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Citizens' Initiative Omega | 09.06.2003 15:31

Repacholi's circus - Microwave radiation can alter protein
conformation - EXTREME LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS AND EEG ENTRAINMENT - MP's fear over police masts - ES Symptoms-Like Evidence required - New COST 281 Newsletter - Height of Antennas - Re-zoning of the Marine Park - Bomb before you buy - Ashcroft wants Patriot Act widened...

Repacholi's circus
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The world health organization's team, and especially Repacholi, must be thinking they are running a circus, and that the public is some kind of a circus animal, something that you can throw today to the right, tomorrow to the left, to juggle with, and still, at the end of the day it is expected to lick your hand and say "thank you".

Otherwise, how can this behaviour can be explained (Microwave News May/June issue): (Repacholi wanted to provoke comments - I hope he will get now rain of comments.) WHO Flip-Flops on EMFs, Precautionary Principle Now Revoked

June 5, 2003 - The World Health Organization has decided not to invoke the precautionary principle for electromagnetic fields (EMFs), Dr. Michael Repacholi has told Microwave News.

Less than three months after the WHO EMF project told participants at its workshop on the precautionary principle that there is "sufficient evidence" to apply the principle to power-frequency EMFs and radiofrequency and microwave radiation, Repacholi, who runs the project, said that the earlier statement was only a trial balloon.

"The draft we submitted to the Luxembourg workshop was purely a discussion draft to provoke comment....It was very successful at that," Repacholi said.

The move took many of those who had attended the February workshop by surprise. We have full coverage --including reactions of those who went to Luxembourg-- in our May/June 2003 issue.

(More in the new microwave news)

A proposal from the IEEE's International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety to relax the limits for mobile phone radiation has come in for criticism. The May/June issue explains why.

Exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields at work increased the risk prostate cancer among utility workers.

The U.K. government has announced an $8 million long-term study of the possible health effects of radiation from TETRA digital radios, which police throughout the country will soon be using.

In the U.K., Dr. David de Pomerai of the University of Nottingham has shown that very weak microwave radiation can change the shape of proteins, prompting them to clump together or form long strands called fibrils. De Pomerai argues that these changes in turn trigger the production of heat shock proteins, previously reported by his and other labs.


Informant: Iris Atzmon

Omega: see also
 http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/micrwave/mthr2002x.htm

Using a mobile phone 'makes you age faster'
 http://www.tassie.net.au/emfacts/mobiles/ageing.html

Cancer Cell Study Revives Cell Phone Safety Fears
 http://www.mercola.com/2002/nov/6/cell_phone_safety.htm

More Concerns for Cell Phone Users
 http://www.analogzone.com/hfed0218.htm

and

Microwave radiation can alter protein conformation without bulk heating.

de Pomerai DI, Smith B, Dawe A, North K, Smith T, Archer DB, Duce IR, Jones D, Candido EP.

School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK

Exposure to microwave radiation enhances the aggregation of bovine serum albumin in vitro in a time- and temperature-dependent manner.

Microwave radiation also promotes amyloid fibril formation by bovine insulin at 60 degrees C. These alterations in protein conformation are not accompanied by measurable temperature changes, consistent with estimates from field modelling of the specific absorbed radiation (15-20 mW kg(-1)).

Limited denaturation of cellular proteins could explain our previous observation that modest heat-shock responses are induced by microwave exposure in Caenorhabditis elegans. We also show that heat-shock responses both to heat and microwaves are suppressed after RNA interference ablating heat-shock factor function.

FEBS Lett. 2003 May 22;543(1-3):93-7.

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12753912&dopt=Abstract


Informant: Reinhard Rueckemann

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EXTREME LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS AND EEG ENTRAINMENT

Recent well-documented research suggests that between 25% and 75% of human and animal subjects exhibit psychophysiological sensitivity to magnetic and electrical fields in the extreme low frequency (ELF) ranges corresponding to brainwave spectra.

Neuronal synchronization/desynchronization and brainwave entrainment can be demonstrated clinically in cats, monkeys, and human sensitives in the presence of ELF oscillations of both natural and man-made signals, including pulse-modulated radio frequency carriers.

 http://www.elfis.net/elfol8/e8elfeeg1.htm

Informant: Romy

see also:

 http://www.projectfreedom.cng1.com/sublim_warfare.html
 http://www.smilie.com/lazyhorse/document/thegift/
 http://www.heart7.net/mcf/brain_1.htm
 http://www.greenpages.com.au/baird/default.htm
 http://www.freezone.org/timetrack/data/psychopolitics/bowart_iw.htm#XXII

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MP's fear over police masts
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A Cornish MP is urging the government to carry out an investigation into the effects new communication masts may have on people's health.

More than 200 masts planned for the West Country are part of a national network which will improve radio links for the emergency services.

But there has been widespread opposition to the proposed Tetra mast sites in Devon and Cornwall.

Residents say they are concerned that the microwave communication system is not safe.

Opposition has been so widespread that the network, due to reach Devon and Cornwall this month, is now facing severe delays.

North Cornwall MP Paul Tyler said that he was concerned about reports that about 200 police had reported sick in trials of the new system.

He has asked Home Secretary David Blunkett to reveal the scientific and medical data which proves they are safe.

He said: "I have been concerned for some time about the possible effects from the masts on local residents.

"If it's having an effect on the officers, it may well be having an effect on the public too."

Police say the masts pose no known risks to human health and will be in place by 2005.

Chief Inspector Denis Calver, the officer in charge of the programme in Cornwall, said the force had been surprised by the public's reaction to the plans.

He said: "There was no opposition to the first mobile phone masts and this system works in very much the same sort of way.

"We don't like being in conflict with the public and sometimes there is misinformation and misunderstanding."

He added: "There are some very extremist and unproven publications about the impact of radiation on people, but the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence refutes that."

Story from BBC NEWS:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/cornwall/2960654.stm

Published: 2003/06/03 18:49:07 GMT

© BBC MMIII

Informant: Robert Riedlinger

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My ES Symptoms - Like Evidence required

I am from Australia.

I suffer from:-
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
EMR Hyper-Sensitivity

All the above (though at different stages) was initailly triggered by exposure to a mobile phone base station antenna over a duration of 10 minutes. I was within 6 - 8 meters most of the time of the antennas. For a very short while I was closer. And later trying to work whilst ill (with computers & on phone calls for long hours & with mobile phones in workplace everywhere).

My current ES Symptoms vary.

I am affected by:-

CRT Computer Monitor's
Mobile Phones
Cordless Phones
The earpeice of a standard telephone
22kV & above power lines

Typical symptoms are:-

Foggy head
Pressure pain throughout head, particularly around the temple area
Tingling sensation all over head
Dizzy & spaced out feeling
slight balance defect
Headpain (unlike normal headache)
can't think clearly
memory effected

There is also sometimes labarinyth symptoms.

Can anybody who has similar symptoms or anybody who has research that duplicates or can explain these symptoms please e-mail me. I would be VERY PLEASED to hear from you. I am in the process of a health claim & possible court action & need all the evidence I can get. I've been told to see a pychirchirst also, so I need good hard evidence that ES is not an immaginary pych illness.

PLEASE E-MAIL ME: My future depends upon it. I had to give up my work some years ago due to my symptoms.

Thanking you kindly.

Dom

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New COST 281 Newsletter May 2003 can be downloaded from
 http://www.cost281.org/newsletter.php

Informant: Volker Hartenstein, Member of the Bavarian Parliament

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Height of Antennas

Dear Fellows:

I would like to let you know a useful piece of information regarding the height of antennas installed in the US:

If the lowest point of an antenna is less than 33 feet above the ground, then the antenna is not categorically excluded; evaluation is required [FCC/LSGAC].

[FCC/LSGAC] "A Local Government Official’s Guide to Transmitting Antenna RF Emission Safety: Rules, Procedures, and Practical Guidance," W. E. Kennard and K. S. Fellman, FCC, June 2000.

Perhaps, with this info you can go and shoot down some antennas.

Radi

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Protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park could increase to 32.5%

'The re-zoning of the Marine Park is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give this World Heritage Area the level of protection it needs. The draft zoning plan released by the Australian government is great news but it could be even better.'

Imogen Zethoven, WWF-Australia Great Barrier Reef Campaign Manager.

You can help!

Make a submission to Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority supporting around 50& of the Marine Park being declared a marine sanctuary, sign WWF-Australia's e-petition calling for a comprehensive network of marine sanctuaries in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

 http://www.gbr.wwf.org.au/mailinglist2/AddNewEmail2.asp
 http://www.gbr.wwf.org.au/content/solutions/_email/GBRSendEmail.asp?bDetails=True
 http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=7283

and

Iberian lynx fighting for survival
WWF has asked the Spanish government to urgently implement a captive breeding programme for the Iberian lynx, the world's most endangered wild cat species. Without such a programme, the Iberian lynx could be the first cat species to become extinct since the sabre-toothed tiger 10,000 years ago.
www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=7227

Send an e-mail to Spain's President asking him to take action to save the Iberian: lynx. passport.panda.org/go.cfm?id=21

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Bomb before you buy
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,936203,00.html

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Downing Street "told spy chiefs to rewrite dossier six times"
Telegraph [UK]
 http://tinyurl.com/dmds

Ashcroft wants Patriot Act widened
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/922454.asp?0cv=CB10

Bush vows to "reveal the truth" on Iraqi weapons
 http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/05/sprj.irq.wmd.controversy/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Media's Negligence Threatens our Democracy
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=768

The Lies We Bought
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=767

Congressman Demands Bush Reveal Iraq Evidence
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=765

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THE PERCEPTION OF DECEPTION: WHERE ARE THE IRAQI WEAPONS?
 http://www.senate.gov/~byrd/byrd_speeches/byrd_speeches_2003june/byrd_speeches_2003june_list/byrd_speeches_2003june_list_0.html


We seek a world free of war and the threat of war
We seek a society with equity and justice for all
We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled
We seek an earth restored...


Informant: Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

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"Is Lying About the Reason for War an Impeachable Offense?"
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=769
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=771



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