First Event: Sunday, December 1, 2019, 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm.
EON’s year-end Celebration, Report to Supporters and Fundraiser
Donate here
Second Event: Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 12:00 – 2:30 p.m
Commonwealth Club Expert Panel:
“Humanity at a Crossroads: New Insights Into Technology
Risks to Humans and the Planet”
Third Event: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 3:00 to 5:30
POINT REYES Cell Tower EVENT
Opportunity to hear three renowned expert speakers!
Cindy Russell, MD, (MDsafetech.org)
Magda Havas, Ph.D., (MagdaHavas.com) and
Ellie Marks,California Brain Tumor Association (http://www.calibta.org/)
Two Special Upcoming Events:
EON’s Annual Bolinas Fund Raiser Party!
Sunday, December 1, 2019 3:00 to 5:30 pm
A Report Back and Grateful Celebration of this Year’s Work on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.
5G, Nuclear Weapons and Waste have been our focus this year. From San Onofre, in Southern California, to Livermore in the Bay Area to New Mexico, the EON Team has been on the job this year engaged in activism, media reporting and documentary film production. We’d like to update you on some of what we’ve learned from the local to the global. We’ve made great progress on our documentary, Shutdown and will show excerpts.
Please join us for libations and munchies, Sunday, December 1, from 3-5:30pm at a lovely private residence (space limited.) Address will be given when you RSVP to 415-868-1900 or by email to: mbbrangan@gmail.com
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POINT REYES Cell Tower EVENT December 8, 3:00 to 5:30
Opportunity to hear three renowned expert speakers!
Cindy Russell, MD, (MDsafetech.org) Magda Havas, Ph.D., (MagdaHavas.com) and Ellie Marks,California Brain Tumor Association (http://www.calibta.org/)
From Nina:
This summer I released the attached report on Smart Meter fire and electrical hazards. In that report, I explained the dangers which electrical surges pose to digital electronic meters. Today PG&E will activate Public Safety Power Shutoffs in many counties. Afterwards, PG&E will re-energize those transmission lines, causing surges to flow down the lines. These surges will impact the Smart Meters installed on homes and buildings throughout communities. These surges could cause Smart Meters to malfunction, leading to electrical damage or even fires.
I urge you to read my report and alert your emergency personnel to this fire and public safety risk. I also urge you to tell the public to check their Smart Meter after the power is restored and be alert to any signs of damage, overheating, or fire at their meter or in their home or building, strange sounds, or electrical problems such as flickering lights. If they see any signs, they should contact their fire department immediately first and take photographs of any visible damage.
Smart Meters do not have a direct connection to ground, a circuit breaker, or adequate surge protection. Instead, they contain a varistor which wears out over time from repeated surges. When it wears out or if a high voltage event happens, including a surge over its maximum, touching wires, or a lightning strike, it will explode, allowing the overvoltage to flow unabated into the building. This can result in arcing, burned wiring, destroyed appliances, and fires, and it happens in seconds. It makes a popping sound when it explodes.
It is critical that emergency personnel understand the risks to the buildings in each community from these PSPS events and why fires and electrical problems can result. PG&E and other utility companies routinely tamper with fire scenes by removing Smart Meters, in violation of state procedures. Fire personnel must stop PG&E from removing meters so that a thorough investigation can happen. Inadequate fire codes and lack of training for fire personnel on Smart Meter vulnerabilities presently hamper data collection and accountability. This must change.
Sincerely, Nina Beety www.smartmeterharm.org
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012: “We are seeing a spate of reports from around the United States—and indeed around the world—of fires believed to have been caused by smart meters that were 2 faulty, incorrectly installed, or connected to circuits where there were unfortunate and unforeseen effects. This appears to be not just a matter of freak incidents that may or may not have taken place here or there… Obviously all companies with smart meter programs, and all their suppliers and sub-contractors, are going to have to take a close look at the issue of fire hazards. This is just the beginning of a difficult story. Companies installing smart meters already have run into a lot of consumer push-back because of concerns about privacy, security, and–sometimes–higher rather lower electricity costs. The last thing the smart grid needs is meters causing fires.”
1http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/smart-meter-death-fears/story-fire-and-electrical-hazards-reportfn7x8me2-12262854633422
2http://globalnews.ca/news/1489707/manufacturer-defends-smart-meters-after-fires/August 3, 2014, citing Sensus press release
3http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/smart-meter-fire-reports
Read the rest of this crucial report!
photo by Valeriia Miller
Do you hold your cell phone against your ear or in your pocket?
You may be exceeding the already way too high FCC ‘permissible levels’, a Chicago Tribune investigation finds. Class Action lawsuits have been filed against Apple and Samsung for “intentionally misrepresenting” the safety of the cell phones.
Telecom Lies Exposed
A new class-action lawsuit against Apple and Samsung alleges the cellphone makers “intentionally misrepresented” the safety of the devices, citing a Chicago Tribune investigation that tested popular smartphones for radiofrequency radiation and found some results over the federal exposure limit.
A group of lawyers has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Apple and Samsung, citing a Tribune investigation that tested popular cellphones for radiofrequency radiation and found some results over the federal exposure limit.
The lawsuit — filed Friday in August in California, Illinois and Iowa — alleges that the phone makers “intentionally misrepresented” the safety of their devices, assuring users that the phones had been adequately tested and “were safe to use on and in close proximity to their bodies.”
The complaint, which alleges “negligence, breach of warranty, consumer fraud and unjust enrichment,” seeks an unspecified amount of money and medical monitoring for anyone who bought an iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9 or Galaxy J3.
The Tribune commissioned tests of 11 models of cellphones made by four companies, including the six models mentioned in the suit. The newspaper stated that the intention was not to rank phone models for safety and noted it was not possible to say whether any of the devices tested could cause harm.
But the tests, conducted according to federal guidelines at an accredited lab, found that radiofrequency radiation from some models operating at full power measured over the exposure limit set by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC said it would pursue its own testing after the agency reviewed the Tribune’s lab reports.
Before any phone model can be brought to market, a sample must be tested for compliance with the exposure limit for radiofrequency radiation. In one phase of Tribune’s testing, the phones were positioned at the same distance from a simulated human body as the manufacturers chose for their premarket tests — between 5 and 15 millimeters, depending on the model.
In this phase, all three Samsung phones tested measured under the safety limit. Results varied for Apple phones, but several iPhone 7s were tested and all results exceeded the limit.
The Tribune also tested all the phone models at a consistent and closer distance of 2 millimeters, to estimate the potential exposure for an owner using the phone in a pants or shirt pocket.
In that phase of testing, most of the models tested yielded results that were over the exposure limit, sometimes far exceeding it. At 2 millimeters, the results from the three Samsungs and several iPhone models — again, operating at full power — were higher than the standard.
Two days after the Tribune published its investigation, the lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court in San Jose, California, alleging that Apple and Samsung “market and sell some of the most popular smartphones in the world … as emitting less RF radiation” than the legal limit. Read more
March Against 5G
On May 15, 2019 a rally was held on the Plaza in San Rafael, CA organized by community leaders opposed to the rush to roll out 5G technology without first having safety studies. Two of those leaders Victoria Sievers of EMF Safety Network San Rafael and EON’s Mary Beth Brangan went to the Community Media Center to further voice their concerns. Produced by .Ginger Souders-Mason
Building public 5G awareness in San Rafael, CA. EON photo
Stoking the Radiation Rebellion
By Mary Beth Brangan
Watch the passionate, informed resistance on the 5G Crisis July 27, National Day of Action – an 11 min. video report by EON’s Jim Heddle.
Viewer John Knox says – “Watched that vid twice & commented on it. Damn! Each Activist had great points that they each made in their own style. Well done video, and you have some very effective communicators there in Marin. Wow. Great sound, great shooting & editing.”
Upcoming event in Marin County, California
Please Attend & Bring Friends and Family!
International educator and attorney Dafna Tachover on 5G risks
San Geronimo Valley Community Center – August 10th 6:30 – 8:30 pm
6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
San Geronimo, CA 94963
(415) 488-8888
Ms. Dafna Tachover Esq, MBA, is an attorney in both New York and Israel and the founder of We Are The Evidence, an advocacy organization for the protection of the rights of people who have been injured by wireless radiation.
She led a Supreme Court case in Israel to ban the use of Wi-Fi in schools which led to the strictest limitations in the world on Wi-Fi in schools. She was a Telecommunication and Computers Officer and the Commander of the computer center of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Operations Headquarters.
Dafna has dedicated herself to educating the public and public officials regarding the adverse effects of wireless technology radiation and the resulting widespread sickness. She has been involved in related legal actions and represented 94 international organizations in an amicus brief in a U.S. case.
She has been featured in numerous publications and appeared in several documentaries about the topic, including Genneration Zapped and 5G-Apocalypse: The Extinction Event. Her website: We Are The Evidence
Three thought-provoking articles that deepen our understanding of the issues:
Emerging Problems for the 5G Bandwagon
by Timothy Schoechle, PhD., author of Reinventing Wires, from ElectromagneticHealth.org
From the article:
Despite all the media advertising, journalistic gloss, and industry bravado, 5G wireless has encountered a growing number of problems at local, state, national, and international levels.
- Lagging industry investment
- Carrier reliance on coerced subsidization by local communities
- Trade war turmoil, especially regarding China
- Complaints over cyber-security risks and state spying
- Public health concerns over RF radiation risks.
- Trump’s attack on Huawei and on China
- Google’s Trump disruption of the Android ecosystem
- Qualcomm’s loss of FTC antitrust challenge over its patents
- NYT fake news story attack against radiation complaints blaming Russia
- Safety concerns over mm waves and lack of research on large scale health effects
(i.e., public as guinea pig) - Mounting widespread local grassroots opposition
- Court challenges to state and federal preemption by cities, associations, and environmental groups
- Incomplete spectrum allocation
- Cost of spectrum and lack of cooperation among telecom operators
- Internal industry squabble over “5G” misrepresentation (e.g., AT&T’s “5Ge”)
- Incomplete technical standards
- Huawei’s patents on key 5G technology and standards (e.g., 2300 Huawei 5G patents)
- Huawei’s prominence in the standards setting process
- Dearth of equipment and phone manufacturers (dependency on China)
- Uncertainties over mm wave propagation characteristics and performance
- Lack of credible applications requiring 5G
- Lack of real need for 5G
- Emerging public concerns over privacy, security, and surveillance
- Emerging public concerns over smartphone social and political dysfunction
- Conflicts with NOAA satellite earth data collection systems
by Camilla Rees, author of Public Health SOS:
Is 5G the Problem? Or Is ‘Antenna Densification’?
A snippet from Camilla’s article:
“At present, spectrum for 5G has not been finalized. The 5G network has not been built out. Limited 5G testing in lower frequency bands is going on in some cities. In some cases, results have been disappointing. The biggest risk at this time is from 4G antennas being rapidly placed on utility poles and other infrastructure near homes, that transmit 24/7. 4G and 5G antennas will work in tandem. 4G is needed for location identification of wireless devices for 5G’s ‘on demand’ transmissions, as well as for voice calls. 5G is for data, connecting things. Phones enabled for 5G will still use 4G for voice. As explained in the Building Biology Institute’s new 5G course, 90% of cellular data is expected to transmit via 4G LTE for years to come.
Some believe the rush to hype 5G even before 5G technologies are fully developed or standardized is a trojan horse, that effectively brings 4G closer to homes without the difficulty and cost of obtaining permissions required for cell towers, while at the same time staking claim to muni ‘real estate’ for 5G later on if and when the 5G network is built out in a given location.”
And from the new issue of the Weston A. Price Journal, a new article by Katie Singer, author of Electronic Silent Spring and Our Web of Inconvenient Truth:
Getting Informed About 5G
“In our zeal for electronic things (and now, wireless devices), we have nearly saturated our environment with man-made electromagnetic radiation (EMR). With the advent of 5G, small cell networks will emit microwave radiation around the clock at largely untested frequencies. Each site’s electronic gear also poses fire and collapse hazards as well as liability, privacy and security issues. If getting informed is the first step toward constructive action, let’s ask: How did we get to 5G? Why do we need it? How will it affect our health? How (or can) we prevent it?”
Children – especially girls – are most vulnerable to the harmful biological and psychological effects of electro-magnetic radiation. EON photo
Telecom-Friendly ‘Regulators’
It’s not just residents as well as city, county and state government officials, who are outraged at the industry-captured Federal Communications Commission. Overreaching FCC policies, enacted by un-elected officials, have also sparked conflicts with the Navy, NASA, the Department of Commerce and all the U.S. utilities.
Citing concerns from NASA, senators urge FCC to rein in 5G expansion
Scientists from NASA and other agencies warn 5G operations in high-band spectrum could interfere with weather forecasting.
5G and weather forecasting
Ajit Pai says NOAA and NASA are wrong about 5G harming weather forecasts
Pai tells Congress that NOAA warnings are based on bad data.
A trade group representing hundreds of U.S. utility companies is urging federal agencies to make sure that power and electricity providers retain control of interference-free spectrum so they can continue to operate their own private wireless networks.
Utilities Bicker Over FCC Broadband Proposal as Industry Leader Rebrands
Finally, a head’s up from NextGov.com as to what the military has in mind:
Air Force Wants Simulated Wargames to Plan For Lasers, Electro-Magnetic Weapons
[snip]
“The purpose of these [military utility] studies is to determine
if and how well AFRL/RD and industry technologies can help address
warfighter needs and gaps including complementing current fielded
technologies and those under development by others,” the notice
states.
The Air Force has been working on laser weapons systems, or
LaWS, and high powered electro-magnetics, HPEM, for some time, with
plans to deploy the technologies on planes by 2020[1].”
if and how well AFRL/RD and industry technologies can help address
warfighter needs and gaps including complementing current fielded
technologies and those under development by others,” the notice
states.
LaWS, and high powered electro-magnetics, HPEM, for some time, with
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This legal case against the FCC offers us an unparalleled chance of stopping 5G in its tracks.
The Irregulators, a team of senior telecom experts, are exposing in court the illegal accounting scheme to replace wired networks with wireless and make us pay for it!
This key legal strategy against the FCC needs our support!
PLEASE DONATE at this link to help continue their fight on our behalf. It can help prevent the roll out of 5G. They need to be back in court July 22!
For more information, visit https://irregulators.net/
The Background
- Verizon, AT&T and other companies have illegally been using the construction budgets of the copper wireline-based (landlines) state telecommunications utilities to build out their wireless networks.
- Local phone customers have been charged inflated rates that have paid to help telecom companies build their networks – so that rate payers have been unknowingly subsidizing wireless services at the detriment of wired networks. Landlines offer better sound quality and more reliability in emergencies such as fires and storms and are essential service for elders. Landlines do not have the health and cyber risks of wireless communications.
- If these “cross subsidies” were removed – or repaid – then 5G would not be profitable.
- This shell game has given wireless companies enormous profits and has shown artificial losses for wired services. This has allowed telecoms to classify wired networks as unprofitable, to justify eliminating the superior copper-wired service and to force us into entirely wireless service!
- The telecoms have already charged rate payers (at thousands of dollars/line over two decades), to develop a fiber optic service, but didn’t deliver it to us as promised. Now they are attempting to charge us again for it but only giving us wireless service.
- Almost all these inaccurate and misleading financial practices were enabled by the FCC accounting rules.
- Exposing these “cross subsidies” and requiring the FCC to demand that telecom carriers fix them to accurately reflect the actual costs associated with each respective technology, could be a game changer.
- To add insult to injury, the companies have dumped billions per state of their ‘corporate operations expenses’ that should never have been charged. This is the executive pay, lobbyists, lawyers, golf tournaments and the corporate jets — and worse, these are the lawyers, lobbyists that are working to force 5G on us– we’re paying them extra to harm us!
The Irregulators: An independent consortium of highly regarded senior telecom experts, analysts, forensic auditors, and lawyers was formed to make the public aware of these manipulative accounting practices and take the FCC to task for allowing them at our expense. The group’s goal is to stop the practice of these subsidies and make wireless companies pay for the true cost of wireless, including the WIRED fiber optic networks which they rely on and have already been charging customers for, for two decades.
On June 3rd, 2019, the IRREGULATORS had a major victory when the FCC had the opportunity to but did not challenge their right to take this case and present it in the DC court, starting July 22nd, 2019. With this huge “win” behind them, now the group urgently needs financial support to take the case to trial and hold the FCC accountable for oversight of the telecom industry in an unbiased manner and secure our rights as rate payers.
PLEASE DONATE at this link to help continue their fight on our behalf. It may help to prevent, or at least, slow the roll out of 5G. For more information, visit https://irregulators.net/
FREE SUMMER READING: Click here for a free PDF of “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”, the 3rd in a trilogy that started in 1998. The second book (and author) was featured on Emmy nominated Bill Moyer’s PBS special, “The Net at Risk”, in 2006 the first national broadcast program on Net Neutrality. The author and book were also featured in Pulitzer Prize winner, David Cay Johnston’s “The Fine Print”, in 2012.
July 8, 2019 — By Mary Beth Brangan
Action Alert!
On July 9, the Marin County Board of Supervisors plans to consider an urgency ordinance and new policy regarding the installation of fifth-generation cellular wireless technology, commonly called 5G, in locations throughout unincorporated Marin within the public roads.
The Board has set a 1:30 p.m. session in the Marin County Civic Center Board chamber, Suite 330, in San Rafael. Residents will be able to attend, watch the webcast live or archived, or tune in on Channel 27 for Comcast and AT&T U-Verse subscribers. Read more
The draft has some strengths, but needs much work. Here are comments made by EON suggesting changes and additions.
From: Mary Beth Brangan, Ecological Options Network, EON
Re: Draft Ordinance for “Small Cell” Installation Many thanks to the sub-committee for this draft ordinance. I appreciate your work to protect your authority as elected officials and your citizens from the FCC overreach.
Section 704 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, that prohibits environmental (and claimed health effects, too) from being used to prevent the placement of any RF antenna is unjust and should be repealed.
You are aware of the amassed peer-reviewed science showing adverse health and environmental impacts from RF/EMF.
I say this because, in a just system, to accommodate willingly the demand by the wireless industry to densify the RF/MMW antennae and therefore the RF/EMF exposure (classified as a 2B carcinogen) would be considered willful endangerment of the public. This assault on our right to health is an outrage.
Here are a few recommendations for your consideration:
Another Terrible Proposal from the FCC:
Using the OTARD rule for 5G Wireless Radiation
EON’s Comments to the FCC Proposed Rule 19-71 regarding the proposal to use the OTARD (over-the-air reception devices) license (intended for ham radio, satellite dishes, etc.) to put 5G infrastructure on private property to avoid any legal oversight.
EON strongly opposes the proposed amendments to the OTARD rule. It should not be changed to allow wireless companies to put their 5G antennas on private homes in an attempt to avoid legal oversight.
Threats to security, safety and privacy already abound from exponentially increasing use of wireless technologies. What legal remedy would be available to a neighbor adversely affected by a 5G antenna on a nearby property? What legal protections would a property owner have against property devaluation? What responsibility does the FCC have to inform a prospective property owner considering placing a 5G antenna on their property about potential liability for harming neighbors? What responsibility does a property owner have to inform neighbors about the presence of a 5G antenna on their property?
Court rules Berkeley may require warnings
that cell phone use risks radiation exposure
San Francisco Chronicle, 7-2- 2019
Congratulations and immense thanks to all who worked tirelessly for this national precedent-setting ruling, including Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Ellie Marks, Joel Moscowitz, Lloyd Morgan, the Berkeley City Council and many others!
From Environmental Health Trust: “A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley’s cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. This ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit radiation and that “if you carry or use your phone in a pants or shirt pocket or tucked into a bra when the phone is ON and connected to a wireless network, you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to RF radiation.” Read more
Exposing the FCC’s illegal scheme to replace wired networks
with wireless and make us pay for it!
The Irregulators Legal Case against the FCC offers us an unparalleled chance of stopping 5G in its tracks.
They need your support!
The Background
- Verizon, AT&T and other companies have been using the construction budgets of the copper wireline- based state telecommunications utilities to build out their wireless networks.
- Local phone customers have been charged inflated rates that have paid to help telecom companies build their networks – so that rate payers have been unknowingly subsidizing wireless services at the detriment of wired networks.
- If these “cross subsidies” were removed – or repaid – then 5G would not be profitable.
- This shell game has given wireless companies enormous profits and has shown artificial losses for wired services. This has allowed telecoms to classify wired networks as unprofitable, to justify eliminating the superior copper-wired service and to force us into entirely wireless service.
- The telecoms have already charged rate payers (at thousands of dollars/line over two decades), to develop a fiber optic service, but didn’t deliver it to us as promised. Now they are attempting to charge us again for it but only giving us wireless service.
- Almost all these inaccurate and misleading financial practices were enabled by the FCC accounting rules.
- Exposing these “cross subsidies” and requiring the FCC to demand that telecom carriers fix them to accurately reflect the actual costs associated with each respective technology, could be a game changer.
- To add insult to injury, the companies have dumped billions per state of their ‘corporate operations expenses’ that should never have been charged. This is the executive pay, lobbyists, lawyers, golf tournaments and the corporate jets — and worse, these are the lawyers, lobbyists that are working to force 5G on us– we’re paying them extra to harm us!
The Irregulators: An independent consortium of highly regarded senior telecom experts, analysts, forensic auditors, and lawyers was formed to make the public aware of these manipulative accounting practices and take the FCC to task for allowing them at our expense. The group’s goal is to stop the practice of these subsidies and make wireless companies pay for the true cost of wireless, including the WIRED fiber optic networks which they rely on and have already been charging customers for, for two decades. On June 3rd, 2019, the IRREGULATORS had a major victory when the FCC had the opportunity to but did not challenge their right to take this case and present it in the DC court, starting July 22nd, 2019. With this huge “win” behind them, now the group urgently needs financial support to take the case to trial and hold the FCC accountable for oversight of the telecom industry in an unbiased manner and secure our rights as rate payers.
PLEASE DONATE at this link to help continue their fight on our behalf. It may help to prevent, or at least, slow the roll out of 5G. For more information, visit https://irregulators.net/
FREE SUMMER READING: Click here for a free PDF of “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”, the 3rd in a trilogy that started in 1998. The second book (and author) was featured on Emmy nominated Bill Moyer’s PBS special, “The Net at Risk”, in 2006 the first national broadcast program on Net Neutrality. The author and book were also featured in Pulitzer Prize winner, David Cay Johnston’s “The Fine Print”, in 2012.
Could A New Cell Tower Hurt You Financially? CBS13 Investigates
Published on Jun 26, 2019