Economic growth is deadly to the planet
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526576/

Global warming passing the 'tipping point'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1547839/

World Is at its Warmest For a Millennium
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1547845/

Glaciers 'moving faster'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1523582/

SEVEN YEARS TO SAVE PLANET, SAYS PM Tony Blair
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1536211/

No to the President's Arctic Refuge drilling plan
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526480/

Federal Officials Agree Global Warming May Threaten Polar Bears' Survival
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1536575/

Stop the attack on our National Parks
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1534747/

Stop the Stealth Attack on Our National Parks
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1546520/

Let's Move America Beyond Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1544600/

GM Ban Long Overdue
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526561/

Poor Women Farmers' Crops of Truth
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1536355/

New Suspicions about GMO
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1546210/

WTO "Frankenfoods" Ruling Reveals Special Interests
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1542904/

Bring the hunting of whales to a permanent end
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1547249/

Horse Slaughter Continues in US, Despite Recent Law
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1547873/

Vote USA 2004
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Tsunami/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 11. February 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1547914/

Increase in brain cancer risk from using a mobile or cordless phone for over 5 years
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1529585/

Cordless phones could raise risk of tumours - Cordless home phones sparks radiation fear
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1521344/

Chronic exposure to GSM 1800-MHz microwaves reduces excitatory synaptic activity in cultured hippocampal neurons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1517975/

Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1536892/

No place to hide: Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1546379/

Your Money and Your Life
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1546486/

Abstract by Dr John Walker
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1543954/

Expert warns Irish mobile phone masts unsafe
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1536941/

ICNIRP Guidelines are not safe
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1538462/

This Is Vital to Public Health: Petition to Remove Repacholi - a reminder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1515185/

Mobile phones and child protection
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1533960/

Babies in the UK last year are not sleeping as well as babies in the 1970s
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1518895/

Record Sales of Sleeping Pills Are Causing Worries
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1529337/

MOBILE FIRMS ARE LIABLE IN ANY GARDA PHONE MAST CASES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1544470/

Mast concealment by H3G UK LTD.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1519724/

COUNCIL HAS 'BROKEN' ITS OWN RULES
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1522223/

Health and electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1523868/

Support the Curry mobile phone mast Bill - petition
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526898/

Residents' phone mast fury
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1533076/

Fury as phone firm plans mast on playing fields
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1537008/

The Line and people power
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1538112/

MAST SET FOR REFUSAL
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1539733/

Defeat for 'trampled on' anti-mast campaigners
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1543929/

BCTC believes project will be on schedule
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1546226/

Firms turn cyber sleuths with mobile phone technology
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1521456/

Mobile phone technology allows better cyber sleuthing
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526542/

Every move they make, mum’s watching
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1547228/

Exposed: The Secret Corporate Funding Behind Health Research
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1531749/

SWEEP Bulletin 15
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1521926/

Next-up News 07 Fev 2006
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1529471/

Next-up News 09 Fev 2006
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1544636/

News from Mast Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3

Omega-News Collection 11. February 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1547929/

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article344690.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15419.html
http://openpr.de/news/76787

News:

Der Verein Risiko Elektrosmog Kärnten informiert…, hier über Verharmlosungsaussagen von T-Mobile, denen, wie Risiko Elektrosmog Kärnten meint, aus guten Gründen wohl kaum jemand glauben dürfte.

Lesen Sie mehr darüber…:

T-Mobile und der Umweltausschuss der Erholungs- und Gesundheitsgemeinde Ludmannsdorf im Clinch:

Die T-Mobile Austria GesmbH hat der Erholungs - und Gesundheits- Gemeinde Ludmannsdorf (in Kärnten im Rosental) im Sommer 2005 mitgeteilt, wie harmlos die dort von T-Mobile verbreitete Mobilfunkstrahlung sei und in ihrer Mitteilung auch bedeutet, dass sie den gesundheitlichen Schutz der Allgemeinbevölkerung garantieren würde.

Daraufhin hat der Umweltausschuss der Gemeinde, der die Bürgersorgen sehr ernst nimmt, unter Hinweis auf gegenteilige Expertenmeinungen, T-Mobile ersucht, doch diese von ihr selbst intendierte Garantie auch schriftlich an die Gemeinde als Treuhänderin für alle Einwohner, Tiere, Pflanzen und Liegenschaften derart abzugeben, dass T-Mobile pro Schadensfall mit Euro 1,000.000 bis Ende 2015 haften würde, selbstverständlich auch immaterielle Schäden umfassend und dies abgesichert durch eine taugliche Bankgarantie, zumal ja die Lebensdauer und die Zahlungsfähigkeit von Mobilfunkfirmen nicht auf Dauer aufrecht bleiben muss.

In ihrer Antwort darauf versucht T-Mobile einerseits die ins Treffen geführten Expertenmeinungen letztlich als unbeachtlich darzustellen und verweigert andererseits die eingeforderte Garantie mit dem fadenscheinigen Hinweis, dass "für die von T-Mobile Austria GesmbH betriebenen Sendeanlagen eine umfassende Betriebshaftpflichtversicherung bestehe, durch welche die Abgeltung jener Schäden gewährleistet sei, die nachweislich durch die Errichtung und den Betrieb von Telekommunikationsanlagen verursacht werden. Darüber hinausgehende Haftungserklärungen können wir schon aus rechtlichen Gründen nicht abgeben. Insbesonders eine Haftungsübernahme für immaterielle Schäden, ist unüblich und eine derartige Zusage wäre unseriös."

Der Umweltausschuss der Gemeinde Ludmannsdorf hat daraufhin T-Mobile auf folgendes hingewiesen:

· Eine Haftungserklärung zwischen T-Mobile und Versicherung wirke bekanntlich nicht zugunsten Dritter, also keinesfalls zugunsten der verunsicherten Bevölkerung.

· Wenn aber ohnehin ein ausreichender Deckungsfonds aufgrund einer internen Betriebshaftpflichtversicherung bestehe, könne ja die begehrte Haftungszusage für die Gemeinde problemlos abgegeben und abgesichert und müsse nicht abgelehnt werden.

· Was die von T-Mobile behauptete Unseriosität einer Haftung für immaterielle Schäden angehe, wurde die T-Mobile auf die langjährige österreichische aber auch auf die EuGH- Rechtsprechung verwiesen, die selbstverständlich immateriellen (ideellen) Schadenersatz (s. z.B. die Rechtsprechung zum Schmerzengeld) zuspricht.

Nachdem der Umweltausschuss der Gemeinde eine Antwort auf obiges Schreiben urgiert hatte, antwortete T-Mobile mit dem kursorischen Hinweis darauf, dass keine gesundheitlichen Risken aus dem Mobilfunkbetrieb ableitbar seien und verwies auf ein Urteil, wonach keine Kausalbeziehung zwischen Mobilfunk und behaupteten Krankheitsbildern bestünde.

Kritische Betrachtung der in diesem Fall eingenommenen Haltung von T-Mobile:

1) Das von T-Mobile zitierte Urteil sagt KEINESWEGS generell aus, dass es keine Kausalbeziehung zwischen Mobilfunk und bestimmten Krankheitsbildern gebe. Hier handelt es sich offensichtlich um Wunschdenken. Das Urteil stellt nur fest, dass ein solcher Zusammenhang im gegenständlich beurteilten Einzelfall von der Klägerin nicht bewiesen werden konnte und diese das (zusätzliche) Wertminderungsbegehren (leider)als unzulässigerweise neue Behauptung erstmals im Verfahren vor dem OGH, und nicht schon in erster Instanz, vorgebracht hat, (weshalb darauf nicht einzugehen war). (OGH 1 Ob146/05k).

2) Die namhaften österreichischen Versicherungen (wie übrigens auch die namhaften Versicherungsunternehmungen in Deutschland) schließen bei Betriebshaftpflichtversicherungen von Mobilfunkbetreibern regelmäßig das beim Funkbetrieb verursachte Risiko aus der Mobilfunkstrahlung aus. D.h. entgegen der Behauptung von T-Mobile haftet daher die Versicherung dem jeweiligen Mobilfunkbetreiber für allfällige durch den Mobilfunk verursachte Schäden nicht!! (Es sei denn, T- Mobile hätte einen potenten Versicherer zur Hand, der dieses enorme Risiko entgegen den Vorgaben der übrigen Versicherungswirtschaft tatsächlich versichern würde). Die Erläuterungen zu den AHVB/EHVB 2005 der Versicherungswirtschaft führen allerdings aus, dass sich die Versicherung nicht auf Schadenersatzforderungen aus Schäden, die in unmittelbarem oder mittelbarem Zusammenhang mit Auswirkungen der elektromagnetischen Felder stehen, erstreckt. (ebenso wenig wie etwa zur Asbestgefahr, die bekanntlich leider erst nach rd. 60 Jahren!! als gesundheitsschädlich erkannt worden war), zumal die Auswirkungen auf Personen weitgehend unerforscht sind. Da generell kein Versicherungsschutz gegeben ist, hat der Versicherungsnehmer, also hier die Mobilfunkindustrie, auch keinen Anspruch auf Abwehrdeckung bei behaupteten Schäden durch elektromagnetische Felder. Ebenso stuft die weltweit größte Schweizer Rückversicherungsgesellschaft die Versicherung dieses Strahlungsrisiko als finanziell zu gefährlich ein, weil sie hier versicherungstechnische Grenzen zu beachten hat (vornehm ausgedrückt).

T-Mobile behauptet jedoch in der oben offen gelegten Korrespondenz das Gegenteil

· Könnte es daher zutreffen, dass hier jemand die Unwahrheit über die Risikolage und den Versicherungsschutz behauptet?

· Will hier vielleicht jemand den Konsumenten für dumm verkaufen?

· Wer könnte wohl Interesse daran haben?

Risiko Mobilfunk Kärnten wird diese Information als Sachverhaltsdarstellung natürlich an die Konsumentenschutzministerin sowie an die Gesundheitsministerin und an Politiker etc. weiterleiten.


Nachricht von Dr. Erwin Tripes

No place to hide: Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

In June 2002 in the journal "No place to hide" we could read that Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA (Spain), Olle JOHANSON (Sweden), Lebrecht von KLITZING (Germany), Gerard HYLAND (England) and Roger SANTINI (France), were under pressures because of their studies on mobile telephony.

Omega see under: http://www.laleva.cc/environment/cellphones.html

The story is not finished!

Please found a message from my friend Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA ("LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT"), who tell us that he is again, under official pressure.

- Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA: Email: gomez_cla@gva.es


Amitiés.

Roger.

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LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT:

We, the members of the Spanish team who did the work about microwave exposure from GSM base stations and possible health consequences to the surrounding neighbours (*); won´t be able to continue working on this topic after being denied the grant to finance those studies. We had to wait as whichever other research group, a long year until receive recently a very simplistic letter, only four lines from the Health Institute Carlos III (if you wish to write: webmaster@isciii.es) as responsible for the Spanish studies of the Health Ministry at Madrid.

They point out that our team has not sufficient curriculum and experience being the methodology and objectives unclear. But, how can be it true if we are extending the initial study published in an international scientific journal, only to a bigger sample, the former accepted from the scientific community being continuously cited as reference article, as one of the pioneer works in this area.

However and very curiously, this Institute which now cut our wings failed to produce scientific results from some intriguing clusters of malign tumours occurred in several places of Spain, where important wireless structures were build close to children areas, for instance the García-Quintana School of Valladolid (until five diagnosed leukaemia’s in its students under 6 year old ) and other places... thinking only in lacking interest from them to conclude some plausible results: Or, finally summarized in the Spanish proverb, be the gardener’s dog: don’t eating and don’t let others eat.

Yours ,

Dr. Claudio Gómez-Perretta

(*) Navarro, E. A., Segura, J., Portolés, M., and Gómez-Perretta de Mateo, C. 2003. The microwave syndrome: A preliminary study in Spain. Electromagn. Biol. Med. 22: 160-169.

Omega see under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_microwave_syndrome_a_preliminary_study_in_spain_2003.pdf


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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The study which was not funded
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2180509/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwave+syndrome

Am sending the two reports below along to you for posting.

Best,

Imelda, Cork


THE IRISH TIMES, FRI, FEB 10, 06

"MOBILE FIRMS ARE LIABLE IN ANY GARDA PHONE MAST CASES

[by] Martin Wall

Mobile phone companies using masts on Garda [police] stations or other public buildings will have to meet the costs of any compensation claims taken against the State by persons who allege that their health has been damaged by electro-magnetic radiation. The Dail Committee of Public Accounts was told yesterday by chairman of the Office of Public Works Sean Benton that under an agreement with the State the mobile phone companies had to indemnify the Government against any future claims. He said the companies also had to comply with existing health and safety directives and to meet any future measures that may be put in place. There are mobile phone massts on about 120 Garda stations. The Government first entered into an agreement with Esat Digifone (now O2) in 1997. However, last year the Office of Public Works (OPW) put in place a new deal to allow various mobile phone companies to place masts on Garda stations and other public buildings. Socialist Party deputy Joe Higgins said the long-term effect of radiation generated by mobile phone masts was not yet known. He expressed concern that if dangers to health emerged in the future as a result of such masts that not only would public employees have been put at potential risk but also the State could be exposed to largescale liability for damages. Secretary general of the Department of Justice Sean Aylward said that under the agreement with O2, gardai received just over 1,000 mobile phones. He said that the first 450 phones, as well as call and rental charges, were provided free. However, the remainder has to be paid for by the State. The cost of calls and other charges are deducted from the rental payments for the masts due to the OPW from the phone compnay. Mr Aylward said mobile phones were provided to all personnel of superintendent rank and upwards."



IRISH EXAMINER, THURSDAY, 09.02.06

Expert warns Irish mobile phone masts unsafe

By Dan Buckley and Tom Prendeville ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.

His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.

According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.

"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.

This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.

"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."

According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.

Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.

The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.

However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.

Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.

The German study, conducted by Joachim Schuz and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.

They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.

This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.

"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schuz.

"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."

The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.

Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.

The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.

Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts

Keep mobile phone conversations short.

Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.

Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.

Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.

Consider using a phone with an external aerial.

Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.

From: Eileen O'Connor
eileen@smokestackltd.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:56 -0000
Subject: Abstract by Dr John Walker

Please see message received today from Dr Walker, responding to my recent e-mails about Professor Swerdlow.

Eileen O'Connor


Abstract (general) by Dr John Walker CPhys

* Professor Cherry of New Zealand in 2000 made a presentation to the Parliament of Europe on the above subject. During the last few years, experimental data is accumulating at an increasing rate, that verifies his predictions without exception.

* Scientific and Health Truth has also been diverging at an increasing rate from Political and Economic Truth over the last 9 years since ICNIRP (International Committee on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) made the biggest mistake in scientific history and unconsciously misled the many administrations in the world by choosing guidelines 4.5 million times as high as those chosen by Salzburg (power units). Phones still work in Salzburg.

* Most administrative bodies are weak in science and therefore have no conception of when they have been misled. Since the "he who pays the piper calls the tune" all sub administrations are cautious and unwilling to "rock the boat" or "blow the whistle" especially when high economic yields are concerned.

* The Government's 21 billion pound licence fee from the mobile telephone industry has locked the country into a legalised sustained electromagnetic attack on the population living in the highest field strength areas near a mast, especially in beam patch areas, often ten times the height of the mast away and with a 3 pole mast the patches will be 120 degrees apart. There is a real occurrence of a cancer rate of 3 times normal and 8 years earlier (Naila), and 4 times normal (Netanya) together with the Bamberger study and the Oberfeld/Navarro study which showed an odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendencies along with increases of other unspecified illnesses.

* G3 is more penetrative of house walls than GSM. The old radio waves were a nice sinusoidal shape, however G3 waves are very sharp digitally switched to transmit vision signals. "These can swamp the bodies internal signals" and lead to the above data. (Dr David Aldridge)

Recent measurements of melatonin in urine show that microwaves cause an 80% drop in Melatonin which controls our immune system at night. This makes us susceptible to many diseases since our natural defence against cosmic rays is compromised. This applies to all vertebrea.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Peer Review gone rotten: AGNIR’s review of breast cancer and EMFs

On Feb 9, 2006 The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), under the leadership of Professor Anthony Swerdlow (a senior member of ICNIRP and who enjoys a commanding role in influencing the British cancer charities research into cancer) released its latest viewpoint on breast cancer, melatonin and power frequency EMFs. Using an extremely biased review of the science, Swerdlow and crew were able to discount all the evidence to the contrary to come up with a convenient exoneration for the power industry. Watch the WHO and ICNIRP push this as still another independent expert report representing a scientific consensus of the international scientific community.

A very valuable report for the industy as it will be quoted for years in court and planning cases - and who will dare question the experts?

Don Maisch

Press Release

9 February 2006

Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer

The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) today published a report that examines whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) associated with the supply and use of electricity can influence the risk of breast cancer. Following a thorough review of the published scientific literature, the report concludes that overall the evidence does not support the hypothesis that exposure to EMFs is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, EMFs do not appear to affect the production or biological action of the hormone melatonin.

Full report : http://www.hpa.org.uk/publications/2005/rce1/default.htm

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=383