I am posting an open letter written by Diana Kordas on Samos Island, Greece, to HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr., describing rapid environmental destruction following the introduction of 4G and especially 5G (millimeter band) to Samos. The Executive Summary is short, and a more detailed letter follows. Sympathetic staff at Children's Health Defense have told her they will submit it to RFK Jr. at the first chance. My own observations in Japan corroborate a lot of Kordas's, despite the lack of millimeter band locally and the moist climate and patchwordk landscape of groves in Japan. I will post a brief update on the my local circumstances in Japan in the comments below.
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Severe and Rapid Deterioration of the Environment due to EMR

 

Executive Summary

March 9, 2025

 

Dear Mr. Kennedy,

 

My name is Diana Kordas and I am writing to you from the Greek island of Samos, where we have observed severe and rapid deterioration of the environment due to EMR, especially since 4G and then 5G were introduced. We have no pesticides or agrochemicals in our area, no lights, and the problems we are observing cannot possibly be due to climate change. These include the following effects, all of which I believe to be either DNA or developmental damage due to EMR:

 

1. Massive decline of insect species, including soil insects and pollinators.

2. Massive decline and possible extinction of many insectivore species, including birds (migratory and resident), hedgehogs, lizards and toads. Lack of food, as much as electromagnetic fields, may be driving changes in the migratory patterns of birds.

3. Massive decline in saltwater species across the board: crustaceans, mollusks, invertebrates, and vertebrates.

4. Sharp decline in rodents (some species such as voles may be extinct) and the creatures which feed on them (golden jackals, raptors, snakes, etc.) are declining as well.

5. Complete lack of soil insects, including earthworms, leading to soil deterioration. Beneficial soil bacteria are probably also missing. Soil has become acidic.

6. Wing damage and wing mutations in flies, butterflies, cicadas, and wasps, many species of which are now extinct. Miniaturization of some insects (prelude to extinction) including some butterflies, carpenter bees, bumblebees and red hornets.

7. Dramatic changes in sex ratios of certain insects where it is easy to identify the sex, such as scarlet darter dragonflies and mosquitoes; there are almost no males. This probably affects other species where it is not easy to immediately identify the sex.

8. Plants are producing seeds which are not viable and will not germinate: some wildflowers such as poppies and small orchids are dying out. So are some crops, especially leafy green vegetables such as spinach, chard and lettuce.

9. Vegetables and fruits are misshapen, oddly colored, cracked and thin-skinned.

10. Mutations in plants include misshapen flowers and plants growing to three times their normal size.

11. Some vegetable plants such as zucchini are producing very few male flowers of which a large percentage contain no pollen. Tomato crops, which can no longer be grown outdoors, may be failing due to lack of pollen.

12. Wildflowers are producing little or no pollen.  Bees working the plants often have empty pollen sacs, or very little pollen in their sacs. Lack of pollen may be responsible for diminishing honey production and colony collapse. In the U.S., it just recently announced that over 60% of bee colonies have died.  https://usrtk.org/bees-neonics/beekeepers-report-catastrophic-winter-losses/

There are no studies which I know of which back up my observations, but I believe we are heading for a massive, world-wide food crisis. Many wild species including birds and reptiles are being starved into extinction. I believe it will not be long before many of the foods we eat will become impossible to grow, and those which can be grown will become too expensive to buy. On Samos, and in Greece generally, farmers are no longer able to grow many crops outdoors and are forced to grow them in greenhouses, raising the cost of production. Some crops will no longer grow at all.

 

There has been very little scientific research on the effects of EMR on nature (soil, plants, insects, etc.)—and no field studies whatsoever—since 5G was introduced worldwide. Few of the more recent studies are any good, and none are ground-breaking. Although the principle that EMR causes DNA damage has been proven repeatedly, neither governments nor nature NGOs include EMR on their list of threats to nature (or food production). Scientists working on EMR all say that funding has dried up. Without funding, they cannot do the work that needs to be done—and done soon.

 

I am writing to ask if you, or anyone you know, singly or together, would be willing to create something analogous to the Gates Foundation for Diseases of the Developing World, in order to fund pertinent, quality research into the effects of EMR on nature and food production. Soil conditions are deteriorating so fast, and species are vanishing so quickly, that I honestly don’t think there is time to lose.

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Diana Kordas (diana.kordas@yandex.com)

 

 

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Full text

 

Dear Mr. Kennedy,

 

My name is Diana Kordas and I am writing to you because of your well-known opposition to 5G/wireless technology and all its consequences. I have written a number of pieces about the effects of wireless technology on nature, some of which have been published in The Defender. I am 67 and grew up in a world without computers or the internet, without cellphones or smartphones, but which was rich in life forms: birds, insects, amphibians, animals and sea life. It was a world where children read books and played outdoors. It was also a world in which food was relatively much cheaper than it is now, as well as much more nutritious and much tastier. At the end of the day, life is all about food, because without it no species can survive.

 

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) has many consequences, which I am sure you already know all about. DNA damage has been proven. Health effects on human beings have been proven, but are largely ignored by governments who make huge profits from the telecom industry, while people are mostly addicted to their smartphones and other gadgets and refuse to believe that anything will happen to them or their children. I have seen toddlers running around with their own smartphones (they make such good baby-sitters). Once I saw a woman, dressed identically to her year-old baby daughter, resting her smartphone on the baby’s head as she chatted on the phone. Today’s children are either grossly fat or spindly-legged and unhealthy-looking. They don’t seem to know how to play with each other. They are too engrossed in the radiating plastic rectangle in their hands.

 

Government agencies such as ministries of agriculture are pushing for 5G farming in the mistaken belief that this will increase production, which it won’t. Nature NGOs refuse to include EMR as one of the threats to wildlife for fear of losing government funding and sponsorship, much of which comes from corporations like Google and the telecom industry itself. And, to be fair, there is a real lack of good, solid research into the deleterious effects of EMR, especially 5G, on nature—soil, beneficial bacteria, plants, insects, birds and animals.

 

I am not a scientist, but I have always had a keen appreciation of nature in all forms. I was lucky; we always lived in the countryside where there was much to observe. Now I live on the Greek island of Samos, on a large piece of land on which we grow vegetables and run as a sort of nature reserve. We are very fortunate in that the area has no pesticides at all (most of the surrounding land is wild and our few neighbors do not use them) and there are very few lights, none of which affect our land. No one has Wi-Fi, but there are plenty of cell towers around us, as well as an increasing number of satellites. Their number has grown and grown as we have advanced from 2G to the present 5G. And we are seeing disastrous effects.

 

When 3G became 4G, all the wildlife on the mountain where the nearest cell tower sits (about 2 miles away) started to vanish—birds, small mammals, and insects included. We used to have fireflies, but they vanished that summer. Suddenly we could drive for miles without getting a single insect on our windshield—this phenomenon was world-wide and attributed to the aerodynamics of modern cars, but since we don’t have modern cars, I can assure you this is not the case.

Samos has small but ecologically important wetlands that were full of birds and insects, until they decided to ensure good cellphone coverage on all the southern beaches. The wetlands are now essentially dead, and so is the sea along these beaches. Once our little lagoon was full of juvenile flamingos every winter, and the air was thick with mosquitoes. The flamingos have not bred in four years, and there are hardly any mosquitoes. I could list all the life forms on these areas that have vanished in recent years, but it would be a very long list. The flatlands beside the wetlands, fed by rivers, are also Samos’ chief farming areas. Local growers have been experiencing great trouble with their crops in recent years and are now growing in greenhouses produce which they used to, and which ought to, grow outdoors. Some crops such as spinach will no longer grow at all.

 

The following case history will give you a picture of what life is like for local farmers:

 

Case History

Matrona, The Woman with the Zucchini Blossoms

 

When we first moved to Samos in 2012, we used to shop at the farmer’s market in Samos town. We got to know all the growers well. The most striking sight of the market was Matrona, an extremely pretty young woman who wore bright fluttering scarves and whose truck was always bedecked with bunches of bright yellow-orange male zucchini flowers which stood out against the pale yellow walls of the old police station. Van Gogh would have itched to paint her. Her produce was wonderful.

 

Matrona and her husband, like most local market gardeners, farm in the flat lands near the south coast, beside the wetlands that border the southern beaches. They grew everything, the whole gamut of summer, winter and spring vegetables. She dreamed of building their own house so that her family wouldn’t have to live with her in-laws. Then things started to go badly wrong.

 

In the winter of 2016, 4G came to Samos. By the summer of 2017, the mobile phone companies had expanded wireless coverage to all the southern beaches of the island. Insect and bird populations started falling, and initially huge flocks of crows took over the entire area, making life very difficult for the farmers. Eventually the crows too died out. Matrona and her husband started having problems growing some crops. Zucchini stopped being easy to grow, and her truck was no longer festooned with blossoms. She used to produce wonderful spinach, but the crops became smaller. In the winter of 2018, her husband sowed spinach three times before the seeds germinated.

 

When 5G came in on Samos, in 2021, Matrona could no longer grow zucchini at all. By the winter of 2022, she and her husband could no longer grow spinach. By the summer of 2023, they could no longer grow tomatoes outdoors. They had to grow them in a greenhouse, using rented bees as pollinators. They had to hire more help. Production costs rose.

 

By the winter of 2023-2024, they could only grow root crops such as potatoes, beets and leeks, and greens such as lettuce, parsley and celery. They could not grow crops requiring pollination, and cauliflowers and broccoli did not thrive. This past summer, she continued to sell potatoes, beets, leeks, parsley, and celery, which are normally winter crops in Greece. Her only summer vegetable was bell peppers, and they are grown in a greenhouse. Tomatoes would not grow at all, even in a greenhouse. Her husband planted tomatoes three times and all three crops failed.

 

Matrona has given up her dream of building her own house. Now she thinks about survival, about providing for children who are growing older and whose needs are greater. She and her husband have no other way of making a living, and they fear for the future. She knows that they are not the only farmers with these problems, but this is small comfort.

 

 

5G arrived four years ago, and I have tried to record the effects we have seen on our land and on this island. I have written several papers recording our observations¹, which I will try to sum them up here briefly. With the exception of a friend in Japan who recorded her own observations in a recent paper², I know of no one else, scientist or civilian, who has made any attempt to study the effects of 5G in the field. Japan is experiencing many of the same effects of EMR as we have here. Another friend in Thailand writes to me of the insects that have vanished, of a lack of pollinators, of deformed birds and five-legged frogs.

 

1. http://cellphonetaskforce.org/+%20the%20work%20of%20Diana%20Kordas/

2. https://sinners4diseasecontrol.dreamwidth.org/1414.html –the link to the full paper is at the end of the abstract

 

 

A Brief Timeline of Environmental Effects on Samos

 

2021.

The first summer after the installation of 5G on Samos, insect populations plummeted. We estimate that 90% of the insects still present vanished, many species altogether. The worst affected were the beetles, most of which are now locally extinct, and web-spinning spiders. We lost many wild bee species.

 

In our garden, the soil turned acidic, soil insects disappeared, and beneficial soil microbes died. We began to see mutant vegetables. I had to hand-pollinate zucchini because those plants were not being pollinated, though melons, peppers, aubergines and tomatoes were.

 

Field mouse, tree rat and vole populations fell drastically. We used to have to cover ripening melons with plant pots or the rats would eat them. That summer we did not cover the melons and did not lose any.

 

Insectivore bird populations dropped, especially migratory insectivores like hoopoes, nightjars, flycatchers, swallows and bee-eaters. Gulls, which are not normally raptors, began hunting and killing bee-eaters and swallows in mid-air (they still do) because there is nothing washing up on the seashores anymore. Jays, normally insectivores (though they will raid nests of smaller birds) have also become raptors and will kill and eat swallows and other small birds if they can catch them. Lately I have begun to wonder whether lack of food, rather than electromagnetic fields, is the primary driver behind changes in bird migration patterns.

 

DNA damage began to show as wing damage in many flying insects. Even before 5G, we were finding carrion flies with vestigial wings or none at all. That summer we also found wasps and many cicadas with damaged wings. Wasps especially had been dying out since 4G, and with 5G most species have vanished altogether.

 

Snails vanished and in consequence, so did hedgehogs, which feed on them. No one has seen a hedgehog for several years and I believe they are extinct on this island. (In the UK, which uses only 6 GHz to date, snails and hedgehogs are also disappearing, and last spring an animal shelter near Liverpool had, at one point, 150 severely undernourished baby hedgehogs, most of which died). By 2024, snails had disappeared around the paddy fields in Japan, where they were exposed to EMR, but were found (alive and well) in a culvert filled with neonicotinoid runoff.

 

Sea life at local beaches, which had been declining fast since the advent of 4G, declined even faster. Water mollusks, limpets, urchins, octopi, sea cucumbers, crabs, pinna shells and most other common life forms have died out. EMR penetrates water, which may magnify its effects both in the sea and on land ponds, rivers, lakes etc. The first victims of EMR were freshwater species including amphibians.

 

 

2022

Insect declines continued, and there were far fewer pollinators. Bird populations continued to decline and there were fewer migratory birds. Lizards, chameleons, and geckos declined; rodents continued to decline. Snakes declined and we saw very few.

 

We began to get severely mutant vegetables in the garden, as well as double-headed zinnias, which we grow to attract pollinators. Local growers also complained of mutations in aubergines and peppers, which were so oddly-shaped, cracked or discolored as to be unsaleable. Tomatoes developed very thin skins and cracked before they were ripe. Melons were deformed and the side facing the sun had no flesh under it. Soil acidity increased, and soil nutrients such as beneficial bacteria severely decreased. There were, once again, no soil insects.

Lack of rodents, while good for the garden, severely affected wildlife. Snakes live on them. Owls and other raptors which hunt rodents declined, and Samos lost all the little Athena owls, once the classic symbol of ancient Greece. Short-toed eagles, which feed on snakes and other reptiles, ceased to summer and breed here. The Samos golden jackal, a unique sub-species, declined and many packs disappeared. We have been doing supplementary feeding for our local pack for some years, so we still have these charming and intelligent animals—but I fear that without us, they would not be surviving, for there is very little game.

 

Lack of game is affecting larger wild animals such as foxes, boar and wolves, which are starting to invade cities across Greece in winter. Foxes in Athens, wolves in the streets of Thessaloniki, and wild boar in the streets of Athens’ northern suburbs. Boar can be found in many European cities now; in Zagreb they dig up people’s gardens. In Japan, bears and boar have attacked people. In northern Greece, a bear with two cubs showed up in a supermarket. In late 2024 a bear occupied a supermarket in northern Japan for several days, ate the meat and mauled an employee.

 

2023

Butterflies, which had shown more resistance to EMR than other insects such as beetles and pollinators, declined drastically and there were clear signs of DNA damage in them. We started to see scarce swallowtails (Iphiclides podalirius) which lacked one of the characteristic long tails, and miniaturized swallowtails (Papilio machaon), a different but related species) which were about 2/3 the size of the normal insect. We also saw miniature carpenter bees. There were very few moths, only 3-4 species, all tiny. One type of butterfly which used to be very common in late winter and spring, the Eastern Festoon, vanished except for one which had wings so crumpled it could barely move. Most butterfly species were absent. As with the previous year, there were fewer insects and fewer birds. The gulls continued to prey on migratory swallows and bee-eaters, both of whose numbers declined.

 

Scarlet darter dragonflies and mosquitoes exhibited severe imbalances in sex ratios. With the dragonflies, the ratio should be 50-50, but suddenly there were far more females than males—about 90% females to 10% males. Numbers have since declined, but the male-female ratio has remained abnormal. The same summer, most male mosquitoes vanished. The same imbalance may be occurring in other insects where it is not so easy to distinguish sex.

 

The garden fared badly, with misshapen and discolored fruits and vegetables. The seeds turned out not to be viable, and not a single plant grew from the seeds we had saved that summer. Seeds from chard grown that winter proved not to be viable either. In the summer of 2024, we had to use seeds saved from previous years. We were given melon seeds of different varieties by a friend; none of those seeds germinated. We planted 60 tomato plants and had almost no fruits.

 

Local growers started to grow tomatoes exclusively in hothouses. At the time, we wondered if the problem was decreasing numbers of pollinators, but I no longer think this is the case (see below). In any case, since 2023, the only tomatoes available on the market are hothouse, and there are so few Greek tomatoes (amazing, in this climate, where they used to the easiest thing to grow) that we now get imported Turkish and even Belgian (all hothouse) tomatoes on sale in the supermarkets. Sun-dried tomatoes have disappeared from supermarket shelves. In fact, most of the vegetables in the supermarkets these days are hothouse. They are tasteless and expensive. Most leafy green vegetables such as spinach, chard and Romaine lettuce are hard to get. I tried to buy spinach seed last year, but there was none available.

 

It is worth noting that in 2023 the cocoa crop failed also—the worst crop since the mid-70’s. Since the cocoa groves are full of cell towers, this is not surprising. Cocoa growers have started to hand-pollinate their crops—allegedly due to lack of pollinators (again, see below). The cocoa from this crop leaves a sour aftertaste which may be the result of soil acidity. Many brands have started adding acidity regulators to the cocoa powder. Cocoa crops continue to be poor, which means that many cocoa farmers won’t make a living. Greek olive oil has also become acidic and acidity percentage is no longer specified on bottles and tins. It should be less than 1%, but is now high enough to cause stomach-aches. Meanwhile, I have read that DNA changes are starting to show up in coffee plants.

 

 

2024

In the garden, tomato plants produced no fruit, and melons did not grow at all. Scarce swallowtails, of which we saw very few, all had missing tails, one or both, which is clear evidence of DNA damage since the trait was passed on. Carpenter bees showed the same genetic damage; many of them were miniatures. All the red hornets and many carpenter bees we saw were miniatures, about half of normal size. There were fewer pollinators than the year before, and very few insects at all. We now have only three beetle species.

 

We saw other mutations in wild plants. Fennel plants, which usually grow 5-6 feet tall, suddenly started growing to 9-10 feet in height. Wild carrots, a lacy flower also called Queen Anne’s Lace, also grew 9-10 feet tall, though its usual height is 3 feet. A sow thistle, a type of dandelion, grew to 8 feet instead of its usual 2 feet. In Japan, my friend’s husband grew monstrously tall sunflowers with very thick, tough stalks.

 

There were no snakes at all, hardly any lizards (all insectivores) no toads, and declines generally continued across the board. When the bee-eaters arrived, there were only 20—we used to get hundreds of these bright, colorful birds. But there is nothing for them to eat, since they live on bees, carpenter bees, bumblebees and large flying beetles.

 

The most alarming discovery of 2024 was the lack of pollen in male zucchini flowers. Zucchinis should produce many more male than female flowers, but this year the ratio was reversed. Many of the male flowers contained no pollen at all. I am sure about this. I hand-pollinate, and the bright yellow pollen grains show clearly on the feather I use to collect them. Many people noticed the lack of male zucchini flowers, which are used in a popular summer dish (stuffed with feta cheese and breadcrumbs, then deep-fried).

 

Not all plants produce distinct male and female flowers, but I began to wonder if the lack of tomatoes was not due to lack of pollinators—every summer we have seen small wild bees on the plants—but lack of pollen. What if the lack of pollen is affecting all sorts of plants, both those we eat and wildflowers as well? Wild fennel grows in profusion here, but last summer the plants produced virtually no seeds. A lot of small birds and small rodents live on those seeds in winter.

 

Until the summer of 2024, I had assumed that lack of pollinators was responsible for low crop yields, not only in what we grow, but generally. A recent article in Nature points out that many wild plants as well as pollinators are declining—but as usual climate change and pesticides are blamed. I do not believe this is the case at all. I believe what we are seeing is DNA and/or developmental damage to the plants due to EMR, and that many plants are producing little or no pollen. And that pollen may not be viable, any more than the seeds from many of our crops are viable. We know that EMR affects sperm, and pollen is, in effect, plant sperm.

 

I was able to confirm this theory—to my own satisfaction, at least—quite recently. Many spring flowers bloomed early: anemones of all colors, shamrock flowers in profusion (they usually attract lots of bees), daisies, dandelions, virgin’s bower, almond trees, rosemary bushes, golden drops, Great Robert orchids. My husband and I were watching the bees at the flowers, and we realized that we could not see pollen sacs on the bees. These were not drone flies (most of which have vanished) but honeybees and wild bees, yet the pollen sacs were invisible. We got close enough to a number of bees to determine that they did indeed have pollen sacs on their hind legs—but the pollen sacs were empty; so small and brown as to be well-nigh invisible.

 

Were the bees not collecting pollen? I called a local beekeeper, who said that, in the warm weather, with all the flowers in bloom, bees would indeed normally collect pollen—and obviously, the bees were trying to. Was it the flowers? I took a small feather and went all over our property testing the flowers. I eventually collected a few grains of yellow pollen from a few shamrock flowers, but for the rest, nothing. No pollen. Although we have since seen some bees with pollen in their sacs, the pollen sacs are not full, and we are still seeing bees with empty pollen sacs. In 2023, Greek honey production was 40% down. It is possible that this was due to lack of pollen in the flowers. Dandelions that were blooming weeks ago have not produced dandelion clocks; they have not produced seed. Poppies have been dying out for the past several years; I don’t know about their pollen, but I know that their seeds do not grow. Small orchids, of which Samos has many varieties, are declining.

 

 

What is happening is incredibly alarming, but what can we do about it?

 

Most of the attention with regard to EMR and especially 5G has been concerned with effects on bees and other pollinators. There has been much less concern about the effect of EMR on plants, even though it is known that they absorb EMR through their leaves and transmit it to the soil through their roots. There has been equally little concern about the effect of EMR on soiland what it does to soil organisms and the plants that then grow from it. Yet everything begins with the earth itself, and we are poisoning it.

 

Because I know with 100% certainty that where we live does not have pesticides, nor artificial fertilizers, I know that these are emphatically not the cause of the problems we are seeing. Nor do I believe climate change to be a factor; climate change could not cause mutations, changes in sex ratios, or lack of pollen. I cannot cite recent studies to back up my assertion that EMR is killing off and causing mutant insects and plants, that it is causing plants to produce flowers that contain no pollen and seeds that are not viable.There are no recent studies (or any at all) on these subjects. There have not been, to my knowledge, any field studies at all since 5G was introduced. Recent studies are a poor crop, very few of these are concerned with the environment—except to say that bees, butterflies, hedgehogs and many other species are disappearing (without mentioning EMR as a possible cause). Some of the studies which do mention EMR are downright silly, like one I saw recently which claimed that Wi-Fi (which bees are extremely unlikely to encounter in the countryside) changes foraging patterns.

 

An older study on EMR and germination concluded that EMR boosts germination of seeds and could be beneficial. I don’t know if it was industry-sponsored, but this is not my experience or that of any growers of my acquaintance. On the contrary, EMR in the environment produces seeds that are not viable.

 

In 1906, journalist Alfred Henry Louis wrote, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” If people cannot grow food, or afford to buy the food that is increasingly being grown in greenhouses (and how long before these plants won’t grow either?) what exactly are they to do? The smartphone may be useful (I wouldn’t know as I don’t have one) but I am quite sure it is inedible.

 

The WEF seems to think that people can survive on mealworms and cricket flour (if even they can continue to be produced in the current EMR environment) but this sounds a lot like Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake”. And why is the WEF suddenly so concerned with finding alternatives to real food? It has been well over a century since George Washington Carver demonstrated that peanuts are virtually a complete food in themselves. Chickpeas, beans and lentils contain as much protein as meat. However, these are all crops which need to grow in the soil and be pollinated.

 

The problems in nature did not begin with 5G, though no doubt they have been exacerbated by adding 5G bandwidths to the toxic soup of other EMR bandwidths used for mobile communications. From the very beginning of mobile communications, effects on nature were created which have accumulated and built until we are in danger of wiping out our environment and with it, ourselves. DNA damage that has already occurred will be passed on to succeeding generations—of insects, of plants, of other species. If we get rid of 5G we might buy a few more years—or not. The dominoes are already toppling.

 

Life is all about food. The earthworms eat the microorganisms in the soil. The robins eat the earthworms. The sparrowhawks eat the robins. The rodents eat the plants, and the foxes and jackals and other predators eat the rodents. The plants eat the microorganisms in the soil and produce edible leaves, fruits, vegetables and seeds which are eaten by animals, birds and us. We eat the animals which eat the plants. And so it goes.

 

There is an urgent need for funding of good, up-to-date field studies to determine what is happening to nature as a result of EMR.  The principle has long been established—we know that DNA damage is done by EMR and we know the mechanisms by which it is done—but the world at large is ignoring this.

 

Genetic assays could be done to see what sort of DNA damage is being done to plants, insects and other creatures. We need studies that spell out, in no uncertain terms, what is happening to the soil, to the microorganisms, the insects, the plants, the animals. We need high-quality studies which cannot be ignored by the nature NGOs and by governments.

 

If no one is willing to fund these studies, they won’t get done. Scientists who have studied EMR for years complain that funding has dried up. They are tired and discouraged, the more so because it is difficult to get their work published. The result is more and more review studies, with little new work, none of it ground-breaking. Yet if there is no new scientific work, and we go on the way we are, I predict we will soon start seeing massive crop failures. There will be social unrest, mass migration, extreme poverty and eventually, famine. We are, I believe, at a tipping point. It matters less to me because I am not young, but what about the world we depend on, and what about the children?

Which brings me to why I am writing this letter. What is needed is something like the Gates Foundation for Diseases of the Developing World, an organization that is willing to fund worthwhile, applicable research into the effects of EMR on nature—the soil, the plants, the insects, and so on up the food chain. The research needs to focus on actual conditions as they exist on the ground. Obviously, some very good work has been done, much of it in the laboratory, but too often such work is dismissed as not reflecting actual conditions in real life. We need studies about actual conditions in real life.

 

Let me give you one example. I spoke with Dr. Dimitris Panagopoulos, whose work on fruit flies has proven again and again that EMR causes DNA damage. Because all life forms contain the same DNA (there is only one sort) his work establishes the principle and explains in detail how the damage occurs. His fruit flies eventually became sterile. However, despite repeated experiments, he has not seen in his laboratory effects which we are seeing here, such as changes in sex ratios, miniaturization, or wing damage. These effects are the precursors to sterility—and I believe that if there were field work which proved that, such work would have a more immediate impact in some respects than Panagopoulos’ superb work, if only because people can relate more easily to a damaged butterfly than to a fruit fly.

 

There have been some excellent older field studies, such as one by two Greek scientists, Magras and Xenos (2003), who exposed a pair of field mice to actual cell tower radiation near an antenna park and found that each generation of baby mice born to them were deformed, and that the dam eventually became sterile. However, no one has repeated this experiment, or taken it further—what would have happened if some of the deformed baby mice had bred? A 2016 study on the island of Lesbos found that there were fewer pollinators (both in number and variety) the nearer one got to cell towers—this one got a lot of attention, but again, it has never been repeated—anywhere. Why not? In 2010, Spanish biologist Alfonso Balmori exposed two sets of tadpoles, one in a Faraday cage and one not, to ambient cell tower radiation on a rooftop. The ones in the Faraday cage lived and the others died. This experiment would be easy to repeat, but no one has done it—though last summer I found that mosquito larvae in an exposed, roofless rainwater cistern all died while larvae in a closed, stone-walled, covered cistern where EMR cannot penetrate lived and bred in profusion.

 

The fact that a principle has been established is not enough to persuade governments or nature NGOs that EMR is truly dangerous to all life—especially not when governments find this technology both very useful and very profitable, and certainly not when entire populations are addicted to their devices. And scientific work needs funding.

 

Would you, or anyone you know, singly or together, be willing to create something like the Gates Foundation in order to fund high-quality scientific research into the effects of EMR, and specifically on real-life, in vivo, research on nature—soil, insects, plants, birds, crops, etc.? I ask you because you already know that children and nature are not being protected from wireless technology. I don’t think it is actually possible to protect anyone or anything as long as this technology exists. But what will it take? Would mass crop failure achieve its elimination?

 

Would you please consider taking some action on this matter?

 

Best wishes,

Diana Kordas (diana.kordas@yandex.com)

 

 

Observations in Vegetable Fields With and Without Line-of-Sight Exposure to 5G within First Year of Introduction

 

Patricia A. ORMSBY

 

Abstract

This report presents a passive comparison of biodiversity and agricultural conditions between an area with direct exposure to beam-formed transmissions from fifth-generation mobile communications system (5G) antennas and an area without direct exposure, both temporally (2023 without transmissions versus 2024 with transmissions) and spatially (exposed expanse of fields versus fields sheltered by houses and satoyama groves in 2024). Though other factors existed that could impact biodiversity, clear differences could be identified in many species and crops in the comparisons made. These were particularly notable in voles, moderately large frogs, dragonflies and butterflies, with body sizes similar to one of the newly introduced 5G transmission wavelengths of 6.6 cm. Very small flying insects such as mosquitoes, flies and aphids also appeared to be impacted by the newly introduced 5G transmissions as did crop yield (pollination and other causes) and plant viability. Particularly affected crops included nightshades and cucurbits, especially in elevated locations, such as on trellises. There was a tendency to grow strongly, start bearing fruit and then wither before the fruit could mature. Some other crops such as legumes and sweet potatoes benefitted, seemingly from decreased numbers of rodent and insect pests. Since coherence of radiofrequency transmissions has been noted before as an important factor in the severity of effects from radiofrequency radiation, the satoyama environment, with its patchwork of groves, noted before for promoting biodiversity, may provide some protection by blocking direct exposure to beam-formed microwave transmissions in certain areas. The possibility should be investigated that this is a result of decreased coherence of the radiation that penetrates. Shielding of plants by dense foliage of other plants in the irradiated area appeared to improve crop yield and plant viability. The author recommends taking these observations into account when siting radiating infrastructure to preserve biodiversity and viability of small-scale mixed-crop gardening, which contributes important nutrition to the human diet.

 

Key words: coherence, dragonflies, fifth-generation mobile communications system (5G), frogs, radiofrequency radiation, satoyama, vegetable gardening, voles

 Full report available here (pdf). Comments welcome below.

Summary of Panagopoulos et al.’s 2021 Review Paper

Panagopoulos DJ, Karabarbounis A, Yakymenko I, and Chrousos GP (2021) Human-made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced-oscillation and voltage-gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review). Int J Oncol 59: 92; www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/59/5/92

In a 2021 paper, Dr. Dimitris J. Panagopoulos, a biophysicist from the National Centre for Scientific Research in Athens, Greece and his team provide for the first time a complete, plausible and precise biophysical/biochemical mechanism to explain the great number of experimental and epidemiological findings connecting human-made EMF exposure with DNA damage and related pathologies.

The contents of the paper are as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Biophysical action of polarized/coherent EMFs resulting in voltage‑gated ion channel (VGIC) dysfunction and disruption of cell electrochemical balance
3. Biochemical processes activated by irregular gating of VGICs, leading to DNA damage
4. Discussion

Sections 1. Introduction and 4. Discussion are not very technical and can be read fairly easily by non-specialists. Sections 2. and 3. are more technical and require some explanation.

What we want to do here is find answers to the following two questions (A. and B. below) in, as far as possible, non-technical language. (Apologies if it is TOO simple – we just want to ensure that as many people as possible will be able to understand this important work and the mechanism described in the paper. Please feel free to contact us if you think there are still parts that are hard to understand.)
A. Exactly how does the biophysical action of polarized/coherent EMFs result in voltage-gated ion channel (VGIC) dysfunction and disruption of cell electrochemical balance?
B. If we understand A., then how do the resulting biochemical processes lead on to health effects, both in humans and in animals?

Let’s take a look at A.

Firstly, we have to explain a little about cell membranes and VGICs

All cells are contained within membranes. Cells also have inner membranes, such as around the mitochondria and Golgi apparatus, parts of the cell that perform important functions. These membranes have channels in them that allow ions to pass in or out of the cell (or mitochondria, etc.). (Ions are atoms or molecules with a net electrical charge – more about this later). The flow of ions in and out of the cell is necessary for the cell to maintain an appropriate electrochemical balance inside itself to allow life processes to continue smoothly (homeostasis – the state of steady internal, physical, chemical, and social conditions maintained by living systems).

As we will see later, if this balance is upset, it will very likely result in health effects for the whole body (and not necessarily just humans). These channels are known as VGICs (voltage-gated ion channels) because they are “voltage gated”. What this means is that the channels are not always open, but open and close in response to a voltage (charge) difference between the two sides of the membrane. As there are channels that allow ions to pass into the cell and also channels that allow ions to pass out of the cell, the cell can maintain its inner electrochemical balance by opening/closing the ingoing or outgoing channels. As the ions possess an electrical charge, allowing ions out of the cell will reduce the charge inside the cell until the charge across the membrane falls below that needed to hold the gate open, and so it closes (and vice versa for ingoing channels). This is a very elegant mechanism for maintaining the electrochemical balance in the cell, and our health depends on it.

What happens when the body is irradiated by a radio frequency electromagnetic field (RF EMF)?

It is well known that visible and infrared natural light cannot break chemical bonds, even though they have higher frequencies and intensities than human-made EMFs. (Observations of DNA damage and related pathologies as a result of human-made EMF exposures are therefore typically rejected as implausible.) However, DNA damaging events do take place at any time in the cells of any living organism due to a variety of events, such as exposure to ultraviolet radiation, natural radioactivity, or chemicals that are toxic to living cells, but efficient DNA repair mechanisms have evolved to provide protection.

So, what is it about human-made EMFs that is causing health effects? The authors say, “There must be a unique property of the human-made EMFs that makes them capable of inducing adverse biological/health effects and ionization, in contrast to natural infrared and visible light. This unique property is that human-made EMFs/radiation are totally polarized and coherent, meaning that they possess net electric and magnetic fields, apart from radiation intensity, which exert forces on any electrically charged (or polar) particle/molecule such as mobile/dissolved ions and charged macromolecules [large molecules, such as proteins] in any biological system.”

Additionally, the authors of the study note, “Almost all human-made RF EMFs include extremely low frequency (ELF) components in the form of modulation, pulsing and random variability. Thus, in addition to polarization and coherence, the inclusion of ELFs is a common feature of almost all human-made EMFs.” (Emphases added) This is because the low-frequency electric fields are the part of the signal that carries the information to be transmitted.

Using known quantities, the authors show from first principles what happens to ions in or near the VGICs when they are irradiated by human-made EMFs. Very simply, when irradiated by human-made EMFs, ions oscillate. When they oscillate, they produce an electrical force that can cause the VGICs to open. Panagopoulos et al. call this an “ion forced-oscillation mechanism for irregular gating of voltage-gated ion channels on cell membranes by polarized/coherent EMFs.” This means that these EMFs are “bioactive”. Further, the authors found that “the bioactivity of a polarized/coherent EMF is proportional to its intensity, inversely proportional to its frequency and doubles for pulsed fields, meaning that the ELF/ULF [extremely low frequency/ultra low frequency] EMFs and even more the pulsing RF EMFs with ELF pulsations such as all wireless communications (WC) EMFs, are predicted to be the most bioactive [because lower frequencies are more bioactive and because bioactivity doubles for polarized/coherent EMFs]. This explains the recorded effects of purely ELF EMFs…and of modulated/pulsing/variable RF EMFs.” (Emphases added)

Similar numerical examples for magnetic fields “show that it is the electric field that seems to be the bioactive component of an EMF and not the magnetic field, in contrast to what has been considered before by health agencies. The magnetically induced electric field can also be bioactive in the case of ELF pulses of WC signals with short rise/fall times.”

The authors present a bioactivity diagram (Figure 1) showing the bioactive combinations of electric field intensity and frequency capable of inducing biological/health effects according to the ion forced-oscillation mechanism for dysfunction of voltage-gated ion channels in cells. Wi-fi and Bluetooth (10 Hz), power lines (50 Hz), 3G/4G, and DECT (digitally enhanced cordless communications) (100 Hz), and 2G (217 Hz) are all seen to be in the bioactive region of the diagram. (1 Hz [Hertz] is one cycle per second.)



As described above, RF EMFs cause ions near or inside VGICs to oscillate and impose an electrical force on the VGIC gates sufficient to open them, thus allowing ions to pass through the gates. This alters ionic concentrations inside the cell, disrupting the electrochemical balance of the cell, leading to DNA damage.

This answers question A. Now we need to consider question B: If we understand A., then how do the resulting biochemical processes lead on to (human) health effects?

We need to look first at some very basic chemistry. An ion (an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge) is an atom (or in a molecule, one atom in the molecule) that is either “missing” an electron or has an “extra” electron. When the number of protons in the atom’s nucleus is equal to the number of electrons around it, the atom is in a stable state. I.e. it will not react easily with other atoms or molecules. When there are more protons than electrons, the ion will be have a positive charge (i.e. it is a “cation” such as Calcium (Ca2+)), and when there are more electrons than protons, the ion will have a negative charge (i.e. it is an “anion” such as a chloride ion (Cl-)). The paper mentions sodium (Na, 11 protons), magnesium (Mg, 12 protons), chlorine (Cl, 17 protons), potassium (K, 19 protons) and calcium (Ca, 20 protons), among others.
The authors say that irregular gating of VGICs by oscillating polarized and coherent ELF EMFs … has been verified experimentally for calcium (Ca2+), potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) VGICs. This can alter intracellular ionic concentrations, disrupting the electrochemical balance (and homeostasis) of the cell, leading to DNA damage by oxidative stress (OS, an imbalance between production and accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS)), resulting in an overproduction of ROS.

The authors say, “Most ROS are free radicals. Free radicals are highly unstable molecules containing an unpaired electron [electrons usually “fly around” the nucleus in pairs], which is denoted by a dot (•), and have a tremendous tendency to chemically react with surrounding molecules and/or with each other in order to couple the unpaired electron and become stable. This is the reason why they have extremely short lifetimes. Most ROS react rapidly with surrounding biomolecules inducing chemical alterations. Overproduction of ROS in living cells due to EMF exposure has been reliably documented, with two important ROS found after EMF exposure being superoxide anion (O2•‑) and nitric oxide (NO•). These may result in hydroxyl radical (OH•) and peroxynitrite (ONOO‑) correspondingly, both of which ROS are very reactive with biological molecules and specifically DNA… ONOO‑ may interact directly with DNA, as, similarly with NO•, it can be diffused everywhere in the cell. Superoxide anion radical (O2•‑) is catalyzed by superoxide dismutase enzymes in the cytosol [the liquid part of the inside of cell] or the mitochondria and is converted to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2):

2O2•‑ + 2H+ → H2O2 + O2

H2O2 is a critical molecule in oxidative damage since it can move to any intracellular site (including the nucleus), where it can be converted to the most potent, OH•, which can damage any biological molecule, including DNA.

“DNA damage by ROS leading to mutations and disease has been well studied. Pall, in a review of EMF-bioeffects studies with calcium channel blockers, noted a connection between voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) and NO•/ONOO‑ overproduction. This verified earlier observations of EMF-induced effects on intracellular calcium concentrations, and the unique role of VGCCs.”

The above is sufficient to answer question B. It is also significant that this damage occurs even at levels of exposure significantly below those permitted by international standards. The remainder of the paper continues in a similar way, providing much more detail.

The burgeoning range of devices in our environment surrounds us with electromagnetic fields, which include ELF fields emitted by powerlines, wiring, electric meters, appliances and so on; as well as RF fields from cellphones Wi-Fi, tablets and other mobile communication devices and infrastructure.

Based on decades of research on health problems associated with exposure to these fields, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified both fields as Class 2B possible carcinogens. Low-frequency fields are known to be linked with childhood leukemia, and high-frequency, with brain tumors and skin cancer. Either can cause damage such as cancer, genetic damage, infertility and the cluster of symptoms including headaches and insomnia known as electromagnetic illness or radiowave sickness. The paper by Panagopoulos et al. described here documents exactly how EMFs cause health effect by one known mechanism, and there are arguably other mechanisms in play as well.

The aim of this summary has been to give non-technical readers an explanation of why EMFs result in health effects by summarizing the mechanism described in Panagopoulos et al.’s paper in easily understood language. The reader is encouraged to read the whole paper to see the rich detail, including hundreds of references, the authors have amassed to back up the validity of their mechanism.

(Summary authored by Life-Environmental Network members)

The authors referred to the article “New insights: the damaging field” on the EMR Australia website while writing this summary. The article can be seen at: emraustralia.com.au/blogs/news-1/new-insights-the-damaging-field

Japan Wakes up to Vaccine Vassalage
by Patricia Ormsby

Recently, reports have started appearing in the Japanese press on vaccine-related injuries and fatalities. Below I summarize the history, context and current situation regarding COVID vaccination in Japan, then discuss possible ramifications in light of international events.

A Love of Science
Japan was initially slow to start vaccinating its citizens against the corona virus, taking a more cautious approach than many countries. This, I believe, reflects a relatively high level of scientific knowledge among its citizens, due to the strong focus on science in their primary education. They are more likely to recognize that not everyone needs to be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity,” for example, and that the primary purpose of vaccination is directly to protect the individual receiving the vaccine from the disease. Japan has all along taken a conservative stance with vaccination overall, adopting a more modest vaccine schedule for its school children than America, and taking reports of adverse effects seriously (e.g., suspending HPV vaccination after reports of “diverse symptoms”).

Moderate Response, Cautious Approach
At no time during the pandemic nor in living memory has Japan “locked down” its citizens. In response to the spread of the corona virus, it relied on exhortations to “stay home,” combined with social pressure. This functions well in Japan, and this time was no exception. A mere exhortation can be overkill. For example, my Japanese relatives have given up all unessential travel, even within Japan for events and activities that they used to enjoy, and they might never feel okay about travelling again. That’s how powerful a force social pressure is in Japanese society.
Thus despite not locking down, Japan fared reasonably well in the pandemic. I think another important factor is that they were in relatively good health to start with. This is a result of Japan’s notorious sexual inequality. Recently, the situation may be changing due to international (i.e., Western) pressure, and women who want a career may have more opportunities now, but at least until recently women were really encouraged to stay home and take care of their family, and that’s what they devoted themselves to, with their scientific education informing their choices.
I am not an insider to Japan’s medical system, but I imagine they were balancing analyses of the data coming out from various sources regarding the “warp speed” vaccines against political necessity. After hesitating a few months, Japan began vaccinating its medical personnel in April 2021. I am told the government never actually mandated it, but I have also heard from the people affected that their employer essentially required it, and they faced enormous pressure to accept it. Of course, many medical personnel welcomed the vaccinations.
Japan initiated mass inoculation with the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines around the time of the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, later adding AstraZeneca’s1, and it looked to me that they were responding to international economic pressure in the form of a recommendation against travel to Japan, right before the Olympics, due to an “uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreak.” At that time, cases were declining after a spike that followed the initial vaccinations of medical personnel. I note, one could have speculated that an influx of foreigners for the games plus summer vacation with urbanites visiting elderly relatives would cause another spike similar in amplitude to those coinciding with holidays in the preceding year and a half.
When Japan finally launched its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19, they ran TV advertisements proclaiming it was everyone’s “duty” to get vaccinated. The magic word had its desired effect, and Japan quickly achieved a very high inoculation rate among its citizens. The outcome was the highest spike yet in cases in July, extending into August 2021. That, in turn, was dwarfed by subsequent spikes in 2022. The cover of last week’s Shukan Post magazine featured a headline asking “Is it true that the more times you are vaccinated, the more likely you are to catch the corona virus?”
Japan’s vaccination campaign gave precedence to the elderly and worked its way down to teenagers within a few months. Somewhat fewer people in each lower age group complied. As of March 2022, roughly 98% of Japanese aged 80 and older were fully vaccinated, and about 75% of teenagers. Japan also began offering vaccination to infants and small children in October 2022.
Overall, as of Jan. 24, 2023, two-thirds of Japan’s citizens had also received a third dose. All in all, five doses have been made available to anyone wanting them, including the bivalent vaccine, but there have been few willing recipients for the latter. All of my nearest relatives and a number of my acquaintances are making no secret that they will not take any more boosters.

Truth and Consequences
At the beginning of Japan’s mass vaccination campaign, one retired friend who surfed the Internet avidly warned me and my husband of reports of fatalities among the early recipients of the vaccines. He declared he would not be vaccinated.
Others spoke up similarly. The media’s response was to pillory a few older women (cue “hysterical”) who were said to have been fooled by Internet rumors into thinking the shots were a bioweapon or a means of chipping. After that many people with valid concerns about the novel technology and hasty testing kept quiet, or faced hostility if they did speak up. The experimental program went forward with little resistance.
I have only tiptoed into Japan’s lively Internet culture, but I hear the anonymous 4chan forum originated there, and it gives you an example of the phenomenon as it exists in the context of Japanese society. I do not have a smartphone and like most people my age in Japan, I have little time between work and family duties. But I hear it is a free-for-all with a lot of unofficial information being shared and the people involved taking it seriously. A lot of what I’ve heard from users was unverifiable, and a good percent turned out to be false. (When the SMO began, for example, it was flooded with tales of Russian atrocities.)
Given the need for uniformity within Japanese society, and also given their experience with tyranny (gradually slipping out of living memory now), such anonymous forums can be an important pressure release valve here and a means of sharing important information that cannot be revealed in decent society. I would actually be surprised if we saw Japan’s authorities crack down on it the way that has happened in the US. They probably realize that a crackdown is only likely to make people less likely to trust official sources than they do now. (Japan recognized the “Streisand Effect” long before that lovely lady had her crisis.) Trust in the mainstream media and other authorities in Japan is still high, as we can see from the level of compliance with the call to vaccinate, but there is deep cultural recognition of a distinction between “official truth” (lies, but from mostly benevolent intent) and the underlying “real reality” (which would only make unnecessary waves if owned up to).
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work in a Confucian society. In practice, though, the official truth on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s website is, “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided. Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent. Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around (sic) you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.” The reality as Prof. Thorsten J. Pattberg has described in one of his articles last year is that the University of Tokyo required him to receive the vaccination, and when he hesitated to sign the consent form, the doctor went and signed it for him. Likewise, for the recently resumed “Big Cold Ablution” ceremony at a major shrine near Tokyo, the official word from the shrine was “masks optional,” but having lived here 38 years, I knew good and well what that really meant.

Freedom of Information
Prior to the Internet, publishers in Japan had little to fear from lawsuits, and they put out a stream of books on all sorts of highly controversial topics. The authorities simply ignored that for the most part, because the audience for these books was small and controversies revealed would be quickly forgotten with the next scandal. These books would hit the stands for a month or two and then go out of publication and disappear entirely. (It was through one such book that my husband was able to find a doctor to prescribe him insulin and coach him on the use, which he desperately needed—but that story would be an entire book by itself.)
The mainstream media in Japan have long been known to obey authority, which in turn is under the control of Western powers. The people of Japan by and large still believe the Western powers to be benevolent and beneficial. Nonetheless, if they really want to know what is going on, they turn to the weeklies, because that is where controversial matters get aired. 2 They are like Western tabloids in a lot of ways, but make a stronger attempt to present verifiable facts.
The covers and the contents of most are a gallimaufry of serious articles on hot topics, soft porn, sports and manga. The cover of the copy I’m holding of the February 4th issue of Shukan Gendai has a couple of semi-naked cuties at the top left; a line-up of women’s golf stars; “SEX” in bold letters in a title about a TV drama set in medieval Japan; a warning about smartphones causing blindness; several titles of articles (one on frightful side effects of acetaminophen) and a sumo wrestler blocking the publication’s name; a big yellow band below that saying, “’Her Heart Melted!’ Gruesome Vaccine Deaths”; a mob of hot titles below that in primary colors, the biggest of which at the center in black is “Anyone Can be 30 Again—Genki Checklist; and down at the bottom right, Tokyo’s mayor scratching her head in wonder.
Among the articles contained therein is the second in a series taking a serious look at corona vaccine fatalities in Japan. This has been a suppressed but widely known secret, hints of which have begun appearing even in Japan’s mainstream media recently. That the February 9 Yomiuri Shimbun, a mainstream daily with no reputation for addressing controversies, has advertisements on page 6 for the Josei Seven women’s weekly and Shukan Shincho conservative weekly (described in Wikipedia here), both of which prominently feature articles this week on vaccine deaths. So the scandal has really broken through the wall of silence to the public in Japan now.

The Shukan Gendai Article
Titled, “Active Duty Doctors and Nurses are Warning, Gruesome Reality of ‘Vaccine Deaths’ Testimonial Scoop, Part 2,” the article starts with the updated number of deaths from vaccine side effects released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), which stands at 1,966, saying doctors and nurses beginning to speak out about a situation they have never experienced before.3 It goes on to describe jelly-like blood clots, myocardial cells disintegrating (toketa 溶けた dissolved), and interstitial pneumonia in the victims, with an illustration depicting a cytokine storm.
The article notes that though the official fatality count stands at 1,966, that is likely “the tip of the iceberg,” because even if someone dies shortly after their vaccination, their relatives might not even be aware of a possible connection and not ask for an investigation, in which case it will be labeled “sudden death” and forgotten. (Japan lacks a public reporting system for adverse vaccine reactions, relying on doctors to report such, and even where countries have such a system, like VAERS, there are notorious for undercounting.)
Aoyama Masayuki, a lawyer representing the bereaved noted a conspicuously high number of cases of people dying of heart issues within five days of inoculation, especially people in their 30s or younger who had no history of heart disease. What also stood out, Aoyama said, was women suffering hemorrhages in their brain and other organs right after inoculation, and also cases of rhabdomyolosis, in which muscle tissue breaks down, with the heart muscle suddenly melting in this case.
Doctors have also noted lots of people developing high fevers after inoculation, with fatal outcomes, possibly succumbing to cytokine storms. The article warns that anyone developing a fever in excess of 40 should take extra caution.
The article also mentions long-term effects, which can have fatal outcomes several months after inoculation. One case is described of a man experiencing tingling in the hands and feet, followed by progressively severe weakness. No cause could be identified at first, but after trips to several hospitals it was finally identified as Guillain-Barre syndrome. Nursing homes, where almost all of the patients are receiving boosters as soon as they are available, are reporting reduced immune function leading to reports of a notable rise in people succumbing to pneumonia. Also, the number of people aging rapidly or dying suddenly one or two months post-injection is increasing. Even those who do not die from it suffer from lethargy and feeling poorly for no clear reason, and it is likely that their mitochondria have been affected.
The article says that according to statistics, about one in 800 has complications from the vaccines. More and more doctors are noting severe side effects and speaking up about them. One is quoted as saying, “The rate of fatalities resulting from the corona vaccines is more than 100 times that from influenza vaccines. Despite that, the government intends to continue this vaccination program that it started ‘without everyone on board.’ Since it has become clear that there is this much risk, wouldn’t halting the program, reviewing its safety, and if necessary, making improvements before proceeding with vaccination be the scientific approach?”
For the life of me, I cannot locate the author’s name for this article. There may be good reasons for that.

The Ramifications
It is hard to say how this is going to play out over time. The scandal is too big to see the inside of a courtroom, and the disclaimer on the MHLW’s website tells us how that would work out if it were tried. The sacrificial victims of World War II come to mind, where citizens were urged to leap off a cliff to avoid capture and disgrace. But that was in the desperate moments of a war being lost, and that government was subsequently disbanded and discredited. As the current tragedy unfolds, depending on the scale and severity, what will become of Japan’s government? And will the buck stop there?
Right now, if you stop and talk to anyone on the street here, chances are they’ll have a tale of hardship to tell you regarding the COVID vaccination. The entire fire-fighting force in our town was out of service with high fevers after their turn, and replacements had to be called in temporarily. The long-term effects were the biggest concern because the clinical trials for these vaccines did not attempt to discover them, and in fact, Pfizer appeared to deliberately obfuscate the long-term effects by vaccinating the control group. My own bellwether, a socially active, physically strong farmer in her 80s, faded after hers and passed away several months later, and that told me all I really needed to know.
The Japanese public has not heard yet about Bill Gates’ cavalier antics and announcement last week that the experimental vaccines that so much of the world has been subjected to, many against their will, turned out, what a shame, to be no good after all. Nor have they seen what Sy Hersh wrote last week about the Nord Stream pipeline yet. They will. Regarding the latter, the TV ran a preemptive program claiming Gen. Gerasimov had all but said Russia was relying heavily on propaganda in its war effort, but I wonder how the public will receive that, given how past public pronouncements on the SMO and on Putin in particular have panned out.
The government has discontinued its ad campaign for the boosters. As it stands, simple noncompliance with the government’s COVID vaccination program is rampant and growing. As long as Japan does not resort to coercive measures, which it could at the behest of international bodies, the anger over this is more likely to be directed against the companies whose greed laid the foundations for the disaster and anyone in Japan’s government thought to have colluded with them.
Already, the Japanese are reexamining their international relations, particularly with the US, to whom they are now painfully aware of their vassalage. They are also being pressured to buy a large number of expensive Tomahawk cruise missiles which would give them “base strike” capability against enemy territory. This they do not want, as it would make them a target if hostilities were to erupt with their neighbors. (Even worse, the missiles were shown in the 2017 strike on Syria to be basically second rate.) The Pax Americana deal as the grateful Japanese perceive it was that Japan would forego aggression and develop its society peacefully, and having lived through the horrors of World War II, the Japanese were willing to pay a good price for that.
Prime Minister Kishida is widely seen as weak even to consider such a purchase with money Japan does not have. The vaccine fiasco on top of this will only increase the citizens’ reluctance to cooperate with bellicose globalist imperatives.


1Distribution terminated in September 2022 due to poor demand after reports from overseas of blood clotting
2For example, when I was granted qualifications as a Shinto priestess, it was the weeklies that introduced me to the public. Then, about a year later, the mass media took their turn.
3Throughout the article, it is implicit that “vaccine” refers to the COVID-19 vaccines, predominantly Moderna and Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines, but also a smaller percentage of AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccine before it was discontinued.