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The cost of objecting to a Mobile Telecommunication Mast next to your home
United Kingdom Created: 8 Sep 2005
You will remember that my husband and I, who are both in our early sixties, objected to a Hutchison 3G mast being erected and operated 28 meters away from our home and place of work at a low level, in Worcester Worcestershire.

Our objections failed and now we have received the bill from one of the New Unelected Rulers of Britain, the Mobile Telecommunications Companies.

This is what they consider a fair price for crushing an objector.

The sum of £. 407398, 06 (Fourhundred-and-seventhousand-threehundred-and-ninetyeight pounds and six pence)
+ Value added tax.
Plus interest.

Then of course we have to count the loss of our health, the loss of our home and the loss of our lifes savings which were spent in financing the protest.

Combined the result is well over half a million pounds, So Far!

Cheers!

Agnes Ingvarsdottir.
Eirikur M. Petursson.
Glen Lea. Upper Colwall
Nr. Malvern WR13 6DH
Herefordshire.
Phone/Fax: 01684 540 138
E-mail: a.ingvarsdottir@btconnect.com
agnes@mast-victims.org
Website : www.mast-victims.org

Eileen O´Connor: Tribute to the people suffering because of Mast radiation
United Kingdom Created: 8 Sep 2005
SCRAM (Seriously Concerned Residents About Masts) - www.scram.uk.com

Please add your tribute to the growing list, find some time to read the enclosed information some of it is heartbreaking, but shows the true suffering. We will not be remembered as just another statistic.

e-mail me your thoughts, hopes and prayers, I intend on making our thoughts known to Government and will be putting them on our website. Thank you so much for your contribution.

Tribute from Eileen O’Connor
As a tribute to people throughout the world suffering from Cancer, Brain Tumours, Brain degenerative diseases, asthma and electro sensitivity. Many of these diseases are man made and many causes can be attributed to chemicals and radiation. Governments throughout the world continue to put billions of pounds before our health; many people are suffering for the sake of big business and industry at the hands of the people we elect into Government. Now it’s our chance to send a message loud and clear, it will soon be our chance to take our vote to the ballot box, question all local candidates from each political party and find out if they support your views before you make any firm decision.

I believe without any doubt that my breast cancer was brought on at the age of 38, three years ago as a result of living 100m next to a huge mobile phone mast for over seven years.

I know your suffering and I understand your fears. I constantly fear cancer returning and have had many scares since, I have thought long and hard on whether I should share my feelings with you and feel its time to represent the billions of people world wide who are going through the same fears and the same suffering.

I fear for my life and the chance to see my children grow, I recently had another cancer scare, this time my doctors thought it had travelled to my spine, towards the end of 2004 I had to undergo another series of MRI scans and bone scans. No one can tell you how frightening it is waiting for the results, no one can tell you how awful it is for your family watching you suffer and sometimes wondering whether you are about to take your last breath. My husband lay awake many nights watching me breathe when I was undergoing chemo therapy and struggling to get through, he has since told me about his fear listening to every breath I took and wondering if it would be the last. No one should suffer this torture. While laying in the MRI and Bone scanner again recently I thought about all the people throughout the world who are in the same position and about the billions of people who have sadly lost their battle. I prayed to God to help us stop this un-necessary suffering for the sake of profit. I sometimes despair and wonder if we will ever be listened to, only time will tell. It may take many years, the smoking and asbestos industries have finally been proved after many years of people sacrificing their lives.

I need your help, we need to help our selves, if you have to use a mobile phone, only use it for emergency use only and buy the lowest radiation phone on the market. Use your vote in the election wisely and question your MP’s intentions. Join the many voices fighting for life and help those who no longer have the ability to fight for their life anymore.

I am one of the lucky ones my scan results turned out to be only signs of wear and tear now I’ve reached the grand old age of 41, I hope to see my 80th Birthday “God wiling” I hope to see my children grow, to live life to the full to laugh to cry to treasure my friends and family. I will live to fight another day. Sadly some of my friends and neighbours have not been as lucky and I miss them dearly. I just know that when that day does come and I am ready to take that last breath, I hope I can look back and in the words of my favourite film say “It’s a wonderful life” and know I’ve made a difference, you can make a difference to, don’t wait like I did to get a wake up call.

I am inviting everyone to put just one sentence or short paragraph together, add you name and the area you live in, I will build up a file of quotes to go with this letter and send it on to leaders of the world. Send your quote to the SCRAM (Seriously Concerned Residents About Masts) website www.s-c-r-a-m.co.uk send this to all your friends and family.

I would like to end by saying a thank you to all the dedicated campaigners, independent scientists, the media and people in positions of power who are working hard towards a safer future and ask God to guide us and protect the vulnerable.

Best wishes and God Bess to everyone.
Eileen O’Connor
www.scram.uk.com
www.radiationresearch.org
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Tribute to People Suffering

I cried when I read Eileen’s email. Every word she said was true and from the heart. I met Eileen as a result of my only daughter aged 13 dying from bone cancer in August 2003 and there is nothing in the whole world that could be worse than watching your child suffer and taking her last breath, whilst cradled in your arms. My daughter was old enough to be frightened and pleaded to the Drs and ourselves as her parents to get her better, she loved life so much, had so many dreams and so much to live for and yet we felt so helpless and scared ourselves, we did not know what to do and put our trust and childs life into the hands of the doctors and hospitals. Our Jen asked us WHY? why did she get cancer and why are so many people being diagnosed with cancer.
I believe that Eileen and her team have found a possible cause, and this cause needs to be looked into regardless of the millions of pounds of revenue that may be lost. Millions of lives may continue to be lost unless the government act now -our children/teenagers and future generations depend on us to protect them and give them a safe environment to grow up in. We must act now before it is too late.
I would never wish for any parent to go through what we have been through and are still going through, our lives will never be the same again without the beautiful smile and laughter of our daughter, who made our lives so complete and worth living.
Please back Eileen and her team for what they are trying to achieve and fight for on behalf of families like mine.
Lin Carvell.
Liverpool
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Please see my website www.starweave.com, main info page, for FIVE scientific studies ALL showing ill-health effects from MASTS. I challenge Mr Blair, or any of his advisers, to produce ONE study failing to show such effects. THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO SEE (Dazzled by ££££ signs).

THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO SEE (Dazzled by ££££ signs).

Dr Grahame Blackwell
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I urge leaders of the world to place the elimination of the causes of cancer, such as mast emissions, car emissions, chemicals in food, passive smoking etc, at the front of their agenda as they do oil supplies and its sources. On the multiplication of masts, and emissions alone, we could start by setting a European standard.
If only taking account of the economics, this will save billions on health care and services, in most of the developed world.

Ken Rushton.
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK

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The wheels of Government turn slower than the undertaker’s hearse and with less frequency.

The second is a quote taken from Hansards during the reading of Richard Spring’s Bill in May of last year
By Keith Hill, Planning minister.
“The UK is at the forefront of service provision of mobile phone communications and it has been estimated that the UK mobile sector contributes £18billion to the UK economy or 2% of GDP. This has been achieved by a careful balancing of the planning
Regulations and guidelines which have facilitated the growth of not only existing but of new systems, while seeking to keep environmental impact to a minimum and addressing public health concerns. The government believe we have struck the right balance”
WHAT BALANCE ! The scales need checking.

Regards Pete Morley Gainsborough Lincs, UK
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ICNIRP guidelines are absolutely useless as only heating effects are considered.
We need a change in the law to prevent ANY masts from being erected within 500 metres of schools hospitals and residential areas. When drawing up this law, advice should be taken from EMINENT INDEPENDENT SCIENTISTS such as Dr Hyland, Dr Blackwell, Dr. Walker, Professor Coghill and Barry Trower. The views of Government career scientists and scientists working for telecom companies are biased and need to be ignored. The final decisions should be made by a committee of the above named INDEPENDENT scientists not UNQUALIFIED judges.
Regards,
A.Lawrence & M.J.Lawrence
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Dear Eileen,
Thank you for this beautiful and inspiring tribute.
I feel we have a lot in common.
Not only do I strongly agree with your principles, but I also pray for God's guidance to work towards a safer future on this issue and I would go as far as to say that I am driven to fight this cause.

Coincidentally,
"It's a Wonderful Life" is also my favourite film!
I've submitted a quote to the website.
Best wishes,
Bev
Merseyside
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As a seriously concerned resident against masts I believe that present cavalier attitudes regarding exposure to microwave radiation will have a ripple effect through the whole of humankind on a scale that is bigger than anyone can comprehend. We must look to the dangers now for our future survival and may God preserve us.
Angela Bush
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Dear Eileen and other members of SCRAM,

I am currently a mother of three and a very concerned resident of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The telecommunications technology has swept this generation without any real consideration of the possible dangers to our health. As someone with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, I am acutely aware of the power and potential of electromagnetic waves and do not believe the fields created by telephone masts, mobile telephones, and indeed wireless modems will not have any adverse effects on humans.

Sadly, the huge profits made by this industry have blinded many in the corporate world and government to any thought to these risks. There is no significant

Global scientific research into this area in spite of the pervasiveness of the technology. I urge governments to promote such research by the industry
Itself by creating more stringent requirements for planning applications. I am sure that there will be a number of ways to render this technology as safe as
Possible in the future as long as the industry is forced to make heath considerations a vital focus.

Thank you for all your good work,
Sincerely yours,

Clare Pelham

London
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We feel that our life is in danger
From Klaus Rudolph C.I.O. Citizens Initiative Omega in Germany see C.I.O. newsletter:
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/00omega.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/english_start.html
http://omega.twoday.net/
http://robingood.typepad.com/commagents_blog/2003/07/i_am_very_honou.html
http://www.bariumblues.com/klaus_%20rudolf.htm
http://www.notiz.ch/wissenschaft-unzensiert/elektrosmog/2001/april/opfer2.html

We feel that our life is in danger
We lived at a distance of about 300 meters of a 4 mobile phone antennas at the water reservoir in Schöllbronn in D-76275 Ettlingen till end of 2003. The units were constructed in a short time beginning in February of 2000.
With the erection of the mobile radio-unit, began for us a terrible sorrow time.

Insomnia, dizziness, muscle cramps, heart lawn, nightly sweating and freezing, trembling at the entire body are only some examples what my wife's experience and I since then had to go through. In addition I got a Fibromyalgia and ringing in the ears through the effect of the mobile radio, my wife suffers because of the radiation of the mobile radio-unit under epileptic attacks and vertigo with several collapses yet.

We are both for some time already no longer in the situation to work. Sometimes we do not know how we yet should live on. We feel that our life is in danger and similar to your neighbour we have to leave our house we have rented for the last 8 years, because we can not pay the rent anymore and we have many debts. We don't know where to go, because we have all over these antennas and mobile phones. From 2000-2003 we lived nearby this MW broadcast tower and we got EHS. Since the end of 2003 we live in a flat but we have the same problems because of our EHS we got since 2000.

After and after we learned that many other citizens are concerned in similar manner.
All efforts to move the operators to a dismantling of the units or to an attitude of envoy activity, remained without success, also the lawsuits we undertake to force the mobile phone operators to end their work of destruction. All that and many useless shielding actions cost many money.

There is little help from anybody, although our story is well known in Germany and elsewhere. And there are many similar cases in Germany and around the world. There had to be funds and places for us tortured victims, but nobody is caring, especially not our governments and the mobile phone industry which is responsible for our damages.

Klaus and Gabi Rudolph
Marxzell
Germany

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Hi Klaus: On Friday, June 6, 2003 THE IRISH TIMES

published on page 13 a full page poignant article "Living in the Shadow of Death" by Caitriona Crowe whose brother died of an epileptic seizure just a year ago. We know that one of the severest symptoms for a number of us who are EHS (electrohypersensitive) are seizures of various intensity. As I have disclosed on numerous occasions (most recently, in my report of the COST 281 Worskhop, posted at C.I.Omega for 20/5/03) I get brain seizures when falling off to sleep, following exposure to excessive EMR levels, hence my particular interest in "this mysterious illness" as Caitriona terms it.

Some points she makes that may particularly interest EHS members of your group who suffer from seizures:

A 2002 U.K. published report on epilepsy related deaths ("National Sentinel Clinical Audit of Epilepsy-Related Death") concluded that "'it was difficult to establish the true number of epilepsy-related deaths from certification data . . . Epilepsy-related death . . . is still underestimated by healthcare professionals, and this may reflect the mistaken belief that epilepsy is a benign condition. The risk of death associated with epilepsy appeared rarely to have been discussed with patients or their families.'"
Caitriona Crowe suggests that "It is crucial that healthcare professionals take the condition properly into account when treating patients for other problems and are aware of the risk of seizures and the danger they pose."

To add a few words about "this mysterious illness."

Posted for 15/2/03 on Citizens Initiative Omega is my entry captioned "an ES sufferer reports." This concerns quite an awful week I survived of RF/MW harassment following my opening of an esisreal email account with a specific Irish carrier. (Naturally, that account became quickly inactive as I wished not to be killed!) Right in the middle of that week I had one night of continuous brain seizures from the severity of the harassment. I telephoned the Irish BRAINWAVE Society (The Dublin based support group for epileptics) to let them know what was happening and I was told they knew nothing about a connection between exposure to external interference from electromagnetic sources and seizures. Hearing that, of course I sent the society quite a batch of literature. But there still is not a public word from BRAINWAVE about the connection between excessive (that is as geared to the susceptible individual's tolerance level) e-levels and their triggering seizures.
Last week, I happened to share a bus-seat with the mother of a young man who has been suffering from epilepsy for the last few years. I didn't know this when I sat beside her but I had all the details by the time we got off that bus. And I had particularly noted one fact: that a specific neurosurgeon here in Cork whom her son had consulted had warned him to stay away from electric equipment for at least a year!
She happened to mention in particular an electric hedge-trimmer that he might have used, so it was not just in case of epileptically induced seizures from flickering screen lights, etc. Nice to know that there is at least one Irish medical specialist here who will not confuse seizures triggered by the very real exposure of a susceptible/sensitive person to external EMR sources with self-induced hallucinations of being affected - that is "psychotic episodes" - as, in my very painful experience, has been the case.

Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland
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We need a politics and economics that puts people first.
Peter Beck
Birmingham Green Party
Dear Eileen
Thanks for your note “Tribute to people suffering” and I and I can fully identify with your comments and thoughts.
It does seem to me that the incidence of cancer in all its form is becoming more common, whether that is a reflection of our lifestyle or advancement in technology in identifying such illness in a debateable point.
There is no doubt that advances in technology could give greater cause for concern as advancement have over the years.
Increased technology always seems to come at a price what we should question is the price too much and are the health problems (like you) due to this increased technology.
I think we should all be concerned at the potential risks of both phones and masts especially with the young who seem to spend hours and hours using mobile phones, what happened to good old face to face conversation.
Anyway good luck with the campaign and keep in touch.
Best wishes,
Allan Naylor
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Dear Eileen

I am very concerned about this whole issue. I live in Wetherby, West Yorkshire and worry every day when I see my local High school covered in masts. Also major buildings in the cantre of Harrogate covered. I totally support your campaign.
Good look in the campaign and in your life.
Regards and best wishes
Brenton b Williams


Hi Eileen - Reading your input I feel a tremendous surge of anger at the irresponsible way that the Government and phone companies are ignoring the evidence before their eyes. I have just heard of a colleague in my village (pop. 4,500) who is very seriously ill - something I am hearing almost on a daily basis (three people in one night recently requiring an ambulance) - with symptoms which are all linked to living near to phone masts, by dedicated independent scientists.

I came across a profound quote made by a poet and author from a century ago, Rev. J. H. B. Masterman - "How often is it still true - that what we need is not fresh evidence, but a fuller understanding of what we have already". And it is still true 100 years on! When will they learn?

Sylvia Wright
South Staffs
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What can I say? For seventeen years I have been trying to tell the world about the insidious dangers of exposure to EMF against a background of polarisation, obfuscation, procrastination and downright deception by the power utilities, the telecoms and computer industries, and the military. I am still going, and now I think we have found a way of prophylaxis. But there is still a long road ahead, and time is closing in on both me and the people. Even those most likely to benefit scarcely believe me!

Best of luck with it all, Eileen

Roger Coghill
MA (Cantab) C Biol MI Biol MA (Environ Mgt)

Coghill Research Laboratories
Visit our website: http://www.cogreslab.co.uk
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Dear Eileen, As founder of Northern Ireland Opposed to Masts I saw first hand the suffering in communities during battles with rich powerful mobile phone companies and what they thought were their own government ignoring their wishes. I also witnessed cancer clusters near these masts, just like the ones being found in the rest of Britain. One cluster was in a rural area of County Tyrone, where a large mast cluttered with equipment was mounted at the top of a hill. At the bottom of the hill were five homes with six people of various ages with cancer. The only time their government or the phone companies involved took notice was when the people cut the mast down. Shortly after the mast was taken down I had to attend the funeral of a mother of four who had fought to prevent the mast from going back up. She was the fourth cancer death and she had buried her husband six months before with cancer. The government didn't race out to find out if their mast was involved...NO, their only concern was to try and get it back up!
Neither the government nor the phone industry cares about the damage these masts and phones are doing. They only care about the big money involved. Time after time I watched communities beg these companies to move the mast out away from people only to find the mast forced up a few nights later. The only time they take the people seriously is when their equipment hits the ground at a hundred miles an hour!
Yours sincerely,
Walter Graham
Chairman of NIOM
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Having watched my friends and neighbours suffer and die because of this, i now hear of the problem occurring all over the country where people now suffer the same symptoms as they did. Olle Johansson needs funds to further his work, and we need to raise funds for this. Advertisements paid for, and printed in the main newspapers, and on TV is the way to shame the Government and the companies. Funds could be raised from donations asked for in the adverts and fund raisers. I would suggest tins to collect money, and the noise at supermarkets that can be heard on the acousticom as a way to raise funds.… By highlighting the truth, we can educate other people. Dr Hyland, John Walker and Graham Blakwells papers could be used as well. If Eileen and the radiation trust took this up i feel it would work. We need to stop putting faith in the democratic way forward via politicians, as there is no democracy, and it is a waste of money time and energy. By taking this into our own hands we would start to get somewhere. Exposing the lies, and embarrassing the people who are paid to protect us, is the democratic route to take now. Expose and shame is what is needed.
Catherine
Scotland
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This Government, some of the Government Scientists and this Industry, will be held responsible for more deaths in peace time than any terrorist group in the world ever!
Barry Trower
Ex-Government Military Scientist
Author of the Trower report on Tetra for the Police Federation
Man destroyeth and animals and environment suffereth.
How selfish the human race is to adopt guidelines and protection measures without any thought for the animals and environment with which we are entrusted to protect. Ask yourself if ICNIRP guidelines are inadequate to protect us, what hope lies for the wildlife in whose back yard ALL these structures are erected. The mobile phone industry tells us that exclusion zones extend out to no more than 15m from the antenna and 4.3m below the antenna, but industry forgot to tell the birds who perch upon these structures.

Per the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 'I do acknowledge your concern and also importantly note that the Stewart Report made very little mention of any potential impact of these masts on the health or welfare of farm or wild animals living nearby, choosing to focus nearly exclusively on the perceived or potential consequences for human safety .As such this is a matter of concern and I would agree that the issue requires further closer examination'.

Per the Scottish Prevention for the Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), 'the objectives of the Scottish SPCA are to prevent cruelty to animals and to encourage kindness and humanity in their treatment. A specific policy of the Society is Conservation. Since the Society is concerned with the welfare of wild animals it deplores changes made to the environment which disturb the balance of nature. Like the RSPCA the Scottish SPCA has not had any dealings in this area, however, I feel that both the above policy statements would indicate that if full scientific evidence demonstrated a link to domestic and wild animal health and welfare then the Scottish SPCA would most definitely voice its concern.
Stephen Kearney
Lancashire

There is about 3 times the average rate of Cancer. in the beam patches.
United Kingdom Created: 7 Sep 2005
Abstract
There is now very self sustaining and well agreeing information over several countries:-
To answer question 1 Is there any effect of mobile telephone base station radiation on living beings e.g. human and animal health?
There are results of ill people in houses in beam patches (7 patches) so far tested (120 ill people by 2005)
There is about 3 times the average rate of Cancer. in the beam patches.
Ill people in flats in mast beams in Midlands (600 ill people)
Ill people in a school near mast (75 ill pupils and teachers)
To answer question 2 How is the incidence of ill health related to the strength of the radiation?
In Spain Navarro & Oldfield 0.13 volts/metre for an Odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendency.
In UK Beam patches about 1,5 volts/metre outside correspond to about 0.5 volts/metre inside buildings
In Germany Bamberger <0.06 volts/metre give 30% illness, 0.06 -0.2 volts/metre gives 60% illness
These values are relatively close compared to ICNRP 41 volts/metre!

“An Unofficial View” of Health v Mobile phone Mast Non Ionizing Radiation September 2005
Introduction
Newspaper cuttings were collected a few years ago, of illness near mobile telephone base station masts around this country and some from Europe. The worst case was 4 cancers in 5 adjacent houses by an old mast; this seemed to be too much of a coincidence.[Evening Standard 20 February 2002] Most of the articles were followed up by a visit, to find the extent of the illnesses at each location.
A more scientific approach was needed.
It was found that three pole mast beams, 120 degrees apart, often hit the ground at a distance away from the mast equal to 10 times the height of the mast and it is here, at the area of highest field intensity, that the illness patches occur.
Question 1 Is there any effect of mobile telephone base station radiation on living beings e.g. human and animal health?
Human Data available
A HOUSES
(1) 7 patches of illness were found in the highest signal level of the radiation (non ionizing) near masts around the country. Approximate simulated average fields were used,. this is of the order of 1.5 Volts/metre.outdoors and corresponds to 0.5 Volts/metre indoors
1a) The number of ill people:-
1a1) in a single beam patch is proportional to the cumulative integrated dose of radiation received over the years e.g. 8 ill after 8 years, 21 ill after 13 years and
1a2) in a two beam crossing patch, 31 ill.after 11 years.
1b) The radius away from the mast of both beam patch and illness patch agrees well.
1c) The angular phase of the illness patch relates to the angular position of the poles of the mast e.g. 120 degrees or 240 degrees (maximum error so far only 12 degrees).
B) FLATS
600 people were found to be ill in flats which were at high field levels. Note: - in multistorey flats, each person’s rooms are all on the same side of the building, so the inhabitants cannot escape the radiation unless they sleep in the corridor!
C SCHOOLS
Surveys in schools
A survey in a Warwickshire school, close to a multi array mast 11 years old, showed the teachers to be twice as ill as the pupils (The teachers have more years at the school and therefore get a larger integrated cumulative dose of radiation) and the pupils to be twice as ill as the population in a West Midlands town with a merely 2 year old mast.
If the data answers Question 1 in the affirmative, then the next question is:
Question 2 How is the incidence of ill health related to the strength of the radiation?
The latest Bamberger study from Germany shows well (at 4 levels of radiation) the relation between the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) Guidelines, the local Salzburg Guidelines and
the levels for 60% illness at 0.06 – 0.2 volts/metre
and 94% illness at 0.21 – 0.6 volts/metre in the 356 people studied
Note - the level in the beam patches in Question 1 is 1.5 volts per metre externally which is of the order of 0.5 volts/metre internally in houses. This agrees fairly well with the more detailed Bamberger study.
This also agrees well with the Oldfield Navarro results of 0.13 volts/metre for an Odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendency.
The remaining question is:-
Question 3 What are the mechanisms by which illness are caused?
If over time, radiation suppresses our nightly melatonin cycle, evolved by all vertebrae (humans and animals) etc over many millennia, then our immune system protection against cosmic rays is seriously compromised.

I have not yet found an old mast that has not got an illness patch. If you have any data which disagrees with the above, if there is any, I would be glad to receive it.

“An Unofficial View” of Official Views
About 1997, ICNIRP (International Commission for Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) took a very narrow view of the reasons for susceptibility of the bodies of living beings to Non Ionizing Radiation. They merely considered the heating effect and ignored the most important effects. They persuaded most governments and institutions with plausible arguments to their view. They did not know then what we know now. They had no feel that on this earth “we see through glass as but darkly”.
It is easy to think that, although some of us can stand a few years of radiation without any obvious effects, that there is no effect. However this is really living in myth land and ignoring what is going on.
1) An Establishment statement
The balance of evidence to date suggests that exposures to RF radiation below NRPB and ICNRP guidelines do not cause adverse health effects to the general population
This is a non quantitative statement that has been static for several years. It is more political than scientific. It is a chameleon, depending on the population which is being considered.
A) If this is applied to the general population of UK then it is apparently True. But highly diluted results are being obtained due to averaging many people outside beam patches with a few people inside beam patches.
B) But if this is applied to the general population of a Beam Patch, then it is False. The illness applies to up to 50% of the people, with an illness density of about 3 times that of the surrounding area which is at a much lower radiated field level.
2) An Establishment view
There are so many masts about that there is sure to be some coincidences with random cancer clusters.
The data on the previous page shows that mast induced illness is very far from being random and is in fact extremely determinate.
Note - if mast induced illness is random, then it is out of control of the establishment and from an economic viewpoint, then maximum wealth should be generated by the expansion of the mobile telephone industry.
3) A Consensus view.
People feel they are safer if their views agree with the “general consensus” however it is possible on odd occasions that this view may be erroneous particularly when:-
A) A new situation occurs - much higher frequency, digital, squarer waves, as compared to the old lower frequency sinusoidal waves of broadcasting.
The establishment will pretend it is not a new situation.
B) And from my work so far, I feel that ICNIRP’s decision was extremely misleading, because they had not got the data then that we have now.
The establishment will attempt to defend the old consensus by calling new scientific data merely anecdotal and by destructively fastening on unimportant points and neglecting important points.
Defence of an old consensus can be very unfair scientifically.
4) Paralysis of advancement of knowledge by cutting funding
Several scientists have said that there was no funding for key work.
1) At Universities students who wanted to do worthwhile work were dissuaded because it would be controversial (Universities depend on Government for their funding.).
2) This means that any real work must be done voluntarily by a retired scientist within the cost limits of the volunteer.
5) The Suppresion of anti policy statements has maintained the myth for several years.
6) Generalisations and logicality not rooted in actuality do not help health.


Instrumentation
The Acousticom makes one aware of radiation, but it does to a certain extent indicate the source.
However a digital frequency analyser is much more versatile and about one tenth of the cost of the old analogue versions
TheSpectran HF 6080 has a directional aerial and can detect amongst other things GSM 900, GSM1800, UMTS, Dect etc
It can be hand held and gives an Acousticom sound of the wave modulation and % of ICNIRP level as well as the spectra etc and two channel storage of signals.etc.
Source: Dr John Walker and Eileen O´Connor

Secret Report On Cell Phone Dangers And Tetra, Strictly For The Police Federation Of England and Wales
United Kingdom Created: 3 Sep 2005
Secret Report On Cell Phone Dangers And Tetra Confidential Report On TETRA Strictly For The Police Federation Of England and Wales

INTRODUCTION

With respect to my fellow scientists I shall be writing this report in non-scientific speak for all of those readers who have not had the benefit of a scientific education.

We being water based animals act like aerials to these waves. As the waves go into our bodies an electric current is generated inside our bodies which is
how aerials work; waves come in and electricity is generated. The electricity generated in our bodies like all electric currents goes to ground through our
bodies and like all electric currents it takes the path of least resistance. Unfortunately the path of least resistance through our bodies, although only
representing 10% of our pathways, carries 90% of our traffic rather like the M1 motorway. The traffic in our bodies, namely hormones, antibodies, neurotransmitters know where they are going because they also carry an electric charge. The hormones, antibodies and neurotransmitters know where to
"get off" because there is a corresponding opposite charge at the site of delivery rather like the positive and negative ends of a battery.
The problem is if you have an electric current passing through the body it can change this charge, either on the hormones, antibodies or neurotransmitters
or the site of delivery.
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Source: By B. Trower 11-25-4

Yvette Cooper backing the people in a Mast row
United Kingdom Created: 3 Sep 2005
Mast row

ANGRY Airedale residents will be meeting mobile phone bosses later this month in a bid to stop plans for a 28ft mast in the middle of their estate.
More than 500 objectors – backed by MP Yvette Cooper – signed a petition against the mast to be built on a patch of grassland in Elizabeth Drive.
Bosses from Vodafone have now agreed to meet residents at a special drop-in session at Castleford Civic Centre on Wednesday September 21
from 4-7pm.
Petition organiser James Dakin, who lives on Elizabeth Drive, said: "A drop-in session suggests Vodafone wants to deal with residents individually instead of as a whole group. It could split people's opinions and we want to tackle the company together.
"This is typical of what's happening across the country with these masts. Mobile phone companies and councils just railroad them through despite the potential health risks. I would have expected the council to at least allow us to put in our objections first."
Ms Cooper said she had written to Vodafone three times to ask them to consult residents.
She added: "I am appalled that Vodafone didn't meet residents before putting their planning application forward, despite having assured me three
times that they would.
"I am now urging them to conduct a proper consultation before anything goes ahead and that means listening to what residents have to say and not simply coming to talk to them."
A Wakefield Council spokesman said: "Planning permission for the mast was given to Vodafone on August 10. It was a delegated decision so it didn't need to go to full committee."
Pontefract and Castle ford Express. 01 September 2005

Hutchison 3G: NO WONDER THEY BEHAVE LIKE MORON´S, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR ORIGIN
United Kingdom Created: 1 Sep 2005
Telecommunications companies like nothing better than erecting masts, especially Hutchison 3G UK. It proudly claims to use film-set techniques to pretend the masts are everything from chimneys to clock towers. So next time you're at the bus stop, don't be surprised if the boring person standing next to you turns out to be a mobile phone mast.
The move to 3G networks 'expands' the things mobiles can do, as they are now effectively always connected to the network. Picture it. You're sitting, yet again unentertained, with family and friends, when suddenly.. Wow! A video clip of a Premiership goal appears on your handset! Or maybe you're feeling lonely when.. Yeah! Miniature dancing naked people just for you!
In conjunction with its partners '3' has undertaken one of the fastest network rollouts in European telecoms history. Up to 200 base stations are being installed per week. Hutchison 3G UK recently completed its 5,000th radio base station, while UK analysts expect that up to 35,000 new masts will be needed.
For the people who live near the masts, however, this isn't the greatest of news. Residents in Bath, who have already fought off two of Hutchison's attempts to erect masts, have discovered that the fight is only beginning.
'They tried to put one on top of a grade one listed church,' said Sian Meredith, a representative of the aggrieved locals.
'The residents got this withdrawn so they just tried again 200m down the road.
They put in hundreds of planning applications and even the planning office admitted to me that it's sick of them.'
A spokesman for Hutchison agreed: 'If the community does not want Hutchison 3G we don't go away.'
Perhaps this attitude is to be expected. Hutchison 3G is part of Hutchison Whampoa's global 3G group owned by the Chinese billionaire, Li Ka-shing.
Li, known as 'Superman' in Hong Kong, is also the world's largest independent port operator, with facilities everywhere - from China to Panama to Britain.
He has control of Canada's Husky Energy Inc. and it is estimated that he owns at least one third of downtown Vancouver.
When 'the world's most extensive fibre-optic network', Global Crossing, became the fourth largest bankruptcy in US history, mirroring the Enron Saga in every way, right down to the document shredding, Li was there to buy it up.
According to an October 1999 'Intelligence Assessment' prepared by the U.S. military Southern Command, the Hong Kong billionaire is a potential threat to America. This ran alongside the Clinton White House's denial that Li was working for the government in Beijing. The White House press secretary labelled such accusations as 'silly' and said 'this is the kind of thing you see around here from time to time.'
Recent testimony before the U.S. Senate however, revealed that Li Ka-Shing 'and his Hong Kong based company and subsidiaries are closely associated with the Beijing regime and have a history of acting as sources of funding or acting as intermediaries in deals for the People's Liberation Army.' Li is a board member of the China International Trust and Investment Corp., a principal funding arm of the Chinese government and a technology acquiring source for China's military.
The '3' network is a make-or- break investment for Hutchison, which is expected to spend up to $3 billion on the business to make it viable. It has already suffered handset shortages during the crucial Christmas period and has raised tariffs on '3'. The company is currently considering legal action over a survey by the Australian Computer Society, which found a low level of customer satisfaction with the new network.

SO WHO IS LI KA SINGH, WHO OWNS HUTCHISON 3G??

Li Ka-Shing: Red Arms Dealer

In October 1999, the Clinton White House denied that Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing is working for the communists in Beijing.
The White house press secretary labeled such accusations as "silly" and dismissed them as " the kind of thing you see around here from time to time."
Yet, in August 1994, the Clinton White House did not think Li Ka-Shing's connection to the red Chinese leadership was silly.
President Clinton thought so highly of Li Ka-Shing that he equated and included the communist financier with the red leaders of Beijing in a package of intelligence information supplied to a Democratic National Committee million-dollar donor.
The Clinton White House thought so much of Li Ka-Shing that they passed a complete intelligence bio on the Chinese billionaire directly to DNC donor Loral Aerospace CEO Bernard Schwartz just prior to a trade trip to Beijing. Along with Li Ka-Shing's bio, the White House also gave Schwartz the detailed biographies of the entire Chinese communist leadership from President Jiang Zemin to the mayor of Shanghai.
Li Ka-Shing's bio and the bios of other leading communist party members were exposed here in an exclusive WorldNetDaily column.
The Clinton White House illegally withheld the documents from public release using false claims.
In September 1998, the Commerce Department was forced by a federal lawsuit to release these documents from the files of the late Secretary Ron Brown.
The Clinton administration bio of the red leadership included a cover-sheet addressed to a blacked-out "intelligence agency," informing the secret agency that the documents had to be made public.
Li Ka-Shing and the Chinese red leadership bios are available on the Internet. They are official Clinton administration documents.
According to Forbes, Li Ka-Shing is the sixth richest man in the world. Li claims to be neither a red Chinese government official nor a member of any military service. Yet, the Clinton White House bio states that Li is a "member of the board of directors of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC)."
According to a 1997 Rand Corporation report sponsored by the Clinton administration, CITIC is an "investment concern under China's governmental State Council" CITIC "became identified with the PLA as a result of the scandal surrounding Wang Jun and his visit to the White House on 6 February 1996."
In February 1996, President Clinton met with Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun after taking a donation from Arkansas DNC donor Charlie Trie. The Rand Corp.
noted that "Wang Jun is both director of CITIC and Chairman of Poly Group, the arms trading company of the General Staff Department."
In short, Wang Jun was an arms dealer from the Chinese army.
According to the Rand Corporation report, "Poly Technologies, Ltd., was founded in 1984, ostensibly as a subsidiary of CITIC, although it was later exposed to be the primary commercial arm of the PLA General Staff Department's Equipment Sub-Department. Throughout the 1980's, Poly sold hundreds of millions of dollars of largely surplus arms around the world, exporting to customers in Thailand, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, and the United States."
The Rand report concluded, "CITIC does enter into business partnerships with and provide logistical assistance to PLA and defense-industrial companies like Poly. Poly's U.S. subsidiaries were abruptly closed in August 1996. Allegedly, Poly's representative, Robert Ma, conspired with China North Industries Corporation's (NORINCO) representative, Richard Chen, and a number of businessmen in California to illegally import 2000 AK-47s into the United States."
"Unfortunately for them," states the Rand report, "their 'customers' turned out to be undercover U.S. Customs and BATF agents, posing as members of a Miami syndicate. Poly's representative, Robert Ma, fled the country one step ahead of Federal law enforcement officals who had a warrant for his arrest, and his current whereabouts are unknown."
The Rand Corporation did not neglect to document Li Ka-Shing's direct connections o the Chinese military. According to the Rand report, "Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts, which would build upon his equity interest in Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building infrastructure on China's Hainan Island."
Clearly, Li Ka-Shing helps to fund the People's Liberation Army by providing financing for Chinese army weapons sales through Poly Technologies and for purchases of advanced western military technology.
For example, CITIC also owns a controlling interest in the Hong Kong based Asia Satellite Telecom Co. Ltd., or AsiaSat. AsiaSat, a company founded in 1988, operates several communications satellites in the Far East bought from U.S. manufacturers such as Hughes.
AsiaSat is also a front company for the People's Liberation Army. According to "Aviation Week and Space Technology," AsiaSat is also part-owned by the Chinese army unit COSTIND (the Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense). AsiaSat satellites regularly carry "military communications" traffic for PLA units and Chinese military-owned companies.
It is no surprise that AsiaSat signed an exclusive deal with billionaire Li Ka-Shing to carry his STAR television service, 54 channels of premium cable/satellite television including MTV, re-runs of American sitcoms dubbed in various languages, and pay-per-view X-rated movies. Li Ka-Shing later sold all of his STAR TV holdings in two huge chunks to news magnate Rupert Murdoch for nearly a billion dollars.
Li Ka-Shing's joint ventures with the Chinese military are not limited to high-tech satellites and communications deals. One joint venture led by Li Ka-Shing nearly added four new invasion ships to the Chinese navy.
In January 1997, President Clinton authorized four huge "roll on-off" container ships for export directly to China.
The four container ships were to be constructed for the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) and Li Ka-Shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. by the Alabama Shipyards in Mobile, Ala.
The four U.S. ships were to be built using $138 million in private loans backed by the U.S. government. The loans had very favorable terms including low interest rates and a 25-year repayment plan, longer than the expected life of the ships. The loans were also U.S. backed, so even if the ship and owner disappeared, the federal government would still repay the lenders.
COSCO is the flag carrier for China, hauling official cargo exported by the Chinese government, including weapons; for example, the fully automatic AK-47 machineguns from Poly Technologies that were confiscated in the 1996 U.S. Customs sting operation were found onboard a COSCO ship.
Recent U.S. Navy photos show COSCO cargo ships carrying missile-armed patrol boats bound for Iran and tons of depleted uranium anti-tank shells for Pakistan. COSCO ships have carried jet fighters, missile parts and tanks for export to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
The COSCO container ship deal fell apart in November 1997 due to "commercial" reasons blamed on the Asian financial crisis, Senator Thompson's hearings into the Clinton White House and the Poly Technologies sting. In 1998, Clinton officials nervously pointed out that "no money" was involved because the deal fell apart.
Nevertheless, the Chinese navy deal to acquire these ships actually started in 1993 when Bill Clinton and the Democrats were starved for donation cash.
The Maritime shipyard-funding program, managed by the Department of Transportation, was created to finance American-built ships sold to U.S. flag companies.
In 1993, the Democratic-controlled Congress joined President Clinton and altered the program o allow U.S. financing on ships built for export. Li Ka-Shing, COSCO, Ron Brown and Bill Clinton worked to provide the four container ships, including the low cost, 100 percent U.S. government-backed loans, to Hutchison Whampoa and COSCO.
COSCO-which is part of the Chinese navy and wholly owned by the Chinese government-is best known for the recent unsuccessful attempt to purchase the former Long Beach Naval station. COSCO and Li Ka-Shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. now control both ends of the Panama Canal.
Bill Clinton considers Li Ka-Shing to be a power in red China equal to that of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Bill Clinton's White House opened its doors to Li Ka-Shing and his Beijing buddies in the Chinese army surplus outlet store. Poly Technologies. It is the responsibility of Congress to look into Li Ka-Shing and Bill Clinton despite the lies and spin from the White House.
The only thing silly about Li Ka-Shing's relationship to Bill Clinton is the White House denial that the Chinese billionaire is part of the red leadership in Beijing.
Li Ka-Shing's relationship with Bill Clinton is documented by his own administration.
This article was published Tuesday October 26, 1999 by WorldNetDaily.com which also holds the copyright.
It was written by Charles Smith who is a staff writer for WND.
In addition to being a journalist he is President of SOFTWAR, a computer security company based in Richmond, VA.
He writes frequently on issues of national security and information warfare.
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Source: World Net Daily

That will surely help your radiation sickness symptoms: Councils to publish phone mast emission data
United Kingdom Created: 1 Sep 2005
Councils to publish phone mast emission data

Vodafone has sought to quash UK luddites' fears that mobile phone masts are turning their brains into something resembling a partially set trifle.
The cellco is working with seven local councils to install monitors which will keep track of the emissions from Vodafone base stations.
The data will be published to publicly accessible websites provided by the councils.
Vodafone reckons the scheme will show that its base stations are well within international guidelines, “and local residents will be reassured that their health is not at risk.”
Despite being solar powered, the monitors’ll be scanning the airwaves 24 hours a day.
The units will also measure electromagnetic fields from other sources, such as radio and TV. If nothing else, citizens can be reassured
that mobile data is just one of a number of beams that have turned modern Britain into one gigantic microwave oven.
The seven councils are: City and County of Swansea; Oxford; Cambridge; Portsmouth; Stroud; Hinkley and Bosworth; and Wycombe.

As for the rest of you, we recommend wrapping your head in foil and basting yourself every 20 minutes.®
Source: By Joe Fay, Published Thursday 25 Aug. 2005

Sian Merdith: MY SAFETY FEARS OVER PHONE MAST SITES
United Kingdom Created: 31 Aug 2005
MY SAFETY FEARS OVER PHONE MAST SITES

This week's Question and Answer is with Sian Meredith, Bath campaigner for anti-mobile phone pressure group Mast Sanity

1. Why is Mast Sanity opposed to mobile phone masts and mobile phones? Mast Sanity is opposed to the siting of phone masts close to homes, schools, hospitals, old people's homes and other sensitive locations. The system emits pulsed microwave radiation and there is a long and substantial research history indicating that chronic exposure to low-level microwave radiation leads to cumulative damage. Some people appear to be more vulnerable than others, and the best precautionary advice is to limit exposure as far as possible. Siting masts in residential areas presents no choice to people, and is indiscriminate.

Mast Sanity is against the use of mobile phones by children. Sir William Stewart, chairman of the Health Protection Agency, advised in his updated report that children of eight and under shouldn't use mobiles and those under-16 should only use them in emergencies.

2. The vast majority of people now own and use mobile phones and they have become a key part of the communications network. Do not masts now have to be accepted as a necessary consequence?

Mast Sanity is calling for development of a safe alternative system. The present system is biologically and environmentally incompatible and until the Government is forced to recognise the ill health the present system is causing, Mast Sanity is demanding that masts be located away from residential areas, schools and hospitals.

3. Despite an ongoing debate about the potential risks posed by mobile phone masts, so long as recognised health and safety regulations are adhered to, concerns about health are not a valid reason in planning law to oppose permission for them to be set up. If the health and safety guidance is right, why shouldn't masts be put near people's homes?

This country has adopted the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection) guidelines on emissions which are the second highest in the world. Only the USA allows higher emissions. Most other countries set much lower emission levels and wouldn't tolerate the levels this country permits. ICNIRP guidelines deal only with thermal heating effects from the radiation, and not with the biological effects that occur and so do not protect us. Interference with medical and electrical equipment is also occurring and this is of great concern especially to people with cochlear implants, pacemakers, metal joints and implants, and other medical devices. Health fears and perceptions are a material planning consideration, as is interference with electrical and medical equipment.

4. The big mobile phone operators grouped together and produced a voluntary code called the Ten Commitments to involve communities in decisions about masts being sited near them. Does it work?

No. Mast Sanity receives about 200 calls a month to its advice line plus many email inquiries, so we are very aware of what is happening at the grassroots level nationally. The operators are ignoring the codes and riding roughshod over the planning system. Residents are not being consulted despite one of the commitments being that communities will be involved in the siting of phone masts.

5. Why single out mobile phone operators and their masts for criticism? What about television and radio transmitters and equipment, military installations, power lines, electricity sub-stations and other common sources of electromagnetic radiation?

Mast Sanity campaigns for the sensible siting of mobile phone and TETRA masts. TETRA is the system the police use to communicate with. Mast Sanity is also concerned about digital cordless phones (DECT) and wireless computers because they also operate on pulsed microwave radiation and cause the same ill health effects. Other campaign groups such as Powerwatch raise awareness to the health issues around powerlines and TV and radio transmitters.

6. What led to you personally taking up the cause?

I have never had a mobile phone because I have doubts about the safety of this technology. So when Hutchinson (3G) wanted to erect a mast 15 metres from my house I was horrified because they were imposing something on us which emits radiation 24 hours a day. Having read a huge amount of research on the effects, I think there is a serious public health problem.

7. What needs to be done to reassure you and other campaigners that the health and safety questions about mobile phones and masts have been properly addressed? Is there evidence which would satisfy you they are safe?

No study has ever proven that mobile phones are safe, despite the claims made by the operators. There is a huge amount of worldwide evidence to prove that the system on which they operate makes some people ill.

Eminent scientists around the world are coming out with more and more evidence. Add that to the huge amount of evidence of cancer clusters and ill health emerging around phone and TETRA masts and you have a serious problem. The scale of the problem is of the magnitude of illnesses caused by smoking and asbestos.

8. What are the health problems which you believe are associated with mobile phone masts? What problems do you think can be caused by mobile phone handsets?

Health effects noted by some doctors in Germany, Finland, Austria, Ireland and the UK include headaches, migraines, exhaustion, agitation, sleeplessness, tinnitus, nose bleeds, susceptibility to infection, nervous and connective tissue pains. learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders, extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, heart rhythm disorders, heart attacks and strokes, thyroid disorders, brain-degenerative diseases, motor neurone disease and epilepsy and cancers, leukaemia and brain tumours.

Mobile phones are particularly statistically related to brain tumours, notably acoustic neuroma, as well as to glaucoma and cataracts, and an alarming new trend is the rise in unusual eye cancers, and mouth cancers among children. Mobile phones have also been connected with loss of fertility from wearing phones in pockets or at the waist.

9. Who should be responsible for taking action to make sure masts are safe and the proper planning and health and safety processes are followed when companies want to put them up?

All masts should go through the full planning process. Much more stringent emission level guidelines should be implemented.

The police should use Tetrapol instead of TETRA because Tetrapol is a safer system requiring fewer masts used in Europe and by the military in Baghdad (via satellite). This is all the responsibility of the Government which received billions in revenue from the 3G licence auction, and receives billions in taxes from the industry.

Department of Health leaflets on mobile phones and health should be given out with every mobile phone sale, but they are not.

Above all, the Government has always insisted on multiple infrastructures so we have five mobile phone operators, plus O2 Airwave (TETRA). All five of our 3G networks require masts every 1.5km to 5km, a much smaller range than the older GSM. Not least, this creates a substantial energy demand at a time of energy crisis and climate change. Even when masts are not in demand they emit microwaves, and with a prospective additional 130,000 masts to the 45,000 plus already in place, to serve the new 3G networks, the environment is being filled many times over, just so that every user has a choice of five networks to connect to for the same services.

10. Do you think that the dispute between people opposed to and people who support mobile phones and mobile phone masts will ever be settled? How?

Most people don't want to live by a mast but will use a mobile. Every time anyone uses a mobile phone to send a text or make a call, someone living by a mast gets a dose of radiation.

Masts and mobiles cause the same ill health effects. There are also issues like the accumulation of emissions inside train carriages so when several people are on their phones at the same time other people are getting exposed to a lot of radiation.

People who are electro-sensitive will be unable to travel on public transport or go to some cities because of the emission levels. Mobiles are becoming a social problem.

Phones are used for pornography and internet gambling and this craze of happy slapping, whereby gangs attack other children and film the attack on phones and then email the pictures among friends, or even place them on internet sites. Phone-bullying and theft of phones is widespread, and is a serious and growing problem that isn't being dealt with.
11:00 - 29 August 2005
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Source: This Is Bath, 29 August 2005

Dr Grahame Blackwell: The case against phone masts
United Kingdom Created: 28 Aug 2005
The case against phone masts

Dr Grahame Blackwell, an independent consultant on mast health issues, says mobile phone masts pose a serious risk to our health.
Cambridge Evening News 26.08 05

"I am a serious opponent of phone masts on health grounds. There have been six research studies into the potential ill health effects of masts. Every one of those studies has produced evidence of ill health effects.

"Radiation from masts reduces the production of melatonin.

"The significance of that is that melatonin regulates sleep patterns and also scavenges away pre-cancerous cells.

"If melatonin production is reduced the consequences are a disruption of sleep patterns and increased incidents of cancer.

"People living around phone masts are experiencing exactly those symptoms.

"Radiation also weakens the blood-brain barrier. Toxins from the blood system can get into brain cells. In the short term, this causes headaches,
dizziness and disorientation. In the long-term, we would expect to see an increase in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and
Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

"MND is a classic example. We are beginning to see clusters of MND around masts.

"All of those effects happen at levels of radiation that our Government says are safe. There is a big problem here."
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Source: Dr. Graham Blackwell


Mobiles aimed at under-8s set for return to high street, but under a new name
United Kingdom Created: 27 Aug 2005
MYMO Mobiles aimed at under-8s set for return to high street

A mobile telephone aimed at primary schoolchildren but withdrawn by the main distributor eight months ago because of health fears continues to be sold in
Britain.
Health campaigners say they are disgusted that the telephone is still on the market, describing its sale to children as "a disgrace".
The telephone, previously also known as MyMo, is marketed by Eazytrack, a Worcestershire-based company, under the brand name the Owl.
It is aimed at four- to eight-year-olds as an "SOS pay-as-you-go mobile telephone", which allows parents to know the location of their child to within 500 yards. The Owl can call only five numbers, as chosen by a parent for use in emergencies.
The telephone, which costs £99, is available online but from next month a new model will be sold in shops.
In January, Communic8, the distributors of MyMo, removed it from the market after the Government's chief adviser on radiation safety warned that under-nines should not have them.
Prof Sir William Stewart, the chairman of the Radiation Protection Division of the Health Protection Agency, said: "I don't think we can put our hands on our
hearts and say mobile phones are safe. If there are risks - and we think there may be risks - the people who are going to be most affected are children,
and the younger the child, the greater the danger."
Sir William, who has banned his grandchildren from using mobiles, added: "If mobile phones are available to three- to eight-year-olds, I can't believe for a
moment that can be justified."
At the time, Communic8 said: "It would be foolish, ignorant even, if we were to simply ignore these findings …
Even the remotest possibility of our product becoming a health risk to any child is unacceptable."
The distributor of the Owl, which is identical to the MyMo except for its packaging, has taken a different stance.
Nicholas Seller, 44, a manager for Eazytrack, said the Owl had the lowest emission levels of any mobile, with a rating less than half that recommended
by the Government's safety guidelines, and had been approved for sale in Australia. "We totally agree with the Stewart report, that mobiles for children
should be for emergencies," he said. "Our phone doesn't have features that encourage heavy use - no texts, downloads of music or ringtones.
It's a fine line: parents don't want health worries about their children, but at the same time they want peace of mind. It's their choice at the end of the day."
Karen Barratt, a spokesman for the campaign group Mast Sanity, which is concerned about the effect of mobile telephones on children, said she was
disgusted that the Owl was being sold in Britain.
"Quite rightly, after the Stewart report, MyMo was withdrawn from the market - but we knew that another company would put them on the shelves as
soon as the publicity had died down," she said. "It's a disgrace. Parents are being told by companies that mobiles will keep their children safe - yet half of
street crime involves theft of a mobile phone."
Mrs Baratt added: "These companies targeting children have a cleverly worked-out strategy - not only are they expanding their market now but they're
securing their market for the future."
The Owl is part of a multi-million-pound industry targeting children in Britain. According to MobileYouth Report 2005, the most authoritative industry research,
more than a million children aged five to nine have mobile telephones.
That figure is predicted to rise to 1.5 million by 2007. The report forecasts that this year the number of under-16s with a mobile will rise by 500,000 to
5.5 million.
Eric Huber, a radiologist at Vienna's Doctors' Research Chamber, which has conducted its own research, last week warned against children using mobiles.
"If medications delivered the same test results as mobile phone radiation, one would immediately have to remove them from the market," he said.
"We must assume that children are more sensitive to high-frequency radiation than adults. Their skull bones are thinner and their cells show an increased
rate of division, making them more sensitive to genotoxic effects."
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Source: Sunday Telegraph. By Nina Goswami (Filed: 14/08/2005)

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