Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas from WEEP News

 
Merry Christmas from W.E.E.P. News

The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution

25 December 2013

 
We hope that you are have a safe and happy Christmas and holiday season and that our combined efforts start to make the world a safer place in the new year.
 
Martin Weatherall and the WEEP Directors
 
 
Here is a short music video that you may enjoy -
 
 
 
A dancing and balancing act -
 
 
 
Bossy cats and harassed dogs -
 
 
 
Fox hunting -
 
 
 
Pet Fox -
 
 
 
Wildlife -
 
 
 
Dolphin -
 
 
 
Niagara Falls - 
 
 
 
A few Christmas lights -
 

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

WEEP News / Study puts glare back on cell tower risks / alarm bells / don't call them "smart" / Blackmail by BC Hydro / smart-grid data / Dirty Electricity / Getting Sick / Ulster County / lost generation etc

 
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The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution

19 December 2013

 

Study puts glare back on cell tower risks

Prithvijit Mitra

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Study-puts-glare-back-on-cell-tower-risks/articleshow/27492794.cms

 

KOLKATA: It has always been feared and debated; now, a study has reinforced the belief that radiation from cellphone towers are taking a toll on the health of people living near them.

Cellphone tower radiation could be triggering a range of disorders - from fatigue, memory loss, headaches and hearing impairment to more serious problems like cardiac diseases and even congenital defects, claims the study conducted by researchers of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute (NSCRI).

It has always been feared and debated. Now, a health impact study reinforces it. Cell phone towers in Kolkata have been taking a heavy toll on the health of people living close to them. It could be triggering a range of disorders from fatigue, memory loss, headache and hearing impairment to more serious ones like cardiac problems and even congenital defects, claims the study conducted by researchers of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute (NSCRI).

Continued exposure to electromagnetic waves from cellphone towers could even cause cancer, the study warns. Researchers from the institute studied and observed 200 people residing in areas with a high density of cellphone towers in central Kolkata. While some lived in buildings that had towers on the roof, others live within 50 metres of such buildings.

Almost everyone said they had been experiencing some form of physical discomfort.

Around 70% suffered from fatigue; 30% had partial loss of memory; 20% had dizziness and 25% had sleeping disorders. While 20% had skin infections, around 12-15% had hearing impairment and 10% suffered from cardiac problems. Almost half of those surveyed said they had difficulty in concentrating and 30% said they were irritable. Two babies - each born in the last six months - had congenital defects, the study found.

Even though the study does not directly correlate the disorders (see box) to the cellphone towers, it points out that the complaints were restricted to a 50-metre radius of the towers.

"Interestingly, most of the subjects of the study said the intensity of their ailments goes down once they leave their homes and reverts to the earlier stage once they return," said
Ashish Mukhopadhyay of NSCRI. "While we need further evidence, this is indeed something that technical experts should worry about," he added.

Electromagnetic waves emitted from towers could cause cell damage, leading to cancer, Mukhopadhyay said. "Continued exposure to such waves could cause cell damage, leading to cancer. It could also trigger cardiac disorders," he added.

The radio frequency (RF) standard that the cellphone industry had adopted prior to September 1, 2012 - 9.2 Watt per square metre at 1,800 MHz - was considered safe for short-term exposure of around 6 minutes. The revised standard - 0.92 Watt per square metre at 1,800 Mhz and 0.47 Watt per square metre at 900 MHz - is valid for a maximum of one hour's exposure per day. It is still not safe, believe several experts.

"We already have level I evidence to prove that those who live near towers and are exposed to this radiation 24 hours a day are not safe. It is quite possible for them to suffer from disorders, especially hearing impairment, visual problems and loss of memory. There is as yet no direct evidence to show that tower radiation causes cancer. But we need more studies to check whether brain tumours are related to this," said Jaydip Biswas, director, Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Institute (CNCRI). Biswas added that even without such evidence, towers should not be allowed in congested neighbourhoods and near schools.

Oncologist
Gautam Mukhopadhyay said: "Continued exposure to electromagnetic waves has got to have an impact. Even if it doesn't trigger brain tumours, it could well be causing a host of other ailments. These could snowball into a major disorder," he added.

In Kolkata, most cell sites emit radiation of nearly 100 Watts per square metre. The government argues it has adopted the guideline of 9.2 Watt/sq m set by International Convention for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection as a safe limit. What it does not mention is that the norm is for exposure to radiation for 6 minutes a day.

IIT-Kharagpur professor Sudarshan Neogi, who co-authored a pilot study on cellphone radiation, commissioned by the state government, believes the prescribed limit - 0.92 Watts per square metre - is faulty. "For every 6-minute exposure, there is a 23hour 54minute cooling period. This does not happen in areas with a high concentration of towers. So, health hazards are a possibility. But our hands are tied till we can prove that the standard is indeed faulty," Neogi said.

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director-general
Rajan Mathews argued that the radiation levels were within prescribed limits and have not yet been proved harmful. "The existing limit in India is lower than what is allowed in 95% of the world's countries. More importantly, it has been set by the government. So far we have not had a single violation. In Kolkata, we had received reports of violation but they turned out to be false," he said.

 

Iris

 
 
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Smart meter rings alarm bells & more

Maisch documents a number of case studies from smart meter users in Melbourne in which individuals are complaining of nausea, heart palpitations, headaches and shortness of breath.

There is, Maisch argues, "practically no research on possible ill health effects of exposure to smart meter radio frequency emissions".

This is despite a US survey of smart meter users showing that 49 per cent experienced insomnia, 43 per cent stress, 40 per cent headaches, 38 per cent ringing in the ears and 26 per cent heart problems.

 
Iris
 
 
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Just don't call them "smart"
 
Citing "compelling research" and the experiences of its own physicians, the AAEM quoted a study by Dr. Federica Lamech, MBBS soon to appear in a peer-reviewed journal, which notes that smart meters "may have unique characteristics that lower people's threshold for symptom development."
 
 
Michele
 
 
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Blackmail by BC Hydro
 
At the beginning of December, BC Hydro started charging a $35 monthly surcharge from each of those 19,380 customers, or 30 per cent of the holdouts
 
 
 
 
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How Sacramento's electric utility powered up smart-grid data
 
A new Distribution Control Center was opened, a wireless mesh network to support automated metering was built out, more than 600,000 smart ...
 
Sensors in the automated system monitor from three to 10 variables at each point, from transformers to customer meters, and the number of points in the system being monitored quadrupled to about 7.5 million.
 
 
 
I wonder if they considered calculating how many people the additional radiation may sicken and kill?
 
 
 
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Dirty Electricity from 'Smart' Meters: Answers from the Experts

 
According to experts, the switch mode power supply (SMPS) contained in millions of 'smart' meters (but not their analog predecessors) has essentially 'polluted' the electricity coming into our homes with high frequency transients.  Which means at the end of the day, there is no "opt out" when the "smart grid" is being deployed in your area.  Even with no RF microwave wireless antennas, a "smart" grid of SMPS-equipped meters can still threaten your health.
 
 
Andre
 
 
 
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Health Concerns Grow: Consumers Are Getting Sick From Wireless Smart Meters

 
Robert
 
 
 
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Smart Meter Resolution 315 Passes In Ulster County, New York

The Ulster County Legislators passed this resolution unanimously.

As we move ahead we hope that there will be an investigation in New York State as to how transmitting "smart" utility meters were ever approved by the New York State Public Service Commission with absolutely NO health and safety testing! 

And finally, we hope to see these dangerous devices recalled here in NY State, across the U.S. and around the world!

Michele
www.stopsmartmetersny.org
 
 
 
Because of the bold and swift actions of a few amazing legislators in Ulster County, NY, the following legislation was passed tonight: See the attached PDF Document (Ulster)

Patricia

 
 
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Cancer's lost generation: the teens and young adults

It is true that cancer is rare among young people. But it is also the leading medical cause of non-accidental death among them – and the TCT says that in the past 30 years, cancer among teens and young adults has risen by 50%;
 
Since younger patients tend to develop the rarer forms of cancer – leukaemia's, lymphomas, sarcomas, germ-cell tumours and cancers of the central nervous system – there is an urgent need for more research to group the specific symptoms of these malignancies.
 
 
 
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New Zealand - TV coverage of parent's concern about Wi Fi in school
TVNZ One News coverage of 2 Horowhenua's parent's concerns about Wifi at their children's school, Te Horo, after the son of one of them died of a brain tumour last year...
 
Clip starts about 9 minutes in.  Martin Gledhill is the unnamed EMF tester at the school.

http://tvnz.co.nz/one-news/2013-12-18-video-5782145

 
 
 
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The Quiet Zone – Where There Is No Cell Service, by Law

 
 
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Hundreds gather in Tsawwassen to oppose U.S. radio towers

Opponents, including guest speaker Milt Bowling, expressed a myriad of concerns, including potential health impacts as well as interference with frequencies and electronic equipment, issues they say made the towers hugely unpopular in Ferndale. They also note there was no public notification on this side of the border by either the FCC or the applicant.

 
 

Tell the FCC to reject the Pirate "Border Blaster" in Washington State

 
Robert
 
 
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 Wi-Fi petition presented to board

"The responsibility of any institution includes ensuring the safety of the public, and a board of education is no different," Barnett said. "In fact, it is bound to protect children as part of its mandate."

 
 
 
 
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Kim Horsevad, the students' biology teacher at Hjallerup School, said: 'This has sparked quite a lively debate in Denmark regarding the potential adverse health effects from mobile phones and wifi equipment.'

The results will bolster the findings of researchers in Holland, who found that trees exposed to wireless radio signals suffered from damaged bark and dying leaves.

 
 

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

WEEP News / The Time is Now / Jury awards $1M / Rotten in Denmark / Cell towers Hydro Poles / If You Could See / Allergic to Life / Suicide Epidemic / Dumb Idea / Light bulb ban etc.

 
W.E.E.P. News

The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution

15 December 2013

 
 
Recognition Inclusion and Equity -­‐the Time is Now:

This important new report was released on December 5, 2013 from Queen's Park, Ontario

Perspectives of Ontarians Living With ES/MCS, ME/CFS and FM.
(Toronto: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association of Ontario MEAO)
2013

Full Version (7 MB)      |      
http://www.meao.ca/files/Recognition_Inclusion_Equity-full.pdf 

Highlighted Version (4 MB)
As schools are equipped with Wi--‐Fi, the number of children with ES seems to be increasing yet Ontario has no way of tracking or treating these children.
 
Linda
 
 
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Jury awards Vermont family $1M for transmission tower

The Vermont Electric Power Company has been ordered to pay $1 million to a Wells couple for a dispute over a transmission tower on their property.

 
Robert
 
 
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Something Is Rotten in Denmark

Just over a year ago, the Danish Cancer Society issued a
news advisory with some alarming news: The number of
men diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most malignant type
of brain cancer, had doubled over the last ten years.
The release stated that this was a "frightening development."

After that, there was silence. No one talked about it.
Today, we still cannot get any clarification from the
Danish Cancer Society.

Read the whole story at:
http://microwavenews.com/news-center/something-rotten-denmark

Louis Slesin
Editor, Microwave News
 
 
 
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Cell towers coming to Toronto Hydro Poles!

 
Please send your own message of concern to Toronto City Council.
 
 
 
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What If You Could See Your Cellular Network?

 
 
Linda
 
 
 
 
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Entrevue sur l'électrosensibilité à Radio-Canada ce matin

Excellente entrevue de Catherine Perrin ce matin qui sera rediffusée ce soir entre 21h et 23h et sur le Web
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/medium_large/2013-2014/
Jeudi le 12 déc, à l'émission de Catherine Perrin à la radio (Radio-Canada ici première, 95,1 à Mtl, Estrie à vérifier, 93,5 ou 101,7):: L'électrosensibilité, un vrai handicap ou un délire d'hypersensible?

Ce n'est ni du délire ni une phobie des radiofréquences, leurs effets sur les électrosensibles ont été confirmés par des études à double insu notamment en 1991 http://www.aehf.com/articles/em_sensitive.html et 2011 http://andrewamarino.com/journalarticles.html
 

Extreme Chemical Sensitivity Makes Sufferers Allergic to Life

Andre
 
 
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The Suicide Epidemic

"Self-harm now takes more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined. Why are we killing ourselves, and how can we stop it?"

http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html

It is difficult to reverse the suicide epidemic if they ignore EMFs, probably the number one environmental hazard...

Joseph
 
 
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Why Smart Meters Might Be a Dumb Idea
 
Based on our investigation, it's clear that smart meters won't soon deliver the promised benefits, particularly the energy and pocketbook savings that are being touted by practically everyone who's connected to smart meters.
 
 
andWhy smart meters are an utter failure 
Reference: http://www.consumersdigest.com/home/article/why-smart-meters-might-be-a-dumb-idea/view-all I just lost a treadmill due to the surge from the meter ...
 
 
 
 
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Light bulb ban set to take effect

 
 
 
 
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Safe Incandescent Bulbs to be Discontinued

Totonto Sun,

In January, officials will flip the switch on a year-long phase-out of the inefficient but cheap incandescent bulbs that have lit Canadian homes for generations.

New energy efficiency regulations would have also banned halogen incandescent bulbs, but Natural Resources officials now say they'll relax the standard so that those bulbs will survive the phase out.

That will leave consumers with an alternative to energy-saving compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs and LEDs.

While halogen incandescents suck up more power than CFLs and LEDs, they're still more efficient that traditional blubs.

And unlike CFLs, halogen incandescents don't contain mercury - a toxic substance can end up on carpets or hands and in the air if a bulb breaks.

Government officials admit Canadians worry about CFLs.

"Concerns have been raised by some Canadians and the media regarding CFLs, namely their mercury content, the method for their proper disposal, their perceived associated health effects and their performance," said officials in their regulatory analysis.

Natural Resources officials say they received almost 200 messages raising concerns about CFLs in July - around the time of two Sun Media editorials by columnist and Sun News Network host Brian Lilley.

Halogen incandescent bulbs aren't easy on the wallet, with a pack of two at one major Canadian retailer selling for $5.99.

That's cheaper than LEDs and about on par with CFLs.

You can buy four traditional bulbs, however, for $1.49.

 
 
 
 
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Light Bulb Ban Petition
 
I just co-signed Member of Parliament Cheryl Gallant's letter to the Minister demanding the government delay the looming light bulb ban. 
 
You can co-sign the letter here at http://www.stopthelightbulbban.ca

Magda
 
 
 
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New Wi-Fi Technology Can Track You Through Walls
 
 
Joseph
 
 

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

WEEP News / Dr Anthony Miller / Mobile Phone Use Killed 79 / wi-fi on airplanes / Disease and Chronic Illness / Children's Health Expert Panel / Cell Phone Use / Keep kids off / Cancer Clusters etc

 
W.E.E.P. News

The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution

11 December 2013

 

Dr Anthony Miller, address to Toronto Council re: RF Exposure

Dr Anthony Miller from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health presents to Toronto Council that RF exposure should be classified as a 2A (probable carcinogen), not a 2B
 
 
Marika
 
 
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Mobile Phone Use Killed 79
 
and injured 170 in Spanish train crash
 
 
 
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See the video, wi-fi on airplanes
 
 
 
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Electricity (Electrical Pollution) In Your Home: A Cause of Disease and Chronic Illness 
 
 
 
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Children's Health Expert Panel: Cell Phones & Wi-Fi―Are Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk?

"EMF/RFR from wifi and cell towers can exert a disorganizing effect on the ability to learn and remember, and can also be destabilizing to immune and metabolic function. This will make it harder for some children to learn, particularly those who are already having problems in the first place." 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/09/21/cell-phone-wifi-radiation.aspx
 
 
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Frequent Cell Phone Use Linked to Anxiety, Lower Grade, Reduced Happiness in Students

Results of the analysis showed that cell phone use was negatively related to grade point average and positively related to anxiety

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131206124425.htm

Joseph
 
 
 
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Keep kids off electromagnetic waves: DNA scientist

Children should not be exposed to electromagnetic waves, microwaves, high-tension cables, high-powered computer frames frequently, to prevent them from getting affected by cancer, especially brain cancer, says Dr Kogelen Govvin, chief regional DNA repair scientist heading Aaride International Inc's DNA repair/anti-aging & disease prevention division, London
 
Iris
 
 
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Cancer Clusters Around Cell Phone Masts
 
 
Robert
 
 
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google translation
 
4G - an Increase of 50% Exposure to Electromagnetic Waves
 

By Stéphane Desmichelle

Science and Future

A report on exposure to radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts was published.

Should increase by at least three the number of antennas to restore the initial coverage while maintaining a reduced exposure. FRED TANNEAU / AFP

   On the same subject 
" Experts call for a reduction of wave exposure

Following a roundtable on RF initiated by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Sustainable Development and the State Secretariat for Strategic Studies and development of the digital economy, an operational committee the subject has been established .

COPIC. His mission? Study the feasibility of lowering exposure to electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone masts while maintaining quality coverage. COPIC  has published its report on the results obtained on 16 experimental areas .
 
A low level of exposure

Modeling implemented by experts calculated an exposure level several hundred million points ( facades, buildings , ground surfaces) . It shows that 99% of the modeled exposure levels are below 2.7 volts per meter (V / m ), while the regulatory limits for the frequencies used by mobile phones are between 40 V / m and 61 V / m.

In addition , experts point out that in 20% of cases , the antennas are not the main source of exposure. Other sources such as databases cordless phone, the FM radio transmitters , wireless multiservice boxes (see figure below ) ...

Different areas of electromagnetic waves

Figure: Different areas of electromagnetic waves. Source : Report of COPIC. 3 times more antennas to reduce exposures

For each study area, the most exposed point (PPE) where levels are significantly higher than the average for the area have been identified. The studies show that treatment of these PPE (engineering change or location) would reduce exposure by maintaining a satisfactory coverage. Furthermore, it should be at least multiplied by three the number of antennas sites to restore the original coverage while maintaining a lower to 0.6 V / m in frontage and ground level exposure.  The exhibition will be greatest with 4G

Finally, a simulation of the impact of the antenna deployment 4G public exposure has confirmed an increase in exposure, with an average increase in exposure façade and ground approximately 50%. For example, the study Paris (14th arrondissement) area , the average exposure increased from 0.6 V / m to 0.9 V / m, which is still largely below the regulatory limits
 
 
Iris
 
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MICROWAVES, SCIENCE AND LIES trailer:
 
From Nancy de Méritens
Septieme Factory

Jean Heches and I, we produced and directed a documentary about the manipulation of science, by the mobile phone industry, known as "product defence strategy". We have produced this documentary with our own personal financing. It took us more than two years to complete it.

Now we are launching a fund-raising campaign to finance an english version (with voice over, and english commentary) to distribute the movie worldwide. it will be access through Internet, and in DVD version.
We have started on a french crowd-funding website. The crowd-funding campaign has 3000 € as first aim (to be sure to reach it), but our total need is 10,000 €.

You can help us by spreading the information in your network. We also need to find partners to relay the distribution of the DVDs in foreign countries, as it will be more convenient and less expensive to have local associations that will distribute the DVDs... So any form of partnership and help are welcome.

We are planning to have the english version ready by the end of January.

You will find all information, and an english trailer of the documentary following this link.

- http://www.ulule.com/ondes-science-et-manigances/

If you need any additional information, we will be happy to answer.

Thank you in advance
Nancy de Méritens


(Sharon)
 
 
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School Wi Fi Report from Israel by Veronique  Domshlak
 

I would like to share with you the fight I led in order to turn off Wi-Fi networks in Haifa schools.

 

My awareness to the subject was raised by a TV report on channel 10, about WiFi in schools, at the start of October 2013.  This report caused me to check the subject and understand that there is resistance to the subject in leading research centers in the world. At the start, I checked Haifa municipality policy on the subject. I found that Haifa municipality in principle resists installing WiFi in schools. Despite that, it was decided to make an experiment in several schools in the city.  I found that Alon school (where my son learns) is one of the only 4 elementary schools in the city where WiFi networks have been operating in a frame of research since 2012. In addition, Alon school is one of 3 schools in Haifa, where the experiment was widened to digital books pilot study, and for this purpose, more wireless computers were entered in the schools.  My feeling was that they have decided to run an experiment at the expense of our children, without informing us!   I checked also Ministry of Education's position, and I found that in the last executive form (July 2013), it was written:  4.1- wired network installation should be preferred in schools. On the other hand, in the next section, 4.2 it was written that in cases where a problem exists to install wired network only, it is possible to install wireless network.

 

I understood that the Ministry of Education published inconclusive guidelines on purpose. On one hand, the Ministry is trying to be seen as a body that takes care of the children, and on the other hand, the Ministry leaves holes in its guidelines, in order to put quickly the WiFi in maximum classrooms and to set facts before the high court decision (that is expected during the next days). !

At this stage, I approached Alon school's principal in order to find out about the subject. I tried to understand if she was aware of the risks. I emphasized, that I am not against progress, and that distributing wired computers would enable progress without the unnecessary irradiation of the children and school team. I explained also the differences between using a router in your private house vs. in the classrooms:

1) Inside the house each person can decide whether to use WiFi or not. The radiation is not imposed.

2) In the house the option of wireless can be turned on in the router, and in all the computers, only according to the need and not during all the time.

3) In the house there are usually only 2-3 computers and not 30-40 that look for the router (and more 30-40 cell phones and two especially strong routers).

4) There is compulsory education law, this law forces the children to be in schools 5-8 hours aday, they have nowhere to run away. Again, forcing radiation on them. 

(it would be noted that the feeling was, that in all her first responses, the school principal was guided by Haifa municipality and by the Ministry of Education).  

In her first response the principal referred me to the new executive form of the Ministry of Education, that was published after the last high court decision. She referred also to radiation measurements and periodical safety examinations, that are done by the municipality, and she tried to calm me down that she and the teaching team did not want to endanger themselves and that the computers carts are loaded only after the school day.   I decided to check with my son and other children in his classroom, what happens in practice in the classrooms.  I understood that there were two carts in each school (in each floor a cart for the classrooms on the same floor). One was in their classroom, serving 5th grade1, 6th grade1, 2 classrooms. The second was in the warehouse and serves 4th grade1, 2, and 5th grade2. It turned out that on their floor there was no warehouse, and so they put the cart inside my son's classroom and there the computers were loaded each time when the cart was returned to them (including when the children were in the class). 

 

When I continued to approach the school principal:

-  I raised the problem of ignoring the loading procedure

- I tried to understand why they did not use wired internet like the Ministry of Education guided (why was it not possible?)

- I passed on information showing harm from non ionizing radiation to the reproductive system (especially sperm quality), DNA breaks, BBB penetration, EHS development, the classification of this radiation as 2B carcinogen, and more. All of these dangers are much higher for children whose brains are not developed yet, and in adolescents.  

- I passed on alternatives, including examples of distribution of wired network and cost assessments.

In addition to this:

I approached the parents of my son's classrooms, I informed them on the subject and suggested that if the wireless networks were not stopped in school, we would sign on non consent form against the participation of our children in the classrooms and we would pass it on to the school principal.

I wrote a very strong letter to several people responsible for the issue in Haifa municipality. Among the rest I was asking to check WiFi distribution in all Haifa schools thoroughly, and to pass me on a list of all schools where there are wireless networks. 

I wrote to the responsible in the Ministry of Education, Mr. Noam Koriat (following his request though the school  principal)- manager of knowledge management development and organization  from the Ministry of Education. His response does not justify its description here. I found a parent representative from Herzel school and we decided to cooperate together. I established a facebook group on the subject of WiFi in Haifa schools. I was active in other groups on facebook. I tried to understand from the parents what I could not receive from the municipality (whose responses had no grasp in reality and each response contradicted the previous one)-  in which schools in Haifa WiFi is used (so far I still don't have the full picture).

 

I asked help from experts (Ram Dishon, Amir Borenstein).

I got help from fights of parents in elementary schools in Tel Aviv.

I worked with the Haifa Green Party, who raised the subject of WiFi in Haifa schools to the city council already 1.5 years ago, and they brought to the situation where the general policy of Haifa municipality would be to avoid using internet wireless networks in its area.  

There was a stage when I received phone calls from my son's teacher and the school principal in attempt to calm me down, that there is no danger in using WiFi and anyway the use is everywhere. A change happened when the school principal informed Haifa municipality and the responsible on the digital books pilot in the Ministry of Education that she stopped the pilot and using computers in classrooms at all, until radiation measurements would be done in her school. Afterwards the school principal sent me a document on the communication system from Haifa municipality, that deals with the equipment standards. This document and also the future radiation measurement's meaning was not clear, because:

1) there are no definitions of what is being checked. The examinations are complicated and in practice are not done as they should be.

2) the results are meaningless because the threshold standard in Israel is 400 times higher than in Europe.

They will not convince us and will not make us want wireless internet networks in the schools where our children learn. Afterwards the school principal sent me "Appendix 2, standards book for program infrastructures" and drew my attention to the sentence "installing wired and wireless networks in classrooms and public areas in schools" This is an older version of the executive form, from 2010.

At this stage I went again to the parents and to the central parents committee chairman of the school. I updated in everything that had happened and the fact that Wi-Fi use was stopped temporarily until the radiation measurements. 

 

I explained why it was not right to rely on the results from this radiation measurement and that I was not ready to continue and endanger my son for one more day. I called everyone to sign on non consent form and to join the fight. I asked to understand the position of the central committee (until now their voice is not heard). I suggested a meeting together with parents from two other schools with experts. I was happy that this letter was passed on by the central committee chairman to the school principal.  Then the school principal informed me that a discussion was supposed to start soon in the municipality about using wireless networks in all four schools in the project and that meanwhile the pilot was stopped. A week afterwards (25/11 – a one and a half month after starting the fight), I was told by the school principal that it was decided in Haifa municipality to stop using wireless networks in classrooms immediately in the four schools where there is WiFi experiment. 

The digital books pilot will continue by downloading the digital books to all wireless computers for one time, (with periodical updates). The work near computers will be without using internet. Filing works will be done by DOK.

This solution is temporary until wired networks will be installed gradually in all classrooms in all schools. Regarding downloading the wireless computers, the school principal will make sure that it would be done only after 17:00, before locking the classrooms and until the father of the house comes early in the morning. In any case the download will not be done while the pupils are inside the classrooms.

The principal thanked me from the bottom of her heart for drawing her attention to the subject, because she was not aware of the danger, and I thanked her for her openness to the subject, for her cooperation, for implementing the precautionary principle and for putting the pupils health at the top of the priorities.

I hope this information will help parents and school principals who are trying to make a change. 

Veronique  Domshlak

 

 http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/net/ViewEntry.aspx?EntryId=2719381&skip=1

 

Iris

 
 
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Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent

I thought you would find the following of interest because it is very parallel to what we have seen in the EMF field.
 
 
Olle
 
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Worrldwide Directory of EMF Groups
 
 
 
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Strong evidence for hazards of RF in brain cancer. "A whole generation may be very much at risk" - David Carpenter, MD

Video 2:14

http://vimeo.com/73806191

 

Dr. Hugh Taylor discussing Yale research showing ADHD like behavior and brain changes from cell phone exposure in mice.

 
 
 

Special DNA concerns for children - Martin Blank, PhD

 
 

Thank you for your email which has been circulated for information to the Mayor, and Vancouver City Council.

Iris
 
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Bioelectric Signals Can Be Used to Detect Early Cancer

"We've shown that electric events tell the cells what to do. The voltage changes are not merely a sign of cancer. They control and direct whether the cancer occurs or not."
 
 
Andre
 
 
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Smart Meter installer threatens home owner
 
Darren got home to find a smart meter installer working on his meter box. He had a sign saying no smart meter, he objected and it ended in a ten minute tirade.
 
 
 
 
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New Zealand Govt urged to research health effects of WiFi

"Our Government is continuing to claim that there are no proven links between electromagnetic radiation and major health issues such as cancer
 
 
 
 
 
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Peanut Allergies in Kids on the Rise

Allergies rise as the amount of electromagnetic radiation rises.

 
Robert
 
 
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Canadian Safety Code Six Testimonies
 
This link https://rsc-src.ca/en/safety-code-6-public-consultation  has a recording you can access.  The recording is over 8 hours long.

I think you can pull out and listen to individual testimonies as there is a list of attendees on the side of the screen that one can click on.  However it says there were 27 attendees and I only see five that are listed.  

I do not see any written transcripts available. You might want to contact Russel MacDonald rmacdonald@rsc-src.ca 613-991-6990 x111 who is listed as the contact.
It's possible he could send you transcripts.
 
Angela
 
 
 
 

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