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Last Updated: Monday, 10 November 2008, 7:43 GMT

The chiefs and people of Osu have described as highly provocative and sacrilegious the desecration of the burial place of Osu Royals at the Ringway Estates with the erection of a mast by Zain Ghana Limited, a mobile telecommunications company.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Islamabad: Using cellular phones near hospital beds and critical care medical equipments can lead to electromagnetic interference, leading to immediate malfunctioning or misreading of the medical gadgets and endangering the lives of the patients.

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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=145942

by Mike Pflanz

GOMA - After two hours, drenched in sweat, he tugs on a cord tied to his waist and is pulled back to the surface, carrying with him a 30 kilogram sack of raw columbium-tantalite ore.

[More than 80 per cent of the world's coltan is in Africa, and 80 percent of that lies in territory controlled by Congo's various ragtag rebel groups, armed militia and its corrupt and underfunded national army.]More than 80 per cent of the world's coltan is in Africa, and 80 percent of that lies in territory controlled by Congo's various ragtag rebel groups, armed militia and its corrupt and underfunded national army.

Few people have heard of this rare mineral, known as coltan, even though millions of people in the developed world rely on it. But global demand for the mineral, and a handful of other materials used in everything from cellphones to soup tins, is keeping the armies of Congo's ceaseless wars fighting.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/09-2

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Mobile phones "Warning! This device was created with raw materials from central Africa

Perhaps, he suggests, mobile phones should be outfitted with stickers that
read:

"Warning! This device was created with raw materials from central Africa.

These materials are rare, nonrenewable, were sold to fund a bloody war of
occupation, and have caused the virtual elimination of endangered species.

Have a nice day."

People need to realize, he says, that there is a direct link between the
gadgets that make our lives more convenient and sophisticated-and the
reality of the violence, turmoil, and destruction that plague our world.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_2007.html



Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Long-distance calling
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3326551/Confessions-of-an-Eco-Sinner-Long-distance-calling.html


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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How electronics-fueled market for tin funds war in Congo
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8056/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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Rupert Read, a Green Party city councillor for Wensum Ward, is fighting another mast application in the area.

SARAH HALL

09 November 2008 15:00

Families in one city ward are gearing up for yet another fight against plans to install a mobile phone mast near their homes.

Concerns have been raised over an application by phone giant Orange, which is the third application in just one month in Wensum ward, to put up a 20-metre mast on the industrial estate on Guardian Road.

Rupert Read a Green city councillor for the ward has vowed to fight the application and will this week get families on board to oppose the plans.

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By Richard Brenneman

Saturday November 08, 2008

Neighbors worried about cell phone antenna radiation and angry at city officials who have allowed it in their neighborhoods poured out their frustrations at the Berkeley Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday night.

Planning commissioners listened, questioned, then decided to hold off on any decision for another two weeks—in part because of a recent federal appellate court ruling.

But whatever the commission decides, Deputy Planning Director Wendy Cosin said she is obliged to make a recommendation to the City Council in January.

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Published Date: 07 November 2008

By Laura Jones

A BUILDING which already houses several phone masts can become home
to three more, a Flintshire planning committee has decided.

Mobile giants O2 applied to install three 3G antennas on top of the Mold telephone exchange, on Chester Street, Mold, in an effort to increase coverage in the area.

The building, which is already home to five antennas and two dishes, from an array of mobile telephone companies, has been the cause of heated debate among concerned local councillors for years.

Cllr Chris Bithell said: "The building is a blight on Chester Street and a blight on the area. It was marked as suitable site for redevelopment in the town centre health check. It should be demolished.

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http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/More-phone-masts-added-at.4669384.jp

Published Date: 06 November 2008

AN ARBROATH Herald reader is concerned about a Vodafone proposal to install a mobile 'phone mast just yards from Timmergreens Primary School.

Our informant said: "I thought perhaps the paper might be interested in making the parents of children who attend Timmergreen primary school aware that Vodafone have applied for planning permission to erect a mobile phone mast overlooking the school playground.

"Under planning permission regulations I understand they only have to notify the school as being one of the buildings adjacent, but I doubt the school is under any obligation to notify parents of this proposal."

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http://www.arbroathherald.co.uk/news/39PHONE-MAST-PROPOSED-CLOSE-TO.4669207.jp



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