New book worthy of title: An Electronic Silent Spring, Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits

 

 

 

 

Frank Clegg, former president of Microsoft Canada says everyone who uses technology should read An Electronic Silent Spring by Katie Singer.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In order to operate, mobile phones, iPads, cellular antennas, Wi-Fi and “smart” utility meters emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR) at frequencies and amplitudes that are not found in nature. An Electronic Silent Spring tells how people and wildlife are affected.

1. The book reports on peer-reviewed studies that show that EMR-exposed tadpoles die, aspen tree seedlings wither, bee colonies collapse, birds crash into antennas and white stork mates fight.
2. EMR from “smart” utility meters, metal detectors, hybrid cars and other common electronics can shut off a medical implant. NIH estimates that 10% of Americans have a medical implant. The FDA regulates microwave ovens, which can interfere with cardiac pacemakers. No agency regulates cell phones, which operate closer to the body, with more power and at the same frequency as a microwave oven. In An Electronic Silent Spring, geophysicist, electrical engineer and implant patient Dr. Gary Olhoeft speaks on the issues.
3. How does long-term, chronic exposure to EMR affect infants and children? In An Electronic Silent Spring, Dr. Martha Herbert, Harvard pediatric neurologist, and Cindy Sage, MA, co-editor of the BioInitiative Report, explain why exposing children to EMR may lead to autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises pregnant women and children not to use mobile devices.
4. An Electronic Silent Spring looks at worker safety: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are routinely exposed to dangerous EMR from rooftop antennas without warning or protection.
5. Federal regulations protect the engineering needs of electronic devices–and telecom companies. A federal law prohibits local officials from refusing installation of cellular antennas based on health or environmental concerns...

A comment at Amazon justly praises the ground-breaking book:

This book is worthy of the "Silent Spring" title  By Peter M. Sullivan on May 22, 2014

  

Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" written in 1962 inspired a generation of environmental movement and transformation. As awareness of toxins has become more mainstream, our biggest threat is now from electronic overload of wireless and electrical noise (dirty electricity) and the sad popular assumption that it's all completely safe. This book takes that belief and introduces readers to the real life experiences of countless individuals who have seem the darker side of the electronic revolution. Singer is able to take a very complex topic and simplify and clarify the issues. She wisely choose to include voices of many other experts in this movement to show that this is not the view of one person, but a growing network of concerned citizens from around the globe working together against this monumental threat to life. I am also thrilled to see her include the emerging link between EMF and autism and information about light flicker.

This book is an excellent introduction to EMF and has a great deal of depth and detail that even experts in the field will learn from. I believe this book can deliver another worldwide movement to protect our generation.

Great work!

New striking book: HYPER: An Electromagnetic Chapbook by Chellis Glendinning

This blogger is TRUMPETING a ground-breaking poetry chapbook, HYPER: An Electromagnetic Chapbook by Chellis Glendinning, prefaced by Olle Johnansson.

This intense, well-crafted collection of brain-splitting poetry is the first collection of poems on the subject of what humans are doing to the world and each other via microwave wireless electro-pollution. Each piece is revealing and thought provoking.

One favorite, called "life expectancy," begins,
pierce the sky
magnetize the molecule
prick the mind
200 electroshocks per second...

"suit up" is also very meaningful to electro-sensitive people.

The scope and feeling of the collection give a sense of where we come from and where we are going in a microwave-crazed world. This is a must read for any person on the planet who cares about life itself. Order the book today, since it takes a few weeks to come from the author in Brazil; it is well worth the wait.

Find additional information here.

The Machine Stops, a cautionary tale for today, from 1909

This 1909 story is timeless.

But will we listen?

THE MACHINE STOPS

by E.M. Forster (1909)

(E.M. Forster is now designated as an FCNHB Hero for his early foresight and wisdom.)

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.)

Motorola Insider's Book Exposes the Truth: Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette: a Historical and Scientific Perspective ...............by Robert C. Kane

Some have said this iconoclastic 2001 book has been buried, or even frantically bought up by the industry after it came out. Now you can only get rare copies for over $100, or check one out from a few libraries. But Michael Heiming of MESURES IN SITU, Mesures de champs électromagnétiques posted a copy of this important awareness-blasting writing online after following legal precedent to get permission. THIS IS A MUST READ and one to share widely. Thank you, Michael, for making sure this information gets out!

The following blurb comes from the site (which includes a well-known skeptic's illogical criticisms of this book in attempts to hide its information):

Robert C. Kane had been working as top developer inside Motorola for decades, developing mobile phones. He died from brain cancer a few years ago, not without leaving this planet with a message, which you can find in his book.

Robert C. Kane has been actively employed in the telecommunications industry for more than thirty years. He holds a BSEE from the Midwest College of Engineering, an MSEE with an emphasis in electromagnetics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and also at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has completed the full course of study and research leading to the Ph.D. in electrical engineering with emphasis in the fields of electromagnetics and solid-state physics.

As a research scientist and product design engineer, he has been directly involved with programs and projects for the design and development of portable cell phones, radio frequency mobile radios, microwave telecommunications systems, video display systems, and biological effects research.

Download Whole Book here;

http://microondes.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/robert-c-kane-cellular-telephone-russian-roulette/

These two comments at Amazon say it all:

Robert C. Kane--listen to this man April 4, 2003

By Karen Stern

This is a kamikaze book, and would, if it got the attention it deserved, eviscerate the cell phone industry. If I were Robert C. Kane, I'd hire a bodyguard. The men behind the megabucks being raked in by the wireless industry can't be happy about a book like this. In lucid, readable, decisive prose, Kane, an industry insider, systematically dismantles the wireless industry's pretense of product safety. There is no pussyfooting around here about how there "may" be health concerns, as the February issue of Consumer Reports puts it. Kane starts right in on page one by stating, "Talking on a cellular phone can be likened to holding a microwave oven to one's head." Check out the last two chapters, "Public Deception I" and "Public Deception II", and the quotes from Carl Sagan and Ayn Rand. Powerful stuff. And then throw away your cell phone.

Book journalists need to read August 17, 2007

By M. Glaser

In Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, author Robert Kane, a former top Motorola engineer, traces the history of cell phone development (in which he was involved) and analyzes the cell phone radiation bioeffects research base from 1950 to 1996.

Despite industry's claim to safety, Kane's report suggests that there was much more information available indicating safety concerns than the industry has ever acknowledged.

The work includes a review of:

· The foundations of radiofrequency (RF) radiation research (starting with radar).

· The discoveries of bioeffects from RF exposure as early as the 1970's, and the discovery of "hot spots" in the brains of mobile phone users.

· The industry's influence on "safe" exposure guidelines in order to meet its own product needs.

· The ways research design can be manipulated to bias the outcome of lab studies.

· The red-herring requirement by industry that research must identify a single biological causation mechanism for adverse health effects from RF exposure before science can say there is proven harm.

·The emergence of a PR campaign to mask the risks of cell phone radiation to the user.

It needs a good index and some section headings, but this book is jam-packed with information, much of which you won't find anywhere else. It will be of interest to those who have already gained some familiarity with the RF radiation health issue and are not put off by some of the technical terms used (megahertz, S.A.R., etc.). Serious readers may begin to smell more-than-feint traces of tobacco.

Another good book to dig up is Nicholas Steneck's 1984 science-and-values overview of "The Microwave Debate" which shows there has been some concern about RF radiation's ability to affect biology for quite some time.