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The End of Small Farms?

Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2009

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Break the matrix

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Bee documentary precludes pesticides as CCD cause

Posted by smeddum on March 31, 2009

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Is CCD caused by pesticides?

Posted by seumasach on March 29, 2009

 

Judging from this extract from a Spanish study on CCD, the answer is no. Note that this Spanish team has been studying CCD since 1999, years before it officially came into existence.

From CCD: Considerations on its origin

Depopulation and treatment of sunflower seeds with pesticides

 

The toxicity of certain pesticides  is the cause most often cited for bee losses. For the last six years we have studied the possible effects of certain pesticides such as imidaclopride(Gaucho) or fipronil(Regent), used in the treatment of sunflower seeds and the link to hive populations, following concerns in the sector about their use. Read the rest of this entry »

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Distortion, Denial And Destruction- New Labour Legacy For Children With Disabilities And Their Families

Posted by seumasach on March 29, 2009

 

 

Lisa Blakemore-Brown 

Psychologist

 

 The One Click Group

11th March, 2009

Click on original article(above)  to see live links.

I welcomed the opportunity to represent the Autism Rights group at this 

important event.  Much of what I had to tell those who attended the Children’s 

Session, Chaired by Sabina Frediani of Liberty was probably new to them. In 

effect, my short talk was my own witness statement to violations of Human 

Rights and Civil Liberties in relation to  families, especially families with children 

who are autistic or suffer from other disabilities; and unremitting retaliation by 

the Government to prevent such violations being proven. The end result being 

ongoing damage to families and their disabled children which one could never 

imagine would happen in our so called advanced age.   

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Electromagnetic fields stress living cells.

Posted by seumasach on March 29, 2009

Department of Physiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

PubMed

4th March, 2009

Electromagnetic fields (EMF), in both ELF (extremely low frequency) and radio frequency (RF) ranges, activate the cellular stress response, a protective mechanism that induces the expression of stress response genes, e.g., HSP70, and increased levels of stress proteins, e.g., hsp70.

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Cell Phones, the New Cigarettes

Posted by smeddum on March 24, 2009

 

By Albert Roman
Epoch Times Staff
Feb 25, 2009

 

 

Elizabeth Barris is concerned about the ill effects of cell phones and Wi-Fi.

Elizabeth Barris is concerned about the ill effects of cell phones and Wi-Fi. (Mike Chamness)

Elizabeth Barris, director of The Peoples Initiative Foundation, a new non profit organization, is on a mission to change the law and inform the public about the devastating health effects from EMR (electromagnetic radiation), which is emitted from cell phones and Wi-Fi. Read the rest of this entry »

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Public health implications of wireless technologies

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2009

Cindy Sage and David O. Carpenter

Science Direct

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Abstract

Global exposures to emerging wireless technologies from applications including mobile phones, cordless phones, DECT phones, WI-FI, WLAN, WiMAX, wireless internet, baby monitors, and others may present serious public health consequences. Evidence supporting a public health risk is documented in the BioInitiative Report. New, biologically based public exposure standards for chronic exposure to low-intensity exposures are warranted. Existing safety standards are obsolete because they are based solely on thermal effects from acute exposures. The rapidly expanding development of new wireless technologies and the long latency for the development of such serious diseases as brain cancers means that failure to take immediate action to reduce risks may result in an epidemic of potentially fatal diseases in the future. Regardless of whether or not the associations are causal, the strengths of the associations are sufficiently strong that in the opinion of the authors, taking action to reduce exposures is imperative, especially for the fetus and children. Such action is fully compatible with the precautionary principle, as enunciated by the Rio Declaration, the European Constitution Principle on Health (Section 3.1) and the European Union Treaties Article 174.

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Brain cancer linked to youngsters using cellphones

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

Montreal Gazette

16th March, 2009

OTTAWA — An international group of scientists is calling on Canada and other countries to bring in tougher safety standards for cellphone use after a Swedish team found a fivefold elevated risk of malignant brain tumours in children who begin using mobile phones before the age of 20.

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40,000 people affected by brain tumours are missing from the UK’s official statistics each year.

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

 

This should come as no surprise given the known link between mobile phone use and brain tumours.

Community News Wire

18th March, 2009

A national charity has today released figures that show more than 40,000 people affected by brain tumours are missing from the UK’s official statistics each year.

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Phone masts: : a new judgement and a ministerial crisis in France

Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2009

 

 

Relay antennas: a new judgement and a 

ministerial crisis in France  

Next-up 

19th March, 2009

 

 

 

In the face of widespread protest and numerous lawsuits there 

is now a ministerial crisis in the country.  

Apparently in the last few days the unconfirmed number of 135 

lawsuits have been launched! In an effort to clarify the 

situation, Next-up Organisation is putting out a countrywide 

appeal in order to find out the exact number of lawsuits in 

progress or about to be introduced.  

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Bioinitiative Press Release

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009

Bioinitiative

March 12, 2009 – Orebro University Hospital; Umea, Sweden; Columbia University, New York: University of Albany, New York; Karolinska Institute, Sweden

International Scientists Find Harmful Effects from Wireless Technologies and Urge New Safety Rules for Cell Phones (This link opens a WORD document containing the press release below. The link to the Pathophysiology Web site is at the end of this document.)

Public health concerns and scientific evidence for risks from cell phones and other wireless devices is published today in the journal Pathophysiology. International researchers have urged quick precautionary action (see Section 17 of the BioInitiative Report) to address a possible epidemic of brain tumors and many other health risks. Over four billion people around the world now use cell phones. They are rapidly eliminating the use of traditional land-line phones throughout the world. Health researchers from six countries give findings in fifteen (15) chapters covering health risks to humans and wildlife from electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation.


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