Hi Klaus,

Thank you for the prompt response! As promised, here is the article on Neil Cherry that appeared on Wired News today:
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59007,00.html

Many thanks,

Elisa

Last Battle for Radiation Fighter 
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02:00 AM May. 28, 2003 PT

People who believe that cell phones cause cancer and other illnesses just lost one of their most ardent scientific supporters. Dr. Neil Cherry, a New Zealand biophysicist who spent much of his career collecting research papers that showed radiation emitted from cell phones is harmful to users, and who testified on behalf of a cancer patient in a high-profile lawsuit against the industry, died on Saturday of motor neuron disease. He was 57 years old.

His supporters, including environmental health advocates and ordinary citizens who believed they got sick from using devices that emitted electromagnetic radiation, mourned his death on the Internet. "Despite his illness he has been working hard on his EMR research and also, despite his handicaps caused by the illness, assisting as much as he can to help people like me who have been badly affected by the emissions of RF (radio frequencies)," said one reader of the EMF-Omega-News newsletter ( http://free-page.net/web/EMF-News.htm ).

"The world has been a better place for his living with such integrity and courage and fighting for the health of the people regardless of the communications industry trying to discredit him," the reader said.

Cherry and his colleagues were dealt a blow last year when a Baltimore judge threw out ( http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,55474,00.html) a closely watched $800 million lawsuit against the cell-phone industry. Judge Catherine Blake said that Dr. Christopher Newman -- who claimed his brain cancer was caused by frequent use of his cell phone -- did not have sufficient evidence to receive a trial. If the case had been allowed to move forward, it would have opened up the industry to more lawsuits.

The outcome of the Newman case, however, did not discourage Cherry, an associate professor of environmental health at Lincoln University in New Zealand, from continuing his research and proselytizing about the dangers of EMR waves around the world.

In 1994, Cherry was invited by a local primary school to present information he had gathered on the possible health effects a proposed cell-phone tower would have on the children at the school. He found that the tower emitted radiation at a frequency that would be harmful to a small child. His recommendation that the school kill the proposal was adopted by parents and officials who voted to reject construction of the tower on campus.

Cherry spent many years and a great deal of his own money traveling the world collecting university papers on EMR research. He attended numerous meetings of environmental activists and presented research showing that almost all radio-wave-emitting technologies -- radar, power lines, microwave ovens, radio- and television-station towers, cell towers and cell phones -- pose some kind of risk to people.

His position was that ideally, people would not use cell phones but would rely on only land-line communications. "We (humans) are very good conductors (of cellular transmissions), so most of the cell-phone signal goes through us, and very little actually goes to the cell site," Cherry said at a microwave-radiation conference ( http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,19069,00.html).

While the long-term effects of cell-phone use are not known, the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association both ruled out infrequent and short-term cell-phone use -- up to five years -- as a cause of brain cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization have said no evidence exists that cell-phone use is harmful or beneficial to a user's health.

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Neil Cherry - I lost a dear friend
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Dear fellow fighters,

I also lost a dear friend with the death of Neil. Not only, that we encountered ourselves occasionally on congresses, no, he was also some years ago with his woman with me in Luebeck for some days on a visit. We have visited not only the city; he was also in our clinic area in order to inform himself about our experiments concerning the electro sensitivity.

We discussed much and extensively the situation at that time, which changed since then until today only in the principle, that Neil's activities among others picked out for discussion the problem as a central theme world-wide. I remind only on the discussion concerning ICNIRP.

We, everyone, have suffered a large loss and should preserve the memory of him. He advocated us with very much courage and this we may not forgot - risked also much.

Lebrecht von Klitzing

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Dear Klaus & Imelda,

ES is fully recognized as a physical disability by the Swedish government. For further information, please, contact Eva Ljungberg on tel. no. +46-54-840507 or e-mail

Best regards
Yours
Olle

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden)

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New Electrical Pollution booklet online
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Hi Klaus: Have just been made aware of a new booklet on EHS produced by C.U.R.E. which can be accessed online at:
www.newnorth.net/~darvr/epfactbooklet.

Glancing through it I note that the entry in the three page section toward end "Chronological Order of Recent Events Concerning EMF's and Ground/Earth Currents" is "2001--Spain. High Court Decision: A Sentence Admits For The First Time, That Electromagnetic waves Are A Health Hazard."

Best, Imelda, Cork

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Help and advice sought
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Dear Fellows:

As you might know, residents in Berkeley, California have been fighting fiercely against Sprint in the past 7 months. Now, the Planning Department of Berkeley and Sprint have come up with a new trick. They are asking to bring a 3rd party RF engineer to review Sprint's application (and most probably) approve it. So, in the Public Hearing, they can refer to the so called "independent" review by the 3rd party engineer.

The Planning Department does not tell us who the 3rd party engineer is. All we know is that the Planning Department will select an engineer and Sprint will pay the expenses.

Now, the Planning Department is telling us that if we have technical inquiries to be investigated, we should submit them to the that department. Then, they will pass our questions to the 3rd party engineer
so that they will answer them.

The entire thing is a sham. But, we would like to ask you to provide us with the toughest technical questions that can be asked. Then, we will pass them to the Planning Department.

So, please let us know what questions we can ask from the 3rd party engineer. Come up with the toughest and most esoteric questions.

Thank you,

Radi

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Buying a house next to a substation
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Could anyone give me an adivce on this matter below:

I have bought a house in a small town recently, and soon realised that an electronic substation was just behind the house. The distance between the station and the house is only 2-3 meters. It is a small station and it says on the wall--"11kV". Can this station cause a damage to our health?

Yui from UK

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A Nuclear Road of No Return
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Bush's bid for new kinds of weapons could put the world on a suicidal course.

May 13, 2003 Los Angeles Times, by Robert Scheer

 http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-scheer13may13,0,5142385.column

Informant: Carol Wolman

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White House asks for authority to develop new low yield nuclear weapons
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Statement of Administration Policy
H.R. 1588, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons. The Administration appreciates the support for research of low yield nuclear weapons in section 3111. However, maintaining the prohibition on development will hinder the ability of our scientists and engineers to explore technical options to deter national security threats of the 21st century. A complete repeal of
section 3136 of the FY 1994 National Defense Authorization Act is needed. This in no way would usurp Congress's right to authorize and appropriate the funds necessary to develop and build new or modified nuclear weapons should this or a future President determine that such weapons were in the supreme interest of the United States.

SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget web site
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/108-1/hr1588sap-h.pdf

Informant: David Culp, Legislative Representative
Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)

 http://www.fcnl.org

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How Harmful is Depleted Uranium?
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 http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=711

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US finds WMD evidence -- in Maryland Guardian Unlimited [UK]
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"The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators had finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction, including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland countryside. " (05/28/03)

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,965319,00.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'War Vaccines Poisoned Us'
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By Rebecca Mowling
The Evening Standard

 http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/052803E.shtml

Informant: Don Maisch

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ONE TRILLION BUCKS MISSING AT PENTAGON
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Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing -- Bush plan targets Pentagon accounting

 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL#sections

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