19
Mrz
2005

Murdering the messengers, fabricating the news

http://onlinejournal.com/Media/031905Mazza/031905mazza.html


Informant: Friends


Was Hunter Thompson Suicided?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/542407/

There is No More Time

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-marshall040305.htm


Informant: radtimes


I could see the present situation coming some 20 years ago. Then there was a very good chance that gentle and reasoned persuasion would turn the industrial-military "civilization" around.

Now, the situation is desparate. There is a possibility that the fractal array of self regulating systems, embodied in the Gaia hypothesis/belief, has been pushed beyond the Lambda point (that which marks the boundary between strange attractor land and chaos).

There is a slim chance, and one worth entertaining, thought the prospect is hardly so, that the Lambda point though alarmingly nigh, has not ben reached.

Such a desparate situation demends desperate remedies. If we and the remaining abused and exploited animal and plant life are to survive, there MUST be an immediate shut down of 90% of the extractive, squandering, pollutng and poisoning industrial and military installations and establishments, however much we may depend on them, for our undeserved comfort. They must not be thrown away by our somnambulistic purblind greed and acquiescience. There are solutions to this, though hard ones.

(Sorry to rant, but I have to say this)

Richard Harvey

Social Security Moving to Make-or-Break for Bush

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905Y.shtml

CHEMTRAILS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OVERVIEW

http://tinyurl.com/3mdu3
http://tinyurl.com/3wmex

Protests Stop Military Recruiting in New York City: 30 Arrested

WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
nycwrl@att.net
http://www.warresisters.org

contacts:
Luke Nephew, 978-501-0810 (Bronx)
Eric Laursen, 917-806-6452 (Manhattan)
John M. Miller, 718-596-7668 (Brooklyn) or Ruth Benn 917-975-8230 (Brooklyn)

For immediate release

Protests Stop Military Recruiting as Antiwar Demonstrators Protest on Second Anniversary of Iraq War; 30 Arrested

March 19, 2005 - Armed Forces recruiting centers in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx were transformed into centers of protest today as scores of antiwar protesters set life-size coffins at their entrances or blocked their doors.

At about 11:00 this morning, when the Bronx Army-Navy-Air Force-Marine Corps center would ordinarily have been conducting business at Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse, six life-sized coffins representing U.S. and Iraqi casualties of the Iraq war were lined up next to the entrance to the center. About 60 demonstrators held a vigil in front of the building, handing out antiwar leaflets to passers by in the busy Bronx shopping area.

A little later, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, some 300 protesters converged on each of the recruiting centers on Flatbush Avenue and at Times Square. Some two dozen conducted a symbolic die-in in the street in front of the Times Square station, where 24 were arrested. Another eight people were arrested in Brooklyn for blocking the doors of the Flatbush Avenue recruiting center. No one was arrested in the Bronx because, with the center closed for business, there was no one to ask the protesters to leave. They stood peacefully in front of the building, handing out leaflets and reading out the names of U.S. armed forces members from the Bronx who have died in Iraq.

The demonstrations in New York City were three of hundreds of protests at recruiting centers across the nation called by peace and justice groups to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Each demonstration was preceded by a solemn procession carrying the coffins to the recruiting site.

Shortly before the demonstrations, Frida Berrigan, an organizer with WRL later arrested in Times Square, explained the significance of the coffins: "We carry coffins representing the more than 1,500 American soldiers who have died and. Some coffins are draped in black fabric to represent the more than 100,000 Iraqis who have been killed and others are draped with the American flag to represent the 1,512 American soldiers killed so far. The White House has tried to hide these deaths from the American people, but the sorrow will not be silent."

Long-time War Resisters League activist Ruth Benn, arrested in Brooklyn, added, "We march to military recruiting stations throughout the city today to demand an end to the wasting of young lives in war. We counsel young people to consider alternative paths to jobs and education." She predicted that "many of us will put our bodies between the recruiting stations and the young people they want to use as war fodder. We will shut them down."

Organized by the New York City War Resisters League, these events were just a few of the more than 750 actions taking place in all 50 states today. Sponsoring organizations include United for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace, Socialist Party USA, Voices in the Wilderness, Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Park Slope Greens, Catholic Worker, Code Pink, Not in Our Name, Ya-Ya Network, Socialist Party of NYC, Industrial Workers of the World (NYC GMB), One Thousand Coffins, Grandmothers Against the War, Progressive Programmers League, Kairos Community, World War III Arts in Action, among other organizations.

The War Resisters League is an 81-year-old secular pacifist organization, headquartered in New York City, and is affiliated with the War Resisters' International, which is based in London. WRL believes war to be a crime against humanity, and advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation.

More details of this event can be found on the web site, http://www.warresisters.org/counter-recruitMar05.htm.


War Resisters League
339 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450
http://www.warresisters.org
wrl@warresisters.org


Informant: John M Miller

From ufpj-news

Das Öl und der Irak-Krieg: Niederlage der NeoCons?

Nach einem Bericht haben Vertreter der US-Ölkonzerne die von den Neokonservativen geplante Privatisierung des irakischen Öls verhindert.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19706/1.html

EMF-Omega-News 19. March 2005

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Cell Phone Companies Sued For 'Unsafe Levels Of Radiation'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579834/

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

Effect on peoples health of telephone base station mast radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571087/

Tribute to people suffering
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571123/

Two thirds of people believe the risks of emissions from mobile phones outweigh the benefits
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/571238/

ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY ARE NOT SAFE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/570118/

The Wireless Revolution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579157/

The continuing deceptions of 02
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574013/

Brighton & Hove phone mast Motion
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574628/

The Castle Tower of Crest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574570/

PHONE MAST APPLICATION GETS POOR RECEPTION
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575168/

MPS SET TO DEBATE ON MAST RULES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576875/

DESPERATE parents offering to hand over £5,000 to a church if it throws out controversial plans to house a mobile phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575196/

Residents fume over mast defeat
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575208/

T Mobile trying to monopolise Manchester
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576644/

Residents relieved as mast fails
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577187/

RALLYING CALL FOR PHONE MAST EXCLUSION ZONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577193/

Control these masts planners plead
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577197/

Victory for phone mast protesters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577205/

Fears that plans will cause mast hysteria
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577209/

EMR and Health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/573431/

THE FORMULA OF PAIN: ANTENNAS and CANCER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576851/

MOBILE TELEPHONY: 17 NEW CASES OF CANCER IN MOTRIL-GRANADA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579080/

Time for rethink on mast policy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579742/

Council wants phone mast powers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579749/

Observations re EMR Pollution EHS and the Problems of the use of the ICNIRP Guidelines in Ireland
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575453/

In Sweden EHS is regarded as a physical degradation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/576915/

Magenta News from Mast Network
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Magenta+News+-+Mobile-+Tetra+Masts+from+Mast+Network/

Omega-News Collection 19. March 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580665/

Omega-News Collection 19. March 2005

Highest Endorsement Yet for Sun-Earth Connection
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575537/

History's Greatest Disaster Has Begun
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572223/

Ocean heat store makes climate change inevitable
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577881/

Scientists Prove Less Trees, Less Rain
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572824/

Mount Kilimanjaro Photo Wake-Up Call for Action Against Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/572854/

Better do it Eco-Activism
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/573936/

A Line in the Ancient Forest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/574811/

Activists Held, Blocked from Logging Areas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577250/

US tries to sink forests plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/577244/

Illegal Logging on Agenda at Unique G8 Meeting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579391/

Biscuit Fire Recovery Project: Biscuit Logging makes international news
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579763/

Senate Votes to Open Alaska Wildlife Refuge to Drilling
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579393/

Stay Out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The fight for ANWR continues
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579903/

Dead Squid Wash Up in California Again
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579166/

Stop the Wolf Slaughter in Alaska
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579787/

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE MARI PEOPLE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/575144/

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

EMF-Omega-News 19. March 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580672/

Pentagon formally embraces wars of aggression

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2469/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news]

LSD, the CIA & Liberty

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=818

From Guernica to Fallujah

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2467/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7397.htm


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The Iraq War Fact Sheet

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/iraq-war-fact-sheet.html


Informant: Yoshie Furuhashi

From ufpj-news

Worldwide Protests against Occupation of Iraq

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031905Z.shtml

Dutchman in Iraq genocide hearing

A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s knew that Saddam Hussein might use them as weapons, prosecutors have said at his first public hearing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/93EF3695-94AA-4F5F-8771-70CE89796851.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4vso4


From Information Clearing House

Washington Sees Iran as a Major Security Threat, but Not Nuclear Brazil

Despite the Bush administration’s bellicose demands that Iran give up its uranium enrichment program, Washington has dismissed any cause for alarm over a somewhat similar nuclear program in Brazil.

http://tinyurl.com/7y8fs

Is Iraq becoming the world's biggest cash cow?

Corruption wastes money, bankrupts countries, and costs lives.

http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=news.view&id=116893&src=dcn
http://tinyurl.com/6uk3w


From Information Clearing House

Decorated U.S. veterans cope with Iraq war

More than 11,000 soldiers have been injured in the past two years in Iraq. “I was willing to die because I thought I would be protecting my family back home and I’d be serving my country,” says 22-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Darrell Anderson of Lexington, Ky.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7229226/


From Information Clearing House

Over 725 Protests Planned to Mark Second Anniversary of Iraq Invasion

Saturday, March 19th, marks the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1450226



Your Guide to a Weekend of Resistance:

On the second anniversary of Shock and Awe, the anti-war movement wants you.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0512,ferguson1,62240,5.html


From Information Clearing House

The Clash of the Cults

The war on terrorism declared by the United States on radical Islamists is little more than a proxy battle in a war between two cults.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2002/


From Information Clearing House

Uranium Equals Kryptonite for Bush Nominee

President Bush's U.N. Ambassador designate, John Bolton, participated in promoting the administration's phony story about Saddam Hussein negotiating to buy uranium for nuclear weapons from the African country of Niger.

http://tinyurl.com/5anto

Iran slams UNHCR for ignoring US detainee abuse

Iran has hit out at the United Nations for ignoring abuses by US forces of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, as well as their assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1326226.htm


From Information Clearing House

Responsibility for prisoner mistreatment has gone AWOL

'To suggest that senior officials were blameless in fostering the command climate that led to the behavior of those junior guards at the prison is simply not credible,'' retired Army general officer John Johns told Knight Ridder.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2611737


From Information Clearing House

We Have Become What We Claim To Loathe

"Extraordinary Rendition"? Let us call it what it is: the outsourcing of torture. Having other countries do our dirty work for us. And it stinks to high heaven.

http://tinyurl.com/6crc2

CIA, White House Defend Transfers of Terror Suspects

It is illegal under U.S. and international law to send someone to a country where torture is likely.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002211400_goss18.html
http://tinyurl.com/6gfnv


From Information Clearing House

The Age of Missing Information

The Bush administration's campaign against openness:

What follows is a representative selection of categories of data that have been withdrawn from public access in the Bush years, with reflections on what they mean.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2114963/


From Information Clearing House

Filter Tips

A relentless degeneration of American society is taking place. Brutality and atrocity are becoming normalized, systemized and rewarded.

http://tinyurl.com/6wtbd

Counting the dead in Iraq

None of the coalition of the willing keep – or admit to keeping – a count of Iraqi deaths. This is in striking contrast to the anxiety that there be a scrupulous accounting of deaths attributable to Saddam Hussein.

http://207.44.245.159/article8305.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4pv4r


From Information Clearing House

Uncle Toms And Turncoats

America has no shortage of sell outs and traitors. Traitorous Democrats in Congress help corporations enslave us through an atrocious bankruptcy bill. The media sell us out every day when they choose to tell us all about the latest celebrity divorce but ignore the Bush meltdown in the international community or the death toll in Iraq.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/130/130_fr_uncle_toms_and_turncoats_pf.html
http://tinyurl.com/5m4xs


From Information Clearing House

Independent Media: Enemy Target

Although, there is no “evidence” of a systematic policy to kill journalists, it seem that a policy of preventing independent media reporting from the war is the US administration top priority.

http://tinyurl.com/6bx64

Journalists tell of US Falluja killings

All is quiet in Falluja, or at least that is how it seems, given that the mainstream media has largely forgotten about the Iraqi city. But independent journalists are risking life and limb to bring out a very different story.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6890A8DA-AF79-45AD-BB4F-42C060978A07.htm
http://tinyurl.com/59g7m


From Information Clearing House

How America furthers its national interests in the Middle East

How America furthers its national interests in the Middle East. The United States flaunts the banner of democracy in the Middle East only when that advances its economic, military, or strategic interests.

http://tinyurl.com/4xdkm

Tie a Green Ribbon - Unite Around the Arctic Refuge

America's Arctic Refuge is in danger. This week, oil interests came one step closer to ruining the wild coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with sprawling oil development. In a backdoor scheme cooked up by drilling proponents, the U.S. Senate has included language in the Federal Budget that could remove protections prohibiting oil development in the biological heart of the Refuge. But the fight is far from over!

Make a statement today. Show your solidarity for America's Arctic Refuge with a visible symbol -- a green ribbon. Tie it in your yard, hang it on your home, pin it on your clothes or wear it around your wrist. Then pass it on. Give ribbons to your friends and family.

Millions of Americans feel strongly about this issue -- and together we will NOT be ignored. Show your support until Congress assures us that the Arctic Refuge is safe from oil drills.

Why This Will Work

Millions of Americans have made it plain that they want the Arctic Refuge protected and yet some members of Congress continue to ignore us. It's time to step up the pressure.

When your Members of Congress come home for recess they will see green ribbons on every street. Strangers who know nothing about the Arctic Refuge will ask about your ribbon and you'll tell them. Soon green ribbons will be tied in neighborhoods across the country, news media in every state will take notice, and Congress will not be able to ignore us.

We are counting on YOU to spread the word. Forward this message to your friends and family. Then buy a spool of ribbon and hand out ribbons to everyone you know -- at work, at church, and everywhere you go! It's easy!

Stand up for wildlife and America's wild places and tell oil interests that they have crossed the line. Don't sit quietly while our wild heritage is sold to Big Oil.

Political Update

The House passed its Budget measure last night, 218-214. It did not include any explicit language about Arctic oil drilling. But it does contain instructions to other committees that create a loophole for drilling language to be included. The extremely close nature of the vote offers hope to conservationists as responsibility for the budget moves to a House/Senate conference committee.

Both the Senate and the House have left for a two-week spring recess, returning to work April 4th .

During recess, congressional staff members will begin preparing for the Budget Conference Committee, a process that reconciles differences between the House and Senate Budget bills in order to present a single Budget for a final vote by both houses.

Arctic activists are planning events in several, targeted home districts. The political message during this time: Please vote against any conference report that would instruct committees to pass Arctic drilling as part of the Budget bill.

What You Can Do

Wear your green ribbons, and decorate freely with them. Make an appointment with your member of Congress and Senators and carry them the message that the Budget conference bill must not contain language that would open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.

Words to Inspire

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."
- Sarah Brown


http://www.wilderness.org 1615 M St, NW Washington, DC 20036 1.800.THE.WILD action@tws.org

WTO Clashes With Human Rights

New Report Paving the Way for a People-Centered Food System
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-06.htm

Iraq Veterans Say: 'Bring Them Home Now'

On the 2nd Anniversary of the Iraq War, Iraq Veterans Say: 'Bring Them
Home Now!'

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0317-11.htm

Family of Journalist Jose Couso Slain by US in Baghdad Presses Campaign for Investigation

Brother of Spanish Journalist Slain by US in Baghdad Demands Justice; Family of Jose Couso Presses Campaign for Investigation
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-05.htm

71 Prisoners of Conscience Continue to be Imprisoned for Expressing Their Ideas

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0318-03.htm

Questions Are Left by C.I.A. Chief on the Use of Torture

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0318-01.htm

Suburbs a World Away from War

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0318-04.htm

Your Guide to a Weekend of Resistance

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0318-05.htm

Soldiers' Families to Hold Anti-War Rally at Ft. Bragg

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0318-07.htm

In Blow to Bush, Senators Reject Cuts to Medicaid

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805HB.shtml

How to Prepare a Planet for Global Warming

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805EB.shtml

Fight over Arctic Drilling Is Far from Over

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/031805EA.shtml

Bilderberg 2005 Secret Agenda

http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#pepis


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

America's Agenda for Global Military Domination

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO503A.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO503A.html
http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/infonature-about55.html


Informant: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space

Scientists warned that Asia could be rocked by another earthquake and tsunami soon

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,12596624%255E949,00.html

Buried secrets of biowarfare

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/BaltSun/BuriedSecrets.html


Informant: billder

The Man Made Plagues

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/119577/index.php


Informant: billder

Innoculations - The True Weapons Of Mass Destruction

http://tinyurl.com/7y64l

Krebshäufung in der Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen

http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/60krebs.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/haeufungen_von_krebs.htm

Hochfrequenzen wirken auf Organismus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/689890/

Krebscluster in der Nähe von Mobilfunkantennen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/162552/

Krebs und Krankheit um Mobilfunksender
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/601641/

Krebshäufungen um Sendeanlagen in Thüringen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1730505/

STEINBACH HALLENBERG: Krebsrate mehrfach erhöht um den Mobilfunksendemast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2657378/

Weiteres Abwarten verbietet sich angesichts der Schwere der Erkrankungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1842913/

DER TOD VON 43 EINWOHNERN VON MAJADAHONDA DURCH ELEKTROMAGNETISCHE STRAHLUNG WIRD ZUR ANZEIGE GEBRACHT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1421140/

Krebsfälle in spanischen Schulen
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/valladolid.htm

Verdachtsfälle: Häufungen von Krebs und schweren Erkrankungen in der Nähe von Funkantennen
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/verdachtsfaelle.htm
http://iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/verdachtsfaelle.htm#Verdachtsfaelle

Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/582372/

Gegen den „Krebsmacher“ vom Burgberg
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/578936/

Krebs erregender Mobilfunkmast?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/685575/

Krebsfälle in der Nähe von AM-Radiosendern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/582464/

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

Mobilfunk und Krebs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284796/

Naila-Studie erhärtet Krebsverdacht von Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/291645/

Strahlung unterm Grenzwert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/749181/

Mobilfunk: Grenzwertabsenkungen müssen drastisch sein, um den Gesundheitsschutz der Bevölkerung zu garantieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1644875/

Zeitbombe tickt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/628855/

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

Cancer Cluster in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cancer_cluster_no_name_8_3_05.doc

SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Clusters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2796559/

Can we make the phone mast-cancer link?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1324017/

The Effects Of Radiation In The Cause Of Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1158742/

Health chiefs probe phone-mast cancer link claims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/625063/

Tetra & telecommunication masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1338270/

Germany Cancer Clusters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1837176/

Clusters in England
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/678769/

The largest cancer cluster in the U.K.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1683971/

Phone masts on the roof of our local secondary school have resulted in 10 teachers (at least) with cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2244046/

Its alleged that a Southport Children’s Nursery has three children with leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1700901/

School Study about cancer and phone masts at Gijon
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1837171/

SAFETY FEARS SWITCHED OFF BY TV MAST CLAIMS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1681654/

Lloyd Morgan of the Brain Tumour Registry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/691740/

Cancer Cluster in Spain 2000-2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1319986/

45 DIED AROUND An ANTENNA OF TELEPHONY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1349013/

Union wants audit over tumours
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1955776/

Cyprus: "Alarm Bells of Radiation Threat"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/617134/

Continuation of the medical investigation with Saint-Cyr military school http://omega.twoday.net/stories/586043/

Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/604959/

Leukemia in children will continue growing
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/612805/

EMR Reduces Melatonin in Animals and People
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/619547/

School rooftops desired space for Webnet wireless internet antennas
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2776945/

Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out

Active duty soldiers are voting with their feet: The New York Times reports 6,000 desertions. Journalists should also investigate how many reserve and National Guard soldiers are failing to report for military duty. In combination, the desertions, the back door draft (stop loss), faltering recruiting, and $150,000 bonuses for re-enlistment, the military personnel system hangs on the brink of destruction and ready for the draft.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2997

Two Years Later

In one of the most lengthy, detailed, and accurate editorials ever written by the New York Times, their editorial board lays bare the phony reasons given to attack Iraq and some reasonable suggestions to extract the U.S. from what the Times calls "Bush's war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2996

Secret US plans for Iraq's oil - Before 9/11

Read the article below to learn why the Bush/Cheney Administration fought so hard to prevent the release of documents relating to their secret meeting with oil company campaign contributors during early 2001. When reading the article below, keep thinking about Enron, Harken, Halliburton, and the fake energy crisis in California.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2995

The Neo-cons defeated?

At the bottom of his article there is a link to three more informational articles. The similar one done for BBC Newsnight has this very fascinating introductory paragraph:

Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World Bank? The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now, indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. Tonight BBC Television Newsnight will tell the true story of the fall of the neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper's magazine will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans for war in Iraq -- and for Iraq's oil -- within weeks of Bush's first inauguration in 2001. [...] More at http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=417&row=0 or http://tinyurl.com/3v25z


© Virginia Metze

What they don't know can hurt them

Many young Americans would like to see the press muzzled, if just a bit. If only they knew history's lessons, they would surely see a free press in a different light.

By Kathleen Parker

USA TODAY, March 15, 2005

Freedom of speech and the idea of a free press are so intricately woven into America's DNA that few of us give much thought to the origins of our freedoms or ponder an alternative life without them.

With gratitude, we can admit that we don't worry much about jackboots kicking in our doors at night because we've spoken ill of El Jefe. Indeed, criticizing government is sport within our borders. [...] More of a long article at: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050315/oplede15.art.htm


© Virginia Metze

CIA's Assurances On Transferred Suspects Doubted

Prisoners Say Countries Break No-Torture Pledges

by Dana Priest

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, March 17, 2005; Page A01

The system the CIA relies on to ensure that the suspected terrorists it transfers to other countries will not be tortured has been ineffective and virtually impossible to monitor, according to current and former intelligence officers and lawyers, as well as counterterrorism officials who have participated in or reviewed the practice. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42072-2005Mar16.html or http://tinyurl.com/6jl3m



© Virginia Metze

Request denied

Julia Scott

March 16, 2006

Salon's War Room

[...] In spite of the public's deep concerns about government secrecy, since 1998 federal departments have filled fewer Freedom of Information Act requests in full -- while the number of requests for information has risen steadily, especially following the Sept. 11 attacks.

The government met the increased demand with unprecedented resistance. After 9/11, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card issued memos suggesting that agencies be more careful in granting FOIA requests; they cited national security concerns. Since then, the government has also pulled many documents off its Web sites, creating14 million new classified documents in 2003 -- a large increase over 2001. Now, access even to the safety records of a natural gas plant in a small American town can be denied. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/59pt3


© Virginia Metze

Justice: Propaganda is A-OK

Sounds like we need a law -- and fast ...

Justice: Propaganda is A-OK

Must the U.S. government reveal when it has produced "news" broadcasts? In a stunning rebuke of the GAO, the Justice Department says no.

By Eric Boehlert

Salon, March 16, 2005

Democrats aren't the only ones angered by the Justice Department's memo to federal agencies on March 11 telling them to ignore a key finding by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO has declared that video news releases -- or prepackaged TV segments -- that fail to reveal they were produced by the government constitute illegal propaganda. "It's highly unusual for the Justice Department to take this action. Sending out a memo may be unprecedented," says David Walker, comptroller general of the United States and head of the GAO. He adds, "The Justice Department is not independent on this matter."

Department spokesman Kevin Madden could not say how common the issuance of a memo was, but noted that because GAO findings are nonbinding, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has final say over executive branch legal matters. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/16/propaganda_ruling/index.html or http://tinyurl.com/4yha7


© Virginia Metze

Unending troubles

Salon on DeLay:

Unending troubles

Despite calls from the right for "spiritual warfare" in defending the House majority leader against ethics charges, the fate of DeLay Inc. looks grim.

By Sidney Blumenthal

March 17, 2005

[...] The uncertain fate of the majority leader, known as "The Hammer," and to the Republican members and lobbyists in Washington as "the concierge of Capitol Hill," threatens to undermine the Bush administration's agenda; the political machine DeLay has built by allying special interests, lobbyists and Republicans; and the Republican dominance of Congress. Conservative leader Paul Weyrich pronounced that defending DeLay is nothing less than a life-or-death matter -- "spiritual warfare." [...] Read the rest on the Salon site: http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news4/salon-delay.html


© Virginia Metze

Why graft thrives in postconflict zones

A report issued Wednesday said Iraq could become 'the biggest corruption scandal in history.'

By Mark Rice-Oxley
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

from the March 17, 2005 edition

LONDON – Five Polish peacekeepers are arrested for allegedly taking $90,000 worth of bribes in Iraq. Several Sri Lankan officials are suspended for mishandling tsunami aid. US audits show large financial discrepancies in Iraq. Reports of aid abuse taunt Indonesia.

Two of the world's biggest-ever reconstruction projects - Iraq and post-tsunami Asia - are facing major tests of credibility, as billions of dollars of aid and reconstruction money pour in.
And according to a major report released Wednesday by Transparency International (TI), an international organization that focuses on issues of corruption, the omens are not good. [...]

Read the rest at the Christian Science Monitor online:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0317/p06s01-wogi.html


© Virginia Metze

Homeland Insecurity

by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: March 17, 2005

OP-ED COLUMNIST The New York Times

Bush officials have always been eager to pose as the tough guys willing to make the tough decisions. On Iraq and Afghanistan, they did. But when it comes to China, the Bush administration is engaged in one of the greatest acts of unilateral disarmament ever seen in U.S. foreign policy.

National security is about so much more than just military deployments. It is also about our tax, energy and competitiveness policies. And if you look at all these areas, the Bush team has not only been steadily eroding America's leverage and room for maneuver vis-à-vis its biggest long-term competitor - China - but it has actually been making us more dependent than ever on Beijing. Indeed, if the Bush policies were wrapped into a single legislative bill it could be called "The U.S.-China Dependency Act." [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/opinion/17friedman.html?th


© Virginia Metze

FBI Whistleblower Edmonds Files New Lawsuit

March 17, 2005

AntiWar.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, today filed the most detailed lawsuit to date outlining her allegations. The complaint, filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA), reveals for the first time details surrounding Ms. Edmonds' interactions with a former FBI colleague who raised suspicions by her perceived efforts to recruit the Edmonds into at least two Turkish organizations. Also disclosed are the names of those within the FBI who went out of their way to undercut Ms. Edmonds' concerns. [...] Read the rest of the article at the AntiWar.com web site:

http://www.antiwar.com/edmonds/index.php


© Virginia Metze

THTR-Rundbrief Nr. 98

Von: Aktionsbündnis Münsterland gegen Atomanlagen <AB.MS-Land@web.de>
Datum: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:00:10 +0100
Betreff: Fw: THTR-Rundbrief 98: bitte weitermailen

Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Hamm e. V. 18. 3. 2005

Horst Blume
Schleusenweg 10
59071 Hamm
http://www.thtr-a.de


An das

Ministerium für Verkehr, Energie und Landesplanung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Haroldstr. 4, 40213 Düsseldorf


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Leider haben wir nach den Korrosionsschäden an den 305 Behältern "Castor THTR/AVR" in dem Brennelemente-Zwischenlager (BZA) 1998/99 und im Juli letzten Jahres erneut in der TAZ-Ruhr vom 10. 3. 2005 von Problemen lesen müssen. Aus dieser Sachlage heraus ergeben sich folgende Fragen, um deren Beantwortung wir bitten:
Bereits in Ihrem Schreiben vom 15. 12. 2004 haben Sie die Störmeldung eines defekten Druckschalters beim Überwachungssystem mit Datum vom 15. 7. 2004 angegeben. Dem Pressebericht zufolge hat jetzt anscheinend erneut eine ähnliche Störung stattgefunden. Kann es sein, dass das Überwachungssytem nicht zuverlässig arbeitet? Kann es sein, dass die von Ihnen angeführte Beteiligung von Sachverständigen und deren Bewertung der Störung nicht den gewünschten Erfolg gebracht hat? Welche Ergebnisse ergaben die aktuellen Untersuchungen der aktuellen Störung vom März 2005?

In dem oben genannten Pressebericht wird die Halle des BEZ als "total nass" beschrieben und mit einer "Tropfsteinhöhle" verglichen. Außerdem wird von "tellergroßen Löchern" an den Castoren berichtet. Können Sie diese Meldung bestätigen und welche Maßnahmen unternehmen Sie gegebenenfalls, um diese Missstände zu beheben?

Sind bei allen Castoren die oberen Deckel abgeschraubt worden? Ist die Annahme richtig, dass für einen längeren Zeitraum die zweite Dichtungsbarriere nicht funktionsfähig ist oder war? Wie bewerten Sie diesen Vorgang?

Sind die Castoren nach der neuen Behandlung der oberen Deckel in Zukunft dicht? Und wie werden die zukünftigen Kontrollen aussehen?

Sind Sie mit dem zitierten Zwischenlager-Sprecher Jürgen Auer der Meinung, dass die Probleme von "Flugrost" herrühren? Was ist unter "Flugrost" zu verstehen?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen!

Weiter unter: http://tinyurl.com/5ycg5

Mobilfunk und Kindergesundheit

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

Mobilfunk und Kinder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311978/

Stay Out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The fight for ANWR continues

Tell the big oil companies to stay out of ANWR!

Today, my heart is heavy. By just two votes, we came up short in our effort to prevent oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to over 150 wildlife species. I offer my heartfelt thanks to the over 29,000 of you who joined with me and signed my petition to Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, demonstrating our strong opposition to this disastrous policy.

In the end, over 90% of Senate Democrats voted to stop this madness -- we just didn't have the votes to overcome the Republican majority in the Senate.

But I want you to know that I won't give up in our fight to stop the drilling. And neither should you. I'm going to use every legislative tool at my disposal to reverse this vote and prevent this terrible policy from going into effect. But we can do more -- today.

I'm planning to organize a consumer boycott of any oil company that decides to drill in this pristine Alaskan wilderness area. If, through our pocketbooks, we can convince these companies to do the right thing, we can still save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the destruction that would be wrought by the oil drilling rigs.

Send an email to the CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch/Shell, and ChevronTexaco now and tell them to stay out of ANWR!

And then invite everyone you know to join us.

This battle is not over -- not by a long shot.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

Paid for by PAC for a Change, http://www.pacforachange.com, Treasurer Sim Farar, FEC#C00342048.
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.



Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Mr. David O'Reilly, ChevronTexaco CEO
Mr. James Mulva, ConocoPhillips CEO
Mr. Jeroen van der Veer, Shell CEO
Mr. John Browne, BP CEO
Mr. Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Stay Out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

As you know, current legislation making its way through Congress would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

I am writing to urge your company to publicly pledge that you will not drill in ANWR.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a God-given gift of pristine wilderness, first set aside by President Dwight Eisenhower more than 40 years ago, and we have a responsibility to preserve it. ANWR is home to more than 150 wildlife species, including caribou, polar bears, musk oxen, and millions of migratory birds.

The American people will not stand idly by and allow this wilderness area to be defiled.

If your company decides to drill in ANWR, we will launch a boycott of your products, and the products of your subsidiaries. And I know that millions of Americans will join us.

I urge you make a public pledge that you will not drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- or face a boycott of your products.

Thank you for your consideration of this critically important matter.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

18
Mrz
2005

Handy am Steuer: Berliner Polizei greift durch

http://www.xonio.com/news/news_14720632.html?tid1=7400&tid2=0

Update from the Field 3/17/05

http://tinyurl.com/4m28n

GM WEEKLY WATCH 115

http://tinyurl.com/6rss2

Prevent Government Censorship of Cable T.V. and Internet Content

Rep. Sanders Sponsors Bill To Prevent Government Censorship of Cable T.V. and Internet Content
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0317-03.htm

Impeachment members mobilize for March 19/20

All across the country on Saturday, March 19, people will be taking to the streets in coast-to-coast mobilizations opposing George W. Bush's criminal policies. On the second anniversary of his having plunged the United States into an unprovoked war against Iraq, people will be demonstrating in nearly 600 cities and towns throughout this country. Internationally, people are marching in every country.

ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach members are mobilizing to make sure that the message of impeachment resonates everywhere. The beautiful yellow and black impeachment signs and banners will be carried as thousands demonstrate with military families, veterans and soldiers at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and elsewhere, VoteToImpeach/Impeach Bush members will be marching under Impeach Bush signs and banners, wearing impeachment T-shirts and baseball caps, and distributing impeachment petitions.

Impeachment is the message of accountability and deterrence. Accountability for all those Iraqis and U.S. soldiers who have been killed and maimed in a war that violates the Nuremberg Charter, the UN Charter, fundamental human rights and international law. Accountability for the billions being spent on war, death, torture, and destruction to line the pockets of the Bush administration's corporate backers. Accountability for the attack on the Constitution and civil rights and civil liberties at home.

This nationwide effort is possible because of the work of hundreds of volunteers and the financial support from those who believe that impeachment is an imperative to defend and save the Constitution. Please help today by making a generous donation. To make a donation on-line through our secure server, where you can also find information on how to contribute by click, please click here:
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=gykkbbQ4tC-72suC2Mm5YQ..

See you on Saturday, March 19 - and remember that the next two weeks are Home District weeks for Congressional representatives. There has been a tremendous response to Ramsey Clark's appeal to take action in the next two weeks. Mr. Clark appealed to all ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach members to take action between March 19 and April 3, when Congressional representatives are scheduled to be back in their home district. Ramsey wrote: "It has never been more important for all people of conscience to hold demonstrations and rallies, and to lobby those representatives in their home districts during the March 19 - April 3 period." Please notify the ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach campaign about your local activity, and send in a report and photos, to Reports@ImpeachBush.org.

--All of us at ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org

Cell Phone Companies Sued For 'Unsafe Levels Of Radiation'

Interesting development in the USA. Judge Blakes recent dismissal of class action lawsuits has been overuled at the Court of Appeal:

http://www.wral.com/health/4293316/detail.html


Panayis Zambellis Luton


From Mast Network


MOBILE TELEPHONE CAN CAUSE CANCER
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/590981/

US federal court decisions involving the Telecommunication Act (TCA) of 1996
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/590946/

Mercury Pollution, Autism Link Found

US Study
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29992/story.htm

The brutal truth

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1430686,00.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

When will we say enough is enough?

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=77900;show_parent=1

Stop the Wolf Slaughter in Alaska

There is no shortage of bad news out there. Human misery seems to trump everything else. People seem to think that people are more important than wolves. But even if that's true, what do we do to ourselves when we turn our backs on the wolves? When we allow a massacre of such noble animals to go on?

Because once we know about it, if we do nothing, we are complicit. There's the rub. There is simply no way around that one. This wolf "hunt" in Alaska is gratuitous, violent, vicious, and deeply depraved. I am ashamed of my species when I see this. These magnificent animals are being hazed from the air by a...in airplanes. The wolves try to escape in deep snow, and run until they are exhausted. Then the cowards land the plane and shoot them. They have already killed 200+ wolves this winter. The so-called "Government" is allowing them to kill A THOUSAND WOLVES. And even more next year! What the h...???

Why?

Why indeed. Why are wolves still hunted so ruthlessly? Because these weenies are still at war with the wild, and there is nothing that represents wildness, independence, and family more than wolves. I normally ignore most email petitions, I admit it. But this time I have to do something. Everything I can do.

A plea from me to you: Remember wolves you've seen. If you're lucky, you've even seen some in the wild. Remember their amazing music and language. Feel their plight in your body. Please, don't just dismiss this news as more hellish information.

I hope you will take a few minutes, watch the video if you can, and either make a donation or write a letter, write your local paper, tell your friends, spread the word. Pass this on to your email lists. These animals are being killed right now. You Canadians on my list should not think that these unlucky wolves in Alaska are beyond the realm of your concern. THEY DON'T SEE BORDERS and WE ARE THEIR ONLY HUMAN VOICE.

you can watch video a short video with footage of the hazing of wolves in deep snow here:
http://www.savewolves.org/

and this press release has all the facts:
http://www.defenders.org/releases/pr2005/pr030405.html

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR OUR SILENCE ON THIS ISSUE

Please send an email! (see links in message below, all it takes is one click to send a message to the appropriate folks)

Arrrroooooooo,
Amanda



Dear Friend,

By now, you've probably heard about the slaughter of wolves in Alaska through the horrific practice of aerial gunning. I wanted to give you an update on the situation, and let you know what our next steps are in stopping this barbaric practice.

Bad news first: Despite tens of thousands of phone calls, emails and letters, Governor Frank Murkowski refuses to stop the aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska. To make matters worse, his Board of Game has approved the number of wolves to be killed at over 1,000. This will be the greatest wolf massacre in half a century.

Here's what we're doing now: Defenders of Wildlife has newspaper ads ready to go in major newspapers across the country. Defenders is determined to use every means available stop this terrible practice where marksmen can gun down wolves from the air or chase them to exhaustion -then land and shoot them point blank. These ads will raise critical awareness throughout the country of the slaughter of wolves occurring in Alaska. But we need your help to run them. Our goal is to raise $50,000 over the next 72 hours so we can contact the newspapers and book ad placements immediately. Please consider an emergency tax-deductible contribution to help place these ads before more wolves are killed: http://www.care2.com/go/z/22287

Lawyers for Defenders of Wildlife have formally petitioned Interior Secretary Gale Norton to halt the killing as a violation of the Federal Airborne Hunting Act. To build grassroots pressure on her to act, we want to generate citizen petitions to her - especially through the placement of these newspaper ads.

Please send your emergency tax-deductible contribution today - your generous donation will help focus the eyes ofthe nation on this horrific killing of wolves in Alaska.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/22287

Thank you!

- Rebecca,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team
http://www.care2.com/go/z/rebecca


Informant: STRIDER

Biscuit Fire Recovery Project: Protect Siskiyou Ancient Forests in the Biscuit Fire Area

Biscuit Update- Written from the Josephine County Jail

The people's movement to halt the largest logging project in modern history continues to build momentum after a dramatic week of actions and arrests. The Green Bridge over the Wild and Scenic Illinois River is the site of a growing campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience opposing Bush Administration attempts to roll back decades of hard fought environmental protections. The story is receiving major national and even international press- with ongoing coverage in print, television and radio networks.

This Monday's compelling all-women's action was the fourth major demonstration against the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project since logging began within the Fiddler old growth reserve timber sale last week. Twenty-two women were arrested, including Stacy Williams, an expectant mother in her ninth month of pregnancy, supported by her midwife and birthing team. Surrounding her on the Green Bridge over the Illinois River were Harriet Smith, 85, Dot Fisher Smith, 76 and Joan Norman, 72, who went to jail for the forests for the second time this week.

Hanging off the bridge beneath them was Becky White, suspended on a small platform by a rope that crossed the bridge and blocked the convoy of Silver Creek Timber logging trucks from passing for more than seven hours. In addition to the eighteen women on the bridge, another three were arrested in a separate blockade a few miles up the road. A tree-sit occupation remains suspended seventy feet in the canopy of a burned, but living Douglas Fir in logging unit 5 on the border of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness.

The Forest Service issued a full closure on the access road to the Fiddler Timber Sale Monday afternoon. The encampment at the Green Bridge is no more. Long live the Green Bridge! A new base camp is being set up a couple miles upstream from the bridge, just below the closure line, on BLM land off Eight Dollar Road. Our morale is high and the momentum of this campaign is strong. We continue to need fresh minds and bodies to infuse this campaign with new ideas and energy. Join us in the beautiful Siskiyou Mountains!

Federal Judge Michael Hogan finally ruled against the Temporary Restraining Order attorney Lauren Regan filed in his court- and an emergency appeal is immediately being submitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The merits of the case are very strong and it challenges the very purpose of need of post fire logging. It has the potential to shut down logging not just in the old growth reserves but in the unprotected sales as well. Go Lauren go!

http://oregon.tribe.net/listing/021059c7-47f2-4b38-b1a2-70ec4de7a821
http://www.o2collective.org
http://www.kswild.org
http://www.Siskiyou.org
http://www.rogueimc.org


Informant: Scott Munson

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#121 WILD NORTHWEST, March 18, 2005
A Message from Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
=====Keeping the Northwest Wild=====

Protect Siskiyou Ancient Forests in the Biscuit Fire Area

Forest Service begins first-time logging of old-growth reserves

On Monday, March 7, industrial logging began in old-growth forest reserves around Babyfoot Lake and Fiddler Mountain in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area in southwestern Oregon. This is the first time that logging of this magnitude has occurred in federal old-growth forest reserves that were established over ten years ago to protect and restore old forest habitat. This type of logging in the Biscuit Fire area destroys old-growth characteristics and inhibits natural forest recovery. Old-growth reserve logging establishes a remarkable and dangerous precedent for logging in protected areas across the Pacific Northwest, and sets the stage for logging of Washington's protected old forests.

The Biscuit Logging Project also allows large-scale salvage logging in roadless areas. According to the Forest Service's own information, salvage logging will degrade the wilderness character of tens of thousands of acres of roadless areas through logging, artificial planting, and other deleterious activities.

What you can do: Ask Oregon's Senator Wyden to intervene and stop the cut until all information is aired about the legality of logging in old-growth reserves. Older forests in the Siskiyou National Forest rightfully belong to all Americans as part of our national forest heritage; we have a say in their future. Urge the Senator to:

* Conserve an Oregon and American treasure by publicly urging the Forest Service to halt logging in old-growth reserves in the Biscuit Fire area.

* Protect fish, clean water, and wildlife, and promote recreation economies.

* Support the permanent protection of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area in southern Oregon.

Contact: Senator Ron Wyden
700 NE Multnomah St. Suite 450
Portland, OR 97232; http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/

Washington residents please copy your letter to Sen. Patty Murray, who is supportive of old-growth protection.
Send to: Senator Patty Murray
2988 Jackson Federal Building, 915 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98174; http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm

Other resources:
Scroll down here http://www.siskiyou.org/swrc/timbersales/Fiddler_Mountain_Area.cfm, for photos of recent logging.
To see how citizens are speaking out, go to http://www.kswild.org/KSNews/logginglsrs

Please let us know that you took action, and thank you for helping to keep the Pacific Northwest wild!

Erin Moore
Communications Coordinator
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
1208 Bay St., Ste. 201
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.671.9950 ext. 24

Council wants phone mast powers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4356835.stm


Informant: Sylvie

Time for rethink on mast policy

Published on 17/03/2005

Concerns: Do mobile phone masts pose a risk?

IT IS becoming increasing apparent that the planning system for mobile phone masts is in urgent need of an overhaul.

Regulations which were designed to kick-start the telecommunications industry 20 years ago only serve today to override genuine local, environmental and safety concerns about where best to place masts.

Carlisle City Council has very little discretion over their location, especially for 'Tetra' masts and those planned by Network Rail.

National planning diktats issued from Whitehall explicitly prevent the council's planning committee from taking health concerns into account, even though an independent panel of scientists urged caution on their location back in 2000, especially near schools.

The end result is feelings of powerlessness and frustration among those living under the threat of unwanted and badly located masts.

This is why I welcome new proposals by Conservatives nationally for all mast developments to require full planning permission, to allow health concerns to be taken into account and to ensure that they do not result in unacceptable damage to visual amenity.

Most of us want to be able to use mobile phones, but it is about time local people in Carlisle had the final say on where masts go.

Gareth Ellis
Helvellyn Rise
Carlisle

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinion/viewarticle.aspx?id=190330


Informant: Sylvie

The True Costs Of War

Wonky But Worth It: The True Costs Of War

by The Institute For Policy Studies

IPS crunched the numbers to give us a true picture of what the war has cost Iraq and the United States.

http://tompaine.com/action/#004139

Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Metaphor

by John Brown, TomPaine.com

The Middle East is not Communist Eastern Europe. A former diplomat counts the ways.

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

The Democracy Lie

by Juan Cole, TomPaine.com

First off: flickers of democracy do not justify the Iraq war. Second: they have nothing to do with the United States.

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

The Intelligence Made Them Do It

by Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com

Debunking the White House's "bad intelligence" excuse for Iraq and warning of the same with Iran.

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

Mapping The Oil Motive

by Michael Klare, TomPaine.com

If America's thirst for oil led Bush to Iraq, can Bush claim mission accomplished?

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

Minisender am Bein: Schutz vor Baby-Entführung

http://www.netdoktor.de/nachrichten/index.asp?y=2005&m=3&d=19&id=118248

Congress and the Long Haul

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/18/11719/9579

Die Gesetzesänderung war überflüssig

Nach kurzer und heftiger Debatte wurde in der vergangenen Woche das Versammlungsgesetz novelliert. Der Verfassungsrechtler Ulrich Battis spricht im Telepolis-Interview über Ablauf und Ergebnis der Debatte...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19701/1.html

Massive Corruption in Iraq

Report Uncovers Massive Corruption in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031805Y.shtml

Illegal Logging on Agenda at Unique G8 Meeting

Latest update: Since international regulations have not achieved the required improvement, the German Environment Minister Trittin will - by a new "Ancient Forest Protection Law" - make the trading of illegally cut and/or not certified timber a criminal offence in Germany. The proof that timber does not come from ancient forests will have to be provided by the timber industry through independent certification bodies, recognized by the German Government..


Illegal Logging on Agenda at Unique G8 Meeting

Fri Mar 18, 4:36 AMET

by Jeremy Lovell

BREADSALL, England (Reuters) - Disagreement over moves to end illegal logging that is destroying rain forests overshadowed a unique meeting on Friday of environment and development ministers from the Group of Eight rich nations.

Britain, as president of the G8 this year, wants to take tough measures including bringing in new trade laws to curb the devastating trade estimated to be worth $15 billion a year.

But the United States, while agreeing there should be help given to the logging nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America to end the illegal side of the lucrative business, is adamant there should be no change to existing trade rules.

"We know the United States has a problem with public procurement. But that won't stop other countries acting unilaterally as Britain has," said one official. "At the end of the day we want a package we can all agree on."

Surrounded by intense security at a country hotel 190 km (120 miles) north of London to deter would-be protesters, the meeting is the first between these G8 ministers.

Apart from illegal logging, the only other item on the table was British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s pet project -- the Commission for Africa report published one week ago.

Blair has put Africa and global warming at the top of the agenda for the G8 summit at the Gleneagles golf course in Scotland in July.

The report contains ambitious plans to slash debts, make world trade fairer, give millions of dollars more in better-directed aid and eradicate disease.

But officials at the meeting said the draft text circulated on Thursday afternoon by Britain was long on rhetoric and short on detail.

"On Africa it is couched in terms of broad principles agreeing there is a huge problem in Africa where the negative effects of climate change are already being felt, but no specific actions," an official said on the grounds of anonymity.

But the United States has dismissed calls for massive debt relief and British plans for a major new aid financing vehicle which are the core of what has been described by its proponents as a Marshall Plan for Africa.

The Marshall Plan was the U.S.-financed vehicle to rebuild Europe after World War II as a bastion against Soviet expansion.

But it is not all one-sided. Blair's Africa report also urged African nations to clean up their own acts -- insisting on eradicating corruption and installing good governance.

The Anti-G8 movement, in a dry-run for Gleneagles, has offered a prize for anyone hitting a minister with a pie, planting a skull and cross-bone flag on the 18th hole or invading British Environment Minister Margaret Beckett's room.


ECOTERRA Intl.

Americas secret plans for Iraq's oil

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1041

World Bank exposed US corruption in Iraq reconstruction

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1039

Waldsterben, Baumsterben durch Mobilfunk?

http://klimaforschung.net/cgi-bin/weblog_basic/index.php?page_id=27

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Mobilfunk und Wald
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579368/

Mobilfunk und Wald

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/523004/


Baumsterben bzw. Waldsterben durch Mobilfunk?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/579375/

Politik soll Sofortmaßnahmen gegen das Waldsterben ergreifen

Tag des Waldes: Politik soll Sofortmaßnahmen gegen das Waldsterben ergreifen (18.03.05)

Zum Internationalen Tag des Waldes am kommenden Montag fordert ROBIN WOOD ein Sofortprogramm zum Schutz der Wälder. Ziel ist es, den Eintrag von Stickstoff in die Wälder massiv zu verringern. Dafür ist es notwendig, die Massentierhaltung einzuschränken und eine ökologische Verkehrswende zu fördern. Noch nie ging es dem Wald in Deutschland so schlecht wie heute. 72 Prozent aller Waldbäume haben Schäden in ihren Baumkronen, wie das Forstministerium im vergangenen Dezember bekannt gab.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10708


Mobilfunk und Bäume
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/523004/

Voruntersuchung zur Wirkung elektromagnetischer Felder sehr hoher Frequenzen auf das Chlorophyll der Robinie http://omega.twoday.net/stories/691472/

Schäden an Bäumen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/691493/

Ostermarsch 2005: "Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau"

Ostermarsch 2005: "Abrüstung statt Sozialabbau" fordert Demonstration in Müllheim (18.03.05)

Der Friedensrat Markgräflerland und der DGB Müllheim-Neuenburg sind die Veranstalter des diesjährigen Ostermarsches am Ostermontag, den 28.März in Müllheim. In dem Aufruf zu den österlichen Friedensaktionen wird darauf verwiesen, dass mit der Verkleinerung der Bundeswehr keine Mittel zur Finanzierung ziviler Aufgaben frei werden, sondern zur Umrüstung des Militärs zu einer weltweit agierenden Interventionsarmee missbraucht werden. Müllheim als Stationierungsort des Stabes der deutsch Französischen Brigade sei von diesem Prozess unmittelbar betroffen, diene doch die Brigade vor allem zur Eindringfähigkeit zu Beginn militärischer Interventionen in aller Welt.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10711

"Hire and fire" möglich: Schröders Appell nach der Beseitigung des Kündigungsschutzes für Ältere

18.03.05

Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder appellierte in seiner Regierungserklärung am Donnerstag an die Unternehmen, ältere Personen nach dem erfolgten Wegfall des Kündigungsschutzes einzustellen, und an die Medien, diesen Aufruf zu verbreiten. "Ich wäre ja sehr dankbar", so der Bundeskanzler, wenn mit "großen Schlagzeilen darauf hingewiesen würde". Schröder erläuterte, dass der Kündigungsschutz für ältere Arbeitnehmer beseitigt worden ist: "Für Personen ab 50 Jahren existiert so gut wie kein Kündigungsschutz, denn für die ersten zwei Jahre besteht die Möglichkeit, sie befristet einzustellen. Für Personen ab dem 52. Lebensjahr gibt es keine gesetzlichen Regelungen mehr in Bezug auf befristete Einstellung. Sie können also unabhängig von den Regelungen für befristete Arbeitsverhältnisse jederzeit eingestellt und entlassen werden, da ein Kündigungsschutz für diese Personengruppe nicht mehr existiert."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10703

US Senate narrowly voted to drill in ANWR - but decision not done yet

http://www.wildcanada.net/documents/aa-213.asp

Sommers Kapitulation

Hartz IV war gestern. Der DGB-Vorsitzende lässt bunte Bilder für die Mutter sammeln und McKinsey nach der Zukunft forschen. Artikel von Günter Frech in Freitag 9 vom 04.03.2005
http://www.freitag.de/2005/09/05090501.php

Eine Leseempfehlung zur Einstimmung auf die Samstag-Demo in Brüssel…


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 11

Akustische Wohnraumüberwachung

Die Bundesregierung hat sich nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 3. März 2004 zur teilweisen Verfassungswidrigkeit des Gesetzes zur Änderung des Grundgesetzes vom 26. März 1998 veranlasst gesehen, die entsprechenden Bestimmungen der StPO zum sogenannten großen Lauschangriff zu überarbeiten. Der zunächst vorgelegte Referentenentwurf des Bundesjustizministeriums wurde nach heftiger Kritik in der Öffentlichkeit zurückgezogen. Er enthielt Einschränkungen des Schutzes von Berufsgeheimnisträgern vor heimlicher Überwachung, welche mit den Vorgaben des BVerfG klar unvereinbar waren. Der nunmehr vorgelegte Regierungsentwurf vom 15.12. 2004 begegnet ebenfalls massiven rechtlichen Bedenken. Aus bürgerrechtlicher Sicht ist daher zu empfehlen, den Regierungsentwurf in der jetzigen Form abzulehnen. Die Humanistische Union fordert daneben die Bundesregierung weiterhin auf, auf den großen Lauschangriff gänzlich zu verzichten!

Stellungnahme der Humanistischen Union vom 14. März 2005.
http://www.humanistische-union.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=221&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=17140df867a5034adc27acd3a939e679


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 11

Videoüberwachung reduziert Kriminalität nicht

Videoüberwachung reduziert Kriminalität nicht - Eine vom britischen Innenministerium in Auftrag gegebene Studie bestätigt erneut die geringe Effizienz von Überwachungskameras. Technische Mittel wie Überwachungskameras gelten als gute Möglichkeit, Straftaten zu verhindern. Daher greifen Politiker auch gerne darauf zurück, um Handlungsentschlossenheit zu demonstrieren.

Überwachungskameras haben den Vorteil, den Raum permanent zu beobachten und Bilder speichern zu können, um Täter identifizieren zu können. Sie sind billiger als die Präsenz von Polizisten, vor allem aber muss mit dem technischen Heilmittel nichts verändert werden, um einen Ort sicherer zu machen. Dass diese Annahme, mit der Überwachungskameras überall angebracht werden, weitgehend eine Illusion ist, ist schon seit Jahren bekannt und wurde jetzt wieder von einer neuen Studie bestätigt. Artikel von Florian Rötzer mit zahlreichen Links zu den Originalquellen auf Telepolis vom 25.02.2005

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19543/1.html


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 11

Rote Karte den Internet-Schnüfflern

Immer noch läuft die Auseinandersetzung um die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, bzw. immer noch gibt es den Widerstand dagegen - wir berichteten. Was nach Vorsorge für schlechte Zeiten klingen soll, ist generelle Materialsammlung für Schnüffelei. Alle aktuellen Dokumente, die Gesetzesvorlagen, weitere Informationen und die "Kampagne gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung im Internet und in der Telekommunikation" in einer Zusammenfassung beim "Unabhängigen Datenschutzzentrum Schleswig-Holstein"
http://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/material/themen/rotekarte/index.htm


Breiter Widerstand gegen Regierungspläne

Die Pläne von Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily und Justizministerin Brigitte Zypries, die Speicherung von Telefon- und Internet-Verbindungsdaten auf ein Jahr zu verlängern, stoßen bei Rot-Grün auf heftigen Widerstand. Für Datenschützer ist der Plan "definitiv gesetzeswidrig". Bericht auf Spiegel-Online vom 15. März 2005.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,346459,00.html

Democratic Senators Denounce Bush Grab for "Dictatorship"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031705M.shtml

Dead Squid Wash Up in California Again

Is the ocean heating up? Sonar from the Military? No food sources left? This just happened way north in Oregon last week. All up the West Coast U.S.

FYI - Anna


Dead Squid Wash Up in California Again

2 hours, 36 minutes ago

DANA POINT, Calif. - Dead jumbo squid are again mysteriously washing up along Orange County's coastline, baffling scientists who are trying to find out why.

The Ocean Institute in Dana Point has conducted some of the research, shipping specimens to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Stanford University for further study.

Scientists at the institute this week dissected a 5-foot-long, 15-pound female Humboldt squid that was filled with parasites and sand. More than a 100 squid have been spotted since Sunday between Dana Point and San Clemente.

Still, there are no answers.

"We still don't know what's killing them," said Linda Blanchard, lab director of the Ocean Institute who has dissected about a dozen squid since they first washed up ashore in January. "All we have right now are theories."

Scientists believe the squid are swimming north from Mexico to follow food sources, forcing them to come closer to the surface and shore. Squid normally live and hunt 3,000 feet below the water's surface.

Eric Hochberg, curator of invertebrate zoology with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, said an active fishing industry in Mexico may be depleting the squid's diet, causing them to migrate into Southern California.

He said the squid possibly are discombobulated by sand churned up by tides.

Meanwhile, William Gilly, a biologist at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, is studying their stomach contents to determine whether the squid are being poisoned.

Even if scientists cannot discover why the squid are washing up ashore, they hope to learn about the mollusks' diet, where they spawn and the biology of their beaks.

"Before the squid were found dead on the beaches in the quantities that they have, we weren't studying them as hard as we are now," Blanchard said.

In January, about 1,500 Humboldt squid washed up on the Orange County coastline about a week after an oil spill from an undetermined source coated more than 1,000 seabirds off the Southern California coast. The squid were found on the sands of Laguna Beach, Newport Beach and Crystal Cove State Park. Some were spotted in northern San Diego County, at San Onofre State Beach.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050318/ap_on_re_us/squid_ashore
Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2E9513BA

Peace - Anna

I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

The Wireless Revolution

I am increasingly miserable--mostly with insomnia but also with lightheadedness and heart palpitations--and I think it is due to RF radiation and EMFS.

I work in a school that has a wireless security system and wirelss computers. I live in a townhouse. Several neighbors have gotten wireless security systems, satellite dishes, and wireless computers.

I can always tell when one neighbor is home because I can feel the fields from his home office, which is across the wall from mine.

Today, I walked outside and felt the familiar feeling I feel around wireless devices. I looked for the source. The neighbor across the street has a security code panel in front of her house. It must be wireless.

All my students have cell phones and have them on constantly. I spend all day in a room with thirty cell phones on. Then, the wireless security system, which I think is even worse than using a cell phone myself.

Then, wireless computers.

I am so sick. Do I have to leave my home and my job?

jessicam33064

MOBILE TELEPHONY: 17 NEW CASES OF CANCER IN MOTRIL-GRANADA

NOTICIA DE ALCANCE PROVINCE

Thousand of resident of Motril (Granada) blame an antenna for the 17 cases of cancer of the district.

M. NAVARRETE/MOTRIL

Recognize that it does not have tests but "the neighbors of the district of San Antonio do not create in chances" after undergoing the proliferation of this disease are "of the nerves" and they throw the fault to it to a telephony antenna. They do not have any test that allow to relate cause and effect but after seventeen cases of cancer in the last years in the houses that surround the antenna and the upheavals of dream that undergoes neighborhood means, no longer they create chances. The neighbors attribute all their evils to the antenna and they have been put still on military to obtain that the municipal ordinance is fulfilled that forces move away the telephony stations a minimum of 500 meters of the urban helmet. They have it to two meters of the little houses and fifty of a school. The neighbors of San Antonio have already gathered a thousand of companies and tomorrow Mondays meet with the City council of Motril, to which they try to imply in his fight to obtain that the telephone company moves away the antenna of the district. While some neighbors "are arranged to everything" and already speak to cut streets and highways, the most numerous group prefers "to request aid to the politicians" and to exhaust the route diplomatic with the company. The antenna takes more than 40 years integrated in the district, in the North zone of Motril, but the neighbors complain which in the last years more plates for the mobile telephony are being added to the non-scanning antenna. According to Francisco Sáez, president of the Federation of Associations of neighbors of Motril, about four years, before the first ocal complaints, the company made measurements of the radioactivity and all the parameters that presented/displayed were below the legal limits. "But now they have put more antennas and of there the malaise of the neighbors", summarizes Sáez. One of the residents of Motril has been running into for 23 years with the telephone monster nothing else to leave or to watch after the window of her house, is Puri Ortega. To her nobody clears of the head that the radiations that it emits the antenna are carcinogenic. "The last month they were putting more plates in the antenna. It got more worse. In forty houses, almost twenty cases of cancer already are too much... ", comment the troubled. The neighbors agree in addition in which the noise that the antenna emits becomes unbearable by the nights. "My greater daughter had low platelet count, other neighbors cannot sleep... Who guarantees us that it is not because of the antenna", she adds. Puri assures to be arranged "to go to Madrid, to mobilize us and which is necessary".

The City council will act

"I am of my nerves and is because of the antenna", agrees Belén Jerónimo, another one of the neighbors of the district who head the protest movement. "In my house we rose and we lay down with headache. My neighbor died of cancer. There are too many cases of upheavals, abortions, migraine, and what we do not know! The antenna cannot be so near the houses, anybody must help ", adds Belén. From the environmental medicine of the City council of Motril they know clearly that they will deliver an attack so that the effective decree is fulfilled, that forces to move away the antennas of telephony of the urban helmet, and more in these cases in which social alarm takes place. So far they have dusted the file of the antenna of San Antonio and study what can do. The first step will be to request to the telephone company that presents/displays the permissions of the antenna: in the City council it consists one of the year 68 but lack to verify if there is authorization for the new plates. "We will make the measurements that make lack to see the level of radiations", calmed down the councilman of the environmental medicine, Bonifacio Perez (IU).


Informant: Sylvie


Translation Spanish-English: omega



Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Charter of Paris... to the attention of the pollutants?

A charter of good behaviour on the mobile masts was signed in 2003 (the 21st of March) by the City of Paris and the operators of mobile phone.

Its stake was triple: to guarantee a low level of exposure, to allow transparent information for the inhabitants, to ensure a better integration of the masts in the urban landscape.

This charter was for 2 years and now it's going to be examined before its prolongation.

Vows have been made and below you have the press release of one organization.

You can be polluted if they pay.

Sylvie



Press release

CHARTER OF PARIS/CHARTER OF GOOD CONTROL... With the ATTENTION OF The POLLUTANTS?

Paris, March 16, 2005.

The Council of Paris has just expressed a wish concerning the technical installations of mobile telephony. In front of this text, national Association Robin des Toits expresses a double surprise:

First is moral: We do not understand that the going beyond of values can be regulated by fines. It acts neither more nor less than one right to pollute with the help of finances. What is all the more unacceptable is if the right to pollute comes down to endanger the health of people. Or there is a risk and one fixes values; or there is not and no value is necessary.

Second is technical: The Council of Paris is not unaware of that the value of 0,6V/m in threshold of exposure is that which is regarded as acceptable by the independent international scientists. He is unaware of it much less than two political groups of this Council who deposited wishes in this direction and various councils of districts follow them. Why then obstiner preserve the value of 2V/m described by the scientists and associations. This obstinacy is all the more incomprehensible with the sight of the official reports/ratios of measurements of fields. Indeed, in their near total, these measurements are definitely lower than 0,6V/m. However, these measurements, which were never disputed by the operators, correspond, according to the latter, with a technical operation considered as normal. In addition, neither Robin des Toits, the Association most present in Paris to take care on the application of the Charter of Paris, no other association were consulted to date on the renegotiation of this Charter. Can one make the economy of the opinion of people? The Charter would not have been born without the mobilization of the citizens. An agreement which does not take into account that the industrialists cannot have legitimacy.

E.Cendrier - Robin des Toits. Contact Presses: E. Cendrier 01 40 18 02 81 Internet site: http://www.robindestoits.org


http://www.mayeticvillage.fr/QuickPlace/antennes-relais/Main.nsf/8A6555B4311F2976C1256C7F008280FB/B00E3E2173268AA9C1256FC60080AC84/?OpenDocument

Gegen den „Krebsmacher“ vom Burgberg

Anwohner begehren gegen Funkturm auf: Bürgerinitiative "Senderfreies Lichtenfels" gegründet

Christoph* leidet unter Herzrhythmusstörungen, er ist elf Jahre alt. Peter* ist sehr launisch und aggressiv, die Ärzte diagnostizierten dem Achtjährigen das Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (ADS). Beide Kinder wohnen am Lichtenfelser Burgberg, von dem seit rund 35 Jahren ein knapp 60 Meter hoher Funkmast Fernseh-, Radio-, Funk- und seit gut einem Jahrzehnt auch Mobilfunksignale sendet.

„Wir wollen, dass der Sendemast abgebaut wird.“ Sven Eisele vom Stadtgraben hat deswegen zusammen mit 20 anderen Anliegern des Stadtteils vor kurzem die Bürgerinitiative ,,Senderfreies Lichtenfels" gegründet. Für den 35-jährigen Krankenpfleger und seine Mitstreiter ist der Funkturm die Ursache für diese Auffälligkeiten. Und nicht nur für diese. Eisele: „In den letzten Jahren sind am Burgberg immer mehr Menschen an Krebs erkrankt, alte wie junge. Das wissen wir aus Gesprächen mit Anwohnern.“ Und aus Gesprächen mit Kollegen: Einige Krankenpfleger haben ihm verraten, dass in einer Straße des Stadtteils Krebs vermehrt die Todesursache zu sein scheint. Einer anderen Kollegin ist dies laut Eisele ebenfalls aufgefallen.

Die Mitglieder der Bürgerinitiative haben nach der Aussage des 35-Jährigen, der sich zurzeit auf Erziehungsurlaub befindet und um seine vier Kinder kümmert, festgestellt, dass zahlreiche Anwohner Symptome wie Müdigkeit, Kopfschmerzen oder Herzrhythmusstörungen aufweisen. „Diese werden im übrigen immer öfter bei Menschen beobachtet, die in der Nähe von Mobilfunkmasten leben“, weiß Eisele.

Neben den verschiedenen Sendern halten die Gegner des Turms auch die großen Richtfunktrommeln für problematisch. ,,Eine Funkstrecke verläuft über den Bereich Goldberg und Friedhof, die andere in den Grabenweg", erklärt der Krankenpfleger. Beide sind seiner Meinung nach viel zu nah am Wohngebiet. "Wieso kann man solch eine Sendeanlage mit TV, Radio, Mobilfunk und den anderen Antennen nicht auf einem der unbewohnten umliegenden Berge installieren?", will der 35-Jährige wissen.

Hunderprozentig wissenschaftlich beweisen lässt sich die Strahlung des Senders als Ursache für die Krankheiten nicht, das weiß Eisele. Immerhin beschäftigt er sich seit vergangenem November intensiv mit der Problematik. ,,Ein Vortrag im Stadtschloss über Mobilfunk hat mich so beunruhigt, dass ich selbst aktiv geworden bin." Er besuchte Informationsveranstaltungen zum Thema ,,Elektrosmog", forschte im Internet und legte sich diverse Bücher zu. Bei der Schmökerei stieß er auf sehr viele Studien, die auf eine Gesundheitsgefährdung durch die Strahlen hindeuten.

Sorgenfalten

Seither zeichnen sich auf seiner Stirn immer mehr Sorgenfalten ab. "Es gibt so viele Untersuchungen, deren Ergebnisse eindeutig auf die Schädlichkeit des Elektrosmogs hinweisen." Eisele erzählt von einem Fall im spanischen Valloid. Dort bauten Mobilfunkbetreiber gegenüber einer Schule einen Sendepark mit sechs Masten auf. ,,Plötzlich erkrankten binnen zwei Jahren vier Schulkinder an Leukämie." Experten hätten auch bei Erwachsenen eine vermehrte Krebshäufigkeit gefunden. In den 30 Jahren zuvor sei bei den Schülern kein einziger Krebsfall aufgetreten. ,,Kann das Zufall sein?", will Eisele wissen.

Trotz diesem und vieler weiterer Beispiele weigere sich die Regierung, die Grenzwerte für die Strahlung beim Mobilfunk zu senken. Diese liegen für das D-Netz bei 4,5 Watt je Quadratmeter, beim E-Netz bei neun Watt je Quadratmeter. Für Eisele und die Bürgerinitiative sind sie auf alle Fälle viel zu hoch. Der Grenzwert für elektromagnetische Wellen bezeichne die Schwelle, bei der die Wellen den Körper um ein Grad erwärmen, erläutert der Familienvater. Der 35-Jährige verweist auf eine Untersuchung, die bereits eine gesundheitliche Gefährdung bei einer Strahlung sieht, deren Stärke nur einem Bruchteil der deutschen Grenzwerte entspricht.

Davon kann Sven Eisele bisher nur träumen. Zwar freut er sich zusammen mit der Bürgerinitiative, dass die Stadt den Ausbau des Mobilfunknetzes vorläufig gestoppt hat. Doch in Sachen Fernsehturm passierte bisher nichts. Bei Behörden fragte er vergeblich nach Informationen an, doch weder Stadtverwaltung noch Landratsamt konnten Auskunft geben und verwiesen auf die Regulierungsbehörde, die Nachfolgeorganisation des Postministeriums. ,,Vier Mal hab' ich bei der Regulierungsbehörde in Bayreuth angerufen, sogar einen Brief geschrieben. Das war vor fünf Wochen. Gemeldet hat sich aber trotz Zusage bisher niemand", berichtet der Lichtenfelser enttäuscht.

Den Weg in die Öffentlichkeit hat der 35-Jährige bisher lange gescheut, obwohl ihm das Thema Mobilfunk schon lange am Herzen lag. "Ich hatte die Wahl zwischen nichts tun und abwarten, wegziehen oder etwas gegen den Mast zu unternehmen. Ich habe mich für das Letztere entschieden", meint Eisele und blickt beunruhigt durch sein Esszimmerfenster auf den Sendemast, der zwischen den Baumwipfeln hindurch zu sehen ist.

Neue Wohnung genommen

Einen anderen Weg wählte eine junge Frau, die zusammen mit ihrer Familie weg vom Burgberg und dem "Krebsmacher" (ein Anwohner) zog. Die Ärzte stellten bei der Lichtenfelserin Brustkrebs fest. "Ob der Sendemast mit seinen Strahlen die alleinige Ursache für den Tumor war, kann ich nicht sagen", äußert sich die Frau vorsichtig. Sie nimmt aber an, dass die Elektrowellen bereits geschädigte Zellen weiter zerstören und damit das Wachstum von Krebs fördern würden. ,,Wir haben uns bewusst eine Wohnung gesucht, die weit weg von jedem Sendemast steht."

Weiter am Burgberg wohnen bleibt dagegen eine andere junge Familie. "Was sollen wir machen? Wir haben unser Haus doch erst vor ein paar Jahren gekauft", erzählt die Frau. Sie selbst leide unter einem geschwächten Immunsystem, sei sehr anfällig für Krankheiten. Sobald sie von der Arbeit nach Hause komme, leide sie unter Kreislaufproblemen.

Die hat Sven Eisele noch nicht, doch er hat Schlafstörungen. Ursache ist seiner Meinung der Funkturm. Doch nicht nur deswegen will er den Sender weghaben. "Ich mache mir Sorgen um die Kinder", sagt Eisele. Dass er mit der Bürgerinitiative sein Ziel erreichen kann, davon ist der 35-Jährige überzeugt. Schließlich habe es in Holzkirchen bei München eine Bürgergruppe geschafft, einen Funkmast stillzulegen.

Die Initiative "Senderfreies Lichtenfels" plant übrigens im April oder Mai die Veranstaltung eines Vortrages zum Thema mit einem namhaften Referenten. Außerdem wolle man das Gespräch mit Verantwortlichen der Stadt suchen, um über mögliche andere Standorte des Sendeturms zu diskutieren. Wer bei der Bürgerinitiative mitmachen möchte, erhält weitere Informationen bei Sven Eisele, Tel. 09571/73355.

*Namen von der Redaktion geändert.

http://portal.obermain.de/pub/index.php?mid=75&aid=408&if=10258411.html


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Krebshäufung in der Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580235/

Bushs eindeutige Geste

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/668/49619/

Our Currency, Your Problem

More than you ever wanted to know about our currency.

Our Currency, Your Problem

by NIALL FERGUSON
Published: March 13, 2005
The New York Times

Every congressman knows that the United States currently runs large ''twin deficits'' on its budget and current accounts. Deficit 1, as we well know, is just the difference between federal tax revenues and expenditures. Deficit 2 is generally less well understood: it's the difference between all that Americans earn from foreigners (mainly from exports, services and investments abroad) and all that they pay out to foreigners (for imports, services and loans). When a government runs a deficit, it can tap public savings by selling bonds. But when the economy as a whole is running a deficit -- when American households are saving next to nothing of their disposable income -- there is no option but to borrow abroad.
[...]
Let's translate that into political terms. In effect, the Bush administration's combination of tax cuts for the Republican ''base'' and a Global War on Terror is being financed with a multibillion dollar overdraft facility at the People's Bank of China. Without East Asia, your mortgage might well be costing you more. The toys you buy for your kids certainly would.
[...]
Why are the Chinese monetary authorities so willing to underwrite American profligacy? Not out of altruism. The principal reason is that if they don't keep on buying dollars and dollar-based securities as fast as the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury can print them, the dollar could slide substantially against the Chinese renminbi, much as it has declined against the euro over the past three years. Knowing the importance of the U.S. market to their export industries, the Chinese authorities dread such a dollar slide. The effect would be to raise the price, and hence reduce the appeal, of Chinese goods to American consumers -- and that includes everything from my snowproof hiking boots to the modem on my desk. A fall in exports would almost certainly translate into job losses in China at a time when millions of migrants from the countryside are pouring into the country's manufacturing sector. [...] Read all of it at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/magazine/13WWLN.html


© Virginia Metze

Clark Plans to Stay at Forefront of Debate

Wed Mar 16,10:09 PM ET Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Wesley Clark ( news - web sites ) told supporters Wednesday that he's launched a redesigned Web site for his political action committee and plans to "stay at the forefront of the national debate."

The retired four-star general was one of several Democrats who ran for president in 2004. He abandoned the race in early February of that year after two third-place finishes in Southern states.

"I have been working hard to regroup after the November elections," Clark wrote in an e-mail to supporters, adding that he wants to strengthen WesPAC, his political action committee, "for the challenges ahead." [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/6hqqg

When I was getting totally frustrated about Kerry's concession and his staying out of the Ohio and Florida recounts, I got zero results calling the Kerry office and the DNC. But when I called one of the Edwards offices in his home state, I got to speak to a fantastic man who understood what on earth I was talking about and was going to make sure a message got to Edwards. I was wanting Edwards to refuse to concede. Who says he had to because Kerry did? I don't know any more who the guy was; he sounded older and black, and was very understanding of the tragedy which was occuring.

© Virginia Metze

The Art of War, Divide & Conquer

http://www.newswithviews.com/Newby/john11.htm

Wolfowitz Pick for World Bank Prompts Head-Scratching

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe203.html

Playing the Democracy Card

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt57.html

Other Blood on Their Hands

http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger23.html
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