http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0911-03.htm

New Orleans TOXIC For DECADE! Needs "EM" Now
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=91179;show_parent=1

Reflektionen zum 11.September
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20913/1.html

Kent Courier

15:00 - 09 September 2005

Two mobile phone companies have lost their fight to install nine masts on the roof of a warehouse in Southborough.

Communication giants T-Mobile and O2 initially applied to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council for planning permission to erect the steel antennas, which act as mini mobile phone masts, in Draper Street in August last year.

But the authority refused the application because the proposal would have a pontentially detrimental effect to the character and appearance of the Southborough Conservation Area and would not be in keeping with the fabric of the existing building.

There were also concerns about the volume of radio frequency emissions.

In January, an appeal was launched against the refusal but now the Planning Inspectorate has thrown it out on the grounds that, while there is a need for better network coverage in the area, the scheme would "create somewhat bulky and alien features out of keeping with the form of the host building, which would be highly visible from both private residential property and public viewpoints".

The decision is a relief to residents, who have seen a flurry of masts erected in the area during the last few years.

After six similar antennas were given the go ahead on the same warehouse roof last year, residents living in the adjacent Castle Street were even considering moving house.

Elaine Cardon-Llach has been fighting a battle for almost two years to stop a 12ft mast being installed near her house between Harlands Way and Birchwood Avenue.

She said: "I'm shocked because they [mobile phone companies] usually win on appeal and the term 'conservation area' means nothing these days."

But the London Road resident did not think the ruling would be the start of a trend to stop other masts being erected.

Lincolnshire Echo 10.09.05

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10:30 - 10 September 2005
Prices of homes near the site of a proposed mobile phone mast could plummet by up to £10,000, according to residents.

People living in Caistor Road in Birchwood, Lincoln, also fear their children's health would be affected by radiation from the mast.

Now they are starting a petition in a bid to stop the mast going up.

Mobile phone company Hutchison 3G has applied to Lincoln City Council to put up the 12 and a half metre structure.

The firm wants to put it on a grass verge in Birchwood Avenue, directly behind 13 Caistor Road.

Mum-of-one Cheryl Roberts (41) lives at the address and says she has contacted estate agents who told her the value of her property would drop.

"Agents have told us that we could lose as much as £10,000 on the sale of our house," she said.

"I and my husband Clive have plans to move abroad when our 14-year-old daughter has finished her education.

"This could really affect the price we get when we sell.

"No-one wants something like this near them. It's going to look horrendous and there are also the suspected health risks.

"If there is the slightest chance this is going to make my family ill then we obviously don't want it."

Her neighbour, 39-year-old Sam Wakefield, said estate agents had also told her the value of her property would fall.

"We just feel so powerless. We've been told by the council that we cannot object on the grounds of house prices, or health risks - these are the things that are really worrying us," she said.

The mum-of-three plans to launch a petition today.

"We're going to show this company how much objection there is. There's already two masts in Birchwood Avenue. People are sick of it," she said.

A spokesman for Walters in Silver Street, Lincoln, said that mobile phone masts can affect house prices.

"It's fair to say that a mobile phone mast yards from a property is going to have a negative effect on saleability," he said. "And it of course follows that if a house isn't selling then the asking price has to be dropped. Valuing is a subjective process, but these masts are unpopular with many people."

Lincoln City Council spokesman Zoe Staton said: "It is true that the effect on house prices and health concerns are not material planning considerations.

"We can only look at appearance and site when making a decision."

Across the country, concerns have been raised about the effects of radiation from phone masts. It is feared they might lead to cancer.

3G spokesman Brian Spooner said: "The proposed base station location has been chosen to fill in a requirement for coverage in the area and will blend with existing street lighting columns.

"I understand some people's concerns about the health issue based upon what they might have seen in the media, but it is important to look at the scientific evidence surrounding it."

Omega here you can look at the scientific evidence:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Mr Spooner refused to comment on house prices.

Shropshire Star 10.09 05

A towering mobile phone mast planned for a residential area of Shrewsbury could be scrapped amid a storm of objections from nearly 100 protesters.

Telecommunications giant Hutchinson 3G wants to build the 60ft mast on land off the B4380 Shelton Road in Copthorne - less than 40m from the nearest home.

But residents have launched a campaign to have the scheme thrown out. They claim that the mast is too high, has potential health implications and is too close to houses.

The 95 residents have also raised concerns about the close proximity of the site to former Ministry of Defence land which has outline planning permission for a new primary school.

Planning bosses at Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council are due to discuss the proposal at a meeting on Tuesday, and are likely to refuse the plans as the mast would be "visually prominent".

The residents have gained the backing of ward councillor George Richey and MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham Daniel Kawczynski. Councillor Richey will suggest two alternative sites for the mast which were further away from homes.

Nobody from Hutchinson 3G was available for comment today.

endlich sind auch meine beiden letzten artikel zu den chemtrails die im „journal franz weber“ (genf) erschienen, am internet abrufbar:

Das gestohlene Blau - Chemtrails in der Schweiz
http://www.chemtrails.ch/dokumentationen/JFW71.htm

Sind Bundesrat und BUWAL im Chemtrail-Netz verfangen?
http://www.chemtrails.ch/dokumentationen/JFW70.htm

die artikel sind etwas spezifischer auf die situation in der schweiz bezogen, beinhalten aber auch einige neue informationen; etwa aussagen von jim phelps, dem ozonloch-experten und „whistle blower“.

ich werde versuchen, meine chronische technikscheue zu überwinden und -auch dank eines neuen webhosts- nach und nach weitere neuigkeiten in verschiedenen rubriken aufzuschalten. diese werden dann entsprechend (NEU) gekennzeichnet.

vor allem an meine schweizer leser(innen) geht der hinweis auf einen klima-artikel der im „MAGAZIN“ nr.34/august 2005 erschien. darin bestätigt NASA klima-experte james hansen fast sämtliche von „deep shield“ gemachten aussagen zur klima-situation.

das fazit des artikels ? gemäss hansen ist der „point of no return“ eigentlich schon überschritten und ein exponentieller anstieg der erdtemperatur um etwa 7°C eine frage von wenigen jahrzehnten.

hansens empfohlene gegenmassnahme ? wir hören - und staunen wenig: die „zukünftige“ erschaffung eines künstlichen schutzschildes gegen das uv-licht, natürlich ! und auch das IPCC bezieht nun hansens erkenntnisse mit ein...

SOMIT SIND CHEMTRAILS (AUSSER PER NAMENSNENNUNG) IN JEDER HINSICHT IM MAINSTREAM ANGEKOMMEN. DA KANN MAN NUR NOCH SAGEN: „HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN!“

da das MAGAZIN keine internetpräsenz pflegt, findet ihr auch diesen artikel (leicht gekürzt) bald auf meiner website: wenn die „kontrollierte freigabe“ von informationen nicht im tempo noch zulegt und solche chemtrail-websites nächstens überflüssig macht...

Tja...währenddessen braut sich vor floridas küste schon der nächste hurrikan zusammen: ob es dieses mal vielleicht endlich die richtigen trifft ?

es grüsst euch alle gabriel stetter


DIE SCHWEIZER CHEMTRAIL WEBSITE THE SWISS CHEMTRAIL WEBSITE

http://www.chemtrails.ch


Nachricht von Ruth Gill

In 1990, the Federal Communications Commission asked the first Bush administration to defend a policy aimed at encouraging more minority ownership of broadcast stations. As the number two man in the solicitor general's office, John G. Roberts Jr. played a critical role in the government's decision to reject the request, according to documents that came to light yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005Y.shtml

Republicans are going ahead with long-standing plans to trim Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits, even though party moderates are balking at cutting programs that aid the poor while hundreds of thousands are homeless from Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005H.shtml

Recent shootings of Iraqi civilians, allegedly involving the legion of U.S., British and other foreign security contractors operating in the country, are drawing increasing concern from Iraqi officials and U.S. commanders who say they undermine relations between foreign military forces and Iraqi civilians.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005E.shtml

Molly Ivins argues that George W. Bush has come up with his worst idea since he decided to have the military investigate torture by the military at Abu Ghraib prison. He, George W. personally, plans to investigate to "find out what went right and what went wrong" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005D.shtml

Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml

America was not established as a true democracy. The original framers of the constitution desired that only White men who owned property were to have a voice in how the government was run, including the right to vote.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10232.htm

Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina all but drowned out what may well be one of the most consequential court decisions in American history – and one that should focus even more attention on the ideological composition of the Supreme Court.

http://snipurl.com/hkw4


From Information Clearing House

U.S. citizenship will not protect individuals from being deprived of their liberty if the Administration decides they are a threat to U.S. national security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10222.htm

The videotape of the suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has switched the focus of the London bombings away from the establishment view of brainwashed, murderous individuals and highlighted a starker political reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10226.htm

The Director-General of MI5, allowed a confidential speech that she had given to Dutch intelligence officers to be published on the agency’s website yesterday. She gave a warning that an erosion of civil liberties might be necessary to stop more British citizens from being killed by terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10230.htm

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How much do you value your rights?

Would losing some civil liberties be a price worth paying for greater security?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4232440.stm


From Information Clearing House

Army officials said the failure to notify the family of the true cause of Ballard's death was an oversight. The military sometimes incorrectly categorizes the cause of war deaths.

http://www2.whdh.com/news/articles/national/BOS5056/


From Information Clearing House

Here we see 200,000 “liberated” Iraqis thrown out of their home without any control over their destiny as to where they can go, and here comes the assault — a action replay of Fallujah. According to the reports the operation would be extended to Ramadi, Qaem, Rawa and Samara as well.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10231.htm

Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar has sent out an SOS to the international community to interfere with the US occupation authorities to stop their continuing bombing of their devastated city, revealing a terrible humanitarian situation.

http://snipurl.com/hkww


From Information Clearing House

How Bush's failures in Iraq and New Orleans are linked.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10227.htm

Like the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, whose fourth anniversary is this weekend, Hurricane Katrina is an event whose consequences will extend far beyond the physical, into the very mind of America.

http://snipurl.com/hkwr


From Information Clearing House

After a frantic week, the clinic for hurricane victims is just about ready. But the medical staff is gone.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5606083.html


From Information Clearing House

A German military plane carrying 15 tons of military rations for survivors of Hurricane Katrina was sent back by U.S. authorities, officials said Saturday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10228.htm

Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

http://snipurl.com/hkwm


From Information Clearing House

Raw political power will be used to block any independent investigation.

http://snipurl.com/hkwk


From Information Clearing House

The fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history.

http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/924


From Information Clearing House

The military will bar journalists and photographers from documenting the recovery of bodies left littering New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the army general in charge said today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10225.htm

Ghosts with dirty faces stagger about in bare feet and floating, rolling cadavers snag on the upturned roots of pecan trees.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10224.htm

ARMED police have begun to handcuff hurricane survivors who refuse to leave their homes in New Orleans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10220.htm

Americans seem unaware of the great loss we've all suffered by the Padilla verdict.

by Mike Whitney

The verdict confers absolute authority on the President to incarcerate American citizens without charge and without any legal means for the accused to challenge the terms of his detention. It is the end of "inalienable rights", the end of The Bill of Rights, and the end of any meaningful notion of personal liberty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10223.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3389/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

I just sent a personal message to all my representatives in Congress, I hope you will join me!

http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/50


Should Congress Investigate the Bush Administration's Iraq War Lies?

I urge you to support the Resolution of Inquiry by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (Dem., Calif.) and 26 co-sponsors to require the White House and the State Department to "transmit all information relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq."

http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/50


Thank you

Russ Ferriday

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07barbara.html


Informant: Walter Lippmann

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html

It's unbelievably GOOD NEWS. Imelda

I hope you will agree that this most heartwarming report, transcribed below--"Electrical fields can make you sick"-- for all EHS/ES sufferers on the formal acknowledgement by the UK's HPA (Health Protection Agency in today's THE SUNDAY TIMES deserves its own special release to all immediately.

May I add that some really momentous/magnificent things are issuing forth from Belfast and N. Ireland. Dr Neil Irvine who has chief responsibility for this HPA/RPD report is a Belfast epidemiologist. OUR--EHS sufferers globally-- DAY HAS COME!

Best, Imelda, Cork.



THE SUNDAY TIMES, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005. Page 7, print edition

"ELECTRICAL FIELDS CAN MAKE YOU SICK
[by] Sarah-Kate Templeton
Medical Correspondent

A BRITISH government agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens. The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment in Britain. A report by the Health Protection agency (HPA), to be published next month, will state that increasing numbers of people are suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known, thousands are believed to be affected to some extent. The report, by the agency's radiation protection division, is expected to say that GPs do now not know how to treat sufferers and that more research is needed to find cures. It will give a full list of the symptoms, which can include dizziness, irregular hearbeat and loss of memory. Although most European countries do now not recognise the condition, Britain will follow Sweden where electrosensitivity was recognised as a physical impairment in 2000. About 300,000 Swedish men and women are sufferers. In Ireland, a number of doctors have argued that up to 5% of the population may be suffering ill health as a result of radiation from mobile phones and masts. The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA) recently urged the government to adopt a cautious approach to the technology, and to ensure that people who claim to have related illnesses are monitored. In a study, the doctors said they had identified 16 people whom they believe have been adversely affected by radiation. The condition is not recognised by the Irish government, however. The Irish medical report concluded that "sensitive individuals" suffer "devastating effects" from exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The IDEA's co-founders Philip Michael and Elizabeth Cullen, said more people were reporting severe health effects linked to radiation. The association's claims were strongly refuted by the industry and government. The Irish government's Department of Communications has said that tests on mobile-phone base stations in the country found that none exceeded internationally recognised guidelines on radiation levels. Mobile-phone operators also dismissed claims that radiation from masts or phones could be harmful. The British acknowledgement may fuel legal action by those who claim mobile phone masts have made them ill. In January Sir William Stewart, chairman of the HPA and the government's adviser on mobile phones, warned that a small proportion of the population could be harmed by exposure to electromagnetic fields, and called for careful examination of the problem. The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The condition has previously been dismissed as psychological. The findings should lead to better treatment for sufferers. In Sweden people who are allergic to electrical energy receive government support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces. Rod Read, chairman of Electrosensitivity UK, said this heralded "awareness of a new form of pollution from electrical energy."

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I've discovered that the Irish edition of THE SUNDAY TIMES article is not identical with the UK Sunday Times edition. When one googles "Electrical fields can make you sick" it is the UK edition that becomes available. Consequently, you might like to also post on your website the Irish edition which I have transcribed below.

Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland


THE SUNDAY TIMES, [Republic of Ireland edition] SEPTEMBER 11, 2005. Page 7, print edition

"ELECTRICAL FIELDS CAN MAKE YOU SICK [by] Sarah-Kate Templeton Medical Correspondent

A BRITISH government agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens. The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment in Britain. A report by the Health Protection agency (HPA), to be published next month, will state that increasing numbers of people are suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known, thousands are believed to be affected to some extent. The report, by the agency's radiation protection division, is expected to say that GPs do not know how to treat sufferers and that more research is needed to find cures. It will give a full list of the symptoms, which can include dizziness, irregular hearbeat and loss of memory. Although most European countries do not recognise the condition, Britain will follow Sweden where electrosensitivity was recognised as a physical impairment in 2000. About 300,000 Swedish men and women are sufferers. In Ireland, a number of doctors have argued that up to 5% of the population may be suffering ill health as a result of radiation from mobile phones and masts. The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA) recently urged the government to adopt a cautious approach to the technology, and to ensure that people who claim to have related illnesses are monitored. In a study, the doctors said they had identified 16 people whom they believe have been adversely affected by radiation. The condition is not recognised by the Irish government, however. The Irish medical report concluded that "sensitive individuals" suffer "devastating effects" from exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The IDEA's co-founders Philip Michael and Elizabeth Cullen, said more people were reporting severe health effects linked to radiation. The association's claims were strongly refuted by the industry and government. The Irish government's Department of Communications has said that tests on mobile-phone base stations in the country found that none exceeded internationally recognised guidelines on radiation levels. Mobile-phone operators also dismissed claims that radiation from masts or phones could be harmful. The British acknowledgement may fuel legal action by those who claim mobile phone masts have made them ill. In January Sir William Stewart, chairman of the HPA and the government's adviser on mobile phones, warned that a small proportion of the population could be harmed by exposure to electromagnetic fields, and called for careful examination of the problem. The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The condition has previously been dismissed as psychological. The findings should lead to better treatment for sufferers. In Sweden people who are allergic to electrical energy receive government support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces. Rod Read, chairman of Electrosensitivity UK, said this heralded "awareness of a new form of pollution from electrical energy."

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Thanks, Robert!!!!

Ironic that this announcement comes exactly one year from time-period for Children With Leukaemia Conference. I am pretty sure it was a person from the NRPB that Cindy Sage "held her own against" during an interesting panel discussion at the 2004 Conference. I do have notes, etc. but not enough time right now to check.

We all know the U.S. and at least Australia had plenty of evidence of potential harm from EMR prior to organizing the $46 mil EMR RAPID rip-off even tho relationship to many of those effects were not and have not been acknowledged.

What is criminal (my opinion) is the fact that the EMF RAPID Interagency Committee which does connect Leukemia and EMF's as well as immune deficiency, has never been presented to Congress!!!

I will eventually get back to my letter to Health & Human Services here in the U.S. and will keep pressure on candidates for the next election. As you know, I have many projects waiting.........

I am very concerned about press releases that do not emphasize sleeping areas and close proximity of electrical appliances/devices but, of course, am still grateful for any progress. The recent study re electric stoves in the U.K. does not "tell the story" re what occurs when persons sleep in close proximity to electric appliances such as electric clocks, electric clock radios, power supplies for cordless phones and other telephone equipment, fans, etc. and, of course, also does not address the issue of high frequencies on electrical wiring.

As with most EMR work including cell phone and antennae health problems, the facts and information can be addressed separately but I know from increasing numbers of contacts, the public, in general, are aware that effects may be the same regardless of the source. Take care - Joanne

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The Israeli newspaper "Maariv" translated into hebrew the below Sunday Times article that NRPB's recognized the radiation as the cause for EHS. Very important as Maariv is read widely, and now people meet for the first time with this term of EHS.

Notice the sentence "The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The condition had previously been dismissed as psychological."

Sorry about the cynicism, it IS a very important step forward, but it looks like the idea is to produce more jobs for the drug industry than to really help reduce the exposure. They recognize it but they are also not going to stop the spread of more antennas and new technologies (Wi-Fi etc) that increase the EHS. It is dangerous that they will use it as red herring to find a pill for every single symptom instead of encouraging reduction of exposure: everything that is recognized as "syndrom" is going to make profits for the drug industry. I think the emphasis needs to be - using this recognition in order to bring it back on the authorities: spreading this technology causes people to develop EHS and no magic bullet with give the answer but the solution is to focus on the cause. Until you don't remove the cause of the problem one can take pills forever and still suffer, moreover, one gets sicker from the side effects of the drugs.

Iris Atzmon.

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Please, have a look at:

"Electrical fields can make you sick"
by Sarah-Kate Templeton, Medical Correspondent, The Sunday Times - Britain,
September 11, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html

and

"Phones CAN make you ill"
by Fiona McRae, Daily Mail - Britain, September 12, 2005
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=362073&in_page_id=1774

Best regards

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

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In the recent Press Statement (see below) from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of England and Wales, a serious mistake can be found (see below at [***]).

(START OF COPY)

12 September 2005 Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity

Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its contents are inaccurate. (Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2005; Daily Mail, 12 September 2005).

The report will be a scientific review of the topic of electrosensitivity with a public health perspective. It will not be a definitive statement of policy from the Board of the Health Protection Agency. The Board of the Agency is not in a position to make a decision on whether electrosensitivity is a "medical condition" or not. This is for the medical profession to decide on an international basis.

The report will be published next month with a press release summarising its contents. This will be available to news media under embargo.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/articles/press_releases/2005/050912_electrosensitivity.htm

(END OF COPY)


[***] In Sweden, under various international and national handicap laws and regulations - such as the UN 22 Standard Rules and the Swedish action plan for persons with impairments (prop. 1999/2000:79 "Den nationella handlingplanen för handikappolitiken - Från patient till medborgare"), the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS-lagen), the Swedish Social Services Act (Socialtjänstlagen), and the Human Rights Act of the EU - or elsewhere in the world among all UN nations, impairments are NOT "for the medical profession to decide on an international basis". Persons with impairments are NOT "a medical condition". This is very important to realize and understand.

Best regards

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

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Is the tide slowly turning against ICNIRP’s “end of history” ideology?
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=209

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HPA report recognises EHS

This report, I would predict, is going to have less impact than we would like. Key issues in its long preparation for release will be how to assess degrees of EHS in order to secure assistance, proof of EMF dose sufficient to cause EHS in court cases relating to masts, and lack of mechanism with regard to precaution in siting. EHS will be seen as a minority issue, not yet ready for influencing decisions.

I predict that the message on masts will be the very least aspect drawn attention to. Power lines, computers and strong fields will be given most attention. The fact that the pre-release says "thousands are believed to be affected to some extent" shows that it is not really taken seriously with regard to masts.

I recognise a fundamental aspect to this development, which I have written about here:
http://www.tetrawatch.net/links/links.php?id=nolink

Basically,

1) if EHS is recognised and has a diversity of symptoms, then there is likely to be a common cause.

2) If the common cause is identified and has further causes beyond EHS, then precaution needs to be taken against not only EHS but the further causes.

3) I predict that one of the common causes lies in EMF effects on enzymes, perhaps at skin-deep level, notably nitric oxide synthase, superoxide dismutase and acetylcholinesterase, all of which have been shown to be affected by mobile phone EMFs.

4) These enzyme effects predict thyroid disease, CFS, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, neurological diseases including MS and MND, and cancer.

5) These predicted outcomes have already been identified as associated with mobile masts.

This is not the whole story, but recognition of EHS presents more than a reason to seek palliative medicine.

Andy

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I'm pretty sure the population of Sweden is only about 5 - 6 million too so according to the quoted figure of 300,000 EMS sufferers there that makes 5% of the population minimum.

That would mean 3.25 million people suffering in the UK.

And what about the numbers of people who live with this as lower level suffering - ie a level too low for them to bother to do anything about? Maybe they attribute it to stress? Maybe they drink to quell the discomfort? Maybe they just think it's the way they are? Could be many, many more sufferers and I bet there are.

Gary

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You could well be right, Andy - but surely the point is that the link has been made! That's pivotal. If 300,000 people are affected in Sweden, it's likely that a greater number will be affected here - Britain being more densely populated and suffering higher levels of EMR pollution. The article mentions that in Sweden there are funds for protective measures for sufferers, and suggests research here to look for a 'cure'. Those are very emotive terms. Wouldn't a good human rights lawyer be able to argue that it is against human rights protocol to force citizens to sleep under Faraday cages, line their walls with tin foil, and carry protective boxes around with them, just to keep themselves safe from harmful technology? Perhaps I'm being over optimistic, but I think it would be a good idea to investigate that angle. Also the lawyer who was at the Tetra and Phone Mast Forum was going to look into the possibility of legal actions. She may be interested in this latest development. I do agree though, they will do their level best to quash this, so how effectively we use it, is really down to us. So that everyone is quite clear and for those who may be concerned about me expressing these views, can I state that this is a purely personal opinion.

Jenny

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Gary .

The population of Sweden was estimated at : 9,001,774 in July 2005.

300.000 is still a very large number from that number.

Think about it, the Health system regards HIV as a disaster.

How many Brits have HIV?

I am sure the % is a lot smaller if you count heads.

Human form of BSE was and is a disaster.

How many % of the population do they account for?

I have heard the number 130.000 masts mentioned.

All the masts have close neighbors, and not just 1 or 2, but whole neighborhoods, nurseries, schools, hospitals, old peoples homes, villages, whatever.

I am sure that there are tens or hundreds of people who are affected by each mast.

So, I would not be surprised if your count is understated.

Best regards.

Agnes

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Brief comment on the future of masts.

Estimates are up to 130,000 additional for 5 x 3G networks.

Baseline (non-capacity) calculation based on residential hectares and mast range between 1.5 and 5km is in excess of 80,000.

MOA seem completely confused: one MOA representative wrote to me personally saying they only needed 5,000 more. This is completely erroneous.

Qinetiq (yesterday's email) is the privatised arm of MoD and has come up with "rescue technology" for antenna (not mast) sharing. They say this alleviates the requirement for 100,000 additional masts, and I am sure they will have done their sums pretty well.

Most people will in the next 2-3 years be within the 400m zone described in the Naila report.

My earlier comments on what EHS signifies in terms of wider consequences of even one of its likely causes, says it all.

3-5% are canaries. The rest are miners.

Andy

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Hi Agnes

Yes I wasn't really thinking. The idea of EMS and that only a very small percentage of people are EMS also implies that the overwhelming majority of people are "normal" and won't be affected, so people will just breathe a sigh of relief when the idea of EMS becomes widely accepted and just carry on using their mobiles and god knows what else. They'll just think "Oh it's only a tiny minority of people with something wrong with them who'll suffer from mobile use etc".

Gary

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It appears we now have two official proofs of damage from phones and masts. First, the recent research that proved mobiles could cause irreparable damage to eyes. This research was specifically and directly linked to mobiles, ie the causal link had been established beyond doubt. That is, if the newspaper articles etc reported correctly - and since there were verbatim quotes from the scientists themselves, there is no reason to doubt their validity. Sadly, very little was made of this.

Secondly, the HPA Report. The Government / Industry cannot be allowed to sweep this under the carpet, or pretend that it will only affect a small minority. I believe MS should put them right on their estimations of how many people could suffer ill health. Sweden's whole population is roughly comparable to the population of London, and their emissions are much lower! So, 300,000 in Sweden (hardly an insignificant number) would be just a fraction of what we could expect in the UK. Add to this the number of sufferers whose eyes could be permanently damaged, plus the risk to children as stated by Stewart, and it's obvious there are some powerful arguments that the Government should be asked to act on. Of course it's important to include all the other research on links to cancer etc. but these latest 'proofs' on EMS and eyesight are very significant because unlike the others there are no 'get out' clauses or ambiguities that the Operators can twist to their advantage.

Jenny.

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From Karen Barratt (see below just received at Mast Sanity Press Office)

Sounds as though we can expect more fence-sitting.

----- Original Message ----- From: Press Office To: Press Office Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:24 PM Subject: HPA Press Statement on the HPA Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity

Dear all, Advance media coverage of the forthcoming HPA RPD Report on electrosensitivity in various newspapers over the weekend and today has lead to considerable follow-on media interest. As such, we felt it beneficial to issue a holding press statement. This will appear on the HPA website shortly ( http://www.hpa.org.uk ). The RPD Report is scheduled for publication at the beginning of October.

Press Office Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards Health Protection Agency Chilton, Didcot Oxfordshire, OX11 0RQ Tel: (01235) 822744/5 Fax: (01235) 822746 Email: pressoffice@hpa-rp.org.uk Website: http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation


HPA PRESS STATEMENT ( 12 September 2005 )

Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/articles/press_releases/2005/050912_electrosensitivity.htm

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Though much as I expected. Remember Rubin & Wessley for the MTHR published a paper a few months ago saying that EHS had nothing to do with EMFs according to all the "best" conducted research ever.

That sort of stance is so at odds with the much lesser power of masts as a cause of problems, that it would be very difficult for them to say "masts cause EHS" !

This is where we need to jump up and down on the DoH, to make a medical statement and take the argument on.

Andy

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With regard to the below, according to the Israeli news they will write a full list of symptoms in the report, and the medical community will have to study this more in order to find drugs. Just today I read that 40 companies are trying to find the magic bullets for memmory loss. They want to create "a better brain", they don't care that cell phones can create "a worse brain". It's in the new issue of "popular science" Sep. 2005, there are pills for concentration, sleep, cognitive performance etc.

Iris Atzmon

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,374119,00.html

(SPON) Ein neuer Plan des Pentagon sieht vor, den Umgang mit Atomwaffen zur regulären Option eines Krieges zu machen, Truppen und Kommandeure für den Einsatz zu schulen und auch den nuklearen Ersteinsatz zu ermöglichen.

http://rs.net-hh.de/links.php?lid=22651

by Jason Leopold
www.dissidentvoice.org
September 10, 2005


Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports. "Some Homeland Security sources said FEMA's efforts to distribute funds quickly after Frances and three other hurricanes that hit the key political battleground state of Florida in a six-week period last fall were undertaken with a keen awareness of the looming presidential elections," according to a May 19 Washington Post story. Homeland Security sources told the Post that after the hurricanes, Brown "and his allies [recommended] him to succeed Tom Ridge as Homeland Security Secretary because of their claim that he helped deliver Florida to President Bush by efficiently responding to the Florida hurricanes." The South Florida Sun-Sentinel uncovered e-mails from Florida Governor Jeb Bush that confirmed those allegations and directly implicated Brown as playing politics at the expense of hurricane victims....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Leopold0910.htm

Die Streichliste des Ministeriums sieht unter anderem eine Absenkung der Leistungssätze beim Arbeitslosengeld II vor; in diesem Zusammenhang ist auch an eine Senkung von Vermögensfreibeträgen und eine Neudefinition von Bedarfsgemeinschaften gedacht. Senkung von Vermögensfreibeträgen und eine Neudefinition von Bedarfsgemeinschaften

Die Arbeitsmarktförderung soll pauschal gekürzt werden. Kultureinrichtungen sollen mit wesentlich weniger Geld auskommen, ebenso der Denkmalschutz, Orchester und Stiftungen.

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub192E771724394C43A3088F746A7E2CD0/Doc~EEA4A915E0D53406CB3AACD41F3023053~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

SPD = Rot mit Geld - äh Gelb gemischt = ???


Nachricht von wikipedia user

September 10th 2005

EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER

Now Up To Six X-Class Flares and Counting

by Mitch Battros – ECTV

Due to so many ‘large’ solar flares, this may be the last newsletter related to solar storms. So instead, simply go to the ECTV website for the latest posting and updates.

Within the last two hours a new X-Class flare has fired away. But there is one very important difference; now sunspot region 808 has rotated into position to cause “Earth Directed” flares and CME’s (coronal mass ejections). From this point on, and for the next 23 days, each and every flare has the potential for a glancing or direct hit to Earth.

When the charged particles hit our protective magnetic field, the magnetic field shifts as if cranking tightly on a jar top. When this occurs, it in turn, causes a shift in the jet stream, often causing it to drop down low enough to disturb weather patterns. And when this occurs, it causes ocean currents to shift.

Sun-Earth Diagram: http://www.earthchangestv.net/images/sunearth_01G.gif

Today’s X-Class Flare: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5mBL.html

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

This is the sequence which is easily followed in my “Equation” first published back in 1997. You can read about this in Chapter 7 of ‘Solar Rain’ titled “Solar Flares, CME’s, and the Equation”. Table of Contents: http://www.earthchangestv.net/Table_of_Contents.htm

Equation:

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001053_pf.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Das US-Umweltinstitut Worldwatch in Washington hat nach der Hurrikan-Katastrophe ein Umdenken in der internationalen Umweltpolitik verlangt. "Die Katastrophe, die sich an der Golfküste abspielt, ist ein Weckruf für Entscheidungsträger in aller Welt", sagte Direktor Christopher Flavin in Washington.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6855.php

Der Direktor des UN-Umweltprogramms, Klaus Töpfer fordert nach der US-Flutkatastrophe eine Wende in der globalen Energiepolitik hin zum Klimaschutz. "Der Klimawandel ist keine Vision, er findet jetzt schon statt", sagte er in Berlin vor dem Nachhaltigkeitsrat der Bundesregierung. Bei der Energieversorgung solle so wenig Kohlenstoff verbraucht werden wie möglich.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6852.php

Wie man als Autofahrer dem Benzinpreis ein Schnippchen schlagen kann, zeigte der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete und Parlamentarische Staatssekretär Ulrich Kasparick in Kroppenstedt. In der örtlichen Ölmühle stellte er seinen umgerüsteten Pkw vor, der von nun an mit Pflanzenöl fährt.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Umweltpolitik/6858.php

Die EU hat nicht nur die Speicherung aller Daten von Telekommunikationsverbindungen im Visier.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20901/1.html

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3567


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

DIHT fordert Rückschritte in der Umweltpolitik bei Regierungswechsel
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/961200/

Irak-Krieg: Deutschlands Kriegsunterstützung ist laut Gericht völkerrechtswidrig
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963868/

Kandidatenbefragung entlarvt Atom- und Gentechnikpläne von FDP und CDU
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963872/

Die deregulierte Katastrophe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/952738/

Katrina und der Klimawandel - wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/952752/

Der Klimawandel wird stürmisch
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948944/

Über Wetterextreme und extremes Politikversagen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948945/

Klimawandel oder Zufall?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948949/

Hurrikan "Katrina" - Umdenken in der Energie- und Klimapolitik
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948947/

Protest beim CDU-Parteitag: Wer Atomkraftwerke länger laufen lässt, erhöht die Risiken
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948948/

Kritik an Fixierung auf Wirtschaftswachstum bei allen Parteien
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/946856/

Ist die Katastrophe in New Orleans eine Naturkatastrophe oder eine politische?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/947113/

Klimawandel: Wir sind mitten drin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/931361/

Neue Seen statt altes Eis
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/931364/

Heiße Ware Tropenholz: Deutschlands stiller Pakt mit der Holzmafia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/931366/

Menschenrechtler fürchten um Pressefreiheit in den USA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/927460/

Demokratie in Gefahr: Staatsrechtler kritisiert faktisches Selbstauflösungsrecht des Parlaments
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/929832/

Der "Cindy"-Faktor
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/924667/

Ist Iran der nächste Kandidat für Bush?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/914937/

Das Lagersystem für Flüchtlinge
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/916215/

"Stiller Pakt mit der Holzmafia": Umweltschützer beklagen illegale Tropenholz-Importe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/910330/

Bezaubernder Cheney: Kriegsszenarios in Iran und den USA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/905845/

Sind wir noch zu retten?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/899630/

Noch nie war die Welt so gefährdet wie heute
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/899639/

Vorsicht bei Zwischenlandung in den USA
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/897113/

Größte fiktive Ölpalmen-Plantage der Welt soll Regenwald gefährden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/897180/

Kosten des Klimawandels und der Klimapolitik
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/892096/

Deutsche haben scheinbar kaum noch Vertrauen in Politiker
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/892082/

Dramatische Folgen von Öl- und Gasausbeutung in Russland für die Bewohner
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/888504/

Mini-Elefanten: Elefantenart laut WWF wegen Plantagen kurz vor dem Aussterben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/888509/

Harte Diskussionen über vorbeugende Sicherungshaft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/888481/

Zerstörungswut der Stürme steigt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/883611/

Mehrheit der Deutschen gegen Atomkraft
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/883622/

WASSER: Das Blut der Erde
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/883824/

Terrorismusbekämpfung und Grundrechte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/878303/

Radioaktive Verseuchung um Tschernobyl ist heute gefährlicher als 1986
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/879220/

Immer heftigere Wirbelstürme türmen Riesenwellen auf
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/881383/

Umweltschützer kämpfen um Urwaldschutz in Indonesien
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/876971/

Roundup und das globale Amphibiensterben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/879219/

Die Wiederentdeckung des Imperiums
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/876935/

Geheime Haftzentren weltweit: Guantánamo laut amnesty international "nur die Spitze eines Eisbergs"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/876965/

Nach Hiroshima blieb ein Lernprozess der Zivilisation aus
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/871757/

Grönland Eis schmilzt schneller als erwartet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/869813/

Dramatischer Rückgang der Artenvielfalt in den Meeren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/869514/

Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist keine Lösung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/869997/

LUXEMBOURG -(Dow Jones)- The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that most taxes imposed on mobile phone masts are legal.

The case involves the Belgian communes of Fleron and Schaerbeek, who imposed taxes on masts to the dismay of Belgian mobile phone companies Belgacom SA (BELG.BT) and Mobistar SA (MOBB.BT).

The court ruled the taxes follow a 1997 telecommunications directive - provided they do not privilege one operator above another. The Belgian court still must determine whether the taxes do not discriminate.

Wireless operators such as Telekom Austria AG (TKA) and Deutsche Telekom AG's (DT) Austrian unit are closely following the case. The province of Lower Austria is set to tax mobile phone masts from Jan. 1, 2006. A group called the Citizen's Initiative of Mobile Phone Customers, through its Web site www.mobilfunkkunden.at, have protested the tax.

Both E.U. Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding and Austrian Deputy Chancellor and Infrastructure Minister Hubert Gorbach have come out against the proposed tax in recent weeks.

And yet, the two Belgian communes imposed a tax of about EUR3,000 per mast. Mobile phone companies argued that the tax contradicts an E.U. law deregulating telecommunications infrastructure. The communes argued that the deregulation did not refer to financial measures, only to governments imposing technical restrictions.

-By Meghan Sapp, Dow Jones Newswires; 32-2-741 1480; meghan.sapp@dowjones.com

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Hello,

I read the article -EU Court Rules Most Mobile Phone "Mast Taxes" Are Legal.

Do you maybe know the number of the file (in court)- this is very impotrant decision to use in my country as well.


Thanks

Iris.

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Dear Iris,

Thank you for your message though I’m sorry for the delay in writing. I have been out of the office. The case number is C-544/03 and can be found on the http://www.curia.eu.int website.


Best,

Meghan Sapp


Informant: Iris Atzmon

http://tinyurl.com/cx3j4

L'affaire ASL / Orange France SA est sur de nombreux forums, pour en savoir plus.

08.09.2005

Die WHO hat am Montag ihren Abschlussbericht über die Folgen der AKW-Katastrophe von Tschernobyl vorgelegt. Dieser stellt eine unglaubliche Verharmlosung der Auswirkungen des GAU von 1986 dar. Laut Bericht sind die Opferzahlen der Katastrophe sehr viel geringer als angenommen, sie lägen bei bisher 50 Todesopfern, so die WHO. Die Forscher erwarten durch Langzeitfolgen insgesamt 4000 Todesopfer.

An der Studie beteiligt war unter anderem die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO), eine Organisation, die sich für die zivile Atomnutzung einsetzt. Die Ärzteorganisation IPPNW verweist darauf, dass zwischen IAEO und WHO seit 1959 ein Vertrag besteht, der der IAEO die „Kontrolle über die Forschungsprogramme, -ergebnisse und -publikationen der Ärzte der WHO über die gesundheitlichen Folgen der zivilen Nutzung der Atomenergie und deren Unfälle“ zusichert. Dies und die Tatsache, dass wichtige Daten, wie die tatsächliche Strahlendosis, der die Bevölkerung ausgesetzt war und ist, nicht ermittelt wurden, lässt die Ergebnisse der Studie zweifelhaft erscheinen.

http://www.ippnw.de/index.php?/s,1/o,article,1207/%E2%80%9C


Die Einladung diverser UN-Unterorganisationen zu einem Kongress in Wien mit dem Ziel einer „Konsenserklärung“, kann als Versuch verstanden werden, die wahren Opferzahlen und Konsequenzen des GAU für immer zu verbergen.

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/atom/info/log



Radioaktive Verseuchung um Tschernobyl ist heute gefährlicher als 1986
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/879220/

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/7561/abstract.html

Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 113, Number 9, September 2005

Research

Eva Markovà,1,2 Lena Hillert,3,4 Lars Malmgren,5 Bertil R. R. Persson,6 and Igor Y. Belyaev1,7

1Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 3Occupational and Environmental Health, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden; 4Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Occupational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5MAX-lab, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; 6Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 7Laboratory of Radiobiology, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

Abstract
The data on biologic effects of nonthermal microwaves (MWs) from mobile telephones are diverse, and these effects are presently ignored by safety standards of the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In the present study, we investigated effects of MWs of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) at different carrier frequencies on human lymphocytes from healthy persons and from persons reporting hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). We measured the changes in chromatin conformation, which are indicative of stress response and genotoxic effects, by the method of anomalous viscosity time dependence, and we analyzed tumor suppressor p53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) and phosphorylated histone H2AX (-H2AX), which have been shown to colocalize in distinct foci with DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), using immunofluorescence confocal laser microscopy. We found that MWs from GSM mobile telephones affect chromatin conformation and 53BP1/-H2AX foci similar to heat shock. For the first time, we report here that effects of MWs from mobile telephones on human lymphocytes are dependent on carrier frequency. On average, the same response was observed in lymphocytes from hypersensitive and healthy subjects. Key words: 53BP1 and -H2AX foci, chromatin, DNA double-strand breaks, hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields, stress response. Environ Health Perspect 113:1172-1177 (2005). doi:10.1289/ehp.7561 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 28 April 2005]

Address correspondence to I.Y. Belyaev, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Telephone: 46-8-16-41-08. Fax: 46-8-16-43-15. E-mail: Igor.Belyaev@gmt.su.se

We thank S.D. Smith and M. Harms-Ringdahl for critical reading of the manuscript, T. Halazonetis for donation of 53BP1 antibodies, L.-E. Paulsson and G. Anger for verification of the experimental unit for exposure to microwaves, R. Sarimov for help with statistical analysis, and E. Thunberg for obtaining and coding of blood samples.

The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority supported these studies.

The authors declare they have no competing financial interests.

Received 9 September 2004; accepted 28 April 2005.

The full version of this article is available for free in HTML or PDF formats.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7561/7561.html
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7561/7561.pdf


From FGF-Infoline 08.09.2005

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Dr Igor Y. Belyaev who is one of the researchers of this study below, also participates in the WHO EMF project, but he clearly states that there are non- thermal effects, in contrast to the manager of the WHO project, and in this study one can read the criticism of the researchers on the ICNIRP standards that ignore effects below the standard.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7561/7561.pdf

Hopefully they will publish soon their study on 3G genetic effects that was presented in two conferences (in Prague and Russia).

Iris Atzmon.

http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/sow/2005/

State of the World 2005

Foreword Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Chairman, Green Cross

International Five years ago, all 191 United Nations member states pledged to meet eight Millennium Development Goals by
2015, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability. These critical challenges were reaffirmed by health officials from across the globe in October 2004 at the tenth anniversary of the landmark International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo.

The overarching conclusion from this 2004 meeting was that while considerable, albeit erratic, progress was indeed being made in many areas, any optimism must be tempered with the realization that gains in overall global socioeconomic development, security, and sustainability do not reflect the reality on the ground in many parts of the world. Poverty continues to undermine progress in many areas. Diseases such as HIV/AIDS are on the rise, creating public health time bombs in numerous countries. In the last five years, some 20 million children have died of preventable waterborne diseases, and hundreds of millions of people continue to live with the daily misery and squalor associated with the lack of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation.

We must recognize these shameful global disparities and begin to address them seriously. I am delighted that the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Wangari Maathai, a woman whose personal efforts, leadership, and practical community work in Kenya and Africa inspire us all by demonstrating the real progress that can be made in addressing environmental security and sustainable development challenges where people have the courage to make a difference.

Humankind has a unique opportunity to make the twenty-first century one of peace and security. Yet the many possibilities opened up to us by the end of the cold war appear to have been partially squandered already. Where has the "peace dividend" gone that we worked so hard for? Why have regional conflict and terrorism become so dominant in today's world? And why have we not made more progress on the Millennium Development Goals?

The terrible tragedies of September 11, 2001, the 2004 terrorist attacks in Beslan in Russia, and the many other terrorist incidents over the past decade in Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere have all driven home the fact that we are not adequately prepared to deal with new threats. But better preparation means thinking more holistically, not just in traditional cold war terms.

I believe that today the world faces three interrelated challenges: the challenge of security, including the risks associated with weapons of mass destruction and terrorism; the challenge of poverty and underdevelopment; and the challenge of environmental sustainability.

The challenge of security must be addressed by first securing and destroying the world's arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Both Russia and the United States have taken numerous positive steps in this direction. But we must accelerate these nonproliferation and demilitarization efforts and establish threat-reduction programs around the world if we are to be truly successful.

The world's industrial nations must also commit greater resources to the poorest countries and regions of the globe. Official development assistance from the top industrial countries still represents but a tiny percentage of their gross national products and does not come close to the pledges made over a decade ago at the Rio Earth Summit. The growing disparity between the rich and the poor on our planet and the gross misallocation of limited resources to consumerism and war cannot be allowed to continue. If they do, we can expect even greater challenges and threats ahead.

Regarding the environment, we need to recognize that Earth's resources are finite. To waste our limited resources is to lose them in the foreseeable future, with potentially dire consequences for all regions and the world. Forests, for example, are increasingly being destroyed in the poorest countries. Even in Kenya, where Wangari Maathai has helped plant over 30 million trees, forested acreage has decreased. The global water crisis is also one of the single biggest threats facing humankind. Four out of 10 people in the world live in river basins shared by two or more countries, and the lack of cooperation between those sharing these precious water resources is reducing living standards, causing devastating environmental problems, and even contributing to violent conflict. Most important of all, we must wake up to the dangers of climate change and devote more resources to the crucial search for energy alternatives.

It is for reasons such as these that I founded Green Cross International 12 years ago and continue to advocate for a global value shift on how we handle Earth, a new sense of global interdependence, and a shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature. It is also for these reasons that I helped draft the Earth Charter, a code of ethical principles now endorsed by over 8,000 organizations representing more than 100 million people around the world. And it is for these reasons that Maurice Strong, Chair of the Earth Council, and I have initiated the Earth Dialogues, a series of public forums on ethics and sustainable development.

We need a Global Glasnost—openness, transparency, and public dialogue—on the part of nations, governments, and citizens today to build consensus around these challenges. And we need a policy of "preventive engagement": international and individual solidarity and action to meet the challenges of poverty, disease, environmental degradation, and conflict in a sustainable and nonviolent way.

We are the guests, not the masters, of nature and must develop a new paradigm for development and conflict resolution, based on the costs and benefits to all peoples and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than by the limits of technology and consumerism. I am delighted that the Worldwatch Institute continues to address these important challenges and goals in its annual State of the World report. I urge all readers to seriously consider their personal commitments to action after finishing this volume. Only with the active and dedicated participation of civil society will we be successful in building a sustainable, just, and peaceful world for the twenty-first century and beyond.

Next-up News:
http://www.next-up.org/hnm/hnm.php

Too Many People in Nature's Way
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951168/

KATRINA FUELS GLOBAL WARMING STORM
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964502/

Saskatchewan's certified organic farmers are taking Monsanto and Bayer Crop Science to court
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948936/

GM Soya Disaster in Latin America
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/954660/

New wheat pathogen threatens world food security
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964590/

Online hunting is nothing more than animal cruelty
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/950079/

STOP THE EXTERMINATION OF THE WOLF IN NORWAY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951339/

WHERE TO BUY YOUR GAS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951565/

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963894/

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 10. September 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964869/

2.45GHz radiofrequency fields alter gene expression in cultured human cells
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948365/

Electromagnetic fields affect transcript levels of apoptosis-related genes in embryonic stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948354/

Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk (Update)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/940552/

Is there any effect of mobile telephone base station?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/958423/

The real reason for ICNIRP hegemony
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951126/

WHO: a lot of people report symptoms of electromagnetic radiation sickness
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/958459/

Hypothesis on TETRA and esophagus cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/959557/

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FRANCE: PROPOSED LAW mobile phone installations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/961182/

John Ryans Mast Misery
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951110/

Death of 43 people from electromagnetic radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964023/

MP launches attack over Aldersbrook mast plans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/949823/

Residents fight plan for 8 metre tall mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/949830/

Mast plan is toppled
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/949837/

Oxford takes part in Vodaphone monitoring project
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/949859/

The municipality of Jacobswoude proposes to break the 'antenna convenant' and to make a license compulsory for every antenna
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/950258/

They are painted into a corner
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/951189/

New mast battle for residents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/952278/

PROTESTERS FIGHT PHONE MAST PLANS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/952290/

Anti-mast residents win battle with mobile giant
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/952296/

Councillors agree: The mast must move
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/954488/

Battle to stop phone mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/954508/

We are unlikely to overcome it in time to save ourselves and our children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/954909/

MAST SCHEME TO GO BEFORE INSPECTOR
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/956136/

Extra bill for taxpayers?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/959344/

Victory rings out for people power
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/959577/

Ministers to decide on mast plan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963136/

Joy as phone mast plan withdrawn
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963139/

Fury as mast work starts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963143/

Parents protest against phone mast ‘disgrace’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963149/

Phone mast nightmare
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963159/

Objections halt phone firm's mast
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963169/

Councillor on hand to stop phone mast work
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963266/

Fight over phone mast is back on
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963285/

CONCERN AT BID FOR MAST IN WILNECOTE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/963310/

COUNCILLORS VOW TO HALT MAST PLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964495/

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

Omega-News Collection 10. September 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/964874/

Thom Hartmann explains that our nation failed in its response, because for most of the past 25 years conservatives who don't believe in governance have run our government. Reagan, like George W. Bush after him, failed to understand that when people come together into community, and then into nationhood, that they organize themselves to protect themselves from predators, both human and corporate, both domestic and foreign. This form of organization is called government, something these ideologues don't believe in.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905Q.shtml

It was inevitable that the ravages provoked by Katrina on New Orleans should evoke the horrors Bin Laden inflicted on New York. American vulnerability in the face of natural forces has been compared to its vulnerability to the terrorists.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905H.shtml

By the time the revised constitution was served on the table on August 28, the final draft of the Iraqi constitution must have tasted very different from previous servings. Not only were some of the key ingredients of the previous drafts removed outright, new ingredients with distinctly neo-liberal flavors were added. As direct occupiers, the US enacted laws that give foreign investors equal rights with Iraqis in the domestic market; permit the full repatriation of profits; institute the flat tax system; abolish tariffs; just to name a few.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905G.shtml

Two Navy helicopter pilots were reminded of the importance of supply missions after delivering their cargo and then rescuing 110 hurricane victims in New Orleans instead of immediately returning to base, the military said Wednesday. "They were not reprimanded," Nichols, a civilian public affairs officer, said. "They were counseled."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905E.shtml

Joe W. Pitts III: Although some top administration officials had flirted with the new moniker "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism," the President's reversion to the tried-and-true "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) handle seems to be sticking. Without such forceful, distracting language, the administration would have to do the hard work of actually tracking down bin Laden, admit that it can only manage and not eliminate terrorist risks, and pay new attention to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Making a change now smacks of "nuance" and would be like admitting a - gasp - "mistake."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905C.shtml

Charles Clarke has warned that European citizens will have to accept that civil liberties may have to be bartered away in exchange for protection from terrorists and organised criminals.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/07/lib_security_trade/print.html


From Information Clearing House

http://snipurl.com/hkbg


From Information Clearing House

It’s not just the American worker, but the American citizen, who is being brought down to the same level as a citizen of the Third World. Apparently, human rights are only for those with the money to buy them -- and the price is going up, up, up, right along with oil.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10205.htm

In the new New Orleans, there are no constitutional rights. Not only are soldiers allowed to break down doors (as they do in Iraq) in violation of the Fourth Amendment and even “shoot to kill” if they believe they are threatened (as soldiers in Iraq “shoot to kill” grandmothers and kids at checkpoints), now the Second Amendment no longer exists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10215.htm

The mighty colossus that aspired to stand astride the world has been unmasked as a feeble old man unable to take care of his own people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10199.htm

We were repeatedly told that a threat to our security loomed on the horizon, a threat so grave we as a people needed to cede our liberties to a benevolent federal authority that guaranteed the security of a nation we now called our “homeland.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10211.htm

http://homepage.mac.com/jlramer/Audio/iMovieTheater19.html


From Information Clearing House

Is the Government Trying to Stem the Tide of Images From New Orleans by Threatening Journalists?:

Journalists covering New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina report that militarization in and around the city has hindered their work and threatened their physical safety. We hear from two journalists who were reporting in New Orleans recently. Video and transcript.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10204.htm

What kind of country leaves the bodies of its citizens to rot in the streets?

-WARNING - Graphic Images
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10198.htm

There are deeper explanations for the New Orleans catastrophe than anyone has dared suggest. The roots lie in America's deluded self-image

By Andrew Stephen

While Vice-President Cheney was fly-fishing in Wyoming. Condoleezza Rice, next in charge, was shopping for shoes at Ferragamo's and watching Spamalot on Broadway and catching the US Open in New York; while Andy Card, the White House chief of staff, who is supposed to keep it all together, was taking in the sea breeze with much of the rest of the Bush crowd in Maine.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10214.htm

Hurricane Victims Get a Taste of Life in Occupied Iraq

By Ted Rall

Taps run dry. Food rots when the power goes out. Toilets overflow with waste. Looters strip homes, businesses and public buildings. Armed bandits run wild in the streets. Fires rage out of control. Terrified policemen abandon their posts. Flies buzz over bloated corpses. People wave signs at passing helicopters. "Please help us," they read.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10197.htm

http://www.halturnershow.com/DiversFindExplosiveResidueOnRupturedLevy.html


From ECOTERRA Intl.

As we focus on our sisters facing tragedy and despair in the hurricane-torn South, we need to remember that another struggle is going on, one that will profoundly influence our ability to eliminate the kind of racial disparities that continue to plague our nation. We are talking about the two vacancies on the Supreme Court.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905WB.shtml

An estimated 10,000 workers who lost their jobs because of Hurricane Katrina filed for unemployment benefits last week, the first wave of what is expected to be hundreds of thousands of displaced workers seeking benefits.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905LB.shtml

President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage. "The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities," said Representative George Miller.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905LA.shtml

In Katrina's aftermath, oil spills dominate the landscape, some miles long and up to 200 yards wide. Refineries and industrial plants are leaking a stew of chemicals, creating one giant superfund site.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905HA.shtml

Barely a month after President Bush signed a $14.5 billion energy bill into law, Hurricane Katrina's destructive dance through the US oilpatch is being seized on by Republicans as a reason to open more federal offshore waters to drilling.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905EB.shtml

The New York Times: The Bush administration has largely succeeded in its systematic effort to roll back environmental protections for America's national forests ... Now, however, a rebellion is brewing where the White House least expected it. Western governors are challenging the most controversial rollback of all...

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090905EA.shtml

Senator Russ Feingold has called on the President to issue a flexible timeframe for the completion of the military mission in Iraq and has suggested December 31, 2006 as a target date for returning American troops home from Iraq. In discussing his proposal, he has been debunking several myths about US policy in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090905T.shtml

http://www.physorg.com/news6318.html

A new rapidly-evolving pathogen spreading in east Africa could annihilate wheat plantations worldwide, posing a "catastrophic" threat to crops unless steps are taken quickly.

The genetically-variable stem rust strain, dubbed Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in 1999, has moved into neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where it has nearly affected all plantations and could spread further, scientists warned Thursday.

"The risk and losses will be tremendous if this gets on the loose," said US botanist and 1970 Nobel peace laureate Norman Borlaug.

Borlaug, now 91, who helped develop resistant wheat varieties 50 years ago, urged a restoration of the cooperation that helped suppress a stem rust outbreak in North America that destroyed nearly 70 percent of wheat plantations in 1950.

"The stem rust strains are changing through mutation ... coming up with new types," he told a news conference in Nairobi to release a report on the problem compiled by experts organized by the International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT).

"Maybe we got too complacent," he said. "We have to restore the cooperation (as the current threat) is potentially more serious than it was 40 to 50 years ago."

The report warns that wheat production could decline by nearly 60 million tonnes -- a tenth of world's supply -- if Ug99's miniature fungal spores are spread to Asia and the western hemisphere.

"It is only a matter of time until Ug99 -- which also affects barley -- reaches across the Saudi Arabian peninsula and into the Middle East, South Asia and eventually the Americas," said Ronnie Coffman, a plant geneticist at Cornell University in New York.

Should the Ug99 spores spread to Asia, they could have serious consequences for countries like Pakistan, where wheat accounts for 60 percent of calories and more than 40 percent of proteins in an average diet in a day, the report said.

"This could be catastrophic," said CIMMYT director Masa Iwanaga, adding that researchers were working to develop a Ug99 resistant wheat variety. "It could affect food security worldwide."

"The current crisis is a wake-up call about the continuing and potentially devastating impact the rust pathogens can have on susceptible cereals, and especially a staple food like wheat," Borlaug wrote in a forward to the report.

© 2005 AFP


Peace - Anna


"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen." -- Henry David Thoreau

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5281492-103390,00.html


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

http://tinyurl.com/cko4a


Informant: NHNE

Grimsby Telegraph

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MARK NAYLOR AND KATIE NORMAN
MARK.NAYLOR@GRIMSBYTELELGRAPH.CO.UK

12:30 - 09 September 2005

Controversial plans for a mobile phone mast in Humberston will be fought "to the bitter end", councillors vowed today.

It's the first time in the history of North East Lincolnshire Council that anyone has tried to get a revocation order. The pledge came from planning committee members Coun John Colebrook and Coun Chris Shaw, who are demanding the council overturns permission for the mast, to be sited at the junction of North Sea Lane and Carrington Drive.

But Coun Colebrook is angry about Coun Shaw's claims that he was not shown a 505-name petition from protesters before a North East Lincolnshire Council planning committee meeting on August 26.

As reported in the Grimsby Telegraph, approval for the Vodafone 3G mast scraped through by six votes to five.

Coun Colebrook (Con, Humberston and New Waltham) has written to the council's chief executive, George Krawiec, calling for the council to make a revocation order, which would reverse the approval of the planning application. Coun Shaw plans to do the same.

But the order would almost certainly mean the council having to pay "a lot of money" in compensation costs to Vodafone, leaving Coun Colebrook with doubts his plea will succeed.

"But I have got to do it on behalf of those I represent," he said.

"It is the last option open to them. It's a very emotional issue.

"It's the first time in the history of North East Lincolnshire Council that anyone has tried to get a revocation order."

He hopes the matter will be discussed at the full council meeting on September 29.

Opponents of the scheme are expected to spell out their opposition during public question time before the meeting.

Coun Colebrook rebuked Coun Shaw (Lab, Sidney Sussex) for claiming he was not shown the protesters' views before the vote.

He says photocopies of the petition were clearly printed on page after page of the planning committee's agenda.

"He hasn't read his papers," said Coun Colebrook.

"He would have had it seven days before the meeting."

But Coun Shaw said he would not have supported the application for the mast if he had been able to read all the objections, which he maintains were not in the agenda.

He said: "To say I have not read the paperwork is an insult, I read what was there.

"What I am saying is that all the objections were not there and I am concerned I have made the wrong decision."

Up to 100 people attended a meeting in the Countryman public house, Humberston, on Wednesday, when those present discussed options available to stop the mast being put up.

http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2005-09-09&section=2&id=3


Informant: Lew Rockwell

BULLETIN ITEM: Solar Weather Alert: Very Bad News: Solar Activity Intense Explosive Chaos, Hurricanes A Possible Threat

[ECB, Black Canyon City Arizona, September 10, 2005, 06:35:00 UTC] Sunspots increased by approximately 65%, from 36 on September 8 to 59 as of September 9 (PST) amidst several major explosions and flares which are at near record-levels in energy.

DATE Flux Sunspots Area
2005 09 07 100 11 10
2005 09 08 94 36 550
2005 09 09 99 59 1450

The sudden increase in the number of Sunspots resulted from rotation of a huge active site (798) of numerous sunspots to a position which could be observed from the Earth.

At the moment, conditions on the Sun (Earthside) have become intensely stormy, chaotic and unpredictable. NASA reports that" Earth-orbiting satelites have detected five http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html X-class solar flares since Sept. 7th, including one X17-class monster flare." NASA also reports that as of this hour "an
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/#SolarRadiationStorms>S2-class
radiation storm is underway. Solar protons are streaming past Earth at nearly light speed. These particles were accelerated toward us by the recent explosions at sunspot 798." The Fluxgate Monitor in Alaska confirms this storm. It shows major disturbances in the solar wind and magnetosphere of the Earth, including a major storm as of this hour.

NASA predicts that "Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hurled into space by the solar explosions of Sept. 7th-9th could strike glancing blows to Earth's magnetic field this weekend." This will likely cause intense auroras this weekend. NASA also predicts "a 75% chance of more X-flares during the next 24 hours, possibly causing radio blackouts and radiation storms," and "up to an 80% probability of M-Class Flares during the next 48% hours."

Solar conditions are now VERY FAVORABLE once again for the strengthening of hurricanes and cyclones.

On a world basis, existing storm systems and fronts ARE now likely to strengthen even more during the next 24 hours with considerable expansion in size, acceleration of movement on track, and intensity of wind. More probable than not, Hurricane Ophelia strengthened to a Category One status as a direct result of energization of the Earth's upper atmosphere from today's increase in Sunspot activity.

This is probably true for the next 48-96 hours, but conditions could change in as little as 24 hours.

In the West Pacific, Typhoon Khanun in the Philippine Sea may increase from Category One to Category Two and will likely slam Taiwan and Eastern China with much greater force and rain than is now expected. Severe flooding is possible in a wide spread area.

In the Atlantic, Ophelia, directly as a result of yesterday and today's major increase in the Sunspot Count, is now moving much more rapidly to the North and is now expected by the National Hurricane Service to slam into Georgia and the Carolina Coasts early next week. OPHELIA SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE UNPREDICTABLE AS OF THIS HOUR AND HIGHLY LIKELY TO GAIN STRENGTH, PERHAPS DEVELOPING QUICKLY INTO HURRICANE TWO OR EVEN GREATER STATUS.

If the Sunspot Count continues to rise tomorrow (September 10 PST), Ophelia could begin to move more rapidly with an increase in its windspeed and slam into the Southeastern Seaboard earlier than now expected. For the next 24 hours at least, Ophelia should be considered a HIGH THREAT POTENTIAL for doing a "Katrina", though probably in a smaller area.

Another surge in Solar Activity can be expected approximately September 15 - September 27 and this surge may produce conditions which can reproduce storms like Katrina.

Forecast For The Next 90 Days

MOST DANGEROUS WINDOWS:

September 17-27: COULD BE AS DANGEROUS AS KATRINA

October 15 - November 4: STRONGER POSSIBILITY FOR MULTIPLE OCCURRENCE OF STORMS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN KATRINA.

These predictions are based on predictable surges in solar activity combined with the Global Warming Trend. Danger "Windows" are defined from generalizations made with three years of observation.

Michael Mandeville