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    • 11 NOV 13

    Radio interview: How to deal with Smart Meter authorities legally in Victoria.

    Australian Radio Interview 3mdr 97.1fm – Thurs. 14 November 9.30 a.m.

    Independent Media Broadcast Journalist Judy-Ann Steed Interviews Darryl O’Brien from the Law Resources Group On her current affair program,
    Judy-Ann & Company on 3mdr 97.1fm,

    This Thursday14 November 9.30 a.m.
    live to air & streaming Thursdays 9 till 11 a.m.

    Darryl will discuss how to deal with Smart Meter authorities legally.

    Some contractors and Electricity companies are using bullying tactics, coercing and generally putting fear into people who don’t want smart meters by threatening to have their power cut disconnected if they refuse to have the meter installed. So far those submitting medical evidence about their health concerns or refusal have been met with a resounding rebuff from authorities, responsible for implementing smart meter roll out.

    Judy-Ann has also been told she ‘must’ have a smart meter and is one of the estimated more than 44,000 households who have voiced their opposition to having a smart meter installed, whether invasion of privacy, hacking, health and/ or Electromagnetic Frequency concerns.

    If you miss the interview, log on to 3mdr.com to programs, then to Judy-Ann & Company Thursday, where
    you can listen to get some legal pointers.

    Judy-Ann Steed
    3mdr 97.1fm
    Broadcast Journalist & Advocate
    Live & Streaming online
    Thursdays 9 till 11 a.m.

    Ph: 03 5968 1139
    Mobile: 0418 37 4776
    Email: jas@judyanns.com
    Web: judyanns.com

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    • 09 NOV 13

    Wireless Smart Meter Case Studies in Victoria, Australia

    Founded in 1965 as a non-profit medical association, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) is an international organization of physician and scientists interested in the complex relationship between the environment and health.

    AAEM physicians and physicians world-wide are treating patients who report adverse, debilitating health effects following the installation of smart meters,which emit electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) and radiofrequencies (RF).

    The peer reviewed, scientific literature demonstrates the correlation between EMF/RF exposure and neurological, cardiac, and pulmonary disease as well as reproductive disorders, immune dysfunction, cancer and other health conditions. The evidence is irrefutable. Despite this research, claims have been made that studies correlating smart meter emissions with adverse health effects do not exist.

    The AAEM has received a case series submitted by Dr. Federica Lamech, MBBS, Self-Reporting of Symptom Development from Exposure to Wireless Smart Meters’ Radiofrequency Fields in Victoria. AAEM supports this research. It is a well documented 92 case series that is scientifically valid. It clearly demonstrates adverse health effects in the human population from smart meter emissions.

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    • 07 NOV 13

    New French documentary: Mobile phones and harmfulness or “the manufacture of falsehood”

    Internet translation by Babylon with a tidyup

    From Iris Atzmon:

    With their documentary Mobile phones and harmfulness or “the manufacture of falsehood”, the journalist Nancy of Meritens and the filmmaker Jean Hêches show how the mobile phone industry creates doubt on the harmfulness of their product.

    Dangerous or not, the waves of mobile phones, antennas relay, wireless phones, Wi-Fi , 3G and 4G?

    When Breitenbach valley (Munster) residents refused an antenna near their homes, the mayor assured his countrymen that there was no problem in view of the formal research. The village doctor has documented however that “the waves can alter the functioning of cells, induce cancers,” which he explained to the villagers.

    Among them, Jean Hèches a documentary filmmaker, wondered “why so much controversy”? To find out why, he set to work with journalist Nancy Meritens. For two years they recorded scientific conferences , interviewed many experts in France , Germany, Switzerland , Sweden, decrypted and verified masses of information . A long investigative work that allows them to explain ” the defense strategy of products” already used by the tobacco industry , asbestos … They show how public health agencies and the WHO ( World Health Organization health ) are infiltrated by “scientific mercenaries” paid by the industry to demonstrate that there is no risk , “to fabricate lies ” to denigrate studies that interfere to produce ” studies designed to do find anything ” …
    In Sweden they have testimony from a couple of electrosensitives, a former engineer of the mobile industry and his wife suffering to the point of not being able to live in the city . “Sweden has fifteen years ahead of France in the implementation of these new technologies. Electrosmog is permanent , they said. This will probably be the next big public health scandal because everyone is exposed. It is important that each user takes precautions to be taught to young people to use these techniques with sense. ”

    See “waves , science and intrigue”, at national premiere at the opening of the film festival, Wednesday, November 6 to 19 h 30 , living cultural complex CAP – up Blue Devils in Saint -Amarin , debate with Nancy Meritens journalist .

    Full program SURFER Film Festival engaged on the website: http://dureveaureveil.blogspot.fr
    http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2013/11/05/telephone-mobile-et-nocivite-ou-la-fabrication-du-mensonge

    film festival
    http://dureveaureveil.blogspot.fr/

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    • 05 NOV 13

    Doctor Reports That Wireless Smart Meters Cause Illness

    From TheTruthAboutSmartGrids.org

    According to Dr. Amy Dean, “The claim has been made that smart meters are safe and that no health risks exist. However, [the] industry has not conducted independent studies or investigations to verify that claim.”

    Dr. Dean is an Ann Arbor, Michigan, physician and the most recent past president for the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM).

    “Recently, the AAEM received a 92-case series from outside the United States for review regarding smart meter health effects,” Dean said. “Based on this research, it appears that there is a direct correlation between smart meter installation and the development of health conditions such as insomnia, fatigue, headaches, cognitive disturbance and other symptoms. Many of these are the same symptoms correlated with EMF and RF exposure found in the scientific literature.”

    “It was clear to me when reviewing the scientific literature that these fields have a definite impact on the human body and can cause disease,” Dean said.

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    • 05 NOV 13

    Smart Phones and Kids

    From Dariusz Lesczcynski

    Parents, be smart: Do not give your child a smart phone

    HELSINKI, Finland, November 3, 2013 – Very young children, when they go to school, get cell phones. Nowadays it is often a smart phone.

    The main reason for parents to give cell phones to their children is safety. A cell phone is a safety device for a child.

    However, what kind of cell phone is suitable for small children and preadolescents, kids roughly five to 14 years of age?

    Children at school compare cell phones and are smart enough to figure out who has the better functioning, more expensive gadget. These comparisons lead to asking parents for better phones because of peer pressure. Unfortunately, parents often surrender to kids’ demands and provide them with better and more expensive smart phones that can do much more than just calling or texting. Parents want the best for their children at whatever the monetary cost.

    Small children and preadolescents are developing both physically and mentally. They need physical exercise in open air and they need mental stimulation appropriate to their age. Smart phones hamper both of these needs.

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    • 31 OCT 13

    UN Ruling on public participation on environmental issues has implications for the smart meter rollout in Europe

    Article 7 of the UN Aarhus Convention requires full and effective public participation on all environmental issues and demands that citizens are given the right to participate in the process and achieve justice on environmental matters. As of 2 April 2013, there were 46 Parties to the Convention. This takes in most of Western Europe and many of the former Eastern European former Soviet bloc nations.

    Considering that the UK and Ireland are two of the signatories to this convention, while smart meters are being rolled out in these countries with no consultation or input from the public, perhaps this could also be considered a violation of Article 7? Australia is not a signatory to the convention but at least it can be said that the current Victorian forced smart meter rollout is in contravention with a UN Convention on human rights.
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    • 31 OCT 13

    Did the Newly Appointed FCC Chair Subvert Research Showing Harm From Cell Phone Radiation?

    From Joel M. Moskowitz

    The Senate just confirmed Tom Wheeler’s nomination to be the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Hence, my press release from May 28th of this year about Mr. Wheeler has greater import now.

    The press release cites allegations of misbehavior made by a major wireless industry publication about Mr. Wheeler when he was president of the industry association, the CTIA, from 1992 to 2004. More specifically, it alleged that he suppressed and biased the research from the nation’s largest mobile phone health research project.

    The appointment of Mr. Wheeler at this time is particularly troubling because the FCC is under pressure from the industry to change the cell phone radiation limits in the U.S. to the international limits which provide less protection to cell phone users. However, the toxicologic and epidemiologic research now strongly suggests that the current radiation limits are inadequate and must be strengthened, not weakened.

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    • 30 OCT 13

    Does Swinburne University have a conflict of interest in smart meter sleep reserarch?

    It is perhaps inevitable that sooner or later some of that $5 million set aside for RF research in Australia will be used to investigate the alleged health problems now being widely reported by people after a smart meter was installed on their homes, especially when it is near a bedroom.

    I have previously questioned on this list the suitability of ACRBR to do this research. But what about the Bioelectromagnetics Research Group, part of Swinbourne University’s Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre? They certainly have the expertise and facilities to do such research.

    If such research was undertaken and an adverse effect on sleep quality is found and replicated, the implications would be profound and the very possibility of such findings would be seen as a definite threat to the multi-$$$ billion global development of the smart grid and all that it entails. Perhaps this is the real reason why this research has not yet been done.

    It states on the Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre: “Our research staff are actively involved in teaching and engaged with industry and the community”. Therefore, what would happen if the interests of the community and industry collide, which may be the case with smart meter sleep research?

    Does Swinbourne University have a vested interest in smart energy technology that could bias its research outcomes?

    Read on……..

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    • 29 OCT 13

    Sleep ‘cleans’ the brain of toxins: Implications for smart meter exposures

    The brain uses sleep to wash away the waste toxins built up during a hard day’s thinking, researchers have shown.

    The US team believe the “waste removal system” is one of the fundamental reasons for sleep.

    Their study, in the journal Science, showed brain cells shrink during sleep to open up the gaps between neurons and allow fluid to wash the brain clean.

    They also suggest that failing to clear away some toxic proteins may play a role in brain disorders.

    One big question for sleep researchers is why do animals sleep at all when it leaves them vulnerable to predators?

    It has been shown to have a big role in the fixing of memories in the brain and learning, but a team at the University of Rochester Medical Centre believe that “housework” may be one of the primary reasons for sleep.

    “The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states – awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up,” said researcher Dr Maiken Nedergaard.

    “You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can’t really do both at the same time.”

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    • 29 OCT 13

    Docs Urge Limits on Kids’ Texts, Tweets

    From Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.

    Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press, Oct 28, 2013

    Doctors 2 parents: Limit kids’ tweeting, texting & keep smartphones, laptops out of bedrooms. [goodluckwiththat].

    The recommendations are bound to prompt eye-rolling and LOLs from many teens but an influential pediatricians group says parents need to know that unrestricted media use can have serious consequences.

    It’s been linked with violence, cyberbullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep and a host of other problems. It’s not a major cause of these troubles, but “many parents are clueless” about the profound impact media exposure can have on their children, said Dr. Victor Strasburger, lead author of the new American Academy of Pediatrics policy

    “This is the 21st century and they need to get with it,” said Strasburger, a University of New Mexico adolescent medicine specialist.

    The policy is aimed at all kids, including those who use smartphones, computers and other Internet-connected devices. It expands the academy’s longstanding recommendations on banning televisions from children’s and teens’ bedrooms and limiting entertainment screen time to no more than two hours daily.

    Under the new policy, those two hours include using the Internet for entertainment, including Facebook, Twitter, TV and movies; online homework is an exception.

    The policy statement cites a 2010 report that found U.S. children aged 8 to 18 spend an average of more than seven hours daily using some kind of entertainment media. Many kids now watch TV online and many send text messages from their bedrooms after “lights out,” including sexually explicit images by cellphone or Internet, yet few parents set rules about media use, the policy says.

    “I guarantee you that if you have a 14-year-old boy and he has an Internet connection in his bedroom, he is looking at pornography,” Strasburger said.

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    • 28 OCT 13

    West Australian school bans phones at breaks

    Prestigious girls’ school Penrhos College has banned students from using mobile phones during their lunch and recess breaks because of concerns students are losing the art of conversation.

    Principal Meg Melville said, even though girls were sitting in groups during breaks, teachers had become aware students were texting their friends instead of talking to each other.

    “We decided we wanted to really encourage them during their break times at school to have conversations with one another, face-to-face,” she said.

    Mrs Melville said technology was embedded in the curriculum and mobile phones had become an important part of that.

    But it was just as important for students to develop conversation skills such as understanding the nuances conveyed by people’s reactions and body language.

    “You can gauge how a conversation is going by looking at the way people are responding – you can’t do that in texting,” she said.

    “It’s just about being present in the moment. They don’t have to be taking photos of themselves or pictures of what they’ve had for lunch at the canteen.”

    Mrs Melville said many adults also did not realise it was “incredibly rude” to look at their phone when with other people.

    She said students could still immerse themselves in social media outside school hours.

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    • 28 OCT 13

    Ulster County legislature hearings in smart meters

    Of the many Youtube videos circulating on smart meter problems this one struck a cord with me as it is in the county in New York state where i lived until the early 1970s. The same situation as what is now taking place in Victoria, Australia and with the same symptoms being reported. When are we going to see independent sleep research being conducted on what is looking like an emerging global public health nightmare?
    Don

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    As reported in Burgerwelle News

    From the video:

    Ulster County N.Y. Legislature asked to hold hearings on smart meters

    More than a dozen people speak in opposition to the new smart meters being installed by Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. and implore ULster County law makers to investigate rthis horrendous technology, which they say is making them and many other county residents ill.

    Symptoms include:

    Insomnia, spiking headaches, vertigo, muscle spasm, chest pain, asthma, anxiety, depression, neck pain, dizziness, irregular heartbeat.

    This video was recorded at the Ulster County Legislature monthly meeting in Kingston, New York on October 22 at the Ulster County office building in Kingston.

    See the video here

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    • 25 OCT 13

    Belgium Adopts New Regulations To Promote Cell Phone Radiation Safety

    The Belgian government has announced measures to restrict the use of mobile phones by young children.

    Minister Laurette Onkelinx has announced that sales of mobile phones to children under 7 years will be banned in shops and also on the internet.

    Adverts for mobile phones during children’s programmes on TV radio and the internet will also be banned.

    Research shows than in Belgium every two out of three children under 10 years have a mobile phone. At 12 years they nearly all have one.

    The minister has highlighted the radiation risk from cell phones which is higher for young children than adults.

    Read the article, with comments here

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    • 23 OCT 13

    A Thesis: Wireless phone use by young New Zealanders: Health and policy implications

    The Doctoral thesis of Dr. Mary Redmayne, Wireless phone use by young New Zealanders: Health and policy implications is now available online at:
    http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2961

    A version of Chapter 9 has been published with a different type of analysis used that is easier to understand (ordinal logistic regression rather than conditional logistic regression which is in the thesis). It’s available here:

    Environmental Health.2013, 12:90. DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-90
    http://www.ehjournal.net/content/12/1/90

    Abstract:

    Over the last decade the use of cellphones has increased dramatically among the young adolescent population. In New Zealand, most children of this age also use a cordless phone. With the rapid proliferation in children‘s use of these devices, there has been increasing concern about whether children are more vulnerable than adults to possible adverse outcomes if such effects do result from wireless phone radiofrequency exposure. This is the first study of young New Zealanders‘ wireless phone habits, focusing particularly on the extent of use, and the relationship of that use with well-being. Two studies were undertaken: a census of schools with Year 7 and 8 classes in the Wellington Region of New Zealand to ascertain what rules were in place regarding cellphones at school, and a cross-sectional survey of students from the same region, using a representative sample of 373 students aged 10.3-13.7years. Both studies were conducted by the author independently from any research group. The primary research appears in Part II. Chapter 5 presents wireless phone user-habits. The large majority of young adolescents were already using cellphones and cordless phones regularly in 2009, although use was generally light or moderate. A small group (5%) was using both phone types extensively (≥ 30 minutes cordless daily plus ≥ 10 cellphone calls weekly); almost a quarter used a cordless phone ≥ 30 minutes daily, and 6% reported, on average, 1¼ hours or more use daily.
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    • 22 OCT 13

    Victoria’s smart meter risk/benefit decision

    For the past few weeks I have been in communication with a Melbourne resident who is having severe health impacts ever since a smart meter was installed next to her bedroom. Her case is mentioned in the blog message: http://www.emfacts.com/2013/10/smart-meter-denials-and-the-good-german-syndrome-2/

    She recently wrote to Nicholas Kotsiras, the Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, explaining her unfortunate experience with the smart meter.She received a reply from Tim Rose, the Energy and Resources Advisor for the Minister.

    In that letter, Mr Rose states that the current Victorian Coalition Government has based its decision to continue the rollout of smart meters (started by the previous government) on advice from the Auditor-General, who stated in his report on smart meters that” “If the project’s emerging risks delay the installation of smart meters, it is likely that consumers will face further cost increases and gain fewer benefits.”

    Thank God I do not live in Victoria……

    Don

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    • 22 OCT 13

    Cordless phones are more of a health risk to young people than mobiles, according to new university research.

    Cordless phones are more of a health risk to young people than mobiles,
    according to new university research.

    In a study of almost 400 Wellington intermediate pupils, adjunct Victoria
    University researcher Mary Redmayne found pre-teens were more likely to
    suffer headaches if they made long or frequent calls on cordless phones or
    cellphones.

    The research, to be published in theEnvironmental Health journal this week,
    also found high users of cordless phones more commonly experienced
    tinnitus, or ringing in their ears.

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    • 21 OCT 13

    Are the RF standards/guidelines (IEEE C95.1 and ICNIRP) subservient to U.S. Airforce weapons development

    The US Air Force is one of the largest developers and users of radio frequency (RF) and high power microwave (HPM) emitting devices in the world and consequently, has been at the forefront of research on the biological effects of RF/HPM radiation for more than 30 years. The mission of the 711 HPW/RHDR is to protect Air Force personnel from RF/HPM radiation hazards, while minimizing negative operational impact. This requires an extensive research program in the dosimetry and bioeffects of RF/HPM radiation. Research results are transitioned and transferred to national and international health and safety standards, which are used by the Air Force Surgeon General for occupational health and environmental safety. Additionally, data are used to support the rapid development and deployment of directed energy (DE) technologies. The advent of HPM and ultra-wide band directed energy weapons make the 711HPW/RHDR’s products and services ever more essential to national security. Our goal is to provide the US Air Force with the world’s best RF/HPM bioeffects research and science-based exposure standards, allowing maximum safe exploitation of directed energy for the national defense. With joint-service cooperation, we bring broad expertise, advocacy, and involvement in RF/HPM technology development.
    The goal of this effort includes conducting bioeffects research to identify the benefits, risks, and capabilities for a wide range of military RF/HPM systems.
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    • 21 OCT 13

    Recommended viewing ‘Casualty catastrophe’: Cell phones and child brains

    For those of you who have not yet seen the Truthseeker video ‘Casualty catastrophe’: Cell phones and child brains, mentioned previously, please do, keeping in mind that the head of Australia’s new mobile phone research effort has a different viewpoint on the extent of risk when he stated in September of this year that:

    “There’s a pretty strong consensus that there’s not a problem in adults, but people have only started doing research on children in the last five years and very little has come out of it,” he said. “We’ve got no reason to believe that there’ll be a greater effect in children than in adults. “But we just don’t understand well enough the maturational phases that children go through, so it’s possible there’s greater sensitivity.”

    These are strong words of assurance that its not too big a problem to worry about, perfectly okay to use a mobile phone if you are an adult and no reason to worry about the kids either.

    Worlds apart…….

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    • 21 OCT 13

    Wellness In The Digital Age – an interest of yours? Brains worth saving?

    A reminder to register to attend the event, or for the online broadcast.

    Wellness In The Digital Age – an interest of yours? Brains worth saving?

    This presentation is sponsored by the non-profit advisory board, Doctors For Safer Schools.
    All donations go to supporting our expenses and educational activities.

    Here is a link to view this event – live online – Wed Oct 23, 4:45 pm – 6:45 pm Pacific Time,
    and/or view later (Suggested donation $15. via Paypal)

    www.safertechsolutions.org

    We have a Ustream Channel – Wellness In The Digital Age – you will see this event listed under that title.

    Please, if possible, watch this live stream with a wired Internet connection. We will be WiFi-free in the church hall.

    If you only have a WiFi connection – please sit far away from the router, and from all sending/receiving mobile devices.
    Especially the children.

    Tickets to attend in person (doors open at 4 pm) are still available – at the door, or at the website link above.

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    • 20 OCT 13

    Dariusz Leszczynski’s interview on the The Truthseeker’ show

    From Dariusz Leszczynski

    ‘The Truthseeker’ show on cell phones and health, entitled ‘‘Casualty catastrophe’: cell phones and child brains’ is worth watching. It asks many questions and shows that we have not many answers…

    Excerpt:

    Dariusz Leszczynski – The general finding from my research group was that living cells respond to mobile phone radiation by activation of stress response. It is way of cells protecting themselves from the damage. This observation means that living cells recognize mobile phone radiation as potentially damaging agent and trigger protective counter response. Activation of stress response was then a “hot potato” issue and few studies were done. Some did not find this effect. But there is some half-a-dozen studies showing this effect. To me it is clear that mobile phone radiation induces biological responses in cells. Whether it causes, down stream, pathological changes to normal physiology it remains to be seen. This topic was not pursued very much due to lack of funding. Yes, the FCC should revise the exposure safety standards and there is a particular reason for it…

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