by John Edwards, TomPaine.com

As we mark the anniversaries of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a critical battle is underway about how to fight poverty in America.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050810/restoring_americas_promise.php

W. can't get no satisfaction on Iraq, writes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. There's an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005O.shtml


Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Like a live hand grenade brought home from a distant battlefield, the 34-year-old antiwar documentary "Winter Soldier" has been handled for decades as if it could explode at any moment.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005N.shtml

It seems unimaginable that the world would be forced to endure the horror of nuclear war in a regional dispute, writes Professor Michael Schwartz. However, the record of Bush administration belligerence makes it difficult to imagine America's top leadership giving up the ambition of toppling the Islamic regime in Iran.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005M.shtml

The thought of secret hearings in which the accused would not hear the cases against them filled her with dread, said the director of Liberty.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005L.shtml

No mother who lost her son to this Iraq war should be made to stand in a ditch, writes TO contributor William Rivers Pitt. And yet that is exactly where Cindy Sheehan stands today, by the side of the road in Crawford, Texas.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081005I.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Wirtschaftsforscher: Kosten des Klimawandels und der Klimapolitik (10.08.05)

Die ökonomischen Schäden durch extreme Wetterereignisse haben nach Auffassung des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten enorm zugenommen. Dies sei eine Folge des globalen Klimawandels. Ohne eine Stabilisierung der Treibhausgaskonzentration auf dem heutigen Niveau seien deshalb zunehmend irreversible und gefährliche Klimaschäden zu befürchten, meinen die Wirtschaftsforscher und plädieren für eine "schnell aktiv werdende Klimaschutzpolitik". Diese könne gesamtwirtschaftliche Schäden von bis zu 200 Billionen US-Dollar bis zum Jahre 2050 abwenden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11592

Abschiebungshaft: "Das Vorgehen gegenüber Flüchtlingen wird immer brutaler" (10.08.05)

Nach Auffassung der Menschenrechtsorganisation "Pro Asyl" wird das Vorgehen gegenüber Flüchtlingen immer brutaler. Im Fall einer schwer traumatisierten Flüchtlingsfrau aus Tschetschenien werde der Suizidversuch dieser Frau als Argument "missbraucht", sie in Abschiebungshaft zu nehmen. Den zuständigen Gerichten werden rechtswidrige Entscheidungen vorgeworfen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11593

Umfragen & Medien: Deutsche haben scheinbar kaum noch Vertrauen in Politiker (10.08.05)

Nach einer am Mittwoch veröffentlichten Umfrage von TNS Emnid im Auftrag von "Reader's Digest" hat das Ansehen der Politiker im deutschen Volk ein Rekordtief erreicht. Nur noch 17 Prozent der Bürger sollen Vertrauen in die politischen Parteien haben, vor zehn Jahren seien es noch 41 Prozent gewesen. Nach der Umfrage vermissen die Deutschen an ihren Politikern vor allem Glaubwürdigkeit, Ehrlichkeit, Sparsamkeit, Prinzipientreue und Kompetenz. Medien berichten meist kritiklos über derartige Umfragen. Selbstkritik ist kein Thema, dabei entscheiden gerade die Medien über ihre oftmals subtile Berichterstattung maßgeblich mit, welche Politiker populär werden und welche nicht. Wie oft werden gerade in Medienberichten kompetente und prinzipientreue Politiker verhöhnt? Wie oft werden Abweichler in Fraktionen gerade in Medienberichten kritisiert und das Ausüben von Druck durch Fraktionsvorsitzende gerühmt? Kann eine derartige Berichterstattung ohne Einfluss darauf bleiben, welche politischen Inhalte sich letztlich durchsetzen? Kürzlich beklagte sich selbst der einstige "Medienkanzler" Gerhard Schröder über eine Kampagne der Medien gegen ihn.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11600

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Politischer Nachschlag:


Da wir die Merkel verstoibert, die Ostdeutschen pauschal diskriminiert, und wenigen nur fällt auf, dass die Ehrlichkeit in der politischen Klasse, meist in diesen Faux pas zu erkennen ist.

Ja, so wird gedacht, so wird gefühlt und so wird lange stillgehalten. Doch dann in eigener Runde bricht es hervor. Erst etwas, dann mehr und auf einmal deutlich.

Machen wir uns bewusst, dass der Irak 1 Krieg mit unseren Steuermitteln bezahlt wurde, dass wir bis heute danke der Regierung Kohl / Merkel noch Zinsen dafür bezahlen. Denken wir an den Knebel für die Wissenschaft bei der Grenzwertverabschiedung bzgl. Elektrosmog, da durfte unter Merkel keiner von den altbekannten und gefährlichen athermischen Wirkungen sprechen, - sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft.

Primitiv und einfältig - sage ich dazu!

Und nun sollen uns 2 % MWSt zur Brutto/ Nettolohnsenkung oder wer weiß auch was das bedeutet, aufgebrummt, und nach nem Jahr sollen diese 16 Milliarden Euro zukünftig die Kinderkrankenversicherung begleichen.

Toll, - wer rechnen kann und dann mit Bilanzierung etwas vertraut ist, erkennt, dass Kinderspielzeug teuer werden wird, genauso wie Auto, Sprit und vieles, und die Gutschrift erfolgt auf Unternehmerseite.

Gut, wenn es dann noch einen Mittelstand gibt, der dann auch ARBEITSPLÄTZE DRAUS MACHT, schlecht, wenn da wieder die Kapitalgesellschaften abkassieren.

Mann, oder Frau - wann wird bewust, dass nur durch Innovation erträgliches Wachstum entsteht?

Lasst uns mit den Techniken des ausgehenden 19 Jhds. aufhören, entwickelt endlich zukunftsfähige, nachhaltige und auch unseren Enkeln gegenüber verantwortbare Technologien, von Energie bis zur Entsorgung.

Die Grünen, man kann sie mögen, oder auch nicht, die haben als eine der wenigen bekannten Parteien eine echte Zukunftsvision, da blühen nicht mehr nur Sonnenblumen, obwohl das Bild aktueller ist als früher. Pflanzenöle, Bioalkohole statt Terror und feinstauberzeugende Erdölprodukte (bei Einsatz anstatt Erdöl Diesel 70 % weniger Feinstaub im Abgas!).

Sonnenstrom statt Leukämie- schaffenden Atomanlagen. Weshalb kann man in den Flüssen wieder baden, weshalb gibt es wieder Lachse in Deutschland, und warum wird die Energie immer effektiver genutzt?

Weil es die Grünen gibt, die den eingelaufenen Systemen oft moderne Strategien entgegensetzen.

Auch wenn ein Hr. Tritt - ihn wirklich Umenge an Kritik verdient, er ist konsequent und einer der wenigen, der von davor bis danach bei seinen Überzeugungen bleibt und diese taktisch geschickt umsetzt und zum Sinn führt.

Also, lasst euch nicht verMerkeln und verStoibern, denkt an die Kinder, und hinterfragt die Statements und Behauptungen, denn BILD - dir deine eigenen Meinung, und kauf dir nicht die vorverdaute und wieder ans Tageslicht beförderte Springer Weltsicht.


bs 12-8-2005

10.08.05

Die Wiener Ärztekammer warnt ausdrücklich vor übermäßigem Handytelefonieren vor allem bei Kindern. Grundlage dafür ist die kürzlich präsentierte "Reflex-Studie", in der ein gentoxischer Effekt von Mobilfunkstrahlen nachgewiesen worden sein soll. Als erste Konsequenz daraus hat nun die Ärztekammer einen Leitlinienkatalog erstellt, der konkrete Verhaltensregeln im Umgang mit Handys empfiehlt.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11595

The purpose of the Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions (PEHI) is to put together the entire spectrum of hidden organizations and secret societies. Most of you who visit this site have probably heard of the more well-known 'secret societies' like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bohemian Grove, and the Skull & Bones student society. Two other well known 'secret societies' are Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission. The thing is, when you really research these institutes you find that members often disagree with each other, there's considerable infighting, and most members don't seem to be privy to a lot of information from the black world. This is the reason I always wondered how people went from the above organizations straight to the very undefined concept of the 'Illuminati'. Of course, I can see something very strange is going on. For some reason it's possible to suppress information about humanities past, the UFO phenomenon, the supernatural, high profile assassinations, or the true cause of many terrorist attacks. Rather than focusing on one tiny subject, PEHI will attempt to answer how all the above is possible and which persons and institutes are responsible for it.

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/index.html


Informant: di

Bundesinnenminister Schily feiert eine Großrazzia gegen drei illegale Einwanderer.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20692/1.html

Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit beauftragt Call Center, Leistungsempfänger telefonisch zu ihren Daten zu befragen, und untergräbt damit das sowieso nur ansatzweise vorhandene Datenschutzbewusstsein.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20704/1.html

Article in the telegraph yesterday says airline pilots are 3 times more likely than other people to contract the most common form of cataract. This is believed to be caused by cosmic radiation. I believe I read in a Neil Cherry report that there are high numbers of breast cancer in air hostesses for the same reason. If they are going to put masts in planes what will happen to them then.

sue g

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Once again, this makes me wonder whether superoxide air ions in the enclosed aircraft atmospheres plays a role, reacting with exhaled nitric oxide:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12589772&dopt=Abstract

May nitric oxide molecule have a role in the pathogenesis of human cataract?

Why is this interesting? Because EMFs alter the natural balance of the small air ions that are so essential to life they are artificially introduced into space craft to keep astronauts alive and well!

So yes, adding further microwaves is asking for trouble unless the issue of air ions is taken into account.

More sample sources re eyes and microwaves and nitric oxide at:
http://www.tetrawatch.net/links/links.php?id=health&list=no

Andy

http://www.wfg-gk.de/mobiltelefon4.html
http://www.wfg-gk.de/mobiltelefon.html

Auch Martin Bott hat mir kürzlich gesagt, dass überall im Land Sendemasten errichtet werden, die keine Mobilfunk- sondern Radarantennen tragen und für die keine entsprechenden Standortgenehmigungen der RegTp vorlägen. Es könne sich nur um militärische/geheimdienstliche Anlagen handeln. In ihrem Buch schreiben die Brüder Bott dazu: „In Deutschland finden sich solche Anlagen fast flächendeckend. Überraschend ist, dass diese Antennen inzwischen nicht mehr ausschließlich verdeckt angebracht werden, wie das wohl früher der Fall war. Allerdings sind diese Antennenanlagen im Gegensatz zu Mobilfunk, Amateurfunk- und Rundfunkantennen ohne jeglichen Hinweis auf den Betreiber. Diese Radaranlagen dienen der geheimen und illegalen Überwachung der Bevölkerung. Für illegale Überwachung der Bevölkerung sind Bundesnachrichtendienst und Verfassungsschutz zuständig. Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt gehen wir davon aus, dass diese Anlagen alleine der Überwachung dienen. Es kann natürlich nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass mit ihnen auch Radiofrequenzstrahlung als Waffe eingesetzt wird.“ (Markus und Martin Bott: Der totalitäre Staat, Straubenhardt-Langenalb 2004, S. 282)


Ruth Gill

David Hook is a comedian with brain cancer he believes occurred as result of cell phone usage. As we all know, if this happens in 30 year olds, imagine how many children may die from cell phone use even before actual brain cancer is diagnosed? Large numbers of young persons turn to drugs due to depression that may lead to suicide.

Similar scenarios apply to other situations involving "chronic, prolonged EMR exposures at low levels" including bedside appliances/telephone equipment, high frequencies on electrical wiring see http://www.electricalpollution.com , telecommunications antennae and possibly homes that are less than 300 ft. from high voltage powerlines see http://www.powerlinefacts.com and click on 2002 EMF California Report. Such exposures promote health problems ranging all the way from poor sleep to cancer as result of chronic inflammation.

I sure hope we are successful in "retiring Repacholi!!!!" Take care - Joanne

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


Petition to remove Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/877606/

http://tinyurl.com/c9mdq



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Dear Iris,

I certainly agree with starting from true life and real problems, I have argued exactly that model for decades in Sweden.

I would like to promote research to find out the real cause of EHS people's reactions. In this way, one could initiate well conducted studies and draw conclusions from true science. For instance, one needs to make a thorough, complete health survey of EHS persons to find biological and clinical differences, these can then later on be used as scientific "handles" to further clarify the EHS symptoms and to build grounds for a treatment strategy (the "treatment" could, of course, be to entirely remove all microwave sources).

Maybe, dear Iris, you want to add these papers to your list, they are ecological investigations - as you know - so they have perhaps an ever greater impact on the whole issue.

Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Does GSM 1800 MHz affect the public health in Sweden?", In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop "Biological Effects of EMFs", Kos, Greece, October 4-8, 2004

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

Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Long-term sickness and mobile phone use", J Aust Coll Nutr & Env Med, 2004; 23: 11-12

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

Best regards Yours Olle

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


From Iris Atzmon

Niagra Falls Reporter
by Bill Gallagher

08/09/05

The worst commander in chief in American history is relaxing, escaping from reality, and enjoying his five-week vacation down on the ranch. Maybe he should spend a little time reviewing his war plan for prevailing in Iraq, thinking of a way to end the carnage and get U.S. troops home safely. Such a review is clearly in order, but don't count on this commander in chief questioning his own judgments and actually considering the possibility that he's made horrible mistakes and miscalculations. The war in Iraq is all about politics, and George W. Bush practices the politics of Karl Rove. Change the focus. Change the debate. Confuse and conquer. Call what you're doing something else. But even when the overwhelming evidence points to grievous error, never admit it...

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher225.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Greg Moses

08/09/05

When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: 'I'm going up there. We have to drop everything and go.' At the Sam's Club of all places, says Robert, he nearly broke down crying while he was shopping Monday morning thinking about what Sheehan was doing in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq last April. 'She's a strong woman,' says Robert via cell phone as he drives back home Monday night. 'She feels she has been wronged. She feels her son has been wronged. And she feels like this whole occupation of Iraq is wrong. She is strong and powerful enough to take a stand. When I see it, it just strikes a chord. She's speaking truth to power. That's it. David and Goliath.' [editor's note: Sheehan's vigil is making headline news around the country; her son would be very proud. This is a wonderful example of what one brave, determined individual can do to mobilize others. See "Military families to join Sheehan in Texas" at http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=51471 - MLS]

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0809-21.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Salon
by Eric Boehlert

08/10/05

Taking peculiar pleasure in trying to discredit the small-town mother, right-wingers have been in a tizzy over what they perceive as a flip-flop by [Gold Star Mother Cindy]Sheehan on Iraq. They excitedly reassure themselves that her alleged inconsistency about the war ought to disqualify her from being a legitimate war critic. Problem is, the oddly playful bloggers, busy mocking Sheehan as a 'crazy,' 'exploited,' 'left-wing moonbat,' aren't really staring down a lone mother who may or may not have shifted her opinion about Bush and the war since 2004. If the Republican National Committee-fed bloggers looked up from their monitors for a few seconds, they might realize that when they're done with Sheehan they're going to have to discredit a few million other Americans -- because, as recent polls indicate, they, like Sheehan, have turned on the war and place the blame for the mess squarely on Bush's shoulders... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/09/sheehan_protest/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp




Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/10/05

Sweet neocons, why are you soooooooo wrong? The answer is they're never wrong -- in any conflict between reality and their 'idealistic' philosophy, it is the former that must give way. As war clouds hover darkly over Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, and the first few premonitory bolts of lightning split the sky, another Jagger song rises up from the vale of memory, like a ghost mocking us down through the years .... I have no sympathy for the Devil, but I want to understand him: these days a thorough familiarity with evil is absolutely necessary, and not only for us pundits. Toward that end, the lyrics of Jagger's 1968 hit song might almost be taken for a narrative about the long and treacherous history of the neoconservative cult, from its origins on the radical Left ...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6914


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times

08/09/05

NARAL Pro-Choice America [Monday] began airing nationwide a TV advertisement criticizing federal Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s involvement in an abortion case. The spot, part of a $500,000 campaign, is the first major advertisement that is explicitly critical of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, accusing him of aiding an abortion-clinic bomber. 'We believe in a culture of personal freedom and personal responsibility,' said NARAL President Nancy Keenan. 'As an advocacy organization, it is our job to let the American people know that John Roberts' record demonstrates hostility toward these core values'...

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050808-093037-2806r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Raleigh News & Observer

08/09/05

Howard Dean gives Republicans credit for one thing: They have put the Democrats on the defensive and forced them to fight on their turf. That, he said, is about to change. ... Dean detailed his 50-state strategy to hire and finance from national coffers organizers in every state, saying that the party is on track to have organizers in every state by the end of the year. 'Vote by vote, precinct by precinct, door by door, year by year and election by election, we will take this country back for the people who built it,' he said...

http://newsobserver.com/24hour/politics/story/2619879p-11089886c.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/005316


From ECOTERRA Intl.

http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2084
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3439


Informant: Charles Bremer

Sooner or later, the links between base station emissions and adverse health effects will be established beyond any doubt (even that of the HPA) and it will be impossible for HMG to deny reality. Meanwhile, pressure should be applied on the Government by every available means to force a complete rewrite of planning policy relating to telecoms installations - the provisions of the Spring and Stunell private members' bills would constitute an appropriate starting point. There is evidence that more and more MPs are taking an interest in the concerns of their constituents about masts and it is imperative to keep pushing them - both in terms of circulating to them the results of new scientific research as and when it is published, and continuing to call for changes to policy and associated regulations.

At the same time, we must work on the local authorities. Far too many council executives and their planning officers appear to take the view that it is they who make the decisions at local government level. Their modus operandi oft stresses that elected members should not interfere with the decision making process and comprises the issue of barely hidden threats against any councillors having the temerity to question this supposed primacy. The truth is, of course, that these officials are merely advisers; it is the elected members who are the decision makers, responsible for considering the advice given but also taking into full account the views expressed by their electorate. As an example of but one illustration of how processes have become warped, I was recently involved in a prolonged exchange with a campaign group. At issue was a proposal for a 15 metre free-standing mobile phone mast - with a determination of 'prior approval' to be considered under the provisions of the GPDO (General Permitted Development Order). It was clearly most important for this to go to committee. During negotiations with council officials, the group was informed that the proposal could not go before a planning committee because of "the statutory requirment for all applications for prior approval to be determined by the chief planning officer under delegated authority". There is, of course, no such statutory requirement. There might, just might, be a local arrangement whereby councillors have given their officials such powers as a means of filtering business, but what is given can quite easily be taken away! I explained the reality to three local councillors purporting to be in strong support of the local campaign group. All to no avail. Despite intense pressure from the group, they elected to accept the words of the Chief Planning Officer at face value and took no action to ensure committee consideration. The application was duly approved.

In my view, the councillors concerned abrogated their responsibilities to their electorate - but this sort of thing goes on all the time. Accordingly, we must ensure by all possible means that councillors fully understand their role as elected members and the relationship that should exist between themselves and the 'paid help'. I would contend that their responsibility to the electorate that voted them in should in many areas transcend other considerations. If more councillors were to stand up and be counted - in other words support local people in refusing mast applications regardless of central government policy as articulated in PPG 8 - the message simply could not be ignored. Were just about every application to be refused, the Planning Inspectorate would grind to a halt and HMG would be forced out of its complacency. Albeit through local councillors, the people would have spoken and their message heard!

As one member of the public was moved to plea during last month's Forum in the House of Commons: "Please can we have our democracy back!"

I don't suppose that this helps much but for what it's worth...

David

Funkloch in Wachenheim

„Verständnis für Widerstand"

Zum Artikel „Widerstand gegen Mobilfunkanlagen regt sich" in unserer Ausgabe vom 9. August, der sich mit der Aufstellung von Sendeantennen im Turm der Lutherischen Kirche in Wachenheim beschäftigt.

„Die Erreichbarkeit per Mobilfunk muss überall gegeben sein", erklärt Bürgermeister Nagel in Wachenheim, am liebsten unsichtbar und deshalb wählt man einfach die Kirchtürme dafür aus. So geschah es auch in Bad Dürkheim. Klammheimlich hat man im Turm der Burgkirche eine Mobilfunkanlage eingebaut und vor einigen Monaten noch eine weitere Antenne dazu. Nachbarn und Bürger hatten darauf keinen Einfluss. Niemand der Verantwortlichen fragt nach den großen Problemen, die uns diese Antennen pausenlos bringen. Es gibt keine einzige Nacht, in der wir in Ruhe durchschlafen können. Die Ausstrahlung dieser Antennen raubt uns die Nachtruhe. Ärzte und unabhängige Wissenschaftler warnen vor Folgekrankheiten wie zum Beispiel Krebs. Als simple Antwort hört man von den Betreibern der Mobilfunkanlagen, dass die Grenzwerte in der Belastbarkeit der Bürger eingehalten werden.

Jeder Mensch reagiert anders. Es gibt keine Norm für Belastbarkeit! Unser Schlafzimmer ist zirka 50 Meter vom Turm mit den Antennen entfernt. Wir wissen, was auf die Wachenheimer Bürger zu kommen wird und haben vollstes Verständnis, wenn sie gegen diese Antenne in der Stadtmitte, zwischen den Häusern Sturm laufen.

Heinz und Herta Karst, Bad Dürkheim

Quelle: Publikation: DIE RHEINPFALZ, Regionalausgabe: Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung, Nr.184, Datum: Mittwoch, den 10. August 2005, Seite: Nr.12


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

The Franklin indictment is a sign that Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050808/cm_thenation/311020


From Information Clearing House

I'm not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other.

http://snipurl.com/gtxu


From Information Clearing House

Should anyone be surprised by this national resolve, given that these wars visit no sacrifice of any sort -- neither blood nor angst nor taxes -- on well over 95 percent of the American people?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9720.htm

Dr. Reinhardt said the majority of Americans are insulated from the human pain and financial cost, thus it’s easy for them to back the war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9719.htm

A Report from the Vigil in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9716.htm



From Information Clearing House

The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9718.htm



Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine:

It's truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi's Salt March to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win -- when truth and justice is on his or her side.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html



Sheehan Draws Tears of Support:

When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.”

http://peacefile.org/wordpress/?p=222



To All Conscious Americans
http://benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=329


From Information Clearing House



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

A Gallup survey last week found that a majority of Americans - 51 percent - now believe that Bush "deliberately misled the people when he asserted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."

http://snipurl.com/gtxc


From Information Clearing House

"The reason they shot us is just because the Americans are reckless," the general said from his hospital bed hours after the July 6 shooting, his head wrapped in a white bandage. "Nobody punishes them or blames them."

http://snipurl.com/gtx8


From Information Clearing House

If the US Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9712.htm

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban

Humanity has paid a high price fighting racism and discrimination over centuries; how could we loose the battle today to similar ideologies covered up in the cloaks of "freedom" and "democracy?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9710.htm

By Saul Landau

In my America, shopping is the universal spiritual value. Maybe add flag waving and barbecues! But globalization means spreading a culture of corporate brand names and 24/7 sales pitches. Rogue States who refuse to embrace this order are targets of regime change.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9711.htm

Whether we like it or not, the nation’s capital is the mirror image of the rest of the country

By Manuel Valenzuela

Washington, like ancient Rome before it, has become, through the course of years breathing the airs of moral degeneration, corruption and greed, the monument for all that is wrong with the nation it represents, a new symbol of debauchery and immorality, a decadent city on a hill whose once noble foundations are now cracking under the weight of unscrupulous entities and malfeasant activities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9713.htm

Four years, two failed conference attempts and one filibuster after the Republican leadership first introduced the Bush-backed energy bill into Congress, the controversial legislation was signed into law Monday by the president, yielding a major victory for the White House - and exposing the continued inability of Democrats to rally around a unified vision and stay on message.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080905EA.shtml

From: Robert Muller Mail1@GoodMorningWorld.org http://goodmorningworld.org/

[GMW #749] World Security With Total Elimination Of All Nuclear Arms

Ending War ~ Idea 2987 ~ I was happy to learn that General Butler, former US High Commander of all American nuclear arms and six other US generals have recommended the total elimination of all nuclear armaments on planet Earth.

May I suggest to them a way of getting there: the United Nations Charter provides that the chiefs of armies of the five permanent members of the Security Council should meet in a UN Military Staff Committee which would work out a World Security System whereafter they would disarm the planet. The cold war alas prevented that course from being pursued.

I recommend that General Butler and his colleagues set up a shadow UN Military Staff Committee, work out a World Security System and world disarmament plan and offer them the whole membership of the United Nations.


Informant: Martin Greenhut

SPREAD THE WORD! ~ GEORGE BUSH, TALK TO CINDY!

George Bush is on vacation. ~ Cindy Sheehan is on his case.

Cindy is the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, KIA at Sadr City on April 4, 2004, and a co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace: http://www.gsfp.org/

Cindy is at the gates of Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas to demand that he explain to her –face to face– why Casey had to die. Bush is refusing to come out. Cindy says she's staying until Bush talks to her or leaves.

700 hits for "Cindy Sheehan" on Google News!!! - Link below.
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We can help Cindy Sheehan turn the heat up on Bush.

1-Email the White House : comments@whitehouse.gov Send a simple three-word message, "Talk to Cindy!"

2-Call the White House comment line (202) 456-1111

and/or send a postcard to: George Bush, The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 with the same three word message.

3-Spread the word! Send this appeal to your friends, to email lists, to blogs. Post it on websites.

Let's swamp the White House with our simple three word demand: TALK TO CINDY!


Help support Cindy Sheehan, financially or in some other way – Go to: Gold Star Families: http://www.gsfp.org/


What One Mom Has to Say to George Bush

© 2005 by Mike Ferner

“That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war,” Cindy Sheehan told 200 cheering members of Veterans For Peace at their annual convention in Dallas last Friday evening. She then announced she would go to Bush’s vacation home in nearby Crawford, Texas and camp out until he “tells me why my son died in Iraq. I’ve got the whole month of August off, and so does he.”

Sheehan left the VFP meeting on Saturday morning and is now in Crawford with a couple dozen veterans and local peace activists, waiting for Bush to talk with her. She said in Dallas that if he sends anyone else to see her, as happened when national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin did later that day, she would demand that “You get that maniac out here to talk with me in person.”

She told the audience of veterans from World War Two to today’s war in Iraq, that the two main things she plans to tell the man she holds responsible for son Casey’s death are “Quit saying that U.S. troops died for a noble cause in Iraq, unless you say, ‘well, except for Casey Sheehan.’ Don’t you dare spill any more blood in Casey’s name. You do not have permission to use my son’s name.”

“And the other thing I want him to tell me is ‘just what was the noble cause Casey died for?’ Was it freedom and democracy? Bullshit! He died for oil. He died to make your friends richer. He died to expand American imperialism in the Middle East. We’re not freer here, thanks to your PATRIOT Act. Iraq is not free. You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll stop the terrorism,” she exclaimed.

“There, I used the ‘I’ word – imperialism,” the 48 year-old mother quipped. “And now I’m going to use another ‘I’ word – impeachment – because we cannot have these people pardoned. They need to be tried on war crimes and go to jail.”

As the veterans in Dallas rose to their feet, Sheehan said defiantly, “My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny...you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we’ll put this war on trial.”

The co-founder of Gold Star Mothers for Peace objected to hearing that her son was among the soldiers lost in Iraq. “He’s not lost,” she said tearfully. “He’s dead. He became an angel while I was sleeping.”

She railed against the notion expressed by officials in the Bush administration that bringing the troops home now would dishonor the sacrifice of those who have died. “By sending honorable people to die, they so dishonor themselves. They say we must complete our mission…but why would I want one more mother to go through what I have, just because my son is dead?”

The Vacaville, California resident said she first heard of Veterans For Peace in early May last year, during a CNN report about an exhibit of white crosses arranged in rows in the Santa Barbara beach. The exhibit was organized by VFP Chapter 54 to memorialize each U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. Her son had died the month before. “I decided there was only one place I wanted to be on Mother’s Day that year, and it was Santa Barbara ,” she told the VFP members in Dallas.

Retired Special Forces Sgt. and VFP member, Stan Goff, today initiated a “Talk to Cindy” campaign to get Bush to meet with Sheehan. Contact information for the White House is: (202) 456-1111 or comments@whitehouse.gov


Informant: Frank



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You are urged to sign the appeal below. Please Join this Appeal to take Nuclear Weapons off Hairtrigger Alert if you have not already done so.

To sign please email: foesyd4@ihug.com.au If you have already endorsed it please delete (you may wish to check that you are correctly shown)

Appeal by 44 Nobel Prizewinners including Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Joseph Rotblat and Jose Ramos-Horta, 288 Parliamentarians and NGOs, endorsed by the European Parliament and the Australian Senate on March 10 2005, to lower the operating status of nuclear weapons systems.

Contains: --Statement of Endorsement --Model for a draft resolution for UN General Assembly First Committee --List of supporting organisations, and individuals including 44 nobels , and 237 NGOs and Parliamentarians.

Appeal by 44 Nobel Prizewinners, 288 Parliamentarians and NGOs, endorsed by the European Parliament and the Australian Senate on March 10 2005, to lower the operating status of nuclear weapons systems.

Contains: --Statement of Endorsement --Model for a draft resolution for UN General Assembly First Committee --List of supporting organisations, and individuals including 44 nobels , and 288 NGOs and Parliamentarians.

STATEMENT OF ENDORSEMENT

The Distinguished individuals and organisations below, make the following appeal concerning nuclear weapons, and the danger posed by the maintenance of thousands of nuclear warheads and delivery systems on launch-on-warning status.

We call on the governments of the United States, Russia, China, France, and the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to support and implement steps to lower the operational status of nuclear weapon systems in order to reduce the risk of nuclear catastrophe and as part of their obligations, affirmed by the International Court of Justice, to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons under strict and effective international control.

We note that:

1) To this day, thousands of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia are on Launch-on-warning status, and that the megatonnage involved remains more than enough to destroy civilisation and perhaps the human race.

2) That the Indian subcontinent is increasingly on a 'hairtrigger' status.

3) That there have been numerous incidents in which a nuclear exchange involving thousands of warheads could have taken place, and in which the fate of the earth has depended on the correct judgement of a single individual.

4) That the US, Russia, China, France, and the UK have failed so far to make further progress to achieve the total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear arsenals, as called for under international law.

5) That, in addition to the failure of the 'official' nuclear weapons powers to fulfil their treaty obligations, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea also posses nuclear weapons, and that the risk of their use is very real.

6) That a number of calls have been made by the UN General Assembly and by the European Parliament to lower the operational status of nuclear weapons.

Accordingly we call on the governments of the United States, Russia, China, France and the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, to:

a) Take immediate steps to lower the operational status of nuclear weapons, and to revise nuclear doctrines, policies and postures to reflect such lowered operational status.

b) To implement in good faith their obligations under international law , to accomplish the total and unequivocal elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

c) To implement the steps toward nuclear disarmament outlined in the '13 steps' of the final declaration of the Year 2000 NPT Review Conference.

d) We call on non- nuclear nations to press for nuclear disarmament in every available international forum especially including the United Nations General Assembly First Committee and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

e) We call on legislators worldwide to pass resolutions in national and other parliaments pressing for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons and for nuclear disarmament as mandated by international law.

We draw the attention of legislators and diplomats to the two texts below:

i) A model for a resolution in the UN General Assembly calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons (Note that in the process of getting it through the GA First Committee it may experience some alterations in text)

ii) Motion passed by the Australian Senate congratulating Colonel Stanislav Petrov on preventing nuclear war during the Serpukhov 15 incident of Sept 26 1983, and calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons.

You are invited to endorse the statement above calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons systems, and to give your support to measures such as the texts below.

i) Model for a resolution in the UN General Assembly Calling for the lowering of the operational status of nuclear weapons

Operational status of nuclear weapons
The General Assembly

Convinced that the possible use of nuclear weapons poses the most serious threat to humanity and to the survival of civilisation,

Convinced also that the maintenance of nuclear weapons systems at a high level of readiness-to-use increases the risks of unintentional or accidental use of such weapons which would have catastrophic consequences,

Noting that a high level of nuclear weapons readiness-to-use has contributed to a number of circumstances when nuclear weapons have become very close to being used,

Welcoming steps taken by States possessing nuclear weapons to reduce nuclear risks and prevent nuclear war,

Welcoming particularly the agreement by Russia and the United States of America on the Establishment of the Joint Centre for the Exchange of Data from Early Warning Systems and Notification of Missile Launches, but noting that the agreement has not yet been implemented,

Considering that, until nuclear weapons are eliminated, it is imperative that further steps be taken to prevent the accidental, unauthorised or unintentional use of nuclear weapons,

Expressing its deep concern that thousands of strategic warheads remain on Launch-On-Warning status,

Expressing its concern also about emerging approaches to the broader role of nuclear weapons as part of security strategies, including rationalisations for the use, and the possible development, of new types of nuclear weapons,

Recalling the program of action agreed at the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference which called for concrete agreed measures to further reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems

Recalling resolutions [specify resolution numbers] on the floor of this assembly have called for reductions in the operational status of nuclear weapons,

Mindful that concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems will help reduce tensions, build confidence and support negotiations leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons,

1. Calls for a review of nuclear doctrines emphasising concrete steps to reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons,

2. Encourages States to immediately implement unilateral steps including, inter alia, the rescinding of launch-on-warning policies, and to urgently conclude negotiated steps, pending agreements for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons,

3. Calls on all States possessing nuclear weapons to undertake not to increase the number or types of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of weapons or rationalisations for their use,

4. Calls for further confidence-building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed by nuclear weapons,

5. Requests States possessing nuclear weapons to report to the 60th session on steps they have taken to implement this resolution

6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 60th session the item entitled "Operational status of nuclear weapons."

Sponsoring Organisations:

From: John Hallam Nuclear Weapons Campaigner Friends of the Earth Australia, Foesyd4@ihug.com.au
61-2-9567-7533, fax 61-2-9567-7166
1 Henry Street Turella NSW Aust 2205
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Doug Mattern, Association of World Citizens,
55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 224, San Francisco, CA 94105.
1- 415 541 9610.

Supported by the Organisations and distinguished individuals below:


44 Nobel Prizewinners who have signed the appeal to lower the operating status of nuclear weapons:

Nobel Laureates HH The Dalai Lama, (Peace) Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, (Bishop of Loriu, Peace 1996) Mairead Corrigan Maguire,(Peace 1976) Jose Ramos Horta, (Peace 1996) Dr Joseph Rotblat, (Peace 1995) Oscar Arias Sanchez,(Peace 1987) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, (Peace 1984) Betty Williams, (Peace 1976)

Dr Alexei Abrikosov,(Physics 2003) Dr Kenneth Arrow, (Economics 1972) Dr Baruj Benacerraf ,(Medicine 1980) Dr Guenter Blobel, (Medicine 1999) Dr Johan Diesenhofer,(Chemistry 1988) Dr Peter C. Doherty, (Medicine 1996) Dr R.R. Ernst, (Chemistry 1991) Dr John B. Fenn, (Chemistry 2002) Dr Edmond H. Fischer , (Medicine 1992) Dr Jerome I. Friedman, (Physics 1990) Dr Val L. Fitch,(Physics 1980) Dr Robert Guillemin,(Medicine) Dr Herbert A. Hauptman, (Chemistry 1985) Dr Dudley Herschbach,(Chemistry 1986) Dr Roald Hoffman , (Chemistry 1981) Dr Gerardus 't Hooft,(Physics 1999) Dr David H. Hubel ,(Medicine 1981) Dr Brian Josephson, (Physics) Dr Arthur Kornberg ,(Medicine 1959) Sir Harry Kroto, (Chemistry 1996) Dr Paul C. Lauterburg,(Medicine 2003) Dr Leon M. Lederman , (Physics 1988) Dr Jean-Marie Lehn, (Chemistry 1987) Dr Marshall Nirenberg, (Medicine 1968) Dr Mario Molina, (Chemistry 1995) Dr Kary Mullis, (Chemistry 1993) Dr Ferid Murad, (Medicine 1998) Dr John C. Polanyi, (Chemistry 1986) Dr Richard Roberts, (Medicine) Dr Frederick Sanger, (Chemistry 1958, 1980) Dr Jack Steinberger, (Physics 1998) Sir John Sulton, (Medicine 2002) Dr E. Donnall Thomas, (Medicine 1990) Dr Martinus Veltman, (Physics 1999) Frank Wilczek, (Physics 2004) Dr Kurt Wuthrich (Chemistry 2002)

Other distinguished Persons:

Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich Dr. Robert Muller (Fmr UN assistant Secy General)

Edgar Mitchell (Astronaut) Benjamin Ferencz, (Prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials) Prof Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjold Professor, Rutgers Law School,

International Organisations:

Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, president of Mayors for Peace, 750 mayors in 110 countries

Ronald Mc Coy President, John Loretz, Program Director, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (Nobel Prize)

Emma Mc Gregor-Mento, Abolition-2000

Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP),

Colin Archer, Secy - General, International Peace Bureau, Geneva (Nobel Prize)

Selma Brackman, President, War and Peace Foundation, NY,

Alyn Ware, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms,

Nicky Davies, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam,

Susi Snyder, Secy -General, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva,

Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Brunswick, ME, USA,

Vijay Mehta, Chair, World Disarmament Campaign, Lond,

Charles Mercieca, International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) Huntsville Ala, USA,

Pol D'Huyvetter, For Mother Earth International, Ghent, Belgium,

James K. Galbraith, Kate Cell, Director, Lucy Webster, UN Observer, Economists for Peace and Security (formerly Economists Allied for Arms Reduction/ (ECAAR))

Lucy Law Webster, Institute for Global Policy,

Rev. Vernon C. Nickols, UN Observer/NGO Rep, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,

Yumi Kikuchi, founder, Global Peace Campaign,

Peer de Rijk, World Information Service on Energy (WISE) Amsterdam,

David Mumford, International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), Alkmaar, Neth,

Penny McManigal, The Millionth Circle, USA,

Mary T. Legge SSJ, DPI/NGO at UN for Congregations of St Joseph,

Nancy EW Colton, Anglican Consultative Council for the Episcopal Church Worldwide,

Nancy EW Colton, International Association for Volunteer Effort,

Nancy EW Colton, Secy, NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security,

Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Brunswick, ME,

David Schweitzer, Schweitzer Institute,

Nouri Abdul Razak Husain, Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO)

Phil Esmonde, Regional Adviser, Peace Building and Conflict Reduction, Oxfam (Identification purposes only).

US Organisations:

Helen Caldicott,(founder PSR, WAND) President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Wash DC,

Alice Slater, Global Resource and Action Centre for the Environment, NY,

Martin Butcher, PSR, Washington DC,

Bruce Blair, President, Centre for Defence Information, Washington,
(identification only)

Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute, (pers capy)

David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, Calif,

Rev. Vernon C. Nichols, UN-NGO Rep, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,

Ellen Thomas, Proposition-1 Committee, Washington, USA,

Pamela S. Meidell, Atomic Mirror, Port Hueneme, Calif, USA.,

David Robinson, Pax Christi USA, Erie, PA,

Peggy L. Shriver, Fmr Asst. General Secy, National Council of Churches, NY.,

Donald W. Shriver, Union Theological Seminary, NY.,

Rev. William J. Morton, SSC, Columban Mission Office, US/Mexico Border, El Paso Texas, USA,

Sr Mary Peter Bruce, Loretto Community New York, NY,

Bernice Fisher, Penninsula WILPF, Palo Alto Calif,

Bill Smirnow, Nuclear- Free New York,

Donald Keesing, Voices Opposed to Environmental Racism, Wash DC,

Lorraine Krofchok, Grandmothers for Peace International, Elk Grove, Calif,

Vina Colley, PRESS, Ohio,

Bruce A. Drew, Prairie Island Coalition, Mn, USA,

George Crocker, N. American Water office, Lake Elmo, Mn, USA,

Daniel Ellsberg, Truth-Telling Project, (Fmr RAND consultant to White House on Nuclear C3I)

Kathy Kelly, Coordinator, Voices in the Wilderness, Chicago Ill,

Patricia J. Ameno, Chair, Citizens Action for a Safe Environment, Penn,

Francis Chiappa, President, Cleveland Peace Action,

John Laforge, Bonnie Urfer, Nukewatch, WI, USA,

Andrew Hund, Alaska/Arctic Environmental Defense Fund,

Coleen Marshall Secy, Sheldon Nidle, Founder, Planetary Activation Organisation, Hawaii,

Marsha Joyner, President, Hawiian National Communications Corporation, Honululu, Hawaii,

Paul Ehrlich, President, Centre of Conservation Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif,

Irving Stolberg, President, Caucus of Connecticut Democrats,

Irving Stolberg, President, Connecticut Division, United Nations Association,

Barbara Murphy-Warrington, CARE-USA, Atlanta, Georgia,

Alanna Hartzog, Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, PA,

Beth A. Pirolli, Director, Families United for a Safe Environment (FUSE),

Carolyn Vigneri, Nebraskans for Peace, Omaha, Nebraska, USA,

Glen Carroll, Georgians Against Nuclear Energy, Atlanta, GA, USA,

Robert Gould MD, Physicians for Sociel Responsibility (PSR) San Francisco Bay Area, Berkley, Calif,

Samuel S. Epstien MD, Chair, Cancer Prevention Coalition, Chcago, Ill,

Dr Kathleen Sullivan, Nuclear Weapons Education and Action Prject, NY.,

Terri Swearingen (1997 Golman Prize) Tri-State Environmental Council, WV.,

Bill Towe, North Carolina Peace Action, NC, USA,

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Global Exchange,

Jennifer O. Viereck, Director HOME: Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa, CA,

Bob Kinsey, Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War,

Kevin Martin Executive Director Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, MD,

Bob Alpern, Coordinator, Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Sonoma County, CA

Preston J. Truman, Downwinders, Malad, Idaho,

Stanley Romaine, Great Neck SANE/Peace Action

Hannah Pallmayer, Women Against Military Madness, (WAMM), Minnesota, USA,

Margaret Groarke, Director of Peace Studies, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY,

Dr Norman L. Brown, (Manhattan Project Veteran),

Linda Muolton-Howe, Earthfiles.com, Albuquerque, NM,

Congressman Dennnis Kucinich, Ohio,


Canadian Organisations

Debbie Grisdale President/Steven Starr, Physicians for Global Responsibility, (PGS),

Rosalie Bertell, President Emeritus, International Institute for Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Ont,

Roy and Anne Morris, Salmon Arm Kairos Group, BC, Canada,

Gordon Edwards PhD, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR),

Desmond Berghofer, Co-Founder, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Vancouver Canada,

Metta Spencer, Editor, Peace Magazine, Toronto, Ont,

Mike Nickerson, Sustainability Project - 7th Generation Initiative, Ont,

Dr F. H. Knelman, Vice-President, The Whistler Foundation, Victoria BC, Canada,

Patrick Groulx, Iron John and Mary With a Snugly (IJAMWAS), Etobicoke, Ontario, Can

Libby Davies MP, Vancouver East, Canada,

Bill Blaikie MP, Elmwood-Transcona (NDP), Canada,

Douglas Roche, Senator Emeritus, Fmr Disarmament Ambassador, Canada


UK Organisations

Dr Kate Hudson, Chair, Sam Akaki, Parliamentary Officer, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), UK

Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK,

Reuben Ralph Say, Woking Action for Peace/CND, Woking, Surrey, UK,

Caroline Gilbert, Patricia Pulham, Michael Pulham, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CCND),

Jill Stallard National Secy, CND Cymru, Nantagredig, Cynghordy, Llanymddyfri, Wales, UK,

Prof. Dave Webb, CND Yorkshire,

George Farebrother, World Court Project, Lond, UK,

Dr David Lowry, Fmr Director, European Proliferation Information Centre (EPIC), Lond,

Di Mc Donald, Nuclear Information Service, (NIS) Southampton, UK,

Ken Coates, Chair, Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation,

Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares UK,

Richard Bramhall, Low-Level Radiation Campaign, Llandridod, Powys, UK,

Lindis Percy/Anni Rainbow, CAAB, Yorks, UK,

Janet Bloomfield, Coordinator, Atomic Mirror UK, Saffron Walden, UK,

David Bowe, MEP,

Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, Green Member of the European Parliament for S.E. England

Alan Simpson MP,

David Chaytor MP, Member for Bury North,

Frank Cook MP, Westminster,

Llew Smith MP, Blaenau, Gwent, Wales,

John Mc Donnel MP, Labour, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex,

Harry Cohen MP, House of Commons, UK,

John Austin MP, Labour, Erith and Thamesmead, UK,

Malcolm Savidge MP,

Baroness Susan Miller, House of Lords, Lond,


Russian& Ukrainian Organisations

Vladimir Sliviak, Co-Chair, Ecodefense, Moscow,

Professor Alexey Yablokov, President, Centre for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow,

Andrei Laletin, Chairman, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,

Jennie Sutton, Baikal Environmental Wave,

Victor Khazan, Friends of the Earth Ukraine, Dneipropetrovsk, Ukr,

Serghiy Fedorynchyck, Zelelenyi Zvit, Kiev, Ukraine,

Sergei Kolesnikov, Duma Member, Deputy Chair, Cttee on Education and Science, Moscow,

Sergei Kolesnikov, IPPNW-Russia,


Indian Organisations

Achin Vanaik, Admiral L. Ramdas, Lalita Ramdas, Sukla Sen, Smithu Kothari, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India New Delhi,

Admiral L. Ramdas, India-Pakistan Soldiers Initiative for Peace, Raigad Dist, Maharashtra,

Hari Sharma, President, International South Asia Forum,

Sukla Sen, EKTA, Mumbai, India,

Mahipal Singh, General Secy, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties,
(PUCL) New Delhi,

Imrana Quadeer, Centre for Community Health and Social Medicine, JNU, New Delhi,

Harsh Kapoor, (India/France) South Asians Against Nukes,

Jayanti Patel, Indian Radical Humanist Association, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,

Kirity Roy, Secy, MASUM, Howrah, W. Bengal,

Swami Manavatavadi, International School of Humanitarian Thoughts and Practice, Rajghat, Kurukshetra, Haryana,

Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan,

The National Campaign for the Peoples Right to Information (NCPRI) Rajasthan, India,

Ammu Abraham, Womens Centre, Mumbai,

Meenakshi Gopinath, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace
(An initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH The Dalai Lama), New Delhi,

Dr. J. Amaloorpavanathan, Physicians for Peace, Chennai, TN, India,

Sandeep Pandey, Arundhati Dhuru, National Association of Peoples Movements (NAPM), Global Peace March,

Rajiv R. Singh, Network to Oust Nuclear Energy, (NONE) New Delhi,

Anita Bharti, Centre for Alternative Dalit Media (CADAM) Delhi,

Smithu Kothari, Intercultural Resources, New Delhi,

Prahlad Shekawat, Alternative Development Centre, India,

J. Gurumurthy, All-India Insurance Employees Association, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India

Dr Shaikh Sarfaraz Ali, Dept of Physics, JMI, New Delhi,

Arjun Dev, NCERT, New Delhi,

Wilfred D'Costa, Secy, Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF) Delhi,

Pritam K. Rohila, Association for Communal Harmony in Asia,

Amelia Andrews, Associate Executive Secretary, National Council of Churches in India,


Pakistani Organisations

Pirzada Imtiaz Syed, Secy, All-Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU), Gujrat, Pakistan,

AH Nayyar, President, Pakistan Peace Coalition,

Dr Mubashir Hasan, (Fmr finance minister) Campaigner for Human Rights and India-Pakistan Friendship, Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy.

Prof. M. Ismail, Director, RISE, Peshawar, Pakistan,


Bangladeshi Organisations

M.W. Faruque, President, Youth Approach for Development and Cooperation (YADC)

Paltan Development Coordinating Organisation

Sugandha Sanskritic Kendra,

Society for Legal Rights

The Daily Matrijagat

Bangabandhu Gabeshana Sangstha

Association for Law Research and Human Rights (ALERT)


NZ Organisations

Commander Robert Green, Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, NZ,

Alyn Ware, Peace Foundation, Wellington, NZ,

Marion Hancock, Wendy John, Aotearoa/NZ Peace Foundation, Auckland NZ,

Christine Lesley, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Wellington, NZ,

R.E. White, Director, Centre for Peace Studies, University of Auckland, NZ,

Peter Low, Quaker Peace and Service, NZ,

Jonathan Hunt MP, Speaker, NZ Parliament,

Keith Locke MP, Greens, NZ,

Rod Donald MP, Co-Leader, Greens, NZ,

Gordon Copeland MP, United Future Party,

Tim Barnett MP, Labor, Christchurch Central Electorate, Christchurch NZ,


Australian Organisations

Sue Wareham, President, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW),

Margaret Reynolds, President, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA),

Jo Vallentine, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A.,

David Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation, Carlton, Vic,

Peter Robertson Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT) Darwin, NT,

Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War,

Stop The War Coalition, Victoria,

Dr Stella Cornelius, Director, Conflict Resolution Network, Chatswood NSW,

Ned Iceton, Co-Convenor, Social Development Network, Armidale NSW,

Ralph Summy, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Uni of Queensland,

Peter Burton, Peace Partners, Toowoomba, Qld,

Dr Mark Zirnsak, Director, Justice and International Mission, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia,

Rev Sue Gorman, Moderator, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia,

Keith Russel, Religious Society of Friends, ACT,

Senator Kerry Nettle, Greens, NSW,

Senator Lyn Alison, Australian Democrats Vic,

Senator Andrew Bartlett, Australian Democrats Qld,

Senator Aden Ridgeway, Australian Democrats NSW,

Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja, Australian Democrats SA,

Senator Brian Grieg, Australian Democrats WA,

Terry Roberts MP, SA,

Carmen Lawrence MHR, President, Labor Party,

Jill Hall MHR,

Warren Snowden MHR, ALP Member for Lingiari NT,

Alan Griffin MHR, ALP Member for Bruce, Melb,

Jann Mc Farlane MHR, ALP Member for Stirling, W.A.,

Tanya Plibersek MHR, ALP Member for Sydney, NSW,

Dee Margetts MLC (Greens), W.A.,

Giz Watson, Greens, W.A.,

Ian Cohen MLC (Greens) NSW,

Kerrie Tucker MLA, Greens ACT,


Swedish Organisations

Agneta Norberg/Bo Wirmark, Chair, Swedish Peace Council,

Stefan Bjornsson, President, Swedish Scientists and Engineers Against Nuclear Arms (SEANA), Stockholm,

Gunnar Westberg, President, SLMK (IPPNW Sweden), Goteborg, Sweden,

Anders Ygeman MP, Stockholm,

Marilyn Barden, Chair, Stockholm Peace Committee, Sweden,


Danish Organisations

Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Movement of Esbjerg,

Poul Eck Sorensen, Peace Council of Denmark,

Holger Terp/John Avery, Danish Peace Academy,

John Avery, Pugwash Conference Denmark,


Finnish Organisations

Teemu Matinpuro, Director, Finnish Peace Committee, Helsinki, Finland,

Lea Launokari, Women for Peace Finland,

Ulla Kotzer, Women Against Nuclear Power Finland,

Heidi Hautala MP Greens,

Kimmo Kiljunen MP, Social Democrats, Finland,


German Organisations

Eva Quistorp, Women for Peace, Berlin, Germany,

Eva Quistorp, Berlin Declaration, Berlin, Germany,

Henning Droege, Arzt fur Allgemeinmedizin, Homoopathie, Naturheilverfahren, Allgau, Germany,

Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck, Friedens-und Begegnungsstaette Mutlangen eV, Germany,

Bernd Frieboese, Barsebackoffensiv (Pers capy)

Rienhard Voss, Pax Christi Germany, Franfurt Am Main,

Dr Anne Brie MEP PDS,

Uta Zapf, MP, Chair, Bundestag Committee on Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation,


Belgian Organisations

Hans Lammerant, Forum Voor Vredesaktie, Belgium,

Zoe Genot MP, Greens, Belgium,

Eloi Glorieux MP, Greens, Flemish Regional Parliament, Belgium,

Muriel Gerkens MP, Greens, Brussels,

Senator Patrick Vankrunkelsven, Brussels, Belg,

Marie Isler-Beguin, MEP,

Edith Klein, European Commission, Brussels, Belg,


Netherlands Organisations

Harry Van Bommel MP, Neth,

Joost Lagendijk, Member of European Parliament, GroenLinks, Netherlands,

Senator Leo Platvoet, Green-Left, Amsterdam Neth,

Fiona Dove, Director, Transnational Institute, Neth,

Carolien Van de Stadt, WILPF-Netherlands,

Frank Slijper, Campagne Tegen Wapenhandel, Gromingen, Neth,

Marjan Lucas, IKV Interchurch Peace Council, Amsterdam Netherlands,


French Organisations

Dominique Lalanne, Co-Chair, Stop Essais, France,

Bruno Barrilot, Director, Observatoire des Armes Nucleaires Francaises, Lyons, France,

Jean-Marie Matagne, Action des Citoyens pour le Desarmement Nucleaire
(ACDN) Saintes, France,


Luisa Morgantini MEP, Italy/Brussells

Folena Pietro, MP Italy, Foreign Affairs Commission, Democrats of the Left (DS) - Olive Tree Coalition


Hallgeir H. Langeland MP, Norway,

Bent Natvig, Chair, Norwegian Pugwash Committee, Oslo, Norway,


Czech Peace Society, Prague, Czech Rep,

Berta Suttner Society, Prague, Czech Rep,


Romanian Organisations

Constantin Cretu, Romanian Social Forum, Bucharest, Romania,

Constantin Cretu, 'Carpathians Genius' Bucharest, Romania,

Aurel Duta, For Mother Earth, Bucharest, Romania,

Constantin S. Lacatus, Sibenii Pacifistii, Sibiu, Romania,


Manana Kochladze, 'Green Alternative', Tblisi, Georgia,


Japanese Organisations

Atsushi Fujioka, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Kyoto, Japan,

Hideyuki-Ban, Secy-General, Citizens Nuclear Information Centre
(CNIC) Tokyo, Japan,

Yayoi Tsuchida, International Secretary, Gensuikyo, (Japan Council Against A and H Bombs)

Shigetoshi Iwamatsu, Chair, Gensuikin, (Japan Congress Against A and H Bombs).



Wen Bo, Pacific Environment, Beijing, China,


Kim Choony, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, (KFEM)

Prof Samsung Lee, Political Science, Hallym University,


Mexican Organisations

Efraim Cruz Marin, President, Academicos de Ciencias y Humanidades, Mexico,

Noni Fernandez, Mexican Initiative Against War, Chiapas, Colonia Roma,

Luis Gutterrez Esparza, President, Latin-American Circle for International Studies (LACIS), Mexico City,


Grace de Haro, APDH, Rio Negro, Argentina,

Dina Lida Kinoshita, Unesca Catedra for Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy and Tolerance, Sao Paulo, Brasil,

Senator Roberto Saturnino, Brasilian Federal Senate, (for Rio de Janiero)



Roy Cabonegro, YSDA-Pilipinas, Quezon City, Phillipines,

Clemente G. Bautista, Kalikasan, (Peoples Network for the Environment) Phillipines,

Soodhakur Ramlallah Secy Mauritius Union of Journalists Port Louis Mauritius


Bishan Singh, SUSDEN, Malaysia,

Dato Haji Mustapha Ma, Secy, IFNGO, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,


Lonngena Ginting, WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia,

Saranjan Kodithuwakku, Green Movement of Sri Lanka, Nugegoa, Sri Lanka,

Binda Pandey, Secy-General, General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), Kathmandhu Nepal,

Maria D. Watondoha MP, Tanzanian National Assembly, Dodoma, Tanzania,

Hon. Dr Diodorus Buberwa Kamala MP, Mzumbe, Tanzania,

Edward Appiah-Brafoh, Green Earth Organisation, Accra, Ghana,

Fifanampiana Malgasy (Madagascar Solidarity Committee)

Gisele Rabesahala, fmr Minister of Culture, fmr Vice-President of Madagascar Senate,

Dr. Araf Marei, Vice President, Egyptian Association for Community Participation, Cairo, Egypt,

Dr Akram Alhamdani, President, Green Party of Iraq, Baghdad

Dr Ahmad Al Hashimi, Iraqi Relief Foundation, Ont, Canada,

Ayman Jallad, Humanitarian Group for Social Development, Beirut, Lebanon,

Stephen J. Stanton, Cedarwatch, Lebanon,

Mabrouk Boudaga, Arab Young Lawyers Association, Tunis, Tunisia,


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Informant: NHNE

Dear Roy: We just spent a very nice night at the charming, new country home -- about 70 miles north of us in Hinckley, Minnesota, with my sister, Sue and her husband, Jon.

One of Jon's "extended family," Marilyn and her husband, Arden, were staying overnight on the property in their motorhome. Since we hadn't met previously, it didn't take long for me to make a comment that led to my explaining why I am researching EMR.

Arden was appropriately shocked when I described improvement in grandsons after moving their beds away from electric meters. Likewise, when I told about Bud's improvement after moving the electric clock radio as well as a couple other quick stories about electric clocks and health effects -- one re disastrous results and one re significant improvement.

I also briefly commented about the 2002 EMF California Report and findings re Leukemia, brain cancer, Lou Gehrig's Disease and miscarriage with a reference to their recommendation of 300 ft. distances from high voltage powerlines. I mentioned increases in telecommunications' antennae.

Arden said, "well, why isn't this being announced......why isn't the public being told?" He seemed upset when I told him the EMF RAPID Interagency Committee Report has never been presented to Congress and even made a point of asking which agency of the government, etc. Marilyn and Arden smiled and agreed that only one of their homes had an electric clock by the head of their bed (they have park model in Arizona, a main farm home, a lake place up north and a motorhome).

Marilyn and Arden "were aghast" that the news media wouldn't carry my stories. My sister, Sue, mentioned "even Oprah wouldn't do the story" and mentions of many other contacts, including politicians and cancer societies were briefly discussed. Sue is usually as quiet about my work as she is about most things.

I interjected that "greed and money" is behind it all and how industry and government are controlling "the whole show." I mentioned "worry about stocks," etc. and immediately, all of the concern about children suffering and dying (as well as others) was washed away when Jon stood taller and proclaimed "its those damn lawyers you have to do something about!!!" It is ALL the lawyers' fault!!!!

Arden folded his arms and said, "I would need to know that there are studies showing millions of persons were not affected who are not sleeping by appliances and millions were affected who sleep close to appliances......."

I did not ask whether he still plans on moving his electric clock from the headboard behind their bed in their Arizona park model.

None of this changes my plans of continuing to speak out on behalf of children with Leukemia/Leukaemia (plus every health problem for all ages) that we know are affected by chronic, prolonged exposures to low levels of EMR. Take care - Joanne

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

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Dear Roy: As you know, the evidence re EMF/EMR-related health problems continues to mount.

The EMF Interagency Committee Report has never been presented to Congress!!!

I think "the time is right" for everyone to forward this email and/or to send a copy by regular mail to those who are declaring intentions to run for political office in 2006 along with a short note demanding the enthusiastic candidates give this issue "high priority attention."

Our country's "Code Blue Status" re our health system requires "a focus on prevention and prudent avoidance" particularly in regard to childhood electrical pollution exposures such as electrical appliances/devices that are close to childrens' beds as well as high frequencies on electrical wiring in homes, schools, daycare centers, etc. Attention must also be directed toward the "willy-nilly, thoughtless installations" of cell towers and antennae. All of these exposures affect persons of every age but, as you know, children are even more vulnerable due to developmental stages of cells throughout their bodies.

The EMF Interagency Committee Report must be presented to Congress!!! Candidates for political office -- whether incumbents or not, need to force this issue and take responsibility for reporting who is resposible for withholding this information from the public.

Take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127
USA Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com
(10-4-05)



Betreff: EMF RAPID...Roy Beaver's "Mission Statement"...(government "cover-up")..... Von: JCMPelican@aol.com Datum: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:57:20 EDT An: JCMPelican@aol.com

http://www.emfguru.org/

Posted:
18 October 1999

Originally posted as:

EMFguru#7-98, Inertia and Malfeasance...... (Sep 98) .......Edited and Revised October 15, 1999

OUR MISSION:

To end..... ......Inertia and Malfeasance.......

"Now the public will know what the members of the EMF research community have known for years"

The speaker who made the above statement was one of thirty or so scientists who were present at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) sponsored EMF/health effects research review project recently completed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the U.S.A. There, the "working group," a panel of 30 scientists who had been selected by NIEHS to write the final EMF report, agreed to the final draft of a report summarizing more than five years of studies by literally hundreds of researchers worldwide. In the report, the panel voted 19-8 to identify EMF (power frequency electromagnetic fields) as a class 2B carcinogen.

As it happens, I was seated next to that scientist during the final three days of that historic gathering. He (like myself) was not an actual participant on the panel. He was an "observer."

Fortunately, the editor of MicroWave News (MWN) heard the statement and recorded those words in the pages of MWN. I can certainly vouch for the fact that the statement is consistent with some of my conversations with the speaker, Dr. Michael Marron, of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington Virginia.

I also learned that my fellow U.S. Navy seat-mate is an extremely well qualified and knowledgeable expert about EMF, going as far back (in his involvement with the issue) as the 1973 SANGUINE Project -- a U.S. Navy communications project (later abandoned) that is reported in Ellen Sugarman's latest book, "Warning, the electricity around you may be hazardous to your health."

I know of no better commentary or summary for the final results of the five year, $45 million, EMF RAPID research project (as it was designated) than Dr. Marron's pronouncement above. Here it is again, as it appears in MicroWave News:

"Now the public will know what the members of the EMF research community have known for years," commented Dr. Michael Marron of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA. Marron is a member of the EMF Inter agency Advisory Committee, which must submit its own report on the EMF RAPID program to Congress." [MicroWave News, vol XVIII, No. 4; July/August 1998, pp. 5.]

It is, I submit, particularly noteworthy that a person of such unchallengeable qualifications and background in the EMF subject should observe: ...Now the public will know what we "have known for years"......

In other words, "we" (the scientists researching EMF) have known about the bio-effects that account for the "possible" (many still believe "probable") carcinogenic effects of 50 or 60 Hz power line frequency EMFs for a long time!!! Only the public has been kept in the dark!!!

But, Dr Marron, will the public know??? Will the public THIS TIME be given the WHOLE story??? Or, as so many times in the past -- when other equally qualified, equally legitimate scientific panels had reached substantially the same conclusion (As early as 1990, the "working level" scientists at EPA reached the same verdict.) -- will the public once again be cheated of its "right to know" by a government that has criminally controlled and distorted the flow of EMF information to the public for so long???

Oh, you gasp, surely not "criminally." Yes, the word is "criminally." That is exactly the judgment a good lawyer would seek if pursuing a corporate corrupter of the truth in a similar situation -- corporate CEOs (like the tobacco chieftains) who knowingly misled the public about the safety of their product, or a pharmaceutical official who "knowingly" withholds from the public vital information about tests of his product which show it may be unsafe; thus withholding information about possible harm to the public to the extent that innocent lives could be lost or innocent children stricken with leukemia.

That is what our government has done! Knowingly.... And, not once, but repeatedly, since at least the 1990 EPA study that was buried by political operatives (not by the scientists who had done the work).....

Any good lawyer would go after "punitive" damages based on the criminal negligence/malfeasance behavior of the officials involved in that case ... and others subsequent to it ... in a history that is full of distortions, withheld and dissembled public information, which (as Ellen Sugarman has written) apparently began with the SANGUINE project, if not earlier. In the 1960s and early 70s the Soviet Union used EMF against the personnel of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. That information, too, has not been fully revealed to the public or to the families of the embassy people who were exposed. Or, take the case of the government officials in France who are being prosecuted for malfeasance because they withheld from the public information they had about the presence of HIV infected blood in the nation's blood supply....

In keeping with such examples as well as with the conclusion of Dr. Marron (above), I say that the charges against our government -- for failing to inform the U.S. public about the bio-effects of EMF ... and obfuscating, dissembling, or distorting the resultant EMF hazards ... that "we" (the insiders) have "known for years" -- should be characterized as: "deliberate and criminal negligence and malfeasance of office....."

Of course, the industries who have a vested interest in the EMF issue are also guilty of dissembling, obfuscating (and sometimes lying) about the EMF realities, too..... Their conduct (motivated by profits and the protection of the value of their company on Wall Street) is, it seems, more acceptable to our "profit driven" society. Probably, they would not be charged with "criminal" negligence and malfeasance -- only greed.....

Well, it will happen again -- just like in the past -- the public will not be given the truth by our government, if we allow the same national sense of "inertia" that has governed our actions about the EMF health hazard to date ... to continue in the future....

The brutal reality is that the health and safety of the citizens of the U.S. are still subordinate to a bureaucracy (of RICH health agencies, like the NIH, NCI, NIEHS triumvirate) that has been "staffed" by the same political influences which have for decades guaranteed that 'public interests' in health and safety matters come AFTER the profits of the industry special interest groups, the big $$$$$$$ political contributors and the patrons of the political/bureaucratic structure..... I'm afraid that I no longer have one scintilla of confidence in a governmental system which FUNCTIONS to ignore or deny the public's health and safety needs when those needs are in conflict with the powerful vested interests who control the executive and legislative branches of our government and who often exert undue influence even within the judicial branch. The record clearly shows that it is not just our legislature or executive branches that have "sold out" to the special interests. The bureaucracies as well are either "staffed" by friends of the big spenders (that's NOT Joe public) or ... they are often intimidated and living only for their retirement and/or the day they will leave the government and go to work for one of the 'big spender' companies....

This will not change unless we 'the people' demand it...... Absent a tidal wave of public indignation that DEMANDS the publication of information which has been withheld for years (as Dr. Marron implicitly observed), the INERTIA of the existing political/bureaucratic system -- a system of big political "insiders" who "buy" the bureaucratic machinery of our government as well as the 'hearts' of our legislators -- will continue to deny public protection from the kind of exploitation that has been recorded so far in the EMF story....

A public policy that rightfully should be dedicated to protect the "people" of our democracy (read: oligarchy) and foster the formation of policies that recognize the ubiquitous nature of the looming EMF health hazard will not occur unless we demand it, fight for it, manifest a willingness to "throw out" the political leadership that stands in the way......

Clearly, the ubiquitous looming EMF health hazard is (within the lifetime of my "generation X" children) the most serious single environmental threat to public health and safety that has yet been identified..... All the scientific evidence of this scientific paradigm, the bio-effects of EMF which we have just BEGUN to comprehend, points toward two major conclusions which were NOT decided by the NIEHS panel that met in Minnesota. They were not even considered.

Yet it is manifestly apparent to "the insiders" that the results of the Minneapolis meeting portend the future acknowledgment -- perhaps SOON in the future -- of the following two additional bio-effects" realities:

(1) It is not the 60 Hz (power line) frequencies, alone, that constitute the health threat of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. The evidence of EMF research worldwide in many other wave-bands of the electromagnetic spectrum is clearly trying to tell us that ALL "EMF" signals (microwave, RF, etc., of whatever frequency) should be considered suspect!!! The Russians have known for more than thirty years....

(2) The Minneapolis verdict was the "easy," obvious verdict. (As Dr. Marron's statement implies.) Many, if not "most," of the scientists on that panel realize full well that the 'truly appropriate' judgment would have been to define the EMF health threat as a "2A" category carcinogen -- a "probable" carcinogen rather than the "possible" that was decided.

Take careful note!!! The balloting was conducted in an "open" balloting procedure (where all those who "control" the funding were able to "observe" how each scientist voted!!!). I believe that if a secret ballot had been allowed -- as I suggested on the EMF-L network some months past -- the 2A category ("probable" carcinogen) would have been more likely to have been the resultant "judgment." Failing that, the 2B verdict would have turned out to be even more decisive than the count recorded: 19 to 8. I observed that in all the votes taken there were five "scientists" -- all "tied-in" in some way with the electric industry -- who voted consistently against any finding that would have put EMF in an adverse health category...... Consider how overwhelming the judgment becomes if those five (clearly voting in a conflict of interest situation) were excluded. Instead of 19 to 8, suddenly the ratio is 19 to 3, an overwhelming majority judgment!!!

Yes, my fellow Navy Officer and seat-mate at the historic Minneapolis conference, Mike Marron, I agree with you -- it is high time that the PUBLIC should be allowed to know "what we know" ... what we "have known" for a long time.....

Only "the usual" governmental/bureaucratic inertia of the past can now prevent it..... Let the call go forth to all Americans that we will no longer play the "docile citizen" passive role which relies on "the government" to protect "our" interests ... to tell us the truth ... a role that the U.S. government has long since 'abdicated'.....

Let it henceforth be our commitment to ourselves ... that WE are going to INSIST on 'performance' to OUR standards ... and OUR needs ... by legislators (and bureaucrats) who are 'expendable' when they fail to put OUR priorities above the "special interests" of those who have "bought" the system..... The EMF saga is a good place to start...... .....And such is the "mission" of this website.....

Cheerio......

October 15, 1999

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.org

Foreign troops must aim to withdraw from Iraq by the end of next year to remove one of the biggest focal points for militant groups, former Australian defense force chief Gen. Peter Cosgrove said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905M.shtml

The US government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905L.shtml

Democrats pointed to Specter's letter as an indication that they, too, should be able to ask Roberts about specific legal cases at his Sept. 6 confirmation hearing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905K.shtml

Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and to overturn what they called an extreme ruling by Judge John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905J.shtml

According to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905I.shtml

by Beth Shulman, TomPaine.com

Everyone's gearing up for back-to-school season: parents, children and U.S. military recruiters.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050809/gunning_for_college.php

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

Last week's federal indictment of AIPAC and DoD staff on spying charges could unravel the neocon policy machine and damage the Bush administration.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050809/bigger_than_aipac.php

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"...Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?..."

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 "Security Threat"

-- a Message From Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX

Where do I begin?

Today was a highly eventful day. This entry won’t be artful, but utilitarian.

I conservatively got 3 to 5 phone calls a minute. I did about 25 phone interviews and several TV interviews. I did several right-wing radio interviews. I was supposed to do: The Today Show, MSNBC live interview, Connected Coast to Coast (MSNBC) and Hardball (MSNBC). The Today Show just never showed up and the other 3 MSNBC shows cancelled for no reason.

Another big story that was going on today was about my first meeting with Bush in June of 2004. For you all I would like to clarify a few things. First of all, I did meet with George, and that is not a secret. I have written about it and been interviewed about it. I will stand by my recounting of the meeting. His behavior was rude and inappropriate. My behavior in June of 2004 is irrelevant to what is going on in 2005. I was in deep shock and deep grief. The grief is still there, but the shock has worn off and the deep anger has set in. And to remind everybody, a few things have happened since June of 2004: The 9/11 commission report; the Senate Intelligence report; the Duelfer WMD report; and most damaging and criminal: the Downing Street Memos. The VERY LAST THING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS IS: Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

In the early afternoon, we got word that if we were still there by Thursday, we were going to be deemed a "security threat" to the president. Condi and Rummy are coming in on Thursday for a "policy" meeting. I just don’t understand why we will be a security threat on Thursday when we aren’t now? If we don’t leave on Thursday, we could be arrested. Well, I am not leaving. There are only three things that would make me leave: if George comes out and talks to me; if August comes to an end, or if I am arrested.

People are heading here from all over the country. I have some more Gold Star Families for Peace members coming tomorrow. We are amazed by the outpouring of love and support we are getting. 62% of the American public are against this war and want our troops home. We need to show the media that we are in the majority. We need to show George Bush and his cabal of neocons that when we say "bring the troops home, now" we mean "bring the troops home, now!!!"

In the late afternoon, many of us left to go back to the peace house in Crawford because there was going to be a major lightning storm. While most of us were gone, the Sheriff came and told us that what we were told was county property really was private property and we would have to remove our stuff to a tiny place, or get it confiscated. I find it interesting that the county sheriff did not know that roads in his county that lead up to the presidential vacation home are private roads. I find it very hard to believe. They think that they are pushing us off, but we will not leave there voluntarily or without handcuffs on. My only hope is, there will be tons of media there when they carry me to the squad car.

Today was so bizarre for me. I got phone calls from famous people pledging their support, and phone calls from mothers with sons in Iraq who are overcome with emotion when they talk to me. And it is so brave for them to call me, because I am their worst fear. We had a young man who is in the US Army at Ft. Hood come this morning and spend hours with us. He has been there [Iraq] and his unit is scheduled to go back in October. How much courage did that take for him to come within earshot of his commander in chief’s home and spend time with some old hippy protestors???

We have a lawyer working on getting us closer to the ranch and working on magically turning the private property back into county property again. I have some awesome young ladies from CodePink answering my phone and taking phone calls. We have Veterans for Peace out there putting up banners (our tiny campsite looks real nice). We have concerned citizens from all over America starting to come in. IT IS FREAKIN AMAZING, FOLKS!!!

Come and join us and let your voices be joined with ours. VISIT: http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/index.html

AMEN!!!

http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php


August 9th, 2005 3:43 am Locals join mom of fallen soldier staging protest near Bush ranch

NBC 6 News

A California woman's demand to meet with President Bush is now attracting supporters from all over. Monday, dozens of people showed up at the roadside camp after seeing her story on TV.

Cindy Sheehan says she'll continue to camp out all month until she meets face to face with President Bush.

Under a large tree and umbrellas, supporters of a peace movement continued their protest in the rain, along side the road leading to President Bush's ranch.

After the makeshift camp received national media attention this weekend, dozens are now coming in, bringing supplies and showing support.

Morgan Connery is from Lampasas.

“I just jumped in my truck and drove out with a big bucket of chicken. That was the best thing I could think of to bring. If I could've done it over, I'd bring a tent.

It's all in support of Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in the Iraq war: “I am amazed at the outpouring of love and support from around the world that we're getting.”

Sheehan's story tugged the heart of Killeen resident Cathleen Fox, whose son Christopher is stationed at Fort Hood. Christopher just got back from Iraq and will ship out again in a few months. The two came to the camp to show their support.

Cathleen says, “I read yesterday that Cindy Sheehan was out here and it just crushed me.”

Christopher says, “If I had my choice, I would rather not go back. I don't feel this war is necessary.”

President Bush's motorcade is expected to pass by the camp later in the week. Protesters have been told they may have to move, but they say they're not budging.

Protestor Diane Wilson says, “We're talking to the head of the ACLU of Texas and we're going to start fighting for inches.”

“I'm willing to be arrested,” Sheehan says. “I'll still be there and if they let me out of jail, I'll go back.”

McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch did not return repeated phone calls from NBC 6. Sheehan says she does not expect to get that face to face meeting with President Bush.

http://michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3607


Informant: Hopedance

Strike the Root
by Joe Blow

08/08/05

This edition covers two methods that Big Brother may soon be able to use to track any computer. The good news is that geospatial addressing is still on the drawing board and won't become a reality for most users for years. The bad news is that remote physical device fingerprinting may enable the feds to track your computer anywhere, no matter how or where you connect to the web, even if you use a high anonymous proxy server or an anonymizer system like JAP or Tor. Not happy about that? Wait, it gets worse. IPv6's geospatial addressing will incorporate an injected GPS signal to pinpoint a user's location. While this feature is intended for military use, it remains to be seen whether or not it will be used in the civilian sector. Any bets what Big Brother's vote will be?

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/blow/blow6.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

NewsMax
by Paul Craig Roberts

08/08/05

Readers' questions have prompted me to examine further the Supreme Court's recent Kelo decision. Kelo is even worse than the calamity I declared it to be. Kelo does not mean the end of private property per se, but it does mean the end of anyone's secure possession, be the owner an individual or a corporation. To the extent that Americans still possess constitutional rights, Kelo could mean their end, as well. ... Indeed, as one astute reader noted, Kelo's public benefit concept of eminent domain could be used to condemn privately owned firearms. The Second Amendment would still be there. We would have a right to firearms in the abstract just as we have a right to property in the abstract, but every specific right can be condemned...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/7/233241.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Lady Liberty

Americans have a thing for democracy. Some Americans, in fact, claim to love it so much that they want to make it our primary export. Even those who aren't particularly fond of the idea of a war in Iraq are behind the notion that we're bringing democracy to the beleaguered Iraqi citizens. Those Americans who feel that way are those, however, who don't really understand democracy much at all. There's a saying that goes, 'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.' The more educated American will point out that we don't live in a true democracy, but rather in a democratic republic, or representative democracy. They apparently don't know the corollary of that old saying which states, 'Representative democracy is when the flock elects a wolf to decide what's for dinner'...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/08/09/ladylib.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AlterNet
By Silja J.A. Talvi

08/08/05

On July 29th, the Senate reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act was approved by a process known as 'unanimous consent.' The week prior, the House majority voted to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act (257-171). President Bush is expected to sign the reauthorized and largely permanent PATRIOT Act into law on Sept. 11, 2005, pending an ironed-out version between the House and the Senate once the legislative session resumes. While the law is one of the most far-reaching and drastic in U.S. history, it is not the first time the government has moved to utilize a time of real or perceived crisis to increase its powers of surveillance and detention. And while portions of the bill will be reviewed again in two years, much of what is considered its most invasive components remains. 'We rushed to put together legislation that we thought would safeguard us from another terrorist attack,' U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-AK, said in the aftermath of the House reauthorization vote. 'In the process we have created a bill that I feel takes away from our constitutional freedom. This is not patriotism, this is Big Brother'...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/23917/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

08/08/05

U.S. government officials, both politicians and career bureaucrats, always imply that a tradeoff exists between security and liberty and that we cannot have both. This view, however, depends on buying into key erroneous assumptions made by those same officials. The Bush administration's high-octane 'war on terror' has undertaken an active and highly publicized agenda domestically and overseas to rid the world of 'evildoers.' Unfortunately, after the September 11 attacks, the American public would have been freer and safer, both at home and when traveling and doing business abroad, if the administration's security bureaucracies had taken a long vacation. In short, the administration's activism -- whether it be for ulterior motives, as in the invasion of Iraq, or to win public relations points with voters -- ensures that Americans will see both their security and liberty eroded...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1549


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by Adam Young
08/08/05

What is this but an open declaration that the regime of Tony Blair has established a policy that his police forces can shoot to kill just on suspicion? Can kill anyone in Britain -- including British citizens -- without any safeguards at all, based all on how someone may walk or what they wear somewhere at some time. What is this but an outright Soviet-style policy directed by the regime against the general public? ... And, now of course, we learned that he didn't run, he didn't hop the turnstile and that he wasn't even wearing that suspiciously large bomb concealing jacket that allegedly lead to his murder. 'He used a travel card,' his cousin, Vivien Figueiredo, said. 'He had no bulky jacket, he was wearing a jeans jacket. But even if he was wearing a bulky jacket, that wouldn't be an excuse to kill him'...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/younga/younga2.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Marvin Olansky

08/08/05

Rich hunters offset the costs of their African safaris by donating mounted heads of exotic animals to a Nebraska museum and claiming huge tax deductions. A Tennessee foundation created to improve education among the poor pays its director several million dollars. A tax-exempt hospital charity in Minnesota sends employees on trips to Hawaii and Grand Cayman Island, and executives on a three-day wine tour of Napa Valley to help them find their 'moral center.' Those are some of the stories that emerged from a Senate Finance Committee hearing this spring on charitable-giving abuses. Committee chairman Charles Grassley concluded, 'It's time for comprehensive reforms to shut down personal enrichment at the needy's expense.' He's right, but the arrogance of government and foundation officials at the expense of the needy is an even greater problem...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0809/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Dante Chinni

08/08/05

Mainstream journalism is running scared. It's watching its audience numbers decline and its public trust numbers drop. Newspapers, magazines, and network television news have been shaken by major scandals. The media have seen the future and it is blogging. Or at least that's the story this year. 'Mainstream journalism,' however you want to define it, has been under siege so long it's hard to keep track of all the people, things, and outlets that were or are still going to destroy it. Blogs, or weblogs -- websites on which a person or a group of people opines about events, reports what's been heard, or simply links to other sites (many of which are also blogs) -- are the latest concern among journalists who look at them with curiosity and fear...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0809/p09s01-codc.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

New York Observer
by Joe Conason

08/08/05

Among the most durable stereotypes of American political culture is that military officers secretly yearn for authoritarian rule and blind brutality, especially if they happen to be from the South, while civilian officials and intellectuals supposedly cherish our constitutional order. Those old liberal clichés have been proven false in the struggle to curtail the lawless misconduct symbolized by Abu Ghraib. We now know that the most reliable defenders of the Constitution are lifetime military officers -- bolstered by a trio of Southern conservative Senators who also happen to be decorated veterans. They have been pushing back against the neoconservative academics and experts whose advice led to torture scandals and the abrogation of civil and human rights...

http://www.observer.com/opinions_conason.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

08/09/05

The American right has long dedicated itself to the promotion of limited government -- limited to its key functions of cracking skulls, caging sinners and leveling cities. Helpful to this program of state violence is the fact that most people, left, right, center and libertarian, believe that protecting people's rights to life, liberty and property against foreign and domestic threats is the one unquestionable purpose of government. People tend to consider organized force a legitimate means to defend the innocent against violent criminals, terrorists, and the like. It is along these lines that the most universally accepted government programs are its most explicitly coercive, and that conservatives tend to go overboard in their enthusiasm for the 'legitimate' functions of 'limited' government...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory86.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

08.08.05

Mit nur noch etwa 2.000 Tieren steht der Borneo-Zwergelefant nach Einschätzung der Artenschutzorganisation WWF vor dem Aussterben. Die Elefanten seien eine Unterart des asiatischen Elefanten und kämen nur auf der südostasiatischen Insel vor. Dort seien sie hauptsächlich durch die massive Rodung der Regenwälder für Öl-Palmen-Plantagen gefährdet.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11572

Shell, BP & Exxon: Dramatische Folgen von Öl- und Gasausbeutung in Russland für die Bewohner (08.08.05)

Die Russische Föderation ist die wichtigste Herkunftsregion für Erdöl und Erdgas, das in der Bundesrepublik verbraucht wird. Die Rohstoffe würden fast ausschließlich in den Gebieten der Rentierzüchter, Fischer, Jäger und Sammler des hohen Nordens und Sibiriens gewonnen. Bei einer Tagung vom 26.-28. August in der Evangelischen Akademie Iserlohn werden auf Initiative des Instituts für Ökologie und Aktions-Ethnologie (infoe) erstmals Vertreter betroffener Ureinwohnergemeinschaften, deutscher Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen sowie Vertreter von Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft der deutschen Mitverantwortung für die Lage der Ureinwohner in den Ölfördergebieten Sibiriens nachgehen und versuchen, gemeinsame Strategien zu entwickeln.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11579

Rechtsstaat: Harte Diskussionen über vorbeugende Sicherungshaft (08.08.05)

Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily sprach sich am Montag erneut für eine vorbeugende Sicherungshaft aus. Dies sei erforderlich zur Abwehr terroristischer Gefahren. Die Frage sei, ob man Gefahren von Terrorverdächtigen, die nicht abgeschoben werden können, "sehenden Auges" hinnehmen wolle. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International (AI) hat die Pläne scharf kritisiert. "So etwas darf es nicht geben", sagte Amnesty-Sprecher Dawid Bartelt. Es sei nicht mit einem Rechtsstaat vereinbar, wenn Menschen auf bloßen Verdacht hin über längere Zeit inhaftiert werden können. Der Sprecher warnte, man müsse aufpassen, "dass uns nicht die gesamte rechtsstaatliche Basis abhanden kommt".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11574

Action Alert to Protect Old Growth Forests of Tasmania

This is Ruth from the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia. We are hoping you might have a moment to help us to protect the forests of Tasmania. for the Earth, Ruth and John. http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/

Take Action to Protect Old Growth Forests of Tasmania from Rainforest Information Centre (Australia) and Friends of the Earth Australia

Please help us to urge Nippon and Oji Paper companies in Japan to follow Mitsubishi's lead and halt the purchase of woodchips sourced from old growth forests of Tasmania. Below is a sample letter you can email to: info@ojipaper.co.jp (Oji Paper) and to env@npaper.co.jp (Nippon Paper Industries)

You can also access this action alert directly at: http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/tasmania/form_en_html

You can also send a letter to Prime Minister John Howard by clicking http://forests.org/action/alert.asp?id=australia.

For background info on Nippon's purchase of woodchips see http://chrislang.blogspot.com/2005_07_12_chrislang_archive.html


info@ojipaper.co.jp, env@npaper.co.jp

To: Mr. SUZUKI, Shoichiro, CEO, Oji Paper Co.Ltd., Tokyo Japan Mr. MIYOSHI, Takahiko, President, Nippon Paper Industries Co., Tokyo Japan

July 22, 2005

Dear Sirs,

As you are aware, Mitsubishi Paper Mills has announced that it will stop using woodchips sourced from old growth forests. Their new policy is to buy only woodchips "sourced from plantations or second growth forests of environmentally benign, and reclaimed wood."

While the Australian Government recently agreed to protect some of the world's tallest hardwoods and old-growth forests of Tasmania, old growth logging in the state has not been phased out yet and will continue at the rate of 2600 hectares per year. Precious old-growth forests are still severely under threat and will be eradicated before too long unless strong decisive action is taken. These ancient forests are the womb of life and are required to maintain both local and global ecological stability.

We are writing to you to ask you to take a lead as Mitsubishi has done and please help us save these precious areas for Tasmania and the rest of the world.

We strongly urge you to implement a policy to ensure that your company does not buy any woodchips from Gunns sourced from old growth forests.

I look forward to your reply concerning this matter.

Yours Sincerely,

NAME ADDRESS


From EF! Media Center

09. August 2005

Beängstigende Parallelen Die Linkspartei.PDS fordert: Diplomatie statt Drohungen gegenüber dem Iran

Wolfgang Gehrcke, außenpolitischer Sprecher der Linkspartei.PDS und Spitzenkandidat in Hessen, zur Situation um das iranische Atomprogramm:

Erneut ist der Weltfrieden in Gefahr. Die Auseinandersetzungen um das iranische Atomprogramm drohen zu eskalieren und außer Kontrolle zu geraten. Die US-Kriegsplanungen gegen den Iran sind seit Monaten bekannt. Ein weiterer offener Konfliktherd in der Region wird die Gewalttaten im Irak anheizen und eine friedliche Lösung des Palästina-Problems unmöglich machen. Weder die Region des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens noch die Welt kann einen weiteren Krieg aushalten.

Die Linkspartei.PDS erklärt:

* Es geht nicht darum, wie man das politische Regime im Iran beurteilt, sondern es geht um eine friedliche Lösung des Problems. Ein Eingriff der USA oder Sanktionen gegen den Iran erschweren diese Aufgabe.

* Die Sympathien der Linkspartei.PDS sind bei der demokratischen Opposition im Iran. Die Linkspartei lehnt jeden weiteren Schritt in neue Atomprogramme ab. Zugleich betonen wir, dass keinerlei Beweise für die Arbeit am Bau von Atomwaffen im Iran vorliegen. Eine beängstigende Parallele zur Lüge über die Massenvernichtungswaffen des Irak drängt sich auf.

* Der Europäischen Union kommt eine wichtige Rolle für diplomatische Schritte statt Sanktionen und Drohungen zu. Die EU muss gleichzeitig den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika deutlich machen, dass Gewaltakte gegen den Iran den Widerstand Europas finden werden.

* Notwendig sind deutliche Zeichen der Atommächte, dass sie ihrerseits bereit sind, atomare Abrüstung auf die Tagesordnung zu setzen. Diese Bereitschaft fehlt völlig. Die US-Administration hat dagegen immer wieder verdeutlicht, dass die atomare Option in ihrer Präventivkriegsstrategie eine wichtige Rolle spielt.

Die Linkspartei.PDS erwartet von der Partei der Europäischen Linken und der Linksfraktion im Europaparlament, wo immer möglich auf die explosive Situation im Umgang mit dem Iran aufmerksam zu machen und vor neuen Kriegsstrategien zu warnen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=29364

Elektrosmognews vom 08.08.2005

Elektromagnetische Strahlung wirkt negativ auf Augenlinsen

Einer Studie des Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - könnte die elektromagnetische Strahlung beispielsweise von Mobiltelefonen dauerhafte und unheilbare Schäden im Auge verursachen. Vor allem den Grauen Star scheint die Strahlung zu fördern.

http://www.golem.de/0507/39527-2.html
http://www.technion.ac.il/



Handys könnten den Grauen Star fördern
http://www.gigaherz.ch/937

Tom Engelhardt asks that we give this much to our commanders, one upbeat prediction after another about "turned corners" and "tipping points," has proven wrong -- in fact, it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that not a single positive Bush administration prediction about Iraq has proven accurate, and yet that stops no one.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805G.shtml

Mrs. Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Mr Bush agrees to see her, even if it means spending all August under a broiling sun beside a dusty road.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805A.shtml

die 'Freiwillige Feldbefreiung' vor einer Woche in Strausberg samt dem Film 'Leben außer Kontrolle' sitzen mir noch dermaßen frisch in den Knochen, dass ich an dem folgenden nicht vorbeikonnte.

Bitte nehmt Euch einige Minuten Zeit für diese Eilaktion von Greenpeace Indien und dem Zentrum für Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft Indien http://www.csa-india.org/cicrstudy.asp - es geht buchstäblich (wie so häufig bei unserem Globalisierungs-Thema) um Leben und Tod.

Wer den Film "Leben außer Kontrolle" gesehen hat, hat dort erfahren, dass der Einsatz der gentechnisch veränderten Hybrid-Baumwolle 'Bollgard' von Monsanto (produziert ein Gift, das laut Werbung von Monsanto wirksam gegen den Schädling Bollwurm sein soll, der die Baumwollkapseln befällt) zu ausgedehnten Missernten geführt hat. Viele der betroffenen Bauern haben infolge dessen keine andere Möglichkeit mehr gesehen, als sich das Leben zu nehmen.

Nun hat das staatliche Zentral-Institut für Baumwollforschung haarsträubende Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Jahr 2003 veröffentlicht:

- Das von der gentechnisch veränderten Pflanze produzierte Bt-Gift Cry1Ac ist in in den verschiedenen Pflanzenteilen unterschiedlich konzentriert:

* am stärksten in den Blättern
* am schwächsten u.a. in der Kapselrinde und im Fruchtknoten, den Hauptangriffszielen des Bollwurms - Das Gift wirkt hauptsächlich gegen den Tabakwurm, einen Baumwollschädling, der in den USA die Blätter der Baumwollpflanzen befällt - Es wurden Bollwurm-Populationen gefunden, die bereits gegen das Bt-Gift Cry1Ac resistent sind - Um Bollwurmbefall zu vermeiden, müsste deshalb auch bei den gentechnisch veränderten 'Bollgard'-Pflanzen Insektizide eingesetzt werden

Diese Ergebnisse sollen am 10. August vom Komitee für die Zulassung von Gentechnik (GEAC) diskutiert werden. Greenpeace Indien und das Znetrum für Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft Indien bitten darum, dem Vorsitzenden des Komitees, Shri Suresh Chandra, zu schreiben (Email: chandrasuresh@nb.nic.in, Fax: 0091-11-24363967). Ein Musterschreiben auf Englisch ist beigefügt.

Darin wird u.a. auch die Frage aufgeworfen, weshalb die Ergebnisse erst jetzt veröffentlicht werden und nicht zu dem Zeitpunkt ihrer Entdeckung (die fraglichen gentechnisch veränderten Baumwoll-Hybride waren im gleichen Jahr zur kommerziellen Verwendung zugelassen worden).

Es wird gefragt, was diese Technologie schlussendlich garantiere, wenn die Giftabgabe an der Stelle der Pflanze am geringsten sei, wo der Bollwurm bevorzugt angreife, und was das Komitee den Bauern garantiere, wenn es diese Hybridpflanzen zum kommerziellen Anbau freigebe? Die gesamte Situation rechtfertige die Haltung, die NGOs und unabhängige Agenturen seit Jahren einnehmen: dass diese Technologie unpräzise und nicht kontrollierbar ist und dass die Entscheidungsprozesse des Komitees unwissenschaftlich, irrational und undurchsichtig seien.

Das Schreiben schließt mit der Forderung, dass das Komitee alle bislang gegebenen Zulassungen für den kommerziellen Anbau von Bt-Baumwolle zurücknehmen soll und die Verantwortung für die Verluste der Bauern übernimmt. Darüber hinaus wird gefordert, dass alle Studien in Indien und ihre Ergebnisse - öffentlich oder privat - auf deren Grundlage das Komitee seine Zulassungsentscheidungen trifft, unmittelbar veröffentlich und so der unabhängigen Überprüfung zugänglich gemacht werden.

In der Hoffnung, auch für diejenigen, die wenig Englisch verstehen, eine halbwegs sinnvolle Gebrauchsanweisung geliefert zu haben, grüßt Euch herzlich

Angelika Shams


------- Original Message -------- Subject: Eilaktion: [Fwd: GMW: URGENT - WRITE TO INDIA'S REGULATORS NOW...GEAC DISCUSSES THE CICR STUDY] Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:25:20 +0200 From: Wolfgang Wiebecke <kigwa.ww@web.de> To: wolfgang wiebecke <kigwa.ww@web.de>

Hallo zusammen, hier sende ich Ihnen/Euch einen Hinweis auf eine Eilaktion im Bereich Globalisierung und Ökologie weiter. Da ich erst heute dazu komme, diesen Hinweis weiterzuleiten, geht mein eigenes erbetenes Schreiben an Shri Suresh Chandra chandrasuresh@nb.nic.in mit dieser Rundmail los.

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Betreff: GMW: URGENT - WRITE TO INDIA'S REGULATORS NOW...GEAC DISCUSSES THE CICR STUDY Datum: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:26:44 +0100 Von: GM WATCH <info@gmwatch.org> An: kigwa.ww@web.de <kigwa.ww@web.de>

GM WATCH http://www.gmwatch.org

There's an urgent need for messages of concern to be sent to India's GM regulators - the GEAC - who are about to meet to discuss the findings of government scientists at the Central Institute for Cotton Research which show Bt cotton is ineffective against the bollworm.

It's vital that the GEAC now revoke their multiple permissions to Bt Cotton and drastically revamp their unscientific and opaque decision-making processes that made possible these disastrous approvals.

It's vital, says Kavitha Kuruganti, on bahalf of Greenpeace India and the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh, that as many questions as possible are now raised over how this faulty and problematic technology ever came to be approved with such damaging consequences for many cotton farmers in India.

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:25:54 +0530 From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha.kuruganti@gmail.com> Subject: URGENT:WRITE TO GEAC NOW...GEAC DISCUSSES THE CICR STUDY

Dear friends,

on the 10th of august, GEAC is expected to meet and discuss the shocking findings put out by CICR on Bt Cotton and on the ineffective toxin expression from the plant. for many cotton farmers of this country who had adopted Bt Cotton, this is in fact too late.

many of you must have seen the Central Institute for Cotton Research's findings on the ineffectiveness of Bt Cotton on many fronts. The findings reflect the erratic results on the ground that have been reported by many NGOs and independent agencies right from the first year of commercialisation and the fact that thousands of farmers have incurred losses with Bt Cotton while the companies and the government continue to promote it aggressively as the solution.

This brings us back to questions raised in the first instance on the technology per se as well as on the decision-making processes that this country follows with regard to genetically engineered crops.

For your information, the following links take you to two scientific studies that are relevant here, including the CICR study that has been published on july 25th and an earlier study by UAS, Dharwad on baseline resistance to Bt toxin in bollworms.

1. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul252005/291.pdf
2. 144.16.79.155/currsci/may252003/1304. pdf

On behalf of CSA and Greenpeace India, I request you to please take a few minutes to send a mail and/or fax to the Chairperson, GEAC demanding that they revoke their permissions to Bt Cotton and that they revamp their decision-making processes drastically. I am attaching a model letter that you could use as is or make whatever changes are necessary, to be sent to :

Shri Suresh Chandra, GEAC Chairperson at chandrasuresh@nb.nic.in or faxed to 011-24363967.

For those of us working against certain agricultural technologies and decision-making processes that promote the technologies in an unscientific and opaque manner, this CICR study epitomises what we suspected all along and therefore, it is important that we act now and put pressure on the GEAC. Could you therefore please send your mail/fax to the above contacts on the 8th and 9th, before the GEAC meets on the 10th of august? thanks.

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August 6, 2005

To

Shri Suresh Chandra

The Chairperson

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee [GEAC]

Ministry of Environment & Forests, Paryavaran Bhawan,

CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Dear Sir

Sub: CICR findings on expression of Cry1Ac toxin in Bt Cotton – GEAC's liabilities arising out of the findings

The Central Institute for Cotton Research, which falls under the ICAR had recently published some alarming findings from a study done by the agency in the 2003 cotton season in Current Science (July 25 th 2005 edition) [1].

From this study, the following findings emerge starkly, raising several unanswered questions and concerns with regard to Bt Cotton as well as decisions taken on transgenic crops in this country. These findings are being quoted below from the recently published paper in the words of the authors as much as possible.

The quantitative levels of Cry1Ac differed significantly among the eight commercial Bollgard hybrids tested – it is 2 to 7-fold variable among the different hybrids.

The Cry1Ac expression was found to be variable also between different plant parts – the leaves of Bt Cotton plants were found to have the highest levels of Cry1Ac expression followed by squares, bolls and flowers while very importantly, the toxin expression in the boll rind, square bud and ovary of flowers was clearly inadequate to confer full protection to the fruiting parts. These are the parts which constitute the most favored sites of bollworm attack.

The higher levels of expression in leaves are more advantageous to Bt Cotton in USA where Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm, a major pest in the USA) compared to those countries where Helicoverpa armigera is the major pest on cotton like in the case of India. Here, it is worth noting that Helicoverpa species are at least ten-fold more tolerant to the Cry1Ac protein compared to the tobacco budworm.

Increasing levels of Helicoverpa armigera survival were correlated with the toxin levels decreasing below 1.8 µg/g in the plant parts. The CICR scientists felt that from a practical standpoint in understanding farmer complaints related to bollworm survival on Bt Cotton.

The Cry1Ac expression declines progressively over the crop growth with toxin levels falling below the critical level of 1.9 µg/g after 110 DAS [Days After Sowing]. The decline in Cry1Ac expression was more rapid in some hybrids compared to the others. The results suggest that the decline in Cry1Ac expression is more rapid in medium to long duration hybrids, as was evident with Bollgard MECH 162, Bollgard RCH2 and Bollgard RCH 20.

The data available support the presumption that Bt Cotton hybrids in India may require more supplemental insecticide sprays than being used on Bt Cotton varieties elsewhere in the world.

A global analysis on the comparative performance of Bt Cotton varieties and hybrids against bollworms indicates that Bt Cotton Varieties appear to be more effective in controlling the Helicoverpa species compared to the hybrids grown in India. "Hence, the Indian farmer would have to be mentally prepared for the possibility of extra supplemental insecticide applications for bollworm control on Bt Cotton hybrids".

These findings raise several important and urgent questions especially on the functioning of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) that you head:

Why were such studies as the CICR one, conducted in 2003 season, not done much before Bt Cotton hybrids were commercialized in India?

What did GEAC do about asking for such studies to be done?

What kind of results can be expected if CICR did the same study over several seasons given that Bollworm survival was found to be increasing, with toxin levels decreasing?

Why did the CICR choose to publish the findings now in July 2005 in Current Science?

In what way did CICR use its findings to influence decision-making at the DBT and GEAC levels?

What did GEAC then do with the findings?

If it is known that Bt Cotton is more effective against tobacco budworm rather than cotton bollworm and is therefore a technology more suitable for the Americans than the Indian farmers, what was done about it?

If it was known that Bt Cotton is more effective in varieties rather than in hybrids as in the case of India, why was it allowed on hybrids, unless to help the profit-making ventures of agri-business companies which only deal with cotton hybrids and not varieties?

If the variability of toxin expression is so significant amongst different hybrids (2 to 7 fold variability), what are the implications for bio-safety? This country has decided to do away with elaborate biosafety tests once an event is approved and goes in only for agronomic tests and that too, for only one year in some cases. However, the CICR results clearly caution us about the dangers of such an approach. What are the different biosafety tests taken up for these different hybrids that have been approved so far? Does GEAC know the toxin expression levels for each of these hybrids, in different parts of the plant, across the whole season and was this information created before the approvals were granted?

If there is a rapid decline in Cry1Ac expression in certain hybrids like RCH2 Bt and RCH 20 Bt, and if these findings emerged around the same time that GEAC was taking a decision on approval for commercial release of RCH2Bt, what did CICR do about influencing the decision? What did GEAC do about the findings that CICR would have presented to it?

Equally importantly, if the toxin expression is the lowest in the most favored sites of bollworm attack – the ovary of flowers and the boll rind of green bolls – what is the technology ultimately guaranteeing? What is GEAC in turn guaranteeing to the farmers of this country when it is approving and clearing these hybrids for commercial cultivation?

If we combine the findings of this study with an earlier study done by University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad which shows that baseline resistance to Bt toxin is already high in several populations of bollworm in several locations of Bt Cotton hybrid cultivation, we are faced with the ludicrous situation where on the one hand, the toxin expression is the lowest in the most vulnerable parts of the cotton plant (vulnerable to bollworm attack) and on the other hand, there is already resistance existing in several cotton growing locations to such toxins!

This whole situation clearly vindicates the position that NGOs and independent agencies have been taking for years now about the technology being imprecise and out of control and your decision-making processes being unscientific, irrational and opaque. We are very concerned about the manner in which such studies are taken up only after decisions for commercialization are made, while GEAC does not wait to heed from such findings even afterwards.

In this context, we demand that the GEAC revoke all the approvals given so far for Bt Cotton commercial cultivation. GEAC should make itself liable for the losses incurred by farmers in many locations because of the failure of the technology.

We once again demand that all studies being conducted in the country and their findings – whether of the public sector or the private sector – based on which your decisions are being made be put in the public domain immediately for independent scrutiny and make your approval procedures broad-based and transparent.

Sincerely,

Name:

(Organisation, if applicable):

Address:

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[1] "Temporal and intra-plant variability of Cry1Ac expression in Bt Cotton and its influence on the survival of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera", Kranthi K R et al (of Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur), Current Science, Vol 89, No 2, 25 July 2005



MfG

Dr. Wolfgang Wiebecke Agrargruppe von Attac-Wtal Meckelstr. 9, 42285 Wuppertal PS: Mit diesen Mails will ich Eilaktionen unterschiedlichster NROs im Bereich "Globalisierung und Ökologie" weiterleiten, die kurzfristig dringend Unterstützung brauchen und über die gängigen Mailinglisten meist zu spät ankommen. Aus zeitlichen Gründen will ich dafür keine Recherchen machen, sondern leite nur - nach kritischer Sichtung - weiter, was mir zugesendet wird. In diesem Sinn also lade ich Sie/Euch zu Ergänzungsinformationen ein! Hinweis: Diese Mails bekommen Menschen und Organisationen, deren Mailadresse in meiner Tabelle in der Spalte "Eilaktionen" mit einer "1" vermerkt ist. Das An- oder Abmelden von diesen Mails kann also unabhängig von anderen meiner "Mailinglisten" jederzeit erfolgen. Ähnliche "Mailinglisten": "Tagungen Globalisierung und Ökologie", "Informationen Globalisierung und Ökologie", "Einkaufsratgeber-Kurzfassung", "Aktionen Globalisierung und Ökologie"

Herbert Masslau hat einen Artikel zum Thema „An- und Abmeldung von ALG II-Beziehern bei Krankenkassen“ geschrieben. Er beschäftigt sich mit den gesetzlichen Grundlagen und viel interessanter, mit den Hintergründen. Der Artikel vom 05.08.05 auf seiner Homepage

http://www.herbertmasslau.de/pageID_2272487.html

Dazu passend die folgende Meldung:

Falsche Storno-Meldungen an Krankenkassen durch Fehler in Hartz-IV-Software

„Durch einen Fehler in der Software A2LL kommt es derzeit zu falschen Krankenkassen-Meldungen, teilt die Bundesagentur für Arbeit mit. In mehreren hunderttausend Fällen seien Meldungen zur Krankenversicherung, also Anmeldungen, Abmeldungen, Veränderungsmitteilungen, von Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfängern ohne Grund automatisch storniert worden…“ Herbert Masslau kann beruhigt sein, denn „Die BA sei für die Probleme mit der A2LL-Software nicht verantwortlich, entschuldigt sich aber "ausdrücklich für alle Unannehmlichkeiten", so zitiert die Meldung auf Heise news vom 08.08.2005

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62595



Krank sein in den Zeiten von Hartz IV

Ende August 2005 erscheint eine vierzigseitige Broschüre mit gleichnamigem Titel. In ihr wird das Geflecht von Gesetzlicher Krankenversicherung (SGB V), Hartz IV (SGB II) und neuer Sozialhilfe (SGB XII) unter die Lupe genommen. Der Autor Siegfried Dierke beschreibt die Konsequenzen für den Krankenversicherungsschutz bzw. die Kostenübernahme im Krankheitsfall, die je nach Art des Leistungsbezugs, Familienstatus bzw. Zurechnung zu einer Bedarfsgemeinschaft unterschiedlich sein können. Zur Schätzung einer realistischen Höhe der Auflage bitten wir Sie/Euch um Vorbestellungen für eine verbindliche Abnahmegarantie, da der Druck nicht gefördert wird. Die Schutzgebühr beträgt 3 EUR, bei geringer Stückzahl zzgl. Versandkosten. Der Umfang beträgt 40 Seiten, DIN A 4. Vorbestellungen bitte an: Siegfried Dierke (email: s.dierke@web.de) Anne Allex (email: anne.allex@web.de) Weitere Informationen und das Inhaltsverzeichnis im Flyer (pdf)

http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gesund/kranksein.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 9. August 2005

Nach dem Scheitern der EU-Verfassungsreferenden in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden

Wie die Führungsmächte der EU, Deutschland und Frankreich, ihre Unzufriedenheit mit dem nationalen Ertrag des europäischen "Einigungswerks" als "Ringen um die europäische Einigung" vorantreiben. Die Analyse des GegenStandpunkt-Verlags in Radio Lora München vom 18. Juli 2005:

http://www.gegenstandpunkt.de/radio/2005/ga050718.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 9. August 2005

Artikel von Klaus Eichner, Teil 2 und Schluß in junge Welt vom 09.08.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/08-09/003.php


Aus: LabourNet, 9. August 2005

Artikel von Klaus Eichner, Teil 1 in junge Welt vom 08.08.2005
http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/08-08/003.php


Aus: LabourNet, 9. August 2005

The list of murdered human rights activists and environmentalists is long - and in most cases dark governmental and corporate forces play a role in the assassinations, which usually also provide for the cover-up and some lame explanations concerning the sudden death of a defender. Here is one of the rare cases where we might get some more light into the dark alleys of state and corporate terror.

Pilot in court for Munir's murder

By Rachel Harvey BBC News, Jakarta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4133704.stm

A pilot with the Indonesian national airline Garuda has gone on trial over the murder of a human rights activist.

Munir Said Thalib died last September on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam, and a post-mortem showed he had ingested lethal amounts of arsenic.

The pilot, Pollycarpus Priyanto, who was off-duty during the flight, is the first suspect to be charged over Munir's death. He denies all charges.

Two cabin crew have also been arrested but their cases are not yet in court. The eight-page indictment, a copy of which has been obtained by the BBC, says Pollycarpus, aged 44, planned to kill Munir on the first leg of his journey from Jakarta to Singapore.

The document alleges that he arranged for a lethal dose of arsenic to be added to a glass of orange juice which was served to Munir shortly after he boarded the Garuda Indonesia plane.

The prosecution says that Pollycarpus - a senior pilot with the airline - made sure he was on the same flight as Munir by forging documents which suggested he had a special assignment in Singapore.

He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Inquiry criticised

Munir was a highly respected and outspoken human rights advocate who had often criticised the conduct of Indonesian security forces.

An independent investigation into his murder found indications the state intelligence agency may have been involved. The recently retired head of the agency has denied any connection to the killing.

Police inquiries are continuing but critics say leads are not being pursued as vigorously as they should be. The trial of Pollycarpus will be watched closely in part to see if the defendant is willing to shed any more light on the murky circumstances surrounding this high-profile murder.


ECOTERRA Intl.

Considering what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished, it's disturbing to learn that President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge John G. Roberts, opposed it in 1981 while serving as an assistant to Attorney General William French Smith in the Reagan administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9700.htm

Far from home, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter plows its white bow through the seas of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, where an oil boom could outpace Persian Gulf exports to America in a decade.

http://snipurl.com/gt2t


From Information Clearing House

It is quite clear that the US War on Terror, beginning with the attack on Afghanistan was exploited by Washington to place its forces for strategic control of regions, as spelt out by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a controversial organization whose members dominate the echelons of power in Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9703.htm

The loss of more American soldiers may mark the beginning of the end for the occupation of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9708.htm

Vermin and Souvenirs How to justify a nuclear attack:

In order to inflict inhumane punishment, it is necessary to convince oneself that the enemy is not fully human.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9705.htm

Myths and slogans are preferred over explanation and analysis. "Sentiment" for our way of life, "inspiration" from the myths of an imaginary enemy, "passion" for combating evil, "intuition" as a justification for going to war, "force" as the only solution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9701.htm

Don't be afraid to speak out. Don't back down when your friends begin to tell you that the cause is righteous and that the flag should be wrapped around the cross.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9707.htm

Muslims should not be alone in their fears for the future. If Mr Blair is allowed to construct the Britain that he has mapped out, it is not the rules that will have changed, but our society.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1544581,00.html



The Tyranny of Pronouns on the Road to Fascism:

Blair was very quick to surrender to terror. His endorsement of the ‘we’ and ‘they’ philosophy, is exactly where his enemies want him to go.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9709.htm


From Information Clearing House

“I plan on staying here the entire month of August or until he comes out to talk to me,” she says. Bush is spending five weeks at his ranch.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1018957.php


From Information Clearing House

Iraq combat veteran talks about his motivations for joining the army, the horrors of war and the anguish of returning home.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9699.htm

A former guard charged with maiming and assault said that he and other reservist military policemen were specifically instructed at Bagram how to deliver the type of blows that killed the two detainees.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9702.htm

by William R. Clark

'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases before the onset of global Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9698.htm

Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0808-01.htm
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=88794;show_parent=1
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The roiling debate over the narrow vote in the House of Representatives to approve the Central American Free Trade Agreement rippled back to New York City yesterday, as a broad coalition of labor unions and allied groups assailed two congressmen, Gregory W. Meeks and Edolphus Towns, for supporting the bill.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805LA.shtml

For the past 20 years climatologists and ice and atmosphere scientists have been working in Alaska studying climate change. Now they have discovered a rich new source of records extending their knowledge back by decades through the oral history of native Alaskans.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805EB.shtml

A lawsuit filed today against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an "enemy combatant" in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805Q.shtml

The Endangered Species Act is on the chopping block in Congress. Within weeks, Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) plans to introduce legislation to drastically weaken and even repeal protections for endangered and threatened plants and wildlife. We need your help to stop this attack on the Endangered Species Act and the creatures it protects. Please ask your Representative to oppose the Pombo extinction bill.

Please use our automatic FAX system to send a letter, or you can call: Your Representative is: Mike Thompson and their phone number is (202) 225-3311.

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/ESA05/iw837u4f5bw83m?
Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): Your Congressperson

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Subject: Please oppose Rep. Pombo's extinction bill

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

For more than thirty years, the Endangered Species Act has helped save wildlife, fish, and plants from the brink of extinction. 99% of all the species listed under the Act are still with us today, and hundreds of species would likely have gone extinct without its protection.

Now House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo is proposing legislation to drastically weaken, and even repeal, the Endangered Species Act. Chairman Pombo's "TESRA" bill would repeal the Endangered Species Act in 2015, and would immediately:

-Eliminate the requirement to recover endangered species

- Reduce protection of threatened species and critical habitat areas

- Politicize and eliminate scientific decision-making

- Eliminate independent federal oversight

- Bury federal biologists under mountains of useless paperwork

- Bankrupt the federal agencies by diverting conservation funds to pay landowners and corporation to obey the law

- Encourage an increase in industry litigation.

I urge you to oppose Rep. Pombo's wildlife extinction bill and support a strong Endangered Species Act.

Sincerely,


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What's At Stake:

For more than thirty years, the Endangered Species Act has helped save wildlife, fish, and plants from the brink of extinction. 99% of all the species listed under the Act are still with us today, and hundreds of species would likely have gone extinct without its protection.

Now, long-time Endangered Species Act opponent Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) plans to gut and then repeal this cornerstone conservation law. Rep. Pombo's proposed bill would repeal the Endangered Species Act in 2015, and in the meantime drastically weaken the Act. Had Pombo's bill been made law in 1973 instead of the Endangered Species Act, there would be no bald eagles, wolves, grizzly bears, Florida panthers, or desert pupfish in the continental U.S. today. If it is made law in the future, hundreds of endangered species could become extinct.

Rep. Pombo is expected to introduce his bill either in July before Congress leaves for its August recess, or when Congress returns in September.

Campaign Expiration Date: October 1, 2005


From EF! Media Center

The Veterans for Peace want to send the Arlington West Memorial of crosses to Texas where Gold Star Mother, Cindy Sheehan is waiting to speak with President Bush to get answers to her questions. Cindy wants to know: why Bush killed her son by sending him to Iraq based on lies and what is the noble cause that he says her son died for?

Check out this link to see what Cindy has been up to.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m14430&date=08-aug-2005_01:04_ECT

How you can help:
Join us in a caravan drive to Texas on Tuesday morning to support Cindy and set up the Iraq War Memorial. (total driving time: 22 hours)

We need a vehicle with a hitch to pull a small trailer that carries the crosses.

Within the last hour, Cindy held five interviews with major media networks. She needs our help to keep the spot light on Bush's refusal to speak with her.

Please reply with any leads or suggestions.

Thanks
Tonia
Topanga Peace Alliance
Arlington West Volunteer
310-455-2688


Informant: Frank

A famous person once said:

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."

Do you know who said that?

It was Thomas Jefferson. One of the most influential statesmen in America's history. Jefferson also said:

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."

What is CODEX ALIMENTARIUS but an attempt of the state (government) to control our food and medicine choices, in the interest of the profits of corrupt corporations? CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is exactly what Jefferson warned us about in his quote! What a sharp mind he had.

What would he advise us to do in the face of the CODEX problem? Based on his quote, we can assume with certainty that he would ask the American people to get active and defend health freedom from CODEX.

Here are two things you can do right now:

First: Send Emails to Congress from the Comfort of Your Computer Chair

If you haven’t already, please click on the link below and send emails to Congress, asking our elected officials to protect health freedom by supporting pro-health freedom bills (currently 1) and opposing anti-health freedom bills (currently 5):

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/bills

It is crucial that you send emails, because each email counts as the voice of 13,000 Americans. Congress estimates that 12,999 Americans feel the same way as you do, but simply did not bother to send a letter as you did. So click on the link and send those emails.

Second: Shake Hands With Your Local Members of Congress!

Another way to get active is to visit your Congress representatives (and Senators) in their district offices, while they are home this August, to tell them that your health freedom is vitally important to you. August is the best month to see them, because they are at home, away from the hustle and bustle of DC. If they see you in person, it will have a much stronger effect than receiving your letters only.

“Oh, they won’t listen to us” you may say. Klaus Rudolph, they will listen to you. How can I be so certain? Well, I just came back from a lengthy interview with a USD 20,000 per month lobbyist (asking to remain anonymous) who said, "It’s not like it was 15 years ago when Congress only listened to lobbyists and corporations. Now the single most powerful force are constituents in their home offices telling Congressmen and Congresswomen that they care and that they have friends who vote, too. In fact, there is nothing more powerful!"

Wow! This comes from a lobbyist. They sure know how politics in this country works. If you care about health freedom, visiting your local Congress representative is a must. How do you find his or her address? Easy. Visit the link below and follow the instructions:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/find

What to Tell Them

What would you tell them when you're there in their doorway, face to face? Simple: tell them how you want them to vote on bills related to health freedom. Be specific. Tell them the names of the bills and why you want them to vote for one and against another. Tell them how it would affect the families of Congressmen and Congresswomen if health freedom was lost (it would affect them as much as you and me). Remember, Congressmen and Congresswomen are our friends if we treat them as such. Most of them want to do good. We just need to remind them and inform them with the facts. Print the following page and take it with you for your visit:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/bills


Also, ask them to visit http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/forcongress, a special page we've made to help Congressmen and Congresswomen gain easy access to information about Codex Alimentarius. We’ve Won Before, in 1994, We Can Do it Again in 2005

You may remember how millions of Americans roared in 1994 to keep their nutritional supplements in the food category (to maintain free access without prescription). Because of the roar of the American people, DSHEA was passed with unanimous Congressional approval. 100% of Congress understood that if they got on the wrong side of this one, they would be out of a job, come the next election!

Newsweek described this fight for free access to vitamins as “the largest movement since the Vietnam war”!

We did it then. We can do it again today, with Thomas Jefferson's understanding of democracy to guide us. Congress holds the key to protecting America from CODEX. Take the message of health freedom face to face with those who hold the key. I’m sure they will appreciate your visit (it’s not everyday that concerned Americans show up at their door for honest dialogue on issues that affect our nation).

And I would really appreciate if you would send me an email with your story about visiting your local Congress representative. If you take pictures, send them in too. If you give me permission, I will gladly publish your story to the thousands who receive my newsletters. So go out there, use the tools provided in this email and make democracy come alive. Above all, remember to have fun!

Yours in Health and Freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director Natural Solutions Foundation http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/donate

P.S. Here’s an idea: take your friends with you and make it a pleasant day out. Ladies, group together. Gentlemen, call your buddies. Let’s make things happen.

Our Founding Fathers are reminding us: you are the people of the United States of America, and her future is in your hands.

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SCALAR EM WEAPON CREATED COOK'S HEART ATTACK
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Why I cannot be part of this divisive war :

This is an extract from Robin Cook's resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1544389,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Greg Szymanski
8-3-5
rense.com

When Morgan Reynolds called the official story about 9/11 bogus, it seemed like the whole world stopped for a moment to listen.
It seemed like a lighting bolt hit the heart of the government story, cracking it into a million unexplainable pieces.

And when the dust settled from his explosive statements, the highest-ranking member of the Bush team to make such an accusation said he wasn't expecting any "invitations to the White House anytime soon."

Two weeks ago, the former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's first term told the world he thought the WTC fell from a controlled demolition, indicating 9/11 was "an inside government job."

Reynolds, a respected economist and former Republican conservative, made his claims after researching many aspects of 9/11, including scientific and engineering data for and against the government story.

He presented his findings on the Internet in a long, detailed article, concluding:

"It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and Building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. [...] Read it all at http://www.rense.com/general67/huge.htm


© Virginia Metze

By BOB HERBERT
Published: August 4, 2005
New York Times

Specialist Fourth Class Hugo Luis Gonzalez knows that he will never be the same. He can barely see now. The sight in his right eye is completely gone, and he sees only faintly with the left. The damage from the head wound he suffered plays games with his moods, and there are glitches in the tape of his memory.

"We got ambushed," he said softly. "I have to say I was very, very, very blessed that night. The angel of death put his cloud over my body. But I am alive."

Specialist Gonzalez is one of many thousands of American troops who have suffered disabling wounds in Iraq. Their harrowing ordeals do not get much attention. For most Americans, these troops - many of them armless or legless, or paralyzed, or horribly burned - are out of sight and way out of mind. Jennifer Aniston's marital woes are viewed as a much more compelling story. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/8gzua


© Virginia Metze

In an improvement of rhetoric over some of the earlier reports of this, the story about the grand jury indictment of Bush lives on.

Federal Whistle Blower Claims Chicago Grand Jury Indicted Bush And Others For Perjury and Obstruction Of Justice; U.S. Attorney's Office Says 'No Comment,' Refusing To Confirm Or Deny Alleged Indictments

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the Valerie Plame-CIA leak has now spilled over into Bush administration lies involving 9/11 and the war in Iraq, according to sources close to the Chicago probe.

August 2, 2005

By Greg Szymanski

Sources close to the Chicago federal grand jury probe into perjury and obstruction charges against President Bush and others said indictments were handed down this week, but a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois refused to comment.

“We are not talking about any aspect of this case and our office is not commenting on anything regarding the investigation at this time,” said Randall Sanborn from the office of U.S. federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the attorney conducting the grand jury probe into whether Bush and others in his administration violated federal law in a number of sensitive areas, including the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, involvement in 9/11 and the illegal nature of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In December 2003, Fitzgerald was named Special Counsel to investigate the alleged disclosure of the identity of who leaked information in the Plame case, but the present grand jury probe has expanded to include the wide-reaching crime allegations as new information surfaced.

Although the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago is staying silent, it is well known that Fitzgerald is digging deep into an assortment of serious improprieties among many Bush administration figures based, in part, on subpoenaed testimony provided by former Secretary of State Colin Powell. [...] Read more at the Arctic Beacon web site. http://tinyurl.com/bq8ba


© Virginia Metze




http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

One of my favorite "posters," Jack Dalton, said this: "To call Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq, and whose blood is on Bush/Cheney’s hands, a 'threat to national security' because she demands to know from Bush why her son died shows how low this nation has been dragged." http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/ and http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/08/cinday-sheehan-threatened-with-arrest.html or http://tinyurl.com/7683q

Remember Helen Thomas? Here is one of her recent articles! So petty have the Bush press briefings been that they had no longer recognized her as Senior Correspondent, or whatever the name is for the person who starts with the first question.

Lame Duck Bush Has Swagger, Not Waddle
President Continues To Do As He Pleases
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist
POSTED: 4:16 pm EDT August 3, 2005
The BostonChannel.com Channel 5

President George W. Bush is not letting his lame duck status stop him from displaying an arrogance of power.

When a Texas newspaper reporter told him, "Power is perception," Bush corrected him, saying, "Power is being president."

In fact, Bush is proving that a lame duck has a lot of power to do what he wants to do since he doesn't have to be re-elected and, therefore, is answerable to no one.

Furthermore, he indicates he could care less whether he goes up or down in public opinion polls. With more than three years left in his presidency, the president's only political constraints may come from members of his own party. [...] Read the whole article at http://tinyurl.com/e3yu2


© Virginia Metze

Take a look at this site:
http://www.freepress.net/fcc/comment.php?d=99-25


© Virginia Metze

David Sirota
Working for Change Sirotablog
8.4.05

Last week before the vote on the corporate-written Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), I tried to predict which Democrats would face real trouble at home if they sold out and voted for it. This week, at least some of my predictions came true.

According to Crain's Insider newsletter, "Ten unions are planning a City Hall rally and press conference Sunday morning to blast New York City Democrats Rep. Ed Towns and Greg Meeks for voting for CAFTA."

Meanwhile, the Working Families Party (WFP) - a statewide force in New York - has issued a press advisory about the event, which it is co-sponsoring. WFP notes that "Meeks and Towns have drawn progressive wrath in recent weeks for voting in favor Central American Free Trade Agreement, as well as voting in favor of the recent anti-consumer bankruptcy reform bill (Meeks) and eliminating the federal estate tax (Towns)." [...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/9pbra


© Virginia Metze

How can this guy remain on the air? Saying attacks were financed by Soros is way out of line. When will we Democrats be able to attack such garbage?

Limbaugh didn't disclose "commercial" attacking Roberts was fake
MEDIA MATTERS for America
Posted to the web on Wednesday August 3, 2005 at 5:44 PM EST

On the August 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh aired a "new commercial" by "the left" that attacked Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. for being a Catholic, "just like the Pope, who's from Germany." The "commercial" ended with the claim that it had been paid for by "George Soros and Hollywood friends of [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi [D-CA]." Limbaugh did not identify the "commercial" as either a fake or a parody. [...] To read the snippet from the Rush Limbaugh show, go to http://mediamatters.org/items/200508030006


© Virginia Metze

Well, the concerns are still simmering that Fitzgerald may be targeted by Bush because he is getting too close to what has happened in his grand jury investigations. You will remember this as the Chicago story we were keeping an eye on. Yesterday Tom Flocco shouted that Time and NewsWeek had stories about Bush will be removing the man that Fitzgerald is reporting to and will replace him. It is expected that this new appointee will be yet another person who puts Bush before constitution and country.

And to top it all, the mother whose son died in Iraq is scheduled to be arrested Thursday as a "threat to national security." I wonder how many more of you had tears in their eyes when they read that...

I received an interesting note that pointed out that there HAS been a lawsuit filed against the Bolton appointment and all Bush appointments. Web page is http://www.hesnotthepresident.com Introduction is at
http://www.hesnotthepresident.com/introduction.htm


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Many of you are awaiting a report on Phone Mast and TETRA forum held on the 19th July 05. I found this on the Mast Action website, so that at least you have some idea of what happened.

Sandi



Mobile Phone Mast Forum Report

Lembit Opik MP and Dr Ian Gibson MP Chaired a ‘highly charged’ Telecommunications Mobile Phone Mast Forum held at Westminster on 19th July 2005.

Over 100 MP’s, campaigners and Industry representatives heard presentations from Dr Gerd Oberfeld, Salzburg Leading Public Health Specialist and Eileen O’Connor of the EM Radiation Research Trust challenged Dr Michael Clark of The Health Protection Agency and Stuart Eke of The Mobile Phone Operators Association on the total inadequacy of the present planning policy in England and Wales for mast siting and the lack of independent research into the possible adverse health effects of over exposure to microwave radiation from some 40,000 masts in the UK.

Amanda Westley of Mast Sanity and Andy Davidson of Tetra Watch put a strong argument forward on the panel debate against the Tetra system for the Police Force.

The end of a spirited but constructive debate, Dr Ian Gibson said -:

“This is an important public health issue following the advice of Sir William Stewart the meeting has supported the proposal that all masts should be subject to full planning applications with proper, not just token, local consultation, including a review of health concerns. The Government should fund peer reviewed independent research into areas where cancer clusters have arisen round GSM masts, with the office of National Statistics providing for information on actual cases of cancer and motor neurone disease. The Police Tetra system needs to be revisited on safety issues ahead of its rollout.



From Karen Barratt - see below notes compiled by Marre Dafforn. Also attendees can get electronic copies of powerpoint presentations made by Michael Clark, Gerd Oberfeld, Eileen O'Connor, Andy Davidson, from opikl@parliament.uk or staplesj@parliament.uk

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Notes (MD) on Telecommunications Mast Forum, 19-07-05, Houses of Parliament.

Co-chaired by Lempit Opik MP (Lib Dem), Ian Gibson MP(Lab), Nicolas Gibb MP (Con), and Jill Evans MEP(Plaid Cymru).

AGENDA:

Introduction: By Lembit Opik MP:

-Purpose today: issues of Masts.
-Debate a hearing from all sides
-Some decision where to go next/ clearer idea of next steps.
-See the differences and how to move forward.

Opening Address: Dr Michael Clark (Health Protection Agency =HPA).

Slide Show: scientific consensus of radio waves on human health: science is not about certainties – new technology- the issues are complicated- genuine uncertainties.

Majority will have a mobile phone, to be able to use it we need links/ masts.

Showed Map of radiation spectrum, explained ionising and non ionising radiation.

-No doubt ionising radiation breaks DNA strands
-microwave energy “vibrates”=biological effect and produces heat, safety standards based on heating
-Science is about dealing with uncertainties.
-TV/Radio have been around for years- no health effects.
-We measure Mobile phone masts- Radio mast higher exposure measured
-ICNIRP safety accepted by most countries.
- Not enough evidence for need to change, only need for more research.
-Epidemiological evidence- no chronic disease evident.
-Stewart Report = model of how to assess health concerns- conclusions ICNIRP guidelines do not cause adverse health effects. Biological effects do not have to be harm to health.

IEGMP – rapid assessment as independent as possible- gap in knowledge justify precaution at this time.

-Driving whilst speaking on a mobile is dangerous.
-Cancer risk: no evidence, but can not exclude a possibility of a link with (other) health effects.
-Precautionary advise for children= not 5o use mobile unless necessary etc.
-Stewart Report par: 1.36 – 6.57= revoke permitted development rights= often ignored.
- Further updates AGNIR, other countries etc no evidence of harm , need for more research.
-Precaution in a planning process- how?

Stewart Update 2004 again no association with established health risks etc, TNO, need for replication. ES- no Lab experiments that confirm ES- no casual relationship.

We need people with monitoring equipment on body to be able to measure people’s actual exposure levels.

“EMF”: A Priority for Public Health” – Dr. Gerd Oberfeld (Public Health Department, Salzburg Government)

- EMF a priority for Public Health
- Showed slide: natural and artificial electromagnetic spectrum
Ionising radiation – high energy, known to break DNA bond
Non-ionising radiation- maybe there are other mechanism- increased chromosome damage with microwaves shown in 1959.
-Catania Resolution- Sept 02- evidence induced effects- some harm to health below ICNIRP guidelines
-ELF magnetic fields- Pylons- IARC 01 classification as possible carcinogenic.
-California EMF Project 02- 40% of all miscarriages associated with magnetic fields .1600nT

Microwave Radiation:

1 -High/Short Term Exposure – Mobile phone/ Dect phone- REFLEX report-chromosome damage with 24hrs mobile phone with SAR 1.3W/kg, ICNIRP/ WHO safety SAR limit= 2W/kg. Acoustic Nuroma associated with Mobile phone use (Hardell and Lonn 2004)

2 –Less High/ Long Term Exposure – Masts- back in 1932 Schliephake already study showing tiredness, sleep disturbance etc, Santini study 2002-reduced quality of life in France, Kundi study- Masts associated with reduced quality of life Austria (not published yet), Oberfeld study- reduced quality of life, Spain 2004 etc. Suspected Cancer clusters- (7) UK Dr Walker, 2005, Germany: Nailia Study etc.

EMF – Public Health:

-Advisory group of experts and NGO’s.
-Promote research into health incidences, cancer.
-EMF education plan.
-EMF prevention plan.


Panel Debate: Tetra

-Paul Lewis (Police Fed. Of England and Wales)
-Amanda Westley (Mast Sanity)
-Andy Davidson (Tetra Watch)

Paul Lewis: intro:-More effective police system needed-as result 1996 project airwave, to be completed by end of this year. We have concerns but have to use the equipment.

-Mixed messages, we are left in an awkward situation,
-The system has helped the Police.
-Concerns from officers on health effects, no one will give us assurance that the system is 100% safe, but we have to use the system.

Amanda Westley:

-TETRA – increased epileptic fits, Gov= no statistic significant effects?

Andy Davidson:

-To little exploratory science- epidemiological studies- Tetra- greater caution needed- We need to listen to what people say, re asbestos- Human body is a living organism- under threat.
-ES- dismissed as nameless- it can be severely disabling- we need to be more open-minded about this, our thinking is far to narrow.

Karen Barret:

-Political issues- officers concerned but are being bullied to use this system- if not they will lose their job.

Paul Lewis:

Answers more or less yes if you do not like it you will lose your job.

Andy:

-Police officers can not express fears

Amanda:

-Police officers have been threatened with disciplinary procedures.

Paul Lewis:

- Too much money has already been spent, how do we deal with this?

Andy:

- Cost very high Tetra- Tetrapol is alternative

Amanda:

The cost on NHS could be even greater in the future.

Alan Meyer (MAUK):

- On behalf of Police Fed- as employer should you not be responsible for your staff?

Chris Nunn (I think)

- When is evidence not about money? Planning system in favour of Airwave 02, although no guarantee of safety of this technology = charade.

Andy:

Police Officers having to use the equipment TETRA- we need record of symptoms to be able to take speedy action when required.

Amanda:

Stewart Report – remove PDR, apply precaution, this is not happening, Gov not listening to its own advisors.

Rebecca:

- 2 Tetra masts near school, great concern, ignored by Gov = unacceptable.

Amanda:

Mast on primary school against recommendation, how many deaths before Gov will listen?

Paul Lewis:

- We have to deal with what we have (??)

Andy:

Once we admit Mobile phone technology is harmful= enormous consequences.

Break

Panel Debate: Mobile Phone Masts:

-Dr. M Clark (HPA)
-Stuart Eke (Mobile Operators Association= MOA)
-Dr. Gerd Oberfield
-Eileen O’Connor (Radiation Research Trust)

Ian Gibson:

-What about the mast you do not see or know about?

Stuart (MOA) :

- 60 mill mobile phone users- need for masts- consumer demand, mobile phone transformed life, but understand concern. Code of Best Practise- we believe in consultation- annual rollout plans, all to support opportunity for consultation.

Eileen (SCRAM):

- Cancer- I believe my cancer was result of mast-
- We need independent research funding.
- We need radiation levels reduced

M Clark (HPA)

- I personally think health effects need to be separated from planning issues.

Gerd Oberfeld:

-Stating practical standards, Salzburg resolution etc, reduction of use of mobile phones= reduction of masts. Antennas high up (10m above roof tops). Reduction of power. EMF epidemiological- risk to high with current standards.

Question Rob Fellow(??) MP:

- Mobile phone operators fulfilling an individual choice/ need. Issues masts – if motorway suggested near your home- detailed planning requirements, but not with masts. My constituents- show maps of beam intensity and ill health/ deaths/ disease.
- How come no data collection of all the above by HPA? Need for data to make informed decisions.

Alan Meyer (MAUK):

We had meeting with Gov asked 5 questions (PPG8 pa 29/30, GPDO encourages low masts, should be avoided, all mast should be full planning, Code of Best Practise, what does consult mean; do you take results intop account, operators ignore results consultation exercise, what is planning Inspectorates roll in Telecom, Jody Phillips case.

Gov gave no decision on PPG8, said it would listen..

Karen Barrat:

Intro Mast Sanity, told of Byron mast campaign, fighting planning application for 5 years, we have costs, LPA have costs – political decision- Gov gets in bed with the telcom industry.

M Clark:

- Public health problems, have to work with what we got, how to do epidemiological studies?
- Particular frequencies effecting people, 2 extreme views:
1 We are sensitive orgs, 2 we are tough/ evolution.
Issues democracy = planning- should be choice. Science has to be separated from this.

Eileen O’Connor:

Shows graphs of hotspots in which cancers- health survey- cancer in main beam of radiation- gone to all the homes of people who are suffering. We need education program, mouth cancers in children on rise/ mobile phone.

Operators not following own guidelines- use of emergency powers.

Stuart Eke (MOA):

- We need masts, buy a phone means you are signing a contract that needs a mast. Consultation.

Michael Bell:

All new masts should go for full planning- all masts should be on a register. PPG 8 should take local concerns into account. NRPBshould be a new independent body. See radiation research trust website. Need for more research.

Public:

-Multiple mast outside my home – no precaution, look at our health concerns etc, LPA hands tied. No precautionary approach.

Mike Davidson Comm Affair Officer H3G:

Breast cancer; my mother had it, survived= benefited from science

? – from Wales:
- How to educate the public, particularly kids?
- What comes from this conference?

Alan Meyer (MAUK) question to M Clark (HPA):

-1999 Nicola Palmer (child) was cured from having epileptic fits, then mast next to her home, resulting in her having numerous fits again.
-Why does HPA not investigate conditions such as increased fits when mast built ?

Public:

- Consultation 14 days not enough- MM02 invited for meeting did not turn up.
- What is the purpose of today?

M Clark (HPA):

- How to apply precaution = not a matter for science= matter for politics.
- Everything is blamed on a mast nearby, not all of it can be caused by a mast.

Gerd Oberfeld:

- Not all symptoms are from masts but one can see from old literature emf causes symptoms. These symptoms are occurring every-were = picture emerging = anecdotal evidence.

Eileen:

- Shielding/ screening, helped against her son’s nose bleeds, sleepless nights etc. (basically some advertising for powerwatch stuff)
- “I want the Mobile Phone Industry to proof the opposite: namely that my cancer is/was not caused by their mast”.

MOA:

- NRPB- saying lack of evidence that this technology causes health effects, refers to Deloid T report etc, LPA’s are telling them they are getting better at consultation etc.

Mast Voice UK:

- We the public have lost our trust in democratic process, discrepancy of funding for research, tried communicating with operator but basically got no were.

Public:

- Self-regulation? Current Planning regulations need to be scrapped.

Jill Evans MEP:

- MM02- no info from site finder for TETRA masts, new EU Law on information and consultation- Better health statistics needed.
- What to do now?

Gerd Oberfeld:

- Take urgent action, not wait until public health deteriorates.
- Propose standards to reduce exposure-Research health complaints.

M Clark:

- Remind (Gov?) Stewart recommended precautions.
- Health statistics, for use to do epiderm. Study is very difficult, need money, needs to be peer reviewed.

Eileen:

- ICNIRP scrapped.
- Self regulation should be scrapped
- Safer guidelines.
- Get health surveys done now etc.

MOA:

- Need for additional funding, operators respond possessively to need for more funds for research.
- There is no public health problem now, we can debate that all day but we respond to what the HPA recommends (WHO) etc.

Gill Evans concludes:

Should listen to members of community- local people. Thanks public, Lembit Opik etc for organising this event.

Lembit Opik:

Concludes in thanking all people for attending/ organising etc, hopes to form a steering group.

(Present about 70? people when I did a quick count, Marre)

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1398


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