The Dangers Of Wireless
Radiation Part 3
Cell Tower
Life Bluetube Headsets
Cell Phone Towers Health Effects
EM Field Meter
Cell Phone Sensitivity
Studies abroad
Recent health surveys in other nations confirm that people
living close to wireless transmitters are in big trouble: In
2002, French medical specialists found that people living
close to cell towers suffered extreme sleep disruption,
chronic fatigue, nausea, skin problems, irritability, brain
disturbances and cardiovascular problems. German researchers
found that people living within 1,200 feet of a transmitter
site in the German city of Naila had a high rate of cancer
and developed their tumors on average eight years earlier
than the national average. Breast cancer topped the list.
Spanish researchers found that people living within 1,000
feet of cellular antennas had statistically significant
illness at an average power density of 0.11 to 0.19
microwatts /cm2, which is thousands of times less than
allowed by international exposure standards. An Egyptian
medical study found that people living near mobile phone
base stations were at high risk for developing nerve and
psychiatric problems, plus debilitating changes in
neurobehavioral function. Exposed persons had significantly
lower performance on tests for attention, short term
auditory memory and problem solving. Researchers in Israel
studied people in the town of Netanya who had lived near a
cell tower for 3-7 years. They had a cancer rate four times
higher than the control population. Breast cancer was most
prevalent.
Europe in an uproar
A new European Union poll of more than 27,000 people across
the continent reveals that 76 percent of respondents feel
that they are being made ill by wireless transmitters.
Seventy-one percent in the UK believe they suffer health
effects from mast (cell tower) radiation. In April 2007, The
London Times reported a startling number of cancer clusters
in mast neighborhoods. One study in Warwickshire, found 31
cancers around a single street. Some sick Brits send their
blood to a lab in Germany, which uses state of the art
methodology to confirm wireless radiation damage. Radiation
sickness is now so prevalent in Germany that 175 doctors
have signed the Bramberger Appeal, a document calling the
situation a "medical disaster." It asks the German
government to initiate a national public health
investigation. This appeal closely follows the Freiburger
Appeal, signed by thousands of German doctors who say they
are dealing with an epidemic of severe and chronic diseases
among both old and young patients exposed to wireless
microwave radiation. The head of the cancer registry in
Berlin found that one urban area with cellular antennas had
a breast cancer rate seven times the national average.
Sweden was one of the first nations to go wireless. Swedish
neuroscientist, Dr. Olle Johansson, with hundreds of
published papers to his credit, says that a national
epidemic of illness and disability was unleashed by the
wireless revolution. Long periods of sick leave, attempted
suicides and industrial accidents all increased
simultaneously with introduction of mobile phone radiation.
Ninety-nine percent of the Swedish population is now under
duress of powerful third generation masts. Johansson reports
that people are plagued with sleep disorders, chronic
fatigue that does not respond to rest, difficulties with
cognitive function and serious blood problems. Recurrent
headaches and migraines are a "substantial public health
problem," he says. Rooftop transmitters, which readily pass
microwave radiation into structures, can be a death
sentence. Across the world there are reports of cancer
clusters and extreme illness in office buildings and
multi-tenant dwellings where antennas are placed on rooftops
directly over workers and tenants. In 2006, the top floors
of a Melbourne University office building were closed after
a brain tumor cluster drew media attention to the risks of
communications transmitters on top of the building.
Likewise, ABC's Brisbane television complex, topped with
satellite dishes and radio antennas, was the site of a
well-publicized breast cancer cluster among workers.
In the meantime, the radiation cowboys of America are having
a good ol time because they know there's no sheriff in town.
The commercial wireless industry is relentless in its drive
to construct thousands of new transmitter sites in
neighborhoods and schoolyards everywhere, while adding more
powerful antennas at its older sites. Countless WiFi
systems, both indoors and out, accommodate wireless laptop
computers, personal digital assistants, WiFi-enabled phones,
gaming devices, video cameras, even parking and utility
meters. Hundreds of cities already have or are planning to
fund WiFi networks, each consisting of thousands of small
microwave transmitters bolted to buildings, street lamps,
park benches and bus stops. Some networks are being buried
under sidewalks. These access points or "nodes" blast
carcinogenic energy at 2.4 to 5 gigahertz with virtually no
warning signs about radiation exposure. WiFi radiation is
unregulated by the FCC. Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire are now
rolling out in U.S. cities tower-mounted WiMAX transmitters
providing wireless internet access "to die for." WiMAX is
WiFi on steroids. Upon startup of WiMAX transmitters near
the Swedish village of Gotene, the emergency room at the
local hospital was flooded by calls from people overcome
with pulmonary and cardiovascular symptoms.
WiMAX radiation could one day be cranked up to a
bone-incinerating 66 gigahertz. A single WiMAX tower could
provide internet coverage for an area of 3,000 square miles,
although coverage for 6-25 square miles is the norm now.
Promoters say WiMAX may some day replace all cable and DSL
broadband services and irradiate virtually all rural areas.
Yet, not a single environmental or public health study has
been required as the industry unleashes infrastructure for
this savage new wireless technology from which no living
flesh will escape. The commercial ray-peddlers are not alone
in their quest to make the U.S. a radiation wasteland. In
August, 2007, Congress approved new Homeland Security
legislation which funds a program to "promote communications
compatibility between local, state and federal officials."
We catch a glimpse of what this portends as the state of New
York gears up to erect hundreds of new wireless
installations for a "Statewide Wireless Network (SWN)." This
system will blanket 97 percent of the state, allowing
agencies at various government levels to communicate
instantly while greatly adding to the fog of commercial
wireless pollution. The New York Office for Technology says
that the radiation power densities of the system will be
within FCC limits. That assurance should give us the
shivers.
Angela Flynn, a 43-year-old caregiver, lives in Santa Cruz,
California. Last spring she took classes at a local church
where wireless antennas were concealed in a chimney on the
building. She recalls, "Every muscle in my body felt sore.
And my joints were feeling creaky. My instructor mentioned
how people at the women's center on church property had
similar symptoms. During my sixth day I had a severe
reaction. My short term memory was gone and I was
disoriented and confused. When the instructor asked a
question, I could not recall anything from the lecture." At
night, Angela could not sleep and she would lie awake,
feeling her body buzz. She became hypersensitive to other
sources of electromagnetic radiation. The symptoms became so
bothersome that she canceled the rest of her course. Using a
chart for calculating cumulative, non-ionizing,
electromagnetic radiation exposure levels, she found that
the classes"located only 100 feet from antennas in the
building"had suffered the highest possible exposure during
peak operation. "It took a month before I regained my
health," she reports.
When Angela wrote letters to the church inquiring whether it
was monitoring the health of the people exposed to antenna
radiation, church officials were "unresponsive and
dismissive." So Angela saw the light. She helped organize a
community group to put pressure on county officials for
answers. After hearing community testimony, officials
directed the zoning department to create a comprehensive map
of county transmitter sites and to put together a report on
emissions testing. Angela says, "We recently had a delay of
an installation of a tower near a middle school. The
superintendent has even come out against the tower and was
instrumental in delaying the hearing on the site. He also
arranged a school board meeting on the issue." Angela's
efforts to share critical information with her community
made a difference. America must soon face its radiation
cataclysm. The EMR Network says that millions of workers
occupy worksites on a daily basis where operating antenna
arrays are camouflaged and where no RF safety program is
carried out. Thanks to shameless predatory advertising
techniques, American youth are now literally addicted to "texting,"
watching TV and accessing the Internet on tiny wireless
screens. These are the toys that keep cell towers and WiFi
hot spots buzzing. A nation that requires compulsory mass
irradiation to fuel its trivial entertainment needs is
surely destined to have a sickly and short-lived population.
Right now, 11.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with
cancer. Because humans can harbor cancer conditions for
years before detection, additional millions of cancer
victims are yet undiagnosed. The Journal of Oncology
Practice predicts that, by 2020, there will be so many
cancer cases in the U.S. that doctors may not be able to
cope with their caseloads. The report concludes the nation
could soon face a shortage of up to 4,000 cancer
specialists. A recent CBS news series on the raging American
cancer epidemic left viewers with the mindset that
trainloads of federal cash must flow if we are to find the
cancer answer. But a proven cancer initiator now inundates
our cities, roadways, schools, offices and homes. Any
environmental stressor that jackhammers human cells at
millions to billions of cycles per second is a cancer
factor. Any wave-pollution that breaks the DNA and causes
pre-cancerous micronuclei in human blood is a cancer factor.
Logic tells us that there will be no "answer to cancer"
until we eliminate the cancer factors. Wireless
communications radiation is to America today what DDT,
thalidomide, dioxin, benzene, Agent Orange and asbestos were
yesterday. Historically, the truth about the public health
menace of extreme toxins is never told until thousands
sicken and die.
Dr. Robert Becker, noted for decades of research on the
effects of electromagnetic radiation, has warned: "Even if
we survive the chemical and atomic threats to our existence,
there is the strong possibility that increasing
electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes
leading to our extinction before we are even aware of them.
All life pulsates in time to the earth and our artificial
fields cause abnormal reactions in all organismsThese
energies are too dangerous to entrust forever to
politicians, military leaders and their lapdog researchers."
Our mission to save the nation's health and restore sanity
in the wireless age seems daunting. The wireless juggernaut
is an aggressive, mean machine. Federal regulators are
clearly compromised and incompetent to protect the public
health. Uninformed consumers dearly love their magic digital
toys and don't yet understand the connection between those
toys and a national raging cancer epidemic that may consume
us all. Powerful economic interests have lied to us long
enough. Americans deserve the facts. We need dialogue.
Wireless radiation is a form of electronic trespass.
America must decide whose rights are more important"idlers
beaming death rays for piddling gibberish or the elderly
with pacemakers who are made ill by cell phone and tower
radiation wherever they go. Must we all prematurely perish
so that wireless enthusiasts can capture cell phone photos
and instantly send them for processing via carcinogen
express? Must all neighborhoods become sick zones so that
radiation addicts can receive recipes, ads and other
frivolous text messages on their cell phone toys? Does a
human being have the right to NOT be forcibly WiMAXED into a
coffin, or do only wireless providers and their devotees
have rights? What can we do?
We can commit to join the growing radiation awareness
movement and continue educating ourselves and others. We can
employ digital and audio radiation detectors to help
safeguard our personal health and to demonstrate the
ceaseless brutality of ubiquitous wireless radiation which
threatens the genetic integrity of future generations.
We can promote emerging technologies that could make
communications technologies safer. We can demand that
federal radiation exposure standards and setback
requirements be updated to reflect the realities of modern
science. Federal communications law must be rewritten so
that local jurisdictions can regain their right to consider
health and environment when reviewing wireless siting
applications. We can insist that wireless emissions from
transmitters be drastically reduced as they are in Austria
and Russia. We can demand routine compliance testing at all
transmitter sites. We can see to it that people who have
been living and working near powerful transmitters be given
opportunity to report their resulting illnesses in national
surveys. Proper epidemiological studies must be conducted
and their results published and broadly disseminated.
Each of us can break the seductive, but oppressive wireless
habit ourselves. We can play no game, use no wireless
Internet system, make no trivial phone call that
necessitates enlarging America's dense forest of wireless
transmitters. If no one buys WiMAX-enabled devices and
related services, this dangerous system will fail. Whenever
possible, we can go back to the old-fashioned, corded phones
and message machines which made yesteryear a far more
healthy time. Cordless household and office phones emit
powerful megahertz or gigahertz microwave radiation, causing
damage to hearing, eyesight and brain function. DECT
cordless phones irradiate a huge area even when not in use.
We can encourage others to contact us by conventional land
line phones only. Can we enjoy a leisurely conversation
knowing that an irradiated caller risks disease and
disability for mindless chatter? What good is wireless
convenience if it means being ultimately tethered to a
hospital bed? We can teach our children that health is more
important than passing convenience and instant
gratification.
According to OSHA, no environment should be deliberately
made hazardous. Backed by current scientific knowledge, we
can refuse to work or shop in an environment which endangers
our health. We can demand that megahertz and gigahertz
cordless phones, walkie talkie radios, WLAN and WiFi systems
be removed from schools, offices, hospitals and any public
place where people are grossly irradiated without their
informed consent. Second hand smoke is bad; second hand
radiation is worse. We wish to thank the courageous
radiation victims interviewed for this report who have
generously revealed the details of their personal suffering
in order to warn others. Following their example, we must
continue undaunted in the moral quest to protect the
national health and restore the world to sanity before it is
too late.
The Dangers Of Wireless Radiation Part
2
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Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA
Grafton, Australia
Israel, Jerusalem,
Portugal, Lisbon
Finland, Helsinki
Korea, (South), Seoul, City
Denmark, Copenhagen
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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