Environment

Why Are We Being Lied To About 5G?

Posted by on Jul 5, 2019

For Your Research

“The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under
international law.”

“So we’re looking at a minimum of 57.7% miscarriages, still-birth or genetically damaged children from the irradiation of the ovarian eggs in schoolchildren sitting in front of wi-fi for 25 hours a week.”

– Barrie Trower – Physicist and Microwave Weapons Expert
Subject 1 — You can see a lot of degradation in the cells. Walls have been broken and you see changes in the cells which are called microplasma which shows a mutation to the cell
Subject 2: We see a different type of degradation to the cell membranes. You can see a corrugation here, this is called a Bottle Cap formation and it’s known that this occurs due to oxidation or exposure to free radicals.
Subject 3: She had to be pulled away from the meter after 45 seconds because she complained about an increasingly sever headache. You see a phenomenon called Rouleaux, where the red blood cells are stacking up which makes it very difficult for the blood to deliver oxygen to the tissues as would be their normal function. Every one of these shows a trauma to the blood calls that came from something and the only variable was the Smart Meter.
The good news is that the patients and the blood can return to normal one they have been removed from the influence of these stressors to a wireless free zone. The bad news is, that if 5G is allowed to be rolled out, there will be no wireless free zones to recover in.
Three subjects were tested to see the effects on their blood cells of exposure to Smart Meters. Smart Meters use Microwave frequencies, as does 5G. Microwaves are very destructive to living organisms.
Do you see advertisers ever using the word “Microwave” when selling 5G? Our governments have some serious questions to answer about microwaving their populations.

Links to Information for Your Own Research

These links point to information further down this page. If the links don’t work for any reason, apologies, scroll down – each link is a heading in the post below.

5G technology is being rolled out completely illegally and unlawfully by unethical corporations despite thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies which show it to be unsafe and despite demands by scientists, medical experts, biologists and thousands of individuals and communities that the implementation be stopped until health and safety testing has been carried out, and should not continue until the technology has been shown to be biologically and environmentally safe.

The implementation of 5G is a crime which must be stopped. The current program of implementation has already been massively damaging and if allowed to proceed it will continue to have devastating effects on life on this planet, and on the planet itself.

I am not asking you to believe me, but I am asking you, because of the seriousness of the crime being committed, which is affecting all of us,  to conduct your own research into this issue (you may already have done so), to do whatever is in your power to help prevent this crime from being carried out and to help inform as many people as possible of the very real dangers of this technology.

I have included some links to information and resources in case they are of any help in your research into this issue.

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“This was programmed in 1976 .. Because in 1976 (the US) government produced a list of all of the illnesses that you can develop from continuous low level microwave radiation – everything, neurological, physiological illnesses. But in the same document that was released under the Freedom of Information .. 

What your government also did that was rather naughty, they asked all of the other influential governments in the world, basically to deceive the public … really for two reasons: the first is to avoid lawsuits and the second was to protect industrial profit…. It’s here in the title “economic growth”

Barrie Trower

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“I would suggest that everybody start looking into thus issue, and particularly into 5G, which 237 scientists from 41 countries consider a threat that is far worse than the tobacco and the asbestos threats of the past.”

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At present it is still possible to turn off electronic devices, in order to get away from electronic radiation and microwave frequencies. The aim of 5G, a major part of the American military’s “Full Spectrum Dominance” program – is to to cover the whole of the planet with microwave radiation – beamed from thousands of satellites which are being launched into space and millions and millions of new 5G transmitters which are being installed secretly, many disguised as streetlights along with millions of other transmitters, put on the side of houses, flats, hospitals, schools, virtually everywhere. Smart meters are also part of this grid of microwave radiation.

The aim is to have nowhere on the planet out of reach of microwave radiation.

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Cutting Down the Trees

One of the things that would help protect us from this radiation are trees. Leaves absorb microwave radiation. That is the reason millions and millions of trees are being cut down across the planet at present – as requested by the Military Industrial Complex which is rolling out the 5G infrastructure.

Many studies have been done which show the massive health benefits – both mental and physical which are gained by living in proximity with trees. The destruction of these trees alone is a crime of immense proportions for which those responsible should be held criminally liable.

Has anyone actually seen the figures of how many trees have been cut down to make way for 5G?

Or an estimate of the loss of birds, insects and other wildlife caused just by this one corporate decision?

EMF’s Threaten 1 MILLION Species with Extinction

https://emfmadness.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/the-unspoken-truth-emfs-threaten-1-million-species-with-extinction/

Claire Edwards, UN Staff Member: 5G Is War on Humanity

Staff in the UN are under attack as well.

“5G is designed to deliver concentrated and focused electromagnetic radiation in excess of 100 times current levels in the same way as do directed energy weapons.”  ….
“I would suggest that everybody start looking into thus issue, and particularly into 5G, which 237 scientists from 41 countries consider a threat that is far worse than the tobacco and the asbestos threats of the past.”

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/un-staff-member-5g-war-humanity

Studies Showing the Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields

It is a sign of how corrupt and misleading our mainstream media is, that most people still walk round saying “the effects of mobile phones/smart meters/5G etc on people are not yet known”
when over 10 thousand published scientific studies noting the dangers go back as far as the 1970s

Here are some of them going back to the 1980s, with some of the dangers mentioned

https://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/studies.asp

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Barrie Trower Videos

http://www.stayonthetruth.com/barrie-trower-videos.php

The most valuable asset any species has is its DNA, its genes.
In these videos an expert in the effects of microwave irradiation speaks about how microwaves affect genetic material.

It’s worth watching these while one can as YouTube are steadily removing videos like this 

“Mr. Barrie Trower, a British physicist who was a microwave weapons expert and who worked for the Royal Navy and the British Secret Service, talks about the health effects of WiFi and other forms of microwave radiation.

Mr. Trower came out of retirement because he was concerned that the microwave frequencies and intensities to which children are exposed in schools are similar to those used for microwave weapons.”

“In the very early 1960s I trained with the government microwave warfare establishment.
I looked at all aspects of microwave warfare and when I finished my time in the military because I had a lot of expertise in the microwave field, and I was asked if I would carry on with this research.

We are now in a new Cold War and this is why countries are developing this. I mean really developing this.  And this is why all the microwave transmitters are going up everywhere because somebody, if they wanted to, could use them for other effects. The system is up and running.“
– Barry Trower –

WiFi Kills – Barrie Trower on UK Column 19th Sept 2013

“…levels of microwaves lower than you would find in a school classroom would cause 47.7% still-birth or miscarriage in the first 7 weeks of pregnancy in women. This is all written in my report …

Subsequently other universities – doing their peer-reviewed research – published and peer-reviewed in scientific journals – they found that children, because of their electrical conductivity and the excess water in their bodies that adults don’t have, they absorb more microwaves and you can get an extra 20% more damage in children than adults.

So we’re looking at a minimum of 57.7% miscarriage, still-birth or genetically damaged children from the irradiation of the ovarian eggs in schoolchildren sitting in front of wi-fi for 25 hours a week.”

WiFi, Microwaves and the Consequences to our Health – Barrie Trower

“I think anybody who puts WI-fi into a school, should be locked up for the rest of their life, I really do.
I think they’re not fit to walk on the surface of this planet, because they haven’t looked at the research  and whatever incentive they have it is not worth the genetic problems that parents are going to face with their children when they’re born.“

“now the problem is, imagine you are a 15 year old schoolgirl. All of the 400,000 eggs in your ovaries were with you at birth. They’re not fully developed but they’re with you. They are 10 times more susceptible to radiation than all the other DNA in the body, and scientists don’t realise that, they don’t read all of the papers, as I do.

So you have this highly susceptible genetic material which is going to make your children and you are irradiating it because wifis – they are transmitters, as well as the routers as well as the ones either side of you, they are all transmitting at this height through your ovaries.

So you are risking the DNA damage of your child every time you sit down and you use wifi.

But it gets worse, because this particular DNA, the mitochondrial DNA inside you, you can trace unchanged for your mother, her mother, her mother, right the way back to the beginning of the human race 

… if you damage it, your child could be genetically damaged then her child and her child and her child … forever…

So when you put wifi in schools, what you are saying is – for the sake of a little bit of money that is getting a workman in to drill holes through the walls to feed cable, because its cheaper we’re going to put wifi in but you can have genetically damaged children for the rest of your family’s career, that’s what you’re saying.

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What Does 5G Look Like When Disguised as a Street Light?

Scroll down the page on the link below to see the image of 5G Street Lamps.
If the street lights in your street have little aerials on top of them you can be reasonably confident they are 5G (microwave) receivers/transmitters.  Right outside your window, backed up by the Smart Meter (microwave) you’ve been lied to about.

https://www.saveusnow.org.uk/category/5g-rollout/

5G Technology is Coming – Linked to Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Death

Health Impact News:
http://healthimpactnews.com/2018/5g-technology-is-coming-linked-to-cancer-heart-disease-diabetes-alzheimers-and-death/

US Senator Blumenthal Raises Concerns on 5G Wireless Technology Health Risks at Senate Hearing

https://youtu.be/ekNC0J3xx1w

(Industry bosses admit there has been no research regarding the safety of 5G.)
5G “will rely on a network of hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of small cell sites, and the question then is – are there any health implications, any public safety implications to those sites that are likely to be located close to homes, schools, workplaces …
02:42 Q: “How much money has the industry committed to supporting additional independent research…”

REPLY SUMMARISED: 04:32 “No, I’m not aware of any.”
“So there really is no research ongoing, we’re kind of flying blind here so far as health and safety is concerned.”

Lloyds Insurers Refuse to Cover 5G Wi-Fi Illness

https://principia-scientific.org/lloyds-insurers-refuse-to-cover-5g-wi-fi-illnesses/

Insurance companies will insure Space Rockets, but they will not insure against health damage by 5G technology

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/01/when-a-rocket-blows-up-space-insurers-pay-for-it.html

5G APPEAL: Scientists Warn of Potential Serious Health Effects of 5G

http://www.5gappeal.eu/the-5g-appeal/

“We the undersigned, scientists and doctors, recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry.  5G will substantially increase exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc. for telecommunications already in place. RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment. “

”numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines”. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system,learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders,and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race,as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plants and animals.

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NBE Talks To Weapons Expert Mark Steele About 5G And It’s Disastrous Effects On The Population

https://www.davidicke.com/video/525961/nbe-talks-weapons-expert-mark-steele-5g-disastrous-effects-population

Mark Steele is an inventor and weapons expert with 30 years experience who has many patents for technology to protect troops on the battlefield from the effects 5G weapons. He knows that 5G is a devastating and standard technology used on battlefields and he was astounded to discover that this was what was being installed on every street, disguised as “street lamps”.

He also knows the damage to the eyes that the new lighting causes – which is why he always walks around wearing protective eyewear.

Mark started campaigning against the rollout of 5G when it was illegally installed in his area and health problems skyrocketed.

“1G, 2G, 3G and 4G are telecommunications. 5G has nothing to do with your phone, it is a weapons system that is used on battlefields.

It uses microwave radiation which affect brainwaves and is also used to shoot Maser beams to destroy targets or kill. Many of the suicides and much of the mental disorientation experienced by troops returning from battlefields is a direct result of brain damage caused by this technology.

The LED street lighting they are installing across the country is actually 5G (in disguise). The radiationfrom this microwave technology is hazardous – particularly to elderly and children Children’s eyes are much more sensitive to this type of light.

Optical radiation is a class 1 Cancer causing radiation, it is a known hazard and has to be fully risk assessed. There has been no risk assessment. 

Those LED street lights have only been in Barcelona for 3 years and it’s already doubled the breast and the prostate cancer.

Mark Steele has been fighting to stop this killer technology from being used – originally in response to the amount of damage he was seeing in his own local area as a direct result of the rollout of these 5G streetlights and smart meters etc. “… we’ve seen a significant number of young babies dying in the womb. We’ve seen people bleeding from the nose, in the area. The nose bleeds, neurological disorders, cancers…”

It is deadly to humans and wildlife – birds, insects and animals will continue to die because of this – (and cutting down millions of trees has helped the wildlife  genocide)

“This multimillion £ project being rolled out is probably one of the biggest capital investment projects Gateshead council has ever carried out and we don’t know anything about it. It was done in secret.“

Gateshead Council took him to court in an attempt to place a gagging order to try to stop him exposing the dangers of 5G, but the judge ruled in his favour, saying the public had a right to know.

https://www.saveusnow.org.uk

Articles on Environmental Health Trust site on 5G

https://ehtrust.org/?s=5g

Tom Wheeler  FCC Chair – Supporting 5G

https://youtu.be/nWmYXUMLFpM

Federal Communications Commission Chair, Tom Wheeler giving a speech glorifying the enormous profits to be made from 5G with no mention of health or safety issues or the fact that it is completely illegal as the current rollout of 5G breaks most of the Nuremberg Code. 5G is essentially an experiment on the Human Race, being undertaken without their prior knowledge or consent.

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PhireMedical.org

Founded by Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe, Physicians’ Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment (PHIRE) is an independent association of medical doctors and associated specialists assembled for the purposes of improving education regarding health effects of non-ionising radiation.

“We collate research produced globally on this issue, share and critique it and also conduct our own research.”

http://phiremedical.org/vulnerability-in-children/

“A five year old can absorb sixty percent more microwave radiation than an adult and exposures in bone marrow can be up to ten times greater. Overall, they are more likely to suffer greater biological effects from EMR exposure”

Shocking “Smart” Meter Effects On Human Blood

A clip about evidence of damage to human health, as seen in the revelatory documentary Take Back Your Power (2013).
A reminder of the effects of radiation on the human body, and this is after only 2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/eAjX6Ap02dU

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL – Stop 5G on Earth and in Space

https://www.5gspaceappeal.org

An Emergency Appeal to the World’s Governments by Scientists, Doctors, Environmental Organizations
and Others

To the UN, WHO, EU, Council of Europe and governments of all nations

“We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from (__) countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G, 3G and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.

What is not widely acknowledged is that this will also result in unprecedented environmental change on a global scale. The planned density of radio frequency transmitters is impossible to envisage. In addition to millions of new 5G base stations on Earth and 20,000 new satellites in space, 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, will be part of the Internet of Things by 2020, and one trillion objects a few years later.

Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming. The accumulated clinical evidence of sick and injured human beings,experimental evidence of damage to DNA, cells and organ systems in a wide variety of plants and animals, and epidemiological evidence that the major diseases of modern civilization—cancer, heart disease and diabetes—are in large part caused by electromagnetic pollution, forms a literature base of well over 10,000 peer-reviewed studies.”

The appeal goes on to say that laws and environmental regulations have been changed to allow the rollout of a technology that would have been illegal in the past and points out that numerous International Agreements are being violated.

Dozens of petitions and appeals by international scientists have been ignored.

” In 2015, 215 scientists from 41 countries communicated their alarm to the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO).  They stated that “numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF [electromagnetic fields] affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines”. More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrate harm to human health from RF radiation. Effects include:

Alteration of heart rhythm,  Altered gene expression, Altered metabolism, Altered stem cell development, Cancers,  Cardiovascular disease,  Cognitive impairment,  DNA damage,  Impacts on general well-being,  Increased free radicals,  Learning and memory deficits,  Impaired sperm function and quality,  Miscarriage,  Neurological damage,  Obesity and diabetes,  Oxidative stress

Effects in children include autism,  attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and asthma

Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is abundant evidence of harm to diverse plant– and wildlife and laboratory animals, including:
Ants,  Birds,  Forest,  Frogs,  Fruit flies,  Honey bees,  Insects,  Mammals,  Mice,  Plants,  Rats,  Trees

Damage to the Ionosphere and Possible Alteration of the Schumann Resonances

The Earth, the ionosphere and the lower atmosphere form the global electric circuit in which we live… the well-being of all organisms depend on the stability of this environment including the electrical properties of the atmosphere..

…ionospheric disturbances can alter blood pressure and melatonin and cause “cancer, reproductive, cardiac and neurological disease and death”. 

Power lines have already changed the structure of the magnetosphere, and that the continued expansion of this effect “threatens the viability of all life on Earth” and there is evidence that the 100 or so satellites that have been providing 2G and 3G … have already had serious effects on humans and animals.

“Adding 20,000 5G satellites will further pollute the global electric circuit and could alter the Schumann resonances, with which all life on Earth has evolved. The effects will be universal and may be profoundly damaging.”

5G radiation could have catastrophic effects on insect populations worldwide

5G radiation is strongly absorbed by the cornea… and will be absorbed by the our largest organ, the skin..

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Obsolete Safety Guidelines

The current outdated safety guidelines ignore non-thermal effects of radiation and do not consider the real pollution of the environment with nonionizing radiation”. They also do not take into account the Cumulative effects of Exposure, among other things.

20 Facts You Need to Know About 5G 

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/04/16/cell-tower-emf-radiation.aspx

This page also has a video in which Paul Ben Ishai, Ph.D., a senior lecturer with the department of physics at Ariel University in Israel, reviews the potential risks to human health from sub-MM communication systems.

The Current Rollout of 5G is Illegal in Terms of the Nuremberg Code

The current roll-out of 5G breaks most of the principles of the Nuremberg Code regarding Permissible Medical Experiments. 5G is a massive experiment on the human (and all other life forms) population.

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/doctors-trial/nuremberg-code

PERMISSIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

…All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:

  1.  The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
  2. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.
  3. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance of the experiment.
  4.  The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
  5. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
  6. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
  7. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.
  8. The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
  9. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
  10. 10.During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.

Brussels Becomes First Major City to HALT 5G Due
to Health Effects

https://takebackyourpower.net/brussels-first-major-city-to-halt-5g-due-to-health-effects/

“I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not. The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit.We cannot leave anything to doubt.”

– Céline Fremault, Minister responsible for Housing, Quality of Life, Environment and Energy

A Mass Action of Liability

“If what we’re doing on the planet keeps going we are going to self-destruct here”

https://youtu.be/NtIYFCjUTSo

“Once you understand why it’s happening then you need to understand what to do, and that’s what this is all about.”

“So it turns out there is a way we can actually hold individuals within corporations and governments accountable for what they’re doing, and this has the potential to change everything.“
The next 40 minutes is an overview of how this works…”

Cal Washington – InPowerMovement.com

Extraordinary Interview
with Cal Washington of the
InPower Movement

https://digitalsurvivor.uk/2019/03/15/extraordinary-interview-with-cal-washington-of-the-inpower-movement/

“…this is just one aspect of what they’re doing.
They’re Deploying a military weapons system, but they’ve done it in a commercial way, it’s not standing armies that are installing the weapon, it’s utilities and  smart phone companies – everything  they’re doing is in a commercial way.”

“It’s like a board game with the black and white squares on – Two games are being played there Chess and Checkers.
They’ve taught everybody to play Checkers while they’re playing Chess.”

Cal Washington – InPowerMovement.com

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5G To Kill The Birds, Bees and Your Loved Ones?

https://principia-scientific.org/5g-to-kill-the-birds-bees-and-your-loved-ones/

The BioInitiative Report 2012

https://bioinitiative.org

A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF)

5G Apocalypse – The Extinction Event (Documentary)

A full length documentary by Sacha Stone exposing the 5G existential threat to humanity in a way we never imagined possible!

https://youtu.be/ol3tAxnNccY

#5G Technology, The Greatest Conspiracy of All Time! 

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People’s Climate March: Ubuntu: We Have a Duty to Persuade Our Leaders

Posted by on Sep 21, 2014

 “Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth.”

 “Who can stop climate change?

We can. You and you and you, and me.

And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when


God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden,

“to till it and keep it”. To “keep” it;

not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.”

— Desmond Tutu —

http://peoplesclimate.org/

Extracts  from an article by Desmond Tutu writing in the Observer on the day of the biggest global call-to-action on Climate Change in history.

Marches and protests took place worldwide. Organisers in Manhatten said some 310,000 people joined the march, including Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.

“This is the planet where our subsequent generations will live,”
Mr Ban said: “There is no ‘Plan B’ because we do not have ‘Planet B’.”

The People’s March has been organised just ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York next week. Campaigners are demanding curbs on carbon emissions along with changes in law which would prevent a continuation of the unprecedented levels of damage currently being done to humans and the environment by unfettered psychopathic and antisocial corporate greed.
(Comment by RZ, not Desmond Tutu)

The complete article can be read here: Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy

“As responsible citizens of the world – sisters and brothers of one family, the human family, God’s family – we have a duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction: to help us abandon our collective addiction to fossil fuels, starting this week in New York at the United Nations Climate Summit.”

“Just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering caused by the burning of fossil fuels.“

“We can boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil fuel companies; demand that their advertisements carry health warnings; organise car-free days and other platforms to build broader societal awareness; and ask our religious communities to speak out on the issue from their various pulpits. We can encourage energy companies to spend more of their resources on the development of sustainable energy products, and we can reward those companies that demonstrably do so by using their products to the exclusion of others.”

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions to cut their ties to the fossil fuel industry. To divest, and invest, instead, in renewable energy. To move their money out of the problem and into the solutions.

People’s Climate March Design Contest

Contest Finalists

Winners

We can urge our governments to invest in sustainable practices and stop subsidising fossil fuels; and to freeze further exploration for new fossil energy sources. The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions.

We can support our leaders to make the correct moral choices and to avoid undue industry influence that blocks the political will to act on climate change. Through the power of our collective action we can hold those who rake in the profits accountable for cleaning up their mess.”

The good news is that we don’t have to start from scratch. Young people across the world have identified climate change as the biggest challenge of our time, and already begun to do something about it.

Once again, it is a global movement led by students and faith groups, along with hospitals, cities, foundations, corporations and individuals. It is a moral movement to persuade fossil fuel companies away from a business model that threatens our very survival.

My prayer is that humankind takes its first tangible steps in New York this week – as a collective – to move beyond the fossil fuel era.

“There is a word we use in South Africa that describes human relationships: Ubuntu. It says: I am because you are. My successes and my failures are bound up in yours. We are made for each other, for interdependence. Together, we can change the world for the better.”

 

People’s Climate March Design Contest Winning Designs
The contest had two winning designs which  will form the basis of a creative NYC subway ad campaign that will highlight both the depth of the climate crisis facing us, and the hope that organized people power can push our governments to take bold action. The winners are:

 James Jean with “Winds of Change”, and Ellie and  Akira Ohiso with “The Next One won’t be Biblical”

Climate March Poster Design Contest Winner - Winds of Change

Climate March Poster Design Contest Winner - The Next One Won't Be Biblical

 

 

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Sting: Rediscovering the Muse as The Last Ship Sails

Posted by on Jun 28, 2014

 “Some of the largest vessels ever

constructed on the planet were built

right at the end of my street.”

— STING —

Sting grew up in the shadow of the shipyard, with giant ships rising into the air at the end of his street. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne was at the heart of the British shipbuilding industry.

Sting- The Last Ship

 The Dream

But instead of wanting to follow in the footsteps of generations of Tynesiders whose lives were inextricably linked with the docks and the shipbuilding industry, Sting had a different dream. It was one that grew exponentially with the discovery of a guitar in the attic at the age of 8 . “I was bequeathed a guitar and realised I had found a friend for life.”

 The dream would become his life and Gordon Sumner would become internationally known as the musician Sting, but first he had to turn his back on his roots and travel away. He had no desire to return to the traumatised society he witnessed during the closure of the ship building industry.

 “I believe there’s a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and science and technology , between community and economics.

It’s my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable”

— STING —

 The muse Sting chose to follow as a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was one that would bring us such unforgettable songs as   “Roxanne”, “Fields of Gold”, “Message in a bottle”, “Every Breath You Take” and “Englishman in New York”.

 Sting’s astonishing success both as a member of “The Police” and during his solo career, together with his prolific song-writing ability made it particularly difficult for him to come to terms with a long period of “writer’s block” which  stretched into years of self-questioning.

 He eventually acknowledged a need to return to his roots in Newcastle, a decision which was to reunite him with his muse and he has spent the past few years working on a theatrical production called “The Last Ship” – inspired by the demise of the shipbuilding industry in the North East. 

Sting released the album “The Last Ship” in 2013 and the musical production launched its pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago last Wednesday with songwriters Paul Simon, James Taylor and Dennis DeYoung watching from the orchestra seats, according to the review by Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.

Political Activism

A sense of the injustices caused by corrupted power led Sting along the path of political activism, participating in many of the focal moments in which creative artists have joined forces to raise international awareness of major issues: Band Aid, Live Aid, Feed the World”, Live8 etc.

 His long involvement with Amnesty International which  began with his appearance at the “Secret Policemen’s Other Ball” in 1981 has inspired some of the songs he has written.
“Before that I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world” .

 Sting’s song “They Dance Alone”  threw a spotlight on the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of “The Disappeared” (political opponents killed by the Pinochet regime) in Chile. These women, under constant threat from Pinochet’s infamous death squads, were afraid to voice their opinions publicly but would pin photos of their missing loved ones to their clothing and dance in public places in unspoken outrage.

Dendropsophus Stingi and The Rainforest Foundation

Sting, his wife Trudi and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, founded the “Rainforest Foundation” to help save the rainforests and protect the rights of the indigenous people living in them.  (In recognition of his “commitment and efforts to save the rain forest”, a species of Colombian tree frog, Dendropsophus stingi, was named after him.)

In addition to 16 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and several Oscar nominations. Sting has sold nearly 100 million records worldwide, was 62nd on Paste Magazine’s list of 100 Best Living Songwriters, 63rd on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Rock” and 80th on A magazines “100 Greatest Musical Stars of the 20th Century”

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Your Name on the Arctic Sunrise

Posted by on Jun 2, 2014

 The Arctic Sunrise belongs to you.

It belongs to all of us.

Don’t let them destroy it.  

PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ARCTIC SUNRISE – HERE

Help protect this important and unique environment and its inhabitants by supporting Greenpeace with a donation to help fund their work. After months without proper maintenance while in Russian custody, their ship the Arctic Sunrise requires a thorough overhaul and refitting  including the replacement of equipment removed by the Russian authorities. 

 The names of all donors will be permanently recorded on their ship,

The Arctic Sunrise so when she sails into the sunrise, we all sail with her. 

People who care about the planet believe that there should be a global sanctuary in the Arctic, which will help preserve its unique wildlife and habitat and allow the Arctic to continue to help stabilise the world’s climate.

More Information Available on SaveTheArctic.org

What’s this Campaign about?

What’s a Global Sancuary?

Why does the Melting of the Arctic Sea Ice Matter to Me?

More info on SavetheArctic.org

 

 

 

Rosneft is a massive Russian company whose pipelines spill over 2,000,000 tons per year. Now it’s moving into Arctic waters, where it plans to build over 100 rigs.

Together with Exxon, Rosneft plans to drill in an area overlapping the Russian Arctic National park, a sanctuary for polar bears, walrus and narwhals.

The Arctic could be devastated.

 All for a few last drops of oil.

Environmental Activist

As an exemplary environmental activist, The Arctic Sunrise has taken part in  campaigns and protests across the world, from withing 450 miles of the North Pole, to Antarctica’s Ross Sea, and it has Navigated both the Congo and the Amazon rivers, raising awareness of issues threatening the areas. Among other things, it has campaigned to stop whaling, taken part in protests in support of sustainable fishing, taken action to stop North Sea trawlers fishing cod towards extinction and campaigned against the Star Wars weapons programme.

The Arctic Sunrise is classified as a “1A1” Icebreaker – the second highest ice strengthening notation at the time of her construction in 1975. She was originally used as a seismic survey vessel, named Polarbjørn (“polar bear”) and was later used by the French Government. Greenpeace purchased the ship in 1995, having resorted to forming a “shell company” called “Arctic Sunrise Ventures Ltd” through which it made the purchase as the previous Norwegian owners had refused to sell the ship to Greenpeace. 

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Gasland, the Fracking Truth

Posted by on Aug 22, 2013

It’s amazing that what took mother nature millions of years to buid can be destroyed in a few hours with heavy machinery” – Josh Fox

Gasland: The Movie

“The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us.

 When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.”

 

 

Gasland-  Reviews  (at bottom of page) 

The Oil Industry has tried to discredit the film and the issues it raises via a disinformation campaign, including a video in direct response to the film .
Gasland replied to its accusations in detail on its website.

Green MP Caroline Lucas Arrested in Fracking Protest
Why would Green Party Member of Parliament be willing to face arrest in order to demonstrate against the process of fracking in the UK?

Caroline Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion said:

“Along with everyone else who took action today, I’m trying to stop a process which could cause enormous damage for decades to come. People today, myself included, took peaceful non-violent direct action only after exhausting every other means of protest available to us.

Despite the opposition to fracking being abundantly clear, the government has completely ignored the views of those they are supposed to represent. When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.”

The Department o Energy and Climate Change did not respond to requests for comment on the protests. 

When one reads documentation concerning the effects of Fracking and the Oil Industry on human health and the environment, it becomes very clear why this issue is one worth protesting about.  

THE ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION EXCHANGE

“To date, no chemical in use has been thoroughly tested for its endocrine disrupting effects. Traditional toxicological testing protocols were not designed to test for endocrine disruption and to test at ambient or low exposure levels.”

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange is one of the few organisations that has studied the effects of  products and chemicals used in the Oil/Gas industry.

Its findings are very disturbing.

Extract:
T he technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals.

A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of the 353 chemicals identified by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers.

  • More than 75% of the chemicals could affect the skin, eyes, and other sensory organs, and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. 
  • Approximately 40-50% could affect the brain/nervous system, immune and cardiovascular systems, and the kidneys; 
  • 37% could affect the endocrine system; and 
  • 25% could cause cancer and mutations. 
  • These results indicate that many chemicals used during the fracturing and drilling stages of gas operations may have long-term health effects that are not immediately expressed. 
  • In addition, an example was provided of waste evaporation pit residuals that contained numerous chemicals on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) lists of hazardous substances. 
  • The discussion highlights the difficulty of developing effective water quality monitoring programs. 
  • To protect public health we recommend full disclosure of the contents of all products, extensive air and water monitoring, coordinated environmental/human health studies, and regulation of fracturing under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act.  

Extracting, processing, and burning fossil fuels (natural gas, oil and coal) introduces huge volumes of harmful chemicals into our environment. These chemicals, and the tens of thousands of chemical products synthesized from them, are now present in every environment on earth, including the womb. Extremely low concentrations of many chemicals can damage the endocrine system of our bodies by interfering with the intricate, delicate network of natural chemical interactions critical to healthy development and normal function.

n 1991, an international group of experts stated, with confidence, that “Unless the environmental load of synthetic hormone disruptors is abated and controlled, large scale dysfunction at the population level is possible.” 

They could not perceive that within only ten years, a pandemic of endocrine-driven disorders would begin to emerge and increase rapidly across the northern hemisphere. Today, less than two decades later, hardly a family has not been touched by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autism, intelligence and behavioral problems, diabetes, obesity, childhood, pubertal and adult cancers, abnormal genitalia, infertility, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s Diseases.

TEDX’s findings confirm that each of these disorders could in part be the result of prenatal exposure to chemicals called endocrine disruptors. TEDX has also confirmed that the feed stocks for most endocrine disrupting chemicals are derived from the production of coal, oil, and natural gas. It is clear that endocrine disruption, like climate change, is a spin-off of society’s addiction to fossil fuels. Setting aside the effects of endocrine disruptors on infertility, and just considering their influence on intelligence and behavior alone, it is possible that hormone disruption could pose a more imminent threat to humankind than climate change

 

 

Fracking and Hazardous Waste

Many people and animals have fallen ill since fracking started in their area. The process of fracking pumps toxic chemicals at high pressure into the earth in order to cause minor earthquakes that loosen deposits of natural gas that have been trapped in the rock for millions of years. The process threatens to pollute  groundwater and an estimated 30% to 70% of poisoned water is estimated to resurface and continue to surface for the life of the well (20 – 30 years)

Why is this Allowed?

Many of the chemicals used in the process of fracking are considered hazardous waste. 

Why are these toxins being allowed to be pumped into the earth all over the USA when they are a real danger to drinking water supplies?

“In his second week in office, George W. Bush created the energy task force, officially known as the 
National Energy Policy Development Group, with Vice President Dick Cheney as chairman. In
its mission, NEPDG aimed to: “develop a national energy policy designed to help the private
sector. . . .”

Only when pressed by EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman did Cheney remove a recommendation to
exempt fracturing from the task force’s final report. Whereupon, the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill of
2003 included a provision to exempt fracturing from EPA drinking water regulation — but Congress
removed the provision from the final draft.

Whereupon, in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congressmen James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Joe
Barton of Texas inserted language to:

“Amend the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 to exempt
hydraulic fracturing related to oil and gas production . . . and, thus, exclude this practice from . . .
regulations related to the protection of underground sources of drinking water.”

– Steve Coffman (on Gasland’s official reply to the Gas Industry’s attempt to discredit the film.)

 

BBC Horizon Documentary on Fracking

The BBC Program: Horizon made a documentary examining the process of Fracking which questions whether there were indeed (as the Oil/Gas companies would have us believe) no risks involved to people living near the the Fracking wells.

Communities did appear to be experiencing high levels of illness. It seemed strange that so little was understood about the causes of the illnesses. One factor may have been that many people had received compensation and had signed gagging clauses which did not allow them to discuss their situation.

Plenty of people did seem willing to talk about  afflictions to themselves and animals in the area that appeared since fracking began. 
The reason for lack of clarity about the cause became apparent when the rights of industry to avoid transparency was raised. 

Money is More Important than the Health of USA Citizens.

Drilling companies in the USA are allowed to keep the chemicals used in their procedures a secret, even when they may be causing a health risk.  This makes it almost impossible for people to know what might have be causing the illnesses that have occurred since the fracking  began in their areas. 

Medical doctors have managed to get special permission to be request this information from the companies. 

Doctors Can’t Tell Their Patients

One doctor  has treated people with leisions to their faces that she thinks might be related to chemicals from fracking . The drilling companies only allow her access to the information  about chemicals they use, under the strictest of conditions. They insist the doctors sign a confidentiality statement which means they are unable to tell their patients what they have discovered are causing their illnesses.

If a doctor (that has been given the information about the chemicals) has now been able to diagnose the cause of the medical problem  decides they need to refer the patient to another medical specialist, they are not allowed to pass on the information to the other doctor or medical specialist.

 “for physicians in order to take care of your patients, there needs to be transparency and this completely breaks that down, so yes it’s very upsetting for us because we want people to get better, but if you can’t explain to someone what’s happening to them, how do you get them better… and then how do you find out if other members of their family may have been exposed .. or other people in the area may have been exposed because no one can talk about it. So it really goes against any type of modern medicine“

 

 Reviews of Gasland

Robert Koehler of Variety referred to it as “one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years… Gasland may become to the dangers of natural gas drilling what Silent Spring was to DDT.”[18]

Eric Kohn of IndieWire wrote, “Gasland is the paragon of first person activist filmmaking done right… By grounding a massive environmental issue in its personal ramifications, Fox turns Gasland into a remarkably urgent diary of national concerns.”[19]

Stewart Nusbaumer of the Huffington Post wrote “Gasland… just might take you from outrage right into the fire of action.”[20]

Gasland currently holds a 97% rating on the film site Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews.[21] Mark Kermode of BBC Radio 5 Live gave it a generally positive review, criticizing its similarity to other recent oil documentaries, yet praising its “extraordinary visual kick”. He said “it is a very interesting story which is made better by the fact that the visuals of it are very poetic, very lyrical”, and felt that its themes and ideas were relevant and well presented.

The Denton Record Chronicle said “Fox decides that his own backyard in Pennsylvania isn’t his exclusive property… Set to his own banjo music and clever footage, Gasland is both sad and scary… if your soul isn’t moved by the documentary, yours is a heart of shale.”[22]

Bloomberg News critic Dave Shiflett wrote that Fox “may go down in history as the Paul Revere of fracking.”[23]

Chicago TimeOut gave Gasland four out of five stars.[24]

In Australia, film critic Julie Riggs called the documentary a “horror movie, and a wake-up call.”[25][26]

Fort Worth Business Press writer John-Laurent Tronche talks about the growing number of documentaries “that aim to shed a light on what they call a dirty, destructive practice: shale gas exploration. And although oil and gas supporters have labeled the motion pictures as radical propaganda, a local drilling activist said they’re part of a larger, critical look into an ever-growing industry.”[27]

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Shigeru Ban: Revolutionary Humanitarian Environmentally Friendly Architecture

Posted by on Aug 20, 2013

Shigeru Ban is an accomplished international architect  with an interest in humanitarianism and sustainability. He is best known for his innovative work with paper,  particularly recycled cardboard tubes which have been used in many countries to house disaster victims quickly and efficiently.

 Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1957 he studied architecture in the USA and was particularly inspired by  time spent studying under John Hejeduk, the most experimentally minded of the New York Five from whom he developed an interest in ‘architectonic poetics’ or the creation of three-dimensional poetry.

 An important theme in his work is “invisible structure” which incorporates the structural elements as integral parts of the design.

 As a Japanese architect he uses many traditional themes and methods such as shōji and the idea of a ‘universal floor’ to allow continuity between all rooms in a house. He was also one of the first Japanese architects to embrace a combination of Japanese and Western styles. 

Architects, as he says in this video, traditionally work for people with money and power but he wanted to build useful structures for everyday people.

Shigeru was working on ecological and environmentally friendly ways of  building long before environmental awareness became mainstream. His explorations in the use of different building materials  led to much work with paper and cardboard as the basic building material. His interest in paper stems from its sustainability as a low cost, low tech, recyclable and replaceable material.

 He was surprised to discover that paper was in fact far stronger than he had expected, as well as being easy to use and easy to fireproof. With these qualities in mind he developed ways to use it as a medium for creating buildings for people in disaster areas and has used it successfully in many countries and continents.

 In times of disaster, building materials are limited and prices for obtaining them rise. Developing a method for building with cardboard tubing has made it far easier to source materials.

 During the Rwanda crisis, the UN provided the refugees with aluminium tubing as frames for building shelters, to try and stop the deforestation that was occurring with people cutting down trees to build with.

 The refugees ended up selling the aluminium for money and then reverted to cutting down trees.
Paper tubing is cheap and more versatile than tents and the community can participate in constructing their own shelters.

 Shigeru often gets local students to participate in projects and help with the construction of buildings in disaster areas. For one of their buildings he chose to use beer crates as the foundation layer. The crates were donated by a Japanese beer company and Shigeru and the students thought of sending a complaint to the donor company, he says with a twinkle in his eye, when they discovered to their disappointment that the beer crates arrived empty, rather than with itinerant containers of beer intact.

 In the video he talks of the various types of buildings he has designed including many refugee shelters as well as some of the churches he has built to replace those destroyed in natural disasters.

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