United States: FCC's Cell Phone Testing Dummy is Larger Than 97% of All Cell Phone Users

The article is from 2011. This is still the FCC’s cell phone testing dummy.  His head size is based upon a 6’2” man weighing 220 pounds.  This is a VERY serious issue for the smallest, and most vulnerable of cell phone users – children.

FCC’s Cell Phone Testing Dummy is Larger Than 97% of All Cell Phone Users
Consumers4safephones, 27 November 2011

This major flaw in the FCC manufacturers’ testing guidelines enables children’s smaller heads and bodies to absorb up to twice the cell phone radiation allowed by federal safety standards.

Meet SAM (Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin), the plastic head model used by cell phone manufacturers for simulating the maximum amount of cell phone radiation (SAR) absorbed by the brain during a call. Before a cell phone can be legally sold in the U.S. it must be certified for compliance with FCC radiation safety standards. And, SAM is the method currently used for certification testing.

Electrosensitivity Caused by Chronic Nervous System Arousal - Dr. Roy Fox

This article is excellent and contains a wealth of resources and advice for helping persons suffering from electrosensitivity.

Electrosensitivity caused by chronic nervous system arousal – 

Dr Roy Fox 
by André Fauteux, Editor, Maison du 21e siècle, 20 mai 2013
French version of this interview

Pollutant avoidance and detoxification are preferable to neuroactive medication if you suffer from electrosensitivity or chemical sensitivities, says Dr Roy Fox, Medical Director of the Capital Health Integrative Chronic Care Service, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr Fox will be speaking on this topic in Montreal next May 25th at the Project ECOSPHERE Environmental and Ecohousing Fair.

Contrary to a common medical practice worldwide, one of Canada’s few experts in environmental medicine says avoiding pollutants and detoxifying the body are the best ways of reducing symptoms of environmental sensitivities and that use of neuroactive drugs is a risky last resort.

Corporate Greed

Corporate greed is not only endangering the lives of people in the United States but throughout the world. A 1991 quote from the World Bank's Larry Summers comes back to haunt us: "Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (lesser developed countries)?... A recent study estimated that toxic pollution affects the health of more than 100 million people, shortening their productive life spans by 12.7 years on average. Even if corporations refuse to help solve the world's problems, they have an obligation to pay for global energy consumption and infrastructure usage and industrial pollution. Instead, they continue to fatten profits at the expense of human lives and well-being.

The Globalization of Hypocrisy
by Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams, 20 May 2013

The damage caused by the relentless corporate drive for profits has become more clear in recent years. In the most important areas of American life, devastating changes have occurred:

Health Care: Almost half of the working-age adults in America passed up doctor visits or other medical services because they couldn't afford to pay. The system hasn't supported kids, either. A UNICEF study places the U.S.26th out of 29 OECD countries in the overall well-being of its children.

Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to the U.S., Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

by Democracy Now!, 21 May 2013

In their new book, "The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills," economist David Stuckler and physician Sanjay Basu examine the health impacts of austerity across the globe. The authors estimate there have been more than 10,000 additional suicides and up to a million extra cases of depression across Europe and the United States since governments started introducing austerity programs in the aftermath of the economic crisis. For example, in Greece, where spending on public health has been slashed by 40 percent, HIV rates have jumped 200 percent, and the country has seen its first malaria outbreak since the 1970s. An economist and public health specialist, Stuckler is a senior research leader at Oxford University. Dr. Basu is a physician and epidemiologist who teaches at Stanford University. "Had austerity been organized like a clinical trial, it would’ve been discontinued given evidence of its deadly side effects," Stuckler says. "There is an alternative choice that we found in the historical data and through the present recessions: When we place people and their health at the center of economic recovery, it can help get our economy back on track faster and yield lasting dividends to our society." ( © 2013 Democracy Now!  - http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/21-0 )

View this powerful 28-minute extract from “Democracy Now!” where the authors of the book discuss the health crisis with Amy Goodman. 

Austerity Kills ... (1st part: 14 mn. of 28-minute extract from "Democracy Now!" - 21 May 2013)

Japan: Livestock Dealer from Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, Speaks Out About the Condition of His Horses

A week after the interview with Mr. Hosokawa, this little
pony died. "I think that it is to do with the fallout from the
Fukushima disaster," Mr. Hosokawa said.

A terrible silent tragedy is happening in Fukushima! The lone horseman of Iitate speaks out

“I would like to welcome anybody who is concerned to contact me. I request vets and radiation specialists to come and investigate my horses.”

Nuclear News, 7 May 2013
(Abstract)  (Translated by Mia)

Iitate village (In Fukushima Prefecture) is surrounded by beautiful mountains and forests. And the village and setting still looks beautiful, even after being heavily contaminated by the fallout from the Fukushima disaster.

Mr. Tokuei Hosokawa (60 years old), a third-generation livestock dealer working in the family business, is one of a few who has remained at this village since the disaster.

He has kept quiet about the condition of his horses up until now, but as the condition of his horses has been deteriorating, he has decided to warn others that there is something terribly wrong going on, by making people aware of what has been happening to his horses.  He kept a carcass of one of his horse that died a month ago, he said.  “I want to bury it, but I preserved it so that I could show it as proof to Tepco”.

New York: Lung Cancer Risks from Fracked Natural Gas in NYC Kitchens

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Exposed: Lung Cancer Risks from Fracked Natural Gas in NYC Kitchens 
EcoWatch, 15 May 2013

At a public forum last night [14 May 2013], leading voices in politics, public health, the environment and workers’ rights analyzed the threat to New York City residents from increased radon levels that would be found in natural gas from new regional sources being promoted by Mayor Bloomberg. Radon, a dangerous substance found in natural gas that most New Yorkers cook with, is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. At the forum, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal presented legislation sponsored by she and State Senator Diane Savino that would protect the public from the risks of radon in natural gas.

View this video and learn in two minutes about how Spectra and ConEd plan to bring fracked gas, laced with radon, into New York via a new explosive, high pressure pipeline. This is bad for the environment and bad for New Yorkers:

Radon in my apartment?  The Spectra Pipeline (12 February 2013 - 2 mn - produced by
Occupy the Pipeline

California: San Onofre Nuclear Plant Could Be Permanently Shut by End 2013

The San Onofre nuclear plant sits in an earthquake/tsunami zone halfway
between Los Angeles and San Diego where at least 8 million people
live within a 50 mile radius.

No Nukes Groundswell Hits California, Solartopia Rising
by Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch, 17 May 2013

In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk.

With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year.

But a funny thing has happened on the way to the restart: a no nukes groundswell has turned this routine rubber stamping into an epic battle the grassroots just might win.

Indeed, if ever there was a time when individual activism could have a magnified impact, this is it.

This comes as the nuclear industry is in nearly full retreat. Two U.S. reactors are already down this year. Yet another proposed project has just been cancelled in North Carolina. And powerful grassroots campaigns have pushed numerous operating reactors to the brink of extinction throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, where all but two reactors remain shut since Fukushima.

In California, it’s San Onofre that’s perched at the brink.

Can BioGeometry Ease Electrosensitivity?

In addition to reading the two articles about BioGeometry which follow, view this video: "Hemberg Swiss project on Reuters" where Dr. Ibrahim Karim, an Egyptian architect and founder of the science of BioGeometry, talks about how biogeometric shapes were used in the Swiss village of Hemberg (canton St. Gallen) to alleviate the effects of mobile phone antenna emissions on people and the environment. He says that this could not be due to a placebo effect because the “ecology” improved once the geometrical forms were placed: birds and bats returned to the village and people felt better. Also read this document about the experiment:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/121266793/Ibrahim-Karim-Harmonization-With-Biogeometry-Mobile-Radiation-in-Hemberg

Following the success of this project, Dr. Karim was commissioned by the local government of the Swiss town of Hirschberg to implement a similar solution there. The energy-quality balancing of BioGeometry eased the symptoms of electrosensitive persons, among a number of other health conditions, as well as positively impacting the overall ecology of the area, including the health of the livestock in the area.

Swiss Solar-Powered Airplane Flies Across the United States

Solar Impulse above San Francisco Bay

Solar Impulse makes a material difference
by Clare O'Dea, swissinfo.ch, 6 May 2013

While the Solar Impulse team has begun a series of landmark test flights across the United States, work is under way in Switzerland on cutting-edge materials for the next version of the solar-powered aircraft.

The goal of the creators of Solar Impulse – Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – is not just to set records but to promote the implementation of renewable energy technologies. With some 80 partners, including many Swiss companies, who have helped conceive, build, test and fly the prototype, the wealth of research generated by the project has stretched far beyond this initial aspiration.

"Government's Role in Protecting Health and Safety" by Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Thomas Frieden

This article by Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gives pause for reflection. What he says about unhealthy food choices or tobacco could well apply to the telecoms industry. He writes about “misinformation or hidden information endangering health” … “Laws requiring disclosure of factual information” … “The graphic warnings on tobacco packages and anti-tobacco advertising creating a visual and visceral counter to the aggressive and often misleading information spread by tobacco companies, which have been convicted of deliberately deceiving the public about the health effects of tobacco [substitute “cell phone” for “tobacco”].

“Government has a responsibility to protect individuals from unhealthy environments” [it’s not doing its job regarding wireless technology]. “Smokefree laws” [that could include radiation-free (Wi-Fi-free) areas, “white zones” where there are no electromagnetic (EM) waves]. “Actions to protect health are supported by the recognition that although many people express remorse over past behavior, we tend to assign limited weight to future events or conditions.” [Indeed, the Government could take more preventive action in the face of the developing public health crisis regarding exposure to EM radiation. It failed to do so in the case of both tobacco and asbestos. If not, “the societal costs in health care and lost productivity” will be great.] “When government fails to protect and improve people's health, society suffers."

Government's Role in Protecting Health and Safety
by Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17 April 2013