| "Wherever you go, there we are." - Cellular One | | | | back in the early 1970s. All of that research has been |
| slogan | | | | stopped because of industry." -Dr. Om Gandhi |
| ANTIPHONY: A style of chanting involving a call and | | | | [Uncensored (NZ) Nov 9/06] |
| response. Since billions of people are called to cell and | | | | "These days in the committee (that sets the |
| portable phones every day - and most will be chosen | | | | standards), one co-chair is from Motorola (C.K. Chou) |
| to conduct the biggest biological experiment ever | | | | and the other is from the Navy, the military-industrial |
| undertaken on this planet - perhaps some responses | | | | establishment (Dr. John D'Andrea), and they are |
| to this mass culture of addiction and denial are in order. | | | | suddenly loosening their standards." -Dr. Gandhi |
| Did someone say "addiction"? | | | | [Uncensored (NZ) Nov 9/06] |
| "In January 2001 alone, over 900 million text messages | | | | "There are more than 15,000 scientific studies reporting |
| were sent in the UK." | | | | the cell phone health hazards. At least 66 |
| [BBC May 24/01] | | | | epidemiological studies show that electromagnetic |
| "This text messaging train just keeps on running on its | | | | radiation increases brain tumors in human populations." |
| tracks. We reached $80 billion worth of revenues out | | | | [Cell Phone Convenience or 21st Century Plague? by |
| of mobile phone simple SMS text messaging last year... | | | | Dr. Nick Begich and James Roderick earthpulse.com] |
| Now it's clear this year we will pass the 100 billion dollar | | | | "Studies show there has been a 40% |
| mark… Oh, in absolute numbers, we'll hit about 2.8 | | | | across-the-board increase in the number of brain |
| trillion. What is that per day? 8 BILLION texts sent | | | | tumors in the past 20 years." -Australia's Senator Lyn |
| every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every | | | | Allison, after brain tumors became the leading cause of |
| second of every day." -consultant Tomi T Ahonen | | | | death in children under 15. [ Observer Mar14/99] |
| Sept 21/07] | | | | "11,000 Scandinavian cell phone users were studied and |
| "Cell phone dependency is now called compulsive | | | | they showed significant neurological effects in a dose |
| communicating. Chain dialers call continually to get | | | | response manner… There is also a higher incidence |
| another 'fix'. [Spokesman Review Nov 12/05] | | | | of cardiac problems… The neurological effects are |
| "Mobile phones are replacing nicotine as the foremost | | | | noticed within minutes of using a cell phone." -Neil |
| addictive obsession in Great Britain." [British Medical | | | | Cherry biophysicist at Lincoln University in Christ |
| Journal Apr/06] | | | | Church, New Zealand |
| "75% of British teenagers said they literally could not | | | | "Perhaps putting a mobile phone repeatedly to your |
| bear to be without their phone." [London Telegraph | | | | head is something that might not be good in the long |
| Dec19/04] | | | | term." -Professor Leif Salford, longtime cell phone |
| "A London detox clinic specializes in helping patients | | | | researcher into impacts on brain through the |
| deal with behavioral addiction related to cell phone use." | | | | blood-brain barrier [BBC Feb 5/03] |
| [Courier-Mail Oct 7/03] | | | | More than 26 million people worldwide are stricken by |
| "2006 was the turning point when the industry started | | | | Alzheimer's disease, and a new forecast says the |
| focusing not just on teenagers and adults but also on | | | | number will quadruple by 2050. At that rate, at least |
| tweens - children between middle childhood and | | | | one in 85 people onboard planet Earth will be |
| adolescence, usually 8 to 12 years old - and even | | | | brain-wiped within 40 years. [AP June 10/07] |
| children as young as 5." [New York Times Mar 8/08] | | | | One of the first indications of dementia - and a |
| "A Eurobarometer survey of almost 1,000 children in | | | | common side effect of frequent 'cordless' cell and |
| 29 countries found most had telephones after age 9." | | | | portable phone use - is memory loss. French |
| [New York Times Mar 8/08] | | | | researchers have found that the abnormal proteins |
| "Grotesque." -Dr. George Carlo's comment on | | | | found in Alzheimer's cases always deposit in the |
| marketing strategies aimed at children during a New | | | | hippocampus first. Cell phone radiation is directly |
| Zealand prime time TV news show. [IsraCast | | | | implicated in forming these abnormal proteins. [ |
| Technology News July 29/05] | | | | Proceedings of the Second Kuopio Alzheimer |
| It's "open season on kids." -investigative reporter Amy | | | | Symposium, Finland, Jan/01;] |
| Worthington | | | | British researchers confirm that cell phone radiation |
| "Nine out of 10 children under the age of 16 have a | | | | changes the shape of brain proteins, causing them to |
| mobile phone." [Guardian June 29/01] | | | | clump together and reach out with pathological fibrils |
| "Children may be more vulnerable because of their | | | | like those found in patients afflicted with Alzheimer's |
| developing nervous system, the greater absorption of | | | | and Parkinson's. [Microwave News May/June 2003] |
| energy in the tissues of the head and a longer lifetime | | | | "Irradiated neurons in the brain die rapidly because |
| of exposure." -renowned British biochemist and | | | | these nerve cells have a low capacity for DNA repair." |
| president of the British Association for the | | | | [Paper presented by Dr. Henry Lai at the Mobile |
| Advancement of Science Sir William Stewart after | | | | Phones and Health Symposium, in Vienna, Austria Oct |
| completing a UK government report on "Mobile Phones | | | | 25-28/98] |
| and Health" in April 2000. | | | | WHERE WE ARE |
| "My daughter has had her phone for 2 years, she is | | | | "At this point in time, there's just over three billion users |
| now 12 and so far everything is great. " | | | | of cell phones worldwide. So that's half of our world |
| -mommyneedssleep [online blogger Dec 23/08] | | | | population, or almost half." -Dr. Vini Khurana, Associate |
| "Parents should take their children away from that | | | | Professor of Neurosurgery, Canberra Hospital to |
| technology." -Wolfram Koenig head of federal | | | | television host Larry King. [Larry King Live May 27 |
| authority for radiation protection in Germany. [Journal | | | | 08] |
| of the Australasian College of Nutritional & | | | | "Today it is estimated that more than 90% percent of |
| Environmental Medicine Sept /01] | | | | the Western world uses cell phones." -PhD Andrew |
| "Children who talk on a cell phone may not be able to | | | | Michrowski, Planetary Association for Clean Energy |
| cross the road safely… The seemingly simple act of | | | | [Whole Life Expo 2007 Toronto Nov 25/07] |
| crossing the street actually involves complex brain | | | | "Young people today are becoming stupid." -Toshiyuki |
| processes. And 'unintentional pedestrian injury' is a | | | | Sawaguchi, Japanese professor of neurobiology, |
| leading cause of death in middle childhood." [Health | | | | blaming cell phone use for early senility. Feb 5/01] |
| News Apr 11/08] | | | | "A literacy study conducted in 2005 on 19,000 young |
| "Childhood leukemia is the most frequent childhood | | | | Americans is sobering. Only one in three American |
| malignancy… This peak seems to have been newly | | | | college grads can read a complex book and |
| evolved in the early quarter of the 20th century and | | | | extrapolate from it… an overwhelming majority of |
| may be due to electrification. [Bioeffects Initiative | | | | college students are unable to understand arguments |
| report] | | | | in a newspaper editorial or to comprehend a simple |
| "I believe that 30% of all childhood cancers are | | | | comparison table." |
| associated with EMF exposure." -Dr. David Carpenter, | | | | [Washington Post Dec 25/05] |
| Dean at the School of Public Health, State University | | | | "For three years now Ingri and I have been traveling |
| of New York. | | | | with a hand-held device called a 'zapchecker'. The |
| [Sunday Mirror Apr/04] | | | | zapchecker measures ambient levels of |
| "We're pretty bullish on increased usage by teenagers." | | | | electromagnetic radiation. During dozens of road trips |
| -Adam Guy, Strategist Group senior analyst. [London | | | | throughout the western U.S. since 2003, we would be |
| Telegraph Oct 9/07] | | | | driving along and notice that the zapchecker would |
| "A whole generation of teenagers face premature | | | | suddenly 'spike'. We would then see a cell tower, a |
| senility in the prime of their lives due to the use of | | | | hospital or government building with a satellite |
| mobile phones and new wireless technology." Nov26 | | | | communications array, a radio station or sometimes, |
| 03] | | | | high tension lines within a half mile or so. After a few |
| "If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a | | | | minutes, the zapchecker would calm down again until |
| cell phone, his reaction times are the same as a | | | | the next wireless monument came within range… |
| 70-year-old driver." - David Strayer, University of Utah | | | | "On March 30, 2006, Ingri and I traveled from Spirit |
| psychology professor and principal author of the | | | | Lake to Seattle to attend what turned out to be an |
| Transport Research study. | | | | excellent 9/11 truth event on the University of |
| "It's like instant aging." -UK chief medical officer | | | | Washington campus. What we experienced with |
| "Because hands-free phones use up to 10-times more | | | | regard to measurable amounts of ambient |
| power to operate, they are even more dangerous | | | | electromagnetic radiation was shocking to us and |
| than holding a phone to your skull while driving. Medical | | | | occupied much of our conversation throughout our |
| studies show that hands-free devices actually raise | | | | journey. Wherein previous years there would be miles |
| the amount of radiation being directed into the head by | | | | between measurable amounts of radiation being |
| three times." [Inter@ctive Week Apr13/00 ] | | | | detected by our zapchecker, the opposite was |
| "Here's the key point. These radio waves are a form | | | | suddenly true. Our zapchecker was spiking about 90% |
| of electromagnetic radiation, much like the energy that | | | | of the time during our 800-mile round trip. It was 'clean' |
| heats your microwave oven or is used for radar. | | | | only between cell towers and now there is almost |
| Sounds worrisome, but the good news is (this does) | | | | always one in sight. In all cases, when we were in |
| not damage DNA and is not felt to harm living tissues | | | | urban areas, the zapchecker was solidly spiked - even |
| at the levels of heat induced by a cell phone." | | | | when the sensitivity of the device was turned down." |
| [blogs.webmd.com] | | | | -Amy Worthington |
| "The conclusion that if health effects of commonly | | | | One in six children suffers some neurological disability, |
| encountered RF exposures exist, they must be small is | | | | and the rate of autism has skyrocketed in the last |
| wrong. The evidence points to a quite substantial | | | | decade. "In the USA, one in every 166 children has an |
| hazard." [Bioeffects Initiative report] | | | | autism spectrum disorder- an increase of 6,000% |
| "I find it quite strange to see so many official | | | | since the 1970's," reports the Boston Globe. [Boston |
| presentations saying that there is no risk." -Professor | | | | Globe July 1/05] |
| Mild, co-Swedish researcher after carrying out some | | | | RF exposure "is wholly correlated with the repeatedly |
| of the most extensive original work into tumours | | | | documented increased incidence of autism: now |
| among long-term mobile phone and portable phone | | | | reported by at least some researchers as greater |
| users. | | | | than 1 per 100 newborn. " -Dr. Kane |
| "It has been established beyond reasonable doubt that | | | | [elektrosmognews.de Feb/02] |
| some adverse health effects occur at far lower levels | | | | Melatonin has been shown to help prevent Alzheimer's. |
| of exposure ... some at several thousand times below | | | | Melatonin also blocks estrogen's propensity to develop |
| the existing safety limits." [Independent Oct 7/07] | | | | breast tumors in women. Eleven published |
| "University of Washington researchers funded by the | | | | epidemiologic studies in residences and workplaces |
| U.S. military demonstrated that 2.4 gigahertz radiation | | | | show Microwaves emitted by cell phones and |
| increases the frequency of single-strand DNA breaks | | | | portables, wireless routers and cell phone towers |
| in the brain cells of live rats after only two hours of | | | | sharply reduce melatonin production. [Bioeffects |
| exposure at only 1/5th of the FCC's so-called 'safety' | | | | Initiative] |
| limits." Nov 2/05] | | | | SOLUTIONS |
| "The available scientific evidence does not show any | | | | "There is a need for a biological standard to replace |
| health problems are associated with using wireless | | | | the thermal standard and to also protect against |
| phones." -U.S. Food and Drug Administration | | | | cumulative effects across the EM spectrum." |
| [blogs.webmd.com] | | | | [Bioeffects Initiative report] |
| "Physical testing to verify compliance is relatively rare." | | | | "Worldwide harmonization of standards have to be |
| -FCC [Radio Frequency Safety] | | | | based on biological responses." [Proceedings of the |
| Funded by Vodafone, the Mobile Operators | | | | NATO Advanced Research Workshop - "Molecular |
| Association and other cell phone manufacturers, the | | | | and Cellular Mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF" |
| study results failed to mention that 12 of 56 - or more | | | | March 2005] |
| than one-in-five - volunteers became too ill from the | | | | "Thirteen years of continuous radiation exposure in |
| microwave exposure and had to drop out of the tests. | | | | public school cancer zones is child abuse. Networking |
| [mastsanity.org] | | | | systems using cables are the answer." -Amy |
| "FCC officials are bribed by the industry with such | | | | Worthington |
| perks as expensive trips to Las Vegas." May 22/03] | | | | Renowned brain surgeon, "Dr. Vini Khurana urges |
| "There is no research being done in the United States | | | | everyone to stop using cell phones immediately. |
| at the present time, even though we started this field | | | | |