Subject: Letters to the Editors (Karow)..
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 090033 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......Here is another good "thought piece" from Hans..... I would
add, however, that most editors can "spot" an organized letter writing
campaign long before it ever gets published in their papers.... If the
campaign is TOO organized, I think it has less chance of success than if
everybody writes their OWN thoughts and feelings..... Thus, a series of
"canned" letters from the same source (the guru) ... should be avoided....
I do believe, however, that Hans idea is basically worthwhile -- and that
we are already supplying plenty of "ammunition" for such letters on this
EMF-L list.....
Cheerio.... (Be sure you read down to include the letter that Hans has
written..... It's good, but too long.... 300 to 400 words is usually
about the max that will be printed.... UNless you are writing an outright
editorial..... Guru had an editorial published on the op-ed page of a
regional paper this weekend. It was about 700 words. About our tax-laws,
not EMF....)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
EMF-L web-site can be found at:
EMF-L archives can be found at:
..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:33:17 -0700
From: Hans Karow
To: "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
Subject: Letters to the Editors
Dear Roy and all:
We all in the emf-guru list know very well about the adverse health impacts
due to EMFs/EMRs.
The governments worldwide are just puppets of the corporate and too scared
(too biased) to look after their constitutions.
These governments must do what the corporate tell them indirectly (money
speaks and dictates) what NOT to do to protect the general public but to
protect the corporate' and shareholders $$$$.
WE have to protect ourselves. We in this list know how. We even can help
new subscribers who ask for help.
We also have real good discussions in this web site, but I like to see that
the general public gets more informed.
How? One suggestion is to prepare letters to the Editors of newspapers
(radio and TV) on a regular basis. Otherwise our anti EMF/EMR
campaign/activism is too slow.
Therefore my suggestion:
In the emf-guru archive we should have a special category "Letters to
Editors". Anyone is encouraged to use those letters as their own, change it
as someone sees it fit and send it out to the media.
All new letters and converted/updated letters please with copy to Roy who
will only post it in his special site "Letters to the Editors" and Roy will
only announce in his emf-guru site that there is a new letter or invites
subscribers to check for new entries.
Please note: since some newsletters only accept letters with 300, 400,
...800 words, please note the word count of the text (excluding names and
addresses of recipient and sender, and date) in brackets.
Roy, you might want to make a little addition that indicates your special
"Letters to the Editors" site in your usual section, like from
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
EMF-L web-site can be found at:
EMF-L archives can be found at:
..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
...........DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST??????........
to something like:
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
EMF-L web-site can be found at:
EMF-L archives can be found at:
EMF-L Letters to the Editors can be found at <
http://www.wave-guide.org/letters.media/emf-l> (or something like that)
..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
...........DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST??????........
I think, this will encourage and motivate specially new subscribers to
actively take part in our campaign!
Many times I wished to have written letters to the Editors, but did not
have the time to do so, besides I am not a born writer!
What is your opinion/suggestion?
Hans.
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Following is a letter I just sent off yesterday to a local newspaper
(anyone is invited to use this letter as his/her own and send it as well,
just change name and address of the writer and the media):
(text word count: 793)
Oliver Chronicle
36083 97th Street
OLIVER BC VOH 1TO
Fax: 498 3966
VIA FAX
Dear Editor
Cellular phones save lives? Think again!
There have been calls to ban the use of cellular phones while driving, due
to the danger of accidents. It is argued that phone conversations slow
reaction times and interfere with steering, especially for users of
hand-held telephones. A 1996 study paid for by Motorola, of drivers in
Toronto, found that the use of cellular phones in motor vehicles was
associated with quadrupling of the risk of a collision during the call (New
England Journal of Medicine, Feb.13/97). However, hands-free systems were
linked to a six-times greater risk of accident.
How could hands-free systems be associated with a higher risk of accident?
Consider an Electro Magnetic Radiation (EMR) connection. Hands-free phones
can emit 5 to 10 times more EMR than hand-held devices. EMR has been shown
to affect brain function by interfering with the brain's own
electromagnetic signals. Perhaps this has an effect on peoples' driving
abilities.
As reported on CBC news on March 1/99 a study by Dr. Jim Penman at Aberdeen
University in Scotland showed that cellular phone radiation caused slowed
reaction times and reduced memory. Arthur Firstenberg, Microwaving Our
Planet (1997), reports that "Low intensity microwave radiation physically
damages the brain causing?reduced attention span, impaired complex
information processing, and memory disturbance."
It is not just cellular phone users who are exposed to EMR, but those in
the vicinity of a person making a call or a transmitter (cell-phone
tower). We are ALL being exposed to hazardous levels of electropollution,
not just the cellular phone users! With hundreds of millions using cellular
phones, background levels of microwaves frequency EMRs including electric
utility power-frequency electric and magnetic fields (emanating from
household- and work place appliances, transmission and distribution lines,
transformers and substations) have increased tremendously, particularly in
cities and residential areas. Human beings (animals and plants alike) did
not evolve in this type of environment. The huge increase in "artificial"
EMRs can interfere with biological functioning and is a real cause for
concern.
The Cellular Phone Task Force gathered statistics on weekly mortality rates
in US cities from the US Center for Disease Control in Atlanta/Georgia.
Seven major cities showed an increase in deaths of between 5% and 27% for
several weeks after activation of cellular phone networks. This represented
approximately 10,000 more deaths than usual. No corresponding mortality
increase were recorded during the same time period in cities where no
cellular phone networks were activated. As far as we know, no one has
refuted these statistics.
Microwaves (electric and magnetic fields from public utility facilities
alike) are an intrusion in everybody's privacy without consent but with
harmful side effects. Sooner or later these effects show up as adverse
health symptoms the industry, government and medical association (which all
profit from sick people by treating their symptoms and not taking the
causes away) will never admit to even also relate to EMRs. There is very
little independent or unbiased government-funded research on EMR and health
impacts. Most research is funded by industry interests which could be faced
with huge costs if EMR was conclusively and/or publicly linked to impaired
health.
So far independent studies have found i.e.
that DNA (the chemical basis of heredity and carrier of genetic information
for organism) can be disrupted (Henry Lai, Jerry Philips) by EMRs;
that melatonin levels in individuals can be affected by EMRs (affecting
lots of responses from sleep deprivation to neurodegenerative diseases -due
to the importance of melatonin/seratonin balance and the fact that these
are neurotransmitters), as well as adversely affecting the cancer fighting
abilities of both melatonin and tamoxifen;
that -as has been found in a recent Swedish study (Salford, Brun & Persson,
confirming old results in 1977 by Oscar et al!)- microwaves open the Blood
Brain Barrier (BBB). The Swedish team is currently working with the US Air
Force to investigate the Gulf war Syndrome. They assume that medication
given to the troops to protect against nerve gas may have penetrated the
BBB due to the exposure of microwaves.
Just think what you involuntarily might pick up on a daily base (toxins,
chemicals and preservatives) and pass the BBB and affect your health
sooner or later!
It is time to demand that governments address the issues. One step would be
to replace wireless technology with technologies such as safe fibre optics
and certain forms of very low intensity satellite transmissions.
Think again: cellular phones save lives who risk more upon depending quick
help at their finger tips, while the rest of us (including animals and
plants) are continuously and cumulatively exposed to involuntarily
hazardous EMRs!
Our parents and grand parents lived without this modern technology, so why
can't we for the sake of a healthy environment?
For more info contact: tel./fax: (250) 498 3135, e-mail: core@vip.net
Oliver, September 27, 1999
Hans Karow
Member, Coalition to Reduce Electropollution (CORE)
S 32 / C 6, RR# 1, OLIVER BC VOH 1TO
Tel./Fax (250) 498 3135, E-mail : core@vip.net
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com