Katrina Redux? Beaumont Paper Finds Federal Storm Failure in Texas

The Beaumont (Tex.) Enterprise reported tonight that disaster response coordinators in the area hard hit by Rita say they are seeing the same foot-dragging federal response this weekend witnessed two weeks ago in New Orleans and Mississippi.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605K.shtml



Stranded in Port Arthur

OK, it's not Katrina, but at one of the spots widely expected to be shattered by Rita, FEMA and other agencies didn't seem ready for this hurricane, either.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605M.shtml

Sen. John McCain, decrying new allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq by US soldiers, on Sunday backed an amendment to force the American military to live up to its international obligations under the Geneva Convention and "not engage in torture" of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605I.shtml

26.09.05

Der Politologe und Historiker Arnulf Baring übt scharfe Kritik an den deutschen Verfassungsorganen. Sowohl Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder als auch Bundespräsident Horst Köhler und die Bundesverfassungsrichter hätten im Verfahren vor der vorgezogenen Neuwahl Fehler gemacht, sagte Baring den "Stuttgarter Nachrichten". So habe der einsame und schlecht begründete Entschluss Schröders zu Neuwahlen die ganze Republik mitgerissen. Bundespräsident Köhler wiederum hätte besser daran getan, den Bundestag nicht aufzulösen, sagte Baring weiter. Die rot-grüne Koalition habe bis zum Schluss gut funktioniert. Die Bundesverfassungsrichter schließlich hätten Schröders Pläne aufhalten müssen. "Hier wurde ein politisches Verfahren aus Erwägungen durchgewinkt, die ich für verfassungsfremd halte", kritisierte er. Der Verfassungspatriotismus habe sich als Phrase erwiesen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11931

Iraq war protester Sheehan arrested
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9493139/



Cindy Sheehan Arrested During Antiwar Protest
by Ryan G. Murphy and Emma Vaughn
LA Times Staff Writers

11:24 AM PDT, September 26, 2005

WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan, whose protest camp outside President Bush's vacation home in Texas became a focal point of the antiwar movement this summer, was arrested today outside the White House at the head of a civil disobedience campaign intended to dramatize the opposition to the war in Iraq.

On the third day of demonstrations that brought tens of thousands of opponents to the war to Washington on Saturday, a much smaller group sat down in front of the executive mansion, after being refused an opportunity to meet with a White House staff member.

Before Sheehan, 48, was arrested, she took a picture of her son, Casey, who was killed in an ambush last year in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, from around her neck and tied it with a pink ribbon to the tall, wrought iron fence that surrounds the White House.

As police moved in on the protesters, the demonstrators sang Amazing Grace, This Little Light of Mine, and other songs.

U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. Scott R. Fear said, "it's a peaceful demonstration. We are going to take our time arresting them." The demonstrators were given three warnings, after which they were arrested for demonstrating without a permit.

On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, other opponents of the war sought to lobby members of Congress to withhold funding for the military operations.

Mimi Kennedy, an actress who is chairing Progressive Democrats of America, and several others under the banner of Code Pink and United for Peace and Justice, spent the day seeking to argue their case before Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and other Democrats.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092605antiwar_lat,0,1300769.story?coll=la-home-headlines



Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House
By TO Staff
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 26 September 2005

Cindy Sheehan, along with several well-known figures, has been arrested at the front gates of the White House in Washington DC. Sheehan had attempted once again to gain an audience with George W. Bush; again she was refused. Sheehan and her supporters then proceeded to sit down and pray at a restricted point in front of the White House. She and many others have been arrested.

Those who have been arrested with her include Cindy's sister Dee Dee, former state department official Ann Wright, Michael Berg, the father of slain US contractor Nick Berg, Media Benjamin of Code Pink and many veterans and their family members.

http://truthout.org
http://www.truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml


Informant: John Calvert



Video Special | Footage of the September 24th March Against the War http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

TO has a launched a special page, Camp Casey Goes to Washington, to cover the anti-war activities in Washington, DC, over the next several days. William Rivers Pitt, Chris Hume, Scott Galindez and L. Wild Horse will be on the ground reporting from our nation's Capitol. Visit the page often for the latest news from the streets of Washington.

Camp Casey Goes to Washington http://truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml



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

www.lbs.de

26.09.2005

LBS: Eigenes Handy ist bei Kindern ‘in‘

Zahl der Mobiltelefone im Kinderzimmer wächst

Münster, 26.09.2005-14:36 - Der Trend zum Handy ist auch unter Kindern und Jugendlichen nicht mehr aufzuhalten. Besaßen vor fünf Jahren erst 16 Prozent aller Kinder im Alter zwischen neun und 14 Jahren ein eigenes Mobiltelefon, so verfügten 2004 bereits 71 Prozent darüber, so das „LBS-Kinderbarometer“. Dies ist gegenüber dem Vorjahr eine neuerliche Steigerung um fünf Prozentpunkte.

Die repräsentative Befragung von über 2.300 Schulkindern in NRW ergab, dass mit zunehmendem Alter der Handybesitz fast zur Selbstverständlichkeit wird. „Insbesondere der Wechsel auf eine weiterführende Schule steigert den Anteil der Besitzer eines Mobiltelefons deutlich“, so Brigitte Niemer von der LBS-Initiative Junge Familie, die die Studie in Auftrag gegeben hat. „Es scheint zunehmend so, dass das Handy als eine Notwendigkeit und nicht mehr als reiner Luxus angesehen wird.“ Unter den älteren Jahrgängen ist es außerdem üblich, dass die Jugendlichen ihr Handy selbst finanzieren. Hier sind es vor allem die Jungen mit 40 Prozent gegenüber 28 Prozent der Mädchen, die die Telefonkosten selbst bezahlen. Nach den Gründen für die Anschaffung befragt, gaben die Kinder und Jugendlichen an, dass es „in“ sei, mobil zu telefonieren und Freundinnen und Freunde ebenfalls über ein Gerät verfügten. Ein gutes Drittel (37 Prozent) schaffte ein Handy auf Wunsch der Eltern an.

http://www.portel.de/news/view_redsys_artikel.asp?id=7826

Omega siehe dazu:

Kinder und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/311977/

Mobilfunk in der Schule
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/338094/

Schule und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/403986/

Handy
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/321708/

washingtonpost.com

Dalai Lama Tells U.S. Crowd War Outdated

By ROSA CIRIANNI
The Associated Press
Monday, September 26, 2005; 11:05 AM

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The Dalai Lama told 36,000 people at Rutgers Stadium that the concept of war was outdated and young people have a responsibility to make this century one of peace.

"This whole planet is just us," the 70-year-old exiled monk said Sunday. "Therefore, destruction of another area essentially is destruction of yourself."

Tibet's spiritual leader also urged the audience to develop a wider world perspective, not just focus on "America, America, America."

"His quiet mind is the kind of serenity New Jersey, home of strip malls, could use," Arielle Gomberg said.

The speech was the largest nonathletic event in Rutgers history, topping visits by former President Clinton and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

A row of monks, wearing traditional gold and maroon, sat near the stage on blankets, pillows or mats spread across the 10- and 20-yard lines on the football field.

The Dalai Lama, who won the 1989 Nobel peace prize, accepted an honorary degree from Rutgers President Richard McCormick. He said it was an honor to receive it without having to work hard and study.

In his lecture, "Peace, War and Reconciliation," the Dalai Lama said society's dream should be a world free of nuclear and biological weapons.

He noted their danger _ and their expense, saying some African states have an abundance of weapons, but not enough food.

Also Sunday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the Dalai Lama the key to the city, calling him "a moral beacon to millions around the world, with a clear and constant voice for human rights."

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 following an aborted uprising against Chinese rule in the territory and now keeps an office in exile in the Himalayan town of Dharmsala, India.

© 2005 The Associated Press


Informant: John Calvert

Medical News Today

Publiziert bei Gigaherz am 22.9.05
http://www.gigaherz.ch/952

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/full/435737a.html
http://blog.bioethics.net/2005/06/scientists-behaving-badly.html

Abrechnung mit den Propagandalügen des Forum Mobil
http://www.gigaherz.ch/955

Prof. Dr. Jiri Silny
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281065/

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Scientists behaving badly - Wissenschafter benehmen sich schlecht

Eine Kurzfassung aus Nature 435, 737-738 (9 Juni 2005)
Ins Deutsche übersetzt von der Zeitschrift Raum und Zeit

Publiziert bei Gigaherz am 22.9.05

Viele Wissenschaftler fälschen, beschönigen und lassen unpassende Daten unter den Tisch fallen. Dies ergab eine sehr breit angelegte US-Studie von Dr. Brian Martinson von der Health Partners Research Foundation, Dr. Melissa Anderson und RaYmond DeVries von der Universität Minnesota.

Die Beteiligung war sehr hoch

3247 US-Wissenschaftler füllten einen Fragebogen aus, der die Arbeitsweise der Forscher nach ethischen Kriterien abklopfte. Die Befragten konnten dabei anonym bleiben.

Das Ergebnis spricht Bände

15,5 Prozent gaben an, unter dem Druck von Geldgebern Design, Methode oder Ergebnisse einer Studie verändert zu haben. Sechs Prozent gestanden ein, dass sie Daten, die ihren bisher gewonnenen Erkenntnissen widersprochen haben, nicht berücksichtigt haben. 0,3 Prozent bekannten, dass sie Daten gefälscht haben.

Unter dem Einfluss der Wirtschaft Martinson zufolge mache das Resultat deutlich, dass die Wissenschaft verstärkt unter den Einfluss von Wettbewerb, Geldgeber und Kommerz geraten sei. Er schlussfolgert: "Wir haben die Wissenschaft zu einem großen Geschäft gemacht, aber versäumt zu erkennen, dass einige der wissenschaftlichen Regeln sich mit diesem Modell nicht gut vertragen."

Nachdem 33 Prozent der Befragten sich zu einer oder mehreren unlauteren Verhaltensweisen der zehn Hauptfragen bekannt haben, könne "die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft ein solches Fehlverhalten nicht länger selbstgefällig hinnehmen".

Quelle: "Nature", 9.6.05
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/full/435737a.html

Kommentar von Gigaherz Aus der Zeit des Senderkrieges von Schwarzenburg (1987-1998) wissen wir mit Sicherheit, dass die Wissenschaft zu 75% von der interessierten Industrie, zu 20% vom Staat und nur gerade zu 5% aus Eigeninitiativen lebt. Wobei zu beachten ist, dass für Staatsbeiträge wiederum interessierte Wirtschaftspolitiker ein entscheidendes Wort mitzureden haben. Bei den Erhebungen von Dr. Brian Martinson von der Health Partners Research Foundation, von der Universität Minnesota kann es sich demnach nur um die berühmte Spitze des Eisberges handeln.

Ein verantwortlicher Studienleiter sagte damals (1995) in einem vertraulichen Gespräch: „Wenn ich nicht das schreibe, was meine Auftraggeber von mir erwarten, kann ich für mein Institut nach spätestens 18 Monaten den Konkurs anmelden. Auf jeden Fall müssen Sie bei jeder wissenschaftlichen Arbeit sehr gut zwischen den Zeilen zu lesen verstehen.“ Vielfach behalten sich die Auftrag- und Geldgeber sogar vor, die Zusammenfassung und das Fazit selber zu schreiben. So auch geschehen bei der besagten Gesundheitsstudie um den Kurzwellensender Schwarzenburg, wo sich die UNI Bern am Schluss weigerte den total verdrehten Kurzbericht mit zu unterzeichnen und das UNI-Signet dafür zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Wissenschafter kann also für ehrliche Leute zu einem Hungerberuf werden. Skrupellose dagegen, können sich rasch eine goldene Nase verdienen. Ein Musterbeispiel (für goldene Nasen) ist die Forschungsstiftung Mobilkommunikation (Research Foundation Mobile Communicatin) der ETH Zürich von Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger, welche zum größten Teil vom Mobilfunkbetreiber Sunrise und für den Rest von Swisscom und Orange finanziert, entsprechend gefärbte Propaganda unter das Volk bringt.

http://www.gigaherz.ch/953

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http://blog.bioethics.net/2005/06/scientists-behaving-badly.html

Kathleen Sullivan, Christopher Heredia and Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writers

Sunday, September 25, 2005

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/25/MNGD7ETMO81.DTL

It was a sunny day in the Bay Area, a picture-perfect day to cheer for the A's, enjoy a blues festival, take part in a parade celebrating electronic music, or join peace marches in San Francisco and Walnut Creek.

Patti Breitman of Fairfax chose to march in San Francisco in support of ending the war in Iraq. A sense of determination united with grief on Saturday, as she happened upon a display of 40 posters, set up on the grassy median strip on Dolores Street, showing pictures of Americans and Iraqis felled in the war.

The posters contained 2,400 images, including photographs of American soldiers, each identified by name, and drawings representing Iraqi men, women and children, also identified by name.

"I think it's the most poignant sign in the entire demonstration," said Breitman, 51.

The march began at 12:30 p.m. at Dolores Park and ended about two hours later at Jefferson Square Park.

The event drew about 20,000 people, according to police. Organizers put the figure at closer to 50,000. Either way, it was one of the region's largest anti-war demonstrations since the United States invaded Iraq more than two years ago.

Though San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens said the protest overall was peaceful, 24 arrests were made. Twenty-three of those arrested, he said, were members of the anarchist group Black Bloc and were taken into custody several blocks from the park -- near the intersection of Fulton and Hyde streets -- at 4:30 p.m., after most of the protesters had gone home.

One suspect had two daggers and faces felony concealed weapons charges, but Gittens said the 22 others were arrested for failing to obey a traffic officer. They were all pedestrians disrupting traffic, he said.

One other person not connected with that group was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer near Jefferson Park, Gittens said. No one was injured.

In Walnut Creek, 250 to 300 people marched from the city's BART station to Heather Farms Park in a protest that began at 11 a.m. and ended around 2 p.m.

Protesters on both sides of the bay called on the United States to withdraw its troops from Iraq. In San Francisco, people carried signs expressing outrage at a variety of issues, including the war in Iraq, the policies of President Bush and the treatment of Palestinians.

"Military Recruiters Lie, Our Children Die," said one sign. "Make Levees, Not War," said another, referring to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

A sixth-grader from San Jose held a handmade sign that said "No war ever more" on one side and "No war anymore" on the other.

"I am going to be a conscientious objector,'' said Dominic Dello Buono, 11, who was there with his father and younger sister. "I vote for peace not war."

Maryjane Jota, a 20-year-old student from Laney College in Oakland, prepared to help carry a procession of black coffins, built to represent Iraqi children who have died in the conflict.

Jota said she is frustrated that the war hasn't ended, despite numerous protests over the years.

At least a half-dozen counter-protesters, including a group of college Republicans from San Francisco State University, turned out to support the military effort in Iraq. One held a handmade sign that said "Hey, losers. Stop demoralizing the troops."

Another said he thinks the U.S. military will need to remain in Iraq for years to help the country establish a democracy. He said he thought most of the protesters were radicals who wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.

"There is a different way to peace,'' said Leigh Wolf, 19, a broadcast major. "This war can come to an end with patriotism instead of a socialist revolution."

For Julie Stevens Manson of Novato, the way to peace was folding red, white and blue cranes, using the Japanese paper-folding technique known as origami, then stringing them on fishing wire, hanging them from plastic crossbars, and taking to the streets.

Manson, 64, was one of several people taking turns carrying the 10 heavy crossbars, from which streamers of cranes dangled and danced. Each crane contained the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq.

In Walnut Creek, the anti-war march also drew a wide range of people -- kids to seniors -- holding peace signs. Many drivers honked noisily as they drove by marchers on Ygnacio Valley Road, though some gave a thumbs-down sign or a middle finger.

A 52-year-old lawyer said she joined the protest because of her outrage at the federal government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina. Faith Brewer said she thought the problem was exacerbated because too many resources were diverted to Iraq.

"Too many people died in New Orleans because of the war in Iraq,'' she said. "People tend to think that nobody here is against the war in Iraq -- that all the leftist, peaceniks are in San Francisco,'' she said.

Others held signs supporting peace and a pullout of Iraq. One said "Moms against the War." Another said "Peace is Patriotic."

Sondra Runyan, who has a daughter in the Coast Guard, said she worried that Americans have become inured to the news of soldiers dying in Iraq.

"It seems when you turn on the radio, they mention we lost two or three soldiers, and then they're off to the sports scores,'' said Runyan, 47, of Martinez. "People are immune to the pain these families are going through."

Contra Costa County Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier, who attended the rally, said he plans to propose a resolution next month in support of congressional legislation to set a deadline to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.

"I don't see this as being out of mainstream,'' DeSaulnier said, as he looked over the crowd. "It may be the tip of the iceberg." He added: "If enough local electeds speak out, we could be saving lives.''


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

Topping the federal government's list of costs related to Hurricane Katrina is the $568 million in contracts for debris removal landed by a Florida company with ties to Mississippi's Republican governor. More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone were awarded without bidding or with limited competition, government records show, provoking concerns among auditors and government officials about the potential for favoritism or abuse.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605Z.shtml

Increasing numbers of young people are being hit by mouth cancer, sparking new warnings about the disease. Mouth cancer was once considered to mostly affect older men, but it is now becoming more common in younger people and women. When the BDHF state they do not know the cause of one quarter of these cases, should we not investigate the possibility of mobile phones, which have increased dramatically over the same time period.

Click here for the full news story
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050926_mouthcancer.asp



I read in my local paper today that mouth cancer has risen by 17% in the last four years with 4300 new cases annually.

Gary


From Mast Sanity

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Dentist's mouth cancer warning
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2947519/

by Norman Solomon

It’s reasonable to estimate that more than a quarter of a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war on Saturday in Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The next day, the Washington Post front-paged a decent story that described “the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation’s capital since the conflict in Iraq began.” But more perfunctory back-page articles were typical in daily papers across the country. And over the weekend, many TV news watchers saw little or nothing about the protests. Hurricane Rita was clearly a factor. But even without dramatic natural disasters, the news media are ready, willing and able to downplay news about war -- and the antiwar movement -- for any number of reasons. Conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill or in newsrooms can tamp down media coverage of a surging movement. What’s crucial is that the movement not allow its momentum to be interrupted by media treatment....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Solomon0926.htm

by Jack Random

We will never fully comprehend the complexities of our planet. For centuries, we have labored to overcome and alter the course of nature. We have redirected the path of great rivers, destroyed vital ecological systems, pumped toxic waste into our waterways, oceans and atmosphere, and buried massive stockpiles of deadly chemicals and radioactive waste deep in the bowels of the earth. We may not fully comprehend the role of human interaction with the forces of nature but we are all born with an innate understanding that if we poison our own living space, there will be a price to pay. When we witness melting glaciers, warming oceans, altered climates and shifting oceanic currents, followed by a chain of catastrophes, we do not require a panel of experts or an executive commission to inform us that something is radically astray. It is increasingly clear that we have entered an age of unprecedented catastrophe and we are woefully unprepared to cope with it. In the wake of 911, we have invested hundreds of billions in Homeland Security but in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we are hard pressed to know what that means. Apparently, Homeland Security does not include the fundamentals of civil defense: communications, evacuation, emergency shelters, food, water, fuel, generators and medical facilities....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Random0926.htm

by Patricia Goldsmith

Reviewing the last few weeks is like backing up a scream on TV. This “President” not only delayed aid to dying people, he actively blocked and prevented access to aid from around the world. He sealed off the exits and drowned an excess, unwanted, poor population like rats. Those who survived and made it out to shelters around the country find that their poverty has been, in effect, criminalized. They are no longer free to come and go. And the Democrats act like this is normal. Their lack of proportionate response to disaster engineering and disaster profiteering is a key element in normalizing the increasingly militarized takeover we are witnessing. Their silence, especially on the war, has become positively eerie. Not one major Democrat attended the September 24 anti-war mobilization. If they know something we don’t know, it ain’t good....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Goldsmith0926.htm

An Interview with Ward Churchill (Part 2 of 5)

by Joshua Frank

This is Part Two of the explosive five-part interview series Joshua Frank, author of Left Out!, did with University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill this summer....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Frank0926.htm

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=93002;show_parent=1

New legislation not designed to foster pleasant or productive weather, but planned as tool of weaponized weather control, already well tested and in use since 1976. Amateur and hostile weather-makers alike likely to lose their technology to the military.

by Mary-Sue Haliburton Pure Energy Systems News Copyright © 2005

New Weather-Control Board to Set up Shop in U.S.

It’s late fall of 2004. Fred McKenna* surveys his beloved radionics equipment with sorrow. “I am expecting a visit from the boys in black,” he sighs to me. Because he has been engaged in storm mitigation and deflection, he’s sure that military and other authorities know of his location and activities. Fred has already begun to dispose of the reagents, the active principle used for the “broadcast” of specific corrective energies to persons or the environment. By transferring their activity to the land itself, he hopes this might at least protect a passive aspect of his operation. But he fears that the machines themselves may no longer be in his possession by the end of the following year.

It’s for good reason that Fred is concerned about confiscation of his radionics machines. He has received numerous threatening phone calls; his computer has been sabotaged while connected to satellite weather-data sites; and he has even been subjected to a psionic attack intended to cause a car crash – which would have happened if he had not serendipitously made an unplanned turn off the highway. Just as he was stopping the car, he was suddenly plunged into unconsciousness (for which no medical explanation could be found). Had he continued on the road, he said, the car would have smacked into a rock face.

Long before there was any public announcement, Fred and others like him have been aware of planned legislation in the United States. Just because Fred lives in Canada, he is not exempt from interference or even being arrested. The U.S. military has a very long arm. As evinced by many examples, the US feels it has the right to reach into any nation on earth to take whatever it wills by force, whether this is oil fields or weather-influencing technology. Set forward as Bill S. 517 on March 3, 2005, and scheduled to take effect on 1 October 2005, is the Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Act.

What Kind of Weather Control Will this Be?

Bill S.517 sets up an eleven-member board of directors to oversee all the research on weather control, and to direct funding to projects. The wording sounds typically bureaucratic and innocuous. Except for the fact that the title of the act includes the words “technology transfer”, there is no specific reference to possible confiscation of privately-held equipment. However, there are gray areas, such as "and for other purposes" and other vague phrases that periodically appear in the text.

This is what rings alarm bells for independent, benevolent weather modifiers like Fred who want to normalize rainfall for farmer, and to lessen storm damage. For example, under Section 5, DUTIES, the following statement appears:

(2) assessments and evaluations of the efficacy of weather modification, both purposeful (including cloud-seeding operations) and inadvertent (including downwind effects and anthropogenic effects). (Ref.)

Note the reference to cloud-seeding, an old method largely superseded by new technology, but still popularly equated to weather control as it is the only one discussed in the mass media. However, some aerial spraying continues, of which the nature and purpose are hotly debated. (Refs)

The statement only partly conceals an expectation that they will be recording evolutionary – probably genetic – changes, and that this will regarded as merely be a “normal” part of data collection. Because the word "anthropogenic” refers to "the origin and evolution of humans" we should be asking, “What sort of testing is planned here?” Is this new Board going to be approving weather experimentation that includes genetic modifiers, treating whole human populations as guinea pigs? If so, we should all be as concerned as Fred.

Transfer of Technology to Whom?

Not explained in the text is why "Technology Transfer" is in the title. Unless that is related to the right of the Board of Directors to “receive, use, and dispose of gifts," (emphasis added) we are left to guess what this means.

If the government’s objective is to control the weather for military advantage, then some of these transfers may be involuntary. There is also no mention of any upper limit on gift value, or whether the board members could take them for personal use, which would be gross conflict of interest if this were for the public good. Will owners of radionics and other types of equipment be expected to “give” their equipment, inventions and patents over to the Board? And why would the words “dispose of” be included in relation to these “gifts” – possibly of technology? Does this mean that the Board has a carte blanche to destroy confiscated technology? Remembering that the military document on weather control is titled “Owning the Weather by 2025”, (emphasis added) it is implied that no one else will be allowed to own anything that could influence the weather for either military or non-military purposes. We must all be at the “mercy” of the distinctly unmerciful Armed Forces.

According to one website, crediting as its source another site that no longer carries this report, Canada and the U.S. have entered into an agreement to exchange information about these technologies and their transboundary effects. (Ref.) Article IV of this agreement requires both parties to inform the other of weather-control experiments and activities "prior to" the commencement of such activities. However, apparently to cover their backsides, Article VII states:

"Nothing herein relates to or shall be construed to affect the question of responsibility or liability for WEATHER MODIFICATION activities, or to imply the existence of any generally applicable rule of international law. "

I have not been able to find out as of this date whether this agreement is in effect, or even when it was allegedly signed. If it exists, it will probably be more honored in the breach than in the observance.

A Brief and Partial History of Weather Control

The official recognition given to weather control technology by setting up a Board to oversee it at this time might suggest to some that this technology is a new field, and that the research is just beginning. However, weather control has a long history, and if various observers and researchers are correct in their interpretation of documents and data, we have been seeing it in use for at least three decades.

The ancient way to govern weather was for especially trained and disciplined individuals to interact with the spirit dimension.

"In many cultures, weather-working ability seems to be part and parcel of the shaman's job description and is considered necessary for the survival and well-being of the community. Successful weather-working also demonstrates the shaman's strong relationship with the spirits and the forces of nature. Implicit in these demonstrations is not an opportunity for self-aggrandizement, but ideally, an opportunity to support the community in the certain knowledge that the spirits are really at work and that miracles can indeed be expected! "

More-
http://pesn.com/2005/09/06/9600160_Weather_Modification/


From Our bill of rights

BY JEFF ZELENY

Chicago Tribune
Posted on Sat, Sep. 17, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (KRT) - Sen. Barack Obama urged fellow Democrats on Saturday not to automatically view President Bush's proposed reconstruction of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast with a cynical eye, but said: "It is absolutely imperative that we call him on his bluff."

"In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I think it's important that we don't just assume that George Bush is lying when he says he's finally been awakened to the fact that there is poverty and racism in our midst," said Obama, D-Ill. "It's tempting to do so, especially when he decides to put Karl Rove in charge of reconstruction."

Rove, the top political adviser to the president, will play a role through his position as deputy White House chief of staff, but he has not been tapped to supervise the rebuilding.

In an address at Harvard Law School's "Celebration of Black Alumni," Obama said Democrats shared responsibility for failing to make a larger issue of poverty in the United States. But he said it was the opposition party's duty to hold the White House accountable for fixing problems exposed by Hurricane Katrina.

"We should trust although we should verify," said Obama. "We should actively reach out to him and say, `Mr. President, we believe, in fact, that those differences were as disturbing to you as they were disturbing to us.'" [...] I sure can't agree with that approach. That is what we did for four years. It sure isn't going to start to work now! Not with the degree of secrecy that this administration uses. To verify we have to know what was done ... Read it at
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/12674139.htm


© Virginia Metze

The disturbing case of Abdul Amir Younes Hussein, the CBS cameraman who has been detained by U.S. forces in Iraq for over five months without a shred of evidence being publicly presented against him, has taken yet another bizarre turn.

As reported by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal last week, Hussein is a 25-year-old freelancer who has found himself trapped in a nightmare of secrecy, suspicion, and legal uncertainty since being wounded by U.S. forces while filming the aftermath of a car bombing in Mosul on April 5th.

At first the military expressed regret for Hussein's minor injuries. But three days later they arrested him, claiming he had been "engaged in anti-coalition activity." Thus began his Kafka-esque legal odyssey, which has seen the reportedly timid reporter shuttled from prison to prison (including Abu Ghraib), while the military has changed its story multiple times, refused to release any evidence against him, refused to let Hussein be visited by friends or relatives, and rebuffed the efforts of CBS to have his case adjudicated in a conclusive manner.

"We're not insisting that Abdul Amir is innocent," CBS President Andrew Heyward told me. "We're just asking for due process and some answers, which so far the military has refused to provide. What are the specific charges against him? What is the evidence against him? Why can't we see it? Instead, we've seen shifting explanations and seemingly arbitrary rulings." [...] Read the whole story at Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/8k4g6


© Virginia Metze

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent Daily Telegraph

(Filed: 26/09/2005)

The Church of England was fending off accusations of hypocrisy from its own clergy last night after it admitted having links with a major British arms manufacturer.

Many of the bishops have criticised the arms trade and the Church Commissioners have a strict policy of avoiding investments in any company producing weapons.

But parishes have been dismayed to find that the mobile telephone aerial company recommended by the Church is part owned by QinetiQ, which develops advanced weapons technology.

One said it felt "severely let down" by the Church because it was in danger of being exposed to "the scandal of a commercial involvement" with a company associated with weapons. However, Church spokesmen insisted that they were not directly investing in arms manufacturers.

They said they had given individual parishes enough information to make their own judgments.

The Archbishops' Council, the Church's managing body, signed an agreement with the telecommunications company Quintel S4 in 2002, giving it "approved status" for mobile phone mast installations in churches.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/church_of_england_signs_aerial_deal_with_quintel.html

The partnership was designed to reassure parishes that wanted to earn extra income by hiring out their spires or towers to mobile phone companies but were wary because they lacked the expertise.

The deal gave Quintel S4 access to thousands of parishes which were potential sites for aerials in return for national guidelines over rent and health and safety issues. Despite growing concerns over mobile phone masts, a number of parishes have since hired out their steeples to the company for thousands of pounds a year.

But some appear to have been unaware of the nature of one of Quintel S4's parent companies, and have said it was not made sufficiently clear by the Church.

The Church's website described QinetiQ as "one of Europe's leading science and technology organisations, formed in July 2001 from the majority of the Government's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency."

Another page made clear that the company was "formed from the research laboratories of the Ministry of Defence".

But Fr Martin Hislop, of St Luke's church, Kingston upon Thames, was shocked when he found QinetiQ advertising its expertise in small arms, missile systems and "the electro-thermal chemical gun".

His parish council has written to the Archbishops' Council, demanding that it sever its links with Quintel S4 "in the light of that company's association with the weapons industry".

Fr Hislop accused the Church of "rank hypocrisy".

He said it seemed to be arguing that "if it dealt with a front company, it doesn't matter who owns it".

The Bishop of Sheffield, the Rt Rev Jack Nicholls, also promised to "ask questions".

But Alexander Nicoll, the head of the Church's internal communications, insisted that the Archbishops' Council remained happy with the agreement because the links between it and QinetiQ were "tenuous at best".

q/depesche 2005-09-26T14:53:15

AT: Mobilfunkmasten sind Peanuts

Wien sollte sich dem gerade en vougen Besteuerungen auf alles was auf einem Stecken in die Luft ragt nicht entziehen, und so präsentieren wir exklusiv den ersten q/legislativen Initiativantrag mit deutlich mehr Potential. Alle Ähnlichkeiten mit anderen provinziellen Gesetzesanträgen sind natürlich rein zufällig, den wir kennen keine Ausnahmen für öffentliche Liegenschaften.

siehe auch
http://www.noe.gv.at/service/politik/landtag/LandtagsvorlagenXVI/04/437/437A.pdf


Wien, 26.09.05.

Erlassung eines Wiener Überwachungsanlagenabgabengesetzes

Die mit dem Wildwuchs an Kamera- und anderen Überwachungsanlagen verbundenen negativen Effekte insbesondere im Orts- und Landschaftsbild stellen landesweit ein nicht vernachlässigbares Problem dar. Zudem schafft die unmittelbare Nähe von Kameraanlage besondere Betroffenheit der Bürger, wobei insbes. auch soziologische und gesellschaftspolitische Bedenken laut werden.

Die Errichtung von Überwachuntsanlagen wirkt sich zumeist auf das Orts- und Landschaftsbild aus. Wertminderungen von Grundstücken, sowie negative optische Effekte (insbes. in touristisch genutzten Gegenden) sind nicht selten vorzufinden.

Daher soll ein fiskalisches Lenkungsmodell geschaffen werden, das für Betreiber einen finanziellen Anreiz zur verminderten Nutzung eines Bauwerkes oder sonstigen Anbringungsobjektes durch die Betreiber bietet, ohne jedoch dadurch die Sicherheitslage zu beeinträchtigen. Die Abgabe ist so konzipiert, dass spürbare Lenkungseffekte zu erwarten sind, da sich die Höhe des Tarifes nach der Anzahl der ausgeschöpften alternativen Sicherheitserhöhenden Maßnahmen am Standort richtet. An Standorten aber auch im lokalpolitischem gesellschaftlichem Umfeld wird daher in Hinkunft verstärkt versucht, den Ursachen nachzugehen, anstatt zur Symptombekämpfung immer weitere Bürgerrechte und mühsam erkämpfte zivile Freiheiten zu opfern.

Überdies hat sich die Republik Österreich (Bund, Länder und Gemeinden) nicht nur mit dem Verfassungsgesetz vom 27. November 1984 zu einem umfassenden Umweltschutz, worunter die Bewahrung der natürlichen Umwelt als Lebensgrundlage des Menschen vor schädlichen Einwirkungen zu verstehen ist, bekannt, sondern ist Mitunterzeichner der europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention und der europäischen Datenschutzdirektive.

(...)


relayed by Mac Gyver

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt116.html



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

An Evening With Mr. Galloway
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer120.html

http://www.omega-news.info/telecom_mast_refusals.htm

Yes, but we know the people are still fighting like crazy and that we are educating them. It's not over till it's over.

Sandi

Baltimore Sun
by staff

09/23/05

The numbers are in dispute, but the fact remains: Dozens of men imprisoned at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are starving themselves. At least 16 are in the infirmary, being tube-fed sustenance to prevent their deaths. It's an ugly reaction to an ugly fact: They are being mistreated by the United States. After three-plus years in confinement, only four of the 504 prisoners have been charged with a crime; none knows what will happen next or when -- if ever -- he will be released. At least some have been brutalized by their captors. Many are invisible to the world, their names never released to the public or their families. Many apparently have lost faith in their fellow man, or at least Americans. As one told his lawyer last month, 'Look, I'm dying a slow death in this place as it is. I don't have any hope of fair treatment, so what have I got to lose?'

http://tinyurl.com/dba9b


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Ellen Goodman

09/23/05

I've never been a big fan of sports metaphors. I don't slam. I don't dunk. I don't hit it out of the park. And I cannot give a proper baseball analysis of John G. Roberts, the man soon to become the chief ''umpire' of the Supreme Court. The one sports commentary I can offer is the tune I've been humming from 'Damn Yankees,' the baseball musical of my youth: 'You've gotta have heart/ Miles 'n' miles 'n' miles of heart. ...' The need for heart was a constant refrain during the senators' failed search for Roberts, the man. During the hearings, one uneasy senator after another, from Charles Schumer to Arlen Specter, from Dianne Feinstein to Dick Durbin, openly asked (1) if Roberts had a heart, (2) what was in it, (3) how full it was. The concern about his cardio-compassionate fitness for office prompted the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid, to come out against Roberts, saying, 'I'm not too sure if his heart is as big as his head'...

http://tinyurl.com/9eklm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

09/23/05)

Now that he's patched up his silent feud with the Democratic governor of Louisiana, George W. Bush is spending so much time in the Pelican State it looks like he's running against her. It's all part of his effort to convince Americans that he does know a disaster when he sees one. But with his waterlogged approval ratings sinking fast, his longtime detractors are wondering what took people so long to see what they have always known about Bush's failures on the economy, in Iraq, and in his views about the role of the federal government. Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster and consultant, says Hurricane Katrina accelerated a slippage in the president's numbers that was well under way before the storm hit. In addition, it made him more susceptible to some of the charges that had been leveled against him during the 2004 presidential election, chiefly that the country was more prepared for a disaster at home than it was back on September 11...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=10349


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Tom Coburn & Barack Obama

09/23/05

So far, Congress has approved $62 billion for Gulf Coast relief and rebuilding. In the few short weeks since Hurricane Katrina hit, the government already has spent $14 billion, nearly the entire amount spent on the deadly Northridge Earthquake that devastated Los Angeles in 1994. Experts tell us that by the time rebuilding is finished, the price tag could very well total more than $200 billion -- almost the combined costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of this money will go directly to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ... If FEMA's record during the rescue effort and in the years before indicates how it will perform in the rebuilding task, this should concern every taxpayer and every citizen who wants to help the millions of Americans devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, even before this storm, rebuilding efforts involving FEMA and other government agencies have a history of fraud, corruption and waste when there is no oversight or accountability on how the funds are spent...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050922-094104-1156r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CounterPunch
by Ralph Nader

09/25/05

Historians like to speak of special times when leaders 'seized the moment' to enact or implement their priorities. Giant hurricanes make these 'special times,' and no one is moving faster to exploit them than the corporate powers. ... After every national tragedy, large corporations move to cash in. They arrange for no-competitive bid contracts so that their cronyism can get them large government contracts awarded with few safeguards to prevent waste, fraud and abuse...

http://www.counterpunch.org/nader09242005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Unknown News
by Helen & Harry Highwater

09/23/05

For when the nightmares of nighttime end, the alarm goes off but nobody's really alarmed. And the nightmares of our waking hours continue. No matter what the Bush-Cheney administration does, no matter how many of our civil rights they spit on, no matter how much confetti they make of the nation's Constitution, no matter how many wars and how many lies, no matter how many incompetent cronies they install in positions of power, no matter how obvious the President's lack of a soul, and no matter how many people he kills while giggling and chuckling and making no sense, Americans just don't seem to give a damn. The nightmare continues, and there is no waking up...

http://www.unknownnews.org/050923a-hh.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Joan Vennochi

09/25/05

Against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. For the war in Iraq. How long can Democrats like Hillary Clinton walk that political line? Fearful of the peacenik label, Democrats are still reluctant to challenge President Bush on Iraq, no matter how ugly the news from Baghdad. Opposing Roberts is much easier. It shows that when it comes to social issues like abortion, left-leaning interest groups still hold sway with Democrats who would be president. The antiwar left is a different story. It's the third rail Democrats fear to touch. The junior senator from New York also has the 'woman problem'...

http://tinyurl.com/8a2w2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

Small government conservatives have revolted against President Bush and the Republican leadership of the Senate and the House. Their goal, with hurricane recovery costs soaring, is what it's always been: to hold down spending and restrain the growth of government. It is an impossible dream or close to impossible. The small government brigade is a distinct minority in Congress. Their strength is outside Congress. They reflect the anxiety of the Republican party's base, conservatives and moderates both, over the uncontrolled spending and massive expansion of government following hurricane Katrina. 'The base is killing us,' a Republican senator says... [editor's note: If only it were true -- but chances are the "rebellious" base will flee right back to the GOP ballot line at the next election - TLK] (for publication 10/03/05)

http://tinyurl.com/ax5y6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

National Review
by Jonah Goldberg

09/23/05

Here's my silver-lining hope this hurricane season: George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism gets wiped out like a taco hut in the path of a Cat. 5 storm. Outside of people inside the administration, I've never met anyone who really likes the president's 'compassionate conservatism.' To the extent conservatives praise it at all, they celebrate the fact that compassionate conservatism got Bush elected. This is no small or insignificant feat, note the realists. Without victory, nothing else is possible. 'It's the lady that brought us to the dance,' they explain. Now, don't get me wrong. I actually respect much of the substance of compassionate conservatism. Now that a 'neoconservative' has been idiotically redefined to mean a warmonger who never buys retail, we forget that much of neoconservatism was really an argument about domestic policy...

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200509230811.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

WorldNetDaily
by Pat Buchanan

09/26/05

The Taft-Goldwater-Reagan-Helms Republicans were prepared to pay the political price for saying 'No.' But just as the Democrats of the 1930s found the formula for permanent power in 'tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect,' as Harold Ickes Sr. put it, the Bush Republicans and Big Government conservatives of the 1990s believe they have found an even surer formula for permanent power: 'Cut taxes, spend and spend, elect and elect.' Whether they have or not we will discover in the fall of 2006, but already the battle is being joined inside the GOP, and it will be fought out in the primaries of 2008: deficit hawks vs. Big Government conservatives. One day, not far off, Americans must choose: Either we keep the empire -- or our munificent welfare state. Either we raise taxes and pay as we go -- or we run deficits until foreigners cease to lend us the money and the dollar goes the way of the peso...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46504


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1109-23.htm

LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
09/26/05

By what ethical standard should we judge the state? One tradition, which we might call anti-liberal, asserts that there are special laws of morality that apply to the state alone. Another tradition, the liberal tradition, says that states must abide by the moral standards that apply to everyone in all times and all places. The first view is the ancient one. It permitted and expected states to pillage and kill. The right and wrong of statecraft was dictated by the sword. The idea of universal moral laws and universal human rights did not find favor among the Caesars and Pharaohs, any more than this idea appealed to later dictators. Yet the liberal tradition gradually abolished the idea of caste and special legal privilege. It asserted, more generally, that no group possesses a special license to lord it over others...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/speech-antiwar.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo

09/26/05

The massive antiwar demonstration in Washington, D.C., over the weekend -- with attendance estimates ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 -- dramatized what the pollsters already know: the Iraq war is hugely unpopular, and public opposition is increasing by leaps and bounds. The significance of the Sept. 24 march is that the antiwar majority is finally making itself heard...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7384


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Post

09/23/05

The seasoned protesters who organized tomorrow's antiwar demonstration are well-versed in many other causes. They have marched and rallied against police brutality, racism, colonialism and the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But their message on the Mall tomorrow will be singular: "End the war in Iraq." Because of that sharp focus, they will be joined by novice protesters such as Patrice Cuddy, 56. Interviewed by phone yesterday, the former public school teacher in Olathe, KS, said she had to pull off her gardening gloves each time a neighbor interrupted her yardwork to ask about joining the bus she had chartered to go to the nation's capital. ... Organizers say that similar busloads of teachers, nurses, housewives and others with little experience in mass protest are coming from Wisconsin, New Mexico, Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Ohio and many other states. 'This demonstration will reflect, by far, the most diverse group of antiwar protesters since before the war began,' said Brian Becker, national coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition, one of the event's sponsors. 'We have people coming from all political persuasions, including a very large number of people who have never before been part of the antiwar movement or protest activity'...

http://tinyurl.com/9wxjq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Report
Human Rights Watch

09/24/05

Three U.S. army personnel -- two sergeants and a captain -- describe routine, severe beatings of prisoners and other cruel and inhumane treatment. In one incident, a soldier is alleged to have broken a detainee's leg with a baseball bat. Detainees were also forced to hold five-gallon jugs of water with their arms outstretched and perform other acts until they passed out. Soldiers also applied chemical substances to detainees' skin and eyes, and subjected detainees to forced stress positions, sleep deprivation, and extremes of hot and cold. ... The accounts show that abuses resulted from civilian and military failures of leadership and confusion about interrogation standards and the application of the Geneva Conventions. They contradict claims by the Bush administration that detainee abuses by U.S. forces abroad have been infrequent, exceptional and unrelated to policy...

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us0905/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chroncile

09/25/05

Sen. John McCain said today that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, alleged anew in a report and under investigation again by the Army, is hurting the nation's image abroad. 'We've got to have it stopped,' McCain, R-Ariz., said on 'This Week' on ABC. 'I don't know if these allegations are true or not, but they have to be investigated.' Human Rights Watch issued a report Friday based on interviews with a captain and two sergeants who served in a battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at a military base near Fallujah...

http://tinyurl.com/7w69w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/b22sb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Post

09/25/05

Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the White House in the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the conflict in Iraq began. The demonstration drew grandmothers in wheelchairs and babies in strollers, military veterans in fatigues and protest veterans in tie-dye. It was the first time in a decade that protest groups had a permit to march in front of the executive mansion, and, even though President Bush was not there, the setting seemed to electrify the crowd. ... Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000 showed up, the chief said, 'That's as good a guess as any'...

http://tinyurl.com/8fweh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/mincam/05%20Protest/many.jpg

A personal account of the great peace rally, march, and concert. Media: not all the gems are in the first paragraphs, there's a couple at the end. Short piece by Bob Reuschlein, 288-9192 or 848-5248

300,000 for Peace in Washington, DC, 9-24-05

Organizers said 200,000 to the LA Times and police said 150,000, but at the concert they said it had been 300,000. Whatever, it was enormous, streets were packed solid on two sides of the ellipse rally site where speakers went on for two hours or more after being scheduled for one hour. Looking up fifteenth street it was solid for as far as the eye could see. Constitution Avenue was also packed. The MIC was there for Radio America in Madison, Jonathan Laughlin (?) interviewed several people from Wisconsin, including me. A Japanese television reporter liked my “Disaster” sign and interviewed me on my way to the rally, where I was a half hour early. Another person on our bus was interviewed by Australian radio. A theme from the radio interviews was why not stick to the main event theme of “Bring the Troops Home Now”. My reply was that, to get at empire from the source, you must cut the military budget. For the Japanese, I went on about how neglect lead to 9-11 and how extensive were the warnings and how easily it could have been prevented, or stopped in the hour and a half after the hijackings, but Bush wanted a Pearl Harbor.

Beginnings People loved my “Chicken Hawk in Chief” T-shirt, voted best tshirt on our bus of 57 coming from Dutch Mill Road park and ride on the beltline. Several people took pictures at the rally of my shirt, even my sign, occasionally. Mike Miles said there were 14 buses from Wisconsin. That’s 700 people plus more than arrived other ways including one UW-Madison student I met who flew. Maybe a thousand from Wisconsin, who knows. I sat on the bus next to Michael Fields, one of three people from Caledonia, MN who said La Crosse is where they get groceries. Next to me across the aisle was Joanne Storlie from Marshall who took a petition sheet for the Madison referendum, and behind and across from me were a couple from Rockford. Only a half dozen of us were from the City of Madison, so I got only two signatures, three more had already signed, and then me, the “Verona area” Madisonian. The bus leaders, Fran Zell and Tom Bosley, were from Evansville. We weren’t so much a Madison bus as a suburban rallying point for people within a hundred miles or so. The advice to put my city and state on my sign was useful, as many people from UW or Wisconsin identified with it along the parade route. I brought along 300 copies of my favorite handout and hawked it with the phrase “jobs lost in the military buildup” or other lines as I saw fit. It was the right amount, as I saved the last dozen for those I talked with or repeat requests from the bus. I had passed out copies to the busload at the start of our trip.

Signs The signs were great, endless in variety and creativity. But only at the end of the march did I sit down by the side of the road and jot a few down:

"Make Levees Not War"

"May the power of love overcome the love of power"

"Go Solar Not Ballistic"

"We can bomb the world to pieces, we can’t bomb it to peace"

A woman talking to a woman next to me told of her son Sam, birthday 21 coming in October, heading off to war. A Homeland Security police vehicle drove against the flow of the march in front of me as I watched and thought that was rude. A helicopter circled over the rally and a speaker said “they should be rescuing someone, not spying on those exercising their first amendment rights.”

"Love him or hate him, a chickenhawk awol cheerleader will never win this war"

"Build New Orleans Up and Bring the Iraq War Down"

"Evict Bush"

"Impeach Bush"

"Worst President Ever"

"War Criminal"

"War is costly, Peace is priceless"

"Feed People’s Needs, Not the War Machine"

At the concert, an athlete spoke out, Ethan Thomas of the Washington Wizards. This is a rare thing, for an athlete to get political.

"Therapy Not Bombs"

"Operation Ceasefire"

"Give Peace a Chance"

"Frodo Failed Bush has the Ring"

My own sign said

“Military Buildup Causes Jobless Recovery”

on one side and

“Disasters: 9-11, Iraq, Katrina, Bush, jr.”

on the other. I thought it would be interesting to see what won if the crowd had a choice of label to apply, given the three choices of: "Impeach", "Worst President Ever", "War Criminal". Sentiment and speeches reflected all three. When my section of the parade reached the White House on Pennsylvania Street, it broke into the chant “Shame, Shame, Shame”. A man was sitting on top of the White House wearing black, and I wondered if he was a police sniper.

Sharing on the bus ride home one young man expressed his mixed feelings about the anti Israeli sentiments at the rally. Another person was impressed with the compassion. Others were impressed with the inter generational nature of the crowd, the wide span of ages involved. Some youth were committed for life to the peace movement, but worried about their peers. Don’t our soldiers deserve the right to life? There was a picture of and embryo, and next to it a soldier says

“I was once an embryo, don’t I still deserve the right to life?”

One woman on our bus was a startlingly close look alike with Cindy Sheehan. Some speakers at the rally included George Galloway, Cindy Sheehan, Joan Baez, Jesse Jackson, Ramsey Clark, Ralph Nader and George Martin of Milwaukee. Some late saw Ralph Nader in a bar. Counter Recruitment and Education were big issues. The Police were well behaved and looked the other way sometimes. One sign said

“Compassionately Impeach Bush”

One teacher brought a contingent of 11 from UW-Platteville and said to them “you’re part of history now.” One suggested that recruiters should be banned from campus if caught lying. One rider was from the Belleville school board. Megan Yost, former candidate for the legislature from the Poynette area, commented on how the reflecting pool stench would now leave a bad impression on foreign visitors. How can we be a great nation and let our capital maintenance go?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ufpj-news/message/5996


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545



Hal Snyder, M.D.
Sent: Sun 9/25/2005 1:31 PM
To: PDI Subject: [PDI] report from D.C. 9/24

We got back this morning from the DuPage County bus trip to the D.C. mobilization against the war. Many thanks to Gary, Nayana, Kevin, David, John, and so many others for organizing the trip. It was a great experience for me, my daughter, and my grandson.

We arrived at the ellipse in Washington to find a crowd as far as the eye could see. While waiting for the march to start, we heard speeches from George Galloway, who told us of a London anti-war demonstration happening the same day, Ramsey Clark, George Martin, and others.

The march started around 1:30 p.m. We moved very slowly, probably because of the large number of groups feeding into the march (in fact, when we peeled off around 4 p.m. to make it back to the bus, the march was still going on and we had covered about half the route). We could still see masses of people still pouring onto the ellipse forty-five minutes after starting.

There was a robust diversity among the groups present, with variety, originality, passion, and humor in the posters and banners. Our slow-moving procession was a river of humanity filling the city street. Bystanders frequently joined in as our chants and cheers rang out and were echoed by the majestic stone buildings on either side. Helicopters buzzed overhead.

When we approached the White House, protesters perched atop the colonnades across the street cheered us on. One couple - possibly from Billionaires for Bush - stood above the crowd dressed in posh evening wear, acting as if to disdain the entire proceedings. Volume and energy of the demonstration reached a crescendo as we passed by the White House, where many chose the opportunity to express exactly what they thought of its present resident.

This was a massive demonstration. I have not been home long, but the media I have seen seem to under-report the event. Too bad; they should have been there. We shook the city.


Hal


Informant: Bob Reuschlein

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3436/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

"Welchen Wert haben Grenzwerte beim Mobilfunk?", fragte Prof. Lebrecht von Klitzing, ehemaliger Universitätsmitarbeiter für klinische Forschung und heute Mitinhaber eines Unternehmens für Umweltphysik. Keinen, lautete die ernüchternde Antwort nach einem Exkurs in die medizinische Physik. Denn bei der Messung der elektromagnetischen Wellen werde vornehmlich auf die thermischen Effekte abgestellt. In aller Kürze: Eine menschliche Zelle, die erwärmt wird, stirbt und damit auch der Mensch.

Die Grenzwerte für diese thermischen Effekte werden bei den Mobilfunkmasten selbstverständlich eingehalten. Nicht berücksichtigt würden die athermischen Effekte. In der Sprache der Physik: die Langzeitwirkung im Niedrigenergiewertbereich durch streng periodisch wiederkehrende Funksignale. Erläuternd ein Beispiel: Über Stunden und Tage wirken Wassertropfen, die immer wieder auf derselben Stelle am Kopf auftreffen als Folterinstrument. Im Zeitalter von Mobilfunk und UMTS werden Migräne und Kopfschmerzen, Schlaf- oder Konzentrationsstörungen als Auswirkung der elektromagnetischen Wellen befürchtet. Auch Krebserkrankungen oder die Beeinflussung des zentralen Nervensystems werden angeführt.

http://www.neue-oz.de/information/noz_print/rund_um_osnabrueck/11905793.html (Auszug)


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

Mobilfunk und Strahlenschutz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3805398/

Offizielles Messprogramm: verwirrende Verharmlosung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3471032/

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright issued a stern warning Saturday about the continuing US role in Iraq, saying "there are no good options at this point and the worst days may be ahead of us."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505E.shtml

Fundamentalist bullies cannot be appeased. They must be confronted.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10389.htm

A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly contracted a 33-plane fleet that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used to fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

http://tinyurl.com/9a3kc


From Information Clearing House

They are sowing a vast whirlwind, a desert sandstorm of Martian proportions, which future generations of Americans and Iraqis will reap.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10390.htm

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10382.htm



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

Now out of the military, McNamara donned his desert camouflage uniform again yesterday to march against the war in which he served.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10381.htm

In DC, protest organizers estimated a crowd of about 200,000 rallied at the Ellipse, then marched around the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue.

http://tinyurl.com/dy52y


From Information Clearing House

Soldiers in the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division vented their frustration by systematically torturing Iraqi detainees from 2003 into 2004, hitting them with baseball bats and dousing them with chemicals, a U.S. rights group alleges in a new report.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-abuse25s1.html


From Information Clearing House

So what were two undercover British soldiers up to in Basra?

Judge Mudhafar says he is not convinced the two men are British - possibly because one of them was said to have been carrying a Canadian-made weapon - and they may not be entitled to immunity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10380.htm



Agents Provocateurs?

The ‘evolution’ of state disinformation has probably never been better displayed than in the case of the two (more than likely) SAS soldiers who were ‘liberated’ after being arrested by the Iraqi police - after they allegedly failed to stop at an Iraqi police roadblock and subsequently opened fire on the Iraqi police, killing one and wounding another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10383.htm

by Charles Sullivan

Even during our nation’s darkest hours, there have always been people of conscience and courage who acted as a counter friction to the machine of social injustice that ravaged the nation and plundered the earth. Since the founding of our nation, there has always been a struggle between the rich and powerful and the nation’s working poor.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10387.htm

by Dave Silver

September 25, 2005

How correct Cindy was when she said that she’s glad that she may have been “a catalyst but she should not be the focus.”

Perhaps an even greater contribution of sister Sheehan was her severe condemnation of Bush’s junior partners, the Democrats.

Cindy, wittingly or not, reminded the anti-war movement of an indispensable ingredient as an absolute pre-requisite for building a more class conscious and anti-racist and anti-imperialist movement connecting the war in the Gulf with the war at home whose epicenter now is in New Orleans and Mississippi .

What else could she have meant when she said that “we need a people’s movement” to end the war and injustice. This is a most welcome caveat for those who remain in the Church of AnyBody But A Republican, for we do so at great political, economic and social risk. War is a symptom, capitalism the disease and radical change now is the beginning of a solution.

Radical change in foreign and domestic policies (and politicians) such as stopping the quest for empire, pushing back institutionalized racism in its many forms, single payer health care, affordable housing, jobs with dignity at $10 minimum wage, immigrant rights, and an end to the death penalty to name some of the needed changes.

This can only be achieved with a political and united fist that is informed by a consciousness of the common corporate enemy no matter who sits in the White House. It is this common enemy which ALONE unites all of the issues of justice and peace, of oppression and exploitation. This means we must have a truly independent and alternative national political Movement/Party which ends the illusion that we can work “inside and out of” the Democratic Party.

ONE HUMANITY, ONE STRUGGLE

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505Y.shtml



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

http://groups.msn.com/JusticePeaceDemocracy/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=5432


Informant: ARON KAY

Two soldiers and an officer with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division have told a human rights organization of systemic detainee abuse and human rights violations at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, recounting beatings, forced physical exertion and psychological torture of prisoners, the group said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10379.htm



N.C.-based troops tortured detainees at Iraqi base:

Soldiers in the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division vented their frustration by systematically torturing Iraqi detainees from 2003 into 2004, hitting them with baseball bats and dousing them with chemicals, a U.S. rights group alleges in a new report.

http://tinyurl.com/ey3jh


From Information Clearing House

Most senior policymakers appear to retain their blind faith in the efficacy of military force as a tool for securing access to foreign sources of petroleum. This, as Iraq makes painfully clear, is delusional. Yet they persist in risking the lives of young Americans and others in their continued adherence to a failed and immoral strategy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10371.htm

A former American soldier who served in Iraq and filed for conscientious objector status has given an extraordinary insight into the war's dehumanising effects ­ an insight that helps explain why the British and American public has turned sharply against the occupation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10373.htm

Basra; another milestone in war on terror

By Mike Whitney

"What our police found in their car was very disturbing - weapons, explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets." Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, spokesman for the Mehdi Army.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10376.htm

The treaty cannot come into force until it is ratified by the required 44 states which had nuclear research or power facilities when it was adopted in 1996. Only 33 have done so. The United States, the world's leading nuclear power, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, China, Iran, Israel and Vietnam are among the remaining 11 countries that have not ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092405E.shtml

David Swanson states that Cindy Sheehan has demanded in a voice loud enough for the nation to hear that the war end immediately. And Cindy is able to do this without seeming irrationally impatient: she makes clear that she does not want a single additional mother to go through what she has.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092405B.shtml



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

http://tinyurl.com/dznjd


Informant: John Calvert

http://tinyurl.com/8uhfg

Saturday, September 24th, 2005 Cindy Sheehan's Speech at UFPJ Rally

Cindy Sheehan Addresses Tens of Thousands of Protestors in Washington DC

Ahhhh, I love the smell of Patriotic Dissent in the afternoon!

As we stand here on the grounds of a monument that is dedicated to the Father of our Country, George Washington, we are reminded that he was well known for the apocryphal stories of never being able to tell a lie. I find it so ironic that there is another man here named George who stays in this town between vacations and he seems to never be able to tell the truth. It is tragic for us that our bookend presidents named George have two completely different relationships with honesty.

I also find it ironic and heartbreaking that my son, Casey, who was a brave person, tall and proud, who loved his country and was honest beyond measure, could be sent to his death by someone who is even too cowardly to meet with a broken hearted mom, let alone go and fight in the illegal and immoral war of his generation. We are losing our best and our brightest in a country that we are destroying that was no threat to the United States of America. Iraq was and still is no danger to our safety and security, or to our way of life. The weapons of mass destruction and mass deception reside in this town: they are the neocons who pull the strings and the members of Congress who have loosened the purse strings with reckless abandon and have practically given George and company a blank check to run our country into monetary and moral bankruptcy. We are out here in force today to take our country back and restore true democracy and sanity to our political process. The time is now and we are here because we love our country and we won't let the reckless maniacs destroy her any further.

We as a young colony of Great Britain broke from another tyrant, King George the Third. Well, I wish our George the Third were here today to see us out here in force protesting against his war and against his murderous policies. George is not here, though, because he is out gallivanting around the country somewhere pretending that he cares about the people who are in the path of hurricane Rita. We know that he cares nothing for the people of America: Katrina, Iraq, and his idiotic response to 9/11 are evidence of that. He is just out and about play-acting like a President whose country is in crisis just like he pretends to be a Commander in Chief and a Cowboy (I wonder if before he took off to Texas or Colorado or wherever he went, he watched a movie like Independence Day to see how that other fake president acted?). The reason he is out today is that his handlers told him that he got a little flak for playing golf and eating birthday cake with Senator McCain while some of his employers were hanging off rooftops and treetops in New Orleans. He swaggers around arrogantly like he is a macho dictatorial tyrant who doesn't have to answer to his employers, the people of the United States of America. Those days are over George, we are here today to tell you that we are a majority and we will never rest until you bring our young people home from the Middle East and until you start putting money into rebuilding OUR communities: the ones natural disasters destroy with your help, and the ones which your callous and racist war economy are decimating. We won't allow you to take anymore money out of social programs to finance Halliburton to rebuild the Gulf States: there is no money. Our bank account is empty. George, this is our rainy day and you have failed us miserably. Stop pouring money into the pockets of the war profiteers and into building permanent bases in Iraq. It is time to bring our billions of dollars home from Iraq too!!!

One thing the Camp Casey movement that hunkered down in Crawford, Texas this past August taught us is that we the people of America have the power and we can and should name our national policy and make sure it is carried out. I constantly get asked if we are making a difference and if we think (like we're naïve boobs) that we will actually stop the war. Well, looking back at how Vietnam was ended and looking back in the history of our country, most notably in the suffragette, union, and civil rights movements, we the people are the only ones who have been able to transform history and affect true and lasting change here in America: so to those people who question if we are making a difference: I tell them to go back to school and read their history books!! And another thing these questioners overlook is that WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!!! And we are here to tell the media, Congress, and this criminal and criminally negligent administration: WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY!!!

We in the peace movement need to agree on one thing: yes we need an exit plan, but it is not a strategy, it is a command. The command should be: have all of our military personnel and paid killer mercenaries out of Iraq within 6 months and the generals carry out the command. Simple, it's not brain surgery and I think it is so easy even George Bush can sign the order. We can't give the homicidal maniacs any wiggle room or long term strategy sessions. For one thing, when our leaders strategize, we are put in even more jeopardy, they have proven that they are not too bright or even a little compassionate. But the most important thing is that people die everyday in Iraq for absolutely no reason and for lies. We have to say NOW because the people on the other side are saying NEVER. We can't compromise, we can't say please, and we can't retreat. If we do, our country is doomed. We have to honor the sacrifices of our loved ones by completing the mission of peace and justice. It is time.

Bring our troops home, NOW!

http://michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=508


Informant: John Calvert



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

I received the following in my private email this a.m. I don't know how I ended up on their email list, but in any event, it's a useful tool and one I'm going to do. I've already sent the "Filibuster" messages to both Sen. Feinstein and Sen. Boxer, but I think this will be even more effective. My missive included just my own Senators
(plus the 3 other Swing Voters...Democrats who voted "Yes" and need PRESSURE to retract their votes), but you can easily find your own Senators and let your VOICE be heard.

<snip>

THE MOMENTUM IS ABOUT TO SWING ON STOPPING JOHN ROBERTS

We are so proud of our participants for what you did today. You turned the primary toll-free Capitol phone line (877-762-8762) into a fast busy signal. And now we're going to kick it up another couple notches. Leahy's office we know was getting LOTS of calls, but for the many who were not able to get through we're going to do it all again THROUGHOUT the weekend even bigger. There are two more toll- free Capitol phone numbers we have also tested good, which you can try at 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588 (just ask for your senators by name). Those may fill up quickly also, so to create the greatest outpouring of public opinion by telephone that the Capitol has ever heard or seen, this is what we're going to do.

Here are the DIRECT phone and fax numbers (which many of you had asked for) of senators for your own state, for their main Washington numbers and for all their district offices:

Dianne Feinstein [CA]: Washington, 202-224-3841(phone), 202-228-3954(fax) Fresno, 559-485-7430(phone), 559-485-7430(fax) San Francisco, 415-393-0707(phone), 415-393-0707(fax) Los Angeles, 310-914-7300(phone), 310-914-7300(fax) San Diego, 619-231-9712(phone), 619-231-9712(fax)

Barbara Boxer [CA]: Washington, 202-224-3553(phone), 415-956-6701(fax) Los Angeles, 213-894-5000(phone), 213-894-5000(fax) San Francisco, 415-403-0100(phone), 415-403-0100(fax) San Bernadino, 909-888-8525(phone), 909-888-8525(fax) San Diego, 619-239-3884(phone), 619-239-3884(fax) Sacramento, 916-448-2787(phone), 916-448-2787(fax) Fresno, 559-497-5109(phone), 559-497-5109(fax)

And here are the main office numbers for the Democratic members of the judiciary committee from outside your state who voted the wrong way on Thursday in passing Roberts:

Patrick J Leahy [VT]: Washington, 202-224-4242(phone), 202-224-3479(fax)

Russell D Feingold [WI]: Washington, 202-224-5323(phone), 202-224-2725(fax)

Herb Kohl [WI]: Washington, 202-224-5653(phone), 202-224-9787(fax)

If the toll-free lines are all busy, start with your own senators' main Washington numbers and either call or fax them (or both) to register your strong opposition to John Roberts. If their message logs are full, move on to the nearest district office for each above and do the same thing, and then go BACK first thing Monday morning and follow up in Washington again. The most IMPORTANT thing is to include a full address in your message (a phone number is good too) for them to get back in touch with you. Nothing gives your comments more weight than your invitation to have them get back to you as a real live constituent.

FORWARD this message to all your friends in state. This is especially critical if you are a resident of Vermont or Wisconsin. But to the extent that the members of the judiciary committee represent ALL of us, you have every RIGHT to register your displeasure with Leahy, Feingold and Kohl, and to ask them to change their positions, which even they admit were "close calls." All we have to do is get one or two of them to heed the voice of the people and the MOMENTUM is on our side

All they simply need to say is that they have been hearing from their constituents, and while they may have been initially inclined to support Roberts, they can no longer do so. The first 24 hours of this new campaign have been a huge success. We had multiple participants on the air of both the Thom Hartmann and Ed Shultz radio programs on Friday.

You may already know the many arguments against John Roberts (and have ones of your own). OpEdNews.com, the best source of progressive news and opinion, has a comprehensive piece at

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thepen_050914_we_can_stop_roberts_.htm

And you can also send your friends who want to know more about why Roberts must be stopped to the one click congressional email and letter to the editor action page, where there are many informative links, at

http://www.nocrony.com

The entire future of the Democratic party is riding on your efforts. This is the last chance for the party to show some real unity and backbone, without which there can be no election gains in 2006. Understand that these people are at the end of the day just politicians and stand up ONLY if we speak out. And when they ask whom it is, let their aides tell them, "Senator, the people are calling."

We must reach out to our fellow citizens every way we can. Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.usalone.com/in.htm

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ginnicus1 in ukiah, ca...mendocino county (Saturday, 09/24/05, 8:25am)


Informant: JHW369

Turnout was beyond anything we've seen in recent years: clearly hundreds of thousands.

Photos, videos, and blogging of the march:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3093

Cindy Sheehan's speech:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3089



Cindy Sheehan receives Unvarnished Truth Award:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3083



What the polls say:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3084

How the media is lying about the crowd size:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3094

How to ask the media to tell the truth:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1084

Lobbying and civil resistance on Monday, September 26:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2759

Tool Kit to Stop a War:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3081

Department of Peace Bill Introduced in Senate
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3071

Bonifaz Considers Run for Massach. Secretary of State
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3059

Minnesota Veterans for Peace Launches Ad Campaign
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3040

Sept. 15 Hearing and Rally Against the War: Video and Text
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey held a hearing, and citizens held a rally to demand an end to the war. See videos, photos, reports, transcripts:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3027

Resolution of Inquiry Fails by One Vote

H. Res. 375, a Resolution of Inquiry into the lies that launched the war, united the Democrats and won over a couple of Republicans, but still failed by one vote in the House International Relations Committee on September 14th.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2920

Watch Video:
http://boss.streamos.com/real/hir/34_fc091405.smi

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2391


Informant: Kev Hall

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3432/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3433/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

by Ken Sanders

You have to hand it to the Bush administration. No matter how bad things might be in Iraq, and no matter how dim the prospects are for Iraq's future, Bush & Co. still manage to look the public straight in the eye, smirk, and insist that the decision to invade Iraq was a good one. Call them determined, even stubborn. Call them dishonest, perhaps delusional. Regardless, the fact is that by invading Iraq, the Bush administration opened a Pandora's Box with global consequences. Bush and his apologists have frequently promised that the invasion of Iraq will spread democracy and stability throughout the entire Middle East. That naive declaration could not be farther from the truth. Not only is Iraq itself in the clutches of a civil war, the U.S.-led invasion threatens to destabilize the whole of the Middle East, if not the world. It may have irrevocably done so already. By most definitions and standards, Iraq is already in the throes of civil war. Whether defined as an internal conflict resulting in at least 1,000 combat-related fatalities, five percent of which are sustained by government and rebel forces; or as organized violence designed to change the governance of a country; or as a systematic and coordinated sectarian-based conflict; the requirements of civil war have long since been satisfied in Iraq....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Sanders0924.htm

by Barbara Sumner Burstyn

Does anyone actually watch the TV shows they watch? Medical Investigation for example. On the surface this drama looks like just another mildly entertaining medical show. But watch closely and you begin to see the creepy undertones of neoconservative ideology, with its concomitant fundamentalist Christianity, embedded in the storylines and characters. In each episode the illnesses are caused (not necessarily in a direct way) by an anti-social behavior or as a consequence of some un-American activity. We see the lead character enter a church, cross him self and pray for guidance. A complex man, a top scientist, grappling with issues of faith and science? Not likely. The good doctor is not conflicted at all and there is no competition between his science and his faith. But perhaps more disturbing than the mainstreaming of fundamentalist religion is the way in which a conservative political agenda is implanted in the show. For example, a disease outbreak appears to be coming from an American factory known to be polluting water. Eventually the real culprit is revealed to be across the border in unhygienic Mexico where people don't wash their hands. The overarching sense of this show is that conservative orthodoxy is the only position to take. There is no dissent, no doubting Thomases, and no rebel bucking the system (unless they are on the path to realizing their mistakes). Instead Medical Investigation is a bunch of committed believers: in God, their government and the essential rightness of those beliefs....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Burstyn0924.htm

WorldCantWait.Org - Next Protest Nov.2 to Start IMPEACHMENT (Pass On)

(Pass It On !)

Congress won't do it, The Courts won't do it, The Democratic Party won't do it, The US Military hasn't done it -- So it is up to the 200,000,000 + Americans Who Demand It ! -- To Do It !!

The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime. Mobilize for November 2, 2005! Address: http://www.worldcantwait.org/


Informant: ranger116



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

I just visited the ANSWERCoalition.org web site, and sent e-mails to elected officials letting them know that I stand with the more than a hundred thousand people who came to Washington, D.C. on September 24, 2005 to demand that the U.S. Bring the Troops Home Now and spend money on human needs, like the hurricane victims, rather than on war and occupation.

It only takes a few minutes, and I thought you might be interested in sending your own message to politicians from your state to let them know that, you too, stand with the anti-war movement & are demanding and end to this war. This is a great way to join the demonstration from home.

Let's keep the pressure on! To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
https://secure2.convio.net/pep/site/Advocacy?s_oo=iZnIXEpaJVvxYels0qniaw..&id=139

If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser.


beefree

Torture Experiments of CIA
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/liberties/2004/1105roots.htm

This Site has Numberous type of Mind Control Techniques
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/

This is what they wanted to use in New Orleans on Hurricane victims. http://www.datafilter.com/mc/nonlethalWeapons.html

Patial List of Atrosities Commited in the US
http://www.umedia.com/MediaMike/GovAtrocities.html

Experiments the US did
http://www.all-natural.com/part-3b.html


This message was sent by Care2 Connect member: Elsie Eady

Immune: EMF effects on humans and mice
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1003904/

Roy: Not sure if the study was forwarded with my email plea for "prudent avoidance" release of information. This should go through with just the study

Joanne


Arch Environ Health. 2003 Nov;58(11):712-7. Related Articles, Links

Effects of electromagnetic fields on the immune systems of occupationally exposed humans and mice

Bonhomme-Faivre L, Marion S, Forestier F, Santini R, Auclair H.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Search&term=%22Auclair+H%22%5BAuthor%5D

Department Pharmacy, Laboratory of Pharmacology, Hopital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France.

laurence.bonhomme-faivre@pbr.ap-hop-paris.fr

The authors examined immunological disorders in 6 individuals who had been exposed occupationally to environmental electromagnetic fields. Comparable effects on mice exposed in a similar environment were also investigated. The human subjects had worked 8 hr/day for 5 yr in a laboratory located above electrical transformers and high-tension cables, and in which there were low-frequency electromagnetic fields of 0.2-6.6 microtesla (microT). The 6 control subjects (matched for socioeconomic parameters, sex, and age) had worked away from the immediate vicinity of transformers and high-tension cables. The authors found statistically significantly lower total lymphocyte, CD4, and CD3 counts, and significantly increased natural killer (NK) cells, in exposed subjects vs. controls. Six months after exposure had ceased, total lymphocyte counts had increased, as had CD4, CD3, and CD19 counts (+13%, +28%, +22%, and +17%, respectively), and NK cell counts were decreased by 26% (not significant) in the same human subjects. In the second part of this study, 12 Swiss male mice housed in cages were exposed in the same room in which the human subjects had been exposed (i.e., 5-microT, 50-Hz magnetic field) for 109 days; 12 additional mice were used as unexposed controls. The total lymphocyte, leukocyte, polymorphonuclear neutrophil, CD4, and NK counts of the exposed mice at 109 days were significantly lower than those of controls. In addition, plasma glucose levels (at 30 days) and amylase activity (at 109 days) were significantly lower, whereas plasma sodium and chloride levels were significantly elevated at 109 days. Results from this study suggest that chronic exposure to a 0.2-6.6-microT magnetic field can lead to decreased immunological parameters (total lymphocytes and CD4 counts) in both humans and mice. The increase in some values once exposure was terminated suggests a causal relationship with exposure to electromagnetic fields, as do the changes in mice, particularly the changes in total lymphocyte and CD4 counts.

PMID: 15702897 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15702897&query_hl=8

Study

Joachim Schüz of the University of Mainz, Germany, offers his thoughts on mobile phone (MP) use and exposures in children. Much of his paper is based upon his recent study of the characteristics of young mobile-phone users in Germany (Böhler E, Schüz J. 2004. Cellular telephone use among primary school children in Germany, European Journal of Epidemiology 19(11):1043-50.) He concludes that since adverse health effects cannot yet be ruled out, children and parents should consider prudent use of mobile phones. Bibliographic information: Schüz J. 2005. Bioelectromagnetics, September 2 [epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings/archive/en/schuz.pdf

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Children & Mobile Phone Use: Is there a risk?
http://www.acnem.org/articles/children_mobile_phone_use-maisch.htm

Children and mobile phone use: Is there a health risk?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1337433/

Children and mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1063256/

Mobile phone use and exposures in children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1004419/

25 September 2005

THE HUMAN AERIALS ELECTRICAL STORM

One in 20 Scots are victims of radio waves from police masts
Fury as 1000 new pylons are erected all over Scotland

By Julia Hunt

ONE in 20 Scots is at risk from a crippling illness triggered by electromagnetic waves from new police radio masts. Victims of electrosensitivity suffer nausea, headaches, nose bleeds, loss of feeling in arms and legs and chest pains.

One victim compared it to being a human aerial.

Professor Olle Johansson, of the department of neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, said: "Once proper investigations have been carried out I'd expect to see between three to five per cent of people in Scotland and the rest of the UK diagnosed as electrosensitive."

The new £2.5billion police communication system Tetra - Terrestrial Trunked Radio - has been introduced throughout the UK. More than 1000 masts have been erected in Scotland. They pulse at 17.6Hz - above the 16Hz frequency the Government's Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones warns might affect brain activity. Experts say radio waves at this frequency can cause calcium to leak from the brain, causing damage to the nervous and immune systems. If the masts are under 15 metres they don't need planning permission.

The Sunday Mail spoke to three victims of the illness last week.

Former nurse Catherine Fraser, 78, of Old Kilpatrick, near Glasgow, claims her home vibrates due to the masts near it.

Georgie Hyslop, 63, of Largs, Ayrshire, says she travelled 14,000 miles to escape the affects of electromagnetic fields.

Website designer Mark Bannerman, 40, of Pittenweem, Fife, has been unable to switch on his computer since a Tetra mast was built near his home.

Electrosensitivity is a heightened reaction to electrical energy when exposed to electromagnetic fields such as microwave radiation from mobile phones, radio waves from phone and Tetra masts and energy from pylons.

It has been identified as a major problem in a report to be published next month by the Government-backed Health Protection Agency.

Rod Read, chairman of Electrosensitivity UK, said: "We are being exposed to so much electric emissions that certain people are reaching saturation point

Computer makes my face burn

MARK'S STORY

WEBSITE designer Mark Bannerman has been unable to go near a computer since a Tetra mast was put up in his village.

Mark, 40, began suffering nasal burning, extreme migraines, heart palpitations and dizziness last November.

It was months before he realised his symptoms had begun at the same time the Tetra mast in Pittenweem, Fife, was switched on. He said: "Each time I go near a computer now my face burns up, just like I've got sunburn. I get sinus and neck pain and feel really ill.

"It seems ludicrous the masts are going up all over when we have no idea what effect they will have on the population.

"Fife is now covered in Tetra masts, as is the rest of Scotland, so there's nowhere you can move to escape them

My head felt ready to explode

CATHERINE'S STORY

FORMER nurse Catherine Fraser has always had acute hearing. For years, she thought it was a blessing - but it soon became a curse.

When she moved to Old Kilpatrick, near Glasgow, she began picking up electric signals inside her home.

The 78-year-old said: "I started hearing a strange humming sound and felt the floor vibrating.

"This carried on every night, getting worse in the early hours. It was impossible to sleep.

"I had burning sensations in my legs and my head felt like it was going to explode.

"I had various people check it out. I even called the police one night and two officers came.

"They felt strange tingling sensations in their legs and pressure in their heads."

Catherine believes the hum came from electromagnetic fields caused by nearby phone masts. She suspects these had a significant effect in her house because it had a lot of metal in the walls.

She said: "My life has been hell since 1997. Unless you feel something for yourself you can't believe what it's like.

"I couldn't stand it any longer and was forced out of my home to stay in B&Bs.

"Since Tetra has been rolled out, there are masts all over the country. I believe there is a link between the transmissions from these masts and people's health.

"It's just a question of being able to scientifically prove it.

"But if the HPA are prepared to recognise electrosensitivity it will only be a matter of time

I feel ill just picking up the phone

GEORGIE'S STORY

GEORGIE HYSLOP, 63, fled her home in Largs, Ayrshire, five years ago and has travelled 14,000 miles to escape electromagnetic fields.

She claims to have been affected by what locals call the 'Largs Hum' - an unexplained low frequency noise.

Georgie, a former radar operator, was given a metal spinal implant to repair an injured back after a skiing accident.

But the implant turns her into a human aerial whenever she is near a mast or pylon.

She gets headaches, nausea, nose bleeds, loss of feeling in her arms and legs, pains in her chest and a burning sensation on her face.

She said: "I was forced out of my home as it was surrounded by phone masts and once a Tetra mast was installed it became unbearable. My spinal column stimulator makes me like an aerial, so I'm affected by anything which transmits electricity. Tetra masts are the worst.

"Mobile phones and cordless phones make my face burn up, just like sunburn, for days.

"As a Royal Air Force radar operator I must have been exposed to radio waves at such doses my body can't cope with any amount now.

"I spent four years working with radar and now I can't even use a telephone without feeling ill function.

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/feed/tm_objectid=16170521%26method=full%26siteid=64736-name_page.html


From Mast Sanity

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Hi all

for those of you that would like to see what the tetra signal looks like, this was recently sent to me by Alasdair, its a jpeg file.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/tetra44a(0).zip

Phil Watts

(Article for publication in October 2005 Change Links issue)

by Barry Schier

Although potential natural disasters (including the 1 to 2 dozen hurricanes which occur each year) cannot be prevented, Hurricane Katrina's devastation and death toll was mostly avoidable. The destruction was not product of an "act of God," but a product of acts of decision-makers at federal, state, AND local levels and a system that considers profits, not human lives (especially those of Black and working people whose neighborhoods were most severely affected by the storm).

The water that caused the inundation of New Orleans (which at one point covered 80% of that city of a half million people) was a result of the downpour brought by weather; the flooding was a result of the trickle of funding brought from Washington. "Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects. To cut spending, officials gambled that the worst-case scenario would not come to be," according to a L.A. Times September 6 headline. (Inadequate repairs to levees resulted in re-flooding when Hurricane Rita came 3 weeks later.)

Although details about the approach and consequences of Hurricane Katrina were known at least several days ahead of time, the government issued an evacuation order without providing the means to leave. The hundreds of thousands without cars
(predominantly Black, poor and working class) were stranded for days. The role of the National Guard forces when they finally arrived -- several days AFTER the flooding –- was not to rescue people nor to pull out the floating corpses which had potential for causing a major health hazard, but to prevent "looting."

Police literally stood in the way of those (overwhelmingly Black) people traveling on foot from New Orleans and seeking safe ground from crossing a bridge into the mostly-white suburb of Gretna.

Katrina's high casualties (over 1,000 as Change-Links goes to press) were NOT principally a product of the fury of the storm. Cuba, geographically in the middle of "Hurricane Alley," has experienced many severe storms, but has suffered only property damage and a minimal human toll because its socioeconomic system is not a dog-eat- dog one in which all are left to fend for themselves, whether during daily life or crises.

Although it has less than 1 vehicle per 40 people (contrasted with about 1 per person in the U.S.), Cuba successfully evacuated more than 1.5 million people when hit by Hurricane Ivan last year and this year by Hurricane Dennis. (When Hurricane Rita hit Texas 3 weeks after Katrina, those who had cars to leave Houston were part of 100+- mile-long traffic jam.) Cuba's government, in cooperation with the mass organizations, provided temporary housing, food and other necessities to those affected by the storm; while in the U.S. treatment of those affected by Katrina was to issue "shoot to kill" orders against "looters" who were taking necessities from stores.

The September 6 L.A. Times noted that "Aid offers have poured in from about 90 countries." Because of U.S. government policies, little or none of this aid has arrived. A union leader speaking at a Sept. 24 anti-war rally of 20,000 in Los Angeles, described how 200 volunteers from her union, the California Nurses Association, went to New Orleans at their own expense; they, like other in the U.S. wishing to go to New Orleans to assist get no logistical or financial assistance from either city, state, or governments.

The aid that was given was largely too little, too late -– and even worse in the outlying and rural areas affected by Katrina. Authorities used the claims that there were people with guns as an excuse for not permitting helicopters or rescue personnel to enter certain areas of New Orleans. Thousands of New Orleans residents were housed in makeshift quarters in various places, including the Superdome, which had neither functional toilets, lighting nor food.

Ricardo Alarcon explained in an interview with Amy Goodman: "In the final analysis, it has to do a lot with the concept of a society. I don't want to join what they call here `the blame game.' In a way, it's difficult to be fair, because what is to be blamed I think, is a system. It's more than individuals. … If you have a society that is based on the idea of human solidarity, you may find 1,586 doctors that volunteer to go to a bad place to help others; they have done that before, some of them many times."

Cuba's offer of aid to those in need (including increasing its initial offer of 1,100 doctors to 1,586) is not part of an exception, but the rule. There's a reason for the U.S. government's obsessive hatred of the Cuban Revolution -- it represents internationalism and human solidarity in action.

Cuban internationalists have served in a few dozen Third World countries; in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, dispatched hundreds of doctors to Central America, including to several countries whose governments were (and are) political hostile to Cuba. In Venezuela, there are now more than 20,000 Cuban volunteers (mostly doctors) providing medical services there, often for poor people who had never had a doctor's visit in their lives.

I have frequently written that the ruling rich of this country treat working people and "minorities" worse than dogs. Apparently, that is true both figuratively and literally: A Sept. 12 Associated Press dispatch noted that billionaire T. Boone Pickens chartered a "rescue charter" jet which flew from New Orleans to L.A.; it carried only dogs and (except for the crew) no people.

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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3435/


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From ufpj-news

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092400416_pf.html


Informant: NHNE

q/depesche 2005-09-25T11:48:35

UK: Wie CCTV "Terroristen" produziert

Die Londoner Polizei, neu ermächtigt durch den Terrorism Act, ist eifrig bei der Suche nach Terroristen. Da diese sich aber leider nicht deutlich als solche zu erkennen geben, wird nach suspekten Verhaltensmustern unter den überwachten Menschen gesucht. Die Definition von suspekten Verhalten könnte man dabei als "eigenwillig" und die Folgen für die Betroffenen als "katastrophal" bezeichnen.


[...] They found my behaviour suspicious from direct observation and then from watching me on the CCTV system; · I went into the station without looking at the police officers at the entrance or by the gates; · two other men entered the station at about the same time as me; · I am wearing a jacket "too warm for the season"; · I am carrying a bulky rucksack, and kept my rucksack with me at all times; · I looked at people coming on the platform; · I played with my phone and then took a paper from inside my jacket.

[...]

Under current laws the police are not only entitled to keep my fingerprints and DNA samples, but according to my solicitor, they are also entitled to hold on to what they gather during their investigation: notepads of arresting officers, photographs, interviewing tapes and any other documents they entered in the police national computer (PNC). So even though the police consider me innocent there will remain some mention (what exactly?) in the PNC and, if they fully share their information with Interpol, in other police databases around the world as well. Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state? This erosion of our fundamental liberties should be of concern to us all. All men are suspect, but some men are more suspect than others (with apologies to George Orwell).

Der Betroffenenbericht:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1575411,00.html


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Hi Sandi

You may want to send this to the Carlton Hill school?

BW Gary



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Source: The Lancet, Jan 12, 2002 v359 i9301 p144.

Title: Spain investigates four cancer cases diagnosed in children in one school. (News)(Brief Article) Author: Xavier Bosch

Subjects: Leukemia - Investigations Lymphoblastic leukemia in children - Investigations Locations: Spain

Magazine Collection: 109F4323 Electronic Collection: A81873192
RN: A81873192

Full Text COPYRIGHT 2002 The Lancet Ltd.

The emergence of haematological malignancies in four children at a school in the Spanish city of Valladolid during a 12-month period forced the regional government of Castilla y Leon to close the school on Jan 2 so that experts could try to identify the cause of the cluster of cases.

On Dec 21, before the fourth case was identified, a judge ordered the owners of 36 nearby telephone aerials to switch them off, after repeated complaints by parents. The aerials were on the roof of a building, which was 46 metres from the school. However, before the fourth case of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) was diagnosed, an epidemiological study by the regional authorities found no relation between the aerials and the first three cases.

The study confirmed that from December, 2000, to September, 2001, two 5-year-old girls and a 9-year-old boy at the school had developed ALL and Hodgkin's disease respectively and noted that the aerials were erected in November, 2000. Although the expected incidence rate of leukaemia and lymphoma in the school was significantly higher than the national average incidence rate--4.3 cases per 100 000 person-years in the 0-14-year-old age group)--the study found no link to the aerials and could not offer any explanation for the three cases.

The study also concluded that the electromagnetic exposure levels from the aerials were within the normal range and that the school was not affected by direct emmission of radiation from the masts. The study also noted that the time between the placement of the aerials and the emergence of the cases was too short to justify the development of the malignancies. The study concluded that "it has not been possible to demonstrate a cause for the cluster of cancer cases in the children from the Garcia Quintana school. The report's authors suggested close surveillance measures should be set up to unravel the source of the cases.

However, the emergence of the fourth case at the end of December prompted the regional authorities to close the school for 455 children as a "health and safety" measure. A new team of experts, commissioned by the health ministry, have been asked to do another epidemiological study. The team will comprise experts from the Instituto Carlos III and the National Institute of Cancer, both at the ministry, and independent epidemiologists, oncologists, paediatricians, and haematologists.

Juan Jose Represa, a researcher at the Higher Research Council, considered the most sensible approach from now on was to investigate whether the malignancies may be related to other causes such as a high-dose exposure to chemical agents in the school or materials used to construct the school. The new study will include an examination of all sources of ionising and non-ionising radiation and will include an analysis of the school's water supply. All children and school staff will have a medical examination. A representative from the school will be invited to all the meetings of the public-health team.

On Jan 3, parents of children at the school filed a lawsuit against the local authorities because they had been prevented from entering the school without a legal order. The director of the school was also prevented from entering the school by the police. Luis Martin, a spokesman for the parents association, said that the closure, and move of the children to another school, was an attempt to put the aerials back into service.

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Schools & Cellular Antennas
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Effects of electromagnetic fields on the immune systems of occupationally exposed humans and mice
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1004430/

Roy: This is the first time I have seen a combined study re mice and humans that confirms immune changes re lymphocytes and neutrophils in the same way I have reported many times that my two grandsons' rare immune deficiencies improved after moving their beds away from a source of chronic, prolonged EMR exposure (electric meter) and the equally significant changes in guinea pigs before, during and after chronic, prolonged EMR exposure (electric meter).

Two CBC's were run on two guinea pigs prior to exposure exhibiting "normal results," severe and significant declines after exposure, and "improvement in white cell counts" in the surviving guinea pig. One died within 30 days of placement against "powerwall"/electric meter. Another set of two guinea pigs were found to have drastic white blood cell changes after exposure. In that set, one also died within 30 days and the other "improved" after moving the cage away from electric meter.

In this occupational study out of France, humans and mice were evaluated in same EMR environment with decline in blood parameters after exposure and improved blood results after EMR reduction. The exposures were apparently not as drastic as those due to sleeping close to electric appliances/electric meters and yet similar results were achieved.

You may recall that the boys' immunologist had told me he knew of a study or studies that found immune changes in mice due to low dose EMR exposures but that he didn't know how much of what happens to mice happens to people. That was about 14 years ago!!!!

The immunologist sent grandsons' blood to EMF researcher, Dr. Fatih Uckun but never told us the blood was going to an EMF researcher doing studies for the National Institute of Health (NIH)!!! Dr. Uckun has made statements that the gene is the same for Leukemia as that for Hypogammaglobulinemia (low immune).

As you know, Prof. Dennis Henshaw, an EMF researcher for the London Charity, Children With Leukaemia, recently released a study re electric appliances such as electric stoves, etc. All studies re EMR are important, but studies that will simulate EMR exposures to which children are now being subjected while trying to get the much-needed sleep to restore their bodies are vital. Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson has agreed to replicate those findings but needs funding.

It is essential that governments around-the-world re-introduce "prudent avoidance measures" -- recommendations that were being made back in the early 1990's!!!! Health costs are spiraling out-of-control and our children deserve to have their parents know that electric appliances/devices must not be close to the heads of their beds!!!! The children can't study if they don't get proper sleep. They can't study if they develop ADD or ADHD and learning problems due to sleeping close to electric appliances/devices/meters. They can't study if they are sick from EMR-induced asthma and other chronic inflammatory problems such as sinus infections, ear infections. Some go on to develop Leukemia.......

EMR levels in the French study appear to be lower than what would be measured from a bedside electric clock, fan, telephone equipment, power supply boxes, electric meters, monitors, etc. "on-the-pillow," therefor indicating an urgent need for action. The children can't wait while scientists try and determine whether the adverse health effects are promoted by RF (radio frequency) from the clock/meter, etc., whether due to polarization, multi-directional fields from the transformer, or whether a level of 1.0 mg "on-the-pillow" versus 2.0 mg, 3.0 mg or 4.0 mg!!!! High frequencies may be on electrical wiring including wiring right behind or next to a bed.

The children must not have ANY electrical items by the heads of their beds!!! Action required is minimal -- simply moving the electrical items and/or the bed away from a wall opposite a refrigerator, electric meter, etc. and virtually "cost-free!!!"

It is essential that I repeat much of what everyone who works every day for the EMR cause already knows (about our grandsons and guinea pigs) because the French study confirms my "non-expert, anecedotal reports" and, combined with other existing studies, leaves little doubt (unusual re medical/scientific studies) that there are grave reasons for immediate action!!!!

EMR activists also know adults are affected -- often close to "equally" re EMR effects linked to children. Adults die from Leukemia too and suffer from EMR-induced insomnia that causes every health problem. Many of us believe children are "God's gifts" or "gifts from a higher power" and, in fact, if we don't provide proper care, in many instances, the government intervenes to order medical treatment and/or to actually remove children from irresponsible, negligent parents.

As Don Maisch wrote the other day regarding my concerns about three Chinese children developing Leukemia after being adopted in the U.S.: "In a perfect world, all of these cases should be investigated [re EMR exposure]." Don is right, the world is "far from perfect" but there are a whole lot of scientists, politicians, industry leaders and others who continue to "let our children down!!!!"

Those smiles on childrens' faces are perfect and precious -- they depend on us -- they need our help!!!!

You and other EMR activists know the importance of informing the public re prudent avoidance. The "plea for help" is intended for others who will receive this email who know what needs to be done but choose to "pull the covers up" in their own beds, some of whom claim to "care about children" such as most politicians who don't even dare respond to the question "WHY hasn't the EMF Interagency Committee Report ever been released to Congress" and "WHEN will the information be presented to Congress???!!!"

Take care and best wishes to all who really DO CARE!!!! Joanne

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

VCD veröffentlicht Faltblatt zu Umweltfolgen des Flugverkehrs für Verbraucher, Betroffene und Bürgerinitiativen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6830.php

Die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace warnt, dass die Zunahme der Häufigkeit und der Intensität der Hurrikans im atlantischen Raum wahrscheinlich eine direkte Folge des Klimawandels ist. In den letzten 35 Jahren hat sich die Zahl der Tropenstürme sogar verdoppelt. Die Erhöhung der Meeresoberflächentemperaturen ist eine Folge des Klimawandels und erhöht dabei auch die Stärke der Hurrikans.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/6912.php

ZUKUNFT ERDE - Teil 2: Bürger zur Sonne, zur Freiheit – Das Solarzeitalter beginnt

Die humanste Vision für ein gutes 21. Jahrhundert heißt Solarzeitalter. Wir können es schaffen, in den nächsten 40 Jahren zu 100 Prozent auf Erneuerbare Energien umzusteigen. Wir brauchen kein Öl aus Arabien, kein Gas aus Sibirien, kein Uran aus Australien. Wir haben alle Energieträger, die wir künftig brauchen, direkt vor der Haustüre: Sonne, Wind, Wasserkraft, Erdwärme und Bioenergie vom Acker und vom Wald.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Zukunft/6899.php



ZUKUNFT ERDE - Teil 3: Die Sonne schickt uns keine Rechnung – Neue Energie – Neue Arbeitsplätze

Bis zu fünf Grad wird die globale Erderwärmung im 21. Jahrhundert zunehmen, wenn wir so weitermachen mit unseren heutigen Energieverbräuchen. Wir verbrennen nämlich in wenigen Jahrzehnten so viel Kohle, Gas und Öl, wie die Natur in einer Milliarde Jahre geschaffen hat. Wir verbrennen die Zukunft unserer Kinder und Enkel. Wir sind die Generation, die ihren Brut-Instinkt verloren hat.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Zukunft/6903.php



ZUKUNFT ERDE - Teil 4: Mehr Wohlstand mit weniger Energie?

Es könnte allen besser gehen Ein Gespenst geht um in Deutschland: Angst vor Wohlstandsverlust. Deshalb wird gejammert. Ganz Deutschland ein einzig Oberjammergau! Dabei wäre es hilfreicher, nach den Chancen in der Krise Ausschau zu halten und aktiv zu werden. Jammern hilft nicht solange wir Alle Teil des Problems sind. Hilfreicher ist die Frage: Wie werden wir Teil der Lösung? Ich möchte in dieser Zukunfts-Serie Lösungsansätze vorstellen. Dabei geht es nicht um Verzicht oder Askese, sondern um intelligentere Lösungen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Zukunft/6904.php

Schwarzbuch Öl - Eine Geschichte von Gier, Krieg, Macht und Geld

Rechtzeitig zur Hurrikan-Katastrophe und zur Benzinkrise: Das Buch über den Rohstoff, der die Welt bewegt: Erdöl - kein anderer Rohstoff hat so sehr Wohl und vor allem Wehe der jüngeren Weltgeschichte geprägt. Als Ursache für Kriege und Umweltzerstörung war und ist er das wichtigste Schmiermittel globaler Machtkämpfe - und der gefährlichste Feind von Demokratie und Wohlstand. Zwei renommierte Autoren gehen nun mit einem Buch an die Öffentlichkeit, das nahe legt, dass Hurrikan Katrina und die steigenden Spritpreise nur vergleichsweise harmlose Vorboten kommender Katastrophen sind.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Buchtipps/6913.php

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html


Informant: JHW369