King George, Prince Abdullah, Global Warming, and the Torture of Thomas Jefferson:

The dominant values are profit, power, empire, and the never-ending quest for capital accumulation - guiding principles that lead often enough to the embrace of atavistic, "pre-modern" barbarism and blatant disregard for humanity and its environmental and other needs.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=7763


From Information Clearing House

The administration's omnipresent emphasis on freedom and liberty functions as the centerpiece for "a theological version of Manifest Destiny." If so, one must note the risk of repeating today what previous versions of Manifest Destiny did in the past:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002257816_sundaydomke01.html


From Information Clearing House

Flash Presentation
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/video/year_after.htm


From Information Clearing House

Abu Ghraib-One Year Later: Comprehensive Report Documents Use of Psychological Torture by US Forces:

A new report provides extensive evidence that psychological torture was systematic and central to the interrogation process of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo.

http://www.phrusa.org/research/torture/news_2005-05-01.html


From Information Clearing House

Mark Manning spent one week inside Fallujah with a video camera interviewing survivors of the November siege. Hours of video tape documenting the atrocities that occured in Fallujah were stolen the day Mark returned to the US in a well-timed double break-in that was followed by weeks of intimidation and threats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8730.htm

"Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers," Conyers writes.

http://rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502


From Information Clearing House

Iraq is our greatest foreign policy calamity in modern history and the reckoning has only just begun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8736.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/18/nwar118.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/18/ixnewstop.html


From Information Clearing House

Video ITV
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8732.htm

Another Blair government would be a danger to democracy, former BBC director general Greg Dyke has said at a Lib Dem campaign news conference.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4504975.stm


From Information Clearing House

Secret documents indicate Blair support for military action a year before invasion took place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8728.htm

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

The leak of a highly classified memo finally confirms that Bush decided to invade Iraq and to deceive America a year before the invasion.

http://www.tompaine.com/20050503/articles/iraq_when_was_the_die_cast.php

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2700092


Informant: Carrie Dann

http://www.spiegel.de/dertag/pda/avantgo/artikel/0,1958,350718,00.html


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

"Handystrahlung schadet Gesundheit"

Die Strahlung von Mobilfunk beeinflusse Gehirnströme und beeinträchtige die Gesundheit. Auf dieses Ergebnis kommt Gerd Oberfeld, Umweltmediziner des Landes, in einer Studie.

Donnerstag, 28.04.05

"Auf dem Weg zur Volksseuche"

Zwölf Personen hatten sich freiwillig für dieses Experiment zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Ergebnisse sollen nun in internationalen Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht und durch weitere Untersuchungen abgesichert werden.

Unsere Gesellschaft befinde sich beim Thema Handy und ergänzenden Produkten wie Video-Telefonie und immer stärker strahlenden Datennetzen auf dem Weg zu einer Volksseuche, sagt Umweltmediziner Oberfeld und verlangt:

"Politik sollte endlich handeln"

"Die Politik muss sich generell verstärkt mit dieser Thematik beschäftigen und endlich handeln. Es geht um gravierende Auswirkungen, die für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung und die der Gesellschaft als Ganzes einfach nicht tragbar sind."

"Kein Abbau mehr möglich"

Es sei schon allein aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen unrealistisch, dass alle Handymasten deswegen abgebaut werden könnten, ergänzt Oberfeld und verweist auf den starken politischen und internationalen Einfluss von Telekommunikationskonzernen.

Die Gesellschaft sei aber aufgefordert, alles zu unternehmen, um Strahlenbelastungen zu vermindern und nicht noch weiter ausbauen zu lassen.

"Man kann das mit Dauerlärm vergleichen"

"Es ist erstmals der Nachweis gelungen, dass nicht nur Handys selbst gewisse Schäden auslösen können sondern auch die Sendeanlagen selbst. Das biologische System des Gehirns reagiert auf externe Faktoren.

Man kann das mit Dauerlärm vergleichen. Es kommt auch bei diesem auf Dauer und Einwirkzeit an. Gleich verhält es sich bei elektromagnetischen Feldern."

"International nicht mehr tragbare Situation"

Oberfeld fordert, dass mit dieser Technologie in Zukunft sorgsamer und besser umgegangen werde. Die Situation sei international nicht mehr tragbar aus umweltmedizinischer Sicht.

Grüne fordern Konsequenzen

Die Landesregierung müsse sich dafür einsetzen, dass der Salzburger Vorsorgewert auf Bundesebene gesetzlich verankert werde, fordert die Grüne Landtagsabgeordnete Heidi Reiter.

Die Studie dürfe "auf keinen Fall in den Schubladen verschwinden", sagt die Grüne Umweltsprecherin, denn Betroffene hätten ein Recht darauf, vor zu hoch strahlenden Mobilfunkanlagen geschützt zu werden.

http://oesterreich.orf.at/oesterreich.orf?read=detail&channel=5&id=378145

Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

Die Medien werden immer direkter, jetzt meldet sich auch der STERN zu Wort:

Kleine 'Atomkraftwerke': Handys strahlen so stark, dass die DNA beschädigt wird

Aufgrund der widersprüchlichen Ergebnisse zu dem Thema Handystrahlung wurde die europäische 'Reflex'-Studie ins Leben gerufen, um endlich Klarheit zu schaffen. Das Ergebnis ist erschreckend, denn selbst in kleiner Dosis kann sie das Erbgut schädigen.

Man hat für die Untersuchung sehr hohe Qualitätsmaßstäbe gesetzt, um möglichst gute Resultate zu erhalten. Schon durch eine Strahlung von 0,3 SAR/Kg (die Einheit der Strahlungsintensität) wird die DNA verändert, wodurch z. B. Krebs entstehen kann.

Der aktuelle Grenzwert für Handys liegt bei 2 SAR/Kg, deshalb fordern die Forscher eine Senkung auf 0,2 SAR/Kg, was die Empfangsqualität aber nicht schmälern soll. Es wird geraten Kinder von Handys fernzuhalten und selber die Nutzung einzuschränken.

http://tinyurl.com/cq73w

Quelle: http://www.stern.de

Copyright ©1995-2005 GoNamic GmbH / stern.de GmbH


Nachricht von Ulrich Weiner

http://www.total911.info/2005/05/secret-real-id-talks-still-ongoing.html
http://www.libertythink.com/2005/05/secret-real-id-talks-still-ongoing.html


Informant: Lori R. Price

This judgement sets down a valuable legal precedent for those of us with EHS who have been misdiagnosed, shunted into psychiatric facilities and ordered onto inappropriate anti-psychotic medication. Even finding a lawyer to bring a case like this to court is a feat in itself, and then not only for the plaintiff, John Manweiller, to win such a difficult case but to have the horrendous nature of the injustice done to him underscored by granting the plaintiff the highest ever Irish jury award is stunning!

I am one of the many who have been misdiagnosed in a similar fashion but my pleas in Ireland for legal help to bring my case to court here were refused by (among others) the Irish Legal Aid Board and The Irish Human Rights Commission. But with this judgement and the obvious relaxation of time limit for the plaintiff (statue of limitations on medical cases is normally three years) things look far brighter now for similar cases having a happy court outcome.

You have archived a number of postings I've sent you on EHS and misdiagnosis as psychosis. In case the information in some of these postings might in any way help other EHS sufferers who have undergone a similar fate and now wish to consider legal action, here is a selection of them:

Citizens Initiative Omega (C.I.O.) 15/9/02: "Another tragic misdiagnosis of an EHS sufferer who has been locked up and forcibly medicated"

C.I.O. 19/9/02 "EMF and Schizophrenia"
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega25.htm

C.I.O. 5/7/03 "Human Rights violations applicable to EHS misdiagnosis"
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega234.htm

C.I.O. 11/7/03 "Visual demo of effects when EHS is misdiagnosed as psychosis"
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega238.htm

C.I.O. 13/12/03 "Amnesty 2004 Campaign for the Human Rights of EHS sufferers"
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega131203.htm

I am also including today a copy of my appeal letter for legal support to the Irish Human Rights Commission in August 03 (my appeal was unsuccessful) as it points up how similar the bases of this court case is with my own. In both instances standard/proper medical procedures were not adhered to. However, I did not include the full horror of medical carelessness in my appeal letter. I omitted that my prior permission was not sought nor was I advised as to the side effects, etc of anti-psychotic medication. Furthermore, even the writing out of this prescription was badly messed up (the combination was wrong) by a doctor and over succeeding months I was turned into a dribbling, shuffling totally demoralised person who could barely think straight and with frozen shoulders which necessitated seeking the help of a private therapist! And yet I was refused all legal redress! Let's just hope we will now see many EHS sufferers who were subjected to similar medical interventions taking their cases to the courts.

MY APPEAL LETTER OF August 12, 2003.

To:

Mr. Des Hogan, Senior Caseworker
Irish Human Rights Commission
17-19 Lower Hatch St., Dublin 2.

August 12, 2003

Dear Mr. Hogan:

This is my formal appeal letter to the negative decision of the Commission's Casework Committee as stated in your letter to me dated 16 July 2003.

I wish the committee to review their decision based on the following reasons:

1. The first reason cited for refusing my request was this: "no human right appears to have been violated insofar as the condition cited ("electromagnetic sensitivity" or "electromagnetic hypersensitivity") is not at present recognised nationally or internationally in medical or legal terms, so as to bring it within the relevant national or international human rights standards".

But the committee ignored in their response to me all the human rights violations in my case that occurred which were apart from ES/EHS. I enumerated these in length in my email to you of July 4, 2003, and you informed me in your letter dated 7 August 2003 that the committee were given copies of the Human Rights violations that I enumerated. Yet, the committee omitted any reference to these. I now request the committee to respond to me regarding the specific violations I present in my emailed account of these of July 4, 2003.

2. The second reason cited for refusal is the committee's belief that my case would not be successful. But this is premised on the fact that ES/EHS has not been formally acknowledged in medical or legal terms. If it were premised on facts I stressed while writing up my list of Human Rights violations that arise in my case, then there could be a far stronger chance of my case being successful.

I believe this to be true because it is widely reported that the Human Rights of patients in mental health care have been shockingly abused. Given that generally acknowledged fact, the abuses I enumerate that I have experienced arise from a context that is known to harbour such abuses. Various governmental, medical and Human Rights organisations (for instance Amnesty International's campaign for 2003) are engaged in reform measures to correct abuses to the Human Rights of patients who have been or are in psychiatric care. It is regrettable that as yet medical misdiagnosis does not feature prominently in their lists for reforms in this area because there is a strong likelihood that given the apparent legal lacuna many patients may have been misdiagnosed. If my individual action which seeks an acknowledgement of wrongdoing in this area--medical misdiagnosis of mental illness--is successful it most likely will benefit a group whose medical experiences are similar to mine. (As Lord Laird of Artigarvan expressed it in yesterday's The Irish Times, p. 14: "Human rights are enjoyed by individuals and a group may collectively benefit.") Please refer to the article "Group set up to prepare new policy on mental health" that appeared in The Irish Times last week (Tuesday, August 5, 2003, p.5)

3. I am now submitting to you new material that highlights that the medical diagnostic process for arriving at a valid conclusion regards my condition was drastically circumvented when I first presented with symptoms in December 1996. In other words standard medical procedures were not adhered to in my case. I wish the committee to refer to the sections relating to diagnostic procedures for establishing the presence of specific mental illnesses as presented by the authors, Patricia Casey and Ciaran Craven in PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW (1999). Then I wish the committee to refer to my medical file and observe major irregularities in adherence to standard procedures.

Most importantly I wish the committee to be aware that I was not interviewed and my case history was acquired from a relative (a sister) who lived in a different country from me and who had lived a totally different life style. She is a former nun who has lived most of her life secluded in a convent and has been solely domiciled in Ireland. As pointed out in PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW: "Interestingly, little scientific attention has been directed to establishing the reliability of informants or to identifying those informants who are most reliable." (page 30.)

The authors of the cited text above also describe in quite some detail "The Psychiatric Interview." (31 ff.)I was not interviewed. My consent to allow an informant to be interviewed was not sought. And there was no question of me not being lucid nor incapable of being interviewed. Please refer to footnote 16, page 31 which addresses exceptions to the necessity of requiring a patient's consent. These exceptions did not arise in my case. The G.P. who wrote the note for me to be accepted into psychiatric care did not interview me. I was less than five minutes in her office. Indeed, she didn't even offer me a seat in her office and she was already writing the note as I entered the room based on the prior information of an informant. I stress again that no standard procedures were adhered to in my case.

And the result for me of this waiving of medical standard procedures and being placed on a medical misdiagnostic belt that I couldn't get off is that I am permanently defined as a "former mental patient."

You should be aware that this is the most damaging identity a person could have. Even the fact that I am now focused on legal action to rectify this injustice may be viewed by mental health specialists as symptomatic of mental illness! Being litigious is a characteristic of such people, they say!

I ask members of the committee how they would feel if they had walked in my shoes and this had been done to them in the name of medical care? And what would each of them feel while reading this newspaper caption "Former mental patient takes legal action." Would they not squirm seeing how they were being defined and knowing what being "a former mental patient" conveys?

It is not an exaggeration to say that what has been done to me is equivalent to the very worst libel and due to this medical error I have been doomed to a quality of life that is socially and in many other ways a death-sentence.

I hope the committee will consider what I have said above and I look forward to their response.

Sincerely,

Imelda O'Connor, Ph.D.



THE IRISH TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2005, PAGE 4

"MAN UNLAWFULLY HOSPITALISED AWARDED 3M [EUROS]

A High Court jury has awarded record damages of almost 3 million [euros] to a Dublin man, after it found he was unlawfully detained in a psychiatric hospital and had continued taking a treatment drug because a doctor threatened to lock him up if he failed to do so.

The award is the highest made by a High Court jury and comes after a 1.7 [euros] million award made earlier this month to a woman who was sexually and physically abused by her father over a number of
years.

John Manweiller (64), Rosemount Court, Dundrum, and formerly of Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin, was awarded 2,922,000 and costs - estimated at a total of 400,000 [euros] for both sides - at the close of his successful action against the Eastern Health Board.

Mr Manweiller alleged he was unlawfully detained in St Brendan's Hospital, Grangegorman, from September until December 1984 and also for a time in November 1991.

It is also claimed he was forced to take a drug named Clopixol when discharged from hospital, which he did not want to take.

After the jury members returned with their verdict yesterday evening following an absence of more than three hours, Mr Manweiller said: "I was always confident that I had a good case." He added that he got some of the information for his case under the freedom of Information Act.

Mr Justice Eamon de Valera said there should be a payout of 250,000 [euros] to Mr Manweiller, pending an appeal by the EHB to the Supreme Court.

In his claim, Mr Manweiller sought damages for alleged personal injury, loss and damage sustained by him arising out of the negligence and breach of duty of the EHB, its servants or agents, and for trespass to his person, assault, battery, false imprisonment and breach of his constitutional rights, in particular his right to liberty. The EHB denied the claims.

Mr Justice de Valera and the jury were told by John Rogers SC, with Padraic Dwyer, for Mr Manweiller, that in 1984 his client was living at home with his parents in Cross Avenue. He became upset about his father's will and felt he was not told enough about it. In September 1984 he was sorting tools and asked his mother, then aged 83, about missing tools. She said she knew nothing about them. He raised his voice, and she cried. She left the house to go to his sister, Pauline. Pauline and a brother, Colm, arrived at the house and told him he had to go to St Brendan's [Dublin's best known psychiatric hospital].

Mr Manweiller was driven to hospital and ended up being there until December 14th, 1984. In December a doctor noted he was to get Clopixol, a psychotic drug. The following month he was given Clopixol, to which he had a reaction, and was given another drug to counteract it. Mr Rogers and Mr Manweiller's case was that he should never had been in hospital. There was no legal authority for his being there and the way he was treated. He was on Clopixol for years. In March 1991 he was transferred to a clinic in Baggot Street for treatment, but in November was readmitted to St Brendan's for nearly a month. In 1993 he was moved to a clinic in Cork Street. In October 1994 he was told he was to be taken off Clopixol and was weaned off it.

In their decision yesterday, the members of the jury found that a consultant, Dr Harry Burke, now retired, did not have "good and sufficient reason" to consider it proper to detain Mr Manweiller on September 27th, 1984. The jury also decided that Dr Burke was negligent in prescribing Clopixol for Mr Manweiller on December 4th, 1984, and that Dr Burke and other doctors were negligent in continuing the Clopixol treatment until december 1995.

The jury also found that Dr. Burke threatened to have Mr Manweiller locked up in a unit at St Brendan's if he failed to continue on Clopixol, and Mr Manweiller had submitted to that treatment solely because of the threat.

In addition the jury found that the EHB, its servants or agents, had aggravagted the injury to Mr Manweiller by the manner in which the board conducted its defence of the action."

The two other main Irish daily broadheets--IRISH INDEPENDENT and IRISH EXAMINER also carried the story in today's editions.


Omega see also:

Man gets €3m over psychiatric detention
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0429/manweilerj.html

Please forward and cross-post this message widely.

Connecticut scheduled to carry out first execution in New England in 44 years

Michael Ross is scheduled to be executed May 13 despite his proven mental illness

Ross, a serial killer and graduate of Cornell University , has been diagnosed with mental illness by several mental health professionals, including the state's own psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Miller.

According to evidence presented at trial, Ross' childhood consisted of abuse from his mother. His siblings testified at trial that he often received the br unt of their mother's anger through physical and mental abuse. Ross' mother was institutionalized twice for issues pertaining to suicidal tendencies and for the abuse of her children. Ross has dropped his appeals and hastened his own execution.

Act now by asking Gov. Jodi Rell to grant clemency for Michael Ross.

Read More and Take Action at
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=665

Meanwhile, Texas plans to execute Richard Cartwright - a potentially innocent man

The state's case against Cartwright relied heavily on the testimony of his co-defendants and circumstantial evidence. Nevertheless, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. He has maintained his innocence.

Read More and Take Action at
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=669

See and act on all current Execution Alerts at
http://www.ncadp.org/execution_alerts.html

May 3: Lonnie Pursley, Texas
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=672

May 6: Earl Richmond Jr. , North Carolina
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=664

May 12: George James Miller,
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=666

May 13: Michael Ross, Connecticut
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=665

May 18: Bryan Wolfe, Texas
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=667

May 18: Vernon Brown, Missouri
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=668

May 19: Richard Cartwright, Texas
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=669

May 19: Gary Thomas Allen, Oklahoma
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=670

Der volle Text des vom Pentagon stark geschwärzten Berichts über den Vorfall, bei dem der italienische Agent Calipari getötet und die Journalistin Sgrena verletzt wurde, verrät einige interessante Einzelheiten.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20014/1.html

http://www.heartcom.org/bushwhack.htm


Informant: Milo

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7326


Informant: Kelly Taylor

http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=3&id=93846


Informant: Kelly Taylor

Am 12. Mai ratifiziert der Bundestag die EU-Verfassung, und zwar explizit zu diesem Zeitpunkt, um damit das Referendum in Frankreich am 29. Mai zu beeinflussen.

Es ist an uns, welches Bild sich einprägt, wenn an diesem Tag in der französischen Presse über das Verhältnis der Deutschen zur EU-Verfassung berichtet wird: Stimmvieh und ein triumphierender Schröder im Reichstag oder eine großes, aus Menschen gebildetes NON in den Farben der Trikolore davor.

Wir rufen euch daher auf:
Kommt am 12. Mai nach Berlin! Formiert mit uns um 12:00h das deutsche NON! (Der genaue Treffpunkt wird noch über die Homepage bekannt gegeben).

Im Anschluß, ab 13:00 h, werden wir am Brandenburger Tor ein kleines Fest für ein "Europa von unten" feiern:

- Gäste aus Frankreich und möglicherweise weiteren europäischen Ländern werden ein Grußwort an uns richten,

- Grußwörter von Freunden außerhalb Europa, die uns per Post erreicht haben, werden deutlich machen, was für die außereuropäische Welt ein NON bedeuten kann,

- Prominente Gegner der EU-Verfassung werden ihre Gründe für ein NON öffentlich bekannt geben

- aus Kehl wird uns ein leeres Buch für ein "Europa von unten übergeben, das die Franzosen dort auf der Europa-Brücke überreicht haben (werden)

- erste Vorschläge für das Europa von unten können bereits gesammelt und in das Buch eintragen werden, das wir dann selbst in Europa weiterreichen können

- und natürlich werden wir musizieren und eine Zauberin wird uns mit ihren Kunststücken in Erstaunen versetzen

Stephan Lindner, Adolph Riekenberg, Angelika Shams, Carl Waßmuth

-- Angelika Shams * Mitglied im Attac-Bundeskoordinierungskreis Egertstraße 12 * 75365 Calw-Stammheim * email: shams@attac.de Fon: 07051 / 935 675 * 0179 / 513 41 59 * Fax: 07051 / 935 677

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ACL504A.html


Informant: Charles Bremer

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2712/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.mises.org/story/1805


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0502-33.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/02/05

When the Abu Ghraib photos first emerged, there was a sense of outrage. But even though allegations of torture, not just in Iraq, but also in Afghanistan, in Guantánamo Bay, and in secret CIA prisons, continue to surface, the indignation has died down. When the subject of torture comes up, Bush's war on terror is often cited to deflect attention from the disgusting images. Yet a recent Gallup Poll found 60 percent of Americans would not support torture, even against a terrorist who had information about an impending attack. So why has the revulsion disappeared? If we were confronted with pictures of US personnel torturing Swedes, would demands that the perpetrators be brought to justice have evaporated so easily?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/050205B.shtml

from TruthOut, by Marjorie Cohn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz200505020944.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/03/05

Up until a few years ago, the notion that you might be the center of the universe and the object of everyone's attention was either infantile or insane. But today, it feels a little something like that when you visit Washington DC in this post-9/11 era. Although there's a lesser military presence and I didn't see any rooftop snipers on my most recent visit (both were obvious when I traveled to the nation's capital just as the war in Iraq was getting underway), there are cameras everywhere. If you feel like you're being watched, it's because you are. While that's a sad fact of life in many cities today, it's even more so in Washington...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/05/03/ladylib.htm

from The Price of Liberty, by Lady Liberty


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/03/05

As North Korea tests a short-range missile and Iran threatens to resume its enrichment of nuclear fuel, President Bush and his administration continue their counterproductive bluster against these two nations. The United States is preparing to echo its hard-line rhetoric as 180 countries meet this month for the periodic review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Yet only fantasy generals on the big screen use macho bombast against their fictional foes. The best real-life commanders try to walk quietly in the enemy’s moccasins to best predict their next move. The Bush administration spends so much time strutting and flexing before the world gallery that it fails to realize that such behavior accelerates nuclear proliferation...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1504

from Independent Institute, by Ivan Eland


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/03/05

Whether you like it or not; whether you want to or not, six months out of every year you work for the State. Yes, the new slavery embraces us one and all. The State takes our money without our consent and tells us they possess eminent domain over our property. The term 'eminent domain' means superior ownership. The State owns everything, folks! And you have to pay a tax to the Democrats and Republicans for the privilege of using your own property. You become a sharecropper for a government best describe as a bloated beast of bureaucracy. A two-party political system ties our hands in endless twines of regulations, and enslaves us as generation after generation is bred to make more money for a black hole of bureaucracy...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/may14/Slavery.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

from Liberty For All, by R. Lee Wrights

--------

YOU ARE ALL SLAVES
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/12/1792167.php


Informant: Scott Munson

05/03/05

Until last year's presidential election, ordinary citizens could claim that our foreign policy, including the invasion of Iraq, was George Bush's doing and that we had not voted for him. In 2000, Bush lost the popular vote and was appointed president by the Supreme Court. In 2004, he garnered 3.5 million more votes than John Kerry. The result is that Bush's war changed into America's war and his conduct of international relations became our own. This is important because it raises the question of whether restoring sanity and prudence to American foreign policy is still possible...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/johnson-chalmers4.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Chalmers Johnson


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/28/05

Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home on Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion -- and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy. 'We haven't heard from them yet,' said Bert De Belder, coordinator of the humanitarian agency Medical Aid for Third World which brought the girl to Belgium. ... De Belder said he sent the bill to the U.S. embassy because international law dictated that an occupying force was responsible for the well-being of the country's people." [editor's note: about time -- as the signs say at better flea markets everywhere, "you break it, you bought it" - TLK]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2819953.htm

from Reuters


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/03/05

Tony Blair's hopes of keeping Iraq off the election agenda were dashed yesterday by the killing of the 50th British soldier in hostile action since the conflict began two years ago, renewed violence on the streets and accusations from the brother of the murdered British hostage Ken Bigley. Writing in The Independent Paul Bigley claims Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, privately urged him to issue a public apology to Mr Blair to avoid criticism of the Government damaging the Prime Minister's bid for a third election victory...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=635191

from Independent [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/02/05

Disputing the conclusions of a U.S. report into the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent, an Italian investigation released late Monday found that stress and inexperience among U.S. soldiers played a role in the shooting. Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, 50, was killed in the March 4 incident shortly after he secured the release of journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who had been held by insurgents in Iraq. U.S. soldiers opened fire on their vehicle as it approached a checkpoint en route to Baghdad International Airport...

http://tinyurl.com/blyfw

from CNN


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/01/05

US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and possible return to public life if he made a televised request to armed groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said. Saddam promptly rejected the offer, Ynetnews reported quoting a London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily. The visit came during Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq about two weeks ago and was known only to a few Iraqi officials in Jordan, the Arab daily reported quoting sources...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1343693,00050004.htm

from Hindustan Times [India] -- Hat Tip to Talk Left


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Facing the highest ever casualty rate for servicewomen in its history, America is considering making official what is already a reality - allowing women to fight on the front line in war.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3150

On June 19, Lt. Dawn Halfaker and soldiers from her military police platoon were on a reconnaissance patrol in Baqouba, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded inside their armored Humvee, grievously wounding two of the soldiers inside. Dazed and covered in blood, Halfaker mustered the energy to give an order to her driver. "Get out of the kill zone!" she shouted. Halfaker's right arm was loosely connected to her torso.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3149

The military gave Sharon Boyd all the things that life in Pottstown, Montgomery County, couldn't: economic stability, career advancement, and the chance to travel. But after 18 years in the service, Boyd was sleeping in her Oldsmobile Royale, battling post-traumatic stress disorder and a cocaine addiction.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3148

2 - 3. Tausend Menschen aus Berlin, Bremen, Bonn, Hamburg, Hanau, Köln, Nürnberg und Podsdam zeigten im Anschluss an die DGB-Kundgebung, wie eine Demo auch aussehen kann. Siehe die Bildergalerie im LabourNet mit 63 Fotos beginnend mit der DGB-Kundgebung am Großmarkt
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/euromayday05/

Siehe auch

EuroMayDay in Hamburg - Bericht mit Bildern von "Rothaut" vom 01.05.2005
http://de.indymedia.org/2005/05/113886.shtml

und

euromayday hamburg bilder von euromayday vom 01.05.2005 http://de.indymedia.org/2005/05/113869.shtml


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 25, Eintrag 1


Auftaktrede von Dirk Hauer zum EuroMayDay in Hamburg am 01. Mai 2005
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/hauer3.html

Hamburger Mayday Parade
Bericht der euromayday-webredaktion vom 02.05.2005
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/euromayday-hh/de/2005/03/89.shtml
Dort auch Berichte aus anderen europäischen Städten

euromayday in hamburg, das war spitze!
Bericht von h. (kein mensch ist illegal-hanau)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/prekaer/hh05kmii.html

Übrigens: Die Bildergalerie im LabourNet beginnt mit der DGB-Kundgebung am GroßNEUmarkt natürlich…


Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 25, Eintrag 2

I pledge to take steps with Greenpeace to fight global warming and call on President Bush, world leaders, Congress and my community to join the fight.

http://usa2.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=44&usa_source_template=thin_ice

by John Prados, TomPaine.com

A British memo does what American politicians won't: undermine the president's legal authority to wage war in Iraq.

http://www.tompaine.com/20050502/articles/a_fig_leaf_of_legality.php

by Todd Gitlin, TomPaine.com

Thirty years ago, Vietnam war protesters were united by the unequivocal horrors of that war. But in Iraq, there are too many unanswered questions to rally the anti-warriors.

http://www.tompaine.com/20050502/articles/where_have_all_the_antiwarriors_gone.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 27, 2005

Contact: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450

Supreme Court Affirms Right to Sue For Pesticide Harm

The Supreme Court today ruled that citizens damaged by pesticides have the right to sue companies of these toxic products, saying that federal pesticide law does not offer adequate protection from "manufacturers of poisonous substances." Dow Chemical Company argued that, because its products are registered by EPA, chemical manufacturers should be shielded from litigation. The Bush Administration joined the case in support of Dow.

Washington, DC, April 27, 2005 - In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the rights of citizens to sue for damages caused by pesticides, after Dow Chemical Company and the Bush Administration argued that the chemical industry should be shielded from such litigation. "This decision affirms a moral value that life is more precious than chemical company profits," said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, a Washington, DC-based environmental group. The Bush Administration filed a brief in support of Dow Chemical, arguing against the rights of citizens who are poisoned or damaged from pesticide use.

The case, Bates et al v. Dow AgroSciences LLC, involves Texas peanut farmers, who argued that the Dow herbicide Strongarm (diclosulam) ruined their crops, but were prevented from suing after Dow successfully argued in a lower District court that registration of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) insulates it from citizen suits, or preempts litigation. The Bush administration weighed in the case on the side of Dow, officially reversing the position of the Clinton administration (see Etcheverry v. Tri-Ag Service, Bayer Corp, et al.). The Justice Department brief filed before the high court in late November, 2004 was designed to protect pesticide manufacturers when their products cause harm. Advocates cite that this position is contradictory to the administration's public support of states' rights.

The court decision reads, "The long history of tort litigation against manufacturers of poisonous substances adds force to the presumption against pre-emption, for Congress surely would have expressed its intention more clearly if it had meant to deprive injured parties of a long available form of compensation." The decision continues, "Moreover, this history emphasizes the importance of providing an incentive to manufacturers to use the utmost care in distributing inherently dangerous items. Private remedies that enforce federal misbranding requirements would seem to aid, rather than hinder, the function of FIFRA [the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act]."

The Court criticized Dow and the Bush Administration's attempts to undermine public protection, stating, "Dow and the United States exaggerate the disruptive effects of using common-law suits to enforce the prohibition on misbranding. FIFRA has prohibited inaccurate representations and inadequate warnings since its enactment in 1947, while tort suits alleging failure-to-warn claims were common well before that date and continued beyond the 1972 amendments. We have been pointed to no evidence that such tort suits led to a 'crazy-quilt' of FIFRA standards or otherwise created any real hardship for manufacturers or for EPA."

According to Beyond Pesticides, the court decision is extremely important because: (i) "Pesticides are registered by the Environmental Protection Agency under a risk assessment review process that implicitly does not consider all aspects of potential harm," (ii) "The potential for court review of cases in which people are harmed creates a strong incentive for the development of safer products," and (iii) "The same companies or their trade associations, including Dow Chemical Company, that have successfully lobbied for weak national laws and standards do not want people who are harmed as a result to seek redress."

Beyond Pesticides joined an amicus brief in the case with Earthjustice, Defenders of Wildlife, Farmworker Justice Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

See decision at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/27apr20050800/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/03-388.pdf


Posted by
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(613)284-8259
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http://www.noccawood.ca

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40001631/


Posted by

Deborah Elaine Barrie
4 Catherine Street
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http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=69099


Informant: Andy Robinson

The phrase "extraordinary rendition" may sound harmless, but it describes the sinister CIA practice of deporting detainees to countries where they may be tortured.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/4433066/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

The uncensored U.S. report
Full Text
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8713.htm

The man who led Britain's armed forces into Iraq has said that Tony Blair and the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, will join British soldiers in the dock if the military are ever prosecuted for war crimes in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8712.htm

'I would never do anything against the advice of the Attorney General," the Prime Minister has repeatedly insisted. Yet he did do something against the Attorney General's advice. He helped the Americans invade Iraq and replace its Ba'athist regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8714.htm

Seven months before Sept. 11, 2001, the State Department issued a human rights report on Uzbekistan. It was a litany of horrors.

By DON VAN NATTA Jr.

The police repeatedly tortured prisoners, State Department officials wrote, noting that the most common techniques were "beating, often with blunt weapons, and asphyxiation with a gas mask." Two prisoners were boiled to death. The February 2001 State Department report stated bluntly, "Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with limited civil rights." Immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, however, the Bush administration turned to Uzbekistan as a partner in fighting global terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8707.htm

INSIDE Downing Street Tony Blair had gathered some of his senior ministers and advisers for a pivotal meeting in the build-up to the Iraq war. It was 9am on July 23, 2002, eight months before the invasion began and long before the public was told war was inevitable.

Michael Smith

The discussion that morning was highly confidential. As minutes of the proceedings, headed “Secret and strictly personal — UK eyes only”, state: “This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8710.htm


The secret Downing Street memo:

SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8709.htm

The paper says in allowing combatant commanders in the Pacific and other theaters to maintain an option of preemptive strikes against "rogue" states and terrorists and "request presidential approval for use of nuclear weapons" under set conditions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8718.htm

http://boston.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/1083/index.php


Informant: billder

http://prorev.com/mediasin.htm


Informant: John Murphy

Stop the plutonium production plant at Rokkasho
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/index_en_html?updh

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2706/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Since this group is interested in government reforms, it would be good for you all to be knowledgable about the real state of the union in the U.S.A. to realize what all is going wrong. While doing search on the Internet I came across the website below. While the author, which isn't me, does criticize conservatives, there are good reasons to do that in regards to many conservatives. Many conservatives have had more concern with their businesses and living a life of luxury than with the corruption, crime, and chaos that has resulted in the facts and statistics as shown below. Those facts and statistics are about Americans, including good Americans, being wronged, being harmed, being attacked, and even murdered.

The facts and statistics below prove what a terrible job our government officials are doing. This information could be used to motivate Americans to become citizen activists. It would be good for this message to be forwarded to as many other Americans as possible in an effort to wake them up to the real state of the union in the U.S.A. Consider also printing out this message to give to people in positions of power that have access to educate Americans. For example, preachers, civic group leaders, veterans organizations, college professors, school teachers, and anyone else that speaks to or communicates with many people.

Deborah Reid


http://www.michaelparenti.org/HiddenHolocaust.html


Wise Buys - Telephone, Internet, 300+ Merchant Mall
http://www.telebay.com/wisebuys
Wisdom Store - Home Security, Self-Defense, Books
http://www.wisdomstore.us
Wisdom for Courts, Laws and Society
http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/wisdomforcourts
United States of America Needs Wisdom
http://www.webspawner.com/users/wisdomforusa

Their annual meeting is May 5-8
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=82672;show_parent=1

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15148397%5E30417,00.html


Informant: Anna Webb

http://www.stoppt-softwarepatente.de

Am Besten alle mitmachen!

Wenn Software derart patentierbar wird, bedeutet dies, dass nur ein Hersteller eine Textverarbeitung machen darf, allen anderen wirds untersagt....

nur als Beispiel...


So haben wir kleinen Entwickler keinerlei Chancen mehr innovative Produkte zu entwickeln, kundenspezifische Datenbanken zu entwickeln und so wird die Markt- bzw. Machtkonzentrationen noch immenser werden!


Bernd Schreiner



Eine neue Richtlinie der EU-Kommission soll die Patentierung von Software ermöglichen. Microsoft, Adobe & Co haben entsprechend Druck gemacht. Sie wollen sich der Konkurrenz vieler kleiner Softwareschmieden entledigen. Tausende Arbeitsplätze stehen damit auf dem Spiel. Softwareprojekten wie Linux und Firefox würde der Boden entzogen. Für uns als Verbraucher würde Software teurer, weniger innovativ und qualitativ schlechter werden.

Das EU-Parlament hat den Vorschlag der Kommission bereits einmal abgelehnt. Ende Juni / Anfang Juli sollen die Parlamentarier ein zweites Mal darüber entscheiden. Eine erneute Ablehnung ist möglich, aber keineswegs sicher. Nur wenn genug Menschen den Abgeordneten den Rücken stärken, werden sie sich den großen Softwarekonzernen widersetzen. Zusammen mit Attac-Deutschland startet Campact deshalb die Kampagne "Stoppt Softwarepatente!"

Mehr im 5-Minuten-Info
http://www.campact.de/stopptswp/5minuteninfo

Das EU-Parlament kann die Softwarepatente noch zu Fall bringen. Im Juli wird entschieden. Stärken Sie den Abgeordneten den Rücken, damit sie sich den großen Softwarekonzernen widersetzen!
Zur Kampagnenhomepage: http://www.campact.de/stopptswp/home


Aktion: Überzeugen Sie die deutschen EU-Parlamentarier!

Mit der Aktion "Parla-Watch" wollen Campact und Attac die Entscheidungsfindung in Sachen Softwarepatente im Europäischen Parlament transparent und für Sie beeinflussbar machen. Stärken Sie den Abgeordneten den Rücken, damit sie sich den großen Softwarekonzernen widersetzen

Schreiben Sie an alle Parlamentarier, die noch nicht zu Softwarepateten Stellung bezogen haben! Fordern Sie diese Abgeordneten auf, sich umfassend zu informieren und schon jetzt gegen Softwarepatente Stellung zu beziehen. Klicken Sie hier: http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/send2mepgray

Schreiben Sie an alle Parlamentarier, die sich bisher noch nicht entschieden haben! Weisen Sie diese Abgeordneten auf die vier notwendigen Eckpunkte einer Neuregelung hin und bitten Sie sie sich dafür einzusetzen. http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/eckpunkte
Klicken Sie hier: http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/send2mepyellow

Schreiben Sie an die Parlamentarier, die der EU-Richtlinie zu Softwarepatenten zustimmen wollen! Fordern Sie die Abgeordneten auf, ihr Vorhaben zu überdenken und eine Veränderung der Richtlinie einzufordern. Diese sollten sich an den vier Eckpunkten orientieren, für die sich das Europaparlament in der ersten Lesung 2003 ausgesprochen hat. http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/eckpunkte
Klicken Sie hier: http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/send2mepred

Recherchieren Sie die Antworten von Parlamentariern!
http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/mepbyname

In einer Übersicht haben wir alle 99 deutschen Europaparlamentarier und deren Meinungsäußerungen zum Thema Softwarepatente zusammengetragen. Recherchieren Sie die Positionen der Abgeordneten zum Thema "Softwarepatente". Klicken Sie sich ein
http://luki.campact.de/stopptswp/mepbyname

Noch ist die Position vieler EU-Parlamentariern unklar. Wenn Sie Antworten von Abgeordneten erhalten, leiten Sie uns diese bitte an info@campact.de weiter. Hiermit können wir die Übersicht weiter ergänzen.

In den ersten Tagen haben sich bereits über 2.000 Menschen an der Aktion beteiligt. Spiegel-online, taz und heise.de berichten ausführlich:

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,353834,00.html
http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/04/29/a0146.nf/text
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59107

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2708/

Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

URL:
http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=27111
Datum: 02.05.2005
© www.sozialisten.de


PDS und FKP gemeinsam gegen die vorliegende Verfassung für Europa, für einen neuen Europäischen Verfassungsvertrag

Erklärung von Marie-George Buffet, Nationalsekretärin der FKP, und Lothar Bisky, Vorsitzender der PDS:

Am 12. Mai 2005 entscheidet der Deutsche Bundestag über die Verfassung für Europa. Am 27. Mai wird voraussichtlich der Bundesrat sein Votum abgeben. Am 29. Mai 2005 stimmen die Französinnen und Franzosen in einem Referendum über den Vertrag ab. In Deutschland ist der Bevölkerung trotz zahlreicher Forderungen eine direkte Beteiligung an dieser Entscheidung verwehrt. Es ist klar, dass die Verfechter des Ja die zu erwartende Entscheidung des Bundestages instrumentalisieren wollen, um Druck auf die französischen Wähler auszuüben. Diese Verfälschung der Demokratie zur Beeinflussung des freien Willens der Völker Europas widerspricht dem wachsenden Streben der Bürgerinnen und Bürger nach einem Europa, wie sie es wollen.

Im Geiste der Freundschaft zwischen dem deutschen und französischen Volk bekräftigen wir in diesem für die Demokratie so wichtigen Augenblick unsere Solidarität mit den sozialen und politischen Kräften, den vielen Frauen und Männern in allen Ländern, die sich gegen dieses Projekt aussprechen, weil sie für ein wahrhaft soziales, demokratisches und friedliches Europa eintreten.

In Berlin und Paris sagen wir gemeinsam Nein zu dieser Verfassung, weil wir mit einem neuen Verfassungsvertrag ein Europa gestalten wollen, das den Erwartungen der Völker entspricht.

04/28/05

President Bush's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Lester Mr. Crawford, faces daunting challenges. As acting commissioner for most of the past four years, Dr. Crawford has confronted a kind of perfect storm. First there were claims the labeling of certain antidepressants failed to warn doctors the drugs caused some adolescents to be prone to suicide. Then the agency was blind-sided by contamination that made half the nation's flu vaccine supply unavailable. Thereafter came revelations about previously unknown side effects of several widely prescribed anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs, and harsh criticism from within FDA about drug safety in general...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04512.cfm

from Competitive Enterprise Institute, by Henry I. Miller


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

04/29/05

Two questions prompted by President Bush's press conference Thursday night: Does he believe what he said about Iraq and North Korea, or was he just yakking? And which prospect is more disturbing? If the president believes what he said, he doesn't comprehend the nature of either crisis. If he doesn't believe it and was just reciting the usual grab bag of clichés, what was his point? To deflect attention from an as-yet-undisclosed policy, or to obscure the lack of any policy at all?

http://www.slate.com/id/2117761/

from Slate, by Fred Kaplan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/02/05

The U.S. invasion undeniably liberated the Iraqis from a tyrant. But for Iraqi women, especially in the Shia south, it has meant an end to freedoms they used to enjoy. For the scores of thousands of Christians who have fled in terror after the bombing of their churches and murder of their co-religionists, it has meant the loss of homes and exile. Most have fled to Syria, apparently a more secure and tolerant country for Christians than liberated Iraq. For Iraqi Arabs in northern cities coveted by the Kurds, like Kirkut, it means persecution and expulsion. Looking ahead, what will 'democracy' mean for the larger Middle East?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44073

from WorldNetDaily, by Pat Buchanan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/02/05

Mission accomplished? If the mission was to create conditions giving rise to sectarian violence, a growing insurgency, and all-out civil war, while dragging us to the brink of bankruptcy, then, yes, you might say that. But only if you were Osama bin Laden. While the ability of this administration to delude itself seems without parallel or limit, it is second only to their ability to delude the American public...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5800

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/01/05

Thousands of activists marched past the United Nations on Sunday, urging diplomats reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to remember the horrors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki six decades ago and not allow them to be repeated. Chanting 'No War, No Nukes' and carrying signs saying 'No More Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki,' the marchers then headed to Central Park, where they formed a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000...

http://tinyurl.com/dhffk

from Detroit Free Press


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In the story under this headline from today's news, James Woolsey, former CIA chief, that Iran could do catastrophic damage to U.S. infrastructure by detonating just one nuclear bomb at a high altitude creating an "electro-magnetic" pulse (EMP) wave.

While a nuclear explosion can create an EMP wave, it is not the only way.

It seems appropriate to reissue the following article from July, 2000.This author also wrote two other articles on EMP in 1999.

Milo



Medium Rare

by Jim Rarey


July 3, 2000

LOS ALAMOS A RED HERRING?

We are being told by media pundits that the security lapses at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory present the worst threat to our national security in decades. Could anything be worse? In a word, yes!

David Bresnahan, an investigative reporter for WorldNetDaily, has published two articles on the burgeoning scandal at the Army Research Lab (ARL) at Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Allegations, based on reports and documentation from at least ten whistleblowers, include "a long history of corruption, including use of Army computers by unauthorized foreign nationals, plagiarism, falsification of research, illegal appropriation of private property, even smuggling of precious gems."

Various members of Congress have been provided the information and have been sitting on it for four years while nothing has been done. Why the cover-up? It may have something to do with type of research and development being conducted at the lab.

We may have been given a clue on March 19, 1999 at President’s Clinton’s press conference when Fox News reporter Wendell Goler dropped this bombshell. He stated, "Fox News has information that China has stolen top secret technical data on Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weaponry from four of our eleven secret weapons laboratories and have successfully tested the weaponry." Since that day, not one word has appeared in the national media on the subject. Instead, we have been inundated with information about lapses in security at the Los Alamos nuclear lab.

EMP weaponry stems from the findings and inventions of the brilliant European scientist Nikola Tesla, who gave us alternating current electricity. His research is being applied at a top-secret installation in Alaska called HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research program).

Although passed off as merely a scientific inquiry into phenomena like aurora borealis (northern lights), in reality it is testing such things as anti-missile lasers, massive weather modification and non-lethal "psychotronic" weapons for use against military and civilian populations.

When questioned about appropriations for the HAARP project, this writer’s representative in Congress (who sits on the House Science Committee) admitted those appropriations are buried in the "black budget" for the intelligence community.

This writer has written two articles on the subject detailing the capabilities of EMP weapons and their development and use, not just by the United States, but by Russia. Copies of those articles ("Chinese Steal EMP Weapons Secrets-Huh?" of 3/21/99 and "EMP Weaponry-A Conspiracy of Silence?" of 10/14/99) may be obtained by directing an E-mail to jimrarey@comcast.net with the phrase "EMP articles please" in the title line.

Since those articles, the United States has successfully tested a laser weapon which destroyed a live missile in mid-air. News reports say the weapon will be furnished to Israel for its defense against short-range missiles from its neighbors.

So the as yet unanswered question is, was the Aberdeen Army Research Lab one of the four facilities Fox News was talking about on March 19th of last year? If so, the suspicious deaths of three key players takes on added significance.

Bresnahan reports that two of the whistleblowers, ARL scientists Franz Lynn and Robert Deas, died shortly after trying to report their suspicions that technology from ARL was being provided to China. Deas died in a single-car accident in Canada. Lynn’s death was reported as a suicide.

Even more intriguing is the supposed "suicide" of John Millis, staff director of the House Intelligence Committee. Washington Times reporter, Bill Gertz, in a 6/28/00 article described Millis, "(he) had access to the U.S. intelligence community’s most intimate secrets. He knew about all U.S. covert action operations, which require written presidential notifications. He also was privy to the most sensitive information collected by CIA agents, electronic eavesdropping and photographic satellites."

Was someone afraid that Millis was going to go public with his knowledge of activities bordering on treason? According to Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee (and himself a former CIA case officer), Millis had been suspended from his job and was under investigation for (undisclosed) "inappropriate" actions. Although no classified documents were reported to have been found in the motel room where Millis supposedly shot himself (no suicide note was found either), Security officials reportedly found some in a safe at Millis’ home.

What is known so far (by the public) may be just the tip of the iceberg. There is obviously a massive cover-up in progress. Whistleblowers can only be cowed by the three deaths and reportedly are being harassed into silence under the rubric of "national security."

Something big is going on. Stay tuned!

Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its entirety.

Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3960cfbf2ace.htm

PRESS RELEASE May 1 , 2005

Cell phone base stations change brain currents and cause unwellness

Research in Austria

The radiation of a cell phone base station at a distance of 80 metres causes significant changes of the electrical currents in the brains of testees (measured by electroencefalogram, EEG). All the testees said they felt unwell during the radiation, some of them seriously.

That is the result of an investigation by a team of Austrian scientists. They measured alpha 1 (8 to 10 Hz), alpha 2 (10 to 12 Hz) and beta waves (13 to 20 Hz). A small density of GSM 900 and GSM 1800 radiation already caused several significant changes in these three frequency ranges. This means the body is stressed - temporarily this may have some positive effect, in the long run however stress certainly reduces the quality of life, capacity for work and state of health.

The results of the research will be published in international scientific magazines and confirmed by replication. The research was financed by Land Salzburg in Austria. The testees were nine women and three men between 20 and 78, who considered themselves 'electrosensitive'. They were invited to sit in a chair, eyes covered and ears plugged. Of course they were not aware of the sequence of the tests.

The side of the room directed at the cell phone base station was shielded against radiation, except for a small part which could be (un)shielded easily. In the first phase, the radiation density near the head was 26 mikroWatt/m2, in the second phase 3327 mikroWatt/m2 and in the third phase 26 mikroWatt/m2 again. Several other environmental parameters were measured to be sure they could not influence the results, such as radiation by television and FM-radio, noise, CO2, temperature, relative humidity, low frequency magnetic fields and soherics (electrical discharges in the atmosphere, possibly causing radiation).

During the second phase the parameters of all the brainwaves, measured by EEG, changed significantly. Afterwards the testees were asked to describe their experiences. All of them felt unwell during the second phase. They reported symptoms like buzzing in the head, palpitations of the heart, unwellness, lightheadedness, anxiety, breathlessness, respiratory problems, nervousness, agitation, headache, tinnitus, heat sensation and depression.

According to the scientists, this is the first worldwide proof of significant changes of the electrical currents in the brain by a cell phone base station at a distance of 80 metres. It has been scientifically established before that the radiation of cell phone base stations leads to unwellness and health complaints.

Cell phone base stations are not the only source of radiofrequent radiation. Also UMTS-videophones, DECT-telephones, WLAN- and WIFI-networks, C2000/TETRA-networks and many other digital wireless communication systems contribute to the level of radiation. In many houses and offices the densities by DECT and WLAN are higher than those by cell phone base stations.

The scientists involved were dr. med. Gerd Oberfeld (Land Salzburg, dept. of environmental medicin), dr. Hannes Schimke (Salzburg University, EEG-measurements, psychofysiology, statistics) and univ. prof. dr. Günther Bernatzky (Salzburg University, neurodynamics and neurosignalling). The research was supported by dr. med. univ. Gernot Luthringshausen (permanent member of the ethical commission of Land Salzburg, neurology and psychiatry).

Sources in German:
http://www.salzburg.com/cgibin/sn/printArticle.pl?xm=1524270
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/themen/gs/gesundheit/umweltmedizin.htm



Cell phone base stations change EEG patterns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/681166/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060756047/103-7820454-3026252?v=glance

Re-Written Declaration Of Independence
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0307/S00040.htm

The Declaration of Bush Independence
http://www.ospolitics.org/blog/archives/2004/10/30/205243.php


Informant: Friends

http://www.mediamouse.org/pdf/july4_pamphlet.pdf


Informant: Friends

Prof. Dr. Konstantin Meyl, University of Applied Sciences, FH Furtwangen, Robert-Gerwig-Platz 1, D-78120 Furtwangen, Tel.: +49-/ 0-7723-920-2231, Büro privat: 0-7732-13679 und: 1.TZS im Technologiezentrum D-78112 St. Georgen, Leopoldstr. 1, Tel: 0-7724-1770, Fax: 0-7724-9486720, email: prof@k-meyl.de, Internet: http://www.k-meyl.de


Betr.: Artikel für Tageszeitungen und Lokalpresse, worum es geht:

Handys verlieren CE-Zulassung!

Nach der Auffassung der Staatsanwaltschaft Konstanz dürfen Handynutzer ab sofort ihr Mobiltelefon weder ans Ohr halten noch dabei anfassen, da die Geräte damit ihre Zulassung verlieren. Durch das Berühren selbst des isolierten Gehäuses soll es sich um ein invasives Medizinprodukt mit therapeutischer Wirkung handeln.

Der Strafbefehl richtet sich keineswegs gegen die offiziell festgelegten Grenzwerte für elektromagnetische Wellen. Er betrifft vielmehr die biologische Wirkung der von jedem Mobilfunksender ebenfalls abgestrahlten, aber bisher unbeachtet gebliebenen Störstrahlung. Diese ist mit den Antennenverlusten bzw. mit dem Antennenrauschen gleichzusetzen.

Gehen wir bei einem Mobiltelefon z.B. von einem unbefriedigenden Antennenwirkungsgrad von 60 % aus, dann strahlt dieses neben der Nutzwelle noch zu 40% eine breitbandige Störstrahlung ab, die überwiegend aus dem bekannten Antennenrauschen besteht. Dieses wird weder gemessen, noch sind Grenzwerte fixiert. Der menschliche Körper strahlt seinerseits ein erhebliches Rauschsignal ab, mit dem sich z.B. der Empfang schwacher Rundfunksender verhindern lässt, wie jeder selber mit einem Kofferradio ausprobieren kann.

Es ist also naheliegend, dass von dem Antennenrauschen eine biologische Wirkung ausgeht, und eben nicht von der elektromagnetischen Welle. Dafür sind zwei stichhaltige Argumente vorhanden:

1. Nur Rauschsignale können mit Rauschsignalen wechselwirken. Für jede biologische Wirksamkeit ist die Wechselwirkung notwendige Voraussetzung.

2. Für Wechselwirkung oder Empfang elektromagnetischer Wellen fehlen dem Menschen die erforderlichen Antennenstrukturen.

Kommen wir zu dem Schluss, dass die Diskussion um Grenzwerte ins Leere läuft, solange ausnahmslos nur die elektromagnetischern Wellen in Betracht gezogen werden. Was dagegen fehlt ist eine wissenschaftliche Erforschung der Störstrahlung und des Antennenrauschens. Die Diskussion um die Grenzwerte der elektromagnetischen Wellen ist daher nur geeignet, die Bevölkerung und die Wirtschaft gleichermaßen hinters Licht zu führen.

Noch vor vier Jahren ist der vom Vertreter der Regulierungsbehörde (RegTP) in der Strahlenschutzkommission eingebrachte Vorschlag, die Störstrahlung nach der Empfehlung von Prof. Meyl zu erforschen, von einer Mehrheit abgewiesen worden. Mehr noch, die Forschung der Störstrahlung wurde in der Folgezeit auf vielfältige Weise behindert. So traten ungefragt selbsternannte Fachleute mit der Extremposition in Erscheinung, dass es nur elektromagnetische Wellen gäbe und nur diese allein in Betracht zu ziehen sind. Man weiß eben nicht, was man nicht weiß, sonst wüsste man es.

Der Strafbefehl gegen ein von Prof. Meyl entwickeltes Nachweisgerät hat jedoch die Situation gründlich geändert, unabhängig davon, wie das Verfahren ausgehen wird. Mit der Anerkennung der medizinischen Wirksamkeit durch die deutsche Justiz ist die von Mobiltelefonen abgestrahlte Störstrahlung zu einem Thema mit großem öffentlichen Interesse geworden.

In Anbetracht der systematischen Unterdrückung des so bedeutungsvollen wissenschaftlichen Anliegens einerseits und der hohen Summen verschwendeter Steuergelder zur wissentlichen Erforschung der falschen Strahlung andererseits wird eine Entschuldigung der für die Volksgesundheit Verantwortung Tragenden nicht ausreichen. Hier sind ganze Kommissionen und Ämter neu zu besetzen. Es müssen Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Amtsträger zum Zuge kommen, die ihrer Aufgabe auch gewachsen sind und die sich der Wahrheit verpflichtet fühlen. Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar (Kurt Schumacher) und die Menschen haben ein Recht, sie zu erfahren, und das besonders dann, wenn es um ihre Gesundheit geht.


Mobiltelefone verlieren CE-Zulassung!

Worum geht es?

II. Teil: Zeitungsbericht (für Fachzeitschriften).

Gegen den Hersteller eines Skalarwellengerätes hat das Amtsgericht Villingen-Schwenningen einen Strafbefehl erlassen, nachdem die Staatsanwaltschaft Konstanz das Gerät eigenmächtig als invasives medizinisches Therapiegerät eingestuft hat. Richtig ist jedenfalls, dass dieses Gerät laut Beschreibung des Herstellers technischen, physikalischen und biologischen Experimenten dient und für diese Nutzung auch CE-Zeichen und Prüfbericht erteilt wurden.

Das Gerät hat eine Sendeleistung von ca. 50 mW, ein Handy im Vergleich dazu 3000 mW! Als Folge wäre eine 60 mal höhere medizinische Wirkung zu erwarten, wobei ein Handy selbstredend für therapeutische Zwecke genauso wenig zugelassen ist, wie das Skalarwellengerät.

Was verbindet ein Handy mit dem Skalarwellengerät, das u.a. zur Erforschung biologischer Wirkungen der Mobilfunktechnik entwickelt worden ist? Jedem Fachmann ist bekannt:

1. dass sich beim mobilen Telefonieren der Kopf zwangsläufig im sog. Nahfeldbereich der Sendeantenne befindet. Ihm sind die longitudinalen Wellenanteile bekannt, die im Nahbereich auftreten, die in Transpondersystemen (RFID) der Energieübertragung dienen und in der Fachliteratur auch als Stehwelle oder als Skalarwelle bezeichnet werden.

2. dass in der Biologie z.B. bei der Zellkommunikation oder bei der Nervenleitung (Ranviersche Schnürringe an den Punkten der Wellenknoten einer Stehwelle) starke Hinweise für eine Verwendung von Skalarwellen in höher entwickelten Organismen vorhanden sind.

Wird der eine bekannte Zusammenhang mit dem anderen in Verbindung gebracht, ist bei der Skalarwellenstrahlung und nur bei dieser eine biologische Relevanz zu erwarten. Zur wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der Eigenschaften und Wirkungen ist eine entsprechende Apparatur erforderlich. Prof. Meyl hat dazu einen Schwingkreis mit offener Kondensatorstrecke aufgebaut. Zwischen beiden kugelförmigen Elektroden spannt sich dabei ein longitudinal, von Kugel zu Kugel ausgerichtetes elektrisches Wellenfeld. Diese Anordnung hat sich bereits hunderte mal bewährt.

Da in der Wissenschaft stets eine Reproduzierbarkeit verlangt, hat Prof. Meyl das Skalarwellengerät zur Vermarktung an eine Firma gegeben. Im Experiment zeigen die Skalarwellen ungewohnte Eigenschaften. Sie sind mehrdimensional modulierbar, in keiner Weise an die Lichtgeschwindigkeit gebunden, kaum abschirmbar, verlieren mit dem Abstand nicht an Energie und sind anscheinend auch biologisch relevant. Für den schnellen Staatsanwalt ist das jedenfalls schon beschlossene Sache!

Der Nachrichtensender N24 hat auf die aktuelle Meldung hin einen Vertreter der Mobilfunkindustrie zu Wort kommen lassen, der auf die Einhaltung der vorgeschriebenen Grenzwerte hingewiesen hat. Doch diese beziehen sich nur auf die abgestrahlten elektromagnetischen (transversalen) Wellenanteile, nicht auf die (longitudinalen) Skalarwellenanteile. Um letztere aber war es in der Sendung gegangen. War das kein Fachmann, oder hat er bewusst die Fernsehteilnehmer täuschen sollen? Er hat reflexhaft oder wissentlich zu dem transversalen und damit zum falschen Wellenanteil Stellung bezogen. Vertreter der Funktechnik sollte bekannt sein, dass für den Empfang von Rundfunkwellen Antennenstrukturen notwendig sind, die beim Menschen gänzlich fehlen!

Wir fordern schon seit 10 Jahren, eine wissenschaftliche Erforschung des longitudinalen Wellenanteils. Das muss keineswegs ein Abschaffen des Mobilfunks bedeuten. Die Fokussierung auf den wesentlichen Wellenanteil hätte lediglich eine Optimierung der Handys in Hinblick auf eine Minimierung der biologisch relevanten Störstrahlung zur Konsequenz.

So sollte beispielsweise ein D-Netz-Handy zur Optimierung des Antennenwirkungsgrades, d.h. zur Maximierung der transversalen Nutzwelle bei gleichzeitiger Minimierung der longitudinalen Störstrahlung eine Antenne mit 16 cm Länge haben. Welches Handy arbeitet heute noch mit einer angepassten Antenne? Wäre es nicht wichtiger, der Gesundheit des Nutzers bei der Geräteentwicklung mehr Gewicht zu geben, als der Miniaturisierung?

Die Mobilfunkindustrie wird sich kaum gegen eine Weiterentwicklung und Verbesserung der Technik sperren, schließlich verdient sie mit jeder Neuerung neues Geld. Und davon hat sie jede Menge, nachdem kein anderer Wirtschaftszweig umsatzbezogen so wenig in die Forschung investiert wie sie. Für Forschung erklärt sie sich kurzerhand für nicht zuständig und verweist gebetsmühlenartig auf Ämter, Forschungsministerien und Universitäten.

Wenn sich diese aus der Verantwortung stehlen wollen und kurzerhand die Existenz von Skalarwellen ableugnen, dann fühlt man sich ins finstere Mittelalter versetzt, als Galilei die offiziellen Kirchenvertreter aufforderte, durch sein Fernglas zu sehen und diese sich weigerten, auch nur hin zuschauen. Es könnte ja sein, dass man mit dem Skalarwellengerät etwas zu Gesicht bekommt, was ein Umdenken erzwingt. Ist es da nicht bequemer, mit Geistheilern und anderen Scharlatanen den Wissenschaftler zu überführen und die Inquisition wieder einzuführen?

Für wissenschaftliche Fragen:

Prof. Dr. Ing. Konstantin Meyl
FHF/University of Applied Sciences
D-78120 Furtwangen
Robert-Gerwig-Platz 1
Tel.: 07723 920 2231
11.05.2005 05:09

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Ein Villinger Strafbefehl mit republikweiter Aufmerksamkeit

Weil ein Amtsrichter gegen einen FH-Professor vorgeht, verschreckt der Wissenschaftler publicityträchtig Handy-Konzerne und Fachjournalisten

Villingen

Bild: Hahne Smart und pointiert: Der Villinger FH-Professor sorgt für umstrittene Thesen.

Für eine nicht kleine Fangemeinde gilt er als Genie unter den Furtwanger Wissenschaftlern: der Villinger Fachhochschul-Professor Konstantin Meyl. Bewunderer nennen ihn den Kopernikus des Schwarzwalds, seine Gegner gehen aber mit seiner Skalarwellen-Theorie hart ins Gericht. Während in der Wissenschaftsgemeinde der Streit tobt, ist der smarte Professor immer für eine Überraschung gut. Den letzten Coup landete er mit einer Pressemitteilung, die Mobilfunkbetreiber und Journalisten republikweit in Aufruhr versetzte und dem für Pressesachen zuständigen Villinger Richter und dem Oberstaatsanwalt eine Unmenge an Anfragen von Handykonzernen, von Computer-Bild bis hin zum Nachrichtensender N 24 bescherte.

Die Geschichte begann mit Drall - mit einer Anzeige gegen Meyl. Der in Villingen lebende Professor machte sich nicht nur einen Namen wegen seiner umstrittenen Skalarwellen-Theorie, die Dekan und Prodekan seines Furtwanger Fachbereichs "Computer & Electrical Engineering" in wesentlichen Teilen "als reine Spekulation" bewerten, wie es auf der FH-Homepage heißt. Meyl lässt auch Geräte bauen, die auf dieser Theorie beruhen sollen. Der Kern seiner These: Physikalische Wellen lassen sich verlustfrei übertragen und sammeln dabei Raumenergie ein. Faszinierend finden den Gedanken viele, und so hat er unter Wissenschaftlern nicht nur Kritiker, sondern auch Anhänger. Einer von ihnen, ein Mediziner, testete eines dieser Experimentier-Geräte.

Zunächst ging es dem Probanden gut, rekapitulierte Rainer Horn, Richter am Amtsgericht und zuständig für die Pressearbeit. Dann aber verschlechterte sich der Zustand des Mannes. Die Folge: Er erstattete Anzeige gegen Meyl. Der Fall landete auf dem Schreibtisch des Villinger Richters Schleusener. Der entschied gegen Meyl und erließ einen Strafbefehl von 40 Tagessätzen, wie Oberstaatsanwalt Jens Gruhl bestätigte.

Ausschlaggebend dafür war, dass der FH-Professor den Eindruck erweckte, das Skalarwellengerät könne auch für medizinische und therapeutische Zwecke eingesetzt werden, umschreibt Horn den juristischen Knackpunkt. In Teilen hatte das Gerät eine Prüfzulassung, nicht aber als ganzes. Das allein war für den Richter ausschlaggebend: Ob das Gerät strahlt oder Wellen aussendet, "was es macht", war für Gericht und Staatsanwalt "irrelevant", so Gruhl.

Soweit die Staatsanwaltschaft: Gar nicht irrelevant war es dagegen für den FH-Dozenten Meyl. Er legte nicht nur gegen den Strafbefehl Einspruch ein, über den bis gestern noch nicht entschieden war, sondern formulierte im Umkehrschluss auch eine Pressemitteilung, die es in sich hatte. Unter dem Titel "Handys verlieren CE-Zulassung - Mobiltelefone darf man nicht anfassen", hieß es dort unter anderem: "Nach der Auffassung der Staatsanwaltschaft Konstanz dürfen Handynutzer ab sofort ihr Mobiltelefon weder ans Ohr halten noch dabei anfassen, da die Geräte damit ihre Zulassung verlieren. Durch das Berühren selbst des isolierten Gehäuses soll es sich um ein Medizinprodukt mit therapeutischer Wirkung handeln." Der Strafbefehl richte sich keineswegs gegen die Grenzwerte für elektromagnetische Wellen. Er betreffe die biologische Wirkung der von jedem Mobilfunksender abgestrahlten, aber bisher unbeachtet gebliebenen Störstrahlung, so Meyl weiter.

Solche Sätze treffen einen Nerv und elektrisierten die Fachleute der Mobilfunkkonzerne und Journalisten. Computer-Bild, Vodafone und der Konzern "O2" meldeten sich bei der Staatsanwaltschaft und beim Amtsgericht. Die Vermutung der Experten: Sorgt ein Strafbefehl des kleinen Amtsgerichts dafür, dass Handys verboten werden müssen, weil die Nutzung der Mobiltelefone den Straftatbestand der Körperverletzung erfülle, schilderte Horn eine der typischen Spekulationen. Der Richter konnte Entwarnung geben. Auch ob der Betrieb eines Handys strafbar sei, wurde insistiert, es war "ein Aufruhr einen ganzen Vormittag lang", resümierte Horn.

Und er könnte eine Fortsetzung finden: denn wird dem Einspruch stattgegeben, kommt es zu einer Verhandlung - mit sicherlich breiter medialer Aufmerksamkeit. Denn der Herr Meyl, der betreibe eine "pointierte Pressearbeit", meinte kurz angebunden Oberstaatsanwalt Gruhl. (gha)

http://www.suedkurier.de/lokales/villingen/villingen/art2997,1536533.html?fCMS=85aac9cbbea9ab8ea0ebc3c071b33dc5

Omega: wir hatten Herrn Prof. Meyl um eine Stellungnahme zu diesem Artikel gebeten, die Sie nachstehend nachlesen können:

Handys darf man nicht anfassen

Zu dem Bericht im Südkurier vom Mittwoch ist nachzutragen, dass der einzige und Hauptbelastungszeuge der Staatsanwaltschaft, der das Skalarwellengerät von Prof. Meyl getestet haben will, gar kein Mediziner ist. Es handelt sich vielmehr um den Geistheiler B., der im Südschwarzwald sein Unwesen treibt.

Sein Gesundheitszustand ist auch von keinem Arzt überprüft worden, weshalb sich der Staatsanwalt bei seiner Aussage allein auf die unzuverlässige Selbstbeobachtung des Geistheilers verlassen hat. Zudem hat die Staatsanwaltschaft über diesen Fall bereits entschieden: Die Anzeige war abgewiesen und dem fragwürdigen Zeugen der Besuch eines niedergelassenen Arztes empfohlen worden.

In der Sache selber ist richtig zu stellen, dass die Wellen natürlich keine Energie einsammeln. Die in Kreisen der Wissenschaft seit 100 Jahren u.a. von Nobelpreisträgern diskutierten Skalarwellen, für deren Erforschung Prof. Meyl an der FH-Furtwangen ein Nachweisgerät entwickelt hat, stehen vielmehr im Verdacht für den Elektrosmog verantwortlich zu sein. Mit seiner Forderung nach wissenschaftlicher Erforschung kann sich Meyl der Unterstützung weiter Kreise der Bevölkerung sicher sein. Ganz anders die Staatsanwaltschaft, die in dem zugelassenen Experimentiergerät ein medizinisches Therapiegerät gesehen haben will und gleichzeitig vor den abgestrahlten Wellen die Augen verschließt. Da bleibt Raum für Spekulationen. Hat das Gerät eine homöopathische oder am Ende gar keine Wirkung? Kann von einer Welle auch dann eine invasive medizinische Wirkung ausgehen, wenn sie gar nicht existiert? Das soll verstehen wer will.

Unterm Strich könnte die Einflussnahme der Staatsanwaltschaft in laufende Forschungsarbeiten als Verstoß gegen das im Grundgesetz verankerte Recht auf Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre gewertet werden, womit sich der Vorgang noch zu einem Justizskandal ausweiten könnte. In diesem Fall werden sicher andere Zeugen über ihre wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse referieren, als der zweifelhafte Geistheiler mit seinem misslungenen Selbstversuch.

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Mobiltelefone verlieren CE-Zulassung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/651189/

Mobiltelefone darf man nicht anfassen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/639038/