Okay, I'll keep my "day job." But am definately having fun with and letting off some steam with my new comic strip, Microwave Nation: Making Waves. It is not meant to be traditionally funny or give you cliff-hanger episodes, but a simple re-telling of today's strange-but-true technological situation as I see it.
Pixton is a great site if you want to create a cartoon strip but do not draw. My characters are canned, but it is fun to choose and create certain identities and interactions.
Microwave Nation: Making Waves
One and Two Hot New Discovery!
Three: Regulatory meeting turns heads
Four Please turn that thing off
Five Keep it out of our school
Six Utility man says
Seven
Get that thing off my house
Eight Doctor, can you help me?
Nine "My heart feels bumpy"
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Kohl, Obama, should not forget Alzheimer's environmental factor
110,000 Wisconsin residents suffer from Alzheimer's disease, according to Tom Hlavacek, the Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeast Wisconsin, wrote Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) in a recent email update. And 5.1 million Americans and their families are dealing with this scourge that steals memory and thinking skills.
Kohl, who is the current chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, stated that he supports President Obama's proposed additional $50 million towards "cutting edge Alzheimer's research," plus $106 million more for "research, outreach and support for Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers." He endorses "the development of treatments that can prevent, halt or reverse the course of Alzheimer’s by 2025."
Any search for new, expensive drugs or lists of preventative life-style changes will not do enough if pervasive environmental factors are left unaddressed. These legislators and leaders should listen to the growing number of doctors, scientists and public health experts, who are warning about chronic exposure to wireless radiofrequency (rf) radiation emissions as a serious factor in health conditions.
Sources of rf exposure include transmitting utility meters, cell phones and towers, Wi-Fi, wireless broadband, medical devices, DECT phones, etc. FCC standards are not protective against any effects besides tissue heating, despite thousands of studies evidencing other kinds of harm. Exposure is cumulative, but no authority is monitoring the levels from these combined devices.
Here are recent voices of medical professionals and studies warning about wireless:
The 2011 Seletun Scientific Statement, written by seven life scientists in five countries, based on a large and growing body of science showing biological effects from rf radiation exposure, includes evidence specifically addressing Alzheimer's.
Studies in section 12 of the BioInitiative Report - a list of over 2000 studies - give evidence for a link between Alzheimer's and rf exposure.
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) recently called for the roll back of rf transmitting utility meters because chronic rf radiation at levels below FCC heating standard can cause health risks, according to their assessment of the scientific literature. Rf exposure affects brain, cellular and genetics areas, impacting memory and Alzheimer's conditions.
The Santa Cruz Public Health Department, CA, formally called for the moratorium on transmitting utility meter installation, and published extensive research on the health effects of rf radiation as supporting evidence. (Attachment B, page 6, Alzheimer's reference).
The Santa Cruz Public Health Department, CA, formally called for the moratorium on transmitting utility meter installation, and published extensive research on the health effects of rf radiation as supporting evidence. (Attachment B, page 6, Alzheimer's reference).
U.S. policy makers should pay attention to these experts and studies if they honestly want to fight Alzheimer's in America. To leave this stone unturned and ignore environmental links in the devastating disease would be irresponsible and costly.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Why won't FAA tell us who is using drones above?
At Real Debate, I explore the ramifications of the recently passed FAA Authorization Act, which streamlines access to drone aircraft deployment above the U.S.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Wireless devices might be seeding 250,000 avoidable brain tumors per year
This excerpt is taken straight from the article:
Row over cancer risk of mobiles
AUSTRALIAN brain surgeon Charlie Teo is one of 16 world experts who have accused a global newspaper of publishing "technical errors and misleading statements" in an article that rubbished the idea mobile phones cause cancer.
In an open letter, the experts, who work in Europe, the US and Australia and have qualifications in fields such as cancer medicine, public health, statistics and electromagnetism, said the article published in The Economist "fails to provide critical information about this important public health challenge", and demanded that the journal print a correction.
The experts wrote that history was "replete with failures to control highly profitable carcinogenic substances, ranging from tobacco to asbestos, until proof of harm became irrefutable", and suggested on a conservative analysis that mobile phones and other wireless radiation might be seeding 250,000 avoidable brain tumours every year.
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That is not surprising to anyone who has actually studied the information and history of the unchecked proliferation of wireless devices. For those who want to know about why wireless has been allowed to grow unabated if it is dangerous, please read Arthur Firstenberg's "Silent Wireless Spring." Thanks.
Row over cancer risk of mobiles
- From:The Australian
- December 30, 2011
AUSTRALIAN brain surgeon Charlie Teo is one of 16 world experts who have accused a global newspaper of publishing "technical errors and misleading statements" in an article that rubbished the idea mobile phones cause cancer.
In an open letter, the experts, who work in Europe, the US and Australia and have qualifications in fields such as cancer medicine, public health, statistics and electromagnetism, said the article published in The Economist "fails to provide critical information about this important public health challenge", and demanded that the journal print a correction.
The experts wrote that history was "replete with failures to control highly profitable carcinogenic substances, ranging from tobacco to asbestos, until proof of harm became irrefutable", and suggested on a conservative analysis that mobile phones and other wireless radiation might be seeding 250,000 avoidable brain tumours every year.
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That is not surprising to anyone who has actually studied the information and history of the unchecked proliferation of wireless devices. For those who want to know about why wireless has been allowed to grow unabated if it is dangerous, please read Arthur Firstenberg's "Silent Wireless Spring." Thanks.
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