Newsletter (07 February 2004)

What A Cell Phone Can Do To A Child's Brain In Just Two Minutes

The Mirror - London

12-26-2001

What A Cell Phone Can Do To A Child's Brain In Just Two Minutes

These are the first images that show the shocking effect that using a mobile phone has on a child's brain. {Images not available)

Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two minutes can alter the natural electrical activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterwards. And they also found for the first time how radio waves from mobile phones penetrate deep into the brain and not just around the ear.

The study by Spanish scientists has prompted leading medical experts to question whether it is safe for children to use mobile phones at all. Doctors fear that disturbed brain activity in children could lead to psychiatric and behavioural problems or impair learning ability.

It was the first time that human guinea pigs were used to measure the effects of mobile phone radiation on children. The tests were carried out on an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl called Jennifer. Using a CATEEN scanner, linked to a machine measuring brain wave activity, researchers were able to create the images above.

The yellow coloured part of the scan on the right shows how radiation spreads through the centre of the brain and out to the ear on the other side of the skull. The scans found that disturbed brain wave activity lasted for up to an hour after the phone call ended.

Dr. Gerald Hyland - a Government adviser on mobiles - says he finds the results "extremely disturbing." "It makes one wonder whether children, whose brains are still developing, should be using mobile phones," he adds.

"The results show that children's brains are affected for long periods even after very short-term use. Their brain wave patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a long period. This could affect their mood and ability to learn in the classroom if they have been using a phone during break time, for instance. We don't know all the answers yet, but the alteration in brain waves could lead to things like a lack of concentration, memory loss, inability to learn and aggressive behaviour."

Previously it had been thought that interference with brain waves and brain chemistry stopped when a call ended. The results of the study by the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research Institute in Marbella coincide with a new survey that shows 87 per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds own mobile phones and 40 per cent of them spend 15 minutes or more talking each day on them. And disturbingly, 70 per cent said they would not change the use of their phone even if advised to by the Government.

Dr. Hyland plans to publish the latest findings in medical journal The Lancet next year.

He said: "This information shows there really isn't a safe amount of mobile phone use. We don't know what lasting damage is being done by this exposure.

"If I were a parent I would now be extremely wary about allowing my children to use a mobile even for a very short period. My advice would be to avoid mobiles."

Dr. Michael Klieeisen, who conducted the study, said: "We were able to see in minute detail what was going on in the brain.

"We never expected to see this continuing activity in the brain. We are worried that delicate balances that exist - such as the immunity to infection and disease - could be altered by interference with chemical balances in the brain."

A Department of Health spokesman said: "In children mobile phone use should be restricted to very short periods of time."

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Cell phones lower kids' brain activity

Dr. Michael Klieeisen: "My advice to all parents is not to allow children to use mobile phones," Klieeisen was quoted by Aftenposten as saying. "Not only are electrical activities affected, but also biochemical processes. We do not know if it is dangerous, but we do know that children's brains, which are not fully developed, are more vulnerable than adult brains are," the researcher added.

http://www.dawn.com/2002/02/12/int10.htm

12 February 2002

Cell phones lower kids' brain activity: experts

OSLO, Feb 11: Just a few minutes' chatting on a mobile phone reduces the brain functions of children for almost an hour, according to new Spanish test results quoted in Norwegian media.

The tests, conducted by the German investigator Michael Klieeisen at the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research in Marbella, are the first to show how children's brains react to the use of mobile phones.

With the help of a scanner, Klieeisen was able to create pictures of how the brains of an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl reacted while they used a mobile phone. The results were compared with similar tests using adult subjects.

The tests showed that the brain activity of the child subjects was reduced significantly, especially on the side where the mobile phone was held, a few minutes after the call was begun, the report said.

Also, brain activity was lower than normal in large sections of the brain for 50 minutes after the end of the call, the test results showed.

"My advice to all parents is not to allow children to use mobile phones," Klieeisen was quoted by Aftenposten as saying. "Not only are electrical activities affected, but also biochemical processes. We do not know if it is dangerous, but we do know that children's brains, which are not fully developed, are more vulnerable than adult brains are," the researcher added.

Researchers in Britain confirm the Spanish results, and Norwegian and Swedish experts also are studying the health risk posed by mobile telephony.

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Dr. Lennart Hardell needs your information and the pictures for the Swedish Parliament

Dear Dr Michael Klieeisen

Your important investigation about the microwave radiation from mobile telephone and the brain alteration in children published in December 2001 is needed in Sweden.

* Dr. Lennart Hardell needs your information and the pictures for the Swedish Parliament.

Yours faithfully

Information from Dr Miguel Muntané, Barcelona

----- Original Message -----

From: lennart.hardell@orebroll.se

To: m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es

Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:38 AM

Subject: SV: What A Cell Phone Can Do To A Child's Brain In Just Two Minutes

How can we get those pictures. We will appear before the Swedish Parliament next week and discuss mobile phones.

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Re: Mobile phones and children

If you just google--Dr. Michael Klieeisen--you'll get c. 92 results. An account of the study is posted in the first batch. He can be contacted at or his email got from: info@marbellahighcare.com

Imelda

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Fighting a cellular transmitter - strategy advice

Hi Don,

On the topic of "public participation" we've used the principles and ideas expressed in the piece I include here - which I thought might be of general interest -  in opposing successfully several transmitter installations in the Victoria, B.C .area here on Canada's ' wet coast'. A couple of years ago two of us wrote this statement about what seemed to work for us and others and sent it around hoping to encourage others in the struggle aware citizens must engage in from time to time in the fight for a liveable electrical environment.

Warm regards,

Chris Anderson

 

Key Issues and Strategies to STOP Cell Phone Tower Installations

Omega: see under http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_emf-omega-news_16-11-03.html

Chris Anderson, Walt McGinnis, EMR Services, 250-537-5102; 250-652-2554, May/02

Information from Don Maisch

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Information sought on best T.V.s when EHS

Hi Klaus: A U.K. resident friend, severely EHS, has asked me what kind of T.V. is best for his condition. He writes: "I have tried all sorts of ways to watch TV but keep getting affected. I think it's the speakers that get me. Have you seen the new LCD TV's?

I have measure one with my monitor and don't get a reading 2 inches from the screen. I am looking into buying one and having it mounted high up on the living room. Do you know what it is in TVs that affects people? Is it the speakers (sound waves)? I don't think it's the magnetic or electric fields they generate because I have put one outside, sat 15 feet away and watched it through glass and still got affected. Do you know anybody that has adpated a TV so they can watch it?"

All suggestions are welcome. I will pass them along to him.

Best,  Imelda, Cork

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Special Report- Power Lines

Warning: High Tension

By Moshe Ronen

Yediot Ahronot 6/2/2004

Investigative article: the power company ignores the standard of the Environment Quality Office, power lines pass near houses, the residents have cancer and are convinced that the building is cursed.

A week after the Environment quality warned about a dangerous radiation from the power installations, Moshe Ronen returned to the two cursed buildings in Kiron. Two years ago, he went from door to door, and almost in every apartment he found a cancer patient. The suspicion fell on the high power line that passes  several meters from the buildings, but  the radiation measurement didn't find anything. Another check that was done this week, did find that the radiation is higher than the standard. Experts say that the radiation can cause cancer, but the power company denies.

Who knows how many more houses are in a dangerous proximity to the high power lines. Who knows how many more people will die and how many more cursed buildings will be found, before the connection between the radiation and cancer will be finally clarified.

Informant: Iris Atzmon

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URGENT: A QUESTION

Dear Fellows:

I have a quick question: Does anybody know of a case where base-station antennas interfered with the operaton of police communication systems? Is there any record of such a case.

Please let me know if you know of such a case, as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Radi

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Secret Power - New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sp/

 

Spying on your calls

http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/97BRglw.html

 

Nicky Hager Addresses The Echelon Committee

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00104.htm

 

Exposing the Global Surveillance System

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/29/044.html

 

Former US Intelligence And Advanced Mind-Control Victim

A Brief Look At The Story Of Steven K. Bratcher

http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/Orvotron/Spirit-BBS-Files/html/bratcher.html

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/skbi-lab.htm

 

RADIATION AND MIND CONTROL VICTIMS: THE SAME DILEMMA

http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/Orvotron/Spirit-BBS-Files/html/welsh.html

 

More info-mind control CAA

http://forum.onecenter.com/cgi-bin/forum/forum.cgi?c=msg&fid=psychops&mid=129

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Global warming bigger threat than terrorism

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-06/s_12843.asp

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WWF ALERT: Stop a disastrous dam on the Drava River

Dear Klaus

New campaign: Stop a disastrous dam on the Drava River

The Novo Virje dam - an ecological disaster and against European Union law

While most of Europe's larger rivers have been drastically dammed and regulated during the last century, the lower stretches of the Drava and its main tributary, the Mura, still form a 380km long free-flowing river corridor between Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary.

This spectacular river and the life it supports is threatened with destruction if Croatia goes ahead with the Novo Virje hydropower dam.

Help oppose this disastrous construction: please send an e-card to

http://news.panda.org/cgi-bin1/flo/y/haCn0DZ3EE0E8z0CHrY0Ab

Many thanks for taking action. All the best, Passport campaign team, WWF International.

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http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-05/s_12800.asp
 

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-05/s_12792.asp

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