Below is some info on how Electro Magnetic fields from computers and cell phones effect people, especially children. A lot needs to be done in this area to put more pressure on corporations to control their use of EMF or at the very least do more studies to learn more about them.
By Paul J. Rosch, MD:
Children are more severely affected by EMF because their brains are
developing and their skulls are thinner. A two-minute call can alter
brain function in a child for an hour, which is why other countries
ban their sale or discourage their use under the age of 18.
It is not generally appreciated that there is a cumulative effect and
that talking on a cell phone for just an hour a day for ten years can
add up to 10,000 watts of radiation. That’s ten times more than from
putting your head in a microwave oven. Pregnant women may also be at
increased risk based on a study showing that children born to mothers
who used a cell phone just two or three times a day during pregnancy
showed a dramatic increase in hyperactivity and other behavioral and
emotional problems.
And for the 30% of children who had also used a
cell phone by age 7, the incidence of behavioral problems was 80%
higher! Whether ontogeny (embryonic development) recapitulates
phylogeny is debatable, but it is clear that lower forms of life are
also much more sensitive. If you put the positive electrode of a 1.5
volt battery in the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and the negative
one off San Diego, sharks in the in between these cities can detect
the few billionths of a volt electrical field.
EMF fields have also been implicated in the recent massive but
mysterious disappearance of
honeybee colonies essential for pollinating over 90 commercial crops.
As Albert Einstein warned, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of
the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”
Finally, all life on earth evolved under the influence of solar
radiation and geomagnetic forces that we have learned to adapt to and
in some instances even utilize. The health of all living systems
(ranging upward from a cell, tissue, organ or person, to a family,
organization or nation) depends on good communication – good
communication within, as well as with the external environment.
All communication in the body eventually takes place via very subtle
electromagnetic signaling between cells that is now being disrupted by
artificial electropollution we have not had time to adapt to. As Alvin
Toffler emphasized in Future Shock, too much change in too short a
time produces severe stress due to adaptational failure. The adverse
effects of electrosmog may take decades to be appreciated, although
some, like carcinogenicity, are already starting to surface.
This gigantic experiment on our children and grandchildren could result in
massive damage to mind and body with the potential to produce a
disaster of unprecedented proportions, unless proper precautions are
immediately implemented. At the same time, we must acknowledge that
novel electromagnetic therapies have been shown to benefit stress
related disorders ranging from anxiety, depression and insomnia, to
arthritis, migraine and tension headaches.
As demonstrated in Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, they may also be much safer and more
effective than drugs, so we need to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”
From Paul J. Rosch, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical
College; Honorary Vice President International Stress Management
Association; Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners; Full
Member, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences; Fellow, The Royal Society
of Medicine; Emeritus Member, The Bioelectromagnetics Society
The fraud: We need gasoline. The truth is we don’t - and we never did.
Scientific and historical Facts about gasoline and alcohol:
1. The original automobiles ran on alcohol because when they were invented gasoline was not available.
2. Rockefeller spent $4 million (that we know of) to promote Prohibition, a ban on alcohol manufacturing in the US that started in 1919 just as the car industry was taking off.
3. When Prohibition was lifted in 1933, gasoline stations were ubiquitous and most engines ran on gasoline only.
4. Alcohol can be manufactured locally and on a community level from renewable plant material for $1 per gallon.
5. The growing of plant material for alcohol would have no effect on the price of food.
6. The growing of plants for fuel would more than neutralize the carbon created by burning alcohol for fuel.
7. In Brazil, over 50% of new cars sold can already run on 100% alcohol.
8. Producing alcohol from plant material is incredibly energy efficient.
9. The oil companies aggressively promote “science facts” to deceive the public into believing that alcohol fuels: a) will cause starvation, b) are uneconomical, and c) are net polluters.
10. Gasoline is a high toxic material.
11. It is entirely unneeded to fuel our cars.
12. Oil companies like Chevron have pressured PBS, commercial TV networks and other news media to keep this basic information from the public for decades - and the censorship continues to this day.
If this massive deception were to be busted, it would:
1. remove the reason that many wars are fought today
2. revitalize the world economy, especially in rural area
3. instantly increase the wealth and health of every
person on earth
It contains a large glass of water, an apple, a banana and a tablespoon or two of the following mixture:
equal parts of:
wheat germ
yerba mate
jumbo flame raisins
gogi berries
flax seed
raw chia seed
white turkish or Himalayan figs
black California mission figs
sunflower seeds
brewers yeast
sesame seeds
maca root powder
cocoa nut powder
dried Himalayan pomegranate seed
hemp seed
pumpkin seed
unsulfured Himalayan apricots
one quarter part of Chinese ginseng
I make the mixture myself every couple weeks and keep it in the freezer. Everything is raw, organic. I also peel the bananas and freeze them so the shake is nice and cool and also so I don’t have to worry about bananas getting too ripe.
I just like to add my own stuff to make it heartier.
I blend the whole thing up and it makes a green shake that tastes really good. All the “healthy” things like pumpkin seeds which I wouldn’t eat normally get hidden in the shake. I chose ingredients for various reasons.
The yerba mate and coao nut is just plain old caffeine. And lots of other amazing vitamins and minerals etc. Pumpkin seeds are the best preventative food for prostate cancer. You have all sorts of other things in ther. Of course it is loaded with anti-oxidants like the pomegranate seeds and gogi berries.
It has lots of vitamin b and omega 3 and other nerve food for a stressful lifestyle: brewers yeast, wheat germ, flax seed.
The list goes on….
It is basically my own concoction of super food. I never tire of it. No other meal can possibly come close in goodness.
It is a Green Real Estate Development company in Brooklyn.
I figure the bad economy might actually be a good thing for such an enterprise. The last time there was a big green movement was in the 70’s when gas was high and the economy was low. Same situation now and behold the green movement is booming.
We coat our actions in eloquent rationalization. But beneath it all we are driven by primordial fears. The green movement is just another way of humanity collectively saying, “I will survive!”. When it is no longer a threat to our survival to waste resources we will once again expand at a feverish pace like we did in the 80’s and 90’s. Uncontrolled expansion is another way of saying, “We are surviving!”.
But then again, we might not be given that chance to expand wantomnly again. The green way might be here to stay.
We live in a world deluded by the belief that humans are an evolved species. Just scratch under the facade, as nature often does with us, and you will see our grand countries, great philosophies, and “evolved” ways crumble like a sand castle under a small wave.
We are but helpless little creatures. I don’t say this in spite or bitterness. I say it soberly. I say it out of respect for the greater forces of the world, such exploding galaxies, as colliding planets, and relatively minuscule floods that can wipe out half a country in a few hours.
Before you accuse the government of not taking care of its citizens when “acts of god” occur, remember that the government’s statements of solace are empty. The world economy and infrastructure is feeble at best, teetering on the brink of collapse by it’s own weight let alone immune from any gusts of wind from nature.
The debacle in New Orleans a three years or so ago was blamed on Bush and Co., and correctly so since they could have at least cared a little, but would it have been much better under smarter leadership?
I think we have gotten way ahead of ourselves. Our “great technological civilization” was built so incredibly fast and is built on very thin ice. And as any polar bear will tell you the ice is melting fast.
I watched a 20 story building go up in four months here in Brooklyn. It is made of match sticks pasted together with glue. Yet it conforms to all codes….
A couple months ago a cop gave me a ticket because he did not like the way I talked to him.
I wanted to stop in a loading zone because I was, uh, loading something. Perfectly legal. He told me to move on. I said no, that I was loading something in a loading zone. He got heavy on me asking me to step out of the ca, to show my license etc. I told him he was being an asshole. He gave me a ticket for parking in a loading zone and warned me he could do a lot worse if he wanted….I shut up because I had to get my family home.
I paid the ticket knowing my word against his would get me nowhere.
It left me with the clear understanding that the cops have total control over me. Once I am in their cross hairs I am a powerless victim. The best thing for my security is to kiss their ass like it tastes great. It is not a nice feeling. I guess I don’t have to worry about them coming in the middle of the night and making me disappear like in other countries, so I am lucky. But still…
The biker in the video below experienced what I felt on a much larger scale. The cop said the biker attacked him and the biker spent the night in jail with assured future jail time once he was convicted. The only problem is that somebody got it on video. The cop is disgraced. One more point for the little guy! Ah the joy! It is a small victory but still so sweet. I love biking in Brooklyn!
It is so cool that Brooklyn has lots of parrots who escaped from captivity and are now thriving in large parrot communities here.
Why there are almost only Quaker parrots I am not sure, probably because they are very hearty and smart - able to survive the winter and avoid predators.
LONDON, England (CNN) — Imagine a life where each morning you cycle to work, and come home at night to tend your allotment and eat a dinner of locally produced food.
In order to move to a zero-carbon lifestyle, livestock and produce will need to be locally sourced.
Maybe after your meal you take a walk down the car-free streets to the nearest bar where you buy a round of drinks with locally produced currency and settle down in a corner to watch a troupe of musicians play some local folk music.
It might sound like some kind of fairytale arcadia — a return to the simple lives of our forefathers, before fossil fuels and consumer culture turned everything on its head.
In fact this is how many people are beginning to envision our future — a world where we come to terms with inevitable fuel shortages and work towards a less energy-dependent lifestyle.
This vision has found a voice in the “transition initiative,” a movement that encourages towns, villages and cities across the world to begin the process of preparing themselves for a carbon-free world.
The first so-called transition town was pioneered in the southwest English town of Totnes, by the inventor of the concept Rob Hopkins, 18 months ago.
Since then almost 50 other places in Britain have signed up to the movement, as well as a smattering of towns in New Zealand and Australia.
Hopkins, 38, who lives with his family in Totnes, says people have seized upon the transition initiative because it offers an “empowering, inspiring” vision of the post-oil age.
“It has grown into a vacuum — there is nothing else that looks at ways to respond to peak oil and climate change that feels good,” Hopkins says.
Hopkins’ beliefs about the looming energy crisis are summed up by the title of American environmentalist writer Richard Heinberg’s 2003 book on the subject — “The Party’s Over.”
Heinberg, who provides the foreword to a handbook Hopkins has recently published on the transition initiative, estimates we are very close to reaching a state of peak oil — the point at which half of the world’s oil reserves have been used up and thereafter supply goes into freefall.
A lack of any viable alternative energy sources means human communities will have no choice but to cut back energy use, the book argues.
Since governments and big business seem unable, or else unwilling, to deal with these problems head-on, Hopkins believes the change must come in the first instance from the grassroots.
“We have to be looking to break our oil dependence and get to being a zero carbon society within 20 years. We don’t have any choice in this if we want our children to have any kind of lives.
“Of course, much of this needs to come from government level, but to make cuts of that nature will need a lot of things that don’t tend to make governments very popular, such as carbon rationing.
“The idea with transition is to engage communities in pushing for these things, so as to take the fear out of making these decisions for politicians.”
One way of doing this is through an “energy descent pathway,” a step-by-step plan compiled by residents designed to wean the town away from a reliance on carbon fuels. Some transition towns are already beginning to implement the plan.
Other initiatives trialed in Totnes include planting nut trees to provide emergency food supplies and the setting up of locally-run energy and construction companies to increase self-reliance.
Just over a year ago the town also introduced its own currency — the Totnes pound. Accepted in 18 shops in the town and borrowing its design from an 1810 local banknote, Hopkins believes it is a sign of things to come.
“Historically, when economies run into trouble, local currencies proliferate. In Argentina when the economy collapsed a few years ago, they appeared all over the country.
“They are inevitable because we will need currencies that are locally loyal, that make more things happen before they leave the economy than (pound) sterling does.”
To some this return to localism might sound like a step back.
Although Hopkins acknowledges drawing inspiration from the past — part of the transition process involves consulting with older members of the community to find out what life was like when people were more self-reliant — he insists he’s not being regressive, only realistic.
“The transition approach is not about convincing anyone to give up anything. It is about saying that many of the things we increasingly take for granted will become steadily more expensive and less and less dependable.
“We are entering a world where there will be a lot less energy available, and this will affect all aspects of our lives, and we need to start planning creatively now.”
I read an article about the increase in animal related attacks. Stories of dogs invading a village and attacking, not for food but just to attack. The theory was that animals are fighting back as man continues to destroy nature.
I am not sure about that theory. I do think there was a time when animals were abundant and we related a lot more peacefully with them. We had to since we came in contact with them daily.
There are isolated areas like the Galapagos Islands where it is still teeming with animals. I think it was like that all over the world to a much larger degree.
In terms of getting food the world was a mother of abundance. Even in my life in a European Island called Ibiza, which has been colonized for thousands of years, I remember a time when the ocean was hugely more abundant than it is now.
One particular time I remember when two men were sitting at a bar by the water drinking coffee. They threw a few chunks of bread into the water by the water at their feet. Within two minutes the water was frothing with large fish. They went to their car, pulled out a small net, threw it into the water and pulled out so many fish it took the two of them to carry the load back to the trunk of the car.
They then sat back down to finish their coffee as if it was no big deal. And it wasn’t. The ocean was abundant. Now that same area is covered with asphalt - a parking lot for the marina that is full of big boats and no fish in sight.
What this means is we really have very little contact with animals in their natural habitat - they just aren’t there any more. The habitat is now covered with asphalt.
I think that before there was a lot more interaction and the vast majority of it was peaceful. It doesn’t mean man and beast cuddled but they lived in the same area respectfully. This was back before man needed acres and acres of asphalt to park their car.
I just got an email today about a monastery in Thailand that has many tigers that were raised as cubs (the parents killed by poachers) and are very docile and affectionate with people. It is better than them being killed and they probably eat really well. But teaching tigers to live with humans, no matter how beautiful, has a sad note to it for me. Anyway.
