Despite Health Risks, Lawmakers Not Curbing Cell Phone Usage (2011 Article)

Several members of Congress in May spoke out when the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) labeled the radiofrequency fields generated by mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans... 

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is focused on other issues, said, "I'm concerned about a lot of things but not about that.”

Despite health risks, lawmakers not curbing cell phone usage
by Gautham Nagesh, The Hill, 9 July 2011

Lawmakers who have raised concern about a possible link between cell phones and cancer have not stopped using their held-held devices.

5G Wireless Radiation Dangers - Presentation by Kevin Mottus

5G Wireless Radiation Dangers (8 May 2017 - 62  mn.)

Excellent presentation by Kevin Mottus

5G millimeter wave radiation dangers described by expert. These small cel transmitters will be located near every 2 to 10 homes, exposing your family to harmful, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and genotoxic wireless radiation. See www.Bioiniative.org for more info.

Phonegate*: Inexcusable One-Year Delay in Release of French Government Phone Test Data

Phonegate*: Inexcusable one-year delay in release of French government phone test data
Environmental Health Trust, 17 July 2017

Citizens demand details of phone tests for children and adults

Press release by Dr. Marc Arazi, Monday 17 July 2017
Online link

After 2017 released data of the French government showed excessive levels of microwave radiation from mobile phones, Gilles Brégant, Director-General of the French National Frequencies Agency (ANFR) promised to release additional test details.


Last year, the French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) published a report entitled, “Exposure to Radiofrequencies and Child Health,” showing the most phones failed to meet current standards for radiation and pledging to release test methods and results. By not keeping its commitment and releasing these details a year later, ANFR is abrogating its duty to public health and the environment. While secondary insurers do not cover phone manufacturers for health damages, a new European Directive (Dir 2014/53/UE) protects the uninsurable industry from possible legal actions (article 42).

Because of this agency inaction, French physician Marc Arazi is appealing directly to the Director-General of ANFR as well as to Nicolas Hulot, Minister for the Ecological Transition, and Agnès Buzyn, Minister for Health.

Celebrities, Cell Phones, and Brain Tumors

Sheryl Crow

Read what Australian neurosurgeon Gautam (Vini) Khurana says about brain tumor incidence and then the article which follows about a 17-year-old girl who spent hours talking on her mobile phone each day and died from a malignant brain tumor.  Each and every one of us has a responsibility to warn about potential risks of heavy cell phone use, especially parents, in order to protect their young children. 

Statement from Australian neurosurgeon Gautam (Vini) Khurana:

WEEP News, 28 May 2013

“I believe that in the present decade, a significant increase in primary brain tumor incidence will be detected internationally. The first indication of this phenomenon may be the plethora of high-profile individuals diagnosed with primary brain tumors in the last few to several years: Senator Ted Kennedy, professional golfer Seve Ballesteros, Cable television host Eleanor Mondale, director and producer Dan Curtis, broadcaster Stan Zemanek, high profile attorney Johnnie Cochran, celebrated pilot Dennis E. Fitch, inventor Robert Moog, political pundit Robert Novak, US Senator Arlen Specter, renowned cancer surgeon Professor Chris O’Brien, baseball pro Gary Carter, journalist David Shaw, Stock broker Rene Rivkin, actress Elizabeth Taylor, actor Mark Ruffalo, actor and musician Martin Kemp, singer Sheryl Crow, rock star Doc Neeson, corporate leader Holly Ann Norwick (partner of Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in film The Pursuit of Happyness), actor / model Rona Newton-John (sister of singer and Grease star Olivia Newton-John), actress Valerie Harper (star of the Mary Tyler Moore Show) . . . 

Cell Phone Radiation Brain Cancer Cover Up Exposed (2013 Investigative Report)

Think of our children.  Cell phone users have a 290%
increased risk of brain tumors.  The younger children
begin using a cell phone, the higher the risk.  In the West,
brain tumors have overtaken leukemia as the number one
child killer illness.

Cell Phone Radiation Brain Cancer Cover up Exposed

UPDATED 19 May 2014 in view of the latest study showing that using a cell phone 30 minutes a day over a minimum of 5 years doubles, even triples the risk for brain tumors.

This is an outstanding investigative report on the health risks of cell phones (video - 10 min.). 

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'Unequivocal' cell phones cause cancer (E32)
rt.com, 12 January 2014

Mobiles 'cooking the brain'; brain tumors become children’s number one killer illness; and leaked industry memo admits 'wargaming' the science.

Seek truth from facts with former senior White House adviser Devra Davis, Storyleak editor Anthony Gucciardi, 'cell phone survivor' Bret Bocook, Microwave News editor Louis Slesin, top radiation biologist Dariusz Leszczynski, and Ellie Marks, whose husband Alan is suing the industry for his brain tumor.

Professor Lennart Hardell Discusses the Risks of Brain Tumours in Relation to Wireless and Mobile Phones at Royal Society of Medicine

Excellent presentation which includes slides.

Using the Bradford Hill viewpoints to evaluate the evidence on RF radiations from mobile phones to head tumours
Royal Society of Medicine, 13 October 2016

Professor Lennart Hardell discusses the risks of brain tumours in relation to wireless and mobile phones. Professor Hardell also describes how Bradford Hill's 1965 presidential address on association or causation provided a helpful framework for the evaluation of the brain tumour risk from electromagnetic fields.

World Health Organization, Radiofrequency Radiation and Health - A Hard Nut to Crack (Review) - Full Text

World Health Organization, radiofrequency radiation and health - a hard nut to crack (Review) 

Lennart Hardell Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden

Received April 1, 2017; Accepted June 6, 2017 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2017.4046

Abstract

In May 2011 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) evaluated cancer risks from radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Human epidemiological studies gave evidence of increased risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma. RF radiation was classified as Group 2B, a possible human carcinogen. Further epidemiological, animal and mechanistic studies have strengthened the association. In spite of this, in most countries little or nothing has been done to reduce exposure and educate people on health hazards from RF radiation. On the contrary ambient levels have increased. In 2014 the WHO launched a draft of a Monograph on RF fields and health for public comments. It turned out that five of the six members of the Core Group in charge of the draft are affiliated with International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), an industry loyal NGO, and thus have a serious conflict of interest. Just as by ICNIRP, evaluation of non-thermal biological effects from RF radiation are dismissed as scientific evidence of adverse health effects in the Monograph. This has provoked many comments sent to the WHO. However, at a meeting on March 3, 2017 at the WHO Geneva office it was stated that the WHO has no intention to change the Core Group.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The WHO fact sheet
3. The WHO EMF project
4. WHO radio frequency fields: Environmental health criteria monograph
5. Human Health Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation - Informal meeting at WHO March 3, 2017

United States: Senator John McCain Diagnosed with Aggressive Type of Brain Cancer

Sen. John McCain diagnosed with aggressive type of brain cancer
by Donna Cassata, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2017


(Photo:) Sen. John McCain speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 9, 2016, in Washington, D.C. It was announced Wednesday that the Arizona Republican has been diagnosed with brain cancer. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)


Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexes his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, his office said in a statement Wednesday.

The 80-year-old lawmaker has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, where McCain had a blood clot removed from above his left eye last Friday.

"Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot," his office said in a statement.

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, more than 12,000 people a year are diagnosed with glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of tumor. The American Cancer Society puts the five-year survival rate for patients over 55 at about 4 percent.

It's the same type of tumor that struck McCain's close Democratic colleague in legislative battles, the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.

The tumor digs tentacle-like roots into normal brain tissue. Patients fare best when surgeons can cut out all the visible tumor, which happened with McCain's tumor, according to his office. That isn't a cure; cancerous cells that aren't visible still tend to lurk, the reason McCain's doctors are considering further treatment, including chemotherapy and radiation.

Wi-Fi Refugees: Electrosensitive People Try to Escape Wireless Technology: Premiere 19 July 2017

This 52-minute Russian documentary is now available on-line.  Click here.

Wi-Fi Refugees. Electrosensitive people try to escape wireless technology (Trailer) Premiere 19/7
rtd.rt.com, 19 July 2017

Although these people are sick, their illness is difficult to diagnose, and it’s even harder to convince others that it actually exists. Their symptoms include cluster headaches, nausea, chronic fatigue, a burning sensation on the skin, and a metallic taste in the mouth. Sufferers claim the cause is wireless technology. There’s no known cure, and the only way to alleviate the symptoms seems to be to distance themselves from electronic devices and the influence of omnipresent wireless networks.

Inside Philip Morris' Campaign to Subvert the Global Anti-Smoking Treaty

PART 1
Inside Philip Morris’ campaign to subvert the global anti-smoking treaty

by ADITYA KALRA, PARITOSH BANSAL, DUFF WILSON and TOM LASSETER
reuters.com, 13 July 2017

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(Image:) TOBACCO TITAN: A cigarette vending machine near the offices of Philip Morris International in Lausanne, Switzerland. The company, which sells Marlboro, is targeting the FCTC anti-smoking treaty on multiple levels. REUTERS/Paritosh Bansal

The world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company is deploying its vast resources against international efforts to reduce smoking. Internal documents uncovered by Reuters reveal details of the secret operation.