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    • 19 OCT 13

    Asian ‘smart meter’ corporations charged with tax evasion

    From The Australian, October 3, 2013

    Note in the following article that The Hong Kong–based Cheung Kong group owns 51% of Citipower and Powercor in Victoria, corporations aggressively rolling out smart meters in the state. If billionaire owner LI Ka-shing and his group of companies go to the extent of actively evading their tax liabilities to Australia can they be trusted to be in control of Australia’s energy assets and do they really give a damn about their smart meter rollout harming the health of Victorians. Of course not, its all about maximizing foreign control over Australia’s energy assets and sucking as much profits out of our country as they can. So much for the claim that privatization promotes competition and lower prices.

    SNIP

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    • 18 OCT 13

    Is the cell phone industry making itself a sitting duck?

    From the blog of Dariusz Leszczynski, Between a Rock and A Hard Place:

    HELSINKI, Finland, October 17, 2013 – The French cell phone safety watchdog – The National Agency for Health, Food and Environmental Safety (ANSES) – published its new report on cell phones and health on October 15th, 2013.

    The report concludes that the panel of scientists, led by Elisabeth Cardis, was unable to find causality between the observed biological effects induced by exposures to cell phone radiation and possible health effects in humans (as stated on the page 45 of the report: “For personal reasons, Dr Cardis was not able to participate in the deliberations of the working group in 2013, in the evaluation of the data and the preparation of the report and is therefore not in a position to endorse its conclusions”).

    However, considering the omnipresence and rapid development and deployment of new wireless technologies, ANSES’ report recommends limiting exposures for children and for avid users, defined as persons talking on the phone for at least 40 min/day.

    SNIP

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    • 17 OCT 13

    Update on the Victorian smart meter removal controversy

    Following is an update to my previous posting, “Direct Action in Victoria: Smart meter removed by homeowner and returned to Powercor”. It was sent in by subscriber Alan Manson to post here.

    Some of you may not be aware of this news, but a young father named Jason removed his Smart Meter and replaced it with an Analogue Meter and then returned his Smart Meter to Powercor last Monday. He did this because the Smart Meter’s radiation was affecting the health of his young daughter. You can view the three videos of Jason’s Smart Meter removal and of its replacement here…..I am simply offering this information to inform those of you who have expressed a desire to know the legal position of anyone who removes their Smart Meter and replaces it with an Analogue Meter.

    Alan Manson

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    • 16 OCT 13

    French Health Agency Recommends Children and Vulnerable Groups Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure

    From Joel Moskowitz

    Tuesday, October 15, 2013
    French Health Agency Recommends Children and Vulnerable Groups Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure

    Prolog press release here

    In a major public announcement today, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health warned the public to reduce their exposure to cell phone radiation.

    The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health, ANSES, announced today the results of a two-year review by an expert Working Group of the scientific research on the risks related to exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation. (1)

    “This update has not brought to light any proven health effect and does not result in any proposed new maximum exposure limits for the population. However, limited levels of evidence do point to different biological effects in humans or animals. In addition, some publications suggest a possible increased risk of brain tumour, over the long term, for heavy users of mobile phones. Given this information, and against a background of rapid development of technologies and practices, ANSES recommends limiting the population’s exposure to radiofrequencies – in particular from mobile phones – especially for children and intensive users, and controlling the overall exposure that results from relay antennas.”

    “The findings of this expert appraisal are therefore consistent with the classification of radiofrequencies proposed by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as “possibly carcinogenic” for heavy users of mobile phones.In addition, the expert appraisal nevertheless shows, with limited levels of evidence, different biological effects in humans or animals, some of which had already been reported in 2009: these can affect sleep, male fertility or cognitive performance.” (pg. 2)

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    • 14 OCT 13

    Direct Action in Victoria: Smart meter removed by homeowner and returned to Powercor.

    This is the second case that I know of where a smart meter was removed by a home owner in Victoria. Is this the start of a direct action trend by frustrated Victorians? And how will Powercor respond?

    Email forwarded on by Richard L.:

    Some of you may or may not be aware that a young father was becoming very concerned about the way his daughter’s health was being affected by the Smart Meter fitted to her bedroom wall. He requested that Powercor remove the meter; however his pleas brought no satisfaction, so he warned them that if they did not come and remove the meter, he would remove it himself.

    Jason removed the meter and he replaced it with an analogue meter. Today, Jason took the Smart Meter back to Powercor with 15 others (including me) supporting him.

    SNIP

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    • 14 OCT 13

    Smart Meter and Personal Wireless Services Facilities Notice of Liability and Inaction

    From Karen Nold, Means For Change

    Hello EMF Awareness Groups,

    The below link will lead you to the Smart Meter and Personal Wireless Services Facilities Notice of Liability and Inaction recently delivered to 378 Washington State Government Officials and Professional Leaders regarding the need for public health agencies in Washington State to recognize the harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation; and for legislators to initiate an immediate safety review of RFR and a moratorium on installations of smart meters and Personal Wireless Services Facilities, until determined safe.

    This is being sent to you in case it helps to further any efforts you are currently working on and or it brings to your attention an area of great concern which needs immediate action. Please forward this to all groups, family and friends in Washington State so they can complete and mail the Notice of Support for Legislative Action to their District Legislator.

    http://www.meansforchange.com/page/Correspondence-with-Washington-State-Legislators-and-Officials

    In Health, Karen Nold, Means For Change

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    • 08 OCT 13

    Project Censored: Wireless Technology a Looming Health Crisis

    From Katie Hickox posted on the cheemf list:

    It’s official: “Wireless Technology a Looming Health Crisis” is the #14 story in the new 2013 edition of the book, ‘Project Censored’, which covers the top 25 New Stories of the year that are the most important but least reported by corporate media.

    http://www.projectcensored.org/14-wireless-technology-looming-health-crisis/

    14. Wireless Technology a Looming Health Crisis
    As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes schools and workplaces government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary…

    Continue Reading…

    For more information about this book, and why it’s been produced every year since 1976 by students at Sonoma State University, go here:

    http://www.projectcensored.org/about-us

    fyi

    Katie Hickox

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    • 08 OCT 13

    Power Takeover: Are smart meters part of the largest corporate scam in history?

    From Josh del Sol, Director & Producer, Take Back Your Power
    www.takebackyourpower.net

    Excerpt:

    Barack Obama: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (scene from Take Back Your Power)On January 17, 2008, President Barack Obama famously said, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”[1] It’s now clear that the so-called “smart” utility meter is the core culprit technology in the scheme to which Obama was referring. But this is just the tip of the rather alarming iceberg unveiled in our new feature film Take Back Your Power (www.takebackyourpower.net).

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    • 29 SEP 13

    Consensus: The Australian way?

    Excerpt from the blog Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Dariusz Leszczynski:

    Opinions, recently expressed by Rodney Croft, the newly elected member of the Main Commission of ICNIRP International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) and Director of ACEBR (Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research), are worrisome. Especially in the context of his influential position in Australian RF (radio frequency radiation) research that got in 2012 and 2013 ca. $7,500,000 to do research on RF and human health.
    SNIP

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    • 29 SEP 13

    VooDoo science and Australia: We could do far better…..

    Just in case readers have missed the comments to the last message “More pseudo “independent” research in Australia?” here is the comment from Dariusz Lesczcynski. See his qualifications here and his blog here.

    It seems that Australia, because of recent research funding for studies on RF and health, is becoming “Mecca” for RF research. And it has a “prophet” – Rodney – speaking that: “there’s a pretty strong consensus that there’s not a problem in adults”…”We’ve got no reason to believe that there’ll be a greater effect in children than in adults.” It is absolutely embarassing that such statements can be made by a scientist who is considered as expert in the field. There is absolutely no consensus among the scientists. Exception might be a pre-selected private club called ICNIRP, of which Rodney has recently become a member. Nothing else but, unfortunately, Voodoo Science comments from Rodney…
    Dariusz Lesczcynski

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    • 28 SEP 13

    More pseudo “independent” research in Australia? Read the dismissive claims.

    Now we have Rodney Croft leading a research effort to determine the effects of mobile phone radiation on the brains of sleeping children. Of course this is important and much needed research but Croft is still running true to form with dismissive and incorrect statements sure to please the mobile phone industry and Telstra who will have a hidden hand in the research.

    Croft claims that “there’s a pretty strong consensus that there’s not a problem in adults”…”We’ve got no reason to believe that there’ll be a greater effect in children than in adults.”

    REALLY?

    SNIP

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    • 26 SEP 13

    Hardells new results on malignant brain tumours with long term latencies of + 25 years NOW PUBLISHED

    Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumours diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use
    Authors: Lennart Hardell, Michael Carlberg, Fredrik Söderqvist, Kjell Hansson Mild
    Published online on: Tuesday, September 24, 2013

    Previous studies have shown a consistent association between long-term use of mobile and cordless phones and glioma and acoustic neuroma, but not for meningioma. When used these phones emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) and the brain is the main target organ for the handheld phone. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified in May, 2011 RF-EMF as a group 2B, i.e. a ‘possible’ human carcinogen. The aim of this study was to further explore the relationship between especially long-term (>10 years) use of wireless phones and the development of malignant brain tumours.

    SNIP

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    • 26 SEP 13

    The Melatonin Hypothesis Revisited

    From Louis Slesin, Microwave News:

    Maria Feychting of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute thinks epidemiologists should stop studying links between power-frequency EMFs and breast cancer.

    “Now it is enough!” she says in a commentary just published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

    Not everyone agrees with her.

    Read our latest post at:
    http://microwavenews.com/news-center/now-it-enough

    Today we also added links to two new papers from Lennart Hardell’s group on tumor risks from wireless phones. Check them out and a number of other important new papers.
    All on our home page:
    http://microwavenews.com

    Best,

    Louis Slesin, PhD

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    • 25 SEP 13

    Wireless Networking in Schools – A call to limit unnecessary radiation exposure in light of potential health risks

    Posted on September 24, 2013 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

    Excerpt

    Marshall Roberts is an IT specialist who has performed research on the potential health effects of wireless networking in schools because he has children and is concerned about the astronomical uptake of wireless technologies in schools. Marshall wrote a comprehensive report on this issue which he sent to the Department of Education (DoE) in Tasmania requesting answers. SSMA contacted Marshall to see if he would be willing to write a guest blog for our website because our children are being exposed involuntarily and without consent to wireless RF every day 24x 7 starting at home from smart meters and other wireless devices as well as at school (e.g. iPads, laptops, wireless routers etc.). Marshall kindly agreed and his blog follows:
    SNIP

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    • 23 SEP 13

    A must see smart meter Youtube video

    Don’s note: I personally have problems with some of these US style Youtube clips that mix in other conspiracy theories with the main topic. I do not endorse some of the right-wing statements made in this video. Just focus on the smart meter info. as I do! Don **************************************************************************************** From Edward Parker: SmartMeters A-Z …

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    • 21 SEP 13

    Would You Want to Live in this Smart Meter Home?

    There is a saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Utilities sometimes like to downplay concerns about wireless smart meters by explaining that the meters are normally mounted to the outside of the home and that most of the RF radiation emitted from the meter should be directed away from the home. Without taking the time to dispute the relevance of that possible assertion at this juncture, what about the “real life” situation pictured below where the smart meter is not directed “away” from the home? Should a smart meter be mandated for this home? Would you want to sleep in the bedroom pictured below? Would you want your young children to sleep in the room labeled as the Main Bedroom?
    SNIP

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    • 20 SEP 13

    Multifocal Breast Cancer in Young Women with Prolonged Contact between Their Breasts and Their Cellular Phones

    Case Reports in Medicine

    Breast cancer occurring in women under the age of 40 is uncommon in the absence of family history or genetic predisposition, and prompts the exploration of other possible exposures or environmental risks. We report a case series of four young women–ages from 21 to 39–with multifocal invasive breast cancer that raises the concern of a possible association with nonionizing radiation of electromagnetic field exposures from cellular phones. All patients regularly carried their smartphones directly against their breasts in their brassieres for up to 10 hours a day, for several years, and developed tumors in areas of their breasts immediately underlying the phones. All patients had no family history of breast cancer, tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2, and had no other known breast cancer risks. Their breast imaging is reviewed, showing clustering of multiple tumor foci in the breast directly under the area of phone contact. Pathology of all four cases shows striking similarity; all tumors are hormone-positive, low-intermediate grade, having an extensive intraductal component, and all tumors have near identical morphology. These cases raise awareness to the lack of safety data of prolonged direct contact with cellular phones.

    SNIP

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    • 19 SEP 13

    Grid electrical pollution (dirty power) and smart meters

    From Sam Milham

    Dear Don,

    In the last couple of winters, I have made dozens of measurements of electrical pollution in the grid, building wiring, the earth and in the air with a 2 channel Fluke 199 B oscilloscope in southern California where over 2 million smart meters have been deployed. The ground measurement uses 40 feet of wire between two ground probes (screw drivers). The building wiring measurements look at the 60 Hz wave form and the electrical pollution (dirty electricity) riding on it after passing it through a high pass filter. The primary neutral to earth voltage (PNEV) is measured between the utility transformer ground wire at the base of a power pole and a ground probe connected to it by 40 feet of wire. The air measurements use a collapsible 23 inch antenna attached to an oscilloscope BNC terminal.

    The bad news is that a 50 KHz signal is present everywhere in urban and very rural areas, in the grid, in the earth, in building and house wiring, in the PNEV, and in the air. It originates in the switching power supplies of smart meters. The type of smart meter doesn’t seem to matter. The oscilloscope peaks match exactly, for the two meters being studied simultaneously. The ground voltage is higher in areas where smart meters have been deployed.

    Best, sam

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    • 18 SEP 13

    Is the Tasmanian Government telling us the real facts about a Tasmanian smart meter rollout?

    Published in the Tasmanian Times,
    By Don Maisch PhD. First published September 16

    On 26 May 2013, an inaugural public information meeting was held in Hobart about the proposed Tasmanian Government’s introduction of a smart electricity grid throughout the state.

    Ref: http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/pr-article/public-meeting-on-smart-meters/

    Central to the government’s proposal is the replacement of the existing analogue power meters with so called “smart meters” that wirelessly transmit energy usage back to the utility and give the consumer ‘real-time’ data on their energy usage. No longer will the energy provider need to employ meter readers to physically go from house to house to record electricity use – it will all be done wirelessly.

    The organizers of the May 26 public meeting were concerned that the people of Tasmania were not receiving balanced information on the extent of claimed benefits and the pitfalls of introducing a smart grid in the state. This imbalance is illustrated in the Tasmanian government’s November 2012 information paper, Electricity Smart Networks which paints a glowing future for a rollout of an integrated smart grid throughout Tasmania.

    SNIP

    Read the full article here

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    • 18 SEP 13

    YOUR Chance for YOUR say on Energy Concerns….

    Posted on the Stop Smart Meters Australian website

    http://stopsmartmeters.com.au/2013/09/18/your-chance-for-your-say-on-energy-concerns/

    YOUR Chance for YOUR say on Energy Concerns….

    Posted on September 18, 2013 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

    In a recent interview with Neil Mitchell at 3AW, Minister Kotsiras, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, asked for feedback on energy related issues/concerns etc. The interview can be found at: http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/breaking-news-blogs/energy-companies-put-on-notice/20130913-2toen.html
    What does he mean that he’ll ‘fix all the problems at once in 3 months time, with legislation’?

    Minister Kotsiras asked for input and feedback via the following website: www.switchon.vic.gov.au/home
    Click on tab right hand, bottom of page that says ‘Energy Concerns’ (blue bordered box).

    So let’s all GRAB this opportunity to give our feedback, and don’t sit back on our “she’ll be right mate” Aussie butts.

    And, while we are at it let’s ALSO send our concerns via email directly to the Minister just to make sure he hears us: nicholas.kotsiras@parliament.vic.gov.au

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