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Thank you again for taking the time to contact CBC News: Marketplace. We thought you might like to know that, due to overwhelming interest, Wendy Mesley's 'Chasing the Cancer Answer' will be repeated this Sunday, April 2nd, at 7pm on the main CBC network. You can also find information about the show on our website, http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace .

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It looks more and more obvious to me that the cancer industry is protecting the wireless industry and the power generating corporations. It would appear that they either hold stock or they are getting heavy funding from these corporations. I believe the time has come for the public to know where the cancer industry is getting their funding. They have people running, jumping, swimming, etc. for funding to find a cure and when ever a possible cause is discovered, they seem to find fault with the scientific methods used.

I feel it is time we all speak out and call for a thorough investigation and accounting. Here in Canada we have CEO's from the cancer industry appearing at protest gathering against power lines and cellphone towers as expert witness for the corporations, where they should be preaching precaution, knowing that science has proven that childhood leukemia can be caused by EMF.

Iris in Isreal discovered that corporate funding for the IARC study was being channeled through the cancer industry so it would not appear as direct corporate funding. This act is, in my opinion, money laundering, which I understand to be an illegal offence. It has also been established That the Cancer Industry holds stock in tobacco corporations. This to me is as low as they can get, knowing full well that smoking causes cancer.

Wendy Mesley on CBC TV, Market Place March 5/06 asked some very interesting questions about cancer and why so much enface is placed on the cure and not on the cause. I am attaching the program transcript .

Regards Robert

Shortcut to: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/index.html

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Don't interrupt the polluting industries in their work
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1658159/

New study ties brain tumors to cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1787691/

Mar 29 2006

Chester Chronicle

FAMILIES have blasted plans for an 18m mobile phone mast in a field, claiming it would be an eyesore and a potential risk to health.

Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council has been inundated with objections from people trying to block plans for the Vodafone mast on land off Wistaston Green Road, Wistaston.

Letters have been received from nearly 200 households.

Parish councillors fear the mast would be an eyesore and potentially harmful to children at nearby schools and a nursery.

They suggest Vodafone shares a mast with Orange near the Rising Sun pub.

But Vodafone says it is under legal obligation to provide 3G coverage for at least 80% of the population by 2007 and experts have yet to link masts with a health risk.

Omega this is not true. See under:
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Wissenschaft+zu+Mobilfunk/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Cancer+Cluster
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_science.html

Council planners are recommending the go-ahead at Tuesday's development control committee.

Members will hear how Vodafone has struggled to find a site suitable for a large mast which is not close to houses and which will fill the gap in coverage.

A council spokesman said: 'On balance the proposed mast represents an environmental solution given the amount of tree screening.'

© owned by or licensed to Trinity Mirror Plc 2006

http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16876663&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=families-give-mast-plans-rough-reception--name_page.html

Today's (01.04.2006) print edition of THE IRISH TIMES carries a large photograph of children from Curaraheen National School, in Co. Kerry, carrying protest banners outside the Dublin constituency office of the governmental minister John O'Donoghue. Regrettably, I can't locate this photograph with its accompanying caption in the newspaper's online edition, so can't send it along to you for posting.

However, the IRISH EXAMINER last Wednesday (29.03.2006) reported on another protest organised by the same Kerry school against the erection of a mast. I will transcribe this below.

Imelda O'Connor


IRISH EXAMINER,
WEDNESDAY 29.03.2006

By Donal Hickey, Kerry

A COMMUNITY in the scenic Ring of Kerry yesterday protested against the erection of mobile phone masts in their area.

Clara Leahy, spokesperson for the Mountain Stage community between Glenbeigh and Caherciveen, said they were very unhappy with decisions by An Bord Pleanála in relation to masts.

“Kerry County Council, because of its ban on the erection of masts within one kilometre of residential buildings, has been refusing planning permission for these masts, but An Bord Pleanála is granting permission on appeal,” she said.

Ms Leahy said one mast had been erected in the area and two others were under appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

“Our main objection is on health and safety grounds.

“If the mobile phone companies can give us a written guarantee that these masts pose no risks to people’s health, we’ll sit down and negotiate with the companies.

“There’s a great need for the companies to consult local communities. We believe the companies should go for sites on top of mountains and other elevated areas, rather than opting for low-lying sites.”

Ms Leahy said her community was concerned about moves by some Kerry councillors to have the one-kilometre ban removed.

“Do the councillors want to put people’s health in danger? How sure are these councillors that there’s a safe level of radiation coming from these masts?”

Mobile companies have been pressing for an easing of restrictions, arguing that more masts are needed if reception for customers is to be improved.

Meanwhile, Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue has hit out at attempts by Independent Councillor Michael Healy-Rae to contravene the county development plan so as to allow the erection of a phone mast to service the Black Valley, a telecommunications blackspot.

Mr O’Donoghue said a feasibility study had been approved and it should be allowed to be completed.

But Fianna Fáil Councillor Tom Fleming said he was confident An Bord Pleanála would grant planning permission for two masts near the valley, which would serve the 70 residents.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgjk2wAWkyIlAsgTbBP-2fa91M.asp

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Ireland: Anti-mast postcard campaign
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2198138/

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 · Last updated 7:24 a.m. PT

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MUNICH, Germany -- The German state of Bavaria on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of cell phones in schools to prevent students from viewing images of pornography and extreme violence.

Students can still carry their phones, but will have to leave them switched off during school hours, including during breaks, state education minister Siegfried Schneider said.

The ban comes after police recently found pornography and violent images on cell phones seized from students at schools in the Bavarian towns of Augsburg and Immenstadt.

"School is no place for phoning and certainly not for distributing concoctions that endanger youth," Schneider said.

©1996-2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Germany_Phone_Porn.html


Informant: James River Martin

Published: Mar 28, 2006 - 08:57:34 am EST

By Jason Rhodes,
Special to the Crisfield Times

WESTOVER — Cellular telephones are a way of life for many Americans in the 21st century. However, that way of life soon may end for students in Somerset County Public Schools.

Last week, Dr. Karen-Lee Brofee, superintendent of schools, announced the Somerset County Board of Education may reconsider its student cell phone policy, which currently permits students to carry phones in schools for emergencies and parental convenience.

“This is being very badly abused to the point that students are text messaging each other all day and getting calls from parents in the middle of class,” she said.

Besides disrupting classes with cell phone use, some students may be using the devices - particularly camera phones — to help others cheat on tests, Dr. Brofee said. Camera phones may give students the opportunity to photograph tests and quizzes and pass on the questions to students in other classes.

“This is not just a problem in Somerset County. It’s a problem throughout the United States,” the superintendent said.

She also said lack of support from parents in minimizing classroom cell phone disruption compounded the problem. When cell phones are taken away from students, they are turned in to school offices, where parents may retrieve them, she said. Often when parents pick up the phones, they give them back to the students, and the cycle repeats itself.

Dr. Brofee said she planned to submit recommendations for a revised cell phone policy to board members at a future meeting.

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Informant: James River Martin

by Malcolm Prior BBC News, Eastleigh

When nurse Karen Royce found out a mobile phone mast was to go up close to her home, she was outraged.

Concerns over the health risks and the impact on property values were at the front of the mother-of-two's mind.

Yet she knew the mast's erection was far from a certainty - and her local council would have to listen to her and her neighbours' objections.

But the Hampshire villagers' efforts ended in failure, because the council made one simple administrative error.

Eastleigh Borough Council is among the dozens across the country that have fallen foul of a legal loophole that allows mobile phone operators to put up masts if they do not hear from a local authority within 56 days.

A Freedom of Information Act investigation by the BBC News website has revealed that councils in the BBC South region have made the simple mistake 68 times.

Missed deadlines: worst councils # Horsham - 14 times # Southampton - six times # Oxford - six times # Bracknell Forest - six times # Brighton - five times

Eastleigh Borough Council has made the mistake twice, once in 2001 and again last year, when Vodafone applied to put up a mast in the village of Allbrook.

Local residents immediately banded together to raise concerns over the siting of the mast with the council, raising a 100-signature petition.

"Because there had been so many objections the council said it would hold a meeting," said Mrs Royce, 42, of Allbrook Knoll.

"We were all ready to attend this meeting when we then got a letter saying the 56-day limit ran out before this meeting so it didn't even get held.

"We were really angry and felt very let down by them when we heard."

It's the stubbornness in me that keeps me going Karen Royce

The mistake allowed the company to assume it had consent and - despite negotiations to find a different site - the mast went up towards the end of the year.

The council says extra training has been given to councillors and staff since the mistake.

And two officers have been tasked specifically to deal with phone mast applications and a new numbering and coding system has been introduced.

A spokesman said: "The council apologised to residents for missing the statutory deadline.

"The proposal for this mast complied with the council's development plan policies, met national guidelines, including health guidelines for telecommunications masts, and the local area committee would have been recommended to give consent."

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said: "We have operated within the planning regulations."

But for Mrs Royce, the battle is not over - she now intends to take her fight to the European Court of Human Rights.

She said: "It's the stubbornness in me that keeps me going. I do not see why I should have to suffer health hazards and see my property devalued when I do not even use a mobile phone."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/4840670.stm

Published: 2006/03/28 05:00:43 GMT

© BBC MMVI

By Malcolm Prior
BBC News

Council blunders have allowed dozens of mobile phone masts to win planning permission across southern England, a BBC News investigation has revealed.

On 66 occasions, councils have fallen foul of a legal loophole allowing masts to be approved if an operator is not sent an answer within a set time limit.

In 37 of those cases, the council had intended to object to the application.

A catalogue of errors has been uncovered across the BBC South region using the Freedom of Information Act.

They include decisions being sent by second-class mail instead of first, letters being given the wrong date-stamp, officers calculating the time period incorrectly, the wrong decision notices being sent out and officers forgetting to state clearly enough that the application had actually been refused.

Missed deadlines: worst councils
# Horsham - 14 times
# Southampton - six times
# Oxford - six times
# Bracknell Forest - six times
# Chichester - three times

The mistakes were revealed after the BBC News website made Freedom of Information requests to 41 councils covering Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire and West Sussex.

The news of the extent of the mistakes has been met with anger by anti-mast campaigners.

Karen Barratt, spokesperson for action group Mast Sanity, said: "I think it's absolutely shocking. You expect your local officers to be efficient on what are very serious matters."

Charmaine Despres has collected almost 900 petition signatures in protest at a mast which won permission after a council blunder made in Bournemouth, Dorset.

She said: "I'm not surprised to hear this because [the council officers] are a law unto themselves. They work for us, they are getting paid to do a job yet they are not doing that job properly."

Current legislation allows mobile phone companies to assume masts below 15m in height have been given planning approval if they do not hear in writing from a council within 56 days.

The council is legally obliged to write to the companies within the given time, outlining whether the mast actually needs prior approval and whether or not the council objects to its siting and appearance.

We should have been getting it right. One time is one too many
Michael Crofton-Briggs, Oxford's head of planning

Among the various reasons given for the errors, Eastleigh Borough Council said "an oversight" meant that "documents were not date-stamped properly".

Arun District Council gave the reason that "although the letter was sent out in time, it was sent by second-class post" and East Dorset District Council admitted "the incorrect decision notice was sent out".

Horsham District Council admits to failing to contact the applicant 14 times, although it emphasises that in each case it only intended to inform the company that prior approval was not required.

A spokesperson said: "All subsequent applications in the last six years to date have been dealt with in time.

"We appreciate the current deadlines and consider that we have satisfactory measures in place to deal with all applications."

Oxford City Council has made the slip-up six times over the years but Michael Crofton-Briggs, the council's head of planning, said that only one of the masts objected to has so far been put up.

He admitted: "The 56-day mechanism has been running for four or five years so we should have been getting it right.

"One time is one too many. I am not complacent about this at all."

John Silvester, spokesman for the Planning Officers Society, which represents those working in council planning departments, said: "Sometimes it can be genuine human error and people can make mistakes but there should be procedures in place.

"It's not rocket science to work out when the period finishes. Things should not be taken to the wire - they should be determined in good time."

Some believe the whole system of allowing operators to assume permission - an assumption rarely found elsewhere in the planning system - needs overhauling.

The decision should be made for the right planning reasons rather than because of some artificial time constraint
Alan Sayle, Southampton City Council

"We feel that operators have far too much freedom - they should have to go through a full planning process," said Ms Barratt.

Alan Sayle, development control manager for Southampton City Council, which has fallen foul of the time limit six times, said: "Is the legislation unfair? Yes, I think so.

"The decision should be made for the right planning reasons rather than because of some artificial time constraint."

But both the government and the UK's mobile phone network operators insist that the system is fair.

A spokeswoman for the Mobile Operators Association said: "The operators undertake the same amount of pre-application consultation on a proposed prior approval development as on a larger proposed full planning development.

"Local communities can, and do, comment on both types of applications in exactly the same way."

A spokesman for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister said: "Local planning authorities have the opportunity to deal with prior approval applications in the same way as a normal planning application, so long as they act within eight weeks."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/4838152.stm

Published: 2006/03/28 04:59:54 GMT

© BBC MMVI

Lieber Miha!

Ganz besonders wichtiger Obmann unseres Ludmannsdorfer Umweltausschusses!

Von meiner einmonatigen Reise nach Nordindien und Nepal zurückgekehrt, fühle ich mich leider wieder sofort in den Daseinskreislauf unserer relativen Wirklichkeit zurückgeworfen.

Der Grund ist der Mobilfunkpakt, den das Land Kärnten mit der Mobilfunklobby abgeschlossen hat. Aus der bezüglichen Presseaussendung vom 15.03.06 war zwar schon zu ersehen, was da für heiße Luft zum Nachteil der Bevölkerung und im Interesse der Mobilfunklobby verbreitet wird. Ganz arg und eiskalt läuft es Dir aber den Rücken herunter, wenn Du diesen Pakt im Detail, Absatz für Absatz, genau liest. Vorweg:

1) Die Mobilfunklobby kann danach weiterhin machen, was sie will.

2) Wenn die sogenannten Paktpartner nicht nach ihrer Pfeife tanzen, dann wird eben durchgesetzt, was die Mobilfunkbetreiber wollen.

3) Sie richten sich bei Ihren Vorhaben weiterhin nach den „Schein“-Ö-normen und den Empfehlungen der WHO – beide Institutionen arbeiten bekanntlich eng mit der Mobilfunkindustrie zusammen und haben keinerlei Rechtsverbindlichkeitskompetenz – nur um ganz offensichtlich weiterhin auf die behauptete Unschädlichkeit der gepulsten Hochfrequenzstrahlung verweisen zu können.

4) Praktisch alle Vorhaben, wie etwa die der Mastenreduzierung, stellen sich als fromme Wünsche dar, die, wenn nicht eingehalten, sanktionslos bleiben.

Als Beilage sende ich Dir vorweg diesen Pakt, mit dem Ersuchen, zu verhindern, dass die Gemeinde Ludmannsdorf sich diesem Pakt anschließt. Sie würde nämlich nur scheinbar Rechte einer Mitsprache erhalten und in eine enorme Zwickmühle mit der betroffenen Bevölkerung und insbesonders mit mir geraten. (Du weißt inzwischen, ich habe vor nichts und niemanden Angst!!!)

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobilfunkpakt_kaernten_unterfertigung.pdf

In Wahrheit bleibt alles beim Alten (hier ist nicht der Haider gemeint), außer daß sich die Mobilfunklobby bei ihren weiteren Ausbauplänen der Unterstützung des Landeshauptmanns bedienen kann. Ich hatte letzteren bisher als hervorragenden Juristen eingeschätzt. Nach Durchsicht dieses Paktes habe ich aber enorme Zweifel bekommen.

Ich werde diesen “Pakt“ Punkt für Punkt kommentieren, und aus kautelarjuristischer Sicht erläutern, wie dabei zum alleinigen Vorteil und zum ausschließlichen Nachteil der betroffen Bevölkerung herumgemogelt wird und danach alle namhaften Stellen informieren.


Bis bald und mit lieben Grüßen

Erwin
[Dr. Erwin Tripes]

P.S: Wegen der eminenten Gefahrenlage, mit der u.a. die Bevölkerung durch solche Pakte eingelullt werden soll, werde ich diese Vorinfo auch an mir bekannte kritische Denker weiterleiten. Deshalb auch Deine ausdrückliche Anrede als Umweltobmann der Gemeinde Ludmannsdorf/Kärnten.

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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Als Obmann des Vereins "Risiko-Elektrosmog- Kärnten" http://www.risiko-elektrosmog.at bin ich natürlich regelmäßiger Leser der Nachrichtenredaktion Bürgerwelle/BI Omega.

Ich darf Ihnen so auch zur Information über unsere Aktivitäten als Attachment unsere Stellungnahme zum "Mobilfunkpakt Kärnten" zumailen.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobilfunkpakt_3.pdf

Besuchen Sie uns auch auf unserer obangeführten Homepage.

Glück auf

Dr. Erwin Tripes

By OLIVER CARTWRIGHT

Hodnet parish councillors say they are furious about a mobile phone transformer they have branded “an eyesore” at the gateway to their village.

Members of the parish council say the white O2 telecommunications transformer just off the Espley roundabout, on the Hodnet bypass, looks hideous and they want to see it camouflaged so it blends in with the surrounding countryside, or have it moved completely.

The transformer was put up by Central Networks but residents are upset because they believe it is out of place — especially after hundreds of thousands of pounds was spent landscaping the nearby bypass.

Parish council clerk Stephen Howell-Jones has sent a series of objection letters on behalf of the parish but conceded Central Networks had done everything correctly.

Emily Highmore, of Central Networks, said they had considered what residents had said but the transformer needed to be next to the mast.

“Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about aesthetics as it is the standard specification and we could not paint it as there could be potential safety implications.”

The full version of this article appears in the North edition of tonight’s Shropshire Star.

© 2003-06 Shropshire Newspapers Ltd

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