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Generation Zapped Trailer
Microwave - and other forms of electromagnetic - radiation are major (but conveniently disregarded, ignored, and overlooked) factors in many modern unexplained disease states. Insomnia, anxiety, vision problems, swollen lymph, headaches, extreme thirst, night sweats, fatigue, memory and concentration problems, muscle pain, weakened immunity, allergies, heart problems, and intestinal disturbances are all symptoms found in a disease process the Russians described in the 70's as Microwave Sickness.
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Hybrid Streetlight and Cell Tower Unveiled in Hollywood
Hybrid Streetlight and Cell Tower Unveiled in Hollywood
If you're frustrated with spotty cell phone coverage in Los Angeles, some relief is on the way in the form of new streetlights that also serve as cell towers.
The first "SmartPole" streetlight was installed Thursday on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood.
The technology, which was developed locally, relies on broadband coverage and integrates Ericsson 4G LTE wireless cell technology into standard street lights. It is expected to improve local cell phone coverage especially in heavily populated areas, according to city officials. Los Angeles is the first city to use the technology.
"L.A. is a world leader in LED street lights and has more poles than any other city in America," said L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti in a statement. "We are now taking advantage of previously untapped real estate to give our streets better broadband connectivity and future-ready infrastructure, while generating revenue for the city."
The SmartPoles will be managed remotely by Philips' software at no cost to taxpayers, according to Garcetti's office.
The streetlight is the first of 100 to be installed across the city. Five hundred additional poles are expected to be added over the next four years.
Garcetti's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Insanity in Toronto Schools?
Insanity in Toronto Schools?
The largest school district in Canada is rolling out a $14 million Wi-Fi network that embraces a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach for students.
Why would the Toronto School Board cause all its students to be subjected to a 'possible carcinogen (World Health Organisation)' for all the hours the children spend at school?
Has the Board been taken over by ISIS, The Devil or persons wishing great harm to the next generation?
Cell towers more dangerous than nuclear plant
Cell towers more dangerous than nuclear plant
To the editor:
This letter is in response to the concerns raised regarding the Seabrook Station nuclear plant, including the degradation of the concrete and possible radiation leakage that could occur.
While this could be a big problem in the future, what should be of concern right now is the continuous radiofrequency radiation that cell towers emit into the environment. This is a very serious situation that is largely ignored in most municipalities for two reasons: Consumers enjoy their wireless devices and local officials love the revenue paid by the wireless companies.
On May 2011 the World Health Organization classified radiofrequency radiation, the entire spectrum, from cellphones, cell towers, WiFi, and the like as a class 2B carcinogen. At least Seabrook Station serves a useful purpose: generating power without carbon dioxide which in turn provides electricity to surrounding towns. What useful purpose does a cell tower serve? To fuel the trivial entertainment needs of wireless addicts while adding electrosmog to the environment.
In my case, the good old town of Salisbury saw it fit to add cell tower antennas to the ugly beach water tank, making it look even worse, all for the sake of revenue, despite my concerns and scientific evidence including the WHO's May 2011 decision. As for that Salisbury selectman being concerned with public safety by wanting Seabrook Station shut down, where was his concern with public safety regarding placement of those antennas? Where was his concern for the small children, the elderly, and pets living in the vicinity of the water tank? They're the ones more at risk from cell tower radiation. In my opinion, I'm sure that selectman, just like his colleagues, gave the antennas the green light.
And I strongly believe in my opinion that the prospect of revenue clouded the judgment of that selectman and everyone else responsible for the needless addition of those antennas, resulting with those parties hiding behind the FCC's inadequate and outdated guidelines that only protect against a thermal mechanism, the American Cancer Society who for many years has been doing the bidding of the mobile phone industry, and the gibberish of some "so-called" radiation safety expert who is no more of an expert than a layperson, and in my opinion his judgment was biased in favor of the wireless industry.
And to add insult to injury, the Salisbury zoning bylaws explicitly state about protecting the health, welfare, and property values of the inhabitants and minimizing the adverse impacts of Wireless Communications Facilities. Was adding antennas to the water tank protecting the inhabitants and minimizing the adverse impacts of WCF's? Not by a long shot. As I've said in my previous letter on Aug. 10, the zoning bylaws need to be changed.
While Seabrook Station raises a lot of concern, we should hope for the best and leave it at that. The main concern right now should be cell towers and the negative impact they have on the environment.
Arthur Lazos
This letter is in response to the concerns raised regarding the Seabrook Station nuclear plant, including the degradation of the concrete and possible radiation leakage that could occur.
On May 2011 the World Health Organization classified radiofrequency radiation, the entire spectrum, from cellphones, cell towers, WiFi, and the like as a class 2B carcinogen. At least Seabrook Station serves a useful purpose: generating power without carbon dioxide which in turn provides electricity to surrounding towns. What useful purpose does a cell tower serve? To fuel the trivial entertainment needs of wireless addicts while adding electrosmog to the environment.
In my case, the good old town of Salisbury saw it fit to add cell tower antennas to the ugly beach water tank, making it look even worse, all for the sake of revenue, despite my concerns and scientific evidence including the WHO's May 2011 decision. As for that Salisbury selectman being concerned with public safety by wanting Seabrook Station shut down, where was his concern with public safety regarding placement of those antennas? Where was his concern for the small children, the elderly, and pets living in the vicinity of the water tank? They're the ones more at risk from cell tower radiation. In my opinion, I'm sure that selectman, just like his colleagues, gave the antennas the green light.
And I strongly believe in my opinion that the prospect of revenue clouded the judgment of that selectman and everyone else responsible for the needless addition of those antennas, resulting with those parties hiding behind the FCC's inadequate and outdated guidelines that only protect against a thermal mechanism, the American Cancer Society who for many years has been doing the bidding of the mobile phone industry, and the gibberish of some "so-called" radiation safety expert who is no more of an expert than a layperson, and in my opinion his judgment was biased in favor of the wireless industry.
And to add insult to injury, the Salisbury zoning bylaws explicitly state about protecting the health, welfare, and property values of the inhabitants and minimizing the adverse impacts of Wireless Communications Facilities. Was adding antennas to the water tank protecting the inhabitants and minimizing the adverse impacts of WCF's? Not by a long shot. As I've said in my previous letter on Aug. 10, the zoning bylaws need to be changed.
While Seabrook Station raises a lot of concern, we should hope for the best and leave it at that. The main concern right now should be cell towers and the negative impact they have on the environment.
Arthur Lazos
Sodium Nitrites and Cell Phones
Sodium Nitrites and Cell Phones
Great FB post from Devra Davies
More than thirty years ago, scientists noted that a chemical widely used to preserve meats--sodium nitrites--are converted by stomach acid into a chemical known to damage DNA--nitrosamines. Rather than take steps to encourage the use of alternative preservatives, we have 'waited' for proof of human harm. The World Health Organization has just concluded that we have sufficient 'proof' That means that we have numbers of people that have been sickened or died with cancers that arose from consuming these foods.
Whether for food preservatives or mobile phone radiation, this reactive approach to public policy means that we are treating ourselves like lab rats in an experiment with no controls. We wait for the body count to mount.
We cannot afford to assume things are safe until we have irrefutable evidence of harm having taken place. All the attention to how foods can affect the risk of breast and colon cancer is welcomed but sadly misses a key modern component of the puzzle. Mobile phones and other sources of microwave radiation can accelerate the growth of abnormal cells and enhance the toxicity of toxic chemicals already in the body.
Triggering Agents (and treatments) of Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Triggering Agents (and treatments) of Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Back in early 2000 when people were beginning to contact me about being sensitive to electricity, I searched hard to find a Dr. who understood the problem. I was directed to Dr. William Rea, MD, in Texas. He was a surgeon who became allergic to electricity and developed a "clean" lab and began testing for all kinds of allergies.
I sent him my EMF findings on DVD from here in Michigan and he invited me to be on the faculty for the 25th International Medical Conference of Environmental Health in Dallas, Texas, in 2007 and again in 2009 for the 27th. They invited me to become a permanent member of the faculty but because of poor health, I declined. I did, however accompany a Michigan farmer to Dr. Rea's clinic and he did prove "Mr. Chick's" health problem was being caused by electricity.
Below is a web site for viewing a presentation by Dr. William Rea who gives compelling evidence and recommendations for a healthier world creating safe havens in a toxic, electromagnetic world. He was hosted by the International Institute for Building-Biology & Ecology.
Published on Mar 5, 2015 Triggering Agents (and treatments) of Electromagnetic Sensitivity -- 46 minute video
My two peer reviewed articles on this subject can be found at:
effects-of-extraneous- electricity-ondairy-cattle- other-animals-andhumans--a- guide-for- dairymenveterinarians-and- investigators-ofstray-voltage- gPMZ.pdf
Best regards,
Donald Hillman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
750 Berkshire Lane
East Lansing, MI 48823
CTV Investigates: Farmer calls for action on stray voltage
CTV Investigates: Farmer calls for action on stray voltage
An Oxford County farmer says he's lost more than 100 cows and millions of dollars to excess electricity
Lee Montgomery says stray voltage killed his cattle herd, and his wife later developed the same symptoms. Max Wark has the story.
Note - Stray voltage problems should be considered for anyone suffering EMF related illnesses. It is not just farm animals that are harmed and killed by stray voltage (ground current electricity), people are badly affected also. This is a widespread problem throughout North America, which is made much worse by high frequency pollution on the electrical distribution system.
Pediatricians warn: Limit children's exposure to cellphones
Pediatricians warn: Limit children's exposure to cellphones
Today Show, 5 Nov 2015 - A growing number of prominent doctors and scientists are raising warning flags over the amount of cellphone radiation children are being exposed to. NBC national correspondent Miguel Almaguer was granted rare access inside a cellphone test lab for this TODAY report.
Significant Decrease of Clinical Symptoms after Mobile Phone Base Station Removal
Significant Decrease of Clinical Symptoms after Mobile Phone Base Station Removal
In several cases, significant effects on the inhabitants' health could be proven. The health of these inhabitants was shown to improve after the removal of the antennas, and the researchers could identify no other factors that could explain this health improvement. These examinations and interviews suggest that there are possible adverse health effects related to RF-EMF exposure among people living under mobile phone base stations.
Friday, November 06, 2015
Parent's success in stopping WiFI installation at Australian school
Parent's success in stopping WiFI installation at Australian school
The following was written by a mother who took action to inform her child's school on EMR health issues specific to children. This action resulted in the school enacting an EMR precautionary policy.
An Australian mum has been successful in preventing installation of WiFi at her child's school and has worked with the school in drafting EMR precautionary measures by requesting compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and Article 9: Accessibility from the Conventions on the Rights of the Disabled to accommodate her child's functional impairment.
She stated "My child has a sensitivity to EMR, specifically WiFi and Bluetooth elicit symptoms." The school environment was very good already, to change that by installing WiFi would exclude the child's access to the school. The first step she took was to register a compliment/complaint/ feedback form on the Dept of Education's website she said. "I requested help to find a WiFi- free high school and stated my child's health complaints and symptoms. Rather than sending an email which could get "lost" in the system, I chose to use the education department's processes for registering my complaint regarding accessibility to schools." Around the same time, the child's school initiated the WiFi installation discussion again. This quickly led to further conversations with the school and district education officers covering both accessibility issues…… ]
Read the post here.
The Kill Zones, USA With Each New Antenna Installation, Another Neighborhood Bites the Dust
The Kill Zones, USA With Each New Antenna Installation, Another Neighborhood Bites the Dust
Medical researchers with Masaryk University of Czech Republic and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2011:
"Population living in the area nearby (up to 350 meters) the cell phone base transmitting station (850 MHz 1500 Watts of full power) during one year of operation and matched individuals from other areas have been compared in Israel. There were 4.15 times more cases of cancer in the transmitter station area than in the rest of the city. Relative cancer rates for females were 10.5 times higher in close to the station area, 0.6 for control area and 1.0 for the whole town....Keeping in mind that a very significant increase in cancer took place during only a one year period, the authors of the study suggested that microwave could provoke latent cases of cancer in inhabitants of the area nearby the transmitting station." [1]
Dr. Martin Blank, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University:
"Since we know that an accumulation of changes or mutations in DNA is associated with cancer, there is good reason to believe that the elevated rates of cancers among persons living near radio towers are probably linked to DNA damage caused by EMF." [2]
The Kill Zones, USA: With Each New Antenna Installation, Another Neighborhood Bites the Dust
The above image, with the house seemingly out of kilter, illustrates the Wi-American Dream. The garish fake palm tree is a cell tower loaded with powerful radio antennas. A number of Wi-providers have co-located their antennas on the pole, which guarantees high-frequency electromagnetic toxicity in this residential area. Some of the antennas send pulsed, modulated microwave signals and others receive signals in order to accommodate voice and data requirements of mobile wireless devices operated by the public at large. Cell towers are infamous for depreciating the value of residential properties up to 20 percent or more. The depreciation of human health is even more pernicious.
The microwave frequencies flowing from most US commercial cell towers are generally between 700 megahertz (700 million hertz) to 5 gigahertz (5 billion hertz). All frequencies in this range are designated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 2B carcinogenic. [3] We know from the latest science that the electromagnetic voltage generated by these modulated signals is especially damaging to human genetic material, including the DNA. The cell tower "scream" heard with an audio RF/microwave detector at the above site is overwhelming. There is no more impressive horror than the savage sound of wave carcinogen raging through the sacred space of a neighborhood.
The aggregate of radiation from so many antennas polluting the air close to homes is never monitored by any local, state or federal authority for protection of the public health. Radiation levels are calculated from computer models produced by the Wi-industry, not from actual site measurements. [4] Each antenna on the pole emits its own pattern of microwave signals propagated on its own set of wavelengths. The many diverse signal pulse patterns and modulations of a cell tower can change on an hourly or daily basis. Tower victims are given virtually no information on what DNA-busting frequencies and power densities are invading their buildings and bodies 24/7.
"People using wireless devices serviced by this -- and other antenna installations --
should know that every voice and data transaction they generate contributes to
impairment, sickness and suffering of people and animals living near a cell tower."
Radiation expert Jerry Flynn, a retired Canadian Armed Forces captain with 22 years of military experience in electronic warfare, confirms that ultra-high cell tower frequencies are exceptionally dangerous for humans "because they penetrate more deeply all organ systems of the body and therefore put all human organs at risk." [5]
Physicist Leo Cashman explains that these manmade waves are especially deadly because: "...The pulsing adds to the frequencies that are actually in the wave, making it hold lots of other frequencies and increasing the biological impact of the wave, the radiation. And then the modulation, putting the information onto the pulsed carrier wave, whether by amplitude modulation or by frequency modulation, adds more actual frequencies onto the wave and very often those modulating frequencies are very biologically active in their impacts, mostly detrimental, on the human or animal's body....The results are not good and spewing this kind of pulsed, modulated radiation into our human environment all the time is recklessly dangerous." [6]
Nevertheless, cell towers have been flung up willy-nilly across the nation since the mid-1980s, as successive generations are conditioned to believe that every trivial function of social and commercial life must be conducted via pulsed microwave radiation. Most all American neighborhoods are impacted now, because in the USA, wireless connectivity and the "need fordownload speed" trump human health and human life. Antennas for mobile phone services, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and proprietary security systems hang low over residential districts, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and playgrounds everywhere. The wave fronts of this radiation are scattered as they bounce off of buildings, trees, hills, canyons and split into many electromagnetic paths to destination. Slamming the human habitat from every angle, these pulsing waves intersect and mingle to create Franken-frequencies, which are absolutely impossible to recreate in a laboratory for proper study of their composite bio-effects. Microwave detectors confirm that flimsy construction materials offer no protection against the complex wave forms blasting unimpeded and perpetually into all buildings and into all living flesh.
By 2012, the US wireless industry was valued at $195.5 billion: "which is larger than publishing, agriculture, hotels and lodging, air transportation, motion pictures and recording, and motor vehicle manufacturing industry segments. It rivals the computer design services and oil and gas extraction industries." [7] Wi-antenna installations are veritable gold mines for the industry. Over the years, each installation churns out multi-millions of dollars in Easy Money for a thick network of radiation peddlers. Therefore, the industry is pleased to erect thousands more of these weapons annually. The momentum is breathtaking. From AntennaSearch.Com is a comparison count of RF/microwave installations across the USA delivering relentless wave carcinogen to 321 million Americans [8]:
July 2014: 547,549 antenna towers
June 2015: 575,256 antenna towers
June 2015: 1,763,574 antennas
In 2015, AntennaSearch.Com reported that there were 1,248 wireless antennas emitting radio signals within one square mile of Civic Hall in New York City, and 2,510 antennas (178 cell towers) within one square mile of Times Square, Manhattan. According to the New Networks Institute: "
This is only a fraction of the antennas and cell sites in this area of New York...And no one --not Verizon, or the NYPSC, or the FCC has any complete public data or documentation about the number of lines or even wireless cell sites." [9] Factor in the innumerable, unregulated Wi-Fi hotspots and private radio antenna systems in the same areas, and we are taking some "mean heat." There is no federal, state or local authority in the US which is monitoring and calculating the aggregate radiation from multiple antennas. Therefore, there is virtually no pertinent health or exposure information available to the millions of people living, working and passing through these super-hot zones.
As documented at this site (The Cancers of High Tech), researchers found that the 900 MHz propagated by GSM mobile antennas causes leukemia cells to divide aggressively after a 48-hour exposure in the laboratory. What does this mean for cancer victims, caught in a mile-square zone with thousands of antennas propagating numerous and coupling microwave frequencies across the spectrum, including 900 MHz? And when will 2510+ amtennas around Times Square morph into 5000+ antennas? No one is asking!
Any urban square mile infiltrated with this kind of wave carcinogen, delivered in hundreds of different modulated frequency channels, is arguably a DEATH CAMP. It's a morbid environment where people incrementally weaken and gradually succumb, not only to the cancer-promoting radiation itself, but also to diseases and bio-toxins which naturally prosper in such areas. Swiss researchers found that toxic molds greatly flourish when stimulated by microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Exposing mold to these energies, they "discovered that not only the biotoxins in the culture had increased more than 600 fold, but also had increased to a more potent and virulent form of biotoxin." [10] Lyme disease (LD), a devastating neurological affliction spreading rapidly from person to person, is another example of the indirect fallout from wireless assault. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, who specializes in the treatment of LD, is "convinced that the increased virulence we're now seeing is related to the dramatic increase in electromagnetic fields and microwave radiation from cell phones, cell towers, and all manner of wireless technologies. Therefore, EMF and microwave radiation mitigation are part of the standard protocol, as any subsequent treatment of Lyme disease will not be as effective unless these external factors are addressed." [11]
The ferocity of commercial wireless radiation unleashed nationwide amounts to a sustained, high-frequency electromagnetic attack upon the entire US population. Curtis Bennett, president of Thermografix Consulting Corporation in Canada, says that in a military application, the deliberate targeting of populations with such biologically potent microwave radiation would be an act of war. [12] Bennett uses infrared imaging to illustrate what he calls the "horrifying physiological effects" of microwave interaction with human bodies. Non-thermal microwave radiation is shown on a thermograph as capable of generating "hot spots" all over the body. Consistent reports of cell tower sickness from many nations across the world confirm that wireless radiation, flowing to and from Wi-antennas, is an advancement in slow-delivery lethality. In the Microwave Age, silent but poisonous frequencies have replaced bullets and bombs.
Wi-antenna pollution is comprised of the following complex electromagnetic components, each of which exert measurable and potent biological effects on people, animals and plants:
- polarization of the waves (vertical or horizontal propagation)
- power densities of propagated waves
- current drawn from the core power supply
- pulsed fields with duty cycles
- numerous variations of pulse width, pulse shape, pulse amplitude
- static magnetic fields
- electromagnetic stray fields
- duty factors
- burst mechanisms for time division multiple access
- hundreds of different frequency channels
Radiation experts with the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RussCNIRP) confirm how little we know about the wave toxicity from Wi-antenna systems: "So far, most of the real MW [microwave] signals that are in use in mobile communication have not been tested for adverse effects. Very little research has been done with real signals and for durations and intermittences of exposure that are relevant to chronic exposures from mobile communication. In some studies, so-called 'mobile communication-like' signals were investigated that in fact were different from the real exposure in such important parameters as carrier frequency, modulation, polarization, duration and intermittence. To what degree such studies are relevant to evaluation of health risks from MW of mobile communication is not known. For example, GSM users are exposed to MW at different carrier frequencies during their talks…The base station can change the frequency [through a selection of many different channels] during the same call. This means that no one knows to what extent any particular antenna installation is damaging to those who live in its range of effect." [13]
No Worries for the Wi-Radiation Industry
FCC publications, including the OET Bulletin 56, minimize antenna health risks with vague assurances and assumptions, but provide ZERO up-to-date medical or scientific documentation proving that these installations are in any way safe for the public health during long-term and continual exposure. The FCC rakes in billions selling spectrum to the same commercial Wi-interests which it also "regulates." This sordid conflict of interest may explain why public health issues take a far back seat to economic issues.
Because the FCC imposes no health-based antenna setback requirements, any American can wake up one morning to find a huge microwave tower and its electrical station being erected mere feet from the walls of his home, workplace, school. Tech freaks would naturally consider it only right that there be one or more of these rip-roaring monstrosities adjacent toevery inhabited building in America. After all, 4G technologies -- for example, the Apple Watch and its partner iPhone -- require major Wi-radiation for
: calls, Internet connections, streaming movies, games, TV, music, digital banking and NFC shopping. The Apple Watch allows a wearer to adjust his home Wi-thermostat remotely. Best of all, the wearer can doodle on the touchscreen, then blast that doodle through a Wi-tower on its way to another Apple Watch. [18] How could survival of the human species be more important than that?!
When the wireless rollout began in the mid 80s, the lethality of microwave radiation was already well known and hugely documented by renowned scientists across the globe. Many individuals and municipalities, aware of the hazards of radio frequency emissions, were telling the tower and antenna boys: "Not in my back yard!" In response, the Wi-industry sponsored the infamous Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TCA) which was promptly rubber-stamped by the industry's greased palms within the US Congress. Constitutional attorney Gabriel North Seymour explains: "The telecom
companies essentially bought and paid congress for the votes to pass this act, which they believed had absolute preemption over local zoning and planning regulations, taking local control of the placement of towers out of the hands of people who are going to live right next to them....Under the Telecom Act, and under the failure to set these safety standards, we are not safe." [19]
Through the Telecom Act of 1996, the Wi-radiation industry BECAME THE LAW. This law commands the American people:
According to the Telecom Act of 1996, the legal "dose" of cell tower carcinogen delivered to the masses is the sole jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This law prevents state and local governments from blocking the erection of antenna infrastructure on the basis of health and environmental effects. Both Section 332 and Section 704 state: "No state or local government or instrumentality of such may regulate the placement, construction and modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission's regulations covering such emissions." [20]
This carefully crafted verbiage catapults the health of the entire nation into the hands of five FCC commissioners, all of them political appointees with virtually no public health expertise. FCC's public exposure limits for RF/microwave radiation have actually been set by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), a private professional group which maintains its status as technical advisor to the FCC. Naturally, the corporate membership of IEEE is the literal backbone of the global Wi-radiation industry. Dr. Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News explains: "Essentially the users of RF and microwave technology -- the military, its contractors and the communications industry -- wrote the IEEE RF standard. For example, of the two co-chairs of the committee that developed the most recent safety standard, one works for Motorola and the other for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. What are the odds that their safety standard serves their interests? I'd bet the ranch on it." [21]
Motorola is infamous for meddling with the work of scientists who have tried to tell the truth about the disastrous health effects of Wi-radiation. Seattle Magazine reported that Dr. Henry Lai, research professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington and fellow researcher Narendra Singh, of comet assay fame, were looking at the effects of non-ionizing microwave radiation--the same type of radiation emitted by cell phones--on the DNA of rats: "They used a level of radiation considered safe by government standards and found that the DNA in the brain cells of the rats was damaged—or broken—by exposure to the radiation....After Lai and Singh's research finding an effect on DNA was published in 1995, Lai learned of a full-scale effort to discredit his work. In an internal company memo leaked to Microwave News….Motorola described its plan to "war-game" and undermine Lai's research." Motorola did all it could to discredit their work and have both Lai and Singh fired. [22]
Likewise, Dr. Jerry Phillips, a well-known cell phone researcher with dozens of peer-reviewed papers under his name, conducted Motorola-funded research and later reported coercion and falsification of his research by industry agents determined to obfuscate bio-research results unfavorable to Wi-technologies. Dr. Phillips has stated: "There is so much money involved, that the only thing the industry sees is the money. They couldn't give a damn about basic science." [23]
To add to the confusion, there is no federally-mandated radio-frequency exposure standard. [24] Dr. Slesin says that there are actually only two enforceable EMF exposure standards in the US: "One is for microwave ovens set by the FDA and the other is for cell phones set by the FCC." [25] Thus, the ray peddlers and the military run America's Wi-antenna show to their lucrative, self-serving and basically unregulated satisfaction. Here is the resulting deadly situation for everyone:
1. IEEE, a consortium loaded with agents representing industry and military interests, insists that public exposure guidelines must be based only on thermal (tissue-heating) considerations. (If the radiation doesn't catch your hair on fire, it's "safe."] IEEE exposure limits therefore allow RF/microwave antenna installations to irradiate the US population with a power density as high as 47 to 61 volts per square meter (580-1000uW/cm2), depending on the propagated frequencies involved. [26]
2. In the real world of flesh and blood, adverse biological effects from microwave radiation are documented by many studies at non-thermal power levels as low as .02 volts per meter (.00001 microwatts per centimeter squared.) A team of medical researchers have now shown that microwave voltage at only .00675 volts per meter efficiently disables the human immune system. [27]
3. Numerous recent epidemiological studies show that populations chronically irradiated by cell tower antenna radiation report thirteen different categories of pathological symptoms and impairments, even at non-thermal power density levels as low as .0003 to 0.05 volts per meter. [28]4. Therefore, the FCC's obsolete, IEEE-approved microwave public exposure limit of a whopping 47 to 61 volts per meter is absurd and demonstrably deadly to the public health. Yet, thanks to very dirty and greed-driven politics, federal law now strictly legalizes, protects and enforces this genocidal travesty, allowing the Wi-industry to claim compliance with FCC regulations while it freely irradiates the entire nation at medically indefensible power densities.
The BioInitiative Report of 2012 (2014), based on 1800 published medical and scientific studies, was put together by 29 experts from ten nations. This report states: "Public safety standards are 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than levels now commonly reported in mobile phone base station studies to cause bioeffects." [29] The insanity of allowing a public exposure limit as high as 47 to 61 volts per square meter is found in a report by radiation expert and senior physicist Dr. Bill Curry, who undertook a study of especially hazardous cell tower siting scenarios. Traveling to various cell tower sites where people were suffering extreme illnesses, he found homes with ambient radiation measuring as high as 67-70 microwatts cm2 which is about 16 volts per meter. People living in these homes reported debilitating sickness and some had to sleep in their cars for relief. [30] Dr. Curry, whose vast experience includes complex radiation projects at several national laboratories, warned in his report that extreme microwave antenna hazards include:
- omni-directional antennas located close to inhabited buildings
- directional antennas which focus radiation into elevated homes or building floors situated at the same level as transmitting antennas
- antenna radiation amplified by mineral content in the soil or by weather conditions (wet weather can enhance microwave radiation effects)
- microwave antenna radiation which couples with the ground waves of a nearby, low-frequency broadcast station [31]
In regards to the FCC's disastrous and obsolete thermal exposure guidelines, the BioInitiative Report states: "...It has been established beyond any reasonable doubt that bioeffects and some adverse health effects occur at far lower levels of RF exposure where no heating occurs at all....It does appear that it is the INFORMATION [pulsing] conveyed by the electromagnetic radiation, rather than the heat, which causes biological changes, some of which may lead to unwellness, illness and even death." [32]
So how did this gross negligence of a thermal-based standard come to pass? Radiation expert Don Maisch, Ph.D., informs us: "Many subjective judgements, based on vested interests and limited knowledge melded together by Cold War political and military concerns lie at the very foundations of the thermal paradigm."[33]
After abrupt passage of the TCA in 1996, a group of scientists and engineers, backed by the Communications Workers of America, filed suit in federal court. They asked the US Supreme Court to review both the FCC's dangerous exposure guidelines and the legality of a federal law that severely impedes state and local authority in the siting of hazardous transmitters. But in 2001, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The group's subsequent petition to the FCC asking the agency to bring its exposure guidelines current with the latest scientific data was also denied. [34]
In 1999, an interagency working group (RFIAWG), comprised of six federal agencies, took a hard look at FCC's microwave exposure guidelines and admitted that they "may not adequately protect the public." [35] RFIAWG identified 14 health-related issues needing resolution, including the issue of bio-effects from chronic RF/microwave exposure. [36] There has been virtually no FCC follow-up or resolution of any of these pending issues because the FCC, and the Wi-mafia behind it, has proven to be an unchallengeable power thus far.
The president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AEEM) warns: "People who live near cell towers are in jeopardy. The science is increasingly clear that there are biological effects from both acute and chronic exposures to non-thermal microwave radiation. It is essential we have a government that puts the public's health above commercial interests." [37] The FCC's exposure standards are absolutely obsolete, confirms Whitney North Seymour, Jr., former New York Senator and co-founder of the National Resources Defense Council. He says: "It is imperative members of Congress request the FCC update the obsolete cell tower safety guidelines to reflect current science." [38]
Naturally, such crucial advisement falls on stone deaf ears at the FCC, currently headed by the Wi-industry's most infamous lobbyist and cover-up specialist, Tom Wheeler. [39] Chairman Wheeler, seen below, is former head of CTIA, the Wi-industry's leading global trade organization. Wheeler's shoo-in appointment as the US Wi-radiation czar demonstrates how successfully the Wi-Mafia, with its extraordinary money and power, ensures that Wi-regulators and Wi-regulatees remain as one big, happy, microwave-enriched family.
What All This Means for the Masses
In 2010, Dr. Dan Harper M.D., an expert in electromagnetic hyper-sensitivity (EHS), arrived at a city council meeting in Encinitas, California. He was armed with a 12-inch stack of medical journals documenting the health risks of RF/microwave antennas. He was at the meeting to defend the rights of his numerous EHS patients who were confronting construction of new microwave antennas in their neighborhoods. Dr. Harper explained to the council why these antennas especially harm radiation-sensitive patients. After public testimony, the hearing was closed with a reminder by the wireless industry that, under federal law, the city had no legal right to deny approval of the proposed new antennas. Dr. Harper later told the local media: "My heart sank as I saw big business once again put the FCC knife to the throats of the City Council and tell them they would have to sit and watch as they [the wireless industry] raped and ravaged the community and there was nothing they could do....Every citizen is being blasted on the cellular level with this radiation. It may take two or three decades to manifest the cancer or dementia, but it is adversely affecting us all." [40]
This is where we stand today. The general public has no vote, no voice, no choice. The Telecom Act of 1996 literally flushed constitutional guarantees of the right to life and the right to free speech in the defense of life. Millions of Americans living and working at close proximity to Wi-antenna installations have no more health and safety protection than livestock in a feedlot. Meantime, the latest studies and epidemiological reports confirm one universal certainty: the silent, but potent, man-made wave energy blasting from RF/microwave antennas is a literal grab-bag of sickness, degeneration and slow-death for humans, animals, plants and insects.
Numerous published epidemiological studies indicate that the most acute bio-effects are suffered by antenna-irradiated populations living within 500 meters (1625 feet) of antenna installations. [41] This is about one-third of a mile. However, if a tower has a large number of antennas which broadcast maximum allowable wattage, the KILL ZONE of that installation can extend out much further. In addition, because there are now so many antennas propagating wave carcinogen within each square urban and suburban mile, radiation overlap insures that almost everyone within a highly populated area is trapped within a KILL ZONE.
Hardest hit are segments of the population caught in the "beam patch" areas. A beam patch is a confluence of energy with the highest field strength. Beam patches hit the ground at several times the height of the mast away. If the antennas are mounted on platforms with three sides, like those seen above, the beam patches of high intensity hit the ground around the tower pole at targets 120 degrees apart. [42] Site engineers have sole discretion on where to aim these most lethal beams and no one challenges their omnipotence.
Most rooftop antennas, like those seen above, are not registered with the FCC. No one but antenna profiteers are privy to information about the variety of frequencies and the power density of the radiation emanating from them. Microwave detectors confirm that RF/microwave energy from rooftop antennas routinely leak their radiation downward or sideward into the structures which support them, creating carcinogenic hotspots inside where people live and work. [43] Metallic objects within these antenna buildings are often the hottest spots of all. Rooftop antennas also efficiently propagate massive radiation through windows and walls of adjacent buildings. Rooftop antennas highly endanger workmen and first responders who can be badly irradiated when compelled to work on or near these buildings. Advisors for the insurance industry warns that each year, at least 250,000 US workers come into dangerously close contact with these antennas, putting them at high risk for eye and brain damage, plus sterility. [44]
In 2013, concerned whistle-blowers reported that over 100 rooftop antenna sites in 23 states were found to be in violation of federal exposure guidelines. Some of these installations were documented to be emitting microwave radiation in excess of 600% over FCC's scientifically discredited exposure limits. [45] Meantime, virtually no FCC enforcement efforts are underway to bring Wi-industry violators into compliance. The FCC has reportedly issued only two non-compliance citations since 1996. [46]
Greatly emboldened by the disastrous regulatory situation, the Wi-radiation industry is eagerly erecting lucrative new cell tower antennas INSIDE of large public buildings. Seen above is a new wall-mounted cellular antenna, color-coordinated to blend in with surroundings. Indoor cellular antennas, within the Distributed Antenna System (DAS) category, are being mounted everywhere to compensate for "signal gaps" left by the macro antenna towers. In January 2015, the media explained how hundreds of these INDOOR antennas were installed for the Super Bowl games in Glendale, Arizona:
"'People go to games and want to use their phones for everything. They want to get on Instagram, to share pictures and videos, and to do that you have to upgrade the network systems,' explained Mike Kavanagh, with the cell solutions Crown Castle. Crown Castle has been working for a group of cellular companies to install new equipment, designed to allow security officers, media personnel and fans to communicate without glitches or delays on Super Bowl Sunday.... More than 300 new cell antennas are up and running inside the Gila River Arena, where the Coyotes play. More than 200 are at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and 250 installed at the Renaissance Hotel. The new equipment will remain in place after Super Bowl Sunday, and continue boosting cell power for games and concerts for years to come." [47]
Thus we see that America's obsessive-compulsive need to irradiate the environment for frivolous entertainment and trivial social interaction requires that a sizeable percentage of the US population be rendered antenna-sick, with a profound threat to many lives. Every wireless phone call, text and video/movie/TV streaming session is another strike against the health and life force of antenna victims. No one has informed Wi-worshippers that, in order to gratify themselves with endless microwave diversions, they gravely impair not only their own health, but also the well-being of their entire civilization. The latest medical science is clear: carcinogenic cell antennas -- mounted both indoors and out -- have massive potential to create a sickly, neurologically-damaged, heavily-medicated population with an early expiration date.
Because America's radiation addicts exert an ever-increasing demand for wireless voice and data, corporate ray-peddlers never sleep. Their armies work feverishly around the clock to birth new death ray technologies in order to bring carcinogenic antennas ever closer to home--everyone's home. The ultimate goal, say visionaries, is the day when big cell towers actually become obsolete: "There's no reason why your cell phone is not the cell tower of the future," the founder of Parallel Wireless told CNBC in April 2014. "We're just on the cusp of chips coming out where a $300 chip can power an entire cell tower. When you get that far, it's not much further to a scenario where when you're finished with your cellphone, you can hang it on the wall and it adds to the cellular network." [48] Naturally, the abhorrent health ramifications of such a powerful and far-reaching in-home radiation system is never mentioned by such visionaries.
Meantime, in order to keep a transmitting smart phone or tablet in the hands of every toddler and teen, the small cell antenna business is gaining momentum across the USA and Canada. Alcatel-Lucent has developed tiny "light radio" cube antennas, clusters of which can be hidden, both indoors and outdoors where they can powerfully irradiate all living flesh at close range. Some of the tiny antennas being developed are reportedly powerful enough to propagate microwave carcinogen for a mile or more. [49] Seen below are microcell antennas mounted low to the ground on utility poles in residential neighborhoods. These antennas are currently being used by telecom carriers to fill in signal gaps between large cell towers. The more Wi-lovers overload the system, the more these microwave-spewing DAS antennas will appear mere feet from doorsteps and window sills in neighborhoods everywhere. Small cell antenna radiation is powerful enough to blast Group 2B carcinogen directly into adjacent homes. The worrisome readings below indicate that low-to-the-ground small cells are capable of irradiating the population at even higher power densities than some macro cell antennas mounted on high towers.
Note how the the utility pole-mounted microcell in the picture on the left is whacking this residential neighborhood at almost nine volts of modulated microwave radiation per square meter as measured on the ground. The microcell on the right is measuring close to two volts per square meter on the ground. Physicist Ronald Powell, PhD., explains what this means: "The surface area of an adult body is about 2 square meters (m2). So the surface area that an adult presents to an RF wave arriving from the front, or from the back, is about 1 square meter. So when an adult human faces an oncoming wave of radiation with a power density of say, 10 milliwatts per square meter (mW/m2) that human will receive a total of 10 milliwatts of radiation over the entire body." [50] Therefore, an adult walking a dog within range of the microcell on the left could be assaulted with nine volts of microwave carcinogen across and through his entire body. A teenager playing ball underthe microcell antenna on the right will sustain an assault of two volts of microwave carcinogen across and through his entire body. The power density of these low-hanging DAS antennas is impressive in light of recent research showing that the human immune system can be functionally disabled at microwave levels as low as .00675 volts per meter. [51]
Most water towers across the USA support a variety of RF/microwave antennas. Preliminary research confirms that continually irradiating community water supplies with carcinogenic waves could be an additional contributing factor to the human suffering and disease reported in antenna KILL ZONES. Radiation expert Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy explains:
"Weak pulsed radiation is routinely used in "electronic" water conditioners to remove lime scales from plumbing....However, the treated water has biological effects similar to those from direct exposure to weak electromagnetic radiation, perhaps due to its removing calcium ions from cell membranes just as it removes lime scales from water pipes....There is a growing tendency to mount mobile phone base station antennas on water towers. This may seem convenient, but it carries a hidden risk because the radiation may also "condition" the water to make it biologically active which could have adverse effects on public health.....This needs urgent attention by the water companies since, unlike the mobile phone operators, they have no legal immunity from prosecution for distributing a potentially toxic product." [52]
The housewife shown above was photographed in a typical American home near howling cell towers. This woman and her family were assaulted for years by wave carcinogen which flows unimpeded through the windows, walls and the roof of this structure. As she stood at her sink, pulsing microwaves penetrated her body at close to one volt per meter, as confirmed by the audio microwave detector sitting on the window sill. Virtually no room in this house is safe from radiation rape, and most horrifying, extra high microwave power density can be measured at each and every electrical outlet. This indicates that high frequency radiation from the towers somehow travels through the entire electrical system of the home and likely, through the power grid of the entire neighborhood.
Although family members are relatively young, while living in this house they suffered from a range of maladies including: MS, diabetes, depression, sleep disorders and incurable fatigue. They strongly suspected that their myriad and inexplicable health problems were related to the wave pollution which flooded their home while the weak economy rendered it unsellable. Their story is that of countless millions of ailing Americans. Many of the irradiated undoubtedly prematurely die, but never know why, having been deprived of the knowledge that living, working and playing adjacent to powerful Wi-antennas is a dead end!
A Hard Lesson Learned by Firefighters
The wireless industry has long sought to place cell antennas on or near fire and police stations because of their strategic locations in densely populated areas near highways where cell coverage can be maximized. At the same time, municipalities receive revenue from wireless companies in exchange for locating antennas on fire and police station property. Seen below is a fire station in the Midwest with a screaming cell tower on site. An audio detector literally vibrates with the energy imparted from this installation as the radiation rampages for many meters all around it. Antennas high up on this pole loudly impact a school for deaf children directly across the street. The school's exercise yard, enclosed by metal fencing and full of metal playground equipment [metal = hotspot], is fairly screaming with antenna radiation, as are countless other irradiated school yards across the nation. Ironically, America professes to care for its children.
In 2004, the US and Canadian membership of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) passed a resolution opposing the siting of cell tower antennas on or adjacent to fire stations. This resolution was inspired by a pilot medical study which raised serious concerns about the safety of fire fighters working and sleeping in stations with towers on the premises. The study, conducted by Dr. Gunnar Heuser of Agoura Hills, California, focused on neurological symptoms of six firefighters who had been working for up to five years in stations with cell towers. Their symptoms included: slowed reaction time, lack of focus, lack of impulse control, severe headaches, anesthesia-like sleep, sleep deprivation, depression and tremors. [53]
Dr. Heuser, along with Dr. J. Michael Uszler of Santa Monica, used functional brain scans to assess changes in the brains of the six firefighters, as compared to healthy brains of men of the same age. These SPECT scans revealed a pattern of abnormal changes concentrated over a wider area than would normally be seen in the brains of individuals exposed to toxic inhalation, as might be expected from fighting fires. Dr. Heuser confirmed that the only plausible explanation would be the chronic RF radiation exposure. Additionally, TOVA testing confirmed among the same six firefighters: delayed reaction time, lack of impulse control, and difficulty in maintaining mental focus, just as they had reported. [54]
IAFF's Resolution Number 15, dated August 2004, explains impressively what living and/or working in a KILL ZONEmeans for the health of Americans who have been "chosen" for sacrifice by the Wi-Industry. READ IT HERE
Fast forward to now. The city of Los Angeles is partnering with Motorola and the Department of Homeland Security for the initial rollout of over 200 new cell tower installations required by the new LA Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS). The LA-RICS project, underwritten by hundreds of millions in federal grant money, will connect more than 80 public safety agencies with a new 700 megahertz wireless network designed to cover an area of 4,000 square miles. LA-RICS is comprised of two subsets: a land mobile radio system and an LTE broadband (4G) communications system. [55] LA-RICS will grandly enrich mass tracking and surveillance capabilities, undoubtedly a major purpose for, and the momentum behind all wireless technologies. Among the unwashed masses, LA-RICS is nicknamed "Fry and Spy."
The original plans for LA-RICS mandates the initial 200+ new antenna installations to be sited at fire and police stations across many cities in the LA area. Therefore, in March 2015, IAFF Local 1014 petitioned the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to halt construction of these towers on fire stations until proper health studies can be conducted and until transparency is obtained on the interest-conflicted political machinations behind the LA-RICS project. [56] Sadly, cancer already accounts for more than half of line-of-duty firefighter deaths nationwide. [57] IAFF and supporters miraculously convinced the Board to declare a temporary moratorium on behalf of not only first responders, but also the innumerable families living near fire and police stations.
Unfortunately, even if the union can consummate a permanent moratorium, the new LA-RICS surveillance towers will simply be sited in other areas where victims are oblivious to the horrendous health risks involved. The 200+ new LA-RICs antenna systems will hyper-irradiate the already microwave-saturated LA metropolitan areas. It is reasonable to expect that the lifespan of the "lucky winners," perpetually irradiated by LA-RICS super-antennas, will enjoy the life span of fruit flies. This same type of radiation-intensive tracking and surveillance system is reportedly coming to other states and cities soon.
Speaking of California, the question arises: Could Microwave Man TWITTER, TWEET, INSTAGRAM and APP himself into extinction? Of the fifty states, California leads the nation in the number of wireless antennas. [58] It also leads in new cancer cases and annual cancer deaths. [59] Thirty-nine million citizens in this drought-ridden state are facing critical water shortages, while wild fires of the future are expected to be unparalleled in their destructive fury.
Microwaves HEAT flesh and they HEAT the atmosphere. Microwaves DRY the flesh and they DRY the atmosphere. California alone has 130,000+ cell towers, zillions of unregulated Wi-Fi antennas, innumerable DAS antennas mounted on utility poles/buildings everywhere and a state-wide smart meter mesh antenna infrastructure. Factor in the new LA-RICS antenna network (with similar systems in other urban areas, i.e., San Francisco), plus the great HPWREN TRANSMITTERS(see information below), plus the approaching vehicle-to-vehicle radar rollout and what do you get?
"Public Safety" and Cancer Clusters
RF/microwave radiation destroys DNA as efficiently as nuclear radiation. This has been amply confirmed by the European Union's REFLEX studies and other research, as carefully documented at this site. Cancer begins with damaged DNA. Therefore, the consequences of unbridled Wi-irradiation of the USA is guaranteed to result in loss of life and painful death for many people. The current public health emergency posed by Wi-radiation is still unrecognized by most victims; most shuffle in ignorance and silence to their cancer treatments and to their graves. But every so often, muck boils to the surface, as it did with the horrific cancer cluster which erupted several years ago at San Diego State University (SDSU).
We have some information on this disaster, thanks to Virginia Farver, the courageous mother of Rich Farver who died of glioma brain cancer in 2008 at the age of 29. [60] Rich was among a group of other academics who likewise developed horrendous malignancies after suffering acute exposure to antenna radiation on the campus of SDSU. Rich Farver was a healthy student when he took up graduate studies at SDSU. He spent many long hours on campus in Nasatir Hall, a study and meeting center. A notably long list of other cancer victims also spent considerable time in Nasatir Hall. Only meters away from Nasatir Hall, effusing its relentless carcinogen into numerous campus buildings, is still today a huge antenna-loaded communications tower.
Virginia Farver's urgent warning provides a glimpse of a massive cover-up perpetrated by both the wireless radiation industry and its lapdog federal agencies. Having spent years researching the accoutrements of exposure from this installation, Farver writes of the tower: "It is a HPWREN--High Performance Wireless Research and Educational Network--a backbone node to the UCSD Supercomputer Center in San Diego. It is also GWEN--Ground Wave Emergency Network, with emissions known to hug the ground....HPWREN includes Homeland Security, DoE, DoD, DARPA, Air Force, Navy, National Institutes of Health, SPAWARS, NASA-Inmarsat Satellite, emergency services and many huge corporations." [61]
HPWREN network officials admit: "The network has required the installation of numerous large antennae throughout the area....Coordinating the installation of these antennae, which can be eight to 10 feet in size, and weigh up to 400 pounds, can be a real challenge. We have used hoists, cranes and in one case even a helicopter to put radio links in place." [62] The emissions from such powerful transmitters have to be gargantuan, but the particulars of these emissions (frequencies, power densities, pulse patterns) is not in the public domain due to "security" concerns. A major extension of the HPWREN system is the Area Situation Awareness for Public Safety Network (ASAPnet), a massive wireless Internet data communications network connected to firefighter installations throughout the San Deigo and surrounding areas.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the HPWREN project is a vision of America's future with its morass of broadband transmitters, sensors and spy cameras scattered throughout at least 20,000 square miles of the Southwest. The HPWREN network has metastasized throughout many rural communities, including numerous Indian reservations as it links to the U.S. Park Service and the NASA's National Weather Bureau. [63] It also links to NASA's Satellite Laser Ranging Program (SLR) and the global MOBLAS system which transmits satellite laser ranging data and communicates with numerous sponsors of geophysical experiments like SOPAC, DORIS and EarthScope. [64]
The HPWREN project was conceived around 2000 by research scientists with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego [UCSD]. Here lies the very guts of HPWREN. In 2009, protestors brought to media attention another cancer cluster in a building located on the UCSD campus: "Protestors at the University of California, San Diego, are lobbying school administrators to address a 'cancer cluster' linked to a campus building...being blamed for a cluster of breast cancer cases, raising new questions about the risk of exposure to electromagnetic fields....At least eight workers in the campus building have been diagnosed with breast cancer since 2000 and a handful of other cancers, including ovarian and salivary gland cancers have also been reported." [65]
The SDSU and UCSD cancer clusters are clue that the more Americans are irradiated in the name of "public safety" and mass surveillance, the sicker the population will become. Both of these university cancer clusters were swept under the rug in the bitter end. School officials reportedly remained disengaged while the media was loath to trod in this territory. Nasatir Hall was closed off after the SDSU cancer cluster came to light, but Virgina Farver reports: "The HPWREN cell tower is still on campus. There is an outdoor courtyard directly underneath this cell tower. I was on campus, daily for three weeks, fall 2011. I observed kids sitting under this cell tower for hours, day after day. There are newly constructed Fraternity Row Housing Units across the street from the KPBS News Station and cell towers on campus. Again I watched boys sitting on balconies for hours and hours. Some of these fraternity units are newly adorned with metal windows and metal balcony railings, which attract radiation. How many of these kids will become ill, or already have? Some form of cancer no doubt. Many without this knowledge. I not only fear for these kids, I fear for Humanity." [66]
That such complex and potentially lethal communications systems as HPWREN can be sited mere feet from inhabited buildings on a university campus is frightening indeed. In general, American college and university campuses are now Wi-radiation hotbeds. Techno-fanatics "own" most campuses and unwary students submit to many hours of intense wireless exposure each day. For all their hyper-expensive "education," it is particularly horrifying that so many of these young conformists have been successfully conditioned to submit --without a bleat-- to time-release genocide by radiation.
Interesting Thoughts on Microwave Pollution Across America
For two decades, it has become conspicuously apparent that a foremost imperative, at all levels of government in the United States, is the frenetic erection of more and more microwave installations everywhere across the nation. At the same time, medical science is confirming that these installations are profoundly threatening to all biological life.
As concerned citizens learn about the ever-increasing dangers of RF/microwave antenna radiation, they are often perplexed as to how and why our nation has devolved to this disastrous state. Because microwave radiation has long been used by governments to manipulate the environment, and because the powerful biological effects of RF/microwave radiation are well-documented, some informed people suspect that America's official Microwave Mania could have a dark dimension. It is technically possible that powerful and myriad high-frequency installations, possibly including the HPWREN system as seen above, could be utilized for classified reasons known only to America's shady ruling elite. The Activist Post has published a 2015 essay entitled "Cell Phones--Cell Towers --HAARP: An EMF Triple Threat" by Michael T. Winter. Here are some thought-provoking excerpts which bring to mind bizarre weather extremes, random acts of gun violence contrasting with the passive, almost lobotomized behavior of the general population. Keep in mind that there are reportedly numerous, experimental HAARP-type installations located across the planet:
"The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or Haarp, in Alaska is well known by now, at least to those even semi-awake. The acknowledgement of Haarp as a method of controlling the weather is not a secret; indeed, it is a stated function as published by the US Government. This high-tech facility, operated by the US Navy, Air Force and several universities, is an extremely powerful transmitter that (very simplistically put) directs intense energy beams into the ionosphere with the goal of influencing: jet streams, creating rain or drought, tsunamis, hurricanes and other uses as well. This ultimately is equivalent to "cooking" our ionosphere. Haarp, however, is limited by the curvature of the earth; hence its range of manipulation is finite.
"This is where cell towers come into play. Cell towers can be 'harnessed' in their power, allowing for focused energy bursts within a tightly held geographical area. The signal can be bounced tower to tower until reaching its destination. There is an enormous mountain of data supporting the following theories of Haarp and cell tower shenanigans in relation to the following recent events. Between chemtrails and ionospheric manipulation, the government has artificially created the drought in California." NEW REPORT ON THE DEADLY CHEMICALS USED
"Can it be there is an ulterior motive, or motives, above and beyond a strong signal, in equipping these towers with up to half a million watts of transmitter power? Yes there is....You will note that the human body is a self-contained electrical unit. The human brain is a biological computer and, like a computer, it has a clock frequency that all your existence is centered around....Your visual cortex may process at a different frequency than the section of your brain which regulates your heartbeat. Feelings and thoughts will run at another frequency... The fact that your brain operates on frequencies leaves it susceptible to manipulation via electronic means. Since different moods are reflected by different frequencies, it is possible to electronically force people to be relaxed when they should be angry, laugh when they should be appalled, and give loyalty when they should rebel." [67]
The Price We Pay for the Games They Play
What follows is a short list of the symptoms widely reported by people living and/or working in antenna KILL ZONES. These symptoms have been documented by a number of high-quality epidemiological studies conducted across the globe:
♦ whole body weakness, chronic fatigue, lack of stamina
♦ sleep disorders, including disruption of normal REM sleep
♦ headaches, problems with concentration and memory
♦ chronic structural problems and pain in muscle, bone, tendon
♦fibromyalgia, arthritis and extremity nerve problem such as restless legs
♦ heart palpitations, radically fluctuating blood pressure, dizziness
♦ vision and hearing degradation
♦ severe allergies of many varieties
♦ skin rashes and hair loss
♦increased susceptibility to mold, bacterial, fungal and viral diseases
♦endocrine abnormalities: pituitary, pineal, pancreas, adrenal, thyroid
♦ abnormal body weight
♦ lack of libido and/or sexual dysfunction
♦emotional difficulties: inner agitation, inability to cope, depression
♦significant decrease in ACTH, cortisol, thyroid hormones, testosterone and prolactin for young females
♦ abnormal secretion of both serotonin and melatonin hormones
♦ encephalopathy of the brain
♦ numerous types of cancer, especially of the brain, breast and lungs
An excellent document describing the above symptoms of Wi-sickness, also known as the Microwave Syndrome, is contained in the Freiburg Appeal, compiled by a large group of German doctors. [68] This information clearly documents the inevitable sickness inherent in homes, workplaces, medical centers and schools saturated with cell tower radiation in addition to radiation from Wi-Fi signal generators, DECT phone systems, smart utility meters, Wi-security systems, signal boosters, plus the effluent from many types of personal Wi-devices. People who endure such sick buildings are truly and ultimately the walking dead.
Virginia Farver worked long and hard to uncover suppressed information about her son's cancer cluster at SDSU. This is exactly what activists should be doing in every cell-tower irradiated neighborhood and on every Wi-tortured school campus in America. The poisonous 20,000 ton chemical dump at Love Canal in New York state would still be maiming and killing children of that area had not mothers there been determined to discover the root cause of the terrible suffering of their kids in the late 70s. These mothers went door to door to collect information and they organized that information into a media revelation that shook the nation. A neighborhood survey is a great way to raise awareness on critical Wi-radiation issues.
Because U.S legislative, judicial and regulatory branches of government are currently in harness to aggrandize and protect the wireless radiation industry, while keeping a lid on our nation-wide scandal of cell tower sickness, there is no agency or information clearing house where injured Americans can report their antenna sickness. Therefore, it is incumbent upon each radiation-abused community to investigate and gather its own surveys and epidemiological reports. Those who take the time to talk to their neighbors and catalog the cell tower illnesses and unusual cancer and birth defect clusters in their immediate areas will begin to understand: public education and political activism regarding the bio-effects of microwave antenna pollution are now essential for human survival. Eileen O'Conner's story is a great example of what people can learn when they begin to take an interest in the health of their neighborhoods. Her message is especially important for America's countless small towns and villages where everyone lives within 500 meters of the central cell tower.
Informed public backlash can change corrupt federal law and dump dirty, compromised politicians. Every concerned citizen should invest in a good audio RF/microwave detector. There is no substitute for enabling people to HEAR the wave carcinogen flowing through their environment. People have a right to actually see and measure the vibratory Wi-voltage which is documented to sow disease, disability, deformity and premature death. Become empowered with this information and you become part of the great awakening, which these days, can even be found at the US Department of Interior (DOI). In a 2014 letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the DOI admitted that wireless radiation from cell towers devastates nesting birds, causing: nest abandonment, plumage deterioration, locomotion problems, reduced survivorship and death. DOI confirmed that birds can be damaged at very low, non-thermal levels of microwave radiation and it stated: "....Electromagnetic standards used by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continue to be based on thermal heating, a criterion now nearly 30 years out of date and inapplicable today." [69] These official words should shiver the timbers of those who hear the sordid sound of cell tower pollution screaming through their homes, schools and neighborhoods.
Meantime, the Wireless Innovation Act of 2015, sponsored by the Wi-industry's most illustrious greased-palms in the US Senate, has been unleashed to facilitate yet more Wi-spectrum transactions on the secondary market and to ensure that all federal lands and federal buildings be further festooned with more broadband infrastructure (Wi-antennas). At the same time, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler and his sidekicks at CTIA are shoving forth a 2014 FCC infrastructure order that will exponentially increase the number of small cell antennas to be mounted everywhere across the nation. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wi), a sponsor of the Wireless Innovation Act of 2015, celebrates all of this additional fuel for America's Wi-inferno, saying: "Mobile traffic is expected to grow eleven-fold between 2013 and 2018 according to industry projections." [70] The ramifications of this new burst of Wi-mania will be seen in cancer-inducing Wi-antennas being mounted --even at ground level-- on virtually any and every surface which can support them.
There is little sense in people objecting to macro and small cell antennas in their yards if, at the same time, they are addicted to their personal Wi-devices and contribute to the insane increase in mobile traffic guaranteed to further sicken our nation. The most effective and powerful way to respect the earth and save lives in the Microwave Age is to avoid the use of Wi-technologies for foolish and trivial purposes. The best way to discourage antenna installations near homes is to generate zero or very low Wi-usage within those homes. Ray peddlers carefully monitor locational traffic usage and they have tepid interest in siting Wi-antenna installations in areas that yield a dismal return on their investments.
Americans could avert and alleviate incalculable suffering if they would wisely and purposely: revert to landline phone service and demand fiber optic, coaxial and Ethernet cable systems for safe and efficient Internet services. Forfeiting the decadence of mindless entertainment through "connectivity any time any place" is a small price to pay, considering that the health and genetic integrity of all humanity is at stake.
Wi-Sick Communities Everywhere
A history of neighborhoods and communities which have struggled and fought against Wi-antenna pollution literally fills volumes. Informed people all over the world are actively engaged in opposing the deadly RF/microwave irradiation of their communities. It is impossible to report every detail of the mighty struggle here, but the Internet is loaded with reports. A good site for information on this global struggle is BURGERWELLE.COM where Wi-radiation news is gathered from around the world. Staggering are the archives at this site! While the Wi-radiation industry claims that there is "no evidence of harm," this site exposes that great lie. It fully documents the undeniable costs of Wi-technologies in terms of human and animal suffering. Subscribe for free and this newsletter will be e-mailed to you weekly. The two special stories featured below are examples of community tragedies that will continue to escalate until enough Americans awaken, turn off their Wi-devices and fight back against merciless antenna genocide.
From the Mail Online, UK:
From the Associated Press, USA:
A Canadian woman in the YouTube video below describes her immediate health effects from rooftop antennas sited on her apartment building. She explains her sudden development of electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), a condition which is afflicting increasing numbers of people who suffer from acute Wi-antenna exposure. As you listen to her report, keep in mind that the FCC prevaricates in one of its publications: "When cellular and PCS antennas are mounted on rooftops, RF emissions could exceed higher than desirable levels on the rooftop itself. ....Such levels might become an issue for maintenance or other personnel working on the rooftop....Individuals living or working within the building are not at risk."[71]
This YouTube Video features an intrepid reporter discussing the dirty underbelly of the LA-RICS deal in Los Angeles and the 2015 moratortium requested by IAFF Local 1014.
One authority on the legal ramifications of wireless pollution writes of Wi-America: "...We as a society will become resigned to living with markedly elevated levels of illness and impairment from this radiation and its resultant booby trap, the perpetuation of the cycle of medical professionals trying to triage these problems with oncology surgery, and [with] sleep, heart rate, blood pressure, depression and pain medication that result in side effects, necessitating more medication. One expert wrote that he feels that a new social compact is effectively being drawn up--a society with lots of shiny (exciting?) toys that hasten the pace of life in return for an understanding that many will die young and governments won't have to pay so much for Social Security." [72]
While things are going fine for Wi-profiteers, surveillanc
e-obsessed governments, and pharmaceutical drug manufacturers, what about everyone else caught in the KILL ZONES? If most Americans choose to remain uniformed on the devastating effects of Wi-radiation, and if they continue to aggrandize and blindly collaborate with their profit-drenched murderers, improperly-regulated antenna pollution will continue to explode unchecked. What this means to multi-millions of people, literally immersed in silent rivers of wave carcinogen, is perfectly framed by the lyrics of Paul Simon's 1964 ballad, The Sound of Silence:
"….No one dared disturb the sound of silence
'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows…. ' "
'Fools,' said I, 'You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows…. ' "
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Overloading of Towns and Cities with RadioTransmitters (Cellular Transmitter): a hazard forthe human health and a disturbance of eco-ethics"
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Poll: Romney Holds Steady at 43 Percent among N.H. GOP Voters
Mitt Romney is holding firm with 43 percent of likely voters, easily outdistancing his nearest rivals among likely New Hampshire Republican Primary voters, according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS two-day tracking poll of likely voters in New Hampshire's GOP presidential primary.
The poll showed Romney maintaining his lead with 43 percent of the vote, followed by Ron Paul (16 percent), Jon Huntsman (10 percent), and Newt Gingrich (9 percent), while Rick Santorum (5 percent) has moved ahead of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, who had 2 percent each.
Thirteen percent of voters remain undecided, down from 15 percent yesterday.
The Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston will release results of two-day tracking polls every day leading up to the New Hampshire Presidential Primary on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
This is the second consecutive poll release showing Gingrich in fourth place after polling second to Romney in mid-December.
"Newt Gingrich is struggling to revive his campaign in New Hampshire" said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. "But Rick Santorum now trails Gingrich by only 4 points, and if he surpasses Gingrich and knocks him into fifth place, it would be fatal for Gingrich."
Romney's strength was measured by gender and geography: Overall 48 percent of women preferred Romney, and 59 percent of registered Republican women said they'd vote for Romney, as did 62 percent of women ages 65 and over.
"If Romney wins the Granite State in a landslide, he can thank women throughout New Hampshire for making a powerful statement," said Paleologos.
Regionally, Romney has the support of nearly 50 percent of voters from the state's two largest counties when combined – Rockingham and Hillsborough counties.
Suffolk University will be releasing two-day tracking poll numbers every day through Jan. 10, with the data reflecting the previous two nights' field.
The statewide survey includes two nights of 250 likely respondents for a two-day tracking total of 500 likely voters in New Hampshire's Republican Presidential Primary. This track was conducted Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 using live telephone interviews with landline and cell phone users. The margin of error is +/-4.4 percent at a 95 percent level of confidence. Marginals and full cross-tabulation data will be posted at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2012, on the Suffolk University Political Research Center website. For more information, contact David Paleologos at 781-290-9310. Paleologos is on site at the Manchester, N.H., media center located in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm Street, Manchester through Jan. 10.


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A sad life is not a bad life
A meaningful but painful existence might be more valuable to us than simple happiness.
A rewarding, well-lived life is not necessarily a happy one because happiness and a meaningful life are often incompatible.
As the Nobel prize-winning psychologist and behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman has said: ''People often make choices that bear a mixed relationship to their own happiness.''
The parenting paradox is a prime example. ''Most people assume that having children will make them happier. Yet a wide variety of academic research shows that parents are not happier than their childless peers, and in many cases are less so,'' wrote Jennifer Senior in New York magazine recently, in an article titled: ''All joy and no fun: why parents hate parenting.''
And yet, as social psychologist Roy Baumeister proposed in Meanings of Life, the paradox can be resolved because people seek not just happiness, but also meaning, ''and so they become parents because the gains in meaningfulness offset any losses in happiness''.
This tug-o-war is something many people, not just parents, struggle to resolve. New research from Stanford and Florida State universities, led by Baumeister, has attempted to differentiate between happiness and meaning. ''Although happiness and meaning are important features of a desirable life and indeed are interrelated, they have different roots and implications,'' the researchers said.
They define happiness as a sense of subjective wellbeing, while meaning is a cognitive and emotional sense of purpose and value. Happiness, they say, is rooted in our animal nature.
''Among creatures with brains and central nervous systems … basic motivations [to survive and reproduce] impel them to pursue and enjoy those needed things, and the satisfaction of those needs generally produces positive-feeling states. Conversely, negative feelings arise when those needs are thwarted.''
Meaningfulness, on the other hand, is related to more sophisticated human attributes.
''Culturally transmitted symbols, via language, [are used] to evaluate one's life in relation to purposes, values, and other meanings that also are mostly learnt from the culture.''
The results of the study, soon to be published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, are as remarkable as they are revealing.
For instance, the authors found that ''doing things that express and reflect the self are important for making life meaningful, but they are mostly irrelevant and occasionally even detrimental to happiness''.
These expressions of self can range from reading to socialising to working to take care of the kids.
Similarly, helping others has a positive impact on our sense of a meaningful existence, but somewhat surprisingly, it has a negative impact on happiness. ''Happiness seems intertwined with the benefits one receives from others. Meaningfulness is instead associated with the benefits that others receive from the self,'' the authors said.
While happiness may involve taking and meaning may involve giving, the authors are at pains to point out that they are both worthy pursuits and the intricate ties that bind the two are not cut and dry.
''If anything, happiness is linked to not helping others in need. But, in everyday life, helping others makes the helper's life meaningful and thereby increases happiness.''
While happiness and a sense of meaning benefit from a strong social network and both suffer when a person feels isolated or lonely, time spent with loved ones was found to be important for meaning, but not necessarily for happiness.
''Possibly because loved ones can be difficult at times,'' the authors hypothesised.
Worry and devoting time to thinking about the past and future were also aligned with how meaningful participants found their lives - and how unhappy they were. Thinking deeply, on the other hand, had no correlation to happiness or meaning. ''Whereas happiness was focused on feeling good in the present, meaningfulness integrated past, present, and future, and it sometimes meant feeling bad,'' the authors said. ''Past misfortunes reduce present happiness, but they are linked to higher meaningfulness - perhaps because people cope with them by finding meaning.''
The authors hope that insights such as these will encourage a greater emphasis on our search for meaning. Positive psychology grew to counteract the field of psychology's emphasis on pain and suffering. The authors hope to bring the balance back, illuminating the fact that happiness alone does not make the good life.
Cultivating and encouraging the pursuit of meaning in the face of unhappiness may be a worthy goal for positive psychologists, they said.
''Clearly happiness is not all that people seek, and indeed the meaningful but unhappy life is in some ways more admirable than the happy but meaningless one,'' the authors conclude.
''The happy person thus resembles an animal with perhaps some added complexity. In contrast, meaningfulness pointed to more distinctively human activities, such as expressing oneself and thinking integratively about past and future. Put another way, humans may resemble many other creatures in their striving for happiness, but the quest for meaning is a key part of what makes us human, and uniquely so.''
Sarah Berry is a lifestyle and health writer at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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I found this interview of Jim by Extra at the launch party for Airtime.
The cool thing about it is that Jim talks about the show "In Living Color" and apparently if Keenen Ivory Wayans wants him to work with the new cast, he says he wouldn't mind at all!
Who knows! He may appear and pay a visit...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Langston Hall and Travis Smith each sank a pair of free throws in the final 23 seconds Sunday to lift Mercer to a 61-56 upset over Florida State's defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions.
Smith led Mercer, an Atlantic Sun Conference member, with 13 points and Hall finished with 10. It was the Bears' first win over Florida State since 1954, but their second win in as many seasons over an ACC team. They defeated Wake Forest last year.
Mercer (4-4) shot 37.5 percent (18 of 48) to Florida State's 35.4 percent (17 of 48) in the game.
Okaro White was the lone Florida State player in double figures, finishing with 14 points. Michael Snaer was held to just seven points and managed only six shots in the game for the Seminoles (4-3).


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- Wed, 8/16 at 12:40 PM;
- Ride regularly scheduled Transit service to & from games.
- Lots of transit service goes near Safeco Field.
- SODO-area transit service operates via regular routes & stops and there are no post-game reroutes.
- There is no transit service on 1st Av S north of S Lander St.
Auburn Days Festival and Parade
- Sat, 8/12 – 7:00 AM–2:00 PM
- Metro routes 180 & 181 will be rerouted.
Rainier Valley Hertitage Festival & Parade
- Sat, 8/12 – 8:00 AM–4:00 PM
- Metro Route 7 will be rerouted.
Sounders FC match
- Sat, 8/12 at 1:00 PM;
- Ride regularly scheduled Transit service to or near CenturyLink Field;
- Regular fares apply.
- Expect traffic & possible Transit delays before & after games on routes that serve SODO, Stadium, Pioneer Square & downtown Seattle area.
- Sun, 8/13 – 6:00 AM–8:30 AM
- Metro Route 40 will be rerouted.
- Sundays only, through 9/24, 6:00 AM–5:00 PM
- Metro routes 180 & 181 will be rerouted.
Long-term Construction Reroutes
120th Av NE is closed between Totem Lake Blvd & NE 128th St
- Through Sunday, 12/31 – at all times;
- Metro routes 235, 236, 238 and 277 are rerouted.
Main St is closed in downtown Bothell
- Through Sunday, 12/31 – at all times;
- Metro routes 243, 312, 342, 372 and Sound Transit Route ST 522 are rerouted.
Long-term Construction Closures
The South Bellevue Park-and-Ride closure
- Through mid-year 2022 for East Link construction.
- Metro Route 241 & Sound Transit Express routes 550, 555 and 556 are affected. During this time, use the stop on Bellevue Way SE just north of 112th Av SE, across the street from the park-and-ride.
- Heading toward the Bellevue Transit Center, these routes will continue to serve the stop on Bellevue Way SE, just outside the park-and-ride.
- Visit Sound Transit for information about the East Link project, and alternate park-and-ride options.
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The 13th Floor, a Ghost Story
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Metrodome Cranks Up the Heat to Melt Off Snow
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Metrodome officials are making sure the heavy snow in downtown Minneapolis doesn't bring the roof down.
It's been almost two years to the day since 17 inches of snow in 24 hours tore holes in the inflatable dome, forcing the Vikings to play the final two games of the season elsewhere. The repair project cost $22.7 million.
Steve Maki, director of facilities for the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Authority, confirms they cranked up the heat after Sunday's Vikings-Bears game. And he says they'll keep it that way until the storm passes. He says everything is going well so far.
Maki also says jokingly that sportswriters complaining about the heat up in the press box could have a pretty nice sauna if they splash some water on the rocks.
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You're Engaged! Now What? The Top 11 Things You Need to Do Right After You Get the Ring
He popped the question. You said yes. Hooray! You're engaged! Here's what to do next (you know, right after you call your mum).
Call Your Relatives (Even the Ones You Never Really Talk to)
Engagement DOs and DON'Ts start almost the second you say yes. Your first task? Sharing the exciting news with the world. And how easy would it be to do so in 140 characters or fewer or with a quick status update? No matter how tempting, it's an engagement no-no to not pick up the phone and call your family members and friends. All of them. No one likes to be the last to know—and getting the news via mass e-mail, Twitter update or Facebook is especially rotten. So set aside a few hours and plow through your phone book (you can enlist your mum, sister, aunt or another family representative to help you out).
Get Your Ring Sized
Your stunning sparkler is perfect in every way, except for the wiggle room (or maybe it's a little tight and turning your fingertip a not-so-Tiffany-blue). Get it resized ASAP—after all, you'll be showing it to everyone and the last thing you want is to lose the thing an hour after you get it. The process can take just a few hours or, at most, a few days.
Get Your Ring Insured
Nothing can replace the sentimental value of your ring, but if something happens to it, at least you can get your (or his) money back. If you have home insurance, call to add the ring to your policy. You may need an official appraisal before you can officially add the ring, so call the insurance broker to see what paperwork is required.
Set a Date—Even If It's Not the Date
After "congratulations" and "let me see your ring," here's the first thing people will ask: "When's the wedding?" It'll save you lots of headaches if the two of you come up with a vague-yet-specific answer, like "We're shooting for early 2019" or "We like the idea of next autumn." People appreciate feeling like they're in the loop, and they'll also put the event into their mental datebooks. Plus, it'll give you and your guy a little direction as you start planning.
Create a Wedding Blog
Now that you've told everyone the good news (on the phone, missy—see step No. 1), set up a wedding site or blog to keep everyone apprised of your nuptial news. Post photos, write your "how we met" story, have a guestbook—make it as personal and interactive as you want. Get the bare bones up first; later on, you can get fancy with wedding details, hotel advice, maps, quizzes, daily thoughts and whatever other wedding whimsies you want to share. Send it around to those who ask, but be prepared for the fact that your mum and your BFF may be the only ones who want to read it.
Daydream (a Lot)
Get a bunch of wedding magazines, watch Father of the Bride for feel-good tears, (love those films!) look at maps for honeymoon ideas, blog-stalk engagement sites and Glamour Weddings. Ensure you book your favourite wedding photographer as soon as your date is confirmed. Read why here. Give yourself permission to let your brain turn into its own wedding channel. If you haven't been planning your wedding since you turned five, that's OK; now's a good time to collect ideas that inspire you and to learn what you want—and don't want—in your wedding.
Plan a Night Out With Just Your Fiancé
Until the celebrations and parties and wedding are finally over, there's not going to be much "just the two of you" moments. Get in some good face time with each other now—and make it a point not to talk wedding details. Yes, there's a ton to do, but for now, it's perfectly OK to hit the town and celebrate—just you and him.
Get a Wedding Planner
No, not a wedding planner person—at least not yet. Get an iPhone app, a datebook, a calendar or some other kind of keep-organized device to help you create a timeline for major wedding-related tasks. While you're at it, pick up a wedding-planning binder to keep all those inspirational ideas you found.
Start a Wedding Savings Account
Remember that even a simple, small wedding costs money (and sometimes a lot more money than you would ever imagine). A wedding savings account is an easy way to keep cash accumulating for the big day, so you don't have to rely on plastic to bear the brunt later on. Open a basic savings account at any bank—or look online for higher-interest accounts at sites like http://www.moneysavingexpert.com — then deposit a set amount every payday that'll go toward wedding-related expenses only.
Ask Your Parents (and His) for Their Ideal Guest Lists
Before you start putting a number on how many guests you want, it's time to ask both your parents about whom they'd most want to invite. Be sure to tell them this is just a preliminary list and things might change—it's on paper, not set in stone. After you have their "dream" lists, you can add and edit and trim. Helpful hint: Ask them to help prioritize their wish list by breaking it into tiers—it'll help you make cuts later on.