From Eileen O'Connor:
Read message below from Magda.

I'm attaching a paper we presented at the WHO conference on EHS and a study we did at a school in Toronto. We have since repeated the study at two schools in Minnesota with similar results so I have confidence that we are measuring a beneficial effect of the filters, especially since we used dummy filters in the two Minnesota schools.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/04_havas_ww.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/04_havas_london_rev.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/who_havas_stetzer.pdf

Do circulate the attached to your groups. Don Maisch's article on CFS is very good.

SD


Betreff: Keep your hair on, do forward
Von: Rod Read
Datum: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:14:19 +0100

Hair Loss Microwaves Mobiles and Electric Smog Health warning from ES-UK charity 1103018

KEEP YOUR HAIR ON!

New scientific research is isolating links between hair loss and living near microwave phone mast transmitters, a case study was reported in the Daily Mail on 8/5/06. The same linking mechanisms are becoming apparent with power line 50Hz distribution systems too, warnings about these health effects, especially childhood leukaemia from living near pylons, were widely reported last week. This was a result of reports to the Health Protection Agency based on seven years of research by Dr Draper of Cambridge University.

The biological effects of EMFs were supposed to be examined in great detail by an expert committee of the USA National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) years ago. This was conducted through a Congressionally chartered organisation which was contracted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1983 to conduct a review of the biological effects of extra low frequency,ELF, EMFs. Work was discontinued in 1986, due to funding cuts at the EPA, but resumed in 1991. In early 1995 the draft of the 800-page NCRP report was leaked to the New York-based publication Microwave News, which published the report’s findings in August 1995. The final report was supposed to be publicly available in early 1996, but has received such intense industry opposition to its findings that its final outcome remains uncertain. Will it ever see the light of day against massive opposition fearful of regulation ask concerned scientists today? The Committee’s membership was described by chairman Dr. Ross Adey as "carefully selected to cover the great majority of societal interests on this scientific problem, including power industry engineers, epidemiologists, public health specialists as well as molecular and cellular biologists". The draft report generally endorses a 2 mG (0.2 mcT) exposure limit, having immediate implications for new day care centres, schools and playgrounds, and for new transmission lines near existing housing plus different regulation for new developments.

The NCRP Committee states that, "In key areas of bioelectromagnetic research, findings are sufficiently consistent and form a sufficiently coherent picture to suggest plausible connections between ELF EMF exposures and disruption of normal biological processes, in ways meriting detailed examination of potential implications in human health."

With any illness characterised by chronic fatigue, such as is reported by ElectroSensitivity sufferers, ES, more severe sufferers with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, EHS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS) and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus (CEBV), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), the important outcome is a severely dysfunctional immune system. Links are indicated via effects on hormone production and the pineal gland. Evidence that these conditions involve an immunological disorder is accumulating rapidly. Within the past few years the report says various abnormalities have been found in the immune system of CFS patients, for example. These include alterations in the activity and cell surface structure of two important types of white blood cells: natural killer cells and T-lymphocytes. In some patients, subtle changes have been found in the levels of neuroendocrine hormones in the brain. Evidence indicates that CFS is associated with, if not directly caused by, a persistent, low-level impairment of the immune system.

The coat of animals has long been used as a reliable indicator of overall health and fitness, it is always subjected to the closest scrutiny by judges at Crufts or Smithfield. Human hair is no different and indeed the long-standing universal appeal across the world of good-looking hair depends on its being seen as indicating health and well-being. Most of us are distraught at unexpectedly encountering problems retaining it but increasing numbers of reports are filtering back to health charities, support groups and hairdressers of unusual loss when masts operate in nearby vicinities. It does not apply to all across the board, sometimes it is entire streets, other times or places isolated individuals or families, perhaps with some predisposition or existing chronic complaint. The microwave beams are reflected and refracted bouncing around according to local conditions, sometimes overlapping, creating random hotspots only detectable with a microwave ‘e-smog’ detector. Those affected often report hair coming out in clumps, sometimes from children’s heads and often associated with deteriorating skin conditions, rashes, reddening and spots.

Irrespective of the ‘trigger’ of the condition, whether it be EMFs, viral, another environmental factor, a genetic predisposition, stress, or a combination of these factors, any additional contributing factors which may also detrimentally affect the immune system should be identified, investigated and eliminated (or reduced) as part of the treatment. Not easy when local planning authorities are restrained from objecting on health grounds to mast erection proposals, even next to schools or hospitals and doctors remain entirely in the dark about EMF bioeffects.

Existing evidence indicates that exposure to environmental level 50 - 60 Hz EMFs, typical of our domestic systems, may be an immune system stressor with the potential to cause hormone disruption and changes at a cellular level. Therefore, EMF exposure should be evaluated as a potential risk factor for people suffering from disorders with the common feature of unexplained chronic fatigue.

Current scientific evidence indicates that prolonged exposure to EMFs, at levels that can now be readily encountered in the environment because of widespread new radiation emitting sources, may affect immune system function by affecting biological processes in ways similar to that seen with CFS. New evidence of this is constantly appearing. Considering the increasing incidence of CFS in the community many consider that medical practitioners should advise patients about the prudent avoidance of EMFs. It used to be a relatively simple matter to locate sources of EMF and generally to avoid them, today this is less easy. The lack of full scientific certainty, as Sir William Stewart, head of the HPA made clear in his “lamentably ignored” demand for the “precautionary principle” to be adopted in the 2000 MTHR (Mobile telephony Health Research) safety report said, should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent exposure to any potentially harmful source. Especially for vulnerable minority sub-groups. If measures generally reducing EMF exposure can be taken at reasonable expense and with reasonable consequences in all other respects, every effort should be made to reduce exposure to the lowest possible level seems common sense. Who wants to be involuntarily hairless?

For greater detail there is a fully referenced scientific report by D. Maisch, B. Rapley, R.E. Rowland, J. Podd available on http://www.acnem.org/journal/17-2_december_1998/cfs-emfs.htm titled

“Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Is prolonged exposure to environmental level powerline frequency electromagnetic fields a co-factor to consider in treatment?”

The article first appeared in Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 2, December 1998, pages 29-35. Copyright in the article vests with ACNEM.


ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) helping the vulnerable minority reacting to electromagnetic fields, microwaves, RF etc. all 'electrosmog'. Rod Read M.Phil.,(Cantab), Dip Psych Couns., Cert.Ed. director Please support us with a donation, (£10 min.) our only income, to ES-UK as below. We welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, diagnosis and treatments. Also all media inquiries. ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk
Also by e-mail at electrosensitivity@hotmail.com Trustees: Professor of Human Radiation Effects Dr Denis Henshaw, Dr David Dowson MD., ChB, Jean Philips BA. Scientific advice from: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk, Keith Jamieson Dip.AAS. Bsc(Hons) RIBA. Inst.Ph., Environmental Consultant and others. Visit http://www.tetrawatch.net


Informant: Eileen O'Connor

Please send to your EMF distribution list and qualify for a free CD with a special song produced by Ricky Gardiner for all EHS sufferers, he has had EHS for over 10 years.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/health_warning.doc


Kind regards

Sarah Dacre


Informant: Eileen O'Connor

Handyproblematik

Die Interessengemeinschaft betroffener Bürger informierte über die Auswirkungen des drahtlosen Telefonierens.

Kleinsendelbach - Mit den Auswirkungen der Mobilfunktechnik auf den menschlichen Organismus beschäftigte sich eine Informationsveranstaltung im Foyer der Schule, zu der die „Interessengemeinschaft vom Mobilfunk betroffener Bürger Kleinsendelbach-Steinbach-Schellenberg“ eingeladen hatte.

Zunächst führte Martin Liepe, Umweltanalytiker des TÜV Süd, die Zuhörer in die technischen Zusammenhänge der hochfrequenten, gepulsten Strahlen ein. Zwar reiche rein technisch gesehen die Strahlung eines Mobilfunkmastes bis zu 40 km weit, die breit gefächerten Nutzungsmöglichkeiten aber machen scheinbar ein wesentlich dichteres Mastnetz erforderlich. Dabei nehme das UMTS-Netz zur Zeit eine Spitzenstellung ein, werde dafür doch alle 80 Meter Sendemaste benötigt. Der damit einhergehende massive Ausbau bringe als besonderes Risikopotenzial eine immer höhere Strahlenbelastung. Die Betreiber könnten mit 100- bis 10 000-mal höheren Grenzwerten arbeiten als im europäischen Ausland erlaubt.

Doktor Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam von der „Initiative Bamberger Appell“ erläuterte, dass man im März und April diesen Jahres 160 Familien an Mobilfunkstandorten besucht habe, die trotz eingehaltener Grenzwerte unter meist schweren Gesundheitsstörungen zu leiden hätten, ohne dass die Ärzte dafür Ursachen finden könnten. Bei Aufenthalten an unbelasteten Orten würden sich diese Menschen wieder sehr schnell erholen. Darüber hinaus finden sich Tumorerkrankungen, Schlafstörungen, Gelenkbeschwerden sowie Konzentrationsstörungen.

Daraus müsse eine Pflicht für die Behörden abgeleitet werden, in Zusammenarbeit mit den Gesundheitsämtern die gemeldeten Erkrankungen zu untersuchen, so Dr. Waldmann-Selsam, um dann als einzig probates Mittel, die Abschaltung der jeweiligen Sender anzuordnen.

Wie Frank Herdegen und Georg Schmidtlein von der Kleinsendelbacher Interessengemeinschaft abschließend bestätigten, haben sich inzwischen zahlreiche Mediziner aus Neunkirchen, Eckental, Igensdorf, Gräfenberg und Lauf der Gesundheitsproblematik von Mobilfunk und DECT-Anlagen besonders angenommen und warnen ihre Patienten mit Plakaten vor den Nebenwirkungen dieser gepulsten Strahlen. Fr

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Ärzte und Mobilfunk
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Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
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Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

Please see important request from Green Party MEP Dr Caroline Lucas, I would be most grateful if everyone could please help with this one.

Eileen O’Connor


Hi again Eileen,

You may be interested to know that we've also tabled the following amendment, which does not refer explicitly to electromagnetic radiation but could easily cover it - indeed it calls for population-based studies, the need for which was highlighted by Gerd Oberfeld.

However we think the amendment may have a greater chance of success if it is not linked to any particular set of emerging risk factors (such as EMW), and instead appears as a general and "innocent" request. For this reason, we think it's probably better if you DON'T draw it to MEPs attention when you ask them to lobby on 629!!

Thanks again,

Erica


Dear Eileen,

I hope you are well. I am writing to ask for your help with some lobbying, for san amendment to the 7th Framework Programme for Research which Caroline has tabled, with her Green colleagues - relating to our concerns about electromagnetic radiation.

As I'm sure you know, the 7th Framework Programme sets out the EU's research priorities for the next several years and thereby the funding allocation different activities will receive. As we discussed when you came out to Brussels, there is an urgent need for more research into the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health and wellbeing - which, as it stands, are not explicitly covered at all by the Programme proposal.

The amendment in question is number 629, pasted at the end of this message. It relates to the part of the Programme which talks about ICT research in general, and Caroline has proposed some additional text (in red) to try and ensure that health effects are closely monitored.

It is likely that this amendment will not be very popular which is why we are asking for your assistance in contacting MEPs to urge them to vote for it. It would be great if you could call on your contacts to write to the members of the Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) - the lead Committee on this dossier - who are due to vote on this on 30 May. Naturally, please also write to MEPs yourself! The list of members of the Committee can be found at

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/committees/allMembers.do?committee=1240&language=EN.

They are most likely to take note of approaches made by citizens / groups from their own country, so if you have contacts in other countries who could target their own MEPs that would be even better.

Please let me know if you need any further information; otherwise any help you can offer on this would be much appreciated. The success of the amendments may depend on it!!

Best wishes,

Erica


THE AMENDMENT:

Amendment of the Green/Efa Group - Amendment 629

Annex I, Chapter I 'Cooperation', subtitle 'Themes', point 3 'Information and Communication

Technologies', subtitle 'Rationale', paragraph 2

The escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits set a growing agenda for research. To bring technology closer to people and organisational needs means: hiding technology complexity and revealing functionality on demand; making technology very simple to use, available and affordable; providing new ICT-based applications, solutions and services that are trusted, reliable, and adaptable to the users’ context and preferences. Driven by the demand of more-for-less, ICT researchers are involved in a global race to achieve further miniaturisation, to master the convergence of computing, communications and media technologies, and the convergence with other relevant sciences and disciplines, and to build systems that are able to learn and evolve. From these diverse The escalating economic and societal demands, together with the continued mainstreaming of ICT and the need to push further the technology limits set a growing agenda for research. To bring technology closer to people and organisational needs means: improving usability; providing new ICT-based applications, solutions and services that are interoperable and reliable, and adaptable to the users’ context and preferences; using ICT for sustainable development, particularly in the management of transport, in conservation of energy and in natural resource use; monitoring closely any possible impact of ICT on human health and wellbeing, in particular, as regards the effects of electromagnetic radiation. Special emphasis shall be placed on overcoming barriers of jurisdiction, language and location. Driven by the demand of more-for efforts a new wave of technologies is emerging. ICT research activities will also draw on a broader range of scientific and technological disciplines including bio- and life sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social sciences. less, ICT researchers are involved in a global race to achieve further miniaturisation, to master the convergence of computing, communications and media technologies, and the convergence with other relevant sciences and disciplines, and to build systems that are able to learn and evolve. From these diverse efforts a new wave of technologies is emerging. ICT research activities will also draw on a broader range of scientific and technological disciplines including bio- and life sciences, psychology, pedagogy, cognitive and social sciences.

Erica Hope

Parliamentary Assistant / Researcher
Office of Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP
Green Party MEP for South East England
The European Parliament
rue Wiertz
1047 Brussels, Belgium
Brussels Tel: +32 2 284 5153
Fax: +32 2 284 9153
UK Tel: +44 207 407 6281
Fax: +44 207 234 0183
http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk
http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk/interests/mobile_TETRA_masts.html

Stunning victory: Health Freedom Establishes Ottawa Beachhead

Beachhead:

1. an area in hostile territory which has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies

2. an initial accomplishment which opens the way for further developments

Who Says You Cannot Change Codex from Inside Codex?

We Just Did!

The Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) is one of two Codex committees which were tasked with determining how Codex will implement the World Health Organization Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Exercise and Health (WHOGS) (Codex Alimentarius Commission [CAC], July 4-9, 2005) prior to the upcoming CAC meeting (Geneva, Switzerland, July 3-8, 2006). The other one was the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU).

CCNFSDU met last November but Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, its Chairman, refused to allow any meaningful discussion of the topic, leaving the field open to CCFL to provide the only input at CAC this coming July.

The Natural Solutions Foundation was in Ottawa, Canada for CCFL (May 1-5, 2006). South Africa's Antoinette Booyzen, with our support and input, fought enegetically and succeeded in securing the most potent pro-health position our side has ever had in Codex, despite US opposition: the Ottawa Beachhead:

In line with the WHOGS, Codex is now directed to implement the following principles:

1. Nutrients are not toxins.

2. Nutrients are generally safe and sold as "dietary supplements" including optimum potency levels, throughout the world;

3. All trans fats derived from industrial sources should be eliminated from the food supply

4. Industrial toxins should be eliminated from the food supply.

5. Enrichment of foods through dietary supplements should be encouraged to optimize nutrient density of foods and compensate for the decline in micronutrients in agricultural produce

6. Development of national and international policies which enhance local, national, regional and global optimal nutrition through life-style modification (including diet), fortification and supplementation with dietary supplements at all levels, including optimum potency levels should be encouraged

7. Healthy life styles and life style choices, including diet and supplementation should be encouraged

8. Foods that do not contribute to, which conflict with or are not essential for, a healthy lifestyle ("junk food") should be identified and discouraged. Nutrition and health claims in labeling and advertising for those foods that do contribute to a healthy life-style should be encouraged while nutrition and health claims for foods which do not contribute to a healthy life styles should be banned in order to encourage health-supporting foods and discourage ones that do not support health

9. Encourage truthful, full and accurate labeling and advertising on all foods which contribute to health and ban advertising and health claims on those that do not

10. Advertising of junk food to children (birth to 18 years) should be banned

11. Require that the Chairpersons of Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) and Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) report to the Codex Alimentarius Commission every other year on the status of the implementation of the WHO/FAO GLOBAL STRATEGY ON DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH and items 1-10 listed above.

The next step is that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will jointly summarize what happened at CCFL and present it for comment. The result will create the terrain for the Battle of Genva '06 at the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Geneva, CAC, July 3-7, 2006) when the other side will try to evade the WHO/FAO requirement to implement WHOGS. In the meantime, it is essential to build the strategic and tactical strength for these WHOGS principles in preparation to for extending Beachhead Ottawa to the critical Battle of Geneva '06.

While there is genuine cause for jubilation, should we fail to provide the troops and supplies needed to exploit the advantage that the Ottawa Beachhead gives us, our hard-won advance will become totally meaningless in the long run. Whether that happens depends upon what WE do and what YOU do.

The health freedom war is, in fact, a grass roots/grass tops insurgency. The Natural Solutions Foundation is reaching out to the grass tops by providing essential information and meeting with Congressional leaders, Ministers of Health, National Codex Committee members and other decision makers in the US and around the world.

We are working the grass tops.

YOU are in charge of the grass roots. You have a circle of influence. Recruit it.

Here's what you can do to set the grassroots growing so we can assure victory at the Battle of Geneva '06 and win the Health Freedom War:

* Disseminate these emails to your whole circle of influence (COI).

* Urge everyone tin your COI to sign participate in the war

Nutricide: the DVD http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml

* Arrange showings in your area

* Send it to your Congressmen/women

* Make sure your health food store/natural health professional/local coffee house/ food co-op, etc. sees Nutricide: the DVD and shares it with their COIs

* Bring a copy with you to leave with your Congressman/woman when you visit them

Codex eBook http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml

* Read it

* Send the link for download to your COI

* Bring a printout of the Codex eBook when you visit your Congressional member

Multiple links increase search engine ratings and help more people find Natural Solutions Foundation's accurate, up-to-the minute intelligence on the Codex battles and how they can help secure eventual health freedom victory

Participate in the Health Freedom Civic Campaign

* Sign the Citizens Petition
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/step3/petition-letter.shtml , a legal challenge to US harmonization with Codex pro-illness nutrient policies

* Urge everyone in your COI to sign the Citizens Petition
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/step3/petition-letter.shtml

* Email the Citizen Petition link,
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/step3/petition-letter.shtml and urge your entire COI to sign it

* Write to Congress
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/step2.shtml to tell them how important your health freedom is to you

Visit members of Congress when they are in their district offices (or in Washington, DC) with a group of friends. Give them a copy of Nutricide: the DVD and the Codex eBook. Tell them what is important to you.

In military terms, it is called exploitation. This means that you put your essential forces and fire power on the enemy's weakness to expolit the breakthrough.

South Africa, the Natural Solutions Foundation and others have secured have secured the Ottawa Bridgehead. As in any beachhead operation, securing the perimeter of the beachhead provides freedom of movement to bring in essential suppliess, additional forces to continue and extend the attack, create a breakthrough and expolit the opportunity.

You are an essential soldier in this war. Every soldier is a precious asset.

It is up to YOU to keep this incredible and absolutley unprecedented opportunity moving forward: to keep Health Freedom from loosing the most powerful position Health Freedom has ever achieved in Codex and to expolit it for future gains.

JOIN, SUPPORT, ACTIVATE as we take prepare to win the Battle of Geneva '06!

Yours in health and freedom,

Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III
(US Army, Ret.)
President
Natural Solutions Foundation

http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

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