http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3342/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0828-25.htm



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

Mr Bush has never really forgiven secretary general Kofi Annan and other senior UN figures for their failure to support his invasion of Iraq. Although no one disputes that the UN is in need of reform, the American notion of reform looks more like a settling of scores than an attempt to improve its workings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1557477,00.html


From Information Clearing House

US regime in headlong flight forward towards war with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10010.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10001.htm



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

President George W. Bush, assailed by sagging poll numbers and criticism from anti-war protesters camped outside his ranch, called on Saturday for Americans to show resolve and brace for additional sacrifice in Iraq.

http://snipurl.com/h9gj


From Information Clearing House

Most people only see car bombs and explosions and American soldiers running frantically to contain “the situation” on a muted television screen, I see it in real life. I actually hear the booms and bangs of insurgent bombs, and the crackling of machine gun fire, and the hysterical shouting of frightened Iraqi civilians.

http://ftssoldier.blogspot.com/2005/08/finding-closure.html


From Information Clearing House

West's well-tried formula for provoking Islamic revolutions.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article308189.ece


From Information Clearing House

By Christine Rose

She explained to me how she and her husband voted for Bush. She said they were conservative and watched Fox News regularly; however, something touched her in seeing and hearing everyday people from around the world talk about her beloved country as a bully; a hypocrite. Something touched her when faced with the sobering charge of War Crimes and the images of torture at the hands of Americans under orders from the US Government. Something touched her that day that made her think about what she thought she knew.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10008.htm

Highlighting concerns of civil rights groups, a lawsuit challenging the FBI's use of the USA Patriot Act filed by a member of the American Library Association is largely under wraps, the US public forbidden to know its details.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705Z.shtml

Jules Siegel Reviews Norman Solomon's New Book

Jules Siegel takes a look Norman Solomon's new book, "War Made Easy." Siegel writes: "Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705E.shtml

The New York Times comments on state of corporate lobbying in Washington: "There are now so many legions of lobbyists working the rich federal turf that sponsors can hire a different firm to lobby each key member of the major Congressional committees."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705D.shtml

John Dean writes: "From the moment I heard Robertson's remark, on the radio, I thought of the federal criminal statutes prohibiting such threats. Do they apply? For me, the answer is yes."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705C.shtml

Although John Bolton failed to win congressional approval, Mr. Bush's recess appointee to the UN has launched headlong into a confrontation with the member states that threatens to alienate even America's staunchest ally, Great Britain.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705A.shtml

MWM: Here are a good set of summary arguements for destroying the myth of infinite progress under "freetrade" globalism. Roberts provides a more technocratic way of defining "the giant sucking sound".

Paul Craig Roberts: 'Hegemony lost: The American economy is destroying itself' Date: Friday, August 26 @ 08:04:02 EDT Topic: Economic Policy

By Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch

The historian who chronicles America's decline will lay the blame on free market ideology.

I say this as a believer in the market. My books and scholarly articles demonstrate the superiority of market systems over government allocative schemes. The problem arises when market economics ceases to be thoughtful and becomes ideological or a dogma.

A good example of the latter is a recent Heritage Foundation study that argues that global outsourcing is the best way to equip the US military with the best technology at least expense. The study brushes away concerns with the erosion of the American manufacturing, science, and engineering knowledge base by asserting that such concerns imply protectionism and that protectionism means the death of innovation.

Protectionism can be problematical for innovation, and the study is correct to point this out. Where the study fails is in ignoring that innovation does not take place in a vacuum. Innovation requires a material base and depends on a strong manufacturing, science and engineering foundation backed by R&D programs.

In an interview with Manufacturing & Technology News (August 8), the study's project leader, Jack Spencer, sees protectionism as the only threat to American innovation, which he otherwise takes for granted:

"Our belief is that subjected to the free market, the United States is still going to produce most things because our comparative advantages are innovation and new technology. If liberated from protectionism, we can compete and that is where we will always emerge as winners."

This belief is simply untrue. As this belief is the basis for the study, the study has done nothing but confirm a preordained belief.

The US has no God-given comparative advantage in innovation and new technology. We were leaders in these fields, because we were leaders in manufacturing.

We were leaders in manufacturing, because Europe and Japan destroyed themselves in wars, and the rest of the world destroyed themselves in various forms of socialism and cronyism.

America's hegemony in manufacturing, science and engineering was the product of historical circumstances. Moreover, it occurred despite American protectionism.

The historical circumstances have changed. The US gave away its scientific and engineering education and its agriculture. It did this partly for idealistic reasons and partly as cold war strategy.

Once socialism collapsed in Asia, US corporations began outsourcing abroad the manufacture of products for US markets. Success with offshore manufacturing has led to offshore outsourcing of research and development and now innovation itself.

As a recent report from the National Research Council recognizes, "product development and technical support follow manufacturing." One consequence for America is the loss of many manufacturing capabilities and "the increasing availability abroad of unique technologies not found in the United States."

This development is taking a huge toll on America's human resources in manufacturing skills, engineering and science. The first American victims were blue collar workers. Millions of them lost their jobs and experienced sharp declines in the quality of their lives. But as research, engineering, design, and innovation followed manufacturing abroad, now it is white collar workers in information technology and university graduates in engineering and physics who are being displaced.

American university enrollments in science and engineering are declining because there are no jobs for graduates. It is pointless to invest money, sweat and toil in an education that has no payoff. Markets do work. Markets are working to shrink the demand for, and supply of, American engineers and scientists.

The next impact is going to be on project manager jobs, practically the sole remaining source of career related employment for many engineers and technical people. Project management jobs require people experienced with the technology of the job. The loss of technical and engineering jobs empties the pipeline of people who have the experience to assume management positions. Far from being able to innovate, the US will even lack the human resources to manage technical and scientific projects.

Many uninformed people believe the problem is that America doesn't produce enough scientists and engineers. Manufacturing & Technology News reports that "a group of 15 US business organizations has launched a national campaign aimed at doubling within 10 years the number of bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."

What is the point of this when there is a huge supply of unemployed engineers and technical people who have been displaced by offshore outsourcing and by H-1b and L-1 work visas for foreigners? I know an American software engineer in his thirties whose job was outsourced. After searching fruitlessly for a job for four years, he took a job in Thailand writing software programs for $850 per month.

The anecdotal stories are legion. Yesterday, a friend reported to me that the service technician who repaired his garage door opener said his company was flooded with resumes from college graduates and engineers who cannot find work and are willing to take jobs installing garage doors.

US executives, with an eye to quarterly earnings and their bonuses, continue to spend considerable resources lobbying for increases in work visas that enable them to replace their American engineers, scientists, and technical people with lower cost foreigners. These executives lie through their teeth when they assert the lack of qualified Americans for the jobs. The fact of the matter is, the executives force their American employees to train their foreign replacements and then fire their American workers.

In a word, American capitalism is destroying itself by dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that have made large income inequalities acceptable. By rewarding themselves for destroying American jobs and manufacturing, engineering and scientific capabilities, US executives are sowing a whirlwind. American political stability will not survive the turning of an American university degree into a worthless sheet of paper. Libertarians and free market ideologues who rejoice in freedom should open their eyes to freedom's destruction.

Paul Craig Roberts has held a number of academic appointments and has contributed to numerous scholarly publications. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. His graduate economics education was at the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley, and Oxford University. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

Reprinted from CounterPunch: http://counterpunch.org/roberts08252005.html


Informant: Michael Mandeville

IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.

AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

THEREFORE SEPTEMBER 1st HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND " DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THESE TWO NATIONS SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE THAT DAY.

THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?

REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE SEPTEMBER 1ST A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH".


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

Disagreement over America's bid to derail UN reform

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor

Saturday August 27, 2005

The Guardian

Britain will join an international alliance to confront George Bush and salvage as much as possible of an ambitious plan to reshape the United Nations and tackle world poverty next week.

The head-to-head in New York on Monday comes after the revelation that the US administration is proposing wholesale changes to crucial parts of the biggest overhaul of the UN since it was founded more than 50 years ago.

A draft of that plan had included a review of progress on the UN's millennium development goals - poverty eradication targets set in 2000 for completion by 2015 - and the introduction of reforms aimed at repairing the damage done to the UN's reputation by Iraq, Rwanda and the Balkans.

But it was revealed this week that Mr Bush's new ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, was seeking 750 changes to the 36-page draft plan to be presented to a special summit in New York on September 14 to 16. Mr Bolton's amendments, if successful, would leave the plan in tatters.

The Foreign Office confirmed yesterday that Britain was standing behind the original plan, putting it at odds with Mr Bush.

The concern in British and other international circles is that the American objections, if adopted, would severely undermine the UN summit, the biggest-ever gathering of world leaders.

At least 175 world leaders have accepted an invitation to attend. The UN said yesterday that Mr Bush had confirmed that he would be there.

A wide range of organisations, from aid groups to the anti-arms lobby, voiced dismay about Mr Bolton's objections yesterday and expressed concern that the summit may end in failure.

The Make Poverty History campaign said there was a danger that the millennium development goals, the original reason for holding the summit, would be reduced to a footnote.

A source close to the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan said it was too early to declare the UN plan dead. "Bolton wants to knock down the plan and start from scratch," the source said. "He will find that his opinions are not shared by most of the rest of the world."

The president of the UN general assembly, Jean Ping from the Gambia, has been working on the draft, covering issues of poverty, climate change, genocide, small arms, the creation of a permanent UN peacekeeping capability and reform of the UN management structure, for the past year.

A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that the UK and the European Union, of which Britain holds the presidency, "are broadly content with the summit draft. It reflects the ambitious agenda thrown up by Kofi Annan".

The spokesman said it was "important that we do not row back from previous high-level summits", such as the G8 meeting at Gleneagles in July and the UN millennium summit in 2000.

He stressed that a lot of negotiation on the draft still lay ahead. "There is a long way to go before leaders meet in September."

As well as divisions about the agenda, the summit is in danger of being overshadowed by the publication of an internal UN report into the running of the organisation's oil-for-food programme in Iraq from 1996 to 2003, which was beset by scandal and corruption, by Paul Volcker.

UN officials are worried that Mr Volcker's final report, tentatively scheduled for September 6, could severely damage Mr Annan's reputation and raise questions over whether he could continue as secretary-general.

Mr Bolton's comments provoked a negative reaction from many agencies involved in development work.

Martin Kirk, the public affairs adviser of Save the Children, said this year had promised so much for the world's poor, but, "instead of a breakthrough we are now looking at a possible retreat from the millennium development goals by the UN".

Nicola Reindorp, the head of Oxfam International's New York office, said: "We are less than three weeks away from the UN world summit and the next two weeks are crucial in determining the outcome ... If the US and other governments substantially weaken the outcome document, the summit will result in failure."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1557553,00.html

Phil Geiger UBRON


Informant: Martin Greenhut

by Mark Drolette

From Tom Baldwin of Times Online in his August 12, 2005, story on Cindy Sheehan: “In the local [Texas] paper, the McGregor Mirror, there is an open letter to ‘the woman complaining about her son’s death in Iraq’ from Ann Lehman, a Crawford resident. “‘You dishonour the President, yourself and God when you deny your son the freedom in death that he had in life to choose. He knew the risk when he joined the military, just as President Bush knows the risk for his life every day!’ she said.” Well, now. Lehman sounds an awful lot like one of those folks who I fancy like to consider themselves “real Americans”; you know, those plain-talkin’ sumguns and gun-ettes who take pride in telling it like it is, consistently expressing sentiments amazingly similar to those aired by other salt-of-the-earth patriots like, for example, would-be war heroes Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly (who absolutely would have been war heroes had they only served in the military, gone to war, and then done something heroic). Lemming-like, check it, Lehman-like views are currently being voiced by other real Americans, too, who, though the cost of their “Support Our Troops” bumper stickers may fall just a crosshair shy of the price Sheehan has paid, still sure as shootin’ know a war when they hear about one on Fox, by jingo....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Drolette0824-2.htm

by Mark Drolette

Polls show a majority of Americans have had it with George W. Bush and the war. While I’m usually wary of such reports (especially since in the last two American presidential “elections”, exit polls, which for decades were unfailingly accurate, have been so strangely incorrect), I nonetheless think these numbers reflect some truth. If so, there has (finally) been some consciousness-raisin’ goin’ on in our beleaguered, buggered nation, which means, in turn, that as people horrifyingly begin seeing the blood on their hands, America’s collective stress level will continually elevate ever higher....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Drolette0824.htm

by Ted Glick

There is no cause, no issue, no crisis more significant and more immediate than the crisis of global warming. There is a very real prospect that, absent a deep and broad clean energy revolution, we will see within our lifetimes a massive disruption of human society throughout the world -- above and beyond the widespread structural injustice and poverty that already exists -- via floods, major storms, rising sea levels, large-scale refugee movements, droughts, deforestation and a major decline in food production. More and more people in the United States are coming to realize this. Why, then, are the many different actions being taken in the U.S. about this crisis, important as they are, so minimal when compared to the urgency?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Glick0824.htm

by Ken Sanders

It was Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States and a Republican, who famously said in 1918, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Put differently, and in modern context, blind, unquestioning faith in President Bush is not only foolish and obsequious, but it is also contrary to the fundamental principles of this country, as set forth in the Constitution. Indeed, those who would merely sit by, without protest or question, while our President sends our armed forces off to kill and die in a nation which did not and could not do us any harm, are more than simply slavish sycophants. Those who refuse to acknowledge, much less criticize, the wrongs committed by this President in the name of the United States, while simultaneously denigrating those who do dare protest, betray this country and the promise it stands for. In short, they are positively un-American. They are traitors....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Sanders0824.htm



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

by Sheila Samples

Now, it would not be unreasonable for the president of the United States to come out and answer one question from a grief-stricken mother whose child was sacrificed in what Bush so giddily proclaims a "noble" cause. But that's not how this president does things. No one calls the shots for Bush; he does not make mistakes, and he says the great thing about being president is that he doesn't owe anybody an explanation. About anything. Especially about his war, a noble cause which has settled gloriously around his shoulders like a Cicerian ruff. Bush steadfastly refuses to hear the voice of "the people" or to even acknowledge they have a voice at all. The only call Bush hears comes directly from God -- not from the street rabble comprising the cannon fodder required for his legacy, nor from their keening mothers who are beginning to buzz around his head like pesky mosquitoes at a Texas all day singing and dinner on the grounds. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children. Ever. It disrupts the "natural order" of things. Unfortunately, most of the world is in agreement that nobody is better at disrupting order than George W. Bush. Thanks to his callousness and cruelty, the "one-question" meeting with Sheehan that Bush could have resolved in less than an hour while racking up some badly needed positive PR evolved instead into a movement that is gaining both attention and velocity. It is assuming a life of its own, and is sweeping non-stop across the nation. Cindy Sheehan is emboldening Americans awakening to a nightmare of murder, genocide, torture, abuse, assassination, rendition -- lies piled upon grisly lies -- to break through the yellow ribbons encircling the patriotic detention camp their nation has become....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Samples0824.htm



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

by Mike Whitney

Pat Robertson doesn’t have a monopoly on ignorance, he’s just heavily invested in it. Like his ideological twin in the White House, Robertson’s tongue simply outpaces his wit and gets him in trouble from time to time. It’s no big deal. When did it become a crime to be an old man in the grip of senility? Actually we should be grateful to the prattling preacher for summarizing American foreign policy so succinctly. “I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination,” Robertson sheepishly admitted, “but, if he really thinks we are trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.” Who could argue with that logic? Certainly, no one in the White House where such policies are part of a long tradition.....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Whitney0824-2.htm

by Bill Berkowitz

With the president's poll numbers dropping and anti-Iraq war sentiment rising, the Heritage Foundation is sponsoring an event built around the premise that the anti-war movement is anti-American....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Berkowitz0827.htm

by Ahmed Amr

Thirty years from now, we will get a full account of the White House strategy for dealing with Cindy Sheehan. In the meantime, we are obliged to depend on available fragments of information and our past experience with Karl Rove’s smear machine. So far, we know that the president has altered his vacation plans to cope with a sudden and unexpected outbreak of anti-war fever. As he interrupts his five-week summer siesta to resell the Iraq war, a full-scale smear campaign has been set in motion to discredit the lady from Vacaville. The Rove squads are out in force to change the subject and cast doubt on whether Cindy has the qualifications to argue with the president on the merits of this war of choice. Artful Texan dodgers have been commissioned to paint a canvas portraying a compassionate commander in chief who feels Cindy’s pain but disagrees with her position and her policy recommendations. The desired effect is to convince the public that Sheehan is a distraught uninformed mother of a fallen soldier who needs compassion -- not answers. If things go according to plan, Cindy will be perceived as a weak and vulnerable woman who is being victimized and manipulated by the sinister forces on the extreme left -- a fringe movement that apparently includes every other American. On the other half of Rove’s canvas, the spinmeisters will project a resolute president who wants to ‘stay the course’ and ‘complete the mission’ to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice to “fight the terrorists over there before we are forced to fight them over here.” Bush will throw in a couple of obligatory references to 9/11 insinuating that the invasion of Iraq was a legitimate part of the ‘war on terror’ -- and wrap it up with a bit of fiction about spreading democracy in the Middle East....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Amr0827.htm



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

Since everything in our bodies has electrical charges, including the chemical or hormone reactions, would help explain why it can affect us.

Here's a little piece I found the other day from:

Secret Report On Cell Phone Dangers And Tetra
http://www.rense.com/general60/tetra.htm

We being water based animals act like aerials to these waves. As the waves go into our bodies an electric current is generated inside our bodies which is how aerials work; waves come in and electricity is generated. The electricity generated in our bodies like all electric currents goes to ground through our bodies and like all electric currents it takes the path of least resistance. Unfortunately the path of least resistance through our bodies, although only representing 10% of our pathways, carries 90% of our traffic rather like the M1 motorway. The traffic in our bodies, namely hormones, antibodies, neurotransmitters know where they are going because they also carry an electric charge. The hormones, antibodies and neurotransmitters know where to "get off" because there is a corresponding opposite charge at the site of delivery rather like the positive and negative ends of a battery. The problem is if you have an electric current passing through the body it can change this charge, either on the hormones, antibodies or neurotransmitters or the site of delivery.

I can't say entirely for certain on that Dr. Mercola page was it? about what he says on the progesterone getting overloaded in your fat cells. I rather wonder if he is confusing the synthetic progestins with the botanical progesterones. If you use too much, it doesn't take long to figure out, because you get feeling lethargic or sluggish, alhtough not in an ill way. Just lay off it for 2-3 days and the excess is excreted. Been using it for many years, as it is necessary to keep cancer away from me, although it looks like it may be catching up with me now. The synthetic "progesterone" -progestin on the other hand can also cause cancer, liver damage etc.

If I can find the bit about the progesterone and static shocks I'll post it. I know it works from doing it myself and others I've spoken with. Other than the occasional before mentioned symptoms of using too much, I've not in over a decade come across a single person, or read of a single incident of harm from the botanical variety.

~Snoshoe



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Trower

Dr Grahame Blackwell, an independent consultant on mast health issues, says mobile phone masts pose a serious risk to our health.

Cambridge Evening News 26.08 05

"I am a serious opponent of phone masts on health grounds. There have been six research studies into the potential ill health effects of masts. Every one of those studies has produced evidence of ill health effects.

"Radiation from masts reduces the production of melatonin.

"The significance of that is that melatonin regulates sleep patterns and also scavenges away pre-cancerous cells.

"If melatonin production is reduced the consequences are a disruption of sleep patterns and increased incidents of cancer.

"People living around phone masts are experiencing exactly those symptoms.

"Radiation also weakens the blood-brain barrier. Toxins from the blood system can get into brain cells. In the short term, this causes headaches, dizziness and disorientation. In the long-term, we would expect to see an increase in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

"MND is a classic example. We are beginning to see clusters of MND around masts.

"All of those effects happen at levels of radiation that our Government says are safe. There is a big problem here."Dr Grahame Blackwell, an independent consultant on mast health issues, says mobile phone masts pose a serious risk to our health.


From Mast Sanity

Kirkintilloc Today

PHONE company T-Mobile has done a u-turn after residents unanimously rejected plans to install a mast in their street. People in Moodiesburn reacted furiously when they heard that the company was seeking permission to erect a phone mast at the corner of Penzance Way and Stoneyetts Road. However, after discussions with North Lanarkshire Council and representations from MP Tom Clarke and councillor Joe Shaw, the company has withdrawn its application. One relieved resident in Penzance Way said: "This result is a perfect example of how a community can force these large companies to rethink their plans. "Not one person in the area was happy with the proposal and we all voiced our disapproval. "No-one is completely sure about the health issues surrounding these masts, or whether they are responsible for causing ill health among those who live near them. "For once it seems like the voice of the local people has been heard. A spokesperson for T-Mobile said: "Following lengthy discussions, and taking into account the views of the local residents, we feel the proposed site is not the ideal location for a mobile phone mast. "We have withdrawn our application and will be looking for an alternative site."

27 August 2005

The cambridge Evening news 26.08 .05

Inigo Wilson, a spokesman on health and safety for phone giant Orange, says there is no strong evidence masts are harmful.

"The most important point to make is every single phone call made on a mobile phone is relayed via a mast.

"Unless the mast is close to the person making the call they don't work. There isn't a halfway house or an alternative means of making mobile phones work, that is how a phone call is connected to the network and people have to understand that if they want mobile phones then they have to have these masts.

"There is no convincing evidence phone masts cause any harm to human health - that is the consensus among scientists. People have written books and done academic studies on this subject.

"This story has a lot in common with a number of modern health issues. It is a subject that affects so many people and the media tends to flag up research into it before that research has been finished and reached any concrete conclusions. But they don't go back later and look at the actual results of the research.

"This is a relatively unfamiliar type of technology. I imagine public concerns will abate when this technology has been around for a while and people have found it is not dangerous."

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Very telling that Orange does not say, "there is no evidence that masts harm health". It seems like a veiled admission that there is evidence against masts - BUT in their limited opinion "no strong evidence" - interesting turn of phrase - very "spin".

In the Orange mast fight here in Otterton, over a period of at least 4 years, I have sent Orange shed loads of evidence including the Wolfe report and I will be writing again sending the Naila Report when I get time later this week. Obviously, I have never had a sensible response to my letters or any communication that shows they have read any of the information sent them. Orange are still "parroting" what they said 5 years ago which shows just how -out-of-date and out-of-touch they are!

Regards

Jane

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff08272005.html


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

Arianna Huffington
08.26.2005
The Huffington Post

So the verdict seems to be in: John Bolton’s charm offensive is proving every bit as effective at the U.N. as it was with the Senate, which President Bush had to bypass to install him as ambassador.

As the London Independent put it: Any hopes that John Bolton, the new US ambassador to the United Nations, would have been chastened by the way he was elevated to his position have been dashed by the emergence of a leaked document detailing his negotiating demands for next month's UN summit.

No wonder that the leaked 38-page document gutting so many proposed reforms has been causing great turmoil at the State Department. As Steve Clemons asked: Condi -- When does the "supervision" promised to Senators Voinovich, Hagel, and Chafee begin?

Virtually every change made in the reform document seemed designed to undermine important goals. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/bymcc


© Virginia Metze

by Mark Green
The Huffington Post
08.26.2005

We owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a big thank you. These two American mullahs of the far (f)right are helping to expose how The Bush Team is in the extreme and we who question this war – most prominently Cindy Sheehan – are in the mainstream.

By now Ann Coulter should have reached a tipping point where serious journalists would stop treating her antics and comments seriously. [...] Read the rest at The Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/9ycgk


© Virginia Metze

By: Jack Dalton 8-26-05
Jack's Straight-Speak web site

No longer should there be any doubt as to the direction the Bush/Cheney cabal is leading this nation, or the methodologies they are employing to push their neo-con (actually neo-liberal) agenda upon us the unwilling to mindlessly follow and who stand in opposition to what they are doing. Coercion, intimidation, character assassination, extortion—all of the methodologies of a good upstanding crime family.

While preaching about spreading “freedom and democracy” they have turned our own on its head. There are people within the Bush/Cheney cabal who have articulated the need for a limited dictatorship to preserve our “freedoms” and to make us “safe and secure” from all those dirty “terrorists.” That was stated recently by none other than Michael Ledeen as well as Charles Krauthammer both of whom subscribe to the prevailing Leo Strauss ideology: only the “elite” can rule and that to maintain their power over people they must at times lie their a... off. [...] I wonder what my grandmother would have said about that? Sometimes I wonder if about a third or more of the population believes that a lie is the same as the truth ... "it made the point, didn't it?" Read the rest of his article at http://tinyurl.com/9lw3p


© Virginia Metze

Current 40% approval is lowest of administration to date
http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci=18148

Results of AP-Ipsos poll on attitudes about Iraq
Associated Press
August 26, 2005

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on public attitudes about the war in Iraq is based on telephone interviews with 1,001 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviews were conducted Aug. 22-24 by Ipsos, an international polling firm.

Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region, race and income. [...] Check out the results that Bush won't want to see at the Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5580679.html


© Virginia Metze

Iran-Contra Among Topics of Reagan-Era Papers

By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 25, 2005; Page A03

After the release of about 60,000 documents detailing the work of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., Democratic senators are setting their sights on what was not in the huge cache of papers: more than 2,100 memos and letters that have been withheld by government archivists working in concert with the Bush White House.

The subjects of the Reagan-era documents have been released, but their contents for now have been withheld. Those topics are, Democrats say, at a minimum intriguing: Roberts commenting on presidential pardons, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and aspects of what would become known as the Iran-contra scandal. One of the still-secret memos is from the young White House lawyer to then-Reagan aide Patrick J. Buchanan in March 1986. The topic: aid to Nicaraguans fighting the leftist Sandinista government. [...] Read the rest at the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/7ujao It is also reprinted on TruthOut web site: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082505Z.shtml


© Virginia Metze

David Frum's Diary, National Review

I've added a new selection of reader mail below. Just to give some feeling for the overall tide of NRO reader opinion: Since my post on the president's VFW address went up early Tuesday morning, I've been flooded with almost 200 emails - all but five of them sharing my concerns.

I know well how beleaguered a White House can feel in tough times. I know that they look to their friends in places like NRO for support, not criticism - and I know that the people who bear the responsibility must contend with a wide range of difficulties often unimagined by those who do not bear the responsibility.

But all that acknowledged: This war and this war president are in real political trouble - and the administration is responding with deadly dangerous passivity. It's not the administration's critics who are delivering this warning. It's the administration's strongest supporters. Don't believe me. Believe the emails below. [...] Read it at: http://tinyurl.com/98oqn

Scroll down a bit to get to the Lost Opportunity column. Very well done. I read that this man was a speech writer for Bush! Maybe more of the "old time Republicans" will stand straight.


© Virginia Metze

Indonesien ist mit einem Marktanteil von 23 Prozent neben Brasilien das wichtigste Herkunftsland für Direktimporte von Tropenhölzern nach Deutschland. Zusätzlich gelangen größere Mengen indonesischen Holzes über Transitländer wie China, Malaysia oder Italien auf den deutschen Markt. Dabei kommen drei Viertel der in den indonesischen Export gehenden Hölzer und Holzprodukte aus illegalen Quellen. Dies ist das Ergebnis der heute vom WWF vorgestellten Studie "Heiße Ware Tropenholz".

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6764.php

Britische und russische Forscher sind sich sicher: die gesamte subarktische Region Westsibiriens taut. Wo früher Eis war, bilden sich neue Seen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6795.php

Die Flutkatastrophe in Süddeutschland entspricht genau den Szenarien des Klimawandels, die Wissenschaftler voraussagen. Greenpeace sieht darin einen weiteren Beleg dafür, dass der Klimawandel schon begonnen hat. Hitzewellen in Südeuropa und sintflutartige, tagelange Regenfälle im Alpenraum sind die Wetterextreme, die bei steigendem Ausstoß von Kohlendioxid drohen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6794.php

Der Flugverkehr als klimaschädlichster Massenverkehrsträger weist hohe Wachstumsraten auf und ist, was die internationalen Flüge angeht, von jeglicher Emissionsbeschränkung entbunden. Für wirksame Maßnahmen auf europäischer Ebene erhält die EU-Kommission nun Rückendeckung aus der Zivilgesellschaft.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6796.php

Der deutschen Wirtschaft geht es so gut wie seit Jahren nicht mehr (!), titelt das weltweit bedeutendste Wirtschaftsblatt Economist – trotz oder gerade wegen der großen Schritte auf dem Weg zu einer Energiewende? Warum lassen wir uns einreden, dass in Deutschland weitere tiefe Einschnitte in das soziale Netz und die ökologische Sicherheit erfolgen müssen? Wieso setzen wir uns nicht mehrheitlich dafür ein, dass der Weg ausgewogener sozialer und ökologischer Reformen weiter gehen kann? Gastkommentar von Fabio Longo.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Zukunft/6785.php

Think high gas prices are bad?

Get a load of what ex-oilman and ex-Princeton professor Kenneth Deffeyes believes are following closely behind:

"War, famine, pestilence and death," he said, eyes wide and voice deep. "We've got to get the warning out."

The threat? Peak oil.

The term, probably unfamiliar to most Americans, refers to the time when the worldwide production of oil peaks and begins a rapid decline. From then on, this incredibly efficient fuel source, which still costs less than most bottled water, will be scarcer and more costly.

Highly respected sources, including the U.S. government, think that day is distant, and most mainstream economists think it won't cause much of a ruckus.

But Deffeyes says peak oil is coming in November, and could bring humankind to the brink.

He is a devotee of former Shell geologist M. King Hubbert, who correctly predicted U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s. Deffeyes is also the author of "Hubbert's Peak" (2001) and "Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert's Peak," which was published last spring.

He is among a cadre of peak-oil proponents who sketch out a frightening near-term future in which the American way of life is upended as the United States, China and other great nations scramble after oil fields like desperate players in a game of musical chairs.

"He comes out of oil. He was born in oil," said Julian Darley, an energy analyst, fellow predictor of an imminent oil peak and founder of the Post Carbon Institute, an Oregon think tank.

Deffeyes' point -- that the peak has either arrived or will very soon -- is serious.

In the long term, the nation will compensate with clean-coal and nuclear energy, along with renewable sources like wind and solar power, Deffeyes says.

"It's the five-year time scale that I'm really scared about." History has demonstrated that the fear of a coming oil shortage, justified or not, can be a powerful determinant of events. U.S. oil experts predicted a "gasoline famine" just after World War I, prompting Britain to combine three former provinces of the Ottoman Empire into a new, oil-rich country that was to remain friendly to England.

It was named Iraq. 2005, Newhouse News Service


Informant: Di

http://www.environmental-action.org/enviroaction.asp?id2=18715


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1557419,00.html

Bulldoze Mother Earth: Bolton reveals frightening road map for US relations with rest of world.

Teresa Binstock

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article308466.ece


Informant: Hopedance

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705X.shtml



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

Wahlprüfsteine 2005 für Bundestagskandidat/inn/en der mobilfunkkritischen Bürgerinitiativen Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

siehe: http://www.omega-news.info/wahlpruefsteine_bt_wahl_2005.doc

Wir bitten um Beantwortung bis 7.9.05.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i.A. Dr.-Ing. Hans Schmidt
Netzwerk der mobilfunkkritischen Bürgerinitiativen im Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

http://openpr.de/news/58440.html



Liebe Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreiter,

Sie haben sicher die "Wahlprüfsteine 2005 für Bundestagskandidat/innen/en", die wir an die Kandidat/innen/en in unserem Wahlkreis verteilt haben, gelesen.

Bitte nutzen Sie diese einmalige Gelegenheit und senden Sie solche Wahlprüfsteine an Ihre Wahlkreiskandidat/innen/en für den Bundestag!! Es darf kein zukünftiges Bundestagsmitglied mehr mit der Ausrede davonkommen, sie bzw. er hätte nichts gewusst!

Wir müssen jetzt aktiv werden und nicht erst, wenn uns auf dem Grundstück eines verantwortungslosen Nachbarn ein Mobilfunksender vor die Nase gesetzt wird.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Bürgerinitative Icking zum Schutz vor Strahlenbelastung
G. Pischeltsrieder



Getarnte Lobby: Wie Wirtschaftsverbände die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939891/

Frage an den Experten

Experten warnen zu Recht davor, beim Tankvorgang eines Autos zum Mobiltelefon zu greifen. Grund: Im Bereich der Tankstellen besteht wegen der Kraftstoffdämpfe ein erhöhtes Brand- und Explosionsrisiko. Wir ergreifen jegliche Maßnahmen, um das Risiko so gering wie möglich zu halten.

Dazu gehört neben dem Rauchverbot an Tankstellen auch der Verzicht auf mobiles Telefonieren. Außerdem ist die Unfallgefahr nicht zu unterschätzen, die durch die verringerte Aufmerksamkeit des Autofahrers während der Nutzung von Mobiltelefonen entsteht.

Ein weiteres Risiko bildet die mögliche Entladung statischer Energie, die bei der Betankung im Bereich des Tankstutzens zu einer Verpuffung führen kann. Deshalb empfehlen wir, den Motor des Fahrzeugs während der Betankung grundsätzlich auszustellen und während des Tankvorgangs sich auch nicht wieder in das Fahrzeug zu setzen. Durch die Reibung von Polster und Kleidung findet eine gefährliche statische Aufladung statt. Beim erneuten Berühren des Zapfventils kann es durch die folgende statische Entladung zu einer gefährlichen Funkenbildung und schließlich zu einer Verpuffung kommen.

erschienen am 27. August 2005

Copyright © 2005 Hamburger Abendblatt

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/08/27/475625.html

Date: 8/27/2005 3:33:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Mofmars3

I just heard on the news that 3000 are on their way to Crawford to oppose Cindy's side...Lets pray for both sides of those in Crawford because those ignorant of fact and with dark hearts do mean harm.

I know we're from mixed beliefs and background in this forum here at WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED...and being spiritual and secular and getting along as well we all do leaves something to be said for "US" in a positive way.

I'm asking for your help now in a big way...We were all gathered here because we had concern for the ills we saw wrecking our world...

Most of "US" here are group owners of prominent and credible groups with many patriots of integrity as members...

We are many who connect and pyramid out all over the globe.

The turning point from negative to positive is just up ahead and NOW's the time to strike where it will count the most.

Please send out this call to all your groups, friends and family all over the globe.

Money does talk...Let's give it to our side to be used for television ads and everywhere else we can find benefit.

Send it in Cindy's name...Cindy Sheehan

Crawford Peace House
9142 East 5th Street Crawford, Texas 76638-3037 Telephone: 254-486-0099 Fax: 254-486-0172

People keep bringing up specific views of Cindy's and harping about those labeled the far left, supposedly using her, to discredit her.

Thank God there are sensible people that will see past this trick that keeps surfacing to keep "US" divided and separated.

I know this wonderful Peace House will see to it Cindy gets all the mail sent there so don't be afraid to dig deep.

If there was ever a time to give...It's now.

I tried to call Peace House to tell them of the campaign we are going to initiate to gain funds needed to defeat the enemy at their own evil game but there was no one there.

I imagine they were readying to meet the opposition and standing specifically with Cindy at that moment.

I will be sending a copy of this to them and call later.

I suggest that if you want to give a summly amount and would rather remain anonymous...Then choose a one dollar bill you will never spend and place the serial number where your name would be instead.

This will allow for all funds to be accountable and ease the minds of those who want to know just where their money goes in such cases and allow anonominity at the same time.

I know we can trust Cindy and those working with her...and as for all those that are aligning with her...whether they be of high caliber or not...in whose ever opinion.

We are all "We The People" from everywhere and we each count for something and should not be a measure of another's character anyway.

I'll get with our Ms Jacki Blue for details...before sending the official campaign newsletter to all 300 of our spiritual, political and patriotic groups we network with...

She has been to Crawford and is familiar with Peace House...She has seen the pile of mail for Cindy, going there already.

Please begin gathering and sending funds now, guys...and soon we'll all hit it hard, campaigning and email blitzing cyberworld...We'll probably bury Peace House in money...Hope so.

Marsha

"We People United Global Movement" We are many political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help take back our country..."United We Will Stand".



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

(1).

Hill DL, McLeish K, Keevil SF.

Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), New Engineering Building, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.

The European Union (EU) has recently introduced a directive that aims to protect workers from adverse effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields. All countries within the EU are required to incorporate this directive into their national law by 2008. This legislation applies to all types of occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields with frequencies from 0 Hz to 300 GHz. It has dramatic implications for interventional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, because workers who are close to the MR scanner while scanning is taking place are exposed at levels substantially above the exposure limits. This is especially the case for time-varying magnetic fields in the 110 Hz-5 kHz range, which includes the field from the imaging gradients. In this article, the scientific evidence on which the limits are based is brought into question. It is concluded that an urgent review of the directive is required and that more research, especially at MR gradient frequencies, is needed.

PMID: 16099687 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16099687&query_hl=3


From FGF-Infoline, 25.08.2005

Study: Is the brain influenced by a phone call? An EEG study of resting wakefulness

Abstract: Resting electroencephalogram of 20 healthy subjects in order to investigate the effect of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure on EEG waking activity and its temporal development was recorded. The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups and exposed, in double-blind conditions, to a typical mobile phone signal (902.40 MHz, modulated at 217 Hz, with an average power of 0.25 W) before or during the EEG recording session. The results show that, under real exposure as compared to baseline and sham conditions, EEG spectral power was influenced in some bins of the alpha band. This effect was greater when the EMF was on during the EEG recording session than before it. The present data lend further support to the idea that pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields can affect normal brain functioning, also if no conclusions can be drawn about the possible health effects.

Bibliographic Information: Curcio G, Ferrara M, Moroni F, D'Inzeo G, Bertini M, De Gennaro L, Neurosci Res. 2005 Aug 12; [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/


From FGF-Infoline, 25.08.2005


Is the brain influenced by a phone call? An EEG study of resting wakefulness.

Curcio G, Ferrara M, Moroni F, D'Inzeo G, Bertini M, De Gennaro L.

Department of Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, I-00185 Rome, Italy.

We recorded the resting electroencephalogram of 20 healthy subjects in order to investigate the effect of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure on EEG waking activity and its temporal development. The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups and exposed, in double-blind conditions, to a typical mobile phone signal (902.40MHz, modulated at 217Hz, with an average power of 0.25W) before or during the EEG recording session. The results show that, under real exposure as compared to baseline and sham conditions, EEG spectral power was influenced in some bins of the alpha band. This effect was greater when the EMF was on during the EEG recording session than before it. The present data lend further support to the idea that pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields can affect normal brain functioning, also if no conclusions can be drawn about the possible health effects.

PMID: 16102863 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16102863&query_hl=1

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Moreover we also have the studies demonstrating that blood flow in the brain, to the optic nerve etc. are also affected, and that this is possibly related to vasodilation response to levels of nitric oxide (NO) caused by EMF impact on NO synthase, since exhaled NO can also be measured under EMF exposure.

NO is also a neurotransmitter, produced as required, not stored, and could well be responsible for some aspects of cognitive disruption. It also regulates REM sleep.

So there are some very interesting chain reactions that could explain why these observed effects happen. Of course there is more, and the ideas of Konstantin Meyl relating to electric field vortices concentrating energy in a small space may add to the argument regarding momentum in the EM photon (previous Omega post) going beyond the predicted energy of a photon.

But at least we certainly cannot say that we have no plausible reasons why the observed effects take place.

EMFs and enzyme behaviours should be a big research issue.

Andy

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Dear Andy and All:

I have found in my archive some more details about NO that may clear the whole picture: Nitric oxide, a friend or foe ?

The nitric oxide (NO) is a neurotransmitter and vascular smooth muscle relaxant, synthesized by deamination of arginine (an amino acid) by the enzyme NO synthetase (=NOS). Nitroglycerol (taken by angina pectoris patients) is metabolized also to NO, then relaxed smooth muscles. NO is well bound to RBC haemoglobin (Hb), when blood circulated in the lungs: The thiol groups in the two cysteines in the Hb molecule, bind the NO, and prevent the haems from inactivating it. Whereupon, the NO is released in oxygen-poor blood vessels along with oxygen, stabilizes blood pressure. NO raised concentration of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), that in turn, is active in membrane ion channels, and in numerous biochemical pathways. NO is a homeostasis signaling molecule, but also a potent free radical effector, acting in pathogenesis (Liaudet et al 2000). This paradoxical fate generated confusion, but well defining NO biological actions dissociated beneficial from toxic consequences: Normally at low concentration, NO acted as a 2nd messenger and a cytoprotective (antioxidant) factor, via direct interactions with transition metals and other free radicals. But when due to conditions high NO concentrations produced, and modified the formation of superoxide radical, the NO turned into indirect effects to form N2O3, ONOO-(peroxynitrite), NO2*, and NO3-. They in turn mediated oxidative and nitrosative cytotoxic stresses, attributed to NO, in inflammation, circulatory shock, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Radicals excess in neurons derail neural and muscular activities. Dawson and Dawson (1996) showed that excess of NO, formed in the brain and at other neurons, reacted with superoxide anion, to make ONOO- that together with oxygen free radicals inflicted severe neural damage. Boczkowski (2001) showed that exogenous and endogenous peroxynitrite altered the structure and function of mitochondrial proteins, resulted in dysfunction and cellular or organ injury. NO produced in atherosclerotic-damaged vascular endothelial cells, promoted vasodilitation and oxidized low density lipoprotein (LDL), that enhanced atherosclerosis Thus inhaling vehicular emitted NOx, adds to such detrimental activity. In the nervous system, overactive phagocytic cells produced NO that entered neurons, and generated superoxide radical, that disrupted cellular structures. NO inhibited synthesis of mitochondrial complex 1 enzyme, that resulted in energy deficit, and more free radicals produced, thus wasting the cellular antioxidant pools to defuse them. This in turn, led to develop neurological ailments. Buzard and Kasprzak (2000) reported that oxidative stress was resulted from imbalance in cellular oxidation/reduction, by metals redox reactions with endogenous oxidants, and from effects on cellular antioxidant systems. The stress impaired (redox-sensitive) signaling molecules: NO, S-nitrosothiols, AP-1, NF-kappaB (in cell nucleus), IkappaB (its inhibitor), p53, and p21ras, resulting in variety of toxic effects such as carcinogenesis. Supportive experimental data for these toxicity and carcinogenicity for two toxic metals indicated that: Fe, Cu, and metal carcinogens: Ni, Cr, and Cd were bound selectively to particular cell constituents and affected Ca signaling. Oxidative stress caused, suggested the pathogenicity of toxic Pb, Hg and As. Yoshikawa et al (2000) showed that NO generated in mice by injected enterobacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS), was enhanced by exposure to ELF-EMF (0.1 mT, 60 Hz). Considering that enterobacterial mass was a major human colon contents, the LPS in contact with colon wall cells probably enhanced generation of NO, that was enhanced further by EMF exposure.


Best,

Zamir

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Thanks Zamir!

At risk of being tedious, I have over 60 pages of citations and abstracts all pertaining to NO, (all three kinds of ) NOS, superoxide and superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxynitrite, and the knock on effects as relating to exhibited symptoms of microwave sickness, including all the longer latency diseases. The key fits the lock disturbingly well. What I want to know is what it is about enzymes (such as nitric oxide synthase) that makes them particularly susceptible to modulated microwaves, what frequencies matter most, and whether it is the enzyme precursors (eg arginine), metals in their structure (eg Mg, Zn, Cu), or the genes that express them. Knowing this and being able to demonstrate it reliably would be a seriously powerful argument.

I don't believe this is the only problem, but it is presenting an amazing array of consistent pointers. I have yet to investigate any attributed microwave syndrome disorder that is not in some way directly mediated by the NO cascade.

Andy


From Mast Sanity

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082705Y.shtml



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

ASL infos
http://www.next-up.org/

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9918.htm


Informant: smilingmoon14

Panel Sees Growing Melting Arctic Threat
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926731/

The Ilulissat Glacier, a Wonder of the World Melting Away
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/919796/

'Peak oil' spells cataclysm for U.S., oil theorist warns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/920140/

NUCLEAR CLASS CATACLYSM: FISH ARE DYING EVERYWHERE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926519/

Tell Automakers: Stop Fighting Progress on Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/927243/

Stop “Certified” Logging / Sarawak, Malaysia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/927446/

Arctic Drilling Hidden in Budget Bill
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/928853/

EU´s "Brave new world" and "1984" is becoming a reality
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/930594/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next

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

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

EMF-Omega-News 27. August 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/930604/

An investigation into the vector ellipticity of extremely low frequency magnetic fields from appliances in UK homes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/921612/

Pulsed microwave radiation and wildlife
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926007/

THE KLYSTRON: MICROWAVE TRAP FOR IMPORTING VOICE MESSAGES INTO HEADS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/928939/

Is there a relationship between cell phone use and semen quality?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929921/

The Relay Antennas of Orange are not on holiday neither is ASL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/914419/

ASL Infos: Santé et Antennes Relais: Auto-Diagnostic
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/914402/

Cut the portables!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/914028/

Airwave: ‘a 21st century tool to fight 21st century crime’: Home Office minister Caroline Flint
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915279/

MOBILE MAST APPEAL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915289/

RESIDENTS ANGRY AT DISGUISED MAST PLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915295/

Tetra mast affecting TV claim
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915298/

Phone masts blamed over roof leaks
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915299/

Villagers hit by a mast misery
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915303/

DO ALL THESE MAST PROTESTERS USE MOBILE PHONES?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915307/

O2 FIGHTS BID TO MONITOR RADIO WAVES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/915312/

New mast application in after refusal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/917082/

CAMPAIGNERS WIN MOBILE MAST BATTLE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/917095/

Relay Antennas and Health: Self Diagnosis - Santé et Antennes Relais: Auto-Diagnostic
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/918351/

PHONE MASTS: 'NO POINT PROTESTING'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/919653/

Radiation from antennas - But still WHO reigns supreme
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/920156/

Rationale for China EMF Exposure Standards
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/920143/

SCIENTISTS MUST SETTLE THIS DEBATE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/920233/

Documented lies in planning application
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/922603/

New mast battle brews
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/922609/

Question on EMF as air pollution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/922641/

NIBS Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/922907/

Councillors angered as phone mast is approved
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926390/

Councillor seeks inquiry into mobile fears
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926399/

There are 176 masts located near schools, homes and offices
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926407/

We woke up and found mast at our window
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926493/

Mast plan thrown out
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926502/

INSPECTOR OVERTURNS PHONE MAST REFUSAL
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926550/

SCHOOL MAY ACT ON MAST MUDDLE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926557/

Phone mast permitted in spite of objectors
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929252/

WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO MAKE SAFER MOBILES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929385/

Massed protest at Cullen mast bid
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929448/

The horror is still developing worse
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929464/

School fights phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929482/

Activists Needed for new TV show
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929812/

RESIDENTS' FURY OVER MAST PLANS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929843/

PLANNERS SAY NO TO MAST PLAN NEAR TO HOMES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929866/

VILLAGERS UP IN ARMS AT PHONE MAST PLANS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929894/

LEGAL LOOPHOLE ENDS MAST FIGHT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/930257/

Residents oppose phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/930260/

EU´s "Brave new world" and "1984" is becoming a reality
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/930594/

News from Mast Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3

Has anyone seen this?

And no-one wanted to believe in conspiracy.

But it is a reality and is here now, and if you do not want to take part throw away your mobile phone, if you have not already done so. (Mine went to the graveyard 2 years ago).

But here is a new petition to stop this madness (A new USSR ?) looks that way.

To sign the petition, go here: http://www.stopdataretention.com

Regards.

Agnes .

http://www.mast-victims.org



Digital Civil Rights in Europe New EU Commission proposal data retention

27 July, 2005

EU Policy | Telecommunication data retention

The European Commission has finally produced its draft directive on data retention. According to the Commission, all fixed and mobile telephony traffic and location data from all private and legal persons should be stored for 1 year. Data about communications 'using solely the internet protocol' should be stored for 6 months. The Commission does not provide any argument about the usefulness and necessity of data retention, but considers the directive to be proportionate if providers are reimbursed for 'demonstrated additional costs'. The last compromise achieved by the ministers of Justice and Home Affairs (the JHA Council) to create a two-step approach, starting with telephony data and introducing internet data retention at a later stage, is completely ignored by the Commission.

The Commission claims it seeks a balance between law enforcement, human rights and competition aspects by defining the purpose, limiting the categories and time period. The purpose is derived from Article 15 of the E-Privacy directive of 2002 and is actually larger than what the JHA Council proposed. The Commission includes the prevention of criminal offences and safeguarding national security, defence and public security besides the JHA purpose of the investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences.

The JHA Council always claimed much more room for member states to adopt longer periods, up to the 4 years already implemented for fixed telephony data in Italy . The Commission intends to proceed with this directive in the first pillar, with full co-decision rights for the European Parliament. However, the JHA Council has also made it clear it will not withdraw the proposed third pillar framework decision, and has vowed to reach (unanimous) agreement in the formal JHA Council of 12 October 2005 . The tension will probably reach a climax in Newcastle on 8 and 9 September 2005 , during the informal JHA meeting.

EDRI has received a copy of the so-called 'Interservice Consultation', which is circulated amongst Commission officials from several Directorate Generals. The final, possibly amended version is expected to be published some time in August 2005, before the informal JHA Council. The Commission writes it wants to set up a permanent advisory platform with representatives of law enforcement, providers and the Article 29 Working Party of Data Protection Authorities to be consulted "whenever the details of the list of data to be retained are to be amended." Besides, the Commission intends to create "a Comitology mechanism to allow for quick amendments to the details of the data which need to be retained."

The proposal includes a "result-oriented" list of data that providers must be able to make available to the competent authorities. "Such a 'result-oriented' list provides a certain degree of flexibility to the Member States in deciding what obligations will need to be met and to the operators on how to meet these obligations." The specific data are summed up in the Annex (p. 15 and 16). At this point in time, the Commission does not mention a full IP logfile from every ISP to trace every incoming and outgoing communication, but limits the demands to IP-address, the Computer internal MAC address, username, e-mail addresses and a logfile of every sent and received e-mail. The operators of mobile telephony surely won't be pleased with the proposal to store SMS traffic data for 1 whole year, nor with the obligation to keep detailed location data for 1 year, including mapping Cell IDs to the geographical location of the caller.

The Commission clearly admits the weakness of the need for data retention by creating a new obligation for providers to keep statistics on the usage of traffic data and present them to the Commission on a yearly basis. "Today no verifiable statistics exist at the European level on the usage of traffic data.(...) This information, once aggregated, will provide the factual information necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the Directive." The Commission does not promise any publication of these statistics.

The Commission follows the draft framework decision very closely, even to the point of copying the completely misleading sentence "Many Member States have adopted legislation providing for the retention of data by service providers (...)". To the best of EDRI's knowledge, only 2 of the 25 Member States have actually implemented data retention legislation; Ireland (since April 2005, only for telephony) and Italy (only for fixed telephony). General data retention legislation has been adopted, but not implemented due to massive differences in opinion, in France , Denmark and Spain . Member States have to implement the directive, if it is adopted by the European Parliament, within 15 months after publication in the Official Journal. The Commission plans to evaluate the directive after 3 years. New EU Commission proposal data retention (20.07.2005)
http://www.edri.org/docs/EUcommissiondataretentionjuly2005.pdf Last UK prepared version of the JHA working document on data retention (29.06.2005)
http://www.edri.org/docs/Data-retention-council-draft-29062005.pdf

EDRI-gram - Number 3.15, 27 July 2005

EDRI launches petition against data retention


From Mast Sanity

The JAG criticism is not so much moral as strategic. What the JAG lawyers suggest - and it is a position no less significant today than when it was shaped in 2003 - is that a policy of torture is sure to constitute a fatal flaw in any war against jihadi terror.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605J.shtml

In Colombia, some fear that with the ongoing demobilization of death squads, an abundant workforce of unemployed torturers is being recycled through the Iraqi deserts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605H.shtml

Krugman insists that most Americans have good reason to feel unhappy about the economy, whatever Washington's favorite statistics may say. This is an economic expansion that hasn't trickled down; many people are worse off than they were a year ago. And it will take more than a revamped administration sales pitch to make people feel better.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605F.shtml

The New York Times asks, what are states to do when the federal government does so little? It's been obvious for some time that state governments are taking the problems of global warming and oil dependency much more seriously than the Bush administration.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605E.shtml

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/08/con05305.html


Informant: Diana Davies

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7581585?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1125050593751&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1069


Informant: sash



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

Senator Patrick Leahy: "It didn't take long for Ambassador Bolton to find ways to further erode our leadership in the world and our standing as a moral authority. In his tantrum over this straightforward reference to the environment, Ambassador Bolton does not speak for most Americans, and I count myself among them."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082605S.shtml

California accused GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Laboratories and 37 other pharmaceutical companies of defrauding the state's $34-billion Medi-Cal health program for the poor by inflating prescription drug prices.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/082605HB.shtml

In a landmark judgment, a court in California has allowed a coalition of environmental groups to sue the US government over global warming - the first time a court has recognized the potentially disastrous impact of climate change.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/082605EB.shtml

A culture that devalues women in uniform tolerates rape and sexual harassment at the Army and Navy academies, according to a Pentagon task force report. "When women are devalued, the likelihood of harassing and even abusive behavior increases," said the panel of military officers and civilian experts.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/082605WA.shtml

The U. S. health-care system, according to “Uninsured in America,” has created a group of people who increasingly look different from others and suffer in ways that others do not.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050829fa_fact


From Information Clearing House

In an extraordinary intervention, United States appointee John Bolton has sought to roll back proposed UN commitments on aid to developing countries, combating global warming and nuclear disarmament.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9997.htm

American ambassador seeks to scupper UN's global strategy with 750 amendments after just three weeks in the job.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article308269.ece


From Information Clearing House

They have a system of recycling 'retired' politicians. The politicians come to the Carlyle Group from positions of authority (partly via political campaign funding?), where they influenced the laws that govern corporate enterprise and/or decisions about who gets government contracts.

http://snipurl.com/h8ww


From Information Clearing House

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Meet the Carlyle Group

Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the War on Terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2321.htm


Informant: Friends

In Central America, Washington is getting serious about a problem it helped to create -- and not simply because the region's street gangs and vast criminal networks are making their presence known in the United States.

http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=354


From Information Clearing House

Affluent schools get art and music. Schools lower on the socio-economic ladder get military training (and top-secret visits from Tommy Franks).

http://counterpunch.org/salasin08252005.html


From Information Clearing House

The ultimate goal of US big corporations is to control the economy of the whole world. Hence, when politicians fail to get what such corporations want by diplomatic means then they will resort to the military to get for corporations what they want by force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10000.htm

“These poor young boys most of them 18, 19, 20 years old out there getting blown up. And they come in and you see pictures of their families falling out of there wallet...it just makes you angry.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9993.htm

With no public debate, to compensate for inadequate troop strength in Iraq, the Bush Administration has contracted with tens of thousands of mercenaries, who operate outside U.S. control and undermine military morale.

http://snipurl.com/h8wa


From Information Clearing House

Will history remember this week as the tipping point for George W. Bush and the Republicans who control Congress? Can they stay the course as they head into mid-term elections next year?

http://snipurl.com/h8xh


From Information Clearing House

If Western intelligence agencies are right – that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the two-year-plus military occupation have been recruiting boons for Islamic terrorism – why is it logical to commit American troops to an indefinite deployment there? Won’t that just create more terrorists?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/082505.html


From Information Clearing House

by Scott Ritter

The policies of the Bush administration have bred far more terrorists than have been eliminated, and the world, including the United States and its allies, is a much more dangerous place to live.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9999.htm

Angry and marginalized, Sunnis are threatening to torpedo Iraq's constitution. Disaster looms, and the Bush administration's blunders are largely to blame.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9992.htm

We play a press conference from Camp Casey held by members of Gold Star Families for Peace with mothers and wives from around the country speaking about their opposition to the war and to President Bush's policies in Iraq.

Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9998.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0826-07.htm



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

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0826-06.htm



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

{I'm posting this with TEARS OF JOY, Marty]

Posted by Caroline Ruth Vernon, Carolina1961@aol.com [UBRON]

85 Years ago today, women won the right to vote. Passage of the 19th amendment passed by only one vote. Just goes to show the power one vote has.

Today I also appeal to women, particularly mothers, to come together in both counsel as well as action as succinctly stated by Julia Ward Howe, founder of Mother's Day:

Published on Friday, August 26, 2005

Mother's Day in Crawford

by Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis

When Cindy Sheehan marched into Crawford, Texas to ask President Bush why her son died in Iraq, it was Mother's Day. Not the Hallmark- infused, soft focus, breakfast-in-bed Mother's Day that shows up on the calendar in May. This was the day that Julia Ward Howe envisioned when she created Mother's Day in 1870 as a time for all the mothers who lost their sons in the Civil War to protest the senseless violence.

Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation begins:

Arise then women of this day!

Arise, all women who have hearts!

Cindy Sheehan has risen up against the senseless violence of this war in Iraq, and countless women and men have risen up with her. The numbers at Camp Casey continue to swell, and support pours in from all corners of the globe. While George Bush says he feels Sheehan's pain but must "get on with his life," Sheehan's supporters are uprooting themselves from their lives-often at great personal sacrifice-- to vigil beside her in the hot Texas sun. Tired of seeing our soldiers and countless Iraqis die in an unjustified war, millions of Americans-especially mothers--are joining Sheehan's revolution of the heart. And in the process, they're exposing Bush's own heartlessness for refusing to meet with a grieving mother, and more tragically, for needlessly putting our sons and daughters in harm's way.

Those in the smear-Cindy camp have told Sheehan, in no uncertain terms, that she should go back home, where she belongs. But Sheehan has followed Julia Ward Howe's imperative:

As men have often forsaken

the plough and the anvil

At the summons of war,

Let women now leave all that may be left of home

For a great an earnest day of counsel.

Sheehan's hoped-for day of counsel with Bush may never arrive. But another sort of counsel is taking place, the sort that Howe imagined:

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

Whereby the great human family can live in peace.

This is precisely what is happening at the vigil in Crawford, Texas. Women are running the camp itself, organizing Sheehan's schedule, holding women's circles to share their grief and hope, writing letters appealing to Laura Bush, and strategizing ways to broaden and deepen this movement for peace.

During the Vietnam era, the anti-war movement was fueled primarily by students. Today, the anti-war movement is being fueled largely by mothers. Look at some of the organizations that have been created in the last few years: CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Raging Grannies. All of them reflect a mother's intense desire to not only shield her children from harm but to stop her children from doing harm to others.

Again, we hear the voice of Julia Howe.

We, the women of one country,

Will be too tender of those of another country

To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

In a recent statement urging Americans to listen to Cindy Sheehan, Elizabeth Edwards said, "If we are decent and compassionate, if we know the lessons we taught our children, or if, selfishly, all we want is the long line of the brave to protect us in the future, we should listen to the mothers now." Thanks to Cindy Sheehan, the mothers have arisen. Thanks to Cindy Sheehan, the world can't help but listen. Hopefully, George Bush is also hearing the message.

Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis are members of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a group that has been actively involved in the vigil in Crawford, Texas. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK, founder of Global Exchange, and nominee for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Gayle Brandeis is the author of The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change.

Published on Friday, August 26, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

Caroline Ruth Vernon
UBRON


Informant: Martin Greenhut



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

... "Please support mother Cindy Sheehan and the antiwar rally to take place in front of the White House on September 24"

*Excerpt

From: "Meria Heller" Meria@npgcable.com Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: Only For STRONG Stomachs - The Hypocrites Say "Save The Fetus" - ugh- Unforgivable Sins -Meria

From: "La Voz de Aztlan" maillistking@aztlan.net Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 1:52 PM Subject: Deformed Iraqi Babies Caused By USA Use Of Depleted Uranium

LA VOZ DE AZTLAN NEWS BULLETIN Los Angeles, Alta California August 26, 2005

Deformed Iraqi Babies Caused By USA Use Of Depleted Uranium

Not too many "good" Americans are aware about the horrible deformities that depleted uranium, utilized by the Pentagon to hardened ammunition, has caused not only in Iraqi babies but in the babies of Iraq war veterans as well.

Depleted uranium, like Agent Orange in Vietnam has caused untold miseries to families and is one of the worst war crimes in history.

We invite our readership to view some of the photographs of the Iraqi baby victims and to pass these photos to all of your friends.

Please support mother Cindy Sheehan and the antiwar rally to take place in front of the White House on September 24.

The photographs of the Iraqi baby victims are published at http://www.aztlan.net/du_deformed_iraqi_babies.htm

Please be warned!


Informant: Friends



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

A common-sense approach to ensuring accurate vote counts in America:

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/Audits_Monitoring.pdf

Ron Baiman, myself, Zeb Thomas and two of our volunteer writers helped buff this out. It's simple, nontechnical and fits on one two-sided page.

It is targeted to election officials. We are only mailing it to about 80 state election officials, but "not" to the over 33,000 county and township election officials, so PLEASE print copies and send them to your own county election officials and push for these simple measures in your locale.

Look up your own county election official's mailing address here:
http://uscountvotes.net/scripts/lettergen/ltr_pick_addressee.php
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/Audits_Monitoring.pdf


Best Regards,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank08232005.html


Informant: John A. Murphy



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

Highly qualified scientists and military managers are finally getting into pushing the DU issue.

MWM: DU will be central in the final collapse of the Empire. Eventually American soldiers and commanders will be asking the politicians, scientists, and media "what did you know, when did you know it, and what did you do about it". The answers to these questions will define many war criminals. Later....Iraqi mothers will be engaged in worldwide class-action suits against Americans and their economic interests in every conceivable venue for the next 50 years. T hree years ago I wrote that one of the reasons why the U.S. should NOT invade Iraq is that it is incompetent to wage war, most specifically it has very little legal ammunition. Not quite but mostly literally, every shot is a war crime. This truth still holds today and that is why the only long term sane position is to argue for an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

From: "Ian" > Subject: DU Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:29:29 -0700

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2298/

Radioactive Wounds of War Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq By Dave Lindorff August 25, 2005

Gerard Matthew thought he was lucky. He returned from his Iraq tour a year and a half ago alive and in one piece. But after the New York State National Guardsman got home, he learned that a bunkmate, Sgt. Ray Ramos, and a group of N.Y. Guard members from another unit had accepted an offer by the New York Daily News and reporter Juan Gonzalez to be tested for depleted uranium
(DU) contamination, and had tested positive.

Matthew, 31, decided that since he'd spent much of his time in Iraq lugging around DU-damaged equipment, he'd better get tested too. It turned out he was the most contaminated of them all.

Matthew immediately urged his wife to get an ultrasound check of their unborn baby. They discovered the fetus had a condition common to those with radioactive exposure: atypical syndactyly. The right hand had only two digits.

So far Victoria Claudette, now 13 months old, shows no other genetic disorders and is healthy, but Matthew feels guilty for causing her deformity and angry at a government that never warned him about DU's dangers.

U.S. forces first used DU in the 1991 Gulf War, when some 300 tons of depleted uranium--the waste product of nuclear power plants and weapons facilities--were used in tank shells and shells fired by A-10 jets. A lesser amount was deployed by U.S. and NATO forces during the Balkans conflict. But in the current wars in Afghanistan and, especially, Iraq, DU has become the weapon of choice, with more than 1,000 tons used in Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons used in Iraq. And while DU was fired mostly in the desert during the Gulf War, in the current war in Iraq, most of DU munitions are exploding in populated urban areas.

The Pentagon has expanded DU beyond tank and A-10 shells, for use in bunker-busting bombs, which can spew out more than half a ton of DU in one explosion, in anti-personnel bomblets, and even in M-16 and pistol shells. The military loves DU for its unique penetration capability--it cuts through steel or concrete like they're butter.

The problem is that when DU hits its target, it burns at a high temperature, throwing off clouds of microscopic particles that poison a wide area and remain radioactive for billions of years. If inhaled, these particles can lodge in lungs, other organs or bones, irradiating tissue and causing cancers.

Worse yet, uranium is also a highly toxic heavy metal. Indeed, while there is some debate over the risk posed by the element's radioactive emissions, there is no debate regarding its chemical toxicity. According to Mt. Sinai pathologist Thomas Fasey, who participated in the New York Guard unit testing, the element has an affinity for bonding with DNA, where even trace amounts can cause cancers and fetal abnormalities.

Dr. Doug Rokke, a health physicist at the University of Illinois who headed up a Pentagon study of depleted uranium weapons in the mid '90s after concerns were raised during the Gulf War, concluded there was no safe way to use the weapons. Rokke says the Pentagon responded by denouncing him, after earlier commending his work.

No one knows how many U.S. soldiers have been contaminated by DU residue. Despite regulations authorizing tests for any military personnel who suspects exposure, the U.S. military is avoiding doing those tests--or delaying them until they are meaningless.

"When we asked to be tested at Ft. Dix, they wrongly told us we didn't have to worry unless we had DU fragments in our body," says Matthew. His buddy, Sgt. Ramos, who exhibits symptoms resembling radiation sickness and heavy metal poisoning, adds that at Walter Reed Medical Center he was grilled for hours about why he wanted to be tested and was then branded a troublemaker by his own unit. Matthew says Walter Reed "lost" his sample.

At the war's start, the United States refused to allow U.N. or other environmental inspectors to test DU levels within Iraq. Now the United Nations won't even go near Iraq because of security concerns.

"It doesn't seem right that we are poisoning the places we are supposed to be liberating," Ramos says.

The Pentagon continues to insist, on the basis of no field evidence, that DU is safe. To date, only some 270 returned troops have been tested for DU contamination by the military and Veterans Affairs. But even those tests, mostly urine samples, are useless 30 days after exposure, because by that time most of the DU has left the body or migrated into bones or organs.

Gonzalez and the Daily News paid for costlier tests for nine Guardsmen--tests that could pinpoint uranium inside the body and identify the special isotope signature of man-made DU. Four of the nine tested positive for DU; all had symptoms of uranium poisoning.

Even harder evidence may soon arrive. Connecticut State Representative Pat Dillon (D-New Haven), a Yale-trained epidemiologist, has crafted state-level legislation that Connecticut and Louisiana have unanimously passed, authorizing returned National Guard troops to request and receive specialized DU contamination tests at the Pentagon's expense. This approach bypasses the Pentagon's feet-dragging because National Guard troops fall under state, rather than federal, jurisdiction.

"This was not a Democratic or a Republican issue," Dillon says. "These are our kids and someone needs to protect them." She says that since passage of her bill, which takes effect this October, military groups and family organizations, state legislators, and even National Guard unit commanders have contacted her for copies of her bill to promote in their states. Bob Smith, a veteran in Louisiana who got hold of Dillon's bill and spearheaded a successful effort to pass similar legislation in Louisiana, claims that 14 to 20 other states are considering similar measures.

If enough Guard troops avail themselves of the testing--and start testing positive for contamination--it seems likely that reservists and active duty troops and veterans will demand similar access to rigorous tests, which can cost upwards of $1000 per person.

One way or another, the Pentagon will pay a price. "DU is a war crime. It's that simple," Rokke says. "Once you've scattered all this stuff around, and then refuse to clean it up, you've committed a war crime."


Informant: Michael Mandeville

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=89929;show_parent=1



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

http://www.newswithviews.com/Hughes/sharon23.htm



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

http://mises.org/story/1887


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3335/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Aug 26 2005

By Charles Watts Maidenhead Reporter

FURIOUS residents are fighting to stop a 14.7 metre high mobile phone mast being put up outside their houses.

The application was submitted to the Royal Borough by T Mobile who want to put up the mast, which will have three antennae, in Shoppenhangers Road.

This has caused uproar from people living close by who were informed of the application when a letter dropped through their letter boxes on Friday, August 12.

June Haines of Worcester Close, is one of these residents and she was so disturbed by the application that she decided to draw up a petition to fight against the plan.

She managed to get 39 signatures and has now sent copies of the petition to various people including Maidenhead's MP Theresa May and the head of planning at the royal borough, David Trigwell.

Speaking to the Express, she said: "We are all absolutely fuming, these things are very unsightly and of course there are rumours that they cause cancer.

"My neighbour is a child minder and so has a lot of young children at her house and they are supposed to be more vulnerable to these things I believe."

Another concern of Mrs Haines, who has lived at her house with her husband Ernest for 20 years, is the effect it will have on the view from her gardens.

She said: "As our house sits sideways to Shoppenhangers it will overlook not just our back garden but our front as well.

"It just seems ridiculous that they are going to put it up by a lot of houses when there are three huge fields behind us where it could be put without bothering anybody."

Kobus Bensch of Mast Free Maidenhead, a group set up to fight phone masts going up in the town, has backed Mrs Haines's fight.

He said: "We'll hopefully be able to help her and give her some advice gained from our experiences.

"I just find this whole thing completely unacceptable. These companies are putting applications in when people are away on holiday so they can't make objections.

"They're just like a bunch of snakes."

A spokesman for T-Mobile, Sophia Parviez, said: "Based on over 40 years of research, we are confident that its base stations, operating within strict national and international guidelines, do not present a health risk to any member of the public.

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

"When a new mast is needed, we try to reduce the impact on the local environment with sensitive siting, innovative design and where appropriate landscaping.

"We are always conscious of local wildlife and conservation."

Kent and Sussex Courier

15:00 - 26 August 2005

Residents in North Tonbridge are distraught after losing a battle over the erection of a phone mast in their road.

Contractors working for T-Mobile have been given the final go-ahead to continue work at the junction between Hunt Road and Constable Road, after a legal investigation showed the land owners had no powers to prevent it.

The triangle of land is owned by housing association Russet Homes, which acquired it in 1991.

When work started at the site two weeks ago Russet Homes requested T-Mobile stop as it had not been granted permission.

As previously reported in the Kent and Sussex Courier, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council originally refused planning permission for the 11.7m high mast in June last year but permission was granted on appeal in March.

However, Russet Homes still refused to give the permission needed before work could begin.

On August 8 work was suspended while both sides approached their solicitors for legal advice.

However, head of housing management at Russet Homes Anthony Cross revealed on Monday that although the association owned the land, it had been adopted by Kent County Council which maintained it as part of the highway.

He said: "Having sought legal advice, unfortunately Russet Homes has no powers to prevent erection of the mast on the land that forms part of the highway."

Mr Cross was disappointed with the decision and said Russet Homes shared the residents' concern of placing the mast in the heart of a residential area.

Residents were concerned over the health and visual impact of the slim-line monopole that will support three antennas and a microwave dish.

They were also angry it has been allowed in a residential area that lies between Woodland Infant and Junior Schools and the playgroup, at the Methodist Church.

Chairman of Higham Road Residents Association Peter Reed who led the campaign against the mast said: "This legal loophole apparently allows T-Mobile to go ahead with the mast as a utility."

He added: "T-Mobile is saying it has to have all these masts but we feel there is no necessity for it as the reception for 3G mobile telephones here is adequate."

Hunt Road resident Betty O'Loughlin said: "I am devastated. Surely they could have found somewhere without people and babies walking past to get to the school?"

A spokesman for T-Mobile said the operator had similar rights of access to such land as other utilities, of which there was ample evidence on this site.

It has already put the foundations in place and is currently finalising the details of when work will start.

Trotz aller Diskussionen um die Gesundheitsfolgen des Elektrosmogs: Die Akzeptanz von Handys ist ungebrochen. Rund 64 Millionen Menschen zählen in Deutschland zu den Handynutzern. Darunter auch viele, die sich Sorgen über mögliche gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen durch die Mobiltelefoniererei machen. Eine vom Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) durchgeführte Befragung ergab, dass immerhin 30 Prozent der Bevölkerung sich "im Hinblick auf hochfrequente elektromagnetische Felder des Mobilfunks als besorgt" beschrieben, 9 Prozent meinten gar, sie seien gesundheitlich beeinträchtigt. Trotz dieser Selbsteinschätzung: Kaum einer fragt beim Handykauf nach der Strahlenbelastung des Hightechgeräts.

Das könnte sich durchaus als fatal erweisen. Denn allen Beschwichtigungen zum Trotz: Es gibt keine vollständige Entwarnung in Bezug auf Elektrosmog. Die Hinweise darauf, dass elektromagnetische Strahlen mehr bewirken als nur eine leichte Erwärmung des Körpergewebes, sind so vielfältig, dass sie nicht einfach vom Tisch gefegt werden können. Da wird etwa von gentoxischen, also das Erbmaterial verändernden Effekten berichtet. Auch unterhalb der Grenzwerte können die elektromagnetischen Strahlen zu DNA-Brüchen führen. Nur was das zu bedeuten hat, darüber kann derzeit niemand Auskunft geben. Denn zum Teil sind diese Ergebnisse nur in ganz bestimmten Zellen nachzuweisen. Dazu kommt, dass die Studien bisher nur an isolierten Zellen durchgeführt wurden. Ob ähnliche Wirkungen auch in situ, im Körper, auftreten können, ist derzeit zwar noch die große Frage. Würden aber derart gravierende "Hinweise" auf gesundheitsbeeinträchtigende Effekte zum Beispiel auch bei der Gentechnologie vorliegen, die Politik hätte längst mit einem Verbot reagiert.

WOLFGANG LÖHR

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Krebs, Schlafstörungen, Unwohlsein?

Protestieren Sie nicht nur gegen Sendemasten, telefonieren Sie doch einfach weniger

VON HANNA GERSMANN

Polizisten im brandenburgischen Hennigsdorf holten vor wenigen Wochen zwei Mädchen aus einem Kellerverschlag. Die beiden hätten geschrieen, hieß es. Die Nachbarn waren besorgt. Doch in diesem Fall, so stellte das Jugendamt schnell fest, ging es nicht um zu wenig Fürsorge. Im Gegenteil. In der Umgebung waren in den letzten Jahren immer mehr Mobilfunkmasten aufgestellt worden. Die Eltern wollten ihre Töchter schützen - vor Elektrosmog.

Schon seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren wird vermutet, dass elektromagnetische Strahlen Krebs auslösen. Viele Bürger sind verängstigt und klagen über Kopfweh oder Unwohlsein. Sie protestieren gegen Sendemasten, gründen Bürgerinitiativen, initiieren Volksbegehren - und sind doch arglos.

Denn 80 Prozent der Deutschen nutzen ganz selbstverständlich ihr Handy. Statistisch gesehen bekommt hierzulande ein Kind das erste Funktelefon, sobald es neun ist.

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