• 23 JUN 07

    #750: Ground Current in Rural and Urban Areas

    From Magda Havas Read the Star article and two abstracts below. Ground Current in Ontario: Thought you might be interested in this article on what Ontario is doing about Ground Current problems. The 10 volts currently used in Ontario is as ridiculous as the 833 mG used for magnetic fields and the 1000 microW/cm2 used

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    • 20 JUN 07

    #749: Electrosensitivity as currently mentioned on the Swedish “SIF” website

    Back in the 1990s the Swedish Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry (SIF) was quite active in researching the problem of chemical and electrical hypersensitivity in the modern IT workplace. Since then these issues have been relegated to the background – for reasons to be explored in a forthcoming paper. However a search

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    • 20 JUN 07

    #748:Media suppression of troubling cell phone research

    From Jonathan Wilson: When Bad News Is No News Source: http://tinyurl.com/23lsh3 European papers are reporting some troubling research about cell phones that American [and Australian] papers aren’t. By Michael Miner June 15, 2007 THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM Review plays darts every issue with unworthy journalists, but its Darts & Laurels feature for May and June threw

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    • 18 JUN 07

    #747: Proposed Playground Cell Tower Nixed By Effective Public Education Campaign In North Idaho

    From: http://rense.com/general76/nix.htm Proposed Playground Cell Tower Nixed By Effective Public Education Campaign In North Idaho Good News From Amy Worthington The Idaho Observer June 9, 1997 When neighbors caught wind of a proposed new cell tower to be erected adjacent to the Lake City High School ball field in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, they were

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    • 17 JUN 07

    #746: Notice from Microwave News

    From Louis Slesin, Editor of Microwave news: It’s become axiomatic that wide acceptance of non-thermal effects will come from developing biomedical therapies rather than from studying potential hazards. The health effects work is mostly sponsored by those who don’t want to find any. And they usually don’t (cf: the USAF, EPRI, CTIA, FGF, MMF etc.)

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    • 16 JUN 07

    #745: More on the half-hearted ABC Toowong breast cancer investigation

    Previous messages to this list have highlighted the poor quality investigation of a possible ELF-EMF connection with the breast cancer cluster at the ABC Toowong Studios. – How the expert panel took over two years to even get around to having ELF measurements taken and then all they got was a brief half-day walk-through that

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    • 12 JUN 07

    #744: EMR Australia’s June newsletter is now available

    Notice from Lyn McLean: EMR Australia has now published the June issue of “EMR and Health” which contains the latest news and research from around the world. The current issue contains: * the health controversy about WiFi technology * the UK power line report * a summary of the findings of the industry report “Mobile

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    • 12 JUN 07

    #743: Threat of study if tower goes ahead

    http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18442300&BRD=2303&PAG =461&dept_id=478976&rfi=6 If Tower Arrives, Washington Could Be Part of a Key Study By: Rebecca Ransom 06/07/2007 email this storyEmail to a friendpost a commentPost a Commentprinter friendlyPrinter-friendly WASHINGTON-The town may soon become one of the first communities in America to take part in a groundbreaking epidemiology study researching the effect of cell towers on

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    • 12 JUN 07

    #742: Ban for Manx Telecom mobile phone masts on the Isle of Man

    From Robert Reidlinger: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/isle_of_man/6735177.stm Manx Telecom has been banned from putting up mobile phone masts in any property owned by the Public Works Committee on the island. The firm may also be asked to remove small mobile phone transmitters from a number of street lights in Douglas. The Public Works Committee is recommending they should

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    • 09 JUN 07

    #741: Wi-Tricity: A wireless world gone insane

    The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your homeby DAVID DERBYSHIRE The Daily Mail Last updated at 01:19am on 8th June 2007 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_ article_id=460602&in_page_id=1965 Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have

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