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The Scandal Surrounding Faked Data in Vienna

Posted by seumasach on November 7, 2009

The Scandal Surrounding Faked Data in Vienna

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Arrhythmias caused by electrosmog?

Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2009

The following appeared on the front page of the Bangkok Post on Friday, July 24th, 2009:
Healing Arrhythmias
Many people believe that irregular heartbeat, also known as arrhythmia, is caused by stress. In fact,arrhythmia is actually the result of a heart disorder related to the electrical impulsesthat naturally control our heart rate. These disorders can cause the heart to beat either too quickly, too slowly, or erratically, and if gone untreated can lead to stroke or even death.
I think the key words here are “Electrical impulses.” It doesn’t take much to put two and two together — or does it?
The Mayo Clinic lists one of the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndromeas “Irregular Heartbeat.”
Furthermore, Arrhythmia is often sited as a symptom ofElectrosensitivity:
Symptoms may include skin disorders (pins and needles, numbness, burning), fatigue, muscle cramps, cardiac arrhythmia, and gastro-intestinal problems.”
“Chest pains, heart arrhythmia.”
Like I said, it doesn’t take much to put two and two together — it is just surprising that most people don’t seem to be able to do this for whatever reason.
*Heart attack rates in North Karelia and Kuopio, Finland, became the highest (and most swiftly increasing) in the world* within a few years after the Soviets installed a gigantic over-the-horizon radar complex that bounced microwaves off the surface of Lake Ladoga and through these parts of southeastern Finland._ p. 300
*There are indications that some types of electropollution directly decrease the efficiency of the heart*. Several research groups in Poland, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States have studied pulse, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, and reserve capacity (the heart’s ability to handle exertion) in animals. Microwaves and 50-Hertz electric fields both produced similar changes that persisted throughout long-term exposure. These included *bradycardia* (decreased pulse), *a huge reduction (40 to 50 percent) in the strength of electrical impulses governing contraction of the heart muscle*, a decline in reserve capacity, and a short-term rise followed by a long-term fall in blood pressure. In general, these decrements occurred in both “domestic” (0.5 volts per centimetre) and “industrial” (50 volts per centimetre or more) electric fields and at microwave power densities of 150 microwatts, well within the amount received by many people from radar beams and microwave ovens._ p. 291
In 1971, Zinaida V. Gordan and Maria N. Sadchikova of the USSR Institute of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases described a comprehensive succession of symptoms, which they identified as Microwave Sickness. The initial symptoms are low blood pressure and slow pulse. The second stage includes headaches, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension, inability to concentrate, hair loss, which are eventually followed by adrenal exhaustion and* ischemic heart disease*._pp. 314-315
*The Body Electric, Dr. Robert O. Becker, 1985*
People who get what is called Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFIDS/ME) also suffer from inflammation caused by an increase in cytokines.
They also very often suffer from heart disease, have sleep disturbances, depression, and behavioral disturbances including fatigue and sleep problems. Now, could it be that all this radio frequency (RF) (e.g. microwaves) radiation that we are being exposed to might also be very well causing an increase in cytokine activity?
Just another piece of the puzzle!
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Public release date: 18-Aug-2009
Contact: Jeremy Moore
jeremy.moore@aacr.org
267-646-0557
American Association for Cancer Research
Patients who experience fatigue during radiotherapy for breast or prostate cancer may be reacting to activation of the proinflammatory cytokine network, a known inflammatory pathway, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Julie Bower, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues, conducted an observational study among 28 patients with breast cancer and 20 patients with prostate cancer, all early stage. Patients completed questionnaires and provided blood samples so researchers could determine the level of proinflammatory markers.
As expected, there was a strong link between radiotherapy treatment and fatigue. In a new finding, the researchers noted that increases in serum markers of cytokine activity, specifically IL-1 receptor antagonist and C-reactive protein, were also linked with fatigue.
“This study suggests that exposure to radiation is releasing these inflammatory cytokines and that may be contributing to fatigue,” said Bower.
The mission of the American Association for Cancer Research is to prevent and cure cancer. Founded in 1907, AACR is the world’s oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research. The membership includes more than 28,000 basic, translational and clinical researchers; health care professionals; and cancer survivors and advocates in the United States and nearly 90 other countries. The AACR marshals the full spectrum of expertise from the cancer community to accelerate progress in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through high-quality scientific and educational programs. It funds innovative, meritorious research grants. The AACR Annual Meeting attracts more than 17,000 participants who share the latest discoveries and developments in the field. Special conferences throughout the year present novel data across a wide variety of topics in cancer research, treatment and patient care. The AACR publishes six major peer-reviewed journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; and Cancer Prevention Research. The AACR also publishes CR, a magazine for cancer survivors and their families, patient advocates, physicians and scientists. CR provides a forum for sharing essential, evidence-based information and perspectives on progress in cancer research, survivorship and advocacy.

Paul Doyon

The following appeared on the front page of the Bangkok Post on Friday, July 24th, 2009:

Healing Arrhythmias

Many people believe that irregular heartbeat, also known as arrhythmia, is caused by stress. In fact,arrhythmia is actually the result of a heart disorder related to the electrical impulsesthat naturally control our heart rate. These disorders can cause the heart to beat either too quickly, too slowly, or erratically, and if gone untreated can lead to stroke or even death.

I think the key words here are “Electrical impulses.” It doesn’t take much to put two and two together — or does it?

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Belgian soldiers are sick due to electromagnetic radiations in Afghanistan.

Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2009

Belgian Armed Forces in Afghanistan are falling ill
probably due to the jamming equipment installed in their
armoured vehicles.
The Minister of Defence has started an inquiry.
All soldiers using Pander vehicles in Afghanistan are
complaining of headache and nausea. These complaints
are probably linked to radiations induced by the jamming
equipments installed in their vehicles.
Two soldiers of the 11th engineer battalion in Burcht were
already exempted and taken away from service by
doctors.
The Belgian soldiers are part of the International Forces for Security Assistance (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Facing
the many attacks toward the foreigner soldiers on the Afghanistan territory it was decided to equip Pandur with
Symphony jamming systems. This equipment emits radiation waves that have a harmful effect on the
Belgian military personnel’s health.
According to the Defence Agency these radiations are not over the standard limits but however an inquiry is
open.

Next-up

28th August 2008

Belgian Armed Forces in Afghanistan are falling ill

probably due to the jamming equipment installed in their

armoured vehicles.

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Parotid glands cancer: sharp increase

Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009

Haaretz

16th July, 2009

A new report of the scientific committee of the israeli dentists association, presents in the first time a sharp increase of parotid glands tumor during the last five years. The researchers think it’s related to the cellular phone use. The study was done by Dr. Avi Zini from Hadasah Jerusalem, with Dr. Micha Bar Hana, head of cancer registy. They checked incidence of mouth neoplasms during 1970- 2006. Until 2002 there were 25 new cases a year and in the last five years 2.8 fold increase, since the year 2000.

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Some Facts about Cell Phone Radiation

Posted by seumasach on July 14, 2009

Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy

Mast Sanity

July 2009

I was an amateur radio enthusiast before becoming a professional biologist, but kept my interest in radio throughout a long career as a lecturer at Imperial College London. No one appreciates more than I the wonders of engineering that have gone into even the cheapest cell phone, but equally I know the very real dangers that cell phone signals present to both the user and people living near cell towers.

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Mobile Phones: Oxidative Stress and Impaired Male Fertility

Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2009

Radio frequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) from GSM (0.9/1.8GHz) mobile phones induces oxidative stress and reduces sperm motility in rats.

PubMed

Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2009;64(6):561-5.

Mailankot M, Kunnath AP, Jayalekshmi H, Koduru B, Valsalan R.

Department of Biochemistry, Melaka Manipal, Medical College, Manipal, India.

INTRODUCTION:Mobile phones have become indispensable in the daily lives of men and women around the globe. As cell phone use has become more widespread, concerns have mounted regarding the potentially harmful effects of RF-EMR from these devices.
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Government response to school WiFi petition panned

Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2009

The government has received the Bioinitiative Report and therefore knows that the statement by the HPA that there is ‘no scientific evidence of any health risks’ is a barefaced lie.

Ecologist

8th July, 2009

In response to a petition calling on wireless technology to be removed from schools, the Government has pronounced itself happy with WiFi safety guidelines its critics have labelled ‘dangerously out of date’

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Roger Santini-Scientific Arguments to Prove Immediate Application of Precautionary Principle against Mobile Phones

Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2009

Roger Santini (April 2006)

Click on this link to read (pdf ) report:

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Generation X-Ray: Child victims of Technological abuse

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2009

ProLiberty

From the May 2008 Idaho Observer:


Generation X-Ray

Child victims of Technological abuse

Science from the ‘40s to present has demonstrated conclusively the harmful effects of microwave radiation—the platform upon which the entire wireless universe—cell phones, text messaging, WiFi, WiMax and RFID—is built. Yet the wireless network is expanding, with the approval of government “as fast as it can.” With virtually zero regulatory oversight, the nation and all the people, plants and animals in it, are bathing in microwave radiation so we can talk, Internet surf, email, text message and play online games wherever and whenever we want. The biophysical effects of enveloping our world in harmful radiation are becoming apparent. What happened to us? How could our desire for wireless convenience so totally suspend our innate survival instincts that we would ignore well-established science plus common sense and finance conditions on this planet that portend our slow and painful deaths without dignity? More embarrassingly, what happened to us that we would so readily allow our children to suffer wireless addiction, sealing their fates to short, sickly, neurologically-impaired lives? The answer lies in the recurring theme in this month’s edition of The IO: Education. As a culture, we are taught to accept a foundational matrix of LIES as “facts”—for generations—since birth. Within this matrix, we grow up morally relativistic and believe that the only past and futures that matter are connected to how we feel in the present. The dishonor this mindset does to our forebearers is shameful; the disservice we are doing to future generations is unprecedented in the history of mankind.

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Europe’s MEPs Vote to Minimise EMF Exposure Risks

Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2009

An article by Eileen O’Connor of Radiation Research Trust

Cancer Active

April 2009

Members of the European Parliament have recently produced reports, declarations and suggested changes to the law in response to the various reports of adverse effects on health to wireless technology such mobile phones, phone masts, tetra, WiFi, Wimax and wireless communication systems.  April, 2009 witnessed a rise in support for the precautionary approach.

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France-The mayors of several cities request a trial period of reducing EMF exposure levels

Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2009

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Translation HC [original PDF]
Press release _________________________
Grenoble 25 May 2009
Government Round Table on phone masts
The mayors of several cities request a trial period of reducing EMF exposure levels
Michel Destot, who has been involved in the discussions initiated by the Minister of Health on the question of radio frequencies, health and environment, was pleased with the progress of the discussions and the initiative that brought together for the first time residents’ action groups, representatives of consumers and employees, local authority officials and phone operating companies.
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