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New Smart Meters Aren't So Smart: The Utility Company's Silent Killer

Susan Brinchman: "Smart meters ... are harmful to all biological beings, and may interfere with the food chain."

I am writing as the Founder and Director of the American Coalition Against Smart Meters and Smart Meter Dangers, to ask if your organization will add a national smart meter moratorium as a project.

Smart meters, with harmful frequencies of rf (radiofrequency) radiation in a widespread mesh network, are harmful to all biological beings, and may interfere with the food chain. They are not a solution to global warming and our environmental organizations need to learn more about this.

Take a moment to learn how the new utility meters are actually making many people very ill and causing grave risk to the rest. The problematic frequencies that the meters use, combined with environmental factors never taken into consideration, and the chronic exposures, with no health or safety testing ahead of time, has led to a rapidly evolving public health disaster.

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Smart meters are being deployed throughout California this year and, within a short while, people will begin to have complaints of sleeplessness, headaches, dizziness, ear ringing, ear pain, and more.

I ask that you visit www.smartmeterdangers.org to learn what scientists and experts are really saying about the smart meters, and why the utility company propaganda isn't holding water. Smart meters do hurt people and animals, far more than cell phones. Smart meters don't reduce energy use and may actually increase it, according to studies. Smart meters do cause fires and arcing of electricity. Smart meters do cause "dirty electricity."

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The studies presented by utility companies are insider reports. They are not independent studies. They are wrong. A review of the data shows that smart meters emit up to 160 times more rf radiation than cell phones for whole body exposures. Smart meters are on, day and night, with high levels of pulsed radiation being emitted all day long. Smart meters don't help; they hurt.

I have experienced these meters first hand: I have two on my house (one at each end) and am tortured daily by these, with no help from the utility―not even with a doctor’s note. I must avoid one end of the house and stay in the middle, sleeping on the couch. I cannot enter the master bedroom where the most problematic electric meter is. I have suffered shrill ringing in my ears, which has led, in less than a year, to hearing loss in both ears. I have suffered pain every day from inflamed sinuses and headaches, sleeping problems and even skin cancer. I am not alone.

Some other very disturbing facts:

Smart meters do not help with global warming; smart meters can use more energy, studies show.

Smart meters often cost the customer more―utility bills often skyrocket after installation.

Smart meters interfere with privacy; your every movement is tracked inside the home as these meters log exactly what you are doing.

Smart meters are wireless and the system is easily hacked into.

Smart meters are capable of making you very ill and even causing death―they can and do interfere with the signals of the heart, for instance. This means that they are like having a weapon in your home that can be turned on you by anyone in control, including terrorists.

Smart meters can put our nation's security at risk, since they can be easily hacked; our nation's electricity will no longer be secure and could be remotely shut off.

Once these meters are on your home or business, the utility will try very hard to keep them there, as they stand to make billions from raising rates during peak hours and charging you for them.

We need your help to protect America from being experimented on with a new, deadly technology that is going to be placed on every building in our nation unless we stop it from happening with our collective voices.

I invite you to contact me and to join our Coalition. I invite you to learn about this new problem that will sicken millions of Americans, increase suffering and create yet more of a public healthcare burden on our country. Smart meters are a poorly researched, deadly plan for America. Please learn more, and share it with all your readers!

Susan Brinchman, La Mesa

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