Hi Klaus,
Thank you for the prompt response! As promised, here is the
article on
Neil Cherry that appeared on Wired News today:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59007,00.html
Many thanks,
Elisa
Last
Battle for Radiation Fighter
02:00 AM May. 28, 2003 PT
People who believe that cell phones cause cancer and other
illnesses
just lost one of their most ardent scientific supporters.
Dr. Neil
Cherry, a New Zealand biophysicist who spent much of his career
collecting research papers that showed radiation emitted from
cell
phones is harmful to users, and who testified on behalf of
a cancer
patient in a high-profile lawsuit against the industry, died
on Saturday
of motor neuron disease. He was 57 years old.
His supporters, including environmental health advocates and
ordinary
citizens who believed they got sick from using devices that
emitted
electromagnetic radiation, mourned his death on the Internet.
"Despite
his illness he has been working hard on his EMR research and
also,
despite his handicaps caused by the illness, assisting as
much as he can
to help people like me who have been badly affected by the
emissions of
RF (radio frequencies)," said one reader of the EMF-Omega-News
newsletter (http://free-page.net/web/EMF-News.htm).
"The world has been a better place for his living with
such integrity
and courage and fighting for the health of the people regardless
of the
communications industry trying to discredit him," the
reader said.
Cherry and his colleagues were dealt a blow last year when
a Baltimore
judge threw out
(http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,55474,00.html)
a closely
watched $800 million lawsuit against the cell-phone industry.
Judge
Catherine Blake said that Dr. Christopher Newman -- who claimed
his
brain cancer was caused by frequent use of his cell phone
-- did not
have sufficient evidence to receive a trial. If the case had
been allowed
to move forward, it would have opened up the industry to more
lawsuits.
The outcome of the Newman case, however, did not discourage
Cherry, an
associate professor of environmental health at Lincoln University
in New
Zealand, from continuing his research and proselytizing about
the
dangers of EMR waves around the world.
In 1994, Cherry was invited by a local primary school to
present
information he had gathered on the possible health effects
a proposed
cell-phone tower would have on the children at the school.
He found that
the tower emitted radiation at a frequency that would be harmful
to a
small child. His recommendation that the school kill the proposal
was
adopted by parents and officials who voted to reject construction
of the
tower on campus.
Cherry spent many years and a great deal of his own money
traveling the
world collecting university papers on EMR research. He attended
numerous
meetings of environmental activists and presented research
showing that
almost all radio-wave-emitting technologies -- radar, power
lines,
microwave ovens, radio- and television-station towers, cell
towers and
cell phones -- pose some kind of risk to people.
His position was that ideally, people would not use cell
phones but
would rely on only land-line communications. "We (humans)
are very good
conductors (of cellular transmissions), so most of the cell-phone
signal
goes through us, and very little actually goes to the cell
site," Cherry
said at a microwave-radiation conference
(http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,19069,00.html).
While the long-term effects of cell-phone use are not known,
the New
England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical
Association both ruled out infrequent and short-term cell-phone
use --
up to five years -- as a cause of brain cancer. The U.S. Food
and Drug
Administration and the World Health Organization have said
no evidence
exists that cell-phone use is harmful or beneficial to a user's
health.
and
Neil
Cherry - I lost a dear friend
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Dear fellow fighters,
I also lost a dear friend with the death of Neil. Not only,
that we
encountered ourselves occasionally on congresses, no, he was
also some
years ago with his woman with me in Luebeck for some days
on a visit. We
have visited not only the city; he was also in our clinic
area in order
to inform himself about our experiments concerning the electro
sensitivity.
We discussed much and extensively the situation at that time,
which
changed since then until today only in the principle, that
Neil's
activities among others picked out for discussion the problem
as a
central theme world-wide. I remind only on the discussion
concerning ICNIRP.
We, everyone, have suffered a large loss and should preserve
the memory
of him. He advocated us with very much courage and this we
may not
forgot - risked also much.
Lebrecht von Klitzing
ES
is fully recognized as a physical disability by the Swedish
government
Dear Klaus & Imelda,
ES is fully recognized as a physical disability by the Swedish
government. For further information, please, contact Eva Ljungberg
on
tel. no. +46-54-840507 or e-mail <annajson_82@hotmail.com>
Best regards
Yours
Olle
(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology
Unit
Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden)
New
Electrical Pollution booklet online
Hi Klaus: Have just been made aware of a new booklet on EHS
produced by
C.U.R.E. which can be accessed online at:
www.newnorth.net/~darvr/epfactbooklet.
Glancing through it I note that the entry in the three page
section
toward end "Chronological Order of Recent Events Concerning
EMF's and
Ground/Earth Currents" is "2001--Spain. High Court
Decision: A Sentence
Admits For The First Time, That Electromagnetic waves Are
A Health
Hazard."
Best, Imelda, Cork
Help
and advice sought
Dear Fellows:
As you might know, residents in Berkeley, California have
been fighting
fiercely against Sprint in the past 7 months. Now, the Planning
Department of Berkeley and Sprint have come up with a new
trick. They
are asking to bring a 3rd party RF engineer to review Sprint's
application (and most probably) approve it. So, in the Public
Hearing,
they can refer to the so called "independent" review
by the 3rd party engineer.
The Planning Department does not tell us who the 3rd party
engineer is.
All we know is that the Planning Department will select an
engineer and
Sprint will pay the expenses.
Now, the Planning Department is telling us that if we have
technical
inquiries to be investigated, we should submit them to the
that
department. Then, they will pass our questions to the 3rd
party engineer
so that they will answer them.
The entire thing is a sham. But, we would like to ask you
to provide us
with the toughest technical questions that can be asked. Then,
we will
pass them to the Planning Department.
So, please let us know what questions we can ask from the
3rd party
engineer. Come up with the toughest and most esoteric questions.
Thank you,
Radi
Buying
a house next to a substation
Could anyone give me an adivce on this matter below:
I have bought a house in a small town recently, and soon
realised that
an electronic substation was just behind the house. The distance
between
the station and the house is only 2-3 meters. It is a small
station and
it says on the wall--"11kV". Can this station cause
a damage to our
health?
Yui from UK
No follows the OT themes:
A
Nuclear Road of No Return
Bush's bid for new kinds of weapons could put the world on
a suicidal
course.
May 13, 2003 Los Angeles Times, by Robert Scheer
http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-scheer13may13,0,5142385.column
Informant: Carol Wolman
White
House asks for authority to develop new low yield nuclear
weapons
Statement of Administration Policy
H.R. 1588, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2004
Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons. The Administration appreciates
the support
for research of low yield nuclear weapons in section 3111.
However,
maintaining the prohibition on development will hinder the
ability of
our scientists and engineers to explore technical options
to deter
national security threats of the 21st century. A complete
repeal of
section 3136 of the FY 1994 National Defense Authorization
Act is
needed. This in no way would usurp Congress's right to authorize
and
appropriate the funds necessary to develop and build new or
modified
nuclear weapons should this or a future President determine
that such
weapons were in the supreme interest of the United States.
SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget web site
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/108-1/hr1588sap-h.pdf
Informant: David Culp, Legislative Representative
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
http://www.fcnl.org
How
Harmful is Depleted Uranium?
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=711
US
finds WMD evidence -- in Maryland Guardian Unlimited [UK]
"The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its
investigators had
finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction,
including 100
vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. The bad news
was that the
stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than 50 miles from
Washington,
near Fort Detrick in the Maryland countryside. " (05/28/03)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,965319,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
'War
Vaccines Poisoned Us'
By Rebecca Mowling
The Evening Standard
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/052803E.shtml
Informant: Don Maisch
ONE
TRILLION BUCKS MISSING AT PENTAGON
Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing -- Bush plan
targets
Pentagon accounting
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL#sections
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