activistpost--2020-09-12--19 Years Later, Questions Still Hang Over the 9/11 Attacks

After nearly two decades , it should be perfectly clear to Americans that the U.S. government has no interest in getting to the bottom of the 9/11 false flag .
Whatever potential remains for the truth to be set free will largely be determined by the activists , journalists , and researchers who make up the 9/11 Truth movement .
When historians look back upon 2020 , they will focus their efforts on understanding the innumerable ways in which the COVID-19 crisis has affected the world .
There will be books , documentaries , dissertations , and news specials interviewing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major roles in the events currently unfolding before our eyes .
Perhaps , in time , the questions surrounding the limitations of the PCR test , the variables with the numbers of COVID-19 cases , and concerns about foreknowledge will be explored in a logical and fact-based manner .
Or , as is the case with the attacks of September 11 , 2001 , the questions will be ignored by the masses and the media , while a steadily increasing portion of the population continues to search for the answers which are needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the false flag .
As people from all over the world participate in ceremonies and events to mark the anniversary of 9/11 , the many remaining questions surrounding the attacks loom large .
Our collective minds may be focused on the fears and ramifications related to COVID-19 , but understanding the truth about 9/11 – the last major global event to affect billions of people – is still an extremely vital part of unraveling the control narrative spun by the Predator Class .
On the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two decades battle for the unvarnished facts .
The 9/11 Truth movement includes victims , their families , and experts in a range of fields who are skeptical of the government ’ s official line on 9/11 .
Some of the groups include Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth , Firefighters for 9/11 Truth & Unity , Pilots for 9/11 Truth , 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism , Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice , and other local activist groups and individuals from around the globe .
It ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the opinions , theories and ideas espoused by members often conflict with one another .
However , the movement is united by the belief that the official narrative promoted by the U.S. government is full of holes .
The non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has been a vital component of the movement since the mid-2000s , organizing a number of conferences , protests , outreach events , and documentary screenings .
For the 19th anniversary , AE for 9/11 Truth is organizing an online conference called “ Justice Rising , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Sunday , September 13 .
The event will examine “ the continuing struggle for 9/11 justice and the destructive trajectory of the post-9/11 world.
” The conference will go for three hours each day and will be open to all free of charge .
On Friday evening the conference will feature Mick Harrison of the Lawyers ’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry to discuss the latest on the “ request for correction ” to the National Institute of Standards and Technology ’ s ( NIST ) 2008 report on World Trade Center 7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mysterious collapse of WTC7 as the smoking gun evidence that Americans were lied to about the attacks .
WTC7 was not hit by a plane , yet it collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 11 , 2001 .
According to the NIST , the collapse was caused by office fires leading to thermal expansion of the building ’ s supportive columns and girders .
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth submitted the “ request for correction ” to NIST on April 15 , 2020 , demanding the agency revise their position on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Truth says they provided a detailed eight point report showing that office fires could not have caused the collapse of the building .
However , on August 28 , NIST issued its initial decision denying the request for correction that ten 9/11 family members and 88 architects and structural engineers submitted .
“ Our request described in meticulous detail eight items of information in NIST ’ s Building 7 report that violated the federal Data Quality Act and NIST ’ s Information Quality Standards , ” AE 9/11 Truth writes .
“ Our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these violations and in so doing reverse its unsupported conclusion that fire was the cause of Building 7 ’ s collapse.
” AE also noted that NIST failed to meet their obligation by providing a “ point-by-point response to all relevant arguments contained in the request , ” as required by the Data Quality Act .
The non-profit made up of more than 3,000 architects and engineers stated that NIST ’ s response was a “ blatant avoidance of the arguments and facts contained in the request ” designed with the intention of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9/11 Truth plans to appeal the decision by September 27 , 2020 .
The 19th anniversary Justice Rising conference will also feature three “ pioneers ” of the 9/11 Truth movement , including David Ray Griffin , Niels Harrit , and Steven Jones .
All three men have been instrumental in providing clarity on the many questions surrounding the 9/11 attacks .
Griffin is an emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University .
He has published fourteen books which deal specifically with 9/11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 , published in 2004 .
Niels Harrit served as associate professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen from 1971 to 2009 , and is the author of more than 60 published peer-reviewed papers .
Since 2007 he has been actively involved in the global movement for 9/11 truth and is the lead author of a scientific paper , published in April 2009 , describing the findings of active thermitic material in the dust from the collapses of World Trade Center Buildings 1 , 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of thermitic dust which has led researchers to conclude that explosive charges were placed throughout the buildings to assist in their controlled demolition .
Steven Jones is a former professor of physics at Brigham Young University .
Jones was the initiator of research for the peer-reviewed paper , “ Active Thermitic Material Observed in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe , ” published in the Open Chemical Physics Journal .
Steven is also the author of the influential 2005 paper , “ Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Justice Rising conference will be a discussion with Dr. Leroy Hulsey , former professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who led a multi-year engineering study evaluating whether fire caused the collapse of WTC7 on September 11 , 2001 .
Hulsey ’ s study is the subject of an upcoming documentary called SEVEN , directed by Dylan Avery , the director behind the infamous 9/11 documentary , Loose Change .
Dr. Hulsey ’ s conclusions that fire could not have caused the collapse of World Trade Center 7 should have sent shockwaves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lack of reporting on the topic ensured that only those in the 9/11 Truth movement understood the implications .
Hulsey has previously given presentations detailing how his team eliminated fire as the cause of the collapse of the 47-story building .
Hulsey explained that NIST ’ s report on the collapse found fires on floors 7 through 9 , 11 through 14 , 19 , 22 , 29 , and 30 .
However , there is no evidence of fire below floor 7 , Hulsey said .
The 9/11 Truth community has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the collapse of the WTC towers .
Never before have fires alone brought down steel skyscrapers .
For many in the movement , Dr. Hulsey ’ s studies are welcomed but also met with skepticism .
This is because immediately following 9/11 , activists and researchers have been pointing out the numerous reports and descriptions of explosions taking place at the base of the Twin Towers .
Now , some 9/11 Truthers wonder if Hulsey ’ s study will make a difference when the public has largely been indoctrinated to accept the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fourteen years ago , AE 9/11 Truth produced the article , 118 Witnesses : The Firefighters ’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers , a review of interviews conducted with 503 members of the New York Fire Department ( FDNY ) in the weeks and months after 9/11 .
The review revealed that 118 firefighters described witnessing what they interpreted to be explosions .
More recently , AE has released a report which examined more than 70 hours of 9/11 news coverage .
The report , How 36 Reporters Brought Us the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sheds light on how the destruction of the Twin Towers was initially being reported .
According to AE 9/11 Truth , the review of the news coverage “ reveals that the hypothesis of explosions bringing down the Twin Towers was not only prevalent among reporters covering the events in New York City on 9/11 but was , in fact , the dominant hypothesis.
” The 36 reporters who brought us the Twin Towers ’ explosive demolition on 9/11 include , by network , ABC ’ s George Stephanopoulos and Cynthia McFadden ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flynn , Mika Brzezinski , and Carol Marin ( appearing on WCBS ) ; NBC ’ s Pat Dawson and Anne Thompson ; CNN ’ s Aaron Brown , Rose Arce , Patty Sabga , and Alan Dodds Frank ; Fox News ’ David Lee Miller and Rick Leventhal ; MSNBC ’ s Ashleigh Banfield and Rick Sanchez ; CNBC ’ s John Bussey , Ron Insana , and Bob Pisani ; WABC ’ s N.J. Burkett , Michelle Charlesworth , Nina Pineda , Cheryl Fiandaca , and Joe Torres ; WCBS ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vince DeMentri , and Marcia Kramer ; WNBC ’ s Walter Perez ; New York 1 ’ s Kristen Shaughnessy , Andrew Siff , John Schiumo , and Andrew Kirtzman ; USA Today ’ s Jack Kelley ; and two unidentified reporters ( 1 and 2 ) who attended a press conference with NYC Mayor Giuliani and New York Governor Pataki .
While AE 9/11 Truth remains committed to exposing the flaws in NIST ’ s fire/ thermal expansion theory , other family members and journalists are dedicated to uncovering the truth about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many data that remain classified .
For several years , family members were fighting to secure the release of the now-declassified 28-pages of the “ Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 , 2001.
” Although the final report amounts to over 800 pages , the 28 pages were classified by former President George W. Bush shortly after the report was released in 2002 .
The papers detail the story of Saudi nationals suspected of being Saudi intelligence agents involved in the terror attacks .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ years of secrecy and resistance from the Bush and Obama administrations , the report was released to the public and the family members of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks .
The release of the 28 pages in conjunction with the passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act ( JASTA ) ensured the 9/11 victims will have a day in court .
As Dan Christensen of the Florida Bulldog recently noted , “ the last , best chance to obtain actual answers in our lifetime is likely the immense lawsuit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ families that ’ s now inching through U.S. District Court in New York City.
” The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become the focus of the 9/11 victims families lawsuit “ for knowingly providing material support and resources to the al Qaeda terrorist organization and facilitating the September 11th attacks ” in 2001 .
The Obama administration fought the passing of the bill , eventually vetoing the legislation before Congress voted to override the former President .
While Donald Trump paid lip service to finding out what was in the “ secret papers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the most vocal supporters of the Saudi Kingdom , including supporting an unprecedented weapons deal which fuel the human rights violations in Yemen .
The Trump Administration – through the Department of Justice and FBI – has continued the requirements for secrecy in the courtroom .
“ The government continues to resist producing thousands of more detailed records , claiming that such material concerning apparent Saudi involvement prior to 9/11 is a state secret , ” the Bulldog reports .
“ In April , Attorney General William Barr and then-Acting Director of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that their personal assertions of the “ state secrets privilege ” were necessary to “ protect the national security interests of the United States.
” ” The 9/11 families have attempted to push back on the government ’ s state secrets claims , but have faced difficulty due to the already secretive nature of the court room proceedings .
For example , the government ’ s reasoning for state secrets arguments are not even available to the attorneys representing the families .
Christensen notes that only last week the U.S. government filed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acting deputy director , operations branch , counterterrorism division of the FBI .
However , the declaration is only able to be seen by the judge , with the plaintiffs and the public left in the dark completely .
Interestingly , Christensen notes that the secret assertions are often classified pursuant to Presidential Executive Order 13526 , signed by former President Obama on Dec. 29 , 2009 .
The order essentially states that the U.S. government believes that national security is more important than “ the free flow of information.
” After nearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear to Americans – and those around the world affected by American foreign policy – that the U.S. government has no interest in getting to the bottom of the 9/11 false flag .
Whatever potential remains for the truth to be set free will largely be determined by the activists , journalists , and researchers who make up the 9/11 Truth movement .
Will the truth die on the vine , like so many other efforts to awaken the masses ?
Or will the people of the world finally wake up to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the attacks of September 11 , 2001 ?
Question Everything , Come To Your Own Conclusions .
Derrick Broze , a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond , is a journalist , author , public speaker , and activist .
He is the co-host of Free Thinker Radio on 90.1 Houston , as well as the founder of The Conscious Resistance Network & The Houston Free Thinkers .
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By Derrick Broze
After nearly two decades, it should be perfectly clear to Americans that the U.S. government has no interest in getting to the bottom of the 9/11 false flag. Whatever potential remains for the truth to be set free will largely be determined by the activists, journalists, and researchers who make up the 9/11 Truth movement.
When historians look back upon 2020, they will focus their efforts on understanding the innumerable ways in which the COVID-19 crisis has affected the world. There will be books, documentaries, dissertations, and news specials interviewing the politicians and government officials who played major roles in the events currently unfolding before our eyes. Perhaps, in time, the questions surrounding the limitations of the PCR test, the variables with the numbers of COVID-19 cases, and concerns about foreknowledge will be explored in a logical and fact-based manner. Or, as is the case with the attacks of September 11, 2001, the questions will be ignored by the masses and the media, while a steadily increasing portion of the population continues to search for the answers which are needed to fully grasp the scope and cost of the false flag.
As people from all over the world participate in ceremonies and events to mark the anniversary of 9/11, the many remaining questions surrounding the attacks loom large. Our collective minds may be focused on the fears and ramifications related to COVID-19, but understanding the truth about 9/11 – the last major global event to affect billions of people – is still an extremely vital part of unraveling the control narrative spun by the Predator Class.
Justice Rising
On the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the 9/11 Truth movement is continuing their nearly two decades battle for the unvarnished facts. The 9/11 Truth movement includes victims, their families, and experts in a range of fields who are skeptical of the government’s official line on 9/11. Some of the groups include Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth & Unity, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism, Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, and other local activist groups and individuals from around the globe. It’s a loose-knit movement without an official position, and the opinions, theories and ideas espoused by members often conflict with one another. However, the movement is united by the belief that the official narrative promoted by the U.S. government is full of holes.
The non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has been a vital component of the movement since the mid-2000s, organizing a number of conferences, protests, outreach events, and documentary screenings. For the 19th anniversary, AE for 9/11 Truth is organizing an online conference called “Justice Rising,” from Friday, September 11, to Sunday, September 13. The event will examine “the continuing struggle for 9/11 justice and the destructive trajectory of the post-9/11 world.” The conference will go for three hours each day and will be open to all free of charge.
On Friday evening the conference will feature Mick Harrison of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry to discuss the latest on the “request for correction” to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) 2008 report on World Trade Center 7. Many 9/11 Truth researchers focus on the mysterious collapse of WTC7 as the smoking gun evidence that Americans were lied to about the attacks. WTC7 was not hit by a plane, yet it collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. According to the NIST, the collapse was caused by office fires leading to thermal expansion of the building’s supportive columns and girders.
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth submitted the “request for correction” to NIST on April 15, 2020, demanding the agency revise their position on the collapse of WTC7. AE 9/11 Truth says they provided a detailed eight point report showing that office fires could not have caused the collapse of the building. However, on August 28, NIST issued its initial decision denying the request for correction that ten 9/11 family members and 88 architects and structural engineers submitted.
“Our request described in meticulous detail eight items of information in NIST’s Building 7 report that violated the federal Data Quality Act and NIST’s Information Quality Standards,” AE 9/11 Truth writes. “Our goal was to compel NIST to rectify these violations and in so doing reverse its unsupported conclusion that fire was the cause of Building 7’s collapse.”
AE also noted that NIST failed to meet their obligation by providing a “point-by-point response to all relevant arguments contained in the request,” as required by the Data Quality Act. The non-profit made up of more than 3,000 architects and engineers stated that NIST’s response was a “blatant avoidance of the arguments and facts contained in the request” designed with the intention of “misleading the uninformed reader.” AE 9/11 Truth plans to appeal the decision by September 27, 2020.
The 19th anniversary Justice Rising conference will also feature three “pioneers” of the 9/11 Truth movement, including David Ray Griffin, Niels Harrit, and Steven Jones. All three men have been instrumental in providing clarity on the many questions surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Griffin is an emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. He has published fourteen books which deal specifically with 9/11, including The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, published in 2004.
Niels Harrit served as associate professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen from 1971 to 2009, and is the author of more than 60 published peer-reviewed papers. Since 2007 he has been actively involved in the global movement for 9/11 truth and is the lead author of a scientific paper, published in April 2009, describing the findings of active thermitic material in the dust from the collapses of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7. It is this presence of thermitic dust which has led researchers to conclude that explosive charges were placed throughout the buildings to assist in their controlled demolition.
Steven Jones is a former professor of physics at Brigham Young University. Jones was the initiator of research for the peer-reviewed paper, “Active Thermitic Material Observed in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe,” published in the Open Chemical Physics Journal. Steven is also the author of the influential 2005 paper, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?”
One of the most profound aspects of the Justice Rising conference will be a discussion with Dr. Leroy Hulsey, former professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who led a multi-year engineering study evaluating whether fire caused the collapse of WTC7 on September 11, 2001. Hulsey’s study is the subject of an upcoming documentary called SEVEN, directed by Dylan Avery, the director behind the infamous 9/11 documentary, Loose Change.
Dr. Hulsey’s conclusions that fire could not have caused the collapse of World Trade Center 7 should have sent shockwaves through the American political scene, but a lack of reporting on the topic ensured that only those in the 9/11 Truth movement understood the implications. Hulsey has previously given presentations detailing how his team eliminated fire as the cause of the collapse of the 47-story building. Hulsey explained that NIST’s report on the collapse found fires on floors 7 through 9, 11 through 14, 19, 22, 29, and 30. However, there is no evidence of fire below floor 7, Hulsey said.
The 9/11 Truth community has long pointed to the unique nature of the collapse of the WTC towers. Never before have fires alone brought down steel skyscrapers. For many in the movement, Dr. Hulsey’s studies are welcomed but also met with skepticism. This is because immediately following 9/11, activists and researchers have been pointing out the numerous reports and descriptions of explosions taking place at the base of the Twin Towers. Now, some 9/11 Truthers wonder if Hulsey’s study will make a difference when the public has largely been indoctrinated to accept the U.S. government’s version of events.
Fourteen years ago, AE 9/11 Truth produced the article, 118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers, a review of interviews conducted with 503 members of the New York Fire Department (FDNY) in the weeks and months after 9/11. The review revealed that 118 firefighters described witnessing what they interpreted to be explosions.
More recently, AE has released a report which examined more than 70 hours of 9/11 news coverage. The report, How 36 Reporters Brought Us the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition on 9/11, sheds light on how the destruction of the Twin Towers was initially being reported. According to AE 9/11 Truth, the review of the news coverage “reveals that the hypothesis of explosions bringing down the Twin Towers was not only prevalent among reporters covering the events in New York City on 9/11 but was, in fact, the dominant hypothesis.”
The 36 reporters who brought us the Twin Towers’ explosive demolition on 9/11 include, by network, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Cynthia McFadden; CBS’s Harold Dow, Tom Flynn, Mika Brzezinski, and Carol Marin (appearing on WCBS); NBC’s Pat Dawson and Anne Thompson; CNN’s Aaron Brown, Rose Arce, Patty Sabga, and Alan Dodds Frank; Fox News’ David Lee Miller and Rick Leventhal; MSNBC’s Ashleigh Banfield and Rick Sanchez; CNBC’s John Bussey, Ron Insana, and Bob Pisani; WABC’s N.J. Burkett, Michelle Charlesworth, Nina Pineda, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Joe Torres; WCBS’s John Slattery, Marcella Palmer, Vince DeMentri, and Marcia Kramer; WNBC’s Walter Perez; New York 1’s Kristen Shaughnessy, Andrew Siff, John Schiumo, and Andrew Kirtzman; USA Today’s Jack Kelley; and two unidentified reporters (1 and 2) who attended a press conference with NYC Mayor Giuliani and New York Governor Pataki.
The Truth Remains Buried
While AE 9/11 Truth remains committed to exposing the flaws in NIST’s fire/ thermal expansion theory, other family members and journalists are dedicated to uncovering the truth about the funding of the attacks and the many data that remain classified.
For several years, family members were fighting to secure the release of the now-declassified 28-pages of the “Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.” Although the final report amounts to over 800 pages, the 28 pages were classified by former President George W. Bush shortly after the report was released in 2002. The papers detail the story of Saudi nationals suspected of being Saudi intelligence agents involved in the terror attacks. In July 2016, after nearly 15 years of secrecy and resistance from the Bush and Obama administrations, the report was released to the public and the family members of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.
The release of the 28 pages in conjunction with the passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) ensured the 9/11 victims will have a day in court. As Dan Christensen of the Florida Bulldog recently noted, “the last, best chance to obtain actual answers in our lifetime is likely the immense lawsuit brought by thousands of 9/11 victims and families that’s now inching through U.S. District Court in New York City.”
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become the focus of the 9/11 victims families lawsuit “for knowingly providing material support and resources to the al Qaeda terrorist organization and facilitating the September 11th attacks” in 2001. The Obama administration fought the passing of the bill, eventually vetoing the legislation before Congress voted to override the former President. While Donald Trump paid lip service to finding out what was in the “secret papers,” he has since become one of the most vocal supporters of the Saudi Kingdom, including supporting an unprecedented weapons deal which fuel the human rights violations in Yemen.
The Trump Administration – through the Department of Justice and FBI – has continued the requirements for secrecy in the courtroom. “The government continues to resist producing thousands of more detailed records, claiming that such material concerning apparent Saudi involvement prior to 9/11 is a state secret,” the Bulldog reports. “In April, Attorney General William Barr and then-Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell swore public declarations that their personal assertions of the “state secrets privilege” were necessary to “protect the national security interests of the United States.””
The 9/11 families have attempted to push back on the government’s state secrets claims, but have faced difficulty due to the already secretive nature of the court room proceedings. For example, the government’s reasoning for state secrets arguments are not even available to the attorneys representing the families. Christensen notes that only last week the U.S. government filed a classified declaration from Michael H. Glasheen, acting deputy director, operations branch, counterterrorism division of the FBI. However, the declaration is only able to be seen by the judge, with the plaintiffs and the public left in the dark completely.
Interestingly, Christensen notes that the secret assertions are often classified pursuant to Presidential Executive Order 13526, signed by former President Obama on Dec. 29, 2009. The order essentially states that the U.S. government believes that national security is more important than “the free flow of information.”
After nearly two decades, it should be perfectly clear to Americans – and those around the world affected by American foreign policy – that the U.S. government has no interest in getting to the bottom of the 9/11 false flag. Whatever potential remains for the truth to be set free will largely be determined by the activists, journalists, and researchers who make up the 9/11 Truth movement.
Will the truth die on the vine, like so many other efforts to awaken the masses? Or will the people of the world finally wake up to the lies that surround the official version of the attacks of September 11, 2001?
Question Everything, Come To Your Own Conclusions.
Source: The Last American Vagabond
Derrick Broze, a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond, is a journalist, author, public speaker, and activist. He is the co-host of Free Thinker Radio on 90.1 Houston, as well as the founder of The Conscious Resistance Network & The Houston Free Thinkers.
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activistpost--2020-09-12--Study: Streaming Video with 5G Uses A LOT More Energy than Streaming with Fiber Optics

Reports and warnings about 5G being an “ energy vampire ” are NOT new .
Regardless of how your feel about your “ carbon footprint ” or anybody else ’ s – this is still considered to be one of many disadvantages identified with this controversial technology ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ) .
New Study Finds 5G Doubles Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Fiber Optic Video Streaming is Far More Efficient Streaming high-definition videos and games with wireless 3G technology can result in exponentially more greenhouse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ optic cable connections , according to a study by Germany ’ s Federal Environment agency .
The key findings of the study include : • Fiber optic is the most climate-friendly transmission technology .
• Network access via broadband cables is more efficient than mobile network access .
• Streaming with 5G results in over twice the greenhouse gas emissions per hour when compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections .
• Streaming with 4G results in over six times the greenhouse gas emissions compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections .
• Streaming with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greenhouse gas emissions compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections .
“ The reality is that companies are planning for billions of new wirelessly connected devices , which will exponentially increase energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions .
Industry is pushing “ 5G ” phones which rely on 4G , ” stated Theodora Scarato , Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust , who pointed to numerous reports that show wireless increases our carbon footprint .
“ The widespread rollout of 5G will not cut energy consumption .
5G is a classic case of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will increase our energy use .
First , 5G clearly uses more energy than wired connections .
Second , industry projects global mobile devices will grow from 8.8 billion in 2018 to 13.1 billion by 2023 .
In economics , the Jevons Paradox is when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used , however because the demand and consumption also increases , the end result is overall increased use of the resource , despite efficiency gains.
” Secondary insurers have refused to cover damages from electromagnetic fields for decades @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a “ High Impact ” emerging risk , comparable to asbestos .
In 10 K reports to the Federal Trade Commission , telecommunications companies warn shareholders , “ We can not guarantee that claims relating to radio frequency emissions will not arise in the future or that the results of such studies will not be adverse to us.
” While the impacts of wireless expansion on wildlife and the tree canopy have eluded major headlines , investigations into 5G ’ s higher frequencies warn of serious consequences for bees and for humans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , behavioral and reproductive effects .
Joint release by the Federal Environment Ministry and the German Environment Agency Video streaming : data transmission technology crucial for climate footprint Fibre optic video transmission is nearly 50 times more efficient than UMTS Cities worldwide AND entire countries have taken action to ban , delay , halt , and limit 5G installation AS WELL AS issue moratoriums ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ) .
American opposition includes federal agencies and other experts who have warned that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and weather forecasting accuracy ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
In fact , Trump recently withdrew his re-nomination of a veteran FCC commissioner because of this .
The majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment until studies show that it ’ s safe .
Since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing undesirable symptoms and illnesses after 5G has been turned on ( see 1 .
2 , 3 , 4 ) .
Of course other sources of wireless can cause symptoms and illnesses too .
Nevertheless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it – 5G ’ s faster internet seems like more trouble than it ’ s worth .
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By B.N. Frank
Reports and warnings about 5G being an “energy vampire” are NOT new. Regardless of how your feel about your “carbon footprint” or anybody else’s – this is still considered to be one of many disadvantages identified with this controversial technology (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
From Environmental Health Trust:
Streaming Video Wirelessly is An Energy Hog
New Study Finds 5G Doubles Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Fiber Optic Video Streaming is Far More Efficient
Streaming high-definition videos and games with wireless 3G technology can result in exponentially more greenhouse gas emissions as compared to corded fiber optic cable connections, according to a study by Germany’s Federal Environment agency.
The key findings of the study include:
Fiber optic is the most climate-friendly transmission technology. Network access via broadband cables is more efficient than mobile network access. Streaming with 5G results in over twice the greenhouse gas emissions per hour when compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections. Streaming with 4G results in over six times the greenhouse gas emissions compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections. Streaming with 3G results in almost 50 times the greenhouse gas emissions compared to corded/wired fiber optic connections.
“The reality is that companies are planning for billions of new wirelessly connected devices, which will exponentially increase energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Industry is pushing “5G” phones which rely on 4G,” stated Theodora Scarato, Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust, who pointed to numerous reports that show wireless increases our carbon footprint.
“The widespread rollout of 5G will not cut energy consumption. 5G is a classic case of the Jevons Paradox. The push for 5G will increase our energy use. First, 5G clearly uses more energy than wired connections. Second, industry projects global mobile devices will grow from 8.8 billion in 2018 to 13.1 billion by 2023. In economics, the Jevons Paradox is when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, however because the demand and consumption also increases, the end result is overall increased use of the resource, despite efficiency gains.”
Secondary insurers have refused to cover damages from electromagnetic fields for decades. Insurance authority Swiss Re classifies 5G as a “High Impact” emerging risk, comparable to asbestos. In 10 K reports to the Federal Trade Commission, telecommunications companies warn shareholders, “We cannot guarantee that claims relating to radio frequency emissions will not arise in the future or that the results of such studies will not be adverse to us.”
While the impacts of wireless expansion on wildlife and the tree canopy have eluded major headlines, investigations into 5G’s higher frequencies warn of serious consequences for bees and for humans. Wireless is scientifically linked to cancer, behavioral and reproductive effects.
Report Documents
Joint release by the Federal Environment Ministry and the German Environment Agency Video streaming: data transmission technology crucial for climate footprint Fibre optic video transmission is nearly 50 times more efficient than UMTS
PDF of Report Summary in English
Cities worldwide AND entire countries have taken action to ban, delay, halt, and limit 5G installation AS WELL AS issue moratoriums (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). American opposition includes federal agencies and other experts who have warned that it threatens national security, public safety, and weather forecasting accuracy (see 1, 2, 3). In fact, Trump recently withdrew his re-nomination of a veteran FCC commissioner because of this.
The majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment until studies show that it’s safe. Since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing undesirable symptoms and illnesses after 5G has been turned on (see 1. 2, 3, 4). Of course other sources of wireless can cause symptoms and illnesses too. Nevertheless, no matter how you look at it – 5G’s faster internet seems like more trouble than it’s worth.
Activist Post reports regularly about unsafe technology. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:
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activistpost--2020-09-12--Australia’s Anti-Lockdown “Freedom Walk” Results In Arrests After Clashes With Police; “Big Event” P

Australia’s Anti-Lockdown “Freedom Walk” Results In Arrests After Clashes With Police; “Big Event” Planned For Sunday

As the world gets closer and closer to , what is likely going to be forced vaccinations against COVID-19 , anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown protests have sprung up Saturday ( Sept. 12 ) across Australia and New Zealand .
In Melbourne , demonstrators took to the streets , defying strict social distancing measures , resulting in at least a dozen arrests as clashes with police were seen , reported RT News .
Rallies were observed in central Melbourne early Saturday around the Shrine of Remembrance , an area that saw a surge in social unrest last weekend ( see : here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it was disappointing to see individuals turn out to protest in the city today , putting the lives of Victorians at risk , ” Victoria Police said in an e-mailed statement to Reuters .
RT notes while “ 1,500 people ” signed up to attend today ’ s protest , only about 100 protesters were actually seen – considering local police have threatened anyone who breaks lockdown restrictions could face upwards of a $ 1,650 fine .
Organizers branded the protest as “ a legal walk ” that would allow Melburnians “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and talk about getting our freedoms back.
” The walk did not go over well with Victoria Police , who told The Epoch Times that they were monitoring social media activity ahead of the planned protests .
News Corp Australia ’ s Jack Paynter posted a series of tweets showing “ dozens of police ” moving in on the Shrine of Remembrance as they waited for protesters .
Paynter posted several videos showing at least one “ anti-lockdown protester ” getting hauled off in handcuffs by police .
Local Nine News Adelaide captured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s protest .
According to 10 News First Melbourne , 14 protesters were arrested and 51 fined .
Nine News Sydney reports Saturday ’ s protest was a “ practice run ” and Sunday ’ s march will be the “ big event.
” Australians are increasingly becoming angry as new coronavirus cases are surging in the country , forcing the government in Melbourne , Victoria , to recently announce new rounds of lockdowns to mitigate virus spreading .
Anti-lockdown protests are spreading to neighboring New Zealand Saturday , where large crowds reportedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urban area in the country .
We are all here today because we believe we need to stand up for our rights , ” leader of the Advance New Zealand party Jami-Lee Ross , one of the organizers of the rally , was quoted as saying by the public Television New Zealand .
“ We ’ re all here today because we believe it ’ s time to stand up and say , ‘ We need to get our rights and freedoms back . '
” And it ’ s not just an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states , we ’ ve noted the latest string to hit Europe , more specifically , Germany , in August .
Thousands of protesters have also been seen in London ’ s Trafalgar Square , and US activists wielding assault rifles across major metro areas have rejected lockdowns and other social distancing measures .
With a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon for mass distribution next year , the acceptance rate at which people are willing to inject some experimental drug into their bodies will remain low .
Just wait until vaccines become mandatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries – that could undoubtedly spark further unrest .
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By Tyler Durden
As the world gets closer and closer to, what is likely going to be forced vaccinations against COVID-19, anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown protests have sprung up Saturday (Sept. 12) across Australia and New Zealand.
In Melbourne, demonstrators took to the streets, defying strict social distancing measures, resulting in at least a dozen arrests as clashes with police were seen, reported RT News.
Rallies were observed in central Melbourne early Saturday around the Shrine of Remembrance, an area that saw a surge in social unrest last weekend (see: here).
“Despite all the warnings, it was disappointing to see individuals turn out to protest in the city today, putting the lives of Victorians at risk,” Victoria Police said in an e-mailed statement to Reuters.
RT notes while “1,500 people” signed up to attend today’s protest, only about 100 protesters were actually seen – considering local police have threatened anyone who breaks lockdown restrictions could face upwards of a $1,650 fine.
Organizers branded the protest as “a legal walk” that would allow Melburnians “to come together, get healthy, and talk about getting our freedoms back.” The walk did not go over well with Victoria Police, who told The Epoch Times that they were monitoring social media activity ahead of the planned protests.
“Victoria Police is aware and monitoring potential protest activity planned for this weekend. We are currently making a number of inquiries in relation to this and remain in the process of planning our operation response,” Victoria Police Media Unit Supervisor Sam Bidey told The Epoch Times in a statement.
News Corp Australia’s Jack Paynter posted a series of tweets showing “dozens of police” moving in on the Shrine of Remembrance as they waited for protesters.
Dozens of police including the mounted branch have moved into position at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance as they await a planned “freedom walk” protest at 11am. pic.twitter.com/WZF3gmAzXL — Jack Paynter (@jackpayn) September 12, 2020
Paynter posted several videos showing at least one “anti-lockdown protester” getting hauled off in handcuffs by police.
An anti-lockdown protester says it is worth the fine as he is led away in handcuffs after proudly displaying a sign near the Shrine. pic.twitter.com/DRkuZREz85 — Jack Paynter (@jackpayn) September 12, 2020
Local Nine News Adelaide captured footage and provided commentary about Saturday’s protest.
Police warned they’d be out in force, and today they far outnumbered anti-lockdown protestors who threatened to gather en masse around the Tan. Hundreds of officers formed a wall around the Shrine of Remembrance – arresting 14 and fining more than 50. @LanaMurphy #9News pic.twitter.com/TtyC8tntnx — Nine News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) September 12, 2020
According to 10 News First Melbourne, 14 protesters were arrested and 51 fined.
Nine News Sydney reports Saturday’s protest was a “practice run” and Sunday’s march will be the “big event.”
Another positive sign today from Victoria with the state recording its lowest daily figures since June. Meanwhile, police showed up in force to quash a planned protest in Melbourne. @LanaMurphy #9News pic.twitter.com/dt4onExvYY — Nine News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) September 12, 2020
Australians are increasingly becoming angry as new coronavirus cases are surging in the country, forcing the government in Melbourne, Victoria, to recently announce new rounds of lockdowns to mitigate virus spreading.
COVID-19 Infections In Victoria
Anti-lockdown protests are spreading to neighboring New Zealand Saturday, where large crowds reportedly gathered in Auckland, the most populous urban area in the country.
We are all here today because we believe we need to stand up for our rights,” leader of the Advance New Zealand party Jami-Lee Ross, one of the organizers of the rally, was quoted as saying by the public Television New Zealand.
“We’re all here today because we believe it’s time to stand up and say, ‘We need to get our rights and freedoms back.'”
And it’s not just an increase in anti-lockdown/ anti-vaxxer protests in Oceania states, we’ve noted the latest string to hit Europe, more specifically, Germany, in August.
Thousands of protesters have also been seen in London’s Trafalgar Square, and US activists wielding assault rifles across major metro areas have rejected lockdowns and other social distancing measures.
With a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon for mass distribution next year, the acceptance rate at which people are willing to inject some experimental drug into their bodies will remain low. Just wait until vaccines become mandatory (see: here) in certain countries – that could undoubtedly spark further unrest.
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activistpost--2020-09-13--US Judge Rules Saudi Royals Must Answer 9/11 Lawsuit Questions

A US Judge has ruled that two members of the Saudi royal family will have to answer questions about the September 11 , 2001 attacks , in what attorneys for the victims call a ‘ turning point in a long-running lawsuit , ’ according to AP .
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in a written ruling unsealed late Thursday ordered Saudi Arabia to make the royals — and other Saudi witnesses , including current and former government official — available for depositions .
It was unclear how and when the witnesses will be deposed , but the decision means “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” plaintiff ’ s attorney Jim Kreindler said Friday .
–AP One of the two ordered to give depositions is Prince Bandar bin Sultan – a former Saudi intelligence chief who was the kingdom ’ s US ambassador from 1983 to 2005 , according to court papers .
His involvement in world events ranges from Reagan ’ s Nicaraguan Contra program ( including direct involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal ) , to making the case for the Iraq War as a trusted friend of Bush and Cheney , to directing US-Saudi covert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria .
Bandar – who earned a reputation as one of Saudi Arabia ’ s most famous arms dealers , was detained in the 2017 Saudi “ corruption purge , ” according to Middle East Eye ‘ s reporting at the time .
Some relatives of Sept. 11 victims claim that agents of Saudi Arabia knowingly supported al-Qaida and its leader at the time , Osama bin Laden , before hijackers crashed planes into New York ’ s World Trade Center , the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field .
The nearly 3,000 deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the attacks .
The families are seeking billions of dollars in damages .
Attorney for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia , Michael Kellogg , declined comment .
To read more on Bandar ’ s alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks , click here .
Top image caption : Bandar has been close to multiple administrations .
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By Tyler Durden
A US Judge has ruled that two members of the Saudi royal family will have to answer questions about the September 11, 2001 attacks, in what attorneys for the victims call a ‘turning point in a long-running lawsuit,’ according to AP.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in a written ruling unsealed late Thursday ordered Saudi Arabia to make the royals — and other Saudi witnesses, including current and former government official — available for depositions. It was unclear how and when the witnesses will be deposed, but the decision means “we can start uncovering what they know,” plaintiff’s attorney Jim Kreindler said Friday. –AP
One of the two ordered to give depositions is Prince Bandar bin Sultan – a former Saudi intelligence chief who was the kingdom’s US ambassador from 1983 to 2005, according to court papers. His involvement in world events ranges from Reagan’s Nicaraguan Contra program (including direct involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal), to making the case for the Iraq War as a trusted friend of Bush and Cheney, to directing US-Saudi covert operations overseeing the arming of jihadists in Syria.
Bandar – who earned a reputation as one of Saudi Arabia’s most famous arms dealers, was detained in the 2017 Saudi “corruption purge,” according to Middle East Eye‘s reporting at the time.
Meanwhile, per AP:
Some relatives of Sept. 11 victims claim that agents of Saudi Arabia knowingly supported al-Qaida and its leader at the time, Osama bin Laden, before hijackers crashed planes into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The nearly 3,000 deaths were commemorated Friday on the 19th anniversary of the attacks. The families are seeking billions of dollars in damages.
Attorney for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Michael Kellogg, declined comment.
To read more on Bandar’s alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks, click here.
Source: Zerohedge
Top image caption: Bandar has been close to multiple administrations.
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activistpost--2020-09-13--DHS Proposes Massive Expansion Of “Biometric Modality” Collection

Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free ?
What first seemed like a gradual slide in the federal government ’ s use of biometrics is quickly becoming supercharged in a post-pandemic world .
Readers may recall since 9/11 , DHS , the FBI , the CIA , and other alphabet soup agencies have transformed America into a surveillance state that could be on par with China in the coming years .
Activity in DNA and biometric-gathering by the federal government is set to surge .
The DHS recently announced a “ notice of proposed rulemaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its collection of biometrics data by at least 2 million submissions annually .
The 328-page draft of the new rule ( found here ) proposes to amend existing DHS regulations “ concerning the use and collection of biometrics in the enforcement and administration of immigration laws by U.S .
Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) , U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) , and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) .
” The 328-page draft of the new rule ( found here ) proposes to amend existing DHS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of biometrics in the enforcement and administration of immigration laws by U.S .
Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) , U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) , and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) .
” The National Law Review highlights the key points in the forthcoming rule : • Unless waived by DHS , any applicant , petitioner , sponsor , beneficiary , or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request , including U.S. citizens , must appear for biometrics collection – regardless of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biometrics modalities , including iris scans , palm prints , and voiceprints .
• DHS may require DNA results to prove the existence of a claimed genetic relationship .
• Foreign nationals who are granted immigration benefits will be subject to continued and subsequent vetting and biometric evaluation until granted U.S. citizenship .
• New forms will be produced , including the new biometrics requirements .
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The DHS proposes to change the definition of the word “ biometrics ” to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physiological ) or behavioral characteristics used for identification of an individual.
” Noted in the highlight section above , the DHS wants to add palm prints , photographs for facial recognition , voiceprints , iris images , and DNA to determine genetic similarities to its pre-existing biometric database , which include collecting fingerprints and signatures of immigrants .
The rule estimates the number of annual biometrics screenings will soar from 3.9 million to 6.07 million .
The collection rate will rise from 46 % to over 70 % .
The agency is interested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefit requests , mostly for citizenship , immigration , refugee , and asylee relative forms .
The cost of the biometrics rule over the decade could range from $ 3.2 billion to nearly $ 5 billion , all dependent on how many collections are submitted .
Could DHS ’ proposed biometrics expansion prelude the agencies eventual grab of “ 259 million people in its biometrics database by 2022 “ ?
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By Tyler Durden
Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free?
What first seemed like a gradual slide in the federal government’s use of biometrics is quickly becoming supercharged in a post-pandemic world.
Readers may recall since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and other alphabet soup agencies have transformed America into a surveillance state that could be on par with China in the coming years.
Activity in DNA and biometric-gathering by the federal government is set to surge. The DHS recently announced a “notice of proposed rulemaking” that outlines the agency could enlarge its collection of biometrics data by at least 2 million submissions annually.
The 328-page draft of the new rule (found here) proposes to amend existing DHS regulations “concerning the use and collection of biometrics in the enforcement and administration of immigration laws by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
The 328-page draft of the new rule (found here) proposes to amend existing DHS regulations “concerning the use and collection of biometrics in the enforcement and administration of immigration laws by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
The National Law Review highlights the key points in the forthcoming rule:
Unless waived by DHS, any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request, including U.S. citizens, must appear for biometrics collection – regardless of age.
There will be new biometrics modalities, including iris scans, palm prints, and voiceprints.
DHS may require DNA results to prove the existence of a claimed genetic relationship.
Foreign nationals who are granted immigration benefits will be subject to continued and subsequent vetting and biometric evaluation until granted U.S. citizenship.
New forms will be produced, including the new biometrics requirements.
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The DHS proposes to change the definition of the word “biometrics” to “the measurable biological (anatomical and physiological) or behavioral characteristics used for identification of an individual.”
Noted in the highlight section above, the DHS wants to add palm prints, photographs for facial recognition, voiceprints, iris images, and DNA to determine genetic similarities to its pre-existing biometric database, which include collecting fingerprints and signatures of immigrants.
The rule estimates the number of annual biometrics screenings will soar from 3.9 million to 6.07 million. The collection rate will rise from 46% to over 70%.
The agency is interested in expanding its biometrics capabilities for family-based benefit requests, mostly for citizenship, immigration, refugee, and asylee relative forms.
“The rule will allow immediately for DHS, in its discretion, to request, require, or accept DNA or DNA test results, which include a partial DNA profile, for individual benefit requests requiring proof of a genetic relationship,” the notice read.
The cost of the biometrics rule over the decade could range from $3.2 billion to nearly $5 billion, all dependent on how many collections are submitted.
Could DHS’ proposed biometrics expansion prelude the agencies eventual grab of “259 million people in its biometrics database by 2022“?
Source: Zerohedge
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activistpost--2020-09-13--In a War on Restaurants, Media Tout the Lockdown Narrative

Just when the fear starts to subside , and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening , something predictable happens .
The entire apparatus of mass media hops on some new , super-scary headline designed to instill more Coronaphobia and extend the lockdowns yet again .
It ’ s a cycle that never stops .
It comes back again and again .
A great example occurred this weekend .
A poll appeared on Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation .
It showed that confidence in Anthony Fauci is evaporating along with support for lockdowns and mandatory Covid vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and very quickly this was overshadowed by a scary new claim : restaurants will give you Covid !
It ’ s tailor-made for the mainstream press .
The study is from the CDC , which means : credible .
And the thesis is easily digestible : those who test positive for Covid are twice as likely as those who tested negative to have eaten at a restaurant .
“ Eating and drinking on-site at locations that offer such options might be important risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection , ” the study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t allow indoor dining !
Otherwise Covid will spread like wildfire !
After six months of this Corona Kabuki dance , driven by alarmist media and imposed by wacko , power-abusing governors and mayors , I ’ ve become rather cynical about the whole enterprise , so I mostly ignore the latest nonsense .
In this case , however , I decided to take a closer look simply because so many millions of owners , workers , and customers have been treated so brutally in the “ War on Restaurants.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that this is not what the study said .
What ’ s more interesting is to consider exactly what ’ s going on here .
The study was based on interviews with 314 people who had been tested of their own volition .
It included 154 patients with positive test results and 160 control participants with negative test results .
The interviews took place two weeks following the tests , and they concerned life activities two weeks prior to getting the test .
Before we go on here , remember that what alarmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dying .
The study says nothing about this subject , nor about hospitalization .
It ’ s a fair assumption that the positive cases being interviewed here got it ( presumably , if the tests are accurate , which they are not ) and got over it .
This alone is interesting simply because it reveals how much the whole subject has been changed : the pandemic has become a casedemic .
Now , to the question of life activities .
In the study , based on answers to a survey , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ degree with positive cases of Covid : • Going to the gym • Going to the office • Going to the hair salon Now one might suppose , if you think the study has any merit , that this would be the headline .
The massive power of the state has been deployed all over the United States and the world to force the closure of churches , gyms , offices , salons , and malls .
This all happened and is still happening .
Also mask mandates became the new normal .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ authorities to jeer at , denounce , and turn in anyone who doesn ’ t have a cloth strapped to his or her face .
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All of this happened in complete contradiction to every commercial right , property right , or normal human freedoms .
We threw it all away in the name of virus control .
Our lives have been completely upended and our assumptions about our rights and liberties have been overturned .
And yet here is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correlation between these life activities and catching the disease .
That ’ s an amazing conclusion that could have generated headlines like : • You Won ’ t Catch Covid at the Gym , CDC Shows • No , Your Hairstylist Doesn ’ t Spread the Coronavirus • Scared to Go Shopping ?
Don ’ t Be , Says the CDC • Your Mask Is Pointless , New Study Says And so on .
But none of this was to be .
Not one single story in the mainstream press said anything like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ implied by the CDC study .
The one place that the study revealed a positive correlation between positive cases and life activities was going to restaurants .
So that ’ s what got the alarmist headlines .
Yes , these are all real .
• Coronavirus Patients Twice As Likely To Have Eaten In Restaurants Before Getting Ill : CDC Study • Adults with COVID-19 twice as likely to have eaten at restaurants , CDC study finds • Study finds bad news for bar and restaurant-goers during COVID-19 • US govt study highlights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so on for thousands of times in every mainstream venue .
They are all competing for clicks in the great agenda of extending lockdowns and feeding public fear as much as possible .
So the worst-possible spin on this slightly sketchy study gets all the headlines .
Thus is it burned into many people ’ s minds that restaurants are really disease-spreading venues .
Go out to eat and you might die !
And here is what makes this even stranger .
The interviewers never asked the people in the survey whether they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incredible as that seems .
The authors admit this : “ Of note , the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options.
” Why not ?
Did they just forget to ask ?
What ’ s going on here ?
Which is to say that even if the results are meaningful – and there ’ s so much about this study that is murky and error prone – they are practically useless for knowing what to do about it .
If there is no distinction between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ventilation or crowds or the presence of food and so on , is utterly pointless .
Without knowing that , we are at a loss to figure out any answer to the question of why and what to do .
Instead , the message comes down to : don ’ t go out to eat .
Here is how bad the science has become .
In the discussion , the authors write the following : Here is what is weird : the study itself supports none of that paragraph .
The survey never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made the survey somehow forgot to make a query concerning indoor vs. outdoor dining .
As for masks , the study did in fact ask respondents about mask wearing and the results showed no correlation between the sickness and whether and to what extent people were wearing masks !
In other words , that paragraph in the discussion is contradicted in two places by the authors ’ own study .
In addition , the authors themselves point to an intriguing issue : the people in the survey might have biased their answers based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results .
Think about it this way .
The people who had a positive Covid test are more likely to ask themselves the great question : how did I get this ?
Going to restaurants is such a rare activity these days that it stands out in one ’ s mind .
When the survey asked people if they had gone out to eat , it is possible that the memory of the Covid positive person might be more likely to blame the restaurant , whereas the Covid negative person might be more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every meal in the last 30 days .
In other words , the real result of the study might be : Covid patients are more likely to scapegoat restaurants than gyms , churches , and salons .
Alas , none of these interesting considerations appear in the media-rendered version of this study : panic and keep the lockdowns in place !
Lockdowns have become a conclusion in a desperate search for evidence .
This is precisely where we ’ ve been for six solid months now .
The media has become the handmaiden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ versions of sketchy studies to keep the panic going as long as possible .
And the public , which is far too trusting of the media and its capacity for rational and accurate reporting , eats it up .
For now .
Once the dust settles on all of this , it seems highly likely that media science reporting will lose credibility for a generation .
It certainly deserves that fate .
Meanwhile , an entire industry is being creamed .
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By Jeffrey A. Tucker
Just when the fear starts to subside, and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening, something predictable happens. The entire apparatus of mass media hops on some new, super-scary headline designed to instill more Coronaphobia and extend the lockdowns yet again.
It’s a cycle that never stops. It comes back again and again.
A great example occurred this weekend. A poll appeared on Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It showed that confidence in Anthony Fauci is evaporating along with support for lockdowns and mandatory Covid vaccines.
The news barely made the headlines, and very quickly this was overshadowed by a scary new claim: restaurants will give you Covid!
It’s tailor-made for the mainstream press. The study is from the CDC, which means: credible. And the thesis is easily digestible: those who test positive for Covid are twice as likely as those who tested negative to have eaten at a restaurant.
“Eating and drinking on-site at locations that offer such options might be important risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the study says.
Very scary!
Thus the implied conclusion: don’t allow indoor dining! Otherwise Covid will spread like wildfire!
After six months of this Corona Kabuki dance, driven by alarmist media and imposed by wacko, power-abusing governors and mayors, I’ve become rather cynical about the whole enterprise, so I mostly ignore the latest nonsense.
In this case, however, I decided to take a closer look simply because so many millions of owners, workers, and customers have been treated so brutally in the “War on Restaurants.”
It turns out, of course, that this is not what the study said. What’s more interesting is to consider exactly what’s going on here. The study was based on interviews with 314 people who had been tested of their own volition. It included 154 patients with positive test results and 160 control participants with negative test results.
The interviews took place two weeks following the tests, and they concerned life activities two weeks prior to getting the test.
Before we go on here, remember that what alarmed people about Covid was the prospect of dying. The study says nothing about this subject, nor about hospitalization. It’s a fair assumption that the positive cases being interviewed here got it (presumably, if the tests are accurate, which they are not) and got over it.
This alone is interesting simply because it reveals how much the whole subject has been changed: the pandemic has become a casedemic.
Now, to the question of life activities. In the study, based on answers to a survey, the following were not correlated in any significant degree with positive cases of Covid:
Wearing a mask or not wearing a mask
Going to church
Riding on public transportation
Attending large house parties
Going to the gym
Going to the office
Going to the hair salon
Going shopping
Now one might suppose, if you think the study has any merit, that this would be the headline.
The massive power of the state has been deployed all over the United States and the world to force the closure of churches, gyms, offices, salons, and malls. This all happened and is still happening. Also mask mandates became the new normal. The public has been invited by health authorities to jeer at, denounce, and turn in anyone who doesn’t have a cloth strapped to his or her face.
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All of this happened in complete contradiction to every commercial right, property right, or normal human freedoms. We threw it all away in the name of virus control. Our lives have been completely upended and our assumptions about our rights and liberties have been overturned.
And yet here is a study that is unable to document any correlation between these life activities and catching the disease.
That’s an amazing conclusion that could have generated headlines like:
Salons Won’t Get You Sick, CDC Reports
You Won’t Catch Covid at the Gym, CDC Shows
No, Your Hairstylist Doesn’t Spread the Coronavirus
Scared to Go Shopping? Don’t Be, Says the CDC
Your Mask Is Pointless, New Study Says
Church Goers Shouldn’t Fear Sickness, Scientists Reveal
Study: Your House Party Didn’t Spread the Virus
And so on. But none of this was to be. Not one single story in the mainstream press said anything like this, even though this was all implied by the CDC study.
The one place that the study revealed a positive correlation between positive cases and life activities was going to restaurants.
So that’s what got the alarmist headlines. Yes, these are all real.
And so on for thousands of times in every mainstream venue. They are all competing for clicks in the great agenda of extending lockdowns and feeding public fear as much as possible. So the worst-possible spin on this slightly sketchy study gets all the headlines.
Thus is it burned into many people’s minds that restaurants are really disease-spreading venues. Go out to eat and you might die!
And here is what makes this even stranger. The interviewers never asked the people in the survey whether they were eating indoors or outdoors, as incredible as that seems. The authors admit this: “Of note, the question assessing dining at a restaurant did not distinguish between indoor and outdoor options.”
Why not? Did they just forget to ask? What’s going on here?
Which is to say that even if the results are meaningful – and there’s so much about this study that is murky and error prone – they are practically useless for knowing what to do about it. If there is no distinction between indoor and outdoor, all speculation about ventilation or crowds or the presence of food and so on, is utterly pointless.
Without knowing that, we are at a loss to figure out any answer to the question of why and what to do. Instead, the message comes down to: don’t go out to eat.
Here is how bad the science has become. In the discussion, the authors write the following:
“Direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance. Masks cannot be effectively worn while eating and drinking, whereas shopping and numerous other indoor activities do not preclude mask use.”
Here is what is weird: the study itself supports none of that paragraph.
The survey never asked about ventilation because the people who made the survey somehow forgot to make a query concerning indoor vs. outdoor dining. As for masks, the study did in fact ask respondents about mask wearing and the results showed no correlation between the sickness and whether and to what extent people were wearing masks!
In other words, that paragraph in the discussion is contradicted in two places by the authors’ own study.
In addition, the authors themselves point to an intriguing issue: the people in the survey might have biased their answers based on their personal knowledge of the test results.
Think about it this way. The people who had a positive Covid test are more likely to ask themselves the great question: how did I get this? Going to restaurants is such a rare activity these days that it stands out in one’s mind. When the survey asked people if they had gone out to eat, it is possible that the memory of the Covid positive person might be more likely to blame the restaurant, whereas the Covid negative person might be more likely to have forgotten the locale of every meal in the last 30 days.
In other words, the real result of the study might be: Covid patients are more likely to scapegoat restaurants than gyms, churches, and salons.
Alas, none of these interesting considerations appear in the media-rendered version of this study: panic and keep the lockdowns in place!
Lockdowns have become a conclusion in a desperate search for evidence.
This is precisely where we’ve been for six solid months now. The media has become the handmaiden of lockdown tyranny, blasting out simplistic versions of sketchy studies to keep the panic going as long as possible. And the public, which is far too trusting of the media and its capacity for rational and accurate reporting, eats it up.
For now. Once the dust settles on all of this, it seems highly likely that media science reporting will lose credibility for a generation. It certainly deserves that fate.
Meanwhile, an entire industry is being creamed.
Source: AIER.org
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. Jeffrey is available for speaking and interviews via his email. Tw | FB | LinkedIn
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activistpost--2020-09-13--AT&T’s 5G is Slower Than 4G in Almost Every City Tested — And Other Telecom Broken 5G Promises

5G is so controversial that it ’ s recently been the topic of Dilbert comic strips .
It ’ s also the subject of lawsuits for installation on land ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) and in space .
Opposition is worldwide due to a multitude of health , environmental ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) , safety , and liability risks .
If 5G is installed near your home – it WILL reduce your property value .
Cities AND entire countries have taken action to ban , delay , halt , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moratoriums ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ) .
American opposition includes federal agencies and other experts who warn that it threatens national security , public safety , and weather forecasting accuracy ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
Despite all of the above , the estimated millions of jobs that will be lost from it , and MORE – it ’ s still being installed mostly at taxpayers ’ expense ( see 1 , 2 ) AND it ’ s not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faster internet speed .
AT & T ’ s Current 5G is slower than 4G in Nearly Every City Tested AT & T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum , slowing them down in speed tests .
• AT & T and T-Mobile 5G use the same low-band spectrum bands they use for 4G , ensuring wider coverage but without huge speed boosts .
• Verizon 5G ’ s ultra-high speed and sparse availability are because it uses the 28GHz spectrum band , which offers plenty of capacity but without the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walls and other obstacles .
AT & T ’ s 5G is Slower Than its 4G AT & T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from “ 4G ” to “ 5G ” shouldn ’ t necessarily expect that they ’ re about to get faster speeds .
In PCMag ’ s annual mobile-network testing , released today , 5G phones connected to AT & T got slower speeds than 4G phones in 21 out of 22 cities .
PCMag concluded that “ AT & T 5G right now appears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & T ’ s average download speed of 103.1Mbps was nearly as good as Verizon ’ s thanks to a strong 4G performance .
Of course , AT & T 5G should be faster than 4G in the long run—this isn ’ t another case of AT & T misleadingly labeling its 4G network as a type of 5G .
Instead , the disappointing result on PCMag ’ s test has to do with how today ’ s 5G phones work and with how AT & T allocates spectrum .
The counterintuitive result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actual differences between 4G and 5G technology .
Instead , it ’ s reflective of how AT & T has used its spectrum to deploy 5G so far .
As PCMag explained , “ AT & T ’ s 5G slices off a narrow bit of the old 850MHz cellular band and assigns it to 5G , to give phones a valid 5G icon without increasing performance .
And because of the way current 5G phones work , it often reduces performance.
” AT & T ’ s 4G network benefits from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The most recent phones are able to assemble up to seven of them—that ’ s called seven-carrier aggregation , and it ’ s why AT & T [ won the PCMag tests ] last year , ” the article said .
More specifically , “ at locations with both 4G and 5G , our 5G phone was slower than our 4G phone in 21 out of 22 cities , ” the article said .
While AT & T 5G phones often accessed just 5MHz of spectrum , Segan wrote that his analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of dedicated 5G spectrum to make a real difference.
” The difference was stark in some cities .
In Baltimore , where AT & T provided average speeds of 117.1Mbps , “ kicking into 5G mode… reduc [ ed AT & T ’ s ] average download speeds by a shocking 61 percent across the city , ” PCMag wrote .
T-Mobile 5G wasn ’ t always faster than 4G .
In Austin , T-Mobile had the most 5G availability of any carrier , but “ its 5G results were 17 percent slower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both networks were available.
” PCMag has been testing mobile networks for 11 years and had to adjust how it reported results this year because of the curious 5G results , Segan noted on Twitter : PCMag said it conducted tests with Samsung Galaxy S10 and S20 phones , chosen “ because they offer the best 4G and 5G performance available , with the S20 supporting all the different types of 5G US carriers have to offer.
” AT & T said early 5G would be similar to 4G We asked AT & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as assigning more than 5MHz to the 5G channel or switching phones back to 4G when it ’ s the fastest option , and will update this article if we get a response .
In November 2019 , AT & T said its early 5G deployments on the 850MHz band would only offer speeds that are similar to LTE-Advanced , a form of 4G that AT & T has misleadingly called “ 5GE ” or “ 5G Evolution.
” Link to At launch , AT & T ’ s real 5G will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5G Average 4G download performance stacked up this way : Verizon 5G uses only millimeter-wave spectrum that has a much smaller reach than low- and mid-band spectrum . )
AT & T won the overall speed title in 12 out of 26 cities , compared to 13 for Verizon and one for T-Mobile .
AT & T offers 5G in 22 of the 26 cities tested .
PCMag didn ’ t test rural areas this year because it had to adjust procedures for the pandemic .
Instead of a travel schedule involving flights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PCMag said it hired “ two dozen drivers to each test their own cities.
” The lack of rural tests means the averages found by PCMag are likely higher than the nationwide reality .
OpenSignal , which relies on user-initiated speed tests , recently found the following average download speeds , which include all networks , not just 5G : • Verizon → 494.7 Mbps , which is only available 0.4 % of the time • AT & T → 60.8 Mbps , which is only available 10.3 % of the time • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is only available 22.5 % of the time PCMag and OpenSignal tests agree that Verizon ’ s 5G network is the hardest one to find .
Users of OpenSignal ’ s speed-test app were able to get a Verizon 5G signal just 0.4 percent of the time , compared to 22.5 percent for T-Mobile , 14.1 percent for Sprint , and 10.3 percent for AT & T .
Verizon 5G ’ s ultra-high speed and sparse availability are not surprising because it uses the 28GHz spectrum band , which offers plenty of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long distances or penetrate walls and other obstacles .
AT & T and T-Mobile 5G use the same low-band spectrum bands they use for 4G , ensuring wider coverage but without huge speed boosts .
Since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing undesirable symptoms and illnesses after it has been installed and turned on ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
Of course , other sources of wireless can cause symptoms and illnesses too .
Regardless , 5G isn ’ t even living up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ internet AND the majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment until studies show that it ’ s safe .
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By B.N. Frank
5G is so controversial that it’s recently been the topic of Dilbert comic strips. It’s also the subject of lawsuits for installation on land (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and in space. Opposition is worldwide due to a multitude of health, environmental (see 1, 2, 3), safety, and liability risks.
If 5G is installed near your home – it WILL reduce your property value. Cities AND entire countries have taken action to ban, delay, halt, and limit installation AS WELL AS issue moratoriums (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). American opposition includes federal agencies and other experts who warn that it threatens national security, public safety, and weather forecasting accuracy (see 1, 2, 3).
Despite all of the above, the estimated millions of jobs that will be lost from it, and MORE – it’s still being installed mostly at taxpayers’ expense (see 1, 2) AND it’s not even living up to its promise of faster internet speed.
From Scientists4WiredTech:
AT&T’s Current 5G is slower than 4G in Nearly Every City Tested
AT&T phones often get just 5MHz of 5G spectrum, slowing them down in speed tests.
Summary:
AT&T and T-Mobile 5G use the same low-band spectrum bands they use for 4G, ensuring wider coverage but without huge speed boosts.
Verizon 5G’s ultra-high speed and sparse availability are because it uses the 28GHz spectrum band, which offers plenty of capacity but without the ability to cover long distances or penetrate walls and other obstacles.
AT&T’s 5G is Slower Than its 4G
AT&T smartphone users who see their network indicators switch from “4G” to “5G” shouldn’t necessarily expect that they’re about to get faster speeds. In PCMag’s annual mobile-network testing, released today, 5G phones connected to AT&T got slower speeds than 4G phones in 21 out of 22 cities.
PCMag concluded that “AT&T 5G right now appears to be essentially worthless,” though AT&T’s average download speed of 103.1Mbps was nearly as good as Verizon’s thanks to a strong 4G performance. Of course, AT&T 5G should be faster than 4G in the long run—this isn’t another case of AT&T misleadingly labeling its 4G network as a type of 5G. Instead, the disappointing result on PCMag’s test has to do with how today’s 5G phones work and with how AT&T allocates spectrum.
The counterintuitive result doesn’t reveal much about the actual differences between 4G and 5G technology. Instead, it’s reflective of how AT&T has used its spectrum to deploy 5G so far. As PCMag explained, “AT&T’s 5G slices off a narrow bit of the old 850MHz cellular band and assigns it to 5G, to give phones a valid 5G icon without increasing performance. And because of the way current 5G phones work, it often reduces performance.”
AT&T’s 4G network benefits from the aggregation of channels from different frequencies. “The most recent phones are able to assemble up to seven of them—that’s called seven-carrier aggregation, and it’s why AT&T [won the PCMag tests] last year,” the article said.
5G phones can’t handle that yet, PCMag analyst Sascha Segan wrote:
But 5G phones can’t add as many 4G channels to a 5G channel. So if they’re in 5G mode, they’re giving up 4G channels so they can use that extremely narrow, often 5MHz 5G channel, and the result is slower performance: faux G. For AT&T, using a 5G phone in testing was often a step backward from our 4G-only phone.
More specifically, “at locations with both 4G and 5G, our 5G phone was slower than our 4G phone in 21 out of 22 cities,” the article said. While AT&T 5G phones often accessed just 5MHz of spectrum, Segan wrote that his analysis shows it “takes at least 50MHz of dedicated 5G spectrum to make a real difference.”
The difference was stark in some cities. In Baltimore, where AT&T provided average speeds of 117.1Mbps, “kicking into 5G mode… reduc[ed AT&T’s] average download speeds by a shocking 61 percent across the city,” PCMag wrote.
T-Mobile 5G wasn’t always faster than 4G. In Austin, T-Mobile had the most 5G availability of any carrier, but “its 5G results were 17 percent slower than its 4G results at locations where both networks were available.”
PCMag has been testing mobile networks for 11 years and had to adjust how it reported results this year because of the curious 5G results, Segan noted on Twitter:
The shocker this year was how to cope with 5G networks that were SLOWER than 4G networks in the same place. We had to use a “best of” rule and not count pure 5G availability in our overall scores. But ALL 5G networks were less available than they claim to be. — Sascha Segan (@saschasegan) September 8, 2020
PCMag said it conducted tests with Samsung Galaxy S10 and S20 phones, chosen “because they offer the best 4G and 5G performance available, with the S20 supporting all the different types of 5G US carriers have to offer.”
AT&T said early 5G would be similar to 4G
We asked AT&T if it plans any changes, such as assigning more than 5MHz to the 5G channel or switching phones back to 4G when it’s the fastest option, and will update this article if we get a response.
In November 2019, AT&T said its early 5G deployments on the 850MHz band would only offer speeds that are similar to LTE-Advanced, a form of 4G that AT&T has misleadingly called “5GE” or “5G Evolution.”
FURTHER READING
Link to At launch, AT&T’s real 5G will only be as fast as its fake 5G
Average 4G download performance stacked up this way:
Verizon’s → 105.1 Mbps AT&T → 103.1 Mbps T-Mobile’s → 74 Mbps
5G Signal availability (% of time)
T-Mobile’s → 54% AT&T → 38% Verizon’s → 4%
Verizon 5G uses only millimeter-wave spectrum that has a much smaller reach than low- and mid-band spectrum.)
AT&T won the overall speed title in 12 out of 26 cities, compared to 13 for Verizon and one for T-Mobile. AT&T offers 5G in 22 of the 26 cities tested.
PCMag didn’t test rural areas this year because it had to adjust procedures for the pandemic. Instead of a travel schedule involving flights, rental cars, and hotels, PCMag said it hired “two dozen drivers to each test their own cities.”
Verizon 5G network “mind-blowing” but tiny
The lack of rural tests means the averages found by PCMag are likely higher than the nationwide reality. OpenSignal, which relies on user-initiated speed tests, recently found the following average download speeds, which include all networks, not just 5G:
AT&T → 32.6 Mbps T-Mobile → 28.2 Mbps Verizon → 27.4 Mbps Sprint → 25.4 Mbps
The speeds OpenSignal found average 5G speeds of
Verizon → 494.7 Mbps, which is only available 0.4% of the time AT&T → 60.8 Mbps, which is only available 10.3% of the time T-Mobile and Sprint → 49 Mbps, which is only available 22.5% of the time
PCMag and OpenSignal tests agree that Verizon’s 5G network is the hardest one to find. Users of OpenSignal’s speed-test app were able to get a Verizon 5G signal just 0.4 percent of the time, compared to 22.5 percent for T-Mobile, 14.1 percent for Sprint, and 10.3 percent for AT&T.
Verizon 5G’s ultra-high speed and sparse availability are not surprising because it uses the 28GHz spectrum band, which offers plenty of capacity but without the ability to cover long distances or penetrate walls and other obstacles. AT&T and T-Mobile 5G use the same low-band spectrum bands they use for 4G, ensuring wider coverage but without huge speed boosts.
Since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing undesirable symptoms and illnesses after it has been installed and turned on (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Of course, other sources of wireless can cause symptoms and illnesses too. Regardless, 5G isn’t even living up to Big Telecom’s promise for faster internet AND the majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment until studies show that it’s safe.
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activistpost--2020-09-13--Is This Conclusive Evidence of a Directed Energy Weapon Being Used in California?

At the very least , it ’ s bizarre and interesting .
According to researcher Dutchsinse , he witnessed a clear beam of directed energy in real-time on September 7th .
We know these weapons exist , but is this the best evidence yet of their use ?
This is a real life example of something beaming from somewhere very strange ( Malheur or above it in space ) to another location hundreds of miles away in California , beaming directly into a fire… High power microwave can show up on IR .
So can high power IR lasers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ first video is not enhanced , but this is followed by a color enhanced version .
Best view of the beam seen in full HD 1080p at 11:34 or so .
another good view at 13:20 or so… In a very strange turn of events , upon the upload and premiere of this video on youtube.. almost all shots of the beam are hard to see only on youtube ( you can see just fine on twitch for instance ) .
You literally can not see the beam in the half video here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my audience just fine over on twitch .
Nonetheless you can view pretty well in 1080p HD using a laptop , maybe turn down the lights and look close .
The live links are provided for you to see on your own instead of having to watch this video .
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Here is a brightened and color saturated version of the same beam event : Dutchsinse offers the following additional research links to investigate for yourself : Close up beam going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ //weather.cod.edu/satrad/ ?
parms=local-Cen_California-06-200-1-100-1 & checked=map & colorbar=undefined Close up beam going to Malheur Oregon – https : //weather.cod.edu/satrad/ ?
parms=local-S_Oregon-06-200-1-100-1 & checked=map & colorbar=undefined View the beam coming from / going to Malheur here – https : //weather.cod.edu/satrad/ ?
parms=subregional-N_Nevada-06-200-1-100-1 & checked=counties-map & colorbar=undefined Please leave your explanations and/or theories in the comment section below .
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At the very least, it’s bizarre and interesting. According to researcher Dutchsinse, he witnessed a clear beam of directed energy in real-time on September 7th. We know these weapons exist, but is this the best evidence yet of their use?
Dutchsinse states:
This is a real life example of something beaming from somewhere very strange (Malheur or above it in space) to another location hundreds of miles away in California, beaming directly into a fire… High power microwave can show up on IR. So can high power IR lasers. Both could theoretically cause fires.
The first video is not enhanced, but this is followed by a color enhanced version.
Best view of the beam seen in full HD 1080p at 11:34 or so. another good view at 13:20 or so… In a very strange turn of events, upon the upload and premiere of this video on youtube.. almost all shots of the beam are hard to see only on youtube (you can see just fine on twitch for instance). You literally cannot see the beam in the half video here on youtube that was seen live by my audience just fine over on twitch. Nonetheless you can view pretty well in 1080p HD using a laptop , maybe turn down the lights and look close. The live links are provided for you to see on your own instead of having to watch this video.
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Here is a brightened and color saturated version of the same beam event:
Dutchsinse offers the following additional research links to investigate for yourself:
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-SanFran-natcolorfire-200-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined
Close up beam going to fire in California – https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Cen_California-06-200-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined
Close up beam going to Malheur Oregon – https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-S_Oregon-06-200-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined
Near Infrared view – https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-w_southwest-06-200-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined
View the beam coming from / going to Malheur here – https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-N_Nevada-06-200-1-100-1&checked=counties-map&colorbar=undefined
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activistpost--2020-09-14--DHS Proposes Massive Expansion Of “Biometric Modality” Collection


activistpost--2020-09-15--Dan Dicks Speaks at The Vancouver FREEDOM RALLY 2020!

While covering the 2020 Freedom Rally in Vancouver , Dan Dicks of Press For Truth gave an impromptu speech with @ @ @ @ @ to fight back against governmental oppression in the post COVID-19 ( 84 ) nightmare that @ @ @ @ @ to .
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