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News page: 2 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 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: 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 its 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 its 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? Thats 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 marketeers 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 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. Its 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, Im the Prime Minister. Then we had John Prescott telling us he had decided not to change the planning guidance for masts (even before Andrew Stunnells 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 its 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 heres 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; Im 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, Britains 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. Its easy: Fax your MP. Eileen OConnor, 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). 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 cant 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, theyre closest to it; protecting us, but unprotected themselves. Private Members 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 Experts mobile phone health fears. Prof. Olle Johansson: Theyre 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 nations 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 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 its 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 heres 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. Whos paying for the doubled equipment and doubled access time? |
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