Digital Television causing people to commit suicide?

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The following text written as an open letter to president Obama by

three prominent German physicians provides details on the adverse health

effects of digital broadcasting.

 

 

OPEN LETTER

Bamberg, February 12, 2009

 

To the President of the United States of America

 

To the Citizens of the United States of America

To the Members of the House of Representatives

To the Members of the Senate

 

Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital

Broadcast Television Stations (DVB & #8208;T)

 

Dear President Obama:

 

Dear Members of the House of Representatives:

Dear Members of the Senate:

Dear Citizens of the United States of America:

 

In the US, digital broadcast television is scheduled to start

operating on February 17, 2009. We write to you today because we wish to

save you from the significant negative health consequences that have

occurred here in Germany. In Germany, analog broadcast television stations

have gradually been switching to digital broadcast signals since 2003. This

switchover first took place in metropolitan areas. In those areas, however,

the RF exposures in public places as well as at home continued to increase

at the same time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of

children, adolescents, and adults in urban areas could not be attributed to

any single cause. On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television stations

went on the air in the Hessian Rhoen area (Heidelstein, Kreuzberg), which

until recently had enjoyed rather low mobile phone radiation exposure

levels. Within a radius of more than 20 km, the following symptoms that

occurred abruptly were reported: constant headaches, pressure in the head,

drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness,

nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat,

shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning

skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in

various organs, weight increase.

 

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever

went into the garden. One child committed suicide; a second child tried

doing it. Over time the same unbearable symptoms showed up in other

locations—most recently in Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on November 25, 2008.

Physicians accompanied affected people to areas where there was no

DVB & #8208;T reception (valleys, behind mountain ranges) and witnessed how

these people became symptom & #8208;free only after a short period of time.

 

The respective agencies responsible in Germany were approached for

help, but they declined to follow up on the strongly suggestive evidence in

the actual locations. The behavior of the government agencies disregards the

fundamental rights of affected people guaranteed in the German Constitution.

 

In Germany, DVB & #8208;T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial) uses

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Modulation. The fundamental

principle of this type of modulation works by spreading the information

across several thousand carrier frequencies directly adjacent to each other.

A channel is 7.8 MHz wide. The amplitude also changes constantly. The WHO,

the German Radiation Protection Commission, and the German Federal Ministry

of the Environment rely on the Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to

Time & #8208;varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300

GHz), (Health Physics 74 (4): 494 & #8208;522; 1998) published by the

International Commission on Non & #8208;Ionizing Radiation Protection

(ICNIRP). In this document, it says: p. 495: “These guidelines will be

periodically revised and updated as advances are made in identifying the

adverse health effects of time & #8208;varying electric, magnetic, and

electromagnetic fields.” p. 507: “Interpretation of several observed

biological effects of AM electromagnetic fields is further complicated by

the apparent existence of “windows” of response in both the power density

and frequency domains.

 

There are no accepted models that adequately explain this phenomenon,

which challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic relationship between

the field intensity and the severity of the resulting biological effects.”

Why are the German agencies in charge not willing to help identify the

adverse health effects? Since immediately, after digital broadcast

television stations had started transmitting, adverse health effects have

occurred, the review of the Guidelines announced by the ICNIRP is

imperative. Obviously, there are response windows contained within the broad

frequency bands with their several thousand frequencies that change

constantly and whose amplitude also changes constantly. The ICNIRP had

already pointed out this possibility.

 

In 1992, Dipl. & #8208;Ing. Rüdiger Matthes, member of ICNIRP and of the

Geman Radiation Protection Agency (BfS), emphasized the preliminary status

of the exposure limits in a hearing on the health risks of electromagnetic

radiation: “…They (electromagnetic exposure levels) are several orders of

magnitude higher than the natural background radiation levels of

nontechnical sources…In parallel to this development, findings of scientific

studies according to which long & #8208;term exposure to such fields may

trigger adverse health effects keep accumulating.…In this context, it is

also important to recognize that there are large differences in exposure

levels within a given population. A small child, for example, absorbs much

more RF energy than an adult person…There are several findings on

low & #8208;level exposures, which are considered scientifically validated

because they have been reproduced often but which are rather difficult to

interpret.

 

The impact of mostly pulsed or ELF modulated RF radiation on cell

metabolism, for example, counts among them. It has been observed that the

efflux of certain ions (e.g. calcium) from a cell increases during exposure

to such fields. The occurrence of this effect is described almost completely

independent of the actual field strength. It can be found at extremely low

absorption levels.…With all the currently available scientific findings,

there remain some crucial questions unanswered. …There are gaps in the

so & #8208;called body of evidence. That means that the biological effects,

for example, have only been investigated for individual frequencies. Data

(e.g. effect thresholds) on the various biological effects across the entire

frequency spectrum are not available.

 

The exposure limits, therefore, are based on an approach that greatly

simplifies the very complex reality whose details are unfathomable. It

should also be noted that concrete data on possible effects of

long & #8208;term exposures are mostly lacking.” Real life teaches us that it

was wrong to simplify. In Germany, we see strong evidence of a direct

temporal association between the start & #8208;up of terrestrial digital

broadcast television and the occurrence of severe health symptoms.

Dr. & #8208;Ing. W. Volkrodt, former R & D engineer at Siemens, recognized the

danger of electromagnetic fields for humans, animals, and plants. He pinned

his hopes on policymakers who would listen to reason when he wrote in 1987:

“Future historians will refer to the RF dilemma during the period from

around 1975 to 1990 as a short, time & #8208;limited ‘technical incident.’

Owing to the introduction of fiber optic technology, this incident could be

remediated quickly and effectively.“ Satellites and cable provide the US

population with television services. By contrast, the risk associated with

terrestrial digital broadcast television transmitters is unacceptable.

 

We, therefore, ask you, dear Mr. President, who has the wellbeing of

his citizens at heart, to stop the scheduled introduction of this new

technology in the United States of America and to save the people from the

negative health consequences that have occurred in our country.

 

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

 

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

 

Dr. med. Markus Kern

 

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Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann & #8208;Selsam

Founding Member of the Bamberg Appeal

 

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

Neurologist & #8208;Psychotherapy

Founding Member of the Freiburg Appeal

Dr. med. Markus Kern

 

Psychosomatic Medizin

Founding Member of the Physicians Appeal

Allgäu & #8208;Bodensee & #8208;Oberschwaben

 

 

Global Research Articles by Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

 

Global Research Articles by Christine Aschermann

 

Global Research Articles by Markus Kern

 

Re: Digital Television causing people to commit suicide?Quote

 

[link to www.globalresearch.ca]

 

This is what I'm talking about.

 

The following text written as an open letter to president Obama by three

prominent German physicians provides details on the adverse health effects

of digital broadcasting.

 

 

OPEN LETTER

Bamberg, February 12, 2009

 

To the President of the United States of America

 

To the Citizens of the United States of America

To the Members of the House of Representatives

To the Members of the Senate

 

Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital

Broadcast Television Stations (DVB & #8208;T)

 

Dear President Obama:

 

Dear Members of the House of Representatives:

Dear Members of the Senate:

Dear Citizens of the United States of America:

 

In the US, digital broadcast television is scheduled to start operating on

February 17, 2009. We write to you today because we wish to save you from

the significant negative health consequences that have occurred here in

Germany. In Germany, analog broadcast television stations have gradually

been switching to digital broadcast signals since 2003. This switchover

first took place in metropolitan areas. In those areas, however, the RF

exposures in public places as well as at home continued to increase at the

same time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of children,

adolescents, and adults in urban areas could not be attributed to any single

cause. On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television stations went on

the air in the Hessian Rhoen area (Heidelstein, Kreuzberg), which until

recently had enjoyed rather low mobile phone radiation exposure levels.

Within a radius of more than 20 km, the following symptoms that occurred

abruptly were reported: constant headaches, pressure in the head,

drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness,

nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat,

shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning

skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in

various organs, weight increase.

 

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever went

into the garden. One child committed suicide; a second child tried doing it.

Over time the same unbearable symptoms showed up in other locations—most

recently in Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on November 25, 2008. Physicians

accompanied affected people to areas where there was no DVB & #8208;T

reception (valleys, behind mountain ranges) and witnessed how these people

became symptom & #8208;free only after a short period of time.

 

The respective agencies responsible in Germany were approached for help, but

they declined to follow up on the strongly suggestive evidence in the actual

locations. The behavior of the government agencies disregards the

fundamental rights of affected people guaranteed in the German Constitution.

 

In Germany, DVB & #8208;T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial) uses

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Modulation. The fundamental

principle of this type of modulation works by spreading the information

across several thousand carrier frequencies directly adjacent to each other.

A channel is 7.8 MHz wide. The amplitude also changes constantly. The WHO,

the German Radiation Protection Commission, and the German Federal Ministry

of the Environment rely on the Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to

Time & #8208;varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300

GHz), (Health Physics 74 (4): 494 & #8208;522; 1998) published by the

International Commission on Non & #8208;Ionizing Radiation Protection

(ICNIRP). In this document, it says: p. 495: “These guidelines will be

periodically revised and updated as advances are made in identifying the

adverse health effects of time & #8208;varying electric, magnetic, and

electromagnetic fields.” p. 507: “Interpretation of several observed

biological effects of AM electromagnetic fields is further complicated by

the apparent existence of “windows” of response in both the power density

and frequency domains.

 

There are no accepted models that adequately explain this phenomenon, which

challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic relationship between the

field intensity and the severity of the resulting biological effects.” Why

are the German agencies in charge not willing to help identify the adverse

health effects? Since immediately, after digital broadcast television

stations had started transmitting, adverse health effects have occurred, the

review of the Guidelines announced by the ICNIRP is imperative. Obviously,

there are response windows contained within the broad frequency bands with

their several thousand frequencies that change constantly and whose

amplitude also changes constantly. The ICNIRP had already pointed out this

possibility.

 

In 1992, Dipl. & #8208;Ing. Rüdiger Matthes, member of ICNIRP and of the Geman

Radiation Protection Agency (BfS), emphasized the preliminary status of the

exposure limits in a hearing on the health risks of electromagnetic

radiation: “…They (electromagnetic exposure levels) are several orders of

magnitude higher than the natural background radiation levels of

nontechnical sources…In parallel to this development, findings of scientific

studies according to which long & #8208;term exposure to such fields may

trigger adverse health effects keep accumulating.…In this context, it is

also important to recognize that there are large differences in exposure

levels within a given population. A small child, for example, absorbs much

more RF energy than an adult person…There are several findings on

low & #8208;level exposures, which are considered scientifically validated

because they have been reproduced often but which are rather difficult to

interpret.

 

The impact of mostly pulsed or ELF modulated RF radiation on cell

metabolism, for example, counts among them. It has been observed that the

efflux of certain ions (e.g. calcium) from a cell increases during exposure

to such fields. The occurrence of this effect is described almost completely

independent of the actual field strength. It can be found at extremely low

absorption levels.…With all the currently available scientific findings,

there remain some crucial questions unanswered. …There are gaps in the

so & #8208;called body of evidence. That means that the biological effects,

for example, have only been investigated for individual frequencies. Data

(e.g. effect thresholds) on the various biological effects across the entire

frequency spectrum are not available.

 

The exposure limits, therefore, are based on an approach that greatly

simplifies the very complex reality whose details are unfathomable. It

should also be noted that concrete data on possible effects of

long & #8208;term exposures are mostly lacking.” Real life teaches us that it

was wrong to simplify. In Germany, we see strong evidence of a direct

temporal association between the start & #8208;up of terrestrial digital

broadcast television and the occurrence of severe health symptoms.

Dr. & #8208;Ing. W. Volkrodt, former R & D engineer at Siemens, recognized the

danger of electromagnetic fields for humans, animals, and plants. He pinned

his hopes on policymakers who would listen to reason when he wrote in 1987:

“Future historians will refer to the RF dilemma during the period from

around 1975 to 1990 as a short, time & #8208;limited ‘technical incident.’

Owing to the introduction of fiber optic technology, this incident could be

remediated quickly and effectively.“ Satellites and cable provide the US

population with television services. By contrast, the risk associated with

terrestrial digital broadcast television transmitters is unacceptable.

 

We, therefore, ask you, dear Mr. President, who has the wellbeing of his

citizens at heart, to stop the scheduled introduction of this new technology

in the United States of America and to save the people from the negative

health consequences that have occurred in our country.

 

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

 

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

 

Dr. med. Markus Kern

 

[link to d.scribd.com]

 

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann & #8208;Selsam

Founding Member of the Bamberg Appeal

 

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

Neurologist & #8208;Psychotherapy

Founding Member of the Freiburg Appeal

Dr. med. Markus Kern

 

Psychosomatic Medizin

Founding Member of the Physicians Appeal

Allgäu & #8208;Bodensee & #8208;Oberschwaben

 

 

Global Research Articles by Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

 

Global Research Articles by Christine Aschermann

 

Global Research Articles by Markus Kern