Bioelectrical signals turn stem cells' progeny cancerous / forced down throats / Debate Ramps Up / heckled / Kindergarden Micro-wave Experiment / Security Scans / Letter to BC Hydro / EMF

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16 April 2011

Bioelectrical signals turn stem cells' progeny cancerous

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/10/19/bioelectrical_signals_turn_stem_cells_progeny_cancerous.html

Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences have discovered that a change in membrane voltage in newly identified "instructor cells" can cause stem cells' descendants to trigger melanoma-like growth in pigment cells. The Tufts team also found that this metastatic transformation is due to changes in serotonin transport. The discovery could aid in the prevention and treatment of diseases like cancer and vitiligo as well as birth defects....

This could explain a lot. I'm sure we will be hearing more about this in the near future.

Sharon

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Hydrophobia grows as smart meters are forced down throats

Vancouver Sun

By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun April 14, 2011 Judging from Tuesday's headlines, like it or not, two million households and businesses will soon have smart meters installed by BC Hydro. And so, a very warm welcome to the world of captive markets, ...

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Hydrophobia+grows+smart+meters+forced+down+throats/4613545/story.html

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Smart Meter Opt-Out Debate Ramps Up

Freepress Online

by Christine Parrish The debate over whether customers will be allowed to opt out of the new wireless smart-meter technology that Central Maine Power (CMP) began installing on residences in its service area last fall looks like it could drag on for ...

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=52&SubSectionID=78&ArticleID=12143

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FCC chairman gets heckled by smart meter protesters (video)

VentureBeat

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, got heckled by smart meter protesters today as he was giving a talk in Silicon Valley. Genachowski was answering questions from Fortune writer Adam Lashinsky about the pending AT&T ...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/14/fcc-chairman-gets-heckled-by-smart-meter-protesters-video/

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Kindergarden Micro-wave Experiment

Will the children be permenantly harmed? Check back in fifteen years.

http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/23306/group/News/

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Airport Security Scans: What Would Your Doctor Do?

Posted by: Dr. Mercola

http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2011/04/19/airport-security-scans-what-would-your-doctor-do.aspx

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Letter to BC Hydro, British Columbia, Canada.

You claim that the EMF from smart Meters will not harm human health based on information you received from BCCDC and Dr.Perry Kendall.

I was driven from my home in Harrison Hot Springs back in 1996 due to electro magnetic fields being emitted into my home from a nearby cell tower.

I was told then by BCCDC and the BC Health Ministry that the EMF density from the tower was well within the Health Canada Guidelines and was safe.

They were WRONG then and they are WRONG now.

The Health Canada Guidelines were set back in 1993 on the theory that If it doesn't heat our body it will not hurt us.

This has been proven wrong time and time again.It is one thing to say that EMF is harmless if one never counts the casualties,which neither Health Canada or BCCDC ,BC or Ministry of health has done.

I have asked BCCDC many times over the passed 14 years to do surveys at areas around towers, which they have not done to my knowledge.

Please review these important references:

http://www.vws.org/CellPhoneTowerEffects.html

http://www.starweave.com/freiburger/

http://www.novamind.com/connect/nm_documents/show_branch/Power/0D442593-D517-4484-85BB-AE18EC01448E/178341811

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/genetic_effects_of_nonionizing_electromagnetic_fields.pdf

http://www.neilcherry.com/documents/90_b3_EMR_Motorola_Funded_Counter_Research_on_DNA_breakage.pdf

There are many more peer review studies that show adverse health well below Canada Safety Code Guidelines.

Consideration was not given to the fact that each person is made up of different materials and what may not harm one can harm another.I know because IT HARMS ME.I am having a difficult time living with the EMF density that is in our atmosphere and if more is added I will have to head for the hills or suffer for the rest of my life.

I can say from experience that the $ you may save on electric power will be many fold spent on health remedies.I cannot believe that this is the Canada I was born in where a dangerous contraption can be forcefully installed on my house that has the potential of making me ill. We fought a war to stop that kind of action! I hope ,that after you have watched the videos and read the material herein, for the protection of our children and future generations, that you will reconsider placing Smart Meters on our homes.

Yours Truly

Robert Riedlinger Ph.604 826 6791

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PICK OF THE WEEK 23: RESEARCH ON BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION IN EURASIAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, 1976.

February 24, 2011. The Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States released a document referenced below that had a security classification as "confidential" and has since been "unclassified". This document may help us better understand why the U.S. military is interested in opposing a more protective guideline for microwave radiation.

Adams, R.L. and R.A. Williams. 1976. Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radiowaves and Microwaves) – Eurasian Communist Countries (U). Prepared by U.S. Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency Office of the Surgeon General and was released by the Defense Intelligence Agency. 34 pp. Unclassified.

Abstract: This study was undertaken to provide a review and evaluation of the current Eurasian Communist country state-of-the-art in the area of the effects of radiowaves and microwaves. It generally covers the 1968-1975 period. The major topics include discussions of the effects on humans and animals. The study provides information on the genera1 trends of research with special attention to possible military applications. Where appropriate, information on safety standards and research personalities and facilities is provided.

If the more advanced nations of the West are strict in the enforcement of stringent exposure standards, there could be unfavorable effects on industrial output and military function.

Clearly "industrial output and military function" come before health!

To read more and download this document visit:

http://www.magdahavas.com/2011/02/24/pick-of-the-week-23-research-on-biological-effects-of-radio-frequency-radiation-in-eurasian-communist-countries-1976/

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Oregon bill SB 679 / Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? / Smart meters interfering with town radios / crossing the line / Right to Know / MW GUIDELINES FROM 1957 TO 1968 / Mast Cells

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15 April 2011

Yesterday, WEEP news published the concerns of one person, on the 'Oregon cell phone warning label' bill.

Today there is a conflicting view which I have been asked to include in WEEP news.

Oregon bill SB 679

With due respects to Elizabeth Barris and her work on this bill I have to take issue with her interpretation of why the bill failed. The bill was carried through to a hearing by the consumer protection committee and to my knowledge, from direct sources, could have gone much further (with potentially 4 of 5 committee members interested in the bill) had it not been for the lack of support in the rest of the senate and legislature. I was encouraged directly by the Senator Shields office to introduce the bill next year. As a member of the lobbying team who encouraged Senator Shields to introduce the bill in the first place, and an Oregon resident I have worked closely and directly with his staff who has been patient, respectful, encouraging throughout the process.

Elizabeth Barris lobbied from her home in Santa Monica and was not in touch with the political process here and perhaps in general. With the hundreds of bills they have to sort through I would guess that they probably spent more time with this bill than many others. There was no conspiracy to kill the bill  and I am looking forward to it's reintroduction next year with renewed hopes for it's passage.

For more information, please contact me privately @ wirelesswatch@yahoo.com
David Morrison

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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?

Next Sunday, the New York Times Magazine will feature a long piece titled "Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (it's already on the Times' Web site). It's a well written article.

Yet there is an important element missing: The politics of cell phone research, or more precisely the heavy hand of industry that controls much of what goes on and what gets done.

Read the rest of our latest "Short Take" at

http://www.microwavenews.com

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Smart meters interfering with town radios

Woodstock Sentinel Review

By JOHN TAPLEY INGERSOLL TIMES INGERSOLL -Electronic interference from Hydro One smart meters is forcing the Town of Ingersoll to replace radios linking key municipal offices. On Monday, council gave approval to transfer $4000 from the town's ...

http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3072748

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Glasser: PG&E crossing the line on SmartMeters

Lake County News

Pointing media to the PG&E Web site which had stated that 39000 SmartMeters had been installed in Lake County when at that point in time, only 2500 meters had actually been installed. 2. Declaring a "delay installation" list that customers can be ...

http://lakeconews.com/content/view/19220/927/

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Environmental Health Trust Urges City of San Francisco to Stand for the Truth and Uphold "Right to Know" Law on Cell Phone Radiation

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/4/prweb8298709.htm

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PICK OF THE WEEK 25: REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE EXPOSURE GUIDELINES FROM 1957 TO 1968.

April 13, 2011. Swanson and colleagues from the International Labour Office (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, Public Health Services (Cincinnati, Ohio) reviewed guidelines for microwave radiation and published their review in the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, Vol. 31: 623-629 (1970).

Below is some information from this article. My comments appear in square brackets. To convert from mW/cm² to microW/cm² multiple by 1000.

United States

1. From 1940s to 1970s the use of microwave emitting equipment had increased considerably.

2. In the United States radio frequencies (RF) from 10 to 10,000 MHz were classified as microwave radiation, while in Europe the range was from 300 to 300,000 MHz. [NOTE: We now use the European range to delineate the microwave part of the radio frequency spectrum.]

3. By 1970, scientists recognized that parts of the body that are unable to dissipate heat are the most vulnerable to microwave radiation. This includes the lens of the eye (cataracts) and the reproductive organs (sterility or degenerative changes).

4. Depth of penetration of radiation into tissue is a function of frequency with greater penetration at lower frequencies.

5. In the United States the first guidelines were established during the Tri-Service conference, held in 1957. Below is a quote about the guidelines:

It was the opinion of those participating in the Conference that there were not sufficient data to determine safe exposure levels for each frequency, or ranges of frequencies, within the microwave region; therefore, a level of 10 mW/cm² [10,000 microW/cm²] was selected for all frequencies. The U.S. Air Force, in adopting this exposure level in May 1958, applied it to the frequency range of 300 to 30,000 MHz and established it as a maximum permissible exposure level, which could not be exceeded. The only factor considered in this criterion is the power density level. Such factors as time of exposure, ambient environmental temperatures that could have an increased or decreased effect on the body's thermal response, the frequency of the microwave energy, effects of multifrequency exposures, differing sensitivity of various body organs, and effect of air currents on cooling the body are not considered, although they are all recognized as factors that might affect biological response.

[NOTE: It was clear in 1970 that the US guidelines were somewhat arbitrary, were based on thermal effects only, and did not include other factors that influence biological and health consequences. This guideline has since been lowered from 10 to 1 mW/cm² but is still 100 to 1000 times higher than guidelines in other countries.]

For more information and to download the pdf visit . . .

http://www.magdahavas.com/2011/04/13/pick-of-the-week-25-review-of-international-microwave-exposure-guidelines-from-1957-to-1968/

Dr Magda Havas

drmagdahavas@gmail.com

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The future as Industry Canada sees it.

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06096.html

Another member sent this as well, which pertains to the 700 MHz range.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/bdt14.htm

Sharon

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Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Is this also EHS?

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5607242_mast-cell-activation-syndrome.html

The Role of the Brain and Mast Cells in MCS

http://www.tldp.com/issue/210/roleoftheb.htm

Catherine

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