Zogby Poll

(excerpt)

Speaking Truth To Power
A Time to Break Silence

By Rev. Martin Luther King By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- A year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people." Listen:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm


Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?
* 206726 responsesYes,

86% between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.

6% No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."

4% No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching.

8% I don't know.

2% http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/


http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/5619907.html

Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping By Bob Fertik Created 2006-01-13 23:34 For Immediate Release: January 16, 2006

New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12. The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement: "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment." 43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a ± 2.9% margin of error.

"The American people are not buying Bush's outrageous claim that he has the power to wiretap American citizens without a warrant. Americans believe terrorism can be fought without turning our own government into Big Brother," said AfterDowningStreet.org co-founder Bob Fertik. "Next weeks' Senate hearings on White House wiretapping could be as dramatic as the Watergate hearings in 1973. A majority of Americans have already decided Bush committed an impeachable offense, yet we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. If Bush ordered warrantless wiretapping long before the terrorist attack on 9/11 - which was first reported in Truthout on Friday - then Americans will realize that George Bush came into office determined to shred the Constitution and take away our rights," Fertik said. Impeachment Supported by Majorities of Many Groups Responses to the Zogby poll varied by political party affiliation: 76% of Democrats favored impeachment, compared to 50% of Independents and 29% of Republicans. Responses also varied by age, sex, race, and religion. 70% of those 18-29 favored impeachment, 51% of those 31-49, 50% of those 50-64, and 42% of those over 65. 56% of women favored impeachment, compared to
49% of men. Among African Americans, 90% favored impeachment, compared to 67% of Hispanics, and 46% of whites. Majorities of Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Others favored impeachment, while 49% of Protestants and 46% of Born Again Christians did so. Majorities favored impeachment in the East (53%), West (56%), and Central states (58%), but not the South (43%). In large cities, 58% support impeachment; in small cities, 56%; in suburbs, 49%; in rural areas, 46%. Support for Impeachment Has Surged Since June The new Zogby poll shows a dramatic transformation in support for Bush's impeachment since late June. (This is only the third poll that has asked Americans about their support for impeaching Bush in 2005, despite his record-low approval ratings.) The Zogby poll conducted June 27-29 of 905 likely voters found that 42% agreed and 50% disagreed with the identical statement asked about in this recent polling. This question was virtually identical to one used in early October by Ipsos Public Affairs, which found that 50% agreed and 44% disagreed that Congress should consider impeaching Bush if he did not tell the truth about his reasons for war.

After the June poll, pollster John Zogby told the Washington Post that support for impeachment "was much higher than I expected." At the time, impeachment supporters trailed opponents by 8%. Now supporters outnumber opponents by 11%, a remarkable shift of 19%. If impeachment support continues to grow by 3% each month, it will reach 60% in January, 65% in March, and 70% in April. Support for Clinton Impeachment Was Much Lower In August and September of 1998, 16 major polls asked about impeaching President Clinton
(http://democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls). Only 36% supported hearings to consider impeachment, and only 26% supported actual impeachment and removal. Even so, the impeachment debate dominated the news for months, and the Republican Congress impeached Clinton despite overwhelming public opposition. Impeachment Support is Closely Related to Belief that Bush Lied about Iraq The Zogby and Ipsos polls asked about support for impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for war, rather than asking simply about support for impeachment. Pollsters predict that asking simply about impeachment without any context would produce a large number of "I don't know" responses. However, this may understate those who support Bush's impeachment for other reasons, such as his actions before and immediately after Hurricane Katrina, his negligence prior to 9-11, his use of torture, and the CIA outing scandal. Other polls show a majority of U.S. adults believe that Bush did in fact lie about the reasons for war. A June 23-26 ABC/Washington Post poll found 52% of Americans believe the Bush administration "deliberately misled the public before the war," and 57% say the Bush administration "intentionally exaggerated its evidence that pre-war Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons." Support for the war has dropped significantly since June, which suggests that the percentage of Americans who believe Bush lied about the war has increased. Passion for Impeachment is Major Unreported Story The strong support for impeachment found in this poll is especially surprising because the views of impeachment supporters are entirely absent from the broadcast and print media, and can only be found on the Internet and in street protests. The lack of coverage of impeachment support is due in part to the fact that not a single Democrat in Congress has called for impeachment, despite considerable grassroots activism by groups like Democrats.com ( http://democrats.com/impeach ). The passion of impeachment supporters is directly responsible for the new poll commissioned by After Downing Street. After the Zogby poll in June, activists led by Democrats.com urged all of the major polling organizations to include an impeachment question in their upcoming polls. But none of the polling organizations were willing to do so for free, so on September 30, AfterDowningStreet.org posted a request for donations to fund paid polls ( http://afterdowningstreet.org/polling ). People responded with small donations (on average $27) which quickly added up to over $10,000. After Downing Street has spent a portion of that money on the Ipsos Poll and the new Zogby Poll. Footnotes:

1. AfterDowningStreet.org is a rapidly growing coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups that was created on May 26, 2005, following the publication of the Downing Street Memo in London's Sunday Times on May 1. The coalition is urging Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

2. The Ipsos Public Affairs poll and the new Zogby poll results cited above refer to surveys of U.S. adults. The June Zogby results are from a survey of likely voters. The new Zogby poll produced results for both adults and likely voters (see footnote 3).

3. Here are the complete data tables from all three polls. November Zogby: Adults, and Likely Voters. October Ipsos: Adults, and definitions of regions. June Zogby: Likely Voters.
http://www.democrats.com/bush-impeachment-poll-2


Informant: ranger116



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

New Openings and New Challenges

Revolution #030,
January 15, 2006,
posted at revcom.us

In late December, talk of impeaching Bush suddenly broke into the mainstream media. From the conservative financial paper Barron’s (which said that "willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense") to Newsweek and beyond, the question flared. Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer asked constitutional scholars to look into it. John Dean, the former lawyer of Richard Nixon (who was the last president forced out of office), wrote that Bush is "the first president to admit to an impeachable offense"--referring to Bush’s admission that he broke the law in order to spy on U.S. citizens.

The clamor around impeachment opens up an important but complex opportunity for those working to drive out the Bush regime--but only if it is aggressively seized upon. How to do that is a huge and consequential question for the movement. Why Now?

Despite Bush’s wholesale violations of the Constitution, which are all grounds for impeachment, the Democrats have basically given Bush a free hand to implement the main parts of his program. So why has impeachment suddenly become a "legitimate" topic of discussion?

To begin with, the war in Iraq has continued to go badly from the imperialist standpoint. Other forces in the ruling class are worried that the war could develop into a major strategic disaster for imperialism, and they are not that impressed with either the Iraq elections in December or Bush’s recent public relations offensive to "re-sell" the war. They aim to pressure Bush--not to end the war, but to fight it "more effectively."

On top of that comes the current spying scandal, in which the Bush regime broke the rules of how the ruling class of imperialists--whom the top Republicans and Democrats both fundamentally represent--settle conflicts among themselves. Things like spying are supposed to be closely regulated-- not to protect the rights of the people, but to make sure that one section of imperialists doesn’t turn the powerful weapons of state repression against another.

But Bush violated this, and some Democrats then raised impeachment in part to warn Bush to back off. Bush shot right back, attacking his critics for "aiding the enemy." Howard Fineman, the Newsweek and MSNBC correspondent, warned that, "We are entering a dark time in which the central argument advanced by each party is going to involve accusing the other party of committing what amounts to treason. Democrats will accuse the Bush administration of destroying the Constitution; Republicans will accuse the Dems of destroying our security."

Fineman is saying something fairly extreme here; but whether you see such a time as "dark" depends on where you stand in the system and what you do about it. Such conflict at the top can create further openings for revolutionary and progressive political forces: more exposures of what goes on behind the scenes come to light and more people awaken to political life and, potentially, struggle. At its most extreme, the legitimacy of the system itself may be brought into question. So it may not be bad when thieves fall out, not bad at all . . . if their victims seize on it to do something good. Masses Demand "Regime Change"

Which leads to the next point. Besides the conflict at the top, there has also been a movement from below forcing the question of "regime change" into the open. This happened in a significant, if still beginning way, with the demonstrations of thousands on November 2. It took a further step with the publication in the New York Times of the Call to drive out the Bush regime, and specifically to demonstrate on January 31 and February 4, on the occasion of the State of the Union speech, to demand that "Bush Step Down." The organized mass upsurge to drive out the regime, along with the still unorganized but widespread and increasingly intense mass anger against Bush and the yearning to see him go, has been another important factor forcing the hand of Democratic Party leaders.

This upsurge "from below" closely interpenetrates with and influences the struggle "at the top." But the two struggles are NOT one and the same. These are two distinct dynamics. The masses want the Bush regime to go; yesterday is not soon enough for millions of people in this country. The Democratic leaders, on the other hand, want to rein in both Bush . . . and the masses who hate Bush.

In "The Pyramid of Power and the Struggle to Turn This Whole Thing Upside Down," Bob Avakian writes that the social base of the Democratic Party are "the people who stand for progressive kinds of things, all the people who are oppressed in this society. For the Democrats, a big part of their role is to keep all those people confined within the bourgeois, the mainstream, electoral process. . . and to get them back into it when they have drifted away from--or broken out of--that framework . . . The last thing in the world [the Democratic leaders] want to do is to call these masses of people into the streets to protest or to battle against this right-wing force that’s being built up." [Bob Avakian, The Coming Civil War and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era (Chicago: RCP Publications, 2005), p. 3.]

Once in the streets, so to speak, people may get a sense of their own potential power and come to think more deeply and critically about things they may have taken for granted about society. They may check out and turn to different kinds of leadership, and broaden their horizons--and demands--still further, and in the process attract still greater forces to their banner. They may, if they fight hard enough and conditions come together in the right way, actually win the battle, and in so doing they may change the direction of society and open up the prospect and opportunity for a whole different future.

That may be a very exciting vision for you and me, but it is anathema to the top Democrats, whose interests lie, above all else, in defending the imperialist status quo. So the feelers around impeachment coming from Democratic leaders represent not only "a shot across the bow" to Bush, but also an attempt to rope in the anti-Bush sentiment coming from below and to control and deflect that sentiment.

But again, this is complex. A senator like Boxer who raises the question of impeachment--even though she intends in large part to draw people back into the narrow and killing confines of politics-as-usual--can, despite herself, end up adding to the "legitimacy" of the demand and encouraging people to step into political life. It’s a double-edged sword, one that can ultimately swing against either the ruling class. . . or the people. The question is who grasps it, and from what end. Waiting for November Won’t Do!

One negative tendency in the current mix is an attempt to focus those who want impeachment on "getting out the vote in November" in a way that ignores or downplays the need to act in the streets now. A recent blog entry by a prominent liberal writer surveys the eruption of impeachment controversy into the media, notes the wide range of offenses for which Bush could be impeached, and concludes by . . . calling on people to help "the Democrats regain control of Congress in ’06." Even worse, in an entire essay devoted to the topic of impeachment, the writer does not even mention the November 2 demonstrations; the Times ad and the controversy that resulted from it; other important statements in support of the World Can’t Wait movement from a range of people; or the organizing for the January 31 and February 4 outpourings that is now under way.

Look: there will be no impeachment without mass upsurge. Even if you pin your hopes on the top Democrats for this, you have to recognize that they will not act unless and until they fear that their base is getting beyond their control. By the same token, any strategy that deflects people from taking action NOW in the name of "working (and essentially waiting) for November," will give Bush the time and political space to carry out and consolidate still more outrages, around the world and within the U.S. That would be unconscionable in any circumstance, and all the more so in a time when yesterday’s unprecedented outrages become tomorrow’s new norms.

Part of the danger in this "wait for November" orientation is that the terms on which people have entered the movement will change, imperceptibly but very rapidly: it will go from impeaching Bush, to winning over this or that congressman, to at least electing a Democrat (no matter what their program), and so on. Such an orientation, whatever the intentions of some of those who espouse or take it up, will allow Bush to deflate the opposition to him, both through repression and "spin." On that trajectory, by November Bush would have the apparatus of the right-wing media, the rigged voting districts, his huge Christian fascist "get-out-the-vote" operation, and the whole crooked voting machine thing going for him; people would be playing his game, on his court, with his referees. Far better to be in a position where a mass movement has been raging throughout society demanding that Bush step down, where people from all walks of life are breaking loose in their thinking and actions from the current suffocating atmosphere, or even where the strength of such a movement has already forced Bush out!

And by the way, that can be done--even without a Democratic Congress. After all, who controlled the Congress when the Democrat Lyndon Johnson was forced to essentially step down? The Democrats. And who uttered the famous words "what did the president know and when did he know it"--seen now as the decisive turn in Congress leading to the Republican Richard Nixon’s resignation? A Republican senator, Howard Baker. As these examples illustrate, the imperialists who really rule America do not make critical decisions based on elections, but on whether a particular president has, all in all, become too great a political liability to what they perceive as their overall interests--and that very much includes whether the actions of such a president and their effect on the masses is calling the legitimacy of the whole thing into question.

How the Bush regime gets driven out can't be predicted. But the only way that any of it--impeachment, resignation, whatever-- will happen is if everyone who cannot stand both the terrible outrages the regime has committed and the still more deadly future that it is hammering into place joins together in independent mass action NOW. To those who really want to see Bush impeached, to everyone who wants to see him go: your energy and effort right now needs to go into the push for truly massive actions around the State of the Union.

There is no magic pendulum; there is no savior that will come; there is no check or balance that will, at the eleventh hour, assert itself. There is only the people, and their capacity to act in their own interests and build up their own organizations, with the urgency and determination that this crossroads in history requires. That, and that alone, can change the course of history.

* * * * Polls and Impeachment

Millions of people have wanted the Bush regime to go for some time, and many spontaneously see impeachment as the avenue for that. But the question of impeachment has been stonewalled and suppressed. In an interview with Editor & Publisher, the chief pollster for the Washington Post complained of being constantly bombarded with e-mails and other messages asking why he refused to do a poll on impeachment. The reason, he said, is because no major politician was calling for it. Think about that for a minute: unless a major politician supports some course of action--no matter how great the mass sentiment for it may be--it’s not going to be offered to people broadly as “a serious option or topic of considered discussion,” to quote this pollster.


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545


Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news



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

12.01.2006

Der US-Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger Joseph E. Stiglitz schätzt, dass der Irakkrieg der USA zwischen ein und zwei Billionen Dollar kosten wird.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n4409

14.01.2006

Wer erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz so vernachlässigt wie die US-Regierung unter George W. Bush muss an die letzten Öl-Reserven. Auf Kosten der Umwelt. So hat das US-Innenministerium jetzt ein Biotop in Alaska für Rentiere und Wildgänse für Bohrungen nach Gas und Öl frei gegeben.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n4416

Mitte der 80er Jahre findet die Wissenschaft mit der Gentechnologie den Schlüssel, sich die Erde und vor allem ihre Geschöpfe endgültig untertan zu machen. Plötzlich scheint alles möglich! Ein Film von Bertram Verhaag und Gabriele Kröber.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=35&article:oid=a4338

Gefahr Gentechnik - Irrweg und Ausweg

Der Bestseller in Sachen Gentechnik - informativ, fesselnd und schonungslos offen, berichtet über das, was uns alle erwartet: Am
Beginn des 3. Jahrtausends stehen wir, trotz gegenteiliger Prognosen vor immer größer werdenden, gesundheitlichen Problemen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=34&article:oid=a4337

Der neuen Landwirtschaftsminister Horst Seehofer will die bevorzugte Behandlung der Biolandwirtschaft beenden und die grüne Gentechnik befördern: Ist dies das Ende der Wahlfreiheit für die Bürger? Ist dies das Ende für die Biolandwirtschaft? Mir scheint, es besteht ein großes Informationsdefizit über die tatsächlichen Gefahren durch die Grüne Gentechnik. Gastkommentar von Michael Schick.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=17&article:oid=a4336

Can radio frequency radiation research at all been done under a safe
threshold level?

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega265.htm

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega264.htm

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SAR?

The original experiments to determine SAR were based on work cessation tests on a few (<6) macaque monkeys. The statistic was arrived at from an average spread between around 5 and 1 and the cutpoint was when a third of the monkeys stopped their task. These were never replicated.

No human live studies were ever involved, though subsequent research on human cadavers were used in an attempt to justify the original work. When it was pointed out that dead tissue is electrically different from live tissue conductivity experiments were substituted but these too bear little relation to reality since the CSF is by far more conductive than any tissue and bathes all cells. But this research only looks at separate tissues, without weighting for CSF. The whole of the scientific support for SAR is too fragile for words. I think I have an article on our website cogreslab.co.uk which detailed all this, based on a paper by Henry Lai.

Yes, Sami Gabriel did the head, and before that MCL used cadavers to explore SAR. The court case referred to of late 1998 was the one I brought against a cellphone retailer in Cwmbran. It got worldwide publicity and led directly to the setting up of the Stewart Committee within 90 days of that case. Alasdair Philips and Chris Busby both gave evidence, as did I. We had a lot of fun in the courtroom, I recall: Alistair McKInlay, who started out claiming to be author of 100 scientific papers was roasted by our Counsel, and ended up confessing not just that only one of them was peer reviewed, but that he had gained his doctorate at that world famous academic seat of excellence, Paisley College of Technology, to the great amusement of the assembled media.

Camelia afterward told me with some irritation that this whole affair did her company great financial damage for several years afterwards.

I think that case was the tipping point. Now the SAGE initiative has achieved the same effect for power frequency fields I can start looking for a place to hang up my boots!


Roger Coghill

MA(Cantab,) C Biol MI Biol MA(Environ Mgt)
sometime Senior Visitor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge



SAR head case

'The head' devised by Mrs Gabriel's son, is a convenient method of measuring power transfer, based on the many prior assumptions used by ICNIRP and the US military- wireless industry. The false fundamental of which is that only thermal change is significant.

They may have used the experimental findings to arrive at recommended maximum power outputs for mobile handsets, but of course these remain hopelessly flawed, since thermal level energy transfer is not the only aspect causing biological damage. The test head may be a poor model for doing even that. So the usual reassurance by distraction.

Arthur


'From a court case towards the end of 1998 Dr McKinlay was questioned in court about the use of mobile phones. Dr McKinlay is a senior scientist in the NRPB. It is known that roughly half of the NRPB's funding comes from the industries it represents, the other half of its funding comes from the Government. In court Dr McKinlay explained that data on tissue conductivity was supplied to the NRPB by Dr Camelia Gabriel of Microwave Consultants Limited. It transpired that virtually none of the NRPB documents on non-ionising radiation are peer reviewed and that Dr McKinlay himself had not authored any experimental studies. Dr McKinlay admitted he had no biological expertise. Dr Camelia Gabriel is Director of Microwave Consultants Limited and she reports to the Home Office and the Health & Safety Executive. She is also Chairman of the European Standardisation Body.

To summarise, the NRPB subcontract research on microwave radiation to Microwave Consultants Limited; namely Dr Camelia Gabriel. Dr Camelia Gabriel is also a senior consultant for Orange plc and has authored jointly with others the Orange Base Stations Health & Safety Manual (please see Appendices 14 and 15). Dr Gabriel's son, also of Microwave Consultants Limited, confirms the safety of transmitters for Orange plc in school playgrounds (Appendix 16). This dual interest between Dr Camelia Gabriel as representing the NRPB and Orange plc was picked up and reported on, on 19 April 1999, by The Observer where Sarah Ryle writes "concerns are increasing about industry's involvement in research. Some of the NRPB's conclusions have been based on research by Dr Camelia Gabriel, a technical advisor to network operator Orange and Head of Private Consultancy, Microwave (Appendix 17)'

http://www.whale.to/a/trower_q.html


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Guidelines For Limiting Radiofrequency Exposure
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/radiation/83ehd-dhm98/effects-biolog-effets_e.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=guidelines+radiofrequency+exposure
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Miguel+Muntané
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Barrie+Trower
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Camelia+Gabriel

http://www.emfacts.com/papers/icnirp_critique.pdf
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/submissions.html
http://www.eubios.info/EJ54/EJ54H.htm
http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/radiation/health_efx_western.htm
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/ICNIRP-Kritik1.pdf

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Dr. Chiyoji Ohkubo answers an EHS person

(excerpt)

-----Original Message-----
From: Sibylle Gabriel
Sent: 11 January 2006 19:50
To: Repacholi, Michael Harry

Dear Dr. Repacholi,

as a teacher i have noticed for a while a subtantial degratation in the behavior and the learing capacities of my pupils. I turn to you as famous specialist in order to ask you wether you belive this pulsed micro-waves could be cause of this changes or not. As a mater of fact some children phon more then two hours a day and - or have their eyes irritated or worse, do'nt see a thing for moment.

Being myself electroensitive I am also heavely affected by thoses waves and have to systematecally evoid any places with wi-fi. The wi-fi, the worst for my system. Hence I experience growing difficulties to concentrate and headaches.

If my body reaction is not exeptional, it is urgent to worn the population, especially children, particulary vulnerable and exposed because of their abuse of electronic gadgets.

Would appreciate a prompt reply and in the meantime I remaine,

yours sincerly

Sibylle Gabriel


Dr. Chiyoji Ohkubo, from the Radiation and Environmental Health, World Health Organization, answers the EHS person:

"the limits in the ICNIRP guidelines are highly protective and are based on all the available scientific evidence.... provide a high level of protection against all proven hazards of radiofrequency fields....

Present scientific evidence does not indicate the need for any special precautions for the use of mobile phones...

....these [studies] have generally unable to unequivocally link exposure to electromagnetic fields and the symptoms that hypersensitive people report....In some cases, emotional or other environmental factors might also play a role.

My best advice regarding your symptoms is to seek a physician who can identify the cause of your problems, - without presuming the cause. Symptoms such as you describe can have many causes, and only a competent physician can hope to uncover them.


Did you know that: ..........ICNIRP wishes you all the best in 2006 !
(from http://www.icnirp.de )

Iris Atzmon.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Iris Atzmon To: OhkuboC@who.int
Cc: Sibylle

Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: Public Inquiery

Dear Dr. Ohkubo,

I would like to ask for your input with regard to each of the following points, which contradict certain statements you made to Sibylle with confidence: like that the ICNIRP guidelines are highly protective, and that they include ALL the evidence, and that there is no need for precaution. I will be glad to know that the following points are not true, but unfortunately, until today, they have never been refuted (they were denied, but never refuted) by any of the WHO/ ICNIRP members. I would like to know your comments to the following data:

1. The WHO invites the power industry to participate in evaluation of EMF health standards based on: "20-member task group from 17 countries, assembled by Michael Repacholi, the head of the WHO EMF project, will finalize an Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) document, which is designed to guide the development of standards for extremely low frequency (ELF) EMFs all over the world. It will likely represent WHO’s official position on EMF health risks for years to come.

Last month, Repacholi gave eight observers the green light to attend the meeting —all eight either work for electric utilities or have direct and strong ties to the industry. Other than WHO staff, these are the only people on the Repacholi’s list of approved observers: Kazu Chikamoto, Japan NUS Co., Tokyo Rob Kavet, EPRI, Palo Alto. CA, U.S. Michel Plante, Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, Canada Jack Sahl, Southern California Edison, Upland, CA, U.S. Martine Souques, Electricity de France-Gaz de France, Paris Hamilton Moss de Souza, CEPEL, Brazilian Electrical Energy Research Center, Rio de Janeiro John Swanson, National Grid, London, U.K. Tom Watson, Watson & Renner, Washington DC, U.S.
http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoehc

2. Repacholi receives 150,000 dollar a year (at least) from the Mobile Phone industry based on: "We also know that he found a way to skirt the WHO rules that bar direct industry support - the mobile phone manufacturers have said that they provide him with $150,000 a year with additional money for meeting and travel expenses."
http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoottawa

3. With regard to the ICNIRP/WHO standard documents, two examples for bias of data:

A. The study on the polish army Szmigielski 1996, (which found high cancer increase) in the WHO/ICNIRP document it's written that it was hard to interpret the findings because the level of radiation was not clear and also how many people were exposed. But in the study itself it's written clearly: population 128,000 people, and radiation: "Evaluation of the exposure intensities revealed that at 80-85% of posts, the fields (mostly pulse-modulated RF/MWs at 150-3500 MHz) do not exceed 2 W/m2 (0.2 mW/cm2), while the others have intensities 2-6 W/m2. How is it one thing in the study, and another thing in the ICNIRP/WHO document?

B. Prof Goldsmith published in 1995 the Lilienfeld findings of increased Leukemia in the american embassy workers in Moscow. The ICNIRP documents still present the study as a "proof" that there is no increased risk. Why isn't it updated in the ICNIRP document? source: Goldsmith J, “Where the trail leads" Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, Vo. 5 p. 92-94, July 1995.

4. The ICNIRP/ WHO Standards documents were refuted by these scientists: The following scientists wrote serious, detailed, evidence based documents in which they compared the findings of the actual studies which are reviewd in the WHO/ ICNIRP documents and showed significant difference between actual data and they way the are presented in the documents. We have never seen anybody saying that the were not right. They are:

Dr. Neil Cherry in : "Criticism of the Health Assesment in the ICNIRP Guidlines for Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation" 31/1/2000.
http://www.emfguru.org/CellPhone/cherry2/ICNIRP-2.htm

Dr. Michael Kundi in: Fundemental Errors, the Biased Presentation of proofs and arguments with Prejudices of the 1998 ICNIRP Guidlines. 06/ 2002

Dr. Gerard Hyland as presented in the European Paliament
http://carolinelucasmep.org.uk/news/mobilemasts_11072001.html

Prof John Goldsmith as mentioned above and in his other publications.

Barrie Trower, expert of electromagnetic weapon who worked in the British Government, as written to the British Police about TETRA.
http://www.rense.com/general60/tetra.htm

Don Maisch in "The ICNIRP Guidelines: RF risk assessment built on a house of cards"
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/icnirp_critique.pdf

Is the WHO able to refute the data presented in the above papers scientifically?

5. The WHO Interphone study results will be given to the industry one week before they hit the media.

I am looking forward to reading your clarification to the above points,

Respectfully, and blessings for the new job,

Iris Atzmon.

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Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/



http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Victims/
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organisation
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=ICNIRP+guideline+critique
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Barrie+Trower

A new doc on Peru chronicles how fear of terrorism was exploited to undermine democracy. Sound familiar?

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/30801/


From Information Clearing House

WASHINGTON: A man now detained at Guantanamo has given a harrowing account of his treatment at the hands of his captors and keepers, reported Amnesty International.

http://tinyurl.com/77cst


From Information Clearing House

Western powers are already planning use of the military option in the face of Iran's insistence that it will go ahead with what it calls its nuclear research programme, a leading expert says.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31761


From Information Clearing House

He said: "unfortunately today humanity is plagued with some leaders who only see their immediate surroundings. Those who believe they have greater rights than other nations, simply because they possess a large nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. They are convinced that they can impose their views on others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11562.htm

By Rev. Martin Luther King

By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."

Listen to this historic speech in full.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

SARA HARDMAN

14 January 2006 12:42

Care home bosses today spoke of their fears for the health of elderly residents after a phone mast was sited just yards away.

The controversial mast was put up by Hutchinson 3G just before Christmas on land next to Spixworth Village Hall and social club and only about 20 metres from St Mary's Care Home.

Manager Linda Bowker-Howe, has worked at the care home in North Walsham Road for three years, and fears for the health of her 39 residents, particularly those with pacemakers.

She said: “We heard the mast would be coming but we never thought that it would be placed here. There is another phone mast just further down the playing field and we thought this one would be put there too.

“We have almost 40 residents and some of them are fitted with pacemakers which could be dangerous.

“We would really like to see the mast taken down. My maintenance man is outside measuring the distance from the mast to our gates and it is 21 metres which is just unbelievable.”

Wendy Last lives on Elvina Road in Spixworth and walks to the care home about twice a week to visit her mother, Lucy Staff, 85.

She said: “I have a pacemaker myself and it says in the medical booklet that I should avoid all contact with strong electro-magnetic fields.

“I have to walk backwards and forwards past the mast about six times every week. People think it is ridiculous; I for one will never use the social club again.

“People in the care home are close to that mast 24 hours a day and it's not fair.”

“They hold fetes every year but know on earth is going to go there now.”

Lynne Jeffrey, chair of the village hall management committee, said: “The mast brings in £4,000 per year and that is vital to the village hall which made a loss of £1,000 in a six month period last year.

“If we thought that the mast was going to damage people it would not have gone ahead, but the village hall management committee thought that if you use a mobile phone that poses more of a risk than a mast.

“We did have a referendum and sent letters to every household in the area. Not many people replied but of those that did, three to one were in favour of the mast.

“So many clubs are run from the hall; we have drama, mother and toddler groups, bingo, the WI and lots more. Without the revenue from the mast we may have had to put the charges up so much higher that they could no longer afford to rent the space.”

The Evening News thrust the issue of mobile phone masts into the public spotlight with its Put Masts on Hold campaign, which began in December 2000.

The campaign calls for no more masts to be sited near homes or schools until further information about possible health risks is made available.

Norwich North MP Dr Ian Gibson backed the care home in Spixworth.

He said: “The local council may be getting money from the mast being installed there but the local residents will resent what they are doing.”


Are you fighting plans for a phone mast near your home?
Call Alasdair McGregor at the Evening News on (01603) 772443 or email al.mcgregor@archant.co.uk

http://tinyurl.com/7h3h7

From: Eileen O'Connor
eileen@smokestackltd.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:10:23 -0000
Subject: E-mail from Dr Roger Santini

Please find enclosed information from Dr Roger Santini, some of the enclosed pdfs need to be translated into English.

We owe a debt of gratitude to scientists such as Santini and many others for their continued dedication.

Best wishes

Eileen


Reference the Sun Monthly: Your article: "The largest biological experiment ever" by Arthur Firstenberg.

Dear friends,

To be more and well informed, please found some publications (PDF files) about health effects of cellular phone base stations on people living in vicinity of antennas.

Please note that they are the first scientific publications in the world on this subject.

Also, the reference of my book which is referenced at the European Parliament of Bruxelles.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/press_med_riv_2001.PDF
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/electro_bio_med_20030001.PDF
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/pathol_biol_riv_I.PDF
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/pathol_biol_riv_II.PDF
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/tel_cel_danger.PDF


Amitiés.

Roger.

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The largest biological experiment ever
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1414390/

Electromagnetic Radiation

An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of evidence telling us we are frying our brains?

Date: 01/06/2004
Author: Arthur Firstenberg

Today I am homeless. My money does not provide me shelter. My good health does not ensure my survival. My friends are unable to help me. I am being killed, but the law offers me no protection. For eight years I have provided advocacy and support in North America and worldwide for people in similar circumstances. Some have epilepsy, or heart disease, or diabetes, or cancer. Some have allergies or asthma. But most, like me, are in good health. The assault we are all suffering is a radical increase in electromagnetic pollution, or electrosmog, that is engulfing the earth. In 1982 I was in my final year of medical school, a promising career ahead of me. For several months I had been having headaches and difficulty concentrating and remembering things. Then, while on a surgery rotation, I suffered crippling pains in my hips, making it difficult to assist in operations. My heart rate slowed to less than 50. One day I collapsed and was unable to get up. My chest hurt, and I could not get enough breath. I was sure I was having a heart attack. During the next two weeks I lost 15 pounds. And I was a slim man to begin with. It wasn’t a heart attack, but it was still six months before I could walk up a flight of stairs without becoming short of breath. It was three years before I was strong enough to ski again. It was seven years before I met someone who validated my own experience that being near certain electrical appliances, such as television sets and computers, made me ill, and that staying away from them kept me healthy. However, having discovered how to remain healthy, I gradually found that I was being effectively disabled by my society. Having stumbled upon an obviously well-kept secret, I researched the world literature on bioelectromagnetics, (or the biological effects of electromagnetism), and made myself an expert. I learned that electro-cautery machines, used in every modern surgical operation to cut through tissue and to stop bleeding, expose surgeons to much higher levels of radio frequency radiation than is permitted for workers in any industry. I learned that there was a disease thoroughly described in the Russian and Eastern European medical literature called radiowave sickness, the existence of which was usually denied by western authorities. This description made me remember my ‘unknown illness’, the one that had derailed my medical career. Bradycardia, or a slow heart rate, was said, in these texts, to be a grave sign. Because there are virtually no workplaces without computers any more, I have not held a job since 1990. I had resigned myself to living on Social Security Disability, and learned, together with other members of a support group I had found, how best to live with my disability. This mostly meant learning to avoid exposure to electromagnetic fields. But in July 1996, to my dismay, I learned that an innovation was coming to my city, which threatened to make it impossible to avoid exposure any more. At that time, cell phones were still a luxury item that only worked in some locations. People were not accustomed to staying connected whenever they left their home, and even at home most still had a cord, not an antenna, attached to their telephone. Most were not accustomed to holding devices that emit microwave radiation next to their brain. In 1996, the telecommunications industry began a marketing campaign designed to change all that. For Christmas that year, all over the country, digital cell phones were going to be on a lot of shopping lists. And to make them more practical, tens of thousands of antennae were going to be erected on towers, buildings, church steeples and lampposts all over the country before Christmas, and hundreds of thousands more during the next few years. In response to this emergency, a few friends and I created the Cellular Phone Task Force, and contacted all the public officials we could think of, and the press, to warn them of the danger. But on November 14 1996, Omnipoint, New York City’s first digital cellular provider, did open for business, broadcasting from thousands of antennae newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. According to the health authorities, an early flu hit New York City – but not Boston, and not Philadelphia – on about 15 November. The flu was severe and ran a prolonged course, often dragging on for months instead of the usual two weeks. At Christmas time, the Cellular Phone Task Force placed a small classified ad in a free weekly newspaper. It read: ‘If you have been ill since 11/15/96 with any of the following: eye pain, insomnia, dry lips, swollen throat, pressure or pain in the chest, headaches, dizziness, nausea, shakiness, other aches and pains, or flu that won’t go away, you may be a victim of a new microwave system blanketing the city. We need to hear from you.’ And we did hear from them. Hundreds called, men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, doctors, lawyers, teachers, stockbrokers, airline stewards, computer operators. Most had woken up suddenly in mid-November, thinking they were having a stroke or a heart attack or a nervous breakdown, and were relieved to know they were not alone and not crazy. Later, I analysed weekly mortality statistics, which the Centres for Disease Control publish for 122 US cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 per cent increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning on the day in 1996 or 1997 on which that city’s first digital cell phone network began commercial service. I published both the raw data and the complete analysis, with graphs. This appeared in No Place To Hide, an investigative journal published by my organisation and I am presently working with scientists in Europe to expand this study to other countries. I learned that in February 1996, Congress had passed a law prohibiting local governments from denying permits for cell phone antennae because of environmental concerns – so long as they comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules. I also learned that the FCC had just issued regulations setting public exposure limits for microwave radiation at levels at least ten thousand times higher than levels which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, were causing reports of illness from all over the world. Levels that are at least ten thousand times higher than the levels that had forced me to leave behind my home, my family, and my friends, and to run for my life, never to be able to return home again. The Cellular Phone Task Force, along with over 50 other grass roots organisations and individuals around the US, became involved in a legal challenge of the FCC’s absurd standards and its pre-emption of local control. This was taken all the way to the US Supreme Court. Dozens of cities, towns and public officials, including several US senators and representatives, submitted briefs urging the High Court to hear our case. But in January 2001, the Supreme Court, without comment, declined. You will hear statements by supposed experts – always the same few, in the pay of the telecommunications industry – to the effect that cell phones/cell towers/microwave radiation have been proven safe in countless studies. It is an easy lie, one that the news media have been eager to propagate. Such studies don’t exist. Quite the contrary: it has been shown that, just as for X-rays, there is no safe level of exposure to microwave radiation, and it is so easy to demonstrate harmful effects that it takes some skill to design experiments that don’t show them. It is harder to show effects today than 10 years ago because now the entire planet is exposed, making it impossible to do experiments with ‘unexposed’ controls. But most experiments still show effects anyway – effects on heart rhythms, on brain waves, on the blood-brain barrier, on sleep, on the eyes, on the gonads, on the skin, on hearing, on calcium, on melatonin, on glucose, on metabolism, on human well-being. If you look, you will find. Zorach Glaser reviewed over 5,000 such studies for the United States Navy during the 1970s alone. After 1982, the United States ceased funding Glaser’s cataloguing work. But the flood of alarming research occurring all over the world continued. From the volume of literature I have seen, certain results stand out in my mind. In the 1960s, Allan Frey was the first to discover that people and animals can hear low-energy pulsed microwaves. He also did some of the earliest work showing how heart rhythms are disturbed by microwaves, and how the blood-brain barrier is compromised, letting large molecules leak across, exposing the brain to potential damage. Ophthalmologist Milton Zaret was the first to describe cataracts caused by low-energy microwaves. Canadians Tanner, Romero-Sierra and Bigu Del Blanco worked with parakeets, chickens, pigeons and seagulls. Birds avoided microwave fields if they could, and collapsed within seconds if they couldn’t. Defeathered birds showed no such distress, and these researchers then showed that feathers act as antennae conveying microwave energy to the birds. Thirty years later, Alfonso Balmori Martínez has carefully documented the decline and disappearance of white storks, house sparrows, and free-tailed bats from the vicinity of cellular phone base stations. The idea that there is an exposure threshold, below which microwave radiation can be considered safe, has been disproven many times over. In Moscow, Igor Belyaev has found resonance effects on bacterial DNA that occur at exposure levels 10,000,000,000,000,000 times less than the average exposure from a cell phone. W Grundler, in Germany, has found effects on the growth of yeast cells, also at near-zero levels of exposure. In the early 1990s, the government of Switzerland commissioned a study in response to people’s complaints of insomnia near the shortwave transmitter at Schwarzenburg. Residents kept sleep diaries and did not know when the transmitter was on or off. The investigators found that the transmitter was disturbing sleep up to several miles away, and because of this finding that particular radio station was permanently shut down. An early warning radar station was due to be decommissioned at Skrunda, Latvia after the end of the Cold War. Before it was shut down, a coordinated effort was made to determine whether the station had had any environmental effects. Teams of researchers found such effects wherever they looked, even at extremely low levels of exposure: smaller growth rings in trees, premature ageing in pine needles, chromosome damage in cows, decreased memory, attention, learning, and pulmonary function in school children, increased white blood cells in adults, and an altered sex ratio (more girls) in children born during the years of the radar’s operation. In Germany, Wolfgang Volkrodt linked forest die-back to microwave radiation rather than acid rain. Wolfgang Löscher and Günther Käs documented illness in dairy cows caused by cell towers. This included decreased milk production, infertility, abortions, birth deformities, behavioural problems and early death. Autopsies revealed that the cows died of acute circulatory collapse and bleeding from several organs. In France, Roger Santini has found that the closer people live to a cell tower, the more likely they are to experience dizziness, nausea, memory loss and other neurological symptoms. Claudio Gómez-Perretta has obtained similar results in Spain. The Dutch government sponsored double blind experiments in a laboratory. People exposed to a cell tower signal experienced dizziness, nervousness, chest pain, shortness of breath, numbness and tingling, weakness, and difficulty concentrating. The late Neil Cherry found that childhood cancer rates in San Francisco were a function of proximity to the antenna-laden Sutro Tower. Olle Johansson and Örjan Hallberg showed that the rise and fall of asthma and certain cancers during the 20th century closely paralleled changes in public exposure to radio waves in every country they looked at. They showed that radio waves are as big a factor in causing lung cancer as cigarette smoking. Leif Salford’s recent work on the blood-brain barrier has verified the earlier work of Allan Frey and others, but with additional, ominous findings. First, sometimes, decreasing the amount of radiation 1,000 times increased the damage to the brain (demonstrating the ‘window’ effect). Second, animals exposed to a cell phone once for two hours were found to have areas of brain cell death two months later. Salford has called cell phones ‘the world’s largest biological experiment ever’. His work provides solid support for those who warn that every cell phone call damages brain cells, and that cell phones, like cigarettes, harm both users and nearby non-users. His findings are particularly alarming in light of surveys – by Santini in France, and by Sandström and Mild in Sweden – which show that up to 25 per cent of cell phone users experience neurological symptoms such as dizziness, headache, memory loss, fatigue, and tingling sensations. To date, 1,200 physicians in Germany (2000 worldwide), have signed a petition (the Freiburger Appeal) calling for severe restrictions on wireless technology because they are seeing such a dramatic increase in certain diseases and symptoms in their patients – symptoms which they can only attribute to ambient microwave radiation. The diseases include: attention deficit disorder, extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, heart arrhythmias, heart attacks and strokes in young people, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, leukaemia and brain tumours. The symptoms include: headaches, migraines, chronic fatigue, agitation, sleep disorders, tinnitus, nervous and connective tissue pains of unexplained origin, and susceptibility to infection. The appeal calls for a massive reduction in exposure limits; no further expansion of cell phone technology; cell phone-and antenna-free zones; a ban on cell phone use by children; and a ban on cell phones and digital cordless phones in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, public buildings and public transportation. The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians – and by implication one million Americans – have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone. ‘Electrical sensitivity’ is a popular, but inaccurate, term for suffering caused by this universal pollutant. The problem is much more widespread than is commonly assumed, and growing daily. By the time people realise that electromagnetic fields are directly causing their pain or illness, their lives are often already ruined. They find that reliable information is hard to come by and harder to understand; that there is little support for them, and no solutions offered; and that when they finally learn what they have to avoid, it is nevertheless impossible to do so. The highest profile person yet to announce that cell phones, cordless phones and computers make her ill is none other than Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor, master of public health, former Prime Minister of Norway, and until 2003 the Director General of the World Health Organisation. Yet even so public a figure on the world stage has been unable to draw the world’s attention to our collective plight, or in any way slow down the growth of telecommunications, or even to put it on the map as an environmental issue. This must happen. Too many intelligent, professional, useful people are wandering this country’s barren deserts, homeless, ostracised, robbed of their civil rights, with no place to land. Too many have committed suicide because they have lost all hope, have suffered too long, have had to pick up roots and flee for their lives once too often. Within the telecommunications industry, too many equipment testers, installers, and repairpersons with radiowave sickness are afraid to speak out, or do not even know why they are ill. So many radars, antennae, and communication devices are being deployed for government, military, emergency, commercial, and personal uses in both the developed and developing worlds, and in space, that there is nowhere left to hide. Even radio astronomers are seriously talking about the far side of the moon as the only place left that is quiet enough, in the radio spectrum, to still be able to see the stars. Arthur Firstenberg is a founder and director of the Cellular Phone Task Force, a non-profit organisation that disseminates information about electromagnetic pollution and provides advocacy and support for victims of this pollution. He is editor of the Task Force’s publication, No Place To Hide, and the author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (1996). He can be contacted by mail at PO Box 1337, Mendocino, CA 95460, USA, or by phone at (707) 937-3990.

What is Electromagnetic Radiation?

• Whenever electric current flows through a conductor – a power line, a toaster element, or even a star – it creates a magnetic field.

• Interaction between this magnetic field and the flowing electricity produces electromagnetic radiation (EMR).

• EMR takes the form of waves, spreading outwards from its source in concentric circles. Imagine the pattern of ripples when you drop a pebble into calm water – they decrease in strength the further they are from the energy source (in this case, the pebble). The water slows the waves down by absorbing their energy. EMR is similarly weakened as it spreads through air.

• EMR waves are characterised by their wavelength (the distance between each wave, measured in metres) and their frequency (or waves-per-second – one wave-per-second = 1 Hertz)

• EMR is composed of energy-carrying particles called photons. The shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency and the more photons – and therefore energy – the waves contain. The whole range of EMR wavelengths is called the Electromagnetic Spectrum.

What does EMR do?

• All matter is made of vibrating molecules. When the molecules of a particular substance oscillate (vibrate) at the same frequency as an EM wave, they are said to resonate with the wave. This causes the energy in the wave to be absorbed by the molecules, instead of passing through them.

• When a soprano shatters a crystal glass with a high C, the sound wave’s particular frequency has caused the molecules in the glass to resonate so violently that their chemical bonds are ripped apart.

• Radio tuners act in a similar way, but radio’s low frequencies and long wavelengths – anywhere between a metre and a kilometre – mean they contain little energy. Information can be carried on the wave, but there aren’t enough photons to cause any damage to the tuner.

• Our retinas are ‘tuned’ into the visible light section of the EM spectrum; everything we see, we see because our eyes interpret the varying EM wavelengths within this section as different colours. • Microwaves, on the other hand, have shorter wavelengths. Microwaves at a frequency of 2.5GHz cause water molecules to resonate, converting the waves’ energy into heat. This is how microwave ovens cook food.

• In theory, EMR can act on bodily tissue in the same way.

• A 1999 study showed that mobile phone use causes a part of our brains to heat up. Not enough to damage the tissue, but enough to produce an inexplicable effect: the subjects’ reaction times were slightly increased. This baffled the experts: ‘In theory,’ said New Scientist magazine afterwards, ‘mobile phone emissions shouldn’t do anything to living tissues.’ • In the same year, researchers in Sweden exposed rats to two minutes of mobile phone radiation, and found their blood-brain barriers – a mechanism that prevents harmful proteins and toxins in the blood from entering the brain – had been disabled. It is not yet known whether this is harmful, but in theory proteins crossing into the brain could mean a higher risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis developing.

The following are urgently needed:

• Sanctuaries. Radiation-free zones. Places without radio antennae, cell phone service, or television cable (cable is often a significant source of radiation). These sanctuaries are needed right now, to save lives.

• Legal help. Environmental and disability rights attorneys who are able to take on this issue.

• Funding for land acquisition and legal expenses.

• Volunteer help for phone calling, letter writing, grant writing, and so on.

Keep in mind these two principles:

• Distance counts. The power drops off as the square of the distance. Antennae should be few, and as far as possible from people and environmentally sensitive areas.

• Digital hurts. Digital (pulsed) technology is more harmful at lower levels of power than analog. The mandated replacement of all analog TV, radio, and telecommunications transmissions Electromagnetic Fields

• We are all exposed to brief doses of EMR – when we use a hairdryer, for example, or make a call on a mobile phone. Constantly operational sources of EMR, on the other hand – such as power lines and mobile phone masts – emit EMR ceaselessly and steadily, creating a ‘field’ of low-frequency radiation.

• Phone masts and the health concerns associated with them are a recent phenomenon, but complaints of debilitating illnesses from communities living under high-voltage power lines have been made for many years (The Ecologist published an article on this as long ago as 1979). Household sources of EMR

• EMR is generated by anything electrical, e.g. electric blankets, food processors, hairdryers, refrigerators, microwave ovens and vacuum cleaners etc. Using them for brief periods and keeping your distance – their EM field strength is considerably reduced at a distance of two feet – will minimise exposure.

• Visual Display Units that use cathode ray tube technology – computers, televisions, video game screens – emit both low and high frequency EM fields. At a distance of two feet from the screen, the levels of EMR become negligible. Newer LCD screens produce almost no EMR.

For more information see: The World Health Organisation’s EMF report: http://www.who.int/peh-emf/en/

Simon Best’s excellent bi-monthly news report Electromagnetic Hazard and Therapy at http://www.em-hazard-therapy.com

Things that individuals can do:

• If you have a cell phone, cancel your service. Cell towers and antennas degrade the environment for miles around. They kill and injure more people than they save in emergencies. In use, a cell phone pollutes its own environment for a distance of 100 yards. Even when not in use, cell phones emit radiation if they are turned on to receive calls.

• If you have a cordless phone in your home or business, trade it in for one with a wire. For the sake of convenience you are microwaving your brain and polluting your neighbourhood.

• Never expose your baby to a wireless baby monitor.

• School administrators: Developing children should not be exposed to wireless computers, keyboards, or mice.

• Concert and event organisers: Make your event safe and accessible by banning cell phones and doing security without two-way radios.

• Wildlife scientists: Radio collars pollute the wilderness and injure the animals you are tracking. Please don’t use them.

• Park administrators: Keep our parks and wilderness areas as sanctuaries. Keep antennae out of them.

• Public officials: Public health must come first. Vote against proposals to put towers and antennae in your community.

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=285

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The Largest Biological Experiment Ever
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/firstenberg_experiment.pdf
http://www.eldoradosun.com/Archives/01-06_issue/Firstenberg.htm

Mobile And Wireless: Largest Biological Experiment
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/04/20/mobile_and_wireless_largest_biological_experiment.htm



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For info. We've been liaising.

----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Budd
To: David Baron
Cc: Sianmeredith1
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Vehicles immobilised by Telecommunication Masts

Drivers beware!

Please forward to motorists that may have similar “Thatcham approved Car security systems”.

http://tinyurl.com/ctysd

I have featured in the BBC TV & Radio news this week, as well as similar newspaper articles. I could be faced with a bill for up to £600 and naturally intend to fight my corner. Letters have been forwarded to the Motor Manufacturers Association, Mobile Phone Operators Association, OFCOM etc.

Please add your voice to the campaign!


Kind Regards

Derek

Bundeskanzlerin Merkel und US-Präsident Bush scheinen sich zu verstehen, während in Deutschland die Skandalisierung des BND weiter geht.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21785/1.html

The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case were questioned.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011406X.shtml

Individually, the new "dots" supplied by revelations about the Iraq war in James Risen's "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" are not very surprising. Collectively, though, they provide valuable insight into the peculiar way in which President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared to launch an unprovoked war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011406Y.shtml

http://pittsburghimpeachbush.org/letter


Informant: root



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

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega261.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/electro_bio_med_20030001.PDF



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Besides Alito's obvious assault on women's rights, I am very concerned with his philosophy of unitary executive. This is a very dangerous exemption of the checks and balances that we have in our Constitution. Add to this the fact that this philosophy of unitary executive fits with the Christian right philosophy, and it is doubly scary.

The fact that a justice would give up this essential part of our Constitution is deeply troubling and is cause for a no vote on his nomination all by itself.

It is time, again, to denounce the right wing extremists as just that. Alito is not "on the right bank of the mainstream," as was suggested by one of his colleagues in the nomination hearings.

Please contact your Senators to urge them to vote No on Alito.

:) Mark

Mark Tomes Santa Margarita, CA


"Be the Person You Want Others To Be"


Begin forwarded message:

From: "U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer" bulletinfeedback@boxer.senate.gov
Date: January 13, 2006 10:28:39 PM PST
Subject: Senator Boxer on the Nomination of Judge Samuel Alito

I thought you would be interested in the following message.

Statement of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer on the Nomination of Judge Samuel Alito

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today made the following statement on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court:

“At the end of the Alito hearings, I am deeply disturbed about this nomination. It is not Judge Alito’s qualifications that concern me; clearly he is intelligent and capable. Rather, in three days of questioning, he refused to back away from some of his most controversial past statements and positions.

“When asked repeatedly about a 1985 memo in which he wrote that the Constitution does not protect the right of a women to choose, Judge Alito would not disavow that statement, and he refused to concede that Roe v. Wade is settled law. I believe these ominous statements clearly signal a hostility to women’s rights, and I worry that we will go back to the very dark days when abortion was illegal in many states.

“Judge Alito’s support for a more powerful executive branch is also troubling. In the past, he has endorsed the controversial theory of the ‘unitary executive,’ which would give the President broad powers not subject to control by Congress. In the hearings, Judge Alito would not even rule out the President invading another country, in the absence of imminent threat, without first getting congressional authorization.

“Another area that disturbs me is Judge Alito’s continued narrow reading of Congress’s authority under the Constitution to make laws that protect families. He continued to defend his opinion in the Rybar case that Congress couldn't ban machine guns, even though the Supreme Court ultimately said he was wrong, and he refused to back away from an opinion that narrowed the Family and Medical Leave Act.

“In addition to these serious substantive concerns, I remain unconvinced by Judge Alito’s answers to questions about his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton club, an extremist group that was hostile to the inclusion of women and minorities at the University. And I am still amazed that Judge Alito did not recuse himself from the Vanguard case.”


For more information on Senator Boxer's record and other information, please go to: http://www.boxer.senate.gov

I am looking for a place to live in the world with low cell-phone EMF emissions. It is virtually impossible to find such places in Japan. I am living in a log house trying to recover from EMF-induced CFS but cannot live here forever. I cannot work because all the places are covered by the cell phone emissions. I am a qualified EFS/ESL teacher so can teach English whereever I go. If I stay here I will die - I am sure.

Please help! It is hard to find good information on EMF-free places.

Art Kab

Residents campaigning to have a mobile phone mast removed from near their homes in a village near Oswestry claim it could be taller than the legally permitted height.

Members of the West Felton Mast Protest Group have now called on North Shropshire MP Owen Paterson and Councillor Aggie Caesar-Homden to press for a measurement of the mast to be taken.

Carol Corbett, a member of the West Felton Mast Protest Group, said: “The borough planning compliance officer thinks that the mast may exceed the 15m height.

“If it does, it will have to be taken down and Orange will need to go through the process of getting planning permission.”

She added Councillor Caesar-Homden, Owen Paterson and the protest group were now going to press the borough council and Orange to arrange a meeting for an accurate measurement to be taken.

Mrs Corbett added: “We are also calling on Orange to delay making the 3G mast operational until we have got an accurate measurement. If it exceeds 15m they are breaking the law, it requires planning permission.”

The full version of this story appears in tonight’s Shropshire Star

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=41318

To all ....... Exactly the point I have been trying to make! The "focus on cancer" is a "delaying tactic."

All the ES/EHS symptoms that occur prior to the development of cancer are bankrupting society and causing every sort of misery from poor sleep which, in itself, can yield disastrous results, plus asthma, sinus infections, ear infections, headaches, depression, memory problems (well before diagnosis of Alzheimers), confusion, arthritis, skin diseases and every other health problem there is. Even our "overweight society" -- while being blamed primarily on fast foods especially here in the U.S., can be attributed in large part to persons not sleeping well from EMF/EMR exposures. While Type II diabetes used to be found primarily in adults, that and all the health problems are now multiplying in the younger set!

EMF/EMR is ageing everyone -- even babies as in the case of the rare immune deficiencies in my two grandsons exposed to the electric meter!!!! Their cells were "ageing" -- that is what EMF/EMR does to everyone's cells!!! It just takes a little longer for a person who isn't sleeping close to an electrical appliance/device at night to possibly develop the same "deficiencies of ageing!!"

Government and industry want to "focus on cancer" because it normally takes many years to develop. They don't want to talk about the children who "are ageing" -- those who get sick and/or die from Leukemia, brain cancer, etc. They assign researchers to study "other cancers" that take longer to develop so they don't have to admit what is really going on!!!!

Take care everyone!!! Joanne

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"No ray of sunshine is ever lost, but the green which it awakens into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted for the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith." - Albert Schweitzer

Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen....the universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas.....it continues to surprise us....the future of the universe is not completely determined by the laws of science, and its present state, as Laplace thought......God still has a few tricks up His sleeve....

Prof. Stephen Hawking

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is pressuring Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) to relinquish the chairmanship of the House Administration Committee in the wake of a guilty plea from lobbyist Jack Abramoff that tied Ney to a far-reaching conspiracy to bribe public officials.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011406Z.shtml

MWM: Something is up there, that's for sure. Must be the volcanic gas and heat rising in greater quantity. An initial stage of eruption in this long sleepy volcano is likely to be rather like St. Helens was in the 1980's. Spritzy and then suddenly explosive.

Watch out, Mount Fuji, one of Japan's most endearing symbols, looks like it's about to blow its top, according to Shukan Post (1/13-20).

Perhaps the biggest indication that Fuji-san's lid is loose comes because it's currently bereft of snow on its distinctive cap despite it being mid-winter and unprecedented snowfalls being dumped on the Sea of Japan coastline.

"Everybody around here is talking about the lack of snow on top of Mount Fuji. You can't say that it always has a coating of snow at this time of the year, but considering all the snow that's fallen right throughout the country, everybody thinks it's a bit weird that there's no snow on Mount Fuji," says a man living in Fujiyoshida, a Shizuoka Prefecture city at the foot of Japan's highest mountain. "Does the lack of snow mean an eruption's on the books? We're not thinking that far ahead."

Nor is the Meteorological Agency, which says that shortage of snow is a simple situation.

"It won't snow on the Pacific Ocean side of Japan unless a cold front approaches the coastline off the Izu Peninsula. The same case applies for Tokyo," an agency spokesman tells Shukan Post. "If it's not snowing in Tokyo, it's not likely that there's going to be much snow on top of Mount Fuji."

Not everybody is so easily convinced.

"I've started to feel a bit poorly since about the start of December. I've felt this uncomfortable kind of stress all the way along. After a while, this develops into a kind of nausea, sort of like the feeling you get with car sickness," a resident of Kamikuishiki, another village at the foot of Fuji, tells Shukan Post. "When I'd felt like this for a couple of weeks, I mentioned it to some neighbors, and discovered that there were a number of people feeling the same way. One person said they felt like they were permanently car sick, while another said they thought their ailment was like being plagued by a speaker constantly emitting a deep, unending tone. The way they describe it might be a bit different, but the symptoms these people are describing are all the same as mine. I don't know anything about what's causing this because I'm not a doctor, but one of the other people said that Mount Fuji's seismic activity can be used to predict an earthquake in the Tokai Region and that made me even more anxious than I had been."

Some experts say that it would not be surprising for Mount Fuji to erupt at any moment.

"It's my personal belief that magma build-up inside Mount Fuji has already reached a critical stage," Prof. Masaaki Kimura, a seismology professor at the University of the Ryukyus tells Shukan Post. "Mount Fuji erupts about once every 300 years. And it's been about 300 years since Mount Fuji's last eruption. Volcanoes go in periods where they're active for about 300 to 400 years and then dormant for 300 to 400 years. But, it's a matter of simple arithmetic that Mount Fuji is due to erupt pretty soon."

It seems the natural world fears that Fuji-san is about to blow, too. Since the start of 2004, frogs and stinkbugs once prominent in the area have virtually disappeared. Some see this as a sign that they've sensed something untoward is about to happen and they're avoiding the place like the plague. Observers have noticed this phenomenon, too.

"The most recent change has probably been the sudden disappearance of sparrows around the mountain since about the middle of October," Hideaki Kuribayashi, a photographer who bases himself near Mount Fuji, tells Shukan Post. "Normally, sparrows flock to this place, even in the middle of winter." (By Ryann Connell)

January 6, 2006


Best Wishes,

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

Matthew Rothschild: I'm telling you, my friends, there's something going on at the grassroots that the mainstream media isn't getting. And that's this urgent desire by millions of Americans to defenestrate Bush from power and reclaim our democracy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306F.shtml



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

While George W. Bush thumps the official line, unspoken facts about the military, political, and economic realities of the war in Iraq pile up.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306E.shtml

The Bush administration took the unusual step yesterday of asking the Supreme Court to call off a landmark confrontation over the legality of military trials for terrorism suspects, arguing that a law enacted last month eliminates the court's ability to consider the issue.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306D.shtml

Newly released military documents show US Army investigators closed a probe into allegations that an Iraqi detainee had been abused by a shadowy military task force after its members used fake names and asserted that key computer files had been lost.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306B.shtml

Declaring that the United States was at a crossroads in Iraq, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday the time had come to withdraw US troops as fast as responsibly possible and to hand control of the country to Iraqis.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306A.shtml

OVERPOPULATION 'IS MAIN THREAT TO PLANET'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1380705/

Rapidly Shrinking Arctic Ice Could Spell Trouble for the Rest of the World
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1400311/

OCEAN'S TEMPERATURE OFF SANTA BARBARA NOW HIGHEST IN 1,400 YEARS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1398996/

Whales: In Deep Trouble
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/15637.html

Help protect endangered whales from new sonar assault
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1392952/

Polar Bears Face New Toxic Threat: Flame Retardants
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1386308/

US Starts Debate on Allowing Grizzly Bear Hunting
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1395145/

Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1406355/

The Global Spread of GMO Crops - Inherit the Wind
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/18507.html

GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/18805.html

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PEAS CAUSED DANGEROUS IMMUNE RESPONSE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1411320/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Tsunami/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 14. January 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1411891/

Alzheimer mortality: why does it increase so fast in sparsely populated areas?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1388778/

The sun-shined health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1388788/

Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1379912/

EHS Factsheet 296
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1381412/

Repacholi was asked by Next up about the money he receives
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/17939.html

Telecoms Bill: the next stage
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1378745/

Report on the International Conference: ‘Mobile Communications and Health: Medical, Biological and Social Problems’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1404985/

RECEPTION FALTERS FOR PHONE MASTS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1378763/

Signal failure to inform the church
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1378771/

Triumph in mast fight
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1378779/

Orange’s mobile mast bid leaves bitter taste
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1378940/

Phone mast trials are a success in Bourne Woods
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1379370/

Dishes put up on mast say residents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1379382/

Wisp of smoke?
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/17722.html

Telecoms Planning Regulations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1393805/

Hard-hitting report suppressed by Government?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1395164/

Phone mast Bill heads for Commons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1400380/

Village mast fight is lost
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1398913/

PROFESSOR AT MAST MEETING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1400399/

A tangled web
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1400540/

Item in Special issue of Ethical Consumer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1386029/

Phone mast bid opposed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1404906/

Mast hysteria: is 'electro hyper sensitivity' a real disease?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1406103/

Residents are wise to voice phone mast fears
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1406321/

PROTEST CALLS A HALT TO MOBILE MAST SCHEME
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1408711/

WE DON'T NEED MORE MASTS, RADIATION EXPERT TELLS CAMPAIGNERS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1408740/

3G MAST PLAN SLAMMED
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1408748/

Nursery boss fights phone mast plans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1408769/

Residents fight phone mast bid
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1411402/

Transmission line aplication: response to an extensive EMF info request also from Dr. Bailey/Exponent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1386259/

Doctor Bans Boy From Playstation To Stop Head Twitching
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1411366/

Next-up News 1-7/01/2006
http://www.livelogcity.com/users/omega/8815.html

Your cell phone records are for sale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1386566/

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

Omega-News Collection 14. January 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1412326/

SOGA - Sozialinitiative gegen Armut und Ausgrenzung - Neumünster e.V. weitere Informationen unter http://www.soga-nms.net

Nachdem im letzten Jahr von privaten Callcentern widerrechtlich AlgII befragt wurden, startet die BA jetzt erneut eine Aktion dieser Befragung. Die BA behauptet, alle Angaben sind freiwillig. Wenn man jedoch weiterliest, kommt man zu dem Schluss, daß diese Befragung mit dem Druckmittel einer persönlichen Einladung erfolgen soll. Was dann bei den Ämtern geschieht können wir nur erahnen. Die BAG-SHI hatte im letzen Jahr auf ihren Seiten hierüber berichtet >
http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/pm-telefonabfrage

Unser Tipp: Verweigern Sie ruhig die telefonische Auskunft - gehen Sie aber, falls Sie eine Vorladung bekommen, nicht alleine zu diesem Termin. Suchen Sie wenn möglich eine Beratungsstelle vor Ort auf.
http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/adressen/default.aspx

Nachfolgend noch der Text der BA-Pressestelle


-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
Betreff: BA-Presseinformation Nr. 4: Pilotprojekt zur telefonischen Betreuung von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern startet Datum: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:57:33 +0100
Von: BA-Pressedienst ba-presse-dienst@osn.de

Presse-Information Nr. 4 der Bundesagentur für Arbeit vom 12. Januar 2006

Pilotprojekt zur telefonischen Betreuung von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern startet

Ab heute (12. Januar) werden im Rahmen eines Pilotprojektes erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige, die arbeitslos sind, telefonisch im Hinblick auf eventuelle Veränderungen in ihrer Arbeitslosigkeit befragt. Mit der telefonischen Aktualisierung der Bewerberdaten sollen die persönlichen Betreuungs- und Vermittlungsaktivitäten vorbereitet und unterstützt werden. Daneben kann hierdurch auch der Kontakt zu arbeitslosen Arbeitslosengeld II-Beziehern im Sinne von „Fördern und Fordern“ intensiviert werden.

Das Projekt startet zunächst in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Oberhausen. Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) hat diese Dienstleistung in einem ersten Schritt den 60 größten ARGEn angeboten. Im Laufe des ersten Quartals 2006 werden die übrigen ARGEn in das Angebot einbezogen. Die telefonische Befragung wird von Mitarbeitern in drei neu eingerichteten „Service-Centern Kundenbetreuung SGB II“ durchgeführt, die an den Standorten Hamburg, Offenburg und Göppingen im Auftrag von Arbeitsgemeinschaften telefonisch Kunden betreuen.

Ausgangsbasis des Pilotprojekts waren die Erfahrungen, die mit einer bundesweiten Aktion zur telefonischen Klärung von Bewerberdaten im Sommer 2005 gemacht wurden. Bei immerhin sieben Prozent der kontaktierten Personen hatten sich seit dem letzten Kontakt mit der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Veränderungen ergeben, die dazu führten, dass diese Personen nicht mehr arbeitslos waren.

Bei dem Pilotprojekt ist sichergestellt, dass der Datenschutz gewährleistet ist. Jeder Kunde wird vorab schriftlich über den neuen Service informiert und aufgeklärt. Die Mitarbeiter in den Service-Centern sind zur BA abgeordnete Beamtinnen und Beamte und damit dem Datenschutz voll verpflichtet. Die Kunden werden zu Beginn des Gesprächs anhand eines Gesprächsleitfadens durch den Service-Center-Mitarbeiter nochmals über den Inhalt des Gesprächs aufgeklärt. Sie können jederzeit die Auskunft am Telefon verweigern, müssen aber dann mit einer Einladung zu einem persönlichen Gespräch rechnen.

Das Telefongespräch zwischen dem Mitarbeiter im Service-Center und dem arbeitslosen Alg II-Empfänger ergänzt die persönliche Betreuung, es ersetzt sie nicht. Die Kunden werden weiterhin durch ihren persönlichen Ansprechpartner oder Fallmanager betreut. Dieser bekommt die Ergebnisse der Telefonbefragung und kann mit ihrer Hilfe die folgenden Betreuungs- und Vermittlungsgespräche passgenau vorbereiten.


Eine Gesamtübersicht der bisher erschienenen Presseinformationen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit finden Sie im Internet unter
http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/vam/?content=/content/supertemplates/Content.jsp&navId=219

Dieser Pressedienst wird herausgegeben von:
Bundesagentur für Arbeit Presseteam Regensburger Strasse 104 D-90478 Nürnberg E-Mail: zentrale.presse@arbeitsagentur.de Tel.: 0911/179-2218 Fax: 0911/179-1487

Spending on Gulf Coast reconstruction has led the Bush administration to revise upwards sharply its estimates for the federal budget deficit in 2006, by 17 per cent to $400bn, sparking calls for further spending restraint and adding to concerns about extending tax cuts.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/598aeac6-83bf-11da-9017-0000779e2340.html


From Information Clearing House

An anti-terrorism law creating a national standard for all driver's licenses by 2008 isn't just upsetting civil libertarians and immigration rights activists.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3583029.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/30690/


From Information Clearing House

Of all the voices berating the Republican Party for its culture of corruption, none rings more hollow than Newt Gingrich's. According to the Associated Press, the former House Speaker has said he is considering running for President in 2008.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/sirota


From Information Clearing House

Forget the ongoing privacy debate over U.S. government spying on telephone conversations--soon you may not have the right to tell cops to wait until you open your door.

http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=824&Itemid=35


From Information Clearing House

Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday asked for answers on an obscure Pentagon agency that included reports on student anti-war protests and other peaceful civilian demonstrations in a database meant to detect terrorist activities.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10834915/


From Information Clearing House

The United States government has formally prohibited Spain from selling 12 military planes and eight frigates to Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, because they contain North American technology.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_1937.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Swiss Senator Dick Marty, who is investigating the CIA affair for the European Council, believes recent evidence intercepted by Swiss intelligence is an 'additional indicator of the existence of secret prisons.'

http://www.watchingamerica.com/sonntagsblick000002.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Name pulled after group dissed nominee.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0602,ridgeway,71682,6.html


From Information Clearing House

During this morning’s hearing, Sen. Russ Feingold noted that the same lawyers who created the legal justifications for Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program coached Alito about how to answer questions during the confirmation hearings.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/12/alito-murder-board/


From Information Clearing House

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said US law is unclear as to whether President George W. Bush could launch a military invasion of Iran or Syria without congressional approval.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11554.htm

AS WASHINGTON steps up pressure on Iran and North Korea to abandon suspected nuclear weapons programs, US officials are completing a nuclear deal with India that critics says is a threat to non-proliferation efforts.

http://tinyurl.com/8qd9r


From Information Clearing House

We know that the U.S. has developed a new regime of low-yield “usable” nuclear weapons to destroy underground bunkers. We also know that the militarists in the Pentagon have threatened to use nuclear weapons in a “first strike” preemptive attack.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11551.htm

Can there be a military solution to the dispute?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11553.htm

The US says it supports Iran being punished for moving ahead with civil nuclear research and development, because the US claims to know what Iran intends to do with such civil technology.

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060113/2006011326.html


From Information Clearing House

U.S. President George Bush, speaking at a Washington press conference, said: "Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a great threat to the security of the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11552.htm

It is said he lived long enough to talk to police and then he died.

http://tinyurl.com/82xct


From Information Clearing House

"It just confirms that the policies that were adopted at Guantanamo were adopted as a matter of policy and over significant objections, not just within the FBI but within units of the Army".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11555.htm

The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case were questioned, according to Pentagon records made public Thursday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10833342/


From Information Clearing House

The Army has decided to drop a murder charge against one of two soldiers accused in the suffocation death of an Iraqi general during interrogation and will pursue administrative discipline instead, his attorney said Thursday.

http://www.chieftain.com/national/1137150343/6


From Information Clearing House

The soul of a nation is fatally wounded

By Abid Ullah Jan

Aircraft from Afghanistan have once more attacked Pakistan killing 18 Pakistanis in remote villages. Even non-US sources, such as Al-Jazeera has adopted the tone of embedded journalists, telling the world that the US attack on Pakistan killed 18 people in “a village stronghold of pro-Taliban Islamists.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11556.htm



U.S. missiles kill 18 civilians in Pakistan:

No al-Qaeda member or foreign citizen among those who died.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/13/content_4050019.htm


From Information Clearing House

The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306Q.shtml

This should remove any doubt that the U.S. Gov't and it's various agencies are "monitoring" us or SPYING on us. Any questions?

Anna

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060113/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene

USDA Using Satellites to Monitor Farmers

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 13, 7:44 AM ET

WICHITA, Kan. - Satellites have monitored crop conditions around the world for decades, helping traders predict futures prices in commodities markets and governments anticipate crop shortages.

But those satellite images are now increasingly turning up in courtrooms across the nation as the Agriculture Department's Risk Management Agency cracks down on farmers involved in crop insurance fraud.

The Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency, which helps farmers get loans and payments from a number of its programs, also uses satellite imaging to monitor compliance.

Across government and private industry alike, satellite imaging technology is being used in water rights litigation and in prosecution of environmental cases ranging from a hog confinement facility's violations of waste discharge regulations to injury damage lawsuits stemming from herbicide applications. The technology is also used to monitor the forestry and mining industries.

"A lot of farmers would be shocked at the detail you can tell. What it does is keep honest folks honest," said G.A. "Art" Barnaby Jr., an agricultural economist at Kansas State University.

Satellite technology, which takes images at roughly eight-day intervals, can be used to monitor when farmers plant their acreage, how they irrigate them and what crops they grow. If anomalies are found in a farm's insurance claim, investigators can search satellite photos dating back years to determine cropping practices on individual fields.

What's catching the attention of Barnaby and others is a spate of recent cases involving the use of satellite imaging to prosecute farmers. The largest so far has been a North Carolina case in which a couple faked weather damage to their crops by having workers throw ice cubes onto a tomato field and then beat the plants.

In September, Robert Warren was sentenced to six years and four months in prison, while his wife, Viki, was sentenced to five years and five months. They were also ordered to forfeit $7.3 million and pay $9.15 million in restitution.

The Warrens and at least three other defendants pleaded guilty. But in one related trial that went to a jury, prosecutors used satellite images and testimony from a satellite image analyst to present their case.

"It was impressive to the jury to have this presentation about this eye in the sky and satellite imagery and a trained expert," said Richard Edwards, the assistant U.S. Attorney in North Carolina who prosecuted the case. "In our case it did not make the case, but it sure helped and strengthened and improved the case."

The Risk Management Agency is involved in three other multimillion-dollar crop insurance fraud cases that have yet to be filed that will rival the Warren case in scope, said Michael Hand, RMA's deputy administrator for compliance.

While fewer than 100 cases have been prosecuted using satellite imaging since the RMA started its crackdown in 2001, data mining — coupled with satellite imaging — pinpoints about 1,500 farms annually that are put on a watch list for possible crop fraud, Hand said. Ground inspections are done on the suspect farms throughout the growing season.

The agency says its spot checklist generated by the satellite data has saved taxpayers between $71 million and $110 million a year in fraudulent crop insurance claims since 2001.

The agency stepped up its enforcement after the Agriculture Risk Protection Act of 2000 mandated it use data mining to ferret out false claims, Hand said. Every year, it ships claims data to the Center for Agriculture Excellence at Tarleton State University in Stephensville, Texas, where analysts look for anomalies in claims. They generate a list of claims for further investigation, with satellite imaging pulled on the most egregious cases.

Just as U.S. satellites kept track of things like the wheat harvest in the former Soviet Union, other countries have also launched satellites to monitor American crops. Germany, France and others have satellites monitoring crop conditions, and many other private firms sell those images in the U.S.

"Everybody spies on everybody. I was stunned to hear that myself," Edwards said. "Someday, I may have to rely on a French satellite to convict an American citizen."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=49140


Informant: NHNE

[January 13, 2006]

(Liverpool Echo Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant T-Mobile is seeking planning consent for a mobile phone mast disguised as a pine tree at leafy Lymm, near Warrington.

But the proposal for the 60ft high mast at Sow Brook Pumping Station, in Lymmhay Lane, has not persuaded local residents.

Nearly 20 people have lodged objections and Lymm parish council is also opposing the scheme.

They claim the mast and associated antennae and equipment cabin would be out of character with an area used by young people for leisure and could also prove a target for vandals.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-residents-fight-phone-mast-bid-/2006/jan/1285108.htm

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7986.shtml

Of course we already knew this, but...

MWM: The disclosures in this article are going to begin a tidal wave of reaction among portions of the American people. We now finally are zeroing in on the reality of the long rumored internment camps and who they were intended for. It is now clear that the "Apparatchnik" of the Oligarchy were far sicker, more deeply sleezy, than any of us plebes could imagine.

(I wonder how many replacement websites have been "canned").


Best Wishes,

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

http://www.local6.com/news/6061002/detail.html

IT CANNOT BE THE EMF NOW COULD IT?? They are guarded by FCC standards. The spin doctors will probebly say, some kids shake and some kids rock and roll.

Robert Riedlinger

Laurence M. Vance on what that has meant.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance67.html