I’m back and we have a lot to catch up on, meaning the next few updates might have more items than usual. But with the weekend coming, hopefully, you won’t find this too overwhelming.
1) Full details of this Zoom meeting are available in this newsletter by Marg Friesen.
“Implications of the Radical Model of Disability for Advocacy and Clinical Care of Persons Living with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS)” by Riina Bray, MD and David Fancy, PhD
Open meeting, all invited to attend.
March 12, 2024, 7:30 pm eastern time, 5:30 central time, 4:30 pacific time
“Dr. Riina Bray, MD and David Fancy, PhD discuss how advocacy for those living with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) and clinical practice for EHS patients can be informed by literature from critical disabilities studies featuring ‘radical perspectives’ on disability.”
https://gem.godaddy.com/p/0a80091
2) Annoucement from Arthur Firstenberg:
NEW INTERNATIONAL COALITION
“Global Radiation Emergency is a just-formed coalition of individuals, organizations and scientists on six continents whose mission is to save Planet Earth. Birds are disappearing from our skies, bees from our flowers, insects from our forests, worms from our soils, animals from their dens, and health from our bodies.
Our coalition will be contacting leaders in science and medicine, directors of environmental organizations, law institutes, government officials, astronomers, universities, religious leaders, and groups representing parents, children and schools.”
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Global-Radiation-Emergency-1.pdf
3) Land lines are being threatened with replacement by fiber optic cable, as this reporter was told. But this article does not advise that fiber will be dependent upon electricity and the internet. Phone service will be voice over the internet (VoIP) — so if either the power or the internet is down, there will be phone service only for a short period provided by a battery. When I asked the CRTC about this, reminding them that as part of the license, telephone companies must provide 911 service, they said they were leaving this up to the telecoms and that I should get a cell phone. They did not seem concerned at all.
I hope that many of you will write to the author of this item, Angela MacIvor at cbcnsinvestigates@cbc.ca about this. We need to put pressure on Telus, Bell, CRTC, etc. Until they figure out how service will be maintained, we must be able to keep our copper-based landline — not just a “network” (however CRTC defines this).
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Family of N.S. seniors call extensive landline outage a safety concern
“The family considers the lengthy outage a safety concern. In addition to not receiving important calls, the couple was also not able to make calls in the event of an emergency. They believe landlines are an essential service that should be prioritized by phone companies.
In an email to CBC News, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said it’s concerned about this situation.
“The CRTC ensures that major telephone companies like Bell make basic voice telephone services available to their customers, and these companies are required to maintain their networks,” said spokesperson Leigh Cameron in an email.”
4) A recent press release by the Phonegate team about the lack of follow-up concerning the health risks posed by cell phones due to lack of funding. No doubt, if pushed, ISED and FCC would say the same thing. Sometimes there needs to be a comparison with cost of regulating and cost of health problems due to exposure to RFR.
No budget in Switzerland to protect people’s health from dangerous phones?
“Between 2012 and today, the sale of radio frequencies (4G, 5G) alone has brought in almost CHF 1.4 billion for the Federal Council.
Despite the warnings raised in 2018 and again in 2019 by several members of Parliament (interpellations 19.3180 and 19.4496), and again in 2023 with motion 23.4244), the Swiss authorities remain silent. Several press articles, such as those in the “Beobachter” and the “Tagesanzeiger”, warned of the “Phonegate affair”, yet the Federal Council justified its inaction in protecting the health and safety of millions of cell phone users on the grounds of its “financial situation”:”
https://phonegatealert.org/en/no-budget-in-switzerland-to-protect-peoples-health/
Sharon Noble, Director, Citizens for Safer Tech
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Aristotle
Sent from my wired laptop with no wireless components. PLEASE Practice Safe Tech.