Personal devices away from me... please!

Some activities that are necessities of life can cause added pain and suffering for adults and children who suffer due to electrosensitivity. I hope the small, double-sided handout tool attached with this post will help reduce some of that suffering—while at the same time help raise awareness about electrosensitivity.

I made this tool because someone said she would like to have a small card that expresses her need quickly, politely, and informatively in grocery store checkout lines. There are plenty of other places this small handout could be useful: any checkout lines, waitingrooms, libraries, parks... anywhere strangers are nearby for a while and holding or likely to be carrying wireless devices.

And perhaps you know some non-strangers who would benefit from seeing its list of some related websites and social media.

When we help ourselves and others at the same time... win-win!

If you would rather have a pdf file than jpgs, please email me at energycanaries-at-gmail-dot-com and I will send you the pdf.

Some printing tips for these jpgs:

• These are 2 files you can use to make 8 double-sided handouts that fit onto a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper or cardstock. The layout should work for self-print, professional print, or at a photocopy shop printing or photocopying.
• Important: do NOT use fit-to-page setting when printing, and at first print only 1 double-sided copy as a test (check to see if the margins are okay and that when cut both sides of the small handout fit properly).
• The "For You" page (page 2) includes very faint grey cutting lines as guides if you are cutting these yourself. The lines are very faint, so even if professionally printed (where the shop would cut in equal 8 sections regardless of those lines), it isn't that those lines would be noticeable.
• Note: with this design, you might find that an economical way to have a professional look is to use slightly off-white/ivory paper or cardstock. Or experiment with other colours too.
• Note: it could be extra-effective if you print page 2 upside-down (here in this blog is not the right place for me to explain why).

You have to scroll down a bit to see page 2, because the multiples show here. And when you click on each page then you will see it larger and can read or download the two jpg files.
 

A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME, CHIRP IT FORWARD

CLICK BELOW ON THE IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER SIZE. This is an image of a two-sided postcard made by special request. Obviously, one side is the banner of this blogpage. The other side is a list of reported electrosensitivity (EHS) symptoms. I think you can drag the images off of here and share or print them as a two-sided item or as separate items. Please notice you will probably want to change the image size and/or resolution after you grab the image files. If you would rather have a pdf, please request it by emailing energycanaries@gmail.com.
Enjoy!

From BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

Please read this insightful new blog post by Dariusz Leszczynski. He is "expert in research on biological/health effects of mobile phone radiation." https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/stuk-in-finland-how-trustworthy-is-information-on-smart-phones-and-nuclear-power-plants/

Companies that care @PracticeSafeTek (click image to enlarge)

@PracticeSafeTek

Less is more. A car is a car is a car.

Stop with the fetish of adding more and more wireless and electronic features, which cause more and more problems! Less is more: less wireless radiation (more health), less interference (more control), less hackability (more safety and security). It's neither progress nor heightened convenience when there gets to be "too much" of something.

One car manual I glanced at online last night (using my non-wireless computer) said that no one can sit or lie on a loose pillow/cushion in any seat of the car because that might throw off the sensors/detectors that "automatically" adjust things for each seat area. Pfft, supposedly all the automatic adjustments are for passenger comfort yet a passenger is forbidden from using a pillow to add comfort ... definitely something wrong with that picture! And of course, the manuals discourage any head-pillowing near the door areas as added leaning pressure might cause airbag deployment.

Back to the drawingboard! A car shouldn't have risks added to it - isn't it enough that it can hurt persons and things if it strays a wee bit from intended use? Oh, maybe you think cars with even more tech that'll be able to drive themselves is the answer that you're proud of? Yah, nothing could go wrong with that ^-^.

I wonder how insurance companies feel about all this. I imagine they'll figure out a way to be the $ winner no matter what. Hmm, "My car suffered a hack-attack and my accelerator went to the floor and I hit three cars and a building. Am I covered for that?" And I'm pretty sure no one would feel good about, "My car brakes must've failed because of a hack-attack. What do you mean my car's tracking system says that's impossible?! I was paying attention, and I always pay attention at that corner because there's a school there, and I did put my brakes on in plenty of time. My god, I killed that child in the crosswalk!"

Stop pretending

If you assume that I hate Internet or hate “technology,” you’re wrong. I use Internet and technology in the same way that I choose to use any *thing*: voluntarily and with respect. Internet and technology can be beneficial tools or detrimental tools. It’s that I’m against people being used as tools by or via Internet or technology. Two definitions of “tool” belong in that previous sentence. In my opinion, Internet and technology (and the people behind them) tend to insult my and your intelligence, as they assume we are both types of tool. Planned or unplanned, this assumption is insulting, abusive, and discriminatory. Pretending those principles are to be tolerated in civil society is not acceptable for any reason. Hint: stop pretending.

And I’m against natural human thought being directly or indirectly controlled or otherwise abused by a tool. Think … think outside the box … think outside the flat-ish electronic boxes of all sizes (tiniest nanochip to largest computer). Hint: stop pretending.

And I’m against uninformed or non-consensual pollution of Earth and all existence (that includes us) that happens when too many people continue to pretend there aren’t good enough reasons to actively choose less polluting ways to fulfill human desires for survival, comfort, love, fun, communication, and “winning.” Huge and newer in that discussion is the increasing dense swamp of “e-smog” that is the visible or invisible artificial electromagnetic radiation manufactured and spewed into the air everywhere as fuel for and emissions from electric and electronic tools. Hint: stop pretending.

Stop pretending. Think. Be authentic. I hope it isn’t already too late to use the word "authentic." I sense that it’s already clinging to the rim of the vortex where principles that morph into the opposite of their definition go. Hint: don't hurl it into the vortex.

Stop pretending. Think. Be authentic.

This is your brain on EMFs

Electromagnetic fields is what is being continuously pumped through all indoor and outdoor airspaces and all living and non-living things in those airspaces at the speed of light to constitute a near or far wireless network coverage area, and/or an active or standby wireless connection, and/or unsuccessful connection attempts by wireless-enabled devices. That's what wireless coverage areas and wireless connections are: artificially-generated electromagnetic fields.

Here again, we have The New England Journal of Medicine (link is after the next two paragraphs).

Research repeatedly confirms electromagnetic fields can alter brain and nervous system, and cause side effects and affect other areas of the body and body functions. And this is understood and considered accepted by all authorities even though the same authorities equally admit that, so far, despite several decades of research, they don't know the exact underpinning biology and mechanisms. And it's accepted that different doses and different types of doses result in various and serious effects that are always purposely doing some degree of biological damage in order to, hopefully, cause an alteration that might reduce some other pre-existing serious biological problem. Damage is always done, and successful alteration is not always achieved.

Manufacturers of wireless devices somewhere in fineprint (that most users don't read) specifically direct device users to not use these machines held against the head, to not use these machines held against the body. WHEN will people consistently listen? WHEN will authorities consistently speak? Yes, all the medical possibilities are fascinating; those are controlled situations, controlled and evaluated doses that are administered only when there is no other option BECAUSE the medical folks know that it IS dangerous to do so. Who controls and/or evaluates the doses of wireless electromagnetic fields saturating your brain and body parts (and those of your loved one) all-day and all-night every day? Firsthand and secondhand doses in most built and unbuilt environments are now continuous and, against the advice of leading scientific experts, ever increasing—increasing with legal and authoritative permission and even when resultant illness is clearly evident. Do something about your firsthand exposures—there are many non-wireless satisfactory and enjoyable and plenty convenient enough ways to connect and do life. Do something about your secondhand exposures—you wouldn't be okay with another person or a company spewing smoke at you or your loved ones, so why would you be okay with them spewing electromagnetic fields at you? Of course your conscious reaction may be that the smoke is unpleasant, but what does unpleasant mean? You may cough, your eyes might bother you, you might feel nauseous, and maybe you'll become ill from carcinogens in the smoke—those are all biological reactions that happen caused by the presence of the smoke. The presence of electromagnetic fields also causes biological reactions.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1408779

"Although the biology and mechanisms underpinning DBS therapy remain unclear, we now know that normal human brain function is largely mediated through rhythmic oscillations that continuously repeat. These oscillations can change and modulate, ultimately affecting cognitive, behavioral, and motor function. If an oscillation goes bad, it can cause a disabling tremor or other symptom .... Rogue brain circuits stuck in states of abnormal oscillation in many diseases have become candidates for DBS therapy. Changes in neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neurovascular structures, and neurogenesis may also underpin the benefits of DBS therapy."

"... DBS has had an enormous effect on the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It has also been used to treat essential tremor, dystonia, and epilepsy and in experimental treatments of obsessive–compulsive disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease, and Tourette's syndrome ...."

"Thanks in large part to the contributions of two extraordinary scientists, we have entered the era of human neural-network modulation."