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Joseph Kony: US doubts LRA rebel leader's surrender
US officials have cast doubt on reports that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is negotiating his surrender in the Central African Republic (CAR).
A US State Department official told the BBC that some rebels had been in contact but Kony was not among them.
However, CAR officials later insisted that Kony, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, has been in talks with their government.
The US has offered up to $5m (£3.3m) for leads resulting in his arrest.
Kony founded the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda more than 20 years ago, and his fighters are notorious for abducting children to serve as sex slaves and child soldiers.
We have been here before. There were even better prospects when former Ugandan official Betty Bigombe made direct contact with Kony.
What is slightly different this time is Kony is a shadow of his former self, reportedly in fading health, having lost many fighters and operating in a volatile region.
In South Sudan, he does not have sanctuary - since Khartoum stopped support. A local vigilante group on the border with Uganda and CAR has been protecting people against LRA attacks.
In DR Congo, a robust UN mission has just helped the local army defeat M23 rebels. This force could be easily deployed to help in the hunt for Kony.
In CAR, near-anarchy makes it relatively easy for regional armies hunting him to cross the border and capture him. Armed gangs in the chaotic nation could also seek to catch him to claim the $5m bounty offered by the US.
After two decades on the run, Kony is short of options. That he has reportedly talked of possible surrender indicates how desperate he is.
The US official also noted that Kony had previously used "any and every pretext to rest, regroup, and rearm, ultimately returning to kidnapping, killing, displacing and otherwise abusing civilian populations".
The LRA was forced out of Uganda in 2005 and since then has wreaked havoc in CAR, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kony was on the verge of signing a peace deal in 2008 but insisted that the International Criminal Court (ICC) first drop its arrest warrant, which it refused to do.
On Wednesday, a CAR government spokesman told the BBC that Kony was in the country but wanted his security to be guaranteed before giving himself up.
According to AFP news agency, CAR leader Michel Djotodia, said: "Joseph Kony wants to come out of the bush. We are negotiating with him."
A US State Department official said Washington was aware that CAR authorities had "been in contact for several months with a small LRA group in CAR that has expressed interest in surrendering".
But later on Thursday, a spokesman for Mr Djotodia told the BBC's Newshour radio programme that the president had had a phone conversation with Kony, who was in the remote Central African town of Nzoka "with nearly 7,000 people, with his whole group, women and children".
BBC Africa security correspondent Moses Rono says this is not the first time that a breakthrough has been reported with the LRA.
But he says that Kony is now a shadow of his former self, reportedly in fading health, having lost many fighters and operating in a volatile region, with armed gangs keen to earn the $5m reward.
The African Union's special envoy on the LRA, Francisco Madeira, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday he had seen reports that Kony was suffering from a "serious, uncharacterised illness".
In April the Ugandan army suspended a search for Kony in CAR, blaming "hostility" from the government formed when Mr Djotodia's rebel forces seized power there.
Some 3,000 African troops, backed by 100 US special forces, have been hunting him and his fighters across the region.
Mr Madeira said the military pressure had kept Kony and the LRA "on the run".
Kony claims the LRA's mission is to install a government in Uganda based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
But he is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.


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EMF/EMR Directory
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Last updated February 22, 2015
Federal Agencies
- Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environment, Safety and Health
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (go to Radiation Protection)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC): RF Safety
- Federal Trade Commission: Cell Phone Radiation Scams
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Cell Phones
- FDA on Microwave Ovens
- National Cancer Institute: Cell Phones and Cancer Risk
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) (see also "NIEHS EMF RAPID Program" below)
- National Toxicology Program (NTP)
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on ELF Radiation
- OSHA on RF Radiation
State and Local Agencies
- California EMF Program
- Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health Radiation Control Program: EMFs
- Minnesota Dept. of Health: Cell Phones
- New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
Radiation Protection Program: Non-Ionizing Radiation
Quasi-Governmental Groups
- National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC): Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP)
Non-Governmental Groups
- Canyon Area Residents for the Environment (on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, antenna farm)
- Cellular Tower Coalition
- Cloutnow: Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies
- Communications Workers of America
- Electrical Pollution (Dirty Power)
- EMR Network
- EMR Policy Institute
- Institute for Inquiry
- Midwest Rural Energy Council
- Power Line Task Force
- SNAFU (San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union)
- International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS)
- International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
- International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems (CIGRE)
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
- International EMF Alliance (IEMFA)
- World Health Organization (WHO) International EMF Project
- EMF-NET (Inactive)
- European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA)
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
- European Cooperation on Scientific and Technical Research: Emerging EMF Technologies: Health Risk Management (COST BM0704) (Inactive)
- European Cooperation on Scientific and Technical Research: Potential Health Implications from Mobile Communications Systems (COST 281) (Inactive)
- European Microwave Association
- Nordic Society for Radiation Protection
- Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) (Centre closed down in June 2011)
- Australian Centre for EM Bioeffects Research (new incarnation of ACRBR, no web site yet)
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA)
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
- EMFacts Consultancy (Don Maisch)
- EMR Australia
- Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESSA)
- Microwave/Mobile Phone Towers (Twitter)
- Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour Public Health Advisory (Vini Khurana: phones and towers)
- Stop Smart Meters Australia
- Diagnose-Funk
- Forum Mobilkommunikation
- International Institute for Research on Electromagnetic Compatibility (IIREC)
- Platform for Mobile Telecom Initiatives
- Belgian BioElectroMagnetic Group (BBEMG)
- Center for Research & Information on Electromagnetic Radiation (riirem) (in French)
- Electrosmog (in French)
- Limit the Radiation (in Flemish)
- Stop UMTS
- Teslabel (in French)
- Canadian Electricity Association (CEA)
- Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
- RF.com: Wireless Communications and Health (formerly, the Wireless Information Research Centre)
- WEEP: Canadian Initiative To Stop Wireless, Electric and Electromagnetic Pollution
- Committee on Radiation Protection
- Council for Health and Safety in Telecommunications
- Danish Association of Electrosensitives
- Danish Mobile Phone Research Program
- Danish RF Research Program
- Chronic Exposure (cell towers)
- Dariusz Leszczynski's Blog: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
- HERMO: Health Risk Assessment of Mobile Communications (research program)
- Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
- Agir pour l'Environnement
- Fédération Française des Telecoms
- CRIIREM (Centre de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes sur les Rayonnements ElectroMagnétiques)
- electrosmog.info
- Fondation Santé et Radiofréquences (Inactive)
- France Nature Environnement: EMF
- Les Ondes Mobiles (INPES)
- Mobilou.info (Phil Marso)
- Next-Up
- Robin des Toits
- PRIARTeM
- Bürgerwelle (Umbrella Organization of Citizens and Initiatives To Protect Against Electrosmog)
- Der Mast Muss Weg (The Mast Must Go)
- Diagnose-Funk
- Elektrosmog Info
- Elektrosmognews
- Elektrosmog Report
- Federal Radiation Protection Office (BfS)
- German Mobile Telecommunication Research Programme (DMF)
- hese Project
- Informationszentrum Mobilfunk (IZMF)
- Pandora Foundation
- Research Association for Radio Applications (FGF) (site closed)
- Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction (femu, Aachen University)
- Radiation Protection Commission (SSK)
- The Wave Breaker
- Verein für Elektrosensible und Mobilfunkgeschädigte (Association for Electrosensitives and People Affected by Radiation)
- Weisse Zone Rhön (Rhone White Zone)
- WIK: EMF & Environment
- Valdemar Gisli Valdemarsson (EMF page in Icelandic)
- Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (Prof. S.M.J. Mortavazi)
- Association for Environmental and Chronic Toxic Injury (AMICA)
- Association for the Prevention of and Fight Against Electrosmog
- Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (National Research Council)
- Elettra2000
- Elettrosmog Sicilia
- Insititute of Health: EMFs
- Italian Association of the Electrically Sensitive
- Network of Italian Anti-Electrosmog Groups
- Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association
- Self-Help Group for Persons with Chemical and Electromagnetic Sensitivities
The Netherlands
- Environmental Illnesses
- Health Council of the Netherlands
- Electromagnetic Fields and Health Research at the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development)
- Foundation for Electrical Hypersensitivity
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RF page)
- Stop UMTS
New Zealand
- "Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?" (TV documentary)
- National Radiation Laboratory
- Safer Wireless Technology (formerly Ban The Tower)
- Stop Smart Meters
- Norwegian Association for the Electro-Hypersensitive (FELO)
- Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority
- People Radiation
South Africa
- Association of People Affected by Valladolid Telecommunication Antennas (AVAATE)
- No Antennas Nearby: Health Hazard (blog)
- Campaign: Stop the HT Line
- Foundation for Geo-Environmental Health
- Better Electromagnetic Environment (products for the electrosensitive)
- Lennart Hardell's Blog
- Mobile Radiation in Sweden
- Mona Nilsson on Mobile Phone Health Risks
- National Institute for Working Life (closed on July 1, 2007)
- Swedish Association for the Electrosensitive (FEB)
- Swedish Council for Work Life Research
- Swedish Mobile Telecommunications Association
- Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation
- Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (formerly the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, SSI)
- TCO Development
- vagbrytaren.org (Wave Breaker)
- Physicians for Environmental Protection
- Association Romande Against the Proliferation of Mobile Phone Antennas (ARA) (in French)
- Citizens' Movement: Switzerland
- Diagnose-Funk
- Federal Environment Agency "Electrosmog" page
- Federal Office of Communications Telecom Antenna Database
- Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT'IS)
- Gigaherz
- Institute for Electromagnetic Fields and Terahertz Electronics: Electromagnetics in Medicine and Biology Group
- Mobile Communications in Erlenbach
- Radiation Free (Lake Constance region)
- RF Radiation (in French, German & Italian)
- Sensible Use of Mobile Communications (SUMM)
- Swiss Research Foundation on Mobile Communication
United Kingdom
- The CAVI Society
- Electric Forester Investigations Ltd. UK (EMF surveys)
- Electromagnetic Man
- ElectroSensitivity UK
- EMF Home and Environment Survey
- Health Protection Agency (HPA) (formerly the National Radiological Protection Board, NRPB)
- hese Project in the UK
- Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones
- Mast Action UK: National Campaign for the Sensible Siting of Masts
- Mast Sanity
- Mast Victims
- MCL (formerly Microwave Consultants Ltd.)
- Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR)
- Mobilewise
- Ofcom Database of Mobile Phone Base Stations
- Powerwatch
- Radiation Research Trust
- REVOLT (Rural England Fighting Overhead Line Transmission)
- TETRA Watch
- Safe Schools Information Technology Alliance (SSITA)
- Safe Wi-Fi in Schools
- Stop Smart Meters U.K.
- Wired Child
Citizens and Interest Groups
- Agir pour l'Environnement (France)
- American Coalition Against Smart Meters
- Artists Against WiFi
- Associated Bioelectromagnetics Technologists
- Association Romande Against the Proliferation of Mobile Phone Antennas (ARA) (Switzerland, in French)
- Ban the Tower (New Zealand)
- Bürgerwelle (Germany)
- Canyon Area Residents for the Environment (on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, antenna farm)
- Cell Tower Dangers
- Cellular Tower Coalition
- Center for Electrosmog Prevention (CEP)
- Center for Safe Wireless
- Chronic Exposure (Finland: Cell Towers)
- Cloutnow: Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies
- Coalition for the Regulation of Antenna Siting
- Committee on Radiation Protection (Denmark)
- Communications Workers of America
- Diagnose-Funk (Austria, Germany & Switzerland)
- Effects of EMFs on Kids
- Eirewaves: Alliance for Irish Radiation Protection (Ireland)
- Electrical Pollution (Dirty Power)
- Electromagnetichealth.org
- Electrosmog (Belgium, in French)
- EMF Safety Network
- EMR Network
- EMR Policy Institute
- EM Watch (South Africa)
- Fullerton Community for Safe School Technology (California)
- Institute for Inquiry
- International Coalition for an Electromagnetic Safe Planet (IC-ESP)
- International EMF Alliance (IEMFA)
- Limit the Radiation (Belgium, in Flemish)
- Mast Action UK: National Campaign for the Sensible Siting of Masts
- Mast Sanity (U.K.)
- Mast Victims (U.K.)
- Mobilewise (U.K.)
- National Association for Children and Safe Technology (NACST)
- Network of Italian Anti-Electrosmog Groups
- Next-Up (France)
- No Antennas Here (Portugal)
- People Against Cell Towers at Schools (PACTS)
- People Radiation (Norway)
- Power Line Task Force
- Powerwatch (U.K.)
- PRIARTeM (France)
- Radiation Free (Switzerland: Lake Constance region)
- Radiation Research Trust (U.K.)
- Rethink Pylons (Ireland)
- RF Radiation (Switzerland, in French, German & Italian)
- Robin des Toits (France)
- REVOLT (Rural England Fighting Overhead Line Transmission) (U.K.)
- Safe Wi-Fi in Schools
- Smart Meter Dangers
- Smart Meter Education Network
- Smart Meter Safety
- SNAFU (San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union)
- Southern Californians Against Smart Meters (SCASM)
- Stop Pylons (Facebook)
- Teslabel (Belgium, in French)
- TETRAWatch (U.K.)
- The CAVI Society (U.K.)
- WEEP: Canadian Initiative To Stop Wireless, Electric and Electromagnetic Pollution
- Wired Child (U.K.)
Commercial Products
- Better Electromagnetic Environment (products for the electrosensitive)
- EMR Australia
- EMR Shielding Solutions Inc.(Canada)
- Exradia (no longer in business)
- Less EMF
- Magnetic Shield Corp.
- Microshield Industries (U.K.)
- Technology Alternatives Corp.
- Amuneal Manufacturing Corp. (Phiadelphia, PA)
- Charles Keen EMF Services (Boynton Beach, FL)
- Electric Forester Investigations Ltd. (U.K.)
- Enertech Consultants (Campbell, CA)
- EMR Australia
- Environmental Testing & Technology, Inc. (Encinitas, CA)
- Ergonomics, Inc. (Southampton, PA)
- Global RF Solutions (Chandler, AZ)
- MCL Technology Ltd. (U.K.)
- Rainbow Consulting (Sooke, BC, Canada)
- RF Safety Solutions (Southport, NC)
- Safe Living Technologies, Inc. (Canada)
- Sage EMF Design (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Richard Tell Associates, Inc. (Colville, WA)
- VitaTech Engineering, LLC (Fredericksburg, VA)
Electromagnetic Weapons
- Freedom from Covert Harassment & Surveillance
- International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons (Harlan Girard)
- Association for Electrosensitives and People Affected by Radiation (Verein für Elektrosensible und Mobilfunkgeschädigte, Germany)
- Better Electromagnetic Environment (Sweden: Products for the electrosensitive; last updated in 2005)
- Danish Association of Electrosensitives
- Dutch Foundation for Electrosensitives
- ElectricSense (Lloyd Burrell)
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (Canada)
- Electromagnetic Man
- electrosensible.org
- ElectroSensitive Society
- Electrosensitivity (Portugal)
- ElectroSensitivity UK
- ElectroSensitivity.org (Troy Knight's site)
- THE ElektrOSE
- Environmental Illnesses (The Netherlands)
- Foundation for Electrical Hypersensitivity (The Netherlands)
- Italian Association for Environmental and Chronic Toxic Injury (AMICA)
- King's College, London: James Rubin
- Italian Association of the Electrically Sensitive
- No Radiation (Israel)
- Norwegian Association for the Electro-Hypersensitive (FELO)
- Rhone White Zone (Weisse Zone Rhön, Germany)
- Self-Help Group for Persons with Chemical and Electromagnetic Sensitivities (Japan)
- Swedish Association for the Electrosensitive (FEB)
- The EI Wellspring: Practical Tips for Coping with Chemical and Electrical Hypersensitivity
- Wendy Walks for ES (on Facebook)
- And: This video, "The Quiet Zone — There Is No Cell Service — by Law"
- Aaronia (Germany)
- Aaronia (USA)
- Alpha Lab Inc.
- EMC Test Design
- Enertech Consultants
- EnviroMentor
- Ergonomics Inc
- ETS-Lindgren (formerly Holaday Industries Inc.)
- Integrity Design & Research Corp.
- Magnetic Sciences
- Magnii Technologies
- Safe Living Technologies Inc.
- Technology Alternatives Corp.
- Walker Scientific Inc.
Mobile Phone & Tower Resources
- Canadian Cellular Towers Map
- Cell Phones and Cancer Risk (U.S. National Cancer Institute)
- Cell Phone Radiation Scams (U.S. Federal Trade Commission.)
- Chronic Exposure (Finland)
- FDA on Cell Phones (U.S.)
- Mobile Radiation in Sweden
- National Association of Tower Erectors
- SAR Values
- Swiss Federal Office of Communications Telecom Antenna Database
- Inside Towers (wireless industry blog; includes links to state wireless associations)
- U.S. Antenna Locations
- U.K. Ofcom Database of Mobile Phone Base Stations
News: Internet
News: Twitters
- Microwave/Mobile Phone Towers (Australia)
- Wired Child (U.K.)
Personal Sites and Blogs
- James Beal: EMF Interface
- Robert Bedard (California EMF activist)
- George Carlo: Safe Wireless Initiative (inactive)
- Neil Cherry (1946-2003, New Zealand)
- Devra Davis: Environmental Health Trust (cell phone campaign)
- Jim Dell (RF Hazards in the New Zealand Navy)
- Paul Doyon (International Coalition for an Electromagnetic Safe Planet)
- Ecological Options Network: EMF and Health Protection
- Electric Forester
- EHS Fight Back (Dafna Tachover)
- Electromagnetic Radiation Safety (Facebook)
- EMFDamage.com (One woman's story about CLL and EMFs)
- Donna Fisher's Silent Fields: The Growing Cancer Cluster Story (Australia: Book on "dirty electricity," Australia, August 2008)
- Enrico Grani: Stop.radiation.com (brain tumor victim)
- Örjan Hallberg (Sweden)
- Lennart Hardell's Blog (Sweden)
- Magda Havas (Canada)
- Magnetic Neighborhood (smart meters)
- Mary Tiffee Jasso: A Likely Death by Radiation (RF exposure in a forest look-out tower)
- Vini Khurana: Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour Public Health Advisory (phones and towers; Australia)
- Troy Knight's ElectroSensitivity.org
- Dariusz Leszczynski's Blog: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Finland)
- Andrew Marino (Louisiana State University Medical Center)
- Joel Moskowitz's Blog: Safer EMR
- Mona Nilsson on Mobile Phone Health Risks (Sweden)
- David Morrison: Wireless Watch
- John Moulder: FAQs on Power-Line EMFs and Cell Phone Base Stations (discontinued)
- Michael Peleg: Radiation Risks (Israel)
- No Antennas Nearby: Health Hazard (Spain)
- No Radiation for You (Israel)
- Valdemar Gisli Valdemarsson (Iceland)
Professional Societies & Trade Associations
- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Public Power Association (APPA)
- Bakken Library and Museum
- Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS)
- Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA)
- Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD)
- Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
- Health Physics Society (HPS)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR)
- National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)
- National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
- National Association of Telecom. Officers & Advisors (NATOA)
- National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE)
- National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
- Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
- Western Energy Institute (WEI)
Protection Devices (NOT Recommended)
- BioPro
- Cell Guard
- Cell Phone Patch
- cPRIME
- EarthCalm: Scalar Resonance Technology
- EMF-Bioshield
- Light Stream Technologies: Pendants
- Neutralizer
- Peace Ball
- Purple Plates Energy Disks
- Q-Link
- Ray Chip
- Safe Connect+
- SafeSpace Protection
- Vital Force Computer Crystal
- Bioelectromagnetics
- Compliance Engineering
- Conformity
- Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine
- EMR and Health
- Health Physics
- International Journal of Radiation Biology
- Microwave Journal
- Microwave News
- Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Radiation Research
- RCR Wireless News (publication suspended, March 2009)
- Transmission & Distribution World
- Wireless Week
Research Groups & Projects
- Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research (ACRBR)
- Bioelectromagnetics Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province (China)
- Cohort Study of Mobile Phone Use & Health (COSMOS)
- Effects of Exposure to EMFs: From Science to Public Health & Safer Workplace (EMF-NET; 2004-2008)
- European Health Risk Assessment Network on EMF Exposure (EFHRAN; 2009-2012)
- Exposure at UMTS EMFs: Study on Potential Adverse Effects on Hearing (EMFnEAR; 2004-2007)
- Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT'IS) (Switzerland)
- Generalized EMF Research Using Novel Methods (GERoNiMO)
- Institute for Electromagnetic Fields & Terahertz Electronics: Electromagnetics in Medicine & Biology Group (Switzerland)
- International Case-Control Study on Brain Tumours in Children & Adolescents (CEFALO; 2006-2010)
- In vivo Research on Possible Health Effects of the Use of Mobile Telephones & Base Stations (Carcinogenicity Studies in Rats & Mice) (PERFORM-A; 2000-2005)
- King's College, London: Mobile Phone Research Unit (U.K.)
- Low EMF Exposure Future Networks (LEXNET)
- Occupational Electromagnetic Fields & Brain Cancer (INTEROCC; 2007-2010)
- Potential Adverse Effects of GSM Cellular Phones on Hearing (GUARD; 2002-2004)
- Risk of Brain Cancer from Exposure to RF Fields in Childhood & Adolescence (MOBI-KIDS)
- Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards from Low Energy EMF Exposure Using Sensitive in vitro Methods (PERFORM-A; 2000-2004)
- Sound Exposure and Risk Assessment of Wireless Network Devices (SEAWIND; 2009-2012)
- Terahertz Radiation in Biological Research, Investigation on Diagnostics & Study of Potential Genotoxic Effects (THz-BRIDGE)
- University of Oklahoma Center for the Study of Wireless EM Compatibility
- University of Western Australia: Biomagnetics Group
BioInitiative Report
Brooks Air Force Base (U.S. Air Force)
- Technical Reports (site inactive)
EMF Bionet Newsgroup
National Academy of Sciences
- EMF Research Activities Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992: Interim Report, 1995
- Report on Possible Health Effects of Exposure Residential EMFs (Released 1996)
- Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's ELF Submarine Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program (Released 1997)
- Identification of Research Needs Relating to Potential Biological or Adverse Health Effects of Wireless Communication (Released 2008)
NIEHS EMF RAPID Program
- Measurements Database
- Progress Report December 1995
- NIEHS Report to Congress on EMF
- NIEHS EMF Working Group Report (Removed from NIEHS Web site)
- Research Information
- Science Review Symposium: Theoretical Mechanisms and In Vitro Research Findings
- Science Review Symposium: Epidemiological ResearchFindings
- Science Review Symposium: In Vivo Laboratory Findings
Smart Meters
- American Coalition Against Smart Meters
- Families for SAFE Smart Meters
- Magnetic Neighborhood (blog)
- Smart Meter Dangers
- Smart Meter Education Network
- Smart Meter Guard
- Smart Meter Safety
- Southern Californians Against Smart Meters (SCASM)
- Stop Smart Meters!
- Stop Smart Meters Australia
- Stop Smart Meters New Zealand
- Stop Smart Meters U.K.
Stray Voltage
- StrayVoltage.org (site inactive)
- Is Your Cell Phone Killing You? (New Zealand: TV documentary)
- National Worker RF Safety Crisis
- "The Quiet Zone — There Is No Cell Service — by Law"
- Wi-Fi Concerns in Schools (Canada: CBC)
Wireless Safety
- Artists Against WiFi
- Association Romande Against the Proliferation of Mobile Phone Antennas (ARA) (Switzerland, in French)
- Ban the Tower (New Zealand)
- Cell Tower Dangers
- Cellular Tower Coalition
- Center for Safe Wireless
- Chronic Exposure (Finland: Cell Towers)
- Cloutnow: Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies
- Coalition for the Regulation of Antenna Siting
- Fullerton Community for Safe School Technology (California)
- Mast Action UK: National Campaign for the Sensible Siting of Masts
- Mast Sanity (U.K.)
- Mast Victims (U.K.)
- Next-Up (France)
- No Antennas Here (Portugal)
- People Against Cell Towers at Schools (PACTS)
- PRIARTeM (France)
- Radiation Research Trust (U.K.)
- Robin des Toits (France)
- Safe Wi-Fi in Schools
- Safer Wireless Technology ((formerky Ban the Tower, New Zealand)
- SNAFU (San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union)
- Teslabel (Belgium, in French)
- WEEP: Canadian Initiative To Stop Wireless, Electric and Electromagnetic Pollution
- Wired Child (U.K.)
- Wireless Safety Group

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In a few days, South Florida takes off its dunce cap, trades its oversized reflector shades for a pair of sturdy bifocals, and flees the thumping club beats for the quietest stall at the library. It's that great time of year when the Miami Book Fair brings the world's literary elite to town to talk writing, politics, religion, and the enduring search for the great American novel.
The fair consists of a slew of events spread over eight days, but the main draw is the Street Fair, happening Friday through Sunday. New Times interviewed some of its biggest headliners. Unless otherwise noted, these authors will speak at the Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, Second Floor, Room 3210).
What would happen if Judy Blume rewrote Dante's Inferno to star a sexually repressed teenager who thinks she's in hell for overdosing on pot? There's only one author alive qualified to tackle that question; luckily Chuck Palahniuk, maverick author of Fight Club and Choke, decided to give it a shot.
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The result is a rollicking trek through a land of cascading shit waterfalls and oceans of hot vomit populated by Hitler and a cast of teen stereotypes out of the Breakfast Club. Palahniuk uses the gruesome setting in Damned, his new novel, to skewer America's Puritan obsession with healthiness.
"My books all start with some horrible, unresolved thing in my own life," Palahniuk says. "Before I wrote this, I was taking care of my mom with cancer."
Palahniuk has cultivated a reputation for shocking audiences. One infamous short story, called Guts, is so brutal that when Palahniuk reads aloud on his tours, dozens have reportedly fainted. But in Damned — which has its own share of stomach-churning encounters — and other works, Palahniuk says his real goal is a legit human response.
"I am absolutely terrified of wasting readers' time," he says. "I'd rather readers reach the end and say, 'I can't believe he did that' than to feel like they regretted spending time with my work." Palahniuk will speak at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. — Tim Elfrink
Nicole Krauss' previous book, The History of Love — published when she was 31 years old — became an international bestseller and won awards.
But Krauss is the first to admit that her new novel, Great House, has a much darker tone than its zany predecessor. "The History of Love was filled with characters who charm you from the first moment you meet them, [who] ask to be loved," she says. "But when I began writing Great House... I was interested in characters who don't ask that of us, who tell us who they are with all of their flaws and shortcomings."
The result is a collection of poignant and, at first, seemingly unrelated stories in which we only slowly begin to understand and empathize with the characters: a New Yorker who coldly chooses career over family only to break down after giving away her writing desk; an Israeli man who loses his wife and takes in his estranged son after the funeral; and a Holocaust survivor who has spent his whole life reassembling the furniture stolen from his father by Nazis.
In the end, the narratives are all connected by the massive, brooding desk — inspired by Krauss' own, inherited escritoire. She began writing the novel shortly after she and her husband, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, had their first child. "The book is about emotional inheritance," Krauss says. "It's about what we consciously or unconsciously pass down." Krauss will speak at 8 p.m. Friday. — Michael E. Miller
Andy Borowitz approached his newest take on humor, The 50 Funniest American Writers, as if he were creating an iPod playlist for a party. "There's nothing more subjective than one's sense of humor," he says. "The only barometer or compass I used when I put together this collection was my taste."
His satirical news site, the Borowitz Report, is visited by millions, and his TV work — including creating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for NBC — enshrined him among America's funny elite. His new book attempts to codify the kind of humor writing that other comedians love. The book gives him a chance to trumpet works like The Writer's Life, by David Rakoff, a regular on NPR's This American Life.
"[Rakoff] said to me, 'I think I have a funnier piece than the one that you chose,' " Borowitz recalls. "He sent it to me and was actually right — it was a funnier piece... This just proves that David Rakoff is better than I am. Not only has he won the Thurber Prize but he also picked a better David Rakoff piece than I did." Borowitz will speak at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. — Victor Gonzalez
As much as he loved visiting Hogwarts, something always bugged author Lev Grossman when he worked his way through J.K. Rowling's fantasy epic.
"I found it really odd that Potter never seemed to have read C.S. Lewis growing up. No one in his world seems to have ever read any fiction at all, in fact," Grossman says. "I don't think Hogwarts library even has a fiction section."


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Race Results Back to St Kilda Festival 2005 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 45 minutes On what has been the hottest day recorded in Melbourne this summer, the women's race was certainly an event which tested the lungs, legs and speed of the competitors. 25 women lined up for the race, which was sponsored by Jaivi (individual handbags and purses), Capital Choice and Red Bull. The course was a "hot dog" up and down St Kilda's Fitzroy Street. There was little shade and the dead turns at each end of the 150 metre straights made this a hard, fast event from the start. The thermometer topped at 26'C locally during the event, although the day's high was 39.7'C in Melbourne. The Festival is an annual 4 day event attended by several hundred thousand people and the cyclists were supported by two or three hundred people, including many who had never seen a bike race before. The bunch stayed together for only the first few minutes, before the pace began to tell for some towards the back. However, with riders like Belinda Goss (Tasmanian Institute of Sport), Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie) and Kirsty Bortolin (Blackburn), amongst others, this was never going to be a procession. It wasn't until mid-race that anyone gained any real advantage. Priska Doppermann (Sui) went off the front in a move which was pre-meditated with her team-mate Bettina Kahn, who was to block any chasers. Doppermann opened a gap very quickly - from a couple of lengths to 10 seconds within 5 or so laps. The move was enough to shatter the race - a chasing group formed, with the bunch behind that. The chasers weren't able to close the gap and the bunch disintegrated into ones and twos as the speed picked up. Kahn did a good job of cover, going with Goss when she chased and bringing the chasers back together. By the end of the race, Doppermann was still increasing her advantage, to around 30seconds by the end of the race. Doppermann clearly had plenty of time to celebrate her win with a 2-handed salute, having seen Kahn go off the front of the chasers with 3 laps to go and giving her a shout of encouragement as they crossed 1/2 a lap apart. That meant that the race finished with a Swiss 1-2. The sprint for third was won by Kirsty Bortolin, in the chasing group, ahead of Goss. Doppermann was grateful to her team-mate for the blocking role. She told WomensCycling.net that she and Kahn had planned to keep attacking, "one after the other so that one of us might succeed. I just went and I was the lucky one, I was able to stay away. If they'd caught me, it would have been (Bettina's) turn to go for it." The pair arrived in Australia in late January and are staying until the end of the month - their target being the Geelong Tour and the UCI Geelong World Cup event on the 29th. They will spend the time until then training in and around Melbourne, identifying the Dandenongs as a venue for some sessions. Dopperman has made the January journey to Melbourne before and was pleased to be in winning form at the St Kilda Festival. RESULTS 1st Priska Dopperman 2nd Bettina Kahn 3rd Kirsty Bortolin 4th Belinda Goss Photos - Want to use these photos? High-resolution available upon request. Use or reproduction of any photo from this site is subject to full acknowledgement of the contributor - please email for clarification prior to use if you are in any doubt email - click here |
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When the 1975 P/A Awards jurors honored the Faneuil Hall Marketplace proposal, they couldn't have realized how successful the project would be.
Andrew Zago reclaims a piece of run-down Detroit to create a colorful, cartoonish coffee bar for the youth of the city.
Hickok Cole Architects help turn a former shoe warehouse into a new home for SED Center.
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A mixed-use facility by RTKL Associates provides housing for MICA students and a focal point for the Baltimore art school.
To redesign Campbell Hall, U.Va. architecture dean Karen Van Lengen hired her own faculty.
The restoration of City Hall in University City, Mo., not only aimed to reclaim the building's Beaux Arts past but also to establish its energy-efficient future.
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Toy drive continues in Northumberland
NORTHUMBERLAND — The annual Martin Concini toy drive is underway to collect toys for families in need in Northumberland, Point Township, Sunbury and other communities. The Northumberland Police Department asks that unwrapped toys be dropped off at the Northumberland Police Station, the Northumberland borough office, Priestley/Forsyth Memorial Library in Northumberland, Northumberland National Bank on Front Street in Northumberland and Surplus Outlet on Route 11 in Point Township.
The toy drive started in 1990 when the late Chief Martin Concini Jr. saw a need to help families during the holiday season. The toy drive ended when Concini died in 1992, but the police department picked the program back up again in 1998. Since then, the program has grown substantially and the police department says they are honored to help these families who need assistance with gifts for their children. (Ali Stevens)
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Alicia Keys - Queen Of The Field (Patsey's Song)
Queen Of The Field (Patsey's Song) Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys contributes to the soundtrack of Steve McQueen's new movie "12 Years A Slave" with her powerful track "Queen Of The Field (Patsey's Song)".
Give Queen Of The Field (Patsey's Song) a listen - it's a new offering from Alicia Keys. It was dropped on Monday, November 4th, 2013. Alicia Keys's musical situation is improving with every new release, and Queen Of The Field (Patsey's Song) will most definitely help the cause. It's a fine addition to the growing body of work Alicia Keys has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're looking forward to what Alicia Keys has in store.
Have you heard Alicia Keys's Die Without You? If your interest is piqued, hit up Alicia Keys's profile for more info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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Aubrey Huff 1B SF Jul 06 '78
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said on KNBR 680 in San Francisco on Tuesday that Aubrey Huff will likely be on the team's roster for the NLDS.
Huff has been limited to just 45 games this season due to an anxiety condition and a nagging right knee injury, but Bochy believes he could be useful as a backup first baseman and left-handed bat off the bench. He may start a game this week to shake the rust.
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Aubrey Huff (knee) is scheduled to do baseball activities Thursday.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said that the team will make a decision on his next step after Thursday's game. Huff has been sidelined since the end of July after aggravating a right knee injury.
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Aubrey Huff aggravated his right knee during Monday's loss to the Mets.
Huff hurt the knee while trying to leg out a possible double-play grounder in the sixth inning. He's scheduled to be checked out Tuesday, but it sounds like another trip to the disabled list could be in his future.
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Giants activated 1B/OF Aubrey Huff from the 15-day disabled list.
The Giants were considering sending Huff on a second rehab assignment, but he'll return after missing over a month with a right knee sprain. His role figures to decline coming off multiple injuries.
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The Giants are considering sending Aubrey Huff (knee) on a minor league rehab assignment.
Huff had an abbreviated rehab stint earlier this month, and could be activated from the disabled list at any point. The Giants don't have any obvious corresponding moves after acquiring Marco Scutaro, and haven't decided if they'll delay making a decision with Huff.
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Aubrey Huff has been sent back to San Francisco for an MRI after reinjuring his right knee in a rehab game Thursday with High-A San Jose.
Huff was on track to rejoin the Giants next Monday, but that won't happen now. The 35-year-old has been sidelined for a little over a month with a right knee sprain.
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Aubrey Huff (knee) is expected to continue his rehab assignment Friday with High-A San Jose.
Huff is 2-for-12 with a strikeout in three games with Triple-A Fresno this week. It's not clear when he'll rejoin the Giants, but his 20-rehab window expires next week.
Aubrey Huff 1B SF Apr 23 '78
Aubrey Huff (knee) will continue his minor league rehab assignment this weekend.
Huff is 1-for-8 with a home run and two RBI over his first three rehab games with High-A San Jose. Barring any setbacks, he should rejoin the Giants early next week.
Aubrey Huff 1B SF Apr 16 '78
Aubrey Huff (knee) will not play in a rehab game Thursday with High-A San Jose.
Huff was previously expected to serve as the designated hitter, but he's getting the day off after tweaking his knee while running the bases on Wednesday. The club is hopeful he'll return to the lineup Friday.
Aubrey Huff 1B SF Apr 15 '78
Aubrey Huff (knee) is scheduled to serve as the designated hitter Thursday in a rehab game with High-A San Jose.
Huff was originally hoping to play first base, but he suffered a setback while running the bases Wednesday. However, it apparently wasn't serious enough to keep him out of the lineup. He remains on track to rejoin the Giants after the All-Star break.


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More exciting casting news for the upcoming 'Star Wars' film! Young Princess Leia will reportedly be played by Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd. Do YOU think she's a good choice?
Billie Lourd, 21, will be filling her mother's shoes in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. A new report suggests that the only child of Carrie Fisher, 57, will portray her most notable role to date: a younger version of Princess Leia. Keep reading for more details!
Carrie Fisher's Daughter Cast In 'Star Wars' Movie
Isn't this exciting? More casting news from the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII!
The younger version of Princess Leia will be portrayed by Carrie's own daughter, Billie Lourd, reports IGN. If this report is correct, that means Billie will be stepping right into her mother's shoes for her first acting role ever.
Billie is the perfect fit, because she is fortunate enough to have a genetic advantage over any other actress — she looks just like her mom!
The Sun suggests that producer JJ Abrams chose Billie specifically for her "likeness" to Carrie.
Carrie's reps have yet to respond to HollywoodLife.com's request for comment.
Billie Is Already On Set Filming 'Star Wars'
A source close to the set claims that Billie joined her mother on set in early June 2014.
"Billie flew into the UK to join her mother earlier this month," a source told The Sun, as reported by the Daily Mail.
And if you were wondering how Carrie felt about her daughter filling her shoes, she couldn't be happier!
"Carrie backed the move as she wanted somebody in her family to play her most famous role."
Who knew Star Wars could be such a family affair? Awesome!
Alright, YOUR turn HollywoodLifers — Do you think Billie is the perfect fit for a young Princess Leia? Let us know your thoughts below!
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Wow, way to grab straws for any kind of "news" Ms. Cox. It's already confirmed Carrie Fisher is reprising her role as Leia Organa and considering the movie is set 30 years after Return of the Jedi, they're looking for the original characters to be much older, not 30 years younger. Mark Hamill has gone on record, bear and all, stating he has a very much older version of his character. But! Thanks for pulling crap out your butt to meet that deadline.
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seriously wtf. makes no sense. why would they need a younger leia? i thought they go forward. leia's daughter perhaps? or you really wanna make this look like they gonna do episode 3.5? or they gonna rebooot it with a spin off? that's so trendy. lol. no thx. no hollywoood madness pls. straight forward.
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Zuma recall rumour a bid to divide ANC
IN POLITICAL communication, it is not strange for newspapers and political parties to disagree on issues. It is good to disagree when disagreements are contextual and never personal.
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MCLOUD, Calif. — Edward Heline Sr. the man arrested last November for murder, was released from the Siskiyou County Jail. Henline Sr. was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Hannah Zaccaglini. Hannah disappeared on June 4, 1997 from McCloud, California.
After years of investigating the case, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office finally found evidence to charge Henline Sr. with the murder. Now, the District Attorney's Office says the evidence moved the case forward, but it is not enough to go to trial with.
Zaccaglini's body has still not been recovered. Henline Sr. is also a person of interest for the murder of Karin Knechtel Mero during the Spring of 1997. Family friends say Henline, Jr. was dating Mero at the time of her 1997 disappearance.


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What Childbirth Taught Me that Yoga Never Could
Perhaps it's because I'm pregnant myself that this article from Elephant Journal tugged at my heart strings. I'll share it in the hopes that you too find it interesting, informative and potentially moving. After all, whether you have a child, intend to have a child, or not – we've all participated in the birthing experience. The article's raw honesty and its subject's magnitude, yet also normality (for children are born every second around the world), brought tears to my eyes. But that again could be the hormones talking…
Here is an excerpt from Kimberly Johnson's
What Childbirth Taught Me that Yoga Never Could:
…my own experience of childbirth proved to me that there is indeed no preparation for childbirth. Birth does what yoga can only attempt to do- to show us who we are in the raw, unadorned state- our complete power and vulnerability simultaneously. Birth shows us our fragility, elicits humility and shows us that as much as we like to think so, we are not in control. As much as we plan everything, or plan nothing, we can be sure that things will not go exactly as we expected.
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Fantastic graphical bio, great tagline!
Neil – I learned about your blog through Tricia Lustig. Terrific illustrations. Well done. Richard
Great Neil. That image says much more than any LinkedIn profile I've seen.
Hi Neil – are you using a graphic program or paper and markers? I take my notes for Futures Classes in the UofH program using Bamboo for iPad and can get some 'similar' results – but I like your technique and presentation. And your ideas are good too!
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The Prevalence of Overgrowth by Aerobic Bacteria in the Small Intestine by Small Bowel Culture: Relationship with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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Many studies have linked irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), although they have done so on a qualitative basis using breath tests even though quantitative cultures are the hallmark of diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to underscore the frequency of SIBO in a large number of Greeks necessitating upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract endoscopy by using quantitative microbiological assessment of the duodenal aspirate.
Consecutive subjects presenting for upper GI endoscopy were eligible to participate. Quantitative culture of aspirates sampled from the third part of the duodenum during upper GI tract endoscopy was conducted under aerobic conditions. IBS was defined by Rome II criteria.
Among 320 subjects enrolled, SIBO was diagnosed in 62 (19.4%); 42 of 62 had IBS (67.7%). SIBO was found in 37.5% of IBS sufferers. SIBO was found in 60% of IBS patients with predominant diarrhea compared with 27.3% without diarrhea (P = 0.004). Escherichia coli, Enterococcus spp and Klebsiella pneumoniae were the most common isolates within patients with SIBO. A step-wise logistic regression analysis revealed that IBS, history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and intake of proton pump inhibitors were independently and positively linked with SIBO; gastritis was protective against SIBO.
Using culture of the small bowel, SIBO by aerobe bacteria is independently linked with IBS. These results reinforce results of clinical trials evidencing a therapeutic role of non-absorbable antibiotics for the management of IBS symptoms.
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- Title
- The Prevalence of Overgrowth by Aerobic Bacteria in the Small Intestine by Small Bowel Culture: Relationship with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Journal
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Volume 57, Issue 5 , pp 1321-1329
- Cover Date
- 2012-05-01
- 10.1007/s10620-012-2033-7
- Print ISSN
- 0163-2116
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2568
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Intestinal bacterial overgrowth
- Diabetes mellitus
- Proton pump inhibitors
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Emmannouil Pyleris (1)
- Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis (2) (4)
- Dimitrios Tzivras (2)
- Vassilios Koussoulas (1)
- Charalambos Barbatzas (1)
- Mark Pimentel (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Gastroenterology, Sismanogleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece
- 2. 4th Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece
- 4. 4th Department of Internal Medicine, ATTIKON University Hospital, 1 Rimini Str., 12462, Athens, Greece
- 3. GI Motility Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA


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CAIRO - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vented anger at Arab revolts that ousted autocrat leaders, saying the revolutions would result in an Islamist alliance against Israel and the West.
The Arab Spring would turn into an "Islamic, anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli and anti-democratic wave, Netanyahu told a Knesset session on Wednesday, November 23, reported Haaretz.
A wave of pro-democracy protests swept the Arab world, ousting the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Similar revolts are raging in Syria and Yemen.
Netanyahu blasted Western countries for supporting the popular revolutions in the Arab world.
"In February, when millions of Egyptians thronged to the streets in Cairo, commentators and quite a few Israeli members of the opposition said that we're facing a new era of liberalism and progress, Netanyahu said.
They said I was trying to scare the public and was on the wrong side of history and don't see where things are heading.
"Well things are moving backward, not forward," Netanyahu said, adding that he looks at reality, not just "hopes and wishes."
Israel is worried about the rise of Islamists following the ouster of autocrat leaders in the Arab world.
Moderate Islamist Ennahda party won most votes in last month's elections in Tunisia.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful group, is expected to emerge the biggest winner in the country's parliamentary election, due to start on November 28.
The picture is quite clear. We've been saying it for months. Apparently what we call the Muslim Brotherhood ... will ultimately be the majority in all the (Egyptian) institutions, Israeli cabinet minister Matan Vilnai told Israel's Army Radio station.
He warned of a grave impact on the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt if the Islamists came to power.
But once the regime stabilizes, as we expect it to do, we expect that there will be a grave erosion of this agreement. And we have to prepare for such a situation, Vilnai said.
We are prepared for every scenario.
Peace Deadlock
Netanyahu used the Arab unrest to justify Israel's inaction on the peace talks with the Palestinians.
"I remember many of you urged me to take the opportunity to make hasty concessions, to rush to an agreement," the hawkish Israeli premier said.
"But I will not establish Israel's policy on illusions. There's a huge upheaval here...whoever doesn't see it is burying his head in the sand.
"That didn't stop people from coming to me and suggesting we make all kinds of concessions. I said we insist on foundations of stability and security...all the more so now," he said.
US-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians collapsed last year over Israel's refusal to halt settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
Last September, the Palestinians tendered a request to the United Nations for full membership.
The move angered Israel and its chief ally the United States, taking several punitive measures against the Palestinians.
I ask today, who here didn't understand reality? Who here didn't understand history?" Netanyahu said."Israel is facing a period of instability and uncertainty in the region. This is certainly not the time to listen to those who say follow your heart."
Reproduced with permission from OnIslam.net


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