September 20, 2023 | ZERO5G.com | Image source |Voice your opposition to pro-telecom bills that are moving quickly through the U.S. House and Senate.
Federal bills are running against strong public opposition in the U.S. The attempt to remove regulatory barriers is a euphemism for removing our voices and consent.
Check to see if your legislators are in any of the House or Senate Committees on Commerce, on Natural Resources, on Transportation and Infrastructure, on Agriculture, on Armed Services, on National/Homeland Security, on Communications Media & Broadband, on Rules.
National Security Risks of S.1648 (HR 682), HR 1123, HR 1353, HR 4510, HR 3565, HR 1338
Bills That Jeopardize National Security and Cybersecurity:
US FEDERAL BILLS WOULD FAST-TRACK WIRELESS NETWORKS NATIONWIDE
Congress is currently considering nearly 50 bills in both chambers that, collectively, would promote significant proliferation of wireless antennas and infrastructure across the country and in space, likely leading to wireless antenna proliferation and/or higher levels of wireless radiation in the environment.
Instead of fast-tracking wireless networks, Congress should ensure it is protecting the public and environment.
Pending Bills Would:
Preempt local zoning authority on the placement of antennas
Exempt most wireless deployments from certain environmental and historic preservation laws
Encourage deployment on federal land, including National Forests and National Parks
Increase availability of spectrum for commercial use by reallocating from federal users
Make federal broadband funds available for wireless deployment
Fast-track approvals for satellite networks
Encourage wireless radiation in agriculture, which depends on pollinators
Virtually eliminates states’ rights and local authority over communications facilities, allows cell towers to be placed almost anywhere, and exempts most wireless deployments, including all small cells, from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).
No agency with health or environmental expertise is funded to consider radiofrequency (RF) effects from environmental emitters (e.g., cell towers, small cells, 5G/4G wireless network antennas).
No oversight, monitoring, or compliance program exists.
No safety regulations exist to protect wildlife, trees or plants, despite evidence of serious harm, with pollinators being uniquely vulnerable.
Outdated FCC Wireless RF Exposure Regulations:
FCC RF exposure limits remain unchanged since 1996.
No federal agency has conducted a comprehensive review of the current body of science on the health and environmental impacts of wireless RF radiation.
“We find the [FCC’s radiofrequency] order arbitrary and capricious in its complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.”
The FCC has not complied with the DC Circuit Court order to explain how U.S. RF limits address:
impacts on children
non-cancer effects of long-term exposure
the ubiquity of wireless technology since 1996
impacts on the environment (pollinators, plants and animals)
An Unsupported Basis for Bills Fast-tracking Wireless:
Pending bills are being promoted under the banners of “streamlining”, “removing barriers to entry”, and “closing the digital divide.”
In fact, these bills ignore constitutional protections, conflict with existing federal law, remove states’ rights, and would perpetuate the digital divide.
Increasing RF levels across the country will put people, wildlife, and the natural environment at serious risk of harm. Federal accountability and environmental safeguards are needed before allowing unfettered wireless proliferation.
Solutions:
Instead of fast tracking wireless networks, Congress should ensure the public and environment are adequately protected. Accountability actions include:
Require qualified, independent federal agencies to assess the evidence on wireless impacts and develop science-based exposure limits for humans, wildlife and the natural environment.
Fund the EPA to establish a federal program for nationwide RF measurements, environmental monitoring, oversight and compliance.
Exercise Congressional oversight authority over FCC and its lack of compliance with the DC Circuit order.
Encourage deployment of high-speed, affordable, wired broadband to every home in America to bridge the digital divide with infrastructure that is faster, safer, and more secure.
Below is a wagon-load – 11,000 pages – of scientific evidence documenting harm from RadioFrequency / Microwave (RF/MW) Radiation:
The U.S. Courts of Appeals (DC Cir.) accepted and based its Aug 13, 2021 ruling on 27 volumes of scientific evidence concluding multiple significant biological damages caused by pulsed, modulated RF electromagnetic radiation exposure at power levels that are millions of times lower than the RF electromagnetic radiation exposure guidelines recommended by NCRP Report No. 86. The judges considered the 11,000+ pages of peer-reviewed, scientific evidence (see links listed, below) in their ruling in Case 20-1025, Environmental Health Trust, et al. v FCC and a issued a mandate to the FCC: Vol-1, Vol-2, Vol-3, Vol-4, Vol-5, Vol-6, Vol-7Vol-8, Vol-9, Vol-10, Vol-11, Vol-12, Vol-13, Vol-14, Vol-15, Vol-16, Vol-17, Vol-18, Vol-19, Vol-20, Vol-21, Vol-22, Vol-23, Vol-24, Vol-25, Vol-26 and Vol-27.
September 17, 2023 | Zero5G.com | There is no “safe” level of microwave radiation.
Due to high radiation levels, French regulators have ordered a halt on certain cell phone sales, reported to exceed the European standard specific absorption rate of 4.0 watts per kilogram.
The spotlight on harms of cell phone RADIATION is extremely important since most customers have no idea that their cell phone and other wireless devices transmit harmful Radiofrequency/ Microwave (RF/MW) RADIATION continuously while powered on.
Just as big tobacco’s smoking “products” were protected by regulators for decades, big telecom’s RADIATION “product” is also protected, not only by regulatory agencies such as the FCC that are captured by the industries that they are supposed to regulate, but by policy makers and unelected boards and commissions.
RF/MW Radiation exposure is not only being absorbed from a cell phone or a wireless device. Microwave antenna networks (and satellites) are constantly transmitting RADIATION at the device ((THE USER)) when powered on. Many people may also be unaware that RF/MW RADIATION may be used as a weapon.
Koppel T and Koppel T: Measurements of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, including 5G, in the city of Columbia, SC, USA. World Acad Sci J 4: 22, 2022
It’s time to stop giving Big Industry a free pass to pollute our homes and communities with RADIATION. Forced involuntary exposure to RADIATION is NOT a “service” it is an assault.
September 16, 2023 | What is Freedom? EVERYTHING. | Much more public scrutiny is needed regarding Agenda 21 / 2030 and the threat to the freedom of Americans. Unfortunately, this topic is mostly omitted with regard to policy discussions and by presidential candidates.
The United Nations is a corrupt organization of unelected bureaucrats intent on destroying the USA and imposing a one world government dictatorship to enslave every man woman and child on Earth.
THE UNITED NATIONS exposed by G. Edward Griffin_Link To Video
George Bush Sr. signed America on to Agenda 21 in 1992, then Bill Clinton adopted and accelerated UN programs, continued by every administration thereafter.
In times when the federal government was not in complete lockstep with the UN, US Governors, Mayors, and Counties adopted UN programs.
Former CIA Director, President George H.W. Bush Sr., New World Order Speech
“What is at stake is more than one small country. It is a big idea, a new world order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of man kind; peace and security, freedom and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle and worthy of our children’s future.”
The globalization process of developing worldwide uniformity involves a totalitarian restructuring of the world via UN Agenda 21/2030 and the use of “SMART” devices and networks.
Like boiling frogs, many Americans are unaware of UN Agenda 2030 and anti-human “sustainable development goals”.
The Covid crimes are a case in point how instead of protecting the rights and sovereignty of the American People, elected public servants and unelected bureaucrats, (even store clerks!) enforced UN policies in the form of medical countermeasures that included forced masking and unsafe injections.
There is a war in progress to conquer our minds as well as our bodies, though it’s difficult to recognize the enemy.
The foundation of our great nation is FREEDOM for everyone, regardless of race, religion, class, sex, political affiliation, or our opinions.
This foundation is being systemically attacked by billionaire “philanthropy,” corporate sponsored color revolutions, rogue government agencies, Marxist ideological subversion, information warfare via sophisticated RF weaponry, captured media, and political corruption.
Each of us is born with our rights, granted by our Creator not politicians, the government, political parties, or the UN.
America’s Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence are despised by tyrants and anti-sovereigns everywhere because they represent the enshrinement of the rights of individuals to be free from enslavement by kings, queens, popes, and other illegitimate “deciders”.
The American people are at a crossroads as the UN attempts to lock USA down again using Agenda 2030 “sustainable development goals” and the same fear playbook as the planned CV19 genocide event of 2020, including to censor free speech.
Americans from all across the spectrum now have an opportunity to reject the UN Agenda 2030-driven-marketing-hysteria of blind collectivism and embrace liberty, personal responsibility, and individual freedom for all.
Dr. James Lindsay provides an explanation of Marxism presented at a conference held at the European Parliament on March 30, 2023.
His thesis: “Woke is Maoism with American characteristics… Woke is Marxism.”
Lindsay describes Marxism as a genus of ideological thought with the goal of destroying Western civilization from within using Maoist techniques.
In California, the Huntington Beach City Council passed a resolution to ban masking and vaxx mandates from being enforced in their city.
The resolution’s sponsor, Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark said of the decision, “The city’s policy banning mask and vaccine mandates is simply taking a stand against government overreach on measures that have already proven scientifically to have little benefit, but at the same time, it’s depriving individuals and businesses of their liberties.”
Passage of the resolution makes Huntington Beach a no mask, no vaxx mandate city.
“We just believe that the individual and businesses should have a right to make their own decisions.”
Pro-telecom bills HR 3557, HR 4141 and 50+ related bills are a lose-lose for everyone except for the wireless industry.
Attorney Jullian Gresser stated: “…We must remember that this wireless infrastructure is intended to facilitate invasions of privacy, and government and corporate surveillance, in violation at a practical level of numerous state laws protecting consumer privacy. It will authorize intrusion and eliminate protection of your own home, in violation of the fourth and ninth amendments. It will enable massive searches, and indeed assaults, of millions of people in their homes, without their owners’ informed consent. It will violate various state constitution environmental rights…”
Attorneys Andrew Campanelli, Scott McCollough, and Jullian Gresser discuss with Moderator Odette Wilkens HR 3557, HR 4141, and other pro-telecom bills as well as practical actions that people can take locally to oppose and counter these insidious bills.
Brief Summary of Presenter Comments
by Julian Gresser
Andrew Campanelli
The net result of HR 3557 and the collection of over 50+ related bills is to cripple the power of cities, counties, towns, villages, and even states to regulate anything to do with cell tower applications. If passed, states and local communities will have zero power to regulate in any way the placement of wireless facilities on public or private property.
In New York City, if someone files an application to install 12,000 small wireless facilities, how could anyone reasonably expect the permitting authority to make a decision in 90 days? There is no legitimate purpose for adopting something like this. It is just inherently insidious.
Scott McCollough
This bill and its related bills represent almost everything that telecoms could want.
The telecoms wrote it. You can tell just from looking at it. If you’ve looked at enough legislation, this is not something some staffer wrote. This is not something somebody in Congress was assigned to do. The lobbyists wrote this bill and found somebody to sponsor it. So let’s just make that clear, at the outset.
HR 3557 basically eliminates any existing restrictions in land use laws. Many local jurisdictions have laws that say, for example, in residential areas, you can have a commercial facility, which is what a wireless cell tower is. This bill says: amend your zoning law, or you must grant a variance. It will enable taking private property without adequate compensation. It overrides years of land use precedent and practice. It even implicitly overrules state government Sunshine laws, because no local jurisdiction can meet these deadlines, and still do what you have to do under the Open Meetings Act. There are significant Commerce Clause separation of powers questions: first, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, tenth, 11th, and 14th Constitutional amendment problems. Yes, Congress has broad powers, but I don’t think Congress can treat us — the public — in this way.
Julian Gresser
The blizzard of 50+ bills now before the U.S. Congress, beginning with HR 3557, taken together, will have the effect of fatally disempowering and stripping away Constitutional rights and prerogatives of local communities to protect and to secure their health, safety, environment, privacy and basic wellbeing. The combined effect will be to cripple local resilience and interdependence, which are critical conditions for states and local communities to meet a host of environmental, cybersecurity, and other challenges.
False Claims and Premises. The 50+ bills are based on a series of false claims and premises that are not rendered truthful by their being widely asserted, disseminated, and asseverated by the wireless telecom industry and members of Congress:
Wireless infrastructure is safe. It is well documented to be unsafe.
Wireless infrastructure is resilient. In fact, it is less resilient than one based on fiber.
Wireless infrastructure is energy efficient. In fact, it is shown to be vastly energy consumptive.
Wireless infrastructure is cybersecure. In fact, wireless is substantially less secure that optical fiber which facilitates identification of the point of attack, and resilient response.
Wireless infrastructure is climate change friendly. In fact, it is the very opposite.
Wireless infrastructure promotes Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) especially in minority communities, when in fact these same communities are too economically challenged and lack legal representation to escape.
Wireless infrastructure will close the Digital Divide, when it caused it in the first place and will expand it.
Wireless is long-lived, whereas the wireless industry and supporting legislators know full well that wireless is short-lived and given to early obsolescence.
HR 3557 and its associated complementary bills represent a tyrannical attempt by the telecom-wireless industry to shift forever the reasonable and historic balance between the federal government, states, and local communities. Many of these bills offend the Constitution; some significantly abridge hard fought civil liberties; others intentionally and cynically promote and disseminate false claims, or are predicated on them. A few, building on the mayhem created by HR 3557, will jeopardize national security, especially by crippling resilience and interdependent emergency response at the state and local levels to cyberattacks.
At the very least members of Congress must conduct comprehensive risk assessment and due diligence on HR 3557 et al. before voting to approve them. It is political malpractice to fail to do so.
The Congressional representatives listed below have co-sponsored H.R.3557.
Contact their offices, ask them to take a closer look at the proposed bill and encourage them to change their minds, and remove their name as co-sponsors.
Click on the links below to access their websites.
September 2, 2023 | ZeroMandatoryVaxx.com | Mr. Biden last week announced a request to Congress for more funding of CV shots for all Americans, quickly drawing strong opposition.
According to a recent study, ‘Spikeopathy’: COVID-19 Spike Protein Is Pathogenic, from Both Virus and Vaccine mRNA presenting evidence of widespread vaxx harm, “unprecedented high rates of adverse events” occurred following injections, including multiple organ failures, neuropathies and death.
The conclusion of the study states, “In this narrative review, we have established the role of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, especially the S1 subunit, as pathogenic. It is also now apparent that widely biodistributed spike proteins, produced by mRNA and adenovectorDNA gene codes, induce a wide variety of diseases.”
Parry, P.I.; Lefringhausen, A.; Turni, C.; Neil, C.J.; Cosford, R.; Hudson, N.J.; Gillespie, J. ‘Spikeopathy’: COVID-19 Spike Protein Is Pathogenic, from Both Virus and Vaccine mRNA. Biomedicines2023, 11, 2287. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11082287
The U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies are investing a substantial amount to develop new mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer, fueling a lucrative mRNA platform valued at $136.2 billion.
A newly established White House program announced on Aug. 23 that it is granting a total of $25 million over three years to Emory University, Yale School of Medicine, and the University of Georgia to develop personalized therapeutic vaccines against cancers and emerging infections, similar to how COVID-19 mRNA vaccines target SARS-CoV-2. They aim to use mRNA—an essential element in COVID-19 vaccines developed to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections—to program a unique class of immune cells called dendritic cells to initiate a desired immunological response.
Pharmaceutical companies such as Moderna, BioNTech, and CureVac are conducting clinical trials using mRNA-based vaccines with advanced melanoma, ovarian, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. The National Institutes of Health is partnering with BioNTech to develop a personalized vaccine for pancreatic cancers. In addition to COVID-19 and cancer, other mRNA-based vaccines in development target influenza, genital herpes, respiratory viruses, and shingles.
The Texas ban on mask mandates went into effect today.
Besides beingunconstitutional to force medical mandates in a free society, there are many glaring flaws with politician’s, unelected agencies, and store clerks trying to prevent human beings from breathing oxygen, by attempting to mandate oxygen restriction via forced face masking.
Intentionally impeding the normal breathing of a man, woman, or child, by covering the mouth, nose, or both, is the definition of “suffocating” under 18 U.S.C. § 113 – U.S. Code – a crime under federal law:
18 U.S.C. § 113 – U.S. Code – Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 113. Assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdiction
“…the term“suffocating”means intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly impeding the normal breathing of a person by covering the mouth of the person, the nose of the person, or both, regardless of whether that conduct results in any visible injury or whether there is any intent to kill or protractedly injure the victim.”
In addition to violating every person’s God-given right to breathe air, evidence positively establishes that masking is harmful and has been weaponized as a political tool for dividing and controlling the population.
As the advertising for the next planned “outbreak” ramps up to frighten the population into submission, it’s critical to scrutinize the information and to NOT comply with mandates.
August 31, 2023 | Regarding the recent talk of mask mandates, Governor Reeves of Mississippi stated, “The simple answer to the question being posed by ‘experts’ is no. We will not return to widespread masking or COVID rules.”
He continued, “We are never going back to 2020,” Reeves said. “People have a right to make their own decisions. To decide how much risk they tolerate. And no matter what pronouncements come down from the Biden/Fauci administration: we will go to school, we will go to church, we will go to work, and we will play sports. We will live in self-determination, not top-down fear.”
The self-appointed “experts” were proven wrong on masks. Additionally, masking policies violate God-given rights.
CV19 and countermeasures were invented by the WHO/CCP and the DOD along with American leadership blindly followed the plan.
In any case, evidence positively establishes that masking is harmful and has been weaponized as a political tool for dividing and controlling the population.
Firefighter demonstrates oxygen levels drop below safe levels with masks
“No matter what you choose, headsock, neoprene-type, fancy mask, cheap mask, N95, the best available, none of them, allow you to breathe in the required oxygen level, which should be close to 21%…”
Additionally, masks provide criminals with the ability to conceal their identity, which contributed to the exponential rise in crime coinciding with the CV-19 event.
As the advertising for the next planned “outbreak” ramps up to frighten the population into submission, it’s critical to scrutinize the information and to NOT comply with mandates.
What do you call re-imposing mask policies that have been proven ineffective or restarting lockdowns that are known to cause harm?
You don't call it sanity.
These terrible policies only work with your cooperation. How about refusing to participate…
HR-3557 and HR-4141 are proposed federal telecommunications bills that would eliminate nearly all state and local control over Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (WTF) and would enable the construction of a Digital Prison for Americans.
H.R. 3557:
“We must oppose this bill. This is the worst bill I have seen in my entire life with respect to telecommunications. You have to understand how bad this is…
THIS is the Digital Prison right here.
THIS is the bill you cannot let them pass!”
-Paul G.
H.R. 4141:
The title of the proposed bill pretty much says it all:
“To provide that certain communications projects are not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes.”
On May 24, 2023, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up and voted through HR-3557, either to the next committee or to the House floor; a decision to be made by House leaderships
On July 26, 2023, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Marked Up and Voted through Committee HR-4141, either to the next committee or to the House floor; a decision to be made by House leaderships
HR-3557 and HR-4141 are heavy-handed bills with unacceptable federal overreach into local land use, permitting, and franchise negotiations. Congress must respect the local zoning and permitting for wired broadband and wireless telecommunications infrastructure, as intended in prior Congressional Acts, to ensure that such infrastructures are only deployed as and where needed to serve the public interest and protect valuable public resources including safety, health and property.
If H.R. 3557 passes, it could result in a truly unrestricted proliferation of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (WTFs) of any size in residential zones, near schools, parks, playgrounds, and sensitive care facilities without any local or community input.
Local governments have always been the stewards of these finite public resources and must remain so.
We need to stop HR-3557 and HR-4141.
REGISTER NOW to attend this 2-hour Zoom Meeting on Wednesday, August 16, 2023
“ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY EMISSIONS.—No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the operation, placement, construction, or modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions…
Proposed House bills H.R. 3557 and HR-4141 are companion bills that, if signed into law, would establish an unnecessary and massive federal power grab designed to strip away nearly all state and local control in the permitting and review of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (WTFs).
The bills would eliminate the cooperative federalism and local control principles that were upheld by the US Supreme Court in its 2005 Ruling in Abrams vs Palos Verdes. The bills would also violate the very purposes of the Act they aim to amend: the 1934 Communications Act, as amended in 1996 and 2012: promoting safety of life and property.
In H.R. 3557 , the wireless industry is proposing new expansive definitions of “Antenna“, “Communications Service” , “Personal Wireless Service“, and “Effective Prohibition” of Personal Wireless Service. The bill also attempts to establish unreasonable terms for WTF review and attempts to pre-empt local zoning authority with language like this:
“including with respect to an area that has not previously been zoned for personal wireless service facilities”
Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals are deceptive goals designed to eliminate Americans’ God-given inalienable rights, freedoms and liberties. Don’t be confused by any “pleasant sounding” language in these UN Globalist goals; Agenda 2030 is the inventory and control plan that would create a digital prison in your community.
The Agenda 2030 plan requires HR-3557 and HR-4141 to construct a 24/7 wireless surveillance system created by hazardous 24/7 RF-Microwave radiation antennas placed far too close to homes (closer than 2500 feet) at far too high radio signal strengths (more than -85 dBm in areas accessible to people)
Agenda 2030 would enable the unlimited taking of personal property/wealth to enrich governments and Globlalist-sponsored public-private partnerships via Digital-ID, Digital Currency and Tracing/Tracking/Control of individuals’ movements and financial transactions.
Yes, it is that bad. We cannot allow this Digital Prison to be built in our communities. Instead, Americans can stand together to eliminate HR-3557’s and HR-4141 in order to preserve:
Americans’ God-given inalienable rights, freedoms and liberties
Local control over the construction of last-mile telecommunications and broadband infrastructure,
States’, counties’ and localities’ rights to decide for themselves the best mix of wired broadband (fiber optic, coaxial and copper lines) and wireless infrastructure.
We must oppose and not comply with any plans or actions that would enable federal, state and local governments to build such a 24/7 wireless surveillance infrastructure in our communities. The vast majority of internet access can and should be provided by fiber optic cables directly to homes and businesses to protect Americans from the public safety, privacy and property value hazards created by a 24/7 wireless surveillance infrastructure grid in residential zones. Wireless Telecommunications Facilities constructed in the public rights-of-ways in residential zones are simply not necessary for broadband.
Also, if we have learned anything over the last three years, NO so-called “pandemic”, “climate emergency” or “fear story du jour” justifies the elimination of Americans’ God-given inalienable rights, freedoms and liberties. We cannot be fooled again.
Americans must stand together to fully oppose HR-3557’s and HR-4141’s attempt to build an “Agenda 2030” Digital Prison.
-Paul G.
Proposed bill H.R. 3557 aims to speed up the deployment of wireless and other communications facilities through a massive federal power grab that strips away state and local control in the permitting and regulatory review processes – the very mechanisms designed to protect citizens from the threats posed by wireless facilities.
In May of 2023, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee passed H.R. 3557 – which completely eliminates the ability of Americans to use State and local governmental authorities to modify placement of wireless antenna facilities based on the safety of life and property, and on aesthetic and historic values.
This is a very heavy-handed example of federal overreach into local land use, permitting, and franchise negotiation decisions. Local people deserve the opportunity to decide whether public investment in, and/or ownership of, broadband infrastructure is the right choice for their communities. Congress must respect the fact that these processes are best managed at the level of government that is closest and most responsive to the people.
Local zoning and permitting for wired and wireless communications build outs, are intended, per prior Congressional Acts, to ensure that such infrastructures are only deployed as and where needed to serve the public interest and protect valuable public resources including safety, health and property.
If H.R. 3557 passes, it could result in a truly unrestricted proliferation of cell towers and small cell installations near schools, playgrounds, and homes without any local or community input.
Override state and local government police powers and property rights and would preempt local authority to manage public rights-of-way and land use for telecommunications infrastructure. This represents a substantial federal overreach into the oversight of the placement of wireless facilities on public rights of way, which is a fundamentally local process and must remain so.
Empower providers to install facilities where they choose regardless of local zoning, thus eliminating the ability of local governments to impose reasonable standards.
Weaken the authority of local governments to regulate the use of our public rights-of-way, and diminishes their authority to locally determine appropriate compensation for such use.
Mandate that all wireless siting decisions be “deemed granted” if not denied by a local government within much shorter periods than the federal government for similar projects. The federal government has 270 days to act, while locals must act as fast as 60 days. It is not appropriate for Congress to apply stricter timelines and restrictions on local governments for these processes than it does on federal agencies.
Mandate that sites be constructed “without any further action by the government,” without notice to the local government, or obligation to comply with safety laws. This would provide no public safety protections for construction of facilities that had been “deemed granted.”
Impose artificially short timelines that are virtually impossible to meet, create technical grounds for defeating incompleteness notices and require local governments to draft, publish, and deliver a written denial decision with reasons to an applicant on the same day that the local governing body hears and votes on the application — a virtually impossible task because such written decisions typically require the examination and analysis of evidence presented to local council.
Require that “all proceedings required by a State or local government or instrumentality thereof for the approval of the request” be taken within the timeline.
Limit the fees that local governments could require which, unlike the current FCC rules, the local government must justify based on a complex rate-making formula.
Substitute the FCC for the local federal district court as the reviewing body for challenges to local government decisions regarding wireless facility applications, thus breaking the promise made by Congress in 1996 that local governments would not be required to travel to Washington to defend local decisions.
Impose new and similarly flawed timelines and “deemed granted” remedies on applications for wireline telecommunications facilities
Undermine the property rights of local governments and damage their ability to protect and preserve the safety, well-being, and aesthetics of their communities. Congress has historically recognized these rights in Sections 224, 253 and 332 of the Telecommunications Act.
Make virtually any local government decision not to allow the installation of a proposed wireless facility at a provider’s request a “prohibition” preempted by federal law.
Eliminate cable franchise renewals, thereby restricting the ability of state or local franchising authorities to enforce franchise obligations such as public, educational, and government channel capacity and facilities, customer service requirements, and system build-out requirements.
Grant cable operators the right to use local rights-of-way to provide non-cable services while prohibiting localities from imposing any fees on non-cable services for use of those rights-of-way.
Pre-empt local governments’ rights-of-way compensation and management authority, zoning powers, cable franchising authority, and property rights.
Impose costs on local governments, burdens on our taxpayers, interfere with public safety and otherwise remove local protections that are the heart of communities while offering no improvement in broadband service.
Create unfunded mandates on local governments and inhibit their ability to be directly responsive to residents and good stewards of public resources.
Bestow on broadband providers an unprecedented federal grant of access to state and local public property, but impose no obligations on those providers to serve “unserved” and “underserved” Americans.
The National Health Federation:
Americans are waking up to the assault of constant 24/7 exposure to radio frequency radiation (RFR) from wireless technology installed and being installed in our homes, cars, streets, local businesses, schools, and communities without our informed consent. While many property owners would prefer to restrict wireless facility expansion in residential neighborhoods, past and current legislation has made that extremely difficult for localities.
In Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill (Public Law No: 117-58), Big Telecom received $65 billion towards the proliferation of unsafe and untested 5G (and beyond) technology without a single mention of safety precautions or even any monitoring of the increase in radiation levels within communities.[1]
Over 90% of surveyed Americans don’t want wireless technology near their homes.[3]
In 2018, the National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) found wireless causes cancer and alters DNA.[4]
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommended long-term safety studies of the Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF) environmental pollutant, Congress – tragically – defunded that effort.[5]
More recently in 2021, the D.C. Court of Appeals challenged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for lying about their wireless safety guidelines that were found not to be science-based.[6]
Instead of sitting idly by as America is saturated in wireless deployment, Congress needs to hold hearings on Big Telecom’s concealment of wireless health and safety dangers, and pass NHF-recommended legislation to initiate the monitoring of wireless radiation that will trigger mitigation measures when permissible RFR exposure levels are exceeded.[10]
Americans want affordable and safe wired connectivity in their communities, and Congress urgently needs to hold hearings about why we’re getting unsafe and untested wireless instead.
The organizations listed below have co-signed the following letter to Congress. Contact them and ask them how you can help support their opposition to H.R. 3557.
The National League of Cities (NLC) is the voice of America’s cities, towns and villages, representing more than 200 million people. NLC works to strengthen local leadership, influence federal policy and drive innovative solutions. Contact: Angelina Panettieri, Legislative Director for Information Technology and Communications, at 202-626-3196 or panettieri@nlc.org
The National Association of Counties (NACo) provides essential services to the nation’s 3,069 counties, serving nearly 40,000 county elected officials and 3.6 million county employees. Since 1935, NACo unites county officials to advocate county priorities in federal policymaking and optimize county and taxpayer resources and cost savings while promoting exemplary county policies and practices. Contact: Seamus Dowdall, Assoc. Legislative Director, Telecommunications & Technology at 202-942-4212 or sdowdall@naco.org
The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,400 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. The Conference’s Task Forces examine and act on issues that demand special attention such as civic innovation, exports, hunger and homelessness, and brownfields, transportation and technology. Contact: David W. Burns, Assistant Executive Director, at 202-861-6765 or dburns@usmayors.org
The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors’ (NATOA) 400 members are local government staff and their advisors offering a wealth of experience and expertise on public rights-of-way management telecom work and communications issues on behalf of local government related to broadband, wireless, cable television, public, educational, and government (PEG) access, public safety communications, consumer protection and PROW management. Contact: Mike Lynch, Legislative Affairs Director, 703-519-8035, x202 or MLynch@NATOA.org
Link to opposition letter — Georgia Municipal Association
The Congressional representatives listed below have co-sponsored H.R.3557.
Contact their offices, ask them to take a closer look at the proposed bill and encourage them to change their minds, and remove their name as co-sponsors.
Click on the links below to access their websites.
Below is a wagon-load – 11,000 pages – of scientific evidence documenting harm from RadioFrequency / Microwave (RF/MW) Radiation:
The U.S. Courts of Appeals (DC Cir.) accepted and based its Aug 13, 2021 ruling on 27 volumes of scientific evidence concluding multiple significant biological damages caused by pulsed, modulated RF electromagnetic radiation exposure at power levels that are millions of times lower than the RF electromagnetic radiation exposure guidelines recommended by NCRP Report No. 86. The judges considered the 11,000+ pages of peer-reviewed, scientific evidence (see links listed, below) in their ruling in Case 20-1025, Environmental Health Trust, et al. v FCC and a issued a mandate to the FCC: Vol-1, Vol-2, Vol-3, Vol-4, Vol-5, Vol-6, Vol-7Vol-8, Vol-9, Vol-10, Vol-11, Vol-12, Vol-13, Vol-14, Vol-15, Vol-16, Vol-17, Vol-18, Vol-19, Vol-20, Vol-21, Vol-22, Vol-23, Vol-24, Vol-25, Vol-26 and Vol-27.
