Newsweek Got Gitmo Right

Contrary to White House spin, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States. Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Koran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8851.htm



The Bible and the Koran

This informed former officer has suggested the real reason for which some in the Pentagon are so angry about the Newsweek story. It may well so focus international outrage on Guantanamo that Rumsfeld will lose his little psych lab.

http://www.juancole.com/2005/05/guantanamo-controversies-bible-and.html


From Information Clearing House

America has been taken hostage. Nobody wants to take responsibility for the terrible scenes that will surely unfold if we leave (even though terrible scenes are unfolding while we're there). Nobody wants to tell the grieving parents of American soldiers that their children died in vain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8854.htm



Stay what course?

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy and Justin Logan

11/04/05

At the start of the Iraq War two and a half years ago, President Bush declared that American troops would stay in Iraq 'as long as necessary, and not a day more.' How long that would be wasn't clear then, and it isn't any clearer today. During recent congressional testimony, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked, 'Do you think five years from now some American forces will have come out?' She replied, 'I don't want to speculate.' Then a softer version of the same question: 'What about 10 years from now?' After some brief wrangling, Rice replied, 'I don't know how to speculate about what will happen 10 years from now.' That's not good enough...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5164


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The contents of the memo are shocking.

The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was manipulated to sell the case for war to the American public; and how all the talk of "war as a last resort" was mere hollow pretense.

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/


From Information Clearing House

Oil and gas ensure that the US backs the Uzbek dictator to the hilt. The bodies of hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Uzbekistan are scarcely cold, and already the White House is looking for ways to dismiss them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8853.htm


Uzbekistan's Nightmare: Made in Washington

Why our government stands by Karimov – even as he massacres his own people.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5958


From Information Clearing House

Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy.

By Howard Zinn

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8858.htm

The arrogance of undiluted power in the hands of elected officials who are not bound to respect the law is manifesting its deadly consequences every day as Bush's Iraq invasion unravels into non-stop bloodshed and carnage. The human toll is staggering and there is no let up in sight.

New revelations of Bush's fabrications in his campaign to wage illegal war have led to a sharp drop in his approval rating. With each day the disgust of the people is mounting not only with the endless bloodshed in Iraq but with the Administration's trashing of the Constitution.

Bush lied to the people. He lied to Congress. He waged an unprovoked war of aggression based on a neo-conservative fantasy that might makes right. More than 100,000 Iraqis have now died. Nearly 1,000 have been killed in just the last three weeks. The real casualty numbers for U.S. personnel are not really known. Thirty thousand have been evacuated from Iraq due to severe wounds, psychiatric and other illness, while nearly 1,600 have been killed so far.

WOLFOWITZ'S ADMISSION SHOULD CAUSE IMPEACHMENT

A number of recent revelations confirm that the Administration knowingly lied about the war and its causes. From their own mouths we know with certainty that they cooked up an explanation for the war that would most scare people - the facts be damned. Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's key aide, was quoted in Vanity Fair magazine as saying, "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." Since the Administration was flooded with angry letters, undoubtedly many from families of U.S. soldiers, following the publication of the Wolfowitz interview, the Pentagon attempted to do damage control, asserting that he was misquoted. But that didn't help much either. The Pentagon's own version of the interview has Wolfowitz saying: "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason."

The public now knows, as does every member of Congress, that in April 2002 Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair secretly agreed to wage unprovoked war against Iraq at a meeting at Bush's Crawford ranch in Texas. This fact and other incriminating information about the secret maneuvers to wage unprovoked war are contained in British government documents, obtained by Michael Smith, a defense specialist writing for the Sunday Times of London. They include a memo of the minutes of a meeting July 23, 2002, between Blair and his intelligence and military chiefs; a briefing paper for that meeting, and a Foreign Office legal opinion prepared before an April 2002 summit between Blair and Bush in Texas.

In a letter to Bush earlier this month 89 House Democrats expressed shock over the documents. They asked if the papers were authentic and, if so, whether they proved that the White House had agreed to invade Iraq months before seeking Congress' OK. (Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2005)

"If the disclosure is accurate, it raises troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war as well as the integrity of our own administration," the letter says.

"While the president of the United States was telling the citizens and the Congress that they had no intention to start a war with Iraq, they were working very close with Tony Blair and the British leadership at making this a foregone conclusion," the letter's chief author, Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, said Wednesday.

The evidence is clear. As Ramsey Clark recently stated: "Impeachment now is the only way we, the American people, can promise ourselves and the world that we will not tolerate crimes against peace and humanity by our government. Knowing what we know, to wait longer is to condone what has been done and risk more."

IMPEACHMENT DRIVE HEATS UP - JOIN THE IMPEACH BUSH SPRING OFFENSIVE

Between now and the July 4 weekend the ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org movement is unleashing its own Impeach Bush Spring Offensive. Using the quick and easy-to-use advocacy mechanism on the ImpeachBush.org website, people across the country will be able to send personal customized letters to the representatives from each of their districts and states. To send a letter, just click here:

http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=VgAdWh1Ri0fmBEZvmL9zkg

New York City. 16 May 2005--Forest ministers from around the world will gather today to discuss the future of the forests at the start of the Fifth Conference of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at the UN's headquarters in New York. Greenpeace is calling on governments to bring an end to the UNFF talk-shop which to date has done nothing to protect the forests nor the communities or the biodiversity that they house and create a legally binding agreement that will ensure the protection of the world's last remaining ancient forests.

Since the UN Summit on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992, the loss of the world's last ancient forests continues at alarming rates. During the last 13 years the world lost an area of forest greater than the size of France, Spain, Sweden and Germany combined.

The many international meetings by governments to address this issue, including the UNFF, have so far proved to be ineffective, unproductive and a major financial drain of public money.

Greenpeace is urging the international community to focus their efforts instead on the adoption of a legally binding Protocol on forests under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has a much stronger track record in making agreements that are in the interests of local communities, indigenous peoples and biodiversity.

This agreement should establish measures that will help governments achieve the global goal set by the World Summit on Sustainable Development 10 years after Rio to reduce and halt the loss of forest biodiversity by 2010, by facilitating new money to fund forest conservation and ecologically responsible forest management as well as regulating the uncontrolled international timber trade.

The last ancient forests in both the North and the South, contain over two third of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. Biodiversity loss is a global concern, which requires global action. International trade from producer to consumer regions is a key factor causing this forest crisis. A strong, effective, fair and legally binding multilateral environmental agreement is essential to help address this problem.

"The current crisis facing the world's ancient forests, such as accelerating rates of species loss and deforestation, requires immediate attention and strong political will to shift the devastating trend," said Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace International Forests Campaigner. "Forest dependent peoples do not need any more recycling of "nice" words on 'UN paper'. World leaders need to take their cue from the Kyoto Protocol and create a similar legally binding agreement for the last Ancient Forests."


For more information

Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace International Forests Campaigner, +49 171 8780 817

Gina Sanchez, Greenpeace International Communications, +31 627 00 00 64


Gina Sanchez
Acting Chief Media Officer
Greenpeace International
Office: +31 20 718 2051


Informant: STRIDER

"Normally you wouldn't expect a fish to mate with a tomato," said Jeffrey M. Smith (seedsofdeception), a researcher who was the sounding the alarm about genetically modified (GM) foods, when he appeared on Tuesday's program. "We let the genie out of the bag way too soon, " with a large percentage of such crops as soy, corn and cotton now being GM, Smith noted.

While companies such as Monsanto claim the benefits of biotech farming are "real and compelling," and lead to increased productivity, Smith warned that GM foods could create any number of harmful unintended side effects. "Super diseases" that are resistant to antibiotics could arise and "even worse," he said genetically engineered "promoters" could lead to uncontrolled, possibly cancerous cell growth.

Smith said that biotech industry tests showing GM safety were rigged and advocated for people to become politically involved in such agendas as thecampaign.org which seeks to have all genetically engineered food labeled, and the Biosafety Protocol, a program being ratified by the United Nations.


Informant: Anna Webb

ACTION ALERT
FORWARD WIDELY!

Australian Forest Victory Welcomed
Further Protest Needed to End Ancient Forest Loss

By Forests.org http://forests.org , a project of Ecological Internet, Inc.

May 16, 2005

TAKE ACTION

Let Australian government know the Tasmania forest issue is not settled, industrial development of ancient forests must be halted.

http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=australia

The Australian government has bowed to intense domestic and international pressure and agreed to protect large swathes of the highly threatened Tasmanian forests. These ancient forests - containing massive eucalyptus trees - have astonishingly long been clearcut to produce paper pulp, mostly for the Japanese market. The plan will establish approximately 150,000 hectares of public land in new reserves, including about 120,000 of old-growth forest. Clearfelling is to be reduced significantly but not eliminated, though conversion of native forest to plantation is to end in 2010. All of the much publicized Tarkine temperate rainforest wilderness will be protected, but only half of the Styx Valley, which contains some of the oldest and largest trees in the world. Much of the rest of the state remains a "woodchip wonderland". The announcement included much talk of ending conflict about Tasmania's forests, but this is NOT the case. This plan does not go far enough and the campaign to protect Tasmania's ancient forests continues. Ancient forests will still be logged, even clearcut, for a throw away consumer products. This is unacceptable. Forests.org's first email action alert was in 1993 on behalf of the Tarkine temperate rainforests which were protected under this plan. Our network has issued half a dozen action alerts and circulated local campaign materials to our huge network for years. The Tasmanian forest campaign continues apace, albeit with a few victory notches under our belt. Take action now at
http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=australia

Networked by Forests.org, Inc., gbarry@forests.org

Due to the importance of George Bush's new nuclear danger, I have put our excellent interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott of 5/12/05 into the free show link on my site.

http://subscribe.streamguys.com/meriaheller_od_free/todaysshow.wma

I will leave it there for the next two weeks. It is imperative that you get every list, every friend, everyone you know to listen to it. If we don't address our very real nuclear danger, all other "issues" will become a thing of the past - Thank you -

Meria Heller and Mark Elsis - Co host of the bi monthly
"Earth News Hour" heard at http://www.Meria.net

http://subscribe.streamguys.com/meriaheller_od_free/todaysshow.wma

5/12/05 - Earth News Hour with Meria, Mark Elsis and special guest Dr. Helen Caldicott

Mark Elsis ( http://www.lovearth.net ) and I have an uninterrupted hour with Dr. Helen Caldicott on the nuclear danger facing us all, every second of every day. With this crazed administration in place, we are close to total annihilation every second. We were on optimum nuclear alert on 911; Helen has authored five books, I strongly recommend reading and sharing "The New Nuclear Danger: George Bush's Military Industrial Complex" (see booklist on site). What is nuclear winter? How many hydrogen bombs are pointed at YOUR city? There are 30,000 nuclear bombs in the world, Russia & the U.S. own 90% of them; Who wasn't at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation meeting at the UN yesterday? What did Robert McNamara have to say about apocalypse soon?; Are we at 3 minutes to midnight on the nuclear clock? See Randy Atkin's film "Deadly Arrogance" at http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com; The dangers of new nuclear plants and their waste pools; what is the Price Anderson Act? Iraq is a NUCLEAR WAR, over 3,000 tons of depleted uranium have been used to date; the effects of DU; Helen contends the U.S. needs a Gandian Revolution; Where was Clinton on nuclear disarmament (since he fancied himself like JFK); Helen says "the problems aren't the bombs, but the minds of the men who control them"; We are the curators of life on Earth, will we speak up? Can we achieve nuclear disarmament in five years? See http://www.nuclearpolicy.org; Check out Mark's excellent site http://www.nonuclear.net; Only 240 major cities in the Northern Hemisphere yet thousands of bombs targeting them; Every city with over 50,000 people is targeted; How close did we come when Yeltsin was drunk? "In the event of a nuclear war, the living will envy the dead"; Diplomats terrified of the danger right now; and so much more. Check out http://www.HelenCaldicott.com for more information. This is the number one issue facing all life on Earth. Please share this interview with everyone you know.

**Please share this interview FREELY. All our lives and all living things on this planet (including the planet) depend on it. This is the greatest gift you can give anyone - please tune in. This show is the tip of the iceberg.

Meria Heller
http://www.Meria.net

My animals told me something was wrong.

The horses were lined up at the gate, asking to go into their stalls Saturday night. That is totally wrong, because they are gobbling succulent green Spring grass in the pasture, and I usually have to chase them down to get them out. Not this time. They wanted in, and that troubled me.

Then my Lab Retrievers told me they didn't want to be out for the night. They went into their kennel and looked at me, telling me they wanted to stay there. That is very unusual. I closed their gate and they retired to their den. Something was up!

Normally, when my animals tell me these things, it means they detect an earthquake coming, and that is what I thought they sensed. Wrong. What they sensed was a solar storm flare about to hit earth.

At 3:00 AM PDT Sunday, my power went out as I was watching a movie. My house was totally dark, but I saw a glow outside, so I walked out on my bedroom balcony and saw a huge fireball east of Eagle Point, where I live here in Oregon. It lit up the whole sky, then it gradually died down to nothing.

What happened was that a "power glitch" caused the Eagle Point power substation to blow up! We were without power most of Sunday as repairs were made.

My animals never lie, but I am often at a loss to interpret what they are trying to tell me. Clearly, these solar flares are not harmless to life on this planet.

Carl F. Worden

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I've been tracking solar activity with the following graphs, since the mid 90's. Yes, something big did happen on Sunday. What most people don't know, is that every time a nuke was tested on earth in the past, it caused the sun to act up. Also, on the other side of the earth from the testing grounds in Nevada (about where India is) earthquakes occured. The sun is always affected, because nukes cause a disturbance in time and gravity.

Here's my website, which has a link on it to the solar plots:
http://www.data4science.net/quantum/ and click on "Solar Activity Updated every.." on the left side.

You can see a photo of Sunday night at http://www.spaceweather.com/

Ted

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=81287&cat=India


Informant: Deane

05/16/05

All animals experience fear -- human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or other attributes. Fear alerts us to dangers that threaten our well-being and sometimes our very lives. Sensing fear, we respond by running away, by hiding, or by preparing to ward off the danger. To disregard fear is to place ourselves in possibly mortal jeopardy. Even the man who acts heroically on the battlefield, if he is honest, admits that he is scared. To tell people not to be afraid is to give them advice that they cannot take. Our evolved physiological makeup disposes us to fear all sorts of actual and potential threats, even those that exist only in our imagination. The people who have the effrontery to rule us, who call themselves our government, understand this basic fact of human nature...

http://www.mises.org/story/1819

from Ludwig von Mises Institute, by Robert Higgs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/16/05

What the Downing Street memo confirms for the first time is that President Bush had decided, no later than July 2002, to 'remove Saddam, through military action,' that war with Iraq was 'inevitable' -- and that what remained was simply to establish and develop the modalities of justification; that is, to come up with a means of 'justifying' the war and 'fixing' the 'intelligence and facts ... around the policy.' The great value of the discussion recounted in the memo, then, is to show, for the governments of both countries, a clear hierarchy of decision-making. By July 2002 at the latest, war had been decided on; the question at issue now was how to justify it -- how to 'fix,' as it were, what Blair will later call 'the political context...

http://tinyurl.com/dou6v

from Mother Jones, by Mark Danner


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/16/05

Though few commentators have dared to broach the topic, it is almost impossible not to recognize that there is something else, something other than shock, loss, and grief at work in these public declarations of the goodness, decency, selflessness, and nobility of America's fallen heroes. The public statements now in vogue are irrefutable evidence of the families, evidently felt need to defend the honor and integrity of their loved ones. There can be little doubt why the families of America's war dead find it necessary to issue such statements. They are a response to the ugly, demoralizing truth about America's so-called war on terror...

http://www.counterpunch.org/gillespie05162005.html

from CounterPunch, by Michael Gillespie


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/16/05

Less a shaper of public opinion in a market economy with many sources of news, media coverage largely reflects what people want to see, hear and read. People choose media outlets based on their preconceived notions. And they want to see, hear and read about what the imperial president and his celebrity advisors, such as Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, are saying and doing. The U.S. presidency has become so powerful compared to what the nation's founders had intended that the public has come to expect that the chief executive and his entourage will lie to us for our own good—even on issues as vital to the republic as war and peace. In fact, the people, through their representatives in Congress, no longer have a real say through a declaration of war, whether the nation engages in violence or remains at peace...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1509

from Independent Institute, by Ivan Eland


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Review of The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, by Andrew J. Bacevich. "'Militarism' will sound harsh to many, hysterical to some, but this superb screed makes a depressingly good case. It is not just another shrill polemic, although it is a polemic in the best sense of the word. Eloquent, wry, sober, deftly cutting, with undertones of anger, sadness, and hope, Bacevich writes like Paul Fussell with a political sensibility. Whatever exaggeration of the problem there may be is just the right amount to drive the point home"... (for publication 05/23/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_05_23/article1.html

from The American Conservative, by Richard K. Betts


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts101.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Kontakt: Telefon: 0341-463 99 79; Fax: 0341-463 99 78; e-Mail: info@aktionsbuendnis-leipzig.de

Internet: http://www.aktionsbuendnis-leipzig.de ; http://www.montagsdemonstration-leipzig.de


Presseinformation

Übergabe von zentralen Texten mit Forderungen der Sozialbündnisse und gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen an DGB-Chef Michael Sommer heute in Leipzig

Aus Anlass eines heute in Leipzig stattfindenden sogenannten "2. Runden Tisches" zu Hartz IV mit DGB-Chef Michael Sommer, werden Vertreter der Sozialbündnisse und gewerkschaftlicher Erwerbsloseninitiativen ein Schreiben an Michael Sommer und die anwesenden Gewerkschaftssekretäre sowie Texte mit zentralen Forderungen der über 200 Protestinitiativen der Bundesrepublik gegen Hartz IV übergeben.

Die Aktion wird vor dem Beginn der Veranstaltung (14:30 Uhr, Leipzig, Neues Rathaus) stattfinden.

Ziel der Aktion ist es, die DGB-Führung und die anwesenden Gewerkschaftssekretäre über die Forderungen der nicht eingeladenen gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen und Sozialbündnisse zu informieren.

Den Text des Schreibens an Michael Sommer erhalten Sie als Anlage vorab in einem Presseexemplar zugesandt. Wir bitten Sie darum, den Text nicht vor Beginn der Veranstaltung um 14:30 Uhr bekannt zu machen.

Presseauskünfte erhalten Sie während der Aktion unter 0177-406 78 95 und unter 0177 406 78 96.

PS: Als Anhangsdatei erhalten Sie das Schreiben in einer Druckversion.

Anlage



Leipzig, den 17. Mai 2005

Sehr geehrter Herr Michael Sommer, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus den Einzelgewerkschaften,

mit Verwunderung haben wir zur Kenntnis genommen, dass am heutigen Tag ein „2. Runder Tisch in Leipzig“ stattfindet an dem Sie „den Hartz IV-Monitoringprozess diskutieren und Fehlentwicklungen aufzeigen“ wollen. Dabei wollen Sie „unterschiedliche Aspekte berücksichtigen“, wobei das „Treffen ... auch den weiteren Gesprächen mit der Politik (u.a. mit dem Bundeskanzler) dienen“ soll. Nach einer Pressemitteilung des DGB hätten Sie zu der von Ihnen anberaumten Gesprächsrunde neben Gewerkschaftern und Kirchenvertretern auch „Mitglieder örtlicher sozialer Initiativen“ eingeladen. Keine der Organisationen der sozialen Bewegung hat eine solche Einladung für den heutigen Tag erhalten. Und ob die Einladung eines Vertreters der gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen, eine ausreichende Berücksichtigung der Interessen der Erwerbslosen darstellt, bleibt mehr als fraglich.

Sie, Herr Sommer, hatten uns am 27. August beim ersten von Ihnen so genannten Runden Tisch zu Hartz IV fest zugesagt, dass Sie mit den über 200 in der Bundesrepublik zu Hartz IV existierenden Initiativen, Sozialbündnissen und gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen einen Dialog über Hartz IV beginnen wollen und es keinen „2. Runden Tisch“ zu Hartz IV mit Ihnen geben wird, weil der Begriff missverständlich sei.

Nun gibt es doch einen von Ihnen initiierten 2. sogenannten Runden Tisch zu Hartz IV und Gespräche zwischen der DGB-Führung einerseits und den Protestinitiativen sowie gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen andererseits haben bisher nicht stattgefunden.

Tausende Menschen - darunter viele aus gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen - protestieren noch immer Montag für Montag mit Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen in rund 80 Orten der Bundesrepublik gegen die sogenannte Arbeitsmarktreform Hartz IV. Wir fordern Sie dringend auf deren Forderungen, die mittlerweile von vielen Gliederungen der Einzelgewerkschaften mitgetragen und unterstützt werden, in den Monitoringprozess einzubeziehen. Berücksichtigen Sie die zentralen Forderungen dieser Initiativen:

- deutliche Anhebung des Regelsatzes auf ein Niveau, das zur Finanzierung des Lebensunterhaltes ausreicht

- Schluss mit dem Annahmezwang jedweder auch deutlich untertariflich bezahlter Arbeit und Schluss mit den nicht sozialversicherungspflichtigen Arbeitsgelegenheiten und Mini-Jobs

- Schluss mit der Sippenhaftung durch Anrechnung von Partnereinkommen, Kindergeld und Unterhalt

- Schluss mit der Benachteiligung der Erwerbslosen in den Sozialversicherungssystemen

Zur Verdeutlichung unserer Positionen und Forderungen bleibt uns – da die Organisationen der sozialen Bewegung und die gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen für heute nicht eingeladen wurden – nichts anderes übrig, als Ihnen hiermit als Anlage zu diesem Schreiben einige zentrale Texte zu überreichen.

Sollten Sie darüber hinaus an einem Gespräch mit den Organisationen der sozialen Bewegung und den gewerkschaftlichen Erwerbsloseninitiativen über die Situation der Erwerbslosen und deren Forderungen Interesse haben, so wenden Sie sich bitte an die bundesweite Koordinierungsstelle dieser Initiativen in Leipzig.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen und den besten Wünschen für Ihre Arbeit zum Nutzen der Arbeitnehmer und Erwerbslosen im Auftrag

Peter Heller, Oliver Kloss, Maybrit Preuss, Thomas Rudolph, David Spenn, Florian Tuczek, Michaela Ziegs


Anlage

Zur Regelsatzverordnung der Hartz IV-Gesetzgebung

• 1. Die 48 Positionen des Regelsatzes der Hartz-IV-Gesetzgebung (Haushaltsvorstand)

(Download http://www.soziale-bewegung.de/SOFORT-Massnahmen/Regelsatz-Bundesregierung.pdf)

Bundesweite Forderungen der Erwerbsloseninitiativen und Sozialbündnisse

• 2. Für ein Gesetzgebungsverfahren zur Sicherung des Lebensunterhaltes

(Download http://www.soziale-bewegung.de/Texte/Forderungen%20an%20den%20Gesetzgeber-120305.pdf)

Bundesweite Unterschriftensammlung gegen Hartz IV

• 3. Saarbrücker Resolution „Weg mit Hartz IV“

(Download http://www.soziale-bewegung.de/Texte/SAARBRUECKER-RESOLUTION.pdf)

Schluss mit der gegen die Existenzinteressen der Erwerbslosen gerichteten Politik

• 4. Brief an Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder vom 4. Mai 2005

(Download http://www.aktionsbuendnis-leipzig.de/print/Brief-Bundeskanzler-040505.pdf)

Chris Maile has asked me to put this message on to the mast email network. Sian


In recent months I have been approached by two organisations that it appears are either in the process of, or have set up new National Mast organisations, there also seems to be circulating some confusion over my position and help and advise to these groups, I therefore set out below my position, I hope in a clear and concise manner so that there is no confusion.

Planning Sanity is independent of all mast groups. I neither work for or am a member of any organisation other than Planning Sanity, albeit that I was a co-founder with Lisa Watts in the setting up of Mast Sanity, indeed it started life as a branch of Planning Sanity, and I was its first chair. I fully support its principles and its general thrust which as far as I am aware is still based on the criteria set in place by myself and Lisa. On stepping down as chair just after the 2002 Trafalgar Square Rally I have taken no further part in the running of Mast Sanity, but have acted as an advisor and supporter. Indeed in my view it is the only credible national organisation and the only mast group that I support as a national organisation.

However, my private expressed view is that we need all mast factions to come together, I do not see that happening, but if it could be achieved by no other means then I favour the type of group that we tried to set up after Trafalgar in that there should be a national steering group of all organisations, independent of each other, but coming together every quarter to share ideas and to take part in joint campaigns. I only support this notion as I do not realistically see those other groups doing what they should and join forces with Mast Sanity. I though would not become a member of that group nor would Planning Sanity as it is a planning campaign and NOT a mast campaign. I wish to make it very clear I have not, or if it appears I have then that is a mis-understanding offered to join or become part of any new national group other than in the two contexts set out below.

One group rightly wants to see a nationally organised campaign to see applications for compensation under Code 16 payable by the operators, this potentially could cost the operators £millions if we can get it off the ground, and again potentially see dozens of sensitive installations removed.

I have written a briefing for this campaign and intend to take a full and active role in promoting it. Any other aspect or extention of that which might be planned by other members that are or might be involved in excess of that aspect of the campaign does not at this stage have my support, indeed I do not actually know whether any extention of that aspect of the campaign is or has been planned.

The other campaign is that relating to children and schools, whilst I am not a member or indeed have not stated that I actually support the campaign in the context suggested to me, I fully support the principle of highlighting the worst aspects of telecoms developments, particularly those that affect schools and hospitals. It would be totally against all I stand for if I refused to help and assist any campaign that is attempting to reduce the adverse effect upon the worst affected sections of society. I have therefore offered my technical help and support, primarily for the reason that if I failed to offer that support then any changes in legislation might be inferior to that which I have helped draft and offered advise on. As I say above I do not support that groups intention of setting up a rival national organisation to Mast Sanity, to my mind that is a question of dividing our forces and efforts, but as it is going to happen anyway I want to ensure that they have the best advise in the context of reducing the effect on schools and hospitals.

There are some sections of the movement that I consider are unethical in the way they have acted in the past and therefore I have withdrawn my support, and indeed any help and assistance that I would normally offer them, I will not name them but most of those that know me know who they are and why I would not support them. My general policy is that I offer all those that seek my help appropriate advise, I do not restrict that help, nor do I ask who the person is and what groups they belong to, that is irrelevant to whether they are successful in their endeavours, andtherefore benefit others, and I will continue in that way. If though I consider that any person or group is acting inappropriately then I reserve the right to withdraw any help and support that I offer them.

I will though reiterate before closing that I will always above all other groups acknowledge Mast Sanity as the only national organisation. I do not believe that as it is at the moment any other group can fulfil that role, and I would urge the whole movement to unite under the single banner of Mast Sanity. Yes continue your own local and regional campaigns, but there is strength in numbers, make it a single national campign movement and it will be that much harder for the operators and the government to break, as well as easier to attract media attention. Mast Sanity has now been going for nearly 5 years, it has taken this long to evolve into a strong network of resources, any new group has to again start from scratch, will you be where Mast Sanity is today in 5 years time, trade on the experiences and name built up over this period, do your own thing within Mast Sanity, but be truely national, in a single campaign.

I would also state that all the documentation on the Planning Sanity WEB site is as the copyright notices state available for use by all individuals and groups within their campaigns but acknowledgement of Planning Sanity should be given. Please circulate this message far and wide to stop the rumours and mis-understandings as to my position on the various planned campaigns. And I apologise if anyone has been mislead by anything that I might have indicated to the contrary.

Chris Maile

Campaign for Planning Sanity http://www.planningsanity.co.uk Helpline 0871 750 3992 - 12noon to 7pm (calls cost 10p per minute)

http://www.allergymagazine.com/features/2005/may/century.html


Informant: Sylvie

Aktuelle Information Nr. 12

Gablitz: Ein Handymast im Ortszentrum kommt weg

(Wien, 17.5.2005 – 1. Gablitzer Bürgerpartei lud zum 2. Bürgerstammtisch; Thema waren Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkmasten und der Handys; 50-60 Anwesende; Hr. Haas, Besitzer des GH Stadelmaier: „Ein Handymast kommt weg“.)

Die 1. Gablitzer Bürgerpartei lud vergangenen Donnerstag zu ihrem zweiten Bürgerstammtisch im Gasthof „Zum Schreiber“. Thema waren die Handymasten im Gablitzer Ortszentrum. GR Dr. Peter Stockenhuber von der 1. Gablitzer Bürgerpartei fasste in seinem Einleitungsreferat die derzeitige Rechtssituation zusammen, wobei sehr viele verschiedene Rechtsgrundlagen zu berücksichtigen sind. Die wichtigsten sind das Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG), das Allgemeine Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch (ABGB), die Bauordnung, das Gemeinschaftsrecht und das Strafgesetzbuch (StGB). Der Bürgermeister kann eine Untersagung der Aufstellung eines Sendemasts aufgrund des Ortsbildschutzes erreichen. Die rechtlichen Möglichkeiten, die Nachbarn und Anrainer in unmittelbarer Nähe gegen Emissionen - die von einem Grundstück ausgehen - ergreifen können, sind zwar begrenzt. Tritt allerdings eine Schädigung ein, dann kann man aus dem ABGB Ansprüche ableiten. Ein weiteres Problem sind die Wertminderungen der umliegenden Grundstücke und Wohnungen. Da der eingeladene praktische Arzt verhindert war, fasste er auch die wichtigsten Studien und Forschungsergebnisse zusammen, die sich mit den gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung beschäftigen.

Der ebenfalls anwesende Besitzer des Gasthof Stadelmaier, Herr Haas, erklärte gleich zu Beginn, dass der alte Sendemast auf seinem Gasthof seit 9 Jahren bestehe und bis dato keine Beschwerden an ihn herangetragen wurden. Der ältere der zwei Sendemasten auf seinem Hotel wird wieder abgebaut werden wird. Die Umstellung wird in ca. 3 Wochen erfolgen. Dann wird der ältere Sendemast abmontiert. Während auf dem alten Sendemast nur GSM 900 Sender installiert sind, werden auf dem neuen Sendemast auch UMTS Sendeantennen angehängt. Die Erträge aus der Monatsmiete betragen lediglich 600 Euro exkl. UST. Wenn es Zweifel an der Unbedenklichkeit der Sendeanlagen geben sollte, so wird er den Masten selber „umsägen“, so Herr Haas am Ende der Veranstaltung.

Mag. Robert Marschall, Präsident des IVMK Interessensverbandes der Mobilfunkkunden, httP://www.ivmk.at erläuterte zunächst die Mobilfunkbetreiberlandschaft in Österreich. Derzeit gibt es in Österreich 11 flächendeckende Mobilfunknetze – 2x GSM 900 MHz (Mobilkom und T-Mobile), 4x DCS 1800 MHz (Mobilkom, T-Mobile, ONE, Tele.ring) und 5x UMTS (Mobilkom, T-Mobile, ONE, Tele.ring, Huchtison). Dazu werden über Österreich verteilt zig-Tausende von Sendemasten mit noch viel mehr Antennen benötigt. Diese 11 Mobilfunknetze senden 24 Stunden am Tag und senden permanent Mikrowellenstrahlung aus. Die Mikrowellenstrahlung der Mobilfunksender können bei Anrainern in der unmittelbaren Umgebung gesundheitliche Beschwerden und Schäden hervorrufen. Die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen sind einerseits von der Sendeleistung des Senders, anderseits von der Dauer des Aufenthalts im strahlungsintensiven Bereich abhängig. Die persönliche Belastungssituation des Einzelnen ist aber auch von der Verwendung des eigenen Handys abhängig. Aufgrund der geringen Entfernung zum Kopf wirkt bei Telefonaten über das Handy die Strahlung vom Handy aus mehr, als die Strahlung vom weiter entfernten Sendemast. Dafür ist man der Strahlung, die vom Mobilfunksender ausgeht 24 Stunden am Tag ausgesetzt, auch wenn man gar nicht telefoniert oder auch gar kein Handy hat.

Ing. Michael Fichtenbauer, Geschäftsführer von der e2io.com IT-Services GmbH e2io.com http://www.computerdienste.at erklärte die Schwierigkeiten, die bei Hochfrequenzmessungen im Mobilfunkbereich auftreten. Bei allen Messungen sind die Auswahl eines geeigneten Messgerätes und eine genaue Protokollierung ein absolutes MUSS. Die Messergebnisse kann man dann mit den verschiedenen gesetzlichen Grenzwerten vergleichen und sieht somit seine eigene Gefahrensituation. Abhilfe gegen übermäßige Strahlung kann man beispielsweise durch bauliche Maßnahmen ergreifen, mit denen man die Strahlung abschirmen kann.

Bei der Veranstaltung waren ca. 50-60 Personen anwesend. Einige Interessierte konnten leider in der Gaststube keinen Sitzplatz mehr finden. Die Veranstaltung von in einer sehr sachlichen Atmosphäre statt, wenn auch einige Anwesende ihre individuelle Betroffenheit zum Ausdruck brachten.

Resümee:

Es sollen und werden noch weitere Fakten zum Thema der Mobilfunkstrahlung in Gablitz gesammelt werden, ehe die rechtlichen Schritte überlegt werden. Es sollen in Gablitz Strahlungsmessungen durchgeführt werden und es ist auch das Feedback der Bevölkerung über gesundheitliche Beschwerden notwendig.

Der IVMK-Interessensverband der Mobilfunkkunden ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der die Interessen der rund 6 Millionen Mobilfunkkunden Österreichs in der Öffentlichkeit vertritt. Für Rückfragen steht Ihnen der Präsident des IVMK, Mag. Robert Marschall, unter der Mobilfunknummer 0676-4039090 und unter der E-Mail Adresse robert.marschall@ivmk.at persönlich zur Verfügung.

http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/8/richscum.htm


Informant: Andy

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/msc/NWOletter.htm


Informant: Andy

This is Exeter

12:00 - 17 May 2005

Telecoms giant Vodafone today pledged to press on with its plan for a controversial new city phone mast despite so far failing to submit a planning application.

In under three weeks more than 700 people signed a petition organised by the Echo against the siting of the so-called third generation transmitter outside Exeter's maternity unit and close to several schools and nurseries.

In March, Vodafone said it was about to submit a formal planning application.

But the company has so far held back from tabling its bid for the mast on Heavitree Road.

However, it insists the location is still its number one choice on technical grounds and is continuing to discuss the mast's design and siting requirements.

A Vodafone UK spokesman said: "We are still currently working with the local authority to find an acceptable design and meet the terms as to what would be seen as an acceptable site.

"We are still in the exploratory, pre-application stage and won't move forward until we have covered all the issues."

An Exeter City Council spokeswoman confirmed no formal application had so far been received. The Echo presented its 703-name petition to the company last month and appealed to Vodafone to look elsewhere.

Residents expressed concern about the possible health risks of a mast close to their homes and children's schools, despite the company stating that the mast would work at levels below current international guidelines.

Vodafone has also said that other landowners in the area have been unwilling to offer alternative sites.

How Vodafone's expected planning application is dealt with will depend on the size of the mast. If taller than 15 metres, it will be subject to the normal planning process. But if it is lower than that height it may be eligible for the 'prior approval' process.

If the local planning authority does not respond within 56 days of such a 'prior approval' application, it is automatically passed.

Planning authorities can object, but they are instructed to "first explore with the operator the possibility of modifying the siting and appearance of the proposed development".

Councils should also take account of the need for masts and technical issues.

The Express & Echo launched its Shock Waves campaign in 2002. It is calling for more research into the health effects of mobile phone masts.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2801/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Study
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/697642/

Study

CAIRO, May 14 (KUNA) -- Use your mobile phone too much and you would risk health problems associated with old age, a bio-physics and radio-physics study indicated.

The study, conducted by researchers at Cairo University headed by Professor of bio-physics and radio-physics Dr. Fadhil Mohammad Ali, said much of today's technology that uses short and micro waves poses threats to the human biology and bodily functions.

Exposure to this kind of waves in the home and work place causes damage to human cells and red blood cells in particular. Performance of blood enzymes is also affected as a result of damage in the enzyme-producing cells, the researchers said.

As for recommendations, the team said it is best to re-set international safe limits for both exposure and resulting damage with use of microwaves and kin technology. They specifically urged the public to return to the usual phone lines whenever possible to limit use of mobiles.

This was a 15-year study of three phases that included surveys of the electromagnetic and electric fields in certain areas like homes and offices near high-voltage towers and plants where powerful electric currents are used. The safe distance from such a strong field or power tower was found to be over 20 meters. As for radio broadcasting towers, it was advised to stay a kilometer away.

Exposure to such conditions in plants was proved to have led to health problems among the workers like heart problems, tension, allergies and other ailments.

The voltage used in Egypt was examined and the researchers found the magnetic and electromagnetic fields have affected liver enzymes, glands, muscles, hormone balance, the heart and bone-marrow. Exposure affected fetuses in lab rats and the pregnant rats developed blood and lymphatic cancers, the study showed.

The researchers analyzed their findings and the manner the human body cells are affected and formulated a new theory they hope would help manipulate and reduce the harmful effects of microwaves. They even aspire it would make it possible to correct cancerous cells' behavior without the usual surgical, radiation or chemical intervention. (end) az. wsa

KUNA 141104 May 05

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=732636

Extract below from article by Brighton resident and leading European authority on microwaves Tim Rifat.

Gary


An example was Brighton police van, parked outside the Brighton Pavilion which was used to beam UHF and microwaves at vagrants to clear them from the area. All Brighton's city centres are bombarded with microwaves when vagrants congregate to make them so ill they have to flee. The Evening Argus newspaper asked the police if the white van which was parked in the Brighton Pavilion grounds for months, was their van, they replied it was one of their 'surveillance' vehicles. On Wednesday, 4th of February the author was passing Brighton Police station with a frequency counter which detects microwave weapons, and I detected a 452 MHz microwave beam being directed at two young offenders sitting on a wall opposite the station. I confronted the police with the reading, Robert Galloway, spokesperson for the police stated, "they were not interested in microwaves even if they were a danger to health." The author has uncovered widespread use of microwave weapons in Brighton by the police and MI5 as a test programme to clear vagrants from the city centre.

Contacting researchers in this field of enquiry, they all complain of microwave-like symptoms, headache, nausea, giddiness, eye damage, ear problems... Readings I have taken show that the 750-1000 MHz range is used by the intelligence services for inducing nervous and physical collapse. Microwave ovens give off 1000 MHz.

On the Channel 4 programme, For the Love of…New World Order, shown on Monday night at 12pm, on April 6th, the author revealed some of these facts on television. The presenter, and researchers of this programme complained of severe headaches in the days preceding filming symptomatic of microwave attack. As the foremost non-military expert microwave weapons, remote viewing (psychic spying) and Psi-warfare, the author became aware of the microwave problem when he was targeted to stop his forthcoming book on remote viewing being released. This book on psychic spying, published by Century Books, is the first book by a scientist on the subject of Psi-warfare and the techniques the superpowers developed.

Subsequent to the filming of the Channel 4 programme, he was arrested by Brighton Police on February I5th outside their building and his frequency counter was confiscated to stop him recording the use of microwave weapons around the police station and in public places around the town. Even though no law was broken. It appears Brighton Police are worried that their use of microwave weapons on Brighton's vagrants is coming to light. The UK government has also bought up all the readily available frequency counters, these being the Watson FC-128 frequency counters, and the Optotronic devices, and the manufacturers now market a 'modified' model, which most probably has a digital filter so that the microwave weapon frequencies given above, cannot be shown. The author's frequency counter has still not been returned. With such high-level manipulation of events it seems that microwave mind control is part of a secret policy which is being practised on the general public in this county. As part of a covert government policy of harassing and disabling critics, this means of attack is not covered by the law and highly deniable, the perfect intelligence device for civilian control. The author's flat is targeted with a 900 MHz beam which seems to be designed to cause massive neurological damage and produce tumours.

The BT phone network has the potential to be used for docilisation of the UK public. A 30-40 MHz signal is carried by the phone. When the earpiece is placed against the head, bone conduction carries the ELF component into the brain of the phone user. A ELF signal which can effect behaviour or health is therefore passed into all BT phone users. It appears from experts I have consulted on the subject that the digital phones have been designed to carry this mind control carrier frequency. Vodaphone have supplied a mobile phone to a friend of mine that pumps out an 847 MHz signal at over 100 mW/cm2, this is equivalent to 4x100 watt lightbulbs being turned on in the body of the user. This means that mobile phones can potentially be used to kill or so disable a person they no longer become a problem to the establishment. Another Vodaphone tested pumped out 50 mW/cm2. UK safe levels for microwave ovens are 5 mW/cm2 - which are not held near the head. There are reports by military researchers that 1 mW/cm2 will cause swelling of nerve cells exposed to microwave.



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Rifat

As the points Dr. Dave J Aldridge's makes in his published letter are applicable to other countries, I am sending it along to you for posting.

Imelda, Cork.


16/05/05

Everyone of us is part of a vast radiation experiment - result unknown

IN relation to the debate in your letters columns last month concerning the hazards of cell-phone and other non-ionizing radiation, I find it inconceivable that any responsible official or body would claim such radiation to be ‘safe.’

Certainly no one with a grasp of the complex science involved would do so.

The following points need sombre reflection:

1. Every man, woman and child in Ireland is taking part, involuntarily, in one vast and irreversible non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (NI-EMR) exposure experiment, the ethics of which are highly questionable, and the long-term outcome unknown.

2. Based on experience with microwave radiation over the last 50 years and my current investigations, I believe the current maximum permitted public exposure to low band (900 mhz) cellphone radiation is 4,500 times too high and 9,000 times too high for the cell-phone high band (1.8 ghz).

Lowering this to 1mw/m2 for public exposure in ‘living spaces’ and 100mw/m2 for ‘sleeping spaces’ would provide a starting point to protect the general population against those effects not covered by the International Committee Non-ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) Guidelines (ICNIRP guidelines).

3. Government ministers and officials continue to claim cell-phone microwave radiation is ‘safe,’ quoting ICNIRP guidelines, and stating that the safety of this radiation is supported in ‘the literature.’

Yet, the actual text of the ICNIRP guidelines states something very different: that the only effect taken into consideration when framing the guidelines, and against which protection is provided, is heating effect and the guidelines are not intended to protect against cancer or other long-term effects.

I have been studying ‘the literature’ for some years - for the last five on a full-time basis.

Most of the published research has a serious shortcoming in that the sponsor of many of the projects going back the 1950s was the US military. They had - and still have - a strong interest in the denial of low-level bio-effects.

Controlling the funding, it insisted that experiments be designed to find ‘thermal only’ outcomes and that high power should be employed. Many of the investigators were not biologists, and there was extensive criticism of the behavioural test methods in the discussions of results.

For many experiments the power levels were such as to preclude observation of any bio-effects, and the behavioural tests used were so poorly selected and so insensitive as to render it impossible to detect a positive response if such occurred. When the data from a Department of Defence-sponsored experimental series claiming to show no bio-effects was re-analysed, it was shown that due to poor statistical technique and the use of the wrong mathematical model, observations of bio-effects had been conveniently lost in the ‘noise.’

If there are no low-level bio-effects, why is the US Defence Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spending over $3 billion per year on EMR-based weapons research?

4. In addition to the well known microwave hearing ‘tinnitus’ effect, the list of EHS symptoms, as defined by the WHO, includes tingling of nerves, sleepiness, headache, dizziness, unconsciousness, pain, muscle spasms, palpitations, flushing, tachycardia or edema because of impairment of the circulatory system; pressure in ears, tooth pains, tightness in chest, dyspnea, nausea, belching, burning eyes and itching, burning or prickling skin.

5. Based on anecdotal evidence, I estimate that 20% of the Irish population is likely to be experiencing low-level EHS effects, and not identifying it as such. And, in turn, around 20% of that mildly affected 20% - or 4% of the total population - are experiencing it to such an extent that it effects their way of life beyond a point where it can’t be considered just inconvenient.

Since the average GP has no in-depth knowledge of EHS, one of the difficulties for the medical profession is that the symptoms mimic the onset of mental illness. Consequently, many EHS sufferers (possibly as high as 50%) are believed to have been misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.

6. Comparing AM, FM and TV broadcast signals is like comparing apples with plums and grapes. While they all are non-ionising radiation, only the 625-line TV signals in Ireland use microwaves, defined as wavelengths below 1 metre and extending from 300 mhz to 300ghz.

TV transmitters, however, due to the range required and massive power used, are placed on remote mountaintops. By contrast, cell-phone base stations are placed in close proximity to people, often against their objections.

7. The location of many cell-phone base station aerials and towers is ill advised. When possible, those aerials utilised by vets, gardaí, ESB, creameries, taxis, fire and ambulance services should be relocated from rooftops to remote hilltop bases. This measure would reduce the exposure level of the population to electro-smog and reduce the incidence of EHS effects.

The cell-phone base station, regardless of the aerial being placed on a building or tower, needs to be located in the centre of its ‘cell,’ yet its location requires careful consideration of the type of population and exposure created.

8. Co-location is a very bad idea as the radiation from each source is additive in its effects and creates ‘RF hotspots.’ It is questionable if network operators should continue to be permitted to duplicate each other’s coverage for this reason. What is needed is a national coverage plan and well documented ‘safe areas’ where NI-EMR levels are kept low. I know of a number of EHS sufferers who have built (wooden) houses in low signal level areas only to find now that their lives are being severely affected by radiation from new emitters, some far away and being transported and re-radiated by above-ground clutter such as rural ESB feed lines.

9. The Irish Doctors Environmental Association are to be applauded for their efforts in bringing the plight of EHS sufferers to the attention of the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.

However, that committee apparently does not have the mandate to deal with the wider aspects of EMR hazards, including the health hazards and risks of NI-EMR associated with its application and use. NI-EMR covers all radiation from static EM fields to ultraviolet. I believe a new joint committee will be needed. The Irish Doctors Environmental Association has been handicapped as a doctors’ group only without the benefits of a biophysicist to untangle the complexities of NI-EMR/human interactions.

I hope this helps to clear away the ‘spin’ originating from the Government and its officials, as well as cellphone and other players.

Dave J Aldridge
Cloonfane
Co Mayo

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/opinion/Full_Story/did-sggiJr8VrR-UgsgadLjt5C321I.asp


Dave J Aldridge
The Irish Anti-War Movement: Community member
http://irishantiwar.org/shared/community-member.tcl?user_id=2562

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15813219


Informant: Iris Atzmon

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15869902


Informant: Iris Atzmon

by Bill Moyers, TomPaine.com

The more compelling NOW's journalism, the angrier the radical right of the Republican party became.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050517/muting_the_conversation_of_democracy.php

The US and UK only act in support of "freedom" and "democracy" when it serves elite interests.

“It's for the people to decide on a change of regime, not outsiders.” -- UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, referring to Uzbekistan (15 May 2005)

“We want the removal of Saddam Hussein's government.”
-- UK Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, referring to Iraq (9 April 2003)

The US and UK supported Iraq while it served their agenda. When the Iraqi regime could no longer be controlled they imposed a decade of sanctions and then invaded to install a new government and bring the nation back within their control.

Now, rather than impose sanctions on Uzbekistan, which might actually improve freedom and democracy there, the US and UK are actively supporting the regime with substantial financial, military and diplomatic aid.

Don't be fooled by the propaganda about why invaded Iraq. The truth is too obvious to miss.


http://www.theinsider.org

Wichtige Meldung fürs Volksbegehren Mobilfunk

Krebsgefahr in ländlicher Idylle?

Auf dem Land ist das Hirntumorrisiko dreimal so hoch. Nach einer schwedischen Studie kommt dies offenbar von einer dort höheren Handy-Eigenstrahlung. Für die Studie wurden 1400 Hirntumor-Patienten in Schweden nach ihren Handygebrauchsgewohnheiten befragt.

Das Forscherteam um den Krebs-Spezialisten Lennart Hardell von der Universitätsklinik Örebro vermutet, dass die starke Eigenstrahlung der Handys für den schädlichen Effekt verantwortlich ist. Sie liege auf dem Lande höher, weil die Relaisstationen der Funknetze dort weiter auseinander stünden als in den Städten.

Die Forscher aus Örebro warnten bereits mehrfach, dass intensiver und langfristiger Gebrauch der digitalen GSM-Funknetze die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Erkrankung an einem Hirntumor erhöhe.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/artikel/264/53211/

In ländlichen Gebieten ist die Strahlenbelastung höher, fand eine schwedische Studie. Mehr Gehirntumore sind die Folge.

http://www.vnunet.de/testticker/news/detail.asp?ArticleID=20050517010&Topic=Newsticker&;Ref=pc-pro

Hintergrundinfos: Hohe Sendeleistung auf dem Land
http://www.izgmf.de/Aktionen/Meldungen/Archiv_04/PL-Statistik/pl-statistik.html


Nachricht vom Informationszentrum gegen Mobilfunk (IZGMF)

Zum gleichen Thema auch:

http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/211689.htm
http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel/17445

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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Hirntumor
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/

Krebscluster in der Nähe von Funkantennen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/227418/

Use of cellular telephones and brain tumour risk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/696799/

Bath Chronicle

11:00 - 17 May 2005

Residents protesting against a controversial mobile phone mast being sited close to their homes will have to wait another month to discover whether their campaign has been successful. Councillors last night put off making a decision on whether to allow phone company Hutchinson 3G to put a mast on top of the Smile convenience store in Bear Flat, and will now visit the site.

Yesterday's meeting was the latest twist in the long-running saga over the siting of masts in Bear Flat.

Earlier this year, local anti- mast protesters had their hopes lifted when phone operator O2 agreed to consider siting a mast away from the residential area, and instead install one at Alexandra Park.

But Hutchinson 3G then applied for a mast in the same area, which is at the junction of Wellsway and Wells Road.

Councillors at yesterday's meeting of Bath and North East Somerset Council's Bath south local committee were recommended by officers to permit the flagpole-type mast and dish.

Cllr David Bellotti (Lib Dem, Lyncombe) voiced his opposition to the proposal, and called on Hutchinson 3G and O2 to share a site. He said: "I am greatly concerned by the recommendation in this report because as a committee we have lodged our opinion of masts in Bear Flat.

"The Government is quite clear that mobile phone operators should talk to each other with a view to sharing sites.

"We all know that O2 is going to put in an application in Alexandra Park and should we decide that location is acceptable, Hutchinson should be told to go there and share that mast."

Objections to the new application have been fierce and the proposal prompted 182 letters of protest. Concerns have ranged from worries about potential health risks to concerns about the impact on property prices.

Hutchinson 3G has so far ruled out mast-sharing with O2 in the Bear Flat area.

17.05.2005

Mitglieder des VfB Helmbrechts stimmen nach hitziger Diskussion mit 66 zu 34 für Verpachtung

Mehrheit für den Sendemast

Die Mitglieder des VfB Helmbrechts haben den Weg freigemacht für die Errichtung eines Sendemastens auf dem Vereinsgelände. Am Freitagabend sprachen sich 66 von 102 Stimmberechtigten für die Verpachtung eines Grundstücks an den Mobilfunk-Anbieter Vodafone aus. Nur rund jedes sechste Mitglied war zu der außerordentlichen Versammlung erschienen.

HELMBRECHTS – Die Abstimmung war auf Wunsch zahlreicher Teilnehmer schriftlich und damit geheim durchgeführt worden. Mit 34 Gegenstimmen gab es fast genau eine Zwei-Drittel-Mehrheit für die Verpachtung, von der sich die Vorstandschaft eine neue Einnahmequelle erhofft, um die laufenden Kosten des Vereins zu decken und den Schuldenberg abzubauen.

Zu Beginn hatte ein von Bürgermeister Mutterer eingeladener Mitarbeiter des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz eine Stunde lang zum Thema Mobilfunkanlagen und mögliche gesundheitliche Gefährdungen referiert. Diplom-Ingenieur Gampel wies unter anderem daraufhin, dass bei über 4000 Messungen in der Nähe von Mobilfunkanlagen bundesweit erheblich niedrigere Werte gemessen worden seien, als es die Vorgaben zulassen.

Omega siehe dazu „Strahlenmessungen“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/326599/

Er erläuterte, dass sich mit der Aufstellung eines Mastens außerhalb einer Stadt die Leistung am Ohr erhöhe. Die eigentliche Strahlungsbelastung gehe also vom Handy und nicht vom Mast aus. Seine Schlussfolgerung: „Wer gegen Mobilfunkmasten ist, sollte sein Handy wegwerfen.“

Omega berücksichtigt werden muss aber auch, dass eine Basisstation rund um die Uhr strahlt und sich die Anwohner dieser Strahlungsbelastung nicht freiwillig aussetzen. Die Dauerbelastung über Monate und Jahre ist dabei nicht besser als die Kurzzeitbelastung durch Handys mit hoher Strahlenbelastung. Das Handy kann man ausschalten, wegwerfen, nicht benutzen. Die Basisstation steht strahlend vor der Haustür. Siehe weiter unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/616226/

Zudem wies Gampel auf die Schwächen der Nailaer Studie hin, die das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) festgestellt hatte. Die Behörde hatte kritisiert, dass die Studie wesentliche wissenschaftliche Kriterien nicht erfülle. Gleichzeitig heißt es im Fazit des Bundesamtes aber: „Trotz Schwächen der Nailaer Mobilfunkstudie wird der Einzelbefund eines möglicherweise dreifach erhöhten Krebsrisikos vom BfS ernst genommen.“

Omega Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam berichtete von nachgewiesenermaßen erhöhten Fallzahlen von Tumorerkrankungen in unmittelbarer Nähe zu Sendemasten (Studie Naila), doch keiner gehe hin und überprüfe, warum das der Fall sei: "Der Grund liegt auf der Hand: Man will schlichtweg nichts finden", betonte die Referentin.

Gleiche Beobachtungen habe man in Hof gemacht: Hier stehe seit zehn Jahren ein Mast direkt im Wohngebiet, im Umkreis von 100 Metern sei es zu 40 Karzinom-Erkrankungen gekommen: "Diese Zahlen sind Wahnsinn - doch es passiert nichts, keiner kümmert sich." Dass elektromagnetische Felder und Hochfrequenzen keine Gesundheitsgefahren darstellen, sei eine irreführende Behauptung: "An keinem einzigen Standort Deutschlands wurde vom Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz oder anderen Wissenschaftlern eine Erhebung über Kopfschmerzen oder Schlafstörungen gemacht. Außerdem sind nicht die Physiker und Radiologen Experten für die menschliche Gesundheit, sondern wir Ärzte", mahnte sie.
http://www.buergerwelle.at/body_newsletter_140505.html

„Wer gegen Funkmasten ist, sollte sein Handy wegwerfen“
Ein Vertreter des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz

Omega und was macht der, der kein Handy hat und gegen Funkmasten ist?

Auch im Hinblick auf andere Risiken, die durch den Mobilfunk entstehen, führt das BfS derzeit ein umfangreiches, 50 Millionen Euro schweres Forschungsprogramm durch.

Lautstark und hitzig geführt wurde die anschließende Diskussion, in der Gegner wie Befürworter zu Wort kamen. Uwe Friedrich, Konrektor der benachbarten Realschule übergab Vorsitzendem Manfred Gareiß eine Unterschriftenliste von Eltern, die sich gegen den Funkmasten richtete. Zudem wies Friedrich auf eine Reihe von Untersuchungen und Studien hin, die von einer gesundheitlichen Gefährdung durch Mobilfunkanlagen ausgehen würden.

Auf die Frage nach der Haftung erklärte Gareiß, für Errichtung und Betrieb des Mastes sei ausschließlich Vodafone zuständig. Die Höhe des Mastes gab er mit 28 bis 30 Metern, die Vertragsdauer mit zehn Jahren an, „wobei noch nichts unterschrieben ist“. In Hinblick auf die Schule fragte Friedrich, der mehrfach unterbrochen und nach Angaben mehrerer Mitglieder zum Teil übelst beschimpft wurde, wer die Verantwortung für mögliche Schäden übernehme. Dritter Vorsitzender Kurt Hoyer warf dazu ein, seine Nachforschungen hätten ergeben, dass an Schulen zwar die Handys ausgeschaltet sein sollten, was aber keiner der Lehrer überprüfe. Dass laut Hoyer deshalb alle Schüler ihre Handys eingeschaltet ließen, wies Friedrich zurück.

„Einige Kritiker wurden mundtot gemacht“

Gründungsmitglied Mai über das plötzliche Diskussionsende

Befürworter der Anlage wollten wissen, warum die Gegner nicht protestiert hätten, als auf dem Kirchberg und bei Knopf‘s Sohn Masten errichtet wurden. Auch habe es gegen Anlagen am Krankenhaus Münchberg und auf dem Dach einer Schule in Rehau keine vernehmbaren Proteste gegeben.

Nach mehr als zwei Stunden erklärte der Vorsitzende die Diskussion trotz bestehender Wortmeldungen für beendet. Ein Vorgang, den Gründungsmitglied Karl-Heinz Mai gestern gegenüber unserer Zeitung so kommentierte: „Ein unwürdiges Schauspiel. Einige Kritiker wurden mundtot gemacht.“ Laut Mai, der zu den Gegnern des Sendemastes gehört, sei das Verhalten des Vereins für viele Helmbrechtser nicht mehr nachvollziehbar. Er wirft der Vorstandschaft „fachliche Inkompetenz“ vor. Wichtige Informationen über die Sendeleistung des Mastes oder über mögliche Regressansprüche lägen ebenso wenig vor wie Antworten auf die Frage, ob der Verein die Gemeinnützigkeit verlieren könne: „Schon einmal hat der Verein versucht, Finanzamt und Krankenkassen auszutricksen versucht. Die Folgen ja sind bekannt.“

Bürgermeister Manfred Mutterer will sich nun mit Hilfe eines staatlichen Förderprogramms im Stadtrat dafür stark machen, dass Experten am Vereinsgelände Messungen durchführen, „um so zu erfahren, wie intensiv die Belastung wäre und dann anhand von Fakten die Emotionen aus der Diskussion zu nehmen“. Die Kritik von Seiten der Realschulleitung („ein sensibler Bereich“) und zahlreicher Anwohner nannte er gestern „verständlich und nachvollziehbar“.

So bald der Bauantrag von Vodafone vorliegt, beginnt ein Genehmigungsverfahren, in dem die Stadt Stellung nehmen kann. Laut Mutterer wird es dazu eine Beratung im Bauausschuss geben. Entscheidungsträger sei das Landratsamt. awu


Wir mussten draußen bleiben

VON ALEXANDER WUNNER

„Schreien gegen Argumente, Geifer gegen Intelligenz, Hetze gegen Sympathie – armer VfB“. So drastisch hat im Internetforum des Vereins gestern einer unter dem Namen „Helmetzer“ das zusammengefasst, was am Freitagabend passiert ist. Ob er Recht hat ?

Wir, liebe Leser, können das nur unzureichend beurteilen. Gerne hätten wir wie gewohnt aus erster Hand berichtet, Informationen geliefert, Argumente präzise gegenübergestellt und den Verlauf des Abends detailliert wiedergegeben. Genau das hat uns die Vorstandschaft des Vereins verwehrt. Auf Initiative des dritten Vorsitzenden Kurt Hoyer, der bereits nach der Hauptversammlung Mitte April unseren Berichterstatter beeinflussen wollte, machte der neue Vorsitzende Manfred Gareiß von seinem Hausrecht Gebrauch und teilte uns mit, dass die Heimatzeitung – und damit mittelbar die Öffentlichkeit – nicht erwünscht sei. Bürgermeister Mutterer und andere, die dem Verein seit Jahrzehnten nahe stehen, haben dieses Verhalten gestern verurteilt.

Die neue Vorstandschaft – das zeigte auch der Freitagabend – tut sich schwer, wenn es um Werte wie Transparenz und Meinungsfreiheit geht. Der Imageschaden, den sich die Macher des VfB jenseits der zweifellos diskutablen Frage, ob der Mast gesundheitsschädlich sei oder nicht, zuzuschreiben haben, ist enorm. Insider munkeln von abgesprungenen Sponsoren oder von 20 (zum Teil namhaften) ausgetretenen Mitgliedern. Der nach der Insolvenz in mühsamer Kleinarbeit erarbeitete gute Ruf des Vereins ist massiv in Gefahr.

Aber damit umzugehen, da hat eben jeder seine Art. Die einen rennen gegen Windmühlen, die anderen sitzen die Sache aus, vertrauen auf ihren Erfolg – und auf die Macht des Vergessens. Die aber haben schon andere überschätzt.

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/resyart.phtm?id=796235


18.05.2005

INTERVIEW

„Wir sind sauer !“

HELMBRECHTS – Die Würfel sind gefallen. Wie berichtet, haben sich bei der außerordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung des VfB 98 Helmbrechts zwei Drittel der Anwesenden für einen Mobilfunk-Sendemast auf dem Vereinsgelände ausgesprochen. Einer, der stets ein gut nachbarschaftliches Verhältnis zum VfB 98 gesucht hat, aber jetzt von den Verantwortlichen des Vereins enttäuscht ist, ist der Direktor der Realschule Otto Günther.

Wie geht es Ihnen ?

Otto Günther: Leider Gottes habe ich das Ergebnis der Mitgliederversammlung mitbekommen. Meine Einstellung hat sich nicht geändert: So lange weder die Gefährlichkeit noch die Ungefährlichkeit der Strahlung bewiesen ist, bin ich strikt gegen den Mast. Ich bin bitter enttäuscht.

Über den Mast ist aber abgestimmt worden . . .

Otto Günther: Während die Befürworter eine Stunde lang einen Mann vom Landesamt für Umweltschutz referieren ließen, sind die Argumente der Gegner, die sich gut vorbereitet hatten, auf einen Satz zusammengestutzt worden. Dies ist mir berichtet worden und dies zeugt nicht von einem ausgeprägten Demokratieverständnis.

Was bedeutet das Ergebnis für Sie als Schulleiter ?

Otto Günther: Wenn an einem Elternsprechtag 90 bis 95 Prozent der Eltern sich unaufgefordert in eine Liste gegen die Errichtung des Mastes eintragen, wie neulich geschehen, ist das für uns als Schule natürlich ein Hammer. Umso erschütterter bin ich, seit ich weiß, dass der Mast nicht, wie ich ursprünglich dachte, zehn, sondern 28 Meter hoch sein soll.

Halten Sie das Thema nach dem klaren Abstimmungsergebnis nun für „gegessen“ ?

Otto Günther: Die Sachlage stellt sich jedenfalls so dar, dass der Mast beschlossen und damit legitimiert ist. Deshalb sehe ich keine Möglichkeit mehr, auf den VfB einzuwirken. Allerdings behalte ich mir persönlich und von Seiten der Schule weitere Schritte vor.

Die da wären ?

Otto Günther: Heute werde ich mich mit meinen beiden Stellvertretern Wilhelm Stiller und Uwe Friedrich treffen und darüber beraten. Ich persönlich überlege mir künftig zwei Mal, ob ich dem Verein nach wie vor jedes Jahr 50 Euro für die Jugendarbeit spenden soll. Und Uwe Friedrich, der die Leichtathletikjugend des VfB trainiert, grübelt auch über seine Tätigkeit nach. Ach, ganz einfach: Wir sind sauer. M. BÄUMLER

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=796753


Nachrichten von der BI Bad Dürkheim


Omega weitere Berichte zum Thema VfB Helmbrechts und Sendemast sind unter http://tinyurl.com/dud79 und http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=HELMBRECHTS zu finden.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

May 17, 2005

MEDIA ALERT: BBC SILENT ON FALLUJAH

The BBC Has Failed To Respond To Doubts About Its Claims On US Atrocities In Iraq.

"The truth is replaced by silence, and the silence is a lie." (Yevgeney Yevtushenko).

Last week, the editors of Media Lens wrote to the BBC’s director of news, Helen Boaden, about her failure to respond to public concerns over BBC misreporting from Iraq:

10 May, 2005

Dear Helen Boaden,

We trust you are well. As you may recall, Media Lens issued a media alert on 18th April: 'Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah'. This was in response to your Newswatch article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4390000/newsid_4396600/4396641.stm

Our media alert* noted that your article failed to address the many specific and detailed allegations of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. Moreover, statements made to us by Human Rights Watch cast doubt upon your firm assertion that HRW could "compellingly" rule out the use of banned weapons by US forces in Fallujah. Both of these points surely merit a reply from the BBC.

We note that around 100 people - perhaps more - emailed you, [BBC reporter] Paul Wood and [BBC news online editor] Pete Clifton with their deep concerns about the Newswatch article. Nobody has yet received a reply, as far as we are aware. Could you possibly tell us when we might expect a BBC response, please?

best wishes,
David Cromwell & David Edwards

* See: http://www.medialens.org/alerts/05/050418_doubt_cast_on_bbc.php

We have not yet heard back from Helen Boaden.

The BBC relentlessly proclaims its commitment to "providing trusted and impartial news and information that helps citizens make sense of the world" (Letter from BBC chairman Michael Grade to David Cromwell, 21 March, 2005). Such grandiose statements are delivered as if on tablets of stone, to be received with gratitude by the multitudes. Thus, Grade again: "I know that BBC News, led by its new Director Helen Boaden, is passionate about delivering a news service that is independent, impartial and accurate and that commands the confidence of licence payers." (Ibid.)

In the real world, the BBC diligently diverts public attention from the responsibility of western governments for the horrendous suffering of the people of Iraq. In 1998, Denis Halliday, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Baghdad, resigned in protest at the devastating western sanctions which had led directly to the deaths of over a million Iraqis, half of them children under five. His words should haunt those who facilitated such a tragedy, and who continue to apologise for power now: "History will slaughter those responsible." (Quoted, John Pilger, The New Rulers Of The World, Verso, 2002, p.54)


SUGGESTED ACTION

The goal of Media Lens is to promote rationality, compassion and respect for others. When writing emails to journalists, we strongly urge readers to maintain a polite, non-aggressive and non-abusive tone.

Write to Helen Boaden, director of BBC news
Email: helenboaden.complaints@bbc.co.uk

Ask why her Newswatch article does not address the BBC's failure to cover reports of alleged US war crimes. Ask her for further details of what the BBC discussed with Human Rights Watch (HRW), and of the "investigations" that HRW supposedly undertook into the use of banned weapons by US forces.

Copy your emails to the following:

Pete Clifton, BBC news online editor
Email: pete.clifton@bbc.co.uk

Mark Thompson, BBC director general
Email: mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk

Michael Grade, BBC chairman
Email: michael.grade@bbc.co.uk

Please send copies of all emails to us at:
Email: editor@medialens.org

You may also wish to consider lodging an official complaint (which guarantees an answer) about the Newswatch article at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints


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Study Title: Use of cellular telephones and brain tumour risk
Authors: L Hardell, M Carlberg and K Hansson Mild.

Published in the June 2005 Issue of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Summary: A new Swedish study has found a 3-fold increase in rural people who have used a digital mobile phone for at least 5 years.

Lennart Hardell and colleagues have continued to analyse their data on 1429 Swedish cell-phone users who were diagnosed with a brain tumour between January 1997 and June 2000. The major finding that they announced was a 1.5 fold (1.4/0.9) higher risk of brain tumours in rural users compared with users who used their phone mostly in urban settings, rising to a 3.5 fold (3.4/0.9) increased ratio for people who had used their digital phones for 5 years or more. This rose to a six-fold (8.4/1.4) difference when only malignant brain tumours were considered. They suggest that this difference may be due to the fact that mobile phones uses "adaptive power control" which reduces the transmitted microwave power when they are used close to base stations - as is usually the case in urban areas.

Digital GSM Handsets can radiate 1000 times more power when they have to communicate in a poor signal strength area compared to when they are close to a base station. They also normally use full power at all times while they are "dialing out" and waiting for the called person to answer their phone, so it is a good idea to hold the phone away from your head during this time.

More interesting, though not mentioned in the paper's abstract, are the latency time trends - that is the overall rates for all users depending on how many years they have used their phones over.

For analogue phone users, over all tumours, there is a 1.9-fold increase (i.e. almost a doubling) after using the phone for 10 years. This is especially the case for people who use their phone for over 90 minutes per week (about 15 minutes per day). Below that level of usage there are too few cases to meaningfully calculate an odds-ratio. For all users, combined, the OR is still 1.6 (1.1-2.5), which is a significant result. For malignant tumours only the result is stronger; overall showing a significant OR of 2.1 after 10 years (1.1-4.0)

For GSM users, data is not available for 10 years use. The overall results for 1 and 5 years are not significant, but do increase for people who use their phone for more than 10 minutes per day from 0.9 after one year to 1.4 after five years. Note that these are not heavy users.

For cordless phones (not clear if analogue or DECT or other type) there is a significant 1.4-fold increase after 5 years (1.5-fold in heavy user group), rising to a non-significant (too few cases) 2.1-fold increase after 10 years (0.7-6.3).

This study suggests that calls are best made in areas close to a base station for the particular handset's network, as that will reduce the microwave radiation levels the user will be exposed to.

However, Powerwatch's overall conclusion is that this study confirms that regular mobile and cordless phone use may well at least double the risk of developing a brain tumour over time, especially a malignant one, and that people should be advised to use such phones only when necessary and they should make most calls on an old-fashioned wired landline phone or wired (not Bluetooth) voice-over-internet (e.g. Skype) network.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050516_tumour.asp


Informant: Sylvie

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Tumour Risk For Rural Cell Phone Users

http://www.rense.com/general65/ceek.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/17/nmob17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/17/ixhome.html


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Thank you very much for this information!

I am happy to see Örjan Hallberg's and my own results*** now being much further substantiated by Hardell and his team! Remember that when our studies were published, we were heavily attacked by certain Swedish epidemiologist for being "wrong", for being "amateurs", for "publishing our results in the wrong journal", etc. It will be very nice now to rather read Hardell's and coworkers comments about our papers instead!

***e.g. Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Mobile handset output power and health", Electromag Biol Med 2004; 23: 229-239

and

Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "1997 - A curious year in Sweden", Eur J Cancer Prev 2004; 13: 535-538


Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

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This also appears in today's Daily Mail

Sandi


Today's Independent reports the latest analysis by Lennart Hardell, Sweden, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Mobile phone use in rural areas carries three times the cancer risk
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=638936


Andy

From Mast Network

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Rural mobile phone use 'riskier'
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=50

Mobile phone health risks greater for rural users
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mobile+phone+health+risks+greater+for+rural+users

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

Tongass Rainforest at Risk
http://ga1.org/campaign/appropshouse/

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/whaleembassyalert

Take action! Ask the mayor of Ulsan to do the right thing and not build the whale meat factory.

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=1770&s=gen2


Source: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/ebulletin/16052005.htm

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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59304
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58311
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58351

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2794/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

May 16th 2005

EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER

Three “New” M-Class Flares Fire Off

Three new M-Class flares have fired off in the last 12 hours. NOAA has already put out warnings to power companies, satellite manufactures, and the FAA to warn against high flights. Airlines will be ordered to fly at lower altitudes, especially the Boeing 747 and 777.

What is it that is causing the Sun to act out with such fervor? First I would suggest it is a natural rhythmic cyclical event which is consistent with what I call a “Mega Cycle”. But this still does not tell us what is the “cause”. I am suggesting there is some cyclical occurrence with happens in near by galaxies with emits energy waves as part of its own cycles. Just what these waves are I can only guess. Perhaps they are related to GRB’s (gamma ray burst), or it could be plasma or photon fields. Maybe from our own Milky Way, or perhaps our neighbor the Andromeda galaxy.

http://www.science-projects.com/Astro/CosmosSolSys.htm

There is also the possibility of unique events which have occurred. Pulsars, Quasars, Nova’s, and the discharge of magnetic or charged particles which have just recently made their way to our Sun. This is the exact subject matter which will be outlined in my upcoming book “Cosmic Rain”, due out next spring.

(3) M-Class Flares: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5mBL.html

Kp Index: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

Watch for continued “extreme weather” to unfold. Also, watch the northern skies for beautiful aurora’s, maybe to be seen in the northern US or southern Canadian border.

Equation:

Sunspots => Solar Flares => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption (mitch battros)

No Compromise
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605X.shtml

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/EDW311A.html

This is a grim reminder of the statement made. Anna

ELECTION: Surprise victory ruffles feathers

editorial@hamhigh.co.uk
13 May 2005

MP Lynne Featherstone has pledged to hit the ground running in her first days in parliament.

Ms Featherstone, who was sworn in on Thursday, is proposing an early day motion on changing guidelines for mobile phone masts near schools.

She said: "I am going to be exactly the same as I have been for the last ten years to deliver the sorts of things that I have campaigned on nationally and locally. My first priority is to represent the people of Hornsey and Wood Green and I will work in the same way I have always done.

"The first thing I am looking to ask for is a ten-year plan from Haringey Council for school places. I am not happy with the planning and fiascos like St James's school in Muswell Hill where mistakes led to them not being given extra places.

"The government was going on about choice in schools. In Hornsey and Wood Green parents have been putting down three choices and 140 are without a place."

After weeks of fervent campaigning, it wasn't until 11.30pm last Thursday that the Lib Dems were told a shock win was on the cards. After the count Ms Featherstone celebrated with champagne at her Highgate home with around 60 supporters. And the new MP is also in line to collect a second time having had a substantial bet on herself to win the seat.

On Sunday party leader Charles Kennedy called her to congratulate her and his wife Sarah, an old friend, also applauded her victory.

In her acceptance speech on the night Ms Featherstone said: "The voters of Hornsey and Wood Green made their voice heard with this fantastic result. They have sent shock waves through the Labour government. This seat had previously been a safe seat for Labour.

"The people have said no it's not acceptable to wage an illegal war on a false premise, it's not acceptable to take away civil liberties, it is not acceptable to play fast and loose with the trust of the British people."

Ms Featherstone is a member of the London Assembly but she told Broadway she didn't want to quit until she had tied up a few loose ends. "I want to secure extra beat officers for Highgate and complete my brief to look at parking enforcement in London," she said.

She will also continue as a councillor for Muswell Hill until local elections are called next year.

broadway@hamhigh.co.uk

https://horde.mailsnare.net/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmparent7777.blog-city.com%2Fread%2F1280153.htm


Informant: Debi Clark

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051305X.shtml


Informant: Ell Kinder

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051605Z.shtml


Informant: kevcross5

Background Note:

2,4-D, mixed with other phenoxy herbicides, is one of the most widely used weed-killers for lawns and gardens across North America. It was a component of Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War and dropped by U.S. warplanes over Vietnamese rainforests to defoliate the forest and flush out Vietcong troops from their jungle hideouts. Agent Orange was a 50-50 mixture of two herbicides: 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4,5-T) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D).

The 2,4,5-T component of Agent Orange, was banned following a serious industrial accident involving the escape of a toxic dioxin 2,3,7,8-TCDD in Seveso near Milan, Italy, in 1976. The industry now blame the toxicity of Agent Orange on the banned Agent Orange component.

2,4-D, is one of the 22 pesticide active ingredients identified within Quebec's Pesticide Management Code to be banned for sale and use on lawns and gardens across the Province of Quebec.

Also see:

Major Problems with PMRA's Feb. 21, 2005 Review on 2,4-D Herbicide http://www.flora.org/healthyottawa/fs-5.htm



Sun, May 15, 2005

Feds admit Agent Orange death

Ottawa Sun

Greg Weston discovers how a widow's crusade ended 40 years of denials by the federal government

By GREG WESTON, Parliamentary Bureau

KINGSTON -- Forty years after the American military was allowed to test-bomb a New Brunswick army base with deadly Agent Orange herbicide, the Canadian government is finally admitting veterans are dying as a result of being poisoned.

The Department of National Defence has confirmed that in 1966, U.S. forces doused forested areas of the Gagetown base with the infamous chemical defoliant, testing it for clearing jungle during the Vietnam War.

Since then, Agent Orange has been linked to a horrifying array of cancers, diabetes, respiratory diseases and blindness among U.S. veterans -- not to mention two generations of sick Vietnamese -- and even birth defects in children of vets.

For decades, the Canadian military refused to acknowledge the Gagetown horror ever happened, much less any connection between Agent Orange and sick vets.

The Sun has learned that 10 months ago, for the first time in four decades, the government quietly accepted a medical compensation claim from a retired Canadian brigadier general stricken with leukemia.

A decorated officer of foreign wars with the Calgary Highlanders, Gordon Sellar rose to the very top of Canada's military, retiring as head of land forces.

But during his storied career, he also commanded the Black Watch regiment at Gagetown -- sadly, at the precise time the U.S. was poisoning the place with Agent Orange.

MAXIMUM COMPENSATION

In a landmark decision, the Department of Veterans Affairs has ruled that Sellar's cancer was caused by his exposure to Agent Orange. "The department is aware that Agent Orange was used as a herbicide for defoliation on the training grounds of CFB Gagetown," the confidential memorandum states. "The department accepts the medical opinion (of Sellar's doctors) and the results of published U.S. medical research that establishes a causative relationship between Agent Orange exposure and the development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia."

The decision was so strong and unequivocal, it provided the maximum possible pension compensation.

More significantly, it should open the door to similar claims from potentially thousands of other sick and dying Canadian vets exposed to Agent Orange at Gagetown.

An official at Veterans Affairs admits the department has done nothing to publicize the Sellar decision, nor otherwise reach out to help victims of Agent Orange. "Perhaps when your article appears, more will come forward," the official said.

CHEMICAL KILLING FIELD

If so, the Sellar decision will stand as a fitting final salute to a revered general who cared deeply about the men in his command, a soldier who would have done anything to spare others the medical misery wrought upon their ranks.

A decorated war hero who survived the bloody battlefields of Europe and Korea, it is surely beyond cruel that Gordon Sellar would be felled on a chemical killing field at his own army base.

On Oct. 1, 2004, two weeks after the first compensation payment appeared in his pension cheque, the brigadier-general lost his final battle, a 15-year fight with the cancer he inherited from Agent Orange.

At his side as she had been throughout his long illness was Gloria, his wife and soulmate of 60 years. At 77, for all the hard years of caring for her ailing husband, she remains a remarkable woman of quiet grace, intelligence and wit.

If the Agent Orange victory belongs to anyone in this country, it is to this elegant lady of steely tenacity for whom even the indomitable defence bureaucracy was clearly no match.

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The first time Gloria saw the chemical drums with their telltale orange stripes was in the U.S. army trucks parked at the Oromocto Hotel next to the Gagetown base.

"We were between houses and staying at the hotel," she recalled during an interview last week. "The American soldiers were staying there, too, and would come in every evening filthy dirty. It was no secret what they were doing. Of course, no one realized the potential of what was happening at the time. I hate to think what happened to those poor men."

Gordon Sellar began his career fighting overseas in World War II with the Calgary Highlanders. By the time he reached Gagetown in 1963, he was a colonel and commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch, with more than 1,000 men under him.

Like all infantry in training, they probably spent more time on their bellies than on their feet. Little did they know they were crawling through an invisible swamp of deadly poison.

"We exercised for lengthy concentrated periods in the contaminated areas," he would later write in an official memo. "We lived on the ground in camp and trained both day and night. Our food was prepared there ... in areas that had been defoliated.

"We didn't know it was Agent Orange."

Gloria has trouble looking at photographs from those days; the one of Gordon in his full field gear, another of the two of them when they were leaving Gagetown in 1967.

HORRIBLE TRUTH

"I look at the two of us in that picture, and think, gosh, we just didn't have a clue what had happened... By then, it (Agent Orange) was already there; it had started."

Over the next decade, Sellar continued to the top of the military, retiring in 1977 as the director general of Canadian land forces.

Gloria said the ensuing 15 years were a dream fulfilled, living on a 58-acre country estate north of Kingston, close to their three grown children, free to pursue a lifelong passion for horses that first brought the couple together as kids growing up in Calgary.

As always, Gordon kept in top physical condition. Until one day in 1994 when the dizzy spells started.

A simple blood test revealed the horrible truth: He had a form of leukemia that could spread cancer anywhere in his body at any time --one of the diseases being associated with Agent Orange.

By then, the effects of the odious Vietnam herbicide were being loudly debated in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of vets on a special government health watch.

Before long, Gloria put it all together with the orange barrels and the American soldiers at the Oromocto Hotel.

"We were obviously shattered by all this, and I said to the doctor at the time that this man was exposed to Agent Orange.

"And he just said, 'Oh?' He didn't know anything about it."

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The living area of the Kingston condominium is dominated by two large oil paintings on opposite walls, portraits of Gordon and Gloria Sellar staring out at the one thing that mattered most in their six decades together -- each other.

On this day, the two faces painted in happier times are looking across a huge dining table covered in stacks of books, research papers and correspondence.

It is all the ammunition in Gloria's arsenal, a 15-year campaign to bring sense to the unthinkable -- her husband's slow decline into a medical hell not of his making.

It started with debilitating bouts of pneumonia that put him into hospital, his immune system all but wiped out by the leukemia. Then came the tumors -- first one under his eye, then on the side of his head, then one in his ear, reduced with so much chemotherapy that his trips to the cancer clinic became daily.

IN A WHEELCHAIR

Every time her husband was examined by doctors from Veterans Affairs, Gloria was on their case about Agent Orange.

Why was it not being recognized by the Canadian government, the same government that let the Americans spray it all over Gagetown? And what about thousands of other men exposed?

She started burying Veterans Affairs in letters and thick files of information she had gathered on Agent Orange.

"They were actually very good with me. They seemed quite surprised by some of the information I was giving them. It's just that everything moves so very slowly."

Everything except her husband's cancer. By 2000, he was in a wheelchair, and their beloved country estate, horses and their teams of prize hunting dogs were all gone.

In May 2003, he entered a chronic care hospital to recover from an emergency hernia operation. He would never go home.

Despite virtually moving in to the hospital, Gloria kept up her crusade for justice. All she wanted was a simple recognition that Agent Orange was killing her husband, and possibly others like him.

She tried to track down members of the Black Watch who had served under him. Many were sick. Many more had already died. All were afraid to talk about the dirty secret of Gagetown.

The Canadian defence department wasn't helping. As late as February 2004, the Canadian military posted a stunning "health bulletin" on its government website. By then, more than 10,000 American veterans of the Vietnam War were in active treatment for cancers and other diseases related to Agent Orange. Another 312,000 were under medical surveillance.

Yet the Canadian bulletin stated "extensive research" had concluded that "Agent Orange was unlikely to be the cause of the (Vietnam) veterans' symptoms or illnesses."

Only months after the bulletin was issued, Gloria won her case with Veterans' Affairs, the government having finally acknowledged that Agent Orange had indeed given her husband terminal cancer.

He died a few weeks later.

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Gordon Sellar's funeral attracted some of Canada's finest soldiers. One of them had been a young lieutenant in the Black Watch at Gagetown during the Agent Orange tests.

"How are you doing?" someone asked.

"Not too well," the man replied. "No one seems to know why but I have throat cancer and I have never smoked."

greg.weston@tor. sunpub.com


http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/News/2005/05/15/1040228-sun.html


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Veteran Lawsuits - Agent Orange
http://www.militaryspot.com/agent-orange.htm

Pesticide Information Profiles - 2,4-D
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/24-D.htm

2,4-D: Research Shows It Is Not As Safe As We Are Led To Believe
http://www.thegreatboycott.net/Agent_Orange.html

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The Hatfield Group, West Vancouver, British Columbia

http://www.hatfieldgroup.com

Agent Orange: two words that cause shudders for anyone who remembers the Vietnam war, among the first to use chemical weapons to target the environment. Decades later, the impact of chemical warfare in Vietnam is still being felt. Canada has played a part in the international effort to mitigate that impact, and the Hatfield Group of consultants won a prestigious award in 2000 for its contribution to that effort. CIDA and the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters Canada singled out Hatfield "in recognition of excellence in communicating private sector contributions to international cooperation issues." Specifically, Hatfield was honoured for focusing international attention on the residual environmental impacts of Agent Orange. In September 2002, the Viet Nam Veterans of America will honour the firm's work on Agent Orange through investiture in the Legion of Honour in Cape May, New Jersey.

Hatfield Group participated in the Team Canada 2001 trade mission to China, which, says Tom Boivin, President and Principal, was "superb and very profitable, enabling us to get our foot in the door." During the mission, the company signed an agreement with Petro-China that is funded through the Canadian Space Agency. The project will use data from the Canadian Radarsat satellite to develop environmental products and services to facilitate oil and gas exploration and environmental impact assessments in the Tarim river basin of Xinjiang province in western China.

With a staff of 50 professionals working out of offices in Vancouver, Jakarta, Bangkok and Santiago, the Hatfield Group markets its environmental consulting services to private industry, governments, and international development agencies throughout North America, Asia and the Pacific Rim countries.

07/2002

http://www.tcm-mec.gc.ca/success/new/hatfield-en.asp

Viet Nam, Agent Orange, and Dioxin:
Further Resources
http://www.hatfieldgroup.com/index.php?sitesig=hg&page=hg_004_RESOURCES&subpage=hg_003_Agent_Orange&subpage=hg_003_Agent_Orange_References&Hatfield=7b5a0edadc2193d1d9325de14e1798fd

Hatfield Consultants Ltd.
Suite 201-1571 Bellevue Avenue
West Vancouver, BC,
CANADA V7V 1A6
Tel:(604) 926-3261
Fax:(604) 926-5389

Hatfield Consultants Ltd. - Staff
http://www.hatfieldgroup.com/index.php?sitesig=hg&page=hg_001_ABOUT_US&subpage=hg_005_Our_Staff&Hatfield=7b5a0edadc2193d1d9325de14e1798fd

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Quebec's Pesticide Management Code

The following pertains to the Code for 2005:

All pesticide products that contain the active ingredients that will be prohibited in Quebec (see the list below at Annex 1) must not be available directly to the consumer. They must be sold from behind a manned counter (such as a locked compartment, the back of the store, etc.). Furthermore, all Class 4 pesticides (with some exceptions) are added to this category.

To view a list of products that are allowed to be on the shelves in stores:

http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis/code-gestion/liste.pdf">http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis/code-gestion/liste.pdf"http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis/code-gestion/liste.pdf>http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis/code-gestion/liste.pdf

The Regulation is as follows: "it is prohibited to display products intended for domestic use in a way which makes these products accessible to the public, as of April 2005".

Also inclusive are the regulations for 2004 and 2003. Please see below for details.

The following pertains to the Code for 2004:

Sale Rules:

it is prohibited to sell fertilizer-pesticide mixtures and mixed packages (e.g. herbicide and insecticide), as of April 2004; it is prohibited for commercial users to apply on lawn spaces pesticides that are impregnated or mixed with a fertilizer, unless these products are stored in separate containers.

The following pertains to the Code since 2003:

Annex 1 is the list of pesticides that are prohibited for use on public, semi-public and municipal green spaces.

Pesticides are prohibited for use inside and outside all daycares, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, areas where there are activities with children, 14 years of age, or less. Only a small list of bio-pesticides may be used in these areas, and that too, only under a strict protocol of application. This list is below at Annex 2.
If you see:

· that prohibited products are being sold in stores (eg. weed and feed or mixed packages such as insecticides and herbicides, etc.)

· or that domestic pesticide products are not behind a manned counter (see above for the 'allowed' list),

· or that a red sign indicating that pesticides have been used in protected areas.

To lodge a complaint, please call (418) 521-3830 or at 1 800 561-1616, choose language of choice, then dial 0 for information for your local Environment centre for complaints, by e-mail at
info@menv.gouv.qc.ca, info@menv.gouv.qc.ca, info@menv.gouv.qc.ca or, you can find the Environment Office in your area at:
http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/ministere/rejoindr/adr_reg.htm

The highlights of the Pesticide Code of Quebec can be found at:
http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis-en/code-gestion-en/index.htm"http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca/pesticides/permis-en/code-gestion-en/index.htm

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Annex 1 - LIST OF ACTIVE INGREDIENTS WHICH WILL BE PROHIBITED FOR LAWN MAINTENANCE PURPOSES

Insecticides
Carbaryl
Dicofol
Malathion
Fungicides
Benomyl
Captan
Chlorothalonil
Iprodione
Quintozene
Thiophanate-methyl
Herbicides

2,4-D (all chemical forms)
Chlorthal dimethyl
MCPA (all chemical forms)
Mecoprop (all chemical forms)


Annex 2 - LIST OF ACTIVE INGREDIENTS WHICH WILL BE ALLOWED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE CHILD CARE CENTRES AS WELL AS ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (s. 32,33 and 72)

Insecticides
Acetamiprid
Boric acid
Borax
Silicon dioxide (diatomaceous earth)
Methoprene
Disodium octaborate tetrahydrate
Ferric phosphate
Insecticidal soap
Spinosad

Fungicides
Sulfur
Calcium sulfide or calcium polysulfide

Herbicides
Acetic acid
Conjugated decanoic and pelargonic acid
Herbicidal soap

Biopesticides
Active ingredients approved by the federal government*


For detailed information on this project, contact :(418) 521-3830 or
at 1 800 561-1616, by e-mail at
info@menv.gouv.qc.ca
info@menv.gouv.qc.ca or on the Internet
at http://www.menv.gouv.qc.ca



POSTED BY

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

Created: 10 May 2005

Wishaw campaigner Eileen O'Connor is to lobby the European Commission in person in an attempt to secure extra funding for research into the health effects of mobile phone masts.

Click here to download press release as a PDF file.
http://www.mast-victims.org/downloadables/cash_mast_research.pdf
Published in Sutton Coldfield News, 6 May 2005


Informant: Sylvie

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2788/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Strafanzeige gegen Grundstücksbesitzer von Senderstandorten in Wolfratshausen

Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt
Gebhardtstr. 2d
82515 Wolfratshausen
WOR, den 14.05.05


An die Staatsanwaltschaft München I
per Einschreiben mit Rückschein
Arnulfstr. 16-18
80335 München


Ich bin elektrosensibel und in den letzten Monaten ist ein starkes Gesichtsbrennen als Symptom dazugekommen, wenn ich mich in stärkeren Mobilfunk-Feldern aufhalte. Ich vermute, dass dies Felder von UMTS sind, da die Symptome vor einem Jahr (d.h. vor der Einführung von UMTS) noch nicht aufgetreten sind.

Nun war ich auf der zweiten Anhörung der GRÜNEN im Bayerischen Landtag, die am 29.04.05 stattfand. Bamberger Ärzte haben hier berichtet:

“Die gerade ausgewerteten ärztlichen Erhebungen in Oberfranken bei 356 Personen unter häuslicher Langzeitbelastung belegen:

§ Die gepulsten hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Felder (von Mobilfunkanlagen, von schnurlosen DECT-Telefonen u.a.) führen zu einem neuen, bisher unbekannten Krankheitsbild mit charakteristischem Symptomenkomplex

§ … (Broschüre siehe Anlage)

Meine eigenen, schon länger bekannten Symptome (Schlafstörungen, Benommenheit, Konzentrationsstörungen, Vergesslichkeit, Wortfindungsstörungen, Tinnitus, Nasenbluten, Sehstörungen, Herzrhythmusstörungen, nächtliches Schwitzen) und auch die relativ neuen Symptome, eben mein starkes Gesichtsbrennen (Nervenschmerzen) habe ich hier wiedergefunden.

Diese Ärzte haben in einem relativ kleinen Gebiet in Oberfranken mehr als dreihundert Betroffene gefunden, die dieses neue, bisher unbekannte Krankheitsbild aufweisen. Ich bin überzeugt, dass bei entsprechenden Untersuchungen in anderen Gebieten, auch in Wolfratshausen, ähnliche Symptome massenweise aufgedeckt würden. Doch das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz weigert sich, diese einfachen Untersuchungen kurzfristig durchzuführen.

Diese vielen Krankheitsfälle können nicht mehr mit dem Hinweis auf die Einhaltung der Grenzwerte der 26. BIMSchV auf die Seite geschoben werden. Ich bitte Sie deshalb, dem Grundrecht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit wieder Geltung zu verschaffen für die Menschen wie ich, die unter dieser Technologie leiden.


A) Ich stelle deshalb Strafanzeige wegen Körperverletzung gegen die Grundbesitzer folgender Liegenschaften in Wolfratshausen:

1. Sauerlacher Straße 28,

da ich seit einigen Wochen ein starkes Gesichtsbrennen bekomme, wenn ich mich in einem der Nordzimmer meines Hauses in Richtung auf die auf diesem Flurstück installierten vier Mobilfunksendeanlagen aufhalte. Dieses Gesichtsbrennen (Nervenschmerzen) hält mehrere Stunden an und ist auch durch kaltes Duschen nicht wegzubekommen. Ich habe vor meinem Computerarbeitsplatz ein Abschirmgitter (Metall-Fliegendraht) angebracht, was es mir wenigstens erlaubt, ohne größere Schmerzen am Computer zu arbeiten. Ich unterstelle, dass die stärkere Empfindlichkeit meiner linken Gesichtshälfte vom Arbeiten an diesem Platz kommt, da ich lange Zeit die starke Belastung durch die Mobilfunksender ignoriert habe.

2. Pfaffenrieder Str. 1,

weil die Hauptbelastung unseres nach Süden orientierten Schlafzimmers von diesem Grundstück ausgeht, auf dem insgesamt fünf Sendeanlagen montiert sind. Ich bekam im letzten Jahr immer stärkeren Tinnitus nachts und bin schließlich mit schreiendem Tinnitus und leise stechenden Ohrenschmerzen aufgewacht. Die Ohrenärztin hat nichts, keine Entzündung gefunden und konnte sich deshalb die Ohrenschmerzen nicht erklären. Ich habe die Strahlung nachgemessen und festgestellt, dass der Hauptanteil von Süden kommt, eben von den Sendern auf obengenanntem Grundstück. Ich habe dann unser Schlafzimmer mit Abschirmfarbe (Selbstkosten ca. 1,000 Euro) isoliert, worauf die Schmerzen ganz weggingen und der Tinnitus deutlich schwächer wurde. Allerdings hat der Tinnitus nachts wieder zugenommen, was mich sehr bedenklich stimmt – ich habe jetzt keine weitere Abschirmmöglichkeit mehr. Soll ich aus meinem Haus ausziehen? Soll ich mich nur noch im wenig belasteten Keller aufhalten? Soll ich als leidenschaftlicher Gärtner dieses Hobby aufgeben, weil der nach Süden orientierte Garten für mich zu stark bestrahlt wird? Soll ich die nach Süden ausgerichtete Gartenveranda nicht mehr zur Erholung und gemütlichem Sitzen und Essen nutzen können?

Versteht der Gesetzgeber das Recht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit und Unantastbarkeit der Wohnung so, dass Strahlung ausgenommen ist, obwohl diese Ärzte ein neues Krankheitsbild feststellen? Die 22 ausgewählten Kasuistiken der Bamberger Ärzteinitiative belegen eindeutig, dass es nicht um Einzelfälle geht – und auch Einzelfälle wären Menschen, die Anspruch auf Schutz haben!

B) Ich stelle deshalb Strafanzeige wegen unterlassener Hilfeleistung, Verletzung der ärztlichen Sorgfaltspflicht und Untätigkeit im Amt, obwohl Gefahr im Verzuge ist, gegen den verantwortlichen Fachbereichsleiter im Bundes-Umweltministerium, den Arzt Dr. Böttger

Ebenfalls am 29.04. bei der Anhörung der Grünen im Bayerischen Landtag ist bekannt geworden, dass Herr Dr. Böttger Betroffene und Elektrosensible, die ihm ihre Krankheitssymptome schriftlich schildern, damit abweist, sie wären nur Einzelfälle. Gleichzeitig waren im Jahr 2000 im Umweltministerium schon mehr als 1,000 Schreiben mit Schilderungen von Krankengeschichten (wie in der beiliegenden Ärztebroschüre) eingegangen. Heute, 2005, müssen es etliche Tausend sein. Diese Verhöhnung von Kranken ist unglaublich und muss geahndet werden. Wenn der verantwortliche Arzt im Bundesumweltministerium wichtige Informationen und Unterlagen unterschlägt und damit eine Änderung der Gesetzgebung verhindert, ist dies angesichts der Tragweite (flächendeckende Bestrahlung mit extrem hoher Leistung) ungeheuerlich und muss dringend geahndet werden.

Wegen der für Elektrosensible nur schwer erträglichen Situation bitte ich um dringende Bearbeitung.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen


Anlage: Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter Einfluss hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder (Mobilfunkanlagen, DECT, WLAN u.a.) 22 Kasuistiken (Bamberg, den 26.04.05, Dr. med. Waldmann-Selsam, Dr. Säger, Ärzteinitiative Bamberger Appell)

Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter dem Einfluss hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder http://omega.twoday.net/stories/669003/

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Kritische Wissenschaftler, die sich gegen die Interessen einer mächtigen Lobby äußern, werden häufig diffamiert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/704687/

http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=EMF-Wachhund

Aktionen, Informationen, Musterbriefe, Muster Unterschriftenlisten gegen Mobilfunkanlagen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/681540/

In the past three years, I have been threatened; I have been gagged several times; I have continuously been prevented from pursuing my due process; all reports and investigations looking into my case have been classified; and every governmental or investigative authority dealing with my case has been shut up.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8847.htm

If anyone in the Arab World has any doubts about the bankruptcy of the American pledge to bring Democracy and freedom to their country, all they need do is examine the case of Sami Al-Arian.

http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2005/may/may12.html


From Information Clearing House

Sir John Scarlett, head of MI6, has been accused of trying 'to sex up' a report by the Iraq Survey Group, the body charged with finding weapons of mass destruction after Saddam Hussein was toppled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8846.htm

Given the expressions of patriotism and jingoism that accompanied our invasion of Iraq and assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan, you'd think the military would be so deluged with volunteers that it would have to turn kids -- and greybeards too -- away.

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2405435p-8783252c.html


From Information Clearing House

They paid the ultimate price on the battlefields of Iraq -- some killed by the enemy, others by their own side. For that sacrifice, some families of slain troops say the U.S. military has paid them back in lies and a lack of information.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8838.htm

Iraq Uncensored photographers present insights and subtleties beyond what daily news reporting can provide.

http://www.mothers-milk.org/IraqUncensored/iuindex.html


From Information Clearing House

US influence is on the retreat in Nineveh province, as it is in the rest of Iraq. There are few troops on the ground: no more than six thousand American soldiers remain in an area with a population of nearly three million.

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick05132005.html


From Information Clearing House

Of course it behooves the military to claim they are battling “foreign fighters,” because as in Fallujah and elsewhere, it doesn’t look good in the press to admit that they are fighting Iraqis who are fighting for their independence from the occupiers of their country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8840.htm

As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi “government,” USSecretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000242.php


From Information Clearing House

The officer said: "US troops have the attitude of shoot first and ask questions later. They simply won't take any risk. - "I explained that their tactics were alienating the civil population and could lengthen the insurgency by a decade. Unfortunately, when we ex-plained our rules of engagement which are based around the principle of minimum force, the US troops just laughed."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8842.htm

US troops have shot and killed eight Iraqis, including five civilians, during an attack on a patrol.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BF689067-A19A-46C5-BE05-601CBDE17FB1.htm


From Information Clearing House

Uzbek president defends firing on crowd; 300 believed killed

Soldiers were seen by witnesses pulling up four trucks and a bus to load the bodies of men, women and children shot to death by Uzbek troops in the eastern city of Andijan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8837.htm

Heated criticism was growing last night over 'double standards' by Washington over human rights, democracy and 'freedom' as fresh evidence emerged of just how brutally Uzbekistan, a US ally in the 'war on terror', put down Friday's unrest in the east of the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8844.htm


Fraud, nepotism and torture mark Karimov's reign

President Islam Karimov was born in the historic town of Samarkand in 1938, and rose to become first secretary of the Communist party in Uzbekistan and then the country's first president in 1990, writes Nick Paton Walsh. A series of fraudulent elections and referendums have extended his rule.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1483690,00.html


From Information Clearing House


Video: Just Who Is Our New Best Friend

This 29 minute video explores the reality of life in Uzbekistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3944.htm

More on "Uzbekistan"
http://snipurl.com/evdu

Iraq is a bloody no man's land. America has failed to win the war. But has it lost it?

"The battlefield is a great place for liars," Stonewall Jackson once said on viewing the aftermath of a battle in the American civil war.

By Patrick Cockburn

The great general meant that the confusion of battle is such that anybody can claim anything during a war and hope to get away with it. But even by the standards of other conflicts, Iraq has been particularly fertile in lies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8845.htm

All three leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" - the United States, Australia and Great Britain - had survived politically after a war that divided citizens and challenged long established principles of international law.

By Gary Hughes

The three leaders survived despite evidence - still emerging - that now seems to prove that the detailed justifications for the war were not only wrong, but in many cases known to be wrong or uncertain before the war began. This is the second battle for Iraq - the battle for the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8839.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2789/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

As the death toll of troops mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's military recruiting figures have plummeted to an all-time low. Thousands of US servicemen and women are now refusing to serve their country. Andrew Buncombe reports

16 May 2005

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638635


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

http://www.rense.com/general65/911b.htm


Informant: Tom Kennedy

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=708780


Informant: Dani Djinn

In the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the country still struggles with high unemployment, inconsistent utility services and widespread poverty, a joint survey from the Iraqi government and United Nations indicates.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3239

Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt
Sprecher der Bürgerinitiative Wolfratshausen-Stadtgebiet gegen Elektrosmog
Gebhardtstr. 2d
82515 Wolfratshausen
WOR, den 16.05.05

Leserbrief

An die
Lokalredaktion der Süddeutschen Zeitung
fax 431 680


Sehr geehrter Damen und Herren,

ich beziehe mich auf Ihren Artikel „Warum Bannmeilen Stoibers Haus schützen“ im WOR-Lokalteil vom 13.05.05 und bitte um Veröffentlichung folgender Zeilen (geht parallel auch als e-mail an Sie):

Ganz Wolfratshausen war im Belagerungszustand am letzten Freitag: Hundertschaften von Polizisten und Bundesgrenzschutzbeamten schützten das Anwesen des Ministerpräsidenten vor 50 bis 70 Demonstranten. Wie die SZ ausführte, wurde die Bannmeile um Stoibers Haus im Jahr 2000 juristisch so begründet: „Die vorzunehmende Güterabwägung zwischen der Bedeutung der Versammlungsfreiheit und dem nach Art. 2 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz gebotenen Schutz des unantastbaren Bereichs der privaten Lebensgestaltung fällt hier zu Gunsten der zu schützenden Privatsphäre aus.“ Die Familie des Ministerpräsidenten habe ein Recht auf „Freihaltung ihrer Wohnung und Wohnumgebung von Einwirkungen von Demonstrationen“.

Welch Privilegien für eine Person des Öffentlichen Lebens, die ich ihm gar nicht verwehren möchte – ich verlange nur Gleichstellung für andere Menschen, die wesentlich stärker in ihrer „privaten Lebensgestaltung“, ja in ihrem Grundrecht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit (Art. 2 Abs. 2 GG) eingeschränkt sind. Es geht um elektrosensible Menschen, die stärker als Normalbürger auf die Hochfrequenzstrahlung von Mobilfunksendern und Schnurlostelefonen reagieren. Hier in Wolfratshausen haben vor mehreren Jahren 14 von ihnen Strafanzeige wegen Körperverletzung gegen Unbekannt gestellt und auf die zunehmende Gesundheitsgefährdung durch diese Belastung hingewiesen. Diese Strafanzeige wurde von der Staatsanwaltschaft München niedergeschlagen mit dem Argument, die Grenzwerte würden eingehalten, ohne überhaupt in die Beweisaufnahme zu treten, ohne ihre ärztlichen Atteste anzuschauen. Auch die Revision beim Oberstaatsanwalt wurde mit der gleichen Begründung verworfen. Ihnen wird zugemutet, dass sie nur noch im Keller schlafen, ihren „unantastbarer Bereich der privaten Lebensgestaltung“ mit Tausenden von Euro abschirmen und ihren Garten und bestimmte Zimmer ihrer Wohnung meiden, weil sie sonst krank werden. Ihnen wird zugemutet, dass ihre Freizeitgestaltung sich immer mehr einschränkt, weil die Verseuchung des öffentlichen Lebens mit Elektrosmog immer stärker wird – Lebensqualität pur.

Ich wehre mich gegen die Einteilung der Bürger in Klassen: in privilegierte Menschen wie den Ministerpräsidenten, und in rechtlose Menschen wie die Elektrosensible, was übrigens auch gegen das Grundgesetz verstößt – Art. 3 Abs. 1: Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich. Der gemeine Bürger hat im Gegensatz zum Ministerpräsidenten kein „Recht auf Freihaltung seiner Wohnung und Wohnumgebung“ von Einwirkung krankmachender Strahlung, obwohl dies für den Personenkreis der Elektrosensiblen wesentlich drastischer ist als die „Einwirkung von Demonstrationen“ für den Ministerpräsidenten.

Vielen Dank im Voraus für die Veröffentlichung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20064/1.html
http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=7995936&forum_id=78703

Officer Decried Evangelicals' Influence

By T.R. Reid
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 13, 2005; A04

DENVER, May 12 -- An Air Force chaplain who complained that evangelical Christians were trying to "subvert the system" by winning converts among cadets at the Air Force Academy was removed from administrative duties last week, just as the Pentagon began an in-depth study of alleged religious intolerance among cadets and commanders at the school.

"They fired me," said Capt. MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran minister who was removed as executive officer of the chaplain unit on May 4. "They said I should be angry about these outside groups who reported on the strident evangelicalism at the academy. The problem is, I agreed with those reports." [...] You say we are not a theocracy? Read it all at The Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/876vk


© Virginia Metze

ASK THIS | May 11, 2005

It used to be that the oversight role – the 'informing function' – of Congress was considered even more important than its legislating one. A law professor identifies some areas that beg for increased Congressional vigilance.

By Charles Tiefer
Nieman Watchdog -- Questions the press should ask


Q. We are facing an appalling deficit and intense demands for government savings. The Government Accountability Office routinely publishes reports regarding fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement in areas of government. Congressional committees with oversight jurisdiction could readily convene hearings and solicit testimony from the GAO and outside watchdogs. So why do the chairs of Congressional committees and subcommittees currently fail to conduct such oversight?

[...] That is the first question and there are more. Read it at the NiemanWatchdog web site: http://tinyurl.com/77twt


© Virginia Metze

By David E. Williams
CNN.com
Friday, May 13, 2005 Posted: 8:16 PM EDT (0016 GMT)

(CNN) -- Military officials predict that the latest proposed base closings will make the armed forces more flexible and efficient, while shaving billions of dollars from the Pentagon's budget.

But the changes will come with a high cost -- especially to communities that have hosted the facilities. Anthony Principi, the head of the nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC), compared the recommendations to last December's natural disaster that devastated tens of thousands, saying the closings "will be tsunamis in the communities they hit." [...] Read the rest of it at CNN web site: http://tinyurl.com/djjwl "Why I still like Ike" (from an internet post):

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things.

Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."--Dwight D. Eisenhower in a Nov. 8, 1954 letter to his brother Edgar.


© Virginia Metze

David Corn
The Huffington Post
May 13, 2005

Last night, 800 or so conservatives and lobbyists gathered together at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC, to pay tribute to the scandal-scented Tom DeLay. The media accounts have noted that several prominent cons were MIA. Only about two dozen or so House Republicans bothered to show. (That's about one-tenth of DeLay's GOP colleagues.) House Speaker Denny Hastert sent a video message. (How warm and supportive!) According to The New York Times, conservative mastermind Grover Norquist, who earlier in the day told the paper that "the only way DeLay would be damaged is if his friends walked away from him," was not seen at the dinner and "seats at his table remained empty." When Representative Scott Garrett, a Republican from New Jersey, was called to the dais to speak, he was not present. (Was traffic that bad?) My favorite no-show was Representative David Dreier, the chairman of the powerful Rules Committee. His excuse: he had a previously scheduled event at the Nicaraguan embassy. Perhaps he really, really likes Central American food. [...] Read it all at the Huffington Post blog: http://tinyurl.com/ae6mk Let me see if I have this right. We are facing dangers to people IN THIS COUNTRY but we are taking all of the protection close to the people AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE... HUMMMM. We save $40 billion in 10 years. Close down the Iraq war and we save -- what was latest figure? -- over 700 billion IN ONE YEAR...


© Virginia Metze

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2437.htm


Informant: Dani Djinn

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10125604


Informant: Sylvie

In a recent discussion of the problems our country is facing, someone suggested that we need a 'benevolent dictator' like Abraham Lincoln. A comment like this is usually made by a person who, like many Americans, has neither the time nor the inclination to look beyond the establishment's portrayals of history. And court historians with the help of a complicit media, have prevented the true Lincoln from being unmasked for a generation or more. They admit that Lincoln was a dictator, but try to sanitize his actions as being those of a 'benevolent dictator,' dismissing his illegal and cruel acts as simply minor abuses of power. ... The actions of dictators often cause the loss of lives, yet dictators believe that their actions are defensible because the end justifies the means, however harsh they may be"... [editor's note: A must read for those who still lionize "the American Lenin" - SAT] (05/14/05)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis87.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Gail Jarvis


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

02/04/05

Suddenly, if a twenty or more year ramp can be considered sudden, everyone is talking about morality. Exit polls from the recent presidential election suggest that Bush voters made their choice based 22% on considerations of Moral Values. (Or was it that 22% of voters made their choice based on considerations of moral values? It doesn't matter. We won't get into whether those polls are in any way meaningful, or what they actually imply.) Pundits, both right and left, are suddenly filling the airwaves with their interpretation of what this means and what it implies. And how the Democratic party can use this information to actually win an election again before it disintegrates entirely. But whatever the causes or long-term effects, the subject is back on the table again. And this is a damned good thing... [editor's note: This article was actually published some time ago, but I only just now became aware of it; so much for editorial omniscience! - TLK]

http://tinyurl.com/b2fko

from The Atlasphere, by Jeffrey Perren


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/15/05

As the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continue down their bloody paths, we should study the lessons of The Vietnam War. Vietnamese refer to that period between the early 1960s and April 1975 as 'The American Phase.' They suffered periods of foreign domination by Chinese, Japanese and French occupiers who, unlike the Americans, learned the painful lesson of trying to subdue and occupy that land. US leaders adamantly refuse to learn that some people, like Koreans, Vietnamese and Iraqis, for examples, do not submit to force and brutality. How to teach that simple lesson? Teachers will have shared the experience of trying to educate students who have not ingested their own history. Instead of inculcating historical context from first grade on, US students learn a kind of patriotic mythology disguised with words like 'unbiased' as if along with critiques of US behavior in Vietnam or Iraq -- one had to present the good side of torture, mass murder and the napalming of villages...

http://www.counterpunch.org/landau05142005.html

from CounterPunch, by Saul Landau


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/16/05

Major questions hang over the prosecution of low-level soldiers for their involvement in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. How could such widespread criminal abuse result from the misconduct of a handful of rogues? What was the role of government policy on the interrogation of prisoners and the high-level officials who implemented it? Abu Ghraib undermined American values and credibility around the world. The pictures of military personnel physically assaulting Iraqi prisoners and forcing them to perform indecent acts have been widely condemned as evidence of serious abuse, including torture, under both domestic and international standards for the treatment of prisoners. How responsibility for this criminal conduct is ultimately assessed will determine the quality of our commitment as a nation to the rule of law. It will also have a practical impact...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0516/p09s02-coop.html

from Christian Science Monitor, by John Shattuck


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/14/05

One of the more hilarious charges leveled against Bonkers Bolton recently was that he was too preoccupied with winning confirmation as ambassador to the United Nations to prepare the U.S. delegation for the Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Levelers of this charge assume that Bush and Bolton want to strengthen the NPT. Wrong. There was entirely too much 'strengthening' of the NPT at the Sixth RevCon, five years ago, to suit Bush-Bolton. The final report of the Sixth RevCon began by reaffirming the recommendations contained in the final report of the Fifth Revcon. But it took delegates to the Seventh RevCon two weeks to even agree on an agenda because the U.S. delegation -- led by a Bolton underling named Rademaker -- didn't want the final report of the Sixth RevCon to even be discussed, much less be reaffirmed...

http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=5951

from Antiwar.Com, by Gordon Prather


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/13/05

Last week I wrote about some of the reasons it is just possible that we won't see another major imperial military adventure during the Bushlet's second term. The reasons ranged from the second-term blues that afflicts most two-term presidencies, to the resources tied up (or tied down) in Iraq, to the fact that North Korea and Iran are moving toward at least the credible threat of possibly having nuclear weapons, to sagging morale and recruitment problems in the military, especially the National Guard and the reserves. At the risk of being declared hopelessly deluded, I'd like to extend the thought to suggest that while the United States certainly presides over what by any reasonable definition must be accounted an empire, I suspect that the imperial era will not last all that long. The American people, I suggest, are simply not made of especially stern imperial stuff...

http://antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=5938

from Antiwar.Com, by Alan Bock


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/14/05

It has been just over two years since President Bush –- in commander-in-chief mode -– landed on the USS Lincoln and spoke these words in front of a 'Mission Accomplished' banner: 'Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.' And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country. But the mission was not accomplished, for out of the 1,614 American combat deaths in Iraq, 1,477 occurred after Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' speech. How many more Americans must die before Bush's 'mission' is accomplished?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance43.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Laurence M. Vance


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/15/05

Without a public hearing or public input of any kind, the Senate has passed a bill that will require drivers to provide proof of citizenship before they can obtain or renew their driver's licenses. Up until now, Washington was one of nine states that did not check citizenship or immigration status of someone seeking a driver's license. ... The bill was tacked on to the $82 billion spending bill to support the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The act should have been debated in the light of day, not hung on the military spending bill. The approach used by its supporters speaks volumes about their confidence in passing a stand-alone Real ID Act of 2005...

http://tinyurl.com/bcmgb

from Olympian, by staff


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/15/05

An astonishing message came forth on May 12, 2005 from ABC News political unit's The Note. I shall quote verbatim from Mark Halperin and his associate editors: '... Democrats are so thoroughly spooked by John Kerry's loss -- and Republicans so inspired by their stay-the-course Commander in Chief -- that what is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage. No conflict at home = no coverage.' ... Is ABC's excuse wholly understandable? Can't this and other networks do much more to investigate what has been going on and then ask the Democrats when they interview them about their findings? Can't the networks provide more coverage to the conflict represented by the dissenting military families, by the coalitions of labor, religious, civic, veterans and other groups...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0515-21.htm

from Common Dreams, by Ralph Nader


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/15/05

We've seen a few false dawns, and heard a few birds begin to sing an early warning. But the passage of the REAL ID Act is a loud and clanging alarm. The morning of the last days of freedom in America is here. We must wake up and see the reality of what's happening to us and our precious liberties. If we fail to do so, the nightmare will become the permanent reality for us all, and liberty the long lost dream...

http://www.ladylibrty.com/our_view_archives/2005/wake-up-america.html

from Lady Liberty, by Lady Liberty -- Hat Tip to REAL ID Rebellion


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0505/0505wakeup.htm

05/14/05

The other day, I noted one of the more remarkable aspects of what happened when a small plane veered off course over Washington, D.C.: how one George W. Bush became the completely dispensable President. Apparently the Commander in Chief isn’t required to command anything at all, or even to know what’s going on, when a genuine emergency might beckon. (The balance of that post discusses how the quick air response, including the scrambling of jets, represented a very different situation from that on the morning of 9/11, and how a huge number of unanswered questions still remain about why our skies remained largely undefended on that day.)

http://coldfury.com/reason/?p=504

from The Light of Reason, by Arthur Silber


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/13/05

Comrade Bushnev, Congratulations on signing the National ID into law. Now that all Americans are going to be tracked from birth to death in one huge database, I'm sure you'll be able to prevent anyone from doing anything you or your handlers don't like. Liberty was so messy! When the Twin Towers were destroyed in 2001, you said it was because they hate our freedoms. Problem solved. We no longer have any freedoms. Bravo!

http://billstclair.com/blog/stories/bushid.html

from End the War on Freedom, by Bill St. Clair


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/15/05

One of the hallmarks of a police state is a restriction on travel. You know you live in a police state when you can't travel without some form of government restriction. Many of us have made that 'our line in the sand,' the event that will trigger us to active resistance of governmental policies. It is my opinion that the backers of those in power in Washington right now, those who are actually pulling the strings, so to speak, know this, and are attempting to camouflage their attempts to actually institute travel restrictions. Can I prove it? Nope. What I can do is point to some disturbing events, trends and facts, and leave you to see if it leads you to the same conclusion I've reached...

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle319-20050515-06.html

from The Libertarian Enterprise, by Ron Beatty


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/13/05

Of all the possible candidates mentioned for a US Supreme Court post, none seems more primed for all-out warfare in the Senate confirmation process than Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia, who has served on the high court since 1986, is frequently mentioned as a potential nominee for the top post should Chief Justice William Rehnquist announce his retirement. ... A Bush nomination of Scalia as chief justice would throw down a White House gauntlet to liberal advocacy groups. It would reassure religious conservatives that their support of President Bush in the 2004 election was not unappreciated. And, if confirmed, it would lay the groundwork to continue a nearly 40-year rightward shift at the high court by replacing a conservative chief justice with an even more conservative chief...[editor's note: The real point would be having a "strict constructionist" at the helm, regardless of "left/right" issues - SAT]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0513/p01s02-uspo.html

from Christian Science Monitor


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/12/05

Legislation supporting a standardized national driver's license may have won unanimous approval in the Senate on Tuesday, but the bill's apparently smooth passage left some jagged edges in its wake. The Real ID Act appeared in take-it-or-leave-it spending legislation, which effectively forced lawmakers to sign on to the whole measure even if they disagreed with a portion of it. Several Republican and Democrat senators who cast favorable votes for the bill simultaneously railed against the provision authorizing the new driver's license rules. They're not the only ones refusing to accept the bill peacefully. The National Governors Association is threatening lawsuits to fight the legislation. And some states are threatening to ignore the legislation because they say it will cost up to $700 million for states to comply and will place a heavy burden on Department of Motor Vehicles workers...

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67498,00.html

from Wired News


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

05/16/05

The cabinet has decided to rush through its controversial identity cards legislation, one of the centrepieces of tomorrow's Queen's Speech, to try to take advantage of the Tories' post-election disarray to get it through the Commons, Whitehall sources have confirmed. Ministers privately believe they can overcome any renewed Labour rebellion over the legislation by relying on the backing or abstention of some Tory MPs to get it through its second reading vote within a fortnight...

http://tinyurl.com/dkwrc

from Guardian [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe212


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

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=337337


Informant: NHNE

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,338652,00.html


Informant: ymorgan