Residents of Emena, near the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are calling on city authorities to save them from the deafening noise produced by an information centre mounted in the area.
Rawgist.com’s visit to the area revealed a structure fitted with four speaker horns positioned in different directions. The information centre began its broadcasts as early as 5am producing tortuous frequencies of noise.
Their broadcasts are mainly preaching, news feed and football commentary.
Information available to rawgist.com reveals residents have shown their disapproval at the noise levels through two court actions but the operator of the facility insists he has a license to operate at that high level of noise.
“Is he saying he has the license to torture us? He doesn’t even allow us a peaceful sleep. Our windows vibrate whenever they start their dawn and evening broadcasts”, one of the residents, an expatriate complained bitterly.
Another foreigner, Alfred Morgan who also complained independently about the noise to rawgist.com describing how the noise makes life unbearable for his family due to their proximity to the source. He finds it strange that Ghanaian authorities will give others the license to make excessive noise without giving residents a choice as to whether they want to listen or not.
“The sound is so loud that it’s distorted and that’s what wakes us up ubruptly early in the morning. We cannot even regulate it. The man who runs the place is so confident in his license he has refused to even tone it down”, the frustrated man complained.
Noise has many serious health implications on the citizenry. Hearing impairment, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, changes in the immune system, birth defects among several other psychological conditions result directly from continuous exposure to noise.
However, Kumasi has become a hub for noise making. A walk around the central business district reveals several self-styled “men of God” who mount powerful speakers and make so much noise in the name of God.
Many residents want city authorities to take action and bring some sanity to the Ashanti regional capital.
Since I spoke with RAWGIST other residents have complained bitterly that their sleep and prayer life are being severely damaged by the high sound levels. This torture normally goes on for 6 or so hours each day. Residents tell me that they have no say in the matter. There is no democracy in it. It is a form of dictatorship.
I had been told that in Ghana there was freedom of religion. In the area RAWGIST has identified, residents are daily bombarded with one version of religion through the blasting sounds of 4 high masted loud speakers. What of other residents who practice other religions? How do they feel about the incessant indoctrination of a religion that they may not agree with? Surely one should be able to choose what religious message they wish to hear, rather than have it rammed into their ears on a daily basis for hours at end.
The situation forced upon residents here is very much akin to the situation forced upon the citizens of Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler. Hitler used high masted loud speakers to great negative psychological advantage to brainwash the German population; to indoctrinate them and to enslave them to his ideas. Why then do the residents of Emena have to listen to religious indoctrination forced upon them where they have no choice to escape from it? Does God need to brainwash people to follow Him? I do not think so.
From what I understand the man who controls the 4 terrorizing loudspeakers makes money from his broadcasts. This amounts to profiting off the misery of others, and contributing to the degeneration of their health through the impact of high noise levels for excessive regular daily periods.
At just before 5am on Christmas day the noise continued from the Emena loudspeakers. My wife jumped out of bed quite startled. We got to bed very late due to the noise of the other social celebrations during the night of which we make no complaint. They only happen now and again unlike the Emena loudspeakers which blast us for hours and hours each and every day.
It is hard to imagine that any decent person would start up with high masted publicly located loudspeakers at 5am when people in the community have been up so late. An annoyed taxi driver spoke to the little dictator in charge of the noise and the driver’s gentle and reasonable talk had no affect whatsoever on the master noisemaker. He continued blasting away. Another man my wife and I spoke to was also very annoyed with the noise of the extreme volume of the loudspeakers so early in the morning.
I am a foreigner and my wife is West African by birth. My wife cannot believe that such disrespect and total lack of consideration for the community could be allowed to continue day after day, week after week, month after month and so on. As a foreigner I am absolutely flabbergasted that such a thing could happen. In most countries of the world such a man as the noise dictator would be arrested and charged by the police.
I am told that Ghanaians want foreigners to come here to help their country develop. People such as the noise dictator of Emena with his blasting, high masted loudspeakers will only drive well meaning foreigners away but it seems that would be no matter to the Emena dictator so long as he can make money out of the misery of the local community by advertising commercial products and other things while decent people are trying to pray, sleep and relax. Obviously the Emena noise dictator has no compassion or respect for the police, the nurses, the doctors, the taxi drivers and other night workers who are trying to sleep at 5am. .
Very early this morning, 26 December 2014, the Emena noise dictator continues his high volume sound terrorism of the Emena community through his blasting high masted 4 speakers. Again the mind penetrating sounds rape our prayers, home, lives and minds..
It was reported to me last night that many people in the community are unhappy with our little bellowing Hitler’s noise. I was also advised that a local “committee” member is unhappy about the noise as well as a local chief.
Below is a section taken from “Soundscapes of Nazi Germany” Here is the website address:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dtl/89S/restrict/Historical/08Frazier.html
“Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship required that everything be regulated under his command. One of the most helpful tools in the Nazi take-over and rule dictation was the radio………..They mounted loudspeakers on vans and buildings so that the radios would project throughout the villages and towns, to be sure that all of the citizens would hear the radios. These soundscapes were some of the most influential forms that the Nazis used to brainwash their youth and common citizens”.
Indeed my family and I feel like we are living in a concentration camp under a Nazi brainwashing noise dictator!
“……in the October 1997 issue of Pediatrics, the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement based on a review of research on the potential health effects of noise on the fetus and the newborn. The committee concluded that excessive noise exposure in utero may result in high-frequency hearing loss in newborns and further that excessive sound levels in neonatal intensive care units may disrupt the natural growth and development of premature infants. Reference: Decibel Hell: The Effects of Living in a Noisy World, Environ Health Perspect. Jan 2005; 113(1): A34–A41”.
Wow, so the noise dictator of Emena could be disrupting the natural growth of your child! Hearing loss is very detrimental to a child’s education and life. And, all this so the dictator can run his business, Wow!
The King James bible says at Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
So, Elohim will forget your children and destroy you because you lack knowledge! This is very serious. It is a great shame that the noise dictator of Emena does not read his Bible well. It is indeed an enormous shame that he may well be ruining the lives of people and children in the Emena community.
There’s more about music as torture:
“…………..many people think that torture by music is little more than a rather irritating enforced encounter with someone else’s iPod. Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who is still held in Guantánamo Bay, knows a bit about such torture. The CIA rendered him to Morocco, where his torturers repeatedly took a razor blade to his penis throughout an 18-month ordeal”.
“When I later sat across from him in the cell, he described how psyops methods were worse than this. He could anticipate physical pain, he said, and know that it would eventually end. But the experience of slipping into madness as a result of torture by music was something quite different”.
“Imagine you are given a choice,” he said. “Lose your sight or lose your mind.” While having your eyes gouged out would be horrendous, there is little doubt which you would choose”.
Reference: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting comment about the use of music in wartime Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder if the noise dictator of Emena thinks he is at war with the Emena community?
“An article by an NYU musicologist in the Journal of the Society for American Music details how music was regularly used in interrogations on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan as a method of inducing disorientation to get suspects to talk without inflicting physical force”.
Reference: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124690400002401641
And there’s more:
“A group of musicians, including bands such as Massive Attack, has backed a lobby group that is urging governments to stop the use of music in torture. They’re working with British law group Reprieve, which represents dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Reprieve is reporting that audio torture is a common tactic in the U.S. war on terror, and detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo are subject to hours of loud music every day”.
“Using loud music “to create fear and disorient detainee(s) and prolong capture shock” was among a host of interrogation tactics authorized by then commander in Iraq, Lt.-Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, in a memo dated Sept. 14, 2003”.
Reference: http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/musicians-back-campaign-against-audio-torture-1.734318
May be the noise dictator of Emena will pack up his bellowing sound system; his four grotesque sounding loudspeakers and the mast upon which they are mounted and head off to a real war. I feel confident that he would make more money as a master noise/audio torturer than he does in Emena.
The noise dictator of Emena has said he needs to broadcast Christian preaching. It seems he get’s paid for it! As a Seventh Day Adventist the Emena noise dictator doesn’t even obey the command of the Bible in regard the Sabbath! See below what biblelife.org says about Christian brainwashing!
“”The modern Christian churches use brainwashing, mind control, indoctrination, oppression, coercion, intimidation, legalism, false teaching, guilt, shame, peer pressure, and other bondage techniques to control members, increase church attendance, and obtain more money. The goal is said to be “winning souls to Christ,” but the underlying agenda is the desire for more power, control, and money. These mind control and bondage techniques are not needed to win souls to Christ. In fact, they are very counter productive to soul winning”.
Matthew 23:4 “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 “But all their works they do to be seen by men.”
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves”.
Reference: http://www.biblelife.org/bondage.htm
Is the noise dictator of Emena trying to brainwash the residents of Emena? Did he get his ideas from Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany? Have you and your children been brainwashed by the noise dictator of Emena?
Here are some more comments about brainwashing using sound, as found on the internet. And to update you on the noise dictator of Emena, well he is as noisy and obnoxious as ever as he bellows out his 6 to 7 hours of daily sound torture to the residents of Emena..
“Born Again Brainwashing Techniques:”
“I was trying to be born again, so I googled born again and this site came up among others, this is some of the techniques used by our modern churches to brain wash us all…………… Educate yourself now before it’s too late”.
“How Revivalist Preachers Work:”
“If you’d like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming”.
“Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance–body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good “voice roll.”
“The “Voice Roll” Technique:”
“A “voice roll” is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect”.
Reference: http://www.nairaland.com/292746/born-again-brainwashing-techniques-must
Wow, the the plot thickens in the Emena sound torture tragedy . My wife was told that the local chief responsible for Emena matters, lives locally. Several local residents told her this. They told her where his house was. And, the chief’s brother also told her where he lives.
When my wife went to see this chief to plead with him to stop the daily 6 to 7 hours of noise torture she was told to come back in a few hours. When she came back at the appointed time she was told by the chief’s uncle that the chief did not live there.
A long time resident assured us that the chief lives in Emena. He has called twice at his house and will continue to do so, so that a meeting can be established between the chief and my wife.
As for me I have little to no faith in chiefs as many have cost me many thousands of dollars and have failed to act professionally and decently.
Mmmmmmmm mystery and intrigue surround the noise torture tragedy of Emena. Be sure I will keep you informed of the next exciting installment of this woeful and sorry drama. May be the chief lives where many say, may be he doesn’t? May be the chief brought the noise dictator of Emena into the community and provided him with his office, as others say, may be not? May be Emena matters, may be Emena doesn’t matter at all. May be we all have to continually suffer 6 to 7 hours of noise torture each day for eternity?
“Long term exposure to excessive levels of High Intensity Low Frequency (HI/LF) sound, such as that produced by highly amplified bass music, airplanes, racing cars, battle field noise, etc. can not only be physically harmful, but can cause complications that can lead to death.”
Reference: http://www.omnisonic.com/bbillings.html
Last night until very late my family struggled to go to sleep as EXCESSIVE LEVELS OF HIGH INTENSITY LOW FREQUENCY SOUND (BASS MUSIC) bellowed into our bedrooms from a local bar. This was not the first time it has happened.
This morning at 5.30 we were again attacked by the master noise torturer of Emena. What a way to live! What sort of chief allows this to happen to his people? I guess it is the one who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena (It all depends who you talk to).
I feel so sorry for Ghanaians having to put up with being tortured and made sick by excessive noise. At least my family and I can escape to a country where laws and policing prevent such attacks on human health and well-being. I guess most Ghanaians have no escape! They just have to suffer and may be even become sick or die as a result of the terrible noise and torture.
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh it is now extremely clear why the noise dictator of Emena must maximize his hours of broadcasting his disgusting extremely high levels of sound. HE GETS PAID 10 CEDIS AN HOUR FOR ADVERTISEMENTS AND THE PREACHING. Oh Residents of Emena the master sound torturer of Emena gets paid at the expense of all our misery and suffering. It appears he is a money hungry despot who seems to be earning a living off the misery of others.
It seems this is not about a community service nor is it about a community information centre. It is about business and making money for the noise dictator of Emena! And, us poor residents of Emena are his oppressed factory and forced labour. Sounds like slavery to me! The noise dictator of Emena gets the money and we get the torture and poor health, may be even death as a result.
It is because of us residents of Emena who are forced to listen to the blasting sounds that the noise torturer of Emena makes his money! We have no choice. We have no rights. We have no way to stop him. We have no protection. We are forced to listen 6 to 7 hours each day, 7 days per week, week after week, month after month, year after year. We are forced to make him money. We are his money making slaves. And the chief who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena has not stopped it. But why should he stop it? I am told that this chief brought the noise dictator of Emena into the community and gave him his office! Questions need to be asked, investigations need to be undertaken! The guilty need to be prosecuted!
Well it is another day in the decibel hell of Ghana . The noise dictator of Emena and his chief who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena seem intent on blasting the residents once again. Yesterday the chief was as elusive as the day before. I can include the chief as a part of this as no doubt he is aware of the 6 or so hours of noise pollution that goes on in his Emena each and every day. No doubt he could put a stop to the victimization and harassment of the residents if he wanted to. One needs to ask why doesn’t he seem to want to?
Interestingly though, the yelling through the 4 high masted loudspeakers didn’t start until about 5.45 AM even though the initial broadcasts through the speakers started at about 5.15 AM. And it is all because a man or men can make money out of the misery of others.
I know about people making money out of the misery of others in Ghana. I have lost a fortune to thieves and con-men in Ghana.
I awoke at about 4.30 AM wanting to sleep in but the thought that the sound torture would start soon forced me out of bed and to get the house prepared for the screeching sounds. We shut windows and doors, put overhead fans on to help cover the dictators screeching noise, and generally batten down when the cyclone of sound is imminent. What a way to live, wow, so this is Ghana eh?
When my wife and I first spoke with the noise dictator of Emena we spoke gently and nicely to him on no less than 4 occasions and probably more. We offered to tell him about many things that he probably was not aware of. We were prepared to compromise but all that came to an end as we walked out of his office and he blasted even louder on his concentration camp speakers. I guess that this little dictator is all pumped up with the support of the local chief and the local government. He seems to be a law unto himself.
It is quite apparent that the sound torturer of Emena has no regard for the good health and well being of the Emena residents. It is quite obvious that he has no regard for knowledge, understanding and compromise. It is quite obvious that he sees the people of Emena as a means to make money and nothing else. It also seems that the Emena chief who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena is either unable or unwilling to protect the residents from the noise and torture dictator of Emena.
My family and I came to Ghana to help Ghanaians and to live in peace in our home. We didn’t expect that we would be living in hell in Ghana.
Well an interesting morning it was. My wife and I paid a visit to the noise terrorist in his dingy little box and surprised 5 men and a woman with baby about 5.30am. They were sitting around with their bibles open. One young man said they must preach the gospel to the residents early in the morning. My interpretation of that was “we must force the gospel down every one throats no matter if they want it or not. What a distorted, evil and wicked understanding of the bible these people have.
We then went to the chief’s house, we knocked and a voice was heard inside but no door was opened. It may be that the honourable chief was in hiding, unable to treat a stranger as the bible teaches..
Oh dear, what a situation, and no one to bring sanity to the daily 6 or so hours of torture of the people of Emena. It seems the woman with the baby had no idea of the injury that may be being caused to the child.
Well the master torturer didn’t wake me up. I had been woken earlier by the chanting of a local church through their speaker system. This chanting was akin to what was explained in an earlier one of my posts where it is used as a brainwashing technique. To me it quite sounded like a satanic chant of witches!
Well it is so obvious that the guys in the boom box belonging to the noise dictator of Emena had little regard for their own salvation much less that of the Emena residents. They also had very little knowledge of what they were trying to force down the throats of the residents of Emena
Poor, poor, poor people of Ghana having to suffer such things. Truly the bible is correct where it says “My people are destroyed through a lack of knowledge” Hosea 4:6.
It’s New Year’s Day in the Decibel Hell of Emena. The noise dictator is again at torturing the local community with his 4 high masted loud speakers blasting out his voice. It seems he turns the volume up whenever he speaks. We were abruptly, rudely and wickedly awakened once again by this disgusting dictator.
Last night many people would have been awake because of the New Year Celebrations until well after midnight. Many would have wanted to sleep in and have reprieve from the noise torturer of Emena but not so, this wicked little dictator must make his money out of all our misery it seems.
Six or seven hours a day, seven days a week, week after week, month after month and so it goes on. How long do we have to suffer this torture? How many of us have to have our prayers, health , household and well-being damaged by this disgusting little dictator. On and on for over six hours each and every day we are tortured in Emena?
Please, please can someone in authority rescue us from this hell that we live in, in Emena?
The Antisocial (Psychopathic) Stalker
Psychopaths regard other people as objects to be manipulated and instruments of gratification and utility. They have no discernible conscience, are devoid of empathy and find it difficult to perceive other people’s nonverbal cues, needs, emotions, and preferences. Consequently, the psychopath rejects other people’s rights and his commensurate obligations. He is impulsive, reckless, irresponsible and unable to postpone gratification. He often rationalises his behaviour showing an utter absence of remorse for hurting or defrauding others.
Reference: http://samvak.tripod.com/abusefamily16.html
The Serial Bully
“The serial bully appears to lack insight into his or her behaviour and seems to be oblivious to the crassness and inappropriateness thereof; however, it is more likely that the bully knows what they are doing but elects to switch off the moral and ethical considerations by which normal people are bound. If the bully knows what they are doing, they are responsible for their behaviour and thus liable for its consequences to other people. If the bully doesn’t know what they are doing, they should be suspended from duty on the grounds of diminished responsibility and the provisions of the Mental Health Act should apply”.
Reference: http://www.the-upper-hand.com/2011/03/serial-bully.html
It is not long after 5.00pm and we have the battle of the Emena noise giants. The local bar is booming out its health destroying high intensity low frequency base level music and the preachers are doing their screeching and yelling from the noise dictator of Emena’s 4 high masted loud speakers.
Who will win you may ask? I do not know but I tell you that all us residents are the losers. But the real question is will we lose our mental health or will we lose our physical health first? We may well lose both.
Oh, and where oh where is that elusive chief who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena. No doubt the honourable chief is out dong chiefly things. I guess he ‘s not aware that a high level of noise can be seriously detrimental to the health of the yet to be born child, children and adults. We tried to tell him but he suddenly did not live in Emena it seems, according to his uncle. Oh where oh where is the chief, the protector of his people.
All this bedlam so the noise dictator of Emena can make his money out of the misery of others. The boom, boom, boom from the bar goes on and the screeching preaching bellows out!
Both the noise giants booming at once only serve to destroy each others’ purpose. Where is the sense and reason in that? Wouldn’t you hope that thinking people could work together. From personal experience I know the noise torturer of Emena is only interested in his dictatorship. After all, he has clearly said he is protected by the government. He seems not to be interested in the sanity and good health of the residents of Emena. But wait, may be his noise levels have already caused him to lose his sanity.
No need to guess what the morning will bring before the sun rises. More screeching preaching and more money for the noise torturer of Emena, and more distress for the Emena residents.
The BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM of deep bass music is what we went to sleep by last night. We could feel the vibrations in our body. This is exactly the type of sound that was mentioned in my post of 29 December 2014; the High Intensity Low Frequency Bass Music that over time can kill.
A Scotsman by the name of Bobby Burns once said words to the effect of ….If we only had the gift to see ourselves as others see us.
Oh people of Ghana I feel so sorry for you having to suffer mental and physical affliction by the myriads of loud speakers around your cities and towns. If only you could know what the noise pollution is really doing to you.
Indeed the bible is so true where it says at Hosea 4:6:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children”. (KJV)
The journal “Scientific” published a Research Article titled:
Night-Time Decibel Hell: Mapping Noise Exposure Zones and Individual Annoyance Ratings in an Urban Environment in Ghana
An except states:
“Sleep is an essential behaviour that provides physical and mental restoration and sleep disturbances are considered deleterious to mood, performance, and health [3]. Religious noise has become a major source of sleep disturbances……..”
“In 2009, the WHO published the night noise guidelines for Europe. This publication presented new evidence of the health damage of night-time noise exposure and recommended threshold values that if breached at night, would threaten health”.
Reference: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/scientifica/2014/892105/
People of Ghana, what is the noise pollution doing to your children?
Here is an except from the World Health Organisation’s Report: Night Noise Guidelines For Europe:
“2.3.1.8 Mental health”
“A recent longitudinal study on the outcomes of early life sleep problems and their
relation to behaviour problems in early childhood stressed the importance of studying
the natural history of sleep problems and their consequences in order to identify
whether persistent or recurrent sleep problems at age 3–4 years are associated with
co-morbidities such as child behaviour problems, maternal depression and poor family functioning (Peiyoong, Hiscock and Wake, 2003)”.
“RELATION WITH THE GUIDELINES FOR
COMMUNITY NOISE (1999)”
“Impact of night-time exposure to noise and sleep disturbance is indeed covered in
the 1999 guidelines, as below (WHO, 1999)”:
“If negative effects on sleep are to be avoided the equivalent sound pressure
level should not exceed 30 dBA indoors for continuous noise”.
Reference: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/43316/E92845.pdf
The night noise also seems to be bad for your immune system. Here’s more from the WHO Report mentioned in my last post:
“As well as nonspecific effects of the stress response on the functioning of the immune system, there is considerable evidence for a relation between sleep, especially SWS,and the immune system (Brown, 1992). This evidence includes surges of certainimmune parameters and growth hormones at onset of SWS, correlation of non-REM sleep, total sleep time and sleep efficiency with natural killer cell activity, and correlation of SWS with recovery from infections. These data, taken together with information on the effect of intermittent transportation noise on SWS during the first sleep cycles and overnight, suggest that the immune response could also be impacted directly by environmental noise during sleep (Carter, 1996)”.
Reference: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/43316/E92845.pdf
I quote again from the WHO Report:
“If negative effects on sleep are to be avoided the equivalent sound pressure level should not exceed 30 dBA indoors for continuous noise”.
Wow, did you read that?
Now read this:
“Normal speech at 3 feet is 60-65 db”.
Normal speech at 3 feet is twice as loud as what it should be while we sleep, wow!
Reference: http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/loudness.html
Well, well Mr noise dictator of Emena it seems you are certainly working hard to destroy the health of the Emena residents as well as making money for yourself!
I guess though there are many other preachers guilty of destroying the health of people also. What do you say Mr Honourable chief of Emena who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena?
So Ghanaians, if you die from heart disease you may be able to thank your local preacher who booms out the gospel to you through loudspeakers.
Oh and yes disgusting little preaching dictator of Emena you may well be personally responsible for the deaths of many. What do you say Honourable chief of Emena who lives in Emena but doesn’t live in Emena?
“……….new evidence from the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that thousands more people around the world may be dying prematurely or succumbing to disease through the more insidious effects of chronic noise exposure”.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526186.500-dying-for-some-quiet-the-truth-about-noise-pollution.html
“Deadly noise””
“The most dramatic effects are in heart disease, because exposure to noise can kill people. Altogether, Europeans are estimated to lose a total of around 61,000 years of healthy life annually through noise-associated heart disease, and suffer an estimated 3000 deaths, Kim says”.
“Noise has been shown to raise blood pressure and blood-borne concentrations of stress hormones and fatty materials even when people are asleep. These can accumulate over time to block blood vessels and trigger a heart attack”.
“Although heart disease is the most serious cause of death from noise, the largest single impact on health is through sleep disturbance, which deprives Europeans of an estimated 903,000 years of healthy living annually”.
“Next comes annoyance – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health – with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000”.
Reference: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20326-noise-kills-and-blights-lives-in-europe.html#.VKacENKUfVB
“Death by Decibel: Study Says Noise Pollution Kills”
“Noise is dangerous and excessive noise is potentially deadly, according to a new report on the health effects of noise by the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center”.
“The report found that excessive noise ranks second only to air pollution as a leading environmental cause of health problems among Western Europeans. The most pervasive impact noise pollution has on health – insomnia”.
“The most serious impact noise pollution can have on health – heart disease. The report also emphasizes that noise pollution results in “annoyance” – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health”.
Reference: http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/04/23/death-by-decibel-study-says-noise-pollution-kills/
Well, well it is now fairly certain that the noise dictator of Emena has little and probably no regard or interest in the health and well-being of the residents of Emena.
Yesterday I pinned a notice to his office front door from where he broadcasts his wicked and health destroying noise. The notice quoted the words of the NewScientist journal and was headed “Noise kills and blights lives in Europe. I will post this notice following this post.
Even after the notice to his front door the noise torturer of Emena belted out a loud speech from his 4 high masted loud speakers beginning at 5.30 AM this morning. What is this man trying to do? Is it that his intention is to destroy the health and well-being of everyone in Emena, even kill the residents of Emena?
Aaaah! my family and I do not feel safe with this health destroying dictator in the community. Is there no one out there who can protect us, help us and bring relief to the residents of Emena. Where is the Emena chief in all this? Is he deaf or hiding or what? When I heard today, from a local resident, that the chief was probably making money from the noise I thought it was just a rumour.
Oh how the desire for money drives some people! Fancy destroying people’s health just to make money. What sort of person would do things that could kill people just for money or to preach the gospel. What health destroying wickedness it is that blasts out for 6 or so hours each day from this man’s high masted loud speakers when he knows it could kill residents. How can this noise dictator possibly call himself a christian which he does?
NewScientist
Deadly noise
“Noise kills and blights lives in Europe”
“The most dramatic effects are in heart disease, because exposure to noise can kill people”. “Altogether, Europeans are estimated to lose a total of around 61,000 years of healthy life annually through noise-associated heart disease, and suffer an estimated 3000 deaths, Kim says”.
“Noise has been shown to raise blood pressure and blood-borne concentrations of stress hormones and fatty materials even when people are asleep. These can accumulate over time to block blood vessels and trigger a heart attack”.
“Although heart disease is the most serious cause of death from noise, the largest single impact on health is through sleep disturbance, which deprives Europeans of an estimated 903,000 years of healthy living annually”.
“Next comes annoyance – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health – with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000”.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20326-noise-kills-and-blights-lives-in-europe.html#.VKacENKUfVB
Here is another article about noise that kills:
Death by Decibel: Study Says Noise Pollution Kills”
“Noise is dangerous and excessive noise is potentially deadly, according to a new report on the health effects of noise by the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center”.
“The report found that excessive noise ranks second only to air pollution as a leading environmental cause of health problems among Western Europeans. The most pervasive impact noise pollution has on health – insomnia”.
“The most serious impact noise pollution can have on health – heart disease. The report also emphasizes that noise pollution results in “annoyance” – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health”.
Reference: http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/04/23/death-by-decibel-study-says-noise-pollution-kills/
It seems that the noise dictator of Emena turns his sound down a little from time to time now but when the gospel is preached the sound goes way up again.
Even when the sound is turned down a little, and that is not very often, it still presents a health risk and great annoyance. People should be allowed to relax and enjoy peace and quiet in their home. Instead the noise torturer of Emena invades homes 6 or so hours each day, every day. There is no escape from him; he and his messages and views and opinions are forced violently upon us no matter if we want it or not. This is truly a dictatorship. It is rude, wicked and evil!
As a serious Bible believer I thought the gospel was a gospel that leads to life. Unfortunately the way the noise torturer of Emena presents it, it may be a gospel that leads to death through heart disease!
My family and I really do not feel safe in Emena. Is there no one out there who can help and protect us?
It is interesting, that like a true dictator, the noise torturer of Emena turns up the volume of his 4 high masted loudspeakers when he talks. May be he likes the idea that it is his own voice that is the noise that will destroy the health of others rather than some of his recorded messages.
This is not right. Nothing about this noise dictator and his information service is right when there is even the slightest possibility of injury to the health of unborn children, children, adults and so on.
What is happening here in Emena is wicked, dangerous, annoying, brainwashing and evil.
Please somebody in authority out there help us?
The deep bass boom boom boom from the bar started up at 4.00pm today and probably will go until late. The noise torturer of Emena started his disgusting decibels at 6.00pm, and so our torture continues.
How is it possible that with so much evidence of excessive noise causing health problems that preventable noise pollution is allowed to abound in Ghana?
There are other communities who obviously suffer also:
“Togbe Akliku Ahorney, Volta Regional Manager of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said stress associated with noise making was “great” and urged churches to help ‘shape’ attitude of society”.
“He also called on operators of night clubs to install sound proof systems and ensure that the noise they generated was within their precincts”.
“Mr Kofi Tenasu Gbedemah, a Human Right Activist, said excessive noise in churches could kill worshipers”
Reference: http://www.spyghana.com/noise-ho-2200hrs/
“HOW SOUND CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON”
“Extremely high-power sound waves can disrupt or destroy the eardrums and cause severe pain or disorientation”.
“Less powerful sound waves can cause humans to experience nausea or discomfort.
The use of these frequencies to incapacitate people has been used both in counter-terrorist and crowd-control settings”.
“The possibility of a device that produces a frequency that causes vibration of the eyeballs – and therefore distortion of vision – has also been shown to work”.
“High-amplitude sound of a specific pattern at a frequency close to the sensitivity peak of human hearing (2-3 kHz) is used as a burglar deterrent”.
“Some police forces have used sound cannons against protesters, for example during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh”.
“Acoustic grenades” generate between 120 decibels and 190 decibels”.
“German researchers showed that a blast of 210 decibels or more affects the inner organs and can cause internal injury that could lead to death. A blast impacts the body, and does so very violently”.
Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2549517/Sound-powerful-KILL-humans-Enormous-horn-helping-space-scientists-develop-super-strong-satellites.html
What a lovely morning. The Hell of Ghana became the Heaven, the Paradise of Ghana. The electricty was off when I woke and the obnoxious little noise dictator of Emena was silent. I could hear the lovely birds and the gentle sounds of people waking to the day. The sweet sounds of little children could be heard. I love their giggles and sounds of joy. I could open the windows which I normally keep shut tight in the early morning and evening to help reduce the torturous noise dictator’s health destroying decibels. But the shut windows do not reduce the noise much.
A gentle breeze came through the now open windows, so lovely. Most of all I could pray and think rather than be bombarded by the overwhelming noise that the dictator’s 4 high masted loud speakers roar out. I could hear the sound of God’s Creation instead of hearing one man’s idea of the gospel being forced violently into my ears.
Normally loudspeakers blast at you from vehicles, shops, high masts and wherever they can be fitted yet people do not realize they are being slowly killed by this and other pollution. Oh people of Ghana what are you doing to yourselves?
What a wonderful country Ghana could be if only people here could see that they are destroying their beautiful land, their minds and their physical health, their emotional and spiritual well-being BY THEIR OWN HAND!
In Ghana I notice that people blame the politicians. The politicians are not to blame. Each and every person who lies and steals and cheats and scams and pollutes is to blame. Please Ghanaians stop destroying yourselves and stop destroying your beautiful country.
THIS LAND OF GHANA CRIES OUT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS but it seems that so many here are determined to be destroyed by their own unrighteousness. I beg Ghanaians to learn and understand what righteousness is. Hosea 4:6 King James Version (KJV) says:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children”.
Matthew 5:18 King James Version (KJV) says:
“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
I remind you that heaven and earth have not passed and all has not been fulfilled!
Ghanaians start reading your Bible, start reading the first 5 books of the Bible (The 5 books of Moses / Musa) and then progress to the rest of the so called old testament. It is not old it is the very foundation to Christianity. Read the 5 books of Moses, read the Prophets, read the Psalms and so forth and all these will tell you what righteousness is.
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh, the peace of the morning and day is gone. The aggressive and terrorizing voice from the noise torturer of Emena’s 4 loud speakers battles against the boom boom of the local bar.
What an environment to live in. How is it possible that this is permitted to happen. Sounds blasting in from two sources, fighting each other, mixing and confusing into a nightmare of noise bedlam.
So much science warning of the health dangers and still it goes on. How is this possible? Why is this allowed to happen?
Noise kills, and blights lives in Europe
18:44 31 March 2011 by Andy Coghlan
Western Europeans suffer a heavy toll of death and disability through exposure to excessive noise, making it second only to air pollution as an environmental cause of ill health.
That’s the conclusion of the world’s first comprehensive report on the health effects of noise, published this week by the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Between them, western Europe’s inhabitants – with an estimated adult population in 2001 of 340 million – were found to lose as much as 1.6 million years of healthy living per year. The authors reduced the headline figure to 1 million to rule out the possibility of double counting. “We are very confident that a million is the bottom line,” says co-author Rok Ho Kim, who coordinates the WHO’s noise programme.
The toll from air pollution is estimated at 4.5 million years of healthy living lost per year. “No other environmental hazard comes anywhere near these two,” says Kim.
Deadly noise
The most dramatic effects are in heart disease, because exposure to noise can kill people. Altogether, Europeans are estimated to lose a total of around 61,000 years of healthy life annually through noise-associated heart disease, and suffer an estimated 3000 deaths, Kim says.
Noise has been shown to raise blood pressure and blood-borne concentrations of stress hormones and fatty materials even when people are asleep. These can accumulate over time to block blood vessels and trigger a heart attack.
Although heart disease is the most serious cause of death from noise, the largest single impact on health is through sleep disturbance, which deprives Europeans of an estimated 903,000 years of healthy living annually.
Next comes annoyance – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health – with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.
Reference: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20326-noise-kills-and-blights-lives-in-europe.html#.VKmCLNKUfVA
Today the torture continues by the noise dictator of Emena. What arrogance, what Christianity is it that tortures and destroys health? Oh I know, the one that makes money of course.
“Sleep Disturbance”
“Prolonged exposure to low-frequency noise inside the home may cause sleep disturbances in people. When low-frequency vibrations get indoors, they cause resonations, vibrations and annoying noises. People exposed to this may try sleeping in places where the noise is less disturbing, such as inside a garage or in a tent outside. Some people return to their homes only during daylight hours, and some people abandon their homes altogether”.
“Irritation”
“Low-frequency vibrations are annoying even when they are barely audible. The sound caused by these vibrations can be described as rhythmic, screeching, banging, continual droning and thumping. Prolonged exposure can be irritating and disconcerting, so much so that it can cause people to seek medical attention”.
“Mental Effects”
“Anxiety, stress and depression are some of the psychological and mental problems caused by low-frequency noise. The symptoms that people experience include headache, stress, tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, vertigo, blurred vision, nausea, tachycardia, problems with concentration and with memory and irritability. People also experience sensations of pain or pressure in the ear and periods of panic attack”.
“Lowered Productivity”
“Low-frequency indoor noise can cause illness, loss of productivity and increased mortality. Indoor noise increases the rate of disease, negative health effects, illnesses and disturbances in people. This in turn leads to reduced human productivity and potentially large economic losses. Exposure to prolonged low-frequency noise also has a detrimental effect on children’s speech, learning and social behavior”.
Reference:: http://www.ehow.com/info_8727819_harmful-barely-audible-lowfrequency-vibrations.html
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
“Noise is defined as unwanted sound. Environmental noise consists of all the unwanted sounds in our communities except that which originates in the workplace. Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise”.
“The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant. Noise produces direct and cumulative adverse effects that impair health and that degrade residential, social, working, and learning environments with corresponding real (economic) and intangible (well-being) losses. It interferes with sleep, concentration, communication, and recreation. The aim of enlightened governmental controls should be to protect citizens from the adverse effects of airborne pollution, including those produced by noise. People have the right to choose the nature of their acoustical environment; it should not be imposed by others”
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
“There is growing evidence that noise pollution is not merely an annoyance; like other forms of pollution, it has wide-ranging adverse health, social, and economic effects.[1-11] A recent search (September 2006) of the National Library of Medicine database for adverse health effects of noise revealed over 5000 citations, many of recent vintage”.
“As the population grows and as sources of noise become more numerous and more powerful, there is increasing exposure to noise pollution, which has profound public health implications. Noise, even at levels that are not harmful to hearing, is perceived subconsciously as a danger signal, even during sleep.[2] The body reacts to noise with a fight or flight response, with resultant nervous, hormonal, and vascular changes that have far reaching consequences.[1-11] “.
“Despite the fact that much has been written about the health effects of noise, it seems that much of the following information is not appreciated by the medical community and even less so by the general public.[7] In 1990, a National Institute of Health (NIH) panel concluded that high visibility media campaigns are needed to develop public awareness of the effects of noise on hearing and the means of self protection. In addition to informing the public, these programs should target primary healthcare physicians and educators who deal with young people.[7] To these recommendations, we would add the need to inform about all the other adverse effects of noise”
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
“In comparison to other pollutants, the control of environmental noise has been hampered by insufficient knowledge about its effects on humans and about dose-response relationships, but this seems to be changing as more research is carried out. However, it is clear that noise pollution is widespread and imposes long-term consequences on health.[1-11] In 1971, a World Health Organization (WHO) working group concluded that noise is a major threat to human well-being.[3] That assessment has not changed in the intervening 30-plus years; if anything, the threat has intensified”.
“In the young, hearing loss affects communication, cognition, behavior, social-emotional development, academic outcomes, and later vocational opportunities.[25] These effects have been well documented in a number of large scale investigations in children.[23]”.
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566_3
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
“Noise pollution interferes with the ability to comprehend normal speech and may lead to a number of personal disabilities, handicaps, and behavioral changes. These include problems with concentration, fatigue, uncertainty, lack of self confidence, irritation, misunderstandings, decreased working capacity, disturbed interpersonal relationships, and stress reactions. Some of these effects may lead to increased accidents, disruption of communication in the classroom, and impaired academic performance.[1,5,10,11] Particularly vulnerable groups include children, the elderly, and those not familiar with the spoken language.[1]”
“Uninterrupted sleep is known to be a prerequisite for good physiologic and mental functioning in healthy individuals.[28] Environmental noise is one of the major causes of disturbed sleep.[1,10] When sleep disruption becomes chronic, the results are mood changes, decrements in performance, and other long-term effects on health and well-being.[3] Much recent research has focused on noise from aircraft, roadways, and trains. It is known, for example, that continuous noise in excess of 30 dB disturbs sleep. For intermittent noise, the probability of being awakened increases with the number of noise events per night.[1]”
“The primary sleep disturbances are difficulty falling asleep, frequent awakenings, waking too early, and alterations in sleep stages and depth, especially a reduction in REM sleep. Apart from various effects on sleep itself, noise during sleep causes increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, increased pulse amplitude, vasoconstriction, changes in respiration, cardiac arrhythmias, and increased body movement.[28] For each of these, the threshold and response relationships may be different. Some of these effects (waking, for example) diminish with repeated exposure; others, particularly cardiovascular responses, do not.[29] Secondary effects (so-called after effects) measured the following day include fatigue, depressed mood and well-being, and decreased performance.[30] Decreased alertness leading to accidents, injuries, and death has also been attributed to lack of sleep and disrupted circadian rhythms.[31]”
“Long-term psychosocial effects have been related to nocturnal noise. Noise annoyance during the night increases total noise annoyance for the following 24 hours. Particularly sensitive groups include the elderly, shift workers, persons vulnerable to physical or mental disorders, and those with sleep disorders.[1]”
“Other factors that influence the problem of night-time noise include its occurrence in residential areas with low background noise levels and combinations of noise and vibration such as produced by trains or heavy trucks. Low frequency sound is more disturbing, even at very low sound pressure levels; these low frequency components appear to have a significant detrimental effect on health.[32]”
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566_3
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
“The effects of noise pollution on cognitive task performance have been well-studied. Noise pollution impairs task performance at school and at work, increases errors, and decreases motivation.[11,41] Reading attention, problem solving, and memory are most strongly affected by noise. Two types of memory deficits have been identified under experimental conditions: recall of subject content and recall of incidental details. Both are adversely influenced by noise. Deficits in performance can lead to errors and accidents, both of which have health and economic consequences.[1]”
“Cognitive and language development and reading achievement are diminished in noisy homes, even though the children’s schools may be no noisier than average.[18] Cognitive development is impaired when homes or schools are near sources of noise such as highways and airports.[4,11] Noise affects learning, reading, problem solving, motivation, school performance, and social and emotional development.[3,5,10,18,42] These findings suggest that more attention needs to be paid to the effects of noise on the ability of children to learn and on the nature of the learning environment, both in school and at home. Moreover, there is concern that high and continuous environmental noise may contribute to feelings of helplessness in children.[11,18]”
“Noise produces negative after-effects on performance, particularly in children. It appears that the longer the exposure, the greater the effect. Children from noisy areas have been found to have heightened sympathetic arousal indicated by increased levels of stress-related hormones and elevated resting blood pressure.[18] These changes were larger in children with lower academic achievement. As a whole, these findings suggest that schools and daycare centers should be located in areas that are as noise-free as possible.[1]”
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566_3
So Mr Christian preacher and noise dictator of Emena, do you get pleasure out of destroying the lives of children?
Southern Medical Journal
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Lisa Goines, RN, Louis Hagler, MDDisclosures
South Med J. 2007;100(3):287-294.
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“Vulnerable groups, generally underrepresented in study populations, include patients with various diseases, patients in hospitals or those who are rehabilitating from injury or disease, the blind, the hearing impaired, fetuses, infants and young children, and the elderly. Although anyone might be adversely affected by noise pollution, groups that are particularly vulnerable include neonates, infants, children, those with mental or physical illnesses, and the elderly. Because children are particularly vulnerable to noise induced abnormalities, they need special protection.[5,19] This vulnerability to noise may be an age-related sensitivity but may be also be due to increased risk based on behavior (personal music systems, loud concerts) or to an inability of the very young to remove themselves from a noxious source.[5] The evidence is strong enough to warrant monitoring programs in schools and elsewhere to protect children from noise exposure.[1,5,19]”
“The effects of noise on the fetus and newborn are unclear. Exposure to noise during pregnancy may increase the risk of high-frequency hearing loss in the newborn, shortened gestation, prematurity, and intrauterine growth retardation.[5,19,20,45,46] Noise in the NICU may cause cochlear damage and may impair the growth and development of the premature infant.[24] Even though studies have been inconsistent with respect to noise and congenital malformations, the data were sufficiently compelling for the National Research Council to recommend that pregnant women avoid noisy work settings.[18]”
Reference: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554566_5
“”INFRASOUND AND GHOSTS”
“If infrasound hits at just the right strength and frequency, it can resonate with human eyes, causing them to vibrate. This can lead to distorted vision and the possibility of “ghost” sightings. Or, at least, what some would call ghost sightings. Infrasound may also cause a person to “feel” that there’s an entity in the room with him or her, accompanied by that aforementioned sense of dread.”
“This bizarre phenomenon has been documented on multiple occasions. For example, one night while working at a “haunted” laboratory, Vic Tandy of Coventry University experienced feelings of anxiety, and even witnessed a dark “blob” out of the corner of his eye. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up. But when he turned to face the strange figure, he found nothing there”.
“The next day, Tandy saw the dark figure again, and he also noticed that the fencing foil he was working with — clamped to a vice — was inexplicably vibrating. So he decided to investigate”.
“As it turned out, there was a silent fan in the laboratory. The fan was giving off low-frequency sound waves at 18.98 Hz, right around the resonant frequency of the human eye. It had also created a standing wave in one area of the room, which is what caused the foil to vibrate”.
“According to Tandy, “When we finally switched it off, it was as if a huge weight was lifted.”
“The strange vibrations, optical illusions, and depressed feelings were due to infrasound, and had given the laboratory the reputation of being haunted. But it was all because of a vibrating fan”.
“Anyway, is infrasound an explanation for all ghosts sightings and supernatural activity? Of course not. The infrasound connection is ultimately just a theory. But if you ask me, the fact that low-frequency sound can affect humans in various ways is extraordinary in and of itself”.
Reference: http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/06/21/infrasound-the-fear-frequency/
“Sonic Weapons ”
“A variety of high powered sonic weapons (SW) exist spanning the infrasonic, ultrasonic, and audible ranges. Because they are weapons which direct sound onto a target, and sound is energy, they can be considered directed-energy weapons”.
“These weapons produce both psychological and physical effects. They include highly directional devices which can transmit painful audible sound into an individual’s ear at great distances and infrasonic generators which can shoot acoustic projectiles hundreds of meters causing a blunt impact upon a target”.
“Infrasonic generators can cause negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, or depression, as well as biological symptoms like nausea, vomiting, organ damage, burns, or death—depending on the frequency and power level. Most of these weapons function between the frequency range of about 1 Hz to 30 kHz. These frequencies occur within the following waves: Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) 1 Hz to 30 Hz, Super Low Frequency (SLF) 30 Hz to 300 Hz, Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) 300 Hz to 3 kHz, and Very Low Frequency (VLF) 3 kHz to 30 kHz.1”.
“Within the ELF region of the spectrum, there is a type of sound called infrasound, which occurs between 3 and 20 Hz. Infrasound is usually not heard, but it can be if the power level is sufficient. Next, audible noise begins for most people from about 20 Hz up to 20 kHz, and occurs between the upper ELF into the VLF ranges. Ultrasound begins in the VLF range at about 20 kHz, just above human hearing”.
“Another sound factor is power, usually described using a unit of measurement called a decibel. Decibels are used to measure the power of audible and inaudible sound, both of which produce effects. Any sound begins to become physically painful at about 120 decibels, although at lower levels it can cause discomfort. At about 130 decibels it becomes unbearable. In this chapter, words such as intensity, level, power, pressure, and decibel, are all used to describe sound power”
Reference: http://www.newworldwar.org/sw.htm
Well Mr noise dictator of Emena, through your arrogance and ignorance and your flagrant use of sound which you seem to know little about you could be setting about to destroy the internal organs of residents. What do you say?
“Resonance”
“All of the chemical reactions in the cells of living organisms are caused by the electromagnetic oscillations, pulsations, and vibrations, which are collectively referred to as vibrational frequencies. All physical matter is vibrating at its own vibrational frequency”.
“Resonance occurs when a connection is made between a source and a target which are vibrating at the same frequency. When this happens, the materials become joined and are said to be resonating. Once resonance has been achieved, an energy exchange takes place on the surface of the membrane of each cell. If the source of energy is more powerful, it directly impacts the targeted material resulting in a biological reaction”.
“Both infrasound and ultrasound are capable of producing resonance. This link can be established in the audible or inaudible sound ranges. A natural example of this harmonious synchronicity is frogs that sing in chorus. Mechanical examples include the pendulums of multiple clocks on the same wall which all swing in the same manner, or the string of a piano which vibrates after the same note is played on a nearby guitar”.
“Some organic and inorganic objects can function as resonance chambers. These objects are usually enclosures with a small opening. For instance, a glass or bottle will act as one. On a larger scale, the chest/abdominal area of the human body functions as a resonance chamber. Even an entire room with an open door or window can be used as a resonance chamber. Sound can be used to shatter or explode objects after resonance has been achieved”.
“Resonance can be induced electromagnetically by an infrasonic pulse generator, which can establish a link, for instance, to a person’s inner organs by resonating it in their chest area. Once this connection occurs, the power level of the generator can be increased, which would automatically transfer the energy to the person. If the power level is moderate, the person may experience pain in the chest area, or their organs may vibrate. Increasing the power level will destroy their organs”.
Reference: http://www.newworldwar.org/sw.htm
Infrasound Toxicological Summary, November 2001
“When male volunteers were exposed to simulated industrial infrasound of 5 and 10 Hz and levels of 100 and 135 dB for 15 minutes, feelings of fatigue, apathy, and depression, pressure in the ears, loss of concentration, drowsiness, and vibration of internal organs were reported. In addition, effects were found in the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and the respiratory system. Synchronization phenomena were enhanced in the left hemisphere. Visual motor responses to stimuli were prolonged, and the strength of the effect was reduced. Heart rate was increased during the initial minutes of exposure. Depression of the encephalic hemodynamics with decreased venous flow from the skull cavity was observed. Heart muscle contraction strength was reduced. Respiration rate was significantly reduced after the first minute of exposure.”
Reference: http://www.lowertheboom.org/trice/infrasound.htm
The BOOM BOOM BOOM of our speakers today.
Guess you didn’t know this did you little noise torturer of Emena? “Gotta” preach the gospel though early in the morning don’t you? “Gotta” make your money out of the misery of others haven’t you?
“The Nazis, in WW II, used the same type of sound like boom car owners are using today! Hitler conducted noise experiments on prisoners and actually tortured them with high-intensity/low-frequency noise. In WW II, the Nazis didn’t have the technology of powerful amplifiers that we do today. So, they developed a weapon that produced high intensity sound powered by “compressed air.”
“Acoustic, Infrasound. Very low-frequency sound, which can travel long distances and easily penetrate most buildings and vehicles. Transmission of long wavelength sound creates biophysical effects; nausea, loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential internal organ damage or death may occur. Superior to ultrasound because it is ‘in band,’ meaning that it does not lose its properties when it changes mediums such as from air to tissue. By 1972, an infrasound generator had been built in France that generated waves at 7 hertz. When activated, it made the people in range sick for hours.” (Source – Glossary of Non-lethal weapons Terms, edited by Robert Bunker)”.
Reference: http://www.lowertheboom.org/trice/infrasound.htm
Tonight’s barrage from the 4 high masted loudspeakers of the noise torturer of Emena is a full on aggressive and antagonistic blast as it is most days. It is like the little obnoxious man controlling the noise absolutely hates the residents of Emena.
It is unbelievable that a population has to suffer this type of thing. I have to remind myself that I am not living in Nazi Germany or a communist or North Korean concentration camp. It is incredible that this is allowed to happen. It is unbelievable in this day and age. Please someone tell me that I am just having a bad nightmare and all this is not real!
At 5.00 AM the preaching from the loudspeakers started again. I have noticed that in the last few days the noise torturer of Emena starts his broadcasts with the sound down a little from his normal bedlam. It doesn’t take long though for him to lift it to full blast to bellow out his indoctrination and brainwashing of the residents of Emena.
Wouldn’t you think the fellow would want to know and learn his bible before he began disturbing the early morning prayers and sleep of others? But not this tyrant, he has money to make out of the misery and declining health of others!
The obnoxious noise dictator of Emena, at least, must have at last understood the scripture at Proverbs 27.14 King James Bible (KJV):
“He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him”. I guess though he doesn’t have many friends in Emena!
The dictator of Emena is only interested when God may curse him but he curses the people of Emena every morning with his noise torture.
It is a great pity though this obnoxious little noise dictator didn’t read the rest of the Bible, especially about all the curses Elohim puts on his rebellious people at Deuteronomy in chapter 28. This chapter also speaks about blessings for those obedient to Elohim’s commands.
I look abut Ghana and I do not see many people being blessed at all.
Some of the Punishments for Disobedience King James Version (KJV)
(Leviticus 20:1-9; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Kings 13:11-34)
14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste
The bedlam from the Emena noise dictator’s loudspeakers is horrendous. Where is the local chief in all this? Where are the other officials?
Oh yes I remember the noise torturer of Emena said he was protected by government. I do though find this hard to believe.
I guess my complaint to the Kumasi Mayor and the local EPA will be answered soon.
OOOOOOOOPS! My email to The Mayor, sent to the official KMA email address of info@kma.gov.gh was just rejected by the server with the message “No such user here”. Oh well, may be the noise pollution zapped the “user”. I can understand that.
Today the noise dictator of Emena was handed the following information. The same information was also posted on the local Palace door, where many say the chief lives but the chief’s uncle says not so. Now both persons have the facts about noise that can kill. If these persons continue to allow the noise pollution from the four high masted loudspeakers then we will all know just how little they care for the residents of Emena. The following is what was provided to them:
Hosea 4:6 “ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…..”
Deadly noise
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20326-noise-kills-and-blights-lives-in-europe.html#.VKacENKUfVB
“Noise kills and blights lives in Europe”
“The most dramatic effects are in heart disease, because exposure to noise can kill people”.
“Altogether, Europeans are estimated to lose a total of around 61,000 years of healthy life annually through noise-associated heart disease, and suffer an estimated 3000 deaths, Kim says”.
“Noise has been shown to raise blood pressure and blood-borne concentrations of stress hormones and fatty materials even when people are asleep. These can accumulate over time to block blood vessels and trigger a heart attack”.
“Although heart disease is the most serious cause of death from noise, the largest single impact on health is through sleep disturbance, which deprives Europeans of an estimated 903,000 years of healthy living annually”.
“Next comes annoyance – which impairs people’s well-being even if it has no direct impact on health – with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000”.
How many die in Ghana from noise pollution? Will you be the next to be killed by noise?
JUST AS EXPECTED THE NOISE TORTURER OF EMENA STARTED HIS BROADCASTS AS USUAL THIS EVENING AFTER READING THAT NOISE POLLUTION CAN KILL.
NOW IT IS OBVIOUS WHERE HIS VALUES ARE!
NOW IT IS CLEAR THAT HE COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT THE RESIDENTS OF EMENA.
NOW IT IS CLEAR HE HAS NO LOVE FOR HIS NEIGHBOURS WHATSOEVER.
NOW IT IS CLEAR WHAT TYPE OF CHRISTIAN HE IS!
DISGUSTING LITTLE DICTATOR!
The Question now is what will the Emena chief do?
Again the beautiful stillness of the predawn morning is broken by the noise torturer of Emena with his 4 high masted loudspeakers showing total disregard for the health and wellbeing of the residents of Emena.
Obviously this obnoxious money focused noise dictator couldn’t care less if he continues to contribute toward the deaths of the residents. He has now read the critical message of the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre report that noise can kill and cause heart failure and death.
The noise dictator of Emena has read that “Noise has been shown to raise blood pressure and blood-borne concentrations of stress hormones and fatty materials even when people are asleep. These can accumulate over time to block blood vessels and trigger a heart attack”.
This noise torturer of Emena has now read that noise can cause leaning difficulties for children. What sort of excuse for a christian is this person? What do you have to say chief of Emena?
Yesterday the noise dictator of Emena was provided with a key message that NOISE KILLS taken from a report on the health effects of noise, published by the World Health Organization and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
As if in defiance to this message the preaching this morning from the 4 high masted loudspeakers blasted and bellowed out like demons from hell. Ghanaians outside complained, held their ears and showed the pain of the noise written on their faces.
It was so obvious that the noise torturer of Emena has blasted his defiance to knowledge, goodwill and any form of compassion or consideration for the people of Emena.
Who does this man think he is? Certainly he is a law unto himself!
Well, and so it goes on. Just after noon today my wife and I and wife’s niece went to the little noise dictator’s shed and he was asleep on an old lounge. I decided that I would give him some of his own medicine. With a loud voice I welcomed him to the waking world. Well surprise, surprise the little noise torturer didn’t like it at all. I loudly spoke to him and handed him a paper that spoke about the dangers noise poses to the unborn, babies, infants and children. He threw it on the floor.
The little noise dictator once again was not interested in knowledge. I guess he didn’t like being woken up. Interesting isn’t it that he gets to sleep in the middle of the day. I wonder how many residents of Emena get to sleep during the day? The noise torturer sleeps though, it doesn’t seem very fair does it?
As the noise torturer of Emena threw the paper on the floor it seemed almost like he was throwing the kids of Emena on the floor. When you think about it, it seems that is the way he treats the kids, like dirt under his feet. I will post the paper after I post this.
Suddenly the palace wanted to talk. A palace delegation came to summons me, and guess what ? I was told that the chief actually lived there and wanted to speak with me, although later I discovered he wasn’t there at all. Well, escorted by some palace representatives my wife, wife’s niece and I went to the palace on the understanding that the chief was there and wanted to talk to us. It turned out that the chief wasn’t there. This is the second time that representatives of the palace have lied to us.
Considering their lack of honesty, decency and respect for the strangers in their midst I thought I would greet those at the palace the same way my wife was originally greeted; with disrespect. Also, every morning my family and I are greeted before dawn, with a blasting voice and with disrespect, all authorized by the palace. Accordingly I greeted the members of the palace in the same way. Guess what? They didn’t like it either. Wow rules for some and rules for others.
Now things started to get hot and some big fellow who declared he was the chief wanted to talk. Interestingly they wanted to talk now but previously didn’t want to know about us. Well it turns out he wasn’t the chief after all just a big guy with a big ego who thought he could solve the problem by putting his finger in my face and threatening to have me arrested if I went to the dictator’s shed and used a loud voice again. Strange guys these, they do not like to be disturbed by loud voices.
Again we were told we should move out of the area. So much for the biblical concept of welcoming strangers. Yep, these types always hope the problem will go away. Well here is one white man and two black women who do not want the lives of innocent Ghanaians destroyed by some noisy money making business. We are prepared to stand up for people whose health is being put at great risk unnecessarily.
We walked away from those at the palace who may well be biblically destroyed because of their lack of knowledge. As we left, the palace crowd threw to the ground the papers we gave them about how noise negatively impacts on the unborn, babies, infants, children and adults. I guess like the noise dictator of Emena they also have no respect for the health and well-being of the residents of Emena, especially children.
A young girl of may be 10 or so said to my wife this morning that she couldn’t read because every time she tries her head is filled with the noise from the four high masted loud speakers. It is so sad isn’t it?
During the kafuffle at the palace one man came to us and wanted to know what the problem was. We brought him to our home and explained the situation of how our entire early morning life and that of an evening is raped by the noise dictator’s bellowing four loud speakers. It turned out that he is the chief’s brother and seemingly quite a sensible and decent man. The long and the short of it is that he could see our point and will take the issue to his brother, the chief. My family and I said that we wanted the noise stopped in the morning and that we thought one hour each evening five nights per week would be sufficient for an information service! The chief’s brother said he would return to our house tonight to update us.
Below is the information about the impact noise has on the unborn, babies, infants and children that my family and I gave to the noise dictator of Emena, the palace and the chief’s brother. Pictures and layout could not be reproduced here.
Dangerous Noise Levels for Fetus – Babies – Infants – Children
Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been attributed to noise exposure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise
Effects of noise in pre-school and school aged children include cognitive tasks being impaired, like reading, long term memory, attention and motivation
http://www.who.int/ceh/capacity/noise.pdf
“Your infant cannot protect himself against loud or harmful noises, so it’s up to you to safeguard against damage to his delicate hearing. Understanding what noises can be harmful to your baby — including sounds from loud toys – can help you pinpoint noises that could harm him. Because damage to your infant’s hearing can lead to permanent hearing loss, early intervention is vital”. http://www.livestrong.com/article/528530-dangerous-noise-levels-for-infants/
“The Committee of the Environment of the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded: “Exposure to excessive noise during pregnancy may result in high frequency hearing loss in newborns, and may be associated with prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation.” http://www.oem.msu.edu/userfiles/file/News/Hv6n3.pdf
“Exposure to loud noise can cause increased stress on your newborn, thus affecting normal development. Noise stressors can include increased heart rate, blood pressure, and intracranial pressure, hearing impairment, or sleep disruption”. http://www.lebonheur.org/blogs/childlifeblog/entry/noise_and_newborns
Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge….”
To continue from yesterday’s saga. The brother of the chief never came back to us last night to tell us what happened after he spoke with his brother the chief of Emena. The brother assured us that he would be able to speak with the chief yesterday afternoon. Last night’s noise from the four high masted loudspeakers was markedly reduced. This made us hopeful that the chief had taken notice of the great health dangers of noise as related to the unborn, infants, children and adults. But not so it seems.
This morning the loudspeakers blasted away at us again. They did open up at about 5.15 AM with the volume down a little but it didn’t take long for the distressing bombardment of our health, prayers and well-being to be in full swing.
I would like to think the chief has not yet read about the very serious dangers associated with noise pollution from the material handed to his brother yesterday. However it is almost certain that he has.
Oh such a sorry situation it is. Is it true that the chief of Emena couldn’t care less about the health and well-being of the people of Emena? I would like to think not.
Is it true that the blasting speakers today may be another defiant stand not only against criticism and not only against protecting the health and well being of the people of Emena but also against science its very self.
Wow how sad all this is but let’s wait and see. I hope the chief is just honouring the pre-booked paid advertising of the so called Information Centre, and that, in a short time the noise pollution and harassment of the Emena population will cease forever!
No doubt the chief’s brother will let us know what is going on. He said he is a christian so he cannot lie!
The following quotes are sure hard to ignore but then again with some people money is more important than people!
“Noise kills and blights lives in Europe”
“The most dramatic effects are in heart disease,
because exposure to noise can kill people”.
*Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been attributed to noise exposure*.
*Effects of noise in pre-school and school aged children include cognitive tasks being impaired, like reading, long term memory, attention and motivation”
Well the torture from the noise dictator is underway again. No news yet from the brother of the chief but he is a christian and cannot lie so he will come and tell us what is happening!
The following was taken from:
http://omgghana.com/spain-pianist-face-jail-time-neighbor-takes-court-noise-pollution/
The woman has taken her neighbors in the apartment below — a 27-year-old pianist and her parents — to court. Now prosecutors want to send all three to jail for over seven years on charges of psychological damage and noise pollution.
In a country known for its exuberant noisiness, the case has raised eyebrows. Neighbors often complain about street and bar noise in Spain, but prosecutors seeking jail time for someone practicing the piano is unheard of — especially since that musician is now a professional concert pianist.
At the trial in the northeastern city of Gerona, Sonia Bosom claimed she suffered noise pollution from 2003 to 2007 due to the five-days-a-week, eight-hour practice sessions of Laia Martin, who lived below her in the northeastern town of Puigcerda.
Martin, 27, denies that she played at home that often, saying she took regular classes in other towns. She claims she mostly practiced at home on the weekends.
On Monday, the first day of the trial, the El Pais newspaper reported that Bosom told the court she now hates pianos so much she can’t even stand to see them in a film.
The prosecution claims that years of hearing constant playing has caused Bosom “psychological injury.” Medical reports showed she suffered from a variety of problems, including insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks and gynecological problems.
Bosom and her family moved in 2007 and she says she has had to take time off work, reportedly due to her problems.
The prosecutor said tests by local authorities found that the sound levels made by the piano were repeatedly up to 10 decibels higher than the 30-decibel limit laid down for musical instruments in the town. City authorities asked the family several times to either stop the piano playing or soundproof the room.
The family told the court they carried out soundproofing work twice but the complaints continued, the newspaper reported.
Nuria Blanes, an environmental scientist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said noise around 40 decibels “is not very much.” A normal conversation produces 55-60 decibels, with noise in a bar reaching 65-70 decibels and an airplane in flight producing 110-120 decibels, she said.
However, she also noted that some studies have established links to health problems such as sleep disturbances and cardiovascular disease if someone faces a constant noise level of over 40 decibels during the night.
“The norm is for 30 decibels as a nighttime limit inside a house, but some authorities are widening it to daytime, which is surprising,” said Fernando Simon Yarza, a constitutional law professor at Navarra University. He said that may be due to the high fines that courts have forced some towns to pay for not taking action against excessive noise levels.
“Protection against noise and environmental quality is considered a human right,” he told The Associated Press.
The prosecutors have asked for all three defendants to be sentenced to six years in jail for noise pollution and an additional one-and-a-half years for psychological damage. They have also demanded that all three be prohibited from playing the piano professionally for four years.
A Catalonia Justice Tribunal spokeswoman said the trial will end Nov. 15 with the verdict issued at a later date.
An interesting comment here:
Taken from: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37939/title/Brain-Washing-During-Sleep/
Brain-Washing During Sleep
Rest clears out interstitial clutter in the mouse brain.
By Kerry Grens | October 18, 2013
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NEDERGAARD LAB, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
The restorative power of sleep may originate outside of our neurons, in the interstitial space between cells. During sleep, this space expands by 60 percent, perhaps to more effectively clear away toxins, researchers report this week in Science. “Sleep changes the cellular structure of the brain. It appears to be a completely different state,” lead author Maiken Nedergaard, the co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, said in a press release.
Nedergaard and her colleagues showed that the mouse glymphatic system—which exchanges cleansing cerebrospinal fluid for protein-laden interstitial fluid in the brain—enlarges during sleep or anesthesia, and shrinks during awake periods. As an example of sleep’s cleaning power, the group demonstrated that β-amyloid in the interstitial space disappeared faster while animals were sleeping.
Sleep researchers say the finding makes sense. It “fits with a long-standing view that sleep is for recovery—that something is paid back or cleaned out,” David Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania told Science Now. “It’s not surprising, our whole physiology is changing during sleep,” Raphaelle Winsky-Sommerer, a lecturer in sleep at Surrey University, told the BBC. “The novelty is the role of the interstitial space, but I think it’s an added piece of the puzzle, not the whole mechanism.”
Nedergaard told the BBC that the brain has limited resources, and can’t devote energy to both the functions of awake states and house cleaning. “You can think of it like having a house party,” she said. “You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can’t really do both at the same time.”
Have a close read of 26 (2) and 28 (1) (d) below :
These sections of the Constitution become vitally relevant in the light of:
“The most dramatic effects are in heart disease,
because exposure to noise can kill people”.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20326-noise-kills-and-blights-lives-in-europe.html#.VKacENKUfVB
Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been attributed to noise exposure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise
Effects of noise in pre-school and school aged children include cognitive tasks being impaired, like reading, long term memory, attention and motivation .
http://www.who.int/ceh/capacity/noise.pdf
It very much seems that what is happening in Emena and probably throughout much of Ghana is in complete defiance of 26 (2) and 28 (1) (d) of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.
As well, the Emena noise outrage, by forcing residents to hear certain forms of preaching and religious indoctrination in their own home may well be in defiance of 26 (1) . This could be especially so when that preaching and religion is forced into homes when people are sleeping or resting thus at a time when they are susceptible to brainwashing and not brain cleaning as described in the previous post.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA
CHAPTER FIVE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
12.(1) The fundamental human rights and freedoms enshrined in this chapter
shall be respected and upheld by the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
and all other organs of government and its agencies and, where applicable
to them, by all natural and legal persons in Ghana, and shall be
enforceable by the Courts as provided for in this Constitution.
(2) Every person in Ghana, whatever his race, place of origin, political
opinion, colour, religion, creed or gender shall be entitled to the
fundamental human rights and freedoms of the individual contained in this
Chapter but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for
the public interest.
26.(1) Every person is entitled to enjoy, practice, profess, maintain and
promote any culture, language, tradition or religion subject to the
provisions of this Constitution.
(2) All customary practices which dehumanise or are injurious to the
physical and mental well being of a person are prohibited.
28.(1) Parliament shall enact such laws as are necessary to ensure that –
(a) every child has the right to the same measure of special care,
assistance and maintenance as is necessary for its development
from its natural parents, except where those parents have
effectively surrendered their rights and responsibilities in respect
of the child in accordance with law;
(b) every child, whether or not born in wedlock, shall be entitled to
reasonable provision out of the estate of its parents;
(c) parents undertake their natural right and obligation of care,
maintenance and upbringing of their children in co-operation with
such institutions as Parliament may, by law, prescribe in such
manner that in all cases the interest of the children are paramount;
(d) children and young persons receive special protection against
exposure to physical and moral hazards; and
(e) the protection and advancement of the family as the unit of
society are safeguarded in promotion of the interest of children.
Is the noise dictator of Emena destroying the physical and psychological health of the kids of Emena?
Noise and Its
Effects on
Children
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Reference: http://www.epa.gov/air/noise/ochp_noise_fs_rev1.pdf
Adverse Health Effects
Noise can pose a serious threat to a child’s physical and psychological health,
including learning and behavior. For example, noise can:
INTERFERE WITH SPEECH AND LANGUAGE. Repeated exposure to noise
during critical periods of development may affect a child’s acquisition of
speech, language, and language-related skills, such as reading and listening.
IMPAIR LEARNING. The inability to concentrate in a noisy environment
can affect a child’s capacity to learn.
IMPAIR HEARING. Tinnitus, often described as a ringing or buzzing
sound in the ear, is a symptom associated with many forms of
hearing loss.
NIHL is a permanent hearing impairment resulting from
prolonged exposure to high levels of noise or by sudden high
level (impulse) noise
Well once again every nook and cranny of our homes, ears, minds and prayers are raped by the noise torturer of Emena as he pushes and shoves and penetrates , and tears and ejaculates his noise continuously into the very private parts of our lives, homes, prayers and sleep.
Hour up hour, day upon day, week upon week, month upon month and so the noise raping goes on in Emena. The noise rapist takes no concern about the disease he spreads, nor the mental anguish he causes. He has no concern for the pregnant women, nor the children, nor the sick in the nearby hospital. Push, shove, tear, penetrate the very private parts of our lives and homes is all that he cares about.
Aaaah ejaculation comes but this man is strong he can pollute and fill our lives with his vile and disgusting roaring rivers of noise continuously and there is no one to stop him.
I met a polite man who suggested that we should move to another area when our lease expires. He went on to say that it is a tradition of his ancestors to make announcements. My response to this was that yes in that time it was good but they never had loudspeakers and electricity when that tradition began. They never had radios, nor television, nor newspapers. I emphasized that by using the loudspeakers the health and well being of the unborn, children and adults are being damaged. He said he had read the information that I had handed out which spoke of the dangers of noise pollution.
My question is, why not go back to the old ways of the ancestors and just use the loud voice of a town crier who would move from location to location without the loudspeakers and electricity? You cannot have it both ways. If the ancestor’s ways seem right then follow their ways. I have been advised by a West African, who grew up hearing town criers, that the announcements made by the ancestors did not go on for seven hours per day or wake people up early in the morning. I am all for going back to traditional ways. I cannot imagine that the traditional ways would have polluted Ghana with noise anywhere near the level of noise pollution now.
Apparently the current information service hasn’t been around for that long. It has been told that it was brought in by the new chief and it was he who brought the noise dictator into the community. It seems now they are building a more permanent abode for the information service and this morning they came to the front of our house and dug dirt from the roadside to place under the floor of the new building.
If Ghana is to prosper, the health and well-being of its people, especially children must be of paramount priority.
What a horrible, disgusting and abhorrent attitude it is that anyone would be prepared to put the health and well-being of the unborn, children and adults at risk just to make money. The polite man confirmed that the information service of Emena provides wages to the man who runs it.
So it seems true that the information service is about making money while contributing to the poor health of the residents. At 10 Cedis per hour one can fully see why the daily hours need to be maximized.
The daily noise torture has started. As normal I batten down the house to block out as much of the health destroying noise as possible. Oh Ghanaians what are you doing to yourselves and your children?
The following was taken from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-177286/Noise-damages-babies-brains.html
Noise damages babies’ brains’
Noisy homes could be putting the mental development of babies at risk, scientists warned today.
New research indicates that constant background noise may swamp an infant’s brain, holding back its ability to recognise sounds.
The findings might explain why language learning disorders have increased over the last few decades, it is claimed.
Modern homes are often filled with a cacophony of noise from blaring TVs and radios, the rumble of traffic, jets flying overhead, and domestic machinery such as washing machines and fridges.
Being born into such a noisy world may sabotage the hearing centre of a baby’s sensitive developing brain, according to a group of US researchers.
Taken from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931211/
Effect of prenatal chronic noise exposure on the growth and development of body and brain of chick embryo
Noise acts as an environmental stressor as has been demonstrated by an increased brain acetyl cholinesterase activity as well as elevated plasma corticosterone and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels. Noise can lead to neurodegenerative changes in the brain and in the ear.
Does the noise torturer have any qualification in or understanding of the sound he blasts out? I think not! Does he understand the sound that you cannot hear and how it damages the body? I think not.
The following was taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon
Studies have found that exposure to high intensity ultrasound at frequencies from 700 kHz to 3.6 MHz can cause lung and intestinal damage in mice. Heart rate patterns following vibroacoustic stimulation has resulted in serious negative consequences such as atrial flutter and bradycardia. [10] [11]
The extra-aural (unrelated to hearing) bioeffects on various internal organs and the central nervous system included auditory shifts, vibrotactile sensitivity change, muscle contraction, cardiovascular function change, central nervous system effects, vestibular (inner ear) effects, and chest wall/lung tissue effects. Researchers found that low frequency sonar exposure could result in significant cavitations, hypothermia, and tissue shearing. No follow on experiments were recommended. Tests performed on mice show the threshold for both lung and liver damage occurs at about 184 dB. Damage increases rapidly as intensity is increased.[citation needed] The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)has stated that there have been no proven biological effects associated with an unfocused sound beam with intensities below 100 mW/cm² SPTA or focused sound beams below an intensity level of 1mW/cm² SPTA. [12]
Noise-induced neurologic disturbances in scuba divers exposed to continuous low frequency tones for durations longer than 15 minutes has involved in some cases the development of immediate and long-term problems affecting brain tissue. The symptoms resembled those of individuals who had suffered minor head injuries. One theory for a causal mechanism is that the prolonged sound exposure resulted in enough mechanical strain to brain tissue to induce an encephalopathy. Divers and aquatic mammals may also suffer lung and sinus injuries from high intensity, low frequency sound. This is due to the ease with which low frequency sound passes from water into a body, but not into any pockets of gas in the body, which reflect the sound due to mismatched acoustic impedance.[13]
The following was take from:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140731102524.htm
Effect of loud noises on brain revealed in study
Date: July 31, 2014
Source: University of Texas at Dallas
Summary:
Prolonged exposure to loud noise alters how the brain processes speech, potentially increasing the difficulty in distinguishing speech sounds, according to neuroscientists. Exposure to intensely loud sounds leads to permanent damage of the hair cells, which act as sound receivers in the ear. Once damaged, the hair cells do not grow back, leading to noise-induced hearing loss.
The followin was copied from: http://www.ghanadistricts.com/news/?read=40349&sports
Participants call for stringent laws on noise pollution
Noise
Mrs. Philomena Boakye Appiah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said it was un-Christian for churches to create noise, under the guise of praise and worship during their services.
She said churches and other Christian organisations were doing
more harm than good to residents around their locations, because they flouted the law on noise pollution with impunity without regard to its negative effects on the people.
The Regional Director disclosed that noise pollution could cause
deafness, blood pressure, indigestion, heartburn, ulcers, heart
disease, mental illness, fatigue, damages in the nervous system,
increased stress/ irritation, decrease in efficiency at work places,
sleep interference, decreased academic performance and indirectly
weakens the edifice of buildings and bridges.
Mrs. Appiah, who explained noise pollution as “sound that is incoherent and irregular and produces an unpleasant sensation that is unwanted or that interfere with the ability to hear”, was speaking at a regional media encounter in Sunyani, to mark this year’s nationalnoise awareness day.
The programme, under the theme, “noise, the silent killer-
protect your hearing, protect your health”, was aimed at soliciting
the support of the media and other stakeholders like the Police, the
Ghana Education Service and the National Commission for Civic
Education to educate the general public, to ensure noise making was
greatly controlled or moderated in the society.
Mrs. Appiah stated that noise emanated from various sources;
notable among them were religious, commercial, entertainment and
industrial activities, as well as social gatherings (parties and
funerals).
She said “noise is big nuisance” and had emerged over the last few years as a big environmental problem that posed an equally big challenge in dealing with and admitted that “no one institution can do it all”.
The Regional Director noted that the media provided the largest
platform for the dissemination of information and creation of
awareness, explaining that it had the advantage of reaching the people in the comfort of their homes, offices, markets and in vehicles, among others.
Mrs. Appiah said to know the implications of one’s activities and
make informed decisions; the relevant information should be put out
appropriately, and appealed to the media, especially the community
radio stations and information centres in the region, to collaborate
with the agency to stem the tide of noise pollution.
She appealed to the Sunyani Municipal Assembly to make its
proposed noise abatement task force functional so that the requisite
information could reach every corner of the municipality.
Mrs. Appiah emphasised that noise pollution was an offence
punishable by law and therefore urged that all the other assemblies
should be encouraged to set up similar functional task forces.
She said it was unlawful for FM radio stations to be hooked unto
community information centres, saying the trend was making the
community information centres to deviate from their core mandate of
educating and informing people in their catchment areas on basic
issues of national importance.
During questions and discussion, it was realized that, there were
inadequate laws and by-laws on noise pollution in the country; hence
the EPA alone could not provide solutions to the problem.
Participants called on the agency to initiate a move for policy makers as well as appropriate bodies and organisations, like Parliament and the district assemblies, to come out with adequate legislation and by-laws to deal with the problem.
Personnel from the Regional Directorate of the Ghana Heath Service and the Attorney-General’s department also made presentations
on “The impact of noise on health” and “Noise and the law”
respectively.
Taken from: http://www.modernghana.com/news/395828/1/epa-sets-guidelines-for-noise-making.html
EPA sets guidelines for noise-making
By Ghanaian Chronicle
By: Stephen Odoi-Larbi
In recent times, the issue of noise pollution has become of serious concern, especially, in built up residential areas and other communities in the country.
To address the noise levels, ranging from residential and commercial to industrial areas, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the government wing responsible for the prudent management of the environment, has set out guidelines that come with permissible ambient noise for the aforementioned areas.
The environmental agency puts permissible ambient noise levels in residential 55 decibles (db) during the day and 48 db at night.
Those at and around educational health facilities was put 55 db during the day and 50 db at night, while the noise level for areas with commercial or light industrial activities was registered 60 db and 55 db during the day and night respectively.
The new guidelines also permit 65 db noise levels during the day and 60 db during the night for light industrial areas and places of entertainment and public assembly such as churches and mosques.
Predominant commercial areas, according to the new guidelines, are allowed 70 db during the day and 65 db at night, while the noise level for heavy industrial areas was pegged at70 db during the day and night.
The new guidelines came to the fore when the Minister of Environment, Science & Technology (MEST), Sherry Ayittey, appeared on the floor of Parliament to answer to a question posed by the Member of Parliament for Offinso North, Augustine Collins Ntim.
Mr. Ntim asked the Minister, who is a biochemist by profession, on what measures her outfit was putting in place to formulate the necessary laws and regulations on environmental pollution for the country.
Madam Sherry Ayittey expressed the firm belief that the enforcement of the new guidelines would limit to an appreciable level noise pollution in the country if not totally eliminated and urged all and sundry to comply with the rules.
Well, well if 6 to 7 hours per day is not enough to destroy the health of the residents of Emena it seems we now have the illustrious information centre of Emena and its noise dictator starting up another broadcast time slot of 1.00pm. I guess this is with the permission of the Emena chief.
Yes folks we now have the information centre of Emena in full swing at 1.00pm. May be this is part of the strategy to drive my family and I from the area.
It’s evening now, the local bar has started up and the information centre is playing its own idea as to what the residents should be listening to. The result is a jumble of sounds that would make you laugh if it wasn’t so serious.
Wouldn’t you think that the noise dictator of Emena would let the bar and young people enjoy themselves, after all the bar doesn’t blast out 6 or 7 hours each and every day?
What a sad and sorry situation it is in Emena. And the chief, wow he certainly seems to have it all under control eh?
The obnoxious health destroying dictator of Emena is at it as usual; waking people up, destroying peoples’ health and causing kids difficulties in reading and learning.
Thank Elohim though yesterday’s blast at 1.00 PM was just a one off announcement.
This is incredible that such noise dictators continue to get away with their destructive dictatorships
The following was taken from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931211/
Noise acts as an environmental stressor as has been demonstrated by an increased brain acetyl cholinesterase activity as well as elevated plasma corticosterone and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels. Noise can lead to neurodegenerative
changes in the brain and in the ear.
The first sounds this morning from the noise dictators 4 high masted loudspeakers came at about 5.05 AM. It was preaching.
I thought there was freedom of religion in Ghana. How can this be when your home is invaded by religious brainwashing and indoctrination that you have no choice in; religious brainwashing and indoctrination that even contributes toward causing poor health and may be even death as result of noise pollution.
Oh, I know why this is forced upon us in our own homes. It is because the noise torturer of Emena makes money from our misery and poor health!
In Christianity we have many denominations and beliefs. How is it that this noise dictator of Emena gets to decide on what type of preaching, what beliefs and what denominational doctrines we hear in our own home.
Oh I know why. It s because the local chief supports the dictator. Is the local chief also making money out of the misery and poor health and may be even the death of the residents of emena? Is the local chief contributing toward learning difficulties of the children of Emena? Is the local chief contributing toward birth defects of the unborn in Emena? If this be the case then this chief is certainly not worthy of being a chief and needs to run out of Emena by the authorities! Certainly the noise dictator needs to be run out of town!
Again we are woken at 5.05 AM by the religious brainwashing of the noise dictator of Emena.
No doubt again the children of Emena will be forced from their beds by the bedlam that comes. I wonder how many will have reading and learning difficulties because of the noise dictator of Emena.
No doubt the foetus snuggled in its mother’s womb will be stirred. I wonder how many birth defects will be caused by the blasting sounds of the 4 high masted speakers of the noise torturer of Emena?
Yes the dictator again has chosen the time that we should wake, he has chosen the religious brainwashing we should listen to. He has chosen what sounds will wreck our prayers. He has chosen to harass us with his religious ideas. He has once again chosen to assist the residents in Emena to poor health and perhaps even death.
What a disgusting, obnoxious and wicked noise dictator is this noise torturer of Emena. Oh yes and it is ok because the chief of Emena said so, so the noise torturer told us.
King James Bible, Proverbs 28.9
“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination”
King James Bible, Deuteronomy 28:15-20
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
It is unbearable in our house because of the noise dictator and his chief who backs the noise dictator. The noise reverberates around our bedrooms causing us great misery and agony.
Our son gets to bed late because of his studies and then is whacked by the noise dictator’s mind and body destroying blasting and bellowing bedlam.
What a way for people to live. In their very own home before dawn and at other times we suffer in this dictatorship at Emena. And the chief just let’s it go on every day, relentlessly pounding us into poor health and may be even death. What an excuse for a chief!
The following was taken from: http://www.biblelife.org/bondage.htm
The modern Christian churches use brainwashing, mind control, indoctrination, oppression, coercion, intimidation, legalism, false teaching, guilt, shame, peer pressure, and other bondage techniques to control members, increase church attendance, and obtain more money.
The goal is said to be “winning souls to Christ,” but the underlying agenda is the desire for more power, control, and money.
These mind control and bondage techniques are not needed to win souls to Christ. In fact, they are very counter productive to soul winning.
Matthew 23:4 “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 “But all their works they do to be seen by men.”
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
The following was taken from:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fundamentalistbrainwashing06jun05.shtml
The Birth of Conversion:
Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.
Conversion is a “nice” word for brainwashing…and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the “sinners” attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was negative. He would tell them, “You’re a sinner! You’re destined for hell!”
As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide. And the neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too, were affected so deeply that, although they had found “eternal salvation,” they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas. Because Edwards didn’t turn his message positive until the end of the revival, many accepted the negative suggestions and acted, or desired to act, upon them.
The following was taken from:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fundamentalistbrainwashing06jun05.shtml
The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation
The Christians may have been the first to successfully formulate brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early 1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further investigations with humans. After the revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying Pavlov’s research to his own ends.
Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition were identified by Pavlov. The first is the equivalent phase, in which the brain gives the same response to both strong and weak stimuli. The second is the paradoxical phase, in which the brain responds more actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And the third is the ultra-paradoxical phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to positive.
With the progression through each phase, the degree of conversion becomes more effective and complete. The way to achieve conversion are many and varied, but the usual first step in religious or political brainwashing is to work on the emotions of an individual or group until they reach an abnormal level of anger, fear, exitement, or nervous tension.
The progressive result of this mental condition is to impair judgement and increase suggestibility. The more this condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it compounds. Once catharsis, or the first brain phase, is reached, the complete mental takeover becomes easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new patterns of thinking and behavior.
Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal brain functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound effects, programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs.
The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric treatment by electric shock treatments and even by purposely lowering a person’s blood sugar level with insulin injections.
The following was taken from:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fundamentalistbrainwashing06jun05.shtml
How Revivalist Preachers Work
If you’d like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming.
Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance–body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good “voice roll.”
The following was taken from:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fundamentalistbrainwashing06jun05.shtml
The “Voice Roll” Technique
A “voice roll” is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.
The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States
Now the assistant pastor begins the “build-up” process. He induces an altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young women in “sweet and pure” chiffon dresses might come out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and involvement. In the middle of the song, one of the girls might be “smitten by the spirit” and fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is the audience’s attention span is now totally focused upon the communication while the environment becomes more exciting or tense.
Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock
Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, “Give to God…Give to God…Give to God….” And the audience does give. God may not get the money, but his already-wealthy representative will.
Bonding by Fear and Suggestion
Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the tension by talking about “the devil,” “going to hell,” or the forthcoming Armegeddon.
In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also obsessed with a “bloody axe of God,” which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it–the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.
The following was taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_operations
Music has been used in psychological operations. The term music torture is sometimes used by critics of the practice of playing loud music incessantly to prisoners or people besieged.
The United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights have banned the use of loud music in interrogations.[citation needed] The term torture is sometimes used to describe the practice. While it is acknowledged by US interrogation experts that it causes discomfort, it has also been characterized by them as causing no “long term effects.”[1]
Music and sound have been usually used as part of a combination of interrogation methods, today recognized by international bodies as amounting to torture.[2]
Attacking all senses without leaving any visible traces, they have formed the basis of the widely discussed torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. They were, however, devised much earlier in the 1950s and early 1960s, as a way to counter so-called Soviet “brainwashing”.
Well the health destroying, heart attacking, learning destroying noise has started again from the noise dictator of Emena.
The following was taken from: http://chchearing.org/noise/archives/path-to-quiet-nadler/
The Path to Quiet: Don’t Just Say “No” to Noise, Say “Yes” to Quiet
By Nancy B. Nadler, M.E.D., M.A. | Hearing Health Quarterly – Special Edition (2001)
Noise is commonly defined as “unwanted sound.” We have known for a long time that noise is harmful to one’s hearing, health and the quality of life. In fact, as far back as 1930, the Noise Abatement Commission of New York City reported the following effects of noise on humans:
Hearing is apt to be impaired in those exposed to constant loud noises.
Noise interferes seriously with the efficiency of the worker. It lessens attention and makes concentration upon any task difficult.
In the attempt to overcome the effect of noise, great strain is put upon the nervous system, leading to neurasthenic and psychasthenic states, and necessitating frequent recuperation in the country to maintain mental efficiency and alertness.
Noise interferes seriously with sleep, even though in some cases it appears that the system is able to adjust itself so that wakefulness does not result.
It is well established that, in addition to these other evil effects, the normal development of infants and young children is seriously interfered with by constant loud noises. (Brown, 1930).
Some forty years later, Dr. William H. Stewart, former U.S. Surgeon General stated: “Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere. When considering the impact of noise on health, in his keynote address to the 1968 Conference on “Noise as a Public Health Hazard” Dr. Stewart added: “Must we wait until we prove every link in the chain of observation?… In protecting health, absolute proof comes late. To wait for it is to invite disaster or to prolong suffering unnecessarily.” In 1972, the Noise Control Act was passed and Congress declared: “…it is the policy of the United States to promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes their health and welfare.”
We know that noise hurts – our hearing, our health and our quality of life. The message of the Noise Center of the Center for Hearing and Communication has been clear – turn down the volume, limit exposure to noise, and wear hearing protection to protect yourself from this pervasive pollutant. In other words, just say “no” to noise.
Yet our soundscape grows noisier every day. Even thirty years ago, one scholar found that background noise was increasing nationwide at the rate of one decibel a year (on the A- weighted scale)1 and more recently, a study by the Center for Hearing and Communication found that the numbers of people failing hearing screenings has increased steadily over the last twenty years.
Perhaps then, it is not enough to tell people that noise hurts. We must also look at what we gain when noise is not present – the intrinsic benefits of quiet. When quiet is defined, it is associated with words such as calm, tranquility, gentleness, easygoing, unobtrusive. Quiet is central to meditation, which has been shown to improve health and overall well-being. The phrase “peace and quiet” is often used to reflect what so many of us seek after a hectic day at home or at work and suggests that one cannot have peace without quiet. When noise is limited, we not only reduce the negative effects associated with noise, but add the richness of quiet to our lives.
In each article in this issue of Hearing Rehabilitation Quarterly, the authors clearly illustrate the impact of noise on our lives. Kathy Peck discusses the loudness level in nightclubs in her article, Dancing Till Deaf; Dr. Arline Bronzaft describes the harmful effects of aircraft noise to our communities and especially to our children in Aircraft Noise: The Ailment and the Treatment; and Dr Peggy Nelson looks at the effects of a noisy classroom on children’s learning in The Campaign for Improved Acoustics in Schools. Finally, Elliot Berger offers suggestions to protect our hearing from excessive noise in Hearing Protection -Sunglasses for the Ears.
Whether it is at home, at work or in recreational activities, continued exposure to noise presents a serious hazard. Imagine instead, that in each situation presented in these articles, quiet existed. Consider how the lives of those described would be different. Imagine your own life with periods of quiet built into each day. Take for example, a home at around 5 p.m. The television is on, perhaps the stereo is blaring upstairs, then the phone rings, one child pulls at your leg, another screams about a sibling knocking down a carefully designed block construction, all while you are trying to make dinner and help with the homework. Now, imagine the same home without the background noise. Turn off the television, turn down the volume on the stereo and lower the voices. Theodore Wachs (1993)studied the level of “noise confusion” in the home and its impact on early childhood development. Wachs concluded that high levels of noise, crowding and traffic patterns in the home were associated with lower caregiver attentiveness and responsibility. Noise, it seems, can affect the temperament and social interactions of children. Just like adults, children need quiet time at home, to create, learn, relax and just “be”.
Since its inception in 1996, International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) has highlighted the importance of quiet in our lives by urging participants to observe the “Quiet Diet” with one minute of no noise from 2:15 – 2:16 p.m., regardless of location.
International Noise Awareness Day has grown to include participants in every state in the United States, as well as groups in 43 countries on every continent around the world. The goal remains the same – to educate the public about the harmful effects of noise on hearing, health and the quality of life. It is not enough to “just say no to noise,” we must also “say yes to quiet.”
We encourage participants of INAD to make time for quiet in their lives every day and urge individuals to transform noise awareness into a quiet reality for the new millennium.
James L. Hildebrand, Noise Pollution: An Introduction to the Problem and an Outline for Future Legal Research, 70 Colum. L. Rev. 652, 653 (1970). Citing another source, Hildebrand continues: “The strength of the general noise background in some of our communities is now four times what it was in 1956, and 32 times what it was in 1938.” Id.
– See more at: http://chchearing.org/noise/archives/path-to-quiet-nadler/#sthash.HgZ5UPo4.dpuf
The following is taken from: http://www.aidecworld.com/environment/noise-the-silent-killer/
Noise – the silent killer
Sound – the invisible Pollutant
From time immemorial, the menace of loud noise and cacophony has haunted man. For instance, in ancient Greece, the rulers in order to insulate cities from the nuisance of din and bustle. Used to order the iron smiths and potters work outside the city wall.
The following was taken from: http://www.menshealth.com/health/secret-sounds
The noises around you dictate everything from the way you think to how long you live
BY MARKHAM HEID, FEBRUARY 19, 2014
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THINKSTOCK
“It’s a potent stressor,” explains Hugh W. Davies, Ph.D., an environmental health professor at the University of British Columbia. Davies says loud, continual noise………………..triggers your body’s fight-or-flight responses. And after years of exposure, that heightened state of arousal takes a toll on your heart: Risk of death from coronary heart disease jumped 49 percent among people who lived in the noisiest parts of Vancouver, compared to those in the quietest, Davies’ research shows.
His advice: You want your bedroom to be as silent as possible, especially at night when your body needs to relax. Turn off the TV, sleep in the quietest room, and move your bed away from any windows, he recommends. Your goal is 40 decibels (dB) or lower—roughly the amount of sound in a quiet library setting.
Noise, noise noise, still it goes on and still people suffer in Emena, and still it seems the money making business of sound pollution destroying people’s lives goes on,
It seems the Nigerians though are starting to get it right:
The following was taken from: http://www.nairaland.com/876166/lagos-shuts-down-lords-chosen
The Lagos State Government has shut down the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Ministry and six other churches in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria over noise pollution.
Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA stormed a branch of the Lord’s Chosen Church at 25 Omobola Street, Lawanson, Surulere area at the weekend and shut it down.
Other affected churches are Bible Church, FESTAC; The Chapter of Christ Church, Oregun, Ikeja; Assemblies of God Church, Ikeja; The Golden Gate Church, Ifako-Ijaiye and Seek and Save Ministry, Abule Egba.
The closure of the churches is coming after pre-sanction notices were given to the churches to abate the noise pollution emanating from their worship centres.
General Manager, LASEPA, Engr. Rasheed Shabi said the closure of the churches became imperative after several abatement notices issued to them were disregarded.
According to him, some of the churches even rebuffed meetings called by the agency on how to resolve the issue.
“The agency’s stance is clear on issue of noise pollution level permitted. This has been communicated to all worship centres in the state.
“The level of noise pollution allowed in the state is between 55 decibel during the day and 42 to 45 decibel at night,” he said.
Shabi said the state government was determined to reduce noise pollution in the state because of the anomalies and diseases related to it.
On Friday 16 January my wife and I handed the Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana a formal written complaint against the noise dictator of Emena. The complaint was detailed and of 15 pages. It explained how the dictator of Emena defied the supreme law of Ghana; The Constitution of The Republic of Ghana, in 5 ways.
The (EPA) office was pleasant. We were led to a large room where several young men and women were sitting. As we waited it took some time for a young man to rule up two new pages in what seemed to be a complaints log. Eventually we spoke about our complaint and another man suggested we should have gone to the KMA. He laboured long and hard making this point. My wife and I stood our ground and said that we believed the EPA was the right place for us to complain to. The man continued to tell us we should have gone to the KMA. We told him that we had sent a complaint to the official email address on the official KMA website but it bounced back at us with the message: “No such user here”. The man continued to tell us to go to the KMA. We persisted and solidly made our point that it was an EPA matter as well as a KMA matter. My wife and I clearly made the point over and over again that noise is dangerous for the unborn, for children and adults and that noise kills. Several around the table said they were aware of such things.
Eventually another man entered who introduced himself as Joseph. He said he was a Christian. He spoke very nicely to us and said he would assist us. He told us there was a way that the noise in Emena could be closed down within a week. He said that he would send two of his people to our home at 5.30 AM on Monday 19 January 2015 to take sound level measurements. He then said that if our complaint was verified by the two officers then we would receive a letter to give to the KMA so they could close the noise maker down. He told us that it was against an information centre licence to have high masted speakers and that they were not allowed paid advertising.
As we were about to leave we asked for a contact number and name at the EPA who we could phone if we needed to. We were given the number of Dr Francis Nyagbenu. We were told the Dr would be the person responsible for handling the complaint.
Wow this was great. Joseph seemed to have it all worked out and was so helpful. He said the two officers who would come on Monday would phone us as they neared our house. Joseph assured us that they would come and measure the sound first before speaking to the noise dictator of Emena. He agreed that the noise maker should not be warned prior to the EPA recording the sound levels in our house, otherwise the volume would be reduced considerably. Joseph ended the conversation by saying he would try to come to our home at 5.30 AM on Saturday 17 January to do the investigation himself. We left the EPA overjoyed.
Saturday morning came and we were woken by the noise dictator of Emena and we prepared for the arrival of Joseph but alas no phone call and no Joseph arrived. We guessed that he was unable to make it so we looked forward to Monday when the two officers would come. Alas again no phone call no officers came.
About 10 AM on Monday 19 January 2015 I phoned the EPA and asked for Joseph. I was told that no person by that name worked there. I asked for Dr Nyagbenu. He was very polite and explained that no one would come to our home but instead they would first go to the noise maker and have “interaction” with him to ask him to turn the volume down. I suggested that the EPA should measure the sound levels before they had the “interaction” but the Dr said they would not be taking sound levels. The Dr said the EPA would visit the noise maker today, Monday 19 January 2015.
The Dr said no one from the EPA would ever come to our home on a Saturday or at 5.30 AM as they did not work on Saturdays nor did they work before 8.30AM. He said the way they dealt with this type of issue was with regard to the long term.
I guess I can understand the “long term”. Deadly noise pollution in Ghana certainly goes on and on and on for the long term.
Well, well so the noise blasting continues tonight in the noise hell of Emena. The blasting continues, and the destruction of health continues, I guess for the long term.
It is now before dawn on 23 January 2015 and the noise pollution continues with no let up or change. I wonder where the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IS. I GUESS THEY MAY DO SOMETHING IN THE LONG TERM. MAYBE THEY WILL ATTEND MORE CONFERENCES OR JUST PARTY ON IN THEIR OFFICE UNDER THE FANS, LONG TERM I MEAN!
There has been much talk in the media and by representatives of the EPA about noise pollution. Some of that talk has been about making new laws, strengthening existing laws and so on. The EPA itself has clearly declared that noise is very harmful to human health.
I am surely and quickly coming to the view that Ghana does not need new laws or the strengthening of existing laws because the Supreme Law of Ghana; The Constitution of The Republic of Ghana well prohibits noise pollution as it affects the health and well-being of people in Ghana.
If the EPA approach and attitude toward noise pollution is synonymous with the approach and attitude of others in Ghana then indeed it is not about laws. It is about the will and determination to make change quickly to protect the health of the people of Ghana.
Some will declare that it is about lack of funds. From my experience with the EPA thus far I saw enough people sitting around doing little to be convinced that those people would better serve Ghanaians if they got out of their comfy chairs and got into the streets, effectively getting back to core goals and objectives and making a real and positive difference in a practical and fundamental sense. I know what I am talking about. I spent many years of my life turning dysfunctional organisations into productive ones that made a positive difference in society.
Ghana’s future is with its children. Noise pollution in Ghana is destroying the future of its children and the future of Ghana
The EPA is a “useless institution”
Well, well I just read an article at
http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014/june-13th/otumfuo-questions-effectiveness-of-epaminerals-commission.php
Here are some copy and pastes
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has scolded the EPA and the Minerals Commission for their negligence resulting in widespread environmental degradation
Ashanti Regional Minister, Samuel Sarpong lambasted both the EPA and the Minerals Commission, naming them as “useless” institutions, for failing to curb the widespread menace of illegal mining.
It is my view the EPA has proved itself over time to be ineffective and impotent and needs to be largely disbanded. If anyone doubts this they only have to look around at the environment in Ghana.
Organisations like the EPA usually devolve into money sucking machines that do little more than pat each other on the back at conferences rather than focus on the practical end of its core business.
Surely the EPA must have Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set before it? Surely someone in authority must audit and/or monitor those for the EPA to continue to receive its funding? Surely each EPA staff position must have to meet Position KPIs to keep their jobs?