HEALTH
Helium 5G: Promoters Call It ‘The People’s Network’ — But Who Really Profits? By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
Supporters of Helium 5G technology call it “the people’s network” because it creates wireless internet coverage without relying on the services of an internet provider, but critics say it comes at a cost — to your health, privacy and liberty — as corporations profit from mining your data.
A fast-growing wireless network called “Helium 5G” awards people with cryptocurrency for setting up internet hotspots to power the Internet of Things (IoT).
Supporters of the technology who say they’re making a lot of money call Helium 5G “the people’s network” because it creates wireless internet coverage without relying on the services of an internet provider.
But some critics — including W. Scott McCollough, lead electromagnetic radiation litigator for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) — say the technology has negative and far-reaching implications for people’s health and privacy.
“The Helium network may be billed as ‘free’ and beneficent,” McCollough said. “But nothing is truly free, and in this case there will be significant costs to health, privacy and liberty.”
More than half a million hotspots and growing exponentially
Helium 5G — or “Helium Cloud Ecosystem” — is a global network of wireless hotspots that use objects connected to the internet to send small amounts of data over long distances using radiofrequency (RF) signals.
These hotspots can reach 200 times farther than conventional Wi-Fi hotspots and share their owners’ bandwidth with nearby internet-connected devices — such as parking meters, air-quality sensors or smart kitchen appliances — thereby boosting the wireless coverage in an area, The New York Times reported.
Hotspot owners receive payment by “mining” a form of cryptocurrency called HNT that some experts predict will be the next cryptocurrency to “explode” in 2023, thanks to the exponential growth of Helium hotspots since 2020.
Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi, a software engineer who hosts a podcast about Helium, in June 2021 tweeted a graph showing fewer than 5,000 Helium hotspots in Jan. 2020 and more than 55,000 only 18 months later.
As of Feb. 22, that number had surpassed 500,000.
Alpine Capital Markets, a cryptocurrency and decentralized finance strategy and analysis firm, called the Helium Network “revolutionary” because it is helping speed up the rollout of 5G.
CHD Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Rule in Cellphone Radiation Case Against Apple By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
Children’s Health Defense and eight nonprofits on Wednesday filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Apple. The plaintiffs are asking the U.S. Supreme court to decide if the Federal Communication Commission’s cellphone radiation guidelines preempt state safety and health laws.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and eight nonprofits on Wednesday filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Apple.
The plaintiffs are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) cellphone radiation guidelines preempt state safety and health laws.
According to the plaintiffs, this question has been “left unresolved for more than a decade” — allowing telecommunication companies like Apple to avoid facing personal injury claims from cellphone users who allege the company violated state health and safety law by failing to inform consumers of the health risks associated with the radiofrequency (RF) radiation emitted by the phones.
Report Linking Fluoride to Lower IQ in Children Made Public After CDC, HHS Tried to Block It By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
The National Toxicology Program on Wednesday released a draft report linking prenatal and childhood fluoride exposure to reduced IQ in children, after public health officials tried for almost a year to block its publication.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) on Wednesday released a draft report linking prenatal and childhood fluoride exposure to reduced IQ in children, after public health officials tried for almost a year to block its publication.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially blocked the NTP from releasing the report, according to emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
But a court order stemming from a lawsuit filed by Food and Water Watch against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) forced the report’s release this week.
The NTP, an interagency program run by HHS that researches and reports on environmental toxins, conducted a six-year systematic review to assess scientific studies on fluoride exposure and potential neurodevelopmental and cognitive health effects in humans.
The report, containing a monograph and a meta-analysis, went through two rounds of peer review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Comments from reviewers and HHS and NTP’s responses also were included in the report released Wednesday.
Magnesium — An Important Nutrient for Heart Health Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 18, 2023 – High cholesterol isn’t your heart’s worst enemy, this is. In fact, it’s the single greatest predictor of heart disease and odds are you’re deficient in it – leading to inflammation, which can make your blood pressure soar.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body and is involved in more than 600 different biochemical reactions. Research suggests even subclinical deficiency can jeopardize your heart health
- A lack of magnesium will impede your cellular metabolic function and deteriorate mitochondrial function, and magnesium deficiency has been identified as the greatest predictor of heart disease
- Magnesium is also important for chromosome folding, which allows cells to divide, multiply and regenerate to make up for lost or damaged cells
- Check your RBC magnesium level and track signs and symptoms of magnesium insufficiency to determine how much magnesium you need. Low potassium and calcium are also common laboratory signs indicating magnesium deficiency
- To optimize your magnesium level, eat magnesium-rich foods and/or take a magnesium supplement. Taking Epsom salt baths is another effective way to boost your magnesium level
Medicine Betrayed: A Conversation With Whistleblowers [1:23:55] Analysis by Tessa Lena
March 18, 2023 – Whistleblowers talk about vaccinated ICU nurses forced to work while sick and a top executive allegedly offering ‘air vaccines’ to doctors in the inner circle.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- In this explosive interview, Dr. Venu Julapalli, Dr. Mary Crow, and Owen Robinson (RN) talk about all the irrational, tragic, and harmful policies they have experienced at the Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas
- Dr. Julapalli filed a lawsuit at Houston Methodist after they introduced vaccines mandates in 2021
- He also started an internal listserv for physicians at the hospital, and he observed first-hand the tremendous levels of fear that the doctors felt over speaking out
- As conveyed to Dr. Julapalli by a well-respected anonymous physician, she was offered by the Chief Medical Officer at Houston Methodist to secretly fake the vaccine
- Owen Robison, who worked as a nurse at the ICU until he was terminated for declining the booster, is convinced that the mandates were the main reason for staffing shortages
- According to him, due to shortages, vaccinated and boosted ICU nurses were forced to come in to work and look after patients while sick
Worse than I thought: No risk from Avian Flu, but CDC invented a vaccine, for which it would get royalties if avian flu spreads to humans Meryl Nass
So CDC is desperately seeking human cases, and might be culling birds to keep exposing humans to the virus, in hopes somewhere someday there might be human-human spread –and $$$ ROYALTIES
March 17, 2023 – What does our CDC say about avian influenza? My comments are in brackets; the rest is verbatim from CDC websites listed.
1. What about our pets? [CDC has pointed out that mammals can get avian flu too. Well, 7 years ago a veterinarian supposedly got “mild flu symptoms” from sick cats. Not a problem.—Nass]
2. What about the workers who deal with infected flocks of chickens?
Recommendations for poultry workers and bird outbreak responders
People working with poultry with known or possible infections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A viruses should follow worker protection and personal protective equipment (PPE) recommendations. Biosecurity information is available from USDA’s website.
Dioxin, part 2 Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Immune System Consequences
March 18, 2023 – Last week, I wrote an extensive substack about Dioxin and the looming disaster for our entire country after the explosion and chemical fire in East Palestine. If you missed it, you can find it here. This week’s substack is about the effects of dioxin on the immune system.
The Immune System
Over the past 30+ years, research has established that the immune system can be compromised by infinitesimally small amounts of dioxin, knows as TCDD. Although the mechanisms are still not well understood, the adverse effect most consistently reported in toxicology literature is dioxin’s ability to suppress the activity of white blood cells (T-lymphocytes). Studies confirm that the presence of dioxin compromises the immune system to such an extent that if a person is exposed to garden-variety influenza A viruses, they are much more likely to have a deadly result.
How Does This Happen?
Dioxin, know as TCDD, suppresses the activity of cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTLs), specialized white blood cells that eliminate viruses and bacteria. Two primary types of “killer” white blood cells exist—natural killer cells (NK) and CD8+ cells. Both circulate silently through the blood, destroying unwanted particles as they are found. NK and CD8+ cells do their work by releasing granules that cause infected cells to break apart; hence the virus “dies” because it cannot replicate. After the cell has been destroyed, the NK and CD8+ cells move on to snuff out more infected cells. Without fully functioning CTLs, it is believed that the host’s defenses can become overwhelmed by the replicating germs, often leading to death.
