Friday, January 21, 2011

A comment on wireless smart meters / Four-year old survivor breast cancer / Complete Blood Count / The Death Of Humanity / Seven Radiation Scans

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21 January 2011

 
 
Dear All,
Please, find enclosed a comment sent to Lora Lee Martin at The California Council on Science and Technology regarding it's recent report ("Health Impacts of Radio Frequency from Smart Meters") on wireless smart meters.
Best regards
Yours
Olle

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.

The Experimental Dermatology Unit

Department of Neuroscience

Karolinska Institute

171 77 Stockholm

Sweden
 
 
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Four-year-old Ontario girl surviving breast cancer
 
 
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This child underwent months of major medical treatment, but I doubt that anyone seriously tried to find the cause or checked the electro magnetic situation at her home, where she probably developed this illness! 
 
Martin.
 
 
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Phone Masts: legally valid evidence that campaign groups can present in court
- EMFs and changes in the Complete Blood Count
 
 
 
Comment on this information - (In the document a doctor explains that the blood cell count changes when exposed to EMF. 

A group of people that were protesting a tower that was to be erected went and had their blood tested to get a baseline. They then sent the results to the cell phone company and said that they would retest it 2 months after the tower went up and if there was a difference they would sue the company and publish the reports - the cell phone company decided to withdraw the application no questions asked. 

One thing all of the people around the tower did do was to remove the Dect, Wifi and baby monitors from their home for a few weeks and then they tested their blood - to make sure that the phone company could not use those devices against them.  Perhaps this is the reason why these dect phones and baby monitors are everywhere - so that everyone is exposed and it would not show a difference!  

This sounds like a real good way to stop a tower going up! Instead of paying for a lawyer - pay for blood tests and do your own study! I think just threatening that you will do this test should get their attention.   Perhaps this is another reason why they do not give enough warning when they want to put a cell tower up).
 
Bob
 
 
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This Is The Death Of Humanity - part 7

Thursday, January 20, 2011

http://davidrothscum.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-is-death-of-humanity-part-7.html

Who do you think you're kidding?

Let's make some things clear: Cell phones cause cancer. Cell phone towers cause cancer. Cordless phones cause cancer. Blackberries cause cancer, Iphones cause cancer. Power lines cause cancer. Radio and TV towers cause cancer. Non-ionizing radiation leads to oxidative damage, which leads to indirect DNA damage, which leads to cancer.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Wireless communication is irreconcilable with organic life as we know it.
In the words of Andrew Goldsworthy: "The problem is far more serious than anyone has previously imagined. The effects on people with EHS and allergy-related conditions are bad enough in their own right but, with about half the world's population already owning a mobile phone, the resulting widespread genetic damage threatens the future of the entire human race. "

But why should I bother? Everyone knows about it. Everyone knows the radiation is hurting us. Everyone except for first year physics students that is. The Telecom industry knows all too well that we have no future. Biologists know what's going on. Most people are simply uncomfortable with the thought, so they deny it. This is called cognitive dissonance. As explained by Wikipedia:
Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying. It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.
A good example is found on Wikipedia as well:
Smoking is often postulated as an example of cognitive dissonance because it is widely accepted that cigarettes can cause lung cancer, yet virtually everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. In terms of the theory, the desire to live a long life is dissonant with the activity of doing something that will most likely shorten one's life. The tension produced by these contradictory ideas can be reduced by quitting smoking, denying the evidence of lung cancer, or justifying one's smoking.[5] For example, smokers could rationalize their behavior by concluding that only a few smokers become ill, that it only happens to very heavy smokers, or that if smoking does not kill them, something else will.[6] While chemical addiction may operate in addition to cognitive dissonance for existing smokers, new smokers may exhibit a simpler case of the latter.
Now for cell phones:

The information is that cell phones cause brain cancer. Your desire is not to get brain cancer, but to live a long and happy life. You don't want your kids to get a brain tumor either. The rational conclusion would thus be to avoid the radiation. However, you don't want to. It takes too much effort. Also, everyone is using cell phones. This would mean that everyone is screwed, and you have no future. The thought of humanity having no future contradicts your desire to live a long and happy life.

Thus, you have to reconcile these different thought patterns in your head. There are multiple ways. You could stop using cell phones and go live in a cave. But you don't want that. You could be like me, and learn to live with the fact that the next generations are going to have it worse than ours, and life expectancy will plummet. Someone will manage to put a ban on the radiation eventually, though the question is how many people will be left by then. I'm sure some people will be left, it's very hard to go from 6 billion to zero, and we still have people hiding in the rain-forests where you have no connection, but the exact number that will be left remains debatable.

My way of dealing with these contradictory ideas is as following: I begrudgingly accept the fact that I will probably die at a younger age than my parents, and I accept the fact that most people are going to suffer immensely from the health consequences. There are multiple ways to attempt to reduce the damage (and I will eventually cover those here), but I remain rational, and the only way to truly prevent the problem is by turning off the cell phone towers and all the wireless devices. Until then, anything you do is little more than treating the symptoms of radiation poisoning.

There are other ways to reduce the cognitive dissonance of course. You can simply deny the information. One way to deny the information is by keeping yourself willfully ignorant. Most people practice this method. You just don't read about it and just don't think about it. You try not to think at all. The fact of the matter is that thinking leads to cognitive dissonance, and cognitive dissonance is a very uncomfortable feeling (that I love to generate), so you do your best to limit your thinking to the minimum amount which is necessary for you to carry out your job. This is a time-tested method.

This is passive denial, you could also actively deny the information by claiming that cell phones don't cause brain cancer at all. In that case, you're just wrong. I'm sorry, the debate is over. Everyone knows.
An alternating electrical field is currently used as a brain cancer treatment. Why? Because the radiation kills the brain cells while they're dividing, which is when cells are most vulnerable to the radiation. Why are you questioning whether the radiation can harm cells, when it is effectively being used as a cancer treatment? Read this for yourself, the frequency is in the 100Khz-300Khz range. This is low-frequency, lower even than microwave radiation. I suspect this is to allow the radiation to penetrate deeper into the brain. Regardless, the point should be clear. Non-ionizing radiation is used as a cancer treatment, because it kills the cells. What is it that makes you think that you can safely hold a radiation emitting device against your head?

Even the telecom industry is laughing in your face. They know better, they are fully aware of the health impact this will have.
Take a look at this patent of a Swiss Telecom company, which carries the highly original name, Swisscom. The patent explains how they have developed a new type of cordless telephone, that emits less radiation than previous ones. And what is so amazing? The fact that they mention themselves that the radiation causes cancer! The telecom industry admits in patents for their technology, that their technology causes cancer! But your government pretends there is no danger! And best of all, you swallow their lies!

From the patent:
The influence of electrosmog on the human body is a known problem. The health risk from mobile radio transmitters, handys and DECT telephones has been an explosive subject among the general public at least since the enormous breakthrough in mobile radio technology in the 1990s. To meet the concerns of science from the legislative side, the permissible limit values have thus been lowered several times, and technology has been increasingly focused on this problem. The risk of damage to health through electrosmog has also become better understood as a result of more recent and improved studies. When, for example, human blood cells are irradiated with electromagnetic fields, clear damage to hereditary material has been demonstrated and there have been indications of an increased cancer risk.
When a Telecom company wants to sell their own product, they suddenly admit that the radiation is causing DNA damage! And you, the dumb gullible fool, deny there is a problem. Everyone knows, except for you. They're laughing in your face. Though, I imagine they must also suffer from guilt feelings.

I wonder what method the people who sell you this garbage use to reduce the cognitive dissonance. I suspect they might simply introduce new information: "The fact that I am responsible for the death of humanity contradicts my desire not to be a mass murderer. However, the profit I make from exterminating humanity fulfills my desire to become rich".

As I mentioned earlier, I like generating cognitive dissonance. So, hoping that some Telecom-gangsters will read this far, I will leave them with the words of Bob Dylan:

Let me ask you one question: Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll, all the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Telecom-gangsters, please be aware that leaking memos of your mob-bosses to the internet (no need to use Wikileaks for that, Julian Assange will just put them somewhere in his giant insurance file which he uses to keep himself from getting killed), quitting your job, going public by warning people about the danger, or simply giving away ALL the dirty money you earned to the poor (and keeping your mouth shut about it, no bragging) will do a lot to clean the karma stains from your soul. Get the dirty money out of your life, now. It is the first step towards self improvement. You know it's wrong for you to make money by selling stuff that hurts people. Here's a little secret: You will feel more alive when you get the money out of your life. You just became a little wiser, and with wisdom comes peace of mind.

Now, unlike the Telecom-gangsters, some of you will have no idea what the hell I'm talking about. You might want to read some of the earlier articles I've written:

-Here's one all the way back from March of 2009, looking at 3 studies that found a big link between living next to a cell phone tower, and getting cancer.

This article should really have been part of this series:

-It's all over in fifty years.

Gaia is crying, because you killed her children to tell your friend about the ugly dress your coworker wore to the office party:*

-You killed the birds, the bees, the frogs, the bats and the trees

*That puts things in perspective doesn't it? Your cell-phone conversations are a big disgrace to the human race. Stop embarrassing us any further.

And, the most recent one:

New research confirms: Electromagnetic omnicide is culling the trees

Now, if you feel like crying at any point while reading, because you're not a bitter misanthropist yet, please remember the words of Bill Hicks: It's all just a ride. Always keep this in mind during the death of humanity. You might still cry while watching the video though. But they'll be a different kind of tears.

 
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Tragically, Average Child in U.S. Gets Seven Radiation Scans

Posted by: Dr. Mercola | January 20 2011
 
 
 
 

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Santa Cruz Extends Smart Meter Moratorium / Stray Currents and Corrosion / EMR Resource Page / Long-Term Cell Phone / Meta cell phone analysis / A matter of life and death / Double Your Risk

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20 January 2011

 
Katherine Tweed : January 19, 2011

Santa Cruz Extends Smart Meter Moratorium

 More smart meter hatred.

 http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/santa-cruz-extends-smart-meter-moratorium-enernoc-joins-openadr-alliance/

In response to concerns about the health effects of smart meters, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last Tuesday to impose a moratorium on meter installation through 2011, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The smart meters were already on hold, but the original moratorium expired at the end of 2010. The board said it was waiting for a report on health effects, which was released later that same day.

The concern over health effects, specifically electromagnetic field radiation, is not limited to Santa Cruz. Residents in Maine and other parts of California have expressed similar concern, but the report issued by the California Council on Science and Technology concluded that "Wireless smart meters, when installed and properly maintained, result in much smaller levels of radio frequency exposure than many existing common household electronic devices, particularly cell phones and microwave ovens."    

Other studies have had similar findings that the smart meters are well within the Federal Communications Commission standards.
 
Despite the study's findings, Santa Cruz plans to uphold the moratorium. Legally, if Pacific Gas and Electric continues to install meters, it will be a misdemeanor, if it is cited at all.

However, outraged people, even a few of them, can make a lot of noise. Even if science does not back their claims, there needs to be serious acknowledgement of their concerns, and even potentially an opt-out clause, for utilities that are looking for smooth smart grid upgrades.

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Stray Currents and Corrosion noted in tram report

http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/netphase2/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=23208&p=0

 

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EMR Resource Page

The penny is dropping – children and electromagnetic radiation 

'Non- thermal effects and mechanisms of interaction between electromagnetic fields and ...

http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/Locations/London-South-West/Articles/Health-beauty-and-wellbeing/EMR-Resource-Page

 

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Does Long-Term Cell Phone Use Lead to Brain Tumors?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101105213809.htm

ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2011)
— The highest-quality research data available suggests that long-term exposure to microwaves from cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, reports a paper in the November/December issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography.

Although debate continues, independent studies with long-term follow-up strongly suggest an increased risk of brain tumors related to the use of cellular or cordless phones. "We conclude that the current standard of exposure to microwave during mobile phone use is not safe for long-term exposure and needs to be revised," conclude the study authors, led by R.B. Dubey of Apeejay College of Engineering, Sohna, Gurgaon, India.

Brain Tumor Risk May Double after 10 Years of Cell Phone Use

There is increasing public concern about the potential cancer risks from microwave emissions related to wireless phones -- not only cellular phones and base stations (transmission tower antennae), but also home cordless phones. Some studies have reported that long-term wireless phone users have increased rates of brain tumors, including malignant gliomas and benign acoustic neuromas. However, other studies have found no association.

To gain insight into the controversy, Dubey and colleagues performed an in-depth analysis of research on the health risks associated with microwave exposure from wireless phones. To date, only eleven published studies have provided data on the risk of developing brain tumors in long-term cell phone users -- ten years or longer.

The largest data source was a series of studies called the Interphone studies, which were largely funded by the wireless communications industry. Based on data from thirteen countries, the Interphone studies concluded that cell phone exposure did not increase the risk of brain tumors. In addition to possible bias associated with industry funding, the studies had some important flaws, including relatively short durations of cell phone use.

However, an independent series of studies led by Swedish cancer specialist Dr. Lennart Hardell reached a different conclusion. Dr. Hardell's studies included more patients who had used a cell phone for ten years or longer and were performed without financial support from the wireless industry. The findings suggested that the more hours of cellular phone use over time, the higher the risk of developing brain tumors. Risk also increased along with the level of power from the wireless device, years since first use, total exposure, and younger age when starting wireless phone use.

Based on an analysis of pooled data from different studies, researchers write, "[L]ong-term cell phone usage can approximately double the risk of developing a glioma or acoustic neuroma in the more exposed brain hemisphere" -- that is, on the side where the user typically holds the phone to the ear. That conclusion is consistent even with data on the long-term cell phone users from the Interphone studies.

It's unclear exactly how exposure to microwave radiation from cell phones may increase brain cancer risk. However, studies have shown that the cell signal is absorbed up to two inches in the adult skull. There is special concern about the risks in younger age groups, as cell phone signals penetrate much deeper into the brain in children.

Further studies are needed to definitively determine the risk of brain cancer and other health effects related to long-term use. Meanwhile, Dr. Dubey and coauthors suggest some steps that cell phone users can take to reduce exposure. These include limiting the number and length of calls, restricting children's cell phone use, communicating by text instead of voice, and wearing an "air tube" headset (not a regular wired headset) rather than holding the phone to the ear.

The researchers also urge adoption of newer phones and other technologies to reduce exposure, and call for government action to revise standards for microwave exposure. "The precautionary principle clearly applies in this case, since the problem is possible but not certain and low cost ameliorating actions are easily implemented by industry," Dubey and coauthors conclude. "With over 3 billion people using cell phones and with children among the heaviest users, it is time for governments to mandate precautionary measures to protect their citizens."

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January 19, 2011 12:08 PM PST

Meta cell phone analysis: Text more, talk less

 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20028928-247.html
 
 
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On cell phones, it's a matter of life and death!

Arab News
The research emphasized that those who used a cell phone heavily on the side of the head where the tumor developed were found to have an increased risk of ...
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/food_health/article238006.ece
 
 
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Caution: This Common Device Can Double Your Risk of Getting a Brain Tumor

I've written a lot about the dangers of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in general, and cell phone radiation specifically, but appreciation for the critical ...

January 19 2011 | 130,854 views
 
http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2011/01/19/the-hard-core-science-of-how-cell-phones-and-other-emf-damages-you.aspx
 
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Lifestyle/brain_tumor_0119110727.html
 
 
 
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TfL mast campaigner wins appeal
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/London_Evening_Standard_Un_riverain_antennes_relais_qui_avait_harcele_de_mails_Boris_Johnson_gagne_son_proces_en_Appel_19_01_2011.pdf
 
 

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