From the office of MHR Andrew Wilkie: September 19, 2011 PHONE TOWER SAFEGUARDS ONE STEP CLOSER The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has now tabled his Telecommunications Amendment (Enhancing Community Consultation) Bill 2011 which will give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone towers. The Private Member”™s Bill would make
Read more →From the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia September 21, 2011 By Charles Waterhouse PUBLIC pressure has forced Telstra to abandon plans for a phone tower for a second time this month. The telco this week officially withdrew from Woolworths’ Sandy Bay Supermarket site where it proposed installing transmitters. Earlier this month Telstra withdrew plans to
Read more →From Lyn McLean On Monday 19th September Margaret Throsby will have as her guest on ABC Classic FM radio, Lyn McLean, author of ‘The Force – living safely in a world of electromagnetic pollution’. The one-hour program will be a mix of discussion about electromagnetic radiation and what you can do about it and classic
Read more →Press release from Andrew Wilkie’s office September 13 2011 REINING IN THE MOBILE PHONE TOWER MONSTERS The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has acted to give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone towers. Mr Wilkie today formally gave notice to Federal Parliament of his Private Members Bill for an
Read more →Media Release | Spokesperson Senator Bob Brown Wednesday 14th September 2011, 11:33am Greens Leader Bob Brown will today introduce the Telecommunications Amendment (Mobile Phone Towers) Bill 2011 into the Senate to provide a better balance between the power of telcos to put mobile phone antennae where they want and the views of communities affected. “Mobile
Read more →On June 17 of this year Microwave News reported that the IEEE EMF & RF Standards Are Now downloadable for free. ( http://www.microwavenews.com/ShortTakes.html ) This charitable act act is brought to the world by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center who is sponsoring the downloads of five IEEE standards, including those for RF/MW. Further to
Read more →Posted to this blog by Anton Fernhout: Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Published in Apidologie (2011) 42:270”“279 Daniel FAVRE 1,2 1: Scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2: Apiary School of the City of Lausanne, Chemin du Bornalet 2, CH-1066, EÌpalinges, Switzerland Received 24
Read more →On September 12th the investigative program Today Tonight aired an explosive investigation into the massive mistakes being made with the new smart meter power bills revealing serious flaws that affect nearly every electricity user if they have a smart meter installed. Power scandal exposed September 12, 2011, 6:18 pm James Thomas Today Tonight A whistleblower
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” Exerpt (with a few updates) Following on from the last message, the shadowy “hidden hand” of Motorola is also seen with what happened to the study by Dr. Pamela Sykes from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Syke”™s study, funded
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” In 1996 the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), established an expert committee to oversee and recommend research into the safety of mobile phones. Concerned about the potential involvement of the telecommunications industry in this process, Sarah Benson,
Read more →While searching through the Microwave News archives: http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html (July 11, 2005) I came across the following snippet about words being added in a published paper without the author’s permission and knowledge that downplayed the significance of the findings. See second paragraph. Don July 11, 2005… The Toronto Star is running a series of articles on
Read more →Sent in by Olle Johansson The New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/middle-east/news/article.cfm?l_id=8&objectid=10749523&ref=rss US regulators are investigating an Austrian lobbyist and US telecom maker Motorola over alleged bribes of up to 2.2 million euros (NZ$3.68m), Austrian weekly Profil revealed at the weekend. From April 2004 onwards, Motorola apparently transferred up to 2.2 million euros to three firms controlled
Read more →From Magda Havas: For distribution: A private school in Collingwood, Ontario has removed Wi-Fi and has installed wired technology. This is excellent news. I wish other schools would follow their lead. I understand that the teachers in the school are grateful as are the parents that their children are NOT going to be exposed to
Read more →From the science blog by Dariusz Leszczynski “Between A Rock and A Hard Place” On Mobile Phone Radiation Effects ”¢ Did INTERPHONE commit”¦#3? As I mentioned in my previous blog,I have sent a letter to Dr. Christopher Wild, Director of IARC, asking him to take action in the matter of two recent publications from the
Read more →From Lyn McLean, EMR Australia: At 8.45am on Sunday 11th September the Robyn Williams program Ockham’s Razor will be featuring a talk on EMR by Lyn McLean on ABC Radio. Entitled ‘Mobile phones and cordless technology – are they safe?’, the 15-minute presentation will look at recent developments in Europe, at the controversy surrounding EMR
Read more →From Lyn McLean, EMR Australia PL www.emraustralia.com.au: The Sydney Morning Herald Ear-bashing: feeling the heat in a city that forever beeps Tim Elliott September 3, 2011 MARTIN PLACE has plenty; George Street pulses from moderate to high; the QVB is surprisingly low, but parts of Market Street are swimming in it. It’s radiofrequency radiation, and
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs: Changes of Clinically Important Neurotransmitters under the Influence of Modulated RF Fields http://www.buildingbiology.ca/input/emf-research-rimbach Just because many governments the world over pretend that there is no new RF research to warrant any rethinking of current exposure limits does not mean that this is true. One of the latest pilot studies from Germany on
Read more →From Lyn McLean: Australia’s phone tower code has been released for public comment – and you have an opportunity to have your say. Information about the code, the changes that have been made and why they have been made is available from the September issue of EMR and Health now available from EMR Australia. This
Read more →From Louis Slesin: The Interphone paper on acoustic neuroma has been published. Like last year’s brain tumor paper, it too points to a tumor risk among heavy users. For a short item on the results, go to: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone: +1 (212)
Read more →Source: www.wifiinschools.org.uk The Trades Union Congress in the UK has a document about carcinogens in the workplace ( http://www.tuc.org.uk/extras/occupationalcancer.pdf ). This offers guidance for all Trade Unions in the UK. In it they say ‘trade unions believe the aim should be to remove all exposure to any known or suspected carcinogen in the workplace .’
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