RE: ES safe housing

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I am currently building an EMF safe house (unfortunately I ma not in

America), it is extremely problematic issue... Let's stay in touch!

Drasko

ES safe housing

> , 55 year old, extremely ES sensitive, also MCS, looking for

> housing partner, possibly co-housing, in order to find and secure

> safe housing solution in New York State, outside of NYC. Currently

> looking in Central New York. If you are interested we could talk.

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[Guest guest]

Why not put him in touch with Arthur Firstenberg...

PO Box 1337

Mendocino CA 95460

ES safe housing

, 55 year old, extremely ES sensitive, also MCS, looking for

housing partner, possibly co-housing, in order to find and secure

safe housing solution in New York State, outside of NYC. Currently

looking in Central New York. If you are interested we could talk.

[Guest guest]

Arthur is extemely ES, and also homeless. He has written a book on the issue,

done very extensive research, and for a couple of years put out a newsletter

called 'No Place to Hide'. He does not use email as he has very strong

ideological views about ES people using RF equipment - he believes it only

re-inforces the problem and refuses to capitulate. One can only admire him for

his determination to stand up to the tsunami wave of EMR technology! He is very

articulate and intelligent.

I suggested contacting him as he may be interested in discussing safe housing.

He tried for antenna-free zones in Mendocino, but was unsuccessful.

Attached is his story as it apeared recently in the Ecologist.

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Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)

Killing Fields

ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG / The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1jun04

[Also see Microwaving Our Planet - Arthur Firstenberg / Cellular Phone Taskforce

1997]

Today I am homeless. My money does not provide me shelter. My good health does

not ensure my survival. My friends are unable to help me. I am being killed, but

the law offers me no protection.

An invisible electrosmog engulfs us, destroying the health of many who do not

even know why they have fallen ill. Why is no one listening to the mass of

evidence telling us we are frying our brains?

In February this year Box, artist-in-residence at the University of

Bristol's physics department, installed hundreds of fluorescent light tubes in a

field underneath power lines. The tubes came on at dusk, powered solely by the

EM field generated by the cables above.

For eight years I have provided advocacy and support in North America and

worldwide for people in similar circumstances. Some have epilepsy, or heart

disease, or diabetes, or cancer. Some have allergies or asthma. But most, like

me, are in good health. The assault we are all suffering is a radical increase

in electromagnetic pollution, or electrosmog, that is engulfing the earth.

In 1982 1 was in my final year of medical school, a promising career ahead of

me. For several months I had been having headaches and difficulty concentrating

and remembering things. Then, while on a surgery rotation, I suffered crippling

pains in my hips, making it difficult to assist in operations. My heart rate

slowed to less than 50. One day I collapsed and was unable to get up. My chest

hurt, and I could not get enough breath. I was sure I was having a heart attack.

During the next two weeks I lost 15 pounds. And I was a slim man to begin with.

It wasn't a heart attack, but it was still six months before I could walk up a

flight of stairs without becoming short of breath. It was three years before I

was strong enough to ski again. It was seven years before I met someone who

validated my own experience that being near certain electrical appliances, such

as television sets and computers, made me ill, and that staying away from them

kept me healthy. However, having discovered how to remain healthy, I gradually

found that I was being effectively disabled by my society.

Having stumbled upon an obviously well-kept secret, I researched the world

literature on bioelectromagnetics, (or the biological effects of

electromagnetism), and made myself an expert. I learned that electro-cautery

machines, used in every modern surgical operation to cut through tissue and to

stop bleeding, expose surgeons to much higher levels of radio frequency

radiation than is permitted for workers in any industry. I learned that there

was a disease thoroughly described in the Russian and Eastern European medical

literature called radiowave sickness, the existence of which was usually denied

by western authorities. This description made me remember my `unknown illness',

the one that had derailed my medical career. Bradycardia, or a slow heart rate,

was said, in these texts, to be a grave sign.

Because there are virtually no workplaces without computers any more, I have not

held a job since 1990. I had resigned myself to living on Social Security

Disability, and learned, together with other members of a support group I had

found, how best to live with my disability. This mostly meant learning to avoid

exposure to electromagnetic fields. But in July 1996, to my dismay, I learned

that an innovation was coming to my city, which threatened to make it impossible

to avoid exposure any more.

At that time, cell phones were still a luxury item that only worked in some

locations. People were not accustomed to staying connected whenever they left

their home, and even at home most still had a cord, not an antenna, attached to

their telephone. Most were not accustomed to holding devices that emit microwave

radiation next to their brain. In 1996, the telecommunications industry began a

marketing campaign designed to change all that. For Christmas that year, all

over the country, digital cell phones were going to be on a lot of shopping

lists. And to make them more practical, tens of thousands of antennae were going

to be erected on towers, buildings, church steeples and lampposts all over the

country before Christmas, and hundreds of thousands more during the next few

years.

In response to this emergency, a few friends and I created the Cellular Phone

Task Force, and contacted all the public officials we could think of, and the

press, to warn them of the danger. But on November 14 1996, Omnipoint, New York

City's first digital cellular provider, did open for business, broadcasting from

thousands of antennae newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings.

According to the health authorities, an early flu hit New York City - but not

Boston, and not Philadelphia - on about 15 November. The flu was severe and ran

a prolonged course, often dragging on for months instead of the usual two weeks.

At Christmas time, the Cellular Phone Task Force placed a small classified ad in

a free weekly newspaper. It read: 'If you have been ill since 11/15/96 with any

of the following: eye pain, insomnia, dry lips, swollen throat, pressure or pain

in the chest, headaches, dizziness, nausea, shakiness, other aches and pains, or

flu that won't go away, you may be a victim of a new microwave system blanketing

the city. We need to hear from you.' And we did hear from them. Hundreds called,

men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, doctors, lawyers, teachers,

stockbrokers, airline stewards, computer operators. Most had woken up suddenly

in mid-November, thinking they were having a stroke or a heart attack or a

nervous breakdown, and were relieved to know they were not alone and not crazy.

Later, I analysed weekly mortality statistics, which the Centres for Disease

Control publish for122 US cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 per

cent increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning on the day in

1996 or 1997 on which that city's first digital cell phone network began

commercial service. I published both the raw data and the complete analysis,

with graphs. This appeared in No Place To Hide, an investigative journal

published by my organisation and I am presently working with scientists in

Europe to expand this study to other countries.

I learned that in February 1996, Congress had passed a law prohibiting local

governments from denying permits for cell phone antennae because of

environmental concerns - so long as they comply with Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) rules. I also learned that the FCC had just issued regulations

setting public exposure limits for microwave radiation at levels at least ten

thousand times higher than levels which, according to the Environmental

Protection Agency, were causing reports of illness from all over the world.

Levels that are at least ten thousand times higher than the levels that had

forced me to leave behind my home, my family, and my friends, and to run for my

life, never to be able to return home again.

The Cellular Phone Task Force, along with over 50 other grass roots

organisations and individuals around the US, became involved in a legal

challenge of the FCC's absurd standards and its pre-emption of local control.

This was taken all the way to the US Supreme Court. Dozens of cities, towns and

public officials, including several US senators and representatives, submitted

briefs urging the High Court to hear our case. But in January 2001, the Supreme

Court, without comment, declined.

You will hear statements by supposed experts - always the same few, in the pay

of the telecommunications industry - to the effect that cell phones/cell

towers/microwave radiation have been proven safe in countless studies. It is an

easy lie, one that the news media have been eager to propagate. Such studies

don't exist. Quite the contrary: it has been shown that, just as for X-rays,

there is no safe level of exposure to microwave radiation, and it is so easy to

demonstrate harmful effects that it takes some skill to design experiments that

don't show them. It is harder to show effects today than 10 years ago because

now the entire planet is exposed, making it impossible to do experiments with

'unexposed' controls. But most experiments still show effects anyway - effects

on heart rhythms, on brain waves, on the blood-brain barrier, on sleep, on the

eyes, on the gonads, on the skin, on hearing, on calcium, on melatonin, on

glucose, on metabolism, on human well-being. If you look, you will find. Zorach

Glaser reviewed over 5,000 such studies for the United States Navy during the

1970s alone. After 1982, the United States ceased funding Glaser's cataloguing

work. But the flood of alarming research occurring all over the world continued.

From the volume of literature I have seen, certain results stand out in my mind.

In the 1960s, Allan Frey was the first to discover that people and animals can

hear low-energy pulsed microwaves. He also did some of the earliest work showing

how heart rhythms are disturbed by microwaves, and how the blood-brain barrier

is compromised, letting large molecules leak across, exposing the brain to

potential damage. Ophthalmologist Milton Zaret was the first to describe

cataracts caused by low-energy microwaves. Canadians Tanner, Romero-Sierra and

Bigu Del Blanco worked with parakeets, chickens, pigeons and seagulls. Birds

avoided microwave fields if they could, and collapsed within seconds if they

couldn't. Defeathered birds showed no such distress, and these researchers then

showed that feathers act as antennae conveying microwave energy to the birds.

Thirty years later, Alfonso Balmori Martínez has carefully documented the

decline and disappearance of white storks, house sparrows, and free-tailed bats

from the vicinity of cellular phone base stations.

The idea that there is an exposure threshold, below which microwave radiation

can be considered safe, has been disproven many times over. In Moscow, Igor

Belyaev has found resonance effects on bacterial DNA that occur at exposure

levels 10,000,000,000,000,000 times less than the average exposure from a cell

phone. W Grundler, in Germany, has found effects on the growth of yeast cells,

also at near-zero levels of exposure.

In the early 1990s, the government of Switzerland commissioned a study in

response to people's complaints of insomnia near the shortwave transmitter at

Schwarzenburg. Residents kept sleep diaries and did not know when the

transmitter was on or off. The investigators found that the transmitter was

disturbing sleep up to several miles away, and because of this finding that

particular radio station was permanently shut down.

An early warning radar station was due to be decommissioned at Skrunda, Latvia

after the end of the Cold War. Before it was shut down, a coordinated effort was

made to determine whether the station had had any environmental effects. Teams

of researchers found such effects wherever they looked, even at extremely low

levels of exposure: smaller growth rings in trees, premature ageing in pine

needles, chromosome damage in cows, decreased memory, attention, learning, and

pulmonary function in school children, increased white blood cells in adults,

and an altered sex ratio (more girls) in children born during the years of the

radar's operation.

In Germany, Wolfgang Volkrodt linked forest die-back to microwave radiation

rather than acid rain. Wolfgang Löscher and Günther Käs documented illness in

dairy cows caused by cell towers. This included decreased milk production,

infertility, abortions, birth deformities, behavioural problems and early death.

Autopsies revealed that the cows died of acute circulatory collapse and bleeding

from several organs.

In France, Santini has found that the closer people live to a cell tower,

the more likely they are to experience dizziness, nausea, memory loss and other

neurological symptoms. Claudio Gómez-Perretta has obtained similar results in

Spain. The Dutch government sponsored double blind experiments in a laboratory.

People exposed to a cell tower signal experienced dizziness, nervousness, chest

pain, shortness of breath, numbness and tingling, weakness, and difficulty

concentrating.

The late Neil Cherry found that childhood cancer rates in San Francisco were a

function of proximity to the antenna-laden Sutro Tower. Olle Johansson and Örjan

Hallberg showed that the rise and fall of asthma and certain cancers during the

20th century closely paralleled changes in public exposure to radio waves in

every country they looked at. They showed that radio waves are as big a factor

in causing lung cancer as cigarette smoking.

The following are urgently needed:

Sanctuaries. Radiation-free zones. Places without radio antennae, cell phone

service, or television cable (cable is often a significant source of radiation).

These sanctuaries are needed right now, to save lives.

Legal help. Environmental and disability rights attorneys who are able to take

on this issue.

Funding for land acquisition and legal expenses.

Volunteer help for phone calling, letter writing, grant writing, and so on.

Keep in mind these two principles:

Distance counts. The power drops off as the square of the distance. Antennae

should be few, and as far as possible from people and environmentally sensitive

areas.

Digital hurts. Digital (pulsed) technology is more harmful at lower levels of

power than analog. The mandated replacement of all analog TV, radio, and

telecommunications transmissions with digital during the next few years is very

dangerous.

Leif Salford's recent work on the blood-brain barrier has verified the earlier

work of Allan Frey and others, but with additional, ominous findings. First,

sometimes, decreasing the amount of radiation 1,000 times increased the damage

to the brain (demonstrating the 'window' effect). Second, animals exposed to a

cell phone once for two hours were found to have areas of brain cell death two

months later. Salford has called cell phones 'the world's largest biological

experiment ever'. His work provides solid support for those who warn that every

cell phone call damages brain cells, and that cell phones, like cigarettes, harm

both users and nearby non-users. His findings are particularly alarming in light

of surveys - by Santini in France, and by Sandström and Mild in Sweden - which

include: headaches, migraines, chronic fatigue, agitation, sleep disorders,

tinnitus, nervous and connective tissue pains of unexplained origin, and

susceptibility to infection. The appeal calls for a massive reduction in

exposure limits; no further expansion of cell phone technology; cell phone-and

antenna-free zones; a ban on cell phone use by children; and a ban on cell

phones and digital cordless phones in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, public

buildings and public transportation.

The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of

a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians - and by implication one million

Americans - have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the

workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being

counted by anyone.

'Electrical sensitivity' is a popular, but inaccurate, term for suffering caused

by this universal pollutant. The problem is much more widespread than is

commonly assumed, and growing daily. By the time people realise that

electromagnetic fields are directly causing their pain or illness, their lives

are often already ruined. They find that reliable information is hard to come by

and harder to understand; that there is little support for them, and no

solutions offered; and that when they finally learn what they have to avoid, it

is nevertheless impossible to do so.

The highest profile person yet to announce that cell phones, cordless phones and

computers make her ill is none other than Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical

doctor, master of public health, former Prime Minister of Norway, and until 2003

the Director General of the World Health Organisation. Yet even so public a

figure on the world stage has been unable to draw the world's attention to our

collective plight, or in any way slow down the growth of telecommunications, or

even to put it on the map as an environmental issue.

This must happen. Too many intelligent, professional, useful people are

wandering this country's barren deserts, homeless, ostracized, robbed of their

civil rights, with no place to land. Too many have committed suicide because

they have lost all hope, have suffered too long, have had to pick up roots and

flee for their lives once too often.

Within the telecommunications industry, too many equipment testers, installers,

and repairpersons with radiowave sickness are afraid to speak out, or do not

even know why they are ill.

So many radars, antennae, and communication devices are being deployed for

government, military, emergency, commercial, and personal uses in both the

developed and developing worlds, and in space, that there is nowhere left to

hide. Even radio astronomers are seriously talking about the far side of the

moon as the only place left that is quiet enough, in the radio spectrum, to

still be able to see the stars.

Arthur Firstenberg is a founder and director of the Cellular Phone Task Force, a

non-profit organisation that disseminates information about electromagnetic

pollution and provides advocacy and support for victims of this pollution. He is

editor of the Task Force's publication, No Place To Hide, and the author of

Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution

(1996). He can be contacted by mail at PO Box 1337, Mendocino, CA 95460, USA, or

by phone at (707) 937-3990.

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Re: ES safe housing

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Please tell more about contacting Fistenberg... What does he do regarding the

safe housing issue and what particularly to ask him? Is his only contact the PO

Box you sent, or there would be an email or something?

Drasko

ES safe housing

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> , 55 year old, extremely ES sensitive, also MCS, looking for

> housing partner, possibly co-housing, in order to find and secure safe

> housing solution in New York State, outside of NYC. Currently looking

> in Central New York. If you are interested we could talk.

>

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[Guest guest]

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Please tell more about contacting Fistenberg... What does he do regarding

the safe housing issue and what particularly to ask him? Is his only contact

the PO Box you sent, or there would be an email or something?

Drasko

ES safe housing

>

>

> , 55 year old, extremely ES sensitive, also MCS, looking for

> housing partner, possibly co-housing, in order to find and secure

> safe housing solution in New York State, outside of NYC. Currently

> looking in Central New York. If you are interested we could talk.

>

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