Post by Watchman on Mar 30, 2008 4:09:35 GMT -5
Are Microwaves Killing The Insects, Frogs, And Birds?
And Are We Next?
By Paul Raymond Doyon
A severe crime is being committed by a cell-phone-toting humanity against all life on this planet. The only true solution is for us to give up our electromagnetic toys and demand that the towers-of-death be removed, dismantled, and demolished.
MARCH 3, 2008. I live in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, The People's Republic of China. Yunnan Province is one of the cleanest and most pristine areas of China and Kunming City is also called the City of Eternal Spring since the weather here is quite pleasant throughout the year. However, it might as well be called "The City of The Silent Spring."
It is eerily odd but this city is strangely devoid of bugs. I see virtually no insects in this city _ except for the occasional mosquito or the occasional cockroach. No ants, no spiders, no butterflies, no bees, no flies, no caterpillars, and so on down the line. I also see virtually no birds. I look up in the sky and there are no birds traversing it. When I go to bed at night I do not hear the sounds of crickets; and when I wake up in the morning I do not hear the chirping sound of birds.
And from what I can tell by reading media reports on the Internet, this phenomena of the sudden disappearance of life forms (insects, amphibians, fish, bats, birds, etc.) is happening all over the world. Just last year, the fact that there is (and has been) a worldwide die-off of bees was finally taken up by the media. The frogs have been dying for years (although originally they were "mysteriously" showing up with deformities.) Now, just at the beginning of January 2008 a Swedish journalist sent me a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) about the disappearance of tens of millions of birds across North America _ "http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=372"
What the heck is going on? And when are we going to do something about this? This is pretty serious stuff. If all the insects, amphibians, and birds are disappearing, how much longer will it be until we mammals start disappearing? (After all, many of us are already getting sick. There are about 80 immune system disorders we didn't have 20 years ago.) Albert Einstein made some kind of prediction that once the bees are gone, mankind would only have four or so more years left.
While the CBC report mentioned things like pesticides, urban sprawl, factory farming, deforestation, and so on, as possible causes, they conveniently failed to mention one other highly likely reason-Microwave Radiation from Cell Phone Antennas (which the CBC also conveniently installs on its own towers a visible sign of CBC's cushy relationship with the cell phone industry and perhaps the reason they failed to mention the latter possible if not probable reason for the Avian Decline).
While the media is failing to direct our attention at the possible real cause of this extremely ominous situation-possibly because of its lucrative and cushy relationships with the mobile phone industry-one agency of the United States government is taking a more sober interest into this grave problem. Under the auspices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) and under the direction of Albert M. Manville II, Ph.D., Senior Wildlife Biologist, Division of Migratory Bird Management, the following report was issued on May 10th, 2007:
"U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Concerns Over Potential Radiation Impacts of Cellular Communication Towers on Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife Research Opportunities."
Now, you might be asking yourself, "Why would a government agency be interested in saving wildlife? Don't they also have cushy relationships with industry and aren't they more concerned with protecting corporate profits?" Well, this is the US Fish and Wildlife Service not the DoD, FCC, FDA, FBI, or CIA. (We'll just have to cross our fingers that someone in one of those other agencies doesn't go and assassinate Dr. Manville.) Dr. Manville does really seem to be concerned about saving wildlife. And moreover, as is stated in the report:
The USFWS [is] entrusted by Congress and required by statutes and regulations, to manage and protect migratory birds (and other fauna [ESA]) under authority of
_ [the] Migratory Bird Treaty Act
_ [the] Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, and
_ [the] Endangered Species Act.
This report informs us of the overall declining bird population (up to 50 million a year), increasingly threatened bird species, and how this is related to the massive expansion in cellular communication and the exponential increase in the number of cell-phone towers blanketing our landscape. One study of particular interest in the report is the survey of two berry farms in similar habitats in western Massachusetts. At one farm, where there are no cell phone towers, there are abundant signs of wildlife: e.g. migrating and resident birds, bats, small and large mammals, and insects including bees. However, at the other farm with a cell-phone tower located adjacent to the berry patch, there are virtually no signs of wildlife: tracks, scat, feathers, etc. Here the berries on bush go uneaten by birds and insects while the ripened berries that have fallen to the ground are going uneaten by animals: turkey, fox, and other wildlife, according to a report published on May 29th, 2007, entitled "Phones & Vanishing Birds."
The sparrows have disappeared completely from the cities at least four years ago in Britain, as mobile phones grew in popularity. Third generation (3G) mobile phones were introduced in 2003, and there were over 65 million users in the UK by the end of 2005, more phones than people. (ISIS 2007)
There is ample evidence to suggest that it is indeed long-term exposure to microwave radiation-especially from 3G GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) digital-phone technology-that is killing the birds. Scientists at the Research Institute for Nature and Forests in Brussels, Belgium, have produced the first evidence that mobile phone base stations are affecting the reproductive behaviour of wild sparrows. This finding comes as mobile phones are held suspect in the massive collapse of bee colonies all over the United States and Europe.
Fewer house sparrow males were seen at locations within relatively high electric field strengths of GSM base stations. (ISIS 2007)
Further evidence comes from researcher Alfonso Balmori in Spain:
Alfonso Balmori, a conservation biologist in Valladolid, Spain, reported a significantly lower number of white stork (Ciconia ciconia) fledglings in nests close to mobile phone transmitters compared to nests further away. (ISIS 2007)
Could the above also be related to the decrease in fertility found in humans living in advanced countries? (There are now numerous research studies supporting this hypothesis.)
Balmori also found difference in how the birds behaved close to the phone antennae. Young birds died from unknown causes, and bird couples frequently fought while constructing their nests. Sticks fell to the ground, and the couple failed to make any headway. Some nests were never completed and the storks remained passively in front of the antennae. (ISIS 2007)
One is here also reminded of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and teenagers with ADD
(Attention Deficit Disorder) not to mention increases in violence.
The observations in urban sparrows and the white stork population suggest that microwave radiation interferes with reproductive behaviour and breeding success, which would have decimated the wild populations. But that's not the whole story.
Several million birds of 230 species die each year from collisions with telecommunications masts in the United States during migration. Accidents happen mainly in the night, in fog, or bad weather, when birds might be using the earth's magnetic field for navigation, and could be seriously disoriented by the microwave radiation from telecommunication masts. (ISIS 2007)
While the above studies have looked at the decline of urban house sparrows and white storks, it is more than likely that this microwave radiation is affecting other if not all bird species.
In the UK, where the allowed radiation level is 20 times higher than in Spain, a decline of several species of urban birds has occurred, coinciding with the increasing installation of mobile phone masts. (ISIS 2007)
Birds (and insects and other small animals) would naturally be the first to obviously be affected by this increase in ambient radiation since naturally they have smaller bodies and hence less flesh to be penetrated by exposure to microwaves.
Birds are good candidates as biological indicators for low-intensity electromagnetic radiation (EMR); they have thin skulls, their feathers can act as dielectric receptors of microwave radiation, many species use magnetic navigation, they are very mobile and possible psychosomatic effects are absent, as Everaert and Bauwens point out. (ISIS 2007)
Finally, chicken embryos exposed to microwave radiation from cell phones have shown both deformity and mortality.
Another important factor is that chicken embryos subjected to the radiation from a cell phone in the laboratory suffered much higher mortalities than non-exposed controls. Some years ago researchers in Russia showed that continuous exposure of the chick embryos during the 21 days of embryonic development resulted in 75 percent of the embryos dying, compared with 16 percent in the controls. (ISIS 2007)
The evidence keeps piling up as more and more studies appear that show that this microwave radiation is indeed insidiously killing (not only ourselves but also) our precious birds, amphibians, and insects. Many peer-reviewed studies relating to the destruction of birds, animals, and plants by microwave radiation can be found listed on the Website of Joris Everaert (biologist, ecologist, and photographer):
An email from Dr. George Carlo regarding the birds on January 1st, 2008 put it as follows:
Dear Paul:
"Canaries in the Coal Mine" is the operating concept to be sure. But it is a bit more complicated than the historical example, and therein lies the risk of missing the truth.
What we have found in our work with Autistic children, electrohypersensitives, and other patients with membrane-hypersensitivity-related conditions is that the ability of the person or species to counter environmental insults becomes severely impaired. EMR [electromagnetic radiation] is most likely a synergen in these cases, including the case with the disappearing birds. The exposures such as pesticides, chemtrails, harvesting of forests, and urban sprawl are not causes competing with EMR, they are additive and synergistic causes. They are insults to the system that require strong biological compensation to overcome. EMR depletes that ability to compensate, and thus the person or species succumbs to the effects of the environmental insult more severely and more rapidly.
To me, it is a matter of perspective. There are some naysayers who would have us look only one-dimensionally at causes of disease and other catastrophes. This is to be sure the tactic now being supported by the mobile phone and electric utilities industries sort of like a 'bait and switch' tactic used by magicians. The truth is there, but they focus your attention on something else so that the truth is covered and not seeable. The problem is 'the bait' and the other causes are 'the switch'.
Epidemiologically, when one looks only at one etiologic factor at a time, the additive and synergistic aspects are lost in the mix. We now know that for almost every disease that befalls mankind, there is a combination of factors that lead to demise or healthy compensation. Those factors are a mix of genetics, epigenetics, environmental timing and plain, old-fashioned luck good and bad. When the ability of the organism or ecosystem to compensate is surpassed by the impact of damage itself, there is disease, disruption and sometimes extinction. This is simply the way it works.
There is no doubt that the science supports the hypothesis that the explosion of EMR exposures in these ecosystems is having an impact on the disappearing birds. Based on the mechanisms of harm we know to be operating, the impact likely includes ability to navigate and flock because of EMR disruption of magnetite and magnetic grid-related physiology, immune compromise, neurophysiologic disruption with resultant adaptive deficits, as well as indirect impacts on species food supplies and other survival necessities.
George
______________
Dr. George Carlo
Safe Wireless Initiative
Washington, D.C.
Finally, with this knowledge that EMR is weakening the birds' immune systems, it isn't hard to fathom that phenomena of bird flu may very well indeed be the effect of a weakened immune system and hence the viral infection a secondary cause.
Thus, it is clear that this radiation is indeed having a seriously negative impact on life on this planet and that there is indeed a concerted effort to keep this knowledge from the public.
For the past year or so, the media has been covering the worldwide disappearance of bees, which has come to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Originally, the possibility that it might be the microwaves created quite a stir in the media; however, it seems that the media has somewhere along the line suddenly stopped running this story.
On January 20, 2006, the British Daily Telegraph ran an article titled "Honeybees might be wiped out in 10 years." In the article they state that "Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned." In the article, there is no mention whatsoever of the microwaves from cell phone towers and there is no consideration to the fact that microwaves may indeed be weakening the bees' immune systems (and it is a proven fact that microwaves do weaken immune systems), which would in fact make the "virulent diseases and parasites" just "Opportunistic Infections" and the Microwaves the "Underlying Cause." Bees and other insects, birds, and amphibians have survived and evolved complex immune systems on this planet over a span of millions of years. Now, why would they suddenly die out now due to "virulent diseases and parasites" unless, of course, there was another factor being introduced to their
environments a man-made factor disrupting their immune systems, a factor about which for economic reasons the public is not being informed.
Dear Dr. Carlo:
I have read recently in "http://Salon.com"Salon.com that the theory that bees are disappearing because of exposure to EMR is not supported by any science. You were on Good Morning America supporting that theory. Who is correct?
Carol H
Amherst, Massachusetts
Dear Carol:
Unfortunately, the situation with the bees is a page out of the playbook that we deal with all the time with the mobile-phone industry. When the bee story first broke, it was based on a German study that showed information-carrying radio waves disrupted the ability of bees to make it back to their hives. That work was made public about two months ago. There were other data to support it as well. You can see some of that on our SWI website note especially an exceptionally insightful article by Milt Bowling posted there.
The news media ran with the story, bolstered a great deal by a quote attributed to Albert Einstein something along these lines: "Watch the bees! When they disappear, man will disappear within four years." The mobile-phone industry was caught off-guard by the widespread-media attention the story garnered.
After the first news cycle, the mobile-phone industry 'hit squad' went into action. First, they planted stories that cast doubt on the Einstein quote. Never before have I seen such a desperate attempt to distance a quote from a figure as revered as Albert Einstein. In the process, his name was besmirched Very sad. Next, they conscripted scientists from a number of universities to begin going public with other explanations... viruses, bacteria, pesticides etc., etc., etc. These alternatives have been making the rounds over the past month. The mobile-phone industry is putting quite a bit of money into the pockets of these scientists by supporting their work regarding viruses and alternative explanations. The industry is dealing with it as a politics and public relations problem thus, manipulation of the public perception is the appropriate remedy for them. Sadly, this is business-as-usual for the mobile phone industry.
Most people in the public don't know the back-story, so they do not see the manipulation coming or have the necessary bases for skepticism to see through it. But here is the bottom line:
l The colony collapse disorder has occurred concurrently on four continents within a very short time frame. If the reason was biological or chemical, there would be a pattern of epidemic spread we would be able to trace the spread of bee disappearance or Colony Collapse Disorder from a source similar to the spread of SARS a few years ago. That is not the case. The condition has hit each continent at roughly the same time. That would mean the cause has to have hit the continents at the same time as well. Mobile phones meet that criterion.
l None of the biological or chemical hypotheses actually have a mechanistic explanation that is plausible. The science for the biological and chemical alternatives is far thinner than the science supporting the EMR connection. A case of the pot calling the kettle black.
l The disruption of intercellular communication hypothesis that we now know effects cell membranes in most species is biologically plausible and no other theory has that support.
l The basis for a biological mechanism, coupled with the saturation in information carrying radio waves we have globally in the past 14 months, provides the underpinning. In 2004, we had the first billion cell-phone users globally, the accumulation over 20 years; by mid 2006, we had the second billion; today we have surpassed three billion. That suggests we are near a saturation point of these waves in the ambient environment. The bees are likely the harbinger or the proverbial "canaries in the coal mine."
l Taken together, EMR is the only explanation that makes sense regarding the disappearing bees: the timing is correct the problem has occurred primarily within the past two years when we have nearly tripled the background level of information carrying radio waves. The pattern is global so that suggests a cause that is globally present there is at least one peer-reviewed study that supports it, and there is a mechanism documented that lends biological plausibility.
continued...
And Are We Next?
By Paul Raymond Doyon
A severe crime is being committed by a cell-phone-toting humanity against all life on this planet. The only true solution is for us to give up our electromagnetic toys and demand that the towers-of-death be removed, dismantled, and demolished.
MARCH 3, 2008. I live in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, The People's Republic of China. Yunnan Province is one of the cleanest and most pristine areas of China and Kunming City is also called the City of Eternal Spring since the weather here is quite pleasant throughout the year. However, it might as well be called "The City of The Silent Spring."
It is eerily odd but this city is strangely devoid of bugs. I see virtually no insects in this city _ except for the occasional mosquito or the occasional cockroach. No ants, no spiders, no butterflies, no bees, no flies, no caterpillars, and so on down the line. I also see virtually no birds. I look up in the sky and there are no birds traversing it. When I go to bed at night I do not hear the sounds of crickets; and when I wake up in the morning I do not hear the chirping sound of birds.
And from what I can tell by reading media reports on the Internet, this phenomena of the sudden disappearance of life forms (insects, amphibians, fish, bats, birds, etc.) is happening all over the world. Just last year, the fact that there is (and has been) a worldwide die-off of bees was finally taken up by the media. The frogs have been dying for years (although originally they were "mysteriously" showing up with deformities.) Now, just at the beginning of January 2008 a Swedish journalist sent me a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) about the disappearance of tens of millions of birds across North America _ "http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=372"
What the heck is going on? And when are we going to do something about this? This is pretty serious stuff. If all the insects, amphibians, and birds are disappearing, how much longer will it be until we mammals start disappearing? (After all, many of us are already getting sick. There are about 80 immune system disorders we didn't have 20 years ago.) Albert Einstein made some kind of prediction that once the bees are gone, mankind would only have four or so more years left.
While the CBC report mentioned things like pesticides, urban sprawl, factory farming, deforestation, and so on, as possible causes, they conveniently failed to mention one other highly likely reason-Microwave Radiation from Cell Phone Antennas (which the CBC also conveniently installs on its own towers a visible sign of CBC's cushy relationship with the cell phone industry and perhaps the reason they failed to mention the latter possible if not probable reason for the Avian Decline).
While the media is failing to direct our attention at the possible real cause of this extremely ominous situation-possibly because of its lucrative and cushy relationships with the mobile phone industry-one agency of the United States government is taking a more sober interest into this grave problem. Under the auspices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) and under the direction of Albert M. Manville II, Ph.D., Senior Wildlife Biologist, Division of Migratory Bird Management, the following report was issued on May 10th, 2007:
"U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Concerns Over Potential Radiation Impacts of Cellular Communication Towers on Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife Research Opportunities."
Now, you might be asking yourself, "Why would a government agency be interested in saving wildlife? Don't they also have cushy relationships with industry and aren't they more concerned with protecting corporate profits?" Well, this is the US Fish and Wildlife Service not the DoD, FCC, FDA, FBI, or CIA. (We'll just have to cross our fingers that someone in one of those other agencies doesn't go and assassinate Dr. Manville.) Dr. Manville does really seem to be concerned about saving wildlife. And moreover, as is stated in the report:
The USFWS [is] entrusted by Congress and required by statutes and regulations, to manage and protect migratory birds (and other fauna [ESA]) under authority of
_ [the] Migratory Bird Treaty Act
_ [the] Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, and
_ [the] Endangered Species Act.
This report informs us of the overall declining bird population (up to 50 million a year), increasingly threatened bird species, and how this is related to the massive expansion in cellular communication and the exponential increase in the number of cell-phone towers blanketing our landscape. One study of particular interest in the report is the survey of two berry farms in similar habitats in western Massachusetts. At one farm, where there are no cell phone towers, there are abundant signs of wildlife: e.g. migrating and resident birds, bats, small and large mammals, and insects including bees. However, at the other farm with a cell-phone tower located adjacent to the berry patch, there are virtually no signs of wildlife: tracks, scat, feathers, etc. Here the berries on bush go uneaten by birds and insects while the ripened berries that have fallen to the ground are going uneaten by animals: turkey, fox, and other wildlife, according to a report published on May 29th, 2007, entitled "Phones & Vanishing Birds."
The sparrows have disappeared completely from the cities at least four years ago in Britain, as mobile phones grew in popularity. Third generation (3G) mobile phones were introduced in 2003, and there were over 65 million users in the UK by the end of 2005, more phones than people. (ISIS 2007)
There is ample evidence to suggest that it is indeed long-term exposure to microwave radiation-especially from 3G GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) digital-phone technology-that is killing the birds. Scientists at the Research Institute for Nature and Forests in Brussels, Belgium, have produced the first evidence that mobile phone base stations are affecting the reproductive behaviour of wild sparrows. This finding comes as mobile phones are held suspect in the massive collapse of bee colonies all over the United States and Europe.
Fewer house sparrow males were seen at locations within relatively high electric field strengths of GSM base stations. (ISIS 2007)
Further evidence comes from researcher Alfonso Balmori in Spain:
Alfonso Balmori, a conservation biologist in Valladolid, Spain, reported a significantly lower number of white stork (Ciconia ciconia) fledglings in nests close to mobile phone transmitters compared to nests further away. (ISIS 2007)
Could the above also be related to the decrease in fertility found in humans living in advanced countries? (There are now numerous research studies supporting this hypothesis.)
Balmori also found difference in how the birds behaved close to the phone antennae. Young birds died from unknown causes, and bird couples frequently fought while constructing their nests. Sticks fell to the ground, and the couple failed to make any headway. Some nests were never completed and the storks remained passively in front of the antennae. (ISIS 2007)
One is here also reminded of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and teenagers with ADD
(Attention Deficit Disorder) not to mention increases in violence.
The observations in urban sparrows and the white stork population suggest that microwave radiation interferes with reproductive behaviour and breeding success, which would have decimated the wild populations. But that's not the whole story.
Several million birds of 230 species die each year from collisions with telecommunications masts in the United States during migration. Accidents happen mainly in the night, in fog, or bad weather, when birds might be using the earth's magnetic field for navigation, and could be seriously disoriented by the microwave radiation from telecommunication masts. (ISIS 2007)
While the above studies have looked at the decline of urban house sparrows and white storks, it is more than likely that this microwave radiation is affecting other if not all bird species.
In the UK, where the allowed radiation level is 20 times higher than in Spain, a decline of several species of urban birds has occurred, coinciding with the increasing installation of mobile phone masts. (ISIS 2007)
Birds (and insects and other small animals) would naturally be the first to obviously be affected by this increase in ambient radiation since naturally they have smaller bodies and hence less flesh to be penetrated by exposure to microwaves.
Birds are good candidates as biological indicators for low-intensity electromagnetic radiation (EMR); they have thin skulls, their feathers can act as dielectric receptors of microwave radiation, many species use magnetic navigation, they are very mobile and possible psychosomatic effects are absent, as Everaert and Bauwens point out. (ISIS 2007)
Finally, chicken embryos exposed to microwave radiation from cell phones have shown both deformity and mortality.
Another important factor is that chicken embryos subjected to the radiation from a cell phone in the laboratory suffered much higher mortalities than non-exposed controls. Some years ago researchers in Russia showed that continuous exposure of the chick embryos during the 21 days of embryonic development resulted in 75 percent of the embryos dying, compared with 16 percent in the controls. (ISIS 2007)
The evidence keeps piling up as more and more studies appear that show that this microwave radiation is indeed insidiously killing (not only ourselves but also) our precious birds, amphibians, and insects. Many peer-reviewed studies relating to the destruction of birds, animals, and plants by microwave radiation can be found listed on the Website of Joris Everaert (biologist, ecologist, and photographer):
An email from Dr. George Carlo regarding the birds on January 1st, 2008 put it as follows:
Dear Paul:
"Canaries in the Coal Mine" is the operating concept to be sure. But it is a bit more complicated than the historical example, and therein lies the risk of missing the truth.
What we have found in our work with Autistic children, electrohypersensitives, and other patients with membrane-hypersensitivity-related conditions is that the ability of the person or species to counter environmental insults becomes severely impaired. EMR [electromagnetic radiation] is most likely a synergen in these cases, including the case with the disappearing birds. The exposures such as pesticides, chemtrails, harvesting of forests, and urban sprawl are not causes competing with EMR, they are additive and synergistic causes. They are insults to the system that require strong biological compensation to overcome. EMR depletes that ability to compensate, and thus the person or species succumbs to the effects of the environmental insult more severely and more rapidly.
To me, it is a matter of perspective. There are some naysayers who would have us look only one-dimensionally at causes of disease and other catastrophes. This is to be sure the tactic now being supported by the mobile phone and electric utilities industries sort of like a 'bait and switch' tactic used by magicians. The truth is there, but they focus your attention on something else so that the truth is covered and not seeable. The problem is 'the bait' and the other causes are 'the switch'.
Epidemiologically, when one looks only at one etiologic factor at a time, the additive and synergistic aspects are lost in the mix. We now know that for almost every disease that befalls mankind, there is a combination of factors that lead to demise or healthy compensation. Those factors are a mix of genetics, epigenetics, environmental timing and plain, old-fashioned luck good and bad. When the ability of the organism or ecosystem to compensate is surpassed by the impact of damage itself, there is disease, disruption and sometimes extinction. This is simply the way it works.
There is no doubt that the science supports the hypothesis that the explosion of EMR exposures in these ecosystems is having an impact on the disappearing birds. Based on the mechanisms of harm we know to be operating, the impact likely includes ability to navigate and flock because of EMR disruption of magnetite and magnetic grid-related physiology, immune compromise, neurophysiologic disruption with resultant adaptive deficits, as well as indirect impacts on species food supplies and other survival necessities.
George
______________
Dr. George Carlo
Safe Wireless Initiative
Washington, D.C.
Finally, with this knowledge that EMR is weakening the birds' immune systems, it isn't hard to fathom that phenomena of bird flu may very well indeed be the effect of a weakened immune system and hence the viral infection a secondary cause.
Thus, it is clear that this radiation is indeed having a seriously negative impact on life on this planet and that there is indeed a concerted effort to keep this knowledge from the public.
For the past year or so, the media has been covering the worldwide disappearance of bees, which has come to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Originally, the possibility that it might be the microwaves created quite a stir in the media; however, it seems that the media has somewhere along the line suddenly stopped running this story.
On January 20, 2006, the British Daily Telegraph ran an article titled "Honeybees might be wiped out in 10 years." In the article they state that "Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned." In the article, there is no mention whatsoever of the microwaves from cell phone towers and there is no consideration to the fact that microwaves may indeed be weakening the bees' immune systems (and it is a proven fact that microwaves do weaken immune systems), which would in fact make the "virulent diseases and parasites" just "Opportunistic Infections" and the Microwaves the "Underlying Cause." Bees and other insects, birds, and amphibians have survived and evolved complex immune systems on this planet over a span of millions of years. Now, why would they suddenly die out now due to "virulent diseases and parasites" unless, of course, there was another factor being introduced to their
environments a man-made factor disrupting their immune systems, a factor about which for economic reasons the public is not being informed.
Dear Dr. Carlo:
I have read recently in "http://Salon.com"Salon.com that the theory that bees are disappearing because of exposure to EMR is not supported by any science. You were on Good Morning America supporting that theory. Who is correct?
Carol H
Amherst, Massachusetts
Dear Carol:
Unfortunately, the situation with the bees is a page out of the playbook that we deal with all the time with the mobile-phone industry. When the bee story first broke, it was based on a German study that showed information-carrying radio waves disrupted the ability of bees to make it back to their hives. That work was made public about two months ago. There were other data to support it as well. You can see some of that on our SWI website note especially an exceptionally insightful article by Milt Bowling posted there.
The news media ran with the story, bolstered a great deal by a quote attributed to Albert Einstein something along these lines: "Watch the bees! When they disappear, man will disappear within four years." The mobile-phone industry was caught off-guard by the widespread-media attention the story garnered.
After the first news cycle, the mobile-phone industry 'hit squad' went into action. First, they planted stories that cast doubt on the Einstein quote. Never before have I seen such a desperate attempt to distance a quote from a figure as revered as Albert Einstein. In the process, his name was besmirched Very sad. Next, they conscripted scientists from a number of universities to begin going public with other explanations... viruses, bacteria, pesticides etc., etc., etc. These alternatives have been making the rounds over the past month. The mobile-phone industry is putting quite a bit of money into the pockets of these scientists by supporting their work regarding viruses and alternative explanations. The industry is dealing with it as a politics and public relations problem thus, manipulation of the public perception is the appropriate remedy for them. Sadly, this is business-as-usual for the mobile phone industry.
Most people in the public don't know the back-story, so they do not see the manipulation coming or have the necessary bases for skepticism to see through it. But here is the bottom line:
l The colony collapse disorder has occurred concurrently on four continents within a very short time frame. If the reason was biological or chemical, there would be a pattern of epidemic spread we would be able to trace the spread of bee disappearance or Colony Collapse Disorder from a source similar to the spread of SARS a few years ago. That is not the case. The condition has hit each continent at roughly the same time. That would mean the cause has to have hit the continents at the same time as well. Mobile phones meet that criterion.
l None of the biological or chemical hypotheses actually have a mechanistic explanation that is plausible. The science for the biological and chemical alternatives is far thinner than the science supporting the EMR connection. A case of the pot calling the kettle black.
l The disruption of intercellular communication hypothesis that we now know effects cell membranes in most species is biologically plausible and no other theory has that support.
l The basis for a biological mechanism, coupled with the saturation in information carrying radio waves we have globally in the past 14 months, provides the underpinning. In 2004, we had the first billion cell-phone users globally, the accumulation over 20 years; by mid 2006, we had the second billion; today we have surpassed three billion. That suggests we are near a saturation point of these waves in the ambient environment. The bees are likely the harbinger or the proverbial "canaries in the coal mine."
l Taken together, EMR is the only explanation that makes sense regarding the disappearing bees: the timing is correct the problem has occurred primarily within the past two years when we have nearly tripled the background level of information carrying radio waves. The pattern is global so that suggests a cause that is globally present there is at least one peer-reviewed study that supports it, and there is a mechanism documented that lends biological plausibility.
continued...