Trump 2.0 Partners with Big Wireless to Force 5G on Local Governments

Some of you might not be aware, but the Trump administration, starting with the first Trump administration and continuing with the second one, has really been a great friend. Not to the American people, not to the free hearts and minds who are concerned about their children being exposed to an abundance of EMFs because of the rapid advancement of 5G and 6G, but a friend to the telecom industry, what I call big wireless. And, and right now there is a current effort, there's actually two efforts that are ongoing under the Trump administration to roll out even more small cells. Small cells are basically, in some cases they're like the size of a backpack. Sometimes they're a little bigger. These are small, small equipment that can be attached to light poles into existing telephone equipment. And that allows the 5G network to expand. Right? Because as I've said for years, for those who been following my reporting since 2018, when I first started to expose this on a local level at Houston, Texas, and eventually in 2020 when I released my documentary the 5G Trojan Horse, in order for the 5G network to work, they, the FCC themselves has said there needs to be millions of new towers or small cells attached to existing towers and existing equipment. So in order for this 5G network that's going to allegedly bring us driverless cars and robot assistance and all this sort of things that we were told are the best things in sliced bread, they have to have towers literally every couple hundred feet. And I've tried to fight this on the local level. It's very difficult. Nobody wants to listen. The, the telecom industry, big wireless pretty much already has the control that they're fighting for, which is kind of why this story is crazy to me. I'm showing you guys on screen right now a Children's Health Defense article from last week. I will be writing an update this week on the LastAmerican. Vagabond.com Stay tuned for that. But this one says unprecedented power grab. FCC and Congress raced to strip local control over cell towers. The fcc, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed the rule that would strip away local control and force residents to accept more cell towers in their neighborhoods. Meanwhile, US lawmakers are advancing a 100 page bill that would accomplish the same goal. And that's what I'm saying. It's like they kind of already have these powers. This was already established from the very beginning of back. I think I, I can't remember the facts off the top of my head. You'll have to go back and watch my documentary. But since like the, the 1990s, I think it was the 1996 Telecommunications act that really already kind of had this where the FCC had a wide birth of power in order to come in and say, we're going to install a cell tower in your neighborhood or next to your church or your school. And the people don't have a lot of ability to say no. I mean, already they, according to the FCCC and the US government, if you wanted to resist the tower in your neighborhood, you could do that. But you don't have the right, according to them, to argue it under health grounds. You can't basically say, look, I'm concerned that this is going to cause health problems for my children and for me. They'll basically just ignore you and laugh you out of the room. Because that to them, that's not a real argument. We all know EMFs are safe. Cell phones are safe, 5G safe. Right? There's no reason to even question that. Only crazy people do that. But you could say, you could argue that it's a eyesore, that you don't like its location because it's going to cause property values to go down. There's other reasons. You can try to argue against the cell towers, but for decades it's been essentially already ruled out that you can try to argue health concerns. And that's a big problem at the beginning. But I guess that's not enough. The FCC wants even more power, so they have this power grab that's ongoing here. I will put this article in the show Notes, but I want to point to some information over here from Environmental Health Sciences, ehsciences.org the bill that was just discussed, it's HR2289. And just this last week, it was already essentially voted out of committee. And now of course, it has to go through the Congress, the, the Senate and the House before it will potentially become law. It is not currently a law, so just to be clear, but it is a congressional bill that has been introduced. HR2289, a congressional bill that strips local power by removing environmental and historical review and Greenlight's massive cell tower expansion. A new bill introduced in the Congress would dramatically reduce the ability of cities and counties to properly oversee wireless telecommunications while granting sweeping advantages to the industry. The bill rewrites federal law to override and basically steamroll local authority by limiting fees, tightening shot clocks and removing reviews under the Environmental Policy act and the National Historic Preservation act for modifying cell towers and wireless sites. And I will put this in the show notes because this is important information and EH Sciences themselves was, was kind Enough to put together this fact sheet. So this gives you pretty much everything you need to know. It's two pages long here. One is about the HR2289 and then how you can kind of resist it or how some people are already resisting it or trying to. At least this gives you the details here. So we'll just go over this. Here's what the bill would do if it was passed. It would sweep. It would involve sweeping preemption of local control. The bill would force local governments to approve most wireless and telecom applications and allow the FCC to invalidate local rules. It authorizes antennas on nearly any structure, including homes, schools and utility poles. Two, it would roll back environmental, historic and tribal reviews. It would exempt many facilities from review under the National Environmental Policy act and the National Historic Preservation Act. It would give extremely short deadlines and basically make local review. Because in the current situation, as I said, local governments don't really have a lot of power, but they do have to still give it a review. I would argue that it's already kind of a rubber stamp, but this bill would make it even more so. The bill would expose and impose extremely short deadlines, what are called shot clocks for, for processing cell tower and wireless facility applications and automatically approves quote deems granted applications if a city or county misses them. So they basically say, look, we're going to give you a really short deadline. You don't have a lot of leeway about how you could argue against this anyways. But if you don't comply within that deadline, we're going to do it anyways. That means building, electrical encroachment, environmental and zoning reviews, all must be completed within this same short window. Local governments cannot pause or slow applications even during high volume periods. So they, let's say that some telecom company, let's say ATT just as an example, and there's of course many others. But just to give an example that AT T, they wanted to do a new application for a dozen towers in Houston, Texas, where I'm from. And they, they, they just put in 12 dozen applications at once. And of course the government, local government's already dealing with all kinds of other stuff they would have under this new bill, these really small windows already, small windows to essentially just to say yes, because like I said, they don't really have a lot of room to argue no in the first place. But even under current circumstances, they still have some grounds to try to fight and resist. But if this pass, they can put in a dozen applications or more. And even if It's a high volume period. If you don't comply within the certain shot clock period, the review period, it's going to get approved anyways. I mean, I don't understand how, how anybody could think that's fair or democracy or constitutional republic or anything like that. Number four, limits on local fees. Cities and counties may charge only direct processing costs, not fair market rates or fees for long term oversight or public impact. So essentially when a telecom wants to put a tower in your area, they have to pay the local government to basically to lease the space. Let's say, you know, they're like, okay, we'll give you this, this tower in this part of town. It's going to cost X amount. And in the past, governments would be able to kind of negotiate and argue for what they would are, you know, they would claim our fair rates. But this bill would limit that even further. Number five, expanded preemption on RF radiation health. The bill bars localities from considering the environmental or health impacts of cell tower radio frequency radiation as the facility meets the FCC's exposure limits. Now, a couple of things on that, as I've said a few times here now, I think that's already done. I, I could be wrong and I would love to hear from the folks over at Environmental Health Sciences or anybody else out there to correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's already a very tiny window of ability to argue anything related to health. Because I've fought towers in Houston, I've worked with locals in Houston who are trying to resist towers and the local tower commission that's part of the Houston government, they won't even hear any arguments related to health.