Interesting recent report from Sweden, with interviews, analyses, circumstances (against a scientific risk assessment background).

http://www.score.su.se/pdfs/2004-6.pdf


Informant: fransp

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1235373,00.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/image/0,1587,1233024_6,00.jpg

14.06.2004

Mobile Phone Masts Go Undercover

Antenna masts disguised as crucifixes are too much for some.

European companies are finding ingenious ways to disguise ugly, but necessary, mobile phone antenna masts. Customers can pick everything from trees to crucifixes.

Those willing to set up mobile phone antenna masts on their property can get good money for their cooperation -- along with grief from their neighbors.

The masts are typically unwanted in neighborhoods, either because of fears that they can damage your health or due to their ugly appearance. There's an answer to that last objection, simply dress the masts up as trees, chimneys, or even crucifixes.

"Different authorities always request ways to make the masts look nicer," said Josef Skuk, manager of the Austrian company Industrieanlageabau. So Skuk's company started disguising their masts to look like full-grown trees.

"Pine needle or trees with leaves, we have both on offer," Skuk said.

A growing number of companies across Europe provide similar services. Kaal in Holland and the British company, Francis & Lewis, offer trees that can be "built in a day" and look real, even down to the bark.

The starting price for Skuk's trees is around €25,000 ($30,200). But if the client wants to avoid foliage, the company also produces chimney masts and crucifixes for churches.

Jesus on the antenna

The latter crosses the line for some congregations, who are not willing to see Christ on a cross, with antennae sticking out here and there. The mayor of Schwabhausen, in deeply Catholic Bavaria, has come out against such an antenna in his village church. Mobile phone companies are hesitant as well.

"The churches actually don't like it so much," said Susanne Satzer-Spree, a Vodafone spokeswoman.

However, some houses of worship have managed to make their masts part of their identity.

"Everyone recognizes the church now," said Johannes de Fallois, pastor at a church in Neuburg.

Mobile phone companies are careful to emphasize that the camouflage is not supposed to actually hide mast construction from community residents, but Hans Ultich-Raithel of Munich's Environmental Institute is not too sure.

"Mobile phone masts are hidden often in chimneys because of protests from residents," he said.


Informant: Painterscan


Churches cash in on phone boom
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495347/

Hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/220635/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429390/

Homeowners paid to hide phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495350/

Shell to reveal hidden phone masts
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/495351/

Please find attached the Appeal:
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/helsinki_appeal_2005_r5.pdf

Distribute it to your colleagues and return them with signatures to the address:

EMF-team Finland
P.O.Box 1040
FIN-JÄRVENPÄÄ

or fax +358 9 2796 3681


Matti Wirmaneva

EMF-team.Finland@jippii.fi


Informant: Sianette Kwee

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EMF-team Finland

EMF-team Finland was established in 2003 to promote healthy environment including electromagnetic fields. The most important goal made for our team was to influence authorities and politicians to adopt new safety standards based on biological effects of non-ionizing radiation, especially on RF-levels. This is just the opposite to what our ”WHO” is carrying out with it`s harmonization project of today.

Our team consist of

Seppo Kinnunen, Physician, specialized in Occupational health
Matti Wirmaneva, B.Sc, Engineering in electronics
Christian Blom, M.Sc, Econ.

Initiators of the Helsinki Appeal are actually collaborative persons outside the team:

Erja Tamminen, Information Officer, B.Sc.
Risto Juusela, Dentist

They offered the appeal to our programme and we accepted. The petition was ”taylor-made” for our activities and we believe it will be signed by many honest scientists and physicians. Through this appeal we will emphazise the importancy of the Precautionary Principle and encourage all the members of the European Parliament to act in favour of the common health and to solve the longstanding contradiction existing between healthy environment and the needs of the mobile industry.

For EMF-Team Finland
Best regards,

Matti Wirmaneva


Informant: Rod Read

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Finnland: Helsinki Appeal 2005

Der Helsinki Appeal 2005 des “EMF Team Finnland” fordert das Europäische Parlament auf, sich unverzüglich für die Einführung des neuen Sicherheitsstandards in der Europäischen Union einzusetzen. Die unterzeichnenden Ärzte und Forscher sind über die unzureichende Anwendung des Vorsorgeprinzips hinsichtlich elektromagnetischer Felder besorgt. Sie akzeptieren die von der ICNIRP empfohlenen Standards nicht mehr, weil neue wissenschaftliche Studien über verschiedene Beschwerden aufgrund von Mobilfunk und anderer hochfrequenter Strahlung berichten.

Ebenso appellieren sie an die Europäische Gemeinschaft, schnell Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, damit die Fortführung des REFLEX-Projektes finanziert werden kann, da dieses Nachweise erbgutschädigender Wirkungen des Mobilfunks erbracht habe.

http://www.emrpolicy.org/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 13.01.2005


KLÄRUNG DER ROLLE DER ICNIRP
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473327/

REFLEX-Studie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/330908/

Letter and attachment to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

IDEA Position on Electro-Magnetic Radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/502478/

Yes, its an appynooyeare-mail, an invaluable opportunity to consume your valuable time with best wishes as we look forward to some ebb and flow in the New rotation of the sun of our battered old planet. Vibrating with electro-magnetic waves it must look from space as if we are practicing species self-immolation as an exquisitely sensitive electrochemical system.

Perhaps this is someone's cunning plan to get us to self-eradicate before with our warlike capacities we threaten them.

Blimey, this is not exactly the appynooyear note I meant to strike, enough, back to Earth.

We are proud of getting a letter in last weeks Sunday Observer as a bit of a riposte to some PR spin and mockery, we are staking our ground out as a vulnerable minority yes, but to microwaves and electromagnetic emissions. We are not defenceless against human attacks which of course is what it all comes down to. This year we will try to get a national debate, make a mark with our arguments and carry our case forwards, just as our opponents are wealthy and powerful they are vulnerable in the old ju-jitsu way because of their size, over-confidence and cumbersome nature. We can knock a few sparks off them in our David and Goliath way until we are taken seriously as having a real complaint that is not going away but growing.

To me it is unbelievable that some of the scientific inquiry going on will not establish more links and mechanisms establishing as scientific fact what real, honest, sensible individuals share with us as everyday experience with EMFs and electrosmog. We know we are not making it up, and as much as the Professor Wesselys and Dr Robin Coxes of this world believe 'its all in the mind' it just ain't.

'Communic8' a new British firm is targetting four to eight year olds with 'MYMo' a mobile phone product for children to use. We have contacted Professor Lawrie Challis, who has unfortunately replaced Sir William Stewart it seems, about this outrage. Will they do owt? Well it won't be for lack of a bollocking (politely) from us. Next step the Daily Mail, strangely they may run with this one, we shall try anyway. Wish us luck and carry on the good fight in 2005,

all the best

Rod at ES-UK


ElectroSensitivity-UK (registered charity 1103018) assisted by the Foyle Foundation. A new voluntary organisation supporting sufferers and campaigning for recognition of this sensitive reaction affecting a vulnerable minority exposed to RF, microwave and general electromagnetic radiation from powerlines, mobile phones, VDUs and all manner of EMF sources. We particularly welcome help from scientists, doctors and health experts in understanding causes and links, especially to MCS, CFS and Thyroid problems and in diagnosis and treatments generally. From Rod Read, ES-UK Office, Bury Lane, Sutton, Ely, Cambs, CB6 2BB. Tel: 01353-778151 or at http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk

Substation issue outcome

I cannot remember who I have already shared the following with. Another sad tale of the utilities and politicians putting the dollar first, the people last.

In 2004 I was involved in two rounds of resisting an electrical substation proposed to be placed first in a rural residential area and then among dairy farms. We won the first round, last February, lost the second this December. The second time around the Town Plan Commission and Board treated the townspeople in a way I had imagined could only occur in the Deep South. They told the people to their faces that it didn't matter a bit to them what concerns anyone had nor how many of them signed a petition. (Over 140 signed the petition this time, as many as usually vote in that township, I am told.) The Commission and Board arrogantly refused to become informed regarding possible health dangers to people and their livestock, and speedily gave the utility what they had requested. (High-frequency electrical pollution is concentrated in the area around a substation, as about 75% of the current returns to the substations via the earth, and that 75% is mostly the health-damaging hig frequencies, due to the "skin effect" that causes these to spread out and be impossible to return via the outdated wiring system.) The chairman almost called the police when his gaveling did not shut me up. During the public meeting a local electrician on the Board, who had refused to listen to information about electrical pollution when I attempted to speak with him personally by phone, made slanderous remarks about the RF filters created by Dr. Graham and Dave Stetzer, calling them "snake oil." I believe he could be presecuted for this - if Dave and Dr. Graham had the leisure to take it up. The Good Ol' Boys win again.

This occurred in Holland, WI, USA township. We have videos of both meetings, if they are of interest.

Better news is that those who have installed the filters in their homes, schools, etc. are experiencing relief from a wide range of symptoms and diseases. Dr. Magda Havas recently presented a paper to WHO regarding this. The paper will soon be posted at http://www.stetzerelectric.com in the research section. Meanwhile, I will be glad to send to to anyone who wants to see it. Conditions improved include diabetes, MS, chronic fatigue, ringing in the ears and sleep disturbance.

In my own case, my symptoms included spells of suddenly skyrocketing blood pressure and pulse rate, accompanied by terrifying arrythmia. I also had strange pains and numbness that led to testing for a brain tumor. $18,000 worth of tests found nothing to account for my symptoms, which also included insomnia so severe that I could sleep only 4-5 hours out of 12 spent trying. I became a semi-invalid. All these symptoms disappeared after we installed the RF filters and took steps to avoid or remove unfilterable exposures. (The filters plug into electrical circuits, but RF also skims on water pipes, phone lines, etc. In our house, even hollow wooden doors and rattan porch furniture.)

I remain electrically sensitive, but symptom free if I avoid RF, and I am much less sensitive to exposure than I was, which is encouraging for the long-term prognosis for ES people. Since recovering, I do a workshop on electrical pollution and how to remediate your personal environment. I would like to write a book about this, as none is presently available that addresses the RF specifically, which is the real culprit. ("Clean" EMF does not cause "radio sickness" problems. More research needed regarding this.) Any info. about finding a publisher, etc. will be most appreciated.

Shivani Arjuna Small
Belgium, WI, USA

* Today there was a meeting of the immigration reception committe in the Parliament, and Dr. Zamir Shalita reported from the meeting:

Dr. Shalita presented Usefie Map of sickness and mortality (180+ people got cancer, 85 have died, 99% of them live close to cellular & radio antennas. In the area where several people live near antennas and don't have cancer, the antennas have been there not more than two years).

Chairman of the committe, Mrs. Kolet Avital, asked Prof. Manfred Green, head of the disease control center of the Israeli Health Ministry, what he thought of the map. He answered: I have no data. If I receive the data, I will make a statistical analysis, but as Dr. Shalita explained it was a fifth grade mathematics, not more. Dr. Shalita was asked how they came up with these results, and he told that they went from house to house and asked for medical documents which detail the citizen's diseases. Shalita told that the standard was determined by one degree increase when heating a sugar water small bag. Kolet Avital was shocked and asked Prof. Stelian Galberg, head of the radiation department in the Env. Ministry, whether it was true. He said it was indeed true. She asked him whether all the citizens in the country are exposed on this basis. Galberg said that he was not interested in health, because he is a physicist. He was attacked by a parliament member who told him: you approve all the antennas in this country and you are not interested in health? Galberg's face became red. (He is the ONLY person in charge of the antennas in Israel), also he was embarrassed when a citizen read in front of everybody a letter he had written to Galberg, accusing him of crimes.

This citizen, who lives near cellular antennas told that the Env. Ministry had given him results of measurements of antennas before the antennas were operated. This story of the false measurements was also on the national TV and the Env. Ministry was totally ridiculed in the programme. Indeed, there is some change in the TV reporting as more and more reporters are exposed to the truth about the jungle and bias of regulatory bodies in Israel , also on the local TV, the reporter said about the way of burning the antennas, that it is a way that the citizens can think about when trying to solve the threat of the antennas.

Back to the meeting: Someone else reported that people who live in elderly insitutions under antennas suffer from health effects, for example glaucoma, headaches, depression. Prof. Manfred Green said that everything is psychological.

The citizen told that near his house 13 antennas were erected while the law enables only 6 antennas.

An elderly institution executive who was sitting there, said that if that were the true story, the antennas on the roof of his institution are going to fly from the roof today.

Prof. Manfred Greeen said that there are no proofs for negative health effects.

More from this week:

* The Haifa neighbourhood Vardia, caught a cellular company preparing the basis antennas in the neighbourhood, in the middle of the night. The company lied to the people but they didn't lose. They burnt the basis for the antennas in front of the eyes of the vice mayor, who had given his approval for these antennas. He has always said he resists antennas and yet he approved them. But when the companies wanted to erect antennas near his house several months ago, he didn't let it happen! The mayor came and told them that by the law, he cannot do anything the minute the Env. Ministry approves the antennas. Someone else from the municipality told the citizens off the record (and one of the citizens told it on the local TV) that they can take the law into their hands, and that what the municipality cannot do, they can do. The municipality clarified that the next step would be consulting with the citizens before deciding what to do next.

Yet, the next thing that happened was that the cellular company came together with the police, to build the antenna. Again, the citizens didn't let it happen. Now they want to throw all the other antennas from their area, and think seriously of a class action lawsuit against the 3 cellular companies.

The story made its way to the local newspaper. The cellular company has filed a complaint at the police and called to the police to do judgement about these criminals who prevent the possibility to provide cellular communication to the citizens in the area.

One of the citizens said: "Motorola will decide whether I will be sick or healthy? Where have we come?" And another said that he has a phone but he doesn't want reception in his neighbourhood.

* The center of the Israeli authorities has suggested to the municipalities this week, to take taxes from citizens who agree to put cellular antennas of their roofs, because they are actually running a commercial bussines on their roof. Also the head of the authories center clarified this week that no new antenna will be approved until the company provides a compensation document for future lawsuits of property value reduction. They want to do order with the antennas jungle. Meanwhile, the companies do whatever they want because that's the Israeli law, and of course, they say that they respect the law...

Anyway, these are certainly new encouraging developments.

Iris Atzmon



The practise is the very same here in Canada. Cities and Municipalities are prevented from action by our central government in Ottawa ever since the Health Ministry put in place Safety Code Six which I believe is the same as that which you describe in Israel. There is growing awareness and concern here also but we must persevere and oblige our governments to put humans before corporate profits.

The truth is being revealed and with that we shall prevail. Any further information will be sincerely appreciated. There may be a golden opportunity coming up here in two weeks time to further our campaign and expose microwave radiation towers.

aye
Larry Blackhall
Aldergrove BC
Canada

This update transcribed below on the Irish Government's decision to have masts placed on Irish public buildings made front page news in the IRISH INDEPENDENT --which claims to be "Ireland's Best-Selling Daily Newspaper"--on Friday 31 December 2004.

Best, Imelda, Cork


100M [EURO] DEAL WILL PUT MOBILE PHONE MASTS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS [by] Tom Felle

Mobile phone masts are to be erected on many State-owned buildings under a 100m [euro] deal expected to be announced in the New Year.

The Government is expected to get a 10M [EURO] windfall each year for the next 10 years under the deal negotiated by the Office of Public Works (OPW).

Junior Finance Minister Tom Parlon confirmed last night that negotiations were at an advanced stage. "The deal is all but done," he said. "We have appointed outside consultants Vilicom to evaluate what the deal is worth. They are negotiating on our behalf with the mobile phone and 3G operators."

Mr. Parlon said that there was a built-in incentive for Vilicom to get the best value for money for the State when doing deals. Operators would be required to share masts, and the deals would be open to all competitors he said. Up until now only Garda [Irish Police] stations were used by mobile phone companies. Masts were erected on Garda masts in exchange for free phones for gardai.

Under the new deal, the OPW has agreed to sell space to mobile phone and other telecoms companies to erect masts on all susitable State-owned Property.

The Public Accounts Committee heard before Christmas that the Garda deal--which originally expected to make money for the state--was actually costing around 750,000 [euro] a year. A five year deal with Esat, now O2, was expected to be worth around 2m [euro] a year, however the cost of phone calls made by gardai was much more.

Mr Parlon said he was determined to get "the best value for money" for the State, insisting the deal would "cost nothing".

While the move is set to make millions for the state coffers, it is likely that heritage and other groups will oppose it. Mobile phone masts are a huge issue in many local communities nationwide.

It is understood that new smaller type masts are to be used, hidden away from public view. Some of the masts will need planning permission, however some may be exempt.

Broadcast broadband internet operators and other mobile operators may also be able to use the technology.

02.01.2005

Noch schnellere Mobilfunk-Weiterentwicklung für 2009 geplant

Während sich der neue Mobilfunk-Standard UMTS noch in der Anlauf-Phase befindet, gibt es bereits einen Zeitplan für die nächste Handy-Generation. 26 internationale Mobilfunk-Anbieter und Ausrüster wollen 2009 eine Weiterentwicklung der Technologie mit drastisch höheren Übertragungsraten auf den Markt bringen, wie die japanische Nachrichtenagentur Kyodo aus Kreisen der Partner berichtete.

Zu den Firmen gehörten unter anderem der weltgrößte Mobilfunk-Anbieter Vodafone, die japanische NTT DoCoMo und Cingular Wireless aus den USA.

Technik bis 2007

Die auf dem UMTS-Standard W-CDMA basierte Technologie solle bis zum Jahr 2007 entwickelt sein. Sie solle eine Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit von bis zu 100 MBit pro Sekunde ermöglichen, berichtete die chinesische Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua. Der chinesische Mobilfunkkonzern China Mobile Communications sei auch Mitglied der Gruppe. Der aktuelle UMTS-Standard erlaubt grundsätzlich Übertragungsraten von bis zu 2 MBit pro Sekunde, im Internet kann allerdings zumeist schon mit nur 384 kBit pro Sekunde gesurft werden. DSL-Festnetzanschlüsse sind bis zu 2 MBit/Sekunde schnell.

Mit Material von dpa

http://www.heute.t-online.de/ZDFheute/artikel/3/0,1367,COMP-0-2245251,FF.html

The sham of the ICNIRP guidelines, which supposedly protect the public from the dangers of radiation from mobile phones and masts, could soon precipitate an unparalleled human catastrophe. BRITAIN ALLOWS THE HIGHEST RADIATION LEVELS FROM PHONE MASTS IN THE WORLD.

The ICNIRP guidelines were not formulated by scientists or doctors, but by technicians calculating how long it would take to heat a bag of sugar through one degree Celsius. This absurdity is all that stands between us and the risk of life threatening or chronic disease.

The ICNIRP guidelines only measure the immediate and very short term thermal (heating) effect of radiation, not the long term biological effect, which is the main threat to health.

It is rather like saying that ….

1) it is safe for a child to play with a razer blade because the razer blade will not burn the child. True – but meaningless.

2)…that blue asbestos is safe because a single small particle of the substance when ingested, gives no immediate cause for alarm. Therefore, anyone working with, and inhaling, blue asbestos over a period of years, is similarly safe and risk free.

3).... in a scientific study, a volunteer was given 40 cigarettes to smoke in 24 hours. The volunteer was thoroughly examined after the experiment. Tests and XRays showed no sign of harm to lungs, heart or arteries. The Report therefore concludes that it is safe for people to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day for the rest of their lives.

The unbiased evidence from independent scientists worldwide, reveals that the potential dangers of mobile phone technology are frighteningly real. This evidence is supported by the proliferation around masts of cancer and leukaemia clusters, increases of epilepsy, Motor-Neurone Disease, brain tumours and other chronic, but non fatal conditions. Scientific and medical information of such paramount importance should officially be made available, but it is being denied and kept from the British public.

Mast Sanity acknowledges the widespread use of this technology and the undoubted advantages it offers. THEREFORE, TO AVOID A HUMAN DISASTER ON A MASSIVE SCALE, MAKING IT SAFE IS A MATTER OF EXTREME URGENCY. This Government has so far refused to give adequate safeguards or to take the necessary responsibility for public welfare. On the contrary, in collaboration with this powerful global industry, it has deliberately increased the dangers through inaction, deception and through the introduction of appalling legal and planning policies.

Mast Sanity is a voluntary, non party political organisation, whose sole purpose is to protect the health, lives and well-being of all citizens. Its members have been driven to action by one of the most serious threats to our society that we have ever faced. Despite every reasonable attempt to work with and influence the Government on this issue, those attempts have been callously ignored. Since we can no longer trust the Government to protect us, we must take action to protect ourselves. Until proper safety measures are in place, people should boycott 3G phones and restrict usage of all mobile phones, especially by children. Parents should remove children from schools which are close to masts. Most importantly, we must decide whether, in the national interest, it is safe to vote for this Government in the next election.

Jenny


From Mast Network


SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY - Cluster in Spain 2000-2004
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

Letter and attachment to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/