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They spent six hours a day on them, says psychiatrist · Spanish cases may be tip of iceberg, expert warns

Graham Keeley in Barcelona Jo Adetunji

The Guardian,

Friday June 13 2008

Two Spanish children are being treated for addiction to mobile phones, in what is thought to be first case of its kind in the country. The children, 12 and 13, were admitted to a mental health clinic by their parents because they could not carry out normal activities without their phones.

Read More...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/13/spain.mobilephones

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Spain treats child phone addicts

Click on the link to the BBC story and have your say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7452463.stm

Also see news article in today's Telegraph, see below.
http://tinyurl.com/3ks6sv

And the New York Times article, How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit, contains a list of the highest and lowest radiation level mobile phones.


Eileen O'Connor
Radiation Research Trustee
http://www.radiationresearch.org


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Japan fights children's cell phone addiction
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24839642/


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=addiction

Stevenson Jacobs of The Associated Press reports: "Floods that have inundated the Midwest could reduce world corn supplies and drive food prices higher at a time when Americans are stretching their grocery budgets and when people in poor countries have rioted over rising food costs."

http://www.truthout.org/article/floods-threaten-worlds-corn



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
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Madrid (AFP) — In Spanien haben sich zwei Kinder wegen ihrer Handy-Sucht in Behandlung begeben müssen. Wie die Zeitung "El Mundo" am Samstag auf ihrer Interseite berichtete, werden die 12 und 13 Jahre alten Teenager in der Kinderpsychiatrie der Stadt Lleida im Nordosten Spaniens betreut.

Weiter unter...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMYO59DsIeBIRkf-ko6a_zIZR0Og

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Nach der Internetsucht kommt die Handysucht

In Spanien wurden erstmals zwei Kinder klinisch wegen Handysucht behandelt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/109447

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Handy-süchtige Teenager auf Entzug
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/Handy-Sucht;art1117,2551523

Handy als Droge: Zwei spanische Teenager in Entzugsklinik
http://www.baz.ch/news/index.cfm?ObjectID=8BE92BB7-1422-0CEF-7058254FE62E486C



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Handy-Sucht
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Handysucht

Die von Günter Sölken für das Netzwerk Grundeinkommen vorgelegte Presseerklärung zum FDP-Konzept ähnelt zu großen Teilen der Presseerklärung der BAG Grundeinkommen in der Linkspartei:
https://www.grundeinkommen.de/04/06/2008/das-hartz-iv-buergergeld-einfach-niedrig-und-unsozial.html http://www.die-linke-bag-grundeinkommen.de/images/stories/pdf/liberalesbuergergeld.pdf

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7600/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28121/1.html



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http://www.911RippleEffect.com


Informant: sasha



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Ian Urbina, for The New York Times, reports, "Voting rights groups are criticizing the Department of Veterans Affairs for its decision to ban registration drives among the veterans living at federally run nursing homes, shelters for the homeless and rehabilitation centers across the country."

http://www.truthout.org/article/va-ban-voter-drives-is-criticized



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Veterans+Affairs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
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Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times, "... there always seems to be at least one food-safety crisis in the headlines - tainted spinach, poisonous peanut butter and, currently, the attack of the killer tomatoes. The declining credibility of US food regulation has even led to a foreign-policy crisis: there have been mass demonstrations in South Korea protesting the pro-American prime minister's decision to allow imports of US beef, banned after mad cow disease was detected in 2003. How did America find itself back in The Jungle?"

http://www.truthout.org/article/bad-cow-disease



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mad+cow+disease
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+safety
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

The Associated Press says: "Women veterans aren't receiving the same quality of outpatient care as men at many Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, according to an agency review obtained exclusively by The Associated Press."

http://www.truthout.org/article/women-vets-get-worse-care-review-finds



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans

The Associated Press: "A House committee chairman threatened Friday to hold the head of the EPA and another top Bush administration official in contempt of Congress for not handing over documents about new smog requirements."

http://www.truthout.org/article/waxman-threatens-contempt-vote-epa-chief



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contempt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman

http://www.wdr.de/themen/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsordnung_und_politik/leg/080613.jhtml

Auf dem Landesparteitag der NRW-CDU in Dortmund fordert Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) internationale Regeln gegen den "Turbokapitalismus"...

http://www.wdr.de/themen/politik/parteien/cdu/landesparteitag_2008/080614.jhtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Heuschrecke
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kapitalismus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldman+Sachs

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/234f8dc01b54c76c?hl=en



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/govt-wrecks-economy.html

The President as God-King
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese465.html

The powerful, secretive fundamentalist elite in DC.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/secrets-of-a-powerful-family-20080613-2q8z.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rockwell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/reese

Housing crisis worsens as number of US homes facing foreclosure in May up 48 percent.

http://tinyurl.com/5dt2v4


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
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Video

And The Looser Is?
http://www.democrats.org/page/content/debates/iraq/


From Information Clearing House



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The key concern appears to be price stability. Germany's wholesale inflation rate reached 8.1pc in May, the highest level in 26 years. The cost of bread, milk and other staples has rocketed, adding to the sense that prices are spiralling out of control.

http://tinyurl.com/42keok


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price

Despite claims of authoritarianism and war crimes in both Ogaden and neighbouring Somalia, British aid for Ethiopia has more than doubled since 2005 to £130m. The US has also increased its support for the army, which it sees as a strong regional ally in the "war on terror".

http://tinyurl.com/68f6op



Our Government's Dirty Little Secrets.

House of Commons debates - Wednesday, 11 June 2008 - Somalia (Human Rights)

By George Galloway

We must start the story in Ethiopia, where 4 million people, according to the United Nations, are facing starvation and 120,000 Ethiopian children have just one month to live, according to last week's media reports. Television viewers were shocked to see the pictures last week of the widespread suffering redolent of 1984 and the great famine of that year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20091.htm



Warlords Next Door?

A Channel 4 Video Documentary

Dispatches reveals how key politicians at the heart of the vicious fighting in Somalia - described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis - enjoy incredibly close links to Britain. They have British or EU passports, their families live here and they commute between Somalia and homes in English cities. British taxpayers are financing them in the name of democracy - yet in Somalia they are linked to allegations of mass murder, torture, extortion and corruption.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20092.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ethiopia
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The top elected official in northwest Pakistan said Thursday the country should rethink its relationship with America after a U.S. airstrike that reportedly killed 11 Pakistani soldiers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_border_clash


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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A consortium of public sector oil companies - ONGC Videsh (OVL), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Oil India (OIL) - proposes to invest $3 billion to
develop Farsi block in Iran where they have found 12.8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas.

http://tinyurl.com/42eohn


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator?

By Douglas Valentine

In the fall of 1967, Navy pilot John McCain was routinely bombing Hanoi from an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. On October 26, he was trying to level a power plant in a heavily populated area when a surface-to-air missile knocked a wing off his jet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20086.htm



How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life

In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.

http://tinyurl.com/56k9cw


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
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By Timothy V. Gatto

I've waited to write this article for a while now. I used to be a loyal die-hard Democrat for 54 years of my life. I no longer know what a "Democrat" is anymore; I don't know what a "Progressive" is either. I once thought that a "Progressive" was words that people who were too shy to say they were "liberals" used in its place. I don't feel that way anymore.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20090.htm



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By Prof. James Petras

Throughout modern imperial history, 'Divide and Conquer' has been the essential ingredient in allowing relatively small and resource-poor European countries to conquer nations vastly larger in size and populations and richer in natural resources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20088.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
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By John Pilger
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20083.htm



Freedom Next Time: Propaganda as Journalism

By John Pilger - Video

Australian journalist, author, film maker John Pilger speaks about global media consolidation, war by journalism, US military's quest for domination/hegemony in the post 9/11 era, false history in the guise of 'objective' journalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20082.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=propaganda
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