FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018

International call for revoking the ICNIRP’s mandate and for better standards

A call for better protective standards, and revoking the mandate of ICNIRP is made by more than 244 scientists from around the world after ICNIRP ports its draft for updates on it’s Radiofrequency so-called safety standards (a quick look reveals nothing is changed, the standards are still note protective of humans, protective of the industry and are based only on heat effect of the radiation).

The letter will be sent to the WHO – World Health Organisation.

The letter is available at – http://www.iemfa.org/wp-content/pdf/EMF-Call-2018-10-30.pdf
Scientists and NGOs can join in and ask their names to be added to the call.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

ICNIRP does it again – rejecting the finding of NTP and Ramzini studies that RF radiation may cause and promote cancer

The ICNIRP does it again – rejecting the finding of NTP and Ramzini studies that RF radiation may cause and promote cancer.

Microwave news report that ICNIRP has released an 8-page note that tries to explain why these studies’ findings will not affect the old, non-protective standard for RF exposure.
By that ICNIRP proves once again that the role it chose to play is to protect the industry from any update of the easy-to-follow, non-protective RF exposure guidelines. These non-protective guidelines were written in 1998, that don’t cover health and biological damage from RF exposure and that take into consideration only immediate damage from the rise of temperature due to RF exposure.

The trick they use is repeated every once in a while when a new study finds evidence that RF radiation exposure can cause or promote cancer or damage health in any other way.
They use the magic words: “inconsistent” and ” unreliable”  to undermine the findings while accepting and promoting studies that show a safer picture, even if proven wrong (for example the Danish cohort study)

ICNIRP prove itself once again as inadequate, biased, and irrelevant.

Therefore I suggest changing “ICNIRP” name to “ICNIRIP”.
It is a small change that will bring more “reliability” to the group.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2018

5G might radiate more than the non-protective exposure standards.

A post in Lennart Hardell’s blog about a presentation given by Ericsson about the “challenge in meeting safety standards during 5G deployment”.
In it’s presentation (link in the post), Ericsson gives an estimation of the radiation emission from 2 of it’s infrastructure products (antenna), one at 3.5GHz, the other a 28GHz. 
Ericsson claims that the current ICNIRP (non-protective, heat-based, “good for the industry” ) standards are going to make the deployment difficult. 
I am afraid that now the industry will put pressure to allow even less protective standards to comply with the need for faster, cheaper, easier deployment of 5G.
It is very sad that the industry still thinks it can save money by exposing the public to more radiation, instead of developing their products and infrastructure in such a way that will reduce users’ and the public’s exposure.

Hardell’s post – 
https://lennarthardellenglish.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/impact-of-emf-limits-on-5g-network-roll-out/

Presentation – https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/20171205/Documents/S3_Christer_Tornevik.pdf

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The science and technology committee in the Israel parliament (KNESSET) meeting about “the careless deployment of 5G”

Yesterday, the 20/11/2018, together with Prof’ Ben Ishay, MD Yael Stain, Itamar Wagner, Batzion Shlomi, Shay Danon, Adit Aaron, I attended a meeting about the “careless deployment of 5G”.

The meeting was called by KM(Knesset Member) Yael Cohen Pharan and led by KM Uri Makleb.

The video from the meeting is in Hebrew and available at the following link, and below – https://youtu.be/sV5s_73y8eg

I talked at around 1:32:09 
My Main points were:
1.  As far as EHS being Nocebo effect, this wrong assumption is based on faulty studies that exposed EHS people to several types of EMF even where there was not supposed to be any exposure, and on studies that exposed EHS people again and again without enough resting time between exposures. 

2. As far as the saying that “more cell towers lower the radiation”, yes they do so for the radiation from the cell phone but they add environmental radiation which is not measured correctly and not taken into account because it is lower than the so-called safety standards.  

3. I explained that most of the people who come to me for help have no idea of what radiation is, how when, and from what it is being transmitted, and what a cellphone tower looks like. So this also rolls out the nocebo effect. 

4. It is possible to reduce exposure in simple steps and it is easy to set up the phone to radiate in lower levels, for less of the time.

5. My main point was that EHS people are being ignored and no one counts or calculates the economic toll of their condition in the total economic calculation of deploying and using cellular and wireless technologies. 

Speakers

KM Uri Makleb. 00:00
MK Yael Cohen Pharan – 04:14 

Adit Aaron – 12:30 – talked about her experience with symptoms of EMF exposure, then cooping with brain cancer and then becoming an activist trying to help others.

Itamar Wagner – 27:30 – talked about the activities against cellphone antennas and about the danger of exposure to RFR. 

Md Yael Stain –  32:50  – Talked about EHS, EMF health risk, and effect, about the other voices that say “all is good” and about her medical and scientific history in this field. 

Prof Paol Benishay –  1:14:25 – Talked about his findings (in his study of 5G mm-wave frequencies) , about EMF health effect and EHS.

Amir Borenstein –  1:32:09  – Please see above.

Shay Danon – 1:52:20  – Talked about moving to the far north part of Israel to avoid the radiation, living in a low EMF house, and about our obligation to do the right thing for the sake of our children. 

Batzion Shlomy – 1:56:21 – Talked about not using cell phones and wireless devices, about refusing a water smart meter, and getting fined. Batzion continued to describe her communication with Prof’ Sigal Sedesky about the health risks of RF radiation and cell phones in particular. 

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Link – משרד התקשורת מסיר חסמים כדי לאפשר את שיפור הכיסוי והאיכות בתשתיות הסלולר | משרד התקשורת (www.gov.il).

Increased Exposure

In a world where the so-called safety standards for RF radiation are based on the assumption that heat is the only possible danger (and no health risk exists), these new antennas will be everything but “low radiation”. These new cellphone antennas will most likely be installed next to houses, buildings, schools, and crowded places (and in some cases in or on top of them). Therefore public exposure to 24X7, multi-frequency, high-duty-cycle RF radiation will increase dramatically. More cases of Electromagnetic sensitivity are explored.

4G/5G vision = antennas every 50 meters

The ministry’s vision for 4G and 5G networks is to have a cellphone antenna every 50 meters. This new decision of the ministry will drive the deployment of cellphone antennas every 50 m. This will lead to more people living, sleeping, and working in direct eyesight, and in close proximity to a cell phone antenna.

More antennas = more radiation

Many small antennas – almost all the buildings are in direct line of sight

One big antenna – only some of the buildings are in direct line of sight

Line of sight = more of the radiation hits the building = higher radiation levels, even if the antennas will be smaller or with lower output power

Just like in the USA.

This vision is similar to what is happening in the last few years in the USA.

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The committee approved sections of the omnibus bill that will allow the installation of new cell towers, up to 6 meters high, with much less regulations. These sections are pushed by the ministry of communication and are backed up by the captive environmental protection ministry. Along the way the communication ministry and environmental protection ministry emphasis that as more and more antennas will be deployed and installed, the radiation levels from the phones will reduce, but usually fail to say or acknowledge that the surrounding RF levels are expected to go up.

One sided

The committee did not hear any representative of people that where hurt from the existing deployment or Electromagnetic Hyper sensitive people that are expected to be the one that will be hurt from this more.

My prediction

I fear that this low will be the first step in deployment and installation of what is referred as “small cells”, every 50 meter, every street corner. This will most likely will cause most EHS people to become refugees, and will most create more EHS people, more health effect and more victims

Links

For those of you who know Hebrew, these are the links to the committee meetings:

First meeting 12/10/2021 – https://main.knesset.gov.il/Activity/committees/Pages/AllCommitteesBroadcast.aspx?TopicID=22462

Second meeting 14/10/2012 –
https://main.knesset.gov.il/Activity/committees/Pages/AllCommitteesBroadcast.aspx?TopicID=22503

Artical – https://www.calcalist.co.il/technology/article/ryknzdbsy

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These industries are protected by the high nonprotective, heat-based RF exposure standards of the FCC and ICNIRP. Both are for devices and infrastructure. Both the FCC(US) and ICNIRP (EU and most of the rest of the world) base their standards on the assumption that other than heat, there is no possible known health effect to RF radiation.

Recently, the FCC standard for RF exposure was recently called out by the D.C. circuit court as ” arbitrary and capriciousin  ” when rolling in the case of EHT and CHD against the FCC. the court also noted that “The Commission failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation unrelated to cancer.”.

This rolling was not given in a vacuum, as from one side the industry is racing for the fast deployment of 5G, the development of 6G, and the introduction of new smartphones, “small cells” antenna, new WIFI-6, ZigBee, and many other new wireless communication standards, technologies and products. On the other side of reality, more and more studies show that RF Radiation can cause biological changes that can lead to health effects, in RFR levels far below the so-called “safety standards”. In addition to the studies that are done in the theoretical and experimental academic ivory towers, here in the ‘new-smart-wireless-cellular world’, more and more people are becoming sick because of RFR exposure.

I got hurt in 2004. Back then I could feel the RFR from my cell phone after 20-40 seconds, but I was generally OK when going down the street, being around people with smartphones, and driving the roads. But as the deployment of 3G networks and the adoption of smartphone and WIFI routers and devices grew, my sensitivity to RFR worsen and came to a stage I could not be around people with smartphones, WIFI routers, or 100 meters from a cell tower (could not walk the streets or drive my car on the highway) without symptoms. For a year and a half, I struggled until learning to cope with this new condition, learning about RFF, how to measure it, how to reduce exposure, and how to protect from it.

Since then I have recovered slowly, but not completely. I left the Hi-Tech industry in 2013, and started to devote all my time to building awareness to RFR and Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity (EHS), or as it was called before Microwave sickness, for developing RFR personal protection clothes and garments and measuring devices, and for supporting EHS people all across the globe.

Since I got hurt by RFR, the industry was not idle. 3G, 4G networks have been deployed. Smartphones have become the preferred personal communication device for most people. Wireless devices become present in every household, office, public area, and even on & in people’s bodies. Smart meters were deployed across the world, and now we are facing an acceleration of this process as we go into the next stage of the wireless revolution, 5G, smart cities, and IoT.

5G, small cells, 5G phones, IoT, smart cities, and many more booming new technologies are aiming to be the next big thing, and the next money maker for this hungry, aggressive beast we got used calling ‘the wireless and cellular industry.

Since I started supporting EHS people with handling their condition, measuring RFR, reducing exposure, and using protection, I have seen waves of victims on each step the industry made. My guess is that the next year is not going to be any different and I think it is going to be even worse. than before. As with the deployment of 5G (mainly small cells) and the usage of new 5G/4G smartphones, both are developed and tested according to high non-protective standards, many more are going to experience the bad side of wireless and cellular technology. Many more are going to suffer from symptoms that come with exposure and eventually becoming fully EHS.

If the industry will continue to hide behind bad science, captive regulation agencies like the FCC and the FDA, and high non-protective, heat-based RFR standards, they will become a bigger blow to humanity than the tobacco industry was.

It is time for the industry to acknowledge the need for change. To stop thinking about the short-term profit they will make before being caught red-handed. It is time for the industry to think about how to create a better & healthier world and better products. Doing better not by deploying more lucrative products and denying any possible risk, but by acknowledging the damage it did, acknowledging the people who were hurt in the process, acknowledging the health effect of their products, infrastructure, and technologies, and by adopting new health-protective safety standards. these new better, healthier standards will allow the industry to develop, deploy, and market new wireless technologies with much lower RFR exposure and less health damage.

If the industry will continue to count on its current power, influence, advocate groups, and political lobbies to push back the science showing damage & people that were hurt by RFR exposure. If the industry will not acknowledge that RFR exposure is not healthy even at low levels, the body count will eventually turn the tides against it. When this will happen, there will not be a way back, both for the industry and for many of us.

Acknowledge the biological damage of Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR) now!
Acknowledge Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and the people who already got hurt from RFR now!
Create, adopt and support real biological health-based RFR safety standards now!
Help in the creation of a better world, and stop making people sick, all for making just another buck, selling another 5G smartphone, and installing another small cell!

If you are part of this industry, and you have read this far down the post, I count on you to be part of the change.

Industry ….do the right thing!

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The section of the communication reform, in the omnibus bill for 2021-2022 will define the cellular companies cell phone antennas as “national infrastructure” and will allow the installation of 6 meter high antennas, on buildings, street light and traffic light, public transportation bus stops, with more ease and with less possibility for pushback from the citizens and municipalities.

These are the sections:

1. The installation of up to 6 meters high cellular antennas and mast, on top , or next to buildings, street light poles, traffic lights, public transportation bus stops, will not longer need a building permit – This will be used to rapidly installed what is called “small cells” for 5G and 4G nationwide.
2. All the equipment that is needed to run the antenna site will also be exempt from excessive use permits and would be installed on the roof or next to the site.
3. The examptetion of what was called “wireless access device” ( several cell phones antennas in a plastic box that was used in israel since 2004 to get around the need for building permits ) will be canceled (no need for it now as all new sites will be exampts for permits, exactly as the “wireless access devices” were).
4. Adding more antennas to an existing site will not need new permits – cell towers will get bigger, with more antennas.
5. Reinforcement of existing sites (towers) will also not need a permit (for the next 3 years) – again, cell towers will get bigger, with more antennas.
6. Cellphone towers and antenna infrastructure will be defined as “national Infrastructure” – this means that the public and municipalities will have less opportunities to abject to a future installation of a cell tower or site.
7. The Israeli National Infrastructure committee will also be allowed to plan and permit the deployment of cell towers and sites – This will allow the Israeli National Infrastructure committee , that will probably be housed with pro-industry representatives, to push forward many new installation and bypass remaining existing bodies or planning and approvals.
8. The IDF will cooperate in the process of deploying the new networks in the Judea and samaria territories.
9. The ministry of defence will pay for the use of new frequencies
10. Installation of a last mile fiber optic service in an apartment building will not need the approval of all or most attendees.. Somehow I have a feeling this will be used to deploy last mile wireless connections and not just fibers.

The cellular section of the bill is available for read (in Hebrew) and commenting (until 16/8/2021) at the following link – https://www.tazkirim.gov.il/s/law-item/a093Y00001XMzzrQAD/%D7%AA%D7%96%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7-%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%91-2021

You need to log in to the government site via the following steps:

1. Enter the bill
2. Scroll down and press “התחברות” 
3. Chose to login via facebook or gmail/google accounts 
4. Come  back to the specific bill’s page, using the search for clicking the link you got 
5. Scroll down to the comment section, and enter your remark, 

The section is also available (in Hebrew, from page 123) at – https://moj.my.salesforce.com/sfc/dist/version/download/?oid=00D1t000000uX5h&ids=0683Y00000Gwm6L&d=%2Fa%2F3Y000001VBiI%2FLNzyizFGxZI5iLBtRi6Wb0GyCg5euNhpxgGBgufmMOI&asPdf=false

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It seems that the ministre and it’s professional stuff do not acknowledge the possible health risk from exposure of RF radiation or Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, and push forward with trying to easy what is left of the regulation over cell phone towers erection.

The new sections will allow the installation of cellphone sites up to 6 meters (seems to apply with industry request to install what is called “small cells”, as in the USA) with no need for building approvals from local administrations.

By this the cellphone industry will be able to overpass some of the approval process on the way to installing a new tower. This will allow the industry and the ministry to advance their vision of 4G and 5G antennas in every street corner or every 50 meters.

The ministry PR effort continues trying to make the cass that more antenna will reduce users exposure (concentrating on the exposure from the device and over locing the radiation emitted from the antennas across the street) and that the only reason that people abject to these antennas is NIMBY.

Link in Hebrew – https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/article/bk4qpw4ad

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The committee is expected to create a more easy to operate environment for the carriers companies to deploy their cellular 4G and 5G network in israel.

The committee is expected to allow the installation of many more 4G & 5G cellular antennas, under the title of “wireless access devices” (several antennas in a box, similar to what is called “small cells” in the USA), and by that bypassing the regional and municipal building authorities.

This will cause more people to live next to a cell tower, without anything they can do about it.

The number of people suffering from the RF radiation emitted by these towers is expected to rise as well.

Article in Hebrew: https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001361443

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Time to understand, Reception = Radiation, Usage = Exposure

The radiation from cell towers is not negligible, and the so called safety standards don’t protect your health!

Minimize the use of smartphone and wireless devices, before the use will minimize you!

More info

What are cell tower?

A cell tower is the common name for structure with antennas that serve the cellular network. Big or small, they emit Radio Frequency(RF) Radiation 24X7.

Does the so called “safety standards” protect my health – no they don’t!

The so called safety standards, both by the FCC or ICNIRP are based on the assumption that the only possible effect of RF is heating of the tissue, which is caused only in high levels. These standards are 1000 (and more) times higher than the levels that were showed in studies across the world to cause biological changes and health effects.

In addition to the RF radiation emitted from the cell towers, it is also emitted from smartphones, smart meters, WIFI equipment, Bluetooth devices and other wireless devices. So when you use these device, even when the reception is good, you exposure yourself and other to more RF radiation (and also to more radiation from the tower).

For the RF radiation emitted from devices, such as smartphones, the so called safety standard is called “SAR”. Again it is base on the assumption that the only effect is heat, and allow very high levels of local RF exposure to be emitted from the devices and be considered “OK”.

What are the biological and health effects of RF radiation?

Biological changes are DNA damage, BBB damage, ERK creation, nerve damage and more. All are caused by non direct biological mechanisms and not and ionizing effect.

Health effect can be headaches, sleeping disorder, weakness, brain fog, memory loss and many more. In the long run , exposure to RF showed to be linked to several types of cancer. RF radiation is considered a “possible carcinogenic to humans” by the WHO’s IARC committee.

After few mouth of exposure, some people may become extremely sensitive to this radiation. This fenomena is also called EHS- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity or Microwave Sickness. More and more people are becoming EHS , while the even existence of this sickness is being rejected by the FCC , ICNIRP and other industry influenced bodies and scientist.

Slowly the recognition of this fenomena and wide apparing new sickness is being accepted, as more and more people suffer from it, and as new studies shade light over the new condition and the biological mechanisms and health effect of RF radiation.

More studies and science

Please see more science reports, declaration and studies on the following page on our site.

What to do?

It is our goal to create more awareness to the possible health effect of EMF radiation, mainly RF radiation, to EHS and to the link between the usage of RF radiation emitting devices, like smart phones and the exposure to the RF radiation. In addition to just being aware (and allowing other to become aware) we preach and practice ways and techniques to reduce exposure.

Reduce exposure

limit the use of smartphones and wireless devices – move back to wired!

• In the house and office use only corded wired phones
• Turn OFF all unnecessary transmissions in your smartphone (DATA, WIFI, BLUETOOTH, NFC and more) so the phone will radiate as less frequent as possible.
• When using the phone to talk, hold it as far as possible from your body and head.
• Use only wired earpiece/ earphones.
• In the house and office use only the wired internet network (easy to install , see – https://www.norad4u.com/emf-exposure-reduction/using-wireless-networks-wifi/#How_to_create_your_wired-RF_free_network

More info about exposure reduction and moving back to wired

Please see more info about exposure reduction and moving back to wired on these pages on our site:

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PR of 5G started and all carriers demoed their abilities in order to create demand for their services.

Pelephone announced that their network is ready to operate and will be operated in the next few months. In the next year we will probably see more and more antenna sites upgraded with 5G antennas. According to the action contract each carrier is expected to install/update/deploy at least 250 5G antennas in the following year in order to provide basic cavarage in 2021..

First pictures came from Ramat Gan , a city next to Tel Aviv, where a communication tower with 2G, 3G & LTE(4G) seems to be upgraded with 5G (LTE Advanced) antennas (in Red)

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