Sep 28 2005

By Nick Capehorn

PROTESTERS are celebrating after plans to site a phone mast near the entrance to their Sandhurst estate were rejected.

Applicant T-Mobile UK Ltd wanted to build a 10-metre high phone mast with three antennae and two equipment cabinets at the junction of Crowthorne Road and Greenways.

But Longdown Lodge Estate Residents Association organised a 228-signature protest petition.

Householders in the 143 homes also sent out 40 letters opposing the plans which, they claimed, would see "ugly" cabinets placed on the island entrance to their drive.

After receiving support from Sandhurst Town Council, the group was finally able to celebrate when Bracknell Forest Borough Council's planning department rejected the plans on several grounds last week.

These reasons included cluttered appearance, highway safety and cycle path safety.

Chairman of the residents association Sue O'Sullivan said: "We are extremely proud of our estate, and the island is a very special feature.

"We take good care of the island and keep it in tip-top condition. The idea that someone would build a huge mast and two large ugly cabinets right in the middle of it appalled us."

Central Sandhurst councillor Peter North helped the group by building scale models of the cabinets to show what the island would look like with them on.

He said: "Once you could see what was being proposed it became obvious the plan had to be stopped, and armed with the photographs it was fairly easy to gain support.

"This was a great example of organised teamwork. Sue was ably supported; in particular by David Markby, a former chairman of the association, and also by a strong executive committee.

"Between them they were unstoppable. Sue is thrilled, and rightly so. There was a great deal to learn and very little time to absorb it all, they did a grand job. I am very proud of them."

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A GROUP of Glasgow artists is to boycott an annual open studios event over a row about the siting of a controversial mobile phone mast. Around 80% of artists at WASPS studios have vowed not to take part in "Open Studios" - Scotland's largest visual arts celebration, which was planned for October 8 and 9. Among the protesters are artist Ken Currie and internationally acclaimed collaborative duo Smith/Stewart. They are angry that T-Mobile has been given permission to site a mast on top of their flagship studio building in Alexandra Parade.

Artists at WASPS, which is a charitable organisation, and residents in Dennistoun claim they were not informed about the proposals, which will see a mobile phone base station sited yards from where they are working. A spokeman for the studio tenants said: "This is not a suitable site for a base station. Our concerns and those of the community have been ignored, and this is very bad for the image of WASPS. "We feel that a charitable organisation receiving large amounts of public money should not be involving itself in this sort of controversy. "There are more appropriate ways of raising money. We do not feel we can support the open studio day because of this, even though it will mean a significant loss of income for the artists." A petition with more than 600 signatures of local residents has already been handed into WASPS head office.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5043879.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0927-06.htm


Informant: John Calvert

But four weeks after New Orleans flooded and tens of thousands of other residents of the Gulf Coast also lost their homes and livelihoods, a stricter new personal bankruptcy law scheduled to take effect on October 17 is likely to deliver another blow to those dislocated by the storm.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092705N.shtml

The New York Times and much of the other news coverage of Saturday's anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, failed to note the presence of a particularly knowledgeable group of protestors - recently-returned veterans of the war in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092705M.shtml

The first results are in on who is set to profit from the Katrina cleanup, and - surprise - many of the firms winning major contracts have big political connections.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092705J.shtml

by Alan Cantwell, M.D.

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Cancer_Causing_Vaccines.html

The Global Polio Eradication Program, supported by the United Nation’s World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, Rotary International, and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), plans to immunise all African children in the coming months. The purpose is to stem a wild polio epidemic, the epicentre of which is in oil-rich Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.

The vaccine program hit a snag in the Fall of 2003 when Islamic clerics in the predominantly Muslim-populated areas of northern Nigeria claimed the WHO program was a plot by Westerners to depopulate the area. Laboratory tests revealed estrogen and other female sex hormones in the polio vaccine, proof the vaccines were contaminated with substances that could cause sterility. Furthermore, Nigerian officials became aware of internet reports suggesting the WHO vaccine might be contaminated with HIV (the AIDS virus) and other cancer-causing viruses. African blacks are as suspicious of government vaccine programs as American blacks. A 1990 survey of African-Americans in New York City showed 30% believed AIDS is an ethno-specific bioweapon designed in a laboratory to kill black people.

Dr. David Heymann, who heads the WHO eradication program, says the oral polio vaccine (which contains live but attenuated polio virus) is completely safe. He blames Nigerians for exporting polio to surrounding nations.

The WHO, the world’s leading international health and science agency, is mired in power politics. For example, the Bush administration now restricts communications between the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and WHO officials. A new HHS policy requires the WHO to submit all requests for expert scientific advice to political officials at HHS who will then choose which federal scientists will be permitted to respond. The new policy and two recent US administration decisions to withdraw federal scientists from major international health conferences are part of a disturbing pattern of political interference in global health issues.

Antifertility Vaccines and the WHO

In March 2004, Haruna Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and Dean of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, took samples of WHO’s controversial oral polio vaccine to India for analysis. Evidence of serious vaccine contamination was found. According to a March 11, 2004 report on www.lifesite.net, Kaita was asked why drug manufacturers would contaminate the oral polio vaccine. He gave three reasons: “These manufacturers or promoters of these harmful things have a secret agenda which only further research can reveal. Secondly they have always taken us in the third world for granted, thinking we don’t have the capacity, knowledge and equipment to conduct tests that would reveal such contaminants. And very unfortunately they also have people to defend their atrocities within our midst, and worst still some of these are supposed to be our own professionals who we rely on to protect our interests.” Dr. Kaita is demanding that “those who imported this fake drug in the name of Polio Vaccines… be prosecuted like any other criminal.”

This is not the first time the WHO has been called on the carpet to explain their surreptitious use of antifertility vaccines. Millions of female Mexicans, Nicaraguans and Filipinos were duped into taking tetanus vaccines, some of which were laced with a female hormone that could cause miscarriage and sterilisation. In 1995, a Catholic organisation called Human Life International accused the WHO of promoting this Canadian-made tetanus vaccine covertly laced with a pregnancy hormone called human choriogonadotropic hormone (HCG). Suspicions were aroused when the tetanus vaccine was prescribed in the peculiar dose of five multiple injections over a three month period, and recommended only to women of child-bearing age. When an unusual number of women experienced vaginal bleeding and miscarriages after the shots, a hormone additive was uncovered as the cause.

It is no secret that since the 1970’s the WHO has been testing and funding antifertility vaccine research that would make a woman’s immune system attack and destroy her own babies in the womb. In Geneva in 1989 the WHO sponsored a Symposium on Antifertility Vaccines and Contraceptive Vaccines.

Third-world women who received the laced tetanus shots not only developed antibodies to tetanus, but developed dangerous antibodies to the pregnancy HCG hormone as well. Without HCG, growth of the fetus is impaired. Consequently, the WHO’s vaccine served as a covert and unsuspected contraceptive device. Commissioned to analyse the vaccine, the Philippines Medical Association found that 20 percent of the WHO tetanus vaccines were contaminated with the hormone. The WHO has denied all accusations as “completely false and without basis,” and the US media never reported on the controversy. For further details, go to www.google.com and type-in key words “WHO + antifertility vaccine”, or “Philippines + antifertility vaccine.”

Following an eight month boycott, on June 24, 2004, the recalcitrant Nigerians agreed to resume polio vaccinations, under the conditions the polio vaccine had to be manufactured in Indonesia and nowhere else. In October 2004, the United Nations began its program of immunising 80 million children in 23 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

The WHO and the Man-Made Theory of AIDS

Unlike most Americans, Africans are aware of the man-made theory of AIDS, and the possibility the WHO’s extensive vaccine programs in Africa in the 1970s are connected to the severe outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s.

On May 11, 1987, the London Times, one of the world’s most respected newspapers, published an explosive article entitled, “Smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus.” The story suggested the smallpox eradication vaccine program sponsored by the WHO was responsible for unleashing AIDS in Africa. Almost 100 million Africans living in central Africa were inoculated by the WHO. The vaccine was held responsible for awakening a “dormant” AIDS virus infection on the continent.

An advisor to the WHO admitted, “Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation for the explosion of AIDS.” Robert Gallo, M.D., the co-discoverer of HIV, told The Times, “The link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV.” Despite the tremendous importance of this story, the US media was totally silent on the report, and Gallo never spoke of it again.

In September 1987, at a conference sponsored by the National Health Federation in Monrovia, California, William Campbell Douglass, M.D., bluntly blamed the WHO for murdering Africa with the AIDS virus. In a widely circulated reprint of his talk entitled “W.H.O. Murdered Africa”, he accused the organisation of encouraging virologists and molecular biologists to work with deadly animal viruses in an attempt to make an immunosuppressive hybrid virus that would be deadly to humans.

From the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (Volume 47, p.259, 1972), he quoted a passage that stated: “An attempt should be made to see if viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune function. The possibility should be looked into that the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting virus damages, more or less selectively, the cell responding to the virus.” According to Douglass, “That’s AIDS. What the WHO is saying in plain English is ‘Let’s cook up a virus that selectively destroys the T-cell system of man, an acquired immune deficiency.’” The entire article can be read on google.com (“WHO Murdered Africa”).

In his 1989 book, AIDS: The End of Civilisation, Douglass claims the WHO laced the African vaccines. He blames “the virologists of the world, the sorcerers who brought us this ghastly plague, and have formed a united front in denying that the virus was laboratory-made from known, lethal animal viruses. The scientific party line is that a monkey in Africa with AIDS bit a native on the butt. The native then went to town and gave it to a prostitute who gave it to a local banker who gave it to his wife and three girl friends, and wham – 75 million people became infected with AIDS in Africa. An entirely preposterous story.”

Indeed, in my two books on man-made AIDS – AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Epidemic (1988), and in Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot (1993), there is much evidence to show that throughout the 1970s (the decade that preceded the AIDS outbreak in the US and Africa) there was widespread laboratory transfer of animal viruses, particularly primate/simian/monkey/chimpanzee viruses, by virologists. Various animal viruses were pumped into different species of animals and into all sorts of cell cultures. This experimentation was undertaken to find, create, and develop new cancer-causing and immunosuppressive viruses. It is these species-jumping laboratory primate viruses that are the source of “human” immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – not the animals in the wild in Africa.

To researchers who believe whole-heartedly AIDS is a man-made disease, the evidence is crystal clear that the “primate ancestor virus of HIV” jumped species via contaminated vaccine programs, namely the extensive WHO-sponsored vaccine programs in sub-Saharan Africa during the 1970’s, and the experimental hepatitis B vaccine (1978-1981) that was injected exclusively into gay men just prior to the outbreak of AIDS in America. (More on this later.)

Cancer-causing Monkey Viruses and the Polio Vaccine

Americans have been told repeatedly that HIV/AIDS is the first time a monkey virus has jumped species to cause a new epidemic called AIDS. But the rarely-publicised truth is that a cancer-causing monkey virus jumped species a half century ago when contaminated polio vaccines were given to millions of people on the planet, including half the US population of that era.

In the early 1960’s it was discovered that some lots of polio vaccines manufactured on rhesus monkey kidney tissue during the period 1955 to 1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus called SV40 (Simian [monkey] virus #40). This primate virus was quickly proven to cause various cancers in experimental animals. However, to this day, US government officials still insist there is no absolute proof that SV40 causes human cancer.

Despite the lack of government interest in SV40 in human cancer for three decades, genetic and immunologic studies by independent researchers over the past decade indicate this virus is clearly associated with human cancer, such as rapidly-fatal cancers of the lung (mesothelioma), bone marrow cancer (multiple myeloma), brain tumours in children, and other forms of cancer.

A Washington Times report (September 21, 2003) indicates, “Some of the polio vaccine given to millions of American children from 1962 until 2000 could have been contaminated with a monkey virus that shows up in some cancers, according to documents and testimony to be delivered to a House committee Wednesday. The vaccine manufacturer said such claims ‘don’t have any validity,’ and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agrees. Documents set to be delivered to the House Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness appear to show that the original ‘seeds’ used to produce the Sabin [oral] vaccine could have been tainted with SV40; that the company that manufactured the vaccine, Wyeth Lederle, may have used Rhesus monkeys – which are more likely to carry the disease – rather than the African Green monkeys it says it used, according to company documents; and that the company may not have performed all of the screening tests required.”

Stanley P. Kops is a lawyer who represents children and adults damaged by polio vaccines. He has documentation indicating the polio virus “seeds” from which the oral vaccine is made are still not proven to be free of SV40. In his article entitled “Oral polio vaccine and human cancer: a reassessment of SV40 as a contaminant based upon legal documents”, appearing in the journal Anticancer Research (November 2000), Kops states:

“In litigation involving the Lederle oral polio vaccine, the manufacturer’s internal documents failed to reveal such removal [of SV40] in all of the seeds. The absence of confirmatory testing of the seeds, as well as testimony of a Lederle manager, indicate that this claim of removal of SV40 and the testing for SV40 in all the seeds cannot be fully substantiated. These legal documents and testimony indicate that the scientific community should not be content with prior assumptions that SV40 could not have been in the oral polio vaccine. Only further investigation by outside scientific and independent researchers who can review the test results claimed in the January 1997 meeting and who can conduct their own independent evaluations by testing all the seeds and individual mono-valent pools will assure that SV40 has not been present in commercially sold oral poliovirus vaccine manufactured by Lederle.”

More information on Kops, SV40, and polio litigation can be found at http://www.sv40cancer.com.

More than 600 million doses of polio vaccine were sold by Lederle from 1963 to 1999. On January 1, 2000, the CDC recommended injections of an inactivated killed polio vaccine (IPV) that eliminates the risk of spreading the disease, unlike the oral live polio vaccine that had been used for decades. This prompted Lederle to get out of the polio vaccine business, and the last batch of Orimune was produced on December 31, 1999.

For anyone who still thinks vaccine makers and government health officials are always your friend, I would highly recommend a just-published book titled AIDS. The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher. The book explores the history of the polio vaccine, the contamination problems with SV40, the ensuing vaccine-related cancer problems, and the government’s cover-up of the problem over the past three decades.

Few people realise how dangerous vaccines can be and how complicated the process of vaccine manufacture really is, particularly when vaccines are made on living animal or human cells. Contamination with bacteria and viruses and their elimination from the final product are constant problems during the process. There are also recent suspicions that the laboratory media used to feed and nourish the cell cultures upon which the virus is grown may also be a source of contamination. (For further details on the dangers of vaccines, see “Are Vaccines Causing More Diseases than they are Curing?” New Dawn No. 63, November-December 2000)

The Polio Vaccine/ Primate Virus Connection to African AIDS
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Cancer_Causing_Vaccines.html


Informant: ireland

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Dr Alan Cantwell/Paranoia

Cantwell's research into AIDS, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and autoimmune diseases as bio-engineered illnesses is very important. You'll find several articles on the http://www.whale.to website [ http://tinyurl.com/3y4qdr ].

D.


Media Buzzwords To Silence The Politically Incorrect
http://www.whale.to/m/cantwell.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Cantwell

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 CONTACT: BILL GOOLD (202) 225-5161 OR (202) 226-4055

CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS CO-CHAIRS AND MEMBERS OPPOSE PRESIDENT BUSH AWARDING HURRICANE -RELATED CONTRACTS AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DISCREDITED HALLIBURTON CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee, Co-Chairwomen of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and 17 of their colleagues today released a copy of their letter to President Bush demanding that Halliburton be suspended from eligibility for any additional hurricane -related or other federal contracts pending resolution of all current allegations alleging waste, fraud, and other contract-related abuses by this company in Iraq and elsewhere.

"It took President Bush nearly five days after Hurricane Katrina hit to mobilize a federal response and relief effort that was even partially effective," Woolsey noted. "Even then among his first actions were to suspend the applicable labor laws, effectively cutting the paychecks of the American workers involved in recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans (e.g. Davis-Bacon Act). Adding insult to injury, he also awarded a lucrative, no-bid contract to a subsidiary of Vice President Cheney's old company - The Halliburton Corporation. Yet, there is mounting evidence that Halliburton is guilty of egregious waste, fraud, and abuse of the hard-earned money of the American taxpayers. It is wrong for the President to award Halliburton and its subsidiaries new, sole-source contracts on top of the more than $10 billion that this company has already received since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office."

"The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the tragic consequences of having an Administration where cronyism trumps competence," said Lee. "The fact that the President would cut wages for impacted workers, while handing out millions in no-bid contracts to well connected firms is a perfect snapshot to this Administration's priorities."


OWEN E. DELL


"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)


Informant: Hopedance

Kennzeichnungspflicht gefordert: Protest bei Raiffeisenverband für gentechnikfreie Futtermittel (27.09.05)

Landwirte haben auf dem Gelände des Deutschen Raiffeisenverbandes in Bonn gegen dessen Pro-Gentechnik-Kurs demonstriert. Seit Beginn der Kennzeichnungspflicht für gentechnisch veränderte Futtermittel im April 2004 weigere sich der größte deutsche Futterhändler beharrlich, gentechnikfreie Futtermittel zu verkaufen. Obwohl er diese eingelagert habe, gebe der Raiffeisenverband nicht bekannt, wo sie erhältlich seien. Unterstützt wurden die Bauern bei ihrer Aktion von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL), Bioland und dem Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND).

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11939

by John Pilger

Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two British SAS special forces men “rescued” from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what were they planning to do with them? Why did the British military authorities in Iraq put out an unbelievable version of the circumstances that led up to armoured vehicles smashing down the wall of a prison? According to the head of Basra’s Governing Council, which has co-operated with the British, five civilians were killed by British soldiers. A judge says nine. How much is an Iraqi life worth? Is there to be no honest accounting in Britain for this sinister event, or do we simply accept Defence Secretary John Reid’s customary arrogance? “Iraqi law is very clear,” he said. “British personnel are immune from Iraqi legal process.” He omitted to say that this fake immunity was invented by Iraq’s occupiers....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Pilger0927.htm

by Jason Leopold

It's one thing to lie in politics. It's another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader? The Tennessee Republican claims he wasn’t privy to any inside information leading up to the sale of his stock in Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the country’s largest for-profit hospital chain founded by Frist’s father, Thomas, and brother, Thomas Jr., weeks before the company reported lower than expected earnings July 13 that sent the stock south. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the matter, a spokesman for the senator said last week, to determine if Frist broke any laws....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Leopold0927.htm

by Sarah Meyer

On September 12, KTLA reported that in New Orleans “federal public safety officials said that a military C-130 cargo plane was to begin spraying clouds of insecticide . . . to kill a growing population of disease-bearing mosquitoes.” The authorities noted that this spraying “would not pose a health threat.” Really?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Meyer0927.htm

TO continues round-the-clock information support for everyone impacted by Katrina. We will provide the best sources available for the most up-to-date and expansive coverage possible.

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

TO's coverage of the Senate's review of John G. Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court is under way: "Roberts for Life?" A hard look at the future of American Justice.

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

HLV INFO 151/AT (Auszug)

27-09-2005

Verstärkung der WHO durch Mobilfunklobbyist Direktor des Dänischen Gesundheitsrats, Dr J. Kr. Gøtrik

(s. auch HLV INFO 150/AT v. 26-09-05)


Lieber Herr Tittmann,

habe die Nachricht von Frau Prof. Dr. Kwee übersetzt, damit die Lobbywirtschaft der WHO Tragweite von Jedermann nachvollzogen werden kann!

Herzliche Grüße

Claus Scheingraber


A new member/director on the WHO board has been appointed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1001756/

Übersetzung

Freunde!

Ein neuer Direktor wurde für das WHO-Entscheidungsgremium ernannt. Es handelt sich um den Direktor des Dänischen Gesundheitsrats, Herrn J. Kr. Goetrik, einen der eifrigsten Unterstützer der Mobilfunkindustrie. Trotz aller wissenschaftlichen Fakten, fährt er fort zu behaupten, es gibt keine Beweise, dass Mobiltelefone und besonders Mobilfunkbasisstationen für die menschliche Gesundheit gefährlich sind. Nur nach deutlichem, politischen Druck, der auf Grund der öffentlichen Meinung und der seines Arbeitgebers, dem Gesundheitsminister, entstand, musste er zugestehen, dass Kinder vielleicht doch den Gebrauch von Handys einschränken sollten, trotzdem, dass es keine Beweis für die Gefährlichkeit bei Kindern gibt.

Ich – Sianette Kwee – habe zu jeder Zeit die Wahrheit über die gesundheitlichen Effekte durch Mobiltelefone erzählt, sowohl der Presse, dem Fernsehen, der Öffentlichkeit und danach auch meinen Arbeitgeber. Der Dekan der medizinischen Fakultät und der Rektor der Universität erhielten einen Brief von ihm, in dem er verlangte, ich sollte meine Äußerungen gegenüber der Presse abstreiten und sie sollten mich stoppen in der Öffentlichkeit zu sprechen! Herr Goetrik war auch der frühere Direktor der Dänischen Krebsgesellschaft und so Christoffer Johansens Chef und ständiger Aufpasser. So wird seine Ernennung entschieden den Standpunkt der Mobilfunkindustrie in der WHO stärken.

Übersetzung: Dr. Scheingraber 27-9-05

The House Committee on Government Reform has published a new edition of its popular "Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records."

The Guide, first published in 1977, "is one of the most widely read congressional committee reports in history," the new edition says.

A copy of the updated Guide, House Report 109-226, September 20, 2005, is available here: http://www.fas.org/sgp/foia/citizen.html


Informant: NHNE

Next-up organisation vient de mettre en ligne la trame de son SOMMAIRE: http://www.next-up.org

Celui-ci sera chargé au cours des jours à venir, mais dès à présent, vous pouvez télécharger le film: ˝Téléphonie Mobile, Sommes-nous tous de cobayes?˝ http://www.next-up.org/films_intro_0.php de la réalisatrice Joaquina Ferreira.Trois serveurs sont disponibles, choissiez celui qui est le plus rapide, (en principe moins de 20 à 30 mn).

27/09/2005 17:06

A Moray village is vowing to take on one of Britain's biggest mobile phone companies, which wants to build a mast in their community.

They say Vodafone's ignoring local democracy after the firm asked the Scottish Executive to overrule a council decision forbidding the construction.

Cutting into the north east coastline, Cullen is a conservation village.

With nearly 240 listed buildings lining its streets, many householders need council permission just to repair a broken window pane.

So when the local authority threw out Vodaphone's bid to erect a fifty foot mast here, locals were relieved, but not surprised.

But Vodaphone wouldn't take no for answer....

This man works for the Scottish Executive.

Mr Smith, as he introduced himself, was sent this afternoon to re-assess Vodaphone's application.

The company wants the Executive to over-ride Moray Council's refusal...and the people of Cullen are furious:

In a statement to Grampian TV, Vodaphone said they never take the decision to appeal lightly and try to weigh up everyone's concerns.

But with an ever increasing demand for mobile communication, they need to build more base stations to carry the network.

The Scottish Executive says it will make a decision on the mast application by early November at the latest.

Cullen says if it's approved, they'll continue to fight against it.

http://northtonight.grampiantv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=7572

27/9/2005

Fleet News and Mail

HART District Council is on collision course with a mobile phone company it believes installed phone mast equipment illegally.

The council is to take enforcement action against Airwave MMO2 after it attached mobile phone masts to a water tower in Bracknell Lane, Hartley Wintney.

The council may even take the company to the High Court if it refuses to remove the masts.

The row started in late 2003 when the phone company installed three ‘whip’ antennae on the water tower.

The company claims that it had planning permission to do this but the council disagrees, stating that it did not approve the application.

Airwave MMO2 appealed but this was dismissed by a planning inspector — although a previous inspector ruled in its favour.

It has since made two further applications to retain the equipment for a further six months and a second to fix alternative equipment lower down the water tower.

These applications were rejected by councillors last week.

Last week members of the council’s planning enforcement committee agreed to take the company to the High Court in a bid to have the original antennae, which were installed in 2003, removed.

“The council understands the distress that the unauthorised equipment is causing to local residents and is seeking its removal as quickly as possible,” said Cllr Viv Street, chairman of the committee.

“We will stand up to those who seek to breach the law designed to protect our local community.”

Residents have been fighting the phone masts in Hartley Wintney since 1999.

In particularly, they have been opposed to the masts attached to the water tower.

People in Trefoil Close and surrounding roads fear the masts could be endangering their health as well as spoiling their view.

Campaigner Marre Dafforn welcomed the decision by the council to take enforcement action against Airwave MMO2 but believes that the company has more tricks up its sleeve.

She said: “I am delighted that the council is taking enforcement action.

“I think that most people are frustrated with how long this has taken.

“Airwave is using every planning loophole possible to put in more applications and I expect that court proceedings may be delayed by this if they put in more appeals.”

But Mrs Dafforn added that residents will have to wait a long time until they achieve their aim of getting the masts removed completely.

She added: “Airwave has spent a lot of money.

“It is not going to leave quietly.”

Airwave MMO2 is providing equipment for Hampshire Constabulary which wants to use the Hartley Wintney water tower as a site for the national police force’s new £3billion mobile radio system aimed at dramatically improving police communications.

John Scott, head of planning at Manchester-based chartered surveyors Pentland Ltd, which is an agent for Airwave MMO2, said the company believed it was in the public interest to be able to provide the coverage required by Hampshire police.

He added that it was an error by the council’s planning official’s that had led to the lengthy row with Airwave MMO2.

When Airwave MMO2 received the planning application back from the council it stated that planning permission had been granted even though reasons had been given to refuse it.

It seems that there had been an apparent misprint.

Airwave MMO2 appealed against this and a planning inspector ruled in its favour.

Mr Scott said the company proceeded with installing the equipment on the tower, but then after the council appealed another planning inspector overturned the original decision.

He declined to comment on whether Airwave MMO2 was confident it would win its case if went to the High Court.

Sep 28 2005

Surrey Online

By Patsy Payne

AN HISTORIC tree-lined avenue used by King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales is under threat from developers anxious to build a radio base station there.

Third generation phone company Hutchison has infuriated residents with its application to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

Householders rallied in force in Ringley Park Avenue, Reigate, recently, to protest at plans for a 12-metre pole with three antennae, an antenna dish and radio equipment housing on the footway immediately south of 2 The Chase.

The Kentish-style house's owners, musicians Lynn and Jonathon Myall, along with their three teenage children, are devastated at the proposal.

They were heartened at the support from their neighbours, who are equally incensed at what they see as a violation of Reigate's historic past.

Almost 200 turned out, complete with banners and "protective" foil indicating their fear at perceived electromagnetic field health risks associated with 3G masts.

Although these are not yet recognised in England, a report by the Government's Health Protection Agency, due out next month, is expected to state that increasing numbers of British people are suffering from electrosensitivity - a heightened reaction to electrical energy such as that emitted from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens. Symptoms include nausea, headaches and muscle pain, memory loss and dizziness.

Mrs Myall said: "Although we can only officially object on siting and location, we intend to raise the health risk element, now Britain is to join Sweden in recognising electrosensitivity. We planned to see our days out here, but if this goes up we would have to move. I couldn't risk it for my children and my grandchildren."

The site is also on the main approach to Dunottar School.

Jean Hobson, the headmistress, said: "My main concern is for the health of the pupils. We have insufficient evidence about the long-term effect of radiation from these masts."

But the aesthetics of the proposal and its intrusion on the avenue of chestnut trees in a popular walk, is causing grave concern to groups such as The Reigate Society.

Its new president, Reigate and Banstead MP Crispin Blunt, agrees that the visual impairment would be unwelcome and believes it to be detrimental to the area's character.

He said he was writing to the council to ask that they are satisfied that there is absolutely no technical alternative. "I cannot believe that there is not," his letter says.

Ward councillor for the area Steve Kulka accused Hutchison of misleading residents. He said: "They wrote to residents and said they had liaised with a senior planning officer at the council who felt the proposed site to be the best, giving the impression they had had a long consultation. This is not the case."

Mike Davies, of Hutchison 3G UK, said the firm would have entered into pre-application discussions with council planners. He added: "As a wireless operator we have to comply absolutely with very high scientific standards set by the World Health Organisation. We have been told the result of this results in no adverse health effects to any members of the public living near to one of our sites."

Omega see "The unbridled alliance of science and industry" under:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/297097/ and "Dirty dealings by Hutchison" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/988162/

By Jolene Hill
This is Local London

RESIDENTS could demand compensation when a report into health problems linked to mobile phone masts is published.

Government body the Health Protection Agency (HPA) is to release research revealing a full list of symptoms, which includes headaches, extreme tiredness, dizziness, memory loss and depression, associated with electromagnetic fields found around masts.

The news comes as no surprise to members of pressure group Orpington Residents Against Masts.

Many of them live near the BT telephone exchange building in Chislehurst Road, Orpington.

Since masts on the building became operational in March, residents say they have experienced health problems associated with electrosensitivity.

Susan Green's son suffered insomnia and headaches. Radiation detectors revealed high levels above his bed.

When £500 metal panels which shield his room were placed in the attic and the bed was moved, the 10-year-old felt better immediately.

Mrs Green said: "We know from our health surveys and contacts with residents' groups across the borough and the country many families living near masts suffer debilitating symptoms.

"It's scandalous councils and the Government continue to allow the siting of these masts in residential areas and on schools."

"These are only the short-term effects, what about the long-term effects?"

She says this could open the floodgates for people applying for compensation, as was the case when smoking was found to have bad health effects.

Mrs Green also claims the Government will have to reconsider the placement of many masts.

Orpington councillor Chris Maines said: "It's interesting the Government is now supporting residents' fears but it's quite possibly too little, too late.

"There is the concern scientists have been aware of this for some time and the public has not been privy to that information."

Community liaison manager for O2 James Stevenson said: "O2 has great sympathy for anybody suffering from electrosensitivity and we have contributed a large sum of money so the tests and scientific research into our industry can be continued."

The HPA report is expected to be published next month.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4849457


Informant: John Fitz

Stirling Newberry: Many fiscal conservatives now are decrying George W. Bush and his fiscal priorities as "liberal." George Bush isn't a fiscal liberal, he's a fiscal libertine, and there is a wide difference.

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

Marjorie Cohn concludes that George W. Bush's two masters - the neoconservatives and the right-wing Christians - were the guiding force behind his decision to invade Iraq, change its regime, and control it permanently. Cohn says that it is time for the US to get out of the business of funding killing and occupation, and into the business of funding healthcare, jobs, education and housing.

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

Follow links to original reports at http://www.traprockpeace.org

George Galloway and Friends Rock the House to Close Historic Day in Washington, D.C. Hear the diverse voices, and see the photos - of this unforgettable program. (more below)
http://www.traprockpeace.org/george_galloway_dc_92405.html

See 198 Photos - virtually the entire DC march, including coverage of the huge "College Not Combat - Relief Not War" contingent called by Campus Antiwar Network. The contingent drew over 2000 students and supporters to DC and San Francisco marches.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/march_dc_092405/

National Exhibit on uranium weapons educates hundreds of activists on these illegal and inhumane weapons. See photos and links to resources:
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_092405/


More on George Galloway Tour Finale: (first some quotes from the evening)

"We have to raise our demands. We don't want Bush out of the Whitehouse, we want Bush in prison with Blair and all the other war criminals who have brought us to this pass." - George Galloway

As Muhammed Ali said: "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger. And I will not fight for Democracy in Vietnam when I cannot fight for Democracy in Mississippi." Prophetic words coming after Hurricane Katrina showed the world that the government that claims to be able to rebuild nations, cannot save its own citizens..." - Ahmed Shawki

"I have asked Tony Blair to meet me for a year, and his answer always is 'I don't wand to debate a grieving mother.' We know why he doesn't want to debate a grieving mother." - Rose Gentle

"Only when the the United States is at peace with itself can it be at peace with this world. We cannot allow the administration to deny the people of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans the right to return as they deny the Palestinians the right to return." - Elias Rashmawi

"They hated the occupation, they hated the power that oppressed them. But whenever there was room for dialogue, there was dialogue. Whenever there was room for tea, there was tea. Whenever there was room for food, there was food and they shared it with us. They shared their Holy Koran with me, a Christian occupier of their land. So the notion that they need 160,000 foreign troops in order to succeed is offensive to me." - Camilo Mejia

George Galloway, Member of Parliament - UK (Respect Unity Coalition), spoke to a capacity audience at the First Congregational Church in Washington, DC. Ralph Nadar and Dennis Brutus were special guests, while Louisiana activists were honored (see below). Appearing with Galloway were, in order of speaking, Virginia Harabin (moderator); Mounzer Sleiman, PhD, who made welcoming remarks on behalf of National Council of Arab Americans; Camilo Mejia, Army soldier who refused to fight in Iraq; he is a conscientious objector and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Elias Rashmawi, National Council of Arab Americans; Rose Gentle, founding member of Military Families Against the War (UK); and Ahmed Shawki, Editor, International Socialist Review and Board member of National Council of Arab Americans - he introduced George Galloway.

Download audio and see photos at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/george_galloway_dc_92405.html

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From ufpj-news

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton the United States has "lost control" of its budget deficit, the French minister said on Saturday.

http://tinyurl.com/d2svc


From Information Clearing House

Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice
http://www.aclu.org/court/court.cfm?ID=19163&c=317


From Information Clearing House

The UN's nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, officially signed Iran's death-warrant yesterday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10402.htm

The US Army has asked companies to bid for contracts to produce large quantities of anthrax and equipment to produce other unnamed biological agents, according to New Scientist, but has not said what it needs the facilities for.

http://tinyurl.com/c5gqr


From Information Clearing House

Since the beginning of the Iraq war, Halliburton, the Texas energy giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has seen its stock price more than triple in value.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/stock_troop2.html


From Information Clearing House

When Army Capt. Ian Fishback told his company and battalion commanders that soldiers were abusing Iraqi prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention, he says, they told him those rules were easily skirted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10394.htm

Audio

"We have to raise our demands. We don't want Bush out of the Whitehouse, we want Bush in prison with Blair and all the other war criminals who have brought us to this pass."

http://tinyurl.com/dfjzl


From Information Clearing House

She stood up and was handcuffed, then led to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, "The whole world is watching.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10403.htm



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

Many Americans are overcoming the lies they have been "programmed" to believe since they were able to fashion conscious, coherent thoughts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10401.htm

Does anyone remember the shock with which the British public greeted the revelation four years ago that one of the members of the Real IRA unit whose bombing attack in Omagh on August 15, 1998 killed twenty-nine civilians had been a double agent, a British army soldier?

http://tinyurl.com/84hk5


From Information Clearing House

by Butler Shaffer

Galloway went on to remind people that the families of those who died on 9/11 did not suffer any greater pain than did the relatives of Iraqis and Afghans who died from American and British bombings. Each suffered unjustifiable deaths delivered from the sky.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10396.htm

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:06:40 -0000
From: ecetiwebmaster
Subject: Global Warming

I have watched the spin on Global Warming down playing it as a cycle that will go away soon, nothing to worry about. They boast we will rebuild, even better. The only structure safe for the hurricane ravaged areas is a submarine. What they are not telling you about Global Warming is the dynamics. It is a grand cycle which is aggravated by humanity and the air pollution, "Greenhouse effect", created by humanity. The sun is continuing to expand; it is hitting the Earth over and over with CMEs and Solar Flares. This is creating unstable weather, tornadoes, hurricanes and pressure on the fault lines as well. The Earth is overheating and the heat is creating pressure which has to be released through earthquake and volcanic activity. There are thousands of undersea volcanoes that are presently heating up the oceans. Remember those aquarium heaters; just imagine tossing a few extras into the aquarium. The warm waters are generating massive storms, hurricanes and tornadoes. Add the solar activity which generates more unstable weather and you have the dynamics for disaster. The ionosphere is super charged, the Earth as well is acting like a giant capacitor. This also will generate storms with unprecedented lightning activity.

This is not going to decrease, it is going to increase and despite some very arrogant leaders who did not learn from the Titanic, Nature is a humbling force. I would not recommend rebuilding unless on higher ground and using new technologies that can withstand the onslaught of Nature. Personally I would have a water tight dome with a submarine door.

But wait there is more to the story. Our heliosphere is glowing at the leading edge as our solar system moves through the universe. The planets are all undergoing atmospheric changes each emitting up to three times more light. This as well is creating change on every level. The magnetic fields are fluctuating as these massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections sweep across the planets. This affects our bio electric fields around the human body. Stanford Research showed that moneys when subjected to changes in the magnetic fields exhibited behavior from comatose to self mutilation. This might explain our current leadership which seems to be missing a few oars out of the water. Or is it just greed?

Our present path is unsustainable yet they are determined to stay the course and refuse to allow fueless energy, frequency healing technologies, and choose peace. The main reason is it is bad for business. I think environmental collapse is bad for business. Food shortages are bad for business. Rampant disease and plagues are bad for business; war is not in the highest and best good of anyone. Unless of course you are in a position of capitalizing on the continuation of burning toxic gas emitting fossil fuels, the continuation of disease and war all of which our leadership is heavily invested in. To make it plain and simple they are capitalizing at the expense of humanity and the Earth. Owning the media as well is why you are getting the spin on all is well, this will pass, it is all natural and soon it will be business as usual. The Earth is liken to the Titanic and we need a new captain and crew if we are going to steer clear of that which is to come. It is time to implement the fueless energy technologies, allow the new healing technologies to come forward, choose peace and work together because the next Great War will be the terror delivered by Nature. Is Nature intelligent? Have we assaulted her on every front? Is there a reaction to actions against humanity and nature? This is a question for every soul to contemplate.

Be well
James Gilliland
selfmasteryearthinstitute.org


Informant: Di


DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE: A DECLARATION FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL http://omega.twoday.net/stories/990236/

Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:48 PM

Ron Scott

500,000 People Vanish in Washington, DC

Imagine 500,000 people marching down the meandering thoroughfares of Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. They are headed for a date with destiny and the promise of peace, conjoined with a challenge for justice. How could they vanish from the headlines?

Rod Serling, the brilliant creator/writer of “The Twilight Zone,” might have written this intro to one of his teleplays during the 1960s. But it didn’t happen then. It happened this weekend, with our media, in our country, in our time.

“They came from as far away as Alaska and California,” reported Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan African Newswire, “from Europe to the nation's capital itself, to make a clear statement that United States military forces should withdraw immediately from Iraq. Honest crowd estimates of the demonstration ranged from 500,000-600,000 (some even thought there were more) making it the largest demonstration in the capital since the winter of 2003.”

Journalist Azikiwe rode the bus with 200 Detroiters who attended this national anti-war march in Washington, DC and stood on the Mall with thousands who watched speakers ranging from the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Cindy Sheehan to activist Curtis Muhammad from New Orleans. He provided a full report on this historic event.

But the corporate media was nowhere to be found. The demonstration was lost on CNN. It was buried on MSNBC. It barely escaped a muffle on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and the old, reliable NPR (National Public Radio). If you had been watching C-SPAN, you would have seen the speakers (but not the march), but how many people watches C-SPAN?

The media failed to cover the largest antiwar demonstration in America since the Vietnam era. That’s not happening in “The Twilight Zone.” That is reality today.

Where were they? Covering local news at home? In Iraq? Or covering the Ashton Kucher/Demi Moore wedding?

No. They had a date with Rita. Celeb anchorpersons, clad in Tommy Hilfiger and St. John knits, were standing in knee-deep water as a backdrop. How many stories about Rita did we need? It’s a tragedy, of course, but in Washington, a challenge to the Bush administration was in full gear, and the cameras, recorders, and reporters’ notepads were missing. If it wasn’t real, it would be science fiction.

The failure of the media to cover this, perhaps one of the most important events of this young century, challenges those who read this blog and those who consider themselves to be committed Americans on the left, right, and in between, to fight for full disclosure and total coverage of what’s happening in our communities throughout the nation. We’ve seen too many “in-bed-with” media, too many laughing anchorpersons, and too many roving reporters who scream only after the story is over.

The Bush administration needs to be covered, and covered seriously. To any of you who remember history prior to 1980, lesser failures on the part of a President brought his resignation. That was Richard M. Nixon. Today, the chief executive of this country, and an administration which has clearly attempted to silence the media, needs to be accessed, researched, and critiqued—even when the winds are blowing in Texas.

http://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=5304


What would happen to the Biological Weapons Convention if other countries followed suit and built large biological production facilities at secretive military bases known for weapons testing? -- --Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, on U.S. plans to purchase large quantities of a nonvirulent strain of anthrax and additional biological equipment.

Molly P Johnson
6290 Hawk Ridge Place,San Miguel, CA 93451
805 467-2431


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Corals in the Caribbean are being damaged by the same warm seas that have fuelled Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Corals off Florida, Barbados, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Cuba seemed to be undergoing the worst damage, known as bleaching, since 1997-1998.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092605EC.shtml

Please distribute far and wide (incl. media) - INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT AGAINST BOTSWANA - - ISOLATE THE TSWANA OVERLORDS -

WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF HUMANITY, MUST BEAT BACK THE BOTSWANA TERROR REGIME! - see Call for Action below these horrible news:


BOTSWANA LAUNCHES FULL-SCALE CRACKDOWN ON BUSHMEN: LEADERS IMPRISONED, CHILDREN ARRESTED, RESISTERS SHOT AT
26 September 2005

The leaders of the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari have been arrested and imprisoned. They were among a group of 28 Bushmen, including seven children, who were seized by police as they tried to enter their ancestral homeland, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Their fate is now uncertain.

The Bushmen were attempting to highlight the plight of their relatives still inside the reserve. With the reserve sealed off, all hunting banned, their radio transmitters confiscated, no water allowed in and armed wildlife guards in every Bushman community, those Bushmen still holding out in the reserve have little means of survival.

The last message sent by the Bushmen in the reserve read, 'They are firing over our heads, they are beating us, we don't know if we can hold out.'

At least two Bushmen have reportedly been shot at; one is recovering in hospital, and one has since been arrested.

The government has banned journalists from entering the reserve. A group of Americans probing allegations of repression in the reserve, including the Chair of Human Rights Watch, report that they were followed, questioned, intimidated and harassed for three days by Wildlife Department officials, and finally escorted out of the reserve by armed guards.

This repression is the culmination of the government's crackdown on all Bushman resistance to their forced relocation. It comes despite the fact that the court case to establish whether the Bushmen's eviction was lawful is still going on. Rafael Runco, Chair of Survival International, said today, 'Botswana's government seems to have gone totally off the rails. Faced with criticism from all quarters, it's simply lashing out at the easiest targets - the Bushmen who it's been persecuting for so long. What it's doing now is coming perilously close to genocide - a systematic attempt to destroy an ethnic group.'

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE To read this press release online, visit
http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=1051

For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org


ECOTERRA Intl. CALLS FOR ACTION

TAKE ACTION

- BOYCOTT BOTSWANA - - ISOLATE THE TSWANA OVERLORDS -

1. TELL all your friends and associates about the atrocities the state and corporate terrorists of Botswana commit against the indigenous peoples of the Kalahari - send them the
http://survival-international.org and http://www.khoisanpeoples.org for references.

Warn them from the spindoctors, like Clifford Maribe, who publish their blurs of deceit on the government website of the state or through the paid mainstream media. Clifford Maribe, the propaganda mouthpiece of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana has close family links to still-President Festus Mogae and is a self-styled adversary to Survival International and other international Human Rights Organizations, who stand beside the first peoples of southern Africa in the defence of their rights. Maribe, who can not possibly disassociate himself from the ruling elites of today's Botswana, politically as well as concerning his own family relations, must be compared to Goebbels, the propaganda minister of Adolf Hitler, in their struggle to exterminate another human race. But unlike Goebbels, who claimed to have a vision, Maribe does it purely for blood-money and "because it is my job!"

Be aware that the churches are deeply entangled in the oppression of the spirited traditional peoples of the southern African wildlands.

2. BOYCOTT EVERYTHING BOTSWANA. Don't buy anything from Botswana, don't spend your vacation money in Botswana, cancel all business contracts with the oppressors. Boycott especially all companies, like de Beers, who profit from the suffering.

3. COMBAT the sale of blood diamonds from Botswana. Demand from the UN and the international diamond cartel that all diamonds from Botswana are classified as blood-diamonds and their trading is banned. Stop going out with people who buy, sell or wear diamonds from Botswana - throw them off your party! Name them and publicly shame them !

4. DEMAND from your own government a very clear boycott of the present Republic of Botswana in every respect: Any political or economic support, any co-operation with governmental officials or aid to the present Botswana governance under FESTUS MOGAE, the governance puppet of the Tswana Paramount Chief - styled Kgôsikgolo -, must STOP NOW! Not a single tax Dollar, Euro or Yen shall be given from the pockets of citizens of free nations to this terror state governance. Governmental and church officials from Botswana must be banned from all international bodies and meetings, incl. the UN and the AU, like it was done with the Apartheid regime of former South Africa.

5. CONTACT your nearest Botswana High Commission (their Embassy), demand freedom for the traditional bushmen (San and Khoi peoples) and tell them what you already did and are going to achieve with your boycott. Isolate the Botswana oppressors. They are just a phone-call away from you - hopefully they will tape what you have to say, so use a public phone.

For those, who again want to express their outrage - Write to:

The Hon F G Mogae President of the Republic Private Bag 001 Gaborone Botswana Fax: + 267 3956 086 and, if possible, copy to: Mr Nicky Oppenheimer Chairman De Beers 17 Charterhouse Street London EC1N 6RA UK Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 4730

All these actions must continue until the oppression of the first peoples of southern Africa is stopped, until all their rights are re-instituted and specifically their right to self-determination as well as to their lands and natural resources is guaranteed - once and for all!

Crack down on the Botswana overlord governance and their corporate stirrup holders wherever you find them!

BOYCOTT - BOYCOTT - BOYCOTT and CUT BOTSWANA BUSINESS AND THEIR PRESENT GOVERNANCE OUT FROM ANYTHING AND WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM ! - Until they stop the ethnocide and genocide against the First Peoples of the Kalahari !

KICK THE PRESENT BOTSWANA REGIME OUT OF THE UN, since they do not listen to the findings of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and his Special Rapporteur anyway!

BOTSWANA is not a signatory to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, but the Tswana overlord governance is persistently violating these internationally agreed standards - see
http://www.khoisanpeoples.org/indepth/ind-ilo-no-169.htm

And like in Namibia and South-Africa, i.e. in compliance of and in complicity with European and other Northern World interests in natural resources exploitation as well as together with the massive proselytism by the churches, the overlord governance in Botswana is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, which must bring them and their corporate allies in crime before the International Criminal Court of Justice.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements, most prominently the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.


ECOTERRA Intl.

Scientists who are studying evolution from a celestial perspective believe that there are four kinds of celestial events and cosmic forces that might be triggering The Shift:

• Galactic Cycles,
• Solar Cycles,
• Solar Events and
• Supernovas.

There is a tremendous amount of evidence in these four areas indicating that we are deep into the Great Shifting of the Ages. So let’s look at the first: galactic cycles. They are created by the rotation of our galaxy through evenly-spaced zones of energy that are not visible to the naked eye. It takes approximately 26 million years to pass through one of these zones and it appears that we are now moving into one that is more highly charged. Moving through this accelerated energy is changing our DNA, our consciousness and triggering our metamorphosis into Christed Beings.


http://weinholds.org/2012_3.asp


Informant: Di




A Moral Compass For Life's Journey
http://tinyurl.com/5u4l8

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0926-28.htm



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

I’ve been SO distraught in my paying attention to politics this last 5-1/2 years that I just KNEW I had to slap down $200 for a plane ticket and go to the big Sept. 24th March on Washington. It was worth everything!

Since I used to live in Wash. DC, I was fortunate to be able to stay with friends. I flew in late Thursday night after work. Friday morning I trekked out to see what was happening on the mall in preparation for the BIG DAY Saturday.

First I went up to the Capitol. For a few years now the Bushies have turned the grounds into a huge pile of rubble. SO ugly. I used to go up there a few times a week and watch band concerts on the beautiful grounds. Now it is all construction site. I talked with a Capitol visitor guide who whispered to me that though they say they’re building a fancy underground visitor’s center, it is in reality going to be a bomb shelter for Congress … strongly similar to an airplane’s black box … impenetrable. The guide said I was the first person he/she (to protect the innocent) met who was going to the march and he/she hoped there would be a HUGE turnout. Said that things at the Capitol have turned so rigid and stifling under this administration. At the front of the Capitol they had cops … one carrying an AK-47 machine gun!

I walked down the mall, shuffling into Smithsonians to escape the extreme humid heat. I passed a book fair on the mall and then, down by the Washington Monument, FINALLY got to OUR PEOPLE! There was a big tent that was labeled “Camp Casey III” – Cindy Sheehan’s group. Outside of it, crosses had been erected to signify all the American soldiers who had died, as well as many pairs of their boots (Casey Sheehan’s boots had been stolen by a right winger the week before!). Inside the tent there was a big map that we all could sign on our states. People were so helpful inside, and excited.

I walked on to the Vietnam Memorial, but saw a lone middle aged man standing on busy Constitution Avenue with an “Impeach Bush” sign. I stood with him awhile and we got many cars honking for the concept. I admired his courage … reminded me of the lone Chinese man in front of the tank in Tianneman Square. An hour later, he was STILL there, so I stood with him getting cars to wave for another hour or so and drawing a crowd. We had lots of “takers” for getting Bush impeached.

That evening, about 250 of us gathered at the Sheehan tent in a circle and listened to speakers … mainly family members who had lost a soldier, family members worried to death that their currently alive soldier wouldn't return or soldiers who were recently returned and disgusted with it all. Murmurs emerged that some were worried the march hadn’t been very well publicized and we wouldn’t get a big crowd Saturday. WRONG! (I really do believe there were probably 300,000, as they say ... more than the amount of our soldiers in Iraq!) Then there was a candlelight processional to the Vietnam Memorial.

SATURDAY I woke up, as excited as a kid before Christmas. I donned my “I’m NOT with Stupid” (pointing to an idiotic looking picture of Bush) T-shirt and went downtown early to see the preparations for the big march. On the underground metro train, a few people excitedly asked if I was going to the march (DUH!). Though they liked my shirt, one guy said he believed Bush was more conniving, greedy and criminal than stupid. Interesting. Maybe he’s right, but I stand by my shirt!

Lots of people were on the downtown streets early, putting protest signs together and directing people and moving down toward the mall. I wanted to go by the White House first. Already there were quite a few cops and snipers on the White House and surrounding building’s roofs. I said to some cops, “Be nice to us today” and they said, “You be nice to us too.” One short, pudgy self-described “Marine” held a sign in front of the White House that said, “War, not Peace”. I walked by and said, “You’re kidding, right?” and he said “No”. The cops started getting nervous. I said, “You like war? ” and he said “yes”. I said I like diplomacy better myself. It was all quite friendly.

I talked with the elderly lady who has camped in her peace tent in front of the White House for 25 years, day and night, winter and summer (www.______). I said she must really be excited today, but she said it’s another day for her to preach peace. She seriously, as always, held up pictures of children deformed by depleted uranium to the bystanders on the sidewalk. I’ve talked with her for years and she’s wonderful and down to earth. She's also in "Fahrenheit 911".

I headed to the Mall and it was flooded as far as you could see with droves of people walking to the meeting place and tons of signs being assembled for people to choose from. I ran into some who had ridden all night busses. Two tired older gals said though their minds were drowsy, at least their bodies were there for the protest. My state of Wisconsin had 17 busses go!
(but I flew... can't take that anymore).

Though I hardly saw anybody I knew, I heard George Martin’s (from Milwaukee) voice rousing up the crowd over at the stage area. We heard that the train from New York and through Philadelphia had electrical problems(!) and that tens of thousands coming down from those areas couldn’t make it down in time but were having spontaneous demonstrations on whatever train platform they were stranded at. Of course, we were all greatly suspicious of who might have shut off those trains!

Suddenly, it appeared the march was starting. Thousands and thousands of us marched up to the White House, believing this was it! But, 1-1/12 hours later, as we all returned to the Mall, we were greeted with thousands more who asked why we were all going the other way. It turned out this second march was the REAL one! So we joined in again! And HUGE it was! An ocean of people of all ages and races … even dogs sporting “Beagles for Peace” scarves, Buddhists, Nuns, gay folks, many, many young folks, “Raging Grannies”, “Billionaires for Bush”, “Bimbos for Bush” sporting long missiles in “interesting” locations on their bodies. Signs stating the hope for a peaceful world to signs calling this administration liars, questioning God making this president with “intelligent design”, signs to “Bring the troops home now” and to stop the war, signs linking the need for hurricane relief and domestic needs to our costly war (“Make Levees, Not War”). There were folks in Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Condi costumes … wearing prison garb, or Bush in a flight suit or Bush being manipulated like a manikin by a devil behind him. My feet hurt, so I stood in front of the White House watching it all go by. A man sported a Clinton mask and a dress and heels with a sign saying “Clinton for First Lady”. Even a tall, angelic, sandal-clad “Jesus” was there (could it be?!). I got my picture taken with "Jesus" who didn’t comment on my “I’m NOT with stupid T-shirt.” (By the way, my T-shirt was a big hit and about a dozen people asked to take my picture).

The signs that struck me the hardest and probably most expressed my feelings were the ones that said, “Ashamed of my country” or “Ashamed to be an American”. Very tragic to see and to feel.

Reuters news service interviewed me on why I was protesting. I said, “Where do I begin? But got off a few good sound bites about not having ever believed in the weapons of mass destruction, the tragedy of our low standing in the world because of our policies and how these policies have bankrupted our nation... and our infrastructure. I was also filmed by many other crews and I jokingly/nervously asked some if they were with the CIA, though one fellow protestor laughed and said he didn’t mind “updating” his CIA photo with his latest likeness.

Of course, the Gold Star Families were the most touching, as they carried pictures of their lost loved ones around their necks. They were the sad ones who weren’t reveling in releasing their angry feelings like the rest of us, I thought. When their group stalled in front of me, I asked a black mom if she had a loved one in the war and she said her daughter is now home but suffers from tremendous Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and “Survivor Guilt”. She hurt her wrist one day and another person went on patrol in her place. That person was blown up and killed. The mom wants the daughter to get help but the daughter doesn’t trust anybody. I felt so sad for that teary-eyed mom.

Around 40 young soldiers marched too … one rough guy with lots of tattoos said he wanted to stick it to Bush and that this war didn’t make sense. Lots of older Vietnam vets marched, as well as vets from other wars. One VERY old man walked painfully and seriously alone, determined to make his statement nonetheless. I won't forget him, though he seemed lost in the crowd.

I had wanted to carry a “Worst President Ever” sign, but they had run out so I carried one with an evil looking Cheney and a dumb looking “W” that simply said “LIARS”. 2 different bystanders on the route asked me who the “Cheney” picture was!

Since I was standing in front of the White House (Bush had flown off earlier on Friday to "oversee the operations for Hurricane Rita” … RIGHT!), I saw quite a few marchers “go haywire” in front of the (by now) hundreds of cops (some with machine guns) standing next to us, blocking us from the front of the White House. Some protestors would just lose it and shout at the cops that they should be facing the other way and attending to the “real criminals” behind them – asking them how they could defend such people. It was unfair, I thought, because they were just doing their job. Actually, the police were on their guard, but taking it all in stride nicely, I thought. They seemed to loosen up as the day went on, even though lots of drumming started up and many of the younger people got into some frenzied dancing in the park across from the White House.

As we marched back, there were 4 guys, one with a bullhorn nervously telling us that all the problems aren’t Bush’s fault but our own sinful natures. That didn’t go well with many who really told them off. I saw one guy on the sidewalk with a sign saying “Hippies, go to Hell”. I guess there was a pro-war contingent of a few hundred? who confronted our group at some point, but it didn’t amount to much.

After the march there was a big concert with rappers, Joan Baez, speakers, etc. (I missed a lot of the speakers I would have wanted to hear… the march went till about 5:00 for me).

I went back to the Cindy Sheehan tent before going home and THERE SHE WAS, off by the “cemetery”, standing 2 feet from me and hugging whoever wanted to come up. Cindy smiled so warmly at each and was so down to earth. Of course, my film ran out just before I got to her.

An older guy sitting in a chair in the “cemetery” got talking with me a bit. It turns out he’s one of the “keepers” of it -- helps put up the crosses in towns across the country. He also knows actor and peace and justice advocate Martin Sheen quite well. He told me something astonishing… He said, “This might be the last march of this size that you will ever see in your lifetime.” I said, what?! … Bush has 3-1/2 more years, but the guy thought Bush was on the downslide now and that people have finally started to put their feet down on wars like this. Hope he’s right.

Lastly, as I was about to go home, a sad, lien, quiet, handsome Hispanic man came up to me and others and gave us crisp envelopes. He said that his soldier son’s last letter was inside and he felt that if we read it, it would help keep his son alive. His son was Lance Corporal Arredondo, killed in Najaf in a gun battle. The letter talks about how after he signed up (after 9-11), his whole life changed “in an instant”. The next thing he knew, he was dressed in full combat gear. He was proud to serve his country and walking the “path of a proud warrior” but also wished he was back home with his girlfriend – wondering if he’d made the right decision to join up.

Well, that was it. I didn’t quite know why I went … to help support the other activists, to help make a statement to the country… but it wasn’t until I was flying back on the plane last night that I realized the biggest benefactor of my being there was ME. After sitting by myself swearing in front of the TV set and reading and fretting about how blind our citizens are, I was able to live for awhile in a crowd of hundreds of thousands who were just as outraged and adamant that I am about the direction this country we love has taken. I wish you all could have been there.


Debbie
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin


Dare to be a hero
Dare to stand alone
Dare to find a purpose
Dare to make it known


From ufpj-news

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3127


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Cindy Sheehan
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MARK THESE WORDS, THIS EVENT: HERE NOW IS THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. It will take 20 years to fully win it, but this is the beginning. It may be no more than a brief skirmish at the moment, but these people are blazing the path.

Ask yourself, is Cindy Sheehan leading a Ghandian non-violent revolution?

The first objective of this revolution should be to force Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice out of office.

Since we have a government which no longer functions except by executive fiat, and since we no longer have a prosecutorial class nor poltical parties which are remotely interested in doing their jobs by serving the public interest, perhaps the best method and the only method available to us is for 50 million people to sit down, sandbag Federal government offices, EVERYWHERE, except where they are serving emergencies, sing songs, and refuse to move.

A lot of people will have to go to jail until the Imperial regime realizes that it can't hang onto its power any better than it has in Iraq or "made America safer". The regime can stuff several million people into concentration holding pens and create a monumental human crisis beyond any known, but if people keep coming, like the masses who followed Ghandi. The Imperials cannot win. They will break, run, and Congress will be forced to impeach the Bushiters and install the Speaker of the House as a President for the remainder of this term.

The focus should be: impeach them

The people should form themselves up as a Committee To Impeach The Imperials.

It could be done, the question is, are enough people fully and trully fed up and angry enough to disrupt their lives for a few months with civil disobedience trespassing and disorderly citations?

Ghandi's movement won because people just kept on coming. LIke a vast unrelenting hurricane, the people just kept coming at the British and totally overwhelmed them, all with non-violent tactics of total opposition and refusal to be moved by the Brits. They literally sandbagged the Brits with their bodies. Finally the British realized they were too exhausted to continue their bluff. They handed off independence to the Indians.

This current political establishment in Washington DC is so corrupt and dishonest, it is easy to call their bluff. Nobody believes them. We just need to all call their bluff all together with a load voice. The concerted hurricane will blow them right out of office.

Also see below: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605Y.shtml#1
Sheehan Arrested during Anti-War Protest •

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, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, and many veterans and their family members.

More to come.



http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092605antiwar_lat,0,1300769.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews Goto Original

Sheehan Arrested during Anti-War Protest By Ryan G. Murphy and Emma Vaughn The Los Angeles Times

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.


Best Wishes,
Michael Wells
Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona
USA




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



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

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92217;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92245;show_parent=1

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=92212;show_parent=1



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

(excerpt)

IN THE MEANTIME, THIS IS IMPORTANT. I AM GOING TO CALL EACH DAY. WE ALL NEED TO CALL EACH DAY. JUST RANT AS INCOHERENTLY OR AS ARTICULATELY AS YOU DESIRE.

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:25:09 -0800
From: The Pen
URGENT: Blog posting action opposing John Roberts

THOM HARTMANN DEVOTES MOST OF SHOW TO STOP ROBERTS MOVEMENT

If you were listening to Thom Hartmann on his widely syndicated radio program today, you know he was breathing fire in opposition to John Roberts. You also know from your own experience that the primary toll-free telephone number for Congress (877-762-8762) is mysteriously and suddenly out of commission with just a fast circuit busy signal (try it yourself), even in the middle of the night. Yes, Thom thought that was extremely odd also, especially with so many of us calling to declare our strong opposition to John Roberts.

WHAT WE MUST NOW DO is create a permanent record of this situation and use that to generate even more messages and phone calls to the Senate in the next 24 hours. If you are a member of any BLOGS go to ALL of them overnight and start a new thread or article, and/or leave a comment on an existing one. In your own words there are three simple key points we need to make in any order you like:

1) Whether we have in fact overloaded the primary toll-free number with our calls or whether someone deliberately cut the line to slow down the calls, it is in FACT down now.

2) There is a growing ground swell of opposition to the stealth reactionary Roberts that can no longer be ignored.

3) To take action there are two alternative toll-free numbers still working, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588, plus an action page that will give you all the direct phone and fax numbers of your own senators, http://www.millionphonemarch.com.

What we want to accomplish is to create as many entries on as many blog threads as possible, to reach as many people as we can who wish they knew what to do to stop this administration from scuttling our Supreme Court, but who just don't where to start. Feel free to make your own arguments as to why Roberts must be stopped, just as you do when you send your personal messages to your senators. If you would like some additional ideas, this piece from OpEd News might be useful:

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

Leahy, Feingold and Kohl have been excoriated on the blogs for their judiciary committee votes, 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.

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.millionphonemarch.com

ALSO be sure to submit the email submission part of the above page yourself in addition to the calls you have already made. Take heart that we have achieved alot of radio visibility in the last couple days. More and more people are starting the question why Roberts is being hustled through the process without even a proper examination of what he really stands for. Will it be enough? That is entirely up to us alone. First we must BELIEVE we can win. After that the rest is easy.

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.

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Best Wishes,
Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona USA

by Tim Grieve Salon
September 26, 2005

Crowd counting isn't an exact science. And even at its best, it's not much of a proxy for a well-conducted public opinion poll. But still, isn't it at least a little interesting to compare the numbers generated by the big antiwar protest in Washington Saturday with the two pro-war rallies that came before and after it?

As Jeff Horwitz writes in Salon, the organizers of Saturday's protest "claimed as many as 250,000 demonstrators attended; though D.C. police estimates were more conservative, none pegged the crowd at below 100,000." USA Today said the protest drew "at least 100,000." The Associated Press called it "an estimated 100,000 people." And the Washington Post quoted D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey, who, when asked whether the protest drew at least 150,000 people, said, "That's as good a guess as any."

How does that stack up against the America Supports You Freedom Walk and country music concert the Pentagon sponsored on the fourth anniversary of 9/11 earlier this month? There's no comparison, really. While one Pentagon official claimed that the pro-war event drew 17,000, newspaper accounts put the real number at somewhere between "several thousand" and "about 10,000" -- and a good number of those were apparently government employees who had been urged by their supervisors to attend.

And what about this Sunday's pro-war demonstration? Organizers of that event said they hoped to draw 10,000 people to Washington. How'd they do? The Associated Press says Sunday's event drew "hundreds," which was "far fewer than organizers had expected." The conservative Washington Times puts a finer point on it, saying an "estimated 400 people" participated in the pro-war rally that was meant to "counter Saturday's anti-war protests, which attracted as many as 100,000 people. according to police estimates."


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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sheehan/sheehan18.html



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

Eine Übersicht und Materialsammlung zu Hintergründen und Verlauf der amerikaweiten Auseinandersetzungen ums Wasser: und wie sich die Taktiken der ehrenwerten Gesellschaften aus Deutschland, den USA und Frankreich geändert haben, nachdem sie in zahlreichen Großstädten gehen mußten, ohne ihr Ding gedreht zu haben, weil ständig anwachsende soziale Bewegungen sie daran gehindert haben.

"Das Wasser gehört allen", eine Dokumentation vom 20.September
2005: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/la/wasser.html


Aus: LabourNet, 27. September 2005

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/26/05

In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of politics, when government fails, and fails spectacularly as it did with Hurricane Katrina, the only thing to do is give it gobs more money to make everything right. But when has government made anything right? Even when it seems to do something worthwhile, we soon discover the horrific unintended consequences of its actions. On net, government as we know it is a liability, not an asset...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0509e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Common Dreams
by Linda Milazzo

09/26/05

Since the pioneer days of the suffragettes, who fought valiantly for women's rights, activist women have experienced a metamorphosis in method, mission and manner. 'The early suffragettes were viewed with contempt, physically assaulted and even imprisoned. Later feminists were perceived by most men and many women as distasteful and threatening. Their critics deemed them unladylike and unfashionable. ... Except for a small band of devoted husbands, fathers, boyfriends and friends, these hyper-independent freedom fighters usually fought alone. But current public opinion has shifted dramatically ... In today's society, the once spurned feminist/activists are acknowledged as credible protagonists, skilled at social change. They are welcome partners to those who share their views and worrisome adversaries to those who do not. And in this imperiled new global world, imperially governed by George W. Bush. ... highly evolved women activists are more necessary than ever.' And so I've become one...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0926-24.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Press
by Bob Fitrakis

09/26/05

In Mussolini's Italy and in Nazi Germany, a quarter of a million people never took to the streets as Mayer laments: 'But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join you, never comes. That's the difficulty.' Our problem is different. What if a quarter million people or more march in the street and demand that our leader be impeached or tried before an international tribunal or indicted, and the media refuses to cover it? That's what happened. A call from Debbie in the Finger Lakes of New York said that her local news claimed the 250 pro-Bush counter-demonstrators were the same size as the 250,000 anti-Bush protesters. Similar calls came in from New Jersey. Yet, the superpower of peace has the internet, the blogs, streaming video and can document the corruption, complicity and moral cowardice of the infotainment conglomerates. Our job is simple. To speak truth to power on the streets and on the internet. To engage in lobbying and civil disobedience. And to do everything in our power to drive W from office and stop the war in Iraq. The whole world is watching and the vast majority are with us...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2005/1474



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

Boston Globe
by Joseph P. Kennedy II

The huge run-ups in energy prices have created record profits for oil and gas companies, refiners, shippers, and other players in the energy industry. What may surprise many people is that one of the principal beneficiaries of the price spikes is the US government. When energy costs soar, the federal treasury sees massive infusions of royalties from energy companies for oil and gas extracted from federal lands and waters. While the government collects a windfall, the poor just reap the cold. The federal treasury should not be making money off of elderly Americans and working families shivering in their homes during the winter. It's time that every cent of unearned windfall goes toward fuel assistance for the poor. Using $25 a barrel as a baseline ... the federal government ought to channel royalties collected on higher prices into energy aid for low-income households... [editor's note: This is deceptive, but notice he is talking about the windfalls the FEDS get, not the oil corps themselves - SAT] (09/26/05)

http://tinyurl.com/d9j58


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Sierra Times
by Al Benson Jr.

09/26/05

Most who have read anything about Hurricane Katrina realize that FEMA totally blew it in this case. 'You're doing a heck of a job' Brown is now history. But will that make any real difference? Based on past FEMA performanc that possibility is highly doubtful. Can you spell 'abolition?'

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/09/26/64_12_116_12_42214.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Tennessean
by Tim Chavez

09/26/05

One thought turned public sympathy into outrage over the abandoning of New Orleans' most vulnerable residents during Hurricane Katrina: How could this Third World-like tragedy be happening in the most powerful and affluent nation on the globe? And anger was further fueled by the realization that America has spent more than $200 billion and almost 2,000 lives to ensure better lives in Iraq. Now consider the same scenario here, set against the great wealth that abounds in the health-care industry. Yet our state is denying our most vulnerable citizens help to afford medicines to prolong lives while forcing others to emergency rooms for care that will bankrupt families. Many working poor Tennesseans are part of the 200,000 TennCare recipients being cut from the program. And several hundred thousand more Tennesseans -- including those described by the governor as the sickest -- have had the number of prescriptions covered by TennCare reduced to five. How can our state government expect diabetics to play Russian Roulette with their health, choosing between insulin and assorted medicines to address heart, stroke and kidney conditions besides ulcers on their feet? Skip one, and you're headed to hospital or morgue...

http://tinyurl.com/8tots


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Christian Science Monitor
by Matt Towery

09/27/05

A day of reckoning is coming for Republicans and conservatives, and it is approaching rapidly. Because of a series of natural disasters, unspeakable acts of terrorism, and the responses to them, this country is headed beyond a mere budget crisis. We're drifting toward a five-alarm financial fiasco. And like Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, attention is focused on issues like the Senate's handwringing about the Supreme Court seats to be filled. Meanwhile, huge sums of money are necessarily committed to restoring what's left of the Gulf states after hurricane Katrina. ... This spotlights the painful budgetary collision between spending that's unavoidable and spending that's discretionary. The problem is that no 'discretion' is being exercised...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0927/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Sierra Times
by Andrew Walden

09/26/05

What is it that bends and twists the soul of man in New Orleans such that he shoots at his rescuers, steals televisions while others drown, and then blames all and sundry for not helping enough? Biloxi and the rural areas of costal Louisiana and Mississippi have similar ethnic makeup and are equally hard-hit; yet they were not witness to the self-imposed parts of New Orleans’ devastation. The answer lies in the peculiar political economy of dependency in New Orleans, home to some of America’s last remaining old-style housing 'projects,' home to legions of life-long welfare recipients and home to the bureaucratic and corrupt political structure which sustains itself by maintaining its 'clients' -- in poverty. While the American economy has boomed for two decades, New Orleans remains a city where over 100,000 people cannot afford their own car. .. New Orleans is one of a few cities where welfare has been taken to its full logic...

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/09/26/70_95_22_150_19808.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer

09/27/05

'If we expect large changes but are very uncertain as to what precise form these changes will take, then our confidence will be weak.' So wrote John Maynard Keynes in his classic General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936. That might explain why consumer confidence fell 14 percent after Katrina cut a swathe through Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, to its lowest level since 1992. Like markets, consumers abhor uncertainty. And uncertainty abounds. Weather forecasters are now joined by economic forecasters as the stars of 24-hour business new channels. As the economists dance to the weather forecasters' tune, and revise and re-revise their own forecasts, oil and natural gas prices dance to the economists' tune. Meanwhile, sober analysts attempt to look beyond these short-term blips, but do little to reduce uncertainty...

http://tinyurl.com/bwduw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

09/26/05

Bellicose U.S. behavior toward North Korea and other 'rogue' states during recent administrations has reinforced North Korea's intrinsic paranoia. The Clinton administration bombed Serbia during the conflicts over Bosnia and Kosovo and launched air strikes on Iraq to get rid of Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration invaded Iraq to do the same. North Korea could see that non-nuclear Serbia and Iraq got no respect from the United States and quickly redoubled its efforts to develop the only military capability that could keep the superpower at bay -- a credible nuclear arsenal. Iran has read the tea leaves much the same way and has done much the same thing...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1576


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Ray McGovern

09/27/05

Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John Warner took a strong rhetorical stand against torture early last year after seeing the photos from Abu Ghraib. Then he succumbed to strong political pressure to postpone Senate hearings on the subject until after the November 2004 election. Those of us who live in Virginia might probe our consciences on this. Shall we citizens of the once-proud Old Dominion simply acquiesce while Sen. Warner shirks his constitutional duty? We have come a long way since Virginia patriot Patrick Henry loudly insisted that the rack and the screw were barbaric practices that must be left behind in the Old World, or we are 'lost and undone.' Can Americans from other states consult their own consciences with respect to what justice may require of them in denouncing torture as passionately as the patriots who founded our nation?

http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=7407


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The cancer
Liberty For All
by Ed Lewis

What feeds the cancer is what people believe are Government 'benefits,' for your safety, for your children, and hundreds of other senseless phrases hiding Government agendas unknown to the most of the people, which is strange since every act of so-called 'leaders' has had exactly the opposite effect on the real world -- the world we live in that the elite do not. Additionally feeding it are the many projects to assure people stay divided, that we are not allowed to evolve to the realization that we are all human beings, not 'natural or human resources' existing only for the privilege of use by those who feed the cancer...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/sept30/Cancer.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Strike the Root
by Don Olson

09/26/05

In the majority of America , in what Washington politicians derisively call the 'flyover states,' there is a firm conviction that the Constitution is an able protector of our liberties. Those in power likely laugh among themselves at the idea that a piece of paper can restrain their massive political clout, the trillions of dollars at their disposal, and their millions of armed police and soldiers sworn to obey orders unquestioningly. The powerful and influential in government no doubt read countless academic declamations of constitutional violations, and then go about their business of legislating, policing, prosecuting, and judging unscathed...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/olson/olson1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Milton Friedman, John Mackey and T.J. Rodgers

Reason

A Reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T.J. Rodgers... (for publication 10/05)

http://www.reason.com/0510/fe.mf.rethinking.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Raw Story

09/26/05

CBS News' Bob Schieffer just announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rehired ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown -- as a consultant to evaluate the agency's response to the disaster! From CBS's Katrina blog: 'Sept. 26, 2005 /6:44 p.m. (CBS) -- CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's [sic] response following Hurricane Katrina'... [Editor's note: Talk about foxes guarding henhouses! - MLS]

http://tinyurl.com/74n4g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

St. Patrick's Four [press release]

09/26/05

Members of the St. Patrick's Four, their families, friends and legal team were grateful to learn that the jury, after over seven hours of deliberation, had found the peace activists not guilty of the most serious charge, conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States. 'The decision to acquit on the conspiracy charge, a felony, is a huge victory, given the narrow parameters within which the four could present their defense, and given the restrictions on deliberations. This is a major setback in the government's efforts to criminalize dissent,' said Bill Quigley, acclaimed public interest lawyer and law professor at Loyola University School of Law, who has been acting as legal advisor to the defendants. The four were convicted on lesser charges, damage to property and trespassing, both misdemeanors which carry possible sentences of one year and six months respectively...

http://www.stpatricksfour.org/press09-26-2005.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Wired News

09/26/05

Sister Glenn Anne McPhee is a busy woman. As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' secretary for education, Sister McPhee oversees Catholic education in the United States, from nursery school through post-graduate. Her job includes working with the Department of Education, speaking frequently at conferences and scrutinizing religious textbooks to clear them with the teachings of the church. For nine months in 2003 and 2004, Sister McPhee also took on the task of clearing her name from the government's no-fly list, an endeavor that proved fruitless until she called on a higher power, the White House. ... McPhee is not the first high-profile individual to be caught by the government's watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy and former presidential candidate John Anderson both found that their names matched names on the list, but like McPhee, were able to resolve the problem by contacting powerful officials...

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68973,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CNN

09/26/05

President Bush said he wants to make it easier for the military to take charge after a disaster like Hurricane Katrina, but the White House acknowledged Monday the proposal raises 'a lot of issues' that need resolution. Critics argue that putting active-duty troops on American streets would violate a long-standing tradition that keeps the military out of domestic law enforcement...

http://tinyurl.com/abpau


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Observer [UK]

09/25/05

An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars. The public's reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods to the administration's attempt to offer citizens 'a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq' has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that country...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577750,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

I got to the White House around noon and found hundreds of people gathered awaiting the arrival of marchers who planned to get themselves arrested protesting the war.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3119

PDA Grassroots Conference a Success

On Sunday, Progressive Democrats of America held a soldout conference in DC to strategize about promoting a progressive agenda in Congress and around the country.

Photos:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3113

Grassroots Media Strategy:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3114

Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus Grows
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3120

Rep. Hinchey Speaks Up About Bush
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3123

http://tinyurl.com/6x76ej

Epilepsy girl will learn at home after radio mast victory

With brief comment at
http://www.tetrawatch.net/main/news.php

Not exactly a victory. What stupidity recognises that Nicola is shut out of her school for medical reasons linked to TETRA, whilst denying that there is any connection?

Epilepsy girl, 12, will learn at home after radio mast victory
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/1100education/tm_objectid=16177836&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=epilepsy-girl--12--will-learn-at-home-after-radio-mast-victory-name_page.html

... this case there was a need to establish a direct link between the Tetra mast and ... "Currently, there is no definitive scientific proof that airwave base stations ...

Andy


Epilepsy girl, 12, will learn at home after radio mast victory. The police spokewoman said: ‘Currently, there is no definitive scientific proof that airwave base stations affect people who are susceptible to epilepsy.’

But please take time to read this paper on masts and epilepsy:

Electromagnetic Radiation and Epilepsy
http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/emr_epilepsy.pdf

How many people will suffer needlessly like Nicola before ‘proof’ has meaning: Proof? Or scientific proof? Or definitive scientific proof? How on earth are we going about caring for each other?

http://www.tetrawatch.net/main/news.php

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Eileen and all,

Please see this info with regard to epilepsy (by Dr. Santini).

Electromagnetic field and Epilepsy
http://csifcem.free.fr/epilepsy.html

28 September 2005

Iris Atzmon.

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Epilepsy girl given home tuition away from mast blamed for fits

Lizzie Murphy

28 September 2005

A LOCAL authority is allowing a girl aged 12 to stay away from school over fears a police radio mast may be triggering her epileptic fits.

The family of Nicola Packard in South Wales was prepared to take Pembrokeshire County Council to the High Court to get her home tuition after a Tetra mast used by police was erected by mobile phone operator O2 near her school.

Nicola has epilepsy and normally experiences one or two seizures a month but on the day the mast was turned on in May she had seven fits. Her mother, Jayne Packard, said the fits continued with alarming frequency whenever her daughter would attend the Portfield Special school, which is a little over half a mile from the mast on Haverfordwest police station.

The council has agreed to provide home tuition for Nicola, of Hakin, Milford Haven.

The family now want to take legal action against Dyfed-Powys Police to force them to remove the mast so that Nicola can return to school.

Mrs Packard, 34, said: "Nicola just didn't have any quality of life after the mast was turned on. The effects of the seizures would last for days. Now she is much better at home and I cannot fault the education department of the council for agreeing with us."
But a spokeswoman for Pembrokeshire County Council said: "This is a pragmatic response to ensure that the individual child is provided with suitable education and should not be construed as a judgment on issues surrounding the location of Tetra masts."

Mother-of-three Dr Christine Nunn, of Bardsey, near Leeds, has been battling for two years to rid her village of a mobile phone mast after a blunder by Leeds City Council meant residents' objections could not be heard and planning permission for the mast was granted automatically.

The part-time GP said: "I think it is dreadful for this young girl and her family to be in this position.

"The technology is rolled out before the safety is proven, leaving this family and others around the country in the position of not knowing what effect these masts can have.

"The Government is putting the interests of the industry before that of potentially vulnerable individuals such as children."

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1203112

This was also repeated in a different format by the Daily Mail as follows:

Fears over radio mast keep schoolgirl at home

Daily mail 28.09.05

A 12 -year old epileptic girl has been forced to have home tuition after fears a police radio mast near her school was triggering fits.

Nichola Packard, who normally has one or two seizures a month, had seven on the day the TETRA mast was switched on in May.

Her local authority has allowed her to stay home from school, but it stressed the decision was not 'a judgment on issues surrounding the location of TETRA masts'.

TETRA offers improved sound quality and security for radios. But Nichola's mother Jayne said when ever he daughter went to Portfield Special School, Pembrokeshire, she had fits with alarming frequency.

The mast erected by mobile phone operator 02, is on Haverfordwest police station less than a few miles away. Her family wants Dyfed-Powys police to remove it so Nicola can return to school.

Mrs Packard, 34, of Hakin, Milford Haven, said 'Nicola just didn't have any quality of life after the mast was turned on. The effects of the seizures would last for days. Now she is much better at home and I cannot fault the education department of the council for agreeing with us.'

She added 'We have got what we wanted from the local authority. Now I want the mast out of the way so Nicola can go back to school. Until authorities know they are 100% sure about TETRA masts, they shouldn't be anywhere near schools. All I am saying is I have a child who, when she is in the vicinity of a mast, her epilepsy is worse.

Mike Charles, the families' solicitor, said: 'I cannot say for definite there is an adverse health reaction to TETRA masts. When you are dealing with children and with the jury on the body of scientific evidence being out on the issue, it is not wise to take risks.'

He added:' The child is desperate to go back to school.'

A Pembrokeshire County Council spokesman said:' In accordance with normal practice for children - and following comprehensive discussions with her mother - we have sought to offer a range of provision, which in this instance includes an element of home tuition.'

'This is a pragmatic response to ensure that the individual child is provided with suitable education.'

A spokesman for Dyfed-Powys Police said: 'Currently, there is no definitive scientific proof that airwave base stations affect people who are susceptible to epilepsy.'

02 was unavailable for comment.

The digital sets were introduced earlier this year under a 2.9 billion programme.

But 173 officers in Lancashire and nother 20 in North Yorkshire - forces chosen to test them - were said to have fallen ill after they were introduced.

Some scientists are concerned they pulse at 17.6Hz, close to the 16Hz at which brain signals work.

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From Eileen O'Connor
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Check out Implementation Programme

Take a look at the enclosed information from Catherine and pay close attention to number three concerns about epilepsy and tetra, how can they be allowed to continue with this system?

Implementation Programme
http://www.policereform.gov.uk/implementation/tetra/tetra4.html

As you can see they know there is a connection with epilepsy.

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Epilepsy and RF/MW exposure
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=253

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Mast concern over epileptic pupil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4285938.stm

Firstly, let us address O2's comments: We've said it before, but the only international guidelines that exist to cover emissions from TETRA masts in this country are ICNIRP guidelines, which are designed purely to prevent "microwave oven" effects (i.e. actual physical heating effects). These will naturally be orders of magnitude higher than TETRA masts, otherwise local people would be slowly cooked on a daily basis. All the evidence with other microwave radiation of a similar frequency and pulsed modularity (e.g. GSM phones and phone masts) are at far lower levels of power, and the effects are very different in nature. ICNIRP guidelines are simply not designed to assess the possibility of other effects, and so being within guidelines is effectively meaningless.

Secondly, to address the comments by the Police, it would be very hard to conduct a study of specifically epileptic people in the vicinity of TETRA masts because of the difficulties in getting a sample size big enough to be meaningful, and as such no one has put the money in to fund such research yet - this does not mean there is no effect.

Finally, surely in cases like this some level of common sense should prevail: The girl is well enough to go to school, the TETRA mast gets turned on and suddenly the girl is too ill to attend any more. The timing, combined with the research in health effects from other similar technologies, is surely enough to warrant further investigation, and not just hide behind a guideline never designed to protect people from these effects?

(See links on our masts information page showing research of health effects below ICNIRP guidelines, albeit on GSM technology, including this one directly relating to epilepsy)

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How can Anyone ACCEPT, that a little girl gets her life and health ruined.

Cut off from her school and her friends by an alien radiating thing like a mast by her school?

ACCEPT that she will be totally isolated because of the pollution these things emit.

WHY do we accept for anyone to be treated like this, by the same persons who have undertaken to be responsible for our wellbeing as citizens?

But who have sold us short!

And for what?

Greed!!

And they still want our VOTES?


Agnes.
http://www.mast-victims.org

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After today's programme on BBC Radio 4 featuring the case of Nicola Packard, whose epilepsy appears to be triggered by a local TETRA mast after a similar experience with a mobile phone mast, I felt compelled to take issue with Mike Clark (HPA) for his comments. This is an open letter and has been sent direct to him. It features on Tetrawatch at http://www.tetrawatch.net/letters/clark_hpa1.php

Any points in the letter you need explanation for, please ask, or look it up on Tetrawatch.

The You and Yours programme remains on the BBC website (Radio, Listen again) for one week.

Andy


Dear Mike

This is intended to be an open letter, just as the programme on BBC Radio 4 "You and Yours" was public.

I was saddened to hear your comments on the case of Nicola Packard, her epilepsy and masts, not because they were predictable, nor because you have stopped thinking about the issues, preferring "campaigners" to see the problem as political.

This is not a political issue at all. If it was, MTHR would never have existed. But above all, with a government determined that we should have 11 national mobile infrastructures (4 x GSM, 5 x UMTS, Airwave and NetRail), and that these must be established with some 90% coverage each, the political consequence is that masts MUST be embedded in residential areas irrespective of any consequence at all, for purely commercial reasons. Missing masts means broken networks. This is a function of the short range of 3G transmitters. There is therefore no political solution, and mast campaigners are beginning to realise this.

What do you mean by saying " impartial groups all come to the same conclusion: there is no convincing evidence, ie no scientific or medical issue". No issue? Is it not the role of the HPA to investigate? If all these common problems attributed to masts and phones has nothing to do with EMFs, calling it idiopathic ("without known cause") environmental intolerance is an evasion of the HPA's role to secure public health.

The issue IS one of public health. This is what people want to know about; not "designer masts" in trees or chimney pots, that we do not know are there. The issue is profoundly one of science: not science at a distance, but science in the community.

You said on the programme that "there is a l arge research programme funded by the Home Office going on into TETRA". This really is not true. The amount of work on TETRA is pitifully small. In fact I was somewhat surprised that you majored on TETRA, knowing that Nicola's condition was first manifest with an Orange mobile phone mast.

I continue to be surprised that you see no difference in biological interaction between radiowaves in general and modulated microwaves. You know as well as I do that modulated microwaves are used for medical purposes, that pulsed radiation has greater effect, and that some of the healing properties at least have to do with electrical, not thermal, interaction.

You also know as well as I that EM radiation has military purposes, that it has been used in theatre, and not only for its thermal effects. Maybe you don't read Jane's Defence Weekly, but applications exist and are used, based on frequency, not power to heat.

And what, for pity's sake is the content of: "radiowaves have been produced since the 1890s"? Are you seriously suggesting that our EMF environment has remained unchanged since Marconi sent a message across the Atlantic?? Was the case against Vatican radio a spurious knee-jerk reaction without foundation? I hear you dismiss case after case like this, with no offer of cooperative investigation to improve the data or the analysis.

I was equally surprised that you said: "There isn't evidence to do with epilepsy that I'm aware of." My written summation of peer reviewed studies demonstrating how and why EMR precisely could cause interaction connected with epilepsy is abroad in the HPA, and I would be surprised if you had not taken any time at all to acquaint yourself with a direction of such profound importance. Published on the Tetrawatch site, this paper is open to scrutiny and comment, and all the scientists to whom I have sent it recognise that there is a real issue here. Of course I know, as you do, that because I, with qualifications outside your field, put the papers together, it has no credence with HPA at all. But the content stands by itself. I am as intelligent a researcher at this level as someone with equivalent degrees in relevant sciences. If you stop listening to anyone but yourselves, if you exclude Russian studies because they are Russian, or German studies because they are German, or my literature survey because I have arts degrees ... you will only ever hear yourself talking.

One of the most interesting directions of research right now has to be the effect of chronic exposure of mitochondrial DNA to low level microwaves, and the potential effects on key enzyme activity. We both know this, because published peer-reviewed studies have indicated that this might indeed be the case. Taking just one: the nitric oxide synthases, leads inevitably to very serious misgivings indeed.

Do you seriously not recognise the significance of disturbing the balance of nitric oxide in the body? Actually, you do know. I have to assume that you have read Prof. Martin Pall on multiple chemical sensitivity and concluded that he also is entirely mistaken. So where are the studies on enzyme responses in real people who claim to react to EMF, taken in the field with real EM sources? Nitric oxide levels help explain ALL the reported EHS symptoms of exposure to microwaves from masts and phones, AND the fibromyalgia, thyroid problems and so on down to MND and cancer. I am convinced you know this too. And yet you say:

"There is a whole list of things that are being suggested. ... this can't all be true because radio waves have been around so long and radio engineers don't have particular problems from working near radio waves."

Firstly radio engineers have been reporting problems for a long time: cancers, behavioural changes, mood etc. The same dismissal of their attributions as to cause simply means that proper investigation has not been made, keeping all incidences apart and thereby preventing a coherent picture.

Secondly, as I say, if even only iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase) is influenced by EMR, the wide range of symptoms become explicable, even inevitable.

Once again, both you and I realise that permitting this interpretation is profound. If even the range of EHS symptoms have a common cause, then that cause must be investigated for its wider implications: what else might happen over time? And we both know that if EMR + iNOS = EHS, then EMR + iNOS + time = cancer

Maybe this is a dead end line of enquiry, maybe it explains too much but is nevertheless incorrect. I accept that. But in order to find out there must be a serious attempt to show this is not happening, and proposals for NO research were dropped (what did happen to the Babraham Institute MTHR study?) while hundreds of thousands were spent on "communicating uncertain science" and risk (to allay people's fears).

You appear to be determined to continue to inform the public from an expert standpoint that this effect cannot possibly be true, despite all the indicators to the contrary and the absence of effort to find out. Just as you insist that the only cause of cancer is photonic energy breaking covalent DNA bonds, when it is well established that free radical damage to mitochondrial DNA does just that. Cancer is not all caused by ionising radiation! So why can you not accept that EMR can cause the same prerequisite chemical changes? With iNOS we are staring it in the face.

"No definitive scientific proof" is a pretty shoddy response in matters of public health. Not your words, I appreciate on this occasion, but certainly consistent with your sentiments. John Snow, cholera and the Broad Street pump may be a popular analogy, but if he had waited for definitive scientific proof of something as absurd as the notion of a biological agent in the water supply, how many more would have died? He set a principle: if in doubt, remove the potential cause and see what happens.

I am sorry if you find this long and tedious, and that radio programmes are short and inadequate, but you are publicly excluding and denying science directions and perpetuating people's suffering, whether or not it is finally, definitively, scientifically proven to be from EMR or not.

Best regards

Andy Davidson
Tetrawatch

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Many thanks Andy for all the work you've put into this letter. I've read it and it is superb.

I think we also need to use the media as much as possible - letters pages, friendly journos, "alternative" publications (remember I gave the details of mag The Green Parent a while ago which would definitely do something - perhaps we should write a piece on the Gov'ts plans for WLANs in schools?) including ABC, TV etc.

Best wishes to you

Gary

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Dear All,

I have been sent the link to "listen again" to BBC You and Yours Radio 4 Programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

Best wishes,

Yasmin Skelt,
Chorleywood,
England

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The Israeli army soldiers started using TETRA since 2004, and there is a high increase in suicides only in the last year in the army, 8 soldiers committed suicides only this month. 30 committed suicides since the beginning of this year. It is not clear what the reason/s is/are, but nothing has changed in the army apart from the new TETRA system and wireless equipment. I don't know other details with regard to diseases among TETRA users in Israel, of course it's just a matter of time till things will raise on the surface.

Iris Atzmon.

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I am always cautious about using personal stories, because they have a habit of becoming folklore and even becoming exaggerated in the telling.

"Nicola's Story" is now on Tetrawatch http://www.tetrawatch.net/science/nicolastory.php as told by her mother, because it stands in stark contrast to the complacency of "consensus science" as related in the exchange between Tetrawatch and Mike Clark of the UK's Health Protection Agency http://www.tetrawatch.net/letters/indexradiation.php .

Many people will ask "what more proof do we need?"

We do not need proof, we just need to heed warning signs before many more people are harmed by lack of due diligence in those appointed to attend to public health.

Andy

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Mobilfunk und Epilepsie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/298071/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=epilepsy
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic

Kritik am Kreis

ÖDP bedauert Position zu Mobilfunk

Vom 27.09.2005

hg. BINGEN Weil der Versuch des Binger Stadtrates, um Wohngebiete eine Schutzzone gegen Mobilfunkmasten zu ziehen, juristisch nicht zulässig ist, könnte nur der Hauseigentümer das Aufstellen eines Sendemastes verhindern. Im vorliegenden Binger Fall ist dies die Kreisverwaltung. Weil man sich dort aber mit dem Mobilfunkbetreiber einig ist, regt sich Kritik am Kreis.

Der Arbeitskreis Bingen der Ökologisch-Demokratischen Partei (ÖDP) bedauert, dass der Mobilfunkbetreiber D1 nun aufgrund des Urteils des Mainzer Verwaltungsgerichtes die Mobilfunkantenne auf der Berufsschule in Bingen bauen darf (wir berichteten). Die ÖDP kritisiert den Landkreis Mainz-Bingen als Träger der Berufsschule, dass er dem Mobilfunkanbieter die Errichtung der Mobilfunkantenne gestattet hat. Auch seitens der Stadt Bingen war nach dem verlorenen Prozess bedauert worden, dass die Option, über den Hauseigentümer die Aufstellung eines Mobilfunkmastes zu verhindern, ausgerechnet im Falle der Berufsschule, einem Gebäude in öffentlicher Hand, nur eine theoretische sei.

"Der Kreis hat somit eindeutig die wirtschaftlichen Interessen des Mobilfunkanbieters über den Gesundheitsschutz der dort lebenden Binger Bürger gestellt", klagt auch die ÖDP in einer Presseerklärung. Dies sei "menschenverachtend", denn immer mehr wissenschaftliche Studien zeigten die Gefährlichkeit von Mobilfunkstrahlung. Zu Recht habe der Binger Stadtrat deshalb beschlossen, um Wohngebiete eine Mobilfunk-Schutzzone von 200 Metern zu errichten, die aber leider vor Gerichten keinen Bestand habe. Angeblich seien die Alternativstandorte, die von der Stadt vorgeschlagen wurden, nicht so gut für die optimale Versorgung geeignet wie der Standort Berufsschule. Die ÖDP kritisiert: "Für den Mobilfunkbetreiber zählen eben nur die eigenen wirtschaftlichen Vorteile."

http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2056021

FAZ Sonntagszeitung

Aus Anlass folgender Artikel s. u. Leserbrief:

Geldregen vom Dach. Ein UMTS-Mast auf dem eigenen Haus bringt bis zu 10 000 Euro im Jahr. Und jede Menge Ärger mit den Nachbarn.

Es war im Sommer vergangenen Jahres, als bei Markus Ackerstaff das Telefon klingelte. Am Apparat war der Mobilfunk-Betreiber O2. Ob mal zwei Kollegen vorbeikommen dürften, um über eine neue Handy-Antenne auf Ackerstaffs Haus zu sprechen.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung vom 25.09.2005

Gewusst wie: So wird das Dach zum Antennen-Standort

1. Wer sein Haus als Antennen-Standort anbieten möchte, meldet sich bei dem Unternehmen. Meist sind regionale Niederlassungen die richtigen Ansprechpartner. Die Adressen stehen meist auf der Homepage der Firmen.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung vom 25.09.2005

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

der Artikel von Herrn Patrick Bernau in Ihrer FAZ-Sonntagszeitung vom 25.9. "Geldregen vom Dach" liest sich wie ein von der Mobilfunklobby bestellter Artikel. Der dazu gehörige Kasten: "So wird das Dach zum Antennen-Standort" ist gänzlich unter die Rubrik "Werbung " einzuordnen. Sie unterstützen somit den Vormarsch einer der rücksichtslosesten Branchen in Deutschland. Sie werden hoffentlich die Verschärfung der deutschen Mobilfunkstrahlungs- Grenzwerte erleben und diese schamlose Werbung für noch flächendeckendere Verstrahlung unserer Kinder und Jugendlichen schmerzlich bereuen.

Ist Herr Bernau nicht über die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse zu den Auswirkungen der Mobilfunkstrahlung im Bilde?

Hier ein kurzer Überblick:

1. Die sog. REFLEX-Studie, eine im Auftrag der EU an vielen UNABHÄNGIGEN Labors in verschiedenen europäischen Instituten durchgeführte Experimentierreihe, hat ergeben, dass Mobilfunkstrahlung und insbes. die gepulste UMTS-Strahlung ähnliche Auswirkungen auf die Erbsubstanz von Zellen haben kann, wie krebserregende Substanzen.

Quelle: Reflex-Studie:
http://www.itis.ethz.ch/downloads/REFLEX_Final%20Report_171104.pdf (10, 1 MB!!!)

Die REFLEX-Studie ist die bis heute größte von der EU unterstützte Studie zur Erforschung möglicher Risiken durch elektromagnetische Strahlung: "Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards From Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure Using Sensitive in vitro Methods A project funded by the European Union under the programme Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Key Action 4 "Environment and Health" Contract: QLK4-CT-1999-01574 Start date: 01 February 2000 End date: 31 May 2004 Acronym: REFLEX"

2. Die großen Versicherer haben schon vor langer Zeit ihre Schlussfolgerungen aus Vorergebnissen gezogen und verweigern Mobilfunkbetreibern den Risikoschutz:

Quelle: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/589/25564/

"Mögliche Gefahren durch Strahlung
Versicherer fürchten die Mobilfunk-Risiken

Viele Konzerne verweigern Handy-Herstellern und Netzbetreibern Deckung für eventuelle spätere Gesundheitsschäden."

Wir werden aufmerksam beobachten, wie viele Vodafone, e-plus u.a. Mobilfunkanbieter-Anzeigen Ihre Seiten demnächst zieren werden und bleiben standhafte NICHT-Abonnenten Ihrer Zeitung.

Zudem werden wir unsere Aufklärungskampagnen verstärken, um der Desinformation durch bestellte Werbe-Artikel leider nun auch in der FAZ (!) entgegen zu wirken.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Claudia Weiand
BUND Ortsverband Königstein-Glashütten
Vorsitzende

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/