The ‘Product Defense Industry’ at Work

As David Michaels’ revealing book, Doubt is Their Product – How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health makes clear, manufacturing uncertainty and confusion is one of the main tools in the corporate playbook. The pattern holds whether it applies to chemicals, pesticides, tobacco, asbestos, climate change or…wireless technologies. The following two pieces illustrate that beautifully.

[Credit – Annie Tritt for The New York Times:
Deborah Tavares, with a sign protesting smart-meter installations, in Sebastopol, Calif.]

First, this pathetically brainwashed/brainwashing piece from the great “newspaper of record, the New York Times:”

Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?
By FELICITY BARRINGER

In researching Monday’s article about opposition to smart meters, I found myself once again facing a dilemma built into environmental reporting: how to evaluate whether claims of health effects caused by some environmental contaminant — chemicals, noise, radiation, whatever — are potentially valid? I turned, as usual, to the peer-reviewed science.

But some very intelligent people I interviewed had little use for the existing (if sparse) science. How, in a rational society, does one understand those who reject science, a common touchstone of what is real and verifiable? [ Good Question for this brainwashed or complicit reporter to answer by looking at what follows…]

Now, check this out from UK activist Eileen O’Connor of pandora-foundation.eu:

Attempt to Destroy Scientific Mobile Telecommunication Data at the Medical University of Vienna Failed

Berlin, 31 January 2011 – Mid-2007 Prof. Alexander Lerchl, a biologist at the private Jacobs University Bremen and a member of the German Commission on Radiological Protection at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, informs the rector of the Medical University of Vienna, Prof. Wolfgang Schütz, about a serious suspicion: the findings described in two publications from the Division of Occupational Medicine of his university are most likely fraudulent. This news is picked up by numerous national and international media, with the German newsmagazine

Der Spiegel leading the way, and broadcasted to the whole world. The documentation provided on our website (https://www.pandora-foundation.eu) reports on the strenuous attempts to remove the Vienna research findings, which indicate that cell phone radiation has a cancer-causing potential, from the scientific literature. Two scientists in important social positions, who certainly can be sure of the mobile phone industry’s appreciation, were in front of the line. That they disregard the information of the general public in favour of the cell phone industry do both – as it seems – approvingly accept.

The documentation published by Pandora – Foundation for Independent Research reveals the strategies used by the Viennese rector, which he, of course, would like to be understood as his personal commitment to truth in science. A further documentation will report on Prof. Lerchl’s activities that exceed even the rector’s schemes. As shown in the documentation, the Council for Scientific Ethics at the Medical University of Vienna and later in addition the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity – both mandated to clarify the case – had a hard time deciding as to whether they should fully honour the truth in science or not. In order to forestall uncomfortable decisions with far-reaching consequences, which would have been inevitable, they agreed on a compromise. Independently of each other, both commissions stated that there is no evidence that the suspected team manipulated its data. Both commissions also left no doubt that they consider the scientific quality of the Viennese research findings as being poor. In this way, they not only overstepped their mandate and competence, but at the same time also ensured that the two masterminds of this scandal and the academic facilities they head did not completely lose their reputation.

Even if the cell phone industry with its “war gaming” strategy, which it has been using with success in the US in the 90s of the past century, should have succeeded in discrediting and devaluing the Viennese research findings in the eyes of many people, this victory has meanwhile become meaningless. Because in the meantime – as shown in the documentation – several publications have been released whose findings agree with those obtained in Vienna.

Furthermore, epidemiological research provides more and more findings that the damage to the genome of human cells, as has been observed in Vienna and elsewhere, can certainly contribute to the development of malignant tumours. Still to come, in January 2011 research findings of an epidemiological study from Israel will be published showing that the incidence of tumours of the parotid gland, which belongs to the sites of the highest exposure to cell phone radiation, has quadrupled since 1970, with the highest increase occurring after 2001. That the human brain will be more resistant to cell phone radiation is highly unlikely in regard of already available epidemiological research data. It remains to be seen how the cell phone industry and its friends in the scientific community will respond to that.

Prof. Dr. Franz Adlkofer & Prof. Dr. Karl Richter
Board of Pandora – Foundation for Independent Research

Trustee: Andreas Kaffka
Birkenwerderstrasse 27b
OT Bergfelde
D-16562 Hohen Neuendorf
FOR THE DOCUMENTATION SEE: https://www.pandora-foundation.eu

For more details on this, please see:

About the Handling of Scientific Findings Regarding Mobile Phone Research at the Medical University of Vienna
Franz Adlkofer and Karl Richter

Mid-2007 Prof. Alexander Lerchl, biologist at the private Jacobs University in Bremen and member of the German Commission on Radiological Protection (SSK) of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), informs the rector of the Medical University of Vienna (MUV), Prof. Wolfgang Schütz, about a serious suspicion: the findings of research carried out at the Division of Occupational Medicine of his university and published in Mutation Research in 2005 (Diem et al.) are most likely fraudulent. Shortly thereafter, he makes the same accusation against another study from the same laboratory, which was published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health (IAOEH) at the beginning of 2008 (Schwarz et al.). In spring 2008, the rector mandates the newly appointed Council for Scientific Ethics of MUV, which consists of three persons he trusts, to clarify the expressed suspicion. Without thoroughly examining the allegations, this Council confirms the accusation of data fabrication already after its first meeting on May 16, 2008. As a result, the rector demands of the authors to immediately retract their publications from Mutation Research and the International Archives. He also demands of the editors – just like Prof. Lerchl did before – to remove the publications from their scientific journals because of a suspected serious scientific fraud. A first press release by the rector and a first report in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel written by the journalist Manfred Dworschak immediately broadcast the allegedly confirmed fraud scandal to the whole world.
However, a few days after the meeting of the Council for Scientific Ethics it is accidentally revealed that the rector-appointed Council chair has been a lawyer employed by the Austrian mobile phone industry. Because of suspicion of partiality, Prof. Hugo Rüdiger, the former director of the Clinical Division of Occupational Medicine and corresponding author of both publications, requests the immediate removal of this Council chair who, according to the Council’s statutes, should never have been appointed to this position. He also withdraws the signatures he gave to letters presented to him and addressed to the editors of the two journals, in which he had declared his willingness to retract the publications. The team member accused of data fabrication follows his example. Thus, they both join the decision of the two co-authors Prof. Franz Adlkofer (Munich) and Prof. Niels Kuster (Zurich) who are independent of the MUV rector and who strictly refused from very beginning to withdraw the publications as requested by Prof. Schütz and Prof. Lerchl. Due to the pressure created by the events, the rector sees himself finally forced to replace the industry employee suspected of partiality with a new chair. The successor is a former lawyer in public administration who indeed is independent. In the meetings on June 19, July 24, September 25, and November 13, 2008, under his chair the Council for Scientific Ethics comes to the conclusion that the suspicion of fraud cannot be proven. [Read more… ]

Smart Meter Pushback Gets National Attention

[left: photo credit -Annie Tritt for The New York Times –
Katharina Sandizell, at home with her sons Jacob, left, and Luca, helped block meter trucks in Marin County. ]

Proving the aphorism that ‘resistance is fertile,’ West Marin organizing against PG&E’s dictatorial plan to install wireless so-called ‘smart’ meters is drawing the nervous attention of both the national media and the international power-telecom industry.

Check out…
New Electricity Meters Stir Fears
By FELICITY BARRINGER

INVERNESS PARK, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric’s campaign to introduce wireless smart meters in Northern California is facing fierce opposition from an eclectic mix of Tea Party conservatives and left-leaning individualists who say the meters threaten their liberties and their health…. [read more]

Telecoms Target Fire Houses with Wireless Antenna Build-out
Despite the opposition of the International Association of Fire Fighters to placing wireless antennas on fire houses, telecom companies continue to press local fire departments – like that in Bolinas, CA – to do just that. Citizens and Fire Board Members examine this universal issue in this lively Jan. 24, 2011 community meeting. [Scroll down for video]

“The International Association of Fire Fighters’ position on locating cell towers commercial wireless infrastructure on fire department facilities, as adopted by its membership in August 2004, is that the IAFF oppose the use of fire stations as base stations for towers and/or antennas for the conduction of cell phone transmissions until a study with the highest scientific merit and integrity on health effects of exposure to low-intensity RF/MW radiation is conducted and it is proven that such sitings are not hazardous to the health of our members.”

Why Firefighter’s Association is concerned about RF radiation

Below Susan Foster, medical social worker, medical writer, and the initiator and organizer of the first brain study ever done of firefighters who have lived/worked with a cell tower on their station for over 5 years, explains her alarming test results.

Susan Dana Foster
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
15957 Avenida Calma
Rancho Santa Fe, California 92091
(858) 756-3532

January 17, 2011

Susan Hackwood, PhD,
Executive Director, California Council on Science and Technology
Lora Lee Martin,
Director, Strategic Policy Initiatives and Government Affairs
California Council on Science and Technology
5005 La Mart Drive, Suite 105
Riverside, CA 92507

Re:  Smart Meter Health Impact
(For Southern California, yet speaking on behalf of the entire State)

Dear Dr. Hackwood and Ms. Martin:

I have just read the New York Times article by Colin Sullivan and Debra Kahn, and feel I must speak out, for there are voices you are not hearing, and risks that have gone under-assessed.

I am a resident of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, in North County San Diego. The utility company in my area is SDG&E. I am afraid Southern California does not have the activists that Northern California can rightfully and proudly claim.  Yet our silence should not be misconstrued as lack of concern, and by no means is there an absence of symptoms from smart meters which were deployed in 2010.

I am one of the few people — perhaps the only one — who successfully fought to keep SDG&E from putting a Smart Meter on my home.  I am quite very familiar with RF (microwave) radiation.  Knowing I am sensitive to it, I became proactive when notified that the smart meter build out was going to start in north county San Diego. I contacted SDG&E and have chronicled each contact I had with SDG&E.  I have a neuro-cardiac problem know as Neuro-Cardiogenic Syncope.  I can pass out without warning, as my brain does not always give my heart the right message.  Anything that interferes with the brain and/or the heart is contraindicated.  RF (microwave) radiation can do both, and therefore this medical reality — as well as that of any and all members of the public who are vulnerable neurologically or with respect to cardiac conditions — must have your greatest attention and concern.  Even though my medical circumstance makes me the proverbial “canary in the coal mine”, I suspect my case serves as a harbinger of what others are experiencing — often unknowingly.  It does not mean they don’t know they are symptomatic, but they do not know — nor do their physicians — that microwaves have been introduced into their 24/7 environment and can affect them neurologically.

As a medical social worker, medical writer, and more relevant to the issue of smart meters — the initiator and organizer of the first brain study ever done of firefighters who have lived/worked with a cell tower on their station for over 5 years, I am well equipped to understand some of the risks inherent in exposing people 24/7 to RF (microwave) radiation.

The cell tower beaming across the working/sleeping quarters of the fire station where our test subjects came from emitted the same type of radiation as smart meters.  RF Radiation is truly a euphemism.  The radiation from smart meters and cell towers is actually microwave radiation.  It has the ability to penetrate every living cell — plant, animal, and human.  It is not innocuous, as some of the CCST report contributors suggest.

Of the 6 firefighters who underwent SPECT scans of the brain, and TOVA testing for neurological measurement of reaction time, impulse control, and decision making, we found abnormalities in all 6 firefighters.  Why is this so significant?  Our firefighters are the strongest of the strong among us.  They must pass rigorous physical and cognitive testing before being accepted into the fire department of any city.  The men we tested were no exception.  To see hyper-excitability of the neurons when the firefighters were off duty and in repose was extremely disconcerting.  Dr. Gunnar Heuser and I are writing a paper with Dr. Olle Johannson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in hopes the lessons learned in this study can be applied universally.

Additionally, all 6 firefighters showed neurological deficits in the areas of decision making, impulse control, and reaction time.  Think of that.  These men are our first responders.  By placing cell towers on fire stations the cities are earning rental income paid by the telecommunications industry, yet we are quite literally placing our citizens at risk if our first responders are not functioning at their optimal level.  And from a humanitarian perspective, we have an even greater responsibility to protect the men and women who would sacrifice their lives for ours, and indeed have, as this nation and the entire world witnessed on 9/11 and on other occasions.

Let’s extrapolate and apply that thinking to homes with smart meters emitting bursts of RF (microwave) radiation every minute — I have heard every 10 to 23 seconds.  I think Cindy Sage is a better one to check with on what she has found with respect to the pulsed emissions of microwave radiation.   We are subjecting the unborn, young children with developing brains, women, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions all of whom are much more likely to be predisposed than strong, healthy firefighters to adverse reactions to these bursts of RF (microwave) radiation.  Yet if we found abnormalities in the firefighters after their 5 years of exposure to a cell tower, what about all those who are even more likely to sustain harm from RF radiation emitted by smart meters 24/7?  From a humanitarian perspective, we have an obligation and a duty to protect those who cannot speak for themselves.  If we have knowledge that would protect the defenseless, and the defenseless would include those without full knowledge of the potential detrimental effects of RF (microwave) radiation, we must act on it.

Why is RF (microwave) radiation such a risk to the population at large? Let’s first consider the brain as “the seat of the soul” and the central switchboard for all that happens in our bodies. The brain is the first organ to be adversely affected by this type of radiation.  Neurological functions of the brain include but are not limited to the following:

• sleep disturbances — inability to sleep/inability to wake up with clear thinking
• headaches
• disorientation
• mood disturbances
• inability to concentrate
• poor impulse control
• delayed reaction time
• tinnitus

I know I, an adult with a fully formed blood brain-barrier (or BBB) — the covering around the brain that is supposed to protect our brains from chemicals entering and damaging the body’s most critical organ, must be extremely careful around RF radiation because my brain stem does not always give the right signals to my heart.  How does RF radiation directly affect my brain when the BBB is intact?  That is because RF radiation crosses the BBB, and that is dangerous.  In fact, RF radiation has been shown to disrupt the development of the BBB, and since the absolutely essential BBB is not fully formed until early adulthood, what in the world are we doing to the unborn and to our children and our teens by exposing them to rapid bursts of pulsed microwave radiation?  All this for the sake of progress in the energy arena?

I suggest we get our best minds to work on trying to calculate the astounding expenses from the potential health costs of neurological and immunological impairment in literally millions of residents in smart metered-homes in the coming years.  Why do I also say immunological?  The central nervous system and the immune systems are the two systems of the body that interact most closely.  When one is damaged, the other is at risk.  I would suggest that the CCST tap the services of Berkeley scientist Lloyd Morgan, and perhaps Dr. Joel Moskowitz, Director, Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California Berkeley, to discuss the actuarial work that should be undertaken to calculate the potential costs to society, to our health care system, to the utility companies, to all the manufacturers of smart meters, and to all those who have given a “pass” to this technology without truly delving into the potential risk particularly to the developing fetus and young children.

I am a fortunate woman, and the vast majority of the population lack the knowledge I have or the ability to express medically what is happening to them. They are unaware of the cause and effect of being exposed to microwave radiation 24/7, and their physicians will initially misdiagnose them.  I am fortunate because I have early warning signals that tell me what I must avoid, I was blessed to have an education that has allowed me to help others and hopefully to protect others from harm, I have the means to move away from a neighborhood that is so filled with smart meters that even living in a home without one does not afford me a decent night’s sleep, and I am tenacious when I need to be to protect my family, myself and others.

I had to use that tenacity in dealing with SDG&E, as well as patience — and I am writing in part to tell the CCST you must advocate an “opt out” opportunity for utility consumers, allowing them wired smart meters rather than wireless.  It was almost impossible for me to force SDG&E to not install a smart meter on my home.  This technology is so new, and was rushed to market, such that I had to educate my cardiologist who had never heard of a smart meter before.  Most still have not. I had to educate SDG&E employees.  I had to ultimately tell SDG&E I would hold them legally responsible for any harm that came to me if a smart meter was installed on my home.  With the “false comparisons” offered by SDG&E regarding the supposed-safety of their smart meters, I had to do copious research to assert my right given my critical medical need NOT to have a smart meter on my home.  It should not be this complicated.  I fear we have jumped into this new technology with great fervor — in part for energy conservation and in part as a stimulus to the economy.  But are we as a nation trying to fit a square peg into a round hole?

One SDG&E executive employee told me, “We are new at this.  It is still sort of an experiment.”  Sort of an experiment? That is a frightening statement when you consider smart meters expose a family 24/7 to microwave radiation. That same individual asked me why so many people with pacemakers were calling her office and expressing concern.  She had assured them there would be no problem, and I was stunned to hear this.  Supposedly some pacemakers are now better shielded to not beat irregularly in the presence of RF radiation, but who knows which pacemakers are shielded, which ones aren’t, and as Cindy Sage points out in her extensive report, no one is monitoring the total cumulative load of RF radiation any home or any one person is being exposed to.  The SDG&E employee asked me, the consumer, what could happen to a person with a pacemaker if the smart meter happened to adversely affect them.

My answer to the SDG&E employee was very simple. “They could die.”  Is it likely?  Perhaps not.  Is it possible. Absolutely.  I told the SDG&E employee she had a moral obligation to find those individuals with pacemakers and offer them the opportunity I was insisting on — NO smart meter.  To my knowledge, I am still the only person in SDG&E territory who does not have a smart meter on my home.  To what level of negligence this rises, I do not know.  That is not an area I have expertise in.  I have, however, shared my relevant expertise about health issues and our discoveries with the firefighters, and I do hope you will listen earnestly.

The firefighters listened.  I took our study results from the testing of the 6 firefighters, wrote a resolution, and with the help of an international coalition of experts and firefighters including Dr. Magda Havas of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario and Janet Newton of the EMR Policy Institute, we took what is now known as Resolution 15 to the International Association of Firefighters conference held in Boston in August 2004. By an 80% majority, the firefighters passed Res. 15 calling for the spirit of a moratorium on placing cell towers on fire stations throughout the US and Canada pending further study.  I say the “spirit” of a moratorium because it is still trumped by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and until legislative changes take place in the US, and a much-needed health consciousness arises about the need for safer communication through fiber optics as opposed to the proliferation of RF-emitting devices, we are playing Russian Roulette with our future, our children’s future, and their progeny, as well.

Thank you for your time, and consideration.

Respectfully,

SUSAN FOSTER, MSW
15957 Avenida Calma
Rancho Santa Fe CA 92091
susan.foster1004@cox.net
(858) 756-3532

ATT: NYT.com
January 14, 2011- Calif. Agency Mulls ‘Opt Out’ or Wired Substitutes as Fallout Over Smart Meters Persists
By COLIN SULLIVAN AND DEBRA KAHN

cc: Gov. Jerry Brown
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
Assemblyman Jared Huffman
New York Times
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Matthew Lucks, MD
Frederick De La Vega, MD
Gunnar Heuser, MD, PhD
Olle Johanson, MD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

If EMR is ‘Harmless,’ How Can it be Weaponized?
In 2006, the Project Censored Team of Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton completed their ‘Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons.‘

Although the technology, economics and politics of EMW’s has changed and grown more ominous since 2006, their report remains soberingly current. Here is a sampling of some of what it has to say (please see PDF for numbered citations and footnotes):

“This research explores the current capabilities of the US military to use electromagnetic (EMF) devices to harass, intimidate, and kill individuals and the continuing possibilities of violations of human rights by the testing and deployment of these weapons. To establish historical precedent in the US for such acts, we document long-term human rights and freedom of thought violations by US military/intelligence organizations. Additionally, we explore contemporary evidence of on-going government research in EMF weapons technologies and examine the potentialities of continuing human rights abuses.

In the 1950s and 60s the CIA began work to find means for influencing human cognition, emotion and behavior. Through the use of the psychological understanding of the human being as a social animal and the ability to manipulate a subject’s environment through isolation, drugs and hypnosis, US funded scientists have long searched for better means of controlling human behavior. This research has included the use of wireless directed electromagnetic energy under the heading of “Information Warfare” and “Non Lethal Weapons.” New technological capabilities have been developed in black budget projects1 over the last few decades— including the ability to influence human emotion, disrupt thought, and present excruciating pain through the manipulation of magnetic fields. The US military and intelligence agencies have at their disposal frightful new weapons, weapons that have likely already been covertly used and/or tested on humans, both here and abroad, and which could be directed against the public in the event of mass protests or civil disturbance.

Human Rights belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and not others is a denial of the humanness of people worldwide. Yet, denial is exactly what Congress and George W. Bush did with the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006. The new official US policy is that torture and suspension of due process are acceptable for anyone the president deems to be a terrorist or supporter. This act is the overt denial of the inalienable rights of human beings propagated in our Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More so, US actions declared to the world that the US suspends human rights for those it believes are evil.

The precious words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” did not declare that only some men (and women) possess unalienable rights. Our independence was founded on the understanding that all men and women are recognized by this nation as having innate rights derived by their humanity.

Likewise, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the United Nations in 1948, signed and ratified by the US Congress, specifies in its preamble that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been a guide for international law for most of six decades, and as such binds the United States to its general principles. Article 10 states that “everyone is entitled to full equality, to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him,” and Article 5 specifically prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Both of these
basic human rights have been superceded by the passage the of Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Additionally, the Universal Declaration of Human rights declares that everyone has the right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression and opinion. This means that humans have the inalienable right to be able to freely think their own thoughts and discover their own truths. This paper addresses this most fundamental human right and explores the pending threats to individual freedom of thought posed by new EMF weapons technologies.

Freedom of thought or cognitive liberty is the natural human right of each person to be secure in their ability to perceive the world to the best of their ability. To have true cognitive liberty in a world as complex as ours would mean that first we must have access to truthful and unbiased information about the actions of others and the general state of the world. The Center for Cognitive Liberties defines this as “the right of each individual to think independently and autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought.”2 Without accurate
representations we cannot make independently informed choices. It is imperative that the human body and mind be considered sacrosanct. To invade a person’s body without their consent is an egregious human rights crime.

The circumstance may soon arrive in which anti-war or human rights protesters suddenly feel a burning sensation akin to touching a hot skillet over their entire body. Simultaneously they may hear terrifying nauseating screaming, which while not produced externally, fills their brains with overwhelming disruption. Not only are both phenomena currently possible, but designs for more powerful EMF technologies receive continuous funding from the US Government.

We are in a time of extremism, permanent war, and the unilateral manifestation of ethnocentrism and power by a cabal of people in the US government. These power elites have been in operation for decades and are set on nothing less than the total US military domination of the world. They defy the foundational values of the American people to achieve their ends. This is not a new phenomenon.

The repression of human rights has been present within the US Government throughout our history. 3 A long thread of sociological research documents the existence of a dominant ruling class in the US that sets policy and determines national political priorities. The American ruling class is complex and inter-competitive, maintaining itself through interacting families of high social standing with similar life styles, corporate affiliations, and memberships in elite social clubs and private schools.4

This American ruling class is self-perpetuating, 5 maintaining its influence through policy-making institutions such as the National Manufacturing Association, National Chamber of Commerce, Business Council, Business Roundtable, Conference Board, American Enterprise Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and other business-centered policy groups.6 C. Wright Mills, in his 1956 book The Power Elite, documents how World War II solidified a trinity of power in the US, comprised of corporate, military and government elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class
interests and working in unison through “higher circles” of contact and agreement. Mills described how the power elite were those “who decide whatever is decided” of major consequence.7

With the advent of the military-industrial complex after World War II, President Eisenhower observed that an internal military industrial power faction was consolidating their long-term plans for the domination of America and, eventually, the world. Eisenhower was in no position to fight these men, and history records his feelings on the subject with the text of his short farewell address:

‘….But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. Of these, I mention two
only…
…This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is
new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even
spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal
government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must
not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are
all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and
military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security
and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military
posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized,
complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the
direction of, the Federal government.”8

We now understand that Eisenhower was referring to the conjunction of redirected tax monies to research secret new technology aimed at nothing less than increasing the controlling power of the military industrial elite to a global scale.’
…
The media is complicit in omitting information necessary to make democratic decisions.22

A global dominance agenda includes penetration into the boardrooms of the corporate media in the US. A research team at Sonoma State University recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. These 118
individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. Four of the top 10 media corporations in the US have DOD contractors on their boards of directors including:
William Kennard: New York Times, Carlyle Group
Douglas Warner III, GE (NBC), Bechtel
John Bryson: Disney (ABC), Boeing
Alwyn Lewis: Disney (ABC), Halliburton
Douglas McCorkindale: Gannett, Lockheed-Martin

Given an interlocked media network, big media in the US effectively represent corporate America’s interests. The media elite, a key component of policy elites in the US, are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the controllers of news and information content, and the decision makers regarding media resources…

For more on the development of pulsed and directed energy weapons, Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), ‘Voice to Skull’ and other ‘non-lethal’ applications of electro-magnetic technologies and the quest for ‘full control of the electro-magnetic spectrum’ as a means to ‘full spectrum dominance’ of the planet, its peoples and its resourses, read on…

America Unwired?
Elizabeth Kelley, Founder of Electromagnetic Safety Alliance, Inc., gives us a heads-up on FCC plans to dismantle the country’s wired network and switch entirely to broadband wireless. She urges citizens to contact their representatives on this issue.

Pursuant to the Broadband Data Improvement Act, pushed by Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), and signed by George W. Bush in 2008, the Federal Communications Commission is reviewing comments on A National Broadband Plan for Our Future.

Spun as “the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely Fashion,” the plan would include many implications, including the de-wiring of the national communication network.

This would make AT&T and other telecom players very happy as you can see in its ‘COMMENTS OF AT&T INC. ON THE TRANSITION FROM THE LEGACY CIRCUIT-SWITCHED NETWORK TO BROADBAND’

Says the AT&T filing: “AT&T strongly supports a Commission Notice of Inquiry regarding the transition from the circuit-switched legacy network to broadband and IP-based communications. That transition is underway already: with each passing day, more and more communications services migrate to broadband and IP-based services, leaving the public switched telephone network (“PSTN”) and plain-old telephone service (“POTS”) as relics of a by-gone era.”

The Plan seems ominously reminiscent of the move last century by the automotive, tire and petroleum industries to buy up and destroy the country’s network of municipal and inter-urban mass transit rail lines in order to promote their interests in shifting to a gas-guzzling, carbon-loading private car economy – leading to the present dire global climate change situation.

The present corporate, short-term-profit-driven, headlong rush to make wireless the only option world wide – regardless of human health, political and human rights, environmental, personal privacy and national security considerations – can only be halted by informed, determined and unrelenting public opposition.

Could the proposed ‘smart’ meter ‘mesh networks’ provide the wireless infrastructure for the next infotainment broadcast marketing ploy? Is there a ‘smart’ meter connection to this move to de-wire America? Kelly thinks there may be: “The telecoms already applied to do this in California 2 years ago. some people think the video phone, using broadband may replace the land line system. If broadband is wireless…hmmm.” She points out that Al Gore is a major pusher of the ‘wireless world vision’ and an investor in Silver Springs, a major manufacturer of ‘smart’ meters.

Here, FYI, are links to two backgrounders forwarded by Kelly:

AT&T wants to dismantle all telephone lines in the entire country, leaving EIs cut off
by Steen Hviid

When the telephone lines are dismantled, people with disabilities may be cut off
by Steen Hviid

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