September 20 Safe Tech International News and Notes
Smart Appliances, Digital Detox, Mining, AI Bills, Tech Transparency 2 Meetings Today with the National Call
See Brett’s article under Economic Analysis, and his archive with more articles about monetary systems
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KEITH CUTTER Managing In-Home Radiation Exposures from ‘Smart’ Appliances In today's world, convenience has become one of the new gods we worship, driving us to invite 'smart' appliances and devices into our homes. Much like the Trojans who accepted the wooden horse, we willingly embrace these technologies, fully aware yet often dismissive of their hidden dangers. [] Most people don't realize that even when idle, 'smart' appliances constantly emit RF radiation throughout the home.
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AFTER BABEL: FREYA INDIA No, I’m Not Always Available Don’t apologize for disconnecting But think about it—now we’re expected to always be available. 31% of American adults say they are “almost constantly” online. Among Gen Z young adults, that figure is an astonishing 48%. Teenagers spend an average of nine hours a day on screens. We take our smartphones everywhere. There’s just no excuse not to get back to someone straight away anymore. I remember when I used to use MSN after school or chat on Skype with friends and we would say BRB (be right back!) or G2G (got to go!) when we signed out. Now there’s nowhere to go. We “no longer log off”. Some of us haven’t spent more than a few hours away from our phones since we first got them over a decade ago. We don’t say bye anymore because we’re always here. []Plus we have more messages than ever to keep up with. Adolescents now receive an average of 237 smartphone notifications a day. A quarter of 18 to 24 year-olds say they send or receive more than 100 texts per day, and over one in ten send or receive more than 200. That’s around 6,000 messages a month – more than double the figure for 25 to 34 year-olds.
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The Power Couple Our recent digital detox How we use red and blue light to our advantage Roman S Shapoval and Bohdanna Diduch On this episode, we discuss: Our annual digital detox camping trip,How exposure to red light fuels us and slows down our days, How exposure to blue light drains us and steals our time, Why and how we like to absorb UV light, Our favorite ways to increase dopamine! 29 minutes
NEWS AND NOTES
AI MIT: There are more than 200 AI bills in Congress right now The flood of bills is indicative of the desperation Congress feels to keep up with the rapid pace of technological improvements. “There is a sense of urgency. There’s a commitment to addressing this issue, because it is developing so quickly and because it is so crucial to our economy,” says Heather Vaughan, director of communications for the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Because of the way Congress works, the majority of these bills will never make it into law. But simply taking a look at all the different bills that are in motion can give us insight into policymakers’ current preoccupations: where they think the dangers are, what each party is focusing on, and more broadly, what vision the US is pursuing when it comes to AI and how it should be regulated. MIT TECH REVIEW
AI IEEE: How and Why Gary Marcus Became AI's Leading Critic Marcus says generative AI like ChatGPT poses immediate dangers Maybe you’ve read about Gary Marcus’s testimony before the Senate in May of 2023, when he sat next to Sam Altman and called for strict regulation of Altman’s company, OpenAI, as well as the other tech companies that were suddenly all-in on generative AI. Maybe you’ve caught some of his arguments on Twitter with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, two of the so-called “godfathers of AI.” One way or another, most people who are paying attention to artificial intelligence today know Gary Marcus’s name, and know that he is not happy with the current state of AI. [] He lays out his concerns in full in his new book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us, which was published today by MIT Press. Marcus goes through the immediate dangers posed by generative AI, which include things like mass-produced disinformation, the easy creation of deepfake pornography, and the theft of creative intellectual property to train new models (he doesn’t include an AI apocalypse as a danger, he’s not a doomer). He also takes issue with how Silicon Valley has manipulated public opinion and government policy, and explains his ideas for regulating AI companies. https://spectrum.ieee.org/gary-marcus
AI UK: Google says UK risks being ‘left behind’ in AI race without more data centresExclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/19/google-says-uk-risks-being-left-behind-in-ai-race-without-more-data-centres
AI: AI medical devices often aren’t based on real patient data August 26, 2024, Cosmos (One of Australia’s Leading Science Magazines) Nearly half of the AI-based medical devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have not been trained on real patient data, according to a new study. The study, published in Nature Medicine, finds that 226 of the 521 devices authorised by the FDA lack published clinical validation data. “Although AI device manufacturers boast of the credibility of their technology with FDA authorisation, clearance does not mean that the devices have been properly evaluated for clinical effectiveness using real patient data,” says first author Sammy Chouffani El Fassi. The US team of researchers examined the FDA’s official “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Medical Devices” database. “Using these hundreds of devices in this database, we wanted to determine what it really means for an AI medical device to be FDA-authorised,” says Professor Gail Henderson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Social Medicine. Of the 521 devices in this database, just 22 were validated using the “gold standard” – randomised controlled trials, while 43% (226) didn’t have any published clinical validation. Some of these devices used “phantom images” instead – computer-generated images that didn’t come from real patients. The rest of the devices used retrospective or prospective validation – tests based on patient data from the past or in real-time, respectively. https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/medicine/ai-medical-devices-data-fda/ SUMMARY COURTESY PEERS Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on health and artificial intelligence from reliable major media sources.
AI: Why we need an AI safety hotline Existing measures to mitigate AI risks aren’t enough to protect us. Here’s what we need to do as well. TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
AUTOMOBILES: House Committee Votes to Adopt AM Radio Bill The Committee vote was a victory for the National Association of Broadcasters. The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday passed a bipartisan bill to require AM radios as "standard equipment in passenger motor vehicles" coming off the factory line. BROADBAND BREAKFAST (when listening to AM radio in a car, you can hear the interference from connected trucks, etc.)
BIG TECH: The Tech Transparency Project / Follow the money Google, Facebook, and Amazon have built massive influence operations, in part by funding an array of third-party groups. A new tool from TTP shows where the tech money is going. Big Tech companies are spending record sums on lobbying as they face growing regulatory scrutiny in Washington and the states. But the companies have also engaged in a more subtle form of influence building, funding everything from think tanks to advocacy groups to local chambers of commerce—which are involved in key policy debates and often serve to amplify the tech giants’ views. It’s not always clear which groups get tech funding, making it difficult to see the hidden hand of companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Now, a new tool from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) is shedding light on Big Tech’s extensive reach with these groups. This searchable database gives a quick readout on whether organizations have received funding from the tech companies since 2015. Some caveats: The database includes U.S. organizations that the three tech companies have voluntarily disclosed funding between 2015 and 2021, and it may not capture the full extent of Big Tech-funded groups. In the future, however, TTP plans to expand this database with additional details culled from media reports and nonprofit IRS 990 forms as well as other sources. TTP also plans to add information about Apple-funded groups. []The data show 58 groups have received funding from all three tech companies—Google, Facebook, and Amazon—though not necessarily in the same year. This subset of organizations is heavy on politics and policy and includes the Republican and Democratic Governors Associations, the Progressive Policy Institute, New America Foundation, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, American Antitrust Institute, and Americans for Tax Reform. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/find-out-which-groups-get-big-tech-funding SEE ALSO: https://django.techtransparencyproject.org/techfundingdb/
BIG TECH - TRANSHUMANISM: Transhumanism: billionaires want to use tech to enhance our abilities – the outcomes could change what it means to be human. [] if we lack the capacity and determination to address these real world harms, it’s hard to believe that we will be able to mitigate larger-scale risks that AI may hypothetically enable. If there really is a threat that AGI could pose an existential risk, for example, everyone would shoulder that cost, but the profits would be very much private. THE CONVERSATION
CELLPHONES CHILDREN CANADA by The Analog Family, about benefits of digital minimalism. I’m Katherine, a Canadian writer and editor, mother of 3, and author of Childhood Unplugged: Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance (2023).: Want Kids to Be Safe? Then Ditch Their Smartphones Parents may want to reconsider their definition of safety. This column was originally published in the Globe and Mail on September 11, 2024, the second in a series on digital minimalist parenting. Reposted by Katherine with permission. Here’s a frightening scenario I’ve heard from parents: kids taking pictures or videos of classmates while they’re undressing in change rooms before gym glass or swimming. A few students think it would be funny to film their classmates, and so, within seconds, non-consensual images of naked or nearly naked kids are on multiple personal devices. While it’s shocking that children would be allowed to take smartphones into school change rooms at all, I’m struck by the irony of the situation. These kids were likely given smartphones by their parents to keep them “safe,” and yet, those same devices were used to undermine the safety of their peers and even their own selves. The irresistible allure of the phone turned ordinary, goofy, prank-loving kids into purveyors of child pornography, while exposing their friends to a gross violation of privacy. These kinds of incidents illustrate the huge disconnect between how parents think or want their kids to use smartphones and how kids actually use them. It shows, too, that even kids without devices are implicated by their presence. The most common justification for giving kids smartphones is safety. A parent can communicate with their child and can determine their location, either by asking or tracking. They feel reassured knowing that the child can call if there is an emergency. I don’t think anyone should always have a direct line to their child. It inhibits the process of gaining independence. But the bigger problem is that smartphones are exceedingly powerful forms of technology. They condense the entire world into a pocket and are designed for compulsive use. With that comes an enormous amount of risk. If “stranger danger” has ever been a concern, then steer clear of smartphones, which allow more strangers access to your child than any number they could meet in real life. According to Cybertip.ca, Canada’s national tip line for reporting online sexual exploitation of children, reports of online sexual luring increased by 815 per centbetween 2018 and 2022, from 220 to over 2,000 incidents. And one-quarter of parents reported having encountered inappropriate online behaviour aimed at their child. Smartphones expose children to content that is far too mature for them, which can lead to emotional numbness, reduced empathy and self-esteem, normalization of violence and misogynistic behaviours, political radicalization, eating disorders, and profound loneliness.
DATA CENTERS: Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally THE GUARDIAN
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Big Techtonics The Accelerationist Playbook How illusory races towards high scores lead us to corporate domination Tech isn’t a relaxant. It’s an accelerant. Automation technologies, whether they take the form of AI, digital payments or Uber, primarily make our lives faster, rather than easier, but we’re flooded with stories that present this acceleration as unstoppable progress. To survive this propaganda without losing our bearings, we need to start studying the tech accelerationist playbook, the stories and background mental models used by mainstream progress junkies to sell their techno-utopian visions. In this piece, I’ll show you four core moves made by garden-variety tech optimists, and two techniques to disrupt them. Move 1: They use the high score model of history Move 2: They cast the single path as a ‘race’ Move 3: They use the race to generate a salvation story Move 4: They cast anxiety as a conservative reaction. Populist movements not only feed on fear, but will attach it to nostalgia, encouraging a person to imagine themselves as part of a movement, like an uprising of horse-cart drivers facing off against the auto industry. Perversely, this strengthens the apparently ‘progressive’ credentials of the tech accelerationists. After all, if you’re against them, you must be with the crazies. This is how liberal urban professionals might end up seeing the Better than Cash Alliance, or corporate behemoths like PayPal, as representing progressive values rather than capitalistic power grabs. Bicycles and stairs don’t merely represent older ways of being. They’re parallel ways of being that draw upon a different concept of progress, one of diversity, balance, autonomy and resilience, rather than acceleration and expansion. In this sense, they’re just as modern as escalators and Uber. In fact, a world in which we were only able to use the latter would be a nightmare. We want balanced systems, rather than narrowly ‘efficient’ or ‘convenient’ ones. [] the paradigm shift rearranges what research questions are considered to be valid. Rather than asking ‘how will we help people adapt to the digital transition’, we might ask ‘how can we keep a good balance of power between parallel tracks’. Asking that question is a good step towards true progress. SUBSTACK
EPA: SCIENCE CHEMICALS EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. []The reports called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response to the findings. In one case, the inspector general noted that supervisors who violate the Whistleblower Protection Act should be suspended for at least three days. The reports focus only on the retaliation claims. The inspector general is expected to issue reports in the future about the whistleblowers’ scientific allegations. PRO PUBLICA
FCC: Modern Broadband is a Telecom Service, Says Former FCC Technology Head The agency made similar arguments in its brief last week. BROADBAND BREAKFAST
INSPIRATION Ted Gioia: Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture? In the new consumer economy, you get consumed Everything now gets seized and sucked dry. No pirate in history has pilfered with such ambition and audacity. Facebook recently admitted that it scraped every social media post and photo in Australia since 2007—with no disclosure or opting out. Nvidia is even bolder, scraping “a human lifetime” of videos every day to train its AI, according to leaked documents. AI art generators have already violated billions of copyrights, according to a class action suit. Meanwhile AI music company Suno admits in a court filing that it has digested “essentially all music files” available on the web—to create a technology that replaces human musicians. SOLUTIONS But a good start would be: Full transparency when AI is used, with disclosures required and attached to each work (not hidden in terms and conditions). Actual enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act (and other anti-tying laws) so that quasi-monopilistic platforms can’t use their dominance in, for example, search or operating systems as a way of enriching other business units. These are all obvious steps—it’s really just common sense. Lawmakers could implement these immediately, and voters would overwhelmingly support these protections. The fact that this hasn’t happened already, suggests that our politicians just might be part of the parasite problem themselves. More solutions at HONEST BROKER SUBSTACK
INSPIRATIONSCHOOL OF THE UNCONFORMED: The Flavors of Faux History: Preparing for the Collapse of Knowledge Blancmange, AI tofu, ideological MSG, and booklegging for history. The real danger of blancmange history is not that we are confused about truth, but that we cease to care about it. [] A good history can give society a stable understanding of itself and its purpose, while a bad history can lead us into confusion and conflict. Which is where we might be headed. In today’s piece we explore why it’s harder than ever to know our history, and how we might prepare for the impending collapse of historical knowledge. [] Knowledge can fade for many reasons, and ironically, the latest of these reasons may turn out to be artificial intelligence. []AI is not neutral. It’s designed by individuals with beliefs, values, and worldviews that influence which data are used to train the AI, and which data are not used or are given less weighting. To use a cooking metaphor, MSG (monosodium glutamate) enhances certain food flavors, but not others. The same can happen when AI is deliberately biased to tell a certain kind of history. Every history contains bias, of course, but when the bias is too strong and calculated, it’s like adding too much MSG to bring out certain “flavors”. The result is a misleading understanding of the past—like Google’s Black Nazis and American Indian Vikings. [] In our post earlier this year, A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) to collect, preserve, and read the printed word, Peco and I recommended that, “we turn our homes into book monasteries, populated by silent monks who stand patiently on their shelves, waiting for us to commune with them. We can preserve and carry on the best of human society, one that will live on long after the floodwaters of digital dross fade away.” For today’s post, we invited Substack writers and readers to contribute their recommendations for trustworthy books that tell the history of the West and the world more generally2. SUBSTACK
INSURANCE NORM LAMBE: Insurance companies can now predict the future (CALIFORNIA) SUBSTACK
LIGHTING OT A woman has won a "landmark" case against a council arguing she was kept awake by streetlights: Sasha Rodoy argued that she found the brightness of the LED streetlights outside her London home unbearable. Rodoy complained to the north London council that the glare from the energy-efficient lights installed from 2019, and estimated to save the council £750,000 a year, hurt her eyes and affected her sleep because of the blue glow that they emitted.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/woman-forced-council-to-replace-led-streetlights COURTESY TANYA
MINING: Extractive Industries and Minerals, Communities and Human Rights "At the heart of the energy transition are critical minerals, like lithium, cobalt, and copper, which are required by renewable energy technologies. These minerals are deemed “critical” for their “vunerab[ility] to [supply chain] disruption” and “essential function in… energy technologies.” And as critical as these minerals are, their presence—in the batteries of electric cars and other “green” technologies—and their extraction—in modern day sacrifice zones, geographic areas subject to disproportionate harms from environmental pollution—are largely unseen. This includes communities in countries with large extractive industries for critical minerals, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which holds an estimated 70% of the world’s cobalt reserves. The reality is that critical mineral harvesting is unjust. Extraction of these materials is dirty and dangerous, and those subjected to extracting it or living around it are often seriously harmed in the process. In the DRC, artisanal cobalt mining camps, though domestically illegal, are widespread, producing an estimated 20% of the country’s cobalt industry production. These camps often rely on child labor to extract cobalt in large, unregulated open-air pits, where the risk of avalanches in the mines is high and injuries are common. One figure estimates that at least 40,000 children work in these cobalt mines. These child laborers report long work hours—in one case, a child worker reported laboring in an underground mining tunnel for a 24 hour shift—and dangerous conditions, including physical and sexual abuse by mine personnel. Others report frequent illness due to limited occupational safety practices, like use of protective equipment. Investigations have found that workers touch cobalt directly, though the substance is “toxic to touch and breathe.” Child workers report limited or no access to school. And for their hard and dangerous work, cobalt miners make extremely low wages. By one estimate, workers make around $3.50 a day. Those who live near cobalt mines face health risks. A recent report published by our friends at DRC-based nonprofit African Resources Watch (Afrewatch) highlighted that communities around copper and cobalt mines struggle to access clean water due to mine pollution, causing increased reproductive health issues for women living nearby, including more frequent miscarriages and infertility. Children living in the mine-adjacent communities report cases of “itchiness, rashes, eye irritations, coughing and diarrhea” where they have made contact with nearby bodies of water. Extracting critical minerals needed for the energy transition often also harms the environment. Chemical leakages from cobalt mines are not uncommon, causing ecological damage to nearby waterways, destroying fish populations, harming local agriculture, and burning those in its pathway. Cobalt mining also pollutes air with toxic grit." https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/calblog/2024/4/29/can-the-us-energy-transition-be-just-if-critical-mineral-extraction-exploits-workers-and-pollutes-communities COURTESY SEAN
MINING “Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children “Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children | Democracy Now! (2023 INTERVIEW) COURTESY SARAH
SATELLITES: African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields After a devastating crop loss in 2023, Olabokunde Tope turned to technology to help run his cassava farm in Nigeria. He decided to work with EOS Data Analytics, a California-based provider of satellite imagery and data for precision farming. EOS’s models and algorithms deliver insights on crops’ health weekly through an online platform that farmers can use to make informed decisions about issues such as when to plant, how much herbicide to use, and how to schedule fertilizer use, weeding, or irrigation. In many developing countries, farming is impaired by lack of data. As harvest time draws nearer this year, Tope reports, the prospects of his cassava field, which now spans a thousand hectares, is quite promising. This is thanks in part to his ability to anticipate and counter the sudden dry spells. He spaced the plantings better and then followed advisories on weeding, fertilizer use, and other issues related to the health of the crops. BENTON (this is not good news, especially when we could be promoting accessible biodynamic agriculture principles AT NO COST)
SECURITY Vast Chinese Hacking Operation of U.S. Consumer Tech Busted The FBI has successfully disrupted a Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation that compromised over 200,000 consumer devices in the U.S. Director Chris Wray announced that the hacking campaign, known as Flax Typhoon, had been operating undetected for months, targeting universities, government agencies, and telecommunications providers, among other organizations. Home routers, cameras, and video recorders were infiltrated in the process. MSN
SMART METERS: Guy Discovers He's Been Paying Neighbor's Utility Bill for Years
Ken Wilson of California couldn't figure out why his costs were so high Wilson called his utility company, PG&E, who sent a worker out—only to discover that Wilson's meter was linked to Unit 91, not his Unit 90. Wilson has resided in his apartment since 2006, and thinks he's probably been paying the wrong utility bill since. Meanwhile, somebody else has been paying his, per CBS News. PG&E disagrees slightly, saying that its preliminary investigation shows that "the meter number for the customer's apartment was being billed to another apartment since potentially 2009." For now, the utility has credited Wilson for $600, the amount he is estimated to have overpaid the last three years, per CBS. "I just hope this story is going to help others," he says. "I can't be the only one." NEWSER
SPACE: Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo AND 'Worst Nightmare': Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites could blind radio telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/worst-nightmare-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-could-blind-radio-telescopes
SPACE: Congress Sends White House Bill Boosting LEO Satellite Launches Building on recent FCC actions, the bill expands spectrum access for commercial space launches. BROADBAND BREAKFAST
SPACE/WARFARE: Chinese Researchers Say They Can Detect Stealth Aircraft Using Starlink Satellites Spotted! Chinese researchers claim that by using the radiation emitted by SpaceX's Starlink constellation, they can detect enemy stealth fighter jets. As the South China Morning Post reports, the team used a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone as a stand-in for such an aircraft for an experiment. Using a ground-based radar system, the team spotted the tiny drone thanks to the radiation emitted by a Starlink satellite, which was flying over the Philippines at the time. That's despite stealth aircraft being designed to be less visible to radar and reflect electromagnetic radiation better thanks to their unusual shapes. The team claims its new detection method is "unaffected by the target’s three-dimensional shape and surface material," according to the researchers' paper published last month in the Journal of Signal Processing, as quoted by the SCMP. FUTURISM
SURVEILLANCE: 4 things to know about who can see your browsing history and internet activity MSN
SURVEILLANCE: FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space. It’s more helpful to consider this part of a paper trail the agency is laying down in order to justify new regulations in the space. The report has its roots way back in late 2020, when the FTC ordered nine of the tech companies with the biggest data collection apparatus to disclose numerous aspects of how their surveillance capitalism business models worked. (The companies: Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance, Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp.) [] The resulting report details all manner of shenanigans, representing both malice and incompetence.
WARFARE: Opening Pandora's Electronic Box Assassination without Representation The Kucinich Report “I want it made known that if the United States is involved in either the development of, or the sharing of this technology, or in the attacks in Lebanon using devices booby trapped through an illicit incursion into a supply chain, I will seek the indictment for war crimes of every individual involved, no matter their rank or station. The world and everyone in it is at risk from a new type of terrorism.” SUBSTACK- COURTESY ED. (For those who haven't seen the news, pagers have been exploding in Lebanon. Here is CNN's coverage: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk/index.html
EVENTS:
9/20 Webinar on "Last Stand Against the Wireless Mesh", Friday Sept. 20, 12pm (noon) ET This Friday, September 20th at 12 noon ET the National Health Federation is hosting the webinar:
"Last Stand Against the Wireless Mesh".
Please see more information from the NHF below and the registration link.
Webinar Guests:
● Liam McDonough, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of a bill to restore to local governments’ discretion on wireless tower locations
● Odette Wilkens, Esq., counsel for National Call for Safe Technology, on Telecom’s plethora of national bills to evade local opposition to carpeting our parks, farms & neighborhoods with dangerous antennas
● Bill Bathgate, president of DE Filters LLC, and industry-leading expert on mitigating Radio Frequency Microwave (RF/MW) radiation
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Co-hosted by NHF President Scott Tips, NHF Lobbyist Charles Frohman,
and NHF Media Manager Terri Harrah
Click here to register for the LIVE Zoom call.
9/20 The National Call EMS Committee Meeting, Friday Sept 20, 2024, 3:30-5pm ET Link to register for the EMS Committee Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf--qrzIvG9ybrLKPubmiPMYSS4p-dQZG After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Our discussion will focus on the EMS Guidelines. Here's the link to register -- "to collaborate and connect with officials from the Federal Communications Commission."
9/21-22, Global 5G Protest for Freedom 21/22 September The Theme is Electrosmog and pets/farm animals/wildlife - i.e. the whole Animal Kingdom! Your Event can span anything from a classical Protest or March to a Flash Mob, Street Stall, Street or Beach Art, Discussion Evening, Film Screening or any other action - as long as it is peaceful. Individual actions are welcome too - gladly send in pictures of Pets or other Animals with your Stop 5G/Stop Electrosmog message! NB: Please remember to add name of country to your message! We will collate the pictures and send them to the Media with a Press Release For more information and to post your messages/pictures, kindly visit Global Action to Stop 5G Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/548912049259423
Dog in Sweden opposing 5G
NOTE: I don’t usually post on the weekend - but look for an inspiring offering by Kate Kheel of Safe Tech International in honor of the Equinox.