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Von: FRANCOIS SAVARD |
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Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:29:17 -0400 (EDT) |
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An: Martin Weatherall |
Martin, thanks for this email.
Joanne, hats off. Your web site and text has spurred me to
write down some current ideas of my own, under the following five
headings. Do let me know what you think.
1) Personal notes
I have been following the EMF issue for 21 years - since the
summer of 1986, when I heard an on-air radio interview of Dr. Robert
Becker. For 11 years (1990-2001), I worked as Ottawa International
Airport's Superintendent, Environmental Protection. While at the airport,
I steadily pushed the EMF health issue form worker health and
environmental health perspectives. There was firm opposition from
all sides, except for the union. I now teach math and science at a
Community College.
I agree that bedroom exposure is critical, and that many serious
health problems can be attributed to EMF exposure. I also agree
that the WHO is dragging its feet, along with many Western
governments.
The Western denial of the issue has been going on for fifty years
plus. I can't help thinking that we need to get regular help
from people in other countries - who are well ahead of us. If
not, we will continue to have very limited success with US and
Canadian authorities.
2) Battle Fatigue?
Many people have risen to challenge the EMF status quo in the
States and Canada, only to get worn down by big government and
industry. Dr. Becker raised the alarm in the 1970's and 80's, fought the
good fight, wrote two major works, but he is still not known in the public at
large, and I last heard he is going blind. Haven't heard from
his colleague Dr. Marino lately. Arthur Firstenberg has carried out
a huge effort since 1995 with the Cellular Phone Task
Force. His book "Microwaving the Planet" is a vital piece in
the effort to make Russian research more available in the West. But
Arthur is electrosensitive, and won't use the internet as a matter of
principle. He is also being worn down - at least that's my impression
(please correct me if I'm wrong). Dr. Karel Marha is long since
retired. He is a Czech biophysics expert who moved to Canada in the
1970's. He published a comprehensive book in the 70's - Electromagnetics
and the Life Environment. He also managed to issue some vital
reports through the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety -
but these are now out of print.
But I must admit there is good news. Louis Slesin - bless his
soul - is still hard at work with Microwave News. Dr. George Carlo
is hard at it. Dr. William Rea in Dallas, with his environmental
health clinic, is also still at it. Here in Canada, we have Martin
Weatherall, Dr. Magda Havas, some strong activists in BC, Andrew
Michrowski, etc.
3) Propaganda in Canada
In Canada, the Federal Government and the telecom and electrical
industry continue with their concerted effort to quash public concern over
EMFs.
a) Health Canada's Safety Code 6 is still in place,
unchanged. In 1998-99, the Royal Society of Canada did a whitewash job on
the Code and particularly on cell phones.
b) The Canadian wireless industry has recently put up a web
site: www.rfcom.ca . It is hosted at the
University of Ottawa's McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk
Assessment. This is a very well-presented site. However,
their list of references only includes no-effects research
findings. The existence of much tighter standards in Europe and
Russia is totally ignored. This site is so brazen I can scarce believe
it. And yet, there it is. And it will convince many that wireless
is safe. The same Centre is doing research on cancer and
wireless for the IARC - funded almost completely by the
industry. See http://www.safewireless.org/SWIMemberContent/SWIAlerts/tabid/187/ctl/ArticleView/mid/466/articleId/69/Cell-phone-use-and-cancer.aspx
c) Things are not very different in francophone Quebec. In
the early 1990's, one of the province's leading environmental experts and
ethicists wrote what amounts to a whitewash of EMF health effects,
focusing on "risk management". He wrote the book during
his stint as Hydro Quebec chair in Ethics at McGill University. Hydro
Quebec is the provincial electric power public utility. Don't get me
wrong - his intentions were certainly honourable. But how he managed to
ignore the vast US and international documentation on the adverse health
effects of EMFs is a mystery to me.
4) Expertise Abroad
There is a vast storehouse of EMF experience and expertise in the former
Communist bloc and Europe. It would be terrific to have their
experts come and speak in North America on a regular basis. I am thinking
in particular of Dr. Yuri Grigoriev, head of the Russian Commission for
Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. The RCNIRP has 50 years of
experience enforcing their very tight EMR-EMF standards, which they
established in 1957. They are currently fighting to keep these
standards in the face of WHO's blunt attempt at international
harmonization.
A recent French book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of
the EMF issue, world-wide, including Russia's contribution (Ces ondes qui
soignent, ces ondes qui tuent, by Jean-Claude Lentin, publisher Albin
Michel, 2001). For instance, Lentin reports that the Russians have asked
for funds to translate their research, but the West has not come through.
Regular contact with more advanced and experienced people
might help us avoid nasty conflicts within the EMF activist
community - e.g. the recent flap over the Stetzer filters brought on
by Health Canada's evaluation report.
Someone would have to pay for Dr. Grigoriev's trip. Are
there any "objective," "scientific" public funds
available for really honest conferences and meetings? Would Health
Canada or the US EPA ever consider inviting Dr. Grigoriev? What a
concept! And yet if an anti-industry, private source of funds is located,
it immediately gets stuck with the usual labels: non-science, private
interest, crackpot activist, etc. What a world.
Anyhow, those are my thoughts on the issue at hand.
Cheers,
François
Martin Weatherall wrote:
Joanne Mueller of Minnesota,
USA, works tirelessly to bring awareness to the danger of sleeping next to
electrical wiring, electrical appliances, electric meters and other sources of
electro magnetic radiation. She has had the terrible experience of seeing
her grandsons and her husband become very ill from this kind of exposure and
she does her best to inform as many people as possible.
I strongly advise people to avoid
exposure to EMR during the sleeping period by unplugging all appliances and
lights near to the bed. Try sleeping with no live electrical wiring near
to the bedroom, you will need to turn off the main breakers for the bedroom and
any wiring that runs above or below the bedroom (make sure you leave the
fridge and freezer running). People are often surprised at the
difference they feel and the improvement in their health, when they try
this. Electro magnetic radiation is a stressor on the body, we need to
protect ourselves as much as possible during sleep.
I thank Joanne for all her efforts
and I hope you find her information (below) interesting.
Martin
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Original Message -----
From: JCMPelican@aol.com Sent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:43 AM Subject: Urgent
need to inform doctors, parents and others re EMF/EMR bedside exposures.. Dear
Dr. Soden: As a doctor with a Master's Degree in Public
Health ( http://www.kevinsodenmd.com/
), in addition to your work as a Medical Correspondent and Medical
Investigative Reporting on NBC's "Today Show, I am
appealing to you for help in getting the word out to the public regarding the
critical need to move electric items and some telephone equipment away from
close proximity to beds. Rather
than providing background information in this email, you may want to
review my email to Dr. Marilyn Albert, a member of the Alzheimers'
Advisory Board Task Force by clicking on the following link: http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3038870/
. Copied
below is my email dated July 10, 2007, to Mr. Barclay
Fitzpatrick, Vice President of Communications for Blue Cross regarding
"prudent avoidance recommendaions" particularly re bedroom EMF/EMR
exposures: [ Note: Mr. Fitzpatrick's email address is
no longer active...]
Forwarded Message:
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Dear Mr. Fitzpatrick: Copied below my
comments, is item 4 of your critique of Michael Moore's
"SICKO."
You are correct that Moore did not address
"lifestyle choices." While the choices you mention are
undoubtedly causing significant increases in overall healthcare costs, there is
another very important issue Moore also chose to ignore. I
felt what I am about to write was important enough to appeal to Moore several
times -- the last time when he was asking for opinions re our healthcare
system.
I am referring to the issue of providing "prudent
avoidance recommendations" regarding low level, "close,"
chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation)
pollution emanating from electric meters, gas meters, electric appliances such
as electric clocks, small fans, monitors, noise machines, air purifiers,
aquarium pumps and heaters, touchlamps, lamps with dimmer switches, TV's,
computers, transformers for cordless phones and electronic games, security
alarms, cell phone chargers -- literally any such items that might
be in close proximity to persons' beds. Bad wires and even
waterpipes running over or under beds may be producing high currents.
There may be high frequencies on electrical wiring throughout homes.
Would you consider the placement of an infant's
crib against a bedroom wall on which an electric meter is mounted to the
outside wall adjacent to the crib to be "a lifestyle choice?"
You, like most of the public, are victims of
"governmental neglect" that actually comes closer to outright
"fraudulent concealment" thereby rendering citizens
"participants in experimentation without informed consent!"
While the act of placing a newborn infant (or any
child or person) in a bed that is adjacent to an electric meter may seem
innocent and lacking in reasons for concern, I have two grandsons who were
diagnosed with rare immune deficiencies. Their cribs/beds were
unknowingly placed in harms way -- against the "powerwall" -- because our
government, the electric utilities and also the various cancer societies were
not announcing "prudent avoidance measures re low level EMF/EMR."
The immunologist asked whether children had died
in our family. We were told the boys (cousins living in different cities)
may develop Leukemia or Lymphoma or other cancers. We were also
told their rare immune deficiency(ies) -- low IgG subclasses 1 and 3 would not
be expected to occur in infants or toddlers -- that this was "an adult
pattern" (the boys' cells were "aging") -- that there is/was no
name for their problem -- only the description
"hypogammaglobulinemia" which means "low
immune......"
The immunologist said "this must be
genetic." Blood tests were run and he then said, "this has to
be environmental...." I asked about the two high voltage
powerlines only 50 ft. from the front of our house (we had been providing
daycare for the boys). The doctor responded, "well, we know that
EMF's affect immune function in mice but we don't know how much of what happens
to mice happens to people...."
This was all occuring during the $46 mil EMF RAPID
Study. The boys' blood was sent to Dr. Fatih Uckun while he was still at
the University of Minnesota. We were not told he was one of the
scientists participating in the EMF RAPID Study. After Uckun
left the University of Minnesota, the National Institute of Health helped him
open the Wayne Hughes Institute. See Uckun's comments re
EMF's at:
http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMFL-3-98.html
To this day, the EMF RAPID Interagency Committee
Report has never been presented to Congress. I have made several
requests of politicians to testify before Congress. EMF's were designated
as Class 2B carcinogens. While funds were slotted for "notifying the
public," this has not occurred.
Tragically,
a teacher, Michael Boyum, unknowingly had a small fan and electric clock on the
headboard of his waterbed. Michael focused on "good
health" -- he held a black belt in karate. Michael died at the age
of 23 from Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Ironically, Dr. Fatih Uckun is the
doctor who attempted "last ditch, extraordinary measures" to save
Michael while he was a patient at the Parker-Hughes Cancer Center.
The
costs of just the above three families as result of possibly "preventable
health problems," were staggering and not only included considerable
payments by insurers but also jeopardized family life (in many ways) for
those affected, far into the future.
My
husband, Bud, has now improved in three parts of his Executive Function. He
is said not to have Alzheimers afterall but continues to suffer
moderate-to-severe memory loss and cognitive impairment. I moved
Bud's electric clock radio off his nightstand and started him on a regime of
nightly melatonin (as well as a number of other supplements). I also
discontinued his statin -- "Lipitor." Evidence is
mounting that many drugs may be causing severe adverse reactions particularly
when individuals are sleeping close to electrical or telephone
equipment. Insurers have been and continue to cover a multitude of
symptoms related to this type of adverse interaction/reaction.
Since
you, Mr. Fitzpatrick, are involved in "communications," why don't you
take the lead in regard to informing "Blue members," together with
affiliated unions, large corporations, etc., that there is a critical need to
move electric and telephone equipment away from persons' beds?
I will
be glad to send you a copy of the 1993 "USA Today" afticle that I
received from the American Cancer Society recommending electric items be moved
away from close proximity to beds. Also, I can send you a copy of a
booklet re EMF' that was prepared by utilities' communications' experts with
the same recommendations. That booklet was distributed by Florida Power
& Light and possibly also Sacramento Power & Light before printing was
stopped in 2001.
The
above-mentioned health problems in my family are only part of our
family's costs of our not being informed re simple, basically
cost-free "prudent avoidance measures...." The
people need your help, Mr. Fredrickson, to make "important
lifestyle choices."
I look
forward to hearing good things in regard to your help toward improving our
healthcare system!!! Best wishes and take care
- Joanne
Joanne
C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (7-10-07)
"The
things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without
conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without
morality; science without humanity....... --Mahatma Gandhi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/282050/
ARE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN GUINEA PIGS? Letter 7-22-04 by
Joanne Mueller
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Mr. Fitzpatrick's comments (re Michael Moore's
"SICKO"):
4. Perhaps most damaging of all, Moore completely fails to address the
most significant driver of health care costs - our own lifestyle choices - and seeks to
focus attention and efforts on the alluring 'quick-fix' of universal health
care. )........
Contrast this to the recent Health Care Symposium held in Harrisburg -
where a panel of representatives from Government, Insurance, Hospitals,
Business, Physicians, and even Lawyers agreed on one thing - that there was no
quick fix and that Health and Wellness was the critical area of focus.
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My
website, Guinea Pigs "R" Us, is now online: http://guineapigsrus.org
Please
call or email with any questions. Best wishes and take
care - Joanne
:Joanne
C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com
(7-24-07)
All truth goes through three stages: first it is ridiculed: then it is
violently opposed: finally it is accepted as self evident. -
Schopenhauer
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Von: JCMPelican@aol.com |
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Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:07:38 EDT |
Dear François: Nice to
hear from you and thanks for your kind words! This indicates to me
that help "for the children" is right around-the-corner......
I was able to read your email but do not
have the amount of time I need to respond specifically to most of the excellent
points you make except to say that you definitely have a very good
understanding of many of the issues involved.
I, personally believe the World Health
Organization (WHO) will be forced to deal openly with prudent avoidance issues
very soon. This will occur because every symptom and health problem is
rising at such a rapid rate that statistics are being cited for individual
problems such as even asthma alone as being capable of wiping out insurance
coverage (at least here in the U.S.).
As you most likely know, the same is being
said about rapid increases in the diagnosis of autism, Alzheimers and other
diseases.
"Big Pharma" will not be able to
continue releasing drug after drug considering the rate they are being pulled
off the shelf and/or being assigned black box warnings. That industry
as well as many others will soon have to begin to honestly address issues that
have been hidden for years.
I am pleased to hear that my work has
further inspired you considering the 21 years you have already been researching
issues surrounding EMF/EMR exposures!
Your comments re the Russians are
particularly interesting because I often write about the studies that remain
"untranslated" and yet are a part of the PubMed scientific studies,
often, including a U.S. reference in addition to the Russian institution,
etc. For the study to state "no abstract available" --
Russian language only, or "Japanese language only," is inexcusable in
this day and age. The studies are "too sensitive" and "too
conclusive."
Your idea about having the Russian
scientist come to meetings in Canada and the U.S. is a good one but as is the
case already, "mainstream media" is caught up in the corrpution and
greed along with industries and governments.
I have a new idea I will be writing about
soon where the potential exists to have at least some prudent avoidance info re
EMF/EMR reach over 53 million senior citizens. In the meantime, I plan a
writing campaign (as time allows) and whether or not I receive any replies --
not only emails and letters to 2008 Presidential candidates for 2008 but also
copies to head offices for national unions, medical associations, insurance
companies and more.
I think the only way to "box-in"
poliiticians to deal with this very serious situation is to point out to the
various groups how this "criminal negligence" is adversely affecting
their organizations, their own health, their families and so forth.
The other details you mention is
"fuel-for-the-fire" -- I often look back and refer to what others
have done re the cause because, as you indicate, there is a whole lot of
information that came about through the efforts of many hardworking persons who
for whatever reason are now not able to carry on the fight. We can not
afford to ignore the important work of Dr. Ross Adey, Dr. Neil Cherry and
others you mention.
Our words are powerful -- their silence
supports this....... For the good of humanity,
"THEY" will have to yield to common sense and protect the masses as
best they can before it is too late for everyone!!!
Best wishes and take care
- I will try and review more of your email when I have a
chance - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs "R" Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (7-25-07)
NEW WEBSITE: http://guineapigsrus.org
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character;
business without morality; science without humanity....." --Mahatma Gandhi