Friday, February 19, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
My Connection magaizne Smart Meter Article
On January 15th PG&E installed the new Smart Meter on our home in Aptos.
I was not home at the time and had no idea it was installed.
I arrived home from a great workout at the gym feeling like the peak of health.
As soon as I got back home I started to feel horrible and had no idea why.
The first thing I noticed was the worst pressure in my head and ears ever.
Then my heart started to beat really fast and then my brain felt wired.
Within 15 minutes I started to get really dizzy, nauseous and weak.
Within 20 minutes my whole body began to ache like nothing I had ever experienced before.
When I got on my computer my whole face and hands started to burn and hurt.
My husband arrived home 30 mintutes later and asked how I was and I said the worst ever.
He then said he was going to check the work out the electrican did and saw PG&E installed The new Smart Meters.
I then called PG&E in a panic sinc ei was feeling so awlful and filed a complaint and asked them to take it off right away since it was making me so sick.
Sanat cruz is not schdueled until July to get these Meters.
We left and went out of town and I felt better in 3o minutes.
When we arrived hoem Sunday I felt horrible l again and could not sleep that night.
I called PG&E first thing Monday morning and pleated to have it taken off right away since I felt so sick form it all.
Monday night at 8pm a PG&E installer came and took it off and put an old meter back on. Within 15-20 minutes I felt 90% better.
I have been electrical senitive now for 4 years and these form of radiation ws teh worst that I ever felt in my life.
These devices emilt millions of new electromagnetic radiation (RF) wireless signals throughtout the day and night.
This is a huge amount of electrosmog.
Exposture to electrosmog has been docmumeneted to have major biological effects on living tissue.
The expontial increase in teh use of wireless techologies presents serious public health risks.
Please check out the Bioinitiative Report at www.bioinitative.org which is regonized by the European Parliamnent demonstartes RF health effects:DNA breaks,free radical productuion,cell stress, premature aging,memeory loss, sleep disturbance, camncers and memeory loss and headaches.
PG&E has not provided crtical evdience of health & safety they claim to have commissioned.
At this time we can not opt out so we all must act qucikly.
Please sign the petetion on my web site at www.tammiedonnelly.com
Tammie Donnely has spent the last 4 years educating hefrself and others and on the many health challanges associated with WI-FI, cell phones, cell towers and
Other form of Electro Smog.
She lives in Aptos Ca and can be reached at 831-476-1526 or email her at emfhelp@yahoo.com
Smart Meter Health Article in Connection
PG&E Wireless Smart Meters Pose A Serious Health Threat
What are Smart Meters?
They are wireless transmitting utility meters which PG&E is installing to replace all existing gas and electric meters in homes and businesses. Using electromagnetic radiation (RF), these meters will transmit your usage information as often as every 4.5 seconds to once an hour (depending on the meter and if it’s a relay point), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will be billed for usage according to tiered rates relative to peak hours.
Health and safety issues
They will emit radio frequency radiation 24/7. This will be radiating from the meters on your own house and from your neighbors. Some meters reportedly have a range of 2 miles, so you will be experiencing the radiation from all those meters. Meters may also function as relay antennas for the neighborhood. Plus there will be a cellular antenna or cell tower somewhere in the vicinity to which these signals relay which will be radiating round the clock. In addition, wireless components are planned for all appliances to which the meters will “talk”, surrounding you with their RF wherever you work or live.
Why is this a problem? The FCC safety standards do not cover this type of exposure; they only cover brief, one-time exposures. And they do not cover any biological impacts from this radiation; they only cover heating or thermal impacts.[1] There is extensive and growing scientific literature on biological impacts from exposure levels far below our safety standards, ranging from DNA damage, blood-brain barrier disruption, increased cancer and tumor risk, lowered sperm counts, immune system disturbances, insomnia, cellular stress responses, cognitive problems, links to sudden hive collapse in bees, and much, much more. [2] Children are especially vulnerable.[3] Furthermore, exposure doesn’t have to be strong; weak fields cause calcium ions to detach from cell membranes causing them to leak, a disastrous situation.[4]
At night, while we sleep, is when our bodies do their healing and recuperative work. Our Smart Meters will be going 24 hours a day. There will be no time away from this exposure for our bodies to recover.
In addition, these meters can put high frequencies onto your household or building wiring as well as back out onto the electrical grid, creating what’s known as “dirty” electricity. This is a very serious problem which is being linked to health problems such as multiple sclerosis, dysregulation of blood sugar levels, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, asthma, ADHD, sleep problems, and more. [5]
Then there is the growing problem of electrohypersensitivity, recognized by the World Health Organization in 2004. Estimates are that up to 1/3 of the population is now sensitive to artificial electromagnetic radiation, and this causes health problems ranging from nausea, ringing in the ears, headaches, sleep disturbances, skin disorders (e.g. rashes), to chronic respiratory infections, arrhythmias, uncontrolled blood sugar, and seizures. This has forced some hypersensitives out of their homes and neighborhoods – a new class of refugee, and some have committed suicide.
PG&E’s transmitting meters will dramatically increase the electromagnetic smog we all have to live in.
There are other issues:
Privacy With the wireless components planned for all appliances in a home or office, you and your utility company will be able to monitor your appliance usage – exactly how often and how long you use each appliance – and remotely access those appliances. Do we really need that information or that access? Apparently, the utility companies do. Removing the components will void the appliance warranty.
Hackable? Though PG&E assures us these are encrypted and secure, there are concerns that these components will be vulnerable to hacking and even to stray RF or microwave emissions; for instance, someone driving by your house makes a cell phone call, and inadvertently turns on your oven, or adds another zero to your billing.
Reliability A number of these meters have reportedly blown up or burned up in Bakersfield.
Will they save you money? Many Bakersfield bills skyrocketed. They are having so many problems there that public hearings have been held, a lawsuit filed, and State Senator and Majority Leader Dean Florez has called for an investigation and a moratorium on deployment.
Will they save energy? No. All the system does is monitor when you use appliances compared with energy rates, so you can use the same amount of energy at a different time with lower rates. The energy isn’t more efficiently used. And you have access to that information now, without all the bells, whistles (smoke, mirrors), and headaches. Similar to carbon offsets or carbon trading, this doesn’t cut back anything. These meters are not green.
Opting out
One customer in Wisconsin was told she had three options: take the meters as planned, allow them to be installed somewhere else on the property, or get disconnected from the utility. Hmmm.
What you can do
“The objectives of the Smart Grid Program can be accomplished without transmitting meters and without using other technology such as high frequency communication over power lines, which are also harmful to human health.” Catherine Kleiber, www.electricalpollution.com
These meters will continue to be installed unless the public takes action!
Contact your state legislators, the CPUC, and your utility company to express your concerns, and/or to say you want to opt out.
The Sebastopol-based EMF Safety Network (www.emfsafetynetwork.org) has a petition for Sonoma County and is calling for a full scientific review of potential health risks with public hearings, and a deployment moratorium until that is done. Incidentally, their deployment date was originally May 2010, but it was moved up to February after they started the petition. A coincidence?
Learn all you can about the public health risks posed by transmitting smart meters. www.electricalpollution.com and www.emfsafetynetwork.org (Smart Meter information is under “Action Alert”) have a great deal of information, including research articles, resource materials, links to advocacy organizations, and suggestions for action, including who to contact.
Spread the word to your friends and neighbors, and link to
http://www.
The Utility Reform Network (TURN) and State Senator Florez have called for a moratorium on installing the meters over billing and reliability issues. TURN also has a petition on their website www.turn.org. Health concerns
need to be added to their focus.
Deployment schedule:
You can find out when your city is due to get these meters at
http://www.pge.com/myhome/
Additional information:
Layna Berman’s recent KPFA show on the “Not So Smart Grid” --http://
[1] http://www.emrpolicy.org/
EPA letter regarding inadequacy of federal standards
[2]These are just a few of the many research articles and overviews that are available.
Cell Phones and Brain Tumours – Literature Review in Surgical Neurology
http://www.hese-project.org/
Mobile Telecommunications and Health: Summary of ECOLOG study for T-Mobile, 2000
http://www.bioinitiative.org/
The BioInitiative Report Website
National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy: Wireless Technologies Cause Harm to Children and Adults, Legislators and Journalists Are Told
http://broschuerenreihe.net/
Bees, Birds and Mankind – Destroying Nature by Electrosmog, Ulrich Warnke. Kompetenz Initiative
http://www.starweave.com/
Freiburger Appeal
[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/
Lennart Hardell: Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold'
http://www.kinder-und-
Appeal of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection:
“Children and Mobile Phones: The Health of the Following Generations is in Danger”
[4] http://www.radiationresearch.
The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields by Andrew Goldsworthy
[5] http://www.
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis
Prevention Magazine: Is Dirty Electricity Making You Sick?
http://www.
Sam Milham, Lloyd Morgan: Teachers’ Cancer Cluster, La Quinta Middle School
Nina Beety has been studying the health and environmental impacts of electromagnetic radiation for several years. She lives in Monterey and can be reached by email at nbeety (at) netzero (dot) net.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Vaccine Research
British & Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism
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We previously published data from Japan showing a clear causal link between changes in the Japanese vaccination schedules and corresponding increases and decreases in rates of children having autistic conditions:- Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism.
Data from the UK's General Practice Research Database shows that with each major change in the UK childhood vaccination programme the rates of childhood autism has increased significantly.
VIC (Vaccine Information Coalition)
Autism is 1 in 67 children today and it's impossible to have a genetic epidemic!
Please learn from our mistake and educate BEFORE you vaccinate!
For more information visit www.vacinfo.org or call 800-939-8227
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Magda Havas Letter on Wi-Fi
From Magda Havas:
I was asked to write an open letter about WiFi in libraries and am
attaching a pdf of that for those who can use this information to help
convince libraries to go with wired connections rather than wireless.
It has information about electromagnetic interference (EMI) for those
with medical implants so will be new information for some of you.
The same material is on my website but with live links. So please go
to www.magdahavas.com for the live link "Open letter." You will note
there is one for libraries and one for schools, both written at the
request of women who care.
Forward to those who need to know.
Thanks,
-magda
Open Letter – WiFi in Schools (#2)
Date: January 11, 2010
To: Second Open letter to School Boards, Teachers, and Parents
From: Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc., Ph.D., Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
Re: ALERT: Wireless routers in schools may be harming students and staff
Other studies are finding an increased cancer rate for those who live within 300 to 400 meters of cell phone antennas. The cancer rates are higher and the cancers grow more rapidly than in populations further from these antennas.
This is particularly disturbing for the following reasons:
1. Younger children are beginning to use cell phones and they are much more sensitive to this radiation than adults.
2. Tumors are developing in adults at a much faster rate than expected with cell phone use and this is likely to be even faster for children whose cells are dividing.
3. A growing number of schools are installing wireless routers for internet access. The same frequencies are used for wireless routers in schools as are used for mobile phones (cell and cordless phones). These frequencies are between 2.4 and 6 GHz in North America. Consequently children are receiving a double dose of microwave radiation from both wireless routers and mobile phones.
4. Some of these children may be exposed to wireless routers at home as well and they may be living near cell phone antennas giving them around the clock microwave exposure.
Studies also are documenting reproductive problems for men who use cell phones. There is a decrease in sperm density, motility, and viability. While sperms are produced every few months, females are born with all of their egg cells and are much more vulnerable to damage as a result. To date there have been no studies on the effects of microwave radiation from mobile phones and wireless computers on egg cells and reproductive success in women.
The purpose of this open letter is to alert those who are responsible for the health and safety of children to think twice before installing wireless microwave technology in schools and exposing students and staff to radiation that could be potentially harmful.’
Open Letter – WiFi in Libraries
Date: January 12, 2010
To: Open letter to Librarians, Library Administrators and Visitors to Libraries.
From: Dr. Magda Havas, BSc, PhD, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
ALERT: WiFi Hotspots in Libraries may be Harming Staff and Visitors and may Prevent Access to those with Medical Implants.
WiFi uses a microwave frequency of 2.45 GHz. This is the same frequency used in many mobile phones (cell and cordless) and these microwave frequencies have been linked to various illnesses including cancer, reproductive problems, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, skin disorders, sleep disorders, cognitive dysfunction, tinnitus, dizziness, nausea, etc. That is one reason why the France National Library (BNF) decided to give up WiFi in 2008.
Based on reports of genetic alternations in human cells at WiFi frequencies (a study conducted at the University of Chicago, Department of Medicine by Lee et al. 2005) and on an increasing number of scientific reports documenting ill effects of microwave exposure (including The Bioinitiative Report) the safer route is to provide wired rather than wireless access to the internet.
While it might take years of exposure to develop cancer (as has been shown in mobile phone studies) changes in gene expression occurred within a matter of a few hours for cultured human cells under controlled laboratory conditions. Lee and colleagues noticed that 221 genes altered their expression after a 2-hour exposure and 759 genes after a 6-hour exposure at levels below thermal effects, on which guidelines are based. If it doesn’t heat your tissue it is assumed to be safe, according to federal guidelines in many countries. However, scientific studies are showing that this ‘thermal effect assumption’ is no longer valid.
Another consideration is that some people with medical implants may be adversely affected because of radio frequency interference (RFI) and may not be able to visit libraries unless the WiFi service is turned off during their stay. This violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and similar acts in other jurisdictions.
Dr. Gary Olhoeft, Professor of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, brought this to my attention last November at a presentation he gave in Golden Colorado organized by the EMR Policy Institute. Not only is he an expert when it comes to electromagnetic interference (EMI) but he is also one of 20 million Americans who has a medical implant. In his case the implant is a deep brain stimulator to control tremors due to Parkinson’s Disease. Malfunctions of deep brain stimulators may constitute a medical emergency and can be fatal. According to Dr. Olhoeft, interference may prevent normal therapeutic function, reset or reprogram the device, bring damaging energy into the device or body, and cause injury including death.
Medical implants include cardiac pacemakers/defibrillators, neurostimulators, infusion pumps for diabetics, artificial hearts, metal rods to support broken bones, spinal stimulators, and hearing aids.
In addition to WiFi there are a growing number of devices that can cause electromagnetic interference (EMI) including: cell phones, CB or ham radios, TV and radio transmitting antennas, theft detectors and security gates (airports, schools, stores, libraries), power lines, electric arc welding equipment, electricity substations and generators, cardiac defibrillators, diathermy equipment and MRI (magnetic Resonance Imaging).
The France National Library replaced WiFi not only because of health concerns but because wired service can handle a larger volume of data transmission more rapidly, something that is essential for a large library with many researchers, and because it is a more secure and reliable way of transmitting data. The France National Library is not the first and will not be the last replacing WiFi terminals with wired terminals.
The purpose of this open letter is to alert libraries considering WiFi to investigate the feasibility of using wired terminals and for those libraries with WiFi to consider replacing them with wired service. Ignoring these issues of interference with medical devices and potential health effects will not make the problems go away.
As Aldous Huxley said, “Facts don’t cease to exist just because they are ignored.”
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