http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20090314.htm
(full article below)

I only had a 'quick scan' of this article, but I want to point out something else. Don't you think it's VERY strange that the government would require every citizen to have 'better TV reception'? I want to point out the frequencies used in HDTV are the very same frequencies that have been used for decades in various 'mind control' experiments throughout the world. Yes, these frequencies DO have the potential to drastically change our thoughts & mood.

Please consider turning off your televisions, or better yet simply disconnect them from the possibility of these dangerous and health destroying frequencies (and watch movies, documentaries, learn how to do something new, etc., etc.) In my first marriage, we chose to be "tv free" for six years - and it didn't hurt a thing (we actually DID things together rather than sitting like lumps). I would disconnect our tvs now (which are not HD) but poor Rocky53...when we got married, I drug him up to the 'sticks of Iowa' from the 'big city life' - and about the only thing he has left from that life is....FOOTBALL!

Even being the die-hard Cowboys fan he is, he's been reading up digital frequencies, and he's about ready to pull the plug.

Give it some serious thought - this stuff isn't "conspiracy theory whackos" - this is the real deal.

Let truth and freedom REIGN!

Unyquity




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From the March 2009 Idaho Observer:

Adverse health effects from the operation of digitally-broadcast television stations

The following open letter to policy makers and TV watchers was originally published by Global Research and will serve as the best, perhaps the last "warning" we will likely have the luxury to issue regarding the switch to the 700 MHz band so Big Brother can upgrade television from a passive, social conditioning device to a fully interactive and real-time mind control tool. The effects on people’s brains are already becoming apparent and will be painfully obvious in the next couple of months. Like Alec Baldwin said as a spokesman for Hulu during the 2009 SuperBowl, Americans’ brains are about to be "the consistency of cottage cheese" so his alien buddies can "scoop them out with a melon baller and gobble them up." But it will not just be our countrymen’s brains turning to mush, as our European friends have been so decent to point out.

Feb. 12, 2009

Dear President Obama, Members of the Senate, Members of the House and people of the United States:

In the U.S., digital broadcast television is scheduled to start operating on February 17, 2009. We write to you today because we wish to save you from the significant negative health consequences that have occurred here in Germany. In Germany, analog broadcast television stations have gradually been switching to digital broadcast signals since 2003. This switchover first took place in metropolitan areas. In those areas, however, the RF exposures in public places as well as at home continued to increase at the same time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of children, adolescents, and adults in urban areas could not be attributed to any single cause. On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television stations went on the air in the Hessian Rhoen area (Heidelstein, Kreuzberg) which, until recently, had enjoyed rather low mobile phone radiation exposure levels. Within a radius of more than 20 km, the following symptoms that occurred abruptly were reported: Constant headaches, pressure in the head, drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness, nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in various organs and weight increase.

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever went into the garden. One child committed suicide; a second child tried doing it.

Over time the same unbearable symptoms showed up in other locations—most recently in Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on November 25, 2008. Physicians accompanied affected people to areas where there was no DVB-T reception (valleys, behind mountain ranges) and witnessed how these people became symptom-free only after a short period of time. The respective agencies responsible in Germany were approached for help, but they declined to follow up on the strongly suggestive evidence in the actual locations. The behavior of the government agencies disregards the fundamental rights of affected people guaranteed in the German Constitution.

In Germany, DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial) uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Modulation. The fundamental principle of this type of modulation works by spreading the information across several thousand carrier frequencies directly adjacent to each other. A channel is 7.8 MHz wide. The amplitude also changes constantly. The World Health Organization, the German Radiation Protection Commission and the German Federal Ministry of the Environment rely on the "Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300 GHz)," (Health Physics 74 (4): 494-522; 1998) published by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In this document, it says, "These guidelines will be periodically revised and updated as advances are made in identifying the adverse health effects of time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields." (p. 495); "Interpretation of several observed biological effects of AM electromagnetic fields is further complicated by the apparent existence of "windows" of response in both the power density and frequency domains. There are no accepted models that adequately explain this phenomenon, which challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic relationship between the field intensity and the severity of the resulting biological effects" (p. 507).

Why are the German agencies in charge not willing to help identify the adverse health effects? Since immediately after digital broadcast television stations had started transmitting, adverse health effects have occurred, the review of the Guidelines announced by the ICNIRP is imperative. Obviously, there are response windows contained within the broad frequency bands with their several thousand frequencies that change constantly and whose amplitude also changes constantly. The ICNIRP had already pointed out this possibility. In 1992, Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Matthes, member of ICNIRP and of the German Radiation Protection Agency (BfS), emphasized the preliminary status of the exposure limits in a hearing on the health risks of electromagnetic radiation: "…They (electromagnetic exposure levels) are several orders of magnitude higher than the natural background radiation levels of nontechnical source. In parallel to this development, findings of scientific studies according to which long-term exposure to such fields may trigger adverse health effects keep accumulating. In this context, it is also important to recognize that there are large differences in exposure levels within a given population. A small child, for example, absorbs much more RF energy than an adult person. There are several findings on low-level exposures, which are considered scientifically validated because they have been reproduced often but which are rather difficult to interpret.

The impact of mostly pulsed or ELF modulated RF radiation on cell metabolism, for example, counts among them. It has been observed that the efflux of certain ions (e.g. calcium) from a cell increases during exposure to such fields. The occurrence of this effect is described almost completely independent of the actual field strength. It can be found at extremely low absorption levels. With all the currently available scientific findings, there remain some crucial questions unanswered. There are gaps in the so-called body of evidence. That means that the biological effects, for example, have only been investigated for individual frequencies. Data (e.g. effect thresholds) on the various biological effects across the entire frequency spectrum are not available. The exposure limits, therefore, are based on an approach that greatly simplifies the very complex reality whose details are unfathomable. It should also be noted that concrete data on possible effects of long-term exposures are mostly lacking." Real life teaches us that it was wrong to simplify. In Germany, we see strong evidence of a direct temporal association between the start-up of terrestrial digital broadcast television and the occurrence of severe health symptoms. Dr.-Ing. W. Volkrodt, former R&D engineer at Siemens, recognized the danger of electromagnetic fields for humans, animals and plants. He pinned his hopes on policymakers who would listen to reason when he wrote in 1987: "Future historians will refer to the RF dilemma during the period from around 1975 to 1990 as a short, time-limited ‘technical incident.’ Owing to the introduction of fiber optic technology, this incident could be remediated quickly and effectively."

Satellites and cable provide the U.S. population with television services. By contrast, the risk associated with terrestrial digital broadcast television transmitters is unacceptable.

We, therefore, ask you, dear Mr. President, who has the wellbeing of his citizens at heart, to stop the scheduled introduction of this new technology in the United States of America and to save the people from the negative health consequences that have occurred in our country.

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

Dr. med. Markus Kern