An Invitation from Berkeley, California
The Moment of Truth is Approaching
In the past 8 months, residents of north Berkeley have been
working
tirelessly to stop the installation of base-station antennas
by Sprint
on the roof of 1600 Shattuck Avenue, home of Cafe de la Paz,
Barney's
Restaurant, etc.
On Tuesday, June 17th, the neighbors of 1600 Shattuck who
are opposing
the installation of the antennas will present their case in
a Public
Hearing before the City Council.
You are cordially invited to attend this Public Hearing.
***** Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 7:00 PM *****
Old City Hall
2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
City Council Chambers - Second Floor
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Your presence in the City Hall is crucially important.
Thank you,
Radi
About
Epilepsy
About EMF and epilepsy: on www.csif-cem.org
(in French):
Champ ElectroMagnetique et Epilepsie
Richard GAUTIER, Louis GOUGEON, Roger SANTINI
www.csif-cem.org le 04/06/2003
Champs électromagnétiques (CEM) et épilepsie.
Dans
les causes :
Il ne peut être question en l'état des connaissances
scientifiques
actuelles d'impliquer les CEM dans les causes de l'épilepsie
même si la
question reste en suspens pour les cas où des perturbations
des
neurotransmetteurs sont évoquées comme peuvent
le faire les CEM (voir
par exemple le chapitre sur l'Acetylcholine).
Dans le déclenchement des crises des études
(5,6) ont montré depuis
longtemps l'influence des champs magnétiques sur l'épilepsie
et des
études récentes ont précisé ces
données:
Etudes
sur l'animal:
Beason et al (1) ont montré l'augmentation du taux
d'excitation de
neurones aviaires en réponse à un signal GSM
à un SAR de 0,05 W/kg (pic
de 0,1 mW/cm2)
Action retrouvée également par Zhang et coll.
(29) chez le rat ou par
Tattersall et coll. (30) ou par Sidorenko et coll. (2) qui
ont
caractérisé cette action d'activité convulsive
épileptiforme
Marino et coll (26) ont montré ces modifications de
l'activité
électrique chez le lapin.
Action
sur l'homme : Les études ayant montré
des modifications au niveau
de l'EEG, donc de l'activité électrique cérébrale,
chez l'homme sont
très nombreuses (7 à 25), la dose minimum d'exposition
ayant montré un effet
de 1,9 V/m (7) soit largement sous les doses d'exposition
engendrée par
les téléphones et de l'ordre de celles reçues
par les riverains
d'antennes relais. Les effets sur des personnes atteintes
d'épilepsie
ont également été démontrées
(27) ainsi que l'augmentation significative
du risque d'épilepsie chez des travailleurs de compagnie
d'électricité (28).
Mécanisme
: Action au niveau de la synapse électrique (Gap junction)
et
modifications des communications intercellulaires (3) expliquées
par
certains (4) par une internalisation des proteines de la synapse
et/ou
par modification des concentrations de calcium intracellulaire.
Certains
auteurs font également intervenir les modifications
au niveau des
neurotransmetteurs.
Conclusion
Si la compréhension de la genèse de l'épilepsie
nécessite encore des
recherches, les raisons relatives au déclenchement
des crises ou à la
favorisation de celles-ci sont beaucoup plus nettes et les
CEM, que ce
soit en extrèmement basse fréquences comme celles
de l'électricité ou en
radiofréquences telles celles de la téléphonie
mobile sont démontrées
comme capables de déclencher des crises d'épilepsie.
Omega: translation tool French-English: http://www.freetranslation.com
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in
response of E. coli cells at different phases of growth to
low-intensity
microwaves. Biochim Biophys Acta 2002 Aug 15;1572(1):101-6
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fields
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(5)
Keshavan et coll. convulsive threshold in humans and rats
and magnetic
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(6) Anninos et coll. Magnetic stimulation in the treatment
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(10) Wagner et coll. Human sleep EEG under the influence of
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(11) Eulitz et coll. Mobile phones modulate response patterns
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(14) Huber et coll. Exposure to pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic
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(15) Huber et coll. Electromagnetic fields, such as those
from mobil
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exposure in
humans: Estimation of SAR distribution in the brain, effects
on sleep
and heart rate. Bioelectromagnetics 2003 May;24(4):262-76
(17) Krause et coll. Effects of Electromagnetic Field Emitted
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Affects Visual
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EBEA 2001 meeting.
(24) Hinrikus et coll. Comparison of Photic and Microwave
Stimulation
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Rhodes, Greece.
(25) Croft et coll. Acute mobile phone operation affects neural
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(26) Marino et coll. Consistent magnetic-field induced dynamical
changes
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of
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neurite varicosity formation and cell excitability in cultured
rat
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Salutations
Richard GAUTIER
www.csif-cem.org
THE
AUTHORIZED USE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS ON U.S. CITIZENS
FOR
RESEARCH PURPOSES
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:52:00 -0400
From: James Black <Genesis8888@sympatico.ca>
It's been going on for years ... The technology was used on
Koresh at
Waco, Texas.
Please print the entire site before it is taken down for
your peace,
safety and health...
"Congress Passes Law"
Large scale experiments permissible despite link to disease
and death of
U.S. citizens. Media muzzled! Government experiments on women
& children
law passed despite plea from Ret.. Senator John Glenn for
reversal !
Electromagnetic pulse experiments are being performed in
your Metro and
Surburban area! Local authorities kept in dark, need to know
"secrecy
orders" keep them uninformed, or are ordered to deny
truth.
"Congressional Crime"
The law below grants unlimited use of all types of weapons
including
remote electronic weapons on mass numbers of U.S. citizens.
U.S. Code available in all libraries
TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER 32 - CHEMICAL
AND
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM (hidden in back pocket of volume!)
Sec.
1520a. Restrictions on use of human subjects for testing of
chemical or
biological agents. Where such activities can be done without
the
subjects being notified.
Also
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES
OF HEALTH
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS TITLE 45, PUBLIC WELFARE OFFICE
FOR
PROTECTION FROM RESEARCH RISKS PART 46, PROTECTION OF HUMAN
SUBJECTS is
as extreme!
Additionally portions of statutes from Patriot Act in liaison
with
Homeland Security allow for similar abuse!
WE ARE
Human rights activists and investigators working to change
laws allowing
experiments often resulting in disfigurement, disease and
death on US
women, children and men.
You received this information because your media refuse to
buck the
system and warn you of total abuse of power causing artificial
mental
illness symptoms, serious diseases and death!
"Get involved", just spread the word. Take the
time as a concerned
citizen and go to your public library and look up such statutes
as cited
here! Especially now! The Government is spreading lies and
rumors about
activists for exposing these atrocities, support your hometown
people
exposing the statutes and laws that are being used to do acts
against
citizens but most of all on children.
This site is about experimenting on US citizens with silent
electronic
weapons without their knowledge in their homes, condos and
apartments,
includes many first hand interview accounts of victims who
have
experienced the horror of government out of control.
List of the symptoms to judge whether you or your children
are being
made ill by silent weapons, which often begin with haggardness,
sleeplessness, shock sensations as one drifts off to sleep
and acid
reflux; the effects on the immune system which can cause ADD,
Hyperactivity, CFC,MS, Cerebral Palsy, and many other diseases.
http://www.us-government-torture.com/
Please print the entire site before it is taken down for
your peace,
safety and health...
**THE LOU GENTILE NETWORK**
The Best Streams On The Net
*http://www.lougentile.com*
Informant: Planetary Association for Clean Energy,
Inc., Ontario, Canada
O.T.
Some very important themes:
Conference on "Conflicted Science"
CSPI
Announces Conference on "Conflicted Science"
Will Address Corporate Efforts to Manipulate Science
Scientists, academicians, journalists, and policy advocates
will convene
in Washington on July 11 to address corporations' use of science
to
manipulate public opinion and influence public policy on health
and the
environment. The landmark conference was announced today by
the
nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Sessions include panels on how corporate dollars thwart research
on
health risks, suppress information about toxic products, and
shape the
federal research agenda. Conferees will present remedies to
prevent
conflicts of interest, to improve the transparency of the
federal
scientific advisory process, to hold corporations accountable,
and to
enhance the media's role in disclosing conflicts of interest.
Among the presenters are Drummond Rennie, M.D., deputy editor
of the
Journal of the American Medical Association; Marion Nestle,
Ph.D., chair
of the Department of Nutrition at New York University, and
author, Food
Politics; Alicia Mundy, author, Dispensing With the Truth;
Sheldon
Krimsky, Ph.D., professor of Urban and Environmental Policy
at Tufts
University and author, Science in the Private Interest; and
Lisa Bero,
Ph.D., professor of clinical pharmacy at University of California,
San
Francisco and co-author, The Cigarette Papers.
"The public is not aware that tactics used by the tobacco
industry to
manipulate science are also widely used by other industries,"
said
Virginia A. Sharpe, director of CSPI's Integrity in Science
project.
"This conference seeks to shed light on how pharmaceutical,
food,
chemical, and other companies fund scientific research in
the service
of those industries' short-term gain."
The conference, titled "Conflicted Science," will
take place on July 11,
2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Wyndham City Center
Hotel, 1143
New Hampshire Avenue, NW in Washington. The full conference
agenda, list
of participants, and registration materials are available
at
http://www.conflictedscience.org
Jeff Howard, Doctoral Student
Dept. of Science and Technology Studies (http://www.rpi.edu/dept/sts/)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and
Martin J. Walker writes on "Sir
Richard Doll: Death, Dioxin and PVC"
(From Stewart Fist)
Starting tomorrow, there is a three-day conference in Naples
on "Science and Democracy 2"
http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~mamone/sci-dem/sci%26dem.htm
. There are
many interesting titles among the contributions available
on the web
(link on the starting page), with a preponderance of papers
in Italian.
Martin J. Walker writes on "Sir Richard Doll: Death,
Dioxin and PVC"
HTML: http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~mamone/sci-dem/contri/walker.htm
PDF: http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~mamone/sci-dem/contri/walker.PDF
Informant: Don Maisch
Transgenic
Contamination of Certified Seed Stocks
Yet more evidence that transgenic contamination is inevitable
and
unavoidable. Prof. Joe Cummins reports.
The spread of transgenes from genetically modified crops
is a great
threat to the quality of certified seed. Canola (oilseed rape
in the UK)
(Brassica napus, B. rapa, B. campestris) is the second most
valuable
crop in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA),
a sub
department of Agriculture Canada, requires a distance of 200
metres
separation between fields growing certified seeds from any
other
Brassica, and a distance of 50 metres from weedy relatives.
Recently,
however, producers of hybrid canola seed have required a separation
of 2
kilometers from a Brassica crop, in recognition that pollen
from a Brassica crop may
travel as far as a kilometer or more. CFIA separation distances
are
evidently inadequate for insuring the purity of certified
seeds.
Friesen, Nelson and Van Acker in the University of Manitoba
in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, studied certified canola seed stocks for
contamination
due to transgenes for herbicide tolerance to glyphosate, glufosinate
or
thifensulfuron [1]. Certified seed stocks were studied in
field plots to
which herbicides were applied. The results showed that 95%
of 27
certified seed lots were contaminated with herbicide tolerance
transgenes; with 52% of the seed lots exceeding the 0.25%
maximum
contamination standard set for certified seed. Some lots were
tolerant
to both glyphosate and glufosinate.
A year earlier, Downie and Beckie from AgriFood Canada in
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan [2], examined 70 certified canola seed lots using
a
laboratory Petri dish assay. They found 59% of the seed lots
had
detectable herbicide tolerance and 25% had contamination levels
exceeding the maximum acceptable standard for certified seeds.
The
standard for cross contamination was established for conventional
not
transgenic cultivars, and presently, there are no standards
for
transgenic contamination of certified cultivars in Canada.
Standards for
transgene contamination of canola oil or oilseed cake for
animal feed
would be desirable, and even necessary for export purposes,
given the
requirements for labeling and traceability in Europe.
The extensive contamination of certified canola seed with
transgenes for
herbicide tolerance is staggering. The Canadian canola crop
extends over
some 5 million hectares, of which roughly 60% are planted
with
transgenic varieties. The extensive cross contamination by
transgenic
varieties could have been foreseen and predicted at the time
field trials of
transgenic crops were carried out.
By now, it seems unlikely that transgene- free canola can
be produced in
western Canada. It is disturbing that CFIA appears to be totally
unconcerned over the extensive contamination, which is evidence
of gross
negligence in oversight on its part.
1.Friesen LF, Nelson AG and Van Acker RC. Evidence of contamination
of
pedigreed canola (Brassica napus) seedlots in western Canada
with
genetically engineered herbicide resistance traits. Agron.
J. 2003, 95
(in press).
2.Downey RK, and Beckie H. 2002. Isolation Effectiveness in
Canola
Pedigree Seed Production. Internal Research Report, Agriculture
and
Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
S7N 0X2, Canada, 2002, 14 pp.
Informant: The Institute of Science in Society
Science Society Sustainability
http://www.i-sis.org.uk
STOP
ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS ON OUR NATIONAL FORESTS
Target: U.S. Senators and Representatives
Sponsor: SaveOurEnvironment .org
America's National Forests are again under attack by the
Bush
administration. The administration's goal is simple: virtually
eliminate
public input into forest management decisions, and give extractive
industries unfettered access to America's forests, regardless
of the cost.
A key component of the Bush administration's anti-conservation
agenda is
to change federal regulations -- proposals that usually do
not make it
to the front page of the newspaper, but which can fundamentally
change
how forests are managed and what rights the public has to
weigh in on
management decisions. The administration is also trying to
weaken the
newly established Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
We need your help. Please sign this petition to send a letter
to your
members of Congress urging them to contact the administration
and insist
that it not rewrite and weaken the NFMA regulations and that
it refrain
from any efforts to abandon the historic and popular Roadless
Rule. Our
National Forests are treasures that belong to every American,
and their
last remaining wildlands deserve strong protections.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/266447436
Bill
Moyers's Presidential Address
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=739
CIA
aware of dubious war motive
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/10/1055220593386.html
UK
seeing war itself as war crime
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0611/p09s02-coop.html
The
Growing Case Against Bush's War
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/06/11/dorothy.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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