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November 12, 2022
The 2022 Midterm – Yet Another Steal?
Global Research
This week’s Big Event – the US midterm election result, it’s proven to be yet another likely scam election. But then how can we honestly expect a different result if the identified problems that rigged the stolen 2020 election have never been fixed or resolved?
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A majority of Americans agree that election results were illegally altered and flipped by fraud, and have the evidence of stuffed ballots and proven mail-in fraud, the tampered Dominion electronic vote flip at 4AM from overseas switching votes via unprotected internet access. Yet a repeated debacle is inevitably doomed to be painfully repeated on November 8th . . .
[…]
And unbelievably, the same swing states identified in 2020 for unlawfully swinging the election are all at it once again – Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania and Michigan . . .
[…]
Despite numerous campaign professionals, pollsters, and even MSM pundits conceding strong Republican gains across the country were expected, the 2022 election appears rigged from the start.
Early Tuesday morning in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the Phoenix area again, the same notorious county guilty of fraud in 2020, reported that dozens of its electronic voting machines had “printing issues.” And of course, wouldn’t you know it, the 20% of the dysfunctional Maricopa County machines reporting tabulating problems were primarily in precincts that consistently vote Republican. On Wednesday night November 9th, Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake spoke to Tucker Carlson on Fox News:
I feel 100% certain I am going to win. The question is how big will that win be?
[…]
Kari Lake maintains confidence in victory, boldly vowing as priority #1 to remedy all these dubious voting improprieties racking her state. On top of this Southwest sabotage, after initially claiming that all vote counts would be completed this week by Friday, the latest from the Maricopa County election officials is that they may be working through to Thanksgiving or even Christmas.
Kari Lake was being diplomatic when she questioned the tabulating machines unable to count votes on Tuesday morning as “incompetence,” when such hugely significant elections are repeatedly botched every time out by the same county notorious as a Democratic stronghold for causing setbacks that harm the GOP chances, a pattern that cannot be by coincidence alone.
The Gateway Pundit reported that in Detroit ballots were moved in the middle of the night well after the deadline.
Also, after trailing all evening, there were two distinct ballot drops suddenly that permitted incumbent Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to soar to victory by the familiar “drop and roll” method, with each subsequent drop containing nearly every ballot another vote for Whitmer.
Recall that this same overly familiar tactic was used at 4AM on the night of November 3rd . . .So-called “glitches” in electronic voting machines in 2020 along with suspicious illegal ballot drops, long after deadlines were the exact same fraudulent methods used to steal the 2020 election. The Democrats logically figure if their methods of cheating were successful to overturn every past election, reasoning that if it ain’t broken, why fix it?
And ever since, Democrats have been calling anyone who questions the legitimacy of stolen contests “election deniers,” now increasingly deemed threats to democracy, criminalized as enemies of the state.
[…]
In the meantime, current Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy just sent a letter to his caucus announcing his intention to run for the Speaker of the House position to replace the scandalous, soon retiring current holder Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Though McCarthy was hoping to make his big public announcement on Tuesday night, instead he waited till after 2AM in a four-minute speech to claim that when they wake up Wednesday morning, Republicans will be the majority party in the House.
But even as late as Thursday night, still too many races remain too close to call.
That said, the GOP is expected to have more members in Congress than Democrats, but just barely more. The “red tsunami” expected never materialized, and in January, McCarthy will take an ever-so-thinnest sliver of a majority to the new 2023 House session, having to make concessions along the way as the new Speaker. It appears that the big red wave dried up to a mere drip drop due to the infamous ballot drops the Dems pulled in the 2020 Trump steal.
The Senate also is even less certain for a GOP majority. In the contentious battleground swing state of Georgia, on December 6th Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock will face off in a runoff, both pulling under 50% with less than 1% between them due a libertarian candidate playing the spoiler with 2% of the total vote. A suspicious ballot drop and roll in Georgia may have forced the runoff to deny Herschel’s victory outright.
[…]
With all the recent polls leading up to Tuesday’s election showing that 3 out of 4 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction under the current Biden regime, the consensus was that the Republicans would do far better than they have. As more information comes in, it’s apparent that the Democrats have been repeatedly caught again, sneaking more drop and roll of illegal ballots in Georgia, and the incumbent Democratic governor races in Michigan and Minnesota.
[…]
Why are 49 out of 50 states still using proven unreliable, easily tampered with electronic voting machines?
Unlike many other nations around the world, like France which switched over to paper ballot voting only, why does the US refuse to fix this problem? Unless it wants to make sure that voter fraud continues?
[…]
Days ahead of this week’s election, the legacy media whores were hyping that “security officials are concerned about claims of a hacked (or stolen) election.” The November 4th USA Today lead sentence fears:
Fake cyber narratives about a stolen or rigged election are an acute concern, according to authorities who fear they could undermine the process and lead to more Jan. 6-style political violence… What cyber analysts fear most is fake narratives about hacked elections undermining integrity.
[…]
Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/2022-midterm-yet-another-steal/5798745
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The 2022 Midterm – Yet Another Steal?
Global Research
This week’s Big Event – the US midterm election result, it’s proven to be yet another likely scam election. But then how can we honestly expect a different result if the identified problems that rigged the stolen 2020 election have never been fixed or resolved?
[…]
A majority of Americans agree that election results were illegally altered and flipped by fraud, and have the evidence of stuffed ballots and proven mail-in fraud, the tampered Dominion electronic vote flip at 4AM from overseas switching votes via unprotected internet access. Yet a repeated debacle is inevitably doomed to be painfully repeated on November 8th . . .
[…]
And unbelievably, the same swing states identified in 2020 for unlawfully swinging the election are all at it once again – Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania and Michigan . . .
[…]
Despite numerous campaign professionals, pollsters, and even MSM pundits conceding strong Republican gains across the country were expected, the 2022 election appears rigged from the start.
Early Tuesday morning in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the Phoenix area again, the same notorious county guilty of fraud in 2020, reported that dozens of its electronic voting machines had “printing issues.” And of course, wouldn’t you know it, the 20% of the dysfunctional Maricopa County machines reporting tabulating problems were primarily in precincts that consistently vote Republican. On Wednesday night November 9th, Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake spoke to Tucker Carlson on Fox News:
I feel 100% certain I am going to win. The question is how big will that win be?
[…]
Kari Lake maintains confidence in victory, boldly vowing as priority #1 to remedy all these dubious voting improprieties racking her state. On top of this Southwest sabotage, after initially claiming that all vote counts would be completed this week by Friday, the latest from the Maricopa County election officials is that they may be working through to Thanksgiving or even Christmas.
Kari Lake was being diplomatic when she questioned the tabulating machines unable to count votes on Tuesday morning as “incompetence,” when such hugely significant elections are repeatedly botched every time out by the same county notorious as a Democratic stronghold for causing setbacks that harm the GOP chances, a pattern that cannot be by coincidence alone.
The Gateway Pundit reported that in Detroit ballots were moved in the middle of the night well after the deadline.
Also, after trailing all evening, there were two distinct ballot drops suddenly that permitted incumbent Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to soar to victory by the familiar “drop and roll” method, with each subsequent drop containing nearly every ballot another vote for Whitmer.
Recall that this same overly familiar tactic was used at 4AM on the night of November 3rd . . .So-called “glitches” in electronic voting machines in 2020 along with suspicious illegal ballot drops, long after deadlines were the exact same fraudulent methods used to steal the 2020 election. The Democrats logically figure if their methods of cheating were successful to overturn every past election, reasoning that if it ain’t broken, why fix it?
And ever since, Democrats have been calling anyone who questions the legitimacy of stolen contests “election deniers,” now increasingly deemed threats to democracy, criminalized as enemies of the state.
[…]
In the meantime, current Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy just sent a letter to his caucus announcing his intention to run for the Speaker of the House position to replace the scandalous, soon retiring current holder Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Though McCarthy was hoping to make his big public announcement on Tuesday night, instead he waited till after 2AM in a four-minute speech to claim that when they wake up Wednesday morning, Republicans will be the majority party in the House.
But even as late as Thursday night, still too many races remain too close to call.
That said, the GOP is expected to have more members in Congress than Democrats, but just barely more. The “red tsunami” expected never materialized, and in January, McCarthy will take an ever-so-thinnest sliver of a majority to the new 2023 House session, having to make concessions along the way as the new Speaker. It appears that the big red wave dried up to a mere drip drop due to the infamous ballot drops the Dems pulled in the 2020 Trump steal.
The Senate also is even less certain for a GOP majority. In the contentious battleground swing state of Georgia, on December 6th Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock will face off in a runoff, both pulling under 50% with less than 1% between them due a libertarian candidate playing the spoiler with 2% of the total vote. A suspicious ballot drop and roll in Georgia may have forced the runoff to deny Herschel’s victory outright.
[…]
With all the recent polls leading up to Tuesday’s election showing that 3 out of 4 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction under the current Biden regime, the consensus was that the Republicans would do far better than they have. As more information comes in, it’s apparent that the Democrats have been repeatedly caught again, sneaking more drop and roll of illegal ballots in Georgia, and the incumbent Democratic governor races in Michigan and Minnesota.
[…]
Why are 49 out of 50 states still using proven unreliable, easily tampered with electronic voting machines?
Unlike many other nations around the world, like France which switched over to paper ballot voting only, why does the US refuse to fix this problem? Unless it wants to make sure that voter fraud continues?
[…]
Days ahead of this week’s election, the legacy media whores were hyping that “security officials are concerned about claims of a hacked (or stolen) election.” The November 4th USA Today lead sentence fears:
Fake cyber narratives about a stolen or rigged election are an acute concern, according to authorities who fear they could undermine the process and lead to more Jan. 6-style political violence… What cyber analysts fear most is fake narratives about hacked elections undermining integrity.
[…]
Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/2022-midterm-yet-another-steal/5798745
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Hypocrites: 400 Private Planes Arrived in Egypt for the COP27 Meaningless Elite Orgy
COP27 is concerned about climate change in the same way that big pharma is concerned about health. pic.twitter.com/MPX3rAwmqL
— Neil Ferguson's Calculator
(@ProfessorFerg06) November 11, 2022
Hypocrites: 400 Private Planes Arrived in Egypt for the COP27 Meaningless Elite Orgy
COP27 is concerned about climate change in the same way that big pharma is concerned about health. pic.twitter.com/MPX3rAwmqL
— Neil Ferguson's Calculator
November 11, 2022
Musk Says Twitter Bankruptcy Possible As FTC Expresses “Deep Concern”
Twitter boss Elon Musk told employees at a recent all-hands meeting that the company is losing so much money that “bankruptcy is not out of the question,” according to The Information.
Twitter, which hasn’t turned a profit since 2019, has seen a “massive drop” in revenue according to Musk, as advertisers step back from spending campaigns.
Musk also suggested during the meeting that the company’s future depends on the success of the revamped $8 per month Twitter Blue subscription service – which is currently being bombarded by bots, scammers, and impersonators.
Okay twitter blue has been such a success I need to do a thread. Feel free to add to the
on the great launch of this product pic.twitter.com/cx1bEFp9Yn
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 10, 2022
“The reason we’re going hardcore on subscribers is to keep Twitter alive,” Musk said, according to The Information, adding “Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn.”
Musk also announced that the company’s “work from anywhere” policy is now canceled, telling Platformer “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted.”
Banks balking at holding debt?
As Bloomberg notes, Wall Street banks that lent Musk $13 billion to fund Musk’s buyout have been quietly approaching hedge funds to see if they would be interested in chunks of buyout debt at deeply discounted prices as low as 60 cents on the dollar – which would mark one of the deepest discounts in a decade.
The lukewarm investor reception shows just how big of an albatross the Twitter debt is becoming for a Morgan Stanley-led cohort that committed to finance Musk’s acquisition of the social-media firm back in April, before credit markets cratered. The seven banks are now saddled with risky loans that they never intended to keep on their books, and face an increasingly uphill battle to minimize losses. -Bloomberg
In particular, the banks want to unload their $6.5 billion leveraged loan portion of the financing, and if the loans are trading at 60 cents, that implies everything below the secured tranche in the cap structure is impaired (more or less a donut), and the EV on the company is around $8 billion.
Just to be clear, Twitter senior secured bank loans- the top of the capital stack- at $0.60 implies that Twitter- for which @elonmusk paid $44 billion- is now worth less than $8 billion.
— Will Slaughter (@BamaBonds) November 10, 2022
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission has sounded the alarm over an exodus of top employees from the social media giant – the latest of whom was the company’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, who – as a longstanding left-leaning executive, provided some level cover for Musk.
The government watchdog agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern,” and that it’s considering taking action to ensure that the company is complying with a ‘consent order’ which requires the company to comply with certain privacy and security requirements related to allegations of past data misuse.
Twitter was first put under a consent order in 2011, and it agreed to a new order earlier this year. If the FTC finds Twitter is not complying with that order, it could fine the company hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially damaging the company’s already precarious financial state. -WaPo
“No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees,” said FTC director of public affairs, Douglas Farrar. “Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them.”
According to the report, FTC staffers said they were most concerned about the rapid rollout of new features which have yet to undergo full security reviews governed by the FTC consent decree. The agency also objected to Musk requiring staff to work in the office at least 40 hours per week, effective Thursday.
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Arizona’s Maricopa County To Take Until “Early Next Week” To Process 400,000 Ballots
Posted BY: Bill | NwoReport
While Brazil can count tens of millions of ballots in a matter of hours after any given election, Maricopa County, Arizona is trying its darnedest to make America look like a banana republic – given that most Americans remember entire elections being called in one night up until 2020, hanging chads notwithstanding.
On Thursday, the Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors told CNN that it’s going to take until “early next week” to count 400,000 ballots.
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Department of Defense Driving Mass Vaccination While FDA and Vaccine Companies Are Powerless to Stop It
Dr Peter McCullough
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In this issue of the Report, we have an exclusive interview with Alexandria (Sasha) Latypova, MBA, a former pharmaceutical executive, and independent analyst. Her prior reports on TrialSite News that deaths reported in VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination are not randomly distributed according to manufacturing lots as they are with influenza vaccines. Instead, they are aggregated in specific “hot lots.”
For example, from data on 33 lots of the Pfizer vaccine, 80% of the deaths have arisen from 35% of the lots. For Moderna, only 24% of the lots account for 80% of the deaths. Lot sizes were small initially, and some contaminated the metallic beads used in the manufacturing process. This explains reports and videos of injection site magnetism early in the campaign and why over time, these claims dissipated.
The lot sizes became larger, and the rushed nature of vaccine manufacturing invariable loads specific lots with more viable intact mRNA, while others have considerably less genetic material and or broken fragments of mRNA. Under the existing government contracts, there is no FDA or third-party inspection of the products for safety, quality, or purity. Because the US Department of Defense, under the Emergency Use Authorization countermeasures program, is the ”developer” of the vaccines, there is a complex array of biological defense contractors that make the components of the vaccines.
Specifically, private contractors do the fill-and-finish manufacturing, and the DOD or its designees has material possession of the products until delivery at a vaccine center. At this stage, the vaccine companies (Pfizer, Moderna, JNJ, Novavax) are largely marketing shields for the military program.
Ms. Latypova makes it clear, by the US EUA regulations, COVID-19 mass vaccination is a DOD operation, and the signal to “go” is given by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under Trump, it was Alex Azar, and now with Biden, it’s Xavier Becerra. Essentially if the HHS Secretary believes a national medical emergency exists, then DARPA, the branch of the military dealing with biological threats, is activated, and the process starts.
Here is a quote from the DARPA website:
“As part of the ADEPT program in 2011, DARPA began investing in nucleic acid vaccines. The hypothesis was that rather than delivering antigens to the immune system, we could deliver genes that encode the antigen and allow the human body to produce the antigen from its own cells, triggering a protective immune response. In December 2020, former ADEPT performer Moderna’s RNA vaccine received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval for the prevention of COVID-19.”1
So, it is fully disclosed that the genetic vaccines were not a product of Operation Warp Speed and developed in just a few months, as portrayed by the White House. In truth, DARPA has been working on genetic vaccines with companies such as Moderna since 2011.
What is the role of the FDA?2 Latypova points out it is largely “theatre”. In other words, the FDA is giving sham approvals to versions of the vaccines as they move forward since they are powerless to stop it. This interview is gripping and a must-listen for those trying to comprehend the mild-blowing reality of forced vaccination resulting in record injuries, disabilities, and death.
[…]
Department of Defense Driving Mass Vaccination While FDA and Vaccine Companies Are Powerless to Stop It
Dr Peter McCullough
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
In this issue of the Report, we have an exclusive interview with Alexandria (Sasha) Latypova, MBA, a former pharmaceutical executive, and independent analyst. Her prior reports on TrialSite News that deaths reported in VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination are not randomly distributed according to manufacturing lots as they are with influenza vaccines. Instead, they are aggregated in specific “hot lots.”
For example, from data on 33 lots of the Pfizer vaccine, 80% of the deaths have arisen from 35% of the lots. For Moderna, only 24% of the lots account for 80% of the deaths. Lot sizes were small initially, and some contaminated the metallic beads used in the manufacturing process. This explains reports and videos of injection site magnetism early in the campaign and why over time, these claims dissipated.
The lot sizes became larger, and the rushed nature of vaccine manufacturing invariable loads specific lots with more viable intact mRNA, while others have considerably less genetic material and or broken fragments of mRNA. Under the existing government contracts, there is no FDA or third-party inspection of the products for safety, quality, or purity. Because the US Department of Defense, under the Emergency Use Authorization countermeasures program, is the ”developer” of the vaccines, there is a complex array of biological defense contractors that make the components of the vaccines.
Specifically, private contractors do the fill-and-finish manufacturing, and the DOD or its designees has material possession of the products until delivery at a vaccine center. At this stage, the vaccine companies (Pfizer, Moderna, JNJ, Novavax) are largely marketing shields for the military program.
Ms. Latypova makes it clear, by the US EUA regulations, COVID-19 mass vaccination is a DOD operation, and the signal to “go” is given by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under Trump, it was Alex Azar, and now with Biden, it’s Xavier Becerra. Essentially if the HHS Secretary believes a national medical emergency exists, then DARPA, the branch of the military dealing with biological threats, is activated, and the process starts.
Here is a quote from the DARPA website:
“As part of the ADEPT program in 2011, DARPA began investing in nucleic acid vaccines. The hypothesis was that rather than delivering antigens to the immune system, we could deliver genes that encode the antigen and allow the human body to produce the antigen from its own cells, triggering a protective immune response. In December 2020, former ADEPT performer Moderna’s RNA vaccine received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval for the prevention of COVID-19.”1
So, it is fully disclosed that the genetic vaccines were not a product of Operation Warp Speed and developed in just a few months, as portrayed by the White House. In truth, DARPA has been working on genetic vaccines with companies such as Moderna since 2011.
What is the role of the FDA?2 Latypova points out it is largely “theatre”. In other words, the FDA is giving sham approvals to versions of the vaccines as they move forward since they are powerless to stop it. This interview is gripping and a must-listen for those trying to comprehend the mild-blowing reality of forced vaccination resulting in record injuries, disabilities, and death.
[…]
November 10, 2022
How the FCC Protects Cellphone Companies, Ignores Public Safety
By Peter Elkind
ProPublica
The wireless industry is rolling out thousands of new transmitters amid a growing body of research that calls cellphone safety into question. Federal regulators say there’s nothing to worry about — even as they rely on standards established in 1996.
The health complaints started rolling in within weeks of the activation of a new cellphone tower in August 2020 in Pittsfield, an old factory town in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains.
Seventeen residents reported headaches, dizziness, insomnia or confusion. A few children had to sleep with “vomit buckets” by their beds.
Like many people, Bobbie Orsi had never paid close attention to questions about the health effects of cellphone technology. She mostly viewed it as an issue that had long ago been put to rest.
But after becoming the chair of Pittsfield’s Board of Health as the complaints emerged, Orsi, a 66-year-old registered nurse who had spent much of her career in public health, decided to educate herself.
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Over several months, Orsi went from curious, to concerned, to convinced, first, that radio-frequency emissions from Verizon’s 115-foot 4G tower were to blame for the problems in Pittsfield, and second, that growing evidence of harm from cellphones — everything from effects on fertility and fetal development to associations with cancer — has been downplayed in the U.S.
Orsi and the Pittsfield board decided to try to do something about Verizon’s tower. They quickly discovered that they would get no help from federal regulators.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has responsibility for protecting Americans from potential radiation hazards generated by wireless transmitters and cellphones, has repeatedly sided with the telecom industry in denying the possibility of virtually any human harm.
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Still, the lawyers for Orsi and her colleagues thought they saw a long-shot legal opening: They would argue that the FCC’s exclusive oversight role applied only to approving cell tower sites, not to health problems triggered after one was built and its transmitters switched on.
In April, the Pittsfield Health Board issued an emergency cease-and-desist order directing Verizon to shut down the tower as a “public nuisance” and “cause of sickness” that “renders dwellings unfit for human habitation.”
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On May 10, Verizon sued the city in federal court. The company contended that the Pittsfield residents’ medical complaints were bogus.
And, in any case, Verizon argued, the cease-and-desist order was barred because federal law gave the FCC the sole power to regulate wireless-radiation risks.
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The build-out of a new generation of wireless networks, known as 5G, is amping up the stakes of this conflict for localities across America.
It will require an estimated 800,000 new base stations, including both towers and densely spaced “small cell” transmitters mounted on rooftops and street poles.
That means nearly tripling the current number of transmitters, and many of them will be placed close to houses and apartments.
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In 2018, a massive, nearly-two-decade study by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), part of the National Institutes of Health, found “clear evidence” that cellphone radiation caused cancer in lab animals.
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Yet the FCC rejected the need for any such action when it reviewed its standards on cellphone radiation in 2019. The agency decided it would continue to rely on exposure limits it established in 1996, when Motorola’s StarTAC flip phone was considered cutting edge.
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Henry Lai, an emeritus professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, has compiled a database of 1,123 peer-reviewed studies published since 1990 investigating biological effects from wireless-radiation exposure.
Some 77% have found “significant” effects, according to Lai. By contrast, an earlier review by Lai found that 72% of industry-sponsored studies reported no biological effects.
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Studies have found impacts on fertility, fetal development, DNA, memory function and the nervous system, as well as an association with an array of cancers.
Several investigations reported a significantly increased risk of brain tumors, called gliomas, among the heaviest cellphone users.
And the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, in 2011 classified wireless radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has written that the FCC’s safeguards “do not account for the unique vulnerability and use patterns specific to pregnant women and children.”
[…]
Both the FCC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) websites dismiss the existence of any special health risk to children.
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By contrast, more than 20 foreign governments have adopted protective measures or recommended precautions.
France requires new phones to be sold with headsets and written guidance on limiting radiation exposures; it also bans phones marketed to small children and ads aimed at anyone younger than 14.
Greece and Switzerland routinely monitor radio-frequency radiation levels throughout the country. Britain, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, India and South Korea urge citizens to limit both their own exposure and cellphone use by children.
The European Environment Agency does too, noting: “There is sufficient evidence of risk to advise people, especially children, not to place the handset against their heads.”
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The NTP study was the biggest the agency had ever conducted and lasted over a decade. It used an unusually large number of rats and mice — some 3,000 — and involved both setting up a lab in Chicago and designing and constructing special radiation-exposure chambers for the rodents in Switzerland.
The final report was released in November 2018. The results were dramatic.
The study found “clear evidence” of rare cancerous heart tumors, called schwannomas, in male rats; “some evidence” of tumors in their brains and adrenal glands; and signs of DNA damage.
The percentage that developed tumors was small, but, as the study’s authors noted earlier, “Given the extremely large number of people who use wireless communication devices, even a very small increase in the incidence of disease resulting from exposure” could have “broad implications for public health.”
The federal government’s scientists had spoken. But the parts of the government charged with following the science and protecting people responded (in the case of the FCC) by publicly ignoring the results or (in the case of the FDA) pooh-poohing them.
[…]
The NTP findings, combined with similar results that year from the Ramazzini research institute in Italy and other studies, demanded a strong response, according to three long-time former government experts who spoke to ProPublica.
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The former government officials believe the NTP findings should have led to a detailed statistical risk assessment by federal health agencies, spelling out the possible incidence of cancer in the general population; development of stricter FCC limits to address biological risks; prominent user warnings detailing simple steps people should take to minimize their exposure; and dramatically increased research funding.
[…]
Over the six years that followed, 1,200 comments poured into the FCC’s docket, including scores of studies (and a briefing on the NTP findings); appeals for stronger protections signed by hundreds of international scientists; and 170 personal accounts of “electro-sensitivity” radiation sickness, similar to the complaints in Pittsfield, resulting from neighborhood cell towers.
An Interior Department letter voiced concern about the impact of radiation from towers on migrating birds, noting that the FCC’s limits “continue to be based on thermal heating, a criterion now nearly 30 years out of date and inapplicable today.”
The FCC was overwhelmed by the flood of comments, according to Mantiply, the agency official most involved in radio-frequency issues during this period. “We didn’t have the resources to even read all the comments,” he told ProPublica.
[…]
So Mantiply, a soft-spoken physical scientist, decided to take action.
In 2017, as the FCC’s review of its wireless standards entered its fourth year, he said, he and three colleagues proposed hiring an outside consulting firm to conduct an environmental assessment, a detailed formal examination, of the submissions on the radiation safety limits.
But their boss, Julius Knapp, the head of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, summarily rejected the proposal, according to Mantiply.
[…]
Mantiply’s proposal came at a time when the Trump White House and FCC commissioners were aggressively promoting 5G.
FCC leadership was “not really thrilled with us pushing these inquiries,” Mantiply said. “They just felt like it’d get a lot of attention, that it would be in The Washington Post.”
On his final day at the FCC in August 2018, as he was retiring after 42 years in government, Mantiply raised the issue with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel during a brief courtesy visit.
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Fifteen months later, the FCC voted unanimously to shut down its review after six years. There was no need to change anything, the commissioners concluded.
After examining the record, the FCC declared in a written order, it had seen no evidence that the science underlying its standards was “outdated or insufficient to protect human safety.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., disagreed.
Responding to a pair of lawsuits filed by the Environmental Health Trust and other activist groups, the court ruled in August 2021 that the FCC had failed to meet “even the low threshold of reasoned analysis” in finding that its limits “adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation unrelated to cancer.”
[…]
The court wrote that it was taking “no position in the scientific debate” on wireless radiation’s effects, but it was scornful of the FCC’s heavy reliance on three “conclusory” statements from the FDA about safety.
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The FCC’s actions, the court wrote, waved off any concern about protections for children and ignored “substantive evidence of potential environmental harms.”
And the FCC had said nothing about the potential impacts of the many technological changes, including 5G, that had taken place since 1996.
[..]
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fcc-cellphone-companies-emf-transmitters-public-safety/
Australia Plans Referendum on Becoming Republic
HICGI News Agency
Melbourne, Australia – The recent death of Queen Elizabeth II has reignited a simmering republican debate in Australia, where the United Kingdom’s monarch is head of state, with Anthony Albanese’s government planning to put the issue to a vote.
Already committed to a referendum for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’, the government plans to hold a similar vote to test Australians’ appetite for a republic.
Assistant Minister for the Republic of Australia, Matt Thistlethwaite, told Al Jazeera that while “the priority for this government is the Voice to Parliament, the next natural progression for Australia is look to have one of our own as a head of state and we’d seek to do that in a second term if we are successful with the Voice in the first term.”
“Australians have always been willing to look to ways to improve our system of government and improve our country and our nation,” he said.
“This is an opportunity for us to build a new system to select our head of state and at the same time improve the rights of citizens in the choices that we have but also strengthen the democracy we have.”
With an Indigenous history stretching back more than 60,000 years, the continent now known as Australia was colonised in 1788 and, while politically independent, has remained part of the British monarchy.
Under the current system, the monarch is represented in Australia by the governor-general who plays a largely ceremonial role.
However, governor-generals retain constitutional and statutory powers, swearing in ministers and acting as the commander-in-chief of Australia’s Defence Forces.
They also have the power to dissolve parliament and sack the prime minister, most controversially done in 1975 when Gough Whitlam was removed.
The death of Queen Elizabeth in September came four months after Labor, long supporters of the republican movement, were elected to power in Canberra.
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