By Arther Firstenberg
Cell Phone Task Force
The reports continue to come in from around the world.
The billions of mobile devices and the 9,000 satellites are rapidly replacing the bugs, birds and beasts of the Earth.
Patricia writes from Missouri: "I
have been living in rural southwest Missouri for the last 25 years
without a mobile phone. When I bought my home in 2005, the soil on the
lot was extremely poor and very compacted from having been driven over
with riding mowers for many years. I wanted to bring it back and turn my
whole yard into a 'food forest'. I started by sowing clover and
cultivating the dandelions instead of trying to get rid of them as so
many people do. After the clover started to blossom, I noticed it was
being visited by thousands of bumblebees. I had so many hummingbirds
that three feeders were needed to keep them from fighting for access.
Mosquitoes were almost non-existent around my area.
"At
night I could see hundreds of bats flying around, and in spring the
yard and whole area was filled with the peeping of little green tree
frogs. They would perch along the rim of my swimming pool and lay their
eggs in the water. (Note, the town does not chlorinate the water supply
and I do not chlorinate the pool.) Every morning I would check the pool
for their eggs and move them to a small pool that I set up just for the
frogs, where I would feed the tadpoles and change the water as needed
(keeping the tadpoles in buckets during the changes).
"After
I had been living here for six years, the first cell tower was erected
at the edge of town. Over the next few years, more towers went up, until
the whole area was saturated with RF radiation. The town also used a
federal grant to change all the electric meters to electronic ones and
do away with the analog meters. Each year since, the number of
bumblebees seemed to shrink by half, even though I still have the clover
and dandelions. During the past 4-5 years, I could count the number of
bumblebees on one hand. The last two years I've seen only one or two per
YEAR. The hummingbirds are totally gone. I used to find their nests in
the fall when thinning.
"Worst
of all is the complete annihilation of the tree frogs. Even friends who
live out in the sticks and have ponds on their property have noticed
the recent "silent spring" phenomenon. Speaking of silent springs: It
used to be nearly impossible to sleep past dawn with the windows open in
spring, summer and fall here due to the enormous numbers of songbirds
that produced a daily morning and evening symphony. Their numbers have
declined to the point where I have to actively listen for them in order
to hear them at all.
"I
could go on about the diminished numbers of butterflies, crickets,
praying mantises, spiders and earthworms I've observed. The declines are
not limited to the smaller critters; there used to always be cottontail
rabbits in the yard, and I haven't seen one of them in recent years. I
have lost more pets to cancer since 2010 than I care to count. There
aren't even any mice anymore! My personal health has declined severely
as well. At the same time there have been notable increases in the
numbers of mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks -- to the point where it is
miserable spending a few minutes outside." Birds
and spiders eat ticks and chiggers. Birds and bats eat mosquitoes. So
mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks, being hardy, multiply when their
predators are gone. But not for long."
Marie writes from Sweden: "Even the ticks are gone in some areas."
Daniel writes from Los Angeles: "I hardly see any moths anymore."
Sonya writes from Surrey, England: "Last
year I only had two large flies in the house and both died within a few
hours. When I was a teenager in the Midlands during the 1950s, I
couldn't open my bedroom window during the hot summers because there
were banks of midges swarming under the eaves; even here in Surrey five
years or so ago, there used to be a few midges around inside the house
during a hot evening. I saw none last year."
Renee writes from the UK: "For
the last 3 years, we've seen fewer and fewer bees, butterflies and
other pollinators. This last growing season we saw only a few bees or
butterflies -- hardly any insects at all!"
Robert writes from Austria:
"I worked for 30 years in a large hospital in Vienna. There I worked
with the air conditioning systems. They were very large and had
correspondingly large filters. When I first worked there in the '90s, we
had to sweep up all sorts of flies under the external filters. A 110
liter plastic bag was pretty much full. 30 years later there are only a
few hand shovels full (approximately 20 liters) to sweep up. The
continuous decline of insects has really shocked me. The e-radiation decimates the insects so much. It is the worst massacre in the world. It finally has to stop."
Marianna writes from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: "There
are new 5G cell phone antennas put onto an apartment house here with a
giant crane. It's a room of antennas on two buildings near me and I am
suffering!"
"There
are very few songbirds or robins, no skylarks, no sparrows, fewer ducks
and Barrow's goldeneyes, fewer crows, etc. Also, there have been no
flowers on bushes or fruit produced as in the past. I have watched a fig
tree produce fruit in 2022 only to see the fruit harden and shrivel at
harvest time as all the leaves cascaded to the ground at once. This year
I watched again and actually got a few handfuls of figs but watched the
majority shrivel and harden and the leaves fall in one swoop before
fall! It's devastating and almost no one sees or cares. There are few
bumblebees and zero honey bees. My son does art work on the demise of
bees! Harmony Arts Festival, West Vancouver."
Nat writes from Newcastle, Australia:
"There is now a noticeable decrease in insects in our region, even
flies and mosquitoes. At this time of year flies and mossies are a pest
and appear in great numbers but not this year. I could count the number
of flies I see each day on one hand and I have yet to see a mosquito.
Spiders are a rarity in the garden now and should be abundant. Five
years ago I had an accident and couldn't drive for several months. A
pair of finches took the opportunity to build a nest outside of the
garage, under the house, and continued to breed there until this year.
There were thirty-four finches sitting on the power lines earlier this
year but they seem to have gone. What have we done to the planet?"
Howell writes from Thailand: "I
went to Penang, Malaysia. In the evening I could hear an insect sound
but then realised it was coming from only one place. I looked and saw it
was coming from a loudspeaker. In the day the hotel played bird sounds
because there are so few birds and insects now."
"Back
in my hometown about an hour from Bangkok I realised the same thing was
happening, no mosquitoes, very very few cockroaches, no ants, et cetera
et cetera."
"This
morning I was shocked and saddened by seeing only one House Martin from
the 8 nests on the wall below my window. That they have actually
survived for so long is remarkable because there is so little food for
them--so few insects. The colony has been there for years. One day I
noticed a House Martin on the ground that could not fly because its
wings had been mutated and were too wide.
"I
also saw a squashed 5-legged frog on a walk. I cut down my walking
because noticing the lack of insects was very upsetting. There are urban
birds like sparrows and pigeons but even their numbers seem to be
declining.
"It
is good to see people around the world waking up to what is happening.
Locals here are happy there are no more mosquitoes and very very few
cockroaches. They do not realise what is causing it and they do not
care."
Bob writes from England: "I
am very old and have always been a naturalist and observer of changes
in the world of nature. In the past two decades, I have noticed the
decline of butterflies especially those which migrate from France to
England, and the absence of insects on the car windscreen. On our
farmland we always had a strong rabbit population which soon picked up
after the myxi [myxomatosis] decimation, but now I rarely see one. In
past years in the spring at night we would have hundreds of Maybugs
(cockchavers) flying into our house windows; I have not seen one for
years.
"The
work you are doing is essential as you know, our natural wildlife has
been my life, several years ago I concluded that we had even then lost
some seventy percent of it. We humans are a part of that wildlife. Since
the introduction of atomic weapons our future has never been certain,
but this is far more subtle and I believe threatening."
Barbara writes from Québec, Canada: "I
noticed a decline in the insects, birds and creepy crawly things after a
cell phone tower went up behind our family's home over 20 years ago.
After two years, seven of our neighbors had died from cancers and heart
attacks and all the animal life vanished. The June bugs died in the
ground. It is too sad to remember or recount all that we experienced
while living there during that time as it was a time of pure evil and
torture."
Author, poet and journalist Sean Arthur Joyce writes from Canada:
"Today in our community in southeastern British Columbia is our local
Christmas Bird Count. The results are positively eerie: hardly a bird to
be found, and we live in a mountainous region that is at least 100
kilometres from the nearest major city. I've noticed just over the past
couple of months that the birds coming to the feeder have plummeted.
Where before, we had daily, regular visits from a dozen or so chickadees
and nuthatches all through the year, this has dropped to the occasional
pair only once or twice a week. At first I chalked this up to the
squirrel monopolizing the feeder for a while, but since he stopped doing
that the bird count has still not increased.
"Given
how far we are from a major city, and the fact that we have no 5G here
(though we do have 4G cell service in some areas, but it doesn't work
outside the villages), I'm assuming we may be experiencing radiation
from the Starlink satellites even in this semi-remote, rural area.
"We're
going into a solar maximum cycle in 2024 (actually it has already
started) according to scientists, which has already resulted in a flare
affecting radio transmissions around the world. More are predicted in
the coming months. There are days I pray we get such a major blast of
solar flares from the sun that it knocks out ALL of the satellites. Of course, that would knock us back about 200 years but maybe that's the only way we'll see a return of the bird life."
Maya writes from San Francisco: "My
second-floor porch is at the bottom of a Prevailing North Wind funnel,
that blows across the dozen backyards, that create the green space
interior of our block. The south side of the porch is open to the sky,
between buildings on either side that are much taller, creating the wind
funnel, and at least a constant breeze.
"When
I first moved here four decades ago, I often counted 20 or 30 birds and
many bees and butterflies every day. They stopped by the plants I set
out for them on the porch as they flew both north and south. Now I only
see one or two small birds a week scurrying across the porch floor. But
never any bees, and maybe one or two small white butterflies a week.
Beginning five or six years ago, I've walked the same path in Golden
Gate Park several times a week, and counted 50 or 60 Canadian Geese
every time. Now, maybe there are 15 or 20 of them. And all the various
ducks and hawks are rarely seen. And the glorious breath-taking seasonal
Blue Herons are gone.
"Also
now, there is a 5G tower more than 500 feet away, at eye level with the
porch and my desk window. I spent a small fortune on EMF shielding
screens for the desk area windows that look out on the porch. But they
only shield 80% of the radiation. Lately I've noticed that when I must
be at the computer for several hours, the left side of my face by the
window, is red."
Henrik writes from Sweden: "I
have seen the same thing happen here in Sweden with the insects. The
crane fly and the wasp are gone. In my filled compost bucket there was
not a single fruit fly in July and August. Flies and butterflies have
also decreased."
Josephine writes from California: "All
of my ants are gone. No rising population of ants rescuing eggs when I
water my roses. No little house cleaners coming in for jelly left on the
counter in the kitchen. None coming in during the rain."
Where have all the insects gone?
Satellites are taking them, every one!
Arthur Firstenberg
March 21, 2024
The least noticed and greatest assault on Earthly life rains on us from the sky. Nature’s wires strung above us from horizon to horizon, carrying the electricity that helps power our bodies, and the information that informs our growth, healing, and daily lives, now carries dirty electricity — millions of frequencies and pulsations that confuse our cells and organs, and dim our nervous systems, be we humans, elephants, birds, insects, fish, or flowering plants.
The pulsations pollute the Earth beneath our feet, surround us in the air through which we fly, course through the oceans in which we swim, flow through our veins and our meridians, and enter us through our leaves and our roots. The planetary transformer that used to gentle the solar wind now agitates, inflames.
The lake pictured above is the United Kingdom’s largest. Located in Northern Ireland, Lough Neagh swarms so densely with flies every spring and summer that residents shut their windows against the living smoke. Clothes left out on a line are covered with them. So is any windshield on a vehicle traveling around the lough’s 90-mile shoreline. Until 2023.
Last year, unbelievably, no flies were to be seen. Windshields and hanging clothes were bare of them. None flew into open windows. Other species that used to eat them were gone as well — ducks, frogs, fish, eels, and predatory insects. Fly larvae were not there to keep the lake bottom clean. Little was alive in the lough except an overgrowth of algae. “Has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?” asked The Guardian in a February 19, 2024 article.
Has the ecosystem of the entire Earth collapsed? we ask, for the same is happening all over, according to reports I have been receiving for a year from almost everywhere on every continent.
On
June 13, 1968, the United States completed its launch of the world’s
first constellation of military satellites. Twenty-eight of them, more
than twice as many satellites as were in orbit around the Earth until
then, were lofted to an altitude of 18,000 miles, in the heart of the
outer Van Allen radiation belt. The “Hong Kong” flu pandemic began two
weeks later and lasted for almost two years.
For the next three decades, the skies slowly filled up with hundreds of
satellites, mostly for military purposes. Then in the late 1990s, cell
phones became popular.
On
May 17, 1998, a company named Iridium completed its launch of a fleet
of 66 satellites into the ionosphere, at an altitude of only 485 miles,
and began testing them. They were going to provide cell phone service to
the general public from anywhere on earth. Each satellite aimed 48
separate beams at the earth’s surface, thus dividing the planet into
3,168 cells. Reports of insomnia came from throughout the world.
Iridium’s
satellites began commercial service on September 23, 1998. The effect
was devastating. I contacted 57 people in my network in 6 countries,
plus two nurses, one physician, and a support group for patients. 86% of
the people I interviewed, and the majority of patients and support
group members, became ill on Wednesday, September 23 exactly, with
headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, nosebleeds, heart palpitations,
asthma attacks, ringing in the ears, etc. One person said it felt like a
knife went through the back of her head early Wednesday morning.
Another had stabbing pains in the chest. Some, including me, were so
sick we weren’t sure we were going to live. We were all acutely ill for
up to three weeks. I suddenly lost my sense of smell on September 23,
and did not recover it for six years. Mortality statistics from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control revealed a 4% to 5% rise in the national
death rate beginning the last week in September and lasting two weeks.
Some people reported a reddish sky the night of September 23.
In
early December 1998, I again received telephone calls from far and wide
asking me what had changed. Orbcomm, providing data service to
industries, had gone commercial on November 30 with 28 satellites
orbiting 500 miles up.
On
July 25, 1999, another company, Globalstar, achieved worldwide cell
phone coverage with 32 satellites, 876 miles up, and began testing. I
again received calls from people who were certain the earth felt
different again.
On
February 28, 2000, Globalstar completed its constellation of 48
satellites and went commercial. Nausea, headaches, leg pain, and
respiratory problems were widespread, both among people who called
themselves electrically sensitive and people who did not. The effects
were felt starting on Friday, February 25, the previous business day.
Iridium,
which had gone bankrupt in August 1999, resumed full commercial cell
phone service worldwide on March 30, 2001 after signing a contract with
the U.S. military. The night of March 30 was accompanied by an even more
intense and widespread red sky than the one that had accompanied its
initial launch of service two and a half years previously. A red aurora
was seen in the northern hemisphere as far south as Mexico, as well as
in the southern hemisphere. There was a catastrophic loss of Kentucky
race horse foals in late April and early May, and since mares abort
several weeks to a month after a viral infection or other triggering
event, this put the triggering event at about the end of March. Similar
foaling problems were reported at the same time from Ohio, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, northern Michigan, and Peru.
Breeders also reported both newborn and older horses with unusual eye
problems, and adult horses with pericarditis.
On
June 5, 2001, Iridium added data to its voice service, including
connection to the Internet. Hoarseness was a prominent complaint of many
who contacted me during the next few weeks.
For the next two decades, Iridium and Globalstar were the only providers of satellite phones. Enter SpaceX in 2019. In
November 2019, SpaceX began regular launchings of 60 satellites at a
time into even lower orbit, only 326 to 350 miles up, and I began to
receive reports from people around the world of headaches, dizziness,
insomnia, exhaustion, skin problems, feelings of oppression, and heart
problems. Almost 200 people in my network reported heart palpitations,
heart arrhythmias, or heart attacks.
In
March 2021, the density of signals polluting the ionosphere increased
significantly. SpaceX, which had already launched more than 1,000
Starlink satellites and was testing them on a limited number of
customers, launched 60 satellites on March 4, 60 more on March 11, 60
more on March 14, and 60 more on March 24. A competitor, OneWeb, also
launched 36 satellites on the night of March 24. More satellites were
launched into space in that month and on that day than ever before. And
on March 24, SpaceX dramatically increased the speed of its satellite
internet connections to over 400 Mbps.
On
March 24, 2021, a threshold was passed, and the deterioration of life
on Earth accelerated tremendously. Some people reported not feeling well
beginning on March 4 or March 11, but 1,000 people in 50 countries
emailed or called me on or after March 24 confirming my own awareness
that something terrible was happening to our planet. The reports came
from people in New York City, Paris and London, and from people living
in remote locations miles from the nearest cell tower. They came from
people who used no wireless technology at all, and from people who had
smart meters on their homes and 5G antennas outside who emailed me from
their cell phones. They came from people young and old. It did not
matter, they all had similar experiences. Everybody, whether they were
previously ill or not, became suddenly and profoundly sicker on March 24
or March 25, depending on the time zone in which they lived, and most
slept little or not at all the night of March 24.
People
reported that not only they, but also their spouse, children, parents,
neighbors, friends, coworkers, clients, and everyone else they knew were
sick, exhausted and irritable on March 24 or 25 and had trouble
sleeping. Some reported that their pets or farm animals were sick at the
same time — cats, dogs, chickens, goats, cows.
The
details were consistent. They could not sleep for one, two, three or
more nights, beginning March 24 or 25. Some took melatonin or other
sleeping aids and still could not sleep. They had pain and itching,
either all over or in specific parts of their body, commonly their feet
and legs. They had headaches. They had muscle spasms. They were weak and
exhausted and could hardly stand or walk, and some tripped or fell.
They had skin rashes. They were dizzy and nauseous, and had stomach
aches and diarrhea. The ringing in their ears was suddenly more intense.
Their eyes were red, or inflamed, or their vision suddenly worsened.
They had heart palpitations, rapid or irregular heartbeat, or suddenly
high or very low blood pressure. A few had nosebleeds, or coughed up
blood, or their eyes popped a blood vessel. They were anxious, depressed
or suicidal, and irritable.
Since
then, SpaceX has been launching rockets carrying dozens of satellites
at a time on a weekly or biweekly basis, filling the heavens with
luminous objects that interfere with astronomy, spewing chemicals that
are destroying our planet’s protective ozone layer, filling the upper
layers of the atmosphere with water vapor that should not be there and
that is increasing the current in the global electric circuit and the
violence of thunderstorms, and cluttering up space with satellites that
are nothing but solar arrays and computers that are continually failing,
wearing out, and having to be replaced, and which are deorbited to burn
up in the lower atmosphere, filling it with metals and toxic chemicals
for everyone to breathe — and altering the electromagnetic environment
of the Earth that had not changed in three billion years and that life
below depends on for its vitality and survival.
Last
Thursday morning, from Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX successfully launched
its Starship — the largest rocket ever built, the one it wants to ferry
men and women to Mars with — into space for the first time. And on
Friday it launched yet another 23 Starlink satellites to bring its total
polluting the ionosphere up to more than 6,000, now not only for
internet communication with rooftop dishes but for direct communication
with handheld cell phones. The 6,000 satellites are also now
communicating directly with one another, wrapping the Earth with
pulsating lasers carrying 42 million gigabytes of data every single day.
Everyone I know has had trouble sleeping and been suffering since last Wednesday, the night Starship launched.
Since
March 24, 2021, not only has human health deteriorated, but the
biodiversity of the Earth, everywhere, has plummeted. People have not so
much noticed the decline of the larger wildlife like wolves, bears,
lions and tigers, which were already scarce, but they are shocked by the
total disappearance of the smallest animals that were only recently so
common you couldn’t open your windows without them flying in. They are
shocked by the disappearance of all the frogs that used to swim in their
ponds, the birds that used to nest in their trees, the worms that used
to slither on the ground, the insects that used to fly through their
windows and cover their clothes hanging on the line. My newsletters of March 29, June 21, September 20, October 17, and November 28, 2023 carried major stories about this from various parts of the world. My newsletters of December 5 and December 26, 2023, and January 9 and February 6,
2024 quoted from individuals all over the world who have emailed or
called me, and I have a huge backlog of more such reports that you can
read when I publish them in the future.
If
we want to have a planet to live on, not only for our children but for
ourselves, the radiation has to stop. Not only do the cell towers have
to come down that are so ugly to look at, but also the cell phones that
we hold in our hands and have become so dependent on, and the satellites
that are squeezing all the life that remains out from under them. We
are running out of time.