JULY 14 SAFE TECH INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND NOTES
ICBE-EMF: Bitcoin Noise Harm & Psychology Today Crickets & Marginalizing; EHS, MCS & TILT; Pavlov; Keith Synthetic EMFs; AI Evaporates Water; Roman Redox; FedEx Surveil; Hawaii No Ocean Mining
Re the weekend’s other news: Hamish McKenzie, a cofounder of Substack: A slim hope, but: perhaps we can use this moment as an opportunity to recognize each other’s humanity regardless of politics, and reset our discourse in pursuit of understanding rather than derision.
EMF: There is a valuable article about TILT below that is so difficult to read due to the ill-advised white-on black-color scheme that I included most of it here…so this is a longer post. Feel free to go on-line instead of accessing this news summary via email by clicking on the date title - it is a live link to a web version that is wider, for faster skimming, and it is better for your eye muscles not to be contracted in a narrow focus. (Substack unfortunately defaults to a cellphone width.)
For younger readers not familiar with Pavlov’s dogs and the Milgrim experiments I recommend the article under Big Tech, (IMO Politicalized media is designed to create and to trigger unconscious responses.)
Nothing I share is intended to challenge your coherent nature.
Don’t miss the report that data centers actually evaporate, and not just use, water. Doesn’t this need to enter discussions about climate? Along with burning debris polluting the Earth’s atmosphere?
REPORT/CORRECTION/MISSING LINK Oh Canada!
Barb Payne in Canada has been creating beautiful innovative graphics and sharing perspective about the wireless debacle for years, and recently replaced Sharon Noble as news aggregator, now on substack. When I posted my July 12 news I accidentally omitted the hyperlink to her clear and creative explanation of WHO shenanigans - as grandmas would say. (I always try to remove tracking code, which adds multiple extra steps for hyperlinking each item)
CANADIAN UPDATE: UPDATE 2024-07-10 W.H.O., what, when, where, how, and why? includes “W.H.O. to build neglect of RF-EMF exposure hazards on flawed EHC reviews? Case study demonstrates how ‘no hazards’ conclusion is drawn from data showing hazards” and 2. Often, cell tower/antenna proponents seem to strive (a) to have everyone involved feel terrified about wireless connectivity during emergency situations and (b) to have everyone keep that fear top-of-mind when making decision
AND CANADA UPDATE 2024-07-12 Choosing wireless sure can cause emergencies; Investigative-style article about spatellites Maybe you assumed I typo’d “Spatellites” in a recent UPDATE. I did not typo. Many years ago, feeling a need to stop repeatedly giving the compliment “Smart” in order to discuss the non-mechanical Meters, I coined the nastier-sounding word “smeter” in conversation with Sharon (original creator of UPDATE) and she adopted the word. Recently, I felt a similar urge to de-glorify satellites. Cradle-to-grave, satellites are mega-polluters in so many ways (not only as electrosmog generators) — continuously spitting/spewing/spilling pollutants. Therefore “Spatellites,” because they SPit, they SPew, they SPill, and so they SPoil. And wow, here is a new (July 11, 2024), super-interesting, in-depth, investigative-report style opinion article — written by an astronomer in Canada, the content applies to space and worldwide to all Earth’s air, water, soil, and creatures (“12 min read”): “SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Next A New, Deadly Era of Space Junk Is Dawning, and No One Is Ready https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/ Barb also saved it here https://web.archive.org/web/20240713120721/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/ UPDATE 2024-07-12 Choosing wireless sure can cause emergencies; Investigative-style article about spatellites
Image: Barb Payne; https://iexistworld.org/
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ICBE-EMF finds serious problems with WHO-Commissioned review of human observational studies on the effects of exposure to radio-frequency EMFs, published today in Reviews in Environmental Health New peer-reviewed letter presents scientific case for retraction of conclusions of COSMOS brain tumor risk study. Published online by De Gruyter July 15, 2024 A critical appraisal of the WHO 2024 systematic review of the effects of RF-EMF exposure on tinnitus, migraine/headache, and non-specific symptoms John W. Frank , Ronald L. Melnick and Joel M. Moskowitz From the journal Reviews on Environmental Health https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2024-0069 HERE
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Keith Cutter: Synthetic vs Natural EMF, Part Two Unaccountable entities have 'devoted to destruction' the natural electromagnetic spectrum, which supports life on Earth by allocating each part of the spectrum to conversion into synthetic radiation. In part one, we began comparing the native and nurturing electromagnetic environment on Earth to the synthetic and harmful EMFs, focusing on the 'low-frequency' phenomenon. In my extensive discussions with individuals who have experienced life-altering synthetic EMF sensitization, most report that sensitization coincided with increased radio frequency (RF) radiation exposure in their environment. While not always the culprit, RF radiation is most often implicated. RF radiation has no analog; there is nothing in the natural world to compare. RF radiation has never been proven harmless, yet it has become the foundation of many 'services' in the 21st century and personal 'smart' devices. Disturbingly, it also cooks food and destroys military targets. RF radiation is the 800-pound gorilla in synthetic EMFs — it can't be ignored.
NEWS AND NOTES
AI: A Big Wreck Is About To Happen At The Intersection Of Artificial Intelligence Boulevard And Net Zero Avenue The situation is also nicely summarized in a new report titled “The U.S. Needs a Bigger (Energy) Boat: Putting The Sheer Magnitude of Forecasted Energy Demand into Perspective,” from Pickering Energy Partners. Here are some powerful excerpts A Big Wreck Is About To Happen At The Intersection Of Artificial Intelligence Boulevard And Net Zero Avenue | ZeroHedge
AI: AI's Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think Consider the obscene amounts of water that's needed just to cool the data centers that train and host generative AI models, which is somewhere in the millions of gallons per year. Internal estimates from Microsoft about its data facility in Goodyear, Arizona, for example, show that it's set to annually consume 56 million gallons of drinking water — which is more than a drop in the ocean for such a water-scarce region. But as Wired reports, the way data centers waste water is even worse than how households would waste it by leaving the tap running. "The water that is available for people to use is very limited," Shaolei Ren, a responsible AI researcher at UC Riverside, told the magazine. "It's just the fresh surface water and groundwater. Those data centers, they're just evaporating water into the air." "When we get the water from the utility, and then we discharge the water back to the sewage immediately, we are just withdrawing water — we're not consuming water," Ren continued. "A data center takes the water from this utility, and they evaporate the water into the sky, into the atmosphere." And once evaporated, that water doesn't come back to Earth for another year. "For basic services, those were very light in terms of the amount of data that needed to go back and forth between the processors," he said, estimating that these generative AI applications are 100 to 1,000 more times intensive. Other estimates put Google's AI search in the ballpark of consuming ten times as much energy than a regular one. AI's Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think (futurism.com))
AUTOMOBILES EVS: Cece Doucette of Massachusetts for Safe Technology speaks to former high tech professional Arlene Sanchez and her engineer husband Kevin Lorenzen of New Mexico about her radiation injury from a hybrid vehicle that sensitized her to all electromagnetic fields. Learn how they discovered the biological harm from today's man-made radiation, and what they've done to adapt their home and their lives to avoid further exposures. Arlene and Kevin were also interviewed for an Albuquerque Journal newspaper article, along with the mother of a son who committed suicide after becoming disabled by man-made radiation: HERE Kevin was interviewed by Megan Gleason for the Albuquerque Journal Tech Outlook Podcast too HERE 20 MINUTES (COURTESY CECE at MA4safetech, newsletter links HERE) See also. Electric Vehicles: The Electromagnetic Environmental Impact How EV Adoption Could Create Uninhabitable Areas Due to Increased Electromagnetic Exposure - Keith
AUTOMOBILES EVS; Electric Car Batteries Polluting Air, Soil and Water With PFAS A new study in Nature Communications adds to concerns that the growing clean energy sector could harm the environment even as it strives to combat climate change, but proponents of electric vehicles said there are alternatives. HERE
BIG TECH: The Pyramid of Power: Big Tech’s Ties to the Intelligence Community The Pyramid of Power: Big Tech’s Ties to the Intelligence Community - Activist Post
BIG TECH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL - PAVLOV’S DOGS: The psychology of how humanity is reacting to stressors Transmarginal Inhibition: The way animals and humans get controlled. HERE AND https://www.sott.net/article/136090-Transmarginal-Inhibition Pavlov demonstrated that when Transmarginal Inhibition began to take over a condition similar to hysteria manifested. In states of fear and excitement, normally sensible human beings will accept the most wildly improbably suggestions.) Pavlov demonstrated that when Transmarginal Inhibition began to take over a condition similar to hysteria manifested. In states of fear and excitement, normally sensible human beings will accept the most wildly improbably suggestions. Transmarginal Inhibition Transmarginal Inhibition, or TMI, is an organism's response to overwhelming stimuli. Ironically, the popular acronym TMI means too much information, which can be a common factor of transmarginal inhibition in today's culture. Pavlov discovered that an organism's level of tolerance to various stimuli varied significantly depending on fundamental differences in temperament. He commented "that the most basic inherited difference among people was how soon they reached this shutdown point and that the quick-to-shut-down have a fundamentally different type of nervous system." [1] This led him to pay increasing attention to the need to classify subjects according to their inherited constitution before applying experimental conditioning. Not only did dogs respond differently to conditioning according to their temperament, when a dog broke down under stress, its treatment depended on its constitutional type. For instance, Pavlov confirmed that sedatives were very helpful in restoring stability to the nerves of a dog that had broken down, but that the one type might require 5 to 8 times as much medication than that required by another type even if the body weight was exactly the same. Transmarginal Inhibition: The way animals and humans get controlled. (substack.com)
AND To review, the following are some key components used in Pavlov's theory:2
Conditioned stimulus: This is what the neutral stimulus becomes after training (i.e., the metronome was the conditioned stimulus after Pavlov trained the dogs to respond to it)
Unconditioned stimulus: A stimulus that produces an automatic response (i.e., the food was the unconditioned stimulus because it made the dogs automatically salivate)
Conditioned response (conditioned reflex): A learned response to previously neutral stimulus (i.e., the salivation was a conditioned response to the metronome)
Unconditioned response (unconditioned reflex): A response that is automatic (i.e., the dog's salivating is an unconditioned response to the food) HERE (think cellphones)
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CHILDREN: IPAD USE BY KIDS LINKED TO LONG TERM EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS MAYBE IT'S TIME TO PUT THE IPAD AWAY. iPad Use by Kids Linked to Long Term Emotional Problems (futurism.com)
CONSUMER PRODUCTS: Nike discontinues self-lacing 'Back to the Future' shoes and removes app from App Store, Google Play there's nothing quite like the feeling of putting on your self-lacing Nike shoes that you spent $350 on and just knowing they work. The app provides all the custom adjustments you need via Bluetooth, and everything is excellent. That is until Nike reveals it's doing away with the app from Google Play and Apple's App Store. The shoes have plenty of functionality directly on them, which will continue to work as before. But the "smart" part was the ability to connect to a phone via Bluetooth and control everything there. Thankfully, according to Nike's FAQ, at least some form of that will continue to work as long as users have the app on their phones before August 6. "If you already have the Adapt App installed, it should continue functioning. You'll still be able to enjoy changing lights, lacing your shoes, setting personalized fits, gesture detection, and smart commands," explains Nike. There are some drawbacks, though. Nike said users won't be able to move the functionality to a new phone, so the Adapt app will be gone if they upgrade or something happens to their existing phone. Nike discontinues self-lacing 'Back to the Future' shoes and removes app from App Store, Google Play (msn.com)
CONSUMER PRODUCTS: TVS AND EMFS written by Oram Miller | 27 January 2024 TVs and EMFs | Education | Create Healthy Homes
CULTURE: SCREENS: Taking an Annual Screen Sabbath Some fourteen years after my first maternity blog leave, spending July offline has become my standard practice. I also now typically add two weeks off during the Christmas season, thus “squeezing” my work as a full-time writer into ten-and-a-half months. And it works beautifully. Over time, I have learned many things from this practice, but the most unexpected lesson, the one that should matter most in this to us all, is that long screen sabbaths deliver benefits far beyond a better work-life balance. To begin with, leaving screens for a month gives the gift of humility by reminding us, in a good way, that none of us are that particularly special. [] Screens should help us do the work of living life better, not do the work of living life for us. Machines cannot engage in fully human activities; that is a privilege afforded only to us divinely-made mortals. So we must fight to prevent screens from robbing us of the dignity of work, of community, and of spiritual meaning. Screen sabbaths are important because they remind us that we humans actually live in small, three-dimensional analog communities, not in the behemoth digital world that’s a hair’s breadth away from becoming an all-encompassing metaverse, an alternate reality created by billionaires where we will willingly do all our living. Regular, extended screen breaks recenter our focus on the real, several-mile radius immediately around our homes and communities, the physical and social setting of our real lives. Finally, we need regular screen sabbaths because they have the power to help us remember that we have the strength to do hard things. Screen sabbaths are not easy, and the longer I’ve done them, the harder they have become Taking An Annual Screen Sabbath – Hearth & Field (hearthandfield.com)
E-BIKES: Manhattan E-Bike Crisis Triggers Flurry of New State Laws to Protect Public After a series of accidents and eight deaths in Manhattan last year linked to faulty lithium-ion batteries, Governor Hochul signed legislation on July 11 to promote the safe use of e-bikes and instituted the first statewide ban on non-UL certified lithium-ion batteries. Manhattan E-Bike Crisis Triggers Flurry of New State Laws to Protect Public (msn.com)
ENERGY MA POLITICS: Radical Overhaul of Siting in Mass. S.2838 The Massachusetts Senate just approved energy legislation that is shocking in its scope and strips communities of local control over the siting and permitting of industrial solar, onshore wind turbines, large-scale battery storage, and utility transmission and distribution infrastructure.1S.28382 is a radical overhaul of our state’s permitting structure for energy facilities of all kinds, at the state and local levels. The State House of Representatives is about to vote for virtually the same legislation. Supporting clean energy shouldn’t cost our home-rule rights. The only way to stop this outrageous
power grab is for the delegations of the western counties to tell the House leadership they strongly object to any loss of local control. The vote is imminent. Please call your state representative right away and say “vote NO to less local control.” Radical Overhaul of Siting in Mass. S.2838 | Wind Wise ~ Massachusetts (windwisema.org) (Note: smart meters are coming also, watch for this move in your state too…. adding these entitlements to omnibus bills))
ELECTRICITY ENERGY: “They need to fix something quick”: Texans without power for days are getting angry Gainous is one of nearly 1 million customers still living without power five days after Hurricane Beryl walloped the Texas’ Gulf Coast. CenterPoint’s pace for restoring power has been faster than in recent storms. Yet, the Texas summer heat — the region is under a heat advisory by the National Weather Service — coupled with poor communication from the utility company is bringing tension to a boil. Many of the outages were caused by trees on private property falling on power lines, CenterPoint said. That point hasn’t slipped Houston resident Alex Paredes’ mind. Paredes says that the responsibility falls on everyone, noting that officials are not in charge of trees on personal property that are overlooking power lines. “I think homeowners bear some kind of responsibility as far as trees overlooking the power lines,” Paredes said. “No city officials are in charge of that.” CenterPoint said in a press release that they have had tree crews working on lines “as soon as it was safe to go out after the hurricane passed.” CenterPoint maintains they are dedicated to restoring power across their customer-base. Conflict has only been exacerbated by blundered communications during the early days of the disaster. Two days into the outages and there was still no timeline on when power would be back. And the CenterPoint utilities map hadn’t worked since May, with Houstonians turning to a map of opened and closed Whataburgers to see where electricity was flowing. Elected officials have also expressed frustration with the utility, calling the persistent outages unacceptable. “They need to fix something quick”: Texans without power for days are getting angry (msn.com) NOTE: According to this site, Centerpoint has smart meters in the Houston area: Smart Meters (centerpointenergy.com)
EMF MITIGATION CRITICISM VIDEO: BlueShield EMF products are a SCAM, STAY AWAY. HERE about 6 minutes (he is using a phone to record, and lots of background noise but FYI)
5G NEW YORK: T-Mobile and Verizon eschew New York's 5G towers for poor neighborhoods New York paid a tech company called CityBridge to erect 200 Link5G towers on sidewalks in said communities, just like it installed numerous billboards across the Big Apple in 2016 as part of the so-called LinkNYC project. Both undertakings, however, met a similar fate, reports Gothamsit, and neither Verizon nor T-Mobile bothered to install and put into operation carrier equipment for dispersing fast 5G connectivity in the Link5G towers. At present, just 1% of the 200 5G towers in low-income New York neighborhoods actually spread 5G to the masses. The contraptions are 32 feet tall and also house chargers, Wi-fi hotspots, and a tablet from which residents can access the city's services. As a result, the city’s Internet Master Plan couldn't really become reality and on top of that, about a million households lost their federal broadband Internet subsidies as the program ran out. Verizon and T-Mobile didn't comment on why haven't they installed 5G equipment in the Link5G towers, but the overall trend is for putting the brakes on the those wideband 5G points as the return on the investment is simply not there. People consider 5G and even 4G LTE fast enough already, while the wideband mmWave equipment has much shorter coverage area and rooftops or billboards are cheaper to rent for carriers than said Link5G poles. People still use them to charge their phones, or get a quick Wi-fi fix around them, but their main reason for existence is still in flux. T-Mobile and Verizon eschew New York's 5G towers for poor neighborhoods - PhoneArena
5G FL Nocatee neighbors pushing back against proposed 5G cell tower in their neighborhood The tower would be a couple hundred feet from neighbors' yards. They say they're concerned about their property values and safety issues T-Mobile and Verizon eschew New York's 5G towers for poor neighborhoods - PhoneArena
5G; Telecommunications Bootcamp for Educators “teaches the teachers” about 5G ASHLAND, Ohio – More than a dozen educators from across Ohio visited Ashland University to learn about 5G broadband technology and its impact on various industries as they took part in a Telecommunications Bootcamp for Educators, presented by staff members in AU’s Office of Workforce Training and Development. The week-long program in late June was funded through a state grant from the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation. The ultimate goal of the bootcamp was to reach students and provide career awareness about the growing opportunities in the telecom industry. Participants, ranging from guidance counselors and teachers at public school districts to representatives from career tech schools, learned about the thriving field so they could bring knowledge and resources back to their classrooms. Telecommunications Bootcamp for Educators “teaches the teachers” about 5G | Ashland
5G INDUSTRY: New White Paper Predicts a "Capacity Gap" in 5G for 2028 CAMPBELL, Calif., July 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Experts Inc. released a new white paper this week, with a detailed review of the growing demand for mobile data in the United States, and the options available to mobile operators to build capacity in the network. The white paper, titled The Need for Spectrum 2024, presents detailed modeling of future growth of mobile data. AI workloads, AR/VR, video traffic, and FWA will be driving the dense urban network to nearly 4X the current data load by 2030. This creates a "capacity gap" that will become a challenge without new spectrum to handle higher usage. The white paper examines small cells and millimeter wave solutions, to illustrate how each of these solutions can help. New White Paper Predicts a "Capacity Gap" in 5G for 2028 (yahoo.com)
HACKING: AT&T says hacker stole data on ‘nearly all’ of its wireless customers
HEALTH/HEALTH DAMAGE/NOISE OT ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. “It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed,” she says. “That pain was worse than childbirth.” Rosenkranz’s migraine lasted for five days. Doctors gave her several rounds of IV medication and painkiller shots, but nothing seemed to knock down the pain, she says. This was odd, especially because local doctors were similarly vexed when Indigo, Rosenkranz’s 5-year-old daughter, was taken to urgent care earlier that year, screaming that she felt a “red beam behind her eardrums.” [] n January 2024, she walked into a town hall in Granbury and found a room full of people worn thin from strange, debilitating illnesses. A mother said her 8-year-old daughter was losing her hearing and fluids were leaking from her ears. Several women said they experienced fainting spells, including while driving on the highway. Others said they were wracked by debilitating vertigo and nausea, waking up in the middle of the night mid-vomit. [] None of them knew what, exactly, was causing these symptoms. But they all shared a singular grievance: a dull aural hum had crept into their lives, which growled or roared depending on the time of day, rattling their windows and rendering them unable to sleep. The hum, local law enforcement had learned, was emanating from a Bitcoin mining facility that had recently moved into the area—and was exceeding legal noise ordinances on a daily basis. Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or the emergency room with these symptoms. The development of large-scale Bitcoin mines and data centers is quite new, and most of them are housed in extremely remote places. There have been no major medical studies on the impacts of living near one. But there is an increasing body of scientific studies linking prolonged exposure to noise pollution with cardiovascular damage. And one local doctor—ears, nose, and throat specialist Salim Bhaloo—says he sees patients with symptoms potentially stemming from the Bitcoin mine’s noise on an almost weekly basis. https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health (COURTESY BOB) (Although this refers to audible noise, I am also concerned about the long-term impacts of microwave hearing outside the range of human hearing, and thermo-elastic pressure waves vs. the brain)
HEALTH BITCOIN NOISE - PSYCHOLOGY TODAY - DENIAL OF HARM, INCLUDING WIND TURBINES Is a Texas Bitcoin Miner Making People Sick? The strange case of bitcoin sickness. “We need to be cautious given the history of acoustical scares and dubious claims of noise triggering sickness.” [] Eight of the first 21 victims of ‘Havana Syndrome’ managed to do this, and their recordings were later analyzed and found to have been the sounds of crickets. It is also notable that the 'syndrome' consisted of a vague laundry list of symptoms, from fatigue to vision problems. The problem is, the number of residents who believe that their health issues are emanating from the Bitcoin facility is reported to be about 40, a small sample size in a city of 10,958 according to the 2020 census. Migraines, sleep disturbances, high blood pressure, and heart problems are common conditions, while ear infections are neither associated with long-term exposure to elevated sound nor with stress that could be generated by annoyance from living near the plant. They are typically caused by bacteria or viruses. Fainting is not typically associated with exposure to the decibel levels being reported and could have other origins: heat exposure, dehydration, ingesting certain medications—even standing for long periods. Is a Texas Bitcoin Miner Making People Sick? | Psychology Today
(Post a comment here. This is not Psychology Today’s first rodeo. See 2022 Request for ‘Psychology Today’ to Retract ‘Conspiracy Theory Expert’ View of ‘Electrohypersensitivity’ and Expert Responses to Psychology Today’s ‘Tin Foil Hat’ Commentary: Kent Chamberlin and Magda Havas
HEALTH EHS: ALBEQUERQUE JOURNAL Raising awareness of radiation: Looking into EHS Arlene Sanchez hasn’t left the house since 2021. She says she has electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS. Formerly called microwave syndrome, New Mexicans may be familiar with the disorder as it’s portrayed in the New Mexico-based show “Better Call Saul.” One of the main characters isolates himself from electromagnetic fields for health reasons, and the show later insinuates his symptoms weren’t really linked to radiation. HERE (COURTESY CECE)
HEALTH: THE POWER COUPLE, REDOX
On this episode, we discuss: Naomi’s story of how she helped heal her daughter’s brain tumor, and how Naomi is a critical force in the fight against 5G in Australia Why redox is more effective than antioxidants How redox molecules can improve sleep How chronic fatigue can be reduced with redox signaling
HEALTH The Critical Role of Sleep in Mental Health–and Why Your Doctor Is Getting It Wrong: Part I https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/snooze-alert-sleeping-your-way-to-better-mental-health-part-i-5079053 This article is the first entry in a three-part series on life-saving sleep. Read Part II: Why Poor Quality Sleep Can Be the Critical Factor Behind Any Number of Conditions.
HEALTH OT: Study Identifies 31 ‘Biological Signatures’ in Kids With Autism Researchers in Hong Kong identified 31 combinations — called “biological signatures” by The New York Times — of bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses, microbial genes and metabolic pathways that appeared to be biomarkers of autism. For the study, the Hong Kong researchers first identified factors — such as diet, medication and co-morbidity — that might impact a child’s gut health. []“As gut microbiota composition is largely shaped by environmental and host factors,” they said, “we analysed the impact of 236 host factors on the gut microbiome composition to determine potential confounders.” Of the 236 factors, they identified 21 that showed a significant impact on gut microbiota composition. While taking these pertinent factors into account, they analyzed the children’s stool samples to identify changes in gut microbiota diversity between children considered neurotypical and children with ASD. Overall, kids with autism had less diversity of archaea, bacteria and viruses compared to kids without ASD. Bacterial communities in the gut were particularly smaller in kids with ASD, they added. The researchers acknowledged their study had limitations. It didn’t look at gene factors that may be linked to an ASD diagnosis. Although they included some confounding factors in their analyses, they said it’s possible that others went unmeasured and could have skewed their results. They also encouraged more studies on the 31 markers to ensure the markers can be used to accurately diagnose ASD. HERE (Does RF exposure interfere with the gut’s metabolism? Are there multiple signatures for EHS also? Yes?)
HEALTH: (AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY GETS IT WRONG AGAIN) ACS: Lifestyle Changes Could Avert 40% of New Cancer Cases Smoking, weight, and alcohol consumption were the top 3 risks people can change Lifestyle Changes Could Avert 40% of New Cancer Cases (newser.com from a colleague: ACS fails big time. Huge list of what's not evaluated including agricultural chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides, chemical exposures (how many known carcinogens exist including those in the California Prop. 25 list?) EMF/ELF/RF/MW exposure, radioactive exposure - to external radiation and through ingestion and inhalation, oil and gas compounds, PFAS, Superfund sites, chemical weapons, biological weapons, etc. etc. (The American Cancer Society also promoted smart meter safety HERE)
HEALTH: Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s How to Bring Back Your Calm — And Avoid a Spiral Tensed muscles, racing heartbeat, maybe even tears. How do you stop this biological reaction to overwhelm without denying your emotions? All highly sensitive people (HSPs) can feel it coming: A spiral 10 Ways to Bring Back Your Calm as an HSP 1. Acknowledge and accept the overstimulation you’re experiencing. 2. Take several deep breaths. 3. Rinse or wash your face with cold water. 4. Focus on your surroundings and find something concrete to distract yourself with.5. Learn from past situations that increased your stress. 6. Let go of the ego: Accept yourself, and the situation, for what they are. 7. You are portable: You can (usually) leave an uncomfortable situation. 8. Consider the source: Why does a certain person’s opinion matter so much? 9. Everything is temporary. The overwhelm and overstimulation will subside. 10. Use technology. Noise-canceling headphones and a white noise machine are your friends! Feeling Overwhelmed? How to Bring Back Your Calm and Avoid a Spiral (highlysensitiverefuge.com) includes links and resources
HEALTH: TILT: Life With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities How I Became A HoneyBee Being On “Tilt” When I began to physically react to smells that were imperceptible and unbothersome to most, I started to scratch my head with confusion. Was I mutating? Yes, I’d developed super nasal powers years ago after a near-death experience (more on that later), but never before in my 43 years had I been perturbed by a waiter leaning down to refill my glass of water. His mainstream cologne was offensive. He may as well have punched me. I certainly wanted to punch him. [] Today, I can see things with my nose that most of you cannot even detect.In essence, I’ve become allergic to the 21st century.[] Women complain of MCS significantly more often than men, and most patients are 30 to 50 years old at the time of diagnosis. Previous studies have also shown that persons meeting various criteria for MCS have higher rates of autoimmune conditions. In the two decades since the release of SAFE, a growing body of biological evidence explains why some wince and suffer while others don’t react. As we’ve written extensively on HoneyColony, we live amid many synthetic chemicals in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, and the products we apply to our skin. Many of these chemicals are derived from oil, coal, and gas and were introduced during World War II when chemical companies, such as Monsanto, wielded toxic weapons like DDT and soon began waging their War on Bugs. “Over this same time, a new disease process has emerged that is as novel as these modern chemical compounds,” writes Claudia S Miller, MD, MS, an allergist/immunologist and tenured Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Miller is responsible for discovering “TILT,” or “Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance.” (MCS is now often referred to as TILT.) Miller writes that TILT is a “process that starts with a chemical exposure, such as in a ‘sick building,’ after a chemical spill, or a pesticide exposure. These exposures can cause susceptible individuals to lose their tolerance for many substances that never bothered them previously and do not bother most people.” As my olfactory pathways have become more refined, it seems that many others have become duller. It’s called being ‘noseblind.’ This accounts for you being oblivious to the odors in your home, but why can guests detect that your place smells like a litter box? [] Modern chemistry has normalized poisons to the point where they override our bodily cues. When we continuously expose ourselves to tolerable but toxic scents like fragrances found in air fresheners or laundry soaps, for instance, we entrain our nervous systems to adapt by making numbness the new normal. [] However, the brain’s processing has been altered, so the neurological set point for sensitivity falls. “The lack of a blood-brain barrier in the olfactory system allows chemicals direct access to the limbic system,” says Miller. “And the olfactory pathways are already known to be particularly susceptible to electrical and chemical kindling. Moreover, most chemical exposures are intermittent, which is the kind of exposure known to potentiate kindling and sensitization.” Intermittent lower-dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher-dose exposure.[] Meanwhile, getting sick upon toxicant exposure and failing to get well may be driven by epigenetic changes, which occur when the environment alters the expression of genes without changing the core DNA code itself. Inflicted With A Dirty GST Snip Later, after running my 23andme (before I knew about Big Tech and Google Fuckery), I ran the results through the free site called Genetic Genie, and I learned that I also have Genetic SNPs having to do with Glutathione-S-Transferases (GST). This makes me super sensitive to chemicals, especially given my previous exposure. You need GST to detoxify many water-soluble environmental toxins, including solvents, herbicides, fungicides, and heavy metals (e.g., mercury, cadmium& lead). Defects in GST activity can contribute to fatigue. These genes produce enzymes that allow the body to create and recycle glutathione. These genes have many names, such as GSTM1, GSTP1, and more. Treatment: A Life-Altering Condition When reactions are severe, those afflicted are often forced into a complete overhaul of their lifestyle. But there is hope. If you suspect you may be a Tilted individual, take Miller’s QEESI test, which has been used by researchers and doctors internationally. According to more recent studies, TILT is not necessarily related to the amount of chemicals in your body as once thought, but rather how well your body can buffer itself against those chemicals and eliminate them. Therefore detoxification and the avoidance of toxins is vital. In my case, I do loads to help bolster my body and immune system.
Astoundingly, in 2010, one scientist reported a single case study where electroshock therapy (ECT) put severe chemical intolerances in remission. Holistic remedies are much less invasive and drastic.
Avoid triggers, if at all possible.
Revamp your lifestyle to include real organic food and products without toxins.
Drink hot water with freshly squeezed lemon first thing in the morning. This helps kickstart the digestion process for the day. Lemon juice is not only a digestive aid but a liver cleanser.
Increase your vitamin D levels and omega-3 fatty acids.
Increase your level of glutathione, the body’s master antioxidant. Most people with autoimmune conditions or TILT have sluggish livers and need help detoxifying. Keeping glutathione levels sufficient is easier than you think, and you can start at your next meal. Foods that improve levels are those rich in sulfur, such as broccoli, kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, watercress, garlic, onions, and scallions.
Take nutrients that support glutathione activity, including N-acetyl-cysteine, alpha lipoic acid, selenium, milk thistle (silymarin), cordyceps, gotu kola, and S-acetyl-glutathione (a stabilized, more absorbable form of glutathione). Unfortunately, you cannot gain much from taking straight glutathione as it is not absorbed well orally. Find a practitioner to administer it intravenously (find a practitioner) or explore nasal spray via a compounding pharmacy and coffee enemas. (The palmitic acid in caffeine increases the activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST) by 600 percent in the liver and a 700 percent increase in detoxification in the small intestine.
Up your dose of liposomal vitamin C. Vitamin C has powerful antioxidant properties that protect against oxidative stress against the cell.
Read the excellent book Dirty Genes, find out which of your genes are dirty, and learn how to clean them.
Use an infrared sauna like Sauna Space and get a home air filtration system to purify your air and limit toxins entering your body.
Try to minimize an influx of stress. HERE
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HEALTH NEURALINK An Air Pocket May Have Caused Electrode Threads to Retract From the Brain of First Human Neuralink Patient During the operation, a circular hole was cut in 29-year-old American Noland Arbaugh’s skull, allowing a robotic surgeon access to his brain, where it inserted a set of 64 electrode-studded threads into key areas of his brain. These threads are tasked with relaying information up to the ‘N1’ implant embedded in Arbaugh’s skull, which transmits the neural data to an accompanying Neuralink App via bluetooth, where it is translated into executable actions, such as the movement of a computer mouse. This initial interface - known as Telepathy - is designed to help restore independence to those living with paralysis, by allowing recipients to swiftly and intuitively interface directly with their phone or computer using only their thoughts, removing the need for physical movement. HERE
NATURE OCEANS How the last queen of Hawaiʻi is influencing the debate over deep-sea mining As the U.N. weighs ocean floor mining, Hawai'i just banned the practice. On Monday, Hawai’i Governor Josh Green signed into law a ban on seabed mining in the state’s surrounding waters, making Hawai’i the fourth state to do so following Oregon, Washington, and California. The ban prevents any permits from being issued for extracting minerals within state waters. The new law comes on the heels of a letter a dozen members of Congress sent to President Joe Biden last month asking him to support a moratorium on deep-sea mineral extraction. The mining of minerals like cobalt, which can be used to make electric vehicle batteries, has the potential to jump-start a multibillion-dollar industry that could accelerate the green transition away from reliance on oil and gas. But opponents are concerned about the potential for irreparable harm to sea creatures that have spent millions of years untouched. https://grist.org/accountability/indigenous-peoples-want-say-future0-deep-sea-mining/
RESOURCE: EMF Points of Confusion vs. Factsheet Many are surprised to learn the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by wireless technology are biologically hazardous, and one often gets push-back when they open the conversation. This fact sheet provides information to help sort fact from disinformation and identifies solutions for safer technology use. For those reading this in print format, please see https://sites.google.com/site/understandingemfs/massachusettsemf-bills-2023-24?authuser=0 for an electronic copy to investigate the links below (Courtesy Cece)
SECURITY: Crypto-Gram by Bruce Schneier Monthly News July 15, 2024 Schneier on Security: Crypto Grams
SPACEX: SpaceX rocket accident leaves company’s Starlink satellites in wrong orbit The internet satellites will reenter the atmosphere and burn up, the company said. It did not say when CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they’re doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 20 Starlink satellites. Several minutes into the flight, the upper stage engine malfunctioned. SpaceX on Friday blamed a liquid oxygen leak. paceX said the satellites will reenter the atmosphere and burn up. There was no mention of when they might come down. More than 6,000 orbiting Starlinks currently provide internet service to customers in some of the most remote corners of the world. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem must be fixed before Falcon rockets can fly again. It was not known if or how the accident might impact SpaceX’s upcoming crew flights. A billionaire’s spaceflight is scheduled for July 31 from Florida with plans for the first private spacewalk, followed in mid-August by an astronaut flight to the International Space Station for NASA. The tech entrepreneur who will lead the private flight, Jared Isaacman, said Friday that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has “an incredible track record” and as well as an emergency escape system. The last launch failure occurred in 2015 during a space station cargo run. Another rocket exploded the following year during testing on the ground. SpaceX’s Elon Musk said the high flight rate will make it easier to identify and correct the problem. SpaceX rocket accident leaves company’s Starlink satellites in wrong orbit - POLITICO
AND: SpaceX Rocket Suffers 'Rare but Catastrophic' Failure Falcon 9 disintegrates in orbit, leaving Starlink satellites stranded; future launches may be delayed Two hours after SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday evening, a message popped up from CEO Elon Musk on X: "Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown." Translation, per the New York Times: The second stage of the rocket "sustained a rare but catastrophic failure," disintegrating while in orbit with a cargo of 20 Starlink satellites aboard. Musk added that his team was "reviewing data tonight to understand [the] root cause" of the rocket's RUD, or rapid unscheduled disassembly, which came after an uneventful first launch phase from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. CNBC notes that the "rocket's upper second stage failed to reignite its engine as planned" before it was destroyed, and that the Falcon 9 is grounded until the FAA gives its OK, after a SpaceX investigation. It's not clear if SpaceX will be able to retrieve the lost Starlink units. The company noted that after the malfunction, the 20 satellites were dumped in a lower-than-intended orbit; SpaceX has made contact with five of them so far. The Times clarifies just how rare such an event is: It's the first Falcon 9 failure in eight years, with more than 300 thumbs-up missions since one of the rockets exploded on the launchpad in 2016, destroying an Israeli satellite. https://www.newser.com/story/352896/spacex-rocket-fails-for-first-time-in-8-years.html
SPACE: Loving and Hating Starlink The people I know who use Starlink say that broadband speeds have slowly been improving. This makes sense since there were 6,219 Starlink satellites in orbit at the end of June. A lot of the complaints about Starlink in the early days was due to having a much smaller fleet of satellites in the sky. There are now enough satellites that there should always be several satellites overhead for folks who have a decent open look at the sky. It’s worth noting that Starlink is still only about half the way through deployment of its first constellation and has approval from the FCC to deploy almost 12,000 satellites. The company still says that it has an ultimate plan to reach 30,000 satellites. Something to to start watching is that the satellites are supposedly going to last roughly five years. The company started deploying in May 2019, so there will be an increasing number of replacement satellites needed in the coming years – meaning a lot of launches will be for replacements rather than new satellites. Here are some of the most common and interesting complaints about the company. A lot of people hate the $120 monthly Starlink subscription, but some customers came to Starlink from more expensive broadband like hot spots or high-orbit satellites, both of which have stingy data caps. Starlink prices are competitive with many of the largest rural WISPs. A lot of people hate the $120 monthly Starlink subscription, but some customers came to Starlink from more expensive broadband like hot spots or high-orbit satellites, both of which have stingy data caps. Starlink prices are competitive with many of the largest rural WISPs. The high price means that Starlink must be one of the ISPs feeling the impact of the competition from FWA wireless from T-Mobile and Verizon. Those companies got their 8.6 million customers from somebody. It’s hard to think that Starlink customers don’t jump to prices that are half the Starlink rates. FWA customers within two miles of a cell tower see faster speeds than Starlink. But the real challenge to Starlink in the U.S. will be when the many broadband grants are finally built in rural areas. Probably the most interesting complaint about Starlink is the unpredictability of IP addresses and location identification. Customers are not identified by their own receiver location, but by the location of the ground station where the signal from the constellation lands. For most Starlink users, the ground station, and their apparent location varies. I know a lot of people who would be happy for the Internet to not know where they are, but Starlink users says this creates odd problems. The high price means that Starlink must be one of the ISPs feeling the impact of the competition from FWA wireless from T-Mobile and Verizon. Loving and Hating Starlink | POTs and PANs (potsandpansbyccg.com)
STARLINK: Starlink’s New On-the-Go Satellite Dish Can Fit On Your Backpack
SURVEILLANCE: FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network June 19, 2024, Forbes Twenty years ago, FedEx established its own police force. Now it's working with local police to build out an AI car surveillance network. The shipping and business services company is using AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car surveillance startup, to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities across the United States. As part of the deal, FedEx is providing its Flock surveillance feeds to law enforcement, an arrangement that Flock has with at least four multi-billion dollar private companies. Some local police departments are also sharing their Flock feeds with FedEx — a rare instance of a private company availing itself of a police surveillance apparatus. Such close collaboration has the potential to dramatically expand Flock’s car surveillance network, which already spans 4,000 cities across over 40 states and some 40,000 cameras that track vehicles by license plate, make, model, color and other identifying characteristics, like dents or bumper stickers. Jay Stanley ... at the American Civil Liberties Union, said it was “profoundly disconcerting” that FedEx was exchanging data with law enforcement as part of Flock’s “mass surveillance” system. “It raises questions about why a private company ... would have privileged access to data that normally is only available to law enforcement,” he said. Forbes previously found that [Flock] had itself likely broken the law across various states by installing cameras without the right permits. FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network (forbes.com) Analysis COURTESY PEERS Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on AI and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources via PEERS
SURVEILLANCE: Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records show
SURVEILLANCE/LEGAL: DIGITAL ID SHUT DOWN IN L.A. THE LAWYER WHO SHUT IT DOWN EXPLAINS HOW HE DID IT GREG GLASER One hour 35 min. Also applies to stopping digital ID's in Canada.... SMART Cities: Interview With The Lawyer, Greg Glaser, who STOPPED Digital ID Requirements IN Los Angeles. Learn how he did it, and start asking lawyers in your city to do the same thing using similar resources that may exist. Communities must come together to initiate this, while also trying to stop S.M.A.R.T cities completely. During our interview he explains the surveillance technologies & hidden agenda under the SMART name. .https://www.bitchute.com/embed/ddYAubH2BwHebitchute.com/embed/ddYAubH2BwHe
WARFARE: AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces. AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/
ACTIVIST OPPORTUNITY- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMENT BY JULY 15
Dear Community, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking public comment to help inform the development of the Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability Equity. The goal of the agenda is to improve the federal government's ability to make data-informed policy decisions that advance equity for people with disabilities, so it is especially important to get input from the disability community to inform its development. OSTP is particularly interested in input on topics including: Disparities faced by individuals with disabilities that are not well-understood through existing federal statistics and data collection. The types of community-based or non-federal statistics or data collections that could help inform the creation of the agenda. Data collections and public access, including barriers to participation for people with disabilities, how to define and measure disability, and more. Privacy and security concerns. Considerations that should be kept in mind when determining promising practices for administrative data used to enforce civil rights protections, such as in employment, credit applications, healthcare settings, or education settings. Comments can be submitted online until July 15, 2024. (COURTESY ISIS)
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Thanks for another great report Patricia. The satellite thing is so out of control. The EV harm report is timely! Great info on MCS.