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Datum: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:52:29 +0100 |
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Mo' BILE GIANTS
Versus
YOU & BEES
Ordinary
citizens the world over are up in arms against mobile giants of the
telecommunication industry. It is a fascinating scenario as the quarrel
surrounds a popular personal accessory: the Cellular/Mobile Phone.
The cry is:
No to erection of Mobile Phone Masts in villages, residential areas, inner
cities' tower blocks, near water towers, on steeples of churches, or academic
institutions.
The question of whether
churches are suitable sites for mobile phone masts took an interesting turn
when The Chancellor of the Diocese of Chelmsford refused permission to put a
mast in a church in Chingford on the grounds that it could be used to deliver
"revolting and damaging pornographic" material.
Nevertheless many politicians both at
local and national level have joined the struggle alongside citizens,
environmentalists and scientists to protest the new danger: EMFs (Electronic
Magnetic Fields) radiation.
EMFs
According to Dr. Robert
O. Becker, Medical Doctor (two times Nobel prize nominee) and Author of
"Cross Currents" and "The Body" :
"I have no doubt in
my mind that at the present time that the greatest polluting element in the
earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider
that to be far greater on a global scale than warming..."
At a recently convened
annual meeting of the World Congress of Integrated Medicines, called
"Electromagnetic Factors in Health: An Invisible Pandemic." One
scientist commented: "It's bigger than mercury. It's bigger than Lyme
disease. It's bigger than anything we've dealt with in medicine, yet
physicians, some of whom are in the room, are not looking into this."
Discovery of EMFs emitted in homes owing to water
being polluted by Mobile phone masts erected near or on Water Towers have
revealed worrying concerns. Apart from polluting the water provision to
community homes and work spaces it also surpasses legal levels of exposure
considered safe for humans.
There is now an established relationship based on
scientific research on the health of persons exposed to high levels of EMFs.
Findings include high risks of Neuro-Endocrine Stress
syndrome (aka adrenal exhaustion), cardiovascular disease, recurring lymphoma cancer,
blood sugar increase in diabetics, (REF: The Canadian Prof. Magda Havas has done extensive research on this :
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a768405314~db=all
Melatonin excretion by humans (As Melatonin is a
sleep, growth and mood regulating neurotransmitter and also a powerful
antioxidant and cancer inhibitor so any messing with it's excretion is very
dangerous) apart from impaired mental health.
According to Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy a noted Honorary
Lecturer at the Imperial College in London in his paper: "The biological
effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields":
"There have been
many instances of harmful effects of electromagnetic fields from such seemingly
innocuous devices as mobile phones, computers, power lines and domestic wiring.
They include an increased risk of cancer, loss of fertility and unpleasant
physiological symptoms. The power and mobile phone companies, hoping to avoid
litigation, often assert that because the energy of the fields is too low to
give significant heating, they cannot have biological effect. However the
evidence that electromagnetic fields can have "non-thermal"
biological effects is now overwhelming…."
Recent
disclosure of a scandalous shelving of pertinent commissioned research has
raised serious questions. One such 2000 study conducted by the ECOLOG Institute under the leadership of
distinguished German scientist Dr Peter Neitzke concluded even after
several revisions:
"Electromagnetic
fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range play a role in
the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the
central nervous system."
Another
stunning revelation is the impact this industry is having on the ecological
balance of our planet. With innumerable scientific reports suggesting
devastating effects on grazing livestock, pigeons, bees and agriculture being
parried by a furore of concerted denial by the industry together with the
mandated regulatory agencies. Scientists at the Research Institute for Nature and
Forests in Brussels in Belgium, have produced the first evidence that mobile
phone base stations are affecting the reproductive behaviour of wild sparrows
In fact
Individual Local Councils in the UK have since responded by refusing permission
for the erection of Mobile phone masts to protect Bee colonies.
Colony Collapse Syndrome
Widespread
reports on Colony Collapse Syndrome (CCS) in North America and now Europe are
proving problematic and disturbing to say the least. It is contended that not
only radiation emitted from Phone masts but also from mobile phones are
responsible for this disaster. Dr. George Carlo a
trained epidemiologist has pointed out that the spread of the Bee collapse does
not resemble a disease spread pattern like that of SARS. CCS has just exploded
on 4 continents in no time so there has to be a common disease promoter present
in all those places. Mobile phones and masts meet the criteria and the
radiation has reached breaking point for bees.
For the benefit
of dialogue readers a report on the impact on Bees is made available to through the
kind courtesy of German scientist Dr. Ulrich Warnke.
WIFI Technology
According to the Health
Protection Agency:
WiFi is short for
Wireless Fidelity and is a particular type of wireless
local area network (WLAN) - i.e., you don't need to plug your computer
into a phone network via a cable. There are many types of WLAN but all
of them allow two or more computers to form a network using radio
frequency (RF) signals. They allow users to access and share data,
applications, internet access or other network resources in the same way
as wired (cable) systems.
Without
necessary vital research, truly no one knows the real risks of Wi-Fi
As hotspots are popping
up everywhere for internet users with even entire cities going WIFI , now
a professor at Bristol University, UK has called for an inquiry into the
dangers of WI-FI wireless internet technology.
Recent widely reported rejection of WIFI technology by a school in the UK became
a catalyst in the ongoing debate for much needed research on the implication of
its use.
Dr. Gerd Oberfeld in
Salzburg, Austria has secured the worlds lowest exposure levels for base
stations. Other countries with low guidelines (much lower than UK)
includes Italy, Switzerland and Russia.
Even PANORAMA a BBC
Television documentary series investigated and exposed for viewers the inconsistencies
and mounting evidence of dangers poised by this technology.
Needless to
say, Institutions and other European governments have taken drastic steps to
disallow the use of such technology in light of the damning evidence.
Perhaps such growing concerns have even influenced the chairman of the UK's Health Protection Agency to call for an official
investigation. However theses concerns remain ignored as feeble calls for
investigation and suggestions of further epidemiological studies only stall the
momentum of the debate.
Electronic sensitivity
ES is a new medical condition not fully recognised as a
diagnosis in UK but is officially accepted in Sweden. Where Prof. Gerd Oberfeld and Orjan Hallberg from Sweden) projected the rise
of EHS into the near future, based on statistics, and found that in 2017 50% of
the population will be affected by EHS.
Source:
http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/
There are
varying degrees of sensitivity, and those only mildly affected will not
necessarily be aware of the cause and not have any disruption to daily life.
For example
one such chronic victim of this condition reports:
"For
the past seven years, I have been electrosensitive, which means I react to the
electromagnetic radiation - sometimes known as electrosmog - given off by
electricity systems and appliances. Five minutes near a mobile phone mast is
enough to cause sharp pains in my head. Longer exposure produces aching
muscles, heart palpitations and stomach cramps. On occasion, it has caused
me to bleed internally."
Medical
practitioners in Switzerland have had lower reports of this condition as there
are astringent laws governing exposure. However some medical practitioners in
the UK are reporting a worrying rise in such reports of this new condition.
Individual
victims have resorted to unconventional methods of protection against this
syndrome. One such suffer has actually been on UK National television promoting
her protective form of clothing to combat symptoms of this condition caused by
electronic smog.
Nevertheless
the denial remains unabated from a besieged industry.
Health Concerns
Damning evidence of diagnosed clusters of
varied ailments suffered by persons resident near mobile masts are being
reported. An observational study of the effect of mobile/cell phone usage on
semen analysis in men attending infertility clinic was conducted in Ohio USA in
2007.The Reproductive Research Center, Glickman Urological Institute and
Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology have published their conclusions.
The research
of three hundred sixty-one men revealed that use of cell phones decrease the
semen quality in men by decreasing the sperm count, motility, viability, and
normal morphology. The decrease in sperm parameters was dependent on the
duration of daily exposure to cell phones and independent of the initial semen
quality.
MORE EVIDENCE as
ACTION ESCALATES
Meanwhile
numerous steps have been taken by governments across Europe and parts of Asia
in response to these reports to regulate with improvised legislations for the
erection of these masts. Nevertheless phone companies have not letup in their
applications to erect these masts in contested locations.
Noted
scientist Dr George Carlos lead the US Senate commissioned
WTR cellphone & health research programme in the 90's where they
found DNA damage & blood-brain-barrier leakage. Dr. Carlo went public when
the industry tried to shut down the programme and bury the evidence. In fact he
visited the UK early 2007 and addressed concerned MPs
and citizens at the House of Commons as part of the campaign to raise awareness
of the dangers posed by this industry.
Quite
recently there was also a stunning revelation of a leading mobile phone
corporation unsuccessfully attempting to cover up one such scientific report
suggesting possible harm by mobile phone use to humans. This was widely
reported in the press causing collateral damage to the testimonies of
refutation by the industry.
Scientist & Activist Dr. Iris Atzmon is the author
of the pioneering work: The Cellular, Not What You
Thought! The Information that is Hidden from the Public". For
the May 2007 issue of the Israel based periodical: Alternative Life, she
commented the following :
" People hold the
phone near their ear. We have never put a device so close to the brain without
knowing what it is really capable to do. It is not an innocent device.
Experiments show that the
radiation from the mobile phone changes the brain waves, the brain waves play a
role in control of the body functions, the meaning is that people allow to
interfere with their brain functions, especially small children.
Apart from that, there are
symptoms that people feel: headaches, heat in the ear, ringings, nose
bleedings, loss of concentration, dizziness and sleep problems because the
radiation interferes with melatonin production which is the hormone of sleep.
I ask myself, how many people
get drug prescriptions against depression and headaches when these are actually
symptoms that are derived from the radiation, and they are missed in the
diagnosis. Physicians don't study on environmental pollution or radiation.
There is a terrible disconnection between medicine and environment."
"There are studies
that point to damage in the blood brain barrier. The radiation causes changes
in the protein of the barrier and causes penetration of substances that
shouldn't be in the brain, meaning the radiation damages the protection barrier
of the brain and people become more vulnerable to other factors like air
pollution and smoking. It is important to stress: the opening of the blood
brain barrier happens within 2 minutes, so short exposure is enough!
"In studies it was
also found that the radiation causes production of free radicals, which is a
carcinogenic factor. The body has anti-oxidants protection system, but if the
body is exposed chronically to free radicals, it needs to 'waste' the
protection system on the fight against environmental exposures.
"And finally, there
are studies that point to long term risks, like brain tumors and benign tumors
of the acoustic nerve. Benign tumors have potential to become malignant, and
until then the tumor damage the hearing and causes suffering and pains. There
is also evidence for DNA breakage, meaning potential for genetic damage and
damage that is going to affect on the heredity. "
Meanwhile
there is another danger lurking in our homes: Digital Electronic Cordless Telephones. These have been found to be as dangerous
as Mobile/Cell phone Masts as they emit the same type
of pulsed microwave radiation (about 1.8 GHz) as ordinary (GSM) mobile phones.
Emissions can be about 6
V/m within a metre of the base unit, for as long as it is plugged in. These
base stations emit their radiation even when the phone is not in use. All DECT
base units emit microwaves continuously 24 hours a day as long as they are plugged
in. For this reason cordless phones are regarded as bad news.
In fact a DECT phone is a
mobile phone, and its base is a mobile phone mast in your house or office. So
if you must use one. Keep the base unit and remote extra handsets away
from where you sit or sleep, and remember that you are transmitting into
neighbouring property through your walls.
Unlike mobile phones,
DECT cordless phones work at a fixed power. Mobiles turn their power down to
the lowest level possible, so when you are near a base station this can be much
lower than a DECT cordless. DECT pulses are far more aggressive than for
mobiles.
UK news media
has also now joined the bandwagon of protests, promoting [for their own selfish
reasons under the guise of public service] sensational reports on the issue of
electronic smog.
Credible scientific
research reveals mobile phone mast radiation is harmful. This is endemic as
evidenced by copious intelligence. The negative impact on our environment is
now irrefutable. Without a resolution on this debate,
a comprehensive ruling is still to be reached as corporate denials persist
hence the pertinence of this dialogue
report.
RK
STOP PRESS
NEWSFLASH
UK Government Ministers are to investigate
arrangements for erecting mobile phone masts in the light of growing fears that
they may cause cancer and other diseases because of "electronic
smog".
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SCIENTIFIC REPORT
Orientation and Navigation
of Bees may be disturbed by man-made
electric, magnetic and
electromagnetic fields.
The conclusions of the
research of other scientists and of my own research result in the following
statement:
1. The integuments of bees (and bird feathers) have
semiconductive and
piezoelectric functions.
2. This means they act as a transducer of pulse
modulated high frequency microwave fields into an audio frequency range.
Certain parts of the structure of the integument function as dielectric
receptors of electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region.
3. The presence of magnetite nanoparticles has been
demonstrated in the abdomen of bees. Magnetite is an excellent absorber of
microwave radiation at frequencies between 0.5 and 10.0 GHz through the process
of ferromagnetic resonance. Pulsed microwave energy absorbed by this process is
first transduced into acoustic vibrations (magneto acoustic effect).
4. It has been demonstrated that free-flying honeybees
are able to detect static intensity fluctuations and ultra low frequency
magnetic fields as weak as 26 nT against the background earth-strength magnetic
field.
5. Magnetic field bursts at a frequency of 250 Hz
oriented parallel to the field lines of the Earth's magnetic field induce
unequivocal jumps of misdirection of up to +10°.
6. The magnetic induction levels in today's
environment range usually between 1 nT and 170,000 nT in the low frequency
range and between several nT and several 1000 nT in the high frequency range.
Hence, these levels are commonly higher than the threshold of sensibility of
bees to variations of magnetic fields.
7. In the honeybee, the NO-system in the antennal
lobes is implicated in chemosensory processing and in memory formation.
Disturbance of the NOsystem through electromagnetic fields with low and high
frequency is proved today only in mammals, but it is expected to work in the
same manner also in insects. In this case, olfactory function and the memory of
bees are fading.
April 2007
On balance, the consequence of all these investigations
is that the orientation and navigation of bees may be disturbed by man-made
technical communication fields.
Dr. Ulrich Warnke,
Universität des Saarlandes Fak 8.4, 66123 Saarbrücken
Deutschland
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