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The following article from the US environmental magazine Latitudes bears
a remarkable similarity to the situation faced by farmers in Ouruhia New
Zealand who live near transmitter towers. See the Ouruhia web site at:
http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/ouruhia/
The Dark Side of Wireless Technology
Sheila Rogers, editor of Latitudes
This account, obtained by interviewing the mother of this family, has
all the makings of a documentary. The name of the cell phone company and
the source is withheld while the family looks for a lawyer willing to
take the case (see note).
MEREDITH AND HER HUSBAND were dairy farmers on over 150 acres of rolling
green land that had been passed down for generations. They had grown to
love the simple lifestyle that came with hard work, fresh air, and
farming in the Midwest. They and their four children enjoyed good health
and happy days.
When the cell phone tower was erected twelve years ago they weren't too
concerned, though they were certainly not pleased that it was just over
the property line on the adjoining land and only 800 feet from their
house. It was an eyesore, but they were assured it was perfectly safe.
"It's like a 100-watt light bulb," the company often told people.
"We were naïve," says Meredith. "Over the next few months, we watched
as our herd that grazed near the tower became emaciated and agitated-a
change from their normally fat and contented state. The whole herd
developed rough coats. The vet was puzzled, but blood work produced no
answers."
MEANWHILE, WITHIN SIX MONTHS the parents noticed changes in their
children. There were skin rashes-unusual, raised "hot spots." They had
recurrent kidney infections. The youngest two kids became dramatically
hyperactive, and the older ones complained of foggy thinking and
concentration problems. Then sleep disturbances crept in. Meredith, in
her early thirties, began to develop joint problems. "Everyone's
symptoms were worse," she explained, "on foggy or rainy days. I since
learned this was because the moisture increases the electrical
conductivity. There were times when my preschool child would literally
spin in circles." One day she discovered that their tower had become the
"hub" for the entire state. "We buried cows that winter," she recalls.
Searching for solutions and options, they tracked down a researcher at
the Environmental Protection Agency, who gave her the first useful
advice they'd had. He told her that as a government official he should
reassure her that they were safe. But with his "citizen cap" on, he had
to say that they should move immediately.
WITH HOPES OF RETURNING ONE day, they sold the herd but had someone keep
the heifers for them. Within two to three months of moving to an
electrically clean area in upper Michigan, health problems began to
subside. After a year, they all were feeling strong once more. The only
problem was that their farm was unattended, they were out of money, and
they desperately needed to farm again.
About this time, they spoke with new owners of the cell phone company.
The staff expressed disdain for flagrant safety lapses of the previous
tower owners. The family was assured that if they returned, everything
would now be fine. Excited at the news, they went back to their farm.
It was not long before symptoms returned. The children lost weight and
the girls began to lose hair. Meredith was pregnant but not gaining
weight. That son was unfortunately born with anomalies-birth defects
that fit no particular syndrome. Neighbors also had complaints; the
suicide rate increased in town, and unusual seizures were reported.
Now, some calves were born with front legs shorter than the back and
with deformed hooves; some had large tumors-one tumor was three feet in
diameter and the calf could not be delivered alive, even with a
C-section. And the tumors were not typical to the species.
THEY HAD BEEN BACK FOR THREE years when a pediatrician saw the son's
birth defects, heard the story, and told them to leave town. Why had
they stayed so long? "We had to make a living. And somehow, when it's
gradually happening, you're in denial-you don't see it for what it is,"
Meredith said.
They managed to buy a farm in a safe area and start anew. "My husband
insisted we take the cows with us, and within three days they were
chewing their cuds-something they hadn't done for years." The young boy,
though, remains electrically sensitive and hyperactive. Meredith says
that if he is within two and a half miles of a tower he develops flushed
skin. Computer terminals and fluorescent lights in stores increase
symptoms. He has food sensitivities, and damp weather continues to
affect him.
And the land-what happened to the farm? Meredith sighs. "It just sits
there. Empty. Selling the farm has not been considered. Should we let
this happen to someone else?" End
Message from Don Maisch
(excerpt)
and from the same informant:
Electrical Sensitivity
Arthur Firstenberg and Susan Molloy
The 750,000-watt Doppler weather radar at Fort Dix, New Jersey,
overlooks the Township of Brick. Why is that of interest to anyone but
meteorologists? It's not, except that eight out of every 1000 children
born in Brick since the radar station was built in 1994 are autistic.
The Brick Township Autism Investigation (1), conducted in 1998 by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uncovered 60 cases of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged three through ten in this
town of 77,000 residents. As in much of the rest of the world, autism is
increasing here. But the prevalence of both ASD and classic autism in
Brick Township were found to be dramatically higher than normal in the
3-to-5-year-old age group, i.e., those born since 1994.
Forward-thinking educators and parents have done a good job in recent
years of tackling the difficult issues involved in protecting sensitive
children from chemical contaminants, dyes, preservatives, and allergens
in their food, medications, classrooms, and homes. However, an
additional burden has been overlooked and even ridiculed as untenable as
a factor in many children's profound neurological and behavioral
problems. Some readers may react with disbelief to our suggestion that
the Fort Dix Doppler might qualify for a place on the "radar screen" of
those scientists who are puzzled by the local epidemic of autism. (2)
The authors of this article are adults who are made extremely sick,
sometimes incapacitated, from exposure to "normal" amounts of
electromagnetic energy. We've seen some children respond as we do, as
their well-meaning parents and teachers equip them with newer, faster,
more powerful "safety" and communication devices, oblivious to the
potential consequences for their children's health and development.
We're not oblivious to these consequences because we ourselves respond
directly and immediately, with debilitating pain, confusion, and
neurological symptoms, to cell phones, cordless phones, computers,
televisions, and other normal elements of today's home, work and school
environments. And we are in increasingly good company.
Gro Harlem Brundtland is director-general of the World Health
Organization. A medical doctor with a master's degree in public health,
as well as former prime minister of Norway, she has recently been
speaking in public about her own sensitivity to computers, cordless
phones and cell phones. Not only has she warned parents against allowing
their children to use cell phones or microwave ovens, but she said that
she herself has become so sensitive to the radiation that she does not
allow anyone to enter her office with a cell phone turned on. "If you
enter my office, you are invited by me. No one who is invited would like
to give me headaches," she said at a news conference in Oslo on July 1,
2002, where she was attending an international conference on cancer.
Awakening to the potential of electricity to affect children's health
and development can be initially disheartening, because electromagnetic
pollution is so inescapable, and its sources so often are "conveniences"
for which we've eagerly expended considerable resources. It can also be
empowering, because it gives parents and practitioners an additional
tool and offers a new range of potential factors that may be influencing
seemingly intractable health or behavior problems.
Both of us went to school and were graduated from college before
personal computers, cell phones, the Internet, and everything that goes
along with them even existed. As environmentally sensitive people, we
feel lucky to have grown up before today's conditions became the norm.
What Can We Do?
Computers in the classroom are practically unquestioned now, and that is
fine for the durable. However, our society should provide computer-free
classrooms for those vulnerable children for whom this is a necessary
and effective accommodation. In schools where wireless computers-or
regular computers with wireless keyboards/mice-are installed, even a
computer-free classroom will not be an effective intervention for a
child whose Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder is triggered or exacerbated by electromagnetic
radiation. This is because the microwave frequencies used by these
technologies, identical to the frequencies used in a microwave oven,
pass through walls and do not respect the boundaries of classrooms.
What we suggest runs counter to the prevailing educational trend, which
is to throw more and more computer-enabled devices at physically and
developmentally disabled children in an effort to improve their
functioning, without any consideration of the potential effects of the
extra radiation on their developing nervous systems.
When adult populations were sampled within the last year for the
prevalence of electrical sensitivity, estimates by researchers varied
from 1.5% (Stockholm, Sweden) to 3.3% (state of California) to 7% (Marin
County, California) of the population. One patient group in Germany puts
the number as high as 15% of the German population. Nobody knows
exactly, because this is an isolating, disabling, and ridiculed problem
that is still in the public health "closet," along with most of its
victims. Children are the most vulnerable segment of the population.
They are also the most unaware of the potential effects of this
invisible and largely unacknowledged pollutant coming from equipment
that is so fervently sought by their peers and esteemed by their parents
and teachers.
Medical facilities, also, are sites of electronics' proliferation. The
growing field of medical telemetry uses wireless technology to monitor
the vital signs of hospital patients. But also, in hospitals, nursing
homes, day care and elder care facilities, mental health institutions
and group homes, remote monitoring of patients is in increasing use, not
only for medical purposes, but simply to cut back on personnel costs.
New automobiles have much larger electromagnetic fields than they had
ten or twenty years ago. This is due to multiple computer-controlled
operating systems, GPS satellite-tracking devices, digital dashboard
displays, and, commonly, a cell phone constantly charging in the car.
The situation is not hopeless.
At home, every parent can easily do the following experiment: tonight,
before your family goes to bed, unplug all of these items you may have
in your home: the TV, the computer, the base unit of the cordless phone,
the entertainment center, and the baby monitor. Notice the quality of
everyone's sleep, how you feel in the morning on awakening, and note
whether you and your child seem calmer. Appliances should be completely
unplugged, not just turned off at a surge protector (which itself may be
a source of electromagnetic fields).
If your child has a motorized wheelchair, don't plug it in overnight
next to his or her bed. Often these children are especially vulnerable
as they may already have epilepsy, cerebral palsy, or other
mobility-impairing conditions. Electric floor or ceiling heaters,
fluorescent lights, dimmer switches, and electronic security systems can
all produce problematic electromagnetic fields. Finding all the sources
and eliminating or avoiding them requires patience and may be
time-consuming but is not necessarily difficult or expensive. Your basic
measuring tools are a $40 magnetic field meter, or "gaussmeter," and a
cheap (poorer quality is better for this purpose) battery-operated AM
radio. When the gaussmeter reads 0.2 milligauss or less, and the radio,
when tuned between stations, remains silent (does not buzz or give loud
static), you have a relatively calm environment-especially important in
the sleeping area. These two measuring devices will not detect the very
high frequency radiation produced by cordless phones, wireless
computers, baby monitors, remote controls for appliances,
radio-controlled toys, and other wireless equipment. We recommend
eliminating wireless technology from the environment altogether.
Many homes will have ambient magnetic fields that cannot be reduced to
0.2 milligauss because of factors outside your control, most commonly
nearby power lines and transformers. Neighbors' activities may also be a
factor. But reducing exposures to the extent possible within the home
may still have a significant effect, especially on neurological or
behavioral problems in developing children. Exposures outside our own
control, such as from the street, a radar station or cell tower, at
school, or in hospitals and medical facilities, can be dealt with
effectively only on a societal level. We have a long way to go before
these problems are given the serious attention they deserve.
Ironically, some of our societal problems, such as school violence and
kidnappings of children-even before 9/11 added to our worries-are being
used as reasons to attach more cell phones to our kids for their safety
and our peace of mind. But these very devices, and the millions of
towers and antennas that make their use possible, expose all of us to a
level of radiation that we know (from studies and painful firsthand
experience) can contribute to the anxiety, depression, irritability,
impulsivity, confusion, and general unrest that feed the very concerns
which led to the need for all those cell phones in the first place. This
can begin to change as more of us turn them off and experience the
difference.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Bertrand, J. et al., Prevalence of Autism in a United States
Population: The Brick Township, New Jersey Investigation, Pediatrics
108:1155-1161 (2001).
2. The Doppler appears to be the latest addition to a number of radar
facilities in the area. McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix Military
Reservation, and Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center are all located west
of Brick. Military jets from those bases, equipped with powerful radars
of their own, also fly over Brick on their way out to sea.
SUGGESTED READING:
George Carlo, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age,
Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001.
Jane M. Healy, Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's
Minds-and What We Can Do About It, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998.
B. Blake Levit, ed., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental
Hazard?, New Century Publishing, Sheffield, MA, 2000.
Lucinda Grant, The Electrical Sensitivity Handbook, Weldon Publishing,
Prescott, AZ, 1995.
Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden, The Body Electric: Electro-magnetism
and the Foundation of Life, William Morrow, New York, 1985.
** Electromagnetic field (EMF) meters may be obtained from Alpha Lab,
1280 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, (800)-769-3754 Less EMF,
Inc., 26 Valley View Lane, Ghent, NY 12075, (888) LESS-EMF.
About the authors:
Arthur Firstenberg is founder and director of the Cellular Phone
Taskforce, a nonprofit organization that disseminates information about
electromagnetic radiation and advocates for electrically sensitive
people. He is editor of the Taskforce's publication, No Place to Hide,
and the author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of
the Wireless Revolution. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell
University in 1971 with a B.A. in mathematics, he went to medical school
from 1978 to 1982. Injury by x-ray overdose cut short his career.
Firstenberg explains that after receiving about 50 diagnostic x-rays
during extensive dental work, he became sensitive to high-powered
equipment in the hospitals where he worked. "I could literally feel the
radiation from the equipment; it made me weak and dizzy, but I kept
working. After several months I collapsed. I was 31 and no one knew the
cause of my illness. I was bedridden for about three months and at first
I was not sure if I would survive."
Firstenberg's symptoms included a slow heartbeat, chest pain, extreme
shortness of breath on exertion, and weight loss. By reading Eastern
European literature on the subject, he eventually discovered that he had
the symptoms of radio wave sickness. He later learned that any type of
electromagnetic field may provoke similar illness in sensitive people,
which commonly manifests with nausea, dizziness, headache, irritability,
insomnia, and difficulty with memory and concentration. He also
gradually became chemically hypersensitive. His therapeutic approach is
strict avoidance. At home, he has no computer, no television, no
wireless equipment, no microwave, and uses only incandescent lighting.
He moved cross-country to Mendocino, California which has minimal
electrical pollution, and he is symptom-free as long as he avoids
exposure.
As is often the case in advocacy organizations, Firstenberg's personal
experience led him to study the condition that plagued him. He is now an
international spokesperson and advisor on the subject of electrical
sensitivity (ES). He can be contacted by phone at (707) 937-3990 or
mail: P.O. Box 1337, Mendocino, CA 95460.
Susan Molloy has an MA in disability policy and provides referrals and
troubleshooting for people with symptoms provoked by environmental
exposures. She is cofounder of the Environmental Health Network (EHN) of
California and edited EHN's newsletter for 11 years. She served as chair
of the Independent Living Council in Arizona and works at New Horizons
Independent Living Center in Prescott Valley. She works from home due to
her inability to withstand electromagnetic exposure, and uses a
custom-shielded computer provided by Arizona Rehabilitation Services
Administration. Molloy has a history of allergies since childhood and
was hospitalized with chemical sensitivities at age 31. ES symptoms
emerged shortly after this. "When I go under power lines or fluorescent
lights it feels like a blow to the top of my head," she explains. Asked
if she could run errands, Molloy explains, "I can go into stores and
other buildings. It's getting back out that's the problem. I tend to
lose coordination and would often be stumbling if I didn't use a
wheelchair. I get disoriented and my speech is also affected."
Professional-grade ear protectors help soften the impact of auditory
hypersensitivity to motor noises. She feels that living in the desert,
where she keeps appliances to a minimum, has given her more stamina.
"I'd like to think that Arthur and I are just special cases, that people
can stand back and distance themselves from our difficulties. I'd like
to think that others won't suffer similar problems. But we know better.
The numbers are growing, and no one is listening." She can be reached at
(928) 536-4625 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Influenza virus opportunistic??
The frequency that effects the immune system must be the one they have
recently switched to.
Please review these maps - are there any for your area?
Links:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/rfr_maps/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/flu/weekly.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77863,00.html
http://www.cincypost.com/2003/02/01/ohflu020103.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4333995,00.html
Message from Alfonso Balmori
(excerpt)
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Microwave weapons planned for Irak war?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/14/MN148513.DTL
Informant: Don Maisch
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EMF Presentation in Schools: http://cbc.ca/national/news/finalact/
Informant: Gotemf
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