IN LATE 2022 CLEAR COMPLETED HELPING LANGLEY TO GET A STATE-OF-THE-ART TELECOM ORDINANCE SPECIFYING MORE LOCAL CONTROL OF VILLAGE CHARACTER, PROPERTY VALUES, VIEWSCAPES AND ULTIMATELY CITIZEN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING! THIS ACTION WAS NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED BY SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS. SEE THE 'EHT' LINK BELOW FOR THE FULL STORY!
Since then, in 2023-4, Langley's victory has been applauded and studied as a model by cities in WA, OR, and some Eastern states. It is listed as a good code example by the MRSC law resource for WA counties.
"Hot" phones and toys: tough on kids' bodies!
Developing bodies are far less dense with fast growing cells, so they're penetrated far more deeply by close-up radiating RF! In fact, data shows that cell phones near any head can, over time, cause deadly brain, salivary and thyroid tumors. The same near any waist can affect the reproductive and digestive organs, and near any chest can cause breast cancer. Fact: colo-rectal cancer is rising even in kids and teens now--almost unheard of even 10 years ago. And as of May 2021 clinician leaders urge that colon cancer screenings begin at age 45 instead of 60 in previous decades! They sound puzzled as to the cause. Cell phones are almost universally in pockets of most youths now--hmmm! Same with breast cancer in young adults: increased steadily this century in women under 50; steeper increases in more recent years. Phones widely present in shirt pockets, even bras...hmmm. (Locations of tumors have been often correlated with customary carrying spots.)
The FCC, in typical industry-protective feigned ignorance, still flouts a 2020 DC high court decree that called its mega-permissive standards "arbitrary and capricious" while issuing a command to revise them to widely known modern science findings. It's current quaint flesh-heating standard is rejected by all modern non-industry-paid-off researchers. Yet it still gives a "no=problem" rating and hidden, tepid warnings, if any, on most every radiating product for kids and adults.
CELL TOWERS + 5G OVERVIEW
Frame the problem: Video (11 min) on the whole 5G underbelly
Background: Cell towers have multiplied in the last ten+ years and have crept ever closer to where people live. If you are unlucky enough to have one within 8 blocks of your home, this can be 2 to 100 times worse than using a cell phone 2 hours daily.
Why? 1) Cell antennas' high-powered, jagged-with-data signals intersect your full indoor/outdoor environment and body. 2) They transmit their radiation 24/7 during your awake and sleeping times, especially through your windows! (Bad in your yard too.)
Could anything be worse? Working its way into Whidbey, now at least a capability on all tower antennas you see is 5G capability. This is intended to build out communication with in-your-face mini-cell transmitters near your house, yet to be permitted. This ultra-intense 5G wireless system, not just a gentle upgrade of 4G. This uses the radar frequencies currently used in military crowd-control weapons and, of course, aircraft installations! They impact skin layers (think skin cancer) more than internal organs and the eyes (think macular degeneration). Trees, air moisture, structures, can block theses, so vegetation clearing often accompanies 5G installations.
Right now T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T are trying to quickly "buy" congressional consent for laws (like house bill HR3557) all seeking passage in April 2024, that negate a community's right to say "NO" to close-up mini-antennas. You can tell Rick Larsen to reject these attacks on local sovereignty. Click below for more information on these laws, contact actions, and on cell towers and 5G.
[ALSO: DO HEARING AIDS SEEM TO JANGLE YOU? RADIATION DISCUSSION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS COLUMN]
"Smart meters" are supposedly for wirelessly reporting your electric usage to PSE, but it's not that simple. Rolled out from PSE in latter 2022 through 2023, they have wireless transceivers that ping other meters around the neighborhood (and you) often thousands of times a day. (This is more than the few times PSE portrays.) Could your house meter be the "lucky one" that conflates neighborhood usage and sends the summaries often to PSE via a nearby tower?
[BTW: If you already have a smart meter from PSE and your living spaces aren't far from it, click HERE and read the rest of this article; judge how much you might like to NOT HAVE ONE! If you are convinced to take action you have two choices: 1) Call PSE and order a switch to a "non-communicating meter." It will cost you $90 to switch and $15 each 2 months for manual reads. OR 2) at least protect yourself a lot by ordering this meter cover. .]
You can click the "More" link to get complete info on many aspects of smart meters. Learn how to clear up dirty electricity (DE) that occurs with both communicating and non-communicating meters. You can also contact Mark at info(at)clearwhidbey.org to get more on DE measurement, the filters, how to get them., and other questions.
HEARING AIDS: UNSAFE ??!!
This will be hard for many of you to "hear!" Almost all hearing aids sold today are emf emitters (using Bluetooth radiation) that, while not as strong as cell phones, send unhealthy moderate-strength microwave emissions many hours a day right into your brain (and often through it). Delicate tissues of the inner ear and brain can be affected in real time and/or in a few years of use! Users may feel "off" when using them but attribute it to other causes.
Remember: Strength AND Duration are two variables of radiation that can disturb and wear down endurance thresholds of your tissues. Radiation even generates cancer over time through proven chromosome breaks and mitochondrial damage. At least 5% of a population are emf-sensitive (EMS) and often feel symptoms of exposure in real time. again attributing it to other things while the user can just feel "off," have tinnitus, tingling, fatigue or dizziness, or mild burning sensations on skin areas. Unfelt effects accumulate over time so that in 10-15 years many grave symptoms, again mis-identified as to source, emerge. Solutions? Not as "cool" or simple, but safer, Use a simple-but-quality types and ask for "non-blue-tooth" models or AT LEAST non blue-tooth (manual) settings possible! Examples: HERE and HERE and HERE. (These are not endorsements but "leads" for you to call and find what works (safely) for you.
Addiction Issues Compound Radiation Exposure
"Internet Addiction Disorder" is now a bonafide harmful syndrome. Not immediately at the point of severe life impairment, but can progress that direction. Be aware of the slippery slope of intense usage. Are you reading these words on a phone? Do it a lot? You're in good company. Media research in 2017 found over half of users worldwide spent 5 or more hours daily on a smart phone! To get a feel for this number: over a lifetime from age 12 to age 75 at that rate 13 years (!!), of ones life were spent hunched over a phone. (Counting computers and games here would add on even more!) Doctors are finding extra growths on adolescent neck vertibrae "evolving" for neck support! All of this triggers health issues from intense cell phone EMF exposure. (Learn about it in info on this site. Learn in Mark's presentation--link in first column above--about these health effects and dangers).
Active 2018...2024...
CLEAR's Goals and Objectives:
- Raise public awareness of risks to health from from current and growing levels of EMF exposure in the public and home environment.
- Educate individuals, families, health care providers, schools, and the general public about added costs, privacy risks, and health challenges from ever higher-intensity EMF sources.
- Encourage local government and businesses to implement a low-EMF public environment. This includes actively helping local governments to update their wireless codes to maintain control on transparent, accountable practices of installers and operators, safety of locations, moderation of radiating intensities, and types of facilities permitted.
- Through dialog with officials and by spreading clear information, peruade PSE to offer opt-out alternatives that include analog maters to avoid emf-injuries from 24-7 radiation of their intended 2022-2023 blanket smart meter rollout on all of Whidbey.
- Raise awareness of the dangerous, untested 5G and “Internet of Things” deployment careening nationally and planting roots on our island. Encourage informed questioning of this dangerous escalation of often unnecessary radiation sources.
Get Involved
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