Remember when there were no cellphones?
By Don Harkins
As her friend and editor for over a decade now, I have gown
alongside Amy in her research on chemtrails, depleted uranium and
radiation. There is zero doubt in our hearts and minds that Amy’s
references are sound, her interpretation of data flawless and her
intentions purely honorable and compassionate.
That means use of cell phones, WiFi, WiMax and RFID is not only
suicide, but complicity in a "slow burn" form of mass murder. If
second-hand cigarette smoke bothers you, how does it compare to second
hand radiation? Well, it doesn’t. Using a cell phone in proximity to
others only increases the intensity of the ambient levels of radiation
that are omnipresent to support wireless personal communication
networks. Where nonsmokers can remove themselves or the smoker from the
room, noncellphoneusers (one word) cannot escape radiation by going to
another room. In other words, everyone is bathing in dangerous levels of
cellphone "smoke" whether you are "smoking" or not.
When the wireless age was growing in earnest in the late 90s,
people kept telling Ingri and I, "You really need to get cell
phones—they are so convenient."
We opted not to for the same reason we have never acquired a
laptop computer: If we are away from our desk that means we are
(temporarily) FREE!—free of the phone and free of the computer.
The next stage, by the early 00s, people began saying to us, "Don,
Ingri, you really need to get cell phones so it will be more convenient
for us to get ahold of you."
Now, when the subject of our having resisted carrying cell phones
to this point comes up in conversation, people say, "You are so lucky."
It’s not luck—we just didn’t like the idea of being "on call" all
the time and our lifestyles just didn’t evolve to include cell phones.
We have only known for a couple years how deadly they are.
But, for cellphoneusers (one word), the novelty of cell phones has
been replaced with addiction and the convenience has been replaced with
enslavement. In that sense, we are lucky.
The three following comments represent the most common justifications people recite for using cell phones:
"But with my job, I have to have one."
"They are handy in an emergency."
"This way, the kids (the wife/husband/friends/business contacts) can always get ahold of me."
But consider these responses from noncellphoneusers:
"Is your job worth irradiating yourself and the world around you?"
"What did you do in an emergency BC (that’s "before cell phones")?"
"Are you sure that you are so darned important that you can’t just have
people leave a message on a land line recorder and check messages now
and then?"
And one bonus retort: "If an industry is using your addiction to
wireless toys as a means to finance the erection of a communications
infrustructure that intends to control all life on earth en route to
destroying it, should you choose to buy its services?"
The truth is you can do your job without a cell phone—or find another one.
You can prepare in advance for emergencies like we used to.
And, it is true, we aren’t so important that people can’t wait a few minutes or a few hours to talk to us. (DWH)
Notes:
1. Interview with Dr. Eckel published by Schwabischen Post
12-07-06. Find interview at www.hese-project.org. See "The Cell Nucleus
is Mutating."
2. " Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic
Radiation," a paper presented by Dr. Lai to the Mobile Phones and Health
Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna. Also "DNA Damage
and Cell Phone Radiation," www.rfsafe.com, 11-02-05.
3. Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George
Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001, p.151.
4. " Mobile Telecommunications and Health—Summary of the ECOLOG
study for T-Mobile, 2000," Find this summary at www.hese-project.org.
5. "Cell Phone Radiation Harms DNA, Study Claims," (Reuters)
MSNBC, 12-04-04. Also "Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA," R. Moss, CPR
News Bureau, 10-16-06.
6. "RF-Induced DNA Breaks Reported in China," Microwave News,
09-29-05. This report comes from the Zhejiang University School of
Medicine.
7. "2.45 GHz radiofrequency fields alter gene expression in
cultured human cells," Lee S et al, Department of Medicine, University
of Chicago, PubMed 16107253.
8 "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast
Review," a public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this
excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.
9. Few Americans know that cell phones have never been safety
tested thanks to the FDA, which exempted cell phones from pre-market
testing based on a "low power exclusion" rule.
10. "The American Cancer Society is Misleading the Public," Dr.
George Carlo, 8-5-07. Find this statement at www.buergerwelle.com.
11. "Long-Term Mobile Phone Use Raises Brain Tumor Risk: Study,"
Reuters, 03-31-06. This research was conducted by the Swedish National
Institute for Working Life whose scientists studied 905 people with
malignant brain tumors to confirm a 240% increased risk of brain tumors
after heavy mobile phone use.
12. "Cancer in Radar Technicians Exposed to RF/Microwave
Radiation: Sentinel Episodes," Richter E. et al, Int. J. Occup Environ
Health 6 (3):187-193, 2000.
13. "FCC Lives Large off Lobbyist Bribes," Capitol Hill Blue, 05-22-03, capitolhillblue.com.
14. "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast
Review," public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this
excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.
15. See www.c-a-r-e.org for information about groups affected by Lookout Mountain broadcast antennas.
16. For an excellent chart comparing biological effects at power
density levels and a list of international exposure standards, go to:
"Radio Wave Packet," Arthur Firstenberg, Cellular Phone Task Force, Sept
2001; also find this power density list at: "Analysis of Health and
Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink WiFi Network,
Magda Havas, Ph.D, Trent University, May 2007.
17. Quote from letter by Norbert Hankin, chief environmental
scientist with EPA’s Radiation Protection Division. This letter was
received by EMR Network 7-16-02 and can be found at www.emrnetwork.org.
18. "Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to U.S. Tower Policy," Microwave News, Jan./Feb 2001.
EMR Network Petition For Inquiry To Consider Amendment of Parts 1
and 2 of the FCC’s Rules Concerning the Environmental Effects of
Radiofrequency Radiation, September 25, 2001. See also FCC order to deny
application for review filed by the EMR Network, adopted July 28, 2003.
19. Hicks, Onnink, Barber, Pennington v. Horvath Communications,
Cause No.71C01-0107-CP St. Joseph Circuit Court, St Joseph County,
Indiana.
20. "Some Unexpected Health Hazards Associated with Cell Tower
Siting," Bill P.Curry, PhD., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or
Environmental Hazard? The Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council,
edited by B. Blake Levitt, 2000. See chapter 6.
21. Practical Guidelines to Protect Human Health Against
Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted in Mobile Telephony, Summary June
2001, Miguel Muntane Condeminas, industrial engineer for Consulting
Comunicacio i Disseny S.L, Barcelona, m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es. See Section
4.3.1 "US Embassy in Moscow Study."
22. See www.health-concerns.org. and www.safewireless.org. These
sites provide a pathway to access Dr. Carlo’s Mobil Telephone Health
Concerns Registry where people can report ill health effects from living
near microwave transmitters or from the use of wireless devices.
23. "Electromagnetic, Fields, (EMF) Killing Fields," Arthur Firstenberg, The Ecologist, v. 34, n. 5, 6-10-2004.
24. "Study of the health of people living in the vicinity of
mobile phone base stations: I. influences of distance and sex," R.
Santini et al, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées—laboratoire de
biochimie-pharmacologie, 2002.
25. "Cancer Risks from Microwaves Confirmed," Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society press release, 5-24-07.
26. "The Microwave Syndrome—a preliminary study in Spain," Navarro
E. et al, Biology and Medicine, 22 (2 &3) 161-169, 2003; also " The
Microwave Syndrome—Further Aspects of a Spanish Study," Oberfeld G et
al 2004, International Conference Proceedings, Kos, Greece 2004.
27. "Neurobehavioral Effects Among Inhabitants Around Mobile Phone
Base Stations," Abdel-Rassoul et al, Neurotoxicology, 8-01-2006.
28. "Increase of Cancer Near Cell-Phone Transmitter Station," Wolf
D. and Wolf, International Journal of Cancer Prevention 1-2, April
2004.
29. "Two in Three Believe Radiation from Phones Damaged their Health," Geoffrey Lean, 7-8-07 Independent on Sunday, U.K.
30. "Cancer Cluster at Phone Masts, " Times On Line, The Sunday Times, UK 4-22-07.
31. Report by Roland Stabenow, 9-21-06, head of cancer registry in Berlin.
32. "How Shall We Cope With the Increasing Amounts of Airborne
Radiation?" Olle Johansson, Journal of the Australasian College of
Environmental Medicine, Dec. 2006.
33. "Building Top Floors Closed After Brain Tumor Alert," Lisa
Macnamara, The Australian, UK, 05-13-07. Read this report at
www.rense.com.
34. "Cancer Strikes 12 Female Staffers," Tony Koch, Omega-News, 4-06-07.
35. Swedes Hit Hard By WiMax, 6-12-06, Reported by Swedish media
about Swedish town Gotene. Hospital emergency room flooded with calls
regarding headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and heart
problems. At least 5 people had to leave their homes.
36. "How WiMAX Works," E. Grabianowski and Marshal Brain, www. computer.howstuffworks.com
37. "250-foot Tower Raises New Bellevue Fears", John Hopkins,
Cheektowaga Times, 8-09-2007; See also "Congress Approves Homeland
Security Bill," Spencer Hsu, Washington Post 08-07-07.
38. Journal of Oncology Practice, Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2007: 79-86.
39. Robert Becker, The Body Electric, 1986.
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Conclusion
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.38
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 the cancer cause 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 organisms…These energies are too dangerous to
entrust forever to politicians, military leaders and their lapdog
researchers."39
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
need and 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 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? 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 be updated
and that wireless emissions from transmitters be drastically reduced.
We can demand routine compliance testing at all transmitter sites. We
can see to it that people living and working near transmitters be given
opportunity to report their illnesses in national surveys. Proper
epidemiological studies must be conducted and their results published
and broadly disseminated. Federal communications law must be rewritten
so that local jurisdictions can regain their right to consider health
and environment when reviewing wireless siting applications.
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, the
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. We can encourage others to contact us by land
line 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.
Meters and resources
The ElectroSmog Detector allows you to HEAR the RF/microwave pollution in your environment. (See ad on page 14 of the hardcopy edition of The IO).
The Trifield Meter ($130), produced by Alpha Lab,
is used mainly to measure the milligauss of electromagnetic fields
coming from 60 hertz sources. Use this digital meter to make sure your
living and working spaces are under 2 milligauss. Alpha Lab’s Microwave
Power Density Meter ($320) is a more sensitive digital microwave meter
that will help you assess the kilohertz, megahertz and gigahertz
radiation in our wireless environment. This easy-read meter measures
microwave radiation in microwatts per cm2, allowing comparison of your
readings to the
5 microwatts per cm2 used by the
Russians to make our embassy staff sick. Remember, people inside the
embassy reportedly received only about .01 microwatts per cm2. For more
information, contact Alpha Lab Inc., 1280 South 300 West, Salt Lake
City, Utah 84101;
(800) 658-7030;
www.trifield.com
For a list of more expensive professional meters available, go to:
www.microwavenews.com. On the left side of the home page find a link called "
Radiation Meters."
The Zap Checker: Alan Broadband produces
radiation detection devices with models ranging in price from $159 to
$2,800. The $159 model, while not giving detailed readings, is an
extremely sensitive and sturdy instrument that gives an accurate dial
read on whether or not radiation is present and its relative intensity.
It lets you know when you are being irradiated and serves as an
excellent tool to illustrate exposure levels to others. For more
information, contact Alan Broadband 93 Arch St., Redwood City,
California 94062;
(888) 369-9627;
www.zapchecker.com
Books
Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George
Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001.
Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, Robert C. Kane, Vantage Press, 2001.
Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard? The
Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council, Edited by B. Blake Levitt,
2000. Order from Barnes and Noble.
Websites
These websites provide excellent information on all aspects of
health and other issues relating to electromagnetic fields and radio
frequency/microwave radiation.
www.buergerwelle.com This excellent German (but in English) site
features RF/microwave radiation news from all over the world. The
science keeps pouring in and this is where to find it, along with lots
of human interest.
www.cprnewsbureau.org This is an excellent source of up-to-date news on wireless issues.
www.emrnetwork.org This site has superb resources organized by
professionals with expertise in all facets of our RF/microwave radiation
problem.
www.safewireless.org This site features Dr. Carlo’s Mobil
Telephone Health Concerns Registry where people can report ill health
effects from living near microwave transmitters or from the use of
wireless devices. It also features great news reports.
www.microwavenews.com This is home to Microwave News, an excellent
monthly publication. It offers cutting edge science reports, plus a
great archive.
www.sageassociates.net This site provides valuable information on
how to make homes and offices safer in the wireless age.
CAUTION:
There are many devices on the market claiming to protect
wireless users from radiation. These include: air tube headsets, ferrite
bead clip-ons and an array of paste-ons advertised to cut down on
thermal effects or deflect negative energy. Energy testing, kinesiology
and meter readings indicate that these mitigation devices DO NOT
adequately protect against the brutal force of near field microwave
radiation. You can investigate the effectiveness of these devices by
metering radiation levels while using them. If radiation pours from your
"safe" headset, don’t bank your life on it. If practiced in the art of
kinesiology, you can also "muscle test" the effectiveness of the
radiation mitigation device. The human body becomes very weak when
irradiated with any man-made frequency, especially microwaves. If a
protective device is really working, you will not detect muscle weakness
when using a wireless phone or gadget.