[Author: Samir Saha; Translator: Rama Kundu; translated from Dainik Statesman 25 May 2007]
[Translator’s Note: Singur—the best fertile farmland of Bengal till the other day-- completed its one year of occupation by the joint occupation forces of the CPI(M) cadres and police in service of Tata. Within this one year there have already been two suicides by farmers, one starvation death, two murders, in addition to a large number of injured men-women-boys, girls who are carrying on protest in the teeth of relentless callous and cruel musclemen. Here is a brief calendar of this grim one year of Singur]

On 18 May 2006 the chief minister declared – land will be given to the Tata company at Singur for constructing factory for producing small motor cars. The farmers, panicked at the declaration, called an emergency meeting on 21 May 2006, under the leadership of the local Trinamul MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Panchayat member Dipak Adhikari, and the peasant leader Becharam Manna. When on 25 May quite a few executive officers, flanked by local CPIM leaders of Singur, came to survey the site for the proposed factory at Bajemalia the panicked farmers expressed their protest; the aggrieved peasants prostrated before the convoy of the Tata officers in front of the New Ujjal Sangha Club of Gopalnagar Paschimpara. They raised the slogan—‘Not an inch of farmland for factory!’ Indeed, it was on 25 May 2006, that the Singur peasants’ movement started, as the leaders of Singur Farmland Defence Committee claim.
On 27 May Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Becharam Manna, et al came to attend , on behalf of the peasants of Singur, the all-party meeting convened by the District Magistrate. They vehemently opposed the plan of setting up the Tata industry on the farmland. On the very same night there had been a meeting of farmers unwilling to part with their land at Gopalnagar Ghoshpara of Singur. On 4 June 2006 the fullfledged Singur Krishijamiraksha Committee (Singur Farmland Defence Committee) was formed with the Trinamul MLA Rabindsranath Bhattacharya as president, Sanjib Bhattacharya(SUC), Bikashranjan Bag(BJP), Haren Singha Roy(Congress) as vice-presidents, Bacharam Manna(Trinamul) and Shankar Jana(SUC) as joint conveners. The committee took 113 members to start with. The committee was framed in the house of Dipak Adhikari, The Panchayat member of KDG village.
On 18 June Mamata Bandyopadhyay came to address the peasants’ convention on the Hospital ground of Singur Bajemalia . It was a huge gathering, in which the large number of participants—both men and women-- from peasant families, share-croppers and farm-labors was particularly remarkable. In the convention the farmers took the pledge not to surrender a single inch of their farmland. On 25 June a huge procession was taken out by farmers at 2 pm from the vicinity of Singur Daluigacha hotel; it was a protest march against the appropriation of farmland for factory. In the procession of nearly six thousand the farmers carried sticks, brooms, sickle, ladle and stirrer and equipments used on farmland.The marching peasants roared out, threatening a stiff resistance movement against attempts to usurp farmland. Again, on 3 July the farmers took out a long procession. The police of the Singur PS declared the procession illegal and framed Rabindranath Bhattacharya and Becharam Manna in police cases.
On 13 July around 1250 farmers came to the District Magistrate’s office at Chunchura to submit their written declaration against surrendering their land. On 17 July around six thousand farmers gathered at the District Magistrate’s office and submitted memorandum indicating their refusal to surrender their land. On 18 July Mamata came to Singur. As a token of protest against the ban on cultivation of the Aman crop (of rice) within the proposed area of the factory she planted Aman sapling on the land. On 23 July three more fora joined the Singur Krishijamiraksha Committee; these were Mazduoor Kranti Parishad, CPI-ML(Naya Ganatantra), and Khetmazoor Samiti. On 24 July the farmers, the members of the movement against the government decision for forcible occupation of farmland for industry staged a road blockade on Durgapur Expressway for four hours. On 27 July the peasant women took out long processions. These peasant women, unwilling to part with their land, took out three processions from Gopalnagar, Bajemelia and Khaser Bheri on that day. The strong determination against surrendering their land was pronounced in their expression.
On 2 August and 8 August the farmers gathered at the Panchayat Office of KGD and Gopalnagar villages respectively, and presented memorandum appealing to the Panchayat office not to accept the government notification towards land acquisition. On 14 August the employees of the Block Land Reform office came to the villages to distribute the notice of land acquisition; but on facing stiff resistance from the village farmers they did not proceed and went back from the fringe area of Beraberi Santoshima Tala. 22 August was the day fixed for seeking the opinions of farmland owners regarding the proposed land acquisition at Singur B.D.O. office. Through the whole several thousands of unwilling farmers staged a sit-in at the office and voiced their grievance. On 24 August local CPIM leader Srikanta Chattopadhyay came to campaign in favour of land acquisition for the purpose of industry, and was instantly chased off by the peasant women of Gopalnagar Kolepara locality. On 26 August about a thousand students of the Singur Block—including both boys and girls—took out a long procession protesting against the farmland acquisition for industry.
On 1 September the employees of Land Reforms Department again came to serve notification of land acquisition, and went back from Beraberi Santoshi Ma Tala in the face of strong demonstration of unwilling farmers. On that day the peasant women had been holding brooms and sticks. On 3 September the peasants took out a long procession shouting slogans of protest. In the procession that started from the club ground of Kamarkundu Bharati Sangha the angry peasants burnt the effigy of the chief minister. On 7 September the peasants met in a huge gathering in front of Daluigacha D.D.Bharati Bidyalaya and took pledge for defending farmland. It was on this day that the farmers planted black flags in their own land in protest against the government decision. On 10 September the peasants formed ‘human chain’; holding hand in hand they stood encircling the land, while raising the slogan, ‘We will save the land.’
On 25 September the cheque issued in the name of an unwilling farmer was appropriated by another through forgery; at this angry, aggrieved farmers gherao-ed the Singur B.D.O. office. Several thousand peasants—men and women—demonstrated till night. The District Magistrate and police officers remained gherao-ed. In the meantime Mamata Bandyopadhyay arrived at the B.D.O.office in the evening. She insisted that the government must cancel its decision of farmland acquisition. Around 1-30 am at night the peasants were dispersed by the combined attack of Raff and Combat police. Large number of men and women were injured by the severe police thrashing. Mamata was beaten up, and dragged up into a police van and so sent to Kolkata. Seventy-nine people were framed by the police and thrown into the prison. Among them 42 women , including Payel Bag ( a two and a half years’ kid from a peasant family) were framed under the provisions of the arms act. The following day the police again lathicharged a peasants’ procession. In protest against farmland acquisition the organizers shut down six public Durga pujas at Singur. During Dewali the farmers lit no candle in villages like Gopanagar, Bajemelia, Beraberi, Khaser Bheri, Dobandi, Singher Bheri, Rupnarayanpur, etc. At the fall of October the farmers abstained from cooking and observed ‘arandhan’( no cooking as a mark of protest). They further observed the ‘lajja dibas’(the day of shame). On 27 October the public hearing at Singur was attended by social worker Medha Patekar, writer Mahasweta Devi, et al.
On 26 November Mamata came to Singur and planted potato saplings. The farmers also launched three camps for guarding the land. As soon as the police entered the village the women would blow the conch and thus warn the men. The police came to set up a temporary camp but being chased off by the farmers beat retreat. At midnight on 30 November 144 Cr.P.C. was clamped down by the administration. The police came down severely on the farmers’ camps and broke them up. Singur became turbulent with endless protests. Then came that black cursed day of 2 December. The police came down upon the rebellious people, unwilling to part with their farmland, by severe torture; in order to take possession of thousand acres some thousands of police carried their operation into the heart of the villages. The police unleashed hell in the villages for four hours at a stretch from 11 am to 3 pm, with unrestrained lathicharging, bursting tear gas shells, firing rubber bullets. Houses were racked. A large number of farmers—women and men—were injured. The farmers’ resistance was battered down. On this day Medha Patkar, on her way to the village, was detained by the police. She broke into tears at seeing the torture upon these peasants. In protest against the torture the peasants started continuous fast. The women too joined. 18 December was another black day. On this day Tapasi Malik, the teenage daughter of a peasant, was raped and burnt alive; subsequently her burnt body was dumped inside the proposed factory area. Singur was again turbulent demanding punishment for the murderers. The peasant women shouted in tears and anger. [Mamata Bandyopadhya started a historic fast in protest which continued through the month of December 2006] On 15 January 2007 the angry peasants stopped the convoy of Tata officers at Gopalnagar Sanapara. In the face of the situation the officers fled. Towards the end of January , even as 144 Cr p.c. was continuing, the protesting peasants-- who had by now been already dispossessed of their land—wrenched up the wooden pillars holding the barbed wire, tore apart the iron net. The dais raised by the Tatas for offering bhumi puja (a ritual of offering worship to the deity of the land prior to any construction) was destroyed.
On 4 and 5 February 2007 Singur was again turbulent with peasants’ movement. They launched a synchronized offensive from various corners of the village and pulled up the boulders demarcating the proposed factory area in order to get back the possession of their own rightful land . They set fire to a police jeep. Banashree Malik, a girl of six, and the daughter of a peasant—Pashupati Malik – was so beaten up by police that she had to be hospitalized. The peasants dug up the roads. Mamata, Medha came to Singur. The peasants started mass fasting alongside the fence demanding the return of their land. Medha was assaulted by the police. In March 2007 the peasants lighted lamps in front of the Kali temple at Gopalnagar in the memory of the murdered in Nandigram, and in sympathy for the injured. Mamata and others were present on the occasion. On 11 March Haradhan Bag committed suicide by consuming pesticide; he had lost his land, was one of the frontrunners in the movement, but could not bear any more the grief of dispossession. He passed away in the early morning of the following day. People of Singur mourned the death. On 6 April Bimala Khamaru, a farm labour, died of depression and semi-starvation. Since the acquisition of the farmlands, the members of her family could not get work on the land as they used to, and have been nearly starving. On 21 May 2007, on the eve of completion of one year of the movement the peasants had taken out a procession remanding restoration of their farmland; the police again throttled the movement ruthlessly with lathi, tear gas and rubber bullets. [Translator’s addition: On 25 May 2007 another active member of the Singur peasant movement , Prashant Das, committed suicide by hanging himself. Prashant was only 43, but after his plot of land was forcibly acquired by government he found it increasingly difficult to cope with the prospect of bleak future, and eventually succumbed to despair. Singur is stunned with grief, boiling in anger… ]

Even the best English language teacher will find it extremely inexplicable to find a single word to describe the present situation of Anioma which I consider very egregious. There seems no better way to correctly describe this situation than to state that Anioma is a land that flows with milk and honey, abundant human and natural resources, but developmental values are strange to the land and its people. Only an admixture of trepidation, deep sense of commitment and responsibility on the part of Anioma religious, community and political leaders will lead to path to Promised Land of development of the region.

The Anioma professionals are diversely represented in all human endeavours with wealthy businessmen, top politicians, professors, who are contributors to the business of the development of the nation at large, yet their home, Anioma is lacking in virtually every indices that should set the Land to development. The state is headquartered in Asaba from where the governance of the state emanate, yet there is nothing to show for it in Anioma.

Ibusa is one of the largest towns in the region with quite an enormous number of technocrats known the world over, Anwai and Ogwashi-Uku house campuses of tertiary institutions in the state yet development remains only a matter of hope to the people of this region. The Anioma region cannot boast of a socio-cultural organization, a situation that has left the region in want of identity, causing diversity to speak for the region when it is necessary.

Blames for lack of the development of this region particularly points to the political leaders of Anioma, those appointed and elected to speak and lead the region. Pundits say the voices of political representatives of Anioma are never heard as it concerns development even though personalities of Anioma enjoy political positions in Delta State and beyond. The current Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Delta State chapter, the speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, the Minority Leader of Delta state House of Assembly, Secretary to the State Government of Delta State and several other commissioners in this present dispensation are all Anioma.

In the past, Anioma enjoined prominent positions chiefly the Deputy Governorship of the state, yet development remains far from the region. The major problem confronting the entire region is lack of roads accessible to the vast towns and communities of the region. It is sad to recall that many communities of the region do not have roads at all. Only paths exist in these communities, thus the name “Anioma” sounds very high with little or no development at all. Even Asaba, the state capital is only famous for the single road, Nnebisi Road which it has. Ibusa s also another Anioma town with only one Road called Umejei Road; this Umejei Road house all the three Banks the town can boast of, there are no dual carriage roads in Ibusa. Umejei Road now under construction can hardly contain two vehicles, initially expectations were high that the narrow road would be transformed to a dual carriage but as work on the road commenced it turned out that the narrowness of the road was to be maintained by the government. The people of the town therefore had no option than accept it the way it is. Half bread they say is better than none. At least we thank the initiators for the resurfacing of the road, and indeed every sons and daughters who contributed to the resurfacing of the road while hoping that the dream of making the busiest road in the town a dual carriage will be realized.

Recently, I visited some Anioma communities in Delta state only to discover that there are some communities in the region not accessible with vehicles except motorcycles. Any first time visitor to Ubulu-Unor will definitely be appalled with the path linking the town with another community called Ashama. This road is so terrible that people in that town would need to have a rethink on whether to purchase vehicles or not for personal use, at Ashama, you may need to ask yourself whether the town falls within any of the Local Governments existing in Delta State or not and if the community is represented in the affairs of the state. I inquired from my Guide whether any political bigwig has ever traveled to the town, and his answer was in the affirmative. He further told me that road work equipment are often abandoned on the path called road whenever it is time for elections.

A journey further inward was too terrible to contemplate, I received a warning that we could not travel by car to Asaba-Ubulu, we quickly disembarked and mounted a commercial motorcycle, at Asaba-Ubulu-Unor, I discovered that the presence of the government is never felt but they only hear of it from radio sets. I was extremely frightened and shocked to discover that there could be a community without a road no matter how small that very community is.

Another socio-political problem confronting the Anioma region is the inactivity of Anioma public office holders soon after they leave office. When an Anioma political officer holder leaves office, inactivity takes over, in this way, the political and economic affairs of the region are abandoned, and their voices from the political scene are never heard again, this cause Anioma to remain static. Anioma then is overshadowed by her other ethnic counterparts.

You will sometimes be left wondering what message Anioma leaders often carry to the nation’s president, when they pay him courtesy calls because nothing is ever heard of such visits again either no actions seen from the nation’s leader that will usher in development. Many at times, we are glad on seeing our leaders photographed with the nation’s president on courtesy calls, but no sooner we rejoice than our hopes fade out because no actions come from such visits.

The much cherished agitation for the creation of Anioma State which the region’s fathers began are never mentioned or at least in public statements. Senator David Mark is still expecting Anioma leaders to carry officially the message of creation of Anioma state to him. Other regions agitating for the creation of their own states have paid the senate leader visits to register their ambitions. Only yesterday, Group agitating for the creation of Ijebu State became the latest group to join the train. We still await similar action from our Anioma Group.

We do not hear our Anioma representatives move motions in our legislative houses for the benefit of developing the Anioma region.. Many Ukwani and Ndokwa communities are hidden to development because they are strategically cut-off. Sadly certain of Anioma Local Government are headquarters are won through political influence rather than consideration for natural and overwhelming indices, hidden and smaller less vibrant villages are made to house the headquarters of several Local Government Areas of Anioma region, while natural and more viable towns are relegated to the background. Naturally, investors shun these so called Local Government Headquarters with profound interest for already developing communities.

Anioma leaders need to wake up from their slumbering attitude towards the issues of the development of the region. The people of the region have experienced marginalization long enough to experience another, first in the hands of the Iduu (Benin), the British during the Ekumeku wars which led the British to balkanize the region, the inclusion of Anioma in the once Midwestern region carried no significant benefits, back to the inclusion of the region in the former Bendel State where the region experienced so much stagnancy. We cannot this time, marginalize ourselves in the face of plenty, it is on this basis that I call on our leaders go for the development of this area. 

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Connecticut’s 18 year Senator Joes Lieberman has failed to win his own party’s primary for reelection. The figures are almost final, and country club liberal Ned Lamont has bested the Senator by 52% to 48%. The actual vote so far is 142,000 votes to 136,000 votes. How did Lamont get it done, and what does it mean for the country in the upcoming November election, and the financial markets?

Lieberman self-imploded by being out of touch with his own base. What makes the result more astounding is that he is one of only three sitting United States Senators to be denied his party’s nomination over the last 25 years. He was his party’s nominee for the Vice Presidency of the United States only six years ago. This is a man who ran for the Presidency itself only two years ago. In his mind when he ran for the Presidency he had to believe he was going to win that nomination, or he would not even have tried. How does a man like this who has spent his whole life in politics allow himself to be blown away by a novice who has been out of touch with everyday living for his entire life?

It is one thing to support several of President Bush’s policies. It is another to appear to be cozy, and even joined at the hip with a sitting President who has 58% disapproval rating among the American people. The first thing we must realize is that this primary was never about Ned Lamont. Mr. Lamont comes across as a physically attractive, affable individual. He is a trust fund descendent who traces his roots to his great grandfather Thomas William Lamont, who was a partner of JP Morgan and Company, when Mr. Morgan was the single most powerful financial banker in the entire world. Ned Lamont was educated at America’s finest private schools including Harvard and Yale where there are buildings named after members of his family. He lives in Greenwich, CT., a wealthy, insulated community if there ever was one.

It was fascinating, to see Ned Lamont declare victory with three African Americans behind standing immediately behind him, two of whom are household names, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Reverend Al Sharpton. What made it all the more interesting is that Greenwich has to have the smallest percentage of African Americans among its population set than any town of its size in America. Politics is indeed imitating art.

How did Lamont get it done? First, wrong question, he didn’t get it done. This campaign is the product of absolutely brilliant Internet bloggers with a liberal bias who motivated the grass roots to get out there and defeat Lieberman. Lamont could have been a one-eyed, peg legged pirate, and the liberals would have played it the same way. These bloggers mobilized outsiders including young people, and others to come into quiet Connecticut, and unseat the conservative Democratic sitting Senator, Mr. Lieberman. Thousands of independent voters were persuaded to switch from independent to Democratic to vote in this primary. Thousands more were registered for the first time.

It was a brilliant, well orchestrated, and in the end EFFECTIVE way to go. It demonstrates the joining of the Internet, and the power of the people. It is the beginning of the next wave in politics. It is as decisive, and perhaps more decisive than the advent of television, and the transformation of the Presidency when President John Kennedy became the first candidate to use that medium effectively. The day of Joe Lieberman’s defeat is the turning point of a new American politics based on Internet power.

I view this as a positive use of power. Mr. Lamont is irrelevant to this event. What is relevant is that giant sums of money will be raised by the Internet on behalf of candidates. I fervently hope that this will dwarf the money that is given by lobbyists who essentially have controlled this country for years. These lobbyists act not in the interests of the people, but in the interests, of certain isolated, wealthy, powerful interest groups. These groups want what they want with no thought whatsoever towards the needs of mainstream America.

Both of our political parties are in the grips of these private interests. The interests are different for each party but equally powerful. Does any Conservative Republican believe in his heart of hearts that the present Congress represents the philosophy of Conservative Republicanism? Barry Goldwater, Mr. Conservative would turn over in his grave if he saw what the current Congress has passed in the way of legislation, and the unprecedented amount of debt that has been piled onto our children’s futures. At the same time, the liberals do not present a viable, workable alternative, which is why they lost power during the 1994 Congressional election.

What does this mean for the financial markets in the United States? I suspect at the very least, the Democrats will pick up seats in both houses of Congress this coming November. The out of power party traditionally picks up anyway. With the tailwind of Iraq at the Democrats back, if they had any cohesive actionable plan, they would take both houses of Congress. I have yet to see such a plan, and the smart money says it is more likely that they will take one house, since the Democrats are still trying to figure out what they believe.

It is more likely they take the House of Representatives, and this then gives the NEW Democratic Chairmen of different House committees the POWER of Subpoena. The Democrats will exercise that power in an attempt to emasculate the sitting President, and they will effectively do just that. At the very least, this means GRIDLOCK, at the extreme, a move towards impeachment, probably on groups of violating constitutional law. They will relate it to privacy, and wiretapping through the National Security Agency. As far as the financial markets are concerned, they would LOVE gridlock to return.

A party that gives tens of billions of unnecessary dollars to insurance companies to act as an intermediary in a national drug program for the elderly does not deserve control of three branches of government. A party that has so seriously mismanaged the Iraq situation does not deserve control of three branches of government. A party that creates tax cuts is good in my opinion, but not a party that borrows hundreds of billions of dollars from foreigners. It then gives the cash to the rich class in America as tax cuts, and leaves the debt with your children. That party doesn’t deserve to control three branches of government. The financial markets will pick up on this, and react positively to the return of gridlock.

It’s going to be fascinating to see what poor Joe Lieberman has started, and by the way, wouldn’t it be surprising to see the following scenario. The Connecticut Republican nominee for Senator gives up the nomination. The Republicans nominate Joe Lieberman in his place, while he runs on the Independent line also. In the end Poor Joe, gets reelected after all in November.

Goodbye and good luck
Richard Stoyeck

The Real Da Vinci Code, Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, resolves the age-old problem of holism versus atomism.

Leonardo said it best: "The outstretched arms and legs of a man form a square and a circle: the square symbolizes the solid physical world and the circle the spiritual and eternal. Man bridges the gap between these two worlds." -Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Magical Proportions of Man"

Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (the Da Vinci Man with four arms and four legs in a square and circle) is the most popular secular symbol in the world. My ten years of research suggests that the Vitruvian Man is a universal symbol for greater love, relationships, success, health and the new age 21st century paradigm of indivisible wholeness, the paradigm for world peace. A New Renaissance!

The Da Vinci Man is a universal translator between scientific models (represented by the Da Vinci Man in the square) and religious symbols (represented by the Da Vinci Man in the circle). Therefore, the Vitruvian Man (Da Vinci Man) is a bridge between science and religion. There are amazing similarities between the sacred geometry of the Da Vinci Man, Yin-Yang, Star of David, Tree of Life, Christian Cross, Angels and Kabbalah.

Unifying and Non-Changing Holism versus Change and Separation of Atomism The two cojoined Da Vinci forms in the square and circle represent a philosophy of indivisible wholeness. The current, although vanishing, paradigm of science is still anchored in the belief of classical physics, which separates man from his environment. This would have the effect of separating the two cojoined forms of the Da Vinci Man.

The New Physics of Indivisible Wholeness, launched by David Bohm and his student John Bell, is more open to investigating the integration between science (represented by the Da Vinci Man in the square) and spirit (represented by the Da Vinci Man in the square).

Leonardo, the greatest scientist of his age (considered to be the first modern scientist) was also the greatest artist of his age. He is the model for a holistic approach that combines science with art into one wholeness. The reductionist or atomist point of view, still prevalent in science, arose in the 17th century (along with the rise of science versus spirit).

The Renaissance was a period of integration and holism. Holism was popularized by the Greek philosopher Parmenides (5th century BC), who believed that the essential reality of life was non-changing, unified and whole. He taught that the world of change and phenomenon was essentially illusory. This theory, adopted by Plato (4th century BC), is similar to a religious experience.

The philosophy of Parmenides laid the foundation for modern unified field theory and the quantum vacuum. When the electrons of an atom are in their least excited state (e.g., at absolute zero temperatures), they are closest to the nucleus of the atom and a ground or vacuum state is created.

Proponents of vacuum state theory believe that all things emerge from virtual fluctuations within the non-changing vacuum, which lies at the core of all atomic and subatomic phenomenon. It has been theorized that the vacuum state is over a billion times more powerful than the atomic state (matter). This supports the belief that an all-powerful nonmaterial reality lies at the heart of material reality.

The theory of Parmenides is altered and validated by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (5th century BC), who believed that everything was in constant motion and change, as well as profoundly unified. Instead of the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire, Heraclitus proposed that all was part of the element fire, constant in its flickering and changeability.

Heraclitus would be pleased that modern physics demonstrates that electrons are in constant motion around the nucleus of the atom, which also consists of protons and neutrons in constant motion around each other. Heraclitus would also add that a profound unity underlies this change. This is similar to the philosophy of the Yin-Yang T'ai Chi.

Leonardo embraced the philosophy of Heraclitus--the philosophy of constant change. Leonardo was influenced in this by his own work on hydraulics (the movement of water). He applied his knowledge of the movement of water to the movement of birds in flight (movement in air).

Leonardo also embraced the philosophy of Heraclitus, which spoke of the underlying unity of creation, in his search for the squaring of the circle represented by the Da Vinci Man. This was the search for the unified field of Leonardo's time. The Oracle of Delphi first proposed it at the time of Parmenides and Heraclitus. Leonardo devoted twenty years of research to this endeavor, filling up hundreds of pages with illustrations in his Codex manuscripts. Some believe it was Leonardo's greatest passion.

On the other hand, the Greek philosopher Democritus (4th century BC) believed that all matter could be reduced to essential particles or atoms. This laid the foundation for modern quantum theory, the study of atoms and subatomic particles. It was also a foundation for the Copenhagen theory of quantum physics, which proposes that we accept that the particle and wave nature of electrons and protons exist, yet it is not necessary to examine if they are part of the same phenomenon.

According to the philosophy of Parmenides, this would be like saying that elephants (which represent holism) don't exist. It is like saying that the elephant is sometimes a snake (its tail) and sometimes a tree (its legs), but never part of the same whole.

The unfortunate consequence of atomism is that it requires us to artificially separate from our environment. This imposed duality leads to alienation from ourselves, others and nature. This creates fear and addictive behavior in order to overcome our fear.

Atomism without holism also leads to an "us versus them" mentality, a need to conquer and control our environment, even destroy it, in order to remove the imposed feeling of aloneness and separation.

Democritus and Heraclitus are often portrayed as the happy and tragic masks of comedy, like Yin and Yang. I propose that the holism of Paramenides is a circle around these two cojoined masks that represent atomism and constant change.

This reminds us of the circle surrounding the two cojoined forms of the Da Vinci Person. Atomism is like the contracted Da Vinci Man with arms outstretched. Change is like the expanded Da Vinci Man with arms uplifted. This is why the Da Vinci Person is a perfect model for the 21st century paradigm of indivisible wholeness, as proposed by David Bohm, the grandfather of Bell's Theorem, which indicates that all things are interconnected and indivisibly whole.

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The heavy competition between these companies is great for you, the consumer. The best cell phone companies all have very competitive rates, but some may suit your needs better than others. The savvy consumer can easily find comparisons of cell phone companies online.

If you have a family who uses cell phones, you’ll want to compare cell phone family plans. If you make a lot of international calls, you can find the best international cell phone plans that will keep your cost down to a minimum so you can enjoy talking to friends and family overseas without worrying over huge bills.

If you’re in the market for a pay as you go prepaid cell phone, you can find these online as well. Prepaid cell phones or pay as you go cellular plans mean you don’t have to have a credit check to obtain a phone. Often you’ll find a decent plan that will give you a free or cheap prepaid cell phone as part of the deal.

After you get your new cell phone, you may find that you want to purchase some additional phone accessories. Most cell phone manufacturers offer a wide range of discount phone accessories including: batteries, colorful faceplates, cases, hands free kit (great for driving), and car phone battery chargers.

And who can resist all the other popular freebies you can get with a cell phone these days: Free cell phone ringtones or ringer (pop and rap music ringtones are especially popular); Free cell phone games; Free cell phone downloads to your computer; Free cell phone number search; and Free cell phone wallpapers are just a few.

It’s hard to believe that only a few years ago cell phones were something that only certain businesspeople used. Now, they’re practically everywhere and may actually make the old style telephones obsolete in the near future.

While they aren’t quite as cool as those Star Trek communicators, they’re pretty close. Best of all, they’re free for the taking.

The best way to achieve the Sreyokarma or the liberating karma is through the meditation. And meditating will lead us to the eternal and sacred path of soul's happiness.

As a fruit of the meditation the mind will withdraw from the sensorial world and will reach joy, happiness and truth and will not be disturbed any more by sorrow and greed.

Meditation should be practiced with enthusiasm faith and care, following strictly the established disciplines.

Some think that the benefits of the meditation are that they will be able to easily satisfy their mundane wishes. But that is a great mistake, because the meditation and the repetition of the name of God are meant to acquire an undivided attention in God, to freedom us from the sensorial bonds therefore reaching happiness in God.

We mustn't practice meditation with the idea of obtaining earth's fruits; we must meditate looking towards inside of us, until we become able to contemplate the soul's blessedness.

Do not pay attention to the time that it takes to reach the objective, just practice with faith and persistence until God's grace falls over you.

Three forms exist of following the meditation's path:

The Satvic path, where you consider that the repetition of God's name and the meditation, are duties that you have to do. That our life in earth is an illusion and you only wish and do good to everyone loving them, and not even do it for the fruits.

The Rajasic path, where every step that you give, you give it because of the fruits that that will provide you. (With this attitude you will gradually loose the desire of practicing meditation)

The Tamasic path where you only remember God when you are in danger or suffering, and as soon as you get rid of the problems you forget God. (Those that are in this path will never be able to purify their minds).

Meditating will allow you to get reed of the ignorance, layer after layer, but in order to achieve that you must be equipped with good habits, discipline, and high ideals.

When we develop the interest and pleasure of meditating, then we achieve a will and a strength, bigger than the effort of meditating.

Sathya the truth is so comforting, that when we reach it, there isn't any more a meditation, a meditator or an object of the meditation, because they all become One.

The atmic blessedness is the goal and the fruit of the meditation. The human being that reaches that becomes pure, free from suffering and divine.

Then he will find happiness within himself, because the meditation will help him discover within himself the fountain of blessedness, he will be able to submerge himself into his inherent divine state, and become a Mahatma (a great soul). From there on he will be free and realized, and will live in blessedness and peace. That's the fruit of meditation!

Written by Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi

“Best policy in war – thwart the enemy’s strategy, second best – disrupt his alliances through diplomacy, third best - attack his army in the field,
worst strategy – attack walled cities.” -“The Art of War,” Sun Tsu

It doesn’t augur well for the future of the new surge when, one day before operations began, the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates threw doubt over whether it would be a success and hinted that further options might be necessary. Speaking before a Senate Armed Services Committee, he said that he didn’t consider the current operation “the last chance” and was looking into alternatives, if it failed. In Baghdad a quite different picture was being painted for the Iraqi people, who were being told on TV by their Prime Minister, Maliki that it was “the end of a dark tunnel” and that it was nothing but “win or lose now.”

Underpinning the whole debacle in Iraq has been a complete cultural void and total failure to grasp the psychology of the Iraqi people by the US leadership. This communication chasm, illustrated above, is the prime reason why this surge will fail and why everything else has, and will continue to, run like sands through the fingers of the US forces in Iraq. This said, lets take a look at what are the likely trajectories for this surge in Baghdad?

The most optimistic option, of course, would be a roaring success. In quick step with military planning, district after district is cleared and secured from insurgent and militia forces with little resistance. Sectarian violence evaporates. Armed groups are disbanded and disarmed and the rule of law under the Iraqi Army and police is installed. The Maliki government is stabilized and security spreads countrywide, establishing a unitary, democratic nation sympathetic to the United States.

Well, it's doubtful anyone, even in Washington or the military command, really believes that these aims are feasible and attainable. Non-starter, no-brainer. So the real outcome is likely to be somewhere along the continuum between the partially optimistic and the totally pessimistic perspectives.

The partially optimistic outcome is just that – the achievement a partial and temporary reduction in the scale of violence in Baghdad itself. It is entirely possible that a major change in the scale and logistics of the security presence may decrease violence for a number reasons. It restricts the movement and autonomy of insurgent and militia activities, at least until they can adjust and adapt to the new circumstances. Punitive actions against the enemy may weaken them or force them to retreat or re-deploy. Furthermore, since the “surge” is known publicly to be of short duration, with the aim of handing security to the Iraqi Army, some insurgents and militias may decide to go to ground temporarily, and bide their time until a US withdrawal to barracks makes operational conditions more favorable for them to restart. Moreover,the security operation could be aided by temporary, passive support from some of the population, especially following the recent extraordinary high level of sectarian mayhem and the lack of any other alternatives.

Conversely, the more pessimistic outcome would involve a palpable inability to sustain any control over the security situation in Baghdad and a worsening of conditions throughout the country. Already, the capital city notwithstanding, there has been an intensification of insurgent, sectarian, inter-tribal and inter-militia violence in nearly every town and province recently. Even in the relatively quite south, where British forces were hoping to gradually begin leaving, fighting is growing worse. More wide scale, internecine combat could break out, with different local police and military forces taking sides like mafia turf wars, but on a much wider scale.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of refugees continue to pour north and south into respective Sunni or Shia areas in order to flee sectarian violence in Baghdad and mixed regions elsewhere. They are bitter, homeless and vengeful. They have no work and are perfect sources of recruitment for insurgents and militias. Larger cities like Mosul and Kirkuk, with mixed populations are already facing a “Baghdadisation”. In Kirkuk, which is majority Kurdish, a civil war situation is not ruled out, given the already heightened state of tensions between Sunnis and Kurds, as well as Turkomen, Christian and other minorities. The north could become a battleground dragging in the previously stable Kurdish autonomous region.

As for the Sunni Al Anbar stronghold, it’s already mostly a no-go “liberated” area and is likely to see some intense fighting. But attacking Al Anbar, with its strong tribal links to Saudi Arabia, is very delicate matter, especially while strengthening overall Shi’ite power in the country. At the moment Washington is not making any public boasts about taking Al Anbar back en bloc. However, in the meantime, we may just find that, it won't be just Anbar, but a whole number of others provinces that could have declared “independence,” while US forces are pre-occupied with Baghdad.

If sectarian violence and the insurgency is not significantly reduced for more than a short interlude, or rapidly re-emerges on a significant level, the US forces could find themselves trapped in “the mother of all quagmires.” While an important part of both the Shia and Sunni population will give them a period of grace, their patience will break very easily. Anger and desperation will erupt and they will turn back with a new resolve to calling on and supporting local defence groups, militias and insurgents to protect them from the attacks of the other community. Once lost this time, the US will never be able to regain the grace or trust of either community again. Consequently, an unstoppable wave of sectarianism and insurgency will sweep over their heads, which they will be incapable of coping with - 21,000 extra troops or not.

It is not at all ruled out that there will be no abatement at all in hostilities. Before the beginning of the new operation, insurgent and sectarian attacks were gaining a momentum and a confidence that has suggested more than just a big fireworks parade before the carnival falls quiet. It seemed to have a new wildness, ferocity and sometimes downright weirdness to it, as though the Sunnis were whipping themselves up into a frenzy ready for a big battle. Protracted street battles raged, daring assaults on high security targets were launched, helicopters were being shot from the air, and all of this combined to create a sort of atmosphere of gearing up by insurgents for the last fling at the “last chance saloon”. The Iraqis sense that after this, failure means the doors of hell will open, regardless of the American presence its size or its policies. The insurgents need to win, or to derail the operations sufficiently, for the process to begin.

Moreover, the Sunni insurgency, in particular, is far more coordinated, well-organized, better-equipped and commanded than before. Moreover, they enjoy greater local support and the morale of their fighters is high. Recently, they have shown exceptional levels of belligerency, tenacity and audacity, as well as adroitness and adaptability. These factors all tend to suggest that the reception for US and Iraqi forces will be much more aggressive and determined than in previous operations

Ironically, the biggest point of support for the US at the moment is Muqtada al-Sadr. Despite being portrayed, somewhat justifiably, like Robbie Burns’ famous “wee, cowering, timorous beastie,” his turncoat collaboration with the US and Iraqi government is an enormous political coup and great tactical advantage for the Americans. In particular his instruction to his followers to stand down has been invaluable in tipping the balance of forces in America’s favor. For the US to have had to start by taking on both the Sunny insurgency and Shi’ite Mehdi Army, might have proved unviable.

But how just long this can last is another question. Undoubtedly, part of the recent Sunni sectarian strategy has been to intensify sectarian attacks with the aim of goading the Mehdi into retaliation. Given the public US commitment to clamp down on Shia militias, the Sunnis hoped to use the Mehdi as a second proxy front by forcing them into confrontation with US forces. But if despite the surge, the Sunnis are still able to sustain a high level of sectarian atrocities, then at some point, the unrest among the Shi’ite public will force militia elements into action from below, with or without Muqtada al-Sadr. Once the population begins to feel that the US cannot protect them, then they will demand the militias take matters back into their own hands. They will want to counter-attack and they will attack the US simultaneously in an effort to drive them out of their way, so as to have a free run at the Sunnis. This would stretch US forces and, in turn, embolden the Sunnis to also intensify their own attacks on American forces.

It is quite possible, that Shi’ite unrest could quickly develop into an uprising, or a sort of “Iraqi intifada”, rather than a purely sectarian movement or just an insurgency. Sadr City could explode and becomes a cause célèbre for Shias nationally and internationally. Where nearly all of the 2 million strong population is armed this would be more like a revolution. It would quickly spread throughout East Baghdad and even across the Tigris River into the Sunni West. What began as a so-called US surge would recoil upon them in the form of a popular tsunami engulfing American forces. They would be forced to raise the white flag and escape, not just formally retreat. US casualties could be catastrophic. Pictures of surrounded troops being pulled from hummvies and beheaded on the streets could flash across TV screens worldwide. A Vietnam-scale movement could develop in the US. The resignation, by one means or another, of the Commander-in-Chief, would be on the cards.

In old-fashioned military terms, what the US is doing is “laying siege” to a city. They are playing with fire. Should they pursue their promised, aggressive policy of bringing in heavy armaments, tanks and air support in order to root out insurgents in a densely packed urban setting, they risk causing massive collateral damage. Civilian deaths from heavy fighting could start to reach numbers where talk of massacres starts to become real. Troops stretched to breaking point can make big mistakes. Situations like this are pregnant with the accidental, the ill-thought out and the outrageous. This is another scenario which runs the risk of turning passive resistance into a mass popular uprisings. In the case of atrocities and massacres by US forces and/or in collusion with Iraqi Army troops, cries might well be heard for the indictment of US commanders for war crimes.

In any of the scenarios above, the Iraqi government could easily fall. The current “hard man” Maliki is quite capable of jumping ship and moving in the direction of either comfortable exile or joining a movement for an independent Shi'ite state. The Army and police would turn against the US army and join forces with the militias and insurgents. The US would be left with out any popular support, without a government, a mandate or a real state to save.

Whatever Bush or Gates' plans are for the future is irrelevant. The surge has been presented as the last US battle. Whatever the outcome, after all they have been through, the Iraq people will not stand for any more projects, plans or promises from the US in the future. There are no more chances. The US is gambling away its last reserves of support, trust and belief. When it fails, every section of society will turn against it.

Not having a properly drafted Letter of Intent may lead to loss of business as well as ambiguity in setting out the proposed terms of an intended sale. After all, when thinking of buying a business, the intentions to buy should be clearly set out at the very beginning. To get the best out of the proposed deal, it is wiser to obtain a well-prepared, complete and authentic Letter of Intent rather than use untutored and inexperienced methods to draw up the Letter of Intent. This will ensure the smooth transition of the assets of the Business from the Seller to the Purchaser. Its importance as a preliminary document in a proposed sale is too great to treat it with inadequate attention.

What is the Letter of Intent?

The Letter of Intent states an understanding of the proposed terms of the impending sale between the two parties. It is not merely a preliminary document that defines the terms and conditions of a proposed sale but is also not a legally binding contract nor is it enforceable in a court of law. It does, however, specify the rights and obligations of the parties concerned. The parties are only stating that they intend to enter into an agreement, the contents of which are covenants that will later bind the parties together in their proposed business acquisition.

What are the Contents of the Letter of Intent?

The Letter of Intent shall specify whether the Purchaser will be buying up all or a substantial amount of the assets of the Business and will, in addition, only acquire those liabilities that are part of the operations of the Business subsequent to the closing date.

The price paid and the price adjustments will be determined by the audited or un-audited balance sheet figures of the Business on a specified date and these shall focus themselves on the adjustments that arise after the closing date due to changes in the accounts receivable and inventories of the Business from a specified date up until the closing date.

Seller's obligations and legal position

The Seller is obliged to continue operating the Business in a manner that is consistent with past practice and that he shall facilitate the Purchaser's endeavors in obtaining finance from third parties. However, neither the Purchaser nor the Seller is under any obligation to complete the acquisition of the Business until and unless the Purchase acquires all permits, certificates, permissions and approvals as required ensuring the correct operation of the Business by the Purchaser. In addition, the Purchaser should also have completed a due diligence investigation and satisfied himself/herself in this regard.

Due Diligence

The Seller will facilitate the Purchaser's due diligence investigation by providing all books, records, contracts, access to important employees as well as all other relevant information of the Business.

Confidential information and agreeing not to use it for competitive purposes

Matters concerning the due diligence investigation are to be treated in confidence and the Purchaser will not either directly or through his representatives divulge any such information. The Purchaser is also bound not to use the information gained through due diligence investigations in competition with the Seller even if the proposed sale falls through.

No solicitation of employees of the Business by the Purchaser

Till the proposed sale materializes, or in the event that such sale does not materialize, the Purchaser shall abstain from trying to recruit or solicit the services of any employee of the Business.

Seller will not deal with other bidders

Till a date, as specified in the Letter of Intent, or till such time as the Letter of Intent stands terminated, the Seller is under an obligation not to deal with any other party in any respect whatsoever.

Other Terms and Conditions

This Letter of Intent sets out the conditions of the proposed sale and is dependent upon the signing of a definitive agreement by and concerning the Buyer, Seller and the Company. The definitive agreement shall hold the schedules, representations, covenants, indemnities and all other provisions according to the terms and conditions of the Letter of Intent and following all standard conventions in regard to all usual and applicable commercial practices.

"Zombies. man. They creep me out." -Dennis Hopper in the Land Of The Dead.


Book Excerpt:


By William Thomas




They are everywhere.

And they are winning.

Walk down virtually any metropolitan street, if you still dare, and you will discern with a jolt of alarm that no one around you is aware of each other’s presence or their surroundings as they shuffle past with the shambling gait of automatons. Hearing blocked by blaring or blathering headsets, heads bent over cell phones, iPods, palm pilots, multimedia players, text messagers and other hypnotic gadgetry, these walking dead with their vacant stares are so far departed from the reality around them they don’t even know they’re gone.

Cell phone zombies are proliferating everywhere. Spread by the most virulent contagion on Earth – the lust to own and continuously jack into wireless technology – addictive endorphin jolts sent by cell phones to the brain threaten agonizing withdrawal, even as their invisible emanations attack the frontal lobes, short-circuiting memory, awareness and cognitive thought.

Succumbing to the identical marketing strategies marshaled by the same advertising agencies pushing tobacco onto children, hordes of cell phone zombies as young as four-years-old are replacing normal human relationships with the cold calculus of truncated text messages, while disturbing their sonic space and interrupting conversations with friends and spouses to jabber with ghosts who are not even present, even as they spread the blight of their second hand microwaves among the last pockets of cell phone resistance.

Unlike the flesh-munching ghouls depicted in Hollywood horror flicks, which die and "reanimate" through the transmission of the Solanum virus through a usually gruesome exchange of bodily fluids, "voodoo zombies" are created by potions and spells cast by Haitian hougnan priests. 

"Zombie powder," as Max Brooks notes in his essential ZOMBIE Survival Guide, "contains a very powerful neurotoxin" not unlike the pervasive brain-eating chemicals added to food, soft drinks and other drugs – including (as we have seen elsewhere in this book) fluoride, aspartame and mercury. Separately and in combination, these insidious compounds are synergistically activated by pulsating electromagnetic emissions that mimic and override normal cellular functioning to destroy brain neurons and turn people into zombies.

Held entranced as their life force is leached away by devices eerily similar in size and shape to the voodoo dolls used to cast curses, cell phone zombies are especially dangerous, because unlike real Solanum-inducted zombies incapable of expressing feelings or speech, cell phone zombies can appear nearly normal when not jacked in. A real zombie, when it encounters you, "will home in like a smart bomb," Brooks explains, and start gnawing your face. A cell phone-voodoo zombie "will take a moment to try to figure out who or what you are."

Smiling a reflexive, unfelt apology for their intrusion – even "growling if hurt or provoked" as Brooks describes – many cell phone zombies "understand words; some even understand simple sentences [and] possess the ability to speak – simply, of course – and rarely for extended conversations."


TILL DEATH DO YOU APART
While not known to devour human flesh like "real" zombies, their mindless preoccupation with themselves, slavish fixation on meaningless distractions, and complete disregard for their rapidly deteriorating ecologic, economic and Constitutional environment threaten to spill from the worst zomboid infestations in the United States across the entire globe.

Certainly, the carnage caused by their mindless wars against non-threatening nations on which American zombies project their paranoia is consuming bone and gristle, hopes and dreams by the boxcar loads. With more than one million people – mostly children – killed in Iraq since 2003 by zombie-like GIs hopped up on anti-malarial pills and Dexedrine, fear, stress, exhaustion and the potent spells of patriotism and "revenge" for non-existent crimes, America’s blindly-following zombie legions are as dangerous to any country they overrun as the horrors described by Brooks in his best-selling account of the zombie wars. [World War Z]


CELL PHONE CARNAGE
Still, innocent bystanders and drivers can be at grave risk from deranged zombies talking on their cell phones while operating heavy fast-moving vehicles.

In cities that have not yet disarmed cell phone-brandishing drivers, the resulting daily carnage is as gory as any scene out of "Night Of The Living Dead". Stunned by an additional $4 billion a year in claims for drivers using cell phones, North American insurers discovered that juggling phones while driving is not causing a 600% increase in accidents. Other drivers busy shaving, applying makeup, tuning radios, taming pets, pouring coffee, eating meals, retrieving dropped cigarettes, talking to passengers or attempting various sexual gymnastics are even more preoccupied.

Cell phones are much worse than lmerely dangerous driving distractions. Tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy found that using a cellphone turns drivers into zombies, severely impairing their memories and reaction times by disrupting signals to and within their brains. Hands-free mobile phones cause even more crashes because they typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units.

Phoning from inside a car or truck is a bad call for everyone in the vehicle – especially children – because the surrounding steel structure amplifies cellphone emissions. The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee reports, "using a mobile phone in a vehicle can accelerate radiation levels by up to 10-fold due to resonance effect."

For all drivers dialing out, Swiss researchers have found "changes of brain function induced by pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields outlast the exposure period." University of Toronto investigators report that the heightened probability of cracking up your car persists for up to a half-hour after completing a call.

That’s comparable to the risk of crashing while driving dead drunk exclaims Dr. Chris Runball, chairman of the B.C. Medical Association’s emergency medical services committee.

"Talking on a cell phone makes you drive like a retiree even if you're only a teen," reports the University of Utah, after finding that when motorists as young as 18 talk on their cell phones, "they drive like elderly people, moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents." Only hands-free phones were used in the study.

"If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, his reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver," says David Strayer, a University of Utah psychology professor and principal author of the study. "It's like instant aging." (Except studies have shown older, more experienced drivers are much more cautious – and safer – than testosterone-addled teens.) [AP Feb 2/05; Human Factors Winter/05]

Cell phone users are also as impaired as alcoholics. The quarterly journal Human Factors and Ergonomics Society reports that motorists talking on cell phones are actually more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding 0.08. It doesn't matter whether the phone is hand-held or hands free.

EM engineer Alasdair Philips of Britain’s Powerwatch looked for people under age 40 using cell phones more than four hours a day, and found them already retired as "unfit for future work" due to early onset dementia. Philips says, "I would rate over four hours per day cell-phone use as potentially as dangerous as drinking a bottle of spirits per day – only it will damage the user’s brain function rather than kidney function, and we don’t yet have brain transplants."

SAFETY TIP: Protect yourself from zombies operating motor vehicles! If you are driving and spot someone using a cell phone in a vehicle nearby, pull off the road and seek cover as soon as it is safe to do so. Or maneuver behind that driver and increase your distance accordingly. Do not open fire. "Self-defense" is not yet a legal defense for shooting drivers wielding cell phones.


PHONING FETUSES
If infants are born zombies, we are doomed. In the world’s most extensive, government-funded report on cell phone radiation, biomedical expert Dr. Stan Barnett described cell phone radiation effects on fetal tissue. After its release in June 1994 by a reluctant Australian government, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) described laboratory tests as far back December 1974 showing how neurons in the soft skulls of developing fetuses are extremely sensitive to heat during the process of cell division.

"The mother’s pelvic structure promotes deep RF radiation penetration and that radiation can be absorbed within the developing embryo or fetus," Dr. Barnett warned. The womb’s saline fluid is also highly conductive to Radio Frequencies and microwaves – and the EMF-conductive human body is 65% water-by-weight. [CSIRO June 1994; irf.univie.ac.at/emf]]

Whether cell phone radiation cooks the baby’s brain or destroys its rapidly dividing brain cells through microwave radiation, "the resulting neural deficit may not be restored," Dr. Barnett found. Perhaps not wanting to terrify the public, he neglected to add that this fetal brain damage from cell phones could easily lead to zombification. But he did add that though the fetus may continue to develop and appear normal, her brain functioning may be reduced for life. [EMFacts Consultancy Mar 26/03]

PhD Robert Kane points to corroborative research showing that all fetuses "showed growth retardation from cell phone exposure" – with female offspring exhibiting the highest risk of "impaired learning ability." When we recall that cell phone zombies speak largely in clichés, corporate jingles and broken sentences we can see how insidiously far-reaching this process has already gone.

Associated Bioelectromagnetics Technologists findings also show that RF exposure from cell phones and cell phone relay towers "is wholly correlated with the repeatedly documented increased incidence of autism – now reported by at least some researchers as greater than 1 per 100 newborn."

God have mercy on us all. If one in a hundred infants are not actually autistic but hard-to-differentiate zombies – we may find ourselves overwhelmed within another generation.


TOASTED TOTS
No one saw it coming. At first a cumbersome novelty, then a faddish convenience, the turning point in the zombification of humanity came in 2006, when corporate hougnan witch doctors casting microwaves began targeting the newborn. Already brain damaged by forced mercury injections in multiple infant vaccines, these newly arrived humans were taken home and bathed in electromagnetic smog invisibly spread by wireless routers, portable phones and intercom "sentries" placed in close proximity to their cribs.

The next step in their zombification came in putting cuddly "kiddy" phones capable of speed-dialing grandma and grandpa into the grasping hands of four year-olds. Soon, humans just out of the womb will no doubt be taking congratulatory calls at their mother’s breasts.

Some of us tried to resist. The MO1 developed by the toy company Imaginarium and telcom giant Telefónica in Spain prompted parental groups across Europe to demand a government ban on inflicting cell phones on children. Jóvenes Verdes, an environmental advocacy group for young Spanish persons, denounced the mobile telephone industry for "acting like the tobacco industry by designing products that addict the very young."

In Paris, where the curvy crimson-and-blue MO1 "beginner" mobile phone for 6-year-olds has overcome defenders by promising "peace of mind" – or maybe no mind at all – the French health minister has issued a public warning against "excessive" mobile phone use by young children. "I believe in the principle of precaution," muttered Monsieur Bachelot. "If there is a risk, then children with developing nervous systems would be affected. I've alerted parents about the use of mobile telephones because it's absurd for young children to have them."

Also concerned about the zombification of the young, Frank Barnes, a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado who led a study showing that children are at special risk from cell phones, told the press: "This clearly is a population that is going to grow up with a great deal of larger exposure than anybody else because the kids use the phones all the time."


TARGETING CHILDREN
Responding to relentless advertising spells and giveaways, the age of cell phone users continues to drop as fast as their IQ and attention span. In 2007, the average age of first-time "users" was 10. Within the next two years, International Data Corp forecasts the 9-and-under market will rack up an additional $1.6 billion in revenue for cell phone companies – and add another nine million child zombies in the United States alone.

Despite desperate rear-guard stands, the last holdouts against child zombification in the European Union are crumbling. As Dorjeen Carvajal reports, "Telephone use is also getting more precocious in Europe, according to a Eurobarometer survey of almost 1,000 children in 29 countries, most of whom had telephones after age 9."

The mobile telephone industry "is reaching deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both dolls and phones," Carvajal comments. As cell phone users in their ‘tweens and teens drive subscriber- growth everywhere, International Data Corp projects that by 2010, 31 million children could become zombies from holding miniature microwave ovens to their vulnerable soft brain tissue.

Targeting the youth market for zombification is especially cynical because children treat their microwave phones like a doudou or stuffed animal companion, the French mobile phone trade association AFOM revealed after surveying the habits of children too young to discriminate against dangers proffered by adults they trust.

Cell phone-toting tots also spend more of their parent’s money on the latest games, ring tones and wallpapers – and teens chatter even more than adults on their cell phones, greatly increasing cell phone company profits. Not to mention their own risks of developing allergies, senility, cataracts, learning disabilities, hyper activity disorders and brain tumors. [Intl Herald Tribune Mar 7/08]

Brain-damaging cell phone exposure continues through childhood. A 1996 study probing the "Electromagnetic Absorption in the Human Head and Neck for Mobile Telephones at 835 and 1900 MHz," conducted by the fabulously named Dr. Om Gandhi showed electromagnetic radiation from cell phones "coupling" even more alarmingly with the electrically active brains of children, than through the thicker carapaces of cumulatively compromised adults.

"I didn’t know at the time industry was targeting children as the next growth segment. Boy, they really got after me," Dr. Gandhi says, after he found that the thinner outer ears and skulls of children allow more energy from their cell phones to short-circuit delicate brain tissue. "The reason industry doesn’t like it," Gandhi explains – "They don’t want to lose this part of the market." [IEEE Transactions of Microwave Theory and Techniques Oct/96]

"We're pretty bullish on increased usage by teenagers," exudes Adam Guy, a senior analyst at the Strategist Group. "Usage penetration is exploding."

So is brain penetration. Guy’s gushing followed yet another study – this one published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry – found that heavy cell phone use can cause brain cancer and other diseases in children, as well as adults by interfering with DNA repair

Speaking directly to cell phone zombification and death, Dr. Theodore Litovitz, a biophysicist and professor emeritus of physics at Catholic University, explains: "Because stress proteins are involved in the progression of a number of diseases, heavy daily cell-phone usage could lead to great incidence of disorders such as Alzheimer's and cancer." [Reuters Apr 23/08; wirelessconsumers.org Dec03/01]


A ZOMBIE CASE HISTORY
In Claysburg, Pennsylvania, Greg Pozgar resisted buying a mobile phone for his then 12-year-old daughter, Morgan. "My biggest concern was whether my children were responsible enough to handle it," he said.

No one told him to worry about its emanations.

After receiving her first cell phone as a Christmas gift that year, young Morgan went on to become a champion of text messaging at age 13 in a national $25,000 competition organized by the electronics manufacturer LG. This is the company that in 2007 made Europe’s "fashion handset of choice" by offering a "Chocolate phone" featuring an advanced touchscreen interface, instead of conventional keypad. [techdigestuk.typepad.com]

Competing Motorola’s V220's Tri-Band promises "network connection" between zombies-under-construction in countries becoming saturated in brain numbing electrosmog. The "stylish" V220 offers chic brain damage, exciting car crashes, no-fear-of-pregnancy sterility or classic cancer – in pink.

After hesitating over heath concerns, Disney has also jumped into the kiddy cell phone sweepstakes. Mattel markets a Barbie cell phone for girls 8 to 14. "Nine-year-old Trey Chapman loves the cool design, flashing lights and big buttons – one for mom and one for dad," chuckled USA Today. How well Ms. Chapman will enjoy her daughter’s reduced learning ability, asthma and other potentially debilitating maladies was not mentioned. [USA Today Mar 14/05]

Verizon has also responded with its popular "parent capable" LG VX8300. The "Chaperone" cell phone puts the "home" in Homeland Security. Now parents can harass their kids with text messages while tracking them through GPS satellite locators built into their continuously radiating cell phones. Every time a young family member enters or leaves an electronically designated "Child Zone", participating parents receive automated text messages informing them of their child’s movements – "So you can relax wherever you are." [verizonwireless.com; Intl Herald Tribune Mar 7/08]

Whether this home surveillance puts a crimp in the sexually transmitted diseases currently afflicting one in four American teenage girls, or their nearly one-in-three pregnancies before the age of 20 remains to be seen. [Reuters Apr 23/08]

The good news and the bad news is that cigarettes are being replaced by mobile phones. Unable to afford both addictions, teen smoking fell off sharply in 1996 – the same year mobile phone use skyrocketed among 15- to 17-year-olds. And no wonder, since cell phones are marketed by the same ad agencies using the same self-image come-ons that attracted teens to cigarettes – a sense of individuality and sociability, a desire to rebel, the need to bond with friends.
[British Medical Journal Nov 4/00]

Totally hooked, Morgan now sends and receives up to 7,000 text messages a month.


AVOIDANCE THE ONLY DEFENCE
After the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research Institute in Marbella discovered that a call lasting just two minutes can alter the natural electrical activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterwards, Spanish doctors now fear that disturbed brain activity in children will lead to zombie-like impaired learning ability, as well as psychiatric and behavioural problems.

Brain scans allowed Dr. Michael Klieeisen’s team to see what is happening to the brains of cell phone users. "We never expected to see this continuing activity in the brain," he told the European press in new stories blacked out in the U.S. "We are worried that delicate balances that exist – such as the immunity to infection and disease – could be altered by interference with chemical balances in the brain."

The study coincided with a survey showing 87% of 11- to 16-year-olds own cell phones, with 40% of them spending 15 minutes or more talking on them every day. A troubling 70% said they would not change the use of their phone even if advised to by the government.

A British government adviser on mobiles, Dr. Gerald Hyland, finds the results "extremely disturbing." Parents who believe they are enhancing their children’s safety and social standing by sending them back to school with cellphones could be impairing their health and ability to learn, Dr. Hyland warns. "The results show that children's brains are affected for long periods even after very short-term use. Their brain wave patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a long period. This could affect their mood and ability to learn in the classroom if they have been using a phone during break time, for instance."

These same altered brain waves "could lead to things like a lack of concentration, memory loss, inability to learn and aggressive behaviour."

He could be describing zombies!

"There really isn't a safe amount of mobile phone use," Dr. Hyland continues. We don't know what lasting damage is being done by this exposure. If I were a parent I would now be extremely wary about allowing my children to use a mobile even for a very short period. My advice would be to avoid mobiles." [Mirror Dec 26/01]


AN OCEAN APART
It’s not like nobody knows how dangerous cell phones are. Perhaps because of earlier unpleasant experiences with vampires, European governments are intensely studying the effects of cell phones on otherwise normal humans. So far, their scientists have found everything from nervousness and headaches to brain tumors and even genetic damage resulting from cell phone radiation. [Independent Mar 30/08]

Led by Sir William Stewart, the famous British biochemist and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science biomedical specialists, the Stewart Inquiry report on "Mobile Phones and Health" was released in April 2000. At a science conference in Glasgow, Sir William urged mobile phone makers to stop presenting their products as essential "back to school" items for children, whose easily penetrated skulls and longer lifetime use makes them particularly vulnerable to Radio-Frequency (RF) and microwave (MW) cell phone radiation. Sir William told the press he would not allow his grandchildren to use mobile phones. [Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine Sept /01]

In Sweden, where cell phones are being marketed to 5-year-olds, Olle Johansson, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm declares: "Parents should take their children away from that technology." [Dialing Our Cells by William Thomas]

In an interview in the Berlin Morgenpost, Wolfram Koenig, head of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz - the federal authority for radiation protection in Germany - urged companies not to target children in their advertising campaigns.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of the World Health Organisation, also told a major Norwegian newspaper that children should be discouraged from using mobile phones. The former Norwegian prime minister and popularizer of "sustainability" is also a licensed physician with a degree in public health. Making shorter calls does not help, Brundtland emphasized. [Microwave News Mar-Apr/02; Dagbladet Norge Mar 9/02]

France, Germany and the European Environment Agency also advise "minimal" handheld and hands-free cell phone use. But the Irish Doctors Environmental Association says flatly that young children should be stopped from using mobiles.
The Irish point to zombie-like side-effects from cell phone radiation, including excessive clumsiness, fatigue, confusion, tingling and dizziness. [Independent Mar 30/08; Irish News Feb 9/05]

Back across the Atlantic, where one in three teenagers uses a cell phone, "There is no research being done in the United States at the present time," Dr. Ghandi laments. "All of that research has been stopped because of industry."

Dr. Ghandi says this violates both the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act and the mandate of the Federal Communication Commission, which regulates RF transmitters on behalf of the industry. His latest heavy-duty paper – Thermal Implications of the New Relaxed IEEE RF Safety Standard for Head Exposures to Cellular Telephones at 835 and 1900 MHz – compares the relaxed RF exposure standards set by an American advisory group called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to standards now followed by the European Union.


Gandhi helped establish those regulations. As he explains, in the United States "these days in the committee (that sets the standards), one co-chair is from Motorola and the other is from the Navy, the military-industrial establishment, and they are suddenly loosening their standards. I compared the three standards to show the new standards are out of line. Too loose." [Uncensored (NZ) Nov 9/06]


HEAVY CASUALTIES SOON COME, MON?
If tobacco companies dared employ the same sophisticated neural "programming" techniques to sell cigarettes to toddlers as cell phone manufacturers do by using the same marketing firms – they would face a lynch mob. But by inflicting devices recently denounced by a leading cancer researcher as injurious as smoking on the very young, mobile manufacturers are turning the public into compliant, brain dead zombies.

And maybe just plain dead, as well.

Just-released findings by award-winning cancer expert, PhD Vini Khurana predict that cell phones will kill far more people than either smoking or asbestos. Smoking continues to cull some five million people worldwide every year, while asbestos exposure in England continues to claim as many corpses as road accidents.

After carefully reviewing more than 100 clinical studies showing that using "hands free" and regular cell phones for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer, the very capable Khurana – who has received 14 awards while publishing more than three dozen scientific papers over the past 16 years – concludes that malignant brain tumours resulting from cell phone use constitute "a life-ending diagnosis" for hapless users who now find themselves in an "unchecked and dangerous situation."

Professor Kjell Mild, of Orbero University, Sweden, who is a Government adviser and led the research, said that children should not be allowed to use mobile phones because their thinner skulls and developing nervous system made them particularly vulnerable. He and Professor Lawrie Challis, who led the MTHR research, want a revision of the emission standard for mobiles and other sources of radiation, which they describe as "inappropriate" and "not safe". [London Telegraph Oct 9/07]

Professor Khurana has become a Big Kahuna in the war against cell phone zombification after placing his considerable reputation behind the most damning indictment of cell phones to date. He warns emphatically: "Unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps, the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now – by which time it may be much too late to medically intervene."
[Independent Mar 30/08]


PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
It may already be too late.

A recent poll of 1,286 cellphone users has found that one in four cannot imagine life without their cell phone. The question remaining unasked is if they can imagine their lives continuing unimpaired with it.

Four in 10 people, particularly young adults, make cell phone calls to kill time as well as themselves, when traveling or waiting for someone they will invariably ignore. "We've got everything on my phone," boasts Mark Madsen, a 24-year-old college student from Chattanooga, Tennessee. "I use it mostly for the phone, but I also play video games and use the MP3 player. I pretty much use it all the time."

Like addicts everywhere, more than one in three cell phone subscribers say they are occasionally "stunned" by their user bills. Nevertheless, an increasing number of homes are speeding the zombification of their inhabitants by going completely wireless, with no landline at all. Public pay phones are also being removed, making it ever harder to avoid being owned by a brain-stunting cell phone.

This is good news for political leaders desiring a compliant populace for policies involving genocide, torture and concentration camps. It is also a boon to an illness industry feeding off human misery. On a New Zealand news show, Dr. George Carlo called marketing strategies aimed at children, "grotesque" after identifying as many as 50,000 new cases of brain and eye cancer attributable to cell phone use being diagnosed every year. (Mobile users who wear metal-frame glasses intensify the exposure to their eyes and heads). [IsraCast Technology News July 29/05]

Based on current epidemiological studies, that number will reach half a million cell phone cancer cases annually within the next two years.


WRONG ANSWERS
"We have never had this kind of impending risk to society," Dr. Carlo says. After heading a $28 million cell phone study from 1993 through 2001, his finding – "that RF causes genetic damage" was welcomed by his cell phone industry sponsors.

Jerry Phillips worked with Ross Adey on similar research funded by Motorola beginning in 1991. After Adey came to similar conclusions as Carlo, "Motorola was adamant that Adey never mention DNA damage and radiofrequency radiation in the same breath," Phillips recounts. [WSW July 11/02; wirelessconsumers.org Dec03/01]

More than two decades ago, EMF researcher Alan Frey also wondered if headaches experienced by radio and radar operators – and now widely reported by cellphone users worldwide – were resulting from microwave-induced leakage of toxic molecules through the blood-brain barrier. "Headaches may only be the most obvious indicator of what is going on biologically," Frey warned back in the mid-1980s.

Studying blood-brain barrier changes since the late 1980s, neurologist Leif Salford of Lund University in Sweden is the leading expert in this research. "With improved detection procedures and new tracers, one of his most recent studies found changes in the rat brain chemistry after only two minutes of cellphone-level exposures; the rats' blood-brain barrier had failed, allowing proteins to enter the brain, and it is known that certain proteins which are normally present in blood, can cause nerve damage in the brain," writes Aussie cellphone rsearcher and reporter Stewart Fist. 

Professor Darius Leszcynski headed up the first two-year program looking at the effects of mobile phone radiation on human cells rather than those of rats at Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority. He, too found that cell phone transmissions open the blood-brain barrier to potentially brain-damaging toxins in the blood. [WSW July 11/02]

"We think we are on to something very significant," Professor Salford says. "It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimer’s are linked to proteins being found in the brain."

So, he added, is Parkinson’s Disease. [Electronics Australia Magazine Feb/00]

Alzheimer’s mental and memory impairment, and the jerky motions of Parkinson’s are telltale zombie symptoms.


PROTECT THE MACHINES
"There is no proof that cellular telephones can be harmful," insist already infected FCC zombies on their "Kidszone" website. Blithely ignoring hundreds of alarming clinical studies, the Federal Communications Commission offers reassuring "Cell Phone FAQs" before going on to advise:

"Some of the places that you should never use your mobile phone are inside hospitals and airplanes. When you make or receive calls, electromagnetic waves are sent through the air. Hospitals have a lot of electronic devices that monitor patient's heartbeats and other things when they are getting surgery or when they are recovering from an illness. When electromagnetic waves try to go through them, the devices sometimes stop working."

The FCC does not say what happens when a much more subtle and sensitive instrument called the human brain is exposed to "electromagnetic waves… sent through the air". [fcc.gov]


LOST CONTACT
Max Brooks, best-selling chronicler of the first Zombie World War, informs us that "nzúmbe" is a Kimbundu, West African word for a dead person’s soul. "So what makes this living human a zombie?" Brooks asks. "The answer is simple: brain damage." [World War Z]

Few things damage brains as severely as chronic exposure to cell phone radiation. Leif Salford is concerned that spreading wireless technology is "drowning people in a sea of microwaves." Speaking directly to the threatened zombification of the entire human population, Salford says brain neurons that would normally not become senile until people reached their 60’s, are doing so now when people reach their 30’s because of cell phone exposure. [RFSafe.com Nov26/03]

Children and teens who become hooked on cell phones face a lifetime of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, high risk from driving accidents, greatly increased acute and chronic asthma, hearing loss, vision loss, sleep disorders and cancers – as well as classic symptoms of zombification, including loss of social skills, inability to think and reason clearly, loss of contact with their surroundings.

Faced with hard-to-detect zombies in their own ranks, alarmed British military scientists have discovered that every cell phone transmission disrupts brain functioning responsible for memory and learning. "Overuse" can cause forgetfulness and sudden confusion, as well as loss of the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate. [India Tribune Sept 17/04]

A leading Lloyd's of London underwriter refuses to insure phone manufacturers against the risk of subscribers developing cancer. The world’s most prestigious insurer also fears even more claims arising from zombified cell phone users who develop early onset Alzheimer's. [Observer Mar11/99]


NO MORE KIDS?
The coming cell phone cancer plague could terminate the cell phone zombie threat. But the cost to societies will be far greater than tobacco-related deaths. With more than 2 billion people – including at least 500 million children – using cell phones at present, the coming die-back of habitual cell phone users threatens the ability of nations to cope with bankrupt medical systems and overflowing hospitals and hospices. How will the trains – and everything else – run on time during socially dizzying disruptions caused by the sudden loss of key executives, city managers, government bureaucrats, tradespeople, professionals, as well as busy NGOs and activists to brain damage, electromagnetic sensitivity as acute as chemical sensitivities, and debilitating cancer?

RF/MW signals currently under discussion for inflicting on wireless classrooms throughout North America and the overdeveloped world will operate in the 2.4 GHz frequency range. This should do it. Because this cell-disrupting power density is two to three times higher than current cell phones. If schoolchildren survive this onslaught, plans are already underway to boost classroom radiation levels with "upgraded" technology emitting an even more lethal 5 GHz frequency range.[www.irf.univie.ac.at/emf]

Once turned into zombies and eventually culled by cell phones, these kids may be difficult to replace, because researchers at University of Szeged in Hungary have discovered that men carrying their cell phones on standby anywhere in their clothing throughout the day produce about a third less sperm than those who do not. Of the remaining sperm, high numbers were found to be swimming erratically – significantly reducing chances of fertilization. [BBC June 27/04]

Now put men made infertile by their cell phones together with fashionable beachgoing women who carry their cellphones in their bikini bottoms and the coming cell phone cull could become a crash. Especially if women are culled by bra-makers encouraging them to carry cell phones in their convenient, already cancer-prone cleavage.

Ironically, as more and more once-normal humans succumb to the seductive status and convenience conferred by cell phones, these extreme dangers become as self-perpetuating as the plague of brain-dead zombies already walking among us.

Vini Khurana urges everyone to stop using cell phones immediately. [Independent Mar 30/08]


LOW POWER INCREASES EFFECTS
Cell phone manufacturers often point to the low power output of their devices. But Dr. Franch and other medical investigators have found that the negative health effects of cell phones worsen with low dosage. This "simply reflects the fact that biological systems operate in a non-linear manner," writes Dr. Peter Franch in a co-authored landmark study, Effects Of 835mHz Exposure On Cell Structure And Function. "The higher frequency range" used in today’s digital cell phones "is also very close to the resonant frequency of human DNA, and as well as the resonant frequency of the human skull case."

Oops.

"Mobile telephones are arguably the most radiative appliance we have ever invented apart from the microwave oven and people are putting them by their heads – arguably the most sensitive part of the body," comments British biologist and mobile phone specialist Roger Coghill. "Human brains may absorb up to 40% of a cell phone’s RF energy, and as much as 60% of its microwave energy."

Sensitive to subtle electromagnetic harmonies, human brains and bodies depend on electrical impulses to conduct complex life-processes – including the ability to read, recall and respond to these words. Much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head, rapidly pulsing cell phones signal permanent brain damage.

Cell phone researcher Dr. Peter Franch says unequivocally that brain and other "cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone frequencies." This cellular damage, Franch notes, is maximized at low dosage, and "inherited unchanged, from generation to generation."

"For the first time in history, we are holding a high-powered transmitter against the head," agrees Dr. Ross Adey. "When you talk on your mobile phone, your voice is transmitted from the antenna as radio frequency radiation between 800 MHz and 1,990 MHz… at a range that’s right in the middle of microwave territory. [WSW July 11/02]

Whipping anything back-and-forth 800 or 1,990 million times per second is bound to cause breakage in the double-strand DNA of human cells.

Sure enough, in Dr. Franch’s clinical study, both normal human cells and malignant brain tumor both cells were permanently damaged by cellular phone frequencies.

Dr. Henry Lai, a 20-year EMF researcher, and colleague Dr. N.P. Singh confirmed these conclusions by finding double-strand DNA breaks in test animals exposed for just two hours to pulsed, cell phone microwaves. Double-strand breaks do not repair themselves and can lead to mutation. An Adelaide Hospital study confirmed these findings after discovering that B-cell lymphomas doubled in mice within 18 months of one-hour daily exposure to power densities experienced by a cellphone user. B-cell lymphomas are implicated in 85% of all cancers.

Before having their research abruptly shut down by zombie officials, Dr. Lai’s experiments at the University of Washington placed rats in a pool of water where they learned to swim to a platform. After half the group was exposed to cellphone radiation, they became zombies and forgot the way to the platform. After it was removed, unexposed rats swam around bewildered, while the cellular-exposed group exhibited zero memory of it ever being there. [guardian.co.uk]


SAY WATT?
Even though irrefutable medical evidence shows that, in addition to sparking a host of other maladies, cumulative brain damage from cell phones can lead to impairment severe enough to turn users into the walking dead, so far cell phone "safety codes" only regulate radiation capable of burning skin. "Basically, Health Canada claims if it can’t cook you, it can’t hurt you," says Canadian EMF expert, Walter McGinnis. "It’s like saying cigarettes aren’t dangerous unless they burn you."

Setting the standards for cell phone exposure in Britain, the National Radiological Protection Board’s recommended radiation limits are expressed in Specific Absorption Rates that measure radiation averaged over one gram of tissue. The 1999 NRPB recommended limit was 10 milliwatts. One year later, proposed European guidelines of two milliwatts were five-times more restrictive. But on March 9, 2000 the China Consumers Association issued a worried warning about cellphone radiation after their tests found that some cell phones radiate up to 1,550 milliwatts per square inch.

Cellphone manufactures insist that "many studies" show their miniature microwave ovens are safe. But when pressed by the Washington Post to back up their claim, the cellphone industry could cite no studies showing no adverse impact from cellular telephones on human tissues, nervous systems or organs. As Dr. George Carlo confirmed, "The industry had come out and said that there were thousands of studies that proved that wireless phones are safe, and the fact was that there were no studies that were directly relevant."

Among more than 15,000 scientific reports on the cell phone hazards, at least 66 epidemiological studies show that electromagnetic radiation increases brain tumors in human populations. ["Cell Phone Convenience or 21st Century Plague?" by Dr. Nick Begich and James Roderick earthpulse.com]


THE CELL PHONE "SHIELD" SCAM
Can shooting yourself in the head be "safe"? Cellphone "shields" do not block microwaves, or change their harmful frequencies. If they did, cell phones could not communicate.

The only way to ensure complete protection against being turned into a zombie by cell phones is to avoid using them except in emergencies when no other voice communication is available – at the max, experts suggest, one or two minutes per month.

But cell phone manufacturers and sales rep zombies are working tirelessly to infect others by situating cell phone relay transmitters in town centers, schools and shopping centers. Remote natural settings especially attract towers festooned with microwave transmitters. Be wary! Faced with growing public opposition and some recent notable victories that have seen cell phone towers removed, their rote-reciting advocates are once again advancing their contaminating emissions by stealth – hiding cell phone relays in trees, eaves and even church steeples. Private landowners are also paid annual fees to site unassailable cell phone transmitters on their property capable of irradiating entire neighborhoods.

Incredibly shrinking mobile phones are being made small enough to fit inside a cigarette case by putting their antenna inside the phone. But this sharply reduces reception, which in turn is causing base stations to boost their RF and microwave power outputs back to size-challenged cell phones. [New York Times Mar 10/03]

SAFETY TIP: If a visitor’s cell phone picks up a strong signal where you live, find the offending tower and remove it. Or move.

Before you become a zombie, too.

Are We Living In The End Times is a commentary put together by Dr. Alfred Adams author of the best selling book Nearing Midnight. Dr. Adams illuminates world events with the light of biblical prophecy. http://www.nearingmidnight.com

President Ahmadinejad of Iran predictions of the soon return of the Mahdi

Iran state media is broadcasting predictions of the soon return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam or the Islamic Messiah. Some Islamic sources state that the Mahdi may come during a Spring equinox. The Mahdi was believed to have disappeared several centuries ago, but is expected to reappear in the end times to conquer the world for Allah. The reappearance of the Mahdi has been predicted several times by President Ahmadinejad of Iran, who is actively preparing his people and the nation for his arrival. At the start of this year, sources close to Ahmadinejad stated they believed the coming of the Mahdi was as close as a few years away. Part of Iran's preparation for the Mahdi includes the development of nuclear weapons, enabling Iran to become a powerful force in the Middle East and defeat the enemies of Islam (namely Israel).

Quote: ""The Mahdi's far sightedness and firmness in the face of mischievous elements will strike awe. After his uprising from Mecca all of Arabia will be submit to him and then other parts of the world as he marches upon Iraq and established his seat of global government in the city of Kufa. "Then the Imam will send 10 thousand of his forces to the east and west to uproot the oppressors. At this time Allah will facilitate things for him and lands will come under his control one after the other," the website declared. "After his appearance the Imam would remain in Mecca for some time, and then go to Medina... a descendant of the Prophet's archenemy Abu Sofyan will seize Syria and attack Iraq and the Hejaz with the ferocity of a beast... finally Imam Mahdi sends troops who kill the Sofyani in Beit ol-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), the Islamic holy city in Palestine that is currently under occupation of the Zionists," the IRIB added.

Muslims believe that the Mahdi will return with the Prophet Jesus as his "Lieutenant", who will kill Dajjal (the Muslim Antichrist) and rule over Jerusalem for a period of seven years. This Prophet Jesus will then kill the pig and break the cross until Islam is the only religion left. After 40 years the Prophet Jesus will die and be laid to rest beside Mohammed.

Quote: "Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and no-body will accept charitable gifts.

This is of course remarkably similar to the end time scenario as described in the Old and New Testaments. The Bible states that the Antichrist will effectively rule from Jerusalem for a period of seven years, with his false prophet who will be given power by Satan to work all manner of lying wonders (Revelation 13:13-15, 2nd Thessalonians 2:9). This false prophet will cause all who do not worship the image of the Beast to be killed. In the Scriptures, Satan also persecutes the woman (Israel - the "pigs") who brought forth the manchild (Jesus Christ), and those who keep the testimony of Jesus (the "crosses" - tribulation saints) - Revelation 12:17.

It's important to remember that while the Muslims may have part of the "truth" regarding the end times, they don't have it all. Satan knows the Scriptures better than we do and has deceived Muslims in such a way that the ultimate goal for them is to worship Satan as God. For the "Christian" world - all those who didn't have salvation, had no teaching on the rapture and remain behind after it has taken place, it will be the natural thing to listen to what the false prophet is saying (Revelation 13:11). And for the Jews, a time of trouble (Jeremiah 30:7) that has never been experienced before, nor will be after (Matthew 24:21).