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Our Electric Bodies and the Ever Thickening Electro-Smog

TUC Radio Archive (links to mp3 files)

Our bodies are finely tuned and responsive electric organisms and the super-imposition  of an ever thickening layer of electric signals from cell phones and towers  to WIFI to other communications systems can interfere with our innate electric  life within our cells, nerves, immune system, heart and brain.

Dr. Neil Cherry said that electromagnetic fields are intrinsic to us. But  today we are living with exposures from technological sources up to a million  times higher than those from the sun and other natural sources and we give  little thought to what that is doing to us. Cherry was Associate Professor  of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, NZ. He died in 2003 of motor  neuron disease.

Henry Lai is research professor in the department of bioengineering at the  University of Washington in Seattle. He is often quoted as the first to have  written how DNA breaks can occur under exposure to electromagnetic radiation.  Each DNA molecule contains the blueprint for life. When both DNA strands break and the DNA dies or mutates the person can develop cancer, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.

More recently Henry Lai became know as one of the authors of the Bioinitiative report. <http://www.bioinitiative.org> Published in August of 2007 the report made it to the web site of the Environmental Agency of the European Union. The European Union agency suggests that we need new and stricter Public Exposure Standards for electromagnetic fields from power lines, mobile phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

This is a TUC Archives program, celebrating, with a 1998 recording, the memory of people who had the courage to speak out early on controversial issues. For the ongoing work on electromagnetic radiation safety check <http:/www.energyfields.org/> or <http://www.microwavenews.com/>

U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex: Highest Incarceration Rates on Earth

via PrisonSucks.com:

On December 31, 2005, there were 2,193,798 people in U.S. prisons and jails. The United States incarcerates a greater share of its population, 737 per 100,000 residents, than any other country on the planet. But when you break down the statistics you see that incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment.

U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2006:

• Whites: 409 per 100,000
• Latinos: 1,038 per 100,000
• Blacks: 2,468 per 100,000

Gender is an important "filter" on the who goes to prison or jail, June 30, 2006:

• Females: 134 per 100,000
• Males: 1,384 per 100,000

Look at just the males by race, and the incarceration rates become even more frightening, June 30, 2006:

• White males: 736 per 100,000
• Latino males: 1,862 per 100,000
• Black males: 4,789 per 100,000

If you look at males aged 25-29 and by race, you can see what is going on even clearer, June 30, 2006:

• For White males ages 25-29: 1,685 per 100,000.
• For Latino males ages 25-29: 3,912 per 100,000.
• For Black males ages 25-29: 11,695 per 100,000. (That's 11.7% of Black men in their late 20s.)

Or you can make some international comparisons:
South Africa under Apartheid was internationally condemned as a racist society.

• South Africa under apartheid (1993), Black males: 851 per 100,000
• U.S. under George Bush (2006), Black males: 4,789 per 100,000

What does it mean that the leader of the "free world" locks up its Black males at a rate 5.8 times higher than the most openly racist country in the world?

Statistics as of June 30, 2006 from Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006, Table 14. The "rates by race" statistics are calculated from the component parts of Table 14. South Africa figures from Marc Mauer, Americans Behind Bars: The International Use of Incarceration. All references to Blacks and Whites are for what the Bureau of Justice Statistics and U.S. Census refer to as "non-Hispanic Blacks" and "non-Hispanic Whites".)

View the above facts with charts or download the above as a 1 page PDF file suitable for redistribution.

New High in U.S. Prison Numbers

The War on Memory

Newshound. Sue Coe (1991)

I mean, the terrorist threat is real. And precisely because it's real -- and we've got finite resources. We don't have the capacity to just send our troops in anywhere we decide, without good intelligence, without a clear rationale.

This is the transcript from Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sponsored by CNN, The Los Angles Times and Politico.

Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate.

To the best of my recollection, what Barack (Hussein) Obama actually said during the debate was this: the war on terror is real.

Of course, this is not the first time the corporate fascist media has alter or omitted information from what are essentially public documents. For example, as the late anti-fascist researcher Mae Brussell once noted, the Washington Post and (or) the San Francisco Chronicle altered or deleted the mention of NutraSweet in a Congressional investigation during the 1980's, which suggested the chemical causes memory loss, confusion and other severe health problems. (see Mae Brussell's World Watchers program number 806).

There is absolutely no doubt the corporate fascist media (in Winston Smith-like fashion) has been altering or emitting texts in public documents for decades in a sustained campaign which is part and parcel of what Naomi Klein has described as a 'war on memory.'

Sandino's "Vest Cut"

Augusto Cesar Sandino: Máximo Héroe Nicaragüense

Sandino publicly advocated the mutilation and beheading of Nicaragua's enemies, and Pedro "Pedron" Altamirano was his most accomplished machete wielder, famous for his "vest cut" - beheading followed by lopping off of both arms at the shoulder.

Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950

ce399. 3/2008

Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
No. 82

Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal. Adopted by the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1950.

Introductory note: Under General Assembly Resolution 177 (II), paragraph (a), the International Law Commission was directed to "formulate the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the judgment of the Tribunal." In the course of the consideration of this subject, the question arose as to whether or not the Commission should ascertain to what extent the principles contained in the Charter and judgment constituted principles of international law. The conclusion was that since the Nuremberg Principles had been affirmed by the General Assembly, the task entrusted to the Commission was not to express any appreciation of these principles as principles of international law but merely to formulate them. The text below was adopted by the Commission at its second session. The Report of the Commission also contains commentaries on the principles (see Yearbook of the Intemational Law Commission, 1950, Vol. II, pp. 374-378).

Authentic text: English Text published in Report of the International Law Commission Covering its Second Session, 5 June-29 Duly 1950, Document A/1316, pp. 11-14.

Principle I
Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment.
Principle II
The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.
Principle III
The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.
Principle IV
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
Principle V
Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.
Principle Vl
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:

a. Crimes against peace:

i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;

ii.Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i)

b. War crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.

c. Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

Principle VII
Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principles VI is a crime under international law.