RFID tracks seniors
Wired News
Researchers have built two new systems that use radio frequency identification tags to monitor the elderly in their own homes. RFID tags, as they are called, are widely used as a part of building security passes, Speedpass key chain devices and E-ZPasses for paying highway tolls. Retailers also expect RFID tags to replace bar codes on store items over the next 15 years.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62723,00.html (excerpt)
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Lawmakers alarmed by RFID spying
Wired News
"Lawmakers in several states this week are preparing rules to prevent Wal-Mart and other companies from using radio-frequency identification tags to spy on their customers. In statehouses in Utah and California, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, legislators and regulators discussed how retailers and government spies might use the data gathered from RFID tags to monitor consumers."
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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
http://www.rf-id.com/rfidtech.htm
Will this be our next artificial EM concern? When will be we irradiated to industry's satisfaction?
The Wal-Mart corporation tried to institute this in a low-income area store, the idea being that, eventually, one will be able to push a whole cart of items through a scanner without the intervention of a cashier. Due to protests over the Orwellian aspects, they backed out, but it is sure to be everywhere someday, like spyware in one's clothes and other belongings. 132 Kilohertz? Wonder what the power levels are.
James
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62433,00.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/news/item.php?keyid=6883&category=10&scategory=36
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/news/item.php?keyid=6808&category=10&scategory=36
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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On the Possibility of directly accessing every Human Brain by Electromagnetic Induction of fundamental Algorithms
Omega see under: http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html
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Updated Irish medical ethics guidelines
Hi Klaus: The newly released edition by the Irish Medical Council of "A Guide to Ethical Conduct and Behaviour" includes some radical updating relevant to our EHS concerns. One is a new acceptance of complementary medicine as a valid medical alternative. Analysing the report in today's (March 26, p.3) edition of THE IRISH TIMES, Dr. Muiris Houston, its medical correspondent, writes:
" There is a brand new guideline on complementary medicine which says: 'Doctors who practise or refer patients for complementary therapy must be aware of the efficacy and potential side-effects of those treatments and advise patients accordingly.' By emphasising the referral of patients for complementary therapy, the guideline has cleared up a grey area. Heretofore, doctors were discouraged from formally referring patients to alternative therapists; now they will be expected to fulfil the obligations of the referral process, not least of which is the provision of a detailed referral letter, including past medical history and other relevant information, such as the existence of drug allergies. In addition, the new section places an onus on doctors to have a detailed knowledge of homeopathy, herbal medicine and other therapies prior to initiating the referral process."
The new guidelines also address and seek to correct unsavoury aspects of relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical cum medical manufacturing companies: "The only acceptable mechanism of financial support by the pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing industries to individual doctors is by way of non-promotional educational grants."
Best, Imelda, Cork.
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Somerset County Council takes on environmental issues
The following message on a UK council is an excellent example of local government trying to act in the best interested of the public. Not only in wireless issues but in many other environmental issues as well. I highly recommend going to the Somerset County Council's web site and have a look around. They still have faith in the NRPB exposure guidelines but at least they are taking the issue seriously.
Don Maisch
(excerpt from the message)
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/ete/communityprotection/scientific/wireless/
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Opinions on Peer Review
The following extracts are from articles which examine unpalatable truths about peer review and have strong relevancy to cell phone research.
Don
The New York Times - Health June 2002
"When Peer Review Yields Unsound Science"
by Lawrence K Altman, M.D.
[Summarising the 34 articles published from their latest meeting on peer review, Dr Drummond Rennie a deputy editor of the Journal of American Medical Association wrote] "Once again we publish studies that fail to show any dramatic effect, let alone improvement, brought about by editorial peer review."
"In 1986, Dr Stephen Lock, then editor of the British Medical Journal, wrote, "Editors, the arbiters of rigor, quality and innovativeness in publishing scientific work, do not apply to their own work the standards they apply to judging the work of others."
15 August 2002 Doug Fraser posted to Co-Cure extracts discussing peer review from "Conduct and Misconduct in Science" by David Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Vice-Provost at California Institute of Technology. www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/conduct.html
Excerpts:
"The institution of peer review is now in critical danger."
"Peer review is not at all well suited, however to adjudicate an intense competition for scarce resources such as research funds or pages in prestigious journals. The reason is obvious enough. The referee, who is always among the few genuine experts in the field, has an obvious conflict of interest. . . referees are never called to account for what they write in their reviews. As a result, referees are able, with relative impunity to delay or deny funding or publication to their rivals. When misconduct of this kind occurs, it is the referee who is guilty but it is the editors and program officers who are responsible for propagating a corrupt system that makes misconduct almost inevitable."
New Scientist Opinion viewpoint 22 September 2001p.46-470
"Trust me, I'm a scientist"- by Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine 1977-1991, now emeritus professor of medicine , Harvard University.
"Medical research is unlike other technology, in that doctors have a responsibility to put the welfare of their patients above everything else. Doctors use their best judgement, their best information and their best efforts to do what they think is in their patients' best interests.
The commercialisation of medical research is a threat to the welfare of patients and to the special relationship between doctors and patients. That relationship is now being assaulted on all sides by money."
Chris Hunter
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The legacy of Chernobyl
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/181567/
Informant: Don Maisch
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Pentagon Prepares to Use 'Sonic Warfare''
(William M. Arkin / Los Angeles Times)
The Pentagon's Secret Scream Sonic devices can inflict pain or even permanent deafness. Despite legal and moral concerns, the are being deployed in Iraq as part of a human experiment in hopes of "creating a greater demand" for more "nonlethal" weapons in the future. If this weapons can be used in Baghdad, it can be used against protestors in the US.
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=77962:740526
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Covert Operations of the U.S. National Security Agency
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EMR-EMF/message/1103
Informant: Wolfgang W. Scherer
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Satellite Targeting
I've noticed for some time that when the frequency sounds I suffer is very intense, and can actually be heard hitting against metal shielding I have, there is what appears to be a satellite almost overhead to the South East over my home. This was again clearly visible earlier in the month from the 16th and 17th earlier this month,.
This regularly passes over the Burton on Trent, Leicester and South Derbyshire areas, and slightly to the South East above my home. It resembles a cluster of two or three stars and can be clearly seen for several days at a time, even in cloudy weather when the Moon is not visible. It tends to be in the same spot when it is so low, and was pointed out to me by someone else.
Last week in particular was very bad, and I felt the tremendous pressure from it, at which time I noticed that it affected the small portable TV I have. I bought this new because of similar problems I experienced with my old one thinking it was faulty. I am unable to get the BBC1 channel at all without crackling and distortion of the picture. The other channels seem perfectly okay. Also at times is what seems to be a large band that keeps cutting across my TV screen whilst tuned into BBC1, that affects the sound too.
This does coincide with the high frequency sounds when they are at there worst.
Does anyone have any idea who I could approach with regard to who this satellite belongs to?
Message from m.a.norman
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More spy cameras on the way
Washington Times
The D.C. government will double the number of photo-radar cameras, increase licensing and parking fees and enforce traffic laws more vigorously as part of a plan to raise non-tax revenue by nearly $47 million next year. A spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, which has described the city's administration of the automated-enforcement program as a 'shakedown,' says the District has made some progress in addressing the organization's concerns. But the fact that the additional cameras were first brought to light in a budget document leads to questions about the city's motives. 'It's completely backwards to let the dollars drive the decisions about public safety,' says Deborah DeYoung. 'The only issue for us is whether this is a back-door route to a commuter tax the city couldn't get in the front door.'
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040329-010513-2427r.htm
A libertarian reply to "Why animal rights don't exist"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/graham/graham1.html
Spying is okay if it's not Orwellian
For a horrible moment or two there I thought that the long-anticipated dawn of an American style version of 1984 was finally upon us. I came by this misbegotten notion after reading articles about how the Pentagon, in recognizing the need to treat all of us as terrorists in order to protect us from terrorists, plans to build the Mother of All Computer Databases that will monitor every purchase made by every citizen in the nation. Our masters in Washington call it Total Information Awareness.
http://www.libertyforall.net/2004/april11/spying.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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International Movement for the Ban of Manipulation of Human Nervous System by Technical Means
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/2289/webpage.htm
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There Are No Words ... Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
by Bob Nichols
This story is about American weapons built with Uranium components for the business end of things. Just about all American bullets, 120 mm tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000 pound bombs, cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us against them has Uranium in it. Lots of Uranium. . .
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.htm
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The Building You're In Fuels Global Warming
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0304-07.htm
Informant: NHNE
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CANADA WAGING WAR ON CLIMATE CHANGE
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/179796/
NASA’s Improved Web-Resource on the World’s Changing Climate
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/179809
150 'DEAD ZONES' COUNTED IN OCEANS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/180832/
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BACKLASH BUILDS AGAINST BUSH PLAN TO DELAY MERCURY CLEAN UP
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000081.php
New Bush Rollbacks Endanger Northwest Salmon Industry, Forests
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000081.php
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HOW TO KILL A NATION
http://newswire.indymedia.org/de/newswire/2004/03/801295.shtml
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Greenpeace: Urgent EU action needed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/171319/
Melting glaciers: unexpected boost to rising oceans
THE GREAT WARMING
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/175053/
Something's Not Quite Right In Utah-Wyoming
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/171687/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Yellowstone+super+volcano
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Bt Toxins in Genetically Modified Crops: Regulation by Deceit
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BTTIGMC.php
AIDS the Global Pandemic?
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/globalPandemic.php
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Climate Change Reference Pages
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/171843/
Major news announcement regarding Yellowstone National Park
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/173303/
BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAVORING AIR POLLUTERS OVER NATIONAL PARKS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/172635/
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Bush administration eases logging restrictions on logging old-growth forests
The Bush administration eased restrictions this week on logging old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, completing a rules change that will allow forest managers to begin logging without first looking for rare plants and animals.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-03-25/s_22172.asp
Exxon penalties could rise as Valdez oil lingers
Fifteen years after the Exxon Valdez supertanker split open on a submerged reef off Alaska, stubborn pockets of crude oil persist on once-pristine beaches, and creatures ranging from sea otters to harlequin ducks and herring are still struggling.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-03-24/s_14486.asp
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Several new cloud anomaly photographs have been added
http://www.cheniere.org/clouds/
Informant: Tony Craddock
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Reduce Mercury Pollution in Your Community
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/nationalmercury/i5sxe829j5k6tn
Protect children in your community from brain damage and learning disabilities associated with mercury pollution. Take action for stronger, safer mercury regulations today!
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Petition for support: peace process in the Basque Country
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/173933/
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Congressman Ron Paul Admits Conspiracy to Create World Government
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/172999/
Omega-News Collection 23. March 04
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/171830/
Omega-News Collection 30. March 04
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/181494/