ABOUT CELL PHONES --- WATCH OUT!!!

[Guest guest]

I do not have a cell phone and after reading this I know another reason I

will not.

--Betty

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Think Twice Before You Place That Call

by

Though intended for renovations, would like all visitors to

deposit their cellular phones in the cement mixer by his front door. This

sounds excessive - until you step into ¹s orchard, where the pegged

needle of a shrieking electromagnetic radiation (EMR) meter placed beside a

connected cellphone still shows significant exposure 100 feet away.

Much to the chagrin of this certified EMR-mitigation specialist, every day

some 300 million cellphone users are ³reaching out and touching someone you

love. Yourself, and anyone else within range of the microwaves emitted by

your phone.²

Mesmerized by magical gadgets, we have yet to count the costs of miniature

radio transmitters that are transforming Marconi¹s invention into new

possibilities for portable personal pollution. As entire nations reach for

pocket communicators, the explosively emergent $40 billion a year mobile

phone industry is poised to deliver a ³Wireless Revolution² that over the

next five years is expected to double the one-billion people connected by

telephone lines over the past century.

Silicon sensors are already calling to each other. Soon, countless

communicating microchips embedded in everything from bumpers to brooms will

be sending streams of encoded electrical energy through glass, steel,

concrete, bone and flesh.

Exquisitely sensitive to subtle electromagnetic harmonies, human brains and

bodies as intricate as galaxies depend on tiny electrical impulses to

conduct complex life-processes - including the ability to read, recall and

respond to these words. Acting as antennas, our anatomies just as easily

tune into spurious signals from radio and microwave transmissions. Blake

Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields, says that when it comes to

cellphones, ³a worse frequency could not have been chosen for the human

anatomy.²

As cellphones conquer consumer minds and markets, researcher Carolanne

Patton notes that ³the brain reaches peak absorption in the UHF bands, right

where cellular telecommunications operate.² British military scientists have

discovered that cellphone transmissions disrupt the brain sites for memory

and learning, causing forgetfulness and sudden confusion.

Other studies show that electromagnetic signals from cellular phones reduce

the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate complicated activities

such as driving a car. Startled by $4 billion a year in extra claims among

cellphone-wielding drivers, North American insurers did a double-take that

found simply juggling Ophones is not causing a 600% increase in accidents.'

³Hands-free² mobile speaker-phones cause even more crashes because they

typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units.

For all drivers dialing out, University of Toronto investigators report

that the heightened probability of cracking up your car persists for up to

15-minutes after completing a call. That¹s comparable to the risk of

crashing while driving dead drunk exclaims Dr. Runball, chairman of

the B.C. Medical Association¹s emergency medical services committee. Reeling

from ³dial-a-collision² costs, the government of British Columbia may join

England, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and Brazil in banning the use of

cellphones by drivers.

In New Zealand, cellphone towers are prohibited on school property because

of possible health effects. But Health Canada regulations ignore the hidden

hazards of cell-wrenching cellphones, which send pulsed signals through the

skull in a process one expert likens to ³jackhammers on the brain.²

One of a handful of licensed electricians who understand electromagnetic

fields well enough to eliminate them from household wiring, McGinnis has

been testing EMFs and collaborating with fellow testers and researchers for

nearly a decade. In , where he has helped residents defeat six

cellphone towers, there was dancing in the streets after Microcell

Connexions withdrew its application to erect a microwave transmission tower

against the Wishart Elementary School fence in the spring of 1998.

The cellphone¹s ³second-hand² microwave and radio-frequency (RF) pollution

pose invisible but significant risks to bystanders - particularly children

riding in cars that transmit amplified cellphone signals through their steel

structure. Reporting the conclusions of a 12-person British study team,

scientist Sir told London¹s Financial Times that ³children

may be more vulnerable because of their developing nervous system, the

greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the head and a longer

lifetime of exposure.²

Coghill became a long-standing advocate for health warnings to be

affixed to mobile phones after this biologist found that cellphone

transmissions damage the ability of white blood cells to ward off infectious

disease by disrupting the immune system¹s electromagnetic communications.

Dr. Neil Cherry has measured accelerated aging, increased cell death and

cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves from cellphones and their relay

towers. With the brain¹s electro-chemical communications repeatedly zapped

by lightning-like cellphone pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that

headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression,

arteriosclerosis and even Alzheimer¹s can result from frequent or prolonged

calls.

³There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems,² Cherry comments,

³in terms of the timing function in hearts. You get more heart attacks and

more heart disease - it has now been shown in many studies.²

The biophysicist from Lincoln University in Christ Church, New Zealand has

also found that cellphones can murderously modify moods. In brains and

bodies seriously derailed by tiny imbalances in trace minerals and hormones,

depression, suicide, anger, rage and violence can result when calcium and

serotonin levels are disrupted by cellphone transmissions.

In 1995, mobile phone sales in North America exceeded the birth rate.

Hired by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to condone

cellphones, public health scientist Carlo found that tumors on the

outside of the brain are more than doubled among cellphone callers -

particularly on the right side of the head where Ophones are usually held.

Carlo told ABC¹s ³20/20² that cell phone causes genetic damage that leads to

cancer.

Warning of ³the potential for a global health disaster,² ABC recommended

³prudent avoidance² of cellphones after finding that every cellphone they

lab-tested exceeded the Federal Communication Commission¹s standards for EMF

absorption rates. EMF researcher Dave Ashton cautioned 20/20 viewers that

because cellphones constantly search for the nearest repeating tower,

³long-term damage comes from cell phones in the stand-by mode.² Cellphone

³shields² and headsets ³cannot adequately address these problems,² Ashton

added.

Dr. Carlo later told London¹s Express newspaper that cellphones cause

genetic damage following a dose-response curve. That is, the more a person

uses a cellphone, the more cellular destruction and health risks they incur.

Cellphone-confused cells can go crazy, Carlo cautioned. Experiments on

captive animals show that this cumulative DNA damage is passed on to

succeeding generations.

Addicted as we are to a culture of convenience, we forget how inconvenient

it is to contract cancer. An Adelaide Hospital study confirmed Carlo¹s

conclusions after finding B-cell lymphomas doubled in mice within 18 months

of one-hour daily exposure to power densities experienced by a cellphone

user. B-cell lymphomas are implicated in 85% of all cancers.

READY OR NOT

As magazine-size ³cellular² relay antennas hidden in church steeples and

rooflines keep popping up just about everywhere, more and more communities

are declaring their airspace a ³No Fry Zone². But in Canada, where cellphone

towers come under federal jurisdiction, municipalities are only ³advisers¹

to a process in which no permits are required to erect transmitter towers

deemed necessary for ³national security.²

Many more lives are involuntarily imperiled by non-emergency calls. Pat

Irwin was working in a Colwood health food store when she noticed a truck

unloading metal framework. The next morning, a new cellphone tower was ready

to add its emissions to another BC Tel tower already operating down the

street. There had been no announcement, no public hearings - just a quiet

notification to the municipality that a tower was going up, literally

overnight.

The intruder radiated for a month when Irwin felt her immunity dropping.

She wondered if other changes in her energy and menstrual cycle were ³not

from the moon or something that I ate.²

Irwin also seemed more irritable after her central nervous switchboard

began receiving round-the-clock cellphone calls. With cellular relay towers

in Kansas and Oklahoma being shut down because they interfered with passing

aircraft, Irwin sensed how the same transmissions plucked her own electrical

circuitry, inflicting a ³chronic edginess² that ³twangs human nerves.² Sleep

disorders, she learned, are common among people exposed to high levels of

electromagnetic pollution.

After several other women in the same business centre reported similar

symptoms, Irwin quit her job. ³I saw it as something that was there to stay

and I¹d be daily exposed to it over a long period of time,² she told Alive.

³All this stuff is what we¹re playing with on a daily basis.²

There is nothing ³safe² about the new 1.9 gigahertz broadcasting frequency.

Much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head, rapidly pulsing

cellphones signal permanent brain damage. A study by Dr. Franch found

unequivocally that ³cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone

frequencies.² This cellular damage, Franch noted, is maximized at low dosage

- and ³inherited unchanged, from generation to generation.²

Katharina Gustavss, a certified Building Biology consultant with 25 years

experience, explains that CDMA¹s 217 Hz spikes are very close to the

frequencies of human cell membranes. Gustavss accompanied a Microcell

technician to the Colwood microwave relay tower Irwin and others had

complained about. When he waved a spectrum analyzer, Gustavss checked the

display and saw ³pretty scary² energy spikes.

³What¹s that?² she asked the tech.

³I¹ve never seen that before,² he told her. It turned out that this

cellphone tower tester only set his meter to an averaging mode. Switching to

³real time² froze the readings at ³scary² maximum output levels.

How dangerous are cellphones? ³The risk is extremely high,² declares Dr.

Cherry. ³There are 66 epidemiological studies showing that electromagnetic

radiation across the spectrum increase brain tumors in human populations. "

Cherry says that because cancer takes a decade to develop, it will be

another 10 years before ³mobiles² manifest a big bonanza in brain tumors.

But he adds, we¹re already seeing ³acute effects that are noticed within

minutes of using a cellphone.²

After two minutes¹ conversation, a cellphone¹s digitized impulses disable

the safety barrier that isolates the brain from destructive proteins and

poisons in the blood. Professor Leif Salford, the neurologist who carried

out the research for this finding, informed the Daily Mail: ³It seems that

molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the

phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases

such as MS and Alzheimer¹s which are linked to proteins being found in the

brain.²

DANCING WITH THE TELECOMONSTER

If you must pack a cellphone, treat it like a loaded pistol. Keep it turned

off. Don¹t carry it near ovaries, testicles, or the heart. For partial

protection, buy an antenna shield. Limit calls to one-minute, six to 10

minutes a month. Never fire off a cellphone with children anywhere in sight.

When it comes to cells, consciousness and cellphones, every call is

collect. How can convenience count more than cancer? What is gained by being

in constant contact with disembodied voices, while being ³out of touch² with

the friends and neighbours around us? Are we comfortable having our location

traced by monitoring authorities?

Unless we start voting with our wallets, consumer complacency could prove

as species-limiting as corporate cynicism. ³Microwave frequencies are the

same as those used in radar and your microwave oven,² says Florida cellphone

tower opponent Joe Chwick. ³You wouldn¹t think of sticking your head in the

oven, but there is no hesitation to putting the cellphone to your ear.²

Having somehow survived three-million years of evolution without them, many

contemporary hominids claim they cannot live without them. But can

exquisitely sensitive electromagnetic beings live with cellphones - and the

towers their signals ride in on? Like polyethylene food and water

containers, plastic cookers and coffee-makers, microwave ovens and

petroleum-powered vehicles, cellphones could be one of those brilliantly

beguiling inventions we have to let go. Would hanging up on such an

intrusive and hazardous addiction be so terrible?

On Jan. 1, 2001 I cancelled my cellphone service...

Published in Alive magazine

I SURVIVED HURRICANE CHARLEY -

Friday the 13th, August, 2004