History of Microwave Mania: Silent Wireless Spring says it all

Anti-microwave radiation trail blazer Arthur Firstenberg exposes the calculated moves by powerful groups in the U.S. and internationally to push forward with a technology that has been proven for decades to be extremely harmful to living creatures. Firstenberg is a founding father, who early on spread the sane and sobering truth about where we are headed. His 2007 article speaks about the dangerous place we are today, despite the willful ignorance of those who refuse to see.

He writes:

One can imagine two very different futures. In one, these stories appear on the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The Food and Drug Administration suspends cell phone sales, and the Federal Communications Commission shuts down cell towers. Cities stop building Wi-Fi networks. Internet cafes dismantle antennas and install cables. Public service announcements tell people to put wires back on their home phones and computers. Wireless technology takes a place in history beside other mistakes like lead water pipes, asbestos insulation, thalidomide and DDT.

In the other future nothing changes. The news media continue to ignore those stories, and many others like them. Governments issue no warnings, and take no steps to protect the public or the environment.

We are waist-deep in "the other future." Add in many consumers' growing dependence on and addiction to cell phone products and apps, plus utility, educational and medical groups at the alter of wireless technology, and maybe we are neck-deep?

Many people have symptoms of Radiofrequency Sickness/Microwave Sickness but are unaware of the environmental cause. The growing number of people realizing they have this sensitivity must deal with a culture that would rather ridicule their sensitivity or call it psychological than take in the truth. We are a consumer culture and people like their stuff. They like to point out that all these microwave devices are legal. Of course, this is due to morbidly outdated and lax federal standards. (see Firstenberg's article for historical details)

The questions remain: Are we a stupid culture, unable to understand new information, even with facts staring us in the face? Are we a gullible culture that believes what the authorities tell us even if our experience says otherwise? Are we a cruel and selfish culture that wants what we want no matter what affect it has on others? Before these questions can be wholly answered, the culture must be exposed to the truth and given a chance to understand. And that it where Mr. Firstenberg and the rest of us are working.

Note: Arthur Firstenberg, for his early and continued work and articles bringing the reality of bio-effects from RF/MW to light, is now designated as a FDNHB Hero.

For suffering people at Christmas: a Dickinson poem beautifully sung

To celebrate Christmas 2011, here is a beautiful choral setting of Emily Dickinson's poem, "I shall know why" by Roberto Brisotto (1972); text by Emily Dickinson (Lyric n.193) - Coro "Giovani del Contrà" - direttore: Roberto Brisotto.

I shall know why -- when Time is over -- And I have ceased to wonder why -- Christ will explain each separate anguish In the fair schoolroom of the sky -- He will tell me what "Peter" promised -- And I -- for wonder at his woe -- I shall forget the drop of Anguish That scalds me now -- that scalds me now! -----------Emily Dickinson

History of Microwave Mania: 40-year-old US Government Report issued URGENT WARNING on Electromagnetic Pollution

This 2007 article (or try this link) by Karl Hecht and Elena N. Savoley of IRCHET International Research Centre of Healthy and Ecological Technology should be a call to action. Their well-researched piece, Overloading of Towns and Cities with Radio Transmitters (Cellular Transmitter): a hazard for the human health and a disturbance of eco-ethics, exposes the current US government's shocking disregard for public health and safety.

The article opens with the following quotations from a US government report on electromagnetic pollution from 1971 that issued an urgent warning about these emissions 40 years ago.

“The electromagnetic radiations emanating for radar, television, communications systems, microwave ovens, industrial heat-treatment systems, medical diathermy units, and many other sources permeate the modern environment, both civilian and military.”

“Unless adequate monitoring and control based on a fundamental understanding of biological effects are instituted in the near future, in the decades ahead, man may enter an era of energy pollution of the environment comparable to the chemical pollution of today.”

“The consequences of undervaluing or misjudging the biological effects of long-term, low-level exposure could become a critical problem for the public health, especially if genetic effects are involved.”

Hecht's article also vindicates the existence of electrohypersensitivity syndrome (EHS), also called Radiofrequency Sickness, Radio Wave Sickness or Microwave Sickness. It states that in 1932, the German doctor Erwin Schliephake published scientific data in the German Medical Weekly about radio transmitter-induced "microwave" or "radio wave sickness" with these symptoms: severe tiredness and fatigue during the day, fitful sleep in the night, headaches to the point of intolerability, and high susceptibility to infection. THIS WAS 80 YEARS AGO, people.

The article goes on to show how the newly discovered illness was verified as "microwave sickness, induced by athermal high-frequency EMF radiation." That's ATHERMAL, meaning below levels that cause heating effects. Our current government standards are ONLY based on heating effects, such as happens in higher settings of microwave ovens.

Hecht writes that the Russian author Zinaida Gordon from the Moscow Institute for Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases scientifically verified Dr. Schliephake's findings, and examined over 1,000 people who worked at radio installations, electric utilities, radar stations, etc., over the duration of 10 years. Here are the common symptoms she established for microwave sickness:

daytime tiredness

loss of productiveness

sleeplessness

headaches

cardiovascular regulation changes of various types

neurovegetative disorders

neurosis

depressions

hyperactivity and inner agitation

Professor Gordon also found that the symptoms strengthened with increasing exposures, and sensitivity to microwave radiations increased.

Our government has been well-versed about the dangers of electromagnetic pollution for forty years, and its negligence is causing people to fall very ill from a scientifically documented condition, which has been in the literature since 1936 - nearly 80 years - and there is NO EXCUSE to ignore this. 

Carrier pigeons can beat rural broadband speed - no kidding

Humans get pretty cocky about the speed of technology to carry information. But last year in the U.K., a humble carrier pigeon (named Rory) flew a computer memory card between two counties quicker than a rural computer could upload a five minute video to the web.

Yet humans are bound and determined to flood the air with microwaves to try to get their information from point A to point B. This is like hosing water the streets and through our yards 24/7 to get some water into our homes. Talk about inefficient. And dangerous to the public. Fiber optic is smarter.

In the meantime, I'd consider starting a carrier pigeon information service but the deadly cell towers and wind farms everywhere you look would pose a danger to the birds. Anyhow, bless little Mr. Rory for trying to deliver some sense to humankind despite the odds.

Smart Meter Cartoons are all the RAGE

How about some comic relief in the smart meter battles?
Check these out:

Innovative smart meter use for utility execs

Smart meter stare down 

Poor, lonely smart meters

Smart meter zombie

Another use for smart meters

Microwave Nation is a series of cartoons at Pixton relating to smart meters and wireless.

Microwave Nation: Utility Man

Microwave Nation: Sick from Meter

Microwave Nation: Unite to Fight Smart Meters!

And I leave you with a poem that may give you some fresh ideas about what you could do with your smart meter. The exercise was to write a poem using these five words:

inevitable
flypaper
pretzel
pillow
Chevrolet

Ode to the toxic “smart meter"

(the utility refuses to remove)

Your demise is inevitable.

Someday, I’ll stick you to flypaper    
and take you to the range for target practice.     
I’ll twist your smoking innards into pretzels
and hold you under a pillow to suffocate your last spark.    
Stuffing you in a black trash bag, I’ll dump you in the trunk    
of my ’69 Chevy and gun it to the nearest cliff.

Poking the shiny chrome nose over the teetering edge,
I’ll scramble out, and push, sending you down,
down to the jagged, foam-covered rocks below.
Even if they find the banged up wreck,
they’ll never ID your smashed remains.

History of Microwave Mania : Birth of the Monster Smart Grid

Here is the nifty graphic from an article with the same title by Senior Editor Kathleen Davis at  Electric Light & Power: Power Grid International.

Davis compares today's switch over to the so-called Smart Grid to Godzilla's transition from monster to hero:

The electric T&D industry is attempting a similar Godzilla flip-flop: Taking a huge, hulking, archaic electricity T&D system and creating from that a massive, self-healing smart grid overnight (a few decades in industry terms).

According to the article the birth of the Smart Grid apparently happened in 2007 when Austin Energy CIO Andres Carvallo came up with the term at an industry conference. It is the same year Amy Worthington wrote about the radiation poisoning of America from cell mast proliferation. The Smart Grid also feeds on wireless "smart" technology constantly "talking" to create feedback loops between consumers, the power companies, the appliances in order to "show" them where to save money - based on the new rates the utilities decide to deploy.

The goal is to squeeze out energy use by paying energy companies to provide less, then giving consumer "incentives" so they can "choose" to save money on their new-rated bills.
Here are four prongs of this infrastructure vision from Ken Oshman, Echelon Corp.’s chairman and CEO:

1. Focus on the core end result and mandate that result. (For instance, reduce energy 10 percent over the next three years by responding to the conditions on the grid.)

2. Do not mandate technology. The market will decide which technologies win. The winning technologies will allow the industry to achieve its goal.

3. Remove regulations that deter power generators from saving energy. Competition, technical innovation and creative business models will take care of the rest.

4. Create regulations that pay utilities to sell less energy.

It boils down to consumers paying more for less energy. They will make it more scarce, and then incentivize consumers to use it at different times and use less of it to save money. What a scam. (They are starting to test rationing in Australia!)

However, notice how Oshman says NOT to mandate technology. Yet, wireless utility meters are being forced upon consumers who do not want them due to health, privacy and safety concerns.

So, there, you have it: a bit of history and truth about the Smart Grid monster, which can never become a hero to people who do not want its cold, calculated attacks on their privacy, security and health. The creature cannot live without its wireless pulse. And its lifeblood is poison to the people.

History of Microwave Mania: Melbourne AU, 2005, World "Health" Organization

Tracing the history of the current insufficient radiofrequency exposure standards to protect public health brought me to this eyewitness account from the World Health Organization's Regional Workshop called Radio frequency fields: Health effects & policy options for protection on November 17-18 2005 in Melbourne, AU. The participants' cavalier attitude towards the health effects were chilling, though I knew it probably had to go something like this - in some obscure meeting of powerful people, who felt it their mission and right to plan world infrastructure with no concern about how it could hurt some of the little people. Or lots of the little people. For decades to come.

Two years later, U.S. journalist Amy Worthington researched and documented early struggles of serious health effects from proximity to cell phone masts in The Radiation Poisoning of America. She details the devastating results of the 1996 Telecommunications Act's gag order on citizens. They could never again use health impacts or concerns pertaining to cell phone masts to legally challenge their placement. Worthington's shattering account of everyday people's sufferings at at the hand of wireless technology has become a classic, though 2007 was not so long ago. Today, you see masts next to schools, on fire stations and in the middle of county fairgrounds, etc. Even if people were to wake up to what is happening, they could not bring up the health issue as a factor to fight it.

I will share more events and details in the history of microwave mania as I find them.
See also the Timeline for Growing Awareness (2000-2011) at the EMFWise blog.

Stop Smart Meters Continues Inside Big Technology and sick from microwaves series

Glad to see Stop Smart Meters is making their series on workers in big technology who are electrosensitive an ONGOING series. Excellent witness and information. Here is part 5.