October 7 Safe Tech International News and Notes
EMPs, Manipulation of the Human Nervous System, Upcoming Events re Deep Sea Mining, Blinding LED Lights, Mindful Tech, Warfare's Full spectrum Dominance,
NEWS AND NOTES
ACADEMIA OT: New study uncovers major corporations' alleged meddling at prestigious university: 'Academic integrity ... is at risk' (climate) Oil and gas companies have been funding climate change research, and that has resulted in fewer studies being done about mitigating damage from the types of dirty fuel these companies produce, according to the Guardian and a paper published in the WIREs Climate Change journal. COOL DOWN
AI: Silicon Valley and investors are betting that OpenAI's project is too big to fail The business is a mess. Have Sam Altman and genAI simply become inextricable from Silicon Valley's project, at least for the foreseeable future? Or is it all going to collapse next week? BLOOD IN THE MACHINE
AI SNAKE OIL: FAQ about the book and our writing process. The entire first chapter is available online. There seem to be three warring camps: AI safety, e/acc, and AI ethics. Which one are you in?The AI discourse is polarized because of differing opinions about which AI risks matter, how serious and urgent they are, and what to do about them. In broad strokes: The AI safety community considers catastrophic AI risks a major societal concern, and supports government intervention. It has strong ties to the effective altruism movement. e/acc is short for effective accelerationism, a play on effective altruism. It is a libertarian movement that sees tech as the solution and rejects government intervention. The AI ethics community focuses on materialized harms from AI such as discrimination and labor exploitation, and sees the focus on AI safety as a distraction from those priorities SUBSTACK
AI: AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power Chief among Gleeson's concerns is datacenters setting up shop near existing power plants and buying up the supply of electricity, making it harder for the grid to keep the lights on for everyone else. Instead, Gleeson wants to see datacenter operators arranging and supporting their own generation facilities before putting strain on existing infrastructure. Gleeson's comments come as power becomes a chief concern among datacenter operators looking to expand AI compute infrastructure to new regions and larger clusters. Some of the AI-crunching clusters under development now exceed 125,000 GPUs and have power budgets measured in hundreds of megawatts. [] bringing retired nuclear plants back online isn't always as easy as it sounds. As The Register recently reported, many older facilities will require extensive repairs and modernization before they're ready to start turning steam into electricity again. Some operators hope to bypass the problems associated with legacy reactor designs by opting for small modular reactor designs from the likes of NuScale, Oklo, and others. During Oracle's Q1 earnings call last month, Ellison said the IT goliath had already secured building permits for a trio of SMRs. But while SMRs have promise, none are operating. NuScale, which is one of the first SMR vendors to get approval from US authorities to build the small reactors, planned to build a six-reactor plant in Utah capable of generating 462 megawatts of power. However, the development was later abandoned after several municipalities pulled out of the deal over rising costs. MSN
AUTOMIBILES; Why It Was A Big Mistake To Overlook Hybrids And Go All-Electric Some Key EV Faults Most models have worse range than equivalent gasoline or hybrid vehicles. More expensive to purchase Range anxiety is so prevalent it has its own Urban Dictionary entry. On average, the humble ice-powered or ice-assisted car is responsible for producing roughly 24 tons of CO2 over its lifetime, while the EV contributes roughly 18 tons. In this context, the electric vehicle stands above the combustion or hybrid-powered vehicle in terms of environmental impact. However, CO2 emissions aren't the only thing to look at regarding a vehicle's eco-consciousness. Contrary to what you've probably been told a million times, EVs are not nice to the environment and the reason is due to the batteries used to power the EV. The process to make these batteries starts with the mining of necessary materials. EV batteries are largely made up of lithium, nickel, manganese, and cobalt, all of which wreak havoc on the environment when dug out of the ground. Areas where these elements are mined are frequently subject to extremely poor air quality and acid rain. [] They get, on average, less driving range, are harder and more tedious to refuel, and come with a whole host of anxieties surrounding range, repair, and safety. We mustn't forget what can happen when an EV is involved in an accident, either. In order for the EV to be entirely viable to replace the ice-powered car by-and-large, it will need to do everything a conventional vehicle can do, but better. That means going well beyond being quieter and producing less harmful C02 emissions than traditional and hybrid-powered vehicles. MSN
AUTOMOBILES: Hurricane Helene Threatens to Plunge Automakers Into Semiconductor Chaos Yet Again [] The state, already grappling with the aftermath of at least 200 reported deaths and sweeping destruction, faces another crisis — a potential semiconductor shortage that threatens the automotive, motorsports, and electronics industries worldwide. North Carolina's New Spruce Pine region is home to the world's purest quartz mines, vital for semiconductor chip production. These chips are integral to modern vehicles and electronic gadgets, but Hurricane Helene has now thrown this production into disarray. The mines, managed by Sibelco and The Quartz Corp, have temporarily stopped operations since September 26, with no clear timeline for repair, according to a report from CNN. The full extent of the damage remains unknown, but a shadow has certainly been cast over the global semiconductor supply, which was already affected earlier this decade. Analysts warn of possible production delays, limited chip supply, and rising vehicle prices should the situation remain unmanaged, echoing the semiconductor crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw automakers forced to navigate through production issues and inflated market prices. MSN
BIG TECH: TECH WON’T SAVE US, PARIS MARX: Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand INTERVIEW WITH Karl Bode 58 Minutes TECH WON’T SAVE US (AT 13 MINUTES, KARL PROMOTES ‘REAL’ BROADBAND)
BIG TECH: Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech's Anti-Terrorism Group X has left the board of GIFCT, an organization through which tech companies exchange information to keep violent content off the web. It's the latest in a series of episodes driving tension within the ranks. WIRED
BIG TECH: Roundup: Uber is cutting workers’ wages globally DISCONNECT
BIG TECH: Global telecom capex to shrink in 2024 - Global telecom capital expenditure is forecasted to decline in 2024, after a 10% drop in 5G and broadband spending in the first half of the year due to slowing demand and operator stockpiles. (register to read) TELECOM PAPER
CELLPHONES, OUTAGES, STORMS: Frustrated Helene survivors struggle to get cell service in destructive aftermath Cell phone companies have a wide variety of emergency replacement systems they can deploy, from truck-mounted antennas to ones carried aloft by drones or ridden in via electric mountain bike. But in all those cases, they require physical access to disaster areas, which is still being restored. [] Sury said a 2015 survey found that 51% of Americans expect someone to help them within an hour of a major disaster happening, up from 32% about 20 years ago. Following Beryl, some areas of Texas took more than a month to see power restored, and at least seven people were reported dead from heat. [] Recognizing the loss of connectivity, federal officials sent 40 Starlink internet terminals to the area to assist. Small enough to fit in a backpack and easily powered by a generator or SUV's power outlet, the terminals provide high-speed Wi-Fi service via a constellation of privately owned satellites. []T.H.O.R. and other equipment ready to assist Among the solutions that providers like Verizon are deploying into the Helene disaster area are trucks like T.H.O.R., a behemoth mobile cell system officially called the Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response vehicle. []Built on a Ford truck chassis, the T.H.O.R. system has two satellite antennas, two collapsible cell phone towers, waist-high tires and a hard-to-miss Verizon red paint job. It even has a drone that operators can fly into the sky to send cell signals further. Workers have also mounted a Starlink satellite terminal on a battery-assisted mountain bike to access areas where vehicles can't go.To keep it safe between missions, Verizon houses T.H.O.R. in an old limestone mine buried beneath rolling hills near the Missouri River in Independence, Missouri, about 300 miles from the geographic center of the Lower 48. When disaster strikes, T.H.O.R. and other trucks roll out from the mine, connect to the nearby interstates, and restore service almost immediately upon arrival. T.H.O.R. wasn't deployed to Helene in part because the roads are so damaged, and Verizon instead sent in 70 other pieces of equipment, including tethered drones that act as extra-tall temporary cell phone towers. Verizon has a small army of workers restoring service, including more than 1,000 contractors helping clear roads, the company said. []Most cell phone towers are equipped with emergency generators that can run independently for several days, and electric utilities across the country have been working to "harden" power lines against disasters. Florida Light & Power, for instance, says it has put 76% of its main lines serving critical communities and services underground or otherwise toughened them against storms, and replaced nearly all of its major transmission support poles with steel or concrete structures. MSN
CHILDREN/YOUTH/EDUCATION: The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. THE ATLANTIC
CHILDREN/YOUTH/JOHN HAIDT: The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 3 []The recent meta-analysis of social media experiments achieved a statistically insignificant result only due to a string of errors. In parts 1 and 2 of The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments, Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch demonstrated a number of errors and shortcomings in the recent meta-analytic review of social media (SM) experiments by Chris Ferguson. In this part, we will see that the centerpiece of Ferguson’s arguments — a statistically insignificant result within his random-effects model — would not have been possible without the string of errors demonstrated in Part 2. We will also, in the Appendix, examine some of the failures of Ferguson to conduct a proper review of the experimental evidence (and why it matters). SUBSTACK AFTER BABEL
DATA CENTERS; Fighting back data centers, one small town at a time Growing electricity demand from data centers has triggered concerns about grid capacity from utilities and local officials in places such as Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and most recently, South Carolina. Tech companies recently clashed with an Ohio utility over its plan to have them contribute more toward the expensive transmission upgrades required to meet their data centers’ projected needs. Tech companies and data center developers often highlight how their projects draw new resources to areas hosting them. Diode Ventures, the developer that proposed the data center in Peculiar, said in publicity materials about its proposal there that it would provide new revenue to the city and school district. Despite the energy demands of data centers, building and operating the facilities “tends to lead to bolstering local grid resiliency and generation,” the materials said. [] More often, opponents say, local officials keep proposals closely held or sign nondisclosure agreements that prohibit them from sharing details until land has already been sold, annexed or rezoned. “You find out days before the public hearing, and it’s just not enough time to fight it,” Reigel said. []Video and photos showing how operating data centers could look and sound helped rally more Peculiar residents to the cause, said Kathy Haldiman, who lives in the town and was alarmed by how loud they were and the height of their power poles. “It opened their eyes,” she said, providing information “that the city wasn’t giving to us.” People who have fought data center projects generally say they aren’t wholly against the facilities, without which their social media campaigns couldn’t exist. They just want them to be located far away from people, and for local officials to encourage public scrutiny and debate on the projects. Buck says that i . At a “Let’s Talk Peculiar” gathering hosted by City Administrator Ary on Aug. 15, he confirmed in response to a concerned resident’s question that he and the mayor had signed NDAs with Diode regarding its proposal. MSN
ECONOMICS INDUSTRY: WEF Klaus Schwab announces ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age’ will be WEF meeting in Davos theme https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/klaus-schwab-intelligent-age-wef-davos/
EMF INDUSTRY: 13th GSMA EMF Forum: Learnings from five years of 5G EMF GSMA, Brussels, Belgium, Oct 1, 2024 The GSM Association is a non-profit industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide. More than 750 mobile operators are full GSMA members and a further 400 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem are associate members. The International Electrotechnical Commission is an organization that creates and publishes international standards for electrical, electronic, and related technologies. The IEC's standards help remove technical barriers to trade, which can lead to new markets and economic growth. The International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) is an independent(?) expert scientific commission that provides scientific advice and guidance on the health and environmental effects of non-ionizing radiation (NIR) to protect people and the environment. The presenters and facilitators at this forum included: Dr Jack Rowley, Senior Director, Research & Sustainability, GSMA; Sami Gabriel, Vodafone - Deputy Chair GSMA EMF and Health; Mike Wood, Telstra – Chair GSMA EMF and Health; DI Manfred Ruttner, A1 Telekom Austria - Deputy Chair GSMA EMF and Healthspeakers, Contributor IEC TC106 MT 3; Dr Emilie van Deventer, Head, Radiation and Health Unit, WHO; Dr Ourouk Jawad, Radiofrequency Engineer, Market surveillance and public exposure division, ANFR, France; Dr Dan Baaken, German Federal Office for Radiation Protection and ICNIRP Scientific Secretary 2024-2028; Professor Akimasa Hirata, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan and ICNIRP Chair 2024-2028; Professor Maria Feychting, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Professor Theo Samaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Professor Wout Joseph, Ghent University, Belgium; Jo Cops, IEC president; Dr Teruo Onishi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT, Japan; Chair International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TC 106; Christophe Grangeat, Nokia – Convenor, IEC TC106 MT 3; Phil Knipe, Total Radiation Solutions – Contributor IEC TC106 MT 3; Laurent Derousseau, Wavecontrol – Contributor IEC TC106 MT3; Dr Lidia Stepinska-Ustasiak, T-Mobile, Poland Agenda: https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/public-policy/gsma_events/the-gsma-13th-emf-forum-2024
EMF: BRHP - Between a Rock and a Hard Place Systematic reviews (=mess) on wireless radiation and health, caused by secretive EMF Project and… lobby… The way how the systematic reviews were conceived is, in my opinion, biased and should be considered questionable by any fair-minded scientist or policymaker. []Several WHO EMF Project’s commissioned systematic reviews have already been published. The common conclusions are that to date published research studies are of poor quality and results are either unreliable or uninformative. This is nothing new because this is and has been a common and frequent talk within the scientific community, for many, many years. What is puzzling and astonishing is that this poor-quality biomedical research on the effects of wireless radiation is being used to assure users of wireless devices that the current radiation safety guidelines protect everyone regardless of the way they use the devices, their age, and health status. It seems all right for the same scientists to complain about the quality of science in a review article but use the same ‘quality science’ when preparing safety guidelines. Is it morally and ethically correct? I don’t think so. Now, back to the already published systematic reviews, especially this on brain cancer… []WHO EMF Project was lobbied to do what it did. Instead of scientific debate, the WHO EMF Project commissioned systematic reviews from an echo chamber. Therefore, I do not fully trust the outcomes of all of the WHO EMF Project commissioned systematic reviews. The scientists performing these are all good and respectable. However, the WHO EMF Project’s process was flawed. Scientists, no matter how good they are, were selected in secrecy, using secretive criteria and the outcomes are echo-chambers’ opinions. It is why, I do not trust the WHO EMF Project’s systematic reviews. There was a way to do it better, like IARC in 2011. But, I guess, the lobby prevented it… Systematic reviews (=mess) on wireless radiation and health, caused by secretive EMF Project and… lobby… | BRHP – Between a Rock and a Hard Place (wordpress.com)
EMF: The Effects of Pulsed Microwaves And Extra Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Human Brains? Governments Routinely “Classify Information” Pertaining to the Manipulation of the Human Nervous System By Mojmir Babacek Global Research, October 04, 2024 []On March 2021, the American scientist James C. Lin wrote an article on Havana syndrome, where he wrote that this trouble caused to American diplomats and government agents in Cuba and elsewhere, was most probably produced by pulsed microwaves (see this). On December 5 2020 the U.S. Academy of sciences published a study on Havana syndrome, where it stated: “Overall, directed pulsed RF (radio frequency) energy, especially in those with the distinct early manifestations, appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered.” But on March 2, 2023 the American television CNN published an article on the report of the 7 U.S. intelligence agencies. It said that “there is no credible evidence that a foreign adversary has a weapon or collection device that is capable of causing the mysterious incidents“ (Havana syndrome). In this way the U.S. intelligence agencies tried deny the validity of the scientific report by U.S. Academy of Science and to hide from the world general public the fact that pulsed microwaves can be used to attack their minds. There is a large body of scientific experiments proving that extra low frequencies of electromagnetic radiation can produce effects in the human nervous system. What is common to microwaves and extra long electromagnetic waves is that both of them carry electric and magnetic fields. The neurons are full of ions and this electrolyte can easily function as an antenna, in which electromagnetic waves will produce electrical currents, which are essetial parts of nervous impulses in the brain. At the International Conference on Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological Systems in 1983, sposored among others by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research, Friedeman Kaiser from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart lectured on effects of extra low frequencies of electromagnetic waves on the human nervous system or “extreme high sensitivity of certain biological systems to very weak electromagnetic signals.” He stated: “In the brain wave model… The external stimulus may only serve as a trigger to start an internal response signal… The system obeys the external drive, it oscillates with the external frequency…the slow external drive leads to an increasing modulation of the amplitude with the external frequency.” He called this phenomenon “entrainment“ and suggested that “excitations of the proposed types could possibly lead to changes in the behavior and function of biosystems” (pg. 394). There is no better explanation for the Friedman Kaiser’s lecture than that the ELF electromagnetic frequencies produce electrical currents in the electrolyte inside of the nervous tissue. In the closing speech at that conference Samuel Koslov, a leading personality of the mind control project Pandora of the American Navy declared: ”If much of what we have heard is indeed correct, it may be not less significant to the nation than the prospects that faced the physics community in 1939 when the long-time predicted fissionability of the nucleus was actually demonstrated. You may recall the famous letter of Albert Einstein to President Roosvelt. When we’re in a position to do so in terms of our proofs, I would propose that an analogous letter is required” (pg. 596). Already in 1980 John B. Alexander, former director of the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory in his article in the Military Review on remote control of human brain’s activity, wrote:”whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons.” [] For governments it is not difficult to pulse the cell phone signals in the brain frequencies and in this way manipulate the thoughts of their own or foreign citizens. The difference between pulsed microwaves and extra long electromagnetic waves is that pulsed microwaves can be targeted on one person (or the whole nation if cell phone signals are pulsed in brain frequencies) while extra long electromagnetic waves, transmitted in brain frequencies, with their length up to 300 hundred thousands kilometers will reach brains in large areas. For sure so far the legislations around the world (except the Chile and Brazil) do not prohibit such actions to the governments or anybody else on human brains (for example Elon Musk is building system of 20.000 satellites around the planet and working on neuralink research at the same time). Neurotechnologists around the world, who do not dare to disclose the national security information they had to sign, before starting research in the area, are calling for creation of legislations protecting people against such manipulations of their minds (see this). The proposal of such legislation presented to the European Union, signed by 11 world organizations, you can find at the address (see this). https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-governments-around-world-classify-information-about-effects-pulsed-mirowaves-extra-low-frequency-electromagnetic-waves-human-brains/5839545 COURTESY W.W.
EMP ELECTROMAGENTIC PULSE: An EMP Attack will collapse a country's entire electrical grid as explained in this podcast. https://rumble.com/v5gpquq-why-an-emp-attack-is-worse-than-you-think-facts-matter.html AND APPLE PODCASTS:
5G; Ten New Studies Detail Health Risks of 5G Story at-a-glance Several studies published between 2022 and 2024 underscore the health risks posed by 5G technology. Research contradicts the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection guidelines, demonstrating various harmful biological effects of radiofrequency radiation (RFR) on humans and the environment, including cancer risk. Studies reveal 5G’s potential to induce neurological damage and psychiatric problems, highlighting its effects on brain development, including the increased risk of conditions like dementia through mechanisms such as the impairment of neurosin. A December 2023 study illustrates the detrimental effects of 5G RFR on rat sperm, showing decreased sperm count and quality, with melatonin offering a protective effect. February 2024 research indicates significant changes in the fecal microbiome and metabolome profiles in mice exposed to 5G RFR, hinting at broader implications for health, including mental well-being and immune function Aggregation of Signals Pose Serious Concerns MERCOLA
HEALTH DR. MERCOLA: The Role of Sun Exposure in Optimizing Your Cellular Health MERCOLA
INSURANCE NORM LAMB: REINSURANCE AND YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY Let me tell you what a Reinsurance Policy is and what it can do. SUBSTACK
POLITICS HEALTH OT PEERS: HISTORIC SENATE PANEL EXPOSES HOW US GOVT TURNS BLIND EYE TO CORPORATE CARTEL FUELING AMERICA’S HEALTH CRISIS: dark side of Big Ag, Big Chemical, Big Pharma, MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE AND SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT PEERS SUBSTACK
REGULATORY ECONOMY POLITICS: U.S. enacts law to exempt select fabs from environmental reviews President Joe Biden has enacted a law that exempts certain U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities, funded under the CHIPS & Science Act, from undergoing additional federal environmental assessments, reports Reuters. This move is intended to speed up the approval process and prevent potential delays for projects already in progress. [] Under the new law, the Department of Commerce has the authority to act as the lead agency for any semiconductor project that qualifies as a significant federal action under NEPA. This centralizes oversight and simplifies the review process when the Department of Commerce approves or regulates a project. The act also lets the DoC rely on prior environmental studies, planning documents, and decisions made by federal, state, or tribal authorities. As long as these studies meet federal standards, they can be used in place of new reviews, preventing unnecessary duplication of efforts. [] Additional exclusions exist for projects on sites with similar construction or expansion. The sites are owned or leased by the company receiving federal financial aid. This means that companies like Intel and TSMC will not need to wait for additional environmental reviews when they expand their Arizona and Ohio sites. [] Although there are now exemptions from federal environmental reviews, the White House assures these fabs will continue to meet key ecological standards, including clean water, air quality, and endangered species protections. Also, individual states have their environmental regulations, which will complicate the process. For instance, Micron's planned campus in New York is an exception to the new rules, as the company still needs to adhere to the permitting processes mandated by the Clean Water Act, along with various state-level environmental laws. MSN
HEALTH Breast Cancer Rates Increase Among Young Women; Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Exposure Increases Cancer Risk B.N. FRANK, ACTIVIST POST
HEALTH: Study Finds Link Between Brain Energy Production and Your Psychosocial Experience ORGANIC COMSUMERS
SPACE: Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Starts to Unfold Its Massive Satellites AST SpaceMobile is now unfurling its first batch of commercial satellites in Earth’s orbit amid heightened competition with SpaceX’s cellular Starlink tech. []Last month, the Texas-based company successfully launched all five BlueBird satellites into space, with the goal of delivering high-speed internet to unmodified smartphones on the ground. The satellites stand out as the world’s largest communications array—or what’s essentially a 700-square-foot antenna panel. BlueBirds were tightly packed for rocket travel when they launched into Earth’s orbit. But now AST is unfurling them as they circle the Earth in low orbit. The unfolding paves the way for the company to start initial testing of the satellite equipment. The goal is to kick off a beta test of the satellites' cellular capabilities with AT&T and Verizon —two of AST's major partners— possibly as soon as December. But for now, the FCC has only granted AST SpaceMobile a limited license to monitor and control the BlueBird fleet. The company still needs to secure regulatory approval from the FCC to beta test and commercially operate the satellites for beaming data to unmodified consumer phones. The other issue is that AST SpaceMobile needs to launch dozens, if not hundreds, more BlueBirds to offer robust satellite coverage. That’s because the first five BlueBird satellites can only offer two 15-minute windows of communication coverage for each day in the US to start.Still, AST says its next-generation BlueBird satellites will be three times larger while offering 10 times more capacity. But the company’s plans for the satellite network could face complaints from astronomers worried the BlueBird satellites will reflect too much light in the night sky and interfere with their research. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/starlink-rival-ast-spacemobile-starts-to-unfold-its-massive-satellites/ar-AA1rHJEW
WARFARE: ‘Obvious Conflict of Interest’: Report Reveals 50+ U.S. Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks Brett Wilkins reports for Common Dreams: ORGANIC CONSUMERS Read: U.S. Militarism Is a Leading Cause of the Climate Catastrophe TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress, No More Money for War! Share your vision for peace with a FREE Planting Peace bumper sticker!
EVENTS:
Tuesday, October 8 at 10am PT/1pm ET Collaborative for Health and the Environment CHE Alaska will host a discussion on The Dangers of Deep-Sea Mining. With the transition to green technology, the demand for “critical” minerals is surging. In response, industry is turning to deep-sea mining, the process of extracting minerals (such as cobalt, manganese, nickel, gold, and rare earth elements) from the ocean floor. In this webinar, Farah Obaidullah will discuss the current state of deep-sea mining and its potential environmental impacts, including potentially devastating impacts on fragile marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Deep-sea mining is a very new industry, and much is still unknown about its full consequences. As research continues to reveal more about the risks, we are at a critical juncture where decisions made now will shape the health of our oceans for generations to come. RSVP here.
10/8 Tuesday, 8 October 2024 7:30 pm ET. CANADIANS FOR SAFE TECHNOLOGY WITH Kerry Krofton Ph.D. Author of Less Screen More Green: Finding freedom with The Mindful Tech Plan™ and the powers of nature, mindfulness and true connection for a healthier tech-life balance– Revised and Updated Second Edition Paperback – July 26 2024
Oct. 9; Friends of Merrymeeting Bay: Mark Baker Blinded by the Light-Perils & Pitfalls of LED's Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) first presentation of our 28th annual Winter Speaker Series, Blinded by the Light-Perils & Pitfalls of LED’s features Mark Baker, founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation. Winter Speaker Series presentations are again being held via Zoom and are accessible via hyperlink at the top of the FOMB web page: www.fomb.org. This event takes place Wednesday, October 9th at 7 pm. Mark's presentation covers the topic of electromagnetic radiation and the impacts of Light Emitting Diodes on human and environmental health. He will discuss the physics of LEDs, the impacts of artificial light on biological systems, the reports of harm from exposure to LED light, and the legal and regulatory structure for LED products. You will learn what makes this type of lighting different as well as blinding, why claims of LED efficiency are misleading and why this light causes most of us to at least avert our eyes and for some of us, even stimulates seizures. Most recently, on September 23rd 2024, Baker filed a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration and US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for failing to protect the public from hazardous and dangerous LED headlights. (https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mark-Baker-v-FDA-NHTSA_Filed.pdf) Over 60,000 individuals have signed a public petition to ban blinding headlights. https://www.change.org/p/u-s-dot-ban-blinding-headlights-and-save-lives Members of the public have submitted over 200 pages of comments to NHTSA describing the debilitating and often life-threatening impacts of LED headlights. (https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Petition-Comments-2024.pdf).Mr. Baker's lawsuit seeks to compel the FDA and NHTSA to collaborate and cooperate, as required by law, to address the LED headlight crisis. Blinded by the Light- FOMB Event Page & Zoom Link
Oct. 13 Mr. Big wants Full Spectrum Dominance As part of our annual Keep Space for Peace Week we invite you to attend this zoom webinar to discuss the latest issues around the militarization of space - particularly as it relates to the current zionist genocide underway in Palestine. The aerospace industry works relentlessly to drive the hype, fear, imperial desire, and congressional pressure to expand the already dangerous and costly US-NATO space militarization system. It's all about the ultimate goal of the U.S. being the 'Master of Space'. Control the Earth, control the increasingly crowded Lower Earth Orbits (LEO), and control the eventual pathway off the Earth to mine the sky for precious and seemingly lucrative resources. Mr. Big hopes to control everything - Full Spectrum Dominance.
The webinar will be held on Sunday, October 13 on Zoom @ 3:00 pm in New York, 8:00 pm in London, and Oct 14 @ 4:00 am in Seoul
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86374719555?pwd=65MRXwbramOaDBMvSOsUaH2ev0Bumy.1
Meeting ID: 863 7471 9555 Passcode: 489061
ACTION ITEM:
Attend online: Subject: SpaceX: 10/10 Coastal Commission SpaceX and the US Space Force plan to increase launches to 50 this year, currently at 36 per year at Vandenberg Air/Space Force Base. The California Coastal Commission hearing is October 10 in San Diego with remote access. In August, the California Coastal Commission re-considered its prior approval of 36 launches per year (from 6 per year), and the Space Force said it would not answer questions from the Commission or the public and said it would not abide by three of the basic conditions of approval by the Commission. The Space Force also told SpaceX not to attend the hearing. Commissioners were not happy. Local officials testified in favor of SpaceX, while the public testified against. The Space Force disputes that the CC has much if any jurisdiction at all. The Space Force plans to go up to 75 next year, and 90 in 2026 according to their April Coastal Commission presentation. Thursday, October 10, 9 AM (meeting start time) Item 9. FEDERAL CONSISTENCY c. CD-0007-24 (United States Space Force) Consistency determination by the United States Space Force to increase Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Falcon 9 launch activities at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) from 36 to 50 per year, in Santa Barbara County. The staff report posted –https://www.coastal.ca.gov/meetings/agenda/#/2024/10 Click on the Thursday tab. Please comment To speak at the hearing on this item, fill out speaker form on the CC website by 5 pm on 10/9. Instructions are on the agenda. Written comments can be sent to the Coastal Commission EORFC@coastal.ca.gov no later than 5 pm on the Friday before the hearing. Protest vigil was held at Vandenberg October 2.