Activist Post
Many Idaho residents want nothing to do with the new Smart Meters forced on them by Idaho Electric and the Public Utilities Commission in order to replace analog electric meters.
Some simply don't want them, others don't appreciate the eerie surveillance of residents' whereabouts and usage and the ability for remote power shut-off, especially where medical devices are concerned.
Most alarming have been the health effects from the EMF output – headaches, insomnia, nausea, ringing ears and more reported by residents nationwide.
Idaho Electric has been caught installing Smart Meters without permission, despite protest, even hopping fences while residents are away. Whether residents are home or not, IE reps have brought armed law enforcement to make sure the job gets done and police go without questioning or filing paperwork.
The media has been strangely quiet about the incidents and the outraged residents. One reporter interviewed an investigative blogger who brought the incidents to light, and wanted to clear it with her editor first. The story never made it to the papers. If anything, the mainstream media have lauded the new “energy efficient” Smart Meters despite growing evidence of health hazards and power spying.
On the one hand, IE says they would never force them on anyone (they just bring cops for good luck?), yet most utility companies and their bedfellow Public Utility Commissioners are calling them mandatory. They're not. And corporations are not allowed to bypass local officials and those they serve with mandates anyway.
Meanwhile, in Santa Cruz, CA, PG&E has resorted to another tactic of force – electricity shut-offs. And two weeks before Christmas to really tighten the screws. This time the media was there and PG&E was compared to both Scrooge and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Local customers had pleaded with PG&E for weeks to have their Smart Meters removed, some installed without their knowledge. These residents were facing some serious health effects like insomnia, nosebleeds and nausea. After not being heard, they finally resorted to having professional electricians replace them with analog meters. So, naturally, PG&E shut their electricity off with no notice and no hope for their power back anytime soon.
Some of these paying customers had small and ill children who had to stay with relatives due to having no heat in freezing temperatures, and others had medical issues that required electricity for devices. Ironically, PG&E blames the action on the “public health safety risk” of having an electrician remove the meter.
Their choices were: no power, Smart Meter, or a digital meter which also emits EMF and causes health problems. A rep explained that the residents were supposed to call to get on a delay line until some opt-out method was developed, which would be weeks and weeks away. From the sounds of this “mandate,” any kind of opt-out will prove nearly impossible -- it already has. There were also hefty fees associated with any opt-outs which made PG&E look much better.
Thankfully, this type of corporate retaliation brought forth disgust and wrath from Santa Cruz public officials who intervened to help the families.
In a board meeting, they grill a PG&E pawn, and school her on her company's indefensible and non-sensical actions. They wanted answers and wouldn't accept her vague ramblings. They wanted to know exactly who to contact that could actually make a decision for the residents with no power. NOW -- not six weeks from now when some opt-out or delay decision made it down the ladder.
This board meeting is a must-see! Local government at its finest -- actually stepping in to protect individual liberty.
In one memorable part, a board member compares this corporation's actions to bankers pretending to help homeowners with mortgage questions, but systematically making sure they never talk to the same rep, sending them all over the place, and never actually helping their paying customers.
“We're having a Dickens moment here,” says one member. “You can choose to be Scrooge or you can say 'Let's get into the spirit of the holidays and help someone in need.'” A someone, who, by the way, is paying for this service! Another member wanted a different situation corrected: a resident said “No” to the Smart Meter, but it was installed anyway.
PG&E has since restored power -- for those few families, but what about others? Strangely, they restored power to the homes without any meters at all.
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How many of the people complaining about "headaches, nosebleeds" etc, have cell phones? And use those cell phones without those health hazards?
ReplyDeleteForcing these meters on people is enough of an outrage. Why must the issue be polluted with pseudo-science mumbo-jumbo?
Did you know that Smart meters are only geared to be smart in bring revenue more to hydro company. Most folks don't know that from 7:30 am to 7:30 PM--electric usage is sent by cell phone chips inside the meter and hydro can charge any % increase to usage. Another charge is when motor start up current--meter super charges the billing-30%
ReplyDeleteMost SM bills have increased by 50% since installation. Not one household has asked for a actual print out of minute to minute usage billing. If there is a meter man reading going on is just to check it's accuracy or keep them on payroll. No meter man readings required. Some cities have challenged the readings and received over $1000 for false readings :^(
From my understanding Idaho is not installing "wireless" meters which emit pulsed RF radiation tens of thousands of times a day. Your state is one of the few (if not only) to do it this way.
ReplyDeleteStill there is a lot to hate about Smart Meters, (such as privacy, security and time of use pricing which will discriminate against people who need to use electricity during the day.)
Melissa Levine (StopSmartMetersIrvine.com)
Transmitting AMR (automatic meter reading) and "smart" utility meters were manufactured with a fatal flaw.
ReplyDeleteThese meters can not be fixed. They need to be recalled.
The utility companies know this but billion$ have been invested.
The utility companies are lying when they say these meters are safe.
The extreme radiation emissions from transmitting meters is injuring people.
Funny cus in jail I did not notice the ring in my head go away, minus the "cellphones" people keep on preaching about. Im sure they are dangerous, but mostly a distraction from Real problems/causes. Keep up the junk science, we love to debunk : )
ReplyDeleteSince having a smartmeter with time of use pricing my electric bill has gone down about 20%. We're constantly bathed by so much electromagnetic radiation it's hard to believe that smartmeters make much difference.
ReplyDeleteDid people make such a stink when the analog meters were "forced" on them?
With all the problems we have in this country, smartmeters have to be way down towards the bottom of the list.
@Roland above.
ReplyDeleteplease strap yourself to a 1 watt, 2.4GHz transmitter on normal duty cycle for 30 days and THEN tell me about "junk science."
you know perfectly well, "Roland," that beaming microwaves into people's heads is dangerous. it is simply a matter of how much energy is being used. SO WHAT IS THE SAFE LEVEL? WHERE ARE THE STUDIES DEMONSTRATING WHAT IS SAFE?
the government's NIST does study after study about cigarette's ability to burn household items, but has not done a single study on the effects of a technology that is in almost every home at this point (wi-fi routers). and yet obvious shills like "Roland" pop up to tell us it's all "junk science" without ANY actual science having been performed.
so please, go microwave YOUR OWN DAMN BRAIN, and get back to us - if you are able at that point.
Are there any figures of what percentage of the population with smartmeters suffer health problems from them?
ReplyDeleteI don't dismiss emf effects on people, but there are much better points to assail smartmeters on. They are not UL listed and as such don't pass most local building codes. They have also caused several house fires which a simple google search will give images of.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that i remember the most clearly over the past 39-40 years of my school days at Brandeis University in1970's are my student adviser's words that when he was growing up that his grand parents and parents used the term "‘goyishe kup,’" meaning that the "Non-Jews are Stupid"
ReplyDeleteLater in life I learned that the exact translation of "GOYISHE KUP" means that the "Cattle are STUPID"..
I remember him recalling whatt his father told him when he was growing up in Eastern Europe. One of them being that when his father was in high school he and a group of friends would skip school early on Fridays and go over to his friend's father's butcher shop. That they would buy at cost any cows , that had not been butchered by the end of the day on Friday before the begining of shabat . They would take the cow home and wash it and then the boys would procede to "beat the udders of the cows so that they would swell up and turn pink" so as to sell them to the "GOYISHE KUP" as milk producing cows.
The part that I remember him asking me if the East Europeans are so naive, so gullible and so stupid to buy old "non milk producing cows" from a bunch of young Jewish Boys.
So thinking of it now I agree with the Jewish saying that the "GOYISHE KUP" are indeed" Stupid" as they believe that a Bunch of Arab Muslim Kids who were not able to Fly a Cessna Airplane took it upon themselves to FLY a Boing Jumbo Jet outwitting the US Military and Civilian authorities. The "Jewish Lightning Insurance Scam" of the 1960's is still alive and well has been put to good use by Larry Silverstein and his SAINIM Jews in putting 15 million down and comming out with 7 billion dollars for buidings that no one wanted to buy because it would have cost a billion dollars to remove the asbestos from. Then on top of that the people in America actually believe that they actually decide who is elected President or for that that actual VOTE is really counted and makes a difference in deciding who represents them in the White House and congress. http://www.bollyn.com/index.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTXbARGXso http://www.911missinglinks.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnpujfanUM
Yeh I agree that the AmericanNon-Jews are indeed American "GOYISHE KUP" or "STUPID CATTLE"!
The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies The Iowa Caucus
By Christopher Bollyn
1-1-8
The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?
The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process.
VOXEO
In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.
The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history
So true
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