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Apr
2005

Infinite Injustice

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8419.htm

3G it's fantastic

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/3g_its_fantastic.swf

If you cannot open download Télécharger Flashplayer:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/flash/english/win95nt/7.0.19.0/flashplayer7installer.exe


In a few days, the official reply from the office of the Administrative Council France ASL to Orange France.

Scientists find way to make us slaves

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1313556,00.html


Informant: Anna Webb

OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/articles/Ohio_s_Odd_Numbers.htm


Informant: Martin Greenhut

US military 'recognizes' its own regulations on DU

http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_regs.html


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

Laos: Weltbank und Deutschland unterstützen Staudammprojekt

Chaos in Laos?: Weltbank und Deutschland unterstützen Staudammprojekt (01.04.05)

Deutschland hat am Donnerstag in der Weltbank für einen neuen "Megastaudamm" in Laos gestimmt. Dies berichtete die Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsorganisation "urgewald" zusammen mit dem "International Rivers Network" am Freitag. Die Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) meinen, dass der 1,3 Milliarden US-Dollar teure "Nam Theun 2"-Staudamm die Lebensgrundlage von bis zu 120.000 Menschen bedroht. Geplant sei, dass die produzierte Energie an Thailand verkauft werde und zu einer Steigerung der Staatseinnahmen für Laos beitragen könne. Trotz einer entsprechenden Zusicherung der laotischen Regierung zweifeln die Weltbank und das Bundesministerium für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (BMZ) offenbar daran, dass das erwirtschaftete Geld tatsächlich zur Armutsbekämpfung eingesetzt würde. Bisherige Erfahrungen mit Staudämmen in Laos ließen nichts Gutes hoffen, so Ann Kathrin Schneider vom International Rivers Network (IRN). Die soziale Lage der bisherigen Damm-Betroffenen habe sich deutl
ich verschlechtert, und sie warteten vergeblich darauf, dass die Regierung etwas dagegen unternehme. Die Organisationen kritisieren einen "Wiedereinstieg der Weltbank in die Förderung von grossen Infrastrukturprojekten". Es werde ein Grossprojekt unterstützt, "das zahlreiche Umwelt- und Sozialstandards der Weltbank bricht und gegen fast alle Empfehlungen der Weltstaudammkommission verstösst," sagte Regine Richter von urgewald.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10798

Überwachungsstaat: 2004 fast 30.000 Anordnungen für Telefonüberwachungen

Überwachungsstaat?: 2004 fast 30.000 Anordnungen für Telefonüberwachungen (01.04.05)

Die Zahl der Telefonüberwachungen ist 2004 erneut stark gestiegen. Das teilte der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar am Donnerstag in Bonn mit. Nach den neuesten Zahlen der Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post hätten die Telekommunikationsunternehmen der Regulierungsbehörde für das vergangene Jahr 29.017 Anordnungen zur Telefonüberwachung gemeldet. Das waren rund 4500 Fälle mehr als 2003. 2003 waren es 24.501, 2002 21.874 und 2001 19.896 Anordnungen. Im Vergleich zum Jahr 1995 mit damals 4674 Anordnungen bedeute dies eine Zunahme von mehr als 500 Prozent in weniger als einem Jahrzehnt, kritisierte Schaar.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10797

What we're not being told about the dangers of electro-magnetic radiation

(excerpt)

The latest issue of What Doctors Don't Tell You (April 2005, vol 16 no 1) has made a disturbing discovery that we thought you should know about immediately.

A US government agency with the grand title of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement has produced a report on the dangers of electro-magnetic fields (EMFs) and concluded that they posed ' . . a risk factor with significant societal consequences by reason of its pervasive nature and serious consequences for affected individuals.' The report also went on to recommend that the maximum permitted personal EMF exposure level be reduced by a factor of 500 - from 100 microteslas down to just 0.2.

It may not surprise you to learn that this report was never made public - and may well have remained that way if it were not for the latest exposé by What Doctors Don't Tell You which amasses all the latest scientific research on the hazards of EMF pollution - alerting you to the dangers so that you can take positive action to start eliminating them from your life.

It makes essential reading and if you want to get hold of the full report, then you'll be glad to hear that you can get this report plus other publications and services FREE when you subscribe. Click this link for more information http://www.wddty.co.uk/shop/details.asp?product=330

Officially, electrohypersensitivity (ES) is a problem that doesn't exist, but researchers from Sweden's prestigious Karolinska Institute estimate that as much as 3 per cent of the population suffer extreme adverse reactions to EMFs. Symptoms range from headaches and a flu-like feeling to chronic fatigue and depression, and yet mainstream medicine dismisses electro-sensitive people as hypochondriacs.

For decades it has been an open secret that workers exposed to continual electro-magnetic radiation - for example, electronics technicians, TV and radio assemblers, welders and train drivers - run a significantly higher risk of brain tumours and leukaemia - in some cases, as much as three times the risk.

But it's not just workers in the electronics and electrical industries who are at risk. Just six month ago, a team from Oxford University concluded that children living within 100 metres of overhead power lines had almost twice the risk of developing leukaemia.

So with this in mind, here's a quick intelligence test for all our readers:

Question: If EMF exposure at 0.2 microteslas roughly doubles childhood leukaemia cases and if 0.35 microteslas trebles this risk as research indicates, what level has the UK government adopted as an acceptable level for public exposure?

Answer: Congratulations to all those who guessed 100 microteslas. (It seems that the US government didn't want to tell the UK government either)

Incredibly, we are all being exposed to 500 times more than the safe limit of exposure, most of which happens in our own homes pumped out by everyday domestic electrical items, such as wireless broadband, computers, washing machines, TVs, bedside clocks and mobile phones.

From Mast Network

Islands Spirit Rising

Late last year, over 4,000 RAN supporters backed the Haida Nation in its legal battle against Weyerhaeuser over the future of the islands of Haida Gwaii, B.C.

This week, after over 18 months of negotiations and a string of broken promises from Weyerhaeuser, the controversy has reached a boiling point. Hundreds of Island residents have begun "Islands Spirit Rising"-- effectively shutting down all logging by Weyerhaeuser on the islands to demand a say in the future of their home. They are asking for our support.

Click below to lean more, to sound off or to get involved in the Islands Spirit Rising. http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=85038

The message is clear "enough is enough". According to a statement issued by the Islands Spirit Rising, " Weyerhaeuser has shown no respect for the land, the culture, or the people who have worked for them. Weyerhaeuser has also shown no respect for its own word. In commitments made to the [Council of the Haida Nation], the communities and the people who work for them, five of the six commitments [made to the Haida by Weyerhaeuser] have been violated. Now the company is poised to sell its interests and in its final hours is attempting to strip all that it can from this land."

Tell Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel that enough is enough at the link below:
http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2844473&l=85038

HOWA,

--The RAN Old Growth Team

BOLTON THE DESTROYER

(excerpt)

It's the kind of material which is very frequently omitted, even by those who oppose Bolton on the grounds that he's boorish or ineffective and so on and on.

Bolton the Destroyer

It looks like Bolton's hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee for confirmation as UN ambassador will come up April 7. Here is some of the vast amount of ammunition that can be used to try to stop his wrecking machine. This is a report I gave on "Cuba in Focus," hosted by Sally O'Brien on WBAI 99.5 on the FM dial, Pacifica Radio, New York, on March 28.

Siempre,
Jane Franklin
http://ourworld.compuserve/homepages/jbfranklins



BOLTON THE DESTROYER


John Bolton has been nominated by President Bush as ambassador to the United Nations despite the fact that Bolton has repeatedly expressed contempt for the UN, including, "There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only power in the world and that is the United States when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along." Diplomats from around the world are astounded at his nomination.

For Cuba, Bolton is an especially threatening choice because he led the campaign to convince the world that Cuba's health system is a cover for bioterrorism. The continuation of a policy aimed at destroying Cuba's health system depends upon keeping the people of the United States in a state of ignorance. This is where experts in lies and disinformation come in. In May 2002 just six days before former President Jimmy Carter was to fly to Havana, John Bolton announced, "The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort." Bolton's disinformation was broadcast worldwide.

But Jimmy Carter did not cancel his visit, and during his tour of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana with Fidel Castro, he made his own announcement: that during briefings before his visit, he asked the White House, the CIA and Bolton's own State Department if there were any "possible terrorist activities that were supported by Cuba" and the answer was "No."

But President Bush does not need evidence. Outright lies have become a cornerstone of his administration, even leading to the disastrous war in Iraq. Drunk with power, Bush, at every opportunity, is placing right-wing fanatics into powerful positions to create an empire for what they call the New American Century, where what is good for them is good for the world.

It follows that the one institution that represents the world's various countries--the United Nations--must be reformed. The many voices at the UN must become one voice. John Bolton is just the man to orchestrate that campaign. Take a look at his qualifications.

As a teenager he worked in the 1964 presidential campaign of right-winger Barry Goldwater. After law school at Yale, he became an Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General Edwin Meese, opposing Congressional efforts to investigate the Justice Department's role in the Iran-Contra Affair. He linked up with right-wing Senator Jesse Helms and worked on a campaign to oppose a voter registration drive for Blacks and organized labor.

In the year 2000, Bolton was a member of the legal team that flew to Florida after the Florida State Supreme Court ordered a recount of the votes for president. That legal team insured the Supreme Court selection of Bush as president. After the Supreme Court ordered a halt to the recount, Bolton entered a Tallahassee library where the count was still going on and declared, "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the vote."

This led straight to his being chosen as Deputy Secretary of State for Disarmament Affairs and International Security. In that job, Bolton has aimed at disarming other nations while arming the United States for War Without End. After all, Senator Helms did say that Bolton is "the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon."

Bolton led the U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, opening the heavens for Star Wars. He successfully opposed Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, opening the door for the testing of a new generation of nuclear weapons. Last year when Bush withdrew the U.S. signature from the International Criminal Court agreement that President Clinton had signed, Bolton signed the formal notification to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and called that "the happiest moment" in his government service.

So if Bolton is confirmed as UN Ambassador, what kind of destructive thing will he enjoy doing to Cuba? Cuba has always been elected to be a member of the UN Human Rights Commission, and this year the Latin American and Caribbean group elected Cuba to represent them on the Standing Committee--that is, the decision-making committee--of the Human Rights Commission, a striking rejection of U.S. attempts to isolate Cuba. One of John Bolton's priorities would certainly be to try to change the rules of the Human Rights Commission, allowing maneuvers to exclude Cuba, making it easier to use the Commission as a weapon against Cuba.


Informant: Walter Lippmann

The Imminent Collapse of the U.S. Dollar

As I was describing in an earlier Email and during our meeting on Tuesday, that the US dollar is facing imminent collapse. Read about it here. After you're done, read the daily newsletter I'll be forwarding next.

The Imminent Collapse of the U.S. Dollar (part 1)
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/3/30/business/10547137&sec=business

The Imminent Collapse of the U.S. Dollar (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/4af2o

Dollar headed for collapse

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/31/2003248499


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Umweltschäden gefährden künftige Generationen

Studie: Umweltschäden gefährden künftige Generationen
(31.03.2005)

Der Raubbau an der Natur bedroht die Gesundheit der Menschheit schon heute und kann in den kommenden 50 Jahren gravierende Folgen für die Weltbevölkerung haben ...

http://www.pro-regenwald.de/index2.php?p=new_mill.php

The Project for the New American Century

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm


Informant: Scott Munson

Hunzinger-Spende an Fischer beschäftigt Bundestag

Rede vor Wirtschaftsführern: Hunzinger-Spende an Fischer beschäftigt Bundestag (01.04.05)

Bundesaußenministers Joschka Fischer hatte im September 1998 noch als Grünen-Fraktionschef eine Rede vor Wirtschaftsführern in Frankfurt am Main über "grüne Politik" gehalten. Wie der Frankfurter PR-Unternehmer Moritz Hunzinger der "Bild"-Zeitung sagte, sei dafür ein Honorar von 19.999 Mark geflossen. Das Honorar sei als Scheck ausgehändigt worden. Diese Parteispende Hunzingers an die Grünen soll nun ein parlamentarisches Nachspiel haben.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10793


Hunzinger belastet Fischer: „Machen Sie 19.999 Mark daraus”
http://www.faz.net/s/Rub6EAA9BF249C249FE86A5EFF3F83DC130/Doc~E8353083EB4264E708A34229A98F8A813~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Battle For World Order

by Robin Cook, The Guardian

The former British foreign minister says the clash between neocons and Kofi Annan is about U.S. supremacy versus U.N. equality.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/?dateid=20050401#004317

Bold Prescriptions

by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com

From the Schiavo tragedy to pro-life pharmacists, personal rights are under attack. It's time progressives fought back.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bold_prescriptions.php?dateid=20050401

Bush's Character Flaw

by Earl Hadley, TomPaine.com

Struggling students don't need lessons about moral values from the president -- they need financial aid.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/bushs_character_flaw.php?dateid=20050401

Spying on America

http://tinyurl.com/3p7h3

Number of Prisoners Held by US in Iraq Doubled in 5 Months

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1166130.htm
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=7258


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Street Spirit On Line

Street Spirit is a publication of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) that reports extensively on homelessness, poverty, economic inequality, welfare issues, human rights issues and the struggle for social justice. For the past 10 years, Street Spirit has been dedicated to empowering poor and homeless people and giving a voice to the voiceless, at a time when the voices of the poor are virtually locked out of the mainstream media

Street Spirit features investigative reporting about an alarming new wave of civil rights abuses and police harassment targeted at homeless people. Our articles document the struggle for dignity and human rights by low-income psychiatric inmates, street youth, homeless women, welfare recipients, and poor seniors facing eviction. Street Spirit reports with a truly populist perspective from the shelters, back alleys, soup kitchen lines and slum hotels where mainstream reporters rarely or never visit – speaking truth to power and breaking the corporate media's "vow of silence" about the growing disgrace of ever-widening poverty in the richest nation on earth.

Street Spirit's reporting was responsible for alerting the public to widespread violations of low-income psychiatric patients at East Bay Hospital in Richmond, a hospital used as a dumping ground for homeless, poor and severely disabled people by nine Bay Area counties. As a testament to the power of the press, our reporting was instrumental in shutting down that notoriously abusive facility, the largest psychiatric hospital (until its closure) in Contra Costa County.

Street Spirit provides homeless people with a voice which cannot be found in the mainstream media. In our news coverage, commentary, art, and poetry, we focus on the crucial areas of concern which affect the daily lives and survival of the homeless poor. Just as importantly, the newspaper is distributed on the streets by homeless vendors, enabling them to earn a living to make it through these hard economic times.

Street Spirit On Line http://www.thestreetspirit.org

Contact: Terry Messman, Editor
spirit@afsc.org
510-238-8080 ext. 303


Informant: Robert Mills

Calls Needed to Stop Biscuit Roadless Logging

Urgent - Calls Needed to Stop Biscuit Roadless Logging

Roadless logging in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area of Southwestern Oregon is becoming even more imminent. The Siskiyou National Forest may auction the Mike's Gulch timber sale, located within the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area, within weeks.

The Mike's Gulch timber sale is the first roadless sale to be unleashed in the Biscuit Logging Project. It will virtually clearcut 335 contiguous acres of roadless forest in the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area located near the spectacular Kalmiopsis Wilderness. This area also contains old growth forest reserves that are supposed to be protected from logging for sensitive species.

The 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area in Southern Oregon was a natural event that affected the untrammeled, biologically rich Siskiyou Wild Rivers landscape that centers around the 179,000-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness in the southwestern corner of Oregon. The roadless wildlands around the Kalmiopsis Wilderness include the South and North Kalmiopsis Inventoried Roadless Areas. At 104,620 acres and 88,852 acres, they are the first and third largest unprotected roadless forests in Oregon. This large roadless landscape is the watershed for three National Wild & Scenic Rivers and five candidate Wild & Scenic Rivers, containing some of the most valuable wild salmon & steelhead habitat from the Olympics to Baja.

Calls are needed TODAY to Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, urging him to take action to protect roadless Siskiyou forests.

Call Governor Kulongoski at (503) 378-4582, and tell him that you care about the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area, that this is a special place of national significance, and urge him to publicly oppose the logging of roadless forests in the Siskiyou and demand that the Forest Service NOT auction roadless logging sales like the Mike's Gulch timber sale.

For a factsheet from the Siskiyou Project on roadless area threats in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area, go to:
http://www.siskiyou.org/swrc/timbersales/Mikes_Gulch_roadless_area.cfm>http://www.siskiyou.org/swrc/timbersales/Mikes_Gulch_roadless_area.cfm

For photos of the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless Areas, Mike's Gulch timber sale area, and photos of recent logging, go to:
http://www.americanlands.org/activistResources.php?subsection=Photo%20Library&cat=1102008134>http://www.americanlands.org/activistResources.php?subsection=Photo%20Library&cat=1102008134

For more details go to:

http://www.siskiyou.org
http://www.kswild.org
http://www.o2collective.org


American Lands Alliance http://americanlands.org

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Fake News? We Told You So, Ten Years Ago

http://www.prwatch.org/node/3518


Informant: Friends

Amnesty International Urges Brazil to Help its Indians

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30169/story.htm

Global Warming of Atlantic Could Hit Fish

Study
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30160/story.htm

Forest Protestor Clogs Portland, Oregon Traffic

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/30158/story.htm

Greenpeace Activist News, Vol 5, No. 3

http://tinyurl.com/48bo8

Most in US Oppose Nuclear Weapons

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/033105G.shtml

The Expanding Evangelical Frontier

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/033105D.shtml

Update from the Field 3/31/05

http://tinyurl.com/3nqgj

The BRIEF NEWS ON CANCER And ELECTROPOLLUTION

http://tinyurl.com/54zza

Machine translation from Spanish in English

Informant: Sylvie


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/

Kyrgyzstan, the USA and Central Asia

http://www.marxist.com/Asia/kyrgyzstan_demonstrations.htm


Informant: Cort Greene

A Quarterly Report from Bush-Cheney Media Enterprises

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0331-30.htm

Canadian Waters Stained Red by Baby Seal Cull

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-04.htm

No Nations Should Have Nuclear Weapons - Including US

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-05.htm

Seismic testing threatens marine life

http://www.wildcanada.net/documents/aa-215b.asp

Cheney Energy Policy 'Monumentally' Dumb

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/033105EC.shtml

In the Name of Politics

An increasing number of Republicans are joining the ranks of Democrats and progressives nationwide in declaring the simple truth: the GOP and its policies perfectly echo the views of the ultra-conservative Christian right.

Just listen to the words of Republican Representative Christopher Shays (R-CT), who said this week that "this Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." (Click here for more information) or link:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/30/schiavo.tm/

Or hear what former GOP Senator John Danforth -- an Episcopal minister and President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations until his resignation two months ago -- had to say in yesterday's New York Times: "By a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians. ... The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement."

Below please find more excerpts from Ambassador Danforth's eloquent essay about how today's GOP is -- first and foremost -- the party of Christian conservatism in America.



The New York Times

In the Name of Politics

By JOHN C. DANFORTH

Published: March 30, 2005

By a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians. The elements of this transformation have included advocacy of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, opposition to stem cell research involving both frozen embryos and human cells in petri dishes, and the extraordinary effort to keep Terri Schiavo hooked up to a feeding tube.

Standing alone, each of these initiatives has its advocates, within the Republican Party and beyond. But the distinct elements do not stand alone. Rather they are parts of a larger package, an agenda of positions common to conservative Christians and the dominant wing of the Republican Party.

... It is not evident to many of us that cells in a petri dish are equivalent to identifiable people suffering from terrible diseases. I am and have always been pro-life. But the only explanation for legislators comparing cells in a petri dish to babies in the womb is the extension of religious doctrine into statutory law.

...When government becomes the means of carrying out a religious program, it raises obvious questions under the First Amendment. But even in the absence of constitutional issues, a political party should resist identification with a religious movement. While religions are free to advocate for their own sectarian causes, the work of government and those who engage in it is to hold together as one people a very diverse country. At its best, religion can be a uniting influence, but in practice, nothing is more divisive. For politicians to advance the cause of one religious group is often to oppose the cause of another.

To read the complete op-ed by Ambassador Danforth, please click here -- and here is link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/opinion/30danforth.html?ex=1112850000&en=0c5f9ad72bca1732&ei=5070


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Genetically Engineered Crops Damage Wildlife

Institute for Responsible Technology
Spilling the Beans, March, 2005

Note from the Institute: We are seeking donations of frequent flyer miles to help us respond to requests from several developing countries for speakers. Please contact info@seedsofdeception.com .

Genetically Engineered Crops Damage Wildlife

By Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception

Things aren’t going so well for farmland birds of Western Europe. Some species are at only one tenth their population of 30 years ago and several have abandoned their old habitats altogether. Why? Chemical intensive industrial agriculture is killing the wild seeds and bugs they eat. This trend is particularly alarming in the UK, where about 68 percent of the land is used for agriculture. 1 Dropping bird counts indicate serious environmental imbalance, a trend which the UK Government has committed to reverse by 2020 2 Thus, when the largest environmental study of genetically modified (GM) crops indicated that farmland bird populations would plummet even further if the crops were widely planted, the Independent described it as a nail “hammered into the coffin of the GM food industry,” which, “sealed the fate of GM in the UK.” 3

The study, released on March 21, 2005 4 was the last of four farm-scale field trials. This one compared GM winter-sown canola (oilseed rape) with non-GM varieties grown side-by-side in 65 plots throughout the UK. For three years, scientists visited fields 7,000 times and counted a million weeds and two million insects. Although the total weed count for the GM and non-GM fields was about the same, the types of weeds were different. GM fields had about one-third fewer seeds from broad-leaved weeds, and that’s the problem for the birds. Skylarks, tree sparrows, bullfinches and others, eat the seeds from these broad-leaved varieties. As the weeds decline, so too would the birds’ chances of survival. Also, insects feed on the flowers of broad-leaved weeds. This helps explain why the bee population among the GM fields was cut by up to half and butterflies by up to two-thirds during the month of July.

GM crops don’t directly reduce insect- and bird-friendly weeds. It’s the herbicide that they are engineered to withstand that does the damage. Of the 170 million acres of GM crops planted around the world—almost three times the size of the UK—about 80 percent have their DNA altered to survive applications of herbicide. Farmers spray over the top of “herbicide tolerant” GM crops, a practice that would kill natural varieties. Farmers apply broad-spectrum herbicides to GM crops later in the season and use more of it—lots more. In the U.S., where 64 percent of the world’s GM crops are planted, herbicide use has grown by 138 million pounds over the last nine years. The rate of application is accelerating due to weeds becoming immune to the herbicide. Based on projections from recent trends and reports from land grant universities, the amount of Roundup herbicide used on GM “Roundup Ready” soy (which comprises 85 percent of the US soy harvest) is estimated to be about 86 percent more than that used on non-GM varieties in 2004 5 If the UK trials lasted several more years, the herbicide dosage there would also likely increase and its effects be more pronounced.

Impacts on wildlife vary with the type of GM crop. Two earlier UK farm-scale trials—one looking at spring-sown GM canola, the other GM beets—showed greater damage to butterfly and bee populations and plant diversity than the winter-sown canola. In a fourth trial, wildlife appeared to fair better in the fields of GM corn. But the non-GM fields were treated with atrazine, a weed killer so toxic, it was banned by the EU two weeks after the field trial ended in October, 2003.

Comparing GM crops to a banned substance should have nullified the results of the trial. Nonetheless, the pro-GM UK government approved the corn, but added regulations on how and where the crop could be planted and indicated that the company would assume some liability for crop-related damage. Unwilling to comply with the government’s “obstacles,” Bayer CropScience, withdrew its application for the GM corn three weeks later. Bayer also makes the winter-sown canola that performed poorly in the trial. It turns out that 23 out of 25 EU countries had raised objections to the canola being grown in Europe 6 due to both environmental and health concerns. The Austrian response stated, “No data/studies at all on possible effects on human health are provided.” The French said the safety of the crop “from the health point of view cannot be guaranteed.” 7 Bayer said they wouldn’t even try to grow it in Europe. It is, however, grown in the U.S. and Canada, where studies on health are not required and in-depth environmental impact assessments have not been conducted.

The U.S. government has been sharply criticized for allowing millions of acres of GM crops to be planted without carefully evaluating the consequences. In 1999, after Cornell researchers discovered that pesticide producing GM corn planted around the country may threaten monarch butterflies, a department of agriculture official said, “We knew things like monarchs and other butterflies would be susceptible. That’s part of the general background noise.” 8 Several species of birds in the U.S. are also on the decline, but no studies have been done to see if the increased use of herbicides due to GM crops might be a cause. An article by the U.S. Geological Survey states, “It seems likely, in fact, that more than enough effort is being expended on monitoring birds, and that some of those resources could usefully be redirected to other... work such as identifying causes of declines.” 9

Large study, narrow focus

The UK farm-scale trials were the largest study ever to evaluate the ecological effects of GM crops. Nonetheless, it overlooked more important data than it gathered.

Contamination of non-GM crops was not analyzed. In Canada, there is so much contamination from GM canola, non-GM and organic farmers have given up and several are filing lawsuits. Many factors are responsible for contamination, including wind and insects. Bees can carry pollen more than 16 miles, yet the current standard separation distance between GM and non-GM varieties in the UK is 50 meters (expandable to 200 in certain cases). Canola also cross-pollinates with weedy relatives such as wild turnip, which become resistant to weed killer. The weeds can harbor the herbicide tolerant gene for years and also transfer it to non-GM canola.

Contamination also occurs when unharvested seeds fall on the ground and then grow in subsequent years. Studies show that if a farmer plants GM canola for one season and non-GM thereafter, his or her harvest will have GM contamination at greater than 1 percent for up to 16 years 10 If the farmer plants a different crop in the same field, the “volunteer” GM canola becomes a difficult weed—resistant to weed killer. In Canada, some plants are resistant to three different herbicides due to cross pollination from multiple varieties 11 Farmers have to use more toxic chemicals to control them.

The UK trials didn’t examine the rising use of herbicides due to GM crops and the impact on the environment or human health. Since the herbicide is sprayed directly on the GM plants, the food carries greater residues. An article published on February 24, 2005 in Environmental Health Perspectives 12 found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, had toxic effects and endocrine disturbances on human placental cells in test tubes. The authors believe this might account for reports of increased premature births and miscarriages among women farmers using glyphosate 13 The study also found that Roundup, which contains additional ingredients, was more toxic than glyphosate alone. Similarly, a December 2004 study in Toxicological Science 14 found that Roundup—and not glyphosate alone—damaged the DNA in a way that might increase cancer risk 15

Another area neglected by the farm-scale trials was analysis of soil ecology. Laboratory studies have confirmed that transgenes from GM crops can transfer into soil bacteria, but the implications of this are not understood. 16

The trials did not look at the type of GM crops engineered to produce their own pesticide. These “Bt” crops can kill beneficial insects, create pesticide tolerant insects, and put pesticide into the soil, where it can bind with clay and remain stable for months or years.

A more significant area of study that is needed may be the changes to the GM crops’ DNA and physiology. The process of genetically altering a crop can damage its DNA, change the output of large numbers of genes, create unpredicted increases or decreases in compounds and nutrients, and cause genetic instability. One controversial study published in Nature 17 found evidence suggesting that the DNA in corn might become unstable after it is cross pollinated with GM varieties. The corn DNA appeared to contain several fragments of the promoter—genetic material inserted into GM crops with the foreign genes. If verified, this finding might mean that the promoter makes the DNA unstable, causing genes to fragment and scatter through the genome. Biotech scientists were quick to argue against such an interpretation, but none have bothered to do follow up research on this potentially disastrous finding.

Finally, the farm-scale trials compared GM crops to the chemical intensive monoculture farming system that was responsible for wildlife devastation. Organic and sustainable farming techniques have been shown to reverse damage to the ecosystem. Shouldn’t some of the millions spent on testing also evaluate these alternatives?

In spite of its shortcomings, the study’s findings about threats to bird populations are significant. According to Frank Gill, the Audubon Society’s former chief ornithologist, “Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, birds are primary indicators of environmental health, and what hurts birds also hurts the people who share the same space.” 18 The trial also left a lasting impression: The GM traits have certainly spread to non-GM plants, and will persist in the environment perhaps for centuries.

© Copyright 2004 by Jeffrey M. Smith. Permission is granted to reproduce this in whole or in part.



1. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D7649.xls
2. The state of the UK's birds 2003: The UK ‘Quality of Life’ wild bird indicator, RSPB http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/sotukb/wildbirdindicator.asp
3. Steve Connor, Michael McCarthy and Colin Brown, The end for GM crops: Final British trial confirms threat to wildlife, The Independent, 22 March 2005
4. David A. Bohan, et al., “Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape,” Proc. R. Soc. B (2005) 272, 463–474, doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3049, Published online 7 March 2005, http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/proc_bio_content/pdf/rspb20043049.pdf
5. Charles M. Benbrook, Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Nine Years. BioTech InfoNet, Technical Paper Number 7, October 2004
6. BIOTECH FIRM REJECTS GM CROP, Press Release, Friends of the Earth, March, 19, 2005, http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/biotech_firm_rejects_gm_cr_18032005.html
7. ibid
8. Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “What’s Next for Biotech Crops? Questions,” New York Times, December 19, 2000
9. MONITORING THE ABUNDANCE OF BIRD POPULATIONS, U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangelands Ecosystem Science Center, 970 Lusk Street, Boise, Idaho 83706, USA, The Auk 122(1):15–25, 2005
10. Squire, G.R. & Askew, A. Final Report - DEFRA project RG0114: The potential for oilseed rape feral (volunteer) weeds to cause impurities in later oilseed rape crops. (2003)
11. Orson, J. Gene stacking in herbicide tolerant oilseed rape: lessons from the North American experience. English Nature Research Report No. 443. English Nature: Peterborough. (2002)
12. Sophie Richard, et. al., Differential effects of glyphosate and Roundup on human placental cells and aromatase, Environ Health Perspect doi:10.1289/ehp.7728 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online24February2005]
13. Herve Morin, Roundup Doesn't Poison Only Weeds, Le Monde, 12 March 2005 http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032805HB.shtml ,
14. Julie Marc, et. al., Formulated Glyphosate Activates the DNA-Response Checkpoint of the Cell Cycle Leading to the Prevention of G2/M Transition, Toxicol. Sci., Dec 2004; 82: 436 - 442.
15. Herve Morin, Roundup Doesn't Poison Only Weeds, Le Monde, 12 March 2005 http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032805HB.shtml ,
16. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ireaff99.php
17. Quist, D., and I.H. Chapela. Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nature 414(Nov. 29) 2001:541–543.
18. John Pickrell, Quarter of U.S. Birds in Decline, Says Audubon, National Geographic News November 5, 2002 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1105_021105_BirdDecline.html

Enlisting Evil

State of the Notion -- Part 4: Enlisting Evil
31 March 2005
by SkewsMe.com

"The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home."[1]

"President Bush signed legislation into law [25 March 2005] extending by two years the life of a government panel charged with declassifying CIA documents that detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis and war criminals. The legislation...clears the way for the release of thousands of documents on former Nazis, including some who assisted in the CIA's Cold War espionage against the former Soviet Union. The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group was established by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 and had been set to disband by the end of [March 2005]. The bill approved by Congress would extend the group's life through March 2007."[2] "Under pressure from Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency has formally agreed to a broad new interpretation of [the] 1998 law that requires disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals, a CIA document shows."[3]

"The National Security Archive posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army's intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals. The use of Gehlen's group, according to the CIA history, "Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49", was a "double edged sword" that "boosted the Warsaw Pact's propaganda efforts" and "suffered devastating penetrations by the KGB."

The declassified "SECRET RelGER" two-volume history was compiled by CIA historian Kevin Ruffner and presented in 1999 by CIA Deputy Director for Operations Jack Downing to the German intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) in remembrance of "the new and close ties" formed during post-war Germany to mark the fiftieth year of CIA-West German cooperation. This history was declassified in 2002 as a result of the work of The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) and contains 97 key documents from various agencies.

"The documentation unearthed by the IWG reveals extensive relationships between former Nazi war criminals and American intelligence organizations, including the CIA. For example, current records show that at least five associates of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA, 23 other Nazis were approached by the CIA for recruitment, and at least 100 officers within the Gehlen organization were former SD or Gestapo officers [Richard Breitman, Norman Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, (Washington, DC: National Archive Trust Fund Board, 2004), 377].

"The IWG enlisted the help of key academic scholars to consult during the declassification process, and these historians released their own interpretation of the declassified material last May (2004) in a publication called US Intelligence and the Nazis.

"This secret CIA history is full of documents we never would have seen under the Freedom of Information Act, because Congress in 1984 gave the CIA an exemption for its 'operational' files, on the grounds that such files were too sensitive ever to be released," commented Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive. "The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act has proven this assumption false. Release of these files has done no damage to national security, has provided information of enormous public interest and historical importance, and however belatedly, has brought a measure of accountability to government operations at variance with mainstream American values.""[4]

But importing Nazis was just the beginning. The US began enlisting other cruel people. One such person is Dr. Ewen Cameron. "Cameron was a very well known psychiatrist who worked for 21 years at the Allan Memorial Psychiatric Institute in Montreal, Quebec. He was highly esteemed among his colleagues and his peers. Gillmor (1987) suggests that Cameron was, when he died in 1967, "one of the most respected psychiatrists in the world" (p.1). At different times, he was head of the Quebec, Canadian, and American Psychiatric Associations, and he was a co-founder and the first president of the World Psychiatric Association (Gillmor, 1987). He believed that "madness" - his own term - was something that needed to be treated rather than feared, and that patients could not be locked up if they were to realize that they still belonged to society (Collins, 1988).

Cameron was an ambitious man. As Collins (1988) points out, he saw what was going on with the soldiers who were returning from the Second World War, and he wanted to be able to ease the stress and anxiety from which they were suffering. A loftier goal of Cameron’s was to conquer the process of aging. In time, he set up different research programs at the Allan Memorial. Of special interest to Cameron was the idea of sleep teaching. He had been in correspondence with Max Sherover, an American who had conquered his patients nail-biting habits by continuously playing a tape recording to them while they slept (Collins, 1988). Cameron began to experiment with the idea himself. He would, during a normal therapy session, record what he thought was a key statement that one of his patients had made (Gillmor, 1987). Later, Cameron would replay the statement repeatedly to the patient, in an attempt to break down the patient’s defense mechanisms and reach deeper material. Over time, Cameron developed this technique into a therapy that he called psychic driving. He introduced his form of therapy in a paper published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in January, 1956. As he explained it, psychic driving allowed for "the penetration of defenses, the elicitation of hitherto inaccessible material, and setting up of a dynamic implant" (Cameron, 1956, p. 503) or recurring thought that influenced the patient’s behaviour even after playback of the key statement had been stopped for some time. Cameron also reported that at times, the patient resisted listening to the repetition of the statement; this was handled by administering sodium amytal, a disinhibitant or "truth drug" (Collins, 1988), or by exposing the patient to the repetition during a period of prolonged sleep (Cameron, 1956). In his article, Cameron also admits to using stimulant drugs and LSD - without the patients’ consent - to disorganize the patient and thus allow the driving technique full access to the patient’s psyche. Collins (1988) explains that Cameron, keeping with the climate of the day, referred to his treatment as brainwashing. Psychic driving is a potent procedure - it invariably produces responses in the patient, and often intense responses [Ewen Cameron in his paper "Psychic Driving", 1956, p. 508].

"He began using electroconvulsive therapy in association with psychic driving, and referred to this as "depatterning". His aim was to disorganize disturbed or resistant patients, to allow psychic driving to have its full effect. He believed that "you could regress patients, particularly schizophrenics, back to their infancy" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56). This was done by administering ECT at much higher levels than it had ever been applied before. Under Cameron’s plan, patients received ECT "up to three times daily" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56), and this pattern of treatment would continue for thirty days (Collins, 1988). After this, he would attempt to "repattern" his patients with psychic driving. However, by this point, the patient was often "unable to walk or feed himself, and [was] likely incontinent" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56).

"Despite the objections of some of his colleagues, Cameron carried on trying to perfect his psychic driving technique (Gillmor, 1987). In 1961, he lost the financial support of the [Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology], and by 1964, his treatments were beginning to prove useless. He himself referred to psychic driving as "a ten-year trip down the wrong road" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 136). He left the Allan Memorial later that same year.

"Fifteen years later, a group of nine former patients at the Allan Memorial brought suit against the CIA for funding research that led to harm of the patients at the Allan (Collins, 1988)."[5] Hundreds of mentally ill patients...could be entitled to compensation following a landmark court ruling. A Federal Court judge in Montreal will allow more than 250 former patients, whose claims were rejected, to seek compensation. It took two decades and the persistence of Joseph Rauh, the distinguished American civil liberties lawyer, to uncover what happened and secure compensation for some of Cameron’s victims."[6] "Five decades later some are only now receiving compensation. [But] former patients are still struggling to cope with their time in the Allan"[7]

"One would assume that Cameron must not have had a very high regard for his patients’ rights if he was willing to inject them with LSD or administer repeated treatments of ECT. Morgan (1971) points out, however, that this fits with the attitude of Cameron’s time. Research ethics were previously not something one had to worry about; researchers were "...used to proceeding with their work without thinking or worrying about general ethical questions . . . [t]he usual rule has probably been: if you’re interested, investigate" (p. 276). The public would not have any objection to such treatment of mental patients.

"Because such attitudes have been so prominent, research has been allowed that has ignored the rights of the individual."[8] In a 1995 speech, President Bill Clinton emphasized that "thousands of government-sponsored experiments did take place at hospitals, universities, and military bases around our nation. Some were unethical, not only by today's standards, but by the standards of the time in which they were conducted. These and other experiments were carried out on precisely those citizens who count most on the government for its help - the destitute and the gravely ill.""[9]

Clinton's apology came 18 years after a Senate hearing on MKULTRA. "The existence of MK ULTRA was first brought to light by maverick government officer John Marks - on 20th September 1977. The U.S. Senate investigated MK ULTRA discovering that thousands of people had been the unwitting victims of mind control experiments.

"Part of MK ULTRA was the NAOMI PROJECT - involved in the creation of what were later to be called "Manchurian Candidates". Manchurian Candidates were people who were pre-programmed to become assassins without their knowledge. A post hypnotic trigger was used to put them into "killer mode"."[10] "Dr. George H. Estabrooks (1895-1973), speaking as the chaiman of the Department of Psychology of Colgate University, said, “I can hypnotize a man without his knowledge or consent into committing treason against the United States.” At the time he made that statement Dr. Estabrooks was one of this nation’s most authoritative voices in the field of hypnotism."[11] "Estabrooks proposed, over and over, that superspies with one-way amnesia should be created by deliberate personality splitting. An absolutely dependable, unbreakable amnesia for all events under hypnosis is the most essential single element to create an unknowing, authority-controlled hypnotic subject."[12]

"Between 1955 and 1975 thousands of people were unwittingly experimented upon by MK ULTRA and the U.S. Military. Of these approximately 7000 enlisted soldiers were used as human guinea pigs in experiments involving a wide array of biological and chemical warfare agents. About 3500 of these soldiers were given mind-altering psycho chemicals - L.S.D., PCP, BZ and the like. These tests were carried out at the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland."[13]

"[A documentary] broadcast by the German state television channel, ARD, suggests that the US government is [also] hiding biological warfare programs from the rest of the world, and actually employed such weapons in 1952 during the Korean War. The documentary, entitled "Codename Artichoke—the Secret Human Experiments of the CIA", was aired by ARD [in August 2002]. A book with the same title was published shortly afterwards. The authors of both the film and the book, TV journalists Edmond R. Koch and Michael Wech, focus on the case of biochemist Dr. Frank Olson, who died on November 28, 1953 after a mysterious fall from the 13th floor of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.

"At the time of his death, Olson had been given the highest clearance for access to classified information. He was one of the leading scientists doing research in the field of biological weapons, and had been working for ten years in the biological warfare facilities at Maryland’s Camp Detrick (today, Fort Detrick) near Washington DC.

"He also occupied a leading position in “Operation Artichoke,” a CIA program that coordinated all projects of the Army, Navy and CIA involving psychedelic drugs, fatal poisons and similar substances. Those involved in this project included German doctors who had experimented with human beings in the Nazi concentration camps.

"Artichoke involved the use of torture and drugs to interrogate people. The effects of substances such as LSD, heroin and marijuana were studied, using unsuspecting individuals as human guinea pigs. The CIA was eager to identify military uses for substances that altered the psyche. The agency was at that time obsessed with the idea that the Soviets or the Chinese might employ methods of brainwashing to recruit double agents or manipulate the population of entire nations. Artichoke also included the development of poisons that take effect immediately.

"Olson’s death was officially described as suicide due to depression. Only in the mid-1970s, when the CIA’s secret activities were scrutinised in the wake of the Watergate scandal, did the government admit to a certain degree of responsibility: Ten days before his death, the CIA had administered LSD to Olson without his knowledge. President Gerald Ford subsequently apologised to the family, and the CIA paid compensation to his widow."[14]

Adults were not the only victims. "Where it comes to sexual abuse and children, another name pops up, that's Project Monarch,"[15] "a highly complex form of trauma-based mind control."[16] "One can expect a variety of chemical electrical, low frequency stimulation and deprivation techniques to have been employed."[17] "Many of the abused come from families who use Catholicism, Mormonism, or charismatic Christianity as a “front” for their abominable activities (though members of other religious groups are also involved.)"[18]

Conclusion:

Systematic abuse of people has long been a part of world history, whether it was sacrificing your first-born son or allowing a government agency to utilize that same asset for a nation's insterests. But what came to light during the 1997 Senate hearings was so shocking that there was disbelief of accounts from victims of organized child abuse. There was further denial when investigations into the activities of a rising black political star, Larry King, came to light through the efforts of former US Senator John deCamp. King was allegedly involved in a government-sponsored child sex ring, but was eventually jailed on unrelated charges. "At least two of his victims have been wrongly imprisoned for refusing to recant their testimony" about this abuse.[19]

The Washington Times ran a front page article entitled "Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush". DeCamp's "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska" details this massive corruption. People close to the case even started dropping dead. "In mid-1993, after The Franklin Cover-Up had been circulating for almost a year, the British-based TV station, Yorkshire Television, sent a top-notch team to Nebraska to launch its own investigation of the Franklin case."[20] "On Tuesday May 3rd 1994 ["Conspiracy of Silence"] was scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel. Influencial members of congress applied pressure to the cable industry to stop the airing of the program and destroy all copies."[21]

With George H W Bush being implicated in a child sex abuse ring, it was imperitive that the information be censored in "the name of national security."[22] "Given the ubiquitous nature of corruption and institutionalized criminal practices in America, when it is exposed the question to be asked is not “how did it happen?” Rather, the question that must be asked is “why is it being exposed?”"[23] "The root problem of the world’s sexual child abuse and all other abuse is the Secret Societies. Paedophile police, judges, social workers and psychiatrists are put into key positions to cover-up any accusations of...abuse."[24]

Recently, papers have been circulating the Internet regarding the numerous Republicans convicted of pedophilia and other infidelitities. But this is not phenomena restricted only to one political party. Clinton's Attorney General, Janet Reno, has a history of botching child sex ring cases, not prosecuting illegal pornography, and even going so far as to try to legalize soft-core child porn when she was head of the Justice Department.[25]

The concept of organized child abuse is so abhorrent that most people deny it happens, so much so that even when military day care centers and elementary schools have been implicated, there is the inevitable cover-up.[26] When accused of abuse, governments often impose news blackouts, like when Operation Ore turned up pedophiles in the UK government.[27]

"The [Seattle/King County] Sexual Assault Resource Center reports that one in three girls and one in five boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 16 years old [John N. Briere, Child Abuse Trauma (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992); Diana E. Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986)]."[28] "Fewer than 10 percent of child sexual abuse cases are reported to authorities."[29]

With more than 25 percent of American children sexually abused, it appalls me that there is hardly a peep from government to address these issues. And even when raised, it's not unheard of for the person spearheading the investigation being actively involved in pedophilia.[30]

"We cannot expect [agencies] to control their own criminality. The forces that lead to their criminality are far too powerful. What is necessary is that citizen groups form that will constantly watch over government agencies."[31]
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Cameron, E. (1956). Psychic driving. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112 (7), 502-09.
Collins, A. (1988). In the sleep room: The story of the CIA brainwashing experiments in Canada. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys.
Gillmor, D. (1987). I swear by Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron and the CIA-brainwashing experiments. Montreal: Eden Press.
Morgan, J. (1971). Some reflections on the problems of research ethics. Ontario Psychologist, (5), 276-84.

[1] http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/project_paperclip.htm
[2] http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=8004201
[3] http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/07/MNGU8B72US1.DTL
[4] http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm
[5] http://www.sfu.ca/~wwwpsyb/issues/2000/summer/charron.htm
[6] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1313808,00.html
[7] http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/scotland/frontline/19oct.ram
[8] http://www.sfu.ca/~wwwpsyb/issues/2000/summer/charron.htm
[9] http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/100395-remarks-by-president-on-accepting-human-radiation-final-report.htm
[10] http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk/mkultra.htm
[11] Jerry E. Smith, "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy" (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999), p. 128; See also George H. Estabrooks & Nancy E. Gross, "The Future of the Human Mind" (London: Museum Press Ltd., 1961), p. 216.
[12] Carla Emery, Secret, Don’t Tell: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism (MI: Acorn Hill Publ. Co., 1998), p. 128.
[13] http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk/mkultra.htm
[14] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/arti-n13.shtml
[15] http://www.aches-mc.org/monarch.html
[16] http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/monarch.htm
[17] http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:sNpC9T5VdhQJ:www.whale.to/b/alexander.html&hl=en
[18] http://www.aches-mc.org/monarch.html
[19] http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/littleboys.html
[20] http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=88377
[21] http://www.propagandamatrix.com/141003conspiracyofsilence.html
[22] http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/littleboys.html
[23] William J. Chambliss (Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Dept. at the Geroge Wash. U., and President of the Am. Society of Criminology (1988)), On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (Indiana: University Press, 1988), pp. 204-205.
[24] http://www.scrby.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/solving.html ,
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2/essential.html, http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/stopchildrape.net/smca/
[25] http://www.geocities.com/skews_me_too/nazi.html
[26] http://chile.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/3264.php ,
http://truedemocracy.net/td2_4/05a-sam.html
[27] http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/littleboys.html
[28] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/skul19.shtml
[29] Vanessa Ho, “Child molesters often know victims,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 Oct 1997, 134(253), p. B4.
[30] http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3108717
[31] William J. Chambliss (Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Dept. at the Geroge Wash. U., and President of the Am. Society of Criminology (1988)), On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (Indiana: University Press, 1988), pp. 215-216.

Watch:
"Ewen Cameron: The Memory Thief", at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/scotland/frontline/19oct.ram
"Conspiracy of Silence", at http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=88377

Read:
"Hypnosis" at http://www.geocities.com/skews_me/hypnosis.html
"CIA Mind Control" at http://www.geocities.com/skews_me/cia.html
"Child Sexual Abuse" at http://www.geocities.com/skews_me/abuse.html
"Conspiracy" at http://www.geocities.com/skews_me/conspire.html

'10 YEARS TO SAVE PLANET'

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-13312011,00.html


Informant: radtimes

SHAKY FAULTLINE RAISES THE THREAT OF A SUPER-VOLCANO

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12717924%255E2703,00.html


Informant: NHNE

Infinite Injustice In The Global Gulag

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/010405infiniteinjustice.htm


Informant: Our bill of rights

WMD Verdict: 'Dead wrong'

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=625307

Washington's Alarming Foreign Policy

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/print/2042/


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

Councillors voted to reject phone mast

http://www.walthamforestguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.583499.0.councillors_voted_to_reject_phone_mast.php


Informant: Sylvie

'HEALTH CERTIFICATE' MAST LAW BILL RUNS OUT OF TIME

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=135239&command=displayContent&sourceNode=135077&contentPK=12135953


Informant: Sylvie

Das Volk schaut auf die Autos, statt in den Himmel

Die kristische Masse spürt gesundheitliche Belastungen und ordnet diese ihnen bekannten Ursachen zu. Die Medien greifen die Argumente auf, weil sie von den wahren Ursachen ablenken.

FEINSTÄUBE (Naturerde) sind biologisch gesund, weil sie Mineralstoffe und das aus dem Kosmos stammende Iridium (Reparaturmittel lt. Clark) beinhalten (gesunde Straßenkinder).

CHEMIESTÄUBE sind analog Pharmaka Gifte, auf die der Körper durch Abwehr oder Schädigung reagiert. Bei zeitweiser Belastung behandelbar.

RADIOAKTIVE PARTIKEL (z.B. Ruß als Trägermaterial) sind zellzerstörend mit äußerst schwieriger Behandlungsfähigkeit, da übergeordnete Energieebene. Bei ihrem Auftreten werden gesundheitliche Schäden am schnellsten gespürt. (Schleimhautbrennen, Nervosität, Schlafstörungen) http://www.verbraucherselbstschutz.de

Das Volk schaut auf die Autos, statt in den Himmel.

Die Chemtrails zur künstlichen Temperaturabsenkung der Erde, die lt. Zeitschrift Raum&Zeit offensichtlich von Militärbasen der USA und England mit Flugzeugen ohne Kennzeichen, z.T. aber auch von Verkehrsfliegern mit Zusatztanks seit 2002 aufbauend erzeugt werden, versprühen immer intensiver eine Mixtour aus Giften, darunter Aluminium und neulich auch Ruß. Folgt man den inoffiziellen Darstellungen, so ist die Erderwärmung nur ein Alibi. Die Interessen der Pharmaindustrie dürften nicht nur im Sprühabsatz liegen und schließlich muss jeder Markt, auch der für genveränderte Nahrungspflanzen (alle einjährig, daher profitabel) weltweit vorbereitet werden. Die Natur schützt sich vor verstümmelter Wiedergeburt, wir müssen uns vor widernatürlicher menschlicher "Intelligenz" schützen.

Die Wahrheit ist immer Holpflicht, wer sie sich ins Haus bringen läßt, wird manipuliert.

Dr.Harald Grünert

The War on Terror is a war on freedom

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/macgregor/macgregor3.html

Punish the warmongers

http://www.counterpunch.org/ali03312005.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The initial event that disabled Terri Schiavo didn't end up killing her

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7971


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Why World War IV can't sell

http://tinyurl.com/5gtra


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

It is ended

http://tinyurl.com/5fhms


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Pentagon's secret stash

http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Who's afraid of John Bolton?

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=5417


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

GOP aide ousted three

http://tinyurl.com/5erfq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

GOP agenda vs. states' rights

http://tinyurl.com/4q8c5



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Passport chip criticism grows

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67066,00.html



Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

RFID Kills, stop death by passport

http://www.rfidkills.com/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Rüstung und Neoliberalismus

Die zweite Ausgabe Nr. 92 vom 4. April (pdf) widmet sich sehr herzerfrischenden Themen wie "Rüstung und Neoliberalismus", "Gegen das Vergessen: "Nein zu Nationalsozialismus" usw. Gleichwohl bittet die Redaktion des LabourNet um Beachtung!
http://www.labournet.de/branchen/dienstleistung/gw/durchblick/92.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 24, Eintrag 1

Gegen 1-Euro-Job-Anbieter: Aktionen bei der AWO, Caritas...

Wiederbelebte Aktionsform: Spaziergänge, nun gegen Ein-Euro-Jobs siehe Konzept aus Berlin mit fortlaufenden Berichten - nun mit dem Bericht vom Spaziergang N°6 im März 2005
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/berlinsp05.html

sowie dem neuen Flugblatt zur Aktion (pdf):

"Liebe Schwarzarbeiterinnen, streiklustigen Metaller, arbeitsscheuen Sozialschmarotzer! Liebe Scheinasylanten, Scheinstudenten und langlebige Rentnerinnen! Liebe Standortschädlinge!"
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/berlinsp05.pdf

Aus dem Text: "… Wir haben die Hoffnung, dass aus den wütenden Langzeitarbeitslosen, unzufriedenen Malochern und enttäuschten Akademikerinnen eine explosive Mischung entsteht. Mit der Einführung der Ein-Euro-Jobs gibt es Bereiche, in denen die Leute neu zusammen kommen und gemeinsam gegen die Angriffe vorgehen können. Möglich ist, dass es nicht bei der Unzufriedenheit und ablehnenden Haltung einzelner Leute bleibt, sondern daraus kollektive Formen des Widerstands entstehen: Dienst nach Vorschrift, Streiks und andere wirksame Proteste, mit denen Sand ins Getriebe kommt. (…) Unsere Spaziergänge finden alle zwei Wochen statt. Die nächsten Termine sind Dienstag, der 5. April und Dienstag, der 19. April. Treffpunkt ist jeweils pünktlich um 11 Uhr. Den jeweiligen Ort könnt ihr per Email erfragen. Am Mittwoch, den 6. April um 20 Uhr gibt es ein Treffen im A6-Laden, zu dem alle interessierten Leute eingeladen sind. (A6-Laden: Adalbertstr. 6; U-Bhf Kottbusser Tor)


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 24, Eintrag 1

Schöne neue Biometrie Welt

Die EU-Kommission empfiehlt in einer Studie Europas Politikern, Biometrie aktiv mitzugestalten. Das 166 Seiten starke Werk versteht sich als Einführung, Handbuch und Ratgeber. Durch den massenhaften Einsatz erwarte man einen Rückgang der Assoziation zwischen biometrischen Methoden und Straftaten.


In diversen Szenarien (Everyday Life in 2015) und Bewertungen werden Vor- und Nachteile der einzelnen Systeme aber auch Biometrie an sich behandelt. Wichtig erscheinen den zehn Autoren auch Interportabilität, Datenbankverarbeitung und potentielle wirtschaftliche Vorteile für die europäische Biometrie-Industrie. Der Grundtenor trotz plakativer Gegenbeispiele: Wenn man es nur geschickt genug macht, wird die Bevölkerung es akzeptieren - dazu gehört auch das gezielte Angewöhnen im Kindergarten.

Das Doukument:
ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/eur21585en.pdf

Siehe auch:
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=263797&tmp=42435

Eine der kritischen Stellen:

(...)

Impact upon the trust model between citizen and state

This is a very important point, especially when viewed in the context of modern history (i.e., the last 100 years). In many countries who would consider themselves civilised and perhaps of a democratic nature, the trust between citizen and state plays a key role. Citizens offer their trust to government and, in doing so, empower them to manage national and international affairs on their behalf. If this trust breaks down, a breeding ground is created where a variety of situations might develop, from underground economies to outright challenges to government and civil unrest. In many countries, part of this trust is inherent in the concept of being considered innocent until proved guilty and in enjoying personal privacy and anonymity. These fundamental concepts of trust seem now to be challenged by certain governmental aspirations. There is a risk that the emphasis changes to ordinary citizens being almost treated as criminal suspects and the right to privacy and anonymity being withdrawn.

The issue is exacerbated when the administrations of foreign countries have an undue influence on a given country's procedures. It may be true that, in the short term, citizens simply go with the flow and accept that many of them will see as the sacrifice of personal freedoms in order to support policies which, they have been lead to believe, will create a more secure world. However, in the medium and longer terms, the reality of the situation (such as it may be) may become self evident and, depending upon popular perception, this may lead to an erosion of trust which will not be in the interest of government. This is a very serious issue which should be taken fully into consideration with respect to current aspirations. We should be in no doubt that we are tampering with the very fabric of society and should treat this fabric with the care and respect it deserves.

(...)


relayed by Mac Gyver


Aus: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 25, Issue 1

USA geben Widerstand gegen internationales Tribunal auf

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,349109,00.html

Überwachung dämmt Kriminalität nicht ein

http://ecolog.twoday.net/stories/603144/

Barbarism or Civilization? The Choice is Yours

http://newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin5.htm

Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos

http://www.reason.com/0504/co.mw.the.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Principles

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/speiser2.html

Decision on TETRA could prove costly

http://tinyurl.com/5uxrp

Slow Poisoning

http://tinyurl.com/4nqw2

Iranians battening down hatches and considering options as US prepares strike

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2525/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Visible Signs of the New World Order

http://tinyurl.com/555tb

Tell Canada the Seal Hunt Must End

You probably already know that right now off the ice floes of Eastern Canada, hundreds of thousands of baby seals as young as 12 days of age are being clubbed or shot to death without mercy.

As I write this, one of nature’s greatest spectacles is being overrun by seal hunters wielding wooden bats, rifles and hakapiks — a type of spiked club. The seal pups, awkward and slow, try to flee without hope of escape.

Sealers run across the ice and club each baby seal once on the head, then flip the seal on its back to remove its pelt with a knife. Too often, the baby seal struggles against the knife and is clubbed several more times until dead.

I wanted to give you an update on the events of this year’s seal hunt, and let you know what our next steps are in stopping this cruel and senseless practice.

Why does Canada still hunt two-week-old seal pups?

The simple answer is profit. If seal pelts were not valuable; seals would not be killed. The greed of a select few has turned one of the world’s most precious natural heritages into a virtual slaughterhouse.

Last week Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced its intention to continue reducing the entire harp seal population by up to a third ... without scientific justification. The greedy incentive to maximize profit by killing as many animals as possible, as quickly as possible, is not only cruel and disrespectful to our natural heritage, it has the dangerous potential to push harp seals down the road to extinction.

Canada’s government is counting on your silence

The brutal and irresponsible nature of the hunt is at great odds with Canada’s reputation as a civilized, progressive country.

I know that like me, you look forward to a day where the Canadian government, the fur industry and others who are fueling the killing of baby seals realize that seals are worth more than just the price of their pelts.

That’s why I want to urge you to speak out right now to tell the new Canadian Ambassador to the US Frank McKenna that the rest of the world will no longer stand for such a cruel and senseless hunt. Let’s send him a welcome message he’ll never forget!

I cannot stress enough how much your voice makes a difference. Thanks to a worldwide outcry spurred by IFAW in the 1970s, the commercial killing of whitecoat seal pups was banned in 1987. Thanks to people like you speaking out, the seal hunt was slowly dying off through the 1980s until the Canadian government began seal meat subsidies and set quotas allowing the slaughter of over a quarter million seals every year.

That’s why I need you to speak out now one more time. Simply hit Reply to this email and then click Send and we’ll automatically send the message below on your behalf:

Dear Ambassador McKenna,

I am deeply opposed to Canada’s plan to slaughter nearly one million seals over three years - the highest quota in history. The vast majority of these animals (95%) are less than three months old and completely defenseless.

This deliberate plan to reduce the seal population through hidden subsidies and unethical killing methods is completely without scientific justification. Continuing to ignore the inexcusable cruelty and waste inherent in this annual “hunt” is simply wrong.

It is long past time for the Canadian government to act upon the wishes of the compassionate majority that is completely opposed to this hunt. Please act immediately to end this unnecessary abuse.

Sincerely,



Thanks for all you do,

Fred O’Regan
President and CEO


Please speak for the baby seals
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/site/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp?c=hmKYJeNVJtF&b=412891

A Global War That Doesn't Sell

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt61.html

31
Mrz
2005

The US Global Masquerade

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar10.html

The Terri Schiavo Tragedy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/felder1.html

To Refuse Allegiance to the State

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/loberfeld1.html

Are Conservatives Naïve?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance39.html

Are You Being Targeted For Euthanasia?

http://www.catholictradition.org/targeted.htm

Recognizing the Power of Nonviolent Action

by Stephen Zunes

You probably didn’t notice, but February 20 was Nonviolent Resistance Day. One might think this would be cause for celebration by an administration committed to expanding freedom and democracy. But there weren’t any special ceremonies at the White House or resolutions in Congress. For despite all the rhetoric lauding freedom and democracy, the U.S. government has rarely supported, and has often opposed, nonviolent movements working for democratic change.

Nonviolent action campaigns have been a part of political life for millennia, challenging abuses by authorities, spearheading social reforms, and protesting militarism and discrimination. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in movements that have not only led to significant political and social reforms advancing the cause of human rights but have even toppled repressive regimes from power and forced leaders to change the very nature of their governance. In more recent decades, nonviolence has become a more deliberate tool for social change, evolving from an ad hoc strategy associated with religious or ethical principles into a reflective, even institutionalized, method of struggle.

Indeed, the past 20 years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge in nonviolent insurrections against autocratic rulers. Primarily nonviolent “people power” movements have overthrown authoritarian regimes in nearly two dozen countries over the past two and a half decades, have forced substantial reforms in even more countries, and have seriously challenged other despots.

In contrast to armed struggles, these nonviolent insurrections are movements of organized popular resistance to government authority, and they--either consciously or by necessity--eschew the use of weapons of modern warfare. Unlike conventional political movements, nonviolent campaigns usually employ tactics outside the mainstream political processes of electioneering and lobbying. Tactics may include strikes, boycotts, mass demonstrations, the popular contestation of public space, tax refusal, destruction of symbols of government authority (such as official identification cards), refusal to obey official orders (such as curfew restrictions), and the creation of alternative institutions for political legitimacy and social organization.

Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco as well as the Middle East editor for Foreign Policy In Focus (online at http://www.fpif.org ). He is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell, 1999) and the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage, 2003) online at
http://www.irc-online.org/content/books/zunes.tinderbox.php.

See new FPIF policy report online at:
http://www.fpif.org/papers/0503action.html

With printer-friendly pdf version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/papers/0503action.pdf

Herbert Grönemeyer: Tragische und grausame Ungerechtigkeit

"Tragische und grausame Ungerechtigkeit": Entwicklungsverband und Herbert Grönemeyer starten weltweite Aktion gegen Armut (31.03.05)

Nach Auffassung des entwicklungspolitischen Verbandes "Venro" können die so genannten "Millenniumsziele" zwar grundsätzlich ereicht werden. Diese Ziele würden jedoch zur Zeit viel zu wenig engagiert angegangen. Mit der Millenniumserklärung der Vereinten Nationen im Jahr 2000 versprachen die Regierungschefs der Welt die Halbierung der weltweiten Armut bis 2015. Wird das gegenwärtige Tempo beibehalten, dann werde Afrika das Ziel der Armutshalbierung jedoch nicht im Jahr 2015, sondern erst im Jahr 2147 erreichen, schreibt der Verband. Da das Thema Armutsbekämpfung im Jahr 2005 sowohl beim G8-Gipfel in Schottland im Juli und vor allem beim UN-Gipfel im September prominent auf der Tagesordnung stünde, sei 2005 "ein Schlüsseljahr", heißt es dort weiter. Jetzt startete der Verband in Deutschland die internationale Kampagne "Global Call to Action Against Poverty" zur Einhaltung der versprochenen Ziele. Venro hat prominente Unterstützung. Der Musiker Herbert Grönemeyer äußerte die Befürchtung, dass Deutschland aufgrund seiner eigenen sozialen Situation versuchen könnte "sich aus den Verpflichtungen herauszuschleichen". Er habe vor, dies gemeinsam mit anderen Künstlern zu verhindern. Venro empfiehlt, unter anderem mit Kerosinsteuer und "Tobin Tax" neue Gelder für die Entwicklungshilfe aufzubringen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=10780

WMD Report Directly Contradicts Bush Claims

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/033105Y.shtml

Consumer Versus Community

by Mark Winston Griffith, TomPaine.com

A community development expert explains the dangers of Bush's obsession with ownership.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/consumer_versus_community.php?dateid=20050331

Wal-Mart's Culture Of Crime And Greed

by Jonathan Tasini, TomPaine.com

Are the recent management dismissals at Wal-Mart a few bad apples or signs of a rotten tree?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/walmarts_culture_of_crime_and_greed.php?dateid=20050331

The Merchant of Baghdad

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050330/cm_thenation/72294


From Information Clearing House

Bush is hostage to religious right, says top Republican

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1448757,00.html


From Information Clearing House

With polls in sight 17 Labour MPs "rebel" over Iraq

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_1300130,00430004.htm


From Information Clearing House

The Geneva trap

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8413.htm

Raiding The Earth's Trust Fund

by Janet Ranganathan, TomPaine.com

A major new study confirms the worst: We've depleted the Earth's resources beyond any simple cure.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/raiding_the_earths_trust_fund.php?dateid=20050331

Die meisten Ökosysteme im roten Bereich

Eine umfassende internationale Umweltstudie warnt vor irreversiblen Schäden und katastrophalen Risiken.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19793/1.html

Phone mast is too close for comfort

Hope you all noticed this one:

Phone mast is too close for comfort

You don't get consulted by planners if aerial is more than four metres away.

http://www.cumbernauldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=961&ArticleID=984652

The world is truly mad.

Andy

Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikowahrnehmung des Mobilfunks

HLV INFO 46/AT

31-03-2005

Vorsorgeprinzip und Risikowahrnehmung des Mobilfunks
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_newsletter_300305.html

Schütz, Holger; Wiedemann, Peter
Korrespondenzautor: Dipl.-Päd. Holger Schütz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Programmgruppe Mensch, Umwelt, Technik, 52425 Jülich; E-Mail: h.schuetz@fz-juelich.de

Zum Kommentar der beiden für das Jülicher Forschungszentrum tätigen „Umweltexperten“ schreibt ein der HLV-Redaktion bekannter seriöser Kritiker:

"Die von mir fett hervorgehobenen Sätze in der unten wiedergegebenen Information über eine Arbeit der Herren Schütz und Wiedemann passen gut zum Forschungszentrum Jülich. Nach dieser Logik hätten wohl die potentiell Betroffenen der Erdbeben-Katastrophe in Südasien nicht "vorsorglich" informiert werden sollen (zudem fehlt auch dort die wiss. Erklärung i.S. eines "Wirkungsmodells")! Der plötzliche Aktionismus im Kampf gegen den Feinstaub vor allem aus Dieselmotoren wirft ebenfalls ein bezeichnendes Licht auf solche Erwägungen und erinnert mich an das Zitat, das von Schopenhauer sein soll:

Jede Wahrheit durchläuft drei Stufen:

Erst erscheint sie lächerlich,

dann wird sie bekämpft,

schließlich ist sie selbstverständlich."


„Die Ergebnisse von zwei Experimenten deuten allerdings darauf hin, dass Vorsorgemaßnahmen die Besorgnis über EMF verstärken sowie Vertrauen in den Gesundheitsschutz verringern können. Dies sollte bei Entscheidungen über Vorsorgemaßnahmen berücksichtigt werden.“

M.f.G.

Alfred Tittmann
c/o HESSISCHER LANDESVERBAND MOBILFUNKSENDERFREIE WOHNGEBIETE e.V.

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Der "Leitfaden zum Umgang mit Problemen elektromagnetischer Felder in den Kommunen", ist zu finden unter

http://www.emf-risiko.de/leitfaden-emf/index.html,

erarbeitet von der Programmgruppe Mensch, Umwelt, Technik des Forschungszentrums Jülich, einer sehr industrienahen Institution, deren Mitarbeiter sich seit Jahren durch Verharmlosung von Umweltgefahren hervortun und im Auftrag von Mobilfunk- und Atomindustrie durch die Lande ziehen und bei Veranstaltungen und in Fernsehsendungen auftreten, um die Sorgen besorgter Bürger herunterzuspielen. Die Programmgruppe Mensch Umwelt Technik (MUT) wird von Dr. Peter M. Wiedemann geleitet, Psychologe und in der Vergangenheit bereits in ähnlicher Weise für die Atomindustrie tätig. Als Partner der Programmgruppe werden beispielsweise T-Mobil und Vodaphone Produktentwicklung angegeben.

In dem Dokument http://www.fz-juelich.de/mut/hefte/heft_81.pdf teilt die Programmgruppe MUT die Mobilfunkgegner in Gruppen ein (Seite 58, Abschnitt 5.3.) und analysieren diese für ihren Auftraggeber. Offensichtlich, damit dieser dann "zielgruppenspezifisch" gegen diese vorgehen kann.

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/326518/

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Die Programmgruppe Mensch, Umwelt, Technik des Forschungszentrums Jülich http://tinyurl.com/7tmjr

George W. Bush, the Frightened Man

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/31/94949/7464

31.03.05

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/31_03_05_pfarrer_engelbrecht.pdf

John Bolton: The Wrong Man for the Job

The world we live in is too dangerous to confirm John Bolton's nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations. That's why we're asking you to oppose the nomination.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=10078448&url_num=2&url=http://www.2020vision.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=532

We live in a world where internation cooperation and coalition building is crucial to our success in building a more peaceful world. 20/20 Vision believes that peace is a goal we must pursue as a nation. In that context, if we were to put together a list of the worst possible attitudes for the United States to project to the world, what would they be?

That question is more than idle speculation. In the nomination of John Bolton to the post of Ambassador to the United Nations, many of those attitudes are represented. Consider the following quotes, all taken from interviews with the nominee:

* "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."
* ''If the UN secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
* Renouncing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court "was the happiest moment of my government service."
* "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States."

The man who uttered all of those quotes is scheduled for confirmation hearings next week. On April 7 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up the nomination of John Bolton to be America's voice at the United Nations. We must not let this nomination be confirmed.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=10078448&url_num=3&url=http://www.2020vision.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=532

20/20 Vision believes that the United States is strongest when it operates in conjunction with the rest of the world, not in opposition to it. We weaken ourselves by turning the United Nations into our enemy. An effective UN is essential in dealing with issues such as global disease, peacekeeping, war prevention, and the environment. And an Ambassador who does not believe in international law, and who does not believe that the U.N. has any role in the world, leads to a less effective UN.

And people are starting to take notice. A group of 59 ambassadors, including 46 who served in Republican administrations, has sent a letter to Senator Lugar, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposing Bolton's nomination.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=10078448&url_num=4&url=http://www.diplomatsagainstbolton.com/

CBS News reports that Bolton is "receiving so much bipartisan criticism that there is a widespread question about whether or not the administration was expecting the nomination to pass the Senate." Now is the time to act.

Please send a note to your Senator expressing your opposition to this nomination. The United Nations has had a vital role in expanding freedom and peace for 60 years. Now, as America is trying to strengthen international diplomacy, is not the time to send a loose cannon to the UN. John Bolton is the wrong man for the job!

Thank you,
Ron Zucker

Brief an Dipl. Ing. Klaus Grieninger

http://elektrosmoghalle.twoday.net/stories/602092/

Handywellen
Dipl. Ing. (FH) Klaus Grieninger
Postfach 250322
90128 Nürnberg
E-Mail: kontakt@handywellen.de
Internet: www.handywellen.de
Quelle: http://www.izmf.de/html/de/34797.html

Detainee Captured in Egypt Disappeared in U.S. Custody

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/29/usint10382.htm


From Information Clearing House

John Bolton: Ally of CIA-linked Drugrunners

http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/03/john_bolton_all.php


From Information Clearing House

Anthrax for Export

http://www.progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html


From Information Clearing House

The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

http://www.wmd.gov/report/wmd_report.pdf


From Information Clearing House

Mental disorders on the rise among Iraq, Afghanistan veterans

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050331/NEWS01/503310318/1002


From Information Clearing House

The Epic Struggle for World Hegemony

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8411.htm

America's superpower status is about to end

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8412.htm

Iraqi Children Fared Better Under Saddam

Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/033105Z.shtml

Mobilfunkmast sorgt weiter für Unruhe

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

HLV INFO 45/AT

31-03-2005

Beachten Sie bitte in diesem Zusammenhang auch die vom HLV vorausgegangenen Info's bezüglich der Basisforschung von Schülern in Spaichingen, welche für ihre Untersuchungen "Auswirkung des Mobiltelefonierens" auf die roten Blutkörperchen beim Regionalwettbewerb "Jugend forscht" kürzlich den ersten Preis gewonnen hatten. (Die Presse informierte hierüber)

Omega siehe unter:
Fünf Schüler leisten wichtige Basisforschung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/568914/


M.f.G.

Alfred Tittmann
c/o HESSISCHER LANDESVERBAND MOBILFUNKSENDERFREIE WOHNGEBIETE e.V.

Iraq Intel Report: Expect Another Whitewash

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/naderzeese.php?articleid=5409

NO POLICING IN MAST BLACKSPOTS

http://tinyurl.com/48wpz


Informant: Sylvie

Paul Wolfowitz, American Empire and the World Bank

Paul Wolfowitz: Symbol of A Global Crisis Behind and Beyond IraqGlobal Justice Ecology Project http://www.globaljusticeecology.org offers the following paper to examine the root issues that drive the Iraq war, ecological destruction and social injustice around the world and that will inevitably lead to future violent conflicts.

Toward the end of all wars.

Signed,

Global Justice Ecology Project

Paul Wolfowitz, American Empire and the World Bank

The approval of Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Iraq War, to head the World Bank advances the Bank's role as an extension of U.S. imperial power. Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank calls Bush's choice of Wolfowitz, "an act of provocation," that could, "bring street protests and violence across the developing world." Jim Vallette of the Institute for Policy Studies agrees stating, "choosing Wolfowitz for this job makes perfect sense if the Bush administration intends to completely alienate the world community."

In 2002 Wolfowitz was one of the primary authors of the Bush administration's National Security Strategy. In it he advocated pre-emptive war with Iraq. It further calls for U.S. economic and military domination in every corner of the world and promotes the idea of pre-emptive attacks on any nation that in some way threatens American interests. These ideas are not new, however, and were preceded by two others, a September 2000 document put out by the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century (which Wolfowitz Chairs) and a Defense Department report Wolfowitz co-wrote in 1992.

The 1992 and 2000 reports are very similar. Both promote a global missile defense system; budget increases for the U.S. Defense Department, small, deep penetrating nuclear weapons and the specific targeting of Iraq, Iran and North Korea. In the 1992 report, Wolfowitz argues that the U.S. should be active in "deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." And the Times Online (of the UK) writes that in this report, Wolfowitz, "envisaged the use of nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry pre-emptively, 'even in conflicts that do not directly engage U.S. interests.'" In its 2000 document, the Project for a New American Century promoted the idea that U.S. global dominance could be advanced by "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

With this history, the nomination of Wolfowitz to lead the World

Bank is a clear sign that the Bush Administration is determined to use whatever avenues it can to pursue its goals of "full spectrum dominance" over the rest of the world. Under current World Bank President Wolfensohn, the Bank has been somewhat resistant to advance the agenda of the Bush administration by financing projects in Iraq. With Wolfowitz at the helm, however, Vallette projects that "the World Bank may be able to complete what the Iraq Invasion started two years ago: U.S. corporate control over the world's second-largest oil reserves."

Connections Between Military and Economic Domination

Wolfowitz is a concrete example of the link between shooting wars and economic wars. Both result in catastrophic loss of life. Both are being pursued in an attempt to secure control of resources and assure strategic military dominance. As two sides of the same coin of corporate globalization, both forms of war must be actively opposed.

"This nomination is an aggressive move by the Bush Administration to use international development policy, and the money of the World Bank, to impose its will on developing countries, just as it has used its military to impose its will on Iraq and Afghanistan," said United for Peace and Justice National Coordinator Leslie Cagan.

While ending the war and occupation in Iraq would be a major victory for peace, there is a much larger, deadlier issue--U.S. economic dominance--that must be addressed. To ensure real peace requires a dramatic economic and political paradigm shift focused on dismantling the systems that promote and advance corporate globalization and its resultant social injustice and ecological annihilation.

As long as neoliberalism and oil fuel the world's economies, securing the Earth's dwindling resources will become increasingly important, inevitably leading to widespread instability and violent confrontations all over the world. The never-ending and opportunistic "war on terrorism," of the U.S. (the greatest success of which is growing new crops of 'terrorists'), is used to violently pursue geo-political control of the Middle East and monopolize some of the world's largest remaining oil supplies. As the planet's oil diminishes over the coming decades the U.S. hopes this strategic geopolitical control will give it hegemony over this vital resource, enabling further global domination and the ability to continue unsustainable consumption levels (the U.S. has 6% of the Earth's population, but consumes 25% of the world's resources including oil).

But while neo-conservatives like Wolfowitz are taking this addiction to oil to new heights, it is not new, nor strictly "conservative." In 1980, President Jimmy Carter pronounced the Carter Doctrine, which states bluntly that the U.S. will use whatever means are necessary to ensure the continued supply of oil. National security and the U.S. military depend on oil. Indeed, the U.S. economy cannot function without oil, the over-consumption of which is causing global climatic change, threatening the survival of the human race as well as most other life on earth. Ending the Iraq War, averting climate catastrophe and realizing social justice in communities around the globe will require not merely "regime change" in the U.S. from one party to another, it will require fundamental social transformation.

For corporate globalization is merely the refinement of old-style imperialism and colonization updated in the U.S. by a military budget equivalent to that of the rest of the world combined; by the use of the word "democracy" to conceal the exploitation invited by "free market" policies; and by the corporate monopolization of mass media. While Wolfowitz has been promoting violence to force populations into subordination, as the new head of the World Bank, he will be mastering the art of economic coercion as well.

Long before Wolfowitz, the U.S. used its defacto veto power over the World Bank to subjugate and exploit the developing world. Devastated by a long history of imperialism and colonialism, poor countries are further ravaged by World Bank and IMF loans. The price for the loans is crushing debt and the imposition of conditions that recipient countries slash social services and open borders to privatization and exploitative foreign investment. The World Bank further dispossesses, poisons and impoverishes communities by funding mega-projects (including oil development and large-scale hydroelectric dams) in poor countries. All of this is designed to empower giant corporations to wrest control of natural resources away from resident populations- mainly poor indigenous peoples and people of color-and ship them off to Northern countries. These policies transform even human beings into expendable resources. In this regard, it could be argued that their logical extreme of "free trade" or "globalization" was already realized in the first wave of globalization: the three-continent slave trade.

Bodies like the World Trade Organization and trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement provide legal frameworks to further enrich corporations and disenfranchise local communities-overturning human rights, environmental and workers' rights laws.

Unlimited Growth, Global Warming and Our Finite Planet

The success of corporate globalization requires "unlimited growth"-a never-ending increase in the transformation of "resources" into capital. Control over these dwindling resources requires global military and economic domination.

What is the impact of "unlimited growth" on a finite planet? A World Wildlife Fund report found that one-third of the Earth's natural wealth was lost from 1970 to 1995. The Smithsonian estimates that the Earth loses over 300 species per day due to habitat destruction. Likewise, many native peoples are threatened with extinction. Global warming, the result of an economy overly dependent on oil, threatens all life on earth. The UN estimates that global warming-caused "natural" disasters have already killed 500,000 people. Environmental refugees outnumber refugees from military conflicts.

Corporate globalization, with its mandate to put profit first, above both planet and people, has pushed the Earth's life support systems to the brink of collapse. This ecological crisis makes it increasingly obvious that an economic system based on the accumulation of wealth and unlimited growth is simply not sustainable.

UN weapons inspector Hans Blix states, "To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and warŠI'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict." More alarming however, is that global warming will lead to future wars.

The Pentagon concurs. According to London's The Observer, a secret Pentagon report leaked to the press in February of 2004, "predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents." The report concludes, "Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life. Once again, warfare would define human life." An anti-war movement cannot ignore global warming.

Single Issue Politics vs. Cooperation; Symbolic Protest vs. Civil Disobedience

We stand at a turning point. Movements can remain divided, working on single issues, confining activism to weekend marches, looking to "leaders" to solve these problems, and watching as future generations inherit devastated communities and ecosystems. Or we can join together to rebel against the dark and cynical worldview that values life only according to the profits it conveys and rise up for compassion, justice and the future of all life on earth. By linking together we can create a powerful movement for change that successfully challenges these common economic, social and political roots of our issues.

U.S. IMPERIALISM MUST BE STOPPED. To end the Iraq war and all economic, military and environmental wars, our symbolic marches and protests must grow to include direct action aimed at preventing business as usual. Soldiers should be encouraged to refuse to fight and supported when they do so. Defense plants, stock exchanges and war profiteers must be blockaded. It must become impossible for the U.S. corporate economy to function until this war and all war is stopped.

To stop an empire people must unite and people must resist.

"Symbolic resistance must never replace real civil disobedience. You cannot stop a war with a weekend march. We must refuse to comply with the status quo. We be many and they be few and they need us more than we need them."

-Arundhati Roy


Your participation is needed. Start in your community. Get involved with groups working for real systemic change.

Global Justice Ecology Project
PO Box 412, Hinesburg, VT 05461 USA
(802) 482-2689
http://www.globaljusticeecology.org
mailto:info@globaljusticeecology.org


Informant: Orin Langelle

Looking for enemies everywhere

by Bob Smith

No Force, No Fraud

03/31/05

We can't 'export' democracy because we don't HAVE democracy ... The United States is a constitution-based federal republic, NOT a democracy. We can't 'export' free elections, because WE don't have free elections. We can't even 'export' freedom, because we're losing more of our own on a daily basis. We have MILLIONS in prison due to draconian laws (that the citizenry doesn't agree with). We have been guilty of violating our own most sacred freedoms, such as no taxation without representation, the presumption of innocence, the right to a speedy trial, and on and on ... to say nothing of covert and overt torture and abuse both domestically and abroad. We do a p...-poor job of running our OWN nation, yet we presume to tell others how they should run THEIR nation?

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/03/31


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Fool me once...

http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/FoolMeOnce.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Critics want FCC crackdown on Bush "news"

Fox News

03/30/05

Media watchdogs decrying 'fake news' segments that are actually packages produced and distributed by the Bush administration to promote government programs are demanding the Federal Communications Commission take a stand against the practice. They are joined by some members of Congress and other groups who have asked the FCC to investigate whether the government and broadcasters are violating regulations by producing and airing what they say are deceptive public relations tools funded with taxpayer dollars.

'It's essentially propaganda, it's so-called news that is promoting White House policies and is provided by the government and is not being labeled as such,' said Josh Silver, a spokesman for Free Press, a watchdog group that recently helped to collect 40,000 signatures on a petition calling on the FCC, Congress and the broadcasters to 'stop fake news...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151871,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ein Handy kann von der Belastung her keinesfalls mit einen Mobilfunksender verglichen werden

Ein Handy kann von der Belastung keinesfalls mit einen Handy- Sender verglichen werden.

Ob ich in einem Labor, z.B. als Schüler etwas mit Radioaktivität spiele, oder mein Leben lang neben einen Reaktor wohne, wäre ähnlich der Situation Handynutzung / wohnen am Sender.

Ein Handy sendet, wenn der Nutzer es benötigt und sonst fast nicht. Völlig eigene Entscheidung, völlig autonome Entscheidung (sollte man annehmen). Also im Schnitt wahrscheinlich 99% belastungsfreie (arme) Zeit, die der Handyuser da hat.

Im Falle der Belastung tritt dann einen Strahlung auf, die gepulst ist, und immer gleichmässig den Körper stresst (217 Hz).

Die Belastung 1 cm neben dem Ohr wäre theo. ca. knapp 10 W/m2 Leistungsflussdichte mit festen 217 Hz niederfrequenter, resultierender Pulsung, aber eben nur so lange es genutzt wird.

Ein Sendemast strahlt aber 24 h 365 d und das mit wechselnden Pulsen (217 -1700 Hz), an die sich der Körper scheinbar nur schwerer gewöhnt, zumindest die Wechsel eine oft erwähnte Belastung in sich darstellen, neben den vielen anderen Wirkungen, z.B. auf das Melatonin und die nächtliche "Servicezentrale" die für gesund Erhaltung etc. sorgt.

Der Anwohner hat ebenso nicht die Möglichkeit sich der ungewollten Belastung zu entziehen, nicht mal das Argument , "zieh doch um" hilft da weiter.

Und wie Kinder, gerade bzgl. Leistungsfähigkeit und Nachtruhe auf die Sendebelastungen reagieren, sollte noch mehr zu Bedenken geben!

Oder anders:

Sie denken also, dass eine kurzzeitige Belastung, noch ein Beispiel, z.B. drei LKW am Tag Feinstaub und Lärm mehr Anlass zur Sorge gibt, als eine permanent stark benutzte LKW Stecke mit Dauerlärm, der nachweislich chronisch krank macht, und den Abgasbelastungen?

Oder wie kann ich Sie verstehen?


Bernd Schreiner


Handy Ja, Antenne Nein?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/284285/

American public blissfully unaware what they've done to Iraq

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1084

The rising neoconservative coup

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1078

Tote Kälber: Bei welchen Feldstärken reagieren Kühe?

Hier in der Umgebung gibt es einige Landwirte. Höfe die Probleme haben, seit Sender in der Nähe sind.

Z.B. Hafenprebach, Dietersdorf, Aussiedlerhof bei Bad Königshofen, und auch bei einer ehm. LPG mit Sender auf dem Silo. Alles Raum Nordbayern.

Weiter wurden in der bay. Rinderstudie genug Gründe geliefert, da einen Zusammenhang zu sehen.

Verwerfungen, Todgeburten und mehr hört man...

Auf meiner Website "stoppschild.de", Bereich Elektrosmog &Handy gibts u.a. ein Bild vom 1ten Kalb nach Sendeinstallation eines Bauern, der davor 20 Jahre keine Stallprobleme hatte und inzwischen nur noch geschädigten Nachwuchs beklagen muss.

Bernd Schreiner


Jahre nach der bayerischen Rinderstudie treten noch immer Fehlgeburten in den Ställen neben Sendeanlagen auf:

http://home.real-net.de/schreiner/stoppschild/esmog/index.html
http://home.real-net.de/schreiner/stoppschild/esmog/esmog6.html

Die "Rinderstudie"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350564/

Krebs und Krankheit um Mobilfunksender

http://www.stoppschild.de/esmog/haeufungen.html
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Victims/

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

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

Berichte von schweren Gesundheitsschädigungen in der Nähe von Mobilfunkbasisstationen http://omega.twoday.net/stories/368150/

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

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

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

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

Zu viel ESMOG?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/615785/

Reizthema Mobil- und Kommunikationsfunk aus gesundheitlicher Sicht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/245871/

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



MÄRCHEN, ja oder nein!???!?

Also, entscheidend ist nur, was ankommt! Und zwar bei potentiellen Opfern.

Gerechnet wird ein Kugelstrahler.

Und damit man bei einer 10 W Anlage und Antennengewinn rechnen kann, rechnet man aus, was für Leistung der Sender benötigen würde (!) um beim Opfer die gleiche Belastung hervorzurufen, wie ein echter Kugelstrahler!

Nun, das ist aber gar nicht entscheidend!

Ist für einen Schädigung eine durchschnittliche Belastung oder eine Spitzenbelastung entscheidend?

Oder beides?

Bricht eine Brücke durch viele Tonnen Spitzenbelastung oder durch eine hohe durchschnittliche Belastung?

Sowohl als auch, aber unter anderen Gesichtspunkten.

Reagiert ein Biosystem auf den heftigsten Reiz, oder nur auf die durchschnittliche Reizschwelle?

FGF meint (Dr. Gerlinde Kaul, Bundesamt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Berlin, Dipl.-Ing. Regina Reichardt, Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V., Bonn):

"Um eine optimale Übertragungsrate beim mobilen Telefonieren gewährleisten zu können, wird das Sendesignal digitalisiert und „gepulst“ abgegeben. Im eigentlichen Sinn aber findet beim Mobilfunk eine paketweise Übertragung von Funksignalen statt. Dass diese sogenannte „Pulsung“ auch eine Verminderung der mittleren Sendeleistung am „Handy“ bewirkt, so ähnlich, als ob jemand eine Hand voll Sand portionsweise loslassen würde, können Skeptiker nicht so recht akzeptieren. Sie glauben, es handle sich bei dieser Pulsmodulation beim Mobilfunk um eine Art „Radarpulse“, deren technologisches Prinzip jedoch ein anderes ist. Gerade in der letzten Zeit ist vermehrt von der „gefährlichen Pulsung“ die Rede, Vergleiche mit epileptischen Anfällen bei Stratoskoplicht bleiben nicht aus. Warum machen aber gerade die „Pulse“ solche Angst? „Aus eigener Erfahrung weiß man, dass jeder (Im-) Puls eine Energiezufuhr bedeutet, die schubweise erzeugt wird. Geräusche wären ohne das energetische Auf- und Abschwellen des Schalls nicht zu unterscheiden. Klopfen, Hauen, Schlagen sind häufige, auch physisch erfahrbare Impulse. Dass das Herz schlägt, ist nicht nur für jeden spürbar, es hat darüber hinaus auch eine existenzielle Bedeutung. Sein Puls wird als Anzahl der Schläge pro Minute registriert. „Beim GSM-Mobilfunk beträgt die Pulsrate 217 pro Sekunde!“ Die Beziehung Pulsschlag (des Herzens) und Pulsfrequenz (des Mobilfunks) ist inhaltlich falsch. Auf der Verhaltensebene allerdings lassen sich mit einer solchen Assoziation psychologisch sehr wohl subjektive Anschauungen miteinander verknüpfen, auch wenn diese real nichts miteinander zu tun haben."

Kann man sagen, dass wenn ein Paketdienstfahrer 50 km Strecke pro Stunde schafft, er unmöglich innerorts die 50 km/h Beschränkung überschreiten kann, oder ist dieser Fahrer durchaus in der Lage durchs Dorf mit gefählichen 85 km/h zu heizen?

Entscheidend ist hier die reale Geschwindigkeit in einem Moment, und wenn ein Handy durchschnittlich einen Leistung abgibt, dabei allerdings nicht die volle Zeit nutzt, bedeutet es, dass der Einzelimpuls kräftiger sein muss, als es erscheint.

Und dieser dann höhere Impuls hat völlig anderes Schädigungspotential als der durchschnittliche Wert, der bei einer Dauerbelastung oft viel niedriger sein kann um auch noch zu schädigen.

Diese Argumentation mit dem Durchschnitt ist sowieso nur für thermische Folgen gerechtfertigt und hat bei Argumentationen im Athermischen recht wenig zu suchen!

Und 10 W ergeben bei 17 dB Antenne genau: 501,2 W EIRP real mit Kabeldämpfung 5db ca. 160 W.

Bei 40 W und 17 db Antennengewinn, 5 db Kabelverlust, sind's 634 W EIRP.

(.. völlig untypische Anlagen (hier entweder 10 W omnnidirektional oder 20 W pro Sektorantenne)

(also z.B: 3x20 W + 17 db Ant. -5 dB Kabel ergeben EIRP 951 W)

und:

Es wird die Eingangsleistung eines Kanals der Basisstation mit der 2-Watt-Leistung eines Handys verglichen. Wie oben beschrieben, werden aus den 10 Watt sehr schnell 2000 Watt, die Sendeleistung des Handys bleibt aber bei 2 Watt. Hierbei ist der Antennengewinn minimal und kann somit vernachlaessigt werden.

Ist leider ebenso Quatsch.

2 W/kg dürfen vom Körper max. absorbiert werden. Und ein Handy sendet die gesamte Leistung in max. der Hälfte der Zeit, (den Rest empfängt das Handy). Im Schnitt irgendwas um die 125 mW.

So haben wir hier exakt ebenso das oben beschriebene Durchschnittsprinzip, denn um die 2 W/kg in den Körper zu schießen, muss der "Energiestrom" zumindest doppelt so hoch sein, wie bei einem Dauersender!

Und wir wissen seit langen, dass bereits bei 0,01 W/kg SAR Wert einiges geschieht...

Die EXPERTEN DES BUNDES VOR ETABLIERUNG EINES MILLIARDENMARKTES:

Bundesanzeiger Nr. 43 vom 03. März 1992, – Veröffentlichungen der Strahlenschutzkommission, Band 24)

"Über spezielle Effekte, die nicht auf der Erwärmung beruhen, wird in der Literatur seit ungefähr 15 Jahren berichtet. Wenn eine Hochfrequenzstrahlung mit einer anderen Frequenz amplitudenmoduliert ist, können Feldwirkungen auftreten, welche bei unmodulierter Strahlung nicht existieren. Es handelt sich meistens um Veränderungen der Permeabilität von Zellmembranen.

Beispielsweise wurde festgestellt, daß bei einer HF-Strahlung mit einer Frequenz von 147MHz, die mit Frequenzen zwischen 6 und 20 Hertz moduliert war, der Kalziumausstrom aus Zellkulturen bei bestimmten Frequenzen signifikant (um 10 bis 20 %) erhöht war. Insgesamt wurde eine komplexe Abhängigkeit dieser Effekte von Intensität und Frequenz beobachtet, wobei spezielle Frequenzbereiche besonders wirksam sind. Die Membraneffekte wurden vielfach bestätigt, so daß ihre Existenz heute als gesichert gilt.

Hervorzuheben ist, daß die SAR-Werte hierbei teilweise kleiner als 0,01 W/kg sind und damit erheblich unterhalb thermisch relevanter Intensitäten liegen."

Leider sind diese Worte wie auch das Wissen auf das sie beruhen weit verdrängt worden.

Weiter ist es völlig daneben, den Schutzabstand für Sektorantennen anhand der kreisförmigen Abstrahlung zu berechnen.

Und dann sind wir ganz schnell bei den Problemen die wir in der Realität im direkten Bereich der Antennen sehen:

(Grafik Krebscluster Westhausen:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grafik_krebscluster_westhausen.gif

Das sind alle tödlichen Krebsfälle (über 1% der Bevölkerung) im Dorf seit Senderinbetriebnahme, ausschlieslich im Bereich Radius ca. 125 m, Krebsratensteigerung bisher (3 Jahre Sendebetrieb) runde 50 %. Sterberate von deutlich unterdurchschnittlich nun auf Bundesdurchschnitt gestiegen (Zahlen nach kich. Register, Stat. Bundesamt).

Die Belastung in ca. 125 m findet sich allerdings an ausgewählten Stellen auch in einem Kilometer Entfernung wieder, dank Sendekeulen und Antennengewinn!

Ähnlich Steinbach- Hallendorf....uva.

Die Daten stammen aus dem Totenbuch und dem Wissen darum vom heimischen Pfarrer. Er beerdigt fast alle, kennt die Backgrounds dazu und fast immer auch die Todesursache.

Zu den einzelnen Fällen....

Drei der Krebsfälle sind sehr auffällig: jüngere Person (von 26 bis ca. 55) und zwischen Ausbruch / Feststellung Krebs und Tod lagen im extremsten Fall nur einige Monate.

Es gibt in der Umgebung mehrere Gemeinden, wo ähnliches zu finden ist...vom Zeilberg in Maroldsweisach (bzw., der Siedlung unterhalb), Dermbach, und auch Steinbach- Hallenberg wird diese berichtet.

Die Vergleichsdaten stammen aus Statistiken vom Bund... und da ist insbesondere die Veränderung der Sterblichkeit interessant.. man wurde "früher" älter hier... und heute ist man beim Bundesdurchschnitt....und das Gute ... hier gibt es keine anderen Belastungen...keine Industrie, keine Starkstromleitungen, keine Landwirtschaft mit Gifteinsatz...nur das normale Leben.. und die paar Autos... sowie der D2 Sender.


Bernd Schreiner

--------

Ein Handy kann von der Belastung keinesfalls mit einen Handy- Sender verglichen werden.

Ob ich in einem Labor, z.B. als Schüler etwas mit Radioaktivität spiele, oder mein Leben lang neben einen Reaktor wohne, wäre ähnlich der Situation Handynutzung / wohnen am Sender.

Ein Handy sendet, wenn der Nutzer es benötigt und sonst fast nicht. Völlig eigene Entscheidung, völlig autonome Entscheidung (sollte man annehmen). Also im Schnitt wahrscheinlich 99% belastungsfreie (arme) Zeit, die der Handyuser da hat.

Im Falle der Belastung tritt dann einen Strahlung auf, die gepulst ist, und immer gleichmässig den Körper stresst (217 Hz).

Die Belastung 1 cm neben dem Ohr wäre theo. ca. knapp 10 W/m2 Leistungsflussdichte mit festen 217 Hz niederfrequenter, resultierender Pulsung, aber eben nur so lange es genutzt wird.

Ein Sendemast strahlt aber 24 h 365 d und das mit wechselnden Pulsen (217 -1700 Hz), an die sich der Körper scheinbar nur schwerer gewöhnt, zumindest die Wechsel eine oft erwähnte Belastung in sich darstellen, neben den vielen anderen Wirkungen, z.B. auf das Melatonin und die nächtliche "Servicezentrale" die für gesund Erhaltung etc. sorgt.

Der Anwohner hat ebenso nicht die Möglichkeit sich der ungewollten Belastung zu entziehen, nicht mal das Argument, "zieh doch um" hilft da weiter.

Und wie Kinder, gerade bzgl. Leistungsfähigkeit und Nachtruhe auf die Sendebelastungen reagieren, sollte noch mehr zu Bedenken geben!

Oder anders:

Sie denken also, dass eine kurzzeitige Belastung, noch ein Beispiel, z.B. drei LKW am Tag Feinstaub und Lärm mehr Anlass zur Sorge gibt, als eine permanent stark benutzte LKW Stecke mit Dauerlärm, der nachweislich chronisch krank macht, und den Abgasbelastungen?

Oder wie kann ich Sie verstehen?


Bernd Schreiner



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Gerlinde+Kaul
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Krebs+Mobilfunksender

Working Man Crushed By Corporate Giant

http://tinyurl.com/43f5s

25 Jahre 1004 - Gorleben

Gorleben Archiv, Am Rott 5, 29439 Grabow, Tel: 05864-987043, Fax: 05864-987083, gorlebenarchiv@t-online.de; Kontakt: Margrit Coellen

"33 Tage gelebte Utopie: Vor 25 Jahren besetzten tausende Atomkraftgegner ein Waldstück bei Trebel. Es ist die Geburtsstunde der Republik Freies Wendland, die zum "schillernden Code eines qualitativ neuen Widerstands" wurde. Für das Gorleben Archiv Anlass, um Rückschau zu halten und dieses mittlerweile legendäre Ereignis in den Mittelpunkt zweier Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Kulturellen Landpartie vom 05.05.05 bis 16.05.05 zu stellen:

1. Fotoausstellung

25 Jahre 1004
Besetzt
Die Republik Freies Wendland
auf der Bohrstelle 1004

vom 05.05.05-16.05.05
im Gasthaus Wiese, Gedelitz 21, 29494 Trebel, Tel 05848 1259
Veranstalter: Gorleben Archiv

2. Lesung

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Saving Our Environment from Washington

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Friday, April 22, 2005
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Featuring David Schoenbrod, Professor of Law, New York Law School; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Author, Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Yale University Press, 2005) and moderated by Jerry Taylor, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute.

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Informant: Bethesda Chevy C

Stagnation statt Belebung

URL:
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=26659
Datum: 31.03.2005
© www.sozialisten.de


Stagnation statt Belebung

Zur Situation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt im Monat März erklärt der Bundesgeschäftsführer der PDS, Rolf Kutzmutz:

Weder das Frühjahr noch die Arbeitsmarktreformen haben im März für eine Entspannung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt gesorgt. Die Zahl der Arbeitslosen liegt mit 5,175 Millionen im Monat März unverändert extrem hoch.

Niemand kann für das Wetter. Die Hartz-Gesetze jedoch sind von der übergroßen Koalition aus Union, SPD, Grünen und Wirtschaft gewollt und gemacht. Und sie haben versagt. Zwei Jahre nach der Verkündung der Agenda 2010 und drei Monate nach der Einführung von Hartz-IV, zeigt sich deutlich, dass sie nicht halten, was ihre Macher versprachen.

Stattdessen: Vielfaches Abgleiten in die Armut, Zwangsmaßnahmen, Ein-Euro-Jobs eine systematische Zerstörung des sozialen Netzes. Die PDS war gegen die Hartz-Gesetze und ist es weiter. Hartz IV ist ein schlechtes und schlecht gemachtes Gesetz. Existenzsichernde Arbeit entsteht dadurch nicht. Stattdessen setzen vor allem die Großkonzerne trotz Milliardengewinnen Zehntausende auf die Straße. Des Kanzlers Appelle dagegen klingen halbherzig. Die stetige Senkung der Unternehmenssteuern hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten den Arbeitsplatzabbau nicht stoppen können, im Gegenteil. Warum dies ausgerechnet jetzt anders werden soll, wird wohl sein Geheimnis bleiben.

Es gibt Alternativen zu dieser Politik des sozialen Raubbaus. Alternativen zu Hartz IV und zur Agenda 2010. Mit ihrer Agenda Sozial zeigt die PDS, dass es anders geht. Sie enthält Vorschläge jenseits von Geschenken an Unternehmen und Sozialabbau: Vom gesetzlichen Mindestlohn über Korrekturen der Hartz-Gesetze bei der Leistungshöhe, den Zumutbarkeitskriterien, der Anrechnung von Altersvorsorgevermögen und Partnereinkommen sowie der Dauer der Zahlung des Arbeitslosengeldes I bis zu einer armutsfesten sozialen Grundsicherung, öffentlichen Investitionsprogrammen, Arbeitszeitverkürzung, Ausbildungsplatzumlage und einem öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektor.

Bobby Fischer arrives in Iceland

"That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian. ... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American because everybody living there is ... an invader," Fischer said.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) 31.03.2005 Bobby Fisher's latest audacious gambit has begun in a wind-lashed corner of the north Atlantic.

The volatile chess icon arrived in Reykjavik late Thursday, a brand-new Icelandic citizen and unrepentant critic of the United States, which considers him as a fugitive from justice.

Hours after being freed from nine months' detention in Japan, Fischer called the United States "an illegitimate country" and said the charges against him were groundless.

Dressed in jeans and sporting a bushy grey beard, Fischer stepped from a chartered jet at Reykjavik airport to applause from about 200 supporters in a tiny, chess-loving nation still grateful for its role as the site of his most famous match a 1972 world championship victory over Soviet player Boris Spassky that was the highlight of Fisher's career and a world-gripping symbol of Cold War rivalry.

Fischer had been held in Japan for trying to leave the country using an invalid U.S. passport. Japan agreed to release him after he accepted Iceland's offer of citizenship.

During his long trip to Iceland, Fischer railed against the governments of Japan and the United States, calling Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a "stooge" of President Bush.

"This was a kidnapping, because the charges that the Japanese charged me with are totally nonsense," he told Associated Press Television News on the flight.

An American chess champion at 14 and a grand master at 15, the enigmatic, eccentric Fischer has long had a reputation for volatility, and a troubled relationship with the United States.

Aboard the flight from Tokyo, he called the United States "an illegitimate country ..."

"That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian. ... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American because everybody living there is ... an invader," Fischer said.

Fischer, 62, wanted by the United States for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match against Spassky there in 1992, had fought deportation from Japan.

Fischer said he felt "very appreciative" toward Iceland but indicated he had no plans to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric.

"I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. I'm too old,' he said. "It's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order," he said with a chuckle.

Fischer remains popular in Iceland, a country with one of the highest numbers of chess players per capita in the world.

"Even though I don't know him personally, I have the feeling of knowing him through his biography of chess, his games," said Magnus Skulason, a psychiatrist and chess enthusiast who came to the airport to greet Fischer. "It was hard to think of him going to jail for many years."

This nation of fewer than 300,000 people is a staunch U.S. ally, but there is a strong undercurrent of public anger at the government's support for the U.S.-led Iraq war, which was opposed by four-fifths of Icelanders.

The United States has an extradition treaty with Iceland, however, and could still try to have Fischer deported. His Icelandic supporters vow that won't happen.

"I think he is safe now," said Thorstein Matthiasson, 39. "We have more courage than the Japanese."


From ECOTERRA Intl.

"Right to stay": Europäischer Aktionstag für Bewegungsfreiheit und Bleiberecht

"Right to stay!" Europäischer Aktionstag für Bewegungsfreiheit und
Bleiberecht am 1./2. April

Video: "No Lager - Nowhere"
Rechtzeitig für die heisse Phase der Mobilisierung zum zweiten europäischen Aktionstag am 2. April 2005 ist ein neuer Film fertig geworden, der den internationalen Widerstand gegen Flüchtlingslager und Abschiebegefängnisse in den Mittelpunkt rückt. "No Lager - Nowhere" - eine europäische Film-Koproduktion, deutsch/englisch, 39 Minuten, Berlin 2005. Filmvorschau zum downloaden.

für dsl-Verbindung:
http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/video/abschiebeknast/no_lager_vorschau_dsl.wmv

für Modem:
http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/video/abschiebeknast/no_lager_vorschau_100.wmv

Der volle Film: No Lager - Nowhere". 39 Min., Berlin 2005, auf VHS oder DVD, englische oder deutsche Version. Bezugsadresse: KMII/AG3F - Hanau, Metzgerstr. 8, 63450 Hanau, per Email: frassainfo@kein.org

Erbeten wird eine Spende von 5 bis 10 Euro auf untenstehendes Konto für Porto und die Möglichkeit, den Film auch kostenlos an Leute und Gruppen weiterverbreiten zu können, die kein Geld haben. Hagen Kopp, Stichwort "nolager", Postbank Frankfurt, Kontonr: 469921607, BLZ: 50010060


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 15

Aufruf gegen Ein-Euro-Jobs

Tübinger Aufruf gegen Ein-Euro-Jobs vom Tübinger Initiativkreis gegen Eineurojobs
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/eurotueb.html

Aus dem Text: "..Als Verein oder Einrichtung lehnen wir die Einführung von Ein-Euro-Jobs ab und werden solche Arbeitsgelegenheiten unter den gegebenen Bedingungen nicht einrichten. Als Mitarbeitervertretung oder Personal- und Betriebsräte werden wir deren Einrichtung nicht zustimmen…"

Für diesen Aufruf werden noch weitere Unterschriften gesammelt, siehe Kontaktadresse im Text

Billigjobber im Angebot. Hamburg: Arbeitslose werden massenhaft in Ein-Euro-Jobs gezwungen. Träger versuchen penetrant, Betroffene an soziale Einrichtungen zu vermitteln

"Ohne jedes vorherige Gespräch werden zur Zeit in Hamburg Arbeitslose für Ein-Euro-Jobs verpflichtet. Massenhaft und pauschalisiert gingen derzeit schriftliche Zuweisungen heraus, berichtet Dirk Hauer, Sprecher der Sozialpolitischen Opposition (SoPo), in der sich zahlreiche kleinere Träger des sozialen Hilfesystems zusammengeschlossen haben. In einer beiliegenden Rechtsbelehrung würden die Betroffenen auf mögliche Leistungskürzungen bei Nichtannahme der Ein-Euro-Jobs hingewiesen. Ein Sprecher der zuständigen "Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II" (ARGE) bestätigte auf Anfrage diese Praxis. Die Vorauswahl fände "an Hand der Aktenlage" statt, hieß es lapidar…." Artikel von Andreas Grünwald in junge Welt vom 29.03.2005
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/03-29/014.php

Im Ein-Euro-Jobber-Rausch. Bochumer Schulverwaltung sieht keinen Anlaß, arbeitsrechtliche Standards einzuhalten. Der Personalrat strengt eine Klage vor dem Verwaltungsgericht an. Artikel von Tomasz Konicz in junge Welt vom 30.03.2005
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/03-30/016.php


Anonyme Umfrage zum Arbeitsamt und zu Ein-Euro-Jobs - nun auch als online-Erfassungsmaske!
http://www.az-wuppertal.de/labournet/fragebogen.php

Letztes Vorbereitungstreffen für die bundesweite Ein-Euro-Job Aktion am 20.5. + Diskussion um "LIDL-Schluss" findet statt am Samstag, den 9.4.2005 von 12.00 - 16.30 Uhr im Gewerkschaftshaus in Göttingen, Obere Masch 10 (3 Min. vom Hauptbahnhof)


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 15

Gesetz zur Steuerehrlichkeit

Anwendungserlass des Bundesministeriums für Finanzen vom 10.3.05
http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/cln_03/nn_54/DE/Aktuelles/BMF__Schreiben/30154.html

Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 22. März 2005
http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/rs20050322_1bvr235704.html

Gesetz zur Steuerehrlichkeit: Keine Kontenabfrage bei Arbeitslosengeld II-Beziehenden. Presseinformation der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V (BAG-SHI) vom 25.03.2005
http://www.alg-2.info/info_argumente/050325PM-Kontenabruf

Aus dem Text: "Die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) weist darauf hin, dass Behörden bei Arbeitslosengeld II-Bezieher/innen keine Kontendaten abrufen dürfen. Dies wird durch den "Anwendungserlass" des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen (BMdF) vom 10.3. eindeutig geregelt. Bei Beziehern/innen von Sozialhilfe wird der Abruf von Kontendaten jedoch möglich sein.

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht lehnte am 23.3. mehrere Anträge auf vorläufigen Stopp der automatischen Kontenabfrage ab, durch die Finanzämter und andere Behörden auf Kontenstammdaten von Bürgern zugreifen können. Diese Entscheidung wurde nur durch den Anwendungserlass des BMdF möglich, da dieser viele Mängel des Gesetzes zur Steuerehrlichkeit nachbessert. Darin wurde u.a. festgestellt, dass Abfragen im Rahmen des Arbeitslosengeld II-Leistungssystems nicht möglich sind…."

Bankgeheimnis ade. Die Verfassungsmäßigkeit der automatischen Kontenabfrage bleibt zweifelhaft. Diese Überprüfung steht allen Behörden offen, die mit der Erhebung von Sozialdaten zu tun haben. Artikel von Ulla Jelpke in junge Welt vom 30.03.2005
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/03-30/012.php


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 23, Eintrag 16

Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered

March 31st , 2005

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf

Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered /Group of University Professors Urges Investigation of 2004 Election/

Officially, President Bush won November's election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3%[1] <#_ftn1>. According to a report to be released today by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this large between the national exit poll and election results happening by accident are close to 1 in a million.

In other words, by random chance alone, it could not have happened. But it did.

Two alternatives remain. Either something was wrong with the exit polling, or something was wrong with the vote count.

Exit polls have been used to verify the integrity of elections in the Ukraine, in Latin America, in Germany, and elsewhere. Yet in November 2004, the U.S. exit poll discrepancy was much more than normal exit poll error (and similar to that of the invalid Ukraine election.[2] <#_ftn2>)

In a recent survey of US members of the world's oldest and largest computer society, The Association for Computing Machinery, 95% opposed software driven un-auditable voting machines[3] <#_ftn3>, of the type that now count at least 30% of U.S. votes. Today's electronic vote-counting machines are not required to include basic safeguards that would prevent and detect machine or human caused errors, be they innocent or deliberate.[4] <#_ftn4>

The consortium that conducted the presidential exit polls, Edison/Mitofsky, issued a report in January suggesting that the discrepancy between election results and exit polls occurred because Bush voters were more reticent than Kerry voters in response to pollsters.

The authors of this newly released scientific study "Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Poll Discrepancies" consider this "reluctant Bush responder" hypothesis to be highly implausible, based on extensive analysis of Edison/Mitofsky's exit poll data. They conclude, /“The required pattern of exit poll participation by Kerry and Bush voters to satisfy the exit poll data defies empirical experience and common sense under any assumed scenario.”/

A state-by-state analysis of the discrepancy between exit polls and official election results shows highly improbable skewing of the election results, overwhelmingly biased towards the President.

The report concludes, “/We believe that the absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky’s exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national importance that needs thorough investigation./”

Ph.D. statisticians in America who have seen this group's preliminary exit poll study have not refuted it. This new study is a much more comprehensive an analysis of the exit poll discrepancies.

The report is available on-line:

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf

An executive summary of the report by is available at:

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_summary.pdf

*Contributors and Supporters of the Report include:*

*Josh Mitteldorf*, PhD - Temple University Statistics Department

*Steven F. Freeman*, PhD - Center for Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania

*Brian Joiner*, PhD - Prof. of Statistics (ret) University of Wisconsin

*Frank Stenger*, PhD - Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

*Richard G. Sheehan*, PhD -Professor, Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame

*Paul F. Velleman*, PhD - Associate Prof., Department of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University

*Victoria Lovegren*, PhD - Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University

*Campbell** B. Read*, PhD - Prof. Emeritus, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University

*Jonathan Simon*, J.D., National Ballot Integrity Project

*Ron Baiman, *PhD* *– Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

*About US Count Votes*

US Count Votes is a Utah non-profit corporation. It is seeking financial support to complete its "National Election Data Archive" project. The goal of the project is to apply statistical and analytic methods to investigate the integrity of the 2004 elections and to provide for timely verification of the integrity of future elections.

For further information: contact Bruce O’Dell, Vice President, US Count Votes

Email: bruce@uscountvotes.org <mailto:bruce@uscountvotes.org>

612-309-1330

or visit http://www.electionarchive.org


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[1] <#_ftnref1> "Evaluation of Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004" prepared by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for the National Election Pool (NEP) Jan. 19, 2005

[2] <#_ftnref2> In the November 21 runoff, Ukraine's official vote count had Prime Minister Yanukovych the winner by 2.7%. Two exit polls showed him losing by 8% and 2%, respectively. Thus, the discrepancy was between 10.7% and 4.7%. In the US, the discrepancy was between 6.5% and 5.5%. See
http://www.templetonthorp.com/ru/news808 and
http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2669&category_id=44.

[3] <#_ftnref3> http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=73

[4] <#_ftnref4> http://uscountvotes.net/voting_machines/Best_Practices_US.pdf

Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Bank, Josef Ackermann, verdient mehr als zehn Millionen

Ackermann verdient mehr als zehn Millionen
http://www.netzeitung.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/331110.html

Deutsche Bank soll Polen geschmiert haben

http://www.netzeitung.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/331139.html

Haida seize Weyerhaeuser timber

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050330.whaida0330/BNStory/National/


Informant: Deane

JODIERUNG: «VON AMTS WEGEN VERGIFTET»

Jodkranke haben ein Problem: Die Schweiz versetzt fast sämtliche
Nahrungsmittel künstlich mit Jod.

http://www.beobachter.ch/artikel.asp?aid=8564

ARZNEIMITTELKONTROLLE: PHARMA AN DER MACHT

Swissmedic sollte Medikamente kontrollieren. Doch sie wird von der Pharmaindustrie unterwandert.

http://www.beobachter.ch/artikel.asp?aid=8584

Restore the Republic

http://www.wealth4freedom.com/


Informant: Andy

30.03.05

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/30_03_05_pfarrer_engelbrecht.pdf

Protect land conservation efforts

http://tinyurl.com/46vjr

The fraud of US democracy crusade

American media silent over mass protest in Bahrain:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/bahr-m29.shtml


Informant: Charles Bremer

State of the Notion - Part 2: 9/11

State of the Notion - Part 2: 9/11
http://tinyurl.com/432nn


Informant: Skews Me

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0329-20.htm

Half-Baked Alaska

http://www.americanprowler.com/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7947


Informant: Logan Victorians

Nature's Crisis

http://counterpunch.com/foreman03262005.html


Informant: radtimes

Why I Hung from a Bridge to Defend the Wild Forests of the Siskiyou Mountains

http://counterpunch.com/white03232005.html


Informant: radtimes
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