Next-up news 7 Dec 2005
Starmail - 7. Dez, 14:34
Mobilfunk Archiv (Englisch)
7
Dez
2005
Tracking by tagging our children
While the US has been at it for years, are UK parents ready to use satellite technology to keep tabs on their children?
By Lucy Atkins
THE GUARDIAN,
LONDON
Wednesday, Dec 07, 2005,
Page 9
This week a firm called Teddyfone launched a teddy-bear- shaped mobile phone aimed at four-to-eight-year-olds, just in time for Christmas.
At the same time, it launched the i-Kids satellite mobile phone, which looks a bit like a spaceman and incorporates the latest global positioning satellite (GPS) technology, allowing you to track your child's movements through a secure website -- or from your own mobile phone -- to a radius of 20m to 50m.
These are just two new additions to the latest parenting growth industry: a multimillion-dollar market in new and increasingly flashy "child-tracking" devices.
Using fast-developing mobile phone, wireless, radio, microchip and GPS technology, these new inventions will enable us to keep tabs on our children wherever they are, night or day.
In the UK, for example, child-tracking is currently focused on mobiles. Earlier this year Mymo, the first mobile phone aimed at very young kids, was taken off the market after William Stewart, the chairman of the UK Health Protection Agency, warned that children under eight could absorb too much radiation from mobile phones.
Despite such warnings, however, in March it was reported that the average age of British children owning their first mobile phone had fallen from 12 to eight in only four years, and that more than a million children aged five to nine had a mobile. Mymo was repackaged and relaunched as the Owl phone (an "emergency phone" for children), and if industry predictions are right, another half a million children should be signed up to mobile devices by 2007.
But why? Certainly, around Christmas parents are more likely to cave in to whining requests for a new Baby Annabel, a Tamagotchi or a cuddly animal-shaped mobile phone. But there's more to it than naked materialism. The trend seems to be more about protection than possession: We believe these devices will help to keep our children safe in what is, we perceive, an increasingly scary, predatory world.
And we're prepared to pay.
The i-Kids phone allows parents to select a "Safety Zone Alert" -- an area on the map surrounding the place where your child is meant to be. You are then alerted by text if the phone leaves the zone.
"The world is a more dangerous place than it used to be," says Paul Liesching, managing director of Teddyfone, "and these devices give children more freedom; maybe they'll be able to play in the park, like they used to."
KidsOK, the first mobile child-tracking service to hit the high street, recently became available in shops including Boots, BHS and Toys R Us. To track your child using the KidsOK package, you simply "ping" his/her phone -- it will work on any handset -- by sending a two-word text to KidsOK. You wait a few seconds and a map "pings" back to your mobile showing the location of your child's handset.
The technology is relatively straightforward. When a mobile is on, every minute or so the handset communicates with the network operator to check it has reception and to find the nearest mast. This means operators always know, within a certain radius, where any handset is.
Apart from the obvious fact that your child's handset could be lying in the mud, may have run out of power or been stolen (or removed), there are limitations to current phone-tracking technology: GPS won't work if the phone is in a building or underground, and clouds and trees can also interfere. While standard "cell technology" on mobile phones works anywhere there are masts, it is less accurate than GPS.
The phone network only knows roughly where a handset is by working out a point between local phone masts. This means that in the city you can pinpoint a phone by about 500m but in the countryside it could be a 4km-7km radius.
"These levels of accuracy are peace of mind levels," says Richard Jelbert, the chief executive of KidsOK.
"The product won't stop anything bad happening, or absolutely confirm that all is OK. But it is another tool you can use, alongside texting or calling, to give you the extra ability to check that your child is OK," he says.
Some argue that this is all a bit "big mother-ish" and ultimately pointless given how easy it is to lose a mobile. But according to Michelle Elliot, the director of the UK children's protection charity Kidscape (which endorses KidsOK), tracking technology can be reassuring for children as well as their parents.
"Many children do like the security of knowing their parents are there -- it's about peace of mind for both parent and child," he says.
Indeed, much of this technology is two-way: Last week KidsOK launched "ping alert" (anyone with a mobile can sign up on http://www.pingalert.com ). If you sign up, the number 5 on your child's phone, which has a dimple on it on all mobiles, becomes a panic button. In a sticky spot your child simply holds 5 down and your mobile is sent a map and an alert message.
But all this is distinctly small fry compared to developments in the US where electronic tagging is the latest child-tracking buzz.
In the UK, electronic tags -- or "radio frequency identification" (RFID) tags -- are mostly being used on early release prisoners, or being investigated as a possible alternative to barcodes in shops. In the States, meanwhile, one San Diego company, Smart Wear Technologies, is launching "Home Alarm" next year.
Small, high-frequency RFID tags act as your child's "unique digital ID" and can be simply sewn, like name tags, into pyjamas or clothes. Sensors attached to the doors and windows of your house create "an invisible barrier" -- if your tagged child "breaches the boundary" an alarm sounds.
In Silicon Valley, Wherify Wireless was until recently selling a US$200 watch that picks up GPS signals, as well as a child's GPS -- implanted backpack, priced US$900. These products have now been replaced by its Wherifone -- a small GPS mobile aimed at teens and pre-teens -- largely because parents wanted the two-way calling feature.
Elsewhere, Teen Arrive Alive, Ulocate and DriveDiagnostics have developed special car-tracking devices that use GPS technology to locate the exact whereabouts, speed and direction of your newly qualified teenage driver. Even Microsoft was recently showing off a "cyber-teddy" that "watches" your child with glassy, microchip -- implanted eyes. But do we want this sort of thing?
In the UK, it seems we do. In 2003 a think tank, the Future Foundation, conducted a survey that found 75 percent of British parents would buy an electronic bracelet to trace their child's movements if they could.
"The potential for this sort of technology is huge," says a Future Foundation spokesperson. "The climate is shifting -- we have a whole generation of teens growing up now whose parents expect to know where they are at all times."
It is hardly surprising technology companies are cashing in, agrees Frank Furedi, author of The Politics of Fear.
"These technologies give the illusion of control," he says, and despite the fact that statistically the world is no more dangerous now for children than it was at the start of the 20th century, "fear has become the common currency of life. Nowadays, if you want parents to do anything -- or buy anything -- you simply prey on their fears."
So how scared are we? John Davidson, the chief executive of a Newcastle-based company, Globalpoint Technologies, believes we're ready for the next step.
This month his company released an anti-abduction device called the "Personal Companion" -- a slim band that folds round your child's arm (hidden under her clothes) and uses a combination of mobile phone and GPS technology to enable you to track her within two metres.
If in trouble, your child can simply squeeze the band, which then automatically calls your mobile, allowing your child to speak to you, or if your child can't speak, letting you listen in to what's happening (and, crucially, find out where).
The band is expensive (from ?450) and has the usual GPS limitations, but, says Davidson, "without a doubt this is a mass market for us. The technology is becoming cheaper every day and is developing all the time."
Clearly, then, child-tracking is in its infancy. How far we're prepared to go with this kind of surveillance remains to be seen. But teddy-bear phones are surely just the beginning.
Copyright © 1999-2005 The Taipei Times. All rights reserved.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/12/07/2003283401
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Teddy bear mobile ‘puts 4-year-olds at risk from radiation’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1204405/
Total Surveillance
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1241187/
By Lucy Atkins
THE GUARDIAN,
LONDON
Wednesday, Dec 07, 2005,
Page 9
This week a firm called Teddyfone launched a teddy-bear- shaped mobile phone aimed at four-to-eight-year-olds, just in time for Christmas.
At the same time, it launched the i-Kids satellite mobile phone, which looks a bit like a spaceman and incorporates the latest global positioning satellite (GPS) technology, allowing you to track your child's movements through a secure website -- or from your own mobile phone -- to a radius of 20m to 50m.
These are just two new additions to the latest parenting growth industry: a multimillion-dollar market in new and increasingly flashy "child-tracking" devices.
Using fast-developing mobile phone, wireless, radio, microchip and GPS technology, these new inventions will enable us to keep tabs on our children wherever they are, night or day.
In the UK, for example, child-tracking is currently focused on mobiles. Earlier this year Mymo, the first mobile phone aimed at very young kids, was taken off the market after William Stewart, the chairman of the UK Health Protection Agency, warned that children under eight could absorb too much radiation from mobile phones.
Despite such warnings, however, in March it was reported that the average age of British children owning their first mobile phone had fallen from 12 to eight in only four years, and that more than a million children aged five to nine had a mobile. Mymo was repackaged and relaunched as the Owl phone (an "emergency phone" for children), and if industry predictions are right, another half a million children should be signed up to mobile devices by 2007.
But why? Certainly, around Christmas parents are more likely to cave in to whining requests for a new Baby Annabel, a Tamagotchi or a cuddly animal-shaped mobile phone. But there's more to it than naked materialism. The trend seems to be more about protection than possession: We believe these devices will help to keep our children safe in what is, we perceive, an increasingly scary, predatory world.
And we're prepared to pay.
The i-Kids phone allows parents to select a "Safety Zone Alert" -- an area on the map surrounding the place where your child is meant to be. You are then alerted by text if the phone leaves the zone.
"The world is a more dangerous place than it used to be," says Paul Liesching, managing director of Teddyfone, "and these devices give children more freedom; maybe they'll be able to play in the park, like they used to."
KidsOK, the first mobile child-tracking service to hit the high street, recently became available in shops including Boots, BHS and Toys R Us. To track your child using the KidsOK package, you simply "ping" his/her phone -- it will work on any handset -- by sending a two-word text to KidsOK. You wait a few seconds and a map "pings" back to your mobile showing the location of your child's handset.
The technology is relatively straightforward. When a mobile is on, every minute or so the handset communicates with the network operator to check it has reception and to find the nearest mast. This means operators always know, within a certain radius, where any handset is.
Apart from the obvious fact that your child's handset could be lying in the mud, may have run out of power or been stolen (or removed), there are limitations to current phone-tracking technology: GPS won't work if the phone is in a building or underground, and clouds and trees can also interfere. While standard "cell technology" on mobile phones works anywhere there are masts, it is less accurate than GPS.
The phone network only knows roughly where a handset is by working out a point between local phone masts. This means that in the city you can pinpoint a phone by about 500m but in the countryside it could be a 4km-7km radius.
"These levels of accuracy are peace of mind levels," says Richard Jelbert, the chief executive of KidsOK.
"The product won't stop anything bad happening, or absolutely confirm that all is OK. But it is another tool you can use, alongside texting or calling, to give you the extra ability to check that your child is OK," he says.
Some argue that this is all a bit "big mother-ish" and ultimately pointless given how easy it is to lose a mobile. But according to Michelle Elliot, the director of the UK children's protection charity Kidscape (which endorses KidsOK), tracking technology can be reassuring for children as well as their parents.
"Many children do like the security of knowing their parents are there -- it's about peace of mind for both parent and child," he says.
Indeed, much of this technology is two-way: Last week KidsOK launched "ping alert" (anyone with a mobile can sign up on http://www.pingalert.com ). If you sign up, the number 5 on your child's phone, which has a dimple on it on all mobiles, becomes a panic button. In a sticky spot your child simply holds 5 down and your mobile is sent a map and an alert message.
But all this is distinctly small fry compared to developments in the US where electronic tagging is the latest child-tracking buzz.
In the UK, electronic tags -- or "radio frequency identification" (RFID) tags -- are mostly being used on early release prisoners, or being investigated as a possible alternative to barcodes in shops. In the States, meanwhile, one San Diego company, Smart Wear Technologies, is launching "Home Alarm" next year.
Small, high-frequency RFID tags act as your child's "unique digital ID" and can be simply sewn, like name tags, into pyjamas or clothes. Sensors attached to the doors and windows of your house create "an invisible barrier" -- if your tagged child "breaches the boundary" an alarm sounds.
In Silicon Valley, Wherify Wireless was until recently selling a US$200 watch that picks up GPS signals, as well as a child's GPS -- implanted backpack, priced US$900. These products have now been replaced by its Wherifone -- a small GPS mobile aimed at teens and pre-teens -- largely because parents wanted the two-way calling feature.
Elsewhere, Teen Arrive Alive, Ulocate and DriveDiagnostics have developed special car-tracking devices that use GPS technology to locate the exact whereabouts, speed and direction of your newly qualified teenage driver. Even Microsoft was recently showing off a "cyber-teddy" that "watches" your child with glassy, microchip -- implanted eyes. But do we want this sort of thing?
In the UK, it seems we do. In 2003 a think tank, the Future Foundation, conducted a survey that found 75 percent of British parents would buy an electronic bracelet to trace their child's movements if they could.
"The potential for this sort of technology is huge," says a Future Foundation spokesperson. "The climate is shifting -- we have a whole generation of teens growing up now whose parents expect to know where they are at all times."
It is hardly surprising technology companies are cashing in, agrees Frank Furedi, author of The Politics of Fear.
"These technologies give the illusion of control," he says, and despite the fact that statistically the world is no more dangerous now for children than it was at the start of the 20th century, "fear has become the common currency of life. Nowadays, if you want parents to do anything -- or buy anything -- you simply prey on their fears."
So how scared are we? John Davidson, the chief executive of a Newcastle-based company, Globalpoint Technologies, believes we're ready for the next step.
This month his company released an anti-abduction device called the "Personal Companion" -- a slim band that folds round your child's arm (hidden under her clothes) and uses a combination of mobile phone and GPS technology to enable you to track her within two metres.
If in trouble, your child can simply squeeze the band, which then automatically calls your mobile, allowing your child to speak to you, or if your child can't speak, letting you listen in to what's happening (and, crucially, find out where).
The band is expensive (from ?450) and has the usual GPS limitations, but, says Davidson, "without a doubt this is a mass market for us. The technology is becoming cheaper every day and is developing all the time."
Clearly, then, child-tracking is in its infancy. How far we're prepared to go with this kind of surveillance remains to be seen. But teddy-bear phones are surely just the beginning.
Copyright © 1999-2005 The Taipei Times. All rights reserved.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/12/07/2003283401
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Teddy bear mobile ‘puts 4-year-olds at risk from radiation’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1204405/
Total Surveillance
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1241187/
Starmail - 7. Dez, 10:35
6
Dez
2005
We're delighted mast plan was rejected
http://tinyurl.com/anv6f
PETER WALSH
06 December 2005 12:21
Planners have delighted phone mast campaigners by throwing out plans for a 10-metre mast in Norwich before it went to committee.
Families were urged to back a campaign opposing plans for the timber pole and antennae near to the Newmarket Road doctors surgery.
Telecommunications giant Vodafone submitted an application to Norwich City Council last month, but planners have already decided a mast would not be suitable in the area.
"The mobile phone mast on Newmarket Road was refused by planners on the grounds that it would be obtrusive in the street scene, that it's not part of the character of the conservation area," said a city council spokeswoman.
She added that planners also thought the mast would also "adversely affect the street amenities of the area".
James Lord, 75, of Glenalmond, off Newmarket Road, said he was delighted with the decision after being one of the people living in the area in opposition to the proposal.
"I think that's absolutely right," he said. "My objection in the first place was that a large piece of industrial equipment like that does not belong in a residential area.
"When you bear in mind the main approach to Norwich is up the Newmarket Road and that would be seen just as they come past the sign 'Norwich – A fine city'. Would that be the right thing to see?"
The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.
"I'm pleased," said Chris Hull, Green county councillor for Town Close ward, who headed the campaign against the mast and found there was unanimous disapproval.
"It was pretty clear to me in canvassing door to door and speaking to people about the process that of their own volition people were saying to me they didn't want it — I couldn't find anyone in favour.
"It was proposed to be sited on a public highway, in a residential area, and it would have been visible from quite a way around at 12 metres in total — a 10 metre pole with two metres of antennae on top."
A spokeswoman for Vodafone said they would look carefully at the reasons for the refusal and see if there are any alterations which could be made to the proposal.
"Whether we will appeal or not it's difficult to say," she said. "We don't take that decision lightly. It's very much a case of we will take a review of the situation and decide from there."
Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application? Telephone reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk
PETER WALSH
06 December 2005 12:21
Planners have delighted phone mast campaigners by throwing out plans for a 10-metre mast in Norwich before it went to committee.
Families were urged to back a campaign opposing plans for the timber pole and antennae near to the Newmarket Road doctors surgery.
Telecommunications giant Vodafone submitted an application to Norwich City Council last month, but planners have already decided a mast would not be suitable in the area.
"The mobile phone mast on Newmarket Road was refused by planners on the grounds that it would be obtrusive in the street scene, that it's not part of the character of the conservation area," said a city council spokeswoman.
She added that planners also thought the mast would also "adversely affect the street amenities of the area".
James Lord, 75, of Glenalmond, off Newmarket Road, said he was delighted with the decision after being one of the people living in the area in opposition to the proposal.
"I think that's absolutely right," he said. "My objection in the first place was that a large piece of industrial equipment like that does not belong in a residential area.
"When you bear in mind the main approach to Norwich is up the Newmarket Road and that would be seen just as they come past the sign 'Norwich – A fine city'. Would that be the right thing to see?"
The Evening News has campaigned against the installation of mobile phone masts near homes and schools until it is proved they are safe.
"I'm pleased," said Chris Hull, Green county councillor for Town Close ward, who headed the campaign against the mast and found there was unanimous disapproval.
"It was pretty clear to me in canvassing door to door and speaking to people about the process that of their own volition people were saying to me they didn't want it — I couldn't find anyone in favour.
"It was proposed to be sited on a public highway, in a residential area, and it would have been visible from quite a way around at 12 metres in total — a 10 metre pole with two metres of antennae on top."
A spokeswoman for Vodafone said they would look carefully at the reasons for the refusal and see if there are any alterations which could be made to the proposal.
"Whether we will appeal or not it's difficult to say," she said. "We don't take that decision lightly. It's very much a case of we will take a review of the situation and decide from there."
Are you fighting a mobile phone mast application? Telephone reporter Peter Walsh on (01603) 772439 or e-mail peter.walsh@archant.co.uk
Starmail - 6. Dez, 16:29
Stealth Cell Towers
A section to help identify the appearance and purposes of towers.
About a quarter of the estimated 130,000 cellular towers across the U.S. are camouflaged, some as trees, others as flagpoles and still others as church steeples and silos.
http://www.stealthsite.com/ STEALTH Concealment Solutions, Inc. designs, engineers and fabricates complete antenna concealment sites.
STEALTH's sole business is creating solutions which enable wireless carriers to implement their massive infrastructure build out.
Rooftops, flagpoles, bell towers, crosses, clock towers, road signs, silos, water towers, and monopole towers are just a few antenna concealment projects that have been successfully manufactured by STEALTH.
STEALTH's exclusive "Photo Gallery" located in our Products section, contains a variety of successful concealments completed by STEALTH.
Stealth Cell Towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections Stealth Antennas Try to Blend In http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0%2C1382%2C57199%2C00.html
EMF-Omega-News
One of the biggest information sources concerning mobile phones, mobile radiocommunictions and electrosmog.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/english_start.html
CIO newsletter from Germany
http://omega.twoday.net/
Contains articles such as "Cell Phone Radiation Slows Down Brain Speed" and many other reports about electromagnetic radiation.
I'm posting photos of any and all kinds of towers, from the obvious to the mysterious, but am especially interested in identifying towers which are useful in controlling the masses. (see Total Population Control.)
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.bariumblues.com/towers.htm
Informant: Milo
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Cell Towers Camouflaged
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312406/
Stealth Cell towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312410/
http://www.google.de/search?q=Stealth+Cell+Towers&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:de-DE:official
About a quarter of the estimated 130,000 cellular towers across the U.S. are camouflaged, some as trees, others as flagpoles and still others as church steeples and silos.
http://www.stealthsite.com/ STEALTH Concealment Solutions, Inc. designs, engineers and fabricates complete antenna concealment sites.
STEALTH's sole business is creating solutions which enable wireless carriers to implement their massive infrastructure build out.
Rooftops, flagpoles, bell towers, crosses, clock towers, road signs, silos, water towers, and monopole towers are just a few antenna concealment projects that have been successfully manufactured by STEALTH.
STEALTH's exclusive "Photo Gallery" located in our Products section, contains a variety of successful concealments completed by STEALTH.
Stealth Cell Towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections Stealth Antennas Try to Blend In http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0%2C1382%2C57199%2C00.html
EMF-Omega-News
One of the biggest information sources concerning mobile phones, mobile radiocommunictions and electrosmog.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/english_start.html
CIO newsletter from Germany
http://omega.twoday.net/
Contains articles such as "Cell Phone Radiation Slows Down Brain Speed" and many other reports about electromagnetic radiation.
I'm posting photos of any and all kinds of towers, from the obvious to the mysterious, but am especially interested in identifying towers which are useful in controlling the masses. (see Total Population Control.)
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.bariumblues.com/towers.htm
Informant: Milo
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Cell Towers Camouflaged
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312406/
Stealth Cell towers and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/312410/
http://www.google.de/search?q=Stealth+Cell+Towers&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:de-DE:official
Starmail - 6. Dez, 09:36
5
Dez
2005
Repacholi and industry money
http://www.omega-news.info/repacholi_and_industry_money.htm
Testimony of Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031477/
Petition to remove Dr. Mike Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/877606/
Open letter to the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/841288/
WHO: a lot of people report symptoms of electromagnetic radiation sickness http://omega.twoday.net/stories/958459/
WHO writes off electrosmog victims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1142664/
WHO and Electric Utilities: A Partnership on EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1176061/
The cozy relationship between the WHO and the electric utility industry http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1023935/
The WHO EMF Charade Continues - Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/819270/
Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1283940/
WHO will not accept smokers to work, will cell phones users be next?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1229599/
A Danger from within the house: Radiation was found in the Israeli Prime Minister Office http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1178309/
Das zwielichtige Spiel des Dr. Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257501/
Bestechungsvorwurf gegen Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257776/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
Testimony of Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1031477/
Petition to remove Dr. Mike Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/877606/
Open letter to the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/841288/
WHO: a lot of people report symptoms of electromagnetic radiation sickness http://omega.twoday.net/stories/958459/
WHO writes off electrosmog victims
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1142664/
WHO and Electric Utilities: A Partnership on EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1176061/
The cozy relationship between the WHO and the electric utility industry http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1023935/
The WHO EMF Charade Continues - Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/819270/
Time To Stop the WHO Charade
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1283940/
WHO will not accept smokers to work, will cell phones users be next?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1229599/
A Danger from within the house: Radiation was found in the Israeli Prime Minister Office http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1178309/
Das zwielichtige Spiel des Dr. Michael Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257501/
Bestechungsvorwurf gegen Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1257776/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi
Starmail - 5. Dez, 09:57
4
Dez
2005
WHO will not accept smokers to work, will cell phones users be next?
The WHO takes an extreme move - WHO job candidates who will answer the question "Do you smoke or comsume tobacco products"- with a "Yes", will not be accepted to work at the World Health Organization. It was on Friday radio news all day in Israel + it was on the weekend TV news (Friday 2.12.). I looked on the internet for something about it and didn't find, but today I found by coincidence something in French about it
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20051202.FIG0217.html?223217
Jong-Wook Lee said that the WHO puts its words and actions in coherence, and the WHO spokesman added that the WHO initiated the international anti tobacco treaty and now they have to show an example.
This was the background: "Five years ago, the Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents issued a 260-page report documenting the tobacco industry’s strategies to undermine the work of the WHO. In response, the WHO issued 15 pages of recommendations on how to make sure its work is never subverted again."
http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoehc
The question remains: what about cell phones users - will they not be accepted to work in the WHO 30 years from now?...Today it looks very exagerrated, but 30 years ago it would have been considered very exaggerated to prevent from smokers to work at the WHO....why doesn't the WHO make the route shorter and deal with the cellular conflicts of interests NOW, instead of looking for ways in the future to protect its fragile reputation, by covering for all the past mistakes....now is the time that the WHO creates the history with cell phones, in the same way it did with the tobacco and the asbestos: "Not only was the WHO late in recognizing the emergence of the asbestos cancer epidemic, but the WHO also ignored it for years and, quite without explanation, continues to fail to address the problem of asbestos mining and manufacturing and world trade of a known human carcinogen.....IARC studied the carcinogenicity of asbestos fibers, but it was not until 1986, 22 years after publication of the article by Selikoff et al. (1964), that the WHO published its first document on asbestos. By that time, the asbestos cancer epidemic was claiming tens of thousands of lives.....All one need do is review the list of asbestos industry advocates involved in the writing of the WHO documents to see how the confusion arose over which asbestos fibers were to be considered carcinogenic (Egilman et al. 2003; Infante, in press; Lemen, in press; Tweedale 2000). The last WHO publication to recommend a protective exposure standard for asbestos was published 15 years ago (WHO 1987).....Before the meeting, a WHO letter was widely circulated in which an official of the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia wrote that the asbestos-cement industry and its products are "highly eco-friendly" (Aldana et al. 2000).
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2003/6704/6704.html
The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic
Joseph LaDou Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 112, Number 3, March 2004
History repeats itself for those WHO don't learn from past mistakes.....
Iris Atzmon
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Repacholi and industry money
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1230638/
http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20051202.FIG0217.html?223217
Jong-Wook Lee said that the WHO puts its words and actions in coherence, and the WHO spokesman added that the WHO initiated the international anti tobacco treaty and now they have to show an example.
This was the background: "Five years ago, the Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents issued a 260-page report documenting the tobacco industry’s strategies to undermine the work of the WHO. In response, the WHO issued 15 pages of recommendations on how to make sure its work is never subverted again."
http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoehc
The question remains: what about cell phones users - will they not be accepted to work in the WHO 30 years from now?...Today it looks very exagerrated, but 30 years ago it would have been considered very exaggerated to prevent from smokers to work at the WHO....why doesn't the WHO make the route shorter and deal with the cellular conflicts of interests NOW, instead of looking for ways in the future to protect its fragile reputation, by covering for all the past mistakes....now is the time that the WHO creates the history with cell phones, in the same way it did with the tobacco and the asbestos: "Not only was the WHO late in recognizing the emergence of the asbestos cancer epidemic, but the WHO also ignored it for years and, quite without explanation, continues to fail to address the problem of asbestos mining and manufacturing and world trade of a known human carcinogen.....IARC studied the carcinogenicity of asbestos fibers, but it was not until 1986, 22 years after publication of the article by Selikoff et al. (1964), that the WHO published its first document on asbestos. By that time, the asbestos cancer epidemic was claiming tens of thousands of lives.....All one need do is review the list of asbestos industry advocates involved in the writing of the WHO documents to see how the confusion arose over which asbestos fibers were to be considered carcinogenic (Egilman et al. 2003; Infante, in press; Lemen, in press; Tweedale 2000). The last WHO publication to recommend a protective exposure standard for asbestos was published 15 years ago (WHO 1987).....Before the meeting, a WHO letter was widely circulated in which an official of the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia wrote that the asbestos-cement industry and its products are "highly eco-friendly" (Aldana et al. 2000).
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2003/6704/6704.html
The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic
Joseph LaDou Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 112, Number 3, March 2004
History repeats itself for those WHO don't learn from past mistakes.....
Iris Atzmon
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Repacholi and industry money
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1230638/
Starmail - 4. Dez, 22:50
Vodafone and 3 ignore call to switch off
The Sunday Times
December 04, 2005
Jamie Deasy Vodafone, Ireland’s biggest mobile phone operator, and 3 Ireland, the newest entrant to the market, have refused a government request to switch off a telephone mast near two Dublin schools until a report into the health effects of electromagnetic radiation is completed.
Tom Parlon, the minister in charge of the Office of Public Works, announced in October that he had asked telecoms companies to switch off their transmitters at Ardee House in Rathmines pending the findings of an interdepartmental report. This followed pressure from local residents.
Ardee House is owned by the government and is home to the Central Statistics Office. It is located within yards of the St Mary’s and St Louis national and secondary schools in Rathmines. In spite of assurances from government ministers to locals, 3 Ireland and Vodafone have turned down the request saying they are operating within government guidelines.
3 Ireland said the company received a letter from the OPW suggesting that it would be helpful if it turned off the mast.
The company added: “Upon further reflection, we have responded to the OPW and believe it is not reasonable to switch off the installation at this time. The reason is that we are operating within all the international and Irish Government guidelines and we have a contract with the OPW.”
Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/
3 Ireland said it had made it clear to the OPW that it was aware of local anxiety and had made an offer that their “community relations” team could be made available to local people to “allay their fears”. To date, 3 Ireland said it had not received a reply from the OPW.
Commenting on the dispute, Vodafone said: “The OPW did write to us and we responded to them saying the site is in keeping with the planning laws and guidelines for base stations. We didn’t think it was a good idea to take it off the air.
“We are having ongoing discussions with the Department of the Environment and the OPW. If a review starts, we will have discussions with the relevant departments but any review of laws and guidelines would take quite a while.”
In a letter to Eoin Ryan an MEP for Dublin, dated October 25, Minister Parlon said: “OPW are also asking the operators of equipment installed on Ardee house, where this is a matter of concern to an adjacent school, to switch off their transmitters pending the committee’s report. The OPW is aware of a continued level of unease among the public over such installations being sited in the vicinity of schools for young children." A spokesman at the OPW said discussions were still ongoing. “We have a licence contract with them (the companies). They are abiding by guidelines and their licence agreements comply fully with all the health and safety and electromagnetic rules”.
The OPW placed a hold on the granting of further installation licences where masts had been planned near nurseries and schools. Campaigners claim that people living close to masts can experience ill-health, particularly headaches, nausea and muscle pains. There are now over 5,000 dedicated mobile phone sites in the republic and this may double in the next decade. The government earns up to €500,000 a year by allowing transmitters on public buildings.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1902705,00.html
December 04, 2005
Jamie Deasy Vodafone, Ireland’s biggest mobile phone operator, and 3 Ireland, the newest entrant to the market, have refused a government request to switch off a telephone mast near two Dublin schools until a report into the health effects of electromagnetic radiation is completed.
Tom Parlon, the minister in charge of the Office of Public Works, announced in October that he had asked telecoms companies to switch off their transmitters at Ardee House in Rathmines pending the findings of an interdepartmental report. This followed pressure from local residents.
Ardee House is owned by the government and is home to the Central Statistics Office. It is located within yards of the St Mary’s and St Louis national and secondary schools in Rathmines. In spite of assurances from government ministers to locals, 3 Ireland and Vodafone have turned down the request saying they are operating within government guidelines.
3 Ireland said the company received a letter from the OPW suggesting that it would be helpful if it turned off the mast.
The company added: “Upon further reflection, we have responded to the OPW and believe it is not reasonable to switch off the installation at this time. The reason is that we are operating within all the international and Irish Government guidelines and we have a contract with the OPW.”
Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/
3 Ireland said it had made it clear to the OPW that it was aware of local anxiety and had made an offer that their “community relations” team could be made available to local people to “allay their fears”. To date, 3 Ireland said it had not received a reply from the OPW.
Commenting on the dispute, Vodafone said: “The OPW did write to us and we responded to them saying the site is in keeping with the planning laws and guidelines for base stations. We didn’t think it was a good idea to take it off the air.
“We are having ongoing discussions with the Department of the Environment and the OPW. If a review starts, we will have discussions with the relevant departments but any review of laws and guidelines would take quite a while.”
In a letter to Eoin Ryan an MEP for Dublin, dated October 25, Minister Parlon said: “OPW are also asking the operators of equipment installed on Ardee house, where this is a matter of concern to an adjacent school, to switch off their transmitters pending the committee’s report. The OPW is aware of a continued level of unease among the public over such installations being sited in the vicinity of schools for young children." A spokesman at the OPW said discussions were still ongoing. “We have a licence contract with them (the companies). They are abiding by guidelines and their licence agreements comply fully with all the health and safety and electromagnetic rules”.
The OPW placed a hold on the granting of further installation licences where masts had been planned near nurseries and schools. Campaigners claim that people living close to masts can experience ill-health, particularly headaches, nausea and muscle pains. There are now over 5,000 dedicated mobile phone sites in the republic and this may double in the next decade. The government earns up to €500,000 a year by allowing transmitters on public buildings.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1902705,00.html
Starmail - 4. Dez, 08:54
3
Dez
2005
Contact details of MEP's wanted who are sympathetic to the battle against mobile phone technology
Would your readers please send us names and contact details of their MEP's, (Members of European Parliament) who are sympathetic to us in our battle against mobile phone technology. I am hoping that if they connect up we might have more success at European level.
Colette O'Connell (Ireland)
oconnell@esatclear.ie
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Below are some of the MEP's that I have been in contact with. The bottom one Vitaliano Gemelli is the chairman of the petitions committee which occasionally sits and disscusses our Petition to the President of the European Parliament, which has been on going since 1996. Michael Cashman is our MEP and he visited our house in 2001 and said he was appalled at the mast sited 2 metres from our garden fence. He took a handwritten letter of mine and gave it personally to Tony Blair the next day at a Labour Party NEC meeting, but as usual Tony Blair did not reply. I think you may find most of those below sympathetic to the battle against mobile phone technology. Best of luck.
Regards,
Roy
Astrid Thors
E-mail Address(es):
athors@europarl.eu.int
Caroline Lucas
E-mail Address(es):
clucas@europarl.eu.int
Emma Nicholson
E-mail Address(es):
enicholson@europarl.eu.int
jelambert@europarl.eu.int
E-mail Address(es):
jelambert@europarl.eu.int
Liz Lynne
E-mail Address(es):
lizlynne@cix.compulink.co.uk
lizlynne@cix.co.uk
Maria Sornosa Martinez
E-mail Address(es):
msornosamartinez@europarl.eu.int
Michael Cashman
E-mail Address(es):
mcashman@europarl.eu.int
Phil Willis
E-mail Address(es):
willisp@parliament.uk
Proinsais De Rossa
E-mail Address(es):
pderossa@europarl.eu.int
Roy Perry
E-mail Address(es):
rperry@europarl.eu.int
Vitaliano Gemelli
E-mail Address(es):
vgemelli@europarl.eu.int
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I have found that when speaking to people, it is the personal account that most gets people; they can identify with ordinary people. I'd llike to get some first hand accounts from other countries if possible. And photos would be great also.
Colette
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EUROPEAN ENQUIRY ON THE «BIOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS» EXPERIENCED by NEIGHBOURS of RELAY ANTENNAS for MOBILE TELEPHONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1222671/
Colette O'Connell (Ireland)
oconnell@esatclear.ie
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Below are some of the MEP's that I have been in contact with. The bottom one Vitaliano Gemelli is the chairman of the petitions committee which occasionally sits and disscusses our Petition to the President of the European Parliament, which has been on going since 1996. Michael Cashman is our MEP and he visited our house in 2001 and said he was appalled at the mast sited 2 metres from our garden fence. He took a handwritten letter of mine and gave it personally to Tony Blair the next day at a Labour Party NEC meeting, but as usual Tony Blair did not reply. I think you may find most of those below sympathetic to the battle against mobile phone technology. Best of luck.
Regards,
Roy
Astrid Thors
E-mail Address(es):
athors@europarl.eu.int
Caroline Lucas
E-mail Address(es):
clucas@europarl.eu.int
Emma Nicholson
E-mail Address(es):
enicholson@europarl.eu.int
jelambert@europarl.eu.int
E-mail Address(es):
jelambert@europarl.eu.int
Liz Lynne
E-mail Address(es):
lizlynne@cix.compulink.co.uk
lizlynne@cix.co.uk
Maria Sornosa Martinez
E-mail Address(es):
msornosamartinez@europarl.eu.int
Michael Cashman
E-mail Address(es):
mcashman@europarl.eu.int
Phil Willis
E-mail Address(es):
willisp@parliament.uk
Proinsais De Rossa
E-mail Address(es):
pderossa@europarl.eu.int
Roy Perry
E-mail Address(es):
rperry@europarl.eu.int
Vitaliano Gemelli
E-mail Address(es):
vgemelli@europarl.eu.int
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I have found that when speaking to people, it is the personal account that most gets people; they can identify with ordinary people. I'd llike to get some first hand accounts from other countries if possible. And photos would be great also.
Colette
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EUROPEAN ENQUIRY ON THE «BIOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS» EXPERIENCED by NEIGHBOURS of RELAY ANTENNAS for MOBILE TELEPHONES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1222671/
Starmail - 3. Dez, 23:15
Telephone mast to go up despite protests
CAMPAIGNERS against the siting of a mobile phone mast at a roundabout in Haverhill have lost their fight.
Hutchison 3G (UK) Ltd rejected their proposed alternative site at Homefield Road.
Residents appealed to the company's chief executive, to consider the alternative location.
However, following a site visit last week and computer technical assessment of the predicted coverage, the outcome of the review, according to 3G, demonstrated the identified site to be unsuitable to provide the level of coverage required.
No sooner had residents had time to digest the bad news and plan their response than a JCB was digging foundations for the mast at the Hazel Stub roundabout.
Public feeling against the location of the mast has been strong with residents, local councillors and MPs protesting strongly since March of this year.
St Edmundsbury Council's Planning Committee objected to Hutchison 3G (UK) Ltd's application deeming the site to be 'inappropriate' due its close proximity to a busy roundabout and listed buildings, and that it would be visually intrusive and detract from the amenity of the countryside.
However the mobile phone giant won an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate to allow the mast to be erected on its proposed site.
03 December 2005
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/newmarket/2005/12/03/e05eed6f-17c8-4de2-8d3c-12a531304e16.lpf
Hutchison 3G (UK) Ltd rejected their proposed alternative site at Homefield Road.
Residents appealed to the company's chief executive, to consider the alternative location.
However, following a site visit last week and computer technical assessment of the predicted coverage, the outcome of the review, according to 3G, demonstrated the identified site to be unsuitable to provide the level of coverage required.
No sooner had residents had time to digest the bad news and plan their response than a JCB was digging foundations for the mast at the Hazel Stub roundabout.
Public feeling against the location of the mast has been strong with residents, local councillors and MPs protesting strongly since March of this year.
St Edmundsbury Council's Planning Committee objected to Hutchison 3G (UK) Ltd's application deeming the site to be 'inappropriate' due its close proximity to a busy roundabout and listed buildings, and that it would be visually intrusive and detract from the amenity of the countryside.
However the mobile phone giant won an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate to allow the mast to be erected on its proposed site.
03 December 2005
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/newmarket/2005/12/03/e05eed6f-17c8-4de2-8d3c-12a531304e16.lpf
Starmail - 3. Dez, 19:44
My Teddy Bear Mobile
Teddy bear mobile ‘puts 4-year-olds at risk from radiation’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1204405/
What a cuddly signal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1211691/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1204405/
What a cuddly signal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1211691/
Starmail - 3. Dez, 11:50
