https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.802386/full

According to the authors, the findings findings suggest that the SNP rs198585630 of the 5-HT_1A receptor is an important target for further research exploring the mechanisms of hypersensitivity to microwave exposure.

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SCOTT IKEDA, AUGUST 3, 2021

Amazon’s new sleep tracking technology proposes to cast an “electromagnetic bubble” over customers, monitoring their movements throughout the night in an attempt to improve quality of rest. Critics have already raised multiple concerns, from exactly what Amazon intends to do with the data it collects about sleep habits to the amount of radiation it would need to emit to function.

Sleep tracking technology puts corporations in the bedroom

The apparent market demand for Amazon’s new sleep tracking tech stems from reports of common sleep disturbance during the Covid-19 pandemic; studies find that as many as half of all respondents are saying that they have been having trouble getting a full night of rest since early last year.

About two weeks ago, Amazon received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to bring sleep tracking devices to the market. The unit has yet to be built, but the proposed plan is to use 60GHZ radar to track body motion across a bed throughout the night. Excessive or unusual movements might then help to pinpoint specific issues causing difficulty in maintaining proper sleep. Google is developing similar sensor technology to be incorporated in its Nest Hub smart device networking system.

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By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. on March 15 2021

Source https://breakingdefense.com/2021/03/rearrm-army-holds-modernization-rehearsals/

WASHINGTON: Officials from across the Army are thrashing out how to field a host of new weapons to combat units without disrupting readiness and training.

“We’re conducting rock drills right now,” said Lt. Gen. Thomas Todd, head of acquisition for Army Futures Command. “And it really has to do with, not just what we can afford to do, but the absorption rate and how it impacts readiness.”

The Army is developing 35 top-priority technologies, from hypersonic missiles to higher-caliber rifles, set to enter service between now and 2030. But if you give a single unit too much new technology at once, or at the wrong point in its train-up cycle, you actually disrupt its training and make it less ready for real-world operations. That’s unacceptable to the Army, which is building a master plan called REARMM (Regionally Aligned Readiness & Modernization Model) to guide how its forces train, deploy and modernize.

“What we don’t want to do is to affect [units] to a point where we’re not ready… that being the driving factor behind these rehearsals,” Todd told a Defense News webcast this morning, a prelude to the AUSA’s Global Force Next conference starting tomorrow. “[So] we’re going through right now in an attempt to take all those delivery dates, all those first units equipped, all those initial operational capability dates, and synchronize them.”

Read more at https://breakingdefense.com/2021/03/rearrm-army-holds-modernization-rehearsals/

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A white paper by an aviation watchdog warns of ‘catastrophic failures’ if 5G moves into the spectrum traditionally used by civil aircraft.

BY MICHAEL VERDON

A white paper by the RTCA, a private-public aviation partnership that advises the Federal Aviation Administration, warns that 5G technologies could pose a “major risk…of harmful interference” to radar on business jets and other civilian aircraft.

The paper was released last month following approval by the Federal Communications Commission for telecommunications providers to use the 3.7-3.98 GHz frequency spectrum. The FCC’s decision is part of a growing trend by regulatory agencies to make a larger section of the frequency spectrum available for 5G use. The FCC has approved an auction for potential licensees in December.

If 5G telecommunications systems are permitted to use that frequency band, said the report, “the risk is widespread and has the potential for broad impacts to aviation operations in the US, including the possibility of catastrophic failures leading to multiple fatalities, in the absence of appropriate mitigations.”

Read more at https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/5g-interfere-airplane-radar-1234580467/

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Defense Department would bypass usual auction process for airwaves; AT&T CEO visited White House to argue against it.

Two federal agencies are moving forward with conflicting plans to commercialize a valuable chunk of wireless spectrum controlled by the Defense Department, leaving the future of an asset worth tens of billions of dollars in doubt.

The Pentagon is drafting a request for proposals for a new fifth-generation military cellular network that would lease its extra capacity to private-sector users like cellphone carriers, auto makers and factories, according to people familiar with the plan. This RFP includes more specific requirements than a separate request for information released last month and could go public before the Nov. 3 election, the people said.

At the same time, the Federal Communications Commission, the independent agency in charge of licensing airwaves to the private sector, is pursuing a plan to auction some of the same Pentagon-controlled band late next year.

The military currently uses the spectrum for radar and aviation, but the same frequencies are ideal for the ultrafast 5G signals commercial operators are working to deploy.

Read more at: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cellphone-carriers-lobby-against-pentagon-plan-for-national-5g-network-11602271148?mod=e2tw

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Vodacom’s 5G deal with Liquid will entrench its dominance, Telkom warns

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Highlights

Carcinogenicity of radio frequency radiation (RFR) was examined.

The focus was on hemolymphatic cancers in the occupational and military settings.

Unusually high proportion of hemolymphatic cancers was found in a case series.

Similar unusually high proportions were reported in three previous cohort studies.

The findings support a case for classifying RFR as a human carcinogen.

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Peleg M¹, Nativ O², Richter ED³.

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Excerpts:
The author criticizes the loss of democratic culture,which makes the implications of the telecommunications policy for the public even worse.The brochure concludes with an appeal that sees the human right to health violated on several levels.He calls on the government and the political parties of the Federal Republic of Germany to put suitable protective measures into place that protect our living environment from increasing levels of EMF and that guarantee the public’s right to health.

Electrohypersensitivity: how ignorance or denial of such findings impact those affected. As a scientist,physician,and expert witness,the author has been involved in numerous cases of persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity,as well as radar victims of the German Armed forces and the NationalPeople’s Army of the former GRD. He describes the helplessness official agencies and ignorant physicians cause in those affected by electromagnetic hypersensitivity,the microwave syndrome,and radar exposure.He shows how the continuous experience of helplessness turns into a great stressor itself that exacerbates the disease-causing long – term effects of electromagnetic field exposure.

The review of the Russian research reports and papers on the long-term effects of electromagneticfields summarized here had been commissioned by the German Federal Agency of Telecommunications (today the Federal Network Agency). The
review results prove that radiation is a cause of multimorbid clinical findings and nonspecific regulatory
disorders. That these findings were not welcomed by commercial interests is probably responsible for the fact that the 120-page research report immediately disappeared into the archives of theselfsame agency that had commissioned the report in the first place. Likewise,the federal minister of environment was not interested anymore
either.
Both of these reactions, we find, are not compatible with public health. Anybody who finds the strength to accept the necessary responsibility will also have to be willing to depart from the dogma that says that harmful biological effects are only possible through thermal interactions. This would be a breakthrough for a research approach that is
becoming more aware of the autonomy of life and
the modern life sciences. See the link to download the free pdf.
http://kompetenzinitiative.net/KIT/KIT/english-brochures/

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