BBC NEWS England Kent Mobile phone masts 'must go'
New mobile phone masts are already banned on council land
Education chiefs are facing calls to remove mobile phone
masts from all
school sites in Kent. A recent survey showed 15 schools in
Kent had
radio masts on their premises. Kent County Council brought
banned new
masts on its land two years ago - but opposition Labour members
have now
called for the existing ones to be removed too. Councillor
Mike Eddy,
leader of the Labour group on Kent County Council, said it
was important
to protect pupils' safety.
Very cautious
He said the council must do more to encourage the governing
bodies of
schools not to renew existing contracts with telecommunications
companies. But Conservative councillor Paul Carter, cabinet
member for
education standards and pupil services, said the council had
already
taken a "very cautious" approach when it banned
new masts in 2001. He
said: "As soon as that directive went out, no new radio
masts have been
erected on school properties. "We have 15 schools that
have existing
radio masts and when those contracts expire, they will not
be renewed."
But he admitted governing bodies still had the power to renew
the
contracts - which bring extra financial resources to the school
- in
spite of the council's guidelines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3181139.stm
Informant: Robert Riedlinger
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The
Cellular Children
A strong feeling of sadness took over me when I saw the "magazine"
which
was attached to the newspaper today: On the front colourful
page, a boy
maximum 6 years old, smiling and talking on the cell phone.
The magazine
has an article called, no less than: "THE CELLULAR CHILDREN".
In the article it is told that Daniela from Yavne who is 4
years old,
has a cell phone, she says (yes, the 4 years old girl) she
uses it when
she wants to call to her friends to visit them. From September
she will
have a new number, and will use it in the kindergarten. Her
parents
bought her of course. The marketing manager in Cell-Com, says
that "This
is a result of a long time investment for the long run, children
are
influenced by the colourful advertisements in their own language".
"I have a mobile phone since 2nd grade, and since 5th
grade I have been
going to school with it" reveals Omry Ben Simon, 12 years
old, from Bet
Shemesh. Eden, his brother who is 4 years younger than him,
already
knows all the new kinds of the cell phones and their complex
qualities.
By the way , he wasn't discriminated by his parents and won
his own
device.
"Social pressure, the fashion need, and the will to
know where my
children are, made me give them mobile phones", says
their mother Shoshi
Ben Simon. "Our children should be enabled to enjoy the
technological
progress".
There are parents who need to deal with the educational side:
"Cell
phone hurts the natural maturing of the child" says Ella
Dudka (31) from
Ganey Aviv. "When they go to school they have to learn
to deal with
problems on their own, and not look for solutions in a phone
call to
me. [That reminds me of the little boy in the grocery store
who called
his mother by the cell phone and told her: "Mom, I can't
find the
Yogurt"] In addition, cellular use hurts their social
development and
frame. Only on special occasions I give Tom my other mobile,
for
emergency."
"All the pupils in my class have cellular phone"
says Eyal Barkover, 14,
Hod Hasharon. "I use it only when I have to, for personal
calls outside
the house and to SMS".
Several studies on the subject, among them a study of the
American
company Ytech which checked the influence of the new technology
on
youth, showed that youth (7-17) who used it more than others,
cell and
computers, had decline in the social involvement and increase
in
depression and loneliness. The explanation- they use is on
the expense
of playing with friends. But against all the scientific findings,
the
cell phone are becoming more and more popular in these age
groups.
Children who were born into the generation of this technology,
are
willing to experience any new service the market offers. They
are also
the future of the cellular companies. "Teenagers are
excellent content
clients" says Avi Zur, marketing manager in Partner company.
Instead of
notes in class, pupils use SMS. The families pay for the cellular
bill
of the children. "To pay for regular phone calls, internet
and cables is
taken for granted, so why this not?"
says Shoshi Ben Simon.
(Hello! Communication and Cellular Magazine, 3rd Issue,
August-September 2003)
Message from Iris Atzmon
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U.S.
E-chip activists denounce U.K.'s Marks & Spencer's for
proposed
'spy in a suit' marketing
Hi Klaus:
American e-chip surveillance guru, Katherine Albrecht, has
brought her
four month old campaign to Britian, against implanting in
clothing
microchips with a low-powered radio signal. Her grassroots
consumer
protection organisation which claims some 6000 members
in 15 countries is called CONSUMERS AGAINST SUPERMARKET PRIVACY
INVASION AND NUMBERING (CASPIAN). She and her group have already
managed
to convince Gillette, Benetton and WalMart to delay their
proposed dates
for introducing the stock tracking innovation.
Albrecht believes that placing miniscule (similar in size
to a grain of
sand) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) labels in clothing
leaves
the way open for significant abuses to a person's right to
privacy and
personal safety. Quotations from a prominent article on this
by
journalist David Rowan in yesterday's edition of THE TIMES
(page 5)are
as follows:
"Ms. Albrecht sees a more sinister, 'Big Brother' use
for a system that
she says will make it possible to monitor individuals long
after goods
have left the store, through the radio signals their clothes
or personal
items continue to emit. . . . Unlike barcodes, the tags--known
as
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) labels--identify individual
items
whose movements can be tracked by scanners connected to the
internet. .
. .
'This technology has a potential to track people from the
time they get
up in the morning to the time they go to bed at night,' Ms.
Albrecht
said from her home in New Hampshire. She wants Britons to
know that the
police, criminals and marketers will all be motivated to scan
people's
property to learn more about them from their 'electronic cloud.'
"
She states that the popularity and power of her CASPIAN consumer
activist association is due to the fact that "'78 per
cent of people
oppose this technology on privacy grounds, and 61 per cent
on health
grounds.'" Rowan quickly adds "No health grounds
have been identified.
The figures are from the Auto-ID Centre's own confidential
research,
which were mistakenly made available on the internet. Much
to its
embarrassment, she [Albrecht] also discovered internal briefings
from
the centre's PR advisers suggesting that it create 'a privacy
advisory
council.'"
Bests, Imelda, Cork. Ireland.
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UK
cars to be equipped with spy chip
BBC News
"The government is reportedly planning to fit all cars
in Britain with a
personalised microchip so rule-breaking motorists can be prosecuted
by
computer. The chip will automatically report a wide range
of offences
including speeding, road tax evasion and illegal parking ....
It will
even record every time motorists drive in bus lanes. ... [T]he
scheme
would require car makers to fit the chips in all vehicles
while older
cars would have them added during MoT
tests." (08/25/03)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3178579.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Victim
of psi/electronic harassment
I am a victim of psi/electronic harassment. My name is Damian
Hall.
On over 300 victims of neuro electro events known without
camera or
bugging - no mental illness can produce this - only a neuro
electro Psi
predatory fix.
Perps preying on me can be identified in near future though
I have not
verified them as yet. Ringleader was same person acting as
agent
provocateur on end of Tregonwell Rd, Bournemouth in May 98.
It is the
same person going whisper to skull Psi and remote viewing,
dream
manipulating and in magnetic sleep nervous system manipulation
remote
configurated.
Don't know what to say. Police/judges etc are in dark about
this form of
preying as are general public - it may be known of but not
acknowledged.
Don't know what to suggest except appeal with McKinney/Dr
Richard Alan
Miller/ Carole Smith article in Psycho social journal Volume
13 about
need for critical analysis of psychosis in light of mind invasive
technology. I have copy of this article if you haven't.
I, personally believe mind invasive devices may well be being
used in
tandem with group SRA Cultic Psi predatory telepathy or without.
I think
it important not to only dwell on devices and techniques of
SRA and
predatory cultic practises to get Psi telepathy fixes needs
unearthing.
I will ascertain perps preying on me soon and hope to expose.
Not many
reported targets in England. I am one of them for five years.
Four
reported targets in England coincidentally come from Yorkshire
or live
there. Miriam Findlay and George Faraquar, Scottish I believe.
That may
well be coincidence to USA Intelligence base near Whitby North
Yorks or devices filched off them being used possibly as an
outside
chance.
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Notice
from EMR Surveys Pty Ltd. Sydney
I have received the following notice from John Lincoln, EMR
Surveys Pty
Ltd. Sydney to be distributed on this list.
Message from Don Maisch
EMR Surveys Pty Ltd
10 Annette Place
Belrose NSW 2085
A Correction and an announcement.
1. You may have noticed in the March 2003 issue of the EMRAA
Newsletter
that I an said to be "retiring from active service".
This is not correct.
For professional reasons I have resigned only from the board
of
directors of EMRAA. I remain a member of EMRAA. I continue
to deal with
the frequent enguiries on electromagnetic related topics and
I remain
the community representative on the ARPANSA working group
preparing an
Australian Standard for electromagnetic radiation within the
frequency
range 0 to 3 kHz. This includes the fields produced by electricity
power
lines and systoms within our houses, offices and industries.
Of course my business, EMR Surveys P/L, continues to operate
as before
and my web site <<www.emrsurveys.com.au
>> will be in operation shortly.
2. While contacting you I take the opportunity to advise
you of a very
important development.
As a consequence of persistent lobbying by EMRAA and others,
the federal
government authority, ARPANSA, have developed an "Electromagnetic
Radiation Health Complaints Register" to gather community
information of
perceived adverse health effects from EMR. This is most welcome.
The success of this initiative will depend to a large extent
on the
community response. So I urge you to submit completed forms
to ARPANSA
if, and only if, you believe you or your family have been
affected by
electromagnetic radiation from any source. The source may
include power
lines, domestic appliances, electrical equipment within the
house or
office, or mobile/portable phones for example. It is extremely
important
that we take advantage of this initiative and that we report
our
experiences as accurately as possible.
If you require any assistance do not hesitate to contact
me.
Best Regards
John Lincoln
B.E. Elect.
Director
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DARPA's
Bioengineering Program
http://www.newsinsider.org/seal/frankensteins_in_the_pentagon.html
Informant: Romy
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NEWS
RELEASE: Day 11 of Hunger Strike: Surprise Breakthrough
Hunger Strikers Hold Face to Face Meeting Today with President
of
American Psychiatric Association
APA says: "We're thinking" about a more formal
meeting between APA &
MindFreedom representatives.
PASADENA, CALIF.: For 11 days the "Fast for Freedom
in Mental Health"
has mobilized more than 23 people internationally to protest
human
rights violations in the mental health system.
Today, in a surprise step forward, a delegation of hunger
strikers held
an initial face to face meeting with Marcia Kraft Goin, MD,
PhD, current
elected President of the American Psychiatric Association
(APA), inside
her Los Angeles office.
"We're pleased with this development," said hunger
striker Mickey
Weinberg, "But we're going to continue this Fast for
Freedom."
For all the photos of the meeting click here:
http://www.pagesforpeople.com/
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NRDC
wins landmark case against Navy sonar!
A federal court has just handed down its decision in our case
against
the U.S. Navy and I wanted you to be the first to hear the
great news.
In a resounding victory for whales and other marine mammals,
the court
ruled that it will bar the Navy from deploying its high-intensity
LFA
sonar system across most of the world's oceans.
The LFA (Low Frequency Active) sonar system would have blasted
hundreds
of thousands of square miles of ocean habitat with noise so
intense it
can maim, deafen and even kill whales. In her historic ruling,
Judge
LaPorte agreed with NRDC that the sonar's booming noise could
"irreparably harm" the marine environment and threaten
the very
survival of endangered populations of whales, sea turtles
and other
marine species.
Judge LaPorte has ordered the Navy to begin negotiations
with NRDC on a
plan for safely testing the sonar system in a limited area.
This is truly a banner day for the Earth's environment. The
court has
granted a life-saving reprieve to dozens of species of magnificent
marine mammals. But its ruling also sends a message loud and
clear to
the White House that it is not above our nation's environmental
laws.
The Bush administration trampled all over those laws when
it gave the
Navy a blank check to operate the deadly LFA sonar system
virtually
anywhere in the world.
It's also a banner day for hundreds of thousands of NRDC
members and
activists like you. When we began this fight eight years ago,
we were
told that our chances of stopping the military's classified
LFA program
were slim to none. But that conventional wisdom seriously
underestimated
the collective power of a determined citizenry.
Your financial contributions and online activism fueled an
NRDC legal
strategy that prevailed, in the end, over the world's most
powerful
military establishment. There is no finer example of democracy
in action.
The fight to protect our oceans against high-intensity sonar
is not
over. The Navy could appeal the court's ruling. And right
now the Bush
administration is trying to get exemptions for the Navy from
some of the
very environmental laws NRDC used to block deployment of the
LFA system.
With your help, NRDC will do everything it can to ensure that
these
efforts do not succeed.
But all that lies ahead. For today, at least, we've won a
significant
victory, one worth savoring and celebrating. On behalf of
our entire
legal team, I want to thank you for coming to the defense
of marine
mammals around the world.
Sincerely,
John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC Press Release: http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/030826.asp
Washington Post story: http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=1075
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GM
Science Review Deeply Flawed
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMSRDF.php
Fluoride
Linked to Low IQ, Studies Show
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=d1d1366d000000f7393bef9e0a54d034
Informant: George Paxinos
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O.T.
themes:
Classified
Spending On the Rise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50108-2003Aug26?language=printer
Informant: lwirbel
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The
Surprise Weapon: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE MONEY
A Non-Political Money System
by E. C. Riegel, 1944
http://www.mind-trek.com/treatise/ecr-pem/
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The
war on civil liberties road show
http://www.rationalreview.com/mlseymour/082603.shtml
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A
Weapons Cache We'll Never See
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1031
Who
Will Bail out Bush from Iraq Quagmire?
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1032
US
Cost to Invade and Occupy Iraq May Hit $1.9 Trillion
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1033
Growing
Opposition to Bush in the US
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1034
Saving
Face, Losing a War
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1036
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Terrorism
and Iraq: The link is real now
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b082603.html
Baghdad
deadlier than ever
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4548.htm
Building
the coalition of the unwilling
Asia Times
by Ehsan Ahrari
"As the US government has no intention of loosening
its grip on power in
Iraq, it can hardly expect any country to join it there other
than as a
reluctant partner, with or without more resolutions from the
United
Nations."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH28Ak01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.rationalreview.com/news/
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