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Monday, 29 April 2013
Mississauga May 9th Wi-Fi In Schools Info Session / Keynote and Other Speakers
Sunday, 28 April 2013
We have each other. Pay it forward.
Richard Farver, deceased at age 29
Rich deserved the right to know
The San Francisco Supervisors are being pressured by their industry friendly Mayor to repeal their landmark Cell Phone Right to Know law (unanimous vote, 2011); 25 cities & states are waiting to do the same; if SF caves, they will all stop in their tracks.
The Monograph states:
"Positive associations have been observed between exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless phones and glioma (LETHAL BRAIN CANCER) and acoustic neuroma" (p.421).
Children are particularly vulnerable as “the average exposure from use of the same mobile phone is higher by a factor of 2 in a child’s brain and higher by a factor of 10 in the bone marrow of the skull.”
Industry has trillions of dollars- WE HAVE YOU!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
Ellie, Alan, Zack, Jordan, Crystal and Mandy Marks
On the behalf of many other victims
(please bcc us at cabtasf@hotmail.com)
Copy and paste the short note below into body of your email and send to:
Norman.yee@sfgov.org
John.avalos@sfgov.org
Malia.cohen@sfgov.org
London.breed@sfgov.org
Eric.l.mar@sfgov.org
David.chiu@sfgov.org
David.campos@sfgov.org
Katy.tang@sfgov.org
Jane.kim@sfgov.org
Mark.farrell@sfgov.org
Scott.wiener@sfgov.org
Keep Cell Phone Right to Know legislation intact; vote no against the settlement
Short email note (type your name at the bottom, you do not need to add where you reside):
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Dear Esteemed San Francisco Supervisors,
Please stand firm on May 7 to keep your landmark Cell Phone Right to Know legislation intact; vote no against the settlement. People deserve the right to know advisories at the point of sale related to a radiation emitting device used by nearly every man, woman and child daily. The World Health Organization states this radiation is a possible human carcinogen based on an increased risk of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use.
Please continue to stand with your constituents and not with the telecom industry. Please continue to employ your Precautionary Principle ordinance. You will ultimately be saving taxpayers’ money as brain tumor rates are on the rise and the average cost of initial treatment of a brain tumor is over half a million dollars.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
[your name]
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Monday, 22 April 2013
EMAIL SIGNATURES HAVE IMPACT and you can have fun with them
[updated June 15, 2021]
[This post is about email signatures. If you also do other types of digital or paper communications that can have manual or automatic signatures or stamps, I hope you'll consider similar opportunities. Also refer to another old post of mine, perhaps the instructions in it would be different now but surely still possible It's easy to Change iPhone's Email Signature.]
I encourage everyone to be pleasant, informative, creative, and even fun in email signatures — for all our communications, whether the communication is for strictly business purposes, personal non-business communications, or pleasant advocacy. You don't have to try to save-the-world with each email signature, but collectively that's what you'll be doing. And you don't know whose life your email signature might hugely benefit or even save!
Put it out there, because you can! Pleasantly. Not always with a URL.
For example, years ago, worldwide many companies' signatures included a point like this:
"Think about the environment before you print this email."
That was stated and widely shared with enthusiasm, compassion, and respect, as a very desirable goal. We feel the same way and the environment will be just as thankful for our email signatures that can make a similarly beneficial impact.
Current examples:
1. For my interactions in my freelance transcribing business, here's what I use. Sometimes a recipient will ask me about it. And I know that it hasn't caused me to lose any clients:
Barb Payne
Information Time
barb@transcriptionhero.com
~ for cleaner air we use corded devices to connect with wireless off
2. For my personal (non-business, non-EMF) interactions, I have a large selection of signatures to choose from. These are only a few:
~ for cleaner air i use corded devices to connect with wireless off, i hope you do too
or
~ rockin’ my faster ethernet connection with wireless off
or
~ step away from the glowing rectangle more often
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[below is my original post in 2013]
Here's my gift to the Earth for Earth Day. Keep in mind that it isn't solely humans affected by electroSMOG. I hope you can easily copy-paste from the list below. If not, please let me know by email EnergyCanaries@bell.net. Use them in good health!
X don't dump radiation into your body
practice SAFE TECH
~ sent from my fast safer WIRED internet connection
~ practice SAFE TECH
~ step away from the glowing rectangle more often
No one’s reaching into my brain
Resistance is not futile
provide cord/cable connections
reduce firsthand & secondhand wireless radiation exposures
tell 2 ppl to tell 2 ppl
reduce firsthand & secondhand wireless radiation exposure
standard wireless = radiation emissions (not magic)
reduce exposures ... firsthand & secondhand
updates released in 2013+ ... bioinitiative.org
standard wireless = radiation emissions (not magic)
reduce exposures ... firsthand & secondhand
~ reduce the wireless radiation inside your body
don’t dump radiation into your body
wired = speed & security & my body thanks me
iexistworld.org
Q Why?
A To reduce 1st-hand & 2nd-hand wireless radiation exposure.
F What you can’t see CAN hurt you. Wireless devices and networks connect because they continually generate unnatural electromagnetic waves that flood your environment. These waves are radiation that can reach inside your body. When your network is off or when you completely power off a device, you reduce the radiation in the environment and in your body.
iexistworld.org
tell 2 ppl to tell 2 ppl
PDO is the way to go!
Personal Devices Off
reduce your body’s dose of “e-smog” radiation
if you have questions about this please ask me
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
standard wireless = radiation emissions (not magic)
reduce exposures ... firsthand & secondhand
Each wireless communication task performed by an electronic device sends radiation into your body that interferes with your body’s normal functioning (whether you notice it or not). Each of those wireless tasks also sends radiation into the bodies of everyone within the coverage areas of the network your device is connected to, and into the bodies of everyone within the coverage area of the network your recipient uses, and into the bodies of everyone within the coverage area of all the network equipment used to connect the sender’s network with the recipient’s network. From this moment on, please consider whether or not your wireless task is so important enough that it justifies physically damaging your body (firsthand) and physically damaging everyone else’s bodies (secondhand). If your device is network-enabled inside a public transit vehicle (even if it can’t connect with a network), the mostly metal shell of the vehicle causes the radiation to bounce around so much that passengers can be exposed to hundreds of times more radiation.
Monday, 4 March 2013
If it sounds too good to be true ...
I'm often asked for my opinion regarding the various accessories that claim to provide a wireless device user with some degree of protection. If I post it here, I'll know where to find it.
Mobile wireless devices on in various standby modes or being directly used emit radiation. The cell towers/antennas/network infrastructure are continuous irradiation for everyone, whether or not they're using a device, including people (all ages) who do not use any device at all -- wherever indoors and outdoors there is network coverage, there's a never-ending swamp of radiation.
It's wonderful for people to do what they can to protect themselves and their families, but to encourage no decrease in use or to encourage increase in use is definitely worsening the situation regardless of an individual’s personal radiation dose maybe being somewhat reduced (note: the radiation is not eliminated, only maybe reduced), including for the user (as this person will also still be subject to that ongoing or increased irradiation from the network infrastructure).
Further, that an individual can purchase a product that decreases personal physical harm to the purchaser and the purchaser has knowledge that her/his use of the product causes continued or increased physical harm to OTHER people is quite, let's say, distasteful.
Further, for example, do the add-on accessory bits or pouches that are offering shielding in one direction come with warnings to keep the unprotected side away from other people (for example not to stuff it into a purse crammed into a stroller behind a toddler's head)?
Further, do the items claiming to be protective come with warnings that the item may cause more of the non-RF types of electromagnetic radiation to enter into a user's hand?
Radiation emissions from wireless electronic devices and the networks that support them are a complex problem that is not resolved by wrapping up a machine in a pretty piece of fabric or slapping a sticker on it. If someone claims to be unable to survive without owning and using a mobile device, maybe use such a pouch or sticker AND completely power off the device more often AND never use the device or have it on standby for incoming calls and messages near another person, never in a car, never in a bus, never in a train, never in an airplane, never in an elevator, never near anyone sleeping, etc.
Perhaps a "warning label" should be attached both to personal wireless devices AND to products claiming to reduce radiation exposure from those devices:
WARNING
Each wireless communication task performed by an electronic device can send radiation into your body that interferes with your body’s normal functioning (whether you notice it or not). Each of those wireless tasks also sends radiation into the bodies of everyone within the coverage areas of the network your device is connected to (including but not only the people nearby you), and into the bodies of everyone within the coverage area of your recipient’s network (if also using wireless), and into the bodies of everyone within the coverage area of all the network equipment used to connect the sender’s network with the recipient’s network. From this moment on, please consider whether or not your wireless task is so important enough that it justifies physically damaging your body (firsthand), physically damaging your recipient's body (firsthand), and physically damaging everyone else’s bodies (secondhand).
Saturday, 2 March 2013
To see, or not to see. There is no question.
This idea of placing something right in front of the brain in the eyes that would be receiving microwaves is deeply troubling. While cell phones emit much less power than microwave ovens, they release pulsed digital signals that can be disruptive to all membranes in the body (including the membrane that protects the brain) at very very very weak levels.
Studies conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow have shown that 50 minutes of exposure to a cell phone result in a significant alteration of glucose metabolism in that area of the brain that is most exposed. World Health Organization concluded that cell phone radiation and other wireless radiation is a possible human carcinogen. We must learn from mistakes of the past in public health."
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
NOW HIRING: AGENT REQUIRED TO GO BACK IN TIME TO FETCH COMMONSENSE STUCK THERE
If a toddler girl is throwing a temper tantrum at bedtime insisting that she must take the clock-radio to bed with her and that she wants it to be under her pillow or directly beside her head or hugged like a teddy bear and it must remain plugged in to the electrical outlet, simply as-is not with the radio on, would a parent agree to that? Even if there seems no way to stop this tantrum, a parent would never allow such an hours-long close encounter with the clock-radio to happen. I know it seems as though no explanation of the “why not” is necessary, that it’s simply commonsense, but just think about it for a moment. WHY NOT? It isn’t “just because.” Think about it. Think about what it is that makes it commonsense. At the root of it, it’s because (a) it’s a machine so it isn’t passive, it can DO things, and (b) it uses electricity and electricity is this invisible thing that is dangerous if you touch it or go too close to it, and it can even severely permanently injure you or kill you quite easily if you touch it. Electricians, doctors, and other experts consciously know and act in respect of these hazards and facts every day; others of us know these things by commonsense; others of us seem to have forgotten these hazards and facts; and others of us, I suppose, only know the reality of machines and electricity being commonplace and therefore assume there is no hazard because experts and those of us with the knowledge and commonsense haven’t shared it often enough.
Machines and electricity have been around so long now that generations and generations have come and gone, and nowadays we see and are surrounded by so many machines and electricity throughout every day and night. The centuries-old commonsense reasons to respect the inherent hazards of machines and electricity have not gone away. If we think about it, the long-standing commonsense reasons to not have constant and/or close encounters with cell phones, wifi routers, cordless phones, tablet computers, laptops, baby monitors, hair dryers, microwave ovens, a table lamp, keeping babies’ fingers out of electrical outlets, and so on should be enough to in fact avoid these constant and/or close encounters. Anything that is a machine and as well anything that runs on wired or portable electrical power DOES come along with those risks that we’re aware of by knowledge or commonsense. Certainly we make choices about our risks, for example, cars are machines and they use electrical power; and cars can kill and yet so many of us do choose to drive them.
Ahh, but there are CLEARLY publicized laws, rules, and instructions about driving cars so that there is a reduced risk of harm to yourself as a driver, to other drivers, and to anyone who is not driving. And these laws, rules, and instructions are monitored, changed from time to time, and enforced—including serious penalties against drivers who do not obey laws and against drivers who harm other drivers or harm people who aren’t driving. There are also enforced laws and rules applicable to manufacturers of cars. There are also laws and rules regarding the by-products or emissions that occur when a car is operated; similarly, those emissions are monitored, changed from time to time, and limits are enforced—with various penalties when emission and operation standards are exceeded. These laws, rules, and instructions exist because health and safety of individuals and the public is a priority; and generally, these laws, rules, and instructions change when there is new or varying concern regarding health and safety of individuals or the public—not when car manufacturers and fuel producers want changes so that their profits will increase. Laws, rules, and instructions for cars and drivers don’t apply only while driving. They also apply to stopped cars, parked cars, abandoned cars, wherever. If your neighbour habitually parked his car with the open end of the car’s exhaust pipe positioned directly beside a window or door of your home and your home was always filling with fumes, you could probably ask your neighbour to stop doing that, and he probably would apologize as most people are kind and certainly don’t intend to harm anyone, and he probably would stop doing it by parking his car differently. I don’t know the letter of the law—I suppose that if your neighbour refused to make this change, because our homes by law are actually supposed to be not airtight, and if these fumes continued to be overwhelming, you would have some recourse perhaps by police or other legal intervention to put a halt to these fumes polluting your home. Again here you’ve got commonsense coming into play: no one really has to explain why fumes are unwanted. Again to go back as to why we have this commonsense knowing that polluting fumes are bad, it’s that (a) they might smell or look very unpleasant, and (b) regardless whether or not they have a smell or are visible at all, exposure to air pollutants can cause ill health right then and there or in the future.
The up-close and personal habits that people have adopted with their electronic machines—wired or wireless, stationary or portable—don’t make sense. Somewhere along the way, commonsense was thrown out the window. Point one: these are machines. Point two: these machines operate using electricity.
I said earlier that the centuries-old commonsense reasons to respect the inherent hazards of machines and electricity have not gone away. There is however something that HAS changed: the hazards have increased, in a number of ways. Nowadays, we’re touching and near so many, many more machines and so many more sources of electricity. And we’re doing that continually throughout our entire lives during the entire 24-hour cycle every day and again the next day and the next; in fact, these exposures start before we’re born, in fact, even before we’re conceived because genetic material from parents that becomes an embryo has been similarly exposed non-stop.
And all the above is before you add into consideration all the other electromagnetic fields flung everywhere throughout every size of airspace indoors and outdoors and as well into every nook and cranny in case there’s a machine there that wants to communicate wirelessly with another machine somewhere nearby or anywhere else on the planet. Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are a type of radiation; and EMFs are everywhere in our 21st-century air. EMFs aren’t gentle, thin, invisible threads harmlessly winding their way from a wifi router in the house, or from a DECT cordless phone, or from a cell phone that’s on, or from a baby monitor, or a rooftop antenna 200 metres or 5 kilometres away and detouring around people and plants and animals in order to gently touch another machine (big or small); you’re always enveloped by a never-ending explosion of this radiation and this radiation explosion is constantly travelling through your skin and into the inside of your body and brain where the cells throughout your body and brain react to this radiation in ways that they wouldn’t react if it wasn’t there.
It is jaw-droppingly astonishing whenever anyone in authority suggests that these machines and electromagnetic fields that we interact with are benign and needn’t be avoided or at the very least handled with caution. Who is it that we need to teach or remind about this commonsense about the hazards of machines and electricity so that we stop harming you, me, and everyone else present and future?





