1st January, 2013
60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told but minister still says controversial end-of-life plan is ‘fantastic’
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The reckless depredations of corporate power and neo-Malthusian enthusiasts within the elite threaten our environment and our very survival. EM radiation,disappearing bees and pollinators, heavy metal toxicity, GM crops and soil depletion are amongst the most immediate dangers we face.
60,000 patients put on death pathway
Posted by seumasach on January 1, 2013
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Towering battle between health and connectivity
Posted by seumasach on December 12, 2012
4th December, 2012
RANCHI: The erratic installation of mobile towers in the state have robbed Ranchiites of their sleep. Residents who have base transceiver stations (BTS towers) or mobile towers, installed atop their houses and near their flats are complaining of losing sleep. Some of them have complained of high-irritatibility as well. They are being advised by doctors to shift to a place which has lesser number of mobile towers to get good sleep and restore calm of mind.
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Special drive to seal 140 illegal mobile towers in Delhi
Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2012
8th December, 2012
New Delhi: The sealing drive of illegal mobile towers in Delhi began on Saturday following Telecom Department’s notice to 81 cell phone towers in the city. So far, eight towers have been sealed by the authorities concerned.
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No mobile towers near schools, hospitals, directs Raj HC
Posted by seumasach on December 1, 2012
India is obviously a parallel universe where the laws of physics and biology are quite different. In this strange world technologies which we in the West claim to be completely harmless are deemed to be ” a health hazard” through court rulings which put their judiciary on a par with our conspiracy theorists
27th November, 2012
Holding mobile towers as a health hazard, the Rajasthan High Court today directed telecom service providers operating in the state to remove within two months their towers falling in the vicinity of schools, hospitals and play grounds.
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Forster calls for review of potential health impacts of cell phone towers
Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2012
14th November, 2012
WELLAND – Welland riding MPP Cindy Forster has thrown her support behind the efforts of neighbours to fight a proposed communications tower in Port Robinson.
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Peru passes monumental ten year ban on genetically engineered foods
Posted by seumasach on November 14, 2012
10th March, 2012
In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients anywhere within the country for a full decade before coming up for another review. Peru’s Plenary Session of the Congress made the decision 3 years after the decree was written despite previous governmental pushes for GM legalization due largely to the pressure from farmers that together form the Parque de la Papa in Cusco, a farming community of 6,000 people that represent six communities. They worry the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will compromise the native species of Peru, such as the giant white corn, purple corn and, of course, the famous species of Peruvian potatoes. Anibal Huerta, President of Peru’s Agrarian Commission, said the ban was needed to prevent the ”danger that can arise from the use of biotechnology.”
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Dutch court overturns cell permit on concern for bees
Posted by seumasach on November 10, 2012
5th November, 2012
A court in Zutphen, Netherlands has annulled a permit for a UMTS antenna due to beekeeping activities in the area. The Winterswijk municipality gave KPN the permit to build the tower in November 2010. Five local residents filed an appeal against the permit, and the court found that the city did not motivate its decision well enough to show there would be no negative consequences from the cell site. One of the residents keeps bees around 80m from the proposed site; in the appeal against the site, he pointed to research in Germany and Switzerland on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on bees. The city pointed to other research showing bee deaths related to other factors and said the radiation in this case would be much less than in the German research. However the court found that the city needed to provide more concrete sources of research to sustain its argument and it could not be ruled out that the site would have an effect on the bees.
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Spike in “aggressive” brain cancer in Denmark
Posted by seumasach on November 9, 2012
8th November, 2012
The Danish Cancer Society is reporting that the number of men diagnosed with glioblastoma —the most malignant type of brain cancer— has nearly doubled over the last ten years. Hans Skovgaard Poulsen, the head of neuro-oncology at Copenhagen University Hospital, is calling it a “frightening development.”
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GSM 900 MHz radiation inhibits ants’ association between food sites and encountered cues
Posted by seumasach on November 8, 2012
“These communication waves may have such a disastrous impact on a wide range of insects using olfactory and/or visual memory, i.e., on bees.”
June 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2 , Pages 151-165 (doi:10.3109/15368378.2011.624661)
Marie-Claire Cammaerts1, Philippe De Doncker2, Xavier Patris2, François Bellens2, Zoheir Rachidi1, David Cammaerts1
1Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences,
Bruxelles
, Belgium
2Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées,
Bruxelles
, Belgium
Address correspondence to Marie-Claire Cammaerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, DBO, CP 160/12, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium; E-mail: mtricot@ulb.ac.be
The kinetics of the acquisition and loss of the use of olfactory and visual cues were previously obtained in six experimental colonies of the ant Myrmica sabuleti meinert 1861, under normal conditions. In the present work, the same experiments were conducted on six other naive identical colonies of M. sabuleti, under electromagnetic radiation similar to those surrounding GSM and communication masts. In this situation, no association between food and either olfactory or visual cues occurred. After a recovery period, the ants were able to make such an association but never reached the expected score. Such ants having acquired a weaker olfactory or visual score and still undergoing olfactory or visual training were again submitted to electromagnetic waves. Not only did they lose all that they had memorized, but also they lost it in a few hours instead of in a few days (as under normal conditions when no longer trained). They kept no visual memory at all (instead of keeping 10% of it as they normally do). The impact of GSM 900 MHz radiation was greater on the visual memory than on the olfactory one. These communication waves may have such a disastrous impact on a wide range of insects using olfactory and/or visual memory, i.e., on bees.
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Doctors not told to hasten deaths, says health secretary Alex Neil
Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2012
27th October, 2012
HEALTH secretary Alex Neil has vowed not to ask doctors to hit targets for the number of patients who die on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, after it emerged hospitals in England were being given financial incentives to do so.
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Electrosmog and colony collapse disorder
Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2012
Alliance for Natural Health
24th October, 2012
See also ITNT archive: Disappearing Bees
Pesticides are a major contributor to bee colony collapsedisorder (CCD), according to governments and the scientific community. But are they too quick to dismiss a link between CCD and electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from mobile phones and other sources?
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