3
Jan
2006

Voting System Results Still Out

The maligned punch cards that snarled the 2000 count are all but gone. But with electronic machines under attack as unreliable and vulnerable to hackers, there is little consensus about what the new technology should look like.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306P.shtml

Support for Bush Drops among US Military

Support for President George W. Bush's Iraq policy has fallen among the US armed forces to just 54 percent from 63 percent a year ago, according to a poll by the magazine group Military Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306O.shtml

For Bush, a Test in the Midterms

E. J. Dionne Jr. writes that elections at midterm can be low-interest affairs or immensely important. This fall's congressional elections will be a big show with large consequences, because 2006 is looking a lot like the political years 1958, 1966 and 1978, all of which heralded major political transformations.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306N.shtml

Question for Judge Alito: What about One Person One Vote?

Senator Joseph Biden Jr., the Delaware Democrat who will be one of those doing the questioning when confirmation hearings begin next week, said recently that Judge Alito's statements about one person one vote could do more to jeopardize his nomination than his statements about Roe v. Wade.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306K.shtml

Looks Like Bush Knew Wiretaps Were Wrong

While President Bush denies any wrongdoing in the National Security Agency domestic wiretap and data-mining program, saying yesterday that it was perfectly legal, actions by top officials in his own administration suggest Bush and his inner circle of confidants did indeed know the spying was wrong.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306J.shtml

US Rep. Murtha Says He Wouldn't Join Military Now

A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the US Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News's "Nightline" that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush to have launched.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306I.shtml

La Nina Setting In: North Pacific Anomaly dissolving

(excerpt)

During the last three weeks, the equatorial Pacific has clearly veered into a mild La Nina condition from Peru to 180 degrees. This emerging condition is accompanied with the evaporation of the hot spot in the North Pacific, which has driven the unusual jet stream and weather conditions in the Northern portion of the Western U.S. So the weather oddities will dissolve, but this will be a COLD WINTER for certain and it may easily deepen much more drastically during the next two weeks. So far it appears to me over the past five years that La Nina and high Sunspot Peaks tend to cancel out each other's influence in the Pacific, moderating each other's impact. La Nina reduces air flow. Sunspot Peaks increase it.

To check the latest status of the Change In The Earth and the location of Earth's Axis, go to:
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/


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

Gegen "Sozialschnüffelei": Hartz-IV-Gegner kündigen neue Aktionsformen an

03.01.06

Die "Hartz IV"-Gegner planen neue Formen des Protests. An Stelle der bisherigen wöchentlichen Montagsdemonstrationen sollen vielfältige Aktionen treten, wie Vertreter des bundesweiten Bündnisses "Agenturschluss" am Montag in Berlin erklärten. Das Netzwerk, das vor einem Jahr zur Einführung der Arbeitsmarktreformen die Proteste in vielen Städten Deutschlands initiiert hatte, zog jetzt in einem "Schwarzbuch" Zwischenbilanz.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12595

Wirtschaftsminister Glos für längere Laufzeiten der Atomkraftwerke

Für Steinkohle und Atom: Wirtschaftsminister Glos für längere Laufzeiten der Atomkraftwerke (03.01.06)

Bundeswirtschaftsminister Michael Glos (CSU) hat vor dem Hintergrund des Gasstreits zwischen Russland und der Ukraine die Debatte über den Atomausstieg neu entfacht. Darüber müsse man nun "neu nachdenken", sagte Glos am Montag und verlangte, auf in Deutschland verfügbare Energiequellen zu setzen. Neben Steinkohle seien dies Atomkraftwerke, die von der rot-grünen Bundesregierung aus "politischen Gründen zum Abschalten verurteilt" worden seien. Die Grünen verurteilten den Vorstoß als "Griff in die energiepolitische Mottenkiste".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12594

Sicherheitswahn: Datenschützer fordert zu Protesten gegen Überwachung auf

Der schleswig-holsteinische Datenschutzbeauftragte Thilo Weichert hat zu Protesten gegen die zunehmende staatliche Überwachung aller Bürger ermuntert. "Die Menschen müssen es sich nicht gefallen lassen, dass ihnen ihr Datenschutz und ihre Kommunikationsfreiheiten genommen werden, dass sie zu Nummern reduziert werden, die mit etwas Glück in der großen Lostrommel von Missbrauchsbekämpfung und Sicherheitswahn einen Bürgerrechts-Treffer ziehen", erklärte der Leiter des Unabhängigen Landeszentrums für Datenschutz. 2006 dürfe nicht das "Jahr der Vorratsdatenspeicherung" werden. Das zivilgesellschaftliche und bürgerrechtliche Aufbegehren gegen die verfassungswidrigen Bestrebungen zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung müsse gestärkt werden, "um über eine umfassende öffentliche Diskussion die aktuellen Weichenstellungen in eine Überwachungs-Informationsgesellschaft rückgängig zu machen", so Weichert. Die geplanten Vorratsspeicherungen stellten Menschen ohne einen konkreten Anlass unter Gen eralverdacht. Sie trügen dazu bei, dass die Menschen ihr Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat und in die Sicherheit elektronischer Kommunikationsdienste verlören.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12599

Last Chance to Spare Iran: You Can Do It

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAX20060101&articleId=1699

It's More Important Than Halting Nuclear Proliferation
http://counterpunch.org/christison12292005.html


Informant: Carol Moore

From ufpj-news

US Abandons Iraqi Reconstruction

The US government is not planning to continue funding reconstruction projects in Iraq, in what appears to be a major climbdown from the White House's one-time pledge to build the best infrastructure in the region.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306Y.shtml

Mobile phone users become psychologically addicted to using phones

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

THE MIRAGE OF EMPIRE

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3867/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Reef's continued downfall dismays divers

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2006/01/03/m1a_REEF_0103.html


Informant: binstock

Our Worrisome MDP

by Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com

If we measured average Americans' prosperity, the White House would be singing a different economic tune.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060103/our_worrisome_mdp.php

The Twin Crises Of 2006

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

Reports that the Bush administration may strike Iranian nuclear facilities promise only further destabilization in Iraq.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060103/the_twin_crises_of_2006.php

Die bewachten Parasiten

Die Redaktion des LabourNet Germany und die „Aktion Agenturschluss“ veröffentlichen eine Jahresbilanz des Widerstandes gegen Agenturen, Erwerbslosenindustrie und Hartz IV. Presseerklärung des LabourNet Germany vom 2.1.06 (pdf)
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/aktionen/pressehartzbilanz.pdf


Ein Jahr Hartz IV „Zum Jahresende wird im Medienwald Bilanz gezogen, leider mit wenig Überraschungen. Die Armut hat zugenommen mit dem Verelendungsprogramm Hartz IV. ALG II-EmpfängerInnen wurden und werden auf den Ämtern schikaniert, erhielten die ihnen zustehenden Zahlungen nicht und legten massenweise Widerspruch ein. Die Beratungsstellen erlebten einen massiven Ansturm, und arbeiteten selbst oft ehrenamtlich weit über die Erschöpfungsgrenze hinaus. Ob 2006 wieder mehr Protest auf der Straße zu erwarten ist?...“ Artikel von „Unsere Träume sind zu groß für Wahlurnen...“ vom 31.12.2005 bei indymedia

http://de.indymedia.org/2005/12/135905.shtml


Unzitat des Tages: "Hartz IV muss vom Kopf auf die Füße gestellt werden"

Ursula Engelen-Kefer in einem Interview mit der Nachrichtenagentur AP am 29.12.05, zitiert beim DGB

http://www.dgb.de/homepage_kurztexte/hartz.htm

Wir sagen immer noch: Weg damit, mit allen Hartz-Gesetzen!


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2006

Spooky AOL Ad Says Big Brother Is Watching the Internet

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/030106aol.htm

Gewerkschaftlicher Antimilitarismus: Zeitung gegen den Krieg

Zeitung gegen den Krieg Nr. 22 ist erschienen

Schwerpunkte: Folterflüge und US-Airports in der BRD – Große Koalition und großer Krieg? – Die iranische Regierung und die Kriegsgefahr durch die US-Regierung – Kampagne gegen Armee-Rekrutierungen in den USA - Die Lage in den palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten: Gespräch mit Abdallah Franghi – Israel vor Neuwahlen – Atomare Aufrüstung in Großbritannien und Frankreich - Gespräch mit Konstantin Wecker - Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz 2006. Die neue Ausgabe der ZgK dokumentiert u.a., wie konkret die nächsten Kriege vorbereitet werden. Weitere Informationen und die Bestellmöglichkeiten auf unserer Sonderseite „Zeitung gegen den Krieg“

http://www.labournet.de/krieg/zgk.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2006

Fehlzeiten und die Jagd auf Kranke

2005: Krankenstand weiter gesunken - Beschäftigte zwei Tage weniger krank als noch vor zwei Jahren

„Von Januar bis November 2005 ging der Krankenstand (3,4 Prozent) weiter zurück (2004: 3,6 Prozent und 2003: 3,7 Prozent, jeweils Januar bis November). 2005 sanken die Krankheitszeiten für die ersten elf Monate auf nur 11,5 Kalendertage, im Jahr 2004 waren es für diesen Zeitraum 11,9 Tage und 2003 noch 13,5 Tage. Somit waren die Beschäftigten von Januar bis November 2005 zwei Tage weniger krankgeschrieben als 2003 (Januar bis November). Damit ist zu erwarten, dass für das gesamte Jahr 2005 der Rekordtiefstand mit nur 13 Tagen Arbeitsunfähigkeit aus dem Jahr 2004 noch unterboten wird…“ Pressemitteilung des BKK Bundesverbandes vom 02.01.2006
http://www.bkk.de/bkk/pressemitteilungen/powerslave,id,262,nodeid,15.html


Detaillierte Informationen zu psychischen Erkrankungen, branchen- und berufsbezogene Auswertungen aller Krankheitsarten und weitere umfangreiche Analysen liefert der » aktuelle BKK Gesundheitsreport 2005

http://www.bkk.de/bkk/powerslave,id,855,nodeid,855.html


Aus: LabourNet, 3. Januar 2006

GOP Lobbyist Jack Abramoff to Plead Guilty

The New York Times is reporting that Jack Abramoff will plead guilty to three felony counts in Washington on Wednesday as part of a settlement with federal prosecutors, ending an intense, months-long negotiation over whether the Republican lobbyist would testify against his former colleagues, people involved with the case said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306Z.shtml

Abramoff pleads guilty, Ripple Effect Expected

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/03/abramoff.plea


Informant: John Calvert

The Department of Agriculture has failed to regulate field trials of genetically engineered crops adequately, raising the risk of unintended environmental consequences

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03crop.html


Informant: binstock

BATTLE of Colman Road

PETER WALSH

02 January 2006 11:45

Families are facing a fresh battle to stop a mobile phone mast being installed near their homes after a telecommunication giant appealed against a decision to throw it out.

More than 500 people signed a petition against the application by O2 for a 15metre mast near to the Moss Pharmacy in Colman Road.

The campaign, which was orchestrated by University ward councillor Roy Blower, led to planning officers throwing the proposal out in June.

Norwich City Council was not able to divulge why the plans had been rejected, although the council's planning department confirmed the application had been given delegated refusal.

That meant it was rejected before it reached the stage of going before councillors for approval.

However delight for the campaigners has proved short-lived as the phone giant has lodged an appeal with Norwich City Council.

A spokeswoman for O2 previously saidbecause of increased usage of mobile phones more masts had to be put up to help keep up required coverage.

"I'm hopeful that when the appeal is heard common sense will prevail," said Mr Blower.

"We're not arguing only on the grounds of health, but the total intrusion of the mast in a residential area is not what the community wants. I think other alternative sites could be looked at and for commercial reasons they haven't, so I'm hopeful that common sense will prevail."

Paul Brock, owner of Collins Fish Bar which has branches on Colman Road and Dereham Road, said he was disappointed O2 had decided to appeal.

"The majority of our customers are from that area and we support whatever the locals want and they obviously don't want it," he said.

"It would be sad if the people who have signed the petition lost. I don't really know what else you can do — O2 are a big company to fight."

The Evening News has campaigned, through the Put Masts on Hold campaign, against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.

Dr Ian Gibson, a long-time supporter of our campaign, said: "Lets hope the planning committee can be consistent and help remove these hated masts."

In December 2002 telecommunications company Hutchinson 3G submitted plans to the city council to put up a 13m mast next to the Colman Road Area Housing Office car park.

A petition was raised against the application on the grounds it would have a negative impact of the surroundings the proposals were thrown out soon after.


Are you battling mobile phone mast plans where you live? Telephone Evening News reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk

http://tinyurl.com/7j46v

Government is non-civil because it uses coercion to accomplish its ends

Civil society

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

01/03/06

Civil society has three elements. First is the commercial element, the spontaneous order of an exchange economy, the market for goods and the factors of production. Second is the benevolent element, charitable donations. Third is voluntary association, the creation and organization of clubs, mutual-aid societies, and families. These elements are not distinct, but intertwine like strings in a fabric. The contrast to civil society is imposed government. Government is non-civil because it uses coercion to accomplish its ends...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001766.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The new Iraq war strategy

AntiWar.Com
by Michael Schwartz

01/03/06

There are several aspects to this new strategy that we need to keep in mind. First, this is an attempt to lessen the strain on U.S. troops -- the U.S. military in Iraq is in grave danger of collapsing, as it did in Vietnam. So the new strategy seeks to reduce the number of patrols (which are the most grueling and dangerous missions American soldiers undertake) and compensate with more air raids. The hope is that this switch in emphasis will make it possible for U.S. troops to endure more tours of duty in Iraq. But this probably won't work...

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/schwartz.php?articleid=8338


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Chatting up the TSA

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

01/02/06

Next time you go to the airport be sure to put on a happy face, even if you've been informed that your flight has been delayed by an hour and that you'll miss all your connections. You'll need this cheerful facade to make it through the TSA airport security checkpoint. As if being asked to strip off shoes, coats, belts and other clothing before going through a metal detector and getting your personal belongings x-rayed is not enough, the TSA will begin psychoanalyzing air travelers in 40 major airports next year. TSA screeners, who are not even fully trained law enforcement personnel, let alone professional psychologists, will perform behavior analysis screening on all passengers...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1644


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cameras may be looking

Alleghany Times

01/02/06

Whether you're at the mall, the automated teller machine, or driving down the highway, a surveillance camera may be stationed somewhere nearby, monitoring your every move. Cameras are stationed all over the place as property and business owners, along with police and schools, attempt to deter theft, crime and other mishaps by keeping a watchful eye through a hidden lens. Following the recent extension of the U.S. Patriot Act, debates over secret phone tapping, illegal spying and trampled civil liberties have begun to emerge. Although some may say it's nothing more than Big Brother paranoia, hidden cameras are in places you might least expect. Putting cell phone cameras and pocketsize cams into the mix stirs concern from some who see it as an escalating privacy issue. Wal-Mart has cameras pointed in and outside its store. PennDOT has cameras observing traffic on the highway systems. Even homeowners are installing cameras...

http://tinyurl.com/dwl8p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

CIA ignored info Iraq had no WMD

Detroit Free Press

01/02/06

A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because -- he said -- it had been dead for a decade. New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, 'State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration' describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism...

http://tinyurl.com/7dx5a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Our secret weapon to SAVE the Supreme Court

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Abramoff plea bargain to bring corruption probe to Congress

Houston Chronicle

01/02/06

A plea agreement between prominent lobbyist Jack Abramoff and federal prosecutors is expected this week, bringing a wide-ranging corruption probe to the doors of Congress, according to sources close to the investigation. Abramoff, who collected millions of dollars in controversial fees from Indian tribes with interests in the gambling industry, reached a tentative deal with prosecutors in a Washington-based investigation late last week, according to one of the sources...

http://tinyurl.com/bb5go


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Abramoff Expected to Plead Guilty to 3 Felony Charges

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300474.html?referrer=email


Informant: Milo

Critics say the Bush family and the administration have too many ties to Eli Lilly

The Man Behind The Vaccine Mystery

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2002

Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, says he's behind a provision in the homeland security bill that protects Eli Lilly and Co. (CBS/AP)

Quote:

"It's a matter of national security. We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons." House Majority Leader Dick Armey


(CBS) It's been a mystery in Washington for weeks. Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the maker of a controversial vaccine preservative called "thimerosal," used in vaccines that are given to children.

Drug giant Eli Lilly and Company makes thimerosal. It's the mercury in the preservative that many parents say causes autism in thousands of children – like Mary Kate Kilpatrick.

Asked if she thinks her daughter is a victim of thimerosal, Mary Kate's mother, Kathy Kilpatrick, says, "I think autism is mercury poisoning."

But nobody in Congress would admit to adding the provision, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta – until now.

House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells CBS News he did it to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business under the weight of mounting lawsuits.

"I did it and I'm proud of it," says Armey, R-Texas.

"It's a matter of national security," Armey says. "We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons."

Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., isn't buying it. The grandfather of an autistic child, Burton says Armey slipped the provision in at the last minute, too late for debate.

"And I said, 'Who told you to put it in?'" He said, 'No, they asked me to do it at the White House.'"

Critics say the Bush family and the administration have too many ties to Eli Lilly. There's President Bush's father, who sat on the company's board in the 1970's; White House budget director Mitch Daniels, once an Eli Lilly executive; and Eli Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel, who serves on the president's homeland security advisory council.

Officials at the drug giant insist they did nothing wrong. "No one, not our CEO, not myself, not anyone who works with me asked the White House to insert this legislation," said Eli Lilly spokeswoman Debra Steelman.

But Kathy Kilpatrick and her husband Michael argue that the thimerosal provision is not designed to protect the nation, but rather to protect Eli Lilly.

Asked what he'd say to a congressman who came forward and admitted he was responsible for inserting the provision, Michael Kilpatrick says, "I would ask him if he knew he was protecting mercury being shot into our kids."

Kathy Kilpatrick asks, "Why would anyone want to save Eli Lilly on our children's backs?"

Because Armey is retiring at the end of the year, some say the outgoing majority leader is the perfect fall guy to take the heat and shield the White House from embarrassment.

It's a claim both the White house and Armey deny.

© MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Informant: Milo

Chemical-Data Plan Catalyzes Opposition

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010201730.html


Informant: binstock

Mobilfunkpolitik und Demokratie im Widerstreit

http://www.gigaherz.ch/983

Mobilfunk, Mensch und Recht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1356123/

Mobilfunk, Mensch und Recht

http://openpr.de/news/73384
http://www.news4press.com/1/MeldungDetail.asp?Mitteilungs_ID=93094

Kommentar (Augenzeugenbericht) von Evi Gaigg, Vorstandsmitglied von Gigaherz.ch:

Die Pressemeldung

Omega siehe unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1306872/

ist unvollständig, denn es gab dazu weitere Referenten mit sehr interessanten Vorträgen. Dass keine Vertreter der Mobilfunkbetreiber eingeladen wurden, bezeichne ich nicht als Manko, denn diese werden doch in schöner Regelmässigkeit an alle anderen Info-Veranstaltungen geladen, jeweils mit dem Vorwand der "Ausgewogenheit" und meist erst noch in grosser Überzahl. Und dies, obwohl sie ja von vornherein schon am längeren Hebelarm sitzen. Genau auf diese Spezies konnte man leicht verzichten. Ich erinnere nur an Swisscom CEO‘s Carsten Schloter: "Mobiltelefonieren ist ein Menschenrecht" und Jens Alder: "Das Anschauen eines Fussballspiels auf dem Handy ist ein Menschenrecht." Was also hätten diese Leute beitragen können? Ihre Haltung ist ja bestens bekannt.

Was leider negativ auffiel, war eine Dame, die nach ihren eigenen Angaben die österreichischen Mobilfunkkritiker vertreten sollte, aber offenbar sehr eng mit den neuen Abwieglern in der WHO verbandelt ist. Die Frage stellt sich, wer sie an die WHO delegiert hat. Sicher nicht die zahlreichen Bürgerinitiativen Oesterreichs. Wäre das der Fall, müsste man sie schleunigst abberufen. Sie hat sich leider derart daneben benommen, während der Vorträge laut im Hintergrund Unterhaltungen geführt (trotz wiederholter Mahnung und Bitte der Moderatorin), so dass die Hörerschaft reklamieren musste. Sie fiel einem Referenten mitten im Vortrag ins Wort, um sich zu verbreiten und aufzuspielen, in geradezu widerlicher Art. Und als Gipfel von allem regte sie sich auf, dass Ärzte und Wissenschafter den WHO-Beauftragten, Dr. Michael Repacholi scharf kritisiert haben. Das Fact-Sheet 296 der WHO vom 5. Dezember 05 trägt Repacholis Handschrift und ist nicht mehr wert, als in den Papierkorb geschmissen zu werden (nachzulesen unter http://www.gigaherz.ch/981 ).

Diese Dame, namens Eva Marsalek, hat der Bewegung gegen die Auswüchse des Mobilfunks ganz allgemein einen denkbar schlechten Dienst erwiesen, jenen auf österreichischem Boden im Besonderen. Ihr Auftreten liess eine gute Kinderstube völlig vermissen, war gekennzeichnet durch Arroganz, Selbstgefälligkeit und übersteigerten Geltungsdrang. Es entstand der Eindruck, dass sie die Seiten gewechselt hat, aus welchen Gründen auch immer. Wozu hätten da wohl noch die Mobilfunkbetreiber eingeladen werden sollen? Das Kuckucksei war ja dabei.

Das stand in dem Artikel diepresse.com Wien nicht drin, sollte aber nicht verschwiegen werden. Ein Bericht über den Verlauf dieser sehr interessanten Podiumsdiskussion wird folgen, sobald es unsere Zeit erlaubt.

http://www.gigaherz.ch/984 (Auszug)

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Mobilfunkpolitik und Demokratie im Widerstreit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1356128/

The Public's Nightmare: EPA Allows Pesticide Testing On Orphans, Mentally Handicapped, Abused And Neglected Children

"On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children, without exception. But the EPA's newly proposed rule, is ridden with exceptions where chemical studies may be performed on children in certain situations like the followin:"

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.

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

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

..... http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa6.cfm


ALERT: EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

NOTE: This alert is now closed. Public comment period to the EPA expired on December 12, 2005. Sign up on our email list here, and we will keep you posted on this issue. Thanks for your involvement.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

EXPIRED ALERT TEXT: 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, without exception. But the EPA's newly proposed rule, is ridden with exceptions where chemical studies may be performed on children in certain situations like the following:

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. Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who have been neglected or abused. Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable. Send a letter to EPA here!

OCA's focal concerns with this proposed rule specifically involve the following portions of text within the EPA document (Read the full EPA proposed rule here: PDF --- HTML):

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 other 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.)

By mail: 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


Q&A Section

1) Question: I read on Snopes that this alert is false. Is that true?

Answer: The Snopes/Urban Legends posting is actually in regards to an EPA proposed study called CHEERS and an alert we had sent out regarding that in late 2004
http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm . It is not directly related to this alert. The Snopes posting did a great disservice to that issue in their inaccuracy and lack of research into this issue. We spend massive amounts of staff time researching these issues, confer with outside experts on the topic, and cite dozens of references. The Snopes website, while valuable with most of its information, is not always accurate, and that is the case here. In fact, you'll find they reference only a couple of newspaper articles to backup their stance on this issue. Fortunately, enough concerned citizens, several nonprofits, dozens of mainstream newspapers, and many congress members, actually did their research on the EPA study and found that study was, in fact, very problematic. In fact, in early 2005, the EPA CHEERS study was permanently dropped, thanks to pressure from Congress. In August of 2005 Congress went a step further and mandated the EPA pass a rule that bans all testing of chemicals on children and pregnant women, without exception. That is what this alert pertains to. Snopes hasn't posted any information about this particular alert, and we hope they do their research this time. We ask our readers to do your research, as well. No single alert or single website will provide you with all of the information you need. We provided dozens of links on our alerts to external resources that allow you to further research and reference all of the information we provide. If you have questions, we're always happy to help out craig@organicconsumers.org

2) Question: I read the EPA website and part of the introduction of the rule, claims the rule is to prohibit all such testing and to establish sanctions. That sounds like a good thing. So what's the problem?

Answer: The EPA is proposing a rule that they would like to have approved. Anytime you are marketing a product, you sell its best points and hope that people won't look too deeply and find its flaws. The EPA website and the introductory description of the rule are very long winded and flowery, claiming this rule abides by the congressional mandate to ban all testing of women and children, without exception. In fact, if you read the rule, which is 30 pages of fine print, there are multiple exceptions. We have noted those in our template letter to the EPA and on our action alert page. This is a specific layout of the problematic text as taken directly from the actual EPA rule. In short, these are the loopholes in the document that need to be removed, as mandated by congress, which says the rule must have no exceptions.

3) Question: The rule says these waivers apply when the IRB sees a benefit of the test for the children involved, and also calls for supplementary protective measures when necessary. That sounds like a good thing. So what's the problem?

Answer: Actually, you are referencing a point made under subpart §26.405 of the rule. That subpart is designed to only address "research presenting the prospect of direct benefit to the individual subjects." In that subpart, it says that "more than minimal" risk to children subjects is acceptable if there is a chance it could benefit the child. Outside of that subpart, there are no stipulations requiring that the studies be beneficial to the test subjects. Anywhere else in the document where this type of situation is noted, it is under an "or" clause. In other words, the loopholes for this rule state that the rule can be disregarded if the study was done overseas, OR the test subject's guardian consents, OR if the study may be of benefit to society as a whole, OR if the study may be of benefit to the test subject, etc. The study also calls for supplementary protective measures when necessary but outlines no criteria for how this "necessity" is defined or determined. Without a clearly defined line of what is acceptable and what is not, it's at the whim of the IRB, EPA administrator or third party research organization to determine whether or not supplementary protective measures are necessary. In that sense, it could simply mean the IRB might determine, for example, a test subject should wear safety goggles when being doused with atrazine. In other words, without specific definition of what defines a situation that calls for further supplementary protective measures, this becomes a simple, flowery token statement with no meaning and no teeth.

6) Question: The EPA sent me a letter back that says "EPA's proposed rule would ban EPA from conducting or supporting any intentional dosing study of pregnant women or children with pesticides or any other environmental substances. All children are included in this ban. There are no exceptions." They seem to be saying this rule is for studies that don't involve intentional dosing. Is that correct?

Answer: That is incorrect and is misleading PR from the EPA that contradicts the text of their actual proposed rule. As you can see above, we have outlined the specfic text in the rule that we have problems with. Nowhere in the rule does the EPA say that all intentional dosing studies are banned, yet that is exactly what congress had asked them to do. In fact, the rule goes so far as to make make allowances for what it refers to as"ethically deficient human research." (70 FR 53857). In short, the EPA is making public relations claims that completely contradict what is clearly written in balck and white in the actual proposed rule.

5) Question: I can't get your email form to work. How can I send comments to the EPA directly?

Answer: By mail: 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

By email: send comments to opp-docket@epa.gov The subject line should read: "Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2003-0132 "

If you have questions, we're always happy to help out, but please read all of the information provided on this alert page and follow the links on the right hand side of this page to further information prior to contacting us with questions. craig@organicconsumers.org

Other Organizations Working on this alert (These organizations also have further information about this alert on their websites)

Center for Health and Environmental Justice
Natural Resources Defense Council
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Beyond Pesticides
Physicians for Social Responsibility
California Safe Schools
Pesticide Action Network of North America


Related News Articles:

12/16 - EPA regulation to put kids at risk
12/14 - EPA Chemical Testing Rules to Allow Human Toxicity Studies
(Source-The New Standard: NY)
12/9 - EPA's Own Scientists Speak Out Against Proposed Rule Allowing Chemical Testing on Children
12/8 - EPA comes under fire for testing pesticides on children (Source: News Target)
12/7 - EPA to Allow Pesticide Testing on the Handicapped
12/5 - EPA to Allow Chemical Testing (Source: WNY Media Network NY)
11/30 - Pesticide Action Network of North America launches campaign against EPA proposed human testing rule
11/29 -Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis Speaks Out Against EPA's Proposed Rule
11/29 - OCA's Rebuttal Letter Regarding EPA's Attempts to Discredit Those in Opposition to this Rule
11/29 - Congresswoman Hilda Solis (D-CA) writes editorial to Environmental Law Institute condemning EPA's proposed human testing rule
11/28 - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Launch a Campaign Against EPA's Human Testing Proposal
11/27 - Center for Health and Environmental Justice Posts Serious Concerns about EPA Proposed Human Testing
11/26 - Natural Resources Defense Council Posts Comments Opposing EPA Human Testing Proposal
10/15 - San Francisco Chronicle Covers EPA Testing Proposal
9/26 - Baltimore Sun Posts Letter to the Editor from Natural Resources Defense Council Condemning EPA's Misleading PR Scheme on Human Testing Rule
9/20 - Natural Resources Defense Council Gives Background Q&A Sheet Refuting EPA's Claims That The Rule has no Exceptions
9/15 - Exceptions in new EPA rules would allow testing pesticides on children (Baltimore Sun)
9/8 - Washington Post Covers EPA Chemical Testing Proposal
7/1 - Senate Votes to Stop EPA from Allowing Testing of Toxic Pesticides on Humans
6/28 - Congress Questions EPA about Human Toxin Testing
6/28 - LA Times: EPA Criticized for Pesticide Testing Rules
6/28 - Congressional Flash Report on EPA's proposed rule changes
6/27 - Washington Post: EPA Proposal Would Allow Human Tests Of Pesticides
6/16 - EPA reviewing 24 human pesticide tests
2/8 - EPA Avoids Regulation of Chemical Experiments on Humans Send a letter to EPA here!

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Related Online Resources: Read the full EPA proposed rule (PDF --- HTML) National Academy of Sciences report to EPA on human testing, advising the agency discontinue unethical practices Environmental Health Perspectives scientific journal analyzes human chemical testing and public policy:
http://www.nacua.org/documents/ProtectionsSubjectsHumanResearch.pdf

Related Quotes from Congress and NGOs:

"Such rule shall not permit the use of pregnant women, infants or children as subjects; shall be consistent with the principles proposed in the 2004 report of the National Academy of Sciences on intentional human dosing and the principles of the Nuremberg Code with respect to human experimentation; and shall establish an independent Human Subjects Review Board."

Congressional Mandate to EPA, requiring the agency create a rule banning testing of pregnant women and children. The law was passed on August 2, 2005 , as part of the Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-54


"A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place,"

Senator. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in an interview with the Washington Post on this issue


"For the first time in our nation's history, the EPA has proposed a program to allow for the systematic and everyday experimentation of pesticides on humans. Moreover, the proposed program is riddled with ethical loopholes."

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) in an interview with the Baltimore Sun


"I am especially concered that the administration's proposed rule fails to meet its congressional mandate and to provide the safety that Americans desire and deserve. For example, the proposed rule, despite its claims, allows intentional testing on pregnant women and children in at least three circumstances."

Congresswoman Hilda Solis (D-CA) article in Environmental Law Institute


"EPA's proposal is the pesticide industry's dream, and the public's nightmare."

Richard Wiles, senior vice president of Environmental Working Group


"The exemptions are obviously driven by the pesticide industry's goal of relaxing pesticide safety standards. The rule says it's acceptable to test children if there is a direct benefit. How can any child possibly benefit from exposure to pesticides? What was EPA thinking about?"

Aaron Colangelo, a senior staff lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Fund


Informant: Friends

How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/Sham/
http://tinyurl.com/a226f

USA treiben Überwachung per RFID voran

San Franciscos Flughafen testet Pässe mit Funkchips

03.01.2006 11:50 | von silicon.de

Das US-Ministerium für Heimatschutz wird ab Mitte Januar am Flughafen von San Francisco erstmals Reisepässe mit integriertem RFID-Chip (Radio Frequency Identification) testen. Australien, Neuseeland und Singapur haben bereits damit begonnen, entsprechend ausgestattete Reisepässe auszustellen. Da viele Personen aus diesen Ländern den Flughafen von San Francisco passierten, sei er der passende Ort, um die Funktechnologie zu testen, sagte eine Sprecherin des Ministeriums.

Im Oktober hatte das US-Außenministerium die endgültigen Vorschriften für Reisepässe erlassen, die nach Oktober 2006 ausgestellt werden. Demnach müssen die Dokumente mit einem RFID-Chip ausgerüstet sein, auf dem die persönlichen Daten des Besitzers und ein digitales Foto gespeichert sind. Vor San Francisco hat im vergangenen Herbst bereits der Flughafen in Los Angeles Test mit RFID-Pässen durchgeführt.

Darüber hinaus gibt es weitere Projekte. So wurden die Funkchips auch in die so genannten 'I-94-Formulare' integriert. Diese müssen Personen bei sich haben, die häufig die US-Grenze passieren. Erste Zwischenergebnisse der Tests an insgesamt fünf US-Grenzen werden im März präsentiert - danach soll über das weitere Vorgehen entschieden werden.

© 2003-2005 silicon.de. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

http://www.silicon.de/cpo/news-mobile/detail.php?nr=25803

The average American worker had to contend with soaring workweeks, declining wages and benefits vanishing faster than you can say job security

Bring Back the 40-Hour Workweek

It was a great year for labor - if you worked at a call center in India, made your living as a CEO or sold real estate to big-box stores. But deep in Cubicle Nation, the average American worker had to contend with soaring workweeks, declining wages and benefits vanishing faster than you can say job security.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/010206LB.shtml

Middle-Class Job Losses Batter Workforce

Many of the country's manufacturing workers are caught in a worldwide economic shift that is forcing companies to slash payrolls or send jobs elsewhere, leaving workers to wonder if their way of life is disappearing. The trend in the manufacturing sector toward lower pay, fewer benefits and fewer jobs is alarming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/010206LA.shtml

Psychiatry's Sick Compulsion: Turning Weaknesses into Diseases

The erosion of personal responsibility is, arguably, the most pernicious effect of the expansive role psychiatry has come to play in American life. It has successfully replaced huge chunks of individual accountability with diagnoses, clinical histories and what turn out to be pseudoscientific explanations for deviant behavior.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/010206HA.shtml

Navajos Acting to Stop Uranium Rush

The price of uranium has tripled in the past two years, bringing with it the possibility of another uranium rush. Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., stirred to action by the memory of how dangerous uranium mining can be, issued an executive order in November banning uranium exploration on the three-state Navajo Nation.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/010206EC.shtml

Iraq's Oil Exports Hit Lowest Level since War

Iraq's oil exports hit their lowest level since the war, according to figures released on Monday, heightening a sense of crisis as fuel supplies grow scarce and political leaders struggle to form a government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206R.shtml

Protection anti-Rayonnements: Arguments Juridiques

Procès-verbal du vice-président d'ASL par la Gendarmerie Nationale.

http://www.next-up.org/main.php?param=proces

Watching as the World Vanishes

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0101-04.htm

Leave the Field Now: the Iraqi Endgame is About to Begin

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0101-02.htm

Understand the Workings of Our New, Streamlined American System of Government

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0102-31.htm

Iraq Oil Minister Resigns Under Pressure: replaced with Chalabi

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0102-04.htm

20 Years On and Whales are Under Threat Again

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0102-03.htm

Should the White House continue ordering selected wiretaps without warrants? - Full Speed Ahead After 9/11, Bush and Cheney pressed for more power and got it

NewsWeek

Mon Jan 2, 2006 21:48

Should the White House continue ordering selected wiretaps without warrants?

* 28451 responses Yes 13% No 86% I don't know 1%

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Full Speed Ahead After 9/11, Bush and Cheney pressed for more power and got it. Now, predictably, the questions begin. Behind the NSA spying furor.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10663996/site/newsweek/

By Evan Thomas and Daniel Klaidman Newsweek

Jan. 9, 2006 issue - The talk at the White House in the days and weeks after 9/11 was all about suitcase nukes and germ warfare and surprise decapitation strikes. Every morning, as they crossed West Executive Drive on their way to work in the West Wing, Bush administration staffers recall seeing a plain white truck with a galvanized metal chimney. Sensors sniffing for pathogens or radioactivity, they guessed, though they couldn't be sure. Like just about everything else at that spooky time, the purpose of the truck was a secret.

Such chilling sights are not likely to inspire thoughtful ruminations about the separation of powers or the true meaning of the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The message to White House lawyers from their commander in chief, recalls one who was deeply involved at the time, was clear enough: find a way to exercise the full panoply of powers granted the president by Congress and the Constitution. If that meant pushing the boundaries of the law, so be it. The Bush administration did not throw away the Bill of Rights in the months and years that followed; indeed, NEWSWEEK has learned, ferocious behind-the-scenes infighting stalled for a time the administration's ambitious program of electronic spying on U.S. citizens at home and abroad.

On one day in the spring of 2004, White House chief of staff Andy Card and the then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made a bedside visit to John Ashcroft, attorney general at the time, who was stricken with a rare and painful pancreatic disease, to try—without success—to get him to reverse his deputy, Acting Attorney General James Comey, who was balking at the warrantless eavesdropping. Miffed that Comey, a straitlaced, by-the-book former U.S. attorney from New York, was not a "team player" on this and other issues, President George W. Bush dubbed him with a derisive nickname, "Cuomo," after Mario Cuomo, the New York governor who vacillated over running for president in the 1980s. (The White House denies this; Comey declined to comment.)

In a perfect democracy trying to strike a balance between civil liberties and national security, there would be reasoned, open debate between representatives of the different branches of government. But human nature and politics rarely work in neat and orderly ways. In moments of crisis, presidents, if they believe in executive power (and most inevitably do), will do almost anything to protect the country. Only after the crisis ebbs does the debate begin over the proper means and ends, and by then the people and their representatives are often shocked to find what the president has done in the name of protecting them. More than four years after September 11, America finds itself debating some of the oldest issues in our history: how to balance liberty and security, how much power we should cede to the White House and whether what the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. dubbed "The Imperial Presidency" amid Watergate is a good thing, a bad thing or something in between. That the war on terror is unconventional and seemingly endless adds to the difficulty and raises the stakes.

After 9/11, President Bush and his top advisers faced, they believed, a mortal yet invisible enemy. The mightiest armed forces in the world were not effective against such a shadowy foe. Nor were human spies much help. Movies and novels notwithstanding, the CIA had rarely (if ever) penetrated a terrorist cell. America's one true weapon was technology. Spy satellites and the massive computers of the National Security Agency (so secret it was nicknamed "No Such Agency") were able to pluck telephone and e-mail conversations out of the air and ether. The NSA could cock a giant ear to America's enemies—and, ideally, overhear their plots.

As communications were increasingly digitized and encrypted, intelligence experts sometimes warned that the NSA was going deaf. Rare public statements by top NSA officials seemed to give credence to that worry. It appears, however, that the NSA was secretly working on sophisticated "data mining," computer programs that could sift through vast amounts of information searching for patterns and connections—in effect, "Googling" America's enemies. After 9/11, the government was criticized for not "connecting the dots," linking and following up on clues, like phone calls from hijackers hiding in the United States to their terror masters abroad. With the NSA's computers fully cranked up, Bush administration officials hoped, they would find other terrorist "sleeper cells" before they could strike again.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10663996/site/newsweek/page/1/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10663996/site/newsweek/page/2/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10663996/site/newsweek/page/3/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10663996/site/newsweek/page/4/


Source:
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=97213;show_parent=1

Defending the indefensible, Bush’s illegal wiretaps

RANDI RETURNS!

Defending the indefensible, Bush’s illegal wiretaps on American citizens is one more straw on a camel's back that was shattered a long time ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010100428.html

Don’t buy into the lies that Fox and Drudge tell about Clinton & Carter.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/drudge-fact-check/

Media Matters: Top 12 media myths and falsehoods on the Bush administration's spying scandal.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512240002

Meanwhile, CNN fills its Novak hole with Bill Bennett. Bin Laden’s niece shows her goods in GQ.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10587661/

1/5 of your president’s time is spent on the ranch!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001326.html

Oh, and by the way, we plan on screwing Iraq again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200370.html

These stories and much more on today’s Randi Rhodes Show.


Source:
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=97211;show_parent=1

ERECTING A POLICE STATE IN AMERICA

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy21.htm

Government Wins Court Authorization to Spy on Cell Phone Use

http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking39.htm

Peace and Prosperity in 2006?

Only if we limit the feds. Article by Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul296.html

Storm Troopers on Every Corner

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed86.html

Friends Don't Let Friends Commit War Crimes



Cindy Sheehan in Ireland, England, and Spain.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sheehan/sheehan25.html



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

The PBGC and Me

http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund31.html

Tyranny of the Status Quo

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff56.html

Waging: Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk-Ausbau

03.01.2006

Waging am See. Eine gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft zu unterstützen und die Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Ausbau des Mobilfunknetzes zu berücksichtigen: Diese beiden Anliegen will der Waginger Gemeinderat in den Landesentwicklungsplan aufgenommen haben. Die entsprechenden Anträge von Georg Huber wurden in der letzten Sitzung mit 14 gegen sechs Stimmen angenommen.

Konkret beantragt die Gemeinde Waging demnach, dass "die ausreichende Versorgung mit Telekommunikationsdiensten umwelt- und sozialverträglich erfolgen" solle. Dabei sei beim Ausbau der Mobilfunknetze besonders die Gesundheitsvorsorge zu berücksichtigen. Im Übrigen solle bei weiteren Mobilfunk-Maßnahmen auf einen sparsamen Flächenverbrauch und auf die Schonung der Landwirtschaft geachtet werden. Schließlich wird auch noch der zusätzliche Antrag gestellt, doch eine flächendeckende Versorgung mit öffentlichen Telefonzellen aufrecht zu erhalten. Die zunehmende Demontage öffentlicher Telefonzellen, so heißt es in der von Georg Huber formulierten Begründung, widerspreche dem landesplanerischen Ziel "einer unbeeinträchtigten Versorgung mit öffentlichen Telefonstellen".

Zum Thema Landwirtschaft soll, so der weitere Beschluss des Waginger Gemeinderates, noch eingefügt werden, dass "die Entscheidung vieler Landwirte und Verbraucher für eine gentechnikfreie Produktionsweise durch geeignete Maßnahmen zu unterstützen und substanziell zu sichern" sei.

Als Begründung für diesen Zusatz wird angeführt: "Die Ausbringung gentechnisch manipulierten Saatgutes kann zu unübersehbaren und nicht rückholbaren Folgen führen. Genmanipulierte Pflanzen können sich in der Natur unkontrolliert ausbreiten und eine gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft unmöglich machen. Deshalb sollte die freie Entscheidung vieler Landwirte für eine gentechnikfreie Produktion als Ziel der Landesplanung begrüßt und staatlicherseits unterstützt werden."

Generell habe jede Gemeinde die Möglichkeit, so hatte Bürgermeister Sepp Daxenberger in das Thema eingeführt, Anträge zur Änderung des Landesentwicklungsplans zu stellen. Von daher bleibe es dem Gemeinderat überlassen, entsprechende Vorschläge einzubringen. Im Landtag werde sich dann ein dafür zuständiger Ausschuss mit den eingegangenen Anträgen zu befassen haben und über sie abstimmen.

Etwas skeptisch war dagegen Walter Staudinger: Er wisse nicht, so meinte er, ob solche Anträge wie die von Georg Huber gestellten wirklich Aufgabe des Gemeinderates seien. "Da ist schon viel Weltanschauung mit dabei!" Dennoch aber stellte sich der Gemeinderat schließlich mit deutlicher Mehrheit hinter die Anträge in Sachen Mobilfunk und Gentechnik. he

http://www.suedostbayerische-rundschau.de/lokal/text.php3?satz=10304

Roberts, Alito Side with Business

Business couldn't do any better than Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court. The prospect of the two on the Supreme Court signals to manufacturers and businesses that they will have allies in high places, say academics and business experts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206G.shtml

Bush Says, Bring It On: The Critics Will

The NSA operation - and particularly Bush's decision to bypass the generally amenable Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authorization - has drawn fire not only from liberal Democrats but also from some of the most conservative in Bush's party.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206D.shtml

Willy Peter: the U.S. is again using white phosphorus

The US is again using white phosphorus, a chemical munition known more commonly in the military as Willy Peter, writes Danny Mayer. For the Pentagon, at least, the "shake and bake" missions are a "potent psychological weapon" that will drive the enemy "out of their holes." For those getting "smoked out of their holes," there is very little, if anything, psychological about Willy Peter.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206C.shtml

Open Letter from an Iraqi

Dahr Jamail publishes an open letter to Mr. Bush he received recently from a friend who lives in Baghdad. "While there is deep concern about the possibility of civil war, the common talk between all groups now in Iraq is the poor infrastructure, poor electricity, deficiency of fuels, bad drinking water, poor health services, poor education and extensive unemployment."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206B.shtml

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Jan
2006

Ärztliche Dokumentation von Gesundheitsschäden durch elektromagnetische Hochfrequenzfelder

http://openpr.de/news/73348
http://www.news4press.com/1/MeldungDetail.asp?Mitteilungs_ID=92917

HLV INFO 1/AT

2-01-2006

Ärztlicher Qualitätszirkel

Bamberg, 7.12.2005

Elektromagnetische Felder in der Medizin -Diagnostik, Therapie, Umwelt anerkannt von der Bayerischen Landesärztekammer (65143)

Dr. med. H. Eger
Dr. med. H. Heyn
Dr. med. G. Kleilein
Dr. med. C. Waldmann-Selsam

Karl-May Straße 48
96049 Bamberg-Bug


Minister S. Gabriel

nachrichtlich:
Bundeskanzlerin A. Merkel
Staatssekretär Müller
Gesundh.min. U. Schmidt
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
Dienstsitz Berlin:
Ministerpräs. E. Stoiber
Alexanderplatz 6
Dr. H. Koch Bayr. LÄK
D - 10178 Berlin
Gesundheitsämter in Hof, Bamberg, Coburg


Ärztliche Dokumentation von Gesundheitsschäden durch elektromagnetische Hochfrequenzfelder


Sehr geehrter Herr Minister,

von unserem Qualitätszirkel sind zunehmend besorgniserregende schwerwiegende Gesundheitsschäden an Einwohnern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch Vorort- Untersuchungen incl. Messungen dokumentiert worden. Wir lassen Ihnen daher die Unterlagen persönlich zukommen.

Wir führen hier den medizinisch-wissenschaftlichen Beweis, dass die zur Zeit technisch verwendeten hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Felder innerhalb gültiger Grenzwerte kausal zu Gesundheitsschäden an der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung führen. Grundlage ist der in der Medizin gültige Beweis über die Analogie gehäuft auftretender vergleichbarer Krankheitsbilder.

Die zuvor nachweislich gesunden Patienten erkranken unabhängig voneinander; sie erkranken in eindeutigem zeitlichen Zusammenhang mit Senderinstallationen und die Krankheitsbilder bessern sich, wenn keine Hochfrequenzbelastung besteht (Deexpostion). Es erkranken nicht nur Einzelne, sondern ganze Familien und Nachbarschaften.

Trotz Information an das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz und Ihr Ministerium unter der vorherigen Regierung ist bisher nicht vor Ort dahingehend gehandelt worden, dass die krankmachende Noxe durch Senderabschaltung untersucht wurde. Entsprechende Vorortuntersuchungen bei Erkrankten sind im Deutschen Mobilfunk-Forschungsprogramm nicht einmal ansatzweise vorhanden, obwohl die Untersuchung von Bevölkerungsteilen in Sendernähe bereits 2002 als prioritär zu untersuchendes Problem eingestuft wurde (Bundestagsdrucksache 14/8792).

Eine weitere Verzögerung ist nach dem Vorliegen unserer Unterlagen weder ethisch noch juristisch zu rechtfertigen, da hier eine Situation "Gefahr im Verzug" vorliegt, die umgehendes Handeln erfordert.

Die jetzt allgemein anerkannte Notwendigkeit verschärfter Kontrollen der Fleischwirtschaft mag als Denkanstoß hilfreich sein.

Im Ausdruck großer Sorge


http://www.hese-project.org/de/emf/News/IncomingDocuments/20051207_GGG_Gabriel.pdf

Has Bush Gone Too Far?

Richard Lacayo writes: Because they required the president to plainly bypass an act of Congress, the no-warrant wiretaps may be the sharpest expression yet of the administration's willingness to expand the scope of executive power.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206L.shtml

Billions in Iraq Reconstruction Money Diverted for Other Uses

"The US never intended to completely rebuild Iraq," Brig. Gen. William McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander overseeing the work, told reporters at a recent news conference.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206I.shtml

17th Yellowstone Bison Killed in Montana Hunt

Buffalo Field Campaign
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
(406) 646-0070 phone * (406) 646-0071 fax bfc-media@wildrockies.org;
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org


17th Yellowstone Bison Killed in Montana Hunt

For Immediate Release, January 2, 2006 Contact Stephany Seay: (406) 646-0070

GARDINER, MONTANA. In spite of continuous national public outcry calling for Montana to cancel its controversial bison hunt, the state's zero-tolerance policy against the country's last wild bison continues. On New Years Day it resulted in another bison death in Gardiner, Montana, just outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park.

In the past ten years Montana and the federal government have killed 2,477 wild Yellowstone bison, more than half of the existing herd. Twenty wild bull bison have been killed in Montana since September; seventeen have been shot by Montana hunters, two by Montana's Department of Livestock (DOL), and another was shot by a Yellowstone National Park ranger inside the Park.

Nearly all of the bison that have been killed in Montana's hunt have been shot less than five miles from the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Two bison have been shot at the site of the Duck Creek Bison Capture Facility. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks claims bison have access to 460,000 acres of Montana lands during the hunt, yet the terrain is mountainous and rocky and bison naturally require lower-elevation grasslands. Only a tiny fraction of the so-called "tolerance zone," or hunt-area, is being used by bison. Further, immediately after the bison hunt ends on February 15, the 460,000 acres will no longer be available to wild bison.

"Unlike other hunted species in Montana, wild bison are never allowed in the state without being subjected to harassment or death," said Dan Brister of BFC. "As soon as this bison hunt is over, the Department of Livestock will be out in force hazing, capturing and sending to slaughter or quarantine facilities any Yellowstone bison that steps foot in Montana."

The Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), a Montana-based wild bison advocacy group, opposes this hunt because wild buffalo have no protected habitat in Montana and are never allowed in the state without being captured, slaughtered, shot, or hazed. Deer, elk, moose and antelope enjoy habitat in Montana as well as a respite from hunting when the season ends. Bison, however, are always targets of persecution at every time of year, whenever they step foot into Montana's borders.

"This hunt is a sham because wild bison aren't even considered a wildlife species in Montana, they are managed by the state's Department of Livestock, and they have no protected habitat in the state," said Stephany Seay of BFC. "Montana's illegitimate bison hunt is a disgrace to Montana and it's hunting heritage. Permanent habitat, wildlife designation, and management by trained wildlife professionals must come before a species can be legitimately hunted."

Seventeen of eighteen non-Indian permits have been filled during the first phase of Montana's bison hunt, which ends January 15, 2006. The Crow Nation has rejected the two permits offered by the state. Other tribes may follow suit.

Montana claims its bison hunt is popular among citizens, yet Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is ignoring the thousands of phone calls and letters he has received urging it's immediate cancellation. Citizens nation-wide have been calling on Montana to end its zero-tolerance policy and afford lasting protection to the country's last wild herd of bison.

The state justifies its lack of bison tolerance on the unfounded fear that bison may transmit brucellosis, a European livestock disease, to cattle. There has never been a documented case of wild bison transmitting brucellosis to livestock. Bulls pose no risk of transmitting the bacteria.

The bison that inhabit the Yellowstone region are the last wild, genetically pure, unfenced bison left in the country. They are the only bison to have continuously occupied their native range and they are the last bison to follow their natural instinct to migrate. Like other wild ungulates, the region's harsh winters forces necessary migration into lower elevation lands where available forage is found. Yet, unlike other wild ungulates, wild bison are not allowed to leave the confines of Yellowstone National Park and face a zero-tolerance policy when they enter Montana and consequently it's killing fields.

Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field, everyday, to stop the slaughter of the wild Yellowstone buffalo. Volunteers defend the buffalo on their native habitat and advocate for their protection. BFC video footage and photos of Montana's bison hunt are available upon request and may be viewed at
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.


Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 bfc-media@wildrockies.org http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

STOP THE HUNT! Call Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer: Phone #: 406-444-3111

BOYCOTT BEEF! It's what's killing wild buffalo.

Speak Out! Contact politicians and involved agencies today!
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

Write a Letter to the Editor of key newspapers!
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/lte.html

Justice Deputy Resisted Parts of Spy Program

A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight, according to officials with knowledge of the tense internal debate. The concerns appear to have played a part in the temporary suspension of the secret program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206Y.shtml

English Army Officer tells the Truth about Conditions in Iraq

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia (Iraq) into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are to-day not far from a disaster. The sins of commission are those of the British civil authorities in Mesopotamia (Iraq) (especially of three 'colonels') who were given a free hand by London. They are controlled from no Department of State, but from the empty space which divides the Foreign Office from the India Office. They availed themselves of the necessary discretion of war-time to carry over their dangerous independence into times of peace. They contest every suggestion of real self-government sent them from home. A recent proclamation about autonomy circulated with unction from Baghdad was drafted and published out there in a hurry, to forestall a more liberal statement in preparation in London,

"But Surprize - This is a real letter From Lawrence of Arabia in 1920!"

(not part of the movie script) Nothing Ever Changes !

A Report on Mesopotamia - by T.E. Lawrence:
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lawrence.php


'Self-determination papers' favourable to England were extorted in Mesopotamia in 1919 by official pressure, by aeroplane demonstrations, by deportations to India. The Cabinet cannot disclaim all responsibility. They receive little more news than the public: they should have insisted on more, and better. They have sent draft after draft of reinforcements, without enquiry. When conditions became too bad to endure longer, they decided to send out as High commissioner the original author of the present system, with a conciliatory message to the Arabs that his heart and policy have completely changed.* Yet our published policy has not changed, and does not need changing. It is that there has been a deplorable contrast between our profession and our practice. We said we went to Mesopotamia to defeat Turkey. We said we stayed to deliver the Arabs from the oppression of the Turkish Government, and to make available for the world its resources of corn and oil. We spent nearly a million men and nearly a thousand million of money to these ends. This year we are spending ninety-two thousand men and fifty millions of money on the same objects. Our government is worse than the old Turkish system. They kept fourteen thousand local conscripts embodied, and killed a yearly average of two hundred Arabs in maintaining peace. We keep ninety thousand men, with aeroplanes, armoured cars, gunboats, and armoured trains. We have killed about ten thousand Arabs in this rising this summer. We cannot hope to maintain such an average: it is a poor country, sparsely peopled; but Abd el Hamid would applaud his masters, if he saw us working. We are told the object of the rising was political, we are not told what the local people want. It may be what the Cabinet has promised them. A Minister in the House of Lords said that we must have so many troops because the local people will not enlist. On Friday the Government announce the death of some local levies defending their British officers, and say that the services of these men have not yet been sufficiently recognized because they are too few (adding the characteristic Baghdad touch that they are men of bad character). There are seven thousand of them, just half the old Turkish force of occupation. Properly officered and distributed, they would relieve half our army there. Cromer controlled Egypt's six million people with five thousand British troops; Colonel Wilson fails to control Mesopotamia's three million people with ninety thousand troops. We have not reached the limit of our military commitments. Four weeks ago the staff in Mesopotamia drew up a memorandum asking for four more divisions. I believe it was forwarded to the War Office, which has now sent three brigades from India. If the North-West Frontier cannot be further denuded, where is the balance to come from? Meanwhile, our unfortunate troops, Indian and British, under hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the wilfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad. General Dyer was relieved of his command in India for a much smaller error, but the responsibility in this case is not on the Army, which has acted only at the request of the civil authorities. The War Office has made every effort to reduce our forces, but the decisions of the Cabinet have been against them. The Government in Baghdad have been hanging Arabs in that town for political offences, which they call rebellion. The Arabs are not at war with us. Are these illegal executions to provoke the Arabs to reprisals on the three hundred British prisoners they hold? And, if so, is it that their punishment may be more severe, or is it to persuade our other troops to fight to the last? We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the world. All experts say that the labour supply is the ruling factor in its development. How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton, and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?

*Sir Percy Cox was to return as High Commissioner in October, 1920 to form a provisional Government.


Informant: ranger116

Entführung und Folter aus europäischer Sicht

In Großbritannien wird in zwei Fällen über die Verwendung von durch Folter erpresste Informationen diskutiert, Innenminister Schäuble sieht dies weiterhin als selbstverständlich an.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21690/1.html

'Within days, my heart was really bad'

[January 02, 2006]

(The Sunday Herald Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)WRITER Ron Butlin believes he fell victim to the EMF waves emitted by his cordless phone. A few years ago, he had problems with an irregular heartbeat. These subsided until June, when he bought a Dect phone.

"I didn't make any connection, I was having a bit of a busy time . . . then bang, my heart just suddenly went really badly within days."

Butlin spent two nights in hospital with his heart in constant spasm in a condition he describes as being similar to that of Tony Blair, which required routine heart surgery. Butlin underwent an operation just before Christmas and is now recovering at home.

"It was only just before we were leaving to go to Switzerland a couple of weeks ago. I happened to mention something to my agent in London and he said his partner had been suffering something similar, and in Germany they had all been blaming this Dect phone. We took the phone off, and immediately I felt better."

When Butlin still had the phone, he would take it down to the garden, where he liked to work in good weather. The fact the phone was able to receive a signal at such a distance now worries him.

"It's blasting everything down through three storeys, so you imagine how powerful it is."

Butlin said that during his recent visit to Switzerland, Dect phones were being sold at cut prices because of concerns that the government might introduce health warnings or even ban their sale. Here in the UK, however, Butlin is shocked at there being "so little concern".

"As one article said, it's like having a phone mast in your own bedroom, yet there's almost nothing about this, whereas there's concern about masts and mobiles."

He would like to see Dect phones come with a health warning, even though he concedes that his heart problems predated his purchase of one of the phones.

"I have no doubt that these phones have a big part to play [in my condition], " he added.

Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-2006 Copyright

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-with-days-my-heart-really-bad-/2006/jan/1252074.htm

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DECT phones and health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/564447/

Dozens send back lobbyist's donations

Members of Congress who once counted on super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to help finance their campaigns have begun returning the cash they got from him and his clients, signaling a growing worry that ethics -- and the scandal surrounding Abramoff -- will become issues that could affect close House and Senate races in next year's midterm elections.

http://tinyurl.com/da9bo


From Information Clearing House

UK: a not very happy new year for freedom and the rule of law

Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our much maligned conservative, allegedly out-of-touch, government-lackey judiciary would be the main defenders of our liberties and the rule of law against an executive (Labour, what's more) hell-bent on destroying them?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1676570,00.html


From Information Clearing House

War pimp alert: America off guard as dominoes begin to tumble once more

While intervening ineptly in the Middle East, the US has failed to uphold the fundamental principle of its foreign policy: the Monroe Doctrine, reserving South America as its own sphere of influence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11434.htm

War pimp alert: N Korea gears up to make nukes

NORTH Korea is working to restart a reactor that would produce enough plutonium to make 10 atomic bombs a year, a leading US nuclear scientist has warned.

http://tinyurl.com/brzdu


From Information Clearing House

Iran threatens 'crushing' response to U.S. attack

"Iran has prepared itself...they will get a crushing response if they make such a mistake," Larijani said on Iranian television late Sunday.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060101/w010152.html


From Information Clearing House

Why we should stop the Pentagon from bombing Iran?

Why is every decent American citizen not jumping to denounce the likely invasion of Iran? (And, down the road, the threatened invasion of Syria and North Korea?) Insularity and laziness are not the explanation, in my opinion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11438.htm

Iraq’s Sunnis religious scholars paid to assist US

US contractor pays some Sunni religious scholars $144,000 for assistance with propaganda work in Iraq.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=15373


From Information Clearing House

45 DIED AROUND AN ANTENNA OF TELEPHONY

Translation through Web page On-line Translator, Free Automatic Translation from Spanish in English

http://tinyurl.com/7gmmw

They denounce the death of 43 neighbors of Majadahonda by electromagnetic radiations http://tinyurl.com/b9cgj


Source: HLV INFO 1/AT

2-01-2006

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

Cancer Cluster in Spain 2000-2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1319986/

Pence sense

Washington Times
by Lawrence Kudlow

12/30/05

If the Republican majority in the Senate and House can somehow stave off a newly energized Democratic assault in the midterm polls next November and preserve their governing status, they may well have Indiana Rep. Mike Pence to thank. Mr. Pence and his roughly 100 colleagues in the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) have almost single-handedly stopped the chronic Republican overspending of the past five years and forced the first full-fledged budget-cutting bill since 1997. In doing so, Mr. Pence and his dedicated band of House members -- people like Jeff Flake, Jeb Hensarling, John Shadegg, and Marsha Blackburn -- have begun to force the GOP back to the first principles of lower taxes, limited government, a strong defense, and a fierce dedication to moral authority...

http://tinyurl.com/8b6rf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Who are we to complain?

A diary of 2005

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

01/01/06

Who are we to complain? It was a bad year for the Empire and not just in Iraq. A half century after Fidel Castro stayed in Harlem, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela came to the Bronx and promised cheap home heating oil from Citgo so the poor could keep warm this winter. He kept his promise. A month later Evo Morales swept to victory in Bolivia. From London the world heard Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate, broadcast the most savage denunciation of Empire heard since the words Tacitus put in the mouth of Calgacus . It was a bad year for George Bush, humiliated in Buenos Aires, scorned at home, It was a bad year for Tony Blair, his terror laws put to flight. It was a bad year for the Democrats, with only a handful, like Murtha, McKinney, Serrano, and a few others to salvage the party's honor in Congress. It was a bad year too for the corporate press. The New York Times saw Judy Miller turn from martyr to millstone...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12312005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

I have a hammer

TruthOut
by Marc Ash

01/01/06

Dr. King had it right -- he rang the bell of freedom, struck the hammer of justice, and sang about love between his brothers and his sisters all over the land. We growing up in that time watched and learned and hoped for the day that we might in some small way, some day, answer the calling. I say 'we' because I'm not the only one. I think one cannot be both silent and free...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010106Z.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Truth or dare, America

Unknown News
by Helen & Harry Highwater

12/30/05

How furious would your average American be, to discover that everything we the people had been told, everything we'd thought we'd known all our lives, was a mountain of lies, half-lies, three-quarter-lies, 'national security' lies, lies we knew were lies, lies we suspected, lies we'd swallowed, lies we'd told ourselves, and lies we'd told each other?

http://www.unknownnews.org/051230a-hh.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Feet to the fire

Excerpt

AlterNet
by Kristina Borjesson and John Walcott

01/02/06

More often than any other journalist or news organization, Knight Ridder was mentioned by those in 'Feet to the Fire' as the best source for post-9/11 reporting. The person most responsible for setting this platinum standard of journalism is John Walcott. Long after the Twin Towers had collapsed, Walcott and his crack team of reporters were virtually alone in their pursuit of what the real intelligence analysts were saying about the White House's case against Saddam. Cumulatively, Knight Ridder's reporting damns the Bush administration in devastating detail. The thing is, for now, Knight Ridder isn't on the radar where Team Walcott's work would really count: Washington and New York. Nonetheless, Walcott persists...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/29920/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

2006 predictions and realities

The Price of Liberty
by SARTRE

01/02/06

Since 2006 is an election year, it can be safely predicted that the mainstream news will have a focus on covering meaningless political races. The press will preach how important all these faceless campaigns will be, but in the end, very little ever changes. What makes this Congressional season different from other cycles is that the undercurrent will be who will emerge to succeed George W. Bush. In fact the game that will be covered has the hidden agenda of priming the pump for the next emperor to be crowned in 2008. This is the sad state of affairs of United States national elections. The politics of substance will be concealed for the appearance of a democratic changing of the guard...

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/01/02/sartre.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Beware the new year: a threat assessment

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
01/02/06

With Patrick J. Fitzgerald working full-time to bring the corruption at the heart of the Bush presidency to light, and other investigations into the dark heart of this administration making substantial progress, the prognosis for 2006 may seem unnaturally bright -- especially if, like me, you've been following every twist and turn of Fitzgerald's probe. However, it wouldn't hurt to take a walk on the dark side, if only to tamp our expectations down to a more realistic level. This means conducting a threat assessment: that is, listing and analyzing the major factors threatening the peace of the world, looming darkly just over the horizon ...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8333


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bird flu update

The Medical Freedom Channel
by Steve Trinward

01/01/06

"It seems like a good time to catch our readers up on the so-called 'bird flu threat.' The truth is, although the actuality of the 'pandemic' appears to be vastly exaggerated, this is turning out to be such a blatant example of how governments and bureaucracies can create a problem, while purporting to solve one that really wasn't there before, it's instructive just to follow the trails it's left in its wake. First off, the reader is referred to a few links (the first is blurbed in Monday's MFC edition), which taken together are a very good starting point for your own due diligence:

(1) No cause for Tamiflu terror, by Michael Fumento;
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051231-095711-8519r.htm

(2) Mystery: Bird Flu Fails To Migrate As Expected
http://rense.com/general69/mysterybirdflufails.htm

and

Autumn waterbird migration ends WITHOUT spread Of H5N1
http://rense.com/general69/autumnwaterbird.htm

both by Patricia Doyle, PhD;

and (3) More unbelievable avian flu updates, by Scott Johnson.
http://fmnn.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=4471

The gist of what is now coming to light is this ...

http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/1553


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bush: Outing my crimes causes "great harm"

MSNBC

01/02/06

President Bush strongly defended his domestic spying program on Sunday, calling it legal as well as vital to thwarting terrorist attacks, and contended the leak making it public had caused 'great harm to the nation.' ... The New York Times reported last month that the National Security Agency had been conducting warrantless surveillance since 2002. Bush then acknowledged that he had authorized the NSA program and pointed to informing congressional leaders and regular reviews by administration officials as evidence of oversight for the program. The Justice Department on Friday opened an investigation into the leak that resulted in news stories about the secret order to eavesdrop on Americans with suspected ties to terrorists...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10673060/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Bolton Testimony Revealed Domestic Spying

This past spring, an explosive nugget of information slipped out during the confirmation hearings of John Bolton - nominated by President Bush to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations - that in hindsight should have blown the lid off Bush's four-year-old clandestine spy program involving the National Security Agency.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206Z.shtml

MICROWAVE PHONES - ARE THEY KILLING US?

by Tim Rifat

As a scientist researching into microwave weapons used on the general public, evidence that the GSM900 microwave network as used by Vodaphone and British Telecom is a major health hazard, has come to my attention. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document entitled: Biological Effects Of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radiowaves and Microwaves) Eurasian Communist Countries, show that microwave frequencies similar to those of the cellular phones can cause health problems in the following areas:

Blood Cardiovascular System Cells Central Nervous System Digestive System Glands Metabolism Reproduction Visual System Internal Sound Perception

Equipment to test the frequency and intensity of microwave phones shows that they produce signals similar to microwave ovens. Two Vodaphone cellular phones were producing 100mW/cm2 and 50 mW/cm2 respectively. The danger level for microwave ovens is 5mW/cm2 and the Russians regularly used 10 mW/cm2 for weapon research. These Vodaphones will therefore cause significant health problems if used. A variety of cell phones can be tested to see how dangerous they are.

The GSM1800 system used by Orange uses higher frequency microwaves. Australian scientists found cancer in mice exposed to radiation of this type. The documents in my possession show that microwaves pass deeply into the body and can have a negative effect on the brain and body.

The DIA research dates from 1976, and shows dangers were known about over twenty years ago. The Soviets used frequencies and intensities used by mobile phones (1800 MHz and 900 MHz) as weapons. It is a rule of the intelligence community that you hide things in plain view: getting the public to accept microwave mind control weapons which affect their behaviour under the guise of mobile phones was a stroke of genius. Getting the public to pay for these microwave mind control devices, so their brains and behaviour can be altered, making them more docile and easy to control, was pure diabolical genius.

UK INTELLIGENCE FORCES AND MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL

Microwave weapons that turn people into stressed, confused, submissive zombies are being used in Britain's inner cities. Developed by the communists, microwave weapons similar to microwave ovens have since the 1980s been targeted on inner city council estates. These weapons transmit extremely low frequency (ELF) signals which mimic natural brain waves; at the flick of a switch, all the people around these microwave transmitters are turned into submissive zombies who cannot think clearly, become depressed, apathetic and want to lounge around all day doing nothing: the inner city malaise found on Britain's streets. With the advent of new ELF detectors designed by the author's research team, the mass mind control of the metropolitan UK population can be proved. ELF signals are officially only found at nuclear submarine communication stations, so researchers were shocked to find microwave and UHF mind control signals in city centres, the author's flat, being sent through mobile phones, the BT telephones, and from the numerous transmitters that dot the country.

The massive increase in mobile phones has enabled the UK security forces to use this network of transmitters to beam mind control signals into the brains of anyone living near these MW antennas. Microwave phones use pulse modulated microwaves of the correct intensity to pass through the skull into the brain and control behaviour. Microwave transmitters are therefore the perfect medium for the transmission of ELF signals to mind control the UK population.

In working class and residential zones, ELF transmitters turn the inhabitants into docile zombies. So successful is this technology that it was expanded to cover all major towns. Mass mind control of the UK public to make them submissive and obey authority was expanded, hand-in-hand with the mobile phone network and military and police microwave transmitters. Now the entire London conurbation is covered by UHF and microwave carrying mind numbing ELF.

Research into the use of microwave weapons and their use for mind control began in 1950s at the Tavistock Institute, one of Britain's leading psychiatric research establishments. The UK institute was researching into ways of mind controlling the British population without them knowing. The monkey submission response, whereby the dominant monkey caused submissive behaviour in the underlings, was the brain state of most interest to British scientists. Having found this specific brain rhythm for docile, submissive, zombie-like behaviour, it was then recorded and used as the template for the ELF signal beamed by UK microwave transmitters. It has to be noted that Britain was the first discoverer of microwave technology used for radar in the 1940s.

The 1960s brought a darker side to the story, with the news that the soviets were beaming the US embassy in Moscow. One third of the staff eventually died of cancer from this microwave irradiation. Australian scientists proved in 1997, that tiny amounts of microwave produced by the very safest mobile phones, cause cancer in mice when exposed to this radiation. Greenham Common was the first time that the Ministry of Defence was involved in the offensive beaming of protesters, the so called Greenham Common Women. This event showed that the UK security forces were willing to use lethal doses of microwave radiation on large groups of the general public. Equipment showed that the women peace protesters were subject to high levels of microwave radiation, and some of them have subsequently died from cancer. Northern Ireland would have been a perfect proving ground for mass mind control technology. Research at the Tavistock institute enabled the Thatcher government to put into large scale use the frequency which causes submission in humans. Radiating this ELF frequency from microwave transmitters, cellphones, BT phones, and other transmitters, the inner city population's behavior can be altered.

My research group has ELF detectors which can prove all kind of UK transmitters are being used to mind control the population. Since ELF is not found naturally, and allegedly only used for nuclear submarine communication, it proves mind control weapons are being used on the general public. The author also has access to scientific documents showing the devastating effects of ELF broadcast by microwave, UHF and VHF on humans. It is alleged that Marconi put this microwave technology into full scale production, and around thirty scientists and military personnel on the project who began asking questions committed `suicide' under mysterious circumstances.

My research has found that microwave weapons are especially targeted on middle class dissidents and researchers who cause problems to the system. Russian and American research has found that pulse modulated microwaves (as used for mobile phones) can, when modulated with ELF which mimics specific brain patterns, change the behavior of the victim at the flick of a switch.

It has been found that UK security police, such as the MI5, use the 450 MHz frequency for behavioural control. A vast catalogue of mind control frequencies in the MHz range, FM radio, TV and mobile phone frequencies have been measured, which are used in the UK for mind control, and killing or disabling victims:
147, 153, 197, 199, 447, 453, 456, 466, 853, 883, 884, 887... Symptoms can be depression, befuddled thinking, loss of memory, stress, not being able to cope, manic behaviour, dissociation, nervous breakdowns, physical collapse, brain and nervous system damage, heart attacks, cancer...

An example was Brighton police van, parked outside the Brighton Pavilion which was used to beam UHF and microwaves at vagrants to clear them from the area. All Brighton's city centres are bombarded with microwaves when vagrants congregate to make them so ill they have to flee. The Evening Argus newspaper asked the police if the white van which was parked in the Brighton Pavilion grounds for months, was their van. They replied it was one of their 'surveillance' vehicles. On Wednesday February 4th, the author was passing Brighton Police station with a frequency counter which detected a 452 MHz microwave beam being directed at two young offenders sitting on a wall opposite the station. I confronted the police with the reading, and Robert Galloway, spokesperson for the police, cynically stated they were not interested in microwaves, even if they were not a danger to health. The author has uncovered widespread use of microwave weapons in Brighton by the police and MI5 as a test program to clear vagrants from the city centre.

Contacting researchers in this field of enquiry, they all complain of microwave-like symptoms, headache, nausea, giddiness, eye damage, ear problems... Readings I have taken show that the 750-1000 MHz range is used by the intelligence services for inducing nervous and physical collapse. Microwave ovens give off 1000 MHz.

On Channel 4's tv show For the Love of a New World Order, shown on Monday April 6th at 12:00 pm, the author revealed some of these facts on television. The presenter and researchers of this tv show complained of severe headaches in the days preceding filming, symptomatic of microwave attack. As the foremost non-military expert in microwave weapons, remote viewing (psychic spying) and Psi-warfare, the author became aware of the microwave problem when he was targeted to stop his forthcoming book on remote viewing. This book on psychic spying, published by Century Books, is the first book by a scientist on the subject of Psi-warfare and the techniques the superpowers have developed.

Subsequent to the filming of Channel 4's program, he was arrested by Brighton Police on February I5th outside their building, and his frequency counter was confiscated to stop him recording the use of microwave weapons around the police station and in public places around the town. It appears that Brighton Police are worried that their use of microwave weapons on Brighton's vagrants is coming to light. The UK government has also bought up all the readily available frequency counters, these being the Watson FC-128 frequency counter, and the Optotronic devices, and the manufacturers now market a 'modified' model, which most probably has a digital filter so that the microwave weapon frequencies given above are not shown. The author's frequency counter has still not been returned. With such high-level manipulation of events it becomes clear that microwave mind control is part of a secret policy which is being practised on the general public in this country. As part of a covert government policy of harassing and disabling critics, this means of attack is not covered by the law and highly deniable, the perfect intelligence tool for civilian control. The author's flat is targeted with a 900 MHz beam which seems to be designed to cause massive neurological damage and produce tumors.

The BT phone network has the potential to be used for alienation of the UK public. A 30-40 MHz signal is carried by the phone. When the earpiece is placed against the head, bone conduction carries the ELF component into the brain of the phone user. A ELF signal which can affect behaviour or health is therefore passed into all BT phone users. It appears from experts I have consulted on the subject that the digital phones have been designed to carry this mind control carrier frequency. Vodaphone has supplied a mobile phone to a friend of mine that pumps out an 847 MHz signal at over 100 mW/cm2. This is equivalent of 4 x 100 watt lightbulbs burning inside the body of the user. This means that mobile phones can potentially be used to kill or so disable a person they no longer become a problem to the establishment. Another Vodaphone tested pumped out 50 mW/cm2. UK safe levels for microwave ovens are 5 mW/cm2 - which are not held near the head. There are reports by military researchers that 1 mW/cm2 will cause swelling of nerve cells exposed to microwave.

It is obvious that a total policing of the population by means of UHF, VHF, and microwave EM radiation, amongst others, is being used to keep the UK population in a docile and submissive mental state. Mental confusion can also be added to the signal for working class inner city areas to keep them dizzy and inactive. A land of stultified zombies who are mind controlled to make them docile and unable to think clearly. Dissidents are habitually targeted with microwaves to drive them mentally insane or fatally ill.

On July 4th 1976, seven giant transmitters in the Ukraine region, powered by the Chernobyl nuclear facility, pumped a 100 megawatt radio frequency at the West, which contained a 10 Hz ELF mind control frequency. According to a US scientist, Dr. Andrija Puharich, MD, the soviet pulses covered the human brain frequencies. Together with Dr. Robert Beck, Puharich proved that the soviet transmissions were a weapon. He found that a 6.66 Hz frequency would cause depression, and an 11 Hz signal would cause manic and riotous behaviour. Transmissions could indeed entrain the human brain, and thereby induce behavioural modification. More importantly, he found that an ELF signal could cause cancer at the flick of a switch. It did this by modifying the function of the RNA transferases so that amino acid sequences are scrambled and produce unnatural proteins.

MIND CONTROL

Torture is alive and well in the UK. MI5, the UK's secret police, regularly uses electromagnetic weapons on any dissidents. The UK's intelligence runs a fleet of microwave weapon carrying vans, as well as portable microwave weapons that can be deployed near the dissident's home. This vast expense can be disguised as communications equipment, for as we all know, wireless phone communication is all the rage in our modern world. My research shows that the microwave telephone network also has the potential to be used as a major mind control weapon system to control the behaviour of mobile phone users.

These abhorrent devices are euphemistically called 'non-lethal weapons' by the UK military, but in fact they kill you slowly by causing nerve damage, cancer, mental collapse leading to suicides, or tissue degradation due to the cooking effect of microwaves.

Precisely modulated microwave radiation is used to influence brain function. Human behaviour and reactions can be entirely controlled by using pulse modulated microwave EM radiation. Pulse modulated microwaves are useful as the carrier for the mind control signals as they are able to pass through the skull, which is rather resistant to low level EM. The massive number of microwave antennae that dot the country, some of which are used for the microwave phone network, all use pulse modulated microwaves, which makes their use for a strategic mind control weapon against the civilian population in times of trouble, or rioting, crucial to modifying the behaviour of the general population. In modern democracies it is no longer viable to shoot rioters, or torture dissidents by normal means, it's bad publicity and it's self defeating. Thus, microwave weapons have been developed by the UK's military intelligence as they leave no marks, or gaping wounds. This pulse modulated microwave carrier beam can then be used to carry signals. These signals are extremely low frequency recordings of brain electrical potentials, which have been recorded by neuro-medical researchers such as Dr Ross Adey.

Dr Ross Adey's research at the Brain Research Institute of the University of California, was funded by the CIA. In project Pandora a catalogue of different brain signals for specific actions, emotions, and pathological states of mind were recorded. It was found that when microwaves were used to fire these signals at the victim's brain, they experienced the moods, behaviour, and pathological states carried by the signals. This meant that by mimicking natural brain frequencies, the human brain could be controlled remotely by use of extremely low frequency broadcast carried by pulse modulated microwave beams (ELF pulse modulated microwave remote mind control technology).

It is now possible to broadcast mind control commands directly into the brain by use of microwave beams. All that is needed is a catalogue of every specific brain frequency for each mood, action, and thought. These catalogues of excitation potentials are available from Russian neuro-medical research institutes, so any one with enough cash can have the same technology at their disposal, as UK military mind control groups (the psychological-enforcement arm of MI5). The Aum cult, for instance, bought microwave weaponry via their 50,000 Russian converts.

Particular excitation potential is then broadcast by a pulse modulated microwave transmitter. This pulse modulated microwave beam has the ELF excitation potential frequency imprinted upon it. It was found that each behavioural set in humans had a distinctive frequency. There was one for anger, suicide, hysteria, trauma, serial killing, paranoia, lust, etc.

Intelligence operatives in the UK regularly park microwave transmitters nearby targets' houses and beam specific mood inducing excitation potentials at their victims. To aid them, they have sophisticated millimetre wave scanners to look through the victims' walls, so they can see the targets' in their homes. Pulse modulated microwaves are regularly directed at the victims' brains, while other people in their homes are oblivious of what is going on. A leading conspiracy researcher, who looks into GCHQ at Cheltenham, found one of these vans, with two spheres on its roof parked in his road. When he took the number plate and through contacts checked who owned it, he found it was an MoD van. Hopefully he has found the microwave weapon system before it has done him too much harm.

These microwave weapons were developed allegedly at Marconi. When firing microwave beams through walls at one specific target, every material in the way of the microwave beam attenuates or modifies the intensity and frequency of the beam. Since precise frequencies and intensities are needed for mind control, very sophisticated microwave arrays and computer programmes had to be developed so that the microwave beam could be changed in response to the materials which lay between the target and the weapon, as the victim moved around the house. To do this, the reflectivity and refractivity of the materials between victim and weapon had to be analysed in real-time and fed to a computer which could change the microwave array in concert with the changing environment between victim and weapon, as the target moved around his/her home or outside. The victim has to be driven insane, disabled, or killed without anyone else being aware that he or she has been targeted.

Intelligence personnel regularly kill people to keep them quiet. By this method, any mood or behavioural set can be conditioned into the target's brain. Intelligence agents keep a log of the victim's behaviour to see if more intense 'treatment' is needed and as a guide for future mind control projects. It is alleged that by this method, conspiracy researchers are routinely driven to commit suicide. Having the excitation potential for suicide beamed into your brain day and night by microwave mind control weapons, soon resets the brain into a cycle of depression that spirals out of control ending in suicide. Many intelligence and technical officers in the UK, who have spilled the beans, or could be a potential leak, are driven to commit suicide by special mind control teams run by MI5. If you look at the long list of UK military and intelligence experts who inexplicably commit suicide, one can see the underlying mind control fingerprint.

Behavioural reinforcement is used in a synergistic way with mind control. It was found that the effect of the microwave beams could be greatly enhanced by external reinforcement. Intelligence community personnel destroy the target's property, ruin their business, spread slander, stalk them, and so on. External reinforcement of pulse modulated microwave mind control technology was found to be very effective.

If the military intelligence agency does not wish you to commit suicide, they can drive you mentally insane. This is done by beaming the excitation potential of a particular pathological mental state at your brain while you are at home. To aid in this, the intelligence operatives can place sounds and speech in the target victim's brain. This intercerebral hearing is used to drive the victim insane, as no one else can hear the voices transmitted into the brain of the target. Transmission of auditory data directly into the targets' brains using microwave carrier beams is now common practise. Instead of using excitation potentials, one uses a transducer to modify the spoken word into ELF audiograms, that are then superimposed on the pulse modulated microwave beam.

Discrediting well known people who are causing problems for the shadowy elite, by driving them mad, seems to be standard operating procedure for the intelligence community. Victims are subject to pulse modulated microwaves which carry different types of madness and behavioural aberrations, encoded as ELF excitation potentials. This makes the troublesome high profile person display manic or insane behaviour that discredits them. Examples of this technique are David Icke, Fergie, Princess Diana...

Outside environmental reinforcement, by use of media agents in league with MI5, makes it assured that the high profile person's mind controlled madness will be put in the worst possible light to discredit them. In this way, high profile subversives who cannot be wrongly imprisoned (unlike the Carl Bridgewater prisoners, Birmingham Six, Guilford Four...) in the normal way by Britain's police, or killed by assassination squads, such as the Pegasus group, are made to look ridiculous or delusional. Public discrediting is the finest weapon authorities have to make harmless a potential dissident or well known figure who is causing trouble. If the target needs to be made temporarily ill, microwave beams containing the signal the brain gives off during a vicious bout of flu can be fired at the victim. This causes the target to display all the symptoms of flu, even though they have not caught the virus.

The intelligence agents can also use low level microwaves to cause mental and physical confusion that leads to illness. Beaming microwaves at victims makes them fatigued, damages their immune system, causes neurological damage that affects their thinking, and ability to carry out tasks, induces premature ageing, cancer, and cataracts. Sussex Police regularly use this low level microwave to clear drunks from city centres. While researching this matter, I was subject to high levels of microwave >10mW/cm2 whenever I approached their headquarters, whilst MI5 irradiated my home continually with microwaves. It seems that I touched a raw nerve while researching mind control weapon usage in the UK.

Organisations that irritate the authorities have their building turned into a 'hot spot' by microwave transmitters, so the staff all suffer sick building syndrom caused by microwaves. Or the staff of the target organisation have their behaviour changed to cause discord.

Heating the victim to death by microwave cooking is caused by increasing the field intensity of the radiation to cause local hot spots in the victims' eyes and gall bladder, which have poor circulation, so cannot carry away the heat. Irradiating the optic nerve of the victim with the same signal that is sent to the brain by this nerve, causes the nerve tissue to overload. In this way, subversives can be blinded by the intelligence community without them knowing what has occurred. An American researcher complained of this problem to me and warned me that this weapon system was being used on my person by the MI5.

Neurological research has found that the brain has specific frequencies for each voluntary movement called preparatory sets. When you pick up an object, there is a specific preparatory set for this action. By firing at your chest a microwave beam containing the ELF signals given off by the heart, this organ can be put into a chaotic state, the so called heart attack. In this way, high profile leaders of political parties who are prone to heart attacks, can be killed off -before they cause any trouble.

Paralysis can be induced in the target by use of this method of broadcasting preparatory sets encoded on microwave beams. A pulse modulated microwave beam, carrying an ELF signal, which is identical to the one in the motor neurone centre of the brain, is used to jam the victim's motor co-ordination. This is analogous to radar jamming, using a more powerful signal at the same frequency to swamp out the enemy's radar. Motor neurone preparatory set potentials are jammed by a bigger signal carried by a microwave carrier beam, that literally overloads the brain, so it cannot control the body. Pulse modulated microwave weapons which broadcast the ELF preparatory sets of the motor cortex at the victim, will paralyse the victim without killing them. Breathing and heartbeat are involuntary actions controlled by another set of frequencies in another part of the brain.

The latest advance in electronic mind control was discussed in my previous articles in Nexus, but for those who missed the ESP of Espionage, this equipment uses special types of microwave beams called MASERs. These are the laser equivalent of microwave beams. These MASER beams have been used to develop something called synthetic telepathy. This is the ability to read peoples' minds from a distance. Electronic scanning of victims' brains by monitoring the electromagnetic (EM) emissions from peoples' brains and using amongst other things, the brain waves (as measured on an EEG), to read the victim's subvocalised thoughts.

Head of US Special Forces Major-General Schaknow, talked about synthetic telepathy during a lecture in July 1992 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The US military is hard at work perfecting synthetic telepathy. In synthetic telepathy, the weak electromagnetic signals in the brain associated with subvocalised thought, are connected to a computer by use of electrodes, or in more advanced mechanisms, by MASER beams. Sophisticated computer systems have learnt to read the subvocalised thoughts in the brain, by associating a specific brain excitation potential, with a particular word. In this case, only one specific language can be decoded, as each word in a language has a specific set of frequencies that must be discovered. Once the donkey work of finding the specific frequencies for all the words in a language has been programmed into a super computer, which can carry out massive parallel processing, fuzzy logic software is used to match this with real world excitation potential associated with subvocalised thought obtained from thousands of abductees, who are used to calibrate the synthetic telepathy devices. GCHQ Cheltenham, the intelligence gathering arm of MI5, possess the advanced computer systems needed for synthetic telepathy.

A scan of the specific brain emissions given off when the victim subvocalises using an array of pulsed frequency MASERs fired at the specific brain centres of the subversive, while he resides in his own home, enables the victim to be scanned. By firing an array of ELF pulse modulated MASERs, which scan up and down the window of frequency emissions given off by subvocalised thought, interference effects can be measured in the MASER beam. The victim's ELF brain emissions will interact constructively or destructively with the pulsed frequency MASER carrying ELF in the ELF window associated with subvocalised thoughts. If we fire an array of pulsed MASERs which are out of phase with each other, extraneous noise can be filtered out in the digital domain. Since the converging ELF modulated MASERs are being affected by the low level emissions in the victim's brain, the shifts in the ELF pulsed signal going into the subversive's brain can be detected. A simplistic version of this would be the LASER beam shone at the window of the person that is being bugged. The vibrations in the window cause modulations in the LASER that can be converted into electrical signals and hence into sound. In this way the subvocalised thoughts in the victim's brain can be read. Having already built up a library of excitation potential signatures for differing words and groupings of words, a sophisticated computer can begin to decode the emission signatures into word streams. In this way the subvocalised thoughts of the victim can be stored in the memory of a supercomputer and analysed to give a read out of what the target is thinking.

Using ELF audiograms carried by a single pulse-modulated Maser, subvocalised thoughts can be placed in the victim's brain. This enables UK synthetic telepathy operators the ability to enter into conversations with the subversive to drive him mad, or to bring up key words which will get the victim thinking about the information they wish them to find. Visual cortex excitation potentials can also be broadcast into the victim's brain so that illusory images can be projected into their brain to drive them insane, or to program them to commit suicide. My research has led me to uncover a truly nation-wide mind control weapon system. Each UK police station is equipped with a vast array of microwave antennae. The Sussex Police headquarters has a two hundred foot antenna. The building is surrounded by a fence and is off limits to the public. This microwave complex sits in the middle of a council housing estate, which means the people in this area are being bathed in low level microwaves.

New research has shown that low level microwaves give mice cancer. Since the emitters tested by scientists were new 'safe' mobile phones which give off much smaller intensities than the police antennae, this means the police microwave system is a serious health hazard. Low level microwave radiation excites the hydrogen bonds in the cell and can interfere with meiosis. This causes cell division to go wrong, which leads to cancerous cells and, hence, tumors.

Also, the police has been granted the exclusive use of the 450 MHz microwave frequency range. This is exactly the frequency used by Dr Ross Adey, the CIA mind control expert, in his experiments on behavioural modification. It seems the police have the exclusive use of this mind control frequency and a vast array of antennae to broadcast this frequency all over the country. Very useful for mass mind control in times of emergency. Adey found that by using 0.75mW/cm2 intensity of pulse modulated microwave at a frequency of 450 MHz, an ELF modulation could be used to control all aspects of human behaviour. The large antennae arrays that bracket the country are the principal medium to accomplish this.

Another insidious issue, is that the entire mobile phone network could easily be used to control the behaviour of the phone owners. By use of my microwave detector, I have found that mobile phones of the newer type give off a pulse modulated microwave signal of around 0.75mW/cm2 at the earpiece. This may be coincidence, but it is exactly the intensity required for behavioural control as found by Dr Ross Adey, the pioneer in microwave mind control. This means that an ELF signal could be added to the microwave network to feed a precise behavioural pattern into every mobile phone user. If there were widespread riots, the ability to broadcast behavioural stimuli to mollify all the mobile phone users in the country would prove useful. Since mobile phone users are generally middle class, it means authority has a useful method of controlling the behaviour of the key voters. Microwave carrier beams are perfect for transmitting the excitation potential of docility to the phone user to keep them servile in times of trouble. When no ELF signal is broadcast the phone acts in a completely different manner on behaviour in humans. In this case, microwave phones cause neurones to release calcium ions which makes the user tired, irritable, depressed, and is likely to induce emotional outbursts such as road rage.

In Brighton, the local MI5 headquarters have a large microwave array on its roof. Secret bunkers in the area also have large microwave arrays above them. It is child play to transmit an ELF modulated signal to be broadcast by the entire mobile phone network. By this means, mobile phone users can be altered. At the cost of developing cancer from low level microwave exposure from the phones they constantly use, stressing the neural network by constant calcium ion efflux and interference with bioelectric fields.

It seems strange that a few milliCuries of ionizing radiation will get the National Radiological Protection Board excited, whilst high intensity cancer inducing non ionizing microwave radiation goes unchecked. So high are levels near transmitters that litter the countryside, that light bulbs will explode near them. If the intelligence community is using microwaves on a large scale as mass mind control weapons, then the NRPB's silence is easily explainable. To add to this, and as stated previously, the numerous microwave detectors that were cheaply available to check leakage from microwave ovens are no longer made by any company in the country. It seems that UK authorities do not want the population being able to detect when they are being beamed by the state.

In conclusion it can be seen that the UK intelligence and police have set in place a nightmarish array of high-tech mind control devices. They regularly target their own populations and thousands of people are made ill by these weapons. With the advent of synthetic telepathy, 'CCTV of the mind' becomes a reality.

Even more disturbing is the use of EMP and microwave weapons by the police on anyone researching into this area.

EOM


REFERENCES ELECTRONIC MlND CONTROL

[1] Non-Lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon's Penguin, by Armen Victorian, Lobster June 1993. This is an excellent article on the US black government's 'hard-man' - recommended for those who really want to know how these people think and work.

[2] Ross W Adey: Neurophysiologic Effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vo1.55 No 1 1, Dec 1979; The Influences of Impressed Electrical Fields at EEG Frequencies on Brain and Behaviour, in Behaviour and Brain Electrical Activity, Burch, N and Altshuler, H.I., eds, Plenum press, 1975; Effects of Modulated Very High Frequency Fields on Specific Brain Rhythms in Cats, Brain Research, Vol
58, 1973; Spectral Analysis of Low Frequency Components in the Electrical Activity of the Hippocampus During Learning, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol 23, 1967. Dr Ross Adey, formally of the Brain Research centre at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, now at Loma Linda University Medical School, Loma Linda, California. He worked on the CIA Pandora Project and was concerned with inducing specific behaviour modification by electromagnetic means as well as induction of calcium efflux events to interfere with brain function - the so called 'confusion weaponry'. C.S. Blackman is a researcher who worked in the US on theoretical research that underlies the electronic RMCT devices now deployed world-wide. Electronics World and Wireless World: The healing face of electromagnetic fields; 1993.

[3]. Martin Cannon, The Controllers.

[4]. Secret and Suppressed, Jim Keith.

[5]. Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, Alex Constantine.

[6] Fortean Times 95, Police State of Mind, by David Guyatt. US Synthetic Telepathy info supplied by David Guyatt. Guyatt, David. "Some Aspects of Antipersonnel Electromagnetic Weapons (paper prepared for ICRC Symposium and the medical profession).

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A criminal administration with a police state mentality

P.C. Roberts: 'A criminal administration with a police state mentality'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3861/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

A Pentagon of Loyalists and Enforcers - Rumsfeld Versus the Military

http://counterpunch.org/nader12312005.html


Informant: Friends

Synthetic Biology: A Darker Bioweapons Future

http://counterpunch.org/montague12312005.html


Informant: Friends

Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption

Exploring around our country's shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress.

I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination.

The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity.

The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality.

Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences.

I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.

As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action.

So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry.

It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake.

Exhibition prints

Prints of these images are large in scale, averaging 44x60". I make my prints in my Seattle studio, using the Epson Ultrachrome archival pigmented inkjet process. Print editions are limited to nine.

Click on small images at: http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Exhibition prints at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2005


Informant: Friends

Exporting Marx to Africa

Christian Sandström on a horrific disaster.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sandstrom2.html

The Desert They Call Peace

Justine Nicholas on military brainwashing.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/nicholas4.html

The Conservative Police State

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts138.html

Do Mutilated Soldiers Think It's 'Worth It'?

Let's ask them, Mr. Bush, says Laurence M. Vance.
N.B.: some disturbing photos.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance66.html

Scandals: Six 'conspiratorial' and six not

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_370.shtml


Informant: Friends

AMERICA: COUNTRY IN CRISIS

http://www.apfn.org/APFN/AMERICA_CRISIS.HTM

A PRESIDENTIAL PATHOLOGY

http://www.willthomas.net/911/Bush


“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and people,
and neither do we.” - GW Bush

See the video here - Broadband Recommended & Quicktime Required
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Facts Behind 911 Commission. 911 Facts Listen now on your PC. 2 hour audio presentation STAND DOWN
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Balance between liberty and security is at stake

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sun Jan 1, 2006 17:25


The following found in the editorial section of the Southern Illinoisian (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2006/01/01/opinions/guest_columns/10003017.txt

Another View: Balance between liberty and security is at stake

Thirty years ago, after it was learned that the Nixon administration had co-opted the FBI and the CIA as part of a broad pattern of domestic surveillance, the Senate appointed a committee headed by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, to investigate U.S. intelligence agencies.

One of these was National Security Agency, which had developed a vast capacity during the Cold War to intercept overseas radio and telephone conversations. If an official in the Kremlin called his mistress on a non-secure phone, odds were the NSA was listening in. Sen. Church was stunned at the NSA's reach. In "The Puzzle Palace," his 1982 book that dissected the NSA, journalist James Bamford quoted Sen. Church on his greatest fear: that the NSA would turn around and use its capacity against U.S. citizens.

"No American would have any privacy left," Sen. Church said, adding, "There would be no place to hide."

His fears may have been realized. Two weeks ago The New York Times revealed that President George W. Bush had given the NSA permission to eavesdrop, without warrants, on overseas communication to and from the United States. A few days later, The Times added a troubling codicil: As part of its search for suspicious conversations, the NSA has obtained permission from telecommunications companies to tap into the switches that route calls to and from foreign countries.

Like a hard-pan gold miner searching for nuggets in the gravel of a streambed, sophisticated computer programs pan through millions of calls and e-mails, sorting them according to how frequently certain numbers are called and how often key words come up. "Pattern analysts" then hone in for clues to terrorist activities.

Someone in Florida e-mails someone else in Italy and mentions "al-Qaida" and "bomb" too often, and the NSA may have prick up its ears. Much of this is done without first getting warrants from the 12 special judges charged by the 1978 Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act with reviewing applications for eavesdropping on U.S. residents.

In some cases, insiders say, intelligence agencies first establish a pattern and then apply for warrants. While this may seem logical, it runs headlong into the pesky FISA requirement that a target is "an agent of a foreign power." Demonstrating probable cause has been a particular problem for Bush administration snoops. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported last week that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court modified more wiretap requests from the Bush administration than from the four previous administrations combined. Mr. Bamford, the "Puzzle Palace" author, suggested that the judges' reluctance to grant carte blanche may have been the reason Mr. Bush decided to bypass the court.

Mr. Bush claims the executive powers of the presidency, combined with Congress' authorization to use force against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, give him the right to use whatever weapons are necessary to fight the war on terrorism. Among those apparently in agreement is Supreme Court Justice-designate Samuel Alito. In a brief written 20 years ago, Judge Alito wrote that the U.S. attorney general should be immune from lawsuits brought by U.S. citizens in national security cases. Both claims are too broad. The Senate Judiciary Committee will take up Judge Alito's confirmation when Congress returns next month.

Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also plans to hold hearings into the president's decision to bypass the FISA court. The proper balance between liberty and security is at stake.

- St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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