sowohl Anfrage als auch Antworten können Sie im Wortlaut in der Drucksache 13/3858 nachlesen. Die Passage über Repeater geben wir nachfolgend als Auszug wieder, weil sie offen den Haken an derartigen Geräten nennt:

“So genannte Repeateranlagen (Empfangs- und Sendeverstärker), die in Fahrzeugen installiert werden, gleichen die Abschirmwirkung des Fahrgastraumes aus. Sie verstärken die von außen kommenden schwachen Signale und führen so zu optimalen Empfangs- und Sendebedingungen im Fahrzeug. Mobiltelefone können dadurch mit geringerer Sendeleistung im Fahrzeug arbeiten.

Da Repeater zur Überwindung der Abschirmwirkung die von außen kommenden Signale der Basisstationen ständig verstärken, erhöhen sie die Exposition im Fahrzeug auch dann, wenn kein Mobiltelefon betrieben wird. Im Ergebnis wird beim Einsatz von Repeatern die Exposition durch die Benutzung von Mobiltelefonen verringert, gleichzeitig jedoch eine ständige elektromagnetische Grundbelastung durch die Verstärkung der von den Basisstationen ausgehenden Signale erzeugt. Im Sinne einer allgemeinen Feldverminderung sind Repeater in Fahrzeugen deshalb im Regelfall nicht zu empfehlen.” (18.01.05-Greulich/-ll)


Nachricht von Dr. Stefan Spaarmann

Bis Mai 2005 wollen Deutsche Telekom und die Stadtwerke Bonn einen mobilen Hotspot in einem Zug der Linie 66 testen.

http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2033566&section=Homepage&ans=0#cm

Sinn und Zweck der Übung: Im Zug sollen Passagiere Handy, Notebook und PDA für den Internetzugang verwenden können. Dazu erhält der Zug einen speziellen Repeater (Server), mit dem die Passagiere ebenso in Kontakt treten können wie bei üblichen Hotspots in Cafés, Hotels oder Flughäfen. Während der Fahrt sucht der Repeater automatisch die jeweils schnellste Verbindung zu Mobilfunknetzen (GPRS, UMTS) oder zu dem W-LAN-Netz, das die beiden Partner entlang der Fahrstrecke eigens für die schnelle Anbindung der Bahn installiert haben.

Unter der Gesichtspunkt des ständigen Elektrosmogpegels im Zug sind Repeater jedoch keine gute Idee, wie kürzlich die Baden-Württembergische Landesregierung in einer Stellungnahme einräumte. Im schrägen Licht erscheinen zudem die Querbeet-Allianzen, die sich wie Gespinste bilden, um an den Geldbeutel der Leute selbst dort noch heranzukommen, wo bislang die Funkvernetzung außen vor bleiben musste (02.02.05-ll).


Nachricht von Dr. Stefan Spaarmann

In ihrer Ausgabe 4 vom 2. März 2005 berichtet die Schweizer Zeitschrift Saldo über haarsträubend hohe Feldstärkewerte, gemessen in Zügen der Schweizer Bundes Bahnen SBB. Ursache der hohen Feldbelastung sind Repeater (Sende-Empfangsverstärker), die dicht über den Köpfen der Passagiere mit Stummelantennen punktuell strahlen. Dabei liesse sich mit langgestreckten Schlitzkabeln als Antenne eine gleichmässigere und vor allem deutlich schwächere Feldverteilung im Zuginnern erreichen. Leidtragende der Fehlplanung sind das Zugpersonal und unbeteiligte Zugpassagiere, die sich gegen den starken Elektrosmog nicht wehren können.

Der Spitzenwert der Feldstärke wurde in einem IC-Doppelstockzug der Strecke Luzern-Zürich an einem Sitzplatz der 1. Klasse mit 16,35 V/m gemessen (709 mW/m²), die durchschnittliche ständige Belastung an diesem Platz erreichte immerhin noch 9,31 V/m (230 mW/m²). Auf anderen Strecken erreichte die Feldstärke Werte zwischen 0,10 V/m und 12,15 V/m (höchste Momentanwerte) oder zwischen 0,10 V/m und 3,37 V/m (Durchschnittswerte). Gemessen wurde in Kopfhöhe sitzender Passagiere mal im gesamten Zug mal nur an einzelnen Sitzplätzen. Zum Vergleich: Wer mit dem Handy telefoniert, setzt sich dem Saldo-Bericht zufolge kurzzeitig Feldstärken von 15 V/m bis 40 V/m aus.

Repeater nutzen Telefonierern und schaden allen anderen

Ursache der hohen Messwerte sind so genannte Repeater (Sende-Empfangsverstärker), mit denen die IC-Doppelstockzüge der SBB zunehmend ausgestattet werden. Diese Repeater, sie sind in der Deckenverkleidung über den Sitzen untergebracht, sollen die abschirmende Wirkung der metallischen Waggons beseitigen, indem sie als Zwischenstation die Handy-Funksignale vom Zuginnern an aussen am Zug platzierte Antennen weiterreichen und umgekehrt die von Basisstationen empfangenen Signale im Zuginnern ausstrahlen. Auf diese Weise sind in den Waggons weitgehend störungsfreie Funkverbindungen gewährleistet, ohne dass Handys dazu pausenlos mit maximaler Sendeleistung arbeiten müssen. Nutzniesser von Repeatern sind in erster Linie telefonierende Zugpassagiere. Den Schaden haben alle anderen Passagiere, denn wie die Messungen von Saldo bestätigen, ist die von Repeatern ausgehende Dauerbelastung im Zuginnern überraschend hoch.

Deutschland: Repeater in Fahrzeugen sind im Regelfall nicht zu empfehlen

Im Dezember 2004 war unter anderem der Nutzwert von Repeatern in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln der Anlass für eine parlamentarische Anfrage an die Baden-Württembergische Landesregierung. In deren Antwort heisst es: “Im Ergebnis wird beim Einsatz von Repeatern die Exposition durch die Benutzung von Mobiltelefonen verringert, gleichzeitig jedoch eine ständige elektromagnetische

Grundbelastung durch die Verstärkung der von den Basisstationen ausgehenden Signale erzeugt. Im Sinne einer allgemeinen Feldverminderung sind Repeater in Fahrzeugen deshalb im Regelfall nicht zu empfehlen.

Zurzeit sind in Bussen und Stadtbahnen nach den vorliegenden Informationen keine Repeater in Betrieb.

Repeater-Systeme werden allerdings in ICE- und IC-Wagen der Deutschen Bahn in gesonderten Bereichen zur Verbesserung der Verbindungsqualität eingesetzt.”

Zu Repeatern in ihren Zügen schreibt die Deutsche Bahn: Nicht nur in den ICEs mit Neigetechnik sind Repeater eingebaut, auch in den übrigen ICE-Zügen sind diese Repeater nachgerüstet worden. Die Bereiche sind durch ein besonderes Handy-Piktogramm gekennzeichnet. Plätze in diesem Bereich können in allen ICE-Zügen gezielt reserviert werden.

Mit Schlitzkabeln fällt die Feldbelastung auf 0,10 V/m

Unter dem Aspekt des Elektrosmogs sind in der Deckenverkleidung von Zügen verlegte Schlitzkabel, die als langgestreckte Antennen für Repeater wirken, einfachen Repeatern mit Stummelantenne weit überlegen. In Neigezügen der SBB, z. B. auf der Strecke Yverdon-Basel, wird diese Technik ausschliesslich verwendet. Und tatsächlich ermittelte Saldo den mit Abstand kleinsten der oben genannten Werte (0,10 V/m) in so einem Zug mit Schlitzkabel.

Erfreulich: Wegen der gleichmässigen Feldverteilung wurde der niedrige Wert durchweg im gesamten Zug gemessen, Immissionsspitzen wie bei den Repeatern mit Stummelantenne gab es keine. Dem Bericht zufolge sind Schlitzkabel in den IC-Doppelstockzügen aus Platzgründen nicht möglich.

Die Folge ist in diesen Zügen eine stellenweise gravierende Überschreitung des Schweizer Anlagewerts (5,0 V/m), der für Orte mit empfindlicher Nutzung gilt (z. B. Schlafräume). Nur: Züge gelten nicht als Orte empfindlicher Nutzung! Der im Vergleich zur ICNIRP-Empfehlung niedrige Anlagewert (bezogen auf Feldstärke 10mal niedriger, bezogen auf Leistungsflussdichte 100mal niedriger) muss daher nicht eingehalten werden. Rein rechtlich dürften die Repeater sogar genauso stark strahlen wie gewöhnliche Basisstationen auf Hausdächern.

Migräne und Müdigkeit haben beim Zugpersonal klar zugenommen

Wie es bei Saldo weiter heisst, zeigte sich die SBB von den Messwerten unbeeindruckt. Sprecher Roland Binz: “Wir wollen die Möglichkeiten der Fahrgäste nicht einschränken, mobil zu telefonieren.” Und die Belastung wird weiter ansteigen, denn die SBB will in ihren Zügen kabelloses Surfen im Internet anbieten. Derweil klagt ein Zugchef: “Wir arbeiten in diesem Strahlenumfeld täglich acht Stunden. Migräne und Müdigkeit haben beim Zugpersonal klar zugenommen.”

Die Zeitschrift Saldo wird von der KI-Gruppe herausgegeben, einem privatwirtschaftlichen Medienhaus in Zürich. Der Firmenname KI umschreibt, so ist es auf der KI-Website nachzulesen, die Unternehmensphilosophie der Gruppe: Konsument und Information sind die beiden tragenden Säulen der KI-Kultur. Saldo ist damit so etwas wie die Schweizer Ausgabe der Zeitschrift test, die in Deutschland von der unabhängigen Stiftung Warentest herausgegeben wird (03.03.05-Hartmann/-ll).

03. März 2005


WLAN BEI DER BAHN

Drahtlos surfen in vollen Zügen

Vor allem Geschäftsreisende werden sich freuen: Die deutsche Bahn will ihre ICE-Flotte mit WLAN versorgen. Damit können Bahnreisende in Zukunft schnell und unkompliziert surfen.

Um die ICEs mit WLAN auszustatten, haben die Deutsche Bahn und T-Mobile eine Partnerschaft geschlossen. Details wollen die beiden Unternehmenschefs, Hartmut Mehdorn und Kai-Uwe Ricke, am 11. März auf der Cebit bekannt geben. Reisezeit sei künftig Nutzzeit, bewirbt die Deutsche Bahn ihr Projekt "Railnet".

Und das soll auch für die Wartezeiten gelten: Die Bahnhöfe, an denen ICEs halten, sollen in weiten Teilen Deutschlands mit Zugängen zu WLAN, dem kabellosen Funknetzwerk, ausgerüstet werden. Bisher bietet die Bahn WLAN ausschließlich in ihren "DB Lounges" an 24 Bahnhöfen im Bundesgebiet an.

Zu vermuten ist, dass zunächst die Züge mit High-Speed-Internet ausgestattet werden, die auf Strecken mit vielen Geschäftsreisenden verkehren.


Nachricht von Dr. Stefan Spaarmann

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66801,00.html?tw=rss.TOP


Informant: Susan

Act Now: Oppose The Bankruptcy Bill

by Center For American Progress

The Senate votes tomorrow on a bankruptcy bill that allows millionaires to protect their assets--but not working families.

http://www.tompaine.com/action/#003996

by Chris Toensing, Middle East Report

Bush's hypocrisy is obvious in the Middle East: Only our enemies need to become democracies.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003994

by Allen E. Smith, The Boston Globe

We've been debating whether to drill in ANWR since the 1970s, but no amount of Alaskan oil can keep up with consumption.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003987

by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com Exclusive

The veteran environmentalist explains how Bush's allies are trying to force the polluter-friendly Clear Skies Act through the Senate.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/a_clear_skies_smokescreen.php

http://www.savethemales.ca/000834.html


Informant: Andy


Italian Journalist: I was US target
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557426/

by Alan Bock

Orange County Register

03/06/05

The war in Iraq occurred and it still commands widespread though diminishing emotional support. Thus there is still a place for a book like 'America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order,' a critique of foreign policy under Bush -- and much more -- from a principled conservative perspective. The authors are both veteran cold warriors with long-term diplomatic experience. Stefan Halper, now a fellow of Magdalene College at Cambridge, was a White House and State Department official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, and is a contributing editor at the American Spectator. Jonathan Clarke, now at the Cato Institute, served in the British foreign service, with assignments in Germany, Zimbabwe and the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/5vr39


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by John Newby

News With Views

03/04/05

When we say, 'Just say no to crack,' we're certainly not talking about the plumber. We're talking about the most addictive drug known to mankind, federal dollars. By design, our federal big brothers have created a society where many are addicted to this menace and can't pull the needle out. In creating this welfare induced state in which the voters have all too willingly cast aside their freedoms, our elected politburo has untied the wrapping on the constitution. Our President unconstitutionally submits budgets, our spineless congress delegates all their mandated duties to the President and/or the Supreme Court. ... It appears one state might have the backbone to 'Just say No.' In a major shot across our federal government's bow, the state of Utah just might tell the Dept. of Education and federal government to take the proverbial hike...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Newby/john9.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by George Solomou

In These Times

03/04/05

I am resigning from the Territorial Army because I believe the war in Iraq is wrong. This has not been an easy decision. I have been in the TA for five years -- years in which I have learned a lot; won a humanitarian award for helping save the life of a fellow soldier; made many friends; and, I hope, contributed something to this country. I have no doubt that some of my fellow soldiers will feel I am letting them down. Since I have spoken out against the war in the last few weeks I have had a lot of support from soldiers, but I have also been called a coward. I am a trained medic and there is no doubt my skills could be used in the field to save lives. But after a lot of soul-searching I have concluded my priority must be to try to save lives by taking a public stand against this war...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2001/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ron Jacobs

CounterPunch

03/05/05

Recently, most students at the University of Vermont (UVM) in Burlington received an email with the heading ARMY PAYS OFF STUDENT LOANS in their university email box. The general message of the mass mailing was that if a student was nearing graduation and wondering how they were going to pay off the massive debt today's US college students incur, they should join the army. In essence, this email was a college student's version of the poverty draft that entraps so many working class and poor young people into enlisting in the service...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03052005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Rob Zaleski

Capital Times

03/06/05

Brian Joiner wishes he could 'just get over it.' He wishes he could ignore the thousands of reported voting irregularities that occurred in the Nov. 2 election, accept the fact that George W. is going to be around another four years and just hope that we haven't created even more enemies or fallen even deeper into debt by the time 2008 rolls around. 'I'm sure the Republicans would like me to forget all that stuff, just like they wanted everyone to forget all the strange things that happened in the 2000 election,' the retired 67-year-old UW-Madison statistics professor said this week.Well, sorry guys, but he can't. There were, Joiner says, too many things that occurred on Nov. 2 that 'still don't smell right.' He can't just pretend everything is rosy, he says...

http://tinyurl.com/6ps5b


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Amanda Rohn

America's Future Foundation

02/28/05

President Bush has called for most Americans to have electronic health records within the next 10 years. He would mandate standards designed to secure electronic health information, provide $100 million to fund 'demonstration projects' on health information technology, and use the Medicare and the VA health systems to pressure private health care providers to use electronic records. The president makes grand promises for electronic medical records (EMRs). But while such technologies do show promise, government mandates are unlikely to lead to a happy ending...

http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/019229.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Daniel D. New

LewRockwell.Com

03/07/05

Empires require standing armies, with professional soldiers, whose loyalty is to the Emperor. Wars of conquest require Conscription, Deficit Spending, and Emergency Wartime Powers. Wars for purposes of defense are never short on manpower, while wars of conquest cannot long be sustained using volunteers who have loyalties to anything beyond war itself and the power it accrues. But they are very expensive to maintain, and your professionals get ideas...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/new2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ralph Kinney Bennett

TechCentralStation

03/04/05

Bloggers are the best thing that has ever happened to journalism. They make a good reporter look better. They expose the phonies, the poseurs, the fast-writing conmen, with the speed of light. They give the journalist a greater access to more information and informational context than ever before. They provide swift exposure to varied points of view, and, most importantly, a constant, sometimes rough, but always important gauge of a reporter's skill, judgment, industriousness and integrity. Never before has weak reporting, biased reporting, dishonest reporting, or lazy reporting been more swiftly exposed. Indeed, the whole idea of whether journalism is indeed a profession -- or just a happy combination of craft, curiosity, cleverness and confidence tricks -- is being tested for the first time out there in the ether...

http://www.techcentralstation.com/030405B.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Pratap Chatterjee

AlterNet

03/07/05

Torin Nelson has worked in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An expert interrogator, he was hired by the Virginia-based company CACI International Inc., to work at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at the time when prisoners there were subjected to abuse and torture. Trained in interrogation techniques at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona, Nelson has spoken out against this abuse, but believes firmly that interrogation is a military necessity and can be conducted in a humane manner. 'I wanted to defend my profession because what I saw in the media was a lot of mistaken conjecture, erroneous stuff,' Nelson said in a phone interview from his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. 'The abuses in Abu Ghraib were anathema to mission accomplishment...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21423/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ted Lang

EtherZone

03/04/05

Ignorance is indeed bliss, especially for those enforcing it! The Bush administration has made it abundantly clear that the media will never to be allowed to operate freely or independently. Astonishingly, even the usually caustic and sarcastic Maureen Dowd, the darling of the 'liberal' media, glamorously appointed and anointed to her perch at The New York Times, has blunted her latest word venom salvo directed at her Republican nemesis, George W. Bush. Although Ms. Dowd effectively covers all the bases, she fails to deliver the knockout punch...

http://www.etherzone.com/2005/lang030405.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Andrew J. Bacevich

The American Conservative

On the one hand, according to Bush, the United States after 9/11 embarked upon a mighty endeavor, a life or death struggle against an implacable enemy. On the other hand, the president's actual policies suggested prevailing in that endeavor would not require anything remotely comparable to a mobilization of the nation's resources. Notwithstanding the throwaway line from his second inaugural summoning the nation's youth to 'make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself,' President Bush clearly expects the nation to triumph even while serenely persisting in its comfortable peacetime routines. How are we to reconcile this apparent contradiction?" (for publication 03/14/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_03_14/article.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1005

US Attack Against Italians in Baghdad was Deliberate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557503/

I want to share with you the great success we've had in the past ten days protecting our Social Security. Capitalizing on our first revealing exposé of Rep. Jim McCrery -- the man charged with pushing Social Security privatization through the House of Representatives -- we delivered on our promise to dramatically ramp up the pressure on Rep. McCrery.

Last week we aired a pointed TV ad -- over 100 times in McCrery's home district -- and broadcast his Wall Street conflict to hundreds of thousands more of his own constituents. Millions more learned about the ad as covered nationally in The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, TalkingPointsMemo.com and others. Read all about it!

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=81764

Believe it or not -- McCrery threatened the TV station with a lawsuit over the ad's claim that he supports privatization! Amazing. In response, we got the facts of McCrery's support for privatization to Louisiana TV which, in turn, dismissed McCrery's substance-less threat and reinstated the ad.

As much as he'd like to bury the truth, Rep. Jim McCrery -- like President Bush -- can't hide the fact that Social Security privatization is a bad deal. Public support for privatization continues to dwindle, and thanks to supporters like you, our Social Security will never be sold out to Wall Street.

Together, we are exactly where we need to be as the White House begins its two month tour to sell its risky privatization scam. As Bush and his allies travel the country, we plan to release to the news media real stories from real people who rely on Social Security and who won't accept having their benefits cut or put at risk on Wall Street.

We'd like you to add your story to the front lines in this continuing fight.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=81765

How would the benefit cuts and risks posed by the Bush privatization scam impact you or people close to you? Would it obligate you to pay the bills of a family member? Would it pressure you to move in with your children? Would you have to work longer hours or stay employed after retirement age to make ends meet? Would it push you into poverty? We want to know!

Your story can bring to life the risks posed by privatization for people who may only now vaguely sense its drawbacks. With your permission, we will share your story with the media in the cities and towns that President Bush and his allies visit, and make sure that people nationwide know what's at stake.

http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=1742757&l=81765

Thank you again for everything you've done to build the successful offense against the right wing's privatization scheme. We look forward to continuing our work with you, taking the pressure -- again -- to the next level, and keeping Bush, McCrery & Co. on the run.


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

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705Z.shtml


COMMENTARY: William Rivers Pitt's essay on peak oil does more harm than good.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2342/


jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://tinyurl.com/5khej


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

Australia: Schools tighten mobile use to curb text bombs

Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]

03/07/05

Students will soon need a permission slip from their parents to bring mobile phones to school as part of a crackdown on cyber bullying in public schools. Fears that mobile phone text messages were being used to intimidate students have prompted NSW Premier Bob Carr to today announce an anti-bullying plan in schools. 'Students need to know they can leave home each day and they are not going to be faced with the misery of being picked on at school,' Mr Carr told ABC radio today."

http://tinyurl.com/45mln


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

March 6th 2005

EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER

Now 3,800 Quakes and Counting; Largest Quake of Swarm Just Hit

by Mitch Battros - ECTV

Just minutes ago, I received a USGS report of a 5.2 quake off the coast of Oregon. This is the area where the now over 3,800 quakes have occurred.

Following are two of the latest news report now that the mainstream media has caught hold.

Brunswick News - Tiffany Crawford: “Intense earthquake activity on the ocean floor off the coast of southern Vancouver Island has scientists scrambling to be the first to catch a glimpse of two tectonic plates pulling apart.

U.S. scientists from the University of Washington sent a research vessel over the weekend after seismic equipment detected nearly 3,800 small quakes in an area known as the Endeavour Hot Vents. "The speculation is it might be a volcanic eruption or a magma event on the ridge," said Garry Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. "Thousands of earthquakes occurring over a few days, it's a tremendous amount of energy but it's way offshore," he said on Sunday. "They are too far to be felt so as far as we know there is no threat."

Victoria (BC) Times - Thousands of earthquakes have rattled the ocean floor off southern Vancouver Island last week, and a team of U.S. scientists is racing to the area to see if an underwater volcano is spewing fresh lava.

U.S. hydrophones detected 3,742 earthquakes over five days in an area about 270 kilometers west of Vancouver Island , but on Thursday, the intense activity calmed to just a few earthquakes an hour. Scientists from all over the U.S. have scrambled to join the University of Washington research vessel Thompson, which is scheduled to arrive in the Endeavour Hot Vents area this morning.

The shaking is also being monitored by the Geological Survey of Canada through seismographs at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich. About three km below the ocean surface -- in the Juan de Fuca Ridge undersea mountain chain -- two tectonic plates, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate, are pulling apart, said Geological Survey of Canada seismologist Garry Rogers.

Is There a Connection Between the Sun, Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Field and Earth Quakes?

A sudden and freakish geomagnetic storm is underway, and appears to have come out of nowhere.

Kp Index (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_kp_3d.gif?

Magnetic Flux (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_elec_3d.gif?

In my opinion, I find the Magnetic Flux variable even more concerning. I could easily see how one could make the connection to such rapid magnetic flux, with rapid shifting seismographs.

If you were to ask me “is there a connection between the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field shift and earthquakes; I would have to say…yes. Easy to say, but you can imagine the challenge to sustain the slings and arrows of a “peer review” and rightfully so I might add. As distasteful as this method of filtering and at times just out right chastisement is, the process of a peer review does indeed help weed out the fakes, frauds, charlatans, and just stupid ideas. So let me just say that my research related to the Sun-Earth connection does not focus on solar events and earthquakes specifically. I know there are some in the field of geology and seismology who might make this leap showing some kind of causal effect on tectonic plates, and they maybe correct. I simply cannot, at least at this time affirm such a connection.

My studies have been targeted towards solar activity and its direct connection to “weather”. Notice I say “weather” and not “climate”. This is a significant distinction. There are a hand full of scientists who have released some excellent studies showing strong evidence between solar cycles and climate cycles. What makes my research outcome unique, is my suggesting a more immediate causal effect. So immediate, I am suggesting a 48 to 72 hour time-linked-means. Most of you are already aware of the Equation I published in 1997.

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=77104;show_parent=1

Italian Journalist: I was US target
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557426/

American forces shot Italian hostage in Iraq - 'no accident'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557826/

Italy honours officer slain by US
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558592/

How The U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541962/

Brigadier General Ben Partin OKC Bomb Expert
http://69.28.73.17/todaysshow/todaysshow.html

Me, Art Bell, and 9-11
http://69.28.73.17/


Informant: ranger116

Gestern (Sonntag 06.03.05) gesehen auf Pro 7 / Fokus TV, ca. 22.35 Uhr

Firma Wiesenhof kündigt deutschen Arbeitnehmern um Billig-Kräfte aus Osteuropa einzustellen...........

Mir ist da der Appetit auf Wiesenhof-Hähnchen vergangen!

Verbraucher wehrt Euch!

Manuela Knapp

Sea Shepherd receives Ice Damage on the way to Seal Hunts
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_050306_2.html

Slaughters might begin March 20th

Pass this info far and wide.

Sea Shepherd is in trouble. We/They need all the help we can to stop these horrible mass killings.

The Farley Mowat is With the Baby Harp Seals -- filming, arrived via Helicopter
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_050306_1.html

While on the ice floes, Richard Dean Anderson will be posing for pictures with new born baby harp seals. The Farley Mowat entered the nursery zone of the harp seals early Sunday morning. The crew are now among the baby harp seals.

Pass this message far and wide.

Sandi Brockway


Informant: STRIDER

Just like the fabricated Jessica Lynch story, the U.S. military's version of events in Iraq fell apart because there is a live witness. According to the rescued journalist, there was no fixed checkpoint as the U.S. claimed. There was also a U.S. colonel waiting for the journalist and her liberators at the Baghdad airport, evidence of high-level U.S. awareness of the rescue mission. What Americans need are the facts about the Iraq War.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2929



Tyranny Comes to Amerika
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558126/

Giuliana Sgrena: 'My truth'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557163/

US Attack Against Italians in Baghdad was Deliberate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557503/

How The U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541962/

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442522/

The CanalSur News. Wednesday 2 of March of the 2005.

The City council of Ubeda (Jaén) has approved a municipal ordinance on antennas of the mobile telephony that prohibits new facilities and orders retirement to 200 meters of scholastic centers of the already existing ones with the purpose of reducing the visual and environmental impact of this patrimony city of humanity.

According to the councilwoman informed about New Technology, Luisa Leiva (PP), this decision has been adopted "because of the saturation and the city-planning disorder that until now has taken place in the municipal term and more specially in the renaissance enclaves" of this declared patrimony city of humanity by UNESCO.

Therefore the installation of new antennas of mobile telephony in the urban helmet is prohibited except in the cases in which the location of the antennas outside the city supposes a damage of the services of cover of the operator and this one is credited with technical information, "always with sound insulations according to the effective norm". On the other hand, the delegated councilman of Urbanism, Francisco Mendieta (PA), affirmed that the antennas at the moment installed within the city will have to be moved to the outside unless it credits that its transfer will cause significant alterations in the services of the operator at issue. In any case, the norm will limit prohibit the location of antennas to less than 200 meters of buildings like schools, institutes or centers of health and will force the operators to use "the best existing technology than it allows to obtain the smaller visual and environmental impact", as well as "with the purpose of reducing the electromagnetic radioactivity". As far as the wiring in buildings, the Municipal ordinance establishes that the installation in the facades of the buildings will not be allowed, under the scope of the Special Plan of Protection of the Historical Set, forcing the construction company of new constructions to bury the wiring.

http://www.terra.es/personal/kirke1/noti63/ymnt.htm

Informant: Sylvie


Translation Spanish-English: omega

"Die Kichwa-Krieger und das Öl" wird erstmalig am Samstag, den 9.April 2005 um ca. 21.35 Uhr auf ARTE gesendet. Eine Wiederholung gibt es am Sonntag darauf um ca. 14.55 Uhr. In den Wochen darauf senden die Dritten den Film in einer kürzeren Version (45 Minuten)in der Reihe Länder-Menschen-Abenteuer. Die Internetversion des Films ist bereits in recht guter Qualität zu sehen unter http://www.compass-film.de (DSL nötig)

Um Resonanz wird von Holger Riedel gebeten:
Compass-Film, Holger Riedel
Grindelweg 1a, D-20146 Hamburg
Tel.: +49-40-413509441
http://www.compass-film.de


Pressetext

"Öl im Quechua Wald"

Ureinwohner in Ecuador wehren sich gegen die Ölförderung am Amazonas.

von Holger Riedel Erstsendung am 9. April 2005, 21.35 Uhr, ARTE

Ein neuer Krieg um Öl, nicht im Nahen Osten, der in den letzten Jahren die Aufmerksamkeit absorbierte, sondern unbemerkt von der Weltöffentlichkeit im Regenwald am Amazonas? Sarayaku, ein Urwalddorf im ecuadorianischen Amazonasgebiet, wird von Ölfirmen bedroht, weil seine Bewohner die Ölausbeute auf seinem Gebiet nicht zulassen. Das Militär soll einmarschieren, wenn es nach dem Willen der Regierung geht. Aber Sarayaku verteidigt sich mit allen Mitteln - notfalls mit Gewalt. Sarayaku liegt im Osten Ecuadors, in einem wilden und ursprünglichen Teil des großen Amazonasbeckens. In der Gegend lagern die größten Erdölreserven des Landes. Das Geschäft mit dem Öl gilt als bedeutendster Wirtschaftszweig Ecuadors. Aber dreißig Jahre Förderung haben zu katastrophalen Umweltschäden geführt. Alle drei Tage bricht eine Pipeline. Geschätzte siebzig Milliarden Liter verseuchtes Wasser aus den Öllagerstätten wurden in den Regenwald und in die Flüsse geleitet.

Die Sarayaku-Indios vom Stamm der Quechua haben sich bis heute trotz vieler Einflüsse von außen ihr eigenes Weltbild, ihre traditionelle Medizin, Kultur und eigene Sprache bewahrt. Sie gehen jagen und fischen und legen im Regenwald ihre Gärten an. Technische Errungenschaften aus der Welt der Weißen wissen sie für sich zu nutzen, gehen aber bewusst zurückhaltend damit um. Sie dulden nur, was den sozialen Frieden nicht stört. Und sie nutzen die Neuen Medien für ihren Kampf gegen die Öllobby. Wirtschaftlich hat das Öl Ecuador wenig gebracht. Zwanzig Milliarden Dollar Auslandschulden sind die höchste Pro-Kopf-Verschuldung in Lateinamerika. Nur ausländische Konzerne und die Machtelite im Land profitieren vom Ölgeschäft. Aber die Regierung will neue Fördergebiete auf dem Territorium der Ureinwohner mit allen Mitteln erschließen. 2003 wurden weitere zehntausend Quadratkilometer Regenwald für die Ölförderung freigegeben. Der argentinischer Konzern CGC unternimmt bereits seismische Sprengungen. Rund 80 Prozent des ecuadorianischen Amazonasgebietes sind betroffen - und damit faktisch alle noch im Wald lebenden Ureinwohner - auch die Quechua in Sarayaku.

Die Protagonisten des Films sind Patricia und Heriberto Gualinga, ein Geschwisterpaar aus Sarayaku, die 34jährige Patricia und ihr jüngerer Bruder Heriberto. Die beiden haben sich intensiv mit den Folgen der Erdölförderung im Regenwald auseinandergesetzt und wissen, welche Konsequenzen die Ölförderung auf ihrem Stammesgebiet hätte. Aber nicht alle im Dorf sind dagegen. Immer wieder treten die Ölfirmen mit verlockenden Angeboten an einzelne, einflussreiche Stammesmitglieder heran und versuchen, den Zusammenhalt der Gemeinde zu stören. Für manche Quechua ist es schwer, der Verlockung des schnellen Geldes zu widerstehen.

Patricias und Heribertos Plan ist es, die Folgen der Ölförderung im Norden Ecuadors zu untersuchen und mit den Rechercheergebnissen das eigene Dorf zu überzeugen, sich geschlossen gegen den Ausverkauf ihres Gebietes zu stellen. Patricia ist für das politische Terrain in Quito zuständig, Heriberto dokumentiert mit seiner Videokamera die Umweltkatastrophen in den alten Ölfördergebieten.

Die beiden Geschwister sammeln Bilder, Geschichten und Daten für einen Vortrag vor der Dorfgemeinschaft. Das Ergebnis ist offen: Werden Patricia und Heriberto es schaffen, die Zweifler in Sarayaku hinter sich zu bringen?

Zum Dreh

Eine gute Fernsehreportage basiert entweder auf dem Zufall, zur rechten Zeit am rechten Ort zu sein, oder auf sorgfältiger Vorarbeit und guten Kontakten. Bei "Öl im Quechua Wald" waren es die jahrelange Vorarbeit des Journalisten Siegmund Thies und seines Kollegen und Freundes Alejandro Santillan zu Sarayaku, die diesen Dreh möglich machten.

Während des Drehs in Sarayaku waren die guten Beziehungen zur Dorfgemeinschaft ausschlaggebend. Zwar gab es bei den meisten Bewohnern eine Einsicht, dass Medienpräsenz förderlich für die Interessen des Dorfes ist. Gleichzeitig gab es eine große, in den Jahrhunderten der Konquistadoren erworbene Skepsis gegenüber den Weißen. Nur das Vertrauen zu Siegmund Thies machte den tiefen Einblick in Alltag und Kampf gegen das Öl möglich. Der Zufall kam dann doch noch dazu. Dass die beiden Protagonisten so telegen und kooperativ waren, machte die Arbeit mit ihnen sehr angenehm.

Tagelange Überzeugungsarbeit war nötig, um eine Dreherlaubnis in der Repsol-Ölförderanlage im Yasuni Nationalpark zu bekommen. Wie sich herausstellte, waren das Filmteam seit Jahren das einzige, das es geschafft hat. Eine tief bewegende Erfahrung war es, die Kraft und Natürlichkeit zu spüren, die von den Menschen in Sarayaku ausgeht. Sie leben in einer intakten Dorfgemeinschaft - wo es natürlich auch Zank und Neid gibt, wie überall - wo aber die Jugend zu selbstbewussten und erstaunlich gebildeten Erwachsenen heranwächst. Diese Erfahrung war umso eindrucksvoller, als dass die Ureinwohner Ecuadors außerhalb der Indiodörfer, also in den Städten und Dörfern der spanischstämmigen oder mestizischen Bevölkerung, entwurzelt und unterprivilegiert leben, häufig als Bettler auf der Straße. Das Recht der Menschen in Sarayaku, ihr Schicksal selbst zu bestimmen, erscheint uns vor diesem Hintergrund als existenziell und grundlegend. Der Gier nach Öl dürfen die indigenen Kulturen Ecuadors nicht geopfert werden.

Zum Team

Holger Riedel, Autor und Kameramann, dreht seit sechzehn Jahren weltweit Dokumentationen und Reportagen und ist Inhaber der Fernsehproduktionsfirma "Compass- Film". Autor zahlreicher Filme, zuletzt der GEO-Reportage "Die Bogenschützin von Bhutan". Alejandro Santillian ist Anthropologe an der Uni in Quito und der Tonmann. Seine langjährigen Kontakte zu vielen Indiogemeinden sicherten uns das Vertrauen der Ureinwohner. Sigmund Thies ist Journalist und Kameramann, bei diesem Dreh Kameraassistent und Stringer. Er lebt mit seiner Familie seit zwölf Jahren in Quito und beliefert deutsche und internationale Fernsehsender mit Storys und Bildern. Auch er hat gute Kontakte in ganz Ecuador, speziell zu Sarayaku, wo er jüngst einen Medienworkshop mit deutschen und einheimischen Jugendlichen initiierte.

Mehr Infos: Holger Riedel 040-41350944 http://www.compass-film.de


Nachricht von Norbert Czerwinski
pers. Mitarbeiter Ute Koczy MdL
Sprecherin für Europa- und Eine-Welt-Politik
Landtagsfraktion Bündnis 90 / DIE GRÜNEN
Platz des Landtags 1, 40221 Düsseldorf
Tel. 0211 884-2866, Fax 0211 884-3505
email: ute.koczy@landtag.nrw.de
www: http://www.ute-koczy.de

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2389/

300-400 rounds were fired at Giuliana Sgrena's car, Italian officials say
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2388/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news


Sgrena's articles in Iraq asked whether napalm was being used on the women and children of Fallujah
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dd721e0ff0.html
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1115225.htm


Informant: Shanti Renfrew


Italian Journalist: I was US target
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557426/

How The U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541962/

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442522/

Try google "in vivo telemetry devices":
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=in+vivo+telemetry+devices&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

Pictures of implants here: http://www.datasci.com/research/DSI_SafteyPharm_Brochure.pdf

New 19mm Implant:
http://guide.stanford.edu/People/lindsey/new.pdf

In-Vivo EEG Recording Using a Wireless Implantable Neural Transceiver:
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~jjudy/publications/conference/embs_ne_2003_irazoqui-pastor_judy.pdf

POWER HARVESTING AND TELEMETRY IN CMOS FOR IMPLANTED DEVICES:
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/pub/papers/biocas04_tele.pdf

FCC regulations concerning wireless telemetry:
http://www.fcc.gov/healthnet/dtv.html
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/faqs/medical.html
http://www.tvtower.com/fcc_and_medical_devices.html

Business forecasts:
http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/go9681_ecg_teremetry_toc.html


Informant: Jack Bell

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1115523.htm
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Articles.htm#iloja


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

http://208.55.155.102/2005/Mar/c_ci/coverStory_index.php?PHPSESSID=cf4af8867867e0e5f25e1ae4421e9f2c


From ufpj-news

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/printerfriendly.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2762455


Informant: JHW369

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/6/114241/5457


How The U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541962/

Wounded Journalist: GIs Fired Without Warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/556108/

Giuliana Sgrena: 'My truth'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557163/

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442522/

Time Enough?
http://www.fplc.edu/risk/vol8/fall/ramesh.htm


Informant: tHe mAdd pRoFeSsOr

Thank you all for your replies we have found them very useful. David I have forwarded on the email as you recommended I have sent it to the Bishop of Blackburn and the Archbishop of York, I don't know whether I will get a response but any pressure we can keep up at this moment in time is worth it. I have attached the letter we are sending to the local PCC will also amend it for the board of goveners and copy both the bishop and the archbishop. If anyone could take a look and advise on any changes to content we would be grateful. Suefurg not sure on the news as I don't know of any marshes around Longridge. Andy I have also sent your article to the bishop and archbishop and will be including it in my letter to the PCC. Sylvia the insurance angle is a good one and one we have pointed out before but it wont hurt to remind them. Good luck to everybody reading your emails inspires us to keep fighting.

Debby and Karl



Dear


Re – at Paul’s church tower – proposed mobile phone telecommunication mast.

I am writing to you as you are a member of the Parochial Church Council. I am a resident of Mersey Street, Longridge and my child goes to the local Berry Lane Church of England Primary School. I am writing on behalf of my own family and other residents and parents of children at the school.

I am aware that you would have been at the presentation by vodafone and party to the decision to allow the mast to be erected in the church tower. I am also aware that at the presentation you would have been given only one side of the argument.

Where I agree that enough evidence has yet to be presented to our government to stop masts being erected, they were satisfactorily convinced in 2000 to recommend that mast companies (Stewart Report 2000) took a precautionary approach which means that they should be avoided being erected near schools and our more vulnerable residents i.e. our children.

You will have been given a long presentation about how the microwave radiation the mast will emit will be many times lower than the ICNIRP guidelines which is correct and they have their certificates to prove it. The problem with the ICNIRP guidelines is that they are set so that the radiation will not have a thermal effect, (they will not cook us) the experiments to set these guidelines were carried out on dead pieces of meat.

What has not been tested is their effects on the living organism, there are no guidelines set for microwave radiation exposure to live human beings.

At this point I would like to dispel a few widely quoted misconceptions

“Its only the same as the radiation from TV and Radio station masts” this is not true they are completely different frequencies as you should have been shown.

“They are less powerful than your own mobile phone” this is not true they are in fact more powerful than your mobile phone and they pulse out radiation 24 hours a day 7 days per week, where as the mobile phone only emits radiation when you talk through it, being turned on is not enough it has to actually be being used to emit any radiation.

“They are no more dangerous than your microwave oven” again this is not true. The microwave oven has shielding inbuilt and again it is only used at short bursts.

There are many more that you may have heard we certainly have the real truth is that thousands of people are living under the shadow of mobile phone mast and clusters of people around them are falling ill and some dying, there has been an independent UK survey of the health of people living around mobile phone masts the results of which are horrifying, this survey Sir William Stewart the composer of the Stewart Report 2000 is now looking in to.

I have enclosed with this letter a list of the only known previously published studies on the effects of masts on people.

Our government is sufficiently concerned to now be financing our own UK research into the effects of electro magnetic radiation (the same thing under a different name) but the results will not be available for another two years. I have also included a recent report by Dr Hyland one of the original contributors to the Stewart Report 2000 both of which I hope you will read and consider.

If any of the information I have provided to you in this letter gives you any doubts about the original decision to allow this mast into the tower at St Paul’s, all I ask is that you urge Reverend Simon Aiken to reverse the decision.

We are genuinely worried about this issue especially for the health and well being of our children, friends and families.

If you require any more information please contact me we have over the last few months gathered a great deal of information that we will be only to pleased to let you read.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter

Yours sincerely

Deborah Kirkup


From Mast Network

http://www.wanttoknow.info/050219whalessonarkillings


Informant: Friends

http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/Sum2002/CovHealingProtecting.htm


Informant: MessiahTwain

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/politics/06intel.html?ei=5070&en=1fdbe36f41fb9563&ex=1110690000&pagewanted=print&position=
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1115339.htm


Shanti Renfrew

http://www.klastv.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipid1=367209&at1=News+%2D+Special+Coverage&vt1=v&h1=Peace+Treaty+of+1866+Could+Stop+Nuclear+Dump&d1=95667&redirUrl=www.klastv.com&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage

The western Shoshone Nation is suing the DOE in federal court, claiming the proposed nuclear dump violates a land-use treaty dating back to the 1800.

You'll need a version of Windows Media Player 7 or higher to view the video. If you need to download it, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/default.asp. The video player is supported by Microsoft IE 5.0 and above.

Informant: Carrie Dann

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2385/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

March 6th 2005

EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER

Over 3000 Earthquakes within 72 Hours off NW Coast

by Mitch Battros - ECTV

This story has caught fire. Seismologist and Geologist are rushing in from all over the world to witness this event. At this time the only press release is “Don’t worry; the earthquakes are not large enough to create a tsunami.”

That being said, the excitement is more about witnessing a growing “volcano” right off the coast of Vancouver Island. A scientific SWAT team from Seattle is sailing this afternoon for a spot off the coast of Vancouver Island, where they suspect an underwater eruption is under way.

"We really don't know what to expect," said Edward Baker, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "If we're very lucky, we may get pictures of brand-new lava on the seafloor."

This news release began as a slow simmer, and has now picked up speed and a whole lot of attention, and rightfully so. Recent studies of past earthquakes indicate a natural cyclical pattern. Although it may be a natural periodic occurrence, no one knows exactly when, how and where the next round of seismic events will unfold. It appears the most vulnerable areas are U.S. Midwest (New Madrid), eastern Canada , Australia and Germany .

In a recent Smithsonian Institute article reports: “Three hundred years of tectonic pressure has now built up since the 1700 tsunami occurred. A recent study estimates that 10 million people on the U.S. West Coast would be affected by a Cascadia subduction-zone quake. Today, the shaking from a quake of the same magnitude would damage 200 highway bridges, put Pacific ports out of business for months, and generate shock waves capable of toppling tall buildings and long bridges in Seattle and Portland.”

Early this morning I received an email from H.C. who is one of our ECTV subscribers with a link to the PNSN (Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network). Looks like there is another round of earthquake swarms in progress! Below are the links to the seismographs.

Mt. Rainier:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/RCM_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html

Butler Butte:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/BBO_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html

**I will just conclude with saying “I have a feeling this story is just beginning”.

This is a reminder that there is to be an anti mast demonstration this Thursday (10th) from 3.40pm outside Brighton Town Hall where the Council will be discussing the siting of phone masts.

We have suffered (and my own measurements confirmed this almost two years ago) harmful levels of microwaves from masts in most central and many outlying areas of Brighton & Hove for years. As far back as 2002 the doctors who researched and drew up the Freiburger Appeal were demanding immediate reductions in radiation levels, an immediate end to further mast development and the siting of masts hundreds of metres away from residential areas, hospitals, schools and other sensitive sites. Yet we have seen and continue to see masts including Tetra and now 3G going up all the time and radiation levels now at obscene levels throughout central areas.

Queens Park Mast Action http://www.queensparkmastaction.co.uk will be demonstrating against a mast proposed for the junction of Queens Park Road and Pankhurst Avenue - one of about 16 planned for the Brighton & Hove area. There will almost inevitably be masts radiating you and your homes anywhere in the urban areas of Brighton and Hove and residents have virtually xero rights in preventing these and any further ones. Furthermore some Councillors on the Council planning committee do not even use the powers they do have to protect our rights and health.

Please come along if you can and demand that Councillors do everything they can to take your "health concerns" into accouint in mast siting applications from telecom companies, which they are legally obliged to do.

Regards
Gary Kemp.


From Mast Network

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Mitten in der menschenleeren sibirischen Taiga liegt eines der größten und zugleich am stärksten verschmutzten Ölfördergebiete der Welt. Trinkwasser und Nahrungsmittel in der Region sind verseucht, die Krebskrankheiten nehmen dramatisch zu. Zu den bedeutendsten Finanziers der russischen Ölfirmen zählt seit Jahren die Westdeutsche Landesbank, deren Gelder bereits die Regenwälder in Ecuador zerstören und dort ebenfalls die Menschen krank machen. Die WestLB gehört u. a. dem Land Nordrhein-Westfalen; in den Aufsichtsgremien sitzen auch Vertreter der rot-grünen Regierung.

Am Montag, 7.3. 2005, läuft auf WDR III ab 22.30 Uhr ein 45-minütiger Film über die WestLB-Machenschaften in Sibirien. Wiederholung am Mittwoch, 9.3. 2005

Die Sibirien-Connection - Die WestLB macht in Öl.
Ein Film von Detlef Flintz, Redaktion: Jo Angerer

Mehr Infos zum Film finden Sie auf unserer Homepage
http://www.regenwald.org
unter „Termine“.

Bitte leiten Sie diese Email an möglichst viele Freunde und Bekannte weiter. Wenn Sie keine Zeit haben, den Film zu sehen, schicken Sie uns eine kurze mail.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung und herzliche Grüße
Ihr Reinhard Behrend
Vorsitzender Rettet den Regenwald e. V.
Friedhofsweg 28
22337 Hamburg
Tel. 040 - 4103804
Fax: 040 - 4500144
info@regenwald.org


Die story

Die Sibirien-Connection - Die WestLB macht in Öl

Montag 07.03.2005 22.30 - 23.15 (45 min.) WDR Köln

Mitten in der menschenleeren sibirischen Taiga liegt eines der größten und zugleich am stärksten verschmutzten Ölfördergebiete der Welt. Trinkwasser und Nahrungsmittel in der Region sind verseucht, die Krebskrankheiten nehmen dramatisch zu.

Seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion betreiben private Konzerne das lukrative Geschäft mit dem Rohstoff, und sie nehmen keine Rücksicht auf die Umwelt: Ausgelaufenes Öl nach Pipelinebrüchen entsorgen sie häufig nicht, sondern lassen es einfach mit Sand zuschütten. Viel Geld wird in die Erschließung neuer Ölquellen gepumpt, statt marode Anlagen zu sanieren.

Zu den bedeutendsten Finanziers der russischen Ölfirmen zählt seit Jahren die Westdeutsche Landesbank. Die WestLB gehört u. a. dem Land Nordrhein-Westfalen; in den Aufsichtsgremien sitzen Vertreter der rot-grünen Regierung. Was die breite Öffentlichkeit nicht ahnte: Noch während der Ecuador-Diskussion beteiligte sich die WestLB an einem Kreditarrangement für einen russischen Ölförderer - ein Großkredit, nicht mit Umweltauflagen für ein bestimmtes Projekt, sondern Geld zur freien Verfügung.

Nach WDR-Recherchen hat die WestLB von 1998 bis heute alleine oder mit Partnerbanken Kredite für die russische Ölindustrie Im Milliardenwert arrangiert.


Nachricht von Norbert Czerwinski
pers. Mitarbeiter Ute Koczy MdL
Sprecherin für Europa- und Eine-Welt-Politik
Landtagsfraktion Bündnis 90 / DIE GRÜNEN
Platz des Landtags 1, 40221 Düsseldorf
Tel. 0211 884-2866, Fax 0211 884-3505
email: ute.koczy@landtag.nrw.de
www: http://www.ute-koczy.de

Pressemitteilung Bamberg:

Grenzwerte für Mobilfunkstrahlung schützen auch Unis nicht

Auf Einladung der Bürgerinitiative Mobilfunk-Stopp, Bamberg-Ost sprachen Frau Dr. med. Waldmann-Selsam und der Physiker Dr. Ludwig Trautmann-Popp über medizinische und naturwissenschaftliche Aspekte der Mobilfunktechnik. Als symbolträchtigen Ort konnte man das Dientzenhofer-Gymnasium als betroffene Schule gegenüber der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg gewinnen.

Dr. Waldmann-Selsam berichtete, dass die Zahl der beunruhigten Ärzte ständig wachse. In ganz Oberfranken (Coburg, Kronach, Hof, Lichtenfels) würden zur Zeit Messungen und Untersuchungen bei Schulen und Anwohnern von Mobilfunkanlagen und in Häusern sowie Büros mit schnurlosen DECT-Telefonanlagen durchgeführt. Die Ärzte würden bei den Patienten eine bisher unbekannte Symptomenkombination feststellen. Die wichtigsten Symptome seinen: Schlafstörungen, Kopfschmerzen, Unruhe, Erschöpfung, Konzentrationsstörungen, Ohrgeräusche, Glieder- und Gelenkschmerzen, Herzrhythmusstörungen, anfallsweise Bluthochdruck, Hormonstörungen, Sehstörungen.

Laut Frau Waldmann-Selsam hat die Sparkasse Bamberg eine Anfrage eines Betreibers abgelehnt.

Trautmann-Popp erläuterte, warum bei der Festsetzung des Strahlungsgrenzwertes medizinischer Sachverstand nicht beteiligt war. Anhand einer T-Mobile-Untersuchung im Mai 2004 in Bamberg zeigte er, dass die geplanten UMTS-Sender die ohnehin schon hohe Strahlenbelastung in vielen Teilen Bambergs noch um ein Vielfaches steigern werden. Er zeigte sich zuversichtlich, dass gezielte Untersuchungen im Umfeld von Mobilfunksendern und anderen Strahlenquellen sehr bald die Schadwirkungen dokumentieren werden. Dann rollt eine Prozesswelle auf die Betreiber und die Standortbesitzer zu.

Beide Referenten sehen im Engagement jedes Einzelnen die beste Möglichkeit, unvorhersehbare Risiken möglichst abzuwenden: verantwortungsvoller Umgang mit der Technik, vorläufiger Ausbaustopp der Mobilfunkstationen und praktizierte Nachbarschaft, indem man sein eigenes Dach nicht für Mobilfunkmasten zur Verfügung stellt. Dies ist auch im eigenen Interesse: denn die Haftungsfrage ist - entgegen dem Bekunden der Betreiber- völlig ungeklärt.

Die BI Mobilfunk-STOPP, Bamberg-Ost kündigte eine Transparente-Malaktion an und ist weiterhin für Interessierte zu erreichen über Karin Zieg, Telefon: 9230388.

Aus: Elektrosmognews vom 06.03.2005

Veränderungen des Ökosystems durch zu viel Dünger sind wohl auf absehbare Zeit nicht mehr umzukehren. Giftige Algen und schrumpfende Fischbestände sind keine Krankheitssymptome der Ostsee mehr, sondern der neue Normalzustand des Binnenmeeres: Überdüngung und der dadurch bedingte Sauerstoffmangel haben zum Kollaps des Ökosystems geführt, das nur sehr schwer zu reparieren sein wird. Zu diesem Schluss kommen die Forscher des schwedischen Umweltschutzkomitees, die in ihrem nun vorgelegten Bericht an die Regierung drastische Sofortmaßnahmen aller Ostseeanrainer fordern.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6013.php

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=338943&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=3/5/2005


Informant: Friends

http://www.mayeticvillage.fr/QuickPlace/antennes-relais/Main.nsf/8A6555B4311F2976C1256C7F008280FB/9E4C596D3904B1E1C1256F96005FC637/?OpenDocument

The inquiry concludes that it is chance, or in statistic terms, «to the usual fluctuations around the average incidence».

For information, Saint-Cyr l'Ecole is the name of the town. Saint-Cyr is also the name of the famous School for military elite.

Sylvie



Collectif + Town hall of Saint-Cyr l'Ecole
Saint-Cyr l'Ecole, january 27th 2005

The town hall of Saint-Cyr military school the School and the collective of local associations parents of pupils and defense of environment (ADEEO, FCPE, GPEI) are indignant at the presentation which made conclusions of the started medical investigation at the end of 2002. After a long talk and on the basis of report/ratio of a hundred pages, the DDASS of Yvelines and the INVS explained why "the number of cases of cancers [ of child ] of all types observed in Saint-Cyr military school is higher than the number of awaited cases, whatever the rates taken for reference". The factor of excess compared to the normal is of 2 all confused cancers; it is 4 for the tumours of the central nervous system.

However, the investigation does not make it possible to highlight a cause among the studied assumptions. It concludes randomly, or in statistical terms, "with the usual fluctuations around the average incidence". It is pointed out that InVS "considered on the basis of current scientific knowledge which it was not justified to study an association between the antennas of mobile telephony and the appearance of pathologies"... contrary to the initial request of associations. There is thus well an excess of cancers with Saint-Cyr military school , but no explanation was found among the assumptions selected. And if the cause were among the isolated assumptions?... For two years, the DDASS and the INVS have inquired remotely by consulting data bases, refuse the assistance of the municipality for the implementation of an exhaustive census of pathologies near the population and refuse to consider the whole of the exposures to the electromagnetic fields. What could justify the urgency to close the study today without proposing of another explanation that the "chance", whereas the conclusions are ready since October 2004 and that the committee of follow-up of the investigation was maintained in the ignorance of the progress of the work since nearly two years?

Vis-a-vis these results, the telephone operators already seemed to be delighted by the conclusions of this investigation, priding themselves not to be not responsible for pathologies. It is thus more than necessary to continue this investigation to prevent that the principle of precaution cannot be evoked any more by the communes, anxious to preserve their inhabitants. This is why, the town hall of Saint-Cyr military school and the collective of associations refuse the investigation closure since it did not succeed. They ask that the proposals disallowed until now be finally considered.

To know: the realization of an investigation near the whole of the population of Saint-Cyr military school and measurements of electric and electromagnetic fields realized independently of the operators of the sector. Mr. Philippe Lavaud, mayor of Saint-Cyr: * ADEEO: Association of Defense of the Environment of Gold Ear * FCPE: Federation of the Councils of Parents of Pupils of Saint-Cyr military school School * GPEI: Grouping of Parents of Pupils Independent of Saint-Cyr military school the School With the support of national association Robin of the Roofs ( http://www.robindestoits.org ) Contacts Presses: * For associations of Saint-Cyr military school: Sophie Guerson (01 30 58 53 65) * For the town hall of Saint-Cyr military school: Guillaume Lefevre (01 30 14 82 51) * For Robin of the Roofs: Etienne Cendrier (01 40 18 02 81)


Translation French-Englisch: omega

In Association With Ideal Home

There has been a lot of media coverage recently about potential dangers in the environment that could affect you and your family. But how do you know which ones you should be taking seriously? These are the hazards that might lurk near your home and the effect they could have on your health.

Avoid Landfill Sites

Termed "toxic time bombs" by Friends of the Earth, around 80 per cent of us live within 2km of a landfill site. Reports suggest a link between waste dumps and serious birth defects, but the Government advocates further research to assess the long-term effects. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs reported that properties within a quarter of a mile of a landfill site were worth an average of £5,500 less than similar houses elsewhere.

Look Out for Mobile-Phone Masts

At least 45 million people in the UK use a mobile phone, and transmitting the signals requires 24,000 base stations. Pressure groups are concerned that electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) around base stations may cause serious illnesses. A higher than normal incidence of sickness in certain areas has led residents to blame their proximity to mobile-phone masts. The masts are also being held responsible for sleep disturbances, fatigue, nose bleeds and epilepsy.

Be Aware of Power Cables

There are fears that overhead power cables and electricity pylons can pose a health risk to people living nearby. It is believed that the cancer-causing particles in air pollution from traffic, industry and agricultural sprays are attracted by the electrical charge around power cables, and fall on the local area. Although the National Grid and electricity companies avoid siting cables over housing, developers often pick up such land cheaply and then use it to build new homes.

Living Dangerously

Watch for Floods

After the devastating floods of the past few years, insurers are becoming unwilling to pick up the bill. Some homeowners have seen steep increases in premiums, been set huge excesses, or have been unable to get cover at all. Without insurance, it is very difficult to sell your home or get a mortgage. Strict planning legislation on new housing was introduced in July 2001, requiring high flood-risk areas to be avoided and the provision of adequate flood defences.


From Mast Network

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030605Z.shtml


How The U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/541962/

Another Journalist Deliberately Targeted?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/556898/

Giuliana Sgrena: 'My truth'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/557163/

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GARY WEBB
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/442522/

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "Illinois' wounded veterans are receiving among the lowest disability pay in the nation possibly because federal Veterans Affairs disability raters in Chicago are too harsh and inadequately trained, top VA officials said Friday." VA's new Secretary, Robert James "Jim" Nicholson, the former head of the Republican Party, reached his unsupported conclusion even though the investigation into payment problems remains incomplete. These comments demonstrate an extreme bias among VA brass. New political appointees shouldn't recklessly undermine employee morale.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2926

This article should have received much wider attention, rather than burial on page A15 of the Washington Post. The article confirms how the Bush Administration, the Department of Defense, and senior military leaders keep sending the wrong message to U.S. soldiers, U.S. citizens, Iraqi citizens, and the world by tolerating and hiding the widespread torture of enemy prisoners of war. The article below describes the terrible fallout from the Bush-Rumsfeld-Gonzales-Chertoff pro-torture policy.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2925

Sharp Decline in Black Army Recruits - Is this an Omen for a Possible Draft

Nosedive: "The Army's wartime recruiting challenge is aggravated by a sharp drop in black enlistments in the last four years, which internal Army and Defense Department polls trace to an unpopular war in Iraq and concerns among blacks with Bush administration policies." Could the dramatic and sustained drop in military recruiting lead to a forced draft to send more soldiers to the Iraq War and occupation?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2924

The analysis below, although not wholly supported by VCS, raises reasonable questions. Here's the bottom line, though: there would be no need for a draft if it wasn't for "the bloody costs of inept leadership" of the Bush Administration.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2923

The brilliant editorial below represents one of the best strengths of our free press in our Nation. As veterans know very well, the Bush Administration plans a "divide and conquer" strategy to pit one group of American citizens against another group so the administration can cut taxes for the rich and slash benefits for the poor, hungry, homeless, children, schools, and veterans. This disgraceful assault by the government against veterans and other citizens must not stand.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2922

Solar Wind
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549228/

Greenland witnesses record winter high temperature
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545070/

Bizarre Greenland Winter Heat Wave
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548750/

Eight million children are either stillborn or die each year
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/554075/

VACCINATION, VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALITY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/554279/

I am polluted
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555531/

Buy local produce and save the world
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555335/

GM Forest Trees – The Ultimate Threat
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545054/

Terminator Trees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548767/

Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548203/

Disease-promoting ingredients in everyday foods and groceries are far more dangerous than terrorists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545178/

Save Bristol Bay from Mining
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545811/

Rescue the Reef
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/546744/

Help protect whales from deadly sonar
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549704/

Alarm Sounded on Panama-Colombia Electrical Project
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/547185/

Bush Plans Further Cuts in Forest Protections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/546958/

Logging slavery in Papua New Guinea exposed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/547190/

Plant Trees
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545919/

The outer edges of chaos
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/544916/

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

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

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

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

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

EMF-Omega-News 6. March 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/555542/

Indirect negative impacts of radio-collaring: sex ratio variation in water voles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553479/

Intensity-dependent effects of microwave electromagnetic fields on acetylcholinesterase activity and protein conformation in frog skeletal muscles
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/554645/

Leukemia in children will continue growing
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/554247/

Towards a microwave-based future?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551557/

Action on John Ryan case would benefit Vodafone
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/554599/

Schools & Cellular Antennas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/544426/

The Voice of the People of the UK
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545013/

ANTENNAS, STATIONS BASE and the POWER OF INFORMATION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551304/

Call to ditch mast bid branded an arch enemy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542887/

Review phone mast locations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542899/

ROW OVER PHONE MASTS SITED ON HOSPITAL ROOF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542914/

MP set to challenge decision over mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545261/

Fury as vicar claims mast 'a gift from God'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545252/

Mayor held for lopping mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/546931/

Shock, horror - I'm well
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/546828/

We won't give up fight over mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548907/

People power puts 'end' to 3G mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548914/

'UNITE AND FIGHT PHONE MAST BID'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/548937/

750 Sign Petition
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549084/

Planners Report to Committee is recommending REFUSAL for the third Application
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549301/

School mobilises against mast plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/550963/

Hotline query
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/550969/

MAST TESTS PLEDGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/550993/

'WE'LL FIGHT THE MAST'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551010/

Huge support against masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551024/

'UNITE AND FIGHT PHONE MAST BID'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551034/

Henry sets the Cats among the pigeons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/551042/

Radio-tracking associated with ‘dramatic shift’ in water vole sex ratio
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/549254/

Phone mast bid prompts warning letter to schools
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553748/

Courts must deal with phone mast safety
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553751/

Health fears at school with four phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553755/

Firefighters win support for campaign
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553757/

New petition call to stop phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553760/

Tetra Terror(ism)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553771/

Call Handlers off with Brain Tumours
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/553825/

Children living near powerlines are more likely to get cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542938/

by Michael H. K. Irwin

Michael H. K. Irwin joined the World Bank in April 1989 as director of the Health Services Department, following a 32-year career with the United Nations. During August and September 1989 he also served as the World Bank's acting vice president for personnel. On March 30, 1990, after completion of one year at the bank, he resigned out of frustration with "the bank's bloated, overpaid bureaucracy, its wasteful practices, and its generally poor management."


Executive Summary

In 1987, facing complaints from its major donor nations that it was "inefficient and drifting," the World Bank undertook an extensive, corporate-style reorganization. The bank publicized the reorganization heavily, in an attempt to convince donor nations that it could trim bureaucratic fat and thereby merit a $75 billion increase in its capital to finance an enlarged annual lending program. The funding boost was received in 1988 (the U.S. share is $14.3 billion), and the bank has expanded its lending activities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and, more recently, Eastern Europe. In 1990, however, three years after the reorganization, the administrative budget continues to grow. The staff will soon top prereorganization levels. Extravagant benefit packages characterize the institution more than ever. As discussions at meetings of senior World Bank officials regularly disclose, the institution is plagued by massive overstaffing, bureaucratic gridlock, and staff preoccupation with further salary and benefit hikes. Public proclamations to the contrary, poverty reduction is the last thing on most World Bank bureaucrats' minds.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1528&full=1


Informant: Foxhallgtown

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050305/TOXIC05/TPEnvironment/

While I was reading this article I was reminded of that fact that we are rarely warned about synergistic effects of the chemicals that people have been accumulating in their bodies.

It is very misleading to say the least that the levels found in Mark Stevenson are of no or little cause for concern.

Why? Well we know very little about the combined effects of these chemicals in his body. We know even less about how they may cause him to react to medications or even the food that he eats. If we were talking about drugs or alcohol most people would be aware that, drinking a beer, a glass of wine, a vodka and so on or taking various medications could create a whole new scenario that one of them would not likely ever cause.

I think I can easily dare to say that the chemical soup that is accumulating in our bodies is dangerous. The evidence is there in the violence in our schools, the learning disabilities, the A.D.D., the rising crime rates, divorce rates and increasing levels of mental illness. The evidence is there in the children and adults who are dying of cancer at rates so large that the Ottawa Cancer Institute recently warned that if we don’t make a dramatic change then we will each one day face that battle.

It is a sad world that looks for proof through rose colored glasses or ones that only see dollar signs.

Thankfully there are those trying to show the danger we are in like the scientists mentioned below.

Take care everybody and please keep safe.


Deborah Elaine Barrie
4 Catherine Street
Smiths Falls, On
Canada
K7A 3Z8
(613)284-8259
deborahbarrie@hotmail.com
http://www.noccawood.ca

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002197745_seaeruption05m.html


Informant: Anna Webb

http://nancho.net/911/911keyA.html


Informant: Susan

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:124680239&num=1&ctrlInfo=Round9i%3AProd4%3ASR%3AResult&ao

Soldiers home from Iraq being tested for uranium contamination
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:114907459&num=2&ctrlInfo=Round9i%3AProd4%3ASR%3AResult&ao=

Search results for DU and reporter Juan Gonzalez

http://www.highbeam.com/library/search.asp?ctrlInfo=Round9i%3AProd4%3ADocG%3AsearchFormBottomLeft&FN=DF&q=Juan+Gonzalez+new+york+depleted+uranium


Informant: David Diggins