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Citizens' Initiative Omega | 17.09.2003 12:53 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Health | London | World

Cellphones make you senile, study suggests - IBM goes RFID - Seniles also in Israel - Blood test a 'marker' for electrosensitivity? - Bush defends change in environmental rules - Bush's Crusade Against 'Terrorism' - US Public Rejects Bush Plea for $87 to Escalate Gulf War - US and Britain isolated as Iraq angrily buries its dead - Countdown to catastrophe - Bush's big blunder - A struggle to explain - The Terrible Truth

Cellphones make you senile, study suggests
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 http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=e184b9a3-93d2-4124-b92d-e3318f09619
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Monday September 15 2003 S

Cellphones make you senile, study suggests Teenagers warned against overuse of wireless devices

Cellphones endanger young brains, study says.

LONDON -- Cellphones, together with the increasingly popular wireless technology that goes with them, could cause a whole generation of teens to go senile in the prime of their lives, new research suggests.

The alarming Swedish study -- which warns specifically against "the intense use of cellphones by youngsters" -- comes as an embattled communications industry is increasing pressure to scale back research on their health effects.

Prof. Leif Salford, who headed the research at Sweden's prestigious Lund University, has branded what he calls "the voluntary exposure of the brain to microwaves" from cellphones "the largest human biological experiment ever." And he's warning that, as new wireless technology spreads, people may "drown in a sea of microwaves."

The study, financed by the Swedish Council for Work Life Research and published by the U.S. government's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, breaks new ground by looking at how low levels of microwaves cause proteins to leak across the blood-brain barrier.

Previous concerns about cellphones have concentrated on the possibility that the devices may heat the brain, or cause cancer. But the heating is thought to be too minor to have an effect, and hundreds of cancer studies have been inconclusive.

As a result, the U.S. cellphone industry has succeeded in cutting research into the health effects, and the World Health Organisation is unlikely to continue its studies. But Salford and his team have spent 15 years investigating a different threat than other researchers.

The team's previous studies proved that radiation could open the blood-brain barrier, allowing a protein called albumin to pass into the brain. Their latest work goes a step further by showing the process is linked to serious brain damage.

Salford noted that the long-term effects were not proven, and that it was possible the neurons would repair themselves in time. But, he insisted, neurons that would normally not become "senile" until people reached their 60s may now do so when they were in their 30s. He also noted that he deliberately refrained from publicizing his work to avoid alarm, and acknowledged that cellphones can save lives.

© Copyright 2003 The Province

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IBM goes RFID
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IBM tags new RFID services
September 15, 2003, 7:37 AM PDT
By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com

 http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-5076368.html

IBM expanded its presence in the market for radio frequency identification on Monday with the introduction of services to help companies adopt the supply-chain management tool.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has generated interest among retailers and consumer-goods companies as a method to more effectively track inventory. The technology allows companies to closely follow movement of products via computer networks linked with microchips that are attached to specific items. Each chip transmits a unique ID code that lists a range of product information, such as origin, location, expiration date and time of purchase.

IBM's new package, launched at this week's Electronic Product Code Symposium in Chicago, entails consulting services and specialized software aimed at building RFID capabilities into retailers' existing back-end inventory systems. IBM said the package is based on nonproprietary standards and is built on its WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Information Integrator, Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Server products. IBM is offering a three-phase adoption strategy: consulting, followed by a 12-week pilot program and then a full launch.

"IBM believes RFID's time has come," Faye Holland, worldwide RFID leader at IBM Global Services, said in a statement. "As our retail and (consumer-goods) customers see the dramatic benefits this technology brings in cost reduction, improved customer service and streamlined operations, the demand is escalating."

Among the companies already working to implement RFID are retail giant Wal-Mart Stores and clothing maker Prada. In addition to allowing businesses greater ability to follow the flow of products throughout their supply chains into stores, the technology is also aimed at cutting into employee theft, traditionally a problem for many consumer-goods makers.

However, RFID has also generated controversy among privacy advocates who have aired concerns that the technology can be used to track the movements of consumers.

IBM is one of a slew of IT consulting companies attempting to tap into interest around RFID, along with rivals such as Accenture and Hewlett-Packard.


Informant: Gotemf

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Seniles also in Israel
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The lines "The cellular grows a senile generation" can be read today on the front page of the most sold newspaper in Israel-Yediot Ahronot. It's the translation of the story from England with slight changes (Mays Swicord is a woman, the study is "a huge Europe study")

Anyway the story is spread on 2 pages of the main news: "A new study: 'An entire generation' of youngsters is liable to become senile because of the use of cellular phones".

Communication disturbances.

The big letters are: "A huge research that was done in Europe, raises frightening findings. The mobile phones radiation can cause a leak of proteins from the blood to the brain. The damage can be serious: damage to the brain cells and the memory, to senility. Motorola: The governments should stop 'wasting money' looking after damages".

The cellular and us: [Israel in numbers. When you read this, remember: Israel is only 6 million people]

6.4 million lines in Israel

1.2 million users up to 25 years old.

1 million users 25-35 years old

In 80% of the homes in Israel there's at least one cellular phone

30% of the homes in Israel have 2 cellular phones.

average use a month: 300 minutes

an average account a month: 180 Shekels (about $40)

an average account of young person: 240 Shekels (about $50)

Scientists react:

"This study proves again, that damage in the body cells is not necessarily linked to high exposure that causes heat at the exposure area, but happens also at low exposure levels" says Prof Rafi Korenstein, a researcher at Tel Aviv University. "The cellular companies and government authorities have to relate to the last studies because the international standards relate only to the heat effect" says Prof. Korenstein.

The director of the unit of cancer registration at the health ministry, Dr. Micha Bar Hana, thinks differently: "In the research, the researchers found proofs for damage in the activity of the rat cells. The question is, how is it possible to conclude from a research on rats- to humans brain activity. Also, every year studies are published, and claim a thing and its opposite about use of cellular phones."

Anyway Bar Hana advices to the public to talk with open antenna, to remove the antenna from the ear and to use device which enables to put the cellular phone in distant from the body.

Communication disturbances.
Yediot Ahronot 15.9.2003

The story from England, (the israeli version is not on the newspaper website yet)
 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Blood test a 'marker' for electrosensitivity?
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Recently on several other Internet discussion groups that these messages go to, information has been circulated about the condition of "electrosensitivity". In addition, The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is conducting a survey on the condition.

There are some who will argue that electrosensitivity is primarily a psychosomatic or psychological condition, and those who insist that it is an environmental illness, purely resulting from exposure to EMF/EMR.


However, if a biological 'marker' could be found that is only seen in fatigue type illness associated with prolonged EMF exposure (discussing 50-50 Hz fields here) that would go a long way to resolving the controversy.

It is possible that a condition, called "Pseudo Iron Deficiency" may be a marker for immune system effects from ELF/EMF exposure. There is no data available on a similar effect from RF/MW however.

As part of the data collected from previous case histories
 http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/case-histories.html
and from a preliminary research study:
 http://www.acnem.org/journal/21-1_april_2002/changes_in_health_status_ of_cfs_patients.htm

It was noted that some people who had 'high' EMF exposures reported having 'low-iron levels' that seemed to be associated with their fatigue symptoms. Upon hearing that a French study also found low iron levels (since termed "pseudo iron deficiency") with prolonged powerfrequency exposures, I managed to contact the study author and eventually compiled a report on their findings. Some of which is on my web site at:
 http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/french.html

As part of planning for a future follow-up CFS/EMF study (above) I compiled a report on all that I could find on this unusual blood condition, that only appears to be associated with prolonged powerfrequency EMF exposure. I presented this to a laboratory in Melbourne and they confirmed that it is an easy test to do and would cost in the order of $29.90 per sample (see below).

It is my opinion that a study, set up along the lines of our previous CFS/EMF study, that additionally conducts "pseudo-iron deficiency" tests, may well help to clarify whether or not "electrosensitivity" as an environmental illness.
 http://www.acnem.org/journal/21-1_april_2002/changes_in_health_status_ of_cfs_patients.htm

and:  http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/cf-changes2.html

The possibility exists that "PID" may be a marker that may identify ill individuals who have excessive powerfrequency EMF exposure.

My colleagues and I hope to follow this up in about three years time but are willing to share information with other research groups that may wish to investigate this line of inquiry further.

Don Maisch



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EMFacts Consultancy
PO Box 1403
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SAMPLES - BATCH SIZE : This quotation has been prepared on the basis of analysing batch sizes of 50 samples.

SAMPLE REQUIREMENTS : Saliva (ARL will provide collection tubes) and blood.

TURNAROUND TIME FOR RESULTS : 5-7 working days after receipt of specimens.

QUOTATION : Salivary Melatonin $16.50 per sample (+ 10% GST). Iron Studies $29.90 per sample (+ 10% GST).

TERMS AND CONDITIONS : The work will commence on receipt of an official order. Payment is Nett 30 days from the date of final reports.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit our quotation. We look forward to your favourable response.

Please confirm your acceptance by return fax.

Yours sincerely,

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Bush defends change in environmental rules
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President Bush Monday defended a change in clean air rules — which environmentalists believe will cause more pollution — as necessary to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep the U.S. economy going.

 http://www.enn.com/news/2003-09-16/s_8439.asp

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Bush's Crusade Against 'Terrorism'
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1100

US Public Rejects Bush Plea for $87 to Escalate Gulf War
 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1098

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US and Britain isolated as Iraq angrily buries its dead
 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=443250

Countdown to catastrophe
 http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j091503.html

The military's bloated budget
 http://slate.msn.com/id/2088277/

Bush's big blunder
 http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030917/index.php

A helping of crow with those freedom fries?
 http://tinyurl.com/ndva

A struggle to explain
 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20030915.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The PATRIOT Act's Assault on the Bill of Rights
 http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030915ONeil.html

Report on Iraq WMD shelved as no evidence found by US-UK team
 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4708.htm

The Terrible Truth
 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4712.htm

The New Rulers of the World
 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3586.htm

Information Clearing House News
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The Link between the "War on Terrorism" and "Free Trade
 http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=34396:740526


Environmentalists Against War

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Are we Safer or Just Less Free?
 http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~aclu.asp

Sacrificing Captain Ryan
 http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~to.asp

Statement on the Second Anniversary of 9/11
 http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~pt.asp

Outsourcing War
 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_37/b3849012.htm

The hawks fall out
 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI16Ak03.html


Informant: kevcross5



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