When a cybertruck is imported to Europe, it has to be modified in order to adhere with safety regulations not in force in the United States.

From an energy medicine perspective, allowing intimidating vehicles on the roads, and instinct-injured piercing devoid of recognition of the body’s energy anatomy, are related issues.

When we don’t understand the risks of ‘overcharge’ in ourselves and others, and we don’t understand when and how our subtle energies are being exploited, or how to protect ourselves, we are flying blind.”

I recently read a quote by Substack author Tijn Tjoelker of The Mycelium in his post Lessons from Zen and The Art of Saving The Planet.

This article is about his quote.

We are at the point where every mundane choice that we make throughout the day and night – about what we do with our time and attention, and whether or not we invoke a machine or device, large and small – either does or does not regenerate life.

Unexamined choices via our technology use and consumer habits have taken us beyond the edge of reason. We need a new roadmap,

A Short Historical Narrative of Feedback Loops: The Startle Response vs. Desensitization

I remember when cars were first outfitted with remote door locks. Car lights would blink and the horn would beep loudly, so that the driver could confirm that they had locked the vehicle – from across the street.

Initially, I jumped out of my skin on more than one occasion in parking lots, startled by the unexpected noise from an empty vehicle. How did we come to change our expectations and behavior regarding when and where and how we lock our vehicles – creating the demand for more sensors and expensive key fobs, with cars generating data? Should we celebrate that Meta’s glasses will remember for us where we parked the car? Or should we question that we would need the assist, because we have been empowered to not pay attention to what we are doing?

Mindless or Mindful?

Over time, the horn honking volume was adjusted. My energetic immune system and nervous system adapted to the sound, and now I rarely experience that startle response. I am desensitized.

We have not considered that in many cases, our desensitization not an adaptation. It is degenerative, especially regarding our relationships with technology, with the built environment, with authoritarian structures, and with each other.

We could instead be paying more attention to what the European Environmental Agency has coined, “Late Lessons from Early Warnings” by heeding more of our own physicality, as well as reports of harm being experienced by others.

This extends far beyond overuse injuries and postural problems caused by tech; by screen blue light harm; by epidemic myopia, including in children; and including unacknowledged damage to nature. The harm is preventable, and caused by failure to course correct in the face of evidence of maladaptation to misguided social norms.

Trauma expert Peter Levine noted, “In a herd of deer, we need some super-sensitive ones. They are the ones that will hear that teeniest little crack or smell the one or two molecules of scent from the mountain lion that’s stalking them. Their job is to use their hyper-sensitivity to alert the whole group.”

If we are going to address any of the current challenges facing humanity, we need to recognize and recover our relationship with our own independent sensory feedback systems. We need to hold ourselves accountable for ensuring that our man-made inventions, including AI, do not destroy our biology, or each other, or the nature environment with which we have co-evolved for thousands of years.

Tech is enabling us to adopt mindlessness and disconnect, when we need to be going in the opposite direction. We are treating the planet and ourselves – frivolously, while outsourcing harm from the Global North to the South, including mining and waste.

Some antidotes include self-awareness, simplicity, mindfulness, wonder, presence, community, compassion for others, reverence, and openness to accumulated wisdom from other cultures.

We have access to maps that can guide us back to an integrated, healthy and balanced relationship with one another and with our own energy fields, via energy intelligence, much of which has been codified by Eastern traditions, thousands of years ago. Many Westerners are already reaping benefits of Eastern teachings; we could incorporate much more wisdom regarding balance, and embodiment. We don’t have to continue traveling this road. We can change the GPS coordinates to conscious awareness.

A Short Comparision Study of an Energetic Exchange: Shopping

Here are 3 different scenarios describing a cashier processing a customer’s purchases in a store, relative to studying energy anatomy.

1. In the first scenario, the cashier displays basic social skills and interacts courteously with staff and the customers. Friendly smiles are exchanged. The cashier is ‘present.’

2. In the second scenario, the cashier is wearing revealing clothing, with a phone visibly tucked in her bra. She does not make eye contact with anyone. She is sending mixed signals indicating that she is distracted with her mind elsewhere, while at the same time drawing attention to her appearance.

3. In the third scenario, the cashier has pasty unhealthy-looking skin, wearing clothing that obscures her physicality, with extreme prominent piercings on her face. She avoids eye contact. Again, the unconscious messaging is that while acting like she doesn’t care, she desperately wants to draw attention to herself.

If we could perceive the energetic dynamics occurring in each exchange, before we became desensitized, what would we see?

What does this have to do with a cybertruck? Everything.

Strange Flows, Radiant Circuits, and The Penetrating Flow

Thousands of years ago, Chinese seers mapped out the electromagnetic pathways that sustain the invisible subtle energy field. This includes both Meridians and ‘Strange Flows.’

Some surmise that the name ‘Strange Flow’ may have been sourced from the idea that the behavior of these energies appeared unusual and unpredictable, until their functions were understood. For example, if we were to suddenly fall through ice into freezing water, the Strange Flows responsible for managing body temperature would take the helm and re-organize our physiology to help insure survival, faster than the process of conscious thought. This would include the Regulator Flow.

Energy Medicine teacher and author Donna Eden, who can ‘see energy’, describes the Strange Flows as “Radiant Circuits” because of the way they appear to her, as they flash “on” when needed, illuminating like Christmas lights. This contrasts with the action of Meridians, which are choreographed in a constant flow by the changing frequencies of the sun, over the course of the day and night.

Eden Energy Medicine explains, “The radiant circuits function to ensure that all the other energy systems are working for the common good. They redistribute energies to where they are most needed, responding to any health challenge the body might encounter. In terms of evolution, the radiant circuits have been around longer than the meridians. Primitive organisms such as insects move their energies via the radiant circuits rather than through a meridian system, and the radiant circuits can be seen in the embryo before the meridians develop. As in the way that riverbeds are formed, it is as if radiant energies that habitually followed the same course became meridians. Where the meridians are tied to fixed pathways and specific organs, the radiant energies operate as fluid fields, embodying a distinct spontaneous intelligence. Like hyperlinks on a website, they jump instantly to wherever they are needed, bringing revitalization, joy, and spiritual connection. If triple warmer mobilizes your inner militia, the radiant circuits mobilize your inner mom, showering you with healing energy, providing life-sustaining resources, and lifting your morale.” – Eden Energy Medicine

The Chinese seers and Indian sages devoted themselves to understanding and cultivating their electromagnetic energies through simple, eloquent, sustainable practices including mindfulness, exercise, herbs, meditation, visualization, and massage, as the foundation for a healthy, conscious life.

The Penetrating Flow is one of the “Strange Flows” of Oriental Medicine. The Penetrating Flow has a number of functions, and one is to rewire the body for reproduction. It is partly responsible for the re-distribution of circulation to the sexual zones of the body. Its action has been described as the gentle feeling of butterflies in the stomach associated with falling in love, which can evolve to a warm feeling in the vicinity of the underwear, (but humans can attach many diverse emotional expressions and experiences to physical intimacy, including violence.)

In a remarkable irony, the same deeply internal energy field that wires humans for intimacy also manifests the survival strategy of disgust and repulsion, for example, when we smell rotten meat.

The body literally reorganizes its energy to prevent us from ingesting something harmful. This aspect of the Penetrating Flow can also be activated in cases of overwhelming shock and emotional upset, for example, witnessing a gruesome accident, or hearing emotionally traumatic news that overwhelms our ability to integrate and assimilate. We lose our appetite, literally.

The Penetrating Flow should not be actively engaged all the time. We do not want to be in a constant state of either disgust or sexual arousal, because in either state, the body’s energetic, spatial, mechanical, and bio-chemical constitution has been altered, intelligently, for a reason, but not for prolonged application.

Seeking to Impact the Audience – Social Media, Telecommunications, and Politics as an Unprecedented Force Multiplier of Arousal, Disgust, and/or Disharmony

When disgust, shock, stress or arousal is running the show, other capacities are diminished.

For example, we need to be able to digest food.

But we are living in an age where the advertising industry, media, and entertainment industry are constantly attempting to activate and direct energies of either arousal or disgust within us, and/or to get us to eat or buy something – often at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and for the wrong reasons.

Divisiveness was stoked during the pandemic and fueled a misunderstood sense of power. Intolerance and hatred is not power. The dynamic can be re-assessed and addressed as a lower interfering energy, rather than sustained and amplified. Without question, our current political process is being driven by disgust towards those who don’t agree with us, from both sides of the political aisle, in different ways.

The underlying economic and political paradigm is one of exploitation, and “taking” from another, including subtle energy, data, self-governance, and the right to ‘the Commons,” now including space and the health of the oceans.

Who is Minding the Store?

The passage through adolescence and into adulthood can be viewed as learning to manage one’s own sense of personal power and self-mastery including one’s sexual energy, which includes the Penetrating Flow. The three scenarios above describing a cashier in a store can be interpreted via the dynamics of the Penetrating Flow.

The first transaction with an attentive cashier is neutral and does not seek to draw energy from one party to the other.

The second example of the cashier with the phone visible in the bra is less neutral. While seeking to appear not to be interested in others, dressing provocatively relative to cultural norms generally seeks attention from “the audience.”

Technology, social media, the internet, and ‘likes’ have exponentially amplified the negatives of seeking attention from ‘an audience,’ and the dangers inherent in an economic system and mass culture cultivating imbalance, energy illiteracy, and addiction.

Instinct Injured Power Dynamics vs. Intention

The third dynamic of piercing the face is more complex, and this is where we find the link to the cybertruck and displays of power.

Many cultures, past and present, have incorporated body piercing and tattooing for any number of reasons, including beauty, and preparing for war. For example, it has been reported that some Native American cultures tattooed Stomach 36, recognizing that activating and massaging the electromagnetic point known as 3-mile leg on the Stomach Meridian would increase endurance.

This is not a commentary on all manifestations of tattooing and piercing, throughout time.

This is about unconscious and unskilled manipulation and alteration of bioenergy, including non-benefiting and non-consensual impacts on others.

Discernment regarding tattooing and piercing has to do with intention, and with literacy (or lack of literacy) regarding the body’s energy fields.

When we don’t know what we are doing relative to these energies, we are lost in space and time, with unanticipated results, including the possibility of long-term health damage.

A ‘witness’ with a strong intuitional body will recoil with an inborn aversion to harmful piercings on the face, for example, those that activate the start and endpoints of the Meridians, even without any formal training in energy medicine. This is because our intuitional bodies carry intelligences far beyond the conscious mind.

One teacher calls this his “spiny sense” of heightened alert, when we need to pay more attention to our gut instincts.

When our inborn energy intelligence is operational and not desensitized, we cringe and recoil at the sight of a painful-looking metal stake impaling the face because the resulting overcharged energy field in an individual or group subconsciously transmits risks. The intuitional body registers danger.

The practice of activating ‘overcharge’ in the military in order to drive them into battle has been practiced in many cultures. One of the most horrific examples of loss of control occurred with the My Lai massacre, during the Vietnam War. (There may have been others, including in 2002, when four wives were slain by their soldier husbands in 6 weeks at Fort Bragg.)

Back at the store, the instinct-injured individual with the pierced eyebrows may experience the recoil of the observer’s aura as ‘power over another.’ This dynamic unconsciously feeds the ego of the individual with the piercings. The energy exchange between the two individuals is distorted and polluted by power dynamics, (although there are energy medicine strategies available for protection from metabolizing unwanted energies, including ‘zipping up’ the Central Meridian.)

This dynamic may be why the piercing was done in the first place – for attention. We will never be able to figure out if piercing and tattooing can be used for healing, until we look.

When we give a wide berth to the metal cybertruck with its blackened windows, we experience the same invasive expression of power-over-another.

We know why a Chechen warlord was driving a gun-mounted Tesla cybertruck.

We also know that Europeans have taken steps to make their roads safer. In a recent letter, the European Transport Safety Council, Eurocities, Clean Cities, Transport & Environment, POLIS – Cities and Regions for Transport Innovation, International Federation of Pedestrians, and the European Cyclists’ Federation opposed the approval of a cybertruck on the roads in the Czech Republic.

Carscoops reported, “Despite the required modifications, they sent a letter to the local government expressing serious concerns about the electric truck’s shape, weight, and size. Apparently, they believe that having a vehicle shaped like a giant, unyielding wedge might not be the safest choice on the roads. [] To gain approval as a privately imported vehicle, the Cybertruck’s infamous sharp edges were reluctantly dressed with rubber moldings, an attempt to make it slightly less dangerous for pedestrians—though one wonders if anyone actually feels safer. Additionally, the LED headlights and taillights were tweaked with yellow indicators to align with European regulations. [] Campaigners argue that even at this seemingly deflated weight, the truck fails to meet regulations for the N1 category when fully loaded. European laws require heavy vehicles to be fitted with speed limiters, a rule that seems to have been overlooked in this case. The letter doesn’t stop there. It highlights the truck’s enormous footprint, expansive blind spots, lack of crumple zones, and extreme acceleration, all of which they say pose a real danger to pedestrians and other road users. For these reasons, campaigners argue that the Tesla Cybertrucks currently on European roads should be de-registered and removed from public streets.Even With Rubber Edges, Critics Want Tesla’s Cybertruck Off Europe’s Roads (msn.com)

What we don’t know is why America ignores the implications of these armored cars,

Is it possible that the quest for self-mastery could eclipse monetizing – beyond the planet’s limits – the need for power imbalances? Can self-esteem be expressed as a force for good?

The Iceman’s Medicinal Herbs and Genetics

The story of Ötzi implies that 5,300 years ago, the practice of tattooing certain acupuncture points was linked to sophisticated, individualized health care.

Image Courtesy Flo Freshman

In 1991 “a spectacularly preserved mummy of a man who was murdered about 5,300 years ago” was unearthed. “The iceman, the oldest glacier-bound mummy ever discovered, was found by hikers in Italy’s Ötztal Alps in 1991, and since then, scientists have scrutinized almost every aspect of the man’s life,” as reported by Live Science. “Genetic analysis revealed that the iceman had a host of ailments at the time of his murder (by a blow to the head). For instance, Ötzi was a heart attack waiting to happen, with narrowed arteries, and he had arthritic knees and rotten teeth, a likely case of Lyme disease, and signs of stomach ulcers.” – Live Science

Possible evidence for care and treatment in the Tyrolean Iceman was published in the International Journal of Paleopathology Volume 25, June 2019, Pages 110-117. The article discussed findings about what he had eaten, and outlined genetic findings.

The Mummy and the Meridians: “Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos May Have Been a Primitive Form of Acupuncture”

One of the most fascinating aspects of the story is that the international community was able to discern that “Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos May Have Been a Primitive Form of Acupuncture.” “In addition, the iceman was inked; Ötzi was covered in 61 tattoos. The tattoos were all simple stripes with two crosses, so they didn’t seem to be decorative. Given the look and location of these tattoos, the researchers think the markings were a form of medical treatment.” “The tattoos are all located at body regions where the iceman had some health issues and probably experienced periods of pain. For example, he had degenerative diseases of his hip, knee, ankle joints and lower back. Most of the tattoos are located [on] the legs and the lower back,” Zink said.”[] “chest tattoos may have been used to soothe belly discomfort; he had intestinal parasites and a Helicobacter pylori infection. And some of the inked spots corresponded to traditional acupuncture “pressure points,” suggesting to some researchers that the iceman underwent a form of acupuncture, Zink said. (Most scientists believe acupuncture first arose in China, and the first written description of it derives from 2,200 years ago, but it could have arisen earlier in some other location, like Europe, Zink said.) At the time of his death, the iceman had a “medicinal mushroom” known as birch polypore in his digestive system. Birch polypore is thought to have anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing properties, Zink said. Ötzi had also consumed ferns, which could have been either a primitive food wrapper that Ötzi mistakenly ate or a treatment to kill off the parasitic worms that plagued the iceman, Zink said.” – Live Science

Smithsonian Magazine reported “What Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos Reveal About Copper Age Medical Practices. New study argues that the 5,300-year-old Iceman’s community boasted surprisingly advanced health care techniques.” The article’s lead photo caption reads, “The Iceman’s tattoos align with classic acupuncture points, and the plants found amongst his belongings have well-known medical applications.”

Science Magazine also stated,” 5000-year-old ‘Iceman’ may have benefited from a sophisticated health care system, New look at Ötzi’s tattoos and medicines suggest complex medical culture,” also linking to locations of his 61 tattoos to the healing science of acupuncture.

“Previous studies have found that Ötzi carried a number of suspected medicines either on him or in him. Fastened to leather bands in his equipment, researchers found the birch polypore fungus, which the Iceman may have used to calm inflammation or as an antibiotic. Scientists also found bracken fern in his stomach, which can be used to treat intestinal parasites such as tapeworm. And Ötzi was covered with 61 tattoos [] including dotlike points around joints, which some researchers believe may have been used as pain treatment akin to an early form of acupuncture.

In the new study, scientists took a closer look at Ötzi’s tattoos. Some lines and dots were directly over his wrist and ankles which suffered from degenerative diseases, and many correspond to traditional acupuncture points, they report in the International Journal of Paleopathology. The markings would have taken a long time to produce, and this sophisticated practice—along with the variety of herbs and medicines—would have likely been developed through a dedicated, systematic trial-and-error approach that was passed down through generations in the society in which Ötzi lived, the team concludes. All of this—combined with the sophisticated use of plants and fungi to treat ailments—suggests Ötzi was part of a culture with some knowledge of anatomy, how diseases arise, and how to treat them, the scientists say. What they don’t know is whether any of these treatments actually worked.” – Science.org

“What they don’t know is whether any of these treatments actually worked” Reflects that Our Current Mass Consumer Culture and For-profit Medical Culture is Sustained by Our ‘Not Knowing’ and Our Unwillingness to Look

Scientists were able to examine a 5,300-year-old corpse and recognize the direct connection with acupuncture maps. But “Science.org” reported that “we don’t know whether any of these treatments worked.” It wasn’t because the Western mainstream medical industry is not aware that Chinese medicine has mapped out the electromagnetic pathways in the body, as the foundation of both self-care and healing, designed to harmonize the organism with the Cosmic Current that choreographs all of life on Earth.

It also was not because scientists had no idea where the points or pathways are, or what capacities they might carry. A simple search online will offer links to images of the Meridian pathways and their point applications, available to all.

It is related to the fact that we do not want to evaluate the effects of our wireless devices and technologies on our electromagnetic energies, because if we did, we would have to address the harm. The centralized power structure does not want to let go of the top-down power, control, and concentrated wealth enabled by data, and the consumers do not want to let go of the convenience, sense of personal power and control, and the 24/7 dopamine drip.

The dismissive conclusion by Science.org is related to entrenched economic interests that foster insidious intellectual arrogance.

For example, in 2021, Psychology Today published, “Believing Acupuncture Works Doesn’t Mean It Actually Does, Acupuncture is alluring pseudoscience.’ In 2024, No, Washington Post, Acupuncture Still Doesn’t Work, was published by Forbes. In July of 2024, Science-Based Medicine published “Acupuncture and Evidence Based Medicine” The plausibility of acupuncture is very low, because there is no known mechanism, and outside of short-term pain and nausea reduction, for any medical application of acupuncture there is no plausible even theoretical mechanism.

We can assume that none of these organizations humbled themselves to attempt to understand the science that underlies Chinese Medicine. Recognition is power.

Albert Eistein observed, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

Piercing the Energy Pathways

When we overlay piercings with available maps of the Meridian pathways and electromagnetic energies, we can see that the woman with the metal embedded in the inside corner of her eyes may be causing harm to her Bladder Meridian and the associated resonant field. The woman with the piercing on the outer edges of the Eyebrow may be adversely impacting the Gall Bladder and Triple Heater meridian energies. Indiscriminately activating these Yang meridians is most likely not without consequence.

Understanding and balancing these energies could instead become the basis of a healing and self-care renaissance.

When Things Don’t Look the Way They Should

My friend’s dog is miserable each October when the neighborhood is decorated for Halloween and monsters and goblins are flapping in the wind. His inborn alarm system is registering risk, because things don’t look the way that they should.

There are too many things in our environment that don’t look the way that they should look, that have been normalized by our unrelenting exposures and desensitization, as well as addictions.

One of the most alarming issues is the inescapable transmission of ubiquitous layers of artificial manmade EMF/RF/5G frequencies into the airwaves, juxtaposed with the practice of instinct-injured metal piercings, because metal acts as an antenna. Piercings can become unintentional antennas for harmful internalized exposures

International RF regulations regarding exposures do not account for metal in the body, including implants.

There should be an open debate about the safety of radio frequency and microwave radiation. – Home – RFInfo

Confronting ‘Overcharge’

Warriors have used various strategies to place themselves into a state of frenzied overdrive in order to inflict pain on others in battle, and our Penetrating Flows understand this mechanism. Our energy intelligence recognizes the risks and the imbalance, even if we do not possess conscious awareness.

We can’t come to understand or even study the actions of the Radiant Circuits by examining cadavers, or by studying laboratory animals under controlled conditions.

Our current science paradigm can’t support the level of integration that is needed to return each individual to self-mastery and self-sovereignty.

Insight and change can come from the choices of individuals, everywhere, to stop riding an unexamined, distorted technology wave.

We need to re-sensitize ourselves to our inborn wisdom; and to use our energetic capacities as good medicine for one another and our home planet. For example, the physical body has the ability to provide individual feedback about a particular food or medication. Our ‘scientific’ method of conducting double blind testing drugs against a placebo on groups is a gamble at best, and manslaughter in far too many cases.

Energy Intelligence in Action

We can redirect our focus to the still quiet sensory system inside that recoils at the sight of the unexamined juxtapositions of technology and biology… including earbuds near the brain, a person eating GMO altered industrialized junk food, a cellphone held against the head, a transmitter on a whale, a rocket laden with weapons and antennas heading into space, a cell tower next to a home or nursery school, a teen with low self-esteem encountering pornography or bullying on the internet, a child in the Congo mining cobalt, a connected vehicle spewing RF; a cell phone carried over the heart in a shirt pocket, tucked in a bra, or near the reproductive organs; a child throwing a tantrum and being soothed by a device, thousands of satellites filling the Low Earth atmosphere for which we have no trash pick-up.

Meta-studies by compromised experts and industry will not give us the right answers.

Many of these technologies have unleashed unspeakable harm on those who are more sensitive to artificial frequencies, especially women and children.

We need a new litmus test to determine whether a new invention, technology, or consumer product is designed to serve the greater good.

For example, the clean energy community indicted itself when it ignored the profound suffering and disability caused by wireless smart utility meters, installed under the guise of sustainability while enabling massive surveillance. If a manufacturer or government does not conduct appropriate pre-market testing, and does not address reported harm, claims regarding benefits are not legitimate. When those experiencing damage are on the receiving end of the disgust, marginalization, and ridicule that is powered by the Penetrating Flow and the manipulation of the media, dual use technologies causing harm don’t receive appropriate scrutiny.

Like the helix that represents our DNA, our inventiveness has been traveling away from the laws that govern our biology and our internal and external environment. We are at the bending, the point of tension where we need to shift our trajectory.

When we hit the sharp turn, we need to slow down. If you are at the fork in the road choosing between mastering more tech or learning from nature, chose nature.

“You, whose day it is, get out your rainbow colors and make it beautiful.” – Traditional Nootra Song

Resources:

Tracing Meridians with Donna Eden! YOUTUBE 7 1/2 MINUTES

Donna’s Daily Energy Routine “This is a quick and easy routine that you can do in just a few minutes to build your immune system, gain energy, feel younger, and relieve pain.”

Learn to Trace the Radiant Circuits: Tracing the Radiant Circuits with Prune Harris 6-minute video

Learn about The Need for Synthetic EMF Exposure Guidelines by Keith Cutter of EMF Remedy

Learn About Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields: Dr. Courtney Snyder: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity in Children & Adults Symptoms, Brain Impacts, Factors That Increase Vulnerability, Diagnosis, Treatment, MTHFR, COMT, & Why Children Are Especially Susceptible (24-minute audio) (Biomarkers that have been used: Blood pressure and heart rate (to assess change in the autonomic nervous system) are also expected to increase; Salivary cortisol levels are expected to increase after exposure; Blood glucose levels are expected to increase after exposure. 

Learn About Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields from a Chinese Medicine Perspective: In May of 2002, “TCM Treatments for EMF Sensitivity | Acupuncture CEU Course” was taught by Wisconsin acupuncturist and functional medicine practitioner Michelle Meramour, Dipl.Ac. An introductory overview (1 hour 18 minutes) of the interactive day-long professional CEU training is available free online here. Michele created a body feedback system rooted in TCM acupuncture that uses Six Level Theory to diagnose and treat EHS.From Michele’s feedback system, in the first stage, EMF infiltrates the body via two meridian pathways: Small Intestine, and Urinary Bladder.   In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Small Intestine is associated with the entire enteric nervous system, ie the ‘gut. Michelle Meramour explains “In the Body-Feedback system, the tai yang meridians (Small intestine and Urinary Bladder) correspond with the hypothalamus, which determines how information is processed through the autonomic nervous system. The hypothalamus then creates hormones via the pituitary gland and endocrine system connection. Symptoms of EMFs affecting tai yang include poor quality sleep, general hypersensitivity, ANS dysfunction, weak immune function, and moodiness.” As she addresses the other five levels of disharmony associated with the five additional meridian pairs, she discusses histamines, allergies, MAST cell activation, chronic inflammation, and manifestations of deeper levels of imbalance that are very familiar to the EHS patient and practitioner population, including cardiac conditions.

Fact Checking Endnotes:

The origins of acupuncture are implied to have been derived from “trial and error” by the Science.org. However, it is known there are individuals who have the ability to “see energy.” An alternative history indicates that the sages could ‘see’ energy and codified the knowledge for all. The alternative narrative also implies that many indigenous groups had/have the capability to ‘see’ energy, providing the ability to identify beneficial herbs, etc. even without use of the written word, but were reluctant to explain to conquerors how they accessed their expertise. His-story is his story…interpreted by the dominator culture, and subject to further evolution. Yours, mine, everyone’s.

Naturalist Diana Kordas has been documenting the damage occurring to the island’s ecosystem in Greece – since the installation of 5G. (Links to some of her previous work at bottom of post)

“This area has no pesticides or agrochemicals.”

The number of individuals who sustain a direct relationship with nature has declined in direct proportion to screen use and industrialization.

The equinox, football, and election seasons are approaching. Which receives the most attention?

Telecommunications technology has not been tasked with protection of the environment or human health, so- it isn’t. Informed citizen scientists with direct real-world experience, including Diana Kordas in Greece. are speaking the truth about the need to safeguard Nature and ourselves.

Insects have been declining steadily since the invention of wireless technology. When 4G came in, people all over the world stopped seeing dead insects on their car windshields. Fireflies and many other species all but disappeared. Since 5G came in, people everywhere are reporting major declines in all sorts of insects, including mosquitoes, which had not declined previously.

Since 5G was installed in 2021 on the island of Samos in Greece where we live, insect populations have plummeted. Many species we had prior to 2021 are extinct and a great many more are nearly so. Some insects are showing clear signs of DNA damage: deformities such as wing damage and miniaturization that pass on through generations. Some of these have now died out, at least locally. DNA damage doesn’t necessarily produce visible effects. The most common result of DNA damage is sterility, which will of course lead to extinction. This has been proven again and again in the laboratory by Panagopoulos et al.

For the last decade, the bane of our area has been our next-door neighbour’s cistern. It is an open breeze-block and concrete construction that sits behind his house and collects the rainwater that comes off his roof in winter. It is uncovered and unscreened. He used to use the water for his garden, but ten years ago he stopped cleaning it out regularly and stopped growing summer vegetables. The stagnant green water became a breeding ground for thousands of mosquitoes, and you could easily see the larvae wriggling around near the surface. Dragonflies used to hunt the emerging mosquitoes, and innumerable small moths drowned in the water. No amount of persuasion could induce our neighbour to do anything about this situation, even though he was forced to sit indoors with the windows closed all summer and autumn. In still weather, and when the south wind blew, the mosquitoes would come to us, making summer nights a misery.

Since 5G came in, there have gradually been fewer and fewer mosquitoes in our neighbour’s cistern. Now there are none. No larvae wriggling on the surface, and no dragonflies to hunt the emerging mosquitoes. There aren’t any more drowned moths, either. We get very few mosquitoes at night anymore, and the ones we get are our own.

We have a cistern, too. It is very big, very old and very well-built with solid stone walls about a meter (three feet) thick and a solid roof made of iron bars and concrete. There is a single opening, a square hole of 60 centimeters (two feet) capped with a steel cover, with two small drain holes on the sides which are covered with steel plates with slits to allow the water to pour though. We cover these with flat stones in summer. There is a small overflow pipe high up on one side of the cistern, about a centimeter (half an inch) in diameter.

Our cistern has always been full of mosquitoes every summer, and it still is, despite being emptied and cleaned periodically. When we open the cap to draw out water for the garden, they swarm out in the dozens. Fortunately, not many of them come up to where we live. The prevailing winds blow them elsewhere.

What has killed all our neighbour’s mosquitoes? This area has no pesticides or agrochemicals, and a lot of the land around us is uninhabited, wild and impenetrable. There is no pollution.

However, there is a lot of ambient cell tower radiation from the 16 cell towers that surround the bay where we live. The nearest one is about three kilometers (two miles) away. Neither we nor our neighbour has WI-Fi, and we are too far away from anyone else to get other people’s. There is also radiation from the increasing number of communications satellites that pass over us.

Why do we still have so many mosquitoes in our cistern while our neighbur doesn’t? Why are our mosquitoes the only insects that have not drastically declined or gone extinct in this area? Given the absence of pesticides and other pollutants, the only possible answer can be electromagnetic radiation from the cell towers and satellites.

Our neighbor’s cistern is uncovered, and EMR can easily penetrate water. Our cistern is covered. Mosquitoes can get in and out through the small overflow pipe and the tiny gaps around the stones covering the drains, but very little if any EMR can penetrate these gaps, while the thick, solid walls and roof of the cistern block all radiation.

Research has shown that creatures that live in water may be especially sensitive to EMR. If there is EMR in the environment, it will penetrate water in the same way that light does. It is possible that water actually magnifies EMR. Freshwater species including amphibians were the first to start declining and to exhibit serious abnormalities after wireless technology was introduced. Sea life has also declined hugely. On Samos, since 4G came in, Greek wireless providers have ensured good wireless coverage on all the beaches. We no longer see many once-common species of sea creatures when we go snorkelling.

In 2010, biologist Alfonso Balmori conducted an experiment in which he exposed two groups of tadpoles to environmental cell tower radiation by placing them in tanks on a rooftop1 . The two tanks were identical, but one was protected by a Faraday cage. The tadpoles protected by the Faraday cage lived to grow into frogs. The tadpoles that weren’t protected by a Faraday cage died.

We did not set out to conduct an experiment; we have no control over out neighbour’s cistern. However, the circumstances of our two cisterns, and what has happened to the mosquitoes in them, strongly resembles Dr. Balmori’s experiment with the tadpoles, and tends to confirm his results. Environmental EMR killed the unprotected tadpoles. Environmental EMR killed our neighbour’s mosquitoes. Our mosquitoes, which are protected from EMR, are thriving, like the tadpoles in the Faraday cage. It is a great pity that we cannot protect all the other species of insects as well.

Most of us don’t like mosquitoes, but they matter.  A lot of other creatures live on them. The massive decline of wildlife on this planet is being described as the sixth great extinction. It is not happening apart from us. When everything else goes extinct, we will too.

Research Article: Mobile Phone Mast Effects on Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Tadpoles: The City Turned into a Laboratory

Alfonso Balmori

Pages 31-35 | Published online: 01 Jun 2010

• Cite this article
• https://doi.org/10.3109/15368371003685363

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We can still change that. We can at least save what’s left, if not because we care about other creatures per se, because we ought to recognize that it is in our own best interest to do so. Unless we are planning a future based on cannibalism, we need plants and insects, birds and animals. It’s time we turned the cell towers off.

5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos Part 1 March 2022

The trouble is, we do need insects, even mosquitoes. Life is a chain, and many creatures higher up the chain rely on the mosquito (or some other insect) for food, or eat the creatures that eat the mosquito, to be eaten themselves in turn by other creatures. We break the chain of life at our peril, because we are part of it.

In writing this paper it occurred to me: 5G has been going in around the world for some time now, but I have read hardly anything about it affecting insects, or soil, or bird migration, or animals. Hasn’t anyone else noticed? Is Greece the first country to have put 5G all over rural areas? Or are people simply not connecting the dots and continuing to blame pesticides and climate change for everything that goes wrong in nature? Because I don’t believe for a second that what’s happening here isn’t happening in other places. Something caused the bumblebee to become extinct in nine U.S. states. And birdwatcher friends are telling me that they too are seriously concerned about migration.

5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos Part 2 August 2022

Insect declines have continued on Samos since the introduction of 5G. The situation has worsened since 5G became commercially available from July 1, 2022. Not only are insect numbers in general continuing to decline; pollinators including butterflies are declining very rapidly. Insectivore birds are declining also. Soil conditions have worsened as well, with the soil becoming more acidic than previously. There are no visible insects in the soil, and many plants are not growing as well as they should, or growing to full size. Melons and aubergines show signs of DNA damage. Lack of pollinators, poor yields and withered plants are apparent all over the island. The implications for food production generally are frightening: a combination of declining soil quality, declines in pollinator numbers and radiation-damaged plants means that it will be harder to grow food and that food prices will continue to rise. Total crop failures may occur in future.

5G/EMG/RF How to Kill a Wetland—the 2023 Spring Migration on Samos, Greece May 2023

But the wetlands are dying, and this is a serious catastrophe for both the island and for the birds, migratory and resident. It is a catastrophe because we are losing the biodiversity that made Samos ecologically important and interesting, and it is a catastrophe for the birds themselves. The resident birds are dying out and the migratory birds cannot survive if there is nowhere to stop and nothing to eat when they do. Most have already traveled thousands of miles to get here, having crossed much of Africa or the Middle East. They must rest and find food. And this is the greatest problem for both resident and migratory birds—nothing to eat. There is not much food, except for the little seed-eaters, and even they are in trouble.

The Samos wetlands survived through the 1974 Cyprus crisis, when the army occupied the southern beaches and built bunkers and planted land-mines on the edges of the flaming lagoon. They survived encroachment by farmers and summer-home builders and hotel-builders (the last, barely, and one big hotel project was stopped by local conservationists in mid-construction to save one of the wetlands). Since 2017, though, bird populations around the wetlands have declined hugely. That was the year the cell-phone companies decided to provide wireless coverage to the southern beaches, which had up till then been largely left alone. Many new cell towers were erected, with panels directed at the beaches fronting the wetlands. The hotels and beach cafes all installed wi-fi. Bird and insect populations plummeted.

DNA and Developmental Damage from Cell Towers on the Greek Island of Samos: Effects on Insects, Flowers and Vegetables February 2024

A recent paper, ‘Human‑made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced‑oscillation and voltage‑gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review) published in the International Journal of Oncology by biophysicist Dimitris J. Panagopoulos et. al. states unequivocally that electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology damages DNA. This leads to infertility, sterility, mutations and extinctions, and it explains the loss of biodiversity that we are currently experiencing on this planet.

DNA damage from wireless radiation is not a new discovery. It has been confirmed over and over by numerous scientists using a variety of experimental subjects and frequencies. But do observations in the laboratory translate into the same effects in the real world? If these scientists are correct, they must do. In the real-world things might be a lot worse, because in the real world we are not exposed to a single frequency or bandwidth but to a whole soup of them, from multiple sources. In the real world, exposure time is not limited to a few minutes or hours per day or week; the cell towers are on day and night. DNA damage from wireless radiation is not a laboratory phenomenon; it is real. We are losing the insects—among them, the pollinators. We are losing the birds. Animals are dying out. We are wiping ourselves out.

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Encyclopedia Brittanica describes Love Canal, as “a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., U.S., that was the site of the worst environmental disaster involving chemical wastes in U.S. history. The Love Canal area was originally the site of an abandoned canal that became a dumping ground for nearly 22,000 tons of chemical waste (including polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxin, and pesticides) produced by the Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation in the 1940s and ’50s. In the following years, the site was filled in and given by the company to the growing city of Niagara Falls, which allowed housing to be built on it. In 1978, however, state officials detected the leakage of toxic chemicals from underground into the basements of homes in the area.

Subsequent investigations established an abnormally high incidence of chromosomal damage among the area’s residents, presumably caused by their long-term exposure to the toxic chemical wastes. Much of Love Canal was then evacuated, the abandoned land being purchased by the state of New York. The canal was capped and fenced off, and the buildings around it were razed. After protracted litigation, 1,300 former residents of Love Canal agreed to a $20,000,000 settlement of their claims against the Occidental Chemical Corporation, which had taken over Hooker in the late 1960s, and the city of Niagara Falls.”  – Source

The Crucial Role of Citizen Science

The Brittanica narrative fails to describe the revolutionary impact of citizen data-gathering that unfolded over a three- year period in upstate New York, fueled by a mother with a sickly child.

Citizens took science and data collection into their own hands.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice explains,

“Lois Gibbs was raising her family in Love Canal, near Niagara Falls in upstate New York, in 1978 when she discovered that her home and those of her neighbors were sitting next to 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals. That shocking discovery spurred Lois to lead her community in a three-year struggle to protect their families from the hazardous waste buried in their backyards. By trial and error, Lois and her neighbors developed the strategies and methods to educate and organize the community, assess the impacts of toxic wastes on their health, and challenge corporate and government policies on the dumping of hazardous materials. Her leadership led to the relocation of 833 Love Canal households.[]

Homeowners were never given any warning that their property was located near a chemical waste dump. From the late 1950s through the 1970s, people repeatedly complained of odors and substances surfacing near or in their yards and on the school playground. The city, responding to these complaints, visited the area and covered the “substances” with dirt or clay. []

[ ] Lois began talking with other parents in the neighborhood to see if they were having problems with their children’s health. After speaking with hundreds of people, she realized that the entire community was affected. In June 1978, she started the Love Canal Parents Movement.

On August 2, 1978, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) issued a health order recommending that the 99th Street School be closed, that pregnant women and children under the age of two be evacuated, that residents not eat out of their home gardens and that they spend limited time in their basements. A few days later, the state agreed to purchase all 239 homes in the first two rings of homes closest to the canal.- Source

Chemicals were the culprit when Love Canal residents were told not to eat the food growing in their gardens. What happens when the economic growth engine is powered by another environmental exposure impacting gardening – for food?

The European Environment Agency published two volumes of Late Lessons from Early Warnings. Based on case studies and delays in necessary corrective action, in Volume 1(EEA, 2001), twelve key lessons for better decision-making were offered, including

“- Acknowledge and respond to ignorance, as well as uncertainty and risk, in technology appraisal and public policymaking

– Ensure that real world conditions are adequately accounted for in regulatory appraisal

– Ensure use of ‘lay’ and local knowledge, as well as relevant specialist expertise in the appraisal gathering”   – Source: Late lessons from early warnings II – Summary.pdf 

By not accounting for real world conditions and not heeding layperson and local knowledge, the United States and other countries are decades behind in terms of the evolution of radio frequency science and protection of human health and the environment, regarding non-ionizing radiation.

The Pittsfield Tower

During the pandemic, the exact day that a cell tower was activated in a residential neighborhood in Pittsfield, MA, a young girl came downstairs and told her mother that she felt “buzzy” and anxious.  She was correctly describing the experience of being induced by the artificial man-made frequencies that were now blanketing her home and neighborhood, from a Verizon cell tower.

On the one hand, she was housebound by decree; on the other hand, her house, yard, and neighborhood were now making her sick.

She was not the only one who reported symptoms, and the Pittsfield tower is now at the center of on-going legal action involving seventeen nearby residents.  

The Pittsfield Cell Tower – What If You Cannot Grow Your Own Food on Your Own land?  

Although less instantaneous, in addition to health issues, neighbor Charlie Herzig and his wife Judy’s land and garden have also been affected by the cell tower.

As an experienced farmer growing food to support his extended family, Charlie’s story is a cautionary tale extending far beyond one neighborhood.

On March 2^nd Children’s Health Defense TV Good Morning CHD’s Kim Mack Rosenberg interviewed Courtney Gilardi and Charlie Herzog of Pittsfield.

The show can be viewed here: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/wireless-intrusion/ (Charlie Herzig speaks candidly, starting at about 10 1/2 minutes)

The audio version is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/08aPj9rnxOBSiB23YwIorr (56 minutes total)

Here is a partial, lightly condensed transcript (by Safe Tech International) of the section of the interview where Charlie described harm to his family’s food supply and his garden.

Charlie’s Garden vs. the Cell Tower

Kim: You’ve worked hard your whole life, including fighting for your country when called, so thank you for your service. You built a house with your own hands, and I understand that you and your wife plan to spend the rest of your lives in this house surrounded by wildlife and wonderful neighbors. So let’s talk first a little bit about the neighborhood situation. I understand you joined the litigation in support of your neighbors, particularly Courtney and her girls, because you hated to see children getting sick as a result of what Verizon was doing with the cell towers so close to a residential neighborhood. Tell me a little bit about your decision to join the litigation and what you hope to have come of this.

Charlie Herzig:  I just can’t see where anybody or any company can ever cause harm to children especially, just in the light of profit. I mean, everybody has the right to have a happy life, and there’s no need for in this day and age to have communication towers that are causing harm to people when they can do it other ways and still accomplish the same thing. And my hope is that at some point this is going to go away, and Courtney and her family can move back into their house. I mean, we have one family that sold already. We have another family that’s selling the house next door to me because they just can’t put up with it anymore. My wife and I are both retired. We built a place to retire out of. And win, lose, or draw, we’re here. We can’t move, so we’re hoping this gets resolved.

Loss of Pollinators

Kim: Thank you. And much appreciate you joining in this litigation. I understand that we mentioned that you built your own home. I understand it’s a self-sustaining house you built with your own hands and that you love the outdoors. You have gardens in your yard. And when you grow food, that food needs pollination. Right?

Charlie Herzig:  Yes.

Kim: They need to be pollinated, lots of these plants. Can you tell me what you’ve seen in terms of what’s happened to wildlife around you since the tower’s activation, everything from large wildlife, like big deer, down to the bees?

The Bees Disappeared First

Charlie Herzig: Well, the first thing that disappeared were the bees. And it was the bees that had hives. I still do get a few, very, very few cellophane bees, which are solitary, that live in the dirt. And obviously, it doesn’t seem to affect them much, but they aren’t very effective at doing my big gardens because I have to, especially all my squash related plants, I have to every morning go down with a small paint brush and pollinate my plants or else all my squash die and rot. That was the first thing.

Disappearing Predators: Hawks, Owls, Fox, Bobcat, Coyotes

And then the predators started disappearing, the hawks, the owls, the fox, the bobcat, the coyotes. All those started disappearing. And my rodent population, the small rodent population, not the rabbits and stuff like that, but the little ones, the mice and the voles and stuff, the ones you can’t really stop even with a small fence, they’d get through. Last year, I lost almost 2/3 of my gardening to small rodents. And that’s one of the things that sustains us and part of our financial existence in our lifestyle.

Kim: And have you noticed the larger wildlife disappearing too?

Charlie Herzig:  Yes. We used to have a lot more deer. I haven’t seen a bear in maybe three years, no, two years. I saw one three years ago, but we used to get them through the yard all the time. And it’s turned into a desert. We used to have flocks of turkeys that would come through the yard that would be as many as 40, 50, in a flock. I haven’t seen a turkey in two years. They’ve just totally avoided the area.

Kim:  So it sounds like your area was very, very abundant with wildlife just a few years ago.

Charlie Herzig:  Yeah.

Hand Pollinating

Kim: You’re pollinating your gardens yourself. You’re not able to rely on bees any longer.

Charlie Herzig: No. No, I can’t. The wind pollinators like peas and beans and things like that, they’re okay. It’s just the ones that have to have some kind of insect to pollinate that I have to do by hand.

Kim : So that’s got to be a tremendous amount of … I’m just imagining going and using a paint brush, as you described, to pollinate your plants-

Charlie Herzig:  Every day [ ] you have to determine what’s a male flower, what’s a female flower, and how to pollinate them.

Kim: And you said this is a garden that you and your wife rely on for-

Charlie Herzig:  And my three kids.

Kim: So this has been a real burden on your and having to do this, and a real challenge I’m sure.

Without Predators the Mice and Voles Population Exploded

Charlie Herzig   Usually, I start running out of food just about the time that I start harvesting in the spring, and I ran out in November this year because of the rodent population that just totally devastated my gardens. They ate everything. And I’m not the type of person that’ll put poison out. I don’t agree with poisoning wildlife. I just try to avoid them as best I can.

Kim: So am I correct that with the decrease in your predators, your hawks, your owls, things that would eat mice and voles, the mice and vole population has-

Charlie Herzig: Exploded. []

Charlie Herzig: I was in the Army. Well, I did what I needed to do. What they asked me to do, I did. And in turn, I believe that we are due a healthy, happy retirement, and a longevity as long as it can be. I just can’t see how the companies, the telecommunication companies, can willingly, knowingly, affect people’s health just for a bottom line.

Charlie Herzig:  [ ] all our computers and TV are hardwired. We removed our smoke detectors, which were wireless. We removed the wifi completely from the house. So everything in the house now is hardwired.

Kim: And when you removed all that, it’s my understanding that both of your symptoms didn’t improve.

Charlie Herzig:  No, they stayed the same.

Kim: Which obviously points to the tower as a causal factor there.

Charlie Herzig:  Yes. []

Kim: And I know this is sort of a little bit secondhand, but you heard from one of your neighbors, who spoke directly with the people constructing the tower that’s near your home, tell me how the workers, what you heard, how the workers described you all, who are living in close proximity to the tower. I understand that it’s at 877 South Street in Pittsfield.

Charlie Herzig:  They called us the cost of doing business and collateral damage. That’s what they said this neighborhood was. And it’s like they know what’s going on, they know what they’re doing, but they do it anyhow. They purposely hurt people for a profit. And that’s just not right on anybody’s mind. You know?

Health Issues

In the CHD interview, Charlie also described the disabling health effects that he and his wife Judy began experiencing, including fatigue, sleep interruption, and ringing in the ears.

(See Physicians for Safe Technology: Cell Tower Radiation Health Effects   and Environmental Health Trust Peer Reviewed Published Research on Cell Tower Radiation, Base Station Radiation and Health Effects)

Note that these symptoms associated with cell towers were reported in France in 2002.

Not Just Cell Towers – When Data is Not Collected There is No Data-Based Decision Making

Cell towers are not the only concern.

Like Lois Gibbs in New York, when Paul Harding started waking up abruptly with his brain racing at 3:15 am, after a smart meter was installed near his bedroom, he found that others were reporting the same thing. See his story here. Reports of smart meter health harm have not been quantified, other than through the efforts of citizen science and advocacy – which has not been recognized or supported by policy makers and denied by industry.

When citizen science and corporate beliefs collide, isn’t it time to pause and ask questions? How much longer and further can society kick the can down the road?

Pollinators can’t shield their homes. And humans shouldn’t have to.

This is the 3^rd article in an ongoing series by Safe Tech International highlighting first person accounts of harm to the natural environment caused by wireless technologies.

DNA and Developmental Damage from Cell Towers on the Greek Island of Samos: Effects on Insects, Flowers and Vegetables featured Diana Kordas’ observations. “When 4G came in, we saw big declines in many species of insects, among them fireflies and certain types of spiders, which seemed to vanish overnight.5 6And it was after 4G came in that in one area of our property we started to see carrion flies with damaged wings. Some of these flies had deformed wings, some had vestigial wings, and some had no wings at all. For generation after generation, they have bred and produced more flies with the same defects. By now, the number of carrion flies in this area has fallen dramatically.”

Equinox Elephant in the Ecosystem: Dying Plants and Trees vs. Wireless Antennas featured the work of German researcher Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam, including one-sided and crown damage in trees in locations of high RF readings. About 1920 electrical engineers discovered that trees act as receiving antennas of radio waves. From 2004 different research groups have published effects on germination, growth and cellular metabolism in laboratory experiments. Research findings and observations that have been emerging since the 1930s as well as our own on-site visits to damaged trees provided the impetus to our tree documentations over many years, including RF measurements, and our study. In the vicinity of all mobile phone base stations we visited, we found RF radiation-related tree damage.”

Did You Know? FCC: A Complete Failure to Respond to Comments Concerning Environmental Harm Caused by RF Radiation

In 2021, “The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in the historic case EHT et al. v. the FCC that the December 2019 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.”  The court held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.” Further, the agency demonstrated “a complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.” – Source

To learn more about the Pittsfield Tower lawsuit, see the CHD television show 15-year-old Activist Stands Up to Big Telecom or listen here.  

Pittsfield Massachusetts Cell Tower Community Links:

http://www.stoptower.com

https://www.change.org/p/pittsfield-city-council-stop-the-pittsfield-cell-tower

http://www.facebook.com/pittsfieldcell

Original PDF Link: Cell-Towers-Cause-DNA-Damage-Samos-2024-Final.pdf (safetechinternational.org) (18 pages including photographs)

“…cells with irreparably damaged genomic DNA will result in cell senescence, cell death, cancer or mutated offspring, depending on cell type and specific biological/environmental conditions.” Panagopoulos et al., 2021 ¹

Introduction

A recent paper, ‘Human‑made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced‑oscillation and voltage‑gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review) published in the International Journal of Oncology by biophysicist Dimitris J. Panagopoulos et. al. states unequivocally that electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology damages DNA. This leads to infertility, sterility, mutations and extinctions, and it explains the loss of biodiversity that we are currently experiencing on this planet.

DNA damage from wireless radiation is not a new discovery. It has been confirmed over and over by numerous scientists using a variety of experimental subjects and frequencies. But do observations in the laboratory translate into the same effects in the real world? If these scientists are correct, they must do. In the real-world things might be a lot worse, because in the real world we are not exposed to a single frequency or bandwidth but to a whole soup of them, from multiple sources. In the real world, exposure time is not limited to a few minutes or hours per day or week; the cell towers are on day and night. DNA damage from wireless radiation is not a laboratory phenomenon; it is real. We are losing the insects—among them, the pollinators. We are losing the birds. Animals are dying out. We are wiping ourselves out.

The damage to DNA, says Panagopoulos, is being done by the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) components of the wavebands used in wireless communications. For decades, regulatory bodies such as ICNIRP, SCENIHR (EU), the FCC (USA) and others have insisted that the only way wireless technology can cause damage is by heating tissue, and that the power levels which are allowed protect us from being harmed. This is not true for human beings, and these regulatory bodies have never even considered nature.

Is DNA damage from wireless radiation visible? There have probably been DNA-damaged plants, insects, birds, animals, and people since the first generation of cell towers was erected, but would we recognize what we are seeing? A 2003 study ² performed by a pair of scientists from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, studied the effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields on mice exposed at various sites around an antenna park. The newborn mice weighed more than normal newborn mice, and they all had extra vertebrae in the posterior sections of their spines, making them longer than normal mice. This is DNA damage. The mother mice, the dams, produced fewer—and bigger—babies with each litter, and after six months they became irreversibly sterile. This is also DNA damage.

A mouse runs by in a field; would you know that its spine is ever so slightly longer than it should be? I wouldn’t. Would you recognize that a great tit’s eggs are ever so slightly bigger than they ought to be? I wouldn’t. A study of great tits ³ found that birds which made nests near power lines laid bigger eggs with a higher volume of yolk and albumen. That too is DNA damage, and this damaged DNA will be passed on, unless the bird becomes sterile as did the mice in the antenna park study described above.

,In 2006, Spanish biologist Alfonso Balmori wrote⁴that amphibians were the most seriously endangered creatures on the planet, and a great many of them were grossly deformed, with missing or extra limbs. Balmori ascribed this to interference with embryogenesis during development—in other words, developmental damage. This problem began after 1995 in many parts of the world (about the time that mobile phones started to become popular and cell towers started going up everywhere) and Balmori argued that electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology was, at the very least, a major contributing factor. The rate of deformity jumped to 25% in some populations, and such deformities were found even in pristine places such as national parks where pesticides and other pollutants could be excluded as the cause.

DNA damage doesn’t always cause deformities. It can affect living creatures in a great many ways, some of them invisible or unnoticeable. Numerous studies have shown that wireless radiation causes both impaired fertility and sterility, but you can’t see these with the naked eye; you’d have to autopsy the creature’s sexual organs. What we do notice is the results of infertility and sterility: a decrease in egg-laying or live births; a decline in the numbers of a given population until the species in question becomes extinct. This is what is happening to the fireflies, the bees, the beetles—indeed to all the insects. This is what is happening to the birds and to other, mostly small creatures. The rise in the number of people seeking help from fertility clinics says this is happening to us, too.

Insects and birds are declining rapidly worldwide. It’s no good trying to throw all the blame on pesticides or other chemical toxins, because there are still enough places in the world where pesticides and other such poisons are not in the environment, such as where I live. If pesticides were the problem, we wouldn’t be seeing huge declines in insect and bird populations here, and particularly not in the area where I live. But we do have one source of man-man pollution in our environment, and it is both mutagenic and genotoxic: electromagnetic radiation (EMR). We are surrounded by cell towers, and insect, bird and animal populations are plummeting here, too. EMR from the cell towers is causing DNA and developmental damage in insects, plants and other creatures. This damage is becoming, not just visible, but all too obvious.

DNA and Developmental Damage in Insects Observed on Samos, Summer of 2023

When 4G came in, we saw big declines in many species of insects, among them fireflies and certain types of spiders, which seemed to vanish overnight.^{5 6}And it was after 4G came in that in one area of our property we started to see carrion flies with damaged wings. Some of these flies had deformed wings, some had vestigial wings, and some had no wings at all. For generation after generation, they have bred and produced more flies with the same defects. By now, the number of carrion flies in this area has fallen dramatically. See the picture below for an example:

There ought to have been carrion flies, as well as bluebottles and greenbottles, on the corpse of the baby jackal I found late last summer. These flies lay eggs in open orifices to begin the process of decomposition, which however unpleasant, is necessary. We don’t know what killed the little jackal, though a spot of blood on one foreleg suggests he might have encountered a poisonous snake. But there were no flies or any other insects buzzing around the little corpse, only a stream of tiny ants making their way to and from the open eyes. Where are these flies? We have seen very few of any of them lately.

Other than sterility, which is invisible to the naked eye, we have noticed four kinds of DNA damage and/or developmental abnormalities to insects where we live: damaged wings, deformity, miniaturization and a marked change in the ratio of males to females. It is not possible to tell DNA damage from developmental abnormality with the naked eye; you would have to take tissue samples and do DNA sequences on them. Both types of damage can produce deformations so bad that the creature cannot breed. But there is one clear difference: DNA damage produces heritable mutations ⁷; damage passes on from one generation to the next. The carrion flies which have passed damaged wings on to many successive generations are a good example of DNA damage; the defect has not prevented them from breeding, though numbers have severely declined.

Damage to wings is the most common visible problem in flying insects. It didn’t use to be a common phenomenon. Since childhood I have watched many insects hatch and always marveled at the miracle that turns incredibly fragile, crumpled wet balls of tissue into smooth, perfect organs of flight. The miracle almost never failed. These days, it often does. In some cases this defect could be developmental damage. Most insects that hatch with damaged wings do not survive to breed, like the Eastern Festoon butterfly pictured below. There were hardly any of these butterflies last spring, and many of the spring and summer butterflies were altogether missing. Butterflies have declined rapidly since the introduction of 5G on Samos.

Among our most common summer butterflies are the Swallowtail and the Scarce Swallowtail. Both of these butterflies are large and pretty, and they love the zinnias that we plant around our vegetable beds. However, the last generation of Scarce Swallowtails that we saw all had wing damage. One (usually the left) of the long tails was incomplete, ending in a point below the wing. One butterfly’s left tail, though of normal length, had an area that was so narrow it could not support the white disc at the end, which flopped about as it flew.

Compare the picture of the normal Scarce Swallowtail (below) with the one beside it. I wasn’t able to photograph any of the damaged Scarce Swallowtails in the garden, but I did find a dead one which displayed the type of damage I am talking about. The left-hand tail, at the base of the wing near the body, is vestigial. The right-hand wing had a normal tail, which broke off after the butterfly died. It is not a good picture, but the left-hand tail is not broken; it is tiny and deformed.

We have also seen deformities to scorpion tails. The big one got away before I could photograph it, but I later found a little one (one of its babies?) nearby with the same deformity, which suggests that the trait was passed on. The tails of these scorpions were very small and thin in proportion to the rest of their bodies.

The scorpion on the left’s tail is too small for its body. Compare this with a normal scorpion tail in the picture on the right.

Deformity of body parts is not the only kind of DNA damage we are seeing in insects. This past summer two species of insects, swallowtail butterflies and carpenter bees, produced a brood of miniature versions of themselves. The last brood of swallowtail butterflies that hatched contained many butterflies that were much smaller than normal—between half and two-thirds the size of the normal insect. Unfortunately, I was not able to photograph a normal size butterfly together with a miniature, which is the only way to show how much smaller some of them were. The miniature butterflies did not appear to have any other defects. We have not had any more swallowtails since then (and I think we should have as they usually produce three broods). I wonder what will happen next year.

The other species that produced miniature versions of itself was carpenter bees. Again, the miniature versions appeared to be perfect, but they were between half and two-thirds the size of the normal carpenter bee. They were not a different species. There is a smaller species of carpenter bee, but the edges of its wings are whitish (these were not) and we don’t have it here. As with the swallowtails, we haven’t had any carpenter bees on this land since, though they should still be around and we have seen one or two elsewhere.

Is this type of damage happening to people too? A neighbor of ours had a baby that was born at eight months (which is considered full-term) and weighed only 900 grams (about two pounds) at birth. “He was so small he fit into one hand,” his mother told me. He was initially treated as a premature infant but is now a normal, healthy child—though he is still very small for his age and will probably always be. I don’t know if this is happening with other children. I asked a doctor at our local hospital but such statistics, even if recorded, would probably not be collated.

A fourth type of what is likely DNA damage is a marked change in the ratio of male to female insects. We have so few insects these days, and it is impossible to see, in many species, whether an insect is male or female. But we really noticed a difference in the ratio of male to female insects when the Scarlet Darter dragonflies arrived in October. With these colorful insects it is easy to tell the sex: the males are bright red, and the females are greenish yellow. Normally, there are about half males and half females. This year, there were far, far more females than males. One day in particular almost every dragonfly I saw was female; I estimated 100 females to one male.

DNA damage does not necessarily produce mutants. Sterility is the most likely outcome of serious DNA damage, because nature does not want to pass on disadvantageous traits to future generations. And sterility is only evident in the disappearance of species; they cannot breed, so they go extinct. If this is the gauge, then most of the insects we used to have must have become sterile, for most of them have died out and become—at least locally—extinct. We have lost almost all species of beetles, lacewing and other flies, most of the moths (and all the larger moths except for a few humming-bird moths), many butterflies, virtually all wasps and hornets, and many species of wild bees including wild honeybees. There are almost no mantises, no katydids, and very few grasshoppers and crickets. There are a few slugs, but no snails. There are very few woodlice, earwigs, millipedes, centipedes or silverfish, and very few web-spinning spiders. No species of insect remains unaffected; all species have either declined or vanished altogether, including soil insects such as earthworms (we have only seen two this year) grubs (none) and even ants. When the queens hatched after the first rain, there were very few of these flying ants compared to other years—a few dozen compared to hundreds. Many plants are not being pollinated properly.

Lack of Insects Leads to Low Yields and Crop Failures

Soil Insects

Insects are needed for much more than pollination. Without soil insects such as worms, grubs and certain beetles, the soil becomes poor and plants do not grow as well. Earthworms and other soil insects aerate the soil, so that bacteria can break up plant matter and release nitrogen and amino acids into the ground, which are then taken up by the plants. Without soil insects and bacteria, compost does not break down. We have no soil insects any more. Other than the two earthworms we unearthed in digging up the garden, we have seen nothing at all—no worms, no grubs, no tiny threadlike centipedes, no beetle pupae—that we would normally find as we turn up the soil. We cannot see the bacteria that should be there, but we can see that the earth is becoming sterile. We have had copious autumn rains, after which lots of big night-crawler earthworms would normally surface; this year there have been none.

Electromagnetic fields are killing the soil insects and bacteria underground just as much as they are killing the insects above ground. This happens because the leaves of plants absorb the ambient radiation from the cell towers and release it through their root systems into the earth, which absorbs the charge like a battery.⁸ Soil insects can no more live in this charged atmosphere underground than their above-ground counterparts can live in the direct electromagnetic radiation generated by the cell towers. The lack of soil insects and bacteria means crops don’t grow well. Farmers try to compensate by adding more and more fertilizer, whether artificial or organic. Farming becomes more expensive as well as less productive.

Pollinators

You never want to believe that things are as bad as they seem. In October, when our male carob tree bloomed, I heard the loud buzzing of hundreds of insects and thought the flowers were covered with bees. But when I went nearer, the buzzing sounded more like the droning of flies, and so it proved. There weren’t any bees, except for several bumblebees and a very few tiny wild bees. What appeared to be bees turned out, up close, to be drone flies, which look exactly like male bees (drones, which have no pollen sacks) except for the fly eyes and the fly habit of washing their faces with their forelegs. There were a great many drone flies, and they are pollinators, but they do not pollinate fruits and vegetables and are of little use in the garden. What I thought was a hornet turned out to be a hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) and there were a few hoverflies of a species I’d never seen before, with zebra-striped eyes.

We watched the carob day after day, until the blossoms faded and dropped off. Most of the bees are gone—vanished—possibly extinct. As for the drone flies and the hoverflies, the curious thing about them is that we had seen very few all summer, and we haven’t seen many since. They arrived and vanished along with the carob blossoms.

Crop Failures and Low Yields

The lack of bees on the carob tree only confirmed what we knew already, that many species of wild bees which we had even last year are gone. They weren’t in our vegetable beds and we didn’t see them on the wildflowers, either. Everyone, including us, had problems with pollination this year, and crop yields were way, way down. Normally our summer beds produce a lot more aubergines (eggplants), peppers, tomatoes and melons than we can possibly eat; we give some away and freeze large quantities for winter. This year we barely produced enough for ourselves, despite having extended the beds and put in far more plants than usual. I planted and replanted tomatoes (five varieties, one of which is a local species that is very high-yield), over 60 plants in all. We barely produced enough tomatoes to have a few salads, for many plants yielded no more than one or two tomatoes. The problem wasn’t the plants, which produced scores of blossoms. The tomato blossoms were not being pollinated.

The problem of tomato pollination was not confined to us; everyone complained about it. Local market gardeners were forced to give up on outdoor plants and grow them in greenhouses using rented bees. There were very few outdoor-grown tomatoes for sale this past summer, and people in other parts of Greece also reported that outdoor tomatoes were not pollinated. Our peppers (three varieties) and aubergines (white and purple) were pollinated mostly by bumblebees and carpenter bees between April and August, but also did not yield nearly as much as usual. Small wild bees pollinated the melons (about one blossom in ten), but the cucumber blossoms were not pollinated: we got four cucumbers the whole summer. We did get courgettes (zucchini) but these I hand-pollinated. Otherwise we would have had none, as in the past three summers. It was a warm autumn, and we should have had plenty of produce in the garden right through November, but the plants, although still blossoming, were not being pollinated.

Many people here depend on their summer gardens, and low yields or outright crop failure means that they won’t be able to afford to eat properly, because the price of fruits and vegetables has skyrocketed. Oranges, which are produced locally, used to cost half a euro per kilo. (One euro is approximately equal to one US dollar or one pound sterling.) Once we saw them for sale at three euros a kilo, and they were rotten because no one was buying them.

In the supermarkets, what are normally outdoor crops—tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and aubergines—are clearly hothouse products, and cost accordingly. Onions have skyrocketed, and we have seen them for as high as two euros a kilo; they used to cost 30 cents. There has obviously been at least one crop failure in Greek onions, because for months the only onions available were imported from India, which has never happened before. Our own onion crops failed three years running; we no longer try to grow them. This summer, the television reported that the aubergine crop failed in Thessaly, where most of the commercial ones are grown. This was blamed on excessive heat, but it has not happened before; aubergines are a hot-climate vegetable and high temperatures have never affected ours.

Relatives who are olive farmers in central Greece did not attribute the failure of the aubergine crop to heat; it was just as hot where they live. They have always grown their own summer vegetables and this year everything failed except peppers, which were unusually small. Worse, the olive crop has failed everywhere in Greece this year. This is a major issue as Greece produces a lot of olive oil. Much of it is sold to Italy, where it is bottled and sold as Italian olive oil. My relatives, who have several thousand trees, told me that this year they produced so little oil that they are going to keep it all for their own use, as they expect the price of oil—already 10 euros a liter—to double or treble, especially if the crop fails next year as well. A single mature olive tree should produce 200 kilos of olives, which translates to 45-50 liters of oil. A thousand trees should produce at least 45,000 liters of oil. This was not a poor harvest; it was a disaster.

Why did the olive harvest fail? It cannot have been the weather, because the weather is not the same all over the country. Samos and the eastern islands, for instance, have a totally different climate from central Greece, and northern and western Greece are different again. But olives are pollinated by small, insignificant-looking moths, and moths are becoming extinct. My relatives in central Greece tell me that there too, most of the insects have vanished. Birds are vanishing too. They used to scatter seed for a flock of chaffinches that visited them daily; now they get only two or three birds.

It was also reported on Greek television that this year’s almond crop failed. Pesticides were blamed for killing the bees, but almonds have no pests, and every local garden center I asked at told me that almonds are never sprayed. In any case, no one would spray a tree when it is blossoming; fruit is only sprayed after it forms and binds to the tree. I think the almond crop failed because of a lack of pollinators. We have five almond trees, there are many more in our neighborhood, and there are no almonds on any of them, though they blossomed normally.

We didn’t see many figs for sale this year, and local fig trees, including ours, produced few if any figs. But figs are pollinated by wasps, and there are no wasps to speak of. Wasps are in even more trouble than bees. Most species appear to be extinct, and we have only a few digger wasps. There were almost no hornets this summer, either. People in other parts of Greece have also noticed the lack of wasps and hornets. Without these insects, there will be no figs in future, and no onions or garlic either. Bees do not pollinate onion or garlic flowers: wasps and hornets do. How will we get along without these essential—and nutritious—foods?

The pollinators are dying out, and the specter of mass crop failure looms a lot larger than anyone wants to think about. Maybe for a while we can subsist (if we can afford to) on hothouse plants pollinated by captive bees. But the electromagnetic fields that increasingly surround us can also penetrate the glass walls of a greenhouse; there is no guarantee that captive bees will survive either. Nor can all crops be grown indoors, even if we were to cover the countryside end to end in greenhouses. Without pollinators, we will starve.

Wild bees are vanishing much faster than managed honeybees, but bee-keepers are increasingly encountering problems of all sorts with their hives. On the island of Ikaria, which produces pure thyme honey that is reckoned by connoisseurs to be the best in the world, honey production fell to one-fifth of usual volume this past summer. Honey production has also plummeted on Samos. This is a serious economic blow to the bee-keepers, but it ought not to be surprising. Both islands have full 5G coverage, and studies have shown that electromagnetic fields confuse and disorient bees in many ways. The thyme plants on Ikaria may also be affected by the EMFs. On Samos, which produces mostly pine honey, the pine bark adelgids, a type of beetle that lives on pine trees and exudes a sweet liquid which the bees turn into honey, have been vanishing very fast since 5G was introduced.

I spoke to a bee-keeper in central Greece whose family have supplied mine with honey for over sixty years. His own honey production has fallen by forty percent, and he told me that figure applies to the whole of mainland Greece. Honey is another major crop in this country; Greek honey is exported all over the world.

Wildflowers

Crops aside, wild plants are also not being pollinated, and we will have increasingly fewer of them as time goes on. There can be no doubt that electromagnetic radiation from cell towers is affecting pollination. This autumn, my husband and I were struck by the pattern of pollination in arbutus plants on the mountain where the nearest cell tower is located. Arbutus are large bushes whose fruits (two kinds, called mountain strawberries and bear-berries) are bright red and easily spotted from a distance. There are a lot of these plants on the mountain, and none of the bushes that lie in the beams of the cell tower have been pollinated; they have no fruit. But below the dirt road leading up to the cell tower, the mountainside falls away steeply, and the cell tower beams cannot reach these plants. These have been pollinated, and have fruit, and there are also small birds in these areas—and only these areas. Unfortunately, there aren’t many shadow areas of this kind, where cell tower beams can’t reach. The mobile phone companies have done everything they can to ensure wireless coverage is complete.

My relatives in central Greece complained to me last year about a lack of dandelions, the leaves of which are a popular food. We still have dandelions (numerous species) on this land but there is a definite lack of them on some parts of the island. I don’t expect that we will have them much longer, though, because they too are not being pollinated. Dandelions are mostly pollinated by very tiny wild bees, and we haven’t seen any on the flowers, though I have seen a few drone flies. There are very few dandelion clocks (a sign that they have been pollinated and gone to seed) and most of the flowers just wither and die.

This past spring there were far fewer wild orchids than usual. Many of the little orchids are called “bee orchids” because they attract various wild bees. The smaller number of orchids means there weren’t many bees. The cyclamens bloomed through October and November, and they too should have attracted bees, but there weren’t any bees. My husband and I saw only one bumblebee on the cyclamens, and we think it was the same bumblebee. Virgin’s bower, a clinging vine that produces beautiful white bell-shaped flowers, grows everywhere in this area; the blossoms ought to have been covered in bees, but there were none. The anemones are blooming but they too are not attracting pollinators. Nor are the yellow shamrock flowers. There were no bees on the heather on the hillside this autumn, and there are none on the flowering rosemary bushes in the same area. I expect next year we will see far fewer orchids, dandelions, cyclamens and other wildflowers than we had this year.

Even our wild fennel plants, which grow in profusion, were not pollinated properly this year. Fennel seeds are sweet and tasty, somewhere between caraway and anise, and many people use them in baking. More importantly, they are the food for a great many wild birds, mice and other creatures, and in autumn it used to be a common sight to see flocks of chiffchaffs perched on the fennel plants, pecking away at the seeds. This year, the wild fennel produced perhaps a third as many seeds as usual, and there are very few chiffchaffs. Our pines were always full of these little birds in winter; this year there are hardly any.

DNA Damage to Plants Observed on Samos, Summers of 2022 and 2023

Both wild and domestic plants are being affected by electromagnetic radiation. We have seen a number of effects on vegetables and flowers suggesting that plant DNA is also being harmed. There appear to be numerous categories of harm: 1) the plants themselves are not growing as well as they should, and produce small fruits; 2) the plants are growing much taller than they should; 3) the flowers are deformed; 4) the fruits are deformed; 5) the fruits exhibit abnormal pigmentation; 6) the skin or rind of the fruits is thin and burns on the side exposed to the sun; and 7) the fruits do not produce viable seeds.

In our summer garden, many plants simply did not grow very well. Pepper and aubergine plants should become several feet (a meter or so) high and quite bushy, but most of the new plants we put in (some started from our own seed and a few bought from a local garden center) remained small and spindly. After six months, they looked as if they were a month old. Peppers and aubergines will live and produce for a second year, and most of the vegetables we had this summer were from plants we kept over from last year. On none of the plants were the vegetables very big (nowhere near as big as they should get), and many of them were deformed.

Conversely, zinnias and wild fennel grew much taller than they should have. Zinnias should be about a foot (30 centimeters) high, but this year they grew to triple that height. Wild fennel should grow to 5-6 feet (160 cm.-2 meters) high, but this year they were half as tall again, rising to 9-10 feet (3+ meters). No one has ever seen wild fennel plants get so tall.

The zinnias had deformations as well, some of which they exhibited last year. Since this year’s flowers grew from last year’s seeds, it looks as if damaged DNA from last year was passed on to the next generation. Many of the flowers grew huge centers, and many produced a second, smaller set of petals after the first flower started to fade. Some flowers produced double blossoms, and another produced a true freak: two blossoms growing out of the same deformed stalk.

It wasn’t just our garden flowers that showed DNA damage. Both last year and this year, on the south side of the island, we found tassel hyacinths that were tremendously deformed, and spread over quite a large area. One of the deformed flowers was so abnormal we could only recognize what it was by its leaves and color.

Compare the three pictures below. The first (left) shows normal tassel hyacinths. The second (middle) shows a malformed, but still recognizable, tassel hyacinth. The third (right) shows a tassel hyacinth so deformed it was only recognizable by its color, leaves, and the fact that other tassel hyacinths were growing nearby.

DNA damage is also showing up in tomatoes, peppers and aubergines. Again, there are several sorts of defects. One is a tendency to produce a growth on what should be a smooth fruit, which I think of as “a nose”. You can see this on the pictures of the aubergine and the bell pepper below. I don’t have a photo of a tomato with this defect, but it is so common that I have seen many tomatoes in the market which have a small extra growth (it really does look like a nose) up near the stalk. Tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are all related; this may be why they exhibit the same kind of damage from exposure to EMR.

An aubergine and a tomato with an extra growth like a large nose. On the pepper it looks more like an elephant’s trunk.

Another type of defect, which we have seen on aubergines and also on tomatoes both last year and this, is that these usually single-lobed vegetables produce two lobes, like Siamese twins. Our next-door neighbor produced a number of double-lobed tomatoes.

A very strange defect was that one type of pepper plant (a sweet red pepper, like a pimento) produced orange peppers. Not all the plants did this, but one plant produced only orange peppers, while others produced some orange peppers and some red ones. I asked around, but nobody had ever seen an orange pepper of this type. Nor had anyone seen purple aubergines that turned a dull green. Some of the white aubergines also had a distinct greenish tinge. All these abnormally-colored vegetables tasted quite normal, but no market gardener could have sold them to the public. I showed a green aubergine to my neighbor, and she opined that it was poisonous.

Since the aubergine is a relative of deadly nightshade, it is not a pleasant thought that DNA damage might indeed turn them poisonous. At the time, I laughed at my neighbor’s reaction, but now I wonder. We had a very wet autumn/early winter, and mushrooms and toadstools grew in profusion everywhere. A lot of people here collect edible mushrooms, and many are quite knowledgeable about distinguishing poisonous from edible varieties. This year, though, a great many people were poisoned by the mushrooms they collected, and some people were so sick they were sent to Athens for life-saving treatment. Now people are being warned not to collect wild mushrooms at all. People are being told that “there is something in the environment this year that is making the mushrooms poisonous”.

It is very hard to imagine what that “something” could be. This is a Greek island. There is no industry here to spew poisons into the environment; there haven’t been any nuclear accidents that I know of; the volcanic ash from several eruptions (Siberia, Iceland and Italy) may be responsible for the warm, wet weather we had earlier this winter but isn’t poisonous to plants. The only poisonous thing in the environment is cell tower radiation, and that certainly causes DNA damage.

Is it possible that a DNA-damaged mushroom could produce toxins that would make it poisonous to eat? Could a garden vegetable related to a poisonous plant, or whose leaves or sprouts are poisonous, become poisonous to eat if its DNA is damaged? Green potato skins and potato sprouts, for instance, can contain enough arsenic to kill a man. What if a DNA-damaged potato itself contained arsenic? You might die from eating it, because you wouldn’t know.

Another effect of electromagnetic radiation on fruits and vegetables is that they can become less nutritious. A recent study of tomatoes ⁹ showed that EMR affected the vitamin and antioxidant content of these fruits. They also developed thinner skins, as ours have (see below) which would affect storage. We may not be getting the vitamin and mineral content we should be from fruits and vegetables we eat these days.

For the past two summers, many tomatoes, some peppers and some melons developed a very thin skin or rind on the side that was exposed to sunlight. The tomatoes and peppers literally blistered in the sun, while the melons became tear-shaped, and there was no flesh on the inside of the thin spot in the rind. Again, no market gardener could sell such fruit.

I believe that all the abnormalities in garden plants described above is DNA damage. For one thing, these types of damage have occurred two years running, in plants grown from the seeds of previous plants. For another, deformity is a not-unusual consequence of DNA damage, and damaged DNA is passed from one generation to the next until the damage is so bad that the plant (or any other living thing) becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. Also, many other people on Samos, including market gardeners who grow their vegetables on different parts of the island, with different soil conditions, are also seeing deformed fruits and vegetables, and with the same types of deformities.

I correspond with a woman in Japan who has also photographed DNA damage ¹⁰in flowers and vegetables. If you look at the pictures she has taken, you will notice that some of the deformities she photographed in Japan are the same ones we are seeing here on Samos, half a world away. She has also shown me pictures of damaged vegetables that look just like ours: double-lobed aubergines and tomatoes with “noses”.

The pictures in the article were taken almost 20 years ago, and the DNA damage occurred near cell towers (base stations). It is very alarming that this same sort of damage is now occurring in areas that are not near cell towers, because it shows how much more electromagnetic radiation there is in the environment. After all, although we are surrounded by cell towers, most of them are quite far away, the nearest being 3.5 kilometers (2 miles) distant. This year, Japan also reported poor summer crops (attributed to climate change by the media even though temperatures in Japan do not rise above 40 degrees Celcius). Another woman in Japan told me that none of her husband’s watermelons were pollinated this past summer.

A friend in Thailand who writes to me about how fast the insects are disappearing there has seen serious deformities in a frog and a house martin. The frog had five legs (exactly the kind of damage Dr. Balmori describes) and the bird, which was a chick in a nest below his window, had thickened, deformed wings. It couldn’t fly and it died. The lack of birds and insects in Southeast Asia is so acute that in some places there is no chirping, no hum, and no birdsong. One morning, when my friend was staying at a hotel in Penang, Malaysia, he sat outside listening to what he thought were birds and insects—until he noticed that all the sounds were only coming from one corner of the garden. He went to investigate and found a stereo speaker from which these sounds were issuing. Without the recording, there would have been only silence.

Bad Seeds

For the past couple of years, Chinese farmers have been complaining about “bad seeds”; they say that the seeds the government supplies them with either do not grow or produce poor crops. It makes no sense that any government would deliberately give its farmers poor-quality seeds, but something is definitely wrong.

We are having similar problems on Samos. Two years ago, a market gardener I know had to replant her spinach crop three times before it germinated. We have been unable to grow spinach from bought seeds, though we’ve tried three years running. The seeds just won’t grow. It seems we’re not alone; this year, none of the market gardeners are selling spinach. We’ve had similar problems with bought beet seeds as well as with peas and green beans; few of the seeds germinate, and the plants don’t grow well. I think there are two problems: both are connected, though in very different ways, to electromagnetic radiation.

Our own seeds, saved from plants that we have let go to seed, have not always done much better than bought seeds. Last year we planted bought cauliflower seeds and saved broccoli seeds: neither germinated. This problem too appears to be general, since few of the market gardeners are selling broccoli this winter and cauliflowers are also hard to find. We grew chard last winter from our own seeds that were several years old—saved before we had so many cell towers around us—and had a good crop, but the new chard seeds from last spring’s crop were much smaller than the old seeds. We planted the new seeds this autumn and only a few germinated; we had to replant using the old seeds. Last spring we left several beets to go to seed, but they produced no seeds at all; they weren’t pollinated.

This past summer, a very ominous problem developed: many peppers and aubergines did not produce usable seeds. A fruit is, after all, a seed-pod, and a ripe fruit should contain well-developed seeds. I had trouble finding enough peppers from which to collect seeds for next year, as most of the seeds in all three varieties of peppers were small, black, shriveled and obviously unusable. Many of the aubergines we cooked had no seeds at all. Other aubergines have gone to seed (they change color when this happens, from purple to brown, or from white to yellow) while still tiny (usually they grow big first). I won’t know until next spring whether they have produced usable seeds, but I deeply suspect they haven’t. The tomato seeds I saved were also smaller than normal. I don’t know if any of the seeds from this past summer will germinate next year, or what sort of plant they will produce; the peppers and aubergines grown from last year’s seeds have not done well.

What is going wrong? If the electromagnetic radiation from the cell towers is damaging the plants and the soil they grow in, it is not surprising that seeds should also be affected. Nature does not want to pass on damaged DNA, so the seeds from DNA-damaged plants will not grow, or the plants that grow from them will not thrive and the fruits will exhibit deformations. It is also possible that the failure of seeds to germinate is developmental damage caused by EMR in the environment and in the soil itself. Neither possibility bodes well for the future.

We generally use seeds saved from our own plants. Commercially bought seeds, on the other hand, are business; someone makes a living selling them, and if they don’t grow the business fails. If irradiated soil is preventing seeds from germinating, it doesn’t matter whether the seeds are saved or bought. However, there may be another problem with bought seeds.

The problem may be that seed businesses are trying to protect seeds from pests and fungi by irradiating them with EMR ¹¹,¹².¹³,¹⁴,¹⁵ A number of frequencies are used for this purpose. One of them is 2,450 MHz, which is the same as Wi-Fi, and the same as a microwave oven. I have read of experiments in which some seeds were watered with water that had first been microwaved, while others were watered with normal tap water. The seeds watered with the microwaved water did not grow. If microwaving water can have this effect on seeds, microwaving the seed itself is surely a bad idea.

Irradiation with various frequencies may protect seeds from mold, fungi and insect pests (EMR is actually being used here as an insecticide, so why would anyone assume it will not harm insects?) but it also irradiates the seeds. Thus they might not germinate or grow well, or they might produce damaged crops.

Many crop failures or poor crops are attributed to weather conditions such as drought, heat or too much rain. But is weather the only problem? How were the seeds stored? Has anyone studied the effects of irradiating seeds (or fruits which contain seeds) in terms of germination or crop quality, or are we just assuming that this is a safe thing to do? Even when seeds are not deliberately treated with electromagnetic radiation, they are often sold from shops where the Wi-Fi is on all the time, as at our local garden shops. That means that we are, willy-nilly, buying irradiated seeds. And I cannot believe this is not affecting the seeds.

The Importance of Insects

It is impossible to overstate the importance of insects. We need insects for pollination, for good soil quality, and for decomposition—for compost heaps, for wood to rot, to dispose of feces and corpses. As the insects vanish, so do other creatures that depend on them. Here on Samos, I have noticed a huge decline in lizards of all sorts, including geckos and chameleons, all of which live on insects. Bats have also declined hugely. Hedgehogs, which are snail-eaters, are locally extinct. As the insects vanish, the food we humans need becomes harder to grow. When the insects are gone, we too will starve.

Insectivore birds are declining very rapidly, and this past year we saw many fewer flycatchers, shrikes, bee-eaters, hoopoes, swifts, swallows and martins than we used to have. There were no night-jars at all. Insectivores on migration don’t stay long these days, because they can’t find enough to eat. Most garden songbirds are insectivores, and I fear the day when we will no longer wake up to the songs of robins, blackbirds, song-thrushes, black-caps and other warblers. If wild plants aren’t pollinated, the seed-eaters such as chaffinches and goldfinches will perish too.

There is another, mostly overlooked reason why we need insects: they are beautiful. Imagine a world with no bright butterflies or moths, no jewel-like beetles, no fireflies or glow-worms, no colorful dragonflies or damselflies. Imagine that you will never again see the perfection of a spider’s web glistening with dew or rain-drops. We need beauty in our world, and insects are the jewelry that adorn nature.

Can Wireless Technologies and Nature Coexist?

Many people, even some quite prominent scientists who believe that wireless technology is dangerous, believe that we can make wireless technology safe if power levels are lower. They argue that no technology, once invented, has ever been rescinded, that wireless technology is not going to go away and that the best we can do is compromise by finding power levels we can live with which will do minimal harm to ourselves and nature.

Of course, governments insist that the power levels which are currently allowed are safe for us and for nature. Others, who believe that current power levels aren’t safe, believe that identifying biologically safe power levels would enable us to keep this technology without killing ourselves and the planet we live on. A recent letter in Environmental Science and Technology Letters called “Addressing Wildlife Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields: Time for Action”¹⁶ begins well by pointing out that wireless radiation is killing wildlife and calling for much stronger measures to protect nature, but concludes “This would enable a future in which wireless technologies and wildlife can both flourish.” Excuse me, but this is the usual “More work needs to be done; more funding is needed” nonsense.

We already know EMR is dangerous, in the same way that we know cyanide is dangerous. Nobody would suggest that we experiment with every species on the planet to determine how much cyanide each creature can tolerate before it keels over. So why does anyone think we need to experiment with insects, birds, amphibians, fish, plants, animals etc. to determine the lowest tolerable dose of EMR for each species? And then what? Would we lower ambient radiation levels to accommodate those species which are least tolerant of EMR, or would we decide that we can do without those species? This approach doesn’t work. The simple fact is that neither cyanide or EMR belong in the environment.

Are there biologically safe power levels that would protect every life form on this planet? Effects on living creatures have been found at levels far too low for wireless technologies to operate,¹⁷ down to the nanowatt and picowatt range, so the answer is no. I think we must choose: wireless technologies or nature. And since we can’t live without nature—wireless technologies cannot feed us—we must choose nature if we want to survive.

“Eat While You Can”

A few weeks ago, a young Greek woman in her early twenties told my husband that the motto of Greek youth today is “Eat while you can.” This smartphone-addicted generation (they have never known a world without wireless technology) doesn’t know why their world is going so wrong, but they do know that it is going very badly wrong, and they fear for the future. They fear that one day there will be no food, and they are not wrong.

If cell towers are responsible for the mass decline of insects including pollinators, and if EMR is affecting the soil itself, clearly cell towers do not belong in the countryside where farmers are growing crops. In Greece, which is over 70% mountains, most of the arable land lies on the coastal plains and inland plateaus. Unfortunately, the main highways also run along these areas, and the highways are well-served with cell towers along their entire length. This could explain why crops are failing here, and it does not bode well for the future of food production in this country. The Greek islands also suffer from a high concentration of cell towers because connectivity is assumed to be essential to tourism. However, the islands also produce many agricultural products.

The fact is that cell towers are all over the countryside, in every country, and that highways served by these cell towers run through farmland on every continent. We appear to be prioritizing wireless connectivity over agricultural production, and this is a huge mistake. With growing numbers of 4G and 5G satellites orbiting around the earth as well, and now cell towers in space, where is nature supposed to flourish and food supposed to grow? We are threatening our own survival.

If there are no pollinators to pollinate plants, if the plants are so damaged by electromagnetic radiation that they cannot even produce normal seeds, and if the soil itself is unable to support life, we are going to starve. At first, it will be a question of higher and higher prices, as less and less food is being produced—this is already happening, and it is bad enough in itself. But if we do not get rid of all wireless technology, and very soon, there may come a day when no food at all can be produced, and every species including us will die.

I know this sounds bleak; I mean it to. I believe that we are rapidly arriving at a tipping-point where we will not be able to halt the insect declines, where the surviving insects (if any survive) may all have damaged DNA, as will the plants that produce food, as will every creature of the air, sea and land. That will be the end of the world as we know it, and of us. We are not separate from the ecosystem; we are part of it.

I want to scare you; I am scared to death. I especially want to scare you if you are a member of a government somewhere and have the influence to change the course we are traveling on, a course of more and more dependence on wireless technologies that are killing this planet and killing us. We must get rid of this technology before it is too late. And it is nearly too late.

Panagopoulos et al. say in their conclusion to their 2021 paper¹⁸: “When an organism is constantly under O[xidative] S[tress] due to a totally new cytotoxic agent such as human‑made EMFs, no protective mechanism, evolved in the billions of years of biological evolution to protect from natural (non‑polarized) EMFs/radiation or isolated hazardous events, can be effective enough.”

Why aren’t we listening?

References

1. Panagopoulos et al., 2021, “Human‑made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced‑oscillation and voltage‑gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review)” https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/59/5/92 ︎
2. Xenos, T.D., and Magras, I.N., 2003, “Low power density RF-radiation effects on experimental animal embryos and foetuses” EMF-Portal | 5.6 Low power density RF-radiation effects on experimental animal embryos and foetuses ︎
3. Tamas, G., et al., 2012, “Clutch size and egg volume in great tits (Parus major) increase under low intensity electromagnetic fields: A long-term field study” https://www.academia.edu/12217070/Clutch_size_and_egg_volume_in_great_tits_Parus_major_increase_under_low_intensity_electromagnetic_fields_A_long_term_field_stu ︎
4. Balmori, A., 2003, “The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants,” https://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/onderzoek_bomen_planten.pdf ︎
5. 5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos Part 1 – Safe Tech International ︎
6. 5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos Part 2 – Safe Tech International ︎
7. Panagopoulos et al, 2007, “Cell death induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz mobile telephony radiation” https://www.es-uk.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Panagopoulos-et-al-2007-Mut-Res.pdf ︎
8. Balmori, A., 2003, “The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants,” https://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/onderzoek_bomen_planten.pdf ︎
9. Balmori, A., 2003, “The effects of microwaves on the trees and other plants,” https://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/onderzoek_bomen_planten.pdf ︎
10. Are Electromagnetic Waves the Culprit? | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (apjjf.org) ︎
11. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5393326 ︎
12. https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/ar/archive/2003/feb/radio0203.pdf ︎
13. https://news.wsu.edu/news/2012/06/11/radio-frequency-treatments-target-food-pest-control/ ︎
14. https://www.thaiscience.info/journals/Article/CMUJ/10887453.pdf ︎
15. https://www.mongagroup.com/blog/radio-frequency-treatment-for-postharvest-disinfestation/ ︎
16. “Addressing Wildlife Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields: Time for Action” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00795 ︎
17. https://bioinitiative.org/rf-color-charts/ ︎
18. Human‑made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced‑oscillation and voltage‑gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review) (spandidos-publications.com) ︎

Commentary responding to Dec. 11 critique by Paris Marx of The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

For an audio version of this blog, click HERE.

As the holidays approach, the seventh wave can be perceived far-off in the distance.

It is quietly building in power and strength, and those who have learned to watch the waters (for example, the tides at the full and new moons, both on earth and in our bodies) will not be startled when this wave hits the shoreline.

Which wave?

The one questioning technocracy.

Lilipoh – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

I noticed it gaining momentum again recently in an anthroposophist-inspired Lilipoh Magazine. “LILIPOH is an acronym for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness through Health. Life can mean the quality of life, inner life, consciousness, – in other words, living a life enhanced through understanding. Liberty may mean the freedom to choose how one lives. Pursuit of happiness is a high term which has often been used superficially. It can mean the joy of helping each other along the road to inner and outer health and toward a better world.

The fall 2023 sample issue of Lilipoh included the article “Do You Exist Without Your iPlone? Do I? by Mary Lou Sanelli where she noted “there are times when my uneasiness becomes so agitated, I need to intervene.”  She was responding to witnessing two young teen girls taking pictures with their phones of one another’s rear ends in thong bikinis. She asked the girls to please not post the pictures online.

She also relayed a conversation she had with an Apple employee who described “his industry’s intent to make us feel as if we literally don’t exist without our phones. ‘And we’ll get there’ he said, ‘one age group at a time.’”

The seventh wave consists of those who are exiting the cultivated need/demand, which is accompanied by a loss of recognition of the abundance of nature. This loss creates a self-reinforcing evolutionary dead end.

There is an elegant simplicity to recognizing that fire alarms worked very well for decades by being inactive until they were activated, and that we can return to this form of conservation and scale. Virtually every industry-sourced wireless technology now operates by constantly sending signals back and forth to a network that is more concerned with data and surveillance than with health or the environment.  This, increasingly, includes your smoke detector; water, gas, electric, propone systems; dehumidifier, frig, electric toothbrush that talks to your phone, hackable baby monitor, vibrator, smart tv and so on, as well as the ocean floor.

Catch the Wave

We have insidiously welcomed eavesdropping and its accompanying energy and resource demands into every aspect of our lives.

The seventh wave is the one that sees its way past the industry plans and is extricating itself. If you start to pay attention to where you are and what you are doing, you can catch the wave too.

Here are hints from the last few years about where society has been heading, from many arenas, for those reading between the lines and already surfing the wave. Hop on.

March 2017 Politician, Michigan Republican Senator and NASA Engineer Patrick Colbeck Testimony for a Smart Meter Opt Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMnLZiMMfGI 8 minutes

(Had society at large been paying attention, should we have halted smart meter deployment in 2009, when adverse effects were immediately reported in Texas, California, and Maine?)

See also 2012 The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM)- way ahead of the curve AAEM Calls for Immediate Caution Regarding Smart Meter Installation (aaemonline.org)

2019 Politician, Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal at Senate Commerce Hearing Raises Concerns On 5G Wireless Technology’s Potential Health Risks

Senator Blumenthal criticizes the FCC & FDA for inadequate answers on outstanding public health questions, Wireless carriers concede they are not aware of any independent scientific studies on safety of 5G technologies. –Here

(Had society at large been paying attention, should we have halted 5G before we even started?)

2020 Media Watchdog: 2019 5G Cell Phone Story by New York Times reporter William Broad violated truth and accuracy code of Press Council of Ireland

Professor Tom Butler and The Irish Times – The Irish Times and Who Pay$ When the New York Time$ Serves as a Mouthpiece for the Wirele$$ Industry? – Safe Tech International and Spaceships and Smartphones Oh My, Updates: Rocket Hazards and Hazardous New York Times EMF Smartphone Science – Safe Tech International

2020 Politician, Green Party Member of the European Parliament the Late Michèle Rivasi’

Together with Dr. Klaus Buchner, Michèle released a report in 2020 authored by Hans van Scharen that denounces the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) for being under the influence of the telecommunications industry and ignoring the science. In April 2023, she hosted a European Parliament Workshop on Electro-Hyper Sensitivity, and in Feb. 2023, in collaboration with Europeans for Safe Connections, she convened a 5G Health and Environmental workshop in Brussels. -More here

“After having read the reports of a journalistic collective called Investigate Europe, the many articles from Microwave News as well as all the publications from independent scientists from around the world, who for years have all been ringing alarm bells on adverse health effects from the use of mobile phones and EMF, we decided that we needed to dig deeper into this strange, unknown to the public but powerful scientific NGO based in Germany called the ‘International Commission on Non[1]Ionizing Radiation Protection’ (ICNIRP). We very much agree with the title and content of the latest publication on Microwave News, which reads “ The Lies Must Stop, Disband ICNIRP – Facts Matter, Now More Than Ever” . There are two major casualties in this polarised debate: the truth and public health. Both are too important not to protect with all that we have. That is what we consider as our responsibility as elected politicians.” – ICNIRP-report-FINAL-JUNE-2020.pdf (ehtrust.org)

See: Investigate Europe: The 5G Mass Experiment Big promises, unknown risks

Note: The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) is an international commission whose activities include determining (undermining) safety exposure limits for non-ionizing radiation- in favor of the growth of the military-industry complex and the consolidation of wealth. See also: Microwave News | ICNIRP Revamp Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project and Microwave News | ICNIRP Revamp Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project

2021 The Courts, Legal Ruling: EHT Wins in Historic Decision, Federal Court Orders FCC To Explain Why It Ignored Scientific Evidence Showing Harm from Wireless Radiation

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in the historic case EHT et al. v. the FCC that the December 2019 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.”  

The court held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.” Further, the agency demonstrated “a complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.” The court found the FCC ignored numerous organizations, scientists and medical doctors who called on them to update limits and the court found the FCC failed to address these issues.

• impacts of long term wireless exposure
• impacts to children, 
• the testimony of people injured by wireless radiation, 
• impacts to wildlife and the environment 
• impacts to the developing brain and reproduction

The FCC and related interests have ignored the ruling.

2021 Health Care; EMF Medical Conference, Ahead of the Curve (all videos now offered free of charge)

March 2022 Nature Advocate Diana Kordas 5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos

The area where we live had little wireless radiation until 2016, when 4G/LTE networks were installed on Samos and many new cell towers were built, from which time insects and birds began to decline noticeably. A tipping-point was reached in the summer of 2021, after the installation of a new 5G cell tower directly opposite the land. This cell tower is part of a new 5G network on Samos. Since July 2021, when the 5G network on Samos went live, insects on our land have declined between 80-90% depending on species. All orders of insects are affected. The cause of these insect declines can only be RF radiation from the cell towers. No pesticides are used in this area and nothing else can account for the sudden, severe drop in the number of insects in this place since July 2021. Small mammals, especially rodents, are also declining rapidly.

January 2023 The Telecom Industry:  Doug Dawson of Pots and Pans: The Disappointment of 5G

“5G was going to bring us self-driving cars. 5G would enable doctors to perform surgery remotely from across the country. 5G was going to fuel an explosion of smart factories that would bring complex manufacturing back to the U.S. And 5G was going to use millimeter waves to bring us gigabit-speed broadband everywhere, eliminating the need for investing in expensive fiber networks. The hype fired up the general public, which bought into the 5G promises, but the public wasn’t the real audience of the hype. The cellular carriers did a non-stop blitz on federal officials, getting them to buy into the amazing wireless future. The cellular companies launched gimmick networks in downtowns to deliver gigabit cellular speeds using millimeter-wave spectrum as a way to sell the 5G vision. It’s clear in retrospect that the rhetoric and gimmicks were aimed at getting the FCC to release more mid-range spectrum for cellular usage – and it worked. There was pressure on the FCC to move more quickly with proceedings that were examining spectrum availability. The wireless carriers even talked the FCC into allowing cellular carriers to poach free WiFi spectrum in cities. The hype worked so well on elected officials that there was a serious discussion about the U.S. buying one of the big wireless vendors like Nokia or Ericsson so that the U.S. wouldn’t lose the 5G war with China.

The formula seems simple – announce a new G generation every eighteen months and sell a lot of new handsets.”

November 2023 International Children’s Declaration

The dramatic transformation of our world into one increasingly enmeshed with digital technology is having a significant, and often negative, impact on the lives of our children. In this International Declaration, we posit three fundamental legal rights of children regarding the deployment and use of technology: their right to be free from intentionally addictive devices, platforms and apps; their right to be free from excessive exposure to wireless radiation; and their right to be free from commercial exploitation. The Declaration is a joint project of the Broadband International Legal Action Network and Americans for Responsible Technology,  and an international team of medical, legal and mental health experts. 

November 2023 The Telecom Industry, Light Reading AT&T and T-Mobile are in a heated race to space

“SpaceX (T-Mobile’s partner) and AST SpaceMobile (AT&T’s partner) are both rushing to launch satellites that can connect to customers’ existing phones. But cash and federal approvals are just some of the problems they’re facing.” :Getting cellular-capable satellites into orbit poses substantial challenges.” “Regardless, AT&T appears keen to prevent T-Mobile from getting any possible space-based advantage. Meanwhile, T-Mobile is undoubtedly hoping that its partner, SpaceX, will pull off yet another regulatory victory in the next few weeks.” “At stake is a leadership position in a developing market. And bragging rights, of course” “The value of the phone-to-satellite market remains unclear. Apple just sidestepped plans to begin charging for its own emergency satellite messaging service by announcing that its Globalstar-powered offering will remain free for new iPhone customers to use for another year. Separately, Android smartphone makers like Honor, Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi recently signaled disinterest in investing in a similar, proprietary version of the technology, thereby shattering Qualcomm’s early phone-to-satellite partnership with Iridium.”

Should we still be worshiping rushing satellite launches and colonizing Mars?

December 2023 Industry Critic Paris Marx: Tech Won’t Save Us and Disconnect “The religion of techno-optimism, Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power”

“Marc Andreessen wants you to believe you’re being lied to. “We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology,” he writes. But his Techno-Optimist Manifesto is going to wake people up. “Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.” If we trust the prophets of techno-optimism, Silicon Valley will deliver a future of wonders far beyond what we could ever imagine.

Fifteen years ago, this might have been a compelling pitch — indeed, a less megalomaniacal version was all the rage. Coming out of the Great Recession, the tech industry promised us convenience, prosperity, and empowerment. The smartphone revolution, the rise of the gig — I mean, sharing — economy, and all the other tech wonders like self-driving cars and advanced AI were going to irreversibly transform society for the benefit of all. But it didn’t play out as they claimed.

Inequality soared, life became more precarious, and bosses used tech to disempower workers, all while the kings of Silicon Valley became billionaires many times over and began to believe their riches were due to their inherent superiority, not the mix of privilege and dumb luck that really got them there. It should come as no surprise that the tide eventually turned on them and their companies. Now they feel aggrieved and they’re back to make similar promises all over again, but this time instead of an open hand, they’ve extended a fist with the threat that if we don’t accept their future, there will be hell to pay. For Andreessen and his effective accelerationist (or e/acc) buddies, you have to choose: you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question the faith, or you’re one of their enemies: the Communist boogeymen, the rising neo-Luddites, or the wider array of decels (decelerationists) arrayed to stop a supposedly better future from being realized. But the future they want to create is one we should all want to stop.

There’s ample evidence that neither Andreessen, nor Musk, nor any of the rest of them will be able to realize the futures they promise. Those visions only exist to keep us distracted from the real harms caused by their companies. We must challenge the industry’s power and succeed in discrediting its titans before it’s too late. – Source

“Resistance is essential” – Paris Marx

What if the resources being devoted to construct global satellite networks were devoted to solving problems for all of humanity and nature, here on earth?

Rather than being enamored with our ability to manipulate reality so that our environment is available to indulge our every whim with the touch of a button 24/7/365 anywhere on the planet, and/or building the infrastructure to support virtual reality, many are already turning back the clock to immerse themselves deeply into the generativity, beauty, and abundance of the real world.

Many are remembering when the sky served as the clock, calendar, and planting and navigation guide. They are re-establishing real relationships in real time, honoring diversity, learning how to respectfully agree to disagree, and safeguarding rather than exploiting one another’s integration and wholeness. They do not view another’s distract-ability or addiction as a resource ripe for exploitation, but instead uplift one another’s potential. They are exiting the unexamined extent of their relationship with technology. From schools to dinner tables to driving without depending on a satellite, they are rediscovering the joy of informed guardianship, compassion, unity, and the freedom that the ancient mystics pursued.

Everywhere, it’s a beautiful day.

My husband and I love birds and birdwatching, and one good thing about living on Samos is that it has reasonably big wetlands for an island of its size, with a lagoon and two huge reedbeds big enough to support booming bitterns. It is also on a migration route, which means that spring and autumn migrations are very interesting because we never know what might pass through here. Northern European birdwatchers spend a lot of time and money visiting the important birding sites of mainland Greece for a chance to see flamingos, spur-wing lapwings, Isabelline wheatears, masked shrikes, black-headed buntings, purple herons, glossy ibis, night herons, black storks, rollers, bee-eaters, golden orioles, red-footed falcons, spotted eagles, and little bitterns. Every one of these birds has passed through here in past migrations, plus a whole lot more. We’ve even had flocks of red-throated pipits and wood sandpipers on their way to the Siberian taigas. We never know what we’ll see when we take our binoculars and go out looking, even in our own neighborhood, or even on our own land.

But the wetlands are dying, and this is a serious catastrophe for both the island and for the birds, migratory and resident. It is a catastrophe because we are losing the biodiversity that made Samos ecologically important and interesting, and it is a catastrophe for the birds themselves. The resident birds are dying out and the migratory birds cannot survive if there is nowhere to stop and nothing to eat when they do. Most have already traveled thousands of miles to get here, having crossed much of Africa or the Middle East. They must rest and find food. And this is the greatest problem for both resident and migratory birds—nothing to eat. There is not much food, except for the little seed-eaters, and even they are in trouble.

The Samos wetlands survived through the 1974 Cyprus crisis, when the army occupied the southern beaches and built bunkers and planted land-mines on the edges of the flaming lagoon. They survived encroachment by farmers and summer-home builders and hotel-builders (the last, barely, and one big hotel project was stopped by local conservationists in mid-construction to save one of the wetlands). Since 2017, though, bird populations around the wetlands have declined hugely. That was the year the cell-phone companies decided to provide wireless coverage to the southern beaches, which had up till then been largely left alone. Many new cell towers were erected, with panels directed at the beaches fronting the wetlands. The hotels and beach cafes all installed wi-fi. Bird and insect populations plummeted.

Lots of small birds are quite capable of living near man, and many nest quite happily in nearby trees or on the roofs of houses. Swallows, house martins and sparrows all nest near man, and the presence of new buildings should not have been, in itself, a reason for these birds to disappear. In the early years, the eaves of hotels along the beaches were lined with swallow and martin nests, and sparrows nested in the roof-tiles. The semi-built, now derelict, hotel project next to the reed-beds was taken over by colonies of swallows till the new cell-towers went in. By 2019, there were no more swallows or martins nesting in any of these buildings. By 2020, a few sparrows had taken over some of the abandoned swallows’ nests. Now even the nests have crumbled away, except for one row of old swallow nests deep under the wooden eaves of one beachside hotel, which are still occupied by a few sparrows. Since 2021, when 5G came to Samos, the insects have largely vanished. Most of the other small birds that lived along these beaches, the chaffinches, goldfinches, greenfinches, serins, wagtails, yellow wagtails, stonechats, whinchats and little reed warblers, are gone.

Wetlands aren’t to everyone’s taste, though they are popular with birds. For one thing, they are usually full of mosquitoes (which makes you wonder how anyone thought that a large, seven-building hotel next to a vast reed-bed was a good idea). In the past, you often couldn’t go near the lagoon where the flamingos winter without being eaten alive. The beaches fronting the reed-beds were really only pleasant provided the wind was blowing (which, fortunately, it usually is). All the small reed birds live on insects, as do the frogs (now mostly extinct) which are in turn eaten by the larger waders, the herons and bitterns. But if they are sometimes uncomfortable for man, reed-beds are full of life—or should be. And they should be left alone, because nature needs somewhere to exist. Birds, insects, amphibians and small mammals do not use or need cell phones, nor do they need to be blasted 24/7 with cell tower radiation. They don’t need 3G or 4G or 5G. They don’t need wi-fi.

“If you want to kill a wetland, just provide good cell coverage“

If you want to kill a wetland, just provide good cell coverage. It works a lot better than DDT, because everything dies. Of our two large reed-beds, one is located between the ancient site of the Heraion (the temple of Hera) and the airport. The airport, which is about a kilometer away from the once-lovely fishing village of Pythagoreion, has a 5G cell tower with five 5G panels, pointing in every direction. Virtually nothing lives there anymore, and virtually nothing is stopping there on migration, either. What stops, doesn’t stay. The sky should be filled with swallows and martins and swifts, with falcons and marsh harriers and grey herons and little egrets and gulls. It isn’t. The spotted eagles which used to winter here haven’t been back for three years. The reeds should be droning with insect life and chirping with small birds. They aren’t. We’ve been a number of times over the winter and spring, and this place is scarily dead. The resident birds are all gone except for a few crested larks, a few corn buntings and the odd cetti’s warbler. There aren’t even any gulls. The only migratory birds we saw in the reeds this year were three squacco herons in one of the freshwater channels near the airport. Near the ancient site, a mile or so away, we had a flock of Spanish sparrows and a flock of black-headed buntings. Neither stayed long.

East along the coast, the small lagoon that hosts flamingos in winter was the most interesting site this year, but this too was sad. Most of the resident birds are gone: the little reed birds and most of the other small birds, the coots, the small egrets, the little owls, and most of the grey herons. A few years ago we sat in an olive grove above the lagoon and watched for raptors: buzzards, marsh harriers, sparrowhawks, kestrels, goshawks, a lanner falcon, short-toed eagles and a rare Bonelli’s eagle. The last Bonelli’s I saw was a drowned juvenile, washed up on the beach nearby. This year we’ve seen hardly any marsh harriers, which used to be always overhead.

The flamingos do not breed here (the lagoon dries up in summer) but they have always used this lagoon as a nursery, so it is a good indicator of how they are breeding. There have not been any first-year flamingos for the past two years. Some of the ruddy shelduck, big handsome birds the size of a goose, have bred, but we estimate that only two pairs in ten have ducklings. There were some good migratory birds: a pair of glossy ibis, a pair of turtledoves, a pair of ducks that no one I’ve asked can identify, a few wood sandpipers, several black-winged stilts, a flock of sand martins. House martins and swallows chased the ever-diminishing supply of mosquitoes; they no longer breed in the area.

The second reed-bed lies just down the coast from the flamingo lagoon, and it used to be a wonderful place to watch birds. The stands of canes near the beach were always full of small birds; there were flocks of starlings and sparrows and yellow wagtails, chaffinches, goldfinches. stonechats, various reed birds, grey herons, little egrets. kingfishers and much more. There were always raptors overhead, and many marsh harriers. Deep in the reeds we always suspected bitterns, but they virtually never come out into the open and we never thought we would see one. Insects abounded.

“Now there are no insects and virtually no birds.”

Now there are no insects and virtually no birds. We stopped in an olive grove by fields of barley filled with wild gladioli and other flowers and saw no insects except one lone bumblebee. The starlings, sparrows and wagtails are all gone, along with most of the other small birds; even the crows were few and far between. There were no raptors. It was a long, fruitless, sad plod along the beach; even the glory of achingly blue waters and skies framing the Turkish coast along the Strait of Mykali couldn’t lift our mood.

Then we saw the bittern, standing alone right in the middle of the beach, in the full afternoon sun. Of course we were amazed to see it—who wouldn’t be? They’re almost impossible to see, even in places where there are lots of them, because they so rarely come out into the open. But “open” is a relative term, and in the case of a bittern usually means you get a shadowy glimpse of it as it stalks prey along the edge of the reeds, only seen if you are looking very carefully (see the photo above). A bittern shouldn’t be out in the open as we saw it. It allowed us to get far too close before it took off. It seemed disoriented and confused. Two days later we saw another bittern, this one a juvenile, in a tiny lagoon opposite the airport, next to a very busy road. It must have flown in from the larger reed-bed nearby, and this too seemed odd, as there are only two small patches of reeds in this place, and little cover. The 5G cell tower is only a few hundred meters from this place. Across the road are five luxury hotels blazing with wi-fi. The grassy area right next to the tiny lagoon is a busy car park for tourists.

We live on the opposite side of the island, an area without hotels or tourist beaches and relatively more wild land. We have no lagoons or marshes, so we don’t get waterfowl on migration. While the cell towers have affected us greatly, we do still have insects, albeit far fewer, and the resident birds are not extinct as they seem to be on the south coast. In our immediate area, the spring has been full of birdsong: blackbirds, sardinian warblers, great tits, ring-necked doves and chukars chattering. We heard none of these birds on the south coast.

We get different sorts of migratory birds here, We’ve had wheatears and golden orioles; masked, woodchat and red-backed shrikes; flocks of swallows and martins and alpine and common swifts,* and a very few hoopoes. And we have the bee-eaters, whose numbers are definitely not what they were in the past. Hoopoes and bee-eaters need a lot of insects, and if the south coast of Samos is anything to go by, these birds are not finding much to eat on their way. There are none of these birds on the south coast. So the bee-eaters linger here, where there is food, though they are having to work harder to find enough to eat.

But the gulls are hungry, too, and the seas are empty. And all day long, the gulls harass and hunt the bee-eaters, preventing them from feeding, catching them when they can, fighting over their rainbow carcasses. We first saw this metamorphosis from scavenger to raptor last year, and the gulls have improved their hunting skills since then. The bee-eaters, already tired and hungry, are hard-put to escape their remorseless pursuit.

“In spring, birds migrate north. But sometimes in the evenings we have heard great flocks of birds calling to each other as they fly south.”

In spring, birds migrate north. But sometimes in the evenings we have heard great flocks of birds calling to each other as they fly south. Where are they going? We don’t know. Are they confused by all the cell towers? We suspect so. Last spring a flock of migrating ducks went round and round and round for hours before disappearing southward. I still wonder where they were headed, and where they got to.

After I finished writing this piece, I went outside for a break. The first thing I saw was a gull with a bee-eater in its mouth. A sign of the times?

*Few of the swallows, martins and swifts stay here these days. We used to get great chittering flocks of alpine swifts overhead all summer, and in the evenings the air above our local town would be thick with common swifts. No longer. Nor do the swallows and martins build their nests under the eaves of town and village houses on this island, except rarely. We used to see many kestrels and Eleanora’s falcons, and we knew of two holes in cliffs where the Eleanora’s always nested. Now there are no kestrels and no Eleanora’s. Both cliff holes have been abandoned. In the one case, a 5G cell tower was installed in a village directly across the bay, with a panel pointing directly at the nest. In the second case, a 5G booster was installed right over the cliff where the birds bred.

Courtesy Safe Tech International:

See also: Electromagnetic Fields Impact Tree and Plant Growth – Environmental Health Trust (ehtrust.org)

Microwave News | Review of EMF and RF Effects Flora and Fauna

RF EMF damages plants at the cellular/molecular levels, along with the entire organism – Frequency Free Fairbanks – Let’s live without cancer (5gfrequencyfreefairbanks.org)

Published Research on the Adverse Effect of Wireless Technology and Electromagnetic Radiation on Bees – Environmental Health Trust (ehtrust.org)

The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t.

By Naturalist Activist

When I was five, my mother took me to the zoo in Rome. It was almost closing time when we found ourselves near the lions, one of which had cubs. The zookeeper, who like all Italians loved bambini, took one of the cubs out of the cage and let me play with it. It was one of the best experiences of my childhood, stroking and holding this great furry, purring kitten. I at once determined to become a zookeeper.

When I was eleven we lived in an isolated ranch house in the middle of the countryside in North Carolina. In the evenings the fireflies blazed by the thousands in in the field behind the house, and the whippoorwills called to each other. A moonflower vine grew up against the house, and one full moon night I watched its huge white flower open, like a gigantic morning glory. A large, pale green, long-tailed luna moth, attracted to its sweet scent, came and hovered over it, sipping its nectar. It was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.

A few years ago my husband and I camped our VW van on a dike next to a small stream flowing into Lake Ismarida in Northern Greece. Across the stream tall canes grew, and in them lived Mr. and Mrs. Little Bittern. In the early mornings we would look for them through our binoculars. They would emerge cautiously onto the edge of a swaying cane to study us, too. We felt we had formed a relationship based on mutual curiosity, and we were sad to leave.

On winter trips to the Amvrakikos Gulf in Western Greece, we camped out on a spit of land in the middle of the lagoon. We would get up early, before dawn broke, to watch the great egrets as they left their perches in the tall trees of the offshore islets and winged their way over us to commence their day’s fishing. These great white birds would turn first pale blue and later pink in the light of the rising sun. The sight was heart-achingly beautiful.

Last August, as the almost-full moon was rising, a pack of young jackals surrounded us in the gloaming. They put back their heads and howled, a thrilling musical sound so intense we could feel it vibrate within us. They were only a few feet away; they trusted us and we weren’t afraid of them. I don’t know what that moment of contact meant to them. To us, it was like being admitted for those few moments into their world.

As I look back turning the pages of memory, it seems to me that most of the really stunning pictures in my mind involve birds, animals, insects or flowers. The fox-cub left to wait by its mother in an apple orchard in the light of the setting sun, the vivid orange of its coat and gold touching the apple leaves. The squacco heron caught with the bright green frog dangling from its beak. Our first sight ever of that elusive bird, the great bittern, beak pointed skywards and an eye on either side of the reed it was hiding behind. A field of bright blue lupins. The field mouse we saw in Norfolk, standing upright in front of its hole and clutching an enormous blackberry in its tiny front paws. A huge, barnacled sea-turtle swimming away into the blue depths off Lefkada. A pair of pink squids with enormous eyes that would approach when I waved my hands at them, waggling my fingers. The first time I ever saw a sea-horse, a tiny golden creature that tightened its tail around my finger when I picked it up and swayed gently in the current. A jackal sniffing a purple zinnia in our summer garden. The kingfisher that landed on my husband’s hand one day when we were bobbing about in the sea.

As I think back on these memories, I remember, not so long ago, a world that was full of creatures of the air, land and sea. They made my world a much richer place, but they had their own worlds, and their own place in them. Each one of them had its own life, its own consciousness, and each of them was, in some way, the hero of its own story as it hatched and grew, evaded predators, found things to eat, a mate to breed with—as it lived.

Are we more important than the trees, the plants, the bees, the butterflies, the birds, the fish or the animals? We seem to think so. I don’t mean the things we do to make ourselves homes or the fields we clear so that we can grow food. Many creatures modify their environments to some extent in order to create homes for themselves, and in doing so inevitably come into conflict with other species that have other needs. Wholesale destruction of the environment, though, is another thing.

There are many things wrong with the way we treat the natural world, and some of them at least are avoidable. For instance, we don’t have to use most of the plastics that break up to pollute land and oceans, and we could easily change our ways if we wanted to. Why don’t we? I don’t know.

What really bothers me is that we are killing the world around us so we can have mobile phones and mobile internet. Most of the wonderful things I remember and cherish are no longer there: no kingfishers on the sea shores or river banks, no fireflies flickering in the gloaming, no sea-horses in the seas. All these things are disappearing even in the most pristine places, where the air is clean and the water is clean and the forests are largely untouched—except for the cell towers. We’re killing everything in nature so we can have mobile technology. As we’ve moved up the scale from bigger to smaller wavelengths, more and more creatures we share this world with have died, and the world has become an unutterably poorer place.

We can still change that. We can at least save what’s left, if not because we care about other creatures per se, because we ought to recognize that it is in our own best interest to do so. Unless we are planning a future based on cannibalism, we need plants and insects, birds and animals. It’s time we turned the cell towers off.

Read about the real-life effects of 5G on insects, birds and animals:

“5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek Island of Samos, Part 1″ at https://app.box.com/s/bt4k6qitbya2vzv2zafgglilop5rb7im (copy and paste link into your browser)

and

“5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek Island of Samos, Part 2” at https://app.box.com/s/924728ibqipzy9v0suskuae15xjbhjk7 (copy and paste link into your browser)

If you live in the UK, or are a UK citizen, please sign the parliamentary petition “Protect Plants and Animals from 5G Millimeter Wave Radiation”. It needs 100,000 signatures to really do any good, so please get others to sign, too. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/621158

If you live in the EU, or are an EU citizen, please sign this petition, which needs one million signatures by March 2023. https://signstop5g.eu/

This blog was originally posted at Anti-Wireless Shop Website, protesting wireless technologies on behalf of people and nature

Photo by Hermann Kollinger, courtesy of Pixabay

Abstract
Insect declines have continued on Samos since the introduction of 5G. The situation has worsened since 5G became commercially available from July 1, 2022. Not only are insect numbers in general continuing to decline; pollinators including butterflies are declining very rapidly. Insectivore birds are declining also. Soil conditions have worsened as well, with the soil becoming more acidic than previously. There are no visible insects in the soil, and many plants are not growing as well as they should, or growing to full size. Melons and aubergines show signs of DNA damage. Lack of pollinators, poor yields and withered plants are apparent all over the island. The implications for food production generally are frightening: a combination of declining soil quality, declines in pollinator numbers and radiation-damaged plants means that it will be harder to grow food and that food prices will continue to rise. Total crop failures may occur in future.

Observational Study Area, May-July 2022
5G was introduced in July of 2021 on Samos, but only became commercially available at the beginning of July 2022. During the year in which the technology was live but not commercially available, adjustments were being made to the system so that it would operate properly. The 5G wavelengths of 0.7 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 22.5 GHz have been operational from July last year.

Insects
Serious insect declines began with 4G, but the introduction of 5G caused a rapid and massive decline in many types of insects, many of them pollinators. Climate change, which is often given as the reason for insect declines, could not have had this effect within a single growing season. Also, climate change should bring an increase in the number of insects rather than a decline. As mentioned in “5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek Island of Samos”, the area does not have pesticides.

The number of pollinators has visibly dropped since the beginning of this summer (2022). In May we still had some hoverflies, bumblebees, honeybees and white bees. There were a few bee flies and, in general, the situation was much as it had been at the close of last summer. Now virtually all the larger bees and hoverflies are gone. Since July 1, we have seen only 2-3 carpenter bees, two bumblebees, and no honey bees. There are no drone flies and there are very few hoverflies or wasps. Of the hoverflies, the only two types we see now live in underground burrows—and there are not very many of them left. The same is true of the wasp species we are seeing: the only kinds we have left live underground, with the exception of very tiny wasps (see below). We have seen no red bees at all this year (there are several species which are mostly active in spring and early summer), and no white bees, which used to be the main pollinators of our summer vegetables along with bumblebees.

Crops are still getting pollinated, though we expect yields to be much lower than last year (courgettes are not being pollinated at all, very few melons have been pollinated, and we will definitely have farfewer tomatoes, less than a quarter of what we had last year). The main pollinators are very tiny wild bees, some only 2-3 millimeters long. We are seeing several species of these tiny bees. There are also a few tiny wasps, also 2-3 millimeters long, of a species we have not noticed before. Except for a few burrowing wasps, these are the only wasps we are seeing.

In general, insect numbers have continued to fall since last summer. There are very few grasshoppers, almost no crickets, very few beetles, fewer butterflies and moths, and fewer cicadas. Some species, such as the spoonwing lacewing and indeed most lacewings, have vanished entirely. Until recently, and despite overall insect declines since the introduction of 4G, species that lived or laid eggs underground were more abundant than species that lived or laid eggs above ground. This is mentioned in Lazaro et. al (2017) with reference to wild bees, but the same principle applies generally.

Cicadas hatch and develop underground, where they spend the whole of their lives until they emerge for a few weeks to find mates and breed. Until recently, they had not declined noticeably; only last year (2021) did we notice declines in numbers and see signs of DNA damage in some cicadas, in the form of damaged wings. This year, not only are there markedly fewer cicadas, but there are generally fewer insects that breed and live underground. This may be due to both direct and indirect effects of electromagnetic radiation on the soil. Insects like cicadas, which hunt underground in the larval stage, may be finding less to eat. The change in the electromagnetic balance of the soil itself may also be killing them (see the section “Soil Acidification” in “5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek Island of Samos”).

Table of Pollinators in the Study Area, 2012-July 2022
List of Abbreviations: NA= Not Applicable; AY= All Year
5 = 100% is given as a baseline for 2012 and does not reflect insect prevalence of earlier years.
4 = 80%-61%, 3 = 60%-41%, 2 = 40%-21%, 1 = 20%-1%, 0 = none seen

Birds
Birds are also being seriously affected by 5G. There are many fewer birds around than there were several years ago; bird populations have fallen all over the island and finches of all species seem to be virtually extinct, as do kingfishers. On our land, sardinian warblers, orphean warblers, great tits, blackbirds and jays all nested, but we have seen no juvenile birds except young great tits. We seem to have lost our wrens and song thrushes. Warblers are insectivores and with declining insect populations, their future is not assured. Other birds have also not bred successfully. Chukars, a common island subspecies of partridge, have had very few young this year; some pairs have not bred and of the few with young we have seen, there are fewer chicks than usual. We had a pair of tawny owls, but they do not seem to have bred and these days we only hear one owl. Since rodents have seriously declined, the decline in owls may be due to lack of food.

In our local wetlands, flamingos have failed to breed for the first time that we have seen. The lagoon there functions as a sort of creche for baby flamingos, and generally there are 30-40 first-winter and second-winter birds. This year there were only two first-winter flamingos and three second-winter ones. In addition, seven pairs of ruddy shelduck failed to breed at all. The lagoon used to have numerous little egrets; now there are none.

There were very few migrating birds this year. The bee-eaters arrived in early May, but not so many of them as usual. Barn swallows, house martins, common swifts and alpine swifts also arrived, but numbers are very small and red-rumped swallows have not arrived. These birds generally hunt insects on and above our land throughout May, and did so this year, but—and this was the first time we have ever seen this—they were relentlessly attacked by the yellow-legged gulls, who tore swallows and martins literally to pieces over our heads, and captured bee-eaters in their beaks and killed them. This went on day after day, and was sickening to watch.

Gulls are not raptors; they are mostly scavengers although they may steal eggs and young from other birds’ nests. However, the gulls may be starving as there is nothing in the sea at all: no urchins, starfish, shells, cuttlefish and other sea life that usually wash up on beaches where the gulls scavenge.

We have seen nothing washed up on beaches for several years except rubbish, driftwood and
ribbonweed. There are also very few fish. Clearly the taking of smaller birds in flight was a new
method of getting food for these gulls; they became more adept at catching other birds as the days passed.

Soil Conditions and Soil Insects; DNA Damage in Plants
The soil is becoming much more acidic. In April we dug a new vegetable bed, on virgin soil: the land has not been used since before World War II. We found absolutely no insects in the soil, not even a single earthworm. There should have been large numbers of earthworms, grubs, small centipedes and various beetles. In order to grow our summer crops we have had to add calcium to soil three times, and even so our peppers are showing signs of calcium deficiency, with black spots and areas of thin walls appearing near the tips of the fruits. The peppers themselves are thinner-walled than they should be, and cook down to nothing. Were we market gardeners, these would be unsaleable. Some tomatoes are also showing damage due to lack of calcium: weak spots like scars in the skins of the fruits and, in the plum tomatoes, some fruits where the lower half has turned black and rotted. A number of tomatoes and peppers rot entirely before ripening; this is not due to insect damage.

In last year’s summer bed, we attempted to grow peas and beans in the early spring. Nothing
sprouted. We were not the only people whose beans did not grow. The same thing happened to
several of our neighbours and friends, who all grow broad beans every winter. This year, their beans did not grow.

We used the other half of the same bed to plant potatoes, which like acidic soil. These grew, but
yields were low, with some plants producing no potatoes at all. Despite the fact that the soil was kept moist, when we dug the potatoes out we found, once again, no insects at all, not even a single earthworm.

We planted courgettes and melons in the half of the bed where the peas and beans had failed to grow. They sprouted, but no courgettes and few melons have been pollinated, and the plants have not grown to normal size; they have remained very small despite fertilization (we use both goat and chicken manure, the one dug into the soil and the other watered in as the plants are growing).

Melons, zinnias and some aubergines are showing signs of DNA damage. Almost all the melons are very small, about the size of tennis balls, and many are misshapen, with obvious weak spots in the rind. Many of the seeds inside them are also misshapen. Some aubergines are also misshapen, with folds and odd fingers of flesh. DNA damage is also evident in some zinnias, which have developed huge protruding centers, sometimes with a miniature second flower on top. Our neighbours are having the same problems with melons as we are. Theirs were purchased as seedlings, whereas we grew our from our own seed. Their aubergines, unlike ours, have produced only tiny fruits which are inedible.

Other Areas of Samos
During the winter and spring, we took long walks in different parts of the island. It was alarming to note that certain plants which should draw large numbers of pollinators were not doing so, no matter where we went. Rosemary, savory and thyme grow in profusion here, but none of these plants had many bees of any sort at any time. The former should have attracted large numbers of bumblebees; the thyme should have been covered with honey bees. Gorse and Spanish broom, which also tend to attract huge numbers of bees of all sorts, had almost none. In one area we examined over 100 gorse bushes in full bloom and found only one honeybee and one bumblebee among all those plants. A beekeeper who lives in that area found all his bees dead in their hives at around the same time. The cell tower which serves the area is about two kilometers away, and has had 5G panels since July 2021.

Our summer crops are not doing nearly as well as last year’s, but at least we are growing something. Other people we know have dug up their summer beds because the plants were not thriving despite the addition of calcium and fertilizers. Some people we know have given up trying to grow things altogether, both because of the lack of pollinators and because plants fail to thrive.

Everyone is complaining about poor crops this year. Everywhere we go, plants in the fields look
withered and yields are very small. This is not due to the weather; unlike last year, the summer has not been very hot and there have been no heat waves. This is not a water problem, either. All the market gardens are situated near the wetlands on the south side of the island, where water is abundant—and free. Commercial fertilizers should ensure that the plants grow tall and strong. Instead, the plants in the fields are smaller than they should be, and look as if they had not been watered for a week; they seem to be unable to absorb the water that is being expended on them.* There are virtually no insects, and it is clear from the number of withered flowers on plants that they have not been pollinated.

In Samos town, where a vast 5G array sits on the OTE/Cosmote building in the center of town, there are no insects or birds at all, not even any flies. There are no butterflies or other insects in the public gardens.

*See Balmori’s “The Effects of Microwaves on the Trees and Other Plants”. In this study, he discusses the work of Karl Vokrodt and others who have found that microwave radiation causes soil acidification as well as inhibits plants from absorbing water from the soil.

Discussion
5G is affecting soil conditions and killing pollinators. Without pollinators, nothing will grow in the first place. Poor soil conditions mean that, even if you could introduce artificial pollinators such as pollinating drones, nothing that is planted will thrive. Yields will be poor and the quality of the fruits and vegetables will be unsatisfactory; the dietary value of the produce will be reduced.

We have a food crisis, with rapidly rising food prices everywhere. This is being caused to some extent by the war in Ukraine, by droughts in some places, and by other conditions. However, poor crop yields and crop failures may also be being caused by the proliferation of wireless (and especially 5G millimeter-wave) technology all over the world, although this is not being officially recognized. There will be places where weather conditions and supply-line problems are clearly not to blame for poor crop yields and crop failures, where the weather is good but the soil is becoming impoverished for no apparent reason. And, of course, as the pollinators continue to decline—as insects are known to be declining rapidly worldwide—it will soon become evident that this is not being caused by the weather, or by pesticide use (farming is a business and farmers are not fools; they won’t spray for nonexistent pests).

There will come a point where people will be forced to recognize that what is killing the insects and the land is not climate or weather or agrochemicals but the cell towers that are visible every way we turn. Wireless technology—being able to talk to people and access the internet from anywhere—will seem a lot less attractive when we have nothing to eat. And we are rapidly reaching that point.

We cannot use 5G technology to solve the problems that 5G and previous generations of wireless technology have caused. Drones cannot replace bees and other pollinators. And nothing can replace essential soil microbes and soil-dwelling insects. Placing cell towers all over every country on this earth has already caused immense damage to our ecosystems. To proliferate the damage already caused by wireless radiation with the addition of ever more spectrum and small cells on every available lamp-post and streetlight is to ensure that the most essential and vulnerable parts of our ecosystem—the insects—will go extinct. If we have no insects, if we damage the very earth in which our food grows, we will in turn go extinct. We are rapidly approaching a tipping-point from which we will not recover. We do not need to go there. We must not go there.

References
2022, Upudhaya, C. et al., “Attributes of non-ionizing radiation of 1800 MHz frequency on plant health and antioxidant content of Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum) plants”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168785072200125X
I include this study because it shows how tomatoes are affected by cell tower radiation: they lack the vitamin content and antioxidant properties they should have, have thinner skins and do not keep as well as they should. Like the plants described in the study, our tomatoes have curling leaves and a yellowish tinge. Our neighbours’ tomatoes, before they pulled them up, had gone entirely yellow. What is affecting our tomatoes is also affecting our peppers, which are not growing as fast or as well as they should, whose leaves tend to wither early in the day, and whose fruits are thin-walled.

2022, Nyirenda, V.R. et al., “Effects of phone mast-generated electromagnetic radiation gradient on the distribution of terrestrial birds and insects in a savanna protected area”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11756-022-01113-8
I include this study because it mirrors what we are seeing on Samos. Near cell towers, there are
hardly any birds or insects. There are many more birds and insects the farther one gets from the cell towers and other sources of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) as on our land. However, nowhere on Samos is it possible to get as far as 12 kilometers from all cell towers. Both insects and birds are declining everywhere: faster as one nears sources of EMR (near cell towers, in town and villages) and

somewhat more slowly as one gets farther away from these sources. The overall trend is rapid decline of all species, especially since the introduction of 5G. This can only end in the extinction of many species.

2003, Balmori, A. “The Effects of Microwaves on the Trees and Other Plants”
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/
AlfonsoBalmoriTheEffectsOfMicrowavesOnTheTreesAndOtherPlantsUk.pdf
This paper explains how microwaves cause soil acidity to occur and why plants become unable to take up water from the soil. It can easily be seen how these mechanisms can help lead to crop failures.

Brief Overview

Birds, in their susceptivity, have been the ‘winged sentinels’ for humans, since the canaries went down in the coal mines¹. With their acute receptivity, they are studied by scientists for signs of the earth’s malaise. But birds are not telling us of an emergency due to climate change, as industry funded science and environmental groups claim. Their most dramatic decline to date took off in early 2020, with the commencement of 5G installation, along with increased aircraft chemical dispersions used together with ground based 5G transmission facilities, for the purpose of global geo engineering. Birds are vulnerable to air-born poisons and 3-4G frequencies, and they are being destroyed outright by 5G radiation. The most recent die off is now being blamed on highly pathogenic bird flu. Given the evidence, which is being ignored, bird flu does not seem plausible, and it has led to only more slaughter with mass culling.

How can we justify birds to decision makers who can only understand the language of monetary value? It is not difficult. They generate billions to the tourist and birdwatching industry. They disperse seeds for plants that supply food, medicine, and building material. Vultures serve to dispose of carrion and prevent disease, but vultures have joined the ever-mounting endangered list. Wildlife has been helping humans and animals for thousands of years, mostly unacknowledged. The ensuing blog looks at the impacts of Wi-fi technologies on birds since the early 90’s, the more deadly impacts of 5G, and the obstacles to birds’ survival in place, today.

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the death of the albatross foreshadowed that of every other sailor aboard the fated ship. The mirror to our nature does not need that much adjusting for the present ecological crisis. Birds in their heightened sensitivity are a precursor for all.²

Decline in avian population began in the early seventies, gathering pace from the early 90’s. (See here, here and here). The rate of descent bears all the hallmarks of species extinction. More recently, since early 2020, migrating and resident flocks have been dying suddenly and dramatically, in vast numbers, across the globe. The causes given are climate change, invasive species, pesticides, loss of habitat, also predatory domestic or wild animals. Since 2021, highly pathogenic bird flu is the flavour of reasons for birds falling dead from the skies. Radio frequency and electromagnetic frequency has been ignored, as has geo-engineering, the permeation of skies with electrically conducted nano particles, interacting with 4G-5G radiation to conduct and amplify its frequencies. (Green, Chen 2019).

Considering the acute sensitivity of birds to RF/EMF, research has been notably scant. Birds are good biological indicators of RF-EMF due to their thinner skulls, the way their feathers can act as dielectric receptors of microwave radiation (Bigu-del-Blanco 1975(a) & 1975b), the fact many species use magnetic navigation (Wiltschko and Wiltschko 2015; Mouritsen and Ritz 2005, Muheim 2006, Beason 1995, Balmori 2015, Kavokin 2014, Engels 2014), and their mobility (Balmori 2009, Balmori and Hallberg 2007, Everaert and Bauwen 2007). In his review, Cucurachi found 2/3 of studies showed the development of birds and insects was the most significantly affected by RF-EMF (Cucurachi 2013). He highlighted the woeful lack of laboratory, field and ecological research in this area, and called for greater monitoring of Wi-Fi and its effects on bird populations as a matter of urgency. The summons enjoined Albert Manville (2016) and Alfonso Balmori, whose field and laboratory studies showed strong evidence of harm (Balmori, 2005, 2015, 2009). Yet the relative dearth of vital studies in this area has continued. Only 3% of all research into RF/EMF effects is on birds (Bhattacharya 2013). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), once a hub of research into environmental impacts of EMF, was stripped of its funding by the FDA in the mid-nineties. In response to queries by the Environmental Health Trust in July 2020, it confirmed no funding with regards wireless and radio frequency research, and no knowledge of any developed safety limits or research reviews on the impacts of wireless on birds, bees and the environment.

Questioned about the impact of EMF on birds in December, 2020, a spokesperson at Public Health England (PHE) said that while there are disruptive effects due to the magnetic compass in migratory birds, there is little to no funding for research on the effects of RF/EMFs on birds. “We are not aware of any evidence which is sufficient to show that non-ionising radiation (including electro-magnetic fields) presents a risk of harmful effects to birds. The only reliable evidence of an effect is the disruption of magnetic compass orientation in migratory birds, although the consequences of this effect for wild bird populations are unknown. Rigorous and repeatable studies on the effects of long-term exposure to non-ionising radiation are required, including studies on the potential effects on bird populations. Resources for research are extremely limited at this time and as an organisation, we have to focus our work and resources on known threats to biodiversity, such as climate change and habitat loss or deterioration.”

Lack of evidence and uncertainty is achieved by lack of research. In his 2016 memorandum, Albert Manville stated,

We need to better understand how to address these growing and poorly understood radiation impacts to migratory birds, bees, bats, and myriad other wildlife. At present, given industry and agency intransigence, massive amounts of money being spent to prevent addressing impacts from non-thermal radiation — not unlike the battles over tobacco and smoking — and a lack of significant, dedicated and reliable funding to advance independent field studies, we are left with few options. Currently, other than to proceed using the precautionary approach and keep emissions as low as reasonably achievable, we are at loggerheads in advancing meaningful guidelines, policies and regulations that address non-thermal effects.

Many environmental groups are obligated to their funders. In the UK, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) have omitted RF-EMF in their list of causes of bird decline. While, in a joint study conducted from 1995–2017, they reported that 16 species declined by 1/3 between 1995-2013, no mention was made of the possible effects of RF/EMF. All three were funded by EU Interreg Europe. The EU Commission, having adopted ICNIRP guidelines, denies health harms by electromagnetic frequencies and 5G, citing affirmative studies. While every regulating body have abandoned those they were assigned to protect, so the duties of bird protection agencies and environmental groups have been trounced.

Calls to action from the EU include many important directives such as resisting ‘attempts in Europe to weaken the Birds and Habitats Directive,’ to ‘fully implement the EU Marine Strategy Framework Direct,’ to ‘meet commitments to the EU Water framework,’ and ‘implement the EU regulation on invasive species,’ but conspicuously omitted is any mention of electromagnetic fields. The BTO also details its conservation projects on its website, including restoration of species through rearing in captivity and releasing. One project estimates the mortality caused to migratory birds by collision with wind turbines, ignoring the chief cause. None of these conservation initiatives address the very real crisis facing wildlife. The proposed directives, projects and initiatives will have no impact on the soaring mortality rate if impacts from electromagnetic fields are neglected

A 2002 RSPB study of disappearing sparrows’ nesting spots on roofs must have deemed it irrelevant that they were level with mobile phone antennae. In response to queries of EMF’s impact on wildlife, the RSPB highlighted the funding bind costing birds’ lives. ‘At present, our scientists are not aware of any robust population-level scientific studies that have shown declines in bird populations that could be explained by electromagnetic radiation.  The scientific evidence for such a threat is equivocal at best which, when combined with some of the unsubstantiated comment on the internet, means it is difficult for us to be certain of the facts. If sound science emerges that proves a clear (and lethal) link between 5G and large numbers of wild birds, and the significance of this threat outweighs other known issues we are already campaigning on, we are prepared to review our position.  However, at this time we have no plans to campaign against the roll-out of 5G.’ It is hard to fathom what research can emerge when funding is not being allocated for studies. When contacted in 2020, Friends of the Earth, also EU funded, said research into EMF and 5G’s effects on wildlife and the environment was ‘not clearly established’, while the negative impacts of pesticides, changes in land use and intensive farming were better understood, therefore addressed. Like PHE and the RSPB, FOE said it did not have the funds or staff resources to conduct its own research into 5G, so it would not campaign on it.

Clearly, there is an urgent need for research into EMF radiation, 5G frequencies, and bird mortality. Birds are dying in vast numbers, and no amount of bird feeder or pond clearing, or species reintroduction will dent that. The substantial uptake of agri-environment schemes by UK farmers, and the compulsory set-aside scheme started in 1992, have made no difference to the decline.

Decline in sparrows

The decline in urban sparrows exposed to cell towers spotlights the importance of considering RF/EMF exposures. The steepest fall in urban and farm birds across the globe has occurred since the early 90’s, with the urban sparrow’s conspicuous departure from cities, seeing 50% gone from Dublin and Moscow and 60% from Prague and Hamburg. The house sparrow is a particularly strong indicator of EMF effects, as most use the breeding ground of roof spaces (Wotton 2002), level with radiation from cell antennae. A three-and-a-half-year study in Valladolid, Spain, found sparrow populations reduced where EMF power levels were higher. (Balmori, Hallberg 2007). There were similar findings in Belgium, where a study showed sparrow population decrease was related to EMF strength, at 900 and 1800 MHz (Everaert, Bauwen 2007). India, which comes second in the world for the most rapid ascent of cell phone use, has also seen the fastest disappearance of sparrows. An epidemiological study of phone masts’ impact on sparrows in Indian cities, found that the birds had disappeared wherever the masts were installed. (Dongre, Verma 2009). But it was not just the sparrow that disappeared. Of the 200 species of Chennai birds, four – the house sparrow, red whiskered bulbul, Brahmin kite and spotted dove – have gone. India’s rich biodiversity is being erased and its future is bleak. (Shende 2015) There were 4,000 cell towers in Chennai alone then, many more now.

Compared to European cities, London was particularly hard hit, losing 75% of its sparrows between ’94 and 2003. Bristol, Edinburgh and Belfast had a similar tale. The UK has one of the highest levels of RF/EMF in Europe, 20 times higher than in Spain, and is densely packed with cell towers.

In 2003, seeking an answer to the disappearance of 10 million sparrows, the British Trust of Ornithology (BTO) enlisted Rosie Cleary leading 30,000 bird watchers to record the effects of

electromagnetic waves on the birds. It was acknowledged that the species’ departure coincided with the advent of mobile phones, noting Balmori’s study in Spain. Cleary also mentioned EMF’s impact on bird reproduction. The partly government funded study went on for 18 months, from 2003-2004, over two breeding seasons. This was followed by a somewhat confounding silence on the results. It is as if this large-scale epidemiological study, which undoubtedly took place, all but evaporated. Ten years later, on September 2013, the BTO with Garden Birdwatch survey suggested the species had stabilised since 2009 – the 80% decline reported in gardens fell to 60% in 2009, and was the same between 2009 and 2013. Which was rather odd, as sparrows have continued to disappear from cities all over the world.

Flying Blind

The interference of birds’ magnetic navigation is proving fatal to migrating birds. As well as disorientation, their reflexive safeguarding is compromised: birds’ sensitivity to the meteorologically based impulse activity in the atmosphere means that they can derive the ‘weather code’ signals of change or approaching thunder-storms, and then fly around them (Panagopoulos, Balmori 2017). With this impaired, mounting numbers of flocks are flying into storms. In a study of robins exposed to electromagnetic R-F noise at a range of 2kHz-5MHz, the birds were unable to use their magnetic compass (Engels 2014) forecasting the kismet for migratory birds, although this had started long before, with the advent of WIFI. Several million disorientated migrating birds of 230 species have been crashing into cell towers and dying each year, since they were erected in the 90’s. It happens mostly at night or in fog or bad weather, when they are most reliant on the earth’s magnetic field for navigation (Shire, Brown, Winegrad 2000). Mortality has risen with the increasing number of towers. A review and meta-analysis (Longcore, Rich and Gauthreaux 2008) concluded avian mortality could be reduced by restricting the height of towers, avoiding guy wires and using only red or white strobe type lights, rather than steady white lights. In 2002 the American Bird Conservancy, Forest Conservation Council and Friends of the Earth petitioned the FCC to issue a moratorium on the construction of new towers above 199 feet/300 meters. The CTIA swiftly moved in with vociferous objection, and in 2006 the FCC issued an order favouring the CTIA, refusing a moratorium on tower construction. However, there was no acknowledgment at the time of birds’ disorientation by WIFI emanating from these towers. It is birds’ sensors to the earth’s magnetic field that help them eschew obstructions to safe passage. Thanks to the unbridled spread of EMF, this has been disrupted.

Fowls of the heaven

Since January 2020 there have been alarming incidents, worldwide, of migrating birds literally falling dead from the sky, and local birds behaving strangely before dying. In August 20, 2020, large numbers of birds were found dead at the White Sands Missile Range³ in New Mexico, directly after an AT & T 5G antenna array was activated, equipping the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management Systems (ABMS). This was considered an isolated incident, until the air force carried out joint testing with Space X’s Starlink network in early September, 2020. From then on, many thousands, possibly millions of migrating as well as resident birds, died across South Western U.S. It spread from New Mexico across four more U.S. states and 4 Mexican states. There were reports of dead owls, warblers, hummingbirds, loons, flycatchers, woodpeckers and other species migrating south, dropping dead onto the ground. Resident birds of Dona Ana County, Jemez Pueblo, Roswell, Socorro and other areas also perished. They were described as lethargic, disorientated, and gathering in large numbers before dying. By 13 September, in Velarde, 40 miles north of Santa Fe, several hundred swallows and five other bird species were found lying dead on the bank of Rio Grande. Many had squeezed their bodies into the small natural cavities in the ground, concurring with reports of those with electromagnetic sensitivity, that connecting to the ground relieves pain caused by RF/EMF emissions. The possibility of wireless radiation’s link to the bird deaths was not entertained by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, instead a sudden cold snap in the weather due to climate change, which caused the lack of insects for the apparently starved insectivore birds. However, the birds’ strange behaviour would not be indicative of starvation.

From late May 2021, a ‘mystery illness’ struck down birds across the south, mid-west and eastern U.S. states. Wildlife managers in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia reported birds left alive were blind with crusty eyes fast shut, swollen faces and neurological problems. They were shaking, had lost their balance, and were unable to fly. These are consistent with high levels of radiation exposure, including 5G. However, other causes are being investigated. Fungus or toxins built up in cicadas, eaten by some bird species, was suggested by an ecologist at the Smithsonian magazine. Wildlife biologist, Laura Kerns of the Ohio division of wildlife has also blamed infectious disease, pesticides and ‘cicada outbreaks.’ The Guardian, reporting, blamed the weather, citing a 2007 study. Birdwatching magazine asked feeders to help researchers learn which birds eat periodical cicadas (May 27 2021), as this was ‘surprisingly poorly documented.’

In addition, since March 2020, birds have been dying en masse across Europe with what has been attributed to Avian Flu. The German conservation magazine, NABU, reported that Blue Tits, Great Tits and other species were dying. The first cases were reported on March 11, 2020, and by April of that year there were 26,000 sick and dead birds. It was said these birds were displaying symptoms of Avian Flu, which are similar to those of non-thermal radiation exposure. They were described as apathetic, with lack lustre feathering, ‘breathing problems’, eyes stuck together, unable to eat, but with extreme thirst, after which they died. In Balmori’s study of EMF exposed wild storks, the birds showed symptoms of weakness and illness in plumage deterioration (dull feathers, no shine, beardless rachis), apathy, decreased egg production, aggression, and locomotion problems, while young birds died (Balmori 2009).

Bizarrely, NABU advised garden owners to withdraw feeding stations and water sources in order to create ‘social distancing’ for birds. This lasted until the RSPB vouched for Trichomoniasis as the reason. By the 23rd April, 2020, the given cause was Suttonella Ornithocola which causes pneumonia in effected birds. Reports showed this was not limited to W. Germany – there were repeat occurrences in Belgium, Netherlands and Hungary. In the UK it struck Chaffinches and Finches in Suffolk, Siskins and Goldfinches in Scotland and Blue Tits in Bedfordshire. Garden Wildlife Health, who took up the story, is a collaborative project between the BTO, RSPB and the Zoological society for London (ZSO), which is funded by DEFRA and the Wellcome Trust amongst others.

The BTO was silent on the matter until November, when an article appeared on its website noting that Blue Tits had gone missing from UK gardens ‘following a heatwave’. Fewer birds were seen in UK gardens from May; 85% of gardens reported an absence of Blue Tits in August, and the concluding prediction was 500,000 less Blue Tits over winter 2020/21. The given reason was an early spring (2020) which saw the warmest April in over 100 years, indicating climate change.

‘Thanks to the records submitted by our dedicated Garden Birdwatchers, we are able to see the impacts of weather events on garden birds,’ said Robert Jacques, garden birdwatch supporter development officer. ‘We will be watching with a keen eye over the coming months to see how Blue Tits, and other garden species, handle the next winter.’

NABU printed a map of German areas showing the number of reported Tit deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Journalist and author, Arthur Firstenburg, observed that the highest numbers of bird deaths were along the Mosel River and in the area around Oldenburg in Lower Saxony. ‘These are areas where Vodafone announced in a press release on April 10, 2020 that it had just expanded its 4G-LTE cell tower network.’ Vodafone said it had closed “one of the nastiest radio holes” in Lower Saxony, and there had previously only been 2G service along the Mosel River. It carried out more than 1,000 LTE projects in the few months leading up to April, and is increasing the power of 500 existing LTE stations and upgrading 260 more stations to 4G-LTE.

In November 2020, swans were found spinning in circles, bleeding from their nostrils before dying, in Cumbria, Worcestershire, Blackpool, Devon and the Isle of Wight. Each of these counties were confirmed as testing grounds for 5G UK trials starting in 2018. 5G testing has spread further afield. Official post-mortems carried out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) pinned a ‘highly pathogenic’ strain of H5N8 Avian flu. Natural Health England confirmed it was so. In December, 2020, swans were found dead in Hampshire, while black swans died in Dawlish, Devon. The deaths spread across England from Cumbria to the South Coast and back up to Northumberland. Birds’ eyes, beak and brain tissue are loaded with magnetite, sensitive to magnetic fields. (Mouritsen, Ritz 2005). Bleeding from the beak is not typical of Avian flu. ‘H5N8 outbreaks’ were reported amongst farm chickens and turkeys in Herefordshire, Frodsham, Cheshire, Kent, Leominster, Norfolk, North Yorkshire and Leicestershire. In each case DEFRA culled ‘affected birds.’

Is it mere co-incidence that wild and domestic birds are suddenly dying of bird flu as rising numbers of 5G cells are installed throughout the world? DEFRA’s magic bullet of a bird cull may be superfluous. There have been reported outbreaks in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands since September, 2020. In the Dutch town of Puifijk, 200,000 chickens were culled. A cull was carried out at a small poultry farm in Nordfriesland in Germany. One thousands dead wild birds, mainly geese and ducks, were also found on the Nordfriesland coast. The German public broadcaster, NDR, suggested they were ’most likely infected with bird flu,’ although no post-mortem was reported. Other cases were confirmed on farms in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. A huge cull was also carried out in Russia’s Western Kostroma region.

In New Delhi, November 2019, officials estimated 1,000 birds fell dead around a lake in Rajasthan. Locals said it was more like 5,000. In January, 2021, 1200 ‘unusual’ bird mortalities have been reported across 7 states in India, put down to bird flu. 5G was ruled out, as the Indian government have not yet given full permission for the roll out. 5G testing began in January 2021, and took off in April, along with Covid 19.

More recently, in April 2022, there were new reports of highly pathogenic Avian flu in the south west of England, followed up in June by Shropshire poultry. Millions of chickens may be culled, and free-range eggs consumption restricted. Gulls that fell dead on a Cornish coast were also said to have had bird flu. The symptoms ascribed to pathogenic Avian Flu in birds are confusingly identical to those for 3-4g and 5G exposure. In Scotland, 5G bases sprouting with marked alacrity throughout the country have been matched by the intensity of bird mortality. Dead wild sea birds have been found lying on beaches in the southwest. This comes in the wake of mass deaths of Barnacle geese on Scotland’s southwest coast, migrating home in December, 2021. Tens of thousands died. On 9^th June, huge numbers of gulls, gannets and guillemots were washed up dead on Tayside and Fife beaches of Scotland’s east coast. Further up the east coast dead birds were found on St Cyrus nature reserve.

In the U.S., since March 2022, millions of commercial poultry have been culled due to alleged Avian Flu, detected with the PCR test. In Iowa, the country’s leading egg producer farms had 53 million hens and 88,000 turkeys killed. Across the U.S., 22 million egg laying chickens, 1.8 million chickens, 1.9 million pullet and other commercial chickens, and 1.9 million turkeys were culled. This would only contribute to fears over burgeoning food supply shortages for Americans.

Attributing sweeping mortality rates of birds on EMF and 5G has been dismissed as conspiracy theorising misinformation by Audubon, the official magazine for the Audubon society, one of the U.S. big ten green groups funded by industry. With several members of corporations on its board, Audubon would not boycott Exxon following its 11-million-gallon oil spill in Alaska that killed thousands of birds. Audubon Nature Institute recently received federal funding to replace analogue radio systems with 400 digital radios across all its facilities and parks at its centre in New Orleans, bringing it into agreement with the upcoming FCC plans to discontinue analogue frequency licensing. This will only be harmful to wildlife. Audubon can join the mainstream choir, and the vigilantly truthful Fact checkers, Lead Stories, Snopes, or Full Fact working with Facebook and Reuters. It was Reuters, along with Snopes, who descried ‘false claims’ of 5G testing when 350 dead starlings fell from park trees in the Hague, in October, 2018. There were unconfirmed reports that a New Holland Spoor 5G transmitter, viewable from where the birds fell, was being tested in connection with a Dutch railway station at the time of their death. Dog owners reported their dogs vomiting as they passed, so police fenced off the area for a time. Reuters then reported that the Antenna Bureau of the Dutch government said there had been no testing of 5G masts at that point, bolstering their case with Wagingen Bioveterinary Research (WUF) which carried out post-mortem examination of the birds, concluding bleeding was from the poisoned yew berries found in their stomachs. In fact, the starlings had eaten these for years without reaction, but the theory was maintained, nonetheless. A further autopsy by the national History Museum in Rotterdam found severe internal bleeding from ruptured livers, as well as damage to blood vessels, heart and lungs. The researchers concluded that the starlings must have crashed into each other, the trees and the ground with fatal velocity, due to being panicked or disorientated. Reuters went on to ratify their hypothesis by citing Sergeant Rob Taylor’s explanation for a similar incident in Anglesey. When those starlings fell dead along a stretch of a road in Wales in December 2019, police claimed they crashed onto tarmac and died avoiding the bad weather, or escaping a bird of prey. Birds must have had a quirky blip in their evolutionary voyage. Until recently they were not in the habit of nosediving onto roads in order to escape anything.

200 starlings were found dead on a road near Llywenan in Bodedern, Wales. The birds flew in a circle before dying, and fell on the road, rather than the fields either side of it, which begs the question of whether power lines had been installed beneath the road. A spokesman for the area said not. The birds examined birds showed internal bleeding, which was explained as consistent with impact. Vodafone have a 5G test bed 41 miles from Llywenan, in the villages of Llanddewi, Rhydderch and Llandudno, ‘where connectivity can be at its worst.’ Some reckoned they were also testing in Bodedern, which the company denied. Suspicion may have been roused by the fact that Vodafone was the first to hide many of their 5G cell antennae under man hole covers , without informing the public. In February 2020, 100 starlings were found dead in a similar grouping along a road in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said the birds were killed by passing cars and trucks. (Which, instinctively, the birds must have fallen beneath in mid-flight). There were electrical lines along the road, about 30 feet from the birds, as well as a cell tower sited 50-75 yards away.

On the 5th February, 2020, 1,000 birds fell dead onto the Viale del Policlinico, a street in Rome. Officials said the birds died when a tree collapsed due to strong wind. Again, the birds flew in a circle before dying. Again, it is puzzling that birds of all creatures should be crushed beneath a collapsed tree, when their innate response is to fly away. In early March, 2020, 1,000 birds were found dead in Sikeston, Southeast Missouri, apparently caught in a storm. Red winged black birds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and European starlings fell into fields in the area. Sikeston is a small town of 17.48 square miles, overrun with cell towers. Birds, undisturbed would normally know to avoid a storm, and fly around it. (Panagopoulos 2020 Warnke 2008). In April 2020, thousands of dead swallows and swifts migrating from Africa fell from the sky, and were found in Athens, in apartment balconies, on Aegean islands, and around lakes close to the seaport of Nauplia, in the Peloponnese region. Strong winds, low temperatures and rain were blamed. In the same month, 200 dead ducks were found in Denmark, on the beaches of Laesø. They were later tested for flu, which was negative. Ten woodcocks were found dead in an unusual part of St Helier, Jersey. Mr Dryden, chairman of the Ornithology section of the Society Jersiase, said most birds attracted to bright light would fly around it. He later observed more ambient lights in the area, concluding this was the likely cause.

Investigation of chemical emissions from aircraft as a contributory factor in migratory bird deaths, recalls bird feathers are pizo electric transducers and receptors of microwave radiation, making them finely tuned to the intensity of the magnetic field, while the magnetic function stored in their beaks also sensitizes and attunes them to the magnetic field. Nano materials diffused from aeroplanes which interact with 5G transmitters installed around the world, achieve the dialectric function of bird feathers and magnetic function stored in birds’ beaks, at nano scale, inducing interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Birds’ collective whirl before dying emulates the clockwise spin of upper-level air currents around the high-pressure zone of these 5G transmitters. The wave form of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), used to transmit data and information, moves in the trajectory of a corkscrew.

Non action on the grounds of insufficient evidence does not really stand up. Botanist, Mark Broomhall, presented a 2017 report to UNESCO, detailing the disappearance of a range of species after a phone mast was erected in the Mount Nardi area of the Nightcap National Park World Heritage region, between 2000-2015. He explained,

In both volume and species from 70 to 90% of the wildlife has become rare or has disappeared from the Nightcap National Park within a radius of the Mount Nardi tower complex. This statement can be summarised with concrete data: 3 bat species once common have become rare or gone, 11 threatened and endangered bird species are gone, 11 migratory bird species are gone, 86 bird species are demonstrating unnatural behaviours, 66 once common bird species are now rare or gone.” …. “With these short explanations of events we can appreciate that the effects of this technology and its application on Mount Nardi over the last fifteen years, affect not only the top of the life chain species but they are devastating the fabric of the continuity of the World Heritage, causing genetic deterioration in an insidious, massive and ever escalating scale. To truly understand what these studies reveal is to stare into the abyss.

That same year, corresponding observations were made of bird disappearance in specific areas wherever 4G wireless was installed. Diana Kordas, who had been birdwatching in Greece for 20 years, noted several islands once richly populated with a wide variety of birds, were deserted after the upgrading to 4G towers. The crows and seagulls seemed to be the only remainers, presumably more resilient. She also catalogued the damage and death wreaked on trees and plants.

The disappearance of insects may be more visually subtle to the average eye, given their size and discretion. Birds’ clearance tends to be more conspicuous – it is difficult to miss a flock falling dead from the sky, scattered over an expanse of land, or the absence of their song from early mornings, or the sight of their symphonic flights, and so on. A moratorium on all levels of radio frequencies and electromagnetic frequencies above 3G should be in place, while causes for such steep, rapid declines in bird populations are thoroughly researched. It seems that 5G technology is being bundled out virtually untested, which flouts all former conventions. Every cause for possible bird extinction should be plummeted – their demise parades the dusk of all living beings, and it is imperative to mind.

The trouble is, we do need insects, even mosquitoes. Life is a chain, and many creatures higher up the chain rely on the mosquito (or some other insect) for food, or eat the creatures that eat the mosquito, to be eaten themselves in turn by other creatures. We break the chain of life at our peril, because we are part of it.

In writing this paper it occurred to me: 5G has been going in around the world for some time now, but I have read hardly anything about it affecting insects, or soil, or bird migration, or animals. Hasn’t anyone else noticed? Is Greece the first country to have put 5G all over rural areas? Or are people simply not connecting the dots and continuing to blame pesticides and climate change for everything that goes wrong in nature? Because I don’t believe for a second that what’s happening here isn’t happening in other places. Something caused the bumblebee to become extinct in nine U.S. states. And birdwatcher friends are telling me that they too are seriously concerned about migration.

A big part of the problem is that no one is looking. Every day we take our dogs for a walk and see other people out walking or running, but are they looking around them? Virtually every person we see is carrying a smartphone, and more often than not they are looking at it as they go along. They might notice an elephant if it got in their way, but a bee? Or a lack of bees? They are too involved with “staying connected” to stay connected with the world in front of their eyes. If you don’t look you won’t see. If you live your life in what NY Times columnist Roger Cohen dubbed “device-distracted apathy” the world around you might as well not exist.

I’m tired of hearing, “Wireless communications are here to stay; we can’t do without them; we can’t go back to the Stone Age.” What we cannot do without—really can’t do without— is nature. A planet with dead seas and dead land will not support us; we will die of oxygen deprivation or starve to death. Who will you call then?

Now that 5G has arrived, time is running out fast. I don’t think it’s too late to change things, but I don’t think we have much time left to do it. So I ask you—if this paper has meant anything at all to you, think seriously about giving up your wireless devices. There are other ways to communicate. Contact NGOs and ask them to add RF radiation to their list of major threats to the planet, to stop promoting smartphone apps which identify bugs or birds, and to stop tracking animals, birds and insects using wireless devices. Contact government representatives and ask them to support alternatives to wireless technology.

If you don’t care, who will? 

5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos

Diana Kordas
Ed.M, M.A.
Samos, Greece diana.kordas@protonmail.com

February 22, 2022

Abstract

In 2017, a major German study found that flying insects had decreased over 75% in protected areas over the previous 27 years while ruling out climate change and pesticides. In 2021, the bumblebee was declared extinct in nine U.S. states. Insects, including pollinators, are diminishing rapidly worldwide, yet governments, NGOs, the mainstream media and even many scientists are refusing to consider the effects of Radiofrequency (RF) radiation despite an enormous body of independent scientific studies showing harm.

During recent decades, environmental pollution from RF radiation has increased substantially. Currently the fifth generation, 5G, is being rolled out worldwide. Appeals for a moratorium on 5G till proper studies are done to assess potential risks have all failed.

Besides risks to people, such as cancer, neurological disease and sterility, hazards to the environment, especially birds and insects, are a major concern. On our 31⁄2 acre piece of land on the island of Samos, we have seen a dramatic decrease of insects between 2012 and 2021. Some species of insects may be extinct and several species appear to be suffering from DNA damage.

The area where we live had little wireless radiation until 2016, when 4G/LTE networks were installed on Samos and many new cell towers were built, from which time insects and birds began to decline noticeably. A tipping-point was reached in the summer of 2021, after the installation of a new 5G cell tower directly opposite the land. This cell tower is part of a new 5G network on Samos.

Since July 2021, when the 5G network on Samos went live, insects on our land have declined between 80-90% depending on species. All orders of insects are affected. The cause of these insect declines can only be RF radiation from the cell towers. No pesticides are used in this area and nothing else can account for the sudden, severe drop in the number of insects in this place since July 2021. Small mammals, especially rodents, are also declining rapidly.

The consequences of these declines will be far-reaching: this will affect wild plant diversity, agriculture and beekeeping. Worse, they may lead to crop

failures and mass bee colony collapse respectively. Insect-eating birds will decline dramatically and may go extinct.

Frequency (i.e., wavelength) appears to be a more important factor than signal strength (power) in insect declines. Greece is using the 0.7 GHz, 3,5 GHz and 22.5 GHz bandwidths; the last of which is often classed as millimeter waves. Wherever 5G signals are present, insects have declined, whether these areas are near to or far from cell towers. Samos is rapidly losing most of its insects including its pollinators.

5G frequencies appear to be the main cause of the most recent insect declines, which are happening all over the island. 

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