How safe is 5G? A look at the historic effects of electricity on human health and all wildlife.

'Almost all of the matter in the universe is electrically charged, an endless sea of ionized particles called plasma... Plasma is such a good conductor of electricity, far better than any metals, that filaments of plasma —invisible wires billions of light-years long — transport electromagnetic energy in gigantic circuits from one part of the universe to another, shaping the heavens. Under the influence of electromagnetic forces, over billions of years, cosmic whirlpools of matter collect along these filaments, like beads on a string, evolving into the galaxies that decorate our night sky. Thin sheaths of electric current called double layers, like the membranes of biological cells, divide intergalactic space into immense compartments, each of which can have different physical, chemical, electrical, and magnetic properties...

The earth, with its core of iron, rotates on its axis in the electric fields of the solar system and the galaxy, and as it rotates it generates its own magnetic field that traps and deflects the charged particles of the solar wind. They wrap the earth in an envelope of plasma called the magnetosphere, which stretches out on the night side of the planet into a comet-like tail hundreds of millions of miles long. Some of the particles from the solar wind collect in layers we call the Van Allen belts, where they circulate six hundred to thirty-five thousand miles above our heads. Driven along magnetic lines of force toward the poles, the electrons collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. These fluoresce to produce the northern and southern lights, the aurorae borealis and australis, that dance in the long winter nights of the high latitudes.´

Arthur Firstenburg

It's an exciting time as 5G has arrived, but unfortunately it is not all good.

It's a sad fact almost all concerns regarding 5G voiced by critics have recieved little attention from the media, governments and 5G producers like Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. Their concerns over 5G´s safety are three-fold. The first is to do with machinery, and how 5G will be used for surveillance and governmental weapons. The second is to do with its impact on our health with electricity linked to rises in diabetes, cancer, anxiety disorder, influenza, heart disease and even possibly obesity. The third is to do with mother-earth and her other inhabitants, and how 5G will affect crucial species such as bee colonies and plankton.

Our bodies are electrical. Sir Isaac Newton described electricity as 'an electric and elastic spirit' by which 'all sensation is excited and the member of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propogaed along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles'. We are all electromagnetic beings and therefore, it is both logical and plausible to think that we must also be somewhat electrically sensitive. Please note, the following two sections of the blog was inspired by Arthur Firstenburg and I thoroughly recommend his book ´The invisible rainbow - a history of electricity and life´ to all.

Moreover, Firstenburg reveals in his book how science has shown how electro-sensitive our bodies and our immune systems are, writing - 'the exquisite sensitivity of even the normal nervous system to electromagnetic fields was proven in 1956 by zoologists Carlo Terzuolo and Theodore Bullock—and then ignored by everyone since. In fact, even Terzuolo and Bullock were astonished by the results. Experimenting on crayfish, they found that although a substantial amount of electric current was needed to cause a previously silent nerve to fire, incredibly tiny currents could cause an already firing nerve to alter its firing rate tremendously. A current of only 36 billionths of an ampere was enough to increase or decrease a nerve’s rate of firing by five to ten percent. And a current of 150 billionths of an ampere—thousands of times less than is widely assumed, still today, by developers of modern safety codes, to have any biological effect whatever—would actually double the rate of firing, or silence the nerve altogether. Whether it increased or decreased the activity of the nerve depended only on the direction in which the current was applied to the nerve.'

1. HUMAN HEALTH AND ELECTRICITY

Firstenburg shows in his book ´The invisible rainbow' that the rise in illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, influenza, anxiety and even probably obesity are all correlated with the rise in the use of different forms of electricity in the planet, and he postulates that we may be also living longer but less energetic lives as well as a result of electric radiation. If three of the world´s greatest problems in the shape of cancer, heart disease and diabetes are caused directly by electric exposure, it is staggeringly unreported.

Firstenburg perhaps best shows this is likely the case with the following three graphs showing a clear correlation between the rate of rural heart disease, diabetes and cancer in various US states and the rate in the percentage that they were covered by electricity in 1940. Please note, there are equally compelling correlations when the same graphs are drawn but for the year 1931. In his book. Firstenburg calculated the percent of electrification for each state by dividing the number of its residential electric customers, as published by the Edison Electric Institute, by the total number of its households, as published by the United States Census.

Rural heart disease and percent electrification

Rural diabetes rate and percent electrification

Rural cancer rate and percent electrification

Firstenburg states that electromagnetic fields have become so intense in our environment that we are unable to metabolize fats the way our ancestors could, and so are suffering from heart attacks. An example was the rampant rise in heart attacks in the 1950s when the element that increased most spectacularly in the environment was radio frequency (RF) radiation.

He points out too that in zoos, animals rather suddenly began suffering from coronary diseases and heart attacks, which were not diet-related at the time and that Russian research backs up the assertion that the heart is particularly affected by RF radiation, especially since their diets have been kept the same or improved. Heart disease is now the number one killer of human beings in every region of the world except sub-Saharan Africa and whilst nations can spend billions fighting heart disease, he predicts the struggle to only get worse with further electrification of the world.

Diabetes is another disease incrementally increasingly plaguing nations, that resembles a huge health-problem now in modern-day. Arthur Firstenburg shows that the disease has been rapidly increasing in the US even when consumption of sugar and other caloric sweeteners stayed roughly the same for 60 years as shown by the graphs below (diabetes cases rise eleven-fold per population from 1920-1980):

This highlights there likely to be alternative non-mainstream causes for the rise in diabetes of the last century. Moreover, sudden spike in diabetes cases occurred nationwide in 1997—a 31 percent increase in a single year and that was the year the telecommunications industry introduced digital cell phones en masse to the United States. It didn't fall off though sugar consumption fell down after 2000.

He further shares data showing that people in the US were 2 and a half times more likely to get diabetes than people from Brazil, despite the Brazilians consuming greater amounts of sugar and sweetners per person on average. Among many other points, Firstenburg points out that prior electricity diabetes was incredibly rare, so something likely happened which made humans less able to process sugars, like the birth of the electricity grid. All in all, the evidence seems conclusive, higher exposure to electric radiation leads to higher rates of diabetes.

Firstenburg argues that the reason diabetics are more likely to suffer from cancers, and visa versa, is because they share a common cause - electricity. Like diabetes, he feels that electricity exposure explains anomalies which the mainstream known and that the accepted causes of cancer cannot answer. Supporting this argument is the fact lung cancer has risen so dramatically amongst woman from 1970 to 2000, even though the percentage of female smokers was reduced in that same period quite considerably as shown by the graph below:

Records showing influenza deaths per million between 1845 and 1940 show that the year the electricity grid was unrolled in England and Wales, influenza became an anually deadly disease in a way that it was only once every hundred years before that. In fact influenza got its name because it would strike populations so mysteriously people named it after the stars. Its some coincidence that from 1889, when power line harmonic radiation begain, influenza became a persistent disease.

The coincidences don't stop there - 'In 1918, the radio era began. It began with the building of hundreds of powerful radio stations [to support the U.S. entry into WWI] at LF and VLF frequencies, the frequencies guaranteed to most alter the magnetosphere. The radio era was ushered in by the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 (which struck the young and fittest much more than the elderly and ill - i.e. the most connected to the earth's electromagnetic grid). In 1957, the radar era began, and that coincided with the Asian flu pandemic of 1957. Now with 5G, both Covid and Bird Flu have struck.

2. OTHER WILDLIFE

I would argue that it has been nearly categorically proven now by interested scientists that on earth, 5G will be affecting almost all species of life. From humans to birds and bees, to amphibeans and insects, to little plankton 5G poses a danger. Here is why.

Insects

Bees, being flying small insects are one of the most indispensable species on earth. Einstein reputedly was quoted saying that if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

In 1904 on the Island of Wight, the bee population was hit by electricity. In the preceding decade Gustavo Marconi had decided to build the world first radio station by the Needles, on the west coast of the island, having given no consideration at all to the safety precautions of his feat. Soon he had four Marconi stations running making it the greatest concentration of radio signals in the world at that time.

Ninety percent of the honey bees disappeared from the entire island for no apparent reason. The hives all had plenty of honey, but the bees by the hives couldn't fly, they were so feeble. When swarms of healthy bees were imported from England, they began dying off by the thousands within a week. The blame was laid on a contagious disease but these theories were disproved in the 1950s. Severe loss of bees occurred worldwide shortly afterwards, especially when located near power stations. Marconi himself became ill shortly afterwards and died after having nine heart-attacks. His child was a still-born, without explanation.

Moreover, the quickest way to destroy a bee hive, investigators have found, is to place a wireless telephone inside it. In 2009, environmental scientist Ved Parkash Sharma and zoologist Neelima Kumar, at Panjab University in India, placed two cell phones each—one in talk mode and one in listening mode in order to maintain the connection—in two of four hives. They turned them on at 11:00 in the morning for 15 minutes, and at 3:00 in the afternoon for another 15 minutes. They did this twice a week between February and April. As soon as the phones were turned on the bees would become quiet and still “as if unable to decide what to do.” During the course of three months fewer and fewer bees flew in and out of those two hives. The number of eggs laid by the queen declined from 546 to 145 per day. The area under brood declined from 2,866 to 760 square centimeters. Honey stores declined from 3,200 to 400 square centimeters. “At the end of the experiment there was neither honey, nor pollen nor brood nor bees in the colony resulting in complete loss of the colony,” wrote the authors.

Amphibians

In 2009, during a two-month period wildlife biologist Alfonso Balmori Martinez took care of two almost identical tanks of tadpoles of the common frog that he set out on the fifth floor terrace of an apartment in Valladolid. One hundred forty meters (450 feet) away, on the roof of an eight-story building, stood four cellular phone base stations, which were irradiating the neighborhood. The only difference between the two tanks of tadpoles was that a layer of thin fabric was draped over one. The fabric, woven with metallic fibers, admitted air and light but kept out radio waves.

The results were a shocking confirmation of what was occurring out in the rest of the world: in a period of two months, the mortality rate was 90 percent in the exposed tank, and only 4 percent in the shielded tank. Almost all of the exposed tadpoles—exposed only to what the residents of the apartment building were also exposed to—swam in an uncoordinated fashion, showed little interest in food, and died after six weeks. Balmori titled his 2010 article, “Mobile Phone Mast Effects on Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Tadpoles: The City Turned´´

Birds

Balmori also has studied the relationship between electrical radiation exposure and the behavior of Sparrows, Kestrels, White Storks, Rock Doves, Magpies and many more birds species. All his findings showed they were highly electrically sensitive. Take white storks for example. Balmori showed in 2005 that their breeding success was tremendously influenced by the distance they laid their nests to a GSM (Global System for Mobile) Station.Total productivity within 200m was on average 46% less than that found at a distance greater than 300 m from the emitting station. An analogous significant difference was found in the breeding success: the nests that were closer than 200 meters from the nearest cell tower fledged half the number of baby storks as the nests that were further away. Of the 30 highly exposed nests, 12 fledged no chicks at all, while only one of the lesser exposed nests was barren.

Two scientists at Aristotle University of Thessalonik, Greece - Ioannis Magras and Thomas Xenos - have exposed Japanese quail eggs to the type of radiation emitted by FM radio transmitters for just one hour a day over three days, and in separate experiments to the type of radiation emitted by cell towers continuously for three days. Both experiments killed the majority of embryos tested. They further experimented on chicken eggs exposing them to microwave radiation at a power level of 8.8 micro-watts per square centimeter between the third and tenth days of their development. This resulted in many chicks dying soon after birth and nearly half the remaining chicks being developmentally retarded.

The last evidence of birds vulnerability to electricity radiation comes from pigeons racing. Pigeons have drastically lost their radar since 1995, the time where cell phone towers proliferated, forcing pigeon traffickers to change the route their birds flew so as to avoid cell towers and lose fewer pigeons.

Mammals

As aforementioned, mammals in zoos are dying far more than heart-attacks, just like people. Equally, mammals are getting more and more obese in the wild as well as when domesticated. One biostatistics professor David B. Allison published a paper on this in 2010 analysing data on over 20, 000 animals representing eight species and 24 populations over a decade. All had gained weight on average over time, which he stated would happen by chance only once every ten billion times. Firstenburg speculates that obesity in humans which rose spectacularly since computers were introduced are linked with electricity and not diet based, and he backs this up by showing how wild mammals are become more and more obese just like humans.

References

(1) “Mobile Phone Mast Effects on Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Tadpoles: The City Turned´´, 2010, Balmori

(2) Changes in honeybee behaviour and biology under the influence of cellphone radiations, ed Parkash Sharma and Neelima R. Kumar, 2010

(3) The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, Arthur Firstenburg, 2020