Another White Zone

Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia More than five billion people use mobile phones worldwide and advances in wireless technology make it increasingly difficult to escape the influence of mobile devices. But while most Americans seem to embrace continuous connectivity, some believe it's making them physically ill. Diane Schou is unable to hold back the tears as she describes how she once lived in a shielded cage to protect her from the electromagnetic radiation caused by waves from wireless communication. "It's a horrible thing to have to be a prisoner," she says. "You become a technological leper because you can't be around people. "It's not that you would be contagious to them - it's what they're carrying that is harmful to you." Ms Schou is one of an estimated 5% of Americans who believe they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), which they say is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields typically created by cell phones, wi-fi and other electronic equipment. Hiding in a cage Symptoms range from acute headaches, skin burning, muscle twitching and chronic pain. Diane Schou says she was forced to live in a shielded cage in Iowa, prior to moving to West Virginia "My face turns red, I get a headache, my vision changes, and it hurts to think. Last time [I was exposed] I started getting chest pains - and to me that's becoming life threatening," Ms Schou says. To alleviate the pain, her husband built an insulated living space known as a Faraday Cage. He covered a wooden frame with two layers of wire mesh and a door that could be sealed shut to prevent radio waves from entering. Diane spent much of her time inside it, sleeping on a twin mattress on a plywood base. "At least I could see my husband on the outside, I could talk to him," she says. Diane believes her illness was triggered by emissions from a mobile phone mast. Her symptoms were so severe that she abandoned her family farm in the state of Iowa and moved to Green Bank, West Virginia - a tiny village of 143 residents in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. Outlawed wireless technology Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless is banned across 13,000 sq miles (33,000 sq km) to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. The largest is owned by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and enables scientists to listen to low-level signals from different places in the universe. Others are operated by the US military and are a critical part of the government's spy network. As a result of the radio blackout, the Quiet Zone has become a haven for people like Diane, desperate to get away from wireless technology. The world's largest, fully steerable radio telescope is operated in the town of Green Bank "Living here allows me to be more of a normal person. I can be outdoors. I don't have to stay hidden in a Faraday Cage," she says. "I can see the sunrise, I can see the stars at night, and I can be in the rain. "Here in Green Bank allows me to be with people. People here do not carry cells phones so I can socialise. "I can go to church, I can attend some celebrations, I can be with people. I couldn't do that when I had to remain in the Faraday Cage." But EHS is not medically recognised in the US.

PHONE MASTS MAY BE THE AUTISM MISSING LINK
How Cell Phones May Cause Autism
Rates of autism, a disabling neurodevelopmental disorder, have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, with the most significant increases occurring in the past decade. The cause of autism is unknown, although theories include such potential causes as:
• Genetic predisposition
• Inability to clear heavy metals
• Increased vulnerability to oxidative stress
• Environmental exposures including mercury preservatives in vaccines
• Trans-generational accumulation of toxic heavy metals
Now a groundbreaking new theory has been suggested by a study published in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine: electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi devices and other similar wireless technologies as an accelerating factor in autism.

EMR May be the Missing Link The study, which involved over five years of research on children with autism and other membrane sensitivity disorders, found that EMR negatively affects cell membranes, and allows heavy metal toxins, which are associated with autism, to build up in your body. Meanwhile, the researchers pointed out that autism rates have increased concurrently along with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless use. EMR, the researchers say, could impact autism by facilitating early onset of symptoms or by trapping heavy metals inside of nerve cells, which could accelerate the onset of symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and hinder therapeutic clearance of the toxins . Speaking in reference to the huge rise in autism rates, Dr. George Carlo, the study’s co-author, said, "A rise of this magnitude must have a major environmental cause. Our data offer a reasonable mechanistic explanation for a connection between autism and wireless technology." They also suggest that EMR from wireless devices works in conjunction with environmental and genetic factors to cause autism. Primary researcher for this article is Tamara Mariea. Her clinic is called Internal Balance™ Inc.(www.internalbalance.com) and is a state-of-the-art Detoxification Clinic located in the Nashville, TN area. Her objective is to provide high quality and current up-to-date information on the hottest topics in the natural health industry including sound advice on how to implement a personal wellness and detoxification program that works.
One of the most successful programs offered at Internal Balance is the unique strategies implemented for autistic children. In working backward through the autistic child’s life, making changes to their environment, diet and implementing State-of-the-Art detoxification strategies, the Internal Balance team has witnessed numerous changes and improvements in the lives and families of these children. In a few cases, they have witnessed miracles that have changed lives forever, including Mariea’s team. Parents consistently report back that during and after the detoxification process and most importantly after making modifications to their home, they see huge changes in their children’s developmental progress and a decrease in the children’s general sensory discomfort.
Although Mariea believes that autism is a complicated condition that must have several factors at play for a child to fall to this diagnosis, she does believe that the three largest factors at play are
• Genetically determined detoxification capacity
• Early insult to immune system via contaminated vaccines and
• Being born with high levels of toxic burden and into a technologically advanced society riddled with ever increasing levels of radiation
Dr Joseph Mercola Comments :.
I am absolutely convinced that the explosion of cell phone usage around the world is one of the primary contributors to the autism epidemic. The information-carrying radio waves from cell phone base stations and cell phones makes children’s exposure to vaccines and heavy metals much more dangerous than they typically are. Why? Because EMR may actually trap heavy metals inside your cells, allowing them to cause damage and hindering your body from detoxifying them. While I realize that most people will not avoid cell phones because of their convenience, I would urge you to not let your kids use them.

What you can do to protect yourself & your family
Whenever possible go back to a wired connection, no wires always mean that the signal must travel through the air and in most cases this is a microwave transmission. Does the `convenience' of no wires make up for the threat of future health problems?
Electro pollution continues rising above levels which were quite unimaginable, say twenty years ago. 50Hz systems from overhead/underground cables and transformers to mains operated electrical appliances and wiring produce pollution in several ways. It includes RF radiation from radar, tetra, broadcast antennas, mobile communication systems and more.
Few people realise we have a medical profession that receives no training in this area of investigation and who simply follow Government guidelines. Most scientific organisations are supported by Government industry or both; whistle blowers are dismissed, whilst Governments, industry and those institutions under their control find it in their own interest to ignore many, many thousands of scientific and medical research papers. A large number have been written by some of the world’s top scientists in this field, totalling more than five decades of research, showing all biological systems can indeed be affected both positively and detrimentally by electromagnetic fields.
To obtain more information visit:
www.bioinitative.org - www. hese-project.org/hese-uk

www.mastsanity.org - www.wiredchild.org

www.mastaction.co.uk - www.powerwatch.org.uk

www.microwavenews.com - www.radiationresearch.org

www.tetrawatch.net - www.emfacts.com

www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk
Is Electromagnetic-pollution making you ill? Problems & links to solutions

Growing numbers are becoming seriously ill due to emissions encountered at home, workplace & school.

Some of the symptoms affecting more & more people

Sleeping difficulties - Irritability - Chronic fatigue – Allergies

Muscle aches weakness – Headaches - Nose bleeds – Nausea Dizziness - Flu like symptoms – Tinnitus - Depression

Sensitivity to chemical products - Blurred Vision

Burning, itchy or tingly red skin - Short-term memory loss

Inability to concentrate - Behavioural problems in children Cancer - Heart attacks & strokes – Autoimmune diseases.







Electromagnetic Pollution Within the Home

Electromagnetic pollution is increasing alongside increased cases of cancers, brain tumours, autism, childhood leukaemia & Alzheimer’s. Many other diseases are linked to EMF’s [Electromagnetic Fields]. Protests often occur over the growing number of mobile base station antennas mounted close to residential properties & schools, but symptoms attributed to exposure from wireless devices such as DECT, Bluetooth, & wireless local area networks (WLAN or WiFi), are the same as those reported by people living in the vicinity of mobile-phone masts. In fact, radiation levels from devices such as digital cordless phones, wireless computers, wireless modems & mobile-phones, along with other communication devices, can be far greater than those entering the home, school or workplace from communication masts. Those already suffering from the same symptoms, including those who don't `yet’ might be wise to study the information given on the websites listed. Yes, of course there could be other reasons for those symptoms, and good reason we should look at all possibilities. Sadly, so many doctors endeavour to treat the symptoms not the cause! Our own need to be wireless can also affect neighbours, pets and wildlife in the garden. It was demonstrated that electrosmog could affect the honeybee. During a recent experiment bees leaving a hive became disorientated after a DECT base station was placed 1 metre away from the rear of the hives front exit/entrance and switched on for only 5 minutes. When switched off, the bees returned to normal activity shortly afterwards.

Digital Enhanced Cordless Phone [DECT]

DECTs produce powerful microwave radiation from their base units 24/7 even when not in use. DECT & Wifi signals easily travel into adjacent buildings & gardens & can easily affect those sensitive to this damaging radiation. An alternative is the “Orchid Phone” as it emits zero microwave radiation when not in use, & reduces its power levels by up to 75% depending on how far away you are from the base station. Contact, lowradiation.co.uk. A safer option - revert back to the normal phone plugged into a landline socket.

Wi- Fi also called Wireless LAN [wLan]

Wi-Fi allows computers to link to the Internet wirelessly through local area networks. The wireless market is growing fast with new, more powerful devices such as the Home Hub now being offered “free”. And indeed they are extremely efficient in supplying WiFi coverage for internet, DECT and mobile in and around the home `conveniently' from one device, which acts like a mobile phone mast inside the home, pulsing 24/7. [Unless used in the power save mode] But higher efficiency means stronger electromagnetic radiation and devices like the new home hub are said to produce radiation levels 10 times higher than other units, thereby reaching further, which is the whole point.
It is not simply a question of the power level from one device, but the total power emitted from all other units in the home, classroom, or workplace. Not forgetting transmissions from nearby cell phone, TETRA and Wi-Fi masts penetrating the building, as well as radiation from neighbour’s devices.

Digital Wireless Baby Monitors

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications [DECT] is the standard used for many baby monitors & can emit radio frequency fields of 6 volts/per metre, or twice as strong as those found 100 metres away from a mobile phone mast. For comparison the maximum recommended 2002 Salzburg indoor level for GSM is just 0.02 volts per metre. Such monitors are certainly not safe when placed 1 metre or more from the child as some suppliers suggest. Digital technology, due to its 'pulsed' nature seems to be more harmful at lower levels of power than the older analogue technology. Understandably, babies or young children are at more risk than adults from any form of pollution, especially electro-pollution! Children have no choice; you make the choice for them. Therefore isn’t it better to play safe now than regret it later?

Energy-saving CFL bulbs & fluorescent tubes

The EU ban on incandescent lamps may leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable sick & disabled people in the UK unable to safely use electric light in their homes. Light sensitivity can arise from a range of health conditions, including the genetic disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), the auto-immune disease lupus, forms of eczema and dermatitis, photosensitivity, ME, electrosensitivity and many more. Doctors say more people are complaining of itching, burning and skin inflammation after exposure to the bulb’s ultraviolet light. Common symptoms are severe stinging, burning and itching of the skin, along with red rash. CFLs each contain 5 milligrams of mercury and when broken present a health hazard. Vast numbers will be dumped on landfill sites, risking the contamination of future water supplies. Decision makers are seemingly lacking knowledgeable foresight

THE MAYOR OF BROWARD COUNTY (FL) PROCLAIMS MAY 2009 AS ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSITIVITY (EMS) AWARENESS MONTH
Christiane Tourtet B.A.
March 24, 2009
The Honorable Stacy Ritter, Mayor of Broward County (FL), has proclaimed May 2009 as ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSITIVITY(EMS) AWARENESS MONTH in Broward County (FL). The Honorable Mayor Stacy Ritter states in the Proclamation, that as a result of global electromagnetic pollution, people of all ages in Broward County and throughout the world have developed an illness known as Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) and that EMS is a painful chronic condition of hypersensitivity reactions to electromagnetic radiation in the environment for which there is currently no known cure, and that the symptoms of EMS include dermal changes, dermatitis, acute tingling and numbness. muscular weakness, headaches, heart rate changes, nausea, gastric problems, loss of visual acuity, severe neurological, respiratory, speech problems, and numerous other physiological symptoms.The mayor also states that EMS is recognized by the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the U.S. Access Board, and that the health of the general population is at risk from electromagnetic exposures that can lead to this illness induced by electromagnetic radiations, and that this illness may be preventable though the reduction or avoidance of electromagnetic radiation, in both indoor and outdoor environments and further scientific research to be conducted including genetics,
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She also points out in the Proclamation, that people with EMS need the support of the medical establishment, and the understanding of family, friends, co-workers and society as they struggle with their illness and learn to adapt to new lifestyles.Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) is a most devastating worldwide epidemic, the direct consequence of global exposures to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones, cell phones towers, telephones, portable phones, Wifi, laptops, computers, videogames, televisions screen, radios, car electronics, pagers, audio and video recorders, power lines, digital cameras, electric clocks and watches, marine radars and radio transmitters, VDU and countless other electronics.

Dr Andrew Goldsworthy on Membrane Leakage

Electromagnetic Fields and Health: Executive Report Dr Andrew Goldsworthy -2009
Membrane leakage
All the living cells in our bodies are surrounded by membranes just two molecules thick. Most of these molecules are negatively charged and tend to repel one another. However, they are held together by positive ions (mainly calcium) that fit in between them. The ions’ forces of attraction for the negative molecules on either side help to bind them together like mortar holding together the bricks of a wall.
Extremely weak alternating electromagnetic fields, similar to those produced by Wifi, cell phones, cordless phones, and their respective base stations, can act on these calcium ions and dislodge them. This weakens the membrane and makes it more inclined to leak. Very little energy is required since the calcium has to be moved only far enough from the membrane for an alternative ion (usually potassium) to sneak into its place. Since potassium (with only one positive charge) is less good than calcium (which has two charges) at holding the membrane together, it still leaks.
Effects on fertility and cancer
This leakage can have all sorts of unwanted biological effects totally unconnected with their so-called thermal effects. These include allowing foreign materials, such as toxins, carcinogens and allergens to enter cells more easily. Also, the leakage of digestive enzymes through their internal membranes can damage the DNA, leading to the formation of genetically aberrant cells. When this occurs in the sex organs, there is a loss of fertility. Also, genetically damaged cells in any part of the body can be carcinogenic, although this may not become evident until later on in life when the natural ability of the immune system to deal with them deteriorates.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS)
All of us are electrosensitive to some degree, but some more so than others. This too seems to be due to membrane leakage. The precise effects depend on which cells leak and the source of the radiation.
When the cells of the skin leak, it causes inflammation. When our sensory cells leak, it can make them send false signals to the brain, so we may get sensations of heat, burning, pins and needles, etc.
If the cells of the inner ear leak, we can get false sensations of sound (tinnitus) or our sense of balance is affected so we feel dizzy and may get all the symptoms of motion sickness.
When neurons in the brain leak, they become more inclined to transmit nerve impulses. This makes the brain hyperactive so that it is more difficult to get to sleep and we may get stress headaches.
Another effect of brain hyperactivity is to speed our reaction times to outside stimulation. However, because some of the nerve impulses are false, it tends also to cloud our thinking; we lose concentration and become more easily distracted.
This may cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. In adults, it may be partly responsible for the increased accident rate when people use cell phones while driving. You are four times more likely to have an accident, even with hands-free types.
On the whole, the body sees these effects as harmful and does what it can to minimise them, but the best solution is to avoid the radiation.
Some of the symptoms may be the body’s way of telling us to do just that. We become sensitised to the radiation, just as a wound remains tender (i.e. more sensitive to pain) for some time after an injury. This forces us to protect it from further damage while it is healing. In the case of EHS, it may not be easy to escape the radiation and the symptoms continue. The consolation is that these symptoms are not life-threatening; they do go away when you remove the source of radiation and, if there is no further exposure, you may gradually become desensitised.