Less Radiation

Ryanair recently announced that they are fitting 14 of their 166 aircraft with mini cellphone masts.

The technology comes from On Air and tells each mobile to transmit at minimum power, to minimise any possible interference with the quite important in-flight electronics! Up to six passengers at a time will be able to use the system – any more presumably cause too much interference?

When the service starts only O2 & 3 networks will be compatible and the cost of calling will be a whopping £2 per minute or 40p for a text!

I’m so glad I don’t fly Ryanair.

Taken from an article by Lisa Adams of the Scottish Daily Record about Electrosensitivity – published 08/09/2008 :

IT’S called an allergy to modern life and half of Scots in the next 10 years could be at risk from this crippling illness, according to scientific research.

Victims of the condition, which is triggered by electromagnetic waves from mobile phones, power lines, microwaves and computers, suffer headaches, crushing chest pains, nose bleeds and a loss of feeling in arms and legs.

Experts report that up to 1.5million people in the UK already have their lives blighted by electro-sensitivity, with symptoms that also include heart palpitations, tiredness, fainting, light sensitivity and skin problems.

Mike Bell, chairman of the Radiation Research Trust, said: “We are seeing a significant increase in enquiries from individuals suffering from these symptoms.

“We’re concerned that many people could be living with health-related electro-sensitivity symptoms without realising the cause.

“Doctors in the UK are not trained to recognise this condition. They could be misdiagnosing patients and treating them with drugs rather than investigating the cause.”

One victim has compared the condition with life as a human aerial – their body overreacting to electrical waves in the environment. Today, as a scientific conference opens in London, public health expert Dr Gerd Oberfeld will predict that if current trends continue, up to 50 per cent of people could suffer from electro sensitivity symptoms in the next 10 years.

The World Health Organisation is also backing research, stating that: “Electrical hypersensitivity is a real and sometimes disabling condition.”

Sufferers are particularly vulnerable to the £2.5billion police communication system Tetra – Terrestrial Trunked Radio – which has been introduced throughout the UK. In the past three years, more than 1000 masts have been erected in Scotland. They pulse at 17.6hertz – above the 16Hz frequency the Government’s Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones warns might affect brain activity.

Experts say radio waves at this frequency can cause calcium to leak from the brain, causing damage to the nervous and immune systems. If the masts are less than 15 metres high, they don’t need planning permission.

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Harlem Brundtland suffers from electro-sensitivity.

She said: “I felt a local warmth around my ear. But the agony got worse. It turned to discomfort and headaches every time I used a mobile phone.

“Some people develop sensitivity to electricity and radiation from equipment such as mobile phones or PCs.

“If this can lead to adverse health effects such as cancer or other diseases, we do not know yet. But I think we should follow the precautionary principle.”

An article in New Scientist on the 20th of September suggests that non-lethal weapons are gaining favour with super-states wanting to wage war peacefully! What a complete crock of shit.

Plastic Bullets, Tear Gas, Electroshock devices & Stinger Grenades…

The latest must-have item for any self respecting dictator (that’s you George) is the microwave gun being built by a US company that  creates ‘sounds’ inside a persons head! So for those of you who think i’ve been spouting complete shite for the last nine months … at last comes a little validation – that’s right, they’ve got a microwave gun that induces the same sensations as real schizophrenia (I wonder whether it uses Tetra, DECT or GSM –  HeHeHe…).

What do they intend to do with these safe weapons? Well if you’re wearing a Silver Bobinet head garment, or tin foil hat, not much, obviously! Could this be the first time in history that an opposing army appear for battle wrapped in Bacofoil? Let’s hope so.

Anyway, the conclusion of the article is that these non-lethal weapons actually escalate violence and are a bad idea. I say nuke the lot of them, after all this website is only opposed to pulsed non-ionising radiation.

Love & Peace…

An interesting episode of Larry King live featuring: Dr Paul Song, Dr Keith Black & Devra Davis.

They debate the damage cell phone radiation may cause over 20 or 30 years. Remember we’ve only had pulsing GSM phones for 10 years.

Personally, I’m not totally convinced they will give you cancer.

However, I am still totally convinced that, for maybe 1 in 100 people (that must be 400,000+ UK voters, Gordon), being to close to the main beam of a mast, or having DECT cordless phone & WiFi router in your home can cause you to feel fuzzy-minded, not quite yourself & maybe end up at your doctors office asking for anti-depressants ( Paxil / Seroxat / Valium…)

If that one in 100 people happens to be one of your kids, then you better expect them to be getting prescribed Ritalin or other similar concoctions… Remember Ritalin has a similar effect on the brain to slow-release Cocaine. Before you start pumping your kids full of needless medications: try two weeks of no WiFi & no Dect phone in your home – during the night. Just turn the WiFi Router & Dect phone base-staion off at the mains. Get them out in the fresh air, riding bicycles & having fun. Keep them away from all that electronic crap that now passes for a childhood. Buy them a trampoline and make them bounce for 30 minutes a day, even in the rain! That way they’ll sleep soundly without drugs.

If one thing makes me feel sad about our childrens’ potential future it’s that Orwell’s & Huxley’s novels are being treated like a blueprint for the One-World-Order future. If you put arseholes in charge of decision making you can expect nothing better! Encourage your kids to read books, maybe 1984 & Brave New World 😉

Just because computers do become capable of surveying everybody – always – it doesn’t mean they should!

The Sunday Times’s InGear supplement reports today – Microwave beam weapons are coming soon.

Mark Harris reports that the Home Office are investigating the potential of these weapons, and the Scientific Development Branch will publish a report sometime next month.

These weapons come under the broad description of Active Denial Systems or ADS. They can focus a beam of Microwave RF at an individual (or group) 500 yards away that causes the victim to feel an incapacitating burning sensation.

The US based Raytheon comapny are behind a prototype weapon called Silent Guardian. The original version was vehicle mounted and weighed several tons. As with so many things, miniaturisation is the goal. They have already scaled the device down to backpack size, although battery requirements will mean it won’t be incorporated in the next Nokia mobile!

Apparently they have done over 10,000 test firings on willing human volunteers… I wonder how much that job payed? Anyway, they say that 99% of people, who expressed a preference, said ‘it was jolly uncomfortable’. The weapon is designed to be fired in short bursts of between one and six seconds at a range of several hundred yards – during testing one unlucky soul got much too close and the resulting burns required skin grafts. Eek.

One thought does occur to me though. If it fits in a rucksack and you need to be several hundred yards away to avoid getting burnt, then what happens to the poor bastard doing the firing? Even with a silver coated bobbinet all-in-one romper suit and a big old earthing strap, that’s got to be bloody dangerous. Can it be operated by remote control? I’m guessing that this item could also be pretty good at upsetting a room full of computers several hundred yards away too? Now that could be fun!

Apparently the Home Office don’t have plans to give it to the village Bobby just yet, but surely it’s only a matter of time… The US Air Force is claimed to be one of the first paying customers for the system.

Just another tale from a Crazy World.

The Nintendo DS must be one of the most popular handheld games consoles of all time. My six year old son absolutely adores his.

Maybe you’ve got kids and they love their DS’s too?

Okay, I have a question for you. Would you let your six year old child sit 12 inches away from a constantly transmitting wireless access point for 1 hour?

Would you let them sit 1 metre away from three full-on data swapping access points for an hour?

It’s a kind of sick question really. We know there may be a risk and it’s sensible to adopt the ‘precautionary principle’ advocated by the Stewart Report of 2000 (They said kids under 8 shouldn’t have mobiles, full-stop. WiFi & mobiles are exactly the same at this level).

Okay, here’s the thing. When a Nintendo DS is being played by a kid on his own it gives out no WiFi signal at all. But when you have two or more children playing against each other, in multi-player games – they turn into ad-hoc wireless access points. One DS becomes the pseudo access point, and the other clients. Large amounts of data are being transferred – much more than an average little-used regular WiFi point would emit. In multi-player mode the Nintendo DS can be a source of potentially dangerous Electrosmog.

Studies carried out in 2008 have conclusively revealed that mobile phone radiation wrecks the quality of sleep in adults an hour before bedtime. The WiFi in the DS will produce the same effect in your kids.

By all means let your kids use their DS before bedtime, but don’t let them play multi-player games against their siblings!

If you’re really concerned, don’t let them use the wireless features of the DS at all.

If your children are having trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating at school & showing unexplained signs of Autism, then this is one more thing you could try eliminating for a short time, while hunting for the solution.

Of course, if you live in a home jam-packed full of DECT phones, DECT baby alarms, WiFi routers & PCs, Video Senders, you can safely ignore our advice, as it will make very little difference…

No, we’re not suggesting getting your mobile phone wet.

New Scientist magazine reported yesterday – researchers have put up several Bluetooth monitoring points around Bath town centre. As around 50% of people that own mobiles walk around with Bluetooth enabled, the researchers were able to track peoples movements and social interactions around the town centre. (For ‘Social Interaction’ read – blokes beaming porn to each other in the pub.)

Vassilis Kostakos from the University of Bath sited four Bluetooth transmitters in the city centre. If you live in Bath and were wondering why your battery has been going flatter quicker, now you know why.

Vassilis’s tracking stations have been beaming out Bluetooth Inquiry Requests to every phone with Bluetooth enabled, and each time a visible Bluetooth phone receives an Inquiry Request it transmits a packet back to the device querying it. This packet contains the phones unique Bluetooth OUI, which is burned into each cellphones firmware.

The OUI is in the form 00:11:22:33:55:FF and the first 3 pairs identify the manufacturer of the device. Also, they would be able to collect your phone name, which is the identifier you can edit yourself – a lot of people change this to their real name, or nickname.

Of course it’s also possible to track someone using the regular GSM phone signal, by using several masts to triangulate the signal – but this is only good to a few hundred metres in the most ideal conditions – and unlike Bluetooth tracking, it’s not easy for an amateur to setup.

Vassilis’s experiment proves that using a combination of GSM & Bluetooth, you could track an individual at close range. If you were privy to the phone companies inside information you could look up the IMEI number in their database to find the home address of any individual… hypothetically of course!

Bluetooth is normally a short range technology, 10 metres for most phones and 100m for Bluetooth on a PC. However, our own experiments with modified USB Bluetooth dongles & external antennas show that you can pickup the signals from Bluetooth devices comfortably at 700 metres with a directional dish antenna.

Today’s Mail on Sunday magazine ‘You’ poses the question: ‘Are you sleeping with the enemy?’

Yes, another mainstream magazine dares to link Mobiles, Wifi routers and other electronic devices with poor sleep. In the article Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, says that, ‘ There’s more than sufficient evidence that mobile phone exposure an hour before bedtime adversely affects deep sleep ‘.

Others in the article report the classic fuzzy-mindedness that over-use of RF emitting gadgets can bring on. The article suggests that you turn off your mobile at bedtime.

While this is good advice, not a single mention is made of the danger from DECT cordless phones. The article states that a Mobile left on the bedside table will talk to the cell tower every ten minutes or so – well in our experience it’s more like every half an hour, for a five second burst. That isn’t going to disrupt your sleep. However, having a DECT cordless phone near your bed almost certainly will.

If you didn’t already know: the DECT cordless phone’s base station – the main docking point, if you have several handsets – gives out a constant pulse of RF, all the time. Even when you’re not talking on the handset. Keeping it a few feet from your head, while trying to sleep, is not such a good idea. Nor should you have a DECT base unit next to the home PC you use for hours at a time. All those hours you spend feet from a DECT cordless docking station really could leave you feeling completely ‘Spaced Out’.

So, while the article in the Sunday Mail is undoubtedly well intentioned, it could have payed more attention to DECT.

Originally published in The Independent newspaper back in January 2008.

Using up all those free minutes before bedtime can seriously disrupt your sleep pattern. This is the conclusion of researchers in Sweden & the USA, in a properly controlled trial.

Critics from the mobile industry were quick to dismiss the effect as ‘no worse than having a coffee at bedtime’. But, up until very recently they insisted that no non-thermal effects existed with mobiles – now it seems that they’ve changed their tune…

Full original article from The Independent.

Micro Mart magazine reports this week that OFCOM have given British airlines the go-ahead to install phone masts (picocells) on planes. The picocells will be switched off for take-off & landing, and will only be activated above 10,000 feet. The report states that BMI & Ryanair plan to install the technology soon. Great. Recycled air & electrosmog.