The mobile phone company Orange put up the 20-metre mast on a grass verge in Elvaston Lane in March, last year, using ''emergency'' planning rules. These allowed it to stay for six months without formal planning consent...The Orange phone mast which...
You have heard about concerns over smart meters that transmit intimate details of power consumption by radio waves, as well as the related dangers from the related dangers from the transmissions from cell phones. Now, it appears, American consumers also may have reason to worry about their water meters.
Most of Africa s around 2,000 languages have no word for cancer. The common perception in both developing and developed countries is that it s a disease of the wealthy world, where high-fat, processed-food diets, alcohol, smoking and sedentary lifestyles fuel tumor growth.
Yet Adu s is one of an estimated one million new cancer cases sub-Saharan Africa will see this year, a number predicted to double to 2 million a year in the next decade.
Digital revolution lights up Africa with maps, mobiles, money and markets (and cancer?)
Numerous social networks specifically for mobiles have sprung up, offering cheap or free communication for their users. Mxit and 2go from South Africa have 44m and 20m users respectively, the latter mostly in Nigeria.
A global report (BioInitiative) published on Sunday has turned the tables on cellular phone operators and even the civic body, who have been claiming that there is no ''conclusive evidence'' to prove the correlation between exposure to mobile tower radiation and health problems.
''Essentially, body processes can eventually be disabled by incessant external stresses (from system-wide electrophysiological interference) and lead to pervasive impairment of metabolic and reproductive functions,'' it adds.
Earlier, Santosh Kumar Rai, a member from Kurnad constituency, told the meeting that there were enough cases of cancer in Phajir and Kurnad villages. He said it was suspected that the radiation from cell-phone towers caused health problems. The member said the population of sparrows and crows was decreasing. This had been attributed to radiation from the cell phone towers.
The study concluded that ?the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was ... symptoms? (NSHS) reported by people close to cell phone towers are real.
More people are experiencing headaches, tinnitus, brain fog, ear pressures, sleep disorders, neurological symptoms, cardiac, and cancer risks, plus more. There are even mysterious hums that people hear.
Ein neuer Bericht der BioInitiative Working Group 2012 besagt, dass die Anzeichen für gesundheitliche Risiken, die von elektromagnetischen Feldern und...
Many so-called ''modern illnesses'' ranging from electromagnetic hypersensitivity to certain cancers and disorders of the immune system have been traced to cell phone use.
A lot of people will try to convince you that the negative health effects of Electromagnetic Radiation are simply a hoax or a fairy tale thought up by extremely paranoid people. Unfortunately, research is overwhelmingly proving that this is not the case at all.
Note the many unpleasant comments, which are obviously written by 'industry stooges' and ignorant people. Deborah has replied with reason and with good information. This is a good example of how to deal with 'unpleasant people' like these.
Hilary Clinton recently suffered from a blood clot behind the RIGHT ear. According to the picture below, she holds her cell phone on her RIGHT ear. Coincidence?
Pathophysiology. 2012 Dec 20.
pii: S0928-4680(12)00110-1.
doi: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2012.11.001.
[Epub ahead of print]
Lennart Hardell a, Michael Carlberg a, Kjell Hansson Mild b
Abstract
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at WHO evaluation of the carcinogenic effect of RF-EMF on humans took place during a 24?31 May 2011 meeting at Lyon in France. The Working Group consisted of 30 scientists and categorised the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, and from other devices that emit similar non-ionising electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF), as Group 2B, i.e., a ?possible?, human carcinogen. The decision on mobile phones was based mainly on the Hardell group of studies from Sweden and the IARC Interphone study. We give an overview of current epidemiological evidence for an increased risk for brain tumours including a meta-analysis of the Hardell group and Interphone results for mobile phone use. Results for cordless phones are lacking in Interphone. The meta-analysis gave for glioma in the most exposed part of the brain, the temporal lobe, odds ratio (OR) = 1.71, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.04?2.81 in the ?10 years (>10 years in the Hardell group) latency group. Ipsilateral mobile phone use ?1640 h in total gave OR = 2.29, 95% CI = 1.56?3.37.
The results for meningioma were OR = 1.25, 95% CI = 0.31?4.98 and OR = 1.35, 95% CI = 0.81?2.23, respectively. Regarding acoustic neuroma ipsilateral mobile phone use in the latency group ?10 years gave OR = 1.81, 95% CI = 0.73?4.45. For ipsilateral cumulative use ?1640 h OR = 2.55, 95% CI = 1.50?4.40 was obtained. Also use of cordless phones increased the risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma in the Hardell group studies. Survival of patients with glioma was analysed in the Hardell group studies yielding in the >10 years latency period hazard ratio (HR) = 1.2, 95% CI = 1.002?1.5 for use of wireless phones. This increased HR was based on results for astrocytoma WHO grade IV (glioblastoma multiforme). Decreased HR was found for low-grade astrocytoma, WHO grades I?II, which might be caused by RF-EMF exposure leading to tumour-associated symptoms and earlier detection and surgery with better prognosis. Some studies show increasing incidence of brain tumours whereas other studies do not. It is concluded that one should be careful using incidence data to dismiss results in analytical epidemiology.
The IARC carcinogenic classification does not seem to have had any significant impact on governments? perceptions of their responsibilities to protect public health from this widespread source of radiation.
The pdf is named with a filename in English (different than what I named the file, it was: Shatalov-paper-MechanismEMF.pdf, so someone along the line must know English! So anyone with Russian connections or abilities, please dive in. I also attached Google Translate s stab at the Introduction and the final 2 paragraphs (probably not helpful!).
I see this note at the top of each past online Issue: ''A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Inc. Distributed worldwide by Springer. Biophysics ISSN 0006-3509.'' But this is Issue 6, and so far the website only includes through Issue 5. It looks like when English Issue 6 is posted online, it would be listed here:
Mechanism of the biological impact of weak electromagnetic fields and in vitro effects of degassing of blood
[Article in Russian]
[No authors listed]
Abstract
The physical validity of the mechanism proposed by the author is discussed. According to the theory a prolonged exposure to weak electromagnetic fields leads to an enlargement of the micro-bubbles and degassing of bioliquid. Degassing alters the physical and chemical properties of bioliquid that affect some medical and biological indicators. The following changes in some blood parameters during degassing in vitro were analyzed: a decrease in the glucose concentration, an abnormal activation of blood clotting, an increase in the rate of blood cell aggregation, a decrease in the effectiveness of aspirin as an inhibitor of platelet aggregation and the slowing of indirect anticoagulants. All of this evidences a possible correlation between the increasing electromagnetic pollution and the risk of cardiovascular disease.
PMID: 23272585 [PubMed - in process]
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English Abstract
Danach möchte das Land NRW den Digitalfunk für Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsdienste und Katastrophenschutz endgültig einführen. Eigentlich sollte der analoge...
A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields and wireless technologies (radiofrequency radiation). The Report reviews over 1800 new...
Since 2007 the BioInitiative Report has been the best single source of scientific information about harm and adverse health effects caused by exposure to electro magnetic radiation. A five-year update has now been completed and will be publicly launched on Monday January 7, 2013. The update contains new chapters and strong new scientific evidence about the dangers of EMF exposure.
I encourage you all to study the BioInitiative Report and make good use of all the information.
Please distribute the attached press release far and wide.
Good places to forward it may be: your local newspapers, radio and TV stations, doctors offices, hospitals, health clinics, schools, universities, Government departments and the public, who urgently need to learn about the dangers of wireless radiation.
Our thanks should go to all the scientists and everyone else whose efforts that have gone into producing and improving the BioInitiative Report.
BioInitiative 2012 Report Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF
A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields and wireless technologies (radiofrequency radiation). The Report reviews over 1800 new scientific studies. Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk.
(When you dig through the very vast peer review-based scientific literature, you can not help to ask yourself, over and over again, when will the proofs be enough? How many more papers before health authorities, governments, presidents, kings, parliaments, queens, etc., will react...????)
Olle Johansson
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
Persons who have become ill from wireless radiation from cell phones, smart meters and other wireless devices cannot enter libraries or medical facilities without getting ill. Some even suffer life threatening conditions. Wifi is being banned in many schools and libraires etc in Europe due to scientific research showing that children, the ill, pregnant women and over exposed men are particularly at risk.
I have created a petition to The United States Senate. Please sign this petition:
The European Union believes cell phone towers pose such health risks that it recommends that they be kept clear of schools. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the country, has banned them...
Israel: ''The Education Ministry s dilemma, first installing WiFi, then measuring radiation.''-The lawsuit to the high court joins local organizations of parents, like the one Eden Fux is a member of, a parent of a 5th grade child in Tel Aviv, who is part of organizing against radiation emitting products in schools. ''Every peson will take the radiation to distance from his children. None will put the router on the desk where the child is playing, and none will put router in every room in the house, surely not in a room where the child is sitting for 6-7 hours. But the installation in school was done without our knowledge, in contrast to the guidelines and without logic. They don t consult with the parents and run with the technology, in contrast to the recommendations of international health organizations''. Fux also says that the people who come to measure radiation in the school said it s strange to put router in every classroom. ''We saw that there are 4 fold routers than what is needed. The WiFi phenomenon is not ancient, why do we need to learn the risks with in depth studies after 30 years?'' he says.
Dancing is associated with a joyous occasion unless it happens to be a cow doing it.
'Dancing cow' is a term describing an animal feeling the pain of stray current which causes it to step back and forth in an effort to break the circuit of electricity flowing through its body. It is associated with cows repeatedly kicking off milking equipment as well.
It is neither joyous for the cow or its owner for that matter, although the pain felt by the latter is best described as financial and/or emotional in nature. It is a situation that has grown increasingly common on dairy farms but only more recently brought into the open.
The suppression has been attributed to a combination of circumstances -from the utilities providing the electricity claiming there was no problem or at least not from their perspective to farmers themselves hiding the situation in much the manner of someone concealing a contagious disease.
''It is not the sort of things farmers want to talk about at the coffee shop,'' said Dr. Magda Havas, an associate professor of environmental and resource studies at Trent University in Peterborough.
She was one of a panel of speakers addressing the topic of stray current, often referred to as tingle/stray voltage or dirty electricity, at a public forum sponsored by the Perth County Federation of Agriculture recently in Listowel.
Also addressing the 100-plus people in attendance were three farmers whose lives and farm businesses had been severely affected by stray current causing a myriad of diseases to their livestock from breeding problems, to lameness, abortion and death itself.
Tavistock-area dairy farmer Mark Erb, a sixth generation farmer milking 100 cows, said loneliness best described how he felt in dealing with the debilitating effect of stray current in his barn: seven cows dying in the period of a week; 14 heifers dying over a two-week period with 41 eventually dying over several months.
''Laughing on the outside, crying on the inside,'' was the subtitle given to his talk referring to the effort of putting on a brave, stoic face to the surrounding farm community when the problem suddenly descended on his farm in July of 2008.
However the stress of trying unsuccessfully to correct the situation, with feed suppliers, veterinarians, electricians, as milk production and income dropped, took a toll on his health. To save his own life required open heart surgery in 2010.
''What is happening in the barn is happening in the house,'' said Erb of the stress on family relationships. Eventually he felt he had to talk openly about the associated problems, although with difficulty, even in the silent pauses taken at the meeting to regain composure.
Various people responded by saying the problem was caused by poor management until you eventually believed it yourself, said Erb. Through installation of filters and blockers to deflect or reroute the stray current, Erb did eventually begin to get the problem under control on his operation, although some breeding problems have persisted.
THE STRESS has not left entirely either as two neighbours within a mile and a half begin having similar problems with their livestock which they attributed to the action taken by Erb at his farm. He was accused of being the cause of the problem rather than a victim.
Stray current appears to have a fairly straightforward pattern made more complex by human attempts to deal with it. As explained by panel member Lorne Lantz: for every single electron of electrical current leaving the source via a conductor a single electron must be returned to the source. The job of returning the electron to its source is done by the neutral or fourth wire accompanying the three wires distributing electricity in a conventional three phase power grid.
The ever-increasing load demand on the outf low of electrons has resulted in inadequate controlled means of returning electrons to the source on the neutral side. As a result the electrons use the earth - whereever it can find the path of least resistance -as a means of returning to the source. Dr. Havas suggested the problem could be solved by simply installing a second neutral wire in the system operated in Ontario by Hydro One.
So far Hydro One has dealt with the problem by installing ground rods at every third hydro pole, connected to the neutral wire to facilitate completion of an uncontrolled electric pathway back to the source. ''Your home, shed and barns are being used as ground rods by the utility,'' said Lantz, a former dairy farmer in the Wellesley area whose trouble with stray current resulted in him taking a new career path as a consultant dealing with the associated problems. He has worked with farmers all across Ontario in identifying sources of stray current the term he prefers to use instead of stray voltage on their farms. 'Farmers are responsible for manure dumps but utilities dump current and no one says a word,'' said Lantz.
WHILE DR. Havas and Lantz suggested the grounding of neutral at every third pole is a quick, cheap fix by Hydro One that has only exacerbated the problem, John Kalich, manager of distribution planning for Hydro One at the Barrie headquarters says that's not so. His department is responsible for power quality and reliability. ''That is the way the system was designed from the beginning,'' said Kalich referring to when electricity was first brought to the province a century ago with the installation of four to six ground rods every kilometre. Kalich was invited to the meeting by organizers. He said he had considered participating as a speaker but felt he was ''outmanned'' and sensed an air of hostility in the room. ''They are fearmongers'' said Kalich of the message being presented by panel members. He suggested panel members were creating the impression that every farm in Ontario was being threatened with economic ruin because of stray current. ''That is obviously not the case.'' In reference to the three farmers who spoke at the meeting, he noted that their situations had been resolved over time. Hydro One has a guideline of steps to follow for customers suspecting they have a problem with stray current, beginning with an examination of their electrical system by a qualified electrician. While Kalich noted he had 17 electrical engineers under his supervision, Dr. Havas suggested that lawyers, not engineers, occupied top management positions for Hydro One. If action taken by Hydro One to correct the problem was successful it would then point blame for its financially damaging effects at Hydro One, leaving the utility open for legal action, so steps are not taken for corrective action, suggested Dr. Havas.
SO WHILE the physical element of electrical current is straightforward enough the argument as to who is responsible for controlling it, the human element, has many twists and turns. Even the terminology used to describe the problem, referred to as pollution, in the failed attempt by the province in 2006 to deal with it in the 'Ground Current Pollution Act', is vague and perhaps misleading. The private members bill died with the change of government. Then there are: the various means of measuring and/or quantifying the actual current on site; the wide range of frequencies more or less damaging; where to properly measure it, at the cow, on the transformer pole stack, in the yard; maximum acceptable limits for livestock and humans; etc. etc. etc. There may be future attempts to deal with the problem via legislation, but the farm population has the political power of a pen-light battery and is unlikely to create any sense of urgency around finding a solution, especially if it is an expensive one in a deficit-challenged province.
The Ontario Energy Board continues to monitor the situation after soliciting input from all parties involved. In the meantime it will continue to cost farmers affected hundred of thousands of dollars in lost production from livestock, said Dr. Havas. She added that it is often farmers who are the most successful managers, who have constructed modern livestock facilities, who experience stray current attracted to the steel used in newer buildings as well as the large liquid-filled cement manure holding tanks whose underground piping systems provide easy access to the building interior. Problems are more common on farms at the end of a distribution line or where the three phase distribution is split out to single phase feeder lines.
The political impetus to address the problem could yet come from the general population because stray current is also an increasing problem in urban metropolises, said Dr. Havas. Dogs walking over dampened steel man hole covers in New York have been electrocuted recently. Owners walking their dogs are being advised not to use metal leashes. The issue is so complex and difficult to understand the general public just looks the other way. But that could change if the health of pets is affected, said Dr. Havas adding the more important issue will be human health.
One area both Hydro One s Kalich and panelists could agree on is the demand put on the system by electrical equipment that didn t even exist when the distribution system was established. Large variable speed electric motors common on farms for such things as vacuum milking pumps or ventilation fans, while designed to save electricity by matching current to varying demand, emit higher volumes of stray current than conventional electric motors. There was agreement as well that wind turbines and invertors from solar panels, with installations popping up all across the rural landscape, are a potential source of stray current. This does not bode well in conjunction with a distribution system that was carried out as cheaply as possible in the first place to rural areas from cities because of a smaller customer base, said Dr. Havas.
Considering green electricity is being strongly promoted by the ruling Liberal government, farmers may face Hydro One and Queens Park in the deflecting of stray ground current and responsibility.
Source: BY BOB REID For Ontario Farmer
Section: Dairy Page: B10
Memo: The writer lives in Shakespeare farmhouse@cwisp.ca
Note: Stray voltage is not known to many people and is very difficult to tetect and measure, yet it may be affecting the health of millions of people in North America due to a badly designed electrical grid system.
BC Smart Meters
We just got good news that BC Hydro has missed its deadline for the smart meter program and is extending it another year.
Thousands refuse smart meters; installation deadline extended by Rob Shaw, Times Colonist, December 27, 2012:
Of course they say it s due to labour shortage, NOT. They sent their Corix installers to Alberta a few weeks ago. And to material shortage, NOT. All the meter companies have a surplus due to the protests across North America.
We have more than 100,000 homes refusing meters according to Hydro which has not been honest about anything so I bet this number is much higher. A couple of months ago it was 250,000, but due to bullying, threats and lies some people did give in.
I believe if we stand firm and continue to refuse we can beat this illegal, dangerous program.
Two local interveners have asked the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to suspend the proceedings until FortisBC has done all their research and included a wired in option in their business plan.
Since BC Hydro does not have an opt out option for smart meters this imposition restricts my ability to limit my exposure and protect my health. This is a violation of my right to be safe in my own home
''It is not hard to imagine that in the next few years, you go to a coffee shop, sit down in a chair, sign into a power zone, and charge your phone or laptop,'' said Richard Martin, editorial director for Pike, a market research group that focuses on smart-energy solutions. ''We predict this technology taking off in a similar fashion to how Wi-Fi got its start a decade or so ago.''
SAN DIEGAN FILES SUIT OVER SMART METER HEALTH ISSUES
December 29, 2012 (San Diego). A federal lawsuit has been filed by Celeste Deborah Cooney, who alleges that radiation from a bank of smart meters left her unable to reside in her home. Defendants in the suit include the SDG&E, the State of California,...
Preventing Ground Current Electricity from entering your house on your plumbing
You may be suffering adverse health effects because of ground current electricity (carrying high frequency pollution) entering your home. This video may help you to solve the problem.
Daniel Ross, Truthout: Little is still known about the human health effects of stray electric currents. But at Desert Rose, a California community perched beside an electrical substation, residents are falling chronically ill, and experts believe that stray currents could be to blame...
Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Medical Journal recently reported a study conducted by the College of Medicine in King Saud University that showed prolonged usage of cell phones by participants was associated with a number of health problems. Those who were frequent users of their cell phones suffered more fatigue, headaches, dizziness, tension, and sleep disturbances than the less frequent users.
The Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation: There are strong reasons to believe that the consequences for the public health, and especially for the young generations, will be serious if the population and the society don t start to take urgent measures to broadly inform about the risks and take immediate steps to reduce the exposure.
This article (in italian), by Sabrina Giannini on ''Corriere della Sera'', a major newspaper in our Country.
She tells how the Ministry of Health just resigned, did not want to make any information campaign on the correct use of mobile phones, despite promises of Board of Health (Consiglio Superiore Sanità) in November 2011. So she has realized the spot ''never appeared'' on tv, using our decalogue.
We continue to put pressure on the Ministry also with letters of formal notice sent by people who had fallen ill (acoustic neuroma, in particular) due to mobile phones use.
At the moment we have many people in this condition who are starting lawsuits.
''The health risks associated with the use of electronics is a growing concern,'' says Ochillo Ayacko, Chairman of the Nuclear Electricity Development Project (NEDP) in Kenya s Ministry of Energy.
The power companies and TDSPs in this state have relied on a couple of ''expert'' reports. Believe me, they cherry pick the same as the big pharma houses to get what they need for some governmental agency's approval. All the scientists, experts and physicians world wide who are against 'smart' meters are all wrong according to the power companies and TDSPs. Only their couple of sources are credibile. They really do think we are stupid......
Following completion of his documentary, ''Resonance, Beings of Frequency'', director James Russell is trying to connect with people in the UK who have already experienced health effects from Smart Meters for another media project.
If you would like to contribute, please email info [at] StopSmartMeters.org.uk
Cell Phone Use and Salivary...
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