http://tinyurl.com/wgsvd

The Name of the victim is Eva Weber. The president of the Federal Office for radiation protection is Wolfram König.



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

Dem erschütternden Bericht ist wohl nichts mehr hinzuzufügen.

Der anonymissierte Standort ist bekannt.

M.f.G.
Alfred Tittmann



Eva Weber 3. Dez.2006

An den Präsidenten d. Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Prof. Dr. Wolfram König
Postfach 100149
38201 Salzgitter


Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!

Ich bedanke mich für die Nennung einer Firma, die Strahlenschutzanzüge herstellt, durch Herrn Dr. Michael Mehnert. Ich habe bereits Verbindung mit der Firma aufgenommen.

Die Frage ist, ob mir das noch nützt!

Meine Situation wird so unerträglich, dass ich nun endgültig aus meinem Haus muss.

Am 24 .Okt. 06 wurde an der Antenne T-Mobile gearbeitet. Seitdem habe ich mich auch zum Schlafen in meine abgeschirmte Küche zurückgezogen. Nur, Abschirmung hilft nicht mehr. Änderungen an der Antenne wurden durch Herrn Bauer, Deutsche Funkturm, bestritten.

M.E. wurde GPRS-EDGE aufgebaut. Es verursacht ungeheures Zittern und Vibrieren des Körpers, Taubheit der Beine, der Hände und Arme, des Gesichts. Der Kopf ist wie zum Zerspringen. Schmerzen über Schmerzen. Die ganze Luft im Haus ist als wäre sie aufgeladen.

Zeitweise liegt ein gleichbleibendes Pfeifen in der Luft, abgesehen von dem tiefen unterbrochenen Brummen, das ich seit Aufrüstung des Mastes mit UMTS im Sept.04 höre. Dieses Brummen kennen sie ja, nur äußert sich keine Behörde und kein Betreiber. Dafür hat es der oberste „Strahlenguru“ Prof. Bernhardt getan. Man muss nur lange genug suchen, dann findet man solche Dinge schon!

Mit Strahlenschutz hat das alles nichts mehr zu tun.

Es ist ein offener Angriff auf das Leben.

Heute Nacht dachte ich, ich sterbe in meinem Haus.

Es ist die niederfrequente Pulsung, die Menschen früher oder später erschlägt, im Namen des Strahlenschutzes, Verantwortung für Mensch und Umwelt!

Aber dann ist es ein Herzinfarkt oder ein Gehirnschlag und alles ist wieder im Lot. Die Strahlung jedenfalls ist es nicht! In 60-70% sind es Chemikalien, die mich so krank machen, meinte Prof. Bernhardt in einer persönlichen Unterredung. Nur, außer Exposition, wirken die Chemikalien nicht.

Am 24.Okt.06 merkte ich sofort, dass die Antenne abgeschaltet ist. Ich sehe sie nicht vom Haus aus und ich ging zur Antenne und siehe da, es wurde daran gearbeitet. Ich ging zurück ins Haus. Kühl und ruhig, kein Brummen, angenehm wie früher, mein schönes Haus. Wo waren die Chemikalien des Prof. Bernhardt? 0,0 µW/m² im Haus, 1,0 µW/m² im Garten!

Es ist ½ 6 Uhr früh, ich sitze zitternd vor der Maschine. Ich finde jemanden, der mir das ins Internet stellt. Es reicht! Sie sehen die Probleme überall und man wird vertröstet auf irgendwelche Studien, die von vornherein so angelegt sind, dass sie nichts erbringen. Siehe Schlafstudie: 2 mal 6 Nächte Bestrahlung mit mobilen Masten, als ob wir nicht genug hätten, die Sie mal abschalten könnten. Aber nein, da könnte ja etwas herauskommen. Bei mir dauerte es 4 Jahre und bedurfte noch einer Verstärkung des GSM und zusätzlich UMTS bis ich nicht mehr schlafen konnte.

Was hier geschieht ist absolute Unterdrückung von Menschen durch Wirtschaftsmacht und deren hörige Wissenschaftler. Unabhängige werden nicht gehört! Einer Demokratie unwürdig!

Ich habe etwas Treffendes gelesen:

„Durch eine Mauer bricht Wasser, aber solange man nicht weiß wo das Wasser herkommt, erklärt man die Mauer für trocken.“

Ich werde dies als meine persönliche Definition für das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz nehmen.

Aber irgendwie stimmt es auch wieder nicht, denn längst wissen Sie was Sache ist.

1% der Grenzwerte habe ich auf meinem Dach, warum dreht man denn nicht einmal voll auf? Das Hähnchen überlebt die Mikrowelle doch auch nicht. Ach das Glückliche war vorher schon tot, so wie die Leichen an denen die Grenzwerte erprobt wurden, oder habe ich da falsch gehört?

Nun wird es schon hell. Dank „Verantwortung für Mensch und Umwelt“ werde ich mich heute bei Verwandten und Bekannten umsehen, ob ich wohl eine Übernachtungsmöglichkeit finde.

Ich wünsche Ihnen eine bessere Adventszeit als ich sie habe.

Vielleicht denkt man im BfS einmal an die Menschen, die in der Evolution noch nicht so weit sind, wie es das Mikrowellenzeitalter fordert. Recht auf Leben haben wir ja nicht mehr.

Ein Gnadenschuss wäre eine schnelle und menschliche Lösung.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Eva Weber



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

Electromagn Biol Med. 2006;25(1):13-21.

Oktay MF, Dasdag S.

Department of Otolaryngology, Medical School of Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of radiation emitted by mobile phones on the hearing of users. The study was carried out on three groups: 1) 20 men who have used a cellular phone frequently and spoken approximately 2 h per day for four years; 2) 20 men who have used a cellular phone for 10-20 min per day for four years; and 3) 20 healthy men who have never used a cellular phone (the control group). Brainstem evoked response audiometric (BERA) and pure tone audiometric (PTA) methods were used to measure the effects of exposure on hearing function of the subjects. In BERA measurements, I-III, III-V, and I-V interpeak latencies were evaluated. Interpeak latency of subjects in two experimental groups was compared to that of subjects in the control group. The BERA results showed no differences among the groups (p > 0.05). In PTA measurements, detection thresholds at 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 2000 Hz, 4000 Hz, and 8000 Hz frequencies were measured in all three groups. No differences were observed between moderate mobile phone users (10-20 min. per day) and control subjects. However, detection thresholds in those who talked approximately 2 h per day were found to be higher than those in either moderate users or control subjects. Differences at 4000 Hz for both bone and air conduction for right ears, and 500 Hz, and 4000 Hz bone and air conduction for left ears were significant for mean hearing threshold. This study shows that a higher degree of hearing loss is associated with long-term exposure to electromagnetic (EM) field generated by cellular phones.

PMID: 16595330 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16595330&dopt=Abstract


----- Original Message -----
From: Mona Nilsson
To: Iris Atzmon
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:11 PM

<<Tan et al 2006 melatonin reactions J Pineal Res.pdf>>

I offer the attached paper as valuable background reading:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/tan_et_al_2006_melatonin_reactions_j_pineal_res.pdf

Professor Denis L Henshaw
H H Wills Physics Laboratory University of Bristol
Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
Tel: +44 1179 260353
Fax: +44 1179 251723
Website: http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk


Informant: Eileen O'Connor



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=melatonin

The Latest Reassurance Ruse about Cell Phone and Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3042382/

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Same researchers involved with INTERPHONE

Read further comments about the Danish study, it is worrying to discover that the same researchers are also involved with the INTEPHONE study, what hope have we got?

If the allegations of corruption are true, many people’s lives are at risk and we should be demanding an investigation.

If huge cancer agencies are prepared to put money before public health, trust and respect will continue to diminish calling all authorities into question. If cancer levels continue to rise, questions will be raised and I believe this has the potential to bring huge authorities down; there will be no forgiveness as our children’s lives are at risk.


Kind Regards

Eileen O’Connor

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Please see details about the latest Danish study and read the truth behind it from Dr George Carlo.

Eileen O’Connor


The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://tinyurl.com/yeumd8

I have some very unique personal insight that I would like to share on this new Danish study. I will have a formal analysis and Safe Wireless Alert out on this by the end of the week. But, here is important background.

Indeed, John Boice and his colleagues have been on the cell phone industry payroll, and for big money, since the late 1990's. The money laundering vehicle is the International Epidemiology Institute -- the name sounds like a non-profit by design, but make no mistake, this is a big for-profit enterprise. When I ran the WTR, the International Epidemiology Institute, with Boice and a fellow named Joe McLaughlin, applied for funding to do this exact epidemiology study that was released this week. After much discussion within the WTR, they were refused funding because I felt they were blatantly biased and had overtly given us the notion that they would always create findings that were favorable to the industry. They thought that is what we wanted in the WTR -- they thought they were playing to the audience. But, they were wrong. When we refused to give them funding to do work, they wen t directly to the industry with the same pitch, and were hired. They were able to make good on their pitch of being able to put "put all of this under the radar" by further laundering the industry support money through the Danish Cancer Registry. This is the pitch that was given to me personally and directly. I still have their proposal.

The study released this week is the second such study with the same "spin on the findings" from this group of investigators. In 2001, they also had "one of the largest studies to date", and Boice went on a bit of a television tour -- paid directly by the industry -- to blunt the effects of my Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age book tour. I faced off with him a couple of times on T.V. most notabley on John Gibson's news show on MSNBC. It is interesting that MSNBC is also asleep at the switch on this one.

Interestingly, the other person quoted in the news reports on this study -- and I am certain his name was given in the press package released by the industry for the study as that is common practice to make sure there is "independent corroboration" -- is Joshua Muscat. Muscat worked for me under the WTR. Muscat blatantly changed his data after his studies were completed under pressure from the industry. Specifically, Muscat's work -- peer reviewed and completed according to a specific protocol under the WTR -- identified a near tripling in the risk neuroepithelial tumors and a correlation between the side of the head where the phones were used and the side of the head where the tumor was located that were both statistically significant. I speak of these findings in my "Cell Phones" book because they were the findings in the final peer-reviewed report of the data. The findings of a statistically signifi cant increase in neuroepithelial tumors and significant tumor laterality concordance were the official findings of the WTR. However, the industry hired an epidemiologist named Linda Erdreich to participate in the peer review. Under her influence, Muscat's data "mysteriously" changed -- not once, but twice. First, in the report Muscat gave at the Second State of the Science Colloquium -- and published in the book that contains all of the papers presented at the Long Beach Colloquium in June 1999 -- the statistically significant correlation between side of the head where tumors were and side of the head where phones were used disappeared. Then, yet again, in the paper that he submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the data were further altered so that the statistically significant increase in tumor risk disappeared as well. Both of these alterations in the data were flagrant breaches of the peer-reviewed scientific protocols that were intended to guide that research. In a letter to the editor of JAMA before the study was published, I pointed these inconcistencies out and indicated that I was the funder of the study. The journal ignored the letter and went forward with the publication. Clearly, the industry carefully orchestrated the Muscat fraud so that the data that were "published" in JAMA carried no statistical significance. The press release for that study carried the "no statistical findings" heading. Of course, all of these data manipulations are evident in published papers, but no one has chosen to raise the issue in the media.

Interestingly, when the Muscat JAMA study was released in January 2001, there was another "high credibility" companion paper released in the industry package along with it to support the "no cancer from cell phones" spin. That study, done by Inskip et al., was realeased two weeks early at the request of the industry, so that there would appear to be two leading journals debunking the cell phone-cancer hypothesis at the same time. They were all bundled into one package that was sprung on me one night when I was being interviewed by Dan Rather of CBS News. In that paper, Inskip himself pointed out that the study did not any tumors that were within the range of exposure to the cell phone near field plume. However, even with the admitted shortcoming that the data were only marginally relevant to actual cell phone induced radiation exposures, it was lauded as another cell phone safety harbinger in the press package. And, who was that Jo urnal who agreed to release the study early under pressure from the cell phone industry? You guessed it, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. And, who had just left the payroll of the National Cancer Institute who runs the journal at the time? You guessed it -- John Boice.

Finally, also now circulating in the press package as part of this latest study are comments from Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society. He is using this as an entre to get in the news to raise some money for ACS. His take -- the studies show no risk. Of course, what people don't know is that in 2002, scientists from the American Cancer Society testified in brain cancer litigation in Federal Court in Baltimore, Maryland on behalf of the cell phone industry. They would want you to believe that no one was paid for that testimony. However, shortly after that, a report was released by the American Cancer Society that included cells phones as one of the greatest cancer myths. So blatant was this connection between the American Cancer Society and the cell phone industry, that last year, when Sanjay Gupta of CNN ran a story about the belief of Johnnie Cochran's surgeon that his fatal brain tumor was due to his cell phone use, the indust ry did not even reply in the story. Instead, they simply referred to and quoted the American Cancer Society's report on cell phones being one of the cancer myths. Thus, they used the American Cancer Society paper as a public relations shield.

Everything I say here is fully documented by publicly available information. But, it is so diffuse that it is difficult for folks to connect the dots. Inexplicably, there remains a peculiar absence of investigative journalists who are working on uncovering the full breadth and depth of the industry's orchestrated manipulation program. Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them?

Am I callling out some very prestigious groups and openly showing their conspicuous unethical behavior, questionable integrity and disregard for public health? You bet I am. The Danish Cancer Registry, John Boice, Joshua Muscat, Michael Thun, Linda Erdreich, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Cancer Society have ties to the telecommuncations industry that compromise their ability to provide meaningful information on this important public health issue. As sad as it is, this is a "follow the money" exercise that is yet another example of public health being compromised by industry subterfuge.

Please feel free to pass this word.

Dr. George L. Carlo
Science and Public Policy Institute
1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW -- 7th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20004
http://www.sppionline.org
202-756-7744

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Cell phones...no risk claimed..Denmark...2006

To the Danish Cancer Registry

If the statements made by Dr Carlo are true then I feel your agency is letting down the population of the world and your agency should be Shut Down. If the world can't depend on our cancer agencies to protect us then we are doomed. Please reply with an explanation to the statements below.

Regards

Robert Riedlinger
Canada

"They were able to make good on their pitch of being able to put "put all of this under the radar" by further laundering the industry support money through the Danish Cancer Registry. This is the pitch that was given to me personally and directly. I still have their proposal."

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Latest Danish cell phone study: Giving the industry what they paid for
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=598

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Cell phones...no risk claimed..Denmark...2006

We have to know who paid for the study as well. I would guess that the Danish Cancer Industry receives lots of money from the Wireless Industry?? Paid Stooges??

Regards Robert

----- Original Message --
From: JCMPelican @aol.com
To: r_riedlin @telus.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:10 PM
Subject: Fwd: Cell phones...no risk claimed..Denmark...2006

Dear Robert: Computer "playing tricks" as usual.......

Meant to include comment that these reports are "so lacking and inaccurate" (as you know). The reporter mentions Leukemia. Well, we definitely do know that Leukemia doesn't take 30 years to develop. Toddlers and children who die from Leukemia and other EMF/EMR exposures such as electrical items close to beds are obviously not 30 years old!!!

Also, taking a look at the actual study is necessary to determine whether the info means much at all because, as you also know, comparing persons who use cell phones for many years, regardless of "number of years," depends primarily upon the "amount of chronic, prolonged exposure" and not necessarily on "numbers of years."

The reporter uses the word "gabs" but that, of course, can have many meanings.

There is a distinct difference in reasons for concern when comparing an attorney or medical doctor, real estate agent/broker, and many other occupations that require almost constant contact during a given day for many days in a row compared to other persons who use their phones to "occasionally gab....."

As with all the rest of the misleading reports, this one basically "says nothing.....!!!" A look at the actual study may possibly reveal important facts. Thanks and take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican @aol.com (12-5-06)

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Cellular Telephone use and cancer risk

The Danish study (from Prof Lennart Hardell)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/danish_cohort_mobile_phones_jnci_2006.pdf

Note - it is written in the study that the funding came from the Danish Cancer Society (and the danish strategies research council) but the original study from 2001 was funded THROUGH the Danish cancer society and BY the 2 biggest cellular companies in Denmark, Teledenmark and Sonophone (it cost them 1 millions krones). It was reoprted at the time by Sianette Kwee. So it is the same case here - but it is not reported. Unethical.

Regards,

Iris Atzmon.

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The Danish study

If cellphones are as harmless as J. Olsen showed, why did he warn people only to use a cellphone for short messages and not for long conversations? He also keeps up the warning that children and young people should be careful in using a cellphone, but in 2 years' time they should have the answer. Boice, Mc Laughlin, Christopher Johansen have a record and they were involved in the Newman vs. Motorola case.

Only the media outside Denmark was informed about this study in the first place by????industry. In Denmark it was not made public before Wednesday 12/6/2006. Since it is based on the old study, it does not include information about cell phone use in industry, trades and crafts, governmental and other public institutions etc. In the television interview with J. Olsen it was said that now all craft-/tradesmen, who are so dependant in their work on the their cellphone can use it safely and unlimited.

The Danish Cancer Organization is a private organization and get its money from all types of donations i.e. everybody can donate them money and they will certainly never refuse.


Sianette Kwee
Sensommervej 16
DK-8600 Silkeborg
Denmark


Re: Danish Cancer study

It is exactly like the Swedish Cancer Foundation, I'm afraid... They are the largest funding organization in Sweden for such studies, and they were the ones that told me that "if you mention EMFs, then you will definitely not get any money"... Neat, eh?!

Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

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Denmark Study in The Times

This particular study might not be but the author was involved with some other interphone work in the past. http://www.microwavenews.com/nc_apr2005.html

No mention has been made in the article about who has funded the latest study published in the Timesonline article Dr Christopher Johansen specializes in psycho social research.

http://www.psycho-oncology.net/Copenhagen.html

Url from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows the abstract of the paper

http://jncicancerspectrum.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jnci;98/23/1707

the data starts and ends 1982- 1995 and follows up until 2002 The time period under study is 2002-1985............. 17 years, I don't know where the figure of 21 years comes from.

What is worrying is that the corporate subscribers that were removed because "the individual could not be identified" blows a big hole in the studies credibility. Corporate subscribers are the ones most likely to use the phones more than non corporate users. These were numbered as 200,000. This issue was ignored rather than addressed for the sake of transparency and credibility.

And another 100.000 were removed for other reasons.

Out of 723,421 registered users only 420,095 were admissible, only 58% of the users were included in the study.

The fact that the expected figure was higher than what was observed suggests some skewing effect might be at play. The results show that phone use might help inhibit cancer. This however was stated as "phones had no impact on cancer risk"

I would have difficulty sharing the view that this is definitive evidence from a large population.

best wishes

panayis zambellis luton
uk


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Re: The Danish study

In Israel it was informed (two national newspapers, radio, internet and TV ) that the study was funded by very respected bodies - the Danish cancer society and the "Danish research consulship". When some critical readers reacted to the internet articles that this study must have been funded by the cellular companies, others replied that it can't be, because how can the Danish cancer society be related to the companies? No chance.

NOT ONE WORD was said in the media about the industry involvment in this study. The paid expert prof Yossi Riback who runs the environmental unit in the public health school of Tel Aviv university, told on the evening TV news that this study can be used to calm the public, and that it did not find any link, "PERIOD." He also said that the panic and hystery of the public is what causes damage to health. He is a tutor of Thesis and doctorats in the university. The afternoon TV report said that the study did not include children, and that another study did show link to ear tumors, and that it is not a green light to use the phone 8 hours a day. Dr. Sigal Sadezki was interviewed yesterday on the radio, from Texas, where she is now, about the Danish study and the Interphone. She said that the problem of the study is that they did not check whether the subscriber is also the talker, she also said that the same researchers are also in the INTERPHONE, she emphasized that the methodology of the study is different from the INTERPHONE methodology, because in the Danish study they did not speak with the people, and in the INTERPHONE they did speak with them, and they devided the subjects to groups according to their phone use, as control groups. She said the results will be released "soon" and that the reason she cannot talk about it yet, is because it has not gone through peer review yet.

Here are the internet versions of the reports as published in the printed newspapers:

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3336970,00.html
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/43/ART1/514/913.html


Iris Atzmon.

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Re: The Danish study

We have now put up an initial commentary:
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20061206_danish_phones_cancer.asp

We very crudely re-adjust the ORs with some interesting results, I think.

Alasdair & Graham Philips (Graham did the story)

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Gerald Goldberg on the Danish health statistics
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=601

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For John Boice

I ask to deliver this directly to Dr. J. Boice please, I don't have his email:

Dear Dr. Boice,

I am interested in your latest study, and would like to bring forward one of the concerns that were raised in view of the latest developements (media etc). You were quoted in the media saying that: "There's really no biological basis for you to be concerned about radio waves". In light of this comment, how would you explain the REFLEX project (Adlkofer), the blood brain barrier findings (Salford), Lai's DNA breaks and Belyaev, I. Microwaves from GSM mobile phones affect 53BP1 and gamma-H2AX foci in human lymphocytes from hypersensitive and healthy persons. Environmental Health Perspectives, online 28 April 2005? What do you think of the above in terms of biological basis? Do they not mean anything to you, as a scientist?

Thank you very much in advance,

Iris Atzmon.

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Danish cell phone study: Sage radio interview

Paul and all,

In response to the Danish Interphone Study (just released) by Schüz, Boice and McLaughlin, I got several calls saying "see- no problem".

If you all want to hear what was wrong with that study, here is a link (below) to a radio interview given last Monday for a New York station. The 20-minute Q&A covered some of the things that were wrongly designed (research design) or misreported (the "all clear" message was not remotely correct). All one could reasonably say is that "this study didn't turn up any strong results."

What I cannot understand is that Schüz is a good and careful researcher. He has published quality work on ELF and childhood leukemia (with Michaelis). His research outline for a brain tumor study was handed out at the Monte Verita conference in Switzerland (November 20-24, 2005) and it looked pretty good then. He was looking for funding then.

The Danish study does not use the same method of grouping low, medium and cell phone heavy-users as Schüz proposed in his original research design. What happened? Did they simply omit the detail in the published article? Or, did they change the way they counted "users" and "non-users"?

That would make a big difference. When researchers look in the right places, we see effects (Hardell, 2006; Hardell 2005 a,b): Hardell, 2004; Hardell 2002) and Kundi, 2004 (Kundi is a good review paper). Hardell consistently looks at "same side of head use of phone as cancer" or ipsilateral use. He looks at longer latencies (periods required to see a cancer). He compares truly heavy users to non-users (2000 hours of cell phone use or one hour per day for 10 years). These kinds of judgements make the chance of finding an effect more likely, if there is one.

If we go looking in the wrong places, we find nothing (all effects are diluted out). The only specific information on cell phone users was that all corporate users (i.e. heavy users) were omitted; a cross-check to another study was done which identified "users of cell phones" as anyone who had one call per week for 6 months which is a very low use rate (effectively mixing controls and exposed to further dilute the results). Some others have complained that the "expected cancer" rate was too high (this would dilute the findings). There was no objective measure of how long calls lasted (duration) and only outgoing calls were tallied (no incoming calls, which obviously cause exposure to RF). There was no questioning about which side of the head users predominantly used their cell phones (so no laterality information).

So, we have a study that was billed as completely negative; when the research design could not reasonably find an effect - it went out of its way to obscure any effect. Then, it had massive publicity with a distorted message about what conclusions could be drawn. I made a comment during the radio program that intentional distortion of scientific information on which people rely might be considered "negligent homicide" if misleading enough, people are falsely reassured, and they become ill or die by relying on this message. What is the responsibility of scientists? Where does accountability come in? What should be the penalty for spinning science in a way that harms the public?

Cindy Sage
Sage Associates


Cindy - Thanks again - you did a terrific job of summarizing the info and making a passionate case for serious concern about cell phones. Sorry I couldn't respond to your email this morning -- I had already left for my job, where I don't usually get to check my personal email. (I take a long lunch hour every time I do my unpaid show on WBAI.)

To download an MP3 or podcast of today's show, just go to http://www.archive.wbai.org, page down to:

Health Action
Monday, December 11, 2006 1:00 pm

There you will find options for download & podcasting.

Again, many thanks, and I look forward to having you on again. Please add me to your email list, if you have one.

Best, Bob (Lederer Pacifica Radio)

P.S. For future reference, our broadcast streams live at wbai.org.



Dear all,

The following link is to an mp3 file with the Cindy Sage interview alone (rest of radio programme removed): http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=resources
(click on the "Cindy Sage interview 11.12.2006" link to listen)
http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/audio/cindy-sage-interview-danish-cohort-11-12-2006.mp3

There is a number of audio & video interviews about EMF to be found at the link.

Take care!

Best wishes,
Henrik Eiriksson, admin,
http://www.mast-victims.org

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Danish study
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/danish_study.htm

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Epidemiologists with secret ties to industry - Industry 'paid top cancer expert'
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040986/

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Scientist admits conflict of interest

Under a plea deal, the NIH researcher would pay the government $300,000, the amount he received from Pfizer.

By David Willman, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
December 9, 2006
Saturday Part A; Pg. 21

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nih9dec09,0,270485.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

A senior government scientist from the National Institutes of Health who took about $300,000 in unauthorized payments from a drug company pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge that he committed a criminal conflict of interest. The admission by Dr. P. Trey Sunderland III came after years of denials by his attorneys and six months after the scientist had asserted his constitutional right against self-incrimination to a congressional subcommittee. The prosecution was the first of an NIH scientist under federal conflict-of-interest laws in 14 years. Sunderland, 55, admitted that he failed to get required authorization for taking $285,000 in consulting fees and $15,000 in expense payments from the drug company Pfizer Inc. from 1998 to 2003.During the same period, he provided Pfizer with spinal-tap samples collected from hundreds of patients as part of a research collaboration approved by the NIH. After the hearing Friday, U.S. Atty. Rod J. Rosenstein told reporters that Sunderland's actions were a breach of the publictrust. "This case is not about an honest mistake," Rosenstein said. "If a government employee is actually on the payroll of a company that benefits from its dealings with the United States, there's a chance that that employee's financial interest will affect his or her official actions." Sunderland, who joined the NIH in 1982 and headed its geriatric psychiatry branch, answered in even tones more than two dozen questions from U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz. Afterward, Sunderland's eyes welled as he embraced his teenage son. A plea agreement calls for Sunderland to pay the government the $300,000 he took from Pfizer, perform 400 hours of community service, and submit to two years of probation. Motz set sentencing for Dec. 22. Federal guidelines give the judge discretion to impose up to ayear in prison and a fine of up to $100,000 for Sunderland's violation, a misdemeanor. However, the judge reviewed the plea deal privately with Sunderland's lawyers and with federal prosecutors before the Friday hearing, and those familiar with the case said they did not expect a harsher sentence. Under the collaboration with Pfizer, Sunderland's staff provided Pfizer with spinal-tap samples they had collected from patients who had Alzheimer's disease or were at risk of developing it. Drug companies prize the material because it could contain genetic clues for finding a breakthrough treatment. Sunderland at no point from 1998 to 2003 sought permission from his NIH bosses to take the personal payments from Pfizer, and he didnot disclose the income on annual financial reports. Sunderland did not address reporters Friday. His lawyer Robert F.Muse declined to comment. Unaddressed at the hearing was how the guilty plea might affect Sunderland's employment. An NIH spokesman in Bethesda, Md., said Sunderland remained a federal employee.

david.willman @latimes.com

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The Los Angeles Times reports that Dr. Trey Sunderland III, who headed Alzheimer's research at NIMH, pleaded guilty to criminal conflicts of interest. The prosecution was the first of an NIH scientist under federal conflict-of-interest laws in 14 years. Ironically, NIH scientists are so embedded that the LAT reports, it is uncertain "how the guilty plea might affect Sunderland's employment. An NIH." An NIH spokesman said "Sunderland remained a federal employee."

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I got the following published in last Fridays issue of local Brighton Community newsletter the Kemptown Rag which gets pushed through every letterbox in Kemptown, B'ton, a large area

Gary


The recent Danish study of 420,000 users having used cell phones for between 10 and 15 years was quoted in the British media as finding no causal link with any form of cancer.

Head researcher and scientific director of the International Epidemiology Institute (IEI) John Boice, said "There’s really no biological basis for you to be concerned about radio waves.”

Also quoted Joshua Muscat of Pennsylvania State University said: "As the body of evidence accumulates, people can become more reassured that these devices are safe".

However, Dr George Carlo who headed the US WTR (Wireless Telecommunications Research) programme throughout the 1990s, had this to say:

"John Boice (and co) have been on the cell phone industry payroll, and for big money, since the late 1990’s. The money laundering vehicle is the (IEI)...When I ran the WTR, the IEI, with Boice and (another), applied for funding to do this exact epidemiology study that was released this week. After much discussion within the WTR, they were refused funding because I felt they were blatantly biased and had overtly given us the notion that they would always create findings that were favorable to the industry...When we refused (them funding), they went directly to the industry with the same pitch, and were hired. They were able to make good on their pitch of being able to put “put all of this under the radar” by further laundering the industry support money through the Danish Cancer Registry. This is the pitch that was given to me personally and directly."

"In 2001, they also had “one of the largest studies to date”, and Boice went on a bit of a television tour — paid directly by the industry — to blunt the effects of my Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age book tour.

"Muscat worked for me under the WTR. Muscat blatantly changed his data after his studies were completed under pressure from the industry. Specifically, Muscat’s work — peer reviewed and completed according to a specific protocol under the WTR — identified a near tripling in the risk neuroepithelial tumors and a correlation between the side of the head where the phones were used and the side of the head where the tumor was located that were both statistically significant...However, the industry hired an epidemiologist named Linda Erdreich to participate in the peer review. Under her influence, Muscat’s data “mysteriously” changed — not once, but twice..Both of these alterations in the data were flagrant breaches of the peer-reviewed scientific protocols that were intended to guide that research."

Carlo also details huge complicity between the American Cancer Society and the cell phone industry in denying any harm from cell phones, masts and the many other microwave devices available. He adds "..there remains a peculiar absence of investigative journalists who are working on uncovering the full breadth and depth of the industry’s orchestrated manipulation program."

For the whole shocking story, go to http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=598


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Complements of investigations of studies
http://tinyurl.com/votaq

GLOBAL CORRUPTION BAROMETER 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3051040/

SUBVERTING THE SCIENCE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3104984/

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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=leukemia
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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=ear+tumor
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HLV INFO 126/AT

5-12-2006

Elke Fertig 1.12.06

Betreff: Mobilfunk - Musterbrief - Haftungsansprüche

Liebe Mitstreiter,

im Anhang senden wir Ihnen einen Musterbrief eines Rechtsanwaltes, um ›·Vermieter von Standortenen für ··Mobilfunksendeanlagen bzw. ›·Besitzern von Basisstationen für ··Schnurlostelefonie auf die Haftung aufmerksam zu machen.

Herzliche Grüße,
AB jetzt RICHTIG mobil e.V.
Für Gesundheitsschutz beim Mobilfunk

Elke Fertig
1. Vorsitzende

s. Anlage
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/haftungsmusterschreiben_grundstueckseigentuemer_musterbrief.rtf

Die Broschüre „Mobilfunk-Strahlung: Wie schädlich ist Elektrosmog?“ steht als 5. überarbeitete Auflage zum Herunterladen zur Verfügung. Der Text wurde mit aktuellen Infos auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht - auch neue Grafiken sind enthalten. Sie finden die PDF-Datei unter: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/all/m423.htm

Please read the supportive comments from Dr Ian Gibson in the enclosed news article. Thanks for speaking out for us Ian, this is very much appreciated.

Sir William was right to call for the precautionary approach, it's a shame no one listened to him. Mike Bell and I are due to meet Sir William next week on 14th December in London to talk about the safe way forward.

Kind Regards

Eileen O'Connor



DAN GRIMMER

05 December 2006 10:30

A cancer expert has warned that a mobile phone mast that has contributed to 27 deaths and illnesses in 13 years was evidence to show masts should not be built near homes or schools.

Norwich North MP Ian Gibson has been a supporter of the Evening News Put Masts On Hold campaign, which calls for an end to masts being installed near homes and schools until there is conclusive proof that they pose no health risk.

Mr Gibson said it was essential that more research was carried out into the safety implications of such equipment after reports in national newspapers told of two estates where families said masts caused ill health. In Shooters Hill, Stoke-on-Trent, there have been seven deaths and 20 illnesses since phone giant Orange put up a mast in 1993.

Four people died of brain haemorrhages within three years of each other, while three others died from cancer. Another newspaper reported on a block of flats in Bristol where the cancer rate is 10 times that of the rest of the UK.

Orange said its masts were safe and cited a factsheet from the World Health Organisation which said there was no adverse or long-term health effects from that kind of low-level frequency.

The cases have parallels with a road in the city where eight people in one road near a mast had cancer.

Families living in Furze Road, Thorpe St Andrew, believed their cancers had been caused by a huge mobile phone base station which towers over their homes.

Betty Chaplin, 80, who moved into Furze Road near the St Williams Way mast in 1998 and within months developed cancer in her small intestine which required an operation, said there should be more research done into the correlation.

“I think there must be a link,” she said. “As soon as I moved into this house I developed bowel cancer but I was operated on and was alright.”

Last year the Government's chief advisor on mobile phone safety Sir William Stewart called for a precautionary ban on putting masts near schools and homes.

Dr Gibson said: “These latest cases seem to confirm that Sir William Stewart's precautionary approach is the right one.”

Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application where you live? Or do you think a mobile phone mast has made you ill? Call Peter Walsh on 01603 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh @archant.co.uk

Copyright © 2006 Archant Regional. All rights reserved.

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Dr George Carlo, who in 2000 wrote the book "Cell Phones - Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age", is still propagating against the spreading of wireless technology. He was lecturing in Canada and here follows a short extract from a text by PhD Amanda Brown that she wrote in Common Ground, September 2006:

Few people would be surprised to hear that cell phones are unhealthy. But how many of us actually know the degree of damage they cause, the extent of the cover-up by the industry, or that there is a viable solution? Dr. George Carlo, a mobile phone industry whistleblower, recently presented a talk in Vancouver about how electropollution from wireless technology can cause brain damage, cancer and an array of mental illnesses. I checked his facts against recent, peer-reviewed scientific papers and the results were startling. Dr. Carlo explained why the industry's user manuals don't warn of these health hazards: currently, there are pending class action lawsuits against them, which threaten to expose the entire industry, similar to the cases brought against "Big Tobacco", and the asbestos and silicone breast implant industries. But what really shone brightly in Dr. Carlo's message were his realistic solutions...

See: http://commonground.ca/iss/0612185/cg185_cellphone.shtml


regards

Bengt

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Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/418854/

LAWSUITS VS Cellular Industry
http://omega.twoday.net/20070419/3625456/



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Dances Alone Speaks

For year upon year up to the end of 2005 there were birds of some sort in the garden all year round. In the Spring and Summer I awoke with pleasure to their morning chorus and listened to their chatter as they settled down to sleep at night. During the day I often used to stop and enjoy watching them glide and soar or stop to feed. I also noted all the fledgling offspring of the sparrows, wrens, finches, blue tits, thrushes, blackbirds, starlings, doves and pigeons, and watched them grow rapidly to a state of independence. I got to know them all by sight and welcomed the regulars back the following year.

This year very few came back. There was just one type of the three different species of sparrow; some of the blackbirds, thrushes, starlings and pigeons; two doves and a deformed robin. There was no sign of the group of ten blue tits and none of a variety of finches or the wrens returned.

In July 06 all the birds cleared the area to include even the larger seagulls, pigeons and crows. A few came back several days later but left again and have never returned.

Since then I have woken to silence and see only the occasional pigeon or magpie or the briefest glimpse of a lone blackbird or thrush passing by.

Something of beauty and pleasure has been lost and I miss having the birds around me. My neighbourhood feels barren and sterile and is no longer the pleasant leafy suburb I once enjoyed so much.

What do I think is the cause of this?

I have been informing animal societies and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds that TETRA especially and probably also mobile phone masts are harming our wildlife/animals on and off since 2004. No one will listen until a balanced scientific decision is made, yet existing research into animal behaviour around these technologies is ignored or discredited.

Why have I come to this conclusion?

I am sensitive to this technology, but most specifically to TETRA. I have feel it as pain to various parts of my body and do not need a smog detector or similar device since early 2004, when I did not know what it was.

Here are some extracts in letters or documents written at the time.

Referring to July 04 and written in August 05 to answer a letter in a local paper asking where all the birds had gone:

"Last July when TETRA testing was in progress for a few weeks, all of the smaller birds disappeared completely in a narrow swathe across Aldwick for about 3 days. (The power was very high as I felt it! The silence without the birds was eerie and unearthly)

Those birds which we had fed and watched in the garden also disappeared, including 3 orphaned thrush fledglings that had become so tame that they walked into our home to beg for sultanas.

Some of our original birds gradually returned after a month or so had passed, but they were all nervous, looked bedraggled and unsteady, and refused to eat. They just cowered under bushes looking very sorry for themselves.

Only one of our thrush fledglings came back at that time, and he would not come near us and never ever came into our home, or tapped the kitchen window, for sultanas again. A few months later, another of the orphans joined him, but the third was never seen again. We discovered several dead birds in the area at this time.

I suspect, but cannot confirm, that this was the start of the join up of the Isle of Wight TETRA masts to the newly discovered Felpham TETRA mast roughly two/three miles from here.

Recently the birds in our garden disappeared for about 3 days again, after a period of a few weeks or so of high powered TETRA, and some of them gradually came back, nervous and bedraggled. During this time I suffered severe disruption to sleep and pain in my head which I have not had since I protected my home against this technology. It stopped here about a week ago but we are still getting disruption to our TV signal.

I have noted that other forms of animal life and vegetation, are being affected, but the wildlife societies etc do not seem to want to listen - yet they ask us to monitor because some species are missing, or in short supply!"

July 2006 – excerpt from an entry to my log of events since Xmas 2002

"Last week my neighbour was out and about and chatting and laughing - we had a lull in the high power testing signals that sensitive people in the area were suffering with, including me. Then bang, all hell let loose over the weekend and all the birds disappeared, even the pigeons, magpies and jackdaws! The seagulls were screeching furiously and flying in circles as if a massive storm was imminent and then they cleared the area, too. The same was happening over Bognor with the seagulls but I have no info about the other birds from that area. I don't care what the Government, Airwave, HPA, say – only TETRA causes that. That is the only time the birds clear the area suddenly and then slowly return a few days/weeks later all bedraggled and scared. There are 8 or 9 back of the birds who are regulars of 50+ birds we had last week to include the fledglings. No babies came with them."

On the Tetrawatch website
http://www.tetrawatch.net/main/news.php

Spare a thought for all those people who suffer greatly when Airwave 'adjustments' take place. Make no mistake, they are to all intents and purposes being experimented upon. Adjustments in Aldwick, Bognor Regis, recently affected a number of people suddenly and badly. Neurotic? Then why did the birds depart (even the seagulls this time) for three days as well? Some people are still close enough to local wildlife to see these things and notice, but we expect Airwave folk lack the incentive, curiosity or initiative.

Other Notes

In 2005, jackdaws appeared in this area. Their usually nesting ground is several miles away across the harbour. They attacked a robin's nest in 2006 and tore it to shreds. The baby robins fell to the ground and only one was saved. I used to live in the area where the jackdaws nested and never witnessed this sort of behaviour ever before. We also saw a woodpecker which was dazed and disorientated. This is not woodpecker country.

Seven dead birds were found in July 06 in an elderly neighbour's garden when my husband and I cut back overgrown bushes and trees for her.

Another strange occurrence in 2006 was that a duck family bred in a resident's gardens and ruined the fish pond. Mother duck used to bring her fifteen ducklings to my garden to feed and if I had not provided food for them she would walk into my home to remind me, if the kitchen door was open. If it wasn't she quacked incessantly until I came out.

Another female duck was also wandering around the parish with a few ducklings. Both families caused consternation as they crossed busier roads and stopped traffic.

We spotted another woodpecker of a different species which appeared to be very tired and hungry in late September 06.

At about 9am on Sunday November 19th 2006 there was further high powered testing of TETRA and huge flocks of seagulls, crows and pigeons were screeching and circling all across the area as if a storm of great magnitude was imminent. A few magpies joined them. I have never seen so many birds in the area, there were hundreds of them and the noise was deafening.

Just as quickly as they came, they all suddenly disappeared. I felt very ill that weekend and for a few days after. I later realised I had become even more sensitive.

I have had reports of similar incidents in other areas of the UK.

We should be recording these incidents about all animal life and changes to vegetation etc so that the truth becomes known.

I am willing to undertake this for anyone who can provide the information. Please email me.


Dances Alone
Upholding the ways of my ancestors - the Lakota Sioux.
dances.alone @googlemail.com

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As concerns the pineal, the role of calcium in general and the role of crystals within the pineal gland reveal some interesting points. As in radio and other transmitters, crystals act to convert certain discrete frequencies into electrical signals. Before we had all of the electro-pollution, animals could simply orient themselves to the earth's electromagnetic signature. Additionally animals could store into memory at a subconscious level the discrete signatures of subtle variations in electromagnetic signalling from various regions. This would explain the highly specific nature of migratory behaviour seen in certain animals. What has not been appreciated is the ability which has probably evolved over time to see, complex patterns that are generated from the earths electromagnetic signature.

So not only do animals have the ability to sense electromagnetic patterns but they also may see them in great detail. I will use an analogue. Imagine if someone told you the eye senses light. Well that is a very interesting observation. However you know from your own personal observation that you are accustomed to seeing whole patterns and the patterns themselves have personal meaning for you. The brain does translate these simple appearing signals and, if you will, extracts the information contained in them.

Another question would be what might be another effect of a piezoelectric device. Well animals might have the ability to see the difference that is produced by seasonal variations in the earth's magnetic fields that initiate for instance hibernation. What does that mean? In colder weather, animals make a switch from a high metabolic rate based on generating electricity when food is abundant to a slower metabolic rate when the weather is cooler. One difference is the amount of light but also in cooler environments the relative amount of electromagnetic radiation goes up.

This effect is seen with superconductors when they reach incredibly low temperatures they become more efficient as conductors.

So the pineal is a switch, much like a motion detector, that response to signalling.

In evolution the signalling was kind of constant so that the signals made sense. However in this environment people are going into instant states if you will of hibernation. What does that mean? Well generally a hibernating animal is in a state of sleep and has shut down the generation of electrical activity. Their muscles become weak, Thyroid and gonadal hormone levels drop. The blood becomes a little more thick.

So the pineal acts as a electromagnetic sensor that regulates electrical generation in the body. It is a highly efficient device. The pineal functions as a electromagnetic thermostat if you will that regulates, total body charge in the organism.

The ability to oversee electrical energy generation from a single point is extremely important. Secondarily shutting off the pineal has a profound effect on calcium metabolism in the body as a whole. Blocking calcium entry tends to decrease energy and electrical activity on the cellular and organ level.

It is a pretty straight forward proposition. One has down regulated energy production and electrical signalling in the body. No wonder individuals can not function.

Emf frequencies or microwave frequencies are overriding normal control mechanisms in the body and shutting off energy production.

Another correlation is the effect of emf on the weather patterns. So global warming could simply be another manifestation of the increased emf in the atmosphere. This was suggested by the French findings on Next up. If you put superheated air above the upper stratosphere and above the jet stream it will tend to settle. This can be demonstrated with a simple model that could be made by a high school student. The dropping of the jet stream will have an overall effect on weather patterns. Also since the earth is a large semiconductor it still has a finite capacity to store charge. If one cannot dissipate charge from the atmosphere then it will have an overall effect in the production of weather patterns. One will see an increase in the generation of storms, and other phenomena related to increase charge in the atmosphere. Thus there would be an increase not only in global warming but an attempt to neutralize charge production through rain.

This accelerant affect may be part of the explanation for some of the increased storms and flooding that have been witnessed in semitropical regions of the world. You have to use your god given common sense to sense if this is real. These issues need to be explored and expanded upon. The public is the last to find out and they will suffer the most.

Academics are often the last to respond.

So with the introduction of a single variable which is the increased frequency generation, you throw off or confuse the ecology of the planet and the organisms which live on it and depend on that signalling to live in balance with the earth. In essence life has evolved, if you will, with the Earth as an electromagnetic guide or a clock. Life cycles of different organisms are coordinated to live within the rhythms of that system. Now man has come along and thrown off the clock mechanism.

There are many different mannerisms of the problem. Bird populations shift, the number of insects decrease. Plants or trees may have longer or shorter growth periods. But underneath is a single disturbance in the relationship to the planet which was established a long time ago.


Sincerly

Gerald Goldberg, MD

Author:"Would you put your head in a microwave oven - emf an emerging healthcare crisis"

It is not polite to make a living eating other people's children.

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Mystery as thousands of birds fall from sky

* Amanda O'Brien
* January 10, 2007
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21036489-30417,00.html

THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery.

All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn chorus" of singing birds is missing.

The main casualties are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, although some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.

Wildlife officers are baffled by the "catastrophic" event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before last week's freak storm.

On Monday, Esperance, 725km southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone.

District nature conservation co-ordinator Mike Fitzgerald said the first reports of birds dropping dead in people's yards came in three weeks ago. More than 500 deaths had since been notified. But the calls stopped suddenly last week, reportedly because no birds were left.

"It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland," Mr Fitzgerald said.

Birds Australia, the nation's main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. "Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it's several different species," chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. "You'd have to call that a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about."

He expected birds would return to the area once the problem - natural or man-made phenomenon - was fixed but said it was vital the cause was identified.

The Department of Agriculture and Food, which conducted the autopsies, has almost ruled out an infectious process.

Acting chief veterinary officer Fiona Sunderman said toxins were the most likely cause but the deaths could be due to anything from toxic algae to chemicals and pesticides.

Dr Sunderman said there were no leads yet on which of potentially hundreds of toxins might be responsible. Some birds were seen convulsing as they died.

Michelle Crisp was one of the first to contact the DEC after finding dozens of dead birds on her property one morning.

She told The Australian she normally had hundreds of birds in her yard, but that she and a neighbour counted 80 dead birds in one day. "It went to the point where we had nothing, not a bird," she said. "It was like a moonscape, just horrible.

"But the frightening thing for us, we didn't find any more birds after that. We literally didn't have any birds left to die."


Informant: binstock

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Cell phone tower radiation may be killing plants and animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3430072/

Recent deaths of seabirds leave scientists puzzling
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3558921/

Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3778251/

Would you put your head in a Microwave Oven
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1604071/

Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/

Bird by bird, the avian population is shrinking
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4199909/



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