COST 281 "STM Base Station Monitoring"
Dear collegues,
please take note that there is planned a COST 281 "STM
Base Station
Monitoring" meeting in Vienna from 26th - 27th of August.
The scope of the STM group is: to consider for a given location
the
extrem difficulties in calculating and measuring (with its
high
variations in the field measurement) of the exposure situation.
The group have also to state the physical law to derive the
field
strength. Other topics are: the statistical approach, field
analysis,
the BCCH channel, collating methods, 3G measurement and extrapolation,
personal monitoring, and length of monitoring required. Further
questions: How do we relate the exposure measurement to the
health of
the exposed people in situ? How do we standardize the measurement?
People who want to attend the STM meeting have to contact:
Georg Neubauer (email: georg.neubauer@arcs.ac.at)
Joe Wiart (email:
joe.wiart@francetelecom.com)
Very important hint:
At present there is no financial support out of EU COST 281
means
possible.
Kind regards
Gerd Friedrich
Informant: Volker Hartenstein, Member of the Bavarian
Parliament
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The
Great Mobile Phone Cover-up
January 19, 2002 By Dave Edwards
In 1953 the tobacco industry faced a problem - their own reviews
of the
available scientific data concluded that smoking could kill.
A report
for RJ Reynolds stated: "Studies of clinical data tend
to confirm the
relationship between heavy and prolonged tobacco smoking and
incidence
of cancer of the lung."
Leading PR firm Hill & Knowlton (H&K) were brought
in to "get the
industry out of this hole". H&K indicated where the
focus should lie:
"We have one essential job - which can be simply said:
Stop public
panic... There is only one problem - confidence, and how to
establish
it; public assurance, and how to create it..."
There +were+ other problems - caring for the sick, burying
the dead,
comforting the bereaved - but they were somebody else's problems.
Flat rejection of claims of adverse health effects was a given
for
industry executives. But this alone was unlikely to pacify
the public.
Instead H&K understood that the key was to throw as many
spanners as
possible into the public's cognitive works: "The most
important type of
story is that which casts doubt on the cause and effect theory
of
disease and smoking." Eye-grabbing headlines were needed
and "should
strongly call out the point - Controversy! Contradiction!
Other factors!
Unknowns!"
Phil Lesley, author of a handbook on public relations, explains
how this
organised confusion can be used to prevent profit-costly action
being
taken on everything from ozone depletion to global warming,
to nuclear
disarmament, to lifting sanctions against Iraq: "People
generally do not
favour action on a non-alarming situation when arguments seem
to be
balanced on both sides and there is a clear doubt. The weight
of
impressions on the public must be balanced so people will
have doubts
and lack motivation to take action. Accordingly, means are
needed to get
balancing information into the stream from sources that the
public will
find credible. There is no need for a clear-cut 'victory'.
... Nurturing
public doubts by demonstrating that this is not a clear-cut
situation in
support of the opponents usually is all that is necessary."
The tobacco industry knew, of course, that the heroes of the
'free
press' could be relied upon to play their part in "nurturing
public
doubts", as recognised in an international memo put out
by Philip
Morris: "The media like the money they make from our
advertisements and
they are an ally that we can and should exploit... we should
make a
concerted effort in our principal markets to influence the
media to
write articles or editorials positive to the industry position
on the
various aspects of the smoking controversy."
Fortunately for people and planet, one of the perennial threats
to this
strategy of organised bamboozlement is the rogue establishment
expert
whose credentials are matched only by his or her humanity.
Consider, for
example, Dr Gerard Hyland who, in a report submitted to the
European
Parliament's Industry, Trade, Research and Energy Committee
on 11 July
2001, has blown a wide hole in the silence and deception that
surround
the threat of mobile phone radiation.
Pointing to nothing less than an industry-inspired cover-up
of the
threat, Hyland, from the Department of Physics at Warwick
University
(UK) and the International Institute of Biophysics in Germany,
describes
how the voice of those with a view contrary to the officially
perceived
wisdom "is at worst silenced, or, at best, studiously
ignored".
The impression of a campaign to suppress truth is reinforced,
Hyland
writes, by stories of industry attempts "to 'persuade'
those who
discover findings that might prove to be potentially damaging
to market
development to actually alter their results to make them more
'market
friendly'".
Existing safety guidelines relating to mobile phone masts
are completely
inadequate, Hyland reports, since they focus only on the thermal
effects
of exposure to electro-magnetic fields. Various non-thermal
influences
mean that existing guidelines intended to protect the public
- such as
those issued by the International Commission for Non-ionising
Radiation
Protection (ICNIRP) - "afford no protection"...(excerpt)
The rest read please under
http://uuhome.de/global/english/WTO027.html
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Non-Thermal
Effects
Electromagnetic fields too weak to heat up the body had been
linked to
cancer and other illnesses since the 1960s. The current 'safety'
limits
are still inadequate to protect workers and the public from
these
effects. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the bad science at the centre
of the
controversy.
The current debate over the health hazards of mobile phones
is a
continuation of the debate over the health hazards of weak
electromagnetic fields in the entire frequency spectrum that
began in
the 1950s...
The rest read please under
http://www.lauralee.com/news/fieldsofinfluence.htm
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ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION A THREAT TO OUR HEALTH
The electromagnetic field consist of an electric field and
magnetic
field oscillating in plane at right angles to each other but
with both
fields transverse to the direct the wave transports its energy.
Electromagnetic waves consists of radio waves from radio
and TV towers,
microwaves from cell phones, cell sites, mobile phones, and
microwave
ovens which are a minor problems compared to other sources.
The background radiation has been rising significantly by
the factors of
thousands in the general population since the Second World
War.
Cancer is partly genetic, but largely environmental like
air pollution,
benzine, toxins in food like saccharine are shown to be danger,
all
those and other fairly toxic chemicals, can damage cells,
but evidence
is very strong that electromagnetic radiation damages cells
in a way
that is potentially cancer causing.
The official position of those who make their money out of
producing and
using this technology is that we all know that the only thing
that
Electromagnetic radiation can do is to produce heat and if
it does not
do this it can't have any effect.
However, a different view comes from science from reading
the people who
have researched what happens to the cells in laboratories
in repeatable
experiments. For example, a laboratory took human breast cancer
cells,
and exposed them to an infusion of melatonin, which is natural
neurohormone which we all have which helps us sleep at night.
Then they
applied a very low level of varying electric field, 50 cycle
field, and
the oncostatic effect of melatonin was totally eliminated.
Every night when we go to sleep our melatonin levels rise
and melatonin
goes through our blood and cleans our cells up. For example,
it
scanvenges out free radicals which are highly damaging chemicals.
If the
free radicals persist for very long they damage DNA and caused
damaged
cells and is shown to be carcinogenic. Melatonin is one of
these agents
that cleans us up every night to reduce the possibility that
cells will
become carcinogenic.
That experiment shows that electromagnetic radiation from
power lines
and appliances can reduce the melatonin cleaning-up effect
on human
breast cancer cells. The experiment was repeated in three
other
laboratories. It give very reliable and repeatable result.
The strength
of the signal they used was two to twelve milligauss a very
low-level
magnetic field magnitude in that wave.
The European standard for safety for ELF fields is 20,000
milligauss is
safe, where this experiment shows that 2 milligauss causes
a significant
reduction in the cleansing effect of melatonin on human cells.
ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION AND DISEASE
More than a dozen tests and studies of men whose work exposed
them to
ELF electromagnetic radiation found an increased incident
of leukaemia,
lymphoma, and brain cancer. And two epidemiological studies
have found
that a statistically high number of children in Denver who
had died of
cancer had lived near high current electrical lines.
Scientists don't know exactly how exposure to ELF radiation
causes
cancer. Many of them believe that it impairs the ability of
the
lymphocyte cells, the infection fighting guardof the immune
system to
combat cancer.N
With the great increase in breast cancer in woman between
the age 25 to
60, it is hard to over look the fact that millions now spend
eight hours
a day working inches from VDT. These screens emit the type
of magnetic
fields that have been shown to promote the growth of tumours.
And
neither lead aprons nor radiation screens that are sold for
VDT shield
very small amount of the magnetic fields that completely penetrate
the
body.
BIRTH
DEFECTS
Although few animals studies have been done in Europe (Netherland)
to
analyse the effects of ELF radiation on pregnancies, dairy
farmers have
known for many years not to pasture herds or let them breed
close to
electrical lines.
If they do they have more stillborn and stunted calves and
lower milk
production. In the next ten to fifteen years, ELF radiation
will also be
linked to many degenerative neurological disorders including
multiple
sclerosis, autism, etc.
THE
COVER UP FROM THE GOVERNMENTS
The government and the electric utility industry and appliances
manufacturers all maintain that there is not enough proof
to make them
take action. This is the same thing people said for years
about
asbestos, until it was proven to be a killer.
Hundred of thousands of people could die before it is proven
beyond a
shadow of a doubt that electromagnetic radiation is truly
dangerous
!!!!!!!!!!...
The rest read please under http://www.angelfire.com/nf/og/mag.html
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Cellular phones - when they get hot
Hi, I use to use a Nokia cellular phone that would become
very hot
against my head. I didn't think anything of it until I was
about to die
from all my health problems. I happened to have mercury fillings
in my
teeth. You can read about it at www.tohellandback.com - if
you haven't
already.
I'm still suffering from problems with my brain - I'm not
sure if the
problems are related to cell phone or mercury. Anyway, I just
wanted to
share this info.
Do any of you have a throbbing in the base of your brain
since being
overly exposed to EMF's? It's almost like I have a little
heart at
the base of my brain and makes my brain stem and may spine
throb
along with it. I have to take anti-convulsant medications
in order
to cope. I don't know if this is from over exposure to EMF's
or to
methyl-mercury.
Debbie
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Re:
The problem of health effects of mobile
Can someone please tell me why i am so electrically sensitive
i do not
live right by a cell tower? You can see radio or tv type towers
two of
them probly 3 miles away but look closer - i am fying, intense
pain,
hair loss, muscle loss, up all night hearing umming and pain
insominia...what do you do do get rid of it?
My hair is coming out very fast - do not know how to stop
it. Our home
is plugged into one of those "garbage can" looking
contraptions at the
top of a high voltage pole - could this be the problem? Hope
someone can
help me before they lock me up!
jackie
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Environmental
Justice and Precaution
http://tinyurl.com/ixx1
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Food
Producers in China go GM-Free
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FPICGGMF.php
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O.T.
themes:
The
Neocons in Power
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16378
Preparing
for War, Stumbling to Peace
http://publicbroadcasting.net/wnyc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=523426
Are
Neocons cooking their own goose?
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/7112547p-8060159c.html
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How
did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=930
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Religious
zealotry and the crisis of American democracy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4338.htm
The
idealistic acceptance of well-presented manipulation of truth
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4335.htm
Blair
and Bush join forces to spin away weapons issue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4329.htm
Ministry
Of Defense Tried To Destroy Kelly Files
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=430114
Informant: George Paxinos
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