W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

30 March 2012

Cellphone use during pregnancy linked to hyperactivity

Pregnant mice were exposed to radiation from a cellphone that was muted and silenced and placed above their cage. A control group of mice were placed in a separate cage, on which sat a cellphone that was deactivated.

After measuring the electrical activity of adult mice that were in the cages as fetuses and putting them through a series of behavioural and psychology tests, researchers found that mice that were exposed to radiation tended to be more hyperactive. Those mice also were found to have reduced memory capacity.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/cellphone-use-during-pregnancy-linked-to-hyperactivity/article2371755/

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EMF Tank man is back, and going after the towers again!

Readers may remember a story some time ago where a disgruntled Telstra technician in Sydney hijacked a friends restored army tank and used it to demolish a number of mobile phone tower equipment sheds.He went to jail for his deed but he is now out and preparing another protest, but this one won't involve a tank. He is setting up a business measuring EMR emissions and advising people on the health effects of mobile phone towers, etc.

His story was on the latest Today Tonight TV program.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/consumer/article/-/13147236/mobile-danger-protests

Iris

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Concerns raised over Peyia antennas
Cyprus Mail

Leblanc added: "There are many Cypriots who are sick and have cancer. There are especially high levels in children, and no one knows for sure what is causing it."

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/features/concerns-raised-over-peyia-antennas/20120311

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Is using homeless people as hotspots helpful or exploitative?

Or is it murder?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/03/is-using-homeless-people-as-hotspots-helpful-or-exploitative.html

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Vermont Towns Reject Smart Meters

"These results come from communities where the roll-out has already begun or is set to begin soon. We are not surprised by these results because it is clear that as Vermonters learn more about wireless smart meters, the less they want them in their community,"

http://vtdigger.org/2012/03/07/vermont-towns-reject-smart-meters-bennington-dorset-manchester-and-sandgate- vote-against-rollout-in-landslide/print/

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Silicon Valley School with No Computers

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2012/03/13/dnt-simon-no-tech-schools.cnn#/video/tech/2012/03/13/dnt-simon-no-tech-schools.cnn

William

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EMR Action Day

Our first action date is 21 April 2012, as stated in the Mission Statement on www.emractionday.org

We are planning other action dates throughout the year, as well.

Feel free to share your ideas at info@emractionday.org and join up on the website. Co-operatively we will succeed!

Vicky

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Long Term Care and the Danger from Wireless Devices

Included below is my letter to Ontario's task force on abuse and neglect
in Long-term care homes. They are inviting submissions from the general
public. It would be great if more people, wrote about the reality of
electrosensitivity and the suffering caused by symptoms which are often
subjective in nature and not easily recognized by a nurse or caregiver.
Now that Ontario's Ministry of Health is funding and encouraging all
long-term care homes to install wifi systems, the most vulnerable people
among us, the elderly and disabled, many of whom are non-verbal, are at
risk of grave harm. I urge health professionals and anyone who is
electrosensitive themselves to send a short note informing the task
force of how much a person can suffer when forced to endure wifi 24
hours a day, seven days a week. In my parents' residence, routers are
placed in the lounge area and people in wheelchairs are left sitting
underneath them for hours every day. Even a few short lines would be a
great help. We have to speak up to help those who cannot speak for
themselves.

Thanks,
Lori

Please go to: http://longtermcaretaskforce.ca/index.php

My letter to the long-term care task force:

The most serious danger to the well-being of long-term care home
residents is the introduction of wireless technology into the long-term
care homes. The wireless local area networks (more commonly know as
"wifi") that have been introduced into the City of Toronto long-term
care homes, and many other homes throughout Ontario can be considered to
violate the 2010 Long-term Care Homes Act, which states that all
residents have a right to safety and comfort in their residences.

The wireless routers broadcast twenty-four hours a day, seven days a
week. The computers-on-wheels that they communicate with add another
layer of radiofrequency (rf) radiation to the constant wifi. This rf
radiation was classified as a Class 2B carcinogen by the World Health
Organization last May 2011. (Many scientists doing research in this area
feel there is enough evidence to justify a 2A classification.)

As someone who is electrosensitive, I know first-hand that this
technology can cause distressing and unremitting symptoms. One of the
most common early symptoms of sensitivity to the kind of radiation
emitted by cellphones, masts, and wifi is something known as the
microwave auditory effect or Frey effect. It is sometimes confused with
tinnitus from other causes, as it consists of an internally experienced
tone, which becomes louder as exposure and radiation intensity
increases. Sufferers experience this tone as emanating from the back of
their head, the centre of their head, or just behind the head. It is
relentless and intolerably annoying.

Other common effects of radiofrequency radiation exposure include:
insomnia, vertigo, headache, memory problems, difficult concentrating,
fatigue, increased blood sugar levels, heart palpitations, immune system
dysfunction, depression, anxiety, and skin rashes. Biologic effects
include increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier after even
short exposures, causing the brain to be exposed to toxins and possibly
contributing to the worsening of dementia or even the onset of
neurodegenerative illnesses.

It is perhaps not well known that cellphones and other wireless
technology were brought to market without adequate safety testing. The
10 watt per square meter limit for exposure was based on heating effects
only, measured in a gelatinous substance after six minutes of exposure.
Recent studies on rf radiation shows that it has many biologic effects,
including increased glucose uptake by neurons, possibly needed by the
cell to re-establish ion balance as rf radiation is thought to cause
irregular gating of calcium-ion channels in the cell membrane.

It has been estimated that anywhere from 2% - 5% of the population is
particularly sensitive to this radiofrequency radiation (popularly known
as microwaves), quickly experiencing discomfort when this radiation is
introduced into their home or workplace on an ongoing basis. Another 10%
- 35% seem to develop problematic symptoms after months or years of
exposure. (I would like to note here that although we commonly think of
the long-term care homes as places where people go at the end of their
lives, their are many younger mentally or physically disabled people who
will spend decades in the homes.)

My own father was left sitting for hours under a wifi router in 2009 in
Cummer Lodge. At this time the routers were broadcasting constantly
despite the fact that the computers had not yet arrived. He developed an
extremely itchy rash all over his body, with symptoms matching the
condition known as bullous pemphigoid. Around this time I was just
learning about the high levels of radiation coming from wifi systems,
and asked that the routers be turned off. The staff decided to turn off
the system until the matter could be reviewed. My father's rash began to
go away immediately and within two weeks he was completely free of
symptoms. In his 92 years he had never experienced such a rash either
before or after this exposure. (This effect of rf radiation was
described in the August 2009 edition of The Journal of Pathophysiology,
in an article by Dr. Olle Johansson.)

Unfortunately, the City of Toronto went ahead with wifi implementation,
and Cummer Lodge decided to turn the wifi on again in July 2011. Family
members were not informed of the introduction of wireless technology,
nor are we able to refuse to allow our loved ones to be exposed to this
technology on a constant basis. In early 2010 I had met with Ms. Sandra
Pitters, then General Manager of the City of Toronto's long-term care
homes. All my attempts to have some input into the review of the
technology were rebuffed, and even the names and positions of those
people in the Ministry of Health (HOBIC) who had decided to have wifi
systems implemented were withheld for almost a year.

Many residents of long-term care homes are non-verbal, and unable to
articulate the discomforts or suffering that they may be experiencing.
There has been no effort on the part of the long-term care home
management to monitor the effects of wifi on the residents, or to
determine who might be the more electrosensitive among them. As someone
who finds it difficult to spend even two hours in the home since the
wireless technology began broadcasting, I find it most distressing that
the most vulnerable citizens among us should have this forced upon them.
I choose my words carefully and do not exaggerate when I say that for
some of the residents, the constant exposure to rf radiation will be a
form of torture. It is the most serious abuse and most serious violation
of the rights of residents to safety and comfort that I have encountered
since my parents first moved into Cummer Lodge in 2007.

The most important thing the Task Force can do is to demand that
wireless systems be immediately removed from all long-term care homes,
and that cell phone base stations not be allowed on or near the homes.
Please do not allow the fact that the use of cell phones and other
wireless technology has become widespread and effectively normalized to
deceive you into thinking that the radiation from these devices has no
harmful biologic effects. There are a significant and increasing number
of people who cannot tolerate exposure to rf radiation, and the elderly
and disabled are more likely than the rest of us to experience serious
suffering from this technology.

Sincerely,

Lorraine Penner
Toronto, Ontario
loripenner@elitemail.org

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Fertility Problems and EMR Exposure

paceincnet@gmail.com thought you might be interested in this link:

http://www.canada.com/health/Infertility+rates+rising+Canadian+couples/6157547/story.html

They also left you these comments:

The phenomenon of decreased infertility is also associated with exposure to radio-frequency and microwave emissions especially with the greater use of 24-hour indoor SMART meter to and from appliances and RFID applications.

We could expect near total infertility within 3 to 4 more generations.. and then who will be left to pay for the wireless technology installed - and also associated satellites, I-Cloud systems, etc? - not mention taxes and to subsidize the same technology as "innovation" for economic "stimulus"!

Andrew Michrowski

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Pesticides linked to honeybee decline

The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees' ability to navigate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/29/crop-pesticides-honeybee-decline

Note - Many humans who suffer from multiple chemical sensitivities, also suffer fro electro hypersensitivity, showing that wireless radiation should also be considered as being highly involved in this situation.

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Rural Canadian cellphone users won't get faster networks soon

MONTREAL - Canadians living in rural areas will have better cellphone reception once a federal auction of radio waves takes place, but telecom analysts say it could take years before the improved service is launched.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/sci_tech/rual-canadian-cellphone-users-wont-get-faster-networks-soon-prices-uncertain-142819375.html

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4G Causing Worse Symptoms?

4th Generation Wireless Radiation

We are picking up problems with 4G/LTE in South Africa and have tried to raise the alarm bells with government.

Dehydration, repetitive gastroenteritis, blurry vision, lower back pain – locked stiff , heart palpitations, breathing problems, chronic sinusitis, hair loss, sore ovaries and gonads, burning itching skin, pains in head and pressure in ears and sore joints especially elbows. Muscle weakness.

Birds, animals and trees are being affected too. Vets have commented on severe hair loss in cats.

Tracey-Lee Dorny

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Too many mobile phones in the stadium?

Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba is fighting for his life in a London hospital after collapsing on the pitch during a match against Tottenham.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/footballer-fabrice-muamba-collapses-pitch-184435158.html

Geoff

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Leeds man's 20 year phone masts fight

A master protester has his eyes on stopping a sixth mobile phone mast going up in his area in 20 years. Roy Bowler, from Middleton, has again been spurred into action again by proposals to build an almost 12-metre-high mast in Ring Road

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/leeds-man-s-20-year-phone-masts-fight-1-4356701#

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Austrian EMF Medical Guidelines

On March 3, 2012, the Austrian Medical Association (ÖAK) released
guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of EMF-related health
problems and illnesses:
http://www.aerztekammer.at/documents/10618/976981/EMF-Guideline.pdf
It was great to see that the work of various CHE-EMF partners is quoted
in this guideline.

The suggested treatment protocol includes:
1 History of health problems and EMF exposure
2 Examination and findings
3 Measurement of EMF exposure
4 Prevention or reduction of EMF exposure
5 Diagnosis
6 Treatment

In addition to basic diagnostic tests, for example, 24-hour monitoring
of blood pressure (absence of nighttime decline), ECG, and heart
variability is recommended.

EMF exposure level testing and subsequent reduction strategies are a
major component of this guideline.
Recommended threshold levels (e.g. SBM-2008) and EMF testing protocols
(e.g. VDB Guidelines) are based on the building biology approach.

AC magnetic fields
within normal limits < 20 nT or 0.2 mG ... significant concern > 400 nT
or 4 mG

AC electric fields
within normal limits < 0.3 V/m ... significant concern > 10 V/m

RF radiation
within normal limits < 1 µW/m2 ... significant concern > 1000 µW/m2

In contrast to the Nordic Council of Ministers
http://www.norden.org/en/publications/publikationer/2000-839, which
suggested in 2010 to use ICD-10 codes R00-R99 "symptoms, signs and
abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified" and
specifically R68.8, the ÖAK recommends to use Z58.4 "exposure to
radiation."

The primary treatment consists of reducing EMF exposures. In addition,
lifestyle coaching (e.g. exercise, nutrition, sleep habits, stress
reduction), holistic therapies (e.g. antioxidant therapies), and
treatment of symptoms (until the cause(s) have been identified and
eliminated) are also recommended.

Best regards,
Katharina

Katharina Gustavs
www.buildingbiology.ca

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European Parliament Declaration: recommends EHS & MCS be in each member country's ICD & WHO's ICD

This is really important. Please lobby your regional MEPs to sign this.

It is the equivalent of a UK Parliament "early day motion" written by 5 MEPs that needs at least an extra 370 other MEPs to sign by 14th June 2012. Over half the total number of MEPs need to sign for this Declaration to be "adopted". Very few Declarations are "adopted"

EU residents can influence the outcome of a Written Declaration by lobbying MEPs and asking them to sign up. Find your MEPs here:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html

Scroll down the Country box to the UK and then select your region.

You can then click on individual MEPs to get their details.

At present there are no ICD codes in general use for CFS, MCS or EHS, so doctors can't even officially record the incidence as, effectively, these diseases/syndromes do not officially exist - although CFS and MCS are more recognised that EHS. It is crazy and irresponsible as we can't make progress if the number of sufferers / diagnoses are not recorded. Getting ICD numbers is just a start - but an essential one.

The Nordic Council of Ministers does categorise electrosensitivity as a work-related symptom-based

diagnosis code ICD-10 ; R68.8 or R69 or Y68.8 or Y69 for occupational cases.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12832671/The-Nordic-Adaptation-of-Classification-of-Occupationally-Related-Disorders-Diseases-and-Symptoms-to-ICD10- (pages 39 and 19-50)

We should have universal ICD and sub-codes for types EHS that are used all over the EU.

I hope ES-UK, RRT and Electromagnetic Man will produce a draft short (1 page A4 maximum) letter that can be sent to MEPs to inform them of this important matter and persuade them to sign the Declaration.

I will be happy to read / check / advise but do not have the time or energy to produce it. Please take this email as your "starter for 10".

Best regards

Alasdair

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pursuant to Rule 123 of the Rules of Procedure (see below) (PDF version is also attached)

Original at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/written-declarations.html enter 2012 0014.

WRITTEN DECLARATION on the recognition of multiple chemical sensitivity and electrohypersensitivity in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)

Raül Romeva i Rueda, Kriton Arsenis, Willy Meyer, Michèle Rivasi, Oreste Rossi
Lapse date: 14.6.2012 Ref: 0014/2012

The European Parliament,
– having regard to its resolution of 4 September 2008 on the mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, particularly recital J thereof,

– having regard to Decision 1350/2007/EC establishing a second programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-2013), and the White Paper 'Together for Health' (COM(2007)0630),

– having regard to its resolution of 2April 2009 on health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields,

– having regard to Rule 123 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas health inequalities between different European countries should be eradicated;

B. whereas multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) patients are vulnerable to environmental pollution and electrohypersensitivity (EHS) patients to electromagnetic radiation, both involving serious risks in several areas over which they have no influence, such as the air they breathe and exposure to EM radiation;

1. Recommends that Member States which have not yet done so include MCS and EHS in their own ICDs and in their ILO-based Lists of Occupational Diseases; suggests that the WHO Assembly include MCS and EHS in its upcoming ICD-11;

2. Urges Member State governments to apply existing rules regarding EM radiation and exposure to harmful substances and to apply the precautionary principle strictly, with effective health and environmental measures, in order to immediately protect those affected, whose number is growing exponentially;

3. Suggests harmonising the rules on physical agents and harmful substances in the Member States, on the basis of the strictest existing criteria, and also placing controls on imported products;

4. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the parliaments of the Member States.

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Dublin Man In Meter Dispute With Georgia Power, Service Turned Off

DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Dublin man is afraid his electric meter is causing him and his elderly mother health problems.

Georgia Power is currently transitioning its customers to the new Smart Meters, and no longer uses the old analog meters. Because of that and Jones' persistence to use only an analog meter, Georgia Power has disconnected electricity to his home.

Jones now powers his house with a generator.

http://www.41nbc.com/news/local-news/11250-dublin-man-in-meter-dispute-with-georgia-power-service-turned-off

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Chinese Smart Grid for UK

http://www.makeitcheaper.com/media/business-news/2011/march/26/801326779-chinese-firm-enters-uk-smart-meter-realm.aspx

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http://www.buergerwelle.de/en/

Pulsed Electromagnetic Devices Pose Health Risks
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3226/

The human body as a walking RF antenna
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3240/

Tumour fear cuts chatter as woman switch off their mobile phones
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3232/

Why Our Urban Trees are Dying
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3228/

Barrie Trower predicts economic and ecological systems collapse
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3225/

Scientists manipulated research played down brain tumour risks in children
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Cancer Industry: Profits Before Lives
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Killer Cell Phones: Why Honeybees Are Dying Worldwide
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3239/

The Latest Danger: 'Smart Meters'
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3233/

SmartMeters and Electropollution
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Smart Meters: not so smart an idea
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3227/

Cellphones ring in alarm bells
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3251/

Wi-Fi making kids, teachers sick?
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3253/

Brennan Park phone tower fight looms
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3231/

Money for masts
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3234/

Phone mast plan fury residents in blockade
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3238/

Parents worried at new mast scheme
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3241/

B.C. Hydro program sparks up a storm of controversy
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3243/

CTIA again tries to block San Francisco cell phone radiation ordinance
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3244/

People power halts roof mobile phone mast, in Sutherland Grove, Teddington
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3252/

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Unexplained increases in brain cancer in nations with longer term cellphone use

http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3398/

The ongoing mystery of the magnetosensing cows

http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3403/

Cell phone radiation and institutional corruption addressed

http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3412/

How the Telecom Industry Seeks to Confuse About the Dangers of Cell Phones

http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3391/

Smart Meters Raise Privacy, Health Concerns

http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/3396/

Why risk your health with a mobile phone?