Jugoslawien-Krieg: Munition aus abgereichertem Uran verseucht Böden in Krisengebieten (22.07.05)

Etwa 1,4 Millionen Geschosse aus abgereichtertem Uran wurden in den letzten 14 Jahren verschossen und verseuchen nun die Böden in den betroffenen Krisengebieten. Das meldete am Freitag das Institut für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (FAL) in Braunschweig. Das Institut nannte bei den Einsatzgebieten Irak, Kuwait, Bosnien, Kosovo, Serbien, Montenegro, und Afghanistan. Besonders verheerend sei die Wirkung auf Böden, die sowieso schon wenig fruchtbar sind. Diese wiederum seien aber gerade typisch für Krisengebiete und die Bevölkerung sei dort oftmals auf Selbstversorgung vom eigenen Boden angewiesen. Beides seien Aspekte, "welche die Tragik der Auswirkungen" der Munition "erheblich erhöhen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11459

Johnnie Cochran's daughter questions whether his cell phone use led to his cancer death. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports (July 19)

Video:
http://click.real.com/?clipid=193594&pageid=directory.news&pageregion=main

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Thanks Cindy, I've just listened to it (no pictures just voice, I don't know why, but very interesting).

Iris Atzmon

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sage Associates"

CNN interviewed Keith Black, MD - head of the neurosurgery at Cedars Sinai Hospital in LA - on brain tumors and cell phone use. You can see the video itself at: http://www.CNN.com/video and scroll down to Health. The segment is "Cell Phone Use - Cancer Ties Explored"

This is terrific.

Cindy Sage


Cell phone use and brain tumor development
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/856493/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=brain+tumor

Bush's Soviet State

George W. Bush and his administration are pursuing a course of determined unreality that mirrors the delusional fantasies that ultimately consigned the Soviet Union to the dustbin of history. This Rove-Plame thing is but one small aspect of the main.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072205Y.shtml

An alle Unterstützerorganisationen des Volksbegehrens "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" und engagierte Einzelpersonen


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mir liegt sehr daran, Ihnen allen zu danken, die Sie sich in den letzten Wochen für das Volksbegehren „Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk“ eingesetzt haben. Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass die Aktion sinnvoll war, obwohl wir die 10% nicht erreicht haben:

Heute, nach unzähligen Gesprächen, Veranstaltungen, Infoständen und teilweise guten Medienbeiträgen ist viel mehr Menschen bewusst, dass mit dem Mobilfunk gesundheitliche Gefahren verbunden sind und die Politik bisher ihrer Verantwortung nicht gerecht geworden ist.

Das Volksbegehren war die größte Meinungsäußerung aus der Bürgerschaft zu diesem Thema, die es jemals gegeben hat. Der international verbreitete „Freiburger Appell“ für die Beachtung des Gesundheitsschutzes beim Mobilfunk hatte nach rund 2 Jahren

40 000 Unterzeichner. Wir haben unter ungleich schwereren Bedingungen gut 400 000 Unterschriften in nur 14 Tagen erzielt!

Viele CSU-Politiker – allen voran Minister Schnappauf - haben uns vorgeworfen, dass wir mit dem Volksbegehren das „eigentliche“ Ziel, nämlich die Senkung der Grenzwerte nicht erreichen könnten. Wir sollten sie beim Wort nehmen, wenn vielleicht schon bald ein Politiker der Union die Verantwortung für diese absurd hohe Strahlenbelastung tragen wird....

Ich möchte auch daran erinnern, dass das Volksbegehren sozusagen das letzte Mittel war noch etwas zu erreichen: Dreimal haben CSU und SPD Anträge und Petitionen im bayerischen Landtag abgeschmettert. Ärzte- und Bürgerinitiativen wussten, dass von den Parlamenten und Regierungen auf Landes- und Bundesebene nichts mehr zu erwarten war, weil sich Mehrheits-Politik und Mobilfunkkonzerne als verbundene Einheit mit gemeinsamen Interessen sehen. Das Volksbegehren war daher wirklich ein zwingend nötiger Versuch.

Nochmals herzlichen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung

Ihr

Urban Mangold

Organisator des Volksbegehrens

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ödp-München dankt Unterstützern des Volksbegehrens:

Hollemann: "Die Aufklärungsarbeit war auch unterhalb der 10% sinnvoll"

Das Volksbegehren "Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk" war nach Ansicht des Münchner ödp-Mobilfunkbeauftragten trotz nicht erreichter 10-Prozent-Hürde "sinnvoll und kein vergeblicher Aufwand". ödp-Mobilfunkbeauftragter Hollemann dankte den Unterstützern der Initiative, "allen voran den vielen Ärzten, die aus ihrem Gewissen heraus Stellung bezogen haben". Auch die Mitarbeit von Bund Naturschutz, David gegen Goliath, Kinderschutzbund, Kreisjugendring, den Münchner Agenda-Gruppen, den mobilfunkkritischen Bürgerinitiativen und vielen Mitgliedern der Grünen sei eine wertvolle Hilfe gewesen.

Das Volksbegehren sei "die bisher größte Meinungsäußerung aus der Bürgerschaft zum Thema Mobilfunk, die es jemals gegeben hat". "Wenn innerhalb von zwei Wochen 400.000 Menschen den umständlichen Weg ins Rathaus und in die oft versteckt gelegenen Bezirksinspektionen auf sich nehmen, um für die Gesundheitsvorsorge zu unterschreiben, ist dies keine schwere Niederlage, sondern vielmehr ein eindeutiges Signal an die Politiker, dass sie ihrer Verantwortung bisher in keiner Weise gerecht geworden sind", sagte Hollemann. Nach unzähligen Gesprächen, Veranstaltungen, Infoständen sei jetzt viel mehr Menschen bewusst, "dass mit dem Mobilfunk gesundheitliche Gefahren verbunden sind".

Es habe aber nicht zum vollen Erfolg gereicht, "weil uns die Mobilfunkindustrie gezielt als Handy-Gegner bezeichnet hat, was wir aber nicht sind", so Hollemann: "Wer auf Gefahren einer Technologie hinweist, ist noch lange nicht prinzipiell gegen diese Technologie; vielmehr tritt er für eine gezielte Gefahrenminderung ein". Die in den letzten Wochen geleistete Aufklärungsarbeit über diese Probleme sei wertvoll gewesen. "Deshalb bin ich froh darüber, dass wir diese Arbeit gemacht haben", so Hollemann.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Martin Kraus
ödp Stadtvorstand

Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/244 365 397
E-Mail muenchen@oedp.de
http://www.oedp-muenchen.de

Noch ist unbekannt, wer hinter den fehlgeschlagenen Anschlägen in London steht, aber ein Schutz vor dem Terrorismus hat sich trotz Vorwarnung als unwirksam erwiesen, gleichwohl fordert die Polizei bereits schärfere Gesetze und mehr Überwachung.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20579/1.html

The discussion on changing the Israeli law (that was postponed to next Sunday) makes a lot of headlines in attempt to influence the politicians' opinion. The public resistance really threatens now. Today's headilnes in the major newspaper's weekend supplement: "Big panic, small radiation".

The article is on three pages, and deals with the question of whether the phone and antennas' radiation is dangerous. "Depends on who you ask" writes the reporter. And he asks Dr. Sigal Sadezky, leader of Israeil's Interphone study. "Sadezky cannot refer to the study's results, but according to her, no serious study on cellular radiation health effects has been done until today. The sad truth is that the medical community just doesn't know what this radiation does to our body. Studies were done on other types of radiation, of the same type of the cellular radiation (microwave radiation), but Sadezky says that it is not possible to conclude conclusive evidence on the cellular radiation from them. It is true that the WHO set standards for this radiation, but there are no conclusive medical data that can say whether the standard itself is right or not. Sadezky says that the only radiation that the standard refer to is thermic, and the effects of the a-thermic radiation do not receive attention. She says that there is concern that the a-thermic radiation affects the brain. If there are no data, why is there an attempt to restrict the use of children? According to Sadezky, it is about preventive medicine. Children are very sensitive population to diseases and none wants to take the responsibility, if it will be found that something bad happens to children because of the cellular devices."

The reporter goes with a representative of the Env ministry to see what the levels of radiation on the street are. "The measurement shows 0.26 mW/cm2. The maximal value of the resident area is 40 mW/cm2 [this is not a law but a recommendation by Israeli Env ministry. Not enforced.]...We measured also the cellular phones themselves, in order to understand whether radiation is emitted from other devices as well. The radiation from the cellular phone that receives calls was 6.63 mW/cm2 - 25 times more than the radiation under the antenna. The radiation from the base of a wireless phone was 17 mW/cm2 - 65 times more than the radiation under the antenna. But t is impossible to compare between the radiation from these devices and the radiation from cellular antenna. The value of the measurement is, that it enables to show that also devices emit radiation. The wireless phone, for example, transmits in completely different frequencies than the antenna. In order to really compare the reception of the absorption of radiation from the cellular phones in the body, it's necessary to calculate power and frequencies, and to use other measurement devices. It means, that radiation measurement that is brought here does not say that wireless phone emits more radiation than cellular antenna."

(Reporter: Gil Kalian to Yediot Ahronot 22.7.05)


Sever Plozker, the leading economics reporter in the leading newspaper of the country. His healine is:

IN THE NAME OF IGNORANCE:

"Most cellular phones users have no idea how it really works. We cannot grasp how the voice moves and the pictures - thousands of km from the little device in our pocket to the little device in the other speaker's device in his pocket. The whole cellular issue looks to us as a mix of a misterious technology and black magic. And it frightens. It is frightening to think that our phone works as a transmitter and antenna. It is frightening to think that every hundreds of meters a big antenna is erected...it is frightening to think that misterious waves move all the times in the air, whisper in our ears, drip from the antennas around us.

And above all is the dull but consistent fear from 'radiation'. "Radiation" is bad, it makes you sick, it makes you cancer, radiation 'cooks your brain'. The pessimists among us suggest a precedent: the truth that cigarettes damage health, they say, was also hidden from the public for dozens of years, until brave scientists tore the lies mask apart of the cigarettes manufacturers and their servants. What can be said in front of this the crowd noise?

The truth can be said. The job of the media is to say the truth, and not to swell prejudices and to strengthen the ignorance only because it's good for the rating.

In January 2005 the National Committe for Radiation Protection, a leading American body whose job is to warn the public against possible radiation damages, made an exhaustive review of all the recent studies on the cellular radiation and public health. In the summery it was said, conclusively: there is no risk for public health from the cellular phones system, not from the mobiles themselves and certainly not from the external antennas.

And that's how the authors write, in their clumsy scientific language: 'The recent studies arrive to similar conclusions...they emphasize that exposure to very weak radiation, that characterizes antennas of cellular technology, cannot cause any bio-physical effects'

In 2002 the health council of the Neatherland published an extensive and exhaustive study that is cited today as a corner stone in every discussion on health and phones, of which subject is the assesment of the health effects from mobile phones. This study's results were also final: there is no place for worry from a possible negative effect from phones and antennas on health, apart from during driving. The committee was so sharp in its decisions, that it wrote: 'There is no reason to restrict the use of cellular phones by children". With regard to cellular antennas, these are not a reason for worry in any case, or as John Moulder, professor of radiation oncology from Wisconsin University, writes this month on his internet website: 'The general agreement of the scientific community in the U.S and in the world is that the power that is emitted from cellular antennas is too weak to cause any health damage'.

These determinings, it is right to point, were first included in the report done by Stewart Committee in the year 2000. It ordered, on the basis of medical and scientific studies, that there is no proof for the existance of adverse health effects from radiation that is emitted by mobile phones or cellular antennas.

All the committees and all the reviews recommend, taken for granted, to continue and study the subjects. But the more studies published, the conclusion is strengthened about the lack of damage of the whole cellular system. Is it possible that all the scientists and all the doctors and all the physicists are wrong? Could be, but the probability strives to zero. About the same probability that the sun won't shine tommorow.

There is no imagination and no parallel between the danger of smoking and the 'danger' of a cellular antenna or a mobile phone. The known health effects of smoking were known to the scientific and medical community many years before the cigarette companies were forced to print them on the boxes. Since the end of the second world war, many scientific studies were published that arrived to the same conclusion: smoking damages health. It was the concensus of the physicians and scientists. The difficulty was to convince the politicians to fight the cigarette companies for the public. With regard to the cellular phones, the situation is opposite. Almost all the scientific community is united in the notion that there is no health damage from phone use and it tries with all of its force to restrain the popolist politicians who ride on the obscure fear wave of the 'radiation'. I trust in this issue, like on other issues, the many articles by the most serious weekly newspaper, the British "the economist", which warns again and again of a crowd panic with no basis in the subject of cellular antennas and phones.

"Almost all the scientific community is united in the notion that there is no health damage from phone use..." Omega this statement is plain and simple not true. See further under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

All the infrastructure for the modern life is dangerous: the road is dangerous, the private car is dangerous, the train is dangerous, the flight is dangerous, the power network is dangerous and radio waves are dangerous. In spite of that, without all these, life is not possible. The cellular phone, to our joy, is the last of the dangers list. But in oder to even make the probability of the (unproven) damage to public health, there is a need to increase the cellular antennas number and not to reduce it. The more the distance between the antena and the mobile phone is shotrer, the radiation power is lower and the whole system is safer. That's why the regulatory systems in Singapore,the Neatherland and in the U.K pressure on the cellular companies to increase significantly the number of the cellular antennas and reduce the distances among them.

The authorities also encourage moving to advanced cellular networks. The newer the phone- the less radiation it emits. If something can be dangerous to our health, they were our first phones, the heavy and analogue. But also their health risk was much lower than of the use of wireless phone in our home.

And finally, a local remark: the radiation standards in Israel, with regard to the cellular system, are much stricter than in most countries. Are all these facts going to influence the politicians in Israel? Will they influence the ministers in the government or PM so they will act to calm the public down and not to increase their unlogical fears? You made me laugh. Israel is a country of celebrating and violent regime popolism." (Sever Plozker, Yediot 22.7.2005)

*** A huge antenna was erected a week ago at night in Ramat Gan, with the approval of the mayor. The residents went out in the middle of the night and blocked the roads. The police spread them but the public pressure worked. The mayor ordered to destroy the antenna. At the same nigh another huge was erected In Givataim at about 24:00 o'clock. The residents went out to the streets, the mayor met with them in the night, and decided to appeal to the court. The cellular company put there a aguard to guard the antenna. The court ordered to remove the antenna until the next discussion on the subject. (Yediot Ahronot 18.7.2005)

Givataim residents stood with signs saying: "A Jew does not cause cancer to another Jew". (Yediot 22.7.05)

*** In Kara (arab village) people threw a grenade (weapon) on celullar antenna (internet reporting)

*** A new bill to ban cellular phones under the age of 8, by parliament member Lea Ness. She says: "cellular is not a kids game". The new bill is a result of Repacholi's statement that was published as a new research findings by the WHO, findings that prove that children are exposed more to cellular radiation than adults. The newspaper reports that the leaders of the study claim that the skull of children is thinner and their brain is in process of development. Lea Ness suggest to make the cellular companies and stores responsible not to sell phones to children under 8 year old.
(Maariv 21.7.2005)

Interesting to note: one of the cellular companies' executive, (Cellcom's) is a pediatrician by profession.

*** the 3 executives of the three cellular companies in Israel fired their PR office in order to attack personally, the public resistance to cellular antennas. This is the proof, as it was written in the newspaper today, that the PR office which was their way to deal with "public perception" - failed in its job. The three executives sent a letter to Ofir Pines, Home office minister, who leads the fight for a change in the law (which is going to be discussed on Sunday.)

They wrote him that because this issue is discussed extensively in the media lately, people all over the country damage cellular towers that were erected according to the law, and "workers of the companies were exposed to direct violence, only because they did their job according to the law and to the strict standards".

They wrote him that "the fear of transmission sites with which we deal for several years is a subject that is very easy to 'ride' on, and frighten the public about. It is difficult to explain the simple facts, according to which there is not any connection between the celullar antennas and a health problem, and the more antennas are, the less the transmission power is from the cellular devices that are close to our heads. It mustn't happen that your public fight will cause blaze of emotions and a surf to a dangerous slope in which the lay person will be convinced that the antenna that is erected according to the law can hurt him".
(Source: Haaretz, The Marker 21.7.2205 p. 8)

The war is a war of the control over knowlege, and the companies want us to be ignorant and submissive. But it just doesn't work so easy this time, like it worked for the cigarettes and asbestos companies. And if you read until here, there's a sentence from a beautiful song by Manic Street Preachers which I find very rellevant to the cellular issue. It says: If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.

Iris Atzmon.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/072105Burns/072105burns.html
http://snipurl.com/gexi


From Information Clearing House

US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week. Suspects will also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in Ireland.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9530.htm

Do we need any more evidence that there's no security solution to terrorism? No military solution? How can you stop subway and bus bombs? Check every passenger throughout the day, every day, forever? X-ray all bags and backpacks at Times Square during the rush hour? Whether we like it or not, we must admit that Terror is a message and we better learn to listen to it.

http://www.counterpunch.org/blum07212005.html



War on terror going to be ‘a long war’: Bush:

President George Bush on Wednesday said this week the House of Representatives will vote on legislation to renew the Patriot Act, and added the war on terror "is going to be a long war."

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/21-07-2005/main/main11.htm




From Information Clearing House

"If, at the end of the First World War, we had done what we promised the Arabs, which was to let them be free and have their own governments, and kept out of Arab affairs, and just bought their oil, rather than feeling we had to control the flow of oil, I suspect this wouldn't have arisen."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9533.htm

Every two days for the past two years more civilians have died in Iraq than in the July 7 London bombings.

http://snipurl.com/gewi


From Information Clearing House

By Arianna Huffington

It’s like a pair of blinders has been removed and I’m suddenly seeing for myself what I’ve long known to be the case: just how sanitized a version of the war the American mainstream media are delivering, and how little of even this cleaned-up coverage we get.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9537.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/4681935.stm


Informant: Scott Munson

RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH NEWS #822 http://www.rachel.org

July 21, 2005

SCIENCE UNDER SEIGE

By Tim Montague

An ill wind is gusting through the halls of science these days: faked research, suppression of unwelcome results, corruption of science advisory panels, university research falling under the influence of corporate sponsors, and many other conflicts of interest.

It's as if science were under siege.

For at least the last thirty years science has strongly supported the positions taken by environmental and public health advocates. The proponents of 'business as usual' have claimed that chemical and nuclear technologies have created only minor problems or no problems whatsoever -- but time after time science has shown otherwise. They said global warming was a "chicken little" fantasy. They said the Earth's ozone shield couldn't possible be harmed. They argued that asbestos was benign. They said lead in paint and gasoline was entirely safe. They said harm from hormone-disrupting chemicals was imaginary. They said a little radioactivity might actually improve your health. They said human health was constantly and consistently improving -- until scientific study revealed increases in birth defects, asthma, diabetes, attention deficits, nervous system disorders, diseases of the reproductive system, immune system disorders, cancer in children, and on and on. In each of these cases science showed that the advocates of 'business as usual' were simply wrong.

Science cannot solve all our problems or tell us everything we need to know, but it remains a powerful tool for reaching agreement about the nature of reality (at least for those parts of reality amenable to scientific inquiry). For the past 30 years, science has shown us unmistakably that we are destroying the natural systems (and bodily defenses) that we ourselves depend upon, so 'business as usual' is a dead end.

Perhaps this is why science itself is now under systematic attack by corporate interests. Whatever the underlying reasons, it seems clear that industry has lined up to discredit science, control the research agenda, take over the apparatus for scholarly publication and otherwise undermine the scientific and democratic pursuit of knowledge in the public interest. Perhaps they see it as their only hope of defending themselves against the overwhelming scientific evidence that -- if accepted by the public -- would end 'business as usual' and set us on a new precautionary path.

The Los Angeles Times reported July 11 that allegations of faked scientific findings increased 50% between 2003 and 2004.[1] But the Times also noted that the federal Office of Research Integrity cannot keep up with the rising tide of scientific fakery because it's budget is far too small. The office received 274 allegations of scientific fakery in 2004, but was able to complete only 23 investigations.

Corporate suppression of data is now so routine that no one raises an eyebrow. In the wake of an EPA advisory panel classifying the Teflon chemical C8 (ammonium perfluorooctanoate, or PFOA) as a "likely carcinogen," reporter Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette learned that in 1981 DuPont initiated a study to learn whether exposure to C8 caused birth defects in the children of Teflon factory workers. When the study found an excess of birth defects in the children, the study was abandoned and the results filed away without notifying the federal government. Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) companies must tell the EPA when they find information "that reasonably supports the conclusion that [a chemical] presents a substantial risk of injury to health."[2]

Generating Doubt -- OSHA Gives Up

It is common practice for industry to wage scientific and public relations war against the regulatory agencies whose job is to protect public health. The Wall Street Journal reports that PR firm executives openly admit to hiring university professors to put their names on ghost-written letters to the editor.[3] The letters are written by hacks paid to put a corporate "spin" on the science, and the experts sign their names to lend credence to the spin (and to earn a fat fee).

Another common practice these days is "seeding the scientific literature" with bogus results, to create doubt and confusion. In recent years, corporations have seeded the literature with false findings related to tobacco, lead, mercury, asbestos, vinyl chloride, chromium, nickel, benzene, beryllium and others. They cook the numbers, publish misleading articles in obscure journals, and then cite their own work to create confusion and doubt.

This strategy has brought the federal government to its knees. The case of beryllium is illuminating. Beryllium is a strong, light metal used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Beryllium dust is a potent lung toxicant and carcinogen.

In 1999 the Department of Energy (DOE) set beryllium exposure levels for federal workers that are ten times as strict as the general industrial exposure standard set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The OSHA standard was set based on data available in 1949.

When OSHA proposed to tighten its safety standard for beryllium exposure, to bring it into line with the new standard set for federal workers, industry was able to create enough doubt and confusion that OSHA backed off and concluded that "more research was needed" before a tighter standard could be justified.

A writer in Scientific American concludes that "OSHA administrators have simply recognized that establishing new standards is so time and labor-intensive, and will inevitably call forth such orchestrated opposition from industry, that it is not worth expending the agency's limited resources on the effort."[4] Creating confusion and doubt pays off.

Science in the Private Interest

Chester Douglass -- chairman of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard -- is being investigated for concluding that there is no relationship between fluoride in drinking water and bone cancer in children. He himself cites research -- described as the most rigorous to date -- concluding the opposite. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which funded the research with a $1.3 million dollar grant, and Harvard are investigating. Why would a public health expert skew his results? Does it matter that Dr. Douglass is the editor of The Colgate Oral Health Report, a quarterly newsletter published by Colgate-Palmolive, which makes fluoridated toothpaste?[5] Professor Sheldon Krimsky, author of Science in the Private Interest, warns that science in the public interest will increasingly lose out as the entire system favors a tight collaboration between industry, government and academia.[6]

Academic scientists are under increasing pressure to find commercial applications for their research so that their institution can patent, license and profit from the work. Corporate partnerships and lucrative consulting deals inject big money into the equation. In 1996, Sheldon Krimsky analyzed the biomedical literature and found in 34% of the articles, at least one of the chief authors had a financial interest in the research. None of these financial interests was disclosed in the journals. Krimsky said the 34% figure was probably an underestimate because he couldn't check stock ownership or corporate consulting fees paid to researchers.[7] No wonder allegations of misconduct by U.S. scientists are at an all time high. [1] A recent survey of several thousand scientists found that 33% had committed at least one of ten serious misbehaviors -- like falsifying data or changing conclusions in response to pressure from a funding source. Six percent admitted to failing to present data that contradicted their own previous research.[8]

FDA, NIH Broken

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are now so thoroughly beholden to industry that they are broken, unable to perform their duties to protect the public. The New York Times reports "the White House and Congress forced a marriage between the agency [FDA] and industry years ago for the rich dowry that industry offered." Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner of operations at the FDA said that the drug approval process is "pretty much broken down... and has been for some time."[9] The FDA has become so focused on approving new drugs at the expense of monitoring the ones already on the market that thousands of people have been put in harm's way by drugs like Vioxx. One FDA analyst estimated that Vioxx caused between 88,000 and 139,000 heart attacks -- killing somewhere between 26,400 and 55,600 people (assuming 30 to
40 percent of heart attacks were fatal).[4, 10]

An investigation into drug company ties with NIH scientists found that more than half of those investigated had violated existing policies meant to limit conflict of interest. Director of the NIH Elias Zerhouni said, "We discovered cases of employees who consulted with research entities without seeking required approval, consulted in areas that appeared to conflict with their official duties, or consulted in situations where the main benefit was the ability of the employer to invoke the name of NIH as an affiliation." To his credit, Zerhouni ushered in reforms banning NIH employees from accepting drug company consulting fees or stock. But congress is now pressuring him to relent because NIH employees have objected to the restrictions.[11]

To their credit, many courageous government scientists are now speaking out about the corruption of science and there have been a number of high profile firings and resignations ranging from the Fish and Wildlife Service to NASA where scientists are blowing the whistle on government abuses of solid science.[12]

Some 6,000 scientists including 48 Nobel laureates, 62 National Medal of Science recipients, and 135 members of the National Academy of Sciences have signed the Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making." The Bush government is certainly not the first to abuse science, but they have raised the stakes and injected ideology like no previous administration. The result is scientific advisory panels stacked with industry hacks, agencies ignoring credible panel recommendations and concerted efforts to undermine basic environmental and conservation biology science.[12]

In the words of the UCS, "The actions by the Bush administration threaten to undermine the morale and compromise the integrity of scientists working for and advising America's world-class governmental research institutions and agencies... To do so carries serious implications for the health, safety, and environment of all Americans."[12]

We have merely scratched the surface here. The corruption of the scientific enterprise has proceeded very far. In some areas of scientific endeavor, there are almost no independent researchers left because nearly every scientist in the field is funded by corporations with an axe to grind.

Agricultural biotechnology (genetically engineered food) is one such field of inquiry. The flip side of that coin is that certain avenues of research have been nearly eliminated by the funding sources -- for example, researchers say funds to study the health effects of biotech foods are now almost non- existent. [13]

What does this all mean for science and society? The public's trust in science will most certainly continue to erode. When this happens, even honest science is tarnished and loses its power to protect nature and public health because the public doesn't believe it. Honest science in the public interest is becoming an endangered species. And America slides further from democracy by and for the people.



[1] Martha Mendoza, "Allegations of Fake Research Hit New High," THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 11, 2005.

[2] Ken Ward Jr., "DuPont Proposed, Dropped '81 Study of C8, Birth Defects," THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE, July 10, 2005.

[3] Michael Schroeder, "Some Professors Take Payments To Express Views," THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 10, 2004, pg. B1.

[4] David Michaels, "Doubt Is Their Product, Industry groups are fighting government regulation by fomenting scientific uncertainty," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (June 2005) Vol. 29 No. 6, pg. 96, 6p.

[5] Juliet Eilperin, "Fluoride-Cancer Link May Have Been Hidden," THE WASHINGTON POST, July 14, 2005.

[6] Sheldon Krimsky, SCIENCE IN THE PRIVATE INTEREST; HAS THE LURE OF PROFITS CORRUPTED BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH? (New York, Rowman & Littlefield
2003). ISBN 074251479X.

[7] Sheldon Krimsky and L.S. Rothenberg, "Conflict of Interest Policies in Science and Medical Journals: Editorial Practices and Author Disclosures," SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS (2001) Vol. 7, pgs. 205-218.

[8] Meredith Wadman, "One in Three Scientists Confesses to Having Sinned," NATURE (June 9, 2005) Vol. 435, pgs.718-719.

[9] Gardiner Harris, "Drug Safety System Is Broken, a Top F.D.A. Official Says," THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 9, 2005.

[10] The World Health Organization estimates that 39% of all heart attacks globally are fatal. INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK: report of a WHO meeting, (World Health Organization, Geneva,
9-12 July 2002).

[11] David Willman, "NIH Inquiry Shows Widespread Ethical Lapses, Lawmaker Says," THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 14, 2005.

[12] SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IN POLICYMAKING; INVESTIGATION INTO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MISUSE OF SCIENCE (Cambridge, Mass.: Union of Concerned Scientists, February 2004). And SEE SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IN POLICYMAKING; FURTHER INVESTIGATION (Cambridge, Mass.: Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2004), both available at:
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/index.cfm

[13] "Monsanto research causes concern about biotech corn," Canadian Press June 23, 2005.


RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH NEWS Environmental Research Foundation P.O. Box 160 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Fax (732) 791-4603; E-mail: erf@rachel.org


The nationalization of basic science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/853922/




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

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=13901


Informant: Debi Clark

By DOUG THOMPSON
Jul 19, 2005, 07:34
"The Rant" column
Capitol Hill Blue

President George W. Bush got another chance Monday to prove he was as a good as his word. Once again, he failed to keep a promise made to the American people.

In September 2003 Bush said he would fire “anyone” in the White House caught leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media. He repeated the promise in June 2004, saying flat out that any administration official found to have talked to the press about Plame would be dismissed immediately.

That, however, was before his closest advisor, Karl Rove, got caught giving the information to Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, who also identified Vice President Richard Cheney’s chief of staff as the secondary source for the leak. [...] Read it all at
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7060.shtml or http://tinyurl.com/9a7zg


© Virginia Metze

http://www.ftimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=28384&TM=32713.35

In this photograph taken in June 2003, Karl Rove, senior advisor to President Bush and Robert Novak are pictured together at a party marking the 40th anniversary of Novak's newspaper column at the Army Navy Club in Washington DC. At the event a number of people wore buttons reading, "I'm a source, not a target." Rove is at the center of a controversy about the leaking of a CIA operative's identity which originally appeared in Novak's newspaper column. (AP Photo/Lauren Shay) (hat tip Robert) You can read the red button on Rove's jacket.

Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/07/20.html#a4051


© Virginia Metze

By Eric Mink
Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wednesday, Jul. 20 2005

It's ironic that political genius Karl Rove - and perhaps others - could end up in prison for exposing the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Ironic, because their essential mistake in doing so was one of identity: their own.

They think they work for President George W. Bush. They don't. They work for America.

There's no reason to believe that Rove gave much thought at all to Valerie Plame Wilson, a 20-year CIA veteran working in the agency's counterproliferation division, when he mentioned her to at least two reporters in July 2003. The only reason she was in his sights was that she was married to Joseph Wilson IV. Wilson, a retired veteran U.S. diplomat, had gone public with disturbing information that the Bush administration might have twisted intelligence information to support its campaign for starting a war with Iraq. [...] Read the rest at http://tinyurl.com/88fch


© Virginia Metze



Exposing Karl Rove
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93052;show_parent=1

Dal LaMagna
Huffington Post
July 19, 2005

One of the primary laws of Karma says, in essence, “as you sow, so shall you reap.” In other words, do good, get rewarded; do bad, and watch out.

It seems that the “bad” that Rove has done may be catching up with him and that the negative Karma he’s earned may be coming to the front.

Last week, I wrote “ Seeds of Destruction ,” about some of the bad - the documented bad rather than the anecdotal bad - but there’s plenty of the anecdotal as well. Yet, I’m not going to go there because it’s important that people understand that exposing Rove for what he is is not a political maneuver but instead a wake up call of “hey, do we really want people like this helping run our government and form its policies?”

Yes, Rove is an incredibly astute political operative: since 1986, in races he has orchestrated for statewide or national office or Congress, his candidate has won 34 times and lost only 7 times. [...] Read the whole article at http://tinyurl.com/bjbkv


© Virginia Metze

DC Circuit Decisions & Federal Circuit Decisions
from People for the American Way web site

John Roberts, DC Circuit

In the short time since he was confirmed by the Senate in May 2003, Judge Roberts has issued troubling dissents from decisions by the full D.C. Circuit not to reconsider two important rulings. These included a decision upholding the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act as applied in a California case and a ruling against Bush Administration efforts to keep secret the records concerning Vice President Cheney's energy task force. [...] Read more at PFAW: http://tinyurl.com/ba7am


© Virginia Metze

Larisa Alexandrovna
the raw story web site

House Judiciary Democrats have prepared a 70-page dissent opposing the renewal of the U.S. Patriot and Intelligence Reform Reauthorization Act, RAW STORY has learned.

Unlike some Democratic opposition, those decrying the Patriot Act include a diverse panoply of voices: 389 communities and seven states have passed resolutions opposing parts of the PATRIOT Act, representing over 62 million people, they note.
Groups running the gamut of the political spectrum oppose certain sections of the PATRIOT Act, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Conservative Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Library Association, Gun Owners of America and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [...] Read it all at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/democrats_dissent_patriot_act_721 or http://tinyurl.com/csdta


© Virginia Metze

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray

07/21/05

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) instituted draconian new ethics rules, this past February, aimed at protecting its reputation, which had been damaged by a series of revelations about conflicts of interest among its researchers. The new rules forbid NIH employees - both research and support staff - and their spouses and dependents from holding significant financial interests in or receiving fees from drug, biotechnology, and other medically-oriented companies. The announcement of the rules was met with derision from NIH staff, and has led to some high-profile resignations, including those of the head of the National Institute on Deafness and the newly-appointed head of National Institute of Environmental Health... http://cei.org/gencon/004,04696.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


SCIENCE UNDER SEIGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/854121/



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

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

07/21/05

But there is a price to be paid in blood for keeping in power those responsible for past disastrous decisions in Iraq. It makes it much more difficult to seek a way out of the savage war that is now engulfing that country. This is because past policies have to be portrayed as successful when they were dismal failures. The true terrible state of Iraq is glossed over. ... The need to produce a rosy and quite false picture of Iraq makes it difficult for the US -- with Britain trotting along behind -- to produce effective policies. Washington has never admitted to itself that since the summer of 2003 Sunni and Shia Iraqis have both loathed the US occupation. The much-resented presence of US troops in Iraq has helped fuel the insurgency and tainted Iraqi governments as puppets of the US. In the short term it should be a priority to get American soldiers out of the cities and towns in order to reduce daily friction...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick07212005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

07/21/05

I am here to urge Congress to pass a law to stop the government and the courts from their present, dangerous course of trying to deny the public its right to the free flow of news. The press's freedom to publish the news without prior restraint is not in doubt. But now under attack is what comes before publication: the ability of journalists to gather the news. To do that work effectively, we often must have inside sources willing tell us what government or corporate officials often do not want the public to know. The key to opening up an inside source is to establish mutual trust...

http://tinyurl.com/af7p3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Noel Gibeson

07/21/05

Airport security lines and procedures seem to be getting worse, not better. Even with longer lines and more hassle, real security may be only incrementally better, not substantially better. And this security may be more a result of scaring people away for air travel rather than the actual improvement of real security. Do 80 year-olds require the same level of screening as males in their 20s and 30, probably not? Does a struggling mother with three young children somehow pose the same threat as pregnant looking woman from the Middle East, doubtfully so? What about U.S. military or former U.S. military holding top secret clearances?

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/6175/2106/html/index.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/22/05

One by one, the bogus rationales for this futile and increasingly costly war are abandoned. Weapons of mass destruction -- nada. Saddam's alleged links to al-Qaeda -- zilch. 'Freedom' and 'democracy' -- Forget it: the new constitution ensures that neither will emerge. Which raises the question we started out asking: Why are we in Iraq? Why did 1,700-plus American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have to die, with many more than that grievously wounded, physically and psychologically? Did all this suffering and death come about due to the moral imperative of setting up an Iranian-style 'Islamic Republic of Iraq,' as the country will be known henceforth? While some Americans are not-so-subtly encouraged to join the military as a way out of a generations-long cycle of poverty, we're pouring billions down the ratholes of Iraq's emerging state bureaucracy, handing out cash by the barrel to finance the rule of Iraqi mullahs...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6725


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

California: Big Brother was watching

Prison Planet

07/20/05

A probe into a domestic surveillance unit within the California National Guard ballooned Tuesday into a full-blown investigation into widespread allegations of spying on U.S. citizens, misuse of state money and retaliation against Guard troops who brought the allegations to light. Sen. Joseph Dunn, D-Santa Ana, said after a Capitol hearing that he will order top National Guard officers to testify under oath after they refused to do so voluntarily. He might seek contempt of Legislature charges against those officers because, he said, the state military department has stonewalled his efforts to get documents about a secret unit called the 'Information Synchronization, Knowledge, Management and Intelligence Fusion' unit. That unit collected information on a Mother's Day anti-war protest in front of the state Capitol. Dunn described the unit as the 'tip of the iceberg' of domestic spying units within the California National Guard...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/200705waswatching.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

VG Frankfurt a. M.: Mobilfunkantenne im modifizierten WA unzulässig

Beitrag Nr. 72262 vom 22.07.2005

Das VG Frankfurt am Main hat in zwei Urteilen vom 03.03.2005 - 4 E 3806/03 bzw. 4 E 1919/03 die Klagen gegen einen Ablehnungsbescheid für eine Mobilfunkantenne in einem allgemeinen Wohngebiet und gegen das bauaufsichtliche Beseitigungsverlangen zurück gewiesen.

Streit um eine ungenehmigte Mobilfunkantenne

Es ging um eine Mobilfunkantenne, die ohne die erforderliche Baugenehmigung, aber auf der Grundlage der notwendigen umweltrechtlichen Standortbescheinigung errichtet worden war. Das Baugrundstück befand sich im Geltungsbereich eines älteren Bebauungsplanes, der auf der Basis der BauNVO 1977 ein modifiziertes allgemeines Wohngebiet festsetzte. Die Ausnahmen nach § 4 Abs. 3 BauNVO sollten nicht gelten. Die Bauaufsichtsbehörde forderte den Rückbau der ungenehmigten und nicht genehmigungsfähigen Mobilfunkantenne und lehnte den im Nachhinein gestellten Bauantrag ab. Das VG Frankfurt am Main hat jetzt die beiden Klagen mit nachfolgenden Argumenten als unbegründet zurück gewiesen:

Baugenehmigung erforderlich

Es handelt es sich um eine formell und materiell illegale Mobilfunkantenne. Die Genehmigungsbedürftigkeit ist unstrittig, weil durch das Aufbringen der Mobilfunkantenne auf das vorhandene Wohngebäude neben der bisherigen Wohnnutzung eine neue gewerbliche Nutzung tritt.

Modifizierte Baugebietsausweisung lässt Ausnahme nicht zu

Die Mobilfunkantenne ist auch bauplanungsrechtlich relevant und muss deshalb den bauplanungsrechtlichen Anforderungen genügen. Da der Bebauungsplan die Ausnahmen nach § 4 Abs. 3 BauNVO 1977 ausklammert, kann die Mobilfunkantenne auch nicht als nicht störender Gewerbebetrieb zugelassen werden. Gründe für eine Befreiung nach § 31 Abs. 2 BauGB von der Art der baulichen Nutzung liegen nicht vor, weil der Bebauungsplan eine klare Regelung beinhaltet und eine Zulassung der Mobilfunkantenne im Wege der Befreiung die Grundzüge der Planung berühren würde. Der im Bebauungsplan vorgesehene Ausschluss von nicht störenden Gewerbebetrieben hat solange Gültigkeit, bis die Gemeinde den Bebauungsplan entsprechend ändert.

Mobilfunkantenne ist keine dem Baugebiet dienende Nebenanlage

Als Nebenanlage i. S. d. § 14 Abs. 1 BauNVO 1977 ist die Mobilfunkantenne nicht zu werten, weil sie dem Baugebiet nicht funktional zu- bzw. untergeordnet ist, sondern Teil eines Gesamtsystems ist, welches ein größeres Stadtgebiet versorgt. Ein Bezug auf § 14 Abs. 2 BauNVO entfällt, weil hier noch nicht fernmeldtechnische Anlage erwähnt werden (erst ab BauNVO 1990).

Bauaufsichtliches Beseitigungsverlangen ist rechtmäßig

Da die Mobilfunkantenne gegen öffentlich-rechtliche Vorschriften verstößt und der baurechtswidrige Zustand nicht auf andere Weise behoben werden kann, ist das bauaufsichtliche Beseitigungsverlangen verbunden mit der Androhung der Ersatzvornahme rechtmäßig.

Dieser Beitrag wurde erstellt von Wolfgang Hanne.

http://www.lexonline.info/lexonline2/live/professional/index_0.php?lid=90&productActiveArtnr=17159&xid=72262&link=ar


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

Hier ein Auszug aus der Presselandschaft nach der Köhler- Rede am Donnerstag Abend.

"Eine unsicher vorgetragene Rechtfertigung für etwas, das keine Rechtfertigung verdient"

Die SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG hält die Entscheidung Köhlers dagegen nicht für richtig: "Der Bundespräsident hat wider alle Verfassungsjuristerei, aber dafür nach viel Geheimniskrämerei, den Bundestag aufgelöst und die Neuwahlen angeordnet - wohl vor allem deswegen, weil sich das Land schon darauf eingestellt hat. Köhler hat sein eigenes Motto für seine Amtszeit nicht eingehalten: 'Offen will ich sein - und notfalls unbequem.' Unbequem ist seine Entscheidung nicht; sie ist populär, sie entspricht dem Begehren der Fraktionen, den Erwartungen der Parteien, dem Wunsch des Kanzlers, den Sehnsüchten der Angela Merkel, den Hoffnungen des Guido Westerwelle. Köhler war der politischen Klasse zu Willen. Vom Willen des Grundgesetzes kann man das nicht sagen: Die Verfassung ist kein Wunschkonzert, das auf Bestellung zum Tanz um die Neuwahlen aufspielt", meint die SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG.



Kritik kommt auch vom MAIN-ECHO aus Aschaffenburg:

"Von einem Bundespräsidenten müsste man erwarten, dass er sich dem Heer der Populisten widersetzt. Stattdessen spannt er sich vor ihren Karren. Machen wir uns nichts vor: Es ist nicht mehr als ein verzweifeltes Hoffen, dass durch vorgezogene Neuwahlen eine stetige und verlässliche Basis zum Regieren zustande kommt. Es war kein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer, sondern eine unsicher vorgetragene Rechtfertigung für etwas, das keine Rechtfertigung verdient. Köhlers Votum besiegelt einen Sieg der Politik über die Verfassung", urteilt das MAIN-ECHO.



Die SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG aus Dresden sieht ebenfalls verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken: "Die Vertrauensfrage, die Bundeskanzler Schröder gestellt hat, war ein abgekartetes Spiel und entspricht in dieser Form nicht dem Geist der Verfassung. Wie die Karlsruher Richter darüber entscheiden werden, ist deshalb völlig offen. Und hierin besteht auch Köhlers großes Risiko: Wenn die Klage mehrerer Abgeordneter gegen die Neuwahlen Erfolg haben sollte, wäre der Bundespräsident bis auf die Knochen blamiert. Das Ansehen des höchsten Amtes im Staate würde dadurch schwer beschädigt", vermutet die SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG.


Aus: Newsletter LVTH (Bernd Schreiner)

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Begründung "äußerst mager": Klagen und verfassungsrechtlicher Diskurs über Köhlers Entscheidung (22.07.05)

Die ersten gegen vorgezogene Neuwahlen gerichteten Klagen sind am Freitag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht in Karlsruhe eingegangen. Es handele sich um Verfassungsbeschwerden der Partei "Pro Deutsche Mitte" sowie der "Anarchistischen Pogo Partei Deutschlands" (APPD), sagte Gerichtssprecherin Dietlind Weinland. Beide Splitterparteien wenden sich dagegen, dass ihnen nun nicht mehr genügend Zeit bleibe, um das erforderliche Unterschriftenquorum für die Teilnahme an der Bundestagstagswahl am 18. September zu erreichen. Verfassungsexperten diskutieren derweil darüber, ob die Auflösung des Bundestages durch Bundespräsident Horst Köhler verfassungsrechtlich zulässig war.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11461



Wer weiter über dieses Thema diskutieren möchte, kann dies tun unter:
http://www.foren.de/system/thread-klagenundverfassungsrechtlicherdiskursueberkoehlersentscheidung-starmail-602854-1549949.html

Newsletter LVTH (Bernd Schreiner)

Dr. Claus Scheingraber 15-07-05

Dass der Staat eigentlich weiß welche Gefahren durch Hf-Belastungen entstehen, habe ich gestern wieder bewiesen bekommen. Im Rahmen des Volksbegehrens bekomme ich zur Zeit viele Mails zugesandt und dabei sind auch einige brisante Informationen. Ein solches Mail gebe ich gerne an Sie weiter. Ich habe dem Übermittler versprochen seinen Namen zu verschweigen, da er um seine berufliche Position fürchtet.

Das Mail vom 13.7.05: Volksbegehren Gesundheitsvorsorge-Mobilfunk


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

die schädlichen Auswirkung der HF-Strahlung auf den Organismus sind den einschlägigen Insider-Technikern nicht erst seit über 10 Jahren bekannt. Bei der Bundeswehr wurde über 40 Jahre lang in geheimen Aufzeichnungen die Schädigung der Y-Chromosomen bei Piloten und technischem Radarpersonal beobachtet. Jedoch verhängten Staat und die Netzbetreiber (damals D1 Telekom, D2 Mannesmann und E+) allen Fachleuten Maulkörbe. Diese waren so geschnürt, dass man nicht nur seinen Arbeitsplatz verloren hätte, sondern man wäre dann noch wegen Ausplaudern von Betriebsgeheimnissen verfolgt worden. Mit einer entsprechenden Verleumdungsklage im Nachzug. Um die Unschädlichkeit auf dem Papier dokumentieren zu können, richtete die Telekom in den 90er Jahren einen Lehrstuhl in Würzburg ein, der alle Schädlichkeits-Argumentationen zerlegen und damit die Schädlichkeit in Frage stellen sollte. (Man beachte die Wortwahl!) Die Presse berichtete dann darüber, dass dieser Lehrstuhl die Unschädlichkeit bewiesen hätte.

Was jedoch überall unter den Tisch fällt, ist die Tatsache, dass sich alle abgestrahlten Frequenzen (incl. ihrer Oberwellen) mischen. Beim Mischen zweier reiner Sinus-Frequenzen ergeben sich 4 Resultierende.

Zu den beiden Grundfrequenzen kommen noch eine Summenfrequenz (Addition der Frequenzwerte) und die Differenzfrequenz (Subtraktion).

Die Leistung der neu entstandenen Frequenzen mindert die Leistung der Grundfrequenzen, ist aber partiell unterschiedlich, da durch die vielen Funksender und deren Standorte eine äußerst komplexe inhomogene geometrische Matrix entsteht. So kommen punktuell an verschiedenen Orten Frequenzen mit extrem hoher Leistung vor, die nirgendwo abgesendet wurden, sondern durch oben genannte Gesetzmäßigkeit entstehen. Mittlerweile konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass das lange Zeit umstrittene Phänomen der Kugelblitze genau in solchen Kernzonen entsteht und deren Bewegung sich nach den vorhandenen Feldern richtet.

Das mystifizierte Phänomen der "Erdstrahlen" ist rein physikalisch gesehen nur die räumliche Matrix der HF-Felder. Dies habe ich in Versuchen selbst herausgefunden. Ich habe mehrere Erdstrahlen-Experten die Felder ausloten lassen - wobei die Personen nie meine Intensionen erfahren haben. In einer von mir durchgeführten HF-Spektralanalysemessung (ein in der E-Technik übliches Messverfahren) des gleichen Raumes konnte ich eine erhöhte Intensität der HF-Felder feststellen, dass ungefähr den Erdstrahlenaufzeichnungen der Rutengänger entsprach.

Ich leitete daraus ab, dass die mystischen Erdstahlen, denen man ja verschiedene Krankheiten und funktionelle Störungen des Organismus zuordnet, in Wirklichkeit die Matrix der HF-Frequenzfelder aller Sender darstellt. Zu beachten ist auch, dass uns auch aus dem Weltraum HF-Felder erreichen, denn selbst Licht ist nur eine elektromagnetische Welle bestimmter Frequenz. Die Erdatmosphäre filtert nur bestimmte Frequenzspektren heraus und ist für andere durchgängig. All das zusammen ergibt ein nicht berechenbares, ultrakomplexes Gemisch, mit welchem unser Organismus fertig werden muss. Es liegt auf der Hand, dass uns hierfür z. T. noch Kenntnisse und auch die Verfahren zur Erfassung dieser Umweltbedingungen fehlen.

Unserem Zeitgeist entsprechend muss alles verifizierbar sein und nur das wird für gültig erklärt. Und so werden in sträflicher Weise wichtige Faktoren unter den Tisch fallen gelassen, weil sie noch nicht verifizierbar sind.

Lassen Sie mich das an einem einfachen Beispiel veranschaulichen: Ein Erstklässler soll einen Kassenzettel von Aldi nachrechnen. Da er das Rechnen mit mehrstelligen Zahlen noch nicht gelernt hat, berücksichtigt er diese in seiner Addition nicht. Er wird zu einem Ergebnis kommen, das nicht dem Wert entspricht, den seine Mutter bezahlt hat. Und wenn er jetzt behauptet, seine Mutter hätte viel mehr Geld ausgegeben, als es kostet, dann lässt sich dieses Bild sehr genau auf unseren wissenschaftlichen Zustand projizieren.

Ich freue mich, dass Sie diese Initiative ergreifen.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

XY (Der Name ist dem AEB bekannt)

http://www.traprockpeace.org/scott_ritter_23june05.html


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

OK – Now I’m Mad!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/benderman-m4.html

Will a Voice of Conscience Be Heard?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese10.html

Rep. Lee Introduces Resolution of Inquiry into Iraq War Planning

Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2005-07-21 17:16. Congress

Congresswoman Barbara Lee (Dem., Calif.) today introduced - along with 26 co-sponsors - a Resolution of Inquiry in the House of Representatives which, if passed, will require the White House and the State Department to "transmit all information relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq."

Here are original co-sponsors:

Rep. John Conyers
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Rep. William Lacy Clay
Rep. Danny Davis
Rep. William Delahunt
Rep. Lane Evans
Rep. Sam Farr
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva
Rep. Luis Gutierrez
Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
Rep. Jim McDermott
Rep. Jim Oberstar
Rep. Major R. Owens
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.
Rep. Don Payne
Rep. Charles Rangel
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Rep. José E. Serrano
Rep. Pete Stark
Rep. Bennie Thompson
Rep. Diane Watson
Rep. Robert Wexler
Rep. Lynn Woolsey


Here's Text:

109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. RES. 375

Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution all information in the possession of the President and the Secretary of State relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ms. LEE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on _________________ RESOLUTION Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution all information in the possession of the President and the Secretary of State relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq.

Resolved, That not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolutionâ€"

(1) the President is requested to transmit to the House of Representatives all documents, including telephone and electronic mail records, logs, calendars, minutes, and memos, in the possession of the President relating to communications with officials of the United Kingdom from January 1, 2002, to October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq, including any discussions or communications between the President or other Administration officials and officials of the United Kingdom that occurred before the meeting on July 23, 2002, at 10 Downing Street in London, England, between Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom intelligence officer Richard Dearlove, and other national security officials of the Blair Administration; and

(2) the Secretary of State is directed to transmit to the House of Representatives all documents, including telephone and electronic mail records, logs, calendars, minutes, memos, and records of internal discussions, in the possession of the Secretary relating to communications with officials of the United Kingdom from January 1, 2002, to October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq, including any discussions or communications between the Secretary of State or other officials of the Department of State and officials of the United Kingdom that occurred before the meeting on July 23, 2002, at 10 Downing Street in London, England, between Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom intelligence officer Richard Dearlove, and other national security officials of the Blair Administration.


Informant: ranger116

Nun ist Orange an der Reihe
http://www.thurgauerzeitung.ch/default2.cfm?vDest=Artikel&id=792118&re=Kreuzlingen

Omega zu der in dem Artikel aufgestellten Behauptung "Viele kleine Antennen reduzieren Strahlenmenge":

Viele kleine Sender mit minimaler Leistung sind auch keine Lösung, weil damit viel mehr Antennen aufgebaut werden und diese somit näher an die Menschen kommen. Die Belastung nimmt nämlich mit der Nähe zur Antenne im Quadrat zu. Deshalb hätten dann insgesamt gesehen die Menschen höhere Belastungen.

Mehr unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/614543/

Am 20. ist nun der Verein zur Hilfe umweltbedingt Erkrankter gegründet worden. Anbei schicke ich Ihnen die zweite Pressemitteilung, Satzung sowie den Antrag zur Aufnahme als Mitglied. Es wäre schön, wenn wir sobald als möglich viele Mitglieder hätten, da wir nur gemeinsam eine gewisse Lobby bilden können.

http://www.omega-news.info/zweite_pressemitteilung.doc
http://www.omega-news.info/satzung_neuester_stand.doc
http://www.omega-news.info/mitglieds_aufnahme.doc


Herzliche Grüße

M. Frielinghaus
(Geschäftsstelle)



Elektrosmog macht Millionen Menschen krank
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/846222/

Dramatische Zunahme umweltbedingter Erkrankungen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/832237/

Fachkompetente Hilfe für umweltbedingt Erkrankte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/858829/



http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Victims/

NOW's Michele Mitchell investigates allegations that a former energy industry lobbyist was rewriting scientific findings to support the political priorities of the White House.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105P.shtml

Hamstrung by the Iraq debacle, all Bush can do is gnash his teeth as the hated mullahs in Iran cozy up to their co-religionists in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105L.shtml

Most chilling of all are the prospects for Iraqi women. As things now stand, their rights are about to be set back by nearly 50 years because of new family law provisions inserted into a draft of the constitution at the behest of the ruling Shiite religious parties.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105F.shtml

Business groups had called on the president to select a candidate familiar with - if not sympathetic to - their interests, and they appear to have one in Roberts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105E.shtml

"I was horrified by the president's last speech on the war on terror [on June 28] - so much unsaid, so much disingenuous, so many half-truths," James Dobbins told me. Dobbins was Bush's first envoy to Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105D.shtml

His record is clear. As a lawyer, Roberts called for overruling Roe v. Wade. As a judge, he opposed environmental regulations, backed Bush's denial of the Geneva Conventions, and allowed Dick Cheney's energy task force to keep its records from public view.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105A.shtml

URL: http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=28809

21. Juli 2005

Der Bock und der Gärtner

Wolfgang Gehrcke, außenpolitischer Sprecher der Linkspartei.PDS, zur Verleihung des Heinrich-Albertz-Friedenspreises der AWO an Gerhard Schröder:

Heinrich Albertz, der erste Vorsitzende der Arbeitwohlfahrt, war als Person eine moralische Instanz in bewegten deutschen Zeiten. Einen Preis mit seinem Namen, der Personen ehren soll, "die sich um die Ausgestaltung der Grundwerte Solidarität, Toleranz, Freiheit, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit, um den inneren und äußeren Frieden in besonderer Weise verdient gemacht haben", an Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder zu verleihen, macht den Bock zum Gärtner.

Gerhard Schröder verantwortet, dass sich Deutschland an zwei völkerrechtswidrigen Kriegen beteiligt hat. Schröder verantwortet als Bundeskanzler, dass Deutschland mittlerweile auf Platz 4 der weltweiten Rüstungsexporteure aufgestiegen ist.

Mit der Agenda 2010 trägt Gerhard Schröder die Verantwortung für eine nachhaltige Störung des inneren Friedens. Ellenbogen und nicht Solidarität sind das Markenzeichen seiner Regierungspolitik. Die Arbeiterwohlfahrt ist eine wichtige Organisation insbesondere für sozial Benachteiligte in diesem Lande und gerade für viele Opfer von Schröders Politik.

Für eine Wahlkampfshow sollte sich die AWO zu schade und vor allem der Name und das Andenken von Pastor Heinrich Albertz zu wichtig sein.

Want to know more about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts? You know you do. This guide from Moving Ideas is the place to start.

http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#5591

by Walter Mebane, TomPaine.com

A new department of justice report on Election 2004 glosses over major factors that contributed to disenfranchisement.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050721/timing_and_turnout_in_ohio.php

by George Sterzinger, TomPaine.com

Adopting a standard for renewable energy -- including wind power -- would benefit both the economy and the environment.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050721/going_with_the_wind.php

Jul 21 2005

By Sarah Gaffney, Ormskirk Advertiser

PLANNERS are looking favourably on proposals to build an 02 mobile phone mast at Platts Lane in Burscough, says the company.

The 17.5 metre communications tower was originally proposed for Briars Lane but after objections the Platts Lane site was suggested.

Jason Isherwood, from the Poplars estate near the site, has a four week old baby and schools his children at home.

He is concerned about the health problems that the mast could cause to him and his family, although O2 has said there are no health risks.

He said: "The big argument that O2 put across was they had years of research from military use. I said it's not satisfactory, how many heavily pregnant women do you have in a war zone?

"The reality is the amount of research on it is not conclusive and it's not at the point where people are satisfied. You only have to cast your mind back to a time when they said Sellafield fall-out was safe and that was the government guideline."

St John's School and Mr Isherwood's home school are both close to the mast, but 02 said that this would not stop it being built.

An O2 spokeswoman said: "As a rule we look at around 200 metres round the mast. We consult with local householders who are immediately close to the proposed site. We take advice and guidance from local planning agencies as well.

"We are talking about consultation. It's not that a mobile phone operator is not allowed to put up a mast anywhere near a school, they are sometimes put on roofs, the situation is whether or not we consult with a school.

"We have moved it half a kilometre away and we then wrote again to the parish council and other householders who we had not corresponded with. We received quite a number of letters with regards to Briars Lane, we received six letters of objection to the Platts Lane site."

* The application will be discussed at a meeting on July 28 in the district council offices in Ormskirk.

A classified State Department memorandum contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret. Any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105Z.shtml

The Roberts Nomination: Bush's War on Women :

George W. Bush's nomination of John Roberts, Jr. is a setback for American women, just has his policies in Iraq have produced a setback for women's rights in the Arab world. Indeed, Bush has been bad for women all around the globe.

http://www.juancole.com/2005/07/roberts-nomination-and-iraqi.html



Roberts Has Backed Administration Policies:

John G. Roberts has demonstrated strong backing for Bush administration policies, ruling against Geneva Conventions protections for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in favor of keeping Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force records secret.

http://snipurl.com/gdwp


From Information Clearing House

Anything is possible as the Bush Administration paints itself further into the scandal corner, and, desperate to avoid criminal proceedings and/or impeachment, lashes out at its perceived enemies.

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-w/horrors.htm



The Hand of Cheney:

We warned President George W. Bush that the Iraq-seeking-uranium-in-Niger forgery was "a microcosm of a mischievous nexus of overarching problems" in his White House. We cited the remarks of then-presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer earlier that week, which set the tone for what has followed-right up to today.

http://www.counterpunch.com/mcgovern07202005.html



Follow the Documents:

There's another Joe Wilson–related investigation that needs answers: Who forged the Niger memos in the first place?

http://snipurl.com/gdwf



Thank You, Mr. President:

Last week, John Roberts wrote Bush a blank check.

The opinion says that Congress authorized the president to set up whatever military tribunal he deems appropriate when it authorized him to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to fight terrorism in response to 9/11.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9525.htm



From Information Clearing House

As the Bush Administration continues to spend billions of dollars on the war in Iraq, it tells Americans, "Don't worry, be happy."

http://snipurl.com/gdvn


From Information Clearing House

One of the latest New Jersey National Guard soldiers to ship out for Iraq is a 50-year-old grandmother from Passaic.

http://kyw.com/news/local_story_201143539.html


From Information Clearing House

The Defense Department quietly asked Congress on Monday to raise the maximum age for military recruits to 42 for all branches of the service.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-983408.php


From Information Clearing House

Wiltshire Gazette and Herald 21.07.05

PRESSURE from electors has forced members of Pewsey Parish Council to reconsider its position over plans for a mobile phone mast on the village soccer field.

More than 50 villagers attended the parish council meeting on Tuesday and their delight was obvious when the council agreed to think again.

The council owns the soccer ground between the High Street and Ball Road and in the past agreed to allow the Pewsey Vale Football Club to sub-let the site following an approach by service provider O2, who wanted to put up a phone mast.

The deal would be worth £80,000 to the club over 20 years.

However, the parish council objected to initial plans for the 17 metre mast and it was turned down by Kennet District Council.

This week an appeal by O2 was dismissed by the planning inspectorate on the grounds that other possible sites around the village needed more evaluation.

But even before the appeal decision was announced, O2 had submitted plans for a taller mast on the site.

Objectors, fearing possible health risks to children playing near the mast, felt the parish council had let them down by agreeing that the site could be sub-let.

On Tuesday there were allegations from some villagers that the councillors had failed to represent the views of the electorate.

Councillors agreed to re-debate whether the soccer club can sub-let to O2. Its planning committee will discuss the mast application on Wednesday at 7.30pm in the parish offices.

Mothers don't let your children join the Army, because George Bush has dumped 3.6 Billion grams of Radioactive waste all over Iraq. This is enouth Radioactive Waste to poison more than half of the World's Population. This is more than 500,000 times as much radioactive dust as was spread in Hiroshima in 1945. Less than a gram of this deadly Radioactive Waste will cause cancer and other diseases. Bush, as Commander in Chief, authorized the usage of Millions of Uranium Bullets to be used in Iraq because of their penetrating power. Uranium bullets go right through Steal Plating and Building Walls. These Radioactive bullets, however, burn up because Uranium burns at low temperatures. The Uranium laced with Plutonium then becomes a fine dust which is spread every where.

350,000 or almost 3 out of every 5 soldiers that served in the first Bush Iraq War is now out on DISABILITY because of Gulf War syndrome. During that First Gulf War Only one tenth of the poisonous and deadly radioactive Uranium 238, Uranium 235, Uranium 234 and Plutonium was spread in Iraq as in the Current Bush Iraq War. This Time a Bush has spread 10 times as much destruction. Thanks to George W Bush If you serve in Iraq you will breathe, eat, drink and absorb through your skin radioactive waste. And Courtesy of George Bush In the next 14 years 3 out of 5 of you will have cancers and other disabilites that will plague you for the rest of your lives. Check it out today do a computer search for Gulf War Syndrome and another computer search for Depleted Uranium and then try a search for Bush Poisoned 1 Million Veterans With Radioactive Waste.

Howard Scott Pearlman


* Please Pass This On To Your Friends Who Have Family Members In The Military


From clean_air_for_everybody

The two weeks remaining before Congress's August recess may be our last chance to stop some of the more troubling Patriot Act provisions from becoming permanent. Floor debate on H.R. 3199 ( http://www.house.gov/rules/109hr3199_text.pdf ) may begin this Thursday in the House, followed by a full House vote. The Senate Judiciary Committe may mark up its bill (S. 1389; http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-1389 this Thursday, July 21, with a Senate floor vote soon afterward.

Don't let Congress ignore the nonpartisan will of nearly four hundred local communities and seven states that have passed resolutions critical of the PATRIOT Act. Contact your Representative and your Senators today (telephone calls are best!) and tell them to vote against PATRIOT Act renewal and for real reform of the Act.

Thank you to everyone who contacted their House member regarding the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees mark-ups of H.R. 3199, USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005. The committees accepted some minor amendments, including adding new sunsets to a few sections, but more changes are needed. Furthermore, a Senate Intelligence Committee proposal to grant the FBI the power to issue "administrative subpoenas" would render any amendments to Section 215 moot.

Contact Information for your Representative and Senators

Find phone numbers for your Representative and Senators at
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress If one of your Senators is on the Senate Judiciary Comittee (see list at end of this message), make a special effort to call him or her.

To also send an email, go to
http://hq.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/bordc/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=980 but do not rely on this method of contact alone, because staff may not read your message in time for the vote.

Suggested Talking Points

Since Congress enacted the PATRIOT Act in 2001, it has not ensured that the new powers are needed or provided sufficient oversight over their use or misuse. Two groups have suffered unfairly from the PATRIOT Act's substantially lowered standards for targets of surveillance: (1) people of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian descent; and (2) people who disagree with government policies. We now know that the FBI has invested valuable counterterrorism resources gathering information on the constitutionally protected free speech activities of the latter group.

I urge (Representative ______, Senator ________) to heed the nearly 400 communities and seven states (NOTE: Mention resolutions in the legislator's district.) that have passed resolutions calling on Congress to bring the Patriot Act in line with the Constitution by:

* restoring personal privacy and due process and respect for the rule of law;
* respecting First Amendment rights and the balance of power between branches of government;
* limiting the definition of "terrorism" to violent crimes perpetrated on human civilian targets for political gain;
* prohibiting all authorized prisoner abuse; and
* decreasing government secrecy.

Contact Information for Senate Judiciary Committee

If one of your Senators is listed below, please make a special effort to make a call or send a fax today.

ALABAMA: Jeff Sessions, Phone: (202) 224-4124, Fax: (202) 224-3149

ARIZONA: Jon Kyl, Phone: (202) 224-4521, Fax: (202) 224-2207

CALIFORNIA: Dianne Feinstein, Phone: (202) 224-3841, Fax: (202) 228-3954

DELAWARE: Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Phone: (202) 224-5042, Fax: (202)
224-0139

ILLINOIS: Richard J. Durbin, Phone: (202) 224-2152, Fax: (202) 228-0400

IOWA: Charles E. Grassley, Phone: (202) 224-3744, Fax: (202) 224-6020

KANSAS: Sam Brownback, Phone: (202) 224-6521, Fax: (202) 228-1265

MASSACHUSETTS: Edward M. Kennedy, Phone: (202) 224-4543, Fax: (202) 224-2417

NEW YORK: Charles E. Schumer, Phone: (202) 224-6542, Fax: (202) 228-3027

OHIO: Mike DeWine, Phone: (202) 224-2315, Fax: (202) 224-6519

OKLAHOMA: Tom Coburn, Phone: (202) 224 - 5754, Fax: (202) 224-6008

PENNSYLVANIA: Arlen Specter (Chairman), Phone: (202) 224-4254, Fax: (202) 228-1229

SOUTH CAROLINA: Lindsey Graham, Phone: (202) 224-5972, Fax: (202) 224-3808

TEXAS: John Cornyn, Phone: (202) 224-2934, Fax: (202) 228-2856

UTAH: Orrin G. Hatch, Phone: (202) 224-5251, Fax: (202) 224-6331

VERMONT: Patrick J. Leahy (Ranking Democratic Member), Phone: (202) 224-4242, E-mail: senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

WISCONSIN:

* Herbert Kohl, Phone: (202) 224-5653, Fax: (202) 224-9787
* Russell D. Feingold, Phone: (202) 224-5323, Fax: (202) 224-2725


Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Web: http://www.bordc.org Email: info@bordc.org Phone: 413-582-0110 Fax: 413-582-0116


Informant: Scott Munson

Ever wondered why EHS and MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) have so much in common?

Ever wanted to throttle Health Protection Agency or WHO spokespeople who say EHS is too broad a range of symptoms to be due to a single cause?

Ever wondered what on earth could connect EMR, EHS, epilepsy, motor neurone disease and cancer, which are all attributed to the operation of microwave transmitters?

Well, it may be nothing to do with mega effects like brain entrainment and broken DNA (though clearly there is research demonstrating these effects too).

This paper was an initial foray on behalf of someone needing support for plausibility of symptoms against disbelieving authorities. It needs to be extended into chapters on MND and cancer, but more is forthcoming elsewhere, because all the research findings are there already.

Conclusion:

Experiments have demonstrated that EMR from phones and masts has a direct influence on the enzymes that produce nitric oxide in the body. We had better be 110 per cent certain that they are wrong. Because if the results are what they say, nitric oxide sets cascades and vicious circles in motion that have almost inevitably disastrous consequences, and explain the breadth of EHS.

http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/emr_epilepsy.pdf

Andy
Tetrawatch

Leading botanist Peter Raven calculates that species crucial to the survival of the human race are in steep decline. Tim Radford interviews the man dubbed a 'hero of the planet.'

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/072005EA.shtml

President Bush nominated a right-wing judicial activist with an anti-choice track record to the Supreme Court: John Roberts.

If Roberts is confirmed to a lifetime appointment, there is little doubt that he will work to overturn Roe v. Wade. As Deputy Solicitor General under the first President Bush, he argued to the Supreme Court that "Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled...." We must not allow someone who's spent his career advocating ending the right to choose to be appointed to the most important court in our country.

Click on the link below to take the first step toward stopping Roberts.

http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/scotus_roberts_sen_0705?rk=spAQ_811-zU-W


Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos

The Plame Blame Game: More on the Who Said What When, and to Whom Investigation

by Joshua Frank

Karl Rove could be in a lot of trouble if what journalist Murray Waas has written is true. In a web exclusive for the American Prospect, Waas contends "Rove did not disclose that he had ever discussed CIA officer Valerie Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove's first interview with the FBI, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the matter…. The omission by Rove created doubt for federal investigators, almost from the inception of their criminal probe into who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, as to whether Rove was withholding crucial information from them, and perhaps even misleading or lying to them, the sources said." If this revelation is in fact correct, Rove could be indicted under 18 U.S.C. 1001 for obstruction of justice -- or what us laypeople have aptly coined the "Martha Stewart Crime." Indeed, if Waas's sources are accurate, the Bush administration could be in a world of hurt -- for Rove wouldn't even have to be the actual leaker to be indicted. Fact is, he wouldn't have to have done anything more than what he is already claiming he did...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Frank0720.htm



"Flame" Plame blame game

by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

10/17/05

After spending 85 days in jail, protecting a source that had given her a waiver long ago, New York Times reporter Judith Miller emerged to testify in private, to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's grand jury, and in public, to the readers of the New York Times. We don't know what she said to the grand jury, of course, but if her piece in the Times is any indication, it was no more illuminating -- or credible -- than her previous front-page pieces retailing tall tales told by Iraqi 'defectors' as hard evidence of Saddam's 'weapons of mass destruction.' According to Miller -- who suddenly recalled a previous undisclosed conversation with I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and 'found' her notes -- she told Fitzgerald she didn't recall the name of the person who had disclosed CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to her, even though the phrase 'Valerie Flame' [sic] appears in the same notebook as her notes of her encounter with Libby. 'I simply could not recall where that came from, when I wrote it, or why the name was misspelled'...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7656


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Tariq Ali

On 8 July I wrote that the London bombings were the result of Blair's participation in the Iraq war. The next day the entire media was united in refusing to accept there was any link. They loyally echoed the Government. Blair said there was no link and tried to prove it by arguing that "President Putin opposed the war in Iraq but his country has been subjected to terrorism." He must have thought that British citizens had never heard of Chechnya (Blair had supported Putin's offensive against the Chechens and applauded Russia). But why did these attacks happen? That is the key question which the entire media and the entire political class in this country tried to ignore. They did so because the government and the main opposition party know perfectly well why it happened. They have a guilty conscience. To accept the link meant that the pro-war politicians and newspaper editors were, at the very least, partially responsible...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Ali0720.htm



Making Sense of Terrorism

by Kim Petersen

A US diplomat mused over the surrender of the organs of the US government to the Pentagon. The official arrived at a rationalization: “I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, ‘There’s been a military coup,’ and then it all makes sense.” Sensible or not, people exposed to the lethality of US empire are dying with no near end in sight and there has been no let up in the Iraqi resistance or, as the London bombings indicate, the war on terror. Why it happened does not require anything beyond Stegosaurian cognition. As one Iraqi doctor related, “The U.S. induces aggression. If you don’t attack me, I will never attack you. The U.S. is stimulating the aggression of the Iraqi people!” UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has correctly identified an “extreme and evil ideology” lying at the root of the terror. Where the mendacious Blair erred is exclusively ascribing a “poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam” as being the root cause of the terror. The root cause is rather the insidious ideology of capitalism that spawns imperialism, exploitation, and usurpation of wealth by a few people...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Petersen0720.htm

http://www.zeit.de/2005/43/Strahlen?page=all

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Pressemitteilung/Einladung

http://www.omega-news.info/einladung_weingarten.doc

Diese und andere Fragen erläutert uns am Montag, den 25. Juli um 20:00 Uhr Herr Ulrich Weiner in der Erwachsenen Begegnungsstätte Weingarten (EBW, Sulzburgerstr. 18). Der langjährige Mobilfunktechniker und Unternehmensberater für Telekommunikation spricht über die Möglichkeiten und Risiken des Mobilfunks sowie über Alternativen für Freiburg. Zu Vortrag und Diskussion sind Laien und Nutzer jeden Alters eingeladen. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Dass Aufklärung dringend nötig ist, zeigt die Kontroverse um den geplanten Sendeturm in Haslach/Haid. Hier wurden drei UMTS-Sender genehmigt, die mangels hohen Gebäudes auf einem 45 Meter hohen Betonturm installiert werden sollen. Die Anwohnerschaft protestiert gegen dieses immense Bauvorhaben gleich neben Reihenhäuschen und Spielstraße, da sie die UMTS-Dienste (mobiles Internet) für überflüssig und schädlich hält. Oberbürgermeister Salomon sieht derzeit keine Möglichkeit, den Bau des Sendeturms zu verhindern. Weitere Sender in Wohngebieten sollen folgen. Wollen das die Bürger? – Wyhl lässt grüßen.

Fragen richten Sie bitte an: Tanja Gaudian, Tel. 0761/4702980, tanja@gaudian.de

Weiter Informationen: http://www.gaudian.de , hier dem Link „Sendeturm“ rechts oben folgen

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Macht Mobilfunk krank?

Öffentliche Gemeinderatssitzung Triesen: Vortrag von Hans-Ulrich Jakob

An der gestrigen Sitzung des Triesner Gemeinderats referierte der Messtechniker und Publizist Hans-Ulrich Jakob über die Schwierigkeiten der Grenzwertsenkung und die gesundheitlichen Gefahren des Mobilfunks.

hn.- «Wir erhoffen uns vom Vortrag Entscheidungsgrundlagen und Erkenntnisse über die vermutlich gesundheitsgefährdenden Aspekte des Mobilfunks. In Liechtenstein gibt es zweiundzwanzig Standorte für Antennen, obwohl es gar keine brauchen würde, da diejenigen der Schweiz für uns ausreichen würden», sagte Vorsteher Xaver Hoch in der Einführung zum Vortrag von Hans-Ulrich Jakob, der in Liechtenstein während zwei Jahren der «Arbeitsgruppe zur Schaffung eines Gesetzes für nichtionisierende Strahlung» angehörte.

Schwindel mit Grenzwerten

Hans-Ulrich Jakob, Präsident der Schweizerischen Interessengemeinschaft Elektrosmog-Betroffener, wies auf die Schwierigkeit hin, die Grenzwerte in der Schweiz zu senken: «Das Berner Verwaltungsgericht sagt, die Bevölkerung habe kein Anrecht auf ein Null-Risiko, und der Bundesrat vertritt die Auffassung, solange das Bundesgericht die Grenzwerte anerkenne, sähe er keinen Grund, diese zu senken. Die Grenzwerte gelten zudem nur für Orte mit so genannt empfindlicher Nutzung wie beispielsweise Schul-, Wohn- und Schlafzimmer, nicht aber für Sportplätze, Außenarbeitsplätze und private Kinderspielplätze – also nur dort, wo infolge Gebäudedämpfung die Vorsorgewerte ohnehin automatisch unter zehn Prozent absinken. Das mit diesen Vorsorgewerten ist ein Schwindel.»

Der gelernte Elektrotechniker, der während zwanzig Jahren selbständig ein Ingenieurbüro führte, zeigte daraufhin die Resultate einer im deutschen Bamberg von ortsansässigen Ärzten durchgeführten Studie auf: «Bei einer Strahlenbelastung von weniger als 0.6 Volt pro Meter waren siebzig Prozent der tausend untersuchten Personen ohne Symptome, bei größerer Belastung zeigten sich bei knapp achtzig Prozent Schlafstörungen und Kopfschmerzen. Auch Symptome wie häufige Entzündungen und Schmerzen, Hörverluste und Sehstörungen sowie Herzrhythmusstörungen und Bluthochdruck nahmen mit größerer Belastung deutlich zu. Ein Vergleich im Saarländischen Krebsregister ergab, dass im Nahbereich von Antennen dreimal mehr Krebserkrankungen auftreten als im Fernbereich. Auf das Gefahrenpotenzial des Telefonierens mit dem Handy deutet auch ein Versuch mit Ratten hin: Nach zwei Stunden simulierten Telefonierens lagerten sich im Gehirn giftige Eiweiße ab, die nicht mehr abgebaut werden können.»

Keine einseitige Grenzwertsenkung

In der anschließenden Diskussion erläuterte Hans-Ulrich Jakob, dass eine einseitige Grenzwertsenkung in Liechtenstein keinen Sinn machen würde. «Dazu wäre ein gemeinsames Vorgehen mit den Schweizer Nachbarkantonen nötig. 70 bis 80 Prozent der Bestrahlung kommen aus der Schweiz und aus Österreich», so Hans U. Jakob. Die öffentliche Gemeinderatssitzung wurde live auf dem Triesner Gemeindekanal übertragen und wird von Donnerstag bis Sonntag jeweils um 19 Uhr wiederholt.

Erkrankungen zugenommen

Im persönlichen Gespräch während der Pause forderte Max Heidegger, interessierter Sitzungsbesucher, die Regierung müsse die Grenzwerte auf dem heutigen Stand einfrieren und Verhandlungen aufnehmen, wenn die Schweiz diese Grenzwerte überstrahle. «Die Mobilfunklobby hat bewiesen, dass die jetzigen Grenzwerte ausreichen. Schwerwiegende Erkrankungen haben in den letzten fünf Jahren in Triesner Quartieren mit Antennennähe dramatisch zugenommen», so Max Heidegger.

http://www.vaterland.li/page/lv/artikel_detail.cfm?id=15726


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

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Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

Die Schweizer Grenzwerte: eine Mogelpackung erster Güte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/283430/

Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Macht Mobilfunk krank?
Vortrag von Dr. Ulrich Warnke, Universität des Saarlandes
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/warnke_macht_mobilfunk_krank.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/97vsh


Informant: NHNE

Der erste alternative Weltgesundheitsbericht, der Global Health Watch 2005 - 2006 stellt Informationen und Schlussfolgerungen vieler großer und kleiner Gesundheitsbewegungen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen, Ärzte und Wissenschaftler zusammen. Der Global Health Watch 2005 –2006 hat dabei das Zeug ein vademecum für alle jene zu werden, die nicht nur jammern und hilflos zusehen wollen, wie sich das Menschenrecht auf Gesundheit langsam verabschiedet…

Deutsche Zusammenfassung bei medico international
http://www.medico-international.de/projekte/gesundheit/ghw/index.asp

Englische Vollfassung bei Global Health Watch
http://www.ghwatch.org/2005_report.php


Aus: LabourNet Germany 21. Juli 2005

Existenzgelddebatte

Angriff von innen

Ein bedingungsloses und Existenz sicherndes Grundeinkommen kann die Produktionsverhältnisse grundlegend verändern. Artikel von Ronald Blaschke und Katja Kipping in Jungle World vom 20. Juli 2005

http://jungle-world.com/seiten/2005/29/5928.php


Aus: LabourNet Germany 21. Juli 2005

Symposium on “Coherence and Electromagnetic fields
Thursday July 21st 2005, 8:40 pm

Symposium on “Coherence and Electromagnetic fields in biological systems”, Prague July1-4, 2005 http://www.ure.cas.cz/events/cefbios2005

Among the most intereresting presentations. I.Y. Belyaev et al: “Adverse effects of microwaves from GSM/UMTS mobile phones depend on carrier frequency and type of signal”. They used blood samples from hypersensitive and normal persons in their study. They concluded GSM microwaves from UMTS and GSM mobile phones affect DSB-co-localizing 53BPI and gamma-H2AX foci and chromatin conformation in human lymphocytes. These persistent effects suggest severe stress response and /or DNA damage. Dependence of adverse effects of non-thermal MW’s from GSM/UMTS mobile phones on carrier frequency and type of signal (modulated signals) should be taken into account in settings of safety standards and in planning of in vivo and epidemiological studies. Identification of those frequency channel/bands for mobile communication, which do not affect human cells, was encouraged.

As far as I know this is the first in vitro study on UMTS.

Complete program at http://www.ure.cas.cz/events/cefbios2005

Sianette Kwee

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=151 (excerpt)

CounterPunch
by Alex Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

07/20/05

The prime lobby that should feel gratified by his nomination is of course Big Business, the protection of whose interests has been Roberts chief concern throughout his career, and the protection of whose interests has always been the prime concern of the US Supreme Court. ... Already some seasoned court watchers are saying that Roberts should not be teamed up with the court's two right-wing ultras, Scalia and Thomas, but with the corporate-oriented, pro-big government 'center,' Kennedy and Bryher [sic]. Remember that in the court's last two terrible decisions, on medical marijuana and eminent domain, Kennedy and Bryher [sic] were part of the majority that ruled against the former and in favor of business developers and the local governments that serve their interests. Roberts' record may be opaque when it comes to Roe v Wade but on corporate issues it's as clear as daylight...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07202005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Robert F. Drinan, S.J.

07/20/05

The number of inmates in America's prisons is growing by 900 people each week. The total number, according to the Department of Justice, has reached 2.1 million, or one out of every 138 U.S. residents. A newly established 21-person commission is now studying issues of safety and abuse in America's prisons. Funded by the Vera Institute of Justice, the commission is planning to release its findings in the spring of 2006. It has held hearings in Tampa, Florida, and will conduct sessions in Newark, New Jersey, on July 20; it is also planning sessions in the Midwest and in California. When I read about these developments, I recall all the visits I paid to prisons during the years 1971-81, when I was a member of a congressional committee assigned to monitor the nation's state and federal prisons and jails...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10017


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Emiliano Antunez

07/21/05

Webster's dictionary defines a serf as 'a person in feudal servitude, bound to his master's land.' The word serf conjures up images of shabbily clothed peasants tilling their master's fields or meandering about a medieval village in the shadow of the master's castle. But is serfdom something left behind in antiquity or did it simply metamorphose, making itself unrecognizable to the non-inquiring mind? Serfdom has stealthily survived throughout the ages into the 'modern' era, even here in The United States, the supposed 'home of the free.' Starting with what some (unfortunately not many) would consider the obvious, the Income Tax has turned every wage earner in America into a modern day serf...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/07/21/antunez.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Chris Flloyd

07/20/05

The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: as long as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled again one day with substance. But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series of unchallenged executive orders, perverse Justice Department rulings and court decisions by sycophantic judges who defer to power -- not law -- in their determinations. What we are witnessing is the creation of a 'Commander-in-Chief State,' where the form and pressure of law no longer apply to the president and his designated agents. The rights of individuals are no longer inalienable, nor are their persons inviolable; all depends on the good will of the Commander, the military autocrat...

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd07202005.html

AntiWar.Com
by Nebojsa Malic

07/21/05

By all rights, Richard Holbrooke ought to be a has-been. His 15 minutes of fame were under Clinton, when he emerged from the dark shadows of the American 'foreign policy elite' to spearhead a military and political blitz that ended the Bosnian War on Washington's terms. Less stellar was his failure to bully Slobodan Milosevic into surrendering Kosovo in 1998, which resulted in a war that nearly broke apart NATO. When Bush II claimed the 2000 election, Holbrooke's hopes of succeeding Madeleine Albright as secretary of state sank with Al Gore's presidential dreamboat. A similar shipwreck happened last year, when Holbrooke once again emerged from political obscurity to campaign for John Kerry, attempting to contrast the developing fiasco in Iraq with 'victory' in the Balkans. American voters didn't buy it; unfortunately, Bush II eventually did...

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=6718


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Sun Herald
by Molly Ivins

07/20/05

We suffer the worst attack on this country since Pearl Harbor, and the Bush administration sends the FBI after the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU exists to protect every citizen's rights as defined in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United States. The ACLU works solely through the legal system: It does not advocate violence, terrorism or any other damn thing except the Bill of Rights. Since when is that extremist? I know that sludge-for-brains like Bill O'Reilly attack the ACLU for being 'un-American,' but when Bill O'Reilly's constitutional rights are violated, the ACLU will stand up for him just like they did for Oliver North, Communists, the KKK, atheists, movement conservatives and everyone else they've defended over the years. The premise is easily understood: If the government can take away one person's rights, it can take away everyone's...

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/12174008.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

07/21/05

Liberty For All
by Christy Ann Welty

"Eminent domain is making news lately with the 'Kelo' Supreme Court decision. Most people think road construction is a legitimate use of eminent domain, but in most cases these days, new or bigger roads subsidize the cost of building new housing developments. That makes it more profitable for the developer and cheaper for the new homeowner at the expense of the original owner of the land which was taken for the road. The bottom line is that private land is taken for the profit of very few private parties (the developer and possibly the developer's clients)...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/july24/Roads.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

07/20/05

The other day, the new secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, scrapped the moronic rule requiring everyone to stay seated for 30 minutes coming in or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The premise of the rule, enacted after 9/11, was that if everyone remained in their seats, it would be illegal for a terrorist to rush the cockpit. Apparently, it didn't occur to the genius who wrote the order that only law-abiding citizens would obey. It's a perfect, if small, example of the idiocy of unchecked state power. ... As his reason for granting relief, so to speak, Chertoff disingenuously declared that security conditions had improved. This was the week of the London bombings. ... It's a small example of a terrible trend -- the relentless accumulation of arbitrary authority and the slow erosion of liberties...

http://tinyurl.com/bzzhs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

07/20/05

Under fire for presidential adviser Karl Rove's role in the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity, the Bush administration today labeled as 'bad public policy' legislation to protect reporters from being jailed when they refuse to reveal their sources. Deputy Attorney General James Comey canceled his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee just before a hearing on this issue was to commence this morning...

http://tinyurl.com/bamtk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

07/20/05

Two Afghans released from Guantanamo Bay claimed Wednesday about 180 Afghans at the U.S. detention facility were on a hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment and to push for freedom. Habir Russol and Moheb Ullah Borekzai, who said they left the prison camp on Cuba on Monday and were flown to Afghanistan before being freed, said they did not participate in the hunger strike. They did not say how they knew others were refusing to eat...

http://tinyurl.com/8uc28


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Up Against the Law

07/20/05

As part of the ongoing FOIA litigation on behalf of the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, a whole slew of the unreleased photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib are set to be released on Friday. These are the photographs and videos that were shown to the closed session of Congress, which reportedly include videos and photographs of the rape of detainees, including the rape of a male minor being held at the facility...

http://tinyurl.com/dojhj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Yahoo! News

07/20/05

Calls for an early withdrawal from Iraq are a mistake that will only embolden terrorists, the House resolved Wednesday. The resolution drew opposition from Democrats, who said it implied that questioning President Bush's Iraq policies is unpatriotic. The measure, approved 291-137, says the United States should leave Iraq only when national security and foreign policy goals related to a free and stable Iraq have been achieved. The GOP-controlled House also voted 304-124 to accept another contentious amendment stating that the detention and lawful interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo is essential to the war on terrorism. Some critics of reported prisoner abuse and lack of legal recourse for detainees have called for Guantanamo to be closed...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_go_co/congress_iraq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Ex-officers: CIA leak may have harmed US
CNN

07/20/05

Eleven former intelligence officers say the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity may have damaged national security and the government's ability to gather intelligence. The former officers made their views known in a three-page statement to congressional leaders. They said the Republican National Committee has circulated suggestions for officials to deal with the Plame case by focusing on the idea that Plame was not working undercover and legally merited no protection.

http://tinyurl.com/859jj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"Im Namen des Volkes" hat die 11. Zivilkammer des Landgerichts Duisburg eine Klage von Brigitte Diesterhöft aus Röttgersbach abgewiesen. Sie und ihre Nachbarn Müller wollten gemeinsam Funkantennen von D 2, die in ihrer Nachbarschaft stehen, stilllegen lassen.

"Ich habe mich längere Zeit gewundert, warum ich Herz-Rhythmus-Störungen habe, warum mir so oft schwindelig ist, warum ich so oft Infekte bekomme", sagt PDS-Ratsfrau Diesterhöft, die Am Kreyenbergshof wohnt. Medizinisch sei, so die ärztlichen Untersuchungen, alles in Ordnung, berichtet sie weiter. Also ließ sie nachforschen, warum sie ständig das Gefühl hatte, "unter Strom zu stehen".

Ein Blick in die Nachbarschaft machte sie stutzig: Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre waren auf dem Dach des nahen Hochhauses Am Hüskenbusch 2 immer mehr Antennen für den Mobilfunk aufgestellt worden. Zwölf Antennen habe man D 2 genehmigt, sagt ein Sprecher der Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft (LEG), die Eigentümerin des Mehrfamilienhauses ist. In Betrieb seien derzeit neun. D 2 Vodafone streitet ab, so viele Antennen dort zu betreiben. Auch andere Netzanbieter hätten dort ihre Sendeanlagen - die LEG weiß davon nichts.

Nicht nur Diesterhöft leidet, wie sie sagt, unter den Funkstrahlen der gerade mal 35 Meter von ihrem Wohnzimmer entfernt installierten Antennen. Auch ihre Nachbarn Müller sind betroffen. "Unsere Kinder leiden unter Schlafstörungen, haben häufig Kopfschmerzen." Der einzige sichere Raum in ihrem Haus, sagt Doris Müller, sei im Keller: Dort sei deshalb schon das Nachtlager der Mutter eingerichtet worden.

In ihrem Arbeitszimmer, also dem Raum, der den Antennen am nächsten ist, und im Garten mag sich Diesterhöft schon gar nicht mehr aufhalten. Sie hat die Strahlenbelastung dort und in allen anderen Räumen messen lassen. Ergebnis: In den "Gartenzimmern" liegt die Belastung bei 820 bis 1300 Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter. Im Freien ist die Strahlung genauso hoch. Deutlich geringer ist sie im Erdgeschoss - vermutlich, so Diesterhöft, weil die Hauptfunkwellen in größerer Höhe verliefen. Sehr gering belastet sind Gäste-WC, der Keller und die andere Seite ihres Gebäudes, also an der Haustür. Dort stellten die Umweltanalytiker 2 bis 10 Mikrowatt fest.

Für Diesterhöft und ihre Nachbarn Grund genug, das Abschalten der Anlagen zu verlangen. Oder aber den Betreiber zumindest zu verpflichten, eine fachgerechte Abschirmung mit zu finanzieren.

Da spielte das Gericht nicht mit. Es folgte den deutschen Richtlinien, wonach die Mobilfunk-Grenzwerte bei 9000 Mikrowatt liegen (siehe Flyer der Duisburger Bürgerinitiative Elektrosmog/Mobilfunk: Krank durch Mobilfunkstrahlen). Die Röttgersbacherin allerdings fordert, dass diese Richtwerte gesenkt werden. Denn: Bereits bei einer Funkleistung von 0,001 Prozent der jetzigen funktioniere die Mobiltelefonie.

Vodafone und LEG bleiben nach der abgewiesenen Klage hart: Sie wollen den Klägern nicht entgegenkommen, auch nicht durch Kostenbeteiligung für Abschirmmaßnahmen (z.B. Spezialfenster und Wandverkleidungen). D 2-Sprecherin Sabine Goossens: "Die Sorge der Bürger ist unberechtigt. Wir halten die Grenzwerte ein und unterschreiten sie auch oft. Vom Mobilfunk geht keine Gefahr aus." Und die LEG sagt: "Wir sind nur die Vermieter und nicht für den Betrieb der Anlagen zuständig."

Omega es stimmt nicht, dass vom Mobilfunk keine Gefahr ausgeht. Siehe Mobilfunk und Gesundheit unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/303598/ und „Grenzwerte und Mobilfunk“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/242821/

19.07.2005 Von Gregor Herberhold

http://www.nrz.de/nrz/nrz.nachbarstadt.volltext.php?kennung=on1wazLOKStaHamborn38550&zulieferer=waz&kategorie=LOK&rubrik=Stadt%AEion=Hamborn&auftritt=NRZ&dbserver=1


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