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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.

Cell phone radiation possibly tied to decline of birds in Southern India

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2011

NTD

14th March, 2011

Cell phone radiation is leading to bird deaths and a decrease in their population in the Dharmapuri region of India’s Tamil Nadu state.

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Inconvenient truth-the John Paterson story

Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2011

EMR and Health

Jan-March, 2010

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Paris Symposium on Children’s Health and the Environment

Posted by seumasach on March 12, 2011

M.Michaels

MerisM59@hotmail.com

The “Paris Symposium” on Children’s Health and the Environment”, UNESCO, Paris, 12-13 April 2011, is being organized by ARTAC (Association for Research and Treatments against Cancer – http://www.artac.info) in partnership with the International Society of Doctors for the Environment (www.isde.org) and the Health and Environment Alliance (www.env-health.org). Topics to be discussed include cancer and the environment with moderators Ana Soto and Luc Montagnier, childhood at risk (health risks of electromagnetic fields, chemical exposures, endocrine disruption), the environmental origin of today’s public plague (pesticides, obesity and type 2 diabetes, asthma, allergies, mercury toxicity, GMOs). The symposium will be followed by a 3-day intesive course in environmental medicine which will include investigation, practice and ethics and law. This is a fairly new discipline and there are many medical faculties who have not heard of it. In the forefront of establishing departments and delivering courses in this discipline are Professor Belpomme, President of ARTAC and Dr. Philip Landigran, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. One would hope that such associations and schools would share their research and expertise, but this is not always the case.

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Councils say energy-saving lights are too dangerous for binmen

Posted by seumasach on March 7, 2011

Daily Mail

6th March, 2011

Councils across the UK are refusing to pick up low-energy lightbulbs from homes as they contain toxic mercury, which gives off poisonous vapours.

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Repacholi admits interference from the industry at the WHO EMF project

Posted by seumasach on March 6, 2011

Mast Sanity

March 2011

NOW – Repacholi Promoting Wireless/Microwave emitting Devices to Children at the Handheld Learning Conference 10-12 October 2007 in London

Repacholi:

– Admits Industry Funding – for the WHO EMF Project

– Employed by the Industry before and after the WHO EMF Project

– Emeritus Chairman of ICNIRP since 1996 – the body charged with setting ‘Safe’ International Exposure limits. [here]

– Now Promoting Wireless/Microwave emitting Devices to Children – at the Handheld Learning Conference 10-12 October 2007 in London (despite the UK’s Health Protection Agency’s own advice that under 16’s should only use Mobile Phones etc. as little as possible because they are more prone to harm from them)

 

Repacholi headed the Project into ElectroMagneticFields (EMFs) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) until July 2007.

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Is the IEEE a criminal organization?

Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2011


Martin Weatheral

http://www.weepinitiative.org

(By 2010, IEEE) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE )had over 395,000 members in 160 countries. Through its worldwide network of geographical units, publications, web services, and conferences, IEEE remains the world’s largest technical professional association).

Back in 1983, before cell phones, before cordless phones, before Wi Fi, before antennas were everywhere and before our environment became polluted with microwave radiation and before many ‘modern diseases’ existed, a large book was published by the IEEE press.  The book is 591 pages long and the title is “Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation”, Edited by John M. Osepchuk.  The book goes into great detail and describes scientific research which showed many serious biological effects caused by exposure to electro magnetic radiation.

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Why our urban trees are dying

Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2011

Andrew Goldsworthy

MCS-America

February, 2011

Congratulations to Niek van het Wout  and the citizens and officials at Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands for pointing the finger at cell phone and WiFi radiation as being a major cause of deformations and early death in urban trees. Niek was just a concerned citizen who gathered photographic evidence from all over Europe and conducted simple experiments using an ordinary multimeter to collect information on the effects of the radiation on the electrophysiology of local trees. His results were sufficient to convince both myself and Andre van Lammeren of Wageningen University of the need for further investigation using Faraday cages with WiFi access points as the source of radiation. The work is still ongoing but the initial results show definite detrimental effects of WiFi radiation on the physiology of the trees under test. Their work was presented at a Symposium on Feb 18th, in which I also gave a lecture on the likely biochemical mechanisms underlying microwave damage in general and those on trees in particular.

Andrew Goldsworthy

Click here to read article based on transcript of that lecture

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Cell phone radiation changes cell metabolism

Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011

This may be pertinent to the issue of cell phone addiction already raised by Alfonso Balmori

Microwave News

22nd February, 2011

A well-regarded and influential team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) is on the brink of resolving a long-standing dispute with enormous implications for public health. In a paper due out tomorrow, Nora Volkow and coworkers are reporting that cell phone radiation can affect the normal functioning of the human brain.

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Smart meters violate Federal Communications Commission (FCC) safety limits

Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2011

American Chronicle

8th February, 2011

Sage Associates, Environmental Consultants, have written a very important release in regard to “Smart” Meters likely to violate Federal safety limits, and about the adverse health effects due to radiofrequency (RF) radiation levels, emitted by “smart” meters. I am urging everyone to read this information very carefully:

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Early research on the biological effects of microwave radiation: 1940-1960

Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2011

The early research on biological effects of microwave radiation between 1940-1960 is reviewed by Cook and colleagues and is available here for download as a pdf.

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Its official, cell phone radiation is deadly

Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2011

One India

3rd February, 2011

New Delhi, Feb 3: There have been numerous rhetoric doing the rounds on the ill-effects of mobile radiation for a while. The results are out and they are not pleasing at all. It has been found that radiation from mobile towers pose grave health risks including memory loss, lack of concentration and digestive disturbances. The fact was revealed by an Inter-ministerial committee formed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones.

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