most of us have never lived a few yards away from a radio station or a cell tower

1-10-19    The low latency and high speeds will enable human to robot interfacing that will make possible remote robotic surgery.  Robot to robot interfacing will enable the building blocks of “Smart Cities” where machines vastly enhance the effectiveness and comfort of human life.  However, there is (at least) one large problem for those concerned about freedom.  Communist China is currently poised to lead the global development of 5G.

  As of 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a strategy involving massive investments and development in countries around the world, has given China elements of control over the infrastructure of more than 68 countries, including 65% of the world’s population and 40% of the global gross domestic product.  The rapid development of a worldwide 5G network is one of the most worrisome dimensions of this neo-colonial conquest.

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/01/10/rolling-out-5g-maga-smart-cities-or-sino-suicide-cities/

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11-26-18      

  As there are broader market pressures now demanding a data-dense environment, 5G will be necessary for a world in which every building, appliance, retailer and customer will be linked together through the Internet.  Every car will be exchanging data with every other vehicle in its neighborhood, not to mention the computers that will control traffic flow....

    But these shorter waves don’t travel as far.  So, to make a fully enabled 5G world, transmitters have to mounted, well, everywhere.

  5G providers talk about mounting their transmitters on streetlight poles and traffic lights.  One study estimates that in urban neighborhoods every 12 houses will need a separate antenna to handle the load.

  And that’s where the health concerns begin.  People have been bathed in radiowaves for more than a century.  But most of us have never lived a few yards away from a radio station or a cell tower.  Now virtually all of us will.  That constitutes a giant experiment in public health – and we’re the lab rats.

  This experiment comes at a time when the idea that wireless telecom’s electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) can cause chronic ailments is becoming less and less controversial.  In 2006, a letter from public health researchers Gerd Oberfeld and Orjan Hallberg to the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine first warned that an increasing number of people claim illnesses rooted in sensitivity to EMFs.  The researchers forecast that half the population of developed countries could see their health impacted by the waves.

  In 2014, Dominique Belpomme, a clinical oncologist at Paris Descartes University, found data proving that sensitivity to EMFs, “…can be objectively characterized and routinely diagnosed by commercially available simple tests,” and that EMFs cause inflammation, oxidative stress, autoimmune conditions, and poor sleep, conditions that afflict an increasing number of us.

  Magda Havas, a biologist at Ontario’s Trent University, estimates that 3 percent of the population has severe reactions to EMFs and another 35 percent are compromised by them:  sleeping poorly, feeling depressed, unable to concentrate, and being anxious.  More extreme symptoms can include heart trouble, dizziness, nausea, and difficulties with movement. This range of symptoms may expand with 5G blanketing the planet....  It gets worse:  A 1994 study found that exposure to 5G-like microwaves promoted cataracts in rats.

In 2016, Armenian researchers found that a 5G microwave environment retarded the growth of single-cell organisms and also could increase resistance to antibiotics in some bacteria.

  The US National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program revealed that rats exposed to EMFs for nine hours a day over two years developed unusual brain and heart tumors and sustained damage to their DNA.  In a 5G world such exposure might become typical for us, with 5G routers and other devices dotting our homes, neighborhoods and workplaces....

  Several investigations have found that steady exposure to EMFs harms birds and disrupts their nesting behavior, disorients bees, and damages plant and tree growth, including sparking a stress response in wheat, altering its biochemistry.

  Also, more than 200 EMF scientists in 41 countries have signed onto the International EMF Scientist Appeal, which highlights myriad studies indicating health dangers associated with low levels of wireless radiation.  The scientists want 5G’s progress halted until these studies can be confirmed or proven wrong.  -TJ

 https://trendsresearch.com/stories/the-5g-gamble,6178

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3-29-18    The revolving-door syndrome that characterizes so many industries and federal agencies reinforces the close relationship between the wireless industry and the FCC.  Just as Tom Wheeler went from running the CTIA (1992– 2004) to chairing the FCC (2013–2017), Meredith Baker went from FCC commissioner (2009–2011) to the presidency of the CTIA (2014 through today).  To ensure its access on Capitol Hill, the wireless industry made $26 million in campaign contributions in 2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and spent $87 million on lobbying in 2017.   https://www.thenation.com/article/how-big-wireless-made-us-think-that-cell-phones-are-safe-a-special-investigation/