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"olägenhet för människors hälsa är något som påverkar en människa fysiskt eller psykiskt"
Sweden Created: 27 Nov 2005
Handikapp som inte räknas

Miljöbalkens 9 kapitel 3 paragrafen säger att "olägenhet för människors hälsa är något som påverkar en människa fysiskt eller psykiskt och som inte är ringa
och helt tillfälligt.
Hänsyn ska dock tas till personer som är något känsligare än normalt, till exempel allergiker" skriver Göran Eriksson på miljö- och hälsoskyddskontoret,
men "som bedömningsgrund gäller hur människor i allmänhet uppfattar störningen".
Det innebär enligt Göran Eriksson att de tiotal elöverkänsliga i kommunen är för få för att kunna räkna med lagens stöd, men om de varit lika många som de
15 procent som har besvär av katt eller hund, så hade miljöbalkens regler om olägenhet kunnat tillämpas!
Elöverkänslighet är ett erkänt handikapp, nr 27 i Handikappförbundens samarbetsorganisation (HSO) och deras Riksförbund (FEB) uppbär statsbidrag sedan 1995.
Att Göran Eriksson kallar deras invalidiserande sjukdomsbild för "vissa individers oro" och att de "anser sig vara elöverkänsliga" är gravt diskriminerande av handikappade, svårt sjuka människor.
Göran Eriksson skriver den 25 oktober, alltså åtta dagar före nämndens sammanträde, att elektricitet, strålning från master etcetera enligt nämndens uppfattning inte uppfattas som ett allvarligt hälsoproblem.
Bestämmer en tjänsteman politikernas uppfattning i Ludvika kommuns miljö- och hälsoskyddsnämnd??
Man blir verkligt sjuk som elöverkänslig. Det är säkert också svårt att vara pälsdjursallergiker, men nog förefaller det mig lättare att släppa ut katten än att tvingas flytta från sitt hem för påtvingad tekniks skull.
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Source: Gun-britt Ström

Miljödomstolen betraktar 3G som miljöfarlig verksamhet
Sweden Created: 27 Nov 2005
Miljödomstolen betraktar 3G som miljöfarlig verksamhet

Nyligen fastställde miljödomstolen att 3G-strålning betraktas som miljöfarlig verksamhet.

Hur är det möjligt att våra myndigheter bortser från detta och fortsätter utbyggnaden av 3G och därmed utsätter oss för allvarliga hälsorisker?
Det finns i dag ett antal vetenskapliga studier som studerar människors hälsotillstånd runt sändare för mobiltelefonin och samtliga finner ett samband mellan ohälsa och strålningen.
Symtom som sömnstörningar, yrsel, huvudvärk och andra stressrelaterade besvär uppvisades.
Allmänheten förs alltså bakom ljuset i strålningsfrågan av de svenska myndigheterna som i stället helt uppenbart låter sig styras av industrins intressen. Oroande är hur våra barn kommer att skadas av strålningen, speciellt vid en längre tids exponering.
Kommer vi att ha 30-åringar som uppvisar symtom på senil demens?
Tyvärr finns det forskare inom området som befarar det.
Barnen är den första generationen som utsätts för så höga nivåer av mikrovågor någonsin.
Är det tillåtet att låta en hel befolkning framstå som försökskaniner?
Men mönstret hos ansvariga myndigheter känner vi igen sedan tidigare. De ansåg t ex att asbest och radon var ofarligt och det vet vi ju hur det gick med det. Tyvärr håller historien på att upprepa sig med våra liv som insats.
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Source: Maria Pettersson

When Enough is never Enough
Germany Created: 27 Nov 2005
A Reproducible EMF Effect at 12 mG
It’s happened again.
It’s not supposed to happen at all. But now it has happened seven times in research labs on three continents.
Even so, the news of the latest replication of a weak, clearly non-thermal, electromagnetic field (EMF) effect was met with silence.
No one issued a press release. No one rushed to try to explain “the impossible.” No one wondered about the policy implications.

And if Rainer Girgert of Germany’s University of Heidelberg, the lead author of this latest replication, meets with the same fate as his six predecessors, he
may soon lose his research grants —or perhaps worse, as happened to Robert Liburdy who first saw this same effect years ago.

Writing in the November 4 issue of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Girgert reports that a 12mG (1.2µT) magnetic field can block the
ability of tamoxifen to control the growth of human breast cancer cells.

For more than 20 years, breast cancer patients have been given tamoxifen after surgery and chemo- and/or radiotherapy to help stave off a recurrence.
It is only one of a handful of drugs that is prescribed for preventing breast cancer. Just a few days ago, less than two weeks after Girgert’s paper was published, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that its long-term follow-up study showed beyond reasonable doubt that tamoxifen can indeed prevent breast cancer among women at high risk of developing the disease.

Girgert was working with cells in petri dishes but it’s easy to extrapolate his findings to real-world situations. Consider, for instance, what might happen to a recovering breast cancer patient who is taking tamoxifen, if her job forces her to stand in front of an office copying machine all day, or if she sits next to a wall which conceals an electrical transformer or even if she blow dries her hair every morning.
Each day, over one million American women have an average daily magnetic field exposure of over 10mG.
Many more spend an hour or longer in such fields every day.

Liburdy, then at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, was the first to show this same EMF effect with both tamoxifen and with melatonin back in the early
1990s (see MWN, J/A92). (Melatonin can also keep breast cancer cells in check.) Over the next few years, four other American research groups were able to repeat Liburdy’s experiments (see MWN, M/A96 and J/A98).

Then in 2001, Masami Ishido at Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies took Liburdy’s discovery a major step forward. After once again showing
that breast cancer cells treated with melatonin would resume growing when exposed to power-frequency EMFs, Ishido explained how the fields could do this. He found that the magnetic field disrupts the cells’ signaling system —their internal communications network, which determines how they respond to their environment.
Ishido had done much more than simply replicate the work of five other labs. He had given credibility to what most others had dismissed as an anomalous experimental finding.

In the process, Ishido also challenged one of the central tenets of mainstream toxicology: Less is better and more is worse.
The EMF effect he observed at 12mG was pretty much the same as the one he saw when he used a field a hundred times higher —at 1G.
In some later, as yet unpublished work, Ishido found indications that the effect was even stronger at the lower EMF dose than the higher one.

Ishido may have been uncertain about such an inverted dose-response relationship, but Girgert has no doubts.
“Surprisingly, at 1G the effect on tamoxifen inhibition was clearly lower than at 100mG,” he writes in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

“Girgert’s paper is very important,” says Carl Blackman, a research scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Blackman, who led one of the four groups that repeated the original Liburdy work with both tamoxifen and melatonin, points out that the Japanese and German work represent more than simple replication. “Ishido extended Liburdy’s finding by investigating changes with techniques from molecular biology, while Girgert looked at the effect at different tamoxifen concentrations and EMF exposure levels,” he said. “Girgert has filled in some critical missing pieces and the 12 mG effect now rests on a much firmer foundation.”

After Ishido’s work appeared in 2001, a number of leading melatonin scientists, including David Blask and Richard Stevens, told Microwave News that they were now convinced that the 12mG effect was real and would now be taken seriously (see MWN, S/O01).

They were wrong.

For instance, this summer the World Health Organization’s EMF project completed what is billed as an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on EMF
health and biological effects (see September 22 entry below). The 365-page draft document includes more than 1,000 references —yet, somehow, the papers
by Liburdy, Blackman and Ishido documenting the 12mG effect on melatonin and tamoxifen were all left out.
Nor have any of these three researchers been able to continue their work on EMFs.
In 1999, Liburdy was drummed out of the EMF profession on what many consider to be trumped-up charges of scientific misconduct. (At issue was a set of unrelated experiments.) He settled the case without admitting any “wrongdoing” but was nevertheless barred from receiving federal research funds for three years (see MWN, J/A99). Liburdy has, at least for the present, abandoned his career as a research scientist.
Blackman and others at the U.S. EPA are effectively barred from doing any more EMF experiments. EPA managers have made a habit of looking the other way whenever the EMF-health question is raised. No one at the agency need fear Congressional oversight. Many times over the years, the Congress has moved to eliminate any funds targeted for EMF research.
Ishido is in a similar predicament. In a recent e-mail message, Ishido told Microwave News that there is “no hope” that his EMF project, which has been stalled for years, will be revived.
Both Liburdy and Blackman have not given up. They are still optimistic that someone will be given the opportunity to get to the bottom of this 12 mG effect.
“We were committed to pursuing these findings,” Liburdy told us in early November. “The mechanistic research would have been fascinating.”
Blackman believes that there is more at stake than biophysical theories. “If we understand what’s going on here, we might well find better ways to treat breast cancer,” he said.

Girgert is their last best hope.
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Source: Microwavenews

Miljardförlusterna fortsätter för 3
Sweden Created: 27 Nov 2005
Miljardförlusterna fortsätter för 3

Wallenbergdelägda 3 gick med 1,2 miljarder i förlust under första halvåret.
Och vad som är värre: intäkterna fortsätter att falla.3:s intäkter uppgick under första halvåret till 1.016 Mkr.
Det framgår av bolagets rapport, som Affärärldens webbredaktion läst.

Det är visserligen en fördubbling jämfört med samma period i fjol, men jämfört med en nedgång på 25 procent jämfört med andra halvåret 2004.

"Prispressen är huvudorsaken till att omsättningen fallit. Men att sälja telefoner är ju inte vår kärnverksamhet.
När det gäller intäkterna från abonnenter ser det annorlunda ut", säger 3:s finanschef Alexander Kotsinas till Affärsvärlden.

Resultatet före skatt uppgick till minus 1,2 miljarder kronor. Det motsvarar 7 Mkr per dag. Men Alexander Kotsinas hävdar att det i enlighet med affärsplanen.
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VICIOUS WAVES: Groups protest `hazardous' cables
Taiwan Created: 27 Nov 2005
Groups protest `hazardous' cables

VICIOUS WAVES: Environmentalists yesterday urged the government to move high-voltage, `cancer-causing' cables and cellphone masts away from schools and housing

Environmental groups gathered yesterday, urging the government to remove underground high-voltage cables and cellphone base stations that emit large
amounts of electromagnetic waves away from residential areas and schools, saying that these magnetic waves are harmful.
Recent reports of school children displaying symptoms such as dizzy spells, nausea and even cancer are on the rise, the chairman of Taiwan Environmental
Protection Union, Chen Jiau-hua (’ž£‰Ø), said yesterday.
Chen said that studies have shown that electromagnetic waves emitted by high-voltage cables cause leukemia, miscarriages and brain tumors.
Chen herself resides in a "radiation house," where underground high-voltage cables emit up to 18.2mG (milligauss) of electromagnetic waves.
People should not be exposed to more than 0.1mG to 0.3mG of these waves for long periods of time or their health will be compromised, according to medical
studies.

Chen was diagnosed with non-malignant tumors last year as well as earlier this year and she said that she was concerned about her safety as well as the health of other residents in her building.

Regulations currently follow those set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), which are still much too lax, Chen said.

The regulations state that electromagnetic waves should not exceed 833mG out of doors, a whopping difference from the 0.1mG to 0.3mG amount that a
person can be exposed to.

Taiwan follows the ICNIRP's 833mG outdoors regulation, but because of the population density in big cities like Taipei, more people are exposed to the waves.
Claiming that there is already a global consensus that power voltages higher than 60HZ can cause cancer, Chen said that Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Germany and Tennessee in the US have been working on measures to prevent residential zones and schools from being exposed to the risks of radiation.

She said that in places like California, regulations have been set to minimize the amount of electromagnetic waves in schools and residential areas
to less than 0.1mG.

The union hopes the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Administration will work
together to adjust current regulations, Chen said.

The DOH should issue war-nings on how electromagnetic waves can affect people's health, Chen said, adding that the government should also establish a
radiation-safety management committee to educate the public on radiation safety.

The union has set up a "Non-Ionizing Radiation Disaster Hot-line" at (02) 2369-2442 and will conduct a series of inspections to determine the exact amount
of potentially harmful electromagnetic waves in areas where people's health is purportedly threatened by high-voltage base stations.
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Source: By Jean Lin STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Nov 26, 2005,Page 2


Los Verdes anima a denunciar los casos de contaminación electromagnética (+English)
Spain Created: 27 Nov 2005
GRANADA
Los Verdes anima a denunciar los casos de contaminación electromagnética
El colectivo muestra su preocupación por las quejas de los vecinos del Sacromonte tras la aparición de varios casos de cáncer en jóvenes
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Los Verdes animó ayer a todos los ciudadanos que sienten invadidos sus domicilios por campos electromagnéticos, bien por telefonía móvil o por repetidores o instalaciones eléctricas, que denuncien a las compañías correspondientes. El portavoz andaluz de Los Verdes, Francisco Garrido, mostró su preocupación por las quejas de los vecinos del barrio granadino del Sacromonte e informó de que los tribunales «han empezado a manifestarse en el asunto de la contaminación electromagnética».

Recordó a los ciudadanos que existe una sentencia reciente, un auto de inadmisión del Tribunal Supremo, por el que se rechazó un recurso de Iberdrola contra una sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Murcia por la que se condenaba a la empresa por contaminación electromagnética por intromisión en
el derecho de intimidad, al considerar que violó la intimidad de un domicilio y creó un riesgo para la salud y el bienestar de los vecinos, informa Efe.

Invasión de intimidad

Por ello, animó a todos los ciudadanos que consideran que sus domicilios y sus derechos de intimidad están siendo invadidos por estas radiaciones y que además piensan que pueden tener un riesgo en su salud, a demandar a las compañías ante los juzgados o a presentar denuncias en sus respectivos Ayuntamientos.

Garrido explicó que Los Verdes ha llegado a un acuerdo con la Dirección General de Salud Pública del Ministerio de Sanidad, que se plasmó en la Conferencia Intersectorial de Salud Pública celebrada hace tres semanas en Madrid, por el que se ha creado una Comisión entre todas las autonomías para elaborar un protocolo unificado de evaluación epidemiológica del impacto sobre la salud de la telefonía móvil y de la contaminación electromagnética.

Señaló que su grupo tiene más de 40 denuncias fundamentadas con informes médico de pueblos y barrios de Andalucía en los que sus habitantes se quejan de que la tasa de mortalidad o de cáncer es 500 veces mayor con respecto a las estadísticas por culpa de las radiaciones. Garrido explicó que su partido ha presentado una enmienda en el Parlamento para incluir en el proyecto de futura ley de gestión integrada de calidad ambiental (GICA) un capítulo destinado a la contaminación electromagnética.
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The Green ones animate to denounce the cases of electromagnetic contamination The collective one shows its preoccupation by the complaints of the neighbors of the Sacromonte after the appearance of several cases of cancer in young people

The Green ones animated yesterday to all the citizens whom feel invaded their addresses by electromagnetic fields, or by movable telephony or repeaters or electrical systems, that they denounce to the corresponding companies. The spokesman Andalusian of the Green ones, Francisco Garrido, showed his
preoccupation by the complaints of the neighbors of the granadino district of the Sacromonte and informed into which the courts "have begun to pronounce ,themselves in the subject of the electromagnetic contamination".

He remembered to citizens that exists a recent sentence, car of inadmisión of Court Supreme, by that rejected resource of Iberdrola against sentence of
Hearing Provincial of Murcia by that it condemned to the company by electromagnetic contamination by interference in the privacy right, when considering
that it violated the privacy of an address and created a risk for the health and the well-being of the neighbors, informs Efe.

Invasion of privacy

For that reason, it animated to all the citizens who ,consider that their addresses and their rights of privacy are being invaded by these radiations and
that in addition they think that they can have a risk in its health, to demand to the companies before the courts or to present/display denunciations in its
respective City councils.
Garrido explained that the Green ones have reached an agreement with the Main directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, that was shaped
in the Conference Intersectorial de celebrated Public Salud three weeks ago in Madrid, by which has been created a Commission between all the autonomies to elaborate a protocol unified of evaluation epidemiologist of the impact on the health of the movable telephony and the electromagnetic contamination.

It indicated that its group has more than 40 denunciations based with information medical of towns and districts of Andalusia in which their inhabitants
complain which the rate of mortality or cancer is 500 times greater with respect to the statistics because of the radiations. Garrido explained that its party
has presented/displayed an amendment in the Parliament to include in the project of future law of management integrated of environmental quality (GICA) a chapter destined to the electromagnetic contamination.
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Antenas de telefonía celular, ¿contaminación silenciosa? (+English)
Argentina Created: 27 Nov 2005
Un problema ambiental y sanitario que se avecina

Antenas de telefonía celular, ¿contaminación silenciosa?

Cada vez hay más y modernos teléfonos celulares y esto requiere la colocación de una mayor cantidad y más potentes antenas.
En los últimos años, este tipo de torres irrumpieron en nuestro distrito.
Algunos vecinos ya mostraron su preocupación.
Unos lo hacen movilizados por razones inmobiliarias, y otros inquietos por el efecto que puede llegar a tener en la salud de las personas.
Como ocurre en muchos países, en Argentina existen más teléfonos celulares que de línea fija. Según datos dados a conocer recientemente, el 90 por
ciento de la población económicamente en condiciones de adquirir un celular ya tiene, al menos, un aparato.
Para fin de año se calcula que serán 17 millones los celulares que estarán funcionando en nuestro país.
Para que esto sea posible las empresas de telefonía celular necesitan colocar antenas, y a medida que la tecnología avanza y los aparatos son cada vez más
sofisticados esas antenas deben adecuarse y ser más potentes.

En silencio, pero con paso firme, desde hace unos años el paisaje aéreo de Luján no es el mismo.
Si uno levanta la vista se encontrará con una torre de telefonía en cualquier punto del distrito.
Nadie dice el impacto ambiental que estas antenas tienen y menos aún sobre la salud de las personas que viven en las adyacencias.

Hasta ahora se han hecho más de 500 estudios sobre teléfonos celulares y antenas y su efecto en la salud, pero hay opiniones científicas para todos
los gustos y ningún dato concluyente.
Prima, sobre todo, el principio de prudencia.
Preocupados por la emisión de la estación de telefonía que tienen cerca de su casa, un grupo de vecinos de los barrios Champagnat y Los Laureles pidieron,
en su momento, que se desplazara la base de antenas lejos de sus viviendas. No tuvieron suerte.
En otros barrios, como en Hostería San Antonio y en ciudades cercanas como Mercedes, los vecinos muestran su inquietud por estas instalaciones o se
reúnen para intercambiar información.

En casi todos los casos, y cuando se trata de la colocación de torres en barrios residenciales, la mayor preocupación pasa por un tema más bien de índole
inmobiliaria: dicen que sus casas se desvalorizan con una torre de grandes dimensiones a metros de sus propiedades, tal como publicó el 28 de julio de este
año el semanario mercedino Protagonista.
La oposición a las antenas frena, en muchos casos, la expansión de la telefonía móvil, mientras las operadoras necesitan desplegar casi el doble de
antenas para los teléfonos de tercera generación.

BAJO SOSPECHA

El año pasado se vendieron miles de teléfonos móviles disparando las cifras a todo un récord y las compañías tuvieron beneficios millonarios.
Aunque Argentina aún está lejos de España, Canadá o Italia -donde hay 104 celulares cada 100 personas- y son los países que registran el mayor crecimiento, se sabe que los celulares los utiliza la mayor parte de la población. Lo que hasta hace sólo unos años era un artículo de lujo, parece ser ahora un elemento indispensable tanto para hombres como mujeres, sin distinción de edades. Nadie niega su utilidad, pero a muchos ciudadanos les inquieta vivir cerca de una antena.

Al menos así lo demostraron hace algunos meses pobladores de tres barrios de Luján donde se levantan enormes torres.
En el caso de algunos vecinos de Hostería San Antonio directamente llegaron a frenar la instalación de una antena que quiso ser colocada pasando por
alto todas las disposiciones municipales vigentes y presentando dudosos permisos que luego se comprobaron que eran falsos.

En muchos casos los vecinos tienen que vivir con la sospecha permanente de que las antenas de telefonía celular producen daños en la salud.
Ante esta presunción han comenzado a recolectar información, buscan datos, estudios en Internet y toman iniciativas para investigar por su cuenta lo que
ocurre en otros lados pero que puede llegar a pasar en su propio barrio.
Hoy se están enfrentando a una situación en la que informes científicos y médicos dicen que las radiaciones son peligrosas, aunque otros sostienen
todo lo contrario.

ANTE LA DUDA...
Por esta razón, exigen que se aplique el principio de prudencia. Es decir: ante la posibilidad de que realmente existan riesgos se alejen las antenas o se disminuyan hasta los límites inferiores que se aplican ahora en determinados países, que vienen estudiando este fenómeno desde la irrupción masiva de los teléfonos celulares.

Las conclusiones de la cumbre de científicos de Salzburgo de 2000, en la Declaración de Friburgo y en la de Alcalá de Henares, todas arribaron a que es
necesario aplicar recomendaciones restrictivas para las antenas y hasta exigen en algunas ciudades que se hagan estudios.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), los ministerios de salud de los países más industrializados del planeta, establecen límites en las emisiones radioeléctricas para garantizar que en ningún caso la salud de los ciudadanos se vea afectada.

Algunos de los contratos obligan a los vecinos a tener que convivir por 10 o más años con las antenas a cambio, eso sí, de una importante y convincente
remuneración económica; pero todavía muchas antenas se instalan sin licencia como el caso del barrio Hostería San Antonio.

En tal sentido, en los municipios de Junín y Leandro N. Alem este año se prohibió la colocación de antenas en colegios o clubes a cambio de una remuneración por parte de las compañías de telefonía celular, en el marco de un fuerte debate dado en la comunidad que ve con preocupación la irrupción de torres y su posible efecto en la salud de los pobladores.

Existen en Suiza, Luxemburgo e Italia normativas que contemplan criterios de mayor prevención y precaución, pero el común de los ciudadanos desconoce los alcances que tiene la legislación sobre el espacio radioeléctrico y si éstos tuvieron en cuenta la opinión de los organismos ecologistas, técnicos del
sector o dictámenes científicos. Con todo, se estima que el problema de la contaminación silenciosa electromagnética no está resuelto ni mucho menos.

Los limites de referencia que debería tener son los que fija la OMS y son los que se utilizan en todos los países de la Comunidad Europea.
En 1996, la OMS inició un estudio sobre los efectos en los seres humanos de los campos electromagnéticos cuyo informe definitivo debería haber estado elaborado en 2004, pero las conclusiones se han pospuesto hasta el 2006 porque dicen que se necesitan más documentos científicos.

Este año, un estudio de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares sostiene que el uso de celulares altera la función del cerebro. La investigación, centralizada en
la función del cerebro, encontró efectos en la actividad cerebral con campos electromagnéticos muy pequeños y esto produce modificaciones que fueron
contempladas por los científicos.

Aunque no hay datos que cuantifiquen si a partir de la radicación de las antenas aumentaron los casos de personas enfermas como consecuencia de estar expuestas a radiación electromagnética ni tampoco se realizó un estudio epidemiológico sobre antena y población, la alarma está latente en varios puntos de Luján donde un puñado de vecinos ya puso el grito al cielo.

PARA TENER EN CUENTA
En Valencia, un estudio realizado en una pequeña población cuyas conclusiones fueron publicadas en una revista científica y puede ser encontrada en la
página en Internet de la OMS, afirman que hay correlación entre vivir cerca de una antena y padecer trastornos como insomnio, alteración de la atención,
cambios en el apetito o afecciones neurológicas por más que las emisiones sean muy bajas. Ante la sorpresa, se sospecha que el posible mecanismo que intervenga en esta serie de síntomas no se deba a la potencia que irradia la antena sino al espectro y tipo de modulación que utiliza.

La alarma social en torno a las antenas se vislumbra como un tema que va camino a transformarse, tarde o temprano, en una cuestión que nos incumbe a todos. Por lo pronto, se está en los comienzos de una patología de la que no se tiene muchas certezas debido a que la invasión de microondas en la ciudad no tiene más de una década, años donde la concentración de microondas de radiofrecuencia se ha disparado en los centros urbanos.

Hay más de 500 estudios científicos de telefonía móvil. Uno de los últimos, denominado Proyecto Reflex, en el que participó una docena de científicos
europeos, concluyó -tras 4 años de trabajo- en que las ondas electromagnéticas de la telefonía móvil produce alteraciones del ADN que transporta información genética en las células. Por lo pronto, el tiempo tendrá que despejar una incógnita que hoy está en manos de la ciencia.

Murió hace 15 años, figura en el padrón y tiene celular.
Francisco Antar falleció en 1990.
Sus familiares inmediatamente realizaron los trámites de defunción y dieron de baja su Documento Nacional de Identidad.
Sin embargo, está en el listado electoral y recibió facturas de telefonía celular a su nombre.

Siempre, antes de cada elección de autoridades en este país, corren versiones de que hay personas fallecidas que figuran en el padrón electoral y que de esta
situación hay partidos políticos que intentan sacar su provecho. En las últimas elecciones legislativas, este medio tuvo conocimiento de una persona que intentó votar con documentación de una persona muerta y fue descubierto por las autoridades de mesa. La persona no fue detenida pero sí se le impugnó su voto.

Francisco Antar aún hoy figura en el padrón electoral, junto a sus datos domiciliarios y laborales aparece la sigla "LD" que significa "Libreta (de Enrolamiento)
Duplicada".

Esta situación ha sucedido más de una vez, pero lo llamativo es que familiares de Antar, 15 años después de su muerte, continúan recibiendo facturas y
resúmenes de cuenta de la empresa de telefonía celular CTI Móvil a su nombre y en el que fuera su domicilio.

Según la factura del servicio, la persona fallecida cuando se iniciaba la década del 90, es el cliente N° 5076651, y tiene un plan prepago.

Sus familiares aseguraron que "nunca tuvo celulares" y que no es la primera vez que sucede: "Anteriormente recibimos una factura de la empresa Movicom", explicó uno de ellos en diálogo con este medio.
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English

An environmental and sanitary problem to come
Mobile masts, quiet contamination?
Every time there is more and modern cellular telephones and this it requires the positioning of a greater amount and more powerful antennas.
In the last years, this type of towers burst in into our district.
Some neighboring ones already showed their preoccupation. They do it mobilized for real estate reasons, and other anxious ones by the effect that can
get to have in the health of the people.
As it happens in many countries, in Argentina more cellular telephones than of fixed line exist. According to given data to know recently, the 90
percent of the population economically in conditions for acquiring a cellular one already has, at least, an apparatus. For year end one calculates that the cellular ones will be 17 million that will be working in our country.
So that this is possible the companies of cellular telephony need to place antennas, and as the technology advances and the apparatuses more and more
are falsified those antennas must be adapted and to be
more powerful.
In silence, but with firm step, for years the aerial landscape of Luján he has not been the same one. If one raises the Vista it will find with a tower of
telephony in any point of the district. Nobody says the environmental impact that these antennas less still have and on the health of the people who live in
the adyacencias.
Until now they have been made more than 500 studies on cellular telephones and masts and their effect in the health, but there are scientific opinions for all the
tastes and no conclusive data. Premium, mainly, the prudence principle.
Worried about the emission of the telephony station which they have near his house, a group of neighbors of the Champagnat districts and the Laurels
requested, at its moment, that moved the base of antennas far from its houses. They did not have luck.
In other districts, like in Hostería San Antonio and near cities like Mercedes, the neighbors show their restlessness by these facilities or they meet to interchange information.
In almost all the cases, and when one is the positioning of towers in residential districts, the greater preoccupation it happens rather through a real
estate subject of Hindu to him: they say that their houses devalue with a tower of great dimensions to meters of their properties, as the mercedino weekly
magazine published the 28 of July of this year Protagonist.
The opposition to the antennas restrains, in many cases, the expansion of the movable telephony, while the operators need to almost unfold the double of
antennas for the telephones of third generation.

UNDER SUSPICION

The last year thousands of movable telephones were sold shooting to the numbers to everything a record and the companies had millionaire benefits. Although
Argentina still is far from Spain, Canada or Italy - where there are 104 cellular each 100 people and are the countries that register the greater growth, knows
that the cellular ones use most of the population. What until only years ago it was a luxury article, now seems to be an element indispensable as much for men
as women, without distinction of ages. Nobody denies its utility, but to many citizens it troubles to them to live near an antenna.
Therefore they at least demonstrated it some settler months ago of three districts of Luján where enormous towers rise. In the case of some neighbors of Hostería San Antonio directly they got to restrain the installation of an antenna that it wanted to be placed ignoring all the effective municipal dispositions and presenting/displaying doubtful permissions that soon were verified that they were false.
In many cases the neighbors must live with the permanent suspicion that the antennas of cellular telephony produce damages in the health. Before this presumption they have begun to collect information, they look for data, studies in Internet and take initiatives to investigate by his account which happens in
other sides but that it can get to happen in his own district. Today they are facing a situation in which scientific and medical information say that the radiations
are dangerous, although others maintain all the opposite.

BEFORE THE DOUBT...

Therefore, they demand that the prudence principle is applied. It is to say: before the possibility that really they exist risks move away the antennas or they
are diminished until the inferior limits that are applied now in certain countries, that come studying this phenomenon from the massive irruption of the
cellular telephones.
The conclusions of the summit of scientists of Salzburgo of 2000, in the Declaration of Friburgo and the one of Alcala de Henares, all arrived at that it
is necessary to apply restrictive recommendations for the antennas and until they demand in some cities that become studies.
The World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO), the ministries of health of the industrialized countries more of the planet, establish limits in the radioelectric emissions to guarantee that in no case the health of the citizens is affected.

Some of contracts force the neighbors to have to coexist by 10 or more years with the antennas in return, that yes, of an important and convincing
economic remuneration; but still many antennas settle without license as the case of the Hostería district San Antonio.
In such sense, in the municipalities of Junín and Leandro N. east Alem year the positioning of antennas in schools or clubs in exchange for a remuneration on
the part of the companies of cellular telephony was prohibited, within the framework of a fort it debates
dice in the community that sees with preoccupation the irruption of towers and its possible effect in the health of the settlers.

They exist in normative Switzerland, Luxembourg and Italy that contemplate to criteria of greater prevention and precaution, but the common one of the
citizens does not know the reaches that the legislation has on the radioelectric space and if these considered the opinion of the ecological,
technical organisms of the sector or scientific opinions. Yet, esteem that the problem of the electromagnetic quiet contamination is not resolute far from it.

You limit them of reference that must have are those that fixes the WHO and are those that is used in all the countries of the European Community. In 1996, the
WHO initiated a study on the effects in the human beings of the electromagnetic fields whose definitive report must been have elaborated in 2004, but the
conclusions have been posponed until the 2006 because they say that more scientific documents are needed.

This year, a study of the University of Alcala de Henares maintains that the use of cellular alters the function of the brain. The investigation, centralized
in the function of the brain, found effects in the cerebral activity with very small electromagnetic fields and this produces modifications that were
contemplated by the scientists.

Although there are no data that they quantify if from the radicación of the antennas they did not increase the cases of ill people as a result of being exposed
to electromagnetic radiation nor were either made a study epidemiologist on antenna and population, the alarm is latent in several points of Luján where a
handful of neighboring or put the shout to the sky.

IN ORDER TO CONSIDER

In Valencia, a study made in a small population whose conclusions were published in a scientific magazine and can be found in the page in Internet of the WHO, affirms that there is correlation between living near an antenna and suffering upheavals like insomnia, alteration of the attention, changes in the appetite or neurological affections no matter how hard the emissions are very low. Before the surprise, one suspects that the possible mechanism that takes part in this series of symptoms not must to the power that radiates the antenna but to the phantom and type of modulation that uses.

The social alarm around the antennas glimpses like a subject that goes way to become, sooner or later, in a question that is incumbent us on all. So far, one is
in the beginnings of a pathology of which one does not have many certainties because the invasion of microwaves in the city does not have more than one
decade, years where the concentration of radio frequency microwaves has gone off in the urban centers.

It has more than 500 scientific studies of movable telephony. One of the last ones, denominated Reflex Project, in which a dozen of European scientists
participated, concluded - after 4 years of work in which the electromagnetic waves of the movable telephony produce alterations of the DNA that
transports genetic information in the cells. So far, the time will have to clear an incognito that today is into the hands of science.
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Activist will chain himself to UMTS (3G) antenna installation fence
Netherlands Created: 27 Nov 2005
Activist will chain himself to UMTS (3G) antenna installation fence

27 november 2005 - An activist against UMTS (3G) is ready to chain himself to an antenna installation fence tomorrow morning.
He says his group will be satisfied only when UMTS is absolutely banned from the town of Spijkenisse near Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Monday morning operator Orange plans to install three UMTS antennas in a power pylon, about 75 metres from the nearest dwellings.
The workers will meet with a crowd of people.
"We call them by flyers throughout the neighbourhood", says Bertus van Drongelen.
"To help and prevent the installation of these antennas.
If the workers do not leave, one of us will chain himself to the fence.
" The activists prevented the installation before, in October.

Alex Swinkels, Bertus van Drongelen and Gerard de Kimpe are not just worried about the UMTS-antennas.
They know the permanent radiation of mobile communication can have terrifying health effects.
Some time ago they visited the occupants of the top floor of the Marrewijkflat, an apartment building in Spijkenisse.
"80 Percent of them have severe health complaints, from insomnia to cancer", says Van Drongelen.
On top of the Marrewijkflat are several antennas for mobile communication.

The same problems were found at the 5th and 6th floor elswehere.
Opposite are antennas for mobile communication, on top of a four story apartment building.
"Insomnia, headache, nausea and a general feeling of sickness", the occupants report.
Some of them are urinating blood.
The physicians and specialists can not find any known disease or abnormality.
When the occupants leave the premises, they feel better.
Back home the sickness returns.

Therefore, the three activists are convinced of the health effects of the radiation.
"It is impossible to have a radiation-free town.
The problem of radiation pollution is too complex and it is too late to stop the other antennas", says Van Drongelen.
"But at least we want a town without UMTS.
The citizens have to be made aware of the radiation hazard.
" According to scientists, the radiation of mobile communication causes toxic effects.

The activists concentrate on all UMTS-antennas in Spijkenisse.
The town council is behind them.
The council decided two weeks ago not to grant new antenna mast permits anymore.
Councillor Gerrit van Buuren asked operator Orange to respect the wish of the people and cancel the installation.
"We have the right permit and documents, we don't see any reason to stop", says an Orange spokesman.

Sources:
http://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/voorneputten/article69465.ece (Algemeen Dagblad, newspaper)
interview by telephone with Bertus van Drongelen
article in local newspaper The Botlek, November 2, 2005
http://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/motie2_spijkenisse.pdf and http://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/motie1_spijkenisse.pdf (council decisions)
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Source: Author: Frans van Velden

Provider prevented to install UMTS mast in Haaksbergen
Netherlands Created: 27 Nov 2005
In Haaksbergen, The Netherlands, county officials have prevented provider
KPN to install UMTS (3G) antennas in a new mast.
The inhabitants of Haaksbergen are strongly against UMTS.
The municipality of Haaksbergen right now does not give permits anymore.
The KPN mast was placed 4,5 metres away from the site according to the building permit. Haaksbergen says KPN
has to move the mast.
In The Netherlands at this moment more than 40 municipalities are retaining permits for UMTS masts.

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Source: Information www.stopumts.nl

Tele Danmark har eget hjemmeværn (med commentar)
Denmark Created: 24 Nov 2005
Det viser sig i Denmark at: "virksomheder, der beskæftiger sig med ting af stor samfundsmæssig betydning er forpligtiget til, ifølge beredskabsloven, at have et virksomheds-hjemmeværn."

Derfor har TDC (teledanmark) sin egen militia på 600 mand der skal beskytte telecentraler i tilfælde af krig - eller måske også andre trusler mod "nødvendig infrastruktur" som f.eks oprør mod master ???

Det er dog officielt kun forsvarsministeren der kan kommandere med sådan en militia.

Hmmm... Hvem ved om staten opfatter mobilselskaberne som "virksomheder, der beskæftiger sig med ting af stor samfundsmæssig betydning" og derved forpligter dem til at have en militia - spekulation, ja, men måske ikke så langt ude endda. Li Ka-Shing ved jo hvordan man ordner sådan en sag ;-)
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TDC har eget hjemmeværn
Teknologi: TDC har sit eget 600-mand store telehjemmeværn, der skal beskytte telefoncentralerne i krigs- eller krisetider. Det er dog ikke Dyremose, men kun forsvarsministeren, der kan udkommandere tropperne.
Teleselskabet TDC har et 600-mand stort telehjemmeværn, som står parat til at bevogte selskabets telefoncentraler i tilfælde af at en krig eller krise rammer landet.

Virksomheder, der beskæftiger sig med ting af stor samfundsmæssig betydning er forpligtiget til, ifølge beredskabsloven, at have et virksomheds-hjemmeværn.

Som ansvarlig for de rå kobber kabler, der transporterer den danske teletrafik, er TDC naturligvis også omfattet af kravet.

Det er dog ikke sådan at TDC’s koncernchef Henning Dyremose kan udkommandere styrken til at forsvare virksomheden mod et fjendtligt overtag fra amerikanske kapitalfonde eller lignende.

»Det er kun forsvarsministeren, der har bemyndigelse til at udkommandere styrken,« fortæller kaptajn Tonny Bjerregaard, der sammen med en kollega er fuldtidsansat til i fredstid at koordinere styrkens arbejde.
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Source: Andreas Krog

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