George Monbiot delivers a speech to the climate march: These are the greatest political challenges any movement has faced. The struggle against climate change is a struggle against much of what we have become. It is a struggle against some of our most fundamental urges.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120605B.shtml

Ms. Rice's arguments yesterday hinge on her insistence that rendition was a legitimate and necessary tool for the changed circumstances brought by the war on terror. Her assurances, however, that spiriting terror suspects away to clandestine prisons is a legitimate tactic did not carry much weight with human rights organizations or legal scholars yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120605A.shtml

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120605_world_stories.shtml#4

[The U.S. Government now has enough smallpox vaccine stockpiled to inoculate every man, woman and child in America. The stockpiled vaccine is dangerous, having caused "catastrophic brain infections," heart inflammation, and infant mortality in some cases.

According to The Washington Post, groups at risk of vaccine complications include infants, pregnant women, cancer survivors, AIDS patients, organ-transplant recipients, anyone who has ever had the skin disease eczema, and some others.

Dick Cheyenne and his staff were pushing to inoculate the entire American populace for smallpox with the dangerous vaccine, but failed in that attempt.

New vaccines are in the works, and VaxGen - who now hold an $877.5 million contract to supply their "next generation" anthrax vaccine to the U.S. Government - has a "safer" smallpox vaccine lined up as well.

In an eyebrow-raising statement, Michael T. Osterholm, head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, opines:

"I think the medical community has to take a serious look at this. Anybody who thinks smallpox is off the table also doesn't think a single jet can bring down a skyscraper."

- MK]


Safer Smallpox Vaccines In Works

U.S. Preparing For Potential Bioterror Attack

By Justin Gillis Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 14, 2005; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301006.html

New vaccine technologies are emerging that offer a fresh chance to devise a strategy against smallpox, the most fearsome potential weapon in the bioterror arsenal.

Two companies are reporting rapid progress in developing a new vaccine designed to be safer than the standard one, and a third company, with no government support, is developing yet another new vaccine. That vaccine could offer significant advantages if terrorists were to unleash the smallpox germ in several cities at once, requiring the vaccination of huge numbers of people.

The government stumbled badly in its campaign after Sept. 11, 2001, to vaccinate health care workers who would respond to a smallpox attack.

It has since spent millions to fund development of a new, safer vaccine and has already decided to order enough to protect at least 10 million people. It could buy far more if money becomes available.

Progress on safer vaccines is a success for U.S. policymakers, but it also confronts them with vexing new questions about which vaccines to buy, how many doses to buy, whether to resume a failed program to inoculate some people in advance of an attack and how to deploy the vaccines rapidly if smallpox is unleashed by terrorists.

The government is preparing to tackle the strategic questions over the next few months.

"Right at the present moment, we're setting up a committee to really look at this with a very hard eye," said D.A. Henderson, a Baltimore doctor who advises the government and who is often called the world's premier expert on smallpox. "There are major changes that have occurred that force us to reexamine what we're going to do."

After the terrorist and anthrax attacks of late 2001, concern about the unrelated smallpox virus reached a fever pitch.

Anthrax is deadly, but it does not spread from person to person; smallpox does, and an attack could theoretically kill millions. For a population of nearly 300 million, the country had only 15 million doses of vaccine.

Since then, the government has pulled off a huge feat by stockpiling enough vaccine for every American, but the campaign stalled after President Bush announced a plan to inoculate as many 10.5 million doctors, nurses, police, firefighters and other workers ahead of time so they could respond to an attack.

Many health workers, not fully convinced of the threat and worried about the safety of the standard vaccine, refused inoculation.

In the end, only 40,000 health workers were vaccinated.

After unexpected heart problems emerged in some vaccine recipients, plans to offer shots to the public were shelved.

Early this year, an expert panel excoriated the administration for what it described as poor strategy and communication in devising the smallpox plan.

Now, experts contend, the development of safer vaccines offers a chance to start over, though in some ways the issue of what to do has only grown more complicated.

The Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged, for instance, that with no smallpox cases in the world, it can never be certain how the new vaccines would perform in an epidemic.

It will have to base its plans on rough information, including animal tests.

"You cannot answer all the questions -- it's not possible," said Noreen A. Hynes, head of an office that helps coordinate development of bioterror countermeasures at HHS.

Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people in recorded history, more than any other infectious disease.

It was eradicated in 1977 after a worldwide campaign that Henderson led. Routine vaccination stopped.

But by the late 1990s, doctors realized that their very success against the disease had turned it into a potentially potent weapon.

Studies have suggested that a quarter of the U.S. population has some lingering immunity from childhood smallpox vaccination, but the rest -- 223 million people -- are believed vulnerable. Virtually no one younger than 37 has been vaccinated.

The smallpox virus resides in only two official repositories, in the United States and Russia, but there are fears that some countries kept hidden stocks and that terrorists or rogue states could get their hands on the germ.

The standard vaccine is relatively dangerous compared with most modern vaccines and was killing several babies a year in the United States when vaccination stopped in 1972.

Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in Bethesda, called the vaccine "the gold standard" given its track record of eradicating smallpox.

"Unfortunately, it's a gold standard that has some significant side effects -- rare but significant," he said.

Some groups are at particular risk of vaccine complications: infants, pregnant women, cancer survivors, AIDS patients, organ-transplant recipients, anyone who has ever had the skin disease eczema and some others.

These people would be discouraged from receiving the standard vaccine under most circumstances, and so would anyone living in a household with them -- a large swath of the population. It was this concern that prompted the push for safer vaccines.

All smallpox vaccines contain a weakened virus, called vaccinia virus, that is closely related to smallpox but much less likely to cause illness.

The virus in the standard vaccine reproduces in the body, which elicits a powerful immune response that can ward off later smallpox infection, but it does sicken some people, causing a catastrophic brain infection in a few cases.

Another, unexpected side effect turned up when the government sought to vaccinate medical personnel in 2003: heart inflammation in adults who had not previously been vaccinated.

It is unclear how serious a problem that would be if the vaccine were used widely.

One newer type of vaccine, the one that has been the focus of most publicly funded research, essentially trades potency for safety.

This vaccine is known as modified vaccinia Ankara, or MVA. A version was first developed in Germany in the 1970s; it does not reproduce in the body and appears less likely to cause illness in vulnerable people.

But because it is weaker, people need a higher dose and may need two shots several weeks apart for full protection.

That could limit the usefulness of the vaccine in an emergency and may constitute an argument for using it ahead of time in some people.

There is also evidence that the side effects of the standard vaccine in healthy people could be ameliorated if they got a shot of MVA a few weeks before a regular inoculation.

Potentially, such a strategy could alleviate some safety concerns that prompted many doctors and nurses to refuse smallpox vaccination.

Two companies -- Acambis PLC, with joint headquarters in Cambridge, England, and Cambridge, Mass., and Bavarian Nordic A/S, with headquarters in Kvistgard, Denmark -- have received federal grants to develop MVA, and they are battling each other to supply it to the government.

Their vaccines have undergone extensive tests, though full side effects are not known yet.

Health and Human Services has issued bidding documents asking for at least 20 million doses of MVA -- enough for a minimum of 10 million people -- and has said it may eventually buy an additional 60 million doses.

The final decision may depend in part on price.

The Acambis and Bavarian Nordic proposals are not yet public, but most experts think MVA will cost 10 to 20 times as much as the standard vaccine, which runs about $3 per dose.

Bavarian Nordic, seeking an expanded market, has argued that the government should consider replacing its entire vaccine stockpile with the newer product, a decision that could cost billions of dollars.

"What would the public say if smallpox is released, 20 million people get the safe vaccine, and everyone else gets the unsafe vaccine?" said Paul Chaplin, executive vice president for research at Bavarian Nordic.

"Which line would you and your family like to be in?"

The government must consider yet another factor.

With no public funds, VaxGen Inc. of Brisbane, Calif., is developing a Japanese vaccine that reproduces in the body, and thus elicits strong immunity with one dose, but appears less likely to cause life-threatening brain infections in children than the standard vaccine.

The company has already completed some human research.

"We are generating the data to show the product is intrinsically safe," said Lance K. Gordon, president and chief executive of VaxGen.

VaxGen's product is expected to be far cheaper than MVA and, as a one-dose vaccine, potentially more useful in an emergency.

But buying a significant amount would further complicate the strategic issues about how to use the various vaccines.

It is expected to be at least a year or two before significant quantities of new vaccine arrive in federal stockpiles.

Experts said that gives the government time to devise a new strategy and to consult with the state health departments and medical personnel that resisted the government's original vaccination plan.

"I think the medical community has to take a serious look at this," said Michael T. Osterholm, head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

"Anybody who thinks smallpox is off the table also doesn't think a single jet can bring down a skyscraper."



I have never known a clergyman or a professor who could be more narrow, bigoted, and intolerant than some scientists, or pseudo-scientists...... Intolerance is a closed mind. Bigotry is an exaltation of authorities. Narrowness is ignorance unwilling to be taught. And one of the outstanding truths I have learned in my University [of Nature] is that the moment you reach a final conclusion on anything, set that conclusion up as a fact to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken away, and refuse to listen to any new evidence, you have reached an intellectual dead-center, and nothing will start the engine again short of a charge of dynamite...


Ossified knowledge is a dead-weight to the world, and it does not matter in what realm of man's intellectual activities it is found...... Any obstinate clinging to outworn doctrines, whether of religion or politics or morality or of science, are equally damning and equally damnable.

--Luther Burbank


Informant: Friends

Mit freundlichen Grüßen übermittle ich die Stellungnahme von Fr. Gabriel aus Salzburg zu der ins Lächerliche gezogenen Darstellung ihrer gesundheitlichen Beeinträchtigungen durch Mobilfunk, in der am 15.11.2005 im ORF ausgestrahlten TV-Sendung "Barbara Karlich Show"

Michael Meyer
michael_meyer@aon.at
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Plattform Sozialstaat Österreich - Netzwerk Zivilcourage
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Selbsthilfegruppe Elektrosmog-Salzburg

Stellungnahme zu der am 15.11.2005 ausgestrahlten TV-Sendung "Barbara Karlich Show" betreffend meine Person als Elektro- und Mobilfunkstrahlensensible.

Zum bessern Verständnis möge folgender Brief dienen, den ich nach der am 28.9.2005 stattgefundenen Aufzeichnung an Frau Mag. Karlich gesandt habe und meine Unzufriedenheit über die Behandlung des Themas "Mobilfunkstrahlensensibilität" zum Ausdruck brachte:


"An
ORF Wien
Frau Barbara Karlich
Speisingerstraße 121-127
1230 Wien

Salzburg, 3.10.2005

Sehr geehrte Frau Karlich!

Anfang September 2005 wurde ich von Ihrer Mitarbeiterin, Frau Sabine Sikor, telefonisch eingeladen, bei einer Barbara Karlich - Show-Aufzeichnung am 28.9.2005 als Gast aktiv teilzunehmen. Dabei wurde mir mitgeteilt, dass verschiedene, in der Öffentlichkeit nicht so bekannte Krankheiten, vorgestellt und ernsthaft diskutiert werden sollten, u.a. Elektro- und Mobilfunkstrahlensensibilität.

Wie die Sendung betitelt werden würde, konnte oder wollte mir Frau Sikor nicht sagen.

In zwei Telefongesprächen mit Frau Sikor habe ich mit aller Deutlichkeit darauf bestanden, dass ich nur teilnehme, wenn k e i n Kommentar psychologischer Art zu meinem Thema stattfindet. Dies wurde mir von Frau Sikor auf jeden Fall garantiert. Sie sagte, man sei sehr interessiert, das Thema Elektrosmogerkrankung seriös zu behandeln.

Diese Vereinbarung wurde jedoch nicht eingehalten.

Bei meinem Ankunftsgespräch am 28.9.2005 wurde mir auf meine Frage der Titel der Sendung mitgeteilt: "Hypochonder".

Ich gab meiner Entrüstung darüber Ausdruck und dass ich keineswegs gekommen wäre, wenn mir dies bei meinem mehrmaligen telefonischen Vorgesprächen gesagt worden wäre.

Für mich war die Sendung keine freie offene Diskussion, sondern hatte offensichtlich das Ziel, das Krankheitsbild von den Ursachen abzukoppeln und den Grund primär in der Psyche des Menschen zusuchen.

Der Kommentar von Herrn Dipl. Psychologen Schmutzer war so ausgerichtet, dass es den Anschein haben sollte, meine Elektrosensibilität sei psychischer Natur und die Tatsache der Außeneinwirkung durch Mobilfunkstrahlung sei bedeutungslos. Diese Vorgangsweise finde ich bedauerlich und befremdend, hatte ich Ihnen doch vorweg schriftliche Informationen zukommen lassen, die keinen Zweifel an der Tragik der Elektrosensibilität lässt.

Meine Tätigkeit als Gründerin und Sprecherin der Selbsthilfegruppe "Elektrosmog Salzburg" und mein Bemühen, die bereits sehr verbreitete Problematik mit Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ernsthaft zu behandeln, wird dadurch diskreditiert.

Sehr geehrte Frau Karlich, ich bitte Sie und fordere Sie auf, alle Kommentare, einschließlich den Kommentar von Herrn Dr. Schmutzer, die meine Person betreffen, die den Anschein erwecken, dass meine Elektrosensibilität nur Einbildung sei, und durch eine Änderung der inneren Einstellung zum Verschwinden zu bringen sei, aus der Sendung herauszunehmen.

Ich ersuche Sie um baldmöglichste Antwort und verbleibe

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Erika Gabriel
Selbsthilfegruppe Elektrosmog Salzburg


Ergeht zur Information an:

1. Frau ORF Landesintendantin Dr. Monika Lindner, Radioplatz 1, 3100 St. Pölten

Dachverband der Selbsthilfegruppen Salzburg, Faberstraße 19-23, 5024 Salzburg"


Mit Schreiben vom 10.10.2005 teilte mir das Sekretariat Barbara Karlich Show unter anderem mit:

"Wir haben uns das Sendungsband nochmals sorgfältig, im Hinblick auf Ihre Person und damit verbundenen Diskussionsbeiträgen und Wortmeldungen angesehen und konnten aus unserer Sicht keinerlei negative Äußerungen Sie und Ihre Krankengeschichte betreffend erkennen.

Auch Dr. Schmutzer beleuchtet das Thema nur allgemein und für den Zuschauer verständlich nachvollziehbar.

Wir landen Sie sehr herzlich ein, mit uns gemeinsam, die Aufzeichnung anzusehen, damit Sie sich persönlich davon überzeugen können.

Sie persönlich wirken in der Sendung und dem damit verbundenen Thema sehr kompetent, glaubwürdig und sympathisch, auch wurde mehrmals erwähnt, dass explizit ihre Geschichte nichts mit Hypochondrie und dem damit verbundenen Krankheitsbild (Facharzt Dr. Martin Aigner) zu tun hat. Im Gegenteil wurde oftmals unterstrichen, dass es Elektrosmogerkrankung gibt und diese auch ernst zunehmen ist.

Nur Sie und Ihr behandelnder Arzt Dr. Gerd Oberfeld, können die Geschichte beurteilen, nichts anderes wurde in der Sendung vermittelt."



Der Einladung nach Wien zu fahren und mir das Band anzusehen bin ich nicht gefolgt. Ich hätte ohnehin nichts mehr ändern können.

Obwohl mir der "Unterhaltungscharakter" dieser Talk-Show bekannt ist, habe ich nach einiger Überlegung doch die Einladung als Studiogast aus folgenden Beweggründen angenommen:

1. Die Bevölkerung aus der Sicht einer Betroffenen zu informieren

2. Bereits betroffene Personen zu ermutigen ihre Beschwerden der öffentlich bekannt zumachen.

3. Menschen, die bereits typische Elektrosmogsymptome haben, diese aber nicht zuordnen können, anzuregen, die Ursache zu suchen.

Sehr bedauerlich ist, dass der Beitrag von Herrn Dr. Gerd Oberfeld um ca. zwei Drittel gekürzt worden ist. Wesentliche Aussagen von kompetenter Seite wurden somit den Zusehern vorenthalten.


Erika Gabriel
Sprecherin der Selbsthilfegruppe
Elektrosmog Salzburg

Die Selbsthilfegruppe Elektrosmog-Salzburg ist Teil der Selbsthilfe Salzburg, Faberstraße 19-23, 5024 Salzburg, (0662) 8889-258, Fax DW 492, selbsthilfe@salzburg.co.at,
http://www.selbsthilfe-salzburg.at

Published on Friday, December 2, 2005
by CommonDreams.org

Join Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Cindy Sheehan, Denis Halliday, Rashid Khalidi, and Many Others in Calling for the Urgent Release of Peace Activists Held in Iraq

An Urgent Appeal Add your name at: http://www.freethecpt.org

Four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams http://www.cpt.org/ were taken this past Saturday, November 26, in Baghdad, Iraq. They are not spies, nor do they work in the service of any government. They are people who have dedicated their lives to fighting against war and have clearly and publicly opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq. They are people of faith, but they are not missionaries. They have deep respect for the Islamic faith and for the right of Iraqis to self-determination.

C.P.T. first came to Iraq in October 2002 to oppose the US invasion, and it has remained in the country throughout the occupation in solidarity with the Iraqi people. The group has been invaluable in alerting the world to many of the horrors facing Iraqis detained in US-run prisons and detention centers. C.P.T. was among the first to document the torture occurring at the Abu Ghraib prison, long before the story broke in the mainstream press. Its members have spent countless hours interviewing Iraqis about abuse and torture suffered at the hands of US forces and have disseminated this information internationally.

Each of the four C.P.T. members being held in Iraq has dedicated his life to resisting the darkness and misery of war and occupation. Convinced that it is not enough to oppose the war from the safety of their homes, they made the difficult decision to go to Iraq, knowing that the climate of mistrust created by foreign occupation meant that they could be mistaken for spies or missionaries. They went there with a simple purpose: to bear witness to injustice and to embody a different kind of relationship between cultures and faiths. Members of C.P.T. willingly undertook the risks of living among Iraqis, in a common neighborhood outside of the infamous Green Zone. They sought no protection from weapons or armed guards, trusting in, and benefiting from, the goodwill of the Iraqi people. Acts of kindness and hospitality from Iraqis were innumerable and ensured the C.P.T. members' safety and wellbeing. We believe that spirit will prevail in the current situation.

We appeal to those holding these activists to release them unharmed so that they may continue their vital work as witnesses and peacemakers.

Signed,**

Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things

Tariq Ali, author, Bush in Babylon

Denis Halliday, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General and Head of the U.N. Humanitarian Program in Iraq (1997-1998)

Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan

Noam Chomsky, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Haifa Zangana, Iraqi novelist

Kamil Mahdi, Iraqi economist and anti-occupation activist. Lecturer, University of Exeter

Mahmood Mamdani, "Herbert Lehman Professor of Government," Columbia University

Rashid Khalidi, "Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies," Middle East Institute, Columbia University

Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie, killed by Israeli military

Hasan Abu Nimah, Permanent Representative of Jordan at the United Nations (1995-2000)

Ralph Nader, former independent presidential candidate

James Abourezk, former US Senator

Howard Zinn, historian

Naseer Aruri, Professor (Emeritus) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence/Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Naomi Klein, author/journalist

Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights

Rev. Daniel Berrigan, poet

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, National Coordinator, Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq

Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist

Mazin Qumsiyeh, author, Sharing the Land Of Canaan, board member US Campaign to End the Occupation

Milan Rai, author, War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War on Iraq

Sam Husseini, writer

Dahr Jamail, independent journalist

Ali Abunimah, Co-founder, Electronic Iraq

Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice

Eve Ensler, author

Jennifer Harbury, Director, Stop Torture Permanently Campaign

Omar Diop, Président de la Coalition Sénégalaise des Défenseurs des Droits humains

Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange

G. Simon Harak, War Resisters League

Michael Albert, ZNet

Dave McReynolds, former Chair, War Resisters International

Bishop Gabino Zavala, President, Pax Christi USA

To add your name to this statement and to see the full list of initial signers: http://www.freethecpt.org

Contact: freethecpt@gmail.com

Organizations and institutions are listed for identification purposes only.


Informant: John Calvert

Auf Kühlturm: Greenpeace gibt RWE Schuld an Treibhausgasen, Strompreisen und Strommastbrüchen (06.12.05)

Acht Greenpeace-Aktivisten protestieren seit Montag früh auf dem Kühlturm eines RWE-Braunkohlekraftwerks bei Köln "gegen die Klimazerstörung" des Energieriesen RWE. In einem Appell an die Konzernleitung appeliert Greenpeace an die Verantwortung des Konzerns für die Menschen. "Für RWE sind immer die anderen Schuld", monierte Greenpeace-Aktivist Heinz Smital vom Kühlturm an RWE-Vorstandschef Harry Roels. "Erhöht der Konzern die Strompreise, zwingen ihn angeblich teure Umweltabgaben dazu. Brechen Strommasten, liegt es natürlich nur am Schnee, und nicht an fehlender Wartung. Und sterben Menschen an der Klimakatastrophe, sind die Autofahrer schuld, nur nicht die Braunkohlekraftwerke von RWE."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12456

A German man filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming he was held captive and tortured by US government agents after being mistakenly identified as an associate of the September 11 hijackers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120605Y.shtml

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2005-12-05-court-debate_x.htm


Informant: Charles Jenks

From ufpj-news

From Phil Watts

Carriers French mobile operators fined a massive €534m
by Guy Daniels - 1/12/2005 12:23:42

It has been a bad morning for France's mobile operators. Earlier today, they received the news that the country's competition authority (Conseil de la Concurrence) has decided to fine Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom a record amount of €534 million for market collusion practices between 1997 and 2003. France Telecom's Orange takes the brunt of the fines, with €256 million, whilst SFR is fined €220 million and Bouygues Telecom a more modest €58 million.

The competition authority says the French operators engaged in two illegal practices: they exchanged confidential information - about the number of new clients and the number of cancellations - during the period; and they agreed between themselves the market share for each party during 2000 and 2002. The Conseil de la Concurrence considers that these practices have damaged the economy and altered the intensity of the competition between the operators.

France Telecom has already announced it is going to appeal against this decision, which it says is "based on events that are now long past" and which "has been handed down despite months of actions of all kinds seeking to discredit the telecommunications sector in France".

It says that the ruling could have a serious impact on public confidence in one of the most dynamic sectors of the country's economy, one which has invested more than €60 billion over ten years and employees some 250,000 people.

"This ruling is based on the existence of an exchange of information among the three mobile operators, and on allegedly concerted practises that led to a freeze in market share between 2000 and 2002,"says the official France Telecom response. "The idea that it would be possible to control a market of roughly 40 million customers sourcing their products from 20,000 points of sale, is totally unrealistic. During the period in question, 20 per cent of customers changed operators each year on average. In addition, half of the points of sale distributing mobile products and services do not belong to operators, but are independent distributors or part of leading retail groups, constantly putting the offerings of the different mobile operators into competition with one another."

Orange France adds that during the 1997 and 2003 period, customers benefited from roughly 20 per cent decrease in mobile telephony prices. Needless to say, it will appeal the decision.

"This is really bad news for the French operators, for two reasons," said Vincent Poulbere, Senior Consultant with Ovum. "First, because of the record amount of the fine (from 14.6-18.3 per cent of the operators' net profit in 2004); and second, because of the bad press resulting from this decision and the damage it will do to the operators' brands and credibility."

Ovum said they were surprised by the competition authority's findings (published on its website) about how operators exchanged confidential information and agreed on market shares. However, they also note that this isn't the end of the story. Not only will the decision will be appealed by the operators, but the customer association UFC Que Choisir - which lodged the original complaint - plans to launch a US-style class action suit against the operators.

http://www.feb.se/EMFguru/Elf/child-emf.html

EMF and childhood cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1239020/

CHILDREN WITH LEUKAEMIA: ATTENTION: MR. & MRS. EDDIE O'GORMAN AND MS. MILHAM O'GORMAN: [12-6-05]

I have taken the liberty of forwarding an announcement received from Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson in Sweden that his (and colleagues) request for funding re EMF and Childhood Leukaemia has been denied. This is truly "a tragic setback" toward prevention of childhood Leukaemia!!!!

To date, I have not received a response to my pleas for help to fund Dr. Olle Johansson through your Charity regarding studies that will prove the link to childhood Leukaemia by scientists from the prestigous Karolinska Institute.

Children With Leukaemia does an excellent job of fundraising re treatments and hospitals for children with Leukaemia. Imagine the hope your Charity can give to persons in Britain as well as around-the-world when you are finally able to release information to the public that the Karolinska Institute has confirmed the link between childhood Leukaemia and bedside EMF/EMR exposures!!!

An additional study by your own Dr. Dennis Henshaw, re the type of exposures that will promote pre-Leukaemic blood changes that are also "markers for irradiation," -- i.e., chronic, prolonged exposure to an electric clock, a fan, an electric meter, power supply box for cordless phone, etc.would then give the Charity a sound basis (replication of a study or studies by a scientist or scientists from the highly esteemed Karolinska Institute by one of your own EMF Scientific Project Managers) for providing precautionary information to the public and will, in turn, leave little doubt as to the importance as it pertains to prevention of childhood Leukaemia.

"Specific studies" re "inflammatory markers" after nightime, chronic, prolonged exposures will confirm the drastic blood changes that occurred in my two grandsons (rare immune) as well as the equally devastating blood changes that were identified in my two separate guinea pig studies that are precursors of Leukaemia. As you know, "electric meters" in the case of my grandsons as well as guinea pigs caused severe health effects but equally important from the standpoint of issuing flyers/news releases, etc. from the Charity, the boys "improved" after being moved away from electric meters (powerwalls) and the guinea pigs "improved" (those that did not die in 30 days, that is) after being moved away from "powerwalls."

The type of study and/or studies that Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson has agreed to do will replicate findings re my grandsons as well as a study mentioned in the book, "Blood" by Dr. Robert Becker and Dr. Andrew Marino (Louisiana State University). That study was on guinea pigs exposed to EMF/EMR and yielded exact blood results as those identified in my guinea pigs -- severe neutropenia and lymphocytosis. These are "precancerous blood changes" -- the same changes that occurred in my guinea pigs.

Funding to Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson through your Charity will allow you to make recommendations to those you are trying to help throughout the U.K. to not only prevent many instances of childhood Leukaemia, but also to help save those children who may return home while undergoing chemotherapy that they must move electrical items/devices from close proximity to beds.

Mrs. Bonnie Boyum, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, USA, has given me permission to share that her son, Michael Boyum, who unfortunately lost his battle with Leukaemia over five years ago, had an electric clock and a fan behind his head. It is my hope that the breakthrough I mention will one day allow me to offer scholarships in Michael's name to honor his life and to acknowledge Bonnie Boyum's courage and willingness to share painful but "vital information!"

As I have indicated in previous letters and emails, information as I describe, if provided to the public, will not only reduce many cases of childhood Leukaemia, but will also help many persons get better sleep, reduce asthma, allergies, learning disorders including ADD and ADHD, and has the potential of providing "improvement" for virtually any health problem including Diabetes, Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease, brain cancer and all other health problems. For those who are unknowingly sleeping close to electrical appliances/devices, I consider this to be "a preventable crisis!!!"

I believe the "positive results" will have a "rebound effect" that will inspire many more persons to contribute to Children With Leukaemia thereby allowing for more funds to treat the suffering. This is definitely a "win/win situation!!!"

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Betreff: EMF and childhood cancer
Von: Olle Johansson olle.johansson@ki.se
Datum: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:45:27 +0100

I am so sorry having to inform you that our recent application for research funding regarding the issue of "EMF and childhood cancer" has been turned down.

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

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Electromagnetic Fields, Leukaemia and DNA Damage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473112/

Childhood brain cancer and EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/375650/

Childhood leukemia and EMF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1239050/

Children and cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/295280/

Schools & Cellular Antennas
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/976554/

Saddam was 'quietly assured by the United States that it would have no objection to his claiming his prize - Kuwait'

by George Friedman

December 5, 2005
The Wisdom Fund

[Dr. George Friedman's firm Stratfor has been dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA." It has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and the U.S. government.]

The United States had no use for the Iraqi regime and had supported the Shah's Iran in a war against Iraq in the 1970s, ending in a peace that had not been favorable to Iraq. With the Iranian revolution, the Americans were looking for a lever to control Iran, . . .

The Carter administration wanted to motivate Saddam to fight, but he had little to gain simply by fighting Iran. What Saddam wanted was to become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf. Absorbing Kuwait, which had historically been a part of Iraq under the Ottoman Empire until the British carved it our for their own interests, was a key goal, but so was dominating the region politically. He knew that if he defeated Iran, Iraq would be the dominant power in the region. He was also quietly assured by the United States that it would have no objection to his claiming his prize - Kuwait - once he defeated Iran. The assurances were very quiet and very deniable.

The United States then did everything it could to make sure that Iraq could never claim the prize, shifting its weight back and forth during the Iran-Iraq war, in classic balance-of-power style. The famous Iran-Contra affair engineered by Bill Casey was part of this strategy, with Americans delivering Hawk surface-to-air missiles and TOW antitank missiles to Iran in order to stave off an Iranian defeat - while also arranging for supplies to Iraq. Under the circumstances it was a clever move until better options emerged.

The Iran-Iraq war lasted nearly ten years and cost millions of lives. In the end, Iraq won - or, more precisely, was less exhausted than Iran. After some months of recovery, Saddam turned to collect his prize. In his famous meeting with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie on July 25, 1990, just before the invasion, Saddam calmly explained his intention to invade Kuwait, and Glaspie, not informed by the State Department that the policy had changed, proceeded to give Saddam the reassurance of American support that had been the U.S. policy transmitted by ambassadors and back channels for a decade. . . .

What Glaspie didn't know. and what Glaspie hadn't been told, was that the United States had never expected Iraq to win and certainly was not prepared to let Saddam collect his war prize.

THE WISDOM FUND News & Views MORE at
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2005/1205-SecretWar.html


A high point of the public relations campaign against Iraq, was the testimony of a Kuwaiti refugee, before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 15, 1990, who told of Iraqi troops removing over 300 babies from incubators in Kuwait City hospital, and dumping them on the floor to die. On January 6, 1992, John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, revealed that "Nayirah," the alleged refugee, was the daughter of Saud al-Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, and that Hill and Knowlton, a large public relations firm, had helped prepare her testimony, which she had rehearsed before video cameras in the firm's Washington office.

Source: Enver Masud, "Deadly Deception, Pretexts for War," The Wisdom Fund, July 30, 2001


"When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf - to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait - part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia.

"Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in mid-September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key US oil supplier.

"But when the St. Petersburg Times in Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the Saudi border - just empty desert."

Source: Scott Peterson, "In War, Some Facts Less Factual," Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 2002

VISIT the 9/11 Special Interest Group Blog
http://911sig.blogspot.com/


From ECOTERRA Intl.

----- Original Message namaste.publishing -----
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: Commission wants to keep ID database on us all

EU Commission wants to keep ID database on us all

In case you haven't seen... I would argue that the foundations were laid in - SIS, SIRENE & the other big databases from the 1990s - the move towards universal smart cards agreed in 2000 - The Hague Programme, 2004 and that the surveillance society has always been an EU objective.

(In time) Statewatch may have some useful comments. The pan-EU healthcard system may also be a Trojan horse... regds, Brian

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1890019,00.html
The Times
November 25, 2005

EU could share ID databases
By Anthony Browne

CONFIDENTIAL personal information about British citizens could be shared with governments and police across Europe under proposals put forward by Brussels yesterday.

In a strategy paper to combat terrorism and serious crime that is likely to be strongly opposed by civil liberties groups, the European Commission challenged governments to set up pan-European databases to collect and share information.

It suggested the creation of a pan-European fingerprint database, a European DNA database, and registers of all EU citizens and of all EU travel documents, to which law enforcement agencies would be given access. If implemented, it would mean that police forces across Europe could access every UK citizen's fingerprints, which are expected to be recorded for ID cards.

The Commission said that it was essential to set up a pan-European "automated fingerprint identification system", which would avoid a situation in which a criminal leaves fingerprints at a crime scene in one country, and then flees over the border where police pick him up for something else but have no idea that he is wanted


From ECOTERRA Intl.

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3732/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

EXCLUSIVE: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons - now in North Africa

10 Out of 11 High-Value Terror Leaders Subjected to 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

By BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO ABCnews

Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.

Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.

CIA officials asked ABC News not to name the specific countries where the prisons were located, citing security concerns.

The CIA declines to comment, but current and former intelligence officials tell ABC News that 11 top al Qaeda figures were all held at one point on a former Soviet air base in one Eastern European country. Several of them were later moved to a second Eastern European country.

All but one of these 11 high-value al Qaeda prisoners were subjected to the harshest interrogation techniques in the CIA's secret arsenal, the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized for use by about 14 CIA officers and first reported by ABC News on Nov. 18.

Rice today avoided directly answering the question of secret prisons in remarks made on her departure for Europe, where the issue of secret prisons and secret flights has caused a furor.

Without mentioning any country by name, Rice acknowledged special handling for certain terrorists.

"The captured terrorists of the 21st century do not fit easily into traditional systems of criminal or military justice, which were designed for different needs. We have had to adapt," Rice said.

The CIA has used a small fleet of private jets to move top al Qaeda suspects from Afghanistan and the Middle East to Eastern Europe, where Human Rights Watch has identified Poland and Romania as the countries that housed secret sites.

But Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told ABC Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross today: "My president has said there is no truth in these reports."

Ross asked: "Do you know otherwise, sir, are you aware of these sites being shut down in the last few weeks, operating on a base under your direct control?"

Sikorski answered, "I think this is as much as I can tell you about this."

In Romania, where the secret prison was possibly at a military base visited last year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the new Romanian prime minister said today there is no evidence of a CIA site but that he will investigate.

Sources tell ABC that the CIA's secret prisons have existed since March 2002 when one was established in Thailand to house the first important al Qaeda target captured. Sources tell ABC that the approval for another secret prison was granted last year by a North African nation.

Sources tell ABC News that the CIA has a related system of secretly returning other prisoners to their home country when they have outlived their usefulness to the United States.

These same sources also tell ABC News that U.S. intelligence also ships some "unlawful combatants" to countries that use interrogation techniques harsher than any authorized for use by U.S. intelligence officers. They say that Jordan, Syria, Morocco and Egypt were among the nations used in order to extract confessions quickly using techniques harsher than those authorized for use by U.S. intelligence officers. These prisoners were not necessarily citizens of those nations.

According to sources directly involved in setting up the CIA secret prison system, it began with the capture of Abu Zabayda in Pakistan. After treatment there for gunshot wounds, he was whisked by the CIA to Thailand where he was housed in a small, disused warehouse on an active airbase. There, his cell was kept under 24-hour closed circuit TV surveillance and his life-threatening wounds were tended to by a CIA doctor specially sent from Langley headquarters to assure Abu Zubaydah was given proper care, sources said. Once healthy, he was slapped, grabbed, made to stand long hours in a cold cell, and finally handcuffed and strapped feet up to a water board until after 0.31 seconds he begged for mercy and began to cooperate.

While in the secret facilities in Eastern Europe, Abu Zubaydah and his fellow captives were fed breakfasts that included yogurt and fruit, lunches that included steamed vegetables and beans, and dinners that included meat or chicken and more vegetables and rice, sources say. In exchange for cooperation, prisoners were sometimes given hard candies, desserts and chocolates. Abu Zubaydah was partial to Kit Kats, the same treat Saddam Hussein fancied in his captivity.

"One of the difficult issues in this new kind of conflict is what to do with captured individuals who we know or believe to be terrorists," Rice said. "The individuals come from many countries and are often captured far from their original homes. Among them are those who are effectively stateless, owing allegiance only to the extremist cause of transnational terrorism. Many are extremely dangerous. And some have information that may save lives, perhaps even thousands of lives."

Sources tell ABC News that Jordanians, Egyptians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Algerians, Saudis, Pakistanis, Uzbekistanis and Chinese citizens have been returned to their nations' intelligence services after initial debriefing by U.S. intelligence officers. Rice said renditions such as these are vital to the war on terror. "Rendition is a vital tool in combating transnational terrorism," she said.

Of the 12 high-value targets housed by the CIA, only one did not require water boarding before he talked. Ramzi bin al-Shibh broke down in tears after he was walked past the cell of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the operational planner for Sept. 11. Visibly shaken, he started to cry and became as cooperative as if he had been tied down to a water board, sources said.

Copyright © 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures

Following is a list of 12 high-value targets housed by the CIA. Dec. 5, 2005

Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland

Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi: Held in Poland. Previously held in Pakistan/Afghanistan

Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi: Held in Poland

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri: Held in Poland

Ramzi Binalshibh: Held in Poland

Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman: Held in Poland

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Held in Poland

Waleed Mohammed bin Attash: Held in Poland

Hambali: In U.S. custody. Kept isolated from other high-value targets.

Hassan Ghul: Held in Poland.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: Held in Poland

Abu Faraj al-Libbi: Held in Poland


From ECOTERRA Intl.

Reibungslose Visite im alten Europa

Der Besuch von Condoleezza Rice in Berlin hat gezeigt, dass weder die neue noch die alte Bundesregierung als moralischer Ankläger taugt.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21513/1.html



CIA-Lager in Osteuropa wurden angeblich in aller Eile letzten Monat geräumt

Dem US-Sender ABC gegenüber bestätigten Informanten die Existenz von zwei Lagern in Osteuropa, nicht nur Rice, auch die europäischen Regierungen geraten immer stärker in Bedrängnis.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21507/1.html

ACLU klagt im Namen des Deutschen al-Masri gegen CIA-Chef Tenet

Die US-Bürgerrechtsorganisation will mit der Klage gegen die illegalen Verschleppungen das Recht wiederherstellen, al-Masri -- obgleich auch nach Monate langer CIA-Prüfung unverdächtig -- durfte ohne Angabe von Gründen nicht in die USA einreisen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21515/1.html



Rechtsstaat USA: Mutmaßliches CIA-Opfer verklagt früheren Geheimdienstchef (06.12.05)

Der vom US-Geheimdienst verschleppte Deutsche Khaled el Masri hat nach ZDF-Informationen den ehemaligen CIA-Chef George Tenet und mehrere Flugunternehmen auf Schadenersatz verklagt. Einem Bericht des Magazins "Frontal 21" zufolge wurde die Klageschrift am Dienstagnachmittag im US-Bundesstaat Virginia eingereicht. Darin heiße es, Tenet sei für die Entführung und Inhaftierung eines Unschuldigen verantwortlich. Ferner seien die genannten Fluggesellschaften CIA-Tarnfirmen. Den Angaben zufolge wurde der aus dem Libanon stammende Deutsche am 31. Dezember 2003 während eines Urlaubs in Mazedonien entführt und unter Drogeneinfluss in ein geheimes Gefängnis nach Afghanistan gebracht. Dort sei er auf brutale Weise verhört und monatelang festgehalten worden - obwohl kurz nach seiner Entführung deutlich geworden sei, dass eine Verwechslung vorlag und er nicht der gesuchte Terrorverdächtige war.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12451

06.12.2005

Laut Konvention der Menschenrechte hat der Staat das Leben und die Gesundheit seiner Bürger zu schützen. Mobilfunk und Menschenrechte: Was tun?

Dr. Eduard Christian Schöpfer

Salzburg. Angesichts des aktuellen Stands der Forschung und der immer häufiger werdenden Klagen der Bevölkerung über gesundheitliche Beschwerden durch von GSM-Sendern ausgehende elektromagnetische Strahlung wird immer deutlicher, dass die ungeprüft auf den Markt geworfene Mobilfunktechnologie gesundheitliche Risiken in sich birgt.1

Ungeachtet dessen besteht nach der derzeitigen Rechtslage keinerlei Möglichkeit für Betroffene, gegen von Mobilfunkanlagen ausgehende Immissionen vorzugehen. Anrainer haben kein Mitspracherecht, was die Errichtung von Sendeanlagen anlangt. Die in der Mobilfunkpetition vom 30. 11. 1999 (!) und auch von der Volksanwaltschaft geforderte Verankerung von Anrainerrechten im Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG 2003), BGBl. I 70/2003, ist nach wie vor ausständig.

Bedenken aus Sicht der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) ergeben sich insbesondere hinsichtlich des den Betroffenen verweigerten Anspruchs auf rechtliches Gehör (Art. 6 [1] EMRK) während des telekommunikationsrechtlichen Bewilligungsverfahrens bzw. im Bauverfahren. Dazu kommt, dass die Gerichte nach wie vor von einem strikten, dem völker- und gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Vorsorgeprinzip klar widersprechenden Kausalitätsnachweis ausgehen und vom Geschädigten verlangen, den Beweis zu erbringen, dass seine gesundheitlichen Beschwerden auf einen Mobilfunksender zurückzuführen sind.2

Es bestehen ernste Zweifel, dass die derzeitige Rechtslage und die rigorose Rechtsprechung3 der Gerichte mit der positiven Verpflichtung Österreichs gemäß der EMRK vereinbar ist. Nämlich, das Leben und die Gesundheit seiner Bürger im Wege geeigneter gesetzgeberischer Maßnahmen zu schützen und ihnen effektive Rechtsdurchsetzungsmechanismen im Sinne des Art. 13 EMRK (Recht auf eine wirksame Beschwerde bei einer nationalen Instanz) zur Wahrung ihrer Konventionsrechte (Recht auf Achtung der Wohnung, der körperlichen Unversehrtheit, der Privatsphäre, der Familie; Recht auf Eigentum und auf Leben) zur Verfügung zu stellen.

In der Weigerung der österreichischen Gerichte, die Beweislast für gesundheitliche Schädigungen dem Verursacher aufzubürden bzw. eine Prüfung der als verletzt erachteten Konventionsrechte vorzunehmen, ist auch eine Verletzung des Rechts auf Zugang zu einem Gericht gemäß Art. 6 (1) EMRK zu erblicken. Die geltenden rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen zur Genehmigung von Fernmeldeeinrichtungen können nicht ohne weiteres auf die neuartige und offensichtlich gesundheitlich bedenkliche Mobilfunktechnologie übertragen werden. Laut § 73 (2) TKG 2003 muss bei der Errichtung und dem Betrieb von Funkanlagen der Schutz des Lebens und der Gesundheit von Menschen gewährleistet sein.

Diese Bestimmung kann angesichts ihres allgemein gehaltenen Wortlauts (ein bereits seit längerem gefordertes "Gesetz zum Schutz vor nichtionisierender Strahlung" wurde bis dato nicht erlassen) und ihrer Auslegung durch die Behörden die strengen Anforderungen der Judikatur des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in keiner Weise erfüllen. Die Behörden gehen ja so vor: Keine Prüfung im Einzelfall, es wird grundsätzlich eine Genehmigung erteilt, da von der generellen, aber falschen Voraussetzung ausgegangen wird, dass von Mobilfunkstationen ohnehin keine gesundheitsschädlichen Auswirkungen zu befürchten sind. Laut Judikatur des EGMR müssen aber Eingriffe in konventionsgeschützte Rechte auf Basis einer zugänglichen, ausreichend bestimmten und vorhersehbaren Rechtsgrundlage ergehen.

Was besonders auffällt und Anlass zu großer Besorgnis gibt, ist die Untätigkeit des Gesetzgebers, also letzten Endes die Negierung der berechtigten Sorgen zahlreicher Bürger seitens der politisch Verantwortlichen. Die Einrichtung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats Funk (WBF) durch Infrastrukturminister Hubert Gorbach vermag an diesem Befund nichts zu ändern, da die Diskussion über die mutmaßliche Gefährlichkeit von Mobilfunkanlagen und Handys damit keineswegs, wie behauptet, auf eine sachliche Basis gestellt wird.

Somit stellt sich einmal mehr die Forderung nach der Einreichung einer Beschwerde wegen gesetzgeberischer Untätigkeit an den Verfassungsgerichtshof, die etwa von der Volksanwaltschaft eingebracht werden könnte. Es hat sich auch gezeigt, dass die bestehenden Grundrechte nur unvollständigen Schutz vor Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigungen der vorliegenden Art bieten können, so dass die Frage nach einem verfassungsgesetzlich verankerten "Grundrecht auf Gesundheit" erneut diskutiert gehört.

Zwar bedeutet die Rechtsprechung der Höchstgerichte für Betroffene einen herben Rückschlag, andererseits aber auch eine Chance, da das Erfordernis der Erschöpfung des letztinstanzlichen Instanzenzugs vor Einbringung einer Beschwerde in Straßburg weggefallen sein müsste. Der Einzelne kann sich nunmehr direkt an den EGMR wenden, ohne zuvor die Gerichte angerufen zu haben, da er nach der derzeitigen Gesetzeslage und Rechtsprechung ohnehin keine Aussicht auf Erfolg hat, Abhilfe für die von ihm behaupteten Menschenrechtsverletzungen zu bekommen. Damit sollte auch der Weg für eine Sammelklage von Geschädigten frei sein, die wesentlich mehr Gewicht als vereinzelte Beschwerden hätte.

Am 16. Dezember findet am Österreichischen Institut für Menschenrechte in Salzburg (Edmundsburg, Mönchsberg 2) eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Mobilfunk, Mensch und Recht" statt.1 Vgl. dazu Mara Marken, Machen Handys und ihre Sender krank? (2. Auflage 2004); Thomas Grasberger/Franz Kotteder, Mobilfunk - ein Freilandversuch am Menschen (2003); Karl Richter/Hermann Wittebrock (Hrsg.), Kommerz, Gesundheit und demokratische Kultur (2005). Siehe auch die am 19. 11. 2005 verabschiedete Resolution der Österreichischen Ärztekammer zu "Mobilfunkanwendungen und Gesundheit". 2 Vgl. den Beschluss des OGH vom 2. 8. 2005, 1 Ob 146/05k, wo dieser zur Klage einer Mieterin ausführte, allein die "subjektive Besorgnis einer wissenschaftlich nicht erwiesenen Gefährdung" stelle noch keine objektive Beeinträchtigung des Gebrauchs des Bestandobjekts dar, die eine Mietzinsminderung rechtfertige. 3 So hat etwa der VwGH in seinem Erkenntnis vom 16. 9. 1997, Zl. 97/05/0194, festgestellt, dass die Beschwerde eines Herzkranken hinsichtlich der behaupteten Beeinflussung seines Herzschrittmachers durch die Errichtung eines Sendemastens angesichts der alleinigen (!) Kompetenz der Fernmeldebehörden, Aspekte der Gesundheit und des Lebens von Menschen wahrzunehmen, abzuweisen sei. 4 Vgl. die vom WBF gestaltete Beilage "Mobilfunk und Gesundheit" in der Tageszeitung "Die Presse" vom 6. 11. 2004, in der Besorgnis erregende Ergebnisse wie etwa jene der deutschen "Naila-Studie" aus dem Jahr 2004 keinerlei Erwähnung finden.

© SN

http://www.salzburg.com/sn/archiv_artikel.php?xm=1865743&res=0


Nachricht von Michael Meyer

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Krank durch Mobilfunk - Elektrosmog - Die Opfer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372620/

Mobilfunkopfer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/372640/

Verbraucherzentrale: Kein rechtlicher Schutz bei Mobilfunkgeschädigten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1290252/

Opfer könnten vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte klagen http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1240497/

Mobilfunk, Mensch und Recht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1189695/

Gesundheit: Mobilfunk als "heiße Kartoffel"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1306872/

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander H. Volger: Mobilfunk und seine Technikfolgen u.a.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/168670/



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See the global warming alarms from 2005, then send a message to your elected officials: Enough Talk. Take Action!
http://actionnetwork.org/EDF_Action_Network/yea_flash.html

Monster hurricanes, catastrophic mudslides, deadly floods and devastating wildfires - do you think perhaps Mother Nature is trying to tell us something?

Global warming's effects were all too visible in 2005, but all we got from Washington was a lot more talk and not nearly enough action.

See the global warming alarms from 2005, then send a message to your elected officials: Enough Talk. Take Action!

http://actionnetwork.org/EDF_Action_Network/yea_flash.html

The first step is to send an email to President Bush and to Congress. Damage from unchecked global warming is changing our lives and it requires action now.

When you're done, we have a special job for you: Send a handful of our special ecards highlighting the "Enough Talk. Take Action!" campaign to your friends and colleagues.

Among the danger signs of this year's global warming impacts:

- The ferocity of recent hurricanes may be a sign that global warming is already intensifying tropical storms. And many scientists believe it will only get worse in the coming decades.

- Arctic sea ice melting advanced this summer, opening up the possibility of ice-free Arctic summers and dangerously accelerating global warming as less ice leads to more absorption of heat from the sun - a prospect with devastating consequences for polar bears and people alike.

- Coral reefs bleaching and dying. These spectacular rainforests of the sea are at severe risk as warmer waters, more acidic oceans and stronger storms take their combined toll.

Just about everywhere you look, Mother Nature is sending clear signals that global warming is here and the consequences will get worse. We have no time to lose.

Please act now. Sign the petition and recruit your friends. Tell Washington to stop playting politics with our planet:
http://actionnetwork.org/EDF_Action_Network/yea_flash.html

Enough talk. Take Action!

Thanks in advance for your help,

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http://www.counterpunch.org/rajiva12052005.html


Informant: Our bill of rights

http://tinyurl.com/as2a3


Informant: NHNE

by Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com

The facts just don't support the everyone-does-it defense for Republican corruption.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051206/the_bipartisan_excuse.php

Jonathan Kozol writes that apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120605P.shtml

Recently filed court documents and interviews in Milan offer fresh details about how the CIA allegedly spread disinformation to cover its tracks and how its actions in Milan disrupted and damaged a major Italian investigation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120605N.shtml

Common Dreams
by William Fisher

12/05/05

"Congressional leaders who have often touted Iraq's new 'free press' as a sign of progress in that troubled country were angered by the Pentagon's admission last week that it has been planting and paying for Iraqi newspapers to publish 'good news stories' written by the military and 'placed' in Iraqi media by a Washington-based public relations firm. ... Earlier, Secretary Rumsfeld, under intense criticism, closed the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived operation to provide news items, possibly including false ones, to foreign journalists in an effort to influence overseas opinion. Now, critics say, some of the proposals of that discredited office are quietly being resurrected elsewhere in the military and in the Pentagon...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1205-33.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Nat Hentoff

12/05/05

Despite the insistence of the White House and the Republican congressional leadership that the Patriot Act be fully reauthorized before the Thanksgiving break, a coalition of Republican and Democratic senators blocked the Senate-House conference report until vital changes in the Patriot Act are made. They have rising support around the nation when Congress returns on Dec. 16. Dec. 15 is Bill of Rights Day, celebrating the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, without which our founding document would not have become the law of the land. I congratulate the patriotic resisters in and out of the Senate for not allowing the administration to retain sections of the Patriot Act, which 399 towns and cities across the country and seven state legislatures had told their representatives in Congress to change in compliance with the Bill of Rights. Begun in Northampton, MA, in November 2001, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, led by Nancy Talanian, has been instrumental in the national organizing of these resolutions to Congress through a subsequent alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union and a range of conservative libertarian organizations...

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051204-102937-3793r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Paul Craig Roberts

12/06/05

The Bush administration has made it abundantly clear that it believes, with no apologies, that the ends justify the means. Lying is simply a means to an end. What Condi Rice is telling Europeans is 'pay no attention to our lies; just accept that we are liars for a good and proper cause.' What other proof do we need of the Bush administration's low esteem for truth than the fact, revealed by the Los Angeles Times, that the Bush administration has been caught paying journalists to write favorable stories about the war in Iraq? First they rigged the 'intelligence' used to start a war; then they rigged the news reports about the war. And these people think they should be trusted?

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8216


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

SPLOID

12/02/05

All over the United States, garage door openers have gone bonkers ... and it's all the fault of the U.S. Military! The Government Accountability Office in Washington released the results of a special investigation on Thursday, saying the cause of thousands of garage-door mishaps is a new military radio system apparently used all over the country. In a colossal screw-up only the Pentagon could pull off, the new Land Mobile Radio units operate on the same frequencies as most garage-door openers. Every time the Pentagon begins using the new radios at another base, the unlucky homeowners nearby suddenly find themselves playing a deadly game of Garage Door Roulette -- and the military has done nothing to warn citizens of the coming chaos...

http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/12/garage_door_scr.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe

12/05/05

Senator Lincoln D. Chafee hopped out of the driver's seat of his beige Toyota Prius -- a car with a dent on the side and 'I Am Electric' emblazoned across the back window -- and dashed through the rain. He'd forgotten his umbrella at the office, so he was soaked before he made it inside Meadowbrook Farms Elementary School. Then, for the better part of an hour, he talked with a classroom of third-graders about the importance of saving the rain forests. 'The challenge is to balance between the animals and our needs,' the Rhode Island Republican told the children. 'We're all part of the earth ourselves. We have to share it.' Chafee is the closest thing to a GOP flower child in Washington these days. He's a Brown University classics major who spent seven years shoeing horses before turning to the family business of politics. His liberal positions would be well-suited for a centrist Democrat. The ease with which he speaks of living in harmony with nature marks him as a product of the '60s, and a child of a household that always had a compost pile...

http://tinyurl.com/98zjv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

12/06/05

The full extent of British logistical support for the CIA's secret 'ghost flights' emerged yesterday as Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said the agency's operations were 'a vital tool' in the campaign against terrorism. The Guardian publishes for the first time today the details of more than 200 flights in and out of Britain of aircraft owned or controlled by the CIA. The agency has used almost 20 airports across the UK during the period when its agents have been snatching terror suspects and taking them to countries where they may be tortured. As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country. Its destinations include not only major airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick, but small airports at Bournemouth on the south coast and Wick in the north of Scotland. Last night MPs, who have formed a campaign group to challenge British support for the CIA's so-called extraordinary renditions programme, met for the first time and demanded that the government come clean about the use of UK facilities...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1659057,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Detroit Free Press

12/05/05

FEMA realized its response to Hurricane Katrina was 'broken' and braced for rioting over woefully low supplies in Mississippi in the days just after the storm, according to new documents released Monday. The correspondence among Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, provided by a special House committee investigating the government response to the storm, follows the release last week of more than 100,000 documents by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco...

http://tinyurl.com/b2wfp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

12/05/05

In March 2003, the Italian national anti-terrorism police received an urgent message from the CIA about a radical Islamic cleric who had mysteriously vanished from Milan a few weeks before. The CIA reported that it had reliable information that the cleric, the target of an Italian criminal investigation, had fled to an unknown location in the Balkans. In fact, according to Italian court documents and interviews with investigators, the CIA's tip was a deliberate lie, part of a ruse designed to stymie efforts by the Italian anti-terrorism police to track down the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian refugee known as Abu Omar...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10341210/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Indianapolis Star

12/05/05

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice aggressively defended U.S. tactics against terrorism on Monday as tough but legal, and countered European complaints over reports of secret CIA-run prisons there by saying America's efforts with its allies have been 'a two-way street' that have saved European and American lives. Commencing a five-day visit to a Europe that has seethed with resentment over the reports of U.S. prisons and detainee mistreatment, Rice delivered the Bush administration's most forceful response to a month of growing trans-Atlantic acrimony...

http://tinyurl.com/599l9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

12/05/05

The Army dropped murder charges Monday against an officer accused of giving two soldiers in his platoon permission to kill Iraqi civilians. Second Lt. Erick Anderson, 26, of Twinsburg, Ohio, could have gotten life in prison if convicted. All charges were dropped after an Army investigator who presided over a two-day hearing last month recommended that Anderson not face a court-martial...

http://tinyurl.com/d33x2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/anv6f

PETER WALSH
06 December 2005 12:21

Planners have delighted phone mast campaigners by throwing out plans for a 10-metre mast in Norwich before it went to committee.

Families were urged to back a campaign opposing plans for the timber pole and antennae near to the Newmarket Road doctors surgery.

Telecommunications giant Vodafone submitted an application to Norwich City Council last month, but planners have already decided a mast would not be suitable in the area.

"The mobile phone mast on Newmarket Road was refused by planners on the grounds that it would be obtrusive in the street scene, that it's not part of the character of the conservation area," said a city council spokeswoman.

She added that planners also thought the mast would also "adversely affect the street amenities of the area".

James Lord, 75, of Glenalmond, off Newmarket Road, said he was delighted with the decision after being one of the people living in the area in opposition to the proposal.

"I think that's absolutely right," he said. "My objection in the first place was that a large piece of industrial equipment like that does not belong in a residential area.

"When you bear in mind the main approach to Norwich is up the Newmarket Road and that would be seen just as they come past the sign 'Norwich – A fine city'. Would that be the right thing to see?"

The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

"I'm pleased," said Chris Hull, Green county councillor for Town Close ward, who headed the campaign against the mast and found there was unanimous disapproval.

"It was pretty clear to me in canvassing door to door and speaking to people about the process that of their own volition people were saying to me they didn't want it — I couldn't find anyone in favour.

"It was proposed to be sited on a public highway, in a residential area, and it would have been visible from quite a way around at 12 metres in total — a 10 metre pole with two metres of antennae on top."

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said they would look carefully at the reasons for the refusal and see if there are any alterations which could be made to the proposal.

"Whether we will appeal or not it's difficult to say," she said. "We don't take that decision lightly. It's very much a case of we will take a review of the situation and decide from there."

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application? Telephone reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20051127&articleId=1336


Informant: Friends

http://www.rense.com/general69/PUB.HTM


Informant: Milo

http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/about/


Informant: NHNE

Accomplices

The European general public clamors to know: "How can European countries make themselves accomplices of American secret services by allowing these CIA planes to use their airports or by installing bases where the principles of democracy are flouted?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505H.shtml

Attacks on lawyers and flaws in the Iraqi justice system mean the trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity will never satisfy international standards, a UN rights official said on Sunday. John Pace, human rights chief at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, also condemned what he called illegal detentions by Iraqi and US military authorities, including thousands of suspects held at Abu Ghraib prison.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505F.shtml

This Vietnam experience came back to me, writes Les Payne, when I heard that the US military has been planting stories in Iraq newspapers. Having survived training as a US Army journalist, I can report that this military specialty resembles the real thing about as much as Army food resembles food.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505E.shtml

Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s views on abortion caused a stir this week, but another memo that surfaced from his years as a Reagan administration lawyer was notable for its strong support of the police. Alito wrote that he saw no constitutional problem with a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who was fleeing after a $10 home burglary.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505C.shtml

An analysis of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's voting record shows a pattern of supporting bills that benefit HCA Inc., the Nashville-based hospital company that's been the foundation of the Frist family's wealth.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505B.shtml

The available evidence now suggests that Rove did lie to a federal grand jury – even after his lawyer got the warning in early 2004 – and that Rove only admitted the initial contact with the Time reporter when documentary evidence surfaced nine months later.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/120405.html


From Information Clearing House

Soup kitchens find need outpaces resources: Operators of Victory Temple and other soup kitchens and food pantries in northwest Ohio say a loss of factory jobs and surging utility costs are sending growing numbers of people to their doors.

http://tinyurl.com/77a7m


From Information Clearing House

In a move that is certain to harden the battle lines among Democrats surrounding the Iraq war, a veteran union organizer will announce Tuesday that he is campaigning to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Clinton_gets_antiwar_challenger_1205.html


From Information Clearing House

Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan came to the United States more than 25 years ago, and has been proud to be called an American ever since. This confidence in the inherent beauty and justice of the United States was betrayed on the night of July 27th, 2004.

http://www.freehamdan.com/home.html


From Information Clearing House

Says Britain Broke International Law and "Complicit in Torture" if Flights Passed Through UK.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1455243


From Information Clearing House

Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr was taken off the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, then flown to Ramstein Air Base in Germany — considered U.S. territory — and from there to Egypt where he was reportedly tortured.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11212.htm

Stung by what many US officials see as a two-faced approach by some allies, she will also call on European governments to argue more forcefully with their own citizens that co-operation with the CIA is vital for their security.

http://tinyurl.com/9xj2n


From Information Clearing House

“We can come to the conclusion that in the whole complex of our (foreign) relations the weight of existing military and strategic links between Russia and the United States ... will be constantly declining,” Sergei Lavrov said.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/05/moscowwashington.shtml


From Information Clearing House

The Navy wants to increase its fleet to 313 ships by 2020, reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding and adding dozens of warships designed to defeat emerging adversaries, senior Defense Department officials say.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11221.htm

How Bush's imperial policies are being linked to economic woes and CEO angst in America.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/04/ING00G0OG61.DTL


From Information Clearing House

On Sunday’s ABC This Week, Stephen Hadley acknowledged that President Bush has not yet ordered the shut-down of the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign in Iraq.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/05/propaganda-hadley/


From Information Clearing House

It seems such a tiny, insignificant thing. Why worry about planting a little propaganda and bribing a few journalists when your men in the field are dying day after day? "This is war," says the Pentagon. Yes indeed, adds the sonorous senator who chairs the armed services committee, "this is war". And in war, of course, anything goes (even including bombing al-Jazeera) because ... well, it's war, isn't it?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11218.htm

Where they hide the cash

By Duncan Campbell

Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world's poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world's richest countries. That is the "conservative estimate" not of a leftwing anti-globalisation activist but of a leading American businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how multinational corporations, wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world's banking systems in ways that spread povert.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11217.htm

By Raymond Whitaker

CIA agents have broken ranks to reveal the 'cruel and inhuman' interrogation techniques they are ordered to use at secret prisons around the world, including freezing and near-drowning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11223.htm

“Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.”

Watch it online. Real video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11222.htm

Neoreality: Peak Oil And Iraq

By Bill Henderson

Why did the U.S. make war on Iraq? The official reasons - Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction and its links with Al-Qaeda - have now been shown to be lies. What then were the real reasons?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11213.htm

What Happened to Iraq's WMD

By Scott Ritter

The politicization of the intelligence community allows the process of fixing intelligence around policy to become pervasive, and the increasingly polarized political climate in America prevents any real checks and balances through effective oversight, leaving Americans at the mercy of politicians who have placed partisan politics above the common good.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11211.htm

US Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) changed his stance on a 2001 bill after receiving a $5,000 donation from a lobbyist's client who opposed the legislation, records show.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505Q.shtml

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:32:07 -0800
From: Penelope
Subject: chemical testing on children! -Letters to EPA needed


Hi all thanks for taking the time to read this rule change to make it legal to test on orphans and mentally handicapped children thanks Penelope http://www.earthfilms.org

Forward to all who care Subject: Letters needed to the EPA

Please send a letter OPPOSING the testing of chemicals and pesticides on orphans and mentally handicapped children. This proposal has horrifying parallels to Nazi Germany. Public comment period closes on Dec 12, so do it now!

Send two copies of your comments to:

Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB) Office of Pesticide Programs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mail Code: 7502C 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC, 20460-0001 Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2003-0132

Full briefing on which clauses to oppose and why follows.

Thanks,

Daniel

P.S. You can read the proposed rules at the EPA's own website:

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/2005/September/Day-12/g18010.htm

ALERT: EPA Proposes Chemical and Pesticide Testing on Orphans & Mentally Handicapped Children

ORGANIC BYTES #69 11/14/2005 OCA [Organic Consumers Association]

Public Comment Period Closes December 12, 2005

Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children. But the EPA's newly proposed rule, misleadingly titled "Protections for Subjects in Human Research," puts industry profits ahead of children's welfare. The rule allows for government and industry scientists to treat children as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments in the following situations:

1. Children who "cannot be reasonably consulted," such as those that are mentally handicapped or orphaned newborns may be tested on. With permission from the institution or guardian in charge of the individual, the child may be exposed to chemicals for the sake of research.

2. Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who have been neglected or abused.

3. Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable.

OCA's focal concerns with this proposed rule specifically involve the following portions of text within the EPA document:

70 FR 53865 26.408(a) "The IRB (Independent Review Board) shall determine that adequate provisions are made for soliciting the assent of the children, when in the judgment of the IRB the children are capable of providing assent...If the IRB determines that the capability of some or all of the children is so limited that they cannot reasonably be consulted, the assent of the children is not a necessary condition for proceeding with the research. Even where the IRB determines that the subjects are capable of assenting, the IRB may still waive the assent requirement..."

(OCA NOTE: Under this clause, a mentally handicapped child or infant orphan could be tested on without assent. This violates the Nuremberg Code, an international treaty that mandates assent of test subjects is "absolutely essential," and that the test subject must have "legal capacity to give consent" and must be "so situated as to exercise free power of choice." This loophole in the rule must be completely removed.)

70 FR 53865 26.408(c) "If the IRB determines that a research protocol is designed for conditions or for a subject population for which parental or guardian permission is not a reasonable requirement to protect the subjects (for example, neglected or abused children), it may waive the consent requirements..."

(OCA NOTE: Under the general rule, the EPA is saying it's okay to test chemicals on children if their parents or institutional guardians consent to it. This clause says that neglected or abused children have unfit guardians, so no consent would be required to test on those children. This loophole in the rule must be completely removed.)

70 FR 53864 26.401 (a)(2) "To What Do These Regulations Apply? It also includes research conducted or supported by EPA outside the United States, but in appropriate circumstances, the Administrator may, under § 26.101(e), waive the applicability of some or all of the requirements of these regulations for research..."

(OCA NOTE: This clause is stating that the Administrator of the EPA has the power to completely waive regulations on human testing, if the testing is done outside of the U.S. This will allow chemical companies to do human testing in ot her countries where these types of laws are less strict. This loophole in the rule must be completely removed.)

70 FR 53857 "EPA proposes an extraordinary procedure applicable if scientifically sound but ethically deficient human research is found to be crucial to EPA's fulfilling its mission to protect public health. This procedure would also apply if a scientifically sound study covered by proposed § 26.221 or § 26.421--i.e., an intentional dosing study involving pregnant women or children as subjects..."

(OCA NOTE: This clause allows the EPA to accept or conduct "ethically deficient" studies of chemical tests on humans if the agency deems it necessary to fulfull its mission. Unfortunately, the EPA report sets up no criteria for making such an exception with any particular study. This ambiguity leaves a gaping loophole in the rule. Without specific and detailed criteria, it could be argued that any and every study of chemical testing on humans is "necessary." This loophole in the rule must be removed, based on this inadequacy of criteria and definition.)

Forward this alert to friends and colleagues.


From EF! Media Center

"A military that is an unequal employer and that funnels people into an immoral war should not be able to recruit on campus."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1205-32.htm



Court showdown today over military recruiting:

A question before the U.S. Supreme Court today is whether colleges' free-speech rights are violated by a law that could allow the government to withhold money from schools that limit military recruiters' access to campus.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2005-12-05-court-debate_x.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=96476;show_parent=1

Uncover Operation Able Danger and Expose
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=96481;show_parent=1

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General gave OK for Able Danger

Former military chief confirms al-Qaida mission

By James Rosen

Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was the military's top commander during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confirmed that four years before the tragedy he authorized a secret computer data-mining initiative to track down Osama bin Laden and operatives in the fugitive terrorist's al-Qaida network.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11244.htm

Tuesday is the day! Congress Members get back to DC today, and we want to welcome them. We're asking you to call, email, and fax your Congress Members and ask for an end to the war in Iraq. This National Call-In Day - organized by Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America, and After Downing Street, together with United for Peace and Justice and many other peace organizations - aims to flood Congress Members' offices with our message for bringing this war to a close.

Our message is simple: "I am calling to let Rep. ______ know that I think the Iraq war is wrong and all our troops should be brought home immediately!"

Take Action Below, or call the Capitol toll free 888-818-6641.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/congress


IMPEACHPAC RESPONDS TO ATTACK BY ROLL CALL

This morning, Roll Call (the Capitol Hill newspaper) published an attack on ImpeachPAC - and its first endorsed candidate, Tony Trupiano - by "non-partisan" analyst Stu Rothenberg. Trupiano has promised to work for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, and Rothenberg has declared this entirely unacceptable.

Read the article and ImpeachPAC's rebuttal:
http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/60

and Bob Fertik's commentary:
http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=rothenberg

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TWO DOZEN JANUARY 7th EVENTS ALREADY PLANNED

Sign up for one in your area, or help plan one!

Democrats.com and After Downing Street are joining with Backbone Campaign, Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy Cell Project, Cities for Peace, MilitaryFreeZone.Org, Operation Ceasefire, United for Peace and Justice, U.S. Tour of Duty, Hip Hop Caucus, Democracy Rising, World Can't Wait, Gold Star Families for Peace, PeaceMajority Report, Global Exchange, Bring Them Home Campaign, UP (United Progressives) for Democracy, 20 20 Vision, Impeach Bush Coalition, and Peace Action in asking you to help organize public meetings or smaller gatherings on Saturday, January 7, on the topic of ending the war.

The war is costing us dearly in lives, in security, and in resources. We need this national day to make our demand heard and bring the war to an end. (Events can also be held on days other than the 7th, to fit the schedules of those involved.)

Because the holidays are coming, the time to organize these events is now. Here's how:

STEP 1: Identify an individual or organization or coalition to take the lead in organizing an event.

STEP 2: Post the event so that people can sign up for it and other organizers can contact you and work together. Whoever posts the event will have control of and be able to communicate with the list of people who sign up to attend it. It is also possible to post an event without many details and fill them in later.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event

STEP 3: See the resources posted on that website, which include tips on contacting your Congress Member. Invite him or her to host the event or to be your guest at an event you host, whichever they and you prefer. You can also hold an event without a Congress Member, such as a panel, a discussion circle, or a house party, and it's easy to do so with the resources provided here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event

STEP 4: Join a conference call for grassroots activists around the country on December 7 at 11 a.m. ET at 1-218-936-6666, then hit 2 (as instructed). The access code is 295965.

More Information: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event


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Mit der dringenden Bitte um Weiterleitung auf weitere bundesweite Verteiler ! !

Hartz IV aktuell aus Hamburg

Sozialgericht Hamburg erklärt Vorgehensweise der Hamburger ARGE bezüglich Ein - Euro - Jobs für rechtswidrig ! !

Hamburger Morgenpost 3./4 Dezember 2005

WILLKÜR BEI EIN-EURO-JOBS

Ingenieur muss Klos putzen

OLAF WUNDER

Karsten Herold heißt der Mann. Er ist 43 Jahre alt, arbeitsloser Diplom-Sozialökonom - und er hat der Hamburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II, der so genannten Arge, eine schwere Schlappe zugefügt. Vor dem Sozialgericht bekam er Recht. Die Art und Weise, wie in Hamburg Langzeitarbeitslose in Ein-Euro-Jobs gezwungen werden, ist rechtswidrig.

Fördern durch Fordern - mit diesem heeren Anspruch trat die Hartz IV-Reform vor einem Jahr in Kraft. Intensiv sollen Jobvermittler dafür sorgen, dass sich Langzeitarbeitslose qualifizieren, um bessere Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu haben. Das ist die Theorie.

Und in der Praxis? "Da werden die allermeisten blind in die Ein-Euro-Jobs gesteckt", sagt Karsten Herold. "Von Qualifizierung kann nicht die Rede sein. Es geht nur darum: Wer entnervt das Handtuch wirft, dem werden die Leistungen gekürzt - und das bedeutet Kosteneinsparung."

Karsten Herold ist hochqualifiziert, hat ein abgeschlossenes Universitätsstudium. Doch die Sachbearbeiter bei der Arge fragten ihn nie, was er eigentlich kann. Ein so genanntes Profiling, auf dessen Grundlage ein Eingliederungskonzept hätte erarbeitet werden können, blieb aus. Blind wurde er einem Beschäftigungsträger zugewiesen. Ob Hochschulabsolventen oder Personen ohne jeden Schul- und Berufsabschluss - alle gemeinsam saßen dort in denselben Bewerbungstrainings. Herold: "Das Niveau war unterirdisch. Reine Beschäftigungstherapie."

Die Entscheidung des Sozialgerichts im Fall Herold: Die von der Arge praktizierte pauschale Zuweisung an einen Beschäftigungsträger, der dann die Weitervermittlung in einen Ein-Euro-Job übernimmt, ist nicht rechtens. Die Job-Center dürfen nur dann die Arbeitsaufnahme von Ein-Euro-Jobs erzwingen, wenn dem Betroffenen ein konkretes, auf ihn zugeschnittenes Angebot gemacht wurde.

Gudrun Köncke, arbeitsmarktpolitische Sprecherin der GAL, kritisiert die Arge scharf: "Ein-Euro-Jobs sollen eine Hilfestellung sein, um Anschluss an den Arbeitsmarkt zu bekommen und geforderte Grundfertigkeiten einzuüben." Statt-dessen erfolge die Zuweisung nach dem Zufallsprinzip.

Dass das so ist, belegt der Fall Klaus D.. Der 52-jährige arbeitslose Ingenieur hat vom Träger "Jugend in Arbeit" das Angebot, einen Ein-Euro-Job zu machen, der maßgeschneidert wäre: in der Restaurierung historischer Schiffe. Aber die Arge sagt nein. Stattdessen soll D. - wie schon einmal zuvor - als Kloputzer anfangen. Weil er da nicht mitmacht, wurde ihm das ALG II gestrichen.

Udo Ihnen, Sprecher der Arge, kommentierte den Fall nicht. Nur soviel sagte er: Die Arge sei dabei, die Zuweisungspraxis bei Ein-Euro-Jobs so zu verändern, dass diese der jüngsten Rechtssprechung Rechnung trage.

http://archiv.mopo.de/archiv/2005/20051203/hamburg/politik/ingenieur_muss_klos_putzen.html

Trust me, says Condi Rice to Europe
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts134.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3727/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_12_2.html#FB378486


From FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign



U.S. Command Declares Global Strike Capability:

The U.S. Strategic Command announced yesterday it had achieved an operational capability for rapidly striking targets around the globe using nuclear or conventional weapons, after last month testing its capacity for nuclear war against a fictional country believed to represent North Korea.

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_12_2.html#FB378486


From Information Clearing House

http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1659309,00.html


Informant: Walter Lippmann

http://tinyurl.com/9qh7q


Informant: NHNE

A section to help identify the appearance and purposes of towers.

About a quarter of the estimated 130,000 cellular towers across the U.S. are camouflaged, some as trees, others as flagpoles and still others as church steeples and silos.

http://www.stealthsite.com/ STEALTH Concealment Solutions, Inc. designs, engineers and fabricates complete antenna concealment sites.

STEALTH's sole business is creating solutions which enable wireless carriers to implement their massive infrastructure build out.

Rooftops, flagpoles, bell towers, crosses, clock towers, road signs, silos, water towers, and monopole towers are just a few antenna concealment projects that have been successfully manufactured by STEALTH.

STEALTH's exclusive "Photo Gallery" located in our Products section, contains a variety of successful concealments completed by STEALTH.

Stealth Cell Towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections Stealth Antennas Try to Blend In http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0%2C1382%2C57199%2C00.html

EMF-Omega-News
One of the biggest information sources concerning mobile phones, mobile radiocommunictions and electrosmog.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/english_start.html
CIO newsletter from Germany
http://omega.twoday.net/

Contains articles such as "Cell Phone Radiation Slows Down Brain Speed" and many other reports about electromagnetic radiation.

I'm posting photos of any and all kinds of towers, from the obvious to the mysterious, but am especially interested in identifying towers which are useful in controlling the masses. (see Total Population Control.)

The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.bariumblues.com/towers.htm


Informant: Milo

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Cell Towers Camouflaged
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312406/

Stealth Cell towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312410/


http://www.google.de/search?q=Stealth+Cell+Towers&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:de-DE:official

http://download.alciada.net/911/fox_lc2e.mpg


Informant: Milo

Tetrahedron Publishing Group Health Science Communications for People Around the World
206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147, Sandpoint, ID 83864
208-265-2575 FAX: 208-265-2775

NEWS RELEASE Release: No. XXX Date Mailed: Oct, 21, 2005 Contact: Jackie Lindenbach - 208-265-2575; (e-mail: tetra@tetrahedron.org)

Dr. Horowitz Presents Free Download File Condemning Governments' Avian Flu Response: Lecture Donated for Health, Grassroots Activism, and Public Protection

San Francisco: Harvard-trained award-winning author Dr. Leonard Horowitz has donated a freely downloadable lecture for health, political action, and public protection. He says those frightened by the avian flu are victims of malicious abuse by government officials who put politics and profits before people.

An emerging diseases expert, Dr. Horowitz condemned officials for a deadly and deceptive flu fright that he says serves "a political and economic agenda" more than it does the public's health. His 45-minute recorded commentary, considered by many as an "urgent warning" about the risks of developing and taking flu vaccines, has been donated and freely circulated over the Internet by thousands of concerned citizens and public interest groups. (Spread the link to:
http://www.drlenhorowitz.com or http://www.bloginservice.com ).

Dr. Horowitz, best known for his national bestseller, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional?
http://www.healthyworlddistributing.com; 1-888-508-4787) urges the public to refuse vaccines and drugs being hyped for the avian flu. His scientific publications evidence the origin of AIDS from early hepatitis B vaccines prepared in contaminated chimpanzees (See: http://www.originofaids.com , and he shares similar pharmaceutical malfeasance regarding the outbreak of SARS.

In his recorded message, Dr. Horowitz reviews the history of the institutions and drug industrialists fanning fears of the avian flu. Gross conflicting interests are being served, he explains, by political payoffs and drug company profiteering. He goes on to indict government officials for genocidal policies much like those embraced by Hitler.

Lacking the "future virus," flu mutation specifics, cost/benefit studies, and essential risk/benefit analyses, masses of people will be injured by the proposed "fast-tracked" Bush administration mass-vaccination plan, Dr. Horowitz said. "I call this lethal policy of dispensing poorly tested flu vaccines and risky drugs 'iatrogenocide.' That is, physician-induced decimation of populations for profit."

Iatrogenic diseases are physician-caused ailments and drug side-effects, he explains. These are among the leading causes of death in the world. Currently, hospitals and morgues are full of vaccine-victims disregarded by politicians and health officials "eager to receive their next payoff from Capitol Hill's largest lobby."

"With awareness, there is hope," he says. "You either diagnose these political-pharmaceutical prostitutes, or die from the combination of your ignorance and their malfeasance."

Besides defrauding the world with a flu fright aimed at creating mass markets for new drugs and vaccines, Dr. Horowitz condemns officials for disregarding circulating "flu-like" ailments that he also claims are "man-made." Sadly, they also overlook " low cost, no risk preventatives and treatments based on healthier living, natural healing, and vibrational frequencies of sound and light that are well known to shatter viruses.

"Why do we use ultraviolet light to kill viruses and other water pathogens to purify drinking water, but see similar capabilities suppressed in healthcare?" Dr. Horowitz asks.

"Curing cancers to common colds relying on bioelectric flows and subtle energy vibrations rather than poisonous vaccines and deadly drugs," he explains, "is solidly supported by science." Yet, these viable alternatives are grossly neglected by leaders spending billions for vaccines yet to be manufactured for viruses yet to emerge.

By donating a freely downloadable avian flu lecture http://www.DrLenHorowitz.com , and urging others to freely circulate it over the Internet, Dr. Horowitz and his sponsors hope to save millions of lives.

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Note to journalists: Review copies of Dr. Horowitz's books and tapes are available by contacting Jackie Lindenbach at 1-208-664-7545. Media interview requests should be likewise directed.


A Supporting Message from: Brian William Hall, Executive Producer of CONSPIRACY CON and Victoria Jack, Executive Producer of the BAY AREA UFO EXPO.

We are both honored to have recently invited Dr. Len Horowitz to present at our respective forums. Furthermore, we hereby support his most current public alert that regards the latest "eugenics-based" SCAM known as "avian flu." This is intended to poison and kill potentially millions more with vaccines being developed by the pharmaceutical cartel. These latest vaccines (as countless others before them) are known to be tainted, untested and dangerous. These are consciously designed to wreak havoc with the human immune system, courtesy of the drug cartel. Most people do not realize the pharmaceutical industry is governed by a "global elite" whose agenda includes massive planetary depopulation.

Dr. Horowitz continues his tireless service to humankind by exposing the politics and economics underlying the "Biological Apocalypse" in which avian flu plays a current role. This is yet another assault against humanity; part of the "Bio-Spiritual Warfare" waged to create from chaos their NEW WORLD ORDER. If you wish to remain healthy in the coming months and years, we urge you to consider the vital information dispensed by Dr. Horowitz here and on affiliated websites. We also urge you to apply this knowledge, and share it with as many others as possible.

With respect and blessings to all. Brian William Hall Executive Producer CONSPIRACY CON Victoria Jack Executive Producer BAY AREA UFO EXPO

This donation and public service announcement is also rendered by collaborating companies and organizations including:

The National Vaccination Liberation Organization
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http://www.healingcelebrations.com ; Healthy World Distributing, LLC http://www.healthyworlddistributing.com ; and many other organizations and individuals committed to exposing the truth.

Note: Dr. Horowitz recommends the following herbal tinctures for naturally addressing the current "flu-like" illnesses: a) Lomatium root extract; b) Devil's club; c) Rosa nutkana (Natural rose hips); d) A.alnifolia (Service berry); and Black Elderberry. The products (Flumonia Factor Formula and Elderberry) are available through Healthy World Distributing, LLC through http://www.healthyworlddistributing.com (1-888-508-4787) and wherever fine organic herbal products are sold.

Listen to the Lecture now at:

http://www.bloginservice.com/bbc/leonard_horowitz_radio/birdflu.mp3


Informant: Lloyd Kinder

House bill would allow mining claim holders to purchase the federal property. Some fear it would open national parks to development.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505O.shtml

Paul Krugman writes that the main explanation for economic discontent is that it's hard to convince people that the economy is booming when they themselves have yet to see any benefits from the supposed boom.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505K.shtml

During the weekend, there were further revelations about the role of the CIA in kidnapping suspects. According to yesterday's Washington Post, the agency carried out a number of "erroneous renditions" - grabbing suspects off the street who later turned out to be innocent.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505J.shtml

Federal investigators in San Diego have made it clear that while just-resigned Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty last week to taking bribes from defense contractors, their public corruption probe will not stop at Cunningham.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505I.shtml

"Trifft sozial Schwächere"

(05.12.05)

Der Chef der Links-Fraktion im Bundestag, Gregor Gysi, hält die Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer zur Sanierung der Staatsfinanzen für den falschen Weg. "Wir brauchen mehr Steuern. Wir können uns diese Finanzknappheit nicht leisten", sagte Gysi am Sonntagabend in der n-tv-Sendung "Späth am Abend". Aber es komme darauf an, welche Steuern erhöht würden: "Die Mehrwertsteuererhöhung ist völlig falsch, weil sie insbesondere die sozial schwächeren Schichten trifft."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12445

Ohne konkrete Anhaltspunkte?

(05.12.05)

In der großen Koalition wird weiter über die Einführung einer Sicherungshaft für terrorverdächtige Ausländer gestritten. Während Unions-Fraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach am Wochenende für einen solchen Schritt plädierte, lehnte Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries eine vorbeugende Sicherungshaft für gewaltbereite Islamisten in Deutschland strikt ab. Mit ihre werde es "keine Regelung geben, nach der Menschen inhaftiert werden können, nur weil man vermutet, sie könnten gefährlich sein, ohne konkrete Anhaltspunkte für strafrechtlich Relevantes zu haben", sagte die SPD-Politikerin. Sie "halte das für verfassungsrechtlich nicht zulässig".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12446

Regierung und Opposition bitten USA wegen CIA-Flügen um "Aufklärung" (05.12.05)

Die Affäre um geheime CIA-Flüge im deutschen Luftraum mit gefangenen Terrorverdächtigen schlägt immer höhere Wellen. Politiker von Koalition und Opposition verlangten am Montag Aufklärung über die angebliche Kenntnis des früheren Bundesinnenministers Otto Schily von den Vorfällen. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International (ai) forderte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel auf, bei ihrem Treffen mit US-Außenministerin Condoleezza Rice das Verhalten Washingtons im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus zu kritisieren. Nach einem Bericht der Zeitung "Washington Post" wurde Schily bereits im Mai 2004 vom ehemaligen US-Botschafter Daniel Coats über die Verschleppung eines deutschen Staatsangehörigen informiert und um Stillschweigen gebeten. Der gebürtige Libanese soll wegen einer Verwechslung mit einem Terrorverdächtigen von der CIA nach Afghanistan geflogen und dort fünf Monate lang verhört worden sein.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12440



Ramstein, Kaiserlautern & Garmisch: Bundeswehr bewacht weiterhin US-Standorte in Deutschland (05.12.05)

Die Bewachung von Kasernenanlagen amerikanischer Streitkräfte in Deutschland wird nicht wie bisher geplant zum Ende des Jahres eingestellt. Auf Antrag der Amerikaner werde die Bewachung auf dem Militärflugplatz Ramstein, in der Sembach Kaserne bei Kaiserlautern und im NATO-Center Garmisch um sechs Monate verlängert, sagte ein Sprecher des Verteidigungsministeriums am Montag in Berlin. Zum Einsatz kämen dabei rund 200 Bundeswehrsoldaten, 150 davon in Rheinland-Pfalz. Eingestellt wird nach Angaben des Sprechers Mitte Dezember nur die Bundeswehr-Bewachung auf dem Militärflugplatz Spangdahlem sowie in US-Einrichtungen in Wiesbaden und Mannheim.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12439

Wenn Sie der Meinung sind, dass Ihre Aktionen für umwelt- verträglicheren Mobilfunk eine steife Brise Rückenwind vertragen könnten, dann haben wir heute gute Nachrichten für Sie. Denn Erol Özkan (Dortmund) und Gerrit Krause rufen alle Mitstreiter in Nordrhein-Westfalen dazu auf, gemeinsam mit ihnen den Landesverband NRW (Name noch offen) zu gründen.

Frei nach der Devise "Gemeinsamkeit macht stark" soll der geplante Landesverband allen angeschlossenen Bürgerinitiativen praktische Hilfe leisten und Aktionen übernehmen, die einzelne BIs allein nicht stemmen können. Die beiden Initiatoren haben die Idee zur Gründung des Landesverbandes jetzt bis zur Spruchreife gebracht. Unter http://la21-haan.de/mobilfunk/aufruf/aufruf.pdf können Sie sich den vollständigen Aufruf herunterladen.

Jetzt hängt alles davon ab, welche Resonanz der Aufruf in NRW findet. Überlegen Sie es sich bitte, ob Sie mit Ihrer BI dem Landesverband zu seinem Rückgrat verhelfen möchten und geben Sie Ihre Entscheidung bis spätestens 14. Dezember den Initiatoren bekannt. Einen Antwort-Coupon zum Ausdrucken und weitere Details entnehmen Sie bitte dem oben referenzierten PDF.

Wir hoffen auf große Resonanz (auch Einzelpersonen und Kommunen sind uns willkommen).

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Gerrit Krause
[BIuM] Bürgerinitiative für umweltverträglichen Mobilfunk im Kreis Mettmann
An der Schmitte 15 • 42781 Haan
Tel. 02129-959126 • Fax: 02129-959127

The US government is waging an air war in Iraq. "In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased," Seymour Hersh reported in the December 5 edition of The New Yorker. Hersh added: "As yet, neither Congress nor the public has engaged in a significant discussion or debate about the air war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505Y.shtml

Hampton University is considering expelling seven of its students for political activism just days after the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest.

http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#6901

by Stacy Mitchell, TomPaine.com

It's time to turn the battle against Wal-Mart into a fight against the system that created it.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051205/what_to_do_about_walmart.php

by Willam Fisher, TomPaine.com

The Iraq news payola scandal reinforces how the United States is exporting hypocrisy -- not democracy.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051205/will_pay_for_good_news.php

Frontiers of Freedom
by Tony Hill

12/04/05

Unfortunately the media continues to spread an unremitting stream of political pontifications in an alarming and persistent rate, feeling it necessary to inundate us daily with a constant barrage of politics and government as if serving their gods. Watch the slavish and sycophantic attitude today's reporters demonstrate when questioning Presidents and politicians, acting like petulant children daring to question the almighty. Check the papers, magazines, radio and TV -- the majority of editorials, stories and articles cover and approve of the politicians' efforts to spend more and more of our money on government giveaways. These unearned gifts enlist the votes of willing and conditioned citizens that feel entitled to the government's largesse...

http://tinyurl.com/dyv35


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Mark Engler

12/05/05

With the White House on the defensive about its justifications for the invasion of Iraq, and with European governments in an uproar over whether American abuse of prisoners has taken place in bases on the continent, scrutiny of alleged U.S. war crimes looks sure to intensify. And if debate about this inflammatory topic begins to rage, a new book, edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, promises to add fuel to the fire. In the Name of Democracy:

American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805079696/rationalrev08-20

collects damning official documents, leaked e-mails, testimonies, commentaries, and investigative articles. Together, these items make a strong case that Bush administration actions overseas violate international norms and treaties, and that those responsible are subject to legal repercussions.

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2005/12/war_crimes_usa.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Free Market News Network
by Peter Schiff

12/05/05

During the Christmas Shopping season all eyes are on the American consumer. If he spends lavishly, all is well; if he does not, disaster looms. In fact, Wall Street economists are so obsessed with consumption that they have hopelessly confused the tail with the dog. Consumption, over the long term, is only possible to the extent that there is production. It is not through financial courage and resiliency that Americans consume. The desire to do so is infinite and omnipresent. It exists equally from the wealthiest of kings to the poorest of beggars. Hunger itself will not put food on the table. Only production can transform abstract demand into genuine purchasing power...

http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/96/3076/2005-12-05.asp?wid=96&nid=3076


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by Mark Follman

12/05/05

Five days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the nation that the U.S. government would begin working 'the dark side' to defeat its enemies in a new global war. 'A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion,' Cheney declared on NBC's 'Meet the Press.' He added, 'It's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal.' More than four years later, the Bush administration has delivered on Cheney's vow to wage war in the shadows, free from oversight and accountability. Policies for seizing and interrogating suspects -- conceived and commanded at the highest levels of the White House -- have permitted numerous acts of torture and even murder at the hands of American soldiers and interrogators... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/12/05/torture_backlash/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

12/05/05

As a recovering victim of the American public school system, it took many years of independent study before I finally discovered the true intent of the Bill of Rights. With the 214th anniversary of the adoption of the Amendments only weeks away, the Bill of Rights remains, next to the Constitution itself, the most misunderstood document in the history of the nation. The recent vacancies on the United States Supreme Court have made the Bill of Rights front-page news and a major topic of discussion. Unfortunately, editorials and talk shows continue to misrepresent the original intent of the Amendments. Since a vast majority of the American people suffer from the 'victims of the public school system syndrome' that plagues the nation, the author felt this was the perfect time to offer some information that might help them overcome their affliction concerning the Bill of Rights...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/12/05/greenslade.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
(12/05/05

The War Party certainly has its party line down pat. In response to allegations that he had deliberately misinformed the Americans about Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction' and alleged links to al-Qaeda, Ahmed Chalabi recently declared: 'The fact that I misled the U.S. is an urban myth.' The same phrase popped up when an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney denied that his boss was the recipient of bogus 'intelligence' in the run-up to war, or is in any way beholden to the neocons: ''That's an urban myth,' said this aide, who declined to be identified.' This is a longtime favorite theme song sung by government officials who would rather not even discuss an inconvenient issue, and it often works, but not so well these days. The stench of fraud -- and worse -- is rising over Washington so that the whole city seems permeated by a permanent miasma, a poisonous cloud so thick that denials seem to stick in the throat even before they are uttered...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8209


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Nation
by Jeremy Scahill

12/01/05

Nothing puts the lie to the Bush Administration's absurd claim that it invaded Iraq to spread democracy throughout the Middle East more decisively than its ceaseless attacks on Al Jazeera, the institution that has done more than any other to break the stranglehold over information previously held by authoritarian forces, whether monarchs, military strongmen, occupiers or ayatollahs. The United States bombed its offices in Afghanistan in 2001, shelled the Basra hotel where Al Jazeera journalists were the only guests in April 2003, killed Iraq correspondent Tareq Ayoub a few days later in Baghdad and imprisoned several Al Jazeera reporters (including at Guantánamo), some of whom say they were tortured. In addition to the military attacks, the US-backed Iraqi government banned the network from reporting in Iraq. Then in late November came a startling development: Britain's Daily Mirror reported that during an April 2004 White House meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, George W. Bush floated the idea of bombing Al Jazeera's international headquarters in Qatar...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051219/scahill


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

MSNBC

12/04/05

As Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and thousands of people waited days amid the floodwater for rescue, a series of letters passed between the governor and the White House that reveal delays, claims that requests for federal help weren't received, and concerns on both sides about public relations. Gov. Kathleen Blanco late Friday released 100,000 pages of memos, handwritten notes, e-mails, phone logs and other documents requested by congressional committees that are now investigating what happened behind the scenes in the frantic days surrounding the deadly Aug. 29 storm...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9969769/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Las Vegas Review-Journal

12/04/05

The U.S. is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday. 'It's not a priority for the government right now,' said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed...

http://tinyurl.com/2xwm7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10313763/


Informant: Milo

William Rivers Pitt is at the end of his rope. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed and maimed during this occupation. 70% of the population is unemployed. Electricity is intermittent. Potable water is hard to come by. Bombs go off every day, slaying civilians, police and soldiers indiscriminately. Iraqis disappear into torture chambers. Religious factions growl at each other like dogs in a fighting pit. Even the children throw rocks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505Z.shtml

David Cole criticizes the indictment of Jose Padilla, saying his charges had virtually nothing to do with what the United States government had been saying about him during his three years in military custody as an "enemy combatant."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120405G.shtml

Jason Leopold analyzes attorney Robert Luskin, who is representing Karl Rove in the federal investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. According to Leopold, Luskin has made a desperate attempt to ensure Rove avoids becoming the subject of a criminal indictment.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120405A.shtml

HLV INFO 186/AT

5-12-2005

Volker Hartenstein, MdL a.D.

5-12-05


Sehr geehrter Herr Hartenstein,

im Anhang unsere Pressemitteilung zu der Veranstaltung "Mobilfunk und Baurecht", die wir am 24.11. in Oberbeuren/KF abhielten.

MfG
Renate Marek
Sprecherin der Mobilfunk-Initiativen OAL


Mobilfunk und Baurecht

Haben Kommunen Einflussmöglichkeiten bei der Standortfrage von Mobilfunkmasten?

Der Zwiespalt ist offensichtlich: Viele Menschen wollen mit dem Handy telefonieren und erreichbar sein, wollen aber auch vor Mobilfunkstrahlung geschützt werden. Obwohl die meisten Gebiete mobilfunktechnisch so weit versorgt sind, dass ein weiterer Ausbau eigentlich unnötig wird und nur noch fragwürdigen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten des Handys dient, drängen die Netzbetreiber auf immer neue Standorte. Die Kommunen stehen hier häufig dazwischen, sehen sie sich einerseits gezwungen, den Forderungen der Mobilfunkbetreiber genüge zu tun, andererseits sind sie aber auch für die Gesundheitsvorsorge in der Bevölkerung verantwortlich. Dass es Wege aus diesem Dilemma gibt, versuchte vergangenen Donnerstag auf Einladung der Ostallgäuer Mobilfunkinitiativen der Dipl. Verwaltungswirt (FH) Peter-Michael Schmalz, Referent für Umwelt- Natur- und Verbraucherschutz sowie Mobilfunkexperte, im Rahmen seines Vortrags "Mobilfunk und Baurecht" im Pfarrsaal in Oberbeuren aufzuzeigen. Schmalz geht in seinen Ausführungen erst einmal auf die derzeit festgelegten Grenzwerte ein. Sie böten selbst nach offiziellen Angaben zwar Schutz vor akuten Schäden, jedoch keinen nachgewiesenen Schutz vor mittel- und langfristigen gesundheitlichen Schäden. Die Menschen wären zudem wenig sensibilisiert für die gesundheitlichen Gefahren, die von elektromagnetischer Strahlung ausgingen. Denn, so Schmalz,: "Man riecht`s nicht, man schmeckt`s nicht und man hört`s nicht." Eine Senkung der Strahlenschutzwerte sei derzeit aufgrund der persönlichen und finanziellen Verflechtungen der regierenden Parteien mit den Konzernen nicht zu erreichen, deswegen müsse auf das Baurecht als den zweitbesten Weg ausgewichen werden. Wie z. B. bei der Windenergie, verfügt jede Gemeinde auch beim Mobilfunk über Steuerungsmöglichkeiten.

Schmalz empfiehlt ein flächendeckendes verbindliches und gemeindliches Standortkonzept für Mobilfunksendeanlagen in der Bauleitplanung. Als Basis hierfür rate er dringend die Beauftragung eines von den Netzbetreibern unabhängigen Fachbüros an. Dieses Büro müsse ein funktechnisches Standortgutachten erstellen. Dies beinhalte die Bestandsaufnahme von Sendeanlagen, eine dreidimensionale Erhebung gemeindespezifischer Gegebenheiten mit einer Genauigkeit im Meterbereich, funktechnische Berechnungen und die Erstellung eines Pflichtenheftes für die Gemeinde. Schmalz erläutert, dass jede Gemeinde ihre ganz eigenen zu berücksichtigenden Gegebenheiten, topographischer wie baulicher Art habe. So sei z. B. das Reflektionsverhalten, wie etwa in Häuserschluchten, ein nicht zu unterschätzender Aspekt für die Strahlenbelastung. Die Funknetzplanung der Netzbetreiber basiere dagegen in aller Regel nur auf weniger genauen und billigeren Geländemodellen, in denen viele maßgebliche Aspekte nicht berücksichtigt werden. In dem aufwändigen Standortgutachten hingegen können aufgrund extremer Digitalisierung die Auswirkungen des geplanten Standortes genau gemessen werden. Darüber hinaus können die gewonnenen Daten für weitere unverzichtbare Komponenten, wie Straßen- oder Kanalbau verwendet werden.

Im Außenbereich kann jede Gemeinde auf Basis dieses unabhängigen Gutachtens rechtsverbindliche sog. Positivstandorte im Flächennutzungsplan festsetzen. Im Innenbereich können auf Basis des Gutachtens dann Sperrungen von reinen und allgemeinen Wohngebieten für Mobilfunksender per Bebauungsplan festgelegt werden. Unter gewissen Voraussetzungen können sogar bestimmte Bereiche von Misch- und Dorfgebieten von Mobilfunksendern freigehalten werden. Gewerbegebiete entzögen sich jedoch in aller Regel beim Mobilfunk einer gemeindlichen baurechtlichenhoheitlichen Regelungskompetenz. Hier könne man jedoch ersatzweise zivilrechtliche Regelungen in den Kaufverträgen für die Gewerbe-Grundstücke fixieren. Für die zeitliche Absicherung dieser gemeindlichen Planungen stünden, so der Fachmann weiter, gemeindliche mobilfunkspezifische Veränderungssperren und Anträge auf Rückstellungen von Baugesuchen zur Verfügung. Voraussetzung hierfür sei jedoch eine hinreichend konkretisierte Planungsabsicht der Gemeinden für ein Standortkonzept zum Mobilfunk.

Eine weitere, sehr aktuelle Möglichkeit der Gemeinden, Einfluss in Sachen Mobilfunk zu nehmen, böte das derzeitige Anhörungsverfahren zur Novellierung des Landesentwicklungsprogramms (LEP). Einige Kommunen haben bereits den Vorschlag eingereicht, die Formulierung "flächendeckende" durch den abgeschwächten Begriff "ausreichende" Versorgung" zu ersetzen

Im weiteren Verlauf des Vortrages widerlegte der Referent noch einige Falschbehauptungen hinsichtlich der angeblichen hervorgehobenen Rechtsstellung der Mobilfunkbetreiber. So pochten die Netzbetreiber immer auf ihre Lizenzverpflichtungen. Diese Lizenzverpflichtungen, so Peter-Michael Schmalz, seien jedoch nur privatrechtliche Lizenzen zum Geldverdienen, keine öffentlich-rechtlichen Verpflichtungen zum Netzaufbau, so ein rechtskräftiges Urteil des Bayerischen Verwaltungsgerichtshofes vom
18.03.2003

Zum Schluss seines sehr intensiven und anspruchsvollen Vortrages fasste der Referent seine Ausführungen zusammen mit den Worten: "Ein gemeindliches Vorsorgekonzept ist keine rechtswidrige Verhinderungsplanung, sondern eine rechtlich zulässige Lenkungsplanung. Oft scheuten jedoch die Gemeinden die Kosten hierfür. Es gelte jedoch auch hier das Prinzip: "Wo ein Wille ist, da ist auch ein Weg."

An die Bevölkerung appellierte er, angesichts der gesundheitlichen Risiken, den Vorsorge-Empfehlungen des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz zu folgenden: nach Möglichkeit nur mit dem Festnetz telefonieren, und wenn nicht anders möglich, dann nur sehr kurz mit dem Handy telefonieren und Kinder gar nicht mit dem Handy telefonieren zu lassen. Auch dürfe nicht vergessen werden, dass mit jedem Handytelefonat die Wahrscheinlichkeit steige, dass auch im eigenen Nahfeld ein neuer Sender gebaut wird. Schließlich gelte: Viele Handytelefonate, bedeuten viele Sender!

The Pentagon's accounting methods make it difficult to monitor how the armed services have spent more than $300 billion since the war on terror began.

http://tinyurl.com/bn874


From Information Clearing House

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Do These Two Have Anything in Common?

President Bush has equated Islamic radicalism with communism. Is the comparison sound? Is it wise?

http://tinyurl.com/ac4k7



The next holocaust: Islamophobia is not a uniquely British disease:

Across Europe, liberals openly express prejudice against Muslims. Do new pogroms beckon?

http://www.newstatesman.com/200512050006


From Information Clearing House

Officials at the FBI mishandled a Florida terror investigation, falsified documents in an effort to cover repeated missteps and retaliated against an agent who first complained about the problems, Justice Department investigators have concluded.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/04/news/terror.php#


From Information Clearing House

Half a million children have died in Iraq since UN sanctions were imposed - most enthusiastically by Britain and the US. Three UN officials have resigned in despair. Meanwhile, bombing of Iraq continues almost daily.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11208.htm

http://www.sundayherald.com/34491


From Information Clearing House



How MI6 sold the Iraq war:

THE Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5433.htm

Rather than address the issues the soldiers raised, angry White House officials devised a plan to attack the messenger – the ABC correspondent who filed the story, Jeffrey Kofman.

http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=8201


From Information Clearing House

"The Four Star Generals picked Murtha to make this speech because he has maximum credibility." It's true. Even in the US Senate there's no one with quite Murtha's standing to deliver the message, except maybe for Byrd...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12032005.html


From Information Clearing House

Of 1,300 suspected insurgents arrested over the past five months in and around Ramadi, none has been a foreigner. Col John Gronski, senior officer in the town, Anbar's provincial capital, said that almost all insurgent fighting there was by Iraqis.

http://tinyurl.com/doo3l


From Information Clearing House

By William Bowles

Much has been made in the corporate/state-run media of Blair being some kind of ‘restraining influence’ on Bush and the ‘neo-cons’ but as the report makes abundantly clear, US-UK foreign and energy and military policies are ‘joined at the hip’ and have been so for the past century and in spite of the rivalries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11205.htm

German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'

By Dana Priest

Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one of its citizens, Khaled Masri, for five months, and would soon release him, the sources said. There was also a request: that the German government not disclose what it had been told even if Masri went public. The U.S. officials feared exposure of a covert action program designed to capture terrorism suspects abroad and transfer them among countries, and possible legal challenges to the CIA from Masri and others with similar allegations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11207.htm

http://tinyurl.com/8clln
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051204/cm_huffpost/011483;_ylt=ArY7z6qNZhHKA4.ENUJTt3ke6sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTBidHQxYjh2BHNlYwN5bnN0b3J5

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/Tejon


From EF! Media Center

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3722/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

House bill would allow mining claim holders to purchase the federal property. Some fear it would open national parks to development.

By Janet Wilson and Tim Reiterman
LATimes Staff Writers
December 4, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mining4dec04,1,3365324.story

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE — Standing at the foot of billion-year-old Stripe Mountain, acting park chief Larry Whalon gazed up at ancient slopes banded in limestone and copper.

"In 10 years, there could be a big house right here. Lots of houses," Whalon said.

The entire mountain in the desert preserve west of Las Vegas is covered by federal mining claims, and newly proposed legislation would allow claim holders to purchase this land outright.

Supporters say the mining law changes, part of a spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last month, are intended to revive dying rural mining towns. But the possible consequences have provoked fierce disagreement.

A House-Senate conference committee is expected in the near future to begin work to resolve the differences between the House bill and one passed by the Senate. The Senate bill does not contain the mining provisions, but it does include an equally contentious measure, rejected by the House, that would open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Critics fear the mining law changes could open the door to any type of locally approved development on millions of acres of public land — including national forests and national parks. Records show California's national parks have more mining claims than any others in the U.S.

Six Western governors, all Democrats, signed a letter Thursday opposing the changes, calling them "ill-conceived" with "sinister intent."

"Functionally, 6 million acres of public land could be on the selling block … including lands within our wilderness and national parks system," wrote the governors of Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. "With the potential for new … claims, untold other millions of acres could be up for sale."

The governors said the sale of lands would yield a "paltry" $32 million annually, while sacrificing $2 billion worth of royalties.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office is assessing the mining claims legislation, but spokesman Darel Ng said Friday, "He has not yet taken a position."

Supported by the mining industry, the bill is being championed by Reps. Richard Pombo (R-Tracy), Resources Committee chair, and Jim Gibbons, a Nevada Republican and Resources Committee member who wrote the legislation.

The two congressmen maintain it is a long overdue reform of an 1872 mining law that will help ease the nation's deficit and bolster rural economies. They say fears of massive development are unfounded, particularly in national parks and other protected areas.

"This is not some land sale or giveaway," said Pombo spokesman Brian Kennedy. "This legislation allows there to be jobs and economic sustainability after the mine closes."

But others worry that language in the bill could negate regulatory oversight of mining on public lands, and lead to the sale of surface lands atop claims.

"We're trying to decipher this thing. It's amazing how some of it is written," said Death Valley National Park Supt. J.T. Reynolds.

According to the park's mining engineer, Mel Essington, "They could put in a bingo parlor, gambling casinos, a McDonald's….

"A portion of the park extends into Nevada," Essington added. "They could have a legal right to a brothel out there."

Several hundred miles north in Sierra County, where there are about 1,500 mining claims and only 3,500 residents, county planning chief Tim Beals said privatization of claims would create "horrendous conflicts" between the new landowners and fishermen, hunters, hikers and snowmobilers, as well as a rush to build along the rivers. "It would be chaos."

If approved by the Senate, the law would lift an 11-year-old moratorium on the patenting, or sale, of federal lands to claim holders. Purchase prices, now $2.50 to $5 an acre, would be raised to $1,000 an acre or fair market value, whichever is greater. Claim holders could also stake and buy adjoining lands.

Mining industry officials said the ability to patent, or buy, mining claims would help ensure a domestic supply of minerals and provide incentive to make new uses of property containing shuttered mines.

Luke Popovich, vice president of the National Mining Assn., said critics have grossly exaggerated the law's potential effects. "If you put in some common-sense screens … you come up with a total acreage that is seriously possible for privatization of about 360,000" across the U.S, he said.

The bulk of active mining claims on federal land in California are in the Mojave Desert and the Sierra Nevada foothills. The lands are rich in mining history, attractive for development and used by millions of people for camping and other recreation.

The Mojave Preserve, established in 1994, is studded with 432 active claims, meaning they pay fees each year and have done exploratory work.

The existing federal Mining in the Parks Act has tough restrictions that make it difficult to actually mine, and that effectively ban other development.

The land is largely devoid of humans, except for occasional hikers or hunters who share the undulating desert valleys and five mountain ranges with jackrabbits, tortoises, coyotes and small bands of bighorn sheep.

"I call it the big openness," said acting park chief Whalon. "I don't want to lose any ground."

What concerns him most is how the legislation could affect adjacent public land just across the increasingly busy Interstate 15 from the northern boundary of the preserve.

Administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, that land has less protection than the preserve, Whalon said. He fears if it is sold to private owners as a result of the new bill, it could be very profitable to put commercial strips next to the highway, exposing the preserve to light, noise and pollution.

Three hours away in Death Valley, tourists interviewed last week were mostly aghast at the possibility of new mining and development in the park.

"It would be crummy," said Laury Huckling, 35, of Ontario, Canada, marveling at the 35-million-year-old lava beds off Zabriskie Point. "This should be protected forever."

But Don Twiggs, a visitor from Ludlow, Vt., disagreed. "For 360 degrees I see nothing but a lot of rock," said Twiggs, a retired plumbing contractor. "I'm sure you could get some use out of some of it, and still have plenty left over."

Supporters of the bill say buying lands simply for development would remain illegal, and that years of costly mining work would have to be done before the land could be privatized.

"This is not a return to the Old West land rush," said Gerald Hillier, former head of the BLM's California desert office, now a consultant to county officials in four Southwestern states. "People are not going to be able to go out and stake a claim, kick the cattle off, and say 'this is mine.' "

He said market forces would also keep most national forest and BLM land from being developed, because there is still so much available private land closer to towns.

Last week in Sierra County, on snowy ground outside his DigMore Mine, David O'Donnell put on his hardhat and adjusted his headlamp with fingers gnarled from old injuries. A county road worker, he mines his claims evenings and weekends. "If I was not married," said the father of two grown sons, "I would be up here 24-7."

On one level, the legislation appeals to O'Donnell, who mines with a heavy hammer, dynamite and an ore cart inherited from his father. He figures he could acquire his 160-acre claim and cut some timber for shoring up his mine. And he could sell off an interest to raise capital for equipment and helpers.

But he is concerned about development. "I think mining property was not designed for a housing tract," he said. "If people move in, they will think the miners are making too much noise. They would complain about drills and rock crushers … and too much dust."

Mike Miller, who owns the Original Sixteen to One Mine in the nearby hamlet of Allegheny — one of the county's few commercial mining operations — said the new law would make it too easy to purchase mining claims, after as little as $7,500 in mineral development work.

"That is not right," he said.

Unlike some other foothill counties that lost mining and logging jobs, Sierra County is hardly teeming with new development. Three-quarters of the county is public land, and most of the rest has been developed or is too steep and rugged.

Officials said the proposed law could open up vast forests in the county to housing and other private uses, increasing the tax base. They said they welcome development near existing towns but are concerned that development deep in national forests could harm recreational tourism and create new costs for snow removal, ambulance services and police and fire protection.

Adam Harper, manager of the California Mining Assn., said those fears are unwarranted. "The locals have the ultimate say on what can go on a piece of property."

On a recent afternoon, Sierra County Sheriff Lee Adams III stood on a snowy outcropping, looking out over some of the mining claims that extend 40 miles along a stretch of the Yuba River favored by fishermen and whitewater enthusiasts.

"These are some of the most scenic areas of Tahoe National Forest," said Adams, speaking as a longtime county resident. "Say I pay $10,000 for a claim and turn around and sell it to a developer for $200,000. I do not think that is a benefit to the public."


Informant: binstock

For Your Torture Dosier: Move evidence of widespread Imperial abuses

December 2, 2005

The Proof is in the Military's Own Autopsy Reports

Death By Torture: US Media Ignores Hard Evidence

By PETER PHILLIPS

Military autopsy reports provide indisputable proof that detainees are being tortured to death while in US military custody. Yet the US corporate media are covering it with the seriousness of a garage sale for the local Baptist Church.

A recent American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) posting of one of forty-four US military autopsy reports reads as follows:

"Final Autopsy Report: DOD 003164, (Detainee) Died as a result of asphyxia (lack of oxygen to the brain) due to strangulation as evidenced by the recently fractured hyoid bone in the neck and soft tissue hemorrhage extending downward to the level of the right thyroid cartilage. Autopsy revealed bone fracture, rib fractures, contusions in mid abdomen, back and buttocks extending to the left flank, abrasions, lateral buttocks. Contusions, back of legs and knees; abrasions on knees, left fingers and encircling to left wrist. Lacerations and superficial cuts, right 4th and 5th fingers. Also, blunt force injuries, predominately recent contusions (bruises) on the torso and lower extremities. Abrasions on left wrist are consistent with use of restraints. No evidence of defense injuries or natural disease. Manner of death is homicide. Whitehorse Detainment Facility, Nasiriyah, Iraq."

The ACLU website further reveals how: "a 27-year-old Iraqi male died while being interrogated by Navy Seals on April 5, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. During his confinement he was hooded, flex-cuffed, sleep deprived and subjected to hot and cold environmental conditions, including the use of cold water on his body and hood. The exact cause of death was "undetermined" although the autopsy stated that hypothermia may have contributed to his death.

Another Iraqi detainee died on January 9, 2004, in Al Asad, Iraq, while being interrogated. He was standing, shackled to the top of a doorframe with a gag in his mouth, at the time he died. The cause of death was asphyxia and blunt force injuries.

So read several of the 44 US military autopsy reports on the ACLU website -evidence of extensive abuse of US detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan 2002 through 2004. Anthony Romero, Executive Director of ACLU stated, "There is no question that US interrogations have resulted in deaths." ACLU attorney Amrit Sing adds, "These documents present irrefutable evidence that US operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogations."

Additionally, ACLU reports that in April 2003, Secretary Rumsfeld authorized the use of "environmental manipulation" as an interrogation technique in Guantánamo Bay. In September 2003, Lt. Gen. Sanchez also authorized this technique for use in Iraq. So responsibility for these human atrocities goes directly to the highest levels of power.

A press release on these deaths by torture was issued by the ACLU on October 25, 2005 and was immediately picked up by Associated Press and United Press International wire services, making the story available to US corporate media nationwide. A thorough check of Nexus-Lexus and Proquest electronic data bases, using the keywords ACLU and autopsy, showed that at least 95percent of the daily papers in the US didn't bother to pick up the story. The Los Angeles Times covered the story on page A-4 with a 635-word report headlined "Autopsies Support Abuse Allegations." Fewer than a dozen other daily newspapers including: Bangor Daily News, Maine, page 8; Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque Iowa, page 6; Charleston Gazette, page 5; Advocate, Baton Rouge, page 11; and a half dozen others actually covered the story. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Seattle Times buried the story inside general Iraq news articles. USA Today posted the story on their website. MSNBC posted the story to their website, but apparently did not consider it newsworthy enough to air on television.

"The Randi Rhodes Show," on Air America Radio, covered the story. AP/UPI news releases and direct quotes from the ACLU website appeared widely on internet sites and on various news-based listservs around the world, including Common Dreams, Truthout, New Standard, Science Daily, and numerous others.

What little attention the news of the US torturing prisoners to death did get has completely disappeared as context for the torture stories now appearing in corporate media. A Nexus-Lexus search November 30, 2005 of the major papers in the US using the word torture turned up over 1,000 stories in the last 30 days. None of these included the ACLU report as supporting documentation on the issue.

How can the American public understand the gravity of the torture that is currently being committed in our name when the issue is being reported with no reference to the extent to which these crimes against humanity have gone? Has the internet become the only source of real news for mainstream Americans while the corporate media only tells us what they want us to know?

Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored a media research organization.
http://www.projectcensored.org/

ACLU source documents online at:
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/


Michael Wells Mandeville,
The Hills of Arizona USA at mwman@earthlink.net

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Death By Torture:

The Proof is in the Military's Own Autopsy Reports: US Media Ignores Hard Evidence.

http://www.counterpunch.org/phillips12022005.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.slate.com/id/2131365/nav/tap1/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

FEMA Concentration Camp for Families in Taylor, Texas




Informant: shane_digital

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Al Martin: FEMA and the coming police state

Important article, if a little frightening. It explains why, further down, that Fema is organizing America into a gulag of work camps. The implementing legislation is in place, or going in place even now. It may somewhat replicate the work camps that served the German corporations in WWII, being located on top of natural resources. These people just can't help recreating the fascist model. Heck...just take a look at films and stories on last years Republican Convention in New York. The writer, Al Martin, was a former cohort of the Bush Cabal... D


FEMA, CILFs & State Security: Shocking Updates (11-28-05)

The Bush-Cheney Regime is telling US citizens their exact intent. In fact FEMA is being upgraded as a federal agency, and upon passage of PATRIOT Act III, which contains the amendment to overturn posse comitatus, FEMA will be re-militarized, which will give the agency military police powers. It should be remembered that FEMA started out in 1952 as a military agency, called Federal Emergency Military Agency (FEMA).

FEMA was under the control of the Department of Defense. In related news, as reported on CNBC, the new Taser H-26 super stun gun has been fully developed and is already being sold, even though there have been problems.

(It also comes with the laser target identifier, so when you see that little red dot on you at night, and you wish to avoid that nasty shock, you immediately raise your right arm in the air and shout - "Hail the Leader.")

Taser doesn't like having to adopt the new label of semi-lethal instead of non-lethal. Semi-lethal, in this case, means that whether it is lethal to you or not depends on your body's tolerance for 100,000 volts of electricity.

Nevertheless Taser is going to restrict sales to governmental agencies and the military only, at least for now. FEMA has announced they will go ahead with the purchase of the new super stun gun to add to their ever-growing arsenal of high-tech, so-called non-lethal and semi-lethal weapons, to be used for the control of either crowds or the control of detained citizens en masse.

But after PATRIOT III is passed, FEMA will be re-militarized and it will be a fully stand-alone federal agency that will take over from the Department of Defense the militarized law enforcement and citizen control function within the United States.

FEMA has acted, as we reported earlier, not to confiscate, but to commandeer the Red Cross emergency housing facilities in the future. Furthermore FEMA has announced it will commandeer now and take control of all remaining temporary housing facilities now being run by private charities and other organizations. In other words, these facilities are going to be brought under control of a remilitarized, military policed and empowered FEMA.

As Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pointed out in recent weeks, these private temporary housing facilities and compounds will be made 'secure' by FEMA.

Secondly, FEMA is now taking over from the U.S. Army the control of the CILF project (Civilian Inmate Labor Facilities). FEMA will now provide the personnel within these facilities to act as guards, and also to keep out of the venue any legalities regarding any personal rights, as well as civil liberties that citizens detained in these facilities would have had, had these facilities remained under the control of the Department of Defense. In other words, these facilities, legally speaking, in a post-PATRIOT Act III environment, will hold citizens, who while detained will have no rights. This lack of rights goes beyond the lack of rights that exists now under PATRIOT II. This means indefinite detention without trial, indefinite detention without charge, indefinite detention without right of counsel-indefinite detention secretly, without any communication with the outside world, and without anyone knowing where you are.

The power to do so does not really rest with the Department of Defense. That power really rests with Homeland Security and FEMA.

And this is what it has come down to -- a turf war between Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, between Chertoff and Rumsfeld, that Homeland Security has won. That's what this is really all about. It's a turf war, in which Homeland Security wants militarized police operations domestically under its control. It wants to run all civilian detention facilities, all 'non-conventional civilian judicial apparatus' relating to the PATRIOT Act, knowing this would vastly increase the power of Homeland Security.

Chertoff didn't say this, but Congressman Dan Burton said that, after PATRIOT III is passed, the Department of Homeland Security's name will be changed to the Office of State Security. He also said that's what pro-Bush faction Republicans wanted to name the agency all along, but were afraid to do so because of what that might mean in certain public quarters and how it might be construed.

However, Congressman Burton points out, sinisterly enough, that, in a post-PATRIOT Act III environment -- we need no longer be concerned about public opinion. Chertoff is thus setting himself up as a czar, a Czar of Domestic Military Security.

Chertoff is doing it by cobbling a system together -- by increasing FEMA powers, which would be further increased anyway in the post-PATRIOT III environment. This will insure that Northern Command does not trump the Department of Homeland Security, or soon to be the Office of State Security, in terms of militarized law enforcement capacity. In other words, he wants Homeland Security and FEMA to have that power and organization -- not the Department of Defense.

This is a power struggle Chertoff is clearly winning and Rumsfeld is effectively feeding into. The implications, of course, continue to be ever more sinister for the American people in the post-PATRIOT III environment. What remaining civil rights and constitutional protections were afforded American citizens would be effectively eviscerated, and we will have what the Regime has wanted all along -- a militarized police state.

Furthermore, what will happen is that in the post-Patriot III environment, the CILF project, for the first time, will be able to be openly funded as a separate budgetary item, instead of funding it through the U.S. Army, as it's being done now. It is currently estimated the Regime is spending about $1 billion dollars a year on refurbishing and expanding the CILF program. The funding, by the way, is being diverted from U.S. Army training and weapons procurement funding. That's where the money's coming from. However, in the post-PATRIOT Act III environment, the CILFs will be able to be funded as a separate item.

Chertoff even said this, that he would request funding be increased from what is an estimated billion dollars per annum now, to $10 billion per annum, to allow for the dramatic expansion of CILF facilities in order to meet the new goal.

Readers may remember the CILFs originally were envisioned to house 2 million dissidents, or those who were found to be acting in a seditious capacity or otherwise treasonous to the state. That was, I think, the original language in 1977. What Chertoff has now said is that the facilities are going to be expanded to initially house 3 million.

Furthermore, and what is interesting about this, is the Department of Homeland Security is currently petitioning for increased power over the Department of the Interior, for example. It is now attempting to usurp some of the authority of the Department of Interior regarding the management of certain federal lands in 'agriculturally or mineral producing areas.' FEMA now wants first dibs, as it were, over these lands.

It is likely, based on the pronouncements coming from FEMA and OEM, or Office of Emergency Management, (remember FEMA and OEM will be put together as one agency post-PATRIOT III), one can draw the conclusion from this attempt to usurp the power of the Department of the Interior that Chertoff intends to build CILFs on federal lands.

Remember a Department of Homeland Security senior advisor, former KGB General Yevgeny Primakov, intimated this before in a radio show he did with BBC, which we have previously written about: Chertoff wants to build new large CILF camps on agricultural or mineral-producing areas. In other words, what he's talking about now is the construction of a long-term system of concentration camps, using slave labor for mining and for the production of agricultural products.

Chertoff is saying these places have to support themselves. Under Bushonomics, the red ink cannot flow forever to the point where you could potentially house, let's say, 10% of the population in a gulag. These gulags, like the Russian gulags, have to pay for themselves somehow, and how you make them pay is by insuring the detainees are put to work producing something of value -- agriculture, metals, minerals, fishing rights, timber -- something that is of commercial value to defray the cost of maintaining a gulag.

And that is precisely what Chertoff is attempting to build. That's why Chertoff has requested the special power over the Department of Interior to inform 'certain current commercial leaseholders of federal lands-agriculture, grazing, timber, metals, minerals, etc.-to shorten the leases of these lands and to make them a fixed termination wherein the Department of Homeland Security (soon to be the Office of State Security) could take control of these lands to build CILFs on them that would be self-supporting or reasonably so.'

Typically these things are sub-contracted out to Bush connected firms. But pro-Bush faction Republicans have expressed a willingness to give up that gravy train to some extent. Their willingness comes out of their desperation to see a pro-Bush faction Regime remain in power, knowing that, if a democratic process is allowed to proceed, (this is the thinking), a Democratic Party candidate would be elected president in 2008. If that were to occur, the economic policies which this Democrat Party administration would have to undertake would be so draconian that, in order for the American people, to make it politically palatable, they would need to tell the people for the very first time the truth about the Bush Cabal and about the rape and pillage of the United States by this Cabal.

It will not be couched in terms of FDR's New Deal program. When you have to ask the American people to make substantial sacrifices, short of fighting a global war, they're going to want to know why. Global war against "terrorism" will not be convincing anymore.

Therefore, an incoming Democratic regime would have no choice but to tell the people the truth about Bushonomics and about the Bush Cabal and what has been done to the nation and the trillions upon trillions in debt this Cabal and Bushonian Regimes have accrued. Then, all of the pro-Bush faction Republicans with connections to the frauds, to the endless panoply of Bushonian frauds, would be flushed out and identified.

Therefore, pro-Bush faction Republicans are increasingly desperate to ensure that the Regime is continued and that it uses its PATRIOT Act powers to continue itself, not only in power, but in absolute power. Consequently they're willing to give up the gravy train on the minerals and agricultural lands.

However, interestingly enough, as Congressman Tom DeLay had pointed out previously, since the mineral and ag payments haven't increased much since the original law of 1872, thanks to Republican pressure to keep them low, the federal government is not losing much revenue anyway. Why? Because the lease payments are so low relative to the commercial value of the land, CILFs could actually make these lands generate a profit beyond the cost of actually running the CILF.

General Primakov warned us of this in his BBC radio interview in
2003. This is when he was still a senior advisor to Homeland Security on Domestic Internal Security affairs, DISA, as it was called, as it is still called. General Primakov, knowing he would lose his $150,000-a-year consulting fee, came out and started to tell the truth. But Primakov wasn't really giving up anything because he knew that when his 18-month contract was over, it wasn't going to be renewed anyway because it had become an embarrassment. Primakov, Karpov and Kalugin had frankly become embarrassments -- and they knew it.

Therefore, in order to hedge his bets, Primakov goes to Europe and starts giving interviews about what the Bush Cheney Regime is up to. That way, he could be an I-told-you-so down the road. This is something Russian generals always like to say down the road. Their one great claim to fame is for Russian generals 10 years down the line to be able to say, "I told you so."

This is an update, and a review of where the nation is going. There are more and more signs and they are showing the intent of the Bush Cheney Regime. What I find most onerous of all is that the Regime, with each passing month, hides less and less of its intent. In other words, the amount of information within the public domain, although, granted, not particularly easy to find, is nonetheless in the public domain. There is plenty of information even the average citizen can find in the public domain, if they know how to look for it.

That's the key difference. Most people don't know how to look. But if you do know how to look for information, the amount of information regarding all of what we have just said that is in the public domain is astounding. The Regime is not attempting to hide its intent. And with near-absolute control of mainstream media, it doesn't have to. For instance regarding the turf war between the Pentagon and Homeland Security, people have asked me -- are the generals going to sit still and let it happen?

The generals in the Department of Defense know, in the last analysis, they control the military. They control all of the heavy weapons. More importantly, they control all of the military infrastructure. They know that, even if they are not in control of the CILFs and if the Department of Defense is not in control of a militarized police state, in the last analysis, they are in control. The reason why, I think, Rumsfeld is acquiescing is he doesn't want the Department of Defense to have the headache of this program. I mean, who wants the headache of doing this?

Rumsfeld is not interested in becoming a king or czar. Chertoff apparently is.

But we should understand where we are going. As mentioned before, OEM went through the GSA (Government Service Administration) to have new rationing booklets printed for food, petrol, tobacco, liquor, etc., which is something that has not been done since the Second World War. This in itself speaks volumes. The only reason you're going to do that is if you intend to ration products in the US.

Here's another part we touched on before that should be reiterated. The FEMA-OEM combination in a post-PATRIOT Act III environment already exists (it doesn't need a declaration) since a state of national emergency has existed since 9-14-01.

We should also remember the declaration of a national emergency, the legal trip wires exist. In other words, in a sense, PATRIOT III is already here.

In a post-PATRIOT III environment, the FEMA-OEM combination could, at any time, exert absolute control over the production and distribution of food and fuels, by the power already given to them under PATRIOTs I and II.

In a post-PATRIOT III environment, they could act under the existing declaration of a national emergency signed by George Bush in September 2001 that gives them enough to hang their hat on, legally speaking, to exert control over the production and distribution of food, water, medicine, etc. in the nation. As we have mentioned before, the OEM has done surveys of all the large food distribution companies in the United States, asking them the total number of outlets they have, the square footage, the production volume, etc. They would then have the information ready so the FEMA-OEM super-combo agency (the State Security Agency), after PATRIOT Act III, would have the information necessary to take control of food and water distribution, production, etc. in the nation if they so chose to do.

All of this is combined with what we have been writing about-the various edicts of the U.S. Treasury to increasingly restrict citizens' ability to own gold, to take gold out of the country, to force them to use a soft dollar in a post-economically collapsed environment, knowing that that is the ultimate goal.

Why is all of this is being done? Why is the regime moving to a militarized police state and to a dictatorship?

It is because of what Comptroller General David Walker said, that after 2009, the ability of the United States to continue to service its debt becomes questionable.

Although the average citizen may not understand what that means, when the United States can no longer service its debt it collapses as an economic entity. We would be an economically collapsed state.

The only way government can function and can maintain control in an economically collapsed state is through a military dictatorship. Government has never been able to maintain control throughout history of a post-economically collapsed environment other than in a military dictatorship. We have seen many examples of this south of the border, in Eastern Europe and in Asia throughout the twentieth century.

There is really nothing new about this. People act like this is something new. The people who believe that, of course, are the naive flag-wavers. They also believe that what has happened on the rest of this planet throughout history can't happen in the United States. Of course, it can. And it will happen because Bushonomics ensures that it will happen.

Bushonomics is ensuring the need for a military dictatorship in the nation. The United States, in order to survive in a post-economically collapsed environment, would have to have the ability to repudiate the trillions of Bushonian debt that has been accrued. It couldn't survive as an economic state and still service that debt.

We've heard this on radio shows before, that there is a growing number of people in this country who are buying 5 or 10 acres of farmland in the middle of nowhere and building little farm-lets for themselves and getting ready for all this. First of all, that's nonsense, in that FEMA and OEM would control all food production in the country, ala Soviet style. As General Primakov said, this would not only be an American gulag system, but an American gulag system based on a Soviet model.

In other words, you are forced to sell your products to the state at a fixed price. The state is going to know how much you can grow. It is nonsense to believe you can remain in the United States and have any degree of independence or control over your own life or the ability to feed yourself without a rationing coupon book. That is nonsense to believe. It is further nonsense that those who buy survivalist food and guns think that they are going to stand up against their government. That is nonsense as well.

The new American Civil War scenario is also nonsense. You would be mowed down. Let's face it. Why do you think all of the sub agencies now, like the Office of Internal Security, have already identified every potential citizen who is hostile to the regime? Your whereabouts are already known. It isn't like you can hide.

And this is the long and short of it. The only thing that is going to be good is gold and the only way to have that is to be outside of the United States.

By the way this column is not meant to be apocalyptic. This is simply a review of the situation as it currently stands and what it will look like after PATRIOT III. There's nothing apocalyptic here. There is no guesswork implied.

The Regime is telling you their intentions.


From ECOTERRA Intl.

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U.S. Relocation Centers
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/known_relocation_centers.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y4ray9



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=FEMA+Concentration+Camp

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04revkin.html


Informant: NHNE

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

Testimony of Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031477/

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

Open letter to the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/841288/

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

WHO writes off electrosmog victims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1142664/

WHO and Electric Utilities: A Partnership on EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1176061/

The cozy relationship between the WHO and the electric utility industry http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1023935/

The WHO EMF Charade Continues - Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/819270/

Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1283940/

WHO will not accept smokers to work, will cell phones users be next?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1229599/

A Danger from within the house: Radiation was found in the Israeli Prime Minister Office http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1178309/

Das zwielichtige Spiel des Dr. Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257501/

Bestechungsvorwurf gegen Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257776/


http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame that was approved when Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/05/07/aspartame_gate_when_donald_rumsfeld_was_ceo_of_searle.htm decided to call in his political markers to override the FDA's scientific doubts, seems to be nearing the end of its 'useful' life span. Not only are consumers getting increasingly angry - once they find out what causes their ills and they get off the poison - but threatening black scientific and legislative clouds are lining the horizon as well.

Italian study

A large multi-year study of a private Italian health research foundation has acutely confirmed what studies in the 1980s had already found: brain tumors and other unsavory effects of aspartame consumption. The study, which used laboratory animals to test the cancer hypothesis, has been published by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. The article is available on the EHP website
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/8711/abstract.html.

The study's authors said that previous studies on aspartame were too short to show the cancer causing potential of the substance: "In our opinion, previous studies did not comply with today's basic requirements for testing the carcinogenic potential of a physical or chemical agent, in particular concerning the number of rodents for each experimental group (40 - 86, compared to 100 - 150 in the current study) and the termination of previous studies at only 110 weeks of age of the animals." The study has made headline news, but most countries are wary to take a first step - the FDA is held in high esteem, although opinions might be changing after recent scandals involving painkillers and the effects of psychiatric drugs approved by the agency. Consumer complaints Consumer complaints about aspartame were collected by the FDA and in a rare slip, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February of 1994 released a listing of adverse reactions. There are some 92, listing can be found in Aspartame the BAD news! http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html . Apparently aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System. The FDA is in a very unenviable position. It has approved a neurotoxic carcinogen to be used as an artificial sweetener and complaints are piling up to where they are difficult to hide. But once the sweetener was approved it became almost impossible for the agency to admit wrongdoing, without unleashing a scandal the likes of which has not been seen since the thalidomide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide disaster.

New Mexico

Against this background, there is now action in the New Mexico legislature to hear evidence about aspartame's health effects. Heaven forbid that there should be hearings, Ajinomoto, the principal manufacturer of aspartame, has hit the ceiling. Lawyers hired by Ajinomoto
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=2331 descended on legislative committees to argue why the FDA's approval should prevent any independent hearings from taking place. The Calorie Control Council, a group close to industry, was called in to help. They dutifully attempted to demolish
http://search.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=12568&channelid=CHAN-100017 the Italian study saying it did not follow the guidelines of the National Toxicology Program, the United States government toxicology initiative administered by the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences. The people pressure against aspartame comes from a network of former 'addicts' who have kicked the diet habit and from doctors who have seen the damage and halted or reversed it in their patients. Books have been written (look at the Amazon ads in the side bar - hint, hint) that condemn the sweetener and document its ill effects, aspartame detoxification programs and aspartame help groups exist, a video Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
http://store.yahoo.com/yhst-61637171248923/sweetmiserydvd.html documents some the history of aspartame's approval and some of its egregious side effects. A tireless lady by the name of Betty Martini, who founded Mission Possible
http://www.dorway.com/possible.html is arguably the most well known among the aspartame opponents, although hers is not a lonely crusade. Aspartame users (mostly ex, to be sure) and doctors in some 30 countries are involved. They swear they won't rest until the poison has been removed from the food supply and those responsible for overriding science and covering up the side effects are brought to justice. It is Betty Martini
http://www.wnho.net/bio-bmartini.htm who wrote the following two letters, one to the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and another, more recent one, to the Governor and the Attorney General of New Mexico. While her tone reflects her frustration of seeing official inaction in the face of an obvious catastrophe, we should not make light of what she has to say. The comments and documentation go well beyond the immediate issue of the New Mexico hearings. Anyone serious about understanding what the aspartame controversy is all about would do well to read her letters. That includes any health officials who might be reading this article - especially! I have added some links to the references in the letters, to make it easier for those interested to arrive at the documents... (12/1/2005 9:50:11 PM)

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