TETRA :: Ecologist - October 2004
By Jay Griffiths
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When a TETRA mast was switched on in Dursley in Gloucestershire: people reported being "shocked awake" up to fifteen times a night; migraines; sleeplessness; nose bleeds, none of which they had routinely suffered before. At a school in Littlehampton, Sussex, eleven children had to be sent home from school on the day that a nearby TETRA mast was switched on, because they were ill with severe headaches, nosebleeds and dizziness. (Interestingly, residents did not know the mast had been switched on, so the children's reaction could not have been psychosomatic.)
Llanidloes doesn't want the mast. Nor did Professor Sir David Lane, (director of the Cancer Research UK Cell Transformation Research Group at the University of Dundee) who submitted a formal objection to a TETRA mast/base station near his home, on the grounds that this type of transmitter may constitute a health hazard to the occupants of the neighbouring houses.
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TETRA uses microwave radiation, as well as pulsing at an extremely low frequency. Low frequency electromagnetic and microwave radiation were identified in the 1960s as a potential anti-personnel weapon and the Pentagon has confirmed that it has developed microwave crowd control weapons.(2) Documents from the US Department of Defense reports that Animal experiments have demonstrated the use of low-level microwave signals to produce death by heart seizure or by neurological pathologies resulting from breaching the blood-brain barrier.
(3) Can a system which is developed as weaponry be considered safe for the police and public?
Let's ask those canniest of all arbiters of public safety. The insurance companies. Lloyds of London and Swiss Re have recommended to other insurance companies that exclusion clauses should be written against paying compensation for illnesses caused by exposure to continuous long-term low level radiation. John Fenn of Sterling Underwriters has said: I've been concerned about this for some time and a few years ago I began writing exclusion clauses. I'm convinced there is a problem.
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