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Subject: The Santa Fe New Mexican ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG on installing
WiFi in downtown Sante Fe

A 1998 telephone survey by the California Department of Health
Services found that 3.2 percent of respondents stated that their
health was seriously affected

The Santa Fe New Mexican
01 june 2008

Editorials

MY VIEW: VOTING 'NO' ON WI-FI RIGHT THING TO DO ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG I
was appointed by Mayor David Coss last year as one of two citizen
advisors to the committee charged with examining the pros and cons of
installing Wi-Fi in city buildings, and with submitting a plan to City
Council. The council is expected to make a decision on that plan at
its June 11 meeting. Thirty years ago, I was in medical school in
California. I learned anatomy and physiology, microbiology,
pharmacology and all the other academic subjects. I was taught to
examine and treat patients and I assisted at surgeries. But I learned
the hard way that something vital was missing from the curriculum: The
interaction of electromagnetic energy with biology and health, a
discipline known as bioelectromagnetics. I learned it by getting sick.
My illness was acute: My heart rate dropped below 50, and weeks later
I collapsed with symptoms similar to a heart attack, but with a normal
EKG. I lost a lot of weight, was confined to bed for a period, and
became short of breath with the least exertion. It took me three years
to recover. And during those years, I learned two important facts: My
recovery depended on avoiding exposure to electromagnetic fields as
much as possible; and my illness was precisely described in the
medical literature of Eastern Europe and was called radio wave
sickness. I also learned that the electrocautery devices used to cut
tissue and seal blood vessels expose surgeons to much higher levels of
radio frequency radiation than is allowed in any other profession. In
1996, when the wireless revolution began in earnest in the United
States, I joined a worldwide network of concerned scientists and
doctors and became active in disseminating information about the
health and environmental effects of these new technologies. I also
began advocating -- because no one else was doing it -- for the
surprisingly large numbers of Americans who might have been injured,
disabled, made homeless and driven to suicide by the increasingly
inescapable radiation emitted by cell phones and towers, wireless
computers, routers and access points and the seemingly endless variety
of other products containing radio transmitters. A 1998 telephone
survey by the California Department of Health Services found that 3.2
percent of respondents stated that their health was seriously affected
by electromagnetic fields, and that an estimated 120,000 Californians
were disabled by such fields and couldn't work. This study, published
in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, received no publicity. The
alarming experiments conducted on more than 2,000 laboratory animals
since 1988 by neurosurgeon Leif Salford and his colleagues at the
University of Lund in Sweden have received no publicity either. Their
studies show that a two-minute exposure to an ordinary cell phone
causes leakage of the blood-brain barrier; that a two-hour exposure
causes permanent damage to brain cells; that chronic exposure causes
permanent impairment of memory; that DNA is altered; and that all
these effects can occur at power levels equivalent to holding a cell
phone or a wireless computer four feet from your head, or living 500
feet from a typical cell tower. Wi-Fi is newer than cell phones, and
the experiments done with phones haven't yet been done with computers.
But in principle, the biological effects should be identical, and in
practice complaints about Wi-Fi, everywhere in the world, are more
widespread, and the health effects appear to be more severe. This
technology has effects on environment, health, and access to buildings
by people with disabilities, that our society has yet to come to grips
with. The council should do the right thing and vote "no" on this
plan. Santa Fean Arthur Firstenberg is the founder and president of
the Cellular Phone Task Force.


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The Santa Fe New Mexican WILLIAM J. BRUNO / ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG

From: Sylvie
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:10 PM
Subject: The Santa Fe New Mexican WILLIAM J. BRUNO


The Santa Fe New Mexican 01 june 2008
Editorials

MY VIEW: ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPOSURE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH

WILLIAM J. BRUNO

I'm a Ph.D. physics researcher who applies physics to biology. My
research is cited in textbooks, and in 2003, I served on a committee
of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, trying to
prevent epidemics.
About that time, in my early 40s, I started having dull headaches
every afternoon at work. By 2005 I had trouble concentrating at the
computer, when my ears would ring. I came home from work exhausted,
yet had terrible trouble sleeping.
By the end of 2006, my ears always rang. I had trouble remembering
colleagues' names and following technical conversations. After two or
three hours of sleep I'd be wide awake, but still exhausted. My face
became contorted. The doctors said the ringing was caused by nerve
damage, and they confirmed my memory problems, but knew of no cures.
Then, I noticed that my ears rang louder upstairs.
One night, approaching bed, I remembered being told that having
electronics near the headboard is unhealthy. I unplugged my clock
radio, hoping. The ringing didn't change, but within seconds, a muscle
in my face that I had not been aware of suddenly relaxed.
I began sleeping better as I unplugged more and more of our computer
gear, digital surround sound and electronically enhanced appliances.
Our daughter, then in pre-school, also began sleeping straight through
the night! Fixing a wiring error in the house helped me further, and a
sense of well-being returned.
The ear ringing was gone sometimes, but turning on a dimmer switch
could start it again. Also, it would get suddenly louder seconds after
I drove near certain cell-phone towers. I questioned whether this
effect might be psychological, but found it could happen with towers
not in view. Some towers were so well disguised that I only confirmed
their presence later using a microwave meter.
The microwaves produced by cell phones, towers and Wi-Fi networks are
millions of times stronger than the microwaves emitted by the sun and
stars. The visible and UV light from the sun contains more energy, but
our bodies have defense and repair mechanisms to cope with that. We
have no natural defenses against microwaves. I realized that the
slight sensation I got in my head when using a cell phone or our
cordless could be a danger sign. I decided to stop using all microwave-
based devices.
Now if I pay attention and limit my exposure to all electromagnetic
fields, including Wi-Fi wireless Internet, my memory recovers, my mind
is clear, and I sleep well, with only occasional ringing in my ears.
If I go somewhere far away from electricity and microwave transmitters
for a day, my ears don't ring, and I feel great again.
I know other people, including kids, with chronic headaches, ear
ringing and sleep disturbances. Some have tried turning off their Wi-
Fi and had remarkable improvements.
As a scientist who cares about public health, I'm disturbed to realize
that the regulations meant to protect us from over-exposure to
microwave radiation are completely inadequate and based on faulty
assumptions. Research clearly demonstrates negative health effects,
from behavior changes to devastating incurable diseases, caused by
microwave and other electromagnetic exposure well below the current
limits.
It's time we paid attention to this research, much of which has been
buried in the literature for years or even decades. We must stop
accepting our declining neurological health as a normal part of modern
life, and we must not allow decades of harm as happened with asbestos,
DDT, tobacco and trans fats.
Those interested to learn more can find an index of hundreds of
studies at www.electricwords.emfacts.com and other links at www.whyfry.org
.
William J. Bruno, Ph.D., is a research scientist living in Santa Fe.

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Videos of young people using their mobile phones with pop corn !!!

http://fr.youtube. com/watch? v=kAd0aWxs7kQ

http://fr.youtube. com/watch? v=ju5yIFu4yY8

http://fr.youtube. com/watch? v=V94shlqPlSI

> From Sylvie (France)



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In Santa Fe, Wi-Fi plan opposed by 'electrically sensitive'
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"I receive social security because I'm disabled, because of electrical
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City ignores sick wi-fi sufferers

Inquirer - Harrow,England, UK

Arthur Firstenberg, a leading opponent of the proposal, threatened to
sue the council after the decision was announced. He called the vote a
disaster. ...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/17/city-ignores-sick-wi-sufferers
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