Am 15. und 16. Mai 2003 fand in Dublin ein wissenschaftlicher Workshop statt zum Thema 'Mobilfunk-Basisstationen und Gesundheit'. Veranstaltet wurde er von COST 281, einer internationalen Forschungskooperation des Europäischen Rates.

Hier sind die Zusammenfassungen aller Vorträge:
http://www.cost281.org/documents.php?node=45

Ein Vortrag des deutschen Forschers Dr. Christian Bornkessel trug den Titel: "Elektromagnetische Felder in NRW, Untersuchungen der Immissionen durch Mobilfunk-Basisstationen".

Fast in einem Nebensatz findet sich in der Zusammenfassung folgende Information: "Als interessantes Ergebnis der Messungen entdeckten wir, dass die Strahlung direkt unterhalb der Antenne der Mobilfunk-Basisstation nicht immer extrem niedrig ist, sondern dass sie durchaus die in der Schweiz angewendeten Vorsorgegrenzwerte für Orte mit empfindlicher Nutzung (ILT) erreichen können. Das scheint dem so genannten 'Schirm-Effekt' zu widersprechen."

Dr. Christian Bornkessel vom renommierten 'Institut für Mobil- und Satellitenfunktechnik GmbH' (www.imst.de) legte bereits am 29. August 2002 diese Studie vor, die im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen erstellt wurde.

An 24 Sendeanlagen in NRW wurden an insgesamt 87 Messpunkten systematische Messungen durchgeführt und ausgewertet. Der 70-seitige Abschlussbericht, der diese Information enthält, kann hier geladen werden:
http://www.munlv.nrw.de/sites/arbeitsbereiche/immission/pdf/immission_final.pdf

Hierin wird dieser Punkt auf S. 65 etwas ausführlicher so formuliert: Zitat: "Ein interessantes Ergebnis der Messungen ist die Tatsache, dass auch an Orten direkt unterhalb der Anlage (darunter liegende Wohnungen) die Spannbreite der gemessenen Immissionen sehr groß ist; sie umfasst mehr als drei Zehnerpotenzen bezüglich der Leistungsflussdichte.

Somit kann nicht pauschal davon ausgegangen werden, dass in diesen Wohnungen die Immission grundsätzlich wesentlich geringer ist als bei anderen Punkten im Umfeld der Anlage."

Dr. Christian Bornkessel am 29. August 2002, Institut für Mobil- und Satellitenfunktechnik GmbH, in: Elektromagnetische Felder in NRW, Untersuchungen der Immissionen durch Mobilfunk-Basisstationen, Seite 65, Abschlussbericht erstellt für das Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen:

http://www.munlv.nrw.de/sites/arbeitsbereiche/immission/pdf/immission_final.pdf


Interessant ist, dass dieser Dr. Christian Bornkessel im letzten Herbst mit auf der 'Tournee' durch diverse Stadthallen in NRW war, um die Mobilfunkstrahlung zu verharmlosen.


Reinhard Rückemann

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Den Schatten unter den Mobilfunkmasten, den gibt es nicht. Das ist ein Märchen, das die Mobilfunkbetreiber in die Welt gesetzt haben. Alle die hier verwendeten Antennen haben in ihrer Richtcharakteristik sogenannte Nebenzipfel. Und deren Abstrahlung ist zwar im Vergleich zur Hauptkeule kleiner. Leider nicht genug. So etwa, mehrere Prozent der Hauptkeule kommen da schon noch nach unten heraus. Das ist durch die geringe Distanz sehr viel und auch gefährlich.

Andreas Singer

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Der Smog lauert zu Hause. Gerade Menschen, berichten die Profis, die direkt unter Antennenstationen wohnen, machten sich am meisten Sorgen um ihre Gesundheit. Dabei befinden sie sich in einem sogenannten Strahlungsschatten. Das heißt: sie sind tatsächlich der geringsten Belastung ausgesetzt.

Diese Aussage bezweifle ich stark. Im Einzelfall muss immer nachgemessen werden, insbesondere wenn sich in der Nachbarschaft der Antennenanlage metallische oder andere Flächen befinden, die als Reflektor für die Mikrowellen in Frage kommen.


Dipl.- Ing. Wolfgang Priggen


Quelle: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/elektrosmog-liste/message/5165
(Auszug)



Immissionsuntersuchungen in der Umgebung von GSM und UMTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/595408/

Mobilfunk-Anlagen: Starke Strahlung auch direkt unter der Antenne
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/428255/

Gerade unter der Antenne die stärkste Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/342761/

posted 04/01/05

Urge the Governor of South Carolina not to execute Richard Longworth. Longworth's Sixth Amendment rights were violated through the ineffective assistance of his counsel.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=10701862&url_num=42&url=http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=525

posted 04/04/05

On March 31st, the National Election Data Archive Project released a new scientific paper on the discrepancy between exit polls and official vote tallies in the 2004 presidential election. There is nothing more crucial and fundamental to democracy than the right to vote and to have that vote counted. This report should be covered fully by the mainstream media.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=10701862&url_num=28&url=http://www.nomandate.org/action/letter.php?id=19

From Jenny. Have been ill over the last few weeks and unable to do anything - even typing hurts. Sorry. My body has gone into total anarchy. All the bones and joints are red hot pokers, I have a permanent nose bleed, migraines, insomnia and not surprisingly, depression. Think I’ll put a paper bag over my head and pretend I’m not here. I had a letter from George Young, and have only just managed the following reply:

“….. I read the Hansard Report on the Stunell Bill, and it’s clear it was not Mr Stunell who talked the Bill out. Fortunately it will be heard again on the 22nd April. I appreciate that in your view the situation remains the same. Nevertheless, it is still the opinion of mast campaigners that it is essential to be present on the day to show support. On a related matter, I note that 157 MP’s signed up to Mr Hesford’s Early Day Motion which states:

“That this House notes with considerable concern that communities up and down the UK are becoming bombarded with mobile phone mast applications, often repeatedly so: further notes that the 10 point guidance by the industry to regulate and regularise such applications is more honoured in the breach than the observance; further notes that it is now almost five years since the Stewart Report dealt with health-related issues and, because concerns are increasing and scientific understanding has moved on and the output of such masts have increased, calls upon the Government urgently to look again at planning guidance in relation to mast applications and to recall The Stewart Committee in order that health aspects of mast applications can be reassessed.”

Among those who signed were other Hampshire MP’s, including Andrew Hunter, Michael Mates and Mark Oaten, so there was deep disappointment that you had chosen not to support it. Not unexpectedly, failing to attend both the Spring and Stunell Bills, or sign up to Mr Hesford’s EDM, gives rise to serious doubts as to your ‘wholehearted’ support of these measures. I wonder if you could clarify your position, particularly on health and the need for safer planning guidelines, as this is obviously of major concern to voters in the run up to the election.

Similar Telecom Bills will continue to be put before Parliament until people get meaningful health and safety protection. The present policies, including planning guidelines, are a farce and offer little or no protection, despite the false assurances from the Government and the Industry. Because the Operators ‘influence’ politicians from all parties, they have virtually unlimited power. Unless MP’s fight on behalf of their constituents, they will be seen to be part of a Government / Industry Alliance which puts big business above the democratic rights of the people, and worse, puts the next generation at risk. I have great sympathy for Sir William Stewart, who appears to have no support from the government for his sensible recommendations, particularly regarding children. Our strong hope is that local MP’s will force the implementation of the precautionary measures he suggests. It may be a cliché, but it’s true nonetheless, words are cheap – only actions count.

The lies, misinformation, illegal actions and appalling ethics of the Telecom Industry have no place in a decent society. But their time is running out. With the huge increase in the mast roll-out, more and more communities are finding themselves in the ‘firing line’. Fortunately Mast Sanity provides all the information they need, and that information has spread fast and far. What politicians and Operators are dealing with now, is an unstoppable tide of anger and mistrust from a newly empowered and informed electorate. A very dangerous animal!

If you wish I can give you details of the independent international research that Sir William Stewart alludes to in his latest report. A subject of such national importance must surely be essential reading for MP’s.

You know my position on this, Sir George, and I make no apology. This issue cannot be buried. It doesn’t matter how much money is involved or how powerful the organisations are, the fact is the British public are being deliberately and criminally put at risk for profit. Politicians either acquiesce in this scandal or they oppose it. It is a matter of conscience. Yours etc....


From Mast Network

Ausschuss-Postillen: Kritik an CSU-Politiker Uhl wegen Darlehen (06.04.05)

Der Vorsitzende des Visa-Untersuchungsausschusses, Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), sieht sich nun selbst heftiger Kritik ausgesetzt. Grund ist die Abrechnungspraxis des CSU-Bundestagsabgeordneten in seinem Münchner Wahlkreisbüro. Presseberichten zufolge soll Uhl jahrelang Kosten seines Wahlkreisbüros auf das Parteikonto gebucht haben. Nach Angaben der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" hat er insgesamt mehr als 40.000 Euro der CSU in Rechnung gestellt. Eine Genehmigung dieser als "Darlehen" deklarierten Gelder habe Uhl jedoch weder beim CSU-Bezirksverband noch bei der Landesleitung eingeholt. Uhl sagte dem Blatt, er habe das Geld auch für den Unterhalt des Wahlkreisbüros ausgegeben. Eigentlich ist hierfür jedoch die steuerfreie Kostenpauschale für Bundestagsabgeordnete vorgesehen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10819

Nach Gen-Mais-Skandal: SPD Fraktion möchte Gentechnik-Lobbyismus betreiben (06.04.05)

Die SPD-Fraktion möchte das Vertrauen der deutschen Verbraucher in die grüne Gentechnik stärken. Das betonte die AG Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion anlässlich des Skandals um illegal in die Nahrungskette gelangten Süßmais (ngo-online berichtete). Demnach seien die Erschütterungen durch BSE- und Nitrofenskandale "noch nicht vergessen". "Wir wollen das nicht noch einmal erleben.", hieß es von der Fraktion. Sie fürchtete: "Die Bemühungen, die Akzeptanz der Verbraucher gegenüber der grünen Gentechnik zu fördern, können durch diesen Vorgang um Jahre zurück geworfen werden." Das Vertrauen der Verbraucher habe durch "die illegalen Geschäftemachereien" von Syngenta Schaden erlitten, so die SPD-Fraktion. Obwohl über zwei Drittel der deutschen VerbraucherInnen Gentechnikprodukte ablehnten, müsse "alles daran gesetzt werden", das "Vertrauen" in diese Produkte zurückzugewinnen. "Wir gehen hierzu von einer breiten Allianz in Politik und Wirtschaft in Deutschland aus.", führte die Fraktion aus. Der illegal in die Nahrungskette gebrachte Gentech-Mais ist gegen ein beim Menschen häufig verwendetes Antibiotikum resistent.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10817

http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.press.release.page&obj_id=121341


Informant: Sylvie

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Chichester Observer – 7 April 2005

Prescott accused of ‘burying bad news’ over his decision on masts

By Peter Homer

John Prescott today faces accusations of deliberately ‘burying bad news’ after he announced that the government would not be changing planning rules on mobile phone masts – which are at the centre of a long-running controversy in the Chichester district. The statement was made on the day the date of the general election was announced, and when stories about the Pope’s death and the Royal wedding were also dominating the headlines and TV bulletins.

The government has been under intense pressure to give greater control over where masts should be sited, putting more power in the hands of local authorities. But a spokesman at the deputy prime minister’s office confirmed yesterday that a decision had been taken not to change the rules, and was announced by Mr Prescott on Tuesday. A statement was also issued saying the government planned more research on the future direction of mobile phone technology, and future needs for mast developments.

Chichester MP, Andrew Tyrie, said this was an appalling example of Labour burying bad news. “It was decided to announce the decision on a day Mr Prescott hoped it would get the least coverage,” he added. “He has had many weeks to come to a view on this, and has been made well aware of local concerns on masts by me and by hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country. What he has done is an absolute disgrace, and I am shocked that he should behave like this.” Greater control was needed over masts, bearing in mind the huge concerns about them. “Mr Prescott has ridden roughshod over these concerns, leaving local people powerless and frustrated,” he said.

The government announcement has angered local campaigners in the Chichester area fighting plans for masts near their homes. David Baron, of Sidlesham, a leading figure in the campaign against a Tetra mast in the area, strongly backed Mr Tyrie’s comments, and said he shared his concerns. He received many e-mails about masts from all over the country, but had not had one relating to Mr Prescott’s decision, which appeared to have gone unnoticed, supporting Mr Tyrie’s view. “I was not aware of it myself, either,” he added.

Mr Baron, a member of the national organisation Mast Sanity, which lobbies on public concerns about masts, said the government had deliberately chosen the word ‘research’.

“To go on looking at the problem, when the problems have already been identified, is not helpful, and we want them to act now as a matter of urgency,” he said. “Masts should not be put up near schools, all masts applications should go through the full planning process, the loopholes in planning regulations currently exploited by the operators closed and public health concerns taken into account in the siting of masts. ”The decision to have more research was a delaying tactic associated wit h the forthcoming general Election.”

Government planning minister Yvette Cooper said: “It is important to identify the future direction of mobile phone technology in order to inform policy development and to respond to public interest ion this area.”

Informant: David B

From Mast Network

by Joseph Stiglitz, TomPaine.com

How can Bush spread democracy abroad when he undermines it at home?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/democracy_starts_at_home.php?dateid=20050406

Dagegen hilft nur öffentlicher Druck! Machen Sie mit!

Zur Jahreswende war das Thema Nebeneinkünfte von Abgeordneten auf den Titelseiten aller Zeitungen. Es hagelte Rücktritte. Politiker aller Fraktionen versprachen den Bürgern schnelles Handeln – doch passiert ist seither nichts. Die Parteien haben eine Neuregelung erst einmal an die Rechtsstellungskommission des Ältestenrates verwiesen. Dort droht der Prozess zu versanden.

>> Lassen Sie das nicht zu!

1. Fordern Sie mit der Campact-E-Mail die Mitglieder des Ältestenrates auf, sich endlich auf eine Veröffentlichungspflicht von Nebeneinkünften zu einigen. Machen Sie mit unter: http://www.campact.de

2. Leiten Sie diese E-Mail an Freunde und Bekannte weiter, damit der Druck für mehr Transparenz wächst.

Nur durch die Veröffentlichung von Nebeneinkünften wissen wir Wähler, welche Abgeordneten unsere Belange und welche vor allem die Interessen von Wirtschaftsunternehmen vertreten.

Rot-Grün hat einen Vorschlag auf den Tisch gelegt, der ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung sein könnte: Nebeneinkünfte und Gehälter von Abgeordneten sollen in Einkommensstufen veröffentlicht werden. Doch jetzt fehlt die Medienaufmerksamkeit, so dass die Bremser wieder die Oberhand bekommen.

Per Internet können Sie öffentlich Druck machen. Nur wenn dieser groß genug ist, wird die Politik handeln.

Herzlichen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung

Günter Metzges (Campact e.V.)
Campact e.V.
Artilleriestr. 6
27283 Verden
info@campact.de

In den USA ist eine breite Debatte über "Fake News" im Gange. Dabei geht es um Nachrichtenvideos, die von der US-Regierung produziert werden und von Fernsehsendern übernommen werden, ohne die Quelle zu nennen. Zudem sind mehrere Fälle bekannt geworden, in denen Journalisten von der Regierung bezahlt wurden, um ihre Botschaften zu verbreiten. Inzwischen regt sich breiter Widerstand gegen diese Praxis - sowohl die Regierung Bush als auch die Medien stehen in der Kritik. Eine kurze Einführung in die Debatte bietet ein Artikel der taz von heute unter dem Titel "Infoganda":
http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/04/06/a0182.nf/text

Für weitere englische Informationen lohnen sich folgende Seiten
http://www.sourcewatch.org/
http://www.freepress.net/propaganda/
http://www.stopfakenews.org/

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Gekaufte Inhalte - Panorama über PR in den Medien.

Panorama berichtete am 31. März darüber, wie PR-Leute Produkt- und Firmennamen regelmäßig im redaktionellen Teil der Medien unterzubringen. Der Zuschauer denkt, er bekommt ordentlich recherchierte Fakten, während er in Wirklichkeit PR-Aussagen erhält - bezahlt von den Unternehmen.
http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/archiv/2005/0331/pr_branche.html


Aus: info-gd Nachrichtensammlung, Band 4, Eintrag 1

Die Debatte über Lobby-Regeln in Brüssel gewinnt an Dynamik. Der Vizepräsident der EU-Kommission, Siim Kallas, hat gestern am 3. März eine neue "European Transparency Initiative" angekündigt. Sie soll einerseits die Transparenz in der Verwendung von EU-Mitteln verbessern (z.B. der Strukturfonds) und zum andern die Integrität und Unabhängigkeit der politischen Institutionen und Akteure fördern. Dazu gehören auch verbesserte Regeln für Lobbyisten. Kallas kritisiert, dass die bisherige Registrierung der Lobbygruppen freiwillig und unvollständig ist. Die freiwilligen Selbstverpflichtungen hätten wenig Unterzeichner und keine ernsthaften Sanktionsmöglichkeiten. Auch die Transparenz von NGOs will Kallas verbessern. Geplant sind ein Weißbuch der Kommission, das verschiedene Optionen diskutiert, ein Runder Tisch mit allen relevanten Akteuren und möglicherweise schon im Herbst eine Mitteilung der EU-Kommission mit konkreten, auch rechtlichen Maßnahmen. Das Manuskript der Ankündigungsrede findet sich unter
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/05/130

Die ETI greift auch Kritik von NGOs über den exzessiven Einfluss von Lobbygruppen in Brüssel auf. Im Herbst hatten über 50 NGOs, den EU-Kommissionspräsident aufgefordert, Maßnahmen gegen den großen Einfluss wirtschaftlicher Lobbygruppen zu ergreifen.
Der Brief online: http://www.corporateeurope.org/barroso.html.
Das Corporate Europe Observatory hat zudem das Medienecho zur Lobby-Debatte dokumentiert: http://www.corporateeurope.org/mediacoverage.html


Aus: info-gd Nachrichtensammlung, Band 4, Eintrag 1

foodwatch hat sich juristisch gegen McDonald's durchgesetzt, die Fast Food-Kette muss erneut eine Werbung zurückziehen.

McDonald's hatte damit geworben, dass die Hamburger Brötchen nur mit Mehl, Wasser, Zucker, Öl, Hefe und "natürlichen Backhilfsstoffen" gebacken seien. foodwatch ist aber bekannt, dass zu diesen Backhilfsstoffen auch Zusatzstoffe wie Emulgatoren gehören (häufig bei der Herstellung von Brötchen verwendete Emulgatoren sind zum Beispiel E472e, E471, E481). Nach dem deutschen Lebensmittelgesetz ist es verboten, derartige Zusatzstoffe mit der Eigenschaft "natürlich" zu bewerben. Auf Druck von foodwatch hat McDonald's am 31. März 2005 eine strafbewehrte Unterlassungserklärung unterschrieben und sich verpflichtet, diese Werbung nicht mehr zu verwenden. Aktuell berichtet Der Spiegel (Nr.14/2005, Seite 18) über diesen foodwatch-Erfolg (derzeit auch unter http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/0,1518,349268,00.html).

In der geänderten Werbung der Fast Food-Kette ist nun lediglich die Rede von "Backhilfsstoffen". Dabei weigert sich McDonald's aber offen zu legen, welche spezifischen Emulgatoren für die Herstellung der Hamburger Brötchen verwendet werden. Leider wieder ein "gutes" Beispiel dafür, wie dürftig die Rechte der Verbraucher sind. Denn bei der Angabe von Inhaltsstoffen in Lebensmitteln geht es um das demokratische Verbraucher-Grundrecht aller Bürger auf Transparenz - sei dies nun bei McDonald's, bei Fast Food oder bei irgendeinem anderen Nahrungsmittel.

Es ist bereits das zweite Mal, dass McDonald's eine Niederlage gegen foodwatch beim Thema "pseudoreine" Brötchen erlitten hat. Im Herbst 2003 hatte der Konzern auf medialen Druck von foodwatch ebenfalls eine Werbekampagne einstellen müssen. Darin hatte McDonald's behauptet, dass die Burger-Brötchen ohne Backmittel (Emulgatoren) hergestellt würden, was foodwatch als falsch widerlegen konnte.

Lesen Sie mehr zur Auseinandersetzung mit McDonald's unter http://www.foodwatch.de/showpage.php?pageId=567. Hier finden Sie auch die Originaldokumente der Korrenspondenz als PDF-Dokumente. Übrigens wirbt McDonald's unter anderem mit folgendem Slogan: "Für die optimale Zufriedenheit und das Vertrauen unserer Gäste tun wir alles."

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
das foodwatch-Team

from Lyndon LaRouche

April 3, 2005 (7:13pm) EDT

The delusion is, that the array of pro-Bush religious fruitcake collection, built of a partnership, forged in large part by Billy Graham, between Jonathan Edwards/Darbyite Protestant fruitcakes and dark-age fascist, nominal Catholics, is not a lobby directed to influence government; it is a Bush- government-created state religion, created and deployed to impose a de facto dictatorship on the U.S.A. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/6lsxo Don't worry; I am not going to join LaRouche, but I am amazed at how reality is making prophets of us all.

© Virginia Metze

From Vivienne Baron.

Here is the 2nd part of the notes (taken in shorthand). Very bitty, as headache and arthritis had hit in!!

Mike Clarke took the stage and talked about the Sieslo Inquiry - power risks and mentioned that Friends of the Earth "did not question our expertise in that area." He said "we are zapped by our doctors and dentists by x-rays". He also said that many houses in the south west had high doses of radiation.

The Health Protection Agency dealt with chemical, biological and radiological issues. He chortled on that power lines were an issue. He said, "the Stewart report is regarded as a model" and pointed out the anomalies. He was asked about the DRAPER REPORT by Amanda, but we did not get a satisfactory answer from him.

John O' Brien stated that 18 billion pounds goes back to the government in revenue from 02 Airwave. (I am asking John to circulate notes on his talk)

Roger Coghill. He listed reports:-

Lai and Singhs - pulsed microwaves appear to be causing damage. Lymphosites - without these we cannot protect ourselves from diseases, cancer, etc.

1992 Jan Wallacek - unpaired electron........

Keith McLaughlin
Jolante in Poland
2005 Jaijte confirmed the effect.

Melatonin fights cancer.

Cherry uly 1997 p. 119

Experiments are being done with melatonin in Surrey University. Then he mentioned "discontinuance of use afterwards" 1990.

Chris Maile:

Para 16 Schedule 2 lands tribunal for compensation. Para 17 Masts removed.

(Below is more information from Chris, - but all of this was not brought out at the Forum)

Childrens Act


Whilst this could be used, it would be more useful to point to the provisions in the Communication Act and the Regulations, which are more targetted at phone masts than the Childrens Act (horses for courses)

Principle Duty of Ofcom (S3 of the Act)

The Principle Duty of OFCOM in carrying out their functions to "Further the interests of citizens in relation to communications matters" (s3(1)). OFCOM MUST have regard to:- "the vulnerability of children and of others whose circumstances appear to OFCOM to put them in need of special protection" s3(4)(h)). The real nail biter of the Act is Section 132 which gives the Secretary of State the power to order OFCOM to suspend or restrict the service of Electronic Communications in order "to protect the public from any threat to public safety or public health."

Power to preserve court papers and to obtain compensation. Barry Trower referred to some foreign country that allows compensation and Chris pointed out that we have a process in the UK thanks to Asbestos cases that allows a claim to be submitted today where there is reasonable grounds to suppose that a person may at some future date become ill. This enables the protection of all the papers and even preliminary compensation Part 41 of the Civil Procedure Rules. (There is a chain of causation between injury and illness.)

Compensation

Code 16 of the Electronic Communication Code allows for compensation to be sought from the operators for injurious affection.

Court Cases

The Court of Appeal has not prevented health being taken into account - quite the reverse. They have, as a consequence of Harrogate, set out that in exceptional cases health is relevant and must be taken into account, thus if an LPA fail to look at health concerns they will have failed to consider whether there is a significant effect and therefore acted unlawfully

Fiona said - Aarhus Convention. Participation in decision making - UK law in June of this year. DEFRA is involved. There is a window of opportunity to make our views felt.

Article 10a. In terms of decision making a citizen is entitled to not only procedural, but substantive judicial review. Alan Meyer said "the employer must supply a safe system of work."

Roger Coghill said 3G wavelength - a persons head may act as an aerial and absorb these wavelengths. Within 100m and 300m radius, there is a doubling of childhood leukaemia. Roger has papers on this. The socio-economic development versus the environment. There will be a financial loss somewhere along the line. Resource economics. If you do that, then the folowing circumstances will occur and the following losses will occur. The loss of the value in your property - put that information together as well as the scientific. This is what we LOSE - add in the dosh. One should use the notion of accountability. Conflicts of interest. Professor Crawley - professional scientists (didn't get the rest of this...sorry)

Fiona ACCOUNTABILITY
l. Scientists viewed with suspicion
2. Government Scientists viewed with more suspicion
3. NGO Scientists are more respected.

WE NEED WATCHGUARDS. An average rice worker in the paddy fields is more protected than any one in this room.

There are three things to note.
l. LITIGATION. People should get together to do that.
2. Lack of perceived credibility of NRPB
3. Precautionary Principle is not acknowledged.

The Chairman of the Dorset Police Federation spoke of his concerns for the health of his members - using the TETRA system. Police men and women were very worried.


Mike Clarke said that Barry Trower had not been commissioned by the Police Federation to write his report, and there was some disagreement about the word "commissioned". However the Chairman of the Dorset Police Federation backed Barry Trower.

http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/business_news.asp?articleid=1910&zoneid=3


From Marks Mind control page

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


Informant: Andy Robinson

http://groups.msn.com/PesticideGroupNewfoundlandLabrador/poisonings.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=188&LastModified=4675514216949441319


Informant: Deborah Barrie

by Tony Koch

April 06, 2005

A MONTH ago, ABC television journalist and Brisbane newsreader Jo-Anne Youngleson was on top of the world. The 31-year-old had been happily married for six months and was super-fit, training to run in a half-marathon.

But when a colleague was diagnosed with breast cancer, the 11th at the ABC's Brisbane studios in the past six years, Youngleson decided to have a check-up.

"I am so glad I picked up the phone that day. That call saved my life," she said yesterday.

The check revealed she was the 12th, and the youngest, to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the studios in the inner-city suburb of Toowong, where about 60 women work.

It is not known how many women have worked at the joint TV-radio facility on the Brisbane River in the past six years, so there is no way of knowing how the incidence of breast cancer at the studios compares with the national rate of one in 11 women.

Nevertheless, it is alarming that five of the 12 women share the same newsroom production desk, and at least three are in their 30s.

Youngleson and two of her colleagues - journalist Nadia Farha, 38, and newsreader Lisa Backhouse, 36, both married with two children - have agreed to talk of their plight so hundreds of former female employees of ABC Brisbane will have check-ups.

"I had six months of chemotherapy and then hormonal treatment. I walk around with this black cloud over me, and I hate that," said Farha.

Backhouse returned to work a month ago after surgery and chemotherapy.

"My hair has not grown back yet so I wear this wig, which is fine - at least I am always neat," she said.

"When you are diagnosed you really do lose all sense of future. For a young woman in the prime of her life with a young family, it's extremely difficult."

Michael Evans, an engineer from EMC Technologies, began testing yesterday for electromagnetic radiation and radio frequency emissions on the entire 1.5ha site.

A huge satellite dish and radio antenna are on the roof of the news complex.

ABC state manager Chris Wordsworth said occupational physician Keith Adams had been commissioned to conduct an epidemiological survey of staff to identify any links between the site and breast cancer reports.

State editor Fiona Crawford, who has worked in the Toowong newsroom for 14 years, said that despite the ABC's best endeavours, nothing on the site could be identified as causing the cancers.

"It is understandable people are frightened or searching for answers," she said.

Brisbane breast care specialist Petar Vujovic said the incidence of breast cancer among women in their 30s was dramatically lower than the overall national rate of 1 in 11.


Informant: Don Maisch



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Toowong

CIA interrogations may have played a role in the deaths of several detainees in Iraq, as Bush administration lawyers were advocating an aggressive interrogation policy that critics say led to torture, military documents and officials say.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8467.htm

A U.S. Defense Department study has determined that Muslims in the Middle East do not yearn for U.S. liberation.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8469.htm

U.S. troops in Iraq are provoking civilians and hampering rebuilding with an excessive use of force, British lawmakers said in a report Tuesday.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8474.htm

To forestall a clerical-driven religious regime, Washington has a plan to arm small militias.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8460.htm

US & Allies Neutralized, World War III Ends

by John Stanton

By the 1990’s, securing energy resources and limiting the growth of the economies of China, India, Russia, Brazil and Venezuela became paramount. Even with the US colonization of Iraq in 2005, there was not enough oil & gas to satisfy both US needs and those of the high growth nations. The historical record shows that the resource domination was the real goal of the disingenuous US War on Terror. And with the US removing itself from international diplomacy and treaty, and refusing to share the wealth, world war was just a step away.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8471.htm

EX-PARK CHIEF CONFESSES CRUELTY, DECEIT IN ISLAND 'RESTORATION': THE NATURE CONSERVANCY AND NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LIED ABOUT WILDLIFE KILLING PROJECT

(Santa Barbara, CA) In a stunning confession, the ex-superintendent of Channel Islands National Park reveals that the Santa Cruz island pig is innocent of endangering the island fox.

"To help sell the fox restoration program for which we had no money, we came up with the media spin that one of the main reasons golden eagles reside on park islands was because of pigs. This would help vilify the pigs and help support the pig removal project," said Tim Setnicka in a statement voluntarily submitted to the Santa Barbara News-Press.

The Nature Conservancy and National Park Service, co-managers of the island, recently awarded a contract to fence and gun down two to four thousand animals at a cost of over seven million tax-payer dollars. The Santa Cruz Island Restoration Project, known internally as the "mega kill, poison, burn plan," would also involve fire, and aerial spraying of herbicide, to defoliate the island so the victims could not hide.

Channel Islands National Park management recently feted the park's 25th anniversary. Setnicka expresses concern that the park is "now largely known as an area in which systematic biologic genocide has been committed...."

He offers a graphic first-hand account of island pig 'removal': "In thick vegetation, clean kill shots are hard to make...we frequently gut shot and wounded pigs...pigs were caught by their hind legs and then were knifed or beaten to death."

The whistler blower explained that park personnel never allowed the media to view the killing "to avoid images of the ugliness of the hunt." He said they always gave "safety" as the reason for denying media requests.

Channel Islands Animal Protection Association (CHIAPA), the most outspoken opponent of the recent 'restoration' killings, greeted Setnicka's revelation appreciatively.

Says CHIAPA founder Rob Puddicombe, "We're delighted that an insider is finally telling the truth about the cruelty and deceit of so-called restoration. Setnicka confirms CHIAPA's message that there's something for everyone to hate about these projects."

CHIAPA spokesperson Scarlet Newton responds, "This is a miracle. We're immensely grateful that Mr. Setnicka had the courage to speak up. Perhaps now Congress will finally grant our request for an investigation."


Informant: Hopedance

NCADP Death Penalty Update - April 2005 Issue

NCADP ON THE ROAD

Diann Rust-Tierney in Alaska

NCADP Executive Director Diann Rust-Tierney recently delivered the keynote address before a meeting of Alaskans Against the Death Penalty and members of the Alaska Trial Lawyers Association. Diann was asked to discuss how she came to be a lawyer involved in social justice work, the current debate over the death penalty and challenges we face in the immediate future.

"We are advancing on every front," Diann said. "Opposition to the death penalty and abolition is no longer an idea on the margins. It is moving squarely to the middle of American politics. We have advanced in the courts. We have advanced in the state legislatures. We have advanced in the public opinion arena. We hold the upper hand in the cultural expression of society's feelings toward the death penalty ."

To read the entire speech, go here:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=54

And Jotaka Eaddy in Geneva

While Diann traveled west, Jotaka Eaddy, NCADP's Domestic Program Coordinator, traveled east to Geneva to represent NCADP before the United Nations. Each spring for five weeks, the U.N. Human Rights Commission meets in Geneva to discuss and debate human rights issues. This past year, NCADP for the first time in its 29-year history was granted ECOSOC status by the United Nations. This means NCADP is allowed to present testimony before the body with regard to the death penalty as a human rights violation.

During her trip to Geneva last year, Eaddy personally lobbied diplomats from 31 different countries as well as U.N. staff and representatives from nonprofit organizations from around the world. Her efforts contributed to the U.N. Human Rights Commission's decision to issue even stronger language than it had previously against the execution of juvenile offenders. International opposition to the juvenile death penalty was one factor cited by the U.S. Supreme Court when it outlawed the practice last month.

NEWS Catholics launch effort around death penalty

Many of the world's estimated one billion Catholics - and people from all spiritual walks of life - are mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II. During his papacy, the Catholic Church moved away from its 1,500-year history of strongly supporting the right of government to execute its citizens.

Just weeks before the pope's passing, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce a renewed campaign at the grassroots level to effectively end capital punishment in the United States.

The Bishops released a poll showing 48 percent of U.S. Catholics in favor of the death penalty -- down sharply from several years ago. In addition, the majority of Catholics who "strongly favor" the death penalty is at 20 percent -- down a whopping 20 points from 2001. And the poll found that younger Catholics are sharply opposed to the death penalty and 30 percent of Catholics who once favored capital punishment now oppose it. To learn more about the "Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty," go here:

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/deathpenalty/index.shtml


Santorum rethinking support for death penalty

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, one of the leading conservatives in the U.S. Senate, is rethinking his support for the death penalty. The day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced their campaign, Santorum told a newspaper in his state that he is concerned about who receives the death penalty and whether it is administered fairly.

"I felt very troubled about cases where someone may have been convicted wrongly," Santorum told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "DNA evidence definitely should be used when possible. I agree with the pope that in the civilized world ... the application of the death penalty should be limited. I would definitely agree with that. I would certainly suggest there probably should be some further limits on what we use it for."

SUPREME COURT WATCH

The U.S. Supreme Court is again on recess. No opinions will be released until at least Tuesday, April 19.

RESOURCES Courtesy of the Death Penalty Information Center, we learn of a new book that takes a comprehensive look at the conditions that resulted in 12 states not having capital punishment.

"America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way" looks at factors such as economic conditions, public sentiment, mass media, population diversity, murder rates, and the regional history of executions that led to abolition in those states. The book's authors, Professors John F. Galliher, Larry W. Koch, David Patrick Keys, and Teresa J. Guess, provide an in-depth look at the nine jurisdictions that have banned the death penalty through legislative action and the three states that have banned it through court decisions. They also examine Washington, D.C., where residents have battled against Congressional efforts to reinstate capital punishment.

The book may be purchased at www.amazon.com

NEW BLOG

There's a new, anti-death penalty blog in town. http://www.meetvernon.blogspot.com provides a look at Vernon Evans, a person on Maryland's death row. Vernon was scheduled for execution this month, but received a stay. http://www.meetvernon.blogspot.com offers readers a chance to write Vernon and ask him about life on death row.

To learn more about Vernon's case - including information about rallies that will take place this week in Baltimore and in Takoma Park, Maryland, please visit http://www.stopexecutionsinmaryland.org

Meanwhile, if you or your affiliate has a story you'd like to tell about the death penalty, write David Elliot at delliot@ncadp.org

We'll put your story on http://www.deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.com which is NCADP's blog. Since this blog was launched last June, we've received more than 11,000 visitors!

NCADP ACTION CENTER

As of this writing, seven executions are scheduled for the month of April, including a double execution set to take place in Texas on Wednesday, April 20. Go here to protest these executions: http://www.ncadp.org/execution_alerts.html

JOIN NCADP AND TELL A FRIEND!

NCADP's e@bolitionist listserv now contains more than 12,000 email addresses and has doubled in size since last September! But we need to continue to significantly expand our paid membership in order to build a powerful state and national movement. We need YOUR support! If you have never joined NCADP but believe, as we do, that the death penalty violates the most basic principle of human rights, please consider becoming a member today!

https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/shop/ncadp/custom.jsp

SAVE THE DATE!

NCADP 2005, NCADP's annual conference, will take place in Austin, Texas Oct. 27-30. This year's conference will emphasize grassroots mobilization and training like never before! Please keep an eye on our web site at http://www.ncadp.org, for details as they emerge. The conferece will be at the Hyatt Regendy on Town Lake. For reservations, call 512-477-1234. Tell them you're with NCADP to get the special conference rate!

FEATURED EVENTS

Have an anti-death penalty event you'd like to publicize? Or do you just want to find out what's going on in the abolition movement? Visit here:
http://www.cuadp.org/upevents.html

China #1, US #4
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0405-07.htm

CONSTITUTION WATCH: EU-Verfassungsvertrag Nr. 2

05.04.2005

Die Behauptung: EU-Verfassung besser für Frieden

Angelika Beer (Grüne) behauptet in der "Frankfurter Rundschau" vom 26. März: "Weltweit werden erstmals in einer Verfassung die zivilen und militärischen Missionen im Rahmen der Europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik (ESVP) gleichberechtigt nebeneinander definiert. Damit werden neue Maßstäbe gesetzt."

Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (PDS) erklärt mit ähnlichem Wortlaut im "Freitag" vom 24. März: "In der jetzigen Rechtslage werden 'friedenschaffende' Maßnahmen ausschließlich militärisch definiert, während die EU-Verfassung von zivilen und militärischen Missionen spricht, also erstmals die zivile Option aufnimmt und dieser sogar den Vorrang erteilt. Sie ist damit eine wichtige Grundlage, um für zivile Konfliktlösungen zu streiten."

Der Verfassungsvertrag

In Artikel I-41 (1) des Verfassungsvertrages heißt es: "Die Gemeinsame Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik ist integraler Bestandteil der Gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. Sie sichert der Union eine auf zivile und militärische Mittel gestützte Fähigkeit zu Operationen."

Anders als behauptet, stellt dies jedoch keinen Fortschritt dar. Die EU legt sich durch diesen Paragraphen nicht stärker als bisher auf zivile Mittel fest. Bereits jetzt steht Entsprechendes in Artikel 17 des gültigen EU-Vertrages von Nizza. Im Bezug auf die "Gemeinsame Verteidigungspolitik" heißt es hier: "Die Fragen, auf die in diesem Artikel Bezug genommen wird, schließen humanitäre Aufgaben und Rettungseinsätze ..., wie Kampfeinsätze bei der Krisenbewältigung ein." Also ebenso bereits eine Reihung von zivilen und militärischen Maßnahmen. Dass zivilen Operationen jetzt Vorrang erteilt werden soll, findet sich nicht in der EU-Verfassung. Zwar werden zuerst die zivilen Mittel genannt. Aber die militärischen Mittel werden voraussetzungslos als gleichrangige Option offen gehalten und zusätzlich noch mit den zivilen vermischt. Mehr noch: Während die Verfassung keine Strukturen und damit auch Ressourcen für rein zivile Konfliktlösungsansätze bereitstellt, wird dem militärischen Bereich u. A. mit der Einrichtung der Rüstungsagentur ein hoher und gegenüber zivilen Mitteln prioritärer Stellenwert eingeräumt. Charakteristisch für den Verfassungsvertrag sind die Neuerungen im Bezug auf militärische Mittel. So werden die Möglichkeiten, die der Verfassungsvertrag zur Durchführung von Militärinterventionen vorsieht, gegenüber den bestehenden europäischen Verträgen massiv ausgeweitet. Prägnantes Beispiel: In Artikel III-309 wird neu festgeschrieben, dass die Union "auf zivile und militärische Mittel zurückgreifen kann", um "gemeinsame Abrüstungsmaßnahmen" durchzuführen - außerhalb der EU wohlgemerkt. Diese Festlegung auf "Abrüstungsmaßnahmen" mit "militärischen Mitteln" im Verfassungsvertrag, bedeutet die vertragliche Ermöglichung so genannter Abrüstungskriege. Das darf wohl mit Fug und Recht als weltweit einmalig bezeichnet werden.

Büro Tobias Pflüger (MdEP)
Kontakt: http://www.tobias-pflueger.de, mail@tobias-pflueger.de, Tel: 0032 2 284 5555

Badische Zeitung vom Samstag, 2. April 2005

AUCH DAS NOCH

Funk schwächt Stein

Auf dem Münsterturm tummeln sich die Steinmetze. Den Winter über haben sie in der Werkstatt die Sandsteinteile der Turmspitze repariert, jetzt werden die Stücke wieder eingesetzt, und im Herbst kann die Pfarrgemeinde feiern, dass der Münsterturm in neuem Glanz erstrahlt. Einen stattlichen Teil der Kosten für die Sanierung wurde durch Spenden und Sammelaktionen zusammengekratzt. Vielleicht sollte man die Spendenaktionen in der Kirche zur Daueraufgabe machen. Denn glaubt man den Aussagen von Biophysikern, wird der frisch geliftete Turm schon in absehbarer Zeit wieder saniert werden müssen. Im Auftrag des bayerischen Umweltministeriums, das sicher nicht im Verdacht steht, allzu "grün" zu denken, wurde eine umfassende Studie über Gesundheitsgefahren durch Mobilfunkanlagen erarbeitet. In diesem Zusammenhang sagt der Nienburger Professor Eike Georg Hensch, dass "langfristig die technisch erzeugten Schwingungen - auch bei geringsten Intensitäten unterhalb der Grenzwerte - das natürliche Gefüge quarzhaltiger Steine (Sandstein) nachhaltig stören" könnten. Quarze gerieten durch die Einwirkung von Sendesystemen in Schwingungen und das mikroskopisch feine Gefüge und damit die Gesamtfestigkeit des Steins leide. 2001 wurden sechs Mobilfunkantennen im Münster montiert, 2003 musste der Haupteingang vor gefährlichem Steinschlag vom Turm gesichert werden. Ein Schelm wer dabei Schlimmes denkt. . . .

Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

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Professor Eike Georg Hensch vom Biophysikalisches Forschungsinstitut in Nienburg: "Langfristig können die technisch erzeugten Schwingungen - auch bei geringsten Intensitäten unterhalb der Grenzwerte - das natürliche Gefüge quarzhaltiger Steine (Sandstein, Granit etc.) nachhaltig stören. Obwohl die Luftverschmutzung in den letzten Jahren stark zurückgegangen ist, zerfallen unsere historischen Kirchenbauten derzeitig rapide. Quarze geraten durch die unharmonische Fremdeinwirkung dieser Sendesysteme in Schwingungen und das mikroskopisch feine Gefüge und damit die Gesamtfestigkeit des Steins leidet."

http://www.s-p-i-r-i-t.net/science/c-mobilfunk1.htm

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Biophysikalisches Forschungsinstitut und Verlag
Prof. Eike Georg Hensch
Neue Str. 20
31582 Nienburg
Tel.+Fax: 05021-66236
e-Mail: eike.hensch@hensch-geomantie.de
http://www.hensch-geomantie.de/

05.04.05

Alarmierend: Unter Jugendlichen grassiert die „Handy-Sucht“.

Abhängig von Klingelton und SMS? Viele Kids können ohne ihr geliebtes Mobiltelefon nicht mehr sein. Immer öfter werden Beratungsstellen mit dem krankhaften Gebrauch von Mobiltelefonen konfrontiert, warnt die Technikerkrankenkasse.

Unruhe, Depressionen, Angstattacken

Verschickt jemand geradezu zwanghaft mehr als 100 Kurznachrichten pro Tag, kann man von einer Sucht ausgehen. Ist das Handy einmal nicht verfügbar, drohen sogar Entzugserscheinungen wie Unruhe, Depressionen und Angstzustände. Quelle: dpa

http://focus.msn.de/hps/fol/newsausgabe/newsausgabe.htm?id=13214


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Please write to the US Congress

The most important thing we can all do right now to assure democratic elections, is to alert politicians before November 2006 to the current state of our voting and elections systems, by mailing each of our U.S. Congressional Representatives and Senators a copy of US Count Votes "Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Exit Poll Discrepancies"

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

Please feel free to copy and modify this sample letter by Bruce O'Dell and send it to your two U.S. Senators and your House Congressman.
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/

The Honorable Martin O. Sabo

250 Marquette Avenue, Suite 225

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401

April 1, 2005

Dear Representative Sabo:

I am writing to you as a constituent and on behalf of an organization I work with, the National Election Data Archive Project, along with ten prominent university professors of statistics and mathematics, to urge you to read our enclosed reports on 2004 presidential exit poll discrepancies.

Our final 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.”

As you know, 30% of the vote in America is “faith-based”; there is simply no way to independently verify that those votes are counted as cast. Even the 70% of the vote that can be recounted is at risk, since no one audits against the paper ballots if the electronic totals are not particularly close.

Banks know that they face a far greater challenge from embezzlers than they do from any punk with a gun in the lobby. But no state counts its votes as carefully as any bank counts its pennies. Ohio charged the Green and Libertarian Parties a steep fee to conduct its limited recount; would you keep your money in a bank that never audited its books unless you asked them to, and then made you pay dearly for the privilege?

After more than twenty years in financial services and as a computer security professional, to me this is a matter of simple common sense. Would you drive over a bridge that 95% of engineers say will collapse under the weight of your car? Yet a remarkable 95% of computer scientists and software engineers surveyed last year opposed any use of unauditable voting equipment, because the risks of "embezzlement" of the vote are so obvious to us. I find the apparent willingness of state and local governments to ignore an urgent warning so clearly expressed by such a lopsided majority of computer professionals to be totally unconscionable.

I urge you to join with James Oberstar and the other twenty two congressional endorsers of the March 21^st letter to the major voting equipment vendors, demanding they follow common-sense security and audit practices.

I also ask that you endorse our group’s call to fully investigate the still totally-unexplained Presidential exit poll discrepancy, which we’ve noted is comparable to the exit poll discrepancy in the now-overturned election in Ukraine. The reaction here was muted by an unquestioned faith in the accuracy of an official vote count outsourced to a handful of private companies. If that faith is unwarranted, the American Republic itself is at risk. There is no more pressing issue to address.

Sincerely,

Bruce O’Dell

National Election Data Archive Project

Vice President, US Count Votes

http://tinyurl.com/69lqh


This is a "plenty-to-consider," excellent, long article I just happened to come across today, 4-5-05.

"NO DISEASE was identified in my two grandsons -- a reference only to "hypogammaglobuilinemia" which means "low immune." There are many "rare and unusual immune problems WITH NAMES......!!!!!

The webpage does not give any contact information or the name of the author, etc., but the "access info" indicates the writer is/was most likely Roger Coghill -- http://www.cogreslab.co.uk/aids.htm The article also does not contain a date.

There is a paragraph re "immune under corticol control" -- I made a note to review, so it may be "conjecture rather than fact" although I have very little doubt (our family facts plus guinea pig facts, etc. plus other journal articles, etc.) of the "corticol connection" to all of the health problems related to EMF/EMR and the chronic inflammation that results.

Interestingly, this article also mentions "......guinea pigs....normal blood after two months....." The reference has to do with removing the guinea pigs from EMR exposure/testing. [I wonder whether that statement refers to a UK study or the work referred to by Becker/Marino in their book, "The Body Electric," with a chapter titled "Blood". The statement is consistent with lab reports on my guinea pigs....boys were not tested for 5 mos. however, overall IgG's had gone up by 100 points and 204 points by that time after moving beds away from electric meters. Addl comment in brackets by jcm 4-5-05.]

Also, another paragraph in part, "......demagnitizing or degaussing the blood......the symptoms should disappear......." [Symptoms did begin to disappear in grandsons as well as guinea pigs after moving away from electric meter but questions remain as to whether "harm" is/was caused by multi-directional electromagnetic fields, electric fields or RF/high frequency radiation or a combination thereof ??? Addl comment by jcm 4-5-05.]

Another paragraph, ".....EMF acts as a promoter rather than a neoplastic event." [My research supports that radiation, whether ionizing or nonionizing, stresses the body (human or animal) which in turn leads to chronic inflammation that causes the proliferation of cells -- the beginning of the precancerous process. This is consistent with EMF's acting as a promoter. We were told by immunologist the boys may develop Leukemia/Lymphoma, etc., not that they had cancer "yet." Comment in brackets by jcm 4-5-05].

One theory mentioned is that ".....microwave radiation.....myeloid leukemia....effects on granulocytes........[other EMR exposure I don't recall at moment mentions something like "effects on lymphocytes leading to acute lymphocytic leukemia" (or words to that effect) -- comments in brackets are recall of review of the Coghill article by jcm 4-5-05].

I have not had time to review in detail or in entirety.

Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com

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I can confirm that Roger Coghill is the author of this article. Jennifer Chapman of cogres.lab told me.

fransp

In Deutschland ist kein Rezept dumm genug, um nicht als vielversprechend zu gelten.

http://www.saar-echo.de/news.php?news_ID=20853

by Don Newman

Hawaii Reporter

04/04/05

The desire to have government provide ever more services is a dangerous path to tread. In the words of Lawrence Reed, president of the Mackinac Institute, 'A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you've got.' This is precisely the position we find ourselves in today, with an increasing number of groups of people demanding an ever greater number of services to be provided and maintained by government...

http://tinyurl.com/5eatl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jason Pappas

SOLO HQ

04/05/05

During the 20th century, as we faced the ravages of totalitarianism -- wars, concentration camps, enslavement and death on a vast scale -- we re-examined the principles and practices that kept our country from a similar fate. For many, this led to a reaffirmation of the tradition of individual rights. The concept of individual liberty, born in the soil of Hellenic rationalism and Roman law, reached its maturation in the rigorous and clear exposition of the Anglo-American Enlightenment -- and climaxed with the founding of the United States of America. We, or at least many of our fellow citizens, came to appreciate these principles at work in stable civilized countries, primarily English speaking, where reason and rhetoric were the main tools of social discourse; and we saw the diametrically opposite principles leading vast parts of the world down 'the road to serfdom' where coercion led to an impoverished existence on every level...

http://tinyurl.com/3wx48


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Don Kraus

Tom Paine

04/05/05

Sixty years ago, when the United States led in the establishment of the United Nations, we had a vision that attracted others -- a vision of equality, justice and opportunity for all. If we lose sight of this founding principle, a principle fundamental to U.S. values, we will lose the support of other nations when we need it most. John Bolton, the Bush administration's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, does not believe in this vision, nor in the United Nations itself -- except as an occasional prop for American self-interest. Bolton ... clearly does not understand that working with other nations increases our strength, expands our options, and shares the costs and risks...

http://tinyurl.com/7xorl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Matthew Yglesias

The American Prospect

04/05/05

A specter is haunting the Democratic Party: the specter of whiny liberals. A late March poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press contained excellent [sic] news on the Social Security front. Support for privatization continues to drop, and opposition continues to correlate strongly with awareness of the issue. ... The bad news, however, was equally important. President George W. Bush's job approval rating has continued to slide down to 45 percent. ... But this erosion of popular support for the GOP has not been accompanied by a rise in the public's esteem of Democrats. ... Such news prompts liberals to do what we do best: complain -- specifically about why Democrats aren't better at winning elections and getting the chance to implement liberal policies...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9455


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mark Davis

Strike the Root

04/05/05

[T]he state security system has an aggressive tendency to create security risks faster than they are diffused, both foreign and domestic. A free-market system of security would not create a Drug War against its own customers or a War on Terrorism/Global Democracy Crusade or whatever the Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace state policy is called today. The state will create new enemies faster than it deals with old enemies either through incompetence or design...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/davis/davis6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Dave Lindorff

CounterPunch

04/05/05

As Congress begins the critical discussion about renewing the horrendous USA PATRIOT Act, that dangerous assault on the Bill of Rights drawn up by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and now Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, it's a good time to point out how this wretched law is viewed out there in mainstream America. According to records maintained by an organization called the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, as of April of this year, 372 towns, cities and counties, and five of the 50 states, have passed laws in one way or another declaring themselves to be 'Patriot Act free zones...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff04052005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jacob Weisberg

Slate

04/05/05

The report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction is a government document well worth reading. With impressive precision, the commission shows how massive ineptitude at every spy agency fostered the Bush administration's mistaken assessment of Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical capabilities. The report undermines the popular notion that Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress was responsible for feeding all the crappy intelligence to the White House. As it happens, blinkered and uncommunicative bureaucrats at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and elsewhere were fully capable of delivering junk intelligence without any outside help. ... On one central point, however, the report is utterly, laughably, embarrassingly unpersuasive: that our world-altering intelligence screw-up was not the result of political pressure from the White House...

http://www.slate.com/id/2116260/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Walter E. Williams

WorldNetDaily

04/06/05

For most of my professional life, I've traveled frequently sometimes boarding a commercial flight two, three or four times a month for lucrative speaking engagements. Over the past three years, the frequency has fallen to an average of once or twice a year. The reason is simple. I don't want to be arrested or detained for questioning some of the senseless airport security procedures...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43654


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Robert Scheer

AlterNet

04/05/05

Last October, just weeks before the presidential election, I wrote a column stating that the acting director of the CIA was suppressing a report to Congress that was potentially embarrassing to President Bush's campaign. The report had been completed by the CIA's own independent inspector general four months before the election, yet the agency rebuffed Congress' request that it be made public. Now, thanks to last week's release of another report, that of the Bush-appointed Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, we learn that the embargoed CIA report centered on the outrageous case of the now-infamous Iraqi informant known by the code name, 'Curveball.' Unfortunately for the American people, we were to an embarrassing extent persuaded to go to war based on the fantasies of this known liar, the main source of the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein had a functioning biological weapons program...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21680/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by George Phillies

Liberty For All

04/06/05

The Republican Party has sold itself body and soul to its Christian Right supporters. They pretend to be Christians but behold their deeds: (and for those of you speaking to Christians who view themselves as Republicans, I supply a few questions). Once upon a time, it was Americans who were rigorous in obeying the laws of war, and depraved foreign enemies who tortured prisoners. Under Republican leadership, it is Americans who torture...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/april17/torture.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Who would Jesus torture?

"Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse...."
(1 Peter 3:9).

From: "Sojourners" <sojourners@sojo.net>

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President Bush says, "We don't torture," but his actions speak otherwise. He has threatened to veto bills that contain amendments sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would definitively ban torture by U.S. forces [1]. His vice president, Dick Cheney, has repeatedly pushed to exempt the CIA from McCain's bill. Cheney's tune hasn't changed in the four years since he said, "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies...so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective" (emphasis added) [2].

Fortunately, other leaders are rejecting this administration's "any means" necessary mentality. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has said: "I think the administration is making a terrible mistake in opposing John McCain's amendment on detainees and torture." [3]

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We agree with Sen. Hagel, 45 other Republicans, and 44 Democrats who approved Sen. McCain's amendment to ban torture. Yet Vice President Cheney is still trying to convince Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and leaders in the House to oppose this measure. Speaker Hastert has the power to stand up to the Bush administration, but he is currently using a procedural loophole to block a vote on the McCain amendment in the House. As a graduate of evangelical Wheaton College, Speaker Hastert must hear from you that people of faith will not stand by when torture is tolerated. Remind him that the scriptures tell us, "Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse.... " (1 Peter 3:9).

»Tell Speaker Hastert that we must reject torture, no exceptions.
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This is not a Left-Right issue. This is not an argument between pacifists and believers in just war. Soldiers in the field are demanding clarity and accountability from their leaders. Captain Ian Fishback of the 82nd Airborne Division has powerfully borne witness to the crisis at hand:

While I served in the Global War on Terror, the actions and statements of my leadership led me to believe that United States policy did not require application of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan or Iraq.... Despite my efforts, I have been unable to get clear, consistent answers from my leadership about what constitutes lawful and humane treatment of detainees. I am certain that this confusion contributed to a wide range of abuses including death threats, beatings, broken bones, murder, exposure to elements, extreme forced physical exertion, hostage-taking, stripping, sleep deprivation, and degrading treatment. I and troops under my command witnessed some of these abuses in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

... Some argue that since our actions are not as horrifying as Al Qaeda's, we should not be concerned. When did Al Qaeda become any type of standard by which we measure the morality of the United States? We are America, and our actions should be held to a higher standard, the ideals expressed in documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Others argue that clear standards will limit the President's ability to wage the War on Terror. Since clear standards only limit interrogation techniques, it is reasonable for me to assume that supporters of this argument desire to use coercion to acquire information from detainees. This is morally inconsistent with the Constitution and justice in war. It is unacceptable.[4]

We agree with Captain Fishback that torture is morally unacceptable. Cruel and inhumane treatment of any human being is not justified under any circumstances. As Christians who believe in the fundamental dignity of the human person and as Americans who don't wish to see our image abroad further tarnished, we call on our legislators to pass McCain's measure. As a matter of conscience and national honor, it's time to take action and tell your friends:

»Tell Speaker Hastert that we must reject torture, no exceptions.
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Thank you for taking action!

Peace,
The staff at Sojourners


[1] Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/07/AR2005110700521.html

[2] The Vice President appears on Meet the Press with Tim Russert
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/vp20010916.html

[3] GOP Senator Criticizes White House Torture Stance
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/06/congress.detainees.ap/

[4] A Matter of Honor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701527.html

Don’t be fooled by the marketing spin of GM foods. These foods can be a disaster for you and the environment.

http://www.mercola.com/2005/apr/6/gm_foods.htm

A CHANGE IN OUR SCHEME FOR REPORTING ON RELEVANT CRUSTAL AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES

http://www.huttoncommentaries.com/ECNews/ECN1.html


Informant: V

May 1: May Day Rally for Jobs, Not War - Bring the Troops Home Now!

Union Square 1 pm

Join us May 1 to say, "Jobs, Not War!" Thousands of working people, trade unionists, veterans, youth, and antiwar activists will take to the streets on May Day--International Workers Day--to demand jobs, housing, and education, not war and occupation.

http://www.TroopsOutNow.org


On March 19, thousands of activists, students, veterans, and community organizers joined in a historic march from Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park to Central Park to demand an end to the illegal occupation of Iraq.

The turnout for this demonstration confirms that the antiwar movement has entered into a new phase of organizing against the war. It confirms that the greatest attention must be paid to reaching out to communities most impacted by the war and by the policies of the Bush Administration. These communities are the targets of the budget cuts. They are also targeted by military recruiters, who exploit economic hardship with false promises of opportunity. As a result, the children of these communities are dying disproportionately in Iraq, paying the ultimate price for a policy of greed and empire.


Next Step: May Day

On May 1 the Troops Out Now Coalition and the NYC Million Worker March are calling for a Jobs, Not War! - Bring the Troops Home Now! rally in Union Square, NYC.

May Day grew out of the struggle of working people in this country more than 100 years ago for an 8-hour workday with a full day's pay. All over the world, working and poor people march on May Day to send the message that workers are united and have the right to a job, a living wage, health care, housing and education. Workers have a right to pensions and social security. Immigrant workers and the unemployed should have the same rights. On May Day 2005, let's bring back that fighting spirit.

This is an important opportunity to link the struggle against the war with the struggle for jobs, healthcare, and education here at home.

Now, more than ever, the antiwar movement needs to be in the streets to oppose the Bush Administration's agenda of endless war. Two years ago, George W. Bush took the U.S. into war under the pretense that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now, his Administration is claiming that Iran and North Korea possess weapons of mass destruction. It is important that we expose any talk of removing the threat of nuclear weapons as just another justification for a pre-emptive war against the people of Iran and Korea.

As the Bush Administration gears up for new military adventures, working people at home are under attack, as budgets for education, housing, and healthcare are slashed, the cost of living rises, and jobs are disappearing.

For more than 100 years, May Day has been a day for working people to be in the streets, united in the struggle for jobs, healthcare, and housing. Join us in the streets, May 1 in Union Square!


What you can do:

1) Endorse the May 1 Rally: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/may1endorse.html

2) Help get the word out. Download flyers at
http://troopsoutnow.org/literature.html

3) Donate: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/donate.html

4) Organize transportation from your area:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/volunteer.html

Pass It On: Bolton In His Own Words

by StopBolton.org

Listen to Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador as he shows just how little he cares for international institutions:

http://www.stopbolton.org/bolton_ad_lg.wmv


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

by Mark Trahant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The latest numbers on the economy show Bush's America to be increasingly unequal and unsustainable.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/?dateid=20050405#004337

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/040405powerelite.htm


Informant: Our bill of rights

Prison Planet | April 5 2005
http://prisonplanet.com/index.html

From a reader.....

This weekend I watched "The Final Cut" with Robin Williams. I don't remember this movie when it was released in theaters but I was surprised that I haven't seen or heard anything about it until now.

From the film's website:

"A Zoe Chip is placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die the footage from your life is edited into a "Rememory" - a film shown at your funeral pieced together by an editor. A toy for the privileged, Zoe Chips are changing the face of human interaction, but there are those who are against this emerging technology, and believe that memories are meant to fade."

As you can conclude from the above synopsis this film is propaganda for the coming implantable chip (Verichip?). It also makes it a point to paint the Zoe chip protesters as "religious crazies".

http://www.finalcutfilm.com/

'The Final Cut' - More Hollywood NWO Propaganda
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/050405finalcut.htm


Informant: Our bill of rights

e-Mail: information@soziale-bewegung.de Telefon: 0341-463 99 79; Fax: 0341-463 99 78, Internet: http://www.soziale-bewegung.de/Aktionen.htm

Am 7. März 2005 hat unsere Bedarfsgemeinschaft, bestehend aus mir und meiner Partnerin einen Fortzahlungsantrag auf Arbeitslosengeld II bei der Agentur für Arbeit gestellt. Ich bin Langzeitarbeitsloser, meine Partnerin Dialysepatientin und EU- Rentnerin.

Am Freitag 1. April hätte ich regulär Arbeitslosengeld II erhalten müssen. Der gestellte Antrag war jedoch gar nicht bearbeitet worden, folglich hatte ich noch keinen Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bescheid; also kein Geld, weder für den Lebensunterhalt noch für die Miete.

Meine Partnerin, die mit ihrer Rente für meinen Lebensunterhalt mit aufkommen muss, bekam daraufhin Existenzängste. Außerdem war es für sie nicht einsehbar, dass sie für die Unfähigkeit der Agentur nun bestraft wird.

Deshalb begab sie sich am Vormittag auf das Sozialamt, welches für Rentner zuständig ist, um nachzufragen, was jetzt passieren muss, damit wenigstens das Geld für die Miete gezahlt wird. Mein Vermieter will die Miete nämlich immer pünktlich haben. Im Sozialamt bekam sie aber nur zu hören: „Uns interessiert ihre Miete nicht und im Übrigen sind sie ein Schmarotzer der Gesellschaft, genau wie ihr asozialer Partner“. Da geriet sie offensichtlich in Panik und in einer Art Kurzschlusshandlung schnitt sie sich auf dem Sozialamt die Pulsadern auf. Sie wurde ins Parkkrankenhaus gebracht. Erst am Nachmittag teilte mir das Sozialamt in unverschämter Weise mit: “Wir haben ihre Partnerin zwangseinweisen lassen“, ohne auch nur im geringsten mitzuteilen, was geschehen war. Am Abend erfuhr ich dann im Krankenhaus, was wirklich geschehen war.

Am Montag den 4. April ging ich dann gegen 8:00 Uhr zur Agentur für Arbeit. Ich hatte mir geschworen, ich gehe nicht ohne Geld aus dem Amt. „Bewaffnet“ mit einem Schreiben des Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz, dem Grundgesetz, dem BGB und der Visitenkarte eines Anwaltes setzte ich mich um 9. 00 Uhr in das Zimmer der Bearbeiterin. Im Amt angekommen sagte ich: „Ich verlasse die Agentur für Arbeit erst, wenn ich meinen ALG-II-Bescheid und Geld erhalten habe. Ich verweise auf Artikel 34 des Grundgesetzes und im Zweifelsfall rufe ich meinen Anwalt an. Die Polizei können sie gern holen. Im Knast brauche ich nämlich kein Geld“. Die Polizei wurde nicht geholt, aber ein Ordner der Agentur setzte sich ganz dicht neben mich. Ich kam mir vor wie ein Untersuchungshäftling. Die Bearbeiterin sagte dann: „Sie sind in Widerspruch gegen ihren vorherigen Bescheid gegangen und da haben wir keine Akten, folglich können sie kein Geld bekommen“. Ich konterte: „1. habe ich ein Widerspruchsrecht. 2. Hat der erste Bescheid nichts mit dem zweiten zu tun. Und 3. Ist die drei Monate Bearbeitungsfrist für meinen ersten Widerspruch längst überschritten, weswegen ich dazu schon eine entsprechende Untätigkeitsklage beim Sozialgericht eingereicht habe und nun schweige ich und warte bis ich den Bescheid und das mir zustehende Geld bekomme.“ Man versuchte dann einige plumpe Provokationen gegen mich. Ich schwieg aber beharrlich.

Gegen 13 Uhr kam dann die Wende: „Wir kommen Ihnen entgegen und bearbeiten den Vorgang, denn die Akten haben wir nun doch gefunden. Wir sind ja kulant.“ – Blanker Zynismus. Gegen 14 Uhr hatte ich einen Bescheid und eine Barauszahlung der vollen Leistung für den April.

Meine Partnerin wurde am 6. April aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen. Es ist ein Skandal, wie man uns in unbedachte Handlungen treibt, wie Strafgefangene und Aussätzige behandelt und uns obendrein noch die paar Euro, welche zum Leben nicht reichen, streitig macht.

[Der Text wurde für die Veröffentlichung als Handzettel anonymisiert und der Ort des Geschehens weggelassen.]

Bitte sendet uns Eure Berichte an: information@soziale-bewegung.de
Viele von denen, die noch beschäftigt sind, glauben nicht, was derzeit passiert.

Click here to watch now!
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/your_moment.html

Watch an inspiring 60 second video spot promoting the work and vision of The Peace Alliance and the Department of Peace Campaign .

Help spread the word!
Forward this email to anyone who might be interested in learning more. http://www.ThePeaceAlliance.org/your_moment.html

Spot written and produced by Adam Klugman. -- Thank you!
Flash animation by Eric Blumrich.

05.04.05

Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Landwirte und Imker haben davor gewarnt, das Gentechnikgesetz weiter zu verwässern. Nachdem bereits der öffentliche Zugang zum Standortregister eingeschränkt worden sei, drohe nun bei den Verhandlungen zwischen Bundesrat und Bundestag zum Gentechnikgesetz Teil zwei auch noch die Aufweichung der Haftungsregeln. Landwirte und Bienenzüchter befürchten große finanzielle Einbußen durch den Einsatz der Gentechnik in der Agrarwirtschaft.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=10814

April 4, 2005

Despite the U.S. Senate's recent vote to include Arctic drilling in its budget resolution, our fight to save the Arctic Refuge is far from over.

In the weeks to come, there will be many more opportunities for you to take action to stop this assault on America's greatest wildlife refuge.

In the meantime, the NRDC Action Fund is hard at work exploding many of the myths that the oil lobby and the Bush administration are trying to sell Congress and the American people. First and foremost is their claim that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would disturb only 2,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain.

Check out the map below to see for yourself why oil development could easily industrialize and despoil the entire expanse of this irreplaceable sanctuary for wildlife. Clicking on the map will take you to a larger map and a fuller explanation on the Action Fund website.

While you're at the website, you can help spread the word about this mortal threat to the Arctic Refuge by forwarding a message from Robert Redford to your friends, family and colleagues. We need to mobilize an army of concerned people for the fight ahead.

The Senate's approval of a budget resolution is just the first round in what promises to be a drawn-out battle. To complete its raid on the Arctic, both houses of Congress must now agree on both a budget resolution and a budget reconciliation bill -- something they have been unable to do in recent years due to controversies over deficit spending and other issues.

The NRDC Action Fund will be fighting at every step of the way to prevent passage of any final budget agreement that includes Arctic drilling. I know we can count on you to stand with us.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
NRDC Action Fund

To view a full size map and complete explanation, please click on the map below:
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/arcticmap.asp

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050404085711742
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1451100,00.html


From ECOTERRA Intl.

http://tinyurl.com/4o856

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Accusations and Smear

An Interview with Professor Ward Churchill (Part 1 of 5)

by Joshua Frank

Ward Churchill is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and recently came under fire for an article he wrote following September 11, 2001 titled, "Some Push Back." He is also the author of numerous books, including On the Justice of Roosting Chickens and A Little Matter of Genocide. Churchill recently sat down with Joshua Frank to discuss his ordeal, and this is the first part of their five-part interview....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Frank0919.htm

Olympic National Forest Begins Ramping Up Timber Sale Volume, Proposes to Log Mount Walker and Surrounding Area

The Forest Service proposed on March 22, 2005 to initiate a huge timber sale on Mount Walker, Mount Turner, and Rocky Brook Valley in the Northeast section of the Olympic National Forest. Known as the Jackson Thin, this sale would encompass up to 3,200 acres. The sale would additionally entail up to 9 miles of new logging road construction – much of it on Mount Walker, a popular destination for hikers, sightseers, and their families. How we wish this was merely an April Fools’ joke, but it’s serious as a bad case of stomach flu.

The Forest Service claims the project would thin the forest in such a way that would “accelerate” the development of old-growth characteristics. But this is like cutting a long-distance runner’s arms off in a foolhardy attempt to reduce her wind resistance. Much of the forest targeted for thinning, including that found on Mounts Walker and Turner, has been growing without interference since a late-19th century fire. It now sports big trees and irreplaceable wildlife habitat, and is within only a few decades of becoming genuine old growth all on its own – without any help from Forest Service bureaucrats. If chainsaws and bulldozers are allowed in these native forests, their maturation and beauty will be set back dramatically.

This is the beginning of the Olympic National Forest’s desire, discussed publicly several times over the past year, to increase the timber volume level three times over what has been allowed in the Northwest Forest Plan. The long, dark shadow of George W. Bush is being cast on Olympic National Forest.

We can’t allow this to happen. The Jackson Thin is still in its early stages of planning, so it’s critical that interested folks weigh in and contribute their opinions now. The Forest Service must hear from a broad spectrum of people that their plans are completely unacceptable.

We all know that Olympic National Forest is one of the crown jewels of the Great Northwest, so it’s high time the Forest Service started managing it that way.

Talking points when communicating with the Forest Service:

· Olympic National Forest already has over 2,000 miles of decaying logging roads. No more logging roads should be built, even if the Forest Service’s public relations machine falsely calls them “temporary” roads. Enough is enough!

· The Forest Service should stay out of century-old forest stands, like those found on Mount Walker and Mount Turner. These forests are maturing and diversifying naturally, and will only be wrecked by cutting out thousands of their trees and slicing them up with new logging roads.

Thank you! Direct your comments, no later than April 21, to:

Yewah Lau
Olympic National Forest
1835 Black Lake Blvd. SW, Suite A
Olympia, WA 98512
(360) 956-2402
comments-pacificnorthwest-olympic-hoodcanal@fs.fed.us

To see a copy of the Forest Service’s scoping letter on Jackson Thin,
click below.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/olympic/projects-nu/jackson-thinning/jackson-scoping-letter2.pdf


Informant: Deane

Another environmental watchdog in China bares its fangs as Singapore-based logging giant APP is hit with charges of unlawful tree clearing. A student protest in China has also targetted supermarkets stocking APP products

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=3614

The State Forestry Administration has taken official action against the company and its operations in the south-western province of Yunnan.

"The investigation is not finished yet, but we have indeed spotted illegal logging in an APP project after initial investigation. We believe that both APP and local governments are responsible for the violation," Wang Zhuxiong, a senior SFA official told the official newsagency Xinhua.

The news comes in the wake of a damning report by Greenpeace on the company’s tree felling practices in Yunnan, which was released last November. The environmental group claims that APP sequestered a 1.8 million acre plot in, intensively clear-felled it and replaced it with plantation crops.

Greenpeace says this is an example of APP’s “international record of illegal logging” and is evidence that it is “repeating its traditional practice of clearing natural forest for plantations in Yunnan.

Despite the fact that the company signed an understanding with provincial authorities, Greenpeace claims that there is no felling permit and that APP’s operations violate China’s Forestry Law.

APP was quoted in a Xinhua article as saying the company only targeted wasteland.

Similarly, the company’s relationship with environmental group WWF in Indonesia eventually dissolved on the basis of similar disagreements over what is “degraded” forest and thus open for logging, and what is wilderness and thus off-limits.

An APP spokesperson in China contacted by Ethical Corporation referred us to an earlier statement which outlined the company’s environmental approach.

The statement argues that the company has been pushing for a “forest-pulp-paper integration” scheme which, they argue “ensures that we have full control over the entire paper-making process – from the planting of trees for sustainable raw materials to the use of eco-friendly technology for processing pulp and paper.”

The statement also says the company has invested in a range of technologies to reduce environmental impacts.

“We share the same objective as those who are concerned for the environment – to protect our habitat, the earth. At the same time, we recognise that the only way to protect our natural resources and benefit the community is through a sustainable economic model,” it says.

No direct reference is made to the pending legal action.

Environmental shift

The case highlights a shift in environmental consciousness in China.

At a general level, it is evidence that the government appears prepared to allow environmental NGOs some leeway to target both foreign and local companies, as well as local government officials.

The enormous increase in numbers of conservation groups in the country looks to have been encouraged by Beijing authorities who perhaps see these groups as acting as the sharp edge of environmental reforms, which many in the government are keen to pursue.

In this way, green groups in China may be emerging as de facto environmental regulators, highlighting problems and spotting trouble areas, whilst not sapping government resources.

At a more specific level, the case may be the first example of a foreign company being taken to court on environmental grounds, says Xinhua. While no action has yet been served on the company, commentators are watching closely as it may become a foundation for company-government relations in regard to environmental sustainability.

If charged and convicted, APP operatives face harsh punishment. Under Chinese law, illegal deforestation carries a maximum seven year jail term.

At this stage, environmental officials are certainly talking up the case. "No violator will escape punishment when the investigation is finished," said Wang, deputy director of the Forest Resources Management Department under the SFA, at a national conference on cracking down on deforestation activities in Beijing.

The announcement comes as a mass student protest in China stage a Day of Action in six cities to call on the company to cease their “destructive logging practices”, according to a statement.

The students will be boycotting APP products and will be asking companies to follow. Protestors took up positions in front of supermarket shelves featuring APP products in Beijing, Hefei, Nanning, Lanzhou, Harbin and Chengdu. Passing shoppers were told of the company’s forestry operations in Yunnan and elsewhere.

However, many environmentalists are approaching the possibility that China may be tidying up its timber industry with some caution.

While such cases as this may indicate a strengthening of legislation, many are concerned that the country’s industry is simply exporting the problems elsewhere by buying in lumber from countries such as Russia or Indonesia, where environmental standards are limited and from where illegal wood smuggling is common.

Write to James Rose at James.Rose@ethicalcorp.com


Informant: Deane

http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2004/05/31/story2.html

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360 million Chinese without safe drinking water, chronic urban shortages

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/138972/1/.html


Informant: Deborah Barrie

Veranstaltungshinweis

19. Nürnberger Mediengespräch

RFID-Chips: Werden Bürgerinnen und Bürger ausspioniert?
Peter Lokk im Gespräch mit padeluun vom Bielefelder Datenschutzverein FoeBuD e.V.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) sind winzige Chips mit Antenne, die eine eindeutige Seriennummer enthalten, die über Funk abgefragt werden kann. RFID-Etiketten sollen bei Industrie und Handel die Strichcodes ablösen und in Produkte eingearbeitet werden, beispielsweise in Kleidung. Sie können ohne Sichtkontakt aus einiger Entfernung ausgelesen werden. Es entstehen riesige Datenbanken mit Bewegungsprofilen. Datenschützer befürchten eine neue Dimension von Überwachung, Kontrolle und Manipulation.


Ort, Zeit:

Nürnberger Bildungszentrum
Gewerbemuseumsplatz 1, 90403 Nürnberg
8. April 2005, 19.00 bis 21.00 Uhr, Eintritt frei!

Auskunft erteilt:
Peter Lokk
Tel. 089 1675106 (Montag, Dienstag)
Tel. 0911 2315821 (Mittwoch, Donnerstag)

Eine Aussendung von:

FoeBuD e.V. c/o Art d'Ameublement, Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld
Tel: 0521-175254, Fax: 0521-61172, http;//www.foebud.org


Großer Lauschangriff, Schnüffelchips, Videoüberwachung
Da kann man kann ja doch nichts gegen machen? Irrtum.

bY CHRIS MILLS

12:00 - 05 April 2005

Anti-phone mast campaigners have reacted with disappointment to a Government announcement promising more research into the future development of base stations. A short statement was issued late last night by Planning Minister Yvette Cooper promising the commissioning of "more research into the future development of mobile phone mast networks".

The research will look at the potential for increasing sharing of mast sites between the major phone companies.

National planning chiefs will also look at the effectiveness of the Sitefinder database which is supposed to list all base stations in the UK and their emission levels.

Planning Minister Yvette Cooper said: "It is important to identify the future direction of mobile phone technology in order to inform policy development and to respond to public interest in this area."

The Echo revealed earlier this year how the number of masts nationwide had doubled to more than 50,000 since 2001 when the Stewart Report was published recommending the adoption of a "precautionary principle".

Jenny Wright, who has led a campaign against two masts within 100 metres of her home near Broadclyst, said: "If they stop putting the masts on top of our homes, schools and hospitals, then they can share whatever sites they want.

"I'm sure the Government has only come out with this because of the election."

This is Exeter

5/4/05

A massive vote-rigging scandal by agents of the ruling political party in Britain has been exposed.

An extensive and systematic fraud was carried out during the last year's election by agents of Prime Minister Tony Blair's political party, the "Labour Party", involving "intimidation", "bribery", "vote-buying", impersonation", and a "vote-forging factory" and even the burning of opposition votes.

The British government routinely criticises elections in certain foreign countries in their diplomatic black-list, although like the USA the UK turns a blind-eye to electoral fraud when it occurs under client regimes.

The British mass media declared the recent election recent in Zimbabwe a fraud, citing opposition leaders and official British and American sources, but failed to explain why or provide any evidence.

In any Weststern democracy the system prevents ordinary people from obtaining power by ensuring that only candidates who are either extremely wealthy or backed by an established political party stand any chance of winning.

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1085

Cohre - "Center on Housing Rights And Evictions" - hat eine ausführliche (englische) Dokumentation vorgelegt, die eine Gesamtbilanz der Stadtplanungs- und Vertreibungspolitik (neudeutsch: Segregation) von der Gründung der Stadt bis heute darstellt. Sie zeigt, neben vielem anderen, das sich die Situation der Armen in der Stadt nicht verändert hat - auch die Argumente der Stadtplaner kaum: Zuviel Müll, zu gefährlich, keine Reparatur möglich, es muss neu gebaut werden. Eine Lektion - auch in Sachen Politik "progressiver" Regierungen. Und auch für von gar nicht progressiven Regierungen Betroffenen, wie etwa in Hartz-County. Die Dokumentation "Any Room for the Poor? - Forced Evictions in Johannesburg" vom 17.Februar 2005 bei Cohre:
http://www.cohre.org/downloads/ffm-johannesburg-lo.pdf


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 24, Eintrag 2

by Stephen Moore

Heartland Institute

04/05

You know that fiscal sanity has flown south for the winter when Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy are throwing eggs at the Republicans for their budgetary recklessness. Kennedy has been on a tirade about how George Bush took a $200 billion budget surplus and converted it into a $400 billion deficit. President Bush released his 2006 budget of the United States government on February 7. Bush requested just over $2.6 trillion in spending. That's $2,600,000,000,000. If a Democrat proposed a budget this size, Republican fiscal hawks would squawk to the rafters of the Capitol Dome in protest. This is more money than the federal government spent in its first 120 years combined!

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16780


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Paul Craig Roberts

CounterPunch

04/04/05

The opposition party does not oppose. The Bush administration has given Democrats more opportune targets than President Clinton's sexcapade with Monica Lewinski provided Republicans. But the Democrats are too weak to capitalize on the political opportunities. The failures of Democrats and Republicans offer chances to libertarians. But libertarians are politically impotent. Their ideology and abstract commitments are perceived as taking precedence over the wellbeing of their fellow citizens...

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts04042005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mark Leon Goldberg

The American Prospect

04/04/05

By now, John Bolton's crass assessment of the utility of 10 floors of the UN building in New York is well known. Known, too, is his disdain for the very idea of international law and his dealings with foreign agents. Indeed, in his decades in and out of public service and think tankdom, he has developed a reputation as one of Washington's less diplomatic figures. ... The challenge for Democrats is to prove Bolton's radicalism. ... But Bolton has fought this battle before. In Bush's first term, he narrowly won confirmation as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. ... If he wins confirmation this time around, it will likely be because he's able to convince the moderate Republicans that ... he'll serve only as a steward of Bush's agenda at the United Nations and will not pursue his own agenda. And that may just work, for he's hoodwinked the committee with that line before...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9437


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Irwin M. Stelzer

The Weekly Standard

04/04/05

Because we have to borrow from overseas to finance our appetite for imports, foreigners now hold 45 percent of all Treasury IOUs, some $2 trillion in Treasury bonds and notes. Which brings us to China. The increasingly belligerent foreign policy of the Chinese regime, including warnings to Australia about its American alliance, and stepped-up threats to Taiwan, has set nerves jangling in Washington, and focused geopolitical types on an issue that has until now concerned only trade experts. America's trade deficit with China hit $162 billion last year, the largest ever recorded with a single country. As a result, China has vaults filled with America's IOUs...

http://tinyurl.com/4tosq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by W. James Antle III

The American Conservative

While some of the post-election chatter about values voters was exaggerated, the designation describes a real and growing electoral phenomenon. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly four out of five white evangelical Christians supported President Bush in 2004, representing more than a third of all ballots cast for him. When traditionalist Catholics and members of other conservative religious communities are factored in, it becomes clear that the voters usually lumped together under the banner of the Religious Right form the largest single constituency of today's Republican Party. As the euphoria from November begins to fade, however, some conservative Christians are starting to ask hardheaded questions about how much clout they are getting in return for their stalwart support... (for publication 04/11/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_04_11/cover.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Liberty For All

04/05/05

A growing number of Americans from all parties now believe that the recently past presidential election was, in fact, stolen. If that is true, and the evidence points to this conclusion, then it may be that America will never again have an election that allows Americans to truly change their government. It is not unreasonable to be frightened. Most Americans are uneasy. Libertarians, more aware than most, have confronted the problems of encroaching government for more than a generation now and the fruits of our labors in the vineyards of politics have been a scant and bitter harvest. What we have been doing did not work...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/april17/rebooting.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Scott Horton

AntiWar.Com

04/05/05

It is easy to be a cheerleader for empire. 'We're winning the War on Terror!' Many Americans apparently believe that the military will keep the rest of the world (which they see as inexplicably perturbed at us) at bay, and that we may continue pretending our choice of direction secures our long-term security. In the past, it may have been easy to imagine America and its Constitution lasting many more lifetimes, but it is becoming harder to suspend disbelief as the body count, price tag, and growing resentment wrought by our current adventures continue to mount. More Americans seem to be catching on. Empire weakens us. By definition, empire means overextension, dependence on the conquered, debt, taxes, and highly centralized power. None of these things are conducive to a lasting, limited republic. The 'father of the Constitution,' James Madison, said as much...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=5455


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Save this somewhere:
http://omega.twoday.net/files/truth_resource

Firms may be asked to share masts

New research is to be carried out into mobile phone technology, and the location and use of mobile phone masts, the government has announced.

A study will examine whether the number of cell phone "relay stations" can be reduced by firms having to share them.

Ministers are already reviewing the planning procedure for the masts.

The announcement follows several reports suggesting the masts may represent a health risk and a number of protests in areas where they are built.

Ofcom probe

In January scientists from the National Radiological Protection Board warned that young people were at greatest risk from the potentially-harmful health effects of mobile phone emissions.

Professor Sir William Stewart, who headed the study, said children under eight should not use mobile telephones at all.

The board also said more research could be done into mobile phone masts and suggested the location of the masts could be subject to independent review.

"It is important to identify the future direction of mobile phone technology in order to inform policy development and to respond to public interest in this area," Planning Minister Yvette Cooper said.

The study will assess whether Ofcom provides adequate information about current mast locations.

Other studies have highlighted the possible dangers of using mobile telephones.

A study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden published last year concluded that long-term mobile phone users had nearly double the risk of getting a tumour on a nerve connecting the ear to the brain.

EU-funded research has found mobile phone radiation could damage DNA cells.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4411117.stm


Informant: Sylvie

Within the last two hours, a new ‘spike’ has registered on the Kp Index. This will be a good opportunity to see if “unusual” earthquake or volcanic activity occurs. I highlight “unusual” because anything else could be explained away as “nominal” and would most likely be correct.

So what would determine “unusual”? I would say geographical areas less likely to experience earthquakes. It could also be large or ‘mega’ quakes anywhere on Earth. It is really hard to say. This is going to be a difficult area of research to prove a 72 hour causal effect. But lets just see what happens in the next two days.

When it comes to volcanoes, this may be less cumbersome to discern. I would say a sudden and unexpected eruption such as what happened with Mount St. Helens on March 7th would qualify. I would also keep a close eye on active or semi-dormant super-volcanoes such as Toba, Yellowstone, and Long Valley .

This is area of research is so new, I would measure it in weeks and months, not years or decades. That’s right folks, you are witnessing the birth of a new area of study as it unfolds “live” and most cases in ‘real time’ as I interview the top minds in the field of solar weather and earth science. This could not be more exciting, and potentially most explosive.

So why now? Well I would have to state the most obvious. 1) It could be as simple as someone asking the right questions. Yes, just becoming aware of current events and asking why. And believe me folks, I am hot on the trail and will continue to do just that. 2) The reason may not only be asking the right questions, but what drew my attention to begin this line of research. This is to say there may in fact be something occurring in this very time that was not present before. As we all have learned, a galactic super wave or gamma ray burst occurred some 50,000 light years away which was so intense, when the wave hit the Earth’s magnetic field, the sky become brighter than the moon in the middle of the night.

Dr. Stefaan Poedts: ESA (European Space Agency) Lead Scientist on plasma astrophysics is one of the top scientists in the world in the area of galactic waves. His research is situated in the field of computational and nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics with applications in 'solar astrophysics'. He is particularly interested in MHD (magnetic hydro dynamics) wave dynamics (generation, propagation, and dissipation) of coronal loops, coronal holes, galactic and extra-galactic jets, and galactic and accretion disks and in the nonlinear dynamics of Coronal Mass Ejections and super-fast magnetized flows around comets, moons, and planets and the MHD shock interactions in such flows (related to space weather and earth science).

As you heard ‘live’ in my interview on the ECTV ‘Radio Hour’, Dr. Poedts supports my premise of a possible connection between a ‘spike’ in the Kp Index and its possible corraltion to seismic or volcanic activity. He goes further in suggesting it could be some sort of cosmic influence interaction with the Earth’s core.

Now lets take a look at it from a more ‘esoteric’ or metaphysical perspective.

Mahala , one of our contributing editors we host on our “Earth Astrology” page said the following:

“The energies have been really different since the tsunami last December. Could this change in energy have to do with the gamma ray burst that happened just 44.6 hours after the tsunami? This gamma ray burst was 100 times more intense than any burst that had been previously recorded, equaling the brightness of the full Moon. This burst originated from SGR1806-2 which is a neutron star and is located about 10 degrees northeast of the Galactic center and about 45,000 light years from us. In Paul LaViolette's book titled Earth Under Fire he presents evidence that a strong gravity wave might be expected to travel forward in front of a galactic superwave and would be the first to arrive here. He points out that such gravity waves could induce substantial tidal forces on Earth during their passage that could induce earthquakes and cause polar axis torquing effects. Isn't that exactly what happened on December 26, 2004? There could also have been other events associated with that quake.

We are still reeling from the effects of that Gamma Ray Burst. That burst hit the moon first, and then it bounced off and hit the Earth's ionosphere, which caused it to light up. This burst was very high frequency energy and the Earth is still shaking and quaking from it. On December 26, there were 17 major 6 and 7 point earthquakes recorded. By December 27, about 30 quakes were recorded, not only in the Sumatra area, but all over the world, and it's still quaking.

From ECTV/Breaking News