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From the September 2007 Idaho Observer:
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070910.htm

The radiation poisoning of America

Prior to 1996, the wireless age was not coming online fast enough,
primarily because communities had the authority to block the siting of
cell towers. But the Federal Communications Act (1996) made it
virtually impossible for communities to stop construction of cell
towers —even if they pose threats to public health and the
environment. Since the decision to enter the age of wireless
convenience was politically determined for us, we have forgotten
well-documented safety and environmental concerns and, with a
devil-may-care zeal that is lethally short-sighted, we have
incorporated into our lives every wireless toy that comes on the
market as quickly as it becomes available. We behave as if we are
addicted to radiation. Our addiction to cell phones has led to harder
"drugs" like wireless Internet. And now we are bathing in the
radiation that our wireless enthusiasm has financed. The addicted,
uninformed, corporately biased and politically-influenced may dismiss
our scientifically-sound concerns about the apocalyptic hazards of
wireless radiation. But we must not. Instead, we must sound the alarm.

By Amy Worthington

Illa Garcia wore jewelry the first day she went back to work as a fire
lookout for the state of California in the summer of 2002. The intense
radiation from dozens of RF/microwave antennas surrounding the lookout
heated the metals on her body enough to burn her skin. "I still have
those scars," she says. "I never wore jewelry to work after that."

Likely Mountain Lookout, on U.S. Forest Service land with a
spectacular view of Mount Shasta, is one of thousands of RF/microwave
"hot spots" across the nation. A newly-erected cellular communications
tower was only 30 feet from the lookout. "One antenna on that tower
was even with our heads," recalls Garcia. "We could hear high-pitched
buzzing. There were also three state communications antennas mounted
on the lookout, only 6 feet from where we walked. We climbed past them
every day."

Motorola company manuals for management of communications sites
confirm that high frequency radiation from these antennas is nasty
stuff. Safety regulations mandate warning signs, EMF awareness
training, protective gear, even transmitter deactivation for personnel
working that close to antennas. Garcia and co-worker Mary Jasso were
never warned about the hazards which, they say, demonstrates extreme
malfeasance on the part of agencies and commercial companies
responsible for their exposure.

By the end of fire season, Garcia and Jasso were so ill they were
forced to retire and the lookout was closed to state personnel.
Garcia, 52, is now severely disabled with fibromyalgia, auto-immune
thyroiditis and acute nerve degeneration. Medical tests confirmed
broken DNA strands in her blood and abnormal tissue death in her
brain.

Dr. Gunner Heuser, a medical specialist in neurotoxicity, states that
Garcia’s disorders are a result of chronic electromagnetic field
exposure in the microwave range and that "she has become totally
disabled as a result." Dr. Heuser said, "In my experience patients
develop multisystem complaints after EMF exposure just as they do
after toxic chemical exposure."

Jasso, who worked the lookout for 11 seasons, is now disabled with
brain and lung damage, partial left side paralysis, muscle tremors,
bone pain and DNA damage. Jasso discovered that all lookouts who
worked Likely Mountain since 1989 are disabled. At only 61 years of
age, she has lost so much memory that she cannot remember back to when
her first three children were born. She fears that communications
radiation may be a major factor in the nation’s phenomenal epidemics
of dementia and autism.

Both women say they have been unjustly denied worker’s comp and
medical benefits. Their pleas for help to state and federal agencies
have been fruitless. Between them they have racked up over $150,000 in
medical bills, although there is no effective treatment for radiation
sickness.

Twenty-two other members of Garcia and Jasso’s two families received
Likely Mountain radiation exposure. All suffer serious and expensive
illnesses, including tumors, blood abnormalities, stomach problems,
lung damage, bone pain, muscle spasms, extreme fatigue, tremors,
numbness, impaired motor skills, cataracts, memory loss, spine
degeneration, sleep problems, low immunity to infection, hearing and
vision problems, hair loss and allergies.

Jasso’s husband, who often stayed at the lookout, has a rare soft
tissue sarcoma known to be radiation related. Garcia’s husband, who
spent little time at the lookout, has systemic cancer that started
with sarcoma of the colon. Garcia’s daughter Teresa was at the lookout
for a total of two hours during her first pregnancy. Her daughter was
born with slight brain damage and immunity problems. "That baby was
always sick," says Garcia. Teresa spent only three days at the lookout
during her second pregnancy. Her son was born with autism.

Garcia and Jasso also have a terminal condition known as "toxic
encephalopathy," involving brain damage to frontal and temporal lobes.
This was confirmed by SPECT brain scans. Twelve others in the
two-family group who also had the scans were diagnosed with the
affliction. "All of us with this condition have been told that we’re
dying," says Garcia. "Our mutated cells will reproduce new mutated
cells until the body finally shuts down."



Nuclear bombs on a pole

Painful conditions endured by the families of Garcia and Jasso are
identical to those suffered by Japanese victims of gamma wave
radiation after nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Five decades of studies confirm that non-ionizing communications
radiation in the RF/microwave spectrum has the same effect on human
health as ionizing gamma wave radiation from nuclear reactions.
Leading German radiation expert Dr. Heyo Eckel, an official of the
German Medical Association, stated, "The injuries that result from
radioactive radiation are identical with the effects of
electromagnetic radiation. The damages are so similar that they are
hard to differentiate."1

Understanding what happened at Likely Mountain is critical to
understanding the public health threat posed by radiation in the
United States. The families of Garcia and Jasso, plus previous lookout
workers and multitudes of tourists who visited Likely Mountain for
camping and sightseeing, were beamed by the same kind of high
frequency radiation that blasts from tens of thousands of neighborhood
cell towers and rooftop antennas erected across America for wireless
communications. The city of San Francisco, with an area of only seven
square miles, has over 2,500 licensed cell phone antennas positioned
at 530 locations throughout the city. In practical terms, this city,
like thousands of others, is being wave-nuked 24 hours a day.

The identical damage resulting from both radioactive gamma waves and
high frequency microwaves is a pathological condition in which the
nuclei of irradiated human cells splinter into fragments called
micronuclei. Micronuclei are a definitive pre-cursor of cancer. During
the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl in Russia, the ionizing
radiation released was equivalent to 400 atomic bombs, with an
estimated ultimate human toll of 10,000 deaths. Exposed Russians
quickly developed blood cell micronuclei, leaving them at high risk
for cancer.



What they wouldn’t tell us

RF/microwaves from cell phones and cell tower transmitters also cause
micronuclei damage in blood cells. This was reported a decade ago by
Drs. Henry Lai and Narendrah Singh, biomedical researchers at the
University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Singh is famous for refining
comet assay techniques used to identify DNA damage. Lai and Singh
demonstrated in numerous animal studies that mobile phone radiation
quickly causes DNA single and double strand breaks at levels well
below the current federal "safe" exposure standards.2

The telecommunications industry knows this thanks to its own six-year,
wireless technology research (WTR) study program mandated by Congress
and completed in 1999. Gathering a team of over 200 doctors,
scientists and experts in the field, WTR research showed that human
blood exposed to cell phone radiation had a 300-percent increase in
genetic damage in the form of micronuclei.3 Dr. George Carlo, a public
health expert who coordinated the WTR studies, confirms that exposure
to communications radiation from wireless technology is "potentially
the biggest health insult" this nation has ever seen. Dr. Carlo
believes RF/microwave radiation is a greater threat than cigarette
smoking and asbestos.

In 2000, European communications giant T-Mobile commissioned the
German ECOLOG Institute to review all available scientific evidence in
regard to health risks for wireless telecommunications. ECOLOG found
over 220 peer-reviewed, published papers documenting the
cancer-initiating and cancer-promoting effects of the high frequency
radiation employed by wireless technology.4 Many corroborating studies
have been published since.

By 2004, 12 research groups from seven European countries cooperating
in the REFLEX study project confirmed that microwaves from wireless
communications devices cause significant single and double strand DNA
breaks in both human and animal cells under laboratory conditions.5 In
2005, a Chinese medical study confirmed statistically significant DNA
damage from pulsed microwaves at cell phone levels.6 That same year,
University of Chicago researchers described how pulsed communications
microwaves alter gene expression in human cells at non-thermal
exposure levels.7

Because gamma waves and RF/microwave radiation are identically
carcinogenic and genotoxic to the cellular roots of life, the safe
dose of either kind of radiation is zero. No study has proven that any
level of exposure from cell-damaging radiation is safe for humans. Dr.
Carlo confirms that cell damage is not dose dependant because any
exposure level can trigger damage response by cell mechanisms.8

Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National
Institutes of Health closely reviewed the damning results of WTR
studies, which also revealed microwave damage to the blood brain
barrier, but have chosen to downplay, obfuscate and even deny the
irrepressible science of the day. Raking in $billions from selling
spectrum licenses, the feds have allowed the telecom industry to
unleash demonstrably dangerous technology which induces millions of
people to become brain-intimate with improperly tested wireless
devices9 and which saturates the nation with carcinogenic waves to
service those devices. Dr. Carlo says that even the American Cancer
Society is in bed with the communications industry, which infuses the
Society with substantial contributions.10



Two ways to die

Medical science illustrates that there are two ways to die from
radiation poisoning: Fast burn and slow burn. Nuclear flash-burned
Japanese had parts of their flesh melt off before they died in agony
within hours or days. People have also quickly died after walking
through powerful radar beams, which can microwave-cook internal organs
within seconds of exposure.

Slow-burn radiation mechanisms are cumulative, progressive, ongoing
and continual. Thousands of Japanese nuke bomb victims died painfully
years after exposure. The slow burn process of RF/microwave exposure
is manifested by cancer clusters commonly found in communities
irradiated by cell tower transmitters. Recent Swedish epidemiological
studies confirm that, after 2,000 hours of cellular phone exposure, or
a latency period of about 10 years, brain cancer risk rises by 240
percent.11

Communications antennas blast the human habitat with many different
electromagnetic frequencies simultaneously. Human DNA hears this
energetic cacophony loud and clear, reacting like the human ear would
to high volume country music, R&B plus rock and roll screaming from
the same speaker simultaneously. Irradiated cells struggle to protect
themselves against this destructive dissonance by hardening their
membranes. They cease to receive nourishment, stop releasing toxins,
die prematurely and spill micronuclei fragments into a sort of "tumor
bank account."



Nuking the crew

The constant roaming pain is intense for 32-year-old Kenneth Hurtado
of Southern California. He’s been to hell and back, starting with a
seven-pound tumor on a kidney, diagnosed in 2002. The cancer spread to
his brain. His first brain tumor was removed by craniotomy, the second
by the cyber knife. In 2005, cancer nodes were found in his lungs. By
2006, the cancer had metastasized to his legs. This year he is
battling three excruciating tumors on his spinal cord. Hurtado hates
his seizures. His last one came on while he was driving. "It’s like
the devil taking over your body," he says.

Now unable to work, Hurtado says he was relatively healthy in 1998
when he began a career as an installer for a large international
corporation manufacturing electronics equipment for wireless
providers. At the base of cell towers there is an equipment "hut"
where installers assemble the radios, amplifiers and filters which
generate man-made microwave frequencies and route them up to
transmitter antennas through huge cables. Mounted on sector supports
aptly named alpha, beta and gamma, the antennas send and receive these
carcinogenic radio waves and their pulsed data packets at the speed of
light.

Posted on locked fences around the huts are "danger" warning signs.
Hurtado says, "You look around these sites and you find many dead
birds on the gravel. They can’t take the radiation and they’ll just
die. You don’t have to ponder that too long to figure it’s bad."

Hurtado doesn’t know how much radiation he got on the job. He says
there are at least four connection spots inside the hut where
radiation can leak. He could not avoid the "heat" when he turned the
radios on for testing and he wonders if his cancer is the result.
"When I first got hired, we had safety meetings, but they pretty much
minimized the hazards," he remembers. He was issued no electromagnetic
safety clothing and it was not until 2002 that he got a radiation
meter to wear. "The meter is supposed to warn you if you are getting
too much radiation," he said, "but I put mine on a stick and placed it
next to antennas and the alarm never went off."

A medical report in the International Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Health confirms that workers exposed to high levels of
RF/microwave radiation routinely have astronomical cancer rates.12 The
report notes that, for these workers, the latency period between high
radiation exposure and illness is short compared to less exposed
populations.

Hurtado said there are many industry workers who are dangerously
over-exposed. "I’ve talked to guys on power crews who have to climb
around the antennas and they’ve told me that before a work day is half
over, they start feeling really sick." He added, "In my mind they are
getting cooked."

Hurtado suspects that, since the early days of the wireless buildout,
there has been illegal activity related to public exposure from
transmission sites. "I’m pretty sure," he says, "that some of the
carriers are exceeding FCC exposure limits. They can turn the radios
and amplifiers up to get a bigger footprint and they don’t care if the
alarms go on once the installers are gone." Regulatory inspectors
could identify violators because channels can be spectrum analyzed.
"But," he says, "there is just no one to check and I believe that the
public is getting way too much radiation now."



Regulators asleep at the wheel

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the single agency with
authority to regulate the communications industry, has neither money,
manpower nor motive to properly monitor radiation output from hundreds
of thousands of commercial wireless installations spewing carcinogenic
waves across the nation. The FCC admits that physical testing to
verify compliance with emissions guidelines is relatively rare.

Critics say that FCC appointees, with virtually no medical or public
health expertise, represent an old-boy network and a cheering squad
for the telecommunications and broadcast industries. The Center for
Public Integrity found that FCC officials have been bribed by the
industries with such perks as expensive trips to Las Vegas.13

Dr. Carlo confirms that there is no regulatory accountability. He
says, "You have to go to those base stations and independently measure
what is coming out of them because we have had many instances where
you have an antenna that is allowed by law to transmit at 100 watts
and we have seen up to 900 to 1000 watts. You can turn things up when
nobody is looking."14

Neighborhood groups monitoring the broadcast/communications antenna
farm on Lookout Mountain near Denver, Colorado, have consistently
found that, despite protests to the FCC over nine years, radiation on
the mountain has been measured at up to 125 percent of exposure levels
permitted by federal law.15



Lethal exposure guidelines

Even if there were reliable compliance monitoring, experts say that
FCC public exposure guidelines for RF/microwave radiation are deadly
because they are based on the obsolete and unfounded theory that only
power density hot enough to flash-cook tissues is harmful. This puts
FCC at odds with current scientific evidence regarding the minimum
exposure level at which harm to living cells begins.

Myriad symptoms of radiation poisoning can be induced at exposure
levels hundreds, even thousands of times lower than current standards
permit. Russia’s public exposure standards are 100 times more
stringent than ours because Russian scientists have consistently shown
that, at U.S. exposure levels, humans develop pathological changes in
heart, kidney, liver and brain tissues, plus cancers of all types.16

Norbert Hankin, chief of the EPA’s Radiation Protection Division,
states that the FCC’s exposure guidelines are protective only against
effects arising from a thermal (flash burn) mechanism. He concedes
that, "the generalization by many, that these guidelines protect human
beings from harm by any and all mechanisms, is not justified."17

Thus, public microwave exposure levels tolerated by the FCC and its
industry-loaded advisory committees are a national health disaster.
Yet, for pragmatic and lucrative reasons, federal exposure limits have
been deliberately set so high that no matter how much additional
wireless radiation is added to the national burden, it will always be
"within standards."

The FCC regulatory mess comes into focus with the Likely Mountain
case. Jasso says that when she and Garcia contacted the FCC regarding
their radiation injuries, they were met with an appalling lack of
expertise and concern. "FCC has no answers," Jasso says. "Their
exposure guidelines are convoluted and nonsensical. They refuse to
address problems of multiple antennas, field expansion, human body
coupling and blood reversal because they want to avoid regulatory
problems at telecommunication sites." She adds, "FCC will fine a
licensee thousands of dollars for not having a light installed on top
of a telecommunications tower, but they have not issued even a warning
letter to their licensees for the injuries that occurred on Likely
Mountain. They say injury cannot occur because their licensees are
regulated."



Catch 22

When Garcia and Jasso filed suit against companies operating microwave
transmitters on Likely Mountain, they could find no attorney who would
take their case and they were forced to proceed pro se. In August,
2007, a California district court denied their claim, mainly on the
grounds that they had not proven that the defendants had exceeded FCC
exposure guidelines. Under federal law the shattered health of 24
people, plus medical testimony, is not sufficient proof of negligence
and liability.

Since FCC provides no enforcement monitoring at transmitter sites and
since the radiation industry is not required to prove with consistent
documentation that it is compliant, injured parties have little chance
of proving non-compliance because the damage to their health often
becomes obvious months or even years after their typically
undocumented exposure.

The court worried that the Garcia-Jasso case highlights "the conflict
between the FCC’s delegated authority to establish RF radiation
guidelines and limits and plaintiffs’ attempt to establish that
wireless facilities like the one at Likely Mountain are
ultrahazardous."

So, while current science provides ample evidence that FCC’s
guidelines are ultrahazardous, the radiation industry hides behind FCC
incompetence, simply because FCC retains exclusive authority to set
the standards.

The FCC’s disastrous authority is calcified by the Telecommunications
Act (TCA) of 1996. The telecom industry is infamous for lavish
"donations" which keep legislators on its leash. Anticipating a
national radiation health crisis and the public backlash that would
follow, the telecom lobby blatantly bought itself a provision in the
law that prohibits state and local governments from considering
environmental (health) effects when siting personal wireless service
facilities so long as "...such facilities comply with the FCC’s
regulations concerning such emissions."

Many say the TCA insures that America’s war on cancer will never be
won, while protecting gross polluters from liability.



On our own

After passage of the TCA, a group of scientists and engineers, backed
by the Communications Workers of America, filed suit in federal court.
They hoped the Supreme Court would review both the FCC’s outdated
exposure guidelines and the legality of a federal law that severely
impedes state and local authority in the siting of hazardous
transmitters. In 2001, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The
group’s subsequent petition to the FCC asking the agency to bring its
exposure guidelines current with the latest scientific data was
denied.18

This is where we stand today. The public has no vote, no voice, no
choice. Chronic exposure to scientifically indefensible levels of
DNA-ravaging radiation is now compulsory for everyone in America. This
is why Garcia and Jasso are ill today; this why the industry enjoys
unchallenged power to place dangerous transmitters in residential and
commercial areas with unsafe setbacks and; this is why untold
thousands of Americans in buildings with transmitters on the roof are
given no safety warnings, though they work and dwell in powerful,
carcinogenic electromagnetic fields. In the meantime, the radiation
industry rakes in $billions in quarterly profits, none of which is set
aside for to pay for the national health catastrophe at hand.

Every citizen is now condemned to protect and defend himself against
radiation assault as best he can. There have been a number of lawsuits
against the radiation industry since cell towers began going up in
backyards across the nation. In 2001, a group action lawsuit was filed
in South Bend, Indiana, by families living in close proximity to
towers. The complaint describes health effects suffered by the
plaintiffs, including heart palpitations, interference with hearing,
recurring headaches, short term memory loss, sleep disturbances,
multiple tumors, glandular problems, chronic fatigue, allergies,
weakened immune system, miscarriage and inability to learn.19

The South Bend suit was settled out of court on the basis of nuisance
and decreased property values. Health claims don’t hold water if
emissions are within FCC exposure standards. This case is valuable for
understanding the lunacy of FCC standards. The sick families enlisted
the help of radiation consultant Bill Curry, who honed his expertise
as an engineer for Argonne and Livermore labs. Dr. Curry found that
one of the towers was irradiating homes at over 65 microwatts per
square centimeter.20 This power density is well within federal
exposure standards, which allow any neighborhood to be zapped with at
least 580 microwatts per square centimeter, or higher, depending on
the frequencies. If the families were sick at 65 microwatts/cm22 what
would they be at 580? Considering that the Soviets used furtive Cold
War microwave bombardment to make US embassy personal radiation-sick
at an average exposure level of only .01 microwatts/cm2, America’s
clear and present danger is obvious.21



How radiation sick is America?

Since the wireless revolution began wave-nuking the U.S. in the 1990s,
there have been no federally funded health studies to assess the
cumulative effects of ever-increasing communications radiation on
public health. There is no national database enabling citizens to
study the location of transmitters in their areas. Local and state
governments can offer no information on how much commercial wireless
radiation is contaminating their populations. When trying to find out
who owns a tower or which companies have transmitters on that tower,
citizens usually hit a brick wall.

Dr. Carlo heads the only independent, post-market health surveillance
registry in the nation where people can report radiation illness.22
Dr. Carlo said the registry has heard from thousands of people who
believe that their illnesses, including brain and eye cancers, are due
to telecommunications radiation from both wireless phones and tower
transmitters. In the last two years, the registry has seen an upsurge
in reports as transmitters become ever more energetically dangerous in
order to accommodate increased data flow for new, multi-media
technologies.

We can only guess how many Americans are in their graves today from
microwave assault. Arthur Firstenberg, who founded the Cellular Phone
Task Force, wrote that, on November 14, 1996, New York City’s first
digital cellular provider activated thousands of PCS antennae newly
erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. Health authorities
reported that a severe and lingering flu hit the city that same week.
In response to its classified newspaper ad advising that radiation
sickness is similar to flu, the Task Force heard back from hundreds of
people who reported sudden onset symptoms synchronous to microwave
startup—symptoms similar to stroke, heart attack and nervous
breakdown.

Firstenberg gathered statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and analyzed weekly mortality statistics published for 122
U.S. cities. Each of dozens of cities recorded a 10-25 percent
increase in mortality, lasting two to three months, beginning in the
week during which that city’s first digital cell phone network began
commercial service. Sites with no cellular system start up in the same
time period showed no abnormal increases in mortality.23



Studies abroad

Recent health surveys in other nations confirm that people living
close to wireless transmitters are in big trouble:

• In 2002, French medical specialists found that people living close
to cell towers suffered extreme sleep disruption, chronic fatigue,
nausea, skin problems, irritability, brain disturbances and
cardiovascular problems.24

• German researchers found that people living within 1,200 feet of a
transmitter site in the German city of Naila had a high rate of cancer
and developed their tumors on average eight years earlier than the
national average. Breast cancer topped the list.25

• Spanish researchers found that people living within 1,000 feet of
cellular antennas had statistically significant illness at an average
power density of 0.11 to 0.19 microwatts /cm2, which is thousands of
times less than allowed by international exposure standards.26

• An Egyptian medical study found that people living near mobile phone
base stations were at high risk for developing nerve and psychiatric
problems, plus debilitating changes in neurobehavioral function.
Exposed persons had significantly lower performance on tests for
attention, short term auditory memory and problem solving.27

• Researchers in Israel studied people in the town of Netanya who had
lived near a cell tower for 3-7 years. They had a cancer rate four
times higher than the control population. Breast cancer was most
prevalent.28



Europe in an uproar

A new European Union poll of more than 27,000 people across the
continent reveals that 76 percent of respondents feel that they are
being made ill by wireless transmitters.29 Seventy-one percent in the
UK believe they suffer health effects from mast (cell tower)
radiation. In April 2007, The London Times reported a startling number
of cancer clusters in mast neighborhoods. One study in Warwickshire,
found 31 cancers around a single street.30 Some sick Brits send their
blood to a lab in Germany, which uses state of the art methodology to
confirm wireless radiation damage.

Radiation sickness is now so prevalent in Germany that 175 doctors
have signed the Bramberger Appeal, a document calling the situation a
"medical disaster." It asks the German government to initiate a
national public health investigation. This appeal closely follows the
Freiburger Appeal, signed by thousands of German doctors who say they
are dealing with an epidemic of severe and chronic diseases among both
old and young patients exposed to wireless microwave radiation. The
head of the cancer registry in Berlin found that one urban area with
cellular antennas had a breast cancer rate seven times the national
average.31

Sweden was one of the first nations to go wireless. Swedish
neuroscientist, Dr. Olle Johansson, with hundreds of published papers
to his credit, said that a national epidemic of illness and disability
was unleashed by the wireless revolution. Long periods of sick leave,
attempted suicides and industrial accidents all increased
simultaneously with introduction of mobile phone radiation.
Ninety-nine percent of the Swedish population is now under duress of
powerful third generation masts. Johansson reports that people are
plagued with sleep disorders, chronic fatigue that does not respond to
rest, difficulties with cognitive function and serious blood problems.
Recurrent headaches and migraines are a "substantial public health
problem," he says.32

Rooftop transmitters, which readily pass microwave radiation into
structures, can be a death sentence. Across the world there are
reports of cancer clusters and extreme illness in office buildings and
multi-tenant dwellings where antennas are placed on rooftops directly
over workers and tenants. In 2006, the top floors of a Melbourne
University office building were closed after a brain tumor cluster
drew media attention to the risks of communications transmitters on
top of the building.33 Likewise, ABC’s Brisbane television complex,
topped with satellite dishes and radio antennas, was the site of a
well-publicized breast cancer cluster among workers.34



Deadlier death rays

In the meantime, the radiation cowboys of America are having a good
‘ol time because they know there’s no sheriff in town. The commercial
wireless industry is relentless in its drive to construct thousands of
new transmitter sites in neighborhoods and schoolyards everywhere,
while adding more powerful antennas at its older sites. Countless WiFi
systems, both indoors and out, accommodate wireless laptop computers,
personal digital assistants, WiFi-enabled phones, gaming devices,
video cameras, even parking and utility meters. Hundreds of cities
already have or are planning to fund WiFi networks, each consisting of
thousands of small microwave transmitters bolted to buildings, street
lamps, park benches and bus stops. Some networks are being buried
under sidewalks. These access points or "nodes" blast carcinogenic
energy at 2.4 to 5 gigahertz with virtually no warning signs about
radiation exposure. WiFi radiation is unregulated by the FCC.

Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire are now rolling out in U.S. cities
tower-mounted WiMAX transmitters providing wireless internet access
"to die for." WiMAX is WiFi on steroids. Upon startup of WiMAX
transmitters near the Swedish village of Gotene, the emergency room at
the local hospital was flooded by calls from people overcome with
pulmonary and cardiovascular symptoms.35

WiMAX radiation could one day be cranked up to a bone-incinerating 66
gigahertz.36 A single WiMAX tower could provide internet coverage for
an area of 3,000 square miles, although coverage for 6-25 square miles
is the norm now. Promoters say WiMAX may some day replace all cable
and DSL broadband services and irradiate virtually all rural areas.

Not a single environmental or public health study has been required as
the industry unleashes infrastructure for this savage new wireless
technology from which no living flesh is able to escape.

The commercial ray-peddlers are not alone in their quest to make the
U.S. a radiation wasteland. In August, 2007, Congress approved new
Homeland Security legislation which funds a program to "promote
communications compatibility between local, state and federal
officials."

We catch a glimpse of what this portends as the state of New York
gears up to erect hundreds of new wireless installations for a
"Statewide Wireless Network (SWN)," allowing agencies at various
government levels to communicate instantly.37 SWN will blanket 97
percent of the state, adding to the fog of commercial wireless
pollution. The New York Office for Technology says that the radiation
power densities of the system will be within FCC limits.



Angela’s story

Angela Flynn, a 43-year-old caregiver, lives in Santa Cruz,
California. Last spring she took classes at a local church where
wireless antennas were concealed in a chimney on the building. She
recalls, "Every muscle in my body felt sore. And my joints were
feeling creaky. My instructor mentioned how people at the women’s
center on church property had similar symptoms. During my sixth day I
had a severe reaction. My short term memory was gone and I was
disoriented and confused. When the instructor asked a question, I
could not recall anything from the lecture."

At night, Angela could not sleep and she would lie awake, feeling her
body buzz. She became hypersensitive to other sources of
electromagnetic radiation. The symptoms became so bothersome that she
canceled the rest of her course. Using a chart for calculating
cumulative, non-ionizing, electromagnetic radiation exposure levels,
she found that the classes—located only 100 feet from antennas in the
building—had suffered the highest possible exposure during peak
operation.

"It took a month before I regained my health," she reports.

When Angela wrote letters to the church inquiring whether it was
monitoring the health of the people exposed to antenna radiation,
church officials were "unresponsive and dismissive." So Angela saw the
light. She helped organize a community group to put pressure on county
officials for answers. After hearing community testimony, officials
directed the zoning department to create a comprehensive map of county
transmitter sites and to put together a report on emissions testing.

Angela says, "We recently had a delay of an installation of a tower
near a middle school. The superintendent has even come out against the
tower and was instrumental in delaying the hearing on the site. He
also arranged a school board meeting on the issue." Angela’s efforts
to share critical information with her community made a difference.



Conclusion

America must soon face its radiation cataclysm. The EMR Network says
that millions of workers occupy worksites on a daily basis where
operating antenna arrays are camouflaged and where no RF safety
program is carried out. Thanks to shameless predatory advertising
techniques, American youth are now literally addicted to "texting,"
watching TV and accessing the Internet on tiny wireless screens. These
are the toys that keep cell towers and WiFi hot spots buzzing. A
nation that requires compulsory mass irradiation to fuel its trivial
entertainment needs is surely destined to have a sickly and
short-lived population.

Right now, 11.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with cancer.
Because humans can harbor cancer conditions for years before
detection, additional millions of cancer victims are yet undiagnosed.
The Journal of Oncology Practice predicts that, by 2020, there will be
so many cancer cases in the U.S. that doctors may not be able to cope
with their caseloads. The report concludes the nation could soon face
a shortage of up to 4,000 cancer specialists.38

A recent CBS news series on the raging American cancer epidemic left
viewers with the mindset that trainloads of federal cash must flow if
we are to find the cancer answer. But the cancer cause now inundates
our cities, roadways, schools, offices and homes. Any environmental
stressor that jackhammers human cells at millions to billions of
cycles per second is a cancer factor. Any wave-pollution that breaks
the DNA and causes pre-cancerous micronuclei in human blood is a
cancer factor. Logic tells us that there will be no "answer to cancer"
until we eliminate the cancer factors.

Wireless communications radiation is to America today what DDT,
thalidomide, dioxin, benzene, Agent Orange and asbestos were
yesterday. Historically, the truth about the public health menace of
extreme toxins is never told until thousands sicken and die.

Dr. Robert Becker, noted for decades of research on the effects of
electromagnetic radiation, has warned: "Even if we survive the
chemical and atomic threats to our existence, there is the strong
possibility that increasing electropollution could set in motion
irreversible changes leading to our extinction before we are even
aware of them. All life pulsates in time to the earth and our
artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms…These
energies are too dangerous to entrust forever to politicians, military
leaders and their lapdog researchers."39

Our mission to save the nation’s health and restore sanity in the
wireless age seems daunting. The wireless juggernaut is an aggressive,
mean machine. Federal regulators are clearly compromised and
incompetent to protect the public health. Uninformed consumers dearly
love their magic digital toys and don’t yet understand the connection
between those toys and a national raging cancer epidemic that may
consume us all.

Powerful economic interests have lied to us long enough. Americans
need and deserve the facts. We need dialogue. Wireless radiation is a
form of electronic trespass. America must decide whose rights are more
important—idlers beaming death rays for gibberish or the elderly with
pacemakers who are made ill by cell phone and tower radiation wherever
they go. Must we all prematurely perish so that wireless enthusiasts
can capture cell phone photos and instantly send them for processing
via carcinogen express? Does a human being have the right to NOT be
forcibly WiMAXED into a coffin, or do only wireless providers and
their devotees have rights?



What can we do?

We can commit to join the growing radiation awareness movement and
continue educating ourselves and others. We can employ digital and
audio radiation detectors to help safeguard our personal health and to
demonstrate the ceaseless brutality of ubiquitous wireless radiation
which threatens the genetic integrity of future generations. We can
promote emerging technologies that could make communications
technologies safer.

We can demand that federal radiation exposure standards be updated and
that wireless emissions from transmitters be drastically reduced. We
can demand routine compliance testing at all transmitter sites. We can
see to it that people living and working near transmitters be given
opportunity to report their illnesses in national surveys. Proper
epidemiological studies must be conducted and their results published
and broadly disseminated. Federal communications law must be rewritten
so that local jurisdictions can regain their right to consider health
and environment when reviewing wireless siting applications.

Each of us can break the seductive, but oppressive wireless habit
ourselves. We can play no game, use no wireless Internet system, make
no trivial phone call that necessitates enlarging America’s dense
forest of wireless transmitters.

If no one buys WiMAX-enabled devices and related services, the system
will fail. Whenever possible, we can go back to the old-fashioned,
corded phones and message machines which made yesteryear a far more
healthy time. We can encourage others to contact us by land line only.
Can we enjoy a leisurely conversation knowing that an irradiated
caller risks disease and disability for mindless chatter? What good is
wireless convenience if it means being ultimately tethered to a
hospital bed? We can teach our children that health is more important
than passing convenience and instant gratification.

According to OSHA, no environment should be deliberately made
hazardous. Backed by current scientific knowledge, we can refuse to
work or shop in an environment which endangers our health. We can
demand that megahertz and gigahertz cordless phones, walkie talkie
radios, WLAN and WiFi systems be removed from schools, offices,
hospitals and any public place where people are grossly irradiated
without their informed consent. Second hand smoke is bad; second hand
radiation is worse.

We wish to thank the courageous radiation victims interviewed for this
report who have generously revealed the details of their personal
suffering in order to warn others. Following their example, we must
continue undaunted in the moral quest to protect the national health
and restore the world to sanity before it is too late.



Meters and resources

The ElectroSmog Detector allows you to HEAR the RF/microwave pollution
in your environment. (See ad on page 14 of the hardcopy edition of The
IO).

The Trifield Meter ($130), produced by Alpha Lab, is used mainly to
measure the milligauss of electromagnetic fields coming from 60 hertz
sources. Use this digital meter to make sure your living and working
spaces are under 2 milligauss. Alpha Lab’s Microwave Power Density
Meter ($320) is a more sensitive digital microwave meter that will
help you assess the kilohertz, megahertz and gigahertz radiation in
our wireless environment. This easy-read meter measures microwave
radiation in microwatts per cm2, allowing comparison of your readings
to the 5 microwatts per cm2 used by the Russians to make our embassy
staff sick. Remember, people inside the embassy reportedly received
only about .01 microwatts per cm2. For more information, contact Alpha
Lab Inc., 1280 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101; (800)
658-7030; www.trifield.com

For a list of more expensive professional meters available, go to:
www.microwavenews.com. On the left side of the home page find a link
called "Radiation Meters."

Alan Broadband produces radiation detection devices with models
ranging in price from $159 to $2,800. The $159 model, while not giving
detailed readings, is an extremely sensitive and sturdy instrument
that gives an accurate dial read on whether or not radiation is
present and its relative intensity. It lets you know when you are
being irradiated and serves as an excellent tool to illustrate
exposure levels to others. For more information, contact Alan
Broadband 93 Arch St., Redwood City, California 94062; (888) 369-9627;
www.zapchecker.com

Books

Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George Carlo
and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001.

Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, Robert C. Kane, Vantage Press,
2001.

Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard? The
Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council, Edited by B. Blake Levitt,
2000. Order from Barnes and Noble.

Websites

These websites provide excellent information on all aspects of health
and other issues relating to electromagnetic fields and radio
frequency/microwave radiation.

www.buergerwelle.com This excellent German (but in English) site
features RF/microwave radiation news from all over the world. The
science keeps pouring in and this is where to find it, along with lots
of human interest.

www.cprnewsbureau.org This is an excellent source of up-to-date news
on wireless issues.

www.emrnetwork.org This site has superb resources organized by
professionals with expertise in all facets of our RF/microwave
radiation problem.

www.safewireless.org This site features Dr. Carlo’s Mobil Telephone
Health Concerns Registry where people can report ill health effects
from living near microwave transmitters or from the use of wireless
devices. It also features great news reports.

www.microwavenews.com This is home to Microwave News, an excellent
monthly publication. It offers cutting edge science reports, plus a
great archive.

www.sageassociates.net This site provides valuable information on how
to make homes and offices safer in the wireless age.

CAUTION: There are many devices on the market claiming to protect
wireless users from radiation. These include: air tube headsets,
ferrite bead clip-ons and an array of paste-ons advertised to cut down
on thermal effects or deflect negative energy. Energy testing,
kinesiology and meter readings indicate that these mitigation devices
DO NOT adequately protect against the brutal force of near field
microwave radiation. You can investigate the effectiveness of these
devices by metering radiation levels while using them. If radiation
pours from your "safe" headset, don’t bank your life on it. If
practiced in the art of kinesiology, you can also "muscle test" the
effectiveness of the radiation mitigation device. The human body
becomes very weak when irradiated with any man-made frequency,
especially microwaves. If a protective device is really working, you
will not detect muscle weakness when using a wireless phone or gadget.
Remember when there were no cellphones?

By Don Harkins

As her friend and editor for over a decade now, I have grown alongside
Amy in her research on chemtrails, depleted uranium and radiation.
There is zero doubt in our hearts and minds that Amy’s references are
sound, her interpretation of data flawless and her intentions purely
honorable and compassionate.

That means use of cell phones, WiFi, WiMax and RFID is not only
suicide, but complicity is a "slow burn" form of mass murder. If
second-hand cigarette smoke bothers you, how does it compare to second
hand radiation? Well, it doesn’t. Using a cell phone in proximity to
others only increases the intensity of the ambient levels of radiation
that are omnipresent to support wireless personal communication
networks. Where nonsmokers can remove themselves or the smoker from
the room, noncellphoneusers (one word) cannot escape radiation by
going to another room. In other words, everyone is bathing in
dangerous levels of cellphone "smoke" whether you are "smoking" or
not.

When the wireless age was growing in earnest in the late 90s, people
kept telling Ingri and I, "You really need to get cell phones—they are
so convenient."

We opted not to for the same reason we have never acquired a laptop
computer: If we are away from our desk that means we are (temporarily)
FREE!—free of the phone and free of the computer.

The next stage, by the early 00s, people began saying to us, "Don,
Ingri, you really need to get cell phones so it will be more
convenient for us to get ahold of you."

Now, when the subject of our having resisted carrying cell phones to
this point comes up in conversation, people say, "You are so lucky."

It’s not luck—we just didn’t like the idea of being "on call" all the
time and our lifestyles just didn’t evolve to include cell phones. We
have only known for a couple years how deadly they are.

But, for cellphoneusers (one word), the novelty of cell phones has
been replaced with addiction and the convenience has been replaced
with enslavement. In that sense, we are lucky.

The three following comments represent the most common justifications
people recite for using cell phones:

"But with my job, I have to have one."

"They are handy in an emergency."

"This way, the kids (the wife/husband/friends/business contacts) can
always get ahold of me."

But consider these responses from noncellphoneusers:

"Is your job worth irradiating yourself and the world around you?"

"What did you do in an emergency BC (that’s "before cell phones")?"

"Are you sure that you are so darned important that you can’t just
have people leave a message on a land line recorder and check messages
now and then?"

And one bonus retort: "If an industry is using your addiction to
wireless toys as a means to finance the erection of a communications
infrustructure that intends to control all life on earth en route to
destroying it, should you choose to buy its services?"

The truth is you can do your job without a cell phone—or find another
one.

You can prepare in advance for emergencies like we used to.

And, it is true, we aren’t so important that people can’t wait a few
minutes or a few hours to talk to us. (DWH)



Notes:

1. Interview with Dr. Eckel published by Schwabischen Post 12-07-06.
Find interview at www.hese-project.org. See "The Cell Nucleus is
Mutating."

2. " Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic
Radiation," a paper presented by Dr. Lai to the Mobile Phones and
Health Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna. Also "DNA
Damage and Cell Phone Radiation," www.rfsafe.com, 11-02-05.

3. Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, Dr. George
Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001, p.151.

4. " Mobile Telecommunications and Health—Summary of the ECOLOG study
for T-Mobile, 2000," Find this summary at www.hese-project.org.

5. "Cell Phone Radiation Harms DNA, Study Claims," (Reuters) MSNBC,
12-04-04. Also "Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA," R. Moss, CPR News
Bureau, 10-16-06.

6. "RF-Induced DNA Breaks Reported in China," Microwave News,
09-29-05. This report comes from the Zhejiang University School of
Medicine.

7. "2.45 GHz radiofrequency fields alter gene expression in cultured
human cells," Lee S et al, Department of Medicine, University of
Chicago, PubMed 16107253.

8 "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast
Review," a public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this
excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.

9. Few Americans know that cell phones have never been safety tested
thanks to the FDA, which exempted cell phones from pre-market testing
based on a "low power exclusion" rule.

10. "The American Cancer Society is Misleading the Public," Dr. George
Carlo, 8-5-07. Find this statement at www.buergerwelle.com.

11. "Long-Term Mobile Phone Use Raises Brain Tumor Risk: Study,"
Reuters, 03-31-06. This research was conducted by the Swedish National
Institute for Working Life whose scientists studied 905 people with
malignant brain tumors to confirm a 240% increased risk of brain
tumors after heavy mobile phone use.

12. "Cancer in Radar Technicians Exposed to RF/Microwave Radiation:
Sentinel Episodes," Richter E. et al, Int. J. Occup Environ Health 6
(3):187-193, 2000.

13. "FCC Lives Large off Lobbyist Bribes," Capitol Hill Blue,
05-22-03, capitolhillblue.com.

14. "Health Social Services and Housing Sub-Panel Telephone Mast
Review," public discussion by Dr. George Carlo, 2-26-07. Find this
excellent dissertation at www. safewireless.org.

15. See www.c-a-r-e.org for information about groups affected by
Lookout Mountain broadcast antennas.

16. For an excellent chart comparing biological effects at power
density levels and a list of international exposure standards, go to:
"Radio Wave Packet," Arthur Firstenberg, Cellular Phone Task Force,
Sept 2001; also find this power density list at: "Analysis of Health
and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink WiFi
Network, Magda Havas, Ph.D, Trent University, May 2007.

17. Quote from letter by Norbert Hankin, chief environmental scientist
with EPA’s Radiation Protection Division. This letter was received by
EMR Network 7-16-02 and can be found at www.emrnetwork.org.

18. "Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to U.S. Tower Policy," Microwave
News, Jan./Feb 2001.

EMR Network Petition For Inquiry To Consider Amendment of Parts 1 and
2 of the FCC’s Rules Concerning the Environmental Effects of
Radiofrequency Radiation, September 25, 2001. See also FCC order to
deny application for review filed by the EMR Network, adopted July 28,
2003.

19. Hicks, Onnink, Barber, Pennington v. Horvath Communications, Cause
No.71C01-0107-CP St. Joseph Circuit Court, St Joseph County, Indiana.

20. "Some Unexpected Health Hazards Associated with Cell Tower
Siting," Bill P.Curry, PhD., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience or
Environmental Hazard? The Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council,
edited by B. Blake Levitt, 2000. See chapter 6.

21. Practical Guidelines to Protect Human Health Against
Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted in Mobile Telephony, Summary June
2001, Miguel Muntane Condeminas, industrial engineer for Consulting
Comunicacio i Disseny S.L, Barcelona, m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es. See
Section 4.3.1 "US Embassy in Moscow Study."

22. See www.health-concerns.org. and www.safewireless.org. These sites
provide a pathway to access Dr. Carlo’s Mobil Telephone Health
Concerns Registry where people can report ill health effects from
living near microwave transmitters or from the use of wireless
devices.

23. "Electromagnetic, Fields, (EMF) Killing Fields," Arthur
Firstenberg, The Ecologist, v. 34, n. 5, 6-10-2004.

24. "Study of the health of people living in the vicinity of mobile
phone base stations: I. influences of distance and sex," R. Santini et
al, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées—laboratoire de
biochimie-pharmacologie, 2002.

25. "Cancer Risks from Microwaves Confirmed," Dr. Mae-Wan Ho,
Institute of Science in Society press release, 5-24-07.

26. "The Microwave Syndrome—a preliminary study in Spain," Navarro E.
et al, Biology and Medicine, 22 (2 &3) 161-169, 2003; also " The
Microwave Syndrome—Further Aspects of a Spanish Study," Oberfeld G et
al 2004, International Conference Proceedings, Kos, Greece 2004.

27. "Neurobehavioral Effects Among Inhabitants Around Mobile Phone
Base Stations," Abdel-Rassoul et al, Neurotoxicology, 8-01-2006.

28. "Increase of Cancer Near Cell-Phone Transmitter Station," Wolf D.
and Wolf, International Journal of Cancer Prevention 1-2, April 2004.

29. "Two in Three Believe Radiation from Phones Damaged their Health,"
Geoffrey Lean, 7-8-07 Independent on Sunday, U.K.

30. "Cancer Cluster at Phone Masts, " Times On Line, The Sunday Times,
UK 4-22-07.

31. Report by Roland Stabenow, 9-21-06, head of cancer registry in
Berlin.

32. "How Shall We Cope With the Increasing Amounts of Airborne
Radiation?" Olle Johansson, Journal of the Australasian College of
Environmental Medicine, Dec. 2006.

33. "Building Top Floors Closed After Brain Tumor Alert," Lisa
Macnamara, The Australian, UK, 05-13-07. Read this report at
www.rense.com.

34. "Cancer Strikes 12 Female Staffers," Tony Koch, Omega-News,
4-06-07.

35. Swedes Hit Hard By WiMax, 6-12-06, Reported by Swedish media about
Swedish town Gotene. Hospital emergency room flooded with calls
regarding headaches, difficulty breathing, blurry vision and heart
problems. At least 5 people had to leave their homes.

36. "How WiMAX Works," E. Grabianowski and Marshal Brain, www.
computer.howstuffworks.com

37. "250-foot Tower Raises New Bellevue Fears", John Hopkins,
Cheektowaga Times, 8-09-2007; See also "Congress Approves Homeland
Security Bill," Spencer Hsu, Washington Post 08-07-07.

38. Journal of Oncology Practice, Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2007: 79-86.

39. Robert Becker, The Body Electric,