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How Cell Phones are Killing Birds

dead pigeon, migratory birds, birds affected by radio frequencies, emr, emf, radio frequencies, cell phone dangersMigratory birds are known to use the geomagnetic field as a source of compass information. Scientists have shown that oscillating magnetic fields disrupt the orientation behavior of migratory birds.

Researchers found that robins were disoriented when exposed to a vertically aligned, broadband or a single-frequency field.

According to Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch,

"... medium- and short-wave frequencies have been used since the 1930s with little evidence of any effect on bird behavior. But since the mobile phone networks went up there have been increasing reports of birds, especially homing pigeons, getting lost. Research now needs to look at the effects of base station signals, particularly in view of the disorientating effects of EMR ‘noise‘ reported in this study."



Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola's Comments:

We know that migratory birds use the earth’s geomagnetic field as a source of compass information, but there are two competing hypotheses for what the primary process within the birds are. One involves magnetite, the other an internal chemical reaction that is sensitive to magnetic resonance. Then again, perhaps it’s a complex interaction of both. 

Researchers have now found that robins get disoriented when they’re exposed to a vertically aligned broadband of 0.1 to 10 MHz, or a single frequency of 7 MHz broadcast at a 24- or 48-degree angle to the natural geomagnetic field. 

Your body is also dependent on appropriate chemical reactions, many of which are guided by electrical frequencies in your brain, some of which happen to oscillate at the same frequency as that of cell phones and wireless networks. 

Why is Harm From Radio Waves a Growing Concern?

Information-carrying radio waves have increased dramatically and exponentially over the last few years. Just think: it took 20 years for the first 1 billion cell phones to be sold -- a milestone reached in 2004. The next billion took just 18 months. The third billion was sold even faster -- just nine months, and we will reach the fourth billion by the end of this year.

Add to that all the wireless networks that are popping up everywhere, exposing you to massive amounts of radio waves whether you actually use wireless or not.  Most major office buildings have them, including Starbuck’s, Panera Bread, and most libraries.

We are in a geometric explosion of cell phone use, which causes the following physical problems:

  • Damaging your cell membranes

  • Decreasing intracellular communication by disrupting microtubular connections that allow biophotons to communicate between cells

  • Increasing deposits of heavy metals into your cells, which increases intracelluar production of free radicals, and can radically decrease cellular production of energy, thus making you incredibly fatigued

Once your body’s communication system is damaged, it is very easy to develop all sorts of pathologies related to disrupted intracellular antioxidant systems and heavy metal toxicities.

Recent studies have also found that cell phone users are 240 percent more prone to brain tumors, and a study back in 2004 found that your risk of acoustic neuroma (a tumor on your auditory nerve) was nearly four times greater on the side of your head where your phone was most frequently held. Listen, there is VERY solid evidence that the number of brain tumors will increase to 500,000 per YEAR in 2010 -- and will double to 1 million every year by 2015 if the causes are not addressed.

Folks, this is the real deal and represents an impending health care crisis.

The Truth Echoes in the Silence

Last year I was really excited when the Today Show contacted me, asking for an interview about one particular study on the dangers of cellular phones, as I thought they were finally starting to accept the truth.

Needless to say, I was wrong.

They only aired four seconds of my 20-minute interview, censoring the supporting evidence. No doubt, you are being deceived now, the same way the public was deceived for decades about tobacco. Back then, large corporate interests were very effective at manipulating the media and legislation to perpetuate the myth that smoking was safe, and nothing has changed in that regard. The United States protects corporate interests above public health more than ever.

We really need to learn from history, and my belief is that this exponential increase in information-carrying radio waves is far more serious a threat than tobacco ever was.

Your first mistake would be to be fooled by the mainstream media silence.

Remember, the media outlets in the United States are owned by a minuscule SIX corporations. Today, your mind is controlled by Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, Viacom (formerly CBS) and General Electric's NBC.  These are the top owners of the entire media industry, which includes everything you read and hear in newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies.

Can you believe what they say?

Not a chance. Because the telecommunication industry, which is even BIGGER than the drug cartel, Big Pharma, have far more influence than the drug companies – and you already know what heavy-weights they are when it comes to spreading misinformation.

How Can You Protect Yourself From the Invisible Danger of EMR?

Some individuals believe that relatively expensive fixes like nano polymers (like those used by BioPro) can help, but my initial investigation strongly suggests that this technology protection is only minimally effective, and dissipates rapidly.

Of course, the only real solution is to move our culture away from wireless back to more wired. As for myself, I completely renovated my new home prior to moving in, and part of the project was to put in wired CAT-5 cables so I have no wireless connections at all.

I also learned that most portable phones are a major source of these information carrying radio waves. The only exception would be the much older, essentially antiquated 900 MHz portable phones. Fortunately they are still readily available online.

One of the major differences is that they are only on when in use. The other higher MHz phones are on continuously, bombarding your cells with tissue damaging radiation even when you’re not using them.   

If you do choose to use a cell phone, use the speakerphone function whenever possible -- and keep the phone about two feet away from any body part. Do not keep the phone on your belt or in your pocket even when you’re not using it, as the radiation WILL penetrate your body wherever the phone is attached. Instead, stow it away in a purse, backpack, or your car’s glove compartment.

For times when a speakerphone isn’t practical, you can use a NON-Blue Tooth headset.

While Blue Tooth is certainly safer than no headset at all, it is still broadcasting its own information-carrying radio waves into your brain, just at a lower intensity than a cell phone. And there quite simply is no safe biological threshold for either of them.

I strongly believe that sooner or later, the real dangers of cell phones will be fully understood. Unfortunately, this has all the makings of a tobacco-sized tragedy -- at one time everyone turned a blind eye and refused to believe smoking was dangerous, and we all know how that story ended.


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shiva
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Birds have magnetic particles in their breast feathers that allow them to feel and follow the magnetic ley lines of the earth. .... Human beings have magnetic particles in our nasal bones that we aren't even aware of. .... Maybe that's why we are so lost.
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DizzyIzzy1
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Oh, I thought that was just caused by my luscious, flowing blonde locks... ; )
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Sheila C
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Hi Shiva, could you please tell us how the ley lines affect humans?
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DizzyIzzy1
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Sheila... don't know quite how they affect us specifically, but my thoughts would be that:

We all have our own energy fields (I don't know about others but I can definitely see them if I focus properly). These are what are often talked about as qi in eastern medicine; meridians, chakras etc. They're what's used in acupuncture, acupressure, reiki etc. If the centres of a person are out of whack then so is the rest of them and it leads to illness.

Likewise, you can see leys if you focus... they have a much brighter glow to them than most areas. I imagine this would interact with our own energy fields, so if they weaken or are thrown off balance then we would be too.

I don't know what you believe, but I believe this energy is an intelligent energy that runs through and is part of all things, both living and dead, guiding everything that happens - 'god' I suppose you could say, for want of a better word.

So it would make sense that the energies of living creatures interact with that of the Earth we live on and are part of. As leys are the places where that energy concentrates most, if they're out then we will be too. And as I said, if your energy is out of balance then you become ill. Likewise, the planet would become ill too if it was thrown off kilter. If it's off, then ours will be too... I'm rambling. They interact. I'm sure you get what I'm trying to say!! :/


Shiva - your thoughts? Am I right? This is just what I would intuit...
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shiva
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Sheila C - - In my opinion, Dizzylizzy is on the money. 'All is One'. separation is a powerful Illusion. When you get down to the nitty gritty of creation, what you discover is just what modern physics is now proclaiming,.. which is that we live in a "conscious universe". The entire universe is composed of what the ancient culture of China refers to as "Chi" (chee) and the culture of ancient India refers to as "Prana".

Consciousness is composed of "Light" and is "electro-magnetic". ... Your body has an eclecltro-magnetic field both infusing it and surrounding it,.. just as does each atom that makes up each molecule of what you are. .... This 'Life Force' is consciousness itself.

Human beings have the same innate ability to 'sense' or 'feel' direction on the planet that animals instinctually display (among other abilities),. ... It is the condition of modern humanity however that man is presently in such a state of unconsciousness that he/she is not 'aware' of our instinctual levels or aspects of being. .. We are unconscious of the aspects of self which are connected to the whole. ... In my opinion, and from personal experience, what we call "instinct" is really simply a level of awareness that in modern day humans has become suppressed and disowned into the unconscious levels of the psyche. It is that aspect of consciousness which is associated with the physical expression that is 'nature'. ... Animals are in the stage of evolution where they have not yet 'separated' from nature in consciousness.

From what I have seen however, the more one 'unifies' with ones body,.. by clearing out the "aberations" or suppressed fears and traumas of past experience that one has stuffed into unconsciousness, the more one becomes unified with and thus "consciously" inhabiting ones body, and the more one enters into a state of Union or "ONENESS" within oneself,..... the more one at the same time, ....becomes Unified with ALL That IS.
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Sheila C
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Hi Dizzylzzy1 and Shiva, thank you for your explanations and from what I have experienced, I agree with both of you.
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Patty D
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"Human beings have the same innate ability to 'sense' or 'feel' direction on the planet that animals instinctually display"
Shiva, I find this fascinating in light of my own experience.  I lived on the Gulf Coast of FL most of my life.  I always could orient myself to the water (south) regardless of where I was, if the sun was shining etc.  However, a few years ago, I moved to SC where the ocean is to the East.  I cannot orient myself to direction here.  It's hopeless.  Even my car compass will tell me what direction I'm going and I'll swear it's wrong.   I think even though my brain knows the water is to the EAST, my body still insists it's to the south.
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shiva
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Patty D - - My experience of such instinctual "Knowing" as we are discussing here, is that it is just like when you go to the refrigerator to get something to eat and you are not sure what you want to eat. ... You often experience that as you stand there looking over what is available, and you consider each choice, you may or not be aware that there is a "Feeling" experienced within you that is either 'Yes' or 'No',.. until you finally "know" what it is that you want or need.

The more 'Aware' you are of your body, the more you will 'Know' what your body needs to eat at that moment. .. Your 'instinct' will tell you what you need to eat by way of a feeling you will subtley experience in your body.

........ My experience of 'Knowing' the correct direction to travel in, is that the 'Knowingness' is instinctually known within you via a 'Feeling' that is either a 'Yes' or a 'No' feeling within your body and is 'Felt' as you point your body in one direction or another. .. It is a very real yet subtle phenomenon that I have vividly experienced directly.

This sort of experience was not uncommon amongst the tribal peoples of the planet. Native American people of past times shared of how often when they went hunting, they experienced 'Knowing' where the game was, and they were 'instinctually' led to the food they needed. They were very naturally in communication with the environment which they were a part of.
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DizzyIzzy1
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Thanks, Shiva. It's always nice speaking to someone of like mind who knows what you're talking about, rather than just looking at you sideways and muttering something involving the words 'crazy', 'hippie', or 'weird'!!

I agree - as I said, that's just what I would intuit from the 'feelings' I get when I look around and see what happens in this world. I find the more I listen to my body and take note of what it's telling me, and the more naturally I eat, the stronger these feelings become. It's almost as if you begin to re-align yourself with the energy that makes up everything.

I don't subscribe to any religion, but it's always encouraging when you see what you 'instinctively know' written about in ancient texts. (And I agree, 'instinct' is more likely something everyone knows but has been suppressed by this modern world).

Everything is conscious - I love following quantam physics as every discovery made seems to follow more closely with what I've always 'known'. It's a fascinating field. The more they learn, the more they realise that this 'god' spoken of for eons is probably right on the money. I love when people speak of it as light, as to me and my eyes, everything alive glows with a kind of bright, golden light... the more natural it is, the stronger the field. Oddly enough, GMO foods never really glow at all.

Patty - I know what you mean; my friends used to call me the human compass as I could always, without fail, tell you exactly where due north/south/east/west was. Until I moved to the northern hemisphere; it's taken nearly 2 years to 'reallign' my body to the correct direction and not be completely lost!! It isn't just other animals who know these things... no wonder cats run back to their old homes when the owners move!
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shiva
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Dizzylizzy - - Thank you for your sharing here. 

 If you haven't seen it already,.. you would likely enjoy watching the film entitled; ' THE CELESTINE PROPHESY' , .. which of course is the same story as the best selling book of the same title. ... A powerful story of great Truth, which speaks to the awareness we have been discussing here.

Namaste'
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DizzyIzzy1
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Ahh, Shiva, the book is one of my favourite books ever!! I've just re-read it for the umpteenth time... every time I read it there's more to be found. I didn't realise there was a film; I'll have to have a look for it in town tomorrow. Thanks for that!!
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Phantom O' Banjo
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Dizzy your a blond?  I had no idea.....  Now I going to look at you sideways with that bit of information.  lol
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mama bear
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Shiva

We are spiriual beings having a physical experience!

mamabear

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SeriouslyFolks
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Does anyone know about those transponders that are in your car when you pay for toll roads?  It BEEPS when you go under these things that look like huge overhead lamps.  It reads your car and makes sure you are the paying customer for that toll road.  Is the huge contraption doing something to us ya think?