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Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras
Anti-Globalism writes "A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae." Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
We're recycling week-old news now?
I know there are groups out there that are against wifi for many kooky reasons but fox news has as much credibility as the onion.
Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues
More or less studies than have shown cigarettes are awesome for you and everyone should smoke them?
Or that global warming doesn't exist?
That Microsoft operating systems has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux?
That DDT, Agent Orange and Thalidamide are all totally safe?
To be fair to the hippies, there is a fairly long history of things being repeatedly investigated and found to be safe... right up until they were found not to be.
Unless you live in the state of California - where everything, including reading this post, can give you cancer and needs to carry a warning message, just to be on the safe side.
It does, however, remain true that a Guiness a day will, indeed, keep the doctor away.
Here's the problem folks: the FCC refuses to acknowledge electronic devices' emissions having any effect on the human body besides thermal. I.E. cellphones must only cause your tissue to heat to a certain level. However, the FCC refuses to regulate the other possible effects of this radiation. Period. This, of course, is of pivotal importance to the high tech and telecom industries, because it lets them keep their products within the 'no effects' category without any government intervention.
Personally, I get dizzy from 45 minute cell phone calls and have to shake it off. By that time the phone is certainly warm. Its other effects? Officially, the government passes the buck!
Check this: the devious Stanford Research Institute (which was, indeed, contracted by the CIA to do remote viewing research in the 1970s, see Operation STARGATE) wrote a very interesting thing about the "Changing Images of Man," the kind of thing spit out by ominous acid-dropping elite scientist types.
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/scientists_on_acid_the_story_behind_changing_images_of_man/
In this marvelous example of 1970s establishmentarian utopianism, there is a good deal of info about studies in "electromagnetic pollution." Think of that: the very phrase is totally alien to us now, even though we are subjected to so much more than we used to be. Their main study cited was about a lady who got schizophrenic-style symptoms; it turned out she had an unshielded power conduit in her wall that was filling her apartment with powerful EM radiation. Once the power conduit was properly shielded, her health problems abated.
If these cats knew it could affect people then (since of course our bodies operate within a kind of electromagnetic flux), why aren't there more substantive studies today?!
For some time I had a WiFi router right next to the head of my bed; I would stare at it as it blinked at me, thinking of all the energy going thru my head. I was happy to have it go away. I don't use WiFi in my home, though of course it leaches in. I strongly feel that longterm studies about cellphone use are coming up rather ominous, especially for younger people whose thinner skulls are less resistant to the microwaves. What is everyone going to feel like after 30 years of intense WiFi and especially cellphone exposure?!
--hongpong.com