by Claire Edwards
January
04, 2019
from
EcoTerra Website
Claire Edwards, BA Hons, MA, worked for the United
Nations as Editor and Trainer in Intercultural Writing
from 1999 to 2017.
Since May 2018, she has collaborated with Arthur
Firstenberg to publish the International Appeal to Stop
5G on Earth and in Space (www.5gspaceappeal.org).
The
Appeal has attracted over 30,000 individual and group
signatories from 100 countries, but still needs to reach
many more people. |
Massive EMR bombardment
The first eight months of WWII with no fighting was called The
Phony War.
Using millimeter waves as
a fifth-generation or 5G wireless communications technology is a
phoney war of another kind.
This phony war is also silent, but this time shots are being
fired - in the form of laser-like beams of electromagnetic radiation
(EMR) from banks of thousands of tiny antennas [1] - and almost no
one in the firing line knows that they are being silently, seriously
and irreparably injured.
In the first instance, 5G is likely to make people
electro-hypersensitive (EHS). [2]
Perhaps it was sitting in
front of two big computer screens for many of the 18 years I worked
at the UN that made me EHS. When the UN Office at Vienna installed
powerful WiFi and cellphone access points - designed to serve large,
public areas - in narrow, metal-walled corridors throughout the
Vienna International Centre in December 2015, I was ill continuously
for seven months.
I did my best for two and a half years to alert the UN staff union,
administration and medical service to the danger to the health of UN
staff of EMR from these access points, but was ignored.
That's why, in May 2018,
I took the issue to the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
[transcript].
He is a physicist and
electrical engineer and lectured on telecommunications signals early
in his career, yet asserted that he knew 'nothing' about
this.
He undertook to ask the
World Health Organization to look into it, but seven months later
those public access points remain in place. I received no replies to
my many follow-up emails.
As a result, I welcomed the opportunity to join the effort to
publish an International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
because it was clear to me that, despite there having been 43
earlier scientific appeals, very few people understood the dangers
of EMR.
My experience as an
editor could help ensure that a new 5G appeal, including the issue
of beaming 5G from space, was clear, comprehensive, explanatory, and
accessible to the non-scientist.
The International Appeal
to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space is fully referenced, citing over a
hundred scientific papers among the tens of thousands on the
biological effects of EMR published over the last 80 years. [3]
Having spent years editing UN documents dealing with space, I know
that outer space is hotly contested geopolitically and any untoward
event involving a military satellite risks triggering a catastrophic
response. [4]
Space law is so inadequate - just one example is the
complexity of space liability law [5] [6] - that we could really call
the Earth orbits a new Wild West.
China caused
international consternation in 2007 when it demonstrated an
anti-satellite weapon by destroying its own satellite.
Space debris is the main
concern among space-faring nations, with a so-called Kessler
syndrome positing a cascade of space debris that could make the
Earth orbits unusable for a thousand years. [7]
Does launching 20,000+
commercial 5G satellites in such circumstances sound rational to
you?
Claire Edwards
left
clueless
United
Nations SG speechless on 5G
UN
Staff Member Claire Edwards Speaks Out! - 5G Is
War on Humanity
January 04, 2019
Claire Edwards says:
I
live in Vienna, Austria, where the 5G rollout is
suddenly upon us.
Within the last five weeks, pre-5G has been
officially announced at Vienna airport and 5G at
the Rathausplatz, the main square in Vienna,
which attracts tens of thousands of visitors to
its Christmas market each December and skating
rink each January, which are special treats for
children.
Along
with birds and insects, children are the most
vulnerable to 5G depredation because of their
little bodies.
Friends and acquaintances and their children in
Vienna are already reporting the classic
symptoms of EMR poisoning: nosebleeds,
headaches, eye pains, chest pains, nausea,
fatigue, vomiting, tinnitus, dizziness, flu-like
symptoms, and cardiac pain.
They
also report a tight band around the head;
pressure on the top of the head; short, stabbing
pains around the body; and buzzing internal
organs.
Other
biological effects such as tumors and dementia
usually take longer to manifest, but in the case
of 5G, which has never been tested for health or
safety, who knows?
Seemingly overnight a forest of 5G
infrastructure has sprouted in Austria. In the
space of three weeks one friend has gone from
robust health to fleeing this country, where she
has lived for 30 years. Each person experiences
EMR differently.
For
her, it was extreme torture so she and I spent
her last two nights in Austria sleeping in the
woods.
Interestingly, as she drove across southern
Germany, she suffered torture even worse than in
Austria, while in northern Germany she had no
symptoms at all and felt completely normal,
which suggests that there has been as yet no 5G
rollout there.
There are no legal limits on exposure to EMR.
Conveniently for the telecommunications
industry, there are only non-legally enforceable
guidelines such as those produced by the grandly
named International Commission on Non-Ionizing
Radiation Protection, which turns out to be like
the Wizard of Oz, just a tiny little NGO in
Germany that appoints its own members, none of
whom is a medical doctor or environmental
expert.
There is a silent war going on! No shots are
being fired and almost no one in the firing line
knows that they are being silently, seriously
and irreparably injured through laser-like beams
of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from banks of
thousands of tiny antennas.
In the first instance, 5G is likely to make
people electro-hypersensitive (EHS).Perhaps it
was sitting in front of two big computer screens
for many of the 18 years she worked at the UN
that made her EHS.
When
the UN Office at Vienna installed powerful WiFi
and cellphone access points –designed to serve
large, public areas – in narrow, metal-walled
corridors throughout the Vienna International
Centre in December 2015, she was ill
continuously for seven months.
Claire did her best for two and a half years to
alert the UN staff union, administration and
medical service to the danger to the health of
UN staff of EMR from these access points, but
was ignored.
That's why, in May 2018, she took the issue to
the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.
He is
a physicist and electrical engineer
and lectured on telecommunications signals
(really...???)
early in his career, yet asserted that he
knew nothing about this.
He
undertook to ask the World Health Organization
to look into it, but seven months later those
public access points remain in place.
She
received no replies to her many follow-up
emails.
I live in Vienna, Austria, where the 5G rollout is suddenly upon us.
Within the last five
weeks, pre-5G has been officially announced at Vienna airport and 5G
at the Rathausplatz, the main square in Vienna, which attracts tens
of thousands of visitors to its Christmas market each December and
skating rink each January, which are special treats for children.
Along with birds and
insects, children are the most vulnerable to 5G depredation because
of their little bodies. [8]
Friends and acquaintances and their children in Vienna are already
reporting the classic symptoms of EMR poisoning: [9]
-
nosebleeds
-
headaches
-
eye pains
-
chest pains
-
nausea
-
fatigue
-
vomiting
-
tinnitus
-
dizziness
-
flu-like symptoms
-
cardiac pain
They also report a,
-
tight band around
the head
-
pressure on the
top of the head
-
short, stabbing
pains around the body
-
buzzing internal
organs
Other biological effects
such as tumors and dementia usually take longer to manifest, but in
the case of 5G, which has never been tested for health or safety,
who knows? [10]
Seemingly overnight a forest of 5G infrastructure has sprouted in
Austria.
In the space of three
weeks one friend has gone from robust health to fleeing this
country, where she has lived for 30 years. Each person experiences
EMR differently.
For her, it was extreme
torture so she and I spent her last two nights in Austria sleeping
in the woods. Interestingly, as she drove across southern Germany,
she suffered torture even worse than in Austria, while in northern
Germany she had no symptoms at all and felt completely normal, which
suggests that there has been as yet no 5G rollout there.
There are no legal limits on exposure to EMR.
Conveniently for the
telecommunications industry, there are only non-legally enforceable
guidelines such as those produced by the grandly named
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP),
which turns out to be like the Wizard of Oz, just a tiny
little NGO in Germany that appoints its own members, none of whom is
a medical doctor or environmental expert. [11]
Like the Wizard of Oz, ICNIRP seems to have magical powers.
Its prestidigitation
makes non-thermal (non-heating) effects of EMR exposure disappear
into thin air, for taking into account the tens of thousands of
research studies demonstrating the biological effects of EMR would
invalidate its so-called safety guidelines. [12]
It has bewitched the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), part of the UN family, into
recognizing these guidelines. [13]
And one little email sent
to ICNIRP in October 2018 to submit Professor Martin Pall's
comments on ICNIRP's new draft guidelines conjured up an immediate
explosion of interest in the sender's online presence - which had
hitherto attracted none - from companies and individuals worldwide,
one country's immigration authorities, the office of the Austrian
Chancellor (head of government), a firm of lawyers in Vienna and
even Interpol! [14] [15]
I hope that people read and share our Stop 5G Space Appeal to wake
up themselves and others quickly and use it to take action
themselves to stop 5G.
Even eight short months
of this 5G Phony War could spell catastrophe for all life on Earth.
Elon Musk is set
to launch the first
4,425 5G satellites in June 2019 and "blanket"
the Earth with 5G, in breach of countless international treaties.
This could initiate the
last great extinction, courtesy of the multi-trillion-US-dollar 5G,
the biggest biological experiment and most heinous manifestation of
hubris and greed in human history. [10]
People's first reaction to the idea that 5G may be an existential
threat to all life on Earth is usually disbelief and/or cognitive
dissonance. Once they examine the
facts, however, their second reaction is often terror.
We need to
transcend this in order to see 5G as an opportunity to empower
ourselves, take responsibility and take action. We may have already
lost 80 per cent of our insects to EMR in the last 20 years.
[16]
Our trees risk being cut
down by the millions in order to ensure continuous 5G signaling for
self-driving cars, buses and trains. [17]
Are we going to stand by
and see ourselves and our children irradiated, our food systems
decimated, our natural surroundings destroyed?
Our newspapers are now casually popularizing the meme that human
extinction would be a good thing, [18] [19] but when the question
becomes not rhetorical but real, when it's your life, your child,
your community, your environment that is under immediate threat, can
you really subscribe to such a suggestion?
If you don't, please sign
the Stop 5G Appeal and get active in contacting everyone you can
think of who has the power to stop 5G, especially Elon Musk
[20] and
the CEOs of all the other companies planning to launch 5G
satellites, starting in just 20 weeks from now.
Life on Earth needs your
help now...
The transcript of above video, the exchange with the UN Secretary-General of 14
May 2018 follows.
[Start of transcript]
Staff member:
Mr. Secretary-General
UN staff have repeatedly been told that they are the most
important resource of this Organization.
Since December 2015, the staff here at the Vienna International
Centre have been exposed to off-the-scale electromagnetic
radiation from WiFi and mobile phone boosters installed on very
low ceilings throughout the buildings.
Current public
exposure levels are at least one quintillion times (that's 18
zeros) above natural background radiation according to Professor
Olle Johansson of the
Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
The highly dangerous biological effects of EMFs have been
documented by thousands of studies since 1932 indicating that we
may be facing a global health catastrophe orders of magnitude
worse than those caused by tobacco and asbestos.
Mr. Secretary-General, on the basis of the Precautionary
Principle, I urge you to have these EMF-emitting devices removed
immediately and to call a halt to any rollout of 5G at UN duty
stations, because it 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.
In line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights, to "Protect, Respect and Remedy",
5G technologies MUST
be subjected to an independent health and safety assessment
before they are launched anywhere in the world.
There is currently an international appeal (https://www.emfscientist.org/index.
php/emf-scientist-appeal) signed by 237 EMF
scientists from 41 nations urging the UN and particularly the
WHO to exert strong leadership in fostering the development of
more protective EMF guidelines, encouraging precautionary
measures, and educating the public about health risks,
particularly risk to children and fetal development.
Mr. Secretary-General, we have a unique opportunity here at the
UN Office at Vienna.
Since our medical
records are digitized, you have the possibility of releasing
data on a closed population exposed to off-the-scale levels of
electromagnetic radiation to establish if there have already
been abnormal health consequences for the UN staff here in the
last 28 months.
I urge you to do so and stop any 5G rollout in these buildings
immediately.
Thank you.
UN Secretary-General: Sorry, because you are talking to
someone who is a little bit ignorant on these things.
You're talking about
the WiFi systems?
Staff member: On the ceilings of these buildings,
WiFi
boosters and cell phone boosters were installed without
consultation, without information to staff in December 2015.
Now, if you
understand electromagnetic radiation, the signal is... if you
cannot get a signal from your mobile phone, the signal goes to
maximum strength and that then bounces off metal walls affecting
the body multiple times at maximum exposure levels.
So the situation here
is extremely dangerous. I have heard anecdotally of many people
who have had health problems.
I don't know if they
are related but the Precautionary Principle would dictate that
we use our medical records to look into this and that we remove
these dangerous devices immediately.
Thank you.
UN Secretary-General: Well, I'm worried because I put
those devices in my house. [Laughter & applause]
Staff member: Not a good idea!
UN Secretary-General: This I will have to - I confess my
ignorance on this but I'm going to raise this with WHO [World
Health Organization] - which I think is the organization that
might be able to deal with it properly for them to put someone -
their staff or organizations to work on that because I must
confess I was not aware of that danger - [humorously] to the
extent that I put those things in the rooms of my house - in the
ceiling.
Staff member: I would suggest that everybody start
looking into this issue and particularly into 5G, which 237
scientists from 41 countries consider a threat that is far worse
than the tobacco and asbestos threats of the past.
UN Secretary-General: Well, maybe I have learned
something completely new.
I hope it will be
very useful to me but I confess it is the first time I
hear about it...
[End of transcript]
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