The age-old adage First Do No Harm should be the tempering goal of not only medicine, but government and industry, especially when they team up to deploy new technologies, set policies and serve the people.

This blog exists to reveal and analyze areas in which these powerful groups are failing to "first do no harm."

Monday, May 6, 2013

Yale study shows fetal impacts of cell phones, hyper-active young with poor memories, different behavior than control




If you care about fetal health sign a new petition to fire the FCC from its responsibility for setting safe radiofrequency radiation limits. FCC has a clear conflict of interest: it works to promote technology first and foremost. Public health is an after-thought.

Sign the petition NOW to release the rogue FCC from the crucial RF exposure standards function, and enlist the EPA instead!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

PETITION: Fire FCC, enlist EPA to address radiofrequency biological safety limits

FCC staff have a conflict of interest (see below) in deciding what radiofrequency and microwave radiation exposure limits to adopt. They cannot help it: they work for industry. And they do a great job of it. They simply are NOT a public health agency and therefore are UNABLE to prioritize public safety and health.

The FCC does not even monitor high microwave heating limits on cellular antennas, according to an established independent organization's recent investigative report. Does this inspire confidence in the FCC's concern for protecting public health?

Let's fire the FCC from its RF standards responsibilities, which it cannot handle properly. Please SIGN THIS PETITION to get the ball rolling. Let's get congress to enlist the EPA and create meaningful, biological exposure limits - it is our best hope at this point.

*************************************************************************

W.E.E.P. article excerpt

Barris considers it peculiar that the FDA delegated the responsibility of creating safety standards for EMR to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which regulates the telecommunications in the United States and internationally, to set standards related to acceptable levels of radio frequency (RF) exposure.

"There are two problems [with this]. The FCC is not a health organization, and is therefore not qualified to make assessments health. Second, the FCC resorted to allowing the telecom industry and its paid industry scientists to set the current standards. Would you trust the tobacco industry to tell you about the safety of their product or would you prefer the U.S. Surgeon General to do it?" asks Barris.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Poem: Like the Titanic

On April 14, 1912 the Titanic steamship sank due to human error and lack of precautionary action. The movie features some powerful images, including that of a mother in a lower cabin tucking in her two young children, knowing they have no chance to get out. The image moved me then and came back to my mind today, resulting in a poem appropriate for this site.

Like the Titanic

May we remain as calm
as the mother tucking in
her two sleepy-eyed children
to bed in their Titanic cabin

as feet pounded and voices swelled
through the outer hall in waves
until an eerie silence
framed the off-kilter place.

And now we kiss our own
on their soft, familiar heads,
hiding our loosened tears in their hair,
shielding their ears and eyes

from what we see is coming
with our own aching eyes -
the unwitting world being veered
into a microwave sea

where the ancient hulls of our genomes
breached by the pulsing waves
despite what the blind captains say
can never be restored.

Let’s shut our cabin doors
though there will be no stampede.
Let's squeeze our families in daily embraces,
make prayers and music to soothe.

Though our DNA be doomed
through irrevocable folly
it does not mean we cannot rally
for moments sheltering peace.



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Hagman, Campbell and Van Dyke: even the stars are not immune from RF risks

No one will ever know that Joe Blow or Jane Blane has an undiagnosed neurological condition that affects their heads and ability to sleep. But the world has just witnessed Mr. Dick Van Dyke's reports of unexplained neurological symptoms. Likewise, we all know that singer/songwriter Glenn Campbell had announced he had early Alzheimer's. And we may recall that actor Larry Hagman's beloved wife had the same diagnosis before he himself fought and succumbed to cancers.



THE POINT IS:
Even the stars are not immune to whatever may befall the rest of us in life. This includes impacts from environmental exposures, which are recognized to be harmful or not yet acknowledged to carry serious health risks, such as chronic wireless radiation.

For years Mr. Larry Hagman and wife resided at their seaside $5 million pent house in Santa Monica, CA. They also spent time in their deluxe off-grid mansion at Ojai, CA, which he had converted entirely to solar, being a great believer in green energy.  The great irony is his 43-acre Ojai property in the sparsely populated hills had eleven cell towers within four miles, several of them less than a mile from his pricey energy efficient home.

Wife Maj and Larry's pent house was also surrounded by a whopping 137 towers within four miles.
Alert! 137 Towers (19 Registered,118 Not Registered) found within 4.00 miles of 101 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90402.
This does not even include the radiofrequency antennas in the neighborhoods. (See Antenna Search to enter addresses for more details).

Like everyone else, the Hagmans served as perfect guinea pigs for risks of biological effects from daily exposure to radiofrequency radiation, especially from nearby cell towers. Did they pay the price with their health and longevity?



Mr. Glenn Campbell and Mr. Dick Van Dyke both reside in Malibou, CA. One particular Antenna Search address in that city shows the following:

 (address) Malibu, CA 90265
- Results Summary -
Search Radius at max - 4.0 miles.
26 Tower Structures Detected!
No New Tower Applications Found as of 04/21/13.
 
377 Antenna Locations




 
Although the number of towers in Malibu is less than Mr. Hagman's areas had some of them are quite close to certain homes. A person needs to search his or her own address to see just how close they are to the RF-spewing antennas and towers.

Even famous stars may want to look into ways to lower their radiofrequency/microwaves exposures as much as possible, expecially when they have symptoms or conditions that some studies say may be caused or aggrevated by even low chronic exposures to modulated microwaves.

Though cell towers cannot be moved, there are a few things to do to look into the potential ways to stop radiofrequency from harming health.
One could first look at the 2012 BioInitiative conclusions to get an idea of a potential connection to consider.
Magda Havas website is another helpful source.
So is Stop Smart Meters (a grassroots California site focused on avoiding involuntary radiation from transmitting utility meters).
Some people try turning off wireless devices, such as cell phones and WiFi, in their homes and see if they feel better. Others go back to landline phones (remember those?).
Fiber optic broadband are 100% benign, unlike wireless connections.
One can also purchase HFE35C Gigahertz Solutions meters and others to try to see which parts of a house may have high readings.
Remember to see which utility companies serve your home(s) and find out the details of their meters. It they are "smart" meters or transmit even one-way data remotely, one's family may be at risk for a host of biological problems and conditions. Especially people with neurological or cognitive, and sleep problems, may want to see if they have transmitting utility meters on a bedroom wall or room they spend a lot of time in. Nationwide (and worldwide) people are reporting illness from the electromagnetic fields these meters create.

Sadly, no one is protected from potential biological impacts of radiofrequency radiation in America due to grossly outdated FCC standards that ignore decades of research showing harm - not even the stars. One must hope they will do some research on this like the rest of us. Information on taking precautions is available. Wireless electrosmog touches us all, and perhaps someone famous enough will one day speak out for the good of all.    


*Written with the disclaimer that statements in this blog are merely one writer's opinion.

sample from Antenna Search:
 
   
 
 
Tower Type ID Num Site Owner Height Dist
Registered (1) American Towers, Llc. 75 feet .10 miles
(2) American Towers, Llc. 60 feet .56 miles
(3) Sba 2012 Tc Assets, Llc 5 feet 3.92 miles

Not Registered (1) Nexrad Joint System Program Office 109 feet .06 miles
(2) Meridian Communications North 75 feet .19 miles
(3) Coastal Communications 90 feet .51 miles
(4) Mr. Jon Fugler 78 feet .51 miles
(5) Blank 90 feet 1.17 miles
(6) Nextel Communications 30 feet 3.17 miles
(7) Nextel Communications 75 feet 3.27 miles
(8) Nextel Communications 65 feet 3.49 miles

   



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

1930 microwave bioeffects tests revealed many symptoms

The Microwave Debate by Nicholas H. Steneck (1984) is well worth a look if you want to understand the idiocy of today's microwave regulators.

Page 26 states that by 1930, General Electric plant in Schenectady did a human test of microwave thermal exposures in a box-like apparatus with aluminum plated sides. They were excited about potential uses  of microwave heating for creating "artificial" fevers in medical treatments.

Here is a summary of symptoms experienced:
"A few patients studied at GE complained of headaches, felt nauceous and/or experienced drops in blood pressure." However, since these symptoms were similar to the diseases that had fevers they were assumed to be acceptable.

Curious about microwave potential hazards in an uncontrolled  (mainly occupational) setting, the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery investigated effects from the new "super-high" frequency, 800MHz radio transmitters being put into operation.

The effects of these transmitters "were quitte startling in some cases."
Imagine this:
A normal incandescent light bulb held in the test subject's hand GLOWED when held about 20-feet from the RF source. THE BODY of the subject ABSORBED ENOUGH electricity (RF) "to cause the bulb's filament to illuminate."

Symptoms during this test included "unpleasant warmth, sweating of feet and legs, general body warmtn and sweating, drowsiness, headaches, pains about the ankles, wrists and elbows, weakness and vertigo."

Another nice Navy test aimed at learning "how severe these symptoms could become and whether they produced any permanent adverse effects." Six volunteers were asked to stand near a super-high frequency transmitter and to endure effects until they became unbearable. To increase effects, each volunteer held a metal rod in one hand that they grounded on a metal fence - to insure MAXIMUM APSORPTION. (Do Not Do This At Home)

When the power was switched on, symptoms were recorded in the order of appearance.
1) Growing sensation of warmth in hand holding metal rod
2) Within 3-5 minutes the heat was so intense the subjects began to shift metal rods from hand to hand.
3) Pain started to develop in their joints and tendons of hand holding the rod
4) Similar pain soon developed in the ankles.
5) General sweating followed and feeling of increasing body temp. (shown as being elevated a few degrees, along with drops in blood pressure)
6) Finally, feelings of heat were followed by "weakness, drowsiness or headache"

All symptoms disappeared when transmitter turned off. Volunteers "seemed to return to normal in all respects except one - the rate at which subsequent exposure produced effects." In other words volunteers subjected to a second and third series of tests experienced all of the symptoms FASTER and TOOK LONGER TO RECOVER from the exposure sessions.

All subjects did return to normal, "at least to the extent demonstrated by the test effects." Those little bothersome symptoms and increasing sensitivity to symptoms could easily be ignored in order to develop exciting new microwave/RF devices then - and now.

Here are a few points on the situation.
*At the time long-term low level tests were not done, assumed to be safe if below heating levels
*Just because a subject did not feel ill effects until a certain thermal level did not mean internal damage was not occuring.
*No other biological measurments were taken during or after the 1930s tests to reveal lingering damage.
*The increasing sensitivity to developing ill effects and recovering from them is classic Radiofrequency Sickness - an early stage, but nonetheless - proof.
*The 1930s test subjects were lucky in that the transmitters could be turned off - and the test was over. BUT TODAY we cannot turn off all the transmitters allowed to pierce our environment without our consent. So the experiment never ends - and our FCC is still living in the 1930s using the same assumptions that only thermal RF can cause damage, and damage is reversible.

Read The Microwave Debate by Nicholas Stenick to better understand where where microwave standards come from and why they are stuck at non-protective levels. And hey, we could try that light bulb trick next to a cell tower antenna just for the heck of it. Free electricity. Now, who could ask for anything more?

(You'll have to get it from the library unless you want to spend a bundle for the rare book at Amazon.)





Thursday, April 4, 2013

Smart meter "pain and suffering" EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: Lawson Family, no power in LA

Smart meter pain and suffering is equal opportunity for all.

You big, powerful smart grid planners - look what your policies are doing to people. The Lawson Family begged Los Angeles Water and Power to remove smart meter from property. Smart meters causing children to be (unnaturally) ill. Then they had NO power for weeks, including through Easter.

(Thanks, Stop Smart Meters for first posting this!)

Lawson Family at LA City Council - Excerpt

Saturday, March 30, 2013

FCC questions if protecting children from RF damage is "useful or counterproductive" = WRONG QUESTION

Microwave News (MWN) announced that the FCC has now "issued a package of rules and information requestst related to RF health and safety. The document is long and complex."
 
See their "short take" for the basic information.
 
MWN includes the following quote from the new FCC rules:

One of the key issues on the table is whether there is a need for precautionary policies, specifically to protect children (see ¶¶5-7 and ¶¶236-243):
[W]e ask whether any precautionary action would be either useful or counterproductive, given that there is a lack of scientific consensus about the possibility of adverse health effects at exposure levels at or below our existing limits. [¶6]
 

THE CORRECT QUESTION TO ASK IS:
"We ask whether precautionary actions should be implemented to potentially save lives despite the fact there is a lack of scientific consensus, which is divided down lines of industry-funded and independent studies. We also ask if it is ethical for regulatory bodies to ignore thousands of recent peer-reviewed studies and medical experts, both pediatric and environmental medicine practitioners, warning of unacceptable risks, especially to our most vulnerable populations, and including DNA damage - which could impact human life forever." 
 
Imagine the FCC continues to ignore at least half the science.
Say the chance was 50/50 that even as we speak
non-thermal pulsed microwaves/radiofrequencies were damaging your
family members' DNA, interrupting their heart and neurological function,
stunting fetal brains, shrinking children's cognitive abilities,
seeding cancers, and basically destroying people's quality
and quantity of life through sleep problems, eye, sperm problems,
unnecessary biological anxiety/depression/nervousness/irritability,
unnecessary medicines they wouldn't have needed,
unnecessary chronic and unusual health problems.

Say the odds of harm were 50/50 and one day next year, or five years down the road
"they" found out that they were 99% WRONG.
Oops, says the FCC.
Oops, says the industry.
Oops oops says the healthcare system
that denied any problem,
Oh, no, say consumers
who were not warned
or did not listen when they were.

Since when is technology more important than life?
Since when is it "counterproductive" to protect the vulnerable?

 

Monday, May 6, 2013

Yale study shows fetal impacts of cell phones, hyper-active young with poor memories, different behavior than control




If you care about fetal health sign a new petition to fire the FCC from its responsibility for setting safe radiofrequency radiation limits. FCC has a clear conflict of interest: it works to promote technology first and foremost. Public health is an after-thought.

Sign the petition NOW to release the rogue FCC from the crucial RF exposure standards function, and enlist the EPA instead!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

PETITION: Fire FCC, enlist EPA to address radiofrequency biological safety limits

FCC staff have a conflict of interest (see below) in deciding what radiofrequency and microwave radiation exposure limits to adopt. They cannot help it: they work for industry. And they do a great job of it. They simply are NOT a public health agency and therefore are UNABLE to prioritize public safety and health.

The FCC does not even monitor high microwave heating limits on cellular antennas, according to an established independent organization's recent investigative report. Does this inspire confidence in the FCC's concern for protecting public health?

Let's fire the FCC from its RF standards responsibilities, which it cannot handle properly. Please SIGN THIS PETITION to get the ball rolling. Let's get congress to enlist the EPA and create meaningful, biological exposure limits - it is our best hope at this point.

*************************************************************************

W.E.E.P. article excerpt

Barris considers it peculiar that the FDA delegated the responsibility of creating safety standards for EMR to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which regulates the telecommunications in the United States and internationally, to set standards related to acceptable levels of radio frequency (RF) exposure.

"There are two problems [with this]. The FCC is not a health organization, and is therefore not qualified to make assessments health. Second, the FCC resorted to allowing the telecom industry and its paid industry scientists to set the current standards. Would you trust the tobacco industry to tell you about the safety of their product or would you prefer the U.S. Surgeon General to do it?" asks Barris.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Poem: Like the Titanic

On April 14, 1912 the Titanic steamship sank due to human error and lack of precautionary action. The movie features some powerful images, including that of a mother in a lower cabin tucking in her two young children, knowing they have no chance to get out. The image moved me then and came back to my mind today, resulting in a poem appropriate for this site.

Like the Titanic

May we remain as calm
as the mother tucking in
her two sleepy-eyed children
to bed in their Titanic cabin

as feet pounded and voices swelled
through the outer hall in waves
until an eerie silence
framed the off-kilter place.

And now we kiss our own
on their soft, familiar heads,
hiding our loosened tears in their hair,
shielding their ears and eyes

from what we see is coming
with our own aching eyes -
the unwitting world being veered
into a microwave sea

where the ancient hulls of our genomes
breached by the pulsing waves
despite what the blind captains say
can never be restored.

Let’s shut our cabin doors
though there will be no stampede.
Let's squeeze our families in daily embraces,
make prayers and music to soothe.

Though our DNA be doomed
through irrevocable folly
it does not mean we cannot rally
for moments sheltering peace.



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Hagman, Campbell and Van Dyke: even the stars are not immune from RF risks

No one will ever know that Joe Blow or Jane Blane has an undiagnosed neurological condition that affects their heads and ability to sleep. But the world has just witnessed Mr. Dick Van Dyke's reports of unexplained neurological symptoms. Likewise, we all know that singer/songwriter Glenn Campbell had announced he had early Alzheimer's. And we may recall that actor Larry Hagman's beloved wife had the same diagnosis before he himself fought and succumbed to cancers.



THE POINT IS:
Even the stars are not immune to whatever may befall the rest of us in life. This includes impacts from environmental exposures, which are recognized to be harmful or not yet acknowledged to carry serious health risks, such as chronic wireless radiation.

For years Mr. Larry Hagman and wife resided at their seaside $5 million pent house in Santa Monica, CA. They also spent time in their deluxe off-grid mansion at Ojai, CA, which he had converted entirely to solar, being a great believer in green energy.  The great irony is his 43-acre Ojai property in the sparsely populated hills had eleven cell towers within four miles, several of them less than a mile from his pricey energy efficient home.

Wife Maj and Larry's pent house was also surrounded by a whopping 137 towers within four miles.
Alert! 137 Towers (19 Registered,118 Not Registered) found within 4.00 miles of 101 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90402.
This does not even include the radiofrequency antennas in the neighborhoods. (See Antenna Search to enter addresses for more details).

Like everyone else, the Hagmans served as perfect guinea pigs for risks of biological effects from daily exposure to radiofrequency radiation, especially from nearby cell towers. Did they pay the price with their health and longevity?



Mr. Glenn Campbell and Mr. Dick Van Dyke both reside in Malibou, CA. One particular Antenna Search address in that city shows the following:

 (address) Malibu, CA 90265
- Results Summary -
Search Radius at max - 4.0 miles.
26 Tower Structures Detected!
No New Tower Applications Found as of 04/21/13.
 
377 Antenna Locations




 
Although the number of towers in Malibu is less than Mr. Hagman's areas had some of them are quite close to certain homes. A person needs to search his or her own address to see just how close they are to the RF-spewing antennas and towers.

Even famous stars may want to look into ways to lower their radiofrequency/microwaves exposures as much as possible, expecially when they have symptoms or conditions that some studies say may be caused or aggrevated by even low chronic exposures to modulated microwaves.

Though cell towers cannot be moved, there are a few things to do to look into the potential ways to stop radiofrequency from harming health.
One could first look at the 2012 BioInitiative conclusions to get an idea of a potential connection to consider.
Magda Havas website is another helpful source.
So is Stop Smart Meters (a grassroots California site focused on avoiding involuntary radiation from transmitting utility meters).
Some people try turning off wireless devices, such as cell phones and WiFi, in their homes and see if they feel better. Others go back to landline phones (remember those?).
Fiber optic broadband are 100% benign, unlike wireless connections.
One can also purchase HFE35C Gigahertz Solutions meters and others to try to see which parts of a house may have high readings.
Remember to see which utility companies serve your home(s) and find out the details of their meters. It they are "smart" meters or transmit even one-way data remotely, one's family may be at risk for a host of biological problems and conditions. Especially people with neurological or cognitive, and sleep problems, may want to see if they have transmitting utility meters on a bedroom wall or room they spend a lot of time in. Nationwide (and worldwide) people are reporting illness from the electromagnetic fields these meters create.

Sadly, no one is protected from potential biological impacts of radiofrequency radiation in America due to grossly outdated FCC standards that ignore decades of research showing harm - not even the stars. One must hope they will do some research on this like the rest of us. Information on taking precautions is available. Wireless electrosmog touches us all, and perhaps someone famous enough will one day speak out for the good of all.    


*Written with the disclaimer that statements in this blog are merely one writer's opinion.

sample from Antenna Search:
 
   
 
 
Tower Type ID Num Site Owner Height Dist
Registered (1) American Towers, Llc. 75 feet .10 miles
(2) American Towers, Llc. 60 feet .56 miles
(3) Sba 2012 Tc Assets, Llc 5 feet 3.92 miles

Not Registered (1) Nexrad Joint System Program Office 109 feet .06 miles
(2) Meridian Communications North 75 feet .19 miles
(3) Coastal Communications 90 feet .51 miles
(4) Mr. Jon Fugler 78 feet .51 miles
(5) Blank 90 feet 1.17 miles
(6) Nextel Communications 30 feet 3.17 miles
(7) Nextel Communications 75 feet 3.27 miles
(8) Nextel Communications 65 feet 3.49 miles

   



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

1930 microwave bioeffects tests revealed many symptoms

The Microwave Debate by Nicholas H. Steneck (1984) is well worth a look if you want to understand the idiocy of today's microwave regulators.

Page 26 states that by 1930, General Electric plant in Schenectady did a human test of microwave thermal exposures in a box-like apparatus with aluminum plated sides. They were excited about potential uses  of microwave heating for creating "artificial" fevers in medical treatments.

Here is a summary of symptoms experienced:
"A few patients studied at GE complained of headaches, felt nauceous and/or experienced drops in blood pressure." However, since these symptoms were similar to the diseases that had fevers they were assumed to be acceptable.

Curious about microwave potential hazards in an uncontrolled  (mainly occupational) setting, the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery investigated effects from the new "super-high" frequency, 800MHz radio transmitters being put into operation.

The effects of these transmitters "were quitte startling in some cases."
Imagine this:
A normal incandescent light bulb held in the test subject's hand GLOWED when held about 20-feet from the RF source. THE BODY of the subject ABSORBED ENOUGH electricity (RF) "to cause the bulb's filament to illuminate."

Symptoms during this test included "unpleasant warmth, sweating of feet and legs, general body warmtn and sweating, drowsiness, headaches, pains about the ankles, wrists and elbows, weakness and vertigo."

Another nice Navy test aimed at learning "how severe these symptoms could become and whether they produced any permanent adverse effects." Six volunteers were asked to stand near a super-high frequency transmitter and to endure effects until they became unbearable. To increase effects, each volunteer held a metal rod in one hand that they grounded on a metal fence - to insure MAXIMUM APSORPTION. (Do Not Do This At Home)

When the power was switched on, symptoms were recorded in the order of appearance.
1) Growing sensation of warmth in hand holding metal rod
2) Within 3-5 minutes the heat was so intense the subjects began to shift metal rods from hand to hand.
3) Pain started to develop in their joints and tendons of hand holding the rod
4) Similar pain soon developed in the ankles.
5) General sweating followed and feeling of increasing body temp. (shown as being elevated a few degrees, along with drops in blood pressure)
6) Finally, feelings of heat were followed by "weakness, drowsiness or headache"

All symptoms disappeared when transmitter turned off. Volunteers "seemed to return to normal in all respects except one - the rate at which subsequent exposure produced effects." In other words volunteers subjected to a second and third series of tests experienced all of the symptoms FASTER and TOOK LONGER TO RECOVER from the exposure sessions.

All subjects did return to normal, "at least to the extent demonstrated by the test effects." Those little bothersome symptoms and increasing sensitivity to symptoms could easily be ignored in order to develop exciting new microwave/RF devices then - and now.

Here are a few points on the situation.
*At the time long-term low level tests were not done, assumed to be safe if below heating levels
*Just because a subject did not feel ill effects until a certain thermal level did not mean internal damage was not occuring.
*No other biological measurments were taken during or after the 1930s tests to reveal lingering damage.
*The increasing sensitivity to developing ill effects and recovering from them is classic Radiofrequency Sickness - an early stage, but nonetheless - proof.
*The 1930s test subjects were lucky in that the transmitters could be turned off - and the test was over. BUT TODAY we cannot turn off all the transmitters allowed to pierce our environment without our consent. So the experiment never ends - and our FCC is still living in the 1930s using the same assumptions that only thermal RF can cause damage, and damage is reversible.

Read The Microwave Debate by Nicholas Stenick to better understand where where microwave standards come from and why they are stuck at non-protective levels. And hey, we could try that light bulb trick next to a cell tower antenna just for the heck of it. Free electricity. Now, who could ask for anything more?

(You'll have to get it from the library unless you want to spend a bundle for the rare book at Amazon.)





Thursday, April 4, 2013

Smart meter "pain and suffering" EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: Lawson Family, no power in LA

Smart meter pain and suffering is equal opportunity for all.

You big, powerful smart grid planners - look what your policies are doing to people. The Lawson Family begged Los Angeles Water and Power to remove smart meter from property. Smart meters causing children to be (unnaturally) ill. Then they had NO power for weeks, including through Easter.

(Thanks, Stop Smart Meters for first posting this!)

Lawson Family at LA City Council - Excerpt

Saturday, March 30, 2013

FCC questions if protecting children from RF damage is "useful or counterproductive" = WRONG QUESTION

Microwave News (MWN) announced that the FCC has now "issued a package of rules and information requestst related to RF health and safety. The document is long and complex."
 
See their "short take" for the basic information.
 
MWN includes the following quote from the new FCC rules:

One of the key issues on the table is whether there is a need for precautionary policies, specifically to protect children (see ¶¶5-7 and ¶¶236-243):
[W]e ask whether any precautionary action would be either useful or counterproductive, given that there is a lack of scientific consensus about the possibility of adverse health effects at exposure levels at or below our existing limits. [¶6]
 

THE CORRECT QUESTION TO ASK IS:
"We ask whether precautionary actions should be implemented to potentially save lives despite the fact there is a lack of scientific consensus, which is divided down lines of industry-funded and independent studies. We also ask if it is ethical for regulatory bodies to ignore thousands of recent peer-reviewed studies and medical experts, both pediatric and environmental medicine practitioners, warning of unacceptable risks, especially to our most vulnerable populations, and including DNA damage - which could impact human life forever." 
 
Imagine the FCC continues to ignore at least half the science.
Say the chance was 50/50 that even as we speak
non-thermal pulsed microwaves/radiofrequencies were damaging your
family members' DNA, interrupting their heart and neurological function,
stunting fetal brains, shrinking children's cognitive abilities,
seeding cancers, and basically destroying people's quality
and quantity of life through sleep problems, eye, sperm problems,
unnecessary biological anxiety/depression/nervousness/irritability,
unnecessary medicines they wouldn't have needed,
unnecessary chronic and unusual health problems.

Say the odds of harm were 50/50 and one day next year, or five years down the road
"they" found out that they were 99% WRONG.
Oops, says the FCC.
Oops, says the industry.
Oops oops says the healthcare system
that denied any problem,
Oh, no, say consumers
who were not warned
or did not listen when they were.

Since when is technology more important than life?
Since when is it "counterproductive" to protect the vulnerable?