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STANZ SPRING NEWSLETTER  –  #14 Spring 2024

Kia ora & Welcome To the latest edition of the STANZ newsletter as we continue our mission to raise awareness about the impact of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) on health and the environment. This newsletter highlights some of the latest information that can be...

LET’S TALK EMF SOLUTIONS – Presentation by EMF Consultant Andy Hooley – Saturday 30 Nov. 2-4pm

LET’S TALK EMF SOLUTIONS - A Presentation by EMF Consultant Andy Hooley. Venue: Brilin Centre, 8 Settlers Cres. Ferrymead, Christchurch. Date: Saturday, 30th Nov 2024. Time: 2pm – 4pm. Entry fee: Koha.

STANZ SPRING NEWSLETTER  –  #14 Spring 2024

Kia ora & Welcome To the latest edition of the STANZ newsletter as we continue our mission to raise awareness about the impact of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) on health and the environment. This newsletter highlights some of the latest information that can be...

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity – a humanitarian crisis

Do you develop headaches when you use your mobile phone against your head? Do you feel foggy-headed and tired after spending a long time on your wireless devices? For decades people have been reporting unpleasant symptoms when they’re exposed to electromagnetic fields...

Cell Tower Radiation Linked to Genetic Changes in Nearby Residents

Senior European scientists are reporting that people living near cell phone towers show significant changes in their genetic makeup. This is the first time that chronic exposure to cell tower radiation has been linked to unrepairable genetic damage. A team led...

Artificial Intelligence Primer

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creeping into our daily lives now, especially the lives of those who spend significant time online. But what is it? Every new technology carries advantages, disadvantages, and risks. What makes AI any different? We hear dark mutterings...

Could your mobile phone be contributing to heart disease?

A new study has found a link between mobile phone use and cardiovascular disease – a finding that should concern all 8 billion-plus users. The study, by Yanjun Zhang and team, looked at data on over 444,000 people from Britain. They compared mobile phone use with...

Could mobile phone radiation be contributing to colon and rectal cancer?

Colon and rectal cancers – often called colorectal cancers – are the third most common cancers and the second leading cause of deaths from cancer across the globe.1  While they are usually found in older people, younger people have been increasingly affected over...

More evidence linking mobile phones to brain tumours

A new study from Korea has found more evidence linking mobile phone radiation with brain tumours. Jinyoung Moon and team analysed data from 24 previous studies and found some interesting links. People who used mobile phones on the same side of the head as their tumour...

Baby monitors negatively affect sleep

How does the radiation from wireless baby monitors affect sleep? Australian researchers have the answer. In a pilot study, published in late October, Dr Nicole Bijlsma and colleagues reported on the effects of radiation from a baby monitor on sleep - not the sleep of...

Apple’s iPhone: widespread deception over the real SAR levels

We asked Dr. Arazi, President of Phonegate Alert, to review in detail the revelations made on August 21, 2019 by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Roe in the Chicago Tribune and to place them in the overall context of the international Phonegate...

What’s the most common EMF in our home?

I like to think of our house as a third type of skin, with clothing being the second. In previous articles, we learned how we can use the natural electromagnetic fields of infrared and UV light to build a skin that’s more environmentally resilient to non-native EMF....

TENSEGRITY # 4: MAGNETISM, SLEEP, AND ELECTRONS

One of the most pervasive and mysterious phenomena in the universe is magnetism. What is more mysterious is how life uses it.  It is among the most complex biologic phenomena in our world.  As a scientist knows it, magnetism is the invisible pull that...

Health Hazards of Wireless Technologies: What do we know now?

Wireless technologies, including cell phones, wireless internet, and Bluetooth devices, have become ubiquitous in our lives. Most adults in the US own a cell phone, and cell phone use is widespread among children and adolescents. New cell antenna sites are being...

Radiation from wireless devices may affect attention, study finds

"All wireless devices - including cell phones, WiFi routers, and the towers they depend on for service - emit RF radiation. While this radiation is different from high frequency radiation (like the type emitted by X-rays), a growing body of data suggests that it may...

Public Talk: Electromagnetic Fields – What you need to know.

Understanding the EMFs in our environment is becoming more and more important. As the infrastructure around us grows so too does the EMF footprint of our surroundings. Our modern homes, travel and work, with advancing technology is increasing our EMF exposures on a daily basis. 

5G Facts & Myths

Our mission is to highlight the false information being told about 5G and raise awareness of credible scientific evidence to empower people to stop the 5G rollout until independent research is conducted to establish it is safe!

Pittsfield Electromagnetic Sensitivity Day Proclamation 2024

Pittsfield Massachusetts Mayor Peter Marchetti Proclaimed June 16, 2024 as Electromagnetic Sensitivity Day. Amelia Gilardi worked on the issue for her 10th grade civics project. Her family is one of several families that documented injury from a nearby cell tower leading to the Pittsfield Board of Health voting to send a cease and desist order to Verizon regarding its tower.

STANZ Newsletter #13 Autumn 2024

STANZ Newsletter #13 Autumn 2024. Latest news and update on STANZ activity. The recent solar storms highlight how electromagnetic fields from the sun and human made sources can negatively impact human mental and physical health.

Digital Screen Time and the Risk of Female Breast Cancer

In recent groundbreaking research, Dr. Alireza Mortazavi and his supervisors at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences have unveiled potential health implications that could affect millions. Their study explores a concerning link between digital screen time and breast cancer risk.

The European Union prioritises economics over health in the rollout of radiofrequency technologies

The fifth generation of radiofrequency communication, 5G, is currently being rolled out worldwide. Since September 2017, the EU 5G Appeal has been sent six times to the EU, requesting a moratorium on the rollout of 5G. This article reviews the 5G Appeal and the EU’s subsequent replies, including the extensive cover letter sent to the EU in September 2021, requesting stricter guidelines for exposures to radiofrequency radiation (RFR).

NZ School Cell Phone Ban Comes into Force

The Government has introduced regulations that require all state schools and kura to have student phone rules in use. This guidance is structured to support schools to step through the process of implementing student phone rules.

How Big Tech Is Consuming America’s Electricity And Water

Many analysts laud data centers as one of the fastest-growing sectors of the real estate market, but the industry may soon find itself hitting a wall as local communities put up increasing resistance to the industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for power and water.

Frequencies – Short Film About 10 Year Old With Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Short film about ten year old Oliver experiences life differently due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). This rare condition makes everyday technology a challenge: he feels the buzz of electronic devices more intensely than others. Oliver’s journey sheds light on the often-overlooked effects of our technological footprint and inspires a quest for more genuine human connections.

The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones

The feature-free phone, recently launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy. The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone.

10 Reasons Parents Cave And Give Kids Smartphones

Why do strong parents allow smartphones to win the battle in their homes? In my experience over the past eight years of working with families, there are many ways to get tripped up by the smartphone decision. Here are a few of the many reasons why parents cave.

Press Release: Environmental Health Trust Reveals Concealed FCC Cell Phone Tests Showing Human Radiation Exposure Limits “Were Exceeded”

The Environmental Health Trust (EHT) revealed today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hid test results showing that radiation exceeded federal limits when smartphones were in close proximity to the human body, such as in a pants pocket. The FCC apparently failed to disclose this information to the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

I’m 24, but I used a Nokia ‘dumbphone’ for the whole 2010s. Now I long to go back to it.

According to recent studies, the decade spanning 2010-20 saw the beginning of a sharp decline in the happiness of young people. This is, of course, the same decade that the internet went from being a place we accessed for finite periods at home on our parents’ PC to something that lived in our pockets. It’s this shift, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has suggested, that has driven the decline in mental health, arguably more so than social media itself.

Are smartphones bad for us? Five world experts answer

Despite their sudden ubiquity, there’s still a lot we don’t know about how our smartphones are affecting us. Are they alienating people from each other, or helping them to connect with others? Do they affect children differently than adults? And how do we step away from our phones if our whole lives are on them?

STANZ Summer 2023-24 Newsletter

It has been a while since the last STANZ newsletter, but the committee has been steadily making progress. Amongst other things the STANZ website has been upgraded to be more user-friendly and our AGM was held in late July.

EMR Measurements in NZ

This article provides a summary and analysis of official compliance measurements done in New Zealand and shows the levels around cell towers is increasing over time.

Effects of Unregulated Digitalization on Health and Democracy

This document provides an overview of aspects of the process of digitalization that negatively impact (public) health, essential human rights and democracy. It also contains policy recommendations to effectively address these issues and avert harm. Further, this document is meant to empower the reader to take informed decisions in their own every-day life when interacting with specific technologies and the effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

5G Expose

Through this Exposé, you will learn from independent scientists and experts about what is known and not known about health risks from 5G and the planned roll-out of millimeter wave technology. This is probably the most under-estimated and most ignored factor affecting human health at the moment.

A New Type Of Dementia Plagues America

A major health epidemic, digital dementia occurs when one part of the brain is overstimulated and another part of the brain is understimulated. When we mindlessly use digital devices, the frontal lobe, which is responsible for higher-level executive functions, gets little, if any, use. Meanwhile, the occipital lobe, the visual processor located at the back of the brain, gets bombarded with sensory input. Slouched over and spaced out, people, both young and old, are abusing their brains, day in and day out

Smart Meters – Smarter Practices Document

Introduction Problems reported worldwide with Smart Meters and related technology may (without appropriate action) occur in future rollouts and could generate health, legal, security and infrastructure difficulties unless appropriate measures are taken.

The International Declaration on the Human Rights of Children in the Digital Age

In this International Declaration, we posit three fundamental legal rights of children regarding the deployment and use of technology: their right to be free from intentionally addictive devices, platforms and apps; their right to be free from excessive exposure to wireless radiation; and their right to be free from commercial exploitation.

Experts Raise Public Health Fears About Microwave Syndrome From 5G Masts

The Hardell-Nilsson case studies are groundbreaking because, incredibly, they study human beings in a real-life 5G environment for the very first time. All four studies describe how previously healthy people very quickly developed symptoms of microwave syndrome after 5G phone masts were installed above or opposite their accommodation at distances of between five and 60 metres. Most of the symptoms disappeared within days of them moving to less irradiated accommodation, but reappeared when they returned to the strongly irradiated accommodation.

Effects of Unregulated Digitalization on Health and Democracy – A Call for Using Technology with Discernment

We are contemporary witnesses to the accelerated implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with central stakeholders aiming at the digital transformation of all areas of life and production. The digital transformation is an ideology and a hype. It is also a vehicle for total surveillance and control if not restricted and regulated pro-perly. It is essential to pause and to analyze the Fourth Industrial Revolution in a rational way.

The European Union assessments of radiofrequency radiation health risks – another hard nut to crack (Review)

In 2017 an article was published on the unwillingness of the WHO to acknowledge the health effects associated with the use of wireless phones. It was thus stated that the WHO is ‘A Hard Nut to Crack’. Since then, there has been no progress, and history seems to be repeating in that the European Union (EU) is following in the blind man’s footsteps created by the WHO.

We cannot ignore the dangers of radiation in our national parks

The science is telling. Our national parks preserve our natural world and our capacity to experience the wilderness. A robust review of the research and proper oversight is needed before erecting cell towers in our parks. Expanding cell towers in parks without adequate safeguards will irrevocably harm wildlife, the environment and our encounters with the wild.  

FAKE NEWS: PUTIN BANS 5G ACROSS RUSSIA

We have now received information directly from Dr Oleg Grigoriev, Chairman, Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection regarding the official position on EMF/RF & 4G and 5G. He confirmed that the article on 5G masts is FAKE NEWS and has not been issued by Russia.

5G, microwaves and their effects on living organisms

All living things are finely tuned to the Earth’s magnetic field which enables them to navigate in three-dimensional space as well as geographical distances, exchange signals and, in some species, even locate food sources. Electromagnetic receptors have been found in countless species and enable them to respond to even the smallest changes in magnetic field strength. It is becoming clear that blindly interfering with these processes of the living world is a very dangerous game. There have been few studies on this subject so far, but the results are disturbing.

STANZ Letter to MOH on Minimising the health risks of wireless radiation

In 2020 the Safer (EMR) Technology Aotearoa/New Zealand Incorporated Society (STANZ) was established in response to growing public concern about adverse health effects on humans, flora and fauna from exposure to radio frequency radiation (RFR) emitted by various types of cellular technologies being rolled out in our communities.

We Are Not SAM

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new website. Join us as we dissect the tangled web of flawed testing methods and uncover the peculiar journey of advertising throughout history.

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties

This era is unprecedented, and perhaps never before has technology been so prolific and shaped our lives so intimately. But there’s a dark side we don’t talk about. Why is that? Is it because we’re too busy being glued to the screen? Why do we shy away from questions about our collective addiction? What’s lurking under the surface?

(((Surrounded)))

Surrounded is an eye-opening film about the possible harmful effects of the electronic devices that surround us every day.  Sam Wieder shares how he went from chronically fatigued to newly rejuvenated by learning how to minimize his exposure to common sources of man-made radiation.

Experts Gather to Warn of Health Dangers of 5G Radiation

The safety exposure limits presently followed by the UK Government are set by the International Commission on Non-ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and are seen as insufficient by certain groups of scientists, who use much stricter guidelines.

It’s not complicated. The FDA is violating its own law. 

Back in 1968, Congress passed Public Law 90-602, “An Act to Amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the protection of the public health from radiation emissions from electronic products.” In its Declaration of Purpose, Congress wrote, “The Congress hereby declares that the public health and safety must be protected from the dangers of electronic product radiation.”

EHS – what the experts say, part 1

On 13 April some of the world’s leading experts, including scientists, MPs and lawyers, came together to share their knowledge about electromagnetic hypersensitivity. The workshop, entitled ‘Electromagnetic-Hyper-Sensitivity: The State of Science’, was hosted by the European Parliament and held in a wifi-free environment so sufferers could attend.

Children and Screen Time – What You Need to Know

STANZ organised for Michael Vaughan (Registered Psychologist) to travel to Christchurch in Mid-March to give a talk on what we need to know about the risks and challenges in dealing with children and screen time. He gave a very engaging and informative presentation.

Conflict of Interest Letter Sent to NZ Ministry of Health

In February SaferTech NZ (not to be confused with STANZ) sent a letter of complaint to the NZ Miniatry of Health (MOH) complaining of a serious conflict of interest by having Martin Gledhill on the lnteragency Committee on the Health Effects of Non-Ionising Fields (overseen by the Ministry).

RESTORED HEALTH AND VITALITY FROM DITCHING MY CELL PHONE

When people ask me if I regret having given up my cell phone, my answer is unequivocally “No”. I don’t miss texting on a phone. I don’t miss GPS. I don’t miss reading news that some news aggregator selected for me. I don’t miss QR codes for this, that and everything else. I do not regret ridding myself of having a cell phone and I would not go back to having one.

RF Health Safety Limits and Recommendations

The rapid proliferation of cellular mobile telecommunication devices and systems is raising public health concerns about the biological effects and safety of RF radiation exposure. There is also concern about the efficacy of promulgated health safety limits, rules, and recommendations for the RF radiation used by these devices and systems.

Nordic Appeal: More Stringent Regulatory Framework on Microwave Radiationfrom Wireless Technologies is Needed – Stop Further Rollout of 5G

Given what is known today about the risks of this technology, it must be considered a violation of human rights to impose this harmful radiation on people in their own homes without their informed consent. More stringent regulatory framework on microwave radiation from wireless technologies is urgently needed. In the meantime, further rollout of 5G must be stopped.

Cellular and molecular effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields

The concept that biological response to EMF is a ‘cellular stress response’ explains many observed effects of EMF, such as nonlinear dose- and time-dependency, increased and decreased risks of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, enhanced nerve regeneration, and bone healing. These responses could be either detrimental or beneficial to health, depending on the duration and intensity of the exposure, as well as specific aspects of the living organism being exposed.

STANZ Wired Newsletter #10 Summer 2023

Check out a summary of all the latest news relevant to STANZ in our summer 2023 Newsletter. STANZ will be hosting a talk by Michael Vaughan a Registered Psychologist for Children on the 16th of March. This will be on the topic of what you need to know about the risks to children from their screen time.

On the Clear Evidence of the Risks to Children from Non-Ionizing Radio Frequency Radiation: The Case of Digital Technologies in the Home, Classroom and Society

This brief research review aims to inform by presenting the findings of scientific research, in a balanced, objective manner, on the risks to children. This information is based on proven scientific theories and clear empirical evidence. The paper concludes by offering practical advice on how the risks to children, and indeed adults, can be minimised.

On radar and radio exposure and cancer in the military setting

The findings from our study add to the growing body of evidence underscoring the gross inadequacy of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) thermal standards. Based on our findings and on the previous accumulated research, we endorse the recommendations to reclassify RFR exposure as a human carcinogen, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) group 1.

What to Know About Cellphone Radiation

ProPublica recently examined how the federal government, based on quarter-century-old standards, denies that cellphones pose any risks. This guide answers some of the most common questions people ask about cellphone radiation.

Electro sensitivity and How We Move Around the Planet

If you are electrosensitive, as I am, moving yourself around the planet becomes quite a challenging thing to do. Let’s look at some of the obstacles that we face when it comes to cars, public transport and even electric bicycles.

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