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Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, a powerful European body has ruled.



Mobile phones and wireless networks should be banned in school, a European body has ruled.

By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 9:30PM BST 14 May 2011


A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the technologies have "potentially harmful" effects on humans, and concluded that immediate action was required to protect children.

In a report, the committee said it was crucial to avoid repeating the mistakes made when public health officials were slow to recognize the dangers of asbestos, tobacco smoking and lead in petrol.

The report also highlighted the potential health risks of cordless telephones and baby monitors, which rely on similar technology and are widely used in British homes.

Fears have been raised that electromagnetic radiation emitted by wireless devices can cause cancers and affect the developing brain.

The findings were seized on by campaigners who oppose the spread of wireless devices.

The committee concluded that member states should:

• Set thresholds for levels of long-term exposure to microwaves of the type emitted by mobile phones;

• Introduce clear labeling on products indicating the presence of electromagnetic fields and any health risks associated with use;

• Ban all mobile phones and wireless networks in classrooms and schools;

• Run information campaigns aimed at children and young adults about the risks to human health;

• Step up research on less-dangerous types of antennae and mobile phones.

The conclusions contradict advice from the World Health Organization and the Department of Health, which says exposure to electromagnetic fields poses little or no risk to human health.

The Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and is based in Strasbourg, cannot impose its will on governments, but is highly influential in policy-making and has often seen its decisions enacted through conventions and treaties.

A draft resolution – calling on governments to "take all reasonable measures to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields" from mobile phones and similar devices, including the ban in schools – was adopted unanimously by the organization's Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs.

The committee is composed of 84 MPs and politicians from member states, and its vice-chairman is Lord Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister. Its members reviewed the latest research on the effects of electromagnetic fields and took fresh evidence from experts before reaching its conclusions.

The draft resolution will now go before the council's full Parliamentary Assembly for approval.

Public health and telecommunication experts are divided on the dangers posed by mobile phones and other wireless devices.

A report by Britain's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme in 2007 said that there was no association between mobile phones and adverse health effects, but it is now conducting a more detailed study into the long-term effects of mobile phones.

Other researchers have found no association between short-term mobile phone use and cancer. A major epidemiological study published last year found no increased risk of cancer from using mobile phones over a ten-year period.

Prof Les Barclay, the vice-chairman of the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme, said: “We haven’t had mobile phones for very long and there are now studies going on to look for longer-term effects.

“There is very little evidence at the moment for harmful effects. The powers that mobile phones emit are getting less and less, and they are well below the limits set by the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection. Banning mobile phones and wireless networks in schools is a step too far in my eyes.”

Prof Paul Elliot, of Imperial College, London, who is leading a major international study of the long-term effects of mobile phone use on 200,000 people, said: “There are potential questions about whether mobile phones might have cognitive effects and impact on sleep.

“Mobile phone technology is clearly incredibly beneficial and useful, but we have to weigh up those potential health effects, so it is responsible to do research on that. In children, that research has not yet really been done, so we need more research in this area. In the meantime the advice is not to be excessive in use.”

Powerwatch, a campaign group that aims to raise awareness of the risks from electromagnetic fields, welcomed the draft resolution. A spokesman said: “It is long past the time when governments all around Europe should have started being more precautionary about these issues.”

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, warned that a ban on mobile phones and wireless networks in schools would bring widespread disruption.

He said: “The impact on schools would be enormous. Most schools have Wi-Fi networks now, while pupils and teachers carry mobile phones. Many schools are shifting towards far more mobile computing so pupils can have laptops they can take home to do their homework on. This would prevent all of that.”

A Department of Health spokesman said: “As you would expect, we keep all available scientific evidence under review. Our guidance remains the same. Children should only use mobile phones for essential purposes and keep all calls short.”

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What are you doing now?

He has placed his hand on my shoulder and he's looking up at me. He's asking me to go inside the ship with him and look around. We're walking toward it, but the person who is standing by it looks angry. He is talking to the captain. I think the other one wants me to stay outside. The captain says something to him, the other one understands, and steps aside.

We are going up the ladder. I am shaking because it is so cold. The craft is bigger on the inside than I thought. I'm standing in a circular room and he is pointing out things to me. He asks me to stand before a screen-like device. He turns it on and there isn't anything happening. He hands me a rod, about six inches long, and there's a cable on the end of it. I hold it and he is explaining that they are taking my picture through the screen. The rod is recording my body temperature, brain waves, weight, height, and a lot of other things about me.

Other data mentioned in the tapes includes:

Inside the saucer: Shearer felt uncomfortable inside the craft. "It was cold in there and I don't know why," he said. "I didn't feel right while I was there because everything was different. I also knew that if I did something wrong they might kill me." He reported that the presence of the beings was not frightening, "because they seemed like pretty nice people."

His feelings of apprehension came from the unusual surroundings.

"There was something funny about that ship," he continued under hypnosis. "Although the floor was metal, I couldn't feel or hear any sound of my feet when I walked around. This sort of made me feel like the ship was a ghost or something like that. But it was definitely metal."

There were no bunks, or beds, evident on the craft. "There were a lot of machines that might have been computers," Shearer said, "only they didn't have the looks of our computers. The captain showed me a little metal thing. He said they shoved that in one of the machines and it guided them back to where they came from. * There was a bunch of chairs, some desks, and they were made out of the same metal."

There were no portholes, windows, or openings in the craft. "I asked about that and was told they used the screen to see outside," said Shearer. "No, he didn't show me how it worked."

Appearance of the beings: The crewmen were approximately five to five-and-a-half feet tall, weighing approximately 125 to 140 pounds. Shearer was unable to get a clear view of their bodies, due to their uniforms. "I would say they were in good physical condition," he said, "equal to our own astronauts."

Their faces were elongated and had a flattened appearance. "This could have been the helmets they wore," Shearer admitted.

Their eyes were slightly slanted and their eyebrows were thin, light in color, and slanted slightly upward over heavy lidded eyes. Their lips were thin, almost the same color as the facial skin. "The best description I can give you of them is to look in the books on old Egypt," Shearer said recently. "Some pictures of the old Egyptian gods have a distinct likeness to these people. But the Egyptian statues are darker in complexion than these people."

UFO Propulsion: "They use a type of device that overcomes gravity," Shearer said during a hypnotic trance. "This is a push-pull thing, depending on how they see it."

He explained that the device could be set to use the power of gravity in a pushing effect. "Under this setting, they use the gravity of our Earth to push them out into space. When they are free of our gravity field, they reverse the process and lock in on another planet. Then, they are pulled toward that. This is done automatically by the machines. Unless there is trouble, they don't have to touch the controls."

When they are on a particular planet, such as Earth, they depend on an electromagnetic drive to power their craft. "I asked how this worked, but I didn't understand the answer," Shearer said. "It was confusing. But he did say that our people were getting close to perfecting a similar device." (That was over 35 years ago - we must have it by now!)

Do they use atomic energy? "He answered that it was not suitable for space flight," Shearer recalled. "This might be because of a reactor being enclosed in the ship. There were 'dangers' the captain said, in being out in space with these types of engines. They had tried them a long time past -- lost many people -- and hunted for something else to power their ships."

What do they use for power on their home planet?: "He said they used an extract from water," Shearer explained. "this is a method of breaking down water to its ultimate form of matter. He said water is a very powerful form of energy. Our scientists should be working to crack the energy in water."

What do they want?: Shearer was told that there are several types of space people visiting our planet. "We are not one of the watchers," said the ufonaut. There are others who visit here more than us. They are more familiar with your world and your people."

What is the reason for these visits? "In his case it was apparently a scientific expedition to determine the physical characteristics of our planet," Shearer related. "He didn't seem to know much about why he was here. It was more as if he was a military person working under orders."

Shearer was told that our people were extremely hostile to visitors. "When the captain said this, he was smiling," Shearer recalled. "He wasn't mad or anything like that. He reported that some other crews had some difficult times when they landed here. They had lost people in the past when humans caught them. I had the feeling that this was a long time ago, possibly not even in this century."

Brain implantation: As the other ufonauts returned to the ship, the captain asked Shearer to put a cone-shaped device on his head. "I didn't want to do it," Shearer said, "but I didn't have a choice. He said if I would put it on, it would give me great knowledge about them, their world, and the universe."

The cone was placed on the attorney's head. One of the ufonauts snapped a cord to the device. "I started whimpering; it felt as if my brain was being scrambled," Shearer stated. "It was the most painful thing I ever experienced. I started to tear the cone off my head, but they stopped me. They held my arms. When the pressure inside my brain stopped, they removed the cone from my head."

The ufonauts squeezed his arm in an apparent sign of farewell. "The captain then escorted me down the ladder," Shearer said. "Coming outside, my body tingled as if from electricity. When we got to my car, the captain asked me to remain inside until they took off. He squeezed my shoulder again and said we would meet in the future."

Shearer asked for a momento of the meeting.

The captain shook his head. "He didn't say anything after that. He returned to the ship, the ladder retracted, and a buzzing, whirring noise started as the lights flickered. Seconds later, the ship took off in a diagonal climb. It disappeared in about 30 seconds."

Shearer started his car engine and the lights and radio worked again. He turned his car around on the narrow marshland road and drove home.

Immediately after his contact, attorney Shearer became obsessed with politics and considered running for political office. "Looking back, I would have liked to be in Congress," he said recently. "I still toy with the idea of running for a state office, then go on from there. I didn't do so in this past election. I am afraid they implanted something into my brain. I may be their agent, my program being to run for a political office."

How many policemen, judges, and lawmakers are now agents?: "That question keeps me awake at night," answered Raymond Shearer quietly. "There is unusual interest by UFOs in law enforcement officials."

"I know now that it was real," Raymond Shearer said convincingly. "I felt the metal on that ladder. These people are real because they squeezed me on the arm. I believe that someday, somewhere, we will meet again.
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* When I worked at the Boeing Airplane Company in Flight Test each airplane had a CD for their destination. They would insert it before taking off and it would automatically fly the plane to its destination. There was a CD for each place they wished to go.

In these old cases we see different aspects that we now have but back then it was like science fiction to the witness. We are progressing, however slow it might be in comparison.

posted by Aileen @ 8:02 AM
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At 1:45 PM, Anonymous ehcnald said…

Raymond,
I too have seen the inside of these ships. I have had and continue to have similar experiences. Can you elaborate more on the electromagnetic drive used when entering Earth's atmosphere? I was shown blueprints for a device, which I assumed was to be used based on a new structural determination of the atom. But, later when I remembered an equation on the prints referring to light [L2=em if (cv) (hv) (1/2mv2)=L2] and how to utilize the contained rest energy within the atom or its isotopes, I realized it was making references to their monopolar technology and our bipolar technology to indicate the difference in the light spectrum. The deficit I found in measure of Planck's constant and Balmer's analysis of hydrogen..which is 10 to the neg. 3 in multiple of .6256. In this, was defined how gravity and refraction are a result of the distortion of light within our electromagnetic grid on Earth caused by mass weights. In otherwords the force of electromagnetism (which we consider as major) is really an anomaly resultant of a counterclockwise 45 degree shift in the angle of that linear to the convex. Earth's spin in lieu of the wobble, does not meet the criteria for a perpendicular crossing of the vertical nature of the speed of hydrogen from the sun, as it should breach Earth's convex and permeable membrane. This allows other anomalies to come forward, which at the atomic level and in subatomic spaces is the degree of radiations effects from isotopic formation, humanity's disease, and distortion of light within our measure of spectrum. Our understanding at this time maintains four forces, but there are only two; the electro-weak and magnetic-strong. A unification arises of these two forces when they occur in a simultaneity...a static evolution and radiation of the true light as energy is equal to the mass. The degree in deficit arises out of our current elucidation of the atom, the technology derived from that and electricities synergism to the magnetic component of the unified field. When these two forces are in sync or occur with simultaneity, then the monopolar technology of which their propulsion is based shall become apparent to us all.
And when you speak of their use of gravity is it that they also use its repelling factor or opposition which is refraction to exit our atmosphere? We believe gravity is always attracting......but its repelling force is in refraction, a universal characteristic but not a property of light. Earth's angular momentum does not align 90 degrees perpendicular to the light of the sun's vertical velocity....which is the catalyst for their propulsion system. The 45 degree angle at which they leave our atmosphere is based on the electromagnetic spectrum which is within our measure visible to the eye 500 angstrom short. In otherwords, the green band is measured at 5400 A, but in actuality of the true light or that in degree of a vertical velocity to equal the angular momentum should be in measure for our eye to see what is there 5900 angstrom. Once out of our atmosphere they move at higher speeds due in fact to the magnetic monopole (a device at the center of the craft) that powers their craft using light of the sun and elemental constituents of other planets. Earth is the only planet also considered a magnetic monopole, due to the iron core. But as her ballast is now mislaid, probably due to comet impact in the past, she suffers a ferric domain which holds her at this current tilt with 160 year overlay in the grid pattern for light's influence. Within that time frame is set the contained rest at the atomic level or Planck's measure hv. At level of the macro-cosm we define it as the rate of precession, or numerically 25,920 years. Within context of their world and their mechanism for flight they use water for fuel, an H402 molecule magnetically extracting hydrogen as catalyst to set nuclear magnetic resonant speeds generated and contained within the magnetic monopole. Our H20 molecule also defines this anomaly or degree in deficit suffered on Earth. (It's spectrum displayed in 1/2 arc of the rainbow through water in our atmosphere.
I was able to view the fuel system within the craft using the evaporative and viscous nature of the water. I observed its physical and mechanical relation to this magnetic monopole. It is the cold fusion we seek.
The strange thing was having been a nurse, how their analogy of this used human physiology and the iron in our blood. It suffers the same ill effects. I guess this was to make this stick in my mind. It also made me realize what is the cause for all disease.
So they knew it would be to an advantage in using those terms.
You will and should already have recalled more of what you saw or had downloaded into your mind. Your thoughts and silent questions asked of yourself can bring it forward in time and we should speak of these things.
In this craft on a computer screen of sorts, I saw a triangle of green light radiating. Within it moving right to left along the base were Hebrew letters. They moved so rapidly almost to be a blur, yet as they moved I heard many words in my head and will quote these few, though I remember much more..."your thoughts are from the computer which has recorded all of time.......your DNA the microchip links us and will allow the information we share to unwind"......
I sense our evolution should be without time. If on our clock we set 30 degrees as each hour, and 12 marks of these in time to be 24 hours, then the 30 degree mark should be 2,000 year increments and 24,000 solar years to equate 360 degrees. At these points or positions on the periphery all will be equidistant from the center or zero point and time as we have known it will no longer exist. For simultaneity of these events to occur the one degree mark must equate to 66.6, as apposed to a 72 year mark. The shadow of disequilibrium arises at 5.4 year overlay at 1 degree and 30 degrees of 2,160 years overlays 160 years based on the 25,920 solar year. It is this measure for which they utilize the electromagnetic drive to enter into our 4th dimension or timeframe.
I should like to hear from you in regard to that which was downloaded at the end of your experience on this craft. All I know is that what was stimulated in me at which time I saw the inside of this craft and its propulsion system must have something to do with the information given you. We can build it. Then they should come.
orbman · May 15 '11 · Tags: abduction, ufo


'Soy, once touted as a medical miracle, has been outed. Ninety-one percent of the soy we consume is tainted by the filth of the GMO machine, literally the most quietly kept epidemic of our lifetime. Soy makes up a large portion of the diet for the chickens, pigs, and cows some of us eat.

Even the vegetarian/vegan community is exposed as a number of meat substitutes list soy as a main ingredient. Soy and soybean oil have wiggled their way into a wide array of processed foods including salad dressings, peanut butter, tamari, mayonnaise, crackers, baby formula, baked good mixes, textured vegetable protein, and the list goes on. So unless you are eating an organic version of any of the above, there is a good chance you are exposing yourself to GMO soy.'

Read more: GM Soy Destroying Children
orbman · May 14 '11 · Tags: gm soy, children
In the wake of the subprime implosion, the Obama Administration has stepped up its scrutiny of disadvantaged neighborhoods' credit access

By Clea Benson

Community activists in St. Louis became concerned a couple of years ago that local banks weren't offering credit to the city's poor and African American residents. So they formed a group called the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance and began writing complaint letters to federal regulators.

Apparently, someone in Washington took notice. The Federal Reserve has cited one of the group's targets, Midwest BankCentre, a small bank that has been operating in St. Louis's predominantly white, middle-class suburbs for over a century, for failing to issue home mortgages or open branches in disadvantaged areas. Although executives at the bank say they don't discriminate, Midwest BankCentre's latest annual report says it is in the process of negotiating a settlement with the U.S. Justice Dept. over its lending practices.

Lawyers and bank consultants say regulators and the Obama Administration are scrutinizing financial institutions for a practice that last drew attention before the rise of subprime lending: redlining. The term dates from the 1930s, when the Federal Housing Administration drew up maps using red ink to delineate inner-city neighborhoods considered too risky for lending. Congress later passed laws banning lending discrimination on the basis of race and other characteristics. "The agencies have refocused on redlining because, in the wake of the subprime explosion and sudden implosion, they are looking at these disadvantaged neighborhoods and not seeing any credit access," says Jo Ann Barefoot, co-chair at Treliant Risk Advisors in Washington, D.C., which consults with banks on regulatory issues.

The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires banks to make loans in all the areas they serve, not just the wealthy ones. A Bloomberg analysis found the percentage of banks earning negative ratings from regulators on CRA exams has risen from 1.45 percent in 2007 to more than 6 percent in the first quarter of this year.

At the Justice Dept., a new 20-person unit dedicated to fair lending issues received a record number of discrimination referrals from regulators in 2010 and has dozens of open cases, according to a recent agency report. Potential penalties can reach into the millions of dollars. "We are using every tool in our arsenal to combat lending discrimination," Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Div., told a conference of community development advocates in Washington in April.

To some banks the crackdown has come as a surprise, say consultants and lawyers representing financial institutions in discussions with regulators. Like Midwest BankCentre, some lenders are being cited for failing to operate in minority and low-income census tracts near their branches, even when they have never done business there before. "If you put your branches only in upper-income areas, the regulators are not accepting that anymore," says Warren W. Traiger, a lawyer at BuckleySandler in New York, which advises banks on fair lending issues.

Mortgage refinancing activity doubled in white neighborhoods but dropped sharply in minority neighborhoods in a sample of major U.S. cities in 2008 and 2009, according to Paying More for the American Dream, an April study by a group of seven community development nonprofits. "The pendulum has swung back too far the other way," says Kevin Stein, associate director of the California Reinvestment Coalition in San Francisco, one of the report's authors.

Bank lobbyists say the stepped-up government scrutiny could backfire if financial institutions decide to shrink their operations rather than yield to pressure to do business in areas that don't make sense for them. "It would do a disservice to communities for a bank to suddenly pull back," says Robert Rowe, vice-president and senior counsel at the American Bankers Assn.

Meanwhile, in Missouri, things are starting to change. Midwest BankCentre Chairman Ronald T. Barnes recently announced the bank would open a branch in Pagedale, a town near St. Louis that is predominantly African American.

The bottom line: Lenders have been caught off guard by stepped-up enforcement of laws to prevent discrimination against minorities and the poor.

Benson is a reporter for Bloomberg News.

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Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.

You can access the original research for this cancer here.

This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.

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orbman · May 14 '11 · Tags: cancer
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