One question for WHO Dr. Michael Repacholi
Permanent fraud in health investigation?.
To emit only 13 hours in four days is NOT long-term radiation
is
publication of more health confusion and "delay tactic"
in mobile
telephony.
During 10 years the radiation emitted by one mast of base
station is
87,600 hours.
Remember one mobile phone can modify the BBB in only 2 minutes
use. (Dr.
L. Salford)
Yours faithfully
Miguel Muntané
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Maisch
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:51 PM
Subject: Sydney Morning Herald spin on the French study
On July 20th the Sydney Morning Herald boldly announced that
"New study
says mobile phones are safe". Now it does NOT say that
in the study but
reporter Eamonn Duff obviously does not want facts get in
the way of a
good title line. And to trivialise the whole issue the article
finishes
off with a claim of the latest concern being "mobile
mutant thumbs".
It is interesting to note that while the study was to test
whether
long-term mobile phone use could cause cancer, the sustained
period to
test for chronic exposure was four 1 hour exposures per day
for three
days, and for 1 hour on the 4th day. I'm not a cell biologist
so could
someone explain how in the hell this has any relevance on
the chronic
exposure a user would experience after say 10 years of mobile
phone use?
Rather than being a world-first study this is just another
minor
footnote in a long history of inconclusive studies.
Don
New study says mobile phones are safe
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/19/1058545628950.html
Breakthrough
in telepohone mast row
After months of attempting to meet with the local mayor regarding
their
concerns over radiation emissions from telephone masts, which
have been
erected next to their homes and schools, protestors in the
Algarve town
of Tavira were finally granted an audience with town hall
officials on
April 16th.
But it had taken a petition signed by over 1,000 residents,
and several
public protests, before Mayor Macaroe Correia agreed to allow
two of his
representatives to meet with leaders of the protest groups.
It is
understood that prominent coverage given to the protestors'
concerns by
The Portugal News during the past two months has also increased
pressure
on the mayor to, at last confront the problem.
One of the protestors, Teresa Drago, who attended the town
hall meeting
on April 16th told The Portugal News that the mayor's representatives
were surprisingly more than sympathetic to local residents'
fear of
health problems posed by the masts. Of particular concern
are three
masts erected next to a primary school and kindergarten.
Teresa said that the town hall officials were fully supportive
of the
protestors and agreed that everything should be done to protect
the
health of residents and their children. According to Teresa
the
officials also guaranteed that they would do everything possible
to
protect the public from the "interests of the giant"
network providers
responsible for erecting the masts.
Local government officials have arranged to meet with representatives
of
the network providers to explore the possibility of re-locating
all
telephone masts in and around Tavira to a distance of 500
metres from
residential properties and schools. Some other European countries
have
already imposed restrictions on masts being built within 650
metres of
urban areas. A public meeting called by protesters for April
23rd has
been postponed until after the outcome of the discussions
between the
town hall and network providers is known.
If Tavira's town hall officials succeed in persuading the
mobile phone
companies to agree to the 500 metre limit it will certainly
set a
precedent for the rest of the Algarve, and no doubt the whole
of
Portugal. But the question still being asked, is how network
providers
such as Optimus and TMN have been allowed to erect thousands
of masts
throughout Portugal without official planning permission?
The Portugal News has received many thank-you emails and
letters for
putting readers, whose homes have been blighted by telephone
masts, in
touch with experts on the health dangers of radiation emissions.
Dr.
David Best of London, an independent radiation consultant
to BBC TV, has
been able to advise many of our readers on the ramifications
of living
close to masts. So too has Mr. Les Wilson, Managing Director
of
Microshield Industries, a UK company specialising in anti-radiation
devices.
and
Tavira's
about turn in telephone mast row
One of the leaders of a protest group has told The Portugal
News that
assurances given by the Tavira City Hall, that it would do
everything
possible to protect residents from the harmful effects of
telephone
masts' radiation emissions, have turned out to be without
foundation.
Teresa Drago said that, during a meeting with local government
officials, both she and her colleagues were told that the
Town Hall
agreed wholeheartedly about their concerns regarding radiation
emissions
from five telephone masts erected close to schools and a housing
development.
The officials confirmed that they had arranged a meeting with
the
telephone operators and that the protestors could expect to
see the
masts removed in the near future. As a result of these assurances
the
protestors cancelled a demonstration meeting scheduled for
April 23rd.
However, the meeting between City Hall officials and the
telephone
operators appears to have done nothing to allay the fears
of local
residents living under the shadows of the masts. Mrs. Drago
said that no
action had been taken to remove any of them. All that has
happened is
that two of the telephone operators. Optimus and Vodafone,
have sent
letters to the protest groups stating that radiation emissions
from the
masts are well within international safety limits and do not
pose a
health threat.
The letters state that 1,600 studies worldwide prove that
mobile phone
masts are perfectly safe. They also confirm that the five
masts in
question have been tested and shown to be well within the
World Health
Organisation's (WHO) safety guidelines. According to one of
the letters,
radiation emissions from telephone masts are less dangerous
than those
from hair dryers, TV or microwave ovens. The May 2000 UK Government
Stewart Report is also referred to as giving a clean bill
of health to
cell phones and telephone masts. Teresa Drago has sent a 17-page
reply
refuting the claims made by the operators.
The Portugal News has discussed the claims made in the letters
with
leading experts on the health effects of cell phone radiation.
Les
Wilson, managing director of London based Microshield Industries,
said
that the Stewart Report called for safety exclusion zones
to be erected
around telephone masts and also advised against children using
cell
phones - points ignored by Vodafone.
Professor George Carlo of Washington DC, USA, pointed out
that the 1,600
studies mentioned in one of the letters were no doubt carried
out
several years ago and are now out of date compared to more
recent
studies, which prove that cell phones and masts are health
hazards. The
same applies to the WHO's guidelines. He added that many of
these
studies were sponsored by the cell phone industry - hardly
a platform
for impartiality. In the early 1990's the Professor was fired
by his US
mobile phone sponsors after he published a report stating
that radiation
emissions from cell phones were a serious health danger.
Teresa Drago and her fellow protestors are determined to
continue their
fight to have the masts removed. A public meeting held in
Tavira City
Hall on May 22nd again called upon the Mayor, Mac rio Correia,
to
protect residents by forcing the telephone operators to remove
the
masts. They repeated requests for him to explain why the masts
were
allowed to be erected without the necessary local planning
permission -
a question he has failed to answer on numerous occasions.
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/drago01.htm
Study
suggests hazard in City-County building basement
By Kate Nash
Some city and county employees who work at desks in the basement
of the
Downtown government building are exposed to as much or more
electromagnetic energy on an average day than electric generation
plant
operators or television repair people, a report found.
The study was commissioned by a law firm suing the city and
the county
over what it says are occupational hazards produced by high
electromagnetic fields in the former offices of the Bernalillo
County
assessor.
Levels measured in some parts of the basement of City Hall
far exceed
those at which people have been known to contract certain
types of
cancer, according to Santa Barbara, California-based Sage
Associates
Environmental Consultants, which did the study for the Bregman
Law Firm.
The firm is representing former employees who have been diagnosed
with
breast cancer.
"In a normal office, people don't expect these levels,
unless they are
electricians or electric workers," said Cindy Sage, owner
of the group
hired by attorney Sam Bregman to measure electromagnetic fields
in the
area. "Those guys go into that job and accept or expect
that. But the
people in the city and county don't. There's no implied consent
(to be
exposed), "she said.
The study, conducted July 24, is the second to be done in
the
City-County Building after Bregman filed the lawsuit in June.
The
plaintiffs - Arthur Slater and James Monta¤o - say
high levels of
electromagnetic waves inside the basement caused their cancer,
a type
which is rare in men. The basement, which is now home to part
of the
city's Public Works Department and the county Treasurer's
Office, used
to house the Assessor's Office.
According to Sage and the report, released Monday, the basement
offices
have magnetic fields that were measured at five to 10 milligauss
at desk
level and between 10 and 100 milligauss at the floor level
in various
parts of the basement. An average home has a level of one
milligauss,
Sage said. An average office has between one and two, she
said.
Chronic exposure to levels between two and five milligauss
have been
known to cause certain cancers, she said. And the results,
Sage said, mean
it would be prudent to move the employees who work there out
of the area.
The building's electrical distribution unit is located in
the basement,
city officials said. "Some offices in Public Works and
the County
Treasurer's Office are probably unsuitable for continued occupancy
where
magnetic field spot measurements at desks or in center-of-room
are
chronically and significantly elevated above typical office
levels," her
report states.
But plans to do so aren't in the works right now, city officials
said.
Anna Lamberson, the city's director of Finance and Administrative
Services, who oversees building maintenance and security,
said the
numbers found by Bregman's study and the city's study aren't
far apart.
"The one thing that does strike me is the numbers are
fairly similar. I
don't think that's been lost on anybody," Lamberson said.
"What's
different is the interpretation. We have the interpretation
from who we
believe to be the expert." Bregman, however, said Sage
is also an expert.
The city's report, which the city says is more comprehensive,
showed
magnetism levels that ranged from four to nine milligauss
in parts of
the Treasurer's Office and four to 16 in parts of the Public
Works
Department. The average field measurements across the area
as a whole
typically averaged about one milligauss, the report states.
"In our
report, OSHA said we didn't violate any OSHA standards, and
they are not
going to come down and visit," Lamberson said.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is the
federal agency
charged with establishing and enforcing workplace safety standards.
However, the city's report did list action it can take to
make the
offices more comfortable. "That's what we intend to do,"
Lamberson said,
listing improvements to the ventilation system, improvements
to some
drywall areas and carpet replacement as some examples.
County officials declined to comment, and a county spokeswoman
said she
hadn't seen the Sage report. According to the city's report
- done by
Mountain West Technical Associates and Enertech - the conditions
don't
violate OSHA standards. But it notes there are no state or
national
standards for exposure to electromagnetic frequencies.
However, Sage said the state of California recently labeled
electromagnetic frequencies as a carcinogen. "We now
have sufficient
evidence to declare that EMFs are a carcinogen," she
said.
In the meantime, Bregman, a former city councilor, said his
case, which
is in the discovery phrase, continues to grow. Bregman said
"five to ten
people have contacted me who have serious health problems
or whose
relatives have serious health problems and want to look at
this (case)."
http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news01/073101_news_basement.shtml
Source:
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/emf040603.htm
Letter
to some Wisconsin newspapers
This is a copy of a letter to the editor which I have sent
to some
Wisconsin newspapers and several have already indicated that
they plan
to use it.
Jim Protsman
July 23, 2003
Letter
to the Editor
A recent study reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Applied showed that people talking on cell phones, whether
handheld or
handsfree, during simulated driving tests, had reduced reaction
time,
causing them to run more red lights and to react more slowly
to other
vehicles than was true for people who were not using a cell
phone.
Cell phone use is usually banned in hospitals because radiation
from
these devices interferes with electronic monitoring devices
that can
cause them to shut down or give false readings. In a Mayo
Clinic study,
recently reported in The New York Times, it was shown that
the farther
away a cell phone is from such an electronic device, the less
likely the
chance of interference.
The human brain is a very sensitive electronic organ. When
it is near a
cell phone, which is a powerful emitter of radiofrequency
electromagnetic
energy, nerve signals in the body's nervous system significantly
slow
down. This means a falling off of brain function, including
reaction
time and all cognitive skills. The cell phone does not have
to be on for
this to happen, just nearby (within a foot or two), because
even when
turned off a cell phone continues to radiate electromagnetic
energy.
There is a simple brain speed test that measures the adverse
effect of a
cell phone on brain function. If I hold a cell phone in my
hand, or have
one in a pocket, or close to me, I cannot count as fast, nor
read as
fast, as when there is no cell phone near me.
To test for counting speed, all I need to do is count to
50 as fast as I
can (silently in my head) when holding a cell phone, and time
myself
with a second hand on a timepiece. Then I repeat the counting
test, this
time at least five feet away from the cell phone. I can count
about
10-15% faster when not in contact with the cell phone. During
the second
part of this test I should not be near any other electronic
devices.
When counting speed drops, so does every other brain function.
Hence it
is better not to use a cell phone when driving, or to even
be near one.
You will be a better driver. New York has banned the use of
cell phones
by drivers, and Wisconsin should seriously consider doing
the same.
Sincerely,
James Protsman
Re:
Is This hypocrisy,Conflict of interests,or What??
Hi Klaus.
I happen to favor addition of cannibis to the list of prescribable
narcotics for pain or whatever else it might help.
Note that inhalation of marijuana smoke probably is not a
good delivery
route, because the combustion products probably are dangerous
to the
health, as are tobacco combustion products. One would expect
about the
same lung cancer . . ..
I don't know whether yet another intoxicant is the right
solution for
anything, though.
John Michael Williams
Whale
numbers disputed
Pre-whaling population estimates upset conservationists
25 July 2003 TOM CLARKE
A new study estimating the original size of North Atlantic
whale
populations - before whaling took its toll - is being heavily
criticized
by researchers. Yet it backs the case for a continued ban
on whale hunting.
The genetic analysis suggests that about 12 times more humpback
and fin
whales once cruised the ocean compared with previous estimates1.
This
was before their wholesale slaughter began in the nineteenth
century.
Today's relatively small whale populations should be protected
for
another 50-100 years before they are large enough to allow
resumption of
commercial whaling, argues Stephen Palumbi of Stanford University
in
California who did the analysis...
see further:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030721/030721-14.html
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