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KILL CELL PHONES BEFORE THEY KILL YOU
We had Dr. Nick Begich on the air a few weeks ago regarding the reports on the dangers of cell phones. He confirmed the reports as being true. My concern was specifically the material we've read on brain tumors. Dr. Begich said that the tumors appear on whichever side the victim uses the phone.
He also said, and sadly it's all too true, that cell phones are here to stay. To protect against the tumors he suggested users talk on a speaker, keeping the phone itself away from the body. I asked about the portable phones, and he asserted that they, too, are a health threat. I use a portable head-set phone and walk around with the receiver hanging on my shirt, right next to the heart/lungs.
I've spent literally hours on the phone with callers. I've also had an upper respiratory problem that comes and goes. It has sometimes been debilitating. Can't prove it's the headset, although I've been using it since 1995. The possibility is the headset phone, along with the deadly chemtrails being sprayed on us on a nearly daily basis could be a deadly combination. My thanks to Dr. Begich for alerting us.
However, according to the following article, whether one uses a cell phone or not, if s/he is in the vicinity of the towers it is health/life-threatening. Please share this information with your loved ones and friends and associates. What they do with it is, of course, their option.
- Jackie -
June 13th, 2007
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KILL CELL PHONES BEFORE THEY KILL YOU
Amy Worthington,
The Idaho Observer
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/
When neighbors caught wind of a proposed new cell tower to be erected adjacent to the Lake City High School ball field in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, they were stunned. Among them was Sue Anderson, who organized a group of concerned neighbors to research the details. "Only about 50 property owners within 300 feet of the proposed tower were notified by the city about an upcoming hearing on the tower proposal.
Hundreds of other homeowners were left completely in the dark," says Anderson. The tower proposal, in the works for about a year, was between telecommunications provider Verizon Wireless and School District 271. Verizon negotiated to pay the district $1,000 per month to lease ground for a 115-foot tall structure with antenna space for three other providers besides Verizon. Eventually, the new tower, adjacent to the football stadium, would be buzzing with dozens of antennas for both cellular and PCS communications.
Sick neighborhoods
Since an elementary and middle school are very close to the high school, Anderson and others set about to update themselves on the latest science regarding health effects of microwave radiation emitted by cell towers. "News and science reports from all over the globe seem to show that a cell tower neighborhood is basically a sick neighborhood. We found many media reports about cancer clusters in residential areas close to microwave towers," Anderson says.
A 2004 German government study found that people living within 1,300 feet of cell tower radiation had three times the normal cancer risk. Among other facts uncovered by Anderson's group was a 2004 resolution by the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) that opposes commercial cell towers on fire stations after a medical study showed brain and nerve problems for irradiated personnel. It was also discovered that the Los Angeles Unified School Board passed a resolution opposing cell towers on school property after the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences classified electromagnetic fields as a Class 2B carcinogen.
Anderson and other volunteers put crucial radiation news and science into a flyer and distributed them throughout the affected neighborhoods. Attached to the flyer was a summary of 220-peer reviewed and published studies documenting cancer-initiating and cancer-promoting effects of high frequency electromagnetic fields used by mobile telephone technology.
The summary was completed in 2000 by ECOLOG Institute, a German research group commissioned by telecom giant T-Mobile to collate known health risks of mobile telecommunications. ECOLOG's summary cites everything from DNA damage to infertility and disruptions of the immune and endocrine systems.
The Institute concluded that current power density exposure standards should be reduced by at least a factor of 1,000. Critics charge that T-Mobile subsequently "buried" the report in an effort to keep public discussion of the proven health risks associated with cell phone radiation off the agenda when tower sitings are being proposed.
Once neighbors of Lake City High were armed with the science information and several web sites where more information could be researched, they flooded school officials with complaints about the proposed tower. "Our most critical concern was numerous studies showing memory and cognitive function impairment among those living near microwave transmitters," said Anderson. "In the Freiburger Report, thousands of German doctors have linked wireless phones and cell tower radiation to dramatic increases in disorders of learning, concentration and behavior among their patients."
Anderson asks, "How can a school district justify exposing kids to continual radiation documented to cause sleep disturbances plus concentration and learning difficulties?" Martha Rayne, who lives only meters from the proposed tower site says, "We were outraged to learn that the FCC has no manpower to monitor emissions from these towers so no one really knows if they are in compliance with exposure standards. And we were surprised to learn about all the different frequencies that blast out of a cell tower-everything from 217 hertz and 1733 hertz with harmonics all the way up to carrier microwaves in the megahertz and gigahertz realm. Where are the long-term safety studies for all of these frequencies?" she asks.
Anderson and others prepared a 46-page binder for school district officials documenting why microwave exposure is especially hazardous for school children. Included in the information was a 2002 statement by EPA's Radiation Protection Division which states that current federal exposure standards touted by the telecom industry as "adequate" in fact do not protect the public against possible damage from prolonged, low-level microwave exposure. The EPA letter admitted that studies show cancer can occur from long-term irradiation.
Also included was a letter from Dr. Henry Lai, a leading radiation and biomedical researcher working at the University of Washington, who stated that numerous medical studies show serious health effects can occur at irradiation levels far below current exposure standards. Anderson points to a December 2006 article in Coeur d' Alene Magazine which disclosed that the Kootenai Medical Center (KMC), serving as a magnet hospital for the five northern Idaho counties, is now inundated with cancer conditions of all types.
The article reported that an average of 210 patients are cared for daily at KMC's North Idaho Cancer Center and that more than 100 new cancer patients join the ranks of the "Big C" club very month.
According to the article, so crushing is the cancer case load in North Idaho, that other cancer centers are being rapidly expanded in Post Falls and Sandpoint. "One hospital worker told us that experienced medical personnel talk among themselves as having never before seen so much cancer among young people," Anderson said. "Our urban areas have been increasingly saturated with microwave radiation from wireless tower and roof top transmitters since about the mid 1990s.
Scientists say cancers can have a latency period of around 10 years, so that computes with our area's growing cancer epidemic," she observes. "And the irony is, people who have cancer are the last people in the world who need more microwave exposure," she says, pointing to a Spanish medical study that documented how leukemia cells proliferate rapidly when exposed to RF/microwave radiation.
Dr. Lai's research group reported findings that microwave radiation can actually be physically addictive. The cell phone "high" is triggered by endorphins released into the brain when microwaves enter through the ear. Wireless industry ads and promotions continually prod kids to buy new glitzy wireless hardware for watching TV, downloading music and texting.
Kids know nothing about wireless health hazards because the industry is not required to warn them that numerous epidemiological studies show cell phone usage greatly increases their risk of developing brain cancer. "It's a real problem," says Anderson. "The more kids get hooked on wireless toys, the more towers are needed to service those toys. And, if they have their schools and playgrounds irradiated by nearby transmitters, they are getting a double whammy."
Microwave radiation from cell towers can pass easily through walls, windows and roofs. A French medical study of people living within 1,000 feet of cell towers documented common complaints of extreme fatigue, memory loss, headaches, sleep disorders, depression, skin problems, hearing loss and cardiovascular problems.
Anderson elaborates, "With the tower crisis at hand, we had to educate ourselves on the mechanisms of cell damage that our kids could sustain from years of exposure to these cell tower frequencies broadcasting continuously. We learned from the literature that there is a cascade effect.
One of the first things this radiation does is cause a loss of calcium ions from cell membranes, which makes cells more likely to tear and leak. Leakage of calcium ions into brain neurons causes gradual brain damage and neurological symptoms seen in so many irradiated people. Weak, calcium-deficient cells become vulnerable to cellular DNA damage. DNA damage opens the door to tumor growth."
On May 4, the district issued a press release in which the school superintendent stated that the district had taken to heart concerns of people who live near Lake City High and had asked Verizon Wireless to withdraw the tower project from school property. "We were so happy," says Brenda Cowles, grandmother of two. "School officials actually listened to those whose lives are at stake here!"
"The battle for the health and safety of our school kids is not over," Anderson says. "Verizon can move over to vacant land near another set of schools further south, or it might try to lease private property right across the street from the high school and hit our kids from there."
Telecom providers are not required by law to consider health effects in their siting proposals. Further, the Telecom Act of 1996 prevents local planning authorities from prohibiting cell tower construction on the basis of health/environmental considerations.
"Thanks to this unconstitutional federal law, city planners are obligated to rubber stamp whatever facilities Verizon says it needs for 'essential' services. So we have sent much of our documentation to Verizon Wireless, asking the company to walk the moral high ground and consider the health of our children in school zones when siting their transmitters," Anderson explains. [END]