Are You Inadvertently Harming Your Baby?

This post was originally published on this blog in 2008 under the title 'Dying To Make That Call #1'. Latest edits are shown in bold.

1. The Masts in Your Home:

As the dangers of living near mobile masts are becoming more recognised, homeowners are becoming increasingly reluctant to tolerate more (non-elective) masts in their neighbourhoods. The mobile companies and local planning departments are now seeking to install new base stations on existing masts. The objections of concerned citizens who do not want radio hot-spots in their midst are largely overruled when adding extra capacity to existing masts. In an attempt to introduce wireless technologies by stealth, the operators are now installing small 'pico' and even smaller 'femto' cells in road signs and other street furniture and are thus exempt from the planning process.

Our Government has so contrived the regulations as to largely, though not totally, exclude health concerns from the planning process, leading concerned residents with no place and no official body to protest to.

With the odds stacked firmly in the operator's favour, they are infiltrating femto cells into homes across the land. The first mast in your home is the Home Hub which not only provides wireless Internet connectivity but allows wireless connections to the telephone network. In effect, a Home Hub is a mobile phone base station inside your home that silently screams its toxic microwave signal at you and your loved ones 24 hours a day.

2. The Second 'Mast In Your Home' is often the base station for a DECT cordless phone. It too floods your home with continuously pulsed digital microwave signals.

Then there's the wireless laptop communicating with its printer and other peripherals like a wireless router (or a Home Hub) as above. Most homes now also have a microwave oven, and depending on how and where it is situated it too contributes to total toxic electrosmog exposure. Many homes also have wireless security systems and intruder alarms that rely on filling rooms with microwave (and ultrasound) signals the whole time.

3. The third and most insidious 'Mast', of all is the wireless (DECT) baby monitor which broadcasts its signal only a few feet away from a young child's head and developing body.

So before you protest about a new mobile phone mast in your neighbourhood, you might consider just how much your chosen elective exposure is already contributing to your and your family's existing electrosmog diet.

Most people's major exposure comes from wireless devices they have brought into their homes. And it's not just them. Exposure comes significantly from your own and the mobile /cellular-phone and tablet computer use of others nearby. When travelling and at work, the chances are your electrosmog exposure is being added to without you ever being aware of it.

Only a proportion of people's everyday exposure is elective i.e. under their control. The rest is non-elective and forced on them. In any event, it makes good precautionary sense to be aware of and manage all your exposures at home, where you spend much of your time and where your body returns to rest and repair.

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Smart-Phones As Alarm Clocks - A Timely Warning

If you read no further, read this:

The first thing a smart (mobile or cell) phone does when the alarm kicks off is to search for a network connection – whether or not it is in Airplane / Flight mode!

On World EHS Day - 16^th June 2024, I was watching a Youtube recording of an excellent webinar; The International Webinar on Children in the Digital Age;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SfIeaP7yCY&t=2398s

It is hosted by a very credible Doug Wood of Americans For Responsible Technology. https://www.thechildrensdeclaration.org/

In one quote, Mary Anne Tierney Safetechnc.org states:

Of 150 6^th Graders (11-12 year olds) she was presenting to, 2/3 used their phones as their alarm clock.

I was stunned. Do they not know how reckless that is? Clearly not. Hence the motivation to write this post.

The first thing a smart (mobile or cell) phone does when the alarm kicks off is to search for a network connection – whether or not it is in Airplane / Flight mode!

The few moments before becoming truly awake are, in my experience as an EHS sufferer of nearly 30 years, the time when one is most vulnerable. It incidentally is also perhaps one’s most creative time. Be that as it may, having your head bathed in microwave radiation as you prepare to wake up fully is probably not the best way to start the day.

Maybe your phone / network doesn’t do this. How would you know? The only way to know for sure is to reset your alarm once you are fully awake and test your device as it comes alive with an RF EMR (wireless) meter such as the Acousticom2 or the Safe&Sound ProII. (By the way, I get no commission for these recommendations).

That’s it. There’s not much more to say other than it adds a whole new perspective to “WAKE UP!”

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Wireless Roadkill

or ‘EHS – Road Kill In The Wireless Wild West’

Written for World EHS Day 16 June 2024

Millions of people around the world know that sickening feeling when they hear the crunch of some poor creature disappearing under the wheels of the vehicle in which they are travelling. It is unfortunate and regrettable but driver or passenger they usually do not feel responsible for the creature’s demise. It is generally rationalised that it is ‘the price of progress’ or maybe less charitably ‘that it was ‘the creature’s own fault’. In a little while, as the scenery goes by it is put at the back of their minds. The creature nevertheless lays dead or injured, splattered across the road, it’s life destroyed, often with the utmost disregard. Other drivers may lament the loss but can reassure themselves that ‘there but for the grace of God...’ Of course, it is difficult to reconcile creature’s freedoms with people’s. Roads have always been dangerous and ultimately society has adapted, though children and wildlife have to learn the hard way.

When it comes to road kill, I regret I am much like many other drivers. I try not to hit any creature that foolishly steps into my path but if it comes down to the creature or me, I am afraid the creature is apt to lose. The speed and momentum I have built up cannot be readily diverted. If I am to enjoy the benefits of speed I cannot go against Newton’s first law of motion and anything that gets in my way had best get out of it. With the advent of the railways and motor vehicles, society was going to have the benefits of speed at any price and woe-betide anything or anyone that got in the way. Humans have subsequently learned to live more or less safely with the train and the motor vehicle but speed and momentum are unable to negotiate and require laws and penalties to keep them in check. There are heavy penalties for killing and maiming people on the roads and elsewhere but none for road kill. Fences and by-laws are aimed at preventing trespass on the railways and The Rules of the Road, driver training and speed limits are set and enforced. Pedestrians are taught to act with caution and drivers are held liable for their actions but there are no such official constrains, sanctions, warnings or safety education in the wireless world we now inhabit.

Electro Sensitives Are Today’s Wireless Road Kill.

In trying to live our lives without wireless trespass or harm should anyone have the temerity to get in the way of ‘progress’ they are simply being ‘run over’ and swept aside without regard, regret or indeed a backward glance. Denying that EHS exists at all allows any action involving wireless by anyone to be undertaken without guilt or being held to account. For the average cellular / mobile, Wi-Fi or cordless phone user to enjoy the benefits of speedy communications, if someone or something has to suffer, most people think that’s just too bad, if they think at all. People are going to have the benefits of always-on wireless, come what may and having built a life that relies on it they are not about to have their toys taken away.

Governments around the world have abrogated their responsibilities and have handed over the territory in which we all live out our lives to the wireless companies. We live in a lawless Wireless Wild West without accountability, one that is governed by powerful global corporations and other vested interests.

There Are No Limits...

There are no limits to the power that can be radiated from a broadcast / cellular tower. There are no limits to the amount of wireless radiation that can be imposed on 90,000 people in Wembley Stadium. There are no limits on the number and power-outputs of all the wireless devices you can simultaneous use in your home. There are no limits on the number of devices your employer can demand you are exposed to in the workplace. There are no limits on the wireless exposure inflicted on doctors and patients in surgeries and hospitals. There are no limits to the number of wireless devices used in vehicles, planes, trains, ships or indeed anywhere. There is no limit to the total cumulative radiation exposure you may suffer in a day or indeed a lifetime.

Nobody is yet held liable for wireless pollution and the trespass and harm it imposes on everyone.

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