Sprint plans to invade a school in Berkeley, California

Dear Fellows:

While neighbors of 1600 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California, are fighting to keep base-stations antennas out of their neighborhood, they heard a discouraging news: Sprint PCS has managed to sign a contract with St. Mary's High School to install antennas on the school gym. This
school is on Hopkins Avenue, just a few miles away from Shattuck.

This is one of many cases that shows Sprint has no concern for the health of young adults. I think, soon, neighbors will send the message: SOS (Save Our School).

Radi

Omega: see the article below concerning the meaning that the radiation below the base station is always low:

The radiation directly below the base station antenna is not always extremely low

"COST 281 Workshop "Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health", May 15th-16th, 2003, Dublin

Results of a Measurement Programme Concerning Mobile Phone Base Station Emissions in North Rhine-Westphalia

Dr. Christian Bornkessel, IMST GmbH (principal author)
Dr. Elke Stöcker-Meier, Ministry of Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUNLV)

This paper summarises the results of a measurement study, performed by IMST GmbH and financed by the Ministry of Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The measurements were performed on 87 measurement places around 24 base stations. The here described study differs from similar measurement campaigns in the following points:

· The emissions were investigated systematically,

· Most of the measurement places were not outside, but inside buildings,
and

· Starting from the results, a categorisation of the base stations was discussed.

On some sites, RF emissions emanating from cordless telephones, broadcast and TV towers as well as other sources were measured additionally to compare the base station emission with.

The measurements were performed with a combination of broadband isotropic field probe and frequency selective spectrum analyser equipment. Special attention was laid on an accurate maximum finding procedure in indoor sites due to the locally rapidly varying electric fields there. All temporary measured values were extrapolated to the maximal
operational state of the base station.

Although all measurement places were in direct vicinity of the base stations the results show, that all measured fields are well below the ICNIRP limits.

The Swiss "Installation Limit Value (ILT)" was exceeded at only one place, although a few sites reached the ILT nearly.

As an interesting point it was discovered, that the radiation directly below the base station antenna is not always extremely low, but may reach values in the ILT region as well. This seems to be contradictory
to the so called "umbrella effect".

A 24 hours instantaneous measurement impressively shows the dependence of the time varying traffic on the emissions.

Finally it was tried to divide base station installations into different categories, depending on morphographical as well as technical parameters. The idea was to look for possibilities of predicting the radiated fields in surrounding sites just before the installation of the station.

Although the categorisation was done carefully, the results showed that the radiated fields in similar sites around stations of the same category were completely different, suggesting that the variety of existing base station installations is too large for an easy categorisation.

Address of principal author:

Carl-Friedrich-Gauss-Str. 2,
D-47475 Kamp-Lintfort
Germany
Phone: +49 2842 981-383, Fax: +49 2842 981-399,
Email:  bornkessel@imst.de

Source:  http://www.cost281.org/documents.php?node=49

Informant: Reinhard Rueckemann

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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3041309.stm

Compensation for phone mast blunder

Families living near a mobile phone mast have been awarded £117,000 in compensation.

Seven families will get between £10,000 and £20,000 depending on their proximity to the 20ft telecoms mast in Swindon.

Swindon Borough Council was ordered to pay the compensation after its planners failed to object to the One2One mast within the necessary 28 days due to an administration error.

The award is thought to the first of its kind.

Local Government Ombudsman Jerry White found the council guilty of maladministration causing injustice and has ordered the payment of compensation for the loss in value of the homes affected.

But most families said they would much rather the mast was removed.

This was our ideal home, but from our back garden and my daughter's bedroom all you can see is this mast Melanie Hall, resident Melanie Hall, one of six residents to bring the complaint against the council, said: "It should not have gone ahead in the first place, it's a residential area. "This was our ideal home, but from our back garden and my daughter's bedroom all you can see is this mast. "The compensation doesn't mean much to us really, ideally we wanted the mast to come down."

A spokeswoman said Swindon Borough Council had apologised to the families for the error - which was caused by the application being put on the wrong pile of paperwork.

This delay meant One2One - now named T-mobile - could put the mast up even though planners had objected.

Council chief executive Simon Birch said: "The council has accepted the ombudsman's findings in full and has offered affected householders compensation. "The council has introduced new procedures for dealing with future applications for telecommunications development to prevent
this maladministration happening again."

Story from BBC NEWS:
 http://news.bbc.co uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3041309.stm

Published: 2003/05/19 16:22:57 GMT

© BBC MMIII

Informant: Robert Riedlinger

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THE MISSING WMD

By Gwynne Dyer (Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.)

The Jordan Times -- Tuesday, May 20, 2003
 http://www.jordantimes.com/Tue/opinion/opinion4.htm

The favourite fantasy headline of British comedian Spike Milligan was: "ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND FOUND ALIVE! FIRST WORLD WAR A MISTAKE!"

We are unlikely to see a similar headline in any American paper soon, but in the rest of the world, the continued failure of the US and British occupation forces in Iraq to find any of the `weapons of mass destruction' that were the alleged reason for their invasion is both a diplomatic disaster and a joke in very bad taste.

Tony Blair ran into both phenomena and came away severely shaken when he visited Moscow last Tuesday. The British prime minister thought he had a good personal relationship with the Russian president, but Vladimir Putin is a former intelligence officer and, like his American and British counterparts, he was outraged at the way the US and British
governments misrepresented the intelligence they got from their own agencies in order to justify their war. Unlike the people at the Central Intelligence Agency and MI5, however, Putin was free to speak -- and did he ever.

Putin openly mocked Blair for the failure of the "coalition" to find any of the fabled WMD even weeks after the end of the war: "Where are those arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, if indeed they ever existed? Perhaps Saddam is still hiding in an underground bunker somewhere, sitting on cases of weapons of mass destruction, and is preparing to blow the whole thing up and destroy the lives of thousands of Iraqis." The Russian journalists at the press conference roared with laughter -- maybe it loses something in translation -- but Blair looked distinctly grim. He is going to have lots more practice at that.

Two months ago, Blair talked a reluctant parliament into supporting the attack on Iraq by warning of Iraqi WMD ready to strike on 45 minutes' notice, and President George W. Bush warned of "mushroom clouds" if the US didn't invade Iraq. It was all so desperately urgent, so hair-trigger
dangerous, that Washington and London couldn't wait for the United Nations arms inspectors to finish their job; they had to bypass the UN and invade right away. So many thousands of Iraqis (2,500 civilians and perhaps 10,000 soldiers) were killed, 137 US and British soldiers died, looters destroyed most of Iraq's cultural heritage while "coalition" troops stood idle by -- and nobody has found any WMD.

The rest of the world never really believed the White House's justification for war anyway. As UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said in late April, Washington and London built their case for going to war on "very, very shaky" evidence, including documents that subsequently turned out to have been faked -- and with the war now over,
Washington isn't even bothering to insist that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the United States anymore. "We were not lying," a Bush administration official told ABC News on April 28. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."

The real reason for the war, according to the ABC report, was that the administration "wanted to make a statement" (presumably about what happens to countries that defy US power). Iraq was not invaded because it threatened America, but because "Saddam had all the requirements to make him, from (the administration's) standpoint, the perfect target."
The assumption, at the White House and the Pentagon, was that everybody else could be bullied into forgetting the lies about WMD and accepting the fact of American control of Iraq.

They probably could be if the occupation turned out to be a brilliant success that produced a happy, prosperous, united and independent Iraq, but that does not seem likely. Instead, it is going sour very fast, with US troops shooting civilian demonstrators, the Shiite majority seeking an Islamic state, and the beginnings of a guerrilla resistance to the foreign occupiers. Even if the US were willing to let the United Nations have a role in occupied Iraq, the desire of other powers to get involved in any way in this proto-Vietnam is waning from day to day.

Washington continues to insist that the UN weapons inspectors will not be allowed back in, which means that the rest of the world is unlikely to believe the US and British forces even if they do claim to have found something. And frankly, hardly anyone in Britain believes in Iraqi WMD
anymore either -- not even former Cabinet ministers.

On April 22, former foreign secretary, Robin Cook, said he doubted that there was a single person in the intelligence services who believed that a weapon of mass destruction in working order would be found in Iraq, and accused the White House of trying to bridge the credibility gap by
"reinventing the term `weapon of mass destruction' to cover any artillery shell with a chemical content, or any biological toxin, even if it had not been fitted to a weapon". Even on that preposterous definition, they have not found any WMD in Iraq yet -- and as former British Defence Secretary Doug Henderson said on April 18: "If by the
turn of the year there is no WMD, then the basis on which this (war) was executed was illegal."

The post-Sept. 11 patriotic chill still prevents any senior American politician from questioning the existence of Iraqi WMD in public, but this issue is not going to go away. As the situation in Iraq deteriorates and the American body count rises, questions about how America got talked into this mess will keep coming back, and sooner or later they will have to be answered.