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News Briefs 09-05-2006

TOOL is #1 here in Australia this week. My faith in humanity is restored (for a few days at least)…

Thanks Pam.

Quote of the Day:

You’re the only one who can hold your head up high, shake your fists at the gates saying:
“I have come home now. Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father.Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It’s time now! My time now! Give me my, give me my wings!”

MJK/TOOL – “10,000 Days”

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  1. Electric Smog
    I’ve often wondered if electrical appliances have any affect on the human biology. I grew up in the Latrobe Valley, home to many coal-fired power stations and electricity pylons, and the area has been known for decades as having one of the worst cancer rates in Australia (allergies are also a big problem, as well as other illnesses such as Lupus).

    I personally can’t be in a room illuminated by flourscent tubes for more than half an hour – I get vague, dizzy, sometimes nauseas, and I’m hit by extreme lethargy and short-term memory loss. Without fail.

    I often wonder if having a computer constantly on in my bedroom is having an effect. Until I live in my own place, it’s not practical to have my computer elsewhere in a sharehouse — there isn’t the space anywhere else, nor would I get the privacy needed to do my work. So I’m taking a risk and crossing my fingers.

    I remember an article from last year discussing the effects of radiation from CRT computer monitors, causing headaches, dizziness, nausea, allergic reactions, as well as depression and inhibition of problem-solving and memory. There’s definitely something in it, but we’re just not seeing any serious research done.

    Albert Einstein, in the final years of his life, said electromagnetism is the last great mystery of our world. Yet so little study is done on how electricity and electromagnetism affects biological forms. Mobile phone studies are a farce, there’s so much disinformation from both sides, you don’t know who to believe. We need honest, serious research in this area, not academic complacency or corporate meddling.

    Rick

    1. well Rick….
      I hate to say this but…..WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE….this is not new. It has been talked about and even proven 25 years ago. Electricity and it’s “halo” or “aura” is the cause of many illnesses and also the depletion of ozone. CRT monitors are a scurge on humanity and anyone game enough to learn how they work will agree. I’m a LCD man myself because I choose to live.

      Einstein was wrong about his theory of relativity and admitted it and he is wrong, like so many others, to use the term “electromagnetism”. this is false and misleading. It is a product of mis-information to through off people from the true direction. Magnetism is magnetism. It has nothing to do with electricity. In fact, electricity would not exist if magnetism wasn’t a natual power source.

    2. Prevention
      Hey Rico,

      I’ve heard that if you wrap your head in tin foil…..

      yer ol’ pal,

      Xibalba
      (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

    3. Stupifying Field
      I’ve have long postulated that humans, as a whole, have been getting dumber. Yes, it’s true that many are getting ‘smarter’ but statistically taken as a whole, we are sliding downward. I’ve plotted IQ scores, census results, and economic cycles, and when placed over the framework of increasing electromagnetic polution from our technology, I believe the case can be made that we are dumbing ourselves down with prolonged exposure to these fields.

      Electromagnetic frequency polution is getting worse and worse, as nearly the entire spectrum is now carring some signal or other. Before, it was just a few frequencies, then a few more, but now we are awash in it 24/7.

      As the entire industrial/economic framework is built on technological ‘progress’, don’t count on any objective research into this area, until long after severe damage has become readily apparent.

      As for thefloppy1 saying magnetisim is not electricity, I say provide a model of how it really works, how running electric current through a coiled wire makes an electromagnet, how passing a wire through a magnetic field causes electrical current to flow within the wire. . . make a model of how that works and the Nobel Prize is yours.

      Peace,

      AncientSkyman

      The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

      George Bernard Shaw

      1. I wouldn’t accept it anyway….
        as for a model of magnetism without electricty…..well hell, your living on it……we can produce a copy of magnetism by passing a current through a wire, sure but turn the current off and the effect is gone. This is a man made forced magnetic reaction, but not true magnetism. Electricity is a very negetive force. True magnetism is a positve force. One is safe and the other is very dangerous. All things, even space,is full of magnetic energy. This is the underlying glue of the fabric of all existence. Gravity is magnetism and there is magnetism in every subatom partical in your body. BUT this negetive, man made electromagnetism is messing with the fabric of existence. So subtle it is that when we finally wake up it may be too late.

    4. for Rico
      Rick, in the situations that you describe there are other factors to consider. Which is not to say that electricity has no effects.

      Flourescent tubes flicker differently from ordinary light bulbs, and the light that they produce has different wave lengths. This could lead to a sort-of hypnotic effect.

      Computers make a constant noise, which will damage your hearing. It also causes stress. CRT monitors also make a constant noise, adding to stress.

      A person under stress gets sick more often, their immune system gets out of whack, blood pressure is wrong, muscles are tense, and many more things.

      Then there is also the simple fact that having your computer on while you sleep robs you of decent sleep – it may remind you that you have work to do, as you hear it in your sleep. So that can give you more stress.

      Again, I am not saying that there are no health effects from all the electricity around us in modern life, there probably are. But consider the other factors too, especially the noise.

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