taming the microwave dragon
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 22nd, 2011
Good morning. Go grab a cup of coffee and a comfy chair – this is a long read.
You Wouldn’t Give Your Child A Cigarette — This May be Far Worse
In the video above, Dr. Magda Havas PhD points out the many hurdles we face when trying to address the growing concerns about microwave radiation, such as that from cell phones and wireless technology.
In the end however, regardless of how strongly anyone feels about being able to use these modern technologies, there is a price to be paid. According to Dr. Havas, microwaves will likely end up killing far more people than smoking and asbestos combined if we do not start thoroughly addressing its dangers
I tend to agree. I believe our wireless, electro-polluted society is an enormous experiment that cannot end well. It has already started taking its toll. Unlike cigarette smoke or asbestos, microwave radiation from wireless technologies is almost ubiquitous in urban settings.
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity on the Rise
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is gaining recognition as a very real and increasing problem. Sweden is leading the pack in acknowledging and addressing this issue, mainly due to the progress made by FEB – The Swedish Association for the ElectroSensitive. The association produces and distributes educational literature that has helped raise awareness about the phenomenon around the world.Mast Action UK, Radiation Research Trust and Electrosensitivity U.K. are doing similar work in Great Britain, as well as the Electromagnetic Radiation Alliance in Australia.
Electrosensitivity U.K. publishes a terrific primer explaining this condition containing over 800 scientific and medical references, written and compiled by Michael Bevington, Chairman of the Trustees of Electrosensitivity U.K.
Camilla Rees of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org says:
“Electrosensitivity U.K.’s primer on electrosensitivity offers an extensive review of symptoms, sources of exposure, pathological markers, treatment approaches, references for other illnesses linked to EMFs, and lists references to numerous resolutions on this topic by organizations of international scientists, medical doctors and psychologists.
For a small donation to the U.K.charity, people who are electrically sensitive or who think they may be can bring their own physicians up to speed on this important new condition quickly. We encourage all to share the ES primer with their doctors, families, schools and government officials.”
Early signs of electrosensitivity should be heeded to prevent escalation of symptoms and the development of even more serious conditions, such as cancers.
Director of the Radiation Research Trust in the U.K., Eileen O’Connor, a breast cancer survivor, recently told the audience at the Commonwealth Club of California about what happened when the Wishaw T-Mobile phone mast went up in her small U.K. village. An estimated 77 percent of the residents within 500 meters became ill with a range of health problems from symptoms of electrosensitivity to infertility and cancer. Seven years later a cancer cluster was discovered in the village, after which the tower was forcefully removed.
Eileen, who today counsels members of the British Parliament and EU on EMF health policy, said six ladies developed breast cancer, there was one case of prostate cancer, one case of bladder cancer, one case of lung cancer, three cases of pre-cancerous cervical cells, one man developed a spinal tumor and motor neuron disease (MND), many cases of breast lumps and pervasive symptoms of electrosensitivity, such as sleep problems,headaches, dizzy spells, vertigo, fertility problems, immune disregulation, and fatigue. An Olympic level horse was also treated for blood problems.
When the mast came down, the symptoms of electrosensitivity went away, and with few exceptions, cancers people were treated for never recurred and the Olympic horse no longer suffered with blood problems.
Eileen also presented compelling research from the European Reflex Report, visually showing DNA breaks in a comet assay test from 24 hours of cell phone radiation exposure compared with DNA breaks from 1600 chest x-rays. (See graphic below.)
Source: Reflex Report as presented by Eileen O’Connor at the Commonwealth Club of California, November 18, 2010
The point to understand is that microwave radiation not only leads to electrosensitivity but can lead to cancer when DNA damage occurs. So take any signs of electrosensitivity very seriously and learn to shield yourself from this pervasive toxin.
For parents concerned about electrosensitivity as it relates to children in schools, a good resource is theCampaign for Radiation Free Schools on Facebook .
The site advocates schools follow the guidance in Dr. Havas’ BRAG Antenna Ranking of Schools Report to minimize children being harmed by radiation, and teaches schools how to do this. It also offers both theEMF-Help BlogTM and a new series of EMF Remediation Interviews by Camilla Rees with leading environmental consultants, including Vicki Warren, past Executive Director of the Institute for Bau Biology & Ecology.
Dirty Electricity and Microwaves-The Cigarettes of the 21st Century
Most of you reading this are too young to remember the ads touting the health benefits of cigarettes and portraying physicians smoking. These ads began appearing in various publications in the 1920s-including JAMA (Journal of the AMA), one of the most widely distributed medical journals.
It took nearly a century for truth to win out and defeat the corporate marketing fraud, but now science and the courts have definitively established the destructive effects of tobacco and everyone can agree that the claims in these ads are preposterous.
Unfortunately, many fail to appreciate that there are massive similarities between the telecommunications and tobacco industries with respect to their manipulative and deceptive tactics to deceive you about the health dangers of their product.
There is often a delay of several years to several decades between new scientific findings and a change in public policy-a time period that is critical in preventing irreversible health damage. By waiting for government regulations to change, it is often too late. Researchers have now concluded that just as smoking doesn’t cause immediate signs of cancer, the latency period for brain tumors from microwave radiation can be 10, 20, or even 30 years.
That means, it’s still too soon for most cell phone-induced brain tumors to show up!
So the question is, do we learn from history and choose to leap-frog over the inevitable resistance and denials from industry, or do we go along with the program until the health ramifications are so disastrous and the connections so obvious they cannot be ignored by anyone?
Personally, I opt for preemptive action.
The links between non-thermal radiation and health problems have already been scientifically established, and researchers who specialize in this field can now explain at least some of the mechanisms behind this controversial finding. The time to take precautionary action is now. Not 75 years from now when our children and grandchildren start dropping like poisoned canaries…
Beware of Plans to Exponentially Increase Wireless Technology Inside Your Home, Whether You Want it or Not
Keep in mind that exposures to radiation comes not only from telecommunications technologies such as cell phones, wireless networks, wireless routers, wireless computers, iPads and portable phones, but also from new utility technologies like ‘smart’ meters, which despite their name are not very smart at all.
The plan for the coming ‘smart grid’ is first to have utility meters transmit data on your household energy usage wirelessly through neighborhoods and back to the utility. The next step includes having household appliances within the home individually transmit to the ‘smart’ meter! Yes, that means all major appliances, like washing machines, stoves, dishwashers and electronics like stereos will be outfitted with transmitters. Interoperability standards are well along in development for this new generation of radiation-emitting home appliances to be integrated into smart grids.
An excellent interview on the radiofrequency these new energy strategies will bring into your home can be found at on ElectromagneticHealth.org. It features Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields and a long-time science writer on this topic, and Duncan Campbell, Esq, a visionary thinker on the future of utilities and new energy technologies.
What all this is pointing to is there is rampant unchecked proliferation of wireless technologies in our lives, perpetrated by corporations who have no appreciation for the health impacts, or worse, who simply don’t care about the health consequences, perhaps considering health damage to the population akin to ‘collateral damage’ par for the course in pursuit of a larger goal. It is going to take citizens saying NO MORE to the lack of corporate conscience and failure of global governments to protect public health before the current trajectory we’re on is reversed.
We recommend you consider signing the EMF Petition to Congress, signed now by thousands of Americans in every state.
Ask your friends and neighbors to sign it, too. And if any of them need convincing, point them to the telecom industry’s own report on the biological effects, commissioned by T-Mobile and Deutsche Telecom MobilNet, GmbH, called The Ecolog Report. This should end all doubt that the industry knows they are harming us.
Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch estimates that “33 percent of people are electrosensitive to an extent, and an increasing number, currently about 3 percent, are highly sensitive.”
He says electrosensitivity symptoms seem to increase with the age of the person, especially over 40 years of age:
“It is becoming a major cause of chronic and, increasingly, acute illness. ES symptoms start gently by just increasing general stress levels resulting in chronic health problems of poorer sleep, irritability, fatigue, headaches, etc, and at that point it is usually not clear what the cause is. Gradually people become more and more sensitive and can link their now acute reactions with cordless phones, cell phones and their masts, Wi-Fi, etc.”
I wonder how many people will need to become electrosensitive before citizens will start taking decisive action, taking this issue up with their legislators. Already the telecom industry is pushing to dismantle the hard-wired, landline telephone system in the U.S., which would leave millions of electrically sensitive people without the means to make a phone call.
And the wireless ‘smart grid’ is well underway. When these kinds of large infrastructure decisions are made without feedback or pushback from citizens, they will certainly be impossible to reverse once implemented.
The Science is Clear: Non-Thermal Radiation DOES Cause Biological Harm
If you missed Dr. Martin Blank’s presentation in which he explains how wireless devices affect your cells and DNA, I highly recommend you take 20 minutes and listen to it now.
Dr. Blank is an Associate Professor at Columbia University in the department of physiology and cellular biophysics, and a researcher in bioelectromagnetics. He is adamant when he says that there IS evidence ofharm within the non-ionizing range of radiation, and that the harm to human health can be significant.
This evidence has been peer-reviewed, published, and that the results have been replicated, evaluated and “judged by scientists capable of judging it,” as Dr. Blank says.
Most importantly, researchers are now beginning to understand the actual mechanisms causing the damage, and anyone who has been hoodwinked by the standard brush-off that “non-thermal radiation is incapable of causing biological damage” should pay close attention, because the scientific discoveries are moving swiftly these days.
Which can be to our benefit, as long as we don’t fall for the shallow assurances of safety from those who stand to gain from suppressing these discoveries.
One plausible EMF mechanism was published in the Journal of Cell Physiology in 2008. Other mechanisms of effect have been compiled and recently published in the European Journal of Oncology in collaboration with ICEMS, and the Ramazzini Institute. The report, called “Non-Thermal Effects and Mechanisms of Interaction Between Electromagnetic Fields and Living Matter”, can be downloaded at www.ElectromagenticHealth.org.
The Danger of Cumulative Load and Chronic Exposure
It has become clear that it is the cumulative load of exposure to the entire spectrum of frequencies-from ELF’s all the way up to the ionizing rays of x-rays-as well as the chronic duration of these exposures that are capable of causing significant harm to your health.
We all need to become cognizant of these exposures and take measures to protect ourselves against them.
Dr. Blank aptly compares your DNA to a fractal antenna, which can pick up a range of frequencies across the EMF spectrum. Your DNA is constantly busy creating proteins to maintain the health of your cells. Heat shock proteins (HSP) are created in response to stress (any harmful stimulus). This is known as the cellular stress response.
And guess what?
Your cells respond to electromagnetic fields (EMF’s) as harmful. In a nutshell, your body is constructed with many fractal antennas inside each and every cell, which responds to the entire range of frequencies on the EMF spectrum!
The importance of this simply cannot be overstated.
Knowing this, it’s no wonder scientists have been able to link EMF exposure to a growing list of health concerns, including:
- Harm your blood cells
- DNA damage
- Nerve-cell damage
- Possibly accelerate and contribute to onset of autism, and trigger Alzheimer’s disease
- Eye damage
- Sleep disruptions, fatigue and headaches
- Salivary gland tumors
- Decreased bone density in your pelvic region
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
- Altered heart rate and blood pressure
- Altered sugar metabolism
- Brain tumors
- Fertility impairment
Steps You Can Take to Protect Yourself and Your Family
Unless you’re willing to give up your wireless conveniences, you need to at least make accommodations to minimize the inherent health risks to yourself and especially your children. Kids growing up today are exposed to an unprecedented amount of radiation and dirty electricity, and we already KNOW that some people simply cannot handle these levels of exposure.
It’s also only a matter of time before this generation of children reaches the age where health deterioration becomes evident. If it’s 30 years, then many of us older folk will die before the health effects become apparent. But 30 years for today’s children is another story-the health effects may hit them before they’ve even entered middle-age!
I also urge you to help spread awareness on this issue. People must be made aware. So please, help educate others, especially those in government responsible for setting exposure guidelines. We recommend you sign the EMF Petition to Congress and support local, national and international advocacy groups in this field.
Also, take as many of these proactive steps as you can to minimize your and your family’s exposure:
- Have your child avoid wireless technology: Barring an emergency, children should not use a cell phone, or a wireless device of any type. Children are far more vulnerable to cell phone radiation than adults, because of their thinner skull bones. One alarming 2008 study indicated that that children and teenagers raise their risk of brain cancer by 500 percent if they use cell phones!
- Reduce your cell phone use: Turn your cell phone off more often. Reserve it for emergencies or important matters. As long as your cell phone is on, it emits radiation intermittently, even when you are not actually making a call.
- Use a land line at home and at work: Although more and more people are switching to using cell phones as their exclusive phone contact, it is a dangerous trend and you can choose to opt out of the madness.
- Reduce or eliminate your use of other wireless devices: You would be wise to cut down your use of wireless and electronic devices. Just as with cell phones, it is important to ask yourself whether or not you really need to use them, how often, and for how long. In your home it is usually a very simple matter to run multiple Ethernet cords to avoid the need for wireless internet and to replace wireless routers and wireless/hard-wire ‘combination’ routers with ‘wired-only routers’.
Camilla Rees of ElectromagneticHealth.org cautions that in testing many homes she finds the ‘combination’ wireless/wired routers often still emit microwave radiation even if you have a hard-wired Ethernet cord plugged into it and believe you’re not using the wireless part of it!“Sometimes when I visit people’s homes they are concerned because of a new Smart Meter, wondering if that is causing their symptoms, but commonly it turns out very high levels of radiation are coming from a ‘combination’ wired/wireless router, both store-bought routers or those provided by the utility. Naturally, this can be dumbfounding, as all along they assumed they were using a safe router and didn’t know that they were being continually exposed to radiation,” she says.
“This is not to say that smart meters are not a problem, but very basic home electronics issues need to be ruled out first and the only way to do that is by measuring with a meter.”
As for portable phones, if you must use a portable home phone, use the older kind that operates at 900 MHz. They are no safer during calls, but at least many of them do not broadcast constantly even when no call is being made.
Note that the only way to truly be sure if there is an exposure from your cordless phone is to measure with an electrosmog meter, and it must be one that goes up to the frequency of your portable phone (so old meters won’t help much). Many people buy a meter and go searching for older model portable phones at thrift stores, where there is no packaging and one can actually test the phone.
As many portable phones are 5.8 Gigahertz, we recommend you look for RF meters that go up to 8 Gigahertz, the highest range now available in a meter suitable for consumers. You can find RF meters at www.emfsafetystore.com. But you can pretty much be sure your portable phone is a problem if the technology is DECT, or digitally enhanced cordless technology.
Alternatively you can be very careful with the base station placement as that causes the bulk of the problem since it transmits signals 24/7, even when you aren’t talking. So if you can keep the base station at least three rooms away from where you spend most of your time, and especially your bedroom, they may not be as damaging to your health.
Ideally it would be helpful to turn off your base station every night before you go to bed.
Obviously, apartment living poses special problems, where you could conceivably be exposed to multiple portable phones and multiple wireless routers from multiple neighbors. In cases like this, not only is it important to minimize exposures from your own personal communications devices, but inevitably, you must learn about measuring/detecting and RF shielding or face the consequences of potentially excessive exposures.
- Use your cell phone only where reception is good: The weaker the reception, the more power your phone must use to transmit, and the more power it uses, the more heating it generates (SAR), and the deeper the dangerous radio waves penetrate into your body. Ideally, you should only use your phone with full bars and good reception.
Also avoid carrying your phone on your body as that merely maximizes any potential exposure. Ideally put it in your purse or carrying bag. Placing a cell phone in a shirt pocket over the heart is asking for trouble, as is placing it in a man’s pocket if he seeks to preserve his fertility.- Don’t assume one cell phone is safer than another.There’s no such thing as a “safe” cell phone. They all create biological effects, and a low SAR phone, depending on the angle with which you use it, or the duration of use, or the location of use, can be more damaging that a higher SAR phone. Consider all cell phones inappropriate in a truly health conscious lifestyle.
- Keep your cell phone away from your body when it’s on: The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches of the emitting antenna. You do not want any part of your body within that area.
- Respect others who are more sensitive: Some people who have become sensitive can feel the effects of others’ cell phones in the same room, even when it is on but not being used. If you are in a meeting, on public transportation, in a courtroom or other public places, such as a doctor’s office, keep your cell phone turned off out of consideration for the ‘second hand radiation’ effects. Children are also more vulnerable, so please avoid using your cell phone near children.
- Use safer headset technology: Wired headsets will certainly allow you to keep the cell phone farther away from your body. However, if a wired headset is not well-shielded — and most of them are not — the wire itself acts as an antenna attracting ambient information carrying radio waves and transmitting radiation directly to your brain.
Make sure that the wire used to transmit the signal to your ear is shielded. The best kind of headset to use is a combination shielded wire and air-tube headset. These operate like a stethoscope, transmitting the information to your head as an actual sound wave; although there are wires that still must be shielded, there is no metal wire that goes all the way up to your head.
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March 22nd, 2011 at 6:49 am
Michelle: I am from Iwaki. The tap water is undrinkable because it is radioactive. The food from nearby farms is radioactive. The sea water in the area is radioactive.
That means everything we eat, drink or touch has been contaminated. Explain to me what men need to be told to discover that nuclear energy is too lethal to be used to provide every day power for people.
Amaya
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:54 am
Michelle, here in Iran groups are forming using face book to challenge the criminal dictators here.
Afareen
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:10 am
Michelle, we have burnt down the Interior Ministry because it is the location of records on so many of us. The police that operate out of that building terrorized Egyptians.
We had people who worked in the building to help us to destroy the records. We will not stop until those that help make Egypt a police state are eliminated.
Nawzad
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:21 am
Everything’s Fine
Dory Hollander, PhD
WiseWorkplaces
In new relationships, partners often lie to hide their flaws and to seem more desirable to potential mates.
Surprisingly, lies are just as common in long-term relationships — though the reasons for the lies change.
Partners in lasting relationships lie because lying can be easier than explaining the truth… can delay difficult conversations… can give cover and freedom from a partner’s ongoing scrutiny… and can protect partners’ feelings.
Example: A woman tells her husband that his public gaff went unnoticed, though it didn’t, to protect his feelings.
A white lie now and then won’t hurt a relationship, but lying on a regular basis can undermine a relationship.
Lying can become so effective in avoiding real discussions of sensitive issues that it creates a harmful détente, leading to false harmony.
If a couple truly desires closeness, learning to sensitively and respectfully discuss uncomfortable truths together is a far better bet than lies.
Here are the most common lies in long-term relationships and suggestions on how to respond…
LIES MEN TELL WOMEN
Women in long-term relationships often let their partners’ lies slide to avoid confrontation and create an argument-free zone.
Unfortunately, failing to confront a partner’s dishonesty gives the partner tacit permission to continue the deception.
Among the lies that men in long-term relationships often tell, and how their partners might respond…
“Everything’s fine.” Men tell their partners that “everything’s fine” when they would rather put up with an annoyance or serious issue than upset the relationship’s peace and get roped into a complicated emotional conversation.
Unfortunately, partners feel less close when they don’t discuss their problems, leading to détente, not peace, and the relationship suffers.
Response: If you do not believe your partner’s claim that everything is fine, wait a bit or until the next day to raise the issue in a calm manner.
Tell him that you’ve been thinking over what he said and have a gut feeling that everything is not fine.
If he mentions a small issue that you suspect is not the real problem, deal with that rather than trying to get at the bigger problem right then.
Establish a solid baseline for respectful sharing of concerns that clears the way for his disclosing any larger problems later.
“I have our finances under control.” Society judges men by their ability to provide for their families.
Men sometimes lie out of shame when they have mismanaged finances or suffered other financial or career setbacks.
Response: Start by getting the financial facts. Check account statements. If you can’t find the statements, contact banks, credit card issuers and investment companies where you have joint accounts.
If the accounts are in his name only, ask your partner specifically to share the details of the family finances.
If he dismisses your request by saying that you wouldn’t understand, tell him that you want to become more knowledgeable about your finances and ask him to help you understand.
If you find any reason to believe that he’s lying about your financial situation, confront him — but avoid the temptation to get angry.
Anger, even justified, shuts down communication.
If he is ashamed already, adding to his shame won’t help you get to the truth. If he continues to insist that your financial position is secure, insist that he back this up with documentation.
“I don’t need to see a doctor.” Men lie about health problems because they don’t want to confront their increasing age, mortality and the fact that they cannot solve all of their problems on their own.
Response: Tell him that you are worried about him and want him to get a checkup. Acknowledge his position.
“You’re probably right, but I care about you and want us both to stay in good health. I would appreciate it if you would see a doctor, even though you don’t think you need to. I am happy to make the appointment.”
“That dress doesn’t make you look fat.” Men lie when women ask about their appearance because they have learned that honest but unflattering statements such as, “You could stand to lose a little weight,” create disharmony.
Response: When a woman truly wants an honest answer about her appearance, she might phrase the question as an either/or rather than a yes/no choice.
Example: “Which dress do I look better in — the red one or the blue one?” rather than, “Do I look fat in this dress?”
Note to men: This is not the no-win situation that men think it is.
There are ways besides lying to protect her feelings without spoiling a perfectly fine dinner or weekend. First, understand that questions about appearance may be double-edged.
Sure, she wants the truth, but even more, she wants to know that you think she looks great. While this seems tricky, it’s not hard.
A warm and positive response, such as, “You know, I love the sexy way you look in the dress that you wore last weekend,” gets the point across.
LIES WOMEN TELL MEN
Men aren’t the only ones who lie in long-term relationships. Among the lies that women often tell their partners and how their partners might respond…
“Everything’s fine.” Women tell this lie, too — but often for different reasons than men.
A woman likely really wants to discuss what’s wrong but feels so disconnected from her partner that she doesn’t believe he will be receptive or that constructive dialog is possible.
Response: If you think that her “everything’s fine” is untrue, you can score big relationship points simply by encouraging a conversation.
Say, “I know I don’t always express it well, but I care about you very deeply. I can tell that something’s wrong — and I would like to know more about what’s bothering you.”
Most women will respond very positively to this suggestion. Do be prepared to have an honest discussion that takes time and emotional investment.
“I bought it on sale.” Many women lie to their partners about spending. This may sound trivial, but the reasons behind it are not.
A woman may say that she got things on sale because she feels embarrassed about spending money on nonessentials for herself. Not feeling entitled to pay full price or self-indulgence, she hides it.
She might claim to be staying within a budget when she is not. Or her spending may be addictive and out of control.
Response: First seek understanding about why your partner lies about spending. Then make finances a joint project where you both get a realistic view of your resources. Establish this as a regular yearly or quarterly process.
If her spending is in line with your joint resources, assure her that there is no reason to hide her expenditures from you and that you respect her judgment.
If more serious spending issues emerge, engage her in a frank but nonaccusatory discussion of the family’s budget. Set limits together. Let her know that if she seriously overspends, that’s something to frankly discuss, not lie about, and that you will do likewise.
“That was great for me.” Women in relationships often claim to be satisfied by sex when they are not. They fear that admitting the truth will hurt their partners’ feelings.
Unfortunately, if a woman continues this silent dissatisfaction, the clueless partner will keep doing what he’s doing. Over time, neither will be satisfied and their sex life will become perfunctory, with neither partner understanding what happened or feeling close enough to discuss it.
Partners may seek sexual satisfaction elsewhere, leading to more damaging lies about affairs and cover-ups.
Response: Don’t insist that she tell you the truth about her level of satisfaction with sex — that often leads to more lies, hurt feelings or conflict.
Instead, have a sexy talk about sex. Ask what would be exciting to try that’s different from what you do now. Watch a sexy movie, then talk about both your responses. Together, make a plan and try it out.
“I’m too tired for sex.” This could be the truth — but if she offers this excuse with increasing regularity, it’s possible that her lack of desire for physical intimacy with you could be a reflection of an increasing distance in the relationship…not feeling attractive… a health issue… or a relationship with someone else.
Response: Seek opportunities to be closer and more loving with her. Have conversations about things other than problems and responsibilities. Find time to do the things that she enjoys.
Tell her what you love about her body, her movements, her smile. If a few weeks of this fails to lead to increased physical intimacy, ask her to tell you what needs to change so that you can work together to find a solution.
Honest communication goes to the heart of things to create the intimacy that both partners need in all areas of their life together.
Personal interviewed Dory Hollander, PhD, a psychologist with offices in St. Louis, Missouri, and Arlington, Virginia.
She is founder of WiseWorkplaces, a management consulting company, and author of 101 Lies Men Tell Women — And Why Women Believe Them (Harper). http://www.WiseWorkplaces.com
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:06 am
Michelle, thanks so much for providing a source for us to communicate. You have been the best support a girl could have wherever she is on the planet.
I am writing to tell Americans that they are very much appreciated in Libya. We are now trying to provide computer equipment to allow women to communicate.
I would like to thank you for the help Madaline gave us in Yemeni to save many women who were caught in the middle of the retaliation by another dictator.
Unfortunately the men took advantage of it to now be able to ask the dictator to resign. It would be a cause for all to celebrate if we women could look forward to some relief from the oppression the men force upon us.
Sar-e Pol
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 am
Michelle, my father is the leader of a movement to remove the Baath Party’s monopoly on power here in Syria. For the first time they feel that there is a real opportunity to get some change.
This attitude about believing in the possibility of change came directly from Mr. Obama’s campaign for president and his belief that the people of america could change the way the US interacted with the rest of the world.
For the first time there is a world leader who commands respect. The world believes what Mr. Obama says. We here in Syria believe that if we need help that Mr. Obama will find a way to help.
We like that Mr. Obama does not react in the Arab world with his eyes on our oil wells. He is a man who does what he feels is the right thing to do based on the circumstances.
Of course we know that he always has the interest of the US as the top of his concerns, but he has shown by his actions that he is concerned about the conditions of all the peoples of the world.
It is so encouraging to know that the head of the most powerful nation on the planet is compassionate and a person of honor.
Even the Chinese and Russians trusted Mr. Obama when he said that he would only enforce a no fly zone in Libya and would not put american soldiers on the ground if they would abstain from vetoing the UN not fly zone amendment.
America is rapidly losing its title of evil empire. That title is being used by arab leaders who would use it to prevent the people from being concerned about their lost of democracy at the hands of those dictators.
With Mr. Obama the new world leader it is not working as well as it used to. Middle easterners are saying we have nothing to fear from Mr. Obama. We need to fear our leaders who tell us to fear him.
It appears that the only people who don’t trust Mr. Obama is his own countrymen.
Afra
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:18 am
Have you seen the white women news casters swoon when they talk about Trump running for president. Anyone seeing the display need not be reminded how pathetically dumb most american white woman are.
Then you see CNN helping Trump brag about over charging Khaddafi for a piece of land knowing he would not be able to use it. That is called fraud. But with the white boys just-us justice system that would only apply if a white man was being duped.
Then the attempt to make the fraud acceptable on another level happens when we are told that he donated the money he got from the theft to charity. Okay I defraud you but I give the money to charity. Yes, I guess that makes my theft alright.
Finally, since when does the news station take for granted what the person being interviewed says? Who has checked on this story by Trump? Did he really have any dealings with Khadafy? If he did, what exactly did he do with the money he got from defrauding Khadafy? What charities did he donate the money to and how much?
And where is the person that stands up and tells white folks that Real Estate Fraud is still fraud even if it only targets those that white people don’t like.
Hello, Fraud is fraud. Not just when a white person is defrauded.
Robert
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 am
Have you heard about T-Mobile and AT&T merger. The white boy is at it again. They buy out the competition and then monopolize the industry. Then raise the price.
The seats won by the republicans gave the crooks the courage they needed to plan such a colossal rip off the american people.
The republicans are dangling the merger carrot to insure they will get the huge campaign donations from the two phone giants for the presidential campaign.
Look for other greedy companies to begin to merger to control more of their markets.
Mike
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:23 am
Hafa adai
8,000 marines and their families are heading for Guam. That is a lot of radiation coming. Get out the geiger counters.
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:18 am
Hi Mischa,
Great article, this modern living is going to kill us. It’s already starting to disconnect us from other humans, I tend to text over chatting more and more, need to stop that, get on my landline and talk. Kids can be wired froom morning till night if you allow it.
Trump’s been getting away with RE fraud and bankrupting companies for years, are we so stupidly celebrity struck by his hair and his moniker “The Donald” that he gets away with it, or what? (Robert I’m sure you have a few words on that ‘or what’)…
Is anyone believing the talking heads that are saying that the radiation is ‘dissipating’ as it moves away form Japan, yeah right. I watched a news show the other night showing a Japanese marketplace, how are they sypposed to eat irradiated veggies and fruit and live?
I’m a hoping that President Obama gets a term #2, maybe we can further clear up our american reputation around the world. I saw on the news Sarah Palin meeting with Netanyahu, WHY? Arrrghhhh…
Howie, in case you missed my comment to you, really, thank you for that article on women consumers, great info that I forwarded around to my fellow femmes in hopes of getting them to embrace their power : )
Luv, Zen Lill
March 22nd, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I had my first Brazilian waxing today. I say the pain is worth the piece of jewelry I’ll earn when my lover gets a look at me!
March 22nd, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Readers of Michelles blog: Due to the high incident of microwaves passing through us, that is why I usually wrap my head in heavy-duty aluminum foil, sheilds out some of the micro waves. More on this subject later.
Al
March 22nd, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Zen Lill:
It is about time that Women have “Got the Power.” They deserve every bit of it. It took a lot of hard work to get there.
What’s fair is fair — Male or Female.
It is something to be proud of. Perhaps Men will give up trying to subjugate Women and treat them as the equals they are.
HOWIE
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Howie, I totally agree : D and I sent your article out to several men and in the subject line I wrote ‘women are going to rock this world – oh wait, we already are!’ hee hee hee…
Thank you and someday I want to fly to Florida, meet you and Al and cook you up some organic food that’ll knock your socks off – who knows maybe the TAO group will catch wind of the meeting and beam us up for a long ride around the known and unknown universes. I think you two know me well enough to know that what I said is not a come on but a friendly bloggin’ friend who just digs your style. You two will always be my two Woody Allen’s and that’s a compliment, I LOVE Woody!
Random about the Brazilian but whatev’s, I’ll admit I’m curious what bauble Lovette will receive simply for waxing her little muffin : ) do tell, Lovette!
Luv, ZL
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I would like to add to today’s blog article by including the microwave radiation in the microwave ovens used for food consumption. I gave up my microwave after it was suggested to me that in 20-30 years it will become evident that microwave cooking causes cancer. Your article stated that microwave radiation from various sources damage DNA. We all know now not to use plastic in the microwave because it restructures when heated. Well, all the food restructures. It may look the same but it is not the same! Its DNA would change too. (Ok Im not a scientist so maybe it has to be alive for its DNA to actually change, I don’t know, but I think you get my point. The cells and atoms or electrons of the thing have changed.) And then we consume that restructured food. What do our bodies do with this altered substance? My friends and parents don’t believe me when I tell them its harmful. Some friends know I cannot go to their house any longer for dinner because I know something will be nuked. I don’t think I have influenced anyone to not use a microwave. They just think I’m crazy. Everybody wants the convenience of reheating something quickly. I do too but I have had to learn to eat cold food when away from home. I think microwave ovens are another technology where humans got ahead of themselves and really don’t know what they are dealing with.
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Michelle’s post had a link to sign the Petition to Urge Congress on EMF Safety, FCC Must Change Exposure Guidelines for Microwave Radiation Exposure. I think it could get overlooked so I’m reposting here and asking you to consider being proactive on this important topic:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/urge-congress-on-emf-safety-fcc-must-change-exposure-guidelines-for-microwave-radiation-exposure/
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Just for you George…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/us/20race.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=US-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-SSO-032011-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Hi Michelle: your post today was a good one. Microwave radiation, no one really knows the long term affects of eating micro-waved food or using cordless or cell phones. It is another example of labeling a technology safe without being tested properly.
This is done by the FDA, FCC, EPA, USDA, NRC, and a dozen of other watchdog agencies. Such agencies were put in place to protect citizens from the hazards of dangerous methods of providing the things we consume.
Corporate and individual greed has rendered these agencies useless. All of them will sell their stamp of approval. For a price they will certify anything safe for human consumption, or harmless to the environment.
It is the same ol’e song and dance. There is no integrity in Washington, or anywhere else in the corporate world, there is plenty of corruption everywhere. And it is always the consumer who pays the price. Corporations have made much profit before a product has been determined to be unsafe.
Oh, I had repaired cordless phones for Panasonic just prior to the release of cellphone technology. At a national training seminar cellphone technology was discussed, and many techs had questions doubting the safety of transmitting high frequencies so close to ones brain. Cordless phones were transmitting at only 49mhz at the time.
Al
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Zen Lill(14):
You are very welcome. I appreciate your compliment. I love all compliments, especially yours.
As far as Al and I meeting you and going for a ride around the Universe with the Tao. This could happen one day. You might even meet Carr. If He is willing.
We DO know you well enough after 3+ years of being blog buddies. We know this is not a come-on and take it in the spirit it was written.
It is nice to be appreciated for any reason — even if we are compared to Woody Allen. We just happen to be as neurotic as Woody Allen’s movie characters. I remind myself of Virgil in ‘Take the Money and Run’.
I believe we will be seeing each other and more of the unimaginable Universe in the near future. When the time comes, it will come for each and all of us.
Don’t you just hate linear time? I sure do ;)
HOWIE
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Lovette, You are a lovely thing without the waxing. I long to hold you again. If only my body was fully formed. I thought I had it correct today. But to my surprise I had made only three toes for each foot and 4 fingers without thumbs.
I can’t grip a steering wheel. So I will have to try again tomorrow. Hope you won’t lose interest by then.
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Howie;
I live a life of misery because my sister married an arab and she went to live with him in Yemen. They had two children and when I went to see her she had dyed her blond hair raven black and she was covered from head to toe in a heavy black mess. I forgot what she called it.
All I remember were her sobs and pleading with me to get her out of there. He refused to allow her to lead the country. I couldn’t do anything. That was three years ago. He has refused to allow us to communicate.
I don’t even know if she is still alive. So I hope what you say happens. But I can’t allow myself to trust that it will.
Mary
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Zen Lill: What a nice thing to say about Howie and I. You are a true friend and both of us being disabled we don’t have many.
Seems like nobody wants to know us in fear of we might need a hand with something. That was such a nice thought you had in #14.
Thanks for the kind thoughts and who knows, It could happen.
Luv,
Chris
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm
ZL: Christopher Is my middle name and My father, who I just had gotten off the phone with always prefered to call me Chris. He is past 85, had a pacemaker put in less than a month ago and is driving all the way from Michigan, he leaves tommorrow, I wish he would fly. I do hope he has a safe trip.
Al
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Social Butterfly you may not be a scientist but you are correct about your assumptions concerning microwave damage to the human body.
The microwave rearranges the molecular structure of the substances it is heating. When that happens the body will be consuming a substance that it can not digest in the same way it would normally.
The food’s absorption can alter the DNA of the consumer. The item that the food rests on or is contained in will have molecules of it transferred to the food. Essentially microwaving food with anything but glass produces a mutated mixture that you will be consuming. And the use of the microwave sends the waves throughout the immediate area and through the walls if it is in contact with a wall.
Those waves will alter the DNA and the reconstruction of your body’s organs on a cellular level. The changes are subtle because they occur on a cellular level. But as cells make tissue and tissue make organs and organs make systems so will those systems malfunction based on the level and and cell, tissue, or organ the damage manifests itself in.
You should stay as far away from the microwave when it is in use in the home you are visiting as you can. If it is touching the walls in the home. It has made the home a death trap because it is sending microwave energy out as long as it is plugged into the wall.
The US has been knowing about the dangers of microwaves from the very beginning because the Soviets used to bounce microwaves off the walls of the rooms the US personnel occupied in embassies in their countries. Those microwaves caused hormonal damage, and produced cancers in many of the US personal stationed in those countries.
The US produced special curtains to block the microwave spying of the soviets and to protect their embassy personnel.
But as usual, those in a position to make a fortune off the new technology were not going to allow future injury to their customers to prevent them from making a fortune selling the customer the item.
So a few greased pockets and presto, the microwave was allowed to enter the market without a peep of warning to the public.
Roi
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:21 am
Yoga Safety 101
Beryl Bender Birch
The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute
If you have a chronic medical condition, check with your doctor before beginning a yoga program, and consider consulting a qualified yoga teacher for a customized “prescription” of yoga poses.*
Caution: While doing yoga, don’t hold your breath! That may raise your blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, any eye condition where increased pressure should be avoided or neck injuries, forgo postures in which your head is inverted, such as headstands — these poses can significantly increase blood flow to the brain, increasing your risk for a stroke or other cardiac event.
*To find a qualified yoga therapist, consult the International Association of Yoga Therapists, 928-541-0004, http://www.iayt.org.
Health interviewed Beryl Bender Birch, founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and the nonprofit Give Back Yoga Foundation, http://www.GiveBackYoga.org, both based in East Hampton, New York. She is the author of Power Yoga (Simon & Schuster), Beyond Power Yoga (Fireside) and Boomer Yoga (Sellers).
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:33 am
This is more evidence that nuclear power is NOT cheap.
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Three hundred engineers have been battling inside a danger zone to salvage the six-reactor Fukushima plant since it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami that also killed 7,653 people and left 11,746 more missing in northeast Japan.
The unprecedented multiple crisis will cost the world’s third largest economy nearly $200 billion and require Japan’s biggest reconstruction push since post-World
War II.
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Whatever my country thought it was saving by using nuclear energy it surely must know now that that was an error in judgment. But one never knows when men are doing the reasoning.
What energy source is worth the cost of $200 billion. That does not count the maintenance cost for it yearly up keep and most important the damage done to the environment and the people.
I can not understand why men don’t see that nuclear power plants are stupid.
Akemi
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:50 am
Hafa adai
Now I know that when I start White people who read this blog are going to say here we go again another attack on white people.
I can understand your feelings and I would love to write in that the white people who run the country are so good to us that I thank God every night that they are in charge of this country.
The fact is white people are in charge of this country. But the other fact is they are arrogant and unscrupulous in the use of their power.
My latest bitch is a prime example. What would call the act of going to another people’s country confiscating their lands and then charging them for their water?
Would you call it gall, arrogance, or ??????????? Okay white people, I’ll let you read and decide.
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This resolution asserts that the Navy waterworks infrastructure should be transferred at no cost to Guam’s taxpayers.
As you may recall the defense authorization act requires that the Navy sell it’s waterworks assets like Fena lake to Gov Guam and requires that Gov Guam give DOD 33% voting rights on the consolidated commission on utilities.
“We’ve been buying water from them and I would bet you bottom dollar that as part of the funds that they have been receiving on their sale of our water to us, part of that cost included the improvements and the enhancements and the construction of that system…and then we’re gonna pay again?” remarked Senator Frank Blas Jr.
The senator and the rest of his colleagues are upset over provisions in the Defense Authorization Act that would in essence require Gov Guam to purchase the Navy’s waterworks assets for an estimated $300 million dollars.
Water that the legislature believes already belongs to the people of Guam as one of the island’s natural resources.
“We will not falter in our stance to have the waters that fall from our skies be remitted at no cost to the people of Guam,” said Speker Judi Wonpat.
Lawmakers said the felt betrayed by the U.S. Congress and the federal government as a whole.
Senator Blas mentioned that none of them heard any of these plans despite numerous meetings with high-level military and civilian officials regarding the military buildup and the plans for Guam’s infrastructure.
“How can we trust a body and entity that was not gonna tell us everything that’s not gonna be open with us that’s not gonna be upfront with us?” asked Senator Blas.
Senator Ben Pangelinan noted that there is a clause in the provision that mentions something about Gov Guam being able to purchase the waterworks assets for money or in-kind services.
“I’ll tell you what kind of in-kind service we can just give to that secretary of defense how about all the metals of our Chamorro soldiers, all the flags that draped their coffins when they came home in coffins how bout we give them that for Fena?” asked Senator Pangelinan.
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This is a white led republican party in the House and Senate who make every effort to earn the money given to them by corporate america by giving the every tax break imaginable.
How do they pay for it? Buy making Guamanians pay for their own water. This is Guam. The water is on Guam. We are Guamanians. Why are we being forced to pay whites who took our land by force for our water?
Okay, those whites that feel that I am just another OTW jumping on the white race, please explain the above.
Hafa adai
Peter
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:14 am
Welcome back Roi
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:43 am
So I see Syria is soon to be news worthy. I got Adam to take me to Syria and go back to its origins. I was surprised to discover that 2761B.C. Damascus Syria was a going metropolis. If that doesn’t mean much to you, how’s this for putting it into perspective. That was 2,000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
AH
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:53 am
Lover I would never lose interest with the wonderfulness that is You. I don’t care if you are syndactyl. If you can break free from the establishment, it would be my pleasure to come pick you up so you dont have to drive. Call me please so we can coordinate.
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:30 am
AH, is Syria where the supposed ‘anti Christ’ that starts WWlll resides or is that just more Christian dogma? – ZL
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:51 am
Roi:
I am happy to hear of your release and that you were not harmed.
I know you have much to do on your agenda, such as helping Japan. Thanks for helping us all.
You turned out to be a hard-working Alien. It is appreciated by all of us in the know.
I look forward to meeting you one day.
HOWIE
March 23rd, 2011 at 9:01 am
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