Foreclosures Still Rising

Foreclosures Still Rising

money.cnn.com — Foreclosure filings in the first three months of 2008 rose more than 112% over last year, according to a recently released study. More than 155,000 families have lost their homes to foreclosure this year; one out of every 194 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing.

More Homes Than Ever Vacant

baltimoresun.com — The percentage of vacant homes for sale nationwide reached a record high in the first quarter, according to a government report. The Census Bureau reported that 2.9 percent of U.S. homes — excluding rental properties — were vacant and for sale, compared with 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. It was the highest quarterly percentage in records going back to 1956.

Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit vor elektromagnetischen Strahlungen

– Internationale Petition zur Unterstützung BioInitiative :
– ” Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit vor elektromagnetischen Strahlungen “

– SWR-reportage BioInitiative AEE : ” Bei Anruf Hirntumor ? ” (video).

Puces RFID Ethique et Santé

– RTBF Question à la une : ” Puces RFID Ethique et Santé “ (extraits vidéo HD 16’)
dont une reportage concernant l’hôpital de Neuilly-sur-Seine . . .

RNCNIRP-Stellungnahme zu möglichen Einflüssen elektromagnetischer Felder von Mobilfunkgeräten auf Kinder und Jugendliche

Laut einer Meldung des russischen Nachrichtenportals “C-News” haben Experten des Russischen Nationalen Komitees zum Schutz vor nicht-ionisierender Strahlung (Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, RNCNIRP) erklärt, dass Mobilfunkgeräte eine Gefahr für Kinder und Jugendliche darstellten. Die Resolution beinhaltet die Ansichten führender russischer Experten für Hygiene und Radiobiologie nicht-ionisierender Strahlung. Oleg Grigoriev, Direktor des Zentrums für Elektromagnetische Sicherheit und stellvertretender Vorsitzender des RNCNIRP, berichtet, das RNCNIRP beabsichtige bis zum Ende des Monats Mai 2008 spezielle Empfehlungen für den Gebrauch von Mobilfunkgeräten durch Kinder und Jugendliche bis 18 Jahre auszuarbeiten.
http://eng.cnews.ru

Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 24.04.2008
Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.

http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=RNCNIRP
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Grigoriev

Ärztekammer für Wien: 10 medizinische Handy-Regeln neu aufgelegt

Die Wiener Ärztekammer hat in einer vierten und aktualisierten Auflage ihr Plakat “Strahlende Informationen: 10 medizinische Handy-Regeln” neu aufgelegt. “Wir haben die Leitlinien zu einem sorgsamen Umgang mit Mobiltelefonie den aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen angepasst. An der grundsätzlichen Besorgnis hinsichtlich möglicher Langzeitschäden durch übermäßiges Telefonieren mit dem Handy hat sich jedoch nichts geändert”, so Erik Huber, Referent für Umweltmedizin der Ärztekammer für Wien und Begründer der “10 medizinischen Handy-Regeln”.
http://www.aekwien.or.at

Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 24.04.2008
Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.

Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1104181/

Les Ondes électromaléfiques

– TSR: “Les Ondes électromaléfiques“ (vidéo HD)
– Etienne Cendrier, André Bonnin EHS, Alain Vian, etc . . .
– Next-up, complément Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand.

Bye Bye Birdie: Vanishing songbirds of Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/news/features/bye-bye-birdie-071031.wmv

This link is to a CBC news video story about massive numbers of song
birds vanishing from the Canadian countryside.

Although it is a well made documentary, it is another example of bird
researchers and the press, ignoring electro magnetic radiation as a
probable cause for a large part of the loss.

Martin

Birds harmed by RF radiation.doc 41K Herunterladen

[ Omega-News Mystery of the silent woodlands scientists are baffled as birdnumbers plummet.htm ]

25
Feb
2005

Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet

by Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor

25 February 2005

It has hardly been noticed, but it is another sinister warning sign of a world going badly wrong. Populations of some of Britain’s most attractive woodland birds are plummeting at a rate that threatens them with extinction, and nobody knows why.

Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation.

In its scale and its range, the phenomenon is one of the most ominous events in the natural history of Britain over the past half-century. Perversely, the decline comes at a time when Britain is planting more woodlands than ever, and forest management has never been more sympathetic to wildlife conservation.

About a dozen species of small birds that have flitted through our woodlands for thousands of years are suddenly in serious trouble. This may be associated with climate change, linked to the damage that excess deer numbers are doing to the undergrowth in woodlands, or in some cases, linked to trouble for birds on migration routes to and from Africa.

The endangered species are less familiar than common garden visitors such as robins and blackbirds, which is perhaps why their disappearance has taken longer to register. But now a study, appearing next month, makes the picture clear for the first time.

It shows that five of the species – the spotted flycatcher, the lesser spotted woodpecker, the lesser whitethroat, the lesser redpoll and the tree pipit – plunged by more than three-quarters between 1966 and 1999, and continues to decline.

The population of the spotted flycatcher fell by no less than 85 per cent, and that of the lesser spotted woodpecker by 81 per cent. Another five species – the willow tit, the marsh tit, the woodcock, the dunnock or hedge sparrow and the willow warbler – fell by between half and three-quarters, and two more species, the songthrush and the bullfinch, fell by nearly a half.

Yet another group, for which there are no reliable numerical figures, is nevertheless known to have fallen significantly in either numbers or in range, or in both. These include the long-eared owl, the hawfinch and the nightingale.

In southern England, where the situation is worst, some of these species have virtually disappeared. “These birds are falling off the radar in a quite catastrophic way and we have no real idea why,” said Graham Appleton of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Britain’s leading bird research organisation. Three of its researchers, Rob Fuller, David Noble and Des Vanhinsbergh, produced the study with Ken Smith, a researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

The most puzzling and perhaps most worrying aspect of the woodland bird decline, apart from its remarkable scale, is that there is no obvious single cause, as there has been with the dramatic and well-known decline over the past 30 years of British birds on farmland.

Species of the fields such as the skylark, the grey partridge, the corn bunting and the turtle dove have also dropped enormously in numbers, but the reason is well-known, the range of new agricultural practices that came in with the intensive farming revolution.

Turning these declines around by more wildlife-friendly farming methods is now official government policy, and may well eventually succeed.

But the difficulty with addressing the woodland bird decline is that there is no obvious simple reason for it, and thus no obvious simple solution.

In their study, which will be published in the March edition of the journal British Birds, the researchers offer seven possible causes which may be behind the declines. They are:

* Pressures on migrant birds during migration, or on their wintering grounds in Africa;

* Climate change in Britain itself, especially changes in the timing of the emergence of insects used as food, and the drying-out of woodlands;

* Reduction in the actual numbers of insects and other invertebrates;

* Impacts of land use on woodland edges and on habitats outside woodland;

* Reduced management of lowland woodland;

* Intensified habitat modification by deer, which eat the woodland bushes, shrubs and grasses, and stop regeneration of trees, reducing nesting areas and insect populations;

* New pressure on nests and young birds from predators, such as grey squirrels, members of the crow family, and great spotted woodpeckers.

But at present, these possibilities are speculative, and the true causes of an enormous change in Britain’s natural environment remain a mystery.

©2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=614558

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I have been battling with the NRPB for years and the pigeon racing orgs about the problems with birds from masts. I can always tell when the output on my local mast is up because the birds diappear. I have filled in numerous online surveys from the RSPB about birds in the garden. I made a hoohaha last two years about bats – we used to have a big colony here which totally disappeared when the mast were erected. Since then we have had a couple of odd ones. However since other masts have been put up (and I believe that my house is now in a hot spot) I haven’t heard any for a while. The sparrow population has also gone down AGAIN since other masts have been put in the area.. I believe, watching the birds, that in a very small way there is an evolutionary change but it is too small. The most noticable thing is in the size of the birds – small chicks growing very quickly to large birds. Robins also seem to be ‘immune’ but I am talking about one family only as opposed to a lot 4yrs ago.

regards

sue fergusson

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It does seem odd that the bird associations haven’t taken up the concept that the EMF environment is one birds are sensitive to. We’ve noticed it! I’ve saved your observations into a growing document of similar bits and pieces on non-human observations. I feel fairly convinced that the changing planetary magnetic field, coupled with military specials and regular communications, are really screwing a lot of the environment up. Some deliberate, but most quite unknowingly.

Andy

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Last Summer a large petition and many objection letters were raised because of my concern for the wildlife of Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve once a TETRA mast was installed alongside the area.

In the minutes of the harbour advisory board meeting of September 8th 2004, the following comment is lodged.

“A number of conservation organisations had been contacted in order toascertain if they had planned to carry out research on this topic, each of which had advised that the issue had been given low priority as it was extremely difficult to ascertain the reasons for changes in behaviour short term”.

I had given all organisations a blow by blow account of the behaviour of the three orphaned thrush fledglings that had adopted our garden as a feeding ground and had become so tame that they tapped on the window for raisins and walked into the house if the door was left open. In July 2004 my area was hit by tetra testing emisions at high power, and swaths of the area were totally without any birds except for seagulls, pigeons and magpies, for 3 days.

Only two of our little thrushes ever returned to our garden, and this took over a week. They were very wary and nervous, would not come near us, their feathers were in poor condition and they mostly sat under bushes in a dejected way.

It has taken four or five months for these thrushes to trust us enough to stay put while we put out food. But they never tapped on the window or came into the house again.

During that period last summer we found several dead birds in the area.

I think it is time these wildlife organisations left their desks and joined the real world!

Sandi

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I have a friend who lives in Hampstead Norreys near Newbury. She used to exercise a horse and her route frequently took her near the M4 (on adjacent track). This horse was perfect in traffic, never took any notice of cars, the nearby busy road etc. Then a mast was erected near the motoway and he became very badly behaved, shied, tried to run away if she ever took him down there. She tried writing to the council and to the BHS (British Horse Society) but they were not interested. (Can give you more precise details if you want them) However, horses are very sensitive (hearing and otherwise) and it might be worth trying to find out if other riders have problems with newly erected masts.

Cheers, Ann

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The 7 horses with the same liver complaint were in the Kent area. They were special horses used for displays etc (a team of 12?) For this reason, they did not roam freely in the fields and were given specialist care. A tetra mast was put up on a neighbour’s land 300 yards from their stables and after 4 months 7 of the horses contracted some sort of liver disorder which left the vet puzzled and unable to treat.

In Kent, 12 special horses for displays etc were not let out in the fields and had special care. 7 of the 12 contracted a liver disease and the vet could not treat or diagnose it. There was a TETRA mast in the neighbouring field. The owner of the horses was seeking help with this from Mast Sanity.

Sandi

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It was me who started the horse thing! I promised Andy fuller details, the story is:

A friend who lives near East Ilsley/Newbury used to exercise a horse for someone. She used to daily cross a bridge over the A34 where there was already one mast in existence – the infamous mast disguised as a tree. The horse was always absolutely fine about traffic etc until two more masts were put up on the other side of the bridge then he became quite unmanageable, leapt about, refused to cross the bridge etc. My friend thought about it and the fact that, if you put metal in a microwave you can hear the waves pinging about, and she concluded that microwaves were probably bouncing off vehicles on the road and he could hear it and was upset because of it. Anyway, she had to give up using the crossing and although she wrote to the council and BHS, she got short shrift.

A side issue to this is that she happened to know an elderly woman who lived on the hillside in a relatively isolated house close to the three masts. This woman began to suffer cancerous patches on her scalp, the cancer spread and she died within a short period. The horse has also since died, he was found dead in his field and the owners were surprised because he was just turned 20 which is quite young for a horse with a relatively easy life. You could say this is all something and nothing but I do wonder whether there are other horse owners with problems and one just doesn’t hear about it in the rush to live our glorious mobile-enhanced life (gosh, I feel depressed about it all this morning!)

Cheers Ann

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I can relate the story of two such cases. Two farms, surrounded by masts, have experienced the problem of cancers in their animals. Over the last couple of years the one farm have lost 3 dogs and a racehorse to cancer (the cancer in the horse started in the eye and spread, I think to other parts) and the neighbouring farm lost their horse to cancer of the rectum last year.

Elsewhere in the village we have lost dogs who “go off their legs” – one household lost both of their dogs to cancers (one ended up with a cancer which was almost the size of the rest of his body!).

Sylvia

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A friend asked me to forward this.

Gary

This maybe of interest – I have 3 horses and in their field is a huge electricity pylon. The grass immediately under the pylon is yellow and sparse compared to the grass elsewhere. Also the horses will never walk under it!!!

Makes you wonder

Peace Be

jx

From Mast Network

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Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/

Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/540756/

Radio tracking collar disturbs water vole breeding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4302051.stm

Invisible Poisons
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/756341/

One day we’ll all know – Let’s hope it isn’t too late
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/444685/

[ Omega-News Birds suffer from biological effects of GSM, 3G (UMTS), DECT, WIFI,TETRA.htm ]

15
Aug
2005

Birds suffer from biological effects of GSM, 3G (UMTS), DECT, WIFI, TETRA

Canary bird recovers from mobile phone mast exposure

August 14, 2005

Nijkerk (The Netherlands) – The canary bird of H. in Nijkerk has not sung for almost eight months. He was pecking his skin and loosing feathers. The day after his cage was protected against the radiation of a GSM antenna mast at 50 metres distance, the bird started to make noise again and even produced some trills. Ten days after, he sits proudly on his stick and does not loose his feathers anymore.

The cage is in the living room. In this room, experts of Telecom Agency of the ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands measured 1,14 V/m (ca. 3000 mikroWatt/m2) for GSM 1800 MHz. The cage has been protected by fine metal mesh and aluminium foil at the bottom. Visitors think it’s pathetic, but the bird is doing better thanks to the protection. He sings many times and a few days ago he has been heard singing in the early morning as well.

The owner of the canary bird has serious health problems himself. They started when a GSM 1800 MHz mast was installed on top of a building opposite of his home. The heating, television and other devices with electronic parts gave a lot of troubles. When H. stays for a few days in a place without high frequency radiation, most of his complaints disappear and the others are reduced to a bearable level.

The experiment with the canary bird shows that health problems caused by mobile phone radiation are not psychological primarily, since a bird can not be anxious about an antenna installation. The cage is still in the same position and without draught. There has been no change in taking care of this bird.

The recovery of the canary can be explained only by the reduction of the intensity of the GSM mobile phone mast radiation (DECT telephones are removed and wireless computers absent). The intensity inside the cage is about 0,5 mikroWatt/m2 after protection.

Canary birds were once used in coal mines to check the quality of the air.

When a canary died, the workers had to escape from the mine immediately. The experiment with the canary in The Netherlands shows that birds are ‘sensitive’ as well for the electromagnetic radiation of mobile communication systems, including DECT-telephones and wireless networks. In fact this should not amaze anybody, since many scientific research has found biological (‘non-thermal’) effects of radiofrequency radiation in humans, animals and plants.

More information about the radiation of GSM, UMTS, DECT, WIFI etc.: http://www.stopumts.nl/

It is interesting to note that in Osafia, the Druz village that removed antennas because of more than 200 cancer cases (15 new cancer cases were diagnosed only last month), birds disappeared from the village when the antennas were there, and now with no antennas- birds are back !!

Here are the posts – concentrated together they give quite a strong picture.

From Milt Bowling (Canada )

The National Research Council of Canada did lots of studies on the non-thermal effects of microwave radiation on birds in the 1960s, before the wireless industry took control of the science. They found that bird feathers acted as dielectric receptors. Birds that had been plucked under anesthesia showed no reaction to radiation until the 12th day, when their feathers started to grow back.

Studies also showed altered EEG patterns, escape behaviour, other signs of stress in the form of vocalization, defecation and initiation of flight. Parakeets chose an unradiated feeder over a radiated one. Domestic fowl [Leghorns] increased egg production by 13.7% under radiation. Unfortunately, the mortality rate of the radiated colony was double that of the control colony. Their exposures ranged from 0.2 uW/cm2 to 360 uW/cm2. Young chicks exposed to 25mW/cm2 collapsed on the floor of the cage and remained in that position until the radiation was turned off. Time to collapse ranged from 5 to 20 seconds.

Mike Repacholi at one time was with Health Canada and certainly would have had access to these studies. I wonder if WHO recommendations will include this science?

Milt

From Larry Blackhall, Canada, who is studying the subject, this is part of his research :

National Research Centre of Canada – (NRC)

Scientific peer reviewed and archived laboratory controlled studies done by the NRC of Canada demonstrate conclusively the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation on living systems. These studies are available through the NRC archives.

To obtain copies by telephone call 1 800 668 1222 or visit their website at http://www.nrc.ca/cisti .

There is a nominal charge of aproximately $12 cdn.

Here are three brief relevant extracts from three of the studies;

1. Extract from LTR-CS-113 by Dr J Bigu, 1973, titled:

“Interaction of electromagnetic fields and living systems with special reference to birds.”

During the initial stabilizing period the egg production of each colony was the same, but following the onset of radiation the egg production of the radiated colony increased to a higher level at which it remained essentially constant. In terms of the total number of eggs produced the diference amounts to an increase of 13.7% – an increase that could be of economic significance in raising poultry provided other, and undesired, interaction effects do not appear.

However the mortality rate of the radiated colony was almost double that of the control colony through each of phases A and B.

2. Extract from LTR-CS-18 by Dr J A Tanner, 1969, titled:

“Effects of microwave radiation on Parakeets in Flight”

Conclusion: The results obtained in this experiment indicates that microwave radiation has an aversive effect on birds in flight comparable to that previously observed in caged birds. This leads the way to a possible solution of the bird hazard problem in aviation.

3. Extract from LTR-CS-89 by Dr. J A Tanner, 1973, co-authored by Dr. Romero-Sierra, Dept of Anatomy, Queens’ University, Kingston, Ont., titled;

“Bird Feathers as Dialectic Receptors of Microwave Radiation.”

Depending on many factors the use of microwave radiation can be detrimental or beneficial to humans. One beneficial use of microwave radiation is to reduce the hazards of birds to aircraft. This forms part of an extensive program designed to shed some light on the complex nature of the interaction of microwave radiation with biological systems.

From Penny Hargreaves (New Zealand)

More mobiles, and sparrows take flight

Ambarish Mukherjee

New Delhi, Nov. 30

THE wireless telecom revolution is catching on at the expense of a tiny winged creature — the house sparrow. The tiny birds are fast disappearing from cities “contaminated” with electromagnetic waves arising out of increased number of mobile handsets.

According to Dr S. Vijayan, Director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), “A number of studies has been conducted to find out the relationship between the increase in electromagnetic waves and the decrease in the number of sparrows. A positive correlation has been found between them.”

“There have been studies in Spain which showed that sparrows disappear from cities where electromagnetic contamination is very heavy,” Dr Vijayan added.

A study was initiated earlier this year in London by the British Trust for Ornithology to investigate whether the explosion of electromagnetic waves from portable handsets is wiping out sparrows in London. The British study involves 30,000 birdwatchers who will examine the urban sparrow population near cell-phone masts, where electromagnetic fields are most concentrated.

London has witnessed a steep fall in its sparrow population — a 75 per cent fall since 1994, which coincides with the emergence of the cell-phone.

Electromagnetic waves travel through the air to the cell-phone masts located above tall buildings in the cities. These waves then travel to and fro between the handset and the tower while one is using the handset, and this results in increased electromagnetic contamination in the air.

The rapidly increasing number of cell-phone subscribers is resulting in higher concentration level of electromagnetic waves in the air which clashes with the earth’s electromagnetic field.

Dr Vijayan also pointed out that sparrows are found to be disappearing from areas where mobile towers are installed.

SACON has also initiated a detailed study to find out how exactly these small birds are being affected.

“These are all circumstantial evidences. Now we need to prove how it is exactly affecting the sparrows. My feeling is that it probably affects their central nervous system. We are conducting studies with inputs from various cities on the falling number of sparrows in which the effect of electromagnetic contamination from mobile phones are also being examined,” Dr Vijayan said.

He said increased exposure to electromagnetic waves also affects small animals. For example, in rats, it is found that the sperm count has decreased while in the case of chicken embryonic, mortality has become very high. There could be more examples, he added.

Another one from Penny :

Subject: Fw: Re caged birds -canaries etc

A farmer who was breeding ostriches about a kilometre from the radio tower found some of the chickens did not develop feathers.

Subject: EMF in the barnyard (fwd)

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 082740 -0500 (CDT)

From: “Roy L. Beavers”

To: emfguru@hotmail.com

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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:11:43 +1000

From: myra kyneur

To: w-m-a@reach.net

Cc : marjlundquist@yahoo.com

Subject: EMF in the barnyard

Dear Wolfgang Scherer

We were very interested in your account of radiofrequeny radiation (RFR)effects on cattle and birds on the Bavarian farm. Of particular interest were the effects on the birds, as we have documented three cases of RFR effects on birds here in Sydney, Australia.

We thought you may find this of interest also. The exquisite sensitivity of the canary, and it would seem other birds, is obviously incompatible with the radiofrequency radiation (RFR) associated with cellular phone transmitters. A warning for the human population?

We wonder if it would be a useful exercise to survey the caged bird population within a given distance from mobile phone base stations.

Following are the cases we have documented.

Case 1.. Fairlight NSW : Unusual behaviour of flock of approx. 17 black crows that usually roosted on the roof of a high rise apartment block.

After the installation of a mobile phone base station (MBS) nearby resident noticed the birds became noisier and unsettled. This behaviour continued for about two weeks-the birds are now no longer in this neighbourhood.

Case2.. Caringbah NSW : Within 200 metres of a MBS Bantam hens and roosters died unexpectedly from unknown causes, within a short time of the installation of the MBS.

Note: On the same premises, a family of two adults and three young adults each progressively developed ‘microwave hearing’ and moderate to severe headaches after the same MBS installation.

The headaches diminished after alterations were made to the electricity power supply in the street. (Details available on request)

The microwave hearing associated with the MBS continues.

Case 3…Kirrawee NSW: For a number of years an exotic bird breeder had approx. 350 birds located one hundred metres distance from a radiofrequency antenna used by a paging service. Within four months of the installation being upgraded to a mobile base station (MBS) most birds refused to breed, those that did breed prematurely removed the young from the nests. Two only young birds survived the season, one only has feathers, the other none at all.

Some species became aggressive, defeathering their mates.

The owner has since moved house.

Comments to: Betty Venables, Co-ordinator, C/- Email address as above or postal address, EMR SAFETY NETWORK-INTERNATIONAL, 216 President Ave Miranda NSW 2228 Australia

fred moore

Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org/

Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html

Informant: Iris Atzmon

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Spanish paper on RF effects on birds
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/904106/

Micro Waves Effects on Wildlife Animals
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/micro_waves_effects_on_wildlife_animals.pdf

EMF Exposure – Animal Studies
http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/animals.htm

Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf

Pulsed microwave radiation and wildlife – Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Sparrows?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/926007/

Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/

See also: http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/t/c27b047f050cfd0d

Honey bees and microwave radiation: think outside the box!

The first two articles are both from Art Kab. They are parts of communications that Art Kab has addressed to other persons, but circulated for informational purposes. I believe that the quotes are very thoughtful and deserve to be read by many others. I happen to agree with Art Kabl’s line of thinking which helps to explain why bees are dying and provides the probable cause of many illnesses which are occurring around the world.

The third article sent by Lavone, is a link to an interesting story about how bees are being badly harmed this new season (2008).

Martin

—– Original Message —–

From: Art Kab

Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:46 AM

Subject: Re: Honey bee virus

No! Not everything is caused by cell phones; but actually if you really do the research and use your brain to make logical inferences you will indeed realize that this microwave radiation now permeating the planet is in fact affecting all life on this planet – it is just a matter of thinking a bit more deeply about it!

Don’t believe everything you hear or read on a superficial level and then stop there becoming just a tape recorder! Bees have survived on this planet for millions of years against a host of viruses and other pathogens. You need to really start asking why they are suddenly now dying out now on a global level. Is it really a virus that comes from China? Or Israel? Or Australia? You need to really start thinking about the ONE THING that they are NOW all being exposed to everywhere on this planet? And what is that?

Art Kab

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Interestingly, with CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) — aka Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in the UK — which started to appear in droves and has been increasing ever since around circa 1984 (mysteriously — or NOT — along with CCD and cell phones), there has usually been a new virus found every year — what I call “the virus of the year” — that is blamed on this illness.

First it was Epstein-Barr Virus, then Cytomegalo Virus, Coxsackie Virus, Human Herpes 6 Virus, Parvovirus B19, Coxiella burnetii,Borna Disease Virus, Varicella Zoster virus, Herpes Simplex Virus, Enterovirus VP1, Polio Virus, Echo Virus, Hepatitis Viruses, and so on down the line.

It has now been approximately 24 years since we started seeing this disease state in high numbers and they say– at least anyway– that they still don’t know what causes this problem.

I suspect the same thing will happen with CCD. Every year they will come out with a new cause without ever finding the real cause. Lots of money will be spent barking up some tree and we will be no closer to the Truth than we are with CFS. Food prices will continue to rise and in some cases — like we saw in Haiti — causing riots and governments to topple. Pharmaceutical companies — along with their counterpart, the cell phone industry — will continue to rake in profits as more and more cell-phone addicts become sick with unexplainable diseases caused very likely to a large degree by their incessant exposure to microwave radiation.

Regards,

Art Kab

Honey bee virus threatens nation’s food supply, USDA says

http://www.axcessnews.com/user.php/articles/show/id/12286
Are honey bees really sick?

By Staff

(AXcess News) Washington – USDA researchers, in cooperation with scientists at two leading U.S. Universities, have found that the U.S. population of honey bees is threatened by a virus, which if it cannot be contained could severely hamper food production in the United States on crops that require pollination.

The honey bee virus is called Israeli acute paralysis and is responsible for the collapse of entire colonies.

So how serious a problem is Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) that it would have the food industry buzzing about it? Researchers found an association between colony collapse disorder (CCD) in honey bees and IAPV, though they have been quick to say they’re not positive that the honey bee virus is the culprit behind CCD, but all evidence points to Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus.

This is the first report of IAPV in the United States. IAPV was initially identified in honey bee colonies in Israel in 2002, where the honey bees exhibited unusual behavior, such as twitching wings outside the hive and a loss of worker bee populations. IAPV has not yet been formally accepted as a separate species; it is a close relative of Kashmir bee virus, which has been previously found in the United States.

“This does not identify IAPV as the cause of CCD,” said USDA entomologist Jeffery S.Pettis, who led the research team for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). “What we have found is strictly a strong correlation of the appearance of IAPV and CCD together. We have not proven a cause-and-effect connection.”

Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus is a dicistrovirus that can be transmitted by the varroa mite, Pettis explained. It was found in 96.1 percent of the CCD-bee samples.

The next step is exposing healthy hives to IAPV and seeing if CCD develops.

CCD became a matter of concern in the winter of 2006-2007 when some beekeepers began reporting losses of 30 to 90 percent of their hives. While colony losses are not unexpected during winter weather, the magnitude of loss suffered by some beekeepers was highly unusual.

The main symptom is finding no or a low number of adult honey bees present with no dead honey bees in the hive. Often there is still honey in the hive and immature bees (brood) are present.

Pollination is a critical element in agriculture, as honey bees pollinate more than 130 crops in the United States and add $15 billion in crop value annually. There were enough honey bees to provide pollination for U.S. agriculture this year, but beekeepers could face a serious problem next year and beyond if CCD becomes more widespread and no treatment is developed.

The USDA reports that while there are native pollinators (honey bees came from the Old World with European colonists), honey bees are more prolific and the easiest to manage for the large scale pollination that U.S. agriculture requires. In California, the almond crop alone uses 1.3 million colonies of bees, approximately one half of all honey bees in the United States, and this need is projected to grow to 1.5 million colonies by 2010.

The number of managed honey bee colonies has dropped from 5 million in the1940s to only 2.5 million today. At the same time, the call for hives to supply pollination service has continued to climb. This means honey bee colonies are trucked farther and more often than ever before.

Honey bee colony health has also been declining since the 1980s with the advent of new pathogens and pests. The spread into the United States of varroa and tracheal mites, in particular, created major new stresses on honey bees.

There are three major possibilities behind the collapse of entire honey bee colonies that are being looked into by researchers. One of them is pesticides, but no common environmental agents or chemicals stand out as causative, though even fertilizer is now suspect. But in California, many almond growers have been switching to an environmentally safe liquid fertilizer manufactured by Itronics, Inc. (OTCBB: ITRO), a Reno, Nevada-based recycler of photochemicals.

Itronics’ GOLD n’GRO liquid fertilizer is manufactured at the only plant in the US approved by the EPA and is shipped to distributors in California where it’s used on a wide variety of vegetable crops, fruits and orchards due to its safer results for the environment and because it’s economically better than the more expensive fertilizers manufactured from petrochemicals that are becoming more suspect of being a pollutant to groundwater nationwide, not just because it may be affecting colonies of honey bees. Itronics says it has not had its products tested on honey bees, so it could not substantiate any value, though the fact that it’s economical and environmentally friendly is good enough reason to consider its use, say California growers.

In 2006, ARS and several university, state and industry participants agreed to sample affected colonies at various locations. That sampling revealed a number of disease-causing organisms, with most associated with “stress-related” diseases (Nosema, European foulbrood, viruses, and others), but no specific cause was determined. The magnitude of detected infectious agents in adult bees suggests that honey bees might be exhibiting some type of immunosuppression; however, researchers have yet to see any measurable effects on the honey bee immune system.

The ARS says that American beekeepers will soon have a new antibiotic with which to protect their colonies from American foulbrood disease, though no antibiotic has been developed for Israeli Virus as yet.

TYLAN Soluble (tylosin tartrate), produced by Elanco Animal Health of Greenfield, Ind., was approved for use October 20 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

American foulbrood is among the most widespread and devastating diseases of honey bees. Caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, the disease kills young bee larvae and transforms their remains into dark, shriveled ropes or “scales.” These contain billions of spores that are easily spread by nurse bees. Although American foulbrood poses no human danger, severe outbreaks can weaken or kill entire bee colonies, according to Mark Feldlaufer, who leads the ARS Beltsville bee lab.

Art Kab

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Hi Martin,

I listened to an interview on the radio last night regarding the declining bee population. It is even worse than before. They didn’t mention EMF but it did come out in the conversation that the Africanized bees might be imported even though they would kill off the remainder of other bee populations. The written version of it is at:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1416&category=Environment

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