Knesset public committee amazed by an admission of the power company engineer

This post was written (translated) by a EMR activist in Israel (she asked to stay unnamed).

Knesset public committee amazed by an admission of the power company engineer 

A power company's engineer of hazards prevention unit, Dr. Ben Zion Cohen: "not all the populations are aware of the risk of radiation from high voltage powerlines, but why wake the bears from lying down?" Place: in a discussion with the Knesset public complaints committee with MP David Azulai, Ben Zion Cohen amazed the committee members. The subject of the meeting was the fight of residents to transfer high voltage power line in Bnei Brack, a fight that lasts for years.

Committee chairman: "the company cannot ignore its responsibility for risks"

Knesset Spokesman notice on the Knesset's website: 
Amazement among the members of the public complaints Knesset committee, on Wednesday, following the admission of an environment quality engineer in the power company. 

A year ago a resident of Bnei Brack, approached to the committee in order to get help, regarding high voltage powerline near his house. He funded a radiation check which revealed higher levels than the standard of the environment ministry. 
Committee chairman: it is impossible that a resident will be exposed to continuing risk because of an argument between the municipality and the power company about funding the transfer of high voltage powerline. 

David Azulai, the chairman, approached the mayor of Bnei Brack and to the power company executive in order that they find the way to transfer the powerline from the street. Azulai informed that he would approach the health ministry in order to check whether there exists policy on the subject of high voltage powerlines in populations centers. In the discussion it turned out that the cost to 
transfer the high voltage powerlines is between 400,000- 500,000 shekels. 

Knesset member Uri Makleb: dozens of families suffer from the radiation. These are people who pay taxes and it is impossible that the authorities risk their health. 

Knesset member Israel Ichler: The power company invests billions in infrastructures, they must transfer the powerlines by law. In the city of Manchester, UK, there was a case of parents who died following similar exposure to radiation and the local power company must pay money to the children for all their lives 

Manager of the environment quality unit of Bnei Brack's municipality, Moti Vilovski: The municipality gave twice a special area to transfer transformer in the street but the company avoided doing it.

Manager of the national marketing branch in the power company, Zvi Segev: according to 2002 law, the company is committed that all the network and the distribution in populated areas will be under the ground. Experts committee forced the company to give 8-10 billion shekels every year to bury the infrastructure in the ground in order to diminish the phenomenon of magnetic fields, in addition there was determined priorities order, in the head of the list are schools and kindergardens. 

Power company engineer in the unit of hazards prevention and environment license, Dr. Ben Zion Cohen: the company gave the env. ministry the list of installations in the country and radiation check for which the env. ministry is responsible for. Every citizen can file a request to transfer the line and the company checks the issue. The norm in the country enables several milligaus, which is true in the case of Reines stress in Bnei Brack. Not all the populations are aware of the risk of radiation, but why wake the bears of their lying down? already above 30 years there has been not proven an undoubted risk. Maybe yes maybe not. Whoever wants can enter into the website of the company and see if he is in the area or not.

Knesset spokesman press release:

"The power company builds on the lack of awareness and rejects transfer of high voltage power lines from populated areas"  (hebrew) 

http://www.knesset.gov.il/spokesman/heb/Result.asp?HodID=10251

Globes article (Hebrew)

http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?fbdid=1000749459

EMR awareness lessons in Israeli elementary schools

Original article in Hebrew (can be translated using Google translator) at: http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-280779-00.html.

A special constructed EMR awareness program was launched last week in the elementary school of the city/town of shoham Israel. The program that was written and is passed by an electrical engineer which is also an EMR tester and a PhD student at the university of Haifa, liran raz. The program is constructed out of 4 lessons about EMR sources, ways to limit exposure and about "wise" use of cell phones and other EMR sources. The program is a pilot and might be rolled out also to other schools.

I talked with liran and he said that the students were receptive of the message of the program that is aligned with the ministry of health guide lines.

The bellow text was written by Iris Atzmon (and published here with her approval):

The below program looks great, but the question is how it is possible to put WiFi in schools and at the same time to teach the pupils to be careful of radiation. The problem is also as reading Samuel Epstein taught me (he refers to cancer specifically, this is a different case but same principle)- - exposing pupils and at the same time telling them they need to change their habits, is an attitude of blaming the victims.

Iris

http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-280779-00.html

Kick off convention for the "lobby for reasonable cellphone use", Knesset-Israel

Pictures from the convention on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2004781593581.2105321.1064857742

Today (19/07/2011) a kick off convention for the "lobby for reasonable cellphone use" was held in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The convention and the lobby is lead by parliament member Juliya Shmalov-Berkovich. In the convention there were about 15 speakers (including PH.D. Zamir Shalita, BSC Ram dishon, Rony keller, Zvi Shevach, PH.D. Yael Stein, Mr. David Bar-Dror, Knesset members and myself) who gave short lectures and explanations. The aim of the lobby is to push for better cellphone's regulation and lows, to create and develop public awareness to the dangers of exposure to RF/cellphone radiation, to limit the use of cellphones by childrens, to include warning about possible health risk on cellphones, to make cellphone companies to send SMS messages with radiation warning every day, and to limit the why that cellphone companies will be able to publish their products, to develop and find ways to limit the public danger from cellphone radiation.

I was lucky to present a short presentation about the unknown side to radiation and about electromagnetic hyper sensitivity, It was the first time that an EHS person appeared in a meeting in the Israeli parlament and the first time that the issue of Electromagnetic Hyper sensitivity was addressed by other people in the convention.

Please note that Israel is a small country but it is the world leader on cellphone use, maybe we can also be world leader in awareness for EHS and RF/ELF dangers.

Pictures from the convention on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2004781593581.2105321.1064857742

I will soon convert the presentation to video clips with English voice over.

Since cameras are not allowed in the Knesset, I could not take photos, below you can find likes to photos taken by other.

Linkes:

Hebrew post about the convention (please use Google translator):

The Lobby page on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145699258840784

Pictures from the convention on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2004781593581.2105321.1064857742

And:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1920545528681.2094805.1093337110

Do You want beter EMF standards that protects the public and not the industry?

Do you want the WHO (World Health Organization) to adopt new EMF (electromagnetic radiation) standards that protect people and not the industry?

AVAAZ (http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php) is a nonprofit organization with more than 9000000 members, that operate from 192 countries and in 14 different languages.

Recently I got an email ( from Emma, an EMR awareness activist from new Zealand) calling me to fill in a request for AVAAZ to act on to put pressure on the WHO to adopt new EMR standards that take into consideration biological effects and cumulative exposures. I have decided to replay Emma's email and to fill in the request. Now I call upon you friends, activists and my readers, to do the same.

If you can please fill in the request at: http://www.avaaz.org/en/contact/

Choose the option: " Suggest a new campaign"

And fill in your details.

I suggest using the following text:

Header: 'EMF (Electromagnetic Radiation) Safety'

Message body:

"“Please lobby the WHO to promote a precautionary approach to public health and safety; reject the current ICNIRP EMF guidelines and develop new safety standards which take into account biological effects and cumulative exposures.

Thanks a lot!"

Please find attached a picture of my request.

Please feel free to forward this email to friends, relatives and people you know.

Together we can make a difference!!!

Thanks in advance!

No Rad(Amir)

Knesset panel endorses plan to minimize electromagnetic radiation exposure in schools

from the Jerusalem Post.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=196395

An article about reduction and prevention of exposure of students to EMR was published today on Israeli Internet newspaper.

An article about reduction and prevention of exposure of students to EMR was published today on Israeli Internet newspaper.

The environmental and health committee in the KNESSET (Israel parliament) called the government to adopt the recommendations of a technical committee to reduce and to prevent exposure to electromagnetic radiation of students in schools to, due to the possible health effect of electromagnetic radiation might have on their health.

From the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=196395

An automatically Hebrew to English translated (google translate) can be found on the following link: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3988033,00.html

I did my best to summaries the article:

The electromagnetic radiation sources that were addressed are:

· Mobile Phones

· Wireless computer network systems, WLAN, WIFI

· Laptops

· Power lines

· Electrical power transformers

· Electrical cabinets

· Additional sources.

The Recommendations:

· Compose a habit changing educational plan that will explain about Electromagnetic radiation, and about the possible related health risk. The plan will also cover tools and means to reduce the exposure to EMR like the right way to use mobile phones, reduction of the usage, limiting the number and length of calls, using a wired earpiece, sending SMS rather than talking and will discuss also the usage of cellphones while driving, using cellphone before going to sleep and additional aspects.

· Schools should Place of wired landline telephones for students to use.

· Consider establishment of special areas in schools in which mobile phone can be used and limiting the use of mobile phone elsewhere (similar to smoking areas).

· Ensuring that teachers will use cell phones only in the staff room or areas that will be allocate.

· The Ministry of Transport will ban cell phone use for young drivers and public transportation drivers (because of the serious impact on driving even when using headsets or handfree kits).

· Wired computer network in schools will be preferred over wireless networks.

· Reduce and limit students' exposure to radiation sources from the electricity network.

· Radiation tests will be mandatory at the end of construction or maintenance work done on the electricity network and infrastructure in schools.

· The Ministry of Environment Protection will present a schedule for radiation tests in all schools and educational institutions to be completed within one year.

· The Ministry of Education will map all the classrooms and schools to find classrooms that are located near or next to a possible electrical radiation source and will deliver this info to the Ministry of Environment Protection who will use it to priorities these classes to be tested first (for radiation).

· Radiation Hazards found in schools will be reported to the construction department in the Ministry of Education.

· The report will include a description of the hazard, methods of treatment and repair.

· The construction department in the Ministry of Education will be responsible to deal with the problems found, including in some cases evacuation of students from problematic classrooms, and reporting the problems to the Israeli eclectic company and to the school in question so they will fix the problems.

· After fixing the problem the Ministry of Environment Protection may make a second test.

I hope that the government will soon adopt these recommendations.

Dirty electricity and Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity conference in Israel!

For the first time in Israel the issue of electromagnetic Hyper sensitivity is going to be one of the topic of a convention that will be held in Israel next week. The convention is going to be hosted by DOLEV LTD which is the distributor of Dirty electricity filter and meters by Graham-Stetzer.

Dr Dr. Magda Havas (Professor & Researcher Trent University, Environmental and Resource Studies Department) is going to be one of the key speakers in this convention.

More info in this page ( Hebrew): http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1815740

Is that a cellphone in your pocket or you are just happy to see me?

Is it safe to carry the cellphone in your pocket?
Is it safe to use the cellphone for many hours?
When does the science say?
Could cellphone be the number one threat on human kind in the years to come?
All about these questions and more in this new great video clip.

Green cellphone antenna - good or bad?

http://www.greenairwireless.com/technology.html

I think that some radiation is still being emitted from the mobile phone, and since I think there is no safe level of EMR radiation than this is still bad.

In addition this kind of solutions can, at the end, encourage people to use their mobile phones, and by that will eventually increase the EMR levels that the public is exposed to both from the antenna and the mobile phone.

There is no magic solution for this issue. I guess that this green antenna can be part of a wider solution that will lower the radiation levels that the public is exposed to both from the mobile phone and from the antennas.

The first step is to admit that we have a problem, then try to reduce the usage, then try to create a safer solution.

An Isreali study find and reashore the link between exposure to EMR and cancer

An Isreali study find and reashore the link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices and electric applainces and cancer.

http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Environment/household_appliances_linked_to_breast_cancer_2207100704.html

The CTIA sues the San Francisco over cell phone warning low

The CTIA - The Wireless Association sues the San Francisco over cell phone warning low that passed, in city hall, a month ago. The low obligates sellers of cellphone to put a warning about the electromagnetic emission and the SAR levels over every cell phone being sold.

The CTIA and the cellphone companies don't want their user to know that there might be a danger in using a cell phones. They want their customer to continue to buy and consume cellphone and mobile services without thinking twice.

The SAR standard is questionable and does not cover any health effects and issues other than heating effect, but it is a good comparison standard that can show which phone heat more and which heat less, I mean radiates.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/23/carriers.sue.san.fran.say.fcc.has.authority/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366934,00.asp

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=6343

http://www.physorg.com/news199120581.html

Another delay in deploying the control and tracking system for monitoring the power output cellular antenna in israel.

Another delay in deploying the control and traking system for monitoring the power output cellular antenna in israel.


http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/environment-ministry-halts-cellular-antenna-permits-over-radiation-concerns-1.301163

For the article you van understand the following facts:

1. The system monitor only third-generation antennas!
2. The cellphone companies have 2 databases, one for to show and one top secret for technical use (with all the right data).
3. No one knows for years what really is going on with the cellphone masts!
4. There is a lot of doubt about the correctness of the data that the ministry of enviroment protections since there has been lots of changes in the cell masts deployment after they were approved and established.

5. Cellular companies change the power of the cell phone mast according to the nu,ber of , amount of traffic and technical needs independently and without updating the of the ministry of enviroment protections.

6. Cellular companies can do whatever they want with their masts ana antennas without anyone knowing about it and without any permission.

Also I understood that the electromagnetic radiation safty standart take into acount only termal damege and it does not take into account any biological damage. The only thing this device takes into account is clear and immediate harm her temperature. Many studies published in the past observed changes at the cell level and biological systems with very low radiation levels down to 1000 times less than the so called “safty Standard”.

Please understand – cellphone are not healthy!

Please understand – electromagnetic radiation exposure is not healthy!

Please reduce the use of mobile and wireless devices!

We need much lower standard!

How to stop a scientist

What will you do, as an executive of a company, when a scientist is about to repeat a study that shows that your product might have some health issues?

Option 1 – try to understand the study and fix the product.

Option 2 – Try and stop the study from being repeated, mmm this is much quicker and much cheaper!

How to do it?

Step 1 - wait until the researcher is on holiday or sick with limited access to emails and info about what is going on in his labs.

Step 2 – offer the institute in which the researcher is working an offer it can't refuse. Offer some money donation for new labs if and when the researcher will be stopped or at least delayed.

Step 3 – When the researcher will return and understand what is going on, give him the explanation that it is just a temporary delay and for the benefit of the institute. Offer him a smaller lab that will take a while to build up.

Sound like a conspiracy theory? Well , it is possible that this is what happened to professor Olle Johansson, when he tried to repeat a study about the health effect of electromagnetic radiation done by Dr. Magda Havas

Read more about it at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34590010/Support-for-EMF-researcher-goes-global

Details about Professor Olle Johansson:

http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=21984&a=54583&l=en

Dr. Magda Havassite:

http://www.magdahavas.com/

A video interview with Professor Olle Johansson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7YIZ1x0r8

What went wrong with the interphone study

The interphone study that was published this week and made a lot of headlines. After the dust of the battle slowly disappear the facts and problems of the study are shown clearly at the light of day.

Problems in the study:

1. "A regular user" is defined as a person how used the cellphone as much as for 30 minutes a month for half a year. The problem is that this is a very low use time, average in the world today is about 2 hours a month, every month!
2. The heaviest users in the study used their cellphone for more than 1640 hours in 10 years, meaning about 27 minutes each day. The problem is that today heavy users talk much more than that, actually most of the people I know talk more than that.
3. Users reported their use pattern using a form. In some cases their use pattern was reported by other persons. The problem is that this method is not consistence and not 100% accurate as people who don't use the phone a lot tend to report more use, and people that uses the phone a lot tend to report lower use.
4. Exposure to other types of electromagnetic radiation was not considered. The problem is that those how reported no use at all, may have been exposed to electromagnetic radiation which could have cause them cancer. This would cause the ratio between healthy people and sick people in the control group (who did not use the cellphone) to be higher than in reality (more sick people in the control group than in the real world). This will lead to OR <1>
5. People who died or were too sick before the study was finished were deducted from the study even if their data was already acquired. The problem is that this operation will reduce the number of people with cancer in all the users groups.

My conclusion is that this study has 2 final true results:

1. People how speak more than 27 minutes a day have a higher chance of developing brain cancer.
2. All this study outcomes are lower than in reality because of all the problems in it.

Ministry to keep close watch on cellular antennas’ radiation

The Environmental Protection Ministry will start monitoring the radiation levels emitted from mobile phone antennas by using a special designed system that will track the RF power outputs of mobile phone base station all over the country.
I don't think the system will be able to monitor the EMR levels in the environment but only to calculate them (not very accurate and does not takes into consideration buildings, metal objects and other radiation sources). In addition the standard in Israel is still high (42 microWatt/cm2) but all in all this is a good step forward and it might allow to better regulate the mobile phone networks.


http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=173911

EMR from blackberry while sending a ping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wcUzhkeaE

This video will show you how a ping looks like, how long the smart phone broadcast this signal and how much time will pass between one ping to the next. In this video you will see that the blackberry smart phone pings the nearest antenna every minutes, and the communication takes more than 10 seconds!

Each cell phone sends a communication signal, "Ping", to the nearest antenna every few minutes. Every smart phone emits RF (electromagnetic) radiation when sending or receiving an email.

Manny people use a smart phone as a working tool, they carry it with them all day long and use it to send and receive lots of emails and SMS.

When you carry your mobile phone with you all the day you are exposed to this RF Ping signal. When it is a smart phone and you use it to receive and send emails you are exposed to even more electromagnetic radiation.

Radiaiton in cars

The radiation issues in hybrid cars are turning to be a real thing. Reports from around the world about measurements of high radiation levels are coming out.

All "regular" cars radiate from low frequency electromagnetic sources like the alternator, car's electric system, and the layers. In hybrid and electric cars you have to add also the electric motors, the electric batteries, and the power conductor from the batteries to the motors.

In some of the cars there are also some high frequency radiation sources like the car's Bluetooth system, car tracking systems, the wireless key, Wi-Fi and mobile communication systems, and of course the passengers and driver mobile phones.

Using your mobile phone inside your car ( a close metallic object), other than taking the driver's mind off the road, results with you espousing yourself to high levels of radiation.

Below is a like to an article that summaries measurements of several cars, both hybrid and "regular". The article is in French but you can get some of the info from the pictures or you can translate it.

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/Toyota.php#1

should we wait for the body count?

I think it is time to warn the public, it might be even too late.

http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsme/Maine.legislative.panel.2.1530193.html

new clip - electromagnetic radiation from a desktop working station

Due to lack of space or to lack awareness, some people try to squeeze their PC station into a small space resulting with an unnecessary exposure to EMR.

I this video we will show you the sources for low and high frequency electromagnetic radiation in a PC working station and will give you examples of bad and good arrangements of the PC workstation.

link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vzq00HANs

An additional report about a person who go brain cancer from cell phone (ab)use

www.CABTA.org