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Mobile phone masts 'hidden from public'

MOBILE phone companies were accused yesterday of seeking to “hide” the sites of new masts.

MOBILE PHONE MASTS HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC

30.05.07, 8:08am

Last weeks Panorama TV programme finally exposed the myth of the aleged safety of this technology. It also exposed the government's appalling attitude to public health. The Panorama interviewer went to great pains to express incredulity that HM Government was ignoring its own principle scientific adviser and Chairman of the Health Protection Agency, Sir William Stewart. It is the part played by Sir William that is the centre point of the debate. It is what the Chairman of the HPA has to say, and the decision by HM Government to ignore him, that matters - and this is what is an absolute disgrace when our health is being deliberately compromised.

Over 1000 independent studies, linking phone mast electro magnetic radiation with serious ill health including cancer, confirm that masts should not be sited within 350 metres of schools or housing. Phone operators dismiss such research, alleging that their own studies suggests no health risk. However last month the national press revealed that T-Mobile covered up the damaging results of their own research. The Ecolog Institute, a research organisation which examins the health effects of mobile phones, was commissioned by T-Mobile to investigate the possible health risks of mobile phone masts. The 2003 Ecolog report confirmed:

'Given the results of the present epidemiological studies, it can be concluded that electromagnetic fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range do play a role in the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the central nervous system.'

T-Mobile’s controversial cover up has been blasted by activists and MPs. They said the company’s handling of the report was typical as the under-fire industry strived to keep discussion of the health threat off the agenda.

The idea that unelected bodies (the mobile phone companies) have a right to expose people to these risks, amounts to enrolling the population in a giant biological experiment without their consent. Considering that children, the most vulnerable of all, are included in this experiment, it is shameful that their interests are disregarded so cynically in the pursuit of profit. (Please see MastSanity website for further details).

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LETS PAINT THEM ALL BRIGHT ORANGE!

28.05.07, 3:02pm

"Your damned if you do you are damned if you don't"

Paint them all flourescent orange and put up massive billboards to direct peoples attention in case they are colour blind and miss them!

Over fifty percent of the population use mobiles without a doubt they have saved many lives by summoning help more rapidly than was ever possible before.

However try and make the masts unobtrusive and you are hiding them, make them obvious and they will be an eyesore.

Maybe we can strap them onto traffic wardens helmets and use the second lowest form of life after the Labour party in the UK to test their safety!

• Posted by: The_Way_I_See_It • Report Comment

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