Correction to update of 2023-07-26, item # 1. I gave the wrong link. Sorry for any confusion.
1) Katie Singer mentioned the book “Cobalt Red” in one of her articles. The horror of wireless technology begins in the mines.
The horrors behind the mining industry that powers your life
“That’s what Siddharth Kara invites you to do in his damning new book, “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.”…
The fact remains that cobalt batteries will increasingly power the consumer economy for many years to come. Kara’s goal is to shine a light under that rock, so we in the developed world get an honest look at who pays the highest price for our consumer goodies and luxury electric cars.”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-13/the-horrors-behind-the-mining-industry-that-powers-your-life (The correct link.)
2) Dr. Cindy Russell, Executive Director of Physicians for Safe Technology, has made several excellent videos, all of which would be good to give to people who doubt or who are new to the topic of harm associated with microwave radiation.
Health Effects of Wireless Technology,– Dr. Cindy Russell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIGSUV4ABU (7 min.)
3) From a US group’s discussion about bees.
“Bees leave a 1 Hertz charge on flowers that have been pollinated. This prevents other bees from wasting valuable time. Adding an alternating electromagnetic current could negate that charge and suddenly the bees are returning to the hive having expended more energy than needed and less pollen for the hive. There’s been no study to my knowledge‚ done on this possibility but it exists. Hungry bees can be angry bees and there have been a few studies done that have shown bees to become more aggressive when exposed to artificial electromagnetic fields in the microwave range. No one really understands why that happens.
Here is a link…http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/Detection-and-Learning-of-Floral-Electric-Fields-by-Bumblebees.pdf
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The original reference to the link appeared in John Russo’s The Bee Experience book on pg. 22
According to Russo,
“The bees generate static electricity on their bodies in this way. That static charge makes them sticky just like our hair and balloon become sticky when we rub them together. So, when they get on that flower, the pollen just sticks to them like a magnet. They are literally flying around sucking up pollen like little electric vacuum cleaners.”
“This electrical charge is doing something even more than that. Looking closer at our bee foraging in the flowers, notice that she does not land on every flower she approaches. Sometimes she nears a bloom, then backs off and proceeds to the next. She might do this several times before she finally lands. What’s wrong with some of these flowers? Why does she avoid some but land on others? Recently, it was discovered that as the bee sits on the flower and drinks, a little bit of that charge transfers from the bee to the flower itself. In fact, they leave a little bit of that charge behind like a little ‘electronic message’ to the bees that will soon come. …the next bee comes along…knows, ” someone must have been here already, I’m not going to drink from an empty flower, ” and just moves on.”
4) Last week, I shared concerns from someone in New Denver about the absence of bees in his garden. I reported that there were virtually no bees in my lavender plants. Just in the last couple of days more have come, far more than last week but still fewer than normal. Maybe, for some reason, they are just late. I have received only a few emails regarding bees in response to my asking if others were seeing fewer than normal:
a) I live in southern ON and have veg and bee friendly flowers. I’ve seen only 2 bees this yr! They’ve put up new towers and cells in my area. A friend not far away across Hamilton Mntn said that his birds are now depending on his bird seed because he doesn’t see any bugs around this year at all. I hardly see any bugs also except for earwigs….hardly anything flying.
Local farmers in the area that I visit have seen a huge decline also. As well as by our cottage one hour north of Belleville ON, bees are rare!!
b) I agree, Sharon! I’ve been noticing this for some time, not just in West Van, but also in Celista a small village or settlement on the N side of Shuswap Lake. This year up here we had cold spring, which might have contributed.
c) You mentioned missing bees. Most years we have had to set up traps for wasps. This year we have had none to trap.
We usually have an infestation of mossies but this year only 1 or 2 have appeared. We spend a lot of time on our deck so we should know.
And our walk along the Kanaka Creek to the Fraser in the Kanaka Creek Park in past years was almost impossible in early summer because of the mosquitoes (mossies).
When the blossoms were out on the tree by our deck there were many smaller bees but I have not seen any lately maybe because the blossoms are gone.
So we are happy that we are not bothered by the bugs but this is an abnormal and worrying event.
I have not heard anything from the province on this.
d) We have tons of bees and other pollinators in our garden on Salt Spring, even though the Rogers Channel Ridge cell tower was activated on July 13 : (We are still in the midst of our judicial review process.)
e) many areas of BC (and in much of Canada as well) were directly sprayed several times in May by low flying aircraft with an indiscriminate poison supposedly for an unfounded “gypsy moth invasion”. This poison kills ALL POLLINATORS (which of course was the intention). It was sprayed all over leaves and flowers and the soil and all water sources that were in the area, thus bees, birds (especially those feeding larvae to their young), all butterfly and moth species, many insects, all were decimated. The toxin, BTk, works exactly like Glyphosate — when ingested it perforates the intestinal tract and all membranes of the body so that they can no longer function, and within a few days the victim starves and dies. In Campbell River, 2000 salmon fry destined for restoration were murdered in this way, and a lot of people and animals became sick. Perhaps areas near new Denver were also sprayed, and Glyphosate is sprayed annually on forests as well to kill everything except the fir trees. These sprays also drift over long distances and can cover a very wide area. And virtually all apiaries, in the Comox Valley at least, suffered extreme losses over last winter, some losing all their bees. The out-and-out war on nature and our food is in full swing………..
f) I was starting to panic too. Normally, my lavender plants are filled with bees but this year they came really late and not as many as usual.
Sharon Noble, Director, Citizens for Safer Tech
“We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.” Thomas Aquinas
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