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NEW MEXICO’S CITIES HAVE NO SMART METERS HELP US KEEP IT THAT WAY!
In 2017, after two years of proceedings, we kept smart meters out of many of New Mexico’s cities, including Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Silver City, Lordsburg, Deming, Alamogordo, Ruidoso, and Tularosa. In an unusual show of cooperation, all of the public, private, and governmental entities participating in the proceedings listened to and supported one another in fighting for and securing the right of the people to their health and safety in their homes and communities.
The Attorney General of New Mexico; the City of Albuquerque; Western Resource Advocates; New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers; Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy; Citizens for Fair Rates and the Environment; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 61; New Mexicans for Utility Safety (that’s us); and the staff of the Public Regulation Commission were unanimous in opposing smart meters. As a result, PNM’s application for smart meters was defeated.
Now, five years later, PNM (Public Service Company of New Mexico) is back, reapplying for smart meters in our state. The Gen 5 Itron Riva meters it wants to install this time are designed to be part of a 5G network and a “Distributed Intelligence Web”. New Mexico has passed a new Grid Modernization Statute allowing public utilities to apply for smart meters. But among the criteria for approval is that the application must be “reasonable” and that smart meters must “provide customer protection.” Meters that damage customers’ health and the environment are neither reasonable nor protective.
You can help us defeat PNM’s new application and preserve New Mexico as a refuge and an example to the world of what the people can do to protect our health and environment. 300,000 people worldwide subscribe to my newsletters. If thousands of you write to the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, that will have an impact. The public is specifically entitled to submit comments in any proceeding under the PRC’s rules.
Smart meters consume energy. Smart meters emit radiation and cause all the wiring in your home to emit radiation. Smart meters cause fires and explosions. Smart meters are hackable. Smart meters invade your privacy. Smart meters are inaccurate and raise your electric bills.
We ask everyone, worldwide, to please email the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission telling them your experience after a smart meter was installed on your home.
Tell them how it has affected your health. Tell them how it has affected the animal, bird, and insect life on your property and in your community. Tell them how it has affected your utility bills. And if your smart meter caused a fire, of course include that.
Or, if you were able to opt out and keep your old meter, tell them your observations of the effect of smart meters on the health of your neighbors and community.
Write to: New Mexico PRC <prc.records@prc.nm.gov>. Write “Case No. 22-00058-UT” in the Subject line.
Be sure to also send a copy to me at Arthur@cellphonetaskforce.org.
New Mexico is one of the last two states in the US — Connecticut is the other one — where an investor-owned electric utility has not deployed smart meters. We want to keep New Mexico that way — an example to the world of what is possible, and a lower-radiation refuge for those who need one.
Thank you for your help!
Arthur Firstenberg President, New Mexicans for Utility Safety President, Cellular Phone Task Force Author, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life Administrator, International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space Caretaker, ECHOEarth.org (End Cellphones Here On Earth) P.O. Box 6216 Santa Fe, NM 87502 USA +1 505-471-0129 info@cellphonetaskforce.org
November 29, 2022
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE Report from the COP 27
In order to navigate the Conference, reports Cellular Phone Task Force assistant Kathleen Burke from Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, one must have a cell phone out and on nearly at all times. For the United Nations’ 27th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, held this year at this resort city on the Red Sea, four fake palm trees have been erected on the grounds of the COP in order for the 40,000 conference attendees to all be on their cell phones at the same time, all day long, every day for two weeks. Each “tree”, captured in the foreground in the photo above, is simply a metal scaffolding for antennas.
The Safe and Sound Pro II radiofrequency meter, which Kathleen brought to the COP in order to measure radiation levels, reads “Extreme” at all times everywhere on the grounds of the COP, inside and out. She may be the only person at the conference who does not have a cell phone.
The purpose of Kathleen’s participation as an observer at the COP is to begin to build bridges to the people who care most about the future of our world, who are not even aware of an existential threat that is even more urgent than the one they came to Egypt to address, and yet is intimately related to it. She is distributing the following letter to the delegates—a letter that I wrote and officially submitted to the COP 27 before she arrived. Kathleen delivered the letter by hand today to all the offices of the parties (the countries represented at the Conference), as well as the Environmental Defense Fund and the World Health Organization.
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A blind spot must be filled
Outside of an atomic nucleus, there are only two fundamental forces in nature: gravity and electricity. The electromagnetic force is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger than the gravitational force. Yet much of western science pretends that it does not exist. This is now having terminal consequences for life on Earth. The consequences for life are being blamed on microorganisms. The consequences for the environment are being blamed on climate change.
This Conference is rightly concerned with halting the burning of fossil fuels. Unless that is stopped, the Earth will become uninhabitable. But even if it is stopped, the Earth will not survive unless global electrosmog is also stopped—electrosmog from the wireless cloud and from satellites. And electrosmog is even more of an emergency than climate change. We have only years to stop it, not decades. In addition, many of the strategies for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels—solar power, wind power, the smart grid, electric vehicles, smart highways, smart cities, and so forth—are only making matters much worse. The methods used to gather information about altered animal habitats—GPS, radio tracking devices, etc.—are killing wildlife instead of saving them.
The following are a few of the facts that the United Nations must immediately recognize and take control of in order for our children to live to grow up:
Electricity, and no other force, is responsible for life. The study of electricity must be restored to biology, chemistry, and medicine. Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) interfere with the flow of electrons in our nerves, our brains, and our hearts’ pacemakers. This is responsible for the recent huge increases in the prevalence of neurological diseases such as ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and autism, and the large increase in the incidence of heart attacks in young people. EMFs interfere with the flow of electrons from the food we eat to the oxygen we breathe, which occurs day and night in the mitochondria of every cell in order to make the energy necessary for life. This interference with metabolism—interference with the burning of sugars, fats and proteins for energy—has put all living things into a state of oxygen deprivation. This is occurring to every person, every animal, every insect, and every plant, without ceasing and without possibility of escape. The reduced ability of our cells to digest sugars is called diabetes. The reduced ability of our cells to digest fats causes them to be deposited in in our tissues, resulting in obesity. It causes them to be deposited in coronary arteries, resulting in heart disease. The reduced ability of our cells to utilize the oxygen we breathe causes them to revert to anaerobic (non-oxygen-using) metabolism, resulting in cancer. The extraordinary increases in these four pandemic diseases—obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer—are predominantly caused by constant radiation from personal wireless devices and the global infrastructure that supports them. In bees, which have a very high metabolism, this interference is quickly lethal. Colony collapse disorder is caused almost entirely by electrosmog. The 75% decline in flying insects in nature reserves throughout Germany, and the 98% to 99% decline in the number of crawling insects in a Puerto Rican rainforest—decreases that reflect what is globally being called “insect apocalypse”—are predominantly caused by the enormous increase in the intensity of radiation from the global wireless infrastructure. The unprecedented mass deaths of nesting birds worldwide in the spring and summer of 2022 was due to the tremendous global intensification of wireless infrastructure now occurring on land, in space, and in the oceans. The emissions from wireless devices are called radio frequency (RF) radiation. In addition to the general interference with electron flow in our bodies that occurs from any source of EMFs, RF radiation carries complex information from one wireless device to another in the form of frequencies and pulsation patterns. It carries the same information to the cells of our bodies, interfering with and drowning out the communication between our cells, and between our bodies and the Earth. This interferes with reproduction, growth, differentiation, maturation, healing, and normal functioning, and is responsible for the dramatic degradation of human health in the past two and a half decades. This interference with internal communication does not depend on dose. Even at near-zero power levels, RF radiation has been
NO CELL PHONE! Campaign Launched Worldwide Today
When I was eight years old, as I stood among the birds and trees in front of my cousins’ country home, I suddenly heard a horrendous noise I had never heard before. “It is called a chain saw,” said my uncle George, as he explained to me what it did. In my mind’s eye I saw forests tumbling down all over the world.
Four years later, a TV commercial filled me with foreboding. It featured a bottle of shampoo falling to the floor of a shower stall and not breaking! The Prell company was introducing the wonders of plastic to a consuming public.
That same year, 1962, a marine biologist awakened the world to the devastation caused by pesticides, igniting an environmental movement that shook the world to its roots.
Yet today, 60 years later, the world poisons itself with five times as much pesticides as it did before Rachel Carson’s monumental book. The few remaining old growth forests continue to be felled by machines with a power beyond anyone’s control. And as marine mammals, seabirds and turtles choke on bottle caps, lids and grocery bags, the oceans will soon contain more plastics than fish, and we swim in microplastic particles that rain down on us day and night in the very air we breathe.
It is no one’s fault, and it is everyone’s fault. Today, without assigning blame, we have an opportunity to gather together in personal action for the future of life on Earth. An opportunity to change course. Microwave radiation is the first pollutant that is being spread intentionally over every square inch of the planet. And it is the first pollutant whose source and driving force — the mobile phone — is within the palms and pockets of the world’s population at all times. This gives us a unique opportunity to be proactive instead of just advocates. To be a movement of change and not just for change. To set an example of what must also be done with respect to the other environmental assaults.
Wireless technology is also the first pollutant for which there is not a dose response: the effect does not depend on the dose. Reducing the power level of a wireless device does not reduce the harm that it causes. For purposes of health and environment, a cell phone is a cell tower. We cannot have birds and insects and also have cell phones. Our children will not live to grow up if we do not get rid of cell phones.
The benefits of ridding one’s life of cell phones — the restoration of your health and vitality — are immediate, startling, and far greater than the benefits that they provide. And as this action spreads, so will the benefits. A restored vitality of the forests, oceans, wildlife and birds that once gave life meaning will give people much more than they will give up when they throw away their cell phones — and gladly give up, once they feel the difference and realize what they have traded away.
We ask you to join in pledging to do your part in putting an end to the greatest, most urgent, most ignored assault on the Earth that there is. To plant a seed that will be watered, grow, and proliferate. No one — not legislators, not judges, not corporate CEOs — can do it for us.
Please read and sign the pledge below. It comes in two versions, one for people who still own cell phones, and the other for people who do not. You can also read and sign them in these languages:
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NO CELL PHONE! Pledge (for those who still have cell phones)
Protect your planet, your family, your pets and yourself by getting rid of your cell phone now. It’s up to each of us to stop the destruction.
WHEREAS, your cell phone emits the same microwave radiation as a cell tower;
WHEREAS, making a cell phone call or sending a text exposes you to much more radiation than the radiation from any cell towers;
WHEREAS, turning on your cell phone causes the nearest cell tower to emit more radiation;
WHEREAS, for your cell phone to work when you want it to, all the cell towers on Earth have to be there;
WHEREAS, reducing the power of your cell phone, holding it away from your body, or putting it on a table, does not make it any safer and can harm you even more;
WHEREAS, in experimental animals, a two-minute exposure to a cell phone damages the blood-brain barrier, and a two-hour exposure causes permanent brain damage, even when the power is reduced 100-fold;
WHEREAS, cell phone radiation interferes with nerve conduction and brain function and is a predominant cause of multiple sclerosis, ADHD, autism, dementia, anxiety disorder, depression, and other neurological disorders today;
WHEREAS, cell phone radiation interferes with your metabolism and is a predominant cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer today;
WHEREAS, your cell phone, when you call or text, directly exposes not just you, but your family, children, pets, friends, passersby, and the birds, insects, animals, plants and trees in your neighborhood to microwave radiation;
WHEREAS, most insects and at least one-third of all birds on Earth have already disappeared, having been killed in large part by the radiation from cell phones and cell towers;
WHEREAS, life on Earth evolved for billions of years without microwave radiation (the microwave radiation from the sun and stars being miniscule), and there is no safe level of exposure;
WHEREAS, microwave radiation is the first pollutant that is being intentionally dispersed over every square inch of the Earth, instead of unintentionally like every other pollutant;
From November 6-18, 2022, the 27th annual United Nations Conference on Climate Change, known officially as the Conference of the Parties, or COP, will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. More than 40,000 people from across the globe are expected to attend. The Cellular Phone Task Force is sending New Mexico resident Kathleen Burke to COP27 to promote the body of research of Santa Fe scientist and author Arthur Firstenberg, whose work focuses on the ongoing destruction of life on Earth by microwave radiation.
Kathleen is attending COP27 as an official observer for the League of Women Voters U.S., which as an official observer organization to the COP is allocated a quota of members to attend. One of those representing the League at COP26, last year in Glasgow, Scotland, was environmental lawyer Lora Lucero, also of New Mexico. “Politicians and countries won’t act, can’t act, fast enough to move us off the destructive path we’re on,” said Lora, explaining her reasons for attending. “Business-as-usual, including the strength of the fossil fuel industry and the lack of political imagination will doom our future generations. We cannot let the leaders lead. People must lead — and force the politicians to catch up with us, pressing leaders to act consistently with the climate reality. Public engagement will tip the scales.”
Kathleen, hired as executive assistant to Mr. Firstenberg earlier this year will carry his work to the Conference. She expects to spend time both inside at the official proceedings as well as outside at protests and demonstrations.
Among the documents she will take to the Conference will be Arthur’s updated Radio Wave Packet, his research on the Birds on Texel Island, and the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space (see banner at the top of this newsletter). Kathleen will also promote an international campaign that we will launch this month, about which details will be reported in our next newsletter.
Kathleen will be spreading our message in Egypt both by her words, and by example: she will be traveling and attending without a cell phone. We wish her a safe and productive journey!
The Cellular Phone Task Force will be funding her travel to Egypt, as well as her lodging and expenses. Donations are needed to make this possible. The Cellular Phone Task Force is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and donations from U.S. residents are tax-deductible. Our Tax ID Number is 11-3394550.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What is wireless technology?
Wireless technology is any means of sending information or energy through space without wires. It includes:
satellites, radar, radio, television, cell towers, cell phones, cordless phones, microwave ovens smart meters, WiFi, Bluetooth, fitness trackers, smart watches, baby monitors wireless keyboards, mice, printers, headphones and speakers, wireless security systems, wireless car keys, wireless garage door openers, wireless battery chargers, remote controls, wireless microphones RFID chips in credit cards and driver’s licenses, radio collars and chips in wildlife, cattle and pets, chips in home appliances wireless hearing aids, assistive listening devices, medical alert pendants, chips in medical implants, wireless pacemakers autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots numerous other radio-enabled devices that are proliferating in today’s world
Every one of these devices, without exception, emits radiation.
What’s wrong with wireless technology?
By substituting radiation for wires, we are swimming in an ocean of artificial electromagnetic fields that are interfering with life itself. We are in effect electrocuting ourselves, our children, our pets, the insects, birds, animals, trees and plants around us and all of living creation. We are killing our planet.
This is about long-term exposure, right? Cancer that takes years to develop?
No. The effects are rapid. Heart rate changes immediately. Blood sugar rises in minutes. Having wireless devices on in your house interferes with your sleep and your memory. Using a cell phone destroys brain cells in minutes to hours, and can cause a stroke or a heart attack. Studies show that even cancer can develop within months of first exposure. When a cell tower is turned on, birds leave the area immediately. Insects disappear. Even slugs and snails vanish. Most of this takes no time at all.
What types of radiation are used in wireless technology?
All frequencies of radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, lasers, sound waves, even nuclear radiation. Most home devices use microwaves.
Isn’t microwave radiation natural? Don’t microwaves come from the sun and stars?
Almost all the radiation we receive from the universe is the light and heat from the sun, not microwave radiation. The microwave radiation a person receives from an average cell tower is millions of times stronger than all the microwave radiation from the sun and stars. The microwave radiation a person’s brain receives from their cell phone is billions of times stronger than the microwave radiation from the sun and stars. And at any particular frequency it is trillions of times stronger than the microwave radiation he or she receives from the sun and stars at that frequency. And the faint microwaves from the sun and stars are not pulsed and modulated. It is the pulsations and modulation that cause much of the harm.
Aren’t light and microwaves both electromagnetic? Therefore isn’t microwave radiation safe?
No. That is like saying arsenic is safe because oxygen and arsenic are both elements, or that cyanide is safe because water and cyanide are both chemicals. But oxygen and water are necessary for life, while arsenic and cyanide are deadly poisons. It is the same with electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is necessary for life. Microwave radiation is a deadly poison.
Aren’t toxic chemicals more harmful than electromagnetic radiation?
Electromagnetism is more complex and more fundamental than chemistry. Electromagnetism shapes the sun and stars. Electromagnetism animates life. Electromagnetism is behind chemistry. There is no “chemical force” in the universe. Outside of atomic nuclei, there is only gravity and electromagnetism. Electromagnetism guides everything we see, including ourselves. Chemistry is an effect, not a cause.
Can’t we find safe frequencies? Won’t that solve the problem?
That is looking at both wireless technology and life too simplistically.
Most wireless technology has only one goal: to transmit information to computers, information of great complexity and variety. It is not simple, constant radiation of one amplitude and one frequency: such radiation would carry no information. Instead, it is multiple large frequency bands, each divided into hundreds, thousands, and millions of individual frequencies of all different bandwidths, overlapping and interacting, pulsed at an enormous variety of intervals, in an enormous variety of shapes, patterns and durations, all over the world. Even a single signal from a single device has a variety of amplitudes, frequencies and pulsations, and is modulated in complex ways in order to carry all the information needed to be read by a cell phone or computer.
Life has to also carry an enormous, almost infinite complexity of information in its nervous systems and its meridians, and to store and process this information in its cells, organs and chakras, and in its DNA which is shared and circulated among trillions of individuals of 50 million different species, all connected to one another and to the earth, sky and universe in a grand circuit of energy and information.
The artificial cloud of energy and information is interfering with, overpowering and destroying the natural, living circuitry of energy and information. It cannot be otherwise.
What about LiFi? If light is safe, why not use light instead of microwaves?
Light is a nutrient. We absorb it with our eyes, and into our blood. It is necessary for health. It regulates our biorhythms. Green plants need it for photosynthesis. We absorb more of the pulsations and modulation frequencies when they are carried into our bodies by light than when they are carried into our bodies by microwaves. LiFi is more harmful to life than WiFi.
Cell phones are much smaller than cell towers. Doesn’t that mean they are safer? Doesn’t it mean the radiation does not travel as far?
Cell phones and cell towers emit the same radiation; size has nothing to do with it. The main difference is that a cell tower emits as many signals simultaneously as there are cell phones communicating with it at that time, whereas a cell phone only emits one voice channel and one data channel. A cell tower therefore emits stronger
Diana Kordas
Diana Kordas is a naturalist living on the island of Samos in Greece. She has been recording her observations about animal and plant life there since the 1990s. Since 2017 she has published detailed observations of the stages of decline of bird life, insect life, and forests on Samos and throughout Greece that have accompanied the stages of development of wireless communications, from 2G to 5G.
Birds and Trees of Northern Greece: Population Declines since the Advent of 4G Wireless: An Observational Study. October 5, 2017 https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BirdsTreesNorthGreece.pdf
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Alfonso Balmori
Alfonso Balmori is a wildlife biologist who lives in Valladolid, Spain. He has been monitoring and observing the decline of bird life in his city since the late 1990s, especially with regard to their appearance, behavior, reproduction and abundance in the vicinity of cell towers.
Aves y telefonía móvil, 2003 https://www.avaate.org/IMG/pdf/Balmori.pdf
Effects of the electromagnetic fields of phone masts on a population of White Stork (Ciconia ciconia), 2005 https://www.buergerwelle.de/en/assets/files/effects_of_emf_on_white_stork.pdf
A possible effect of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone base stations on the number of breeding house sparrows (Passer domesticus), 2007 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17454083/
The Urban Decline of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus): A Possible Link with Electromagnetic Radiation, 2007 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15368370701410558
ALL ARTICLES BY ALFONSO BALMORI
Mark Broomhall
Nightcap National Park is a World Heritage Site on Mount Nardi in northeasten New South Wales, Australia. Naturalist and ethno-botanist Mark Broomhall has lived on Mount Nardi since the 1970s and has carefully documented the decline of all wildlife on the mountain since digital wireless antennas were first put on the mountain in 2002, a decline that intensified with each upgrade of the antennas from 2G to 3G to 4G. This includes a decline in insects, frogs, bats, and birds. Broomhall carefully documents the disappearance or severe decline of 174 species of birds in this protected site.
Report detailing the exodus of species from the Mt. Nardi area of the Nightcap National Park World Heritage Area during a 15-year period (2000-2015), 2017 https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mt-Nardi-Wildlife-Report-to-UNESCO-FINAL-2017.pdf
Note: On March 4, 2022, the Supreme Court refused to hear our case. Below are the briefs that were filed, and a review of what we were requesting.
Briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court
Petition for Writ of Certiorari, October 25, 2021: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-629/196710/20211025140205639_Santa%20Fe%20Alliance%20Petition.pdf
Reply to City of Santa Fe and United States of America, February 10, 2022: http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-629/213870/20220210153648714_21-629.%20Santa%20Fe.%20Reply.pdf
Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed on behalf of 289 organizations and 34 individuals from 34 states and 29 countries: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-629/201178/20211123153745013_41714%20pdf%20Gregory%20br.pdf
Summary of our case
The Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety filed a petition On October 25, 2021 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a threat to the existence of this country, and this world.
In 1996, Congress passed a law that permitted the pollution of every square inch of this country with microwave radiation. The polluters – telecommunications companies — were exempted from all liability for injury, death and property damage. Cities and states were forbidden to protect their citizens. State courts were prohibited from hearing lawsuits. The millions of people injured, killed, and deprived of their income and property by cell towers and antennas have had no remedy for their injuries, deaths and losses.
The law that accomplished this destruction of our country is the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Section 704 of that law states:
“No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission’s regulations concerning such emissions.”
The “Commission” is the Federal Communications Commission, which has no authority over health or environment, and does not even have the power to enforce its own regulations concerning microwave (also called radio frequency) radiation. The result of Section 704 is that no one has been protecting our country, our citizens, and our environment from this radiation for the past 25 years — not the FCC, not the states, not the cities, and not the courts.
The advent of 5G technology has brought this situation to a crisis. Like many other cities, Santa Fe, New Mexico passed an ordinance exempting antennas in the public rights-of-way from all land use requirements, and in 2018, franchises were awarded to five telecommunications companies to place cell towers and antennas anywhere they please in the streets and on the sidewalks of Santa Fe. The Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety immediately filed a lawsuit in federal district court. That lawsuit is now before the highest court of the land.
We asked the Supreme Court to rule on two related questions:
1. Does Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 violate the right of access to courts guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution?
2. Does “environmental effects” mean “health effects” in Section 704?
October 6, 2021
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MS: PRB/3W 5275 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22041-3803
Attention: Louise Clemency, Chicago Ecological Services Field Office
Re: American Bumble Bee Docket No. FWS–R3–ES–2021–0063
THREAT TO THE AMERICAN BUMBLE BEE FROM RF RADIATION
In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the Fish and Wildlife Service published a Notification of Status Review on September 29, 2021 in the Federal Register. The Service proposes to list the American bumble bee as a threatened or endangered species and requests comments and new information concerning threats to the existence of that species. In its Notification, FWS lists four threats that to the American bumble bee that it has identified: habitat destruction, loss of genetic diversity, climate change, and competition from nonnative honeybees.
I submit the following information regarding a fifth threat to this species: radio frequency (RF) radiation. RF radiation is a threat to both honeybees and bumble bees and is a greater and more urgent threat to the American bumble bee than any of four threats the Service has listed. This pollutant has been responsible for reducing both domestic and wild bee populations for more than a century. This threat to bees has intensified since the beginning of the wireless revolution in 1996, with the construction of hundreds of thousands of cell towers and antennas in all areas of the United States including farmland, forest land, parkland, and nature preserves. It has become an emergency in the past two years with the national rollout of 5G technology, which is multiplying the density of antennas tenfold and more, as well as increasing the frequency, bandwidth, and effective radiated power from each antenna. Cell towers are already exposing the entire world to levels of RF radiation that are up to ten million times stronger than the natural radiation that comes from the sun and stars.
Mechanisms of Action
RF radiation is a form of electromagnetic energy that is used for communication. It is emitted by radio and TV towers, radar stations, cell towers, cell phones, and all of the other wireless devices that are proliferating in today’s world. It interferes with navigation, communication and metabolism in bees. It is the effect on metabolism that is killing bees the quickest and driving them to extinction.
Metabolism
Electronic devices and systems manufactured today must be hardened against electromagnetic interference (EMI) from RF radiation coming from so many sources today. A living organism is also electronic in nature and is also subject to EMI. However, life evolved in the virtual absence of RF radiation and is not hardened against it. This radiation affects biology in many ways, but most critical for bees is the interference with electron transport in the mitochondria of cells. The electron transport chain is which is where the last, energy-producing step in metabolism takes place. It is where electrons generated by the metabolism of the sugars, fats and proteins we eat are transferred to the oxygen we breathe, resulting in the generation of ATP. Interference with metabolism affects bees more than other creatures because bees have such a high metabolic rate. It deprives them of energy by starving them of oxygen.
That this actually happens was proved in 2011. N. Kumar, S. Sangwan and P. Badotra, “Exposure to Cell Phone Radiations Produces Biochemical Changes in Worker Honey Bees.” Toxicology International 181(a):70-72 (2011). These researchers exposed bees to an ordinary cell phone and sampled their hemolymph. After 10 minutes of exposure to a cell phone, the concentration of total carbohydrates in their hemolymph increased from 1.29 to 1.5 mg/ml. After 20 minutes it increased to 1.73 mg/ml. The glucose content rose from 0.218 to 0.231 to 0.277 mg/ml. Total lipids rose from 2.06 to 3.03 to 4.50 mg/ml. Cholesterol rose from 0.230 to 1.381 to 2.565 mg/ml. Total protein rose from 0.475 to 0.525 to 0.825 mg/ml. In other words, after just ten minutes of exposure to a cell phone, metabolism of sugars, fats and proteins was severely inhibited.
If bees cannot metabolize their food they cannot fly and they will crawl on the ground and die.
Science
The quickest way to destroy a bee hive, scientists have found, is to place a wireless telephone inside it.
In 2009, VP Sharma and N Kumar placed two cell phones each—one in talk mode and one in listening mode in order to maintain the connection—in two of four hives. They turned them on at 11:00 in the morning for 15 minutes, and again at 3:00 in the afternoon for 15 minutes. They did this twice a week between February and April. As soon as the phones were turned on the bees would become quiet and still. During the course of three months fewer and fewer bees flew in and out of those two hives. The number of eggs laid by the queen declined from 546 to 145 per day. The area under brood declined from 2,866 to 760 square centimeters. Honey stores declined from 3,200 to 400 square centimeters. “At the end of the experiment there was neither honey, nor pollen nor brood nor bees in the colony resulting in complete loss of the colony,” wrote the authors.
The following year Kumar performed the experiment described above in which she demonstrated that electromagnetic fields from a cell phone interfere with cellular metabolism in bees and cause them to become oxygen starved.
Daniel Favre, at the Apiary School of the City of Lausanne, Switzerland, observed that bees exposed to a cell phone would become quiet and still at first, but within 30 minutes they would starts to produce loud, high frequency sounds like worker piping, which is usually produced by bees when they are preparing to swarm.
Sainudeen Pattazhy, a professor at Sree Narayana College, placed one cell phone inside each of six bee hives and turned the phone on for just ten minutes, once a day for ten days. While the phone was on, the bees became still. The egg-laying rate of the
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as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/astronomers-in-court-against-fcc-and-spacex/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Astronomers-in-court-against-FCC-and-SpaceX-5.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/INTERNATIONAL-DARK-SKY-ASSOCIATION-vs.-FCC-ET-SPACEX-francais.pdf
Whirling fish, bees, worms, sheep, turtles, penguins, April 16, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/whirling-fish-bees-worms-sheep-turtles-penguins/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Whirling-fish-bees-worms-sheep-turtles-penguins.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Poissons-abeilles-vers-moutons-tortues-pingouins-tournoyants.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Meer-dan-vijftig-vissoorten-cirkelen-en-draaien-tot-ze-sterven.pdf
Power level is irrelevant, April 2, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/power-level-is-irrelevant/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Power-level-is-irrelevant-8.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LA-PUISSANCE-EST-SANS-IMPORTANCE.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/STYRKENIVÅET-ER-IRRELEVANT.pdf
Where have all the insects gone?, March 20, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/where-have-all-the-insects-gone/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Where-have-all-the-insects-gone-4.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/OÙ-SONT-PASSÉS-TOUS-LES-INSECTES.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WAAR-ZIJN-ALLE-INSECTEN-GEBLEVEN.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HVOR-BLE-DET-AV-ALLE-INSEKTENE.pdf
New International Coalition, February 28, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/new-international-coalition/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Global-Radiation-Emergency-1.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/nuova-coalizione-internazionale/
Rainbow lorikeets dropping from the sky, February 6, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/rainbow-lorikeets-dropping-from-the-sky-2/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rainbow-lorikeets-dropping-from-the-sky-2.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/LORIQUETS-ARC-EN-CIEL-TOMBANT-DU-CIEL.pdf
World Cup Radiation Event, January 18, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/world-cup-radiation-event/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/World-Cup-Radiation-Event.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/COUPE-DU-MONDE-DE-RADIATION.pdf
More reports from around the world, January 9, 2024
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/more-reports-from-around-the-world/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/More-reports-from-around-the-world.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MÊME-LES-TIQUES-DISPARAISSENT.pdf
Our Changing Earth, December 26, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/our-changing-earth/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Our-changing-Earth.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/NOTRE-TERRE-EN-MUTATION.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ONZE-VERANDERENDE-AARDE.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/la-nostra-terra-che-cambia/
An Autumn’s Tale, December 12, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/an-autumns-tale/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/An-Autumns-Tale.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Un-conte-d’automne.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/un-racconto-dautunno/
Dogs, Cats, Birds, and Maui, December 5, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/dogs-cats-birds-and-maui/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dogs-cats-birds-and-Maui-2.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CHIENS-CHATS-OISEAUX-ET-MAUI-1.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Honden-katten-vogels-en-Maui.pdf
Don’t Irradiate the Birds!, November 28, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/dont-irradiate-the-birds/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dont-irradiate-the-birds.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/N’IRRADIEZ-PAS-LES-OISEAUX-.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/non-irradiate-gli-uccelli/
One Million Satellites Planned, November 1, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/one-million-satellites-planned/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/One-million-satellites-planned-4.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Un-million-de-satellites-prévu-1.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Il-numero-di-satelliti-in-orbita-bassa-pianificati-SUPERA-IL-MILIONE.pdf
Global Extent of Bird Armageddon, October 17, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/global-extent-of-bird-armageddon/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Global-wild-bird-armageddon-2.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/L’AMPLEUR-MONDIALE-DE-L’ARMAGEDDON-DES-OISEAUX.pdf
Humans, Bees and Wildlife in 2023, September 20, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/humans-bees-and-wildlife-in-2023/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Humans-bees-and-wildlife-in-2023-2.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HUMAINS-ABEILLES-ET-FAUNE-EN-2023.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MENNESKER-BIER-OG-DET-LEVENDE-MILJØET-I-2023.pdf
Remembering Paul Brodeur, August 22, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/remembering-paul-brodeur/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Remembering-Paul-Brodeur-4.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/À-LA-MÉMOIRE-DE-PAUL-BRODEUR.pdf
Electrosmog Policy Brief, July 25, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/electrosmog-policy-brief/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Policy-Brief-on-Electrosmog.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Beleidsbrief-over-Electrosmog.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Note-pratique-sur-lélectrosmog.pdf
på svenska:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Policy-Brief-on-Electrosmog-sv-V2.pdf
v slovenčine:
https://www.elektrosmogazdravie.sk/navrh-elektrosmogovej-smernice/
Sea Birds’ Last Refuges, June 21, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/sea-birds-last-refuges/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Sea-Birds-Last-Refuges.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LES-DERNIERS-REFUGES-DES-OISEAUX-DE-MER.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/De-laatste-toevluchtsoorden-voor-zeevogels.pdf
Racehorses at Churchill Downs, June 8, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/racehorses-at-churchill-downs/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Racehorses-at-Churchill-Downs.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hva-skjedde-med-veddeløpshestene-på-Churchill-Downs.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Chevaux-de-course-à-Churchill-Downs.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Renpaarden-bij-Churchill-Downs.pdf
Our Trampled World, May 23, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/our-trampled-world
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Our-trampled-world.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NOTRE-MONDE-PIÉTINÉ.pdf
Restored Health and Vitality from Ditching My Cell Phone – by Kathleen Burke, May 3, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/restore-health-and-vitality-from-ditching-my-cell-phone-k-burke/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Restored-health-and-vitality-from-ditching-my-cell-phone-Kathleen-Burke.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/LA-SANTÉ-ET-LA-VITALITÉ-RETROUVÉES-GRÂCE-À-LABANDON-DU-TÉLÉPHONE-PORTABLE.pdf
in italiano:
https://serenoregis.org/2023/05/25/abbandonato-il-cellulare-salute-e-vitalita-ritrovate/
100 Consequences of Owning a Cell Phone, April 12, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/100-consequences-of-owning-a-cell-phone
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/100-Consequences.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/100-folgen-ein-handy-zu-besitzen/
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/100-consequences-de-la-possession-dun-telephone-portable/
Amphibians in the Mine, March 29, 2023
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/amphibians-in-the-mine/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Amphibians-in-the-Mine.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Les-amphibiens-dans-la-mine.pdf
The Great “Chemtrails” Hoax, January 31, 2023
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/the-great-chemtrails-hoax/
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LE-GRAND-CANULAR-DES-«-CHEMTRAILS-».pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Der-große-„CHEMTRAIL“-Schwindel.pdf
Worldwide testimonies about smart meters, January 5, 2023
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/worldwide-testimonies-about-smart-meters/
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Témoignages-du-monde-entier-sur-les-compteurs.pdf
på norsk:
http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Smartmålerhistorier.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://www.frontnieuws.com/getuigenissen-uit-de-hele-wereld-over-slimme-meters
Ecocide from space, December 14, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/ecocide-from-space/
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Écocide-depuis-l’espace-2022.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Umweltzerstörung-aus-dem-Weltraum.pdf
in italiano (also español, Nederlands, portugues, русский, 中文, and العربية):
https://www.nogeoingegneria.com/campo-elettromagnetico/ecocidio-dallo-spazio/#
Help keep New Mexico smart meter free!, November 29, 2022
http://cellphonetaskforce.org/help-keep-new-mexico-smart-meter-free/
Wireless and climate change – Report from COP 27, November 17, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wireless-technology-and-climate-change-report-from-the-cop-27/
in het Nederlands:
http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DRAADLOZE-TECHNOLOGIE-EN-KLIMAATVERANDERING-verslag-van-de-COP-27..pdf
NO CELL PHONE! Campaign Launched Worldwide Today, November 3, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/no-cell-phone-campaign-launched-worldwide/
Task Force sending delegate to UN Conference, October 4, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/task-force-sending-delegate-to-the-united-nations-cop27-in-egypt/
Brain cancer case goes to trial after 21 years, September 14, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Murray-v.-Motorola-goes-to-trial-after-21-years.pdf
Radio Wave Packet, August 25, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Radio-Wave-Packet.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Paquet-dondes-radio.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Radiobølgepakke-Norsk.pdf
in het Nederlands:
http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firstenberg-2022.-Radiogolfpakket.pdf
Birds on Texel Island, July 28, 2022
as webpage:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/birds-on-texel-island-2/
as pdf:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Birds-on-Texel-Island.pdf
in het Nederlands:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Translation-Sterns.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Le_ciel_tombe.pdf
på norsk:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Himmelen-faller-Firstenberg-nyhetsbrev-juli-2022.pdf
in italiano:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Olanda-e-Francia-riserve-naturali-circondate-da-antenne-4G-5G.-Morti-migliaia-di-uccelli.pdf
日本語で:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/５Gと毒素で鳥がバタバタ死ぬ黙示録.doc
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Vögel_auf_Texel.pdf
How to break up with your cell phone, June 29, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/How-to-Break-Up-with-Your-Cell-Phone.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/COMMENT-ROMPRE-AVEC-SON-TÉLÉPHONE-PORTABLE.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WIE-MAN-SICH-VON-SEINEM-HANDY-TRENNT.pdf
The Invisible Rainbow in 9 languages, June 15, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-Invisible-Rainbow-in-9-languages.pdf
Update on Satellites, Birds and Bones, May 24, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Update-on-satellites-birds-and-bones.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MISE-À-JOUR-SUR-LES-SATELLITES-LES-OISEAUX-ET-LES-OS.pdf
Would You Stick Your (Head, Food, Anything) in a Microwave Oven? May 19, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WOULD-YOU-STICK-YOUR.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/METTRIEZ-VOUS-VOTRE.pdf
Wireless Radiation and Osteoporosis, May 11, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Wireless-radiation-and-osteoporosis.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Rayonnement-sans-fil-et-ostéoporose.pdf
Saving the Planet – Next Step, May 3, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Saving-the-Planet-1.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SAUVER-LA-PLANÈTE-—-PROCHAINE-ÉTAPE.pdf
Supreme Court to consider our case this Friday, March 1, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Supreme-Court-to-consider-our-case-this-Friday.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions, February 16, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Frequently-Asked-Questions.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/HÄUFIG-GESTELLTE-FRAGEN.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Questions-fréquemment-posées.pdf
History of the Anti-Wireless Movement, January 26, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/History-of-the-Anti-Wireless-Movement.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Histoire-du-mouvement-d’opposition-au-sans-fil-2022.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Die_Geschichte_der_Bewegung_der_Mobilfunk-Gegner.pdf
Cell towers on the ocean floor, January 12, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Cell-towers-on-the-ocean-floor.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mobilfunkmasten-auf-dem-Meeresboden.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tours-de-téléphonie-mobile-au-fond-de-locéan.pdf
441,449 Low Earth Orbit Satellites, January 5, 2022
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/441449-Low-Earth-Orbit-Satellites.pdf
auf Deutsch:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/441.449_betriebene_zugelassene_und_geplante.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/441449-Satellites-en-orbite-basse-en-fonction-approuvés-et-proposés.pdf
Organizations Worldwide Sign Amicus Brief to U.S. Supreme Court, November 30, 2021
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Organizations-worldwide-sign-amicus-brief-to-U.S.-Supreme-Court.pdf
en français:
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Arthur-mémoire-amicus-PDF.pdf
Four Days Left to Join Amicus Brief to U.S.
https://www.5gSpaceAppeal.org Sign – Individual Sign – Organization
On September 17, 2018 we launched an International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space. The Appeal, together with the list of signatories, will be formally presented to the United Nations, World Health Organization, European Union, and world governments when we have enough signatures.
5G is radically different from previous generations of wireless technology:
Instead of being on private property relatively far from where people live and work, 5G antennas will be on the sidewalk in front of every third or fifth house Instead of emitting hundreds of watts of microwave radiation, each 5G antenna on the sidewalk will emit beams with an effective power as high as tens of thousands of watts of millimeter wave radiation Instead of nature being protected, 20,000 5G satellites in low orbit will irradiate every square inch of the Earth With your help, stopping 5G is possible.
Go to www.5gSpaceAppeal.org and add your signature to the hundreds of thousands who have already signed.
Reprinted from Environmentalists Against War, May 19, 2018
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, by Arthur Firstenberg, is not only a marvelous opus. It is one of those once-in-a-millennium books that turn into classics.
Easy to read, hard to put down, sublimely poetic and scientifically rigorous, with a bibliography almost one-third the size of the book itself, this is a history of electricity which has never been told. It’s not only that it has been written from an environmental and biological point of view; nor that it’s mostly unspoken reverence for life is so understated that its power is hard to resist.
In the end, the power of this book lies in the meticulous care with which the author has done his research, corroborated his data and revealed his stunning findings.
We rediscover not only the ancient Chinese Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine but western doctors and scientists from the 1700s to the present day: what they’ve had to say about electricity, how it has been harnessed, and which direction it has taken in the west and in the east.
We meet Yuri Grigoriev, first assigned to research the biological effects of atomic weapons at the Institute of Biophysics in the former Soviet Union before going on to write a book about the dangers of microwave radiation from cell phone use; Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtalnd, three-time Prime Minister of Norway and former head of the World Health Organization who banned cell phones from her office for health reasons; and Dr. Samuel Milham, who showed that rural electrification caused a shocking increase in cancer rates during the 1950s.
In light of imminent plans to bring us all 5G cell phone technology on the ground and to launch thousands of satellites into space to provide wireless Internet on a global scale, The Invisible Rainbow could not have arrived at a better time.
Expecting to read about the groundbreaking work on the bioeffects of non-inonizing radiation by scientists like Martin Blank, author of Overpowered, I instead found new, comprehensive, and thoroughly documented information dating back to the 1700s.
Prior to 1889, for example, we learn that influenza epidemics occurred not annually but years or decades apart and were highly correlated with sunspots, and that the 1889 pandemic of influenza, which altered that pattern occurred in the exact year the widespread use of alternating current began.
“In that year exactly,” Firstenberg writes, “the natural magnetic activity of the earth began to be suppressed.” The earth’s magnetic field now bore, for the first time in history, the imprint of power line frequencies and their harmonics. The marvelous harnessing of electricity for humans had begun but it had a byproduct: certain precautionary measures could perhaps have been taken but were not. Each step in that development had important consequences.
I found the story of influenza particularly riveting. We go on to learn that in 1918, the radio era began, ushered in by the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. The radar era, we learn, began in 1957 with the building of hundreds of powerful radar stations in the northern hemisphere “hurling millions of watts of microwave energy skyward;” low-frequency components of these waves rode on magnetic field lines to the southern hemisphere as well.
The radar era was ushered in by the Asian Flu pandemic of 1957. In 1968, we learn the satellite era began with the launch of dozens of satellites “with relatively weak broadcast power but since they were already up in the magnetosphere they had as big an effect on it as the small amount of radiation that had managed to enter it from sources on the ground.” The satellite era was ushered in by the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic.
At the end of the twentieth century came the beginning of the wireless era and the establishment of the High Frequency Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Firstenberg describes the environmental effects of these two technological developments in depth. He brings together history, epidemiology, and cutting edge science, but he does much more. He goes to the heart of his subject, documenting the path that led to the public health crises we are facing today.
Brilliantly researched, The Invisible Rainbow explains why cancer, diabetes and heart disease rose from their previous rarity to become major killers of humanity, painting a vivid picture of what is happening at the cellular level in terms everyone can understand.
The author is uniquely situated to write such a book, perhaps by temperament, certainly by education, fate and circumstance. A top student whose medical career was cut short by injury from x-ray overdose, the author experienced firsthand, in the early 1980s, the effects of radiation poisoning, and experienced them again in 1996 with the advent of widespread commercial cell phone use. He was not alone. As he has carefully documented, millions of people were affected.
Firstenberg writes with a passion and tenacity that only a man with his particular background could summon. This is science at its best, supported by an untold personal story that few of us know or could imagine. That Firstenberg could write such a remarkable book under the appalling conditions in which he has lived for over three decades is astounding.
Rarely do we see such an unusual and integrated work of both art and science, augmented with tables, line graphs, historic etchings and contemporary photographs. Centuries of forgotten knowledge and the careers of important scientists — from Isaac Newton to Luigi Galvani to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi to Robert Becker — are woven into an unforgettable story.
The story of electricity and its previously ignored effects on humans, plants, animals and the earth’s magnetosphere open the door to a better, more informed future. Despite thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies, much of the population is presently unaware of this issue.
This book is an awakening: perhaps the equivalent to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic for our age of electricity. Buy the book and read it. You just might come to realize that your life and
PLANETARY EMERGENCY
The Earth needs your help. Now.
Many are the assaults on our planet. The oceans—Jacques Cousteau said it already in 1970—are dying. The majestic wilderness is no more. The very oxygen we breathe is being converted to carbon dioxide.
Others are wrestling with those problems, and they are not going to be solved overnight. But there is one that must be: we must leave space alone.
On March 29, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission gave its approval to SpaceX’s plan to launch an unprecedented 4,425 satellites into low orbit around the Earth. And that’s only the beginning. SpaceX has applied to the FCC to increase the number of satellites to 42,000 in order to provide “ultrafast, lag-free Internet” to every square inch of the earth. 5G from space. The name of SpaceX’s project is “Starlink.” As of May 2022, Starlink already has about 2,500 operating satellites in low-earth orbit.
The global electrical circuit, which sustains all life, is about to be seriously disturbed unless we act.
Recent History
In 1997, in my first book, Microwaving Our Planet, in the last chapter, titled “The Danger from Satellites,” I wrote: “The proliferation of satellites we are about to witness—unless this world wakes up soon—is mind boggling, and nobody seems to have considered that popping thousands of them up there like so much confetti might have consequences for our atmosphere and our climate.” I wrote about the expected ozone loss; the destruction of the Van Allen belts; global warming from the addition of water vapor to the stratosphere; toxic wastes; groundwater pollution; space junk; microwave radiation; and the vandalism of the night sky. My 1997 book is posted here, courtesy of the Spanish website AVAATE, one of the best websites on this issue: www.avaate.org/IMG/doc/Microwaving_Our_Planet_firstenberg.doc
A year later the radiation problem asserted itself. On September 23, 1998, the world’s first satellite phones became operational. Service was provided by 66 satellites in low orbit around the Earth, launched by the Iridium Corporation. They unleashed a new kind of rain that turned the sky red and emptied it of birds for a couple of weeks.
A six-nation telephone survey was done of electrically sensitive people, support groups, and nurses and physicians serving this population. The results: 86% of electrically sensitive people and a majority of patients and support group members became ill on Wednesday, September 23 exactly, with typical symptoms of electrical illness including headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, nosebleeds, heart palpitations, asthma attacks, ringing in the ears, etc. Follow-ups revealed that some of these people were acutely ill for up to three weeks. Some were so sick they weren’t sure they would live. In the United States the national death rate rose by 4% to 5% for two weeks. During those two weeks, very few birds were seen in the sky and thousands of homing pigeons failed to return home in pigeon races throughout much of the country. This was all documented in No Place to Hide, Vol. 2, No. 1, Feb. 1999, pp. 3-4.
The second satellite service, Globalstar, began commercial service on Monday, February 28, 2000. Widespread reports of nausea, headaches, leg pain, respiratory problems, depression, and lack of energy began on Friday, February 25, the previous business day, and came from people both with and without electrical sensitivity. See No Place To Hide, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 2000, p. 18.
Iridium, which had gone bankrupt in the summer of 1999, was resurrected by a contract with the United States Armed Forces. On March 30, 2001, commercial service resumed. Again the sky turned red. Again came reports of nausea, flu-like illness and feelings of oppression. But the events that made the news were catastrophic losses of race horse foals that were reported throughout the United States and as far away as Peru. On June 5, 2001, Iridium added data and Internet to its satellite phone service. Again came widespread reports of nausea, flu-like illness and oppression, and this time also hoarseness. See No Place To Hide, Vol 3, No. 2, Nov. 2001, p. 15.
Additional details are provided in chapter 17 of my new book, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life (AGB Press, 2017).
Between 2001 and 2019, our skies did not essentially change. Iridium and Globalstar, operating 66 and 40 satellites respectively, were still the only providers of satellite phones. The amount of data raining on us all from space was still dominated by those two fleets. The predicted fleets of thousands of satellites had not materialized. But they are doing so now. Everything we know and love is at stake—not just hawks and geese, pigeons and race horses, not just the human race, but life itself. This is a mortal threat not just to our children and grandchildren, but to all of us.
The Details
The biggest planned fleet of satellites is the Starlink constellation being launched by Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX. But there are about 150 other companies competing with Starlink, several of which are already launching satellites. The number of satellites proposed to be operated by all of these companies totals, incredibly, more than 442,000. Almost all are proposed to be orbited at altitudes ranging from 210 to 700 miles in altitude. They will all operate at millimeter wave frequencies and they will all be phased arrays. Each satellite will have thousands of antenna elements that will aim focused, steerable beams at any desired point on the surface of the earth. The effective radiated power of each beam from each of the satellites can range up to 5,000,000 watts, depending on its altitude and how many simultaneous customers it is serving. The satellites will communicate both with individual users and with gateway earth stations, of which there will be several hundred just in the United States for just the Starlink constellation.
One of the other companies planning a megaconstellation is the UK’s OneWeb. Its founder and Executive Chairman is Greg Wyler. To build and launch its constellation of 7,088
WI-FI IN THE SKY
“Just a little rain falling all around
The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound
Just a little rain, just a little rain
What have they done to the rain?”
– Malvina Reynolds
On September 23, 1998, 66 satellites, launched into low orbit by the Iridium Corporation, commenced broadcasting to the first ever satellite telephones. Those phones would work equally as well in mid-ocean, and in Antarctica, as in the middle of Los Angeles—a remarkable achievement.
But telephone interviews revealed that on that day exactly, electrically sensitive people all over the world experienced stabbing pains in their chest, knife-like sensations in their head, nosebleeds, asthma attacks, and other signs of severe electrical illness. Many did not think they were going to make it. Statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control reveal that the national death rate rose 4 to 5 percent during the following two weeks. Thousands of homing pigeons lost their way during those two weeks, all over the United States.
Several companies are now competing to provide not just cell phone service, but Wi-Fi and the equivalent of 5G, to every square inch of the earth from satellites in space in low earth orbit. Their target dates are 2019 or 2020. They are planning not 66 satellites, but tens of thousands of satellites. There isn’t much time to prevent a global ecological catastrophe.
The companies with the biggest schemes include:
SpaceX: 12,000 satellites
OneWeb: 4560 satellites
Boeing: 2956 satellites
Spire Global: 972 satellites
Honeywell has already has signed a memorandum of understanding to become OneWeb’s first large customer—it plans to provide high-speed WiFi on business, commercial, and military aircraft throughout the world.
SpaceX would like to provide the equivalent of 5G to every person on the planet.
Press image from OneWeb’s website
In addition to microwaving the Earth, these plans have the potential to destroy the Earth’s ozone layer and add to global warming.
The New York Times (May 14, 1991, p. 4) quoted Aleksandr Dunayev of the Russian Space Agency saying “About 300 launches of the space shuttle each year would be a catastrophe and the ozone layer would be completely destroyed.”
At that time, the world averaged only 12 rocket launches per year. Maintaining a fleet of 12,000 satellites, such as SpaceX is proposing to do, each with an expected lifespan of 5 years, will likely involve enough yearly rocket launches to be an environmental catastrophe.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and probably the other huge satellite schemes, would require the launch of hundreds of kerosene-burning rockets annually.
It is a misconception that liquid fuels, such as kerosene, are environmentally friendly and destroy no ozone. This was analyzed in 2009 by scientists at the Aerospace Corporation in a paper titled “Limits on the Space Launch Market Related to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion.” They found that although liquid fuels do not contain chlorine, they still produce significant amounts of nitrogen and hydrogen oxides, as well as water vapor and soot when burned, all of which destroy ozone. “The assumption that liquid rocket engines are green as far as ozone is concerned is not correct,” they wrote. Even if liquid fuels optimistically destroyed only 2% as much ozone as solid fuels, a 50-fold increase in the rate of rocket launches, which is about to happen unless the world wakes up, would destroy just as much ozone. And the authors state that their 2% figure is little better than a guess because of “the nearly complete lack of data and models.”
Martin Ross of the Aerospace Corporation was also the lead author of a paper published in 2010 titled “Potential climate impact of black carbon emitted by rockets.” The authors developed a computer model to predict what would happen in different parts of the planet if the number of launches burning kerosene (then 25 annually) increased by a factor of 10. Their model predicts as much as a 4% loss of ozone over the tropics and subtropics, as much as a 3-degree Celsius summertime increase in temperature over the South Pole, more than a 1-degree Celsius overall increase in Antarctic temperature, and a decrease in Antarctic sea ice by 5% or more.
In a 2011 Aerospace article titled “Rocket Soot Emissions and Climate Change,” Ross states “The Aerospace study shows that the radiative forcing of soot from a given hydrocarbon rocket scenario is as much as 100,000 times that of the carbon dioxide from the rockets.” Obviously, the soot or black carbon emissions would be an important factor in accelerating climate change if the planned launches move forward.
Solid state rocket exhaust is no better. It contains ozone-destroying chlorine, water vapor (a greenhouse gas), and aluminum oxide particles, which seed stratospheric clouds. Complete ozone destruction is observed in the exhaust plumes of solid state rockets.
The recent finding, in 2018 , that stratospheric ozone is still declining despite the Montreal Protocol took everyone by surprise. The unrestrained proliferation of ever-more-powerful rocket launches may be one factor, but nobody is paying attention.
An international coalition, Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (GUARDS) has been formed.
by Arthur Firstenberg
The single most important fact about 5G that nobody is talking about is called “phased array.” It will totally change the way cell towers and cell phones are constructed and will transform the blanket of radiation which has enveloped our world for two decades into a million powerful beams whizzing by us at all times. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves (Harcourt Brace, 1995), brought this to my attention. A mutual friend, with whom I was speaking during the campaign to defeat S.B. 649 in California, passed on a message from Blake: “5G antennas will be phased arrays; Arthur will know what that means.” And I did.
Phased arrays were one of the first things I learned about in the very beginning of my long, involuntary journey from medical student to campaigner against wireless technology. After I was injured by X-rays in 1980, I began to read everything I could get my hands on that had to do with electromagnetic radiation and its effects on life. And one of the first books I read was Paul Brodeur’s The Zapping of America (W.W. Norton, 1977).
Early warnings
Brodeur was a staff writer for the New Yorker who had purchased property on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, only to discover that 30 miles inland, across the bay from his future home, the Air Force was planning to construct the world’s most powerful radar station. It was going to scan the Atlantic Ocean as a key early warning element protecting us against the threat of sea-launched ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union. Although it emitted an average power of only 145,000 watts, similar to some FM radio stations, it did not broadcast that energy from only a single antenna and it did not spread that energy out uniformly in all directions. Instead, it had 3,600 antennas arranged in two “phased arrays” of 1,800 antennas each. The antennas in each array worked together as a unit to focus all their energy into a narrow, steerable beam. Each beam had an effective power of four billion watts, and the peak radiation level exceeded one milliwatt per square centimeter—the FCC’s safety limit today—at a distance of three miles in front of the radar station. The facility was called PAVE PAWS (Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System).
The Defense Department acknowledged in a 1975 report, quoted by Brodeur, that such systems “energize thousands of operational elements, are electronically steered at high search rates, and operate at a frequency range having a maximum whole body energy transfer to man and for which little bioeffects data exists.”[1]
Shortly after I read this, I discovered firsthand what some of the bioeffects were. Attempting to finish my M.D. almost cost me my life. I collapsed one day with all the symptoms of a heart attack, whereupon I resigned from school and moved up to Mendocino to recover. There I was in the path of the other PAVE PAWS, the one that scanned the Pacific Ocean. This PAVE PAWS was due east of Mendocino, in California’s Central Valley at Beale Air Force Base. And for nine months, every evening at precisely 7:00 p.m., no matter where I was or what I was doing, my chest would tighten and I would be unable to catch my breath for the next two hours. At precisely 9:00 p.m., my body would relax and I could breathe. I lived in Mendocino from 1982 through 1984, and although I eventually recovered my health, I was always aware of an uncomfortable pressure in my chest whenever I was on the coast. I also lived in Mendocino from 1999 to 2004, and felt that same discomfort whenever I was there, and always felt it suddenly vanish when I drove out of range of PAVE PAWS, and suddenly return at the same point on my journey home.
Directed beams
5G is going to be at a much higher frequency range, which means the antennas are going to be much smaller—small enough to fit inside a smartphone—but like in PAVE PAWS they are going to work together in a phased array, and like in PAVE PAWS they are going to concentrate their energy in narrow, steerable high power beams.[2] The arrays are going to track each other, so that wherever you are, a beam from your smartphone is going to be aimed directly at the base station (cell tower), and a beam from the base station is going to be aimed directly at you. If you walk between someone’s phone and the base station, both beams will go right through your body. The beam from the tower will hit you even if you are in the general vicinity of someone who is on a smart phone. And if you are in a crowd, multiple beams will overlap and be unavoidable.
At present, smartphones emit a maximum of about two watts, and usually operate at a power of less than a watt. That will still be true of 5G phones, however inside a 5G phone there may be 8 tiny arrays of 16 tiny antennas each,[3] all working together to track the nearest cell tower and aim a narrowly focused beam at it. The FCC has recently adopted rules[4] allowing the effective power of those beams to be as much as 20 watts. Now if a handheld smartphone sent a 20-watt beam through your body, it would far exceed the exposure limit set by the FCC. What the FCC is counting on is that there is going to be a metal shield between the display side of a 5G phone and the side with all the circuitry and antennas. That shield will be there to protect the circuitry from electronic interference that would otherwise be caused by the display and make the phone useless. But it will also function to keep most of the radiation from traveling directly into
by Arthur Firstenberg
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How much radiation does a cell phone emit, compared to what exists in nature?
If Neil Armstrong had brought a cell phone to the moon in 1969, it would have appeared from earth to be the brightest object in the universe in the microwave spectrum. In the daytime, the sun would have been brighter, but at night, the cell phone would have outshone every star.
There is a reason cell phones are outlawed in Green Bank, West Virginia: even a single cell phone, even from miles away, would blind the radio astronomers there and make it impossible for them to see the stars. Astronomers measure radio waves in units called janskys. A typical star shines at 10 to 100 janskys. The Sun shines at about 500,000 janskys. When you hold a cell phone against your head, you are pumping energy at the rate of about 100,000,000,000,000 janskys into your brain.[1]
How does that compare to radiation from a cell tower?
Suppose there is a 2,000-watt cell tower two blocks from your house. The part of your brain next to a cell phone is absorbing up to one hundred thousand times as much radiation from the phone as it is from the tower.[2]
Are the FCC’s exposure limits the same for cell phones and cell towers?
No. Cell phones are exempt from the limits imposed on cell towers. The FCC measures exposure in milliwatts per square centimeter. Depending on frequency, the FCC’s limit for whole body exposure to radiation from distant sources is about one milliwatt per square centimeter (1 mW/cm2). The limit for partial body exposure to a cell phone is approximately 20 mW/cm2 (for the brain), which assumes the phone is held at least one and a half centimeters away from your head. It is 50 mW/cm2 (for the hands, wrists and ears). If you hold the phone flush against your head, like most people do, or tightly between your head and your shoulder, the exposure to the brain can approach 50 mW/cm2 also.[3]
Who set the exposure limits?
A radar scientist named Herman Schwan who was brought to the United States from Germany after World War II as part of Project Paperclip. He made some assumptions about the rate at which the human body is capable of getting rid of heat, and on that basis he estimated that the body could safely absorb an amount of radiation equal to 100 mW/cm2. His assumptions were soon proven wrong, since experimental animals died within minutes when exposed to that much radiation. So over the years, the safe level was reduced first to 10 mW/cm2 and later to the current limit of 1 mW/cm2.
Why is the brain exempt from those limits?
Because those limits would make cell phones impractical. And because new assumptions were made about how much heat the brain could safely absorb, and the rate at which the body could dissipate that heat. It was decided that the brain could be safely heated by up to 1° C (1.8° F).
Have these assumptions proven correct?
No. A 1° C rise in temperature is usually considered a fever. And although the brain as a whole is heated less than 1° C by a cell phone, the absorption is not uniform. DNA, for example, resonantly absorbs microwave radiation. In experiments done at the Food and Drug Administration during the 1980s, DNA absorbed 400 times as much radiation as expected.[4] Research done at the Max Planck Institute in Germany in 2006 found that brain synapses may be resonantly heated by up to 100° C while the brain as a whole is heated by only 1° C.[5]
I don’t get a headache from my cell phone. Can it be that bad?
Because brain tissue has no pain receptors, we don’t feel the injury. Even a headache doesn’t tell you what’s happening inside your head. Neurosurgen Leif Salford and his colleagues in Sweden found that a single two-hour exposure to a cell phone permanently destroys up to two percent of a rat’s brain cells.[6] Superficially the rats are fine, but two percent of their brain is gone. The experiments gave similar results even when the exposure level was reduced a hundredfold. And in experiments on the blood-brain barrier, they reduced the exposure level ten thousandfold and found that damage to the blood-brain barrier was worse when the exposure level was reduced.[7]
That means that holding the phone away from your head does not protect you. It means that if you use a Bluetooth headset, which emits only 2.5 milliwatts, you are doing more damage to yourself than if you hold the phone to your head. The blood-brain barrier keeps bacteria, virusus, and toxic chemicals out of your brain and maintains the brain at constant pressure. Too much intracranial pressure can lead to a stroke.
How fast does the damage to the blood-brain barrier happen?
Leakage of the blood-brain barrier is detectable within two minutes of exposure and probably begins within seconds.
What do the stroke statistics tell us?
The incidence of stroke overall is steady or declining but it is rising in adults younger than 50,[8] and shockingly so in very young adults. A Danish study published in 2016 examined the rate of strokes in people aged 15 to 30. The annual number of strokes in that age group in Denmark rose 50 percent between 1994 and 2012, and the annual number of transient ischemic attacks (mini-strokes) in that age group tripled.[9]
I’m confused. Which is safer, low power or high power?
Neither. The higher the power, the more heat. The lower the power, the more leakage of the blood-brain barrier. The higher the power, the more your metabolism is disturbed.[10] The lower the power, the more calcium leaks out of your
1993: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The FCC’s exposure standards are “seriously flawed.” Official comments to the FCC on guidelines for evaluation of electromagnetic effects of radio frequency radiation, FCC Docket ET 93-62, November 9, 1993.
1993: Food and Drug Administration (FDA): “FCC rules do not address the issue of long-term, chronic exposure to RF fields.” Comments of the FDA to the FCC, November 10, 1993.
1993: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): The FCC’s standard is inadequate because it “is based on only one dominant mechanism—adverse health effects caused by body heating.” Comments of NIOSH to the FCC, January 11, 1994.
1994: Amateur Radio Relay League Bio-Effects Committee: “The FCC’s standard does not protect against non-thermal effects.” Comments of the ARRL Bio-Effects Committee to the FCC, January 7, 1994.
2000: UK Department of Education: Children under 16 should not use cell phones except in an emergency.
2002: Interdisciplinary Society for Environmental Medicine (3000 physicians in Germany) recommends banning cell phone use by children and banning cell phones and cordless phones in preschools, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, events halls, public buildings and vehicles. http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Freiburger-Appeal-English.pdf
2003: American Bird Conservancy and Forest Conservation Council: Brought a lawsuit against the FCC because millions of migratory birds were being disoriented by microwave radiation and crashing into cell towers.
2004: International Association of Fire Fighters opposes communication antennas on fire stations. https://mdsafetech.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/iaff-cell-tower-resolution-health-and-safety-fact-sheets-copy.pdf
2005: Salzburg, Austria’s Public Health Department bans WLAN and DECT phones in public schools.
August 2005: Austrian Medical Association: Warns against Wi-Fi, cordless phones, and cell phone use by children.
August 2005: Vienna Medical Association warns against Wi-Fi, and cell phone use by children up to age 16.
2006: Frankfurt, Germany’s government states it will not install WiFi in its schools until it has been shown to be harmless. https://www.icems.eu/docs/deutscher_bundestag.pdf
2006: UK schools remove their wireless networks: Prebandal Preparatory School, Chichester, West Sussex; Ysgol Pantycelyn School in Carmarthenshirem, Wales; and Stowe School, in Buckinghamshire, England. London Times, November 20, 2006.
2007: Ballinderry Primary School, Ireland: Removed Wi-Fi to protect young children.
2007 Bavaria, Germany’s Parliament recommends against Wi-Fi in schools. https://www.icems.eu/docs/deutscher_bundestag.pdf
2007 Australian Democrats: The “explosion in wireless communications technology” is causing widespread illness.
2007: European Environmental Agency, Europe’s top environmental watchdog, calls for immediate action to reduce exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and their masts. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10463870
2008: International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety (comprised of scientists from 16 nations): Recommends limiting cell phone use by children, teenagers, pregnant women and the elderly. https://www.magdahavas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Venice_Resolution-2008.pdf
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2007: Therold, Ontario closes down its citywide Wi-Fi pilot scheme.
2008: Lakehead University, Ontario bans Wi-Fi on campus. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/08/15/ontario-wifi.html
2008: Madhya Pradesh, India: Bans cell phones in schools by both students and teachers.
2008: National Library of France: Removes Wi-Fi because of health concerns and limits installation to cable connections. http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/France-National-Library-Gives-Up-Wifi.pdf
2008: Paris, France removes Wi-Fi from four public libraries because of health concerns. https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6385/2016-02-23/french-national-library-banned-wi-fi-2008.html
2008 Sainte-Geneviève University, Paris: Removes Wi-Fi from its library because of health concerns.
2008: Progressive Librarians Guild recommends against wireless technology in libraries.
2008: Russian National Committee for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection warns that cell phones are unsafe even for short conversations. Children under 16, pregnant women, epileptics, and people with memory loss, sleep disorders and neurological diseases should never use cell phones. https://www.radiationresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/021235_grigoriev.pdf
2008 Sebastopol, California: Reneges on its contract to install citywide Wi-Fi. https://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/24/town-of-sebastopol-c.html
2008: University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute: Children should never use a cell phone except in an emergency. https://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08205/898803-114.stm
2008: Voice (UK Teachers Union) calls for a ban on Wi-Fi in schools.
2009: Hérouville Saint-Clair, France: Bans Wi-Fi in public schools.
2009: Irish Doctors Environmental Association: Warns that current safety guidelines are “not appropriate.”
2009: Karnataka State, India: Bans cell phones in all schools and pre-university colleges.
May 2009: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urges Congress to focus on the potential connection between electromagnetic fields and “Bee Colony Collapse”. https://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/emf-and-warnke-report-on-bees-birds-and-mankind/
December, 2010: French Parliament passes a law prohibiting advertising cell phones to children under 14; prohibits children up to age 14 from using cell phones in pre-schools and public schools; requires cell phones to be labeled with SAR values and a recommendation to use headsets. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsessionid=1E9805FB777CC9228F41FE523855508D.tpdjo14v_1?idArticle=JORFARTI000022471515&cidTexte=JORFTEXT000022470434&dateTexte=29990101&categorieLien=id
May 27, 2011: Council of Europe passes a resolution recommending wired Internet connections in schools, and the creation of radiation-free zones to protect electrosensitive people. https://assembly.coe.int/Documents/AdoptedText/ta11/eRES1815.htm. http://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eres1815.pdf
August 30, 2011: The Israeli Ministry of Education publishes guidelines strictly limiting the use of mobile phones on all school grounds, citing children’s and youths’ increased risk of malignant tumors and the “passive exposure” experienced by children who do not use phones. https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2011/09/israeli-ministry-of-education-is-going.html
September 8, 2011: Pretty River Academy in Collingwood, Ontario removes WiFi from campus as a precaution, joining Roots and Wings Montessori school in Surrey, British Columbia.
Feb 13, 2012: Citing safety concerns, the Ontario English Catholic Teacher’s Association representing 45,000 teachers, is calling for a ban on new Wi-Fi installations in the province’s 1,400-plus Catholic schools and advocating that computers in all new schools should be hardwired as well. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/02/13/toronto-oecta-wifi.html
March, 2012: the Austrian Medical Association (ÖAK) releases guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of health problems caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields. https://magdahavas.com/electrosmog-exposure/austrian-medical-association-guidelines-to-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-with-electrohypersensitivity/
June 19, 2012: The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection has officially recommended that WiFi not be used in schools. https://youtu.be/5CemiJ-yIA4.
25 Aug 2012: Israeli Minister of Health Rabi Yaakov Litzman states that he supports calls to action for a ban on Wi-Fi in schools. https://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&action=view&type=newsitem&id=5723
5 July 2013: Supreme Court of India upholds a decision of the High Court of the State of Rajasthan to remove all cell towers from the vicinity of schools, colleges, hospitals and playgrounds because of radiation “hazardous to life.” The over 200-page November 27, 2012 Rajasthan decision reviews worldwide evidence
A small sample of what can be found in even the mainstream media:
THE NEW YORK TIMES Are Cells the New Cigarettes? Maureen Dowd, June 26, 2010
THE ATLANTIC If Cell Phones Are Behind the Bee Decline, What Are They Doing to Humans? Niraj Chokshi, June 30, 2010
GQ Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health Christopher Ketcham, February 2010
PREVENTION Is Dirty Electricity Making You Sick? Michael Segell, January 2010
EXCERPTED FROM THE SEPTEMBER, 2007 IDAHO OBSERVER The Radiation Poisoning of America Amy Worthington, September 2007
SEATTLE MAGAZINE University of Washington Scientist Henry Lai Makes Waves in the Cell Phone Industry Naomi Ishisaka, January 2011
THE NATION How Big Wireless Made Us Think that Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie, April 23, 2018
NEWSWEEK Radiation from Cell Phones, WiFi are Hurting the Birds and the Bees; 5G May Make It Worse Dana Dovey, May 19, 2018
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
USA
A Voice for Choice Advocacy: avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/ Alliance for Microwave Radiation Accountability: https://alliance4mra.org/ Americans for Responsible Technology: americansforresponsibletech.org/ Arizonans for Safe Technology: az4safetech.org/ Building Biology Institute: BuildingBiologyInstitute.org Californians for Safe Technology: cal4safetech.org/ Center for Electrosmog Prevention: electrosmogprevention.org/ Chemical Injury Information Network: ciin.org Children’s Health Defense: childrenshealthdefense.org/ Connecticut Residents for Responsible Technology: www.ct4rt.com EMF Safety Network: emfsafetynetwork.org EMF Wellness Tucson: emf-wellness.com Families for Safe Technology: familiesforsafetechnology.org/ Health and Habitat: www.healthandhabitat.org Hilltown Health: www.hilltownhealth.org/ Idahoans for Safe Technology Foundation: idahoansforsafetechnology.org Last Tree Laws: www.lasttreelaws.com Longmont for Safe Technology: Malibu for Safe Tech: malibuforsafetech.org/ Massachusetts for Safe Technology: www.ma4safetech.org/ MCS Advocacy.com: https://mcsadvocacy.com/ Microwave News: www.microwavenews.com Moms Across America: momsacrossamerica.com Napa Neighborhood Association for Safe Technology: nna4safetech.org/ National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation: national-toxic-encephalopathy-foundation.org/ Oregon for Safer Technology: www.or4safertech.org/ Pennsylvanians for Safe Technology: pasafetech.org/ Rhode Islanders for Safe Technology: www.facebook.com/RhodeIslandersforSafeTechnology/ Safe Tech for Santa Rosa: safetech4santarosa.org Safe Tech Hawaii: www.SafeTechHawaii.com Safe Tech Tucson: www.safetechtucson.com/ Safe Technology for Santa Barbara County: www.safetechsbc.org Smart Meter Education Network: smartmetereducationnetwork.com Stop Smart Meters!: stopsmartmeters.org Three Aunties, Inc.: www.linkedin.com/in/maria-minno-a7a10512a/ Toxics Information Project: www.toxicsinfo.org/ Vermonters for a Clean Environment: www.vce2.org Wireless Education and Defense: www.gowired.org/ Wisconsin for Safe Technology: WisconsinSafeTech.com
CANADA
Canadians for Safe Technology: c4st.org Dr. Magda Havas: www.magdahavas.com Ethical Environmental Consulting: eec.lasqueti.ca/ Manitobans for Safe Technology: m4st.ca/ PEACE School: https://peace-school.org/ Safe Living Technologies: https://safelivingtechnologies.com/ WEEP Initiative: www.weepinitiative.org/
EUROPE
Europeans for Safe Connections: https://esc-info.eu/
INTERNATIONAL World Council for Health: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/ Safe Tech International: safetechinternational.org Federación Ambientalista Internacional: https://fai.earth/ Latinoamérica por Tecnología Segura: tecsegura.mystrikingly.com/
Australia EMFacts Consultancy: www.emfacts.com EMR Australia: www.emraustralia.com.au
Belgium Antwerpen Nieuw Society 4.0: www.antwerpennieuw-4-0.be/ Teslabel Coordination: http://www.teslabel.be/
Brazil Brasil pela Tecnologia Segura: tecnologiasegura.mystrikingly.com/ Slowphone: https://t.me/slowphone
Chile Unidos por la Tecnología Responsable: https://uxtr.org/
France
Association pour une Espace Protégé des Ondes Hertziennes (AEPOH) Prévention des Ondes Électromagnétiques: https://poem26.com/ Robin des Toits: www.robindestoits.org/ Cellphone Hunter: cellphone-hunter.fr
Germany Bürgerinitiative Mobilfunk Tübingen: initiative-mobilfunk.de Bündnis Verantwortungsvoller Mobilfunk Deutschland: www.bvmde.org Diagnose:funk: diagnose-funk.org
Israel No Radiation For You: www.norad4u.com
Italy Alleanza Italiana Stop 5G: www.alleanzaitalianastop5g.it/ Rete Italia senza Elettrosmog: https://m.facebook.com/people/Rete-Italia-senza-Elettrosmog-Stop-5g/100064661983464/
New Zealand Safe Information and Communications Technology for New Zealand: https://www.safeictnz.org/
Norway
Folkets Strålevern: https://www.folkets-stralevern.no/ Foreningen for el-overfølsomme: www.felo.no
Slovakia Elektrosmog a zdravie: www.elektrosmogazdravie.sk/
Spain Asociación de Afectados de Navarra por Campos Electromagnéticos (ASANACEM): https://asanacem.blogspot.com/ Asociación Vallisoletana de Afectad@s por las Antenas de Telecomunicaciones: https://www.avaate.org/
Switzerland Diagnose:funk Schweiz: diagnose-funk.ch Gigaherz.ch: www.gigaherz.ch Le Vaud sans antennes: https://levaudsansantennes.ch/ Verein Schutz vor Strahlung: schutz-vor-strahlung.ch
Sweden Elöverkänsligas Riksförbund: eloverkanslig.org/ Vågbrytaren: https://vagbrytaren.se/
Tunisia APNEK Tunisia: trilliontreecampaign.org/t/apnek-tunisia
UK EM Radiation Research Trust: www.radiationresearch.org/ Interconnections: www.tacinterconnections.com Nailsworth 5G Action Group: https://nelly5gfree.org.uk/ Powerwatch: www.powerwatch.org.uk
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