- “Nigel Farage: Coutts owner apologises for ‘inappropriate’ claims” – In a letter to the former UKIP leader, Dame Alison Rose insisted the assessment of Mr. Farage “does not reflect the views of the bank”, reports the Times.
- “Jon Sopel issues grovelling apology to Nigel Farage over mocking tweet about bank row” – Broadcaster Jon Sopel has issued an apology to Nigel Farage after previously poking fun at the former UKIP leader’s cancelled account with bank Coutts, reports the Express.
- “BBC under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage over Coutts account report” – The BBC is under pressure to apologise to Nigel Farage after admitting that it reported inaccurate information about the closure of his Coutts account, according to the Telegraph.
- “Bank account closure rules changed by Government” – The Treasury has announced that banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers’ accounts under changes designed to protect freedom of expression, reports the Mirror.
- “NatWest should have its banking licence removed” – Despite NatWest claiming to foster an inclusive culture, it banned Nigel Farage for his political views. The Government needs to take pre-emptive action and break up the business, writes Ross Clark in the Express.
- “How I was nearly ‘de-banked’ because of my friendship with Nigel Farage” – Financial institutions are targeting innocent individuals, such as Simon Heffer in the Telegraph, due to their ties with Nigel Farage.
- “NatWest faces wave of data requests after Nigel Farage scandal” – NatWest faces a wave of demands from ‘debanked’ customers to discover why they lost their accounts, says the Telegraph.
- “Humiliation for Coutts as they grovel to Farage” – The decision by Coutts to ‘de-bank’ Nigel Farage over reputational concerns, and then brief the BBC that it was due to financial requirements, will go down as one of the worst corporate own goals in recent history, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Mafia bosses, dictators and Russian oligarchs: The questionable Coutts clients” – Coutts, the private bank which closed Nigel Farage’s account, has had links to numerous controversial figures, including Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, reports the Telegraph.
- “COVID-19: Newly published research and CDC data” – Dr. Robert W. Malone casts an eye over new research, uncovering links between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and increased strokes, breast milk’s immunity advantages and waning Covid inoculations for children.
- “Peers call on Minister to shut ‘secret institution’ that monitored lockdown critics” – Britain’s Intellectual Property Minister has faced calls to shut down a “secret institution” accused of spying on lockdown critics, politicians, and journalists, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Top scientists misled Congress about Covid origins, newly released emails and messages show” – A top advisor to Anthony Fauci still thought a lab leak was possible in April 2020, one month after claiming publicly that it wasn’t, reports Public.
- “Covid origins scientist denounces reporting on his messages as a ‘conspiracy theory’” – Public releases the full cache of Slack messages and emails, which cover the discussions between Kristian Andersen and his co-authors as they wrote their influential Proximal Origin paper. This paper was used by Anthony Fauci and others in the U.S. Government to dismiss the lab leak hypothesis.
- “Scientists think they’ve cracked the secret of Covid ‘super-dodgers’” – A new study may have unpicked the secret of why some people who got Covid never got ill, and it could all be thanks to a quirk of their immune system, reports the Mail.
- “Above all else, it was a spectacle” – Toby Rogers, at the Brownstone Institute, delves into the unsettling truth behind Covid’s iconic imagery and propaganda tactics, covering everything from staged pandemic photos to media manipulation.
- “Europe’s ‘48°C horror that never was’… ESA, media sharply criticised for manipulative reporting” – The news was abuzz last week with reports of temperatures soaring to 48°C in southern Europe. However, none of it was true, says WUWT.
- “Political backing for EU Green Deal fizzles despite heat wave” – As the centre-Right changes tack on climate, the bloc’s climate coalition is crumbling, says Politico.
- “Now Sadiq Khan threatens to use hidden mobile cameras in Ulez areas” – Sadiq Khan could be set to ramp up efforts to enforce his Ulez scheme with the use of mobile cameras after at least 200 cameras have been vandalised by Londoners so far, says the Mail.
- “Road rage: The great motorist rebellion has begun” – Making life difficult for motorists may be a tactical prelude to pave the way for a car-free future, says Ross Clark in the Spectator. But drivers are not going to go quietly.
- “Why your electric car is nowhere near as green as you think” – Electric cars are not ‘zero-emission vehicles’. Not by a long way, says Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “So what’s the real point of Just Stop Oil protests?” – The ‘shocking viral videos’ of the Just Stop Oil protests may not be what they seem. Kit Knightly, in OffGuardian, unmasks the truth behind staged clashes and paid protesters.
- “SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms” – The Scottish Government confirmed that it had green-lit plans to chop down millions of trees since 2000 in order to build massive turbines for renewable energy, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “The BBC has co-opted bad weather to its alarmist climate crusade” – The climate alarmism in the recent heatwaves is shameless, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Schools told to ‘proceed with caution’ after transgender guidance promise broken” – Schools have been told to “proceed with extreme caution” after Rishi Sunak broke his promise to issue transgender guidance this term, says the Telegraph.
- “School trans guidance must not become another Section 28” – Any guidance on how to help trans-identifying children must be driven by the principle of parental consent and clinical evidence, rather than emotion, says Albie Amankona in CapX.
- “Gender ideology has captured the state” – The Government’s attempts to ban social transitioning in schools are being thwarted at every turn, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Preserving an open future for kids” – Bans on transgender medical treatments for children are about protecting them from life-altering decisions that they cannot possibly comprehend, says Tom C. Rawlings in City Journal.
- “Windsor public school teacher rips Muslim students for skipping Pride day” – A teacher in Windsor, Ontario, chastised a group of Muslim students for not attending a Pride celebration day, describing the action as “disgusting” and “an incredible show of hatred”, says Rebel News.
- “Laurence Fox posts image of LGBTQ+ flag superglued outside home” – Laurence Fox has claimed his family home has been “marked by the child mutilation cult” after posting an image of a LGBTQ+ flag stuck to the pavement, says the Mail.
- “Open letter on the position of scientists and researchers on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation” – A CSA Academia open letter by scientists and researchers raises concerns about the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, citing flawed technology, privacy concerns and potential ineffectiveness in combating the crime.
- “Poland files legal complaints against ‘authoritarian’ EU climate policies” – The Polish Government has submitted four complaints against EU climate policies, calling them “authoritarian” and pledging that it “will not allow Brussels’ diktat”, reports Notes From Poland.
- “Meta’s Threads ‘bombs’ as daily active users halved” – Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest social network launch, has swiftly unravelled, with data revealing a halving of active users, reports Similarweb.
- “Just stop pissing everyone off” – Watch Just Stop Oil protestors being surrounded by ‘Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off’ protestors, preventing them from marching in the road.
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If you wish to nerd-out on the topic further, Spartacus’ substack is for you. The author also goes into a lot of depth in the comments section so he seems to be well read on the subject. Apparently Switzerland have stopped their 5G roll-out.
”People have been raising concerns over 5G wireless networks for a while, now, citing the use of higher frequencies than old GSM standards as a potential source of danger. Some of these concerns seem unfounded, at first glance. Technically, high-frequency EMF over 10 GHz has a very shallow penetration depth in the body. It barely gets through the skin. There is simply too much water in the way. This is one of the things that flummoxes the Internet of Bodies guys trying to get THz radiation to penetrate the skin; its penetration depth is even shallower than the 5G high band, quite literally fractions of a millimeter.
Does this mean that there is no risk from EMF, especially for COVID-19 sufferers? Well, the true picture here is a bit more complex than that. As it turns out, COVID-19 and EMF injury have an overlapping etiology of disease. They share an initiating event, in the form of excess calcium being drawn into cells through ion channels.
Most of these concerns, however, are not specific to 5G. That is to say, if radiation from 5G base stations is a threat to human health, then so is practically every other source of RF. Wi-Fi base stations, Bluetooth headsets, VHF marine radios, anything. It’s an area of study that needs continued investigation, and there are still a lot of unknowns in terms of the actual biological effects of non-ionizing radiation.”
https://iceni.substack.com/p/wireless-radiation-and-covid-19
However did CoVid -19 get into the party? Might as well go the whole hog and implicate climate change and Trump.
Is that because it is not being studied extensively, are there industry-funded studies that find no harms or are there independent studies that could not find any problems?
If the concern relates to non-thermal effects of long-term exposure then perhaps to some extent it’s still early days.
Probably it’s because radiation and its effects have been studied extensively for over a hundred years, and whilst understanding is not complete, we are in the logarithmic phase… diminishing returns, the amount out for the amount in is marginal.
And. Despite the very clear account given in the article, people still cannot grasp that we are bombarded continually with radiation – electromagnetic and particulate – from Manmade and natural and have been all our lives.
It is impossible to carry out meaningful ‘clinical trials’ which represent real-life situations for specific wavelengths, nit only on ethical grounds but since it is impossible to remove the plethora of background radiation from all other sources to exclude any effects it might have.
The likelihood of being in close proximity to a transmitter has increased significantly in the last couple of decades. That may not be long enough to know what the effect might be. Yes some people do not grasp they are bombarded with radiation in the same way some do not read the safety section of their wireless devices that advises how far they need to keep it from their body. Manufacturers won’t put that in their quick start guides, instead burying it elsewhere.
This video from a few years ago by Sabine Hossenfelder remains a useful resource ‘All you need to know to understand 5G’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBsP-bmDLOo
Certainly there is a level of agreement on some of the points made in the article above. However I think Sabine is rightly much more cautious than Mark in her conclusions
“It is reasonable to think it’s [5G] not a health risk, given that this radiation is of low energy and scatters in the upper layers of the skin, but there is very little data on what the effects of long term exposure may be”
It is this lack of data which is a serious cause of concern for me.
If the radiation is not getting past the upper layers of the skin, and since it is not a focussed beam on one area of the skin, long term exposure is irrelevant.
If it’s not getting through it can’t have any effect – no matter how much time elapses of it not getting through.
What bothers me is that 5G is one of those things that is too big to fail.
Even if it came to light that 5G was deadly, do you actually think that it would stop them? No it wouldn’t. The evidence would be suppressed and 5G would roll on.
Because the decision has already been made that we’re having it whether we want it or not.
Total surveillance and 15 minute cities and internet of things depends on it.
“Even if it came to light that 5G was deadly, do you actually think that it would stop them? No it wouldn’t. The evidence would be suppressed and 5G would roll on.”
MMMMM…what does that remind you of ?
Part of the problem is the assumption that people will believe that safety is almost binary, i.e. zero or one, and a marketing tactic based on that as well. As you mentioned the need for light for vitamin D manufacture, it’s worth pointing out that it falls within the UV spectrum on your graph – UV-B, actually. We can’t feel that frequency, though, it just comes with all the rest, but it doesn’t get through a glass window. We can feel the heat, but there won’t be any UV-B for us then.
As to what is a safe level of exposure to UV across the spectrum, I don’t have a number to hand, but what there is in the market is the concept that it’s bad for you, and you need loads of suncream etc. Begs the question of whether those who sell it are actually undermining our ability to make vitamin D naturally – oh, and then you need to buy Vitamin D supplements as well. Quids in both ways, a cynic might say.
The paragraph on vaccine risk (or “safe and effective”, which I seem to remember seeing on posters etc) is wise. However, one of the odd things is that the medical trade seems to be in a foreign country compared with other industries that really deal with safety to do with manufactured systems. There is a well established term called Safety Integrity Level (SIL) – look it up. It uses a range of values from 1 to 4 (or maybe even 0 to 4) based on an x-y graph of risk and severity. Part of the problem is that any system has it’s own fault modes, and which way it fails, either to cause another fault, or just silently so that it’s useless.
Incidentally, one of the modern hazards to do with mobile phones is the fact that quite a lot of people seem to be strolling along, perhaps oblivious to the real world around them while they’re “on the phone”.
5G will significantly increase our wireless RF radiation (radio frequency microwave) exposure 24/7/365. Senior telecom executives admit they have not done any safety testing on 5G, (nor do they plan to do any), but related research does show is cause for alarm. Thousands of independent studies indicate adverse health impacts from wireless radiation, ranging from cancer and sterility to DNA damage
5G is categorically different than its predecessors (4G/LTE, 3G, 2G, etc.). It is not a simple upgrade. It is a major increase – and change – in the type of wireless radiation to which we will all be exposed, without consent,
whether we use this service or not.
5G builds on existing infrastructure and, in addition, uses extremely high (millimeter-wave) frequencies of 24 gigahertz (GHz) or more. These 5G signals don’t travel far, so antennas will be installed approximately every 2-10 homes in residential areas. 5G
will significantly increase our wireless RF radiation (radio frequency microwave) exposure on a 24/7 and 365 days a year basis.
No Safety Studies
In a February 2019 U.S. Senate hearing, senior telecom executives admitted they have not done any safety testing on 5G, nor do they plan to do any. See link at the bottom.
What related research does show is cause for alarm. Thousands of independent studies indicate adverse health impacts from wireless
radiation. These range from cancer and sterility to DNA damage. The (US) government’s human exposure guidelines haven’t been updated in
more than 20 years, while radiation from cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi and wireless baby monitors has increased exponentially in that
time.
Planet Earth Blanketed in Radiation
The 5G agenda is vast. It includes 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, that will be part of the Internet of Things (IoT), with one trillion transmitting objects a few years later. 5G is meant to usher in more robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, including 5G antennas installed inside cars – behind our heads and irradiating our brains – so we can talk to people in other vehicles and instruct our driverless cars on where to take us. 5G base stations and 5G devices will have multiple antennas in phased arrays that work together to emit focused, steerable, laser-like beams that track each other. Each 5G phone will function like a mini cell tower, containing dozens of tiny antennas working together to track and aim a narrowly focused beam to search and connect with the nearest cell antenna. The FCC has adopted rules that permit those beams to be as much as 20 watts, ten times more powerful than levels allowed on current phones.
More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies conducted by independent researchers from around the world demonstrate the harmful biological effects of wireless radiation. Because of their developmental stages, children are much more susceptible to Electromagnetic Fields. Some of the more well-established adverse effects of wireless radiation include:
Detrimental effects on fetal and newborn development
Detrimental effects on young children
Brain tumors and other cancers
DNA damage and altered gene expression
Neurological effects and cognitive impairment
Impaired sperm function and quality
Learning and memory deficits
Cardiovascular disease
The mechanisms of biological harm from wireless radiation were not well understood until Martin Pall, PhD, demonstrated how voltage-gated calcium channels are disrupted, resulting in excessive intracellular calcium ions affecting our cells. Numerous independent studies on millimeter-wave radiation already show a range of biological effects, indicating that an increase in frequencies may worsen harmful effects.
The multi-trillion dollar telecom industry wields massive lobbying power and formidable public influence through pervasive, propagandistic advertising and media presence promoting 5G.
In the Information Age, data drives the economy. 5G is being touted as the next industrial revolution, when, in fact, it amounts to surveillance capitalism, in which intimate details of our lives are tracked, recorded and sold to the highest bidder, irradiating us all the while.
Let’s Irradiate the Sky, Too
In addition to millions of new base stations on Earth, 5G includes an eventual 20,000+ satellites in low orbit, affecting the ionosphere.
Players include Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon.
The direct radiation from these satellites, combined with their contamination of our ionosphere, along with pollution of the global electrical circuit would likely be catastrophic to all life on Earth.
5G threatens to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of Earth’s ecosystems.
https://ehtrust.org/health-effects-of-5g-wireless-technology-confirmed-at-us-senate-hearing-after-senator-blumenthal-questions-industry/
More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrate harm to human health from RF radiation. See links below.
https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal
No, the ICNIRP guidelines have been updated, in 2020 in fact. 5G (as in generation) uses faster modulation schemes, the energy involved is similar to 4G just with wider RF channels and slightly reduced cell sizes.
The terminal devices (phones mainly) are lower powered to give extended battery life, they are in constant communication but actually that came with the 3G phones that have been around for 20 years now.
If you are worried about radiation, then sunlight is far riskier and of proven danger in some cases. Radio systems are way down the risk scale.
Sunlight is part of our natural environment and supports life. The introduction and escalation over the last few decades of a radiation source modulated in ways we may not naturally experience over extended periods, or at all, has no precedent. Where would a study now find a control group?
Mark Steele would beg to differ with you. He describes 5G as a Direct Energy Weapon System. He used to work as a weapons expert & has been subject to numerous attempts to stop him from informing the public.
The 5G heats the air temperature & can be slowly ramped up to cause heating in the human body as the hardware is installed in each LED street light. It’s the sheer number of the units & the proximity to humans which is the issue. The only safety data cited & acknowledged as the result of testing is that there is no increase in body heat after exposure for 1 hour. The benign (ha!) caring government body responsible for the roll out of 5G has therefore deemed this to be sufficient evidence that 5G is safe to humans & all wildlife.
If a subject or individual is being censored then they must be over the target & a threat to a narrative.
He has a website if anyone wishes to investigate this further.
https://www.saveusnow.org.uk/
Mark Steele is a left-wing moron.
We have been using 5g in Theatre & TV for decades for comms and radio mics until the frequencies were stolen from us (at great replacement cost) to use for 5g.
Don’t try science on a nation of morons with only humanities qualifications to thir collective credit.
Feelings now trump facts
Having read some of the comments below I am reminded of: Whilst I can explain for you, I can’t understand for you.
Maybe “science” has been bought and paid for?
I refer you to “Not even trying, the corruption of real science” by Bruce Charlton.
Actual Science instead of hysterical hyperbole and anecdote – refreshing.
Decades ago the National Radiological Protection Board replaced ‘Safe Dose’ with ‘Permitted Dose’ for designated radiation workers, there being no way to know what the safe dose was, and the permitted dose is just best guess.
People worried about 5G should stop travelling in aeroplanes – thinner atmosphere at altitude, less protection from incoming radiation from the Sun and Space including neutron bombardement – or undergoing medical imaging with all those deadly X-rays.
The amount of radiation absorbed depends on its wavelength, energy, distance from source, and the type and density of the material it encounters. Radiographs rely on differential absorption: bone being denser and calcium-containing compared to soft tissue, absorb more radiation.
Paradoxically, soft tissue absorbs less high energy X-radiation and is less altered, than it would low energy.
Earphones – all emit some RF if they contain magnets.
In the days of cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and computer monitors, the worry of the day, was X-rays coming off the screen into people’s eyes. (Gasp!) Enterprising souls made much money amongst the easily duped selling lead impregnated glass covers to fit over the monitor screen, and lead glass eye shields.
The theory. X-rays are produced when fast moving electrons are abruptly brought to rest thus giving up their energy as a photon of radiation – bremsstrahlung or braking radiation. It’s how they were discovered during experimentation with electrons.
It was true, the electrons did emit tiny pulses of X-radiation when they hit the screen, but the glass is very thick, much of the electron energy was given up producing light, so insignificant amounts at low energy escaped towards the viewer.
Perhaps you should add how the amount of energy absorbed is determined for RF exposure to e.g. the human head.
The first point should be 5G is completely unnecessary.
Why were so many hideous 5G towers put up during lockdown?
Saying nothing is safe is not an argument
https://actionagainst5g.org/
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I’m less convinced about this that you Mark, I think things can work synergistically with other things and cause problems, maybe 5G is in that category?