Is 5G dangerous?

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So there has been this guy showing up to Sioux Falls city council meeting protesting the 5G network proposed in Sioux Falls because as he claims the microwaves coming from the units would be like sticking your head in a microwave.

So I decided to go down that rabbit hole and research 5G online Tuesday night. Once I sorted through all the conspiracy sites I did find several ‘legitimate’ stories about the equipment. The LA Times had an article from 2016 which pretty much determined that high levels of exposure to adult male rats caused tumors, but it seems the jury is still out because no one knows the long term affects on humans.

One thing that none of the stories deny is that the equipment is powerful and a lot lower to the ground than normal cell phone tower antennas. Could this affect one’s health? The possibility is certainly there.

The city is moving fast and furious on new regulations for the new 5G antennas (I guess public meetings on this were not considered or noticed very well);

More than 20 locations on public land across Sioux Falls are being targeted by wireless providers as future 5G cell tower sites, according to City Hall.

That has city officials working to establish a licensing process that would allow Verizon Wireless and other telecommunication companies to begin installing fifth generation micro-towers on city light poles, water towers and buildings as early as next year.

“Once the master license agreement is approved by the City Council via ordinance, this would allow staff to administratively approve those applications,” Parks Director Don Kearney said while addressing the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Board, which got a peak at the proposal Tuesday due to the expectation that light poles in parks will be candidates to house 5G towers.

Under the proposed licensing system, unveiled this week by the Sioux Falls Power and Light Division, companies seeking to equip cell towers onto light poles or other publicly owned facilities would be required to pay a $500 application fee. At that time, staff would have 60 days to determine whether the targeted site is a suitable location. If approved, the applicant would pay an additional $25 for a permit, and then a yearly renewal fee of $175.

“We can either approve the application, deny the application or approve the application with conditions,” Kearney said.

After doing my own research, I am certainly NOT opposed to putting ‘some’ antennas up in the city, but I would be extremely cautious about putting them very close to residential or dense office building areas. I also think that licensing fees should be a lot higher, especially to start with, to see how they work and if there is any long term health affects.

But it seems like most everything in Sioux Falls and South Dakota, big business gets what they want while the peasants have to scrape and scratch to stop it.

 

Posted in: 5G, Sioux Falls

Best of Dacola

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Money-Santo

Match Pointe is the Pergolas of the Sanford Sports Complex

It’s not rape when it is done in the Middle East

How did this turnout?

Bottom of the pile

Balloon Boy and arterial streets

Once a tool, always tool.

The EC that never happened

Home values and liquor stores

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today

Comic book censorship

A bad combination

Thune Schwag

Howard Wood isn’t going anywhere

It only took six years but it got done

Roger’s Dirty Laundry

Tea Sexy

Man Capris

 

Posted in: Cartoon, South DaCola Fest

Are bloggers fanatics? Sure, but without them we would have to depend on for-profit newspapers to give us ‘reliable’ news

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2edbae1

Who has time for those rotten bloggers?

I had to chuckle while reading Yvonne Hawkins ‘column’ in the Gargoyle Leader yesterday, she couldn’t resist to take a cheap shot at bloggers (even though the story had to do with the AL’s poor editing skills). Kinda reminded me of Lalley’s column last week where he couldn’t resist to take a potshot at Staggers about the Event Center, even though, Kermit has been the least vocal person about the topic. I think he has pretty much only said this, “Don’t raise taxes to build it.”

Had Steward showed up solely in the world of the blogosphere, he would’ve been just another fanatic fighting for attention in the din of loud rhetoric.

Am I a fanatic, Hell yeah!

–noun

1. a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.

But without fanatic bloggers like myself, who would keep the MSM in check? Let’s take the Franken Amendment about rape protections for Federal contractors, Thune voted against it. There wasn’t one single story in the South Dakota MSM media besides a short mention in the Rapid City Journal and a couple of letters to the editor in the Gargoyle Leader (with a letter of defense from one of Thune’s unidentified staffers). The National blogosphere was on fire about the vote. Thune even fired back, blaming bloggers for his vote. (which, what he is really saying is, Damn, I’m busted). This is why bloggers are important. Like I said to mayoral candidate Mike Huether, “I make observations and expect my readers to do further digging.” Do I say crazy shit? Sure. But I do it in hopes you will take the time to look into yourself. I get proven wrong on this site everyday, I’m okay with that, it’s called interactive journalism.

I also find it ironic that Yvonne would show her disdain for bloggers. I have provided the AL with several leads on important stories, a few that are still cooking right now. That’s right Yvonne, me the ‘fanatic’ supplying you content. I could go into detail, but I would rather not, the din of self-flattery might be too loud.

Posted in: Media

We should be sooooo proud as South Dakotans, it seems Ironic Johnny has made another prominent list

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john_thune

Republicans for Rape

But he doesn’t seem to be to happy about it;

“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership. “I think hopefully he’ll settle down and do kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.”

What about your fucking TEABAGGER inspired legislation, Johnny Boy?

Posted in: rape, Thune

Ironic Johnny Shocked that people (women) are mad at him for protecting rapists (H/T – Helga)

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tivs

And yet our local MSM has yet to cover this story . . .

Last month, 30 Republican senators voted against Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment that would punish defense contractors “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” His amendment was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by her co-workerswhile working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad in 2005, and then had to fight her employer for justice.

The GOP senators who sided with defense contractors at the expense of women — such as John Thune (SD) — have been facing an intense backlash. David Vitter (LA) refused to give a rape victim a straight answer when she confronted him about his vote, claiming that he is “absolutely supportive of any [rape] case like that being prosecuted criminally to the full extent of the law.”

Politico reports that Republicans are now scratching their heads at why the public is so incensed about their “no” votes:

Privately, GOP sources acknowledge that they failed to anticipate the political consequences of a “no” vote on the amendment. And several aides said that Republicans are engaged in an internal blame game about why they agreed to a roll-call vote on the measure, rather than a simple voice vote that would have allowed the opposing senators to duck criticism.

As BarbinMD writes, “Seriously? They voted against an amendment that was prompted by the brutal gang-rape of a young woman by her co-workers while she was working for a company under contract for the United States government, after which she was locked in a shipping container without food or water, threatened if she left to seek medical treatment, and was then prevented from bringing criminal charges against her assailants. And they failed to anticipate the political consequences?”

Thune is also claiming that Franken doesn’t really care about Jones and other rape victims whose employers have blocked them from seeking justice; he and other Democrats just wanted to “create a vote which they could use to attack Republicans.”

So basically, the only lesson they learned is that next time, they have to hide their votes when they decide to screw over women’s rights. That way, they can support their allies in the contracting business and the public will never find out.

Posted in: Thune