Subject: Population Controled (fwd)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 093339 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
I'm forwarding the following document (which has very little 'direct'
connection with EMF) because it's 'indirect' connection could be
very substantial. In the same vein, a member of our group, a few
months back, suggested that we should all obtain the video:
"Manufacturing Consent."
I have tried a number of video stores here in the Ozarks, without success,
so I recently placed an order for it ($59.95, I believe).... (VHS
Zeitgeist Films ltd.; upc#79597500013).... I have also discussed the film
with a local political scientist, who described it as, "earth shaking."
On the basis of that discussion, and the synopsis I was able to read at
the video store -- I suspect it has much relevance to the project
described below.....
I continue to find (in this EMF matter) more and more examples where
it is not "science" that is "controlling" -- but the politics of an
oligarchical system where $$$$$$ are in control of the "public
information" ... and ... "the research" ... and ... the final political
disposition of the matter......
I don't believe we will make much progress in our goal of 'informing the
public about the TRUE consequences of the EMF health hazard' ... until we
face that reality. And brace ourselves to combat it..... Like the video,
"Manufacturing Consent," the following project appears to be of some
relevance in that regard.....
Cheerio......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:11:31 -0400
From: Charles Pixley
To: "pix108@frontiernet.net"
Subject: Population Controled
http://www.jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm
6 February 1998:
4 February 1998
Source: Hardcopy from STOA, Luxembourg
Thanks to Axel Horns, Ulf Möller and STOA
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
_________________________________________
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS ASSESSMENT
STOA
AN APPRAISAL OF TECHNOLOGIES
OF POLITICAL CONTROL
Working document
(Consultation version)
Luxembourg, 6 January 1998
PE 166 499
Directorate General for Research
Title:
An appraisal of technologies for political
control
Publisher:
European Parliament
Directorate General for Research
Directorate B
The STOA Programme
Author:
Mr. Steve Wright - Omega Foundation -
Manchester
Editor:
Mr. Dick Holdsworth
Head of STOA Unit
Date:
6 January 1998
PE Number:
PE 166 499
This document is a working document. The current version is being
circulated for consultation. It is not an official
publication of STOA or of the European Parliament.
This document does not necessarily represent the views of the European
Parliament.
AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF POLITICAL CONTROL
ABSTRACT
The objectives of this report are fourfold: (i) to provide Members of
the European Parliament with a guide to recent advances in
the technology of political control; (ii) to identify, analyse and
describe the current state of the art of the most salient
developments; (iii) to present members with an account of current
trends, both in Europe and Worldwide; and (iv) to develop
policy recommendations covering regulatory strategies for their
management and future control.
The report contains seven substantive sections which cover respectively:
(i) The role and function of the technology of political control;
(ii) Recent trends and innovations (including the implications of
globalisation, militarisation of police equipment, convergence of
control systems deployed worldwide and the implications of increasing
technology and decision drift);
(iii) Developments in surveillance technology (including the emergence
of new forms of local, national and international
communications interceptions networks and the creation of human
recognition and tracking devices);
(iv) Innovations in crowd control weapons (including the evolution of a
2nd. generation of so called 'less-lethal weapons' from
nuclear labs in the USA).
(v) The emergence of prisoner control as a privatised industry, whilst
state prisons face increasing pressure to substitute
technology for staff in cost cutting exercises and the social and
political implications of replacing policies of rehabilitation with
strategies of human warehousing.
The Belfast surgeons report makes stark reading.(Millar et al, 1972). It
informs us that of 90 patients who sought hospital
treatment after being hit by rubber bullets, 41 needed in patient
treatment. Their injuries included three fractured skulls, 32
fractures of the facial bones (nose,jaw, cheek etc.), eight ruptured eye
globes (all (iv). The Commission should be requested to report on the
existing liaison arrangements for the second generation of non-lethal
weapons to enter European Union from the USA and call for an independent
report on their alleged safety as well as their
intended and unforeseen social and political effects. During the interim
period, deployment by the police, the military or
paramilitary special forces, of US made or licensed chemical irritant,
kinetic, acoustic, laser, electromagnetic frequency, capture,
entanglement, injector or electrical disabling and paralysing weapons,
should be prohibited within Europe.
(7.1 Torture Hardware
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html