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 SCANDAL: WHO denies Prof. Olle Johansson the democratic right to participate in a workshop

 Correlation found between mobile phone masts and sleep disturbances. Graz, Austria

 Dalia and Osafia, Israel. The mayor gets rid of all the antennas – First place in the world: No antennas and no phones anymore

 Government intransigence to planning changes proven by Yvette Cooper, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

 Police Federation News, ‘Focus on Airwave’. Surprisingly uncertain.

 Parents ‘ignore mobile warnings’ In this BBC report, echoing a similar front-page story in the Daily Mail, note that:
‘Michael Clarke, radiation expert at the Health Protection Agency, said: “We feel we should discourage prolonged use of mobile phones. There isn’t actually a proven health risk. What we are talking about is the possibility of one emerging after prolonged use. ... I cannot predict what I might find out tomorrow.”’ Did anyone tell you your home DECT gossip phone is both a full mobile phone and a base station?

 April 2005: Results of the Comrie (Perthshire) TETRA health survey

 These reports of TETRA masts causing headaches, sleep disruption, itchy skin. Are they real? Or all psychosomatic rubbish? Maybe it’s all not worth worrying about. Please read what one town in Sussex found out in 2004 when they undertook a careful formal survey.

 Irish correspondents back the Irish Doctors Environmental Association on masts

 Sounds like a sales coup for Sepura TETRA handsets. Actually it’s North Yorkshire police already on new handsets! The big complaint of the old VHF radios is that they were held together with rubber bands. They were so old, but still working well enough. The first lot of TETRA must be hardly scratched! And at what, £800 each? That’s a lot of council tax payers’ money being wasted.

 Quiz the party leaders. Who is listening about masts? Place your questions ... by the thousand.

 If 3G is to replace GSM as planned, the networks will need three to four times as many transmitters as they have today. TETRA has shown us how people can be susceptible; but a marketeer’s success with 3G is madness.

 Mobile phones are safe! This Danish study needs reading with the next 2 links below. These results were announced on January 2004, when the study was a long way from completion! Beware the headlines ‘Mobile phones are safe.’ The authors still advise hands free!

 A little interesting background to the Danish study

 And dig a little into the research funding

 Health chiefs probe phone-mast cancer link claims

 Irish civil servants threaten action over mobile phone masts

 From Vancouver: International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Seeks Study on Health Hazards of Cell Phone Tower Radiation.

 Pensioner ‘poisoned’ by phone mast on her roof. Of course this was followed by a local investigation that gave masts the all clear. ICNIRP guidelines satisfied, no more to say ...

 Cyprus: Alarm Bells of Radiation Threat

 Can anyone tell us why TETRA feels different from time to time? Like when the power is up or down, or new masts introduced, or software reconfigured. It’s time this disingenous insistence from the closed ranks of HPA, WHO, O2 and government, that TETRA cannot possibly affect people, was stopped and the issue treated quite differently.

 A new page for the curious. Ever heard of the TETRA lines? Maybe not your cup of tea, but certainly a very curious fact about TETRA; maybe you can help?

 First we had Tony Blair telling us masts were safe: ‘trust me, I’m the Prime Minister’. Then we had John Prescott telling us he had decided not to change the planning guidance for masts (even before Andrew Stunnell’s Bill had received a full and fair hearing). Now Planning Minister Yvette Cooper says the Government is to commission ‘research’ on future development of mobile phone masts. ‘to identify the future direction of mobile phone technology and the future needs for mast developments’. Oh dear; not a second thought to building levels of EMF and the emerging health effects. Just how to get masts up without people protesting.

 Institute of Science in Society calls on European Commission to Support Independent Science: health before wealth.

 Brighton: TETRA on a hospital maternity ward. Crazy but true, and now it’s hit the national press. Hey, who cares? It makes money for the hospitals . . .

 A foregone conclusion? Why are these MTHR researchers publishing their conclusive opinion ahead of their findings?

 Ransom note — from the Devon police?

 Thinking sideways to lengthy mobile phone use (which is what our police are doing with TETRA), pause a minute: Big Tobacco 2.0?

 Action for change.There was a successful lobby in the House of Commons in March, with the Green Network and the Environmental Law Centre. Please use this petition on shared issues.

 Now here’s a thought: runaway technology. TETRA does not work as required, 3G works as not wanted; both hugely raising EMF levels.

 And be sure you know what the words mean in terms of precaution and safety.

 TETRA meeting in Wales, Tuesday March 22

 A new page, a new slant, on the ethics of finding out about TETRA

 Other pages have been updated on this site, in particular: police, pulse and health links.

 Trust me; I’m a Prime Minister. ‘[Tony Blair] ruled out any immediate change in the planning rules. And he rejected a recall of the influential Stewart Committee, despite a warning from cancer expert and Science and Technology chairman Dr Ian Gibson that mobile phone masts would be banned for five years if the Government took the same cautious approach as it did with the Sudan 1 food dye.’

 Daily Telegraph Science editor, 14/03/05: ‘Two-thirds of people now believe the risks of emissions from mobile phones outweigh the benefits, according to a Government survey. This represents a reversal of the pattern of two years ago when more than twice the proportion believed the benefits exceeded the risks, according to a Mori research report, Science in Society, commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry. Sir William Stewart, head of the National Radiological Protection Board, Britain’s radiation watchdog, recently warned that the dangers – particularly to children – were still unknown. And a Swedish study has linked long-term use with double the risk of a rare tumour on a nerve that connects the ear to the brain. The survey, of around 2000 people, is published today to coincide with National Science Week.’

 Some thoughts on the principles of using Airwave TETRA in a position of doubt. A presentation originally given to West Sussex County Council.

 Cornwall County Council presses for halt on TETRA

 Phone masts put millions of lives at risk: Prof. Olle Johansson

 Andrew Stunell MP takes up where Richard Spring MP left off last year, with a new Private Members Bill. Urge your MP to support this bill by voting on it when it presented gain on 22 April. It’s easy: Fax your MP.

 Eileen O’Connor, EM-Radiation Research Trust and SCRAM, has collated information for the Birmingham Scrutiny Committee on 18 March. This is a useful document to have on masts in general (if you are still in any doubt about the evidence).

 There is a phenomenal amount about masts and health in the news. But this letter struck Tetrawatch as expressing a clear and sensible sentiment.

 Scottish MSPs’ wake-up call. Communities unite in their Tetra fight.

 Hansard, March 1st :The TETRA debate in Parliament. (Tim Loughton MP, East Worthing and Shoreham) If you have never read Hansard, read this...

 Nobody told the vole that radio frequencies can’t possibly have an effect on them. See full paper. Animals are certainly affected, and by TETRA and phone base stations.

 A public meeting was held in Southport, Lancs, with Dr Gerard Hyland, 27 February

 What do our police feel about TETRA? If there is a risk, they’re closest to it; protecting us, but unprotected themselves.

 Private Member’s Debate introduced by Tim Loughton MP (East Worthing & Shoreham) on the ‘Operation of police TETRA masts in Sussex’ held on 1st March. Read Hansard.

 Important TETRA and Mast Awareness Forum, Dorset

 Expert’s mobile phone health fears. Prof. Olle Johansson: ‘They’re as dangerous as driving blindfold.’

 Welcome to Scottish Action on TETRA where the campaign is hotting up.

 Important Scottish meetings, with Prof. Olle Johansson, Karolinska Institute, were held in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, 22 and 23 February.

 Marshside, Southport: similar survey, same result from an Orange mast.

Michael Clark of the NRPB says: ‘There is no evidence for this effect but lots of people report it. They are affected by something, they go a bit strange and all sorts of symptoms appear.’ (Guardian, 27/01/05) Reassuring profesional tones, from the guardian of the nation’s health?

 Our letter to Sir William Stewart, Chairman of the Health Protection Agency

 Orange says masts near schools present greater risk than masts on top of them: ‘the operator may look for a site nearby which may be a few hundred yards away, which could lead to a greater risk.’

 T-Mobile says that 3G is safer because it is ‘not associated with the pulsing found in 2G and TETRA communications’, and that siting masts further from users is ‘arguably less safe’ – despite the argument that they all transmit many thousands of times below the ICNIRP guidelines!!

 Orange also says: ‘if the masts were responsible [for the reported health effects] then everyone would be affected.’ If pollen was really responsible for pollinosis, everyone would have hayfever! What a singularly inept attempt at denial!

 Concern in Parliament about phone masts: 9 Feb 05 Early Day Motion. News report: Mast applications start MPs revolt

 Proof of mobile health risk

 Read this. Powerwatch: the danger and scandal of masts below 10m

 Change mast laws now! from Dr Ian Gibson MP

 Helsinki Appeal from EMF-Team Finland, established in 2003 to promote healthy environment including electromagnetic fields. ‘The most important goal set for our team was to influence authorities and politicians to adopt new safety standards based on biological effects of non-ionizing radiation, especially on RF-levels. This is just the opposite to what our “WHO” is carrying out with it’s harmonization project of today.

 Not just a UK concern. India: PM to initiate study on cellphone health hazards

 Admission? Dr Jill Meara, the deputy director of the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) which advises the Government on phone safety, said: ‘There are real symptoms out there, but the studies have not been conclusive yet.’

 Powerwatch responds to the NRPB Stewart Report: Mobile Phones and Health 2004

 And which newspaper was the only one to try and rubbish Sir William Stewart? The Telegraph, where John Allwood, former head of mobile phone operator Orange UK, is executive director.

 Hello? Hello? Is anyone listening? Independent on Sunday gets it right.

 Police officers! What would you do? What have you been told of your options? Urgent (confidential) comment and information for colleagues please. We can connect you without needing to disclose anything.

 Get off that mobile, expert (Sir William Stewart) tells children. Mobile Operators Association replies that mobile phones give kids security benefits. 90% of 11-16 year olds have them. Show me the crime statistics for children. Mobile phones have featured in adbductions and murders very recently, but only to track the killers. Now we are making our police use TETRA, which is far worse, unregulated for exposure, every day!

 Get on that phone, kids! How the industry will use charity status to undermine NRPB warnings

 So here’s a great idea for toddlers in emergencies! – for ‘peace of mind’!

 NRPB publishes update to the ‘Stewart Report’ of 2000. Nothing really new in Mobile Phones and Health 2004: just a reminder. Completely misses the point on ICNIRP guidelines.

 Thought page: no going back? Considerations on our wireless world.

 Jan 2005: Lancashire Constabulary starts mobile data trial. Where TETRA fails, buy the police a pocket computer each, so they can exchange data after all! Note this: ‘The trial is being run by supplier O2 Airwave, the company responsible for rolling out to all UK police forces, using both the £2.9bn tetra-based radio network, and the O2 GPRS network, depending on which application is being accessed by the user.’ Who’s paying for the doubled equipment and doubled access time?

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