Anti-phone mast group fears pupils already sick (provided by Sylvie) nlnews@archant.co.uk 29 June 2005 MUSWELL Hill Against the Masts campaigners are to carry out a survey of children in the area to see if they are suffering from radiation sickness. Campaign leaders, whose children go to schools and nurseries near the 3G mast in Grand
Read more →Following is an article sent by Marne Glaser from the EMR Network, Chicago, USA on the latest breaking news from the telecom industry newspaper “RCR News” on yet another study from Sweden linking wireless phone radiation to brain tumors. For more information on wireless health research, contact: Marne Glaser EMR Network-Chicago 773 338 0248 Study
Read more →For those groups fighting inappropriate siting of power transmission lines, the following 2002 decision from the Planning & Environmental Court of Queensland (Australia) is a useful document. Citation: Energex Ltd. v Logan City Council & Ors [2002] QPEC 001 Delivered on: 11 January 2002 Exerpt from pages 19-20: ” (g) The existing overhead 11 kV
Read more →The Confessions of an economic hitman On Monday, June 20th, Australia”s Radio National program, In the National Interest, aired a Terry Lane interview with John Perkins about his best selling book “The Confessions of an economic hitman”. Although a transcript is not available for that program I found a similar interview transcript from “Democracy Now”
Read more →NEWS FLASH! While the so-called experts in Israel, New Zealand and Australia mindlessly mouth the ICNIRP mantra that 100 uT (1000mG) is somehow acceptable. The Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment is leading the way by applying a real precautionary policy by setting a 0.4 uT (4 mG) exposure limit for new
Read more →Following is a report from Israel on yet another self styled WHO clone “expert committee” making all the usual noises about powerline magnetic fields. * Note where ICNIRP apparently admits that their guidelines are only for acute short term exposures. * There’s the old WHO/ICNIRP claim that the epidemiological studies and/or, labratory tests are defined
Read more →Just noticed – As for my earlier message “Tower protests increasing in Australia” it turns out that Beaconsfield is in Fremantle, West Australia and not Sydney New South Wales!!!! There IS a Beaconsfield in NSW but that wasn’t it! Oops! A slight error but at least I got the continent right! Will correct the post
Read more →Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct Degrees of Deception Vary in Poll; Researchers Say Findings Could Hurt the Field By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 9, 2005; A03 Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit,
Read more →The following is the abstract from a new paper by Professor Olle Johansson et al. Hallberg أق, Johansson O, “FM broadcasting exposure time and malignant melanoma incidence”, Electromag Biol Med 2005; 24: 1-8 Object: To analyze the age-specific incidence of malignant melanoma in Sweden since 1958 in order to see if the reported general increase
Read more →Mobile phones ‘can trigger skin allergies’ http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=631582005 LOUISE GRAY RADIATION from mobile phones can trigger reactions in people with skin allergies, according to new research. Tests showed exposure to microwaves produced by mobiles can cause an allergic response in people who have eczema or dermatitis. A Japanese scientist made the discovery after testing blood samples
Read more →Don’t Be Fooled: Advanced and Rational Societies Can Commit Environmental Suicide By Johann Hari The Independent UK Wednesday 08 June 2005 The way our economy is structured actually encourages environmental destruction. When Tony Blair flew to Washington on Monday to discuss the rapid changes to the earth’s climate caused by man, it is a shame
Read more →Don, You might want to rethink some of your statements re the Draper study, eg, “widely accepted that it is exposures from sources within the home” etc. Here are some mystery quotes from UK research to give you some clues as to what I mean: “The strongest identified factor influencing exposure at home was the
Read more →Here is another report (below) on the Draper study suggesting that it is exposures within the home (unless the homes are adjacent to transmission lines then external sources are the issue) that are paramount for the general population. Note the other study on cot death (SIDS). Now if there is a connection with SIDS and
Read more →David Grant, scientific director of Leukemia Research said that the observed increase in leukemia risk for those living at distances greater than 60 m from a high voltage power line was most unlikely to be due to any residual electromagnetic field, or other exposures related to the power line. Therefore he thought that”It cannot be
Read more →Both “New Scientist” and “The Independent” have interesting articles on the Draper study which takes a more cautions look at the findings. Draper seems to be backing off from his study findings by making the usual old disclamers that have used to discount positive findings in EMF epidemiological studies ever since Wertheimer & Leeper’s 1970s
Read more →The long awaited UK Draper study has finally been published in the British Medical Journal, confirming, yet again, the connection between environmental level powerline magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia. How much more evidence do we need to protect public health? With the current public concerns being expressed in New Zealand and Canada (previous message) over
Read more →While the powerline health controversy continues to bubble away in New Zealand with a major TV documentary now in the making, a similar issue is now taking hold in Canada’s province of Newfoundland (Below). As with New Zealand, the ICNIRP spin doctors will be having meetings with the relevant Canadian authorities spinning their web of
Read more →Serious UK Nuclear Leak ‘Went Unnoticed for Nine Months’ By Michael Blackley The Scotsman UK Monday 30 May 2005 Tens of thousands of litres of highly radioactive liquid has been leaking unnoticed at the UK’s nuclear reprocessing plant for nine months, it was revealed yesterday. The leak is being described as the worst nuclear accident
Read more →Depleted Uranium Bill Introduced into Congress The Lone Star Iconoclast (From Truthout) 01 June Issue Washington, DC – Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), a medical doctor, on May 17 introduced legislation with 21 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives that calls for medical and scientific studies on the health and environmental impacts from the U.S.
Read more →Australia’s Mobile Phone Use to Exceed 100% in 3 Years, Predicts IDC 30/05/2005 12:40:21 NORTH SYDNEY, May 30th, 2005 “” Australia’s cellular penetration for the first time last year surpassed “natural saturation,” signifying that every Australian who could be using a mobile phone is already using one, according to IDC”s latest research into the local
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