The Health Department for Brazil’s third
largest city, Belo Horizonte, recently released a government-funded cell phone antenna study
showing an increased risk of cancer for those living within 500 meters of the antennas.The city prosecutor has wasted
no time in suing the cell phone companies, with the result that 66 of the 500
antennas which the citizens asked to be removed, have so far been taken down.Between 1996 and 2006, 7,191 cancer deaths
occurred within an area of 500 meters from the cell phone antenna base
station:a high mortality rate of 34.76 per
10,000 inhabitants.Outside of this
area, there was a decrease in the number of cancer deaths.
Watch this 4-minute video on cell towers and cancer study in Belo Horizonte.
In a 52-minute lecture on cell phone tower microwave radiation given in Oakville, Ontario, Dr. Magda Havas, leading Canadian expert, mentions this study.
A
whistleblower argues that BP’s Atlantis Project faces “present and imminent
danger.” The Atlantis platform, located
190 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico in 7,070 feet (2,150
meters) of water, is the deepest moored floating dual oil and gas production
facility in the world. Weighing 58,700
tons, the platform has a daily production capacity of 200,000 barrels of oil
and 180 million cubic feet of gas. Just
after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, the United States consumer
advocacy group Food and Water Watch published an article warning about safety
and environmental concerns relating to the Atlantis platform. (Extracts from article published on 17 March
2012 by Common Dreams.)
Whistleblower: BP Oil Platform Faces 'Present and
Imminent Danger'
Whistleblower claims about BP's Atlantis
filed this week argue against Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's claims
platform is safe
- Common Dreams staff
A whistleblower who has a standing lawsuit against BP
has argued this week that the company's Atlantis Project, located 150 miles
south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, faces "present and imminent
danger." The whistleblower, Kenneth
Abbott, is a former BP contractor on the Atlantis. His lawsuit says that BP
failed to keep required records of the safety systems for the Atlantis.
WASHINGTON - April 22 (2010) - Following Tuesday's
explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Platform, leased and operated by British
Petroleum (BP) in the Gulf of Mexico, the national consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch is warning of the possibility of a similarly tragic disaster
involving the company's Atlantis Project- one of the world's deepest
semi-submersible oil and natural gas platforms, located 150 miles south of New
Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.
This
excellent article from Istanbul by Gürhan Savgi was published on 25 March 2012
in Today’s Zaman.It
describes in layman’s terms the health scourge being created by mobile phone
towers, the nature of electromagnetic waves, and ways to reduce radiation from these
waves.While many countries are now
rolling out 4G technology, the article mentions the heightened radiation risks
of 3G.What are we doing to ourselves?! Articles from many different countries show that mobile technology is becoming a serious health concern.
This is not Camlica, but certainly, tower madness!
Çamlıca,
the famous hill on İstanbul’s Bosporus, the subject of so many poems and songs
in the past, seems to inspire more complaints than compliments these days.
Now
a field of antennae, Çamlıca looks nothing like it used to a century ago.
People living nearby complain of insomnia, headaches, fatigue and frayed
nerves. Some assert that this electromagnetic pollution is causing cancer rates
to soar. The muhtarı or neighborhood headman of Kısıklı is Erkan Kalkan.
Kalkan, whose father died recently of cancer, asserts that all of the 30,000
people who live here are affected by local electromagnetic pollution. The
situation is not much different over on Irmak Sokak in the Ferah neighborhood,
where two young mothers in their 30s and one taxi driver in his 40s are
battling cancer. Battal Polat (70) points out that the giant antenna put up by
TRT in 1972 right next to his home has even dried out the cherry trees he
planted. He even connects the stroke of his wife, Gülcemal Polat, to the
electromagnetic pollution, and then goes on to count other local incidences of
both strokes and cancer.
The newly-formed United Nations Orchestra of Geneva
gave its first performance in Victoria Hall, Geneva, on 16 March 2012 to a full
audience of UN employees and dignitaries from Belgium, Sierra Leone and
Switzerland. Many of the 45 musicians work
every day at the United Nations and other international organizations.
“Since
music is a universal language, what could be better than an orchestra to create
a multicultural bridge and to strengthen links within international Geneva? Who
better than the staff of international organizations themselves, many of whom
are talented amateur musicians, to constitute an orchestra representing their institutions
and the ideals they promote?”
India is likely to have one billion mobile users by 2015
“When the Kasliwal brothers (Sanjay and Sudhir) were diagnosed with
brain tumour and their dog was diagnosed with stomach cancer within a gap of a
few months, their doctors advised them to look out for mobile towers in the
neighbourhood. They suspected radiation from mobile towers to be a possible
cause for cancer.What was found was quite alarming. There
were antennas of various mobile companies installed on a tower at a distance of
mere 20 metres from their house. On measuring the radiation levels, the levels
were found to be quite alarming. When the word spread, others came forward and
it was found that there were seven cancer cases in the vicinity.”
JMC to Demolish Three Cellphone Towers
(Article from The Times of India –
Jaipur, 25 March 2012)
JAIPUR: This might come as a relief to all those who have been disturbed
after reading a report by a Mumbai-based agency,NESA Global, of the ill
effects of cell phone tower radiation. While not absolutely recognizing and
accepting the harmful effects of radiation, theJaipur Municipal Commission (JMC)Sunday onwards is
going to embark on razing to the ground three cell phone towers in C-Scheme.
Children using iPads in Long Island school (Roslyn, New York)
The newest trend in
wireless is for schools to offer iPads to students and teachers. This article comes from Boston. Tablets are also being given to students and
teachers in schools in Geneva, Switzerland.
One reader rightly commented, “Has
anyone at these schools measured how powerful the wireless electromagnetic
radiation is, that will be caused by the use of a school full of wireless
devices such as these? Has anyone looked at the mass of scientific research
which shows serious biological effects caused by this same wireless
radiation? Do the schools not realise
that the World Health Organization has classed this type of microwave frequency
wireless radiation as a possible carcinogen?
It’s about time that the school officials go back to school and do some
serious research about the significant dangers that they will be causing
to their children and staff. A
good place to start is the Bio Initiative Report -www.bioinitiative.org . »
Schools
Abandon Textbooks To Go All iPad
(from Here
and Now, 23 March 2012)
Apple reports schools in more than 600 districts have bought iPads for
all of their students. And it’s not happening just in wealthy suburbs. Schools
in urban districts like New York City and Chicago are also handing out iPads.
Press Release
from Physicians for the Environment (MfE – Switzerland)
Mobile Telephony : MfE requests stricter limit values
The International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) considers the waves emitted by wireless communication “possibly
carcinogenic”. According to the IARC,
the risk of cancer for this type of radiation is thus similar to that of the
insecticide DDT, rightly banned. Physicians for the Environment (MfE) is
concerned that the limit values expected to protect the Swiss population, notably
vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant women, constitute insufficient
protection. In a communication sent to
the Federal Assembly, MfE thus requests strict application of the principle of
precaution and – in view of the risk of cancer – lower limit values.
Children’s
rooms, housing, trams or offices are experiencing a growing exposure to
radiation from diverse sources:
babyphones, mobile telephony, wifi, etc., yet more and more studies warn
against the serious health consequences of electromagnetic pollution for human
beings and animals.
Cataracts in calves, Alzheimer’s Disease,
cancer …
Further to my post "News from Geneva: Transocean "On Trial" for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill", I have printed in full the 31 October 2011 article from Wake Up World about the mysterious deaths of individuals linked to the BP oil spill. Thank you to Wake Up World for permission to print this troubling article, which begins with an explanatory video. Wake Up World presents alternative news and information, "waking up one soul at a time".
Here is the article:
In the last year and a half at least 10 experts,
whistleblowers and BP connected individuals have died under mysterious
circumstances.
This information was widely reported in the below
April 10th, 2011 video which at the time listed 9 deaths and 3 imprisonments,
disappearances, or attempted assassinations.
Now, another BP oil spill connected individual has
mysteriously died, moving the number of oil spill connected deaths to at least
10.
Most recently George Thomas Wainwright, a BP ROV pilot
was supposedly killed in a freak shark attack in Australia on the 22nd October
2011.
While this is obviously a very sad story, it may have
a more sinister meaning considering the fact that at least 10 other BP and oil
spill related whistleblowers or experts have died since the oil spill that saw
a horrendous amount of openly toxic dispersant sprayed throughout the gulf.
Threat of shale gas exploitation beneath Lake Geneva near the Château de Chillon
On 11 February
2012, braving Siberian cold, nearly 2,500 persons including mayors of the
communes surrounding Geneva, participated in a demonstration in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France, opposing exploration of shale gas. One of the participants was Anne Mahrer,
Deputy of Geneva’s Green Party. It has become urgent to resist actions of oil
and gas companies because the first explorations could begin later in 2012. Six requests for exploration permits have
been made in the regions of Rhône-Alpes, Savoie, Gex, Jura.
Extraction
of gas by hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, has been banned in France since 30 June 2011, however permits for exploration granted before that
date have not been revoked. Companies
can still explore shale oil and gas reserves in France, not by fracking but by
some other extraction technique, such as acidification.
"Non" to fracking!
There is no federal law in Switzerland banning fracking. The
canton of Fribourg voted to ban exploitation, while canton Vaud has had no vote on the
issue. Following exploration near Noville in Vaud for
gas deep beneath Lake Geneva, the Swiss company, Petrovibri is interested in
the neighboring French communes. The
canton of Vaud has said “yes” to gas exploration. According to the company, at best, the Lake
Geneva reserve could contain 20 year’s worth of natural gas needs for all
of Switzerland.
Petrovibri is now interested in the area beneath Lake Geneva between Thonon and Saint-Gingolph. The request for exploration was made in July 2009 but only brought to public attention recently. A local newspaper mentions an area which could extend over 800 square kilometers.
The Knesset,
Israeli Parliament, gave blanket approval to a bill requiring all mobile phones
sold in Israel to bear a health-hazard label.The bill, which passed its first of three readings into law on 29
February 2012, also requires all advertisements of mobile phones to carry this
warning.As for cigarettes, all
advertising targeting minors would be banned under the law.Breaking the law would be a criminal offense.
Thearticle in Haaretz by Ronny Linder-Ganzcontinues, “Although the jury is out on the
science, some suspect that heavy cell phone use may cause cancers, particularly
in children.Youngsters can be more
vulnerable to carcinogens because of their faster rate of cellular division.
“The labels
will read ‘Warning – the Health Ministry cautions that heavy use and carrying
the phone next to the body may increase the risk of cancer, especially among
children.’