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Kompetenzinitiative
For the Protection of Man, Environment and Democracy

Prof. Dr. med. Karl Hecht
Universitätsprof. i. R.
Neurophysiologe u. Arzt
Büxensteinallee 24,
12527 Berlin – Grünau

Dr. med. Markus Kern
Facharzt für Psycho-
somatische Medizin
Beim Flosserhäusle 8
87439 Kempten

Prof. Dr. Karl Richter
Universitätsprof. i. R.
Lit. u. interdisz. Kultur
Preußenstr. 11
66386 St. Ingbert

Dr. med. H.C. Scheiner
Arzt für Allgemein- u.
Umweltmedizin
Franz-Wüllner-Str. 39
81247 München

Kompetenzinitiative, 16 March 08

Varroa Mite or Electromagnetic Fields?
New Research into the Death of Bees
Letter to Beekeepers and Beekeeper Associations

Dear Board Members and Directors of Beekeeper Associations,

Dear Beekeepers!

The death of bees has for some time concerned beekeepers, the media, but also worried
scientists who have affiliated themselves with our Kompetenz initiative for the protection
of man, environment and democracy (www.kompetenzinitiative.de).

The disturbing phenomenon is presently predominantly attributed to the Varroa mite in
newspapers and periodicals. It remains uncontested that there are such connections. Yet
plausible arguments have been put forward explaining that the mite attack also occurs as
a result of previous damage to the bees’ immune system due to electromagnetic fields.

Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Warnke, a biological scientist at Saarland University, can demonstrate
this on a firm basis in his most recent publication Bees, Birds and People, The
Destruction of Nature as a result of ‘Electrosmog’. His findings are the result of his own
research over a decade, a superior overview of the state of international research,
however, above all the realisation of verifiable mechanisms which have a disorientating
and damaging effect on the bees.

Many of you have probably already been referred to the publication. You can get further
information from the attached leaflet or find it at the link www.broschuerenreihe.de.

Here it is our purpose to express our opinion about the current discussion concerning the
damage caused by Varroa mites with some quotations from the publication. The third
chapter is above all of central importance for the matter in question: ‘Mechanisms
causing Disorientation and Damage’ (p. 13-33).

The first finding, as explained, is formulated thus by Ulrich Warnke:

Other causes are also discussed, which aim to explain the disappearance of the bees:
Single-crop farming, pesticides, the Varroa mite, mobile apiaries, corroded seeds, too
severe winters, genetically modified plants. It remains uncontested that these also
cause problems. Yet, the fact that for the last two to three years bee death has
appeared rather suddenly and spread across countries, can be explained convincingly
by none of the above mentioned causes. If the bees simply became excessively
weakened and ill, they would have to perish in or in front of the beehive. Yet, in the
case of this particular phenomenon, no sick bees are to be found. (p. 13)
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Observations which have been made in areas of the especially strongly radiating antenna
installations of the HAARP-project are also impressive:

[...] HAARP is the abbreviation for a military project (High-frequency Active Auroral
Research Project), that is used by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. Near the city
Gakona in Alaska stand 180 towers in an uninhabited area, which form an antenna
complex. The frequency is about 2.5 – 10 MHz, the wattage is extremely high at 3
million Watts (‘high power, high frequency phased array radio transmitter’). There is
no stronger technical transmitter on this earth. [...]

The effects of the HAARP transmission activity should above all be further
investigated in Canada, the USA and in Europe. As it is exactly in these countries that
the disappearance of the bees (CCD) was observed for the first time, a causal
connection can no longer be excluded.The following coincidence relating to timing
also points to this. In 2006 the transmitting power released was increased from the
former 960,000 watts to the 4-fold (3,600,000 watts), however, exactly in this year
all affected transmission areas reported the disturbed homing ability of the bees.

Dennis van Engelsdorp of the research institute American Association of Professional
Apiculturists (University of Pennsylvania), commissioned to examine the bee loss,
reports: ‘We never saw so many different viruses all at once. Moreover, we have
found fungus, flagellate and other microorganisms. This variety of pathogens is
confusing.’ It is moreover remarkable that the excretory organs of the bees are
attacked. Dennis van Engelsdorp assumes that an immunodeficiency underlies the
mysterious phenomena (VAN ENGELSDORP 2007). Yet, he asks rightly: ‘Are these
pathogens the causal stress factor or the consequence of an entirely different effect?’

It’s ‘extremely alarming’, so says Diana Cox-Foster, member of the CCD Working
Group, that the death is combined with symptoms, ‘which until now were never
described like that’. The immune system of the animals seems to have collapsed, with
many bees suffering from five to six infections simultaneously. Yet dead bees are
nowhere to be found (Spiegel 12/2007). (p. 28 f.)

The disturbances and damage observed are correlated by Warnke on a broad empirical
basis, on the one hand, with the physiological equipment of the bees and their
orientation to the magnetic and electromagnetic field of the earth and, on the other
hand, with the derailment of the NO (nitric oxide) systems and its thereby connected
management of free radicals:

Bees and other insects, just as birds, use the earth’s magnetic field and high
frequency electromagnetic energy such as light. They accomplish orientation and
navigation by means of free radicals as well as a simultaneously reacting magnetite
conglomerate. Technically produced electromagnetic oscillations in the MHz-range
and magnetic impulses in the low frequency range persistently disturb the natural
orientation and navigation mechanisms created by evolution. (p. 32)

‘A disturbed NO-system damages learning ability, scent orientation and immune system’,
reads the subtitle of chapter 3.10, which describes a central mechanism of action, also
applicable to Man:

If the bees’ NO-system is disturbed through the influence of technical magnetic fields,
a case also observed in humans, they can no longer orient themselves through scent
memory, and their all important learning process necessary for life no longer
functions. However, as NO controls the immune system to a large extent, a disturbed
NO balance will always affect the organism’s immune defense. (S. 29)

The fifth chapter of the publication summarises the established knowledge regarding
bees, numerous species of birds and Man as follows:

‘for decades research results have been freely accessible which show that the natural
electric and magnetic fields and its variations are vital conditions for the orientation
and navigation of a whole range of animals. Likewise, for many decades it has also
been wellknown in science that we humans depend on these natural factors for
numerous vital functions.

Today, however, this natural information and function system of humans, animals
and plants becomes superimposed by a never before existing density and intensity of
artificial magnetic, electric and electromagnetic fields of numerous mobile and
communication radio technologies. The consequences repeatedly predicted over many
decades by the critics of this development should now no longer be overlooked. Bees
and other insects disappear, birds avoid certain places and are disorientated in other
places. Man suffers from malfunctions and diseases; and as these become hereditary,
passes them on as damages to the next generation.’ (p. 40)

The publication has received worldwide attention since its appearance in December 2007.
The renowned BIOINITIATIVE WORKING GROUP are waiting for a translation into English,
‘since there are very few popular publications in the English speaking area, that describe
the total electromagnetic spectrum between the sky and earth with such a holistic and
scientifically based stance’ (according to Cindy Sage and Katharina Gustavs on
13.12.07). The author has been invited to give a presentation at `The Royal Society’ in
London.

Our initiative of independent scientists, physicians and technicians has issued the
publication as the first booklet in the new series Effects of the Mobile- and
Communications Radio (www.broschuerenreihe.de). We advertise with these lines for the
mediation of knowledge, because we concern ourselves with the health of Man and the
environment – free of any profit interest.

We ask you, therefore, to also make this statement accessible to others - also in
newsletters, homepages and in connection with own articles. If you are also interested in
the publication (5,- EUR), we recommend in the attached leaflet the telephone, fax- or
mail-order from die Bürgerwelle e. V., in Switzerland from Diagnose-Funk – from both
suppliers there is also bulk discount for 10 copies or more.

With kind regards, also in the names of the three other publishers in the series,

Prof. Dr. K. Hecht - Dr. med. M. Kern - Dr. med. H.-Chr. Scheiner,

Karl Richter
(Prof. Dr. Karl Richter, Scientific Editor)