Subject: Governmental CONFLICT OF INTEREST (guru)..
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 055513 -0500
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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Hi everybody:
The story below makes it plain (again) why our governments find it so
easy to be indifferent to EMF health risks.......
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2568887820-69b
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Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
It is better to light a single candle
than to curse the darkness.....
WEBSITE: http://emfguru.com
People are more important than profit$$
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03:06 PM ET 08/13/00
German Phone Sale Reaps $27.6B
German Phone Sale Reaps $27.6B
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) _ German politicians are seeing green
after an auction for new mobile phone frequency licenses has
already reaped more than $27.6 billion. But Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder is giving his support to using all the money for debt
reduction.
Lawmakers from across the country have floated ideas such as
using the money for more education or transportation projects, or
using it to give tax breaks. Other suggestions have been to use
part of the money in the campaign to combat neo-Nazi violence.
But Schroeder told Finance Minister Hans Eichel to stand firm in
his plans to use the money from the Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System licenses for debt relief.
``There's nothing to split up,'' Schroeder told the Bild
newspaper in an article to be published Monday.
The Finance Ministry estimates that for every $4.6 billion in
debt paid off, the government saves $230 million in interest.
The license auction continues Monday, but it has already beaten
analysts' expectations with the phone companies Friday bidding $29
billion. The licenses are seen as a must-have by global telecom
companies in their bid to cash in on explosive growth in mobile
telecommunications _ particularly in Germany, Europe's largest
economy and most populous country.
The new UMTS standard has a transmission speed nearly 40 times
the existing GSM standard, allowing mobile-phones to be used for
high-speed Internet access and video conferencing.
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