Saturday, July 30, 2011

Studies / Mortality base stations / Fairytale reporting / EHS victim

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Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

30 July 2011

 
 
The Studies You Should Never, Ever Believe
 
Dr Mercola
 
 
This is very important information that you should consider saving, and referring to in future.
 
 
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NCBI Pub-Med.gov Study :
Mortality by neoplasia (cancers) and cellular telephone base stations in the Belo Horizonte
municipality, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

 
 
 
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The National Post
 
With this Editorial, the once mighty National Post has lowered its standards way below the supermarket gossip tabloids.
 
At least you can often have a laugh at the ridiculous stories in the supermarket tabloids, this story will probably leave you feeling sick.
 
Newspaper editorials do not normally make fun of the severely disabled and discredit them, this Editorial did!
 
Newspapers usually have investigative reporters on staff who are able to research the true facts  It would appear that the National Post does not have this capability.
 
Newspaper stories are supposed to be balanced and fair to both sides of an issue.  This Editorial is terribly slanted in favour of wireless interests.
 
National newspapers are supposed to report facts which are accurate and true, the National Post failed badly at this.
 
 
From this Editorial and from previous stories, the National Post have made it obvious that they will not report EMF issues fairly or accurately.
 
Martin Weatherall
 
 
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More fairytale reporting
 
This time from the Ottawa Citizen
 
 
 
 
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http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=wi&dig=2011%2F07%2F02%2Fa0026&cHash=70916452c2

>>> google translation

the daily newspaper of today     * 02/07/2011

No reception

SENSITIVE to the beam of a cell tower near them, it hurst Heike Keuser's whole body. So much so that she hides.
A visit to the dead zone behind the metal curtains

OF MIRJAM SCHMITT

Oberelz lies in a valley surrounded by hills and forest in the Eifel. Just 120 people live here. No cars go, before the sixties houses plastic chairs adorn the front yard.
The cell phone reception is weak in Oberelz - but that is exactly why Heike Keuser moved here in January.

The petite 44-year-old sitting next to her husband at the dining room table and looks at a gray wall that surrounds her patio. The front door she has draped with a white curtain.
"The neighbor has a cordless phone," she explains, "I can feel the radiation in the house. The curtain keeps them off to some extent, because there are metal threads woven."

Heike Keuser shields itself from the world.
It holds its radiation is not more.

For 15 years, she suffers from multiple sclerosis. She is a healer, but it lacks a long time to work the power in their hands. It is not just the disease, which severely limits their life so. There are also mobile networks and Wi-Fi router.
For eight years, their bodies react on it - to high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.

Everything is numb and cold

In Monreal, the former residence of the Keuser - about ten miles away - had all started: When the family is a cordless phone purchased, Heike Keuser was suddenly awake for nights on end, had raced pain in arms and legs, their hearts. More and more they got outside the house pain. "At some point I realized that it had something to do with cell phones when I'm worse off," she recalls. She began to plan their day so that she could handle radiation sources.
But the more wireless and mobile phones spread, the greater were their pain.

"The beat is like a blunt object and continuously in very, very short intervals against my nerves," says Heike Keuser and thinks for a moment. You want to describe everything as accurately as possible. She knows that what she feels, sounds unbelievable to others.
"It never stops," says Keuser, "Everything is numb and cold. I feel like I'm tied up, the trunk, chest, limbs. Convulse the muscles, the force decreases."

That what feels Keuser, has nothing really to do with electro-smog is controversial: While describe themselves according to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), about 6 percent of Germans as "electro-sensitive" - ​​the victims complain mostly about headaches or insomnia, when they to be in the vicinity of mobile phones and wireless networks. However, one study has examined the BfS 2002-2008, the health effects of mobile and wireless radiation.
Result: "According to current scientific knowledge, no adverse health effects through the high-frequency radiation of mobile phones to be feared, if the limits are met," says Anja Schulte-Lutz, spokeswoman for the BfS.

Heike Keuser still feel the rays. Outside, the sun shines, but does not penetrate Keuser even made it to their terrace. The curtains make the dim dining room. Fearing rays Keuser holds almost exclusively on the house. Nevertheless, their view is lively, dark eyes wander around constantly.
When she speaks, she looks at you intently.

"I spider?"

In September 2008, it suddenly went Keuser worse. With a meter, they noted, and her husband, that the mobile phone mast was fitted on the edge of the village with an additional frequency. A call to the operating company confirmed: in addition to D1 was added with a second mobile operator O2.
Heike Keuser began to stay with friends.

Ulrich Frick for the case is clear: how are psychosomatic pain of Keuser. Frick is Professor of Public Health at the University of Applied Sciences Carinthia and was involved in the study commissioned by the BfS.
"A relationship between subjectively experienced electrical sensitivity and electromagnetic fields, such as through mobile phones, can be still unable to prove," he explains.

"Sometimes I have asked myself: Can I be the all-or spider?" Says Keuser. Friends and acquaintances doubted. Some went so far as to test them. "They have secretly turned on their cell phones and waited to see if what I say," says Keuser. She smiles bitterly. At first she tried to endure the pain - she did not dare to complain.
"In the meantime I ask the people immediately, turn off their cell phones again. Otherwise, no one ever believes me."

The heart beats faster

With the accusation that it's all just fancy, Heike Keuser has to fight again. But there are also Lebrecht von Klitzing. The environmental physicist Heike Keuser could confirm the pain. He is chief of the institute for environmental measurements in physical Wiesenthal, researching there for electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Von Klitzing, a measurement method has been developed which should test the effects of radiation on humans. He sets out electrical sensitivity to radiation, without knowing when exactly that happened. It measures among other things, how that changes their heartbeat. "The heart rate increased significantly by Heike Keuser under radiation," he says. He has also recorded with her spasms, cramping so states of the muscular system to the skin surface. "Especially people with medical conditions likely to suffer from ailments due to radiation, such as mobile telephony," explains von Klitzing.
Through the pre-existing conditions they are more sensitive to pain and reacted to things that do not perceive others.

Frick questioned studies like those of Lebrecht von Klitzing. You are not meaningful, changes such as increased heart rate could result from all kinds of things.
He recommends those affected to participate in so-called cognitive coping training - a type of behavioral therapy - to better cope with the symptoms.

Metal plates on the house

Behavioral therapies Keuser holds nothing. She is annoyed about such a proposal would not be labeled as crazy.
She wants you to their illness, electrosensitivity accepted.

"Nobody voluntarily lives that way," she says and looks around inside, into the dim room. In Oberelz Heike Keuser can sleep through again though, but it does not lead a normal life. At parents' evenings is the father. Family celebrations? Only when all the cell phones off, unplug the WLAN. Heike Keuser cities are taboo for her family, she never visited. To leave is not to think.
"That hurts already, especially as it affects the children," she says and sighs.

The move to Oberelz was not for the son and daughter Keuser easy.
They sold their house in Monreal, the children went to school, the friends were there.

Now the Keuser there to build an old house. Rainer Keuser is an architect and his wife wants to create a radiation free room: metal mats, which will shield the radiation directly on the plaster, he plans aluminum window frames and interior ventilation, so his wife can keep the windows closed if need be. The land behind the site have bought with the same Keuser.
So there is no other house can be built, drag on no one but again caused a radiation source.

Psychosomatic or indeed sensible electro - Heike Keuser in pain.

To avoid them, they will continue to hide.

 
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft's Web map exposes phone, PC locations
CNET
Reid Kuhn, a program manger with Microsoft's Windows Phone Engineering Team, sent CNET this statement: "To provide location-based services, Microsoft collects publicly broadcast cell tower IDs and MAC addresses of Wi-Fi access points via both user ...
 
 
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FCC Must Update Cell Tower Safety Regulations, Say Health and Environmental Advocates
 


WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 26, 2011. Citizen-activists are being urged by Citizens for Health, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the EMF advocacy group, ElectromagneticHealth.org, to contact their representatives in Congress to request the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update its obsolete cell tower safety regulations.

 

The FCC's cell tower safety regulations need to be revised immediately because:

 

1. WHO'S International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified RF Radiation as a "Possible Carcinogen"
2. Current Regulations Have Long Overlooked the Harm from RF Radiation's "Non-Thermal" Biological Effects
3. Biological and Health Effects from RF Radiation Are Widely Occurring In Both Adults and Children
4. Evidence for RF Damage to the Ecosystem is Mounting

 

To protect the public from risks from radiofrequency radiation (RF) the FCC must establish new safety guidelines for cell towers, Wi-Fi and cell phones that reflect the current science showing harm to human health, wildlife and nature.

 

David Carpenter, MD, Director of the Institute for Health and Environment, and former Dean, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, states:

"Beyond the strong evidence for an association between wireless radiation with cancer, there is increasing evidence for effects on the brain and behavior—effects on memory ability, on IQ, on learning ability. This is an urgent public health issue and citizens must insist government respond to the present evidence in an expedited manner to protect the public health."

 

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., Esq., former New York State Senator, former U.S. Attorney and a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says:

"In 1996, Congress directed the FCC to adopt safety regulations for cell transmission antennas. These FCC standards were based on earlier studies created almost twenty years ago using even older data. They are obsolete. The substantive evidence of harm from wireless radiation is overwhelming. It is imperative Members of Congress request the FCC update the obsolete cell tower safety guidelines to reflect the current science."

 

Robin Bernhoft, MD, President of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, says:

"People who live near cell towers and antennas are in jeopardy. The science is increasingly clear that there are biological effects from both acute and chronic exposures to non-thermal microwave radiation. It is essential we have a government that puts the public's health above commercial interests."

 

The appeal to citizens to become engaged with this issue references the Seletun Scientific Statement (http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/the-seletun-statement/) issued by international scientists in February 2011, which stated that given the existing potential for global health risks from ongoing radiation from electromagnetic fields, governments should educate and warn the public, implement measures balanced in favor of the Precautionary Principle, monitor compliance with directives promoting alternatives to wireless, and fund research and policy development geared toward prevention of exposures and development of new public safety measures, as well as new, safer communications technologies. (Watch Video)
 
Camilla Rees, MBA of ElectromagneticHealth.org says,

 

"We encourage all citizens to write Congress about the widespread, unchecked, non-stop proliferation of radiofrequency radiation in our midst and the inaction of the FCC to revise its safety regulations to protect the public's health. Citizens must become involved for the sake of our health, genetic code and the environment."

 


Contacts
 
Citizens for Health
Jim Turner, Esq., 202-462-8800
Chairman
jim@swankin-turner.com
or
ElectromagneticHealth.org
Camilla Rees, 415-992-5093 or 917-359-8450
crgr@aol.com or Emily@electromagnetichealth.org
or
David O. Carpenter, MD, 518-525-2660
Director, Institute for Health & the Environment
University at Albany, SUNY
Carpent@uamail.albany.edu

Note to Media: For access to other scientists, physicians, attorneys or other experts on this issue, please contact
Emily@ElectromagneticHealth.org
 
 
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Association between Exposure to Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer in Electric Utility Workers in Quebec, Canada, and France (1994)
 
However, there was a clear association between cumulative exposure to PEMFs and lung cancer, with odds ratios rising to 3.11
 
 
Andre
 
 
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Swiss Cell Phone Findings Troubling for Children's Health
Environmental Working Group
The CEFALO research published today is a retrospective case-control study that analyzed cell phone use as a potential risk factor among children and adolescents who were diagnosed with brain tumors.
 
 
 
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ELIZABETH MAY: The Twitter storm — why I said what I said
iPolitics.ca
He found an association between cell phone use and brain cancer. I paid attention because I knew Dr. Hardell's name, his reputation and his work. ...
 
 
 
 

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

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This is just a test e-mail from weep news.  I am trying to solve the problem we are having with sending e-mails.

Thank you for your patience.

 

Sue Parsons

Martin Weatherall

Monday, July 11, 2011

These 'Greens' are just not green / Wi Fi Max / EMF Radio / etc

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

12 July 2011

 
 
 
These 'Greens' are just not green
 
For your interest, regarding the "Toxic Green Party". How come Green co-leader Dr Russell Norman complains about cell phone masts near his house, but endorses Wifi radiation on public transport.
 
 
Rob
This is exactly what the Tasmanian Greens proposed last year. See the attached. Someone is talking to the Greens in both countries. Interesting!  
 
Found the article about Norman's concerns.  From his blog: 

Don


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Wi Fi Max
 
I made this comment after hearing that Marquette, MI had widespread wireless broadband. Here is an action idea for us all: make many comments at these wireless location sites to educate people on the risks of this technology to all, and how it is impacting others' lives already.
 
 
Char Z.
 
 
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EMF Radio Interview Wednesday

Here's the link for Wed.'s show July 13th at 2:00pm.

Electro-Pollution: Ann Louise Gittleman & Kerry Crofton

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gabwiththegurus/2011/07/13/electro-pollution-ann-louise-gittleman-kerry-crofton

Connie Bennett

www.GabWithTheGurus.com

 

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Fight Brews Over School Cellphone Towers

WSB Atlanta
With a petition in hand, Paul and Cheryl Miller gathered as many signatures as possible against putting a cellphone tower behind Brockett Elementary School, where their daughter attended Pre-kindergarten. "This is putting her health in danger, ...
See the news video:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28507682/detail.html

 

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Cell tower foes send clear signal

Opposition to cell towers grow as demand increases across New Jersey

In a 106-page report dated June 1, Robert F. Heffernan & Associates used statistics gathered from similar areas in Warren, Randolph, Readington and Bernards to conclude the presence of a tower can devalue a neighborhood by 8 to 20 percent.

http://www.app.com/article/20110711/NJNEWS/307120001/Cell-tower-foes-send-clear-signal

Robert

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EMF Concerns Switzerland / Wireless reference information / Eagles killed / etc.

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Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

11 July 2011

 
EMF Concerns Switzerland
 
I'm sharing with you 2 recent articles on computers, wireless gadgets, Wi-Fi, one from the Christian Science Monitor, the other from the Tribune de Genève.  The Monitor published my comment on their site and the Tribune will publish the one on Wi-Fi in a coming edition.  The Tribune de Genève has been publishing my comments on the health effects of wireless technology over the last 8 months - 5 in total - despite devoting daily a page to the latest developments in this technology.
 
See attached PDF Wireless and Media 
 
Best wishes,
Meris
 
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Wireless reference information
 
Document Attached
 
A great list of resolutions and recommendations re. wireless technology from 1993. A good reference tool.
 
Sharon
 
 
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Got EMF
 
 
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Wind turbines: 'Eco-friendly' - but not to eagles
The same hills that provide lift for soaring birds offer heavily subsidised profits for wind farm developers, writes Christopher Booker.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7437040/Eco-friendly-but-not-to-eagles.html
 
 
 

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Worse than Cigarettes? / EMF-Omega News / etc

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Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

10 July 2011

 

Worse than Cigarettes?

The Silent Enemy Harming Your Health Today...

Posted by: Dr. Mercola | July 09 2011 | 157,553 views
 
 
 
 
 
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Using the body as an antenna
 
Here is the research article for the story in yesterday's WEEP news
 
 
Hans
 
 
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Online petition - opposition to Telus plans to install Cellphone tower at Roxboro United Church

Thank you to a concerned resident who has set up an online petition that now allows concerned residents and parents to voice their opposition to the Telus plans to install a cellphone tower at Roboro United Church (RUC) in Roxboro.

The petition is at:
http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petitions


Under the title:   Opposing plans of Telus to install a cell phone tower at Roxboro United Church in Roxboro, Quebec


Please, help us by visiting the site and signing the petition. Also it would be appreciated if you could distribute this note to other concerned residents.


Even those who may not live nearby can support the petition. If the actions of Telus and other carriers can happen at RUC, they can also happen in other neighbourhoods.

Lewis Poulin
Roxboro
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Distracting hands-free devices are 'as dangerous as a mobile'

A transport watchdog found that they are just as dangerous as holding a phone while at the wheel.

Full Story:
 
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A deadly disdain for science
 
Canada became the only country in the world to oppose listing chrysotile asbestos under Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention.
 
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Phones Damage the Brain
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2916/

Breast Cancer and EMFs Research
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2918/

Long-term exposure to microwave radiation provokes cancer growth
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2908/

Health Risks Related to Wireless Utility Infrastructure
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2911/

The effects of electromagnetic radiation on our health
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2907/

Kids vulnerable to cellphone tower radiation
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2901/

Mobile phones cause 'five-fold increase in brain cancer risk'
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2903/

Is there no evidence of harm from exposure to electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices?
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2925/

Nobel laureate: If the cellphone were a drug, it would be banned
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2904/

Study downplaying cellphone risks funded by manufacturers
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2923/

The Scandal the Press are Ignoring
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2920/

Remove Wi-Fi From Schools and Public Facilities
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2905/

Gulf Islanders Rally to Stop Hydros 'Smart Meter' Scheme
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2909/

The Growing Movement Against Electromagnetic Contamination
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2922/

Mile Cross families win mobile phone mast fight
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2906/

Company sues Midwest City over cellphone tower
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2913/

Neighbours force phone firm to call off mast job
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2915/

Cell Towers Approved, Homeowners Angry
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/2921/

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The Scandal the Press are Ignoring

Editorial
 
The Scandal the Press are Ignoring
 
This week has seen a newspaper scandal of massive proportions involving the News of the World, a large British newspaper.
 
The scandal involves the 'hacking' of telephones owned by crime victims, celebrities and others. 
 
For details of what has been happening, you may want to view this video: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/jul/09/phone-hacking-alan-rusbridger-video 

The editor of the Guardian on a whirlwind week of arrests, political confessions and allegations of deleted emails involving News of the World, which closes on Sunday.

The scandal may place the actions of entire British Press under the microscope during the coming months.

Although the News of the World scandal is big and important and the underlying problems need to be sorted out, it is just minor when compared with the wider 'world press' who have failed to fully report the dangers of electro-magnetic radiation and have placed huge populations in great long term health danger.

There has been a widespread, hidden but ongoing course of press 'corruption' for many years.  Many newspapers have taken huge amounts of money to advertise mobile (cell) phone  companies, yet have kept mostly silent on the known dangers of the radiation from those phones and from the wireless antenna infrastructure that has been developed throughout the world.  The World Health Organization has now classed wireless radiation as possibly carcinogenic.  The advertising money that the newspapers have received from these companies, could possibly be described as 'hush money', 'bribery' or 'press prostitution', because there is plenty of strong scientific evidence to show how dangerous wireless radiation really is.

There are many newspapers, radio stations and television stations which are owned by mobile phone companies.  The media outlets controlled by parent mobile phone companies that I am aware of, have been very silent on the subject of cell phone and microwave radiation dangers.  Their silence is disgustingly bad journalism, which lets down its readers, listeners and viewers and gives them a false sense of safety. 

It is ironic that the Guardian Newspaper (linked above) which is proud to have broken the News of World story, has not only provided very little information about the dangers of cell phone radiation, but they have reported several stories which try to trivialize the scientists and persons who have been providing deadly serious warnings about the dangers.  Their conduct may in fact be much worse and have more deadly consequences than the News of the World reported actions.

Martin Weatherall
Editor WEEP news

 

Friday, July 8, 2011

Letter to the Reporter / The Growing Movement Against Electromagnetic Contamination / etc

 
W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News 

9 July 2011

 
 
Letter to the Reporter
 

Dear **************

 

In your recent article, July 6, 2011 'Study downplaying cellphone risks by manufacturers', http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/06/study-downplaying-cellphone-risks-funded-by-manufacturers  you reported that "The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection - composed of scientists from Britain, the United States and Sweden - said evidence is mounting against the hypothesis cell phones may cause cancer despite the findings of IARC."  You further correctly reported that a conflict of interest was disclosed in that the funding to these scientists is courtesy of the telecommunications industry.  Not only was there funding from telecommunications providers such as 'Telia Sonera', 'Ericsson AB', and 'Telenor', but the writers of this report also own shares in telecom companies such as 'Cable & Wireless Worldwide', 'Cable & Wireless Communications' and 'BT Group' (a global telecommunications services company).

 

The conflict of interest of Anthony Swerdlow and Maria Feychting et. al. is notated in the paper 'Mobile Phones, Brain Tumours and the Interphone Study:  Where Are We Now?' It is copied from the document with the writers' names/institutions listed first and Conflict of Interest Statement italicized in red below: http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1103693
 
"Anthony J. Swerdlow 1, Maria Feychting 2, Adele C Green 3, Leeka Kheifets 4, David A Savitz 5 (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Standing Committee on Epidemiology) 1 Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK; 2 Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden; 3 Cancer and Population Studies Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia & School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 4 Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles,USA; 5 Departments of Community Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Brown University, Providence, USA.  Correspondence to: Anthony Swerdlow, Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK. (Telephone: +442087224012; fax: +44 2087224019; email: anthony.swerdlow@icr.ac.uk) ….
 
Conflict of Interest Statement
Funding for research undertaken by MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] has been provided by a number of sources, including the European Fifth Framework Program; the International Union  against Cancer, which receives funds from the Mobile Manufacturers' Forum and the GSM Association;  the Mobile Telecommunications Health and Research Programme;  the Swedish Research Council; AFA Insurance; and VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). VINNOVA received funds from Telia Sonera, Ericsson AB, and Telenor.  All funds from commercial sources were via firewalls. The authors certify that their freedom to design, conduct, interpret, and publish research was not compromised by any controlling sponsor. AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] holds shares  in the telecoms companies Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Cable and Wireless Communications. AJS' wife holds shares in the BT Group, a global telecommunications services company. MF [Maria Feychting], ACG, [Adele C Green] and AJS   [Swerdlow]   are   members of the  International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, an independent body  setting guidelines for non-ionizing radiation protection. MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow]  serve as  advisors to a number of public advisory and research steering groups concerning the potential health effects of exposure to non-ionizing radiation."
 
I have a friend who slept with her cell phone (on vibrate) under her pillow for years when she was an on-call nurse so that incoming messages would not waken her husband at night.  Unfortunately, she developed a brain tumour, which fortunately was operable.  Tragically, her quality of life is forever changed, but she is hopeful that she will survive to see her son graduate from university. 
 
Perhaps, it is the Insurance Industry and the Workman's Compensation Board then that should fund their own risk assessments on radio frequency radiation, because it will be them who in the end will pay out compensation for injury, disease, inability to continue working and even death.  Or does the telecommunications industry have enough money to accept the liability for placing humanity at risk by continuing to refuse to accept the fact that their product has never, ever been proven safe?  The recent findings of the WHO / IARC May 31, 2011 that radio frequency radiation as a 2B carcinogen, on the other hand were based on 100's of scientific articles and the public can have confidence in that.
 
The public has a right to know that Anthony Swerdlow and Maria Feychting et. al. have vested interests in the telecom industry and that they benefit monetarily with funding for their research from them as well. Their scientific 'opinion' can only have been unduly influenced by this fact and therefore their 'science' can not possibly have any credibility for the development of government policy for public safety when it comes qualifying the risk assessment of radio frequency radiation.  And further, the most damning and most reprehensible omission of Swerdlow and Feychting is in the conclusion of their abstract as they have left our vulnerable, developing 'children' completely out of the equation:  "Although there remains some uncertainty, the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use can cause brain tumours in adults." 
 
As a consequence of the Swerdlow/Feychting report attempting to disqualify the WHO / IARC classification of radio frequency radiation as a 2B carcinogen, School Boards world-wide will continue to irradiate children/teachers in their classrooms with WiFi and parents of young children will continue to believe that cell phones are safe.  The least of our worries will be 'adult brain cancer'.   The global community will be facing the possible extinction of the human species as the reproductive capabilities of little girls and little boys are bombarded with radiation in their classrooms for seven hours a day from Junior Kindergarten (age 3) to their University/College graduation (age 23).  Or will we be weeping in the face of an unprecedented epidemic of 'juvenile brain cancer' as children/teens continue to cuddle up with their cell phones under their pillows lulled to sleep with music downloads or so that they can stay connected to their girl/boy friends 24/7, which is now so much a part of their young culture?  
 
Cell phones must be labelled appropriately with a statement of risk just like cigarettes and WiFi must be removed from schools in favour of safe hard-wired internet connections ... either that or lawyers will be having a heyday asking, "Class action suite anyone?" 
 
Our children are our future.

Janice
 
 
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Anthony Swerdlow's share portfolio (or business as usual at ICNIRP)
 
 
Iris
 
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The Growing Movement Against Electromagnetic Contamination
 
 
Robert
 
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Scarborough Leader (blog)
s wireless smart meter initiative. Now, after a recent ruling by the Public Utilities Commission that allows residents to opt out of the program, they're taking their message on the road. The women gathered at town hall June 29 for a question and ...
 
 
 
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Letter to the Medical Officer of Health
 

Dear Dr. Kendall,

 1.            I support Sharon Noble's letter to you today.

 Referring to Sharon Nobles statement:

                 Then I  read your statements saying that smart meters are safe and that there is no evidence of harm from exposure to electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices.

I kindly ask you from where you get that position of yours. Please refer me to the studies!

 2.            Please note the many studies that indeed do show association between microwave radiation and biological effects in the independent (non-industry funded/connected) UK based Powerwatch organisation's link

                http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/studies.asp

 click on [ Mobile Phones ] and please inform whether microwave electro-magnetic radiation are harmless.

 3.            Although one particular household smart meter might be exposing a family shorter than using their cellular phones, nevertheless I assume you agree that those kinds of exposures are cumulative. Or don't you agree with that, if not, please explain and refer to studies, include as well who funded the study/ies.

 4.            I am very well aware, how corrupt Health Canada and Industry Canada are acting. Industry Canada is auctioning off frequencies to telecommunication companies for millions and millions of Dollars. Of course Health Canada cannot counter-act or oppose this extremely good cash-cropping. Would you agree that this is a conflict of interest?

 5.            Canadians have been best served by a former courageous Health Canada employee Shiv Chopra, who could not work with the corruption within Health Canada. He became a whistleblower. His book "Corrupt to the Core, Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower" is a big eye-opener, and should be read by every Canadian, and I very much wish, you do so as well!

6.            Cited out of the link below is a comment by Rafe Mair about the precautionary principle.

 Do you support the precautionary principle? If not, why not?

 http://thecanadian.org/k2/item/868-precautionary-principle-bc-rafe-mair  (yellow highlighted by Hans Karow)


 
Here is the principle as generally stated. "The precautionary principle …states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action."
 

This is what this means to British Columbians – the Precautionary Principle prevails, or rather should prevail, in the following cases: Fish farming, power projects, [ smart meters…added by H. Karow ] threats to the atmosphere, pipelines and tanker traffic. It also should apply, in my opinion, to highway and bridge construction.
 
In fact, in each of the above cases the onus has rested not on the potential despoiler but on the general public. This turnabout provides the despoiler with a one line defence which runs, "You don't really believe that crap do you?" That becomes an effective reply to the strongest scientific argument – it's really a thinly disguised "Big Lie" technique.
 

Looking forward to your response at your earliest convenience, please!

 Yours truly,

Hans Karow
Coalition to Reduce Electropollution (CORE)
Lake Country, BC

 

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Vancouver radio station CKNW interviews 

Sharon Noble of Cause, on Smart Meters the day after 
her comments are included in the Globe and Mail article 

http://emrabc.ca/?p=3016

 

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How to hack cell phone voice mail better than News of the World

ITworld.com
You could tune a receiver to pull in the signal, but carriers encrypt cell phone traffic using their own algorithms, so cracking the encryption to unencrypt the traffic and find the IMEI sent by the phone when it first connects to tower is possible. ...

http://www.itworld.com/security/181313/how-hack-cell-phone-voice-mail-better-news-world

 

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The human body can be used as an antenna

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37782/

Kathleen

 

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New electric meters sparking protests in Oakland, Macomb counties ...

But opponents of smart meters say it is unwise to wait for science to catch up with the health risks associated with electromagnetic radiation, ...

http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/07/02/news/doc4e0fa7bc7e0cd988762800.txt

 

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